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... to further strip down __build_sched_domains().
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090818105838.GI29515@alberich.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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... to further strip down __build_sched_domains().
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090818105751.GH29515@alberich.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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... to further strip down __build_sched_domains().
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090818105703.GG29515@alberich.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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... to further strip down __build_sched_domains().
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090818105614.GF29515@alberich.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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... to further strip down __build_sched_domains().
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090818105455.GE29515@alberich.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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... to further strip down __build_sched_domains().
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090818105406.GD29515@alberich.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090818105300.GC29515@alberich.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090818105152.GB29515@alberich.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Merge reason: the branch was on pre-rc1 .30, update to latest.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Conflicts:
arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
mm/percpu.c
Conflicts in core and arch percpu codes are mostly from commit
ed78e1e078dd44249f88b1dd8c76dafb39567161 which substituted many
num_possible_cpus() with nr_cpu_ids. As for-next branch has moved all
the first chunk allocators into mm/percpu.c, the changes are moved
from arch code to mm/percpu.c.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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For powerpc with CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
jiffies_to_cputime(1) is not compile time constant and run time
calculations are quite expensive. To optimize we use
precomputed value. For all other architectures is is
preprocessor definition.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
LKML-Reference: <1248862529-6063-5-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Add a lockdep helper to validate that we indeed are the owner
of a lock.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Like sched_migrate_task(), set_cpus_allowed_ptr() should hold
onto the migration thread too.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Reflect "active" cpus in the rq->rd->online field, instead of
the online_map.
The motivation is that things that use the root-domain code
(such as cpupri) only care about cpus classified as "active"
anyway. By synchronizing the root-domain state with the active
map, we allow several optimizations.
For instance, we can remove an extra cpumask_and from the
scheduler hotpath by utilizing rq->rd->online (since it is now
a cached version of cpu_active_map & rq->rd->span).
Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090730145723.25226.24493.stgit@dev.haskins.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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We currently have an explicit "needs_post" vtable method which
returns a stack variable for whether we should later run
post-schedule. This leads to an awkward exchange of the
variable as it bubbles back up out of the context switch. Peter
Zijlstra observed that this information could be stored in the
run-queue itself instead of handled on the stack.
Therefore, we revert to the method of having context_switch
return void, and update an internal rq->post_schedule variable
when we require further processing.
In addition, we fix a race condition where we try to access
current->sched_class without holding the rq->lock. This is
technically racy, as the sched-class could change out from
under us. Instead, we reference the per-rq post_schedule
variable with the runqueue unlocked, but with preemption
disabled to see if we need to reacquire the rq->lock.
Finally, we clean the code up slightly by removing the #ifdef
CONFIG_SMP conditionals from the schedule() call, and implement
some inline helper functions instead.
This patch passes checkpatch, and rt-migrate.
Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090729150422.17691.55590.stgit@dev.haskins.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The current method for pushing RT tasks after scheduling only
happens after a context switch. But we found cases where a task
is set up on a run queue to be pushed but the push never
happens because the schedule chooses the same task.
This bug was found with the help of Gregory Haskins and the use
of ftrace (trace_printk). It tooks several days for both of us
analyzing the code and the trace output to find this.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090729042526.205923666@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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When cgroup group scheduling is built in, skip some code paths
if we don't have any (but the root) cgroups configured.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Commit ec4e0e2fe018992d980910db901637c814575914 ("fix
inconsistency when redistribute per-cpu tg->cfs_rq shares")
broke cgroup smp fairness.
In order to avoid starvation of newly placed tasks, we never
quite set the share of an empty cpu group-task to 0, but
instead we set it as if there's a single NICE-0 task present.
If however we actually set this in cfs_rq[cpu]->shares, that
means the total shares for that group will be slightly inflated
every time we balance, causing the observed unfairness.
Fix this by setting cfs_rq[cpu]->shares to 0 but actually
setting the effective weight of the related se to the inflated
number.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1248696557.6987.1615.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Merge reason: avoid upcoming patch conflict.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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migration_init() returns the return value of the hotplug notifier. In
the success case this is NOTIFY_OK which is 1. initcall_debug
evaluates that as an error code because init calls are expected to
return 0 on success.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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might_sleep() is called late-ish in cond_resched(), after the
need_resched()/preempt enabled/system running tests are
checked.
It's better to check the sleeps while atomic earlier and not
depend on some environment datas that reduce the chances to
detect a problem.
Also define cond_resched_*() helpers as macros, so that the
FILE/LINE reported in the sleeping while atomic warning
displays the real origin and not sched.h
Changes in v2:
- Call __might_sleep() directly instead of might_sleep() which
may call cond_resched()
- Turn cond_resched() into a macro so that the file:line
couple reported refers to the caller of cond_resched() and
not __cond_resched() itself.
Changes in v3:
- Also propagate this __might_sleep() pull up to
cond_resched_lock() and cond_resched_softirq()
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1247725694-6082-6-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Add a preempt count base offset to compare against the current
preempt level count. It prepares to pull up the might_sleep
check from cond_resched() to cond_resched_lock() and
cond_resched_bh().
For these two helpers, we need to respectively ensure that once
we'll unlock the given spinlock / reenable local softirqs, we
will reach a sleepable state.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
[ Move and rename preempt_count_equals() ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1247725694-6082-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Cover the off case for __might_sleep(), so that we avoid
#ifdefs in files that make use of it. Especially, this prepares
for the __might_sleep() pull up on cond_resched().
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1247725694-6082-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Remove the outdated comment from __cond_resched() related to
the now removed Big Kernel Semaphore.
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1247725694-6082-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The schedule() function is a loop that reschedules the current
task while the TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag is set:
void schedule(void)
{
need_resched:
/* schedule code */
if (need_resched())
goto need_resched;
}
And cond_resched() repeat this loop:
do {
add_preempt_count(PREEMPT_ACTIVE);
schedule();
sub_preempt_count(PREEMPT_ACTIVE);
} while(need_resched());
This loop is needless because schedule() already did the check
and nothing can set TIF_NEED_RESCHED between schedule() exit
and the loop check in need_resched().
Then remove this needless loop.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1247725694-6082-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Merge reason: branch had an old upstream base (-rc1-ish), but also
merge to avoid a conflict.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The new load average code clears rq->calc_load_active on
CPU_ONLINE. That's wrong as the new onlined CPU might have got a
scheduler tick already and accounted the delta to the stale value of
the time we offlined the CPU.
Clear the value when we cleanup the dead CPU instead.
Also move the update of the calc_load_update time for the newly online
CPU to CPU_UP_PREPARE to avoid that the CPU plays catch up with the
stale update time value.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-sched
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-sched:
sched: Fix bug in SCHED_IDLE interaction with group scheduling
sched: Fix rt_rq->pushable_tasks initialization in init_rt_rq()
sched: Reset sched stats on fork()
sched_rt: Fix overload bug on rt group scheduling
sched: Documentation/sched-rt-group: Fix style issues & bump version
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Optimize cond_resched() by removing one conditional.
Currently cond_resched() checks system_state ==
SYSTEM_RUNNING in order to avoid scheduling before the
scheduler is running.
We can however, as per suggestion of Matt, use
PREEMPT_ACTIVE to accomplish that very same.
Suggested-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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init_rt_rq() initializes only rq->rt.pushable_tasks, and not the
pushable_tasks field of the passed rt_rq. The plist is not used
uninitialized since the only pushable_tasks plists used are the
ones of root rt_rqs; anyway reinitializing the list on every group
creation corrupts the root plist, losing its previous contents.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Checconi <fabio@gandalf.sssup.it>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090615185638.GK21741@gandalf.sssup.it>
CC: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The sched_stat fields are currently not reset upon fork.
Ingo's recent commit 6c594c21fcb02c662f11c97be4d7d2b73060a205
did reset nr_migrations, but it didn't reset any of the
others.
This patch resets all sched_stat fields on fork.
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <193b0f820907090457s7a3662f4gcdecdc22fcae857b@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Fixes an easily triggerable BUG() when setting process affinities.
Make sure to count the number of migratable tasks in the same place:
the root rt_rq. Otherwise the number doesn't make sense and we'll hit
the BUG in set_cpus_allowed_rt().
Also, make sure we only count tasks, not groups (this is probably
already taken care of by the fact that rt_se->nr_cpus_allowed will be 0
for groups, but be more explicit)
Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <1247067476.9777.57.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This adds the synchronize_sched_expedited() primitive that
implements the "big hammer" expedited RCU grace periods.
This primitive is placed in kernel/sched.c rather than
kernel/rcupdate.c due to its need to interact closely with the
migration_thread() kthread.
The idea is to wake up this kthread with req->task set to NULL,
in response to which the kthread reports the quiescent state
resulting from the kthread having been scheduled.
Because this patch needs to fallback to the slow versions of
the primitives in response to some races with CPU onlining and
offlining, a new synchronize_rcu_bh() primitive is added as
well.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: dada1@cosmosbay.com
Cc: zbr@ioremap.net
Cc: jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: jengelh@medozas.de
Cc: r000n@r000n.net
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
LKML-Reference: <12459460982947-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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__raw_get_cpu_var()
Hide __raw_get_cpu_var() as well - thus all the direct
references to runqueues will abstracted out.
Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
LKML-Reference: <20090629.144457.886429910353660979.mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Merge reason: we will merge a dependent patch.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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There are a few places where ___cacheline_aligned* is used with
DEFINE_PER_CPU(). Use DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED() instead.
DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED() applies alignment only on SMPs. While
all other converted places used _in_smp variant or only get compiled
for SMP, net/rds used unconditional ____cacheline_aligned. I don't
see any reason these data structures should be aligned on UP and thus
converted together.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (49 commits)
perfcounter: Handle some IO return values
perf_counter: Push perf_sample_data through the swcounter code
perf_counter tools: Define and use our own u64, s64 etc. definitions
perf_counter: Close race in perf_lock_task_context()
perf_counter, x86: Improve interactions with fast-gup
perf_counter: Simplify and fix task migration counting
perf_counter tools: Add a data file header
perf_counter: Update userspace callchain sampling uses
perf_counter: Make callchain samples extensible
perf report: Filter to parent set by default
perf_counter tools: Handle lost events
perf_counter: Add event overlow handling
fs: Provide empty .set_page_dirty() aop for anon inodes
perf_counter: tools: Makefile tweaks for 64-bit powerpc
perf_counter: powerpc: Add processor back-end for MPC7450 family
perf_counter: powerpc: Make powerpc perf_counter code safe for 32-bit kernels
perf_counter: powerpc: Change how processor-specific back-ends get selected
perf_counter: powerpc: Use unsigned long for register and constraint values
perf_counter: powerpc: Enable use of software counters on 32-bit powerpc
perf_counter tools: Add and use isprint()
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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 out of scope variable access in sched_slice()
sched: Hide runqueues from direct refer at source code level
sched: Remove unneeded __ref tag
sched, x86: Fix cpufreq + sched_clock() TSC scaling
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The task migrations counter was causing rare and hard to decypher
memory corruptions under load. After a day of debugging and bisection
we found that the problem was introduced with:
3f731ca: perf_counter: Fix cpu migration counter
Turning them off fixes the crashes. Incidentally, the whole
perf_counter_task_migration() logic can be done simpler as well,
by injecting a proper sw-counter event.
This cleanup also fixed the crashes. The precise failure mode is
not completely clear yet, but we are clearly not unhappy about
having a fix ;-)
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Now that kthread_stop() can be used even if the task has already exited,
we can kill the "wait_to_die:" loop in migration_thread(). But we must
pin rq->migration_thread after creation.
Actually, I don't think CPU_UP_CANCELED or CPU_DEAD should wait for
->migration_thread exit. Perhaps we can simplify this code a bit more.
migration_call() can set ->should_stop and forget about this thread. But
we need a new helper in kthred.c for that.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1245228482.27326.1.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Make SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK sched_fork() bits a self-contained unlikely code path.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1245228361.18329.6.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Those two functions no longer call alloc_bootmmem_cpumask_var(),
so no need to tag them with __init_refok.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <4A35DD5B.9050106@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-for-linus-migration' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
timers: Logic to move non pinned timers
timers: /proc/sys sysctl hook to enable timer migration
timers: Identifying the existing pinned timers
timers: Framework for identifying pinned timers
timers: allow deferrable timers for intervals tv2-tv5 to be deferred
Fix up conflicts in kernel/sched.c and kernel/timer.c manually
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This patch introduces a new flag SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK which can be passed
to the kernel via sched_setscheduler(), ORed in the policy parameter. If
set this will make sure that when the process forks a) the scheduling
priority is reset to DEFAULT_PRIO if it was higher and b) the scheduling
policy is reset to SCHED_NORMAL if it was either SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR.
Why have this?
Currently, if a process is real-time scheduled this will 'leak' to all
its child processes. For security reasons it is often (always?) a good
idea to make sure that if a process acquires RT scheduling this is
confined to this process and only this process. More specifically this
makes the per-process resource limit RLIMIT_RTTIME useful for security
purposes, because it makes it impossible to use a fork bomb to
circumvent the per-process RLIMIT_RTTIME accounting.
This feature is also useful for tools like 'renice' which can then
change the nice level of a process without having this spill to all its
child processes.
Why expose this via sched_setscheduler() and not other syscalls such as
prctl() or sched_setparam()?
prctl() does not take a pid parameter. Due to that it would be
impossible to modify this flag for other processes than the current one.
The struct passed to sched_setparam() can unfortunately not be extended
without breaking compatibility, since sched_setparam() lacks a size
parameter.
How to use this from userspace? In your RT program simply replace this:
sched_setscheduler(pid, SCHED_FIFO, ¶m);
by this:
sched_setscheduler(pid, SCHED_FIFO|SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK, ¶m);
Signed-off-by: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090615152714.GA29092@tango.0pointer.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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lguest needs kick_process: wake_up_process() does nothing if a process
is running, which isn't sufficient (we need it in the kernel).
And lguest support is usually modular.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (574 commits)
perf_counter: Turn off by default
perf_counter: Add counter->id to the throttle event
perf_counter: Better align code
perf_counter: Rename L2 to LL cache
perf_counter: Standardize event names
perf_counter: Rename enums
perf_counter tools: Clean up u64 usage
perf_counter: Rename perf_counter_limit sysctl
perf_counter: More paranoia settings
perf_counter: powerpc: Implement generalized cache events for POWER processors
perf_counters: powerpc: Add support for POWER7 processors
perf_counter: Accurate period data
perf_counter: Introduce struct for sample data
perf_counter tools: Normalize data using per sample period data
perf_counter: Annotate exit ctx recursion
perf_counter tools: Propagate signals properly
perf_counter tools: Small frequency related fixes
perf_counter: More aggressive frequency adjustment
perf_counter/x86: Fix the model number of Intel Core2 processors
perf_counter, x86: Correct some event and umask values for Intel processors
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Lets not use the bootmem allocator in cpupri_init() as slab is already up when
it is run.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Slab is initialized when sched_init() runs now so lets use alloc_cpumask_var().
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Now that kmem_cache_init() happens before sched_init(), we should use kzalloc()
and not the bootmem allocator.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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