Re: [PATCH] sched: Split preemption model selection between DYNAMIC & !DYNAMIC
From: Marco Elver
Date: Wed Nov 10 2021 - 10:04:58 EST
On Wed, 10 Nov 2021 at 15:45, Valentin Schneider
<valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 10/11/21 11:24, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> > Following Frederic's _STATIC suggestion, I got to the below. The nice thing
> > is if a defconfig picks say PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY and the arch supports
> > PREEMPT_DYNAMIC, then it'll pick PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY_BEHAVIOUR. The less nice
> > thing is that we end up selecting PREEMPT_STATIC for PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
> > kernels, naming's hard... Maybe _BUILD rather than _STATIC?
> >
>
> And now without a legacy compatibility layer crud...
If this works for everyone else, then I think this is the least
intrusive and hopefully won't require telling everyone about this
config change.
For the final version, it seems to be missing s/_BEHAVIOUR// in
kernel/sched/core.c.
And the kcsan_test.c change can be reverted, I think it's broken
either way now, because it wants the dynamic state (the test still
works in most configs, so fixing this isn't super urgent). Similarly
for kernel/trace/trace.c, which appears mainly cosmetic. So I'd defer
changing these until there are real helpers to get the true preemption
behaviour of the running system.
Thanks,
-- Marco
> ---
> diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
> index 2776423a587e..9c7d774ef809 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kernel.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
> @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
> struct completion;
> struct user;
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY_BUILD
>
> extern int __cond_resched(void);
> # define might_resched() __cond_resched()
> diff --git a/include/linux/vermagic.h b/include/linux/vermagic.h
> index 1eaaa93c37bf..f2b71920024c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/vermagic.h
> +++ b/include/linux/vermagic.h
> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
> #else
> #define MODULE_VERMAGIC_SMP ""
> #endif
> -#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_BUILD
> #define MODULE_VERMAGIC_PREEMPT "preempt "
> #elif defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT)
> #define MODULE_VERMAGIC_PREEMPT "preempt_rt "
> @@ -39,9 +39,9 @@
> #define MODULE_RANDSTRUCT_PLUGIN
> #endif
>
> -#define VERMAGIC_STRING \
> +#define VERMAGIC_STRING \
> UTS_RELEASE " " \
> - MODULE_VERMAGIC_SMP MODULE_VERMAGIC_PREEMPT \
> + MODULE_VERMAGIC_SMP MODULE_VERMAGIC_PREEMPT \
> MODULE_VERMAGIC_MODULE_UNLOAD MODULE_VERMAGIC_MODVERSIONS \
> MODULE_ARCH_VERMAGIC \
> MODULE_RANDSTRUCT_PLUGIN
> diff --git a/init/Makefile b/init/Makefile
> index 2846113677ee..04eeee12c076 100644
> --- a/init/Makefile
> +++ b/init/Makefile
> @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ $(obj)/version.o: include/generated/compile.h
> quiet_cmd_compile.h = CHK $@
> cmd_compile.h = \
> $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/mkcompile_h $@ \
> - "$(UTS_MACHINE)" "$(CONFIG_SMP)" "$(CONFIG_PREEMPT)" \
> + "$(UTS_MACHINE)" "$(CONFIG_SMP)" "$(CONFIG_PREEMPT_BUILD)" \
> "$(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT)" $(CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT) "$(LD)"
>
> include/generated/compile.h: FORCE
> diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt
> index 60f1bfc3c7b2..ce77f0265660 100644
> --- a/kernel/Kconfig.preempt
> +++ b/kernel/Kconfig.preempt
> @@ -1,12 +1,23 @@
> # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
>
> +config PREEMPT_NONE_BUILD
> + bool
> +
> +config PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY_BUILD
> + bool
> +
> +config PREEMPT_BUILD
> + bool
> + select PREEMPTION
> + select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK if !ARCH_INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
> +
> choice
> prompt "Preemption Model"
> - default PREEMPT_NONE_BEHAVIOUR
> + default PREEMPT_NONE
>
> -config PREEMPT_NONE_BEHAVIOUR
> +config PREEMPT_NONE
> bool "No Forced Preemption (Server)"
> - select PREEMPT_NONE if !PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
> + select PREEMPT_NONE_BUILD if !PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
> help
> This is the traditional Linux preemption model, geared towards
> throughput. It will still provide good latencies most of the
> @@ -18,10 +29,10 @@ config PREEMPT_NONE_BEHAVIOUR
> raw processing power of the kernel, irrespective of scheduling
> latencies.
>
> -config PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY_BEHAVIOUR
> +config PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
> bool "Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop)"
> depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
> - select PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY if !PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
> + select PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY_BUILD if !PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
> help
> This option reduces the latency of the kernel by adding more
> "explicit preemption points" to the kernel code. These new
> @@ -37,10 +48,10 @@ config PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY_BEHAVIOUR
>
> Select this if you are building a kernel for a desktop system.
>
> -config PREEMPT_BEHAVIOUR
> +config PREEMPT
> bool "Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)"
> depends on !ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
> - select PREEMPT
> + select PREEMPT_BUILD
> help
> This option reduces the latency of the kernel by making
> all kernel code (that is not executing in a critical section)
> @@ -58,7 +69,7 @@ config PREEMPT_BEHAVIOUR
>
> config PREEMPT_RT
> bool "Fully Preemptible Kernel (Real-Time)"
> - depends on EXPERT && ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT && !PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
> + depends on EXPERT && ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT
> select PREEMPTION
> help
> This option turns the kernel into a real-time kernel by replacing
> @@ -75,17 +86,6 @@ config PREEMPT_RT
>
> endchoice
>
> -config PREEMPT_NONE
> - bool
> -
> -config PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
> - bool
> -
> -config PREEMPT
> - bool
> - select PREEMPTION
> - select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK if !ARCH_INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
> -
> config PREEMPT_COUNT
> bool
>
> @@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ config PREEMPTION
>
> config PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
> bool "Preemption behaviour defined on boot"
> - depends on HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
> - select PREEMPT
> + depends on HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC && !PREEMPT_RT
> + select PREEMPT_BUILD
> default y
> help
> This option allows to define the preemption model on the kernel
> diff --git a/kernel/kcsan/kcsan_test.c b/kernel/kcsan/kcsan_test.c
> index dc55fd5a36fc..845b17cf7811 100644
> --- a/kernel/kcsan/kcsan_test.c
> +++ b/kernel/kcsan/kcsan_test.c
> @@ -1005,13 +1005,13 @@ static const void *nthreads_gen_params(const void *prev, char *desc)
> else
> nthreads *= 2;
>
> - if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT) || !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KCSAN_INTERRUPT_WATCHER)) {
> + if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPTION) || !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KCSAN_INTERRUPT_WATCHER)) {
> /*
> * Without any preemption, keep 2 CPUs free for other tasks, one
> * of which is the main test case function checking for
> * completion or failure.
> */
> - const long min_unused_cpus = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE) ? 2 : 0;
> + const long min_unused_cpus = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE_BUILD) ? 2 : 0;
> const long min_required_cpus = 2 + min_unused_cpus;
>
> if (num_online_cpus() < min_required_cpus) {
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> index 7896d30d90f7..3b3226ffbafa 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -4271,11 +4271,11 @@ print_trace_header(struct seq_file *m, struct trace_iterator *iter)
> entries,
> total,
> buf->cpu,
> -#if defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE)
> +#if defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE_BUILD)
> "server",
> -#elif defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY)
> +#elif defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY_BUILD)
> "desktop",
> -#elif defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT)
> +#elif defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_BUILD)
> "preempt",
> #elif defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT)
> "preempt_rt",