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2009-02-19Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: limit the number of loops the ring buffer self test can make tracing: have function trace select kallsyms tracing: disable tracing while testing ring buffer tracing/function-graph-tracer: trace the idle tasks
2009-02-18tracing: limit the number of loops the ring buffer self test can makeSteven Rostedt
Impact: prevent deadlock if ring buffer gets corrupted This patch adds a paranoid check to make sure the ring buffer consumer does not go into an infinite loop. Since the ring buffer has been set to read only, the consumer should not loop for more than the ring buffer size. A check is added to make sure the consumer does not loop more than the ring buffer size. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-18tracing: have function trace select kallsymsSteven Rostedt
Impact: fix output of function tracer to be useful The function tracer is pretty useless if KALLSYMS is not configured. Unless you are good at reading hex values, the function tracer should select the KALLSYMS configuration. Also, the dynamic function tracer will fail its self test if KALLSYMS is not selected. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-18tracing: disable tracing while testing ring bufferSteven Rostedt
Impact: fix to prevent hard lockup on self tests If one of the tracers are broken and is constantly filling the ring buffer while the test of the ring buffer is running, it will hang the box. The reason is that the test is a consumer that will not stop till the ring buffer is empty. But if the tracer is broken and is constantly producing input to the buffer, this test will never end. The result is a lockup of the box. This happened when KALLSYMS was not defined and the dynamic ftrace test constantly filled the ring buffer, because the filter failed and all functions were being traced. Something was being called that constantly filled the buffer. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: block: fix deadlock in blk_abort_queue() for drivers that readd to timeout list block: fix booting from partitioned md array block: revert part of 18ce3751ccd488c78d3827e9f6bf54e6322676fb cciss: PCI power management reset for kexec paride/pg.c: xs(): &&/|| confusion fs/bio: bio_alloc_bioset: pass right object ptr to mempool_free block: fix bad definition of BIO_RW_SYNC bsg: Fix sense buffer bug in SG_IO
2009-02-18pm: fix build for CONFIG_PM unsetRafael J. Wysocki
Compilation of kprobes.c with CONFIG_PM unset is broken due to some broken config dependncies. Fix that. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-18cgroups: fix possible use after freeLi Zefan
In cgroup_kill_sb(), root is freed before sb is detached from the list, so another sget() may find this sb and call cgroup_test_super(), which will access the root that has been freed. Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-18block: fix bad definition of BIO_RW_SYNCJens Axboe
We can't OR shift values, so get rid of BIO_RW_SYNC and use BIO_RW_SYNCIO and BIO_RW_UNPLUG explicitly. This brings back the behaviour from before 213d9417fec62ef4c3675621b9364a667954d4dd. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-02-17Merge 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: cpu hotplug fix
2009-02-17Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: timers: more consistently use clock vs timer
2009-02-17Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: doc: mmiotrace.txt, buffer size control change trace: mmiotrace to the tracer menu in Kconfig mmiotrace: count events lost due to not recording
2009-02-17Merge 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: iommu: fix Intel IOMMU write-buffer flushing futex: fix reference leak Trivial conflicts fixed manually in drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c
2009-02-17tracing/function-graph-tracer: trace the idle tasksFrederic Weisbecker
When the function graph tracer is activated, it iterates over the task_list to allocate a stack to store the return addresses. But the per cpu idle tasks are not iterated by using do_each_thread / while_each_thread. So we have to iterate on them manually. This fixes somes weirdness in the traces and many losses of traces. Examples on two cpus: 0) Xorg-4287 | 2.906 us | } 0) Xorg-4287 | 3.965 us | } 0) Xorg-4287 | 5.302 us | } ------------------------------------------ 0) Xorg-4287 => <idle>-0 ------------------------------------------ 0) <idle>-0 | 2.861 us | } 0) <idle>-0 | 0.526 us | set_normalized_timespec(); 0) <idle>-0 | 7.201 us | } 0) <idle>-0 | 8.214 us | } 0) <idle>-0 | | clockevents_program_event() { 0) <idle>-0 | | lapic_next_event() { 0) <idle>-0 | 0.510 us | native_apic_mem_write(); 0) <idle>-0 | 1.546 us | } 0) <idle>-0 | 2.583 us | } 0) <idle>-0 | + 12.435 us | } 0) <idle>-0 | + 13.470 us | } 0) <idle>-0 | 0.608 us | _spin_unlock_irqrestore(); 0) <idle>-0 | + 23.270 us | } 0) <idle>-0 | + 24.336 us | } 0) <idle>-0 | + 25.417 us | } 0) <idle>-0 | 0.593 us | _spin_unlock(); 0) <idle>-0 | + 41.869 us | } 0) <idle>-0 | + 42.906 us | } 0) <idle>-0 | + 95.035 us | } 0) <idle>-0 | 0.540 us | menu_reflect(); 0) <idle>-0 | ! 100.404 us | } 0) <idle>-0 | 0.564 us | mce_idle_callback(); 0) <idle>-0 | | enter_idle() { 0) <idle>-0 | 0.526 us | mce_idle_callback(); 0) <idle>-0 | 1.757 us | } 0) <idle>-0 | | cpuidle_idle_call() { 0) <idle>-0 | | menu_select() { 0) <idle>-0 | 0.525 us | pm_qos_requirement(); 0) <idle>-0 | 0.518 us | tick_nohz_get_sleep_length(); 0) <idle>-0 | 2.621 us | } [...] 1) <idle>-0 | 0.518 us | touch_softlockup_watchdog(); 1) <idle>-0 | + 14.355 us | } 1) <idle>-0 | + 22.840 us | } 1) <idle>-0 | + 25.949 us | } 1) <idle>-0 | | handle_irq() { 1) <idle>-0 | 0.511 us | irq_to_desc(); 1) <idle>-0 | | handle_edge_irq() { 1) <idle>-0 | 0.638 us | _spin_lock(); 1) <idle>-0 | | ack_apic_edge() { 1) <idle>-0 | 0.510 us | irq_to_desc(); 1) <idle>-0 | | move_native_irq() { 1) <idle>-0 | 0.510 us | irq_to_desc(); 1) <idle>-0 | 1.532 us | } 1) <idle>-0 | 0.511 us | native_apic_mem_write(); ------------------------------------------ 1) <idle>-0 => cat-5073 ------------------------------------------ 1) cat-5073 | 3.731 us | } 1) cat-5073 | | run_local_timers() { 1) cat-5073 | 0.533 us | hrtimer_run_queues(); 1) cat-5073 | | raise_softirq() { 1) cat-5073 | | __raise_softirq_irqoff() { 1) cat-5073 | | /* nr: 1 */ 1) cat-5073 | 2.718 us | } 1) cat-5073 | 3.814 us | } Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-15trace: mmiotrace to the tracer menu in KconfigPekka Paalanen
Impact: cosmetic change in Kconfig menu layout This patch was originally suggested by Peter Zijlstra, but seems it was forgotten. CONFIG_MMIOTRACE and CONFIG_MMIOTRACE_TEST were selectable directly under the Kernel hacking / debugging menu in the kernel configuration system. They were present only for x86 and x86_64. Other tracers that use the ftrace tracing framework are in their own sub-menu. This patch moves the mmiotrace configuration options there. Since the Kconfig file, where the tracer menu is, is not architecture specific, HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT is introduced and provided only by x86/x86_64. CONFIG_MMIOTRACE now depends on it. Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-15mmiotrace: count events lost due to not recordingPekka Paalanen
Impact: enhances lost events counting in mmiotrace The tracing framework, or the ring buffer facility it uses, has a switch to stop recording data. When recording is off, the trace events will be lost. The framework does not count these, so mmiotrace has to count them itself. Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-13User namespaces: Only put the userns when we unhash the uidSerge E. Hallyn
uids in namespaces other than init don't get a sysfs entry. For those in the init namespace, while we're waiting to remove the sysfs entry for the uid the uid is still hashed, and alloc_uid() may re-grab that uid without getting a new reference to the user_ns, which we've already put in free_user before scheduling remove_user_sysfs_dir(). Reported-and-tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-13timers: more consistently use clock vs timerPeter Zijlstra
While reviewing the manpages, I noticed I'd missed some clock vs timer sites. Make sure that all timer functions call cpu_timer_sample_group() and not cpu_clock_sample_group(). This ensures that we enable the process wide timer in time, and therefore pay the O(n) thread group cost from the syscall. Not doing it here, will result in the first jiffy tick after setting the timer doing this, resulting in a very expensive tick (but only once) and a delay in actually starting the timer. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-12sched: cpu hotplug fixIngo Molnar
rq_attach_root() does a kfree() with the runqueue lock held. That's not a very wise move, fix it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11cgroups: fix lockdep subclasses overflowLi Zefan
I enabled all cgroup subsystems when compiling kernel, and then: # mount -t cgroup -o net_cls xxx /mnt # mkdir /mnt/0 This showed up immediately: BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES too low! turning off the locking correctness validator. It's caused by the cgroup hierarchy lock: for (i = 0; i < CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT; i++) { struct cgroup_subsys *ss = subsys[i]; if (ss->root == root) mutex_lock_nested(&ss->hierarchy_mutex, i); } Now we have 9 cgroup subsystems, and the above 'i' for net_cls is 8, but MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES is 8. This patch uses different lockdep keys for different subsystems. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-11mm: fix dirty_bytes/dirty_background_bytes sysctls on 64bit archesSven Wegener
We need to pass an unsigned long as the minimum, because it gets casted to an unsigned long in the sysctl handler. If we pass an int, we'll access four more bytes on 64bit arches, resulting in a random minimum value. [rientjes@google.com: fix type of `old_bytes'] Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-11futex: fix reference leakPeter Zijlstra
Catalin noticed that (38d47c1b7075: futex: rely on get_user_pages() for shared futexes) caused an mm_struct leak. Some tracing with the function graph tracer quickly pointed out that futex_wait() has exit paths with unbalanced reference counts. This regression was discovered by kmemleak. Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11Merge 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: revert recent sync wakeup changes
2009-02-11Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: timers: fix TIMER_ABSTIME for process wide cpu timers timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers, fix x86: clean up hpet timer reinit timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers, remove spurious warning timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers signal: re-add dead task accumulation stats. x86: fix hpet timer reinit for x86_64 sched: fix nohz load balancer on cpu offline
2009-02-11Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: ptrace, x86: fix the usage of ptrace_fork() i8327: fix outb() parameter order x86: fix math_emu register frame access x86: math_emu info cleanup x86: include correct %gs in a.out core dump x86, vmi: put a missing paravirt_release_pmd in pgd_dtor x86: find nr_irqs_gsi with mp_ioapic_routing x86: add clflush before monitor for Intel 7400 series x86: disable intel_iommu support by default x86: don't apply __supported_pte_mask to non-present ptes x86: fix grammar in user-visible BIOS warning x86/Kconfig.cpu: make Kconfig help readable in the console x86, 64-bit: print DMI info in the oops trace
2009-02-11sched: revert recent sync wakeup changesPeter Zijlstra
Intel reported a 10% regression (mysql+sysbench) on a 16-way machine with these patches: 1596e29: sched: symmetric sync vs avg_overlap d942fb6: sched: fix sync wakeups Revert them. Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Bisected-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11timers: fix TIMER_ABSTIME for process wide cpu timersPeter Zijlstra
The POSIX timer interface allows for absolute time expiry values through the TIMER_ABSTIME flag, therefore we have to synchronize the timer to the clock every time we start it. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers, fixPeter Zijlstra
To decrease the chance of a missed enable, always enable the timer when we sample it, we'll always disable it when we find that there are no active timers in the jiffy tick. This fixes a flood of warnings reported by Mike Galbraith. Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11ptrace, x86: fix the usage of ptrace_fork()Oleg Nesterov
I noticed by pure accident we have ptrace_fork() and friends. This was added by "x86, bts: add fork and exit handling", commit bf53de907dfdaac178c92d774aae7370d7b97d20. I can't test this, ds_request_bts() returns -EOPNOTSUPP, but I strongly believe this needs the fix. I think something like this program int main(void) { int pid = fork(); if (!pid) { ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0, NULL, NULL); kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP); fork(); } else { struct ptrace_bts_config bts = { .flags = PTRACE_BTS_O_ALLOC, .size = 4 * 4096, }; wait(NULL); ptrace(PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, pid, NULL, PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK); ptrace(PTRACE_BTS_CONFIG, pid, &bts, sizeof(bts)); ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, NULL, NULL); sleep(1); } return 0; } should crash the kernel. If the task is traced by its natural parent ptrace_reparented() returns 0 but we should clear ->btsxxx anyway. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-10profiling: fix broken profiling regressionHugh Dickins
Impact: fix broken /proc/profile on UP machines Commit c309b917cab55799ea489d7b5f1b77025d9f8462 "cpumask: convert kernel/profile.c" broke profiling. prof_cpu_mask was previously initialized to CPU_MASK_ALL, but left uninitialized in that commit. We need to copy cpu_possible_mask (cpu_online_mask is not enough). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-08async: use list_move_tailStefan Richter
list.h provides a dedicated primitive for "list_del followed by list_add_tail"... list_move_tail. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2009-02-08async: Rename _special -> _domain for clarity.Cornelia Huck
Rename the async_*_special() functions to async_*_domain(), which describes the purpose of these functions much better. [Broke up long lines to silence checkpatch] Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-08async: Add some documentation.Cornelia Huck
Add some kerneldoc to the async interface. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-08async: Handle kthread_run() return codes.Cornelia Huck
If we fail to create the manager thread, fall back to non-fastboot. If we fail to create an async thread, try again after waiting for a bit. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-08async: Fix running list handling.Cornelia Huck
async_schedule() should pass in async_running as the running list, and run_one_entry() should put the entry to be run on the provided running list instead of always on the generic one. Reported-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-07Merge branches 'release', 'asus', 'bugzilla-12450', 'cpuidle', 'debug', ↵Len Brown
'ec', 'misc', 'printk' and 'processor' into release
2009-02-06fork.c: fix NULL pointer dereference when nr_threads == threads-maxLi Zefan
I happened to forked lots of processes, and hit NULL pointer dereference. It is because in copy_process() after checking max_threads, 0 is returned but not -EAGAIN. The bug is introduced by "CRED: Detach the credentials from task_struct" (commit f1752eec6145c97163dbce62d17cf5d928e28a27). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05wait: prevent exclusive waiter starvationJohannes Weiner
With exclusive waiters, every process woken up through the wait queue must ensure that the next waiter down the line is woken when it has finished. Interruptible waiters don't do that when aborting due to a signal. And if an aborting waiter is concurrently woken up through the waitqueue, noone will ever wake up the next waiter. This has been observed with __wait_on_bit_lock() used by lock_page_killable(): the first contender on the queue was aborting when the actual lock holder woke it up concurrently. The aborted contender didn't acquire the lock and therefor never did an unlock followed by waking up the next waiter. Add abort_exclusive_wait() which removes the process' wait descriptor from the waitqueue, iff still queued, or wakes up the next waiter otherwise. It does so under the waitqueue lock. Racing with a wake up means the aborting process is either already woken (removed from the queue) and will wake up the next waiter, or it will remove itself from the queue and the concurrent wake up will apply to the next waiter after it. Use abort_exclusive_wait() in __wait_event_interruptible_exclusive() and __wait_on_bit_lock() when they were interrupted by other means than a wake up through the queue. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Reported-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Mentored-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> ["after some testing"] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05revert "rlimit: permit setting RLIMIT_NOFILE to RLIM_INFINITY"Andrew Morton
Revert commit 0c2d64fb6cae9aae480f6a46cfe79f8d7d48b59f because it causes (arguably poorly designed) existing userspace to spend interminable periods closing billions of not-open file descriptors. We could bring this back, with some sort of opt-in tunable in /proc, which defaults to "off". Peter's alanysis follows: : I spent several hours trying to get to the bottom of a serious : performance issue that appeared on one of our servers after upgrading to : 2.6.28. In the end it's what could be considered a userspace bug that : was triggered by a change in 2.6.28. Since this might also affect other : people I figured I'd at least document what I found here, and maybe we : can even do something about it: : : : So, I upgraded some of debian.org's machines to 2.6.28.1 and immediately : the team maintaining our ftp archive complained that one of their : scripts that previously ran in a few minutes still hadn't even come : close to being done after an hour or so. Downgrading to 2.6.27 fixed : that. : : Turns out that script is forking a lot and something in it or python or : whereever closes all the file descriptors it doesn't want to pass on. : That is, it starts at zero and goes up to ulimit -n/RLIMIT_NOFILE and : closes them all with a few exceptions. : : Turns out that takes a long time when your limit -n is now 2^20 (1048576). : : With 2.6.27.* the ulimit -n was the standard 1024, but with 2.6.28 it is : now a thousand times that. : : 2.6.28 included a patch titled "rlimit: permit setting RLIMIT_NOFILE to : RLIM_INFINITY" (0c2d64fb6cae9aae480f6a46cfe79f8d7d48b59f)[1] that : allows, as the title implies, to set the limit for number of files to : infinity. : : Closer investigation showed that the broken default ulimit did not apply : to "system" processes (like stuff started from init). In the end I : could establish that all processes that passed through pam_limit at one : point had the bad resource limit. : : Apparently the pam library in Debian etch (4.0) initializes the limits : to some default values when it doesn't have any settings in limit.conf : to override them. Turns out that for nofiles this is RLIM_INFINITY. : Commenting out "case RLIMIT_NOFILE" in pam_limit.c:267 of our pam : package version 0.79-5 fixes that - tho I'm not sure what side effects : that has. : : Debian lenny (the upcoming 5.0 version) doesn't have this issue as it : uses a different pam (version). Reported-by: Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org> Cc: Adam Tkac <vonsch@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05kernel/async.c: fix printk warningsAndrew Morton
alpha: kernel/async.c: In function 'run_one_entry': kernel/async.c:141: warning: format '%lli' expects type 'long long int', but argument 2 has type 'async_cookie_t' kernel/async.c:149: warning: format '%lli' expects type 'long long int', but argument 2 has type 'async_cookie_t' kernel/async.c:149: warning: format '%lld' expects type 'long long int', but argument 4 has type 's64' kernel/async.c: In function 'async_synchronize_cookie_special': kernel/async.c:250: warning: format '%lli' expects type 'long long int', but argument 3 has type 's64' Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timersPeter Zijlstra
Change the process wide cpu timers/clocks so that we: 1) don't mess up the kernel with too many threads, 2) don't have a per-cpu allocation for each process, 3) have no impact when not used. In order to accomplish this we're going to split it into two parts: - clocks; which can take all the time they want since they run from user context -- ie. sys_clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID) - timers; which need constant time sampling but since they're explicity used, the user can pay the overhead. The clock readout will go back to a full sum of the thread group, while the timers will run of a global 'clock' that only runs when needed, so only programs that make use of the facility pay the price. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-05signal: re-add dead task accumulation stats.Peter Zijlstra
We're going to split the process wide cpu accounting into two parts: - clocks; which can take all the time they want since they run from user context. - timers; which need constant time tracing but can affort the overhead because they're default off -- and rare. The clock readout will go back to a full sum of the thread group, for this we need to re-add the exit stats that were removed in the initial itimer rework (f06febc9: timers: fix itimer/many thread hang). Furthermore, since that full sum can be rather slow for large thread groups and we have the complete dead task stats, revert the do_notify_parent time computation. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-04Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: APIC: enable workaround on AMD Fam10h CPUs xen: disable interrupts before saving in percpu x86: add x86@kernel.org to MAINTAINERS x86: push old stack address on irqstack for unwinder irq, x86: fix lock status with numa_migrate_irq_desc x86: add cache descriptors for Intel Core i7 x86/Voyager: make it build and boot
2009-02-04sched: fix nohz load balancer on cpu offlineSuresh Siddha
Christian Borntraeger reports: > After a logical cpu offline, even on a complete idle system, there > is one cpu with full ticks. It turns out that nohz.cpu_mask has the > the offlined cpu still set. > > In select_nohz_load_balancer() we check if the system is completely > idle to turn of load balancing. We compare cpu_online_map with > nohz.cpu_mask. Since cpu_online_map is updated on cpu unplug, > but nohz.cpu_mask is not, the check fails and the scheduler believes > that we need an "idle load balancer" even on a fully idle system. > Since the ilb cpu does not deactivate the timer tick this breaks NOHZ. Fix the select_nohz_load_balancer() to not set the nohz.cpu_mask while a cpu is going offline. Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-04Merge branch 'core/xen' into x86/urgentIngo Molnar
2009-02-03ftrace: do_each_pid_task() needs rcu lockOleg Nesterov
"ftrace: use struct pid" commit 978f3a45d9499c7a447ca7615455cefb63d44165 converted ftrace_pid_trace to "struct pid*". But we can't use do_each_pid_task() without rcu_read_lock() even if we know the pid itself can't go away (it was pinned in ftrace_pid_write). The exiting task can detach itself from this pid at any moment. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-02Merge 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_rt: don't use first_cpu on cpumask created with cpumask_and sched: fix buddie group latency sched: clear buddies more aggressively sched: symmetric sync vs avg_overlap sched: fix sync wakeups cpuset: fix possible deadlock in async_rebuild_sched_domains
2009-02-02modules: Use a better scheme for refcountingEric Dumazet
Current refcounting for modules (done if CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y) is using a lot of memory. Each 'struct module' contains an [NR_CPUS] array of full cache lines. This patch uses existing infrastructure (percpu_modalloc() & percpu_modfree()) to allocate percpu space for the refcount storage. Instead of wasting NR_CPUS*128 bytes (on i386), we now use nr_cpu_ids*sizeof(local_t) bytes. On a typical distro, where NR_CPUS=8, shiping 2000 modules, we reduce size of module files by about 2 Mbytes. (1Kb per module) Instead of having all refcounters in the same memory node - with TLB misses because of vmalloc() - this new implementation permits to have better NUMA properties, since each CPU will use storage on its preferred node, thanks to percpu storage. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-01irq, x86: fix lock status with numa_migrate_irq_descYinghai Lu
Eric Paris reported: > I have an hp dl785g5 which is unable to successfully run > 2.6.29-0.66.rc3.fc11.x86_64 or 2.6.29-rc2-next-20090126. During bootup > (early in userspace daemons starting) I get the below BUG, which quickly > renders the machine dead. I assume it is because sparse_irq_lock never > gets released when the BUG kills that task. Adjust lock sequence when migrating a descriptor with CONFIG_NUMA_MIGRATE_IRQ_DESC enabled. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-01sched_rt: don't use first_cpu on cpumask created with cpumask_andRusty Russell
cpumask_and() only initializes nr_cpu_ids bits, so the (deprecated) first_cpu() might find one of those uninitialized bits if nr_cpu_ids is less than NR_CPUS (as it can be for CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-01sched: fix buddie group latencyPeter Zijlstra
Similar to the previous patch, by not clearing buddies we can select entities past their run quota, which can increase latency. This means we have to clear group buddies as well. Do not use the group clear for pick_next_task(), otherwise that'll get O(n^2). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>