[GIT pull] scheduler fixes 4.11

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Fri Mar 17 2017 - 15:41:58 EST


Linus,

please pull the latest sched-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git sched-urgent-for-linus

>From the scheduler departement:

- A bunch of sched deadline related fixes which deal with various buglets
and corner cases.

- Two fixes for the loadavg spikes which are caused by the delayed NOHZ
accounting

Thanks,

tglx

------------------>
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira (2):
sched/deadline: Make sure the replenishment timer fires in the next period
sched/deadline: Throttle a constrained deadline task activated after the deadline

Matt Fleming (2):
sched/loadavg: Avoid loadavg spikes caused by delayed NO_HZ accounting
sched/loadavg: Use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() for sample window

Steven Rostedt (VMware) (1):
sched/deadline: Use deadline instead of period when calculating overflow

Wanpeng Li (1):
sched/deadline: Add missing update_rq_clock() in dl_task_timer()


kernel/sched/deadline.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
kernel/sched/loadavg.c | 20 +++++++++-------
2 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index 99b2c33a9fbc..a2ce59015642 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -445,13 +445,13 @@ static void replenish_dl_entity(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se,
*
* This function returns true if:
*
- * runtime / (deadline - t) > dl_runtime / dl_period ,
+ * runtime / (deadline - t) > dl_runtime / dl_deadline ,
*
* IOW we can't recycle current parameters.
*
- * Notice that the bandwidth check is done against the period. For
+ * Notice that the bandwidth check is done against the deadline. For
* task with deadline equal to period this is the same of using
- * dl_deadline instead of dl_period in the equation above.
+ * dl_period instead of dl_deadline in the equation above.
*/
static bool dl_entity_overflow(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se,
struct sched_dl_entity *pi_se, u64 t)
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ static bool dl_entity_overflow(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se,
* of anything below microseconds resolution is actually fiction
* (but still we want to give the user that illusion >;).
*/
- left = (pi_se->dl_period >> DL_SCALE) * (dl_se->runtime >> DL_SCALE);
+ left = (pi_se->dl_deadline >> DL_SCALE) * (dl_se->runtime >> DL_SCALE);
right = ((dl_se->deadline - t) >> DL_SCALE) *
(pi_se->dl_runtime >> DL_SCALE);

@@ -505,10 +505,15 @@ static void update_dl_entity(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se,
}
}

+static inline u64 dl_next_period(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
+{
+ return dl_se->deadline - dl_se->dl_deadline + dl_se->dl_period;
+}
+
/*
* If the entity depleted all its runtime, and if we want it to sleep
* while waiting for some new execution time to become available, we
- * set the bandwidth enforcement timer to the replenishment instant
+ * set the bandwidth replenishment timer to the replenishment instant
* and try to activate it.
*
* Notice that it is important for the caller to know if the timer
@@ -530,7 +535,7 @@ static int start_dl_timer(struct task_struct *p)
* that it is actually coming from rq->clock and not from
* hrtimer's time base reading.
*/
- act = ns_to_ktime(dl_se->deadline);
+ act = ns_to_ktime(dl_next_period(dl_se));
now = hrtimer_cb_get_time(timer);
delta = ktime_to_ns(now) - rq_clock(rq);
act = ktime_add_ns(act, delta);
@@ -638,6 +643,7 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart dl_task_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
lockdep_unpin_lock(&rq->lock, rf.cookie);
rq = dl_task_offline_migration(rq, p);
rf.cookie = lockdep_pin_lock(&rq->lock);
+ update_rq_clock(rq);

/*
* Now that the task has been migrated to the new RQ and we
@@ -689,6 +695,37 @@ void init_dl_task_timer(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
timer->function = dl_task_timer;
}

+/*
+ * During the activation, CBS checks if it can reuse the current task's
+ * runtime and period. If the deadline of the task is in the past, CBS
+ * cannot use the runtime, and so it replenishes the task. This rule
+ * works fine for implicit deadline tasks (deadline == period), and the
+ * CBS was designed for implicit deadline tasks. However, a task with
+ * constrained deadline (deadine < period) might be awakened after the
+ * deadline, but before the next period. In this case, replenishing the
+ * task would allow it to run for runtime / deadline. As in this case
+ * deadline < period, CBS enables a task to run for more than the
+ * runtime / period. In a very loaded system, this can cause a domino
+ * effect, making other tasks miss their deadlines.
+ *
+ * To avoid this problem, in the activation of a constrained deadline
+ * task after the deadline but before the next period, throttle the
+ * task and set the replenishing timer to the begin of the next period,
+ * unless it is boosted.
+ */
+static inline void dl_check_constrained_dl(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
+{
+ struct task_struct *p = dl_task_of(dl_se);
+ struct rq *rq = rq_of_dl_rq(dl_rq_of_se(dl_se));
+
+ if (dl_time_before(dl_se->deadline, rq_clock(rq)) &&
+ dl_time_before(rq_clock(rq), dl_next_period(dl_se))) {
+ if (unlikely(dl_se->dl_boosted || !start_dl_timer(p)))
+ return;
+ dl_se->dl_throttled = 1;
+ }
+}
+
static
int dl_runtime_exceeded(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
{
@@ -922,6 +959,11 @@ static void dequeue_dl_entity(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
__dequeue_dl_entity(dl_se);
}

+static inline bool dl_is_constrained(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
+{
+ return dl_se->dl_deadline < dl_se->dl_period;
+}
+
static void enqueue_task_dl(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
{
struct task_struct *pi_task = rt_mutex_get_top_task(p);
@@ -948,6 +990,15 @@ static void enqueue_task_dl(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
}

/*
+ * Check if a constrained deadline task was activated
+ * after the deadline but before the next period.
+ * If that is the case, the task will be throttled and
+ * the replenishment timer will be set to the next period.
+ */
+ if (!p->dl.dl_throttled && dl_is_constrained(&p->dl))
+ dl_check_constrained_dl(&p->dl);
+
+ /*
* If p is throttled, we do nothing. In fact, if it exhausted
* its budget it needs a replenishment and, since it now is on
* its rq, the bandwidth timer callback (which clearly has not
diff --git a/kernel/sched/loadavg.c b/kernel/sched/loadavg.c
index 7296b7308eca..f15fb2bdbc0d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/loadavg.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/loadavg.c
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ static inline int calc_load_write_idx(void)
* If the folding window started, make sure we start writing in the
* next idle-delta.
*/
- if (!time_before(jiffies, calc_load_update))
+ if (!time_before(jiffies, READ_ONCE(calc_load_update)))
idx++;

return idx & 1;
@@ -202,8 +202,9 @@ void calc_load_exit_idle(void)
struct rq *this_rq = this_rq();

/*
- * If we're still before the sample window, we're done.
+ * If we're still before the pending sample window, we're done.
*/
+ this_rq->calc_load_update = READ_ONCE(calc_load_update);
if (time_before(jiffies, this_rq->calc_load_update))
return;

@@ -212,7 +213,6 @@ void calc_load_exit_idle(void)
* accounted through the nohz accounting, so skip the entire deal and
* sync up for the next window.
*/
- this_rq->calc_load_update = calc_load_update;
if (time_before(jiffies, this_rq->calc_load_update + 10))
this_rq->calc_load_update += LOAD_FREQ;
}
@@ -308,13 +308,15 @@ calc_load_n(unsigned long load, unsigned long exp,
*/
static void calc_global_nohz(void)
{
+ unsigned long sample_window;
long delta, active, n;

- if (!time_before(jiffies, calc_load_update + 10)) {
+ sample_window = READ_ONCE(calc_load_update);
+ if (!time_before(jiffies, sample_window + 10)) {
/*
* Catch-up, fold however many we are behind still
*/
- delta = jiffies - calc_load_update - 10;
+ delta = jiffies - sample_window - 10;
n = 1 + (delta / LOAD_FREQ);

active = atomic_long_read(&calc_load_tasks);
@@ -324,7 +326,7 @@ static void calc_global_nohz(void)
avenrun[1] = calc_load_n(avenrun[1], EXP_5, active, n);
avenrun[2] = calc_load_n(avenrun[2], EXP_15, active, n);

- calc_load_update += n * LOAD_FREQ;
+ WRITE_ONCE(calc_load_update, sample_window + n * LOAD_FREQ);
}

/*
@@ -352,9 +354,11 @@ static inline void calc_global_nohz(void) { }
*/
void calc_global_load(unsigned long ticks)
{
+ unsigned long sample_window;
long active, delta;

- if (time_before(jiffies, calc_load_update + 10))
+ sample_window = READ_ONCE(calc_load_update);
+ if (time_before(jiffies, sample_window + 10))
return;

/*
@@ -371,7 +375,7 @@ void calc_global_load(unsigned long ticks)
avenrun[1] = calc_load(avenrun[1], EXP_5, active);
avenrun[2] = calc_load(avenrun[2], EXP_15, active);

- calc_load_update += LOAD_FREQ;
+ WRITE_ONCE(calc_load_update, sample_window + LOAD_FREQ);

/*
* In case we idled for multiple LOAD_FREQ intervals, catch up in bulk.