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Linus Torvalds
9c2b957db1 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf events changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar:

 - New "hardware based branch profiling" feature both on the kernel and
   the tooling side, on CPUs that support it.  (modern x86 Intel CPUs
   with the 'LBR' hardware feature currently.)

   This new feature is basically a sophisticated 'magnifying glass' for
   branch execution - something that is pretty difficult to extract from
   regular, function histogram centric profiles.

   The simplest mode is activated via 'perf record -b', and the result
   looks like this in perf report:

	$ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy

	$ perf report -b --sort=symbol
	    52.34%  [.] main                   [.] f1
	    24.04%  [.] f1                     [.] f3
	    23.60%  [.] f1                     [.] f2
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn    [k] _IO_file_overflow
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal  [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn
	     0.01%  [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal  [k] strchrnul
	     0.01%  [k] __printf               [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal
	     0.01%  [k] main                   [k] __printf

   This output shows from/to branch columns and shows the highest
   percentage (from,to) jump combinations - i.e.  the most likely taken
   branches in the system.  "branches" can also include function calls
   and any other synchronous and asynchronous transitions of the
   instruction pointer that are not 'next instruction' - such as system
   calls, traps, interrupts, etc.

   This feature comes with (hopefully intuitive) flat ascii and TUI
   support in perf report.

 - Various 'perf annotate' visual improvements for us assembly junkies.
   It will now recognize function calls in the TUI and by hitting enter
   you can follow the call (recursively) and back, amongst other
   improvements.

 - Multiple threads/processes recording support in perf record, perf
   stat, perf top - which is activated via a comma-list of PIDs:

	perf top -p 21483,21485
	perf stat -p 21483,21485 -ddd
	perf record -p 21483,21485

 - Support for per UID views, via the --uid paramter to perf top, perf
   report, etc.  For example 'perf top --uid mingo' will only show the
   tasks that I am running, excluding other users, root, etc.

 - Jump label restructurings and improvements - this includes the
   factoring out of the (hopefully much clearer) include/linux/static_key.h
   generic facility:

	struct static_key key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE;

	...

	if (static_key_false(&key))
	        do unlikely code
	else
	        do likely code

	...
	static_key_slow_inc();
	...
	static_key_slow_inc();
	...

   The static_key_false() branch will be generated into the code with as
   little impact to the likely code path as possible.  the
   static_key_slow_*() APIs flip the branch via live kernel code patching.

   This facility can now be used more widely within the kernel to
   micro-optimize hot branches whose likelihood matches the static-key
   usage and fast/slow cost patterns.

 - SW function tracer improvements: perf support and filtering support.

 - Various hardenings of the perf.data ABI, to make older perf.data's
   smoother on newer tool versions, to make new features integrate more
   smoothly, to support cross-endian recording/analyzing workflows
   better, etc.

 - Restructuring of the kprobes code, the splitting out of 'optprobes',
   and a corner case bugfix.

 - Allow the tracing of kernel console output (printk).

 - Improvements/fixes to user-space RDPMC support, allowing user-space
   self-profiling code to extract PMU counts without performing any
   system calls, while playing nice with the kernel side.

 - 'perf bench' improvements

 - ... and lots of internal restructurings, cleanups and fixes that made
   these features possible.  And, as usual this list is incomplete as
   there were also lots of other improvements

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (120 commits)
  perf report: Fix annotate double quit issue in branch view mode
  perf report: Remove duplicate annotate choice in branch view mode
  perf/x86: Prettify pmu config literals
  perf report: Enable TUI in branch view mode
  perf report: Auto-detect branch stack sampling mode
  perf record: Add HEADER_BRANCH_STACK tag
  perf record: Provide default branch stack sampling mode option
  perf tools: Make perf able to read files from older ABIs
  perf tools: Fix ABI compatibility bug in print_event_desc()
  perf tools: Enable reading of perf.data files from different ABI rev
  perf: Add ABI reference sizes
  perf report: Add support for taken branch sampling
  perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch
  perf tools: Add code to support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK
  x86/kprobes: Split out optprobe related code to kprobes-opt.c
  x86/kprobes: Fix a bug which can modify kernel code permanently
  x86/kprobes: Fix instruction recovery on optimized path
  perf: Add callback to flush branch_stack on context switch
  perf: Disable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* when not supported
  perf/x86: Add LBR software filter support for Intel CPUs
  ...
2012-03-20 10:29:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0bbfcaff9b Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull irq/core changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar

* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  genirq: Remove paranoid warnons and bogus fixups
  genirq: Flush the irq thread on synchronization
  genirq: Get rid of unnecessary IRQTF_DIED flag
  genirq: No need to check IRQTF_DIED before stopping a thread handler
  genirq: Get rid of unnecessary irqaction field in task_struct
  genirq: Fix incorrect check for forced IRQ thread handler
  softirq: Reduce invoke_softirq() code duplication
  genirq: Fix long-term regression in genirq irq_set_irq_type() handling
  x86-32/irq: Don't switch to irq stack for a user-mode irq
2012-03-20 10:28:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5928a2b60c Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar.  The major features of this
series are:

 - making RCU more aggressive about entering dyntick-idle mode in order
   to improve energy efficiency

 - converting a few more call_rcu()s to kfree_rcu()s

 - applying a number of rcutree fixes and cleanups to rcutiny

 - removing CONFIG_SMP #ifdefs from treercu

 - allowing RCU CPU stall times to be set via sysfs

 - adding CPU-stall capability to rcutorture

 - adding more RCU-abuse diagnostics

 - updating documentation

 - fixing yet more issues located by the still-ongoing top-to-bottom
   inspection of RCU, this time with a special focus on the CPU-hotplug
   code path.

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (48 commits)
  rcu: Stop spurious warnings from synchronize_sched_expedited
  rcu: Hold off RCU_FAST_NO_HZ after timer posted
  rcu: Eliminate softirq-mediated RCU_FAST_NO_HZ idle-entry loop
  rcu: Add RCU_NONIDLE() for idle-loop RCU read-side critical sections
  rcu: Allow nesting of rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit()
  rcu: Remove redundant check for rcu_head misalignment
  PTR_ERR should be called before its argument is cleared.
  rcu: Convert WARN_ON_ONCE() in rcu_lock_acquire() to lockdep
  rcu: Trace only after NULL-pointer check
  rcu: Call out dangers of expedited RCU primitives
  rcu: Rework detection of use of RCU by offline CPUs
  lockdep: Add CPU-idle/offline warning to lockdep-RCU splat
  rcu: No interrupt disabling for rcu_prepare_for_idle()
  rcu: Move synchronize_sched_expedited() to rcutree.c
  rcu: Check for illegal use of RCU from offlined CPUs
  rcu: Update stall-warning documentation
  rcu: Add CPU-stall capability to rcutorture
  rcu: Make documentation give more realistic rcutorture duration
  rcutorture: Permit holding off CPU-hotplug operations during boot
  rcu: Print scheduling-clock information on RCU CPU stall-warning messages
  ...
2012-03-20 10:10:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5ed59af850 Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull core/locking changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar

* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  futex: Simplify return logic
  futex: Cover all PI opcodes with cmpxchg enabled check
2012-03-19 17:11:15 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
e04268b0ef genirq: Remove paranoid warnons and bogus fixups
Alexander pointed out that the warnons in the regular exit path are
bogus and the thread_mask one actually could be triggered when
__setup_irq() hands out that thread_mask again after __free_irq()
dropped irq_desc->lock.

Thinking more about it, neither IRQTF_RUNTHREAD nor the bit in
thread_mask can be set as this is the regular exit path. We come here
due to:
	__free_irq()
	   remove action from desc
	   synchronize_irq()
	   kthread_stop()

So synchronize_irq() makes sure that the thread finished running and
cleaned up both the thread_active count and thread_mask. After that
point nothing can set IRQTF_RUNTHREAD on this action. So the warnons
and the cleanups are pointless.

Reported-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Cc: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120315190755.GA6732@dhcp-26-207.brq.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-03-16 11:27:28 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
79f0713d40 prctl: use CAP_SYS_RESOURCE for PR_SET_MM option
CAP_SYS_ADMIN is already overloaded left and right, so to have more
fine-grained access control use CAP_SYS_RESOURCE here.

The CAP_SYS_RESOUCE is chosen because this prctl option allows a current
process to adjust some fields of memory map descriptor which rather
represents what the process owns: pointers to code, data, stack
segments, command line, auxiliary vector data and etc.

Suggested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-15 17:03:03 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f1cbd03f5e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "Been sitting on this for a while, but lets get this out the door.
  This fixes various important bugs for 3.3 final, along with a few more
  trivial ones.  Please pull!"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block: fix ioc leak in put_io_context
  block, sx8: fix pointer math issue getting fw version
  Block: use a freezable workqueue for disk-event polling
  drivers/block/DAC960: fix -Wuninitialized warning
  drivers/block/DAC960: fix DAC960_V2_IOCTL_Opcode_T -Wenum-compare warning
  block: fix __blkdev_get and add_disk race condition
  block: Fix setting bio flags in drivers (sd_dif/floppy)
  block: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sd_revalidate_disk
  block: exit_io_context() should call elevator_exit_icq_fn()
  block: simplify ioc_release_fn()
  block: replace icq->changed with icq->flags
2012-03-14 17:16:45 -07:00
Ido Yariv
7140ea1980 genirq: Flush the irq thread on synchronization
The current implementation does not always flush the threaded handler
when disabling the irq. In case the irq handler was called, but the
threaded handler hasn't started running yet, the interrupt will be
flagged as pending, and the handler will not run. This implementation
has some issues:

First, if the interrupt is a wake source and flagged as pending, the
system will not be able to suspend.

Second, when quickly disabling and re-enabling the irq, the threaded
handler might continue to run after the irq is re-enabled without the
irq handler being called first. This might be an unexpected behavior.

In addition, it might be counter-intuitive that the threaded handler
will not be called even though the irq handler was called and returned
IRQ_WAKE_THREAD.

Fix this by always waiting for the threaded handler to complete in
synchronize_irq().

[ tglx: Massaged comments, added WARN_ONs and the missing
  	IRQTF_RUNTHREAD check in exit_irq_thread() ]

Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322843052-7166-1-git-send-email-ido@wizery.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-03-14 11:56:20 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
df8d291f28 Merge branch 'linus' into irq/core
Reason: Get upstream fixes integrated before further modifications.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-03-13 16:35:16 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
bea95c152d Merge branch 'perf/hw-branch-sampling' into perf/core
Merge reason: The 'perf record -b' hardware branch sampling feature is ready for upstream.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-12 20:47:05 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
35239e23c6 Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core
Merge reason: We are going to queue up a dependent patch.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-12 20:44:11 +01:00
Alexander Gordeev
5234ffb9f7 genirq: Get rid of unnecessary IRQTF_DIED flag
Currently IRQTF_DIED flag is set when a IRQ thread handler calls do_exit()
But also PF_EXITING per process flag gets set when a thread exits. This
fix eliminates the duplicate by using PF_EXITING flag.

Also, there is a race condition in exit_irq_thread(). In case a thread's
bit is cleared in desc->threads_oneshot (and the IRQ line gets unmasked),
but before IRQTF_DIED flag is set, a new interrupt might come in and set
just cleared bit again, this time forever. This fix throws IRQTF_DIED flag
away, eliminating the race as a result.

[ tglx: Test THREAD_EXITING first as suggested by Oleg ]

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120309135958.GD2114@dhcp-26-207.brq.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-03-09 17:19:09 +01:00
Alexander Gordeev
05d74efa3c genirq: No need to check IRQTF_DIED before stopping a thread handler
Since 63706172f3 kthread_stop() is not
afraid of dead kernel threads. So no need to check if a thread is
alive before stopping it. These checks still were racy.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120309135939.GC2114@dhcp-26-207.brq.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-03-09 17:19:08 +01:00
Alexander Gordeev
4bcdf1d0b6 genirq: Get rid of unnecessary irqaction field in task_struct
When a new thread handler is created, an irqaction is passed to it as
data. Not only that irqaction is stored in task_struct by the handler
for later use, but also a structure associated with the kernel thread
keeps this value as long as the thread exists.

This fix kicks irqaction out off task_struct. Yes, I introduce new bit
field. But it allows not only to eliminate the duplicate, but also
shortens size of task_struct.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120309135925.GB2114@dhcp-26-207.brq.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-03-09 17:19:08 +01:00
Alexander Gordeev
540b60e24f genirq: Fix incorrect check for forced IRQ thread handler
We do not want a bitwise AND between boolean operands

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120309135912.GA2114@dhcp-26-207.brq.redhat.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-03-09 17:19:08 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
4293f20c19 Revert "CPU hotplug, cpusets, suspend: Don't touch cpusets during suspend/resume"
This reverts commit 8f2f748b06.

It causes some odd regression that we have not figured out, and it's too
late in the -rc series to try to figure it out now.

As reported by Konstantin Khlebnikov, it causes consistent hangs on his
laptop (Thinkpad x220: 2x cores + HT).  They can be avoided by adding
calls to "rebuild_sched_domains();" in cpuset_cpu_[in]active() for the
CPU_{ONLINE/DOWN_FAILED/DOWN_PREPARE}_FROZEN cases, but it's not at all
clear why, and it makes no sense.

Konstantin's config doesn't even have CONFIG_CPUSETS enabled, just to
make things even more interesting.  So it's not the cpusets, it's just
the scheduling domains.

So until this is understood, revert.

Bisected-reported-and-tested-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-07 08:21:19 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
52abb700e1 genirq: Clear action->thread_mask if IRQ_ONESHOT is not set
Xommit ac5637611(genirq: Unmask oneshot irqs when thread was not woken)
fails to unmask when a !IRQ_ONESHOT threaded handler is handled by
handle_level_irq.

This happens because thread_mask is or'ed unconditionally in
irq_wake_thread(), but for !IRQ_ONESHOT interrupts never cleared.  So
the check for !desc->thread_active fails and keeps the interrupt
disabled.

Keep the thread_mask zero for !IRQ_ONESHOT interrupts.

Document the thread_mask magic while at it.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-06 16:46:39 -08:00
Heiko Carstens
b2a0017861 softirq: Reduce invoke_softirq() code duplication
The two invoke_softirq() variants are identical except for a single
line. So move the #ifdef __ARCH_IRQ_EXIT_IRQS_DISABLED inside one of
the functions and get rid of the other one.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-03-06 13:33:27 +01:00
Russell King
a09b659cd6 genirq: Fix long-term regression in genirq irq_set_irq_type() handling
In 2008, commit 0c5d1eb77a ("genirq: record trigger type") modified the
way set_irq_type() handles the 'no trigger' condition.  However, this has
an adverse effect on PCMCIA support on Intel StrongARM and probably PXA
platforms.

PCMCIA has several status signals on the socket which can trigger
interrupts; some of these status signals depend on the card's mode
(whether it is configured in memory or IO mode).  For example, cards have
a 'Ready/IRQ' signal: in memory mode, this provides an indication to
PCMCIA that the card has finished its power up initialization.  In IO
mode, it provides the device interrupt signal.  Other status signals
switch between on-board battery status and loud speaker output.

In classical PCMCIA implementations, where you have a specific socket
controller, the controller provides a method to mask interrupts from the
socket, and importantly ignore any state transitions on the pins which
correspond with interrupts once masked.  This masking prevents unwanted
events caused by the removal and application of socket power being
forwarded.

However, on platforms where there is no socket controller, the PCMCIA
status and interrupt signals are routed to standard edge-triggered GPIOs. 
These GPIOs can be configured to interrupt on rising edge, falling edge,
or never.  This is where the problems start.

Edge triggered interrupts are required to record events while disabled via
the usual methods of {free,request,disable,enable}_irq() to prevent
problems with dropped interrupts (eg, the 8390 driver uses disable_irq()
to defer the delivery of interrupts).  As a result, these interfaces can
not be used to implement the desired behaviour.

The side effect of this is that if the 'Ready/IRQ' GPIO is disabled via
disable_irq() on suspend, and enabled via enable_irq() after resume, we
will record the state transitions caused by powering events as valid
interrupts, and foward them to the card driver, which may attempt to
access a card which is not powered up.

This leads delays resume while drivers spin in their interrupt handlers,
and complaints from drivers before they realize what's happened.

Moreover, in the case of the 'Ready/IRQ' signal, this is requested and
freed by the card driver itself; the PCMCIA core has no idea whether the
interrupt is requested, and, therefore, whether a call to disable_irq()
would be valid.  (We tried this around 2.4.17 / 2.5.1 kernel era, and
ended up throwing it out because of this problem.)

Therefore, it was decided back in around 2002 to disable the edge
triggering instead, resulting in all state transitions on the GPIO being
ignored.  That's what we actually need the hardware to do.

The commit above changes this behaviour; it explicitly prevents the 'no
trigger' state being selected.

The reason that request_irq() does not accept the 'no trigger' state is
for compatibility with existing drivers which do not provide their desired
triggering configuration.  The set_irq_type() function is 'new' and not
used by non-trigger aware drivers.

Therefore, revert this change, and restore previously working platforms
back to their former state.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux@arm.linux.org.uk
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-03-06 13:33:27 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov
6027ce497d hung_task: fix the broken rcu_lock_break() logic
check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks()->rcu_lock_break() introduced by
"softlockup: check all tasks in hung_task" commit ce9dbe24 looks
absolutely wrong.

	- rcu_lock_break() does put_task_struct(). If the task has exited
	  it is not safe to even read its ->state, nothing protects this
	  task_struct.

	- The TASK_DEAD checks are wrong too. Contrary to the comment, we
	  can't use it to check if the task was unhashed. It can be unhashed
	  without TASK_DEAD, or it can be valid with TASK_DEAD.

	  For example, an autoreaping task can do release_task(current)
	  long before it sets TASK_DEAD in do_exit().

	  Or, a zombie task can have ->state == TASK_DEAD but release_task()
	  was not called, and in this case we must not break the loop.

Change this code to check pid_alive() instead, and do this before we drop
the reference to the task_struct.

Note: while_each_thread() under rcu_read_lock() is not really safe, it can
livelock.  This will be fixed later, but fortunately in this case the
"max_count" logic saves us anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-05 15:49:42 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
6e27f63edb vfork: kill PF_STARTING
Previously it was (ab)used by utrace.  Then it was wrongly used by the
scheduler code.

Currently it is not used, kill it before it finds the new erroneous user.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-05 15:49:42 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
57b59c4a14 coredump_wait: don't call complete_vfork_done()
Now that CLONE_VFORK is killable, coredump_wait() no longer needs
complete_vfork_done().  zap_threads() should find and kill all tasks with
the same ->mm, this includes our parent if ->vfork_done is set.

mm_release() becomes the only caller, unexport complete_vfork_done().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-05 15:49:42 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
d68b46fe16 vfork: make it killable
Make vfork() killable.

Change do_fork(CLONE_VFORK) to do wait_for_completion_killable().  If it
fails we do not return to the user-mode and never touch the memory shared
with our child.

However, in this case we should clear child->vfork_done before return, we
use task_lock() in do_fork()->wait_for_vfork_done() and
complete_vfork_done() to serialize with each other.

Note: now that we use task_lock() we don't really need completion, we
could turn task->vfork_done into "task_struct *wake_up_me" but this needs
some complications.

NOTE: this and the next patches do not affect in-kernel users of
CLONE_VFORK, kernel threads run with all signals ignored including
SIGKILL/SIGSTOP.

However this is obviously the user-visible change.  Not only a fatal
signal can kill the vforking parent, a sub-thread can do execve or
exit_group() and kill the thread sleeping in vfork().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-05 15:49:42 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
c415c3b47e vfork: introduce complete_vfork_done()
No functional changes.

Move the clear-and-complete-vfork_done code into the new trivial helper,
complete_vfork_done().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-05 15:49:42 -08:00
Prashanth Nageshappa
f986a499ef kprobes: return proper error code from register_kprobe()
register_kprobe() aborts if the address of the new request falls in a
prohibited area (such as ftrace pouch, __kprobes annotated functions,
non-kernel text addresses, jump label text).  We however don't return the
right error on this abort, resulting in a silent failure - incorrect
adding/reporting of kprobes ('perf probe do_fork+18' or 'perf probe
mcount' for instance).

In V2 we are incorporating Masami Hiramatsu's  feedback.

This patch fixes it by returning -EINVAL upon failure.

While we are here, rename the label used for exit to be more appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Prashanth K Nageshappa <prashanth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-05 15:49:42 -08:00
Matthew Garrett
c22ab33290 kmsg_dump: don't run on non-error paths by default
Since commit 04c6862c05 ("kmsg_dump: add kmsg_dump() calls to the
reboot, halt, poweroff and emergency_restart paths"), kmsg_dump() gets
run on normal paths including poweroff and reboot.

This is less than ideal given pstore implementations that can only
represent single backtraces, since a reboot may overwrite a stored oops
before it's been picked up by userspace.  In addition, some pstore
backends may have low performance and provide a significant delay in
reboot as a result.

This patch adds a printk.always_kmsg_dump kernel parameter (which can also
be changed from userspace).  Without it, the code will only be run on
failure paths rather than on normal paths.  The option can be enabled in
environments where there's a desire to attempt to audit whether or not a
reboot was cleanly requested or not.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-05 15:49:42 -08:00
Stephane Eranian
d010b3326c perf: Add callback to flush branch_stack on context switch
With branch stack sampling, it is possible to filter by priv levels.

In system-wide mode, that means it is possible to capture only user
level branches. The builtin SW LBR filter needs to disassemble code
based on LBR captured addresses. For that, it needs to know the task
the addresses are associated with. Because of context switches, the
content of the branch stack buffer may contain addresses from
different tasks.

We need a callback on context switch to either flush the branch stack
or save it. This patch adds a new callback in struct pmu which is called
during context switches. The callback is called only when necessary.
That is when a system-wide context has, at least, one event which
uses PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK. The callback is never called for
per-thread context.

In this version, the Intel x86 code simply flushes (resets) the LBR
on context switches (fills it with zeroes). Those zeroed branches are
then filtered out by the SW filter.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-11-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-05 14:55:42 +01:00
Stephane Eranian
2481c5fa6d perf: Disable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* when not supported
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* is disabled for:

 - SW events (sw counters, tracepoints)
 - HW breakpoints
 - ALL but Intel x86 architecture
 - AMD64 processors

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-10-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-05 14:55:42 +01:00
Stephane Eranian
bce38cd53e perf: Add generic taken branch sampling support
This patch adds the ability to sample taken branches to the
perf_event interface.

The ability to capture taken branches is very useful for all
sorts of analysis. For instance, basic block profiling, call
counts, statistical call graph.

This new capability requires hardware assist and as such may
not be available on all HW platforms. On Intel x86 it is
implemented on top of the Last Branch Record (LBR) facility.

To enable taken branches sampling, the PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK
bit must be set in attr->sample_type.

Sampled taken branches may be filtered by type and/or priv
levels.

The patch adds a new field, called branch_sample_type, to the
perf_event_attr structure. It contains a bitmask of filters
to apply to the sampled taken branches.

Filters may be implemented in HW. If the HW filter does not exist
or is not good enough, some arch may also implement a SW filter.

The following generic filters are currently defined:
- PERF_SAMPLE_USER
  only branches whose targets are at the user level

- PERF_SAMPLE_KERNEL
  only branches whose targets are at the kernel level

- PERF_SAMPLE_HV
  only branches whose targets are at the hypervisor level

- PERF_SAMPLE_ANY
  any type of branches (subject to priv levels filters)

- PERF_SAMPLE_ANY_CALL
  any call branches (may incl. syscall on some arch)

- PERF_SAMPLE_ANY_RET
  any return branches (may incl. syscall returns on some arch)

- PERF_SAMPLE_IND_CALL
  indirect call branches

Obviously filter may be combined. The priv level bits are optional.
If not provided, the priv level of the associated event are used. It
is possible to collect branches at a priv level different from the
associated event. Use of kernel, hv priv levels is subject to permissions
and availability (hv).

The number of taken branch records present in each sample may vary based
on HW, the type of sampled branches, the executed code. Therefore
each sample contains the number of taken branches it contains.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-05 14:55:39 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
737f24bda7 Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core
Conflicts:
	tools/perf/builtin-record.c
	tools/perf/builtin-top.c
	tools/perf/perf.h
	tools/perf/util/top.h

Merge reason: resolve these cherry-picking conflicts.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-05 09:20:08 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
2273d5ccb8 Merge branches 'core-urgent-for-linus', 'perf-urgent-for-linus' and 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pulling latest branches from Ingo:

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  memblock: Fix size aligning of memblock_alloc_base_nid()

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf probe: Ensure offset provided is not greater than function length without DWARF info too
  perf tools: Ensure comm string is properly terminated
  perf probe: Ensure offset provided is not greater than function length
  perf evlist: Return first evsel for non-sample event on old kernel
  perf/hwbp: Fix a possible memory leak

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  CPU hotplug, cpusets, suspend: Don't touch cpusets during suspend/resume
2012-03-02 11:38:43 -08:00
Alan Stern
62d3c5439c Block: use a freezable workqueue for disk-event polling
This patch (as1519) fixes a bug in the block layer's disk-events
polling.  The polling is done by a work routine queued on the
system_nrt_wq workqueue.  Since that workqueue isn't freezable, the
polling continues even in the middle of a system sleep transition.

Obviously, polling a suspended drive for media changes and such isn't
a good thing to do; in the case of USB mass-storage devices it can
lead to real problems requiring device resets and even re-enumeration.

The patch fixes things by creating a new system-wide, non-reentrant,
freezable workqueue and using it for disk-events polling.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
CC: <stable@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-02 10:51:00 +01:00
Jason Baron
8eedce9965 static keys: Inline the static_key_enabled() function
In the jump label enabled case, calling static_key_enabled()
results in a function call. The function returns the results of
a compare, so it really doesn't need the overhead of a full
function call. Let's make it 'static inline' for both the jump
label enabled and disabled cases.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201202281849.q1SIn1p2023270@int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-02-28 20:01:08 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
a706d4fc9e Merge branch 'perf/jump-labels' into perf/core
Merge reason: After much naming discussion, there seems to be consensus
              now - queue it up for v3.4.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-02-28 19:59:47 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
bdd4431c8d Merge branch 'rcu/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
The major features of this series are:

 - making RCU more aggressive about entering dyntick-idle mode in order to
   improve energy efficiency

 - converting a few more call_rcu()s to kfree_rcu()s

 - applying a number of rcutree fixes and cleanups to rcutiny

 - removing CONFIG_SMP #ifdefs from treercu

 - allowing RCU CPU stall times to be set via sysfs

 - adding CPU-stall capability to rcutorture

 - adding more RCU-abuse diagnostics

 - updating documentation

 - fixing yet more issues located by the still-ongoing top-to-bottom
   inspection of RCU, this time with a special focus on the
   CPU-hotplug code path.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-02-28 10:16:10 +01:00
Namhyung Kim
30ce2f7eef perf/hwbp: Fix a possible memory leak
If kzalloc() for TYPE_DATA failed on a given cpu, previous chunk
of TYPE_INST will be leaked. Fix it.

Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for suggesting this better solution. It
should work as long as the initial value of the region is all
0's and that's the case of static (per-cpu) memory allocation.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1330391978-28070-1-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-02-28 09:52:54 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
70ca00db10 Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/events: Revert trace_sched_stat_sleeptime()
2012-02-27 07:55:39 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
faf3502a3f Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  genirq: Handle pending irqs in irq_startup()
  genirq: Unmask oneshot irqs when thread was not woken
2012-02-27 07:54:57 -08:00
Srivatsa S. Bhat
8f2f748b06 CPU hotplug, cpusets, suspend: Don't touch cpusets during suspend/resume
Currently, during CPU hotplug, the cpuset callbacks modify the cpusets
to reflect the state of the system, and this handling is asymmetric.
That is, upon CPU offline, that CPU is removed from all cpusets. However
when it comes back online, it is put back only to the root cpuset.

This gives rise to a significant problem during suspend/resume. During
suspend, we offline all non-boot cpus and during resume we online them back.
Which means, after a resume, all cpusets (except the root cpuset) will be
restricted to just one single CPU (the boot cpu). But the whole point of
suspend/resume is to restore the system to a state which is as close as
possible to how it was before suspend.

So to fix this, don't touch cpusets during suspend/resume. That is, modify
the cpuset-related CPU hotplug callback to just ignore CPU hotplug when it
is initiated as part of the suspend/resume sequence.

Reported-by: Prashanth Nageshappa <prashanth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F460D7B.1020703@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-02-27 11:38:13 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov
d80e731eca epoll: introduce POLLFREE to flush ->signalfd_wqh before kfree()
This patch is intentionally incomplete to simplify the review.
It ignores ep_unregister_pollwait() which plays with the same wqh.
See the next change.

epoll assumes that the EPOLL_CTL_ADD'ed file controls everything
f_op->poll() needs. In particular it assumes that the wait queue
can't go away until eventpoll_release(). This is not true in case
of signalfd, the task which does EPOLL_CTL_ADD uses its ->sighand
which is not connected to the file.

This patch adds the special event, POLLFREE, currently only for
epoll. It expects that init_poll_funcptr()'ed hook should do the
necessary cleanup. Perhaps it should be defined as EPOLLFREE in
eventpoll.

__cleanup_sighand() is changed to do wake_up_poll(POLLFREE) if
->signalfd_wqh is not empty, we add the new signalfd_cleanup()
helper.

ep_poll_callback(POLLFREE) simply does list_del_init(task_list).
This make this poll entry inconsistent, but we don't care. If you
share epoll fd which contains our sigfd with another process you
should blame yourself. signalfd is "really special". I simply do
not know how we can define the "right" semantics if it used with
epoll.

The main problem is, epoll calls signalfd_poll() once to establish
the connection with the wait queue, after that signalfd_poll(NULL)
returns the different/inconsistent results depending on who does
EPOLL_CTL_MOD/signalfd_read/etc. IOW: apart from sigmask, signalfd
has nothing to do with the file, it works with the current thread.

In short: this patch is the hack which tries to fix the symptoms.
It also assumes that nobody can take tasklist_lock under epoll
locks, this seems to be true.

Note:

	- we do not have wake_up_all_poll() but wake_up_poll()
	  is fine, poll/epoll doesn't use WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE.

	- signalfd_cleanup() uses POLLHUP along with POLLFREE,
	  we need a couple of simple changes in eventpoll.c to
	  make sure it can't be "lost".

Reported-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-24 11:42:50 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
c5905afb0e static keys: Introduce 'struct static_key', static_key_true()/false() and static_key_slow_[inc|dec]()
So here's a boot tested patch on top of Jason's series that does
all the cleanups I talked about and turns jump labels into a
more intuitive to use facility. It should also address the
various misconceptions and confusions that surround jump labels.

Typical usage scenarios:

        #include <linux/static_key.h>

        struct static_key key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_TRUE;

        if (static_key_false(&key))
                do unlikely code
        else
                do likely code

Or:

        if (static_key_true(&key))
                do likely code
        else
                do unlikely code

The static key is modified via:

        static_key_slow_inc(&key);
        ...
        static_key_slow_dec(&key);

The 'slow' prefix makes it abundantly clear that this is an
expensive operation.

I've updated all in-kernel code to use this everywhere. Note
that I (intentionally) have not pushed through the rename
blindly through to the lowest levels: the actual jump-label
patching arch facility should be named like that, so we want to
decouple jump labels from the static-key facility a bit.

On non-jump-label enabled architectures static keys default to
likely()/unlikely() branches.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: ddaney.cavm@gmail.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120222085809.GA26397@elte.hu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-02-24 10:05:59 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
8c79a045fd sched/events: Revert trace_sched_stat_sleeptime()
Commit 1ac9bc69 ("sched/tracing: Add a new tracepoint for sleeptime")
added a new sched:sched_stat_sleeptime tracepoint.

It's broken: the first sample we get on a task might be bad because
of a stale sleep_start value that wasn't reset at the last task switch
because the tracepoint was not active.

It also breaks the existing schedstat samples due to the side
effects of:

-               se->statistics.sleep_start = 0;
...
-               se->statistics.block_start = 0;

Nor do I see means to fix it without adding overhead to the scheduler
fast path, which I'm not willing to for the sake of redundant
instrumentation.

Most importantly, sleep time information can already be constructed
by tracing context switches and wakeups, and taking the timestamp
difference between the schedule-out, the wakeup and the schedule-in.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pc4c9qhl8q6vg3bs4j6k0rbd@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-02-22 12:06:55 +01:00
Jason Baron
a746e3cc98 jump label: Fix compiler warning
While cross-compiling on sparc64, I found:

kernel/jump_label.c: In function 'jump_label_update':
kernel/jump_label.c:447:40: warning: cast from pointer to
integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]

Fix by casting to 'unsigned long'.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: ddaney.cavm@gmail.com
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/08026cbc6df80619cae833ef1ebbbc43efab69ab.1329851692.git.jbaron@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-02-22 07:59:40 +01:00
Jason Baron
fadf0464b8 jump label: Add a WARN() if jump label key count goes negative
The count on a jump label key should never go negative. Add a
WARN() to check for this condition.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: ddaney.cavm@gmail.com
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3c68556121be4d1920417a3fe367da1ec38246b4.1329851692.git.jbaron@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-02-22 07:59:39 +01:00
Hugh Dickins
1cc85961e2 rcu: Stop spurious warnings from synchronize_sched_expedited
synchronize_sched_expedited() is spamming CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y
users with an unintended warning from the cpu_is_offline() check: use
raw_smp_processor_id() instead of smp_processor_id() there.

Because the warning is under a get_online_cpus(), it is not possible
for any CPUs to go offline, though it is quite possible that the
task might migrate between the raw_smp_processor_id() and the check
of cpu_is_offline().  This is not a problem because the task cannot
migrate from an offline CPU to an online one or vice versa.  The point
of the check is to verify that synchronize_sched_expedited() is not
called from an offline CPU, for example, from a CPU_DYING notifier, or,
more important, from an outgoing CPU making its way from its CPU_DYING
notifiers to the idle loop.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-02-21 15:33:34 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
696a02cc16 rcu: Hold off RCU_FAST_NO_HZ after timer posted
This commit handles workloads that transition quickly between idle and
non-idle, and where the CPU's callbacks cannot be invoked, but where
RCU does not have anything immediate for the CPU to do.  Without this
patch, the RCU_FAST_NO_HZ code can be invoked repeatedly on each entry
to idle.  The commit sets the per-CPU rcu_dyntick_holdoff variable to
hold off further attempts for a tick.

Reported-by: "Abou Gazala, Neven M" <neven.m.abou.gazala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-02-21 09:42:30 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
c3ce910b14 rcu: Eliminate softirq-mediated RCU_FAST_NO_HZ idle-entry loop
If a softirq is pending, the current CPU has RCU callbacks pending,
and RCU does not immediately need anything from this CPU, then the
current code resets the RCU_FAST_NO_HZ state machine.  This means that
upon exit from the subsequent softirq handler, RCU_FAST_NO_HZ will
try really hard to force RCU into dyntick-idle mode.  And if the same
conditions hold after a few tries (determined by RCU_IDLE_OPT_FLUSHES),
the same situation can repeat, possibly endlessly.  This scenario is
not particularly good for battery lifetime.

This commit therefore suppresses the early exit from the RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
state machine in the case where there is a softirq pending.  This change
forces the state machine to retain its memory, and to enter holdoff if
this condition persists.

Reported-by: "Abou Gazala, Neven M" <neven.m.abou.gazala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-02-21 09:42:11 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
8a2ecf474d rcu: Add RCU_NONIDLE() for idle-loop RCU read-side critical sections
RCU, RCU-bh, and RCU-sched read-side critical sections are forbidden
in the inner idle loop, that is, between the rcu_idle_enter() and the
rcu_idle_exit() -- RCU will happily ignore any such read-side critical
sections.  However, things like powertop need tracepoints in the inner
idle loop.

This commit therefore provides an RCU_NONIDLE() macro that can be used to
wrap code in the idle loop that requires RCU read-side critical sections.

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-02-21 09:06:13 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
29e37d8141 rcu: Allow nesting of rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit()
Use of RCU in the idle loop is incorrect, quite a few instances of
just that have made their way into mainline, primarily event tracing.
The problem with RCU read-side critical sections on CPUs that RCU believes
to be idle is that RCU is completely ignoring the CPU, along with any
attempts and RCU read-side critical sections.

The approaches of eliminating the offending uses and of pushing the
definition of idle down beyond the offending uses have both proved
impractical.  The new approach is to encapsulate offending uses of RCU
with rcu_idle_exit() and rcu_idle_enter(), but this requires nesting
for code that is invoked both during idle and and during normal execution.
Therefore, this commit modifies rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() to
permit nesting.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-02-21 09:06:12 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
ce5df97be5 rcu: Remove redundant check for rcu_head misalignment
There is now an unconditional check for rcu_head misalignment in
__call_rcu(), so remove the old conditional one in debug_rcu_head_queue().

Reported-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-02-21 09:06:11 -08:00