add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu0/domain0/name, to make
it easier to see which specific scheduler domain remained at
that entry.

Since we process the scheduler domain tree and
simplify it, it's not always immediately clear during debugging
which domain came from where.

depends on CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

While looking at the code I wondered why we always do:

  sync && avg_overlap < migration_cost

Which is a bit odd, since the overlap test was meant to detect sync wakeups
so using it to specialize sync wakeups doesn't make much sense.

Hence change the code to do:

  sync || avg_overlap < migration_cost
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The softlockup watchdog needs to be touched when resuming the from the
kgdb stopped state to avoid the printk that a CPU is stuck if the
debugger was active for longer than the softlockup threshold.
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

css will be initialized by cgroup core.
Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

While working on the new version of the code for SCHED_SPORADIC I
noticed something strange in the present throttling mechanism. More
specifically in the throttling timer handler in sched_rt.c
(do_sched_rt_period_timer()) and in rt_rq_enqueue().

The problem is that, when unthrottling a runqueue, rt_rq_enqueue() only
asks for rescheduling if the runqueue has a sched_entity associated to
it (i.e., rt_rq->rt_se != NULL).
Now, if the runqueue is the root rq (which has a rt_se = NULL)
rescheduling does not take place, and it is delayed to some undefined
instant in the future.

This imply some random bandwidth usage by the RT tasks under throttling.
For instance, setting rt_runtime_us/rt_period_us = 950ms/1000ms an RT
task will get less than 95%. In our tests we got something varying
between 70% to 95%.
Using smaller time values, e.g., 95ms/100ms, things are even worse, and
I can see values also going down to 20-25%!!

The tests we performed are simply running 'yes' as a SCHED_FIFO task,
and checking the CPU usage with top, but we can investigate thoroughly
if you think it is needed.

Things go much better, for us, with the attached patch... Don't know if
it is the best approach, but it solved the issue for us.
Signed-off-by: NDario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: NMichael Trimarchi <trimarchimichael@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: jiffies increment too fast.

Hugh Dickins noted that with NOHZ=n and HIGHRES=n jiffies get
incremented too fast. The reason is a wrong check in the broadcast
enter/exit code, which keeps the local apic timer in periodic mode
when the switch happens.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

This fixes a warning on latest -tip:

 kernel/cpuset.c: Dans la fonction «scan_for_empty_cpusets» :
 kernel/cpuset.c:1932: attention : passing argument 1 of «list_add_tail» discards qualifiers from pointer target type

Actually the struct cpuset *root passed in parameter to scan_for_empty_cpusets
is not supposed to be const since an entry is added on the tail of its list.
Just correct the qualifier.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Found by static checker (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git).
Signed-off-by: NDan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch does following:
o Removes unused variable and argument "rq".
o Optimizes one of the "if" conditions in wake_affine() - i.e.  if
  "balanced" is true, we need not do rest of the calculations in the
  condition.
o If this cpu is same as the previous cpu (on which woken up task
  was running when it went to sleep), no need to call wake_affine at all.
Signed-off-by: NAmit K Arora <aarora@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

There's a race between mm->owner assignment and swapoff, more easily
seen when task slab poisoning is turned on.  The condition occurs when
try_to_unuse() runs in parallel with an exiting task.  A similar race
can occur with callers of get_task_mm(), such as /proc/<pid>/<mmstats>
or ptrace or page migration.

CPU0                                    CPU1
                                        try_to_unuse
                                        looks at mm = task0->mm
                                        increments mm->mm_users
task 0 exits
mm->owner needs to be updated, but no
new owner is found (mm_users > 1, but
no other task has task->mm = task0->mm)
mm_update_next_owner() leaves
                                        mmput(mm) decrements mm->mm_users
task0 freed
                                        dereferencing mm->owner fails

The fix is to notify the subsystem via mm_owner_changed callback(),
if no new owner is found, by specifying the new task as NULL.

Jiri Slaby:
mm->owner was set to NULL prior to calling cgroup_mm_owner_callbacks(), but
must be set after that, so as not to pass NULL as old owner causing oops.

Daisuke Nishimura:
mm_update_next_owner() may set mm->owner to NULL, but mem_cgroup_from_task()
and its callers need to take account of this situation to avoid oops.

Hugh Dickins:
Lockdep warning and hang below exec_mmap() when testing these patches.
exit_mm() up_reads mmap_sem before calling mm_update_next_owner(),
so exec_mmap() now needs to do the same.  And with that repositioning,
there's now no point in mm_need_new_owner() allowing for NULL mm.
Reported-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: NBalbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDaisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Impact: per CPU hrtimers can be migrated from a dead CPU

The hrtimer code has no knowledge about per CPU timers, but we need to
prevent the migration of such timers and warn when such a timer is
active at migration time.

Explicitely mark the timers as per CPU and use a more understandable
mode descriptor for the interrupts safe unlocked callback mode, which
is used by hrtimer_sleeper and the scheduler code.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Impact: during migration active hrtimers can be seen as inactive

The migration code removes the hrtimers from the queues of the dead
CPU and sets the state temporary to INACTIVE. The enqueue code sets it
to ACTIVE/PENDING again.

Prevent that the wrong state can be seen by using a separate migration
state bit.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Impact: Stale timers after a CPU went offline.

commit 37bb6cb4
       hrtimer: unlock hrtimer_wakeup

changed the hrtimer sleeper callback mode to CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ due
to locking problems. A result of this change is that when enqueue is
called for an already expired hrtimer the callback function is not
longer called directly from the enqueue code. The normal callers have
been fixed in the code, but the migration code which moves hrtimers
from a dead CPU to a live CPU was not made aware of this.

This can be fixed by checking the timer state after the call to
enqueue in the migration code.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Impact: hrtimers which are on the pending list are not migrated at cpu
	offline and can be stale forever

Add the pending list migration when CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS is enabled
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

On the x86 arch, user space single step exceptions should be ignored
if they occur in the kernel space, such as ptrace stepping through a
system call.

First check if it is kgdb that is executing a single step, then ensure
it is not an accidental traversal into the user space, while in kgdb,
any other time the TIF_SINGLESTEP is set, kgdb should ignore the
exception.

On x86, arm, mips and powerpc, the kgdb_contthread usage was
inconsistent with the way single stepping is implemented in the kgdb
core.  The arch specific stub should always set the
kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step correctly if it is single stepping.  This
allows kgdb to correctly process an instruction steps if ptrace
happens to be requesting an instruction step over a system call.
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

On the ARM architecture, kgdb will crash the kernel if the last byte
of valid memory is written due to a flush_icache_range flushing
beyond the memory boundary.
Signed-off-by: NAtsuo Igarashi <atsuo_igarashi@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>

cfs_rq->tasks list is used by the load balancer to iterate
over all the tasks. Currently it holds all the entities
(both task and group entities) because of which there is
a need to check for group entities explicitly during load
balancing. This patch changes the cfs_rq->tasks list to
hold only task entities.
Signed-off-by: NBharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

A segmentation fault can occur in kimage_add_entry in kexec.c when loading
a kernel image into memory.  The fault occurs because a page is requested
by calling kimage_alloc_page with gfp_mask GFP_KERNEL and the function may
actually return a page with gfp_mask GFP_HIGHUSER.  The high mem page is
returned because it was swapped with the kernel page due to the kernel
page being a page that will shortly be copied to.

This patch ensures that kimage_alloc_page returns a page that was created
with the correct gfp flags.

I have verified the change and fixed the whitespace damage of the original
patch.  Jonathan did a great job of tracking this down after he hit the
problem.  -- Eric
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Steel <jon.steel@esentire.com>
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

We should set the buddy even though we might already have the
TIF_RESCHED flag set.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

While playing around with it, I noticed we missed some sanity checks.
Also add some comments while we're there.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Hopefully clarify some of this code a little.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We should not only correct the increment for the initial group, but should
be consistent and do so for all the groups we encounter.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Rework the wakeup preemption to work on real runtime instead of
the virtual runtime. This greatly simplifies the code.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

 kernel/time/tick-common.c: In function ‘tick_setup_periodic’:
 kernel/time/tick-common.c:113: error: implicit declaration of function ‘tick_broadcast_oneshot_active’
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: timer hang on CPU online observed on AMD C1E systems

When a CPU is brought online then the broadcast machinery can
be in the one shot state already. Check this and setup the timer 
device of the new CPU in one shot mode so the broadcast code
can pick up the next_event value correctly.

Another AMD C1E oddity, as we switch to broadcast immediately and
not after the full bring up via the ACPI cpu idle code.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Impact: Possible hang on CPU online observed on AMD C1E machines.

The broadcast setup code looks at the mode of the tick device to
determine whether it needs to be shut down or setup. This is wrong
when the broadcast mode is set to one shot already. This can happen
when a CPU is brought online as it goes through the periodic setup
first.

The problem went unnoticed as sane systems do not call into that code
before the switch to one shot for the clock event device happens.
The AMD C1E idle routine switches over immediately and thereby shuts
down the just setup device before the first interrupt happens.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Impact: possible hang on CPU onlining in timer one shot mode.

The tick_next_period variable is only used during boot on nohz/highres
enabled systems, but for CPU onlining it needs to be maintained when
the per cpu clock events device operates in one shot mode.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Impact: rare hang which can be triggered on CPU online.

tick_do_timer_cpu keeps track of the CPU which updates jiffies
via do_timer. The value -1 is used to signal, that currently no
CPU is doing this. There are two cases, where the variable can 
have this state:

 boot:
    necessary for systems where the boot cpu id can be != 0

 nohz long idle sleep:
    When the CPU which did the jiffies update last goes into
    a long idle sleep it drops the update jiffies duty so
    another CPU which is not idle can pick it up and keep
    jiffies going.

Using the same value for both situations is wrong, as the CPU online
code can see the -1 state when the timer of the newly onlined CPU is
setup. The setup for a newly onlined CPU goes through periodic mode
and can pick up the do_timer duty without being aware of the nohz /
highres mode of the already running system.

Use two separate states and make them constants to avoid magic
numbers confusion. 
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

- Add some comments to try to make the ifdef puzzle a bit clearer

- Explicitly inline one of the three init_hrtick() implementations.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

LD      kernel/built-in.o
WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x326): Section mismatch in reference
from the function init_hrtick() to the variable
.cpuinit.data:hotplug_hrtick_nb.8
The function init_hrtick() references
the variable __cpuinitdata hotplug_hrtick_nb.8.
This is often because init_hrtick lacks a __cpuinitdata
annotation or the annotation of hotplug_hrtick_nb.8 is wrong.
Signed-off-by: NMd.Rakib H. Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

load_balance_fair() calls rcu_read_lock() but then traverses the list
 using the regular list traversal routine.  This patch converts the
list traversal to use the _rcu version.
Signed-off-by: NChris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

WAKEUP_OVERLAP is not a winner on a 16way box, running psql+sysbench:

       .27-rc7-NO_WAKEUP_OVERLAP  .27-rc7-WAKEUP_OVERLAP
-------------------------------------------------
    1:             694              811    +14.39%
    2:            1454             1427    -1.86%
    4:            3017             3070    +1.70%
    8:            5694             5808    +1.96%
   16:           10592            10612    +0.19%
   32:            9693             9647    -0.48%
   64:            8507             8262    -2.97%
  128:            8402             7087    -18.55%
  256:            8419             5124    -64.30%
  512:            7990             3671    -117.62%
-------------------------------------------------
  SUM:           64466            55524    -16.11%

... so turn it off by default.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Lin Ming reported a 10% OLTP regression against 2.6.27-rc4.

The difference seems to come from different preemption agressiveness,
which affects the cache footprint of the workload and its effective
cache trashing.

Aggresively preempt a task if its avg overlap is very small, this should
avoid the task going to sleep and find it still running when we schedule
back to it - saving a wakeup.
Reported-by: NLin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The device shut down does not cleanup the next_event variable of the
clock event device. So when the device is reactivated the possible
stale next_event value can prevent the device to be reprogrammed as it
claims to wait on a event already.

This is the root cause of the resurfacing suspend/resume problem,
where systems need key press to come back to life.

Fix this by setting next_event to KTIME_MAX when the device is shut
down. Use a separate function for shutdown which takes care of that
and only keep the direct set mode call in the broadcast code, where we
can not touch the next_event value.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

After the patch:

commit 0b2f630a
Author: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:   Fri Jul 25 01:47:21 2008 -0700

    cpusets: restructure the function update_cpumask() and update_nodemask()

It might happen that 'echo 0 > /cpuset/sub/cpus' returned failure but 'cpus'
has been changed, because cpus was changed before calling heap_init() which
may return -ENOMEM.

This patch restores the orginal behavior.
Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: NPaul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Andrei Gusev wrote:

> I played witch scheduler settings. After doing something like:
> echo -n 1000000 >sched_rt_period_us
>
> command is locked. I found in kernel.log:
>
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Pid: 4495, comm: bash Tainted: G        W
> (2.6.26.3 #12)
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EIP: 0060:[<c0213fc7>] EFLAGS: 00210246 CPU: 0
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EIP is at div64_u64+0x57/0x80
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EAX: 0000389f EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000
> EDX: 00000000
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra ESI: d9800000 EDI: d9800000 EBP: 0000389f
> ESP: ea7a6edc
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Process bash (pid: 4495, ti=ea7a6000
> task=ea744000 task.ti=ea7a6000)
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Stack: 00000000 000003e8 d9800000 0000389f
> c0119042 00000000 00000000 00000001
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra 00000000 00000000 ea7a6f54 00010000 00000000
> c04d2e80 00000001 000e7ef0
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra c01191a3 00000000 00000000 ea7a6fa0 00000001
> ffffffff c04d2e80 ea5b2480
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Call Trace:
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c0119042>] __rt_schedulable+0x52/0x130
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01191a3>] sched_rt_handler+0x83/0x120
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01a76a6>] proc_sys_call_handler+0xb6/0xd0
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01a76c0>] proc_sys_write+0x0/0x20
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01a76d9>] proc_sys_write+0x19/0x20
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c016cc68>] vfs_write+0xa8/0x140
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c016cdd1>] sys_write+0x41/0x80
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c0103051>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6a/0x91
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra =======================
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Code: c8 41 0f ad f3 d3 ee f6 c1 20 0f 45 de
> 31 f6 0f ad ef d3 ed f6 c1 20 0f 45 fd 0f 45 ee 31 c9 39 eb 89 fe 89 ea
> 77 08 89 e8 31 d2 <f7> f3 89 c1 89 f0 8b 7c 24 08 f7 f3 8b 74 24 04 89
> ca 8b 1c 24
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EIP: [<c0213fc7>] div64_u64+0x57/0x80 SS:ESP
> 0068:ea7a6edc
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]---

fix the boundary condition.

sysctl_sched_rt_period=0 makes exception at to_ratio().
Signed-off-by: NHiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

On my tulsa x86-64 machine, kernel 2.6.25-rc5 couldn't boot randomly.

Basically, function __enable_runtime forgets to reset rt_rq->rt_throttled
to 0. When every cpu is up, per-cpu migration_thread is created and it runs
very fast, sometimes to mark the corresponding rt_rq->rt_throttled to 1 very
quickly. After all cpus are up, with below calling chain:

   sched_init_smp => arch_init_sched_domains => build_sched_domains => ...
=> cpu_attach_domain => rq_attach_root => set_rq_online => ...
=> _enable_runtime

_enable_runtime is called against every rt_rq again, so rt_rq->rt_time is
reset to 0, but rt_rq->rt_throttled might be still 1. Later on function
do_sched_rt_period_timer couldn't reset it, and all RT tasks couldn't be
scheduled to run on that cpu. here is RT task migration_thread which is
woken up when a task is migrated to another cpu.

Below patch fixes it against 2.6.27-rc5.
Signed-off-by: NZhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The issue of the endless reprogramming loop due to a too small
min_delta_ns was fixed with the previous updates of the clock events
code, but we had no information about the spread of this problem. I
added a WARN_ON to get automated information via kerneloops.org and to
get some direct reports, which allowed me to analyse the affected
machines.

The WARN_ON has served its purpose and would be annoying for a release
kernel. Remove it and just keep the information about the increase of
the min_delta_ns value.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

The issue of the endless reprogramming loop due to a too small
min_delta_ns was fixed with the previous updates of the clock events
code, but we had no information about the spread of this problem. I
added a WARN_ON to get automated information via kerneloops.org and to
get some direct reports, which allowed me to analyse the affected
machines.

The WARN_ON has served its purpose and would be annoying for a release
kernel. Remove it and just keep the information about the increase of
the min_delta_ns value.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Right now, there is no notifier that is called on a new cpu, before the new
cpu begins processing interrupts/softirqs.
Various kernel function would need that notification, e.g. kvm works around
by calling smp_call_function_single(), rcu polls cpu_online_map.

The patch adds a CPU_STARTING notification. It also adds a helper function
that sends the message to all cpu_chain handlers.

Tested on x86-64.
All other archs are untested. Especially on sparc, I'm not sure if I got
it right.
Signed-off-by: NManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>