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2010-09-20sched: Fix fork vs hotplug vs cpuset namespacesPeter Zijlstra
commit fabf318e5e4bda0aca2b0d617b191884fda62703 upstream There are a number of issues: 1) TASK_WAKING vs cgroup_clone (cpusets) copy_process(): sched_fork() child->state = TASK_WAKING; /* waiting for wake_up_new_task() */ if (current->nsproxy != p->nsproxy) ns_cgroup_clone() cgroup_clone() mutex_lock(inode->i_mutex) mutex_lock(cgroup_mutex) cgroup_attach_task() ss->can_attach() ss->attach() [ -> cpuset_attach() ] cpuset_attach_task() set_cpus_allowed_ptr(); while (child->state == TASK_WAKING) cpu_relax(); will deadlock the system. 2) cgroup_clone (cpusets) vs copy_process So even if the above would work we still have: copy_process(): if (current->nsproxy != p->nsproxy) ns_cgroup_clone() cgroup_clone() mutex_lock(inode->i_mutex) mutex_lock(cgroup_mutex) cgroup_attach_task() ss->can_attach() ss->attach() [ -> cpuset_attach() ] cpuset_attach_task() set_cpus_allowed_ptr(); ... p->cpus_allowed = current->cpus_allowed over-writing the modified cpus_allowed. 3) fork() vs hotplug if we unplug the child's cpu after the sanity check when the child gets attached to the task_list but before wake_up_new_task() shit will meet with fan. Solve all these issues by moving fork cpu selection into wake_up_new_task(). Reported-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1264106190.4283.1314.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-26mm: make the vma list be doubly linkedLinus Torvalds
commit 297c5eee372478fc32fec5fe8eed711eedb13f3d upstream. It's a really simple list, and several of the users want to go backwards in it to find the previous vma. So rather than have to look up the previous entry with 'find_vma_prev()' or something similar, just make it doubly linked instead. Tested-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-13sched, cputime: Introduce thread_group_times()Hidetoshi Seto
commit 0cf55e1ec08bb5a22e068309e2d8ba1180ab4239 upstream. This is a real fix for problem of utime/stime values decreasing described in the thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/3/522 Now cputime is accounted in the following way: - {u,s}time in task_struct are increased every time when the thread is interrupted by a tick (timer interrupt). - When a thread exits, its {u,s}time are added to signal->{u,s}time, after adjusted by task_times(). - When all threads in a thread_group exits, accumulated {u,s}time (and also c{u,s}time) in signal struct are added to c{u,s}time in signal struct of the group's parent. So {u,s}time in task struct are "raw" tick count, while {u,s}time and c{u,s}time in signal struct are "adjusted" values. And accounted values are used by: - task_times(), to get cputime of a thread: This function returns adjusted values that originates from raw {u,s}time and scaled by sum_exec_runtime that accounted by CFS. - thread_group_cputime(), to get cputime of a thread group: This function returns sum of all {u,s}time of living threads in the group, plus {u,s}time in the signal struct that is sum of adjusted cputimes of all exited threads belonged to the group. The problem is the return value of thread_group_cputime(), because it is mixed sum of "raw" value and "adjusted" value: group's {u,s}time = foreach(thread){{u,s}time} + exited({u,s}time) This misbehavior can break {u,s}time monotonicity. Assume that if there is a thread that have raw values greater than adjusted values (e.g. interrupted by 1000Hz ticks 50 times but only runs 45ms) and if it exits, cputime will decrease (e.g. -5ms). To fix this, we could do: group's {u,s}time = foreach(t){task_times(t)} + exited({u,s}time) But task_times() contains hard divisions, so applying it for every thread should be avoided. This patch fixes the above problem in the following way: - Modify thread's exit (= __exit_signal()) not to use task_times(). It means {u,s}time in signal struct accumulates raw values instead of adjusted values. As the result it makes thread_group_cputime() to return pure sum of "raw" values. - Introduce a new function thread_group_times(*task, *utime, *stime) that converts "raw" values of thread_group_cputime() to "adjusted" values, in same calculation procedure as task_times(). - Modify group's exit (= wait_task_zombie()) to use this introduced thread_group_times(). It make c{u,s}time in signal struct to have adjusted values like before this patch. - Replace some thread_group_cputime() by thread_group_times(). This replacements are only applied where conveys the "adjusted" cputime to users, and where already uses task_times() near by it. (i.e. sys_times(), getrusage(), and /proc/<PID>/stat.) This patch have a positive side effect: - Before this patch, if a group contains many short-life threads (e.g. runs 0.9ms and not interrupted by ticks), the group's cputime could be invisible since thread's cputime was accumulated after adjusted: imagine adjustment function as adj(ticks, runtime), {adj(0, 0.9) + adj(0, 0.9) + ....} = {0 + 0 + ....} = 0. After this patch it will not happen because the adjustment is applied after accumulated. v2: - remove if()s, put new variables into signal_struct. Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Spencer Candland <spencer@bluehost.com> Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <4B162517.8040909@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-26revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads" and its fixup commitsRobin Holt
commit 34441427aab4bdb3069a4ffcda69a99357abcb2e upstream. Originally, commit d899bf7b ("procfs: provide stack information for threads") attempted to introduce a new feature for showing where the threadstack was located and how many pages are being utilized by the stack. Commit c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") was applied to fix the NO_MMU case. Commit 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on 64-bit") was applied to fix a bug in ia32 executables being loaded. Commit 9ebd4eba7 ("procfs: fix /proc/<pid>/stat stack pointer for kernel threads") was applied to fix a bug which had kernel threads printing a userland stack address. Commit 1306d603f ('proc: partially revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads"') was then applied to revert the stack pages being used to solve a significant performance regression. This patch nearly undoes the effect of all these patches. The reason for reverting these is it provides an unusable value in field 28. For x86_64, a fork will result in the task->stack_start value being updated to the current user top of stack and not the stack start address. This unpredictability of the stack_start value makes it worthless. That includes the intended use of showing how much stack space a thread has. Other architectures will get different values. As an example, ia64 gets 0. The do_fork() and copy_process() functions appear to treat the stack_start and stack_size parameters as architecture specific. I only partially reverted c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") . If I had completely reverted it, I would have had to change mm/Makefile only build pagewalk.o when CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR is configured. Since I could not test the builds without significant effort, I decided to not change mm/Makefile. I only partially reverted 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on 64-bit") . I left the KSTK_ESP() change in place as that seemed worthwhile. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-11-03Correct nr_processes() when CPUs have been unpluggedIan Campbell
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>
2009-10-08Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: futex: fix requeue_pi key imbalance futex: Fix typo in FUTEX_WAIT/WAKE_BITSET_PRIVATE definitions rcu: Place root rcu_node structure in separate lockdep class rcu: Make hot-unplugged CPU relinquish its own RCU callbacks rcu: Move rcu_barrier() to rcutree futex: Move exit_pi_state() call to release_mm() futex: Nullify robust lists after cleanup futex: Fix locking imbalance panic: Fix panic message visibility by calling bust_spinlocks(0) before dying rcu: Replace the rcu_barrier enum with pointer to call_rcu*() function rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 4 rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 3 rcu: Fix rcu_lock_map build failure on CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y rcu: Clean up code to address Ingo's checkpatch feedback rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 2 rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett
2009-10-06futex: Move exit_pi_state() call to release_mm()Thomas Gleixner
exit_pi_state() is called from do_exit() but not from do_execve(). Move it to release_mm() so it gets called from do_execve() as well. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: Anirban Sinha <ani@anirban.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2009-10-06futex: Nullify robust lists after cleanupPeter Zijlstra
The robust list pointers of user space held futexes are kept intact over an exec() call. When the exec'ed task exits exit_robust_list() is called with the stale pointer. The risk of corruption is minimal, but still it is incorrect to keep the pointers valid. Actually glibc should uninstall the robust list before calling exec() but we have to deal with it anyway. Nullify the pointers after [compat_]exit_robust_list() has been called. Reported-by: Anirban Sinha <ani@anirban.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-09-24task_struct cleanup: move binfmt field to mm_structHiroshi Shimamoto
Because the binfmt is not different between threads in the same process, it can be moved from task_struct to mm_struct. And binfmt moudle is handled per mm_struct instead of task_struct. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24aio: ifdef fields in mm_structAlexey Dobriyan
->ioctx_lock and ->ioctx_list are used only under CONFIG_AIO. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24fork(): disable CLONE_PARENT for initSukadev Bhattiprolu
When global or container-init processes use CLONE_PARENT, they create a multi-rooted process tree. Besides siblings of global init remain as zombies on exit since they are not reaped by their parent (swapper). So prevent global and container-inits from creating siblings. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: itimers: Add tracepoints for itimer hrtimer: Add tracepoint for hrtimers timers: Add tracepoints for timer_list timers cputime: Optimize jiffies_to_cputime(1) itimers: Simplify arm_timer() code a bit itimers: Fix periodic tics precision itimers: Merge ITIMER_VIRT and ITIMER_PROF Trivial header file include conflicts in kernel/fork.c
2009-09-23procfs: provide stack information for threadsStefani Seibold
A patch to give a better overview of the userland application stack usage, especially for embedded linux. Currently you are only able to dump the main process/thread stack usage which is showed in /proc/pid/status by the "VmStk" Value. But you get no information about the consumed stack memory of the the threads. There is an enhancement in the /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/*maps and which marks the vm mapping where the thread stack pointer reside with "[thread stack xxxxxxxx]". xxxxxxxx is the maximum size of stack. This is a value information, because libpthread doesn't set the start of the stack to the top of the mapped area, depending of the pthread usage. A sample output of /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/maps looks like: 08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8312 /opt/z 08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312 /opt/z 0804a000-0806b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] a7d12000-a7d13000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 a7d13000-a7f13000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [thread stack: 001ff4b4] a7f13000-a7f14000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 a7f14000-a7f36000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 a7f36000-a8069000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 a8069000-a806b000 r--p 00133000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 a806b000-a806c000 rw-p 00135000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 a806c000-a806f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 a806f000-a8083000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0 a8083000-a8084000 r--p 00013000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0 a8084000-a8085000 rw-p 00014000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0 a8085000-a8088000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 a8088000-a80a4000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 a80a4000-a80a5000 r--p 0001b000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 a80a5000-a80a6000 rw-p 0001c000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 afaf5000-afb0a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] Also there is a new entry "stack usage" in /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/status which will you give the current stack usage in kb. A sample output of /proc/self/status looks like: Name: cat State: R (running) Tgid: 507 Pid: 507 . . . CapBnd: fffffffffffffeff voluntary_ctxt_switches: 0 nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches: 0 Stack usage: 12 kB I also fixed stack base address in /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/stat to the base address of the associated thread stack and not the one of the main process. This makes more sense. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/proc/array.c now needs walk_page_range()] Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23getrusage: fill ru_maxrss valueJiri Pirko
Make ->ru_maxrss value in struct rusage filled accordingly to rss hiwater mark. This struct is filled as a parameter to getrusage syscall. ->ru_maxrss value is set to KBs which is the way it is done in BSD systems. /usr/bin/time (gnu time) application converts ->ru_maxrss to KBs which seems to be incorrect behavior. Maintainer of this util was notified by me with the patch which corrects it and cc'ed. To make this happen we extend struct signal_struct by two fields. The first one is ->maxrss which we use to store rss hiwater of the task. The second one is ->cmaxrss which we use to store highest rss hiwater of all task childs. These values are used in k_getrusage() to actually fill ->ru_maxrss. k_getrusage() uses current rss hiwater value directly if mm struct exists. Note: exec() clear mm->hiwater_rss, but doesn't clear sig->maxrss. it is intetionally behavior. *BSD getrusage have exec() inheriting. test programs ======================================================== getrusage.c =========== #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include <sys/resource.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <signal.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include "common.h" #define err(str) perror(str), exit(1) int main(int argc, char** argv) { int status; printf("allocate 100MB\n"); consume(100); printf("testcase1: fork inherit? \n"); printf(" expect: initial.self ~= child.self\n"); show_rusage("initial"); if (__fork()) { wait(&status); } else { show_rusage("fork child"); _exit(0); } printf("\n"); printf("testcase2: fork inherit? (cont.) \n"); printf(" expect: initial.children ~= 100MB, but child.children = 0\n"); show_rusage("initial"); if (__fork()) { wait(&status); } else { show_rusage("child"); _exit(0); } printf("\n"); printf("testcase3: fork + malloc \n"); printf(" expect: child.self ~= initial.self + 50MB\n"); show_rusage("initial"); if (__fork()) { wait(&status); } else { printf("allocate +50MB\n"); consume(50); show_rusage("fork child"); _exit(0); } printf("\n"); printf("testcase4: grandchild maxrss\n"); printf(" expect: post_wait.children ~= 300MB\n"); show_rusage("initial"); if (__fork()) { wait(&status); show_rusage("post_wait"); } else { system("./child -n 0 -g 300"); _exit(0); } printf("\n"); printf("testcase5: zombie\n"); printf(" expect: pre_wait ~= initial, IOW the zombie process is not accounted.\n"); printf(" post_wait ~= 400MB, IOW wait() collect child's max_rss. \n"); show_rusage("initial"); if (__fork()) { sleep(1); /* children become zombie */ show_rusage("pre_wait"); wait(&status); show_rusage("post_wait"); } else { system("./child -n 400"); _exit(0); } printf("\n"); printf("testcase6: SIG_IGN\n"); printf(" expect: initial ~= after_zombie (child's 500MB alloc should be ignored).\n"); show_rusage("initial"); signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN); if (__fork()) { sleep(1); /* children become zombie */ show_rusage("after_zombie"); } else { system("./child -n 500"); _exit(0); } printf("\n"); signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL); printf("testcase7: exec (without fork) \n"); printf(" expect: initial ~= exec \n"); show_rusage("initial"); execl("./child", "child", "-v", NULL); return 0; } child.c ======= #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include <sys/resource.h> #include "common.h" int main(int argc, char** argv) { int status; int c; long consume_size = 0; long grandchild_consume_size = 0; int show = 0; while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "n:g:v")) != -1) { switch (c) { case 'n': consume_size = atol(optarg); break; case 'v': show = 1; break; case 'g': grandchild_consume_size = atol(optarg); break; default: break; } } if (show) show_rusage("exec"); if (consume_size) { printf("child alloc %ldMB\n", consume_size); consume(consume_size); } if (grandchild_consume_size) { if (fork()) { wait(&status); } else { printf("grandchild alloc %ldMB\n", grandchild_consume_size); consume(grandchild_consume_size); exit(0); } } return 0; } common.c ======== #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include <sys/resource.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <signal.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include "common.h" #define err(str) perror(str), exit(1) void show_rusage(char *prefix) { int err, err2; struct rusage rusage_self; struct rusage rusage_children; printf("%s: ", prefix); err = getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF, &rusage_self); if (!err) printf("self %ld ", rusage_self.ru_maxrss); err2 = getrusage(RUSAGE_CHILDREN, &rusage_children); if (!err2) printf("children %ld ", rusage_children.ru_maxrss); printf("\n"); } /* Some buggy OS need this worthless CPU waste. */ void make_pagefault(void) { void *addr; int size = getpagesize(); int i; for (i=0; i<1000; i++) { addr = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANON, -1, 0); if (addr == MAP_FAILED) err("make_pagefault"); memset(addr, 0, size); munmap(addr, size); } } void consume(int mega) { size_t sz = mega * 1024 * 1024; void *ptr; ptr = malloc(sz); memset(ptr, 0, sz); make_pagefault(); } pid_t __fork(void) { pid_t pid; pid = fork(); make_pagefault(); return pid; } common.h ======== void show_rusage(char *prefix); void make_pagefault(void); void consume(int mega); pid_t __fork(void); FreeBSD result (expected result) ======================================================== allocate 100MB testcase1: fork inherit? expect: initial.self ~= child.self initial: self 103492 children 0 fork child: self 103540 children 0 testcase2: fork inherit? (cont.) expect: initial.children ~= 100MB, but child.children = 0 initial: self 103540 children 103540 child: self 103564 children 0 testcase3: fork + malloc expect: child.self ~= initial.self + 50MB initial: self 103564 children 103564 allocate +50MB fork child: self 154860 children 0 testcase4: grandchild maxrss expect: post_wait.children ~= 300MB initial: self 103564 children 154860 grandchild alloc 300MB post_wait: self 103564 children 308720 testcase5: zombie expect: pre_wait ~= initial, IOW the zombie process is not accounted. post_wait ~= 400MB, IOW wait() collect child's max_rss. initial: self 103564 children 308720 child alloc 400MB pre_wait: self 103564 children 308720 post_wait: self 103564 children 411312 testcase6: SIG_IGN expect: initial ~= after_zombie (child's 500MB alloc should be ignored). initial: self 103564 children 411312 child alloc 500MB after_zombie: self 103624 children 411312 testcase7: exec (without fork) expect: initial ~= exec initial: self 103624 children 411312 exec: self 103624 children 411312 Linux result (actual test result) ======================================================== allocate 100MB testcase1: fork inherit? expect: initial.self ~= child.self initial: self 102848 children 0 fork child: self 102572 children 0 testcase2: fork inherit? (cont.) expect: initial.children ~= 100MB, but child.children = 0 initial: self 102876 children 102644 child: self 102572 children 0 testcase3: fork + malloc expect: child.self ~= initial.self + 50MB initial: self 102876 children 102644 allocate +50MB fork child: self 153804 children 0 testcase4: grandchild maxrss expect: post_wait.children ~= 300MB initial: self 102876 children 153864 grandchild alloc 300MB post_wait: self 102876 children 307536 testcase5: zombie expect: pre_wait ~= initial, IOW the zombie process is not accounted. post_wait ~= 400MB, IOW wait() collect child's max_rss. initial: self 102876 children 307536 child alloc 400MB pre_wait: self 102876 children 307536 post_wait: self 102876 children 410076 testcase6: SIG_IGN expect: initial ~= after_zombie (child's 500MB alloc should be ignored). initial: self 102876 children 410076 child alloc 500MB after_zombie: self 102880 children 410076 testcase7: exec (without fork) expect: initial ~= exec initial: self 102880 children 410076 exec: self 102880 children 410076 Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to signal_structKOSAKI Motohiro
Currently, OOM logic callflow is here. __out_of_memory() select_bad_process() for each task badness() calculate badness of one task oom_kill_process() search child oom_kill_task() kill target task and mm shared tasks with it example, process-A have two thread, thread-A and thread-B and it have very fat memory and each thread have following oom_adj and oom_score. thread-A: oom_adj = OOM_DISABLE, oom_score = 0 thread-B: oom_adj = 0, oom_score = very-high Then, select_bad_process() select thread-B, but oom_kill_task() refuse kill the task because thread-A have OOM_DISABLE. Thus __out_of_memory() call select_bad_process() again. but select_bad_process() select the same task. It mean kernel fall in livelock. The fact is, select_bad_process() must select killable task. otherwise OOM logic go into livelock. And root cause is, oom_adj shouldn't be per-thread value. it should be per-process value because OOM-killer kill a process, not thread. Thus This patch moves oomkilladj (now more appropriately named oom_adj) from struct task_struct to struct signal_struct. it naturally prevent select_bad_process() choose wrong task. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22ksm: fix deadlock with munlock in exit_mmapAndrea Arcangeli
Rawhide users have reported hang at startup when cryptsetup is run: the same problem can be simply reproduced by running a program int main() { mlockall(MCL_CURRENT | MCL_FUTURE); return 0; } The problem is that exit_mmap() applies munlock_vma_pages_all() to clean up VM_LOCKED areas, and its current implementation (stupidly) tries to fault in absent pages, for example where PROT_NONE prevented them being faulted in when mlocking. Whereas the "ksm: fix oom deadlock" patch, knowing there's a race by which KSM might try to fault in pages after exit_mmap() had finally zapped the range, backs out of such faults doing nothing when its ksm_test_exit() notices mm_users 0. So revert that part of "ksm: fix oom deadlock" which moved the ksm_exit() call from before exit_mmap() to the middle of exit_mmap(); and remove those ksm_test_exit() checks from the page fault paths, so allowing the munlocking to proceed without interference. ksm_exit, if there are rmap_items still chained on this mm slot, takes mmap_sem write side: so preventing KSM from working on an mm while exit_mmap runs. And KSM will bail out as soon as it notices that mm_users is already zero, thanks to its internal ksm_test_exit checks. So that when a task is killed by OOM killer or the user, KSM will not indefinitely prevent it from running exit_mmap to release its memory. This does break a part of what "ksm: fix oom deadlock" was trying to achieve. When unmerging KSM (echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm), and even when ksmd itself has to cancel a KSM page, it is possible that the first OOM-kill victim would be the KSM process being faulted: then its memory won't be freed until a second victim has been selected (freeing memory for the unmerging fault to complete). But the OOM killer is already liable to kill a second victim once the intended victim's p->mm goes to NULL: so there's not much point in rejecting this KSM patch before fixing that OOM behaviour. It is very much more important to allow KSM users to boot up, than to haggle over an unlikely and poorly supported OOM case. We also intend to fix munlocking to not fault pages: at which point this patch _could_ be reverted; though that would be controversial, so we hope to find a better solution. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com> Acked-for-now-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22ksm: fix oom deadlockHugh Dickins
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22ksm: the mm interface to ksmHugh Dickins
This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later. When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than pretending that they can be serviced. But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not touch (e.g. hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings). Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory. Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it. Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting. Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22mm: oom analysis: Show kernel stack usage in /proc/meminfo and OOM log outputKOSAKI Motohiro
The amount of memory allocated to kernel stacks can become significant and cause OOM conditions. However, we do not display the amount of memory consumed by stacks. Add code to display the amount of memory used for stacks in /proc/meminfo. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-21perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance EventsIngo Molnar
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events! In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging, monitoring, analysis facility. Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem 'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and less appropriate. All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion) The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well. Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and suggested a rename. User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to keep the size down.) This patch has been generated via the following script: FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config') sed -i \ -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \ -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \ -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \ -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \ -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \ -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \ $FILES for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g') mv $N $M done FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*) sed -i \ -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \ -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \ -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \ -e 's/counter/event/g' \ -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \ $FILES ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches is the smallest: the end of the merge window. Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch. ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but in case there's something left where 'counter' would be better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. ) Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-11Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (28 commits) rcu: Move end of special early-boot RCU operation earlier rcu: Changes from reviews: avoid casts, fix/add warnings, improve comments rcu: Create rcutree plugins to handle hotplug CPU for multi-level trees rcu: Remove lockdep annotations from RCU's _notrace() API members rcu: Add #ifdef to suppress __rcu_offline_cpu() warning in !HOTPLUG_CPU builds rcu: Add CPU-offline processing for single-node configurations rcu: Add "notrace" to RCU function headers used by ftrace rcu: Remove CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU rcu: Merge preemptable-RCU functionality into hierarchical RCU rcu: Simplify rcu_pending()/rcu_check_callbacks() API rcu: Use debugfs_remove_recursive() simplify code. rcu: Merge per-RCU-flavor initialization into pre-existing macro rcu: Fix online/offline indication for rcudata.csv trace file rcu: Consolidate sparse and lockdep declarations in include/linux/rcupdate.h rcu: Renamings to increase RCU clarity rcu: Move private definitions from include/linux/rcutree.h to kernel/rcutree.h rcu: Expunge lingering references to CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU, optimize on !SMP rcu: Delay rcu_barrier() wait until beginning of next CPU-hotunplug operation. rcu: Fix typo in rcu_irq_exit() comment header rcu: Make rcupreempt_trace.c look at offline CPUs ...
2009-09-11Merge branch 'next' into for-linusJames Morris
2009-09-04Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcuIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Avoid fuzz in init/main.c and update from rc6 to rc8. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-02CRED: Add some configurable debugging [try #6]David Howells
Add a config option (CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS) to turn on some debug checking for credential management. The additional code keeps track of the number of pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to see that this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred struct (which includes all references, not just those from task_structs). Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, the code also checks that the security pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid. This attempts to catch the bug whereby inode_has_perm() faults in an nfsd kernel thread on seeing cred->security be a NULL pointer (it appears that the credential struct has been previously released): http://www.kerneloops.org/oops.php?number=252883 Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-08-29Merge branch 'timers/posixtimers' into timers/tracingThomas Gleixner
Merge reason: timer tracepoint patches depend on both branches Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-08-26clone(): fix race between copy_process() and de_thread()Oleg Nesterov
Spotted by Hiroshi Shimamoto who also provided the test-case below. copy_process() uses signal->count as a reference counter, but it is not. This test case #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <errno.h> #include <pthread.h> void *null_thread(void *p) { for (;;) sleep(1); return NULL; } void *exec_thread(void *p) { execl("/bin/true", "/bin/true", NULL); return null_thread(p); } int main(int argc, char **argv) { for (;;) { pid_t pid; int ret, status; pid = fork(); if (pid < 0) break; if (!pid) { pthread_t tid; pthread_create(&tid, NULL, exec_thread, NULL); for (;;) pthread_create(&tid, NULL, null_thread, NULL); } do { ret = waitpid(pid, &status, 0); } while (ret == -1 && errno == EINTR); } return 0; } quickly creates an unkillable task. If copy_process(CLONE_THREAD) races with de_thread() copy_signal()->atomic(signal->count) breaks the signal->notify_count logic, and the execing thread can hang forever in kernel space. Change copy_process() to increment count/live only when we know for sure we can't fail. In this case the forked thread will take care of its reference to signal correctly. If copy_process() fails, check CLONE_THREAD flag. If it it set - do nothing, the counters were not changed and current belongs to the same thread group. If it is not set, ->signal must be released in any case (and ->count must be == 1), the forked child is the only thread in the thread group. We need more cleanups here, in particular signal->count should not be used by de_thread/__exit_signal at all. This patch only fixes the bug. Reported-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Tested-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-23rcu: Merge preemptable-RCU functionality into hierarchical RCUPaul E. McKenney
Create a kernel/rcutree_plugin.h file that contains definitions for preemptable RCU (or, under the #else branch of the #ifdef, empty definitions for the classic non-preemptable semantics). These definitions fit into plugins defined in kernel/rcutree.c for this purpose. This variant of preemptable RCU uses a new algorithm whose read-side expense is roughly that of classic hierarchical RCU under CONFIG_PREEMPT. This new algorithm's update-side expense is similar to that of classic hierarchical RCU, and, in absence of read-side preemption or blocking, is exactly that of classic hierarchical RCU. Perhaps more important, this new algorithm has a much simpler implementation, saving well over 1,000 lines of code compared to mainline's implementation of preemptable RCU, which will hopefully be retired in favor of this new algorithm. The simplifications are obtained by maintaining per-task nesting state for running tasks, and using a simple lock-protected algorithm to handle accounting when tasks block within RCU read-side critical sections, making use of lessons learned while creating numerous user-level RCU implementations over the past 18 months. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org LKML-Reference: <12509746134003-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-18mm: revert "oom: move oom_adj value"KOSAKI Motohiro
The commit 2ff05b2b (oom: move oom_adj value) moveed the oom_adj value to the mm_struct. It was a very good first step for sanitize OOM. However Paul Menage reported the commit makes regression to his job scheduler. Current OOM logic can kill OOM_DISABLED process. Why? His program has the code of similar to the following. ... set_oom_adj(OOM_DISABLE); /* The job scheduler never killed by oom */ ... if (vfork() == 0) { set_oom_adj(0); /* Invoked child can be killed */ execve("foo-bar-cmd"); } .... vfork() parent and child are shared the same mm_struct. then above set_oom_adj(0) doesn't only change oom_adj for vfork() child, it's also change oom_adj for vfork() parent. Then, vfork() parent (job scheduler) lost OOM immune and it was killed. Actually, fork-setting-exec idiom is very frequently used in userland program. We must not break this assumption. Then, this patch revert commit 2ff05b2b and related commit. Reverted commit list --------------------- - commit 2ff05b2b4e (oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to mm_struct) - commit 4d8b9135c3 (oom: avoid unnecessary mm locking and scanning for OOM_DISABLE) - commit 8123681022 (oom: only oom kill exiting tasks with attached memory) - commit 933b787b57 (mm: copy over oom_adj value at fork time) Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-07execve: must clear current->clear_child_tidEric Dumazet
While looking at Jens Rosenboom bug report (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/27/35) about strange sys_futex call done from a dying "ps" program, we found following problem. clone() syscall has special support for TID of created threads. This support includes two features. One (CLONE_CHILD_SETTID) is to set an integer into user memory with the TID value. One (CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID) is to clear this same integer once the created thread dies. The integer location is a user provided pointer, provided at clone() time. kernel keeps this pointer value into current->clear_child_tid. At execve() time, we should make sure kernel doesnt keep this user provided pointer, as full user memory is replaced by a new one. As glibc fork() actually uses clone() syscall with CLONE_CHILD_SETTID and CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID set, chances are high that we might corrupt user memory in forked processes. Following sequence could happen: 1) bash (or any program) starts a new process, by a fork() call that glibc maps to a clone( ... CLONE_CHILD_SETTID | CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID ...) syscall 2) When new process starts, its current->clear_child_tid is set to a location that has a meaning only in bash (or initial program) context (&THREAD_SELF->tid) 3) This new process does the execve() syscall to start a new program. current->clear_child_tid is left unchanged (a non NULL value) 4) If this new program creates some threads, and initial thread exits, kernel will attempt to clear the integer pointed by current->clear_child_tid from mm_release() : if (tsk->clear_child_tid && !(tsk->flags & PF_SIGNALED) && atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) > 1) { u32 __user * tidptr = tsk->clear_child_tid; tsk->clear_child_tid = NULL; /* * We don't check the error code - if userspace has * not set up a proper pointer then tough luck. */ << here >> put_user(0, tidptr); sys_futex(tidptr, FUTEX_WAKE, 1, NULL, NULL, 0); } 5) OR : if new program is not multi-threaded, but spied by /proc/pid users (ps command for example), mm_users > 1, and the exiting program could corrupt 4 bytes in a persistent memory area (shm or memory mapped file) If current->clear_child_tid points to a writeable portion of memory of the new program, kernel happily and silently corrupts 4 bytes of memory, with unexpected effects. Fix is straightforward and should not break any sane program. Reported-by: Jens Rosenboom <jens@mcbone.net> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-03itimers: Merge ITIMER_VIRT and ITIMER_PROFStanislaw Gruszka
Both cpu itimers have same data flow in the few places, this patch make unification of code related with VIRT and PROF itimers. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> LKML-Reference: <1248862529-6063-2-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-02perf_counter: Full task tracingPeter Zijlstra
In order to be able to distinguish between no samples due to inactivity and no samples due to task ended, Arjan asked for PERF_EVENT_EXIT events. This is useful to the boot delay instrumentation (bootchart) app. This patch changes the PERF_EVENT_FORK to be emitted on every clone, and adds PERF_EVENT_EXIT to be emitted on task exit, after the task's counters have been closed. This task tracing is controlled through: attr.comm || attr.mmap and through the new attr.task field. Suggested-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> [ cleaned up perf_counter.h a bit ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-29mm: copy over oom_adj value at fork timeRik van Riel
Fix a post-2.6.31 regression which was introduced by 2ff05b2b4eac2e63d345fc731ea151a060247f53 ("oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to mm_struct"). After moving the oom_adj value from the task struct to the mm_struct, the oom_adj value was no longer properly inherited by child processes. Copying over the oom_adj value at fork time fixes that bug. [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: test for current->mm before dereferencing it] Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reported-by: Paul Menage <manage@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> 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>
2009-07-22Merge branch 'perf-counters-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-perf * 'perf-counters-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-perf: (31 commits) perf_counter tools: Give perf top inherit option perf_counter tools: Fix vmlinux symbol generation breakage perf_counter: Detect debugfs location perf_counter: Add tracepoint support to perf list, perf stat perf symbol: C++ demangling perf: avoid structure size confusion by using a fixed size perf_counter: Fix throttle/unthrottle event logging perf_counter: Improve perf stat and perf record option parsing perf_counter: PERF_SAMPLE_ID and inherited counters perf_counter: Plug more stack leaks perf: Fix stack data leak perf_counter: Remove unused variables perf_counter: Make call graph option consistent perf_counter: Add perf record option to log addresses perf_counter: Log vfork as a fork event perf_counter: Synthesize VDSO mmap event perf_counter: Make sure we dont leak kernel memory to userspace perf_counter tools: Fix index boundary check perf_counter: Fix the tracepoint channel to perfcounters perf_counter, x86: Extend perf_counter Pentium M support ...
2009-07-18perf_counter: Log vfork as a fork eventAnton Blanchard
Right now we don't output vfork events. Even though we should always see an exec after a vfork, we may get perfcounter samples between the vfork and exec. These samples can lead to some confusion when parsing perfcounter data. To keep things consistent we should always log a fork event. It will result in a little more log data, but is less confusing to trace parsing tools. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20090716104817.589309391@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-08headers: mnt_namespace.h reduxAlexey Dobriyan
Fix various silly problems wrt mnt_namespace.h: - exit_mnt_ns() isn't used, remove it - done that, sched.h and nsproxy.h inclusions aren't needed - mount.h inclusion was need for vfsmount_lock, but no longer - remove mnt_namespace.h inclusion from files which don't use anything from mnt_namespace.h Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18copy_process(): remove the unneeded clear_tsk_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING)Oleg Nesterov
The forked child can have TIF_SIGPENDING if it was copied from parent's ti->flags. But this is harmless and actually almost never happens, because copy_process() can't succeed if signal_pending() == T. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-15kmemcheck: add mm functionsVegard Nossum
With kmemcheck enabled, the slab allocator needs to do this: 1. Tell kmemcheck to allocate the shadow memory which stores the status of each byte in the allocation proper, e.g. whether it is initialized or uninitialized. 2. Tell kmemcheck which parts of memory that should be marked uninitialized. There are actually a few more states, such as "not yet allocated" and "recently freed". If a slab cache is set up using the SLAB_NOTRACK flag, it will never return memory that can take page faults because of kmemcheck. If a slab cache is NOT set up using the SLAB_NOTRACK flag, callers can still request memory with the __GFP_NOTRACK flag. This does not prevent the page faults from occuring, however, but marks the object in question as being initialized so that no warnings will ever be produced for this object. In addition to (and in contrast to) __GFP_NOTRACK, the __GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE flag indicates that the allocation should not be tracked _because_ it would produce a false positive. Their values are identical, but need not be so in the future (for example, we could now enable/disable false positives with a config option). Parts of this patch were contributed by Pekka Enberg but merged for atomicity. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [rebased for mainline inclusion] Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-11Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_64.c arch/x86/kernel/traps.c arch/x86/mm/fault.c include/linux/sched.h kernel/exit.c
2009-06-10Merge branch 'tracing-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: function-graph: always initialize task ret_stack function-graph: move initialization of new tasks up in fork function-graph: add memory barriers for accessing task's ret_stack function-graph: enable the stack after initialization of other variables function-graph: only allocate init tasks if it was not already done Manually fix trivial conflict in kernel/trace/ftrace.c
2009-06-10Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits) Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support" tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK tracing: add protection around module events unload tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface tracing: fix the block trace points print size tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT() ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic tracing/events: fix output format of user stack tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag ...
2009-06-04ptrace: tracehook_report_clone: fix false positivesOleg Nesterov
The "trace || CLONE_PTRACE" check in tracehook_report_clone() is not right, - If the untraced task does clone(CLONE_PTRACE) the new child is not traced, we must not queue SIGSTOP. - If we forked the traced task, but the tracer exits and untraces both the forking task and the new child (after copy_process() drops tasklist_lock), we should not queue SIGSTOP too. Change the code to check task_ptrace() != 0 instead. This is still racy, but the race is harmless. We can race with another tracer attaching to this child, or the tracer can exit and detach in parallel. But giwen that we didn't do wake_up_new_task() yet, the child must have the pending SIGSTOP anyway. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-04perf_counter: Add fork eventPeter Zijlstra
Create a fork event so that we can easily clone the comm and dso maps without having to generate all those events. Signed-off-by: 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> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-03perf_counter: Add a comm hook for pure fork()sPeter Zijlstra
I noticed missing COMM events and found that we missed reporting them for pure forks. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-02function-graph: move initialization of new tasks up in forkSteven Rostedt
When the function graph tracer is enabled, all new tasks must allocate a ret_stack to place the return address of functions. This is because the function graph tracer will replace the real return address with a call to the tracing of the exit function. This initialization happens in fork, but it happens too late. If fork fails, then it will call free_task and that calls the freeing of this ret_stack. But before initialization happens, the new (failed) task points to its parents ret_stack. If a fork failure happens during the function trace, it would be catastrophic for the parent. Also, there's no need to call ftrace_graph_exit_task from fork, since it is called by free_task which fork calls on failure. [ Impact: prevent crash during failed fork running function graph tracer ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-29perf_counter: Ammend cleanup in fork() failPeter Zijlstra
When fork() fails we cannot use perf_counter_exit_task() since that assumes to operate on current. Write a new helper that cleans up unused/clean contexts. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-25perf_counter: Propagate inheritance failures down the fork() pathPeter Zijlstra
Fail fork() when we fail inheritance for some reason (-ENOMEM most likely). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090525124600.324656474@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-25perf_counter: Move child perfcounter init to after scheduler initIngo Molnar
Initialize a task's perfcounters (inherit from parent, etc.) after the child task's scheduler fields have been initialized already. [ Impact: cleanup ] Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-22perf_counter: Dynamically allocate tasks' perf_counter_context structPaul Mackerras
This replaces the struct perf_counter_context in the task_struct with a pointer to a dynamically allocated perf_counter_context struct. The main reason for doing is this is to allow us to transfer a perf_counter_context from one task to another when we do lazy PMU switching in a later patch. This has a few side-benefits: the task_struct becomes a little smaller, we save some memory because only tasks that have perf_counters attached get a perf_counter_context allocated for them, and we can remove the inclusion of <linux/perf_counter.h> in sched.h, meaning that we don't end up recompiling nearly everything whenever perf_counter.h changes. The perf_counter_context structures are reference-counted and freed when the last reference is dropped. A context can have references from its task and the counters on its task. Counters can outlive the task so it is possible that a context will be freed well after its task has exited. Contexts are allocated on fork if the parent had a context, or otherwise the first time that a per-task counter is created on a task. In the latter case, we set the context pointer in the task struct locklessly using an atomic compare-and-exchange operation in case we raced with some other task in creating a context for the subject task. This also removes the task pointer from the perf_counter struct. The task pointer was not used anywhere and would make it harder to move a context from one task to another. Anything that needed to know which task a counter was attached to was already using counter->ctx->task. The __perf_counter_init_context function moves up in perf_counter.c so that it can be called from find_get_context, and now initializes the refcount, but is otherwise unchanged. We were potentially calling list_del_counter twice: once from __perf_counter_exit_task when the task exits and once from __perf_counter_remove_from_context when the counter's fd gets closed. This adds a check in list_del_counter so it doesn't do anything if the counter has already been removed from the lists. Since perf_counter_task_sched_in doesn't do anything if the task doesn't have a context, and leaves cpuctx->task_ctx = NULL, this adds code to __perf_install_in_context to set cpuctx->task_ctx if necessary, i.e. in the case where the current task adds the first counter to itself and thus creates a context for itself. This also adds similar code to __perf_counter_enable to handle a similar situation which can arise when the counters have been disabled using prctl; that also leaves cpuctx->task_ctx = NULL. [ Impact: refactor counter context management to prepare for new feature ] Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <18966.10075.781053.231153@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-07Merge branch 'tracing/hw-branch-tracing' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: this topic is ready for upstream now. It passed Oleg's review and Andrew had no further mm/* objections/observations either. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: This brach was on -rc1, refresh it to almost-rc4 to pick up the latest upstream fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>