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2012-01-03fs: move code out of buffer.cAl Viro
Move invalidate_bdev, block_sync_page into fs/block_dev.c. Export kill_bdev as well, so brd doesn't have to open code it. Reduce buffer_head.h requirement accordingly. Removed a rather large comment from invalidate_bdev, as it looked a bit obsolete to bother moving. The small comment replacing it says enough. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03get rid of timer in kern/acct.cAl Viro
... and clean it up a bit, while we are at it Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03hung_task: fix false positive during vforkMandeep Singh Baines
vfork parent uninterruptibly and unkillably waits for its child to exec/exit. This wait is of unbounded length. Ignore such waits in the hung_task detector. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1325344394.28904.43.camel@lappy> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-31futex: Fix uninterruptible loop due to gate_areaHugh Dickins
It was found (by Sasha) that if you use a futex located in the gate area we get stuck in an uninterruptible infinite loop, much like the ZERO_PAGE issue. While looking at this problem, PeterZ realized you'll get into similar trouble when hitting any install_special_pages() mapping. And are there still drivers setting up their own special mmaps without page->mapping, and without special VM or pte flags to make get_user_pages fail? In most cases, if page->mapping is NULL, we do not need to retry at all: Linus points out that even /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches poses no problem, because it ends up using remove_mapping(), which takes care not to interfere when the page reference count is raised. But there is still one case which does need a retry: if memory pressure called shmem_writepage in between get_user_pages_fast dropping page table lock and our acquiring page lock, then the page gets switched from filecache to swapcache (and ->mapping set to NULL) whatever the refcount. Fault it back in to get the page->mapping needed for key->shared.inode. Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-30Revert "clockevents: Set noop handler in clockevents_exchange_device()"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit de28f25e8244c7353abed8de0c7792f5f883588c. It results in resume problems for various people. See for example http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1233033 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1233389 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1233159 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1227868/focus=1230877 and the fedora and ubuntu bug reports https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767248 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/904569 which got bisected down to the stable version of this commit. Reported-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Reported-by: Phil Miller <mille121@illinois.edu> Reported-by: Philip Langdale <philipl@overt.org> Reported-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org # for stable kernels that applied the original Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-20Merge branch 'for-3.2-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup * 'for-3.2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroups: fix a css_set not found bug in cgroup_attach_proc
2011-12-20Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: time/clocksource: Fix kernel-doc warnings rtc: m41t80: Workaround broken alarm functionality rtc: Expire alarms after the time is set.
2011-12-20binary_sysctl(): fix memory leakMichel Lespinasse
binary_sysctl() calls sysctl_getname() which allocates from names_cache slab usin __getname() The matching function to free the name is __putname(), and not putname() which should be used only to match getname() allocations. This is because when auditing is enabled, putname() calls audit_putname *instead* (not in addition) to __putname(). Then, if a syscall is in progress, audit_putname does not release the name - instead, it expects the name to get released when the syscall completes, but that will happen only if audit_getname() was called previously, i.e. if the name was allocated with getname() rather than the naked __getname(). So, __getname() followed by putname() ends up leaking memory. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-20cpusets: stall when updating mems_allowed for mempolicy or disjoint nodemaskDavid Rientjes
Kernels where MAX_NUMNODES > BITS_PER_LONG may temporarily see an empty nodemask in a tsk's mempolicy if its previous nodemask is remapped onto a new set of allowed cpuset nodes where the two nodemasks, as a result of the remap, are now disjoint. c0ff7453bb5c ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems") adds get_mems_allowed() to prevent the set of allowed nodes from changing for a thread. This causes any update to a set of allowed nodes to stall until put_mems_allowed() is called. This stall is unncessary, however, if at least one node remains unchanged in the update to the set of allowed nodes. This was addressed by 89e8a244b97e ("cpusets: avoid looping when storing to mems_allowed if one node remains set"), but it's still possible that an empty nodemask may be read from a mempolicy because the old nodemask may be remapped to the new nodemask during rebind. To prevent this, only avoid the stall if there is no mempolicy for the thread being changed. This is a temporary solution until all reads from mempolicy nodemasks can be guaranteed to not be empty without the get_mems_allowed() synchronization. Also moves the check for nodemask intersection inside task_lock() so that tsk->mems_allowed cannot change. This ensures that nothing can set this tsk's mems_allowed out from under us and also protects tsk->mempolicy. Reported-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-19cgroups: fix a css_set not found bug in cgroup_attach_procMandeep Singh Baines
There is a BUG when migrating a PF_EXITING proc. Since css_set_prefetch() is not called for the PF_EXITING case, find_existing_css_set() will return NULL inside cgroup_task_migrate() causing a BUG. This bug is easy to reproduce. Create a zombie and echo its pid to cgroup.procs. $ cat zombie.c \#include <unistd.h> int main() { if (fork()) pause(); return 0; } $ We are hitting this bug pretty regularly on ChromeOS. This bug is already fixed by Tejun Heo's cgroup patchset which is targetted for the next merge window: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/1/356 I've create a smaller patch here which just fixes this bug so that a fix can be merged into the current release and stable. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Downstream-Bug-Report: http://crosbug.com/23953 Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> Cc: Olof Johansson <olofj@chromium.org>
2011-12-19time/clocksource: Fix kernel-doc warningsKusanagi Kouichi
Fix various KernelDoc build warnings. Signed-off-by: Kusanagi Kouichi <slash@ac.auone-net.jp> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111219091320.0D5AF6FC03D@msa105.auone-net.jp Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-17Merge branches 'perf-urgent-for-linus' and 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf events: Fix ring_buffer_wakeup() brown paperbag bug * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() regression in selecting an idle SMT sibling MAINTAINERS: Update tip.git related git trees
2011-12-16sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() regression in selecting an idle SMT siblingPeter Zijlstra
Mike Galbraith reported that this recent commit: commit 4dcfe1025b513c2c1da5bf5586adb0e80148f612 Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Date: Thu Nov 10 13:01:10 2011 +0100 sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possible stopped selecting an idle SMT sibling when there are no idle cores in a single socket system. Intent of the select_idle_sibling() was to fallback to an idle SMT sibling, if it fails to identify an idle core. But this fallback was not happening on systems where all the scheduler domains had `SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES' flag set. Fix it. Slightly bigger patch of cleaning all these goto's etc is queued up for the next release. Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Reported-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323978421.1984.244.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-14perf events: Fix ring_buffer_wakeup() brown paperbag bugWill Deacon
Commit 10c6db11 ("perf: Fix loss of notification with multi-event") seems to unconditionally dereference event->rb in the wakeup handler, this is wrong, there might not be a buffer attached. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111213152651.GP20297@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com [ minor edits ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-09Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf: Do no try to schedule task events if there are none lockdep, kmemcheck: Annotate ->lock in lockdep_init_map() perf header: Use event_name() to get an event name perf stat: Failure with "Operation not supported"
2011-12-09sys_getppid: add missing rcu_dereferenceMandeep Singh Baines
In order to safely dereference current->real_parent inside an rcu_read_lock, we need an rcu_dereference. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-09printk: avoid double lock acquirePeter Zijlstra
Commit 4f2a8d3cf5e ("printk: Fix console_sem vs logbuf_lock unlock race") introduced another silly bug where we would want to acquire an already held lock. Avoid this. Reported-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-08Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: alarmtimers: Fix time comparison ptp: Fix clock_getres() implementation
2011-12-07perf: Do no try to schedule task events if there are noneGleb Natapov
perf_event_sched_in() shouldn't try to schedule task events if there are none otherwise task's ctx->is_active will be set and will not be cleared during sched_out. This will prevent newly added events from being scheduled into the task context. Fixes a boo-boo in commit 1d5f003f5a9 ("perf: Do not set task_ctx pointer in cpuctx if there are no events in the context"). Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111122140821.GF2557@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: ftrace: Fix hash record accounting bug perf: Fix parsing of __print_flags() in TP_printk() jump_label: jump_label_inc may return before the code is patched ftrace: Remove force undef config value left for testing tracing: Restore system filter behavior tracing: fix event_subsystem ref counting
2011-12-06lockdep, kmemcheck: Annotate ->lock in lockdep_init_map()Yong Zhang
Since commit f59de89 ("lockdep: Clear whole lockdep_map on initialization"), lockdep_init_map() will clear all the struct. But it will break lock_set_class()/lock_set_subclass(). A typical race condition is like below: CPU A CPU B lock_set_subclass(lockA); lock_set_class(lockA); lockdep_init_map(lockA); /* lockA->name is cleared */ memset(lockA); __lock_acquire(lockA); /* lockA->class_cache[] is cleared */ register_lock_class(lockA); look_up_lock_class(lockA); WARN_ON_ONCE(class->name != lock->name); lock->name = name; So restore to what we have done before commit f59de89 but annotate ->lock with kmemcheck_mark_initialized() to suppress the kmemcheck warning reported in commit f59de89. Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Suggested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111109080451.GB8124@zhy Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06alarmtimers: Fix time comparisonThomas Gleixner
The expiry function compares the timer against current time and does not expire the timer when the expiry time is >= now. That's wrong. If the timer is set for now, then it must expire. Make the condition expiry > now for breaking out the loop. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2011-12-05Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf: Fix loss of notification with multi-event perf, x86: Force IBS LVT offset assignment for family 10h perf, x86: Disable PEBS on SandyBridge chips trace_events_filter: Use rcu_assign_pointer() when setting ftrace_event_call->filter perf session: Fix crash with invalid CPU list perf python: Fix undefined symbol problem perf/x86: Enable raw event access to Intel offcore events perf: Don't use -ENOSPC for out of PMU resources perf: Do not set task_ctx pointer in cpuctx if there are no events in the context perf/x86: Fix PEBS instruction unwind oprofile, x86: Fix crash when unloading module (nmi timer mode) oprofile: Fix crash when unloading module (hr timer mode)
2011-12-05Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: clockevents: Set noop handler in clockevents_exchange_device() tick-broadcast: Stop active broadcast device when replacing it clocksource: Fix bug with max_deferment margin calculation rtc: Fix some bugs that allowed accumulating time drift in suspend/resume rtc: Disable the alarm in the hardware
2011-12-05Merge branches 'core-urgent-for-linus' and 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: slab, lockdep: Fix silly bug * 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: genirq: Fix race condition when stopping the irq thread
2011-12-05Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched, x86: Avoid unnecessary overflow in sched_clock sched: Fix buglet in return_cfs_rq_runtime() sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possible sched: Set the command name of the idle tasks in SMP kernels sched, rt: Provide means of disabling cross-cpu bandwidth sharing sched: Document wait_for_completion_*() return values sched_fair: Fix a typo in the comment describing update_sd_lb_stats sched: Add a comment to effective_load() since it's a pain
2011-12-05ftrace: Fix hash record accounting bugSteven Rostedt
If the set_ftrace_filter is cleared by writing just whitespace to it, then the filter hash refcounts will be decremented but not updated. This causes two bugs: 1) No functions will be enabled for tracing when they all should be 2) If the users clears the set_ftrace_filter twice, it will crash ftrace: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at /home/rostedt/work/git/linux-trace.git/kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1384 __ftrace_hash_rec_update.part.27+0x157/0x1a7() Modules linked in: Pid: 2330, comm: bash Not tainted 3.1.0-test+ #32 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81051828>] warn_slowpath_common+0x83/0x9b [<ffffffff8105185a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x1c [<ffffffff810ba362>] __ftrace_hash_rec_update.part.27+0x157/0x1a7 [<ffffffff810ba6e8>] ? ftrace_regex_release+0xa7/0x10f [<ffffffff8111bdfe>] ? kfree+0xe5/0x115 [<ffffffff810ba51e>] ftrace_hash_move+0x2e/0x151 [<ffffffff810ba6fb>] ftrace_regex_release+0xba/0x10f [<ffffffff8112e49a>] fput+0xfd/0x1c2 [<ffffffff8112b54c>] filp_close+0x6d/0x78 [<ffffffff8113a92d>] sys_dup3+0x197/0x1c1 [<ffffffff8113a9a6>] sys_dup2+0x4f/0x54 [<ffffffff8150cac2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b ---[ end trace 77a3a7ee73794a02 ]--- Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111101141420.GA4918@debian Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-12-05jump_label: jump_label_inc may return before the code is patchedGleb Natapov
If cpu A calls jump_label_inc() just after atomic_add_return() is called by cpu B, atomic_inc_not_zero() will return value greater then zero and jump_label_inc() will return to a caller before jump_label_update() finishes its job on cpu B. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111018175551.GH17571@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-12-05ftrace: Remove force undef config value left for testingSteven Rostedt
A forced undef of a config value was used for testing and was accidently left in during the final commit. This causes x86 to run slower than needed while running function tracing as well as causes the function graph selftest to fail when DYNMAIC_FTRACE is not set. This is because the code in MCOUNT expects the ftrace code to be processed with the config value set that happened to be forced not set. The forced config option was left in by: commit 6331c28c962561aee59e5a493b7556a4bb585957 ftrace: Fix dynamic selftest failure on some archs Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111102150255.GA6973@debian Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-12-05tracing: Restore system filter behaviorLi Zefan
Though not all events have field 'prev_pid', it was allowed to do this: # echo 'prev_pid == 100' > events/sched/filter but commit 75b8e98263fdb0bfbdeba60d4db463259f1fe8a2 (tracing/filter: Swap entire filter of events) broke it without any reason. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4EAF46CF.8040408@cn.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-12-05tracing: fix event_subsystem ref countingIlya Dryomov
Fix a bug introduced by e9dbfae5, which prevents event_subsystem from ever being released. Ref_count was added to keep track of subsystem users, not for counting events. Subsystem is created with ref_count = 1, so there is no need to increment it for every event, we have nr_events for that. Fix this by touching ref_count only when we actually have a new user - subsystem_open(). Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1320052062-7846-1-git-send-email-idryomov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-12-05Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/urgent
2011-12-05perf: Fix loss of notification with multi-eventPeter Zijlstra
When you do: $ perf record -e cycles,cycles,cycles noploop 10 You expect about 10,000 samples for each event, i.e., 10s at 1000samples/sec. However, this is not what's happening. You get much fewer samples, maybe 3700 samples/event: $ perf report -D | tail -15 Aggregated stats: TOTAL events: 10998 MMAP events: 66 COMM events: 2 SAMPLE events: 10930 cycles stats: TOTAL events: 3644 SAMPLE events: 3644 cycles stats: TOTAL events: 3642 SAMPLE events: 3642 cycles stats: TOTAL events: 3644 SAMPLE events: 3644 On a Intel Nehalem or even AMD64, there are 4 counters capable of measuring cycles, so there is plenty of space to measure those events without multiplexing (even with the NMI watchdog active). And even with multiplexing, we'd expect roughly the same number of samples per event. The root of the problem was that when the event that caused the buffer to become full was not the first event passed on the cmdline, the user notification would get lost. The notification was sent to the file descriptor of the overflowed event but the perf tool was not polling on it. The perf tool aggregates all samples into a single buffer, i.e., the buffer of the first event. Consequently, it assumes notifications for any event will come via that descriptor. The seemingly straight forward solution of moving the waitq into the ringbuffer object doesn't work because of life-time issues. One could perf_event_set_output() on a fd that you're also blocking on and cause the old rb object to be freed while its waitq would still be referenced by the blocked thread -> FAIL. Therefore link all events to the ringbuffer and broadcast the wakeup from the ringbuffer object to all possible events that could be waited upon. This is rather ugly, and we're open to better solutions but it works for now. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Finished-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111126014731.GA7030@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-02clockevents: Set noop handler in clockevents_exchange_device()Thomas Gleixner
If a device is shutdown, then there might be a pending interrupt, which will be processed after we reenable interrupts, which causes the original handler to be run. If the old handler is the (broadcast) periodic handler the shutdown state might hang the kernel completely. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2011-12-02tick-broadcast: Stop active broadcast device when replacing itThomas Gleixner
When a better rated broadcast device is installed, then the current active device is not disabled, which results in two running broadcast devices. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2011-12-02genirq: Fix race condition when stopping the irq threadIdo Yariv
In irq_wait_for_interrupt(), the should_stop member is verified before setting the task's state to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE and calling schedule(). In case kthread_stop sets should_stop and wakes up the process after should_stop is checked by the irq thread but before the task's state is changed, the irq thread might never exit: kthread_stop irq_wait_for_interrupt ------------ ---------------------- ... ... while (!kthread_should_stop()) { kthread->should_stop = 1; wake_up_process(k); wait_for_completion(&kthread->exited); ... set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); ... schedule(); } Fix this by checking if the thread should stop after modifying the task's state. [ tglx: Simplified it a bit ] Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322740508-22640-1-git-send-email-ido@wizery.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2011-12-01trace_events_filter: Use rcu_assign_pointer() when setting ↵Tejun Heo
ftrace_event_call->filter ftrace_event_call->filter is sched RCU protected but didn't use rcu_assign_pointer(). Use it. TODO: Add proper __rcu annotation to call->filter and all its users. -v2: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER() for %NULL clearing as suggested by Eric. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111123164949.GA29639@google.com Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org # (2.6.39+) Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-12-01clocksource: Fix bug with max_deferment margin calculationYang Honggang (Joseph)
In order to leave a margin of 12.5% we should >> 3 not >> 5. CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Yang Honggang (Joseph) <eagle.rtlinux@gmail.com> [jstultz: Modified commit subject] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-11-29Merge branch 'pm-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm * 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: PM: Update comments describing device power management callbacks PM / Sleep: Update documentation related to system wakeup PM / Runtime: Make documentation follow the new behavior of irq_safe PM / Sleep: Correct inaccurate information in devices.txt PM / Domains: Document how PM domains are used by the PM core PM / Hibernate: Do not leak memory in error/test code paths
2011-11-28Merge branch 'for-3.2-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup * 'for-3.2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup_freezer: fix freezing groups with stopped tasks
2011-11-28Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: hrtimer: Fix extra wakeups from __remove_hrtimer() timekeeping: add arch_offset hook to ktime_get functions clocksource: Avoid selecting mult values that might overflow when adjusted time: Improve documentation of timekeeeping_adjust()
2011-11-28Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: genirq: Don't allow per cpu interrupts to be suspended
2011-11-28genirq: fix regression in irqfixup, irqpollEdward Donovan
Commit fa27271bc8d2("genirq: Fixup poll handling") introduced a regression that broke irqfixup/irqpoll for some hardware configurations. Amidst reorganizing 'try_one_irq', that patch removed a test that checked for 'action->handler' returning IRQ_HANDLED, before acting on the interrupt. Restoring this test back returns the functionality lost since 2.6.39. In the current set of tests, after 'action' is set, it must precede '!action->next' to take effect. With this and my previous patch to irq/spurious.c, c75d720fca8a, all IRQ regressions that I have encountered are fixed. Signed-off-by: Edward Donovan <edward.donovan@numble.net> Reported-and-tested-by: Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org (2.6.39+) Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-24cgroup_freezer: fix freezing groups with stopped tasksMichal Hocko
2d3cbf8b (cgroup_freezer: update_freezer_state() does incorrect state transitions) removed is_task_frozen_enough and replaced it with a simple frozen call. This, however, breaks freezing for a group with stopped tasks because those cannot be frozen and so the group remains in CGROUP_FREEZING state (update_if_frozen doesn't count stopped tasks) and never reaches CGROUP_FROZEN. Let's add is_task_frozen_enough back and use it at the original locations (update_if_frozen and try_to_freeze_cgroup). Semantically we consider stopped tasks as frozen enough so we should consider both cases when testing frozen tasks. Testcase: mkdir /dev/freezer mount -t cgroup -o freezer none /dev/freezer mkdir /dev/freezer/foo sleep 1h & pid=$! kill -STOP $pid echo $pid > /dev/freezer/foo/tasks echo FROZEN > /dev/freezer/foo/freezer.state while true do cat /dev/freezer/foo/freezer.state [ "`cat /dev/freezer/foo/freezer.state`" = "FROZEN" ] && break sleep 1 done echo OK Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tomasz Buchert <tomasz.buchert@inria.fr> Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
2011-11-23PM / Hibernate: Do not leak memory in error/test code pathsRafael J. Wysocki
The hibernation core code forgets to release memory preallocated for hibernation if there's an error in its early stages or if test modes causing hibernation_snapshot() to return early are used. This causes the system to be hardly usable, because the amount of preallocated memory is usually huge. Fix this problem. Reported-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-11-22Merge branch 'writeback-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux * 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux: writeback: remove vm_dirties and task->dirties writeback: hard throttle 1000+ dd on a slow USB stick mm: Make task in balance_dirty_pages() killable
2011-11-20Merge branch 'pm-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm * 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: PM / Suspend: Fix bug in suspend statistics update PM / Hibernate: Fix the early termination of test modes PM / shmobile: Fix build of sh7372_pm_init() for CONFIG_PM unset PM Sleep: Do not extend wakeup paths to devices with ignore_children set PM / driver core: disable device's runtime PM during shutdown PM / devfreq: correct Kconfig dependency PM / devfreq: fix use after free in devfreq_remove_device PM / shmobile: Avoid restoring the INTCS state during initialization PM / devfreq: Remove compiler error after irq.h update PM / QoS: Properly use the WARN() macro in dev_pm_qos_add_request() PM / Clocks: Only disable enabled clocks in pm_clk_suspend() ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A3SP no_suspend_console fix PM / shmobile: Don't skip debugging output in pd_power_up()
2011-11-19PM / Suspend: Fix bug in suspend statistics updateSrivatsa S. Bhat
After commit 2a77c46de1e3dace73745015635ebbc648eca69c (PM / Suspend: Add statistics debugfs file for suspend to RAM) a missing pair of braces inside the state_store() function causes even invalid arguments to suspend to be wrongly treated as failed suspend attempts. Fix this. [rjw: Put the hash/subject of the buggy commit into the changelog.] Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-11-19hrtimer: Fix extra wakeups from __remove_hrtimer()Jeff Ohlstein
__remove_hrtimer() attempts to reprogram the clockevent device when the timer being removed is the next to expire. However, __remove_hrtimer() reprograms the clockevent *before* removing the timer from the timerqueue and thus when hrtimer_force_reprogram() finds the next timer to expire it finds the timer we're trying to remove. This is especially noticeable when the system switches to NOHz mode and the system tick is removed. The timer tick is removed from the system but the clockevent is programmed to wakeup in another HZ anyway. Silence the extra wakeup by removing the timer from the timerqueue before calling hrtimer_force_reprogram() so that we actually program the clockevent for the next timer to expire. This was broken by 998adc3 "hrtimers: Convert hrtimers to use timerlist infrastructure". Signed-off-by: Jeff Ohlstein <johlstei@codeaurora.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321660030-8520-1-git-send-email-johlstei@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-11-18PM / Hibernate: Fix the early termination of test modesSrivatsa S. Bhat
Commit 2aede851ddf08666f68ffc17be446420e9d2a056 (PM / Hibernate: Freeze kernel threads after preallocating memory) postponed the freezing of kernel threads to after preallocating memory for hibernation. But while doing that, the hibernation test TEST_FREEZER and the test mode HIBERNATION_TESTPROC were not moved accordingly. As a result, when using these test modes, it only goes upto the freezing of userspace and exits, when in fact it should go till the complete end of task freezing stage, namely the freezing of kernel threads as well. So, move these points of exit to appropriate places so that freezing of kernel threads is also tested while using these test harnesses. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>