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2012-05-21new helper: sigsuspend()Al Viro
guts of saved_sigmask-based sigsuspend/rt_sigsuspend. Takes kernel sigset_t *. Open-coded instances replaced with calling it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-05-21Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull smp hotplug cleanups from Thomas Gleixner: "This series is merily a cleanup of code copied around in arch/* and not changing any of the real cpu hotplug horrors yet. I wish I'd had something more substantial for 3.5, but I underestimated the lurking horror..." Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/{arm,sparc,x86}/Kconfig and arch/sparc/include/asm/thread_info_32.h * 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (79 commits) um: Remove leftover declaration of alloc_task_struct_node() task_allocator: Use config switches instead of magic defines sparc: Use common threadinfo allocator score: Use common threadinfo allocator sh-use-common-threadinfo-allocator mn10300: Use common threadinfo allocator powerpc: Use common threadinfo allocator mips: Use common threadinfo allocator hexagon: Use common threadinfo allocator m32r: Use common threadinfo allocator frv: Use common threadinfo allocator cris: Use common threadinfo allocator x86: Use common threadinfo allocator c6x: Use common threadinfo allocator fork: Provide kmemcache based thread_info allocator tile: Use common threadinfo allocator fork: Provide weak arch_release_[task_struct|thread_info] functions fork: Move thread info gfp flags to header fork: Remove the weak insanity sh: Remove cpu_idle_wait() ...
2012-05-21Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar: "This is the v3.5 RCU tree from Paul E. McKenney: 1) A set of improvements and fixes to the RCU_FAST_NO_HZ feature (with more on the way for 3.6). Posted to LKML: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/324 (commits 1-3 and 5), https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/16/611 (commit 4), https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/30/390 (commit 6), and https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/4/410 (commit 7, combined with the other commits for the convenience of the tester). 2) Changes to make rcu_barrier() avoid disrupting execution of CPUs that have no RCU callbacks. Posted to LKML: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/322. 3) A couple of commits that improve the efficiency of the interaction between preemptible RCU and the scheduler, these two being all that survived an abortive attempt to allow preemptible RCU's __rcu_read_lock() to be inlined. The full set was posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/14/143, and the first and third patches of that set remain. 4) Lai Jiangshan's algorithmic implementation of SRCU, which includes call_srcu() and srcu_barrier(). A major feature of this new implementation is that synchronize_srcu() no longer disturbs the execution of other CPUs. This work is based on earlier implementations by Peter Zijlstra and Paul E. McKenney. Posted to LKML: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/22/82. 5) A number of miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements which were posted to LKML at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/353 with subsequent updates posted to LKML." * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits) rcu: Make rcu_barrier() less disruptive rcu: Explicitly initialize RCU_FAST_NO_HZ per-CPU variables rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ handle timer migration rcu: Update RCU maintainership rcu: Make exit_rcu() more precise and consolidate rcu: Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation rcu: Ensure that RCU_FAST_NO_HZ timers expire on correct CPU rcu: Add rcutorture test for call_srcu() rcu: Implement per-domain single-threaded call_srcu() state machine rcu: Use single value to handle expedited SRCU grace periods rcu: Improve srcu_readers_active_idx()'s cache locality rcu: Remove unused srcu_barrier() rcu: Implement a variant of Peter's SRCU algorithm rcu: Improve SRCU's wait_idx() comments rcu: Flip ->completed only once per SRCU grace period rcu: Increment upper bit only for srcu_read_lock() rcu: Remove fast check path from __synchronize_srcu() rcu: Direct algorithmic SRCU implementation rcu: Introduce rcutorture testing for rcu_barrier() timer: Fix mod_timer_pinned() header comment ...
2012-05-21Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar: "This update: - extends and simplifies x86 NMI callback handling code to enhance and fix the HP hw-watchdog driver - simplifies the x86 NMI callback handling code to fix a kmemcheck bug. - enhances the hung-task debugger" * 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/nmi: Fix the type of the nmiaction.flags field x86/nmi: Fix page faults by nmiaction if kmemcheck is enabled x86/nmi: Add new NMI queues to deal with IO_CHK and SERR watchdog, hpwdt: Remove priority option for NMI callback hung task debugging: Inject NMI when hung and going to panic
2012-05-17Merge branches 'perf-urgent-for-linus', 'x86-urgent-for-linus' and ↵Linus Torvalds
'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf, x86 and scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar. * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: tracing: Do not enable function event with enable perf stat: handle ENXIO error for perf_event_open perf: Turn off compiler warnings for flex and bison generated files perf stat: Fix case where guest/host monitoring is not supported by kernel perf build-id: Fix filename size calculation * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, kvm: KVM paravirt kernels don't check for CPUID being unavailable x86: Fix section annotation of acpi_map_cpu2node() x86/microcode: Ensure that module is only loaded on supported Intel CPUs * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched: Fix KVM and ia64 boot crash due to sched_groups circular linked list assumption
2012-05-15genirq: export handle_edge_irq() and irq_to_desc()Jiri Kosina
Export handle_edge_irq() and irq_to_desc() to modules to allow them to do things such as __irq_set_handler_locked(...., handle_edge_irq); This fixes ERROR: "handle_edge_irq" [drivers/gpio/gpio-pch.ko] undefined! ERROR: "irq_to_desc" [drivers/gpio/gpio-pch.ko] undefined! when gpio-pch is being built as a module. This was introduced by commit df9541a60af0 ("gpio: pch9: Use proper flow type handlers") that added __irq_set_handler_locked(d->irq, handle_edge_irq); but handle_edge_irq() was not exported for modules (and inlined __irq_set_handler_locked() requires irq_to_desc() exported as well) Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-14Merge branch 'rcu/next' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu Pull the v3.5 RCU tree from Paul E. McKenney: 1) A set of improvements and fixes to the RCU_FAST_NO_HZ feature (with more on the way for 3.6). Posted to LKML: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/324 (commits 1-3 and 5), https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/16/611 (commit 4), https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/30/390 (commit 6), and https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/4/410 (commit 7, combined with the other commits for the convenience of the tester). 2) Changes to make rcu_barrier() avoid disrupting execution of CPUs that have no RCU callbacks. Posted to LKML: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/322. 3) A couple of commits that improve the efficiency of the interaction between preemptible RCU and the scheduler, these two being all that survived an abortive attempt to allow preemptible RCU's __rcu_read_lock() to be inlined. The full set was posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/14/143, and the first and third patches of that set remain. 4) Lai Jiangshan's algorithmic implementation of SRCU, which includes call_srcu() and srcu_barrier(). A major feature of this new implementation is that synchronize_srcu() no longer disturbs the execution of other CPUs. This work is based on earlier implementations by Peter Zijlstra and Paul E. McKenney. Posted to LKML: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/22/82. 5) A number of miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements which were posted to LKML at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/353 with subsequent updates posted to LKML. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-11Merge branches 'barrier.2012.05.09a', 'fixes.2012.04.26a', ↵Paul E. McKenney
'inline.2012.05.02b' and 'srcu.2012.05.07b' into HEAD barrier: Reduce the amount of disturbance by rcu_barrier() to the rest of the system. This branch also includes improvements to RCU_FAST_NO_HZ, which are included here due to conflicts. fixes: Miscellaneous fixes. inline: Remaining changes from an abortive attempt to inline preemptible RCU's __rcu_read_lock(). These are (1) making exit_rcu() avoid unnecessary work and (2) avoiding having preemptible RCU record a blocked thread when the scheduler declines to do a context switch. srcu: Lai Jiangshan's algorithmic implementation of SRCU, including call_srcu().
2012-05-10namespaces, pid_ns: fix leakage on fork() failureMike Galbraith
Fork() failure post namespace creation for a child cloned with CLONE_NEWPID leaks pid_namespace/mnt_cache due to proc being mounted during creation, but not unmounted during cleanup. Call pid_ns_release_proc() during cleanup. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-10tracing: Do not enable function event with enableSteven Rostedt
With the adding of function tracing event to perf, it caused a side effect that produces the following warning when enabling all events in ftrace: # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/enable [console] event trace: Could not enable event function This is because when enabling all events via the debugfs system it ignores events that do not have a ->reg() function assigned. This was to skip over the ftrace internal events (as they are not TRACE_EVENTs). But as the ftrace function event now has a ->reg() function attached to it for use with perf, it is no longer ignored. Worse yet, this ->reg() function is being called when it should not be. It returns an error and causes the above warning to be printed. By adding a new event_call flag (TRACE_EVENT_FL_IGNORE_ENABLE) and have all ftrace internel event structures have it set, setting the events/enable will no longe try to incorrectly enable the function event and does not warn. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-05-10compat: Fix RT signal mask corruption via sigprocmaskJan Kiszka
compat_sys_sigprocmask reads a smaller signal mask from userspace than sigprogmask accepts for setting. So the high word of blocked.sig[0] will be cleared, releasing any potentially blocked RT signal. This was discovered via userspace code that relies on get/setcontext. glibc's i386 versions of those functions use sigprogmask instead of rt_sigprogmask to save/restore signal mask and caused RT signal unblocking this way. As suggested by Linus, this replaces the sys_sigprocmask based compat version with one that open-codes the required logic, including the merge of the existing blocked set with the new one provided on SIG_SETMASK. Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-09rcu: Make rcu_barrier() less disruptivePaul E. McKenney
The rcu_barrier() primitive interrupts each and every CPU, registering a callback on every CPU. Once all of these callbacks have been invoked, rcu_barrier() knows that every callback that was registered before the call to rcu_barrier() has also been invoked. However, there is no point in registering a callback on a CPU that currently has no callbacks, most especially if that CPU is in a deep idle state. This commit therefore makes rcu_barrier() avoid interrupting CPUs that have no callbacks. Doing this requires reworking the handling of orphaned callbacks, otherwise callbacks could slip through rcu_barrier()'s net by being orphaned from a CPU that rcu_barrier() had not yet interrupted to a CPU that rcu_barrier() had already interrupted. This reworking was needed anyway to take a first step towards weaning RCU from the CPU_DYING notifier's use of stop_cpu(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-05-09rcu: Explicitly initialize RCU_FAST_NO_HZ per-CPU variablesPaul E. McKenney
The current initialization of the RCU_FAST_NO_HZ per-CPU variables makes needless and fragile assumptions about the initial value of things like the jiffies counter. This commit therefore explicitly initializes all of them that are better started with a non-zero value. It also adds some comments describing the per-CPU state variables. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-05-09rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ handle timer migrationPaul E. McKenney
The current RCU_FAST_NO_HZ assumes that timers do not migrate unless a CPU goes offline, in which case it assumes that the CPU will have to come out of dyntick-idle mode (cancelling the timer) in order to go offline. This is important because when RCU_FAST_NO_HZ permits a CPU to enter dyntick-idle mode despite having RCU callbacks pending, it posts a timer on that CPU to force a wakeup on that CPU. This wakeup ensures that the CPU will eventually handle the end of the grace period, including invoking its RCU callbacks. However, Pascal Chapperon's test setup shows that the timer handler rcu_idle_gp_timer_func() really does get invoked in some cases. This is problematic because this can cause the CPU that entered dyntick-idle mode despite still having RCU callbacks pending to remain in dyntick-idle mode indefinitely, which means that its RCU callbacks might never be invoked. This situation can result in grace-period delays or even system hangs, which matches Pascal's observations of slow boot-up and shutdown (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/5/142). See also the bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806548 This commit therefore causes the "should never be invoked" timer handler rcu_idle_gp_timer_func() to use smp_call_function_single() to wake up the CPU for which the timer was intended, allowing that CPU to invoke its RCU callbacks in a timely manner. Reported-by: Pascal Chapperon <pascal.chapperon@wanadoo.fr> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-05-09sched: Fix KVM and ia64 boot crash due to sched_groups circular linked list ↵Igor Mammedov
assumption If we have one cpu that failed to boot and boot cpu gave up on waiting for it and then another cpu is being booted, kernel might crash with following OOPS: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000018 IP: [<ffffffff812c3630>] __bitmap_weight+0x30/0x80 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8108b9b6>] build_sched_domains+0x7b6/0xa50 The crash happens in init_sched_groups_power() that expects sched_groups to be circular linked list. However it is not always true, since sched_groups preallocated in __sdt_alloc are initialized in build_sched_groups and it may exit early if (cpu != cpumask_first(sched_domain_span(sd))) return 0; without initializing sd->groups->next field. Fix bug by initializing next field right after sched_group was allocated. Also-Reported-by: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336559908-32533-1-git-send-email-imammedo@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-08task_allocator: Use config switches instead of magic definesThomas Gleixner
Replace __HAVE_ARCH_TASK_ALLOCATOR and __HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_ALLOCATOR with proper config switches. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120505150142.371309416@linutronix.de
2012-05-08fork: Provide kmemcache based thread_info allocatorThomas Gleixner
Several architectures have their own kmemcache based thread allocator because THREAD_SIZE is smaller than PAGE_SIZE. Add it to the core code conditionally on THREAD_SIZE < PAGE_SIZE so the private copies can go. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120505150141.491002124@linutronix.de
2012-05-08Merge branch 'smp/threadalloc' into smp/hotplugThomas Gleixner
Reason: Pull in the separate branch which was created so arch/tile can base further work on it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-05-08fork: Provide weak arch_release_[task_struct|thread_info] functionsThomas Gleixner
These functions allow us to move most of the duplicated thread_info allocators to the core code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120505150141.366461660@linutronix.de
2012-05-08fork: Move thread info gfp flags to headerThomas Gleixner
These flags can be useful for extra allocations outside of the core code. Add __GFP_NOTRACK to them, so the archs which have kmemcheck do not have to provide extra allocators just for that reason. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120505150141.428211694@linutronix.de
2012-05-08fork: Remove the weak insanityThomas Gleixner
We error out when compiling with gcc4.1.[01] as it miscompiles __weak. The workaround with magic defines is not longer necessary. Make it __weak again. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120505150141.306358267@linutronix.de
2012-05-08smp: Implement kick_all_cpus_sync()Thomas Gleixner
Will replace the misnomed cpu_idle_wait() function which is copied a gazillion times all over arch/* Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120507175652.049316594@linutronix.de
2012-05-05init_task: Create generic init_task instanceThomas Gleixner
All archs define init_task in the same way (except ia64, but there is no particular reason why ia64 cannot use the common version). Create a generic instance so all archs can be converted over. The config switch is temporary and will be removed when all archs are converted over. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120503085034.092585287@linutronix.de
2012-05-04smp: Fix idle_thread_init() inline stubThomas Gleixner
idle_thread_init() does not have arguments. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-05-03smp, idle: Allocate idle thread for each possible cpu during bootSuresh Siddha
percpu areas are already allocated during boot for each possible cpu. percpu idle threads can be considered as an extension of the percpu areas, and allocate them for each possible cpu during boot. This will eliminate the need for workqueue based idle thread allocation. In future we can move the idle thread area into the percpu area too. [ tglx: Moved the loop into smpboot.c and added an error check when the init code failed to allocate an idle thread for a cpu which should be onlined ] Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: venki@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334966930.28674.245.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-05-02rcu: Make exit_rcu() more precise and consolidatePaul E. McKenney
When running preemptible RCU, if a task exits in an RCU read-side critical section having blocked within that same RCU read-side critical section, the task must be removed from the list of tasks blocking a grace period (perhaps the current grace period, perhaps the next grace period, depending on timing). The exit() path invokes exit_rcu() to do this cleanup. However, the current implementation of exit_rcu() needlessly does the cleanup even if the task did not block within the current RCU read-side critical section, which wastes time and needlessly increases the size of the state space. Fix this by only doing the cleanup if the current task is actually on the list of tasks blocking some grace period. While we are at it, consolidate the two identical exit_rcu() functions into a single function. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Conflicts: kernel/rcupdate.c
2012-05-02rcu: Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocationPaul E. McKenney
Currently, PREEMPT_RCU readers are enqueued upon entry to the scheduler. This is inefficient because enqueuing is required only if there is a context switch, and entry to the scheduler does not guarantee a context switch. The commit therefore moves the enqueuing to immediately precede the call to switch_to() from the scheduler. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-01rcu: Ensure that RCU_FAST_NO_HZ timers expire on correct CPUPaul E. McKenney
Timers are subject to migration, which can lead to the following system-hang scenario when CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y: 1. CPU 0 executes synchronize_rcu(), which posts an RCU callback. 2. CPU 0 then goes idle. It cannot immediately invoke the callback, but there is nothing RCU needs from ti, so it enters dyntick-idle mode after posting a timer. 3. The timer gets migrated to CPU 1. 4. CPU 0 never wakes up, so the synchronize_rcu() never returns, so the system hangs. This commit fixes this problem by using mod_timer_pinned(), as suggested by Peter Zijlstra, to ensure that the timer is actually posted on the running CPU. Reported-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-30rcu: Add rcutorture test for call_srcu()Lai Jiangshan
Add srcu_torture_deferred_free() for srcu_ops so as to test the new call_srcu(). Rename the original srcu_ops to srcu_sync_ops. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-30rcu: Implement per-domain single-threaded call_srcu() state machineLai Jiangshan
This commit implements an SRCU state machine in support of call_srcu(). The state machine is preemptible, light-weight, and single-threaded, minimizing synchronization overhead. In particular, there is no longer any need for synchronize_srcu() to be guarded by a mutex. Expedited processing is handled, at least in the absence of concurrent grace-period operations on that same srcu_struct structure, by having the synchronize_srcu_expedited() thread take on the role of the workqueue thread for one iteration. There is a reasonable probability that a given SRCU callback will be invoked on the same CPU that registered it, however, there is no guarantee. Concurrent SRCU grace-period primitives can cause callbacks to be executed elsewhere, even in absence of CPU-hotplug operations. Callbacks execute in process context, but under the influence of local_bh_disable(), so it is illegal to sleep in an SRCU callback function. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-30rcu: Use single value to handle expedited SRCU grace periodsLai Jiangshan
The earlier algorithm used an "expedited" flag combined with a "trycount" counter to differentiate between normal and expedited SRCU grace periods. However, the difference can be encoded into a single counter with a cutoff value and different initial values for expedited and normal SRCU grace periods. This commit makes that change. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Conflicts: kernel/srcu.c
2012-04-30rcu: Improve srcu_readers_active_idx()'s cache localityLai Jiangshan
Expand the calls to srcu_readers_active_idx() from srcu_readers_active() inline. This change improves cache locality by interating over the CPUs once rather than twice. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-30rcu: Implement a variant of Peter's SRCU algorithmLai Jiangshan
This commit implements a variant of Peter's algorithm, which may be found at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/1/119. o Make the checking lock-free to enable parallel checking. Parallel checking is required when (1) the original checking task is preempted for a long time, (2) sychronize_srcu_expedited() starts during an ongoing SRCU grace period, or (3) we wish to avoid acquiring a lock. o Since the checking is lock-free, we avoid a mutex in state machine for call_srcu(). o Remove the SRCU_REF_MASK and remove the coupling with the flipping. This might allow us to remove the preempt_disable() in future versions, though such removal will need great care because it rescinds the one-old-reader-per-CPU guarantee. o Remove a smp_mb(), simplify the comments and make the smp_mb() pairs more intuitive. Inspired-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-30rcu: Improve SRCU's wait_idx() commentsLai Jiangshan
The safety of SRCU is provided byy wait_idx() rather than flipping. The flipping actually prevents starvation. This commit therefore updates the comments to more accurately and precisely describe what is going on. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-30rcu: Flip ->completed only once per SRCU grace periodLai Jiangshan
This is an optimization of the SRCU grace period. To guard against preempted readers with old values of the counter, it suffices to scan the old counters once more, then flip ->completed only one time. The reason this works is that the old readers must have incremented the old set of counters (if they have not yet incremented, then their critical section starts after this grace period, so they may be safely ignored). This commit therefore optimizes the second flip out in favor of a simple rescan. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-30rcu: Increment upper bit only for srcu_read_lock()Lai Jiangshan
The purpose of the upper bit of SRCU's per-CPU counters is to guarantee that no reasonable series of srcu_read_lock() and srcu_read_unlock() operations can return the value of the counter to its original value. This guarantee is require only after the index has been switched to the other set of counters, so at most one srcu_read_lock() can affect a given CPU's counter. The number of srcu_read_unlock() operations on a given counter is limited to the number of tasks in the system, which given the Linux kernel's current structure is limited to far less than 2^30 on 32-bit systems and far less than 2^62 on 64-bit systems. (Something about a limited number of bytes in the kernel's address space.) Therefore, if srcu_read_lock() increments the upper bits, then srcu_read_unlock() need not do so. In this case, an srcu_read_lock() and an srcu_read_unlock() will flip the lower bit of the upper field of the counter. An unreasonably large additional number of srcu_read_unlock() operations would be required to return the counter to its initial value, thus preserving the guarantee. This commit takes this approach, which further allows it to shrink the size of the upper field to one bit, making the number of srcu_read_unlock() operations required to return the counter to its initial value even more unreasonable than before. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-30rcu: Remove fast check path from __synchronize_srcu()Lai Jiangshan
The fastpath in __synchronize_srcu() is designed to handle cases where there are a large number of concurrent calls for the same srcu_struct structure. However, the Linux kernel currently does not use SRCU in this manner, so remove the fastpath checks for simplicity. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-30rcu: Direct algorithmic SRCU implementationPaul E. McKenney
The current implementation of synchronize_srcu_expedited() can cause severe OS jitter due to its use of synchronize_sched(), which in turn invokes try_stop_cpus(), which causes each CPU to be sent an IPI. This can result in severe performance degradation for real-time workloads and especially for short-interation-length HPC workloads. Furthermore, because only one instance of try_stop_cpus() can be making forward progress at a given time, only one instance of synchronize_srcu_expedited() can make forward progress at a time, even if they are all operating on distinct srcu_struct structures. This commit, inspired by an earlier implementation by Peter Zijlstra (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/31/211) and by further offline discussions, takes a strictly algorithmic bits-in-memory approach. This has the disadvantage of requiring one explicit memory-barrier instruction in each of srcu_read_lock() and srcu_read_unlock(), but on the other hand completely dispenses with OS jitter and furthermore allows SRCU to be used freely by CPUs that RCU believes to be idle or offline. The update-side implementation handles the single read-side memory barrier by rechecking the per-CPU counters after summing them and by running through the update-side state machine twice. This implementation has passed moderate rcutorture testing on both x86 and Power. Also updated to use this_cpu_ptr() instead of per_cpu_ptr(), as suggested by Peter Zijlstra. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2012-04-30rcu: Introduce rcutorture testing for rcu_barrier()Paul E. McKenney
Although rcutorture does invoke rcu_barrier() and friends, it cannot really be called a torture test given that it invokes them only once at the end of the test. This commit therefore introduces heavy-duty rcutorture testing for rcu_barrier(), which may be carried out concurrently with normal rcutorture testing. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-29Merge tag 'pm-for-3.4-rc5' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull power management fixes from Rafael J. Wysocki: "Fix for an issue causing hibernation to hang on systems with highmem (that practically means i386) due to broken memory management (bug introduced in 3.2, so -stable material) and PM documentation update making the freezer documentation follow the code again after some recent updates." * tag 'pm-for-3.4-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: PM / Freezer / Docs: Update documentation about freezing of tasks PM / Hibernate: fix the number of pages used for hibernate/thaw buffering
2012-04-27Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU fix from Ingo Molnar. * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: rcu: Permit call_rcu() from CPU_DYING notifiers
2012-04-27Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar. * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched: Fix OOPS when build_sched_domains() percpu allocation fails sched: Fix more load-balancing fallout
2012-04-27Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar. * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf: Fix perf_event_for_each() to use sibling perf symbols: Read plt symbols from proper symtab_type binary tracing: Fix stacktrace of latency tracers (irqsoff and friends) perf tools: Add 'G' and 'H' modifiers to event parsing tracing: Fix regression with tracing_on perf tools: Drop CROSS_COMPILE from flex and bison calls perf report: Fix crash showing warning related to kernel maps tracing: Fix build breakage without CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS (again)
2012-04-27Merge branch 'for-v3.4-rc5' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux Pull build fixes for less mainstream architectures from Paul Gortmaker: "These are fixes for frv(1), blackfin(2), powerpc(1) and xtensa(4). Fortunately the touches are nearly all specific to files just used by the arch in question. The two touches to shared/common files [kernel/irq/debug.h and drivers/pci/Makefile] are trivial to assess as no risk to anyone. Half of them relate to xtensa directly. It was only when I fixed the last xtensa issue that I realized that the arch has been broken for a significant time, and isn't a specific v3.4 regression. So if you wanted, we could leave xtensa lying bleeding in the street for a couple more weeks and queue those for 3.5. But given they are no risk to anyone outside of xtensa, I figured to just leave them in. If you are OK with taking the xtensa fixes, then please pull to get: - one last implicit include uncovered by system.h that is in a file specific to just one powerpc defconfig. (I'd sync'd with BenH). - fix an oversight in the PCI makefile where shared code wasn't being compiled for ARCH=frv - fix a missing include for GPIO in blackfin framebuffer. - audit and tag endif in blackfin ezkit board file, in order to find and fix the misplaced endif masking a block of code. - fix irq/debug.h choice of temporary macro names to be more internal so they don't conflict with names used by xtensa. - fix a reference to an undeclared local var in xtensa's signal.c - fix an implicit bug.h usage in xtensa's asm/io.h uncovered by my removing bug.h from kernel.h - fix xtensa to properly indicate it is using asm-generic/hardirq.h in order to resolve the link error - undefined ack_bad_irq The xtensa still fails final link as my latest binutils does something evil when ld forward-relocates unlikely() blocks, but in theory people who have older/valid toolchains could now use the thing." * 'for-v3.4-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: xtensa: fix build fail on undefined ack_bad_irq blackfin: fix ifdef fustercluck in mach-bf538/boards/ezkit.c blackfin: fix compile error in bfin-lq035q1-fb.c pci: frv architecture needs generic setup-bus infrastructure irq: hide debug macros so they don't collide with others. xtensa: fix build error in xtensa/include/asm/io.h xtensa: fix build failure in xtensa/kernel/signal.c powerpc: fix system.h fallout in sysdev/scom.c [chroma_defconfig]
2012-04-26timer: Fix mod_timer_pinned() header commentPaul E. McKenney
The mod_timer_pinned() header comment states that it prevents timers from being migrated to a different CPU. This is not the case, instead, it ensures that the timer is posted to the current CPU, but does nothing to prevent CPU-hotplug operations from migrating the timer. This commit therefore brings the comment header into alignment with reality. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-04-26rcu: Add warning for RCU_FAST_NO_HZ timer firingPaul E. McKenney
RCU_FAST_NO_HZ uses a timer to limit the time that a CPU with callbacks can remain in dyntick-idle mode. This timer is cancelled when the CPU exits idle, and therefore should never fire. However, if the timer were migrated to some other CPU for whatever reason (1) the timer could actually fire and (2) firing on some other CPU would fail to wake up the CPU with callbacks, possibly resulting in sluggishness or a system hang. This commit therfore adds a WARN_ON_ONCE() to the timer handler in order to detect this condition. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-26perf: Fix perf_event_for_each() to use siblingMichael Ellerman
In perf_event_for_each() we call a function on an event, and then iterate over the siblings of the event. However we don't call the function on the siblings, we call it repeatedly on the original event - it seems "obvious" that we should be calling it with sibling as the argument. It looks like this broke in commit 75f937f24bd9 ("Fix ctx->mutex vs counter->mutex inversion"). The only effect of the bug is that the PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP parameter to the ioctls doesn't work. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334109253-31329-1-git-send-email-michael@ellerman.id.au Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-04-26sched: Fix OOPS when build_sched_domains() percpu allocation failshe, bo
Under extreme memory used up situations, percpu allocation might fail. We hit it when system goes to suspend-to-ram, causing a kworker panic: EIP: [<c124411a>] build_sched_domains+0x23a/0xad0 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception Pid: 3026, comm: kworker/u:3 3.0.8-137473-gf42fbef #1 Call Trace: [<c18cc4f2>] panic+0x66/0x16c [...] [<c1244c37>] partition_sched_domains+0x287/0x4b0 [<c12a77be>] cpuset_update_active_cpus+0x1fe/0x210 [<c123712d>] cpuset_cpu_inactive+0x1d/0x30 [...] With this fix applied build_sched_domains() will return -ENOMEM and the suspend attempt fails. Signed-off-by: he, bo <bo.he@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1335355161.5892.17.camel@hebo [ So, we fail to deallocate a CPU because we cannot allocate RAM :-/ I don't like that kind of sad behavior but nevertheless it should not crash under high memory load. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-04-26sched: Fix more load-balancing falloutPeter Zijlstra
Commits 367456c756a6 ("sched: Ditch per cgroup task lists for load-balancing") and 5d6523ebd ("sched: Fix load-balance wreckage") left some more wreckage. By setting loop_max unconditionally to ->nr_running load-balancing could take a lot of time on very long runqueues (hackbench!). So keep the sysctl as max limit of the amount of tasks we'll iterate. Furthermore, the min load filter for migration completely fails with cgroups since inequality in per-cpu state can easily lead to such small loads :/ Furthermore the change to add new tasks to the tail of the queue instead of the head seems to have some effect.. not quite sure I understand why. Combined these fixes solve the huge hackbench regression reported by Tim when hackbench is ran in a cgroup. Reported-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1335365763.28150.267.camel@twins [ got rid of the CONFIG_PREEMPT tuning and made small readability edits ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-04-26smp: Provide generic idle thread allocationThomas Gleixner
All SMP architectures have magic to fork the idle task and to store it for reusage when cpu hotplug is enabled. Provide a generic infrastructure for it. Create/reinit the idle thread for the cpu which is brought up in the generic code and hand the thread pointer to the architecture code via __cpu_up(). Note, that fork_idle() is called via a workqueue, because this guarantees that the idle thread does not get a reference to a user space VM. This can happen when the boot process did not bring up all possible cpus and a later cpu_up() is initiated via the sysfs interface. In that case fork_idle() would be called in the context of the user space task and take a reference on the user space VM. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: x86@kernel.org Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120420124557.102478630@linutronix.de