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lsk-v3.10-big.LITTLE
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Frequently in HMP, the big CPUs are only active with one task per
CPU and there may be idle CPUs in the big cluster. This patch avoids
triggering an idle balance in situations where none of the active
CPUs in the current HMP domain have > 1 tasks running.
When packing is enabled, only enforce this behaviour when we are
not in the smallest domain - there we idle balance whenever a CPU
is over the up_threshold regardless of tasks in case one needs to
be moved.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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System services are generally started by init, whilst kernel threads
are started by kthreadd. We do not want to give those tasks a head
start, as this costs power for very little benefit. We do however
wish to do that for tasks which the user launches.
Further, some tasks allocate per-cpu timers directly after launch
which can lead to those tasks being always scheduled on a big CPU
when there is no computational need to do so. Not promoting services
to big CPUs on launch will prevent that unless a service allocates
their per-cpu resources after a period of intense computation, which
is not a common pattern.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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lsk-v3.10-big.LITTLE
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Using per cpu cpuidle driver to fix deadlock in hmp_idle_pull.
Otherwise a deadlock happened when do bl_idle_init.
[ 113.878664] other info that might help us debug this:
[ 113.878667] Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[ 113.878667]
[ 113.878670] CPU0
[ 113.878673] ----
[ 113.878681] lock(cpuidle_driver_lock);
[ 113.878684] <Interrupt>
[ 113.878691] lock(cpuidle_driver_lock);
[ 113.878693]
[ 113.878693] *** DEADLOCK ***
[ 113.878693]
[ 113.878697] 1 lock held by ksoftirqd/4/28:
[ 113.878719] #0: (hmp_force_migration){+.....}, at: [<c0054da5>]
hmp_idle_pull+0x49/0x508
This patch is just a quick/cheap workaround for cpuidle_driver_lock
deadlock. It works for TC2 and any other platform where the idle
driver cannot be changed at runtime.
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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into v3.10/topic/big.LITTLE
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If someone hotplugs all the little CPUs while another CPU is handling
a wakeup, we can potentially return new_cpu == NR_CPUS from
hmp_select_slower_cpu (which is called internally by
hmp_best_little_cpu as well). We will use this to deref the
per_cpu rq array in hmp_next_down_delay which can go boom.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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lsk-v3.10-big.LITTLE
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When looking for a task to be idle-pulled, don't consider tasks
where the affinity does not allow that task to be placed on the
target CPU. Also ensure that tasks with restricted affinity
do not block selecting other unrestricted busy tasks.
Use the knowledge of target CPU more effectively in idle pull
by passing to hmp_get_heaviest_task when we know it, otherwise
only checking for general affinity matches with any of the CPUs
in the bigger HMP domain.
We still need to explicitly check affinity is allowed in idle pull
since if we find no match in hmp_get_heaviest_task we will return
the current one, which may not be affine to the new CPU despite
having high enough load. In this case, there is nothing to move.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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When a normal forced up-migration takes place we stop the task to
be migrated while the target CPU becomes available. This delay can
range from 80us to 1500us on TC2 if the target CPU is in a deep idle
state.
Instead, interrupt the target CPU and ask it to pull a task.
This lets the current eligible task continue executing on the
original CPU while the target CPU wakes. Use a pinned timer to
prevent the pulling CPU going back into power-down with pending
up-migrations.
If we trigger for a nohz kick, it doesn't matter about triggering
for an idle pull since the idle_pull flag will be set when we
execute the softirq and we'll still do the idle pull.
If the target CPU is busy, we will not pull any tasks.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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The HMP active migration code is functionally identical to the CFS
active migration code apart from one flag check. Share the code
and make the flag check optional.
Two wrapper functions allow the flag check to be present or not.
Thanks to tixy@linaro.org for pointing out the build break and a
good solution in an earlier version.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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In anticipation of modifying the up_threshold handling, make all
instances use the same utility fn to check if a task is eligible
for up-migration. This also removes the previous difference in
threshold comparison where up-migration used '!<threshold' and
idle pull used '>threshold' to decide up-migration eligibility.
Make them both use '!<threshold' instead for consistency, although
this is unlikely to change any results.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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lsk-v3.10-big.LITTLE
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All platforms other than TC2 default to enabling packing. Since TC2
shows no performance or energy degradation with this feature enabled
make it default enabled the same as everyone else.
Likewise, vendors have been including TC2 support in multi-machine
kernel builds so they expect the default thresholds to remain the
same when the TC2 #ifdef is removed.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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lsk-v3.10-big.LITTLE
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This reverts commit 765aae26e6e296333c3a5f7a02360f5389dc439a.
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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This reverts commit 0baa5811bacf15b0e76ee85ce29fedffb5136313.
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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This reverts commit aae7721f20f2520d24a149408a74f18e58f56472.
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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This reverts commit 5a570cfc01b06906faa8ac67ad7c0c6f278761c4.
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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When looking for a task to be idle-pulled, don't consider tasks
where the affinity does not allow that task to be placed on the
target CPU. Also ensure that tasks with restricted affinity
do not block selecting other unrestricted busy tasks.
Use the knowledge of target CPU more effectively in idle pull
by passing to hmp_get_heaviest_task when we know it, otherwise
only checking for general affinity matches with any of the CPUs
in the bigger HMP domain.
We still need to explicitly check affinity is allowed in idle pull
since if we find no match in hmp_get_heaviest_task we will return
the current one, which may not be affine to the new CPU despite
having high enough load. In this case, there is nothing to move.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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When a normal forced up-migration takes place we stop the task to
be migrated while the target CPU becomes available. This delay can
range from 80us to 1500us on TC2 if the target CPU is in a deep idle
state.
Instead, interrupt the target CPU and ask it to pull a task.
This lets the current eligible task continue executing on the
original CPU while the target CPU wakes. Use a pinned timer to
prevent the pulling CPU going back into power-down with pending
up-migrations.
If we trigger for a nohz kick, it doesn't matter about triggering
for an idle pull since the idle_pull flag will be set when we
execute the softirq and we'll still do the idle pull.
If the target CPU is busy, we will not pull any tasks.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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The HMP active migration code is functionally identical to the CFS
active migration code apart from one flag check. Share the code
and make the flag check optional.
Two wrapper functions allow the flag check to be present or not.
Thanks to tixy@linaro.org for pointing out the build break and a
good solution in an earlier version.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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In anticipation of modifying the up_threshold handling, make all
instances use the same utility fn to check if a task is eligible
for up-migration. This also removes the previous difference in
threshold comparison where up-migration used '!<threshold' and
idle pull used '>threshold' to decide up-migration eligibility.
Make them both use '!<threshold' instead for consistency, although
this is unlikely to change any results.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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lsk-v3.10-big.LITTLE
Conflicts:
kernel/irq/irqdesc.c
linaro/configs/big-LITTLE-MP.conf
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This reverts commit f0862cb749c537c32de82912d30110098ddc6cd6. Analysis
from Vincent Guittot:
With the current implementation, the load average statistics of a sched entity
change according to other activity on the CPU even if this activity is done
between the running window of the sched entity and have no influence on the
running duration of the task.
When a task wakes up on the same CPU, we currently update last_runnable_update
with the return of __synchronize_entity_decay without updating the
runnable_avg_sum and runnable_avg_period accordingly. In fact, we have to sync
the load_contrib of the se with the rq's blocked_load_contrib before removing
it from the latter (with __synchronize_entity_decay) but we must keep
last_runnable_update unchanged for updating runnable_avg_sum/period during the
next update_entity_load_avg.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
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There is an error scenario where on a 1x1 HMP system (weight of the
hmp_slow_cpu_mask is 1) the short-cut of restricting the allowed cpu mask
of an rt tasks leads to triggering a kernel bug in the rt sched class
set_cpus_allowed function set_cpus_allowed_rt().
In case the task is on the run-queue and the weight of the required cpu mask
is 1 and this is different to the p->nr_cpus_allowed value, this back-end
function interprets this in such a way that a task changed from being
migratable to not migratable anymore and decrements the rt_nr_migratory
counter. There is a BUG_ON(!rq->rt.rt_nr_migratory) check in this code
path which triggers in this situation.
To circumvent this issue, set the number of allowed cpus for a task p to
the weight of the hmp_slow_cpu_mask before calling do_set_cpus_allowed()
in __setscheduler(). It will be set to this value in do_set_cpus_allowed()
after the call to the sched class related backend function any way. By
doing this, set_cpus_allowed_rt() returns without trying to update the
rt_nr_migratory counter.
This patch has been tested with a test device driver requiring a threaded
irq handler on a TC2 system with a reduced cpu mask (1 Cortex A15, 1
Cortex A7).
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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This patch limits the default affinity mask for all irqs to the cluster of
the little cpus.
This patch has the positive side effect that an irq thread which has its
IRQTF_RUNTHREAD set inside irq_thread() -> irq_wait_for_interrupt() will
not overwrite its struct task_struct->cpus_allowed with a full cpu mask of
desc->irq_data.affinity in irq_thread_check_affinity() essentially reverting
patch "HMP: experimental: Force all rt tasks to start on little domain."
for this irq thread.
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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We use get_task_struct to increment the ref count on a task_struct
so that even if the task dies with a pending migration we are still
able to read the memory without causing a fault.
In the case of non-running tasks, we forgot to decrement the ref
count when we are done with the task.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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The scheduler will default packing to disabled, but this includes the
feature so that we can test it more easily.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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Since TC2 power curves don't really have a utilisation hotspot where
packing makes sense, if it is present for a TC2 system at least make
it default to disabled.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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The presence of packing permanently changed the idle balance
behaviour. Do not restrict idle balance on the smallest CPUs when
packing is present but disabled.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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If we migrate a sleeping task away from a CPU which has the
tick stopped, then both the clock_task and decay_counter will
be out of date for that CPU and we will not decay load correctly
regardless of how often we update the blocked load.
This is only an issue for tasks which are not on a runqueue
(because otherwise that CPU would be awake) and simultaneously
the CPU the task previously ran on has had the tick stopped.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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If an entity happens to sleep for less than one tick duration
the tracked load associated with that entity can be decayed by an
unexpectedly large amount if it is later migrated to a different
CPU. This can interfere with correct scheduling when entity load
is used for decision making.
The reason for this is that when an entity is dequeued and enqueued
quickly, such that se.avg.decay_count and cfs_rq.decay_counter
do not differ when that entity is enqueued again,
__synchronize_entity_decay skips the calculation step and also skips
clearing the decay_count. At a later time that entity may be
migrated and its load will be decayed incorrectly.
All users of this function expect decay_count to be zero'ed after
use.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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If we isolate CPUs, then we don't want random device interrupts on
them. Even w/o the user space irq balancer enabled we can end up with
irqs on non boot cpus.
Allow to restrict the default irq affinity mask.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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This patch adds config fragments used to enable most of the features
used by big LITTLE MP.
This patch is the result of merging the following commits from the
Linaro Stable Kernel (LSK) 3.10 tree...
Commit 313c69010ed52a7bd52095708049e16c380c8e15
Commit 83952e566d1c41b2e0a70321e9d56cb8162f9a6d
Commit c4a782d985da03016e2b15aaef90bfc5cfe426f6
Commit 2732b0467a356e7cc08bf1e0f33481330335657a
Commit 7c88e2bd50fc093c96c912090b712b682ae72641
Commit 3231c8ce4b005f79ad27309907adc3de319e341c
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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At present we print per-entity load-tracking statistics for
cfs_rq of cgroups/runqueues. Given that per task statistics
is maintained, it can be used to know the contribution made
by the task to its parenting cfs_rq level.
This patch adds per-task load-tracking statistics to /proc/<PID>/sched.
Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130625080336.GA20175@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit 939fd731eb88a0cdd9058d0b0143563172a217d7)
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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At present we print per-entity load-tracking statistics for
cfs_rq of cgroups/runqueues. Given that per task statistics
is maintained, it can be used to know the contribution made
by the task to its parenting cfs_rq level.
This patch adds per-task load-tracking statistics to /proc/<PID>/sched.
Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130625080336.GA20175@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The woken migrated task will __synchronize_entity_decay(se); in
migrate_task_rq_fair, then it needs to set
`se->avg.last_runnable_update -= (-se->avg.decay_count) << 20' before
update_entity_load_avg, in order to avoid sleep time is updated twice
for se.avg.load_avg_contrib in both __syncchronize and
update_entity_load_avg.
However if the sleeping task is woken up from the same cpu, it miss
the last_runnable_update before update_entity_load_avg(se, 0, 1), then
the sleep time was used twice in both functions. So we need to remove
the double sleep time accounting.
Paul also contributed some code comments in this commit.
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371694737-29336-5-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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hmp_variable_scale_convert was used without guards in
__update_entity_runnable_avg. Guard it.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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hmp_variable_scale_convert was used without guards in
__update_entity_runnable_avg. Guard it.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
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lsk-v3.10-big.LITTLE
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Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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In order to allow userspace to restrict known low-load tasks to
little CPUs, we must export this knowledge from the kernel or
expect userspace to make their own attempts at figuring it out.
Since we now have a userspace requirement for an HMP implementation
to always have at least some sysfs files, change the integration
so that it only depends upon CONFIG_SCHED_HMP rather than
CONFIG_HMP_VARIABLE_SCALE. Fix Kconfig text to match.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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When migrating a runnable task, we use the CPU stopper on
the source CPU to ensure that the task to be moved is not
currently running. Before this patch, all forced migrations
(up, offload, idle pull) use the stopper for every migration.
Using the CPU stopper is mandatory only when a task is currently
running on a CPU. Otherwise tasks can be moved by locking the
source and destination run queues.
This patch checks to see if the task to be moved are currently
running. If not the task is moved directly without using the
stopper thread.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
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Commit 2353c1f800 (arm: ipi raise/start/end tracing) added tracepoints for
IPIs in the generic GIC driver but only added definitions for them on ARM,
causing build failures on ARM64. Fix this by adding equivalent definitions
for arm64.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
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Having the typedef in place for the tracepoints causes compiler crashes
in some situations. Just using void * directly avoids triggering the
issue and should have no effect on the trace.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
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Commit 2353c1f800 (arm: ipi raise/start/end tracing) added tracepoints for
IPIs in the generic GIC driver but only added definitions for them on ARM,
causing build failures on ARM64. Fix this by adding equivalent definitions
for arm64.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
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Having the typedef in place for the tracepoints causes compiler crashes
in some situations. Just using void * directly avoids triggering the
issue and should have no effect on the trace.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
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