This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

sched/deadline: Use the revised wakeup rule for suspending constrained dl tasks

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: sched-deadline-use-the-revised-wakeup-rule-for-suspending-constrained-dl-tasks.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 3effcb4247e74a51f5d8b775a1ee4abf87cc089a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira bristot@redhat.com Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 16:24:03 +0200 Subject: sched/deadline: Use the revised wakeup rule for suspending constrained dl tasks

From: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira bristot@redhat.com

commit 3effcb4247e74a51f5d8b775a1ee4abf87cc089a upstream.

We have been facing some problems with self-suspending constrained deadline tasks. The main reason is that the original CBS was not designed for such sort of tasks.

One problem reported by Xunlei Pang takes place when a task suspends, and then is awakened before the deadline, but so close to the deadline that its remaining runtime can cause the task to have an absolute density higher than allowed. In such situation, the original CBS assumes that the task is facing an early activation, and so it replenishes the task and set another deadline, one deadline in the future. This rule works fine for implicit deadline tasks. Moreover, it allows the system to adapt the period of a task in which the external event source suffered from a clock drift.

However, this opens the window for bandwidth leakage for constrained deadline tasks. For instance, a task with the following parameters:

runtime = 5 ms deadline = 7 ms [density] = 5 / 7 = 0.71 period = 1000 ms

If the task runs for 1 ms, and then suspends for another 1ms, it will be awakened with the following parameters:

remaining runtime = 4 laxity = 5

presenting a absolute density of 4 / 5 = 0.80.

In this case, the original CBS would assume the task had an early wakeup. Then, CBS will reset the runtime, and the absolute deadline will be postponed by one relative deadline, allowing the task to run.

The problem is that, if the task runs this pattern forever, it will keep receiving bandwidth, being able to run 1ms every 2ms. Following this behavior, the task would be able to run 500 ms in 1 sec. Thus running more than the 5 ms / 1 sec the admission control allowed it to run.

Trying to address the self-suspending case, Luca Abeni, Giuseppe Lipari, and Juri Lelli [1] revisited the CBS in order to deal with self-suspending tasks. In the new approach, rather than replenishing/postponing the absolute deadline, the revised wakeup rule adjusts the remaining runtime, reducing it to fit into the allowed density.

A revised version of the idea is:

At a given time t, the maximum absolute density of a task cannot be higher than its relative density, that is:

runtime / (deadline - t) <= dl_runtime / dl_deadline

Knowing the laxity of a task (deadline - t), it is possible to move it to the other side of the equality, thus enabling to define max remaining runtime a task can use within the absolute deadline, without over-running the allowed density:

runtime = (dl_runtime / dl_deadline) * (deadline - t)

For instance, in our previous example, the task could still run:

runtime = ( 5 / 7 ) * 5 runtime = 3.57 ms

Without causing damage for other deadline tasks. It is note worthy that the laxity cannot be negative because that would cause a negative runtime. Thus, this patch depends on the patch:

df8eac8cafce ("sched/deadline: Throttle a constrained deadline task activated after the deadline")

Which throttles a constrained deadline task activated after the deadline.

Finally, it is also possible to use the revised wakeup rule for all other tasks, but that would require some more discussions about pros and cons.

[The main difference from the original commit is that the BW_SHIFT define was not present yet. As BW_SHIFT was introduced in a new feature, I just used the value (20), likewise we used to use before the #define. Other changes were required because of comments. - bistrot]

Reported-by: Xunlei Pang xpang@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira bristot@redhat.com [peterz: replaced dl_is_constrained with dl_is_implicit] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Cc: Juri Lelli juri.lelli@arm.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Luca Abeni luca.abeni@santannapisa.it Cc: Mike Galbraith efault@gmx.de Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Romulo Silva de Oliveira romulo.deoliveira@ufsc.br Cc: Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5c800ab3a74a168a84ee5f3f84d12a02e11383be.1495803804... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira bristot@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- include/linux/sched.h | 1 kernel/sched/core.c | 2 kernel/sched/deadline.c | 98 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 3 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1313,6 +1313,7 @@ struct sched_dl_entity { u64 dl_deadline; /* relative deadline of each instance */ u64 dl_period; /* separation of two instances (period) */ u64 dl_bw; /* dl_runtime / dl_deadline */ + u64 dl_density; /* dl_runtime / dl_deadline */

/* * Actual scheduling parameters. Initialized with the values above, --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -2109,6 +2109,7 @@ void __dl_clear_params(struct task_struc dl_se->dl_period = 0; dl_se->flags = 0; dl_se->dl_bw = 0; + dl_se->dl_density = 0;

dl_se->dl_throttled = 0; dl_se->dl_new = 1; @@ -3647,6 +3648,7 @@ __setparam_dl(struct task_struct *p, con dl_se->dl_period = attr->sched_period ?: dl_se->dl_deadline; dl_se->flags = attr->sched_flags; dl_se->dl_bw = to_ratio(dl_se->dl_period, dl_se->dl_runtime); + dl_se->dl_density = to_ratio(dl_se->dl_deadline, dl_se->dl_runtime);

/* * Changing the parameters of a task is 'tricky' and we're not doing --- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c +++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c @@ -480,13 +480,84 @@ static bool dl_entity_overflow(struct sc }

/* - * When a -deadline entity is queued back on the runqueue, its runtime and - * deadline might need updating. + * Revised wakeup rule [1]: For self-suspending tasks, rather then + * re-initializing task's runtime and deadline, the revised wakeup + * rule adjusts the task's runtime to avoid the task to overrun its + * density. * - * The policy here is that we update the deadline of the entity only if: - * - the current deadline is in the past, - * - using the remaining runtime with the current deadline would make - * the entity exceed its bandwidth. + * Reasoning: a task may overrun the density if: + * runtime / (deadline - t) > dl_runtime / dl_deadline + * + * Therefore, runtime can be adjusted to: + * runtime = (dl_runtime / dl_deadline) * (deadline - t) + * + * In such way that runtime will be equal to the maximum density + * the task can use without breaking any rule. + * + * [1] Luca Abeni, Giuseppe Lipari, and Juri Lelli. 2015. Constant + * bandwidth server revisited. SIGBED Rev. 11, 4 (January 2015), 19-24. + */ +static void +update_dl_revised_wakeup(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se, struct rq *rq) +{ + u64 laxity = dl_se->deadline - rq_clock(rq); + + /* + * If the task has deadline < period, and the deadline is in the past, + * it should already be throttled before this check. + * + * See update_dl_entity() comments for further details. + */ + WARN_ON(dl_time_before(dl_se->deadline, rq_clock(rq))); + + dl_se->runtime = (dl_se->dl_density * laxity) >> 20; +} + +/* + * Regarding the deadline, a task with implicit deadline has a relative + * deadline == relative period. A task with constrained deadline has a + * relative deadline <= relative period. + * + * We support constrained deadline tasks. However, there are some restrictions + * applied only for tasks which do not have an implicit deadline. See + * update_dl_entity() to know more about such restrictions. + * + * The dl_is_implicit() returns true if the task has an implicit deadline. + */ +static inline bool dl_is_implicit(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se) +{ + return dl_se->dl_deadline == dl_se->dl_period; +} + +/* + * When a deadline entity is placed in the runqueue, its runtime and deadline + * might need to be updated. This is done by a CBS wake up rule. There are two + * different rules: 1) the original CBS; and 2) the Revisited CBS. + * + * When the task is starting a new period, the Original CBS is used. In this + * case, the runtime is replenished and a new absolute deadline is set. + * + * When a task is queued before the begin of the next period, using the + * remaining runtime and deadline could make the entity to overflow, see + * dl_entity_overflow() to find more about runtime overflow. When such case + * is detected, the runtime and deadline need to be updated. + * + * If the task has an implicit deadline, i.e., deadline == period, the Original + * CBS is applied. the runtime is replenished and a new absolute deadline is + * set, as in the previous cases. + * + * However, the Original CBS does not work properly for tasks with + * deadline < period, which are said to have a constrained deadline. By + * applying the Original CBS, a constrained deadline task would be able to run + * runtime/deadline in a period. With deadline < period, the task would + * overrun the runtime/period allowed bandwidth, breaking the admission test. + * + * In order to prevent this misbehave, the Revisited CBS is used for + * constrained deadline tasks when a runtime overflow is detected. In the + * Revisited CBS, rather than replenishing & setting a new absolute deadline, + * the remaining runtime of the task is reduced to avoid runtime overflow. + * Please refer to the comments update_dl_revised_wakeup() function to find + * more about the Revised CBS rule. */ static void update_dl_entity(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se, struct sched_dl_entity *pi_se) @@ -505,6 +576,14 @@ static void update_dl_entity(struct sche

if (dl_time_before(dl_se->deadline, rq_clock(rq)) || dl_entity_overflow(dl_se, pi_se, rq_clock(rq))) { + + if (unlikely(!dl_is_implicit(dl_se) && + !dl_time_before(dl_se->deadline, rq_clock(rq)) && + !dl_se->dl_boosted)){ + update_dl_revised_wakeup(dl_se, rq); + return; + } + dl_se->deadline = rq_clock(rq) + pi_se->dl_deadline; dl_se->runtime = pi_se->dl_runtime; } @@ -991,11 +1070,6 @@ static void dequeue_dl_entity(struct sch __dequeue_dl_entity(dl_se); }

-static inline bool dl_is_constrained(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se) -{ - return dl_se->dl_deadline < dl_se->dl_period; -} - static void enqueue_task_dl(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags) { struct task_struct *pi_task = rt_mutex_get_top_task(p); @@ -1027,7 +1101,7 @@ static void enqueue_task_dl(struct rq *r * If that is the case, the task will be throttled and * the replenishment timer will be set to the next period. */ - if (!p->dl.dl_throttled && dl_is_constrained(&p->dl)) + if (!p->dl.dl_throttled && !dl_is_implicit(&p->dl)) dl_check_constrained_dl(&p->dl);

/*

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bristot@redhat.com are

queue-4.4/sched-deadline-use-the-revised-wakeup-rule-for-suspending-constrained-dl-tasks.patch