Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/uprobes

Merge in latest upstream (and the latest perf development tree),
to prepare for tooling changes, and also to pick up v3.4 MM
changes that the uprobes code needs to take care of.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 31 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/cpuset.h b/include/linux/cpuset.h
index e9eaec52265..668f66baac7 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpuset.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpuset.h
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ extern int cpuset_init(void);
 extern void cpuset_init_smp(void);
 extern void cpuset_update_active_cpus(void);
 extern void cpuset_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p, struct cpumask *mask);
-extern int cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback(struct task_struct *p);
+extern void cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback(struct task_struct *p);
 extern nodemask_t cpuset_mems_allowed(struct task_struct *p);
 #define cpuset_current_mems_allowed (current->mems_allowed)
 void cpuset_init_current_mems_allowed(void);
@@ -89,42 +89,33 @@ extern void rebuild_sched_domains(void);
 extern void cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed(struct task_struct *p);
 
 /*
- * reading current mems_allowed and mempolicy in the fastpath must protected
- * by get_mems_allowed()
+ * get_mems_allowed is required when making decisions involving mems_allowed
+ * such as during page allocation. mems_allowed can be updated in parallel
+ * and depending on the new value an operation can fail potentially causing
+ * process failure. A retry loop with get_mems_allowed and put_mems_allowed
+ * prevents these artificial failures.
  */
-static inline void get_mems_allowed(void)
+static inline unsigned int get_mems_allowed(void)
 {
-	current->mems_allowed_change_disable++;
-
-	/*
-	 * ensure that reading mems_allowed and mempolicy happens after the
-	 * update of ->mems_allowed_change_disable.
-	 *
-	 * the write-side task finds ->mems_allowed_change_disable is not 0,
-	 * and knows the read-side task is reading mems_allowed or mempolicy,
-	 * so it will clear old bits lazily.
-	 */
-	smp_mb();
+	return read_seqcount_begin(&current->mems_allowed_seq);
 }
 
-static inline void put_mems_allowed(void)
+/*
+ * If this returns false, the operation that took place after get_mems_allowed
+ * may have failed. It is up to the caller to retry the operation if
+ * appropriate.
+ */
+static inline bool put_mems_allowed(unsigned int seq)
 {
-	/*
-	 * ensure that reading mems_allowed and mempolicy before reducing
-	 * mems_allowed_change_disable.
-	 *
-	 * the write-side task will know that the read-side task is still
-	 * reading mems_allowed or mempolicy, don't clears old bits in the
-	 * nodemask.
-	 */
-	smp_mb();
-	--ACCESS_ONCE(current->mems_allowed_change_disable);
+	return !read_seqcount_retry(&current->mems_allowed_seq, seq);
 }
 
 static inline void set_mems_allowed(nodemask_t nodemask)
 {
 	task_lock(current);
+	write_seqcount_begin(&current->mems_allowed_seq);
 	current->mems_allowed = nodemask;
+	write_seqcount_end(&current->mems_allowed_seq);
 	task_unlock(current);
 }
 
@@ -144,10 +135,8 @@ static inline void cpuset_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p,
 	cpumask_copy(mask, cpu_possible_mask);
 }
 
-static inline int cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback(struct task_struct *p)
+static inline void cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback(struct task_struct *p)
 {
-	do_set_cpus_allowed(p, cpu_possible_mask);
-	return cpumask_any(cpu_active_mask);
 }
 
 static inline nodemask_t cpuset_mems_allowed(struct task_struct *p)
@@ -234,12 +223,14 @@ static inline void set_mems_allowed(nodemask_t nodemask)
 {
 }
 
-static inline void get_mems_allowed(void)
+static inline unsigned int get_mems_allowed(void)
 {
+	return 0;
 }
 
-static inline void put_mems_allowed(void)
+static inline bool put_mems_allowed(unsigned int seq)
 {
+	return true;
 }
 
 #endif /* !CONFIG_CPUSETS */