sched/core: Force proper alignment of 'struct util_est'
For some as yet not understood reason, Tony gets unaligned access traps on IA64 because of: struct util_est ue = READ_ONCE(p->se.avg.util_est); and: WRITE_ONCE(p->se.avg.util_est, ue); introduced by commit: d519329f ("sched/fair: Update util_est only on util_avg updates") Normally those two fields should end up on an 8-byte aligned location, but UP and RANDSTRUCT can mess that up so enforce the alignment explicitly. Also make the alignment on sched_avg unconditional, as it is really about data locality, not false-sharing. With or without this patch the layout for sched_avg on a ia64-defconfig build looks like: $ pahole -EC sched_avg ia64-defconfig/kernel/sched/core.o die__process_function: tag not supported (INVALID)! struct sched_avg { /* typedef u64 */ long long unsigned int last_update_time; /* 0 8 */ /* typedef u64 */ long long unsigned int load_sum; /* 8 8 */ /* typedef u64 */ long long unsigned int runnable_load_sum; /* 16 8 */ /* typedef u32 */ unsigned int util_sum; /* 24 4 */ /* typedef u32 */ unsigned int period_contrib; /* 28 4 */ long unsigned int load_avg; /* 32 8 */ long unsigned int runnable_load_avg; /* 40 8 */ long unsigned int util_avg; /* 48 8 */ struct util_est { unsigned int enqueued; /* 56 4 */ unsigned int ewma; /* 60 4 */ } util_est; /* 56 8 */ /* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */ /* size: 64, cachelines: 1, members: 9 */ }; Reported-and-Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Norbert Manthey <nmanthey@amazon.de> Cc: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Fixes: d519329f ("sched/fair: Update util_est only on util_avg updates") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180405080521.GG4129@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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