Merge tag 'sched-core-2020-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Improve uclamp performance by using a static key for the fast path

 - Add the "sched_util_clamp_min_rt_default" sysctl, to optimize for
   better power efficiency of RT tasks on battery powered devices.
   (The default is to maximize performance & reduce RT latencies.)

 - Improve utime and stime tracking accuracy, which had a fixed boundary
   of error, which created larger and larger relative errors as the
   values become larger. This is now replaced with more precise
   arithmetics, using the new mul_u64_u64_div_u64() helper in math64.h.

 - Improve the deadline scheduler, such as making it capacity aware

 - Improve frequency-invariant scheduling

 - Misc cleanups in energy/power aware scheduling

 - Add sched_update_nr_running tracepoint to track changes to nr_running

 - Documentation additions and updates

 - Misc cleanups and smaller fixes

* tag 'sched-core-2020-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (54 commits)
  sched/doc: Factorize bits between sched-energy.rst & sched-capacity.rst
  sched/doc: Document capacity aware scheduling
  sched: Document arch_scale_*_capacity()
  arm, arm64: Fix selection of CONFIG_SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE
  Documentation/sysctl: Document uclamp sysctl knobs
  sched/uclamp: Add a new sysctl to control RT default boost value
  sched/uclamp: Fix a deadlock when enabling uclamp static key
  sched: Remove duplicated tick_nohz_full_enabled() check
  sched: Fix a typo in a comment
  sched/uclamp: Remove unnecessary mutex_init()
  arm, arm64: Select CONFIG_SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE
  sched: Cleanup SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE kconfig entry
  arch_topology, sched/core: Cleanup thermal pressure definition
  trace/events/sched.h: fix duplicated word
  linux/sched/mm.h: drop duplicated words in comments
  smp: Fix a potential usage of stale nr_cpus
  sched/fair: update_pick_idlest() Select group with lowest group_util when idle_cpus are equal
  sched: nohz: stop passing around unused "ticks" parameter.
  sched: Better document ttwu()
  sched: Add a tracepoint to track rq->nr_running
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
index 83acf5025488..55bf6b4de4ec 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
@@ -1062,6 +1062,60 @@ Enables/disables scheduler statistics. Enabling this feature
 incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler but is
 useful for debugging and performance tuning.
 
+sched_util_clamp_min:
+=====================
+
+Max allowed *minimum* utilization.
+
+Default value is 1024, which is the maximum possible value.
+
+It means that any requested uclamp.min value cannot be greater than
+sched_util_clamp_min, i.e., it is restricted to the range
+[0:sched_util_clamp_min].
+
+sched_util_clamp_max:
+=====================
+
+Max allowed *maximum* utilization.
+
+Default value is 1024, which is the maximum possible value.
+
+It means that any requested uclamp.max value cannot be greater than
+sched_util_clamp_max, i.e., it is restricted to the range
+[0:sched_util_clamp_max].
+
+sched_util_clamp_min_rt_default:
+================================
+
+By default Linux is tuned for performance. Which means that RT tasks always run
+at the highest frequency and most capable (highest capacity) CPU (in
+heterogeneous systems).
+
+Uclamp achieves this by setting the requested uclamp.min of all RT tasks to
+1024 by default, which effectively boosts the tasks to run at the highest
+frequency and biases them to run on the biggest CPU.
+
+This knob allows admins to change the default behavior when uclamp is being
+used. In battery powered devices particularly, running at the maximum
+capacity and frequency will increase energy consumption and shorten the battery
+life.
+
+This knob is only effective for RT tasks which the user hasn't modified their
+requested uclamp.min value via sched_setattr() syscall.
+
+This knob will not escape the range constraint imposed by sched_util_clamp_min
+defined above.
+
+For example if
+
+	sched_util_clamp_min_rt_default = 800
+	sched_util_clamp_min = 600
+
+Then the boost will be clamped to 600 because 800 is outside of the permissible
+range of [0:600]. This could happen for instance if a powersave mode will
+restrict all boosts temporarily by modifying sched_util_clamp_min. As soon as
+this restriction is lifted, the requested sched_util_clamp_min_rt_default
+will take effect.
 
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