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    SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v5 2/3] docs: scheduler: Add scheduler overview documentation
    On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 5:48 PM Vincent Guittot
    <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> wrote:
    >
    > On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 11:26, john mathew <john.mathew@unikie.com> wrote:
    > >
    > > From: John Mathew <john.mathew@unikie.com>
    > >
    > > 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 | 102 +++++++
    > > Documentation/scheduler/index.rst | 2 +
    > > Documentation/scheduler/overview.rst | 288 ++++++++++++++++++
    > > Documentation/scheduler/sched-cas.rst | 92 ++++++
    > > .../scheduler/sched-data-structs.rst | 182 +++++++++++
    > > Documentation/scheduler/sched-features.rst | 1 +
    > > Documentation/scheduler/scheduler-api.rst | 31 ++
    > > kernel/sched/core.c | 28 +-
    > > kernel/sched/sched.h | 169 +++++++++-
    > > 9 files changed, 888 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
    > > create mode 100644 Documentation/scheduler/cfs-overview.rst
    > > create mode 100644 Documentation/scheduler/sched-cas.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..34f336b8ec86
    > > --- /dev/null
    > > +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/cfs-overview.rst
    > > @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
    > > +.. 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
    > > +
    > > +**Thermal Pressure**:
    >
    > The title is misleading because the thermal pressure is only one
    > source of reduction of the CPU capacity. In fact thermal has just
    > reused what was already in place for RT, DL and IRQ.
    > "Tracking available capacity" is more correct IMHO
    Changed in v7
    >
    > > +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.
    > > +
    > > +** Optimizations to NUMA balancing**:
    > > +When gathering NUMA statistics, information about whether a core is Idle
    > > +is also cached. In case of an imbalance, instead of doing a second scan of
    > > +the node runqueues, the idle core is used as the migration target. When
    > > +doing so multiple tasks can attempt to select an idle CPU but fail, because
    > > +a NUMA balance is active on that CPU. In this case an alternative idle CPU
    > > +scanned. Another optimization is to terminate the search for swap candidate
    > > +when a reasonable one is found instead of searching all the CPUs on the
    > > +target domain.
    > > +
    > > +**Asymmetric CPU capacity wakeup scan**:
    > > +Previous assumption that CPU capacities within an SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES
    > > +domain (sd_llc) are homogeneous didn't hold for newer generations of big.LITTLE
    > > +systems (DynamIQ) which can accommodate CPUs of different compute capacity
    > > +within a single LLC domain. A new idle sibling helper function was added
    > > +which took CPU capacity into account. The policy is to pick the first idle
    > > +CPU which is big enough for the task (task_util * margin < cpu_capacity).
    > > +If no idle CPU is big enough, the idle CPU with the highest capacity is
    > > +picked.
    > > +
    > > +**Optimized idle core selection**:
    > > +Skipped looping through all the threads of a core to evaluate if the
    > > +core is idle or not. If a thread of a core is not idle, evaluation of
    > > +other threads of the core can be skipped.
    > > +
    > > +**Load balance aggressively for SCHED_IDLE CPUs**:
    > > +Newly-woken task is preferred to be enqueued on a SCHED_IDLE CPU instead
    > > +of other busy or idle CPUs. Also load balancer is made to migrate tasks more
    > > +aggressively to a SCHED_IDLE CPU. Fair scheduler now does the next
    > > +load balance soon after the last non-SCHED_IDLE task is dequeued from a
    > > +runqueue, i.e. making the CPU SCHED_IDLE. Also the the busy_factor
    > > +used with the balance interval to prevent frequent load balancing
    > > +is ignored for such CPU's.
    > > +
    > > +**Load balancing algorithm Reworked**:
    > > +Some heuristics in the load balancing algorithm became meaningless because
    > > +of the rework of the scheduler's metrics like the introduction of PELT.
    > > +Those heuristics were removed. The new load balancing algorithm also fixes
    > > +several pending wrong tasks placement
    > > +
    > > + * the 1 task per CPU case with asymmetric system
    > > + * the case of CFS task preempted by other class
    > > + * the case of tasks not evenly spread on groups with spare capacity
    > > +
    > > +Also the load balance decisions have been consolidated in the 3 separate
    > > +functions.
    > > +* update_sd_pick_busiest() select the busiest sched_group.
    > > +* find_busiest_group() checks if there is an imbalance between local and
    > > +busiest group.
    > > +* calculate_imbalance() decides what have to be moved.
    > > +
    > > +**Energy-aware wake-ups speeded up**:
    > > +Algorithmic complexity of the EAS was reduced from O(n^2) to O(n).
    > > +Previous algorithm resulted in prohibitively high wake-up latencies on
    > > +systems with complex energy models, such as systems with per-CPU DVFS.
    > > +The EAS wake-up path was re-factored to compute the energy 'delta' on a
    > > +per-performance domain basis, rather than the whole system.
    > > +
    > > +**Selection of an energy-efficient CPU on task wake-up**:
    > > +An Energy efficient CPU is found by estimating the impact on system-level
    > > +active energy resulting from the placement of the task on the CPU with the
    > > +highest spare capacity in each performance domain. Energy Model (EM) is
    > > +used for this. This strategy spreads tasks in a performance domain and avoids overly
    > > +aggressive task packing. The best CPU energy-wise is then selected if it
    > > +saves a large enough amount of energy with respect to prev_cpu.
    > > +
    > > +**Consider misfit tasks when load-balancing**:
    > > +A task which ends up on a CPU which doesn't suit its compute demand is
    > > +identified as a misfit task in asymmetric CPU capacity systems. These
    > > +'misfit' tasks are migrated to CPUs with higher compute capacity to ensure
    > > +better throughput. A new group_type: group_misfit_task is added and indicates this
    > > +scenario. Tweaks to the load-balance code are done to make the migrations
    > > +happen. Misfit balancing is done between a source group of lower per-CPU
    > > +capacity and destination group of higher compute capacity. Otherwise, misfit
    > > +balancing is ignored.
    > > +
    > > +
    > > +**Make schedstats a runtime tunable that is disabled by default**:
    > > +A kernel command-line and sysctl tunable was added to enable or disable
    > > +schedstats on demand (when it's built in). It is disabled by default.
    > > +The benefits are dependent on how scheduler-intensive the workload is.
    > > +
    > > +
    > > diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/index.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/index.rst
    > > index 9bdccea74af9..f311abe5b711 100644
    > > --- a/Documentation/scheduler/index.rst
    > > +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/index.rst
    > > @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ specific implementation differences.
    > > :maxdepth: 2
    > >
    > > overview
    > > + sched-data-structs
    > > + cfs-overview
    > > sched-design-CFS
    > > sched-features
    > > arch-specific
    > > diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/overview.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/overview.rst
    > > index aee16feefc61..7536bec6afce 100644
    > > --- a/Documentation/scheduler/overview.rst
    > > +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/overview.rst
    > > @@ -3,3 +3,291 @@
    > > ====================
    > > Scheduler overview
    > > ====================
    > > +
    > > +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 CPU cores 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 cores in SMP systems.
    > > +
    > > +The scheduler attempts to be responsive for I/O bound processes and efficient
    > > +for CPU bound processes. The scheduler also applies different scheduling
    > > +policies for real time and normal processes based on their respective
    > > +priorities. Higher priorities in the kernel have a numerical smaller
    > > +value. Real time priorities range from 1 (highest) – 99 whereas normal
    > > +priorities range from 100 – 139 (lowest). Scheduler implements many scheduling
    > > +classes which encapsulate a particular scheduling policy. Each scheduling
    > > +policy implements scheduler handling of tasks that belong to a particular
    > > +priority. SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR policies handle real time priorities tasks
    > > +while SCHED_NORMAL and SCHED_BATCH policies handle tasks with normal priorities.
    > > +SCHED_IDLE is also a normal scheduling policy when means its priority can
    > > +be set between 100 – 139 range too but they are treated as priority 139.
    > > +Their priority doesn't matter since they get minimal weight WEIGHT_IDLEPRI=3.
    > > +SCHED_DEADLINE policy tasks have negative priorities, reflecting
    > > +the fact that any of them has higher priority than RT and NORMAL/BATCH tasks.
    > > +
    > > +And then there are the maintenance scheduler classes: idle sched class and
    > > +stop sched class. Idle class doesn't manage any user tasks and so doesn't
    > > +implement a policy. Its idle tasks 'swapper/X' has priority 120 and and aren't
    > > +visible to user space. Idle tasks are responsible for by putting the CPUs
    > > +into deep idle states when there is no work to do.
    > > +Stop sched class is also used internally by the kernel doesn't implement any
    > > +scheduling policy. Stopper tasks 'migration/X' disguise as as a SCHED_FIFO
    > > +task with priority 139. Stopper tasks are a mechanism to force a CPU to stop
    > > +running everything else and perform a specific task. As this is the
    > > +highest-priority class, it can preempt everything else and nothing ever
    > > +preempts it. 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
    > > +kernel for task migration.
    > > +
    > > +
    > > +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 schedule call will never return.
    > > +* 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:* Nice value of a task. The value of this field does
    > > + not change. Value ranges from -20 to 19. This value is mapped to nice
    > > + value and used in the scheduler.
    > > +
    > > +*prio:* Dynamic priority of a task. Previously a function of static
    > > + priority and tasks interactivity. Value not used by CFS scheduler but used
    > > + by the RT scheduler. Might be boosted by interactivity modifiers. Changes
    > > + upon fork, setprio syscalls, and whenever the interactivity estimator
    > > + recalculates.
    > > +
    > > +*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 by real time tasks. Real time tasks are
    > > + prioritized based on this value.
    > > +
    > > +*sched_class:* Pointer to sched_class CFS structure.
    > > +
    > > +*sched_entity:* Pointer to sched_entity CFS structure.
    > > +
    > > +*policy:* Value for scheduling policy. The possible values are:
    > > +
    > > +* SCHED_NORMAL: Regular tasks use this policy.
    > > +* SCHED_BATCH: Tasks which need to run longer without preemption
    > > + use this policy. Suitable for batch jobs.
    > > +* SCHED_IDLE: Policy used by background tasks.
    > > +* SCHED_FIFO & SCHED_RR: These policies for real time tasks. Handled by
    > > + real time scheduler.
    > > +* SCHED_DEADLINE: Tasks which are activated on a periodic or sporadic fashion
    > > + use this policy. This policy implements the Earliest Deadline First (EDF)
    > > + scheduling algorithm. This policy is explained in detail in the
    > > + :doc:`sched-deadline` documentation.
    > > +
    > > +*nr_cpus_allowed:* Bit field containing tasks affinity towards a set of
    > > + CPU cores. Set using sched_setaffinity() system call.
    > > +
    > > +New processes are created using the fork() system call which is described
    > > +at manpage :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 :manpage:`PTHREAD_CREATE(3)`
    > > +POSIX threads creation is described at :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.
    > > +
    > > +Following are some places that notify the kernel to schedule:
    > > +
    > > +* scheduler_tick()
    > > +
    > > +* Running task goes to sleep state : Right before a task goes to sleep,
    > > + schedule() will be called to pick the next task to run and the change
    > > + its state to either TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE or TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. For
    > > + instance, prepare_to_wait() is one of the functions that makes the
    > > + task go to the sleep state.
    > > +
    > > +* try_to_wake_up()
    > > +
    > > +* yield()
    > > +
    > > +* wait_event()
    > > +
    > > +* cond_resched() : It gives the scheduler a chance to run a higher-priority
    > > + process.
    > > +
    > > +* cond_resched_lock() : If a reschedule is pending, drop the given lock,
    > > + call schedule, and on return reacquire the lock.
    > > +
    > > +* do_task_dead()
    > > +
    > > +* preempt_schedule() : The function checks whether local interrupts are
    > > + enabled and the preempt_count field of current is zero; if both
    > > + conditions are true, it invokes schedule() to select another process
    > > + to run.
    > > +
    > > +* preempt_schedule_irq()
    > > +
    > > +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-cas.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-cas.rst
    > > new file mode 100644
    > > index 000000000000..fcebc5770803
    > > --- /dev/null
    > > +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-cas.rst
    > > @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
    > > +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
    > > +
    > > +=========================
    > > +Capacity-Aware Scheduling
    > > +=========================
    > > +
    > > +Scheduling load balancing on Asymmetric Multiprocessor systems was improved
    > > +through the introduction of Capacity-Aware Scheduling. It identifies the
    > > +most efficient CPU to assign a task based on its capacity. This capacity
    > > +may be asymmetric due to heterogeneous computing architecture such
    > > +as ARM big.LITTLE. Scheduler gets information about asymmetric capacities
    > > +when the scheduler domain hierarchy is built using build_sched_domains().
    > > +CPU capacities are provided to the scheduler topology code through the
    > > +architecture specific implementation of the arch_scale_cpu_capacity().
    > > +The SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY flag is set by the scheduler topology for a domain
    > > +in the hierarchy where all CPU capacities are visible for any cpu's point
    > > +of view on asymmetric CPU capacity systems. The scheduler can then take
    > > +capacity asymmetry into account when load balancing.
    > > +
    > > +Initial CPU capacities are derived from the Device Tree and CPU frequency.
    > > +For RISC-V & ARM64 it is done in drivers/base/arch_topology.c. A cpu-map
    > > +device tree is parsed to obtain the cpu topology and the initial CPU capacity
    > > +is set using the CPUFreq subsystem. A callback is registered to the CPUFreq
    > > +subsystem to rebuild sched_domains once the CPUFreq is loaded, which is when
    > > +a complete view of the capacities of the CPUs (which is a mix of µarch and
    > > +frequencies) is available.
    > > +
    > > +Asymmetric CPU capacity information is used in
    > > +
    > > +* Energy Aware Scheduling: The scheduler is able to predict the impact of
    > > + its decisions on the energy consumed by CPUs. Described in :doc:`sched-energy` .
    > > +* Optimized task wakeup load balancing by finding idle CPU with enough capacity.
    > > +
    > > +The different scheduler classes asymmetric use the Asymmetric CPU capacity
    > > +information differently.
    > > +
    > > +CFS Capacity Awareness
    > > +======================
    > > +
    > > +Used to identify misfit tasks:
    > > +A load intensive task on a CPU which doesn't meet its compute demand is
    > > +identified as a misfit task. 'Misfit' tasks are migrated to CPUs with
    > > +higher compute capacity to ensure better throughput. CFS frequently updates
    > > +the misfit status of the current task by comparing its utilization vs the
    > > +CPU capacity using task_fits_capacity(). If the utilization is more than the
    > > +CPU capacity the calculated misfit load is updated to the runqueue
    > > +rq->misfit_task_load. This misfit load is then checked by the load
    > > +balancing operations to migrate the task to a CPU of higher capacity.
    > > +
    > > +Modified wakeup logic to support DynamIQ systems:
    > > +When the scheduler class calls select_task_rq_fair to select a runqueue for
    > > +a waking task, load balancing is performed 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. In DynamIQ systems Last Level Cache (LLC)
    > > +domain of a CPU spans all CPUs in the system. This may include CPU's of
    > > +different capacities. So in select_idle_sibling() an idle sibling is picked
    > > +based on CPU capacity for asymmetric CPU capacity systems and for symmetric
    > > +systems use LLC domain is used. The policy is to pick the first idle CPU
    > > +which is big enough for the task (task_util * margin < cpu_capacity).
    > > +If no idle CPU is big enough, the idle CPU with the highest capacity is
    > > +picked. For asymmetric CPU capacity systems select_idle_sibling() operates
    > > +on the sd_asym_cpucapacity sched_domain pointer, which is guaranteed to span
    > > +all known CPU capacities in the system. This works for both "legacy"
    > > +big.LITTLE (LITTLEs & bigs split at MC, joined at DIE) and for newer
    > > +DynamIQ systems (e.g. LITTLEs and bigs in the same MC domain).
    > > +
    > > +
    > > +RT Capacity Awareness
    > > +=====================
    > > +
    > > +Since RT tasks doesn't have a per task utilization signal RT tasks uses uclamp
    > > +to guarantee a minimum performance point. Utilization clamping is a mechanism
    > > +which allows to "clamp" (i.e. filter) the utilization generated by RT and
    > > +FAIR tasks within a range defined by user-space. It exposes to user-space a
    > > +new set of per-task attributes the scheduler can use as hints about the
    > > +expected/required utilization for a task. RT is made capacity aware
    > > +by ensuring that the capacity of the CPU is >= uclamp_min value. This check
    > > +is done in the rt_task_fits_capacity()
    > > +
    > > +DL Capacity Awareness
    > > +=====================
    > > +
    > > +TBD
    > > +
    > > +
    > > +
    > > +
    > > +
    > > +
    > > +
    > > +
    > > +
    > > diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-data-structs.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-data-structs.rst
    > > new file mode 100644
    > > index 000000000000..a16408676b71
    > > --- /dev/null
    > > +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-data-structs.rst
    > > @@ -0,0 +1,182 @@
    > > +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
    > > +
    > > +=========================
    > > +Scheduler Data Structures
    > > +=========================
    > > +
    > > +The main parts of the Linux scheduler are:
    > > +
    > > +Runqueue
    > > +~~~~~~~~
    > > +
    > > +:c:type:`struct rq <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. dl_sched_class for deadline scheduler, fair_sched_class for CFS
    > > +and rt_sched_class for RT are implementations of this class.
    > > +
    > > +The important methods of scheduler class are:
    > > +
    > > +enqueue_task and 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.
    > > +
    > > +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.
    > > +
    > > +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
    > > + 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.
    > > +
    > > +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.
    > > +
    > > +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.
    > > +
    > > +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.
    > > +
    > > +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.
    > > +
    > > +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.
    > > +
    > > +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.
    > > +
    > > +Scheduler sets the scheduler class for each task based on its priority.
    > > +Tasks assigned with SCHED_NORMAL, SCHED_IDLE and SCHED_BATCH call
    > > +fair_sched_class hooks and tasks assigned with SCHED_RR and
    > > +SCHED_FIFO call rt_sched_class hooks. Tasks assigned with SCHED_DEADLINE
    > > +policy calls dl_sched_class hooks.
    > > diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-features.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-features.rst
    > > index 1afbd9cc8d52..e576c7d9e556 100644
    > > --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-features.rst
    > > +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-features.rst
    > > @@ -17,4 +17,5 @@ Scheduler Features
    > > sched-energy
    > > sched-nice-design
    > > sched-rt-group
    > > + sched-cas
    > > completion
    > > diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/scheduler-api.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/scheduler-api.rst
    > > new file mode 100644
    > > index 000000000000..1fc6bd4c2908
    > > --- /dev/null
    > > +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/scheduler-api.rst
    > > @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
    > > +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
    > > +
    > > +=============================
    > > +Scheduler related functions
    > > +=============================
    > > +
    > > +
    > > +.. kernel-doc:: kernel/sched/core.c
    > > + :functions: __schedule
    > > +
    > > +.. 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
    > > +
    > > +.. kernel-doc:: kernel/sched/sched.h
    > > + :functions: rq
    > > +
    > > diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
    > > index 9a2fbf98fd6f..b349ed9b4d92 100644
    > > --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
    > > +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
    > > @@ -3576,9 +3576,13 @@ void arch_set_thermal_pressure(struct cpumask *cpus,
    > > WRITE_ONCE(per_cpu(thermal_pressure, cpu), th_pressure);
    > > }
    > >
    > > -/*
    > > +/**
    > > + * 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)
    > > {
    > > @@ -3959,8 +3963,10 @@ 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:
    > > *
    > > @@ -4089,6 +4095,12 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(bool preempt)
    > > balance_callback(rq);
    > > }
    > >
    > > +/**
    > > + * do_task_dead - handle task exit
    > > + *
    > > + * Changes the 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(): */
    > > @@ -4320,7 +4332,8 @@ 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
    > > @@ -5618,6 +5631,13 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE0(sched_yield)
    > > }
    > >
    > > #ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPTION
    > > +/**
    > > + * _cond_resched - explicit rescheduling
    > > + *
    > > + * gives the scheduler a chance to run a higher-priority process
    > > + *
    > > + * Return: 1 if reschedule was done, 0 if reschedule not done.
    > > + */
    > > int __sched _cond_resched(void)
    > > {
    > > if (should_resched(0)) {
    > > diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
    > > index db3a57675ccf..21f2953b72c7 100644
    > > --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
    > > +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
    > > @@ -865,12 +865,175 @@ struct uclamp_rq {
    > > };
    > > #endif /* CONFIG_UCLAMP_TASK */
    > >
    > > -/*
    > > - * This is the main, per-CPU runqueue data structure.
    > > +/**
    > > + * struct rq - This is the main, per-CPU runqueue data structure.
    > > *
    > > * Locking rule: those places that want to lock multiple runqueues
    > > * (such as the load balancing or the thread migration code), lock
    > > * acquire operations must be ordered by ascending &runqueue.
    > > + *
    > > + * @lock:
    > > + * lock to be acquired while modifying the runqueue
    > > + * @nr_running:
    > > + * number of runnable tasks on this queue
    > > + * @nr_numa_running:
    > > + * number of tasks running that care about their placement
    > > + * @nr_preferred_running:
    > > + * number of tasks that are optimally NUMA placed
    > > + * @numa_migrate_on:
    > > + * per run-queue variable to check if NUMA-balance is
    > > + * active on the run-queue
    > > + * @last_blocked_load_update_tick:
    > > + * tick stamp for decay of blocked load
    > > + * @has_blocked_load:
    > > + * idle CPU has blocked load
    > > + * @nohz_tick_stopped:
    > > + * CPU is going idle with tick stopped
    > > + * @nohz_flags:
    > > + * flags indicating NOHZ idle balancer actions
    > > + * @nr_load_updates:
    > > + * unused
    > > + * @nr_switches:
    > > + * number of context switches
    > > + * @uclamp:
    > > + * utilization clamp values based on CPU's RUNNABLE tasks
    > > + * @uclamp_flags:
    > > + * flags for uclamp actions, currently one flag for idle.
    > > + * @cfs:
    > > + * fair scheduling class runqueue
    > > + * @rt:
    > > + * rt scheduling class runqueue
    > > + * @dl:
    > > + * dl scheduing class runqueue
    > > + * @leaf_cfs_rq_list:
    > > + * list of leaf cfs_rq on this CPU
    > > + * @tmp_alone_branch:
    > > + * reference to add child before its parent in leaf_cfs_rq_list
    > > + * @nr_uninterruptible:
    > > + * global counter where the total sum over all CPUs matters. A task
    > > + * can increase this counter on one CPU and if it got migrated
    > > + * afterwards it may decrease it on another CPU. Always updated under
    > > + * the runqueue lock
    > > + * @curr:
    > > + * points to the currently running task of this rq.
    > > + * @idle:
    > > + * points to the idle task of this rq
    > > + * @stop:
    > > + * points to the stop task of this rq
    > > + * @next_balance:
    > > + * shortest next balance before updating nohz.next_balance
    > > + * @prev_mm:
    > > + * real address space of the previous task
    > > + * @clock_update_flags:
    > > + * RQCF clock_update_flags bits
    > > + * @clock:
    > > + * sched_clock() value for the queue
    > > + * @clock_task:
    > > + * clock value minus irq handling time
    > > + * @clock_pelt:
    > > + * clock which scales with current capacity when something is
    > > + * running on rq and synchronizes with clock_task when rq is idle
    > > + * @lost_idle_time:
    > > + * idle time lost when utilization of a rq has reached the
    > > + * maximum value
    > > + * @nr_iowait:
    > > + * account the idle time that we could have spend running if it
    > > + * were not for IO
    > > + * @membarrier_state:
    > > + * copy of membarrier_state from the mm_struct
    > > + * @rd:
    > > + * root domain, each exclusive cpuset essentially defines an island
    > > + * domain by fully partitioning the member CPUs from any other cpuset
    > > + * @sd:
    > > + * a domain heirarchy of CPU groups to balance process load among them
    > > + * @cpu_capacity:
    > > + * information about CPUs heterogeneity used for CPU performance
    > > + * scaling
    > > + * @cpu_capacity_orig:
    > > + * original capacity of a CPU before being altered by
    > > + * rt tasks and/or IRQ
    > > + * @balance_callback:
    > > + * queue to hold load balancing push and pull operations
    > > + * @idle_balance:
    > > + * flag to do the nohz idle load balance
    > > + * @misfit_task_load:
    > > + * 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
    > > + * @active_balance:
    > > + * synchronizes accesses to ->active_balance_work
    > > + * @push_cpu:
    > > + * idle cpu to push the running task on to during active load
    > > + * balancing.
    > > + * @active_balance_work:
    > > + * callback scheduled to run on one or multiple cpus
    > > + * with maximum priority monopolozing those cpus.
    > > + * @cpu:
    > > + * CPU of this runqueue
    > > + * @online:
    > > + * Used by scheduling classes to support CPU hotplug
    > > + * @cfs_tasks:
    > > + * 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
    > > + * @avg_rt:
    > > + * track the utilization of RT tasks for a more accurate
    > > + * view of the utilization of the CPU when overloaded by CFS and
    > > + * RT tasks
    > > + * @avg_dl:
    > > + * 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
    > > + * @avg_irq:
    > > + * track the the utilization of interrupt to give a more accurate
    > > + * level of utilization of CPU taking into account the time spent
    > > + * under interrupt context when rqs' clock is updated
    > > + * @avg_thermal:
    > > + * tracks thermal pressure which is the reduction in maximum
    > > + * possible capacity due to thermal events
    > > + * @idle_stamp:
    > > + * time stamp at which idle load balance started for this rq.
    > > + * Used to find the idlest CPU, when multiple idle CPUs are in
    > > + * the same state
    > > + * @avg_idle:
    > > + * average idle time for this rq
    > > + * @max_idle_balance_cost:
    > > + * used to determine avg_idle's max value
    > > + * @prev_irq_time:
    > > + * updated to account time consumed when a previous
    > > + * update_rq_clock() happened inside a {soft,}irq region
    > > + * @prev_steal_time:
    > > + * to account how much elapsed time was spent in steal
    > > + * @prev_steal_time_rq:
    > > + * for fine granularity task steal time accounting by
    > > + * making update_rq_clock() aware of steal time
    > > + * @calc_load_update:
    > > + * sample window for global load-average calculations
    > > + * @calc_load_active:
    > > + * fold any nr_active delta into a global accumulate
    > > + * @hrtick_csd:
    > > + * call_single_data used to set hrtick timer state on a specific CPU
    > > + * @hrtick_timer:
    > > + * HR-timer to deliver an accurate preemption tick
    > > + * @rq_sched_info:
    > > + * runqueue specific latency stats
    > > + * @rq_cpu_time:
    > > + * runqueue specific accumulated per-task cpu runtime
    > > + * @yld_count:
    > > + * runqueue specific sys_sched_yield() stats
    > > + * @sched_count:
    > > + * runqueue specific __schedule() stats
    > > + * @sched_goidle:
    > > + * runqueue specific idle scheduling class stats
    > > + * @ttwu_count:
    > > + * runqueue specific idle ttwu stats , both remote and local
    > > + * @ttwu_local:
    > > + * ttwu count for the CPU of the rq
    > > + * @wake_list:
    > > + * list which stores tasks being woken up remotely by ttwu
    > > + * @idle_state:
    > > + * cpuidle state pointer of the CPU of this rq used to make a
    > > + * better decision when balancing tasks
    > > */
    > > struct rq {
    > > /* runqueue lock: */
    > > @@ -1136,7 +1299,7 @@ static inline u64 rq_clock_task(struct rq *rq)
    > > return rq->clock_task;
    > > }
    > >
    > > -/**
    > > +/*
    > > * By default the decay is the default pelt decay period.
    > > * The decay shift can change the decay period in
    > > * multiples of 32.
    > > --
    > > 2.17.1
    > >

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