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Mike Travis
13b40c1e40 sched: reduce stack size in isolated_cpu_setup()
* Remove 16k stack requirements in isolated_cpu_setup when NR_CPUS=4096.

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 11:55:42 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
666484f025 Merge branch 'core/softirq' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core/softirq' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  softirq: remove irqs_disabled warning from local_bh_enable
  softirq: remove initialization of static per-cpu variable
  Remove argument from open_softirq which is always NULL
2008-07-14 15:28:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
948769a5ba Merge branch 'sched/new-API-sched_setscheduler' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched/new-API-sched_setscheduler' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: add new API sched_setscheduler_nocheck: add a flag to control access checks
2008-07-14 14:50:49 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
5806b81ac1 Merge branch 'auto-ftrace-next' into tracing/for-linus
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
	arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
	arch/x86/lib/Makefile
	include/asm-x86/irqflags.h
	kernel/Makefile
	kernel/sched.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-14 16:11:52 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
d14c8a680c Merge branch 'sched/for-linus' into tracing/for-linus 2008-07-14 16:11:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
54ef76f37b Merge branch 'linus' into sched/devel 2008-07-13 08:50:13 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
ae94b8075a Merge branch 'linus' into x86/core
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-12 07:29:02 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
b1e387348a sched: fix cpu hotplug, cleanup
Clean up __migrate_task(): to just have separate "done" and "fail"
cases, instead of that "out" case with random error behavior.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-10 20:39:58 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
bac0c9103b Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace' into auto-ftrace-next 2008-07-10 11:43:00 +02:00
Dmitry Adamushko
dc7fab8b3b sched: fix cpu hotplug
I think we may have a race between try_to_wake_up() and
migrate_live_tasks() -> move_task_off_dead_cpu() when the later one
may end up looping endlessly.

Interrupts are enabled on other CPUs when migration_call(CPU_DEAD, ...) is
called so we may get a race between try_to_wake_up() and
migrate_live_tasks() -> move_task_off_dead_cpu(). The former one may push
a task out of a dead CPU causing the later one to loop endlessly.

Heiko Carstens observed:

| That's exactly what explains a dump I got yesterday. Thanks for fixing! :)

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Cc: miaox@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-10 09:35:34 +02:00
Mike Travis
076ac2af86 sched, numa: replace MAX_NUMNODES with nr_node_ids in kernel/sched.c
* Replace usages of MAX_NUMNODES with nr_node_ids in kernel/sched.c,
    where appropriate.  This saves some allocated space as well as many
    wasted cycles going through node entries that are non-existent.

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 11:31:30 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
032f82786f Merge commit 'v2.6.26-rc9' into sched/devel 2008-07-07 08:01:26 +02:00
Ankita Garg
46ac22bab4 sched: fix accounting in task delay accounting & migration
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:27:14PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 10:50 +0530, Ankita Garg wrote:
>
> > Thanks Peter for the explanation...
> >
> > I agree with the above and that is the reason why I did not see weird
> > values with cpu_time. But, run_delay still would suffer skews as the end
> > points for delta could be taken on different cpus due to migration (more
> > so on RT kernel due to the push-pull operations). With the below patch,
> > I could not reproduce the issue I had seen earlier. After every dequeue,
> > we take the delta and start wait measurements from zero when moved to a
> > different rq.
>
> OK, so task delay delay accounting is broken because it doesn't take
> migration into account.
>
> What you've done is make it symmetric wrt enqueue, and account it like
>
>   cpu0      cpu1
>
> enqueue
>  <wait-d1>
> dequeue
>             enqueue
>              <wait-d2>
>             run
>
> Where you add both d1 and d2 to the run_delay,.. right?
>

Thanks for reviewing the patch. The above is exactly what I have done.

> This seems like a good fix, however it looks like the patch will break
> compilation in !CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS && !CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT, of it
> failing to provide a stub for sched_info_dequeue() in that case.

Fixed. Pl. find the new patch below.

Signed-off-by: Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Cc: aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: David Bahi <DBahi@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-04 12:50:23 +02:00
Gregory Haskins
2087a1ad82 sched: add avg-overlap support to RT tasks
We have the notion of tracking process-coupling (a.k.a. buddy-wake) via
the p->se.last_wake / p->se.avg_overlap facilities, but it is only used
for cfs to cfs interactions.  There is no reason why an rt to cfs
interaction cannot share in establishing a relationhip in a similar
manner.

Because PREEMPT_RT runs many kernel threads as FIFO priority, we often
times have heavy interaction between RT threads waking CFS applications.
This patch offers a substantial boost (50-60%+) in perfomance under those
circumstances.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Cc: npiggin@suse.de
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-04 12:50:22 +02:00
Gregory Haskins
c4acb2c066 sched: terminate newidle balancing once at least one task has moved over
Inspired by Peter Zijlstra.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Cc: npiggin@suse.de
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-04 12:50:21 +02:00
Raistlin
619b048803 sched: fix divide error when trying to configure rt_period to zero
Here it is another little Oops we found while configuring invalid values
via cgroups:

echo 0 > /dev/cgroups/0/cpu.rt_period_us
or
echo 4294967296 > /dev/cgroups/0/cpu.rt_period_us

[  205.509825] divide error: 0000 [#1]
[  205.510151] Modules linked in:
[  205.510151]
[  205.510151] Pid: 2339, comm: bash Not tainted (2.6.26-rc8 #33)
[  205.510151] EIP: 0060:[<c030c6ef>] EFLAGS: 00000293 CPU: 0
[  205.510151] EIP is at div64_u64+0x5f/0x70
[  205.510151] EAX: 0000389f EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000
[  205.510151] ESI: d9800000 EDI: 00000000 EBP: c6cede60 ESP: c6cede50
[  205.510151]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
[  205.510151] Process bash (pid: 2339, ti=c6cec000 task=c79be370 task.ti=c6cec000)
[  205.510151] Stack: d9800000 0000389f c05971a0 d9800000 c6cedeb4 c0214dbd 00000000 00000000
[  205.510151]        c6cede88 c0242bd8 c05377c0 c7a41b40 00000000 00000000 00000000 c05971a0
[  205.510151]        c780ed20 c7508494 c7a41b40 00000000 00000002 c6cedebc c05971a0 ffffffea
[  205.510151] Call Trace:
[  205.510151]  [<c0214dbd>] ? __rt_schedulable+0x1cd/0x240
[  205.510151]  [<c0242bd8>] ? cgroup_file_open+0x18/0xe0
[  205.510151]  [<c0214fe4>] ? tg_set_bandwidth+0xa4/0xf0
[  205.510151]  [<c0215066>] ? sched_group_set_rt_period+0x36/0x50
[  205.510151]  [<c021508e>] ? cpu_rt_period_write_uint+0xe/0x10
[  205.510151]  [<c0242dc5>] ? cgroup_file_write+0x125/0x160
[  205.510151]  [<c0232c15>] ? hrtimer_interrupt+0x155/0x190
[  205.510151]  [<c02f047f>] ? security_file_permission+0xf/0x20
[  205.510151]  [<c0277ad8>] ? rw_verify_area+0x48/0xc0
[  205.510151]  [<c0283744>] ? dupfd+0x104/0x130
[  205.510151]  [<c027838c>] ? vfs_write+0x9c/0x160
[  205.510151]  [<c0242ca0>] ? cgroup_file_write+0x0/0x160
[  205.510151]  [<c027850d>] ? sys_write+0x3d/0x70
[  205.510151]  [<c0203019>] ? sysenter_past_esp+0x6a/0x91
[  205.510151]  =======================
[  205.510151] Code: 0f 45 de 31 f6 0f ad d0 d3 ea f6 c1 20 0f 45 c2 0f 45 d6 89 45 f0 89 55 f4 8b 55 f4 31 c9 8b 45 f0 39 d3 89 c6 77 08 89 d0 31 d2 <f7> f3 89 c1 83 c4 08 89 f0 f7 f3 89 ca 5b 5e 5d c3 55 89 e5 56
[  205.510151] EIP: [<c030c6ef>] div64_u64+0x5f/0x70 SS:ESP 0068:c6cede50

The attached patch solves the issue for me.

I'm checking as soon as possible for the period not being zero since, if
it is, going ahead is useless. This way we also save a mutex_lock() and
a read_lock() wrt doing it inside tg_set_bandwidth() or
__rt_schedulable().

Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <trimarchimichael@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-01 08:23:24 +02:00
Vegard Nossum
30432094a7 sched: fix warning
This patch fixes the following warning:

kernel/sched.c:1667: warning: 'cfs_rq_set_shares' defined but not used

This seems the correct way to fix this; cfs_rq_set_shares() is only used
in a single place, which is also inside #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-30 08:37:32 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
34e83e850f sched: build fix
fix:

kernel/sched.c: In function ‘sched_group_set_shares':
kernel/sched.c:8635: error: implicit declaration of function ‘cfs_rq_set_shares'

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-30 08:37:13 +02:00
Dmitry Adamushko
79c537998d sched: fix cpu hotplug
the CPU hotplug problems (crashes under high-volume unplug+replug
tests) seem to be related to migrate_dead_tasks().

Firstly I added traces to see all tasks being migrated with
migrate_live_tasks() and migrate_dead_tasks(). On my setup the problem
pops up (the one with "se == NULL" in the loop of
pick_next_task_fair()) shortly after the traces indicate that some has
been migrated with migrate_dead_tasks()). btw., I can reproduce it
much faster now with just a plain cpu down/up loop.

[disclaimer] Well, unless I'm really missing something important in
this late hour [/desclaimer] pick_next_task() is not something
appropriate for migrate_dead_tasks() :-)

the following change seems to eliminate the problem on my setup
(although, I kept it running only for a few minutes to get a few
messages indicating migrate_dead_tasks() does move tasks and the
system is still ok)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-29 08:50:21 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f1d239f732 sched: incremental effective_load()
Increase the accuracy of the effective_load values.

Not only consider the current increment (as per the attempted wakeup), but
also consider the delta between when we last adjusted the shares and the
current situation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:47 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
83378269a5 sched: correct wakeup weight calculations
rw_i = {2, 4, 1, 0}
s_i = {2/7, 4/7, 1/7, 0}

wakeup on cpu0, weight=1

rw'_i = {3, 4, 1, 0}
s'_i = {3/8, 4/8, 1/8, 0}

s_0 = S * rw_0 / \Sum rw_j ->
  \Sum rw_j = S*rw_0/s_0 = 1*2*7/2 = 7 (correct)

s'_0 = S * (rw_0 + 1) / (\Sum rw_j + 1) =
       1 * (2+1) / (7+1) = 3/8 (correct

so we find that adding 1 to cpu0 gains 5/56 in weight
if say the other cpu were, cpu1, we'd also have to calculate its 4/56 loss

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:46 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
2398f2c6d3 sched: update shares on wakeup
We found that the affine wakeup code needs rather accurate load figures
to be effective. The trouble is that updating the load figures is fairly
expensive with group scheduling. Therefore ratelimit the updating.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:45 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
cd80917e4f sched: fix shares boost logic
In case the domain is empty, pretend there is a single task on each cpu, so
that together with the boost logic we end up giving 1/n shares to each
cpu.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:44 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
93b75217df sched: disable source/target_load bias
The bias given by source/target_load functions can be very large, disable
it by default to get faster convergence.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:44 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
051c67640e sched: remove prio preference from balance decisions
Priority looses much of its meaning in a hierarchical context. So don't
use it in balance decisions.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:42 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
408ed066b1 sched: hierarchical load vs find_busiest_group
find_busiest_group() has some assumptions about task weight being in the
NICE_0_LOAD range. Hierarchical task groups break this assumption - fix this
by replacing it with the average task weight, which will adapt the situation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:40 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
a8a51d5e59 sched: persistent average load per task
Remove the fall-back to SCHED_LOAD_SCALE by remembering the previous value of
cpu_avg_load_per_task() - this is useful because of the hierarchical group
model in which task weight can be much smaller.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:39 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
039a1c41b3 sched: fix sched_balance_self() smp group balancing
Finding the least idle cpu is more accurate when done with updated shares.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:38 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
3e5459b4be sched: fix newidle smp group balancing
Re-compute the shares on newidle - so we can make a decision based on
recent data.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:37 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
c8cba857b4 sched: simplify the group load balancer
While thinking about the previous patch - I realized that using per domain
aggregate load values in load_balance_fair() is wrong. We should use the
load value for that CPU.

By not needing per domain hierarchical load values we don't need to store
per domain aggregate shares, which greatly simplifies all the math.

It basically falls apart in two separate computations:
 - per domain update of the shares
 - per CPU update of the hierarchical load

Also get rid of the move_group_shares() stuff - just re-compute the shares
again after a successful load balance.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:36 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
a25b5aca87 sched: no need to aggregate task_weight
We only need to know the task_weight of the busiest rq - nothing to do
if there are no tasks there.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:35 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
d3f40dbab9 sched: dont micro manage share losses
We used to try and contain the loss of 'shares' by playing arithmetic
games. Replace that by noticing that at the top sched_domain we'll
always have the full weight in shares to distribute.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:34 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
4d8d595dfa sched: update aggregate when holding the RQs
It was observed that in __update_group_shares_cpu()

  rq_weight > aggregate()->rq_weight

This is caused by forks/wakeups in between the initial aggregate pass and
locking of the RQs for load balance. To avoid this situation partially re-do
the aggregation once we have the RQs locked (which avoids new tasks from
appearing).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:33 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
b6a86c746f sched: fix sched_domain aggregation
Keeping the aggregate on the first cpu of the sched domain has two problems:
 - it could collide between different sched domains on different cpus
 - it could slow things down because of the remote accesses

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:32 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
103638d95b sched: fix wakeup granularity and buddy granularity
Uncouple buddy selection from wakeup granularity.

The initial idea was that buddies could run ahead as far as a normal task
can - do this by measuring a pair 'slice' just as we do for a normal task.

This means we can drop the wakeup_granularity back to 5ms.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:31 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
76a2a6ee8a sched: sched_clock_cpu() based cpu_clock()
with sched_clock_cpu() being reasonably in sync between cpus (max 1 jiffy
difference) use this to provide cpu_clock().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:30 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
c09595f63b sched: revert revert of: fair-group: SMP-nice for group scheduling
Try again..

Initial commit: 18d95a2832
Revert: 6363ca57c7

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:29 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
a7be37ac8e sched: revert the revert of: weight calculations
Try again..

initial commit: 8f1bc385cf
revert: f9305d4a09

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:27 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
97e6722b8d Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/ftrace 2008-06-25 12:27:56 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
773dc8eaca Merge branch 'linus' into sched/new-API-sched_setscheduler 2008-06-25 12:27:05 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f57aec5a87 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/devel
Conflicts:

	kernel/sched_rt.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-25 12:26:59 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
ace7f1b796 Merge branch 'linus' into core/softirq 2008-06-25 12:23:59 +02:00
Rusty Russell
961ccddd59 sched: add new API sched_setscheduler_nocheck: add a flag to control access checks
Hidehiro Kawai noticed that sched_setscheduler() can fail in
stop_machine: it calls sched_setscheduler() from insmod, which can
have CAP_SYS_MODULE without CAP_SYS_NICE.

Two cases could have failed, so are changed to sched_setscheduler_nocheck:
  kernel/softirq.c:cpu_callback()
	- CPU hotplug callback
  kernel/stop_machine.c:__stop_machine_run()
	- Called from various places, including modprobe()

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: sugita <yumiko.sugita.yf@hitachi.com>
Cc: Satoshi OSHIMA <satoshi.oshima.fk@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-23 22:57:56 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1de8644cc7 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/devel 2008-06-23 11:30:23 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f34bfb1bee Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/ftrace 2008-06-23 11:11:42 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
198bb971e2 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/urgent 2008-06-23 11:00:26 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
a60b33cf59 Merge branch 'linus' into core/softirq 2008-06-23 10:52:59 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
1f1e2ce8a5 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  softlockup: fix NMI hangs due to lock race - 2.6.26-rc regression
  rcupreempt: remove export of rcu_batches_completed_bh
  cpuset: limit the input of cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level
2008-06-20 12:37:13 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
ea71a54670 sched: refactor wait_for_completion_timeout()
Simplify the code and fix the boundary condition of
wait_for_completion_timeout(,0).

We can kill the first __remove_wait_queue() as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2008-06-20 17:15:49 +02:00
Roland Dreier
bb10ed0994 sched: fix wait_for_completion_timeout() spurious failure under heavy load
It seems that the current implementaton of wait_for_completion_timeout()
has a small problem under very high load for the common pattern:

	if (!wait_for_completion_timeout(&done, timeout))
		/* handle failure */

because the implementation very roughly does (lots of code deleted to
show the basic flow):

	static inline long __sched
	do_wait_for_common(struct completion *x, long timeout, int state)
	{
		if (x->done)
			return timeout;

		do {
			timeout = schedule_timeout(timeout);

			if (!timeout)
				return timeout;

		} while (!x->done);

		return timeout;
	}

so if the system is very busy and x->done is not set when
do_wait_for_common() is entered, it is possible that the first call to
schedule_timeout() returns 0 because the task doing wait_for_completion
doesn't get rescheduled for a long time, even if it is woken up early
enough.

In this case, wait_for_completion_timeout() returns 0 without even
checking x->done again, and the code above falls into its failure case
purely for scheduler reasons, even if the hardware event or whatever was
being waited for happened early enough.

It would make sense to add an extra test to do_wait_for() in the timeout
case and return 1 if x->done is actually set.

A quick audit (not exhaustive) of wait_for_completion_timeout() callers
seems to indicate that no one actually cares about the return value in
the success case -- they just test for 0 (timed out) versus non-zero
(wait succeeded).

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-20 13:19:32 +02:00