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2009-11-02uids: Prevent tear down raceThomas Gleixner
Ingo triggered the following warning: WARNING: at lib/debugobjects.c:255 debug_print_object+0x42/0x50() Hardware name: System Product Name ODEBUG: init active object type: timer_list Modules linked in: Pid: 2619, comm: dmesg Tainted: G W 2.6.32-rc5-tip+ #5298 Call Trace: [<81035443>] warn_slowpath_common+0x6a/0x81 [<8120e483>] ? debug_print_object+0x42/0x50 [<81035498>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x29/0x2c [<8120e483>] debug_print_object+0x42/0x50 [<8120ec2a>] __debug_object_init+0x279/0x2d7 [<8120ecb3>] debug_object_init+0x13/0x18 [<810409d2>] init_timer_key+0x17/0x6f [<81041526>] free_uid+0x50/0x6c [<8104ed2d>] put_cred_rcu+0x61/0x72 [<81067fac>] rcu_do_batch+0x70/0x121 debugobjects warns about an enqueued timer being initialized. If CONFIG_USER_SCHED=y the user management code uses delayed work to remove the user from the hash table and tear down the sysfs objects. free_uid is called from RCU and initializes/schedules delayed work if the usage count of the user_struct is 0. The init/schedule happens outside of the uidhash_lock protected region which allows a concurrent caller of find_user() to reference the about to be destroyed user_struct w/o preventing the work from being scheduled. If the next free_uid call happens before the work timer expired then the active timer is initialized and the work scheduled again. The race was introduced in commit 5cb350ba (sched: group scheduling, sysfs tunables) and made more prominent by commit 3959214f (sched: delayed cleanup of user_struct) Move the init/schedule_delayed_work inside of the uidhash_lock protected region to prevent the race. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-11-02sched: Fix boot crash by zalloc()ing most of the cpu masksRusty Russell
I got a boot crash when forcing cpumasks offstack on 32 bit, because find_new_ilb() returned 3 on my UP system (nohz.cpu_mask wasn't zeroed). AFAICT the others need to be zeroed too: only nohz.ilb_grp_nohz_mask is initialized before use. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <200911022037.21282.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-02tracing: Fix to use __always_unused attributeLi Zefan
____ftrace_check_##name() is used for compile-time check on F_printk() only, so it should be marked as __unused instead of __used. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <4AEE2D01.4010305@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-02x86: Fix user return notifier put_cpu_var() invocationStephen Rothwell
Today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) failed like this: kernel/user-return-notifier.c: In function 'fire_user_return_notifiers': kernel/user-return-notifier.c:45: error: expected expression before ')' token Introduced by commit 7c68af6e32c73992bad24107311f3433c89016e2 ("core, x86: Add user return notifiers") from the tip and kvm trees but revealed by commit e0fdb0e050eae331046385643618f12452aa7e73 ("percpu: add __percpu for sparse") from the percpu tree. Before that percpu tree commit, "put_cpu_var()" would compile without error (even though it really needs a parameter). Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20091102161722.eea4358d.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-29Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: sched: move rq_weight data array out of .percpu percpu: allow pcpu_alloc() to be called with IRQs off
2009-10-29Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-param-fixesLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-param-fixes: param: fix setting arrays of bool param: fix NULL comparison on oom param: fix lots of bugs with writing charp params from sysfs, by leaking mem.
2009-10-29Merge branch 'hwpoison-2.6.32' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 * 'hwpoison-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: HWPOISON: fix invalid page count in printk output HWPOISON: Allow schedule_on_each_cpu() from keventd HWPOISON: fix/proc/meminfo alignment HWPOISON: fix oops on ksm pages HWPOISON: Fix page count leak in hwpoison late kill in do_swap_page HWPOISON: return early on non-LRU pages HWPOISON: Add brief hwpoison description to Documentation HWPOISON: Clean up PR_MCE_KILL interface
2009-10-29Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: futex: Move drop_futex_key_refs out of spinlock'ed region rcu: Fix TREE_PREEMPT_RCU CPU_HOTPLUG bad-luck hang rcu: Stopgap fix for synchronize_rcu_expedited() for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU rcu: Prevent RCU IPI storms in presence of high call_rcu() load futex: Check for NULL keys in match_futex futex: Handle spurious wake up
2009-10-29Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf timechart: Improve the visual appearance of scheduler delays perf timechart: Fix the wakeup-arrows that point to non-visible processes perf top: Fix --delay_secs 0 division by zero perf tools: Bump version to 0.0.2 perf_event: Adjust frequency and unthrottle for non-group-leader events
2009-10-29Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Do less agressive buddy clearing sched: Disable SD_PREFER_LOCAL for MC/CPU domains
2009-10-29sysctl: fix false positives when PROC_SYSCTL=nAlexey Dobriyan
Having ->procname but not ->proc_handler is valid when PROC_SYSCTL=n, people use such combination to reduce ifdefs with non-standard handlers. Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14408 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Reported-by: Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-29cgroup: fix strstrip() misuseKOSAKI Motohiro
cgroup_write_X64() and cgroup_write_string() ignore the return value of strstrip(). it makes small inconsistent behavior. example: ========================= # cd /mnt/cgroup/hoge # cat memory.swappiness 60 # echo "59 " > memory.swappiness # cat memory.swappiness 59 # echo " 58" > memory.swappiness bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument This patch fixes it. Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-29connector: fix regression introduced by sid connectorChristian Borntraeger
Since commit 02b51df1b07b4e9ca823c89284e704cadb323cd1 (proc connector: add event for process becoming session leader) we have the following warning: Badness at kernel/softirq.c:143 [...] Krnl PSW : 0404c00180000000 00000000001481d4 (local_bh_enable+0xb0/0xe0) [...] Call Trace: ([<000000013fe04100>] 0x13fe04100) [<000000000048a946>] sk_filter+0x9a/0xd0 [<000000000049d938>] netlink_broadcast+0x2c0/0x53c [<00000000003ba9ae>] cn_netlink_send+0x272/0x2b0 [<00000000003baef0>] proc_sid_connector+0xc4/0xd4 [<0000000000142604>] __set_special_pids+0x58/0x90 [<0000000000159938>] sys_setsid+0xb4/0xd8 [<00000000001187fe>] sysc_noemu+0x10/0x16 [<00000041616cb266>] 0x41616cb266 The warning is ---> WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq() || irqs_disabled()); The network code must not be called with disabled interrupts but sys_setsid holds the tasklist_lock with spinlock_irq while calling the connector. After a discussion we agreed that we can move proc_sid_connector from __set_special_pids to sys_setsid. We also agreed that it is sufficient to change the check from task_session(curr) != pid into err > 0, since if we don't change the session, this means we were already the leader and return -EPERM. One last thing: There is also daemonize(), and some people might want to get a notification in that case. Since daemonize() is only needed if a user space does kernel_thread this does not look important (and there seems to be no consensus if this connector should be called in daemonize). If we really want this, we can add proc_sid_connector to daemonize() in an additional patch (Scott?) Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-29percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer uniqueTejun Heo
This patch updates percpu related symbols in kernel tracer such that percpu symbols are unique and don't clash with local symbols. This serves two purposes of decreasing the possibility of global percpu symbol collision and allowing dropping per_cpu__ prefix from percpu symbols. * kernel/trace/trace.c: s/max_data/max_tr_data/ * kernel/trace/trace_hw_branches: s/tracer/hwb_tracer/, s/buffer/hwb_buffer/ Partly based on Rusty Russell's "alloc_percpu: rename percpu vars which cause name clashes" patch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
2009-10-29percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ uniqueTejun Heo
This patch updates percpu related symbols under kernel/ and mm/ such that percpu symbols are unique and don't clash with local symbols. This serves two purposes of decreasing the possibility of global percpu symbol collision and allowing dropping per_cpu__ prefix from percpu symbols. * kernel/lockdep.c: s/lock_stats/cpu_lock_stats/ * kernel/sched.c: s/init_rq_rt/init_rt_rq_var/ (any better idea?) s/sched_group_cpus/sched_groups/ * kernel/softirq.c: s/ksoftirqd/run_ksoftirqd/a * kernel/softlockup.c: s/(*)_timestamp/softlockup_\1_ts/ s/watchdog_task/softlockup_watchdog/ s/timestamp/ts/ for local variables * kernel/time/timer_stats: s/lookup_lock/tstats_lookup_lock/ * mm/slab.c: s/reap_work/slab_reap_work/ s/reap_node/slab_reap_node/ * mm/vmstat.c: local variable changed to avoid collision with vmstat_work Partly based on Rusty Russell's "alloc_percpu: rename percpu vars which cause name clashes" patch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: (slab/vmstat) Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
2009-10-29Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Pick up fixes and move base from -rc1 to -rc5. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-29tracing/filters: Fix to make system filter workLi Zefan
commit fce29d15b59245597f7f320db4a9f2be0f5fb512 ("tracing/filters: Refactor subsystem filter code") broke system filter accidentally. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4AE810BD.3070009@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-29kprobe-tracer: Compare both of event-name and event-group to find probeMasami Hiramatsu
Fix find_probe_event() to compare both of event-name and event-group. Without this fix, kprobe-tracer overwrites existing same event-name probe even if its group-name is different. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20091027204244.30545.27516.stgit@harusame> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-29param: fix setting arrays of boolRusty Russell
We create a dummy struct kernel_param on the stack for parsing each array element, but we didn't initialize the flags word. This matters for arrays of type "bool", where the flag indicates if it really is an array of bools or unsigned int (old-style). Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-10-29param: fix NULL comparison on oomRusty Russell
kp->arg is always true: it's the contents of that pointer we care about. Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-10-29param: fix lots of bugs with writing charp params from sysfs, by leaking mem.Rusty Russell
e180a6b7759a "param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs" fixed the case where charp parameters written via sysfs were freed, leaving drivers accessing random memory. Unfortunately, storing a flag in the kparam struct was a bad idea: it's rodata so setting it causes an oops on some archs. But that's not all: 1) module_param_array() on charp doesn't work reliably, since we use an uninitialized temporary struct kernel_param. 2) there's a fundamental race if a module uses this parameter and then it's changed: they will still access the old, freed, memory. The simplest fix (ie. for 2.6.32) is to never free the memory. This prevents all these problems, at cost of a memory leak. In practice, there are only 18 places where a charp is writable via sysfs, and all are root-only writable. Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-10-28PM / freezer: Don't get over-anxious while waitingTejun Heo
Freezing isn't exactly the most latency sensitive operation and there's no reason to burn cpu cycles and power waiting for it to complete. msleep(10) instead of yield(). This should improve reliability of emergency hibernation. [rjw: Modified the comment next to the msleep(10).] Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2009-10-28futex: Fix spurious wakeup for requeue_pi reallyThomas Gleixner
The requeue_pi path doesn't use unqueue_me() (and the racy lock_ptr == NULL test) nor does it use the wake_list of futex_wake() which where the reason for commit 41890f2 (futex: Handle spurious wake up) See debugging discussing on LKML Message-ID: <4AD4080C.20703@us.ibm.com> The changes in this fix to the wait_requeue_pi path were considered to be a likely unecessary, but harmless safety net. But it turns out that due to the fact that for unknown $@#!*( reasons EWOULDBLOCK is defined as EAGAIN we built an endless loop in the code path which returns correctly EWOULDBLOCK. Spurious wakeups in wait_requeue_pi code path are unlikely so we do the easy solution and return EWOULDBLOCK^WEAGAIN to user space and let it deal with the spurious wakeup. Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <4AE23C74.1090502@us.ibm.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-10-28kmemleak: Scan the _ftrace_events section in modulesCatalin Marinas
This section contains pointers to allocated objects and not scanning it leads to false positives. Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-10-29sched: move rq_weight data array out of .percpuJiri Kosina
Commit 34d76c41 introduced percpu array update_shares_data, size of which being proportional to NR_CPUS. Unfortunately this blows up ia64 for large NR_CPUS configuration, as ia64 allows only 64k for .percpu section. Fix this by allocating this array dynamically and keep only pointer to it percpu. The per-cpu handling doesn't impose significant performance penalty on potentially contented path in tg_shares_up(). ... ffffffff8104337c: 65 48 8b 14 25 20 cd mov %gs:0xcd20,%rdx ffffffff81043383: 00 00 ffffffff81043385: 48 c7 c0 00 e1 00 00 mov $0xe100,%rax ffffffff8104338c: 48 c7 45 a0 00 00 00 movq $0x0,-0x60(%rbp) ffffffff81043393: 00 ffffffff81043394: 48 c7 45 a8 00 00 00 movq $0x0,-0x58(%rbp) ffffffff8104339b: 00 ffffffff8104339c: 48 01 d0 add %rdx,%rax ffffffff8104339f: 49 8d 94 24 08 01 00 lea 0x108(%r12),%rdx ffffffff810433a6: 00 ffffffff810433a7: b9 ff ff ff ff mov $0xffffffff,%ecx ffffffff810433ac: 48 89 45 b0 mov %rax,-0x50(%rbp) ffffffff810433b0: bb 00 04 00 00 mov $0x400,%ebx ffffffff810433b5: 48 89 55 c0 mov %rdx,-0x40(%rbp) ... After: ... ffffffff8104337c: 65 8b 04 25 28 cd 00 mov %gs:0xcd28,%eax ffffffff81043383: 00 ffffffff81043384: 48 98 cltq ffffffff81043386: 49 8d bc 24 08 01 00 lea 0x108(%r12),%rdi ffffffff8104338d: 00 ffffffff8104338e: 48 8b 15 d3 7f 76 00 mov 0x767fd3(%rip),%rdx # ffffffff817ab368 <update_shares_data> ffffffff81043395: 48 8b 34 c5 00 ee 6d mov -0x7e921200(,%rax,8),%rsi ffffffff8104339c: 81 ffffffff8104339d: 48 c7 45 a0 00 00 00 movq $0x0,-0x60(%rbp) ffffffff810433a4: 00 ffffffff810433a5: b9 ff ff ff ff mov $0xffffffff,%ecx ffffffff810433aa: 48 89 7d c0 mov %rdi,-0x40(%rbp) ffffffff810433ae: 48 c7 45 a8 00 00 00 movq $0x0,-0x58(%rbp) ffffffff810433b5: 00 ffffffff810433b6: bb 00 04 00 00 mov $0x400,%ebx ffffffff810433bb: 48 01 f2 add %rsi,%rdx ffffffff810433be: 48 89 55 b0 mov %rdx,-0x50(%rbp) ... Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-10-28kmemleak: Simplify the kmemleak_scan_area() function prototypeCatalin Marinas
This function was taking non-necessary arguments which can be determined by kmemleak. The patch also modifies the calling sites. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-10-28perf_event: Add alignment-faults and emulation-faults software eventsAnton Blanchard
Add two more software events that are common to many cpus. Alignment faults: When a load or store is not aligned properly. Emulation faults: When an instruction is emulated in software. Both cause a very significant slowdown (100x or worse), so identifying and fixing them is very important. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-10-26rcu: Simplify creating of lockdep class for root rcu_nodePeter Zijlstra
Use lockdep_set_class() to simplify the code and to avoid any additional overhead in the !LOCKDEP case. Also move the definition of rcu_root_class into kernel/rcutree.c, as suggested by Lai Jiangshan. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1256577871443-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-26rcu: Do tiny cleanups in rcutinyIngo Molnar
No change in functionality - just straighten out a few small stylistic details. Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: avi@redhat.com Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <12565226351355-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-26rcu: Improve rcutorture diagnostics when bad torture_type specifiedPaul E. McKenney
Make rcutorture list the available torture_type values when it doesn't like the one specified. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: avi@redhat.com Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <12565226351868-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-26rcu: Add synchronize_srcu_expedited() to the rcutorture test suitePaul E. McKenney
Adds the "srcu_expedited" torture type, and also renames sched_ops_sync to sched_sync_ops for consistency while we are in this file. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: avi@redhat.com Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <12565226353636-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-26rcu: Add synchronize_srcu_expedited()Paul E. McKenney
This patch creates a synchronize_srcu_expedited() that uses synchronize_sched_expedited() where synchronize_srcu() uses synchronize_sched(). The synchronize_srcu() and synchronize_srcu_expedited() functions become one-liners that pass synchronize_sched() or synchronize_sched_expedited(), repectively, to a new __synchronize_srcu() function. While in the file, move the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()s to immediately follow the corresponding functions. Requested-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Tested-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: avi@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <12565226354038-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-26rcu: "Tiny RCU", The Bloatwatch EditionPaul E. McKenney
This patch is a version of RCU designed for !SMP provided for a small-footprint RCU implementation. In particular, the implementation of synchronize_rcu() is extremely lightweight and high performance. It passes rcutorture testing in each of the four relevant configurations (combinations of NO_HZ and PREEMPT) on x86. This saves about 1K bytes compared to old Classic RCU (which is no longer in mainline), and more than three kilobytes compared to Hierarchical RCU (updated to 2.6.30): CONFIG_TREE_RCU: text data bss dec filename 183 4 0 187 kernel/rcupdate.o 2783 520 36 3339 kernel/rcutree.o 3526 Total (vs 4565 for v7) CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU: text data bss dec filename 263 4 0 267 kernel/rcupdate.o 4594 776 52 5422 kernel/rcutree.o 5689 Total (6155 for v7) CONFIG_TINY_RCU: text data bss dec filename 96 4 0 100 kernel/rcupdate.o 734 24 0 758 kernel/rcutiny.o 858 Total (vs 848 for v7) The above is for x86. Your mileage may vary on other platforms. Further compression is possible, but is being procrastinated. Changes from v7 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/9/388) o Apply Lai Jiangshan's review comments (aside from might_sleep() in synchronize_sched(), which is covered by SMP builds). o Fix up expedited primitives. Changes from v6 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/23/293). o Forward ported to put it into the 2.6.33 stream. o Added lockdep support. o Make lightweight rcu_barrier. Changes from v5 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/23/12). o Ported to latest pre-2.6.32 merge window kernel. - Renamed rcu_qsctr_inc() to rcu_sched_qs(). - Renamed rcu_bh_qsctr_inc() to rcu_bh_qs(). - Provided trivial rcu_cpu_notify(). - Provided trivial exit_rcu(). - Provided trivial rcu_needs_cpu(). - Fixed up the rcu_*_enter/exit() functions in linux/hardirq.h. o Removed the dependence on EMBEDDED, with a view to making TINY_RCU default for !SMP at some time in the future. o Added (trivial) support for expedited grace periods. Changes from v4 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/2/91) include: o Squeeze the size down a bit further by removing the ->completed field from struct rcu_ctrlblk. o This permits synchronize_rcu() to become the empty function. Previous concerns about rcutorture were unfounded, as rcutorture correctly handles a constant value from rcu_batches_completed() and rcu_batches_completed_bh(). Changes from v3 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/29/221) include: o Changed rcu_batches_completed(), rcu_batches_completed_bh() rcu_enter_nohz(), rcu_exit_nohz(), rcu_nmi_enter(), and rcu_nmi_exit(), to be static inlines, as suggested by David Howells. Doing this saves about 100 bytes from rcutiny.o. (The numbers between v3 and this v4 of the patch are not directly comparable, since they are against different versions of Linux.) Changes from v2 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/3/333) include: o Fix whitespace issues. o Change short-circuit "||" operator to instead be "+" in order to fix performance bug noted by "kraai" on LWN. (http://lwn.net/Articles/324348/) Changes from v1 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/13/440) include: o This version depends on EMBEDDED as well as !SMP, as suggested by Ingo. o Updated rcu_needs_cpu() to unconditionally return zero, permitting the CPU to enter dynticks-idle mode at any time. This works because callbacks can be invoked upon entry to dynticks-idle mode. o Paul is now OK with this being included, based on a poll at the Kernel Miniconf at linux.conf.au, where about ten people said that they cared about saving 900 bytes on single-CPU systems. o Applies to both mainline and tip/core/rcu. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: avi@redhat.com Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <12565226351355-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-25x86: Fix user return notifier buildAvi Kivity
When CONFIG_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER is set, we need to link kernel/user-return-notifier.o. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1256473485-23109-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-25sched, cpuacct: Fix niced guest time accountingRyota Ozaki
CPU time of a guest is always accounted in 'user' time without concern for the nice value of its counterpart process although the guest is scheduled under the nice value. This patch fixes the defect and accounts cpu time of a niced guest in 'nice' time as same as a niced process. And also the patch adds 'guest_nice' to cpuacct. The value provides niced guest cpu time which is like 'nice' to 'user'. The original discussions can be found here: http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg23982.html http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg23860.html Signed-off-by: Ryota Ozaki <ozaki.ryota@gmail.com> Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1256314810-7897-1-git-send-email-ozaki.ryota@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-25Merge branch 'linus' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: fs/proc/array.c Merge reason: resolve conflict and queue up dependent patch. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-24tracing: Remove cpu arg from the rb_time_stamp() functionJiri Olsa
The cpu argument is not used inside the rb_time_stamp() function. Plus fix a typo. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20091023233647.118547500@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-24tracing: Fix comment typo and documentation exampleJiri Olsa
Trivial patch to fix a documentation example and to fix a comment. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.871719877@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-24tracing: Fix trace_seq_printf() return valueJiri Olsa
trace_seq_printf() return value is a little ambiguous. It currently returns the length of the space available in the buffer. printf usually returns the amount written. This is not adequate here, because: trace_seq_printf(s, ""); is perfectly legal, and returning 0 would indicate that it failed. We can always see the amount written by looking at the before and after values of s->len. This is not quite the same use as printf. We only care if the string was successfully written to the buffer or not. Make trace_seq_printf() return 0 if the trace oversizes the buffer's free space, 1 otherwise. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.631787612@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-24tracing: Update *ppos instead of filp->f_posJiri Olsa
Instead of directly updating filp->f_pos we should update the *ppos argument. The filp->f_pos gets updated within the file_pos_write() function called from sys_write(). Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.399670810@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-23sched: Strengthen buddies and mitigate buddy induced latenciesMike Galbraith
This patch restores the effectiveness of LAST_BUDDY in preventing pgsql+oltp from collapsing due to wakeup preemption. It also switches LAST_BUDDY to exclusively do what it does best, namely mitigate the effects of aggressive wakeup preemption, which improves vmark throughput markedly, and restores mysql+oltp scalability. Since buddies are about scalability, enable them beginning at the point where we begin expanding sched_latency, namely sched_nr_latency. Previously, buddies were cleared aggressively, which seriously reduced their effectiveness. Not clearing aggressively however, produces a small drop in mysql+oltp throughput immediately after peak, indicating that LAST_BUDDY is actually doing some harm. This is right at the point where X on the desktop in competition with another load wants low latency service. Ergo, do not enable until we need to scale. To mitigate latency induced by buddies, or by a task just missing wakeup preemption, check latency at tick time. Last hunk prevents buddies from stymieing BALANCE_NEWIDLE via CACHE_HOT_BUDDY. Supporting performance tests: tip = v2.6.32-rc5-1497-ga525b32 tipx = NO_GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS NEXT_BUDDY granularity knobs = 31 knobs + 31 buddies tip+x = NO_GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS granularity knobs = 31 knobs (Three run averages except where noted.) vmark: ------ tip 108466 messages per second tip+ 125307 messages per second tip+x 125335 messages per second tipx 117781 messages per second 2.6.31.3 122729 messages per second mysql+oltp: ----------- clients 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 .......................................................................................... tip 9949.89 18690.20 34801.24 34460.04 32682.88 30765.97 28305.27 25059.64 19548.08 tip+ 10013.90 18526.84 34900.38 34420.14 33069.83 32083.40 30578.30 28010.71 25605.47 tipx 9698.71 18002.70 34477.56 33420.01 32634.30 31657.27 29932.67 26827.52 21487.18 2.6.31.3 8243.11 18784.20 34404.83 33148.38 31900.32 31161.90 29663.81 25995.94 18058.86 pgsql+oltp: ----------- clients 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 .......................................................................................... tip 13686.37 26609.25 51934.28 51347.81 49479.51 45312.65 36691.91 26851.57 24145.35 tip+ (1x) 13907.85 27135.87 52951.98 52514.04 51742.52 50705.43 49947.97 48374.19 46227.94 tip+x 13906.78 27065.81 52951.19 52542.59 52176.11 51815.94 50838.90 49439.46 46891.00 tipx 13742.46 26769.81 52351.99 51891.73 51320.79 50938.98 50248.65 48908.70 46553.84 2.6.31.3 13815.35 26906.46 52683.34 52061.31 51937.10 51376.80 50474.28 49394.47 47003.25 Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-23ratelimit: Make suppressed output messages more usefulChristian Borntraeger
Today I got: [39648.224782] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::TX [40676.545099] __ratelimit: 246 callbacks suppressed [40676.545103] abcdef[23675]: segfault at 0 ... as you can see the ratelimit message contains a function prefix. Since this is always __ratelimit, this wont help much. This patch changes __ratelimit and printk_ratelimit to print the function name that calls ratelimit. This will pinpoint the responsible function, as long as not several different places call ratelimit with the same ratelimit state at the same time. In that case we catch only one random function that calls ratelimit after the wait period. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <200910231458.11832.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-23generic-ipi: Fix misleading smp_call_function*() descriptionSheng Yang
After commit:8969a5ede0f9e17da4b943712429aef2c9bcd82b "generic-ipi: remove kmalloc()", wait = 0 can be guaranteed. Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> LKML-Reference: <1256210374-25354-1-git-send-email-sheng@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-23perf events: Don't generate events for the idle task when exclude_idle is setSoeren Sandmann
Getting samples for the idle task is often not interesting, so don't generate them when exclude_idle is set for the event in question. Signed-off-by: Søren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <ye8pr8fmlq7.fsf@camel16.daimi.au.dk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-23perf events: Fix swevent hrtimer sampling by keeping track of remaining time ↵Soeren Sandmann
when enabling/disabling swevent hrtimers Make the hrtimer based events work for sysprof. Whenever a swevent is scheduled out, the hrtimer is canceled. When it is scheduled back in, the timer is restarted. This happens every scheduler tick, which means the timer never expired because it was getting repeatedly restarted over and over with the same period. To fix that, save the remaining time when disabling; when reenabling, use that saved time as the period instead of the user-specified sampling period. Also, move the starting and stopping of the hrtimers to helper functions instead of duplicating the code. Signed-off-by: Søren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <ye8vdi7mluz.fsf@camel16.daimi.au.dk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-23Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/probesIngo Molnar
Conflicts: tools/perf/Makefile Merge reason: - fix the conflict - pick up the pr_*() infrastructure to queue up dependent patch Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-22PM: Make warning in suspend_test_finish() less likely to happenRafael J. Wysocki
Increase TEST_SUSPEND_SECONDS to 10 so the warning in suspend_test_finish() doesn't annoy the users of slower systems so much. Also, make the warning print the suspend-resume cycle time, so that we know why the warning actually triggered. Patch prepared during the hacking session at the Kernel Summit in Tokyo. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-20Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Queue up dependent patch. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-19HWPOISON: Allow schedule_on_each_cpu() from keventdAndi Kleen
Right now when calling schedule_on_each_cpu() from keventd there is a deadlock because it tries to schedule a work item on the current CPU too. This happens via lru_add_drain_all() in hwpoison. Just call the function for the current CPU in this case. This is actually faster too. Debugging with Fengguang Wu & Max Asbock Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-10-18Merge commit 'perf/core' into perf/hw-breakpointFrederic Weisbecker
Conflicts: kernel/Makefile kernel/trace/Makefile kernel/trace/trace.h samples/Makefile Merge reason: We need to be uptodate with the perf events development branch because we plan to rewrite the breakpoints API on top of perf events.
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