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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2022-08-22 14:18:22 +0300
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2022-09-07 22:53:50 +0300
commitf5d39b020809146cc28e6e73369bf8065e0310aa (patch)
tree71d221162d16e53a17b709c83d7e3706c5cbf939 /include/linux/sched.h
parent9963e444f71e671bcbc30d61cf23a2c686ac7d05 (diff)
downloadlinux-f5d39b020809146cc28e6e73369bf8065e0310aa.tar.xz
freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic
Rewrite the core freezer to behave better wrt thawing and be simpler in general. By replacing PF_FROZEN with TASK_FROZEN, a special block state, it is ensured frozen tasks stay frozen until thawed and don't randomly wake up early, as is currently possible. As such, it does away with PF_FROZEN and PF_FREEZER_SKIP, freeing up two PF_flags (yay!). Specifically; the current scheme works a little like: freezer_do_not_count(); schedule(); freezer_count(); And either the task is blocked, or it lands in try_to_freezer() through freezer_count(). Now, when it is blocked, the freezer considers it frozen and continues. However, on thawing, once pm_freezing is cleared, freezer_count() stops working, and any random/spurious wakeup will let a task run before its time. That is, thawing tries to thaw things in explicit order; kernel threads and workqueues before doing bringing SMP back before userspace etc.. However due to the above mentioned races it is entirely possible for userspace tasks to thaw (by accident) before SMP is back. This can be a fatal problem in asymmetric ISA architectures (eg ARMv9) where the userspace task requires a special CPU to run. As said; replace this with a special task state TASK_FROZEN and add the following state transitions: TASK_FREEZABLE -> TASK_FROZEN __TASK_STOPPED -> TASK_FROZEN __TASK_TRACED -> TASK_FROZEN The new TASK_FREEZABLE can be set on any state part of TASK_NORMAL (IOW. TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE and TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) -- any such state is already required to deal with spurious wakeups and the freezer causes one such when thawing the task (since the original state is lost). The special __TASK_{STOPPED,TRACED} states *can* be restored since their canonical state is in ->jobctl. With this, frozen tasks need an explicit TASK_FROZEN wakeup and are free of undue (early / spurious) wakeups. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220822114649.055452969@infradead.org
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sched.h13
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 9fc23a2d9813..4c91efd6df82 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -97,12 +97,19 @@ struct task_group;
#define TASK_WAKING 0x00000200
#define TASK_NOLOAD 0x00000400
#define TASK_NEW 0x00000800
-/* RT specific auxilliary flag to mark RT lock waiters */
#define TASK_RTLOCK_WAIT 0x00001000
-#define TASK_STATE_MAX 0x00002000
+#define TASK_FREEZABLE 0x00002000
+#define __TASK_FREEZABLE_UNSAFE (0x00004000 * IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_LOCKDEP))
+#define TASK_FROZEN 0x00008000
+#define TASK_STATE_MAX 0x00010000
#define TASK_ANY (TASK_STATE_MAX-1)
+/*
+ * DO NOT ADD ANY NEW USERS !
+ */
+#define TASK_FREEZABLE_UNSAFE (TASK_FREEZABLE | __TASK_FREEZABLE_UNSAFE)
+
/* Convenience macros for the sake of set_current_state: */
#define TASK_KILLABLE (TASK_WAKEKILL | TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)
#define TASK_STOPPED (TASK_WAKEKILL | __TASK_STOPPED)
@@ -1716,7 +1723,6 @@ extern struct pid *cad_pid;
#define PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED 0x00001000 /* set_user() noticed that RLIMIT_NPROC was exceeded */
#define PF_USED_MATH 0x00002000 /* If unset the fpu must be initialized before use */
#define PF_NOFREEZE 0x00008000 /* This thread should not be frozen */
-#define PF_FROZEN 0x00010000 /* Frozen for system suspend */
#define PF_KSWAPD 0x00020000 /* I am kswapd */
#define PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS 0x00040000 /* All allocation requests will inherit GFP_NOFS */
#define PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO 0x00080000 /* All allocation requests will inherit GFP_NOIO */
@@ -1727,7 +1733,6 @@ extern struct pid *cad_pid;
#define PF_NO_SETAFFINITY 0x04000000 /* Userland is not allowed to meddle with cpus_mask */
#define PF_MCE_EARLY 0x08000000 /* Early kill for mce process policy */
#define PF_MEMALLOC_PIN 0x10000000 /* Allocation context constrained to zones which allow long term pinning. */
-#define PF_FREEZER_SKIP 0x40000000 /* Freezer should not count it as freezable */
#define PF_SUSPEND_TASK 0x80000000 /* This thread called freeze_processes() and should not be frozen */
/*