sched/core: Force proper alignment of 'struct util_est'
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Thu, 5 Apr 2018 08:05:21 +0000 (10:05 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 5 Apr 2018 08:56:16 +0000 (10:56 +0200)
For some as yet not understood reason, Tony gets unaligned access
traps on IA64 because of:

  struct util_est ue = READ_ONCE(p->se.avg.util_est);

and:

  WRITE_ONCE(p->se.avg.util_est, ue);

introduced by commit:

  d519329f72a6 ("sched/fair: Update util_est only on util_avg updates")

Normally those two fields should end up on an 8-byte aligned location,
but UP and RANDSTRUCT can mess that up so enforce the alignment
explicitly.

Also make the alignment on sched_avg unconditional, as it is really
about data locality, not false-sharing.

With or without this patch the layout for sched_avg on a
ia64-defconfig build looks like:

$ pahole -EC sched_avg ia64-defconfig/kernel/sched/core.o
die__process_function: tag not supported (INVALID)!
struct sched_avg {
/* typedef u64 */ long long unsigned int     last_update_time;                   /*     0     8 */
/* typedef u64 */ long long unsigned int     load_sum;                           /*     8     8 */
/* typedef u64 */ long long unsigned int     runnable_load_sum;                  /*    16     8 */
/* typedef u32 */ unsigned int               util_sum;                           /*    24     4 */
/* typedef u32 */ unsigned int               period_contrib;                     /*    28     4 */
long unsigned int          load_avg;                                             /*    32     8 */
long unsigned int          runnable_load_avg;                                    /*    40     8 */
long unsigned int          util_avg;                                             /*    48     8 */
struct util_est {
unsigned int       enqueued;                                             /*    56     4 */
unsigned int       ewma;                                                 /*    60     4 */
} util_est; /*    56     8 */
/* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */

/* size: 64, cachelines: 1, members: 9 */
};

Reported-and-Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Norbert Manthey <nmanthey@amazon.de>
Cc: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Fixes: d519329f72a6 ("sched/fair: Update util_est only on util_avg updates")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180405080521.GG4129@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
include/linux/sched.h

index f228c6033832cf1c960a77c59ef786121e296fc5..b3d697f3b5731b4c45986fb10e8afb2d00ecf6e4 100644 (file)
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ struct util_est {
        unsigned int                    enqueued;
        unsigned int                    ewma;
 #define UTIL_EST_WEIGHT_SHIFT          2
-};
+} __attribute__((__aligned__(sizeof(u64))));
 
 /*
  * The load_avg/util_avg accumulates an infinite geometric series
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ struct sched_avg {
        unsigned long                   runnable_load_avg;
        unsigned long                   util_avg;
        struct util_est                 util_est;
-};
+} ____cacheline_aligned;
 
 struct sched_statistics {
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ struct sched_entity {
         * Put into separate cache line so it does not
         * collide with read-mostly values above.
         */
-       struct sched_avg                avg ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
+       struct sched_avg                avg;
 #endif
 };