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2008-07-25kprobes: improve kretprobe scalability with hashed lockingSrinivasa D S
Currently list of kretprobe instances are stored in kretprobe object (as used_instances,free_instances) and in kretprobe hash table. We have one global kretprobe lock to serialise the access to these lists. This causes only one kretprobe handler to execute at a time. Hence affects system performance, particularly on SMP systems and when return probe is set on lot of functions (like on all systemcalls). Solution proposed here gives fine-grain locks that performs better on SMP system compared to present kretprobe implementation. Solution: 1) Instead of having one global lock to protect kretprobe instances present in kretprobe object and kretprobe hash table. We will have two locks, one lock for protecting kretprobe hash table and another lock for kretporbe object. 2) We hold lock present in kretprobe object while we modify kretprobe instance in kretprobe object and we hold per-hash-list lock while modifying kretprobe instances present in that hash list. To prevent deadlock, we never grab a per-hash-list lock while holding a kretprobe lock. 3) We can remove used_instances from struct kretprobe, as we can track used instances of kretprobe instances using kretprobe hash table. Time duration for kernel compilation ("make -j 8") on a 8-way ppc64 system with return probes set on all systemcalls looks like this. cacheline non-cacheline Un-patched kernel aligned patch aligned patch =============================================================================== real 9m46.784s 9m54.412s 10m2.450s user 40m5.715s 40m7.142s 40m4.273s sys 2m57.754s 2m58.583s 3m17.430s =========================================================== Time duration for kernel compilation ("make -j 8) on the same system, when kernel is not probed. ========================= real 9m26.389s user 40m8.775s sys 2m7.283s ========================= Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25s390: use virtio_console for KVM on s390Christian Borntraeger
This patch enables virtio_console as the default console on kvm for s390. We currently use the same notify hack as lguest for early console output. I will try to address this for lguest and s390 later. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-24Merge 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: nohz: adjust tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() call of s390 as well nohz: prevent tick stop outside of the idle loop
2008-07-21sysdev: Pass the attribute to the low level sysdev show/store functionAndi Kleen
This allow to dynamically generate attributes and share show/store functions between attributes. Right now most attributes are generated by special macros and lots of duplicated code. With the attribute passed it's instead possible to attach some data to the attribute and then use that in shared low level functions to do different things. I need this for the dynamically generated bank attributes in the x86 machine check code, but it'll allow some further cleanups. I converted all users in tree to the new show/store prototype. It's a single huge patch to avoid unbisectable sections. Runtime tested: x86-32, x86-64 Compiled only: ia64, powerpc Not compile tested/only grep converted: sh, arm, avr32 Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-19nohz: adjust tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() call of s390 as wellThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-07-17[S390] Fix stacktrace compile bug.Heiko Carstens
Add missing module.h include to fix this: CC arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.o arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:84: warning: data definition has no type or storage class arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:84: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL' arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:84: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:97: warning: data definition has no type or storage class arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:97: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL' arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:97: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-07-15generic-ipi: more merge falloutIngo Molnar
fix more API change fallout in recently merged upstream changes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-15Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linusIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/powerpc/Kconfig arch/s390/kernel/time.c arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c arch/x86/kernel/i8259_64.c arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c arch/x86/xen/smp.c include/asm-x86/hw_irq_32.h include/asm-x86/hw_irq_64.h include/asm-x86/mach-default/irq_vectors.h include/asm-x86/mach-voyager/irq_vectors.h include/asm-x86/smp.h kernel/Makefile Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-15Merge branch 'core/stacktrace' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core/stacktrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: generic-ipi: powerpc/generic-ipi tree build failure stacktrace: fix build failure on sparc64 stacktrace: export save_stack_trace[_tsk] stacktrace: fix modular build, export print_stack_trace and save_stack_trace backtrace: replace timer with tasklet + completions stacktrace: add saved stack traces to backtrace self-test stacktrace: print_stack_trace() cleanup debugging: make stacktrace independent from DEBUG_KERNEL stacktrace: don't crash on invalid stack trace structs
2008-07-14Merge branch 'core/rodata' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core/rodata' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: move BUG_TABLE into RODATA
2008-07-14[S390] Remove P390 support.Heiko Carstens
Most likely it is broken anyway because of the changes in memory detection. Since we can't test it and there are probably better ways that using a P390 card, remove support for it. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-07-14[S390] Cleanup kprobes printk messages.Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2008-07-14[S390] Cleanup s390 debug feature print messages.Michael Holzheu
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2008-07-14[S390] Cleanup vtime printk messages.Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2008-07-14[S390] Move memory detection code to own file.Heiko Carstens
Move memory detection code to own file and also simplify it. Also add an interface which can be called at any time to get the current memory layout. This interface is needed by our kernel internal system dumper. Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Cc: Frank Munzert <munzert@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-07-14[S390] s390: use memory_read_from_buffer()Akinobu Mita
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-07-14[S390] arch/s390: Eliminate NULL test and memset after alloc_bootmemJulia Lawall
As noted by Akinobu Mita in patch b1fceac2b9e04d278316b2faddf276015fc06e3b, alloc_bootmem and related functions never return NULL and always return a zeroed region of memory. Thus a NULL test or memset after calls to these functions is unnecessary. arch/s390/kernel/topology.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) This was fixed using the following semantic patch. (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @@ expression E; statement S; @@ E = \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\)(...) ... when != E ( - BUG_ON (E == NULL); | - if (E == NULL) S ) @@ expression E,E1; @@ E = \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\)(...) ... when != E - memset(E,0,E1); // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-07-14[S390] Extra Kernel Parameters via VMPARMHendrik Brueckner
Now it is possible to specify additional kernel parameters on the IPL command line using the IPL PARM option. If the Linux system is already running, the new reipl sysfs attribute 'parm' can be used to change kernel parameters for the next reboot. Examples: IPL C PARM dasd=1234 root=/dev/dasda1 IPL 1234 PARM savesys=mylnxnss echo "init=/bin/bash" > /sys/firmware/reipl/ccw/parm Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2008-07-14[S390] idle: remove idle notifier chain.Heiko Carstens
The idle notifier chain consists of at most one element. So there's no point in having a notifier chain. Remove it and directly call the function. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-07-14[S390] stp support.Martin Schwidefsky
Add support for clock synchronization with the server time protocol. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2008-07-14[S390] initrd vs bss section clearing.Heiko Carstens
In case the initrd is located within the bss section it will be overwritten when the section is cleared. To prevent this just move the initrd right behind the bss section if it starts within the section. The current code already moves the initrd if the bootmem allocator bitmap would overwrite it. With this patch we should be safe against initrd corruptions. Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-07-14[S390] Introduce user_regset accessors for s390Martin Schwidefsky
Add the user_regset definitions for normal and compat processes, replace the dump_regs core dump cruft with the generic CORE_DUMP_USER_REGSET and replace binfmt_elf32.c with the generic compat_binfmt_elf.c implementation. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2008-07-14[S390] Remove ipldelay kernel parameter.Heiko Carstens
Using the ipldelay kernel parameter leads to a crash at IPL time. Since this is broken since a long time it looks like nobody is using it anymore. So remove it instead of fixing it. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-07-03stacktrace: export save_stack_trace[_tsk]Ingo Molnar
Andrew Morton reported this against linux-next: ERROR: ".save_stack_trace" [tests/backtracetest.ko] undefined! Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-26on_each_cpu(): kill unused 'retry' parameterJens Axboe
It's not even passed on to smp_call_function() anymore, since that was removed. So kill it. Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-06-26smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argumentJens Axboe
It's never used and the comments refer to nonatomic and retry interchangably. So get rid of it. Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-06-16Merge branch 'linus' into core/rodataIngo Molnar
2008-06-10[S390] Fix build failure in __cpu_up()Segher Boessenkool
The first argument to __ctl_store() should be the array to store stuff in, not just the first element of that array. With the current code in __cpu_up(), mainline GCC dies with an internal compiler error. I didn't diagnose that further, but just fixed the kernel bug. Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-30[S390] disassembler: fix idte instruction format.Martin Schwidefsky
The correct instruction format of idte is "idte r1,r3,r2" with r1 at bit 24, r3 at bit 16 and r2 at bit 28. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-30[S390] Fix section mismatch warnings.Heiko Carstens
This fixes the last remaining section mismatch warnings in s390 architecture code. It reveals also a real bug introduced by... me with git commit 2069e978d5a6e7b45d58027e3de7f879b8c5e488 ("[S390] sparsemem vmemmap: initialize memmap.") Calling the generic vmemmap_alloc_block() function to get initialized memory is a nice idea, however that function is __meminit annotated and therefore the function might be gone if we try to call it later. This can happen if a DCSS segment gets added. So basically revert the patch and clear the memmap explicitly to fix the original bug. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-25move BUG_TABLE into RODATAJan Beulich
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-16[PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.cAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-15[S390] show_interrupts: prevent cpu hotplug when walking cpu_online_map.Heiko Carstens
Surround all the code withing show_interrupts() with get/put_online_cpus() to prevent strange results wrt cpu hotplug. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-15[S390] smp: __smp_call_function_map vs cpu_online_map fix.Heiko Carstens
Both smp_call_function() and __smp_call_function_map() access cpu_online_map. Both functions run with preemption disabled which protects for cpus going offline. However new cpus can be added and therefore the cpu_online_map can change unexpectedly. So use the call_lock to protect against changes to the cpu_online_map in start_secondary() and all smp_call_* functions. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-15[S390] s390dbf: Use const char * for dbf name.Cornelia Huck
We should use const char * for passing the name of the debug feature around since it will not be changed. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-07[S390] compat ptrace cleanupRoland McGrath
This removes redundant arch code for generic ptrace requests already handled by ptrace_request and compat_ptrace_request. It simplifies things to just have the standard entry points, and use the generic compat_sys_ptrace. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-07[S390] s390-kvm: leave sie context on work. Removes preemption requirementChristian Borntraeger
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> This patch fixes a bug with cpu bound guest on kvm-s390. Sometimes it was impossible to deliver a signal to a spinning guest. We used preemption as a circumvention. The preemption notifiers called vcpu_load, which checked for pending signals and triggered a host intercept. But even with preemption, a sigkill was not delivered immediately. This patch changes the low level host interrupt handler to check for the SIE instruction, if TIF_WORK is set. In that case we change the instruction pointer of the return PSW to rerun the vcpu_run loop. The kvm code sees an intercept reason 0 if that happens. This patch adds accounting for these types of intercept as well. The advantages: - works with and without preemption - signals are delivered immediately - much better host latencies without preemption Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-07[S390] s390: Optimize user and work TIF checkMartin Schwidefsky
On return from syscall or interrupt, we have to check if we return to userspace (likely) and if there is work todo (less likely) to decide if we handle the work. We can optimize this check: we first check for the less likely work case and then check for userspace. This patch is also a preparation for an additional patch, that fixes a bug in KVM dealing with cpu bound guests. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-03unified (weak) sys_pipe implementationUlrich Drepper
This replaces the duplicated arch-specific versions of "sys_pipe()" with one unified implementation. This removes almost 250 lines of duplicated code. It's marked __weak, so that *if* an architecture wants to override the default implementation it can do so by simply having its own replacement version, since many architectures use alternate calling conventions for the 'pipe()' system call for legacy reasons (ie traditional UNIX implementations often return the two file descriptors in registers) I still haven't changed the cris version even though Linus says the BKL isn't needed. The arch maintainer can easily do it if there are really no obstacles. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] Update default configuration. [S390] use generic sys_ptrace [S390] Remove self ptrace IEEE_IP hack. [S390] Convert to SPARSEMEM & SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP [S390] System z large page support. [S390] Convert machine feature detection code to C. [S390] vmemmap: use clear_table to initialise page tables. [S390] Move stfl to system.h and delete duplicated version. [S390] uaccess_mvcos: #ifdef config dependent code. [S390] cpu topology: Fix possible deadlock. [S390] Add topology_core_siblings to topology.h [S390] cio: Make isc handling more robust. [S390] remove -traditional [S390] Automatically detect added cpus. [S390] smp: Fix locking order. [S390] Add missing ifndef/define to include/asm-s390/sysinfo.h. [S390] Move show_regs to traps.c. [S390] cio: Use strict_strtoul() for attributes.
2008-04-30signals: s390: renumber TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASKRoland McGrath
TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK no longer needs to be in the _TIF_WORK_* masks. Those low bits are scarce, and are all used up now. Renumber TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK to free one up. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30[S390] use generic sys_ptraceMartin Schwidefsky
After the PT_IEEE_IP hack has been removed s390 can now use the common code sys_ptrace function. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-04-30[S390] Remove self ptrace IEEE_IP hack.Martin Schwidefsky
The self referential PT_IEEE_IP ptrace peek & poke calls have been broken for that last 6 years. For peek the code always returns 0 instead of the last ieee fault and for poke the code does nothing. Since nobody noticed the code seems to be superfluous. So lets remove it. Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-04-30[S390] System z large page support.Gerald Schaefer
This adds hugetlbfs support on System z, using both hardware large page support if available and software large page emulation on older hardware. Shared (large) page tables are implemented in software emulation mode, by using page->index of the first tail page from a compound large page to store page table information. Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-04-30[S390] Convert machine feature detection code to C.Heiko Carstens
From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> From: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> This lets us use defines for the magic bits in machine flags instead of using plain numbers all over the place. In addition on newer machines features/facilities are indicated by the result of the stfl instruction. So we use these bits instead of trying to execute new instructions and check wether we get an exception or not. Also the mvpg instruction is always available when in zArch mode, whereas the idte instruction is only available in zArch mode. This results in some minor optimizations. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-04-30[S390] Move stfl to system.h and delete duplicated version.Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-04-30[S390] cpu topology: Fix possible deadlock.Heiko Carstens
When we get a notification that cpu topology changed, we schedule a work struct which just calls arch_reinit_sched_domains. This function in turn calls get_online_cpus() which results int the lockdep warning below. After all it turnded out that it's not legal to call get_online_cpus() from the context of a multi-threaded work queue. It could deadlock this way: process 0 (events/cpu-x): -> run_workqueue -> removes my work_struct from the work queue -> calls work_struct->fn -> get_online_cpus() -> locks on cpu_hotplug.lock since process 1 below is doing cpu hotplug process 1: -> cpu_down (for cpu-x) -> cpu_hotplug_begin (holds cpu_hotplug.lock now) -> cpu-x dead -> notifier_call_chain with CPU_DEAD -> cleanup_workqueue_thread -> flush_cpu_workqueue (succeeds) -> kthread_stop for events/cpu-x -> now kthread_stop waits for my work_struct to complete from within process 0. -> dead. A single threaded workqueue wouldn't have such problems, however there is no such common queue available and it's not worth to create one for the very rare calls to arch_reinit_sched_domains. So we just create a kernel thread from our work struct which calls arch_reinit_sched_domains and are done with it. Thanks to Oleg Nesterov and Peter Zijlstra for helping me figuring out that this isn't a false positive lockdep warning: ======================================================= [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.25-03562-g3dc5063-dirty #12 ------------------------------------------------------- events/3/14 is trying to acquire lock: (&cpu_hotplug.lock){--..}, at: [<0000000000076094>] get_online_cpus+0x50/0x78 but task is already holding lock: (topology_work){--..}, at: [<0000000000059cde>] run_workqueue+0x106/0x278 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #2 (topology_work){--..}: [<000000000006fc74>] __lock_acquire+0x1010/0x111c [<000000000006fe40>] lock_acquire+0xc0/0xf8 [<0000000000059d48>] run_workqueue+0x170/0x278 [<0000000000059edc>] worker_thread+0x8c/0xf0 [<000000000005f5bc>] kthread+0x68/0xa0 [<000000000001a33e>] kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc [<000000000001a338>] kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc -> #1 (events){--..}: [<000000000006fc74>] __lock_acquire+0x1010/0x111c [<000000000006fe40>] lock_acquire+0xc0/0xf8 [<000000000005a23c>] cleanup_workqueue_thread+0x60/0xa8 [<00000000003b2ab8>] workqueue_cpu_callback+0xbc/0x170 [<00000000003bba80>] notifier_call_chain+0x5c/0xa4 [<00000000000655a2>] __raw_notifier_call_chain+0x26/0x38 [<00000000000655e2>] raw_notifier_call_chain+0x2e/0x40 [<0000000000075e00>] cpu_down+0x228/0x31c [<00000000003b1dd8>] store_online+0x64/0xb8 [<00000000001e7128>] sysdev_store+0x48/0x58 [<0000000000121cd2>] sysfs_write_file+0x126/0x1c0 [<00000000000c1944>] vfs_write+0xb0/0x15c [<00000000000c20e6>] sys_write+0x56/0x88 [<0000000000027a68>] sys32_write+0x34/0x4c [<0000000000023f70>] sysc_noemu+0x10/0x16 [<0000000077f3f186>] 0x77f3f186 -> #0 (&cpu_hotplug.lock){--..}: [<000000000006fa84>] __lock_acquire+0xe20/0x111c [<000000000006fe40>] lock_acquire+0xc0/0xf8 [<00000000003b701c>] mutex_lock_nested+0xd0/0x364 [<0000000000076094>] get_online_cpus+0x50/0x78 [<000000000003a03e>] arch_reinit_sched_domains+0x26/0x58 [<000000000002700e>] topology_work_fn+0x26/0x34 [<0000000000059d4e>] run_workqueue+0x176/0x278 [<0000000000059edc>] worker_thread+0x8c/0xf0 [<000000000005f5bc>] kthread+0x68/0xa0 [<000000000001a33e>] kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc [<000000000001a338>] kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc other info that might help us debug this: 2 locks held by events/3/14: #0: (events){--..}, at: [<0000000000059cde>] run_workqueue+0x106/0x278 #1: (topology_work){--..}, at: [<0000000000059cde>] run_workqueue+0x106/0x278 stack backtrace: CPU: 3 Not tainted 2.6.25-03562-g3dc5063-dirty #12 Process events/3 (pid: 14, task: 000000002fb04038, ksp: 000000002fb0bd70) 0400000000000000 000000002fb0ba40 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 000000002fb0bae0 000000002fb0ba58 000000002fb0ba58 0000000000016488 0000000000000000 000000002fb0bd70 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000002fb0ba40 000000000000000c 000000002fb0ba40 000000002fb0bab0 00000000003c99e0 0000000000016488 000000002fb0ba40 000000002fb0ba90 Call Trace: ([<00000000000163fc>] show_trace+0x138/0x158) [<00000000000164e2>] show_stack+0xc6/0xf8 [<0000000000016624>] dump_stack+0xb0/0xc0 [<000000000006cd36>] print_circular_bug_tail+0xa2/0xb4 [<000000000006fa84>] __lock_acquire+0xe20/0x111c [<000000000006fe40>] lock_acquire+0xc0/0xf8 [<00000000003b701c>] mutex_lock_nested+0xd0/0x364 [<0000000000076094>] get_online_cpus+0x50/0x78 [<000000000003a03e>] arch_reinit_sched_domains+0x26/0x58 [<000000000002700e>] topology_work_fn+0x26/0x34 [<0000000000059d4e>] run_workqueue+0x176/0x278 [<0000000000059edc>] worker_thread+0x8c/0xf0 [<000000000005f5bc>] kthread+0x68/0xa0 [<000000000001a33e>] kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc [<000000000001a338>] kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc INFO: lockdep is turned off. Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-04-30[S390] Add topology_core_siblings to topology.hHeiko Carstens
This exposes the core siblings to user space via sysfs. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2008-04-30[S390] remove -traditionalMathieu Desnoyers
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-04-30[S390] Automatically detect added cpus.Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>