Revision 231c807a60715312e2a93a001cc9be9b888bc350 authored by Linus Torvalds on 24 March 2019, 18:42:10 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 24 March 2019, 18:42:10 UTC
Pull scheduler updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Third more careful attempt for this set of fixes:
- Prevent a 32bit math overflow in the cpufreq code
- Fix a buffer overflow when scanning the cgroup2 cpu.max property
- A set of fixes for the NOHZ scheduler logic to prevent waking up
CPUs even if the capacity of the busy CPUs is sufficient along with
other tweaks optimizing the behaviour for asymmetric systems
(big/little)"
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/fair: Skip LLC NOHZ logic for asymmetric systems
sched/fair: Tune down misfit NOHZ kicks
sched/fair: Comment some nohz_balancer_kick() kick conditions
sched/core: Fix buffer overflow in cgroup2 property cpu.max
sched/cpufreq: Fix 32-bit math overflow
hugetlb.txt
HugeTLB Controller
-------------------
The HugeTLB controller allows to limit the HugeTLB usage per control group and
enforces the controller limit during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies that,
the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access HugeTLB pages
beyond its limit. This requires the application to know beforehand how much
HugeTLB pages it would require for its use.
HugeTLB controller can be created by first mounting the cgroup filesystem.
# mount -t cgroup -o hugetlb none /sys/fs/cgroup
With the above step, the initial or the parent HugeTLB group becomes
visible at /sys/fs/cgroup. At bootup, this group includes all the tasks in
the system. /sys/fs/cgroup/tasks lists the tasks in this cgroup.
New groups can be created under the parent group /sys/fs/cgroup.
# cd /sys/fs/cgroup
# mkdir g1
# echo $$ > g1/tasks
The above steps create a new group g1 and move the current shell
process (bash) into it.
Brief summary of control files
hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.limit_in_bytes # set/show limit of "hugepagesize" hugetlb usage
hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.max_usage_in_bytes # show max "hugepagesize" hugetlb usage recorded
hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.usage_in_bytes # show current usage for "hugepagesize" hugetlb
hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.failcnt # show the number of allocation failure due to HugeTLB limit
For a system supporting two hugepage size (16M and 16G) the control
files include:
hugetlb.16GB.limit_in_bytes
hugetlb.16GB.max_usage_in_bytes
hugetlb.16GB.usage_in_bytes
hugetlb.16GB.failcnt
hugetlb.16MB.limit_in_bytes
hugetlb.16MB.max_usage_in_bytes
hugetlb.16MB.usage_in_bytes
hugetlb.16MB.failcnt
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