[RFC PATCH v8 2/3] docs: scheduler: Add scheduler overview documentation

John Mathew
2020-09-02T16:27:02Z

Add documentation for
-scheduler overview
-scheduler state transtion
-CFS overview
-scheduler data structs

Add rst for scheduler APIs and modify sched/core.c
to add kernel-doc comments.

Suggested-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Mostafa Chamanara <mostafa.chamanara@basemark.com>
Signed-off-by: Mostafa Chamanara <mostafa.chamanara@basemark.com>
Co-developed-by: Oleg Tsymbal <oleg.tsymbal@unikie.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Tsymbal <oleg.tsymbal@unikie.com>
Signed-off-by: John Mathew <john.mathew@unikie.com>
---
Documentation/scheduler/cfs-overview.rst | 59 ++++
Documentation/scheduler/index.rst | 3 +
Documentation/scheduler/overview.rst | 294 +++++++++++++++++-
.../scheduler/sched-data-structs.rst | 176 +++++++++++
Documentation/scheduler/scheduler-api.rst | 24 ++
kernel/sched/core.c | 21 +-
kernel/sched/sched.h | 63 +++-
7 files changed, 634 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/scheduler/cfs-overview.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/scheduler/sched-data-structs.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/scheduler/scheduler-api.rst

diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/cfs-overview.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/cfs-overview.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1524c24da897
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/cfs-overview.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+
+=============
+CFS Overview
+=============
+
+Linux 2.6.23 introduced a modular scheduler core and a Completely Fair
+Scheduler (CFS) implemented as a scheduling module. A brief overview of the
+CFS design is provided in :doc:`sched-design-CFS`
+
+In addition there have been many improvements to the CFS, a few of which are
+
+Tracking available capacity
+---------------------------
+Scale CPU capacity mechanism for CFS so it knows how much CPU capacity is left
+for its use after higher priority sched classes (RT, DL), IRQs and
+'Thermal Pressure' have reduced the 'original' CPU capacity.
+Thermal pressure on a CPU means the maximum possible capacity is
+unavailable due to thermal events.
+
+NUMA balancing
+--------------
+Attempt to migrate tasks to the NUMA Node where the frequently accessed memory
+pages belongs. The scheduler gets information about memory placement through the
+paging mechanism. Scheduler periodically scans the virtual memory of the tasks
+and make them inaccessible by changing the memory protection. The flag
+MM_CP_PROT_NUMA indicates this purpose. When the task attempts to access
+the memory again a page fault occurs. Scheduler traps the fault and increments
+the counters in a task specific array corresponding to the NUMA node id.
+There array is divided in to four regions: faults_memory, faults_cpu,
+faults_memory_buffer and faults_cpu_buffer, where faults_memory is the
+exponential decaying average of faults on a per-node basis. The 'preferred
+node' is found by looping through the array and finding the node with the
+highest number of faults. Migration to the preferred node is done periodically
+by either swapping two tasks tasks between their respective CPUs or
+just moving a task to its preferred node CPU. It the migration or move fails
+it will be retried.
+
+Energy Aware Scheduling
+-----------------------
+For asymmetric CPU capacity topologies, an Energy Model is used to figure out
+which of the CPU candidates is the most energy-efficient. Capacity is the
+amount of work which a CPU can perform at its highest frequency which is
+calculated by the Per-Entity Load Tracking (PELT) mechanism.
+EAS is described at :doc:`sched-energy`
+
+Capacity Aware Scheduling
+--------------------------
+Migrate a task to a CPU which meets its compute demand. In asymmetric CPU
+capacity topologies CFS scheduler frequently updates the 'Misfit' status of
+tasks and migrate them to CPU's of higher capacity. Also during wakeups the
+a CPU with sufficient capacity is found for executing the task. CAS is
+described at :doc:`sched-capacity`
+
+
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/index.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/index.rst
index 6e88a070c503..e3b1d4fc1604 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/index.rst
@@ -17,10 +17,13 @@ specific implementation differences.
:maxdepth: 2

overview
+ sched-data-structs
+ cfs-overview
sched-design-CFS
sched-features
arch-specific
sched-debugging
+ scheduler-api

.. only:: subproject and html

diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/overview.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/overview.rst
index a1d2d26629eb..f2fb8f419919 100644
--- a/Documentation/scheduler/overview.rst
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/overview.rst
@@ -2,4 +2,296 @@

====================
Scheduler overview
-====================
\ No newline at end of file
+====================
+
+Linux kernel implements priority-based scheduling. More than one process are
+allowed to run at any given time and each process is allowed to run as if it
+were the only process on the system. The process scheduler coordinates which
+process runs when. In that context, it has the following tasks:
+
+ - share CPUs equally among all currently running processes.
+ - pick appropriate process to run next if required, considering scheduling
+ class/policy and process priorities.
+ - balance processes between multiple CPUs in SMP systems.
+
+The scheduler attempts to be responsive for I/O bound processes and efficient
+for CPU bound processes. The scheduler uses different scheduling policies
+for real time and normal processes based on their respective policy
+enumerations. Scheduler adds support for each policy through scheduling class
+implementations for each. The five scheduling classes which scheduler provides
+are:
+
+ - stop_sched_class:
+ It is a per-cpu maximum priority CPU monopolization mechanism. It is
+ exposed as a SCHED_FIFO task ('migration/X') with static priority of 99
+ in the user space. This is done to make it compatible with user space and
+ thus to avoid growing the ABI. It is used by one CPU to stop another
+ in order to run a specific function, so it is only available on SMP
+ systems. This class is used by the scheduler for task migration between
+ CPUs.
+
+ - dl_sched_class:
+ Implements the SCHED_DEADLINE scheduling policy. It has static priority
+ of -1 in kernel space. This policy schedules each task according to the
+ task's deadline. The task with the earliest deadline will be served first.
+
+ - rt_sched_class:
+ Implements the SCHED_RR and SCHED_FIFO policies. Real time static
+ priorities range from 1(low)..99 in the user space. (priority is inverted
+ in kernel space). It is the only scheduling class that makes use of the
+ static priority of the task. SCHED_FIFO is a simple scheduling algorithm
+ without time slicing. A SCHED_FIFO thread runs until either it is blocked
+ by an I/O request, it is preempted by a higher priority thread, or it
+ calls sched_yield(). SCHED_RR is a simple enhancement of SCHED_FIFO where
+ a thread is allowed to run only for a maximum time quantum.
+
+ - fair_sched_class:
+ Implements the SCHED_NORMAL SCHED_BATCH and SCHED_IDLE policies. Static
+ priority is always 0 in the user space. A dynamic priority based on
+ 'nice' value is used to schedule these tasks. This priority increases each
+ time the the task is scheduled to run but denied to run by scheduler.
+ This ensures fair scheduling between these tasks. Nice value is an
+ attribute which can be set by the user to influence scheduler to favour
+ a particular task. SCHED_BATCH is similar to SCHED_NORMAL with the
+ difference that the policy causes the scheduler to assume that the task
+ is CPU-intensive. SCHED_IDLE policy also has static priority 0. Nice
+ value has no effect on this policy. Weight mapping is not done, instead
+ weight is set at a constant minimal weight WEIGHT_IDLEPRIO. Used to
+ run tasks at extremely low priority.
+
+ - idle_sched_class:
+ Priority for idle task is irrelevant. This class is not related to
+ SCHED_IDLE policy. Idle tasks run when there are no other runnable tasks
+ on a CPU. The execute the idle loop which is responsible to put a CPU
+ in one of its idle states.
+
+
+Process Management
+==================
+
+Each process in the system is represented by struct task_struct. When a
+process/thread is created, the kernel allocates a new task_struct for it.
+The kernel then stores this task_struct in an RCU list. Macro next_task()
+allows a process to obtain its next task and for_each_process() macro enables
+traversal of the list.
+
+Frequently used fields of the task struct are:
+
+ - state: The running state of the task. The possible states are:
+
+ - TASK_RUNNING: The task is currently running or in a run queue waiting
+ to run.
+ - TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE: The task is sleeping waiting for some event to occur.
+ This task can be interrupted by signals. On waking up the task transitions
+ to TASK_RUNNING.
+ - TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE: Similar to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE but does not wake
+ up on signals. Needs an explicit wake-up call to be woken up. Contributes
+ to loadavg.
+ - __TASK_TRACED: Task is being traced by another task like a debugger.
+ - __TASK_STOPPED: Task execution has stopped and not eligible to run.
+ SIGSTOP, SIGTSTP etc causes this state. The task can be continued by
+ the signal SIGCONT.
+ - TASK_PARKED: State to support kthread parking/unparking.
+ - TASK_DEAD: If a task dies, then it sets TASK_DEAD in tsk->state and calls
+ schedule one last time. The task will be never ran again.
+ - TASK_WAKEKILL: It works like TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE with the bonus that it
+ can respond to fatal signals.
+ - TASK_WAKING: To handle concurrent waking of the same task for SMP.
+ Indicates that someone is already waking the task.
+ - TASK_NOLOAD: To be used along with TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE to indicate
+ an idle task which does not contribute to loadavg.
+ - TASK_NEW: Set during fork(), to guarantee that no one will run the task,
+ a signal or any other wake event cannot wake it up and insert it on
+ the runqueue.
+
+ - exit_state : The exiting state of the task. The possible states are:
+
+ - EXIT_ZOMBIE: The task is terminated and waiting for parent to collect
+ the exit information of the task.
+ - EXIT_DEAD: After collecting the exit information the task is put to
+ this state and removed from the system.
+
+ - static_prio: Used by the fair scheduling class to encode the nice level.
+ It does not have any effect on the SCHED_DEADLINE, SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR
+ policy tasks.
+
+ - prio: The value of this field is used to:
+
+ - distinguish scheduling classes.
+ - in the RR/FIFO static priority scheduler.
+
+ - normal_prio: Expected priority of a task. The value of static_prio
+ and normal_prio are the same for non-real-time processes. For real time
+ processes value of prio is used.
+
+ - rt_priority: Field used to set priority of real time tasks. Not used by the
+ rt_sched_class.
+
+ - sched_class: Pointer to sched_class structure of the policy that the task
+ belongs to.
+
+ - sched_entity: Pointer to sched_entity CFS structure.
+
+ - policy: scheduling policy of the task. See above.
+
+ - nr_cpus_allowed: Hamming weight of the bitmask retrieved from cpumask pointer.
+
+New tasks are created using the fork() system call which is described
+at manpage `FORK(2)` or the clone system call described at manpage `CLONE(2)`.
+Users can create threads within a process to achieve parallelism. Threads
+share address space, open files and other resources of the process. Threads
+are created like normal tasks with their unique task_struct, but clone()
+is provided with flags that enable the sharing of resources such as address
+space ::
+
+ clone(CLONE_VM | CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | CLONE_SIGHAND, 0);
+
+The scheduler schedules task_structs so from scheduler perspective there is
+no difference between threads and processes. Threads are created using
+the system call pthread_create described at its manpage `PTHREAD_CREATE(3)`
+POSIX threads creation is described at its manpage `PTHREADS(7)`
+
+The Scheduler Entry Point
+=========================
+
+The main scheduler entry point is an architecture independent schedule()
+function defined in kernel/sched/core.c. Its objective is to find a process in
+the runqueue list and then assign the CPU to it. It is invoked, directly
+or in a lazy (deferred) way from many different places in the kernel. A lazy
+invocation does not call the function by its name, but gives the kernel a
+hint by setting a flag TIF_NEED_RESCHED. The flag is a message to the kernel
+that the scheduler should be invoked as soon as possible because another
+process deserves to run. The flag should not be modified directly.
+
+Following are some places that notify the kernel to schedule which can be
+classified based on the type of operations:
+
+ - Blocking operations: Suspends the current task and directly call into
+ the scheduler to find something else to do. Some blocking operations are:
+
+ - mutex_lock()
+ - wait_event()
+ - do_exit()
+ - preempt_schedule_irq()
+
+ - Co-operative or voluntary preemptions: Allows another task to run at that
+ point subject to preemption model. Voluntary preemption model can be
+ set through the kernel config option: CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY. The
+ operations are:
+
+ - cond_resched()
+ - cond_resched_lock()
+ - yield()
+ - preempt_enable()
+
+ - Involuntary preemption: Marks TIF_NEED_RESCHED and wait for action
+ depending on preemption model. Involuntary preemption operations are:
+
+ - scheduler_tick()
+ - wake_up_process()
+
+Calling functions mentioned above leads to a call to __schedule(). Note
+that preemption must be disabled before it is called and enabled after
+the call using preempt_disable and preempt_enable functions family.
+
+
+The steps during invocation are:
+--------------------------------
+1. Disable preemption to avoid another task preempting the scheduling
+ thread itself.
+2. Retrieve the runqueue of current processor and its lock is obtained to
+ allow only one thread to modify the runqueue at a time.
+3. The state of the previously executed task when the schedule()
+ was called is examined. If it is not runnable and has not been
+ preempted in kernel mode, it is removed from the runqueue. If the
+ previous task has non-blocked pending signals, its state is set to
+ TASK_RUNNING and left in the runqueue.
+4. Scheduler classes are iterated and the corresponding class hook to
+ pick the next suitable task to be scheduled on the CPU is called.
+ Since most tasks are handled by the sched_fair class, a shortcut to this
+ class is implemented in the beginning of the function.
+5. TIF_NEED_RESCHED and architecture specific need_resched flags are cleared.
+6. If the scheduler class picks a different task from what was running
+ before, a context switch is performed by calling context_switch().
+ Internally, context_switch() switches to the new task's memory map and
+ swaps the register state and stack. If scheduler class picked the same
+ task as the previous task, no task switch is performed and the current
+ task keeps running.
+7. Balance callback list is processed. Each scheduling class can migrate tasks
+ between CPUs to balance load. These load balancing operations are queued
+ on a Balance callback list which get executed when balance_callback() is
+ called.
+8. The runqueue is unlocked and preemption is re-enabled. In case
+ preemption was requested during the time in which it was disabled,
+ schedule() is run again right away.
+
+Scheduler State Transition
+==========================
+
+A very high level scheduler state transition flow with a few states can
+be depicted as follows. ::
+
+ *
+ |
+ | task
+ | forks
+ v
+ +------------------------------+
+ | TASK_NEW |
+ | (Ready to run) |
+ +------------------------------+
+ |
+ |
+ v
+ +------------------------------------+
+ | TASK_RUNNING |
+ +---------------> | (Ready to run) | <--+
+ | +------------------------------------+ |
+ | | |
+ | | schedule() calls context_switch() | task is preempted
+ | v |
+ | +------------------------------------+ |
+ | | TASK_RUNNING | |
+ | | (Running) | ---+
+ | event occurred +------------------------------------+
+ | |
+ | | task needs to wait for event
+ | v
+ | +------------------------------------+
+ | | TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE |
+ | | TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE |
+ +-----------------| TASK_WAKEKILL |
+ +------------------------------------+
+ |
+ | task exits via do_exit()
+ v
+ +------------------------------+
+ | TASK_DEAD |
+ | EXIT_ZOMBIE |
+ +------------------------------+
+
+
+Scheduler provides trace events tracing all major events of the scheduler.
+The trace events are defined in ::
+
+ include/trace/events/sched.h
+
+Using these trace events it is possible to model the scheduler state transition
+in an automata model. The following journal paper discusses such modeling:
+
+Daniel B. de Oliveira, Rômulo S. de Oliveira, Tommaso Cucinotta, **A thread
+synchronization model for the PREEMPT_RT Linux kernel**, *Journal of Systems
+Architecture*, Volume 107, 2020, 101729, ISSN 1383-7621,
+https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sysarc.2020.101729.
+
+To model the scheduler efficiently the system was divided in to generators
+and specifications. Some of the generators used were "need_resched",
+"sleepable" and "runnable", "thread_context" and "scheduling context".
+The specifications are the necessary and sufficient conditions to call
+the scheduler. New trace events were added to specify the generators
+and specifications. In case a kernel event referred to more than one
+event, extra fields of the kernel event was used to distinguish between
+automation events. The final model was generated from parallel composition
+of all generators and specifications which composed of 34 events,
+12 generators and 33 specifications. This resulted in 9017 states, and
+20103 transitions.
diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-data-structs.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-data-structs.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b8d968c70bfc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-data-structs.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+
+=========================
+Scheduler Data Structures
+=========================
+
+The main parts of the Linux scheduler are:
+
+Runqueue
+~~~~~~~~
+
+struct rq is the central data structure of process scheduling. It keeps track
+of tasks that are in a runnable state assigned for a particular processor.
+Each CPU has its own run queue and stored in a per CPU array::
+
+ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rq, runqueues);
+
+Access to the queue requires locking and lock acquire operations must be
+ordered by ascending runqueue. Macros for accessing and locking the runqueue
+are provided in::
+
+ kernel/sched/sched.h
+
+The runqueue contains scheduling class specific queues and several scheduling
+statistics.
+
+Scheduling entity
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Scheduler uses scheduling entities which contain sufficient information to
+actually accomplish the scheduling job of a task or a task-group. The
+scheduling entity may be a group of tasks or a single task. Every task is
+associated with a sched_entity structure. CFS adds support for nesting of
+tasks and task groups. Each scheduling entity may be run from its parents
+runqueue. The scheduler traverses the sched_entity hierarchy to pick the
+next task to run on the CPU. The entity gets picked up from the cfs_rq on
+which it is queued and its time slice is divided among all the tasks on its my_q.
+
+Scheduler classes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+It is an extensible hierarchy of scheduler modules. The modules encapsulate
+scheduling policy details. They are called from the core code which is
+independent. Scheduling classes are implemented through the sched_class
+structure. The five scheduling classes are stop_sched_class, dl_sched_class,
+rt_sched_class, fair_sched_class and idle_sched_class. The important methods
+of scheduler class are:
+
+ - sched_class::enqueue_task()
+ - sched_class::dequeue_task()
+ These functions are used to put and remove tasks from the runqueue
+ respectively to change a property of a task. This is referred to as
+ change pattern. Change is defined as the following sequence of calls:
+
+ - dequeue_task()
+ - put_prev_task()
+ - change a property
+ - enqueue_task()
+ - set_next_task()
+
+ The enqueue_task function takes the runqueue, the task which needs to
+ be enqueued/dequeued and a bit mask of flags as parameters. The main
+ purpose of the flags is to describe why the enqueue or dequeue is being
+ called. The different flags used are described in ::
+
+ kernel/sched/sched.h
+
+ Some places where the enqueue_task and dequeue_task are called for
+ changing task properties are:
+
+ - When migrating a task from one CPU's runqueue to another.
+ - When changing a tasks CPU affinity.
+ - When changing the priority of a task.
+ - When changing the nice value of the task.
+ - When changing the scheduling policy and/or RT priority of a thread.
+
+ - sched_class::pick_next_task()
+ Called by the scheduler to pick the next best task to run. The scheduler
+ iterates through the corresponding functions of the scheduler classes
+ in priority order to pick up the next best task to run. Since tasks
+ belonging to the idle class and fair class are frequent, the scheduler
+ optimizes the picking of next task to call the pick_next_task_fair()
+ if the previous task was of the similar scheduling class.
+
+ - sched_class::put_prev_task()
+ Called by the scheduler when a running task is being taken off a CPU.
+ The behavior of this function depends on individual scheduling classes.
+ In CFS class this function is used to put the currently running task back
+ into the CFS RB tree. When a task is running it is dequeued from the tree.
+ This is to prevent redundant enqueue's and dequeue's for updating its
+ vruntime. vruntime of tasks on the tree needs to be updated by update_curr()
+ to keep the tree in sync. In SCHED_DEADLINE and RT classes additional tree
+ is maintained to push tasks from the current CPU to another CPU where the
+ task can preempt and start executing. Task will be added to this queue
+ if it is present on the scheduling class rq and the task has affinity
+ to more than one CPU. set_next_task() is called on the task returned from
+ this function.
+
+ - sched_class::set_next_task()
+ Pairs with the put_prev_task(), this function is called when the next
+ task is set to run on the CPU. This function is called in all the places
+ where put_prev_task is called to complete the 'change pattern'. In case
+ of CFS scheduling class, it will set current scheduling entity to the
+ picked task and accounts bandwidth usage on the cfs_rq. In addition it
+ will also remove the current entity from the CFS runqueue for the vruntime
+ update optimization, opposite to what was done in put_prev_task.
+ For the SCHED_DEADLINE and RT classes it will remove the task from the
+ tree of pushable tasks trigger the balance callback to push another task
+ which is non running on the current CPU for execution on another CPU.
+
+ - dequeue the picked task from the tree of pushable tasks.
+ - update the load average in case the previous task belonged to another
+ class.
+ - queues the function to push tasks from current runqueue to other CPUs
+ which can preempt and start execution. Balance callback list is used.
+
+ - sched_class::task_tick()
+ Called from scheduler_tick(), hrtick() and sched_tick_remote() to update
+ the current task statistics and load averages. Also restarting the high
+ resolution tick timer is done if high resolution timers are enabled.
+ scheduler_tick() runs at 1/HZ and is called from the timer interrupt
+ handler of the Kernel internal timers.
+ hrtick() is called from high resolution timers to deliver an accurate
+ preemption tick as the regular scheduler tick that runs at 1/HZ can be
+ too coarse when nice levels are used.
+ sched_tick_remote() gets called by the offloaded residual 1Hz scheduler
+ tick. In order to reduce interruptions to bare metal tasks, it is possible
+ to outsource these scheduler ticks to the global workqueue so that a
+ housekeeping CPU handles those remotely.
+
+ - sched_class::select_task_rq()
+ Called by scheduler to get the CPU to assign a task to and migrating
+ tasks between CPUs. Flags describe the reason the function was called.
+ Called by try_to_wake_up() with SD_BALANCE_WAKE flag which wakes up a
+ sleeping task.
+ Called by wake_up_new_task() with SD_BALANCE_FORK flag which wakes up a
+ newly forked task.
+ Called by sched_exec() with SD_BALANCE_EXEC which is called from execv
+ syscall.
+ SCHED_DEADLINE class decides the CPU on which the task should be woken
+ up based on the deadline. RT class decides based on the RT priority. Fair
+ scheduling class balances load by selecting the idlest CPU in the
+ idlest group, or under certain conditions an idle sibling CPU if the
+ domain has SD_WAKE_AFFINE set.
+
+ - sched_class::balance()
+ Called by pick_next_task() from scheduler to enable scheduling classes
+ to pull tasks from runqueues of other CPUs for balancing task execution
+ between the CPUs.
+
+ - sched_class::task_fork()
+ Called from sched_fork() of scheduler which assigns a task to a CPU.
+ Fair scheduling class updates runqueue clock, runtime statistics and
+ vruntime for the scheduling entity.
+
+ - sched_class::yield_task()
+ Called from SYSCALL sched_yield to yield the CPU to other tasks.
+ SCHED_DEADLINE class forces the runtime of the task to zero using a special
+ flag and dequeues the task from its trees. RT class requeues the task
+ entities to the end of the run list. Fair scheduling class implements
+ the buddy mechanism. This allows skipping onto the next highest priority
+ scheduling entity at every level in the CFS tree, unless doing so would
+ introduce gross unfairness in CPU time distribution.
+
+ - sched_class::check_preempt_curr()
+ Check whether the task that woke up should preempt the currently
+ running task. Called by scheduler
+
+ - when moving queued task to new runqueue
+ - ttwu()
+ - when waking up newly created task for the first time.
+
+ SCHED_DEADLINE class compares the deadlines of the tasks and calls
+ scheduler function resched_curr() if the preemption is needed. In case
+ the deadlines are equal, migratability of the tasks is used a criteria
+ for preemption.
+ RT class behaves the same except it uses RT priority for comparison.
+ Fair class sets the buddy hints before calling resched_curr() to preempt.
diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/scheduler-api.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/scheduler-api.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6b9cb03d0d86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/scheduler/scheduler-api.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+
+=============================
+Scheduler related functions
+=============================
+
+
+.. kernel-doc:: kernel/sched/core.c
+ :functions: scheduler_tick
+
+.. kernel-doc:: kernel/sched/core.c
+ :functions: try_to_wake_up
+
+.. kernel-doc:: kernel/sched/core.c
+ :functions: do_task_dead
+
+.. kernel-doc:: kernel/sched/core.c
+ :functions: preempt_schedule_irq
+
+.. kernel-doc:: kernel/sched/core.c
+ :functions: prepare_task_switch
+
+.. kernel-doc:: kernel/sched/core.c
+ :functions: finish_task_switch
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 2d95dc3f4644..99a3b5ab4039 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -3976,9 +3976,13 @@ unsigned long long task_sched_runtime(struct task_struct *p)
return ns;
}

-/*
+/**
+ * scheduler_tick - sched tick timer handler
+ *
* This function gets called by the timer code, with HZ frequency.
* We call it with interrupts disabled.
+ *
+ * Return: 0.
*/
void scheduler_tick(void)
{
@@ -4367,8 +4371,10 @@ pick_next_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev, struct rq_flags *rf)
BUG();
}

-/*
- * __schedule() is the main scheduler function.
+/**
+ * __schedule() - the main scheduler function.
+ *
+ * @preempt: preemption enabled/disabled
*
* The main means of driving the scheduler and thus entering this function are:
*
@@ -4533,6 +4539,12 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(bool preempt)
balance_callback(rq);
}

+/**
+ * do_task_dead - handle task exit
+ *
+ * Changes the task state to TASK_DEAD and calls
+ * schedule to pick next task to run.
+ */
void __noreturn do_task_dead(void)
{
/* Causes final put_task_struct in finish_task_switch(): */
@@ -4764,7 +4776,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(preempt_schedule_notrace);

#endif /* CONFIG_PREEMPTION */

-/*
+/**
+ * preempt_schedule_irq - schedule from irq context
* This is the entry point to schedule() from kernel preemption
* off of irq context.
* Note, that this is called and return with irqs disabled. This will
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 28709f6b0975..11b2125df8b1 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -902,16 +902,25 @@ struct rq {
*/
unsigned int nr_running;
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
+ /* Number of tasks running that care about their NUMA placement */
unsigned int nr_numa_running;
+ /* Number of tasks that are optimally NUMA placed */
unsigned int nr_preferred_running;
+ /*
+ * Per runqueue variable to check if NUMA-balance is active on the
+ * run-queue
+ */
unsigned int numa_migrate_on;
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+ /* Tick stamp for decay of blocked load */
unsigned long last_blocked_load_update_tick;
+ /* Idle CPU has blocked load */
unsigned int has_blocked_load;
call_single_data_t nohz_csd;
#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
+ /* CPU is going idle with tick stopped */
unsigned int nohz_tick_stopped;
atomic_t nohz_flags;
#endif /* CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON */
@@ -927,14 +936,17 @@ struct rq {
unsigned int uclamp_flags;
#define UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE 0x01
#endif
-
+ /* Fair scheduling class runqueue */
struct cfs_rq cfs;
+ /* RT scheduling class runqueue */
struct rt_rq rt;
+ /* Deadline scheduing class runqueue */
struct dl_rq dl;

#ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
/* list of leaf cfs_rq on this CPU: */
struct list_head leaf_cfs_rq_list;
+ /* Reference to add child before its parent in leaf_cfs_rq_list */
struct list_head *tmp_alone_branch;
#endif /* CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED */

@@ -946,19 +958,28 @@ struct rq {
*/
unsigned long nr_uninterruptible;

+ /* Currently running task of this rq */
struct task_struct __rcu *curr;
+ /* Idle task of this rq */
struct task_struct *idle;
+ /* Stop task of this rq */
struct task_struct *stop;
unsigned long next_balance;
struct mm_struct *prev_mm;

+ /* RQCF clock_update_flags bits */
unsigned int clock_update_flags;
+ /* sched_clock() value for the queue */
u64 clock;
/* Ensure that all clocks are in the same cache line */
u64 clock_task ____cacheline_aligned;
u64 clock_pelt;
unsigned long lost_idle_time;

+ /*
+ * Account the idle time that we could have spend running if it were
+ * not for IO
+ */
atomic_t nr_iowait;

#ifdef CONFIG_MEMBARRIER
@@ -967,9 +988,18 @@ struct rq {

#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
struct root_domain *rd;
+ /* A domain heirarchy of CPU groups to balance process load among them */
struct sched_domain __rcu *sd;

+ /*
+ * Information about CPUs heterogeneity used for CPU performance
+ * scaling
+ */
unsigned long cpu_capacity;
+ /*
+ * Original capacity of a CPU before being altered by rt tasks
+ * and/or IRQ
+ */
unsigned long cpu_capacity_orig;

struct callback_head *balance_callback;
@@ -977,6 +1007,11 @@ struct rq {
unsigned char nohz_idle_balance;
unsigned char idle_balance;

+ /*
+ * Set whenever the current running task has a utilization greater
+ * than 80% of rq->cpu_capacity. A non-zero value in this field
+ * enables misfit load balancing
+ */
unsigned long misfit_task_load;

/* For active balancing */
@@ -988,16 +1023,42 @@ struct rq {
int cpu;
int online;

+ /*
+ * An MRU list used for load balancing, sorted (except
+ * woken tasks) starting from recently given CPU time tasks
+ * toward tasks with max wait time in a run-queue
+ */
struct list_head cfs_tasks;

+ /*
+ * Track the utilization of RT tasks for a more accurate
+ * view of the utilization of the CPU when overloaded by CFS and
+ * RT tasks
+ */
struct sched_avg avg_rt;
+
+ /*
+ * Track the utilization of DL tasks as CFS tasks can be preempted
+ * by DL tasks and the CFS's utilization might no longer describe
+ * the real utilization level
+ */
struct sched_avg avg_dl;
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
+ /*
+ * Track the utilization of interrupt to give a more accurate
+ * level of utilization of CPU taking into account the time spent
+ * under interrupt context when rq's clock is updated
+ */
struct sched_avg avg_irq;
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE
+ /*
+ * Tracks thermal pressure which is the reduction in maximum
+ * possible capacity due to thermal events
+ */
struct sched_avg avg_thermal;
#endif
+ /* Time stamp at which idle load balance started for this rq */
u64 idle_stamp;
u64 avg_idle;

--
2.17.1