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2013-01-21module: printk message when module signature fail taints kernel.Rusty Russell
Reported-by: Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-01-20module: fix missing module_mutex unlockLinus Torvalds
Commit 1fb9341ac348 ("module: put modules in list much earlier") moved some of the module initialization code around, and in the process changed the exit paths too. But for the duplicate export symbol error case the change made the ddebug_cleanup path jump to after the module mutex unlock, even though it happens with the mutex held. Rusty has some patches to split this function up into some helper functions, hopefully the mess of complex goto targets will go away eventually. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-01-20Merge tag 'fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux Pull module fixes and a virtio block fix from Rusty Russell: "Various minor fixes, but a slightly more complex one to fix the per-cpu overload problem introduced recently by kvm id changes." * tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: module: put modules in list much earlier. module: add new state MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED. module: prevent warning when finit_module a 0 sized file virtio-blk: Don't free ida when disk is in use
2013-01-20Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal Pull misc syscall fixes from Al Viro: - compat syscall fixes (discussed back in December) - a couple of "make life easier for sigaltstack stuff by reducing inter-tree dependencies" - fix up compiler/asmlinkage calling convention disagreement of sys_clone() - misc * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: sys_clone() needs asmlinkage_protect make sure that /linuxrc has std{in,out,err} x32: fix sigtimedwait x32: fix waitid() switch compat_sys_wait4() and compat_sys_waitid() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE switch compat_sys_sigaltstack() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE CONFIG_GENERIC_SIGALTSTACK build breakage with asm-generic/syscalls.h Ensure that kernel_init_freeable() is not inlined into non __init code
2013-01-20ia64: kill thread_matches(), unexport ptrace_check_attach()Oleg Nesterov
The ia64 function "thread_matches()" has no users since commit e868a55c2a8c ("[IA64] remove find_thread_for_addr()"). Remove it. This allows us to make ptrace_check_attach() static to kernel/ptrace.c, which is good since we'll need to change the semantics of it and fix up all the callers. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-01-19sys_clone() needs asmlinkage_protectAl Viro
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-01-18workqueue: implement current_is_async()Tejun Heo
This function queries whether %current is an async worker executing an async item. This will be used to implement warning on synchronous request_module() from async workers. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2013-01-18workqueue: move struct worker definition to workqueue_internal.hTejun Heo
This will be used to implement an inline function to query whether %current is a workqueue worker and, if so, allow determining which work item it's executing. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-01-18workqueue: rename kernel/workqueue_sched.h to kernel/workqueue_internal.hTejun Heo
Workqueue wants to expose more interface internal to kernel/. Instead of adding a new header file, repurpose kernel/workqueue_sched.h. Rename it to workqueue_internal.h and add include protector. This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2013-01-17Merge 3.9-rc4 into driver-core-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman
This is to fix up a build problem with a wireless driver due to the dynamic-debug patches in this branch. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-17workqueue: set PF_WQ_WORKER on rescuersTejun Heo
PF_WQ_WORKER is used to tell scheduler that the task is a workqueue worker and needs wq_worker_sleeping/waking_up() invoked on it for concurrency management. As rescuers never participate in concurrency management, PF_WQ_WORKER wasn't set on them. There's a need for an interface which can query whether %current is executing a work item and if so which. Such interface requires a way to identify all tasks which may execute work items and PF_WQ_WORKER will be used for that. As all normal workers always have PF_WQ_WORKER set, we only need to add it to rescuers. As rescuers start with WORKER_PREP but never clear it, it's always NOT_RUNNING and there's no need to worry about it interfering with concurrency management even if PF_WQ_WORKER is set; however, unlike normal workers, rescuers currently don't have its worker struct as kthread_data(). It uses the associated workqueue_struct instead. This is problematic as wq_worker_sleeping/waking_up() expect struct worker at kthread_data(). This patch adds worker->rescue_wq and start rescuer kthreads with worker struct as kthread_data and sets PF_WQ_WORKER on rescuers. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-01-17tick: export nohz tick idle symbols for module useJacob Pan
Allow drivers such as intel_powerclamp to use these apis for turning on/off ticks during idle. Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
2013-01-16module, async: async_synchronize_full() on module init iff async is usedTejun Heo
If the default iosched is built as module, the kernel may deadlock while trying to load the iosched module on device probe if the probing was running off async. This is because async_synchronize_full() at the end of module init ends up waiting for the async job which initiated the module loading. async A modprobe 1. finds a device 2. registers the block device 3. request_module(default iosched) 4. modprobe in userland 5. load and init module 6. async_synchronize_full() Async A waits for modprobe to finish in request_module() and modprobe waits for async A to finish in async_synchronize_full(). Because there's no easy to track dependency once control goes out to userland, implementing properly nested flushing is difficult. For now, make module init perform async_synchronize_full() iff module init has queued async jobs as suggested by Linus. This avoids the described deadlock because iosched module doesn't use async and thus wouldn't invoke async_synchronize_full(). This is hacky and incomplete. It will deadlock if async module loading nests; however, this works around the known problem case and seems to be the best of bad options. For more details, please refer to the following thread. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1420814 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Tested-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Tested-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-01-15timekeeping: Add CONFIG_HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK optionFeng Tang
Make the persistent clock check a kernel config option, so that some platform can explicitely select it, also make CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS and RTC_SYSTOHC depend on its non-existence, which could prevent the persistent clock and RTC code from doing similar thing twice during system's init/suspend/resume phases. If the CONFIG_HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK=n, then no change happens for kernel which still does the persistent clock check in timekeeping_init(). Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Suggested-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> [jstultz: Added dependency for RTC_SYSTOHC as well] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2013-01-15timekeeping: Add persistent_clock_exist flagFeng Tang
In current kernel, there are several places which need to check whether there is a persistent clock for the platform. Current check is done by calling the read_persistent_clock() and validating its return value. So one optimization is to do the check only once in timekeeping_init(), and use a flag persistent_clock_exist to record it. v2: Add a has_persistent_clock() helper function, as suggested by John. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2013-01-15posix-timers: Fix clock_adjtime to always return timex data on successMiroslav Lichvar
The clock_adj call returns the clock state on success, which may be a non-zero value (e.g. TIME_INS), but the modified timex data is copied back to the user only when zero value (TIME_OK) was returned. Fix the condition to copy the data also with positive return values. Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2013-01-15NTP: Add a CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC configurationJason Gunthorpe
The purpose of this option is to allow ARM/etc systems that rely on the class RTC subsystem to have the same kind of automatic NTP based synchronization that we have on PC platforms. Today ARM does not implement update_persistent_clock and makes extensive use of the class RTC system. When enabled CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC will provide a generic rtc_update_persistent_clock that stores the current time in the RTC and is intended complement the existing CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS option that loads the RTC at boot. Like with RTC_HCTOSYS the platform's update_persistent_clock is used first, if it works. Platforms with mixed class RTC and non-RTC drivers need to return ENODEV when class RTC should be used. Such an update for PPC is included in this patch. Long term, implementations of update_persistent_clock should migrate to proper class RTC drivers and use CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC instead. Tested on ARM kirkwood and PPC405 Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2013-01-15time: create __getnstimeofday for WARNless callsKees Cook
The pstore RAM backend can get called during resume, and must be defensive against a suspended time source. Expose getnstimeofday logic that returns an error instead of a WARN. This can be detected and the timestamp can be zeroed out. Reported-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2013-01-15Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c Both conflicts were simply overlapping context. A build fix for qlcnic is in here too, simply removing the added devinit annotations which no longer exist. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-15cpuset: drop spurious retval assignment in proc_cpuset_show()Li Zefan
proc_cpuset_show() has a spurious -EINVAL assignment which does nothing. Remove it. This patch doesn't make any functional difference. tj: Rewrote patch description. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2013-01-15cpuset: fix RCU lockdep splatLi Zefan
5d21cc2db040d01f8c19b8602f6987813e1176b4 ("cpuset: replace cgroup_mutex locking with cpuset internal locking") incorrectly converted proc_cpuset_show() from cgroup_lock() to cpuset_mutex. proc_cpuset_show() is accessing cgroup hierarchy proper to determine cgroup path which can't be protected by cpuset_mutex. This triggered the following RCU warning. =============================== [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ] 3.8.0-rc3-next-20130114-sasha-00016-ga107525-dirty #262 Tainted: G W ------------------------------- include/linux/cgroup.h:534 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1 2 locks held by trinity/7514: #0: (&p->lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff812b06aa>] seq_read+0x3a/0x3e0 #1: (cpuset_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff811abae4>] proc_cpuset_show+0x84/0x190 stack backtrace: Pid: 7514, comm: trinity Tainted: G W +3.8.0-rc3-next-20130114-sasha-00016-ga107525-dirty #262 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81182cab>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x10b/0x120 [<ffffffff811abb71>] proc_cpuset_show+0x111/0x190 [<ffffffff812b0827>] seq_read+0x1b7/0x3e0 [<ffffffff812b0670>] ? seq_lseek+0x110/0x110 [<ffffffff8128b4fb>] do_loop_readv_writev+0x4b/0x90 [<ffffffff8128b776>] do_readv_writev+0xf6/0x1d0 [<ffffffff8128b8ee>] vfs_readv+0x3e/0x60 [<ffffffff8128b960>] sys_readv+0x50/0xd0 [<ffffffff83d33d18>] tracesys+0xe1/0xe6 The operation can be performed under RCU read lock. Replace cpuset_mutex locking with RCU read locking. tj: Rewrote patch description. Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2013-01-14Merge tag 'trace-3.8-rc3-regression-fix' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing regression fixes from Steven Rostedt: "The clean up patch commit 0fb9656d957d "tracing: Make tracing_enabled be equal to tracing_on" caused two regressions. 1) The irqs off latency tracer no longer starts if tracing_on is off when the tracer is set, and then tracing_on is enabled. The tracing_on file needs the hook that tracing_enabled had to enable tracers if they request it (call the tracer's start() method). 2) That commit had a separate change that really should have been a separate patch, but it must have been added accidently with the -a option of git commit. But as the change is still related to the commit it wasn't noticed in review. That change, changed the way blocking is done by the trace_pipe file with respect to the tracing_on settings. I've been told that this change breaks current userspace, and this specific change is being reverted." * tag 'trace-3.8-rc3-regression-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: tracing: Fix regression of trace_pipe tracing: Fix regression with irqsoff tracer and tracing_on file
2013-01-14cgroup: remove synchronize_rcu() from rebind_subsystems()Li Zefan
Nothing's protected by RCU in rebind_subsystems(), and I can't think of a reason why it is needed. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2013-01-14cgroup: remove synchronize_rcu() from cgroup_attach_{task|proc}()Li Zefan
These 2 syncronize_rcu()s make attaching a task to a cgroup quite slow, and it can't be ignored in some situations. A real case from Colin Cross: Android uses cgroups heavily to manage thread priorities, putting threads in a background group with reduced cpu.shares when they are not visible to the user, and in a foreground group when they are. Some RPCs from foreground threads to background threads will temporarily move the background thread into the foreground group for the duration of the RPC. This results in many calls to cgroup_attach_task. In cgroup_attach_task() it's task->cgroups that is protected by RCU, and put_css_set() calls kfree_rcu() to free it. If we remove this synchronize_rcu(), there can be threads in RCU-read sections accessing their old cgroup via current->cgroups with concurrent rmdir operation, but this is safe. # time for ((i=0; i<50; i++)) { echo $$ > /mnt/sub/tasks; echo $$ > /mnt/tasks; } real 0m2.524s user 0m0.008s sys 0m0.004s With this patch: real 0m0.004s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.000s tj: These synchronize_rcu()s are utterly confused. synchornize_rcu() necessarily has to come between two operations to guarantee that the changes made by the former operation are visible to all rcu readers before proceeding to the latter operation. Here, synchornize_rcu() are at the end of attach operations with nothing beyond it. Its only effect would be delaying completion of write(2) to sysfs tasks/procs files until all rcu readers see the change, which doesn't mean anything. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Colin Cross <ccross@google.com>
2013-01-14Merge branch 'clocksource/cleanup' into next/cleanupOlof Johansson
Clockevent cleanup series from Shawn Guo. Resolved move/change conflict in mach-pxa/time.c due to the sys_timer cleanup. * clocksource/cleanup: clocksource: use clockevents_config_and_register() where possible ARM: use clockevents_config_and_register() where possible clockevents: export clockevents_config_and_register for module use + sync to Linux 3.8-rc3 Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Conflicts: arch/arm/mach-pxa/time.c
2013-01-14tracing: Fix regression of trace_pipeLiu Bo
Commit 0fb9656d "tracing: Make tracing_enabled be equal to tracing_on" changes the behaviour of trace_pipe, ie. it makes trace_pipe return if we've read something and tracing is enabled, and this means that we have to 'cat trace_pipe' again and again while running tests. IMO the right way is if tracing is enabled, we always block and wait for ring buffer, or we may lose what we want since ring buffer's size is limited. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358132051-5410-1-git-send-email-bo.li.liu@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-14clockevents: export clockevents_config_and_register for module useShawn Guo
clockevents_config_and_register is a handy helper for clockevent drivers, some of which might support module build, so export the symbol. Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
2013-01-14block: add @req to bio_{front|back}_merge tracepointsTejun Heo
bio_{front|back}_merge tracepoints report a bio merging into an existing request but didn't specify which request the bio is being merged into. Add @req to it. This makes it impossible to share the event template with block_bio_queue - split it out. @req isn't used or exported to userland at this point and there is no userland visible behavior change. Later changes will make use of the extra parameter. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-01-14block: add missing block_bio_complete() tracepointTejun Heo
bio completion didn't kick block_bio_complete TP. Only dm was explicitly triggering the TP on IO completion. This makes block_bio_complete TP useless for tracers which want to know about bios, and all other bio based drivers skip generating blktrace completion events. This patch makes all bio completions via bio_endio() generate block_bio_complete TP. * Explicit trace_block_bio_complete() invocation removed from dm and the trace point is unexported. * @rq dropped from trace_block_bio_complete(). bios may fly around w/o queue associated. Verifying and accessing the assocaited queue belongs to TP probes. * blktrace now gets both request and bio completions. Make it ignore bio completions if request completion path is happening. This makes all bio based drivers generate blktrace completion events properly and makes the block_bio_complete TP actually useful. v2: With this change, block_bio_complete TP could be invoked on sg commands which have bio's with %NULL bi_bdev. Update TP assignment code to check whether bio->bi_bdev is %NULL before dereferencing. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Original-patch-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-01-12module: put modules in list much earlier.Rusty Russell
Prarit's excellent bug report: > In recent Fedora releases (F17 & F18) some users have reported seeing > messages similar to > > [ 15.478160] kvm: Could not allocate 304 bytes percpu data > [ 15.478174] PERCPU: allocation failed, size=304 align=32, alloc from > reserved chunk failed > > during system boot. In some cases, users have also reported seeing this > message along with a failed load of other modules. > > What is happening is systemd is loading an instance of the kvm module for > each cpu found (see commit e9bda3b). When the module load occurs the kernel > currently allocates the modules percpu data area prior to checking to see > if the module is already loaded or is in the process of being loaded. If > the module is already loaded, or finishes load, the module loading code > releases the current instance's module's percpu data. Now we have a new state MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED, we can insert the module into the list (and thus guarantee its uniqueness) before we allocate the per-cpu region. Reported-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Tested-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
2013-01-12module: add new state MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED.Rusty Russell
You should never look at such a module, so it's excised from all paths which traverse the modules list. We add the state at the end, to avoid gratuitous ABI break (ksplice). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2013-01-11kernel/audit.c: avoid negative sleep durationsAndrew Morton
audit_log_start() performs the same jiffies comparison in two places. If sufficient time has elapsed between the two comparisons, the second one produces a negative sleep duration: schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value fffffffffffffff0 Pid: 6606, comm: trinity-child1 Not tainted 3.8.0-rc1+ #43 Call Trace: schedule_timeout+0x305/0x340 audit_log_start+0x311/0x470 audit_log_exit+0x4b/0xfb0 __audit_syscall_exit+0x25f/0x2c0 sysret_audit+0x17/0x21 Fix it by performing the comparison a single time. Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-01-11audit: catch possible NULL audit buffersKees Cook
It's possible for audit_log_start() to return NULL. Handle it in the various callers. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Julien Tinnes <jln@google.com> Cc: Will Drewry <wad@google.com> Cc: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@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>
2013-01-11audit: create explicit AUDIT_SECCOMP event typeKees Cook
The seccomp path was using AUDIT_ANOM_ABEND from when seccomp mode 1 could only kill a process. While we still want to make sure an audit record is forced on a kill, this should use a separate record type since seccomp mode 2 introduces other behaviors. In the case of "handled" behaviors (process wasn't killed), only emit a record if the process is under inspection. This change also fixes userspace examination of seccomp audit events, since it was considered malformed due to missing fields of the AUDIT_ANOM_ABEND event type. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Julien Tinnes <jln@google.com> Acked-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org> Acked-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-01-11lockdep, rwsem: provide down_write_nest_lock()Jiri Kosina
down_write_nest_lock() provides a means to annotate locking scenario where an outer lock is guaranteed to serialize the order nested locks are being acquired. This is analogoue to already existing mutex_lock_nest_lock() and spin_lock_nest_lock(). Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-01-11tracing: Fix regression with irqsoff tracer and tracing_on fileSteven Rostedt
Commit 02404baf1b47 "tracing: Remove deprecated tracing_enabled file" removed the tracing_enabled file as it never worked properly and the tracing_on file should be used instead. But the tracing_on file didn't call into the tracers start/stop routines like the tracing_enabled file did. This caused trace-cmd to break when it enabled the irqsoff tracer. If you just did "echo irqsoff > current_tracer" then it would work properly. But the tool trace-cmd disables tracing first by writing "0" into the tracing_on file. Then it writes "irqsoff" into current_tracer and then writes "1" into tracing_on. Unfortunately, the above commit changed the irqsoff tracer to check the tracing_on status instead of the tracing_enabled status. If it's disabled then it does not start the tracer internals. The problem is that writing "1" into tracing_on does not call the tracers "start" routine like writing "1" into tracing_enabled did. This makes the irqsoff tracer not start when using the trace-cmd tool, and is a regression for userspace. Simple fix is to have the tracing_on file call the tracers start() method when being enabled (and the stop() method when disabled). Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-11kernel/gcov: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTALKees Cook
The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the Linux kernel summit, remove it from any "depends on" lines in Kconfigs. Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
2013-01-10softirq: reduce latenciesEric Dumazet
In various network workloads, __do_softirq() latencies can be up to 20 ms if HZ=1000, and 200 ms if HZ=100. This is because we iterate 10 times in the softirq dispatcher, and some actions can consume a lot of cycles. This patch changes the fallback to ksoftirqd condition to : - A time limit of 2 ms. - need_resched() being set on current task When one of this condition is met, we wakeup ksoftirqd for further softirq processing if we still have pending softirqs. Using need_resched() as the only condition can trigger RCU stalls, as we can keep BH disabled for too long. I ran several benchmarks and got no significant difference in throughput, but a very significant reduction of latencies (one order of magnitude) : In following bench, 200 antagonist "netperf -t TCP_RR" are started in background, using all available cpus. Then we start one "netperf -t TCP_RR", bound to the cpu handling the NIC IRQ (hard+soft) Before patch : # netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t TCP_RR -T2,2 -- -k RT_LATENCY,MIN_LATENCY,MAX_LATENCY,P50_LATENCY,P90_LATENCY,P99_LATENCY,MEAN_LATENCY,STDDEV_LATENCY MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : first burst 0 : cpu bind RT_LATENCY=550110.424 MIN_LATENCY=146858 MAX_LATENCY=997109 P50_LATENCY=305000 P90_LATENCY=550000 P99_LATENCY=710000 MEAN_LATENCY=376989.12 STDDEV_LATENCY=184046.92 After patch : # netperf -H 7.7.7.84 -t TCP_RR -T2,2 -- -k RT_LATENCY,MIN_LATENCY,MAX_LATENCY,P50_LATENCY,P90_LATENCY,P99_LATENCY,MEAN_LATENCY,STDDEV_LATENCY MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 7.7.7.84 () port 0 AF_INET : first burst 0 : cpu bind RT_LATENCY=40545.492 MIN_LATENCY=9834 MAX_LATENCY=78366 P50_LATENCY=33583 P90_LATENCY=59000 P99_LATENCY=69000 MEAN_LATENCY=38364.67 STDDEV_LATENCY=12865.26 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-01-10audit: fix auditfilter.c kernel-doc warningsRandy Dunlap
Fix new kernel-doc warning in auditfilter.c: Warning(kernel/auditfilter.c:1157): Excess function parameter 'uid' description in 'audit_receive_filter' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com (subscribers-only) Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-01-10cgroup: use new hashtable implementationLi Zefan
Switch cgroup to use the new hashtable implementation. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2013-01-10Merge tag 'trace-3.8-rc2-regression-fix' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing regression fix from Steven Rostedt: "A change that came in this merge window broke the writing to the trace_options file. It causes garbage to be read during the compare of option names, and breaks setting options via the trace_options file, although options can still be set via the options/<option> files." * tag 'trace-3.8-rc2-regression-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: tracing: Fix regression of trace_options file setting
2013-01-09tracing: Fix regression of trace_options file settingSteven Rostedt
The latest change to allow trace options to be set on the command line also broke the trace_options file. The zeroing of the last byte of the option name that is echoed into the trace_option file was removed with the consolidation of some of the code. The compare between the option and what was written to the trace_options file fails because the string holding the data written doesn't terminate with a null character. A zero needs to be added to the end of the string copied from user space. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-09sysctl: Enable IA64 "ignore-unaligned-usertrap" to be used cross-archVineet Gupta
IA64 defines /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap to control verbose warnings on unaligned access emulation. Although the exact mechanics of what to do with sysctl (ignore/shout) are arch specific, this change enables the sysctl to be usable cross-arch. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2013-01-08rcu: Trace callback accelerationPaul E. McKenney
This commit adds event tracing for callback acceleration to allow better tracking of callbacks through the system. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-01-08rcu: Tag callback lists with corresponding grace-period numberPaul E. McKenney
Currently, callbacks are advanced each time the corresponding CPU notices a change in its leaf rcu_node structure's ->completed value (this value counts grace-period completions). This approach has worked quite well, but with the advent of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ, we cannot count on a given CPU seeing all the grace-period completions. When a CPU misses a grace-period completion that occurs while it is in dyntick-idle mode, this will delay invocation of its callbacks. In addition, acceleration of callbacks (when RCU realizes that a given callback need only wait until the end of the next grace period, rather than having to wait for a partial grace period followed by a full grace period) must be carried out extremely carefully. Insufficient acceleration will result in unnecessarily long grace-period latencies, while excessive acceleration will result in premature callback invocation. Changes that involve this tradeoff are therefore among the most nerve-wracking changes to RCU. This commit therefore explicitly tags groups of callbacks with the number of the grace period that they are waiting for. This means that callback-advancement and callback-acceleration functions are idempotent, so that excessive acceleration will merely waste a few CPU cycles. This also allows a CPU to take full advantage of any grace periods that have elapsed while it has been in dyntick-idle mode. It should also enable simulataneous simplifications to and optimizations of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-01-08rcutorture: Don't compare ptr with 0Sasha Levin
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-01-08rcu: Silence compiler array out-of-bounds false positivePaul E. McKenney
It turns out that gcc 4.8 warns on array indexes being out of bounds unless it can prove otherwise. It gives this warning on some RCU initialization code. Because this is far from any fastpath, add an explicit check for array bounds and panic if so. This gives the compiler enough information to figure out that the array index is never out of bounds. However, if a similar false positive occurs on a fastpath, it will probably be necessary to tell the compiler to keep its array-index anxieties to itself. ;-) Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-01-08rcu: Use new nesting value for rcu_dyntick trace in rcu_eqs_enter_commonLi Zhong
This patch uses the real new value of dynticks_nesting instead of 0 in rcu_eqs_enter_common(). Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-01-08rcu: Make rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle helper functions staticJosh Triplett
Both rcutiny and rcutree define a helper function named rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle(), each used exactly once, later in the same file. This commit therefore declares these helper functions static. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-01-08rcu: Reduce rcutorture tracingPaul E. McKenney
Currently, rcutorture traces every read-side access. This can be problematic because even a two-minute rcutorture run on a two-CPU system can generate 28,853,363 reads. Normally, only a failing read is of interest, so this commit traces adjusts rcutorture's tracing to only trace failing reads. The resulting event tracing records the time and the ->completed value captured at the beginning of the RCU read-side critical section, allowing correlation with other event-tracing messages. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> [ paulmck: Add fix to build problem located by Randy Dunlap based on diagnosis by Steven Rostedt. ]