linux.git/kernel/sched/isolation.c, branch v6.12.80

sched/isolation: Fix boot crash when maxcpus < first housekeeping CPU

2024-04-28T08:08:21+00:00

housekeeping_setup() checks cpumask_intersects(present, online) to ensure
that the kernel will have at least one housekeeping CPU after smp_init(),
but this doesn't work if the maxcpus= kernel parameter limits the number of
processors available after bootup.

For example, a kernel with "maxcpus=2 nohz_full=0-2" parameters crashes at
boot time on a virtual machine with 4 CPUs.

Change housekeeping_setup() to use cpumask_first_and() and check that the
returned CPU number is valid and less than setup_max_cpus.

Another corner case is "nohz_full=0" on a machine with a single CPU or with
the maxcpus=1 kernel argument. In this case non_housekeeping_mask is empty
and tick_nohz_full_setup() makes no sense. And indeed, the kernel hits the
WARN_ON(tick_nohz_full_running) in tick_sched_do_timer().

And how should the kernel interpret the "nohz_full=" parameter? It should
be silently ignored, but currently cpulist_parse() happily returns the
empty cpumask and this leads to the same problem.

Change housekeeping_setup() to check cpumask_empty(non_housekeeping_mask)
and do nothing in this case.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld 
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240413141746.GA10008@redhat.com

sched/isolation: Prevent boot crash when the boot CPU is nohz_full

2024-04-28T08:07:12+00:00

Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst states that the "nohz_full=" mask must not
include the boot CPU, which is no longer true after:

  08ae95f4fd3b ("nohz_full: Allow the boot CPU to be nohz_full").

However after:

  aae17ebb53cd ("workqueue: Avoid using isolated cpus' timers on queue_delayed_work")

the kernel will crash at boot time in this case; housekeeping_any_cpu()
returns an invalid CPU number until smp_init() brings the first
housekeeping CPU up.

Change housekeeping_any_cpu() to check the result of cpumask_any_and() and
return smp_processor_id() in this case.

This is just the simple and backportable workaround which fixes the
symptom, but smp_processor_id() at boot time should be safe at least for
type == HK_TYPE_TIMER, this more or less matches the tick_do_timer_boot_cpu
logic.

There is no worry about cpu_down(); tick_nohz_cpu_down() will not allow to
offline tick_do_timer_cpu (the 1st online housekeeping CPU).

Fixes: aae17ebb53cd ("workqueue: Avoid using isolated cpus' timers on queue_delayed_work")
Reported-by: Chris von Recklinghausen 
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld 
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240411143905.GA19288@redhat.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240402105847.GA24832@redhat.com/

sched/headers: Introduce kernel/sched/build_utility.c and build multiple .c files there

2022-02-23T09:58:33+00:00

Collect all utility functionality source code files into a single kernel/sched/build_utility.c file,
via #include-ing the .c files:

    kernel/sched/clock.c
    kernel/sched/completion.c
    kernel/sched/loadavg.c
    kernel/sched/swait.c
    kernel/sched/wait_bit.c
    kernel/sched/wait.c

CONFIG_CPU_FREQ:
    kernel/sched/cpufreq.c

CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_SCHEDUTIL:
    kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c

CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT:
    kernel/sched/cpuacct.c

CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG:
    kernel/sched/debug.c

CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS:
    kernel/sched/stats.c

CONFIG_SMP:
   kernel/sched/cpupri.c
   kernel/sched/stop_task.c
   kernel/sched/topology.c

CONFIG_SCHED_CORE:
   kernel/sched/core_sched.c

CONFIG_PSI:
   kernel/sched/psi.c

CONFIG_MEMBARRIER:
   kernel/sched/membarrier.c

CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION:
   kernel/sched/isolation.c

CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP:
   kernel/sched/autogroup.c

The goal is to amortize the 60+ KLOC header bloat from over a dozen build units into
a single build unit.

The build time of build_utility.c also roughly matches the build time of core.c and
fair.c - allowing better load-balancing of scheduler-only rebuilds.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra

sched/isolation: Split housekeeping cpumask per isolation features

2022-02-16T14:57:56+00:00

To prepare for supporting each housekeeping feature toward cpuset, split
the global housekeeping cpumask per HK_TYPE_* entry.

This will later allow, for example, to runtime modify the cpulist passed
through "isolcpus=", "nohz_full=" and "rcu_nocbs=" kernel boot
parameters.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli 
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220207155910.527133-9-frederic@kernel.org

sched/isolation: Fix housekeeping_mask memory leak

2022-02-16T14:57:56+00:00

If "nohz_full=" or "isolcpus=nohz" are called with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=n,
housekeeping_mask doesn't get freed despite it being unused if
housekeeping_setup() is called for the first time.

Check this scenario first to fix this, so that no useless allocation
is performed.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli 
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220207155910.527133-8-frederic@kernel.org

sched/isolation: Consolidate error handling

2022-02-16T14:57:55+00:00

Centralize the mask freeing and return value for the error path. This
makes potential leaks more visible.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli 
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220207155910.527133-7-frederic@kernel.org

sched/isolation: Consolidate check for housekeeping minimum service

2022-02-16T14:57:55+00:00

There can be two subsequent calls to housekeeping_setup() due to
"nohz_full=" and "isolcpus=" that can mix up.  The two passes each have
their own way to deal with an empty housekeeping set of CPUs.
Consolidate this part and remove the awful "tmp" based naming.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli 
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220207155910.527133-6-frederic@kernel.org

sched/isolation: Use single feature type while referring to housekeeping cpumask

2022-02-16T14:57:55+00:00

Refer to housekeeping APIs using single feature types instead of flags.
This prevents from passing multiple isolation features at once to
housekeeping interfaces, which soon won't be possible anymore as each
isolation features will have their own cpumask.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli 
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220207155910.527133-5-frederic@kernel.org

sched/isolation: Reconcile rcu_nocbs= and nohz_full=

2021-05-13T12:12:47+00:00

We have a mismatch between RCU and isolation -- in relation to what is
considered the maximum valid CPU number.

This matters because nohz_full= and rcu_nocbs= are joined at the hip; in
fact the former will enforce the latter.  So we don't want a CPU mask to
be valid for one and denied for the other.

The difference 1st appeared as of v4.15; further details are below.

As it is confusing to anyone who isn't looking at the code regularly, a
reminder is in order; three values exist here:

  CONFIG_NR_CPUS  - compiled in maximum cap on number of CPUs supported.
  nr_cpu_ids      - possible # of CPUs (typically reflects what ACPI says)
  cpus_present    - actual number of present/detected/installed CPUs.

For this example, I'll refer to NR_CPUS=64 from "make defconfig" and
nr_cpu_ids=6 for ACPI reporting on a board that could run a six core,
and present=4 for a quad that is physically in the socket.  From dmesg:

 smpboot: Allowing 6 CPUs, 2 hotplug CPUs
 setup_percpu: NR_CPUS:64 nr_cpumask_bits:64 nr_cpu_ids:6 nr_node_ids:1
 rcu: 	RCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=64 to nr_cpu_ids=6.
 smp: Brought up 1 node, 4 CPUs

And from userspace, see:

   paul@trash:/sys/devices/system/cpu$ cat present
   0-3
   paul@trash:/sys/devices/system/cpu$ cat possible
   0-5
   paul@trash:/sys/devices/system/cpu$ cat kernel_max
   63

Everything is fine if we boot 5x5 for rcu/nohz:

  Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/bzImage nohz_full=2-5 rcu_nocbs=2-5 root=/dev/sda1 ro
  NO_HZ: Full dynticks CPUs: 2-5.
  rcu: 	Offload RCU callbacks from CPUs: 2-5.

..even though there is no CPU 4 or 5.  Both RCU and nohz_full are OK.
Now we push that > 6 but less than NR_CPU and with 15x15 we get:

  Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/bzImage rcu_nocbs=2-15 nohz_full=2-15 root=/dev/sda1 ro
  rcu: 	Note: kernel parameter 'rcu_nocbs=', 'nohz_full', or 'isolcpus=' contains nonexistent CPUs.
  rcu: 	Offload RCU callbacks from CPUs: 2-5.

These are both functionally equivalent, as we are only changing flags on
phantom CPUs that don't exist, but note the kernel interpretation changes.
And worse, it only changes for one of the two - which is the problem.

RCU doesn't care if you want to restrict the flags on phantom CPUs but
clearly nohz_full does after this change from v4.15.

 edb9382175c3: ("sched/isolation: Move isolcpus= handling to the housekeeping code")

 -       if (cpulist_parse(str, non_housekeeping_mask) < 0) {
 -               pr_warn("Housekeeping: Incorrect nohz_full cpumask\n");
 +       err = cpulist_parse(str, non_housekeeping_mask);
 +       if (err < 0 || cpumask_last(non_housekeeping_mask) >= nr_cpu_ids) {
 +               pr_warn("Housekeeping: nohz_full= or isolcpus= incorrect CPU range\n");

To be clear, the sanity check on "possible" (nr_cpu_ids) is new here.

The goal was reasonable ; not wanting housekeeping to land on a
not-possible CPU, but note two things:

  1) this is an exclusion list, not an inclusion list; we are tracking
     non_housekeeping CPUs; not ones who are explicitly assigned housekeeping

  2) we went one further in 9219565aa890 ("sched/isolation: Require a present CPU in housekeeping mask")
     - ensuring that housekeeping was sanity checking against present and not just possible CPUs.

To be clear, this means the check added in v4.15 is doubly redundant.
And more importantly, overly strict/restrictive.

We care now, because the bitmap boot arg parsing now knows that a value
of "N" is NR_CPUS; the size of the bitmap, but the bitmap code doesn't
know anything about the subtleties of our max/possible/present CPU
specifics as outlined above.

So drop the check added in v4.15 (edb9382175c3) and make RCU and
nohz_full both in alignment again on NR_CPUS so "N" works for both,
and then they can fall back to nr_cpu_ids internally just as before.

  Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/bzImage nohz_full=2-N rcu_nocbs=2-N root=/dev/sda1 ro
  NO_HZ: Full dynticks CPUs: 2-5.
  rcu: 	Offload RCU callbacks from CPUs: 2-5.

As shown above, with this change, RCU and nohz_full are in sync, even
with the use of the "N" placeholder.  Same result is achieved with "15".

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210419042659.1134916-1-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com

isolcpus: Affine unbound kernel threads to housekeeping cpus

2020-06-15T12:10:03+00:00

This is a kernel enhancement that configures the cpu affinity of kernel
threads via kernel boot option nohz_full=.

When this option is specified, the cpumask is immediately applied upon
kthread launch. This does not affect kernel threads that specify cpu
and node.

This allows CPU isolation (that is not allowing certain threads
to execute on certain CPUs) without using the isolcpus=domain parameter,
making it possible to enable load balancing on such CPUs
during runtime (see kernel-parameters.txt).

Note-1: this is based off on Wind River's patch at
https://github.com/starlingx-staging/stx-integ/blob/master/kernel/kernel-std/centos/patches/affine-compute-kernel-threads.patch

Difference being that this patch is limited to modifying kernel thread
cpumask. Behaviour of other threads can be controlled via cgroups or
sched_setaffinity.

Note-2: Wind River's patch was based off Christoph Lameter's patch at
https://lwn.net/Articles/565932/ with the only difference being
the kernel parameter changed from kthread to kthread_cpus.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200527142909.23372-3-frederic@kernel.org