linux/kernel, branch v3.10.7

tracing: Fix reset of time stamps during trace_clock changes

2013-08-15T05:59:07Z

commit 9457158bbc0ee04ecef76862d73eecd8076e9c7b upstream. Fixed two issues with changing the timestamp clock with trace_clock: - The global buffer was reset on instance clock changes. Change this to pass the correct per-instance buffer - ftrace_now() is used to set buf->time_start in tracing_reset_online_cpus(). This was incorrect because ftrace_now() used the global buffer's clock to return the current time. Change this to use buffer_ftrace_now() which returns the current time for the correct per-instance buffer. Also removed tracing_reset_current() because it is not used anywhere Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375493777-17261-2-git-send-email-azl@google.com Signed-off-by: Alexander Z Lam Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik Cc: David Sharp Cc: Alexander Z Lam Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Use flag buffer_disabled for irqsoff tracer

2013-08-15T05:59:07Z

commit 10246fa35d4ffdfe472185d4cbf9c2dfd9a9f023 upstream. If the ring buffer is disabled and the irqsoff tracer records a trace it will clear out its buffer and lose the data it had previously recorded. Currently there's a callback when writing to the tracing_of file, but if tracing is disabled via the function tracer trigger, it will not inform the irqsoff tracer to stop recording. By using the "mirror" flag (buffer_disabled) in the trace_array, that keeps track of the status of the trace_array's buffer, it gives the irqsoff tracer a fast way to know if it should record a new trace or not. The flag may be a little behind the real state of the buffer, but it should not affect the trace too much. It's more important for the irqsoff tracer to be fast. Reported-by: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Make TRACE_ITER_STOP_ON_FREE stop the correct buffer

2013-08-15T05:59:07Z

commit 711e124379e0f889e40e2f01d7f5d61936d3cd23 upstream. Releasing the free_buffer file in an instance causes the global buffer to be stopped when TRACE_ITER_STOP_ON_FREE is enabled. Operate on the correct buffer. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375493777-17261-1-git-send-email-azl@google.com Signed-off-by: Alexander Z Lam Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik Cc: David Sharp Cc: Alexander Z Lam Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Fix fields of struct trace_iterator that are zeroed by mistake

2013-08-15T05:59:07Z

commit ed5467da0e369e65b247b99eb6403cb79172bcda upstream. tracing_read_pipe zeros all fields bellow "seq". The declaration contains a comment about that, but it doesn't help. The first field is "snapshot", it's true when current open file is snapshot. Looks obvious, that it should not be zeroed. The second field is "started". It was converted from cpumask_t to cpumask_var_t (v2.6.28-4983-g4462344), in other words it was converted from cpumask to pointer on cpumask. Currently the reference on "started" memory is lost after the first read from tracing_read_pipe and a proper object will never be freed. The "started" is never dereferenced for trace_pipe, because trace_pipe can't have the TRACE_FILE_ANNOTATE options. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375463803-3085183-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

userns: limit the maximum depth of user_namespace->parent chain

2013-08-12T01:35:25Z

commit 8742f229b635bf1c1c84a3dfe5e47c814c20b5c8 upstream. Ensure that user_namespace->parent chain can't grow too much. Currently we use the hardroded 32 as limit. Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

userns: unshare_userns(&cred) should not populate cred on failure

2013-08-12T01:35:25Z

commit 6160968cee8b90a5dd95318d716e31d7775c4ef3 upstream. unshare_userns(new_cred) does *new_cred = prepare_creds() before create_user_ns() which can fail. However, the caller expects that it doesn't need to take care of new_cred if unshare_userns() fails. We could change the single caller, sys_unshare(), but I think it would be more clean to avoid the side effects on failure, so with this patch unshare_userns() does put_cred() itself and initializes *new_cred only if create_user_ns() succeeeds. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

workqueue: copy workqueue_attrs with all fields

2013-08-12T01:35:25Z

commit 2865a8fb44cc32420407362cbda80c10fa09c6b2 upstream. $echo '0' > /sys/bus/workqueue/devices/xxx/numa $cat /sys/bus/workqueue/devices/xxx/numa I got 1. It should be 0, the reason is copy_workqueue_attrs() called in apply_workqueue_attrs() doesn't copy no_numa field. Fix it by making copy_workqueue_attrs() copy ->no_numa too. This would also make get_unbound_pool() set a pool's ->no_numa attribute according to the workqueue attributes used when the pool was created. While harmelss, as ->no_numa isn't a pool attribute, this is a bit confusing. Clear it explicitly. tj: Updated description and comments a bit. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cgroup: fix umount vs cgroup_cfts_commit() race

2013-08-12T01:35:24Z

commit 084457f284abf6789d90509ee11dae383842b23b upstream. cgroup_cfts_commit() uses dget() to keep cgroup alive after cgroup_mutex is dropped, but dget() won't prevent cgroupfs from being umounted. When the race happens, vfs will see some dentries with non-zero refcnt while umount is in process. Keep running this: mount -t cgroup -o blkio xxx /cgroup umount /cgroup And this: modprobe cfq-iosched rmmod cfs-iosched After a while, the BUG() in shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree() may be triggered: BUG: Dentry xxx{i=0,n=blkio.yyy} still in use (1) [umount of cgroup cgroup] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "cpuidle: Quickly notice prediction failure for repeat mode"

2013-08-12T01:35:24Z

commit 148519120c6d1f19ad53349683aeae9f228b0b8d upstream. Revert commit 69a37bea (cpuidle: Quickly notice prediction failure for repeat mode), because it has been identified as the source of a significant performance regression in v3.8 and later as explained by Jeremy Eder: We believe we've identified a particular commit to the cpuidle code that seems to be impacting performance of variety of workloads. The simplest way to reproduce is using netperf TCP_RR test, so we're using that, on a pair of Sandy Bridge based servers. We also have data from a large database setup where performance is also measurably/positively impacted, though that test data isn't easily share-able. Included below are test results from 3 test kernels: kernel reverts ----------------------------------------------------------- 1) vanilla upstream (no reverts) 2) perfteam2 reverts e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c 3) test reverts 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4 e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c In summary, netperf TCP_RR numbers improve by approximately 4% after reverting 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4. When 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4 is included, C0 residency never seems to get above 40%. Taking that patch out gets C0 near 100% quite often, and performance increases. The below data are histograms representing the %c0 residency @ 1-second sample rates (using turbostat), while under netperf test. - If you look at the first 4 histograms, you can see %c0 residency almost entirely in the 30,40% bin. - The last pair, which reverts 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4, shows %c0 in the 80,90,100% bins. Below each kernel name are netperf TCP_RR trans/s numbers for the particular kernel that can be disclosed publicly, comparing the 3 test kernels. We ran a 4th test with the vanilla kernel where we've also set /dev/cpu_dma_latency=0 to show overall impact boosting single-threaded TCP_RR performance over 11% above baseline. 3.10-rc2 vanilla RX + c0 lock (/dev/cpu_dma_latency=0): TCP_RR trans/s 54323.78 ----------------------------------------------------------- 3.10-rc2 vanilla RX (no reverts) TCP_RR trans/s 48192.47 Receiver %c0 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 0]: 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 59]: *********************************************************** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 1]: * 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 0]: 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 0]: 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 0]: 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 0]: 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 0]: Sender %c0 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 0]: 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 11]: *********** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 49]: ************************************************* 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 0]: 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 0]: 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 0]: 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 0]: 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 0]: ----------------------------------------------------------- 3.10-rc2 perfteam2 RX (reverts commit e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c) TCP_RR trans/s 49698.69 Receiver %c0 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 1]: * 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 59]: *********************************************************** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 0]: 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 0]: 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 0]: 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 0]: 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 0]: 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 0]: Sender %c0 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 0]: 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 2]: ** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 58]: ********************************************************** 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 0]: 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 0]: 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 0]: 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 0]: 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 0]: ----------------------------------------------------------- 3.10-rc2 test RX (reverts 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4 and e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c) TCP_RR trans/s 47766.95 Receiver %c0 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 1]: * 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 27]: *************************** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 2]: ** 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 0]: 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 2]: ** 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 0]: 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 0]: 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 28]: **************************** Sender: 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 0]: 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 11]: *********** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 0]: 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 1]: * 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 0]: 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 3]: *** 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 7]: ******* 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 38]: ************************************** These results demonstrate gaining back the tendency of the CPU to stay in more responsive, performant C-states (and thus yield measurably better performance), by reverting commit 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4. Requested-by: Jeremy Eder Tested-by: Len Brown Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Remove locking trace_types_lock from tracing_reset_all_online_cpus()

2013-08-04T08:50:44Z

commit 09d8091c024ec88d1541d93eb8ddb2bd5cf10c39 upstream. Commit a82274151af "tracing: Protect ftrace_trace_arrays list in trace_events.c" added taking the trace_types_lock mutex in trace_events.c as there were several locations that needed it for protection. Unfortunately, it also encapsulated a call to tracing_reset_all_online_cpus() which also takes the trace_types_lock, causing a deadlock. This happens when a module has tracepoints and has been traced. When the module is removed, the trace events module notifier will grab the trace_types_lock, do a bunch of clean ups, and also clears the buffer by calling tracing_reset_all_online_cpus. This doesn't happen often which explains why it wasn't caught right away. Commit a82274151af was marked for stable, which means this must be sent to stable too. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51EEC646.7070306@broadcom.com Reported-by: Arend van Spril Tested-by: Arend van Spriel Cc: Alexander Z Lam Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik Cc: David Sharp Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman