Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752904Ab0LJNsZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:48:25 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:50132 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750993Ab0LJNsY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:48:24 -0500 Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.37-rc3 massive interactivity regression on ARM From: Peter Zijlstra To: Venkatesh Pallipadi Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , Mikael Pettersson , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, John Stultz In-Reply-To: <1291987635.6803.161.camel@twins> References: <20101208142814.GE9777@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <1291851079-27061-1-git-send-email-venki@google.com> <1291899120.29292.7.camel@twins> <1291917330.6803.7.camel@twins> <1291920939.6803.38.camel@twins> <1291936593.13513.3.camel@laptop> <1291975704.6803.59.camel@twins> <1291987065.6803.151.camel@twins> <1291987635.6803.161.camel@twins> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:47:46 +0100 Message-ID: <1291988866.6803.171.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 8079 Lines: 266 Full patch.. --- Subject: sched: Fix the irqtime code to deal with u64 wraps From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Thu Dec 09 14:15:34 CET 2010 ARM systems have a 32bit sched_clock() [ which needs to be fixed ], but this exposed a bug in the irq_time code as well, it doesn't deal with wraps at all. Fix the irq_time code to deal with u64 wraps by re-writing the code to only use delta increments, which avoids the whole issue. Furthermore, solve the problem of 32bit arches reading partial updates of the u64 time values. Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi Reported-by: Russell King - ARM Linux Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra --- kernel/sched.c | 166 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 116 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c +++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c @@ -642,23 +642,19 @@ static inline struct task_group *task_gr #endif /* CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED */ -static u64 irq_time_cpu(int cpu); -static void sched_irq_time_avg_update(struct rq *rq, u64 irq_time); +static void update_rq_clock_task(struct rq *rq, s64 delta); inline void update_rq_clock(struct rq *rq) { - int cpu = cpu_of(rq); - u64 irq_time; + s64 delta; if (rq->skip_clock_update) return; - rq->clock = sched_clock_cpu(cpu); - irq_time = irq_time_cpu(cpu); - if (rq->clock - irq_time > rq->clock_task) - rq->clock_task = rq->clock - irq_time; + delta = sched_clock_cpu(cpu_of(rq)) - rq->clock; + rq->clock += delta; + update_rq_clock_task(rq, delta); - sched_irq_time_avg_update(rq, irq_time); } /* @@ -1790,90 +1786,160 @@ static void deactivate_task(struct rq *r #ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING /* - * There are no locks covering percpu hardirq/softirq time. - * They are only modified in account_system_vtime, on corresponding CPU - * with interrupts disabled. So, writes are safe. + * There are no locks covering percpu hardirq/softirq time. They are only + * modified in account_system_vtime, on corresponding CPU with interrupts + * disabled. So, writes are safe. + * * They are read and saved off onto struct rq in update_rq_clock(). - * This may result in other CPU reading this CPU's irq time and can - * race with irq/account_system_vtime on this CPU. We would either get old - * or new value (or semi updated value on 32 bit) with a side effect of - * accounting a slice of irq time to wrong task when irq is in progress - * while we read rq->clock. That is a worthy compromise in place of having - * locks on each irq in account_system_time. + * + * This may result in other CPU reading this CPU's irq time and can race with + * irq/account_system_vtime on this CPU. We would either get old or new value + * with a side effect of accounting a slice of irq time to wrong task when irq + * is in progress while we read rq->clock. That is a worthy compromise in place + * of having locks on each irq in account_system_time. */ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64, cpu_hardirq_time); static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64, cpu_softirq_time); - static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u64, irq_start_time); -static int sched_clock_irqtime; -void enable_sched_clock_irqtime(void) +#ifndef CONFIG_64BIT +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(seqcount_t, irq_time_seq); + +static inline void irq_time_write_begin(int cpu) { - sched_clock_irqtime = 1; + write_seqcount_begin(&per_cpu(irq_time_seq, cpu)); } -void disable_sched_clock_irqtime(void) +static inline void irq_time_write_end(int cpu) { - sched_clock_irqtime = 0; + write_seqcount_end(&per_cpu(irq_time_seq, cpu)); } -static u64 irq_time_cpu(int cpu) +static inline u64 irq_time_read(int cpu) { - if (!sched_clock_irqtime) - return 0; + u64 irq_time; + unsigned seq; + + do { + seq = read_seqcount_begin(&per_cpu(irq_time_seq, cpu)); + irq_time = per_cpu(cpu_softirq_time, cpu) + + per_cpu(cpu_hardirq_time, cpu); + } while (read_seqcount_retry(&per_cpu(irq_time_seq, cpu), seq)); + + return irq_time; +} +#else /* CONFIG_64BIT */ +static inline void irq_time_write_begin(int cpu) +{ +} + +static inline void irq_time_write_end(int cpu) +{ +} +static inline u64 irq_time_read(int cpu) +{ return per_cpu(cpu_softirq_time, cpu) + per_cpu(cpu_hardirq_time, cpu); } +#endif /* CONFIG_64BIT */ +static int sched_clock_irqtime; + +void enable_sched_clock_irqtime(void) +{ + sched_clock_irqtime = 1; +} + +void disable_sched_clock_irqtime(void) +{ + sched_clock_irqtime = 0; +} + +/* + * Called before incrementing preempt_count on {soft,}irq_enter + * and before decrementing preempt_count on {soft,}irq_exit. + */ void account_system_vtime(struct task_struct *curr) { unsigned long flags; + s64 delta; int cpu; - u64 now, delta; if (!sched_clock_irqtime) return; local_irq_save(flags); - cpu = smp_processor_id(); - now = sched_clock_cpu(cpu); - delta = now - per_cpu(irq_start_time, cpu); - per_cpu(irq_start_time, cpu) = now; - /* - * We do not account for softirq time from ksoftirqd here. - * We want to continue accounting softirq time to ksoftirqd thread - * in that case, so as not to confuse scheduler with a special task - * that do not consume any time, but still wants to run. - */ + delta = sched_clock_cpu(cpu) - per_cpu(irq_start_time, cpu); + per_cpu(irq_start_time, cpu) += delta; + + irq_time_write_begin(cpu); + if (hardirq_count()) per_cpu(cpu_hardirq_time, cpu) += delta; + /* + * We do not account for softirq time from ksoftirqd here. We want to + * continue accounting softirq time to ksoftirqd thread in that case, + * so as not to confuse scheduler with a special task that do not + * consume any time, but still wants to run. + */ else if (in_serving_softirq() && !(curr->flags & PF_KSOFTIRQD)) per_cpu(cpu_softirq_time, cpu) += delta; + irq_time_write_end(cpu); local_irq_restore(flags); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(account_system_vtime); -static void sched_irq_time_avg_update(struct rq *rq, u64 curr_irq_time) +static u64 irq_time_cpu(struct rq *rq) { - if (sched_clock_irqtime && sched_feat(NONIRQ_POWER)) { - u64 delta_irq = curr_irq_time - rq->prev_irq_time; - rq->prev_irq_time = curr_irq_time; - sched_rt_avg_update(rq, delta_irq); - } + /* + * See the comment in update_rq_clock_task(), ideally we'd update + * the *irq_time values using rq->clock here. + */ + return irq_time_read(cpu_of(rq)); } -#else - -static u64 irq_time_cpu(int cpu) +static void update_rq_clock_task(struct rq *rq, s64 delta) { - return 0; + s64 irq_delta; + + irq_delta = irq_time_cpu(rq) - rq->prev_irq_time; + + /* + * Since irq_time is only updated on {soft,}irq_exit, we might run into + * this case when a previous update_rq_clock() happened inside a + * {soft,}irq region. + * + * When this happens, we stop ->clock_task and only update the + * prev_irq_time stamp to account for the part that fit, so that a next + * update will consume the rest. This ensures ->clock_task is + * monotonic. + * + * It does however cause some slight miss-attribution of {soft,}irq + * time, a more accurate solution would be to update the irq_time using + * the current rq->clock timestamp, except that would require using + * atomic ops. + */ + if (irq_delta > delta) + irq_delta = delta; + + rq->prev_irq_time += irq_delta; + delta -= irq_delta; + rq->clock_task += delta; + + if (irq_delta && sched_feat(NONIRQ_POWER)) + sched_rt_avg_update(rq, irq_delta); } -static void sched_irq_time_avg_update(struct rq *rq, u64 curr_irq_time) { } +#else /* CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING */ -#endif +static inline void update_rq_clock_task(struct rq *rq, s64 delta) +{ + rq->clock_task += delta; +} + +#endif /* CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING */ #include "sched_idletask.c" #include "sched_fair.c" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/