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2014-01-31Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer/dynticks updates from Ingo Molnar: "This tree contains misc dynticks updates: a fix and three cleanups" * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/nohz: Fix overflow error in scheduler_tick_max_deferment() nohz_full: fix code style issue of tick_nohz_full_stop_tick nohz: Get timekeeping max deferment outside jiffies_lock tick: Rename tick_check_idle() to tick_irq_enter()
2014-01-27softirq: use const char * const for softirq_to_name, whitespace neateningJoe Perches
Reduce data size a little. Reduce checkpatch noise. $ size kernel/softirq.o* text data bss dec hex filename 11554 6013 4008 21575 5447 kernel/softirq.o.new 11474 6093 4008 21575 5447 kernel/softirq.o.old Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-27softirq: convert printks to pr_<level>Joe Perches
Use a more current logging style. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-27softirq: use ffs() in __do_softirq()Joe Perches
Possible speed improvement of __do_softirq() by using ffs() instead of using a while loop with an & 1 test then single bit shift. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-25Merge branch 'timers/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/urgent Pull dynticks cleanups from Frederic Weisbecker. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-20Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer changes from Ingo Molnar: - ARM clocksource/clockevent improvements and fixes - generic timekeeping updates: TAI fixes/improvements, cleanups - Posix cpu timer cleanups and improvements - dynticks updates: full dynticks bugfixes, optimizations and cleanups * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits) clocksource: Timer-sun5i: Switch to sched_clock_register() timekeeping: Remove comment that's mostly out of date rtc-cmos: Add an alarm disable quirk timekeeper: fix comment typo for tk_setup_internals() timekeeping: Fix missing timekeeping_update in suspend path timekeeping: Fix CLOCK_TAI timer/nanosleep delays tick/timekeeping: Call update_wall_time outside the jiffies lock timekeeping: Avoid possible deadlock from clock_was_set_delayed timekeeping: Fix potential lost pv notification of time change timekeeping: Fix lost updates to tai adjustment clocksource: sh_cmt: Add clk_prepare/unprepare support clocksource: bcm_kona_timer: Remove unused bcm_timer_ids clocksource: vt8500: Remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED clocksource: tegra: Remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED clocksource: misc drivers: Remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED clocksource: sh_mtu2: Remove unnecessary platform_set_drvdata() clocksource: sh_tmu: Remove unnecessary platform_set_drvdata() clocksource: armada-370-xp: Enable timer divider only when needed clocksource: clksrc-of: Warn if no clock sources are found clocksource: orion: Switch to sched_clock_register() ...
2014-01-20Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar: - Add the initial implementation of SCHED_DEADLINE support: a real-time scheduling policy where tasks that meet their deadlines and periodically execute their instances in less than their runtime quota see real-time scheduling and won't miss any of their deadlines. Tasks that go over their quota get delayed (Available to privileged users for now) - Clean up and fix preempt_enable_no_resched() abuse all around the tree - Do sched_clock() performance optimizations on x86 and elsewhere - Fix and improve auto-NUMA balancing - Fix and clean up the idle loop - Apply various cleanups and fixes * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (60 commits) sched: Fix __sched_setscheduler() nice test sched: Move SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK into attr::sched_flags sched: Fix up attr::sched_priority warning sched: Fix up scheduler syscall LTP fails sched: Preserve the nice level over sched_setscheduler() and sched_setparam() calls sched/core: Fix htmldocs warnings sched/deadline: No need to check p if dl_se is valid sched/deadline: Remove unused variables sched/deadline: Fix sparse static warnings m68k: Fix build warning in mac_via.h sched, thermal: Clean up preempt_enable_no_resched() abuse sched, net: Fixup busy_loop_us_clock() sched, net: Clean up preempt_enable_no_resched() abuse sched/preempt: Fix up missed PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED folding sched/preempt, locking: Rework local_bh_{dis,en}able() sched/clock, x86: Avoid a runtime condition in native_sched_clock() sched/clock: Fix up clear_sched_clock_stable() sched/clock, x86: Use a static_key for sched_clock_stable sched/clock: Remove local_irq_disable() from the clocks sched/clock, x86: Rewrite cyc2ns() to avoid the need to disable IRQs ...
2014-01-15tick: Rename tick_check_idle() to tick_irq_enter()Frederic Weisbecker
This makes the code more symetric against the existing tick functions called on irq exit: tick_irq_exit() and tick_nohz_irq_exit(). These function are also symetric as they mirror each other's action: we start to account idle time on irq exit and we stop this accounting on irq entry. Also the tick is stopped on irq exit and timekeeping catches up with the tickless time elapsed until we reach irq entry. This rename was suggested by Peter Zijlstra a long while ago but it got forgotten in the mass. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1387320692-28460-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2014-01-13sched/preempt, locking: Rework local_bh_{dis,en}able()Peter Zijlstra
Currently local_bh_disable() is out-of-line for no apparent reason. So inline it to save a few cycles on call/return nonsense, the function body is a single add on x86 (a few loads and store extra on load/store archs). Also expose two new local_bh functions: __local_bh_{dis,en}able_ip(unsigned long ip, unsigned int cnt); Which implement the actual local_bh_{dis,en}able() behaviour. The next patch uses the exposed @cnt argument to optimize bh lock functions. With build fixes from Jacob Pan. Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net Cc: rui.zhang@intel.com Cc: jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de> Cc: hpa@zytor.com Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: lenb@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131119151338.GF3694@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-13locking: Optimize lock_bh functionsPeter Zijlstra
Currently all _bh_ lock functions do two preempt_count operations: local_bh_disable(); preempt_disable(); and for the unlock: preempt_enable_no_resched(); local_bh_enable(); Since its a waste of perfectly good cycles to modify the same variable twice when you can do it in one go; use the new __local_bh_{dis,en}able_ip() functions that allow us to provide a preempt_count value to add/sub. So define SOFTIRQ_LOCK_OFFSET as the offset a _bh_ lock needs to add/sub to be done in one go. As a bonus it gets rid of the preempt_enable_no_resched() usage. This reduces a 1000 loops of: spin_lock_bh(&bh_lock); spin_unlock_bh(&bh_lock); from 53596 cycles to 51995 cycles. I didn't do enough measurements to say for absolute sure that the result is significant but the the few runs I did for each suggest it is so. Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de> Cc: hpa@zytor.com Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: lenb@kernel.org Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net Cc: rui.zhang@intel.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131119151338.GF3694@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-12-02nohz: Convert a few places to use local per cpu accessesFrederic Weisbecker
A few functions use remote per CPU access APIs when they deal with local values. Just do the right conversion to improve performance, code readability and debug checks. While at it, lets extend some of these function names with *_this_cpu() suffix in order to display their purpose more clearly. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-11-27lockdep: Simplify a bit hardirq <-> softirq transitionsFrederic Weisbecker
Instead of saving the hardirq state on a per CPU variable, which require an explicit call before the softirq handling and some complication, just save and restore the hardirq tracing state through functions return values and parameters. It simplifies a bit the black magic that works around the fact that softirqs can be called from hardirqs while hardirqs can nest on softirqs but those two cases have very different semantics and only the latter case assume both states. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384906054-30676-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-27Merge branch 'core/urgent' into core/lockingIngo Molnar
Prepare for dependent patch. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-19lockdep: Correctly annotate hardirq context in irq_exit()Peter Zijlstra
There was a reported deadlock on -rt which lockdep didn't report. It turns out that in irq_exit() we tell lockdep that the hardirq context ends and then do all kinds of locking afterwards. To fix it, move trace_hardirq_exit() to the very end of irq_exit(), this ensures all locking in tick_irq_exit() and rcu_irq_exit() are properly recorded as happening from hardirq context. This however leads to the 'fun' little problem of running softirqs while in hardirq context. To cure this make the softirq code a little more complex (in the CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS case). Due to stack swizzling arch dependent trickery we cannot pass an argument to __do_softirq() to tell it if it was done from hardirq context or not; so use a side-band argument. When we do __do_softirq() from hardirq context, 'atomically' flip to softirq context and back, so that no locking goes without being in either hard- or soft-irq context. I didn't find any new problems in mainline using this patch, but it did show the -rt problem. Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-dgwc5cdksbn0jk09vbmcc9sa@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-15revert "softirq: Add support for triggering softirq work on softirqs"Christoph Hellwig
This commit was incomplete in that code to remove items from the per-cpu lists was missing and never acquired a user in the 5 years it has been in the tree. We're going to implement what it seems to try to archive in a simpler way, and this code is in the way of doing so. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-12Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle are: - (much) improved CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING support from Mel Gorman, Rik van Riel, Peter Zijlstra et al. Yay! - optimize preemption counter handling: merge the NEED_RESCHED flag into the preempt_count variable, by Peter Zijlstra. - wait.h fixes and code reorganization from Peter Zijlstra - cfs_bandwidth fixes from Ben Segall - SMP load-balancer cleanups from Peter Zijstra - idle balancer improvements from Jason Low - other fixes and cleanups" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (129 commits) ftrace, sched: Add TRACE_FLAG_PREEMPT_RESCHED stop_machine: Fix race between stop_two_cpus() and stop_cpus() sched: Remove unnecessary iteration over sched domains to update nr_busy_cpus sched: Fix asymmetric scheduling for POWER7 sched: Move completion code from core.c to completion.c sched: Move wait code from core.c to wait.c sched: Move wait.c into kernel/sched/ sched/wait: Fix __wait_event_interruptible_lock_irq_timeout() sched: Avoid throttle_cfs_rq() racing with period_timer stopping sched: Guarantee new group-entities always have weight sched: Fix hrtimer_cancel()/rq->lock deadlock sched: Fix cfs_bandwidth misuse of hrtimer_expires_remaining sched: Fix race on toggling cfs_bandwidth_used sched: Remove extra put_online_cpus() inside sched_setaffinity() sched/rt: Fix task_tick_rt() comment sched/wait: Fix build breakage sched/wait: Introduce prepare_to_wait_event() sched/wait: Add ___wait_cond_timeout() to wait_event*_timeout() too sched: Remove get_online_cpus() usage sched: Fix race in migrate_swap_stop() ...
2013-10-09Merge tag 'v3.12-rc4' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
Merge Linux v3.12-rc4 to fix a conflict and also to refresh the tree before applying more scheduler patches. Conflicts: arch/avr32/include/asm/Kbuild Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-01irq: Optimize softirq stack selection in irq exitFrederic Weisbecker
If irq_exit() is called on the arch's specified irq stack, it should be safe to run softirqs inline under that same irq stack as it is near empty by the time we call irq_exit(). For example if we use the same stack for both hard and soft irqs here, the worst case scenario is: hardirq -> softirq -> hardirq. But then the softirq supersedes the first hardirq as the stack user since irq_exit() is called in a mostly empty stack. So the stack merge in this case looks acceptable. Stack overrun still have a chance to happen if hardirqs have more opportunities to nest, but then it's another problem to solve. So lets adapt the irq exit's softirq stack on top of a new Kconfig symbol that can be defined when irq_exit() runs on the irq stack. That way we can spare some stack switch on irq processing and all the cache issues that come along. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2013-10-01irq: Justify the various softirq stack choicesFrederic Weisbecker
For clarity, comment the various stack choices for softirqs processing, whether we execute them from ksoftirqd or local_irq_enable() calls. Their use on irq_exit() is already commented. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2013-10-01irq: Improve a bit softirq debuggingFrederic Weisbecker
do_softirq() has a debug check that verifies that it is not nesting on softirqs processing, nor miscounting the softirq part of the preempt count. But making sure that softirqs processing don't nest is actually a more generic concern that applies to any caller of __do_softirq(). Do take it one step further and generalize that debug check to any softirq processing. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2013-10-01irq: Optimize call to softirq on hardirq exitFrederic Weisbecker
Before processing softirqs on hardirq exit, we already do the check for pending softirqs while hardirqs are guaranteed to be disabled. So we can take a shortcut and safely jump to the arch specific implementation directly. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2013-10-01irq: Consolidate do_softirq() arch overriden implementationsFrederic Weisbecker
All arch overriden implementations of do_softirq() share the following common code: disable irqs (to avoid races with the pending check), check if there are softirqs pending, then execute __do_softirq() on a specific stack. Consolidate the common parts such that archs only worry about the stack switch. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2013-10-01irq: Force hardirq exit's softirq processing on its own stackFrederic Weisbecker
The commit facd8b80c67a3cf64a467c4a2ac5fb31f2e6745b ("irq: Sanitize invoke_softirq") converted irq exit calls of do_softirq() to __do_softirq() on all architectures, assuming it was only used there for its irq disablement properties. But as a side effect, the softirqs processed in the end of the hardirq are always called on the inline current stack that is used by irq_exit() instead of the softirq stack provided by the archs that override do_softirq(). The result is mostly safe if the architecture runs irq_exit() on a separate irq stack because then softirqs are processed on that same stack that is near empty at this stage (assuming hardirq aren't nesting). Otherwise irq_exit() runs in the task stack and so does the softirq too. The interrupted call stack can be randomly deep already and the softirq can dig through it even further. To add insult to the injury, this softirq can be interrupted by a new hardirq, maximizing the chances for a stack overrun as reported in powerpc for example: do_IRQ: stack overflow: 1920 CPU: 0 PID: 1602 Comm: qemu-system-ppc Not tainted 3.10.4-300.1.fc19.ppc64p7 #1 Call Trace: [c0000000050a8740] .show_stack+0x130/0x200 (unreliable) [c0000000050a8810] .dump_stack+0x28/0x3c [c0000000050a8880] .do_IRQ+0x2b8/0x2c0 [c0000000050a8930] hardware_interrupt_common+0x154/0x180 --- Exception: 501 at .cp_start_xmit+0x3a4/0x820 [8139cp] LR = .cp_start_xmit+0x390/0x820 [8139cp] [c0000000050a8d40] .dev_hard_start_xmit+0x394/0x640 [c0000000050a8e00] .sch_direct_xmit+0x110/0x260 [c0000000050a8ea0] .dev_queue_xmit+0x260/0x630 [c0000000050a8f40] .br_dev_queue_push_xmit+0xc4/0x130 [bridge] [c0000000050a8fc0] .br_dev_xmit+0x198/0x270 [bridge] [c0000000050a9070] .dev_hard_start_xmit+0x394/0x640 [c0000000050a9130] .dev_queue_xmit+0x428/0x630 [c0000000050a91d0] .ip_finish_output+0x2a4/0x550 [c0000000050a9290] .ip_local_out+0x50/0x70 [c0000000050a9310] .ip_queue_xmit+0x148/0x420 [c0000000050a93b0] .tcp_transmit_skb+0x4e4/0xaf0 [c0000000050a94a0] .__tcp_ack_snd_check+0x7c/0xf0 [c0000000050a9520] .tcp_rcv_established+0x1e8/0x930 [c0000000050a95f0] .tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x21c/0x570 [c0000000050a96c0] .tcp_v4_rcv+0x734/0x930 [c0000000050a97a0] .ip_local_deliver_finish+0x184/0x360 [c0000000050a9840] .ip_rcv_finish+0x148/0x400 [c0000000050a98d0] .__netif_receive_skb_core+0x4f8/0xb00 [c0000000050a99d0] .netif_receive_skb+0x44/0x110 [c0000000050a9a70] .br_handle_frame_finish+0x2bc/0x3f0 [bridge] [c0000000050a9b20] .br_nf_pre_routing_finish+0x2ac/0x420 [bridge] [c0000000050a9bd0] .br_nf_pre_routing+0x4dc/0x7d0 [bridge] [c0000000050a9c70] .nf_iterate+0x114/0x130 [c0000000050a9d30] .nf_hook_slow+0xb4/0x1e0 [c0000000050a9e00] .br_handle_frame+0x290/0x330 [bridge] [c0000000050a9ea0] .__netif_receive_skb_core+0x34c/0xb00 [c0000000050a9fa0] .netif_receive_skb+0x44/0x110 [c0000000050aa040] .napi_gro_receive+0xe8/0x120 [c0000000050aa0c0] .cp_rx_poll+0x31c/0x590 [8139cp] [c0000000050aa1d0] .net_rx_action+0x1dc/0x310 [c0000000050aa2b0] .__do_softirq+0x158/0x330 [c0000000050aa3b0] .irq_exit+0xc8/0x110 [c0000000050aa430] .do_IRQ+0xdc/0x2c0 [c0000000050aa4e0] hardware_interrupt_common+0x154/0x180 --- Exception: 501 at .bad_range+0x1c/0x110 LR = .get_page_from_freelist+0x908/0xbb0 [c0000000050aa7d0] .list_del+0x18/0x50 (unreliable) [c0000000050aa850] .get_page_from_freelist+0x908/0xbb0 [c0000000050aa9e0] .__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x21c/0xae0 [c0000000050aaba0] .alloc_pages_vma+0xd0/0x210 [c0000000050aac60] .handle_pte_fault+0x814/0xb70 [c0000000050aad50] .__get_user_pages+0x1a4/0x640 [c0000000050aae60] .get_user_pages_fast+0xec/0x160 [c0000000050aaf10] .__gfn_to_pfn_memslot+0x3b0/0x430 [kvm] [c0000000050aafd0] .kvmppc_gfn_to_pfn+0x64/0x130 [kvm] [c0000000050ab070] .kvmppc_mmu_map_page+0x94/0x530 [kvm] [c0000000050ab190] .kvmppc_handle_pagefault+0x174/0x610 [kvm] [c0000000050ab270] .kvmppc_handle_exit_pr+0x464/0x9b0 [kvm] [c0000000050ab320] kvm_start_lightweight+0x1ec/0x1fc [kvm] [c0000000050ab4f0] .kvmppc_vcpu_run_pr+0x168/0x3b0 [kvm] [c0000000050ab9c0] .kvmppc_vcpu_run+0xc8/0xf0 [kvm] [c0000000050aba50] .kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x5c/0x1a0 [kvm] [c0000000050abae0] .kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x478/0x730 [kvm] [c0000000050abc90] .do_vfs_ioctl+0x4ec/0x7c0 [c0000000050abd80] .SyS_ioctl+0xd4/0xf0 [c0000000050abe30] syscall_exit+0x0/0x98 Since this is a regression, this patch proposes a minimalistic and low-risk solution by blindly forcing the hardirq exit processing of softirqs on the softirq stack. This way we should reduce significantly the opportunities for task stack overflow dug by softirqs. Longer term solutions may involve extending the hardirq stack coverage to irq_exit(), etc... Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: #3.9.. <stable@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-25sched: Extract the basic add/sub preempt_count modifiersPeter Zijlstra
Rewrite the preempt_count macros in order to extract the 3 basic preempt_count value modifiers: __preempt_count_add() __preempt_count_sub() and the new: __preempt_count_dec_and_test() And since we're at it anyway, replace the unconventional $op_preempt_count names with the more conventional preempt_count_$op. Since these basic operators are equivalent to the previous _notrace() variants, do away with the _notrace() versions. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ewbpdbupy9xpsjhg960zwbv8@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-25sched: Introduce preempt_count accessor functionsPeter Zijlstra
Replace the single preempt_count() 'function' that's an lvalue with two proper functions: preempt_count() - returns the preempt_count value as rvalue preempt_count_set() - Allows setting the preempt-count value Also provide preempt_count_ptr() as a convenience wrapper to implement all modifying operations. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-orxrbycjozopqfhb4dxdkdvb@git.kernel.org [ Fixed build failure. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-13Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config optionMartin Schwidefsky
After the last architecture switched to generic hard irqs the config options HAVE_GENERIC_HARDIRQS & GENERIC_HARDIRQS and the related code for !CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS can be removed. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2013-07-14kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel filesPaul Gortmaker
The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time") is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created with improper use of the various __init prefixes. After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone, we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h. This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include) that don't really have a specific maintainer. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589 Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2013-07-02Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull core irq changes from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes: - generic-irqchip driver additions, cleanups and fixes - 3 new irqchip drivers: ARMv7-M NVIC, TB10x and Marvell Orion SoCs - irq_get_trigger_type() simplification and cross-arch cleanup - various cleanups, simplifications - documentation updates" * 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (26 commits) softirq: Use _RET_IP_ genirq: Add the generic chip to the genirq docbook genirq: generic-chip: Export some irq_gc_ functions genirq: Fix can_request_irq() for IRQs without an action irqchip: exynos-combiner: Staticize combiner_init irqchip: Add support for ARMv7-M NVIC irqchip: Add TB10x interrupt controller driver irqdomain: Use irq_get_trigger_type() to get IRQ flags MIPS: octeon: Use irq_get_trigger_type() to get IRQ flags arm: orion: Use irq_get_trigger_type() to get IRQ flags mfd: stmpe: use irq_get_trigger_type() to get IRQ flags mfd: twl4030-irq: Use irq_get_trigger_type() to get IRQ flags gpio: mvebu: Use irq_get_trigger_type() to get IRQ flags genirq: Add irq_get_trigger_type() to get IRQ flags genirq: Irqchip: document gcflags arg of irq_alloc_domain_generic_chips genirq: Set irq thread to RT priority on creation irqchip: Add support for Marvell Orion SoCs genirq: Add kerneldoc for irq_disable. genirq: irqchip: Add mask to block out invalid irqs genirq: Generic chip: Add linear irq domain support ...
2013-06-28softirq: Use _RET_IP_Davidlohr Bueso
Use the already defined macro to pass the function return address. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1367347569.1784.3.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-06-10Fix lockup related to stop_machine being stuck in __do_softirq.Ben Greear
The stop machine logic can lock up if all but one of the migration threads make it through the disable-irq step and the one remaining thread gets stuck in __do_softirq. The reason __do_softirq can hang is that it has a bail-out based on jiffies timeout, but in the lockup case, jiffies itself is not incremented. To work around this, re-add the max_restart counter in __do_irq and stop processing irqs after 10 restarts. Thanks to Tejun Heo and Rusty Russell and others for helping me track this down. This was introduced in 3.9 by commit c10d73671ad3 ("softirq: reduce latencies"). It may be worth looking into ath9k to see if it has issues with its irq handler at a later date. The hang stack traces look something like this: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at kernel/watchdog.c:245 watchdog_overflow_callback+0x9c/0xa7() Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 2 Modules linked in: ath9k ath9k_common ath9k_hw ath mac80211 cfg80211 nfsv4 auth_rpcgss nfs fscache nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat veth 8021q garp stp mrp llc pktgen lockd sunrpc] Pid: 23, comm: migration/2 Tainted: G C 3.9.4+ #11 Call Trace: <NMI> warn_slowpath_common+0x85/0x9f warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x48 watchdog_overflow_callback+0x9c/0xa7 __perf_event_overflow+0x137/0x1cb perf_event_overflow+0x14/0x16 intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x2dc/0x359 perf_event_nmi_handler+0x19/0x1b nmi_handle+0x7f/0xc2 do_nmi+0xbc/0x304 end_repeat_nmi+0x1e/0x2e <<EOE>> cpu_stopper_thread+0xae/0x162 smpboot_thread_fn+0x258/0x260 kthread+0xc7/0xcf ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 ---[ end trace 4947dfa9b0a4cec3 ]--- BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 22s! [migration/1:17] Modules linked in: ath9k ath9k_common ath9k_hw ath mac80211 cfg80211 nfsv4 auth_rpcgss nfs fscache nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat veth 8021q garp stp mrp llc pktgen lockd sunrpc] irq event stamp: 835637905 hardirqs last enabled at (835637904): __do_softirq+0x9f/0x257 hardirqs last disabled at (835637905): apic_timer_interrupt+0x6d/0x80 softirqs last enabled at (5654720): __do_softirq+0x1ff/0x257 softirqs last disabled at (5654725): irq_exit+0x5f/0xbb CPU 1 Pid: 17, comm: migration/1 Tainted: G WC 3.9.4+ #11 To be filled by O.E.M. To be filled by O.E.M./To be filled by O.E.M. RIP: tasklet_hi_action+0xf0/0xf0 Process migration/1 Call Trace: <IRQ> __do_softirq+0x117/0x257 irq_exit+0x5f/0xbb smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x8a/0x98 apic_timer_interrupt+0x72/0x80 <EOI> printk+0x4d/0x4f stop_machine_cpu_stop+0x22c/0x274 cpu_stopper_thread+0xae/0x162 smpboot_thread_fn+0x258/0x260 kthread+0xc7/0xcf ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Pekka Riikonen <priikone@iki.fi> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-05Merge branch 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull 'full dynticks' support from Ingo Molnar: "This tree from Frederic Weisbecker adds a new, (exciting! :-) core kernel feature to the timer and scheduler subsystems: 'full dynticks', or CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y. This feature extends the nohz variable-size timer tick feature from idle to busy CPUs (running at most one task) as well, potentially reducing the number of timer interrupts significantly. This feature got motivated by real-time folks and the -rt tree, but the general utility and motivation of full-dynticks runs wider than that: - HPC workloads get faster: CPUs running a single task should be able to utilize a maximum amount of CPU power. A periodic timer tick at HZ=1000 can cause a constant overhead of up to 1.0%. This feature removes that overhead - and speeds up the system by 0.5%-1.0% on typical distro configs even on modern systems. - Real-time workload latency reduction: CPUs running critical tasks should experience as little jitter as possible. The last remaining source of kernel-related jitter was the periodic timer tick. - A single task executing on a CPU is a pretty common situation, especially with an increasing number of cores/CPUs, so this feature helps desktop and mobile workloads as well. The cost of the feature is mainly related to increased timer reprogramming overhead when a CPU switches its tick period, and thus slightly longer to-idle and from-idle latency. Configuration-wise a third mode of operation is added to the existing two NOHZ kconfig modes: - CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC: [formerly !CONFIG_NO_HZ], now explicitly named as a config option. This is the traditional Linux periodic tick design: there's a HZ tick going on all the time, regardless of whether a CPU is idle or not. - CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE: [formerly CONFIG_NO_HZ=y], this turns off the periodic tick when a CPU enters idle mode. - CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL: this new mode, in addition to turning off the tick when a CPU is idle, also slows the tick down to 1 Hz (one timer interrupt per second) when only a single task is running on a CPU. The .config behavior is compatible: existing !CONFIG_NO_HZ and CONFIG_NO_HZ=y settings get translated to the new values, without the user having to configure anything. CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is turned off by default. This feature is based on a lot of infrastructure work that has been steadily going upstream in the last 2-3 cycles: related RCU support and non-periodic cputime support in particular is upstream already. This tree adds the final pieces and activates the feature. The pull request is marked RFC because: - it's marked 64-bit only at the moment - the 32-bit support patch is small but did not get ready in time. - it has a number of fresh commits that came in after the merge window. The overwhelming majority of commits are from before the merge window, but still some aspects of the tree are fresh and so I marked it RFC. - it's a pretty wide-reaching feature with lots of effects - and while the components have been in testing for some time, the full combination is still not very widely used. That it's default-off should reduce its regression abilities and obviously there are no known regressions with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y enabled either. - the feature is not completely idempotent: there is no 100% equivalent replacement for a periodic scheduler/timer tick. In particular there's ongoing work to map out and reduce its effects on scheduler load-balancing and statistics. This should not impact correctness though, there are no known regressions related to this feature at this point. - it's a pretty ambitious feature that with time will likely be enabled by most Linux distros, and we'd like you to make input on its design/implementation, if you dislike some aspect we missed. Without flaming us to crisp! :-) Future plans: - there's ongoing work to reduce 1Hz to 0Hz, to essentially shut off the periodic tick altogether when there's a single busy task on a CPU. We'd first like 1 Hz to be exposed more widely before we go for the 0 Hz target though. - once we reach 0 Hz we can remove the periodic tick assumption from nr_running>=2 as well, by essentially interrupting busy tasks only as frequently as the sched_latency constraints require us to do - once every 4-40 msecs, depending on nr_running. I am personally leaning towards biting the bullet and doing this in v3.10, like the -rt tree this effort has been going on for too long - but the final word is up to you as usual. More technical details can be found in Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt" * 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits) sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks rcu: Fix full dynticks' dependency on wide RCU nocb mode nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch() nohz_full: Add documentation. cputime_nsecs: use math64.h for nsec resolution conversion helpers nohz: Select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN from full dynticks config nohz: Reduce overhead under high-freq idling patterns nohz: Remove full dynticks' superfluous dependency on RCU tree nohz: Fix unavailable tick_stop tracepoint in dynticks idle nohz: Add basic tracing nohz: Select wide RCU nocb for full dynticks nohz: Disable the tick when irq resume in full dynticks CPU nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch nohz: Prepare to stop the tick on irq exit nohz: Implement full dynticks kick nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPI sched: New helper to prevent from stopping the tick in full dynticks sched: Kick full dynticks CPU that have more than one task enqueued. perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick perf: Kick full dynticks CPU if events rotation is needed ...
2013-05-02Merge commit '8700c95adb03' into timers/nohzFrederic Weisbecker
The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies. Merge a common upstream merge point that has these updates. Conflicts: include/linux/perf_event.h kernel/rcutree.h kernel/rcutree_plugin.h Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2013-04-30kernel/smp.c: remove 'priv' of call_single_dataliguang
The 'priv' field is redundant; we can pass data via 'info'. Signed-off-by: liguang <lig.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-22nohz: Disable the tick when irq resume in full dynticks CPUFrederic Weisbecker
Eventually try to disable tick on irq exit, now that the fundamental infrastructure is in place. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-04-03nohz: Rename CONFIG_NO_HZ to CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMONFrederic Weisbecker
We are planning to convert the dynticks Kconfig options layout into a choice menu. The user must be able to easily pick any of the following implementations: constant periodic tick, idle dynticks, full dynticks. As this implies a mutual exclusion, the two dynticks implementions need to converge on the selection of a common Kconfig option in order to ease the sharing of a common infrastructure. It would thus seem pretty natural to reuse CONFIG_NO_HZ to that end. It already implements all the idle dynticks code and the full dynticks depends on all that code for now. So ideally the choice menu would propose CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED then both would select CONFIG_NO_HZ. On the other hand we want to stay backward compatible: if CONFIG_NO_HZ is set in an older config file, we want to enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE by default. But we can't afford both at the same time or we run into a circular dependency: 1) CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED both select CONFIG_NO_HZ 2) If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, we default to CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE We might be able to support that from Kconfig/Kbuild but it may not be wise to introduce such a confusing behaviour. So to solve this, create a new CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON option which gathers the common code between idle and full dynticks (that common code for now is simply the idle dynticks code) and select it from their referring Kconfig. Then we'll later create CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and map CONFIG_NO_HZ to it for backward compatibility. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-03-05Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull irq fixes and cleanups from Thomas Gleixner: "Commit e5ab012c3271 ("nohz: Make tick_nohz_irq_exit() irq safe") is the first commit in the series and the minimal necessary bugfix, which needs to go back into stable. The remanining commits enforce irq disabling in irq_exit(), sanitize the hardirq/softirq preempt count transition and remove a bunch of no longer necessary conditionals." I personally love getting rid of the very subtle and confusing IRQ_EXIT_OFFSET thing. Even apart from the whole "more lines removed than added" thing. * 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: irq: Don't re-enable interrupts at the end of irq_exit irq: Remove IRQ_EXIT_OFFSET workaround Revert "nohz: Make tick_nohz_irq_exit() irq safe" irq: Sanitize invoke_softirq irq: Ensure irq_exit() code runs with interrupts disabled nohz: Make tick_nohz_irq_exit() irq safe
2013-02-28irq: Don't re-enable interrupts at the end of irq_exitFrederic Weisbecker
Commit 74eed0163d0def3fce27228d9ccf3d36e207b286 "irq: Ensure irq_exit() code runs with interrupts disabled" restore interrupts flags in the end of irq_exit() for archs that don't define __ARCH_IRQ_EXIT_IRQS_DISABLED. However always returning from irq_exit() with interrupts disabled should not be a problem for these archs. Prior to this commit this was already happening anytime we processed pending softirqs anyway. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-02-22irq: Remove IRQ_EXIT_OFFSET workaroundFrederic Weisbecker
The IRQ_EXIT_OFFSET trick was used to make sure the irq doesn't get preempted after we substract the HARDIRQ_OFFSET until we are entirely done with any code in irq_exit(). This workaround was necessary because some archs may call irq_exit() with irqs enabled and there is still some code in the end of this function that is not covered by the HARDIRQ_OFFSET but want to stay non-preemptible. Now that irq are always disabled in irq_exit(), the whole code is guaranteed not to be preempted. We can thus remove this hack. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-02-21irq: Sanitize invoke_softirqThomas Gleixner
With the irq protection in irq_exit, we can remove the #ifdeffery and the bh_disable/enable dance in invoke_softirq() Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1302202155320.22263@ionos
2013-02-21irq: Ensure irq_exit() code runs with interrupts disabledThomas Gleixner
We had already a few problems with code called from irq_exit() when interrupted from a nesting interrupt. This can happen on architectures which do not define __ARCH_IRQ_EXIT_IRQS_DISABLED. __ARCH_IRQ_EXIT_IRQS_DISABLED should go away and we want to make it mandatory to call irq_exit() with interrupts disabled. As a temporary protection disable interrupts for those architectures which do not define __ARCH_IRQ_EXIT_IRQS_DISABLED and add a WARN_ONCE when an architecture which defines __ARCH_IRQ_EXIT_IRQS_DISABLED calls irq_exit() with interrupts enabled. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1302202155320.22263@ionos
2013-02-20Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds
Pull networking update from David Miller: 1) Checkpoint/restarted TCP sockets now can properly propagate the TCP timestamp offset. From Andrey Vagin. 2) VMWARE VM VSOCK layer, from Andy King. 3) Much improved support for virtual functions and SR-IOV in bnx2x, from Ariel ELior. 4) All protocols on ipv4 and ipv6 are now network namespace aware, and all the compatability checks for initial-namespace-only protocols is removed. Thanks to Tom Parkin for helping deal with the last major holdout, L2TP. 5) IPV6 support in netpoll and network namespace support in pktgen, from Cong Wang. 6) Multiple Registration Protocol (MRP) and Multiple VLAN Registration Protocol (MVRP) support, from David Ward. 7) Compute packet lengths more accurately in the packet scheduler, from Eric Dumazet. 8) Use per-task page fragment allocator in skb_append_datato_frags(), also from Eric Dumazet. 9) Add support for connection tracking labels in netfilter, from Florian Westphal. 10) Fix default multicast group joining on ipv6, and add anti-spoofing checks to 6to4 and 6rd. From Hannes Frederic Sowa. 11) Make ipv4/ipv6 fragmentation memory limits more reasonable in modern times, rearrange inet frag datastructures for better cacheline locality, and move more operations outside of locking. From Jesper Dangaard Brouer. 12) Instead of strict master <--> slave relationships, allow arbitrary scenerios with "upper device lists". From Jiri Pirko. 13) Improve rate limiting accuracy in TBF and act_police, also from Jiri Pirko. 14) Add a BPF filter netfilter match target, from Willem de Bruijn. 15) Orphan and delete a bunch of pre-historic networking drivers from Paul Gortmaker. 16) Add TSO support for GRE tunnels, from Pravin B SHelar. Although this still needs some minor bug fixing before it's %100 correct in all cases. 17) Handle unresolved IPSEC states like ARP, with a resolution packet queue. From Steffen Klassert. 18) Remove TCP Appropriate Byte Count support (ABC), from Stephen Hemminger. This was long overdue. 19) Support SO_REUSEPORT, from Tom Herbert. 20) Allow locking a socket BPF filter, so that it cannot change after a process drops capabilities. 21) Add VLAN filtering to bridge, from Vlad Yasevich. 22) Bring ipv6 on-par with ipv4 and do not cache neighbour entries in the ipv6 routes, from YOSHIFUJI Hideaki. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1538 commits) ipv6: fix race condition regarding dst->expires and dst->from. net: fix a wrong assignment in skb_split() ip_gre: remove an extra dst_release() ppp: set qdisc_tx_busylock to avoid LOCKDEP splat atl1c: restore buffer state net: fix a build failure when !CONFIG_PROC_FS net: ipv4: fix waring -Wunused-variable net: proc: fix build failed when procfs is not configured Revert "xen: netback: remove redundant xenvif_put" net: move procfs code to net/core/net-procfs.c qmi_wwan, cdc-ether: add ADU960S bonding: set sysfs device_type to 'bond' bonding: fix bond_release_all inconsistencies b44: use netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() xen: netback: remove redundant xenvif_put net: fec: Do a sanity check on the gpio number ip_gre: propogate target device GSO capability to the tunnel device ip_gre: allow CSUM capable devices to handle packets bonding: Fix initialize after use for 3ad machine state spinlock bonding: Fix race condition between bond_enslave() and bond_3ad_update_lacp_rate() ...
2013-01-27cputime: Safely read cputime of full dynticks CPUsFrederic Weisbecker
While remotely reading the cputime of a task running in a full dynticks CPU, the values stored in utime/stime fields of struct task_struct may be stale. Its values may be those of the last kernel <-> user transition time snapshot and we need to add the tickless time spent since this snapshot. To fix this, flush the cputime of the dynticks CPUs on kernel <-> user transition and record the time / context where we did this. Then on top of this snapshot and the current time, perform the fixup on the reader side from task_times() accessors. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [fixed kvm module related build errors] Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
2013-01-10softirq: reduce latenciesEric Dumazet
In various network workloads, __do_softirq() latencies can be up to 20 ms if HZ=1000, and 200 ms if HZ=100. This is because we iterate 10 times in the softirq dispatcher, and some actions can consume a lot of cycles. This patch changes the fallback to ksoftirqd condition to : - A time limit of 2 ms. - need_resched() being set on current task When one of this condition is met, we wakeup ksoftirqd for further softirq processing if we still have pending softirqs. Using need_resched() as the only condition can trigger RCU stalls, as we can keep BH disabled for too long. I ran several benchmarks and got no significant difference in throughput, but a very significant reduction of latencies (one order of magnitude) : In following bench, 200 antagonist "netperf -t TCP_RR" are started in background, using all available cpus. Then we start one "netperf -t TCP_RR", bound to the cpu handling the NIC IRQ (hard+soft) Before patch : # netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t TCP_RR -T2,2 -- -k RT_LATENCY,MIN_LATENCY,MAX_LATENCY,P50_LATENCY,P90_LATENCY,P99_LATENCY,MEAN_LATENCY,STDDEV_LATENCY MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : first burst 0 : cpu bind RT_LATENCY=550110.424 MIN_LATENCY=146858 MAX_LATENCY=997109 P50_LATENCY=305000 P90_LATENCY=550000 P99_LATENCY=710000 MEAN_LATENCY=376989.12 STDDEV_LATENCY=184046.92 After patch : # netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t TCP_RR -T2,2 -- -k RT_LATENCY,MIN_LATENCY,MAX_LATENCY,P50_LATENCY,P90_LATENCY,P99_LATENCY,MEAN_LATENCY,STDDEV_LATENCY MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : first burst 0 : cpu bind RT_LATENCY=40545.492 MIN_LATENCY=9834 MAX_LATENCY=78366 P50_LATENCY=33583 P90_LATENCY=59000 P99_LATENCY=69000 MEAN_LATENCY=38364.67 STDDEV_LATENCY=12865.26 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-29cputime: Specialize irq vtime hooksFrederic Weisbecker
With CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING, when vtime_account() is called in irq entry/exit, we perform a check on the context: if we are interrupting the idle task we account the pending cputime to idle, otherwise account to system time or its sub-areas: tsk->stime, hardirq time, softirq time, ... However this check for idle only concerns the hardirq entry and softirq entry: * Hardirq may directly interrupt the idle task, in which case we need to flush the pending CPU time to idle. * The idle task may be directly interrupted by a softirq if it calls local_bh_enable(). There is probably no such call in any idle task but we need to cover every case. Ksoftirqd is not concerned because the idle time is flushed on context switch and softirq in the end of hardirq have the idle time already flushed from the hardirq entry. In the other cases we always account to system/irq time: * On hardirq exit we account the time to hardirq time. * On softirq exit we account the time to softirq time. To optimize this and avoid the indirect call to vtime_account() and the checks it performs, specialize the vtime irq APIs and only perform the check on irq entry. Irq exit can directly call vtime_account_system(). CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING behaviour doesn't change and directly maps to its own vtime_account() implementation. One may want to take benefits from the new APIs to optimize irq time accounting as well in the future. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-10-01Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar: "Continued quest to clean up and enhance the cputime code by Frederic Weisbecker, in preparation for future tickless kernel features. Other than that, smallish changes." Fix up trivial conflicts due to additions next to each other in arch/{x86/}Kconfig * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) cputime: Make finegrained irqtime accounting generally available cputime: Gather time/stats accounting config options into a single menu ia64: Reuse system and user vtime accounting functions on task switch ia64: Consolidate user vtime accounting vtime: Consolidate system/idle context detection cputime: Use a proper subsystem naming for vtime related APIs sched: cpu_power: enable ARCH_POWER sched/nohz: Clean up select_nohz_load_balancer() sched: Fix load avg vs. cpu-hotplug sched: Remove __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW sched: Fix nohz_idle_balance() sched: Remove useless code in yield_to() sched: Add time unit suffix to sched sysctl knobs sched/debug: Limit sd->*_idx range on sysctl sched: Remove AFFINE_WAKEUPS feature flag s390: Remove leftover account_tick_vtime() header cputime: Consolidate vtime handling on context switch sched: Move cputime code to its own file cputime: Generalize CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING tile: Remove SD_PREFER_LOCAL leftover ...
2012-09-25cputime: Use a proper subsystem naming for vtime related APIsFrederic Weisbecker
Use a naming based on vtime as a prefix for virtual based cputime accounting APIs: - account_system_vtime() -> vtime_account() - account_switch_vtime() -> vtime_task_switch() It makes it easier to allow for further declension such as vtime_account_system(), vtime_account_idle(), ... if we want to find out the context we account to from generic code. This also make it better to know on which subsystem these APIs refer to. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2012-08-13softirq: Use hotplug thread infrastructureThomas Gleixner
[ paulmck: Call rcu_note_context_switch() with interrupts enabled. ] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120716103948.456416747@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-07-31mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq contextMel Gorman
This is needed to allow network softirq packet processing to make use of PF_MEMALLOC. Currently softirq context cannot use PF_MEMALLOC due to it not being associated with a task, and therefore not having task flags to fiddle with - thus the gfp to alloc flag mapping ignores the task flags when in interrupts (hard or soft) context. Allowing softirqs to make use of PF_MEMALLOC therefore requires some trickery. This patch borrows the task flags from whatever process happens to be preempted by the softirq. It then modifies the gfp to alloc flags mapping to not exclude task flags in softirq context, and modify the softirq code to save, clear and restore the PF_MEMALLOC flag. The save and clear, ensures the preempted task's PF_MEMALLOC flag doesn't leak into the softirq. The restore ensures a softirq's PF_MEMALLOC flag cannot leak back into the preempted process. This should be safe due to the following reasons Softirqs can run on multiple CPUs sure but the same task should not be executing the same softirq code. Neither should the softirq handler be preempted by any other softirq handler so the flags should not leak to an unrelated softirq. Softirqs re-enable hardware interrupts in __do_softirq() so can be preempted by hardware interrupts so PF_MEMALLOC is inherited by the hard IRQ. However, this is similar to a process in reclaim being preempted by a hardirq. While PF_MEMALLOC is set, gfp_to_alloc_flags() distinguishes between hard and soft irqs and avoids giving a hardirq the ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS flag. If the softirq is deferred to ksoftirq then its flags may be used instead of a normal tasks but as the softirq cannot be preempted, the PF_MEMALLOC flag does not leak to other code by accident. [davem@davemloft.net: Document why PF_MEMALLOC is safe] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-20Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits) ntp: Fix integer overflow when setting time math: Introduce div64_long cs5535-clockevt: Allow the MFGPT IRQ to be shared cs5535-clockevt: Don't ignore MFGPT on SMP-capable kernels x86/time: Eliminate unused irq0_irqs counter clocksource: scx200_hrt: Fix the build x86/tsc: Reduce the TSC sync check time for core-siblings timer: Fix bad idle check on irq entry nohz: Remove ts->Einidle checks before restarting the tick nohz: Remove update_ts_time_stat from tick_nohz_start_idle clockevents: Leave the broadcast device in shutdown mode when not needed clocksource: Load the ACPI PM clocksource asynchronously clocksource: scx200_hrt: Convert scx200 to use clocksource_register_hz clocksource: Get rid of clocksource_calc_mult_shift() clocksource: dbx500: convert to clocksource_register_hz() clocksource: scx200_hrt: use pr_<level> instead of printk time: Move common updates to a function time: Reorder so the hot data is together time: Remove most of xtime_lock usage in timekeeping.c ntp: Add ntp_lock to replace xtime_locking ...
2012-03-20Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits) printk: Make it compile with !CONFIG_PRINTK sched/x86: Fix overflow in cyc2ns_offset sched: Fix nohz load accounting -- again! sched: Update yield() docs printk/sched: Introduce special printk_sched() for those awkward moments sched/nohz: Correctly initialize 'next_balance' in 'nohz' idle balancer sched: Cleanup cpu_active madness sched: Fix load-balance wreckage sched: Clean up parameter passing of proc_sched_autogroup_set_nice() sched: Ditch per cgroup task lists for load-balancing sched: Rename load-balancing fields sched: Move load-balancing arguments into helper struct sched/rt: Do not submit new work when PI-blocked sched/rt: Prevent idle task boosting sched/wait: Add __wake_up_all_locked() API sched/rt: Document scheduler related skip-resched-check sites sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled() sched/rt: Add schedule_preempt_disabled() sched/rt: Do not throttle when PI boosting sched/rt: Keep period timer ticking when rt throttling is active ...