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Thomas Gleixner
57f0fcbe1d clockevents: Provide combined configure and register function
All clockevent devices have the same open coded initialization
functions. Provide an interface which does all necessary
initialization in the core code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C20110518210136.331975870%40linutronix.de%3E
2011-05-19 14:24:15 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
724ed53e8a clocksource: Get rid of the hardcoded 5 seconds sleep time limit
Slow clocksources can have a way longer sleep time than 5 seconds and
even fast ones can easily cope with 600 seconds and still maintain
proper accuracy.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C20110518210136.109811585%40linutronix.de%3E
2011-05-19 14:24:15 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
8b061610da Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of 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 tools: Makefile: Use gcc to determine ARCH
  perf events, x86: Fix Intel Nehalem and Westmere last level cache event definitions
  hw_breakpoints, powerpc: Fix CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT off-case in ptrace_set_debugreg()
  sh, hw_breakpoints: Fix racy access to ptrace breakpoints
  arm, hw_breakpoints: Fix racy access to ptrace breakpoints
  powerpc, hw_breakpoints: Fix racy access to ptrace breakpoints
  x86, hw_breakpoints: Fix racy access to ptrace breakpoints
  ptrace: Prepare to fix racy accesses on task breakpoints
2011-05-07 13:17:37 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
a3a4a5acd3 Regression: partial revert "tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry"
This partially reverts commit e6e1e25935.

That commit changed the structure layout of the trace structure, which
in turn broke PowerTOP (1.9x generation) quite badly.

I appreciate not wanting to expose the variable in question, and
PowerTOP was not using it, so I've replaced the variable with just a
padding field - that way if in the future a new field is needed it can
just use this padding field.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-06 13:20:59 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
4d70230bb4 Merge branch 'master' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into perf/urgent 2011-05-06 08:11:28 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
98bb318864 Merge branch 'perf/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/urgent 2011-05-04 20:33:42 +02:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
94b2c363dc genirq: Fix typo CONFIG_GENIRC_IRQ_SHOW_LEVEL
commit ab7798ffcf ("genirq: Expand generic
show_interrupts()") added the Kconfig option GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW_LEVEL to
accomodate PowerPC, but this doesn't actually enable the functionality due
to a typo in the #ifdef check.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3Calpine.DEB.2.00.1104302251370.19068%40ayla.of.borg%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-05-02 21:16:37 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
3fd9952df4 Merge branch 'fixes-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
* 'fixes-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: fix deadlock in worker_maybe_bind_and_lock()
  workqueue: Document debugging tricks

Fix up trivial spelling conflict in kernel/workqueue.c
2011-04-30 09:15:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
40a963502c Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of 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, x86, nmi: Move LVT un-masking into irq handlers
  perf events, x86: Work around the Nehalem AAJ80 erratum
  perf, x86: Fix BTS condition
  ftrace: Build without frame pointers on Microblaze
2011-04-29 15:08:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
fcc4dc7151 Merge branch 'timer-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timer-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  hrtimer: Initialize CLOCK_ID to HRTIMER_BASE table statically
  rtc: max8925: Call dev_set_drvdata before rtc_device_register
2011-04-29 15:08:31 -07:00
Tejun Heo
5035b20fa5 workqueue: fix deadlock in worker_maybe_bind_and_lock()
If a rescuer and stop_machine() bringing down a CPU race with each
other, they may deadlock on non-preemptive kernel.  The CPU won't
accept a new task, so the rescuer can't migrate to the target CPU,
while stop_machine() can't proceed because the rescuer is holding one
of the CPU retrying migration.  GCWQ_DISASSOCIATED is never cleared
and worker_maybe_bind_and_lock() retries indefinitely.

This problem can be reproduced semi reliably while the system is
entering suspend.

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1122051

A lot of kudos to Thilo-Alexander for reporting this tricky issue and
painstaking testing.

stable: This affects all kernels with cmwq, so all kernels since and
        including v2.6.36 need this fix.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Thilo-Alexander Ginkel <thilo@ginkel.com>
Tested-by: Thilo-Alexander Ginkel <thilo@ginkel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2011-04-29 18:08:37 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
ce31332d3c hrtimer: Initialize CLOCK_ID to HRTIMER_BASE table statically
Sedat and Bruno reported RCU stalls which turned out to be caused by
the following;

sched_init() calls init_rt_bandwidth() which calls hrtimer_init()
_BEFORE_ hrtimers_init() is called. While not entirely correct this
worked because hrtimer_init() only accessed statically initialized
data (hrtimer_bases.clock_base[CLOCK_MONOTONIC])

Commit e06383db9 (hrtimers: extend hrtimer base code to handle more
then 2 clockids) added an indirection to the hrtimer_bases.clock_base
lookup to avoid gap handling in the hot path. The table which is used
for the translataion from CLOCK_ID to HRTIMER_BASE index is
initialized at runtime in hrtimers_init(). So the early call of the
scheduler code translates CLOCK_MONOTONIC to HRTIMER_BASE_REALTIME.

Thus the rt_bandwith timer ends up on CLOCK_REALTIME. If the timer is
armed and the wall clock time is set (e.g. ntpdate in the early boot
process - which also gives the problem deterministic behaviour
i.e. magic recovery after N hours), then the timer ends up with an
expiry time far into the future. That breaks the RT throttler
mechanism as rt runtime is accumulated and never cleared, so the rt
throttler detects a false cpu hog condition and blocks all RT tasks
until the timer finally expires. That in turn stalls the RCU thread of
TINYRCU which leads to an huge amount of RCU callbacks piling up.

Make the translation table statically initialized, so we are back to
the status of <= 2.6.39.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
Cc: John stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3Calpine.LFD.2.02.1104282353140.3005%40ionos%3E
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-04-29 10:57:11 +02:00
Hillf Danton
1409f141ac kernel/watchdog.c: disable nmi perf event in the error path of enabling watchdog
In corner cases where softlockup watchdog is not setup successfully, the
relevant nmi perf event for hardlockup watchdog could be disabled, then
the status of the underlying hardware remains unchanged.

Also, if the kthread doesn't start then the hrtimer won't run and the
hardlockup detector will falsely fire.

Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-28 11:28:21 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
6c8a721327 Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/urgent 2011-04-27 10:31:29 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
bf26c01849 ptrace: Prepare to fix racy accesses on task breakpoints
When a task is traced and is in a stopped state, the tracer
may execute a ptrace request to examine the tracee state and
get its task struct. Right after, the tracee can be killed
and thus its breakpoints released.
This can happen concurrently when the tracer is in the middle
of reading or modifying these breakpoints, leading to dereferencing
a freed pointer.

Hence, to prepare the fix, create a generic breakpoint reference
holding API. When a reference on the breakpoints of a task is
held, the breakpoints won't be released until the last reference
is dropped. After that, no more ptrace request on the task's
breakpoints can be serviced for the tracer.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: v2.6.33.. <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
2011-04-25 17:28:24 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
686c4cbb10 Merge branch 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6
* 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6:
  PM: Add missing syscore_suspend() and syscore_resume() calls
  PM: Fix error code paths executed after failing syscore_suspend()
2011-04-23 22:35:16 -07:00
Michal Simek
d20ac25282 ftrace: Build without frame pointers on Microblaze
Microblaze doesn't need/support FRAME_POINTERS in order to have a working
function tracer.

The patch remove Kconfig warning.

Warning log:
warning: (LOCKDEP && FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER && LATENCYTOP &&
FUNCTION_TRACER && KMEMCHECK) selects FRAME_POINTER which has unmet direct
dependencies (DEBUG_KERNEL && (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || AVR32 ||
SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS)

Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1301908812-8119-2-git-send-email-monstr@monstr.eu
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-04-21 09:06:24 -04:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
19234c0819 PM: Add missing syscore_suspend() and syscore_resume() calls
Device suspend/resume infrastructure is used not only by the suspend
and hibernate code in kernel/power, but also by APM, Xen and the
kexec jump feature.  However, commit 40dc166cb5
(PM / Core: Introduce struct syscore_ops for core subsystems PM)
failed to add syscore_suspend() and syscore_resume() calls to that
code, which generally leads to breakage when the features in question
are used.

To fix this problem, add the missing syscore_suspend() and
syscore_resume() calls to arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c, kernel/kexec.c
and drivers/xen/manage.c.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
2011-04-20 00:36:11 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
4ae0ff16ef Merge branch 'timer-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timer-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  RTC: rtc-omap: Fix a leak of the IRQ during init failure
  posix clocks: Replace mutex with reader/writer semaphore
2011-04-19 10:56:46 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
2ca6f62f59 PM: Fix error code paths executed after failing syscore_suspend()
If syscore_suspend() fails in suspend_enter(), create_image() or
resume_target_kernel(), it is necessary to call sysdev_resume(),
because sysdev_suspend() has been called already and succeeded
and we are going to abort the transition.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-18 23:58:59 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
c78193e9c7 next_pidmap: fix overflow condition
next_pidmap() just quietly accepted whatever 'last' pid that was passed
in, which is not all that safe when one of the users is /proc.

Admittedly the proc code should do some sanity checking on the range
(and that will be the next commit), but that doesn't mean that the
helper functions should just do that pidmap pointer arithmetic without
checking the range of its arguments.

So clamp 'last' to PID_MAX_LIMIT.  The fact that we then do "last+1"
doesn't really matter, the for-loop does check against the end of the
pidmap array properly (it's only the actual pointer arithmetic overflow
case we need to worry about, and going one bit beyond isn't going to
overflow).

[ Use PID_MAX_LIMIT rather than pid_max as per Eric Biederman ]

Reported-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@cmpxchg8b.com>
Analyzed-by: Robert Święcki <robert@swiecki.net>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-18 10:35:30 -07:00
Richard Cochran
1791f88143 posix clocks: Replace mutex with reader/writer semaphore
A dynamic posix clock is protected from asynchronous removal by a mutex.
However, using a mutex has the unwanted effect that a long running clock
operation in one process will unnecessarily block other processes.

For example, one process might call read() to get an external time stamp
coming in at one pulse per second. A second process calling clock_gettime
would have to wait for almost a whole second.

This patch fixes the issue by using a reader/writer semaphore instead of
a mutex.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C20110330132421.GA31771%40riccoc20.at.omicron.at%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-04-18 10:39:38 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
d733ed6c34 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  block: make unplug timer trace event correspond to the schedule() unplug
  block: let io_schedule() flush the plug inline
2011-04-16 10:33:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
fdfc552abe Merge branches 'core-fixes-for-linus', 'perf-fixes-for-linus', 'sched-fixes-for-linus', 'timer-fixes-for-linus' and 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of 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:
  futex: Set FLAGS_HAS_TIMEOUT during futex_wait restart setup

* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf_event: Fix cgrp event scheduling bug in perf_enable_on_exec()
  perf: Fix a build error with some GCC versions

* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: Fix erroneous all_pinned logic
  sched: Fix sched-domain avg_load calculation

* 'timer-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  RTC: rtc-mrst: follow on to the change of rtc_device_register()
  RTC: add missing "return 0" in new alarm func for rtc-bfin.c
  RTC: Fix s3c compile error due to missing s3c_rtc_setpie
  RTC: Fix early irqs caused by calling rtc_set_alarm too early

* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, amd: Disable GartTlbWlkErr when BIOS forgets it
  x86, NUMA: Fix fakenuma boot failure
  x86/mrst: Fix boot crash caused by incorrect pin to irq mapping
  x86/ce4100: Add reg property to bridges
2011-04-16 09:45:08 -07:00
Jens Axboe
49cac01e1f block: make unplug timer trace event correspond to the schedule() unplug
It's a pretty close match to what we had before - the timer triggering
would mean that nobody unplugged the plug in due time, in the new
scheme this matches very closely what the schedule() unplug now is.
It's essentially the difference between an explicit unplug (IO unplug)
or an implicit unplug (timer unplug, we scheduled with pending IO
queued).

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-16 13:51:05 +02:00
Jens Axboe
a237c1c5bc block: let io_schedule() flush the plug inline
Linus correctly observes that the most important dispatch cases
are now done from kblockd, this isn't ideal for latency reasons.
The original reason for switching dispatches out-of-line was to
avoid too deep a stack, so by _only_ letting the "accidental"
flush directly in schedule() be guarded by offload to kblockd,
we should be able to get the best of both worlds.

So add a blk_schedule_flush_plug() that offloads to kblockd,
and only use that from the schedule() path.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-16 13:27:55 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
5853b4f06f Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  block: only force kblockd unplugging from the schedule() path
  block: cleanup the block plug helper functions
  block, blk-sysfs: Use the variable directly instead of a function call
  block: move queue run on unplug to kblockd
  block: kill queue_sync_plugs()
  block: readd plug trace event
  block: add callback function for unplug notification
  block: add comment on why we save and disable interrupts in flush_plug_list()
  block: fixup block IO unplug trace call
  block: remove block_unplug_timer() trace point
  block: splice plug list to local context
2011-04-15 08:01:13 -07:00
Darren Hart
0cd9c6494e futex: Set FLAGS_HAS_TIMEOUT during futex_wait restart setup
The FLAGS_HAS_TIMEOUT flag was not getting set, causing the restart_block to
restart futex_wait() without a timeout after a signal.

Commit b41277dc7a in 2.6.38 introduced the regression by accidentally
removing the the FLAGS_HAS_TIMEOUT assignment from futex_wait() during the setup
of the restart block. Restore the originaly behavior.

Fixes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32922

Reported-by: Tim Smith <tsmith201104@yahoo.com>
Reported-by: Torsten Hilbrich <torsten.hilbrich@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3Cdaac0eb3af607f72b9a4d3126b2ba8fb5ed3b883.1302820917.git.dvhart%40linux.intel.com%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-04-15 16:34:32 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
6631e635c6 block: don't flush plugged IO on forced preemtion scheduling
We really only want to unplug the pending IO when the process actually
goes to sleep.  So move the test for flushing the plug up to the place
where we actually deactivate the task - where we have properly checked
for preemption and for the process really sleeping.

Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-13 08:08:20 -07:00
Jens Axboe
94b5eb28b4 block: fixup block IO unplug trace call
It was removed with the on-stack plugging, readd it and track the
depth of requests added when flushing the plug.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-12 10:12:19 +02:00
Jens Axboe
d9c9783317 block: remove block_unplug_timer() trace point
We no longer have an unplug timer running, so no point in keeping
the trace point.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-12 10:06:33 +02:00
Shriram Rajagopalan
d419e4c0f7 fix XEN_SAVE_RESTORE Kconfig dependencies
Make XEN_SAVE_RESTORE select HIBERNATE_CALLBACKS.
Remove XEN_SAVE_RESTORE dependency from PM_SLEEP.

Signed-off-by: Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@cs.ubc.ca>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-04-11 22:54:48 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
1f112cee07 PM / Hibernate: Introduce CONFIG_HIBERNATE_CALLBACKS
Xen save/restore is going to use hibernate device callbacks for
quiescing devices and putting them back to normal operations and it
would need to select CONFIG_HIBERNATION for this purpose.  However,
that also would cause the hibernate interfaces for user space to be
enabled, which might confuse user space, because the Xen kernels
don't support hibernation.  Moreover, it would be wasteful, as it
would make the Xen kernels include a substantial amount of code that
they would never use.

To address this issue introduce new power management Kconfig option
CONFIG_HIBERNATE_CALLBACKS, such that it will only select the code
that is necessary for the hibernate device callbacks to work and make
CONFIG_HIBERNATION select it.  Then, Xen save/restore will be able to
select CONFIG_HIBERNATE_CALLBACKS without dragging the entire
hibernate code along with it.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Tested-by: Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@cs.ubc.ca>
2011-04-11 22:54:42 +02:00
Ken Chen
b30aef17f7 sched: Fix erroneous all_pinned logic
The scheduler load balancer has specific code to deal with cases of
unbalanced system due to lots of unmovable tasks (for example because of
hard CPU affinity). In those situation, it excludes the busiest CPU that
has pinned tasks for load balance consideration such that it can perform
second 2nd load balance pass on the rest of the system.

This all works as designed if there is only one cgroup in the system.

However, when we have multiple cgroups, this logic has false positives and
triggers multiple load balance passes despite there are actually no pinned
tasks at all.

The reason it has false positives is that the all pinned logic is deep in
the lowest function of can_migrate_task() and is too low level:

load_balance_fair() iterates each task group and calls balance_tasks() to
migrate target load. Along the way, balance_tasks() will also set a
all_pinned variable. Given that task-groups are iterated, this all_pinned
variable is essentially the status of last group in the scanning process.
Task group can have number of reasons that no load being migrated, none
due to cpu affinity. However, this status bit is being propagated back up
to the higher level load_balance(), which incorrectly think that no tasks
were moved.  It kick off the all pinned logic and start multiple passes
attempt to move load onto puller CPU.

To fix this, move the all_pinned aggregation up at the iterator level.
This ensures that the status is aggregated over all task-groups, not just
last one in the list.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/BANLkTi=ernzNawaR5tJZEsV_QVnfxqXmsQ@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-11 11:08:54 +02:00
Ken Chen
b0432d8f16 sched: Fix sched-domain avg_load calculation
In function find_busiest_group(), the sched-domain avg_load isn't
calculated at all if there is a group imbalance within the domain. This
will cause erroneous imbalance calculation.

The reason is that calculate_imbalance() sees sds->avg_load = 0 and it
will dump entire sds->max_load into imbalance variable, which is used
later on to migrate entire load from busiest CPU to the puller CPU.

This has two really bad effect:

1. stampede of task migration, and they won't be able to break out
   of the bad state because of positive feedback loop: large load
   delta -> heavier load migration -> larger imbalance and the cycle
   goes on.

2. severe imbalance in CPU queue depth.  This causes really long
   scheduling latency blip which affects badly on application that
   has tight latency requirement.

The fix is to have kernel calculate domain avg_load in both cases. This
will ensure that imbalance calculation is always sensible and the target
is usually half way between busiest and puller CPU.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110408002322.3A0D812217F@elm.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-11 11:08:54 +02:00
Stephane Eranian
e566b76ed3 perf_event: Fix cgrp event scheduling bug in perf_enable_on_exec()
There is a bug in perf_event_enable_on_exec() when cgroup events are
active on a CPU: the cgroup events may be scheduled twice causing event
state corruptions which eventually may lead to kernel panics.

The reason is that the function needs to first schedule out the cgroup
events, just like for the per-thread events. The cgroup event are
scheduled back in automatically from the perf_event_context_sched_in()
function.

The patch also adds a WARN_ON_ONCE() is perf_cgroup_switch() to catch any
bogus state.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110406005454.GA1062@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-11 11:07:55 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
f9fa0bc1fa signal.c: fix erroneous syscall kernel-doc
Fix erroneous syscall kernel-doc comments in kernel/signal.c.

Reported-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-08 11:05:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8b9686ff4d Merge branches 'x86-fixes-for-linus', 'sched-fixes-for-linus', 'timers-fixes-for-linus', 'irq-fixes-for-linus' and 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86-32, fpu: Fix FPU exception handling on non-SSE systems
  x86, hibernate: Initialize mmu_cr4_features during boot
  x86-32, NUMA: Fix ACPI NUMA init broken by recent x86-64 change
  x86: visws: Fixup irq overhaul fallout

* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: Clean up rebalance_domains() load-balance interval calculation

* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86/mrst/vrtc: Fix boot crash in mrst_rtc_init()
  rtc, x86/mrst/vrtc: Fix boot crash in rtc_read_alarm()

* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  genirq: Fix cpumask leak in __setup_irq()

* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf probe: Fix listing incorrect line number with inline function
  perf probe: Fix to find recursively inlined function
  perf probe: Fix multiple --vars options behavior
  perf probe: Fix to remove redundant close
  perf probe: Fix to ensure function declared file
2011-04-07 12:12:58 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
42933bac11 Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6:
  Fix common misspellings
2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
49c022e657 sched: Clean up rebalance_domains() load-balance interval calculation
Instead of the possible multiple-evaluation of num_online_cpus()
in rebalance_domains() that Linus reported, avoid it altogether
in the normal case since it's implemented with a Hamming weight
function over a cpu bitmask which can be darn expensive for those
with big iron.

This also makes it cleaner, smaller and documents the code.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1301991265.2225.12.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-05 10:29:36 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
41c57892a2 kernel/signal.c: add kernel-doc notation to syscalls
Add kernel-doc to syscalls in signal.c.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-04 17:51:46 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
5aba085ede kernel/signal.c: fix typos and coding style
General coding style and comment fixes; no code changes:

 - Use multi-line-comment coding style.
 - Put some function signatures completely on one line.
 - Hyphenate some words.
 - Spell Posix as POSIX.
 - Correct typos & spellos in some comments.
 - Drop trailing whitespace.
 - End sentences with periods.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-04 17:51:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
148086bb64 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of 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: Fix rebalance interval calculation
  sched, doc: Beef up load balancing description
  sched: Leave sched_setscheduler() earlier if possible, do not disturb SCHED_FIFO tasks
2011-04-04 08:36:58 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4da7e90e65 Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of 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: Fix task_struct reference leak
  perf: Fix task context scheduling
  perf: mmap 512 kiB by default
  perf: Rebase max unprivileged mlock threshold on top of page size
  perf tools: Fix NO_NEWT=1 python build error
  perf symbols: Properly align symbol_conf.priv_size
  perf tools: Emit clearer message for sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return
  perf tools: Fixup exit path when not able to open events
  perf symbols: Fix vsyscall symbol lookup
  oprofile, x86: Allow setting EDGE/INV/CMASK for counter events
2011-04-04 08:36:40 -07:00
Richard Cochran
4352d9d44b ntp: fix non privileged system time shifting
The ADJ_SETOFFSET bit added in commit 094aa188 ("ntp: Add ADJ_SETOFFSET
mode bit") also introduced a way for any user to change the system time.
Sneaky or buggy calls to adjtimex() could set

    ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ | ADJ_SETOFFSET

which would result in a successful call to timekeeping_inject_offset().
This patch fixes the issue by adding the capability check.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-04 08:31:23 -07:00
Xiaotian Feng
4f5058c3b7 genirq: Fix cpumask leak in __setup_irq()
The allocated cpumask should be freed in __setup_irq().

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1301744375-6812-1-git-send-email-dfeng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-04-02 21:26:20 +02:00
Anton Blanchard
c0bb9e45f3 kdump: Allow shrinking of kdump region to be overridden
On ppc64 the crashkernel region almost always overlaps an area of firmware.
This works fine except when using the sysfs interface to reduce the kdump
region. If we free the firmware area we are guaranteed to crash.

Rename free_reserved_phys_range to crash_free_reserved_phys_range and make
it a weak function so we can override it.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-04-01 16:14:30 +11:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Peter Zijlstra
fd1edb3aa2 perf: Fix task_struct reference leak
sys_perf_event_open() had an imbalance in the number of task refs it
took causing memory leakage

Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # .37+
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-31 13:02:56 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
20443384fe perf: Rebase max unprivileged mlock threshold on top of page size
Ensure we allow 512 kiB + 1 page for user control without
assuming a 4096 bytes page size.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1301535209-9679-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-31 13:02:54 +02:00