16b3d0cf5b
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Clean up SCHED_DEBUG: move the decades old mess of sysctl, procfs and
debugfs interfaces to a unified debugfs interface.
- Signals: Allow caching one sigqueue object per task, to improve
performance & latencies.
- Improve newidle_balance() irq-off latencies on systems with a large
number of CPU cgroups.
- Improve energy-aware scheduling
- Improve the PELT metrics for certain workloads
- Reintroduce select_idle_smt() to improve load-balancing locality -
but without the previous regressions
- Add 'scheduler latency debugging': warn after long periods of pending
need_resched. This is an opt-in feature that requires the enabling of
the LATENCY_WARN scheduler feature, or the use of the
resched_latency_warn_ms=xx boot parameter.
- CPU hotplug fixes for HP-rollback, and for the 'fail' interface. Fix
remaining balance_push() vs. hotplug holes/races
- PSI fixes, plus allow /proc/pressure/ files to be written by
CAP_SYS_RESOURCE tasks as well
- Fix/improve various load-balancing corner cases vs. capacity margins
- Fix sched topology on systems with NUMA diameter of 3 or above
- Fix PF_KTHREAD vs to_kthread() race
- Minor rseq optimizations
- Misc cleanups, optimizations, fixes and smaller updates
* tag 'sched-core-2021-04-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (61 commits)
cpumask/hotplug: Fix cpu_dying() state tracking
kthread: Fix PF_KTHREAD vs to_kthread() race
sched/debug: Fix cgroup_path[] serialization
sched,psi: Handle potential task count underflow bugs more gracefully
sched: Warn on long periods of pending need_resched
sched/fair: Move update_nohz_stats() to the CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON block to simplify the code & fix an unused function warning
sched/debug: Rename the sched_debug parameter to sched_verbose
sched,fair: Alternative sched_slice()
sched: Move /proc/sched_debug to debugfs
sched,debug: Convert sysctl sched_domains to debugfs
debugfs: Implement debugfs_create_str()
sched,preempt: Move preempt_dynamic to debug.c
sched: Move SCHED_DEBUG sysctl to debugfs
sched: Don't make LATENCYTOP select SCHED_DEBUG
sched: Remove sched_schedstats sysctl out from under SCHED_DEBUG
sched/numa: Allow runtime enabling/disabling of NUMA balance without SCHED_DEBUG
sched: Use cpu_dying() to fix balance_push vs hotplug-rollback
cpumask: Introduce DYING mask
cpumask: Make cpu_{online,possible,present,active}() inline
rseq: Optimise rseq_get_rseq_cs() and clear_rseq_cs()
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