Commits 3d7a641 ("SLOW_WORK: Wait for outstanding work items belonging to a
module to clear") introduced some code to make sure that all of a module's
slow-work items were complete before that module was removed, and commit
3bde31a ("SLOW_WORK: Allow a requeueable work item to sleep till the thread is
needed") further extended that, breaking it in the process if CONFIG_MODULES=n:
CC kernel/slow-work.o
kernel/slow-work.c: In function 'slow_work_execute':
kernel/slow-work.c:313: error: 'slow_work_thread_processing' undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/slow-work.c:313: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
kernel/slow-work.c:313: error: for each function it appears in.)
kernel/slow-work.c: In function 'slow_work_wait_for_items':
kernel/slow-work.c:950: error: 'slow_work_unreg_sync_lock' undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/slow-work.c:951: error: 'slow_work_unreg_wq' undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/slow-work.c:961: error: 'slow_work_unreg_work_item' undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/slow-work.c:974: error: 'slow_work_unreg_module' undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/slow-work.c:977: error: 'slow_work_thread_processing' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[1]: *** [kernel/slow-work.o] Error 1
Fix this by:
(1) Extracting the bits of slow_work_execute() that are contingent on
CONFIG_MODULES, and the bits that should be, into inline functions and
placing them into the #ifdef'd section that defines the relevant variables
and adding stubs for moduleless kernels. This allows the removal of some
#ifdefs.
(2) #ifdef'ing out the contents of slow_work_wait_for_items() in moduleless
kernels.
The four functions related to handling module unloading synchronisation (and
their associated variables) could be offloaded into a separate .c file, but
each function is only used once and three of them are tiny, so doing so would
prevent them from being inlined.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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>
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>
Commit 65a6446434 ("HWPOISON: Allow
schedule_on_each_cpu() from keventd") which allows schedule_on_each_cpu()
to be called from keventd added a race condition. schedule_on_each_cpu()
may race with cpu hotplug and end up executing the function twice on a
cpu.
Fix it by moving direct execution into the section protected with
get/put_online_cpus(). While at it, update code such that direct
execution is done after works have been scheduled for all other cpus and
drop unnecessary cpu != orig test from flush loop.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
highmem: Fix debug_kmap_atomic() to also handle KM_IRQ_PTE, KM_NMI, and KM_NMI_PTE
highmem: Fix race in debug_kmap_atomic() which could cause warn_count to underflow
rcu: Fix long-grace-period race between forcing and initialization
uids: Prevent tear down race
root_task_group_empty is used only with FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
so if we use other scheduler options we get:
kernel/sched.c:314: warning: 'root_task_group_empty' defined but not used
So move CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED up that it covers
root_task_group_empty().
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091026192414.GB5321@lenovo>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix variable name in sched.c kernel-doc notation.
Fixes this DocBook warning:
Warning(kernel/sched.c:2008): No description found for parameter
'p' Warning(kernel/sched.c:2008): Excess function parameter 'k'
description in 'kthread_bind'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AF4B1BC.8020604@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: Fix kthread_bind() by moving the body of kthread_bind() to sched.c
sched: Disable SD_PREFER_LOCAL at node level
sched: Fix boot crash by zalloc()ing most of the cpu masks
sched: Strengthen buddies and mitigate buddy induced latencies
When a command is passed to the set_ftrace_filter, then
the ftrace_regex_lock is still held going back to user space.
# echo 'do_open : foo' > set_ftrace_filter
(still holding ftrace_regex_lock when returning to user space!)
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AEF7F8A.3080300@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
We got a sudden panic when we reduced the size of the
ringbuffer.
We can reproduce the panic by the following steps:
echo 1 > events/sched/enable
cat trace_pipe > /dev/null &
while ((1))
do
echo 12000 > buffer_size_kb
echo 512 > buffer_size_kb
done
(not more than 5 seconds, panic ...)
Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AF01735.9060409@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6:
PM: Remove some debug messages producing too much noise
PM: Fix warning on suspend errors
PM / Hibernate: Add newline to load_image() fail path
PM / Hibernate: Fix error handling in save_image()
PM / Hibernate: Fix blkdev refleaks
PM / yenta: Split resume into early and late parts (rev. 4)
nr_processes() returns the sum of the per cpu counter process_counts for
all online CPUs. This counter is incremented for the current CPU on
fork() and decremented for the current CPU on exit(). Since a process
does not necessarily fork and exit on the same CPU the process_count for
an individual CPU can be either positive or negative and effectively has
no meaning in isolation.
Therefore calculating the sum of process_counts over only the online
CPUs omits the processes which were started or stopped on any CPU which
has since been unplugged. Only the sum of process_counts across all
possible CPUs has meaning.
The only caller of nr_processes() is proc_root_getattr() which
calculates the number of links to /proc as
stat->nlink = proc_root.nlink + nr_processes();
You don't have to be all that unlucky for the nr_processes() to return a
negative value leading to a negative number of links (or rather, an
apparently enormous number of links). If this happens then you can get
failures where things like "ls /proc" start to fail because they got an
-EOVERFLOW from some stat() call.
Example with some debugging inserted to show what goes on:
# ps haux|wc -l
nr_processes: CPU0: 90
nr_processes: CPU1: 1030
nr_processes: CPU2: -900
nr_processes: CPU3: -136
nr_processes: TOTAL: 84
proc_root_getattr. nlink 12 + nr_processes() 84 = 96
84
# echo 0 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
# ps haux|wc -l
nr_processes: CPU0: 85
nr_processes: CPU2: -901
nr_processes: CPU3: -137
nr_processes: TOTAL: -953
proc_root_getattr. nlink 12 + nr_processes() -953 = -941
75
# stat /proc/
nr_processes: CPU0: 84
nr_processes: CPU2: -901
nr_processes: CPU3: -137
nr_processes: TOTAL: -954
proc_root_getattr. nlink 12 + nr_processes() -954 = -942
File: `/proc/'
Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 1024 directory
Device: 3h/3d Inode: 1 Links: 4294966354
Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2009-11-03 09:06:55.000000000 +0000
Modify: 2009-11-03 09:06:55.000000000 +0000
Change: 2009-11-03 09:06:55.000000000 +0000
I'm not 100% convinced that the per_cpu regions remain valid for offline
CPUs, although my testing suggests that they do. If not then I think the
correct solution would be to aggregate the process_count for a given CPU
into a global base value in cpu_down().
This bug appears to pre-date the transition to git and it looks like it
may even have been present in linux-2.6.0-test7-bk3 since it looks like
the code Rusty patched in http://lwn.net/Articles/64773/ was already
wrong.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Finish a line by \n when load_image fails in the middle of loading.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
There are too many retval variables in save_image(). Thus error return
value from snapshot_read_next() may be ignored and only part of the
snapshot (successfully) written.
Remove 'error' variable, invert the condition in the do-while loop
and convert the loop to use only 'ret' variable.
Switch the rest of the function to consider only 'ret'.
Also make sure we end printed line by \n if an error occurs.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
While cruising through the swsusp code I found few blkdev reference
leaks of resume_bdev.
swsusp_read: remove blkdev_put altogether. Some fail paths do
not do that.
swsusp_check: make sure we always put a reference on fail paths
software_resume: all fail paths between swsusp_check and swsusp_read
omit swsusp_close. Add it in those cases. And since
swsusp_read doesn't drop the reference anymore, do
it here unconditionally.
[rjw: Fixed a small coding style issue.]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Eric Paris reported that commit
f685ceacab causes boot time
PREEMPT_DEBUG complaints.
[ 4.590699] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: rmmod/1314
[ 4.593043] caller is task_hot+0x86/0xd0
Since kthread_bind() messes with scheduler internals, move the
body to sched.c, and lock the runqueue.
Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1256813310.7574.3.camel@marge.simson.net>
[ v2: fix !SMP build and clean up ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf tools: Remove -Wcast-align
perf tools: Fix compatibility with libelf 0.8 and autodetect
perf events: Don't generate events for the idle task when exclude_idle is set
perf events: Fix swevent hrtimer sampling by keeping track of remaining time when enabling/disabling swevent hrtimers
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing: Remove cpu arg from the rb_time_stamp() function
tracing: Fix comment typo and documentation example
tracing: Fix trace_seq_printf() return value
tracing: Update *ppos instead of filp->f_pos
Very long RCU read-side critical sections (50 milliseconds or
so) can cause a race between force_quiescent_state() and
rcu_start_gp() as follows on kernel builds with multi-level
rcu_node hierarchies:
1. CPU 0 calls force_quiescent_state(), sees that there is a
grace period in progress, and acquires ->fsqlock.
2. CPU 1 detects the end of the grace period, and so
cpu_quiet_msk_finish() sets rsp->completed to rsp->gpnum.
This operation is carried out under the root rnp->lock,
but CPU 0 has not yet acquired that lock. Note that
rsp->signaled is still RCU_SAVE_DYNTICK from the last
grace period.
3. CPU 1 calls rcu_start_gp(), but no one wants a new grace
period, so it drops the root rnp->lock and returns.
4. CPU 0 acquires the root rnp->lock and picks up rsp->completed
and rsp->signaled, then drops rnp->lock. It then enters the
RCU_SAVE_DYNTICK leg of the switch statement.
5. CPU 2 invokes call_rcu(), and now needs a new grace period.
It calls rcu_start_gp(), which acquires the root rnp->lock, sets
rsp->signaled to RCU_GP_INIT (too bad that CPU 0 is already in
the RCU_SAVE_DYNTICK leg of the switch statement!) and starts
initializing the rcu_node hierarchy. If there are multiple
levels to the hierarchy, it will drop the root rnp->lock and
initialize the lower levels of the hierarchy.
6. CPU 0 notes that rsp->completed has not changed, which permits
both CPU 2 and CPU 0 to try updating it concurrently. If CPU 0's
update prevails, later calls to force_quiescent_state() can
count old quiescent states against the new grace period, which
can in turn result in premature ending of grace periods.
Not good.
This patch adds an RCU_GP_IDLE state for rsp->signaled that is
set initially at boot time and any time a grace period ends.
This prevents CPU 0 from getting into the workings of
force_quiescent_state() in step 4. Additional locking and
checks prevent the concurrent update of rsp->signaled in step 6.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1256742889199-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo triggered the following warning:
WARNING: at lib/debugobjects.c:255 debug_print_object+0x42/0x50()
Hardware name: System Product Name
ODEBUG: init active object type: timer_list
Modules linked in:
Pid: 2619, comm: dmesg Tainted: G W 2.6.32-rc5-tip+ #5298
Call Trace:
[<81035443>] warn_slowpath_common+0x6a/0x81
[<8120e483>] ? debug_print_object+0x42/0x50
[<81035498>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x29/0x2c
[<8120e483>] debug_print_object+0x42/0x50
[<8120ec2a>] __debug_object_init+0x279/0x2d7
[<8120ecb3>] debug_object_init+0x13/0x18
[<810409d2>] init_timer_key+0x17/0x6f
[<81041526>] free_uid+0x50/0x6c
[<8104ed2d>] put_cred_rcu+0x61/0x72
[<81067fac>] rcu_do_batch+0x70/0x121
debugobjects warns about an enqueued timer being initialized. If
CONFIG_USER_SCHED=y the user management code uses delayed work to
remove the user from the hash table and tear down the sysfs objects.
free_uid is called from RCU and initializes/schedules delayed work if
the usage count of the user_struct is 0. The init/schedule happens
outside of the uidhash_lock protected region which allows a concurrent
caller of find_user() to reference the about to be destroyed
user_struct w/o preventing the work from being scheduled. If the next
free_uid call happens before the work timer expired then the active
timer is initialized and the work scheduled again.
The race was introduced in commit 5cb350ba (sched: group scheduling,
sysfs tunables) and made more prominent by commit 3959214f (sched:
delayed cleanup of user_struct)
Move the init/schedule_delayed_work inside of the uidhash_lock
protected region to prevent the race.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
I got a boot crash when forcing cpumasks offstack on 32 bit,
because find_new_ilb() returned 3 on my UP system (nohz.cpu_mask
wasn't zeroed).
AFAICT the others need to be zeroed too: only
nohz.ilb_grp_nohz_mask is initialized before use.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <200911022037.21282.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
sched: move rq_weight data array out of .percpu
percpu: allow pcpu_alloc() to be called with IRQs off
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-param-fixes:
param: fix setting arrays of bool
param: fix NULL comparison on oom
param: fix lots of bugs with writing charp params from sysfs, by leaking mem.
* 'hwpoison-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6:
HWPOISON: fix invalid page count in printk output
HWPOISON: Allow schedule_on_each_cpu() from keventd
HWPOISON: fix/proc/meminfo alignment
HWPOISON: fix oops on ksm pages
HWPOISON: Fix page count leak in hwpoison late kill in do_swap_page
HWPOISON: return early on non-LRU pages
HWPOISON: Add brief hwpoison description to Documentation
HWPOISON: Clean up PR_MCE_KILL interface
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
futex: Move drop_futex_key_refs out of spinlock'ed region
rcu: Fix TREE_PREEMPT_RCU CPU_HOTPLUG bad-luck hang
rcu: Stopgap fix for synchronize_rcu_expedited() for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
rcu: Prevent RCU IPI storms in presence of high call_rcu() load
futex: Check for NULL keys in match_futex
futex: Handle spurious wake up
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf timechart: Improve the visual appearance of scheduler delays
perf timechart: Fix the wakeup-arrows that point to non-visible processes
perf top: Fix --delay_secs 0 division by zero
perf tools: Bump version to 0.0.2
perf_event: Adjust frequency and unthrottle for non-group-leader events
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: Do less agressive buddy clearing
sched: Disable SD_PREFER_LOCAL for MC/CPU domains
Having ->procname but not ->proc_handler is valid when PROC_SYSCTL=n,
people use such combination to reduce ifdefs with non-standard handlers.
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14408
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since commit 02b51df1b0 (proc connector: add
event for process becoming session leader) we have the following warning:
Badness at kernel/softirq.c:143
[...]
Krnl PSW : 0404c00180000000 00000000001481d4 (local_bh_enable+0xb0/0xe0)
[...]
Call Trace:
([<000000013fe04100>] 0x13fe04100)
[<000000000048a946>] sk_filter+0x9a/0xd0
[<000000000049d938>] netlink_broadcast+0x2c0/0x53c
[<00000000003ba9ae>] cn_netlink_send+0x272/0x2b0
[<00000000003baef0>] proc_sid_connector+0xc4/0xd4
[<0000000000142604>] __set_special_pids+0x58/0x90
[<0000000000159938>] sys_setsid+0xb4/0xd8
[<00000000001187fe>] sysc_noemu+0x10/0x16
[<00000041616cb266>] 0x41616cb266
The warning is
---> WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq() || irqs_disabled());
The network code must not be called with disabled interrupts but
sys_setsid holds the tasklist_lock with spinlock_irq while calling the
connector.
After a discussion we agreed that we can move proc_sid_connector from
__set_special_pids to sys_setsid.
We also agreed that it is sufficient to change the check from
task_session(curr) != pid into err > 0, since if we don't change the
session, this means we were already the leader and return -EPERM.
One last thing:
There is also daemonize(), and some people might want to get a
notification in that case. Since daemonize() is only needed if a user
space does kernel_thread this does not look important (and there seems
to be no consensus if this connector should be called in daemonize). If
we really want this, we can add proc_sid_connector to daemonize() in an
additional patch (Scott?)
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We create a dummy struct kernel_param on the stack for parsing each
array element, but we didn't initialize the flags word. This matters
for arrays of type "bool", where the flag indicates if it really is
an array of bools or unsigned int (old-style).
Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
kp->arg is always true: it's the contents of that pointer we care about.
Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
e180a6b775 "param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs" fixed the case
where charp parameters written via sysfs were freed, leaving drivers
accessing random memory.
Unfortunately, storing a flag in the kparam struct was a bad idea: it's
rodata so setting it causes an oops on some archs. But that's not all:
1) module_param_array() on charp doesn't work reliably, since we use an
uninitialized temporary struct kernel_param.
2) there's a fundamental race if a module uses this parameter and then
it's changed: they will still access the old, freed, memory.
The simplest fix (ie. for 2.6.32) is to never free the memory. This
prevents all these problems, at cost of a memory leak. In practice, there
are only 18 places where a charp is writable via sysfs, and all are
root-only writable.
Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
The requeue_pi path doesn't use unqueue_me() (and the racy lock_ptr ==
NULL test) nor does it use the wake_list of futex_wake() which where
the reason for commit 41890f2 (futex: Handle spurious wake up)
See debugging discussing on LKML Message-ID: <4AD4080C.20703@us.ibm.com>
The changes in this fix to the wait_requeue_pi path were considered to
be a likely unecessary, but harmless safety net. But it turns out that
due to the fact that for unknown $@#!*( reasons EWOULDBLOCK is defined
as EAGAIN we built an endless loop in the code path which returns
correctly EWOULDBLOCK.
Spurious wakeups in wait_requeue_pi code path are unlikely so we do
the easy solution and return EWOULDBLOCK^WEAGAIN to user space and let
it deal with the spurious wakeup.
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AE23C74.1090502@us.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The cpu argument is not used inside the rb_time_stamp() function.
Plus fix a typo.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091023233647.118547500@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Trivial patch to fix a documentation example and to fix a
comment.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.871719877@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
trace_seq_printf() return value is a little ambiguous. It
currently returns the length of the space available in the
buffer. printf usually returns the amount written. This is not
adequate here, because:
trace_seq_printf(s, "");
is perfectly legal, and returning 0 would indicate that it
failed.
We can always see the amount written by looking at the before
and after values of s->len. This is not quite the same use as
printf. We only care if the string was successfully written to
the buffer or not.
Make trace_seq_printf() return 0 if the trace oversizes the
buffer's free space, 1 otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.631787612@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Instead of directly updating filp->f_pos we should update the *ppos
argument. The filp->f_pos gets updated within the file_pos_write()
function called from sys_write().
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.399670810@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch restores the effectiveness of LAST_BUDDY in preventing
pgsql+oltp from collapsing due to wakeup preemption. It also
switches LAST_BUDDY to exclusively do what it does best, namely
mitigate the effects of aggressive wakeup preemption, which
improves vmark throughput markedly, and restores mysql+oltp
scalability.
Since buddies are about scalability, enable them beginning at the
point where we begin expanding sched_latency, namely
sched_nr_latency. Previously, buddies were cleared aggressively,
which seriously reduced their effectiveness. Not clearing
aggressively however, produces a small drop in mysql+oltp
throughput immediately after peak, indicating that LAST_BUDDY is
actually doing some harm. This is right at the point where X on the
desktop in competition with another load wants low latency service.
Ergo, do not enable until we need to scale.
To mitigate latency induced by buddies, or by a task just missing
wakeup preemption, check latency at tick time.
Last hunk prevents buddies from stymieing BALANCE_NEWIDLE via
CACHE_HOT_BUDDY.
Supporting performance tests:
tip = v2.6.32-rc5-1497-ga525b32
tipx = NO_GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS NEXT_BUDDY granularity knobs = 31 knobs + 31 buddies
tip+x = NO_GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS granularity knobs = 31 knobs
(Three run averages except where noted.)
vmark:
------
tip 108466 messages per second
tip+ 125307 messages per second
tip+x 125335 messages per second
tipx 117781 messages per second
2.6.31.3 122729 messages per second
mysql+oltp:
-----------
clients 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256
..........................................................................................
tip 9949.89 18690.20 34801.24 34460.04 32682.88 30765.97 28305.27 25059.64 19548.08
tip+ 10013.90 18526.84 34900.38 34420.14 33069.83 32083.40 30578.30 28010.71 25605.47
tipx 9698.71 18002.70 34477.56 33420.01 32634.30 31657.27 29932.67 26827.52 21487.18
2.6.31.3 8243.11 18784.20 34404.83 33148.38 31900.32 31161.90 29663.81 25995.94 18058.86
pgsql+oltp:
-----------
clients 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256
..........................................................................................
tip 13686.37 26609.25 51934.28 51347.81 49479.51 45312.65 36691.91 26851.57 24145.35
tip+ (1x) 13907.85 27135.87 52951.98 52514.04 51742.52 50705.43 49947.97 48374.19 46227.94
tip+x 13906.78 27065.81 52951.19 52542.59 52176.11 51815.94 50838.90 49439.46 46891.00
tipx 13742.46 26769.81 52351.99 51891.73 51320.79 50938.98 50248.65 48908.70 46553.84
2.6.31.3 13815.35 26906.46 52683.34 52061.31 51937.10 51376.80 50474.28 49394.47 47003.25
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Getting samples for the idle task is often not interesting, so
don't generate them when exclude_idle is set for the event in
question.
Signed-off-by: Søren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <ye8pr8fmlq7.fsf@camel16.daimi.au.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
