On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 05:01:08PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> Many kthreads go into an interruptible sleep when there is nothing
> to do. They should check if anyone did not requested the kthread
> to terminate, freeze, or park in the meantime. It is easy to do
> it a wrong way.
INTERRUPTIBLE is the wrong state to idle in for kthreads, use
TASK_IDLE.
---
commit 80ed87c8a9ca0cad7ca66cf3bbdfb17559a66dcf
Author: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Date: Fri May 8 14:23:45 2015 +0200
sched/wait: Introduce TASK_NOLOAD and TASK_IDLE
Currently people use TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE to idle kthreads and wait for
'work' because TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE contributes to the loadavg. Having
all idle kthreads contribute to the loadavg is somewhat silly.
Now mostly this works OK, because kthreads have all their signals
masked. However there's a few sites where this is causing problems and
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE should be used, except for that loadavg issue.
This patch adds TASK_NOLOAD which, when combined with
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE avoids the loadavg accounting.
As most of imagined usage sites are loops where a thread wants to
idle, waiting for work, a helper TASK_IDLE is introduced.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Julian Anastasov <j...@ssi.bg>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: NeilBrown <ne...@suse.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index dd07ac03f82a..7de815c6fa78 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -218,9 +218,10 @@ print_cfs_rq(struct seq_file *m, int cpu, struct cfs_rq
*cfs_rq);
#define TASK_WAKEKILL 128
#define TASK_WAKING 256
#define TASK_PARKED 512
-#define TASK_STATE_MAX 1024
+#define TASK_NOLOAD 1024
+#define TASK_STATE_MAX 2048
-#define TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR "RSDTtXZxKWP"
+#define TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR "RSDTtXZxKWPN"
extern char ___assert_task_state[1 - 2*!!(
sizeof(TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR)-1 != ilog2(TASK_STATE_MAX)+1)];
@@ -230,6 +231,8 @@ extern char ___assert_task_state[1 - 2*!!(
#define TASK_STOPPED (TASK_WAKEKILL | __TASK_STOPPED)
#define TASK_TRACED (TASK_WAKEKILL | __TASK_TRACED)
+#define TASK_IDLE (TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE | TASK_NOLOAD)
+
/* Convenience macros for the sake of wake_up */
#define TASK_NORMAL (TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE | TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)
#define TASK_ALL (TASK_NORMAL | __TASK_STOPPED | __TASK_TRACED)
@@ -245,7 +248,8 @@ extern char ___assert_task_state[1 - 2*!!(
((task->state & (__TASK_STOPPED | __TASK_TRACED)) != 0)
#define task_contributes_to_load(task) \
((task->state & TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) != 0 && \
- (task->flags & PF_FROZEN) == 0)
+ (task->flags & PF_FROZEN) == 0 && \
+ (task->state & TASK_NOLOAD) == 0)
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
diff --git a/include/trace/events/sched.h b/include/trace/events/sched.h
index 30fedaf3e56a..d57a575fe31f 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/sched.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/sched.h
@@ -147,7 +147,8 @@ TRACE_EVENT(sched_switch,
__print_flags(__entry->prev_state & (TASK_STATE_MAX-1), "|",
{ 1, "S"} , { 2, "D" }, { 4, "T" }, { 8, "t" },
{ 16, "Z" }, { 32, "X" }, { 64, "x" },
- { 128, "K" }, { 256, "W" }, { 512, "P" }) : "R",
+ { 128, "K" }, { 256, "W" }, { 512, "P" },
+ { 1024, "N" }) : "R",
__entry->prev_state & TASK_STATE_MAX ? "+" : "",
__entry->next_comm, __entry->next_pid, __entry->next_prio)
);
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