linux/kernel, branch v3.4.13

kthread_worker: reimplement flush_kthread_work() to allow freeing the work item being executed

2012-10-02T17:30:40Z

commit 46f3d976213452350f9d10b0c2780c2681f7075b upstream. kthread_worker provides minimalistic workqueue-like interface for users which need a dedicated worker thread (e.g. for realtime priority). It has basic queue, flush_work, flush_worker operations which mostly match the workqueue counterparts; however, due to the way flush_work() is implemented, it has a noticeable difference of not allowing work items to be freed while being executed. While the current users of kthread_worker are okay with the current behavior, the restriction does impede some valid use cases. Also, removing this difference isn't difficult and actually makes the code easier to understand. This patch reimplements flush_kthread_work() such that it uses a flush_work item instead of queue/done sequence numbers. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Colin Cross Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kthread_worker: reorganize to prepare for flush_kthread_work() reimplementation

2012-10-02T17:30:38Z

commit 9a2e03d8ed518a61154f18d83d6466628e519f94 upstream. Make the following two non-functional changes. * Separate out insert_kthread_work() from queue_kthread_work(). * Relocate struct kthread_flush_work and kthread_flush_work_fn() definitions above flush_kthread_work(). v2: Added lockdep_assert_held() in insert_kthread_work() as suggested by Andy Walls. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Andy Walls Cc: Colin Cross Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

time: Move ktime_t overflow checking into timespec_valid_strict

2012-10-02T17:30:36Z

commit cee58483cf56e0ba355fdd97ff5e8925329aa936 upstream Andreas Bombe reported that the added ktime_t overflow checking added to timespec_valid in commit 4e8b14526ca7 ("time: Improve sanity checking of timekeeping inputs") was causing problems with X.org because it caused timeouts larger then KTIME_T to be invalid. Previously, these large timeouts would be clamped to KTIME_MAX and would never expire, which is valid. This patch splits the ktime_t overflow checking into a new timespec_valid_strict function, and converts the timekeeping codes internal checking to use this more strict function. Reported-and-tested-by: Andreas Bombe Cc: Zhouping Liu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

time: Avoid making adjustments if we haven't accumulated anything

2012-10-02T17:30:36Z

commit bf2ac312195155511a0f79325515cbb61929898a upstream. If update_wall_time() is called and the current offset isn't large enough to accumulate, avoid re-calling timekeeping_adjust which may change the clock freq and can cause 1ns inconsistencies with CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE/CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Signed-off-by: John Stultz Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Ingo Molnar Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345595449-34965-5-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

time: Improve sanity checking of timekeeping inputs

2012-10-02T17:30:36Z

commit 4e8b14526ca7fb046a81c94002c1c43b6fdf0e9b upstream. Unexpected behavior could occur if the time is set to a value large enough to overflow a 64bit ktime_t (which is something larger then the year 2262). Also unexpected behavior could occur if large negative offsets are injected via adjtimex. So this patch improves the sanity check timekeeping inputs by improving the timespec_valid() check, and then makes better use of timespec_valid() to make sure we don't set the time to an invalid negative value or one that overflows ktime_t. Note: This does not protect from setting the time close to overflowing ktime_t and then letting natural accumulation cause the overflow. Reported-by: CAI Qian Reported-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: John Stultz Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Zhouping Liu Cc: Ingo Molnar Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344454580-17031-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched: Fix race in task_group()

2012-10-02T17:30:35Z

commit 8323f26ce3425460769605a6aece7a174edaa7d1 upstream. Stefan reported a crash on a kernel before a3e5d1091c1 ("sched: Don't call task_group() too many times in set_task_rq()"), he found the reason to be that the multiple task_group() invocations in set_task_rq() returned different values. Looking at all that I found a lack of serialization and plain wrong comments. The below tries to fix it using an extra pointer which is updated under the appropriate scheduler locks. Its not pretty, but I can't really see another way given how all the cgroup stuff works. Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Bader Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340364965.18025.71.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fix a dead loop in async_synchronize_full()

2012-10-02T17:30:35Z

[Fixed upstream by commits 2955b47d2c1983998a8c5915cb96884e67f7cb53 and a4683487f90bfe3049686fc5c566bdc1ad03ace6 from Dan Williams, but they are much more intrusive than this tiny fix, according to Andrew - gregkh] This patch tries to fix a dead loop in async_synchronize_full(), which could be seen when preemption is disabled on a single cpu machine. void async_synchronize_full(void) { do { async_synchronize_cookie(next_cookie); } while (!list_empty(&async_running) || ! list_empty(&async_pending)); } async_synchronize_cookie() calls async_synchronize_cookie_domain() with &async_running as the default domain to synchronize. However, there might be some works in the async_pending list from other domains. On a single cpu system, without preemption, there is no chance for the other works to finish, so async_synchronize_full() enters a dead loop. It seems async_synchronize_full() wants to synchronize all entries in all running lists(domains), so maybe we could just check the entry_count to know whether all works are finished. Currently, async_synchronize_cookie_domain() expects a non-NULL running list ( if NULL, there would be NULL pointer dereference ), so maybe a NULL pointer could be used as an indication for the functions to synchronize all works in all domains. Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Li Zhong Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney Tested-by: Christian Kujau Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Christian Kujau Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

workqueue: UNBOUND -> REBIND morphing in rebind_workers() should be atomic

2012-10-02T17:30:33Z

commit 96e65306b81351b656835c15931d1d237b252f27 upstream. The compiler may compile the following code into TWO write/modify instructions. worker->flags &= ~WORKER_UNBOUND; worker->flags |= WORKER_REBIND; so the other CPU may temporarily see worker->flags which doesn't have either WORKER_UNBOUND or WORKER_REBIND set and perform local wakeup prematurely. Fix it by using single explicit assignment via ACCESS_ONCE(). Because idle workers have another WORKER_NOT_RUNNING flag, this bug doesn't exist for them; however, update it to use the same pattern for consistency. tj: Applied the change to idle workers too and updated comments and patch description a bit. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched: Add missing call to calc_load_exit_idle()

2012-10-02T17:30:05Z

commit 749c8814f08f12baa4a9c2812a7c6ede7d69507d upstream. Azat Khuzhin reported high loadavg in Linux v3.6 After checking the upstream scheduler code, I found Peter's commit: 5167e8d5417b sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again not fully applied, missing the call to calc_load_exit_idle(). After that idle exit in sampling window will always be calculated to non-idle, and the load will be higher than normal. This patch adds the missing call to calc_load_exit_idle(). Signed-off-by: Charles Wang Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345449754-27130-1-git-send-email-muming.wq@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf_event: Switch to internal refcount, fix race with close()

2012-10-02T17:29:54Z

commit a6fa941d94b411bbd2b6421ffbde6db3c93e65ab upstream. Don't mess with file refcounts (or keep a reference to file, for that matter) in perf_event. Use explicit refcount of its own instead. Deal with the race between the final reference to event going away and new children getting created for it by use of atomic_long_inc_not_zero() in inherit_event(); just have the latter free what it had allocated and return NULL, that works out just fine (children of siblings of something doomed are created as singletons, same as if the child of leader had been created and immediately killed). Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120820135925.GG23464@ZenIV.linux.org.uk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman