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2008-12-30Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfsLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: (184 commits) [XFS] Fix race in xfs_write() between direct and buffered I/O with DMAPI [XFS] handle unaligned data in xfs_bmbt_disk_get_all [XFS] avoid memory allocations in xfs_fs_vcmn_err [XFS] Fix speculative allocation beyond eof [XFS] Remove XFS_BUF_SHUT() and friends [XFS] Use the incore inode size in xfs_file_readdir() [XFS] set b_error from bio error in xfs_buf_bio_end_io [XFS] use inode_change_ok for setattr permission checking [XFS] add a FMODE flag to make XFS invisible I/O less hacky [XFS] resync headers with libxfs [XFS] simplify projid check in xfs_rename [XFS] replace b_fspriv with b_mount [XFS] Remove unused tracing code [XFS] Remove unnecessary assertion [XFS] Remove unused variable in ktrace_free() [XFS] Check return value of xfs_buf_get_noaddr() [XFS] Fix hang after disallowed rename across directory quota domains [XFS] Fix compile with CONFIG_COMPAT enabled move inode tracing out of xfs_vnode. move vn_iowait / vn_iowake into xfs_aops.c ...
2008-12-30tracing: removed duplicated #includeHuang Weiyi
Removed duplicated #include in kernel/trace/trace.c. Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-30Merge branch 'oprofile-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'oprofile-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: oprofile: select RING_BUFFER ring_buffer: adding EXPORT_SYMBOLs oprofile: fix lost sample counter oprofile: remove nr_available_slots() oprofile: port to the new ring_buffer ring_buffer: add remaining cpu functions to ring_buffer.h oprofile: moving cpu_buffer_reset() to cpu_buffer.h oprofile: adding cpu_buffer_entries() oprofile: adding cpu_buffer_write_commit() oprofile: adding cpu buffer r/w access functions ftrace: remove unused function arg in trace_iterator_increment() ring_buffer: update description for ring_buffer_alloc() oprofile: set values to default when creating oprofilefs oprofile: implement switch/case in buffer_sync.c x86/oprofile: cleanup IBS init/exit functions in op_model_amd.c x86/oprofile: reordering IBS code in op_model_amd.c oprofile: fix typo oprofile: whitspace changes only oprofile: update comment for oprofile_add_sample() oprofile: comment cleanup
2008-12-30Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next-2.6: (98 commits) sparc: move select of ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSI sparc: drop SUN_IO sparc: unify sections.h sparc: use .data.init_task section for init_thread_union sparc: fix array overrun check in of_device_64.c sparc: unify module.c sparc64: prepare module_64.c for unification sparc64: use bit neutral Elf symbols sparc: unify module.h sparc: introduce CONFIG_BITS sparc: fix hardirq.h removal fallout sparc64: do not export pus_fs_struct sparc: use sparc64 version of scatterlist.h sparc: Commonize memcmp assembler. sparc: Unify strlen assembler. sparc: Add asm/asm.h sparc: Kill memcmp_32.S code which has been ifdef'd out for centuries. sparc: replace for_each_cpu_mask_nr with for_each_cpu sparc: fix sparse warnings in irq_32.c sparc: add include guards to kernel.h ...
2008-12-30Merge branch 'for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits) bio: get rid of bio_vec clearing bounce: don't rely on a zeroed bio_vec list cciss: simplify parameters to deregister_disk function cfq-iosched: fix race between exiting queue and exiting task loop: Do not call loop_unplug for not configured loop device. loop: Flush possible running bios when loop device is released. alpha: remove dead BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY Get rid of CONFIG_LSF block: make blk_softirq_init() static block: use min_not_zero in blk_queue_stack_limits block: add one-hit cache for disk partition lookup cfq-iosched: remove limit of dispatch depth of max 4 times quantum nbd: tell the block layer that it is not a rotational device block: get rid of elevator_t typedef aio: make the lookup_ioctx() lockless bio: add support for inlining a number of bio_vecs inside the bio bio: allow individual slabs in the bio_set bio: move the slab pointer inside the bio_set bio: only mempool back the largest bio_vec slab cache block: don't use plugging on SSD devices ...
2008-12-30Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, sparseirq: clean up Kconfig entry x86: turn CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ off by default sparseirq: fix numa_migrate_irq_desc dependency and comments sparseirq: add kernel-doc notation for new member in irq_desc, -v2 locking, irq: enclose irq_desc_lock_class in CONFIG_LOCKDEP sparseirq, xen: make sure irq_desc is allocated for interrupts sparseirq: fix !SMP building, #2 x86, sparseirq: move irq_desc according to smp_affinity, v7 proc: enclose desc variable of show_stat() in CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ sparse irqs: add irqnr.h to the user headers list sparse irqs: handle !GENIRQ platforms sparseirq: fix !SMP && !PCI_MSI && !HT_IRQ build sparseirq: fix Alpha build failure sparseirq: fix typo in !CONFIG_IO_APIC case x86, MSI: pass irq_cfg and irq_desc x86: MSI start irq numbering from nr_irqs_gsi x86: use NR_IRQS_LEGACY sparse irq_desc[] array: core kernel and x86 changes genirq: record IRQ_LEVEL in irq_desc[] irq.h: remove padding from irq_desc on 64bits
2008-12-30Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: hrtimers: fix warning in kernel/hrtimer.c x86: make sure we really have an hpet mapping before using it x86: enable HPET on Fujitsu u9200 linux/timex.h: cleanup for userspace posix-timers: simplify de_thread()->exit_itimers() path posix-timers: check ->it_signal instead of ->it_pid to validate the timer posix-timers: use "struct pid*" instead of "struct task_struct*" nohz: suppress needless timer reprogramming clocksource, acpi_pm.c: put acpi_pm_read_slow() under CONFIG_PCI nohz: no softirq pending warnings for offline cpus hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes, fix hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes, fix hotplug hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes x86: correct link to HPET timer specification rtc-cmos: export second NVRAM bank Fixed up conflicts in sound/drivers/pcsp/pcsp.c and sound/core/hrtimer.c manually.
2008-12-30Merge branch 'core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (63 commits) stacktrace: provide save_stack_trace_tsk() weak alias rcu: provide RCU options on non-preempt architectures too printk: fix discarding message when recursion_bug futex: clean up futex_(un)lock_pi fault handling "Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementation futex: rename field in futex_q to clarify single waiter semantics x86/swiotlb: add default swiotlb_arch_range_needs_mapping x86/swiotlb: add default phys<->bus conversion x86: unify pci iommu setup and allow swiotlb to compile for 32 bit x86: add swiotlb allocation functions swiotlb: consolidate swiotlb info message printing swiotlb: support bouncing of HighMem pages swiotlb: factor out copy to/from device swiotlb: add arch hook to force mapping swiotlb: allow architectures to override phys<->bus<->phys conversions swiotlb: add comment where we handle the overflow of a dma mask on 32 bit rcu: fix rcutorture behavior during reboot resources: skip sanity check of busy resources swiotlb: move some definitions to header swiotlb: allow architectures to override swiotlb pool allocation ... Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/Makefile arch/x86/mm/init_32.c include/linux/hardirq.h as per Ingo's suggestions.
2008-12-29aio: make the lookup_ioctx() locklessJens Axboe
The mm->ioctx_list is currently protected by a reader-writer lock, so we always grab that lock on the read side for doing ioctx lookups. As the workload is extremely reader biased, turn this into an rcu hlist so we can make lookup_ioctx() lockless. Get rid of the rwlock and use a spinlock for providing update side exclusion. There's usually only 1 entry on this list, so it doesn't make sense to look into fancier data structures. Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29Do not free io context when taking recursive faults in do_exitNikanth Karthikesan
When taking recursive faults in do_exit, if the io_context is not null, exit_io_context() is being called. But it might decrement the refcount more than once. It is better to leave this task alone. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29[XFS] Fix merge failuresLachlan McIlroy
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_cred.h fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_globals.h fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.h Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-12-28Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: arch/sparc64/kernel/idprom.c
2008-12-28Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-nextLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (25 commits) allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko kbuild: simplify use of genksyms kernel-doc: check for extra kernel-doc notations kbuild: add headerdep used to detect inclusion cycles in header files kbuild: fix string equality testing in tags.sh kbuild: fix make tags/cscope kbuild: fix make incompatibility kbuild: remove TAR_IGNORE setlocalversion: add git-svn support setlocalversion: print correct subversion revision scripts: improve the decodecode script scripts/package: allow custom options to rpm genksyms: allow to ignore symbol checksum changes genksyms: track symbol checksum changes tags and cscope support really belongs in a shell script kconfig: fix options to check-lxdialog.sh kbuild: gen_init_cpio expands shell variables in file names remove bashisms from scripts/extract-ikconfig kbuild: teach mkmakfile to be silent ...
2008-12-28Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (31 commits) sched: fix warning in fs/proc/base.c schedstat: consolidate per-task cpu runtime stats sched: use RCU variant of list traversal in for_each_leaf_rt_rq() sched, cpuacct: export percpu cpuacct cgroup stats sched, cpuacct: refactoring cpuusage_read / cpuusage_write sched: optimize update_curr() sched: fix wakeup preemption clock sched: add missing arch_update_cpu_topology() call sched: let arch_update_cpu_topology indicate if topology changed sched: idle_balance() does not call load_balance_newidle() sched: fix sd_parent_degenerate on non-numa smp machine sched: add uid information to sched_debug for CONFIG_USER_SCHED sched: move double_unlock_balance() higher sched: update comment for move_task_off_dead_cpu sched: fix inconsistency when redistribute per-cpu tg->cfs_rq shares sched/rt: removed unneeded defintion sched: add hierarchical accounting to cpu accounting controller sched: include group statistics in /proc/sched_debug sched: rename SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER => SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER sched: clean up SCHED_CPUMASK_ALLOC ...
2008-12-28Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (241 commits) sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup() tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3 Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS" ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race ftrace: enable format arguments checking x86, bts: memory accounting x86, bts: add fork and exit handling ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size trace: fix task state printout ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2 tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp() x86, bts: correctly report invalid bts records ... Fixed up trivial conflict in scripts/recordmcount.pl due to SH bits being already partly merged by the SH merge.
2008-12-25Merge branches 'timers/clocksource', 'timers/hpet', 'timers/hrtimers', ↵Ingo Molnar
'timers/nohz', 'timers/ntp', 'timers/posixtimers' and 'timers/rtc' into timers/core
2008-12-25Merge branches 'irq/sparseirq', 'irq/genirq' and 'irq/urgent'; commit ↵Ingo Molnar
'v2.6.28' into irq/core
2008-12-25Merge branches 'core/debugobjects', 'core/iommu', 'core/locking', ↵Ingo Molnar
'core/printk', 'core/rcu', 'core/resources', 'core/softirq' and 'core/stacktrace' into core/core
2008-12-25Merge branch 'core/futexes' into core/coreIngo Molnar
2008-12-25Merge branch 'core/debug' into core/coreIngo Molnar
2008-12-25Merge commit 'v2.6.28' into core/coreIngo Molnar
2008-12-25Merge branch 'sched/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.28' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2008-12-25Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/hw-branch-tracing' and ↵Ingo Molnar
'tracing/ring-buffer'; commit 'v2.6.28' into tracing/core
2008-12-25sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup()Peter Zijlstra
Impact: extend the wakeup tracepoint with the info whether the wakeup was real Add the information needed to distinguish 'real' wakeups from 'false' wakeups. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-25stacktrace: provide save_stack_trace_tsk() weak aliasIngo Molnar
Impact: build fix Some architectures have not implemented save_stack_trace_tsk() yet: fs/built-in.o: In function `proc_pid_stack': base.c:(.text+0x3f140): undefined reference to `save_stack_trace_tsk' So warn about that if the facility is used. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-25rcu: provide RCU options on non-preempt architectures tooIngo Molnar
Impact: build fix Some old architectures still do not use kernel/Kconfig.preempt, so the moving of the RCU options there broke their build: In file included from /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/sem.h:81, from /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/sched.h:69, from /home/mingo/tip/arch/alpha/kernel/asm-offsets.c:9: /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/rcupdate.h:62:2: error: #error "Unknown RCU implementation specified to kernel configuration" Move these options back to init/Kconfig, which every architecture includes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-25Merge branch 'next' into for-linusJames Morris
2008-12-24Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-branch-tracingIngo Molnar
2008-12-23cgroups: avoid accessing uninitialized data in failure pathLi Zefan
If cgroup_get_rootdir() failed, free_cg_links() will be called in the failure path, but tmp_cg_links hasn't been initialized at that time. I introduced this bug in the 2.6.27 merge window. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Serge 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>
2008-12-23cgroups: suppress bogus warning messagesSharyathi Nagesh
Remove spurious warning messages that are thrown onto the console during cgroup operations. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sharyathi Nagesh <sharyathi@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.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>
2008-12-23ring-buffer: prevent false positive warningSteven Rostedt
Impact: eliminate false WARN_ON message If an interrupt goes off after the setting of the local variable tail_page and before incrementing the write index of that page, the interrupt could push the commit forward to the next page. Later a check is made to see if interrupts pushed the buffer around the entire ring buffer by comparing the next page to the last commited page. This can produce a false positive if the interrupt had pushed the commit page forward as stated above. Thanks to Jiaying Zhang for finding this race. Reported-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23ring-buffer: fix dangling commit raceSteven Rostedt
Impact: fix stuck trace-buffers If an interrupt comes in during the rb_set_commit_to_write and pushes the tail page forward just at the right time, the commit updates will miss the adding of the interrupt data. This will cause the commit pointer to cease from moving forward. Thanks to Jiaying Zhang for finding this race. Reported-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-22[XFS] Fix merge conflict in fs/xfs/xfs_rename.cLachlan McIlroy
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: fs/xfs/xfs_rename.c Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-12-20Null pointer deref with hrtimer_try_to_cancel()Thomas Gleixner
Impact: Prevent kernel crash with posix timer clockid CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW commit 2d42244ae71d6c7b0884b5664cf2eda30fb2ae68 (clocksource: introduce CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW) introduced a new clockid, which is only available to read out the raw not NTP adjusted system time. The above commit did not prevent that a posix timer can be created with that clockid. The timer_create() syscall succeeds and initializes the timer to a non existing hrtimer base. When the timer is deleted either by timer_delete() or by the exit() cleanup the kernel crashes. Prevent the creation of timers for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW by setting the posix clock function to no_timer_create which returns an error code. Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-20x86, bts: add fork and exit handlingMarkus Metzger
Impact: introduce new ptrace facility Add arch_ptrace_untrace() function that is called when the tracer detaches (either voluntarily or when the tracing task dies); ptrace_disable() is only called on a voluntary detach. Add ptrace_fork() and arch_ptrace_fork(). They are called when a traced task is forked. Clear DS and BTS related fields on fork. Release DS resources and reclaim memory in ptrace_untrace(). This releases resources already when the tracing task dies. We used to do that when the traced task dies. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19sparseirq: fix numa_migrate_irq_desc dependency and commentsYinghai Lu
Impact: reduce kconfig variable scope and clean up Bartlomiej pointed out that the config dependencies and comments are not right. update it depend to NUMA, and fix some comments Reported-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19printk: fix discarding message when recursion_bugHiroshi Shimamoto
Impact: fix truncated recursion bug message printout When recursion_bug is true, kernel discards original message because printk_buf contains recursion_bug_msg with NULL terminator. The sizeof(recursion_bug_msg) makes this, use strlen() to get correct length without NULL terminator. Reported-by: Toshikazu Nakayama <nakayama.ts@ncos.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALLJan Beulich
Building upon parts of the module stripping patch, this patch introduces similar stripping for vmlinux when CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y. Using CONFIG_KALLSYMS_STRIP_GENERATED reduces the overhead of CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL from 245k/310k to 65k/80k for the (i386/x86-64) kernels I tested with. The patch also does away with the need to special case the kallsyms- internal symbols by making them available even in the first linking stage. While it is a generated file, the patch includes the changes to scripts/genksyms/keywords.c_shipped, as I'm unsure what the procedure here is. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-12-19ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helperPekka J Enberg
Impact: cleanup This patch factors out common code from multiple tracers into a tracing_reset_online_cpus() function and converts the tracers to use it. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/ring-buffer' and 'tracing/urgent' ↵Ingo Molnar
into tracing/core Conflicts: include/linux/ftrace.h
2008-12-19futex: clean up futex_(un)lock_pi fault handlingDarren Hart
Impact: cleanup Some apparently left over cruft code was complicating the fault logic: Testing if uval != -EFAULT doesn't have any meaning, get_user() sets ret to either 0 or -EFAULT, there's no need to compare uval, especially not against EFAULT which it will never be. This patch removes the superfluous test and clarifies the comment blocks. Build and boot tested on an 8way x86_64 system. Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.cIngo Molnar
these warnings: kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c: In function ‘tracing_sched_register’: kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c:96: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘register_trace_sched_wakeup_new’ from incompatible pointer type kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c:112: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘unregister_trace_sched_wakeup_new’ from incompatible pointer type kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c: In function ‘tracing_sched_unregister’: kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c:121: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘unregister_trace_sched_wakeup_new’ from incompatible pointer type Trigger because sched_wakeup_new tracepoints need the same trace signature as sched_wakeup - which was changed recently. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.cIngo Molnar
this warning: kernel/trace/trace.c: In function ‘print_lat_fmt’: kernel/trace/trace.c:1826: warning: unused variable ‘state’ Triggers because 'state' has become unused - remove it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19hrtimers: fix warning in kernel/hrtimer.cIngo Molnar
this warning: kernel/hrtimer.c: In function ‘hrtimer_cpu_notify’: kernel/hrtimer.c:1574: warning: unused variable ‘dcpu’ is caused because 'dcpu' is only used in the CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU case. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18"Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementationPaul E. McKenney
This patch fixes a long-standing performance bug in classic RCU that results in massive internal-to-RCU lock contention on systems with more than a few hundred CPUs. Although this patch creates a separate flavor of RCU for ease of review and patch maintenance, it is intended to replace classic RCU. This patch still handles stress better than does mainline, so I am still calling it ready for inclusion. This patch is against the -tip tree. Nevertheless, experience on an actual 1000+ CPU machine would still be most welcome. Most of the changes noted below were found while creating an rcutiny (which should permit ejecting the current rcuclassic) and while doing detailed line-by-line documentation. Updates from v9 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/2/334): o Fixes from remainder of line-by-line code walkthrough, including comment spelling, initialization, undesirable narrowing due to type conversion, removing redundant memory barriers, removing redundant local-variable initialization, and removing redundant local variables. I do not believe that any of these fixes address the CPU-hotplug issues that Andi Kleen was seeing, but please do give it a whirl in case the machine is smarter than I am. A writeup from the walkthrough may be found at the following URL, in case you are suffering from terminal insomnia or masochism: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/tmp/rcutree-walkthrough.2008.12.16a.pdf o Made rcutree tracing use seq_file, as suggested some time ago by Lai Jiangshan. o Added a .csv variant of the rcudata debugfs trace file, to allow people having thousands of CPUs to drop the data into a spreadsheet. Tested with oocalc and gnumeric. Updated documentation to suit. Updates from v8 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/15/139): o Fix a theoretical race between grace-period initialization and force_quiescent_state() that could occur if more than three jiffies were required to carry out the grace-period initialization. Which it might, if you had enough CPUs. o Apply Ingo's printk-standardization patch. o Substitute local variables for repeated accesses to global variables. o Fix comment misspellings and redundant (but harmless) increments of ->n_rcu_pending (this latter after having explicitly added it). o Apply checkpatch fixes. Updates from v7 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/10/291): o Fixed a number of problems noted by Gautham Shenoy, including the cpu-stall-detection bug that he was having difficulty convincing me was real. ;-) o Changed cpu-stall detection to wait for ten seconds rather than three in order to reduce false positive, as suggested by Ingo Molnar. o Produced a design document (http://lwn.net/Articles/305782/). The act of writing this document uncovered a number of both theoretical and "here and now" bugs as noted below. o Fix dynticks_nesting accounting confusion, simplify WARN_ON() condition, fix kerneldoc comments, and add memory barriers in dynticks interface functions. o Add more data to tracing. o Remove unused "rcu_barrier" field from rcu_data structure. o Count calls to rcu_pending() from scheduling-clock interrupt to use as a surrogate timebase should jiffies stop counting. o Fix a theoretical race between force_quiescent_state() and grace-period initialization. Yes, initialization does have to go on for some jiffies for this race to occur, but given enough CPUs... Updates from v6 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/23/448): o Fix a number of checkpatch.pl complaints. o Apply review comments from Ingo Molnar and Lai Jiangshan on the stall-detection code. o Fix several bugs in !CONFIG_SMP builds. o Fix a misspelled config-parameter name so that RCU now announces at boot time if stall detection is configured. o Run tests on numerous combinations of configurations parameters, which after the fixes above, now build and run correctly. Updates from v5 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/15/92, bad subject line): o Fix a compiler error in the !CONFIG_FANOUT_EXACT case (blew a changeset some time ago, and finally got around to retesting this option). o Fix some tracing bugs in rcupreempt that caused incorrect totals to be printed. o I now test with a more brutal random-selection online/offline script (attached). Probably more brutal than it needs to be on the people reading it as well, but so it goes. o A number of optimizations and usability improvements: o Make rcu_pending() ignore the grace-period timeout when there is no grace period in progress. o Make force_quiescent_state() avoid going for a global lock in the case where there is no grace period in progress. o Rearrange struct fields to improve struct layout. o Make call_rcu() initiate a grace period if RCU was idle, rather than waiting for the next scheduling clock interrupt. o Invoke rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit() only when idle, as suggested by Andi Kleen. I still don't completely trust this change, and might back it out. o Make CONFIG_RCU_TRACE be the single config variable manipulated for all forms of RCU, instead of the prior confusion. o Document tracing files and formats for both rcupreempt and rcutree. Updates from v4 for those missing v5 given its bad subject line: o Separated dynticks interface so that NMIs and irqs call separate functions, greatly simplifying it. In particular, this code no longer requires a proof of correctness. ;-) o Separated dynticks state out into its own per-CPU structure, avoiding the duplicated accounting. o The case where a dynticks-idle CPU runs an irq handler that invokes call_rcu() is now correctly handled, forcing that CPU out of dynticks-idle mode. o Review comments have been applied (thank you all!!!). For but one example, fixed the dynticks-ordering issue that Manfred pointed out, saving me much debugging. ;-) o Adjusted rcuclassic and rcupreempt to handle dynticks changes. Attached is an updated patch to Classic RCU that applies a hierarchy, greatly reducing the contention on the top-level lock for large machines. This passes 10-hour concurrent rcutorture and online-offline testing on 128-CPU ppc64 without dynticks enabled, and exposes some timekeeping bugs in presence of dynticks (exciting working on a system where "sleep 1" hangs until interrupted...), which were fixed in the 2.6.27 kernel. It is getting more reliable than mainline by some measures, so the next version will be against -tip for inclusion. See also Manfred Spraul's recent patches (or his earlier work from 2004 at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=108546384711797&w=2). We will converge onto a common patch in the fullness of time, but are currently exploring different regions of the design space. That said, I have already gratefully stolen quite a few of Manfred's ideas. This patch provides CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT, which controls the bushiness of the RCU hierarchy. Defaults to 32 on 32-bit machines and 64 on 64-bit machines. If CONFIG_NR_CPUS is less than CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT, there is no hierarchy. By default, the RCU initialization code will adjust CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT to balance the hierarchy, so strongly NUMA architectures may choose to set CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT to disable this balancing, allowing the hierarchy to be exactly aligned to the underlying hardware. Up to two levels of hierarchy are permitted (in addition to the root node), allowing up to 16,384 CPUs on 32-bit systems and up to 262,144 CPUs on 64-bit systems. I just know that I am going to regret saying this, but this seems more than sufficient for the foreseeable future. (Some architectures might wish to set CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT=4, which would limit such architectures to 64 CPUs. If this becomes a real problem, additional levels can be added, but I doubt that it will make a significant difference on real hardware.) In the common case, a given CPU will manipulate its private rcu_data structure and the rcu_node structure that it shares with its immediate neighbors. This can reduce both lock and memory contention by multiple orders of magnitude, which should eliminate the need for the strange manipulations that are reported to be required when running Linux on very large systems. Some shortcomings: o More bugs will probably surface as a result of an ongoing line-by-line code inspection. Patches will be provided as required. o There are probably hangs, rcutorture failures, &c. Seems quite stable on a 128-CPU machine, but that is kind of small compared to 4096 CPUs. However, seems to do better than mainline. Patches will be provided as required. o The memory footprint of this version is several KB larger than rcuclassic. A separate UP-only rcutiny patch will be provided, which will reduce the memory footprint significantly, even compared to the old rcuclassic. One such patch passes light testing, and has a memory footprint smaller even than rcuclassic. Initial reaction from various embedded guys was "it is not worth it", so am putting it aside. Credits: o Manfred Spraul for ideas, review comments, and bugs spotted, as well as some good friendly competition. ;-) o Josh Triplett, Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra, Mathieu Desnoyers, Lai Jiangshan, Andi Kleen, Andy Whitcroft, and Andrew Morton for reviews and comments. o Thomas Gleixner for much-needed help with some timer issues (see patches below). o Jon M. Tollefson, Tim Pepper, Andrew Theurer, Jose R. Santos, Andy Whitcroft, Darrick Wong, Nishanth Aravamudan, Anton Blanchard, Dave Kleikamp, and Nathan Lynch for keeping machines alive despite my heavy abuse^Wtesting. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcuIngo Molnar
2008-12-18locking, irq: enclose irq_desc_lock_class in CONFIG_LOCKDEPKOSAKI Motohiro
Impact: simplify code commit "08678b0: generic: sparse irqs: use irq_desc() [...]" introduced the irq_desc_lock_class variable. But it is used only if CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=Y or CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS=Y. Otherwise, following warnings happen: CC kernel/irq/handle.o kernel/irq/handle.c:26: warning: 'irq_desc_lock_class' defined but not used Actually, current early_init_irq_lock_class has a bit strange and messy ifdef. In addition, it is not valueable. 1. this function is protected by !CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ, but that is not necessary. if CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=Y, desc of all irq number are initialized by NULL at first - then this function calling is safe. 2. this function protected by CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS too. but it is not necessary either, because lockdep_set_class() doesn't have bad side effect even if CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS=n. This patch bloat kernel size a bit on CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS=n and CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=Y - but that's ok. early_init_irq_lock_class() is not a fastpatch at all. To avoid messy ifdefs is more important than a few bytes diet. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18schedstat: consolidate per-task cpu runtime statsKen Chen
Impact: simplify code When we turn on CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS, per-task cpu runtime is accumulated twice. Once in task->se.sum_exec_runtime and once in sched_info.cpu_time. These two stats are exactly the same. Given that task->se.sum_exec_runtime is always accumulated by the core scheduler, sched_info can reuse that data instead of duplicate the accounting. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer sizeLai Jiangshan
Impact: remove dead code struct ring_buffer.size is not set after ring_buffer is initialized or resized. it is always 0. we can use "buffer->pages * PAGE_SIZE" to get ring_buffer's size Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18trace: fix task state printoutThomas Gleixner
Impact: fix occasionally incorrect trace output The tracing code has interesting varieties of printing out task state. Unfortunalely only one of the instances is correct as it copies the code from sched.c:sched_show_task(). The others are plain wrong as they treatthe bitfield as an integer offset into the character array. Also the size check of the character array is wrong as it includes the trailing \0. Use a common state decoder inline which does the Right Thing. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>