cpuidle, sched: Use smp_mb__after_atomic() in current_clr_polling()

In architectures that use the polling bit, current_clr_polling() employs
smp_mb() to ensure that the clearing of the polling bit i

cpuidle, sched: Use smp_mb__after_atomic() in current_clr_polling()

In architectures that use the polling bit, current_clr_polling() employs
smp_mb() to ensure that the clearing of the polling bit is visible to
other cores before checking TIF_NEED_RESCHED.

However, smp_mb() can be costly. Given that clear_bit() is an atomic
operation, replacing smp_mb() with smp_mb__after_atomic() is appropriate.

Many architectures implement smp_mb__after_atomic() as a lighter-weight
barrier compared to smp_mb(), leading to performance improvements.
For instance, on x86, smp_mb__after_atomic() is a no-op. This change
eliminates a smp_mb() instruction in the cpuidle wake-up path, saving
several CPU cycles and thereby reducing wake-up latency.

Architectures that do not use the polling bit will retain the original
smp_mb() behavior to ensure that existing dependencies remain unaffected.

Signed-off-by: Yujun Dong <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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sched/balancing: Change 'enum cpu_idle_type' to have more natural definitions

The cpu_idle_type enum has the confusingly inverted property
that 'not idle' is 1, and 'idle' is '0'.

This resulted in

sched/balancing: Change 'enum cpu_idle_type' to have more natural definitions

The cpu_idle_type enum has the confusingly inverted property
that 'not idle' is 1, and 'idle' is '0'.

This resulted in a number of unnecessary complications in the code.

Reverse the order, remove the CPU_NOT_IDLE type, and convert
all code to a natural boolean form.

It's much more readable:

- enum cpu_idle_type idle = this_rq->idle_balance ?
- CPU_IDLE : CPU_NOT_IDLE;
-
+ enum cpu_idle_type idle = this_rq->idle_balance;

--------------------------------

- if (env->idle == CPU_NOT_IDLE || !busiest->sum_nr_running)
+ if (!env->idle || !busiest->sum_nr_running)

--------------------------------

And gets rid of the double negation in these usages:

- if (env->idle != CPU_NOT_IDLE && env->src_rq->nr_running <= 1)
+ if (env->idle && env->src_rq->nr_running <= 1)

Furthermore, this makes code much more obvious where there's
differentiation between CPU_IDLE and CPU_NEWLY_IDLE.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <[email protected]>
Cc: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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cpuidle, sched: Remove instrumentation from TIF_{POLLING_NRFLAG,NEED_RESCHED}

objtool pointed out that various idle-TIF management methods
have instrumentation:

vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: mwait

cpuidle, sched: Remove instrumentation from TIF_{POLLING_NRFLAG,NEED_RESCHED}

objtool pointed out that various idle-TIF management methods
have instrumentation:

vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: mwait_idle+0x5: call to current_set_polling_and_test() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: acpi_processor_ffh_cstate_enter+0xc5: call to current_set_polling_and_test() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: cpu_idle_poll.isra.0+0x73: call to test_ti_thread_flag() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: intel_idle+0xbc: call to current_set_polling_and_test() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: intel_idle_irq+0xea: call to current_set_polling_and_test() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: intel_idle_s2idle+0xb4: call to current_set_polling_and_test() leaves .noinstr.text section

vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: intel_idle+0xa6: call to current_clr_polling() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: intel_idle_irq+0xbf: call to current_clr_polling() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: intel_idle_s2idle+0xa1: call to current_clr_polling() leaves .noinstr.text section

vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: mwait_idle+0xe: call to __current_set_polling() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: acpi_processor_ffh_cstate_enter+0xc5: call to __current_set_polling() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: cpu_idle_poll.isra.0+0x73: call to test_ti_thread_flag() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: intel_idle+0xbc: call to __current_set_polling() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: intel_idle_irq+0xea: call to __current_set_polling() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: intel_idle_s2idle+0xb4: call to __current_set_polling() leaves .noinstr.text section

vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: cpu_idle_poll.isra.0+0x73: call to test_ti_thread_flag() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: intel_idle_s2idle+0x73: call to test_ti_thread_flag.constprop.0() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: intel_idle_irq+0x91: call to test_ti_thread_flag.constprop.0() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: intel_idle+0x78: call to test_ti_thread_flag.constprop.0() leaves .noinstr.text section
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: acpi_safe_halt+0xf: call to test_ti_thread_flag.constprop.0() leaves .noinstr.text section

Remove the instrumentation, because these methods are used in low-level
cpuidle code moving between states, that should not be instrumented.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Ulf Hansson <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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sched,livepatch: Use wake_up_if_idle()

Make sure to prod idle CPUs so they call klp_update_patch_state().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmla

sched,livepatch: Use wake_up_if_idle()

Make sure to prod idle CPUs so they call klp_update_patch_state().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vasily Gorbik <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Vasily Gorbik <[email protected]> # on s390
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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sched/headers: Remove tsk_is_polling()

It's not used by anything.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]

sched/headers: Remove tsk_is_polling()

It's not used by anything.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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sched/headers: Move idle polling methods to <linux/sched/idle.h>

Further reduce the size of <linux/sched.h> by moving these APIs:

tsk_is_polling()
__current_set_polling()
current_set_polling_and

sched/headers: Move idle polling methods to <linux/sched/idle.h>

Further reduce the size of <linux/sched.h> by moving these APIs:

tsk_is_polling()
__current_set_polling()
current_set_polling_and_test()
__current_clr_polling()
current_clr_polling_and_test()
current_clr_polling()

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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sched/headers: Move the wake_up_if_idle() prototype to <linux/sched/idle.h>

No need to clutter <linux/sched.h> with this rarely used prototype.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]

sched/headers: Move the wake_up_if_idle() prototype to <linux/sched/idle.h>

No need to clutter <linux/sched.h> with this rarely used prototype.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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sched/headers: Move the 'cpu_idle_type' enum from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/idle.h>

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlst

sched/headers: Move the 'cpu_idle_type' enum from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/idle.h>

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/idle.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/idle.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/idle.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/idle.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/idle.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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