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2010-03-29SLOW_WORK: CONFIG_SLOW_WORK_PROC should be CONFIG_SLOW_WORK_DEBUGDavid Howells
CONFIG_SLOW_WORK_PROC was changed to CONFIG_SLOW_WORK_DEBUG, but not in all instances. Change the remaining instances. This makes the debugfs file display the time mark and the owner's description again. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-29slow-work: use get_ref wrapper instead of directly calling get_refDave Airlie
Otherwise we can get an oops if the user has no get_ref/put_ref requirement. Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-26Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: x86/PCI: truncate _CRS windows with _LEN > _MAX - _MIN + 1 x86/PCI: for host bridge address space collisions, show conflicting resource frv/PCI: remove redundant warnings x86/PCI: remove redundant warnings PCI: don't say we claimed a resource if we failed PCI quirk: Disable MSI on VIA K8T890 systems PCI quirk: RS780/RS880: work around missing MSI initialization PCI quirk: only apply CX700 PCI bus parking quirk if external VT6212L is present PCI: complain about devices that seem to be broken PCI: print resources consistently with %pR PCI: make disabled window printk style match the enabled ones PCI: break out primary/secondary/subordinate for readability PCI: for address space collisions, show conflicting resource resources: add interfaces that return conflict information PCI: cleanup error return for pcix get and set mmrbc functions PCI: fix access of PCI_X_CMD by pcix get and set mmrbc functions PCI: kill off pci_register_set_vga_state() symbol export. PCI: fix return value from pcix_get_max_mmrbc()
2010-03-26Merge 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: time: Fix accumulation bug triggered by long delay. posix-cpu-timers: Reset expire cache when no timer is running timer stats: Fix del_timer_sync() and try_to_del_timer_sync() clockevents: Sanitize min_delta_ns adjustment and prevent overflows
2010-03-26Merge 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: ring-buffer: Do 8 byte alignment for 64 bit that can not handle 4 byte align
2010-03-26Merge 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: Use proper type in sched_getaffinity() kernel/sched.c: Suppress unused var warning sched: sched_getaffinity(): Allow less than NR_CPUS length
2010-03-26Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: genirq: Move two IRQ functions from .init.text to .text genirq: Protect access to irq_desc->action in can_request_irq() genirq: Prevent oneshot irq thread race
2010-03-26Merge 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: x86: Remove excessive early_res debug output softlockup: Stop spurious softlockup messages due to overflow rcu: Fix local_irq_disable() CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y false positives rcu: Fix tracepoints & lockdep false positive rcu: Make rcu_read_lock_bh_held() allow for disabled BH
2010-03-24cpuset: alloc nodemask_t on the heap rather than the stackMiao Xie
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-24cpuset: fix the problem that cpuset_mem_spread_node() returns an offline nodeMiao Xie
cpuset_mem_spread_node() returns an offline node, and causes an oops. This patch fixes it by initializing task->mems_allowed to node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY], and updating task->mems_allowed when doing memory hotplug. Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reported-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Tested-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-24cgroups: remove duplicate includeLi Zefan
commit e6a1105b ("cgroups: subsystem module loading interface") and commit c50cc752 ("sched, cgroups: Fix module export") result in duplicate including of module.h 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>
2010-03-24genirq: Move two IRQ functions from .init.text to .textHenrik Kretzschmar
Both functions should not be marked as __init, since they be called from modules after the init section is freed. Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> LKML-Reference: <1269431961-5731-1-git-send-email-henne@nachtwindheim.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-03-24genirq: Protect access to irq_desc->action in can_request_irq()Thomas Gleixner
can_request_irq() accesses and dereferences irq_desc->action w/o holding irq_desc->lock. So action can be freed on another CPU before it's dereferenced. Unlikely, but ... Protect it with desc->lock. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-03-23resources: add interfaces that return conflict informationBjorn Helgaas
request_resource() and insert_resource() only return success or failure, which no information about what existing resource conflicted with the proposed new reservation. This patch adds request_resource_conflict() and insert_resource_conflict(), which return the conflicting resource. Callers may use this for better error messages or to adjust the new resource and retry the request. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2010-03-23time: Fix accumulation bug triggered by long delay.John Stultz
The logarithmic accumulation done in the timekeeping has some overflow protection that limits the max shift value. That means it will take more then shift loops to accumulate all of the cycles. This causes the shift decrement to underflow, which causes the loop to never exit. The simplest fix would be simply to do a: if (shift) shift--; However that is not optimal, as we know the cycle offset is larger then the interval << shift, the above would make shift drop to zero, then we would be spinning for quite awhile accumulating at interval chunks at a time. Instead, this patch only decreases shift if the offset is smaller then cycle_interval << shift. This makes sure we accumulate using the largest chunks possible without overflowing tick_length, and limits the number of iterations through the loop. This issue was found and reported by Sonic Zhang, who also tested the fix. Many thanks your explanation and testing! Reported-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.adi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.adi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1268948850-5225-1-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-03-21softlockup: Stop spurious softlockup messages due to overflowColin Ian King
Ensure additions on touch_ts do not overflow. This can occur when the top 32 bits of the TSC reach 0xffffffff causing additions to touch_ts to overflow and this in turn generates spurious softlockup warnings. Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1268994482.1798.6.camel@lenovo> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-18ring-buffer: Do 8 byte alignment for 64 bit that can not handle 4 byte alignSteven Rostedt
The ring buffer uses 4 byte alignment while recording events into the buffer, even on 64bit machines. This saves space when there are lots of events being recorded at 4 byte boundaries. The ring buffer has a zero copy method to write into the buffer, with the reserving of space and then committing it. This may cause problems when writing an 8 byte word into a 4 byte alignment (not 8). For x86 and PPC this is not an issue, but on some architectures this would cause an out-of-alignment exception. This patch uses CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS to determine if it is OK to use 4 byte alignments on 64 bit machines. If it is not, it forces the ring buffer event header to be 8 bytes and not 4, and will align the length of the data to be 8 byte aligned. This keeps the data payload at 8 byte alignments and will allow these machines to run without issue. The trick to this is that the header can be either 4 bytes or 8 bytes depending on the length of the data payload. The 4 byte header has a length field that supports up to 112 bytes. If the length of the data is more than 112, the length field is set to zero, and the actual length is stored in the next 4 bytes after the header. When CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is not set, the code forces zero in the 4 byte header forcing the length to be stored in the 4 byte array, even with a small data load. It also forces the length of the data load to be 8 byte aligned. The combination of these two guarantee that the data is always at 8 byte alignment. Tested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> (on sparc64) Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-18Merge 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: (35 commits) perf: Fix unexported generic perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs perf record: Don't try to find buildids in a zero sized file perf: export perf_trace_regs and perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs perf, x86: Fix hw_perf_enable() event assignment perf, ppc: Fix compile error due to new cpu notifiers perf: Make the install relative to DESTDIR if specified kprobes: Calculate the index correctly when freeing the out-of-line execution slot perf tools: Fix sparse CPU numbering related bugs perf_event: Fix oops triggered by cpu offline/online perf: Drop the obsolete profile naming for trace events perf: Take a hot regs snapshot for trace events perf: Introduce new perf_fetch_caller_regs() for hot regs snapshot perf/x86-64: Use frame pointer to walk on irq and process stacks lockdep: Move lock events under lockdep recursion protection perf report: Print the map table just after samples for which no map was found perf report: Add multiple event support perf session: Change perf_session post processing functions to take histogram tree perf session: Add storage for seperating event types in report perf session: Change add_hist_entry to take the tree root instead of session perf record: Add ID and to recorded event data when recording multiple events ...
2010-03-17perf: Fix unexported generic perf_arch_fetch_caller_regsFrederic Weisbecker
perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs() is exported for the overriden x86 version, but not for the generic weak version. As a general rule, weak functions should not have their symbol exported in the same file they are defined. So let's export it on trace_event_perf.c as it is used by trace events only. This fixes: ERROR: ".perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs" [fs/xfs/xfs.ko] undefined! ERROR: ".perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs" [arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spufs.ko] undefined! -v2: And also only build it if trace events are enabled. -v3: Fix changelog mistake Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1268697902-9518-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-17sched: Use proper type in sched_getaffinity()KOSAKI Motohiro
Using the proper type fixes the following compiler warning: kernel/sched.c:4850: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: travis@sgi.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: drepper@redhat.com Cc: rja@sgi.com Cc: sharyath@in.ibm.com Cc: steiner@sgi.com LKML-Reference: <20100317090046.4C79.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-16kernel/sched.c: Suppress unused var warningAndrew Morton
On UP: kernel/sched.c: In function 'wake_up_new_task': kernel/sched.c:2631: warning: unused variable 'cpu' Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-16rcu: Make rcu_read_lock_bh_held() allow for disabled BHPaul E. McKenney
Disabling BH can stand in for rcu_read_lock_bh(), and this patch updates rcu_read_lock_bh_held() to allow for this. In order to avoid include-file hell, this function is moved out of line to kernel/rcupdate.c. This fixes a false positive RCU warning. Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Lai Jiangshan <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: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100316000343.GA25857@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-15sched: sched_getaffinity(): Allow less than NR_CPUS lengthKOSAKI Motohiro
[ Note, this commit changes the syscall ABI for > 1024 CPUs systems. ] Recently, some distro decided to use NR_CPUS=4096 for mysterious reasons. Unfortunately, glibc sched interface has the following definition: # define __CPU_SETSIZE 1024 # define __NCPUBITS (8 * sizeof (__cpu_mask)) typedef unsigned long int __cpu_mask; typedef struct { __cpu_mask __bits[__CPU_SETSIZE / __NCPUBITS]; } cpu_set_t; It mean, if NR_CPUS is bigger than 1024, cpu_set_t makes an ABI issue ... More recently, Sharyathi Nagesh reported following test program makes misterious syscall failure: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #define _GNU_SOURCE #include<stdio.h> #include<errno.h> #include<sched.h> int main() { cpu_set_t set; if (sched_getaffinity(0, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &set) < 0) printf("\n Call is failing with:%d", errno); } ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Because the kernel assumes len argument of sched_getaffinity() is bigger than NR_CPUS. But now it is not correct. Now we are faced with the following annoying dilemma, due to the limitations of the glibc interface built in years ago: (1) if we change glibc's __CPU_SETSIZE definition, we lost binary compatibility of _all_ application. (2) if we don't change it, we also lost binary compatibility of Sharyathi's use case. Then, I would propse to change the rule of the len argument of sched_getaffinity(). Old: len should be bigger than NR_CPUS New: len should be bigger than maximum possible cpu id This creates the following behavior: (A) In the real 4096 cpus machine, the above test program still return -EINVAL. (B) NR_CPUS=4096 but the machine have less than 1024 cpus (almost all machines in the world), the above can run successfully. Fortunatelly, BIG SGI machine is mainly used for HPC use case. It means they can rebuild their programs. IOW we hope they are not annoyed by this issue ... Reported-by: Sharyathi Nagesh <sharyath@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> LKML-Reference: <20100312161316.9520.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-13Merge 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: Fix pick_next_highest_task_rt() for cgroups sched: Cleanup: remove unused variable in try_to_wake_up() x86: Fix sched_clock_cpu for systems with unsynchronized TSC
2010-03-13Merge 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: locking: Make sparse work with inline spinlocks and rwlocks x86/mce: Fix RCU lockdep splats rcu: Increase RCU CPU stall timeouts if PROVE_RCU ftrace: Replace read_barrier_depends() with rcu_dereference_raw() rcu: Suppress RCU lockdep warnings during early boot rcu, ftrace: Fix RCU lockdep splat in ftrace_perf_buf_prepare() rcu: Suppress __mpol_dup() false positive from RCU lockdep rcu: Make rcu_read_lock_sched_held() handle !PREEMPT rcu: Add control variables to lockdep_rcu_dereference() diagnostics rcu, cgroup: Relax the check in task_subsys_state() as early boot is now handled by lockdep-RCU rcu: Use wrapper function instead of exporting tasklist_lock sched, rcu: Fix rcu_dereference() for RCU-lockdep rcu: Make task_subsys_state() RCU-lockdep checks handle boot-time use rcu: Fix holdoff for accelerated GPs for last non-dynticked CPU x86/gart: Unexport gart_iommu_aperture Fix trivial conflicts in kernel/trace/ftrace.c
2010-03-13Merge 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: Do not record user stack trace from NMI context tracing: Disable buffer switching when starting or stopping trace tracing: Use same local variable when resetting the ring buffer function-graph: Init curr_ret_stack with ret_stack ring-buffer: Move disabled check into preempt disable section function-graph: Add tracing_thresh support to function_graph tracer tracing: Update the comm field in the right variable in update_max_tr function-graph: Use comment notation for func names of dangling '}' function-graph: Fix unused reference to ftrace_set_func() tracing: Fix warning in s_next of trace file ops tracing: Include irqflags headers from trace clock
2010-03-13Merge 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: Provide generic perf_sample_data initialization MAINTAINERS: Add Arnaldo as tools/perf/ co-maintainer perf trace: Don't use pager if scripting perf trace/scripting: Remove extraneous header read perf, ARM: Modify kuser rmb() call to compile for Thumb-2 x86/stacktrace: Don't dereference bad frame pointers perf archive: Don't try to collect files without a build-id perf_events, x86: Fixup fixed counter constraints perf, x86: Restrict the ANY flag perf, x86: rename macro in ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_ENABLE perf, x86: add some IBS macros to perf_event.h perf, x86: make IBS macros available in perf_event.h hw-breakpoints: Remove stub unthrottle callback x86/hw-breakpoints: Remove the name field perf: Remove pointless breakpoint union perf lock: Drop the buffers multiplexing dependency perf lock: Fix and add misc documentally things percpu: Add __percpu sparse annotations to hw_breakpoint
2010-03-12tracing: Do not record user stack trace from NMI contextSteven Rostedt
A bug was found with Li Zefan's ftrace_stress_test that caused applications to segfault during the test. Placing a tracing_off() in the segfault code, and examining several traces, I found that the following was always the case. The lock tracer was enabled (lockdep being required) and userstack was enabled. Testing this out, I just enabled the two, but that was not good enough. I needed to run something else that could trigger it. Running a load like hackbench did not work, but executing a new program would. The following would trigger the segfault within seconds: # echo 1 > /debug/tracing/options/userstacktrace # echo 1 > /debug/tracing/events/lock/enable # while :; do ls > /dev/null ; done Enabling the function graph tracer and looking at what was happening I finally noticed that all cashes happened just after an NMI. 1) | copy_user_handle_tail() { 1) | bad_area_nosemaphore() { 1) | __bad_area_nosemaphore() { 1) | no_context() { 1) | fixup_exception() { 1) 0.319 us | search_exception_tables(); 1) 0.873 us | } [...] 1) 0.314 us | __rcu_read_unlock(); 1) 0.325 us | native_apic_mem_write(); 1) 0.943 us | } 1) 0.304 us | rcu_nmi_exit(); [...] 1) 0.479 us | find_vma(); 1) | bad_area() { 1) | __bad_area() { After capturing several traces of failures, all of them happened after an NMI. Curious about this, I added a trace_printk() to the NMI handler to read the regs->ip to see where the NMI happened. In which I found out it was here: ffffffff8135b660 <page_fault>: ffffffff8135b660: 48 83 ec 78 sub $0x78,%rsp ffffffff8135b664: e8 97 01 00 00 callq ffffffff8135b800 <error_entry> What was happening is that the NMI would happen at the place that a page fault occurred. It would call rcu_read_lock() which was traced by the lock events, and the user_stack_trace would run. This would trigger a page fault inside the NMI. I do not see where the CR2 register is saved or restored in NMI handling. This means that it would corrupt the page fault handling that the NMI interrupted. The reason the while loop of ls helped trigger the bug, was that each execution of ls would cause lots of pages to be faulted in, and increase the chances of the race happening. The simple solution is to not allow user stack traces in NMI context. After this patch, I ran the above "ls" test for a couple of hours without any issues. Without this patch, the bug would trigger in less than a minute. Cc: stable@kernel.org Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-12tracing: Disable buffer switching when starting or stopping traceSteven Rostedt
When the trace iterator is read, tracing_start() and tracing_stop() is called to stop tracing while the iterator is processing the trace output. These functions disable both the standard buffer and the max latency buffer. But if the wakeup tracer is running, it can switch these buffers between the two disables: buffer = global_trace.buffer; if (buffer) ring_buffer_record_disable(buffer); <<<--------- swap happens here buffer = max_tr.buffer; if (buffer) ring_buffer_record_disable(buffer); What happens is that we disabled the same buffer twice. On tracing_start() we can enable the same buffer twice. All ring_buffer_record_disable() must be matched with a ring_buffer_record_enable() or the buffer can be disable permanently, or enable prematurely, and cause a bug where a reset happens while a trace is commiting. This patch protects these two by taking the ftrace_max_lock to prevent a switch from occurring. Found with Li Zefan's ftrace_stress_test. Cc: stable@kernel.org Reported-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-12tracing: Use same local variable when resetting the ring bufferSteven Rostedt
In the ftrace code that resets the ring buffer it references the buffer with a local variable, but then uses the tr->buffer as the parameter to reset. If the wakeup tracer is running, which can switch the tr->buffer with the max saved buffer, this can break the requirement of disabling the buffer before the reset. buffer = tr->buffer; ring_buffer_record_disable(buffer); synchronize_sched(); __tracing_reset(tr->buffer, cpu); If the tr->buffer is swapped, then the reset is not happening to the buffer that was disabled. This will cause the ring buffer to fail. Found with Li Zefan's ftrace_stress_test. Cc: stable@kernel.org Reported-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-12function-graph: Init curr_ret_stack with ret_stackSteven Rostedt
If the graph tracer is active, and a task is forked but the allocating of the processes graph stack fails, it can cause crash later on. This is due to the temporary stack being NULL, but the curr_ret_stack variable is copied from the parent. If it is not -1, then in ftrace_graph_probe_sched_switch() the following: for (index = next->curr_ret_stack; index >= 0; index--) next->ret_stack[index].calltime += timestamp; Will cause a kernel OOPS. Found with Li Zefan's ftrace_stress_test. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-12ring-buffer: Move disabled check into preempt disable sectionLai Jiangshan
The ring buffer resizing and resetting relies on a schedule RCU action. The buffers are disabled, a synchronize_sched() is called and then the resize or reset takes place. But this only works if the disabling of the buffers are within the preempt disabled section, otherwise a window exists that the buffers can be written to while a reset or resize takes place. Cc: stable@kernel.org Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4B949E43.2010906@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-12Merge 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: timekeeping: Prevent oops when GENERIC_TIME=n
2010-03-12Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (56 commits) doc: fix typo in comment explaining rb_tree usage Remove fs/ntfs/ChangeLog doc: fix console doc typo doc: cpuset: Update the cpuset flag file Fix of spelling in arch/sparc/kernel/leon_kernel.c no longer needed Remove drivers/parport/ChangeLog Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog doc: typo - Table 1-2 should refer to "status", not "statm" tree-wide: fix typos "ass?o[sc]iac?te" -> "associate" in comments No need to patch AMD-provided drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios.h devres/irq: Fix devm_irq_match comment Remove reference to kthread_create_on_cpu tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes tree-wide: fix 'lenght' typo in comments and code drm/kms: fix spelling in error message doc: capitalization and other minor fixes in pnp doc devres: typo fix s/dev/devm/ Remove redundant trailing semicolons from macros fix typo "definetly" -> "definitely" in comment tree-wide: s/widht/width/g typo in comments ... Fix trivial conflict in Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX
2010-03-12sysctl extern cleanup: lockdepDave Young
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file, and then include them in relavant .c files. Move lockdep extern declarations to linux/lockdep.h Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12sysctl extern cleanup: rtmutexDave Young
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file, and then include them in relavant .c files. Move max_lock_depth extern declaration to linux/rtmutex.h Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12sysctl extern cleanup: acctDave Young
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file, and then include them in relavant .c files. Move acct_parm extern declaration to linux/acct.h Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12sysctl extern cleanup: sgDave Young
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file, and then include them in relavant .c files. Move sg_big_buff extern declaration to scsi/sg.h Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Acked-by: Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12sysctl extern cleanup: moduleDave Young
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file, and then include them in relavant .c files. Move modprobe_path extern declaration to linux/kmod.h Move modules_disabled extern declaration to linux/module.h Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12sysctl extern cleanup: rcuDave Young
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file, and then include them in relavant .c files. Move rcutorture_runnable extern declaration to linux/rcupdate.h Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12sysctl extern cleanup: signalDave Young
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file, and then include them in relavant .c files. Move print_fatal_signals extern declaration to linux/signal.h Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12sysctl extern cleanup: C_A_DDave Young
Extern declarations in sysctl.c should be moved to their own header file, and then include them in relavant .c files. Move C_A_D extern variable declaration to linux/reboot.h Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12nsproxy: remove INIT_NSPROXY()Alexey Dobriyan
Remove INIT_NSPROXY(), use C99 initializer. Remove INIT_IPC_NS(), INIT_NET_NS() while I'm at it. Note: headers trim will be done later, now it's quite pointless because results will be invalidated by merge window. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12pid_ns: zap_pid_ns_processes: use SEND_SIG_NOINFO instead of force_sig()Oleg Nesterov
zap_pid_ns_processes() uses force_sig(SIGKILL) to ensure SIGKILL will be delivered to sub-namespace inits as well. This is correct, but we are going to change force_sig_info() semantics. See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15395#c31 We can use send_sig_info(SEND_SIG_NOINFO) instead, since 614c517d7c00af1b26ded20646b329397d6f51a1 ("signals: SEND_SIG_NOINFO should be considered as SI_FROMUSER()") SEND_SIG_NOINFO means "from user" and therefore send_signal() will get the correct from_ancestor_ns = T flag. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12copy_signal() cleanup: clean thread_group_cputime_init()Veaceslav Falico
Remove unneeded initializations in thread_group_cputime_init() and in posix_cpu_timers_init_group(). They are useless after kmem_cache_zalloc() was used in copy_signal(). Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12copy_signal() cleanup: kill taskstats_tgid_init() and acct_init_pacct()Veaceslav Falico
Kill unused functions taskstats_tgid_init() and acct_init_pacct() because we don't use them anywhere after using kmem_cache_zalloc() in copy_signal(). Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12copy_signal() cleanup: use zalloc and remove initializationsVeaceslav Falico
Use kmem_cache_zalloc() on signal creation and remove unneeded initialization lines in copy_signal(). Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12cgroups: remove events before destroying subsystem state objectsKirill A. Shutemov
Events should be removed after rmdir of cgroup directory, but before destroying subsystem state objects. Let's take reference to cgroup directory dentry to do that. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hioryu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12cgroups: fix race between userspace and kernelspaceKirill A. Shutemov
Notify userspace about cgroup removing only after rmdir of cgroup directory to avoid race between userspace and kernelspace. eventfd are used to notify about two types of event: - control file-specific, like crossing memory threshold; - cgroup removing. To understand what really happen, userspace can check if the cgroup still exists. To avoid race beetween userspace and kernelspace we have to notify userspace about cgroup removing only after rmdir of cgroup directory. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12cgroup: implement eventfd-based generic API for notificationsKirill A. Shutemov
This patchset introduces eventfd-based API for notifications in cgroups and implements memory notifications on top of it. It uses statistics in memory controler to track memory usage. Output of time(1) on building kernel on tmpfs: Root cgroup before changes: make -j2 506.37 user 60.93s system 193% cpu 4:52.77 total Non-root cgroup before changes: make -j2 507.14 user 62.66s system 193% cpu 4:54.74 total Root cgroup after changes (0 thresholds): make -j2 507.13 user 62.20s system 193% cpu 4:53.55 total Non-root cgroup after changes (0 thresholds): make -j2 507.70 user 64.20s system 193% cpu 4:55.70 total Root cgroup after changes (1 thresholds, never crossed): make -j2 506.97 user 62.20s system 193% cpu 4:53.90 total Non-root cgroup after changes (1 thresholds, never crossed): make -j2 507.55 user 64.08s system 193% cpu 4:55.63 total This patch: Introduce the write-only file "cgroup.event_control" in every cgroup. To register new notification handler you need: - create an eventfd; - open a control file to be monitored. Callbacks register_event() and unregister_event() must be defined for the control file; - write "<event_fd> <control_fd> <args>" to cgroup.event_control. Interpretation of args is defined by control file implementation; eventfd will be woken up by control file implementation or when the cgroup is removed. To unregister notification handler just close eventfd. If you need notification functionality for a control file you have to implement callbacks register_event() and unregister_event() in the struct cftype. [kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Kconfig fix] Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com> Cc: Vladislav Buzov <vbuzov@embeddedalley.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>