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2012-08-13sched: fix divide by zero at {thread_group,task}_timesStanislaw Gruszka
On architectures where cputime_t is 64 bit type, is possible to trigger divide by zero on do_div(temp, (__force u32) total) line, if total is a non zero number but has lower 32 bit's zeroed. Removing casting is not a good solution since some do_div() implementations do cast to u32 internally. This problem can be triggered in practice on very long lived processes: PID: 2331 TASK: ffff880472814b00 CPU: 2 COMMAND: "oraagent.bin" #0 [ffff880472a51b70] machine_kexec at ffffffff8103214b #1 [ffff880472a51bd0] crash_kexec at ffffffff810b91c2 #2 [ffff880472a51ca0] oops_end at ffffffff814f0b00 #3 [ffff880472a51cd0] die at ffffffff8100f26b #4 [ffff880472a51d00] do_trap at ffffffff814f03f4 #5 [ffff880472a51d60] do_divide_error at ffffffff8100cfff #6 [ffff880472a51e00] divide_error at ffffffff8100be7b [exception RIP: thread_group_times+0x56] RIP: ffffffff81056a16 RSP: ffff880472a51eb8 RFLAGS: 00010046 RAX: bc3572c9fe12d194 RBX: ffff880874150800 RCX: 0000000110266fad RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880472a51eb8 RDI: 001038ae7d9633dc RBP: ffff880472a51ef8 R8: 00000000b10a3a64 R9: ffff880874150800 R10: 00007fcba27ab680 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: ffff880472a51f08 R13: ffff880472a51f10 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000007 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018 #7 [ffff880472a51f00] do_sys_times at ffffffff8108845d #8 [ffff880472a51f40] sys_times at ffffffff81088524 #9 [ffff880472a51f80] system_call_fastpath at ffffffff8100b0f2 RIP: 0000003808caac3a RSP: 00007fcba27ab6d8 RFLAGS: 00000202 RAX: 0000000000000064 RBX: ffffffff8100b0f2 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 00007fcba27ab6e0 RSI: 000000000076d58e RDI: 00007fcba27ab6e0 RBP: 00007fcba27ab700 R8: 0000000000000020 R9: 000000000000091b R10: 00007fcba27ab680 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007fff9ca41940 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007fcba27ac9c0 R15: 00007fff9ca41940 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000064 CS: 0033 SS: 002b Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120808092714.GA3580@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-08-13sched, cgroup: Reduce rq->lock hold times for large cgroup hierarchiesPeter Zijlstra
Peter Portante reported that for large cgroup hierarchies (and or on large CPU counts) we get immense lock contention on rq->lock and stuff stops working properly. His workload was a ton of processes, each in their own cgroup, everybody idling except for a sporadic wakeup once every so often. It was found that: schedule() idle_balance() load_balance() local_irq_save() double_rq_lock() update_h_load() walk_tg_tree(tg_load_down) tg_load_down() Results in an entire cgroup hierarchy walk under rq->lock for every new-idle balance and since new-idle balance isn't throttled this results in a lot of work while holding the rq->lock. This patch does two things, it removes the work from under rq->lock based on the good principle of race and pray which is widely employed in the load-balancer as a whole. And secondly it throttles the update_h_load() calculation to max once per jiffy. I considered excluding update_h_load() for new-idle balance all-together, but purely relying on regular balance passes to update this data might not work out under some rare circumstances where the new-idle busiest isn't the regular busiest for a while (unlikely, but a nightmare to debug if someone hits it and suffers). Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Reported-by: Peter Portante <pportant@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-aaarrzfpnaam7pqrekofu8a6@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-07-31sched/cleanups: Add load balance cpumask pointer to 'struct lb_env'Michael Wang
With this patch struct ld_env will have a pointer of the load balancing cpumask and we don't need to pass a cpumask around anymore. Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FFE8665.3080705@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-26sched: Fix minor code style issuesYing Xue
Delete redudant spaces between type name and data name or operators. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue0@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342076622-6606-1-git-send-email-ying.xue0@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-26sched: Use task_rq_unlock() in __sched_setscheduler()Namhyung Kim
It seems there's no specific reason to open-code it. I guess commit 0122ec5b02f76 ("sched: Add p->pi_lock to task_rq_lock()") simply missed it. Let's be consistent with others. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341647342-6742-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-24sched: Fix race in task_group()Peter Zijlstra
Stefan reported a crash on a kernel before a3e5d1091c1 ("sched: Don't call task_group() too many times in set_task_rq()"), he found the reason to be that the multiple task_group() invocations in set_task_rq() returned different values. Looking at all that I found a lack of serialization and plain wrong comments. The below tries to fix it using an extra pointer which is updated under the appropriate scheduler locks. Its not pretty, but I can't really see another way given how all the cgroup stuff works. Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340364965.18025.71.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-24sched: Improve balance_cpu() to consider other cpus in its group as target ↵Srivatsa Vaddagiri
of (pinned) task Current load balance scheme requires only one cpu in a sched_group (balance_cpu) to look at other peer sched_groups for imbalance and pull tasks towards itself from a busy cpu. Tasks thus pulled by balance_cpu could later get picked up by cpus that are in the same sched_group as that of balance_cpu. This scheme however fails to pull tasks that are not allowed to run on balance_cpu (but are allowed to run on other cpus in its sched_group). That can affect fairness and in some worst case scenarios cause starvation. Consider a two core (2 threads/core) system running tasks as below: Core0 Core1 / \ / \ C0 C1 C2 C3 | | | | v v v v F0 T1 F1 [idle] T2 F0 = SCHED_FIFO task (pinned to C0) F1 = SCHED_FIFO task (pinned to C2) T1 = SCHED_OTHER task (pinned to C1) T2 = SCHED_OTHER task (pinned to C1 and C2) F1 could become a cpu hog, which will starve T2 unless C1 pulls it. Between C0 and C1 however, C0 is required to look for imbalance between cores, which will fail to pull T2 towards Core0. T2 will starve eternally in this case. The same scenario can arise in presence of non-rt tasks as well (say we replace F1 with high irq load). We tackle this problem by having balance_cpu move pinned tasks to one of its sibling cpus (where they can run). We first check if load balance goal can be met by ignoring pinned tasks, failing which we retry move_tasks() with a new env->dst_cpu. This patch modifies load balance semantics on who can move load towards a given cpu in a given sched_domain. Before this patch, a given_cpu or a ilb_cpu acting on behalf of an idle given_cpu is responsible for moving load to given_cpu. With this patch applied, balance_cpu can in addition decide on moving some load to a given_cpu. There is a remote possibility that excess load could get moved as a result of this (balance_cpu and given_cpu/ilb_cpu deciding *independently* and at *same* time to move some load to a given_cpu). However we should see less of such conflicting decisions in practice and moreover subsequent load balance cycles should correct the excess load moved to given_cpu. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Prashanth Nageshappa <prashanth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FE06CDB.2060605@linux.vnet.ibm.com [ minor edits ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-24sched: Reset loop counters if all tasks are pinned and we need to redo load ↵Prashanth Nageshappa
balance While load balancing, if all tasks on the source runqueue are pinned, we retry after excluding the corresponding source cpu. However, loop counters env.loop and env.loop_break are not reset before retrying, which can lead to failure in moving the tasks. In this patch we reset env.loop and env.loop_break to their inital values before we retry. Signed-off-by: Prashanth Nageshappa <prashanth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FE06EEF.2090709@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-24sched: Reorder 'struct lb_env' members to reduce its sizePrashanth Nageshappa
Members of 'struct lb_env' are not in appropriate order to reuse compiler added padding on 64bit architectures. In this patch we reorder those struct members and help reduce the size of the structure from 96 bytes to 80 bytes on 64 bit architectures. Suggested-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Prashanth Nageshappa <prashanth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FE06DDE.7000403@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-24sched: Improve scalability via 'CPU buddies', which withstand random ↵Mike Galbraith
perturbations Traversing an entire package is not only expensive, it also leads to tasks bouncing all over a partially idle and possible quite large package. Fix that up by assigning a 'buddy' CPU to try to motivate. Each buddy may try to motivate that one other CPU, if it's busy, tough, it may then try its SMT sibling, but that's all this optimization is allowed to cost. Sibling cache buddies are cross-wired to prevent bouncing. 4 socket 40 core + SMT Westmere box, single 30 sec tbench runs, higher is better: clients 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 .......................................................................... pre 30 41 118 645 3769 6214 12233 14312 post 299 603 1211 2418 4697 6847 11606 14557 A nice increase in performance. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339471112.7352.32.camel@marge.simpson.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-24cpusets: Remove/update outdated commentsSrivatsa S. Bhat
cpuset_track_online_cpus() is no longer present. So remove the outdated comment and replace it with reference to cpuset_update_active_cpus() which is its equivalent. Also, we don't lack memory hot-unplug anymore. And David Rientjes pointed out how it is dealt with. So update that comment as well. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120524141700.3692.98192.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-24cpusets, hotplug: Restructure functions that are invoked during hotplugSrivatsa S. Bhat
Separate out the cpuset related handling for CPU/Memory online/offline. This also helps us exploit the most obvious and basic level of optimization that any notification mechanism (CPU/Mem online/offline) has to offer us: "We *know* why we have been invoked. So stop pretending that we are lost, and do only the necessary amount of processing!". And while at it, rename scan_for_empty_cpusets() to scan_cpusets_upon_hotplug(), which is more appropriate considering how it is restructured. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120524141650.3692.48637.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-24cpusets, hotplug: Implement cpuset tree traversal in a helper functionSrivatsa S. Bhat
At present, the functions that deal with cpusets during CPU/Mem hotplug are quite messy, since a lot of the functionality is mixed up without clear separation. And this takes a toll on optimization as well. For example, the function cpuset_update_active_cpus() is called on both CPU offline and CPU online events; and it invokes scan_for_empty_cpusets(), which makes sense only for CPU offline events. And hence, the current code ends up unnecessarily traversing the cpuset tree during CPU online also. As a first step towards cleaning up those functions, encapsulate the cpuset tree traversal in a helper function, so as to facilitate upcoming changes. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120524141635.3692.893.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-24CPU hotplug, cpusets, suspend: Don't modify cpusets during suspend/resumeSrivatsa S. Bhat
In the event of CPU hotplug, the kernel modifies the cpusets' cpus_allowed masks as and when necessary to ensure that the tasks belonging to the cpusets have some place (online CPUs) to run on. And regular CPU hotplug is destructive in the sense that the kernel doesn't remember the original cpuset configurations set by the user, across hotplug operations. However, suspend/resume (which uses CPU hotplug) is a special case in which the kernel has the responsibility to restore the system (during resume), to exactly the same state it was in before suspend. In order to achieve that, do the following: 1. Don't modify cpusets during suspend/resume. At all. In particular, don't move the tasks from one cpuset to another, and don't modify any cpuset's cpus_allowed mask. So, simply ignore cpusets during the CPU hotplug operations that are carried out in the suspend/resume path. 2. However, cpusets and sched domains are related. We just want to avoid altering cpusets alone. So, to keep the sched domains updated, build a single sched domain (containing all active cpus) during each of the CPU hotplug operations carried out in s/r path, effectively ignoring the cpusets' cpus_allowed masks. (Since userspace is frozen while doing all this, it will go unnoticed.) 3. During the last CPU online operation during resume, build the sched domains by looking up the (unaltered) cpusets' cpus_allowed masks. That will bring back the system to the same original state as it was in before suspend. Ultimately, this will not only solve the cpuset problem related to suspend resume (ie., restores the cpusets to exactly what it was before suspend, by not touching it at all) but also speeds up suspend/resume because we avoid running cpuset update code for every CPU being offlined/onlined. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120524141611.3692.20155.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-21Merge branch 'anton-kgdb' (kgdb dmesg fixups)Linus Torvalds
Merge emailed kgdb dmesg fixups patches from Anton Vorontsov: "The dmesg command appears to be broken after the printk rework. The old logic in the kdb code makes no sense in terms of current printk/logging storage format, and KDB simply hangs forever upon entering 'dmesg' command. The first patch revives the command by switching to kmsg_dumper iterator. As a side-effect, the code is now much more simpler. A few changes were needed in the printk.c: we needed unlocked variant of the kmsg_dumper iterator, but these can surely wait for 3.6. It's probably too late even for the first patch to go to 3.5, but I'll try to convince otherwise. :-) Here we go: - The current code is broken for sure, and has no hope to work at all. It is a regression - The new code works for me, and probably works for everyone else; - If it compiles (and I urge everyone to compile-test it on your setup), it hardly can make things worse." * Merge emailed patches from Anton Vorontsov: (4 commits) kdb: Switch to nolock variants of kmsg_dump functions printk: Implement some unlocked kmsg_dump functions printk: Remove kdb_syslog_data kdb: Revive dmesg command
2012-07-21kdb: Switch to nolock variants of kmsg_dump functionsAnton Vorontsov
The locked variants are prone to deadlocks (suppose we got to the debugger w/ the logbuf lock held), so let's switch to nolock variants. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-21printk: Implement some unlocked kmsg_dump functionsAnton Vorontsov
If used from KDB, the locked variants are prone to deadlocks (suppose we got to the debugger w/ the logbuf lock held). So, we have to implement a few routines that grab no logbuf lock. Yet we don't need these functions in modules, so we don't export them. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-21printk: Remove kdb_syslog_dataAnton Vorontsov
The function is no longer needed, so remove it. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-21kdb: Revive dmesg commandAnton Vorontsov
The kgdb dmesg command is broken after the printk rework. The old logic in kdb code makes no sense in terms of current printk/logging storage format, and KDB simply hangs forever. This patch revives the command by switching to kmsg_dumper iterator. The code is now much more simpler and shorter. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-18Make wait_for_device_probe() also do scsi_complete_async_scans()Linus Torvalds
Commit a7a20d103994 ("sd: limit the scope of the async probe domain") make the SCSI device probing run device discovery in it's own async domain. However, as a result, the partition detection was no longer synchronized by async_synchronize_full() (which, despite the name, only synchronizes the global async space, not all of them). Which in turn meant that "wait_for_device_probe()" would not wait for the SCSI partitions to be parsed. And "wait_for_device_probe()" was what the boot time init code relied on for mounting the root filesystem. Now, most people never noticed this, because not only is it timing-dependent, but modern distributions all use initrd. So the root filesystem isn't actually on a disk at all. And then before they actually mount the final disk filesystem, they will have loaded the scsi-wait-scan module, which not only does the expected wait_for_device_probe(), but also does scsi_complete_async_scans(). [ Side note: scsi_complete_async_scans() had also been partially broken, but that was fixed in commit 43a8d39d0137 ("fix async probe regression"), so that same commit a7a20d103994 had actually broken setups even if you used scsi-wait-scan explicitly ] Solve this problem by just moving the scsi_complete_async_scans() call into wait_for_device_probe(). Everybody who wants to wait for device probing to finish really wants the SCSI probing to complete, so there's no reason not to do this. So now "wait_for_device_probe()" really does what the name implies, and properly waits for device probing to finish. This also removes the now unnecessary extra calls to scsi_complete_async_scans(). Reported-and-tested-by: Artem S. Tashkinov <t.artem@mailcity.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org> Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-18Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip One more time/ntp fix pulled from Ingo Molnar. * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: ntp: Fix STA_INS/DEL clearing bug
2012-07-16timekeeping: Add missing update call in timekeeping_resume()Thomas Gleixner
The leap second rework unearthed another issue of inconsistent data. On timekeeping_resume() the timekeeper data is updated, but nothing calls timekeeping_update(), so now the update code in the timer interrupt sees stale values. This has been the case before those changes, but then the timer interrupt was using stale data as well so this went unnoticed for quite some time. Add the missing update call, so all the data is consistent everywhere. Reported-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Reported-and-tested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Reported-and-tested-by: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de> Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Linux PM list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-15ntp: Fix STA_INS/DEL clearing bugJohn Stultz
In commit 6b43ae8a619d17c4935c3320d2ef9e92bdeed05d, I introduced a bug that kept the STA_INS or STA_DEL bit from being cleared from time_status via adjtimex() without forcing STA_PLL first. Usually once the STA_INS is set, it isn't cleared until the leap second is applied, so its unlikely this affected anyone. However during testing I noticed it took some effort to cancel a leap second once STA_INS was set. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.4 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342156917-25092-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-07-14Merge branches 'core-urgent-for-linus', 'perf-urgent-for-linus' and ↵Linus Torvalds
'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU, perf, and scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar. The RCU fix is a revert for an optimization that could cause deadlocks. One of the scheduler commits (164c33c6adee "sched: Fix fork() error path to not crash") is correct but not complete (some architectures like Tile are not covered yet) - the resulting additional fixes are still WIP and Ingo did not want to delay these pending fixes. See this thread on lkml: [PATCH] fork: fix error handling in dup_task() The perf fixes are just trivial oneliners. * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: Revert "rcu: Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf kvm: Fix segfault with report and mixed guestmount use perf kvm: Fix regression with guest machine creation perf script: Fix format regression due to libtraceevent merge ring-buffer: Fix accounting of entries when removing pages ring-buffer: Fix crash due to uninitialized new_pages list head * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: MAINTAINERS/sched: Update scheduler file pattern sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again sched: Fix fork() error path to not crash
2012-07-13Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull the leap second fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "It's a rather large series, but well discussed, refined and reviewed. It got a massive testing by John, Prarit and tip. In theory we could split it into two parts. The first two patches f55a6faa3843: hrtimer: Provide clock_was_set_delayed() 4873fa070ae8: timekeeping: Fix leapsecond triggered load spike issue are merely preventing the stuff loops forever issues, which people have observed. But there is no point in delaying the other 4 commits which achieve full correctness into 3.6 as they are tagged for stable anyway. And I rather prefer to have the full fixes merged in bulk than a "prevent the observable wreckage and deal with the hidden fallout later" approach." * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: hrtimer: Update hrtimer base offsets each hrtimer_interrupt timekeeping: Provide hrtimer update function hrtimers: Move lock held region in hrtimer_interrupt() timekeeping: Maintain ktime_t based offsets for hrtimers timekeeping: Fix leapsecond triggered load spike issue hrtimer: Provide clock_was_set_delayed()
2012-07-11Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)Linus Torvalds
Merge random patches from Andrew Morton. * Merge emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (32 commits) memblock: free allocated memblock_reserved_regions later mm: sparse: fix usemap allocation above node descriptor section mm: sparse: fix section usemap placement calculation xtensa: fix incorrect memset shmem: cleanup shmem_add_to_page_cache shmem: fix negative rss in memcg memory.stat tmpfs: revert SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE drivers/rtc/rtc-twl.c: fix threaded IRQ to use IRQF_ONESHOT fat: fix non-atomic NFS i_pos read MAINTAINERS: add OMAP CPUfreq driver to OMAP Power Management section sgi-xp: nested calls to spin_lock_irqsave() fs: ramfs: file-nommu: add SetPageUptodate() drivers/rtc/rtc-mxc.c: fix irq enabled interrupts warning mm/memory_hotplug.c: release memory resources if hotadd_new_pgdat() fails h8300/uaccess: add mising __clear_user() h8300/uaccess: remove assignment to __gu_val in unhandled case of get_user() h8300/time: add missing #include <asm/irq_regs.h> h8300/signal: fix typo "statis" h8300/pgtable: add missing #include <asm-generic/pgtable.h> drivers/rtc/rtc-ab8500.c: ensure correct probing of the AB8500 RTC when Device Tree is enabled ...
2012-07-11c/r: prctl: less paranoid prctl_set_mm_exe_file()Konstantin Khlebnikov
"no other files mapped" requirement from my previous patch (c/r: prctl: update prctl_set_mm_exe_file() after mm->num_exe_file_vmas removal) is too paranoid, it forbids operation even if there mapped one shared-anon vma. Let's check that current mm->exe_file already unmapped, in this case exe_file symlink already outdated and its changing is reasonable. Plus, this patch fixes exit code in case operation success. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Reported-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Tested-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-11hrtimer: Update hrtimer base offsets each hrtimer_interruptJohn Stultz
The update of the hrtimer base offsets on all cpus cannot be made atomically from the timekeeper.lock held and interrupt disabled region as smp function calls are not allowed there. clock_was_set(), which enforces the update on all cpus, is called either from preemptible process context in case of do_settimeofday() or from the softirq context when the offset modification happened in the timer interrupt itself due to a leap second. In both cases there is a race window for an hrtimer interrupt between dropping timekeeper lock, enabling interrupts and clock_was_set() issuing the updates. Any interrupt which arrives in that window will see the new time but operate on stale offsets. So we need to make sure that an hrtimer interrupt always sees a consistent state of time and offsets. ktime_get_update_offsets() allows us to get the current monotonic time and update the per cpu hrtimer base offsets from hrtimer_interrupt() to capture a consistent state of monotonic time and the offsets. The function replaces the existing ktime_get() calls in hrtimer_interrupt(). The overhead of the new function vs. ktime_get() is minimal as it just adds two store operations. This ensures that any changes to realtime or boottime offsets are noticed and stored into the per-cpu hrtimer base structures, prior to any hrtimer expiration and guarantees that timers are not expired early. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341960205-56738-8-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-07-11timekeeping: Provide hrtimer update functionThomas Gleixner
To finally fix the infamous leap second issue and other race windows caused by functions which change the offsets between the various time bases (CLOCK_MONOTONIC, CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_BOOTTIME) we need a function which atomically gets the current monotonic time and updates the offsets of CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_BOOTTIME with minimalistic overhead. The previous patch which provides ktime_t offsets allows us to make this function almost as cheap as ktime_get() which is going to be replaced in hrtimer_interrupt(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341960205-56738-7-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-07-11hrtimers: Move lock held region in hrtimer_interrupt()Thomas Gleixner
We need to update the base offsets from this code and we need to do that under base->lock. Move the lock held region around the ktime_get() calls. The ktime_get() calls are going to be replaced with a function which gets the time and the offsets atomically. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341960205-56738-6-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-07-11timekeeping: Maintain ktime_t based offsets for hrtimersThomas Gleixner
We need to update the hrtimer clock offsets from the hrtimer interrupt context. To avoid conversions from timespec to ktime_t maintain a ktime_t based representation of those offsets in the timekeeper. This puts the conversion overhead into the code which updates the underlying offsets and provides fast accessible values in the hrtimer interrupt. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341960205-56738-4-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-07-11timekeeping: Fix leapsecond triggered load spike issueJohn Stultz
The timekeeping code misses an update of the hrtimer subsystem after a leap second happened. Due to that timers based on CLOCK_REALTIME are either expiring a second early or late depending on whether a leap second has been inserted or deleted until an operation is initiated which causes that update. Unless the update happens by some other means this discrepancy between the timekeeping and the hrtimer data stays forever and timers are expired either early or late. The reported immediate workaround - $ data -s "`date`" - is causing a call to clock_was_set() which updates the hrtimer data structures. See: http://www.sheeri.com/content/mysql-and-leap-second-high-cpu-and-fix Add the missing clock_was_set() call to update_wall_time() in case of a leap second event. The actual update is deferred to softirq context as the necessary smp function call cannot be invoked from hard interrupt context. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Reported-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341960205-56738-3-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-07-11hrtimer: Provide clock_was_set_delayed()John Stultz
clock_was_set() cannot be called from hard interrupt context because it calls on_each_cpu(). For fixing the widely reported leap seconds issue it is necessary to call it from hard interrupt context, i.e. the timer tick code, which does the timekeeping updates. Provide a new function which denotes it in the hrtimer cpu base structure of the cpu on which it is called and raise the hrtimer softirq. We then execute the clock_was_set() notificiation from softirq context in run_hrtimer_softirq(). The hrtimer softirq is rarely used, so polling the flag there is not a performance issue. [ tglx: Made it depend on CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS. We really should get rid of all this ifdeffery ASAP ] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Reported-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341960205-56738-2-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-07-11Merge tag 'driver-core-3.5-rc6' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core Pull printk fixes from Greg Kroah-Hartman: "Here are some more printk fixes for 3.5-rc6. They resolve all known outstanding issues with the printk changes that have been happening. They have been tested by the people reporting the problems. This hopefully should be it for the printk stuff for 3.5-final. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>" * tag 'driver-core-3.5-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: kmsg: merge continuation records while printing kmsg: /proc/kmsg - support reading of partial log records kmsg: make sure all messages reach a newly registered boot console kmsg: properly handle concurrent non-blocking read() from /proc/kmsg kmsg: add the facility number to the syslog prefix kmsg: escape the backslash character while exporting data printk: replacing the raw_spin_lock/unlock with raw_spin_lock/unlock_irq
2012-07-09kmsg: merge continuation records while printingKay Sievers
In (the unlikely) case our continuation merge buffer is busy, we unfortunately can not merge further continuation printk()s into a single record and have to store them separately, which leads to split-up output of these lines when they are printed. Add some flags about newlines and prefix existence to these records and try to reconstruct the full line again, when the separated records are printed. Reported-By: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Tested-By: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-07-09kmsg: /proc/kmsg - support reading of partial log recordsKay Sievers
Restore support for partial reads of any size on /proc/kmsg, in case the supplied read buffer is smaller than the record size. Some people seem to think is is ia good idea to run: $ dd if=/proc/kmsg bs=1 of=... as a klog bridge. Resolves-bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44211 Reported-by: Jukka Ollila <jiiksteri@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-07-07cgroup: fix cgroup hierarchy umount raceTejun Heo
48ddbe1946 "cgroup: make css->refcnt clearing on cgroup removal optional" allowed a css to linger after the associated cgroup is removed. As a css holds a reference on the cgroup's dentry, it means that cgroup dentries may linger for a while. Destroying a superblock which has dentries with positive refcnts is a critical bug and triggers BUG() in vfs code. As each cgroup dentry holds an s_active reference, any lingering cgroup has both its dentry and the superblock pinned and thus preventing premature release of superblock. Unfortunately, after 48ddbe1946, there's a small window while releasing a cgroup which is directly under the root of the hierarchy. When a cgroup directory is released, vfs layer first deletes the corresponding dentry and then invokes dput() on the parent, which may recurse further, so when a cgroup directly below root cgroup is released, the cgroup is first destroyed - which releases the s_active it was holding - and then the dentry for the root cgroup is dput(). This creates a window where the root dentry's refcnt isn't zero but superblock's s_active is. If umount happens before or during this window, vfs will see the root dentry with non-zero refcnt and trigger BUG(). Before 48ddbe1946, this problem didn't exist because the last dentry reference was guaranteed to be put synchronously from rmdir(2) invocation which holds s_active around the whole process. Fix it by holding an extra superblock->s_active reference across dput() from css release, which is the dput() path added by 48ddbe1946 and the only one which doesn't hold an extra s_active ref across the final cgroup dput(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <4FEEA5CB.8070809@huawei.com> Reported-by: shyju pv <shyju.pv@huawei.com> Tested-by: shyju pv <shyju.pv@huawei.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
2012-07-07Revert "cgroup: superblock can't be released with active dentries"Tejun Heo
This reverts commit fa980ca87d15bb8a1317853f257a505990f3ffde. The commit was an attempt to fix a race condition where a cgroup hierarchy may be unmounted with positive dentry reference on root cgroup. While the commit made the race condition slightly more difficult to trigger, the race was still there and could be reliably triggered using a different test case. Revert the incorrect fix. The next commit will describe the race and fix it correctly. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <4FEEA5CB.8070809@huawei.com> Reported-by: shyju pv <shyju.pv@huawei.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
2012-07-06kmsg: make sure all messages reach a newly registered boot consoleKay Sievers
We suppress printing kmsg records to the console, which are already printed immediately while we have received their fragments. Newly registered boot consoles print the entire kmsg buffer during registration. Clear the console-suppress flag after we skipped the record during its first storage, so any later print will see these records as usual. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-07-06kmsg: properly handle concurrent non-blocking read() from /proc/kmsgKay Sievers
The /proc/kmsg read() interface is internally simply wired up to a sequence of syslog() syscalls, which might are racy between their checks and actions, regarding concurrency. In the (very uncommon) case of concurrent readers of /dev/kmsg, relying on usual O_NONBLOCK behavior, the recently introduced mutex might block an O_NONBLOCK reader in read(), when poll() returns for it, but another process has already read the data in the meantime. We've seen that while running artificial test setups and tools that "fight" about /proc/kmsg data. This restores the original /proc/kmsg behavior, where in case of concurrent read()s, poll() might wake up but the read() syscall will just return 0 to the caller, while another process has "stolen" the data. This is in the general case not the expected behavior, but it is the exact same one, that can easily be triggered with a 3.4 kernel, and some tools might just rely on it. The mutex is not needed, the original integrity issue which introduced it, is in the meantime covered by: "fill buffer with more than a single message for SYSLOG_ACTION_READ" 116e90b23f74d303e8d607c7a7d54f60f14ab9f2 Cc: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-07-06kmsg: add the facility number to the syslog prefixKay Sievers
After the recent split of facility and level into separate variables, we miss the facility value (always 0 for kernel-originated messages) in the syslog prefix. On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote: > Static checkers complain about the impossible condition here. > > In 084681d14e ('printk: flush continuation lines immediately to > console'), we changed msg->level from being a u16 to being an unsigned > 3 bit bitfield. Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-07-06kmsg: escape the backslash character while exporting dataKay Sievers
Non-printable characters in the log data are hex-escaped to ensure safe post processing. We need to escape a backslash we find in the data, to be able to distinguish it from a backslash we add for the escaping. Also escape the non-printable character 127. Thanks to Miloslav Trmac for the heads up. Reported-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-07-06printk: replacing the raw_spin_lock/unlock with raw_spin_lock/unlock_irqliu chuansheng
In function devkmsg_read/writev/llseek/poll/open()..., the function raw_spin_lock/unlock is used, there is potential deadlock case happening. CPU1: thread1 doing the cat /dev/kmsg: raw_spin_lock(&logbuf_lock); while (user->seq == log_next_seq) { when thread1 run here, at this time one interrupt is coming on CPU1 and running based on this thread,if the interrupt handle called the printk which need the logbuf_lock spin also, it will cause deadlock. So we should use raw_spin_lock/unlock_irq here. Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: liu chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-07-06Merge branch 'rcu/urgent' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/urgent Pull low probability CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y deadlock fix from Paul E. McKenney. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-05sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- againPeter Zijlstra
Thanks to Charles Wang for spotting the defects in the current code: - If we go idle during the sample window -- after sampling, we get a negative bias because we can negate our own sample. - If we wake up during the sample window we get a positive bias because we push the sample to a known active period. So rewrite the entire nohz load-avg muck once again, now adding copious documentation to the code. Reported-and-tested-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net> Reported-and-tested-by: Charles Wang <muming.wq@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340373782.18025.74.camel@twins [ minor edits ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-05sched: Fix fork() error path to not crashSalman Qazi
In dup_task_struct(), if arch_dup_task_struct() fails, the clean up code fails to clean up correctly. That's because the clean up code depends on unininitalized ti->task pointer. We fix this by making sure that the task and thread_info know about each other before we attempt to take the error path. Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120626011815.11323.5533.stgit@dungbeetle.mtv.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-03Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull block bits from Jens Axboe: "As vacation is coming up, thought I'd better get rid of my pending changes in my for-linus branch for this iteration. It contains: - Two patches for mtip32xx. Killing a non-compliant sysfs interface and moving it to debugfs, where it belongs. - A few patches from Asias. Two legit bug fixes, and one killing an interface that is no longer in use. - A patch from Jan, making the annoying partition ioctl warning a bit less annoying, by restricting it to !CAP_SYS_RAWIO only. - Three bug fixes for drbd from Lars Ellenberg. - A fix for an old regression for umem, it hasn't really worked since the plugging scheme was changed in 3.0. - A few fixes from Tejun. - A splice fix from Eric Dumazet, fixing an issue with pipe resizing." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition block: Drop dead function blk_abort_queue() block: Mitigate lock unbalance caused by lock switching block: Avoid missed wakeup in request waitqueue umem: fix up unplugging splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses drbd: fix null pointer dereference with on-congestion policy when diskless drbd: fix list corruption by failing but already aborted reads drbd: fix access of unallocated pages and kernel panic xen/blkfront: Add WARN to deal with misbehaving backends. blkcg: drop local variable @q from blkg_destroy() mtip32xx: Create debugfs entries for troubleshooting mtip32xx: Remove 'registers' and 'flags' from sysfs blkcg: fix blkg_alloc() failure path block: blkcg_policy_cfq shouldn't be used if !CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED block: fix return value on cfq_init() failure mtip32xx: Remove version.h header file inclusion xen/blkback: Copy id field when doing BLKIF_DISCARD.
2012-07-02Revert "rcu: Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation"Paul E. McKenney
This reverts commit 616c310e83b872024271c915c1b9ab505b9efad9. (Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation). Testing by Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> showed that this can result in deadlock due to invoking the scheduler when one of the runqueue locks is held. Because this commit was simply a performance optimization, revert it. Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
2012-06-30printk.c: fix kernel-doc warningsRandy Dunlap
Fix kernel-doc warnings in printk.c: use correct parameter name. Warning(kernel/printk.c:2429): No description found for parameter 'buf' Warning(kernel/printk.c:2429): Excess function parameter 'line' description in 'kmsg_dump_get_buffer' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-30Merge tag 'driver-core-3.5-rc5' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core Pull driver Core fixes from Greg Kroah-Hartman: "Here is a number of printk() fixes, specifically a few reported by the crazy blog program that ships in SUSE releases (that's "boot log" and not "web log", it predates the general "blog" terminology by many years), and the restoration of the continuation line functionality reported by Stephen and others. Yes, the changes seem a bit big this late in the cycle, but I've been beating on them for a while now, and Stephen has even optimized it a bit, so all looks good to me. The other change in here is a Documentation update for the stable kernel rules describing how some distro patches should be backported, to hopefully drive a bit more response from the distros to the stable kernel releases. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>" * tag 'driver-core-3.5-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: printk: Optimize if statement logic where newline exists printk: flush continuation lines immediately to console syslog: fill buffer with more than a single message for SYSLOG_ACTION_READ Revert "printk: return -EINVAL if the message len is bigger than the buf size" printk: fix regression in SYSLOG_ACTION_CLEAR stable: Allow merging of backports for serious user-visible performance issues