Add a module parameter to override the functionality bitfield. This
lets the user disable some commands. This can be used to force a chip
driver to take different code paths.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
The legacy probe and force module parameters are obsolete now, the
same can be achieved using the new_device sysfs interface, which is
both more flexible and cheaper (it is implemented by i2c-core rather
than replicated in every driver module.)
The legacy ignore module parameters can be dropped as well. Ignoring
can be done by instantiating a "dummy" device at the problematic
address.
This is the first step of a huge cleanup to i2c-core's i2c_detect
function, i2c.h's I2C_CLIENT_INSMOD* macros, and all drivers that made
use of them.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Superseded by tdfxfb. I2C/DDC support used to live in a separate
driver but this caused driver conflicts.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (30 commits)
x86, apic: Enable lapic nmi watchdog on AMD Family 11h
x86: Remove unnecessary mdelay() from cpu_disable_common()
x86, ioapic: Document another case when level irq is seen as an edge
x86, ioapic: Fix the EOI register detection mechanism
x86, io-apic: Move the effort of clearing remoteIRR explicitly before migrating the irq
x86: SGI UV: Map low MMR ranges
x86: apic: Print out SRAT table APIC id in hex
x86: Re-get cfg_new in case reuse/move irq_desc
x86: apic: Remove not needed #ifdef
x86: io-apic: IO-APIC MMIO should not fail on resource insertion
x86: Remove asm/apicnum.h
x86: apic: Do not use stacked physid_mask_t
x86, apic: Get rid of apicid_to_cpu_present assign on 64-bit
x86, ioapic: Use snrpintf while set names for IO-APIC resourses
x86, apic: Use PAGE_SIZE instead of numbers
x86: Remove local_irq_enable()/local_irq_disable() in fixup_irqs()
x86: Use EOI register in io-apic on intel platforms
x86: Force irq complete move during cpu offline
x86: Remove move_cleanup_count from irq_cfg
x86, intr-remap: Avoid irq_chip mask/unmask in fixup_irqs() for intr-remapping
...
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (40 commits)
tracing: Separate raw syscall from syscall tracer
ring-buffer-benchmark: Add parameters to set produce/consumer priorities
tracing, function tracer: Clean up strstrip() usage
ring-buffer benchmark: Run producer/consumer threads at nice +19
tracing: Remove the stale include/trace/power.h
tracing: Only print objcopy version warning once from recordmcount
tracing: Prevent build warning: 'ftrace_graph_buf' defined but not used
ring-buffer: Move access to commit_page up into function used
tracing: do not disable interrupts for trace_clock_local
ring-buffer: Add multiple iterations between benchmark timestamps
kprobes: Sanitize struct kretprobe_instance allocations
tracing: Fix to use __always_unused attribute
compiler: Introduce __always_unused
tracing: Exit with error if a weak function is used in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Move conditional into update_funcs() in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Add regex for weak functions in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Move mcount section search to front of loop in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Fix objcopy revision check in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Check absolute path of input file in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Correct the check for number of arguments in recordmcount.pl
...
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (31 commits)
rcu: Make RCU's CPU-stall detector be default
rcu: Add expedited grace-period support for preemptible RCU
rcu: Enable fourth level of TREE_RCU hierarchy
rcu: Rename "quiet" functions
rcu: Re-arrange code to reduce #ifdef pain
rcu: Eliminate unneeded function wrapping
rcu: Fix grace-period-stall bug on large systems with CPU hotplug
rcu: Eliminate __rcu_pending() false positives
rcu: Further cleanups of use of lastcomp
rcu: Simplify association of forced quiescent states with grace periods
rcu: Accelerate callback processing on CPUs not detecting GP end
rcu: Mark init-time-only rcu_bootup_announce() as __init
rcu: Simplify association of quiescent states with grace periods
rcu: Rename dynticks_completed to completed_fqs
rcu: Enable synchronize_sched_expedited() fastpath
rcu: Remove inline from forward-referenced functions
rcu: Fix note_new_gpnum() uses of ->gpnum
rcu: Fix synchronization for rcu_process_gp_end() uses of ->completed counter
rcu: Prepare for synchronization fixes: clean up for non-NO_HZ handling of ->completed counter
rcu: Cleanup: balance rcu_irq_enter()/rcu_irq_exit() calls
...
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (30 commits)
TOMOYO: Add recursive directory matching operator support.
remove CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES compile option
SELinux: print denials for buggy kernel with unknown perms
Silence the existing API for capability version compatibility check.
LSM: Move security_path_chmod()/security_path_chown() to after mutex_lock().
SELinux: header generation may hit infinite loop
selinux: Fix warnings
security: report the module name to security_module_request
Config option to set a default LSM
sysctl: require CAP_SYS_RAWIO to set mmap_min_addr
tpm: autoload tpm_tis based on system PnP IDs
tpm_tis: TPM_STS_DATA_EXPECT workaround
define convenient securebits masks for prctl users (v2)
tpm: fix header for modular build
tomoyo: improve hash bucket dispersion
tpm add default function definitions
LSM: imbed ima calls in the security hooks
SELinux: add .gitignore files for dynamic classes
security: remove root_plug
SELinux: fix locking issue introduced with c6d3aaa4e3
...
The fbdev mailing lists at SourceForge have been migrated to a single
mailing list at kernel.org: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-fscache: (31 commits)
FS-Cache: Provide nop fscache_stat_d() if CONFIG_FSCACHE_STATS=n
SLOW_WORK: Fix GFS2 to #include <linux/module.h> before using THIS_MODULE
SLOW_WORK: Fix CIFS to pass THIS_MODULE to slow_work_register_user()
CacheFiles: Don't log lookup/create failing with ENOBUFS
CacheFiles: Catch an overly long wait for an old active object
CacheFiles: Better showing of debugging information in active object problems
CacheFiles: Mark parent directory locks as I_MUTEX_PARENT to keep lockdep happy
CacheFiles: Handle truncate unlocking the page we're reading
CacheFiles: Don't write a full page if there's only a partial page to cache
FS-Cache: Actually requeue an object when requested
FS-Cache: Start processing an object's operations on that object's death
FS-Cache: Make sure FSCACHE_COOKIE_LOOKING_UP cleared on lookup failure
FS-Cache: Add a retirement stat counter
FS-Cache: Handle pages pending storage that get evicted under OOM conditions
FS-Cache: Handle read request vs lookup, creation or other cache failure
FS-Cache: Don't delete pending pages from the page-store tracking tree
FS-Cache: Fix lock misorder in fscache_write_op()
FS-Cache: The object-available state can't rely on the cookie to be available
FS-Cache: Permit cache retrieval ops to be interrupted in the initial wait phase
FS-Cache: Use radix tree preload correctly in tracking of pages to be stored
...
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2:
ocfs2: Trivial cleanup of jbd compatibility layer removal
ocfs2: Refresh documentation
ocfs2: return f_fsid info in ocfs2_statfs()
ocfs2: duplicate inline data properly during reflink.
ocfs2: Move ocfs2_complete_reflink to the right place.
ocfs2: Return -EINVAL when a device is not ocfs2.
Catch an overly long wait for an old, dying active object when we want to
replace it with a new one. The probability is that all the slow-work threads
are hogged, and the delete can't get a look in.
What we do instead is:
(1) if there's nothing in the slow work queue, we sleep until either the dying
object has finished dying or there is something in the slow work queue
behind which we can queue our object.
(2) if there is something in the slow work queue, we return ETIMEDOUT to
fscache_lookup_object(), which then puts us back on the slow work queue,
presumably behind the deletion that we're blocked by. We are then
deferred for a while until we work our way back through the queue -
without blocking a slow-work thread unnecessarily.
A backtrace similar to the following may appear in the log without this patch:
INFO: task kslowd004:5711 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
kslowd004 D 0000000000000000 0 5711 2 0x00000080
ffff88000340bb80 0000000000000046 ffff88002550d000 0000000000000000
ffff88002550d000 0000000000000007 ffff88000340bfd8 ffff88002550d2a8
000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff88002550d2a8
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81058e21>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
[<ffffffffa011c4d8>] ? cachefiles_wait_bit+0x0/0xd [cachefiles]
[<ffffffffa011c4e1>] cachefiles_wait_bit+0x9/0xd [cachefiles]
[<ffffffff81353153>] __wait_on_bit+0x43/0x76
[<ffffffff8111ae39>] ? ext3_xattr_get+0x1ec/0x270
[<ffffffff813531ef>] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x69/0x74
[<ffffffffa011c4d8>] ? cachefiles_wait_bit+0x0/0xd [cachefiles]
[<ffffffff8104c125>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x2e
[<ffffffffa011bc79>] cachefiles_mark_object_active+0x203/0x23b [cachefiles]
[<ffffffffa011c209>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x558/0x827 [cachefiles]
[<ffffffffa011a429>] cachefiles_lookup_object+0xac/0x12a [cachefiles]
[<ffffffffa00aa1e9>] fscache_lookup_object+0x1c7/0x214 [fscache]
[<ffffffffa00aafc5>] fscache_object_state_machine+0xa5/0x52d [fscache]
[<ffffffffa00ab4ac>] fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x5f/0xa0 [fscache]
[<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
[<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
[<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
[<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
[<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82
[<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
[<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
[<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
[<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
1 lock held by kslowd004/5711:
#0: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#7/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa011be64>] cachefiles_walk_to_object+0x1b3/0x827 [cachefiles]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Start processing an object's operations when that object moves into the DYING
state as the object cannot be destroyed until all its outstanding operations
have completed.
Furthermore, make sure that read and allocation operations handle being woken
up on a dead object. Such events are recorded in the Allocs.abt and
Retrvls.abt statistics as viewable through /proc/fs/fscache/stats.
The code for waiting for object activation for the read and allocation
operations is also extracted into its own function as it is much the same in
all cases, differing only in the stats incremented.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Handle netfs pages that the vmscan algorithm wants to evict from the pagecache
under OOM conditions, but that are waiting for write to the cache. Under these
conditions, vmscan calls the releasepage() function of the netfs, asking if a
page can be discarded.
The problem is typified by the following trace of a stuck process:
kslowd005 D 0000000000000000 0 4253 2 0x00000080
ffff88001b14f370 0000000000000046 ffff880020d0d000 0000000000000007
0000000000000006 0000000000000001 ffff88001b14ffd8 ffff880020d0d2a8
000000000000ddf0 00000000000118c0 00000000000118c0 ffff880020d0d2a8
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa00782d8>] __fscache_wait_on_page_write+0x8b/0xa7 [fscache]
[<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
[<ffffffffa0078240>] ? __fscache_check_page_write+0x63/0x70 [fscache]
[<ffffffffa00b671d>] nfs_fscache_release_page+0x4e/0xc4 [nfs]
[<ffffffffa00927f0>] nfs_release_page+0x3c/0x41 [nfs]
[<ffffffff810885d3>] try_to_release_page+0x32/0x3b
[<ffffffff81093203>] shrink_page_list+0x316/0x4ac
[<ffffffff8109372b>] shrink_inactive_list+0x392/0x67c
[<ffffffff813532fa>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x100/0x10b
[<ffffffff81058df0>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10c/0x130
[<ffffffff8135330e>] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0xb
[<ffffffff81093aa2>] shrink_list+0x8d/0x8f
[<ffffffff81093d1c>] shrink_zone+0x278/0x33c
[<ffffffff81052d6c>] ? ktime_get_ts+0xad/0xba
[<ffffffff81094b13>] try_to_free_pages+0x22e/0x392
[<ffffffff81091e24>] ? isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x212
[<ffffffff8108e743>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3dc/0x5cf
[<ffffffff81089529>] grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x65/0xaa
[<ffffffff8110f8c0>] ext3_write_begin+0x78/0x1eb
[<ffffffff81089ec5>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x109/0x28c
[<ffffffff8103cb69>] ? current_fs_time+0x22/0x29
[<ffffffff8108a509>] __generic_file_aio_write+0x350/0x385
[<ffffffff8108a588>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x4a/0xae
[<ffffffff8108a59e>] generic_file_aio_write+0x60/0xae
[<ffffffff810b2e82>] do_sync_write+0xe3/0x120
[<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
[<ffffffff810b18e1>] ? __dentry_open+0x1a5/0x2b8
[<ffffffff810b1a76>] ? dentry_open+0x82/0x89
[<ffffffffa00e693c>] cachefiles_write_page+0x298/0x335 [cachefiles]
[<ffffffffa0077147>] fscache_write_op+0x178/0x2c2 [fscache]
[<ffffffffa0075656>] fscache_op_execute+0x7a/0xd1 [fscache]
[<ffffffff81082093>] slow_work_execute+0x18f/0x2d1
[<ffffffff8108239a>] slow_work_thread+0x1c5/0x308
[<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
[<ffffffff810821d5>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x308
[<ffffffff8104be91>] kthread+0x7a/0x82
[<ffffffff8100beda>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
[<ffffffff8100b87c>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
[<ffffffff8102ef83>] ? tg_shares_up+0x171/0x227
[<ffffffff8104be17>] ? kthread+0x0/0x82
[<ffffffff8100bed0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
In the above backtrace, the following is happening:
(1) A page storage operation is being executed by a slow-work thread
(fscache_write_op()).
(2) FS-Cache farms the operation out to the cache to perform
(cachefiles_write_page()).
(3) CacheFiles is then calling Ext3 to perform the actual write, using Ext3's
standard write (do_sync_write()) under KERNEL_DS directly from the netfs
page.
(4) However, for Ext3 to perform the write, it must allocate some memory, in
particular, it must allocate at least one page cache page into which it
can copy the data from the netfs page.
(5) Under OOM conditions, the memory allocator can't immediately come up with
a page, so it uses vmscan to find something to discard
(try_to_free_pages()).
(6) vmscan finds a clean netfs page it might be able to discard (possibly the
one it's trying to write out).
(7) The netfs is called to throw the page away (nfs_release_page()) - but it's
called with __GFP_WAIT, so the netfs decides to wait for the store to
complete (__fscache_wait_on_page_write()).
(8) This blocks a slow-work processing thread - possibly against itself.
The system ends up stuck because it can't write out any netfs pages to the
cache without allocating more memory.
To avoid this, we make FS-Cache cancel some writes that aren't in the middle of
actually being performed. This means that some data won't make it into the
cache this time. To support this, a new FS-Cache function is added
fscache_maybe_release_page() that replaces what the netfs releasepage()
functions used to do with respect to the cache.
The decisions fscache_maybe_release_page() makes are counted and displayed
through /proc/fs/fscache/stats on a line labelled "VmScan". There are four
counters provided: "nos=N" - pages that weren't pending storage; "gon=N" -
pages that were pending storage when we first looked, but weren't by the time
we got the object lock; "bsy=N" - pages that we ignored as they were actively
being written when we looked; and "can=N" - pages that we cancelled the storage
of.
What I'd really like to do is alter the behaviour of the cancellation
heuristics, depending on how necessary it is to expel pages. If there are
plenty of other pages that aren't waiting to be written to the cache that
could be ejected first, then it would be nice to hold up on immediate
cancellation of cache writes - but I don't see a way of doing that.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
FS-Cache doesn't correctly handle the netfs requesting a read from the cache
on an object that failed or was withdrawn by the cache. A trace similar to
the following might be seen:
CacheFiles: Lookup failed error -105
[exe ] unexpected submission OP165afe [OBJ6cac OBJECT_LC_DYING]
[exe ] objstate=OBJECT_LC_DYING [OBJECT_LC_DYING]
[exe ] objflags=0
[exe ] objevent=9 [fffffffffffffffb]
[exe ] ops=0 inp=0 exc=0
Pid: 6970, comm: exe Not tainted 2.6.32-rc6-cachefs #50
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa0076477>] fscache_submit_op+0x3ff/0x45a [fscache]
[<ffffffffa0077997>] __fscache_read_or_alloc_pages+0x187/0x3c4 [fscache]
[<ffffffffa00b6480>] ? nfs_readpage_from_fscache_complete+0x0/0x66 [nfs]
[<ffffffffa00b6388>] __nfs_readpages_from_fscache+0x7e/0x176 [nfs]
[<ffffffff8108e483>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x11c/0x5cf
[<ffffffffa009d796>] nfs_readpages+0x114/0x1d7 [nfs]
[<ffffffff81090314>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x15f/0x1ec
[<ffffffff81090228>] ? __do_page_cache_readahead+0x73/0x1ec
[<ffffffff810903bd>] ra_submit+0x1c/0x20
[<ffffffff810906bb>] ondemand_readahead+0x227/0x23a
[<ffffffff81090762>] page_cache_sync_readahead+0x17/0x19
[<ffffffff8108a99e>] generic_file_aio_read+0x236/0x5a0
[<ffffffffa00937bd>] nfs_file_read+0xe4/0xf3 [nfs]
[<ffffffff810b2fa2>] do_sync_read+0xe3/0x120
[<ffffffff81354cc3>] ? _spin_unlock_irq+0x2b/0x31
[<ffffffff8104c0f1>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
[<ffffffff811848e5>] ? selinux_file_permission+0x5d/0x10f
[<ffffffff81352bdb>] ? thread_return+0x3e/0x101
[<ffffffff8117d7b0>] ? security_file_permission+0x11/0x13
[<ffffffff810b3b06>] vfs_read+0xaa/0x16f
[<ffffffff81058df0>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10c/0x130
[<ffffffff810b3c84>] sys_read+0x45/0x6c
[<ffffffff8100ae2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
The object state might also be OBJECT_DYING or OBJECT_WITHDRAWING.
This should be handled by simply rejecting the new operation with ENOBUFS.
There's no need to log an error for it. Events of this type now appear in the
stats file under Ops:rej.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
FS-Cache has two structs internally for keeping track of the internal state of
a cached file: the fscache_cookie struct, which represents the netfs's state,
and fscache_object struct, which represents the cache's state. Each has a
pointer that points to the other (when both are in existence), and each has a
spinlock for pointer maintenance.
Since netfs operations approach these structures from the cookie side, they get
the cookie lock first, then the object lock. Cache operations, on the other
hand, approach from the object side, and get the object lock first. It is not
then permitted for a cache operation to get the cookie lock whilst it is
holding the object lock lest deadlock occur; instead, it must do one of two
things:
(1) increment the cookie usage counter, drop the object lock and then get both
locks in order, or
(2) simply hold the object lock as certain parts of the cookie may not be
altered whilst the object lock is held.
It is also not permitted to follow either pointer without holding the lock at
the end you start with. To break the pointers between the cookie and the
object, both locks must be held.
fscache_write_op(), however, violates the locking rules: It attempts to get the
cookie lock without (a) checking that the cookie pointer is a valid pointer,
and (b) holding the object lock to protect the cookie pointer whilst it follows
it. This is so that it can access the pending page store tree without
interference from __fscache_write_page().
This is fixed by splitting the cookie lock, such that the page store tracking
tree is protected by its own lock, and checking that the cookie pointer is
non-NULL before we attempt to follow it whilst holding the object lock.
The new lock is subordinate to both the cookie lock and the object lock, and so
should be taken after those.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Permit the operations to retrieve data from the cache or to allocate space in
the cache for future writes to be interrupted whilst they're waiting for
permission for the operation to proceed. Typically this wait occurs whilst the
cache object is being looked up on disk in the background.
If an interruption occurs, and the operation has not yet been given the
go-ahead to run, the operation is dequeued and cancelled, and control returns
to the read operation of the netfs routine with none of the requested pages
having been read or in any way marked as known by the cache.
This means that the initial wait is done interruptibly rather than
uninterruptibly.
In addition, extra stats values are made available to show the number of ops
cancelled and the number of cache space allocations interrupted.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Count entries to and exits from cache operation table functions. Maintain
these as a single counter that's added to or removed from as appropriate.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Allow the current state of all fscache objects to be dumped by doing:
cat /proc/fs/fscache/objects
By default, all objects and all fields will be shown. This can be restricted
by adding a suitable key to one of the caller's keyrings (such as the session
keyring):
keyctl add user fscache:objlist "<restrictions>" @s
The <restrictions> are:
K Show hexdump of object key (don't show if not given)
A Show hexdump of object aux data (don't show if not given)
And paired restrictions:
C Show objects that have a cookie
c Show objects that don't have a cookie
B Show objects that are busy
b Show objects that aren't busy
W Show objects that have pending writes
w Show objects that don't have pending writes
R Show objects that have outstanding reads
r Show objects that don't have outstanding reads
S Show objects that have slow work queued
s Show objects that don't have slow work queued
If neither side of a restriction pair is given, then both are implied. For
example:
keyctl add user fscache:objlist KB @s
shows objects that are busy, and lists their object keys, but does not dump
their auxiliary data. It also implies "CcWwRrSs", but as 'B' is given, 'b' is
not implied.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Add a function to allow a requeueable work item to sleep till the thread
processing it is needed by the slow-work facility to perform other work.
Sometimes a work item can't progress immediately, but must wait for the
completion of another work item that's currently being processed by another
slow-work thread.
In some circumstances, the waiting item could instead - theoretically - put
itself back on the queue and yield its thread back to the slow-work facility,
thus waiting till it gets processing time again before attempting to progress.
This would allow other work items processing time on that thread.
However, this only works if there is something on the queue for it to queue
behind - otherwise it will just get a thread again immediately, and will end
up cycling between the queue and the thread, eating up valuable CPU time.
So, slow_work_sleep_till_thread_needed() is provided such that an item can put
itself on a wait queue that will wake it up when the event it is actually
interested in occurs, then call this function in lieu of calling schedule().
This function will then sleep until either the item's event occurs or another
work item appears on the queue. If another work item is queued, but the
item's event hasn't occurred, then the work item should requeue itself and
yield the thread back to the slow-work facility by returning.
This can be used by CacheFiles for an object that is being created on one
thread to wait for an object being deleted on another thread where there is
nothing on the queue for the creation to go and wait behind. As soon as an
item appears on the queue that could be given thread time instead, CacheFiles
can stick the creating object back on the queue and return to the slow-work
facility - assuming the object deletion didn't also complete.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Add a function (slow_work_is_queued()) to permit the owner of a work item to
determine if the item is queued or not.
The work item is counted as being queued if it is actually on the queue, not
just if it is pending. If it is executing and pending, then it is not on the
queue, but will rather be put back on the queue when execution finishes.
This permits a caller to quickly work out if it may be able to put another,
dependent work item on the queue behind it, or whether it will have to wait
till that is finished.
This can be used by CacheFiles to work out whether the creation a new object
can be immediately deferred when it has to wait for an old object to be
deleted, or whether a wait must take place. If a wait is necessary, then the
slow-work thread can otherwise get blocked, preventing the deletion from
taking place.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
This adds support for starting slow work with a delay, similar
to the functionality we have for workqueues.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Add support for cancellation of queued slow work and delayed slow work items.
The cancellation functions will wait for items that are pending or undergoing
execution to be discarded by the slow work facility.
Attempting to enqueue work that is in the process of being cancelled will
result in ECANCELED.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Make the ability for the slow-work facility to take references on a work item
optional as not everyone requires this.
Even the internal slow-work stubs them out, so those can be got rid of too.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Wait for outstanding slow work items belonging to a module to clear when
unregistering that module as a user of the facility. This prevents the put_ref
code of a work item from being taken away before it returns.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
* 'hostprogs-wmissing-prototypes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josh/linux-misc:
Makefile: Add -Wmising-prototypes to HOSTCFLAGS
oss: Mark loadhex static in hex2hex.c
dtc: Mark various internal functions static
dtc: Set "noinput" in the lexer to avoid an unused function
drm: radeon: Mark several functions static in mkregtable
arch/sparc/boot/*.c: Mark various internal functions static
arch/powerpc/boot/addRamDisk.c: Mark several internal functions static
arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c: Mark "usage" static
Documentation/vm/page-types.c: Declare checked_open static
genksyms: Mark is_reserved_word static
kconfig: Mark various internal functions static
kconfig: Make zconf.y work with current bison
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging:
i2c: Add an interface to lock/unlock an I2C bus segment
i2c-piix4: Modify code name SB900 to Hudson-2
When the system has too many timers or too many aggregate
queued signals, the EAGAIN error is returned to application
from kernel, including timer_create() [POSIX.1b].
It means that the app exceeded the limit of pending signals,
but in general application writers do not expect this
outcome and the current silent failure can cause rare app
failures under very high load.
This patch adds a new message when we reach the limit
and if print_fatal_signals is enabled:
task/1234: reached RLIMIT_SIGPENDING, dropping signal
If you see this message and your system behaved unexpectedly,
you can run following command to lift the limit:
# ulimit -i unlimited
With help from Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>.
Signed-off-by: Naohiro Ooiwa <nooiwa@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <4AF6E7E2.9080406@miraclelinux.com>
[ Modified a few small details, gave surrounding code some love. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
As all in-tree drivers have been converted to not use cs_error() any more,
drop these functions and definitions, and update the Documentation.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
As a replacement to pcmcia_get_{first,next}_tuple() and
pcmcia_get_tuple_data(), three new -- and easier to use --
functions are added:
- pcmcia_get_tuple() to get the very first CIS entry of one
type.
- pcmcia_loop_tuple() to loop over all CIS entries of one type.
- pcmcia_get_mac_from_cis() to read out the hardware MAC address
from CISTPL_FUNCE.
Only a handful of drivers need these functions anyway, as most
CIS access is already handled by pcmcia_loop_config(), which
now shares the same backed (pccard_loop_tuple()) with
pcmcia_loop_tuple().
A pcmcia_get_mac_from_cis() bug noted by Komuro
<komurojun-mbn@nifty.com> has been fixed in this revision.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
The document currently uses large indentations which make the text
too wide for easy readability. Also improve general consistency.
Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Rename Kprobes-based event tracer to kprobes-based tracing event
(kprobe-event), since it is not a tracer but an extensible
tracing event interface.
This also changes CONFIG_KPROBE_TRACER to CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT
and sets it y by default.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091104001247.3454.14131.stgit@harusame>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
