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Randy Dunlap
ada9c93312 signal.c: fix kernel-doc notation
Fix kernel-doc warnings in signal.c:

  Warning(kernel/signal.c:2374): No description found for parameter 'nset'
  Warning(kernel/signal.c:2374): Excess function parameter 'set' description in 'sys_rt_sigprocmask'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-14 19:12:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c78a9b9b8e Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  ftrace: Revert 8ab2b7efd ftrace: Remove unnecessary disabling of irqs
  kprobes/trace: Fix kprobe selftest for gcc 4.6
  ftrace: Fix possible undefined return code
  oprofile, dcookies: Fix possible circular locking dependency
  oprofile: Fix locking dependency in sync_start()
  oprofile: Free potentially owned tasks in case of errors
  oprofile, x86: Add comments to IBS LVT offset initialization
2011-06-13 10:45:49 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
13863a66c9 genirq: Prevent potential NULL dereference in irq_set_irq_wake()
In kernel/irq/manage.c::irq_set_irq_wake() we call
irq_get_desc_buslock() which may return NULL, but the code
dereferences the result unconditionally.

irq_set_irq_wake() has lots of callers - I checked a few and I couldn't
find anything that guarantees that they won't call it with some input that
will cause irq_get_desc_buslock() to return NULL, so I think it's a good
thing to test and -EINVAL was the most sane error code in this situation
that I could think of.

Not all callers test the return value of irq_set_irq_wake(), but those
that do take != 0 to mean error as far as I can see, so they should be
fine. I guess those that don't test actually should, but that's a
different issue.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LNX.2.00.1106092300360.17868@swampdragon.chaosbits.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-06-10 10:53:42 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
33726bf214 Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf: Fix comments in include/linux/perf_event.h
  perf: Comment /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid to be part of user ABI
  perf python: Fix argument name list of read_on_cpu()
  perf evlist: Don't die if sample_{id_all|type} is invalid
  perf python: Use exception to propagate errors
  perf evlist: Remove dependency on debug routines
  perf, cgroups: Fix up for new API
2011-06-08 08:36:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
cb0a02ecf9 Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  genirq: Ensure we locate the passed IRQ in irq_alloc_descs()
  genirq: Fix descriptor init on non-sparse IRQs
  irq: Handle spurios irq detection for threaded irqs
  genirq: Print threaded handler in spurious debug output
2011-06-07 19:21:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6715a52a58 Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: Fix/clarify set_task_cpu() locking rules
  lockdep: Fix lock_is_held() on recursion
  sched: Fix schedstat.nr_wakeups_migrate
  sched: Fix cross-cpu clock sync on remote wakeups
2011-06-07 19:20:28 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
a4f18ed11a ftrace: Revert 8ab2b7efd ftrace: Remove unnecessary disabling of irqs
Revert the commit that removed the disabling of interrupts around
the initial modifying of mcount callers to nops, and update the comment.

The original comment was outdated and stated that the interrupts were
being disabled to prevent kstop machine, which was required with the
old ftrace daemon, but was no longer the case.

What the comment failed to mention was that interrupts needed to be
disabled to keep interrupts from preempting the modifying of the code
and then executing the code that was partially modified.

Revert the commit and update the comment.

Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-06-07 14:49:19 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
265a5b7ee3 kprobes/trace: Fix kprobe selftest for gcc 4.6
With gcc 4.6, the self test kprobe function:

 kprobe_trace_selftest_target()

is optimized such that kallsyms does not list it. The kprobes
test uses this function to insert a probe and test it. But
it will fail the test if the function is not listed in kallsyms.

Adding a __used annotation keeps the symbol in the kallsyms table.

Suggested-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-06-07 14:47:36 -04:00
Peter Zijlstra
6c6c54e180 sched: Fix/clarify set_task_cpu() locking rules
Sergey reported a CONFIG_PROVE_RCU warning in push_rt_task where
set_task_cpu() was called with both relevant rq->locks held, which
should be sufficient for running tasks since holding its rq->lock
will serialize against sched_move_task().

Update the comments and fix the task_group() lockdep test.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307115427.2353.3456.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-07 12:26:40 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f2513cde93 lockdep: Fix lock_is_held() on recursion
The main lock_is_held() user is lockdep_assert_held(), avoid false
assertions in lockdep_off() sections by unconditionally reporting the
lock is taken.

[ the reason this is important is a lockdep_assert_held() in ttwu()
  which triggers a warning under lockdep_off() as in printk() which
  can trigger another wakeup and lock up due to spinlock
  recursion, as reported and heroically debugged by Arne Jansen ]

Reported-and-tested-by: Arne Jansen <lists@die-jansens.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307398759.2497.966.camel@laptop
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-07 12:25:50 +02:00
GuoWen Li
0aff1c0cef ftrace: Fix possible undefined return code
kernel/trace/ftrace.c: In function 'ftrace_regex_write.clone.15':
kernel/trace/ftrace.c:2743:6: warning: 'ret' may be used uninitialized in this
function

Signed-off-by: GuoWen Li <guowen.li.linux@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201106011918.47939.guowen.li.linux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-06-06 22:34:25 -04:00
Vince Weaver
aa4a221875 perf: Comment /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid to be part of user ABI
Turns out that distro packages use this file as an indicator of
the perf event subsystem - this is easier to check for from scripts
than the existence of the system call.

This is easy enough to keep around for the kernel, so add a
comment to make sure it stays so.

Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.00.1106031751170.29381@cl320.eecs.utk.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-04 12:22:04 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
710054ba25 Merge branch 'perf/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent 2011-06-04 12:13:06 +02:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
1c3cc11602 timers: Consider slack value in mod_timer()
There is an optimization which does not update the timer if the timer
was pending and the expiration time was unchanged.

Since commit 3bbb9ec9 ("timers: Introduce the concept of timer slack
for legacy timers") this optimization is no longer applied for timers
where the expiration time got extended due to the slack value. So we
need to check again after the expiration time might have been updated.

[ tglx: Made it a single check by applying slack first and sorting
  out the slack = 0 value (all timeouts < 256 jiffies) early ]

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110521105828.GA29442@Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-06-03 15:02:32 +02:00
Mark Brown
c5182b8867 genirq: Ensure we locate the passed IRQ in irq_alloc_descs()
When irq_alloc_descs() is called with no base IRQ specified then it will
search for a range of IRQs starting from a specified base address. In the
case where an IRQ is specified it still does this search in order to ensure
that none of the requested range is already allocated and it still uses the
from parameter to specify the base for the search. This means that in the
case where a base is specified but from is zero (which is reasonable as
any IRQ number is in the range specified by a zero from) the function will
get confused and try to allocate the first suitably sized block of free IRQs
it finds.

Instead use a specified IRQ as the base address for the search, and insist
that any from that is specified can support that IRQ.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307037313-15733-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-06-03 14:53:16 +02:00
Linus Walleij
e7fbad300a genirq: Fix descriptor init on non-sparse IRQs
The genirq changes are initializing descriptors for sparse IRQs quite
differently from how non-sparse (stacked?) IRQs are initialized, with
the effect that on my platform all IRQs are default-disabled on sparse
IRQs and default-enabled if non-sparse IRQs are used, crashing some
GPIO driver.

Fix this by refactoring the non-sparse IRQs to use the same descriptor
init function as the sparse IRQs.

Signed-off: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306858479-16622-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@stericsson.com
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.39
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-06-03 14:53:16 +02:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
3a43e05f4d irq: Handle spurios irq detection for threaded irqs
The detection of spurios interrupts is currently limited to first level
handler. In force-threaded mode we never notice if the threaded irq does
not feel responsible.
This patch catches the return value of the threaded handler and forwards
it to the spurious detector. If the primary handler returns only
IRQ_WAKE_THREAD then the spourious detector ignores it because it gets
called again from the threaded handler.

[ tglx: Report the erroneous return value early and bail out ]

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306824972-27067-2-git-send-email-sebastian@breakpoint.cc
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-06-03 14:53:15 +02:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
ef26f20cd1 genirq: Print threaded handler in spurious debug output
In forced threaded mode (or with an explicit threaded handler) we only
see the primary handler, but not the threaded handler.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306824972-27067-1-git-send-email-sebastian@breakpoint.cc
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-06-03 14:53:15 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
1b054b67d3 clockevents: Handle empty cpumask gracefully
For UP it's stupid to request an initialized cpumask for the clock
event devices. Though we need the mask set even on UP to avoid a
horrible ifdeffery especially in the broadcast code.

For SMP we can at least try to survive with a warning and set the
cpumask of the cpu we're running on. That gives a decent chance to
bring the machine up and retrieve the debug info.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
2011-06-03 11:13:33 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
74c355fbdf perf, cgroups: Fix up for new API
Ben changed the cgroup API in commit f780bdb7c1 (cgroups: add
per-thread subsystem callbacks) in an incompatible way, but
forgot to convert the perf cgroup bits.

Avoid compile warnings and runtime splats and convert perf too ;-)

Acked-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306767651.1200.2990.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-31 14:20:25 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f339b9dc1f sched: Fix schedstat.nr_wakeups_migrate
While looking over the code I found that with the ttwu rework the
nr_wakeups_migrate test broke since we now switch cpus prior to
calling ttwu_stat(), hence the test is always true.

Cure this by passing the migration state in wake_flags. Also move the
whole test under CONFIG_SMP, its hard to migrate tasks on UP :-)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pwwxl7gdqs5676f1d4cx6pj7@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-31 14:19:57 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f01114cb59 sched: Fix cross-cpu clock sync on remote wakeups
Markus reported that commit 317f394160 ("sched: Move the second half
of ttwu() to the remote cpu") caused some accounting funnies on his AMD
Phenom II X4, such as weird 'top' results.

It turns out that this is due to non-synced TSC and the queued remote
wakeups stopped coupeling the two relevant cpu clocks, which leads to
wakeups seeing time jumps, which in turn lead to skewed runtime stats.

Add an explicit call to sched_clock_cpu() to couple the per-cpu clocks
to restore the normal flow of time.

Reported-and-tested-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306835745.2353.3.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-31 14:19:56 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
d72bce0e67 rcu: Cure load woes
Commit cc3ce5176d (rcu: Start RCU kthreads in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
state) fudges a sleeping task' state, resulting in the scheduler seeing
a TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE task going to sleep, but a TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
task waking up. The result is unbalanced load calculation.

The problem that patch tried to address is that the RCU threads could
stay in UNINTERRUPTIBLE state for quite a while and triggering the hung
task detector due to on-demand wake-ups.

Cure the problem differently by always giving the tasks at least one
wake-up once the CPU is fully up and running, this will kick them out of
the initial UNINTERRUPTIBLE state and into the regular INTERRUPTIBLE
wait state.

[ The alternative would be teaching kthread_create() to start threads as
  INTERRUPTIBLE but that needs a tad more thought. ]

Reported-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306755291.1200.2872.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-31 10:01:48 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
6345d24daf mm: Fix boot crash in mm_alloc()
Thomas Gleixner reports that we now have a boot crash triggered by
CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at   (null)
    IP: [<c11ae035>] find_next_bit+0x55/0xb0
    Call Trace:
     [<c11addda>] cpumask_any_but+0x2a/0x70
     [<c102396b>] flush_tlb_mm+0x2b/0x80
     [<c1022705>] pud_populate+0x35/0x50
     [<c10227ba>] pgd_alloc+0x9a/0xf0
     [<c103a3fc>] mm_init+0xec/0x120
     [<c103a7a3>] mm_alloc+0x53/0xd0

which was introduced by commit de03c72cfc ("mm: convert
mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t"), and is due to wrong ordering of
mm_init() vs mm_init_cpumask

Thomas wrote a patch to just fix the ordering of initialization, but I
hate the new double allocation in the fork path, so I ended up instead
doing some more radical surgery to clean it all up.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-29 11:32:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f310642123 Merge branch 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6
* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
  x86 idle: deprecate mwait_idle() and "idle=mwait" cmdline param
  x86 idle: deprecate "no-hlt" cmdline param
  x86 idle APM: deprecate CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE
  x86 idle floppy: deprecate disable_hlt()
  x86 idle: EXPORT_SYMBOL(default_idle, pm_idle) only when APM demands it
  x86 idle: clarify AMD erratum 400 workaround
  idle governor: Avoid lock acquisition to read pm_qos before entering idle
  cpuidle: menu: fixed wrapping timers at 4.294 seconds
2011-05-29 11:18:09 -07:00
Tim Chen
333c5ae994 idle governor: Avoid lock acquisition to read pm_qos before entering idle
Thanks to the reviews and comments by Rafael, James, Mark and Andi.
Here's version 2 of the patch incorporating your comments and also some
update to my previous patch comments.

I noticed that before entering idle state, the menu idle governor will
look up the current pm_qos target value according to the list of qos
requests received.  This look up currently needs the acquisition of a
lock to access the list of qos requests to find the qos target value,
slowing down the entrance into idle state due to contention by multiple
cpus to access this list.  The contention is severe when there are a lot
of cpus waking and going into idle.  For example, for a simple workload
that has 32 pair of processes ping ponging messages to each other, where
64 cpu cores are active in test system, I see the following profile with
37.82% of cpu cycles spent in contention of pm_qos_lock:

-     37.82%          swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]          [k]
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave
   - _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
      - 95.65% pm_qos_request
           menu_select
           cpuidle_idle_call
         - cpu_idle
              99.98% start_secondary

A better approach will be to cache the updated pm_qos target value so
reading it does not require lock acquisition as in the patch below.
With this patch the contention for pm_qos_lock is removed and I saw a
2.2X increase in throughput for my message passing workload.

cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Acked-by: mark gross <markgross@thegnar.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-05-29 00:50:59 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
08a8b79600 Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  cpuset: Fix cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback(), don't update tsk->rt.nr_cpus_allowed
  sched: Fix ->min_vruntime calculation in dequeue_entity()
  sched: Fix ttwu() for __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
  sched: More sched_domain iterations fixes
2011-05-28 12:56:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1ba4b8cb94 Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  rcu: Start RCU kthreads in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE state
  rcu: Remove waitqueue usage for cpu, node, and boost kthreads
  rcu: Avoid acquiring rcu_node locks in timer functions
  atomic: Add atomic_or()
  Documentation: Add statistics about nested locks
  rcu: Decrease memory-barrier usage based on semi-formal proof
  rcu: Make rcu_enter_nohz() pay attention to nesting
  rcu: Don't do reschedule unless in irq
  rcu: Remove old memory barriers from rcu_process_callbacks()
  rcu: Add memory barriers
  rcu: Fix unpaired rcu_irq_enter() from locking selftests
2011-05-28 12:56:32 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c4a227d89f Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (25 commits)
  perf: Fix SIGIO handling
  perf top: Don't stop if no kernel symtab is found
  perf top: Handle kptr_restrict
  perf top: Remove unused macro
  perf events: initialize fd array to -1 instead of 0
  perf tools: Make sure kptr_restrict warnings fit 80 col terms
  perf tools: Fix build on older systems
  perf symbols: Handle /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict
  perf: Remove duplicate headers
  ftrace: Add internal recursive checks
  tracing: Update btrfs's tracepoints to use u64 interface
  tracing: Add __print_symbolic_u64 to avoid warnings on 32bit machine
  ftrace: Set ops->flag to enabled even on static function tracing
  tracing: Have event with function tracer check error return
  ftrace: Have ftrace_startup() return failure code
  jump_label: Check entries limit in __jump_label_update
  ftrace/recordmcount: Avoid STT_FUNC symbols as base on ARM
  scripts/tags.sh: Add magic for trace-events for etags too
  scripts/tags.sh: Fix ctags for DEFINE_EVENT()
  x86/ftrace: Fix compiler warning in ftrace.c
  ...
2011-05-28 12:55:55 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
cc3ce5176d rcu: Start RCU kthreads in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE state
Upon creation, kthreads are in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state, which can
result in softlockup warnings.  Because some of RCU's kthreads can
legitimately be idle indefinitely, start them in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
state in order to avoid those warnings.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28 17:41:56 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
08bca60a69 rcu: Remove waitqueue usage for cpu, node, and boost kthreads
It is not necessary to use waitqueues for the RCU kthreads because
we always know exactly which thread is to be awakened.  In addition,
wake_up() only issues an actual wakeup when there is a thread waiting on
the queue, which was why there was an extra explicit wake_up_process()
to get the RCU kthreads started.

Eliminating the waitqueues (and wake_up()) in favor of wake_up_process()
eliminates the need for the initial wake_up_process() and also shrinks
the data structure size a bit.  The wakeup logic is placed in a new
rcu_wait() macro.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28 17:41:52 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
8826f3b039 rcu: Avoid acquiring rcu_node locks in timer functions
This commit switches manipulations of the rcu_node ->wakemask field
to atomic operations, which allows rcu_cpu_kthread_timer() to avoid
acquiring the rcu_node lock.  This should avoid the following lockdep
splat reported by Valdis Kletnieks:

[   12.872150] usb 1-4: new high speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
[   12.986667] usb 1-4: New USB device found, idVendor=413c, idProduct=2513
[   12.986679] usb 1-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[   12.987691] hub 1-4:1.0: USB hub found
[   12.987877] hub 1-4:1.0: 3 ports detected
[   12.996372] input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input10
[   13.071471] udevadm used greatest stack depth: 3984 bytes left
[   13.172129]
[   13.172130] =======================================================
[   13.172425] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
[   13.172650] 2.6.39-rc6-mmotm0506 #1
[   13.172773] -------------------------------------------------------
[   13.172997] blkid/267 is trying to acquire lock:
[   13.173009]  (&p->pi_lock){-.-.-.}, at: [<ffffffff81032d8f>] try_to_wake_up+0x29/0x1aa
[   13.173009]
[   13.173009] but task is already holding lock:
[   13.173009]  (rcu_node_level_0){..-...}, at: [<ffffffff810901cc>] rcu_cpu_kthread_timer+0x27/0x58
[   13.173009]
[   13.173009] which lock already depends on the new lock.
[   13.173009]
[   13.173009]
[   13.173009] the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
[   13.173009]
[   13.173009] -> #2 (rcu_node_level_0){..-...}:
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff810679b9>] check_prevs_add+0x8b/0x104
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81067da1>] validate_chain+0x36f/0x3ab
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff8106846b>] __lock_acquire+0x369/0x3e2
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81068a0f>] lock_acquire+0xfc/0x14c
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff815697f1>] _raw_spin_lock+0x36/0x45
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81090794>] rcu_read_unlock_special+0x8c/0x1d5
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff8109092c>] __rcu_read_unlock+0x4f/0xd7
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81027bd3>] rcu_read_unlock+0x21/0x23
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff8102cc34>] cpuacct_charge+0x6c/0x75
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81030cc6>] update_curr+0x101/0x12e
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff810311d0>] check_preempt_wakeup+0xf7/0x23b
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff8102acb3>] check_preempt_curr+0x2b/0x68
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81031d40>] ttwu_do_wakeup+0x76/0x128
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81031e49>] ttwu_do_activate.constprop.63+0x57/0x5c
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81031e96>] scheduler_ipi+0x48/0x5d
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff810177d5>] smp_reschedule_interrupt+0x16/0x18
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff815710f3>] reschedule_interrupt+0x13/0x20
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff810b66d1>] rcu_read_unlock+0x21/0x23
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff810b739c>] find_get_page+0xa9/0xb9
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff810b8b48>] filemap_fault+0x6a/0x34d
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff810d1a25>] __do_fault+0x54/0x3e6
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff810d447a>] handle_pte_fault+0x12c/0x1ed
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff810d48f7>] handle_mm_fault+0x1cd/0x1e0
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff8156cfee>] do_page_fault+0x42d/0x5de
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff8156a75f>] page_fault+0x1f/0x30
[   13.173009]
[   13.173009] -> #1 (&rq->lock){-.-.-.}:
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff810679b9>] check_prevs_add+0x8b/0x104
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81067da1>] validate_chain+0x36f/0x3ab
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff8106846b>] __lock_acquire+0x369/0x3e2
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81068a0f>] lock_acquire+0xfc/0x14c
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff815697f1>] _raw_spin_lock+0x36/0x45
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81027e19>] __task_rq_lock+0x8b/0xd3
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81032f7f>] wake_up_new_task+0x41/0x108
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff810376c3>] do_fork+0x265/0x33f
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81007d02>] kernel_thread+0x6b/0x6d
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff8153a9dd>] rest_init+0x21/0xd2
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81b1db4f>] start_kernel+0x3bb/0x3c6
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81b1d29f>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xaf/0xb3
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81b1d393>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xf0/0xf7
[   13.173009]
[   13.173009] -> #0 (&p->pi_lock){-.-.-.}:
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81067788>] check_prev_add+0x68/0x20e
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff810679b9>] check_prevs_add+0x8b/0x104
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81067da1>] validate_chain+0x36f/0x3ab
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff8106846b>] __lock_acquire+0x369/0x3e2
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81068a0f>] lock_acquire+0xfc/0x14c
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff815698ea>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x44/0x57
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81032d8f>] try_to_wake_up+0x29/0x1aa
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81032f3c>] wake_up_process+0x10/0x12
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff810901e9>] rcu_cpu_kthread_timer+0x44/0x58
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81045286>] call_timer_fn+0xac/0x1e9
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff8104556d>] run_timer_softirq+0x1aa/0x1f2
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff8103e487>] __do_softirq+0x109/0x26a
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff8157144c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81003207>] do_softirq+0x44/0xf1
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff8103e8b9>] irq_exit+0x58/0xc8
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81017f5a>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x79/0x87
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff81570fd3>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff810bd51a>] get_page_from_freelist+0x2aa/0x310
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff810bdf03>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x178/0x243
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff8101fe2f>] pte_alloc_one+0x1e/0x3a
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff810d27fe>] __pte_alloc+0x22/0x14b
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff810d48a8>] handle_mm_fault+0x17e/0x1e0
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff8156cfee>] do_page_fault+0x42d/0x5de
[   13.173009]        [<ffffffff8156a75f>] page_fault+0x1f/0x30
[   13.173009]
[   13.173009] other info that might help us debug this:
[   13.173009]
[   13.173009] Chain exists of:
[   13.173009]   &p->pi_lock --> &rq->lock --> rcu_node_level_0
[   13.173009]
[   13.173009]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[   13.173009]
[   13.173009]        CPU0                    CPU1
[   13.173009]        ----                    ----
[   13.173009]   lock(rcu_node_level_0);
[   13.173009]                                lock(&rq->lock);
[   13.173009]                                lock(rcu_node_level_0);
[   13.173009]   lock(&p->pi_lock);
[   13.173009]
[   13.173009]  *** DEADLOCK ***
[   13.173009]
[   13.173009] 3 locks held by blkid/267:
[   13.173009]  #0:  (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [<ffffffff8156cdb4>] do_page_fault+0x1f3/0x5de
[   13.173009]  #1:  (&yield_timer){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810451da>] call_timer_fn+0x0/0x1e9
[   13.173009]  #2:  (rcu_node_level_0){..-...}, at: [<ffffffff810901cc>] rcu_cpu_kthread_timer+0x27/0x58
[   13.173009]
[   13.173009] stack backtrace:
[   13.173009] Pid: 267, comm: blkid Not tainted 2.6.39-rc6-mmotm0506 #1
[   13.173009] Call Trace:
[   13.173009]  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff8154a529>] print_circular_bug+0xc8/0xd9
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff81067788>] check_prev_add+0x68/0x20e
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff8100c861>] ? save_stack_trace+0x28/0x46
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff810679b9>] check_prevs_add+0x8b/0x104
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff81067da1>] validate_chain+0x36f/0x3ab
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff8106846b>] __lock_acquire+0x369/0x3e2
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff81032d8f>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x29/0x1aa
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff81068a0f>] lock_acquire+0xfc/0x14c
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff81032d8f>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x29/0x1aa
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff810901a5>] ? rcu_check_quiescent_state+0x82/0x82
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff815698ea>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x44/0x57
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff81032d8f>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x29/0x1aa
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff81032d8f>] try_to_wake_up+0x29/0x1aa
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff810901a5>] ? rcu_check_quiescent_state+0x82/0x82
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff81032f3c>] wake_up_process+0x10/0x12
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff810901e9>] rcu_cpu_kthread_timer+0x44/0x58
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff810901a5>] ? rcu_check_quiescent_state+0x82/0x82
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff81045286>] call_timer_fn+0xac/0x1e9
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff810451da>] ? del_timer+0x75/0x75
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff810901a5>] ? rcu_check_quiescent_state+0x82/0x82
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff8104556d>] run_timer_softirq+0x1aa/0x1f2
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff8103e487>] __do_softirq+0x109/0x26a
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff8106365f>] ? tick_dev_program_event+0x37/0xf6
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff810a0e4a>] ? time_hardirqs_off+0x1b/0x2f
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff8157144c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff81003207>] do_softirq+0x44/0xf1
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff8103e8b9>] irq_exit+0x58/0xc8
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff81017f5a>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x79/0x87
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff81570fd3>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20
[   13.173009]  <EOI>  [<ffffffff810bd384>] ? get_page_from_freelist+0x114/0x310
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff810bd51a>] ? get_page_from_freelist+0x2aa/0x310
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff812220e7>] ? clear_page_c+0x7/0x10
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff810bd1ef>] ? prep_new_page+0x14c/0x1cd
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff810bd51a>] get_page_from_freelist+0x2aa/0x310
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff810bdf03>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x178/0x243
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff810d46b9>] ? __pmd_alloc+0x87/0x99
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff8101fe2f>] pte_alloc_one+0x1e/0x3a
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff810d46b9>] ? __pmd_alloc+0x87/0x99
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff810d27fe>] __pte_alloc+0x22/0x14b
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff810d48a8>] handle_mm_fault+0x17e/0x1e0
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff8156cfee>] do_page_fault+0x42d/0x5de
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff810d915f>] ? sys_brk+0x32/0x10c
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff810a0e4a>] ? time_hardirqs_off+0x1b/0x2f
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff81065c4f>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0x3f/0x9c
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff812235dd>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x3a/0x3c
[   13.173009]  [<ffffffff8156a75f>] page_fault+0x1f/0x30
[   14.010075] usb 5-1: new full speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd

Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28 17:41:49 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
29f742f88a Merge branch 'rcu/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu into core/urgent 2011-05-28 17:41:05 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f506b3dc0e perf: Fix SIGIO handling
Vince noticed that unless we mmap() a buffer, SIGIO gets lost. So
explicitly push the wakeup (including signals) when requested.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-2euus3f3x3dyvdk52cjxw8zu@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28 17:04:59 +02:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
1e1b6c511d cpuset: Fix cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback(), don't update tsk->rt.nr_cpus_allowed
The rule is, we have to update tsk->rt.nr_cpus_allowed if we change
tsk->cpus_allowed. Otherwise RT scheduler may confuse.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4DD4B3FA.5060901@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28 17:02:57 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
1e87623178 sched: Fix ->min_vruntime calculation in dequeue_entity()
Dima Zavin <dima@android.com> reported:

"After pulling the thread off the run-queue during a cgroup change,
the cfs_rq.min_vruntime gets recalculated. The dequeued thread's vruntime
then gets normalized to this new value. This can then lead to the thread
getting an unfair boost in the new group if the vruntime of the next
task in the old run-queue was way further ahead."

Reported-by: Dima Zavin <dima@android.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Recalls-having-tested-once-upon-a-time-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305674470-23727-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28 17:02:56 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
d6aa8f85f1 sched: Fix ttwu() for __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
Marc reported that e4a52bcb9 (sched: Remove rq->lock from the first
half of ttwu()) broke his ARM-SMP machine. Now ARM is one of the few
__ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW users, so that exception in the ttwu()
code was suspect.

Yong found that the interrupt could hit after context_switch() changes
current but before it clears p->on_cpu, if that interrupt were to
attempt a wake-up of p we would indeed find ourselves spinning in IRQ
context.

Fix this by reverting to the old behaviour for this situation and
perform a full remote wake-up.

Cc: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
Cc: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Marc Zyngier <Marc.Zyngier@arm.com>
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28 17:02:55 +02:00
Xiaotian Feng
cd4ae6adf8 sched: More sched_domain iterations fixes
sched_domain iterations needs to be protected by rcu_read_lock() now,
this patch adds another two places which needs the rcu lock, which is
spotted by following suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage warnings.

kernel/sched_rt.c:1244 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
kernel/sched_stats.h:41 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1303469634-11678-1-git-send-email-dfeng@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28 17:02:54 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
f23a5e1405 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6:
  PM: Fix PM QOS's user mode interface to work with ASCII input
  PM / Hibernate: Update kerneldoc comments in hibernate.c
  PM / Hibernate: Remove arch_prepare_suspend()
  PM / Hibernate: Update some comments in core hibernate code
2011-05-27 14:27:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e52e713ec3 Merge branch 'docs-move' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs
* 'docs-move' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs:
  Create Documentation/security/, move LSM-, credentials-, and keys-related files from Documentation/   to Documentation/security/, add Documentation/security/00-INDEX, and update all occurrences of Documentation/<moved_file>   to Documentation/security/<moved_file>.
2011-05-27 10:25:02 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
d6a72fe465 Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/urgent 2011-05-27 14:28:09 +02:00
Rakib Mullick
6f7bd76f05 kernel/profile.c: remove some duplicate code from profile_hits()
profile_hits() has a common check for prof_on and prof_buffer regardless
of SMP or !SMP.  So, remove some duplicate code by splitting profile_hits
into two.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make do_profile_hits static]
Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26 17:12:37 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
3864601387 mm: extract exe_file handling from procfs
Setup and cleanup of mm_struct->exe_file is currently done in fs/proc/.
This was because exe_file was needed only for /proc/<pid>/exe.  Since we
will need the exe_file functionality also for core dumps (so core name can
contain full binary path), built this functionality always into the
kernel.

To achieve that move that out of proc FS to the kernel/ where in fact it
should belong.  By doing that we can make dup_mm_exe_file static.  Also we
can drop linux/proc_fs.h inclusion in fs/exec.c and kernel/fork.c.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26 17:12:36 -07:00
Daniel Lezcano
a77aea9201 cgroup: remove the ns_cgroup
The ns_cgroup is an annoying cgroup at the namespace / cgroup frontier and
leads to some problems:

  * cgroup creation is out-of-control
  * cgroup name can conflict when pids are looping
  * it is not possible to have a single process handling a lot of
    namespaces without falling in a exponential creation time
  * we may want to create a namespace without creating a cgroup

  The ns_cgroup was replaced by a compatibility flag 'clone_children',
  where a newly created cgroup will copy the parent cgroup values.
  The userspace has to manually create a cgroup and add a task to
  the 'tasks' file.

This patch removes the ns_cgroup as suggested in the following thread:

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-June/018616.html

The 'cgroup_clone' function is removed because it is no longer used.

This is a userspace-visible change.  Commit 45531757b4 ("cgroup: notify
ns_cgroup deprecated") (merged into 2.6.27) caused the kernel to emit a
printk warning users that the feature is planned for removal.  Since that
time we have heard from XXX users who were affected by this.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26 17:12:34 -07:00
Ben Blum
d846687d7f cgroups: use flex_array in attach_proc
Convert cgroup_attach_proc to use flex_array.

The cgroup_attach_proc implementation requires a pre-allocated array to
store task pointers to atomically move a thread-group, but asking for a
monolithic array with kmalloc() may be unreliable for very large groups.
Using flex_array provides the same functionality with less risk of
failure.

This is a post-patch for cgroup-procs-write.patch.

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26 17:12:34 -07:00
Ben Blum
74a1166dfe cgroups: make procs file writable
Make procs file writable to move all threads by tgid at once.

Add functionality that enables users to move all threads in a threadgroup
at once to a cgroup by writing the tgid to the 'cgroup.procs' file.  This
current implementation makes use of a per-threadgroup rwsem that's taken
for reading in the fork() path to prevent newly forking threads within the
threadgroup from "escaping" while the move is in progress.

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26 17:12:34 -07:00
Ben Blum
f780bdb7c1 cgroups: add per-thread subsystem callbacks
Add cgroup subsystem callbacks for per-thread attachment in atomic contexts

Add can_attach_task(), pre_attach(), and attach_task() as new callbacks
for cgroups's subsystem interface.  Unlike can_attach and attach, these
are for per-thread operations, to be called potentially many times when
attaching an entire threadgroup.

Also, the old "bool threadgroup" interface is removed, as replaced by
this.  All subsystems are modified for the new interface - of note is
cpuset, which requires from/to nodemasks for attach to be globally scoped
(though per-cpuset would work too) to persist from its pre_attach to
attach_task and attach.

This is a pre-patch for cgroup-procs-writable.patch.

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26 17:12:34 -07:00
Ben Blum
4714d1d32d cgroups: read-write lock CLONE_THREAD forking per threadgroup
Adds functionality to read/write lock CLONE_THREAD fork()ing per-threadgroup

Add an rwsem that lives in a threadgroup's signal_struct that's taken for
reading in the fork path, under CONFIG_CGROUPS.  If another part of the
kernel later wants to use such a locking mechanism, the CONFIG_CGROUPS
ifdefs should be changed to a higher-up flag that CGROUPS and the other
system would both depend on.

This is a pre-patch for cgroup-procs-write.patch.

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26 17:12:34 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
0775a60aca PM: Fix PM QOS's user mode interface to work with ASCII input
Make pm_qos_power_write() accept values passed to it in the ASCII hex
format either with or without an ending newline.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Mark Gross <markgross@thegnar.org>
2011-05-27 00:05:23 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
23b5c8fa01 rcu: Decrease memory-barrier usage based on semi-formal proof
(Note: this was reverted, and is now being re-applied in pieces, with
this being the fifth and final piece.  See below for the reason that
it is now felt to be safe to re-apply this.)

Commit d09b62d fixed grace-period synchronization, but left some smp_mb()
invocations in rcu_process_callbacks() that are no longer needed, but
sheer paranoia prevented them from being removed.  This commit removes
them and provides a proof of correctness in their absence.  It also adds
a memory barrier to rcu_report_qs_rsp() immediately before the update to
rsp->completed in order to handle the theoretical possibility that the
compiler or CPU might move massive quantities of code into a lock-based
critical section.  This also proves that the sheer paranoia was not
entirely unjustified, at least from a theoretical point of view.

In addition, the old dyntick-idle synchronization depended on the fact
that grace periods were many milliseconds in duration, so that it could
be assumed that no dyntick-idle CPU could reorder a memory reference
across an entire grace period.  Unfortunately for this design, the
addition of expedited grace periods breaks this assumption, which has
the unfortunate side-effect of requiring atomic operations in the
functions that track dyntick-idle state for RCU.  (There is some hope
that the algorithms used in user-level RCU might be applied here, but
some work is required to handle the NMIs that user-space applications
can happily ignore.  For the short term, better safe than sorry.)

This proof assumes that neither compiler nor CPU will allow a lock
acquisition and release to be reordered, as doing so can result in
deadlock.  The proof is as follows:

1.	A given CPU declares a quiescent state under the protection of
	its leaf rcu_node's lock.

2.	If there is more than one level of rcu_node hierarchy, the
	last CPU to declare a quiescent state will also acquire the
	->lock of the next rcu_node up in the hierarchy,  but only
	after releasing the lower level's lock.  The acquisition of this
	lock clearly cannot occur prior to the acquisition of the leaf
	node's lock.

3.	Step 2 repeats until we reach the root rcu_node structure.
	Please note again that only one lock is held at a time through
	this process.  The acquisition of the root rcu_node's ->lock
	must occur after the release of that of the leaf rcu_node.

4.	At this point, we set the ->completed field in the rcu_state
	structure in rcu_report_qs_rsp().  However, if the rcu_node
	hierarchy contains only one rcu_node, then in theory the code
	preceding the quiescent state could leak into the critical
	section.  We therefore precede the update of ->completed with a
	memory barrier.  All CPUs will therefore agree that any updates
	preceding any report of a quiescent state will have happened
	before the update of ->completed.

5.	Regardless of whether a new grace period is needed, rcu_start_gp()
	will propagate the new value of ->completed to all of the leaf
	rcu_node structures, under the protection of each rcu_node's ->lock.
	If a new grace period is needed immediately, this propagation
	will occur in the same critical section that ->completed was
	set in, but courtesy of the memory barrier in #4 above, is still
	seen to follow any pre-quiescent-state activity.

6.	When a given CPU invokes __rcu_process_gp_end(), it becomes
	aware of the end of the old grace period and therefore makes
	any RCU callbacks that were waiting on that grace period eligible
	for invocation.

	If this CPU is the same one that detected the end of the grace
	period, and if there is but a single rcu_node in the hierarchy,
	we will still be in the single critical section.  In this case,
	the memory barrier in step #4 guarantees that all callbacks will
	be seen to execute after each CPU's quiescent state.

	On the other hand, if this is a different CPU, it will acquire
	the leaf rcu_node's ->lock, and will again be serialized after
	each CPU's quiescent state for the old grace period.

On the strength of this proof, this commit therefore removes the memory
barriers from rcu_process_callbacks() and adds one to rcu_report_qs_rsp().
The effect is to reduce the number of memory barriers by one and to
reduce the frequency of execution from about once per scheduling tick
per CPU to once per grace period.

This was reverted do to hangs found during testing by Yinghai Lu and
Ingo Molnar.  Frederic Weisbecker supplied Yinghai with tracing that
located the underlying problem, and Frederic also provided the fix.

The underlying problem was that the HARDIRQ_ENTER() macro from
lib/locking-selftest.c invoked irq_enter(), which in turn invokes
rcu_irq_enter(), but HARDIRQ_EXIT() invoked __irq_exit(), which
does not invoke rcu_irq_exit().  This situation resulted in calls
to rcu_irq_enter() that were not balanced by the required calls to
rcu_irq_exit().  Therefore, after these locking selftests completed,
RCU's dyntick-idle nesting count was a large number (for example,
72), which caused RCU to to conclude that the affected CPU was not in
dyntick-idle mode when in fact it was.

RCU would therefore incorrectly wait for this dyntick-idle CPU, resulting
in hangs.

In contrast, with Frederic's patch, which replaces the irq_enter()
in HARDIRQ_ENTER() with an __irq_enter(), these tests don't ever call
either rcu_irq_enter() or rcu_irq_exit(), which works because the CPU
running the test is already marked as not being in dyntick-idle mode.
This means that the rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit() calls and RCU
then has no problem working out which CPUs are in dyntick-idle mode and
which are not.

The reason that the imbalance was not noticed before the barrier patch
was applied is that the old implementation of rcu_enter_nohz() ignored
the nesting depth.  This could still result in delays, but much shorter
ones.  Whenever there was a delay, RCU would IPI the CPU with the
unbalanced nesting level, which would eventually result in rcu_enter_nohz()
being called, which in turn would force RCU to see that the CPU was in
dyntick-idle mode.

The reason that very few people noticed the problem is that the mismatched
irq_enter() vs. __irq_exit() occured only when the kernel was built with
CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-05-26 09:42:23 -07:00