Subject: PATCH : offline scheduler

From: raz ben yehuda
Date: Fri Apr 17 2009 - 15:26:35 EST


Len Hello
offsched is a platform aimed to assign a service to an off-lined processor.
Motivation is explained in:
http://sos-linux.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sos-linux/offsched/trunk/Documentation/OFFSCHED.pdf
Currently I have implemented two services:

HYBRID REAL TIME LINUX
Implemented as a A 1us timer. This timer shows how a true real time system may co-exist with a
regular linux server. This way there is no enforcement of a real time system requirements on the
entire kernel. Full documentation is at:
http://sos-linux.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sos-linux/offsched/trunk/Documentation/OFFSCHED-RT.pdf

RTOP
This piece of software send system statistics to a remove server.
The user benefit is that even if the machine is un-accessible (remotely or locally)
RTOP still sends system statistics to a remote server. I have showed in a small paper what RTOP is:
http://sos-linux.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sos-linux/offsched/trunk/Documentation/OFFSCHED-RTOP.pdf

The patch is mostly a facility for offsched. The exporting of tasklist_lock is because RTOP is implemented as a driver
and it must lock the tasks list.
This is the 4-th post. I will be grateful for your reply.

Signed-off-by: Raz Ben Yehuda <raziebe@xxxxxxxxxx>

arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 11 +++++++----
include/linux/cpu.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/sched.h | 2 +-
kernel/cpu.c | 1 +
kernel/fork.c | 6 ++++++
6 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index ca98915..123b32d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -613,3 +613,45 @@ static int __init idle_setup(char *str)
}
early_param("idle", idle_setup);

+#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
+struct hotplug_cpu{
+ long flags;
+ void (*hotplug_cpu_dead)(void);
+};
+
+#define CPU_OFFSCHED 31
+
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct hotplug_cpu, offschedcpu);
+
+void unregister_offsched(int cpuid)
+{
+ struct hotplug_cpu *cpu = &per_cpu(offschedcpu, cpuid);
+ cpu->hotplug_cpu_dead = NULL;
+ clear_bit(CPU_OFFSCHED, &cpu->flags);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_offsched);
+
+int is_offsched(int cpuid)
+{
+ struct hotplug_cpu *cpu = &per_cpu(offschedcpu, cpuid);
+ return test_bit(CPU_OFFSCHED, &cpu->flags);
+}
+
+int register_offsched(void (*offsched_callback)(void), int cpuid)
+{
+ struct hotplug_cpu *cpu = &per_cpu(offschedcpu, cpuid);
+ if (is_offsched(cpuid))
+ return -1;
+ cpu->hotplug_cpu_dead = offsched_callback;
+ set_bit(CPU_OFFSCHED, &cpu->flags);
+ return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_offsched);
+
+void run_offsched(void)
+{
+ int cpuid = raw_smp_processor_id();
+ struct hotplug_cpu *cpu = &per_cpu(offschedcpu, cpuid);
+ cpu->hotplug_cpu_dead();
+}
+#endif
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index 58d24ef..25e70e0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -686,8 +686,8 @@ static int __cpuinit do_boot_cpu(int apicid, int cpu)
};

INIT_WORK(&c_idle.work, do_fork_idle);
-
- alternatives_smp_switch(1);
+ if (!is_offsched(cpu))
+ alternatives_smp_switch(1);

c_idle.idle = get_idle_for_cpu(cpu);

@@ -1283,8 +1283,9 @@ void native_cpu_die(unsigned int cpu)
for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
/* They ack this in play_dead by setting CPU_DEAD */
if (per_cpu(cpu_state, cpu) == CPU_DEAD) {
- printk(KERN_INFO "CPU %d is now offline\n", cpu);
- if (1 == num_online_cpus())
+ printk(KERN_INFO "CPU %d is now offline %s\n", cpu,
+ is_offsched(cpu) ? "and OFFSCHED" : "");
+ if (1 == num_online_cpus() && !is_offsched(cpu))
alternatives_smp_switch(0);
return;
}
@@ -1313,6 +1314,8 @@ void play_dead_common(void)
void native_play_dead(void)
{
play_dead_common();
+ if (is_offsched(raw_smp_processor_id()))
+ run_offsched();
wbinvd_halt();
}

diff --git a/include/linux/cpu.h b/include/linux/cpu.h
index 2643d84..f2048ca 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpu.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpu.h
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ extern int sched_create_sysfs_power_savings_entries(struct sysdev_class *cls);

#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
extern void unregister_cpu(struct cpu *cpu);
+extern void unregister_offsched(int cpuid);
#endif
struct notifier_block;

@@ -51,6 +52,9 @@ struct notifier_block;
#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
extern int register_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
extern void unregister_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
+extern int register_offsched(void (*hotplug_cpu_dead)(void), int cpuid);
+extern int is_offsched(int cpuid);
+extern void run_offsched(void);
#else

#ifndef MODULE
@@ -60,11 +64,27 @@ static inline int register_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
{
return 0;
}
+
+static inline int register_offsched(void (*hotplug_cpu_dead)(void), int cpuid);
+{
+ return 0;
+}
#endif

static inline void unregister_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
{
}
+
+static inline void unregister_offsched(int cpuid)
+{
+}
+static inline int is_offsched(int cpuid)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+static inline void run_offsched(void)
+{
+}
#endif

int cpu_up(unsigned int cpu);
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index b4c38bc..8039ee7 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1999,7 +1999,7 @@ struct task_struct *fork_idle(int);

extern void set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, char *from);
extern char *get_task_comm(char *to, struct task_struct *tsk);
-
+extern rwlock_t *get_tasklist_lock(void);
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
extern unsigned long wait_task_inactive(struct task_struct *, long match_state);
#else
diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index 395b697..e67190d 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -373,6 +373,7 @@ out:
cpu_maps_update_done();
return err;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_up);

#ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP_SMP
static cpumask_var_t frozen_cpus;
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index b9e2edd..4de4142 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -85,6 +85,12 @@ __cacheline_aligned DEFINE_RWLOCK(tasklist_lock); /* outer */

DEFINE_TRACE(sched_process_fork);

+rwlock_t *get_tasklist_lock(void)
+{
+ return &tasklist_lock;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_tasklist_lock);
+
int nr_processes(void)
{
int cpu;



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