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'idlenocb.2013.03.26b' into HEAD
doc.2013.03.12a: Documentation changes.
fixes.2013.03.13a: Miscellaneous fixes.
idlenocb.2013.03.26b: Remove restrictions on no-CBs CPUs, make
RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacks, add
callback acceleration based on numbered callbacks.
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Now that rcu_start_future_gp() has been abstracted from
rcu_nocb_wait_gp(), rcu_accelerate_cbs() can invoke rcu_start_future_gp()
so as to register the need for any future grace periods needed by a
CPU about to enter dyntick-idle mode. This commit makes this change.
Note that some refactoring of rcu_start_gp() is carried out to avoid
recursion and subsequent self-deadlocks.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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CPUs going idle will need to record the need for a future grace
period, but won't actually need to block waiting on it. This commit
therefore splits rcu_start_future_gp(), which does the recording, from
rcu_nocb_wait_gp(), which now invokes rcu_start_future_gp() to do the
recording, after which rcu_nocb_wait_gp() does the waiting.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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CPUs going idle need to be able to indicate their need for future grace
periods. A mechanism for doing this already exists for no-callbacks
CPUs, so the idea is to re-use that mechanism. This commit therefore
moves the ->n_nocb_gp_requests field of the rcu_node structure out from
under the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU #ifdef and renames it to ->need_future_gp.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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If CPUs are to give prior notice of needed grace periods, it will be
necessary to invoke rcu_start_gp() without dropping the root rcu_node
structure's ->lock. This commit takes a second step in this direction
by moving the release of this lock to rcu_start_gp()'s callers.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Dyntick-idle CPUs need to be able to pre-announce their need for grace
periods. This can be done using something similar to the mechanism used
by no-CB CPUs to announce their need for grace periods. This commit
moves in this direction by renaming the no-CBs grace-period event tracing
to suit the new future-grace-period needs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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If CPUs are to give prior notice of needed grace periods, it will be
necessary to invoke rcu_start_gp() without dropping the root rcu_node
structure's ->lock. This commit takes a first step in this direction
by moving the release of this lock to the end of rcu_start_gp().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Because RCU callbacks are now associated with the number of the grace
period that they must wait for, CPUs can now take advance callbacks
corresponding to grace periods that ended while a given CPU was in
dyntick-idle mode. This eliminates the need to try forcing the RCU
state machine while entering idle, thus reducing the CPU intensiveness
of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ, which should increase its energy efficiency.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Now that callback acceleration is idempotent, it is safe to accelerate
callbacks during grace-period cleanup on any CPUs that the kthread happens
to be running on. This commit therefore propagates the completion
of the grace period to the per-CPU data structures, and also adds an
rcu_advance_cbs() just before the cpu_needs_another_gp() check in order
to reduce false-positive grace periods.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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RCU_FAST_NO_HZ operation is controlled by four compile-time C-preprocessor
macros, but some use cases benefit greatly from runtime adjustment,
particularly when tuning devices. This commit therefore creates the
corresponding sysfs entries.
Reported-by: Robin Randhawa <robin.randhawa@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Currently, the per-no-CBs-CPU kthreads are named "rcuo" followed by
the CPU number, for example, "rcuo". This is problematic given that
there are either two or three RCU flavors, each of which gets a per-CPU
kthread with exactly the same name. This commit therefore introduces
a one-letter abbreviation for each RCU flavor, namely 'b' for RCU-bh,
'p' for RCU-preempt, and 's' for RCU-sched. This abbreviation is used
to distinguish the "rcuo" kthreads, for example, for CPU 0 we would have
"rcuob/0", "rcuop/0", and "rcuos/0".
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
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Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Currently, the no-CBs kthreads do repeated timed waits for grace periods
to elapse. This is crude and energy inefficient, so this commit allows
no-CBs kthreads to specify exactly which grace period they are waiting
for and also allows them to block for the entire duration until the
desired grace period completes.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Currently, the only way to specify no-CBs CPUs is via the rcu_nocbs
kernel command-line parameter. This is inconvenient in some cases,
particularly for randconfig testing, so this commit adds a new set of
kernel configuration parameters. CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE (the default)
retains the old behavior, CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO offloads callback
processing from CPU 0 (along with any other CPUs specified by the
rcu_nocbs boot-time parameter), and CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL offloads
callback processing from all CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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When a multi-threaded init exits and the initial thread is not the
last thread to exit the initial thread hangs around as a zombie
until the last thread exits. In that case zap_pid_ns_processes
needs to wait until there are only 2 hashed pids in the pid
namespace not one.
v2. Replace thread_pid_vnr(me) == 1 with the test thread_group_leader(me)
as suggested by Oleg.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Caj Larsson <caj@omnicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single bugfix which prevents that a non functional timer device is
selected to provide the fallback device, which is supposed to serve
timer interrupts on behalf of non functional devices ..."
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
clockevents: Don't allow dummy broadcast timers
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Allow BPF_XOR based ALU instructions.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schichan <nschichan@freebox.fr>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
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To simplify locking, the previous patches expanded wq->mutex to
protect all fields of each workqueue instance including the pwqs list
leaving pwq_lock without any user. Remove the unused pwq_lock.
tj: Rebased on top of the current dev branch. Updated description.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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We're expanding wq->mutex to cover all fields specific to each
workqueue with the end goal of replacing pwq_lock which will make
locking simpler and easier to understand.
This patch makes wq->saved_max_active protected by wq->mutex instead
of pwq_lock. As pwq_lock locking around pwq_adjust_mac_active() is no
longer necessary, this patch also replaces pwq_lock lockings of
for_each_pwq() around pwq_adjust_max_active() to wq->mutex.
tj: Rebased on top of the current dev branch. Updated description.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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We're expanding wq->mutex to cover all fields specific to each
workqueue with the end goal of replacing pwq_lock which will make
locking simpler and easier to understand.
init_and_link_pwq() and pwq_unbound_release_workfn() already grab
wq->mutex when adding or removing a pwq from wq->pwqs list. This
patch makes it official that the list is wq->mutex protected for
writes and updates readers accoridingly. Explicit IRQ toggles for
sched-RCU read-locking in flush_workqueue_prep_pwqs() and
drain_workqueues() are removed as the surrounding wq->mutex can
provide sufficient synchronization.
Also, assert_rcu_or_pwq_lock() is renamed to assert_rcu_or_wq_mutex()
and checks for wq->mutex too.
pwq_lock locking and assertion are not removed by this patch and a
couple of for_each_pwq() iterations are still protected by it.
They'll be removed by future patches.
tj: Rebased on top of the current dev branch. Updated description.
Folded in assert_rcu_or_wq_mutex() renaming from a later patch
along with associated comment updates.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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We're expanding wq->mutex to cover all fields specific to each
workqueue with the end goal of replacing pwq_lock which will make
locking simpler and easier to understand.
wq->nr_drainers and ->flags are specific to each workqueue. Protect
->nr_drainers and ->flags with wq->mutex instead of pool_mutex.
tj: Rebased on top of the current dev branch. Updated description.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Currently pwq->flush_mutex protects many fields of a workqueue
including, especially, the pwqs list. We're going to expand this
mutex to protect most of a workqueue and eventually replace pwq_lock,
which will make locking simpler and easier to understand.
Drop the "flush_" prefix in preparation.
This patch is pure rename.
tj: Rebased on top of the current dev branch. Updated description.
Use WQ: and WR: instead of Q: and QR: for synchronization labels.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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wq->flush_mutex will be renamed to wq->mutex and cover all fields
specific to each workqueue and eventually replace pwq_lock, which will
make locking simpler and easier to understand.
Rename wq_mutex to wq_pool_mutex to avoid confusion with wq->mutex.
After the scheduled changes, wq_pool_mutex won't be protecting
anything specific to each workqueue instance anyway.
This patch is pure rename.
tj: s/wqs_mutex/wq_pool_mutex/. Rewrote description.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
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Yet again, the kbuild test robot saves the day, noting
I left out defining __timekeeping_set_tai_offset as
static. It even sent me this patch.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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The "NOHZ: local_softirq_pending" message is a largely informational
message. This makes extra work for customers that have a policy of
investigating all kernel log messages logged at <= KERN_ERR log level.
This patch sets the message to a different log level.
[ tglx: Use pr_warn() ]
Signed-off-by: Rado Vrbovsky <rvrbovsk@redhat.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2037057938.893524.1360345050772.JavaMail.root@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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The comments mention HRTIMER_ABS and HRTIMER_REL, these symbols don't
exist, the proper names are HRTIMER_MODE_ABS and HRTIMER_MODE_REL.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363202438-21234-1-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Does writethrough and writeback caching, handles unclean shutdown, and
has a bunch of other nifty features motivated by real world usage.
See the wiki at http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org for more.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
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Hack, but bcache needs a way around lockdep for locking during garbage
collection - we need to keep multiple btree nodes locked for coalescing
and rw_lock_nested() isn't really sufficient or appropriate here.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
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Exported so it can be used by bcache's tracepoints
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
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This reverts commit 11b80f459adaf91a712f95e7734a17655a36bf30.
Bcache needs rw semaphores for cache coherency in writeback mode -
writes have to take a read lock on a per cache device rw sem, and
release it when the bio completes.
But since this is for bios it's naturally not in the context of the
process that originally took the lock.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
CC: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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David said:
Commit 6c0c0d4d1080 ("poweroff: fix bug in orderly_poweroff()")
apparently fixes one bug in orderly_poweroff(), but introduces
another. The comments on orderly_poweroff() claim it can be called
from any context - and indeed we call it from interrupt context in
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c for example. But since that
commit this is no longer safe, since call_usermodehelper_fns() is not
safe in interrupt context without the UMH_NO_WAIT option.
orderly_poweroff() can be used from any context but UMH_WAIT_EXEC is
sleepable. Move the "force" logic into __orderly_poweroff() and change
orderly_poweroff() to use the global poweroff_work which simply calls
__orderly_poweroff().
While at it, remove the unneeded "int argc" and change argv_split() to
use GFP_KERNEL.
We use the global "bool poweroff_force" to pass the argument, this can
obviously affect the previous request if it is pending/running. So we
only allow the "false => true" transition assuming that the pending
"true" should succeed anyway. If schedule_work() fails after that we
know that work->func() was not called yet, it must see the new value.
This means that orderly_poweroff() becomes async even if we do not run
the command and always succeeds, schedule_work() can only fail if the
work is already pending. We can export __orderly_poweroff() and change
the non-atomic callers which want the old semantics.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Reported-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: Feng Hong <hongfeng@marvell.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.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>
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wake_up_klogd() is useless when CONFIG_PRINTK=n because neither printk()
nor printk_sched() are in use and there are actually no waiter on
log_wait waitqueue. It should be a stub in this case for users like
bust_spinlocks().
Otherwise this results in this warning when CONFIG_PRINTK=n and
CONFIG_IRQ_WORK=n:
kernel/built-in.o In function `wake_up_klogd':
(.text.wake_up_klogd+0xb4): undefined reference to `irq_work_queue'
To fix this, provide an off-case for wake_up_klogd() when
CONFIG_PRINTK=n.
There is much more from console_unlock() and other console related code
in printk.c that should be moved under CONFIG_PRINTK. But for now,
focus on a minimal fix as we passed the merged window already.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: include printk.h in bust_spinlocks.c]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reported-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We want to shorten the seqcount write hold time. So split the seqlock
into a lock and a seqcount.
Open code the seqwrite_lock in the places which matter and drop the
sequence counter update where it's pointless.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[jstultz: Merge fixups from CLOCK_TAI collisions]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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Make the lock a separate entity. Preparatory patch for shadow
timekeeper structure.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[Merged with CLOCK_TAI changes]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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Nothing outside of the timekeeping core needs that lock.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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Calculate the cycle interval shifted value once. No functional change,
just makes the code more readable.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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Add hrtimer support for CLOCK_TAI, as well as posix timer interfaces.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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This add a CLOCK_TAI clockid and the needed accessors.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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Currently NTP manages the TAI offset. Since there's plans for a
CLOCK_TAI clockid, push the TAI management into the timekeeping
core.
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"A fair chunk of the linecount comes from a fix for a tracing bug that
corrupts latency tracing buffers when the overwrite mode is changed on
the fly - the rest is mostly assorted fewliner fixlets."
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/x86: Add SNB/SNB-EP scheduling constraints for cycle_activity event
kprobes/x86: Check Interrupt Flag modifier when registering probe
kprobes: Make hash_64() as always inlined
perf: Generate EXIT event only once per task context
perf: Reset hwc->last_period on sw clock events
tracing: Prevent buffer overwrite disabled for latency tracers
tracing: Keep overwrite in sync between regular and snapshot buffers
tracing: Protect tracer flags with trace_types_lock
perf tools: Fix LIBNUMA build with glibc 2.12 and older.
tracing: Fix free of probe entry by calling call_rcu_sched()
perf/POWER7: Create a sysfs format entry for Power7 events
perf probe: Fix segfault
libtraceevent: Remove hard coded include to /usr/local/include in Makefile
perf record: Fix -C option
perf tools: check if -DFORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is allowed
perf report: Fix build with NO_NEWT=1
perf annotate: Fix build with NO_NEWT=1
tracing: Fix race in snapshot swapping
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Wake up a CPU when a timer list timer is enqueued there and
the target is part of the full dynticks range. Sending an IPI
to it makes it reconsidering the next timer to program on top
of recent updates.
This may later be improved by checking if the tick is really
stopped on the target. This would need some careful
synchronization though. So deal with such optimization later
and start simple.
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>
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This way the full nohz CPUs can safely run with the tick
stopped with a guarantee that somebody else is taking
care of the jiffies and GTOD progression.
Once the duty is attributed to a CPU, it won't change. Also that
CPU can't enter into dyntick idle mode or be hot unplugged.
This may later be improved from a power consumption POV. At
least we should be able to share the duty amongst all CPUs
outside the full dynticks range. Then the duty could even be
shared with full dynticks CPUs when those can't stop their
tick for any reason.
But let's start with that very simple approach first.
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>
[fix have_nohz_full_mask offcase]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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For extreme usecases such as Real Time or HPC, having
the ability to shutdown the tick when a single task runs
on a CPU is a desired feature:
* Reducing the amount of interrupts improves throughput
for CPU-bound tasks. The CPU is less distracted from its
real job, from an execution time and from the cache point
of views.
* This also improve latency response as we have less critical
sections.
Start with introducing a very simple interface to define
full dynticks CPU: use a boot time option defined cpumask
through the "nohz_extended=" kernel parameter. CPUs that
are part of this range will have their tick shutdown
whenever possible: provided they run a single task and
they don't do kernel activity that require the periodic
tick. These details will be later documented in
Documentation/*
An online CPU must be kept outside this range to handle the
timekeeping.
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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>
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This patch fixes a flaw in perf_output_space(). In case the size
of the space needed is bigger than the actual buffer size, there
may be situations where the function would return true (i.e.,
there is space) when it should not. head > offset due to
rounding of the masking logic.
The problem can be tested by activating BTS on Intel processors.
A BTS record can be as big as 16 pages. The following command
fails:
$ perf record -m 4 -c 1 -e branches:u my_test_program
You will get a buffer corruption with this. Perf report won't be
able to parse the perf.data.
The fix is to first check that the requested space is smaller
than the buffer size. If so, then the masking logic will work
fine. If not, then there is no chance the record can be saved
and it will be gracefully handled by upper code layers.
[ In v2, we also make the logic for the writable more explicit by
renaming it to rb->overwrite because it tells whether or not the
buffer can overwrite its tail (suggested by PeterZ). ]
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130318133327.GA3056@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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try_to_wake_up_local() should only be invoked to wake up another
task in the same runqueue and BUG_ON()s are used to enforce the
rule. Missing try_to_wake_up_local() can stall workqueue
execution but such stalls are likely to be finite either by
another work item being queued or the one blocked getting
unblocked. There's no reason to trigger BUG while holding rq
lock crashing the whole system.
Convert BUG_ON()s in try_to_wake_up_local() to WARN_ON_ONCE()s.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130318192234.GD3042@htj.dyndns.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge in all pending fixes, before pulling the latest development
bits from Arnaldo - which will involve merge conflicts.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Update the README file in debugfs/tracing to something more useful.
What's currently in the file is very old and what it shows doesn't
have much use. Heck, it tells you how to mount debugfs! But to read
this file you would have already needed to mount it.
Replace the file with current up-to-date information. It's rather
limited, but what do you expect from a pseudo README file.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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If lockdep complains something for other subsystem, lockdep_is_held()
can be false negative, so we need to also test debug_locks before
triggering WARN.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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rcu_read_lock_sched() is better than preempt_disable() if the code is
protected by RCU_SCHED.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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