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2008-11-15Fix inotify watch removal/umount racesAl Viro
Inotify watch removals suck violently. To kick the watch out we need (in this order) inode->inotify_mutex and ih->mutex. That's fine if we have a hold on inode; however, for all other cases we need to make damn sure we don't race with umount. We can *NOT* just grab a reference to a watch - inotify_unmount_inodes() will happily sail past it and we'll end with reference to inode potentially outliving its superblock. Ideally we just want to grab an active reference to superblock if we can; that will make sure we won't go into inotify_umount_inodes() until we are done. Cleanup is just deactivate_super(). However, that leaves a messy case - what if we *are* racing with umount() and active references to superblock can't be acquired anymore? We can bump ->s_count, grab ->s_umount, which will almost certainly wait until the superblock is shut down and the watch in question is pining for fjords. That's fine, but there is a problem - we might have hit the window between ->s_active getting to 0 / ->s_count - below S_BIAS (i.e. the moment when superblock is past the point of no return and is heading for shutdown) and the moment when deactivate_super() acquires ->s_umount. We could just do drop_super() yield() and retry, but that's rather antisocial and this stuff is luser-triggerable. OTOH, having grabbed ->s_umount and having found that we'd got there first (i.e. that ->s_root is non-NULL) we know that we won't race with inotify_umount_inodes(). So we could grab a reference to watch and do the rest as above, just with drop_super() instead of deactivate_super(), right? Wrong. We had to drop ih->mutex before we could grab ->s_umount. So the watch could've been gone already. That still can be dealt with - we need to save watch->wd, do idr_find() and compare its result with our pointer. If they match, we either have the damn thing still alive or we'd lost not one but two races at once, the watch had been killed and a new one got created with the same ->wd at the same address. That couldn't have happened in inotify_destroy(), but inotify_rm_wd() could run into that. Still, "new one got created" is not a problem - we have every right to kill it or leave it alone, whatever's more convenient. So we can use idr_find(...) == watch && watch->inode->i_sb == sb as "grab it and kill it" check. If it's been our original watch, we are fine, if it's a newcomer - nevermind, just pretend that we'd won the race and kill the fscker anyway; we are safe since we know that its superblock won't be going away. And yes, this is far beyond mere "not very pretty"; so's the entire concept of inotify to start with. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-15Move "exit_robust_list" into mm_release()Linus Torvalds
We don't want to get rid of the futexes just at exit() time, we want to drop them when doing an execve() too, since that gets rid of the previous VM image too. Doing it at mm_release() time means that we automatically always do it when we disassociate a VM map from the task. Reported-by: pageexec@freemail.hu Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net> Cc: Alex Efros <powerman@powerman.name> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-12Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: fix init_idle()'s use of sched_clock() sched: fix stale value in average load per task
2008-11-12kernel/kprobes.c: don't pad kretprobe_table_locks[] on uniprocessor buildsAndrew Morton
We only need the cacheline padding on SMP kernels. Saves 6k: text data bss dec hex filename 5713 388 8840 14941 3a5d kernel/kprobes.o 5713 388 2632 8733 221d kernel/kprobes.o Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-12kprobes: disable preempt for module_text_address() and kernel_text_address()Masami Hiramatsu
__register_kprobe() can be preempted after checking probing address but before module_text_address() or try_module_get(), and in this interval the module can be unloaded. In that case, try_module_get(probed_mod) will access to invalid address, or kprobe will probe invalid address. This patch uses preempt_disable() to protect it and uses __module_text_address() and __kernel_text_address(). Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-12freezer_cg: disable writing freezer.state of root cgroupLi Zefan
With this change, control file 'freezer.state' doesn't exist in root cgroup, making root cgroup unfreezable. I think it's reasonable to disallow freeze tasks in the root cgroup. And then we can avoid fork overhead when freezer subsystem is compiled but not used. Also make writing invalid value to freezer.state returns EINVAL rather than EIO. This is more consistent with other cgroup subsystem. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-12freezer_cg: remove task_lock from freezer_fork()Li Zefan
In theory the task can be moved to another cgroup and the freezer will be freed right after task_lock is dropped, so the lock results in zero protection. But in the case of freezer_fork() no lock is needed, since the task is not in tasklist yet so it won't be moved to another cgroup, so task->cgroups won't be changed or invalidated. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-12sched: fix init_idle()'s use of sched_clock()Ingo Molnar
Maciej Rutecki reported: > I have this bug during suspend to disk: > > [ 188.592151] Enabling non-boot CPUs ... > [ 188.592151] SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code > [ 188.666058] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible > [00000000] > code: suspend_to_disk/2934 > [ 188.666064] caller is native_sched_clock+0x2b/0x80 Which, as noted by Linus, was caused by me, via: 7cbaef9c "sched: optimize sched_clock() a bit" Move the rq locking a bit earlier in the initialization sequence, that will make the sched_clock() call in init_idle() non-preemptible. Reported-by: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12sched: fix stale value in average load per taskBalbir Singh
Impact: fix load balancer load average calculation accuracy cpu_avg_load_per_task() returns a stale value when nr_running is 0. It returns an older stale (caculated when nr_running was non zero) value. This patch returns and sets rq->avg_load_per_task to zero when nr_running is 0. Compile and boot tested on a x86_64 box. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12hrtimer: clean up unused callback modesPeter Zijlstra
Impact: cleanup git grep HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE revealed half the callback modes are actually unused. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: timers: handle HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_UNLOCKED correctly from softirq context nohz: disable tick_nohz_kick_tick() for now irq: call __irq_enter() before calling the tick_idle_check x86: HPET: enter hpet_interrupt_handler with interrupts disabled x86: HPET: read from HPET_Tn_CMP() not HPET_T0_CMP x86: HPET: convert WARN_ON to WARN_ON_ONCE
2008-11-11Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: release buddies on yield fix for account_group_exec_runtime(), make sure ->signal can't be freed under rq->lock sched: clean up debug info
2008-11-11sched: release buddies on yieldPeter Zijlstra
Clear buddies on yield, so that the buddy rules don't schedule them despite them being placed right-most. This fixed a performance regression with yield-happy binary JVMs. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
2008-11-11timers: handle HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_UNLOCKED correctly from softirq contextGautham R Shenoy
Impact: fix incorrect locking triggered during hotplug-intense stress-tests While migrating the the CB_IRQSAFE_UNLOCKED timers during a cpu-offline, we queue them on the cb_pending list, so that they won't go stale. Thus, when the callbacks of the timers run from the softirq context, they could run into potential deadlocks, since these callbacks assume that they're running with irq's disabled, thereby annoying lockdep! Fix this by emulating hardirq context while running these callbacks from the hrtimer softirq. ================================= [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] 2.6.27 #2 -------------------------------- inconsistent {in-hardirq-W} -> {hardirq-on-W} usage. ksoftirqd/0/4 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE1:SE0] takes: (&rq->lock){++..}, at: [<c011db84>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x9e/0x1fc {in-hardirq-W} state was registered at: [<c014103c>] __lock_acquire+0x549/0x121e [<c0107890>] native_sched_clock+0x88/0x99 [<c013aa12>] clocksource_get_next+0x39/0x3f [<c0139abc>] update_wall_time+0x616/0x7df [<c0141d6b>] lock_acquire+0x5a/0x74 [<c0121724>] scheduler_tick+0x3a/0x18d [<c047ed45>] _spin_lock+0x1c/0x45 [<c0121724>] scheduler_tick+0x3a/0x18d [<c0121724>] scheduler_tick+0x3a/0x18d [<c012c436>] update_process_times+0x3a/0x44 [<c013c044>] tick_periodic+0x63/0x6d [<c013c062>] tick_handle_periodic+0x14/0x5e [<c010568c>] timer_interrupt+0x44/0x4a [<c0150c9f>] handle_IRQ_event+0x13/0x3d [<c0151c14>] handle_level_irq+0x79/0xbd [<c0105634>] do_IRQ+0x69/0x7d [<c01041e4>] common_interrupt+0x28/0x30 [<c047007b>] aac_probe_one+0x1a3/0x3f3 [<c047ec2d>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x36/0x39 [<c01512b4>] setup_irq+0x1be/0x1f9 [<c065d70b>] start_kernel+0x259/0x2c5 [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff irq event stamp: 50102 hardirqs last enabled at (50102): [<c047ebf4>] _spin_unlock_irq+0x20/0x23 hardirqs last disabled at (50101): [<c047edc2>] _spin_lock_irq+0xa/0x4b softirqs last enabled at (50088): [<c0128ba6>] do_softirq+0x37/0x4d softirqs last disabled at (50099): [<c0128ba6>] do_softirq+0x37/0x4d other info that might help us debug this: no locks held by ksoftirqd/0/4. stack backtrace: Pid: 4, comm: ksoftirqd/0 Not tainted 2.6.27 #2 [<c013f6cb>] print_usage_bug+0x13e/0x147 [<c013fef5>] mark_lock+0x493/0x797 [<c01410b1>] __lock_acquire+0x5be/0x121e [<c0141d6b>] lock_acquire+0x5a/0x74 [<c011db84>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x9e/0x1fc [<c047ed45>] _spin_lock+0x1c/0x45 [<c011db84>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x9e/0x1fc [<c011db84>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x9e/0x1fc [<c01210fd>] finish_task_switch+0x41/0xbd [<c0107890>] native_sched_clock+0x88/0x99 [<c011dae6>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x0/0x1fc [<c0136dda>] run_hrtimer_pending+0x54/0xe5 [<c011dae6>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x0/0x1fc [<c0128afb>] __do_softirq+0x7b/0xef [<c0128ba6>] do_softirq+0x37/0x4d [<c0128c12>] ksoftirqd+0x56/0xc5 [<c0128bbc>] ksoftirqd+0x0/0xc5 [<c0134649>] kthread+0x38/0x5d [<c0134611>] kthread+0x0/0x5d [<c0104477>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 ======================= Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11Merge branch 'devel' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/urgent
2008-11-11fix for account_group_exec_runtime(), make sure ->signal can't be freed ↵Oleg Nesterov
under rq->lock Impact: fix hang/crash on ia64 under high load This is ugly, but the simplest patch by far. Unlike other similar routines, account_group_exec_runtime() could be called "implicitly" from within scheduler after exit_notify(). This means we can race with the parent doing release_task(), we can't just check ->signal != NULL. Change __exit_signal() to do spin_unlock_wait(&task_rq(tsk)->lock) before __cleanup_signal() to make sure ->signal can't be freed under task_rq(tsk)->lock. Note that task_rq_unlock_wait() doesn't care about the case when tsk changes cpu/rq under us, this should be OK. Thanks to Ingo who nacked my previous buggy patch. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reported-by: Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
2008-11-10ring-buffer: prevent infinite looping on time stampingSteven Rostedt
Impact: removal of unnecessary looping The lockless part of the ring buffer allows for reentry into the code from interrupts. A timestamp is taken, a test is preformed and if it detects that an interrupt occurred that did tracing, it tries again. The problem arises if the timestamp code itself causes a trace. The detection will detect this and loop again. The difference between this and an interrupt doing tracing, is that this will fail every time, and cause an infinite loop. Currently, we test if the loop happens 1000 times, and if so, it will produce a warning and disable the ring buffer. The problem with this approach is that it makes it difficult to perform some types of tracing (tracing the timestamp code itself). Each trace entry has a delta timestamp from the previous entry. If a trace entry is reserved but and interrupt occurs and traces before the previous entry is commited, the delta timestamp for that entry will be zero. This actually makes sense in terms of tracing, because the interrupt entry happened before the preempted entry was commited, so one may consider the two happening at the same time. The order is still preserved in the buffer. With this idea, instead of trying to get a new timestamp if an interrupt made it in between the timestamp and the test, the entry could simply make the delta zero and continue. This will prevent interrupts or tracers in the timer code from causing the above loop. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2008-11-10ftrace: disable tracing on resizeSteven Rostedt
Impact: fix for bug on resize This patch addresses the bug found here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11996 When ftrace converted to the new unified trace buffer, the resizing of the buffer was not protected as much as it was originally. If tracing is performed while the resize occurs, then the buffer can be corrupted. This patch disables all ftrace buffer modifications before a resize takes place. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2008-11-10nohz: disable tick_nohz_kick_tick() for nowThomas Gleixner
Impact: nohz powersavings and wakeup regression commit fb02fbc14d17837b4b7b02dbb36142c16a7bf208 (NOHZ: restart tick device from irq_enter()) causes a serious wakeup regression. While the patch is correct it does not take into account that spurious wakeups happen on x86. A fix for this issue is available, but we just revert to the .27 behaviour and let long running softirqs screw themself. Disable it for now. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-11-10irq: call __irq_enter() before calling the tick_idle_checkThomas Gleixner
Impact: avoid spurious ksoftirqd wakeups The tick idle check which is called from irq_enter() was run before the call to __irq_enter() which did not set the in_interrupt() bits in preempt_count. That way the raise of a softirq woke up softirqd for nothing as the softirq was handled on return from interrupt. Call __irq_enter() before calling into the tick idle check code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-10sched: clean up debug infoPeter Zijlstra
Impact: clean up and fix debug info printout While looking over the sched_debug code I noticed that we printed the rq schedstats for every cfs_rq, ammend this. Also change nr_spead_over into an int, and fix a little buglet in min_vruntime printing. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-09Merge branch 'cpus4096' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'cpus4096' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything, v3 cpumask: new API, v2 cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything
2008-11-07sched: fix memory leak in a failure pathLi Zefan
Impact: fix rare memory leak in the sched-domains manual reconfiguration code In the failure path, rd is not attached to a sched domain, so it causes a leak. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-07sched: fix a bug in sched domain degenerateLi Zefan
Impact: re-add incorrectly eliminated sched domain layers (1) on i386 with SCHED_SMT and SCHED_MC enabled # mount -t cgroup -o cpuset xxx /mnt # echo 0 > /mnt/cpuset.sched_load_balance # mkdir /mnt/0 # echo 0 > /mnt/0/cpuset.cpus # dmesg CPU0 attaching sched-domain: domain 0: span 0 level CPU groups: 0 (2) on i386 with SCHED_MC enabled but SCHED_SMT disabled # same with (1) # dmesg CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain. The bug is that some sched domains may be skipped unintentionally when degenerating (optimizing) sched domains. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: Block: use round_jiffies_up() Add round_jiffies_up and related routines block: fix __blkdev_get() for removable devices generic-ipi: fix the smp_mb() placement blk: move blk_delete_timer call in end_that_request_last block: add timer on blkdev_dequeue_request() not elv_next_request() bio: define __BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE block: remove unused ll_new_mergeable()
2008-11-06Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: re-tune balancing sched: fix buddies for group scheduling sched: backward looking buddy sched: fix fair preempt check sched: cleanup fair task selection
2008-11-06cgroups: fix invalid cgrp->dentry before cgroup has been completely removedLi Zefan
This fixes an oops when reading /proc/sched_debug. A cgroup won't be removed completely until finishing cgroup_diput(), so we shouldn't invalidate cgrp->dentry in cgroup_rmdir(). Otherwise, when a group is being removed while cgroup_path() gets called, we may trigger NULL dereference BUG. The bug can be reproduced: # cat test.sh #!/bin/sh mount -t cgroup -o cpu xxx /mnt for (( ; ; )) { mkdir /mnt/sub rmdir /mnt/sub } # ./test.sh & # cat /proc/sched_debug BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000038 IP: [<c045a47f>] cgroup_path+0x39/0x90 ... Call Trace: [<c0420344>] ? print_cfs_rq+0x6e/0x75d [<c0421160>] ? sched_debug_show+0x72d/0xc1e ... Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anythingRusty Russell
Impact: introduce new APIs We want to deprecate cpumasks on the stack, as we are headed for gynormous numbers of CPUs. Eventually, we want to head towards an undefined 'struct cpumask' so they can never be declared on stack. 1) New cpumask functions which take pointers instead of copies. (cpus_* -> cpumask_*) 2) Several new helpers to reduce requirements for temporary cpumasks (cpumask_first_and, cpumask_next_and, cpumask_any_and) 3) Helpers for declaring cpumasks on or offstack for large NR_CPUS (cpumask_var_t, alloc_cpumask_var and free_cpumask_var) 4) 'struct cpumask' for explicitness and to mark new-style code. 5) Make iterator functions stop at nr_cpu_ids (a runtime constant), not NR_CPUS for time efficiency and for smaller dynamic allocations in future. 6) cpumask_copy() so we can allocate less than a full cpumask eventually (for alloc_cpumask_var), and so we can eliminate the 'struct cpumask' definition eventually. 7) work_on_cpu() helper for doing task on a CPU, rather than saving old cpumask for current thread and manipulating it. 8) smp_call_function_many() which is smp_call_function_mask() except taking a cpumask pointer. Note that this patch simply introduces the new functions and leaves the obsolescent ones in place. This is to simplify the transition patches. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06Add round_jiffies_up and related routinesAlan Stern
This patch (as1158b) adds round_jiffies_up() and friends. These routines work like the analogous round_jiffies() functions, except that they will never round down. The new routines will be useful for timeouts where we don't care exactly when the timer expires, provided it doesn't expire too soon. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-06generic-ipi: fix the smp_mb() placementSuresh Siddha
smp_mb() is needed (to make the memory operations visible globally) before sending the ipi on the sender and the receiver (on Alpha atleast) needs smp_read_barrier_depends() in the handler before reading the call_single_queue list in a lock-free fashion. On x86, x2apic mode register accesses for sending IPI's don't have serializing semantics. So the need for smp_mb() before sending the IPI becomes more critical in x2apic mode. Remove the unnecessary smp_mb() in csd_flag_wait(), as the presence of that smp_mb() doesn't mean anything on the sender, when the ipi receiver is not doing any thing special (like memory fence) after clearing the CSD_FLAG_WAIT. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-05sched: fix buddies for group schedulingPeter Zijlstra
Impact: scheduling order fix for group scheduling For each level in the hierarchy, set the buddy to point to the right entity. Therefore, when we do the hierarchical schedule, we have a fair chance of ending up where we meant to. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-05sched: backward looking buddyPeter Zijlstra
Impact: improve/change/fix wakeup-buddy scheduling Currently we only have a forward looking buddy, that is, we prefer to schedule to the task we last woke up, under the presumption that its going to consume the data we just produced, and therefore will have cache hot benefits. This allows co-waking producer/consumer task pairs to run ahead of the pack for a little while, keeping their cache warm. Without this, we would interleave all pairs, utterly trashing the cache. This patch introduces a backward looking buddy, that is, suppose that in the above scenario, the consumer preempts the producer before it can go to sleep, we will therefore miss the wakeup from consumer to producer (its already running, after all), breaking the cycle and reverting to the cache-trashing interleaved schedule pattern. The backward buddy will try to schedule back to the task that woke us up in case the forward buddy is not available, under the assumption that the last task will be the one with the most cache hot task around barring current. This will basically allow a task to continue after it got preempted. In order to avoid starvation, we allow either buddy to get wakeup_gran ahead of the pack. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-05sched: fix fair preempt checkPeter Zijlstra
Impact: fix cross-class preemption Inter-class wakeup preemptions should go on class order. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-05sched: cleanup fair task selectionPeter Zijlstra
Impact: cleanup Clean up task selection Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-05ftrace: fix breakage in bin_fmt resultsEric Anholt
In 777e208d40d0953efc6fb4ab58590da3f7d8f02d we changed from outputting field->cpu (a char) to iter->cpu (unsigned int), increasing the resulting structure size by 3 bytes. Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-03tracing, ring-buffer: add paranoid checks for loopsSteven Rostedt
While writing a new tracer, I had a bug where I caused the ring-buffer to recurse in a bad way. The bug was with the tracer I was writing and not the ring-buffer itself. But it took a long time to find the problem. This patch adds paranoid checks into the ring-buffer infrastructure that will catch bugs of this nature. Note: I put the bug back in the tracer and this patch showed the error nicely and prevented the lockup. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-03ftrace: use kretprobe trampoline name to test in outputSteven Rostedt
Impact: ia64+tracing build fix When a function is kprobed, the return address is set to the kprobe_trampoline, or something similar. This caused the output of the trace to look confusing when the parent seemed to be this "kprobe_trampoline" function. To fix this, Abhishek Sagar added a test of the instruction pointer of the parent to see if it matched the kprobe_trampoline. If it did, the output would print a "[unknown/kretprobe'd]" instead. Unfortunately, not all archs do this the same way, and the trampoline function may not be exported, which causes failures in builds. This patch will compare the name instead of the pointer to see if it matches. This prevents us from depending on a function from being exported, and should work on all archs. The worst that can happen is that an arch might use a different name and then we go back to the confusing output. At least the arch will still build. Reported-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com> Acked-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
2008-11-03tracing, alpha: undefined reference to `save_stack_trace'Al Viro
Impact: build fix on !stacktrace architectures only select STACKTRACE on architectures that have STACKTRACE_SUPPORT ... since we also need to ifdef out the guts of ftrace_trace_stack(). We also want to disallow setting TRACE_ITER_STACKTRACE in trace_flags on such configs, but that can wait. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-01PM_TEST_SUSPEND should depend on RTC_CLASS, not RTC_LIBAl Viro
Insufficient dependency - we really want CONFIG_RTC_CLASS=y there. That will give us CONFIG_RTC_LIB=y, so the old dependency can be simply replaced. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-01reserve_region_with_split: Fix GFP_KERNEL usage under spinlockLinus Torvalds
This one apparently doesn't generate any warnings, because the function is only used during system bootup, when the warnings are disabled. But it's still very wrong. The __reserve_region_with_split() function is called with the resource_lock held for writing, so it must only ever do GFP_ATOMIC allocations. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-30Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: remove sched-design.txt from 00-INDEX sched: change sched_debug's mode to 0444
2008-10-30Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: ftrace: handle archs that do not support irqs_disabled_flags
2008-10-30Merge 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: resources: fix x86info results ioremap.c:226 __ioremap_caller+0xf2/0x2d6() WARNINGs
2008-10-31ftrace: handle archs that do not support irqs_disabled_flagsSteven Rostedt
Impact: build fix on non-lockdep architectures Some architectures do not support a way to read the irq flags that is set from "local_irq_save(flags)" to determine if interrupts were disabled or enabled. Ftrace uses this information to display to the user if the trace occurred with interrupts enabled or disabled. Besides the fact that those archs that do not support this will fail to compile, unless they fix it, we do not want to have the trace simply say interrupts were not disabled or they were enabled, without knowing the real answer. This patch adds a 'X' in the output to let the user know that the architecture they are running on does not support a way for the tracer to determine if interrupts were enabled or disabled. It also lets those same archs compile with tracing enabled. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-30Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: ftrace: fix trace_nop config select ftrace: perform an initialization for ftrace to enable it
2008-10-30'kill sig -1' must only apply to caller's namespaceSukadev Bhattiprolu
Currently "kill <sig> -1" kills processes in all namespaces and breaks the isolation of namespaces. Earlier attempt to fix this was discussed at: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/23/148 As suggested by Oleg Nesterov in that thread, use "task_pid_vnr() > 1" check since task_pid_vnr() returns 0 if process is outside the caller's namespace. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Tested-by: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson <daniel@hozac.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-30kernel/profile: fix profile_init() section mismatchPaul Mundt
profile_init() calls in to alloc_bootmem() on early initialization. While alloc_bootmem() is __init, the reference itself is safe in that it is tucked below a !slab_is_available() check. So, flag profile_init() as __ref. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-30freezer_cg: simplify freezer_change_state()Li Zefan
Just call unfreeze_cgroup() if goal_state == THAWED, and call try_to_freeze_cgroup() if goal_state == FROZEN. No behavior has been changed. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-30freezer_cg: use thaw_process() in unfreeze_cgroup()Li Zefan
Don't duplicate the implementation of thaw_process(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make __thaw_process() static] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-30freezer_cg: remove redundant check in freezer_can_attach()Li Zefan
It is sufficient to check if @task is frozen, and no need to check if the original freezer is frozen. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>