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2009-04-15swap: Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAITNikanth Karthikesan
Remove code handling bio_alloc failure with __GFP_WAIT. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-14x86, irq: Remove IRQ_DISABLED check in process context IRQ movePallipadi, Venkatesh
As discussed in the thread here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123964468521142&w=2 Eric W. Biederman observed: > It looks like some additional bugs have slipped in since last I looked. > > set_irq_affinity does this: > ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ > if (desc->status & IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT || desc->status & IRQ_DISABLED) { > cpumask_copy(desc->affinity, cpumask); > desc->chip->set_affinity(irq, cpumask); > } else { > desc->status |= IRQ_MOVE_PENDING; > cpumask_copy(desc->pending_mask, cpumask); > } > #else > > That IRQ_DISABLED case is a software state and as such it has nothing to > do with how safe it is to move an irq in process context. [...] > > The only reason we migrate MSIs in interrupt context today is that there > wasn't infrastructure for support migration both in interrupt context > and outside of it. Yes. The idea here was to force the MSI migration to happen in process context. One of the patches in the series did disable_irq(dev->irq); irq_set_affinity(dev->irq, cpumask_of(dev->cpu)); enable_irq(dev->irq); with the above patch adding irq/manage code check for interrupt disabled and moving the interrupt in process context. IIRC, there was no IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT when we were developing this HPET code and we ended up having this ugly hack. IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT was there when we eventually submitted the patch upstream. But, looks like I did a blind rebasing instead of using IRQ_MOVE_PCNTXT in hpet MSI code. Below patch fixes this. i.e., revert commit 932775a4ab622e3c99bd59f14cc and add PCNTXT to HPET MSI setup. Also removes copying of desc->affinity in generic code as set_affinity routines are doing it internally. Reported-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "Li Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> Cc: "lcm@us.ibm.com" <lcm@us.ibm.com> Cc: suresh.b.siddha@intel.com LKML-Reference: <20090413222058.GB8211@linux-os.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14rcu: Make hierarchical RCU less IPI-happyPaul E. McKenney
This patch fixes a hierarchical-RCU performance bug located by Anton Blanchard. The problem stems from a misguided attempt to provide a work-around for jiffies-counter failure. This work-around uses a per-CPU n_rcu_pending counter, which is incremented on each call to rcu_pending(), which in turn is called from each scheduling-clock interrupt. Each CPU then treats this counter as a surrogate for the jiffies counter, so that if the jiffies counter fails to advance, the per-CPU n_rcu_pending counter will cause RCU to invoke force_quiescent_state(), which in turn will (among other things) send resched IPIs to CPUs that have thus far failed to pass through an RCU quiescent state. Unfortunately, each CPU resets only its own counter after sending a batch of IPIs. This means that the other CPUs will also (needlessly) send -another- round of IPIs, for a full N-squared set of IPIs in the worst case every three scheduler-clock ticks until the grace period finally ends. It is not reasonable for a given CPU to reset each and every n_rcu_pending for all the other CPUs, so this patch instead simply disables the jiffies-counter "training wheels", thus eliminating the excessive IPIs. Note that the jiffies-counter IPIs do not have this problem due to the fact that the jiffies counter is global, so that the CPU sending the IPIs can easily reset things, thus preventing the other CPUs from sending redundant IPIs. Note also that the n_rcu_pending counter remains, as it will continue to be used for tracing. It may also see use to update the jiffies counter, should an appropriate kick-the-jiffies-counter API appear. Located-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com> Tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: anton@samba.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: manfred@colorfullife.com Cc: cl@linux-foundation.org Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: schamp@sgi.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: ego@in.ibm.com Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi Cc: andi@firstfloor.org Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <12396834793575-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14tracing: Fix branch tracer headerZhaolei
Before patch: # tracer: branch # # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | | | <...>-2981 [000] 24008.872738: [ ok ] trace_irq_handler_exit:irq_event_types.h:41 <...>-2981 [000] 24008.872742: [ ok ] note_interrupt:spurious.c:229 ... After patch: # tracer: branch # # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP CORRECT FUNC:FILE:LINE # | | | | | | <...>-2985 [000] 26329.142970: [ ok ] slab_free:slub.c:1776 <...>-2985 [000] 26329.142972: [ ok ] trace_kmem_cache_free:kmem_event_types.h:191 ... Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <49E2F19A.3040006@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14tracing, sched: mark get_parent_ip() notraceLai Jiangshan
Impact: remove overly redundant tracing entries When tracer is "function" or "function_graph", way too much "get_parent_ip" entries are recorded in ring_buffer. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <49D458B1.5000703@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-13kernel/sys.c: clean up sys_shutdown exit pathAndi Kleen
Impact: cleanup, fix Clean up sys_shutdown() exit path. Factor out common code. Return correct error code instead of always 0 on failure. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13ptrace: fix exit_ptrace() vs ptrace_traceme() raceOleg Nesterov
Pointed out by Roland. The bug was recently introduced by me in "forget_original_parent: split out the un-ptrace part", commit 39c626ae47c469abdfd30c6e42eff884931380d6. Since that patch we have a window after exit_ptrace() drops tasklist and before forget_original_parent() takes it again. In this window the child can do ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME) and nobody can untrace this child after that. Change ptrace_traceme() to not attach to the exiting ->real_parent. We don't report the error in this case, we pretend we attach right before ->real_parent calls exit_ptrace() which should untrace us anyway. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13mm: move the scan_unevictable_pages sysctl to the vm tablePeter Zijlstra
vm knobs should go in the vm table. Probably too late for randomize_va_space though. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13tracing: Fix power tracer headerZhaolei
Before patch: # tracer: power # # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | | | [ 676.875865889] CSTATE: Going to C1 on cpu 0 for 0.005911463 [ 676.882938805] CSTATE: Going to C1 on cpu 0 for 0.104796532 ... After patch: # tracer: power # # TIMESTAMP STATE EVENT # | | | [ 676.875865889] CSTATE: Going to C1 on cpu 0 for 0.005911463 [ 676.882938805] CSTATE: Going to C1 on cpu 0 for 0.104796532 ... v2: Use seq_puts instead of seq_printf Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <49E2E889.5000903@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-13PM/Hibernate: Wait for SCSI devices scan to complete during resumeRafael J. Wysocki
There is a race between resume from hibernation and the asynchronous scanning of SCSI devices and to prevent it from happening we need to call scsi_complete_async_scans() during resume from hibernation. In addition, if the resume from hibernation is userland-driven, it's better to wait for all device probes in the kernel to complete before attempting to open the resume device. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing/filters: return proper error code when writing filter file tracing/filters: allow user input integer to be oct or hex tracing/filters: fix NULL pointer dereference tracing/filters: NIL-terminate user input filter ftrace: Output REC->var instead of __entry->var for trace format Make __stringify support variable argument macros too tracing: fix document references tracing: fix splice return too large tracing: update file->f_pos when splice(2) it tracing: allocate page when needed tracing: disable seeking for trace_pipe_raw
2009-04-13Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: lockdep: continue lock debugging despite some taints lockdep: warn about lockdep disabling after kernel taint
2009-04-13Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: percpu: unbreak alpha percpu mutex: have non-spinning mutexes on s390 by default
2009-04-12lockdep: continue lock debugging despite some taintsFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: broaden lockdep checks Lockdep is disabled after any kernel taints. This might be convenient to ignore bad locking issues which sources come from outside the kernel tree. Nevertheless, it might be a frustrating experience for the staging developers or those who experience a warning but are focused on another things that require lockdep. The v2 of this patch simply don't disable anymore lockdep in case of TAINT_CRAP and TAINT_WARN events. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: LTP <ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> LKML-Reference: <1239412638-6739-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12lockdep: warn about lockdep disabling after kernel taintFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: provide useful missing info for developers Kernel taint can occur in several situations such as warnings, load of prorietary or staging modules, bad page, etc... But when such taint happens, a developer might still be working on the kernel, expecting that lockdep is still enabled. But a taint disables lockdep without ever warning about it. Such a kernel behaviour doesn't really help for kernel development. This patch adds this missing warning. Since the taint is done most of the time after the main message that explain the real source issue, it seems safe to warn about it inside add_taint() so that it appears at last, without hurting the main information. v2: Use a generic helper to disable lockdep instead of an open coded xchg(). Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <1239412638-6739-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12tracing/filters: return proper error code when writing filter fileLi Zefan
- propagate return value of filter_add_pred() to the user - return -ENOSPC but not -ENOMEM or -EINVAL when the filter array is full Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <49E04CF0.3010105@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12tracing/filters: allow user input integer to be oct or hexLi Zefan
Before patch: # echo 'parent_pid == 0x10' > events/sched/sched_process_fork/filter # cat sched/sched_process_fork/filter parent_pid == 0 After patch: # cat sched/sched_process_fork/filter parent_pid == 16 Also check the input more strictly. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <49E04C53.4010600@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12tracing/filters: fix NULL pointer dereferenceLi Zefan
Try this, and you'll see NULL pointer dereference bug: # echo -n 'parent_comm ==' > sched/sched_process_fork/filter Because we passed NULL ptr to simple_strtoull(). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <49E04C43.1050504@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12tracing/filters: NIL-terminate user input filterLi Zefan
Make sure messages from user space are NIL-terminated strings, otherwise we could dump random memory while reading filter file. Try this: # echo 'parent_comm ==' > events/sched/sched_process_fork/filter # cat events/sched/sched_process_fork/filter parent_comm == � Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <49E04C32.6060508@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-11async: Fix module loading async-work regressionLinus Torvalds
Several drivers use asynchronous work to do device discovery, and we synchronize with them in the compiled-in case before we actually try to mount root filesystems etc. However, when compiled as modules, that synchronization is missing - the module loading completes, but the driver hasn't actually finished probing for devices, and that means that any user mode that expects to use the devices after the 'insmod' is now potentially broken. We already saw one case of a similar issue in the ACPI battery code, where the kernel itself expected the module to be all done, and unmapped the init memory - but the async device discovery was still running. That got hacked around by just removing the "__init" (see commit 5d38258ec026921a7b266f4047ebeaa75db358e5 "ACPI battery: fix async boot oops"), but the real fix is to just make the module loading wait for all async work to be completed. It will slow down module loading, but since common devices should be built in anyway, and since the bug is really annoying and hard to handle from user space (and caused several S3 resume regressions), the simple fix to wait is the right one. This fixes at least http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13063 but probably a few other bugzilla entries too (12936, for example), and is confirmed to fix Rafael's storage driver breakage after resume bug report (no bugzilla entry). We should also be able to now revert that ACPI battery fix. Reported-and-tested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@suse.com> Tested-by: Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-10ftrace: Output REC->var instead of __entry->var for trace formatZhaolei
print fmt: "irq=%d return=%s", __entry->irq, __entry->ret ? \"handled\" : \"unhandled\" "__entry" should be convert to "REC" by __stringify() macro. Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <49DC679D.2090901@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-10tracing: fix document referencesLi Zefan
When moving documents to Documentation/trace/, I forgot to grep Kconfig to find out those references. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Cc: eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro LKML-Reference: <49DE97EF.7080208@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-10tracing: fix splice return too largeLai Jiangshan
I got these from strace: splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 12288 splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 12288 splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 12288 splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 16384 splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 8192 splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 8192 splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 8192 I wanted to splice_read 4096 bytes, but it returns 8192 or larger. It is because the return value of tracing_buffers_splice_read() does not include "zero out any left over data" bytes. But tracing_buffers_read() includes these bytes, we make them consistent. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <49D46674.9030804@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-10tracing: update file->f_pos when splice(2) itLai Jiangshan
Impact: Cleanup These two lines: if (unlikely(*ppos)) return -ESPIPE; in tracing_buffers_splice_read() are not needed, VFS layer has disabled seek(2). We remove these two lines, and then we can update file->f_pos. And tracing_buffers_read() updates file->f_pos, this fix make tracing_buffers_splice_read() updates file->f_pos too. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <49D46670.4010503@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-10tracing: allocate page when neededLai Jiangshan
Impact: Cleanup Sometimes, we open trace_pipe_raw, but we don't read(2) it, we just splice(2) it, thus, the page is not used. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <49D4666B.4010608@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-10tracing: disable seeking for trace_pipe_rawLai Jiangshan
Impact: disable pread() We set tracing_buffers_fops.llseek to no_llseek, but we can still perform pread() to read this file. That is not expected. This fix uses nonseekable_open() to disable it. tracing_buffers_fops.llseek is still set to no_llseek, it mark this file is a "non-seekable device" and is used by sys_splice(). See also do_splice() or manual of splice(2): ERRORS EINVAL Target file system doesn't support splicing; neither of the descriptors refers to a pipe; or offset given for non-seekable device. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <49D46668.8030806@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: consolidate documents blktrace: pass the right pointer to kfree() tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file header tracing: append a comma to INIT_FTRACE_GRAPH
2009-04-09Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: do not count frozen tasks toward load sched: refresh MAINTAINERS entry sched: Print sched_group::__cpu_power in sched_domain_debug cpuacct: add per-cgroup utime/stime statistics posixtimers, sched: Fix posix clock monotonicity sched_rt: don't allocate cpumask in fastpath cpuacct: make cpuacct hierarchy walk in cpuacct_charge() safe when rcupreempt is used -v2
2009-04-09Merge branches 'core-fixes-for-linus', 'irq-fixes-for-linus' and ↵Linus Torvalds
'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: printk: fix wrong format string iter for printk futex: comment requeue key reference semantics * 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: irq: fix cpumask memory leak on offstack cpumask kernels * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: posix-timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && setitimer(CPUCLOCK_PROF) posix-timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && fork() timers: add missing kernel-doc
2009-04-09mutex: have non-spinning mutexes on s390 by defaultHeiko Carstens
Impact: performance regression fix for s390 The adaptive spinning mutexes will not always do what one would expect on virtualized architectures like s390. Especially the cpu_relax() loop in mutex_spin_on_owner might hurt if the mutex holding cpu has been scheduled away by the hypervisor. We would end up in a cpu_relax() loop when there is no chance that the state of the mutex changes until the target cpu has been scheduled again by the hypervisor. For that reason we should change the default behaviour to no-spin on s390. We do have an instruction which allows to yield the current cpu in favour of a different target cpu. Also we have an instruction which allows us to figure out if the target cpu is physically backed. However we need to do some performance tests until we can come up with a solution that will do the right thing on s390. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090409184834.7a0df7b2@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09blktrace: pass the right pointer to kfree()Li Zefan
Impact: fix kfree crash with non-standard act_mask string If passing a string with leading white spaces to strstrip(), the returned ptr != the original ptr. This bug was introduced by me. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <49DD694C.8020902@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file headerFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: fix build warnings and possibe compat misbehavior on IA64 Building a kernel on ia64 might trigger these ugly build warnings: CC arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.o In file included from arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:55: arch/ia64/ia32/ia32priv.h:290:1: warning: "elf_check_arch" redefined In file included from include/linux/elf.h:7, from include/linux/module.h:14, from include/linux/ftrace.h:8, from include/linux/syscalls.h:68, from arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:18: arch/ia64/include/asm/elf.h:19:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition [...] sys_ia32.c includes linux/syscalls.h which in turn includes linux/ftrace.h to import the syscalls tracing prototypes. But including ftrace.h can pull too much things for a low level file, especially on ia64 where the ia32 private headers conflict with higher level headers. Now we isolate the syscall tracing headers in their own lightweight file. Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com> Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com> Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com> Cc: Michael Davidson <md@google.com> LKML-Reference: <20090408184058.GB6017@nowhere> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09work_on_cpu(): rewrite it to create a kernel thread on demandAndrew Morton
Impact: circular locking bugfix The various implemetnations and proposed implemetnations of work_on_cpu() are vulnerable to various deadlocks because they all used queues of some form. Unrelated pieces of kernel code thus gained dependencies wherein if one work_on_cpu() caller holds a lock which some other work_on_cpu() callback also takes, the kernel could rarely deadlock. Fix this by creating a short-lived kernel thread for each work_on_cpu() invokation. This is not terribly fast, but the only current caller of work_on_cpu() is pci_call_probe(). It would be nice to find some other way of doing the node-local allocations in the PCI probe code so that we can zap work_on_cpu() altogether. The code there is rather nasty. I can't think of anything simple at this time... Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-04-09kthread: move sched-realeted initialization from kthreadd contextOleg Nesterov
kthreadd is the single thread which implements ths "create" request, move sched_setscheduler/etc from create_kthread() to kthread_create() to improve the scalability. We should be careful with sched_setscheduler(), use _nochek helper. 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: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-04-09kthread: Don't looking for a task in create_kthread() #2Vitaliy Gusev
Remove the unnecessary find_task_by_pid_ns(). kthread() can just use "current" to get the same result. Signed-off-by: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-04-08ptrace: some checkpatch fixesRoland McGrath
This fixes all the checkpatch --file complaints about kernel/ptrace.c and also removes an unused #include. I've verified that there are no changes to the compiled code on x86_64. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> [ Removed the parts that just split a line - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-08posix-timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && setitimer(CPUCLOCK_PROF)Oleg Nesterov
update_rlimit_cpu() tries to optimize out set_process_cpu_timer() in case when we already have CPUCLOCK_PROF timer which should expire first. But it uses cputime_lt() instead of cputime_gt(). Test case: int main(void) { struct itimerval it = { .it_value = { .tv_sec = 1000 }, }; assert(!setitimer(ITIMER_PROF, &it, NULL)); struct rlimit rl = { .rlim_cur = 1, .rlim_max = 1, }; assert(!setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU, &rl)); for (;;) ; return 0; } Without this patch, the task is not killed as RLIMIT_CPU demands. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Lojkin <ia6432@inbox.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org LKML-Reference: <20090327000610.GA10108@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08posix-timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && fork()Oleg Nesterov
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12911 copy_signal() copies signal->rlim, but RLIMIT_CPU is "lost". Because posix_cpu_timers_init_group() sets cputime_expires.prof_exp = 0 and thus fastpath_timer_check() returns false unless we have other expired cpu timers. Change copy_signal() to set cputime_expires.prof_exp if we have RLIMIT_CPU. Also, set cputimer.running = 1 in that case. This is not strictly necessary, but imho makes sense. Reported-by: Peter Lojkin <ia6432@inbox.ru> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Lojkin <ia6432@inbox.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org LKML-Reference: <20090327000607.GA10104@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc1' into sched/urgentIngo Molnar
Merge reason: update to latest upstream to queue up fix Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc1' into core/urgentIngo Molnar
Merge reason: need latest upstream to queue up dependent fix Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07Merge branch 'core/softlockup' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core/softlockup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: softlockup: make DETECT_HUNG_TASK default depend on DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP softlockup: move 'one' to the softlockup section in sysctl.c softlockup: ensure the task has been switched out once softlockup: remove timestamp checking from hung_task softlockup: convert read_lock in hung_task to rcu_read_lock softlockup: check all tasks in hung_task softlockup: remove unused definition for spawn_softlockup_task softlockup: fix potential race in hung_task when resetting timeout softlockup: fix to allow compiling with !DETECT_HUNG_TASK softlockup: decouple hung tasks check from softlockup detection
2009-04-07Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: branch tracer, intel-iommu: fix build with CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER=y branch tracer: Fix for enabling branch profiling makes sparse unusable ftrace: Correct a text align for event format output Update /debug/tracing/README tracing/ftrace: alloc the started cpumask for the trace file tracing, x86: remove duplicated #include ftrace: Add check of sched_stopped for probe_sched_wakeup function-graph: add proper initialization for init task tracing/ftrace: fix missing include string.h tracing: fix incorrect return type of ns2usecs() tracing: remove CALLER_ADDR2 from wakeup tracer blktrace: fix pdu_len when tracing packet command requests blktrace: small cleanup in blk_msg_write() blktrace: NUL-terminate user space messages tracing: move scripts/trace/power.pl to scripts/tracing/power.pl
2009-04-07Merge branch 'irq/threaded' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq/threaded' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: genirq: fix devres.o build for GENERIC_HARDIRQS=n genirq: provide old request_irq() for CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQ=n genirq: threaded irq handlers review fixups genirq: add support for threaded interrupts to devres genirq: add threaded interrupt handler support
2009-04-07kprobes: support per-kprobe disablingMasami Hiramatsu
Add disable_kprobe() and enable_kprobe() to disable/enable kprobes temporarily. disable_kprobe() asynchronously disables probe handlers of specified kprobe. So, after calling it, some handlers can be called at a while. enable_kprobe() enables specified kprobe. aggr_pre_handler and aggr_post_handler check disabled probes. On the other hand aggr_break_handler and aggr_fault_handler don't check it because these handlers will be called while executing pre or post handlers and usually those help error handling. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07kprobes: rename kprobe_enabled to kprobes_all_disarmedMasami Hiramatsu
Rename kprobe_enabled to kprobes_all_disarmed and invert logic due to avoiding naming confusion from per-probe disabling. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07kprobes: move EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL just after function definitionsMasami Hiramatsu
Clean up positions of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL in kernel/kprobes.c according to checkpatch.pl. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07kprobes: cleanup aggr_kprobe related codeMasami Hiramatsu
Currently, kprobes can disable all probes at once, but can't disable it individually (not unregister, just disable an kprobe, because unregistering needs to wait for scheduler synchronization). These patches introduce APIs for on-the-fly per-probe disabling and re-enabling by dis-arming/re-arming its breakpoint instruction. This patch: Change old_p to ap in add_new_kprobe() for readability, copy flags member in add_aggr_kprobe(), and simplify the code flow of register_aggr_kprobe(). Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threadsPeter W Morreale
Add /proc entries to give the admin the ability to control the minimum and maximum number of pdflush threads. This allows finer control of pdflush on both large and small machines. The rationale is simply one size does not fit all. Admins on large and/or small systems may want to tune the min/max pdflush thread count to best suit their needs. Right now the min/max is hardcoded to 2/8. While probably a fair estimate for smaller machines, large machines with large numbers of CPUs and large numbers of filesystems/block devices may benefit from larger numbers of threads working on different block devices. Even if the background flushing algorithm is radically changed, it is still likely that multiple threads will be involved and admins would still desire finer control on the min/max other than to have to recompile the kernel. The patch adds '/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads_min' and '/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads_max' with r/w permissions. The minimum value for nr_pdflush_threads_min is 1 and the maximum value is the current value of nr_pdflush_threads_max. This minimum is required since additional thread creation is performed in a pdflush thread itself. The minimum value for nr_pdflush_threads_max is the current value of nr_pdflush_threads_min and the maximum value can be 1000. Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt is also updated. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment, fix whitespace, use __read_mostly] Signed-off-by: Peter W Morreale <pmorreale@novell.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07ftrace: Correct a text align for event format outputZhaolei
If we cat debugfs/tracing/events/ftrace/bprint/format, we'll see: name: bprint ID: 6 format: field:unsigned char common_type; offset:0; size:1; field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:1; size:1; field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:2; size:1; field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; field:int common_tgid; offset:8; size:4; field:unsigned long ip; offset:12; size:4; field:char * fmt; offset:16; size:4; field: char buf; offset:20; size:0; print fmt: "%08lx (%d) fmt:%p %s" There is an inconsistent blank before char buf. Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <49D5E3EE.70201@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07Update /debug/tracing/READMENikanth Karthikesan
Some of the tracers have been renamed, which was not updated in the in-kernel run-time README file. Update it. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> LKML-Reference: <200903231158.32151.knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>