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* Merge branch 'sysctl' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-12-24
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-misc-2.6 * 'sysctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-misc-2.6: SYSCTL: Add a mutex to the page_alloc zone order sysctl SYSCTL: Print binary sysctl warnings (nearly) only once
| * SYSCTL: Print binary sysctl warnings (nearly) only onceAndi Kleen2009-12-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When printing legacy sysctls print the warning message for each of them only once. This way there is a guarantee the syslog won't be flooded for any sane program. The original attempt at this made the tables non const and stored the flag inline. Linus suggested using a separate hash table for this, this is based on a code snippet from him. The hash implies this is not exact and can sometimes not print a new sysctl due to a hash collision, but in practice this should not be a problem I used a FNV32 hash over the binary string with a 32byte bitmap. This gives relatively little collisions when all the predefined binary sysctls are hashed: size 256 bucket length number 0: [25] 1: [67] 2: [88] 3: [47] 4: [22] 5: [6] 6: [1] The worst case is a single collision of 6 hash values. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
* | Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-12-23
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Revert 738d2be, simplify set_task_cpu()
| * sched: Revert 738d2be, simplify set_task_cpu()Peter Zijlstra2009-12-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Effectively reverts 738d2be4301007f054541c5c4bf7fb6a361c9b3a. As demonstrated by Eric, we really need to call __set_task_cpu() early in the fork() path to properly initialize the various task state -- specifically the cgroup state through set_task_rq(). [ we could probably fix this by explicitly calling __set_task_cpu() from sched_fork(), but lets try that for the next cycle and simply revert to the old behaviour for now. ] Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Tested-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>, Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: efault@gmx.de LKML-Reference: <1261492999.4937.36.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-12-22
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: jfs: Fix 32bit build warning Remove obsolete comment in fs.h Sanitize f_flags helpers Fix f_flags/f_mode in case of lookup_instantiate_filp() from open(pathname, 3) anonfd: Allow making anon files read-only fs/compat_ioctl.c: fix build error when !BLOCK pohmelfs needs I_LOCK alloc_file(): simplify handling of mnt_clone_write() errors
| * | Sanitize f_flags helpersAl Viro2009-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * pull ACC_MODE to fs.h; we have several copies all over the place * nightmarish expression calculating f_mode by f_flags deserves a helper too (OPEN_FMODE(flags)) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | anonfd: Allow making anon files read-onlyRoland Dreier2009-12-22
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It seems a couple places such as arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c and drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c could use anon_inode_getfile() instead of a private pseudo-fs + alloc_file(), if only there were a way to get a read-only file. So provide this by having anon_inode_getfile() create a read-only file if we pass O_RDONLY in flags. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | kfifo: add record handling functionsStefani Seibold2009-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add kfifo_in_rec() - puts some record data into the FIFO Add kfifo_out_rec() - gets some record data from the FIFO Add kfifo_from_user_rec() - puts some data from user space into the FIFO Add kfifo_to_user_rec() - gets data from the FIFO and write it to user space Add kfifo_peek_rec() - gets the size of the next FIFO record field Add kfifo_skip_rec() - skip the next fifo out record Add kfifo_avail_rec() - determinate the number of bytes available in a record FIFO Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | kfifo: add kfifo_skip, kfifo_from_user and kfifo_to_userStefani Seibold2009-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add kfifo_reset_out() for save lockless discard the fifo output Add kfifo_skip() to skip a number of output bytes Add kfifo_from_user() to copy user space data into the fifo Add kfifo_to_user() to copy fifo data to user space Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | kfifo: rename kfifo_put... into kfifo_in... and kfifo_get... into kfifo_out...Stefani Seibold2009-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | rename kfifo_put... into kfifo_in... to prevent miss use of old non in kernel-tree drivers ditto for kfifo_get... -> kfifo_out... Improve the prototypes of kfifo_in and kfifo_out to make the kerneldoc annotations more readable. Add mini "howto porting to the new API" in kfifo.h Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | kfifo: cleanup namespaceStefani Seibold2009-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | change name of __kfifo_* functions to kfifo_*, because the prefix __kfifo should be reserved for internal functions only. Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | kfifo: move out spinlockStefani Seibold2009-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move the pointer to the spinlock out of struct kfifo. Most users in tree do not actually use a spinlock, so the few exceptions now have to call kfifo_{get,put}_locked, which takes an extra argument to a spinlock. Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | kfifo: move struct kfifo in placeStefani Seibold2009-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a new generic kernel FIFO implementation. The current kernel fifo API is not very widely used, because it has to many constrains. Only 17 files in the current 2.6.31-rc5 used it. FIFO's are like list's a very basic thing and a kfifo API which handles the most use case would save a lot of development time and memory resources. I think this are the reasons why kfifo is not in use: - The API is to simple, important functions are missing - A fifo can be only allocated dynamically - There is a requirement of a spinlock whether you need it or not - There is no support for data records inside a fifo So I decided to extend the kfifo in a more generic way without blowing up the API to much. The new API has the following benefits: - Generic usage: For kernel internal use and/or device driver. - Provide an API for the most use case. - Slim API: The whole API provides 25 functions. - Linux style habit. - DECLARE_KFIFO, DEFINE_KFIFO and INIT_KFIFO Macros - Direct copy_to_user from the fifo and copy_from_user into the fifo. - The kfifo itself is an in place member of the using data structure, this save an indirection access and does not waste the kernel allocator. - Lockless access: if only one reader and one writer is active on the fifo, which is the common use case, no additional locking is necessary. - Remove spinlock - give the user the freedom of choice what kind of locking to use if one is required. - Ability to handle records. Three type of records are supported: - Variable length records between 0-255 bytes, with a record size field of 1 bytes. - Variable length records between 0-65535 bytes, with a record size field of 2 bytes. - Fixed size records, which no record size field. - Preserve memory resource. - Performance! - Easy to use! This patch: Since most users want to have the kfifo as part of another object, reorganize the code to allow including struct kfifo in another data structure. This requires changing the kfifo_alloc and kfifo_init prototypes so that we pass an existing kfifo pointer into them. This patch changes the implementation and all existing users. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Revert "time: Remove xtime_cache"Linus Torvalds2009-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 7bc7d637452383d56ba4368d4336b0dde1bb476d, as requested by John Stultz. Quoting John: "Petr Titěra reported an issue where he saw odd atime regressions with 2.6.33 where there were a full second worth of nanoseconds in the nanoseconds field. He also reviewed the time code and narrowed down the problem: unhandled overflow of the nanosecond field caused by rounding up the sub-nanosecond accumulated time. Details: * At the end of update_wall_time(), we currently round up the sub-nanosecond portion of accumulated time when storing it into xtime. This was added to avoid time inconsistencies caused when the sub-nanosecond portion was truncated when storing into xtime. Unfortunately we don't handle the possible second overflow caused by that rounding. * Previously the xtime_cache code hid this overflow by normalizing the xtime value when storing into the xtime_cache. * We could try to handle the second overflow after the rounding up, but since this affects the timekeeping's internal state, this would further complicate the next accumulation cycle, causing small errors in ntp steering. As much as I'd like to get rid of it, the xtime_cache code is known to work. * The correct fix is really to include the sub-nanosecond portion in the timekeeping accessor function, so we don't need to round up at during accumulation. This would greatly simplify the accumulation code. Unfortunately, we can't do this safely until the last three non-GENERIC_TIME arches (sparc32, arm, cris) are converted (those patches are in -mm) and we kill off the spots where arches set xtime directly. This is all 2.6.34 material, so I think reverting the xtime_cache change is the best approach for now. Many thanks to Petr for both reporting and finding the issue!" Reported-by: Petr Titěra <P.Titera@century.cz> Requested-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | resources: fix call to alignf() in allocate_resource()Dominik Brodowski2009-12-21
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The second parameter to alignf() in allocate_resource() must reflect what new resource is attempted to be allocated, else functions like pcibios_align_resource() (at least on x86) or pcmcia_align() can't work correctly. Commit 1e5ad9679016275d422e36b12a98b0927d76f556 broke this by setting the "new" resource until we're about to return success. To keep the resource untouched when allocate_resource() fails, a "tmp" resource is introduced. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sched: Fix hotplug hangPeter Zijlstra2009-12-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The hot-unplug kstopmachine usage does a wakeup after deactivating the cpu, hence we cannot use cpu_active() here but must rely on the good olde online. Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com> Reported-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> LKML-Reference: <1261326987.4314.24.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: Restore printk sanityPeter Zijlstra2009-12-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Revert the braindead pr_* crap. (Commit 663997d "sched: Use pr_fmt() and pr_<level>()") It's dumb and causes stupid "sched: " strings all over the place. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <1261315437.4314.6.camel@laptop> [ i dont mind the pr_*() patterns that much - but Peter dislikes them with a vengence. ] [ - v2: remove spurious diffstat from changelog :-/ ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-12-19
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf session: Make events_stats u64 to avoid overflow on 32-bit arches hw-breakpoints: Fix hardware breakpoints -> perf events dependency perf events: Dont report side-band events on each cpu for per-task-per-cpu events perf events, x86/stacktrace: Fix performance/softlockup by providing a special frame pointer-only stack walker perf events, x86/stacktrace: Make stack walking optional perf events: Remove unused perf_counter.h header file perf probe: Check new event name kprobe-tracer: Check new event/group name perf probe: Check whether debugfs path is correct perf probe: Fix libdwarf include path for Debian
| * perf events: Dont report side-band events on each cpu for per-task-per-cpu ↵Peter Zijlstra2009-12-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | events Acme noticed that his FORK/MMAP numbers were inflated by about the same factor as his cpu-count. This led to the discovery of a few more sites that need to respect the event->cpu filter. Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20091217121830.215333434@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * perf events, x86/stacktrace: Make stack walking optionalFrederic Weisbecker2009-12-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current print_context_stack helper that does the stack walking job is good for usual stacktraces as it walks through all the stack and reports even addresses that look unreliable, which is nice when we don't have frame pointers for example. But we have users like perf that only require reliable stacktraces, and those may want a more adapted stack walker, so lets make this function a callback in stacktrace_ops that users can tune for their needs. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1261024834-5336-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * kprobe-tracer: Check new event/group nameMasami Hiramatsu2009-12-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Check new event/group name is same syntax as a C symbol. In other words, checking the name is as like as other tracepoint events. This can prevent user to create an event with useless name (e.g. foo|bar, foo*bar). Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> LKML-Reference: <20091216222408.14459.68790.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com> [ v2: minor cleanups ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-12-19
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (25 commits) sched: Fix broken assertion sched: Assert task state bits at build time sched: Update task_state_arraypwith new states sched: Add missing state chars to TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR sched: Move TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR near the TASK_state bits sched: Teach might_sleep() about preemptible RCU sched: Make warning less noisy sched: Simplify set_task_cpu() sched: Remove the cfs_rq dependency from set_task_cpu() sched: Add pre and post wakeup hooks sched: Move kthread_bind() back to kthread.c sched: Fix select_task_rq() vs hotplug issues sched: Fix sched_exec() balancing sched: Ensure set_task_cpu() is never called on blocked tasks sched: Use TASK_WAKING for fork wakups sched: Select_task_rq_fair() must honour SD_LOAD_BALANCE sched: Fix task_hot() test order sched: Fix set_cpu_active() in cpu_down() sched: Mark boot-cpu active before smp_init() sched: Fix cpu_clock() in NMIs, on !CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK ...
| * | sched: Fix broken assertionPeter Zijlstra2009-12-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's a preemption race in the set_task_cpu() debug check in that when we get preempted after setting task->state we'd still be on the rq proper, but fail the test. Check for preempted tasks, since those are always on the RQ. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20091217121830.137155561@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | sched: Teach might_sleep() about preemptible RCUFrederic Weisbecker2009-12-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In practice, it is harmless to voluntarily sleep in a rcu_read_lock() section if we are running under preempt rcu, but it is illegal if we build a kernel running non-preemptable rcu. Currently, might_sleep() doesn't notice sleepable operations under rcu_read_lock() sections if we are running under preemptable rcu because preempt_count() is left untouched after rcu_read_lock() in this case. But we want developers who test their changes under such config to notice the "sleeping while atomic" issues. So we add rcu_read_lock_nesting to prempt_count() in might_sleep() checks. [ v2: Handle rcu-tiny ] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <1260991265-8451-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | sched: Make warning less noisyIngo Molnar2009-12-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170517.807938893@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | sched: Simplify set_task_cpu()Peter Zijlstra2009-12-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rearrange code a bit now that its a simpler function. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170518.269101883@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | sched: Remove the cfs_rq dependency from set_task_cpu()Peter Zijlstra2009-12-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In order to remove the cfs_rq dependency from set_task_cpu() we need to ensure the task is cfs_rq invariant for all callsites. The simple approach is to substract cfs_rq->min_vruntime from se->vruntime on dequeue, and add cfs_rq->min_vruntime on enqueue. However, this has the downside of breaking FAIR_SLEEPERS since we loose the old vruntime as we only maintain the relative position. To solve this, we observe that we only migrate runnable tasks, we do this using deactivate_task(.sleep=0) and activate_task(.wakeup=0), therefore we can restrain the min_vruntime invariance to that state. The only other case is wakeup balancing, since we want to maintain the old vruntime we cannot make it relative on dequeue, but since we don't migrate inactive tasks, we can do so right before we activate it again. This is where we need the new pre-wakeup hook, we need to call this while still holding the old rq->lock. We could fold it into ->select_task_rq(), but since that has multiple callsites and would obfuscate the locking requirements, that seems like a fudge. This leaves the fork() case, simply make sure that ->task_fork() leaves the ->vruntime in a relative state. This covers all cases where set_task_cpu() gets called, and ensures it sees a relative vruntime. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170518.191697025@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | sched: Add pre and post wakeup hooksPeter Zijlstra2009-12-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As will be apparent in the next patch, we need a pre wakeup hook for sched_fair task migration, hence rename the post wakeup hook and one pre wakeup. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170518.114746117@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | sched: Move kthread_bind() back to kthread.cPeter Zijlstra2009-12-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since kthread_bind() lost its dependencies on sched.c, move it back where it came from. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170518.039524041@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | sched: Fix select_task_rq() vs hotplug issuesPeter Zijlstra2009-12-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since select_task_rq() is now responsible for guaranteeing ->cpus_allowed and cpu_active_mask, we need to verify this. select_task_rq_rt() can blindly return smp_processor_id()/task_cpu() without checking the valid masks, select_task_rq_fair() can do the same in the rare case that all SD_flags are disabled. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170517.961475466@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | sched: Fix sched_exec() balancingPeter Zijlstra2009-12-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since we access ->cpus_allowed without holding rq->lock we need a retry loop to validate the result, this comes for near free when we merge sched_migrate_task() into sched_exec() since that already does the needed check. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170517.884743662@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | sched: Ensure set_task_cpu() is never called on blocked tasksPeter Zijlstra2009-12-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In order to clean up the set_task_cpu() rq dependencies we need to ensure it is never called on blocked tasks because such usage does not pair with consistent rq->lock usage. This puts the migration burden on ttwu(). Furthermore we need to close a race against changing ->cpus_allowed, since select_task_rq() runs with only preemption disabled. For sched_fork() this is safe because the child isn't in the tasklist yet, for wakeup we fix this by synchronizing set_cpus_allowed_ptr() against TASK_WAKING, which leaves sched_exec to be a problem This also closes a hole in (6ad4c1888 sched: Fix balance vs hotplug race) where ->select_task_rq() doesn't validate the result against the sched_domain/root_domain. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170517.807938893@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | sched: Use TASK_WAKING for fork wakupsPeter Zijlstra2009-12-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For later convenience use TASK_WAKING for fresh tasks. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170517.732561278@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | sched: Select_task_rq_fair() must honour SD_LOAD_BALANCEPeter Zijlstra2009-12-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We should skip !SD_LOAD_BALANCE domains. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170517.653578430@chello.nl> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | sched: Fix task_hot() test orderPeter Zijlstra2009-12-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make sure not to access sched_fair fields before verifying it is indeed a sched_fair task. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> CC: stable@kernel.org LKML-Reference: <20091216170517.577998058@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | sched: Fix set_cpu_active() in cpu_down()Xiaotian Feng2009-12-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sachin found cpu hotplug test failures on powerpc, which made the kernel hang on his POWER box. The problem is that we fail to re-activate a cpu when a hot-unplug fails. Fix this by moving the de-activation into _cpu_down after doing the initial checks. Remove the synchronize_sched() calls and rely on those implied by rebuilding the sched domains using the new mask. Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170517.500272612@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | Merge branch 'linus' into sched/urgentIngo Molnar2009-12-16
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: kernel/sched_idletask.c Merge reason: resolve the conflicts, pick up latest changes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | sched: Fix cpu_clock() in NMIs, on !CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCKDavid Miller2009-12-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Relax stable-sched-clock architectures to not save/disable/restore hardirqs in cpu_clock(). The background is that I was trying to resolve a sparc64 perf issue when I discovered this problem. On sparc64 I implement pseudo NMIs by simply running the kernel at IRQ level 14 when local_irq_disable() is called, this allows performance counter events to still come in at IRQ level 15. This doesn't work if any code in an NMI handler does local_irq_save() or local_irq_disable() since the "disable" will kick us back to cpu IRQ level 14 thus letting NMIs back in and we recurse. The only path which that does that in the perf event IRQ handling path is the code supporting frequency based events. It uses cpu_clock(). cpu_clock() simply invokes sched_clock() with IRQs disabled. And that's a fundamental bug all on it's own, particularly for the HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK case. NMIs can thus get into the sched_clock() code interrupting the local IRQ disable code sections of it. Furthermore, for the not-HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK case, the IRQ disabling done by cpu_clock() is just pure overhead and completely unnecessary. So the core problem is that sched_clock() is not NMI safe, but we are invoking it from NMI contexts in the perf events code (via cpu_clock()). A less important issue is the overhead of IRQ disabling when it isn't necessary in cpu_clock(). CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK architectures are not affected by this patch. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091213.182502.215092085.davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | sched: Use rcu in sched_get_rr_param()Thomas Gleixner2009-12-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | read_lock(&tasklist_lock) does not protect sys_sched_get_rr_param() against a concurrent update of the policy or scheduler parameters as do_sched_scheduler() does not take the tasklist_lock. The access to task->sched_class->get_rr_interval is protected by task_rq_lock(task). Use rcu_read_lock() to protect find_task_by_vpid() and prevent the task struct from going away. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20091209100706.862897167@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | sched: Use rcu in sched_get/set_affinity()Thomas Gleixner2009-12-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | tasklist_lock is held read locked to protect the find_task_by_vpid() call and to prevent the task going away. sched_setaffinity acquires a task struct ref and drops tasklist lock right away. The access to the cpus_allowed mask is protected by rq->lock. rcu_read_lock() provides the same protection here. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20091209100706.789059966@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | sched: Use rcu in sys_sched_getscheduler/sys_sched_getparam()Thomas Gleixner2009-12-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | read_lock(&tasklist_lock) does not protect sys_sched_getscheduler and sys_sched_getparam() against a concurrent update of the policy or scheduler parameters as do_sched_setscheduler() does not take the tasklist_lock. The accessed integers can be retrieved w/o locking and are snapshots anyway. Using rcu_read_lock() to protect find_task_by_vpid() and prevent the task struct from going away is not changing the above situation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20091209100706.753790977@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | sched: Use pr_fmt() and pr_<level>()Joe Perches2009-12-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Convert printk(KERN_<level> to pr_<level> (not KERN_DEBUG) - Add #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt - Coalesce long format strings - Add missing \n to "ERROR: !SD_LOAD_BALANCE domain has parent" Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1260655047.2637.7.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | sched: Make wakeup side and atomic variants of completion API irq safeRafael J. Wysocki2009-12-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Alan Stern noticed that all the wakeup side (and atomic) variants of the completion APIs should be irq safe, but the newly introduced completion_done() and try_wait_for_completion() aren't. The use of the irq unsafe variants in IRQ contexts can cause crashes/hangs. Fix the problem by making them use spin_lock_irqsave() and spin_lock_irqrestore(). Reported-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Cc: pm list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com> LKML-Reference: <200912130007.30541.rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | | Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-12-19
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sys: Fix missing rcu protection for __task_cred() access signals: Fix more rcu assumptions signal: Fix racy access to __task_cred in kill_pid_info_as_uid()
| * | | | sys: Fix missing rcu protection for __task_cred() accessThomas Gleixner2009-12-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit c69e8d9 (CRED: Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds) added non rcu_read_lock() protected access to task creds of the target task in set_prio_one(). The comment above the function says: * - the caller must hold the RCU read lock The calling code in sys_setpriority does read_lock(&tasklist_lock) but not rcu_read_lock(). This works only when CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU=n. With CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU=y the rcu_callbacks can run in the tick interrupt when they see no read side critical section. There is another instance of __task_cred() in sys_setpriority() itself which is equally unprotected. Wrap the whole code section into a rcu read side critical section to fix this quick and dirty. Will be revisited in course of the read_lock(&tasklist_lock) -> rcu crusade. Oleg noted further: This also fixes another bug here. find_task_by_vpid() is not safe without rcu_read_lock(). I do not mean it is not safe to use the result, just find_pid_ns() by itself is not safe. Usually tasklist gives enough protection, but if copy_process() fails it calls free_pid() lockless and does call_rcu(delayed_put_pid(). This means, without rcu lock find_pid_ns() can't scan the hash table safely. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <20091210004703.029784964@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * | | | signals: Fix more rcu assumptionsThomas Gleixner2009-12-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1) Remove the misleading comment in __sigqueue_alloc() which claims that holding a spinlock is equivalent to rcu_read_lock(). 2) Add a rcu_read_lock/unlock around the __task_cred() access in __sigqueue_alloc() This needs to be revisited to remove the remaining users of read_lock(&tasklist_lock) but that's outside the scope of this patch. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <20091210004703.269843657@linutronix.de>
| * | | | signal: Fix racy access to __task_cred in kill_pid_info_as_uid()Thomas Gleixner2009-12-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kill_pid_info_as_uid() accesses __task_cred() without being in a RCU read side critical section. tasklist_lock is not protecting that when CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU=y. Convert the whole tasklist_lock section to rcu and use lock_task_sighand to prevent the exit race. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <20091210004703.232302055@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
* | | | | Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-12-19
|\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: timers: Remove duplicate setting of new_base in __mod_timer() clockevents: Prevent clockevent_devices list corruption on cpu hotplug
| * | | | | timers: Remove duplicate setting of new_base in __mod_timer()Simon Horman2009-12-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | new_base is set using per_cpu(tvec_bases, cpu) after selecting the desired value of cpu immediately below so this line is a unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> LKML-Reference: <20091217001542.GD25317@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | | | | clockevents: Prevent clockevent_devices list corruption on cpu hotplugThomas Gleixner2009-12-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Xiaotian Feng triggered a list corruption in the clock events list on CPU hotplug and debugged the root cause. If a CPU registers more than one per cpu clock event device, then only the active clock event device is removed on CPU_DEAD. The unused devices are kept in the clock events device list. On CPU up the clock event devices are registered again, which means that we list_add an already enqueued list_head. That results in list corruption. Resolve this by removing all devices which are associated to the dead CPU on CPU_DEAD. Reported-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org