firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git
11 years agosched: Remove get_online_cpus() usage
Peter Zijlstra [Fri, 11 Oct 2013 12:38:20 +0000 (14:38 +0200)]
sched: Remove get_online_cpus() usage

Remove get_online_cpus() usage from the scheduler; there's 4 sites that
use it:

 - sched_init_smp(); where its completely superfluous since we're in
   'early' boot and there simply cannot be any hotplugging.

 - sched_getaffinity(); we already take a raw spinlock to protect the
   task cpus_allowed mask, this disables preemption and therefore
   also stabilizes cpu_online_mask as that's modified using
   stop_machine. However switch to active mask for symmetry with
   sched_setaffinity()/set_cpus_allowed_ptr(). We guarantee active
   mask stability by inserting sync_rcu/sched() into _cpu_down.

 - sched_setaffinity(); we don't appear to need get_online_cpus()
   either, there's two sites where hotplug appears relevant:
    * cpuset_cpus_allowed(); for the !cpuset case we use possible_mask,
      for the cpuset case we hold task_lock, which is a spinlock and
      thus for mainline disables preemption (might cause pain on RT).
    * set_cpus_allowed_ptr(); Holds all scheduler locks and thus has
      preemption properly disabled; also it already deals with hotplug
      races explicitly where it releases them.

 - migrate_swap(); we can make stop_two_cpus() do the heavy lifting for
   us with a little trickery. By adding a sync_sched/rcu() after the
   CPU_DOWN_PREPARE notifier we can provide preempt/rcu guarantees for
   cpu_active_mask. Use these to validate that both our cpus are active
   when queueing the stop work before we queue the stop_machine works
   for take_cpu_down().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131011123820.GV3081@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched: Fix race in migrate_swap_stop()
Peter Zijlstra [Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:17:22 +0000 (20:17 +0200)]
sched: Fix race in migrate_swap_stop()

There is a subtle race in migrate_swap, when task P, on CPU A, decides to swap
places with task T, on CPU B.

Task P:
  - call migrate_swap
Task T:
  - go to sleep, removing itself from the runqueue
Task P:
  - double lock the runqueues on CPU A & B
Task T:
  - get woken up, place itself on the runqueue of CPU C
Task P:
  - see that task T is on a runqueue, and pretend to remove it
    from the runqueue on CPU B

Now CPUs B & C both have corrupted scheduler data structures.

This patch fixes it, by holding the pi_lock for both of the tasks
involved in the migrate swap. This prevents task T from waking up,
and placing itself onto another runqueue, until after migrate_swap
has released all locks.

This means that, when migrate_swap checks, task T will be either
on the runqueue where it was originally seen, or not on any
runqueue at all. Migrate_swap deals correctly with of those cases.

Tested-by: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org
Cc: aarcange@redhat.com
Cc: srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131010181722.GO13848@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/rt: Add missing rmb()
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 15 Oct 2013 10:35:07 +0000 (12:35 +0200)]
sched/rt: Add missing rmb()

While discussing the proposed SCHED_DEADLINE patches which in parts
mimic the existing FIFO code it was noticed that the wmb in
rt_set_overloaded() didn't have a matching barrier.

The only site using rt_overloaded() to test the rto_count is
pull_rt_task() and we should issue a matching rmb before then assuming
there's an rto_mask bit set.

Without that smp_rmb() in there we could actually miss seeing the
rto_mask bit.

Also, change to using smp_[wr]mb(), even though this is SMP only code;
memory barriers without smp_ always make me think they're against
hardware of some sort.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: luca.abeni@unitn.it
Cc: bruce.ashfield@windriver.com
Cc: dhaval.giani@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: hgu1972@gmail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: darren@dvhart.com
Cc: johan.eker@ericsson.com
Cc: p.faure@akatech.ch
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: raistlin@linux.it
Cc: claudio@evidence.eu.com
Cc: insop.song@gmail.com
Cc: michael@amarulasolutions.com
Cc: liming.wang@windriver.com
Cc: fchecconi@gmail.com
Cc: jkacur@redhat.com
Cc: tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Cc: harald.gustafsson@ericsson.com
Cc: nicola.manica@disi.unitn.it
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131015103507.GF10651@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/fair: Fix trivial typos in comments
Kamalesh Babulal [Sun, 13 Oct 2013 17:36:15 +0000 (23:06 +0530)]
sched/fair: Fix trivial typos in comments

 - 'load_icx' => 'load_idx'
 - 'calculcate_imbalance' => 'calculate_imbalance'

Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381685775-3544-1-git-send-email-kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ Also, don't capitalize 'idle' unnecessarily. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched: Remove bogus parameter in structured comment
Ramkumar Ramachandra [Thu, 10 Oct 2013 10:20:33 +0000 (15:50 +0530)]
sched: Remove bogus parameter in structured comment

The balance parameter was removed by 23f0d20 ("sched: Factor out
code to should_we_balance()", 2013-08-06).

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381400433-2030-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agox86: Apply the asm_volatile_goto() compiler quirk
Ingo Molnar [Thu, 10 Oct 2013 08:16:30 +0000 (10:16 +0200)]
x86: Apply the asm_volatile_goto() compiler quirk

Apply the asm_volatile_goto() compiler quirk to the new rmwcc.h
file as well, introduced in:

   c2daa3bed53a sched, x86: Provide a per-cpu preempt_count implementation

Reported-and-tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Suggested-by: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agoMerge branch 'core/urgent' into sched/core
Ingo Molnar [Fri, 11 Oct 2013 05:39:37 +0000 (07:39 +0200)]
Merge branch 'core/urgent' into sched/core

Merge in asm goto fix, to be able to apply the asm/rmwcc.h fix.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agocompiler/gcc4: Add quirk for 'asm goto' miscompilation bug
Ingo Molnar [Thu, 10 Oct 2013 08:16:30 +0000 (10:16 +0200)]
compiler/gcc4: Add quirk for 'asm goto' miscompilation bug

Fengguang Wu, Oleg Nesterov and Peter Zijlstra tracked down
a kernel crash to a GCC bug: GCC miscompiles certain 'asm goto'
constructs, as outlined here:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58670

Implement a workaround suggested by Jakub Jelinek.

Reported-and-tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Suggested-by: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agobcache: Fix a null ptr deref regression
Kent Overstreet [Fri, 11 Oct 2013 00:31:15 +0000 (17:31 -0700)]
bcache: Fix a null ptr deref regression

Commit c0f04d88e46d ("bcache: Fix flushes in writeback mode") was fixing
a reported data corruption bug, but it seems some last minute
refactoring or rebasing introduced a null pointer deref.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: linux-stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # >= v3.10
Reported-by: Gabriel de Perthuis <g2p.code@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoMerge tag 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck...
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 11 Oct 2013 01:16:02 +0000 (18:16 -0700)]
Merge tag 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging

Pull hwmon fix from Guenter Roeck:
 "Fix root cause of crash/error seen in applesmc driver"

* tag 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging:
  hwmon: (applesmc) Always read until end of data

11 years agoMerge branch 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 11 Oct 2013 01:15:23 +0000 (18:15 -0700)]
Merge branch 'rc-fixes' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild

Pull kbuild fix from Michal Marek:
 "Here is an ARM Makefile fix that you even acked.  After nobody wanted
  to take it, it ended up in the kbuild tree"

* 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  arm, kbuild: make "make install" not depend on vmlinux

11 years agoMerge git://www.linux-watchdog.org/linux-watchdog
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 10 Oct 2013 20:57:10 +0000 (13:57 -0700)]
Merge git://www.linux-watchdog.org/linux-watchdog

Pull watchdog fix from Wim Van Sebroeck:
 "Make sure that the hpwdt driver will not load auxilary iLO devices"

* git://www.linux-watchdog.org/linux-watchdog:
  watchdog: hpwdt: Patch to ignore auxilary iLO devices

11 years agokobject: show debug info on delayed kobject release
Fengguang Wu [Wed, 9 Oct 2013 01:26:21 +0000 (09:26 +0800)]
kobject: show debug info on delayed kobject release

Useful for locating buggy drivers on kernel oops.

It may add dozens of new lines to boot dmesg. DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE is
hopefully only enabled in debug kernels (like maybe the Fedora rawhide
one, or at developers), so being a bit more verbose is likely ok.

Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agowatchdog: hpwdt: Patch to ignore auxilary iLO devices
Mingarelli, Thomas [Fri, 9 Aug 2013 16:31:09 +0000 (16:31 +0000)]
watchdog: hpwdt: Patch to ignore auxilary iLO devices

This patch is to prevent hpwdt from loading on any auxilary iLO devices defined
after the initial (or main) iLO device. All auxilary iLO devices will have a
subsystem device ID set to 0x1979 in order for hpwdt to differentiate between
the two types.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Mingarelli <thomas.mingarelli@hp.com>
Tested-by: Lisa Mitchell <lisa.mitchell@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
11 years agoMerge tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso...
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 10 Oct 2013 19:31:43 +0000 (12:31 -0700)]
Merge tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tytso/random

Pull /dev/random changes from Ted Ts'o:
 "These patches are designed to enable improvements to /dev/random for
  non-x86 platforms, in particular MIPS and ARM"

* tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random:
  random: allow architectures to optionally define random_get_entropy()
  random: run random_int_secret_init() run after all late_initcalls

11 years agoMerge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:33:48 +0000 (11:33 -0700)]
Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git./virt/kvm/kvm

Pull kvm fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Fixes for 3.12-rc5: two old PPC bugs and one new (3.12-rc2) x86 bug"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  kvm: ppc: booke: check range page invalidation progress on page setup
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix typo in saving DSCR
  KVM: nVMX: fix shadow on EPT

11 years agoMerge tag 'spi-v3.12-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:33:02 +0000 (11:33 -0700)]
Merge tag 'spi-v3.12-rc4' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi

Pull spi fixes from Mark Brown:
 "This is all driver updates, mostly fixes for error handling paths
  except for the s3c64xx and hspi fixes for trying to use runtime PM
  before it is enabled and the pxa2xx fix for interactions between power
  management and interrupt handling"

* tag 'spi-v3.12-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi:
  spi: atmel: Fix incorrect error path
  spi/hspi: fixup Runtime PM enable timing
  spi/s3c64xx: Ensure runtime PM is enabled prior to registration
  spi/clps711x: drop clk_put for devm_clk_get in spi_clps711x_probe()
  spi: fix return value check in dspi_probe()
  spi: mpc512x: fix error return code in mpc512x_psc_spi_do_probe()
  spi: clps711x: Don't call kfree() after spi_master_put/spi_unregister_master
  spi/pxa2xx: check status register as well to determine if the device is off

11 years agorandom: allow architectures to optionally define random_get_entropy()
Theodore Ts'o [Sat, 21 Sep 2013 17:58:22 +0000 (13:58 -0400)]
random: allow architectures to optionally define random_get_entropy()

Allow architectures which have a disabled get_cycles() function to
provide a random_get_entropy() function which provides a fine-grained,
rapidly changing counter that can be used by the /dev/random driver.

For example, an architecture might have a rapidly changing register
used to control random TLB cache eviction, or DRAM refresh that
doesn't meet the requirements of get_cycles(), but which is good
enough for the needs of the random driver.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
11 years agoMerge tag 'for-linus-20131008' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:30:33 +0000 (11:30 -0700)]
Merge tag 'for-linus-20131008' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd

Pull MTD fixes from Brian Norris:
 - fix a small memory leak in some new ONFI code
 - account for additional odd variations of Micron SPI flash

Acked by David Woodhouse.

* tag 'for-linus-20131008' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd:
  mtd: m25p80: Fix 4 byte addressing mode for Micron devices.
  mtd: nand: fix memory leak in ONFI extended parameter page

11 years agokvm: ppc: booke: check range page invalidation progress on page setup
Bharat Bhushan [Wed, 7 Aug 2013 10:03:46 +0000 (15:33 +0530)]
kvm: ppc: booke: check range page invalidation progress on page setup

When the MM code is invalidating a range of pages, it calls the KVM
kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start() notifier function, which calls
kvm_unmap_hva_range(), which arranges to flush all the TLBs for guest pages.
However, the Linux PTEs for the range being flushed are still valid at
that point.  We are not supposed to establish any new references to pages
in the range until the ...range_end() notifier gets called.
The PPC-specific KVM code doesn't get any explicit notification of that;
instead, we are supposed to use mmu_notifier_retry() to test whether we
are or have been inside a range flush notifier pair while we have been
referencing a page.

This patch calls the mmu_notifier_retry() while mapping the guest
page to ensure we are not referencing a page when in range invalidation.

This call is inside a region locked with kvm->mmu_lock, which is the
same lock that is called by the KVM MMU notifier functions, thus
ensuring that no new notification can proceed while we are in the
locked region.

Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
[Backported to 3.12 - Paolo]
Reviewed-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
11 years agoKVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix typo in saving DSCR
Paul Mackerras [Fri, 20 Sep 2013 23:53:28 +0000 (09:53 +1000)]
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix typo in saving DSCR

This fixes a typo in the code that saves the guest DSCR (Data Stream
Control Register) into the kvm_vcpu_arch struct on guest exit.  The
effect of the typo was that the DSCR value was saved in the wrong place,
so changes to the DSCR by the guest didn't persist across guest exit
and entry, and some host kernel memory got corrupted.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [v3.1+]
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
11 years agoKVM: nVMX: fix shadow on EPT
Gleb Natapov [Wed, 9 Oct 2013 16:13:19 +0000 (19:13 +0300)]
KVM: nVMX: fix shadow on EPT

72f857950f6f19 broke shadow on EPT. This patch reverts it and fixes PAE
on nEPT (which reverted commit fixed) in other way.

Shadow on EPT is now broken because while L1 builds shadow page table
for L2 (which is PAE while L2 is in real mode) it never loads L2's
GUEST_PDPTR[0-3].  They do not need to be loaded because without nested
virtualization HW does this during guest entry if EPT is disabled,
but in our case L0 emulates L2's vmentry while EPT is enables, so we
cannot rely on vmcs12->guest_pdptr[0-3] to contain up-to-date values
and need to re-read PDPTEs from L2 memory. This is what kvm_set_cr3()
is doing, but by clearing cache bits during L2 vmentry we drop values
that kvm_set_cr3() read from memory.

So why the same code does not work for PAE on nEPT? kvm_set_cr3()
reads pdptes into vcpu->arch.walk_mmu->pdptrs[]. walk_mmu points to
vcpu->arch.nested_mmu while nested guest is running, but ept_load_pdptrs()
uses vcpu->arch.mmu which contain incorrect values. Fix that by using
walk_mmu in ept_(load|save)_pdptrs.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
11 years agohwmon: (applesmc) Always read until end of data
Henrik Rydberg [Wed, 2 Oct 2013 17:15:03 +0000 (19:15 +0200)]
hwmon: (applesmc) Always read until end of data

The crash reported and investigated in commit 5f4513 turned out to be
caused by a change to the read interface on newer (2012) SMCs.

Tests by Chris show that simply reading the data valid line is enough
for the problem to go away. Additional tests show that the newer SMCs
no longer wait for the number of requested bytes, but start sending
data right away.  Apparently the number of bytes to read is no longer
specified as before, but instead found out by reading until end of
data. Failure to read until end of data confuses the state machine,
which eventually causes the crash.

As a remedy, assuming bit0 is the read valid line, make sure there is
nothing more to read before leaving the read function.

Tested to resolve the original problem, and runtested on MBA3,1,
MBP4,1, MBP8,2, MBP10,1, MBP10,2. The patch seems to have no effect on
machines before 2012.

Tested-by: Chris Murphy <chris@cmurf.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
11 years agosched/numa: Reflow task_numa_group() to avoid a compiler warning
Peter Zijlstra [Wed, 9 Oct 2013 08:24:48 +0000 (10:24 +0200)]
sched/numa: Reflow task_numa_group() to avoid a compiler warning

Reflow the function a bit because GCC gets confused:

  kernel/sched/fair.c: In function ‘task_numa_fault’:
  kernel/sched/fair.c:1448:3: warning: ‘my_grp’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
  kernel/sched/fair.c:1463:27: note: ‘my_grp’ was declared here

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-6ebt6x7u64pbbonq1khqu2z9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Retry task_numa_migrate() periodically
Rik van Riel [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:41 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Retry task_numa_migrate() periodically

Short spikes of CPU load can lead to a task being migrated
away from its preferred node for temporary reasons.

It is important that the task is migrated back to where it
belongs, in order to avoid migrating too much memory to its
new location, and generally disturbing a task's NUMA location.

This patch fixes NUMA placement for 4 specjbb instances on
a 4 node system. Without this patch, things take longer to
converge, and processes are not always completely on their
own node.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-64-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Use unsigned longs for numa group fault stats
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:40 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Use unsigned longs for numa group fault stats

As Peter says "If you're going to hold locks you can also do away with all
that atomic_long_*() nonsense". Lock aquisition moved slightly to protect
the updates.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-63-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Skip some page migrations after a shared fault
Rik van Riel [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:39 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Skip some page migrations after a shared fault

Shared faults can lead to lots of unnecessary page migrations,
slowing down the system, and causing private faults to hit the
per-pgdat migration ratelimit.

This patch adds sysctl numa_balancing_migrate_deferred, which specifies
how many shared page migrations to skip unconditionally, after each page
migration that is skipped because it is a shared fault.

This reduces the number of page migrations back and forth in
shared fault situations. It also gives a strong preference to
the tasks that are already running where most of the memory is,
and to moving the other tasks to near the memory.

Testing this with a much higher scan rate than the default
still seems to result in fewer page migrations than before.

Memory seems to be somewhat better consolidated than previously,
with multi-instance specjbb runs on a 4 node system.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-62-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agomm: numa: Revert temporarily disabling of NUMA migration
Rik van Riel [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:38 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
mm: numa: Revert temporarily disabling of NUMA migration

With the scan rate code working (at least for multi-instance specjbb),
the large hammer that is "sched: Do not migrate memory immediately after
switching node" can be replaced with something smarter. Revert temporarily
migration disabling and all traces of numa_migrate_seq.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-61-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Remove the numa_balancing_scan_period_reset sysctl
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:37 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Remove the numa_balancing_scan_period_reset sysctl

With scan rate adaptions based on whether the workload has properly
converged or not there should be no need for the scan period reset
hammer. Get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-60-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Adjust scan rate in task_numa_placement
Rik van Riel [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:36 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Adjust scan rate in task_numa_placement

Adjust numa_scan_period in task_numa_placement, depending on how much
useful work the numa code can do. The more local faults there are in a
given scan window the longer the period (and hence the slower the scan rate)
during the next window. If there are excessive shared faults then the scan
period will decrease with the amount of scaling depending on whether the
ratio of shared/private faults. If the preferred node changes then the
scan rate is reset to recheck if the task is properly placed.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-59-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Take false sharing into account when adapting scan rate
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:35 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Take false sharing into account when adapting scan rate

Scan rate is altered based on whether shared/private faults dominated.
task_numa_group() may detect false sharing but that information is not
taken into account when adapting the scan rate. Take it into account.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-58-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Be more careful about joining numa groups
Rik van Riel [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:34 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Be more careful about joining numa groups

Due to the way the pid is truncated, and tasks are moved between
CPUs by the scheduler, it is possible for the current task_numa_fault
to group together tasks that do not actually share memory together.

This patch adds a few easy sanity checks to task_numa_fault, joining
tasks together if they share the same tsk->mm, or if the fault was on
a page with an elevated mapcount, in a shared VMA.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-57-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Avoid migrating tasks that are placed on their preferred node
Peter Zijlstra [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:33 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Avoid migrating tasks that are placed on their preferred node

This patch classifies scheduler domains and runqueues into types depending
the number of tasks that are about their NUMA placement and the number
that are currently running on their preferred node. The types are

regular: There are tasks running that do not care about their NUMA
placement.

remote: There are tasks running that care about their placement but are
currently running on a node remote to their ideal placement

all: No distinction

To implement this the patch tracks the number of tasks that are optimally
NUMA placed (rq->nr_preferred_running) and the number of tasks running
that care about their placement (nr_numa_running). The load balancer
uses this information to avoid migrating idea placed NUMA tasks as long
as better options for load balancing exists. For example, it will not
consider balancing between a group whose tasks are all perfectly placed
and a group with remote tasks.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-56-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Fix task or group comparison
Rik van Riel [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:32 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Fix task or group comparison

This patch separately considers task and group affinities when
searching for swap candidates during NUMA placement. If tasks
are part of the same group, or no group at all, the task weights
are considered.

Some hysteresis is added to prevent tasks within one group from
getting bounced between NUMA nodes due to tiny differences.

If tasks are part of different groups, the code compares group
weights, in order to favor grouping task groups together.

The patch also changes the group weight multiplier to be the
same as the task weight multiplier, since the two are no longer
added up like before.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-55-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Decide whether to favour task or group weights based on swap candidate...
Rik van Riel [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:31 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Decide whether to favour task or group weights based on swap candidate relationships

This patch separately considers task and group affinities when searching
for swap candidates during task NUMA placement. If tasks are not part of
a group or the same group then the task weights are considered.
Otherwise the group weights are compared.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-54-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Add debugging
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:30 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Add debugging

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-53-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
11 years agosched/numa: Prevent parallel updates to group stats during placement
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:29 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Prevent parallel updates to group stats during placement

Having multiple tasks in a group go through task_numa_placement
simultaneously can lead to a task picking a wrong node to run on, because
the group stats may be in the middle of an update. This patch avoids
parallel updates by holding the numa_group lock during placement
decisions.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-52-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Call task_numa_free() from do_execve()
Rik van Riel [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:28 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Call task_numa_free() from do_execve()

It is possible for a task in a numa group to call exec, and
have the new (unrelated) executable inherit the numa group
association from its former self.

This has the potential to break numa grouping, and is trivial
to fix.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-51-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Use group fault statistics in numa placement
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:27 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Use group fault statistics in numa placement

This patch uses the fraction of faults on a particular node for both task
and group, to figure out the best node to place a task.  If the task and
group statistics disagree on what the preferred node should be then a full
rescan will select the node with the best combined weight.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-50-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Stay on the same node if CLONE_VM
Rik van Riel [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:26 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Stay on the same node if CLONE_VM

A newly spawned thread inside a process should stay on the same
NUMA node as its parent. This prevents processes from being "torn"
across multiple NUMA nodes every time they spawn a new thread.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-49-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agomm: numa: Do not batch handle PMD pages
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:25 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
mm: numa: Do not batch handle PMD pages

With the THP migration races closed it is still possible to occasionally
see corruption. The problem is related to handling PMD pages in batch.
When a page fault is handled it can be assumed that the page being
faulted will also be flushed from the TLB. The same flushing does not
happen when handling PMD pages in batch. Fixing is straight forward but
there are a number of reasons not to

1. Multiple TLB flushes may have to be sent depending on what pages get
   migrated
2. The handling of PMDs in batch means that faults get accounted to
   the task that is handling the fault. While care is taken to only
   mark PMDs where the last CPU and PID match it can still have problems
   due to PID truncation when matching PIDs.
3. Batching on the PMD level may reduce faults but setting pmd_numa
   requires taking a heavy lock that can contend with THP migration
   and handling the fault requires the release/acquisition of the PTL
   for every page migrated. It's still pretty heavy.

PMD batch handling is not something that people ever have been happy
with. This patch removes it and later patches will deal with the
additional fault overhead using more installigent migrate rate adaption.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-48-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agomm: numa: Do not group on RO pages
Peter Zijlstra [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:24 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
mm: numa: Do not group on RO pages

And here's a little something to make sure not the whole world ends up
in a single group.

As while we don't migrate shared executable pages, we do scan/fault on
them. And since everybody links to libc, everybody ends up in the same
group.

Suggested-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-47-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agomm: numa: Copy cpupid on page migration
Rik van Riel [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:23 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
mm: numa: Copy cpupid on page migration

After page migration, the new page has the nidpid unset. This makes
every fault on a recently migrated page look like a first numa fault,
leading to another page migration.

Copying over the nidpid at page migration time should prevent erroneous
migrations of recently migrated pages.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-46-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Report a NUMA task group ID
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:22 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Report a NUMA task group ID

It is desirable to model from userspace how the scheduler groups tasks
over time. This patch adds an ID to the numa_group and reports it via
/proc/PID/status.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-45-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Use {cpu, pid} to create task groups for shared faults
Peter Zijlstra [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:21 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Use {cpu, pid} to create task groups for shared faults

While parallel applications tend to align their data on the cache
boundary, they tend not to align on the page or THP boundary.
Consequently tasks that partition their data can still "false-share"
pages presenting a problem for optimal NUMA placement.

This patch uses NUMA hinting faults to chain tasks together into
numa_groups. As well as storing the NID a task was running on when
accessing a page a truncated representation of the faulting PID is
stored. If subsequent faults are from different PIDs it is reasonable
to assume that those two tasks share a page and are candidates for
being grouped together. Note that this patch makes no scheduling
decisions based on the grouping information.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-44-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agomm: numa: Change page last {nid,pid} into {cpu,pid}
Peter Zijlstra [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:20 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
mm: numa: Change page last {nid,pid} into {cpu,pid}

Change the per page last fault tracking to use cpu,pid instead of
nid,pid. This will allow us to try and lookup the alternate task more
easily. Note that even though it is the cpu that is store in the page
flags that the mpol_misplaced decision is still based on the node.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-43-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
[ Fixed build failure on 32-bit systems. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Fix placement of workloads spread across multiple nodes
Rik van Riel [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:19 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Fix placement of workloads spread across multiple nodes

The load balancer will spread workloads across multiple NUMA nodes,
in order to balance the load on the system. This means that sometimes
a task's preferred node has available capacity, but moving the task
there will not succeed, because that would create too large an imbalance.

In that case, other NUMA nodes need to be considered.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-42-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Favor placing a task on the preferred node
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:18 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Favor placing a task on the preferred node

A tasks preferred node is selected based on the number of faults
recorded for a node but the actual task_numa_migate() conducts a global
search regardless of the preferred nid. This patch checks if the
preferred nid has capacity and if so, searches for a CPU within that
node. This avoids a global search when the preferred node is not
overloaded.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-41-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Use a system-wide search to find swap/migration candidates
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:17 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Use a system-wide search to find swap/migration candidates

This patch implements a system-wide search for swap/migration candidates
based on total NUMA hinting faults. It has a balance limit, however it
doesn't properly consider total node balance.

In the old scheme a task selected a preferred node based on the highest
number of private faults recorded on the node. In this scheme, the preferred
node is based on the total number of faults. If the preferred node for a
task changes then task_numa_migrate will search the whole system looking
for tasks to swap with that would improve both the overall compute
balance and minimise the expected number of remote NUMA hinting faults.

Not there is no guarantee that the node the source task is placed
on by task_numa_migrate() has any relationship to the newly selected
task->numa_preferred_nid due to compute overloading.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
[ Do not swap with tasks that cannot run on source cpu]
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ Fixed compiler warning on UP. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-40-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Introduce migrate_swap()
Peter Zijlstra [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:16 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Introduce migrate_swap()

Use the new stop_two_cpus() to implement migrate_swap(), a function that
flips two tasks between their respective cpus.

I'm fairly sure there's a less crude way than employing the stop_two_cpus()
method, but everything I tried either got horribly fragile and/or complex. So
keep it simple for now.

The notable detail is how we 'migrate' tasks that aren't runnable
anymore. We'll make it appear like we migrated them before they went to
sleep. The sole difference is the previous cpu in the wakeup path, so we
override this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-39-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agostop_machine: Introduce stop_two_cpus()
Peter Zijlstra [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:15 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
stop_machine: Introduce stop_two_cpus()

Introduce stop_two_cpus() in order to allow controlled swapping of two
tasks. It repurposes the stop_machine() state machine but only stops
the two cpus which we can do with on-stack structures and avoid
machine wide synchronization issues.

The ordering of CPUs is important to avoid deadlocks. If unordered then
two cpus calling stop_two_cpus on each other simultaneously would attempt
to queue in the opposite order on each CPU causing an AB-BA style deadlock.
By always having the lowest number CPU doing the queueing of works, we can
guarantee that works are always queued in the same order, and deadlocks
are avoided.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
[ Implemented deadlock avoidance. ]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-38-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agomm: numa: Trap pmd hinting faults only if we would otherwise trap PTE faults
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:14 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
mm: numa: Trap pmd hinting faults only if we would otherwise trap PTE faults

Base page PMD faulting is meant to batch handle NUMA hinting faults from
PTEs. However, even is no PTE faults would ever be handled within a
range the kernel still traps PMD hinting faults. This patch avoids the
overhead.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-37-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Do not trap hinting faults for shared libraries
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:13 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Do not trap hinting faults for shared libraries

NUMA hinting faults will not migrate a shared executable page mapped by
multiple processes on the grounds that the data is probably in the CPU
cache already and the page may just bounce between tasks running on multipl
nodes. Even if the migration is avoided, there is still the overhead of
trapping the fault, updating the statistics, making scheduler placement
decisions based on the information etc. If we are never going to migrate
the page, it is overhead for no gain and worse a process may be placed on
a sub-optimal node for shared executable pages. This patch avoids trapping
faults for shared libraries entirely.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-36-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Increment numa_migrate_seq when task runs in correct location
Rik van Riel [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:12 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Increment numa_migrate_seq when task runs in correct location

When a task is already running on its preferred node, increment
numa_migrate_seq to indicate that the task is settled if migration is
temporarily disabled, and memory should migrate towards it.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
[ Only increment migrate_seq if migration temporarily disabled. ]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-35-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Retry migration of tasks to CPU on a preferred node
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:11 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Retry migration of tasks to CPU on a preferred node

When a preferred node is selected for a tasks there is an attempt to migrate
the task to a CPU there. This may fail in which case the task will only
migrate if the active load balancer takes action. This may never happen if
the conditions are not right. This patch will check at NUMA hinting fault
time if another attempt should be made to migrate the task. It will only
make an attempt once every five seconds.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-34-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Avoid overloading CPUs on a preferred NUMA node
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:10 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Avoid overloading CPUs on a preferred NUMA node

This patch replaces find_idlest_cpu_node with task_numa_find_cpu.
find_idlest_cpu_node has two critical limitations. It does not take the
scheduling class into account when calculating the load and it is unsuitable
for using when comparing loads between NUMA nodes.

task_numa_find_cpu uses similar load calculations to wake_affine() when
selecting the least loaded CPU within a scheduling domain common to the
source and destimation nodes. It avoids causing CPU load imbalances in
the machine by refusing to migrate if the relative load on the target
CPU is higher than the source CPU.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-33-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agomm: numa: Limit NUMA scanning to migrate-on-fault VMAs
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:09 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
mm: numa: Limit NUMA scanning to migrate-on-fault VMAs

There is a 90% regression observed with a large Oracle performance test
on a 4 node system. Profiles indicated that the overhead was due to
contention on sp_lock when looking up shared memory policies. These
policies do not have the appropriate flags to allow them to be
automatically balanced so trapping faults on them is pointless. This
patch skips VMAs that do not have MPOL_F_MOF set.

[riel@redhat.com: Initial patch]

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reported-and-tested-by: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-32-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Do not migrate memory immediately after switching node
Rik van Riel [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:08 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Do not migrate memory immediately after switching node

The load balancer can move tasks between nodes and does not take NUMA
locality into account. With automatic NUMA balancing this may result in the
tasks working set being migrated to the new node. However, as the fault
buffer will still store faults from the old node the schduler may decide to
reset the preferred node and migrate the task back resulting in more
migrations.

The ideal would be that the scheduler did not migrate tasks with a heavy
memory footprint but this may result nodes being overloaded. We could
also discard the fault information on task migration but this would still
cause all the tasks working set to be migrated. This patch simply avoids
migrating the memory for a short time after a task is migrated.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-31-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Set preferred NUMA node based on number of private faults
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:07 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Set preferred NUMA node based on number of private faults

Ideally it would be possible to distinguish between NUMA hinting faults that
are private to a task and those that are shared. If treated identically
there is a risk that shared pages bounce between nodes depending on
the order they are referenced by tasks. Ultimately what is desirable is
that task private pages remain local to the task while shared pages are
interleaved between sharing tasks running on different nodes to give good
average performance. This is further complicated by THP as even
applications that partition their data may not be partitioning on a huge
page boundary.

To start with, this patch assumes that multi-threaded or multi-process
applications partition their data and that in general the private accesses
are more important for cpu->memory locality in the general case. Also,
no new infrastructure is required to treat private pages properly but
interleaving for shared pages requires additional infrastructure.

To detect private accesses the pid of the last accessing task is required
but the storage requirements are a high. This patch borrows heavily from
Ingo Molnar's patch "numa, mm, sched: Implement last-CPU+PID hash tracking"
to encode some bits from the last accessing task in the page flags as
well as the node information. Collisions will occur but it is better than
just depending on the node information. Node information is then used to
determine if a page needs to migrate. The PID information is used to detect
private/shared accesses. The preferred NUMA node is selected based on where
the maximum number of approximately private faults were measured. Shared
faults are not taken into consideration for a few reasons.

First, if there are many tasks sharing the page then they'll all move
towards the same node. The node will be compute overloaded and then
scheduled away later only to bounce back again. Alternatively the shared
tasks would just bounce around nodes because the fault information is
effectively noise. Either way accounting for shared faults the same as
private faults can result in lower performance overall.

The second reason is based on a hypothetical workload that has a small
number of very important, heavily accessed private pages but a large shared
array. The shared array would dominate the number of faults and be selected
as a preferred node even though it's the wrong decision.

The third reason is that multiple threads in a process will race each
other to fault the shared page making the fault information unreliable.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
[ Fix complication error when !NUMA_BALANCING. ]
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-30-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Remove check that skips small VMAs
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:06 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Remove check that skips small VMAs

task_numa_work skips small VMAs. At the time the logic was to reduce the
scanning overhead which was considerable. It is a dubious hack at best.
It would make much more sense to cache where faults have been observed
and only rescan those regions during subsequent PTE scans. Remove this
hack as motivation to do it properly in the future.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-29-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agomm: numa: Scan pages with elevated page_mapcount
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:05 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
mm: numa: Scan pages with elevated page_mapcount

Currently automatic NUMA balancing is unable to distinguish between false
shared versus private pages except by ignoring pages with an elevated
page_mapcount entirely. This avoids shared pages bouncing between the
nodes whose task is using them but that is ignored quite a lot of data.

This patch kicks away the training wheels in preparation for adding support
for identifying shared/private pages is now in place. The ordering is so
that the impact of the shared/private detection can be easily measured. Note
that the patch does not migrate shared, file-backed within vmas marked
VM_EXEC as these are generally shared library pages. Migrating such pages
is not beneficial as there is an expectation they are read-shared between
caches and iTLB and iCache pressure is generally low.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-28-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Check current->mm before allocating NUMA faults
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:04 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Check current->mm before allocating NUMA faults

task_numa_placement checks current->mm but after buffers for faults
have already been uselessly allocated. Move the check earlier.

[peterz@infradead.org: Identified the problem]

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-27-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Add infrastructure for split shared/private accounting of NUMA hinting...
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:03 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Add infrastructure for split shared/private accounting of NUMA hinting faults

Ideally it would be possible to distinguish between NUMA hinting faults
that are private to a task and those that are shared.  This patch prepares
infrastructure for separately accounting shared and private faults by
allocating the necessary buffers and passing in relevant information. For
now, all faults are treated as private and detection will be introduced
later.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-26-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Reschedule task on preferred NUMA node once selected
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:02 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Reschedule task on preferred NUMA node once selected

A preferred node is selected based on the node the most NUMA hinting
faults was incurred on. There is no guarantee that the task is running
on that node at the time so this patch rescheules the task to run on
the most idle CPU of the selected node when selected. This avoids
waiting for the balancer to make a decision.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-25-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Resist moving tasks towards nodes with fewer hinting faults
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:01 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Resist moving tasks towards nodes with fewer hinting faults

Just as "sched: Favour moving tasks towards the preferred node" favours
moving tasks towards nodes with a higher number of recorded NUMA hinting
faults, this patch resists moving tasks towards nodes with lower faults.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-24-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Favour moving tasks towards the preferred node
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:00 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
sched/numa: Favour moving tasks towards the preferred node

This patch favours moving tasks towards NUMA node that recorded a higher
number of NUMA faults during active load balancing.  Ideally this is
self-reinforcing as the longer the task runs on that node, the more faults
it should incur causing task_numa_placement to keep the task running on that
node. In reality a big weakness is that the nodes CPUs can be overloaded
and it would be more efficient to queue tasks on an idle node and migrate
to the new node. This would require additional smarts in the balancer so
for now the balancer will simply prefer to place the task on the preferred
node for a PTE scans which is controlled by the numa_balancing_settle_count
sysctl. Once the settle_count number of scans has complete the schedule
is free to place the task on an alternative node if the load is imbalanced.

[srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com: Fixed statistics]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ Tunable and use higher faults instead of preferred. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-23-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Update NUMA hinting faults once per scan
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:28:59 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
sched/numa: Update NUMA hinting faults once per scan

NUMA hinting fault counts and placement decisions are both recorded in the
same array which distorts the samples in an unpredictable fashion. The values
linearly accumulate during the scan and then decay creating a sawtooth-like
pattern in the per-node counts. It also means that placement decisions are
time sensitive. At best it means that it is very difficult to state that
the buffer holds a decaying average of past faulting behaviour. At worst,
it can confuse the load balancer if it sees one node with an artifically high
count due to very recent faulting activity and may create a bouncing effect.

This patch adds a second array. numa_faults stores the historical data
which is used for placement decisions. numa_faults_buffer holds the
fault activity during the current scan window. When the scan completes,
numa_faults decays and the values from numa_faults_buffer are copied
across.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-22-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Select a preferred node with the most numa hinting faults
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:28:58 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
sched/numa: Select a preferred node with the most numa hinting faults

This patch selects a preferred node for a task to run on based on the
NUMA hinting faults. This information is later used to migrate tasks
towards the node during balancing.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-21-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Track NUMA hinting faults on per-node basis
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:28:57 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
sched/numa: Track NUMA hinting faults on per-node basis

This patch tracks what nodes numa hinting faults were incurred on.
This information is later used to schedule a task on the node storing
the pages most frequently faulted by the task.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-20-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Slow scan rate if no NUMA hinting faults are being recorded
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:28:56 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
sched/numa: Slow scan rate if no NUMA hinting faults are being recorded

NUMA PTE scanning slows if a NUMA hinting fault was trapped and no page
was migrated. For long-lived but idle processes there may be no faults
but the scan rate will be high and just waste CPU. This patch will slow
the scan rate for processes that are not trapping faults.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-19-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Set the scan rate proportional to the memory usage of the task being...
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:28:55 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
sched/numa: Set the scan rate proportional to the memory usage of the task being scanned

The NUMA PTE scan rate is controlled with a combination of the
numa_balancing_scan_period_min, numa_balancing_scan_period_max and
numa_balancing_scan_size. This scan rate is independent of the size
of the task and as an aside it is further complicated by the fact that
numa_balancing_scan_size controls how many pages are marked pte_numa and
not how much virtual memory is scanned.

In combination, it is almost impossible to meaningfully tune the min and
max scan periods and reasoning about performance is complex when the time
to complete a full scan is is partially a function of the tasks memory
size. This patch alters the semantic of the min and max tunables to be
about tuning the length time it takes to complete a scan of a tasks occupied
virtual address space. Conceptually this is a lot easier to understand. There
is a "sanity" check to ensure the scan rate is never extremely fast based on
the amount of virtual memory that should be scanned in a second. The default
of 2.5G seems arbitrary but it is to have the maximum scan rate after the
patch roughly match the maximum scan rate before the patch was applied.

On a similar note, numa_scan_period is in milliseconds and not
jiffies. Properly placed pages slow the scanning rate but adding 10 jiffies
to numa_scan_period means that the rate scanning slows depends on HZ which
is confusing. Get rid of the jiffies_to_msec conversion and treat it as ms.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-18-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Initialise numa_next_scan properly
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:28:54 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
sched/numa: Initialise numa_next_scan properly

Scan delay logic and resets are currently initialised to start scanning
immediately instead of delaying properly. Initialise them properly at
fork time and catch when a new mm has been allocated.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-17-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agoRevert "mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node"
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:28:53 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
Revert "mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node"

PTE scanning and NUMA hinting fault handling is expensive so commit
5bca2303 ("mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled
on a new node") deferred the PTE scan until a task had been scheduled on
another node. The problem is that in the purely shared memory case that
this may never happen and no NUMA hinting fault information will be
captured. We are not ruling out the possibility that something better
can be done here but for now, this patch needs to be reverted and depend
entirely on the scan_delay to avoid punishing short-lived processes.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-16-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Continue PTE scanning even if migrate rate limited
Peter Zijlstra [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:28:52 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
sched/numa: Continue PTE scanning even if migrate rate limited

Avoiding marking PTEs pte_numa because a particular NUMA node is migrate rate
limited sees like a bad idea. Even if this node can't migrate anymore other
nodes might and we want up-to-date information to do balance decisions.
We already rate limit the actual migrations, this should leave enough
bandwidth to allow the non-migrating scanning. I think its important we
keep up-to-date information if we're going to do placement based on it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-15-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Mitigate chance that same task always updates PTEs
Peter Zijlstra [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:28:51 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
sched/numa: Mitigate chance that same task always updates PTEs

With a trace_printk("working\n"); right after the cmpxchg in
task_numa_work() we can see that of a 4 thread process, its always the
same task winning the race and doing the protection change.

This is a problem since the task doing the protection change has a
penalty for taking faults -- it is busy when marking the PTEs. If its
always the same task the ->numa_faults[] get severely skewed.

Avoid this by delaying the task doing the protection change such that
it is unlikely to win the privilege again.

Before:

root@interlagos:~# grep "thread 0/.*working" /debug/tracing/trace | tail -15
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   212.787402: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   212.888473: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   212.989538: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.090602: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.191667: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.292734: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.393804: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.494869: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.596937: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.699000: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.801067: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   213.903155: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   214.005201: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   214.107266: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3232  [022] ....   214.209342: task_numa_work: working

After:

root@interlagos:~# grep "thread 0/.*working" /debug/tracing/trace | tail -15
      thread 0/0-3253  [005] ....   136.865051: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/2-3255  [026] ....   136.965134: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/3-3256  [024] ....   137.065217: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/3-3256  [024] ....   137.165302: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/3-3256  [024] ....   137.265382: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3253  [004] ....   137.366465: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/2-3255  [026] ....   137.466549: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3253  [004] ....   137.566629: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3253  [004] ....   137.666711: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/1-3254  [028] ....   137.766799: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/0-3253  [004] ....   137.866876: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/2-3255  [026] ....   137.966960: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/1-3254  [028] ....   138.067041: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/2-3255  [026] ....   138.167123: task_numa_work: working
      thread 0/3-3256  [024] ....   138.267207: task_numa_work: working

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-14-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agomm: numa: Do not migrate or account for hinting faults on the zero page
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:28:50 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
mm: numa: Do not migrate or account for hinting faults on the zero page

The zero page is not replicated between nodes and is often shared between
processes. The data is read-only and likely to be cached in local CPUs
if heavily accessed meaning that the remote memory access cost is less
of a concern. This patch prevents trapping faults on the zero pages. For
tasks using the zero page this will reduce the number of PTE updates,
TLB flushes and hinting faults.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ Correct use of is_huge_zero_page]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-13-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agomm: Only flush TLBs if a transhuge PMD is modified for NUMA pte scanning
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:28:49 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
mm: Only flush TLBs if a transhuge PMD is modified for NUMA pte scanning

NUMA PTE scanning is expensive both in terms of the scanning itself and
the TLB flush if there are any updates. The TLB flush is avoided if no
PTEs are updated but there is a bug where transhuge PMDs are considered
to be updated even if they were already pmd_numa. This patch addresses
the problem and TLB flushes should be reduced.

Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-12-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agomm: Do not flush TLB during protection change if !pte_present && !migration_entry
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:28:48 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
mm: Do not flush TLB during protection change if !pte_present && !migration_entry

NUMA PTE scanning is expensive both in terms of the scanning itself and
the TLB flush if there are any updates. Currently non-present PTEs are
accounted for as an update and incurring a TLB flush where it is only
necessary for anonymous migration entries. This patch addresses the
problem and should reduce TLB flushes.

Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-11-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agomm: Account for a THP NUMA hinting update as one PTE update
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:28:47 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
mm: Account for a THP NUMA hinting update as one PTE update

A THP PMD update is accounted for as 512 pages updated in vmstat.  This is
large difference when estimating the cost of automatic NUMA balancing and
can be misleading when comparing results that had collapsed versus split
THP. This patch addresses the accounting issue.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-10-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agomm: Close races between THP migration and PMD numa clearing
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:28:46 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
mm: Close races between THP migration and PMD numa clearing

THP migration uses the page lock to guard against parallel allocations
but there are cases like this still open

  Task A Task B
  --------------------- ---------------------
  do_huge_pmd_numa_page do_huge_pmd_numa_page
  lock_page
  mpol_misplaced == -1
  unlock_page
  goto clear_pmdnuma
lock_page
mpol_misplaced == 2
migrate_misplaced_transhuge
  pmd = pmd_mknonnuma
  set_pmd_at

During hours of testing, one crashed with weird errors and while I have
no direct evidence, I suspect something like the race above happened.
This patch extends the page lock to being held until the pmd_numa is
cleared to prevent migration starting in parallel while the pmd_numa is
being cleared. It also flushes the old pmd entry and orders pagetable
insertion before rmap insertion.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-9-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agomm: numa: Sanitize task_numa_fault() callsites
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:28:45 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
mm: numa: Sanitize task_numa_fault() callsites

There are three callers of task_numa_fault():

 - do_huge_pmd_numa_page():
     Accounts against the current node, not the node where the
     page resides, unless we migrated, in which case it accounts
     against the node we migrated to.

 - do_numa_page():
     Accounts against the current node, not the node where the
     page resides, unless we migrated, in which case it accounts
     against the node we migrated to.

 - do_pmd_numa_page():
     Accounts not at all when the page isn't migrated, otherwise
     accounts against the node we migrated towards.

This seems wrong to me; all three sites should have the same
sementaics, furthermore we should accounts against where the page
really is, we already know where the task is.

So modify all three sites to always account; we did after all receive
the fault; and always account to where the page is after migration,
regardless of success.

They all still differ on when they clear the PTE/PMD; ideally that
would get sorted too.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-8-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agomm: Prevent parallel splits during THP migration
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:28:44 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
mm: Prevent parallel splits during THP migration

THP migrations are serialised by the page lock but on its own that does
not prevent THP splits. If the page is split during THP migration then
the pmd_same checks will prevent page table corruption but the unlock page
and other fix-ups potentially will cause corruption. This patch takes the
anon_vma lock to prevent parallel splits during migration.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-7-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agomm: Wait for THP migrations to complete during NUMA hinting faults
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:28:43 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
mm: Wait for THP migrations to complete during NUMA hinting faults

The locking for migrating THP is unusual. While normal page migration
prevents parallel accesses using a migration PTE, THP migration relies on
a combination of the page_table_lock, the page lock and the existance of
the NUMA hinting PTE to guarantee safety but there is a bug in the scheme.

If a THP page is currently being migrated and another thread traps a
fault on the same page it checks if the page is misplaced. If it is not,
then pmd_numa is cleared. The problem is that it checks if the page is
misplaced without holding the page lock meaning that the racing thread
can be migrating the THP when the second thread clears the NUMA bit
and faults a stale page.

This patch checks if the page is potentially being migrated and stalls
using the lock_page if it is potentially being migrated before checking
if the page is misplaced or not.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-6-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agomm: numa: Do not account for a hinting fault if we raced
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:28:42 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
mm: numa: Do not account for a hinting fault if we raced

If another task handled a hinting fault in parallel then do not double
account for it.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-5-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agosched/numa: Fix comments
Peter Zijlstra [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:28:41 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
sched/numa: Fix comments

Fix a 80 column violation and a PTE vs PMD reference.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-4-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agomm: numa: Document automatic NUMA balancing sysctls
Mel Gorman [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:28:40 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
mm: numa: Document automatic NUMA balancing sysctls

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-3-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agoMerge tag 'v3.12-rc4' into sched/core
Ingo Molnar [Wed, 9 Oct 2013 10:36:13 +0000 (12:36 +0200)]
Merge tag 'v3.12-rc4' into sched/core

Merge Linux v3.12-rc4 to fix a conflict and also to refresh the tree
before applying more scheduler patches.

Conflicts:
arch/avr32/include/asm/Kbuild

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agoMerge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel...
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 8 Oct 2013 16:23:12 +0000 (09:23 -0700)]
Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Various fixlets:

  On the kernel side:

   - fix a race
   - fix a bug in the handling of the perf ring-buffer data page

  On the tooling side:

   - fix the handling of certain corrupted perf.data files
   - fix a bug in 'perf probe'
   - fix a bug in 'perf record + perf sched'
   - fix a bug in 'make install'
   - fix a bug in libaudit feature-detection on certain distros"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf session: Fix infinite loop on invalid perf.data file
  perf tools: Fix installation of libexec components
  perf probe: Fix to find line information for probe list
  perf tools: Fix libaudit test
  perf stat: Set child_pid after perf_evlist__prepare_workload()
  perf tools: Add default handler for mmap2 events
  perf/x86: Clean up cap_user_time* setting
  perf: Fix perf_pmu_migrate_context

11 years agoMerge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git...
Ingo Molnar [Tue, 8 Oct 2013 05:29:09 +0000 (07:29 +0200)]
Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent

Pull perf/urgent fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

 * The libaudit test was failing in some systems due to a unescaped newline, fix
   it so that the 'trace' tool can be built in such systems.

 * Fix installation of libexec components.

 * Add default handler for mmap2 events so that tools that don't explicitely
   define an MMAP2 handler don't crash, fix from David Ahern.

 * Fix to find line information for probe list, from Masami Hiramatsu.

 * Set child_pid after perf_evlist__prepare_workload(), fix from Namhyung Kim.

 * Fix infinite loop on invalid perf.data file, from Namhyung Kim.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
11 years agopowerpc/irq: Don't switch to irq stack from softirq stack
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 21:08:24 +0000 (08:08 +1100)]
powerpc/irq: Don't switch to irq stack from softirq stack

irq_exit() is now called on the irq stack, which can trigger a switch to
the softirq stack from the irq stack.  If an interrupt happens at that
point, we will not properly detect the re-entrancy and clobber the
original return context on the irq stack.

This fixes it.  The side effect is to prevent all nesting from softirq
stack to irq stack even in the "safe" case but it's simpler that way and
matches what x86_64 does.

Reported-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 16:30:36 +0000 (09:30 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid

Pull HID fixes from Jiri Kosina:
 - fix for hidraw reference counting regression, by Manoj Chourasia
 - fix for minor number allocation for uhid, by David Herrmann
 - other small unsorted fixes / device ID additions

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid:
  HID: wiimote: fix FF deadlock
  HID: add Holtek USB ID 04d9:a081 SHARKOON DarkGlider
  HID: hidraw: close underlying device at removal of last reader
  HID: roccat: Fix "cannot create duplicate filename" problems
  HID: uhid: allocate static minor

11 years agoMerge branch 'stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux...
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 16:30:02 +0000 (09:30 -0700)]
Merge branch 'stable' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile

Pull Tile bugfixes from Chris Metcalf:
 "This fixes some serious issues with PREEMPT support, and a couple of
  smaller corner-case issues fixed in the last couple of weeks"

* 'stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  arch: tile: re-use kbasename() helper
  tile: use a more conservative __my_cpu_offset in CONFIG_PREEMPT
  tile: ensure interrupts disabled for preempt_schedule_irq()
  tile: change lock initalization in hardwall
  tile: include: asm: use 'long long' instead of 'u64' for atomic64_t and its related functions

11 years agoHID: wiimote: fix FF deadlock
David Herrmann [Wed, 2 Oct 2013 11:47:28 +0000 (13:47 +0200)]
HID: wiimote: fix FF deadlock

The input core has an internal spinlock that is acquired during event
injection via input_event() and friends but also held during FF callbacks.
That means, there is no way to share a lock between event-injection and FF
handling. Unfortunately, this is what is required for wiimote state
tracking and what we do with state.lock and input->lock.

This deadlock can be triggered when using continuous data reporting and FF
on a wiimote device at the same time. I takes me at least 30m of
stress-testing to trigger it but users reported considerably shorter
times (http://bpaste.net/show/132504/) when using some gaming-console
emulators.

The real problem is that we have two copies of internal state, one in the
wiimote objects and the other in the input device. As the input-lock is
not supposed to be accessed from outside of input-core, we have no other
chance than offloading FF handling into a worker. This actually works
pretty nice and also allows to implictly merge fast rumble changes into a
single request.

Due to the 3-layered workers (rumble+queue+l2cap) this might reduce FF
responsiveness. Initial tests were fine so lets fix the race first and if
it turns out to be too slow we can always handle FF out-of-band and skip
the queue-worker.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.11+
Reported-by: Thomas Schneider
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
11 years agoMerge remote-tracking branch 'spi/fix/s3c64xx' into spi-linus
Mark Brown [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 13:51:59 +0000 (14:51 +0100)]
Merge remote-tracking branch 'spi/fix/s3c64xx' into spi-linus

11 years agoMerge remote-tracking branch 'spi/fix/pxa' into spi-linus
Mark Brown [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 13:51:59 +0000 (14:51 +0100)]
Merge remote-tracking branch 'spi/fix/pxa' into spi-linus

11 years agoMerge remote-tracking branch 'spi/fix/mpc512x' into spi-linus
Mark Brown [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 13:51:58 +0000 (14:51 +0100)]
Merge remote-tracking branch 'spi/fix/mpc512x' into spi-linus

11 years agoMerge remote-tracking branch 'spi/fix/hspi' into spi-linus
Mark Brown [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 13:51:58 +0000 (14:51 +0100)]
Merge remote-tracking branch 'spi/fix/hspi' into spi-linus

11 years agoMerge remote-tracking branch 'spi/fix/dspi' into spi-linus
Mark Brown [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 13:51:57 +0000 (14:51 +0100)]
Merge remote-tracking branch 'spi/fix/dspi' into spi-linus

11 years agoMerge remote-tracking branch 'spi/fix/clps711x' into spi-linus
Mark Brown [Mon, 7 Oct 2013 13:51:56 +0000 (14:51 +0100)]
Merge remote-tracking branch 'spi/fix/clps711x' into spi-linus

11 years agospi: atmel: Fix incorrect error path
Sachin Kamat [Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:36:26 +0000 (17:06 +0530)]
spi: atmel: Fix incorrect error path

'irq' was not released when clk_prepare_enable failed.
Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>