Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] sched/uclamp: add SCHED_FLAG_UTIL_CLAMP_RESET flag to reset uclamp

Qais Yousef
2020-11-12T14:41:37Z

On 11/11/20 18:41, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:
> On 10/11/2020 13:21, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 10:37:56AM +0800, Yun Hsiang wrote:
> >> If the user wants to stop controlling uclamp and let the task inherit
> >> the value from the group, we need a method to reset.
> >>
> >> Add SCHED_FLAG_UTIL_CLAMP_RESET flag to allow the user to reset uclamp via
> >> sched_setattr syscall.
> >>
> >> The policy is
> >> _CLAMP_RESET => reset both min and max
> >> _CLAMP_RESET | _CLAMP_MIN => reset min value
> >> _CLAMP_RESET | _CLAMP_MAX => reset max value
> >> _CLAMP_RESET | _CLAMP_MIN | _CLAMP_MAX => reset both min and max
> >>
> >
> > The obvious alternative would be to use a magic value in
> > sched_util_{min,max} to indicate reset. After all, we strictly enforce
> > the values are inside [0,1024], which leaves us with many unused values.
> >
> > Specifically -1 comes to mind. It would allow doing this without an
> > extra flag, OTOH the explicit flag is well, more explicit.
> >
> > I don't have a strong preference either way, but I wanted to make sure
> > it was considered, and perhaps we can record why this isn't as nice a
> > solution, dunno.
>
> IMHO the '-1' magic value approach is cleaner. Did some light testing on it.

I assume we agree then that we don't want to explicitly document this quirky
feature and keep it for advanced users?

I am wary of the UAPI change that is both explicit and implicit. It explicitly
requests a reset, but implicitly requests a cgroup behavior change.

With this magic value at least we can more easily return an error if we decided
to deprecate it, which has been my main ask so far. I don't want us to end up
not being able to easily modify this code in the future.

I don't have strong opinion too though.

If you or Yun would still like to send the patch to protect
SCHED_FLAG_UTIL_CLAMP and SCHED_FLAG_ALL with __kernel__ that'd be great.

> From 2e6a64fac4f2f66a2c6246de33db22c467fa7d33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 01:14:33 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] sched/uclamp: Allow to reset a task uclamp constraint value
>
> In case the user wants to stop controlling a uclamp constraint value
> for a task, use the magic value -1 in sched_util_{min,max} with the
> appropriate sched_flags (SCHED_FLAG_UTIL_CLAMP_{MIN,MAX}) to indicate
> the reset.
>
> The advantage over the 'additional flag' approach (i.e. introducing
> SCHED_FLAG_UTIL_CLAMP_RESET) is that no additional flag has to be
> exported via uapi. This avoids the need to document how this new flag
> has be used in conjunction with the existing uclamp related flags.
>
> The following subtle issue is fixed as well. When a uclamp constraint
> value is set on a !user_defined uclamp_se it is currently first reset
> and then set.
> Fix this by AND'ing !user_defined with !SCHED_FLAG_UTIL_CLAMP which
> stands for the 'sched class change' case.
> The related condition 'if (uc_se->user_defined)' moved from
> __setscheduler_uclamp() into uclamp_reset().
>
> Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
> ---
> include/uapi/linux/sched/types.h | 4 +-
> kernel/sched/core.c | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> 2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/sched/types.h b/include/uapi/linux/sched/types.h
> index c852153ddb0d..b9165f17dddc 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/sched/types.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/sched/types.h
> @@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ struct sched_attr {
> __u64 sched_period;
>
> /* Utilization hints */
> - __u32 sched_util_min;
> - __u32 sched_util_max;
> + __s32 sched_util_min;
> + __s32 sched_util_max;
>
> };
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 3dc415f58bd7..caaa2a8434b9 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -1413,17 +1413,24 @@ int sysctl_sched_uclamp_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
> static int uclamp_validate(struct task_struct *p,
> const struct sched_attr *attr)
> {
> - unsigned int lower_bound = p->uclamp_req[UCLAMP_MIN].value;
> - unsigned int upper_bound = p->uclamp_req[UCLAMP_MAX].value;
> + int util_min = p->uclamp_req[UCLAMP_MIN].value;
> + int util_max = p->uclamp_req[UCLAMP_MAX].value;
>
> - if (attr->sched_flags & SCHED_FLAG_UTIL_CLAMP_MIN)
> - lower_bound = attr->sched_util_min;
> - if (attr->sched_flags & SCHED_FLAG_UTIL_CLAMP_MAX)
> - upper_bound = attr->sched_util_max;
> + if (attr->sched_flags & SCHED_FLAG_UTIL_CLAMP_MIN) {
> + util_min = attr->sched_util_min;
>

> - if (lower_bound > upper_bound)
> - return -EINVAL;

You removed this check and didn't replace it with equivalent one?

> - if (upper_bound > SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE)
> + if (util_min < -1 || util_min > SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE)
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> +
> + if (attr->sched_flags & SCHED_FLAG_UTIL_CLAMP_MAX) {
> + util_max = attr->sched_util_max;
> +
> + if (util_max < -1 || util_max > SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE)
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> +
> + if (util_min != -1 && util_max != -1 && util_min > util_max)
> return -EINVAL;

Ah, it is here. Never mind.

The approach looks good to me in general.

Thanks

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Qais Yousef