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hotplug cpu: migrate a task within its cpuset
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When a cpu is disabled, move_task_off_dead_cpu() is called for tasks that have
been running on that cpu.

Currently, such a task is migrated:
 1) to any cpu on the same node as the disabled cpu, which is both online
    and among that task's cpus_allowed
 2) to any cpu which is both online and among that task's cpus_allowed

It is typical of a multithreaded application running on a large NUMA system to
have its tasks confined to a cpuset so as to cluster them near the memory that
they share.  Furthermore, it is typical to explicitly place such a task on a
specific cpu in that cpuset.  And in that case the task's cpus_allowed
includes only a single cpu.

This patch would insert a preference to migrate such a task to some cpu within
its cpuset (and set its cpus_allowed to its entire cpuset).

With this patch, migrate the task to:
 1) to any cpu on the same node as the disabled cpu, which is both online
    and among that task's cpus_allowed
 2) to any online cpu within the task's cpuset
 3) to any cpu which is both online and among that task's cpus_allowed

In order to do this, move_task_off_dead_cpu() must make a call to
cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked(), a new subset of cpuset_cpus_allowed(), that will
not block.  (name change - per Oleg's suggestion)

Calls are made to cpuset_lock() and cpuset_unlock() in migration_call() to set
the cpuset mutex during the whole migrate_live_tasks() and
migrate_dead_tasks() procedure.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[pj@sgi.com: Fix indentation and spacing]
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Cliff Wickman authored and Linus Torvalds committed Oct 19, 2007
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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
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Expand Up @@ -220,7 +220,9 @@ A: The following happen, listed in no particular order :-)
CPU_DOWN_PREPARE or CPU_DOWN_PREPARE_FROZEN, depending on whether or not the
CPU is being offlined while tasks are frozen due to a suspend operation in
progress
- All process is migrated away from this outgoing CPU to a new CPU
- All processes are migrated away from this outgoing CPU to new CPUs.
The new CPU is chosen from each process' current cpuset, which may be
a subset of all online CPUs.
- All interrupts targeted to this CPU is migrated to a new CPU
- timers/bottom half/task lets are also migrated to a new CPU
- Once all services are migrated, kernel calls an arch specific routine
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions include/linux/cpuset.h
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Expand Up @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ extern int cpuset_init_early(void);
extern int cpuset_init(void);
extern void cpuset_init_smp(void);
extern cpumask_t cpuset_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p);
extern cpumask_t cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked(struct task_struct *p);
extern nodemask_t cpuset_mems_allowed(struct task_struct *p);
#define cpuset_current_mems_allowed (current->mems_allowed)
void cpuset_init_current_mems_allowed(void);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -87,6 +88,10 @@ static inline cpumask_t cpuset_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p)
{
return cpu_possible_map;
}
static inline cpumask_t cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked(struct task_struct *p)
{
return cpu_possible_map;
}

static inline nodemask_t cpuset_mems_allowed(struct task_struct *p)
{
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15 changes: 14 additions & 1 deletion kernel/cpuset.c
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Expand Up @@ -1818,10 +1818,23 @@ cpumask_t cpuset_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *tsk)
cpumask_t mask;

mutex_lock(&callback_mutex);
mask = cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked(tsk);
mutex_unlock(&callback_mutex);

return mask;
}

/**
* cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked - return cpus_allowed mask from a tasks cpuset.
* Must be called with callback_mutex held.
**/
cpumask_t cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
cpumask_t mask;

task_lock(tsk);
guarantee_online_cpus(task_cs(tsk), &mask);
task_unlock(tsk);
mutex_unlock(&callback_mutex);

return mask;
}
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12 changes: 11 additions & 1 deletion kernel/sched.c
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Expand Up @@ -5160,8 +5160,16 @@ static void move_task_off_dead_cpu(int dead_cpu, struct task_struct *p)

/* No more Mr. Nice Guy. */
if (dest_cpu == NR_CPUS) {
cpumask_t cpus_allowed = cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked(p);
/*
* Try to stay on the same cpuset, where the
* current cpuset may be a subset of all cpus.
* The cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked() variant of
* cpuset_cpus_allowed() will not block. It must be
* called within calls to cpuset_lock/cpuset_unlock.
*/
rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags);
cpus_setall(p->cpus_allowed);
p->cpus_allowed = cpus_allowed;
dest_cpu = any_online_cpu(p->cpus_allowed);
task_rq_unlock(rq, &flags);

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case CPU_DEAD:
case CPU_DEAD_FROZEN:
cpuset_lock(); /* around calls to cpuset_cpus_allowed_lock() */
migrate_live_tasks(cpu);
rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
kthread_stop(rq->migration_thread);
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rq->idle->sched_class = &idle_sched_class;
migrate_dead_tasks(cpu);
spin_unlock_irq(&rq->lock);
cpuset_unlock();
migrate_nr_uninterruptible(rq);
BUG_ON(rq->nr_running != 0);

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