smpboot: allow excluding cpus from the smpboot threads

This patch series allows the watchdog to run by default only on the
housekeeping cores when nohz_full is in effect; this seems to be a good
compromise short of turning it off completely (since the nohz_full cores
can't tolerate a watchdog).

To provide customizability, we add /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog_cpumask so
that the set of cores running the watchdog can be tuned to different
values after bootup.

To implement this customizability, we add a new
smpboot_update_cpumask_percpu_thread() API to the smpboot_thread
subsystem that lets us park or unpark "unwanted" threads.

And now that threads can be parked for long periods of time, we tweak the
/proc/<pid>/stat and /proc/<pid>/status code so parked threads aren't
reported as running, which is otherwise confusing.

This patch (of 3):

This change allows some cores to be excluded from running the
smp_hotplug_thread tasks.  The following commit to update
kernel/watchdog.c to use this functionality is the motivating example, and
more information on the motivation is provided there.

A new smp_hotplug_thread field is introduced, "cpumask", which is cpumask
field managed by the smpboot subsystem that indicates whether or not the
given smp_hotplug_thread should run on that core; the cpumask is checked
when deciding whether to unpark the thread.

To limit the cpumask to less than cpu_possible, you must call
smpboot_update_cpumask_percpu_thread() after registering.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 58 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/smpboot.c b/kernel/smpboot.c
index c697f73d82d6..5e46c2a75d59 100644
--- a/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -232,7 +232,8 @@ void smpboot_unpark_threads(unsigned int cpu)
 
 	mutex_lock(&smpboot_threads_lock);
 	list_for_each_entry(cur, &hotplug_threads, list)
-		smpboot_unpark_thread(cur, cpu);
+		if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, cur->cpumask))
+			smpboot_unpark_thread(cur, cpu);
 	mutex_unlock(&smpboot_threads_lock);
 }
 
@@ -258,6 +259,15 @@ static void smpboot_destroy_threads(struct smp_hotplug_thread *ht)
 {
 	unsigned int cpu;
 
+	/* Unpark any threads that were voluntarily parked. */
+	for_each_cpu_not(cpu, ht->cpumask) {
+		if (cpu_online(cpu)) {
+			struct task_struct *tsk = *per_cpu_ptr(ht->store, cpu);
+			if (tsk)
+				kthread_unpark(tsk);
+		}
+	}
+
 	/* We need to destroy also the parked threads of offline cpus */
 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
 		struct task_struct *tsk = *per_cpu_ptr(ht->store, cpu);
@@ -281,6 +291,10 @@ int smpboot_register_percpu_thread(struct smp_hotplug_thread *plug_thread)
 	unsigned int cpu;
 	int ret = 0;
 
+	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&plug_thread->cpumask, GFP_KERNEL))
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	cpumask_copy(plug_thread->cpumask, cpu_possible_mask);
+
 	get_online_cpus();
 	mutex_lock(&smpboot_threads_lock);
 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
@@ -313,9 +327,52 @@ void smpboot_unregister_percpu_thread(struct smp_hotplug_thread *plug_thread)
 	smpboot_destroy_threads(plug_thread);
 	mutex_unlock(&smpboot_threads_lock);
 	put_online_cpus();
+	free_cpumask_var(plug_thread->cpumask);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(smpboot_unregister_percpu_thread);
 
+/**
+ * smpboot_update_cpumask_percpu_thread - Adjust which per_cpu hotplug threads stay parked
+ * @plug_thread:	Hotplug thread descriptor
+ * @new:		Revised mask to use
+ *
+ * The cpumask field in the smp_hotplug_thread must not be updated directly
+ * by the client, but only by calling this function.
+ */
+int smpboot_update_cpumask_percpu_thread(struct smp_hotplug_thread *plug_thread,
+					 const struct cpumask *new)
+{
+	struct cpumask *old = plug_thread->cpumask;
+	cpumask_var_t tmp;
+	unsigned int cpu;
+
+	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&tmp, GFP_KERNEL))
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	get_online_cpus();
+	mutex_lock(&smpboot_threads_lock);
+
+	/* Park threads that were exclusively enabled on the old mask. */
+	cpumask_andnot(tmp, old, new);
+	for_each_cpu_and(cpu, tmp, cpu_online_mask)
+		smpboot_park_thread(plug_thread, cpu);
+
+	/* Unpark threads that are exclusively enabled on the new mask. */
+	cpumask_andnot(tmp, new, old);
+	for_each_cpu_and(cpu, tmp, cpu_online_mask)
+		smpboot_unpark_thread(plug_thread, cpu);
+
+	cpumask_copy(old, new);
+
+	mutex_unlock(&smpboot_threads_lock);
+	put_online_cpus();
+
+	free_cpumask_var(tmp);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(smpboot_update_cpumask_percpu_thread);
+
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(atomic_t, cpu_hotplug_state) = ATOMIC_INIT(CPU_POST_DEAD);
 
 /*