linux/kernel
Dario Faggioli d50dde5a10 sched: Add new scheduler syscalls to support an extended scheduling parameters ABI
Add the syscalls needed for supporting scheduling algorithms
with extended scheduling parameters (e.g., SCHED_DEADLINE).

In general, it makes possible to specify a periodic/sporadic task,
that executes for a given amount of runtime at each instance, and is
scheduled according to the urgency of their own timing constraints,
i.e.:

 - a (maximum/typical) instance execution time,
 - a minimum interval between consecutive instances,
 - a time constraint by which each instance must be completed.

Thus, both the data structure that holds the scheduling parameters of
the tasks and the system calls dealing with it must be extended.
Unfortunately, modifying the existing struct sched_param would break
the ABI and result in potentially serious compatibility issues with
legacy binaries.

For these reasons, this patch:

 - defines the new struct sched_attr, containing all the fields
   that are necessary for specifying a task in the computational
   model described above;

 - defines and implements the new scheduling related syscalls that
   manipulate it, i.e., sched_setattr() and sched_getattr().

Syscalls are introduced for x86 (32 and 64 bits) and ARM only, as a
proof of concept and for developing and testing purposes. Making them
available on other architectures is straightforward.

Since no "user" for these new parameters is introduced in this patch,
the implementation of the new system calls is just identical to their
already existing counterpart. Future patches that implement scheduling
policies able to exploit the new data structure must also take care of
modifying the sched_*attr() calls accordingly with their own purposes.

Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
[ Rewrote to use sched_attr. ]
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
[ Removed sched_setscheduler2() for now. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-3-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-13 13:41:04 +01:00
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cpu sched: Add NEED_RESCHED to the preempt_count 2013-09-25 14:07:49 +02:00
debug kdb: Add support for external NMI handler to call KGDB/KDB 2013-10-03 18:47:54 +02:00
events perf: Disable all pmus on unthrottling and rescheduling 2013-12-17 15:04:00 +01:00
gcov gcov: reuse kbasename helper 2013-11-13 12:09:34 +09:00
irq Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-12-02 10:15:39 -08:00
locking locking/lockdep: Mark __lockdep_count_forward_deps() as static 2013-11-13 13:50:17 +01:00
power PM / sleep: Fix memory leak in pm_vt_switch_unregister(). 2013-12-22 00:56:35 +01:00
printk printk.c: comments should refer to /proc/vmcore instead of /proc/vmcoreinfo 2013-11-13 12:09:14 +09:00
rcu NOHZ: Check for nohz active instead of nohz enabled 2013-11-19 14:59:50 +01:00
sched sched: Add new scheduler syscalls to support an extended scheduling parameters ABI 2014-01-13 13:41:04 +01:00
time nohz: Fix another inconsistency between CONFIG_NO_HZ=n and nohz=off 2013-11-29 12:23:03 +01:00
trace This fixes a long standing bug in the ftrace profiler. 2013-12-20 09:32:30 -08:00
.gitignore Ignore generated file kernel/x509_certificate_list 2013-12-10 18:21:34 +00:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz kernel: remove CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS 2013-11-15 09:32:22 +09:00
Kconfig.locks locking: Fix copy/paste errors of "ARCH_INLINE_*_UNLOCK_BH" 2013-05-28 08:50:00 +02:00
Kconfig.preempt
Makefile KEYS: Remove files generated when SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING=y 2013-12-13 15:59:11 +00:00
acct.c fs: Fix hang with BSD accounting on frozen filesystem 2013-05-04 14:57:58 -04:00
async.c async: rename and redefine async_func_ptr 2013-03-12 13:59:14 -07:00
audit.c Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2013-11-21 19:18:14 -08:00
audit.h audit: call audit_bprm() only once to add AUDIT_EXECVE information 2013-11-05 11:15:03 -05:00
audit_tree.c kernel/audit_tree.c:audit_add_tree_rule(): protect `rule' from kill_rules() 2013-06-12 16:29:46 -07:00
audit_watch.c audit: catch possible NULL audit buffers 2013-01-11 14:54:55 -08:00
auditfilter.c audit: do not reject all AUDIT_INODE filter types 2013-11-05 11:09:16 -05:00
auditsc.c audit: fix type of sessionid in audit_set_loginuid() 2013-11-06 11:47:24 -05:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c mm: do not allocate page->ptl dynamically, if spinlock_t fits to long 2013-12-20 12:25:45 -08:00
capability.c xfs: update for v3.12-rc1 2013-09-09 11:19:09 -07:00
cgroup.c cgroup: don't recycle cgroup id until all csses' have been destroyed 2013-12-17 08:11:52 -05:00
cgroup_freezer.c cgroup: make css_for_each_descendant() and friends include the origin css in the iteration 2013-08-08 20:11:27 -04:00
compat.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2013-05-01 07:21:43 -07:00
configs.c proc: Supply PDE attribute setting accessor functions 2013-05-01 17:29:18 -04:00
context_tracking.c Linux 3.12-rc4 2013-10-09 12:36:13 +02:00
cpu.c Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-11-14 16:55:11 +09:00
cpu_pm.c
cpuset.c cpuset: Fix memory allocator deadlock 2013-11-27 13:52:47 -05:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2012-12-18 10:55:28 -08:00
delayacct.c kernel/delayacct.c: remove redundant checking in __delayacct_add_tsk() 2013-11-13 12:09:12 +09:00
dma.c
elfcore.c switch elf_core_write_extra_phdrs() to dump_emit() 2013-11-09 00:16:23 -05:00
exec_domain.c
exit.c ptrace: revert "Prepare to fix racy accesses on task breakpoints" 2013-07-09 10:33:26 -07:00
extable.c kernel/extable: fix address-checks for core_kernel and init areas 2013-11-28 09:49:41 -08:00
fork.c Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core 2014-01-13 13:35:28 +01:00
freezer.c libata, freezer: avoid block device removal while system is frozen 2013-12-19 13:50:32 -05:00
futex.c futex: move user address verification up to common code 2013-12-12 09:53:51 -08:00
futex_compat.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2013-02-23 18:50:11 -08:00
groups.c userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy 2013-08-30 23:44:11 -07:00
hrtimer.c kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
hung_task.c Here are the 3.13 KVM changes. There was a lot of work on the PPC 2013-11-15 13:51:36 +09:00
irq_work.c Merge branch 'nohz/printk-v8' into irq/core 2013-02-05 00:48:46 +01:00
itimer.c
jump_label.c static_key: WARN on usage before jump_label_init was called 2013-10-19 19:45:35 -04:00
kallsyms.c kernel: kallsyms: memory override issue, need check destination buffer length 2013-04-15 15:17:26 +09:30
kcmp.c kcmp: include linux/ptrace.h 2012-12-20 17:40:19 -08:00
kexec.c kexec: migrate to reboot cpu 2013-12-18 19:04:50 -08:00
kmod.c kernel/kmod.c: check for NULL in call_usermodehelper_exec() 2013-09-30 14:31:02 -07:00
kprobes.c kprobes: use KSYM_NAME_LEN to size identifier buffers 2013-11-13 12:09:26 +09:00
ksysfs.c kernel: replace strict_strto*() with kstrto*() 2013-09-12 15:38:03 -07:00
kthread.c kthread: make kthread_create() killable 2013-11-13 12:08:59 +09:00
latencytop.c
module-internal.h KEYS: Separate the kernel signature checking keyring from module signing 2013-09-25 17:17:01 +01:00
module.c Mainly boring here, too. rmmod --wait finally removed, though. 2013-11-15 13:27:50 +09:00
module_signing.c keys: change asymmetric keys to use common hash definitions 2013-10-25 17:15:18 -04:00
notifier.c
nsproxy.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2013-09-07 14:35:32 -07:00
padata.c padata: make the sequence counter an atomic_t 2013-10-30 12:02:58 +08:00
panic.c kernel/panic.c: reduce 1 byte usage for print tainted buffer 2013-11-13 12:09:35 +09:00
params.c kernel/params: fix handling of signed integer types 2013-09-28 12:35:52 -07:00
pid.c pidns: fix free_pid() to handle the first fork failure 2013-09-30 14:31:03 -07:00
pid_namespace.c pid_namespace: make freeing struct pid_namespace rcu-delayed 2013-10-24 23:43:29 -04:00
posix-cpu-timers.c posix_timers: fix racy timer delta caching on task exit 2013-07-03 16:54:42 +02:00
posix-timers.c posix-timers: Remove unused variable 2013-04-18 12:51:19 +02:00
profile.c kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
ptrace.c exec/ptrace: fix get_dumpable() incorrect tests 2013-11-13 12:09:33 +09:00
range.c range: Do not add new blank slot with add_range_with_merge 2013-06-18 11:32:10 -05:00
reboot.c kexec: migrate to reboot cpu 2013-12-18 19:04:50 -08:00
relay.c kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
res_counter.c memcg: reduce function dereference 2013-09-12 15:38:02 -07:00
resource.c kernel/resource.c: remove the unneeded assignment in function __find_resource 2013-07-03 16:08:06 -07:00
seccomp.c seccomp: allow BPF_XOR based ALU instructions. 2013-03-26 11:07:19 +11:00
signal.c constify copy_siginfo_to_user{,32}() 2013-11-09 00:16:29 -05:00
smp.c kernel: fix generic_exec_single indentation 2013-11-15 09:32:22 +09:00
smpboot.c kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c revert "softirq: Add support for triggering softirq work on softirqs" 2013-11-15 09:32:22 +09:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c stop_machine: Fix race between stop_two_cpus() and stop_cpus() 2013-11-11 12:43:38 +01:00
sys.c kernel/sys.c: remove obsolete #include <linux/kexec.h> 2013-11-13 12:09:13 +09:00
sys_ni.c unify compat fanotify_mark(2), switch to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE 2013-05-09 13:46:38 -04:00
sysctl.c sched/numa: Drop sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count sysctl 2013-12-17 15:24:38 +01:00
sysctl_binary.c kernel/sysctl_binary.c: use scnprintf() instead of snprintf() 2013-11-13 12:09:33 +09:00
system_certificates.S KEYS: correct alignment of system_certificate_list content in assembly file 2013-12-10 18:25:28 +00:00
system_keyring.c KEYS: correct alignment of system_certificate_list content in assembly file 2013-12-10 18:25:28 +00:00
task_work.c task_work: documentation 2013-09-11 15:58:27 -07:00
taskstats.c genetlink: only pass array to genl_register_family_with_ops() 2013-11-19 16:39:05 -05:00
test_kprobes.c kernel/: rename random32() to prandom_u32() 2013-04-29 18:28:42 -07:00
time.c sched: Rename sched.c as sched/core.c in comments and Documentation 2013-06-19 12:58:42 +02:00
timeconst.bc kernel: Replace timeconst.pl with a bc script 2013-02-16 23:17:25 +01:00
timer.c timer: Convert kmalloc_node(...GFP_ZERO...) to kzalloc_node(...) 2013-11-19 14:59:50 +01:00
tracepoint.c Tracing updates for Linux 3.10 2013-04-29 13:55:38 -07:00
tsacct.c cputime: Use accessors to read task cputime stats 2013-01-27 19:23:31 +01:00
uid16.c userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy 2013-08-30 23:44:11 -07:00
up.c kernel: provide a __smp_call_function_single stub for !CONFIG_SMP 2013-11-15 09:32:22 +09:00
user-return-notifier.c hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators 2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00
user.c KEYS: fix uninitialized persistent_keyring_register_sem 2013-12-13 15:59:11 +00:00
user_namespace.c KEYS: Add per-user_namespace registers for persistent per-UID kerberos caches 2013-09-24 10:35:19 +01:00
utsname.c userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy 2013-08-30 23:44:11 -07:00
utsname_sysctl.c kernel/utsname_sysctl.c: put get/get_uts() into CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL code block 2013-02-27 19:10:22 -08:00
watchdog.c watchdog: update watchdog_thresh properly 2013-09-24 17:00:25 -07:00
workqueue.c PCI updates for v3.13: 2013-12-15 11:45:27 -08:00
workqueue_internal.h sched: Rename sched.c as sched/core.c in comments and Documentation 2013-06-19 12:58:42 +02:00