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2012-07-30kmod: avoid deadlock from recursive kmod callTetsuo Handa
The system deadlocks (at least since 2.6.10) when call_usermodehelper(UMH_WAIT_EXEC) request triggers call_usermodehelper(UMH_WAIT_PROC) request. This is because "khelper thread is waiting for the worker thread at wait_for_completion() in do_fork() since the worker thread was created with CLONE_VFORK flag" and "the worker thread cannot call complete() because do_execve() is blocked at UMH_WAIT_PROC request" and "the khelper thread cannot start processing UMH_WAIT_PROC request because the khelper thread is waiting for the worker thread at wait_for_completion() in do_fork()". The easiest example to observe this deadlock is to use a corrupted /sbin/hotplug binary (like shown below). # : > /tmp/dummy # chmod 755 /tmp/dummy # echo /tmp/dummy > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug # modprobe whatever call_usermodehelper("/tmp/dummy", UMH_WAIT_EXEC) is called from kobject_uevent_env() in lib/kobject_uevent.c upon loading/unloading a module. do_execve("/tmp/dummy") triggers a call to request_module("binfmt-0000") from search_binary_handler() which in turn calls call_usermodehelper(UMH_WAIT_PROC). In order to avoid deadlock, as a for-now and easy-to-backport solution, do not try to call wait_for_completion() in call_usermodehelper_exec() if the worker thread was created by khelper thread with CLONE_VFORK flag. Future and fundamental solution might be replacing singleton khelper thread with some workqueue so that recursive calls up to max_active dependency loop can be handled without deadlock. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment to kmod_thread_locker] Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30kernel/kmod.c: document call_usermodehelper_fns() a bitAndrew Morton
This function's interface is, uh, subtle. Attempt to apologise for it. Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.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>
2012-07-30printk: only look for prefix levels in kernel messagesJoe Perches
vprintk_emit() prefix parsing should only be done for internal kernel messages. This allows existing behavior to be kept in all cases. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30printk: add generic functions to find KERN_<LEVEL> headersJoe Perches
The current form of a KERN_<LEVEL> is "<.>". Add printk_get_level and printk_skip_level functions to handle these formats. These functions centralize tests of KERN_<LEVEL> so a future modification can change the KERN_<LEVEL> style and shorten the number of bytes consumed by these headers. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build error and warning] Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30kmsg: /dev/kmsg - properly return possible copy_from_user() failureKay Sievers
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30kernel/sys.c: avoid argv_free(NULL)Andrew Morton
If argv_split() failed, the code will end up calling argv_free(NULL). Fix it up and clean things up a bit. Addresses Coverity report 703573. Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30NMI watchdog: fix for lockup detector breakage on resumeSameer Nanda
On the suspend/resume path the boot CPU does not go though an offline->online transition. This breaks the NMI detector post-resume since it depends on PMU state that is lost when the system gets suspended. Fix this by forcing a CPU offline->online transition for the lockup detector on the boot CPU during resume. To provide more context, we enable NMI watchdog on Chrome OS. We have seen several reports of systems freezing up completely which indicated that the NMI watchdog was not firing for some reason. Debugging further, we found a simple way of repro'ing system freezes -- issuing the command 'tasket 1 sh -c "echo nmilockup > /proc/breakme"' after the system has been suspended/resumed one or more times. With this patch in place, the system freeze result in panics, as expected. These panics provide a nice stack trace for us to debug the actual issue causing the freeze. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fiddle with code comment] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make lockup_detector_bootcpu_resume() conditional on CONFIG_SUSPEND] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix section errors] Signed-off-by: Sameer Nanda <snanda@chromium.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30panic: fix a possible deadlock in panic()Vikram Mulukutla
panic_lock is meant to ensure that panic processing takes place only on one cpu; if any of the other cpus encounter a panic, they will spin waiting to be shut down. However, this causes a regression in this scenario: 1. Cpu 0 encounters a panic and acquires the panic_lock and proceeds with the panic processing. 2. There is an interrupt on cpu 0 that also encounters an error condition and invokes panic. 3. This second invocation fails to acquire the panic_lock and enters the infinite while loop in panic_smp_self_stop. Thus all panic processing is stopped, and the cpu is stuck for eternity in the while(1) inside panic_smp_self_stop. To address this, disable local interrupts with local_irq_disable before acquiring the panic_lock. This will prevent interrupt handlers from executing during the panic processing, thus avoiding this particular problem. Signed-off-by: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30coredump: warn about unsafe suid_dumpable / core_pattern comboKees Cook
When suid_dumpable=2, detect unsafe core_pattern settings and warn when they are seen. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30prctl: remove redunant assignment of "error" to zeroSasikantha babu
Just setting the "error" to error number is enough on failure and It doesn't require to set "error" variable to zero in each switch case, since it was already initialized with zero. And also removed return 0 in switch case with break statement Signed-off-by: Sasikantha babu <sasikanth.v19@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-26posix_types.h: Cleanup stale __NFDBITS and related definitionsJosh Boyer
Recently, glibc made a change to suppress sign-conversion warnings in FD_SET (glibc commit ceb9e56b3d1). This uncovered an issue with the kernel's definition of __NFDBITS if applications #include <linux/types.h> after including <sys/select.h>. A build failure would be seen when passing the -Werror=sign-compare and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 flags to gcc. It was suggested that the kernel should either match the glibc definition of __NFDBITS or remove that entirely. The current in-kernel uses of __NFDBITS can be replaced with BITS_PER_LONG, and there are no uses of the related __FDELT and __FDMASK defines. Given that, we'll continue the cleanup that was started with commit 8b3d1cda4f5f ("posix_types: Remove fd_set macros") and drop the remaining unused macros. Additionally, linux/time.h has similar macros defined that expand to nothing so we'll remove those at the same time. Reported-by: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> [ .. and fix up whitespace as per akpm ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-26Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar: "The biggest change is a performance improvement on SMP systems: | 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. which speedup is particularly noticeable on heavily interacting few-tasks workloads, so the changes should help desktop-style Xorg workloads and interactivity as well, on multi-core CPUs. There are also cpuset suspend behavior fixes/restructuring and various smaller tweaks." * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched: Fix race in task_group() sched: Improve balance_cpu() to consider other cpus in its group as target of (pinned) task sched: Reset loop counters if all tasks are pinned and we need to redo load balance sched: Reorder 'struct lb_env' members to reduce its size sched: Improve scalability via 'CPU buddies', which withstand random perturbations cpusets: Remove/update outdated comments cpusets, hotplug: Restructure functions that are invoked during hotplug cpusets, hotplug: Implement cpuset tree traversal in a helper function CPU hotplug, cpusets, suspend: Don't modify cpusets during suspend/resume sched/x86: Remove broken power estimation
2012-07-26Merge tag 'driver-core-3.6-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core Pull driver core changes from Greg Kroah-Hartman: "Here's the big driver core pull request for 3.6-rc1. Unlike 3.5, this kernel should be a lot tamer, with the printk changes now settled down. All we have here is some extcon driver updates, w1 driver updates, a few printk cleanups that weren't needed for 3.5, but are good to have now, and some other minor fixes/changes in the driver core. All of these have been in the linux-next releases for a while now. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>" * tag 'driver-core-3.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (38 commits) printk: Export struct log size and member offsets through vmcoreinfo Drivers: hv: Change the hex constant to a decimal constant driver core: don't trigger uevent after failure extcon: MAX77693: Add extcon-max77693 driver to support Maxim MAX77693 MUIC device sysfs: fail dentry revalidation after namespace change fix sysfs: fail dentry revalidation after namespace change extcon: spelling of detach in function doc extcon: arizona: Stop microphone detection if we give up on it extcon: arizona: Update cable reporting calls and split headset PM / Runtime: Do not increment device usage counts before probing kmsg - do not flush partial lines when the console is busy kmsg - export "continuation record" flag to /dev/kmsg kmsg - avoid warning for CONFIG_PRINTK=n compilations kmsg - properly print over-long continuation lines driver-core: Use kobj_to_dev instead of re-implementing it driver-core: Move kobj_to_dev from genhd.h to device.h driver core: Move deferred devices to the end of dpm_list before probing driver core: move uevent call to driver_register driver core: fix shutdown races with probe/remove(v3) Extcon: Arizona: Add driver for Wolfson Arizona class devices ...
2012-07-26Merge tag 'staging-3.6-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging Pull staging tree patches from Greg Kroah-Hartman: "Here's the big staging tree merge for the 3.6-rc1 merge window. There are some patches in here outside of drivers/staging/, notibly the iio code (which is still stradeling the staging / not staging boundry), the pstore code, and the tracing code. All of these have gotten acks from the various subsystem maintainers to be included in this tree. The pstore and tracing patches are related, and are coming here as they replace one of the android staging drivers. Otherwise, the normal staging mess. Lots of cleanups and a few new drivers (some iio drivers, and the large csr wireless driver abomination.) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>" Fixed up trivial conflicts in drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/s626.h and drivers/staging/gdm72xx/netlink_k.c * tag 'staging-3.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (1108 commits) staging: csr: delete a bunch of unused library functions staging: csr: remove csr_utf16.c staging: csr: remove csr_pmem.h staging: csr: remove CsrPmemAlloc staging: csr: remove CsrPmemFree() staging: csr: remove CsrMemAllocDma() staging: csr: remove CsrMemCalloc() staging: csr: remove CsrMemAlloc() staging: csr: remove CsrMemFree() and CsrMemFreeDma() staging: csr: remove csr_util.h staging: csr: remove CsrOffSetOf() stating: csr: remove unneeded #includes in csr_util.c staging: csr: make CsrUInt16ToHex static staging: csr: remove CsrMemCpy() staging: csr: remove CsrStrLen() staging: csr: remove CsrVsnprintf() staging: csr: remove CsrStrDup staging: csr: remove CsrStrChr() staging: csr: remove CsrStrNCmp staging: csr: remove CsrStrCmp ...
2012-07-24Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsiLinus Torvalds
Pull first round of SCSI updates from James Bottomley: "The most important feature of this patch set is the new async infrastructure that makes sure async_synchronize_full() synchronizes all domains and allows us to remove all the hacks (like having scsi_complete_async_scans() in the device base code) and means that the async infrastructure will "just work" in future. The rest is assorted driver updates (aacraid, bnx2fc, virto-scsi, megaraid, bfa, lpfc, qla2xxx, qla4xxx) plus a lot of infrastructure work in sas and FC. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>" * tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (97 commits) [SCSI] Revert "[SCSI] fix async probe regression" [SCSI] cleanup usages of scsi_complete_async_scans [SCSI] queue async scan work to an async_schedule domain [SCSI] async: make async_synchronize_full() flush all work regardless of domain [SCSI] async: introduce 'async_domain' type [SCSI] bfa: Fix to set correct return error codes and misc cleanup. [SCSI] aacraid: Series 7 Async. (performance) mode support [SCSI] aha152x: Allow use on 64bit systems [SCSI] virtio-scsi: Add vdrv->scan for post VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK LUN scanning [SCSI] bfa: squelch lockdep complaint with a spin_lock_init [SCSI] qla2xxx: remove unnecessary reads of PCI_CAP_ID_EXP [SCSI] qla4xxx: remove unnecessary read of PCI_CAP_ID_EXP [SCSI] ufs: fix incorrect return value about SUCCESS and FAILED [SCSI] ufs: reverse the ufshcd_is_device_present logic [SCSI] ufs: use module_pci_driver [SCSI] usb-storage: update usb devices for write cache quirk in quirk list. [SCSI] usb-storage: add support for write cache quirk [SCSI] set to WCE if usb cache quirk is present. [SCSI] virtio-scsi: hotplug support for virtio-scsi [SCSI] virtio-scsi: split scatterlist per target ...
2012-07-24Merge branch 'for-3.6' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup changes from Tejun Heo: "Nothing too interesting. A minor bug fix and some cleanups." * 'for-3.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: Update remount documentation cgroup: cgroup_rm_files() was calling simple_unlink() with the wrong inode cgroup: Remove populate() documentation cgroup: remove hierarchy_mutex
2012-07-24Merge branch 'for-3.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo: "There are three major changes. - WQ_HIGHPRI has been reimplemented so that high priority work items are served by worker threads with -20 nice value from dedicated highpri worker pools. - CPU hotplug support has been reimplemented such that idle workers are kept across CPU hotplug events. This makes CPU hotplug cheaper (for PM) and makes the code simpler. - flush_kthread_work() has been reimplemented so that a work item can be freed while executing. This removes an annoying behavior difference between kthread_worker and workqueue." * 'for-3.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: fix spurious CPU locality WARN from process_one_work() kthread_worker: reimplement flush_kthread_work() to allow freeing the work item being executed kthread_worker: reorganize to prepare for flush_kthread_work() reimplementation workqueue: simplify CPU hotplug code workqueue: remove CPU offline trustee workqueue: don't butcher idle workers on an offline CPU workqueue: reimplement CPU online rebinding to handle idle workers workqueue: drop @bind from create_worker() workqueue: use mutex for global_cwq manager exclusion workqueue: ROGUE workers are UNBOUND workers workqueue: drop CPU_DYING notifier operation workqueue: perform cpu down operations from low priority cpu_notifier() workqueue: reimplement WQ_HIGHPRI using a separate worker_pool workqueue: introduce NR_WORKER_POOLS and for_each_worker_pool() workqueue: separate out worker_pool flags workqueue: use @pool instead of @gcwq or @cpu where applicable workqueue: factor out worker_pool from global_cwq workqueue: don't use WQ_HIGHPRI for unbound workqueues
2012-07-24Merge tag 'for-3.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pciLinus Torvalds
Pull PCI changes from Bjorn Helgaas: "Host bridge hotplug: - Add MMCONFIG support for hot-added host bridges (Jiang Liu) Device hotplug: - Move fixups from __init to __devinit (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior) - Call FINAL fixups for hot-added devices, too (Myron Stowe) - Factor out generic code for P2P bridge hot-add (Yinghai Lu) - Remove all functions in a slot, not just those with _EJx (Amos Kong) Dynamic resource management: - Track bus number allocation (struct resource tree per domain) (Yinghai Lu) - Make P2P bridge 1K I/O windows work with resource reassignment (Bjorn Helgaas, Yinghai Lu) - Disable decoding while updating 64-bit BARs (Bjorn Helgaas) Power management: - Add PCIe runtime D3cold support (Huang Ying) Virtualization: - Add VFIO infrastructure (ACS, DMA source ID quirks) (Alex Williamson) - Add quirks for devices with broken INTx masking (Jan Kiszka) Miscellaneous: - Fix some PCI Express capability version issues (Myron Stowe) - Factor out some arch code with a weak, generic, pcibios_setup() (Myron Stowe)" * tag 'for-3.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (122 commits) PCI: hotplug: ensure a consistent return value in error case PCI: fix undefined reference to 'pci_fixup_final_inited' PCI: build resource code for M68K architecture PCI: pciehp: remove unused pciehp_get_max_lnk_width(), pciehp_get_cur_lnk_width() PCI: reorder __pci_assign_resource() (no change) PCI: fix truncation of resource size to 32 bits PCI: acpiphp: merge acpiphp_debug and debug PCI: acpiphp: remove unused res_lock sparc/PCI: replace pci_cfg_fake_ranges() with pci_read_bridge_bases() PCI: call final fixups hot-added devices PCI: move final fixups from __init to __devinit x86/PCI: move final fixups from __init to __devinit MIPS/PCI: move final fixups from __init to __devinit PCI: support sizing P2P bridge I/O windows with 1K granularity PCI: reimplement P2P bridge 1K I/O windows (Intel P64H2) PCI: disable MEM decoding while updating 64-bit MEM BARs PCI: leave MEM and IO decoding disabled during 64-bit BAR sizing, too PCI: never discard enable/suspend/resume_early/resume fixups PCI: release temporary reference in __nv_msi_ht_cap_quirk() PCI: restructure 'pci_do_fixups()' ...
2012-07-24Merge tag 'dt-for-3.6' of git://sources.calxeda.com/kernel/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull devicetree updates from Rob Herring: "A small set of changes for devicetree: - Couple of Documentation fixes - Addition of new helper function of_node_full_name - Improve of_parse_phandle_with_args return values - Some NULL related sparse fixes" Grant's busy packing. * tag 'dt-for-3.6' of git://sources.calxeda.com/kernel/linux: of: mtd: nuke useless const qualifier devicetree: add helper inline for retrieving a node's full name of: return -ENOENT when no property usage-model.txt: fix typo machine_init->init_machine of: Fix null pointer related warnings in base.c file LED: Fix missing semicolon in OF documentation of: fix a few typos in the binding documentation
2012-07-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds
Pull networking changes from David S Miller: 1) Remove the ipv4 routing cache. Now lookups go directly into the FIB trie and use prebuilt routes cached there. No more garbage collection, no more rDOS attacks on the routing cache. Instead we now get predictable and consistent performance, no matter what the pattern of traffic we service. This has been almost 2 years in the making. Special thanks to Julian Anastasov, Eric Dumazet, Steffen Klassert, and others who have helped along the way. I'm sure that with a change of this magnitude there will be some kind of fallout, but such things ought the be simple to fix at this point. Luckily I'm not European so I'll be around all of August to fix things :-) The major stages of this work here are each fronted by a forced merge commit whose commit message contains a top-level description of the motivations and implementation issues. 2) Pre-demux of established ipv4 TCP sockets, saves a route demux on input. 3) TCP SYN/ACK performance tweaks from Eric Dumazet. 4) Add namespace support for netfilter L4 conntrack helpers, from Gao Feng. 5) Add config mechanism for Energy Efficient Ethernet to ethtool, from Yuval Mintz. 6) Remove quadratic behavior from /proc/net/unix, from Eric Dumazet. 7) Support for connection tracker helpers in userspace, from Pablo Neira Ayuso. 8) Allow userspace driven TX load balancing functions in TEAM driver, from Jiri Pirko. 9) Kill off NLMSG_PUT and RTA_PUT macros, more gross stuff with embedded gotos. 10) TCP Small Queues, essentially minimize the amount of TCP data queued up in the packet scheduler layer. Whereas the existing BQL (Byte Queue Limits) limits the pkt_sched --> netdevice queuing levels, this controls the TCP --> pkt_sched queueing levels. From Eric Dumazet. 11) Reduce the number of get_page/put_page ops done on SKB fragments, from Alexander Duyck. 12) Implement protection against blind resets in TCP (RFC 5961), from Eric Dumazet. 13) Support the client side of TCP Fast Open, basically the ability to send data in the SYN exchange, from Yuchung Cheng. Basically, the sender queues up data with a sendmsg() call using MSG_FASTOPEN, then they do the connect() which emits the queued up fastopen data. 14) Avoid all the problems we get into in TCP when timers or PMTU events hit a locked socket. The TCP Small Queues changes added a tcp_release_cb() that allows us to queue work up to the release_sock() caller, and that's what we use here too. From Eric Dumazet. 15) Zero copy on TX support for TUN driver, from Michael S. Tsirkin. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1870 commits) genetlink: define lockdep_genl_is_held() when CONFIG_LOCKDEP r8169: revert "add byte queue limit support". ipv4: Change rt->rt_iif encoding. net: Make skb->skb_iif always track skb->dev ipv4: Prepare for change of rt->rt_iif encoding. ipv4: Remove all RTCF_DIRECTSRC handliing. ipv4: Really ignore ICMP address requests/replies. decnet: Don't set RTCF_DIRECTSRC. net/ipv4/ip_vti.c: Fix __rcu warnings detected by sparse. ipv4: Remove redundant assignment rds: set correct msg_namelen openvswitch: potential NULL deref in sample() tcp: dont drop MTU reduction indications bnx2x: Add new 57840 device IDs tcp: avoid oops in tcp_metrics and reset tcpm_stamp niu: Change niu_rbr_fill() to use unlikely() to check niu_rbr_add_page() return value niu: Fix to check for dma mapping errors. net: Fix references to out-of-scope variables in put_cmsg_compat() net: ethernet: davinci_emac: add pm_runtime support net: ethernet: davinci_emac: Remove unnecessary #include ...
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>
2012-07-23Merge branch 'for-linus-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull the big VFS changes from Al Viro: "This one is *big* and changes quite a few things around VFS. What's in there: - the first of two really major architecture changes - death to open intents. The former is finally there; it was very long in making, but with Miklos getting through really hard and messy final push in fs/namei.c, we finally have it. Unlike his variant, this one doesn't introduce struct opendata; what we have instead is ->atomic_open() taking preallocated struct file * and passing everything via its fields. Instead of returning struct file *, it returns -E... on error, 0 on success and 1 in "deal with it yourself" case (e.g. symlink found on server, etc.). See comments before fs/namei.c:atomic_open(). That made a lot of goodies finally possible and quite a few are in that pile: ->lookup(), ->d_revalidate() and ->create() do not get struct nameidata * anymore; ->lookup() and ->d_revalidate() get lookup flags instead, ->create() gets "do we want it exclusive" flag. With the introduction of new helper (kern_path_locked()) we are rid of all struct nameidata instances outside of fs/namei.c; it's still visible in namei.h, but not for long. Come the next cycle, declaration will move either to fs/internal.h or to fs/namei.c itself. [me, miklos, hch] - The second major change: behaviour of final fput(). Now we have __fput() done without any locks held by caller *and* not from deep in call stack. That obviously lifts a lot of constraints on the locking in there. Moreover, it's legal now to call fput() from atomic contexts (which has immediately simplified life for aio.c). We also don't need anti-recursion logics in __scm_destroy() anymore. There is a price, though - the damn thing has become partially asynchronous. For fput() from normal process we are guaranteed that pending __fput() will be done before the caller returns to userland, exits or gets stopped for ptrace. For kernel threads and atomic contexts it's done via schedule_work(), so theoretically we might need a way to make sure it's finished; so far only one such place had been found, but there might be more. There's flush_delayed_fput() (do all pending __fput()) and there's __fput_sync() (fput() analog doing __fput() immediately). I hope we won't need them often; see warnings in fs/file_table.c for details. [me, based on task_work series from Oleg merged last cycle] - sync series from Jan - large part of "death to sync_supers()" work from Artem; the only bits missing here are exofs and ext4 ones. As far as I understand, those are going via the exofs and ext4 trees resp.; once they are in, we can put ->write_super() to the rest, along with the thread calling it. - preparatory bits from unionmount series (from dhowells). - assorted cleanups and fixes all over the place, as usual. This is not the last pile for this cycle; there's at least jlayton's ESTALE work and fsfreeze series (the latter - in dire need of fixes, so I'm not sure it'll make the cut this cycle). I'll probably throw symlink/hardlink restrictions stuff from Kees into the next pile, too. Plus there's a lot of misc patches I hadn't thrown into that one - it's large enough as it is..." * 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (127 commits) ext4: switch EXT4_IOC_RESIZE_FS to mnt_want_write_file() btrfs: switch btrfs_ioctl_balance() to mnt_want_write_file() switch dentry_open() to struct path, make it grab references itself spufs: shift dget/mntget towards dentry_open() zoran: don't bother with struct file * in zoran_map ecryptfs: don't reinvent the wheels, please - use struct completion don't expose I_NEW inodes via dentry->d_inode tidy up namei.c a bit unobfuscate follow_up() a bit ext3: pass custom EOF to generic_file_llseek_size() ext4: use core vfs llseek code for dir seeks vfs: allow custom EOF in generic_file_llseek code vfs: Avoid unnecessary WB_SYNC_NONE writeback during sys_sync and reorder sync passes vfs: Remove unnecessary flushing of block devices vfs: Make sys_sync writeout also block device inodes vfs: Create function for iterating over block devices vfs: Reorder operations during sys_sync quota: Move quota syncing to ->sync_fs method quota: Split dquot_quota_sync() to writeback and cache flushing part vfs: Move noop_backing_dev_info check from sync into writeback ...
2012-07-22Merge tag 'pm-for-3.6-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: - ACPI conversion to PM handling based on struct dev_pm_ops. - Conversion of a number of platform drivers to PM handling based on struct dev_pm_ops and removal of empty legacy PM callbacks from a couple of PCI drivers. - Suspend-to-both for in-kernel hibernation from Bojan Smojver. - cpuidle fixes and cleanups from ShuoX Liu, Daniel Lezcano and Preeti Murthy. - cpufreq bug fixes from Jonghwa Lee and Stephen Boyd. - Suspend and hibernate fixes from Srivatsa Bhat and Colin Cross. - Generic PM domains framework updates. - RTC CMOS wakeup signaling update from Paul Fox. - sparse warnings fixes from Sachin Kamat. - Build warnings fixes for the generic PM domains framework and PM sysfs code. - sysfs switch for printing device suspend times from Sameer Nanda. - Documentation fix from Oskar Schirmer. * tag 'pm-for-3.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (70 commits) cpufreq: Fix sysfs deadlock with concurrent hotplug/frequency switch EXYNOS: bugfix on retrieving old_index from freqs.old PM / Sleep: call early resume handlers when suspend_noirq fails PM / QoS: Use NULL pointer instead of plain integer in qos.c PM / QoS: Use NULL pointer instead of plain integer in pm_qos.h PM / Sleep: Require CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND to use wake_lock/wake_unlock PM / Sleep: Add missing static storage class specifiers in main.c cpuilde / ACPI: remove time from acpi_processor_cx structure cpuidle / ACPI: remove usage from acpi_processor_cx structure cpuidle / ACPI : remove latency_ticks from acpi_processor_cx structure rtc-cmos: report wakeups from interrupt handler PM / Sleep: Fix build warning in sysfs.c for CONFIG_PM_SLEEP unset PM / Domains: Fix build warning for CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME unset olpc-xo15-sci: Use struct dev_pm_ops for power management PM / Domains: Replace plain integer with NULL pointer in domain.c file PM / Domains: Add missing static storage class specifier in domain.c file PM / crypto / ux500: Use struct dev_pm_ops for power management PM / IPMI: Remove empty legacy PCI PM callbacks tpm_nsc: Use struct dev_pm_ops for power management tpm_tis: Use struct dev_pm_ops for power management ...
2012-07-22deal with task_work callbacks adding more workAl Viro
It doesn't matter on normal return to userland path (we'll recheck the NOTIFY_RESUME flag anyway), but in case of exit_task_work() we'll need that as soon as we get callbacks capable of triggering more task_work_add(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22move exit_task_work() past exit_files() et.al.Al Viro
... and get rid of PF_EXITING check in task_work_add(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22merge task_work and rcu_head, get rid of separate allocation for keyring caseAl Viro
task_work and rcu_head are identical now; merge them (calling the result struct callback_head, rcu_head #define'd to it), kill separate allocation in security/keys since we can just use cred->rcu now. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22trim task_work: get rid of hlistAl Viro
layout based on Oleg's suggestion; single-linked list, task->task_works points to the last element, forward pointer from said last element points to head. I'd still prefer much more regular scheme with two pointers in task_work, but... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22trimming task_work: kill ->dataAl Viro
get rid of the only user of ->data; this is _not_ the final variant - in the end we'll have task_work and rcu_head identical and just use cred->rcu, at which point the separate allocation will be gone completely. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22signal: make sure we don't get stopped with pending task_workAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer core changes from Ingo Molnar: "Continued cleanups of the core time and NTP code, plus more nohz work preparing for tick-less userspace execution." * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: time: Rework timekeeping functions to take timekeeper ptr as argument time: Move xtime_nsec adjustment underflow handling timekeeping_adjust time: Move arch_gettimeoffset() usage into timekeeping_get_ns() time: Refactor accumulation of nsecs to secs time: Condense timekeeper.xtime into xtime_sec time: Explicitly use u32 instead of int for shift values time: Whitespace cleanups per Ingo%27s requests nohz: Move next idle expiry time record into idle logic area nohz: Move ts->idle_calls incrementation into strict idle logic nohz: Rename ts->idle_tick to ts->last_tick nohz: Make nohz API agnostic against idle ticks cputime accounting nohz: Separate idle sleeping time accounting from nohz logic timers: Improve get_next_timer_interrupt() timers: Add accounting of non deferrable timers timers: Consolidate base->next_timer update timers: Create detach_if_pending() and use it
2012-07-22Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull smp/hotplug changes from Ingo Molnar: "Various cleanups to the SMP hotplug code - a continuing effort of Thomas et al" * 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: smpboot: Remove leftover declaration smp: Remove num_booting_cpus() smp: Remove ipi_call_lock[_irq]()/ipi_call_unlock[_irq]() POWERPC: Smp: remove call to ipi_call_lock()/ipi_call_unlock() SPARC: SMP: Remove call to ipi_call_lock_irq()/ipi_call_unlock_irq() ia64: SMP: Remove call to ipi_call_lock_irq()/ipi_call_unlock_irq() x86-smp-remove-call-to-ipi_call_lock-ipi_call_unlock tile: SMP: Remove call to ipi_call_lock()/ipi_call_unlock() S390: Smp: remove call to ipi_call_lock()/ipi_call_unlock() parisc: Smp: remove call to ipi_call_lock()/ipi_call_unlock() mn10300: SMP: Remove call to ipi_call_lock()/ipi_call_unlock() hexagon: SMP: Remove call to ipi_call_lock()/ipi_call_unlock()
2012-07-22Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf events changes from Ingo Molnar: "- kernel side: - Intel uncore PMU support for Nehalem and Sandy Bridge CPUs, we support both the events available via the MSR and via the PCI access space. - various uprobes cleanups and restructurings - PMU driver quirks by microcode version and required x86 microcode loader cleanups/robustization - various tracing robustness updates - static keys: remove obsolete static_branch() - tooling side: - GTK browser improvements - perf report browser: support screenshots to file - more automated tests - perf kvm improvements - perf bench refinements - build environment improvements - pipe mode improvements - libtraceevent updates, we have now hopefully merged most bits with the out of tree forked code base ... and many other goodies." * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (138 commits) tracing: Check for allocation failure in __tracing_open() perf/x86: Fix intel_perfmon_event_mapformatting jump label: Remove static_branch() tracepoint: Use static_key_false(), since static_branch() is deprecated perf/x86: Uncore filter support for SandyBridge-EP perf/x86: Detect number of instances of uncore CBox perf/x86: Fix event constraint for SandyBridge-EP C-Box perf/x86: Use 0xff as pseudo code for fixed uncore event perf/x86: Save a few bytes in 'struct x86_pmu' perf/x86: Add a microcode revision check for SNB-PEBS perf/x86: Improve debug output in check_hw_exists() perf/x86/amd: Unify AMD's generic and family 15h pmus perf/x86: Move Intel specific code to intel_pmu_init() perf/x86: Rename Intel specific macros perf/x86: Fix USER/KERNEL tagging of samples perf tools: Split event symbols arrays to hw and sw parts perf tools: Split out PE_VALUE_SYM parsing token to SW and HW tokens perf tools: Add empty rule for new line in event syntax parsing perf test: Use ARRAY_SIZE in parse events tests tools lib traceevent: Cleanup realloc use ...
2012-07-22Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar: "Quoting from Paul, the major features of this series are: 1. Preventing latency spikes of more than 200 microseconds for kernels built with NR_CPUS=4096, which is reportedly becoming the default for some distros. This is a first step, as it does not help with systems that actually -have- 4096 CPUs (work on this case is in progress, but is not yet ready for mainline). This category also includes improving concurrency of rcu_barrier(), placed here due to conflicts. Posted to LKML at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/22/381 Note that patches 18-22 of that series have been defered to 3.7, as they have not yet proven themselves to be mainline-ready (and yes, these are the ones intended to get rid of RCU's latency spikes for systems that actually have 4096 CPUs). 2. Updates to documentation and rcutorture fixes, the latter category including improvements to rcu_barrier() testing. Posted to LKML at http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1206.1/04094.html. 3. Miscellaneous fixes posted to LKML at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/22/500 with the exception of the last commit, which was posted here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1561830 4. RCU_FAST_NO_HZ fixes and improvements. Posted to LKML at: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1206.1/00006.html http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1561833 The first four patches of the first series went into 3.5 to fix a regression. 5. Code-style fixes. These were posted to LKML at http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1205.2/01180.html http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1205.2/01181.html" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (48 commits) rcu: Fix broken strings in RCU's source code. rcu: Fix code-style issues involving "else" rcu: Introduce check for callback list/count mismatch rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ respect nohz= boot parameter rcu: Fix qlen_lazy breakage rcu: Round FAST_NO_HZ lazy timeout to nearest second rcu: The rcu_needs_cpu() function is not a quiescent state rcu: Dump only the current CPU's buffers for idle-entry/exit warnings rcu: Add check for CPUs going offline with callbacks queued rcu: Disable preemption in rcu_blocking_is_gp() rcu: Prevent uninitialized string in RCU CPU stall info rcu: Fix rcu_is_cpu_idle() #ifdef in TINY_RCU rcu: Split RCU core processing out of __call_rcu() rcu: Prevent __call_rcu() from invoking RCU core on offline CPUs rcu: Make __call_rcu() handle invocation from idle rcu: Remove function versions of __kfree_rcu and __is_kfree_rcu_offset rcu: Consolidate tree/tiny __rcu_read_{,un}lock() implementations rcu: Remove return value from rcu_assign_pointer() key: Remove extraneous parentheses from rcu_assign_keypointer() rcu: Remove return value from RCU_INIT_POINTER() ...
2012-07-22workqueue: fix spurious CPU locality WARN from process_one_work()Tejun Heo
25511a4776 "workqueue: reimplement CPU online rebinding to handle idle workers" added CPU locality sanity check in process_one_work(). It triggers if a worker is executing on a different CPU without UNBOUND or REBIND set. This works for all normal workers but rescuers can trigger this spuriously when they're serving the unbound or a disassociated global_cwq - rescuers don't have either flag set and thus its gcwq->cpu can be a different value including %WORK_CPU_UNBOUND. Fix it by additionally testing %GCWQ_DISASSOCIATED. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Refence: <20120721213656.GA7783@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-07-22kthread_worker: reimplement flush_kthread_work() to allow freeing the work ↵Tejun Heo
item being executed kthread_worker provides minimalistic workqueue-like interface for users which need a dedicated worker thread (e.g. for realtime priority). It has basic queue, flush_work, flush_worker operations which mostly match the workqueue counterparts; however, due to the way flush_work() is implemented, it has a noticeable difference of not allowing work items to be freed while being executed. While the current users of kthread_worker are okay with the current behavior, the restriction does impede some valid use cases. Also, removing this difference isn't difficult and actually makes the code easier to understand. This patch reimplements flush_kthread_work() such that it uses a flush_work item instead of queue/done sequence numbers. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-07-22kthread_worker: reorganize to prepare for flush_kthread_work() reimplementationTejun Heo
Make the following two non-functional changes. * Separate out insert_kthread_work() from queue_kthread_work(). * Relocate struct kthread_flush_work and kthread_flush_work_fn() definitions above flush_kthread_work(). v2: Added lockdep_assert_held() in insert_kthread_work() as suggested by Andy Walls. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>
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>
2012-07-20[SCSI] async: make async_synchronize_full() flush all work regardless of domainDan Williams
In response to an async related regression James noted: "My theory is that this is an init problem: The assumption in a lot of our code is that async_synchronize_full() waits for everything ... even the domain specific async schedules, which isn't true." ...so make this assumption true. Each domain, including the default one, registers itself on a global domain list when work is scheduled. Once all entries complete it exits that list. Waiting for the list to be empty syncs all in-flight work across all domains. Domains can opt-out of global syncing if they are declared as exclusive ASYNC_DOMAIN_EXCLUSIVE(). All stack-based domains have been declared exclusive since the domain may go out of scope as soon as the last work item completes. Statically declared domains are mostly ok, but async_unregister_domain() is there to close any theoretical races with pending async_synchronize_full waiters at module removal time. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> Reported-by: Eldad Zack <eldadzack@gmail.com> Tested-by: Eldad Zack <eldad@fogrefinery.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>