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2011-10-31writeback: Add a 'reason' to wb_writeback_workCurt Wohlgemuth
This creates a new 'reason' field in a wb_writeback_work structure, which unambiguously identifies who initiates writeback activity. A 'wb_reason' enumeration has been added to writeback.h, to enumerate the possible reasons. The 'writeback_work_class' and tracepoint event class and 'writeback_queue_io' tracepoints are updated to include the symbolic 'reason' in all trace events. And the 'writeback_inodes_sbXXX' family of routines has had a wb_stats parameter added to them, so callers can specify why writeback is being started. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-10-31writeback: send work item to queue_io, move_expired_inodesCurt Wohlgemuth
Instead of sending ->older_than_this to queue_io() and move_expired_inodes(), send the entire wb_writeback_work structure. There are other fields of a work item that are useful in these routines and in tracepoints. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-10-31writeback: trace event balance_dirty_pagesWu Fengguang
Useful for analyzing the dynamics of the throttling algorithms and debugging user reported problems. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-10-31writeback: trace event bdi_dirty_ratelimitWu Fengguang
It helps understand how various throttle bandwidths are updated. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-10-03writeback: IO-less balance_dirty_pages()Wu Fengguang
As proposed by Chris, Dave and Jan, don't start foreground writeback IO inside balance_dirty_pages(). Instead, simply let it idle sleep for some time to throttle the dirtying task. In the mean while, kick off the per-bdi flusher thread to do background writeback IO. RATIONALS ========= - disk seeks on concurrent writeback of multiple inodes (Dave Chinner) If every thread doing writes and being throttled start foreground writeback, it leads to N IO submitters from at least N different inodes at the same time, end up with N different sets of IO being issued with potentially zero locality to each other, resulting in much lower elevator sort/merge efficiency and hence we seek the disk all over the place to service the different sets of IO. OTOH, if there is only one submission thread, it doesn't jump between inodes in the same way when congestion clears - it keeps writing to the same inode, resulting in large related chunks of sequential IOs being issued to the disk. This is more efficient than the above foreground writeback because the elevator works better and the disk seeks less. - lock contention and cache bouncing on concurrent IO submitters (Dave Chinner) With this patchset, the fs_mark benchmark on a 12-drive software RAID0 goes from CPU bound to IO bound, freeing "3-4 CPUs worth of spinlock contention". * "CPU usage has dropped by ~55%", "it certainly appears that most of the CPU time saving comes from the removal of contention on the inode_wb_list_lock" (IMHO at least 10% comes from the reduction of cacheline bouncing, because the new code is able to call much less frequently into balance_dirty_pages() and hence access the global page states) * the user space "App overhead" is reduced by 20%, by avoiding the cacheline pollution by the complex writeback code path * "for a ~5% throughput reduction", "the number of write IOs have dropped by ~25%", and the elapsed time reduced from 41:42.17 to 40:53.23. * On a simple test of 100 dd, it reduces the CPU %system time from 30% to 3%, and improves IO throughput from 38MB/s to 42MB/s. - IO size too small for fast arrays and too large for slow USB sticks The write_chunk used by current balance_dirty_pages() cannot be directly set to some large value (eg. 128MB) for better IO efficiency. Because it could lead to more than 1 second user perceivable stalls. Even the current 4MB write size may be too large for slow USB sticks. The fact that balance_dirty_pages() starts IO on itself couples the IO size to wait time, which makes it hard to do suitable IO size while keeping the wait time under control. Now it's possible to increase writeback chunk size proportional to the disk bandwidth. In a simple test of 50 dd's on XFS, 1-HDD, 3GB ram, the larger writeback size dramatically reduces the seek count to 1/10 (far beyond my expectation) and improves the write throughput by 24%. - long block time in balance_dirty_pages() hurts desktop responsiveness Many of us may have the experience: it often takes a couple of seconds or even long time to stop a heavy writing dd/cp/tar command with Ctrl-C or "kill -9". - IO pipeline broken by bumpy write() progress There are a broad class of "loop {read(buf); write(buf);}" applications whose read() pipeline will be under-utilized or even come to a stop if the write()s have long latencies _or_ don't progress in a constant rate. The current threshold based throttling inherently transfers the large low level IO completion fluctuations to bumpy application write()s, and further deteriorates with increasing number of dirtiers and/or bdi's. For example, when doing 50 dd's + 1 remote rsync to an XFS partition, the rsync progresses very bumpy in legacy kernel, and throughput is improved by 67% by this patchset. (plus the larger write chunk size, it will be 93% speedup). The new rate based throttling can support 1000+ dd's with excellent smoothness, low latency and low overheads. For the above reasons, it's much better to do IO-less and low latency pauses in balance_dirty_pages(). Jan Kara, Dave Chinner and me explored the scheme to let balance_dirty_pages() wait for enough writeback IO completions to safeguard the dirty limit. However it's found to have two problems: - in large NUMA systems, the per-cpu counters may have big accounting errors, leading to big throttle wait time and jitters. - NFS may kill large amount of unstable pages with one single COMMIT. Because NFS server serves COMMIT with expensive fsync() IOs, it is desirable to delay and reduce the number of COMMITs. So it's not likely to optimize away such kind of bursty IO completions, and the resulted large (and tiny) stall times in IO completion based throttling. So here is a pause time oriented approach, which tries to control the pause time in each balance_dirty_pages() invocations, by controlling the number of pages dirtied before calling balance_dirty_pages(), for smooth and efficient dirty throttling: - avoid useless (eg. zero pause time) balance_dirty_pages() calls - avoid too small pause time (less than 4ms, which burns CPU power) - avoid too large pause time (more than 200ms, which hurts responsiveness) - avoid big fluctuations of pause times It can control pause times at will. The default policy (in a followup patch) will be to do ~10ms pauses in 1-dd case, and increase to ~100ms in 1000-dd case. BEHAVIOR CHANGE =============== (1) dirty threshold Users will notice that the applications will get throttled once crossing the global (background + dirty)/2=15% threshold, and then balanced around 17.5%. Before patch, the behavior is to just throttle it at 20% dirtyable memory in 1-dd case. Since the task will be soft throttled earlier than before, it may be perceived by end users as performance "slow down" if his application happens to dirty more than 15% dirtyable memory. (2) smoothness/responsiveness Users will notice a more responsive system during heavy writeback. "killall dd" will take effect instantly. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-10-03writeback: per task dirty rate limitWu Fengguang
Add two fields to task_struct. 1) account dirtied pages in the individual tasks, for accuracy 2) per-task balance_dirty_pages() call intervals, for flexibility The balance_dirty_pages() call interval (ie. nr_dirtied_pause) will scale near-sqrt to the safety gap between dirty pages and threshold. The main problem of per-task nr_dirtied is, if 1k+ tasks start dirtying pages at exactly the same time, each task will be assigned a large initial nr_dirtied_pause, so that the dirty threshold will be exceeded long before each task reached its nr_dirtied_pause and hence call balance_dirty_pages(). The solution is to watch for the number of pages dirtied on each CPU in between the calls into balance_dirty_pages(). If it exceeds ratelimit_pages (3% dirty threshold), force call balance_dirty_pages() for a chance to set bdi->dirty_exceeded. In normal situations, this safeguarding condition is not expected to trigger at all. On the sqrt in dirty_poll_interval(): It will serve as an initial guess when dirty pages are still in the freerun area. When dirty pages are floating inside the dirty control scope [freerun, limit], a followup patch will use some refined dirty poll interval to get the desired pause time. thresh-dirty (MB) sqrt 1 16 2 22 4 32 8 45 16 64 32 90 64 128 128 181 256 256 512 362 1024 512 The above table means, given 1MB (or 1GB) gap and the dd tasks polling balance_dirty_pages() on every 16 (or 512) pages, the dirty limit won't be exceeded as long as there are less than 16 (or 512) concurrent dd's. So sqrt naturally leads to less overheads and more safe concurrent tasks for large memory servers, which have large (thresh-freerun) gaps. peter: keep the per-CPU ratelimit for safeguarding the 1k+ tasks case CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-10-03writeback: stabilize bdi->dirty_ratelimitWu Fengguang
There are some imperfections in balanced_dirty_ratelimit. 1) large fluctuations The dirty_rate used for computing balanced_dirty_ratelimit is merely averaged in the past 200ms (very small comparing to the 3s estimation period for write_bw), which makes rather dispersed distribution of balanced_dirty_ratelimit. It's pretty hard to average out the singular points by increasing the estimation period. Considering that the averaging technique will introduce very undesirable time lags, I give it up totally. (btw, the 3s write_bw averaging time lag is much more acceptable because its impact is one-way and therefore won't lead to oscillations.) The more practical way is filtering -- most singular balanced_dirty_ratelimit points can be filtered out by remembering some prev_balanced_rate and prev_prev_balanced_rate. However the more reliable way is to guard balanced_dirty_ratelimit with task_ratelimit. 2) due to truncates and fs redirties, the (write_bw <=> dirty_rate) match could become unbalanced, which may lead to large systematical errors in balanced_dirty_ratelimit. The truncates, due to its possibly bumpy nature, can hardly be compensated smoothly. So let's face it. When some over-estimated balanced_dirty_ratelimit brings dirty_ratelimit high, dirty pages will go higher than the setpoint. task_ratelimit will in turn become lower than dirty_ratelimit. So if we consider both balanced_dirty_ratelimit and task_ratelimit and update dirty_ratelimit only when they are on the same side of dirty_ratelimit, the systematical errors in balanced_dirty_ratelimit won't be able to bring dirty_ratelimit far away. The balanced_dirty_ratelimit estimation may also be inaccurate near @limit or @freerun, however is less an issue. 3) since we ultimately want to - keep the fluctuations of task ratelimit as small as possible - keep the dirty pages around the setpoint as long time as possible the update policy used for (2) also serves the above goals nicely: if for some reason the dirty pages are high (task_ratelimit < dirty_ratelimit), and dirty_ratelimit is low (dirty_ratelimit < balanced_dirty_ratelimit), there is no point to bring up dirty_ratelimit in a hurry only to hurt both the above two goals. So, we make use of task_ratelimit to limit the update of dirty_ratelimit in two ways: 1) avoid changing dirty rate when it's against the position control target (the adjusted rate will slow down the progress of dirty pages going back to setpoint). 2) limit the step size. task_ratelimit is changing values step by step, leaving a consistent trace comparing to the randomly jumping balanced_dirty_ratelimit. task_ratelimit also has the nice smaller errors in stable state and typically larger errors when there are big errors in rate. So it's a pretty good limiting factor for the step size of dirty_ratelimit. Note that bdi->dirty_ratelimit is always tracking balanced_dirty_ratelimit. task_ratelimit is merely used as a limiting factor. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-10-03writeback: dirty rate controlWu Fengguang
It's all about bdi->dirty_ratelimit, which aims to be (write_bw / N) when there are N dd tasks. On write() syscall, use bdi->dirty_ratelimit ============================================ balance_dirty_pages(pages_dirtied) { task_ratelimit = bdi->dirty_ratelimit * bdi_position_ratio(); pause = pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit; sleep(pause); } On every 200ms, update bdi->dirty_ratelimit =========================================== bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit() { task_ratelimit = bdi->dirty_ratelimit * bdi_position_ratio(); balanced_dirty_ratelimit = task_ratelimit * write_bw / dirty_rate; bdi->dirty_ratelimit = balanced_dirty_ratelimit } Estimation of balanced bdi->dirty_ratelimit =========================================== balanced task_ratelimit ----------------------- balance_dirty_pages() needs to throttle tasks dirtying pages such that the total amount of dirty pages stays below the specified dirty limit in order to avoid memory deadlocks. Furthermore we desire fairness in that tasks get throttled proportionally to the amount of pages they dirty. IOW we want to throttle tasks such that we match the dirty rate to the writeout bandwidth, this yields a stable amount of dirty pages: dirty_rate == write_bw (1) The fairness requirement gives us: task_ratelimit = balanced_dirty_ratelimit == write_bw / N (2) where N is the number of dd tasks. We don't know N beforehand, but still can estimate balanced_dirty_ratelimit within 200ms. Start by throttling each dd task at rate task_ratelimit = task_ratelimit_0 (3) (any non-zero initial value is OK) After 200ms, we measured dirty_rate = # of pages dirtied by all dd's / 200ms write_bw = # of pages written to the disk / 200ms For the aggressive dd dirtiers, the equality holds dirty_rate == N * task_rate == N * task_ratelimit_0 (4) Or task_ratelimit_0 == dirty_rate / N (5) Now we conclude that the balanced task ratelimit can be estimated by write_bw balanced_dirty_ratelimit = task_ratelimit_0 * ---------- (6) dirty_rate Because with (4) and (5) we can get the desired equality (1): write_bw balanced_dirty_ratelimit == (dirty_rate / N) * ---------- dirty_rate == write_bw / N Then using the balanced task ratelimit we can compute task pause times like: task_pause = task->nr_dirtied / task_ratelimit task_ratelimit with position control ------------------------------------ However, while the above gives us means of matching the dirty rate to the writeout bandwidth, it at best provides us with a stable dirty page count (assuming a static system). In order to control the dirty page count such that it is high enough to provide performance, but does not exceed the specified limit we need another control. The dirty position control works by extending (2) to task_ratelimit = balanced_dirty_ratelimit * pos_ratio (7) where pos_ratio is a negative feedback function that subjects to 1) f(setpoint) = 1.0 2) df/dx < 0 That is, if the dirty pages are ABOVE the setpoint, we throttle each task a bit more HEAVY than balanced_dirty_ratelimit, so that the dirty pages are created less fast than they are cleaned, thus DROP to the setpoints (and the reverse). Based on (7) and the assumption that both dirty_ratelimit and pos_ratio remains CONSTANT for the past 200ms, we get task_ratelimit_0 = balanced_dirty_ratelimit * pos_ratio (8) Putting (8) into (6), we get the formula used in bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit(): write_bw balanced_dirty_ratelimit *= pos_ratio * ---------- (9) dirty_rate Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-10-03writeback: add bg_threshold parameter to __bdi_update_bandwidth()Wu Fengguang
No behavior change. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-10-03writeback: account per-bdi accumulated dirtied pagesWu Fengguang
Introduce the BDI_DIRTIED counter. It will be used for estimating the bdi's dirty bandwidth. CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> CC: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com> CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-10-01Merge branches 'irq-urgent-for-linus', 'x86-urgent-for-linus' and ↵Linus Torvalds
'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip: irq: Fix check for already initialized irq_domain in irq_domain_add irq: Add declaration of irq_domain_simple_ops to irqdomain.h * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip: x86/rtc: Don't recursively acquire rtc_lock * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip: posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP wobbles sched: Fix up wchan borkage sched/rt: Migrate equal priority tasks to available CPUs
2011-09-30posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP wobblesPeter Zijlstra
David reported: Attached below is a watered-down version of rt/tst-cpuclock2.c from GLIBC. Just build it with "gcc -o test test.c -lpthread -lrt" or similar. Run it several times, and you will see cases where the main thread will measure a process clock difference before and after the nanosleep which is smaller than the cpu-burner thread's individual thread clock difference. This doesn't make any sense since the cpu-burner thread is part of the top-level process's thread group. I've reproduced this on both x86-64 and sparc64 (using both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries). For example: [davem@boricha build-x86_64-linux]$ ./test process: before(0.001221967) after(0.498624371) diff(497402404) thread: before(0.000081692) after(0.498316431) diff(498234739) self: before(0.001223521) after(0.001240219) diff(16698) [davem@boricha build-x86_64-linux]$ The diff of 'process' should always be >= the diff of 'thread'. I make sure to wrap the 'thread' clock measurements the most tightly around the nanosleep() call, and that the 'process' clock measurements are the outer-most ones. --- #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <string.h> #include <errno.h> #include <pthread.h> static pthread_barrier_t barrier; static void *chew_cpu(void *arg) { pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier); while (1) __asm__ __volatile__("" : : : "memory"); return NULL; } int main(void) { clockid_t process_clock, my_thread_clock, th_clock; struct timespec process_before, process_after; struct timespec me_before, me_after; struct timespec th_before, th_after; struct timespec sleeptime; unsigned long diff; pthread_t th; int err; err = clock_getcpuclockid(0, &process_clock); if (err) return 1; err = pthread_getcpuclockid(pthread_self(), &my_thread_clock); if (err) return 1; pthread_barrier_init(&barrier, NULL, 2); err = pthread_create(&th, NULL, chew_cpu, NULL); if (err) return 1; err = pthread_getcpuclockid(th, &th_clock); if (err) return 1; pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier); err = clock_gettime(process_clock, &process_before); if (err) return 1; err = clock_gettime(my_thread_clock, &me_before); if (err) return 1; err = clock_gettime(th_clock, &th_before); if (err) return 1; sleeptime.tv_sec = 0; sleeptime.tv_nsec = 500000000; nanosleep(&sleeptime, NULL); err = clock_gettime(th_clock, &th_after); if (err) return 1; err = clock_gettime(my_thread_clock, &me_after); if (err) return 1; err = clock_gettime(process_clock, &process_after); if (err) return 1; diff = process_after.tv_nsec - process_before.tv_nsec; printf("process: before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n", process_before.tv_sec, process_before.tv_nsec, process_after.tv_sec, process_after.tv_nsec, diff); diff = th_after.tv_nsec - th_before.tv_nsec; printf("thread: before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n", th_before.tv_sec, th_before.tv_nsec, th_after.tv_sec, th_after.tv_nsec, diff); diff = me_after.tv_nsec - me_before.tv_nsec; printf("self: before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n", me_before.tv_sec, me_before.tv_nsec, me_after.tv_sec, me_after.tv_nsec, diff); return 0; } This is due to us using p->se.sum_exec_runtime in thread_group_cputime() where we iterate the thread group and sum all data. This does not take time since the last schedule operation (tick or otherwise) into account. We can cure this by using task_sched_runtime() at the cost of having to take locks. This also means we can (and must) do away with thread_group_sched_runtime() since the modified thread_group_cputime() is now more accurate and would deadlock when called from thread_group_sched_runtime(). Aside of that it makes the function safe on 32 bit systems. The old code added t->se.sum_exec_runtime unprotected. sum_exec_runtime is a 64bit value and could be changed on another cpu at the same time. Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: stable@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1314874459.7945.22.camel@twins Tested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-09-28Merge branch 'writeback-for-linus' of git://github.com/fengguang/linuxLinus Torvalds
* 'writeback-for-linus' of git://github.com/fengguang/linux: writeback: show raw dirtied_when in trace writeback_single_inode
2011-09-27vfs: remove LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT flagLinus Torvalds
That flag no longer makes sense, since we don't look up automount points as eagerly any more. Additionally, it turns out that the NO_AUTOMOUNT handling was buggy to begin with: it would avoid automounting even for cases where we really *needed* to do the automount handling, and could return ENOENT for autofs entries that hadn't been instantiated yet. With our new non-eager automount semantics, one discussion has been about adding a AT_AUTOMOUNT flag to vfs_fstatat (and thus the newfstatat() and fstatat64() system calls), but it's probably not worth it: you can always force at least directory automounting by simply adding the final '/' to the filename, which works for *all* of the stat family system calls, old and new. So AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT (and thus LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT) really were just a result of our bad default behavior. Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-26vfs pathname lookup: Add LOOKUP_AUTOMOUNT flagLinus Torvalds
Since we've now turned around and made LOOKUP_FOLLOW *not* force an automount, we want to add the ability to force an automount event on lookup even if we don't happen to have one of the other flags that force it implicitly (LOOKUP_OPEN, LOOKUP_DIRECTORY, LOOKUP_PARENT..) Most cases will never want to use this, since you'd normally want to delay automounting as long as possible, which usually implies LOOKUP_OPEN (when we open a file or directory, we really cannot avoid the automount any more). But Trond argued sufficiently forcefully that at a minimum bind mounting a file and quotactl will want to force the automount lookup. Some other cases (like nfs_follow_remote_path()) could use it too, although LOOKUP_DIRECTORY would work there as well. This commit just adds the flag and logic, no users yet, though. It also doesn't actually touch the LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag that is related, and was made irrelevant by the same change that made us not follow on LOOKUP_FOLLOW. Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] kvm: extension capability for new address space layout [S390] kvm: fix address mode switching
2011-09-21Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: floppy: use del_timer_sync() in init cleanup blk-cgroup: be able to remove the record of unplugged device block: Don't check QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP in __blk_complete_request mm: Add comment explaining task state setting in bdi_forker_thread() mm: Cleanup clearing of BDI_pending bit in bdi_forker_thread() block: simplify force plug flush code a little bit block: change force plug flush call order block: Fix queue_flag update when rq_affinity goes from 2 to 1 block: separate priority boosting from REQ_META block: remove READ_META and WRITE_META xen-blkback: fixed indentation and comments xen-blkback: Don't disconnect backend until state switched to XenbusStateClosed.
2011-09-20[S390] kvm: extension capability for new address space layoutChristian Borntraeger
598841ca9919d008b520114d8a4378c4ce4e40a1 ([S390] use gmap address spaces for kvm guest images) changed kvm on s390 to use a separate address space for kvm guests. We can now put KVM guests anywhere in the user address mode with a size up to 8PB - as long as the memory is 1MB-aligned. This change was done without KVM extension capability bit. The change was added after 3.0, but we still have a chance to add a feature bit before 3.1 (keeping the releases in a sane state). We use number 71 to avoid collisions with other pending kvm patches as requested by Alexander Graf. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2011-09-20irq: Add declaration of irq_domain_simple_ops to irqdomain.hRob Herring
irq_domain_simple_ops is exported, but is not declared in irqdomain.h, so add it. Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Cc: marc.zyngier@arm.com Cc: thomas.abraham@linaro.org Cc: jamie@jamieiles.com Cc: b-cousson@ti.com Cc: shawn.guo@linaro.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1316017900-19918-2-git-send-email-robherring2@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-09-19Merge git://github.com/davem330/netLinus Torvalds
* git://github.com/davem330/net: tcp: fix validation of D-SACK tcp: fix build error if !CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
2011-09-18tcp: fix build error if !CONFIG_SYN_COOKIESEric Dumazet
commit 946cedccbd7387 (tcp: Change possible SYN flooding messages) added a build error if CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=n Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-09-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/sameo/mfd-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/sameo/mfd-2.6: mfd: Fix omap-usb-host build failure mfd: Make omap-usb-host TLL mode work again mfd: Set MAX8997 irq pointer mfd: Fix initialisation of tps65910 interrupts mfd: Check for twl4030-madc NULL pointer mfd: Copy the device pointer to the twl4030-madc structure mfd: Rename wm8350 static gpio_set_debounce() mfd: Fix value of WM8994_CONFIGURE_GPIO
2011-09-18Merge git://github.com/davem330/netLinus Torvalds
* git://github.com/davem330/net: (62 commits) ipv6: don't use inetpeer to store metrics for routes. can: ti_hecc: include linux/io.h IRDA: Fix global type conflicts in net/irda/irsysctl.c v2 net: Handle different key sizes between address families in flow cache net: Align AF-specific flowi structs to long ipv4: Fix fib_info->fib_metrics leak caif: fix a potential NULL dereference sctp: deal with multiple COOKIE_ECHO chunks ibmveth: Fix checksum offload failure handling ibmveth: Checksum offload is always disabled ibmveth: Fix issue with DMA mapping failure ibmveth: Fix DMA unmap error pch_gbe: support ML7831 IOH pch_gbe: added the process of FIFO over run error pch_gbe: fixed the issue which receives an unnecessary packet. sfc: Use 64-bit writes for TX push where possible Revert "sfc: Use write-combining to reduce TX latency" and follow-ups bnx2x: Fix ethtool advertisement bnx2x: Fix 578xx link LED bnx2x: Fix XMAC loopback test ...
2011-09-16net: Handle different key sizes between address families in flow cachedpward
With the conversion of struct flowi to a union of AF-specific structs, some operations on the flow cache need to account for the exact size of the key. Signed-off-by: David Ward <david.ward@ll.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-09-16net: Align AF-specific flowi structs to longDavid Ward
AF-specific flowi structs are now passed to flow_key_compare, which must also be aligned to a long. Signed-off-by: David Ward <david.ward@ll.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-09-16sctp: deal with multiple COOKIE_ECHO chunksMax Matveev
Attempt to reduce the number of IP packets emitted in response to single SCTP packet (2e3216cd) introduced a complication - if a packet contains two COOKIE_ECHO chunks and nothing else then SCTP state machine corks the socket while processing first COOKIE_ECHO and then loses the association and forgets to uncork the socket. To deal with the issue add new SCTP command which can be used to set association explictly. Use this new command when processing second COOKIE_ECHO chunk to restore the context for SCTP state machine. Signed-off-by: Max Matveev <makc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-09-16Merge branch 'master' of ../netdev/David S. Miller
2011-09-15net: copy userspace buffers on device forwardingMichael S. Tsirkin
dev_forward_skb loops an skb back into host networking stack which might hang on the memory indefinitely. In particular, this can happen in macvtap in bridged mode. Copy the userspace fragments to avoid blocking the sender in that case. As this patch makes skb_copy_ubufs extern now, I also added some documentation and made it clear the SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY flag automatically instead of doing it in all callers. This can be made into a separate patch if people feel it's worth it. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-09-15tcp: Change possible SYN flooding messagesEric Dumazet
"Possible SYN flooding on port xxxx " messages can fill logs on servers. Change logic to log the message only once per listener, and add two new SNMP counters to track : TCPReqQFullDoCookies : number of times a SYNCOOKIE was replied to client TCPReqQFullDrop : number of times a SYN request was dropped because syncookies were not enabled. Based on a prior patch from Tom Herbert, and suggestions from David. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-09-14drivers/gpio/gpio-generic.c: fix build errorsRussell King
Building a kernel with hotplug disabled results in a link failure: `bgpio_remove' referenced in section `___ksymtab_gpl+bgpio_remove' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.devexit.text' of drivers/built-in.o This is because of bgpio_remove() is exported. It is illegal to export symbols which are discarded either at link time or as part of an init/exit section. Fix this by dropping the __devexit attributation from bgpio_remove(). Also drop the __devinit attributation from bgpio_init(). Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-14memcg: Revert "memcg: add memory.vmscan_stat"Johannes Weiner
Revert the post-3.0 commit 82f9d486e59f5 ("memcg: add memory.vmscan_stat"). The implementation of per-memcg reclaim statistics violates how memcg hierarchies usually behave: hierarchically. The reclaim statistics are accounted to child memcgs and the parent hitting the limit, but not to hierarchy levels in between. Usually, hierarchical statistics are perfectly recursive, with each level representing the sum of itself and all its children. Since this exports statistics to userspace, this may lead to confusion and problems with changing things after the release, so revert it now, we can try again later. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-08regulator: fix kernel-doc warning in consumer.hRandy Dunlap
Fix kernel-doc warning about internal/private data by marking it as "private:" so that kernel-doc will ignore it. Warning(include/linux/regulator/consumer.h:128): No description found for parameter 'ret' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-08wireless: fix kernel-doc warning in net/cfg80211.hRandy Dunlap
Fix kernel-doc warning in net/cfg80211.h: Warning(include/net/cfg80211.h:1884): No description found for parameter 'registered' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-07Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip: x86, perf: Check that current->mm is alive before getting user callchain perf_event: Fix broken calc_timer_values() perf events: Fix slow and broken cgroup context switch code
2011-09-06mfd: Fix value of WM8994_CONFIGURE_GPIOMark Brown
This needs to be an out of band value for the register and on this device registers are 16 bit so we must shift left one to the 17th bit. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
2011-09-06fs/9p: Use protocol-defined value for lock/getlock 'type' field.Jim Garlick
Signed-off-by: Jim Garlick <garlick@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-06fs/9p: Add OS dependent open flags in 9p protocolAneesh Kumar K.V
Some of the flags are OS/arch dependent we add a 9p protocol value which maps to asm-generic/fcntl.h values in Linux Based on the original patch from Venkateswararao Jujjuri <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-08-31writeback: show raw dirtied_when in trace writeback_single_inodeWu Fengguang
Save inode->dirtied_when in the raw trace output for reliable scripting, and to also show in formatted output the relative age in seconds for easy human reading. CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-08-30net: relax PKTINFO non local ipv6 udp xmit checkMaciej Żenczykowski
Allow transparent sockets to be less restrictive about the source ip of ipv6 udp packets being sent. Google-Bug-Id: 5018138 Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com> CC: "Erik Kline" <ek@google.com> CC: "Lorenzo Colitti" <lorenzo@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-08-29Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (42 commits) netpoll: fix incorrect access to skb data in __netpoll_rx cassini: init before use in cas_interruptN. can: ti_hecc: Fix uninitialized spinlock in probe can: ti_hecc: Fix unintialized variable net: sh_eth: fix the compile error net/phy: fix DP83865 phy interrupt handler sendmmsg/sendmsg: fix unsafe user pointer access ibmveth: Fix leak when recycling skb and hypervisor returns error arp: fix rcu lockdep splat in arp_process() bridge: fix a possible use after free bridge: Pseudo-header required for the checksum of ICMPv6 mcast: Fix source address selection for multicast listener report MAINTAINERS: Update GIT trees for network development ath9k: Fix PS wrappers in ath9k_set_coverage_class carl9170: Fix mismatch in carl9170_op_set_key mutex lock-unlock wl12xx: add max_sched_scan_ssids value to the hw description wl12xx: Fix validation of pm_runtime_get_sync return value wl12xx: Remove obsolete testmode NVS push command bcma: add uevent to the bus, to autoload drivers ath9k_hw: Fix STA (AR9485) bringup issue due to incorrect MAC address ...
2011-08-29perf events: Fix slow and broken cgroup context switch codeStephane Eranian
The current cgroup context switch code was incorrect leading to bogus counts. Furthermore, as soon as there was an active cgroup event on a CPU, the context switch cost on that CPU would increase by a significant amount as demonstrated by a simple ping/pong example: $ ./pong Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s 10684.51 ctxsw/s Now start a cgroup perf stat: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 100 $ ./pong Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s 6674.61 ctxsw/s That's a 37% penalty. Note that pong is not even in the monitored cgroup. The results shown by perf stat are bogus: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 100 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 100': CPU1 <not counted> cycles test CPU1 16,984,189,138 cycles # 0.000 GHz The second 'cycles' event should report a count @ CPU clock (here 2.4GHz) as it is counting across all cgroups. The patch below fixes the bogus accounting and bypasses any cgroup switches in case the outgoing and incoming tasks are in the same cgroup. With this patch the same test now yields: $ ./pong Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s 10775.30 ctxsw/s Start perf stat with cgroup: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 10 Run pong outside the cgroup: $ /pong Both processes pinned to CPU1, running for 10s 10687.80 ctxsw/s The penalty is now less than 2%. And the results for perf stat are correct: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 10 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 10': CPU1 <not counted> cycles test # 0.000 GHz CPU1 23,933,981,448 cycles # 0.000 GHz Now perf stat reports the correct counts for for the non cgroup event. If we run pong inside the cgroup, then we also get the correct counts: $ perf stat -e cycles,cycles -A -a -G test -C 1 -- sleep 10 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 10': CPU1 22,297,726,205 cycles test # 0.000 GHz CPU1 23,933,981,448 cycles # 0.000 GHz 10.001457237 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110825135803.GA4697@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-26All Arch: remove linkage for sys_nfsservctl system callNeilBrown
The nfsservctl system call is now gone, so we should remove all linkage for it. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-26Merge branch 'tty-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6 * 'tty-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6: omap-serial: Allow IXON and IXOFF to be disabled. TTY: serial, document ignoring of uart->ops->startup error TTY: pty, fix pty counting 8250: Fix race condition in serial8250_backup_timeout(). serial/8250_pci: delete duplicate data definition 8250_pci: add support for Rosewill RC-305 4x serial port card tty: Add "spi:" prefix for spi modalias atmel_serial: fix atmel_default_console_device serial: 8250_pnp: add Intermec CV60 touchscreen device drivers/serial/ucc_uart.c: Fix compiler warning pch_uart: Set PCIe bus number using probe parameter serial: samsung: Fix build error
2011-08-26Merge branch 'driver-core-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6 * 'driver-core-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: drivers:misc: ti-st: fix unexpected UART close drivers:misc: ti-st: free skb on firmware download drivers:misc: ti-st: wait for completion at fail drivers:misc: ti-st: reinit completion before send drivers:misc: ti-st: fail-safe on wrong pkt type drivers:misc: ti-st: reinit completion on ver read drivers:misc:ti-st: platform hooks for chip states drivers:misc: ti-st: avoid a misleading dbg msg base/devres.c: quiet sparse noise about context imbalance pti: add missing CONFIG_PCI dependency drivers/base/devtmpfs.c: correct annotation of `setup_done' driver core: fix kernel-doc warning in platform.c firmware: fix google/gsmi.c build warning
2011-08-26Merge branch 'master' of ↵John W. Linville
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless into for-davem
2011-08-25backlight: add a callback 'notify_after' for backlight controlDilan Lee
We need a callback to do some things after pwm_enable, pwm_disable and pwm_config. Signed-off-by: Dilan Lee <dilee@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Robert Morell <rmorell@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Arun Murthy <arun.murthy@stericsson.com> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25rapidio: fix use of non-compatible registersAlexandre Bounine
Replace/remove use of RIO v.1.2 registers/bits that are not forward-compatible with newer versions of RapidIO specification. RapidIO specification v.1.3 removed Write Port CSR, Doorbell CSR, Mailbox CSR and Mailbox and Doorbell bits of the PEF CAR. Use of removed (since RIO v.1.3) register bits affects users of currently available 1.3 and 2.x compliant devices who may use not so recent kernel versions. Removing checks for unsupported bits makes corresponding routines compatible with all versions of RapidIO specification. Therefore, backporting makes stable kernel versions compliant with RIO v.1.3 and later as well. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Cc: Thomas Moll <thomas.moll@sysgo.com> Cc: Chul Kim <chul.kim@idt.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25MAINTAINERS: Evgeniy has movedEvgeniy Polyakov
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25lockdep: Add helper function for dir vs file i_mutex annotationJosh Boyer
Purely in-memory filesystems do not use the inode hash as the dcache tells us if an entry already exists. As a result, they do not call unlock_new_inode, and thus directory inodes do not get put into a different lockdep class for i_sem. We need the different lockdep classes, because the locking order for i_mutex is different for directory inodes and regular inodes. Directory inodes can do "readdir()", which takes i_mutex *before* possibly taking mm->mmap_sem (due to a page fault while copying the directory entry to user space). In contrast, regular inodes can be mmap'ed, which takes mm->mmap_sem before accessing i_mutex. The two cases can never happen for the same inode, so no real deadlock can occur, but without the different lockdep classes, lockdep cannot understand that. As a result, if CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC is set, this can lead to false positives from lockdep like below: find/645 is trying to acquire lock: (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [<ffffffff81109514>] might_fault+0x5c/0xac but task is already holding lock: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#15){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81149f34>] vfs_readdir+0x5b/0xb4 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #1 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#15){+.+.+.}: [<ffffffff8108ac26>] lock_acquire+0xbf/0x103 [<ffffffff814db822>] __mutex_lock_common+0x4c/0x361 [<ffffffff814dbc46>] mutex_lock_nested+0x40/0x45 [<ffffffff811daa87>] hugetlbfs_file_mmap+0x82/0x110 [<ffffffff81111557>] mmap_region+0x258/0x432 [<ffffffff811119dd>] do_mmap_pgoff+0x2ac/0x306 [<ffffffff81111b4f>] sys_mmap_pgoff+0x118/0x16a [<ffffffff8100c858>] sys_mmap+0x22/0x24 [<ffffffff814e3ec2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b -> #0 (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}: [<ffffffff8108a4bc>] __lock_acquire+0xa1a/0xcf7 [<ffffffff8108ac26>] lock_acquire+0xbf/0x103 [<ffffffff81109541>] might_fault+0x89/0xac [<ffffffff81149cff>] filldir+0x6f/0xc7 [<ffffffff811586ea>] dcache_readdir+0x67/0x205 [<ffffffff81149f54>] vfs_readdir+0x7b/0xb4 [<ffffffff8114a073>] sys_getdents+0x7e/0xd1 [<ffffffff814e3ec2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b This patch moves the directory vs file lockdep annotation into a helper function that can be called by in-memory filesystems and has hugetlbfs call it. Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-25Merge branch 'urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback * 'urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback: squeeze max-pause area and drop pass-good area