sched: add a few helpers to wake up tasks on the current cpu

Add complete_on_current_cpu, wake_up_poll_on_current_cpu helpers to wake
up tasks on the current CPU.

These two helpers are useful when

sched: add a few helpers to wake up tasks on the current cpu

Add complete_on_current_cpu, wake_up_poll_on_current_cpu helpers to wake
up tasks on the current CPU.

These two helpers are useful when the task needs to make a synchronous context
switch to another task. In this context, synchronous means it wakes up the
target task and falls asleep right after that.

One example of such workloads is seccomp user notifies. This mechanism allows
the supervisor process handles system calls on behalf of a target process.
While the supervisor is handling an intercepted system call, the target process
will be blocked in the kernel, waiting for a response to come back.

On-CPU context switches are much faster than regular ones.

Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@google.com>
Acked-by: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230308073201.3102738-4-avagin@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

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sched/wait: Fix a kthread_park race with wait_woken()

kthread_park and wait_woken have a similar race that
kthread_stop and wait_woken used to have before it was fixed in
commit cb6538e740d7 ("sched

sched/wait: Fix a kthread_park race with wait_woken()

kthread_park and wait_woken have a similar race that
kthread_stop and wait_woken used to have before it was fixed in
commit cb6538e740d7 ("sched/wait: Fix a kthread race with
wait_woken()"). Extend that fix to also cover kthread_park.

[jstultz: Made changes suggested by Peter to optimize
memory loads]

Signed-off-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230602212350.535358-1-jstultz@google.com

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wait: Return number of exclusive waiters awaken

Sbitmap code will need to know how many waiters were actually woken for
its batched wakeups implementation. Return the number of woken
exclusive wait

wait: Return number of exclusive waiters awaken

Sbitmap code will need to know how many waiters were actually woken for
its batched wakeups implementation. Return the number of woken
exclusive waiters from __wake_up() to facilitate that.

Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221115224553.23594-3-krisman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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

Collect all utility functionality source code files into a single kernel/sched/build_utility.c file,
via #incl

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

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 <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

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wait: add wake_up_pollfree()

Several ->poll() implementations are special in that they use a
waitqueue whose lifetime is the current task, rather than the struct
file as is normally the case. This

wait: add wake_up_pollfree()

Several ->poll() implementations are special in that they use a
waitqueue whose lifetime is the current task, rather than the struct
file as is normally the case. This is okay for blocking polls, since a
blocking poll occurs within one task; however, non-blocking polls
require another solution. This solution is for the queue to be cleared
before it is freed, using 'wake_up_poll(wq, EPOLLHUP | POLLFREE);'.

However, that has a bug: wake_up_poll() calls __wake_up() with
nr_exclusive=1. Therefore, if there are multiple "exclusive" waiters,
and the wakeup function for the first one returns a positive value, only
that one will be called. That's *not* what's needed for POLLFREE;
POLLFREE is special in that it really needs to wake up everyone.

Considering the three non-blocking poll systems:

- io_uring poll doesn't handle POLLFREE at all, so it is broken anyway.

- aio poll is unaffected, since it doesn't support exclusive waits.
However, that's fragile, as someone could add this feature later.

- epoll doesn't appear to be broken by this, since its wakeup function
returns 0 when it sees POLLFREE. But this is fragile.

Although there is a workaround (see epoll), it's better to define a
function which always sends POLLFREE to all waiters. Add such a
function. Also make it verify that the queue really becomes empty after
all waiters have been woken up.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211209010455.42744-2-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

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wait: add wake_up_pollfree()

commit 42288cb44c4b5fff7653bc392b583a2b8bd6a8c0 upstream.

Several ->poll() implementations are special in that they use a
waitqueue whose lifetime is the current task,

wait: add wake_up_pollfree()

commit 42288cb44c4b5fff7653bc392b583a2b8bd6a8c0 upstream.

Several ->poll() implementations are special in that they use a
waitqueue whose lifetime is the current task, rather than the struct
file as is normally the case. This is okay for blocking polls, since a
blocking poll occurs within one task; however, non-blocking polls
require another solution. This solution is for the queue to be cleared
before it is freed, using 'wake_up_poll(wq, EPOLLHUP | POLLFREE);'.

However, that has a bug: wake_up_poll() calls __wake_up() with
nr_exclusive=1. Therefore, if there are multiple "exclusive" waiters,
and the wakeup function for the first one returns a positive value, only
that one will be called. That's *not* what's needed for POLLFREE;
POLLFREE is special in that it really needs to wake up everyone.

Considering the three non-blocking poll systems:

- io_uring poll doesn't handle POLLFREE at all, so it is broken anyway.

- aio poll is unaffected, since it doesn't support exclusive waits.
However, that's fragile, as someone could add this feature later.

- epoll doesn't appear to be broken by this, since its wakeup function
returns 0 when it sees POLLFREE. But this is fragile.

Although there is a workaround (see epoll), it's better to define a
function which always sends POLLFREE to all waiters. Add such a
function. Also make it verify that the queue really becomes empty after
all waiters have been woken up.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211209010455.42744-2-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle try two

Commit 545fbd0775ba ("rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle")
tried to fix a problem that a process could be sleeping in rq_qos_wait()

rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle try two

Commit 545fbd0775ba ("rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle")
tried to fix a problem that a process could be sleeping in rq_qos_wait()
without anyone to wake it up. However the fix is not complete and the
following can still happen:

CPU1 (waiter1) CPU2 (waiter2) CPU3 (waker)
rq_qos_wait() rq_qos_wait()
acquire_inflight_cb() -> fails
acquire_inflight_cb() -> fails

completes IOs, inflight
decreased
prepare_to_wait_exclusive()
prepare_to_wait_exclusive()
has_sleeper = !wq_has_single_sleeper() -> true as there are two sleepers
has_sleeper = !wq_has_single_sleeper() -> true
io_schedule() io_schedule()

Deadlock as now there's nobody to wakeup the two waiters. The logic
automatically blocking when there are already sleepers is really subtle
and the only way to make it work reliably is that we check whether there
are some waiters in the queue when adding ourselves there. That way, we
are guaranteed that at least the first process to enter the wait queue
will recheck the waiting condition before going to sleep and thus
guarantee forward progress.

Fixes: 545fbd0775ba ("rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210607112613.25344-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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sched/wait: Add add_wait_queue_priority()

This allows an exclusive wait_queue_entry to be added at the head of the
queue, instead of the tail as normal. Thus, it gets to consume events
first without

sched/wait: Add add_wait_queue_priority()

This allows an exclusive wait_queue_entry to be added at the head of the
queue, instead of the tail as normal. Thus, it gets to consume events
first without allowing non-exclusive waiters to be woken at all.

The (first) intended use is for KVM IRQFD, which currently has
inconsistent behaviour depending on whether posted interrupts are
available or not. If they are, KVM will bypass the eventfd completely
and deliver interrupts directly to the appropriate vCPU. If not, events
are delivered through the eventfd and userspace will receive them when
polling on the eventfd.

By using add_wait_queue_priority(), KVM will be able to consistently
consume events within the kernel without accidentally exposing them
to userspace when they're supposed to be bypassed. This, in turn, means
that userspace doesn't have to jump through hoops to avoid listening
on the erroneously noisy eventfd and injecting duplicate interrupts.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Message-Id: <20201027143944.648769-2-dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

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rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle try two

commit 11c7aa0ddea8611007768d3e6b58d45dc60a19e1 upstream.

Commit 545fbd0775ba ("rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle")
tried to fix

rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle try two

commit 11c7aa0ddea8611007768d3e6b58d45dc60a19e1 upstream.

Commit 545fbd0775ba ("rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle")
tried to fix a problem that a process could be sleeping in rq_qos_wait()
without anyone to wake it up. However the fix is not complete and the
following can still happen:

CPU1 (waiter1) CPU2 (waiter2) CPU3 (waker)
rq_qos_wait() rq_qos_wait()
acquire_inflight_cb() -> fails
acquire_inflight_cb() -> fails

completes IOs, inflight
decreased
prepare_to_wait_exclusive()
prepare_to_wait_exclusive()
has_sleeper = !wq_has_single_sleeper() -> true as there are two sleepers
has_sleeper = !wq_has_single_sleeper() -> true
io_schedule() io_schedule()

Deadlock as now there's nobody to wakeup the two waiters. The logic
automatically blocking when there are already sleepers is really subtle
and the only way to make it work reliably is that we check whether there
are some waiters in the queue when adding ourselves there. That way, we
are guaranteed that at least the first process to enter the wait queue
will recheck the waiting condition before going to sleep and thus
guarantee forward progress.

Fixes: 545fbd0775ba ("rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210607112613.25344-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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list: add "list_del_init_careful()" to go with "list_empty_careful()"

That gives us ordering guarantees around the pair.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll_locked()

Add a wakeup call for a case whereby the caller already has the waitqueue
spinlock held. This can be used by pipes to alter the ring buffer indices
and

Add wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll_locked()

Add a wakeup call for a case whereby the caller already has the waitqueue
spinlock held. This can be used by pipes to alter the ring buffer indices
and issue a wakeup under the same spinlock.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>

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Remove the nr_exclusive argument from __wake_up_sync_key()

Remove the nr_exclusive argument from __wake_up_sync_key() and derived
functions as everything seems to set it to 1. Note also that if it

Remove the nr_exclusive argument from __wake_up_sync_key()

Remove the nr_exclusive argument from __wake_up_sync_key() and derived
functions as everything seems to set it to 1. Note also that if it wasn't
set to 1, it would clear WF_SYNC anyway.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>

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sched/wait: Deduplicate code with do-while

Statements in the loop's body and before it are identical.
Use do-while to not repeat it.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Signed-of

sched/wait: Deduplicate code with do-while

Statements in the loop's body and before it are identical.
Use do-while to not repeat it.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/43ffea6ee2152b90dedf962eac851609e4197218.1560256112.git.asml.silence@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files

Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

- Have no license information of any form

- Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was use

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files

Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

- Have no license information of any form

- Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the
initial scan/conversion to ignore the file

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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kernel/sched/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions

This is already done for us internally by the signal machinery.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181116002713.8474-3-dave@stgolabs.net

kernel/sched/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions

This is already done for us internally by the signal machinery.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181116002713.8474-3-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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sched/wait: assert the wait_queue_head lock is held in __wake_up_common

Better ensure we actually hold the lock using lockdep than just commenting
on it. Due to the various exported _locked interfa

sched/wait: assert the wait_queue_head lock is held in __wake_up_common

Better ensure we actually hold the lock using lockdep than just commenting
on it. Due to the various exported _locked interfaces it is far too easy
to get the locking wrong.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171214152344.6880-4-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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sched/Documentation: Update wake_up() & co. memory-barrier guarantees

Both the implementation and the users' expectation [1] for the various
wakeup primitives have evolved over time, but the documen

sched/Documentation: Update wake_up() & co. memory-barrier guarantees

Both the implementation and the users' expectation [1] for the various
wakeup primitives have evolved over time, but the documentation has not
kept up with these changes: brings it into 2018.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180424091510.GB4064@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net

Also applied feedback from Alan Stern.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Lustig <dlustig@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: parri.andrea@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180716180605.16115-12-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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sched/core: Use smp_mb() in wake_woken_function()

wake_woken_function() synchronizes with wait_woken() as follows:

[wait_woken] [wake_woken_function]

entry->flags &= ~wq_

sched/core: Use smp_mb() in wake_woken_function()

wake_woken_function() synchronizes with wait_woken() as follows:

[wait_woken] [wake_woken_function]

entry->flags &= ~wq_flag_woken; condition = true;
smp_mb(); smp_wmb();
if (condition) wq_entry->flags |= wq_flag_woken;
break;

This commit replaces the above smp_wmb() with an smp_mb() in order to
guarantee that either wait_woken() sees the wait condition being true
or the store to wq_entry->flags in woken_wake_function() follows the
store in wait_woken() in the coherence order (so that the former can
eventually be observed by wait_woken()).

The commit also fixes a comment associated to set_current_state() in
wait_woken(): the comment pairs the barrier in set_current_state() to
the above smp_wmb(), while the actual pairing involves the barrier in
set_current_state() and the barrier executed by the try_to_wake_up()
in wake_woken_function().

Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akiyks@gmail.com
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: luc.maranget@inria.fr
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: parri.andrea@gmail.com
Cc: stern@rowland.harvard.edu
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180716180605.16115-10-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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sched/headers: Simplify and clean up header usage in the scheduler

Do the following cleanups and simplifications:

- sched/sched.h already includes <asm/paravirt.h>, so no need to
include it in

sched/headers: Simplify and clean up header usage in the scheduler

Do the following cleanups and simplifications:

- sched/sched.h already includes <asm/paravirt.h>, so no need to
include it in sched/core.c again.

- order the <linux/sched/*.h> headers alphabetically

- add all <linux/sched/*.h> headers to kernel/sched/sched.h

- remove all unnecessary includes from the .c files that
are already included in kernel/sched/sched.h.

Finally, make all scheduler .c files use a single common header:

#include "sched.h"

... which now contains a union of the relied upon headers.

This makes the various .c files easier to read and easier to handle.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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sched: Clean up and harmonize the coding style of the scheduler code base

A good number of small style inconsistencies have accumulated
in the scheduler core, so do a pass over them to harmonize
all

sched: Clean up and harmonize the coding style of the scheduler code base

A good number of small style inconsistencies have accumulated
in the scheduler core, so do a pass over them to harmonize
all these details:

- fix speling in comments,

- use curly braces for multi-line statements,

- remove unnecessary parentheses from integer literals,

- capitalize consistently,

- remove stray newlines,

- add comments where necessary,

- remove invalid/unnecessary comments,

- align structure definitions and other data types vertically,

- add missing newlines for increased readability,

- fix vertical tabulation where it's misaligned,

- harmonize preprocessor conditional block labeling
and vertical alignment,

- remove line-breaks where they uglify the code,

- add newline after local variable definitions,

No change in functionality:

md5:
1191fa0a890cfa8132156d2959d7e9e2 built-in.o.before.asm
1191fa0a890cfa8132156d2959d7e9e2 built-in.o.after.asm

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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sched/wait: Fix add_wait_queue() behavioral change

The following cleanup commit:

50816c48997a ("sched/wait: Standardize internal naming of wait-queue entries")

... unintentionally changed the be

sched/wait: Fix add_wait_queue() behavioral change

The following cleanup commit:

50816c48997a ("sched/wait: Standardize internal naming of wait-queue entries")

... unintentionally changed the behavior of add_wait_queue() from
inserting the wait entry at the head of the wait queue to the tail
of the wait queue.

Beyond a negative performance impact this change in behavior
theoretically also breaks wait queues which mix exclusive and
non-exclusive waiters, as non-exclusive waiters will not be
woken up if they are queued behind enough exclusive waiters.

Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
Fixes: ("sched/wait: Standardize internal naming of wait-queue entries")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a16c8ccffd39bd08fdaa45a5192294c784b803a7.1512544324.git.osandov@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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sched/wait: Introduce wakeup boomark in wake_up_page_bit

Now that we have added breaks in the wait queue scan and allow bookmark
on scan position, we put this logic in the wake_up_page_bit function.

sched/wait: Introduce wakeup boomark in wake_up_page_bit

Now that we have added breaks in the wait queue scan and allow bookmark
on scan position, we put this logic in the wake_up_page_bit function.

We can have very long page wait list in large system where multiple
pages share the same wait list. We break the wake up walk here to allow
other cpus a chance to access the list, and not to disable the interrupts
when traversing the list for too long. This reduces the interrupt and
rescheduling latency, and excessive page wait queue lock hold time.

[ v2: Remove bookmark_wake_function ]

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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sched/wait: Break up long wake list walk

We encountered workloads that have very long wake up list on large
systems. A waker takes a long time to traverse the entire wake list and
execute all the wa

sched/wait: Break up long wake list walk

We encountered workloads that have very long wake up list on large
systems. A waker takes a long time to traverse the entire wake list and
execute all the wake functions.

We saw page wait list that are up to 3700+ entries long in tests of
large 4 and 8 socket systems. It took 0.8 sec to traverse such list
during wake up. Any other CPU that contends for the list spin lock will
spin for a long time. It is a result of the numa balancing migration of
hot pages that are shared by many threads.

Multiple CPUs waking are queued up behind the lock, and the last one
queued has to wait until all CPUs did all the wakeups.

The page wait list is traversed with interrupt disabled, which caused
various problems. This was the original cause that triggered the NMI
watch dog timer in: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9800303/ . Only
extending the NMI watch dog timer there helped.

This patch bookmarks the waker's scan position in wake list and break
the wake up walk, to allow access to the list before the waker resume
its walk down the rest of the wait list. It lowers the interrupt and
rescheduling latency.

This patch also provides a performance boost when combined with the next
patch to break up page wakeup list walk. We saw 22% improvement in the
will-it-scale file pread2 test on a Xeon Phi system running 256 threads.

[ v2: Merged in Linus' changes to remove the bookmark_wake_function, and
simply access to flags. ]

Reported-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Minor page waitqueue cleanups

Tim Chen and Kan Liang have been battling a customer load that shows
extremely long page wakeup lists. The cause seems to be constant NUMA
migration of a hot page that

Minor page waitqueue cleanups

Tim Chen and Kan Liang have been battling a customer load that shows
extremely long page wakeup lists. The cause seems to be constant NUMA
migration of a hot page that is shared across a lot of threads, but the
actual root cause for the exact behavior has not been found.

Tim has a patch that batches the wait list traversal at wakeup time, so
that we at least don't get long uninterruptible cases where we traverse
and wake up thousands of processes and get nasty latency spikes. That
is likely 4.14 material, but we're still discussing the page waitqueue
specific parts of it.

In the meantime, I've tried to look at making the page wait queues less
expensive, and failing miserably. If you have thousands of threads
waiting for the same page, it will be painful. We'll need to try to
figure out the NUMA balancing issue some day, in addition to avoiding
the excessive spinlock hold times.

That said, having tried to rewrite the page wait queues, I can at least
fix up some of the braindamage in the current situation. In particular:

(a) we don't want to continue walking the page wait list if the bit
we're waiting for already got set again (which seems to be one of
the patterns of the bad load). That makes no progress and just
causes pointless cache pollution chasing the pointers.

(b) we don't want to put the non-locking waiters always on the front of
the queue, and the locking waiters always on the back. Not only is
that unfair, it means that we wake up thousands of reading threads
that will just end up being blocked by the writer later anyway.

Also add a comment about the layout of 'struct wait_page_key' - there is
an external user of it in the cachefiles code that means that it has to
match the layout of 'struct wait_bit_key' in the two first members. It
so happens to match, because 'struct page *' and 'unsigned long *' end
up having the same values simply because the page flags are the first
member in struct page.

Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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sched/wait: Disambiguate wq_entry->task_list and wq_head->task_list naming

So I've noticed a number of instances where it was not obvious from the
code whether ->task_list was for a wait-queue head

sched/wait: Disambiguate wq_entry->task_list and wq_head->task_list naming

So I've noticed a number of instances where it was not obvious from the
code whether ->task_list was for a wait-queue head or a wait-queue entry.

Furthermore, there's a number of wait-queue users where the lists are
not for 'tasks' but other entities (poll tables, etc.), in which case
the 'task_list' name is actively confusing.

To clear this all up, name the wait-queue head and entry list structure
fields unambiguously:

struct wait_queue_head::task_list => ::head
struct wait_queue_entry::task_list => ::entry

For example, this code:

rqw->wait.task_list.next != &wait->task_list

... is was pretty unclear (to me) what it's doing, while now it's written this way:

rqw->wait.head.next != &wait->entry

... which makes it pretty clear that we are iterating a list until we see the head.

Other examples are:

list_for_each_entry_safe(pos, next, &x->task_list, task_list) {
list_for_each_entry(wq, &fence->wait.task_list, task_list) {

... where it's unclear (to me) what we are iterating, and during review it's
hard to tell whether it's trying to walk a wait-queue entry (which would be
a bug), while now it's written as:

list_for_each_entry_safe(pos, next, &x->head, entry) {
list_for_each_entry(wq, &fence->wait.head, entry) {

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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