Reimplement NEXT_BUDDY preemption to take into account the deadline and
eligibility of the wakee with respect to the waker. In the event
multiple buddies could be considered, the one with the earliest deadline
is selected.
Sync wakeups are treated differently to every other type of wakeup. The
WF_SYNC assumption is that the waker promises to sleep in the very near
future. This is violated in enough cases that WF_SYNC should be treated
as a suggestion instead of a contract. If a waker does go to sleep almost
immediately then the delay in wakeup is negligible. In other cases, it's
throttled based on the accumulated runtime of the waker so there is a
chance that some batched wakeups have been issued before preemption.
For all other wakeups, preemption happens if the wakee has a earlier
deadline than the waker and eligible to run.
While many workloads were tested, the two main targets were a modified
dbench4 benchmark and hackbench because the are on opposite ends of the
spectrum -- one prefers throughput by avoiding preemption and the other
relies on preemption.
First is the dbench throughput data even though it is a poor metric but
it is the default metric. The test machine is a 2-socket machine and the
backing filesystem is XFS as a lot of the IO work is dispatched to kernel
threads. It's important to note that these results are not representative
across all machines, especially Zen machines, as different bottlenecks
are exposed on different machines and filesystems.
dbench4 Throughput (misleading but traditional)
6.18-rc1 6.18-rc1
vanilla sched-preemptnext-v5
Hmean 1 1268.80 ( 0.00%) 1269.74 ( 0.07%)
Hmean 4 3971.74 ( 0.00%) 3950.59 ( -0.53%)
Hmean 7 5548.23 ( 0.00%) 5420.08 ( -2.31%)
Hmean 12 7310.86 ( 0.00%) 7165.57 ( -1.99%)
Hmean 21 8874.53 ( 0.00%) 9149.04 ( 3.09%)
Hmean 30 9361.93 ( 0.00%) 10530.04 ( 12.48%)
Hmean 48 9540.14 ( 0.00%) 11820.40 ( 23.90%)
Hmean 79 9208.74 ( 0.00%) 12193.79 ( 32.42%)
Hmean 110 8573.12 ( 0.00%) 11933.72 ( 39.20%)
Hmean 141 7791.33 ( 0.00%) 11273.90 ( 44.70%)
Hmean 160 7666.60 ( 0.00%) 10768.72 ( 40.46%)
As throughput is misleading, the benchmark is modified to use a short
loadfile report the completion time duration in milliseconds.
dbench4 Loadfile Execution Time
6.18-rc1 6.18-rc1
vanilla sched-preemptnext-v5
Amean 1 14.62 ( 0.00%) 14.69 ( -0.46%)
Amean 4 18.76 ( 0.00%) 18.85 ( -0.45%)
Amean 7 23.71 ( 0.00%) 24.38 ( -2.82%)
Amean 12 31.25 ( 0.00%) 31.87 ( -1.97%)
Amean 21 45.12 ( 0.00%) 43.69 ( 3.16%)
Amean 30 61.07 ( 0.00%) 54.33 ( 11.03%)
Amean 48 95.91 ( 0.00%) 77.22 ( 19.49%)
Amean 79 163.38 ( 0.00%) 123.08 ( 24.66%)
Amean 110 243.91 ( 0.00%) 175.11 ( 28.21%)
Amean 141 343.47 ( 0.00%) 239.10 ( 30.39%)
Amean 160 401.15 ( 0.00%) 283.73 ( 29.27%)
Stddev 1 0.52 ( 0.00%) 0.51 ( 2.45%)
Stddev 4 1.36 ( 0.00%) 1.30 ( 4.04%)
Stddev 7 1.88 ( 0.00%) 1.87 ( 0.72%)
Stddev 12 3.06 ( 0.00%) 2.45 ( 19.83%)
Stddev 21 5.78 ( 0.00%) 3.87 ( 33.06%)
Stddev 30 9.85 ( 0.00%) 5.25 ( 46.76%)
Stddev 48 22.31 ( 0.00%) 8.64 ( 61.27%)
Stddev 79 35.96 ( 0.00%) 18.07 ( 49.76%)
Stddev 110 59.04 ( 0.00%) 30.93 ( 47.61%)
Stddev 141 85.38 ( 0.00%) 40.93 ( 52.06%)
Stddev 160 96.38 ( 0.00%) 39.72 ( 58.79%)
That is still looking good and the variance is reduced quite a bit.
Finally, fairness is a concern so the next report tracks how many
milliseconds does it take for all clients to complete a workfile. This
one is tricky because dbench makes to effort to synchronise clients so
the durations at benchmark start time differ substantially from typical
runtimes. This problem could be mitigated by warming up the benchmark
for a number of minutes but it's a matter of opinion whether that
counts as an evasion of inconvenient results.
dbench4 All Clients Loadfile Execution Time
6.18-rc1 6.18-rc1
vanilla sched-preemptnext-v5
Amean 1 15.06 ( 0.00%) 15.07 ( -0.03%)
Amean 4 603.81 ( 0.00%) 524.29 ( 13.17%)
Amean 7 855.32 ( 0.00%) 1331.07 ( -55.62%)
Amean 12 1890.02 ( 0.00%) 2323.97 ( -22.96%)
Amean 21 3195.23 ( 0.00%) 2009.29 ( 37.12%)
Amean 30 13919.53 ( 0.00%) 4579.44 ( 67.10%)
Amean 48 25246.07 ( 0.00%) 5705.46 ( 77.40%)
Amean 79 29701.84 ( 0.00%) 15509.26 ( 47.78%)
Amean 110 22803.03 ( 0.00%) 23782.08 ( -4.29%)
Amean 141 36356.07 ( 0.00%) 25074.20 ( 31.03%)
Amean 160 17046.71 ( 0.00%) 13247.62 ( 22.29%)
Stddev 1 0.47 ( 0.00%) 0.49 ( -3.74%)
Stddev 4 395.24 ( 0.00%) 254.18 ( 35.69%)
Stddev 7 467.24 ( 0.00%) 764.42 ( -63.60%)
Stddev 12 1071.43 ( 0.00%) 1395.90 ( -30.28%)
Stddev 21 1694.50 ( 0.00%) 1204.89 ( 28.89%)
Stddev 30 7945.63 ( 0.00%) 2552.59 ( 67.87%)
Stddev 48 14339.51 ( 0.00%) 3227.55 ( 77.49%)
Stddev 79 16620.91 ( 0.00%) 8422.15 ( 49.33%)
Stddev 110 12912.15 ( 0.00%) 13560.95 ( -5.02%)
Stddev 141 20700.13 ( 0.00%) 14544.51 ( 29.74%)
Stddev 160 9079.16 ( 0.00%) 7400.69 ( 18.49%)
This is more of a mixed bag but it at least shows that fairness
is not crippled.
The hackbench results are more neutral but this is still important.
It's possible to boost the dbench figures by a large amount but only by
crippling the performance of a workload like hackbench. The WF_SYNC
behaviour is important for these workloads and is why the WF_SYNC
changes are not a separate patch.
hackbench-process-pipes
6.18-rc1 6.18-rc1
vanilla sched-preemptnext-v5
Amean 1 0.2657 ( 0.00%) 0.2150 ( 19.07%)
Amean 4 0.6107 ( 0.00%) 0.6060 ( 0.76%)
Amean 7 0.7923 ( 0.00%) 0.7440 ( 6.10%)
Amean 12 1.1500 ( 0.00%) 1.1263 ( 2.06%)
Amean 21 1.7950 ( 0.00%) 1.7987 ( -0.20%)
Amean 30 2.3207 ( 0.00%) 2.5053 ( -7.96%)
Amean 48 3.5023 ( 0.00%) 3.9197 ( -11.92%)
Amean 79 4.8093 ( 0.00%) 5.2247 ( -8.64%)
Amean 110 6.1160 ( 0.00%) 6.6650 ( -8.98%)
Amean 141 7.4763 ( 0.00%) 7.8973 ( -5.63%)
Amean 172 8.9560 ( 0.00%) 9.3593 ( -4.50%)
Amean 203 10.4783 ( 0.00%) 10.8347 ( -3.40%)
Amean 234 12.4977 ( 0.00%) 13.0177 ( -4.16%)
Amean 265 14.7003 ( 0.00%) 15.5630 ( -5.87%)
Amean 296 16.1007 ( 0.00%) 17.4023 ( -8.08%)
Processes using pipes are impacted but the variance (not presented) indicates
it's close to noise and the results are not always reproducible. If executed
across multiple reboots, it may show neutral or small gains so the worst
measured results are presented.
Hackbench using sockets is more reliably neutral as the wakeup
mechanisms are different between sockets and pipes.
hackbench-process-sockets
6.18-rc1 6.18-rc1
vanilla sched-preemptnext-v2
Amean 1 0.3073 ( 0.00%) 0.3263 ( -6.18%)
Amean 4 0.7863 ( 0.00%) 0.7930 ( -0.85%)
Amean 7 1.3670 ( 0.00%) 1.3537 ( 0.98%)
Amean 12 2.1337 ( 0.00%) 2.1903 ( -2.66%)
Amean 21 3.4683 ( 0.00%) 3.4940 ( -0.74%)
Amean 30 4.7247 ( 0.00%) 4.8853 ( -3.40%)
Amean 48 7.6097 ( 0.00%) 7.8197 ( -2.76%)
Amean 79 14.7957 ( 0.00%) 16.1000 ( -8.82%)
Amean 110 21.3413 ( 0.00%) 21.9997 ( -3.08%)
Amean 141 29.0503 ( 0.00%) 29.0353 ( 0.05%)
Amean 172 36.4660 ( 0.00%) 36.1433 ( 0.88%)
Amean 203 39.7177 ( 0.00%) 40.5910 ( -2.20%)
Amean 234 42.1120 ( 0.00%) 43.5527 ( -3.42%)
Amean 265 45.7830 ( 0.00%) 50.0560 ( -9.33%)
Amean 296 50.7043 ( 0.00%) 54.3657 ( -7.22%)
As schbench has been mentioned in numerous bugs recently, the results
are interesting. A test case that represents the default schbench
behaviour is
schbench Wakeup Latency (usec)
6.18.0-rc1 6.18.0-rc1
vanilla sched-preemptnext-v5
Amean Wakeup-50th-80 7.17 ( 0.00%) 6.00 ( 16.28%)
Amean Wakeup-90th-80 46.56 ( 0.00%) 19.78 ( 57.52%)
Amean Wakeup-99th-80 119.61 ( 0.00%) 89.94 ( 24.80%)
Amean Wakeup-99.9th-80 3193.78 ( 0.00%) 328.22 ( 89.72%)
schbench Requests Per Second (ops/sec)
6.18.0-rc1 6.18.0-rc1
vanilla sched-preemptnext-v5
Hmean RPS-20th-80 8900.91 ( 0.00%) 9176.78 ( 3.10%)
Hmean RPS-50th-80 8987.41 ( 0.00%) 9217.89 ( 2.56%)
Hmean RPS-90th-80 9123.73 ( 0.00%) 9273.25 ( 1.64%)
Hmean RPS-max-80 9193.50 ( 0.00%) 9301.47 ( 1.17%)
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251112122521.1331238-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net
The NEXT_BUDDY feature reinforces wakeup preemption to encourage the last
wakee to be scheduled sooner on the assumption that the waker/wakee share
cache-hot data. In CFS, it was paired with LAST_BUDDY to switch back on
the assumption that the pair of tasks still share data but also relied
on START_DEBIT and the exact WAKEUP_PREEMPTION implementation to get
good results.
NEXT_BUDDY has been disabled since commit 0ec9fab3d1 ("sched: Improve
latencies and throughput") and LAST_BUDDY was removed in commit 5e963f2bd4
("sched/fair: Commit to EEVDF"). The reasoning is not clear but as vruntime
spread is mentioned so the expectation is that NEXT_BUDDY had an impact
on overall fairness. It was not noted why LAST_BUDDY was removed but it
is assumed that it's very difficult to reason what LAST_BUDDY's correct
and effective behaviour should be while still respecting EEVDFs goals.
Peter Zijlstra noted during review;
I think I was just struggling to make sense of things and figured
less is more and axed it.
I have vague memories trying to work through the dynamics of
a wakeup-stack and the EEVDF latency requirements and getting
a head-ache.
NEXT_BUDDY is easier to reason about given that it's a point-in-time
decision on the wakees deadline and eligibilty relative to the waker. Enable
NEXT_BUDDY as a preparation path to document that the decision to ignore
the current implementation is deliberate. While not presented, the results
were at best neutral and often much more variable.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251112122521.1331238-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net
The NUMA sched domain sets the SD_SERIALIZE flag by default, allowing
only one NUMA load balancing operation to run system-wide at a time.
Currently, each sched group leader directly under NUMA domain attempts
to acquire the global sched_balance_running flag via cmpxchg() before
checking whether load balancing is due or whether it is the designated
load balancer for that NUMA domain. On systems with a large number
of cores, this causes significant cache contention on the shared
sched_balance_running flag.
This patch reduces unnecessary cmpxchg() operations by first checking
that the balancer is the designated leader for a NUMA domain from
should_we_balance(), and the balance interval has expired before
trying to acquire sched_balance_running to load balance a NUMA
domain.
On a 2-socket Granite Rapids system with sub-NUMA clustering enabled,
running an OLTP workload, 7.8% of total CPU cycles were previously spent
in sched_balance_domain() contending on sched_balance_running before
this change.
: 104 static __always_inline int arch_atomic_cmpxchg(atomic_t *v, int old, int new)
: 105 {
: 106 return arch_cmpxchg(&v->counter, old, new);
0.00 : ffffffff81326e6c: xor %eax,%eax
0.00 : ffffffff81326e6e: mov $0x1,%ecx
0.00 : ffffffff81326e73: lock cmpxchg %ecx,0x2394195(%rip) # ffffffff836bb010 <sched_balance_running>
: 110 sched_balance_domains():
: 12234 if (atomic_cmpxchg_acquire(&sched_balance_running, 0, 1))
99.39 : ffffffff81326e7b: test %eax,%eax
0.00 : ffffffff81326e7d: jne ffffffff81326e99 <sched_balance_domains+0x209>
: 12238 if (time_after_eq(jiffies, sd->last_balance + interval)) {
0.00 : ffffffff81326e7f: mov 0x14e2b3a(%rip),%rax # ffffffff828099c0 <jiffies_64>
0.00 : ffffffff81326e86: sub 0x48(%r14),%rax
0.00 : ffffffff81326e8a: cmp %rdx,%rax
After applying this fix, sched_balance_domain() is gone from the profile
and there is a 5% throughput improvement.
[peterz: made it so that redo retains the 'lock' and split out the
CPU_NEWLY_IDLE change to a separate patch]
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Mohini Narkhede <mohini.narkhede@intel.com>
Tested-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/6fed119b723c71552943bfe5798c93851b30a361.1762800251.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
cpumask_subset(a,b) -> cpumask_weight(a) should be same as cpumask_weight_and(a,b)
for_each_cpu_and(a,b) to count cpus could be replaced by cpumask_weight_and(a,b)
No Functional Change. It could save a few cycles since cpumask_weight_and
would be more efficient. Plus one less stack variable.
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251014100342.978936-3-sshegde@linux.ibm.com
Gabriel reported that the dl_server doesn't stop as expected.
The problem was found to be the fact that idle time and fair runtime are
treated equally. Both will count towards dl_server runtime and push the
activation forwards when it is in the zero-laxity wait state.
Notably:
dl_server_update_idle()
update_curr_dl_se()
if (dl_defer && dl_throttled && dl_runtime_exceeded())
hrtimer_try_to_cancel(); // stop timer
replenish_dl_new_period()
deadline = now + dl_deadline; // fwd period
runtime = dl_runtime;
start_dl_timer(); // restart timer
And while we do want idle time accounted towards the *current* activation of
the dl_server -- after all, a fair task could've ran if we had any -- we don't
necessarily want idle time to cause or push forward an activation.
Introduce dl_defer_idle to make this distinction. It will be set once idle time
pushed the activation forward, once set idle time will only be allowed to
consume any runtime but not push the activation. This will then cause
dl_server_timer() to fire, which will stop the dl_server.
Any non-idle time accounting during this phase will clear dl_defer_idle, so
only a full period of idle will cause the dl_server to stop.
Reported-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251101000057.GA2184199@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
The dl_server time accounting code is a little odd. The normal scheduler
pattern is to update curr before doing something, such that the old state is
fully accounted before changing state.
Notably, the dl_server_timer() needs to propagate the current time accounting
since the current task could be ran by dl_server and thus this can affect
dl_se->runtime. Similarly for dl_server_start().
And since the (deferred) dl_server wants idle time accounted, rework
sched_idle_class time accounting to be more like all the others.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251020141130.GJ3245006@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Since commit d4c64207b8 ("sched: Cleanup the sched_change NOCLOCK usage"),
update_rq_clock() is called in do_set_cpus_allowed() -> sched_change_begin()
to update the rq clock. This results in a duplicate call update_rq_clock()
in __set_cpus_allowed_ptr_locked().
While holding the rq lock and before calling do_set_cpus_allowed(),
there is nothing that depends on an updated rq_clock.
Therefore, remove the redundant update_rq_clock() in
__set_cpus_allowed_ptr_locked() to avoid the warning about double
rq clock updates.
Fixes: d4c64207b8 ("sched: Cleanup the sched_change NOCLOCK usage")
Signed-off-by: Hao Jia <jiahao1@lixiang.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251029093655.31252-1-jiahao.kernel@gmail.com
Basically, from the constraint that the sum of lag is zero, you can
infer that the 0-lag point is the weighted average of the individual
vruntime, which is what we're trying to compute:
\Sum w_i * v_i
avg = --------------
\Sum w_i
Now, since vruntime takes the whole u64 (worse, it wraps), this
multiplication term in the numerator is not something we can compute;
instead we do the min_vruntime (v0 henceforth) thing like:
v_i = (v_i - v0) + v0
This does two things:
- it keeps the key: (v_i - v0) 'small';
- it creates a relative 0-point in the modular space.
If you do that subtitution and work it all out, you end up with:
\Sum w_i * (v_i - v0)
avg = --------------------- + v0
\Sum w_i
Since you cannot very well track a ratio like that (and not suffer
terrible numerical problems) we simpy track the numerator and
denominator individually and only perform the division when strictly
needed.
Notably, the numerator lives in cfs_rq->avg_vruntime and the denominator
lives in cfs_rq->avg_load.
The one extra 'funny' is that these numbers track the entities in the
tree, and current is typically outside of the tree, so avg_vruntime()
adds current when needed before doing the division.
(vruntime_eligible() elides the division by cross-wise multiplication)
Anyway, as mentioned above, we currently use the CFS era min_vruntime
for this purpose. However, this thing can only move forward, while the
above avg can in fact move backward (when a non-eligible task leaves,
the average becomes smaller), this can cause trouble when through
happenstance (or construction) these values drift far enough apart to
wreck the game.
Replace cfs_rq::min_vruntime with cfs_rq::zero_vruntime which is kept
near/at avg_vruntime, following its motion.
The down-side is that this requires computing the avg more often.
Fixes: 147f3efaa2 ("sched/fair: Implement an EEVDF-like scheduling policy")
Reported-by: Zicheng Qu <quzicheng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251106111741.GC4068168@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Commit abfc01077d ("sched: Fix do_set_cpus_allowed() locking")
overlooked that __balance_push_cpu_stop() calls select_fallback_rq()
with rq->lock held. This makes that set_cpus_allowed_force() will
recursively take rq->lock and the machine locks up.
Run select_fallback_rq() earlier, without holding rq->lock. This opens
up a race window where a task could get migrated out from under us, but
that is harmless, we want the task migrated.
select_fallback_rq() itself will not be subject to concurrency as it
will be fully serialized by p->pi_lock, so there is no chance of
set_cpus_allowed_force() getting called with different arguments and
selecting different fallback CPUs for one task.
Fixes: abfc01077d ("sched: Fix do_set_cpus_allowed() locking")
Reported-by: Jan Polensky <japo@linux.ibm.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Jan Polensky <japo@linux.ibm.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202510271206.24495a68-lkp@intel.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027110133.GI3245006@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Pull sched_ext fixes from Tejun Heo:
- Fix scx_kick_pseqs corruption when multiple schedulers are loaded
concurrently
- Allocate scx_kick_cpus_pnt_seqs lazily using kvzalloc() to handle
systems with large CPU counts
- Defer queue_balance_callback() until after ops.dispatch to fix
callback ordering issues
- Sync error_irq_work before freeing scx_sched to prevent
use-after-free
- Mark scx_bpf_dsq_move_set_[slice|vtime]() with KF_RCU for proper RCU
protection
- Fix flag check for deferred callbacks
* tag 'sched_ext-for-6.18-rc3-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext:
sched_ext: fix flag check for deferred callbacks
sched_ext: Fix scx_kick_pseqs corruption on concurrent scheduler loads
sched_ext: Allocate scx_kick_cpus_pnt_seqs lazily using kvzalloc()
sched_ext: defer queue_balance_callback() until after ops.dispatch
sched_ext: Sync error_irq_work before freeing scx_sched
sched_ext: Mark scx_bpf_dsq_move_set_[slice|vtime]() with KF_RCU
Pull irq fixes from Borislav Petkov:
- Restore the original buslock locking in a couple of places in the irq
core subsystem after a rework
* tag 'irq_urgent_for_v6.18_rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
genirq/manage: Add buslock back in to enable_irq()
genirq/manage: Add buslock back in to __disable_irq_nosync()
genirq/chip: Add buslock back in to irq_set_handler()
Pull scheduler fix from Borislav Petkov:
- Make sure a CFS runqueue on a throttled hierarchy has its PELT clock
throttled otherwise task movement and manipulation would lead to
dangling cfs_rq references and an eventual crash
* tag 'sched_urgent_for_v6.18_rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/fair: Start a cfs_rq on throttled hierarchy with PELT clock throttled
Pull timer fix from Borislav Petkov:
- Do not create more than eight (max supported) AUX clocks sysfs
hierarchies
* tag 'timers_urgent_for_v6.18_rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timekeeping: Fix aux clocks sysfs initialization loop bound
Clang is not happy with set but unused variable (this is visible
with `make W=1` build:
kernel/sched/sched.h:3744:18: error: variable 'cpumask' set but not used [-Werror,-Wunused-but-set-variable]
It seems like the variable was never used along with the assignment
that does not have side effects as far as I can see. Remove those
altogether.
Fixes: 223baf9d17 ("sched: Fix performance regression introduced by mm_cid")
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
"A couple of fixes for Runtime Verification:
- A bug caused a kernel panic when reading enabled_monitors was
reported.
Change callback functions to always use list_head iterators and by
doing so, fix the wrong pointer that was leading to the panic.
- The rtapp/pagefault monitor relies on the MMU to be present
(pagefaults exist) but that was not enforced via kconfig, leading
to potential build errors on systems without an MMU.
Add that kconfig dependency"
* tag 'trace-rv-v6.18-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
rv: Make rtapp/pagefault monitor depends on CONFIG_MMU
rv: Fully convert enabled_monitors to use list_head as iterator
Pull hotfixes from Andrew Morton:
"17 hotfixes. 12 are cc:stable and 14 are for MM.
There's a two-patch DAMON series from SeongJae Park which addresses a
missed check and possible memory leak. Apart from that it's all
singletons - please see the changelogs for details"
* tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2025-10-22-12-43' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm:
csky: abiv2: adapt to new folio flags field
mm/damon/core: use damos_commit_quota_goal() for new goal commit
mm/damon/core: fix potential memory leak by cleaning ops_filter in damon_destroy_scheme
hugetlbfs: move lock assertions after early returns in huge_pmd_unshare()
vmw_balloon: indicate success when effectively deflating during migration
mm/damon/core: fix list_add_tail() call on damon_call()
mm/mremap: correctly account old mapping after MREMAP_DONTUNMAP remap
mm: prevent poison consumption when splitting THP
ocfs2: clear extent cache after moving/defragmenting extents
mm: don't spin in add_stack_record when gfp flags don't allow
dma-debug: don't report false positives with DMA_BOUNCE_UNALIGNED_KMALLOC
mm/damon/sysfs: dealloc commit test ctx always
mm/damon/sysfs: catch commit test ctx alloc failure
hung_task: fix warnings caused by unaligned lock pointers
Matteo reported hitting the assert_list_leaf_cfs_rq() warning from
enqueue_task_fair() post commit fe8d238e64 ("sched/fair: Propagate
load for throttled cfs_rq") which transitioned to using
cfs_rq_pelt_clock_throttled() check for leaf cfs_rq insertions in
propagate_entity_cfs_rq().
The "cfs_rq->pelt_clock_throttled" flag is used to indicate if the
hierarchy has its PELT frozen. If a cfs_rq's PELT is marked frozen, all
its descendants should have their PELT frozen too or weird things can
happen as a result of children accumulating PELT signals when the
parents have their PELT clock stopped.
Another side effect of this is the loss of integrity of the leaf cfs_rq
list. As debugged by Aaron, consider the following hierarchy:
root(#)
/ \
A(#) B(*)
|
C <--- new cgroup
|
D <--- new cgroup
# - Already on leaf cfs_rq list
* - Throttled with PELT frozen
The newly created cgroups don't have their "pelt_clock_throttled" signal
synced with cgroup B. Next, the following series of events occur:
1. online_fair_sched_group() for cgroup D will call
propagate_entity_cfs_rq(). (Same can happen if a throttled task is
moved to cgroup C and enqueue_task_fair() returns early.)
propagate_entity_cfs_rq() adds the cfs_rq of cgroup C to
"rq->tmp_alone_branch" since its PELT clock is not marked throttled
and cfs_rq of cgroup B is not on the list.
cfs_rq of cgroup B is skipped since its PELT is throttled.
root cfs_rq already exists on cfs_rq leading to
list_add_leaf_cfs_rq() returning early.
The cfs_rq of cgroup C is left dangling on the
"rq->tmp_alone_branch".
2. A new task wakes up on cgroup A. Since the whole hierarchy is already
on the leaf cfs_rq list, list_add_leaf_cfs_rq() keeps returning early
without any modifications to "rq->tmp_alone_branch".
The final assert_list_leaf_cfs_rq() in enqueue_task_fair() sees the
dangling reference to cgroup C's cfs_rq in "rq->tmp_alone_branch".
!!! Splat !!!
Syncing the "pelt_clock_throttled" indicator with parent cfs_rq is not
enough since the new cfs_rq is not yet enqueued on the hierarchy. A
dequeue on other subtree on the throttled hierarchy can freeze the PELT
clock for the parent hierarchy without setting the indicators for this
newly added cfs_rq which was never enqueued.
Since there are no tasks on the new hierarchy, start a cfs_rq on a
throttled hierarchy with its PELT clock throttled. The first enqueue, or
the distribution (whichever happens first) will unfreeze the PELT clock
and queue the cfs_rq on the leaf cfs_rq list.
While at it, add an assert_list_leaf_cfs_rq() in
propagate_entity_cfs_rq() to catch such cases in the future.
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/58a587d694f33c2ea487c700b0d046fa@codethink.co.uk/
Fixes: e1fad12dcb ("sched/fair: Switch to task based throttle model")
Reported-by: Matteo Martelli <matteo.martelli@codethink.co.uk>
Suggested-by: Aaron Lu <ziqianlu@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Lu <ziqianlu@bytedance.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Lu <ziqianlu@bytedance.com>
Tested-by: Matteo Martelli <matteo.martelli@codethink.co.uk>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251021053522.37583-1-kprateek.nayak@amd.com
The loop in tk_aux_sysfs_init() uses `i <= MAX_AUX_CLOCKS` as the
termination condition, which results in 9 iterations (i=0 to 8) when
MAX_AUX_CLOCKS is defined as 8. However, the kernel is designed to support
only up to 8 auxiliary clocks.
This off-by-one error causes the creation of a 9th sysfs entry that exceeds
the intended auxiliary clock range.
Fix the loop bound to use `i < MAX_AUX_CLOCKS` to ensure exactly 8
auxiliary clock entries are created, matching the design specification.
Fixes: 7b95663a3d ("timekeeping: Provide interface to control auxiliary clocks")
Signed-off-by: Haofeng Li <lihaofeng@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/tencent_2376993D9FC06A3616A4F981B3DE1C599607@qq.com
Pull scheduler fixes from Borislav Petkov:
- Make sure the check for lost pelt idle time is done unconditionally
to have correct lost idle time accounting
- Stop the deadline server task before a CPU goes offline
* tag 'sched_urgent_for_v6.18_rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/fair: Fix pelt lost idle time detection
sched/deadline: Stop dl_server before CPU goes offline
Pull perf fixes from Borislav Petkov:
- Make sure perf reporting works correctly in setups using
overlayfs or FUSE
- Move the uprobe optimization to a better location logically
* tag 'perf_urgent_for_v6.18_rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/core: Fix MMAP2 event device with backing files
perf/core: Fix MMAP event path names with backing files
perf/core: Fix address filter match with backing files
uprobe: Move arch_uprobe_optimize right after handlers execution
When scheduling the deferred balance callbacks, check SCX_RQ_BAL_CB_PENDING
instead of SCX_RQ_BAL_PENDING. This way schedule_deferred() properly tests
whether there is already a pending request for queue_balance_callback() to
be invoked at the end of .balance().
Fixes: a8ad873113 ("sched_ext: defer queue_balance_callback() until after ops.dispatch")
Signed-off-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
When __lookup_instance() allocates a func_instance structure but fails
to allocate the must_write_set array, it returns an error without freeing
the previously allocated func_instance. This causes a memory leak of 192
bytes (sizeof(struct func_instance)) each time this error path is triggered.
Fix by freeing 'result' on must_write_set allocation failure.
Fixes: b3698c356a ("bpf: callchain sensitive stack liveness tracking using CFG")
Reported-by: BPF Runtime Fuzzer (BRF)
Signed-off-by: Shardul Bankar <shardulsb08@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251016063330.4107547-1-shardulsb08@gmail.com
With pick_task() having an rf argument, it is possible to do the
lock-break there, get rid of the weird balance/pick_task hack.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Some pick functions like the internal pick_next_task_fair() already take
rf but some others dont. We need this for scx's server pick function.
Prepare for this by having pick functions accept it.
[peterz: - added RETRY_TASK handling
- removed pick_next_task_fair indirection]
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Have enqueue/dequeue set a per-class bit in rq->queue_mask. This then
enables easy tracking of which runqueues are modified over a
lock-break.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Shrikanth noted that sched_change pattern relies on using shared
flags.
Suggested-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
In preparation to adding more rules to __task_rq_lock(), such that
__task_rq_unlock() will no longer be equivalent to rq_unlock(),
make sure every __task_rq_lock() is matched by a __task_rq_unlock()
and vice-versa.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
All callers of do_set_cpus_allowed() only take p->pi_lock, which is
not sufficient to actually change the cpumask. Again, this is mostly
ok in these cases, but it results in unnecessarily complicated
reasoning.
Furthermore, there is no reason what so ever to not just take all the
required locks, so do just that.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
For some reason migrate_disable_switch() was more complicated than it
needs to be, resulting in mind bending locking of dubious quality.
Recognise that migrate_disable_switch() must be called before a
context switch, but any place before that switch is equally good.
Since the current place results in troubled locking, simply move the
thing before taking rq->lock.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Move sched_class::prio_changed() into the change pattern.
And while there, extend it with sched_class::get_prio() in order to
fix the deadline sitation.
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Add {DE,EN}QUEUE_CLASS and fold the sched_class::switch* methods into
the change pattern. This completes and makes the pattern more
symmetric.
This changes the order of callbacks slightly:
OLD NEW
|
| switching_from()
dequeue_task(); | dequeue_task()
put_prev_task(); | put_prev_task()
| switched_from()
|
... change task ... | ... change task ...
|
switching_to(); | switching_to()
enqueue_task(); | enqueue_task()
set_next_task(); | set_next_task()
prev_class->switched_from() |
switched_to() | switched_to()
|
Notably, it moves the switched_from() callback right after the
dequeue/put. Existing implementations don't appear to be affected by
this change in location -- specifically the task isn't enqueued on the
class in question in either location.
Make (CLASS)^(SAVE|MOVE), because there is nothing to save-restore
when changing scheduling classes.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>