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Liu Hua
80df284765 hung_task: check the value of "sysctl_hung_task_timeout_sec"
As sysctl_hung_task_timeout_sec is unsigned long, when this value is
larger then LONG_MAX/HZ, the function schedule_timeout_interruptible in
watchdog will return immediately without sleep and with print :

  schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff83

and then the funtion watchdog will call schedule_timeout_interruptible
again and again.  The screen will be filled with

	"schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff83"

This patch does some check and correction in sysctl, to let the function
schedule_timeout_interruptible allways get the valid parameter.

Signed-off-by: Liu Hua <sdu.liu@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Satoru Takeuchi <satoru.takeuchi@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.4+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:07 -07:00
Dave Hansen
5509a5d27b drop_caches: add some documentation and info message
There is plenty of anecdotal evidence and a load of blog posts
suggesting that using "drop_caches" periodically keeps your system
running in "tip top shape".  Perhaps adding some kernel documentation
will increase the amount of accurate data on its use.

If we are not shrinking caches effectively, then we have real bugs.
Using drop_caches will simply mask the bugs and make them harder to
find, but certainly does not fix them, nor is it an appropriate
"workaround" to limit the size of the caches.  On the contrary, there
have been bug reports on issues that turned out to be misguided use of
cache dropping.

Dropping caches is a very drastic and disruptive operation that is good
for debugging and running tests, but if it creates bug reports from
production use, kernel developers should be aware of its use.

Add a bit more documentation about it, a syslog message to track down
abusers, and vmstat drop counters to help analyze problem reports.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: add runtime suppression control]
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:21:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
7a48837732 Merge branch 'for-3.15/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull core block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the pull request for the core block IO bits for the 3.15
  kernel.  It's a smaller round this time, it contains:

   - Various little blk-mq fixes and additions from Christoph and
     myself.

   - Cleanup of the IPI usage from the block layer, and associated
     helper code.  From Frederic Weisbecker and Jan Kara.

   - Duplicate code cleanup in bio-integrity from Gu Zheng.  This will
     give you a merge conflict, but that should be easy to resolve.

   - blk-mq notify spinlock fix for RT from Mike Galbraith.

   - A blktrace partial accounting bug fix from Roman Pen.

   - Missing REQ_SYNC detection fix for blk-mq from Shaohua Li"

* 'for-3.15/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (25 commits)
  blk-mq: add REQ_SYNC early
  rt,blk,mq: Make blk_mq_cpu_notify_lock a raw spinlock
  blk-mq: support partial I/O completions
  blk-mq: merge blk_mq_insert_request and blk_mq_run_request
  blk-mq: remove blk_mq_alloc_rq
  blk-mq: don't dump CPU -> hw queue map on driver load
  blk-mq: fix wrong usage of hctx->state vs hctx->flags
  blk-mq: allow blk_mq_init_commands() to return failure
  block: remove old blk_iopoll_enabled variable
  blktrace: fix accounting of partially completed requests
  smp: Rename __smp_call_function_single() to smp_call_function_single_async()
  smp: Remove wait argument from __smp_call_function_single()
  watchdog: Simplify a little the IPI call
  smp: Move __smp_call_function_single() below its safe version
  smp: Consolidate the various smp_call_function_single() declensions
  smp: Teach __smp_call_function_single() to check for offline cpus
  smp: Remove unused list_head from csd
  smp: Iterate functions through llist_for_each_entry_safe()
  block: Stop abusing rq->csd.list in blk-softirq
  block: Remove useless IPI struct initialization
  ...
2014-04-01 19:19:15 -07:00
Jens Axboe
89f8b33ca1 block: remove old blk_iopoll_enabled variable
This was a debugging measure to toggle enabled/disabled
when testing. But for real production setups, it's not
safe to toggle this setting without either reloading
drivers of quiescing IO first. Neither of which the toggle
enforces.

Additionally, it makes drivers deal with the conditional
state.

Remove it completely. It's up to the driver whether iopoll
is enabled or not.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2014-03-13 09:38:42 -06:00
Ingo Molnar
eaa4e4fcf1 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core, to resolve conflicts
Conflicts:
	kernel/sysctl.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-02 09:45:39 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
ab5318788c Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull core debug changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This contains mostly kernel debugging related updates:

   - make hung_task detection more configurable to distros
   - add final bits for x86 UV NMI debugging, with related KGDB changes
   - update the mailing-list of MAINTAINERS entries I'm involved with"

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  hung_task: Display every hung task warning
  sysctl: Add neg_one as a standard constraint
  x86/uv/nmi, kgdb/kdb: Fix UV NMI handler when KDB not configured
  x86/uv/nmi: Fix Sparse warnings
  kgdb/kdb: Fix no KDB config problem
  MAINTAINERS: Restore "L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" entries
2014-01-31 08:59:46 -08:00
Rik van Riel
52bf84aa20 sched/numa, mm: Remove p->numa_migrate_deferred
Excessive migration of pages can hurt the performance of workloads
that span multiple NUMA nodes.  However, it turns out that the
p->numa_migrate_deferred knob is a really big hammer, which does
reduce migration rates, but does not actually help performance.

Now that the second stage of the automatic numa balancing code
has stabilized, it is time to replace the simplistic migration
deferral code with something smarter.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-2-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-28 13:17:04 +01:00
Aaron Tomlin
270750dbc1 hung_task: Display every hung task warning
When khungtaskd detects hung tasks, it prints out
backtraces from a number of those tasks.

Limiting the number of backtraces being printed
out can result in the user not seeing the information
necessary to debug the issue. The hung_task_warnings
sysctl controls this feature.

This patch makes it possible for hung_task_warnings
to accept a special value to print an unlimited
number of backtraces when khungtaskd detects hung
tasks.

The special value is -1. To use this value it is
necessary to change types from ulong to int.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390239253-24030-3-git-send-email-atomlin@redhat.com
[ Build warning fix. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-25 12:13:33 +01:00
Aaron Tomlin
2397efb1bb sysctl: Add neg_one as a standard constraint
Add neg_one to the list of standard constraints - will be used by the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390239253-24030-2-git-send-email-atomlin@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-25 08:59:53 +01:00
Kees Cook
7984754b99 kexec: add sysctl to disable kexec_load
For general-purpose (i.e.  distro) kernel builds it makes sense to build
with CONFIG_KEXEC to allow end users to choose what kind of things they
want to do with kexec.  However, in the face of trying to lock down a
system with such a kernel, there needs to be a way to disable kexec_load
(much like module loading can be disabled).  Without this, it is too easy
for the root user to modify kernel memory even when CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM
and modules_disabled are set.  With this change, it is still possible to
load an image for use later, then disable kexec_load so the image (or lack
of image) can't be altered.

The intention is for using this in environments where "perfect"
enforcement is hard.  Without a verified boot, along with verified
modules, and along with verified kexec, this is trying to give a system a
better chance to defend itself (or at least grow the window of
discoverability) against attack in the face of a privilege escalation.

In my mind, I consider several boot scenarios:

1) Verified boot of read-only verified root fs loading fd-based
   verification of kexec images.
2) Secure boot of writable root fs loading signed kexec images.
3) Regular boot loading kexec (e.g. kcrash) image early and locking it.
4) Regular boot with no control of kexec image at all.

1 and 2 don't exist yet, but will soon once the verified kexec series has
landed.  4 is the state of things now.  The gap between 2 and 4 is too
large, so this change creates scenario 3, a middle-ground above 4 when 2
and 1 are not possible for a system.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-23 16:37:03 -08:00
Andi Kleen
54a43d5498 numa: add a sysctl for numa_balancing
Add a working sysctl to enable/disable automatic numa memory balancing
at runtime.

This allows us to track down performance problems with this feature and
is generally a good idea.

This was possible earlier through debugfs, but only with special
debugging options set.  Also fix the boot message.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/sched_numa_balancing/sysctl_numa_balancing/]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-23 16:36:51 -08:00
Jerome Marchand
49f0ce5f92 mm: add overcommit_kbytes sysctl variable
Some applications that run on HPC clusters are designed around the
availability of RAM and the overcommit ratio is fine tuned to get the
maximum usage of memory without swapping.  With growing memory, the
1%-of-all-RAM grain provided by overcommit_ratio has become too coarse
for these workload (on a 2TB machine it represents no less than 20GB).

This patch adds the new overcommit_kbytes sysctl variable that allow a
much finer grain.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build]
Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-21 16:19:44 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra
1724813d9f sched/deadline: Remove the sysctl_sched_dl knobs
Remove the deadline specific sysctls for now. The problem with them is
that the interaction with the exisiting rt knobs is nearly impossible
to get right.

The current (as per before this patch) situation is that the rt and dl
bandwidth is completely separate and we enforce rt+dl < 100%. This is
undesirable because this means that the rt default of 95% leaves us
hardly any room, even though dl tasks are saver than rt tasks.

Another proposed solution was (a discarted patch) to have the dl
bandwidth be a fraction of the rt bandwidth. This is highly
confusing imo.

Furthermore neither proposal is consistent with the situation we
actually want; which is rt tasks ran from a dl server. In which case
the rt bandwidth is a direct subset of dl.

So whichever way we go, the introduction of dl controls at this point
is painful. Therefore remove them and instead share the rt budget.

This means that for now the rt knobs are used for dl admission control
and the dl runtime is accounted against the rt runtime. I realise that
this isn't entirely desirable either; but whatever we do we appear to
need to change the interface later, so better have a small interface
for now.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-zpyqbqds1r0vyxtxza1e7rdc@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-13 13:47:23 +01:00
Dario Faggioli
332ac17ef5 sched/deadline: Add bandwidth management for SCHED_DEADLINE tasks
In order of deadline scheduling to be effective and useful, it is
important that some method of having the allocation of the available
CPU bandwidth to tasks and task groups under control.
This is usually called "admission control" and if it is not performed
at all, no guarantee can be given on the actual scheduling of the
-deadline tasks.

Since when RT-throttling has been introduced each task group have a
bandwidth associated to itself, calculated as a certain amount of
runtime over a period. Moreover, to make it possible to manipulate
such bandwidth, readable/writable controls have been added to both
procfs (for system wide settings) and cgroupfs (for per-group
settings).

Therefore, the same interface is being used for controlling the
bandwidth distrubution to -deadline tasks and task groups, i.e.,
new controls but with similar names, equivalent meaning and with
the same usage paradigm are added.

However, more discussion is needed in order to figure out how
we want to manage SCHED_DEADLINE bandwidth at the task group level.
Therefore, this patch adds a less sophisticated, but actually
very sensible, mechanism to ensure that a certain utilization
cap is not overcome per each root_domain (the single rq for !SMP
configurations).

Another main difference between deadline bandwidth management and
RT-throttling is that -deadline tasks have bandwidth on their own
(while -rt ones doesn't!), and thus we don't need an higher level
throttling mechanism to enforce the desired bandwidth.

This patch, therefore:

 - adds system wide deadline bandwidth management by means of:
    * /proc/sys/kernel/sched_dl_runtime_us,
    * /proc/sys/kernel/sched_dl_period_us,
   that determine (i.e., runtime / period) the total bandwidth
   available on each CPU of each root_domain for -deadline tasks;

 - couples the RT and deadline bandwidth management, i.e., enforces
   that the sum of how much bandwidth is being devoted to -rt
   -deadline tasks to stay below 100%.

This means that, for a root_domain comprising M CPUs, -deadline tasks
can be created until the sum of their bandwidths stay below:

    M * (sched_dl_runtime_us / sched_dl_period_us)

It is also possible to disable this bandwidth management logic, and
be thus free of oversubscribing the system up to any arbitrary level.

Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-12-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-13 13:46:42 +01:00
Wanpeng Li
1bd53a7efd sched/numa: Drop sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count sysctl
commit 887c290e (sched/numa: Decide whether to favour task or group weights
based on swap candidate relationships) drop the check against
sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count, this patch remove the sysctl.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386833006-6600-1-git-send-email-liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-12-17 15:24:38 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
5e30025a31 Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull core locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest changes:

   - add lockdep support for seqcount/seqlocks structures, this
     unearthed both bugs and required extra annotation.

   - move the various kernel locking primitives to the new
     kernel/locking/ directory"

* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
  block: Use u64_stats_init() to initialize seqcounts
  locking/lockdep: Mark __lockdep_count_forward_deps() as static
  lockdep/proc: Fix lock-time avg computation
  locking/doc: Update references to kernel/mutex.c
  ipv6: Fix possible ipv6 seqlock deadlock
  cpuset: Fix potential deadlock w/ set_mems_allowed
  seqcount: Add lockdep functionality to seqcount/seqlock structures
  net: Explicitly initialize u64_stats_sync structures for lockdep
  locking: Move the percpu-rwsem code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the lglocks code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the rwsem code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the rtmutex code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the semaphore core to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the spinlock code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the lockdep code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the mutex code to kernel/locking/
  hung_task debugging: Add tracepoint to report the hang
  x86/locking/kconfig: Update paravirt spinlock Kconfig description
  lockstat: Report avg wait and hold times
  lockdep, x86/alternatives: Drop ancient lockdep fixup message
  ...
2013-11-14 16:30:30 +09:00
Chen Gang
7833819d2e kernel/sysctl.c: check return value after call proc_put_char() in __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax()
Need to check the return value of proc_put_char(), as was done in
__do_proc_doulongvec_minmax().

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-13 12:09:33 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
39cf275a1a Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle are:

   - (much) improved CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING support from Mel Gorman, Rik
     van Riel, Peter Zijlstra et al.  Yay!

   - optimize preemption counter handling: merge the NEED_RESCHED flag
     into the preempt_count variable, by Peter Zijlstra.

   - wait.h fixes and code reorganization from Peter Zijlstra

   - cfs_bandwidth fixes from Ben Segall

   - SMP load-balancer cleanups from Peter Zijstra

   - idle balancer improvements from Jason Low

   - other fixes and cleanups"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (129 commits)
  ftrace, sched: Add TRACE_FLAG_PREEMPT_RESCHED
  stop_machine: Fix race between stop_two_cpus() and stop_cpus()
  sched: Remove unnecessary iteration over sched domains to update nr_busy_cpus
  sched: Fix asymmetric scheduling for POWER7
  sched: Move completion code from core.c to completion.c
  sched: Move wait code from core.c to wait.c
  sched: Move wait.c into kernel/sched/
  sched/wait: Fix __wait_event_interruptible_lock_irq_timeout()
  sched: Avoid throttle_cfs_rq() racing with period_timer stopping
  sched: Guarantee new group-entities always have weight
  sched: Fix hrtimer_cancel()/rq->lock deadlock
  sched: Fix cfs_bandwidth misuse of hrtimer_expires_remaining
  sched: Fix race on toggling cfs_bandwidth_used
  sched: Remove extra put_online_cpus() inside sched_setaffinity()
  sched/rt: Fix task_tick_rt() comment
  sched/wait: Fix build breakage
  sched/wait: Introduce prepare_to_wait_event()
  sched/wait: Add ___wait_cond_timeout() to wait_event*_timeout() too
  sched: Remove get_online_cpus() usage
  sched: Fix race in migrate_swap_stop()
  ...
2013-11-12 10:20:12 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
ad5d69899e Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "As a first remark I'd like to note that the way to build perf tooling
  has been simplified and sped up, in the future it should be enough for
  you to build perf via:

        cd tools/perf/
        make install

  (ie without the -j option.) The build system will figure out the
  number of CPUs and will do a parallel build+install.

  The various build system inefficiencies and breakages Linus reported
  against the v3.12 pull request should now be resolved - please
  (re-)report any remaining annoyances or bugs.

  Main changes on the perf kernel side:

   * Performance optimizations:
      . perf ring-buffer code optimizations,          by Peter Zijlstra
      . perf ring-buffer code optimizations,          by Oleg Nesterov
      . x86 NMI call-stack processing optimizations,  by Peter Zijlstra
      . perf context-switch optimizations,            by Peter Zijlstra
      . perf sampling speedups,                       by Peter Zijlstra
      . x86 Intel PEBS processing speedups,           by Peter Zijlstra

   * Enhanced hardware support:
      . for Intel Ivy Bridge-EP uncore PMUs,          by Zheng Yan
      . for Haswell transactions,                     by Andi Kleen, Peter Zijlstra

   * Core perf events code enhancements and fixes by Oleg Nesterov:
      . for uprobes, if fork() is called with pending ret-probes
      . for uprobes platform support code

   * New ABI details by Andi Kleen:
      . Report x86 Haswell TSX transaction abort cost as weight

  Main changes on the perf tooling side (some of these tooling changes
  utilize the above kernel side changes):

   * 'perf report/top' enhancements:

      . Convert callchain children list to rbtree, greatly reducing the
        time taken for callchain processing, from Namhyung Kim.

      . Add new COMM infrastructure, further improving histogram
        processing, from Frédéric Weisbecker, one fix from Namhyung Kim.

      . Add /proc/kcore based live-annotation improvements, including
        build-id cache support, multi map 'call' instruction navigation
        fixes, kcore address validation, objdump workarounds.  From
        Adrian Hunter.

      . Show progress on histogram collapsing, that can take a long
        time, from Namhyung Kim.

      . Add --max-stack option to limit callchain stack scan in 'top'
        and 'report', improving callchain processing when reducing the
        stack depth is an option, from Waiman Long.

      . Add new option --ignore-vmlinux for perf top, from Willy
        Tarreau.

   * 'perf trace' enhancements:

      . 'perf trace' now can can use a 'perf probe' dynamic tracepoints
        to hook into the userspace -> kernel pathname copy so that it
        can map fds to pathnames without reading /proc/pid/fd/ symlinks.
        From Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

      . Show VFS path associated with fd in live sessions, using a
        'vfs_getname' 'perf probe' created dynamic tracepoint or by
        looking at /proc/pid/fd, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

      . Add 'trace' beautifiers for lots of syscall arguments, from
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

      . Implement more compact 'trace' output by suppressing zeroed
        args, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

      . Show thread COMM by default in 'trace', from Arnaldo Carvalho de
        Melo.

      . Add option to show full timestamp in 'trace', from David Ahern.

      . Add 'record' command in 'trace', to record raw_syscalls:*, from
        David Ahern.

      . Add summary option to dump syscall statistics in 'trace', from
        David Ahern.

      . Improve error messages in 'trace', providing hints about system
        configuration steps needed for using it, from Ramkumar
        Ramachandra.

      . 'perf trace' now emits hints as to why tracing is not possible,
        helping the user to setup the system to allow tracing in the
        desired permission granularity, telling if the problem is due to
        debugfs not being mounted or with not enough permission for
        !root, /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoit value, etc.  From
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

   * 'perf record' enhancements:

      . Check maximum frequency rate for record/top, emitting better
        error messages, from Jiri Olsa.

      . 'perf record' code cleanups, from David Ahern.

      . Improve write_output error message in 'perf record', from Adrian
        Hunter.

      . Allow specifying B/K/M/G unit to the --mmap-pages arguments,
        from Jiri Olsa.

      . Fix command line callchain attribute tests to handle the new
        -g/--call-chain semantics, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

   * 'perf kvm' enhancements:

      . Disable live kvm command if timerfd is not supported, from David
        Ahern.

      . Fix detection of non-core features, from David Ahern.

   * 'perf list' enhancements:

      . Add usage to 'perf list', from David Ahern.

      . Show error in 'perf list' if tracepoints not available, from
        Pekka Enberg.

   * 'perf probe' enhancements:

      . Support "$vars" meta argument syntax for local variables,
        allowing asking for all possible variables at a given probe
        point to be collected when it hits, from Masami Hiramatsu.

   * 'perf sched' enhancements:

      . Address the root cause of that 'perf sched' stack initialization
        build slowdown, by programmatically setting a big array after
        moving the global variable back to the stack.  Fix from Adrian
        Hunter.

   * 'perf script' enhancements:

      . Set up output options for in-stream attributes, from Adrian
        Hunter.

      . Print addr by default for BTS in 'perf script', from Adrian
        Juntmer

   * 'perf stat' enhancements:

      . Improved messages when doing profiling in all or a subset of
        CPUs using a workload as the session delimitator, as in:

         'perf stat --cpu 0,2 sleep 10s'

        from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

      . Add units to nanosec-based counters in 'perf stat', from David
        Ahern.

      . Remove bogus info when using 'perf stat' -e cycles/instructions,
        from Ramkumar Ramachandra.

   * 'perf lock' enhancements:

      . 'perf lock' fixes and cleanups, from Davidlohr Bueso.

   * 'perf test' enhancements:

      . Fixup PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION handling in sample synthesizing
        and 'perf test', from Adrian Hunter.

      . Clarify the "sample parsing" test entry, from Arnaldo Carvalho
        de Melo.

      . Consider PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION in the "sample parsing" test,
        from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.

      . Memory leak fixes in 'perf test', from Felipe Pena.

   * 'perf bench' enhancements:

      . Change the procps visible command-name of invididual benchmark
        tests plus cleanups, from Ingo Molnar.

   * Generic perf tooling infrastructure/plumbing changes:

      . Separating data file properties from session, code
        reorganization from Jiri Olsa.

      . Fix version when building out of tree, as when using one of
        these:

        $ make help | grep perf
          perf-tar-src-pkg    - Build perf-3.12.0.tar source tarball
          perf-targz-src-pkg  - Build perf-3.12.0.tar.gz source tarball
          perf-tarbz2-src-pkg - Build perf-3.12.0.tar.bz2 source tarball
          perf-tarxz-src-pkg  - Build perf-3.12.0.tar.xz source tarball
        $

        from David Ahern.

      . Enhance option parse error message, showing just the help lines
        of the options affected, from Namhyung Kim.

      . libtraceevent updates from upstream trace-cmd repo, from Steven
        Rostedt.

      . Always use perf_evsel__set_sample_bit to set sample_type, from
        Adrian Hunter.

      . Memory and mmap leak fixes from Chenggang Qin.

      . Assorted build fixes for from David Ahern and Jiri Olsa.

      . Speed up and prettify the build system, from Ingo Molnar.

      . Implement addr2line directly using libbfd, from Roberto Vitillo.

      . Separate the GTK support in a separate libperf-gtk.so DSO, that
        is only loaded when --gtk is specified, from Namhyung Kim.

      . perf bash completion fixes and improvements from Ramkumar
        Ramachandra.

      . Support for Openembedded/Yocto -dbg packages, from Ricardo
        Ribalda Delgado.

  And lots and lots of other fixes and code reorganizations that did not
  make it into the list, see the shortlog, diffstat and the Git log for
  details!"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (300 commits)
  uprobes: Fix the memory out of bound overwrite in copy_insn()
  uprobes: Fix the wrong usage of current->utask in uprobe_copy_process()
  perf tools: Remove unneeded include
  perf record: Remove post_processing_offset variable
  perf record: Remove advance_output function
  perf record: Refactor feature handling into a separate function
  perf trace: Don't relookup fields by name in each sample
  perf tools: Fix version when building out of tree
  perf evsel: Ditch evsel->handler.data field
  uprobes: Export write_opcode() as uprobe_write_opcode()
  uprobes: Introduce arch_uprobe->ixol
  uprobes: Kill module_init() and module_exit()
  uprobes: Move function declarations out of arch
  perf/x86/intel: Add Ivy Bridge-EP uncore IRP box support
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Add filter support for IvyBridge-EP QPI boxes
  perf: Factor out strncpy() in perf_event_mmap_event()
  tools/perf: Add required memory barriers
  perf: Fix arch_perf_out_copy_user default
  perf: Update a stale comment
  perf: Optimize perf_output_begin() -- address calculation
  ...
2013-11-12 10:06:34 +09:00
Ingo Molnar
c90423d1de Merge branch 'sched/core' into core/locking, to prepare the kernel/locking/ file move
Conflicts:
	kernel/Makefile

There are conflicts in kernel/Makefile due to file moving in the
scheduler tree - resolve them.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-06 07:50:37 +01:00
Ben Hutchings
8eaede49df sysrq: Allow magic SysRq key functions to be disabled through Kconfig
Turn the initial value of sysctl kernel.sysrq (SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE)
into a Kconfig variable.

Original version by Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-16 13:01:44 -07:00
Rik van Riel
de1c9ce6f0 sched/numa: Skip some page migrations after a shared fault
Shared faults can lead to lots of unnecessary page migrations,
slowing down the system, and causing private faults to hit the
per-pgdat migration ratelimit.

This patch adds sysctl numa_balancing_migrate_deferred, which specifies
how many shared page migrations to skip unconditionally, after each page
migration that is skipped because it is a shared fault.

This reduces the number of page migrations back and forth in
shared fault situations. It also gives a strong preference to
the tasks that are already running where most of the memory is,
and to moving the other tasks to near the memory.

Testing this with a much higher scan rate than the default
still seems to result in fewer page migrations than before.

Memory seems to be somewhat better consolidated than previously,
with multi-instance specjbb runs on a 4 node system.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-62-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:48:21 +02:00
Mel Gorman
930aa174fc sched/numa: Remove the numa_balancing_scan_period_reset sysctl
With scan rate adaptions based on whether the workload has properly
converged or not there should be no need for the scan period reset
hammer. Get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-60-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 14:48:18 +02:00
Mel Gorman
3a7053b322 sched/numa: Favour moving tasks towards the preferred node
This patch favours moving tasks towards NUMA node that recorded a higher
number of NUMA faults during active load balancing.  Ideally this is
self-reinforcing as the longer the task runs on that node, the more faults
it should incur causing task_numa_placement to keep the task running on that
node. In reality a big weakness is that the nodes CPUs can be overloaded
and it would be more efficient to queue tasks on an idle node and migrate
to the new node. This would require additional smarts in the balancer so
for now the balancer will simply prefer to place the task on the preferred
node for a PTE scans which is controlled by the numa_balancing_settle_count
sysctl. Once the settle_count number of scans has complete the schedule
is free to place the task on an alternative node if the load is imbalanced.

[srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com: Fixed statistics]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ Tunable and use higher faults instead of preferred. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-23-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09 12:40:26 +02:00
Knut Petersen
723478c8a4 perf: Enforce 1 as lower limit for perf_event_max_sample_rate
/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate will accept
negative values as well as 0.

Negative values are unreasonable, and 0 causes a
divide by zero exception in perf_proc_update_handler.

This patch enforces a lower limit of 1.

Signed-off-by: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5242DB0C.4070005@t-online.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-04 10:06:07 +02:00
Li Zefan
cd64647f04 hung_task: Change sysctl_hung_task_check_count to 'int'
As 'sysctl_hung_task_check_count' is 'unsigned long' when this
value is assigned to max_count in check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks(),
it's truncated to 'int' type.

This causes a minor artifact: if we write 2^32 to sysctl.hung_task_check_count,
hung task detection will be effectively disabled.

With this fix, it will still truncate the user input to 32 bits, but
reading sysctl.hung_task_check_count reflects the actual truncated value.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/523FFF4E.9050401@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-23 11:10:49 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
26935fb06e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs pile 4 from Al Viro:
 "list_lru pile, mostly"

This came out of Andrew's pile, Al ended up doing the merge work so that
Andrew didn't have to.

Additionally, a few fixes.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (42 commits)
  super: fix for destroy lrus
  list_lru: dynamically adjust node arrays
  shrinker: Kill old ->shrink API.
  shrinker: convert remaining shrinkers to count/scan API
  staging/lustre/libcfs: cleanup linux-mem.h
  staging/lustre/ptlrpc: convert to new shrinker API
  staging/lustre/obdclass: convert lu_object shrinker to count/scan API
  staging/lustre/ldlm: convert to shrinkers to count/scan API
  hugepage: convert huge zero page shrinker to new shrinker API
  i915: bail out earlier when shrinker cannot acquire mutex
  drivers: convert shrinkers to new count/scan API
  fs: convert fs shrinkers to new scan/count API
  xfs: fix dquot isolation hang
  xfs-convert-dquot-cache-lru-to-list_lru-fix
  xfs: convert dquot cache lru to list_lru
  xfs: rework buffer dispose list tracking
  xfs-convert-buftarg-lru-to-generic-code-fix
  xfs: convert buftarg LRU to generic code
  fs: convert inode and dentry shrinking to be node aware
  vmscan: per-node deferred work
  ...
2013-09-12 15:01:38 -07:00
Naoya Horiguchi
86cdb465cf mm: prepare to remove /proc/sys/vm/hugepages_treat_as_movable
Now hugepage migration is enabled, although restricted on pmd-based
hugepages for now (due to lack of testing.) So we should allocate
migratable hugepages from ZONE_MOVABLE if possible.

This patch makes GFP flags in hugepage allocation dependent on migration
support, not only the value of hugepages_treat_as_movable.  It provides no
change on the behavior for architectures which do not support hugepage
migration,

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11 15:57:49 -07:00
Glauber Costa
3942c07ccf fs: bump inode and dentry counters to long
This series reworks our current object cache shrinking infrastructure in
two main ways:

 * Noticing that a lot of users copy and paste their own version of LRU
   lists for objects, we put some effort in providing a generic version.
   It is modeled after the filesystem users: dentries, inodes, and xfs
   (for various tasks), but we expect that other users could benefit in
   the near future with little or no modification.  Let us know if you
   have any issues.

 * The underlying list_lru being proposed automatically and
   transparently keeps the elements in per-node lists, and is able to
   manipulate the node lists individually.  Given this infrastructure, we
   are able to modify the up-to-now hammer called shrink_slab to proceed
   with node-reclaim instead of always searching memory from all over like
   it has been doing.

Per-node lru lists are also expected to lead to less contention in the lru
locks on multi-node scans, since we are now no longer fighting for a
global lock.  The locks usually disappear from the profilers with this
change.

Although we have no official benchmarks for this version - be our guest to
independently evaluate this - earlier versions of this series were
performance tested (details at
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/100537) yielding no
visible performance regressions while yielding a better qualitative
behavior in NUMA machines.

With this infrastructure in place, we can use the list_lru entry point to
provide memcg isolation and per-memcg targeted reclaim.  Historically,
those two pieces of work have been posted together.  This version presents
only the infrastructure work, deferring the memcg work for a later time,
so we can focus on getting this part tested.  You can see more about the
history of such work at http://lwn.net/Articles/552769/

Dave Chinner (18):
  dcache: convert dentry_stat.nr_unused to per-cpu counters
  dentry: move to per-sb LRU locks
  dcache: remove dentries from LRU before putting on dispose list
  mm: new shrinker API
  shrinker: convert superblock shrinkers to new API
  list: add a new LRU list type
  inode: convert inode lru list to generic lru list code.
  dcache: convert to use new lru list infrastructure
  list_lru: per-node list infrastructure
  shrinker: add node awareness
  fs: convert inode and dentry shrinking to be node aware
  xfs: convert buftarg LRU to generic code
  xfs: rework buffer dispose list tracking
  xfs: convert dquot cache lru to list_lru
  fs: convert fs shrinkers to new scan/count API
  drivers: convert shrinkers to new count/scan API
  shrinker: convert remaining shrinkers to count/scan API
  shrinker: Kill old ->shrink API.

Glauber Costa (7):
  fs: bump inode and dentry counters to long
  super: fix calculation of shrinkable objects for small numbers
  list_lru: per-node API
  vmscan: per-node deferred work
  i915: bail out earlier when shrinker cannot acquire mutex
  hugepage: convert huge zero page shrinker to new shrinker API
  list_lru: dynamically adjust node arrays

This patch:

There are situations in very large machines in which we can have a large
quantity of dirty inodes, unused dentries, etc.  This is particularly true
when umounting a filesystem, where eventually since every live object will
eventually be discarded.

Dave Chinner reported a problem with this while experimenting with the
shrinker revamp patchset.  So we believe it is time for a change.  This
patch just moves int to longs.  Machines where it matters should have a
big long anyway.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-10 18:56:29 -04:00
Francesco Fusco
d738ce8fdc sysctl: range checking in do_proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies_conv
When (integer) sysctl values are expressed in ms and have to be
represented internally as jiffies. The msecs_to_jiffies function
returns an unsigned long, which gets assigned to the integer.
This patch prevents the value to be assigned if bigger than
INT_MAX, done in a similar way as in cba9f3 ("Range checking in
do_proc_dointvec_(userhz_)jiffies_conv").

Signed-off-by: Francesco Fusco <ffusco@redhat.com>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-07-26 14:22:10 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
f2006e2739 Merge branch 'linus' into timers/urgent
Get upstream changes so we can apply fixes against them

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-07-12 12:34:42 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
c72bb31691 The majority of the changes here are cleanups for the large changes that
were added to 3.10, which includes several bug fixes that have been
 marked for stable.
 
 As for new features, there were a few, but nothing to write to LWN about.
 These include:
 
 New function trigger called "dump" and "cpudump" that will cause
 ftrace to dump its buffer to the console when the function is called.
 The difference between "dump" and "cpudump" is that "dump" will dump
 the entire contents of the ftrace buffer, where as "cpudump" will only
 dump the contents of the ftrace buffer for the CPU that called the function.
 
 Another small enhancement is a new sysctl switch called "traceoff_on_warning"
 which, when enabled, will disable tracing if any WARN_ON() is triggered.
 This is useful if you want to debug what caused a warning and do not
 want to risk losing your trace data by the ring buffer overwriting the
 data before you can disable it. There's also a kernel command line
 option that will make this enabled at boot up called the same thing.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing changes from Steven Rostedt:
 "The majority of the changes here are cleanups for the large changes
  that were added to 3.10, which includes several bug fixes that have
  been marked for stable.

  As for new features, there were a few, but nothing to write to LWN
  about.  These include:

  New function trigger called "dump" and "cpudump" that will cause
  ftrace to dump its buffer to the console when the function is called.
  The difference between "dump" and "cpudump" is that "dump" will dump
  the entire contents of the ftrace buffer, where as "cpudump" will only
  dump the contents of the ftrace buffer for the CPU that called the
  function.

  Another small enhancement is a new sysctl switch called
  "traceoff_on_warning" which, when enabled, will disable tracing if any
  WARN_ON() is triggered.  This is useful if you want to debug what
  caused a warning and do not want to risk losing your trace data by the
  ring buffer overwriting the data before you can disable it.  There's
  also a kernel command line option that will make this enabled at boot
  up called the same thing"

* tag 'trace-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (34 commits)
  tracing: Make tracing_open_generic_{tr,tc}() static
  tracing: Remove ftrace() function
  tracing: Remove TRACE_EVENT_TYPE enum definition
  tracing: Make tracer_tracing_{off,on,is_on}() static
  tracing: Fix irqs-off tag display in syscall tracing
  uprobes: Fix return value in error handling path
  tracing: Fix race between deleting buffer and setting events
  tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to event handling
  tracing: Get trace_array ref counts when accessing trace files
  tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to handle instance refs better
  tracing: Protect ftrace_trace_arrays list in trace_events.c
  tracing: Make trace_marker use the correct per-instance buffer
  ftrace: Do not run selftest if command line parameter is set
  tracing/kprobes: Don't pass addr=ip to perf_trace_buf_submit()
  tracing: Use flag buffer_disabled for irqsoff tracer
  tracing/kprobes: Turn trace_probe->files into list_head
  tracing: Fix disabling of soft disable
  tracing: Add missing syscall_metadata comment
  tracing: Simplify code for showing of soft disabled flag
  tracing/kprobes: Kill probe_enable_lock
  ...
2013-07-11 09:02:09 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
e399eb56a6 Merge branch 'timers/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/urgent
Pull nohz updates/fixes from Frederic Weisbecker:

' Note that "watchdog: Boot-disable by default on full dynticks" is a temporary
  solution to solve the issue with the watchdog that prevents the tick from
  stopping. This is to make sure that 3.11 doesn't have that problem as several
  people complained about it.

  A proper and longer term solution has been proposed by Peterz:

          http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130618103632.GO3204@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
'

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-10 10:43:25 +02:00
Dave Hansen
14c63f17b1 perf: Drop sample rate when sampling is too slow
This patch keeps track of how long perf's NMI handler is taking,
and also calculates how many samples perf can take a second.  If
the sample length times the expected max number of samples
exceeds a configurable threshold, it drops the sample rate.

This way, we don't have a runaway sampling process eating up the
CPU.

This patch can tend to drop the sample rate down to level where
perf doesn't work very well.  *BUT* the alternative is that my
system hangs because it spends all of its time handling NMIs.

I'll take a busted performance tool over an entire system that's
busted and undebuggable any day.

BTW, my suspicion is that there's still an underlying bug here.
Using the HPET instead of the TSC is definitely a contributing
factor, but I suspect there are some other things going on.
But, I can't go dig down on a bug like that with my machine
hanging all the time.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
[ Prettified it a bit. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-23 11:52:57 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
3c00ea82c7 watchdog: Rename confusing state variable
We have two very conflicting state variable names in the
watchdog:

* watchdog_enabled: This one reflects the user interface. It's
set to 1 by default and can be overriden with boot options
or sysctl/procfs interface.

* watchdog_disabled: This is the internal toggle state that
tells if watchdog threads, timers and NMI events are currently
running or not. This state mostly depends on the user settings.
It's a convenient state latch.

Now we really need to find clearer names because those
are just too confusing to encourage deep review.

watchdog_enabled now becomes watchdog_user_enabled to reflect
its purpose as an interface.

watchdog_disabled becomes watchdog_running to suggest its
role as a pure internal state.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anish Singh <anish198519851985@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
2013-06-20 15:41:18 +02:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
de7edd3145 tracing: Disable tracing on warning
Add a traceoff_on_warning option in both the kernel command line as well
as a sysctl option. When set, any WARN*() function that is hit will cause
the tracing_on variable to be cleared, which disables writing to the
ring buffer.

This is useful especially when tracing a bug with function tracing. When
a warning is hit, the print caused by the warning can flood the trace with
the functions that producing the output for the warning. This can make the
resulting trace useless by either hiding where the bug happened, or worse,
by overflowing the buffer and losing the trace of the bug totally.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-06-19 23:32:07 -04:00
Li Zefan
a6572f84c5 watchdog: Disallow setting watchdog_thresh to -1
In old kernels, it's allowed to set softlockup_thresh to -1 or 0
to disable softlockup detection. However watchdog_thresh only
uses 0 to disable detection, and setting it to -1 just froze my
box and nothing I can do but reboot.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51959668.9040106@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-28 11:28:18 +02:00
Andrew Shewmaker
4eeab4f558 mm: replace hardcoded 3% with admin_reserve_pages knob
Add an admin_reserve_kbytes knob to allow admins to change the hardcoded
memory reserve to something other than 3%, which may be multiple
gigabytes on large memory systems.  Only about 8MB is necessary to
enable recovery in the default mode, and only a few hundred MB are
required even when overcommit is disabled.

This affects OVERCOMMIT_GUESS and OVERCOMMIT_NEVER.

admin_reserve_kbytes is initialized to min(3% free pages, 8MB)

I arrived at 8MB by summing the RSS of sshd or login, bash, and top.

Please see first patch in this series for full background, motivation,
testing, and full changelog.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make init_admin_reserve() static]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Shewmaker <agshew@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29 15:54:36 -07:00
Andrew Shewmaker
c9b1d0981f mm: limit growth of 3% hardcoded other user reserve
Add user_reserve_kbytes knob.

Limit the growth of the memory reserved for other user processes to
min(3% current process size, user_reserve_pages).  Only about 8MB is
necessary to enable recovery in the default mode, and only a few hundred
MB are required even when overcommit is disabled.

user_reserve_pages defaults to min(3% free pages, 128MB)

I arrived at 128MB by taking the max VSZ of sshd, login, bash, and top ...
then adding the RSS of each.

This only affects OVERCOMMIT_NEVER mode.

Background

1. user reserve

__vm_enough_memory reserves a hardcoded 3% of the current process size for
other applications when overcommit is disabled.  This was done so that a
user could recover if they launched a memory hogging process.  Without the
reserve, a user would easily run into a message such as:

bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory

2. admin reserve

Additionally, a hardcoded 3% of free memory is reserved for root in both
overcommit 'guess' and 'never' modes.  This was intended to prevent a
scenario where root-cant-log-in and perform recovery operations.

Note that this reserve shrinks, and doesn't guarantee a useful reserve.

Motivation

The two hardcoded memory reserves should be updated to account for current
memory sizes.

Also, the admin reserve would be more useful if it didn't shrink too much.

When the current code was originally written, 1GB was considered
"enterprise".  Now the 3% reserve can grow to multiple GB on large memory
systems, and it only needs to be a few hundred MB at most to enable a user
or admin to recover a system with an unwanted memory hogging process.

I've found that reducing these reserves is especially beneficial for a
specific type of application load:

 * single application system
 * one or few processes (e.g. one per core)
 * allocating all available memory
 * not initializing every page immediately
 * long running

I've run scientific clusters with this sort of load.  A long running job
sometimes failed many hours (weeks of CPU time) into a calculation.  They
weren't initializing all of their memory immediately, and they weren't
using calloc, so I put systems into overcommit 'never' mode.  These
clusters run diskless and have no swap.

However, with the current reserves, a user wishing to allocate as much
memory as possible to one process may be prevented from using, for
example, almost 2GB out of 32GB.

The effect is less, but still significant when a user starts a job with
one process per core.  I have repeatedly seen a set of processes
requesting the same amount of memory fail because one of them could not
allocate the amount of memory a user would expect to be able to allocate.
For example, Message Passing Interfce (MPI) processes, one per core.  And
it is similar for other parallel programming frameworks.

Changing this reserve code will make the overcommit never mode more useful
by allowing applications to allocate nearly all of the available memory.

Also, the new admin_reserve_kbytes will be safer than the current behavior
since the hardcoded 3% of available memory reserve can shrink to something
useless in the case where applications have grabbed all available memory.

Risks

* "bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory"

  The downside of the first patch-- which creates a tunable user reserve
  that is only used in overcommit 'never' mode--is that an admin can set
  it so low that a user may not be able to kill their process, even if
  they already have a shell prompt.

  Of course, a user can get in the same predicament with the current 3%
  reserve--they just have to launch processes until 3% becomes negligible.

* root-cant-log-in problem

  The second patch, adding the tunable rootuser_reserve_pages, allows
  the admin to shoot themselves in the foot by setting it too small.  They
  can easily get the system into a state where root-can't-log-in.

  However, the new admin_reserve_kbytes will be safer than the current
  behavior since the hardcoded 3% of available memory reserve can shrink
  to something useless in the case where applications have grabbed all
  available memory.

Alternatives

 * Memory cgroups provide a more flexible way to limit application memory.

   Not everyone wants to set up cgroups or deal with their overhead.

 * We could create a fourth overcommit mode which provides smaller reserves.

   The size of useful reserves may be drastically different depending
   on the whether the system is embedded or enterprise.

 * Force users to initialize all of their memory or use calloc.

   Some users don't want/expect the system to overcommit when they malloc.
   Overcommit 'never' mode is for this scenario, and it should work well.

The new user and admin reserve tunables are simple to use, with low
overhead compared to cgroups.  The patches preserve current behavior where
3% of memory is less than 128MB, except that the admin reserve doesn't
shrink to an unusable size under pressure.  The code allows admins to tune
for embedded and enterprise usage.

FAQ

 * How is the root-cant-login problem addressed?
   What happens if admin_reserve_pages is set to 0?

   Root is free to shoot themselves in the foot by setting
   admin_reserve_kbytes too low.

   On x86_64, the minimum useful reserve is:
     8MB for overcommit 'guess'
   128MB for overcommit 'never'

   admin_reserve_pages defaults to min(3% free memory, 8MB)

   So, anyone switching to 'never' mode needs to adjust
   admin_reserve_pages.

 * How do you calculate a minimum useful reserve?

   A user or the admin needs enough memory to login and perform
   recovery operations, which includes, at a minimum:

   sshd or login + bash (or some other shell) + top (or ps, kill, etc.)

   For overcommit 'guess', we can sum resident set sizes (RSS)
   because we only need enough memory to handle what the recovery
   programs will typically use. On x86_64 this is about 8MB.

   For overcommit 'never', we can take the max of their virtual sizes (VSZ)
   and add the sum of their RSS. We use VSZ instead of RSS because mode
   forces us to ensure we can fulfill all of the requested memory allocations--
   even if the programs only use a fraction of what they ask for.
   On x86_64 this is about 128MB.

   When swap is enabled, reserves are useful even when they are as
   small as 10MB, regardless of overcommit mode.

   When both swap and overcommit are disabled, then the admin should
   tune the reserves higher to be absolutley safe. Over 230MB each
   was safest in my testing.

 * What happens if user_reserve_pages is set to 0?

   Note, this only affects overcomitt 'never' mode.

   Then a user will be able to allocate all available memory minus
   admin_reserve_kbytes.

   However, they will easily see a message such as:

   "bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory"

   And they won't be able to recover/kill their application.
   The admin should be able to recover the system if
   admin_reserve_kbytes is set appropriately.

 * What's the difference between overcommit 'guess' and 'never'?

   "Guess" allows an allocation if there are enough free + reclaimable
   pages. It has a hardcoded 3% of free pages reserved for root.

   "Never" allows an allocation if there is enough swap + a configurable
   percentage (default is 50) of physical RAM. It has a hardcoded 3% of
   free pages reserved for root, like "Guess" mode. It also has a
   hardcoded 3% of the current process size reserved for additional
   applications.

 * Why is overcommit 'guess' not suitable even when an app eventually
   writes to every page? It takes free pages, file pages, available
   swap pages, reclaimable slab pages into consideration. In other words,
   these are all pages available, then why isn't overcommit suitable?

   Because it only looks at the present state of the system. It
   does not take into account the memory that other applications have
   malloced, but haven't initialized yet. It overcommits the system.

Test Summary

There was little change in behavior in the default overcommit 'guess'
mode with swap enabled before and after the patch. This was expected.

Systems run most predictably (i.e. no oom kills) in overcommit 'never'
mode with swap enabled. This also allowed the most memory to be allocated
to a user application.

Overcommit 'guess' mode without swap is a bad idea. It is easy to
crash the system. None of the other tested combinations crashed.
This matches my experience on the Roadrunner supercomputer.

Without the tunable user reserve, a system in overcommit 'never' mode
and without swap does not allow the admin to recover, although the
admin can.

With the new tunable reserves, a system in overcommit 'never' mode
and without swap can be configured to:

1. maximize user-allocatable memory, running close to the edge of
recoverability

2. maximize recoverability, sacrificing allocatable memory to
ensure that a user cannot take down a system

Test Description

Fedora 18 VM - 4 x86_64 cores, 5725MB RAM, 4GB Swap

System is booted into multiuser console mode, with unnecessary services
turned off. Caches were dropped before each test.

Hogs are user memtester processes that attempt to allocate all free memory
as reported by /proc/meminfo

In overcommit 'never' mode, memory_ratio=100

Test Results

3.9.0-rc1-mm1

Overcommit | Swap | Hogs | MB Got/Wanted | OOMs | User Recovery | Admin Recovery
----------   ----   ----   -------------   ----   -------------   --------------
guess        yes    1      5432/5432       no     yes             yes
guess        yes    4      5444/5444       1      yes             yes
guess        no     1      5302/5449       no     yes             yes
guess        no     4      -               crash  no              no

never        yes    1      5460/5460       1      yes             yes
never        yes    4      5460/5460       1      yes             yes
never        no     1      5218/5432       no     no              yes
never        no     4      5203/5448       no     no              yes

3.9.0-rc1-mm1-tunablereserves

User and Admin Recovery show their respective reserves, if applicable.

Overcommit | Swap | Hogs | MB Got/Wanted | OOMs | User Recovery | Admin Recovery
----------   ----   ----   -------------   ----   -------------   --------------
guess        yes    1      5419/5419       no     - yes           8MB yes
guess        yes    4      5436/5436       1      - yes           8MB yes
guess        no     1      5440/5440       *      - yes           8MB yes
guess        no     4      -               crash  - no            8MB no

* process would successfully mlock, then the oom killer would pick it

never        yes    1      5446/5446       no     10MB yes        20MB yes
never        yes    4      5456/5456       no     10MB yes        20MB yes
never        no     1      5387/5429       no     128MB no        8MB barely
never        no     1      5323/5428       no     226MB barely    8MB barely
never        no     1      5323/5428       no     226MB barely    8MB barely

never        no     1      5359/5448       no     10MB no         10MB barely

never        no     1      5323/5428       no     0MB no          10MB barely
never        no     1      5332/5428       no     0MB no          50MB yes
never        no     1      5293/5429       no     0MB no          90MB yes

never        no     1      5001/5427       no     230MB yes       338MB yes
never        no     4*     4998/5424       no     230MB yes       338MB yes

* more memtesters were launched, able to allocate approximately another 100MB

Future Work

 - Test larger memory systems.

 - Test an embedded image.

 - Test other architectures.

 - Time malloc microbenchmarks.

 - Would it be useful to be able to set overcommit policy for
   each memory cgroup?

 - Some lines are slightly above 80 chars.
   Perhaps define a macro to convert between pages and kb?
   Other places in the kernel do this.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make init_user_reserve() static]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Shewmaker <agshew@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29 15:54:36 -07:00
Josh Triplett
146732ce10 fs: don't compile in drop_caches.c when CONFIG_SYSCTL=n
drop_caches.c provides code only invokable via sysctl, so don't compile it
in when CONFIG_SYSCTL=n.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29 15:54:33 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e23b62256a Initial ARC Linux port with some fixes on top for 3.9-rc1
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Merge tag 'arc-v3.9-rc1-late' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc

Pull new ARC architecture from Vineet Gupta:
 "Initial ARC Linux port with some fixes on top for 3.9-rc1:

  I would like to introduce the Linux port to ARC Processors (from
  Synopsys) for 3.9-rc1.  The patch-set has been discussed on the public
  lists since Nov and has received a fair bit of review, specially from
  Arnd, tglx, Al and other subsystem maintainers for DeviceTree, kgdb...

  The arch bits are in arch/arc, some asm-generic changes (acked by
  Arnd), a minor change to PARISC (acked by Helge).

  The series is a touch bigger for a new port for 2 main reasons:

   1. It enables a basic kernel in first sub-series and adds
      ptrace/kgdb/.. later

   2. Some of the fallout of review (DeviceTree support, multi-platform-
      image support) were added on top of orig series, primarily to
      record the revision history.

  This updated pull request additionally contains

   - fixes due to our GNU tools catching up with the new syscall/ptrace
     ABI

   - some (minor) cross-arch Kconfig updates."

* tag 'arc-v3.9-rc1-late' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: (82 commits)
  ARC: split elf.h into uapi and export it for userspace
  ARC: Fixup the current ABI version
  ARC: gdbserver using regset interface possibly broken
  ARC: Kconfig cleanup tracking cross-arch Kconfig pruning in merge window
  ARC: make a copy of flat DT
  ARC: [plat-arcfpga] DT arc-uart bindings change: "baud" => "current-speed"
  ARC: Ensure CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS is not enabled
  ARC: Fix pt_orig_r8 access
  ARC: [3.9] Fallout of hlist iterator update
  ARC: 64bit RTSC timestamp hardware issue
  ARC: Don't fiddle with non-existent caches
  ARC: Add self to MAINTAINERS
  ARC: Provide a default serial.h for uart drivers needing BASE_BAUD
  ARC: [plat-arcfpga] defconfig for fully loaded ARC Linux
  ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #8: platform registers SMP callbacks
  ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #7: SMP common code to use callbacks
  ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #6: cpu-to-dma-addr optional
  ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #5: NR_IRQS defined by ARC core
  ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #4: Isolate platform headers
  ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #3: switch to board callback
  ...
2013-03-02 07:58:56 -08:00
Kees Cook
e579d2c259 coredump: remove redundant defines for dumpable states
The existing SUID_DUMP_* defines duplicate the newer SUID_DUMPABLE_*
defines introduced in 54b501992d ("coredump: warn about unsafe
suid_dumpable / core_pattern combo").  Remove the new ones, and use the
prior values instead.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
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>
2013-02-27 19:10:11 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
9043a2650c The sweeping change is to make add_taint() explicitly indicate whether to disable
lockdep, but it's a mechanical change.
 
 Cheers,
 Rusty.
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Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux

Pull module update from Rusty Russell:
 "The sweeping change is to make add_taint() explicitly indicate whether
  to disable lockdep, but it's a mechanical change."

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  MODSIGN: Add option to not sign modules during modules_install
  MODSIGN: Add -s <signature> option to sign-file
  MODSIGN: Specify the hash algorithm on sign-file command line
  MODSIGN: Simplify Makefile with a Kconfig helper
  module: clean up load_module a little more.
  modpost: Ignore ARC specific non-alloc sections
  module: constify within_module_*
  taint: add explicit flag to show whether lock dep is still OK.
  module: printk message when module signature fail taints kernel.
2013-02-25 15:41:43 -08:00
Paul Szabo
75f7ad8e04 page-writeback.c: subtract min_free_kbytes from dirtyable memory
When calculating amount of dirtyable memory, min_free_kbytes should be
subtracted because it is not intended for dirty pages.

Addresses http://bugs.debian.org/695182

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up min_free_kbytes extern declarations]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix min() warning]
Signed-off-by: Paul Szabo <psz@maths.usyd.edu.au>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 17:50:17 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
27ea6dfdc2 Misc ia64 bits for 3.9
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Merge tag 'please-pull-misc-3.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux

Pull misc ia64 bits from Tony Luck.

* tag 'please-pull-misc-3.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux:
  MAINTAINERS: update SGI & ia64 Altix stuff
  sysctl: Enable IA64 "ignore-unaligned-usertrap" to be used cross-arch
2013-02-21 17:55:48 -08:00
Vineet Gupta
bf14e3b979 sysctl: Enable PARISC "unaligned-trap" to be used cross-arch
PARISC defines /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap to runtime toggle
unaligned access emulation.

The exact mechanics of enablig/disabling are still arch specific, we can
make the sysctl usable by other arches.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
2013-02-15 23:16:05 +05:30
Clark Williams
ce0dbbbb30 sched/rt: Add a tuning knob to allow changing SCHED_RR timeslice
Add a /proc/sys/kernel scheduler knob named
sched_rr_timeslice_ms that allows global changing of the
SCHED_RR timeslice value. User visable value is in milliseconds
but is stored as jiffies.  Setting to 0 (zero) resets to the
default (currently 100ms).

Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130207094704.13751796@riff.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-02-07 20:51:07 +01:00
Clark Williams
cf4aebc292 sched: Move sched.h sysctl bits into separate header
Move the sysctl-related bits from include/linux/sched.h into
a new file: include/linux/sched/sysctl.h. Then update source
files requiring access to those bits by including the new
header file.

Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130207094659.06dced96@riff.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-02-07 20:50:54 +01:00
Rusty Russell
373d4d0997 taint: add explicit flag to show whether lock dep is still OK.
Fix up all callers as they were before, with make one change: an
unsigned module taints the kernel, but doesn't turn off lockdep.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-01-21 17:17:57 +10:30
Vineet Gupta
b6fca72536 sysctl: Enable IA64 "ignore-unaligned-usertrap" to be used cross-arch
IA64 defines /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap to control
verbose warnings on unaligned access emulation.

Although the exact mechanics of what to do with sysctl (ignore/shout)
are arch specific, this change enables the sysctl to be usable cross-arch.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2013-01-09 10:48:34 -08:00