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2008-03-19revert "clocksource: make clocksource watchdog cycle through online CPUs"Andrew Morton
Revert commit 1ada5cba6a0318f90e45b38557e7b5206a9cba38 ("clocksource: make clocksource watchdog cycle through online CPUs") due to the regression reported by Gabriel C at http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/24/281 (short vesion: it makes TSC be marked as always unstable on his machine). Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-19sched: retune wake granularityIngo Molnar
reduce wake-up granularity for better interactivity. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-19sched: wakeup-buddy tasks are cache-hotIngo Molnar
Wakeup-buddy tasks are cache-hot - this makes it a bit harder for the load-balancer to tear them apart. (but it's still possible, if the load is sufficiently assymetric) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-19sched: improve affine wakeupsIngo Molnar
improve affine wakeups. Maintain the 'overlap' metric based on CFS's sum_exec_runtime - which means the amount of time a task executes after it wakes up some other task. Use the 'overlap' for the wakeup decisions: if the 'overlap' is short, it means there's strong workload coupling between this task and the woken up task. If the 'overlap' is large then the workload is decoupled and the scheduler will move them to separate CPUs more easily. ( Also slightly move the preempt_check within try_to_wake_up() - this has no effect on functionality but allows 'early wakeups' (for still-on-rq tasks) to be correctly accounted as well.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-19sched: clean up wakeup balancing, code flowIngo Molnar
Clean up the code flow. No code changed: kernel/sched.o: text data bss dec hex filename 42521 2858 232 45611 b22b sched.o.before 42521 2858 232 45611 b22b sched.o.after md5: 09b31c44e9aff8666f72773dc433e2df sched.o.before.asm 09b31c44e9aff8666f72773dc433e2df sched.o.after.asm Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-19sched: clean up wakeup balancing, rename variablesIngo Molnar
rename 'cpu' to 'prev_cpu'. No code changed: kernel/sched.o: text data bss dec hex filename 42521 2858 232 45611 b22b sched.o.before 42521 2858 232 45611 b22b sched.o.after md5: 09b31c44e9aff8666f72773dc433e2df sched.o.before.asm 09b31c44e9aff8666f72773dc433e2df sched.o.after.asm Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-19sched: clean up wakeup balancing, move wake_affine()Ingo Molnar
split out the affine-wakeup bits. No code changed: kernel/sched.o: text data bss dec hex filename 42521 2858 232 45611 b22b sched.o.before 42521 2858 232 45611 b22b sched.o.after md5: 9d76738f1272aa82f0b7affd2f51df6b sched.o.before.asm 09b31c44e9aff8666f72773dc433e2df sched.o.after.asm (the md5's changed because stack slots changed and some registers get scheduled by gcc in a different order - but otherwise the before and after assembly is instruction for instruction equivalent.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-17relay: fix subbuf_splice_actor() adding too many pagesJens Axboe
If subbuf_pages was larger than the max number of pages the pipe buffer will hold, subbuf_splice_actor() would happily go beyond the array size. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-03-15sched: simplify sched_slice()Ingo Molnar
Use the existing calc_delta_mine() calculation for sched_slice(). This saves a divide and simplifies the code because we share it with the other /cfs_rq->load users. It also improves code size: text data bss dec hex filename 42659 2740 144 45543 b1e7 sched.o.before 42093 2740 144 44977 afb1 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2008-03-15sched: fix fair sleepersIngo Molnar
Fair sleepers need to scale their latency target down by runqueue weight. Otherwise busy systems will gain ever larger sleep bonus. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2008-03-15sched: fix overload performance: buddy wakeupsPeter Zijlstra
Currently we schedule to the leftmost task in the runqueue. When the runtimes are very short because of some server/client ping-pong, especially in over-saturated workloads, this will cycle through all tasks trashing the cache. Reduce cache trashing by keeping dependent tasks together by running newly woken tasks first. However, by not running the leftmost task first we could starve tasks because the wakee can gain unlimited runtime. Therefore we only run the wakee if its within a small (wakeup_granularity) window of the leftmost task. This preserves fairness, but does alternate server/client task groups. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-15sched: fix calc_delta_mine()Ingo Molnar
lw->weight can be 0 for a short time during bootup. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2008-03-15sched: fix update_load_add()/sub()Ingo Molnar
Clear the cached inverse value when updating load. This is needed for calc_delta_mine() to work correctly when using the rq load. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2008-03-15sched: min_vruntime fixPeter Zijlstra
Current min_vruntime tracking is incorrect and will cause serious problems when we don't run the leftmost task for some reason. min_vruntime does two things; 1) it's used to determine a forward direction when the u64 vruntime wraps, 2) it's used to track the leftmost vruntime to position newly enqueued tasks from. The current logic advances min_vruntime whenever the current task's vruntime advance. Because the current task may pass the leftmost task still waiting we're failing the second goal. This causes new tasks to be placed too far ahead and thus penalizes their runtime. Fix this by making min_vruntime the min_vruntime of the waiting tasks by tracking it in enqueue/dequeue, and compare against current's vruntime to obtain the absolute minimum when placing new tasks. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-15sched: fix race in schedule()Hiroshi Shimamoto
Fix a hard to trigger crash seen in the -rt kernel that also affects the vanilla scheduler. There is a race condition between schedule() and some dequeue/enqueue functions; rt_mutex_setprio(), __setscheduler() and sched_move_task(). When scheduling to idle, idle_balance() is called to pull tasks from other busy processor. It might drop the rq lock. It means that those 3 functions encounter on_rq=0 and running=1. The current task should be put when running. Here is a possible scenario: CPU0 CPU1 | schedule() | ->deactivate_task() | ->idle_balance() | -->load_balance_newidle() rt_mutex_setprio() | | --->double_lock_balance() *get lock *rel lock * on_rq=0, ruuning=1 | * sched_class is changed | *rel lock *get lock : | : ->put_prev_task_rt() ->pick_next_task_fair() => panic The current process of CPU1(P1) is scheduling. Deactivated P1, and the scheduler looks for another process on other CPU's runqueue because CPU1 will be idle. idle_balance(), load_balance_newidle() and double_lock_balance() are called and double_lock_balance() could drop the rq lock. On the other hand, CPU0 is trying to boost the priority of P1. The result of boosting only P1's prio and sched_class are changed to RT. The sched entities of P1 and P1's group are never put. It makes cfs_rq invalid, because the cfs_rq has curr and no leaf, but pick_next_task_fair() is called, then the kernel panics. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-13Merge branches 'release' and 'doc' into releaseLen Brown
2008-03-12documentation: Move power-related files to Documentation/power/Randy Dunlap
Move 00-INDEX entries to power/00-INDEX (and add entry for pm_qos_interface.txt). Update references to moved filenames. Fix some trailing whitespace. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-03-11Hibernation: Fix mark_nosave_pages()Rafael J. Wysocki
There is a problem in the hibernation code that triggers on some NUMA systems on which pfn_valid() returns 'true' for some PFNs that don't belong to any zone. Namely, there is a BUG_ON() in memory_bm_find_bit() that triggers for PFNs not belonging to any zone and passing the pfn_valid() test. On the affected systems it triggers when we mark PFNs reported by the platform as not saveable, because the PFNs in question belong to a region mapped directly using iorepam() (i.e. the ACPI data area) and they pass the pfn_valid() test. Modify memory_bm_find_bit() so that it returns an error if given PFN doesn't belong to any zone instead of crashing the kernel and ignore the result returned by it in mark_nosave_pages(), while marking the "nosave" memory regions. This doesn't affect the hibernation functionality, as we won't touch the PFNs in question anyway. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9966 . Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-03-11keep rd->online and cpu_online_map in syncGregory Haskins
It is possible to allow the root-domain cache of online cpus to become out of sync with the global cpu_online_map. This is because we currently trigger removal of cpus too early in the notifier chain. Other DOWN_PREPARE handlers may in fact run and reconfigure the root-domain topology, thereby stomping on our own offline handling. The end result is that rd->online may become out of sync with cpu_online_map, which results in potential task misrouting. So change the offline handling to be more tightly coupled with the global offline process by triggering on CPU_DYING intead of CPU_DOWN_PREPARE. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-11Revert "cpu hotplug: adjust root-domain->online span in response to hotplug ↵Gregory Haskins
event" This reverts commit 393d94d98b19089ec172566e23557997931b137e. Lets fix this right. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-10rcu: move PREEMPT_RCU config option back under PREEMPTPaul E. McKenney
The original preemptible-RCU patch put the choice between classic and preemptible RCU into kernel/Kconfig.preempt, which resulted in build failures on machines not supporting CONFIG_PREEMPT. This choice was therefore moved to init/Kconfig, which worked, but placed the choice between classic and preemptible RCU at the top level, a very obtuse choice indeed. This patch changes from the Kconfig "choice" mechanism to a pair of booleans, only one of which (CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU) is user-visible, and is located in kernel/Kconfig.preempt, where one would expect it to be. The other (CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU) is in init/Kconfig so that it is available to all architectures, hopefully avoiding build breakage. Thanks to Roman Zippel for suggesting this approach. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-10modules: warn about suspicious return values from module's ->init() hookAlexey Dobriyan
Return value convention of module's init functions is 0/-E. Sometimes, e.g. during forward-porting mistakes happen and buggy module created, where result of comparison "workqueue != NULL" is propagated all the way up to sys_init_module. What happens is that some other module created workqueue in question, our module created it again and module was successfully loaded. Or it could be some other bug. Let's make such mistakes much more visible. In retrospective, such messages would noticeably shorten some of my head-scratching sessions. Note, that dump_stack() is just a way to get attention from user. Sample message: sys_init_module: 'foo'->init suspiciously returned 1, it should follow 0/-E convention sys_init_module: loading module anyway... Pid: 4223, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.24-25f666300625d894ebe04bac2b4b3aadb907c861 #5 Call Trace: [<ffffffff80254b05>] sys_init_module+0xe5/0x1d0 [<ffffffff8020b39b>] system_call_after_swapgs+0x7b/0x80 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-10modules: fix module waiting for dependent modules' initRusty Russell
Commit c9a3ba55 (module: wait for dependent modules doing init.) didn't quite work because the waiter holds the module lock, meaning that the state of the module it's waiting for cannot change. Fortunately, it's fairly simple to update the state outside the lock and do the wakeup. Thanks to Jan Glauber for tracking this down and testing (qdio and qeth). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-09Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrtLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt: time: remove obsolete CLOCK_TICK_ADJUST time: don't touch an offlined CPU's ts->tick_stopped in tick_cancel_sched_timer() time: prevent the loop in timespec_add_ns() from being optimised away ntp: use unsigned input for do_div()
2008-03-09cpu hotplug: adjust root-domain->online span in response to hotplug eventGregory Haskins
We currently set the root-domain online span automatically when the domain is added to the cpu if the cpu is already a member of cpu_online_map. This was done as a hack/bug-fix for s2ram, but it also causes a problem with hotplug CPU_DOWN transitioning. The right way to fix the original problem is to actually respond to CPU_UP events, instead of CPU_ONLINE, which is already too late. This solves the hung reboot regression reported by Andrew Morton and others. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-09time: remove obsolete CLOCK_TICK_ADJUSTRoman Zippel
The first version of the ntp_interval/tick_length inconsistent usage patch was recently merged as bbe4d18ac2e058c56adb0cd71f49d9ed3216a405 http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=bbe4d18ac2e058c56adb0cd71f49d9ed3216a405 While the fix did greatly improve the situation, it was correctly pointed out by Roman that it does have a small bug: If the users change clocksources after the system has been running and NTP has made corrections, the correctoins made against the old clocksource will be applied against the new clocksource, causing error. The second attempt, which corrects the issue in the NTP_INTERVAL_LENGTH definition has also made it up-stream as commit e13a2e61dd5152f5499d2003470acf9c838eab84 http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e13a2e61dd5152f5499d2003470acf9c838eab84 Roman has correctly pointed out that CLOCK_TICK_ADJUST is calculated based on the PIT's frequency, and isn't really relevant to non-PIT driven clocksources (that is, clocksources other then jiffies and pit). This patch reverts both of those changes, and simply removes CLOCK_TICK_ADJUST. This does remove the granularity error correction for users of PIT and Jiffies clocksource users, but the granularity error but for the majority of users, it should be within the 500ppm range NTP can accommodate for. For systems that have granularity errors greater then 500ppm, the "ntp_tick_adj=" boot option can be used to compensate. [johnstul@us.ibm.com: provided changelog] [mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com: maek ntp_tick_adj static] Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Matti Linnanvuori <mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: mingo@elte.hu Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-03-09time: don't touch an offlined CPU's ts->tick_stopped in ↵Karsten Wiese
tick_cancel_sched_timer() Silences WARN_ONs in rcu_enter_nohz() and rcu_exit_nohz(), which appeared before caused by (repeated) calls to: $ echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online $ echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online Signed-off-by: Karsten Wiese <fzu@wemgehoertderstaat.de> Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com Cc: Rafael Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-03-09ntp: use unsigned input for do_div()David Howells
The kernel NTP code shouldn't hand 64-bit *signed* values to do_div(). Make it instead hand 64-bit unsigned values. This gets rid of a couple of warnings. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-03-08Fix waitid si_code regressionRoland McGrath
In commit ee7c82da830ea860b1f9274f1f0cdf99f206e7c2 ("wait_task_stopped: simplify and fix races with SIGCONT/SIGKILL/untrace"), the magic (short) cast when storing si_code was lost in wait_task_stopped. This leaks the in-kernel CLD_* values that do not match what userland expects. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-07sched: don't allow rt_runtime_us to be zero for groups having rt tasksDhaval Giani
This patch checks if we can set the rt_runtime_us to 0. If there is a realtime task in the group, we don't want to set the rt_runtime_us as 0 or bad things will happen. (that task wont get any CPU time despite being TASK_RUNNNG) Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-07sched: rt-group: fixup schedulability constraints calculationPeter Zijlstra
it was only possible to configure the rt-group scheduling parameters beyond the default value in a very small range. that's because div64_64() has a different calling convention than do_div() :/ fix a few untidies while we are here; sysctl_sched_rt_period may overflow due to that multiplication, so cast to u64 first. Also that RUNTIME_INF juggling makes little sense although its an effective NOP. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-07sched: fix the wrong time slice value for SCHED_FIFO tasksMiao Xie
Function sys_sched_rr_get_interval returns wrong time slice value for SCHED_FIFO tasks. The time slice for SCHED_FIFO tasks should be 0. Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-07sched: export task_nicePavel Roskin
The API is trivial, and so is the implementation. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-07sched: balance RT task resched only on runqueueSteven Rostedt
Sripathi Kodi reported a crash in the -rt kernel: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435674 this is due to a place that can reschedule a task without holding the tasks runqueue lock. This was caused by the RT balancing code that pulls RT tasks to the current run queue and will reschedule the current task. There's a slight chance that the pulling of the RT tasks will release the current runqueue's lock and retake it (in the double_lock_balance). During this time that the runqueue is released, the current task can migrate to another runqueue. In the prio_changed_rt code, after the pull, if the current task is of lesser priority than one of the RT tasks pulled, resched_task is called on the current task. If the current task had migrated in that small window, resched_task will be called without holding the runqueue lock for the runqueue that the task is on. This race condition also exists in the mainline kernel and this patch adds a check to make sure the task hasn't migrated before calling resched_task. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Tested-by: Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-07sched: retain vruntimePeter Zijlstra
Kei Tokunaga reported an interactivity problem when moving tasks between control groups. Tasks would retain their old vruntime when moved between groups, this can cause funny lags. Re-set the vruntime on group move to fit within the new tree. Reported-by: Kei Tokunaga <tokunaga.keiich@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-05cpusets: fix obsolete commentDavid Rientjes
mm migration is no longer done in cpuset_update_task_memory_state() so it can no longer take current->mm->mmap_sem, so fix the obsolete comment. [ This changed in commit 04c19fa6f16047abff2288ddbc1f0798ede5a849 ("cpuset: migrate all tasks in cpuset at once") when the mm migration was moved from cpuset_update_task_memory_state() to update_nodemask() ] Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-04module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only symbolsPavel Roskin
A change after 2.6.24 broke ndiswrapper by accidentally removing its access to GPL-only symbols. Revert that change and add comments about the reasons why ndiswrapper and driverloader are treated in a special way. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-04kprobes: fix a null pointer bug in register_kretprobe()Masami Hiramatsu
Fix a bug in regiseter_kretprobe() which does not check rp->kp.symbol_name == NULL before calling kprobe_lookup_name. For maintainability, this introduces kprobe_addr helper function which resolves addr field. It is used by register_kprobe and register_kretprobe. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-04markers: don't risk NULL deref in markerJesper Juhl
get_marker() may return NULL, so test for it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-04Kprobes: indicate kretprobe support in KconfigAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli
Add CONFIG_HAVE_KRETPROBES to the arch/<arch>/Kconfig file for relevant architectures with kprobes support. This facilitates easy handling of in-kernel modules (like samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c) that depend on kretprobes being present in the kernel. Thanks to Sam Ravnborg for helping make the patch more lean. Per Mathieu's suggestion, added CONFIG_KRETPROBES and fixed up dependencies. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-04Memory Resource Controller use strstrip while parsing argumentsBalbir Singh
The memory controller has a requirement that while writing values, we need to use echo -n. This patch fixes the problem and makes the UI more consistent. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.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>
2008-03-04cgroup: fix default notify_on_release settingLi Zefan
The documentation says the default value of notify_on_release of a child cgroup is inherited from its parent, which is reasonable, but the implementation just sets the flag disabled. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-04Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched-devel * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched-devel: sched: revert load_balance_monitor() changes
2008-03-04sched: revert load_balance_monitor() changesPeter Zijlstra
The following commits cause a number of regressions: commit 58e2d4ca581167c2a079f4ee02be2f0bc52e8729 Author: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Fri Jan 25 21:08:00 2008 +0100 sched: group scheduling, change how cpu load is calculated commit 6b2d7700266b9402e12824e11e0099ae6a4a6a79 Author: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Fri Jan 25 21:08:00 2008 +0100 sched: group scheduler, fix fairness of cpu bandwidth allocation for task groups Namely: - very frequent wakeups on SMP, reported by PowerTop users. - cacheline trashing on (large) SMP - some latencies larger than 500ms While there is a mergeable patch to fix the latter, the former issues are not fixable in a manner suitable for .25 (we're at -rc3 now). Hence we revert them and try again in v2.6.26. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> CC: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-04freezer vs stopped or tracedRoland McGrath
This changes the "freezer" code used by suspend/hibernate in its treatment of tasks in TASK_STOPPED (job control stop) and TASK_TRACED (ptrace) states. As I understand it, the intent of the "freezer" is to hold all tasks from doing anything significant. For this purpose, TASK_STOPPED and TASK_TRACED are "frozen enough". It's possible the tasks might resume from ptrace calls (if the tracer were unfrozen) or from signals (including ones that could come via timer interrupts, etc). But this doesn't matter as long as they quickly block again while "freezing" is in effect. Some minor adjustments to the signal.c code make sure that try_to_freeze() very shortly follows all wakeups from both kinds of stop. This lets the freezer code safely leave stopped tasks unmolested. Changing this fixes the longstanding bug of seeing after resuming from suspend/hibernate your shell report "[1] Stopped" and the like for all your jobs stopped by ^Z et al, as if you had freshly fg'd and ^Z'd them. It also removes from the freezer the arcane special case treatment for ptrace'd tasks, which relied on intimate knowledge of ptrace internals. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-03exit_notify: fix kill_orphaned_pgrp() usage with mt exitOleg Nesterov
1. exit_notify() always calls kill_orphaned_pgrp(). This is wrong, we should do this only when the whole process exits. 2. exit_notify() uses "current" as "ignored_task", obviously wrong. Use ->group_leader instead. Test case: void hup(int sig) { printf("HUP received\n"); } void *tfunc(void *arg) { sleep(2); printf("sub-thread exited\n"); return NULL; } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { if (!fork()) { signal(SIGHUP, hup); kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP); exit(0); } pthread_t thr; pthread_create(&thr, NULL, tfunc, NULL); sleep(1); printf("main thread exited\n"); syscall(__NR_exit, 0); return 0; } output: main thread exited HUP received Hangup With this patch the output is: main thread exited sub-thread exited HUP received Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-03will_become_orphaned_pgrp: partially fix insufficient ->exit_state checkOleg Nesterov
p->exit_state != 0 doesn't mean this process is dead, it may have sub-threads. Change the code to use "p->exit_state && thread_group_empty(p)" instead. Without this patch, ^Z doesn't deliver SIGTSTP to the foreground process if the main thread has exited. However, the new check is not perfect either. There is a window when exit_notify() drops tasklist and before release_task(). Suppose that the last (non-leader) thread exits. This means that entire group exits, but thread_group_empty() is not true yet. As Eric pointed out, is_global_init() is wrong as well, but I did not dare to do other changes. Just for the record, has_stopped_jobs() is absolutely wrong too. But we can't fix it now, we should first fix SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED issues. Even with this patch ^Z doesn't play well with the dead main thread. The task is stopped correctly but do_wait(WSTOPPED) won't see it. This is another unrelated issue, will be (hopefully) fixed separately. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-03introduce kill_orphaned_pgrp() helperOleg Nesterov
Factor out the common code in reparent_thread() and exit_notify(). No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-01[PATCH] drop EOE records from printkSteve Grubb
Hi, While we are looking at the printk issue, I see that its printk'ing the EOE (end of event) records which is really not something that we need in syslog. Its really intended for the realtime audit event stream handled by the audit daemon. So, lets avoid printk'ing that record type. Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-03-01[RFC] AUDIT: do not panic when printk loses messagesEric Paris
On the latest kernels if one was to load about 15 rules, set the failure state to panic, and then run service auditd stop the kernel will panic. This is because auditd stops, then the script deletes all of the rules. These deletions are sent as audit messages out of the printk kernel interface which is already known to be lossy. These will overun the default kernel rate limiting (10 really fast messages) and will call audit_panic(). The same effect can happen if a slew of avc's come through while auditd is stopped. This can be fixed a number of ways but this patch fixes the problem by just not panicing if auditd is not running. We know printk is lossy and if the user chooses to set the failure mode to panic and tries to use printk we can't make any promises no matter how hard we try, so why try? At least in this way we continue to get lost message accounting and will eventually know that things went bad. The other change is to add a new call to audit_log_lost() if auditd disappears. We already pulled the skb off the queue and couldn't send it so that message is lost. At least this way we will account for the last message and panic if the machine is configured to panic. This code path should only be run if auditd dies for unforeseen reasons. If auditd closes correctly audit_pid will get set to 0 and we won't walk this code path. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>