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<updated>2014-01-15T23:28:54Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>sched: Guarantee new group-entities always have weight</title>
<updated>2014-01-15T23:28:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Turner</name>
<email>pjt@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-16T18:16:27Z</published>
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commit 0ac9b1c21874d2490331233b3242085f8151e166 upstream.

Currently, group entity load-weights are initialized to zero. This
admits some races with respect to the first time they are re-weighted in
earlty use. ( Let g[x] denote the se for "g" on cpu "x". )

Suppose that we have root-&gt;a and that a enters a throttled state,
immediately followed by a[0]-&gt;t1 (the only task running on cpu[0])
blocking:

  put_prev_task(group_cfs_rq(a[0]), t1)
  put_prev_entity(..., t1)
  check_cfs_rq_runtime(group_cfs_rq(a[0]))
  throttle_cfs_rq(group_cfs_rq(a[0]))

Then, before unthrottling occurs, let a[0]-&gt;b[0]-&gt;t2 wake for the first
time:

  enqueue_task_fair(rq[0], t2)
  enqueue_entity(group_cfs_rq(b[0]), t2)
  enqueue_entity_load_avg(group_cfs_rq(b[0]), t2)
  account_entity_enqueue(group_cfs_ra(b[0]), t2)
  update_cfs_shares(group_cfs_rq(b[0]))
  &lt; skipped because b is part of a throttled hierarchy &gt;
  enqueue_entity(group_cfs_rq(a[0]), b[0])
  ...

We now have b[0] enqueued, yet group_cfs_rq(a[0])-&gt;load.weight == 0
which violates invariants in several code-paths. Eliminate the
possibility of this by initializing group entity weight.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181627.22647.47543.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris J Arges &lt;chris.j.arges@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>sched: Fix hrtimer_cancel()/rq-&gt;lock deadlock</title>
<updated>2014-01-15T23:28:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Segall</name>
<email>bsegall@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-16T18:16:22Z</published>
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commit 927b54fccbf04207ec92f669dce6806848cbec7d upstream.

__start_cfs_bandwidth calls hrtimer_cancel while holding rq-&gt;lock,
waiting for the hrtimer to finish. However, if sched_cfs_period_timer
runs for another loop iteration, the hrtimer can attempt to take
rq-&gt;lock, resulting in deadlock.

Fix this by ensuring that cfs_b-&gt;timer_active is cleared only if the
_latest_ call to do_sched_cfs_period_timer is returning as idle. Then
__start_cfs_bandwidth can just call hrtimer_try_to_cancel and wait for
that to succeed or timer_active == 1.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: pjt@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181622.22647.16643.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris J Arges &lt;chris.j.arges@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>sched: Fix cfs_bandwidth misuse of hrtimer_expires_remaining</title>
<updated>2014-01-15T23:28:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Segall</name>
<email>bsegall@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-16T18:16:17Z</published>
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commit db06e78cc13d70f10877e0557becc88ab3ad2be8 upstream.

hrtimer_expires_remaining does not take internal hrtimer locks and thus
must be guarded against concurrent __hrtimer_start_range_ns (but
returning HRTIMER_RESTART is safe). Use cfs_b-&gt;lock to make it safe.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: pjt@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181617.22647.73829.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris J Arges &lt;chris.j.arges@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>sched: Fix race on toggling cfs_bandwidth_used</title>
<updated>2014-01-15T23:28:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Segall</name>
<email>bsegall@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-16T18:16:12Z</published>
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commit 1ee14e6c8cddeeb8a490d7b54cd9016e4bb900b4 upstream.

When we transition cfs_bandwidth_used to false, any currently
throttled groups will incorrectly return false from cfs_rq_throttled.
While tg_set_cfs_bandwidth will unthrottle them eventually, currently
running code (including at least dequeue_task_fair and
distribute_cfs_runtime) will cause errors.

Fix this by turning off cfs_bandwidth_used only after unthrottling all
cfs_rqs.

Tested: toggle bandwidth back and forth on a loaded cgroup. Caused
crashes in minutes without the patch, hasn't crashed with it.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: pjt@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181611.22647.80365.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris J Arges &lt;chris.j.arges@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>sched: fix the theoretical signal_wake_up() vs schedule() race</title>
<updated>2014-01-09T20:24:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-12T16:14:00Z</published>
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commit e0acd0a68ec7dbf6b7a81a87a867ebd7ac9b76c4 upstream.

This is only theoretical, but after try_to_wake_up(p) was changed
to check p-&gt;state under p-&gt;pi_lock the code like

	__set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
	schedule();

can miss a signal. This is the special case of wait-for-condition,
it relies on try_to_wake_up/schedule interaction and thus it does
not need mb() between __set_current_state() and if(signal_pending).

However, this __set_current_state() can move into the critical
section protected by rq-&gt;lock, now that try_to_wake_up() takes
another lock we need to ensure that it can't be reordered with
"if (signal_pending(current))" check inside that section.

The patch is actually one-liner, it simply adds smp_wmb() before
spin_lock_irq(rq-&gt;lock). This is what try_to_wake_up() already
does by the same reason.

We turn this wmb() into the new helper, smp_mb__before_spinlock(),
for better documentation and to allow the architectures to change
the default implementation.

While at it, kill smp_mb__after_lock(), it has no callers.

Perhaps we can also add smp_mb__before/after_spinunlock() for
prepare_to_wait().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>sched/rt: Fix rq's cpupri leak while enqueue/dequeue child RT entities</title>
<updated>2014-01-09T20:24:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill Tkhai</name>
<email>tkhai@yandex.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-27T15:59:13Z</published>
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commit 757dfcaa41844595964f1220f1d33182dae49976 upstream.

This patch touches the RT group scheduling case.

Functions inc_rt_prio_smp() and dec_rt_prio_smp() change (global) rq's
priority, while rt_rq passed to them may be not the top-level rt_rq.
This is wrong, because changing of priority on a child level does not
guarantee that the priority is the highest all over the rq. So, this
leak makes RT balancing unusable.

The short example: the task having the highest priority among all rq's
RT tasks (no one other task has the same priority) are waking on a
throttle rt_rq.  The rq's cpupri is set to the task's priority
equivalent, but real rq-&gt;rt.highest_prio.curr is less.

The patch below fixes the problem.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;tkhai@yandex.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
CC: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/49231385567953@web4m.yandex.ru
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>sched: numa: skip inaccessible VMAs</title>
<updated>2014-01-09T20:24:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-19T01:08:40Z</published>
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commit 3c67f474558748b604e247d92b55dfe89654c81d upstream.

Inaccessible VMA should not be trapping NUMA hint faults. Skip them.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>sched: Avoid throttle_cfs_rq() racing with period_timer stopping</title>
<updated>2013-12-20T15:45:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Segall</name>
<email>bsegall@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-16T18:16:32Z</published>
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commit f9f9ffc237dd924f048204e8799da74f9ecf40cf upstream.

throttle_cfs_rq() doesn't check to make sure that period_timer is running,
and while update_curr/assign_cfs_runtime does, a concurrently running
period_timer on another cpu could cancel itself between this cpu's
update_curr and throttle_cfs_rq(). If there are no other cfs_rqs running
in the tg to restart the timer, this causes the cfs_rq to be stranded
forever.

Fix this by calling __start_cfs_bandwidth() in throttle if the timer is
inactive.

(Also add some sched_debug lines for cfs_bandwidth.)

Tested: make a run/sleep task in a cgroup, loop switching the cgroup
between 1ms/100ms quota and unlimited, checking for timer_active=0 and
throttled=1 as a failure. With the throttle_cfs_rq() change commented out
this fails, with the full patch it passes.

Signed-off-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: pjt@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131016181632.22647.84174.stgit@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris J Arges &lt;chris.j.arges@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Fix small race where child-&gt;se.parent,cfs_rq might point to invalid ones</title>
<updated>2013-10-01T16:17:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Daisuke Nishimura</name>
<email>nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-10T09:16:36Z</published>
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commit 6c9a27f5da9609fca46cb2b183724531b48f71ad upstream.

There is a small race between copy_process() and cgroup_attach_task()
where child-&gt;se.parent,cfs_rq points to invalid (old) ones.

        parent doing fork()      | someone moving the parent to another cgroup
  -------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
    copy_process()
      + dup_task_struct()
        -&gt; parent-&gt;se is copied to child-&gt;se.
           se.parent,cfs_rq of them point to old ones.

                                     cgroup_attach_task()
                                       + cgroup_task_migrate()
                                         -&gt; parent-&gt;cgroup is updated.
                                       + cpu_cgroup_attach()
                                         + sched_move_task()
                                           + task_move_group_fair()
                                             +- set_task_rq()
                                                -&gt; se.parent,cfs_rq of parent
                                                   are updated.

      + cgroup_fork()
        -&gt; parent-&gt;cgroup is copied to child-&gt;cgroup. (*1)
      + sched_fork()
        + task_fork_fair()
          -&gt; se.parent,cfs_rq of child are accessed
             while they point to old ones. (*2)

In the worst case, this bug can lead to "use-after-free" and cause a panic,
because it's new cgroup's refcount that is incremented at (*1),
so the old cgroup(and related data) can be freed before (*2).

In fact, a panic caused by this bug was originally caught in RHEL6.4.

    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
    IP: [&lt;ffffffff81051e3e&gt;] sched_slice+0x6e/0xa0
    [...]
    Call Trace:
     [&lt;ffffffff81051f25&gt;] place_entity+0x75/0xa0
     [&lt;ffffffff81056a3a&gt;] task_fork_fair+0xaa/0x160
     [&lt;ffffffff81063c0b&gt;] sched_fork+0x6b/0x140
     [&lt;ffffffff8106c3c2&gt;] copy_process+0x5b2/0x1450
     [&lt;ffffffff81063b49&gt;] ? wake_up_new_task+0xd9/0x130
     [&lt;ffffffff8106d2f4&gt;] do_fork+0x94/0x460
     [&lt;ffffffff81072a9e&gt;] ? sys_wait4+0xae/0x100
     [&lt;ffffffff81009598&gt;] sys_clone+0x28/0x30
     [&lt;ffffffff8100b393&gt;] stub_clone+0x13/0x20
     [&lt;ffffffff8100b072&gt;] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura &lt;nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/039601ceae06$733d3130$59b79390$@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
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<entry>
<title>sched/cputime: Do not scale when utime == 0</title>
<updated>2013-10-01T16:17:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Stanislaw Gruszka</name>
<email>sgruszka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-04T13:16:03Z</published>
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commit 5a8e01f8fa51f5cbce8f37acc050eb2319d12956 upstream.

scale_stime() silently assumes that stime &lt; rtime, otherwise
when stime == rtime and both values are big enough (operations
on them do not fit in 32 bits), the resulting scaling stime can
be bigger than rtime. In consequence utime = rtime - stime
results in negative value.

User space visible symptoms of the bug are overflowed TIME
values on ps/top, for example:

 $ ps aux | grep rcu
 root         8  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    12:42   0:00 [rcuc/0]
 root         9  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    12:42   0:00 [rcub/0]
 root        10 62422329  0.0  0     0 ?        R    12:42 21114581:37 [rcu_preempt]
 root        11  0.1  0.0      0     0 ?        S    12:42   0:02 [rcuop/0]
 root        12 62422329  0.0  0     0 ?        S    12:42 21114581:35 [rcuop/1]
 root        10 62422329  0.0  0     0 ?        R    12:42 21114581:37 [rcu_preempt]

or overflowed utime values read directly from /proc/$PID/stat

Reference:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/20/259

Reported-and-tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka &lt;sgruszka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130904131602.GC2564@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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