linux-kernel - [tip:sched/core] sched/wait: Use freezable

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Date:   Mon, 11 Feb 2019 02:53:29 -0800
From:   tip-bot for Hugo Lefeuvre <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, hpa@...or.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        joel@...lfernandes.org, hle@....eu.com, rjw@...ysocki.net,
        peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...nel.org
Subject: [tip:sched/core] sched/wait: Use freezable_schedule() when possible

Commit-ID:  2b9c2a4859ad5ac7b5a28e9db28c3e618760fe8c
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/2b9c2a4859ad5ac7b5a28e9db28c3e618760fe8c
Author:     Hugo Lefeuvre <hle@....eu.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 21:03:52 +0100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 08:34:04 +0100

sched/wait: Use freezable_schedule() when possible

Replace 'schedule(); try_to_freeze();' with a call to freezable_schedule().

Tasks calling freezable_schedule() set the PF_FREEZER_SKIP flag
before calling schedule(). Unlike tasks calling schedule();
try_to_freeze() tasks calling freezable_schedule() are not awaken by
try_to_freeze_tasks(). Instead they call try_to_freeze() when they
wake up if the freeze is still underway.

It is not a problem since sleeping tasks can't do anything which isn't
allowed for a frozen task while sleeping.

The result is a potential performance gain during freeze, since less
tasks have to be awaken.

For instance on a bare Debian vm running a 4.19 stable kernel, the
number of tasks skipped in freeze_task() went up from 12 without the
patch to 32 with the patch (out of 448), an increase of > x2.5.

Signed-off-by: Hugo Lefeuvre <hle@....eu.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190207200352.GA27859@behemoth.owl.eu.com.local
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 include/linux/wait.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/wait.h b/include/linux/wait.h
index ed7c122cb31f..5f3efabc36f4 100644
--- a/include/linux/wait.h
+++ b/include/linux/wait.h
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ do {										\
 
 #define __wait_event_freezable(wq_head, condition)				\
 	___wait_event(wq_head, condition, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, 0, 0,		\
-			    schedule(); try_to_freeze())
+			    freezable_schedule())
 
 /**
  * wait_event_freezable - sleep (or freeze) until a condition gets true
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ do {										\
 #define __wait_event_freezable_timeout(wq_head, condition, timeout)		\
 	___wait_event(wq_head, ___wait_cond_timeout(condition),			\
 		      TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, 0, timeout,				\
-		      __ret = schedule_timeout(__ret); try_to_freeze())
+		      __ret = freezable_schedule_timeout(__ret))
 
 /*
  * like wait_event_timeout() -- except it uses TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE to avoid
@@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ do {										\
 
 #define __wait_event_freezable_exclusive(wq, condition)				\
 	___wait_event(wq, condition, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, 1, 0,			\
-			schedule(); try_to_freeze())
+			freezable_schedule())
 
 #define wait_event_freezable_exclusive(wq, condition)				\
 ({										\