linux/kernel/sched, branch v3.16

Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-07-19T16:26:43Z

Pull scheduler fix from Thomas Gleixner: "Prevent a possible divide by zero in the debugging code" * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched: Fix possible divide by zero in avg_atom() calculation

sched: Fix possible divide by zero in avg_atom() calculation

2014-07-16T11:36:07Z

proc_sched_show_task() does: if (nr_switches) do_div(avg_atom, nr_switches); nr_switches is unsigned long and do_div truncates it to 32 bits, which means it can test non-zero on e.g. x86-64 and be truncated to zero for division. Fix the problem by using div64_ul() instead. As a side effect calculations of avg_atom for big nr_switches are now correct. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402750809-31991-1-git-send-email-mguzik@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

rcu: Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU

2014-06-23T18:19:32Z

Commit ac1bea85781e (Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent states) fixed a problem where a CPU looping in the kernel with but one runnable task would give RCU CPU stall warnings, even if the in-kernel loop contained cond_resched() calls. Unfortunately, in so doing, it introduced performance regressions in Anton Blanchard's will-it-scale "open1" test. The problem appears to be not so much the increased cond_resched() path length as an increase in the rate at which grace periods complete, which increased per-update grace-period overhead. This commit takes a different approach to fixing this bug, mainly by moving the RCU-visible quiescent state from cond_resched() to rcu_note_context_switch(), and by further reducing the check to a simple non-zero test of a single per-CPU variable. However, this approach requires that the force-quiescent-state processing send resched IPIs to the offending CPUs. These will be sent only once the grace period has reached an age specified by the boot/sysfs parameter rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs, or once the grace period reaches an age halfway to the point at which RCU CPU stall warnings will be emitted, whichever comes first. Reported-by: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett [ paulmck: Made rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() as suggested by the ktest build robot. Also fixed smp_mb() comment as noted by Oleg Nesterov. ] Merge with e552592e (Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU) Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-06-13T02:42:15Z

Pull more scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "Second round of scheduler changes: - try-to-wakeup and IPI reduction speedups, from Andy Lutomirski - continued power scheduling cleanups and refactorings, from Nicolas Pitre - misc fixes and enhancements" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/deadline: Delete extraneous extern for to_ratio() sched/idle: Optimize try-to-wake-up IPI sched/idle: Simplify wake_up_idle_cpu() sched/idle: Clear polling before descheduling the idle thread sched, trace: Add a tracepoint for IPI-less remote wakeups cpuidle: Set polling in poll_idle sched: Remove redundant assignment to "rt_rq" in update_curr_rt(...) sched: Rename capacity related flags sched: Final power vs. capacity cleanups sched: Remove remaining dubious usage of "power" sched: Let 'struct sched_group_power' care about CPU capacity sched/fair: Disambiguate existing/remaining "capacity" usage sched/fair: Change "has_capacity" to "has_free_capacity" sched/fair: Remove "power" from 'struct numa_stats' sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to() sched/fair: Use time_after() in record_wakee() sched/balancing: Reduce the rate of needless idle load balancing sched/fair: Fix unlocked reads of some cfs_b->quota/period

Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-06-13T02:18:49Z

Pull more perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "A second round of perf updates: - wide reaching kprobes sanitization and robustization, with the hope of fixing all 'probe this function crashes the kernel' bugs, by Masami Hiramatsu. - uprobes updates from Oleg Nesterov: tmpfs support, corner case fixes and robustization work. - perf tooling updates and fixes from Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Ki, Arnaldo et al: * Add support to accumulate hist periods (Namhyung Kim) * various fixes, refactorings and enhancements" * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (101 commits) perf: Differentiate exec() and non-exec() comm events perf: Fix perf_event_comm() vs. exec() assumption uprobes/x86: Rename arch_uprobe->def to ->defparam, minor comment updates perf/documentation: Add description for conditional branch filter perf/x86: Add conditional branch filtering support perf/tool: Add conditional branch filter 'cond' to perf record perf: Add new conditional branch filter 'PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND' uprobes: Teach copy_insn() to support tmpfs uprobes: Shift ->readpage check from __copy_insn() to uprobe_register() perf/x86: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code perf/ARM: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code perf: Disable sampled events if no PMU interrupt perf: Fix use after free in perf_remove_from_context() perf tools: Fix 'make help' message error perf record: Fix poll return value propagation perf tools: Move elide bool into perf_hpp_fmt struct perf tools: Remove elide setup for SORT_MODE__MEMORY mode perf tools: Fix "==" into "=" in ui_browser__warning assignment perf tools: Allow overriding sysfs and proc finding with env var perf tools: Consider header files outside perf directory in tags target ...

Merge commit '3cf2f34' into sched/core, to fix build error

2014-06-12T11:46:37Z

Fix this dependency on the locking tree's smp_mb*() API changes: kernel/sched/idle.c:247:3: error: implicit declaration of function ‘smp_mb__after_atomic’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2014-06-09T22:03:33Z

Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: "A lot of activities on cgroup side. Heavy restructuring including locking simplification took place to improve the code base and enable implementation of the unified hierarchy, which currently exists behind a __DEVEL__ mount option. The core support is mostly complete but individual controllers need further work. To explain the design and rationales of the the unified hierarchy Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt is added. Another notable change is css (cgroup_subsys_state - what each controller uses to identify and interact with a cgroup) iteration update. This is part of continuing updates on css object lifetime and visibility. cgroup started with reference count draining on removal way back and is now reaching a point where csses behave and are iterated like normal refcnted objects albeit with some complexities to allow distinguishing the state where they're being deleted. The css iteration update isn't taken advantage of yet but is planned to be used to simplify memcg significantly" * 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (77 commits) cgroup: disallow disabled controllers on the default hierarchy cgroup: don't destroy the default root cgroup: disallow debug controller on the default hierarchy cgroup: clean up MAINTAINERS entries cgroup: implement css_tryget() device_cgroup: use css_has_online_children() instead of has_children() cgroup: convert cgroup_has_live_children() into css_has_online_children() cgroup: use CSS_ONLINE instead of CGRP_DEAD cgroup: iterate cgroup_subsys_states directly cgroup: introduce CSS_RELEASED and reduce css iteration fallback window cgroup: move cgroup->serial_nr into cgroup_subsys_state cgroup: link all cgroup_subsys_states in their sibling lists cgroup: move cgroup->sibling and ->children into cgroup_subsys_state cgroup: remove cgroup->parent device_cgroup: remove direct access to cgroup->children memcg: update memcg_has_children() to use css_next_child() memcg: remove tasks/children test from mem_cgroup_force_empty() cgroup: remove css_parent() cgroup: skip refcnting on normal root csses and cgrp_dfl_root self css cgroup: use cgroup->self.refcnt for cgroup refcnting ...

numa,sched: fix load_to_imbalanced logic inversion

2014-06-08T21:35:05Z

This function is supposed to return true if the new load imbalance is worse than the old one. It didn't. I can only hope brown paper bags are in style. Now things converge much better on both the 4 node and 8 node systems. I am not sure why this did not seem to impact specjbb performance on the 4 node system, which is the system I have full-time access to. This bug was introduced recently, with commit e63da03639cc ("sched/numa: Allow task switch if load imbalance improves") Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'next' (accumulated 3.16 merge window patches) into master

2014-06-08T18:31:16Z

Now that 3.15 is released, this merges the 'next' branch into 'master', bringing us to the normal situation where my 'master' branch is the merge window. * accumulated work in next: (6809 commits) ufs: sb mutex merge + mutex_destroy powerpc: update comments for generic idle conversion cris: update comments for generic idle conversion idle: remove cpu_idle() forward declarations nbd: zero from and len fields in NBD_CMD_DISCONNECT. mm: convert some level-less printks to pr_* MAINTAINERS: adi-buildroot-devel is moderated MAINTAINERS: add linux-api for review of API/ABI changes mm/kmemleak-test.c: use pr_fmt for logging fs/dlm/debug_fs.c: replace seq_printf by seq_puts fs/dlm/lockspace.c: convert simple_str to kstr fs/dlm/config.c: convert simple_str to kstr mm: mark remap_file_pages() syscall as deprecated mm: memcontrol: remove unnecessary memcg argument from soft limit functions mm: memcontrol: clean up memcg zoneinfo lookup mm/memblock.c: call kmemleak directly from memblock_(alloc|free) mm/mempool.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for mempool allocations lib/radix-tree.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for radix tree allocations mm: introduce kmemleak_update_trace() mm/kmemleak.c: use %u to print ->checksum ...

Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-06-06T16:53:32Z

Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Four misc fixes: each was deemed serious enough to warrant v3.15 inclusion" * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/fair: Fix tg_set_cfs_bandwidth() deadlock on rq->lock sched/dl: Fix race in dl_task_timer() sched: Fix sched_policy < 0 comparison sched/numa: Fix use of spin_{un}lock_irq() when interrupts are disabled