linux-stable/tools/testing/selftests
Linus Torvalds b167fdffe9 This cycle's scheduler updates for v6.0 are:
Load-balancing improvements:
 ============================
 
 - Improve NUMA balancing on AMD Zen systems for affine workloads.
 
 - Improve the handling of reduced-capacity CPUs in load-balancing.
 
 - Energy Model improvements: fix & refine all the energy fairness metrics (PELT),
   and remove the conservative threshold requiring 6% energy savings to
   migrate a task. Doing this improves power efficiency for most workloads,
   and also increases the reliability of energy-efficiency scheduling.
 
 - Optimize/tweak select_idle_cpu() to spend (much) less time searching
   for an idle CPU on overloaded systems. There's reports of several
   milliseconds spent there on large systems with large workloads ...
 
   [ Since the search logic changed, there might be behavioral side effects. ]
 
 - Improve NUMA imbalance behavior. On certain systems
   with spare capacity, initial placement of tasks is non-deterministic,
   and such an artificial placement imbalance can persist for a long time,
   hurting (and sometimes helping) performance.
 
   The fix is to make fork-time task placement consistent with runtime
   NUMA balancing placement.
 
   Note that some performance regressions were reported against this,
   caused by workloads that are not memory bandwith limited, which benefit
   from the artificial locality of the placement bug(s). Mel Gorman's
   conclusion, with which we concur, was that consistency is better than
   random workload benefits from non-deterministic bugs:
 
      "Given there is no crystal ball and it's a tradeoff, I think it's
       better to be consistent and use similar logic at both fork time
       and runtime even if it doesn't have universal benefit."
 
 - Improve core scheduling by fixing a bug in sched_core_update_cookie() that
   caused unnecessary forced idling.
 
 - Improve wakeup-balancing by allowing same-LLC wakeup of idle CPUs for newly
   woken tasks.
 
 - Fix a newidle balancing bug that introduced unnecessary wakeup latencies.
 
 ABI improvements/fixes:
 =======================
 
 - Do not check capabilities and do not issue capability check denial messages
   when a scheduler syscall doesn't require privileges. (Such as increasing niceness.)
 
 - Add forced-idle accounting to cgroups too.
 
 - Fix/improve the RSEQ ABI to not just silently accept unknown flags.
   (No existing tooling is known to have learned to rely on the previous behavior.)
 
 - Depreciate the (unused) RSEQ_CS_FLAG_NO_RESTART_ON_* flags.
 
 Optimizations:
 ==============
 
 - Optimize & simplify leaf_cfs_rq_list()
 
 - Micro-optimize set_nr_{and_not,if}_polling() via try_cmpxchg().
 
 Misc fixes & cleanups:
 ======================
 
 - Fix the RSEQ self-tests on RISC-V and Glibc 2.35 systems.
 
 - Fix a full-NOHZ bug that can in some cases result in the tick not being
   re-enabled when the last SCHED_RT task is gone from a runqueue but there's
   still SCHED_OTHER tasks around.
 
 - Various PREEMPT_RT related fixes.
 
 - Misc cleanups & smaller fixes.
 
 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'sched-core-2022-08-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Load-balancing improvements:

   - Improve NUMA balancing on AMD Zen systems for affine workloads.

   - Improve the handling of reduced-capacity CPUs in load-balancing.

   - Energy Model improvements: fix & refine all the energy fairness
     metrics (PELT), and remove the conservative threshold requiring 6%
     energy savings to migrate a task. Doing this improves power
     efficiency for most workloads, and also increases the reliability
     of energy-efficiency scheduling.

   - Optimize/tweak select_idle_cpu() to spend (much) less time
     searching for an idle CPU on overloaded systems. There's reports of
     several milliseconds spent there on large systems with large
     workloads ...

     [ Since the search logic changed, there might be behavioral side
       effects. ]

   - Improve NUMA imbalance behavior. On certain systems with spare
     capacity, initial placement of tasks is non-deterministic, and such
     an artificial placement imbalance can persist for a long time,
     hurting (and sometimes helping) performance.

     The fix is to make fork-time task placement consistent with runtime
     NUMA balancing placement.

     Note that some performance regressions were reported against this,
     caused by workloads that are not memory bandwith limited, which
     benefit from the artificial locality of the placement bug(s). Mel
     Gorman's conclusion, with which we concur, was that consistency is
     better than random workload benefits from non-deterministic bugs:

        "Given there is no crystal ball and it's a tradeoff, I think
         it's better to be consistent and use similar logic at both fork
         time and runtime even if it doesn't have universal benefit."

   - Improve core scheduling by fixing a bug in
     sched_core_update_cookie() that caused unnecessary forced idling.

   - Improve wakeup-balancing by allowing same-LLC wakeup of idle CPUs
     for newly woken tasks.

   - Fix a newidle balancing bug that introduced unnecessary wakeup
     latencies.

  ABI improvements/fixes:

   - Do not check capabilities and do not issue capability check denial
     messages when a scheduler syscall doesn't require privileges. (Such
     as increasing niceness.)

   - Add forced-idle accounting to cgroups too.

   - Fix/improve the RSEQ ABI to not just silently accept unknown flags.
     (No existing tooling is known to have learned to rely on the
     previous behavior.)

   - Depreciate the (unused) RSEQ_CS_FLAG_NO_RESTART_ON_* flags.

  Optimizations:

   - Optimize & simplify leaf_cfs_rq_list()

   - Micro-optimize set_nr_{and_not,if}_polling() via try_cmpxchg().

  Misc fixes & cleanups:

   - Fix the RSEQ self-tests on RISC-V and Glibc 2.35 systems.

   - Fix a full-NOHZ bug that can in some cases result in the tick not
     being re-enabled when the last SCHED_RT task is gone from a
     runqueue but there's still SCHED_OTHER tasks around.

   - Various PREEMPT_RT related fixes.

   - Misc cleanups & smaller fixes"

* tag 'sched-core-2022-08-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
  rseq: Kill process when unknown flags are encountered in ABI structures
  rseq: Deprecate RSEQ_CS_FLAG_NO_RESTART_ON_* flags
  sched/core: Fix the bug that task won't enqueue into core tree when update cookie
  nohz/full, sched/rt: Fix missed tick-reenabling bug in dequeue_task_rt()
  sched/core: Always flush pending blk_plug
  sched/fair: fix case with reduced capacity CPU
  sched/core: Use try_cmpxchg in set_nr_{and_not,if}_polling
  sched/core: add forced idle accounting for cgroups
  sched/fair: Remove the energy margin in feec()
  sched/fair: Remove task_util from effective utilization in feec()
  sched/fair: Use the same cpumask per-PD throughout find_energy_efficient_cpu()
  sched/fair: Rename select_idle_mask to select_rq_mask
  sched, drivers: Remove max param from effective_cpu_util()/sched_cpu_util()
  sched/fair: Decay task PELT values during wakeup migration
  sched/fair: Provide u64 read for 32-bits arch helper
  sched/fair: Introduce SIS_UTIL to search idle CPU based on sum of util_avg
  sched: only perform capability check on privileged operation
  sched: Remove unused function group_first_cpu()
  sched/fair: Remove redundant word " *"
  selftests/rseq: check if libc rseq support is registered
  ...
2022-08-01 11:49:06 -07:00
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alsa selftests: alsa: Handle pkg-config failure more gracefully 2022-05-31 18:02:18 +02:00
arm64 kselftest/arm64: signal: Skip SVE signal test if not enough VLs supported 2022-06-02 20:29:17 +01:00
bpf bpf: Add flags arg to bpf_dynptr_read and bpf_dynptr_write APIs 2022-07-08 10:55:53 +02:00
breakpoints
capabilities
cgroup Two followon fixes for the post-5.19 series "Use pageblock_order for cma 2022-05-27 11:40:49 -07:00
clone3 selftests: fixup build warnings in pidfd / clone3 tests 2022-02-04 13:07:07 -07:00
core selftests/core: remove ARRAY_SIZE define from close_range_test.c 2021-12-10 17:50:38 -07:00
cpu-hotplug
cpufreq selftests: cpufreq: Write test output to stdout as well 2022-01-25 13:20:03 -07:00
damon selftets/damon/sysfs: test existence and permission of avail_operations 2022-05-13 07:20:06 -07:00
dma selftests dma: fix compile error for dma_map_benchmark 2022-06-16 14:03:21 -06:00
dmabuf-heaps
drivers S390: 2022-05-26 14:20:14 -07:00
efivarfs
exec linux-kselftest-next-5.18-rc1 2022-03-23 12:53:00 -07:00
filesystems Char / Misc / Other smaller driver subsystem updates for 5.19-rc1 2022-06-03 11:36:34 -07:00
firmware selftests: firmware: Add firmware upload selftests 2022-04-29 16:49:36 +02:00
fpu
ftrace Cleanups and fixes 2022-05-30 11:01:50 -07:00
futex selftests: futex: Add the uapi headers include variable 2022-02-23 17:20:32 -07:00
gpio selftests: gpio: fix include path to kernel headers for out of tree builds 2022-07-20 14:35:18 +02:00
ia64
intel_pstate
ipc
ir kselftests/ir : Improve readability of modprobe error message 2022-05-16 13:34:19 -06:00
kcmp
kexec selftests/kexec: Enable secureboot tests for PowerPC 2022-01-05 11:44:57 -05:00
kmod
kselftest selftests/kselftest/runner.sh: Pass optional command parameters in environment 2022-02-23 17:14:36 -07:00
kvm KVM: selftests: Fix target thread to be migrated in rseq_test 2022-07-19 09:03:49 -04:00
landlock selftests/landlock: Add 11 new test suites dedicated to file reparenting 2022-05-23 13:27:59 +02:00
lib
livepatch livepatch: Skip livepatch tests if ftrace cannot be configured 2022-02-23 16:42:00 +01:00
lkdtm selftests/lkdtm: Add configs for stackleak and "after free" tests 2022-05-17 14:37:05 -07:00
locking
media_tests
membarrier
memfd selftests/memfd: clean up mapping in mfd_fail_write 2022-02-26 09:51:17 -08:00
memory-hotplug mm/memory_hotplug: remove CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE 2021-11-06 13:30:42 -07:00
mincore selftests: skip mincore.check_file_mmap when fs lacks needed support 2022-01-27 16:40:45 -07:00
mount selftests/mount: remove unneeded conversion to bool 2021-12-10 16:46:01 -07:00
mount_setattr tests: fix idmapped mount_setattr test 2022-02-11 09:08:20 +01:00
move_mount_set_group selftests/move_mount_set_group remove unneeded conversion to bool 2021-12-10 16:46:01 -07:00
mqueue selftests: mqueue: drop duplicate min definition 2022-04-19 19:28:47 -06:00
nci
net selftests/net: test nexthop without gw 2022-07-14 14:41:19 +02:00
netfilter selftests: netfilter: correct PKTGEN_SCRIPT_PATHS in nft_concat_range.sh 2022-06-21 10:50:40 +02:00
nsfs
ntb
openat2 selftests: openat2: Skip testcases that fail with EOPNOTSUPP 2022-01-27 16:31:07 -07:00
perf_events selftests/perf_events: Test modification of perf_event_attr::sig_data 2022-02-02 13:11:40 +01:00
pid_namespace selftests: fix header dependency for pid_namespace selftests 2022-04-04 13:32:31 -06:00
pidfd selftests: fix an unused variable warning in pidfd selftest 2022-04-04 13:32:53 -06:00
powerpc selftests/powerpc/pmu: fix spelling mistake "mis-match" -> "mismatch" 2022-05-22 15:59:54 +10:00
prctl
proc selftests/proc: fix array_size.cocci warning 2022-04-04 13:27:21 -06:00
pstore
ptp testptp: add option to shift clock by nanoseconds 2022-02-22 17:03:40 -08:00
ptrace
rcutorture Merge branches 'docs.2022.04.20a', 'fixes.2022.04.20a', 'nocb.2022.04.11b', 'rcu-tasks.2022.04.11b', 'srcu.2022.05.03a', 'torture.2022.04.11b', 'torture-tasks.2022.04.20a' and 'torturescript.2022.04.20a' into HEAD 2022-05-03 10:21:40 -07:00
resctrl selftests/resctrl: Fix null pointer dereference on open failed 2022-04-26 09:20:00 -06:00
rlimits
rseq selftests/rseq: check if libc rseq support is registered 2022-06-28 09:08:28 +02:00
rtc selftests/rtc: continuously read RTC in a loop for 30s 2022-02-25 17:00:51 -07:00
safesetid
sched kselftests/sched: cleanup the child processes 2021-10-05 15:51:43 +02:00
seccomp selftests/seccomp: Fix spelling mistake "Coud" -> "Could" 2022-05-04 13:31:21 -07:00
sgx selftests/sgx: Treat CC as one argument 2022-02-17 11:55:17 -08:00
sigaltstack
size
sparc64 selftests/sparc64: remove ARRAY_SIZE define from adi-test 2021-12-10 17:51:15 -07:00
splice
static_keys
sync
syscall_user_dispatch
sysctl selftests/sysctl: add sysctl macro test 2022-05-03 10:15:07 +02:00
tc-testing selftests: tc-testing: Add testcases to test new flush behaviour 2022-06-27 21:51:28 -07:00
timens selftests/timens: remove ARRAY_SIZE define from individual tests 2021-12-10 17:51:20 -07:00
timers selftests: timers: Remove unneeded semicolon 2021-12-10 16:46:00 -07:00
tmpfs
tpm2 selftests: tpm: add async space test with noneexisting handle 2022-03-08 10:33:17 +02:00
uevent
user
user_events user_events: Add self-test for validator boundaries 2022-02-10 22:38:08 -05:00
vDSO selftests/vDSO: fix array_size.cocci warning 2022-04-04 13:27:11 -06:00
vm selftests: make use of GUP_TEST_FILE macro 2022-06-16 17:05:50 -06:00
watchdog
wireguard wireguard: selftests: use microvm on x86 2022-07-06 20:04:06 -07:00
x86 selftests/x86/corrupt_xstate_header: Use provided __cpuid_count() macro 2022-04-25 15:13:03 -06:00
zram selftests/zram: Adapt the situation that /dev/zram0 is being used 2022-01-27 10:59:02 -07:00
.gitignore selftests: add kselftest_install to .gitignore 2022-03-03 15:16:57 -07:00
gen_kselftest_tar.sh
kselftest_deps.sh
kselftest_harness.h selftests/harness: Pass variant to teardown 2022-04-04 13:37:48 -06:00
kselftest_install.sh
kselftest_module.h
kselftest.h selftests: Provide local define of __cpuid_count() 2022-04-25 15:12:36 -06:00
lib.mk selftests: Fix clang cross compilation 2022-06-14 11:24:24 -06:00
Makefile S390: 2022-05-26 14:20:14 -07:00
run_kselftest.sh