Merging upstream version 6.7.7.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

4 files changed, 32 insertions, 54 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-arch.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-arch.rst
index 505cd27f9a..ed07efea7d 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-arch.rst
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-arch.rst
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Context switch
 By default, the switch_to arch function is called with the runqueue
 locked. This is usually not a problem unless switch_to may need to
 take the runqueue lock. This is usually due to a wake up operation in
-the context switch. See arch/ia64/include/asm/switch_to.h for an example.
+the context switch.
 
 To request the scheduler call switch_to with the runqueue unlocked,
 you must `#define __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW` in a header file
@@ -68,7 +68,5 @@ Possible arch/ problems
 
 Possible arch problems I found (and either tried to fix or didn't):
 
-ia64 - is safe_halt call racy vs interrupts? (does it sleep?) (See #4a)
-
 sparc - IRQs on at this point(?), change local_irq_save to _disable.
       - TODO: needs secondary CPUs to disable preempt (See #1)
diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-capacity.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-capacity.rst
index e2c1cf7431..de414b33dd 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-capacity.rst
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-capacity.rst
@@ -39,14 +39,15 @@ per Hz, leading to::
 -------------------
 
 Two different capacity values are used within the scheduler. A CPU's
-``capacity_orig`` is its maximum attainable capacity, i.e. its maximum
-attainable performance level. A CPU's ``capacity`` is its ``capacity_orig`` to
-which some loss of available performance (e.g. time spent handling IRQs) is
-subtracted.
+``original capacity`` is its maximum attainable capacity, i.e. its maximum
+attainable performance level. This original capacity is returned by
+the function arch_scale_cpu_capacity(). A CPU's ``capacity`` is its ``original
+capacity`` to which some loss of available performance (e.g. time spent
+handling IRQs) is subtracted.
 
 Note that a CPU's ``capacity`` is solely intended to be used by the CFS class,
-while ``capacity_orig`` is class-agnostic. The rest of this document will use
-the term ``capacity`` interchangeably with ``capacity_orig`` for the sake of
+while ``original capacity`` is class-agnostic. The rest of this document will use
+the term ``capacity`` interchangeably with ``original capacity`` for the sake of
 brevity.
 
 1.3 Platform examples
diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-energy.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-energy.rst
index fc853c8cc3..70e2921ef7 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-energy.rst
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-energy.rst
@@ -359,32 +359,9 @@ in milli-Watts or in an 'abstract scale'.
 6.3 - Energy Model complexity
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-The task wake-up path is very latency-sensitive. When the EM of a platform is
-too complex (too many CPUs, too many performance domains, too many performance
-states, ...), the cost of using it in the wake-up path can become prohibitive.
-The energy-aware wake-up algorithm has a complexity of:
-
-	C = Nd * (Nc + Ns)
-
-with: Nd the number of performance domains; Nc the number of CPUs; and Ns the
-total number of OPPs (ex: for two perf. domains with 4 OPPs each, Ns = 8).
-
-A complexity check is performed at the root domain level, when scheduling
-domains are built. EAS will not start on a root domain if its C happens to be
-higher than the completely arbitrary EM_MAX_COMPLEXITY threshold (2048 at the
-time of writing).
-
-If you really want to use EAS but the complexity of your platform's Energy
-Model is too high to be used with a single root domain, you're left with only
-two possible options:
-
-    1. split your system into separate, smaller, root domains using exclusive
-       cpusets and enable EAS locally on each of them. This option has the
-       benefit to work out of the box but the drawback of preventing load
-       balance between root domains, which can result in an unbalanced system
-       overall;
-    2. submit patches to reduce the complexity of the EAS wake-up algorithm,
-       hence enabling it to cope with larger EMs in reasonable time.
+EAS does not impose any complexity limit on the number of PDs/OPPs/CPUs but
+restricts the number of CPUs to EM_MAX_NUM_CPUS to prevent overflows during
+the energy estimation.
 
 
 6.4 - Schedutil governor
diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst
index 655a096ec8..d685609ed3 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst
@@ -39,10 +39,10 @@ Most notable:
 1.1 The problem
 ---------------
 
-Realtime scheduling is all about determinism, a group has to be able to rely on
+Real-time scheduling is all about determinism, a group has to be able to rely on
 the amount of bandwidth (eg. CPU time) being constant. In order to schedule
-multiple groups of realtime tasks, each group must be assigned a fixed portion
-of the CPU time available.  Without a minimum guarantee a realtime group can
+multiple groups of real-time tasks, each group must be assigned a fixed portion
+of the CPU time available.  Without a minimum guarantee a real-time group can
 obviously fall short. A fuzzy upper limit is of no use since it cannot be
 relied upon. Which leaves us with just the single fixed portion.
 
@@ -50,14 +50,14 @@ relied upon. Which leaves us with just the single fixed portion.
 ----------------
 
 CPU time is divided by means of specifying how much time can be spent running
-in a given period. We allocate this "run time" for each realtime group which
-the other realtime groups will not be permitted to use.
+in a given period. We allocate this "run time" for each real-time group which
+the other real-time groups will not be permitted to use.
 
-Any time not allocated to a realtime group will be used to run normal priority
+Any time not allocated to a real-time group will be used to run normal priority
 tasks (SCHED_OTHER). Any allocated run time not used will also be picked up by
 SCHED_OTHER.
 
-Let's consider an example: a frame fixed realtime renderer must deliver 25
+Let's consider an example: a frame fixed real-time renderer must deliver 25
 frames a second, which yields a period of 0.04s per frame. Now say it will also
 have to play some music and respond to input, leaving it with around 80% CPU
 time dedicated for the graphics. We can then give this group a run time of 0.8
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ needs only about 3% CPU time to do so, it can do with a 0.03 * 0.005s =
 of 0.00015s.
 
 The remaining CPU time will be used for user input and other tasks. Because
-realtime tasks have explicitly allocated the CPU time they need to perform
+real-time tasks have explicitly allocated the CPU time they need to perform
 their tasks, buffer underruns in the graphics or audio can be eliminated.
 
 NOTE: the above example is not fully implemented yet. We still
@@ -87,18 +87,20 @@ lack an EDF scheduler to make non-uniform periods usable.
 The system wide settings are configured under the /proc virtual file system:
 
 /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_period_us:
-  The scheduling period that is equivalent to 100% CPU bandwidth
+  The scheduling period that is equivalent to 100% CPU bandwidth.
 
 /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_runtime_us:
-  A global limit on how much time realtime scheduling may use.  Even without
-  CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED enabled, this will limit time reserved to realtime
-  processes. With CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED it signifies the total bandwidth
-  available to all realtime groups.
+  A global limit on how much time real-time scheduling may use. This is always
+  less or equal to the period_us, as it denotes the time allocated from the
+  period_us for the real-time tasks. Even without CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED enabled,
+  this will limit time reserved to real-time processes. With
+  CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y it signifies the total bandwidth available to all
+  real-time groups.
 
   * Time is specified in us because the interface is s32. This gives an
     operating range from 1us to about 35 minutes.
   * sched_rt_period_us takes values from 1 to INT_MAX.
-  * sched_rt_runtime_us takes values from -1 to (INT_MAX - 1).
+  * sched_rt_runtime_us takes values from -1 to sched_rt_period_us.
   * A run time of -1 specifies runtime == period, ie. no limit.
 
 
@@ -108,7 +110,7 @@ The system wide settings are configured under the /proc virtual file system:
 The default values for sched_rt_period_us (1000000 or 1s) and
 sched_rt_runtime_us (950000 or 0.95s).  This gives 0.05s to be used by
 SCHED_OTHER (non-RT tasks). These defaults were chosen so that a run-away
-realtime tasks will not lock up the machine but leave a little time to recover
+real-time tasks will not lock up the machine but leave a little time to recover
 it.  By setting runtime to -1 you'd get the old behaviour back.
 
 By default all bandwidth is assigned to the root group and new groups get the
@@ -116,10 +118,10 @@ period from /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_period_us and a run time of 0. If you
 want to assign bandwidth to another group, reduce the root group's bandwidth
 and assign some or all of the difference to another group.
 
-Realtime group scheduling means you have to assign a portion of total CPU
-bandwidth to the group before it will accept realtime tasks. Therefore you will
-not be able to run realtime tasks as any user other than root until you have
-done that, even if the user has the rights to run processes with realtime
+Real-time group scheduling means you have to assign a portion of total CPU
+bandwidth to the group before it will accept real-time tasks. Therefore you will
+not be able to run real-time tasks as any user other than root until you have
+done that, even if the user has the rights to run processes with real-time
 priority!