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<title>rcu: Remove spurious instrumentation_end() in rcu_nmi_enter()</title>
<updated>2021-05-14T08:52:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhouyi Zhou</name>
<email>zhouzhouyi@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-11T01:08:59+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6494ccb93271bee596a12db32ff44867d5be2321 ]

In rcu_nmi_enter(), there is an erroneous instrumentation_end() in the
second branch of the "if" statement.  Oddly enough, "objtool check -f
vmlinux.o" fails to complain because it is unable to correctly cover
all cases.  Instead, objtool visits the third branch first, which marks
following trace_rcu_dyntick() as visited.  This commit therefore removes
the spurious instrumentation_end().

Fixes: 04b25a495bd6 ("rcu: Mark rcu_nmi_enter() call to rcu_cleanup_after_idle() noinstr")
Reported-by Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraju@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou &lt;zhouzhouyi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6494ccb93271bee596a12db32ff44867d5be2321 ]

In rcu_nmi_enter(), there is an erroneous instrumentation_end() in the
second branch of the "if" statement.  Oddly enough, "objtool check -f
vmlinux.o" fails to complain because it is unable to correctly cover
all cases.  Instead, objtool visits the third branch first, which marks
following trace_rcu_dyntick() as visited.  This commit therefore removes
the spurious instrumentation_end().

Fixes: 04b25a495bd6 ("rcu: Mark rcu_nmi_enter() call to rcu_cleanup_after_idle() noinstr")
Reported-by Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraju@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou &lt;zhouzhouyi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu/nocb: Fix missed nocb_timer requeue</title>
<updated>2021-05-12T06:39:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-23T00:09:59+00:00</published>
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commit b2fcf2102049f6e56981e0ab3d9b633b8e2741da upstream.

This sequence of events can lead to a failure to requeue a CPU's
-&gt;nocb_timer:

1.	There are no callbacks queued for any CPU covered by CPU 0-2's
	-&gt;nocb_gp_kthread.  Note that -&gt;nocb_gp_kthread is associated
	with CPU 0.

2.	CPU 1 enqueues its first callback with interrupts disabled, and
	thus must defer awakening its -&gt;nocb_gp_kthread.  It therefore
	queues its rcu_data structure's -&gt;nocb_timer.  At this point,
	CPU 1's rdp-&gt;nocb_defer_wakeup is RCU_NOCB_WAKE.

3.	CPU 2, which shares the same -&gt;nocb_gp_kthread, also enqueues a
	callback, but with interrupts enabled, allowing it to directly
	awaken the -&gt;nocb_gp_kthread.

4.	The newly awakened -&gt;nocb_gp_kthread associates both CPU 1's
	and CPU 2's callbacks with a future grace period and arranges
	for that grace period to be started.

5.	This -&gt;nocb_gp_kthread goes to sleep waiting for the end of this
	future grace period.

6.	This grace period elapses before the CPU 1's timer fires.
	This is normally improbably given that the timer is set for only
	one jiffy, but timers can be delayed.  Besides, it is possible
	that kernel was built with CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y.

7.	The grace period ends, so rcu_gp_kthread awakens the
	-&gt;nocb_gp_kthread, which in turn awakens both CPU 1's and
	CPU 2's -&gt;nocb_cb_kthread.  Then -&gt;nocb_gb_kthread sleeps
	waiting for more newly queued callbacks.

8.	CPU 1's -&gt;nocb_cb_kthread invokes its callback, then sleeps
	waiting for more invocable callbacks.

9.	Note that neither kthread updated any -&gt;nocb_timer state,
	so CPU 1's -&gt;nocb_defer_wakeup is still set to RCU_NOCB_WAKE.

10.	CPU 1 enqueues its second callback, this time with interrupts
 	enabled so it can wake directly	-&gt;nocb_gp_kthread.
	It does so with calling wake_nocb_gp() which also cancels the
	pending timer that got queued in step 2. But that doesn't reset
	CPU 1's -&gt;nocb_defer_wakeup which is still set to RCU_NOCB_WAKE.
	So CPU 1's -&gt;nocb_defer_wakeup and its -&gt;nocb_timer are now
	desynchronized.

11.	-&gt;nocb_gp_kthread associates the callback queued in 10 with a new
	grace period, arranges for that grace period to start and sleeps
	waiting for it to complete.

12.	The grace period ends, rcu_gp_kthread awakens -&gt;nocb_gp_kthread,
	which in turn wakes up CPU 1's -&gt;nocb_cb_kthread which then
	invokes the callback queued in 10.

13.	CPU 1 enqueues its third callback, this time with interrupts
	disabled so it must queue a timer for a deferred wakeup. However
	the value of its -&gt;nocb_defer_wakeup is RCU_NOCB_WAKE which
	incorrectly indicates that a timer is already queued.  Instead,
	CPU 1's -&gt;nocb_timer was cancelled in 10.  CPU 1 therefore fails
	to queue the -&gt;nocb_timer.

14.	CPU 1 has its pending callback and it may go unnoticed until
	some other CPU ever wakes up -&gt;nocb_gp_kthread or CPU 1 ever
	calls an explicit deferred wakeup, for example, during idle entry.

This commit fixes this bug by resetting rdp-&gt;nocb_defer_wakeup everytime
we delete the -&gt;nocb_timer.

It is quite possible that there is a similar scenario involving
-&gt;nocb_bypass_timer and -&gt;nocb_defer_wakeup.  However, despite some
effort from several people, a failure scenario has not yet been located.
However, that by no means guarantees that no such scenario exists.
Finding a failure scenario is left as an exercise for the reader, and the
"Fixes:" tag below relates to -&gt;nocb_bypass_timer instead of -&gt;nocb_timer.

Fixes: d1b222c6be1f (rcu/nocb: Add bypass callback queueing)
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraju@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit b2fcf2102049f6e56981e0ab3d9b633b8e2741da upstream.

This sequence of events can lead to a failure to requeue a CPU's
-&gt;nocb_timer:

1.	There are no callbacks queued for any CPU covered by CPU 0-2's
	-&gt;nocb_gp_kthread.  Note that -&gt;nocb_gp_kthread is associated
	with CPU 0.

2.	CPU 1 enqueues its first callback with interrupts disabled, and
	thus must defer awakening its -&gt;nocb_gp_kthread.  It therefore
	queues its rcu_data structure's -&gt;nocb_timer.  At this point,
	CPU 1's rdp-&gt;nocb_defer_wakeup is RCU_NOCB_WAKE.

3.	CPU 2, which shares the same -&gt;nocb_gp_kthread, also enqueues a
	callback, but with interrupts enabled, allowing it to directly
	awaken the -&gt;nocb_gp_kthread.

4.	The newly awakened -&gt;nocb_gp_kthread associates both CPU 1's
	and CPU 2's callbacks with a future grace period and arranges
	for that grace period to be started.

5.	This -&gt;nocb_gp_kthread goes to sleep waiting for the end of this
	future grace period.

6.	This grace period elapses before the CPU 1's timer fires.
	This is normally improbably given that the timer is set for only
	one jiffy, but timers can be delayed.  Besides, it is possible
	that kernel was built with CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y.

7.	The grace period ends, so rcu_gp_kthread awakens the
	-&gt;nocb_gp_kthread, which in turn awakens both CPU 1's and
	CPU 2's -&gt;nocb_cb_kthread.  Then -&gt;nocb_gb_kthread sleeps
	waiting for more newly queued callbacks.

8.	CPU 1's -&gt;nocb_cb_kthread invokes its callback, then sleeps
	waiting for more invocable callbacks.

9.	Note that neither kthread updated any -&gt;nocb_timer state,
	so CPU 1's -&gt;nocb_defer_wakeup is still set to RCU_NOCB_WAKE.

10.	CPU 1 enqueues its second callback, this time with interrupts
 	enabled so it can wake directly	-&gt;nocb_gp_kthread.
	It does so with calling wake_nocb_gp() which also cancels the
	pending timer that got queued in step 2. But that doesn't reset
	CPU 1's -&gt;nocb_defer_wakeup which is still set to RCU_NOCB_WAKE.
	So CPU 1's -&gt;nocb_defer_wakeup and its -&gt;nocb_timer are now
	desynchronized.

11.	-&gt;nocb_gp_kthread associates the callback queued in 10 with a new
	grace period, arranges for that grace period to start and sleeps
	waiting for it to complete.

12.	The grace period ends, rcu_gp_kthread awakens -&gt;nocb_gp_kthread,
	which in turn wakes up CPU 1's -&gt;nocb_cb_kthread which then
	invokes the callback queued in 10.

13.	CPU 1 enqueues its third callback, this time with interrupts
	disabled so it must queue a timer for a deferred wakeup. However
	the value of its -&gt;nocb_defer_wakeup is RCU_NOCB_WAKE which
	incorrectly indicates that a timer is already queued.  Instead,
	CPU 1's -&gt;nocb_timer was cancelled in 10.  CPU 1 therefore fails
	to queue the -&gt;nocb_timer.

14.	CPU 1 has its pending callback and it may go unnoticed until
	some other CPU ever wakes up -&gt;nocb_gp_kthread or CPU 1 ever
	calls an explicit deferred wakeup, for example, during idle entry.

This commit fixes this bug by resetting rdp-&gt;nocb_defer_wakeup everytime
we delete the -&gt;nocb_timer.

It is quite possible that there is a similar scenario involving
-&gt;nocb_bypass_timer and -&gt;nocb_defer_wakeup.  However, despite some
effort from several people, a failure scenario has not yet been located.
However, that by no means guarantees that no such scenario exists.
Finding a failure scenario is left as an exercise for the reader, and the
"Fixes:" tag below relates to -&gt;nocb_bypass_timer instead of -&gt;nocb_timer.

Fixes: d1b222c6be1f (rcu/nocb: Add bypass callback queueing)
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraju@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kvfree_rcu: Use same set of GFP flags as does single-argument</title>
<updated>2021-05-12T06:39:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)</name>
<email>urezki@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-29T20:05:05+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ee6ddf58475cce8a3d3697614679cd8cb4a6f583 ]

Running an rcuscale stress-suite can lead to "Out of memory" of a
system. This can happen under high memory pressure with a small amount
of physical memory.

For example, a KVM test configuration with 64 CPUs and 512 megabytes
can result in OOM when running rcuscale with below parameters:

../kvm.sh --torture rcuscale --allcpus --duration 10 --kconfig CONFIG_NR_CPUS=64 \
--bootargs "rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test=1 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads=16 rcuscale.holdoff=20 \
  rcuscale.kfree_loops=10000 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot" --trust-make

&lt;snip&gt;
[   12.054448] kworker/1:1H invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x2cc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN), order=0, oom_score_adj=0
[   12.055303] CPU: 1 PID: 377 Comm: kworker/1:1H Not tainted 5.11.0-rc3+ #510
[   12.055416] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
[   12.056485] Workqueue: events_highpri fill_page_cache_func
[   12.056485] Call Trace:
[   12.056485]  dump_stack+0x57/0x6a
[   12.056485]  dump_header+0x4c/0x30a
[   12.056485]  ? del_timer_sync+0x20/0x30
[   12.056485]  out_of_memory.cold.47+0xa/0x7e
[   12.056485]  __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.123+0x82f/0xc00
[   12.056485]  __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x289/0x2c0
[   12.056485]  __get_free_pages+0x8/0x30
[   12.056485]  fill_page_cache_func+0x39/0xb0
[   12.056485]  process_one_work+0x1ed/0x3b0
[   12.056485]  ? process_one_work+0x3b0/0x3b0
[   12.060485]  worker_thread+0x28/0x3c0
[   12.060485]  ? process_one_work+0x3b0/0x3b0
[   12.060485]  kthread+0x138/0x160
[   12.060485]  ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80
[   12.060485]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[   12.062156] Mem-Info:
[   12.062350] active_anon:0 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:0
[   12.062350]  active_file:0 inactive_file:0 isolated_file:0
[   12.062350]  unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0
[   12.062350]  slab_reclaimable:2797 slab_unreclaimable:80920
[   12.062350]  mapped:1 shmem:2 pagetables:8 bounce:0
[   12.062350]  free:10488 free_pcp:1227 free_cma:0
...
[   12.101610] Out of memory and no killable processes...
[   12.102042] Kernel panic - not syncing: System is deadlocked on memory
[   12.102583] CPU: 1 PID: 377 Comm: kworker/1:1H Not tainted 5.11.0-rc3+ #510
[   12.102600] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
&lt;snip&gt;

Because kvfree_rcu() has a fallback path, memory allocation failure is
not the end of the world.  Furthermore, the added overhead of aggressive
GFP settings must be balanced against the overhead of the fallback path,
which is a cache miss for double-argument kvfree_rcu() and a call to
synchronize_rcu() for single-argument kvfree_rcu().  The current choice
of GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN can result in longer latencies than a call
to synchronize_rcu(), so less-tenacious GFP flags would be helpful.

Here is the tradeoff that must be balanced:
    a) Minimize use of the fallback path,
    b) Avoid pushing the system into OOM,
    c) Bound allocation latency to that of synchronize_rcu(), and
    d) Leave the emergency reserves to use cases lacking fallbacks.

This commit therefore changes GFP flags from GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN to
GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_NOWARN.  This combination
leaves the emergency reserves alone and can initiate reclaim, but will
not invoke the OOM killer.

Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ee6ddf58475cce8a3d3697614679cd8cb4a6f583 ]

Running an rcuscale stress-suite can lead to "Out of memory" of a
system. This can happen under high memory pressure with a small amount
of physical memory.

For example, a KVM test configuration with 64 CPUs and 512 megabytes
can result in OOM when running rcuscale with below parameters:

../kvm.sh --torture rcuscale --allcpus --duration 10 --kconfig CONFIG_NR_CPUS=64 \
--bootargs "rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test=1 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads=16 rcuscale.holdoff=20 \
  rcuscale.kfree_loops=10000 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot" --trust-make

&lt;snip&gt;
[   12.054448] kworker/1:1H invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x2cc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN), order=0, oom_score_adj=0
[   12.055303] CPU: 1 PID: 377 Comm: kworker/1:1H Not tainted 5.11.0-rc3+ #510
[   12.055416] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
[   12.056485] Workqueue: events_highpri fill_page_cache_func
[   12.056485] Call Trace:
[   12.056485]  dump_stack+0x57/0x6a
[   12.056485]  dump_header+0x4c/0x30a
[   12.056485]  ? del_timer_sync+0x20/0x30
[   12.056485]  out_of_memory.cold.47+0xa/0x7e
[   12.056485]  __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.123+0x82f/0xc00
[   12.056485]  __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x289/0x2c0
[   12.056485]  __get_free_pages+0x8/0x30
[   12.056485]  fill_page_cache_func+0x39/0xb0
[   12.056485]  process_one_work+0x1ed/0x3b0
[   12.056485]  ? process_one_work+0x3b0/0x3b0
[   12.060485]  worker_thread+0x28/0x3c0
[   12.060485]  ? process_one_work+0x3b0/0x3b0
[   12.060485]  kthread+0x138/0x160
[   12.060485]  ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80
[   12.060485]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[   12.062156] Mem-Info:
[   12.062350] active_anon:0 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:0
[   12.062350]  active_file:0 inactive_file:0 isolated_file:0
[   12.062350]  unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0
[   12.062350]  slab_reclaimable:2797 slab_unreclaimable:80920
[   12.062350]  mapped:1 shmem:2 pagetables:8 bounce:0
[   12.062350]  free:10488 free_pcp:1227 free_cma:0
...
[   12.101610] Out of memory and no killable processes...
[   12.102042] Kernel panic - not syncing: System is deadlocked on memory
[   12.102583] CPU: 1 PID: 377 Comm: kworker/1:1H Not tainted 5.11.0-rc3+ #510
[   12.102600] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
&lt;snip&gt;

Because kvfree_rcu() has a fallback path, memory allocation failure is
not the end of the world.  Furthermore, the added overhead of aggressive
GFP settings must be balanced against the overhead of the fallback path,
which is a cache miss for double-argument kvfree_rcu() and a call to
synchronize_rcu() for single-argument kvfree_rcu().  The current choice
of GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN can result in longer latencies than a call
to synchronize_rcu(), so less-tenacious GFP flags would be helpful.

Here is the tradeoff that must be balanced:
    a) Minimize use of the fallback path,
    b) Avoid pushing the system into OOM,
    c) Bound allocation latency to that of synchronize_rcu(), and
    d) Leave the emergency reserves to use cases lacking fallbacks.

This commit therefore changes GFP flags from GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN to
GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_NOWARN.  This combination
leaves the emergency reserves alone and can initiate reclaim, but will
not invoke the OOM killer.

Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2021-02-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-02-21T20:35:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-21T20:35:04+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core scheduler updates:

   - Add CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC: this in its current form adds the
     preempt=none/voluntary/full boot options (default: full), to allow
     distros to build a PREEMPT kernel but fall back to close to
     PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY (or PREEMPT_NONE) runtime scheduling behavior via
     a boot time selection.

     There's also the /debug/sched_debug switch to do this runtime.

     This feature is implemented via runtime patching (a new variant of
     static calls).

     The scope of the runtime patching can be best reviewed by looking
     at the sched_dynamic_update() function in kernel/sched/core.c.

     ( Note that the dynamic none/voluntary mode isn't 100% identical,
       for example preempt-RCU is available in all cases, plus the
       preempt count is maintained in all models, which has runtime
       overhead even with the code patching. )

     The PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY/PREEMPT_NONE models, used by the vast
     majority of distributions, are supposed to be unaffected.

   - Fix ignored rescheduling after rcu_eqs_enter(). This is a bug that
     was found via rcutorture triggering a hang. The bug is that
     rcu_idle_enter() may wake up a NOCB kthread, but this happens after
     the last generic need_resched() check. Some cpuidle drivers fix it
     by chance but many others don't.

     In true 2020 fashion the original bug fix has grown into a 5-patch
     scheduler/RCU fix series plus another 16 RCU patches to address the
     underlying issue of missed preemption events. These are the initial
     fixes that should fix current incarnations of the bug.

   - Clean up rbtree usage in the scheduler, by providing &amp; using the
     following consistent set of rbtree APIs:

       partial-order; less() based:
         - rb_add(): add a new entry to the rbtree
         - rb_add_cached(): like rb_add(), but for a rb_root_cached

       total-order; cmp() based:
         - rb_find(): find an entry in an rbtree
         - rb_find_add(): find an entry, and add if not found

         - rb_find_first(): find the first (leftmost) matching entry
         - rb_next_match(): continue from rb_find_first()
         - rb_for_each(): iterate a sub-tree using the previous two

   - Improve the SMP/NUMA load-balancer: scan for an idle sibling in a
     single pass. This is a 4-commit series where each commit improves
     one aspect of the idle sibling scan logic.

   - Improve the cpufreq cooling driver by getting the effective CPU
     utilization metrics from the scheduler

   - Improve the fair scheduler's active load-balancing logic by
     reducing the number of active LB attempts &amp; lengthen the
     load-balancing interval. This improves stress-ng mmapfork
     performance.

   - Fix CFS's estimated utilization (util_est) calculation bug that can
     result in too high utilization values

  Misc updates &amp; fixes:

   - Fix the HRTICK reprogramming &amp; optimization feature

   - Fix SCHED_SOFTIRQ raising race &amp; warning in the CPU offlining code

   - Reduce dl_add_task_root_domain() overhead

   - Fix uprobes refcount bug

   - Process pending softirqs in flush_smp_call_function_from_idle()

   - Clean up task priority related defines, remove *USER_*PRIO and
     USER_PRIO()

   - Simplify the sched_init_numa() deduplication sort

   - Documentation updates

   - Fix EAS bug in update_misfit_status(), which degraded the quality
     of energy-balancing

   - Smaller cleanups"

* tag 'sched-core-2021-02-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (51 commits)
  sched,x86: Allow !PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
  entry/kvm: Explicitly flush pending rcuog wakeup before last rescheduling point
  entry: Explicitly flush pending rcuog wakeup before last rescheduling point
  rcu/nocb: Trigger self-IPI on late deferred wake up before user resume
  rcu/nocb: Perform deferred wake up before last idle's need_resched() check
  rcu: Pull deferred rcuog wake up to rcu_eqs_enter() callers
  sched/features: Distinguish between NORMAL and DEADLINE hrtick
  sched/features: Fix hrtick reprogramming
  sched/deadline: Reduce rq lock contention in dl_add_task_root_domain()
  uprobes: (Re)add missing get_uprobe() in __find_uprobe()
  smp: Process pending softirqs in flush_smp_call_function_from_idle()
  sched: Harden PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
  static_call: Allow module use without exposing static_call_key
  sched: Add /debug/sched_preempt
  preempt/dynamic: Support dynamic preempt with preempt= boot option
  preempt/dynamic: Provide irqentry_exit_cond_resched() static call
  preempt/dynamic: Provide preempt_schedule[_notrace]() static calls
  preempt/dynamic: Provide cond_resched() and might_resched() static calls
  preempt: Introduce CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
  static_call: Provide DEFINE_STATIC_CALL_RET0()
  ...
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core scheduler updates:

   - Add CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC: this in its current form adds the
     preempt=none/voluntary/full boot options (default: full), to allow
     distros to build a PREEMPT kernel but fall back to close to
     PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY (or PREEMPT_NONE) runtime scheduling behavior via
     a boot time selection.

     There's also the /debug/sched_debug switch to do this runtime.

     This feature is implemented via runtime patching (a new variant of
     static calls).

     The scope of the runtime patching can be best reviewed by looking
     at the sched_dynamic_update() function in kernel/sched/core.c.

     ( Note that the dynamic none/voluntary mode isn't 100% identical,
       for example preempt-RCU is available in all cases, plus the
       preempt count is maintained in all models, which has runtime
       overhead even with the code patching. )

     The PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY/PREEMPT_NONE models, used by the vast
     majority of distributions, are supposed to be unaffected.

   - Fix ignored rescheduling after rcu_eqs_enter(). This is a bug that
     was found via rcutorture triggering a hang. The bug is that
     rcu_idle_enter() may wake up a NOCB kthread, but this happens after
     the last generic need_resched() check. Some cpuidle drivers fix it
     by chance but many others don't.

     In true 2020 fashion the original bug fix has grown into a 5-patch
     scheduler/RCU fix series plus another 16 RCU patches to address the
     underlying issue of missed preemption events. These are the initial
     fixes that should fix current incarnations of the bug.

   - Clean up rbtree usage in the scheduler, by providing &amp; using the
     following consistent set of rbtree APIs:

       partial-order; less() based:
         - rb_add(): add a new entry to the rbtree
         - rb_add_cached(): like rb_add(), but for a rb_root_cached

       total-order; cmp() based:
         - rb_find(): find an entry in an rbtree
         - rb_find_add(): find an entry, and add if not found

         - rb_find_first(): find the first (leftmost) matching entry
         - rb_next_match(): continue from rb_find_first()
         - rb_for_each(): iterate a sub-tree using the previous two

   - Improve the SMP/NUMA load-balancer: scan for an idle sibling in a
     single pass. This is a 4-commit series where each commit improves
     one aspect of the idle sibling scan logic.

   - Improve the cpufreq cooling driver by getting the effective CPU
     utilization metrics from the scheduler

   - Improve the fair scheduler's active load-balancing logic by
     reducing the number of active LB attempts &amp; lengthen the
     load-balancing interval. This improves stress-ng mmapfork
     performance.

   - Fix CFS's estimated utilization (util_est) calculation bug that can
     result in too high utilization values

  Misc updates &amp; fixes:

   - Fix the HRTICK reprogramming &amp; optimization feature

   - Fix SCHED_SOFTIRQ raising race &amp; warning in the CPU offlining code

   - Reduce dl_add_task_root_domain() overhead

   - Fix uprobes refcount bug

   - Process pending softirqs in flush_smp_call_function_from_idle()

   - Clean up task priority related defines, remove *USER_*PRIO and
     USER_PRIO()

   - Simplify the sched_init_numa() deduplication sort

   - Documentation updates

   - Fix EAS bug in update_misfit_status(), which degraded the quality
     of energy-balancing

   - Smaller cleanups"

* tag 'sched-core-2021-02-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (51 commits)
  sched,x86: Allow !PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
  entry/kvm: Explicitly flush pending rcuog wakeup before last rescheduling point
  entry: Explicitly flush pending rcuog wakeup before last rescheduling point
  rcu/nocb: Trigger self-IPI on late deferred wake up before user resume
  rcu/nocb: Perform deferred wake up before last idle's need_resched() check
  rcu: Pull deferred rcuog wake up to rcu_eqs_enter() callers
  sched/features: Distinguish between NORMAL and DEADLINE hrtick
  sched/features: Fix hrtick reprogramming
  sched/deadline: Reduce rq lock contention in dl_add_task_root_domain()
  uprobes: (Re)add missing get_uprobe() in __find_uprobe()
  smp: Process pending softirqs in flush_smp_call_function_from_idle()
  sched: Harden PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
  static_call: Allow module use without exposing static_call_key
  sched: Add /debug/sched_preempt
  preempt/dynamic: Support dynamic preempt with preempt= boot option
  preempt/dynamic: Provide irqentry_exit_cond_resched() static call
  preempt/dynamic: Provide preempt_schedule[_notrace]() static calls
  preempt/dynamic: Provide cond_resched() and might_resched() static calls
  preempt: Introduce CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
  static_call: Provide DEFINE_STATIC_CALL_RET0()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>entry/kvm: Explicitly flush pending rcuog wakeup before last rescheduling point</title>
<updated>2021-02-17T13:12:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-31T23:05:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=4ae7dc97f726ea95c58ac58af71cc034ad22d7de'/>
<id>4ae7dc97f726ea95c58ac58af71cc034ad22d7de</id>
<content type='text'>
Following the idle loop model, cleanly check for pending rcuog wakeup
before the last rescheduling point upon resuming to guest mode. This
way we can avoid to do it from rcu_user_enter() with the last resort
self-IPI hack that enforces rescheduling.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210131230548.32970-6-frederic@kernel.org
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Following the idle loop model, cleanly check for pending rcuog wakeup
before the last rescheduling point upon resuming to guest mode. This
way we can avoid to do it from rcu_user_enter() with the last resort
self-IPI hack that enforces rescheduling.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210131230548.32970-6-frederic@kernel.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>entry: Explicitly flush pending rcuog wakeup before last rescheduling point</title>
<updated>2021-02-17T13:12:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-31T23:05:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=47b8ff194c1fd73d58dc339b597d466fe48c8958'/>
<id>47b8ff194c1fd73d58dc339b597d466fe48c8958</id>
<content type='text'>
Following the idle loop model, cleanly check for pending rcuog wakeup
before the last rescheduling point on resuming to user mode. This
way we can avoid to do it from rcu_user_enter() with the last resort
self-IPI hack that enforces rescheduling.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210131230548.32970-5-frederic@kernel.org
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Following the idle loop model, cleanly check for pending rcuog wakeup
before the last rescheduling point on resuming to user mode. This
way we can avoid to do it from rcu_user_enter() with the last resort
self-IPI hack that enforces rescheduling.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210131230548.32970-5-frederic@kernel.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu/nocb: Trigger self-IPI on late deferred wake up before user resume</title>
<updated>2021-02-17T13:12:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-31T23:05:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=f8bb5cae9616224a39cbb399de382d36ac41df10'/>
<id>f8bb5cae9616224a39cbb399de382d36ac41df10</id>
<content type='text'>
Entering RCU idle mode may cause a deferred wake up of an RCU NOCB_GP
kthread (rcuog) to be serviced.

Unfortunately the call to rcu_user_enter() is already past the last
rescheduling opportunity before we resume to userspace or to guest mode.
We may escape there with the woken task ignored.

The ultimate resort to fix every callsites is to trigger a self-IPI
(nohz_full depends on arch to implement arch_irq_work_raise()) that will
trigger a reschedule on IRQ tail or guest exit.

Eventually every site that want a saner treatment will need to carefully
place a call to rcu_nocb_flush_deferred_wakeup() before the last explicit
need_resched() check upon resume.

Fixes: 96d3fd0d315a (rcu: Break call_rcu() deadlock involving scheduler and perf)
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210131230548.32970-4-frederic@kernel.org
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Entering RCU idle mode may cause a deferred wake up of an RCU NOCB_GP
kthread (rcuog) to be serviced.

Unfortunately the call to rcu_user_enter() is already past the last
rescheduling opportunity before we resume to userspace or to guest mode.
We may escape there with the woken task ignored.

The ultimate resort to fix every callsites is to trigger a self-IPI
(nohz_full depends on arch to implement arch_irq_work_raise()) that will
trigger a reschedule on IRQ tail or guest exit.

Eventually every site that want a saner treatment will need to carefully
place a call to rcu_nocb_flush_deferred_wakeup() before the last explicit
need_resched() check upon resume.

Fixes: 96d3fd0d315a (rcu: Break call_rcu() deadlock involving scheduler and perf)
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210131230548.32970-4-frederic@kernel.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu/nocb: Perform deferred wake up before last idle's need_resched() check</title>
<updated>2021-02-17T13:12:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-31T23:05:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=43789ef3f7d61aa7bed0cb2764e588fc990c30ef'/>
<id>43789ef3f7d61aa7bed0cb2764e588fc990c30ef</id>
<content type='text'>
Entering RCU idle mode may cause a deferred wake up of an RCU NOCB_GP
kthread (rcuog) to be serviced.

Usually a local wake up happening while running the idle task is handled
in one of the need_resched() checks carefully placed within the idle
loop that can break to the scheduler.

Unfortunately the call to rcu_idle_enter() is already beyond the last
generic need_resched() check and we may halt the CPU with a resched
request unhandled, leaving the task hanging.

Fix this with splitting the rcuog wakeup handling from rcu_idle_enter()
and place it before the last generic need_resched() check in the idle
loop. It is then assumed that no call to call_rcu() will be performed
after that in the idle loop until the CPU is put in low power mode.

Fixes: 96d3fd0d315a (rcu: Break call_rcu() deadlock involving scheduler and perf)
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210131230548.32970-3-frederic@kernel.org
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Entering RCU idle mode may cause a deferred wake up of an RCU NOCB_GP
kthread (rcuog) to be serviced.

Usually a local wake up happening while running the idle task is handled
in one of the need_resched() checks carefully placed within the idle
loop that can break to the scheduler.

Unfortunately the call to rcu_idle_enter() is already beyond the last
generic need_resched() check and we may halt the CPU with a resched
request unhandled, leaving the task hanging.

Fix this with splitting the rcuog wakeup handling from rcu_idle_enter()
and place it before the last generic need_resched() check in the idle
loop. It is then assumed that no call to call_rcu() will be performed
after that in the idle loop until the CPU is put in low power mode.

Fixes: 96d3fd0d315a (rcu: Break call_rcu() deadlock involving scheduler and perf)
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210131230548.32970-3-frederic@kernel.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Pull deferred rcuog wake up to rcu_eqs_enter() callers</title>
<updated>2021-02-17T13:12:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-31T23:05:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=54b7429efffc99e845ba9381bee3244f012a06c2'/>
<id>54b7429efffc99e845ba9381bee3244f012a06c2</id>
<content type='text'>
Deferred wakeup of rcuog kthreads upon RCU idle mode entry is going to
be handled differently whether initiated by idle, user or guest. Prepare
with pulling that control up to rcu_eqs_enter() callers.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210131230548.32970-2-frederic@kernel.org
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Deferred wakeup of rcuog kthreads upon RCU idle mode entry is going to
be handled differently whether initiated by idle, user or guest. Prepare
with pulling that control up to rcu_eqs_enter() callers.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210131230548.32970-2-frederic@kernel.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'doc.2021.01.06a', 'fixes.2021.01.04b', 'kfree_rcu.2021.01.04a', 'mmdumpobj.2021.01.22a', 'nocb.2021.01.06a', 'rt.2021.01.04a', 'stall.2021.01.06a', 'torture.2021.01.12a' and 'tortureall.2021.01.06a' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2021-01-22T23:26:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-22T23:26:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=0d2460ba61841e5c2e64e77f7a84d3fc69cfe899'/>
<id>0d2460ba61841e5c2e64e77f7a84d3fc69cfe899</id>
<content type='text'>
doc.2021.01.06a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2021.01.04b: Miscellaneous fixes.
kfree_rcu.2021.01.04a: kfree_rcu() updates.
mmdumpobj.2021.01.22a: Dump allocation point for memory blocks.
nocb.2021.01.06a: RCU callback offload updates and cblist segment lengths.
rt.2021.01.04a: Real-time updates.
stall.2021.01.06a: RCU CPU stall warning updates.
torture.2021.01.12a: Torture-test updates and polling SRCU grace-period API.
tortureall.2021.01.06a: Torture-test script updates.
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doc.2021.01.06a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2021.01.04b: Miscellaneous fixes.
kfree_rcu.2021.01.04a: kfree_rcu() updates.
mmdumpobj.2021.01.22a: Dump allocation point for memory blocks.
nocb.2021.01.06a: RCU callback offload updates and cblist segment lengths.
rt.2021.01.04a: Real-time updates.
stall.2021.01.06a: RCU CPU stall warning updates.
torture.2021.01.12a: Torture-test updates and polling SRCU grace-period API.
tortureall.2021.01.06a: Torture-test script updates.
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