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25-Jan-2024 |
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> |
mm: introduce PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM, PF_MEMALLOC_NOWARN Introduce PF_MEMALLOC_* equivalents of some GFP_ flags: PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM -> GFP_NOWAIT PF_MEMALLOC_NOWARN -> __GFP_NOWARN Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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12-Feb-2024 |
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> |
mm: document memalloc_noreclaim_save() and memalloc_pin_save() The memalloc_noreclaim_save() function currently has no documentation comment, so the implications of its usage are not obvious. Namely that it not only prevents entering reclaim (as the name suggests), but also allows using all memory reserves and thus should be only used in contexts that are allocating memory to free memory. This may lead to new improper usages being added. Thus add a documenting comment, based on the description of __GFP_MEMALLOC. While at it, also document memalloc_pin_save() so that all the memalloc_ scopes are documented. For those already documented, add missing Return: descriptions, and mark Context: description per kernel-docs style guide. In the comments describing the relevant PF_MEMALLOC flags, refer to their scope setting functions. [vbabka@suse.cz: fix issues that Mike pointed out] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215095827.13756-2-vbabka@suse.cz Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240212182950.32730-2-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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01-Feb-2024 |
Gregory Price <gourry.memverge@gmail.com> |
mm/mempolicy: introduce MPOL_WEIGHTED_INTERLEAVE for weighted interleaving When a system has multiple NUMA nodes and it becomes bandwidth hungry, using the current MPOL_INTERLEAVE could be an wise option. However, if those NUMA nodes consist of different types of memory such as socket-attached DRAM and CXL/PCIe attached DRAM, the round-robin based interleave policy does not optimally distribute data to make use of their different bandwidth characteristics. Instead, interleave is more effective when the allocation policy follows each NUMA nodes' bandwidth weight rather than a simple 1:1 distribution. This patch introduces a new memory policy, MPOL_WEIGHTED_INTERLEAVE, enabling weighted interleave between NUMA nodes. Weighted interleave allows for proportional distribution of memory across multiple numa nodes, preferably apportioned to match the bandwidth of each node. For example, if a system has 1 CPU node (0), and 2 memory nodes (0,1), with bandwidth of (100GB/s, 50GB/s) respectively, the appropriate weight distribution is (2:1). Weights for each node can be assigned via the new sysfs extension: /sys/kernel/mm/mempolicy/weighted_interleave/ For now, the default value of all nodes will be `1`, which matches the behavior of standard 1:1 round-robin interleave. An extension will be added in the future to allow default values to be registered at kernel and device bringup time. The policy allocates a number of pages equal to the set weights. For example, if the weights are (2,1), then 2 pages will be allocated on node0 for every 1 page allocated on node1. The new flag MPOL_WEIGHTED_INTERLEAVE can be used in set_mempolicy(2) and mbind(2). Some high level notes about the pieces of weighted interleave: current->il_prev: Tracks the node previously allocated from. current->il_weight: The active weight of the current node (current->il_prev) When this reaches 0, current->il_prev is set to the next node and current->il_weight is set to the next weight. weighted_interleave_nodes: Counts the number of allocations as they occur, and applies the weight for the current node. When the weight reaches 0, switch to the next node. Operates only on task->mempolicy. weighted_interleave_nid: Gets the total weight of the nodemask as well as each individual node weight, then calculates the node based on the given index. Operates on VMA policies. bulk_array_weighted_interleave: Gets the total weight of the nodemask as well as each individual node weight, then calculates the number of "interleave rounds" as well as any delta ("partial round"). Calculates the number of pages for each node and allocates them. If a node was scheduled for interleave via interleave_nodes, the current weight will be allocated first. Operates only on the task->mempolicy. One piece of complexity is the interaction between a recent refactor which split the logic to acquire the "ilx" (interleave index) of an allocation and the actually application of the interleave. If a call to alloc_pages_mpol() were made with a weighted-interleave policy and ilx set to NO_INTERLEAVE_INDEX, weighted_interleave_nodes() would operate on a VMA policy - violating the description above. An inspection of all callers of alloc_pages_mpol() shows that all external callers set ilx to `0`, an index value, or will call get_vma_policy() to acquire the ilx. For example, mm/shmem.c may call into alloc_pages_mpol. The call stacks all set (pgoff_t ilx) or end up in `get_vma_policy()`. This enforces the `weighted_interleave_nodes()` and `weighted_interleave_nid()` policy requirements (task/vma respectively). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240202170238.90004-4-gregory.price@memverge.com Suggested-by: Hasan Al Maruf <Hasan.Maruf@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gregory.price@memverge.com> Co-developed-by: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com> Signed-off-by: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com> Co-developed-by: Honggyu Kim <honggyu.kim@sk.com> Signed-off-by: Honggyu Kim <honggyu.kim@sk.com> Co-developed-by: Hyeongtak Ji <hyeongtak.ji@sk.com> Signed-off-by: Hyeongtak Ji <hyeongtak.ji@sk.com> Co-developed-by: Srinivasulu Thanneeru <sthanneeru.opensrc@micron.com> Signed-off-by: Srinivasulu Thanneeru <sthanneeru.opensrc@micron.com> Co-developed-by: Ravi Jonnalagadda <ravis.opensrc@micron.com> Signed-off-by: Ravi Jonnalagadda <ravis.opensrc@micron.com> Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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05-Feb-2024 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu-tasks: Add data to eliminate RCU-tasks/do_exit() deadlocks Holding a mutex across synchronize_rcu_tasks() and acquiring that same mutex in code called from do_exit() after its call to exit_tasks_rcu_start() but before its call to exit_tasks_rcu_stop() results in deadlock. This is by design, because tasks that are far enough into do_exit() are no longer present on the tasks list, making it a bit difficult for RCU Tasks to find them, let alone wait on them to do a voluntary context switch. However, such deadlocks are becoming more frequent. In addition, lockdep currently does not detect such deadlocks and they can be difficult to reproduce. In addition, if a task voluntarily context switches during that time (for example, if it blocks acquiring a mutex), then this task is in an RCU Tasks quiescent state. And with some adjustments, RCU Tasks could just as well take advantage of that fact. This commit therefore adds the data structures that will be needed to rely on these quiescent states and to eliminate these deadlocks. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240118021842.290665-1-chenzhongjin@huawei.com/ Reported-by: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@huawei.com> Reported-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Tested-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com> Tested-by: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
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16-Jan-2024 |
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> |
block: update cached timestamp post schedule/preemption Mark the task as having a cached timestamp when set assign it, so we can efficiently check if it needs updating post being scheduled back in. This covers both the actual schedule out case, which would've flushed the plug, and the preemption case which doesn't touch the plugged requests (for many reasons, one of them being then we'd need to have preemption disabled around plug state manipulation). Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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24-Jan-2024 |
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> |
exec: Distinguish in_execve from in_exec Just to help distinguish the fs->in_exec flag from the current->in_execve flag, add comments in check_unsafe_exec() and copy_fs() for more context. Also note that in_execve is only used by TOMOYO now. Cc: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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26-Oct-2023 |
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> |
iommu: Change kconfig around IOMMU_SVA Linus suggested that the kconfig here is confusing: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgUiAtiszwseM1p2fCJ+sC4XWQ+YN4TanFhUgvUqjr9Xw@mail.gmail.com/ Let's break it into three kconfigs controlling distinct things: - CONFIG_IOMMU_MM_DATA controls if the mm_struct has the additional fields for the IOMMU. Currently only PASID, but later patches store a struct iommu_mm_data * - CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CPU_PASID controls if the arch needs the scheduling bit for keeping track of the ENQCMD instruction. x86 will select this if IOMMU_SVA is enabled - IOMMU_SVA controls if the IOMMU core compiles in the SVA support code for iommu driver use and the IOMMU exported API This way ARM will not enable CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CPU_PASID Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231027000525.1278806-2-tina.zhang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
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15-Dec-2023 |
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> |
Kill sched.h dependency on rcupdate.h by moving cond_resched_rcu() to rcupdate_wait.h, we can kill another big sched.h dependency. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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15-Dec-2023 |
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> |
rseq: Split out rseq.h from sched.h We're trying to get sched.h down to more or less just types only, not code - rseq can live in its own header. This helps us kill the dependency on preempt.h in sched.h. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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11-Dec-2023 |
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> |
restart_block: Trim includes We don't actually use any timekeeping types, no need to pull in time64.h. Also, sched.h uses restart_block; add it as a direct dependency. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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11-Dec-2023 |
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> |
sem: Split out sem_types.h More sched.h dependency pruning. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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11-Dec-2023 |
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> |
uidgid: Split out uidgid_types.h More sched.h dependency pruning. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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11-Dec-2023 |
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> |
seccomp: Split out seccomp_types.h More pruning of sched.h dependencies. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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11-Dec-2023 |
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> |
refcount: Split out refcount_types.h More trimming of sched.h dependencies. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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11-Dec-2023 |
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> |
syscall_user_dispatch.h: split out *_types.h thread_info.h pulls in a lot of junk that sched.h that we don't need; in particular, this helps to kill the printk.h dependency. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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11-Dec-2023 |
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> |
Split out irqflags_types.h We're working on only pulling in type definitions to sched.h whenever possible. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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11-Dec-2023 |
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> |
ipc: Kill bogus dependency on spinlock.h pruning sched.h dependencies, headers shouldn't pull in more than they need. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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11-Dec-2023 |
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> |
plist: Split out plist_types.h Trimming down sched.h dependencies: we don't want to include more than the base types. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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15-Dec-2023 |
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> |
sched.h: move pid helpers to pid.h This is needed for killing the sched.h dependency on rcupdate.h, and pid.h is a better place for this code anyways. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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11-Dec-2023 |
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> |
pid: Split out pid_types.h Trimming down sched.h dependencies: we dont't want to include more than the base types. Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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11-Dec-2023 |
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> |
locking/seqlock: Split out seqlock_types.h Trimming down sched.h dependencies: we don't want to include more than the base types. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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10-Dec-2023 |
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> |
posix-cpu-timers: Split out posix-timers_types.h Trimming down sched.h dependencies: we don't want to include more than the base types. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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10-Dec-2023 |
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> |
locking/mutex: split out mutex_types.h Trimming down sched.h dependencies: we don't want to include more than the base types. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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11-Dec-2023 |
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> |
hrtimers: Split out hrtimer_types.h We need to reduce the scope of what's included in sched.h: task_struct includes a hrtimer, so split out the core types into their own header. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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11-Dec-2023 |
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> |
sched.h: Move (spin|rwlock)_needbreak() to spinlock.h This lets us kill the dependency on spinlock.h. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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06-Dec-2022 |
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> |
nodemask: Split out include/linux/nodemask_types.h sched.h, which defines task_struct, needs nodemask_t - but sched.h is a frequently used header and ideally shouldn't be pulling in any more code that it needs to. This splits out nodemask_types.h which has the definition sched.h needs, which will avoid a circular header dependency in the alloc tagging patch series, and as a bonus should speed up kernel build times. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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16-Nov-2023 |
Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> |
arch: remove ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK IA-64 was the only architecture which selected ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK. IA-64 was removed with commit cf8e8658100d ("arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture"). Therefore remove support for ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK as well. Note: this also reveals a potential bug in powerpc code, which makes use of __init_task_data without selecting ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK which makes __init_task_data a no-op. This is broken since commit d11ed3ab3166 ("Expand INIT_TASK() in init/init_task.c and remove") from 2018 and needs to be addressed separately. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231116133638.1636277-4-hca@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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01-Dec-2023 |
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> |
sched/fair: Simplify util_est With UTIL_EST_FASTUP now being permanent, we can take advantage of the fact that the ewma jumps directly to a higher utilization at dequeue to simplify util_est and remove the enqueued field. Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Tested-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Hongyan Xia <hongyan.xia2@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201161652.1241695-3-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
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04-Nov-2023 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/deadline: Introduce deadline servers Low priority tasks (e.g., SCHED_OTHER) can suffer starvation if tasks with higher priority (e.g., SCHED_FIFO) monopolize CPU(s). RT Throttling has been introduced a while ago as a (mostly debug) countermeasure one can utilize to reserve some CPU time for low priority tasks (usually background type of work, e.g. workqueues, timers, etc.). It however has its own problems (see documentation) and the undesired effect of unconditionally throttling FIFO tasks even when no lower priority activity needs to run (there are mechanisms to fix this issue as well, but, again, with their own problems). Introduce deadline servers to service low priority tasks needs under starvation conditions. Deadline servers are built extending SCHED_DEADLINE implementation to allow 2-level scheduling (a sched_deadline entity becomes a container for lower priority scheduling entities). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4968601859d920335cf85822eb573a5f179f04b8.1699095159.git.bristot@kernel.org
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04-Nov-2023 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Unify runtime accounting across classes All classes use sched_entity::exec_start to track runtime and have copies of the exact same code around to compute runtime. Collapse all that. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/54d148a144f26d9559698c4dd82d8859038a7380.1699095159.git.bristot@kernel.org
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14-Nov-2023 |
Abel Wu <wuyun.abel@bytedance.com> |
sched/eevdf: Sort the rbtree by virtual deadline Sort the task timeline by virtual deadline and keep the min_vruntime in the augmented tree, so we can avoid doubling the worst case cost and make full use of the cached leftmost node to enable O(1) fastpath picking in next patch. Signed-off-by: Abel Wu <wuyun.abel@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231115033647.80785-3-wuyun.abel@bytedance.com
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19-Oct-2023 |
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> |
mm: kmem: add direct objcg pointer to task_struct To charge a freshly allocated kernel object to a memory cgroup, the kernel needs to obtain an objcg pointer. Currently it does it indirectly by obtaining the memcg pointer first and then calling to __get_obj_cgroup_from_memcg(). Usually tasks spend their entire life belonging to the same object cgroup. So it makes sense to save the objcg pointer on task_struct directly, so it can be obtained faster. It requires some work on fork, exit and cgroup migrate paths, but these paths are way colder. To avoid any costly synchronization the following rules are applied: 1) A task sets it's objcg pointer itself. 2) If a task is being migrated to another cgroup, the least significant bit of the objcg pointer is set atomically. 3) On the allocation path the objcg pointer is obtained locklessly using the READ_ONCE() macro and the least significant bit is checked. If it's set, the following procedure is used to update it locklessly: - task->objcg is zeroed using cmpxcg - new objcg pointer is obtained - task->objcg is updated using try_cmpxchg - operation is repeated if try_cmpxcg fails It guarantees that no updates will be lost if task migration is racing against objcg pointer update. It also allows to keep both read and write paths fully lockless. Because the task is keeping a reference to the objcg, it can't go away while the task is alive. This commit doesn't change the way the remote memcg charging works. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019225346.1822282-3-roman.gushchin@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin (Cruise) <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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26-Aug-2023 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
kill task_struct->thread_group The last user was removed by the previous patch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230826111409.GA23243@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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07-Aug-2023 |
Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@gmail.com> |
sched/headers: Move 'struct sched_param' out of uapi, to work around glibc/musl breakage Both glibc and musl define 'struct sched_param' in sched.h, while kernel has it in uapi/linux/sched/types.h, making it cumbersome to use sched_getattr(2) or sched_setattr(2) from userspace. For example, something like this: #include <sched.h> #include <linux/sched/types.h> struct sched_attr sa; will result in "error: redefinition of ‘struct sched_param’" (note the code doesn't need sched_param at all -- it needs struct sched_attr plus some stuff from sched.h). The situation is, glibc is not going to provide a wrapper for sched_{get,set}attr, thus the need to include linux/sched_types.h directly, which leads to the above problem. Thus, the userspace is left with a few sub-par choices when it wants to use e.g. sched_setattr(2), such as maintaining a copy of struct sched_attr definition, or using some other ugly tricks. OTOH, 'struct sched_param' is well known, defined in POSIX, and it won't be ever changed (as that would break backward compatibility). So, while 'struct sched_param' is indeed part of the kernel uapi, exposing it the way it's done now creates an issue, and hiding it (like this patch does) fixes that issue, hopefully without creating another one: common userspace software rely on libc headers, and as for "special" software (like libc), it looks like glibc and musl do not rely on kernel headers for 'struct sched_param' definition (but let's Cc their mailing lists in case it's otherwise). The alternative to this patch would be to move struct sched_attr to, say, linux/sched.h, or linux/sched/attr.h (the new file). Oh, and here is the previous attempt to fix the issue: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20200528135552.GA87103@google.com/ While I support Linus arguments, the issue is still here and needs to be fixed. [ mingo: Linus is right, this shouldn't be needed - but on the other hand I agree that this header is not really helpful to user-space as-is. So let's pretend that <uapi/linux/sched/types.h> is only about sched_attr, and call this commit a workaround for user-space breakage that it in reality is ... Also, remove the Fixes tag. ] Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230808030357.1213829-1-kolyshkin@gmail.com
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08-Sep-2023 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Provide rt_mutex specific scheduler helpers With PREEMPT_RT there is a rt_mutex recursion problem where sched_submit_work() can use an rtlock (aka spinlock_t). More specifically what happens is: mutex_lock() /* really rt_mutex */ ... __rt_mutex_slowlock_locked() task_blocks_on_rt_mutex() // enqueue current task as waiter // do PI chain walk rt_mutex_slowlock_block() schedule() sched_submit_work() ... spin_lock() /* really rtlock */ ... __rt_mutex_slowlock_locked() task_blocks_on_rt_mutex() // enqueue current task as waiter *AGAIN* // *CONFUSION* Fix this by making rt_mutex do the sched_submit_work() early, before it enqueues itself as a waiter -- before it even knows *if* it will wait. [[ basically Thomas' patch but with different naming and a few asserts added ]] Originally-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230908162254.999499-5-bigeasy@linutronix.de
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08-Sep-2023 |
Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@quicinc.com> |
sched/core: Remove ifdeffery for saved_state In preparation for freezer to also use saved_state, remove the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT compilation guard around saved_state. On the arm64 platform I tested which did not have CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT, there was no statistically significant deviation by applying this patch. Test methodology: perf bench sched message -g 40 -l 40 Signed-off-by: Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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16-Oct-2019 |
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> |
sched: Add task_struct->faults_disabled_mapping There has been a long standing page cache coherence bug with direct IO. This provides part of a mechanism to fix it, currently just used by bcachefs but potentially worth promoting to the VFS. Direct IO evicts the range of the pagecache being read or written to. For reads, we need dirty pages to be written to disk, so that the read doesn't return stale data. For writes, we need to evict that range of the pagecache so that it's not stale after the write completes. However, without a locking mechanism to prevent those pages from being re-added to the pagecache - by a buffered read or page fault - page cache inconsistency is still possible. This isn't necessarily just an issue for userspace when they're playing games; filesystems may hang arbitrary state off the pagecache, and so page cache inconsistency may cause real filesystem bugs, depending on the filesystem. This is less of an issue for iomap based filesystems, but e.g. buffer heads caches disk block mappings (!) and attaches them to the pagecache, and bcachefs attaches disk reservations to pagecache pages. This issue has been hard to fix, because - we need to add a lock (henceforth called pagecache_add_lock), which would be held for the duration of the direct IO - page faults add pages to the page cache, thus need to take the same lock - dio -> gup -> page fault thus can deadlock And we cannot enforce a lock ordering with this lock, since userspace will be controlling the lock ordering (via the fd and buffer arguments to direct IOs), so we need a different method of deadlock avoidance. We need to tell the page fault handler that we're already holding a pagecache_add_lock, and since plumbing it through the entire gup() path would be highly impractical this adds a field to task_struct. Then the full method is: - in the dio path, when we first take the pagecache_add_lock, note the mapping in the current task_struct - in the page fault handler, if faults_disabled_mapping is set, we check if it's the same mapping as the one we're taking a page fault for, and if so return an error. Then we check lock ordering: if there's a lock ordering violation and trylock fails, we'll have to cycle the locks and return an error that tells the DIO path to retry: faults_disabled_mapping is also used for signalling "locks were dropped, please retry". Also relevant to this patch: mapping->invalidate_lock. mapping->invalidate_lock provides most of the required semantics - it's used by truncate/fallocate to block pages being added to the pagecache. However, since it's a rwsem, direct IOs would need to take the write side in order to block page cache adds, and would then be exclusive with each other - we'll need a new type of lock to pair with this approach. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andreas Grünbacher <andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com>
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29-Aug-2023 |
NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> |
sched/core: Report correct state for TASK_IDLE | TASK_FREEZABLE task_state_index() ignores uninteresting state flags (such as TASK_FREEZABLE) for most states, but for TASK_IDLE and TASK_RTLOCK_WAIT it does not. So if a task is waiting TASK_IDLE|TASK_FREEZABLE it gets incorrectly reported as TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE or "D". (it is planned for nfsd to change to use this state). Fix this by only testing the interesting bits and not the irrelevant bits in __task_state_index() Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/169335025927.5133.4781141800413736103@noble.neil.brown.name
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29-Aug-2023 |
Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com> |
sched/core: Add kernel-doc for set_cpus_allowed_ptr() This is an exported symbol, so it should have kernel-doc. Add a note to very similar function do_set_cpus_allowed() to avoid confusion and misuse. Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230829082551.2661290-1-costa.shul@redhat.com
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31-May-2023 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/fair: Implement an EEVDF-like scheduling policy Where CFS is currently a WFQ based scheduler with only a single knob, the weight. The addition of a second, latency oriented parameter, makes something like WF2Q or EEVDF based a much better fit. Specifically, EEVDF does EDF like scheduling in the left half of the tree -- those entities that are owed service. Except because this is a virtual time scheduler, the deadlines are in virtual time as well, which is what allows over-subscription. EEVDF has two parameters: - weight, or time-slope: which is mapped to nice just as before - request size, or slice length: which is used to compute the virtual deadline as: vd_i = ve_i + r_i/w_i Basically, by setting a smaller slice, the deadline will be earlier and the task will be more eligible and ran earlier. Tick driven preemption is driven by request/slice completion; while wakeup preemption is driven by the deadline. Because the tree is now effectively an interval tree, and the selection is no longer 'leftmost', over-scheduling is less of a problem. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531124603.931005524@infradead.org
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31-May-2023 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/fair: Add lag based placement With the introduction of avg_vruntime, it is possible to approximate lag (the entire purpose of introducing it in fact). Use this to do lag based placement over sleep+wake. Specifically, the FAIR_SLEEPERS thing places things too far to the left and messes up the deadline aspect of EEVDF. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531124603.794929315@infradead.org
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17-Jul-2023 |
Chin Yik Ming <yikming2222@gmail.com> |
sched/headers: Rename task_struct::state to task_struct::__state in the comments too The rename in 2f064a59a11f ("sched: Change task_struct::state") missed the comments. [ mingo: Improved the changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Chin Yik Ming <yikming2222@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230717064952.2804-1-yikming2222@gmail.com
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28-Jun-2023 |
Cruz Zhao <CruzZhao@linux.alibaba.com> |
sched/core: introduce sched_core_idle_cpu() As core scheduling introduced, a new state of idle is defined as force idle, running idle task but nr_running greater than zero. If a cpu is in force idle state, idle_cpu() will return zero. This result makes sense in some scenarios, e.g., load balance, showacpu when dumping, and judge the RCU boost kthread is starving. But this will cause error in other scenarios, e.g., tick_irq_exit(): When force idle, rq->curr == rq->idle but rq->nr_running > 0, results that idle_cpu() returns 0. In function tick_irq_exit(), if idle_cpu() is 0, tick_nohz_irq_exit() will not be called, and ts->idle_active will not become 1, which became 0 in tick_nohz_irq_enter(). ts->idle_sleeptime won't update in function update_ts_time_stats(), if ts->idle_active is 0, which should be 1. And this bug will result that ts->idle_sleeptime is less than the actual value, and finally will result that the idle time in /proc/stat is less than the actual value. To solve this problem, we introduce sched_core_idle_cpu(), which returns 1 when force idle. We audit all users of idle_cpu(), and change idle_cpu() into sched_core_idle_cpu() in function tick_irq_exit(). v2-->v3: Only replace idle_cpu() with sched_core_idle_cpu() in function tick_irq_exit(). And modify the corresponding commit log. Signed-off-by: Cruz Zhao <CruzZhao@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1688011324-42406-1-git-send-email-CruzZhao@linux.alibaba.com
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01-Jun-2023 |
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> |
backing_dev: remove current->backing_dev_info Patch series "cleanup the filemap / direct I/O interaction", v4. This series cleans up some of the generic write helper calling conventions and the page cache writeback / invalidation for direct I/O. This is a spinoff from the no-bufferhead kernel project, for which we'll want to an use iomap based buffered write path in the block layer. This patch (of 12): The last user of current->backing_dev_info disappeared in commit b9b1335e6403 ("remove bdi_congested() and wb_congested() and related functions"). Remove the field and all assignments to it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230601145904.1385409-1-hch@lst.de Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230601145904.1385409-2-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna@kernel.org> Cc: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org> Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com> Cc: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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02-Jun-2023 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Unconditionally use full-fat wait_task_inactive() While modifying wait_task_inactive() for PREEMPT_RT; the build robot noted that UP got broken. This led to audit and consideration of the UP implementation of wait_task_inactive(). It looks like the UP implementation is also broken for PREEMPT; consider task_current_syscall() getting preempted between the two calls to wait_task_inactive(). Therefore move the wait_task_inactive() implementation out of CONFIG_SMP and unconditionally use it. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230602103731.GA630648%40hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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08-May-2023 |
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> |
cgroup/cpuset: Free DL BW in case can_attach() fails cpuset_can_attach() can fail. Postpone DL BW allocation until all tasks have been checked. DL BW is not allocated per-task but as a sum over all DL tasks migrating. If multiple controllers are attached to the cgroup next to the cpuset controller a non-cpuset can_attach() can fail. In this case free DL BW in cpuset_cancel_attach(). Finally, update cpuset DL task count (nr_deadline_tasks) only in cpuset_attach(). Suggested-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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08-May-2023 |
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> |
sched/deadline: Create DL BW alloc, free & check overflow interface While moving a set of tasks between exclusive cpusets, cpuset_can_attach() -> task_can_attach() calls dl_cpu_busy(..., p) for DL BW overflow checking and per-task DL BW allocation on the destination root_domain for the DL tasks in this set. This approach has the issue of not freeing already allocated DL BW in the following error cases: (1) The set of tasks includes multiple DL tasks and DL BW overflow checking fails for one of the subsequent DL tasks. (2) Another controller next to the cpuset controller which is attached to the same cgroup fails in its can_attach(). To address this problem rework dl_cpu_busy(): (1) Split it into dl_bw_check_overflow() & dl_bw_alloc() and add a dedicated dl_bw_free(). (2) dl_bw_alloc() & dl_bw_free() take a `u64 dl_bw` parameter instead of a `struct task_struct *p` used in dl_cpu_busy(). This allows to allocate DL BW for a set of tasks too rather than only for a single task. Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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20-Apr-2023 |
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> |
sched: Fix performance regression introduced by mm_cid Introduce per-mm/cpu current concurrency id (mm_cid) to fix a PostgreSQL sysbench regression reported by Aaron Lu. Keep track of the currently allocated mm_cid for each mm/cpu rather than freeing them immediately on context switch. This eliminates most atomic operations when context switching back and forth between threads belonging to different memory spaces in multi-threaded scenarios (many processes, each with many threads). The per-mm/per-cpu mm_cid values are serialized by their respective runqueue locks. Thread migration is handled by introducing invocation to sched_mm_cid_migrate_to() (with destination runqueue lock held) in activate_task() for migrating tasks. If the destination cpu's mm_cid is unset, and if the source runqueue is not actively using its mm_cid, then the source cpu's mm_cid is moved to the destination cpu on migration. Introduce a task-work executed periodically, similarly to NUMA work, which delays reclaim of cid values when they are unused for a period of time. Keep track of the allocation time for each per-cpu cid, and let the task work clear them when they are observed to be older than SCHED_MM_CID_PERIOD_NS and unused. This task work also clears all mm_cids which are greater or equal to the Hamming weight of the mm cidmask to keep concurrency ids compact. Because we want to ensure the mm_cid converges towards the smaller values as migrations happen, the prior optimization that was done when context switching between threads belonging to the same mm is removed, because it could delay the lazy release of the destination runqueue mm_cid after it has been replaced by a migration. Removing this prior optimization is not an issue performance-wise because the introduced per-mm/per-cpu mm_cid tracking also covers this more specific case. Fixes: af7f588d8f73 ("sched: Introduce per-memory-map concurrency ID") Reported-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230327080502.GA570847@ziqianlu-desk2/
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28-Mar-2023 |
Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> |
tracing/user_events: Track fork/exec/exit for mm lifetime During tracefs discussions it was decided instead of requiring a mapping within a user-process to track the lifetime of memory descriptors we should hook the appropriate calls. Do this by adding the minimal stubs required for task fork, exec, and exit. Currently this is just a NOP. Future patches will implement these calls fully. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230328235219.203-3-beaub@linux.microsoft.com Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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24-Feb-2023 |
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> |
livepatch,sched: Add livepatch task switching to cond_resched() There have been reports [1][2] of live patches failing to complete within a reasonable amount of time due to CPU-bound kthreads. Fix it by patching tasks in cond_resched(). There are four different flavors of cond_resched(), depending on the kernel configuration. Hook into all of them. A more elegant solution might be to use a preempt notifier. However, non-ORC unwinders can't unwind a preempted task reliably. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220507174628.2086373-1-song@kernel.org/ [2] https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/20230120-vhost-klp-switching-v1-0-7c2b65519c43@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Tested-by: Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean) <sforshee@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4ae981466b7814ec221014fc2554b2f86f3fb70b.1677257135.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
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15-Feb-2023 |
David Vernet <void@manifault.com> |
tasks: Extract rcu_users out of union In commit 3fbd7ee285b2b ("tasks: Add a count of task RCU users"), a count on the number of RCU users was added to struct task_struct. This was done so as to enable the removal of task_rcu_dereference(), and allow tasks to be protected by RCU even after exiting and being removed from the runqueue. In this commit, the 'refcount_t rcu_users' field that keeps track of this refcount was put into a union co-located with 'struct rcu_head rcu', so as to avoid taking up any extra space in task_struct. This was possible to do safely, because the field was only ever decremented by a static set of specific callers, and then never incremented again. While this restriction of there only being a small, static set of users of this field has worked fine, it prevents us from leveraging the field to use RCU to protect tasks in other contexts. During tracing, for example, it would be useful to be able to collect some tasks that performed a certain operation, put them in a map, and then periodically summarize who they are, which cgroup they're in, how much CPU time they've utilized, etc. While this can currently be done with 'usage', it becomes tricky when a task is already in a map, or if a reference should only be taken if a task is valid and will not soon be reaped. Ideally, we could do something like pass a reference to a map value, and then try to acquire a reference to the task in an RCU read region by using refcount_inc_not_zero(). Similarly, in sched_ext, schedulers are using integer pids to remember tasks, and then looking them up with find_task_by_pid_ns(). This is slow, error prone, and adds complexity. It would be more convenient and performant if BPF schedulers could instead store tasks directly in maps, and then leverage RCU to ensure they can be safely accessed with low overhead. Finally, overloading fields like this is error prone. Someone that wants to use 'rcu_users' could easily overlook the fact that once the rcu callback is scheduled, the refcount will go back to being nonzero, thus precluding the use of refcount_inc_not_zero(). Furthermore, as described below, it's possible to extract the fields of the union without changing the size of task_struct. There are several possible ways to enable this: 1. The lightest touch approach is likely the one proposed in this patch, which is to simply extract 'rcu_users' and 'rcu' from the union, so that scheduling the 'rcu' callback doesn't overwrite the 'rcu_users' refcount. If we have a trusted task pointer, this would allow us to use refcnt_inc_not_zero() inside of an RCU region to determine if we can safely acquire a reference to the task and store it in a map. As mentioned below, this can be done without changing the size of task_struct, by moving the location of the union to another location that has padding gaps we can fill in. 2. Removing 'refcount_t rcu_users', and instead having the entire task be freed in an rcu callback. This is likely the most sound overall design, though it changes the behavioral semantics exposed to callers, who currently expect that a task that's successfully looked up in e.g. the pid_list with find_task_by_pid_ns(), can always have a 'usage' reference acquired on them, as it's guaranteed to be > 0 until after the next gp. In order for this approach to work, we'd have to audit all callers. This approach also slightly changes behavior observed by user space by not invoking trace_sched_process_free() until the whole task_struct is actually being freed, rather than just after it's exited. It also may change timings, as memory will be freed in an RCU callback rather than immediately when the final 'usage' refcount drops to 0. This also is arguably a benefit, as it provides more predictable performance to callers who are refcounting tasks. 3. There may be other solutions as well that don't require changing the layout of task_struct. For example, we could possibly do something complex from the BPF side, such as listen for task exit and remove a task from a map when the task is exiting. This would likely require significant custom handling for task_struct in the verifier, so a more generalizable solution is likely warranted. As mentioned above, this patch proposes the lightest-touch approach which allows callers elsewhere in the kernel to use 'rcu_users' to ensure the lifetime of a task, by extracting 'rcu_users' and 'rcu' from the union. There is no size change in task_struct with this patch. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230215233033.889644-1-void@manifault.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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10-Mar-2023 |
Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com> |
fork/vm: Move common PF_IO_WORKER behavior to new flag This adds a new flag, PF_USER_WORKER, that's used for behavior common to to both PF_IO_WORKER and users like vhost which will use a new helper instead of create_io_thread because they require different behavior for operations like signal handling. The common behavior PF_USER_WORKER covers is the vm reclaim handling. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
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03-Feb-2023 |
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> |
blk-cgroup: store a gendisk to throttle in struct task_struct Switch from a request_queue pointer and reference to a gendisk once for the throttle information in struct task_struct. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Andreas Herrmann <aherrmann@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230203150400.3199230-8-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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22-Nov-2022 |
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> |
sched: Introduce per-memory-map concurrency ID This feature allows the scheduler to expose a per-memory map concurrency ID to user-space. This concurrency ID is within the possible cpus range, and is temporarily (and uniquely) assigned while threads are actively running within a memory map. If a memory map has fewer threads than cores, or is limited to run on few cores concurrently through sched affinity or cgroup cpusets, the concurrency IDs will be values close to 0, thus allowing efficient use of user-space memory for per-cpu data structures. This feature is meant to be exposed by a new rseq thread area field. The primary purpose of this feature is to do the heavy-lifting needed by memory allocators to allow them to use per-cpu data structures efficiently in the following situations: - Single-threaded applications, - Multi-threaded applications on large systems (many cores) with limited cpu affinity mask, - Multi-threaded applications on large systems (many cores) with restricted cgroup cpuset per container. One of the key concern from scheduler maintainers is the overhead associated with additional spin locks or atomic operations in the scheduler fast-path. This is why the following optimization is implemented. On context switch between threads belonging to the same memory map, transfer the mm_cid from prev to next without any atomic ops. This takes care of use-cases involving frequent context switch between threads belonging to the same memory map. Additional optimizations can be done if the spin locks added when context switching between threads belonging to different memory maps end up being a performance bottleneck. Those are left out of this patch though. A performance impact would have to be clearly demonstrated to justify the added complexity. The credit goes to Paul Turner (Google) for the original virtual cpu id idea. This feature is implemented based on the discussions with Paul Turner and Peter Oskolkov (Google), but I took the liberty to implement scheduler fast-path optimizations and my own NUMA-awareness scheme. The rumor has it that Google have been running a rseq vcpu_id extension internally in production for a year. The tcmalloc source code indeed has comments hinting at a vcpu_id prototype extension to the rseq system call [1]. The following benchmarks do not show any significant overhead added to the scheduler context switch by this feature: * perf bench sched messaging (process) Baseline: 86.5±0.3 ms With mm_cid: 86.7±2.6 ms * perf bench sched messaging (threaded) Baseline: 84.3±3.0 ms With mm_cid: 84.7±2.6 ms * hackbench (process) Baseline: 82.9±2.7 ms With mm_cid: 82.9±2.9 ms * hackbench (threaded) Baseline: 85.2±2.6 ms With mm_cid: 84.4±2.9 ms [1] https://github.com/google/tcmalloc/blob/master/tcmalloc/internal/linux_syscall_support.h#L26 Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221122203932.231377-8-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
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22-Nov-2022 |
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> |
rseq: Introduce extensible rseq ABI Introduce the extensible rseq ABI, where the feature size supported by the kernel and the required alignment are communicated to user-space through ELF auxiliary vectors. This allows user-space to call rseq registration with a rseq_len of either 32 bytes for the original struct rseq size (which includes padding), or larger. If rseq_len is larger than 32 bytes, then it must be large enough to contain the feature size communicated to user-space through ELF auxiliary vectors. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221122203932.231377-4-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
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23-Oct-2022 |
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> |
mm: convert mm's rss stats into percpu_counter Currently mm_struct maintains rss_stats which are updated on page fault and the unmapping codepaths. For page fault codepath the updates are cached per thread with the batch of TASK_RSS_EVENTS_THRESH which is 64. The reason for caching is performance for multithreaded applications otherwise the rss_stats updates may become hotspot for such applications. However this optimization comes with the cost of error margin in the rss stats. The rss_stats for applications with large number of threads can be very skewed. At worst the error margin is (nr_threads * 64) and we have a lot of applications with 100s of threads, so the error margin can be very high. Internally we had to reduce TASK_RSS_EVENTS_THRESH to 32. Recently we started seeing the unbounded errors for rss_stats for specific applications which use TCP rx0cp. It seems like vm_insert_pages() codepath does not sync rss_stats at all. This patch converts the rss_stats into percpu_counter to convert the error margin from (nr_threads * 64) to approximately (nr_cpus ^ 2). However this conversion enable us to get the accurate stats for situations where accuracy is more important than the cpu cost. This patch does not make such tradeoffs - we can just use percpu_counter_add_local() for the updates and percpu_counter_sum() (or percpu_counter_sync() + percpu_counter_read) for the readers. At the moment the readers are either procfs interface, oom_killer and memory reclaim which I think are not performance critical and should be ok with slow read. However I think we can make that change in a separate patch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221024052841.3291983-1-shakeelb@google.com Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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26-Sep-2022 |
Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com> |
sched/psi: Use task->psi_flags to clear in CPU migration The commit d583d360a620 ("psi: Fix psi state corruption when schedule() races with cgroup move") fixed a race problem by making cgroup_move_task() use task->psi_flags instead of looking at the scheduler state. We can extend task->psi_flags usage to CPU migration, which should be a minor optimization for performance and code simplicity. Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220926081931.45420-1-zhouchengming@bytedance.com
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08-Oct-2022 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Rewrite core context handling There have been various issues and limitations with the way perf uses (task) contexts to track events. Most notable is the single hardware PMU task context, which has resulted in a number of yucky things (both proposed and merged). Notably: - HW breakpoint PMU - ARM big.little PMU / Intel ADL PMU - Intel Branch Monitoring PMU - AMD IBS PMU - S390 cpum_cf PMU - PowerPC trace_imc PMU *Current design:* Currently we have a per task and per cpu perf_event_contexts: task_struct::perf_events_ctxp[] <-> perf_event_context <-> perf_cpu_context ^ | ^ | ^ `---------------------------------' | `--> pmu ---' v ^ perf_event ------' Each task has an array of pointers to a perf_event_context. Each perf_event_context has a direct relation to a PMU and a group of events for that PMU. The task related perf_event_context's have a pointer back to that task. Each PMU has a per-cpu pointer to a per-cpu perf_cpu_context, which includes a perf_event_context, which again has a direct relation to that PMU, and a group of events for that PMU. The perf_cpu_context also tracks which task context is currently associated with that CPU and includes a few other things like the hrtimer for rotation etc. Each perf_event is then associated with its PMU and one perf_event_context. *Proposed design:* New design proposed by this patch reduce to a single task context and a single CPU context but adds some intermediate data-structures: task_struct::perf_event_ctxp -> perf_event_context <- perf_cpu_context ^ | ^ ^ `---------------------------' | | | | perf_cpu_pmu_context <--. | `----. ^ | | | | | | v v | | ,--> perf_event_pmu_context | | | | | | | v v | perf_event ---> pmu ----------------' With the new design, perf_event_context will hold all events for all pmus in the (respective pinned/flexible) rbtrees. This can be achieved by adding pmu to rbtree key: {cpu, pmu, cgroup, group_index} Each perf_event_context carries a list of perf_event_pmu_context which is used to hold per-pmu-per-context state. For example, it keeps track of currently active events for that pmu, a pmu specific task_ctx_data, a flag to tell whether rotation is required or not etc. Additionally, perf_cpu_pmu_context is used to hold per-pmu-per-cpu state like hrtimer details to drive the event rotation, a pointer to perf_event_pmu_context of currently running task and some other ancillary information. Each perf_event is associated to it's pmu, perf_event_context and perf_event_pmu_context. Further optimizations to current implementation are possible. For example, ctx_resched() can be optimized to reschedule only single pmu events. Much thanks to Ravi for picking this up and pushing it towards completion. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Co-developed-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221008062424.313-1-ravi.bangoria@amd.com
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11-Oct-2022 |
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> |
mm: more vma cache removal Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y0WuE3Riv4iy5Jx8@localhost.localdomain Fixes: 7964cf8caa4d ("mm: remove vmacache") Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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15-Sep-2022 |
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> |
kmsan: add KMSAN runtime core For each memory location KernelMemorySanitizer maintains two types of metadata: 1. The so-called shadow of that location - а byte:byte mapping describing whether or not individual bits of memory are initialized (shadow is 0) or not (shadow is 1). 2. The origins of that location - а 4-byte:4-byte mapping containing 4-byte IDs of the stack traces where uninitialized values were created. Each struct page now contains pointers to two struct pages holding KMSAN metadata (shadow and origins) for the original struct page. Utility routines in mm/kmsan/core.c and mm/kmsan/shadow.c handle the metadata creation, addressing, copying and checking. mm/kmsan/report.c performs error reporting in the cases an uninitialized value is used in a way that leads to undefined behavior. KMSAN compiler instrumentation is responsible for tracking the metadata along with the kernel memory. mm/kmsan/instrumentation.c provides the implementation for instrumentation hooks that are called from files compiled with -fsanitize=kernel-memory. To aid parameter passing (also done at instrumentation level), each task_struct now contains a struct kmsan_task_state used to track the metadata of function parameters and return values for that task. Finally, this patch provides CONFIG_KMSAN that enables KMSAN, and declares CFLAGS_KMSAN, which are applied to files compiled with KMSAN. The KMSAN_SANITIZE:=n Makefile directive can be used to completely disable KMSAN instrumentation for certain files. Similarly, KMSAN_ENABLE_CHECKS:=n disables KMSAN checks and makes newly created stack memory initialized. Users can also use functions from include/linux/kmsan-checks.h to mark certain memory regions as uninitialized or initialized (this is called "poisoning" and "unpoisoning") or check that a particular region is initialized. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220915150417.722975-12-glider@google.com Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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23-Sep-2022 |
Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@huawei.com> |
ftrace: Remove obsoleted code from ftrace and task_struct The trace of "struct task_struct" was no longer used since commit 345ddcc882d8 ("ftrace: Have set_ftrace_pid use the bitmap like events do"), and the functions about flags for current->trace is useless, so remove them. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220923090012.505990-1-cuigaosheng1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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06-Sep-2022 |
Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> |
mm: remove vmacache By using the maple tree and the maple tree state, the vmacache is no longer beneficial and is complicating the VMA code. Remove the vmacache to reduce the work in keeping it up to date and code complexity. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-26-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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18-Sep-2022 |
Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> |
mm: multi-gen LRU: groundwork Evictable pages are divided into multiple generations for each lruvec. The youngest generation number is stored in lrugen->max_seq for both anon and file types as they are aged on an equal footing. The oldest generation numbers are stored in lrugen->min_seq[] separately for anon and file types as clean file pages can be evicted regardless of swap constraints. These three variables are monotonically increasing. Generation numbers are truncated into order_base_2(MAX_NR_GENS+1) bits in order to fit into the gen counter in folio->flags. Each truncated generation number is an index to lrugen->lists[]. The sliding window technique is used to track at least MIN_NR_GENS and at most MAX_NR_GENS generations. The gen counter stores a value within [1, MAX_NR_GENS] while a page is on one of lrugen->lists[]. Otherwise it stores 0. There are two conceptually independent procedures: "the aging", which produces young generations, and "the eviction", which consumes old generations. They form a closed-loop system, i.e., "the page reclaim". Both procedures can be invoked from userspace for the purposes of working set estimation and proactive reclaim. These techniques are commonly used to optimize job scheduling (bin packing) in data centers [1][2]. To avoid confusion, the terms "hot" and "cold" will be applied to the multi-gen LRU, as a new convention; the terms "active" and "inactive" will be applied to the active/inactive LRU, as usual. The protection of hot pages and the selection of cold pages are based on page access channels and patterns. There are two access channels: one through page tables and the other through file descriptors. The protection of the former channel is by design stronger because: 1. The uncertainty in determining the access patterns of the former channel is higher due to the approximation of the accessed bit. 2. The cost of evicting the former channel is higher due to the TLB flushes required and the likelihood of encountering the dirty bit. 3. The penalty of underprotecting the former channel is higher because applications usually do not prepare themselves for major page faults like they do for blocked I/O. E.g., GUI applications commonly use dedicated I/O threads to avoid blocking rendering threads. There are also two access patterns: one with temporal locality and the other without. For the reasons listed above, the former channel is assumed to follow the former pattern unless VM_SEQ_READ or VM_RAND_READ is present; the latter channel is assumed to follow the latter pattern unless outlying refaults have been observed [3][4]. The next patch will address the "outlying refaults". Three macros, i.e., LRU_REFS_WIDTH, LRU_REFS_PGOFF and LRU_REFS_MASK, used later are added in this patch to make the entire patchset less diffy. A page is added to the youngest generation on faulting. The aging needs to check the accessed bit at least twice before handing this page over to the eviction. The first check takes care of the accessed bit set on the initial fault; the second check makes sure this page has not been used since then. This protocol, AKA second chance, requires a minimum of two generations, hence MIN_NR_GENS. [1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3297858.3304053 [2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3503222.3507731 [3] https://lwn.net/Articles/495543/ [4] https://lwn.net/Articles/815342/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220918080010.2920238-6-yuzhao@google.com Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Acked-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com> Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org> Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name> Acked-by: Steven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net> Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Tested-by: Daniel Byrne <djbyrne@mtu.edu> Tested-by: Donald Carr <d@chaos-reins.com> Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com> Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru> Tested-by: Shuang Zhai <szhai2@cs.rochester.edu> Tested-by: Sofia Trinh <sofia.trinh@edi.works> Tested-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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15-Aug-2022 |
Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> |
delayacct: support re-entrance detection of thrashing accounting Once upon a time, we only support accounting thrashing of page cache. Then Joonsoo introduced workingset detection for anonymous pages and we gained the ability to account thrashing of them[1]. For page cache thrashing accounting, there is no suitable place to do it in fs level likes swap_readpage(). So we have to do it in folio_wait_bit_common(). Then for anonymous pages thrashing accounting, we have to do it in both swap_readpage() and folio_wait_bit_common(). This likes PSI, so we should let thrashing accounting supports re-entrance detection. This patch is to prepare complete thrashing accounting, and is based on patch "filemap: make the accounting of thrashing more consistent". [1] commit aae466b0052e ("mm/swap: implement workingset detection for anonymous LRU") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220815071134.74551-1-yang.yang29@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: CGEL ZTE <cgel.zte@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: wangyong <wang.yong12@zte.com.cn> Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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06-Sep-2022 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Show PF_flag holes Put placeholders in PF_flag so we can see how holey it is. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YxctoffFFPXONESt@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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22-Aug-2022 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic Rewrite the core freezer to behave better wrt thawing and be simpler in general. By replacing PF_FROZEN with TASK_FROZEN, a special block state, it is ensured frozen tasks stay frozen until thawed and don't randomly wake up early, as is currently possible. As such, it does away with PF_FROZEN and PF_FREEZER_SKIP, freeing up two PF_flags (yay!). Specifically; the current scheme works a little like: freezer_do_not_count(); schedule(); freezer_count(); And either the task is blocked, or it lands in try_to_freezer() through freezer_count(). Now, when it is blocked, the freezer considers it frozen and continues. However, on thawing, once pm_freezing is cleared, freezer_count() stops working, and any random/spurious wakeup will let a task run before its time. That is, thawing tries to thaw things in explicit order; kernel threads and workqueues before doing bringing SMP back before userspace etc.. However due to the above mentioned races it is entirely possible for userspace tasks to thaw (by accident) before SMP is back. This can be a fatal problem in asymmetric ISA architectures (eg ARMv9) where the userspace task requires a special CPU to run. As said; replace this with a special task state TASK_FROZEN and add the following state transitions: TASK_FREEZABLE -> TASK_FROZEN __TASK_STOPPED -> TASK_FROZEN __TASK_TRACED -> TASK_FROZEN The new TASK_FREEZABLE can be set on any state part of TASK_NORMAL (IOW. TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE and TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) -- any such state is already required to deal with spurious wakeups and the freezer causes one such when thawing the task (since the original state is lost). The special __TASK_{STOPPED,TRACED} states *can* be restored since their canonical state is in ->jobctl. With this, frozen tasks need an explicit TASK_FROZEN wakeup and are free of undue (early / spurious) wakeups. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220822114649.055452969@infradead.org
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06-Sep-2022 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Widen TAKS_state literals In preparation of adding more states, add a few 0s to the literals as we've just about ran out. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
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05-Sep-2022 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Add TASK_ANY for wait_task_inactive() Now that wait_task_inactive()'s @match_state argument is a mask (like ttwu()) it is possible to replace the special !match_state case with an 'all-states' value such that any blocked state will match. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar (mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YxhkzfuFTvRnpUaH@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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16-Aug-2022 |
Dylan Yudaken <dylany@fb.com> |
eventfd: guard wake_up in eventfd fs calls as well Guard wakeups that the user can trigger, and that may end up triggering a call back into eventfd_signal. This is in addition to the current approach that only guards in eventfd_signal. Rename in_eventfd_signal -> in_eventfd at the same time to reflect this. Without this there would be a deadlock in the following code using libaio: int main() { struct io_context *ctx = NULL; struct iocb iocb; struct iocb *iocbs[] = { &iocb }; int evfd; uint64_t val = 1; evfd = eventfd(0, EFD_CLOEXEC); assert(!io_setup(2, &ctx)); io_prep_poll(&iocb, evfd, POLLIN); io_set_eventfd(&iocb, evfd); assert(1 == io_submit(ctx, 1, iocbs)); write(evfd, &val, 8); } Signed-off-by: Dylan Yudaken <dylany@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220816135959.1490641-1-dylany@fb.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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02-Aug-2022 |
Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> |
sched, cpuset: Fix dl_cpu_busy() panic due to empty cs->cpus_allowed With cgroup v2, the cpuset's cpus_allowed mask can be empty indicating that the cpuset will just use the effective CPUs of its parent. So cpuset_can_attach() can call task_can_attach() with an empty mask. This can lead to cpumask_any_and() returns nr_cpu_ids causing the call to dl_bw_of() to crash due to percpu value access of an out of bound CPU value. For example: [80468.182258] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffff8b6648b0 : [80468.191019] RIP: 0010:dl_cpu_busy+0x30/0x2b0 : [80468.207946] Call Trace: [80468.208947] cpuset_can_attach+0xa0/0x140 [80468.209953] cgroup_migrate_execute+0x8c/0x490 [80468.210931] cgroup_update_dfl_csses+0x254/0x270 [80468.211898] cgroup_subtree_control_write+0x322/0x400 [80468.212854] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x11c/0x1b0 [80468.213777] new_sync_write+0x11f/0x1b0 [80468.214689] vfs_write+0x1eb/0x280 [80468.215592] ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0 [80468.216463] do_syscall_64+0x5c/0x80 [80468.224287] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae Fix that by using effective_cpus instead. For cgroup v1, effective_cpus is the same as cpus_allowed. For v2, effective_cpus is the real cpumask to be used by tasks within the cpuset anyway. Also update task_can_attach()'s 2nd argument name to cs_effective_cpus to reflect the change. In addition, a check is added to task_can_attach() to guard against the possibility that cpumask_any_and() may return a value >= nr_cpu_ids. Fixes: 7f51412a415d ("sched/deadline: Fix bandwidth check/update when migrating tasks between exclusive cpusets") Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220803015451.2219567-1-longman@redhat.com
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29-Jul-2022 |
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> |
rv: Add Runtime Verification (RV) interface RV is a lightweight (yet rigorous) method that complements classical exhaustive verification techniques (such as model checking and theorem proving) with a more practical approach to complex systems. RV works by analyzing the trace of the system's actual execution, comparing it against a formal specification of the system behavior. RV can give precise information on the runtime behavior of the monitored system while enabling the reaction for unexpected events, avoiding, for example, the propagation of a failure on safety-critical systems. The development of this interface roots in the development of the paper: De Oliveira, Daniel Bristot; Cucinotta, Tommaso; De Oliveira, Romulo Silva. Efficient formal verification for the Linux kernel. In: International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods. Springer, Cham, 2019. p. 315-332. And: De Oliveira, Daniel Bristot. Automata-based formal analysis and verification of the real-time Linux kernel. PhD Thesis, 2020. The RV interface resembles the tracing/ interface on purpose. The current path for the RV interface is /sys/kernel/tracing/rv/. It presents these files: "available_monitors" - List the available monitors, one per line. For example: # cat available_monitors wip wwnr "enabled_monitors" - Lists the enabled monitors, one per line; - Writing to it enables a given monitor; - Writing a monitor name with a '!' prefix disables it; - Truncating the file disables all enabled monitors. For example: # cat enabled_monitors # echo wip > enabled_monitors # echo wwnr >> enabled_monitors # cat enabled_monitors wip wwnr # echo '!wip' >> enabled_monitors # cat enabled_monitors wwnr # echo > enabled_monitors # cat enabled_monitors # Note that more than one monitor can be enabled concurrently. "monitoring_on" - It is an on/off general switcher for monitoring. Note that it does not disable enabled monitors or detach events, but stop the per-entity monitors of monitoring the events received from the system. It resembles the "tracing_on" switcher. "monitors/" Each monitor will have its one directory inside "monitors/". There the monitor specific files will be presented. The "monitors/" directory resembles the "events" directory on tracefs. For example: # cd monitors/wip/ # ls desc enable # cat desc wakeup in preemptive per-cpu testing monitor. # cat enable 0 For further information, see the comments in the header of kernel/trace/rv/rv.c from this patch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a4bfe038f50cb047bfb343ad0e12b0e646ab308b.1659052063.git.bristot@kernel.org Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Gabriele Paoloni <gpaoloni@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Tao Zhou <tao.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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02-Jun-2022 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu-tasks: Eliminate RCU Tasks Trace IPIs to online CPUs Currently, the RCU Tasks Trace grace-period kthread IPIs each online CPU using smp_call_function_single() in order to track any tasks currently in RCU Tasks Trace read-side critical sections during which the corresponding task has neither blocked nor been preempted. These IPIs are annoying and are also not strictly necessary because any task that blocks or is preempted within its current RCU Tasks Trace read-side critical section will be tracked on one of the per-CPU rcu_tasks_percpu structure's ->rtp_blkd_tasks list. So the only time that this is a problem is if one of the CPUs runs through a long-duration RCU Tasks Trace read-side critical section without a context switch. Note that the task_call_func() function cannot help here because there is no safe way to identify the target task. Of course, the task_call_func() function will be very useful later, when processing the list of tasks, but it needs to know the task. This commit therefore creates a cpu_curr_snapshot() function that returns a pointer the task_struct structure of some task that happened to be running on the specified CPU more or less during the time that the cpu_curr_snapshot() function was executing. If there was no context switch during this time, this function will return a pointer to the task_struct structure of the task that was running throughout. If there was a context switch, then the outgoing task will be taken care of by RCU's context-switch hook, and the incoming task was either already taken care during some previous context switch, or it is not currently within an RCU Tasks Trace read-side critical section. And in this latter case, the grace period already started, so there is no need to wait on this task. This new cpu_curr_snapshot() function is invoked on each CPU early in the RCU Tasks Trace grace-period processing, and the resulting tasks are queued for later quiescent-state inspection. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
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16-May-2022 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu-tasks: Add data structures for lightweight grace periods This commit adds fields to task_struct and to rcu_tasks_percpu that will be used to avoid the task-list scan for RCU Tasks Trace grace periods, and also initializes these fields. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
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23-May-2022 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu-tasks: Merge state into .b.need_qs and atomically update This commit gets rid of the task_struct structure's ->trc_reader_checked field, making it instead be a bit within the task_struct structure's existing ->trc_reader_special.b.need_qs field. This commit also atomically loads, stores, and checks the resulting combination of the reader-checked and need-quiescent state flags. This will in turn allow significant simplification of the rcu_tasks_trace_postgp() function as well as elimination of the trc_n_readers_need_end counter in later commits. These changes will in turn simplify later elimination of the RCU Tasks Trace scan of the task list, which will make RCU Tasks Trace grace periods less CPU-intensive. [ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot feedback. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
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21-Jun-2022 |
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> |
sched, drivers: Remove max param from effective_cpu_util()/sched_cpu_util() effective_cpu_util() already has a `int cpu' parameter which allows to retrieve the CPU capacity scale factor (or maximum CPU capacity) inside this function via an arch_scale_cpu_capacity(cpu). A lot of code calling effective_cpu_util() (or the shim sched_cpu_util()) needs the maximum CPU capacity, i.e. it will call arch_scale_cpu_capacity() already. But not having to pass it into effective_cpu_util() will make the EAS wake-up code easier, especially when the maximum CPU capacity reduced by the thermal pressure is passed through the EAS wake-up functions. Due to the asymmetric CPU capacity support of arm/arm64 architectures, arch_scale_cpu_capacity(int cpu) is a per-CPU variable read access via per_cpu(cpu_scale, cpu) on such a system. On all other architectures it is a a compile-time constant (SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE). Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Tested-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220621090414.433602-4-vdonnefort@google.com
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03-May-2022 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched,signal,ptrace: Rework TASK_TRACED, TASK_STOPPED state Currently ptrace_stop() / do_signal_stop() rely on the special states TASK_TRACED and TASK_STOPPED resp. to keep unique state. That is, this state exists only in task->__state and nowhere else. There's two spots of bother with this: - PREEMPT_RT has task->saved_state which complicates matters, meaning task_is_{traced,stopped}() needs to check an additional variable. - An alternative freezer implementation that itself relies on a special TASK state would loose TASK_TRACED/TASK_STOPPED and will result in misbehaviour. As such, add additional state to task->jobctl to track this state outside of task->__state. NOTE: this doesn't actually fix anything yet, just adds extra state. --EWB * didn't add a unnecessary newline in signal.h * Update t->jobctl in signal_wake_up and ptrace_signal_wake_up instead of in signal_wake_up_state. This prevents the clearing of TASK_STOPPED and TASK_TRACED from getting lost. * Added warnings if JOBCTL_STOPPED or JOBCTL_TRACED are not cleared Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220421150654.757693825@infradead.org Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220505182645.497868-12-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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29-Apr-2022 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
ptrace: Don't change __state Stop playing with tsk->__state to remove TASK_WAKEKILL while a ptrace command is executing. Instead remove TASK_WAKEKILL from the definition of TASK_TRACED, and implement a new jobctl flag TASK_PTRACE_FROZEN. This new flag is set in jobctl_freeze_task and cleared when ptrace_stop is awoken or in jobctl_unfreeze_task (when ptrace_stop remains asleep). In signal_wake_up add __TASK_TRACED to state along with TASK_WAKEKILL when the wake up is for a fatal signal. Skip adding __TASK_TRACED when TASK_PTRACE_FROZEN is not set. This has the same effect as changing TASK_TRACED to __TASK_TRACED as all of the wake_ups that use TASK_KILLABLE go through signal_wake_up. Handle a ptrace_stop being called with a pending fatal signal. Previously it would have been handled by schedule simply failing to sleep. As TASK_WAKEKILL is no longer part of TASK_TRACED schedule will sleep with a fatal_signal_pending. The code in signal_wake_up guarantees that the code will be awaked by any fatal signal that codes after TASK_TRACED is set. Previously the __state value of __TASK_TRACED was changed to TASK_RUNNING when woken up or back to TASK_TRACED when the code was left in ptrace_stop. Now when woken up ptrace_stop now clears JOBCTL_PTRACE_FROZEN and when left sleeping ptrace_unfreezed_traced clears JOBCTL_PTRACE_FROZEN. Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220505182645.497868-10-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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13-Apr-2022 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched: Fix missing prototype warnings A W=1 build emits more than a dozen missing prototype warnings related to scheduler and scheduler specific includes. Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220413133024.249118058@linutronix.de
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28-Apr-2022 |
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> |
sched/fair: Remove sched_trace_*() helper functions We no longer need them as we can use DWARF debug info or BTF + pahole to re-generate the required structs to compile against them for a given kernel. This moves the burden of maintaining these helper functions to the module. https://github.com/qais-yousef/sched_tp Note that pahole v1.15 is required at least for using DWARF. And for BTF v1.23 which is not yet released will be required. There's alignment problem that will lead to crashes in earlier versions when used with BTF. We should have enough infrastructure to make these helper functions now obsolete, so remove them. [Rewrote commit message to reflect the new alternative] Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220428144338.479094-2-qais.yousef@arm.com
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10-Mar-2022 |
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> |
x86/split_lock: Make life miserable for split lockers In https://lore.kernel.org/all/87y22uujkm.ffs@tglx/ Thomas said: Its's simply wishful thinking that stuff gets fixed because of a WARN_ONCE(). This has never worked. The only thing which works is to make stuff fail hard or slow it down in a way which makes it annoying enough to users to complain. He was talking about WBINVD. But it made me think about how we use the split lock detection feature in Linux. Existing code has three options for applications: 1) Don't enable split lock detection (allow arbitrary split locks) 2) Warn once when a process uses split lock, but let the process keep running with split lock detection disabled 3) Kill process that use split locks Option 2 falls into the "wishful thinking" territory that Thomas warns does nothing. But option 3 might not be viable in a situation with legacy applications that need to run. Hence make option 2 much stricter to "slow it down in a way which makes it annoying". Primary reason for this change is to provide better quality of service to the rest of the applications running on the system. Internal testing shows that even with many processes splitting locks, performance for the rest of the system is much more responsive. The new "warn" mode operates like this. When an application tries to execute a bus lock the #AC handler. 1) Delays (interruptibly) 10 ms before moving to next step. 2) Blocks (interruptibly) until it can get the semaphore If interrupted, just return. Assume the signal will either kill the task, or direct execution away from the instruction that is trying to get the bus lock. 3) Disables split lock detection for the current core 4) Schedules a work queue to re-enable split lock detect in 2 jiffies 5) Returns The work queue that re-enables split lock detection also releases the semaphore. There is a corner case where a CPU may be taken offline while split lock detection is disabled. A CPU hotplug handler handles this case. Old behaviour was to only print the split lock warning on the first occurrence of a split lock from a task. Preserve that by adding a flag to the task structure that suppresses subsequent split lock messages from that task. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220310204854.31752-2-tony.luck@intel.com
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12-Nov-2021 |
Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> |
preempt/dynamic: Introduce preemption model accessors CONFIG_PREEMPT{_NONE, _VOLUNTARY} designate either: o The build-time preemption model when !PREEMPT_DYNAMIC o The default boot-time preemption model when PREEMPT_DYNAMIC IOW, using those on PREEMPT_DYNAMIC kernels is meaningless - the actual model could have been set to something else by the "preempt=foo" cmdline parameter. Same problem applies to CONFIG_PREEMPTION. Introduce a set of helpers to determine the actual preemption model used by the live kernel. Suggested-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211112185203.280040-3-valentin.schneider@arm.com
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21-Apr-2022 |
Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> |
oom_kill.c: futex: delay the OOM reaper to allow time for proper futex cleanup The pthread struct is allocated on PRIVATE|ANONYMOUS memory [1] which can be targeted by the oom reaper. This mapping is used to store the futex robust list head; the kernel does not keep a copy of the robust list and instead references a userspace address to maintain the robustness during a process death. A race can occur between exit_mm and the oom reaper that allows the oom reaper to free the memory of the futex robust list before the exit path has handled the futex death: CPU1 CPU2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- page_fault do_exit "signal" wake_oom_reaper oom_reaper oom_reap_task_mm (invalidates mm) exit_mm exit_mm_release futex_exit_release futex_cleanup exit_robust_list get_user (EFAULT- can't access memory) If the get_user EFAULT's, the kernel will be unable to recover the waiters on the robust_list, leaving userspace mutexes hung indefinitely. Delay the OOM reaper, allowing more time for the exit path to perform the futex cleanup. Reproducer: https://gitlab.com/jsavitz/oom_futex_reproducer Based on a patch by Michal Hocko. Link: https://elixir.bootlin.com/glibc/glibc-2.35/source/nptl/allocatestack.c#L370 [1] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220414144042.677008-1-npache@redhat.com Fixes: 212925802454 ("mm: oom: let oom_reap_task and exit_mmap run concurrently") Signed-off-by: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Co-developed-by: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Herton R. Krzesinski <herton@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com> Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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31-Mar-2022 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
Revert "signal, x86: Delay calling signals in atomic on RT enabled kernels" Revert commit bf9ad37dc8a. It needs to be better encapsulated and generalized. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
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15-Mar-2022 |
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> |
rethook: Add a generic return hook Add a return hook framework which hooks the function return. Most of the logic came from the kretprobe, but this is independent from kretprobe. Note that this is expected to be used with other function entry hooking feature, like ftrace, fprobe, adn kprobes. Eventually this will replace the kretprobe (e.g. kprobe + rethook = kretprobe), but at this moment, this is just an additional hook. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/164735285066.1084943.9259661137330166643.stgit@devnote2
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22-Mar-2022 |
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> |
mm/fs: delete PF_SWAPWRITE PF_SWAPWRITE has been redundant since v3.2 commit ee72886d8ed5 ("mm: vmscan: do not writeback filesystem pages in direct reclaim"). Coincidentally, NeilBrown's current patch "remove inode_congested()" deletes may_write_to_inode(), which appeared to be the one function which took notice of PF_SWAPWRITE. But if you study the old logic, and the conditions under which may_write_to_inode() was called, you discover that flag and function have been pointless for a decade. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/75e80e7-742d-e3bd-531-614db8961e4@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.de> Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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20-Jan-2022 |
Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> |
sched/tracing: Report TASK_RTLOCK_WAIT tasks as TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE TASK_RTLOCK_WAIT currently isn't part of TASK_REPORT, thus a task blocking on an rtlock will appear as having a task state == 0, IOW TASK_RUNNING. The actual state is saved in p->saved_state, but reading it after reading p->__state has a few issues: o that could still be TASK_RUNNING in the case of e.g. rt_spin_lock o ttwu_state_match() might have changed that to TASK_RUNNING As pointed out by Eric, adding TASK_RTLOCK_WAIT to TASK_REPORT implies exposing a new state to userspace tools which way not know what to do with them. The only information that needs to be conveyed here is that a task is waiting on an rt_mutex, which matches TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE - there's no need for a new state. Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220120162520.570782-3-valentin.schneider@arm.com
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20-Jan-2022 |
Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> |
sched/tracing: Don't re-read p->state when emitting sched_switch event As of commit c6e7bd7afaeb ("sched/core: Optimize ttwu() spinning on p->on_cpu") the following sequence becomes possible: p->__state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE; __schedule() deactivate_task(p); ttwu() READ !p->on_rq p->__state=TASK_WAKING trace_sched_switch() __trace_sched_switch_state() task_state_index() return 0; TASK_WAKING isn't in TASK_REPORT, so the task appears as TASK_RUNNING in the trace event. Prevent this by pushing the value read from __schedule() down the trace event. Reported-by: Abhijeet Dharmapurikar <adharmap@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220120162520.570782-2-valentin.schneider@arm.com
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14-Feb-2022 |
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> |
sched/preempt: Add PREEMPT_DYNAMIC using static keys Where an architecture selects HAVE_STATIC_CALL but not HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE, each static call has an out-of-line trampoline which will either branch to a callee or return to the caller. On such architectures, a number of constraints can conspire to make those trampolines more complicated and potentially less useful than we'd like. For example: * Hardware and software control flow integrity schemes can require the addition of "landing pad" instructions (e.g. `BTI` for arm64), which will also be present at the "real" callee. * Limited branch ranges can require that trampolines generate or load an address into a register and perform an indirect branch (or at least have a slow path that does so). This loses some of the benefits of having a direct branch. * Interaction with SW CFI schemes can be complicated and fragile, e.g. requiring that we can recognise idiomatic codegen and remove indirections understand, at least until clang proves more helpful mechanisms for dealing with this. For PREEMPT_DYNAMIC, we don't need the full power of static calls, as we really only need to enable/disable specific preemption functions. We can achieve the same effect without a number of the pain points above by using static keys to fold early returns into the preemption functions themselves rather than in an out-of-line trampoline, effectively inlining the trampoline into the start of the function. For arm64, this results in good code generation. For example, the dynamic_cond_resched() wrapper looks as follows when enabled. When disabled, the first `B` is replaced with a `NOP`, resulting in an early return. | <dynamic_cond_resched>: | bti c | b <dynamic_cond_resched+0x10> // or `nop` | mov w0, #0x0 | ret | mrs x0, sp_el0 | ldr x0, [x0, #8] | cbnz x0, <dynamic_cond_resched+0x8> | paciasp | stp x29, x30, [sp, #-16]! | mov x29, sp | bl <preempt_schedule_common> | mov w0, #0x1 | ldp x29, x30, [sp], #16 | autiasp | ret ... compared to the regular form of the function: | <__cond_resched>: | bti c | mrs x0, sp_el0 | ldr x1, [x0, #8] | cbz x1, <__cond_resched+0x18> | mov w0, #0x0 | ret | paciasp | stp x29, x30, [sp, #-16]! | mov x29, sp | bl <preempt_schedule_common> | mov w0, #0x1 | ldp x29, x30, [sp], #16 | autiasp | ret Any architecture which implements static keys should be able to use this to implement PREEMPT_DYNAMIC with similar cost to non-inlined static calls. Since this is likely to have greater overhead than (inlined) static calls, PREEMPT_DYNAMIC is only defaulted to enabled when HAVE_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC_CALL is selected. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220214165216.2231574-6-mark.rutland@arm.com
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14-Jul-2015 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
signal, x86: Delay calling signals in atomic on RT enabled kernels On x86_64 we must disable preemption before we enable interrupts for stack faults, int3 and debugging, because the current task is using a per CPU debug stack defined by the IST. If we schedule out, another task can come in and use the same stack and cause the stack to be corrupted and crash the kernel on return. When CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is enabled, spinlock_t locks become sleeping, and one of these is the spin lock used in signal handling. Some of the debug code (int3) causes do_trap() to send a signal. This function calls a spinlock_t lock that has been converted to a sleeping lock. If this happens, the above issues with the corrupted stack is possible. Instead of calling the signal right away, for PREEMPT_RT and x86, the signal information is stored on the stacks task_struct and TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME is set. Then on exit of the trap, the signal resume code will send the signal when preemption is enabled. [ rostedt: Switched from #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT to ARCH_RT_DELAYS_SIGNAL_SEND and added comments to the code. ] [bigeasy: Add on 32bit as per Yang Shi, minor rewording. ] [ tglx: Use a config option ] Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Ygq5aBB/qMQw6aP5@linutronix.de
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07-Feb-2022 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Define and initialize a flag to identify valid PASID in the task Add a new single bit field to the task structure to track whether this task has initialized the IA32_PASID MSR to the mm's PASID. Initialize the field to zero when creating a new task with fork/clone. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Co-developed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220207230254.3342514-8-fenghua.yu@intel.com
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27-Jan-2022 |
Igor Pylypiv <ipylypiv@google.com> |
Revert "module, async: async_synchronize_full() on module init iff async is used" This reverts commit 774a1221e862b343388347bac9b318767336b20b. We need to finish all async code before the module init sequence is done. In the reverted commit the PF_USED_ASYNC flag was added to mark a thread that called async_schedule(). Then the PF_USED_ASYNC flag was used to determine whether or not async_synchronize_full() needs to be invoked. This works when modprobe thread is calling async_schedule(), but it does not work if module dispatches init code to a worker thread which then calls async_schedule(). For example, PCI driver probing is invoked from a worker thread based on a node where device is attached: if (cpu < nr_cpu_ids) error = work_on_cpu(cpu, local_pci_probe, &ddi); else error = local_pci_probe(&ddi); We end up in a situation where a worker thread gets the PF_USED_ASYNC flag set instead of the modprobe thread. As a result, async_synchronize_full() is not invoked and modprobe completes without waiting for the async code to finish. The issue was discovered while loading the pm80xx driver: (scsi_mod.scan=async) modprobe pm80xx worker ... do_init_module() ... pci_call_probe() work_on_cpu(local_pci_probe) local_pci_probe() pm8001_pci_probe() scsi_scan_host() async_schedule() worker->flags |= PF_USED_ASYNC; ... < return from worker > ... if (current->flags & PF_USED_ASYNC) <--- false async_synchronize_full(); Commit 21c3c5d28007 ("block: don't request module during elevator init") fixed the deadlock issue which the reverted commit 774a1221e862 ("module, async: async_synchronize_full() on module init iff async is used") tried to fix. Since commit 0fdff3ec6d87 ("async, kmod: warn on synchronous request_module() from async workers") synchronous module loading from async is not allowed. Given that the original deadlock issue is fixed and it is no longer allowed to call synchronous request_module() from async we can remove PF_USED_ASYNC flag to make module init consistently invoke async_synchronize_full() unless async module probe is requested. Signed-off-by: Igor Pylypiv <ipylypiv@google.com> Reviewed-by: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com> Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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07-Jan-2022 |
Hui Su <suhui_kernel@163.com> |
kernel/sched: Remove dl_boosted flag comment since commit 2279f540ea7d ("sched/deadline: Fix priority inheritance with multiple scheduling classes"), we should not keep it here. Signed-off-by: Hui Su <suhui_kernel@163.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220107095254.GA49258@localhost.localdomain
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19-Jan-2022 |
Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> |
tools/testing/selftests/bpf: replace open-coded 16 with TASK_COMM_LEN As the sched:sched_switch tracepoint args are derived from the kernel, we'd better make it same with the kernel. So the macro TASK_COMM_LEN is converted to type enum, then all the BPF programs can get it through BTF. The BPF program which wants to use TASK_COMM_LEN should include the header vmlinux.h. Regarding the test_stacktrace_map and test_tracepoint, as the type defined in linux/bpf.h are also defined in vmlinux.h, so we don't need to include linux/bpf.h again. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211120112738.45980-8-laoar.shao@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Miroslaw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> Cc: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@cornelisnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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22-Dec-2021 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
kthread: Generalize pf_io_worker so it can point to struct kthread The point of using set_child_tid to hold the kthread pointer was that it already did what is necessary. There are now restrictions on when set_child_tid can be initialized and when set_child_tid can be used in schedule_tail. Which indicates that continuing to use set_child_tid to hold the kthread pointer is a bad idea. Instead of continuing to use the set_child_tid field of task_struct generalize the pf_io_worker field of task_struct and use it to hold the kthread pointer. Rename pf_io_worker (which is a void * pointer) to worker_private so it can be used to store kthreads struct kthread pointer. Update the kthread code to store the kthread pointer in the worker_private field. Remove the places where set_child_tid had to be dealt with carefully because kthreads also used it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgtFAA9SbVYg0gR1tqPMC17-NYcs0GQkaYg1bGhh1uJQQ@mail.gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87a6grvqy8.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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05-Aug-2021 |
Marco Elver <elver@google.com> |
kcsan: Add core support for a subset of weak memory modeling Add support for modeling a subset of weak memory, which will enable detection of a subset of data races due to missing memory barriers. KCSAN's approach to detecting missing memory barriers is based on modeling access reordering, and enabled if `CONFIG_KCSAN_WEAK_MEMORY=y`, which depends on `CONFIG_KCSAN_STRICT=y`. The feature can be enabled or disabled at boot and runtime via the `kcsan.weak_memory` boot parameter. Each memory access for which a watchpoint is set up, is also selected for simulated reordering within the scope of its function (at most 1 in-flight access). We are limited to modeling the effects of "buffering" (delaying the access), since the runtime cannot "prefetch" accesses (therefore no acquire modeling). Once an access has been selected for reordering, it is checked along every other access until the end of the function scope. If an appropriate memory barrier is encountered, the access will no longer be considered for reordering. When the result of a memory operation should be ordered by a barrier, KCSAN can then detect data races where the conflict only occurs as a result of a missing barrier due to reordering accesses. Suggested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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03-Dec-2021 |
Marco Elver <elver@google.com> |
locking: Mark racy reads of owner->on_cpu One of the more frequent data races reported by KCSAN is the racy read in mutex_spin_on_owner(), which is usually reported as "race of unknown origin" without showing the writer. This is due to the racing write occurring in kernel/sched. Locally enabling KCSAN in kernel/sched shows: | write (marked) to 0xffff97f205079934 of 4 bytes by task 316 on cpu 6: | finish_task kernel/sched/core.c:4632 [inline] | finish_task_switch kernel/sched/core.c:4848 | context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:4975 [inline] | __schedule kernel/sched/core.c:6253 | schedule kernel/sched/core.c:6326 | schedule_preempt_disabled kernel/sched/core.c:6385 | __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:680 | __mutex_lock kernel/locking/mutex.c:740 [inline] | __mutex_lock_slowpath kernel/locking/mutex.c:1028 | mutex_lock kernel/locking/mutex.c:283 | tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2062 [inline] | ... | | read to 0xffff97f205079934 of 4 bytes by task 322 on cpu 3: | mutex_spin_on_owner kernel/locking/mutex.c:370 | mutex_optimistic_spin kernel/locking/mutex.c:480 | __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:610 | __mutex_lock kernel/locking/mutex.c:740 [inline] | __mutex_lock_slowpath kernel/locking/mutex.c:1028 | mutex_lock kernel/locking/mutex.c:283 | tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2062 [inline] | ... | | value changed: 0x00000001 -> 0x00000000 This race is clearly intentional, and the potential for miscompilation is slim due to surrounding barrier() and cpu_relax(), and the value being used as a boolean. Nevertheless, marking this reader would more clearly denote intent and make it obvious that concurrency is expected. Use READ_ONCE() to avoid having to reason about compiler optimizations now and in future. With previous refactor, mark the read to owner->on_cpu in owner_on_cpu(), which immediately precedes the loop executing mutex_spin_on_owner(). Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211203075935.136808-3-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
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03-Dec-2021 |
Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> |
locking: Make owner_on_cpu() into <linux/sched.h> Move the owner_on_cpu() from kernel/locking/rwsem.c into include/linux/sched.h with under CONFIG_SMP, then use it in the mutex/rwsem/rtmutex to simplify the code. Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211203075935.136808-2-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
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18-Oct-2021 |
Josh Don <joshdon@google.com> |
sched/core: Forced idle accounting Adds accounting for "forced idle" time, which is time where a cookie'd task forces its SMT sibling to idle, despite the presence of runnable tasks. Forced idle time is one means to measure the cost of enabling core scheduling (ie. the capacity lost due to the need to force idle). Forced idle time is attributed to the thread responsible for causing the forced idle. A few details: - Forced idle time is displayed via /proc/PID/sched. It also requires that schedstats is enabled. - Forced idle is only accounted when a sibling hyperthread is held idle despite the presence of runnable tasks. No time is charged if a sibling is idle but has no runnable tasks. - Tasks with 0 cookie are never charged forced idle. - For SMT > 2, we scale the amount of forced idle charged based on the number of forced idle siblings. Additionally, we split the time up and evenly charge it to all running tasks, as each is equally responsible for the forced idle. Signed-off-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211018203428.2025792-1-joshdon@google.com
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01-Sep-2021 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
coredump: Don't perform any cleanups before dumping core Rename coredump_exit_mm to coredump_task_exit and call it from do_exit before PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT, and before any cleanup work for a task happens. This ensures that an accurate copy of the process can be captured in the coredump as no cleanup for the process happens before the coredump completes. This also ensures that PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT will not be visited by any thread until the coredump is complete. Add a new flag PF_POSTCOREDUMP so that tasks that have passed through coredump_task_exit can be recognized and ignored in zap_process. Now that all of the coredumping happens before exit_mm remove code to test for a coredump in progress from mm_release. Replace "may_ptrace_stop()" with a simple test of "current->ptrace". The other tests in may_ptrace_stop all concern avoiding stopping during a coredump. These tests are no longer necessary as it is now guaranteed that fatal_signal_pending will be set if the code enters ptrace_stop during a coredump. The code in ptrace_stop is guaranteed not to stop if fatal_signal_pending returns true. Until this change "ptrace_event(PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT)" could call ptrace_stop without fatal_signal_pending being true, as signals are dequeued in get_signal before calling do_exit. This is no longer an issue as "ptrace_event(PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT)" is no longer reached until after the coredump completes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/874kaax26c.fsf@disp2133 Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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22-Oct-2021 |
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> |
sched: make task_struct->plug always defined If CONFIG_BLOCK isn't set, then it's an empty struct anyway. Just make it generally available, so we don't break the compile: kernel/sched/core.c: In function ‘sched_submit_work’: kernel/sched/core.c:6346:35: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘plug’ 6346 | blk_flush_plug(tsk->plug, true); | ^~ kernel/sched/core.c: In function ‘io_schedule_prepare’: kernel/sched/core.c:8357:20: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘plug’ 8357 | if (current->plug) | ^~ kernel/sched/core.c:8358:39: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘plug’ 8358 | blk_flush_plug(current->plug, true); | ^~ Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Fixes: 008f75a20e70 ("block: cleanup the flush plug helpers") Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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29-Sep-2021 |
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> |
sched: Add wrapper for get_wchan() to keep task blocked Having a stable wchan means the process must be blocked and for it to stay that way while performing stack unwinding. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> [arm] Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> [arm64] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211008111626.332092234@infradead.org
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23-Sep-2021 |
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> |
sched: Fill unconditional hole induced by sched_entity With struct sched_entity before the other sched entities, its alignment won't induce a struct hole. This saves 64 bytes in defconfig task_struct: Before: ... unsigned int rt_priority; /* 120 4 */ /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */ /* --- cacheline 2 boundary (128 bytes) --- */ const struct sched_class * sched_class; /* 128 8 */ /* XXX 56 bytes hole, try to pack */ /* --- cacheline 3 boundary (192 bytes) --- */ struct sched_entity se __attribute__((__aligned__(64))); /* 192 448 */ /* --- cacheline 10 boundary (640 bytes) --- */ struct sched_rt_entity rt; /* 640 48 */ struct sched_dl_entity dl __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); /* 688 224 */ /* --- cacheline 14 boundary (896 bytes) was 16 bytes ago --- */ After: ... unsigned int rt_priority; /* 120 4 */ /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */ /* --- cacheline 2 boundary (128 bytes) --- */ struct sched_entity se __attribute__((__aligned__(64))); /* 128 448 */ /* --- cacheline 9 boundary (576 bytes) --- */ struct sched_rt_entity rt; /* 576 48 */ struct sched_dl_entity dl __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); /* 624 224 */ /* --- cacheline 13 boundary (832 bytes) was 16 bytes ago --- */ Summary diff: - /* size: 7040, cachelines: 110, members: 188 */ + /* size: 6976, cachelines: 109, members: 188 */ Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210924025450.4138503-1-keescook@chromium.org
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05-Sep-2021 |
Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> |
sched: Introduce task block time in schedstats Currently in schedstats we have sum_sleep_runtime and iowait_sum, but there's no metric to show how long the task is in D state. Once a task in D state, it means the task is blocked in the kernel, for example the task may be waiting for a mutex. The D state is more frequent than iowait, and it is more critital than S state. So it is worth to add a metric to measure it. Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210905143547.4668-5-laoar.shao@gmail.com
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05-Sep-2021 |
Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> |
sched: Make struct sched_statistics independent of fair sched class If we want to use the schedstats facility to trace other sched classes, we should make it independent of fair sched class. The struct sched_statistics is the schedular statistics of a task_struct or a task_group. So we can move it into struct task_struct and struct task_group to achieve the goal. After the patch, schestats are orgnized as follows, struct task_struct { ... struct sched_entity se; struct sched_rt_entity rt; struct sched_dl_entity dl; ... struct sched_statistics stats; ... }; Regarding the task group, schedstats is only supported for fair group sched, and a new struct sched_entity_stats is introduced, suggested by Peter - struct sched_entity_stats { struct sched_entity se; struct sched_statistics stats; } __no_randomize_layout; Then with the se in a task_group, we can easily get the stats. The sched_statistics members may be frequently modified when schedstats is enabled, in order to avoid impacting on random data which may in the same cacheline with them, the struct sched_statistics is defined as cacheline aligned. As this patch changes the core struct of scheduler, so I verified the performance it may impact on the scheduler with 'perf bench sched pipe', suggested by Mel. Below is the result, in which all the values are in usecs/op. Before After kernel.sched_schedstats=0 5.2~5.4 5.2~5.4 kernel.sched_schedstats=1 5.3~5.5 5.3~5.5 [These data is a little difference with the earlier version, that is because my old test machine is destroyed so I have to use a new different test machine.] Almost no impact on the sched performance. No functional change. [lkp@intel.com: reported build failure in earlier version] Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210905143547.4668-3-laoar.shao@gmail.com
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23-Sep-2021 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched: Make cond_resched_lock() variants RT aware The __might_resched() checks in the cond_resched_lock() variants use PREEMPT_LOCK_OFFSET for preempt count offset checking which takes the preemption disable by the spin_lock() which is still held at that point into account. On PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels spin/rw_lock held sections stay preemptible which means PREEMPT_LOCK_OFFSET is 0, but that still triggers the __might_resched() check because that takes RCU read side nesting into account. On RT enabled kernels spin/read/write_lock() issue rcu_read_lock() to resemble the !RT semantics, which means in cond_resched_lock() the might resched check will see preempt_count() == 0 and rcu_preempt_depth() == 1. Introduce PREEMPT_LOCK_SCHED_OFFSET for those might resched checks and map them depending on CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210923165358.305969211@linutronix.de
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23-Sep-2021 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched: Make RCU nest depth distinct in __might_resched() For !RT kernels RCU nest depth in __might_resched() is always expected to be 0, but on RT kernels it can be non zero while the preempt count is expected to be always 0. Instead of playing magic games in interpreting the 'preempt_offset' argument, rename it to 'offsets' and use the lower 8 bits for the expected preempt count, allow to hand in the expected RCU nest depth in the upper bits and adopt the __might_resched() code and related checks and printks. The affected call sites are updated in subsequent steps. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210923165358.243232823@linutronix.de
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23-Sep-2021 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched: Make cond_resched_*lock() variants consistent vs. might_sleep() Commit 3427445afd26 ("sched: Exclude cond_resched() from nested sleep test") removed the task state check of __might_sleep() for cond_resched_lock() because cond_resched_lock() is not a voluntary scheduling point which blocks. It's a preemption point which requires the lock holder to release the spin lock. The same rationale applies to cond_resched_rwlock_read/write(), but those were not touched. Make it consistent and use the non-state checking __might_resched() there as well. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210923165357.991262778@linutronix.de
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23-Sep-2021 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched: Clean up the might_sleep() underscore zoo __might_sleep() vs. ___might_sleep() is hard to distinguish. Aside of that the three underscore variant is exposed to provide a checkpoint for rescheduling points which are distinct from blocking points. They are semantically a preemption point which means that scheduling is state preserving. A real blocking operation, e.g. mutex_lock(), wait*(), which cannot preserve a task state which is not equal to RUNNING. While technically blocking on a "sleeping" spinlock in RT enabled kernels falls into the voluntary scheduling category because it has to wait until the contended spin/rw lock becomes available, the RT lock substitution code can semantically be mapped to a voluntary preemption because the RT lock substitution code and the scheduler are providing mechanisms to preserve the task state and to take regular non-lock related wakeups into account. Rename ___might_sleep() to __might_resched() to make the distinction of these functions clear. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210923165357.928693482@linutronix.de
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14-Sep-2021 |
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> |
sched: move CPU field back into thread_info if THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK=y THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK moved the CPU field out of thread_info, but this causes some issues on architectures that define raw_smp_processor_id() in terms of this field, due to the fact that #include'ing linux/sched.h to get at struct task_struct is problematic in terms of circular dependencies. Given that thread_info and task_struct are the same data structure anyway when THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK=y, let's move it back so that having access to the type definition of struct thread_info is sufficient to reference the CPU number of the current task. Note that this requires THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK's definition of the task_thread_info() helper to be updated, as task_cpu() takes a pointer-to-const, whereas task_thread_info() (which is used to generate lvalues as well), needs a non-const pointer. So make it a macro instead. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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20-Sep-2021 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Always inline is_percpu_thread() vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: check_preemption_disabled()+0x81: call to is_percpu_thread() leaves .noinstr.text section Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210928084218.063371959@infradead.org
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13-Sep-2021 |
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> |
x86/mce: Avoid infinite loop for copy from user recovery There are two cases for machine check recovery: 1) The machine check was triggered by ring3 (application) code. This is the simpler case. The machine check handler simply queues work to be executed on return to user. That code unmaps the page from all users and arranges to send a SIGBUS to the task that triggered the poison. 2) The machine check was triggered in kernel code that is covered by an exception table entry. In this case the machine check handler still queues a work entry to unmap the page, etc. but this will not be called right away because the #MC handler returns to the fix up code address in the exception table entry. Problems occur if the kernel triggers another machine check before the return to user processes the first queued work item. Specifically, the work is queued using the ->mce_kill_me callback structure in the task struct for the current thread. Attempting to queue a second work item using this same callback results in a loop in the linked list of work functions to call. So when the kernel does return to user, it enters an infinite loop processing the same entry for ever. There are some legitimate scenarios where the kernel may take a second machine check before returning to the user. 1) Some code (e.g. futex) first tries a get_user() with page faults disabled. If this fails, the code retries with page faults enabled expecting that this will resolve the page fault. 2) Copy from user code retries a copy in byte-at-time mode to check whether any additional bytes can be copied. On the other side of the fence are some bad drivers that do not check the return value from individual get_user() calls and may access multiple user addresses without noticing that some/all calls have failed. Fix by adding a counter (current->mce_count) to keep track of repeated machine checks before task_work() is called. First machine check saves the address information and calls task_work_add(). Subsequent machine checks before that task_work call back is executed check that the address is in the same page as the first machine check (since the callback will offline exactly one page). Expected worst case is four machine checks before moving on (e.g. one user access with page faults disabled, then a repeat to the same address with page faults enabled ... repeat in copy tail bytes). Just in case there is some code that loops forever enforce a limit of 10. [ bp: Massage commit message, drop noinstr, fix typo, extend panic messages. ] Fixes: 5567d11c21a1 ("x86/mce: Send #MC singal from task work") Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YT/IJ9ziLqmtqEPu@agluck-desk2.amr.corp.intel.com
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12-Jul-2021 |
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> |
bpf: Add ambient BPF runtime context stored in current b910eaaaa4b8 ("bpf: Fix NULL pointer dereference in bpf_get_local_storage() helper") fixed the problem with cgroup-local storage use in BPF by pre-allocating per-CPU array of 8 cgroup storage pointers to accommodate possible BPF program preemptions and nested executions. While this seems to work good in practice, it introduces new and unnecessary failure mode in which not all BPF programs might be executed if we fail to find an unused slot for cgroup storage, however unlikely it is. It might also not be so unlikely when/if we allow sleepable cgroup BPF programs in the future. Further, the way that cgroup storage is implemented as ambiently-available property during entire BPF program execution is a convenient way to pass extra information to BPF program and helpers without requiring user code to pass around extra arguments explicitly. So it would be good to have a generic solution that can allow implementing this without arbitrary restrictions. Ideally, such solution would work for both preemptable and sleepable BPF programs in exactly the same way. This patch introduces such solution, bpf_run_ctx. It adds one pointer field (bpf_ctx) to task_struct. This field is maintained by BPF_PROG_RUN family of macros in such a way that it always stays valid throughout BPF program execution. BPF program preemption is handled by remembering previous current->bpf_ctx value locally while executing nested BPF program and restoring old value after nested BPF program finishes. This is handled by two helper functions, bpf_set_run_ctx() and bpf_reset_run_ctx(), which are supposed to be used before and after BPF program runs, respectively. Restoring old value of the pointer handles preemption, while bpf_run_ctx pointer being a property of current task_struct naturally solves this problem for sleepable BPF programs by "following" BPF program execution as it is scheduled in and out of CPU. It would even allow CPU migration of BPF programs, even though it's not currently allowed by BPF infra. This patch cleans up cgroup local storage handling as a first application. The design itself is generic, though, with bpf_run_ctx being an empty struct that is supposed to be embedded into a specific struct for a given BPF program type (bpf_cg_run_ctx in this case). Follow up patches are planned that will expand this mechanism for other uses within tracing BPF programs. To verify that this change doesn't revert the fix to the original cgroup storage issue, I ran the same repro as in the original report ([0]) and didn't get any problems. Replacing bpf_reset_run_ctx(old_run_ctx) with bpf_reset_run_ctx(NULL) triggers the issue pretty quickly (so repro does work). [0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/YEEvBUiJl2pJkxTd@krava/ Fixes: b910eaaaa4b8 ("bpf: Fix NULL pointer dereference in bpf_get_local_storage() helper") Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210712230615.3525979-1-andrii@kernel.org
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29-Jul-2021 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
eventfd: Make signal recursion protection a task bit The recursion protection for eventfd_signal() is based on a per CPU variable and relies on the !RT semantics of spin_lock_irqsave() for protecting this per CPU variable. On RT kernels spin_lock_irqsave() neither disables preemption nor interrupts which allows the spin lock held section to be preempted. If the preempting task invokes eventfd_signal() as well, then the recursion warning triggers. Paolo suggested to protect the per CPU variable with a local lock, but that's heavyweight and actually not necessary. The goal of this protection is to prevent the task stack from overflowing, which can be achieved with a per task recursion protection as well. Replace the per CPU variable with a per task bit similar to other recursion protection bits like task_struct::in_page_owner. This works on both !RT and RT kernels and removes as a side effect the extra per CPU storage. No functional change for !RT kernels. Reported-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87wnp9idso.ffs@tglx
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29-Jul-2021 |
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> |
sched: Introduce dl_task_check_affinity() to check proposed affinity In preparation for restricting the affinity of a task during execve() on arm64, introduce a new dl_task_check_affinity() helper function to give an indication as to whether the restricted mask is admissible for a deadline task. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730112443.23245-10-will@kernel.org
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29-Jul-2021 |
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> |
sched: Allow task CPU affinity to be restricted on asymmetric systems Asymmetric systems may not offer the same level of userspace ISA support across all CPUs, meaning that some applications cannot be executed by some CPUs. As a concrete example, upcoming arm64 big.LITTLE designs do not feature support for 32-bit applications on both clusters. Although userspace can carefully manage the affinity masks for such tasks, one place where it is particularly problematic is execve() because the CPU on which the execve() is occurring may be incompatible with the new application image. In such a situation, it is desirable to restrict the affinity mask of the task and ensure that the new image is entered on a compatible CPU. From userspace's point of view, this looks the same as if the incompatible CPUs have been hotplugged off in the task's affinity mask. Similarly, if a subsequent execve() reverts to a compatible image, then the old affinity is restored if it is still valid. In preparation for restricting the affinity mask for compat tasks on arm64 systems without uniform support for 32-bit applications, introduce {force,relax}_compatible_cpus_allowed_ptr(), which respectively restrict and restore the affinity mask for a task based on the compatible CPUs. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730112443.23245-9-will@kernel.org
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29-Jul-2021 |
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> |
sched: Introduce task_struct::user_cpus_ptr to track requested affinity In preparation for saving and restoring the user-requested CPU affinity mask of a task, add a new cpumask_t pointer to 'struct task_struct'. If the pointer is non-NULL, then the mask is copied across fork() and freed on task exit. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <Valentin.Schneider@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730112443.23245-7-will@kernel.org
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15-Aug-2021 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched/core: Provide a scheduling point for RT locks RT enabled kernels substitute spin/rwlocks with 'sleeping' variants based on rtmutexes. Blocking on such a lock is similar to preemption versus: - I/O scheduling and worker handling, because these functions might block on another substituted lock, or come from a lock contention within these functions. - RCU considers this like a preemption, because the task might be in a read side critical section. Add a separate scheduling point for this, and hand a new scheduling mode argument to __schedule() which allows, along with separate mode masks, to handle this gracefully from within the scheduler, without proliferating that to other subsystems like RCU. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210815211302.372319055@linutronix.de
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15-Aug-2021 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched/wakeup: Prepare for RT sleeping spin/rwlocks Waiting for spinlocks and rwlocks on non RT enabled kernels is task::state preserving. Any wakeup which matches the state is valid. RT enabled kernels substitutes them with 'sleeping' spinlocks. This creates an issue vs. task::__state. In order to block on the lock, the task has to overwrite task::__state and a consecutive wakeup issued by the unlocker sets the state back to TASK_RUNNING. As a consequence the task loses the state which was set before the lock acquire and also any regular wakeup targeted at the task while it is blocked on the lock. To handle this gracefully, add a 'saved_state' member to task_struct which is used in the following way: 1) When a task blocks on a 'sleeping' spinlock, the current state is saved in task::saved_state before it is set to TASK_RTLOCK_WAIT. 2) When the task unblocks and after acquiring the lock, it restores the saved state. 3) When a regular wakeup happens for a task while it is blocked then the state change of that wakeup is redirected to operate on task::saved_state. This is also required when the task state is running because the task might have been woken up from the lock wait and has not yet restored the saved state. To make it complete, provide the necessary helpers to save and restore the saved state along with the necessary documentation how the RT lock blocking is supposed to work. For non-RT kernels there is no functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210815211302.258751046@linutronix.de
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15-Aug-2021 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched/wakeup: Reorganize the current::__state helpers In order to avoid more duplicate implementations for the debug and non-debug variants of the state change macros, split the debug portion out and make that conditional on CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y. Suggested-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210815211302.200898048@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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15-Aug-2021 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched/wakeup: Introduce the TASK_RTLOCK_WAIT state bit RT kernels have an extra quirk for try_to_wake_up() to handle task state preservation across periods of blocking on a 'sleeping' spin/rwlock. For this to function correctly and under all circumstances try_to_wake_up() must be able to identify whether the wakeup is lock related or not and whether the task is waiting for a lock or not. The original approach was to use a special wake_flag argument for try_to_wake_up() and just use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE for the tasks wait state and the try_to_wake_up() state argument. This works in principle, but due to the fact that try_to_wake_up() cannot determine whether the task is waiting for an RT lock wakeup or for a regular wakeup it's suboptimal. RT kernels save the original task state when blocking on an RT lock and restore it when the lock has been acquired. Any non lock related wakeup is checked against the saved state and if it matches the saved state is set to running so that the wakeup is not lost when the state is restored. While the necessary logic for the wake_flag based solution is trivial, the downside is that any regular wakeup with TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE in the state argument set will wake the task despite the fact that it is still blocked on the lock. That's not a fatal problem as the lock wait has do deal with spurious wakeups anyway, but it introduces unnecessary latencies. Introduce the TASK_RTLOCK_WAIT state bit which will be set when a task blocks on an RT lock. The lock wakeup will use wake_up_state(TASK_RTLOCK_WAIT), so both the waiting state and the wakeup state are distinguishable, which avoids spurious wakeups and allows better analysis. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210815211302.144989915@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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26-Apr-2021 |
Balbir Singh <sblbir@amazon.com> |
sched: Add task_work callback for paranoid L1D flush The upcoming paranoid L1D flush infrastructure allows to conditionally (opt-in) flush L1D in switch_mm() as a defense against potential new side channels or for paranoia reasons. As the flush makes only sense when a task runs on a non-SMT enabled core, because SMT siblings share L1, the switch_mm() logic will kill a task which is flagged for L1D flush when it is running on a SMT thread. Add a taskwork callback so switch_mm() can queue a SIG_KILL command which is invoked when the task tries to return to user space. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <sblbir@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210108121056.21940-1-sblbir@amazon.com
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11-Jun-2021 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Change task_struct::state Change the type and name of task_struct::state. Drop the volatile and shrink it to an 'unsigned int'. Rename it in order to find all uses such that we can use READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210611082838.550736351@infradead.org
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11-Jun-2021 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Add get_current_state() Remove yet another few p->state accesses. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210611082838.347475156@infradead.org
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11-Jun-2021 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Introduce task_is_running() Replace a bunch of 'p->state == TASK_RUNNING' with a new helper: task_is_running(p). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210611082838.222401495@infradead.org
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12-May-2021 |
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> |
tick/nohz: Kick only _queued_ task whose tick dependency is updated When the tick dependency of a task is updated, we want it to aknowledge the new state and restart the tick if needed. If the task is not running, we don't need to kick it because it will observe the new dependency upon scheduling in. But if the task is running, we may need to send an IPI to it so that it gets notified. Unfortunately we don't have the means to check if a task is running in a race free way. Checking p->on_cpu in a synchronized way against p->tick_dep_mask would imply adding a full barrier between prepare_task_switch() and tick_nohz_task_switch(), which we want to avoid in this fast-path. Therefore we blindly fire an IPI to the task's CPU. Meanwhile we can check if the task is queued on the CPU rq because p->on_rq is always set to TASK_ON_RQ_QUEUED _before_ schedule() and its full barrier that precedes tick_nohz_task_switch(). And if the task is queued on a nohz_full CPU, it also has fair chances to be running as the isolation constraints prescribe running single tasks on full dynticks CPUs. So use this as a trick to check if we can spare an IPI toward a non-running task. NOTE: For the ordering to be correct, it is assumed that we never deactivate a task while it is running, the only exception being the task deactivating itself while scheduling out. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210512232924.150322-9-frederic@kernel.org
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24-Mar-2021 |
Chris Hyser <chris.hyser@oracle.com> |
sched: prctl() core-scheduling interface This patch provides support for setting and copying core scheduling 'task cookies' between threads (PID), processes (TGID), and process groups (PGID). The value of core scheduling isn't that tasks don't share a core, 'nosmt' can do that. The value lies in exploiting all the sharing opportunities that exist to recover possible lost performance and that requires a degree of flexibility in the API. From a security perspective (and there are others), the thread, process and process group distinction is an existent hierarchal categorization of tasks that reflects many of the security concerns about 'data sharing'. For example, protecting against cache-snooping by a thread that can just read the memory directly isn't all that useful. With this in mind, subcommands to CREATE/SHARE (TO/FROM) provide a mechanism to create and share cookies. CREATE/SHARE_TO specify a target pid with enum pidtype used to specify the scope of the targeted tasks. For example, PIDTYPE_TGID will share the cookie with the process and all of it's threads as typically desired in a security scenario. API: prctl(PR_SCHED_CORE, PR_SCHED_CORE_GET, tgtpid, pidtype, &cookie) prctl(PR_SCHED_CORE, PR_SCHED_CORE_CREATE, tgtpid, pidtype, NULL) prctl(PR_SCHED_CORE, PR_SCHED_CORE_SHARE_TO, tgtpid, pidtype, NULL) prctl(PR_SCHED_CORE, PR_SCHED_CORE_SHARE_FROM, srcpid, pidtype, NULL) where 'tgtpid/srcpid == 0' implies the current process and pidtype is kernel enum pid_type {PIDTYPE_PID, PIDTYPE_TGID, PIDTYPE_PGID, ...}. For return values, EINVAL, ENOMEM are what they say. ESRCH means the tgtpid/srcpid was not found. EPERM indicates lack of PTRACE permission access to tgtpid/srcpid. ENODEV indicates your machines lacks SMT. [peterz: complete rewrite] Signed-off-by: Chris Hyser <chris.hyser@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Don Hiatt <dhiatt@digitalocean.com> Tested-by: Hongyu Ning <hongyu.ning@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210422123309.039845339@infradead.org
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29-Mar-2021 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Inherit task cookie on fork() Note that sched_core_fork() is called from under tasklist_lock, and not from sched_fork() earlier. This avoids a few races later. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Don Hiatt <dhiatt@digitalocean.com> Tested-by: Hongyu Ning <hongyu.ning@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210422123308.980003687@infradead.org
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26-Mar-2021 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Trivial core scheduling cookie management In order to not have to use pid_struct, create a new, smaller, structure to manage task cookies for core scheduling. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Don Hiatt <dhiatt@digitalocean.com> Tested-by: Hongyu Ning <hongyu.ning@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210422123308.919768100@infradead.org
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17-Nov-2020 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Trivial forced-newidle balancer When a sibling is forced-idle to match the core-cookie; search for matching tasks to fill the core. rcu_read_unlock() can incur an infrequent deadlock in sched_core_balance(). Fix this by using the RCU-sched flavor instead. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Don Hiatt <dhiatt@digitalocean.com> Tested-by: Hongyu Ning <hongyu.ning@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210422123308.800048269@infradead.org
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17-Nov-2020 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Basic tracking of matching tasks Introduce task_struct::core_cookie as an opaque identifier for core scheduling. When enabled; core scheduling will only allow matching task to be on the core; where idle matches everything. When task_struct::core_cookie is set (and core scheduling is enabled) these tasks are indexed in a second RB-tree, first on cookie value then on scheduling function, such that matching task selection always finds the most elegible match. NOTE: *shudder* at the overhead... NOTE: *sigh*, a 3rd copy of the scheduling function; the alternative is per class tracking of cookies and that just duplicates a lot of stuff for no raisin (the 2nd copy lives in the rt-mutex PI code). [Joel: folded fixes] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Don Hiatt <dhiatt@digitalocean.com> Tested-by: Hongyu Ning <hongyu.ning@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210422123308.496975854@infradead.org
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27-Jun-2021 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Revert "signal: Allow tasks to cache one sigqueue struct" This reverts commits 4bad58ebc8bc4f20d89cff95417c9b4674769709 (and 399f8dd9a866e107639eabd3c1979cd526ca3a98, which tried to fix it). I do not believe these are correct, and I'm about to release 5.13, so am reverting them out of an abundance of caution. The locking is odd, and appears broken. On the allocation side (in __sigqueue_alloc()), the locking is somewhat straightforward: it depends on sighand->siglock. Since one caller doesn't hold that lock, it further then tests 'sigqueue_flags' to avoid the case with no locks held. On the freeing side (in sigqueue_cache_or_free()), there is no locking at all, and the logic instead depends on 'current' being a single thread, and not able to race with itself. To make things more exciting, there's also the data race between freeing a signal and allocating one, which is handled by using WRITE_ONCE() and READ_ONCE(), and being mutually exclusive wrt the initial state (ie freeing will only free if the old state was NULL, while allocating will obviously only use the value if it was non-NULL, so only one or the other will actually act on the value). However, while the free->alloc paths do seem mutually exclusive thanks to just the data value dependency, it's not clear what the memory ordering constraints are on it. Could writes from the previous allocation possibly be delayed and seen by the new allocation later, causing logical inconsistencies? So it's all very exciting and unusual. And in particular, it seems that the freeing side is incorrect in depending on "current" being single-threaded. Yes, 'current' is a single thread, but in the presense of asynchronous events even a single thread can have data races. And such asynchronous events can and do happen, with interrupts causing signals to be flushed and thus free'd (for example - sending a SIGCONT/SIGSTOP can happen from interrupt context, and can flush previously queued process control signals). So regardless of all the other questions about the memory ordering and locking for this new cached allocation, the sigqueue_cache_or_free() assumptions seem to be fundamentally incorrect. It may be that people will show me the errors of my ways, and tell me why this is all safe after all. We can reinstate it if so. But my current belief is that the WRITE_ONCE() that sets the cached entry needs to be a smp_store_release(), and the READ_ONCE() that finds a cached entry needs to be a smp_load_acquire() to handle memory ordering correctly. And the sequence in sigqueue_cache_or_free() would need to either use a lock or at least be interrupt-safe some way (perhaps by using something like the percpu 'cmpxchg': it doesn't need to be SMP-safe, but like the percpu operations it needs to be interrupt-safe). Fixes: 399f8dd9a866 ("signal: Prevent sigqueue caching after task got released") Fixes: 4bad58ebc8bc ("signal: Allow tasks to cache one sigqueue struct") Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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02-Jun-2021 |
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> |
sched/fair: Fix util_est UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED handling The util_est internal UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED flag which is used to prevent unnecessary util_est updates uses the LSB of util_est.enqueued. It is exposed via _task_util_est() (and task_util_est()). Commit 92a801e5d5b7 ("sched/fair: Mask UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED usages") mentions that the LSB is lost for util_est resolution but find_energy_efficient_cpu() checks if task_util_est() returns 0 to return prev_cpu early. _task_util_est() returns the max value of util_est.ewma and util_est.enqueued or'ed w/ UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED. So task_util_est() returning the max of task_util() and _task_util_est() will never return 0 under the default SCHED_FEAT(UTIL_EST, true). To fix this use the MSB of util_est.enqueued instead and keep the flag util_est internal, i.e. don't export it via _task_util_est(). The maximal possible util_avg value for a task is 1024 so the MSB of 'unsigned int util_est.enqueued' isn't used to store a util value. As a caveat the code behind the util_est_se trace point has to filter UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED to see the real util_est.enqueued value which should be easy to do. This also fixes an issue report by Xuewen Yan that util_est_update() only used UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED for the subtrahend of the equation: last_enqueued_diff = ue.enqueued - (task_util() | UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED) Fixes: b89997aa88f0b sched/pelt: Fix task util_est update filtering Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Xuewen Yan <xuewen.yan@unisoc.com> Reviewed-by: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210602145808.1562603-1-dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
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04-May-2021 |
Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> |
mm cma: rename PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA to PF_MEMALLOC_PIN PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA is used ot guarantee that the allocator will not return pages that might belong to CMA region. This is currently used for long term gup to make sure that such pins are not going to be done on any CMA pages. When PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA has been introduced we haven't realized that it is focusing on CMA pages too much and that there is larger class of pages that need the same treatment. MOVABLE zone cannot contain any long term pins as well so it makes sense to reuse and redefine this flag for that usecase as well. Rename the flag to PF_MEMALLOC_PIN which defines an allocation context which can only get pages suitable for long-term pins. Also rename: memalloc_nocma_save()/memalloc_nocma_restore to memalloc_pin_save()/memalloc_pin_restore() and make the new functions common. [rppt@linux.ibm.com: fix renaming of PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA to PF_MEMALLOC_PIN] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210331163816.11517-1-rppt@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210215161349.246722-6-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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29-Apr-2021 |
Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org> |
mm: page_owner: detect page_owner recursion via task_struct Before the change page_owner recursion was detected via fetching backtrace and inspecting it for current instruction pointer. It has a few problems: - it is slightly slow as it requires extra backtrace and a linear stack scan of the result - it is too late to check if backtrace fetching required memory allocation itself (ia64's unwinder requires it). To simplify recursion tracking let's use page_owner recursion flag in 'struct task_struct'. The change make page_owner=on work on ia64 by avoiding infinite recursion in: kmalloc() -> __set_page_owner() -> save_stack() -> unwind() [ia64-specific] -> build_script() -> kmalloc() -> __set_page_owner() [we short-circuit here] -> save_stack() -> unwind() [recursion] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210402115342.1463781-1-slyfox@gentoo.org Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-Feb-2021 |
Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> |
bpf: Enable task local storage for tracing programs To access per-task data, BPF programs usually creates a hash table with pid as the key. This is not ideal because: 1. The user need to estimate the proper size of the hash table, which may be inaccurate; 2. Big hash tables are slow; 3. To clean up the data properly during task terminations, the user need to write extra logic. Task local storage overcomes these issues and offers a better option for these per-task data. Task local storage is only available to BPF_LSM. Now enable it for tracing programs. Unlike LSM programs, tracing programs can be called in IRQ contexts. Helpers that access task local storage are updated to use raw_spin_lock_irqsave() instead of raw_spin_lock_bh(). Tracing programs can attach to functions on the task free path, e.g. exit_creds(). To avoid allocating task local storage after bpf_task_storage_free(). bpf_task_storage_get() is updated to not allocate new storage when the task is not refcounted (task->usage == 0). Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210225234319.336131-2-songliubraving@fb.com
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23-Mar-2021 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
signal: Allow tasks to cache one sigqueue struct The idea for this originates from the real time tree to make signal delivery for realtime applications more efficient. In quite some of these application scenarios a control tasks signals workers to start their computations. There is usually only one signal per worker on flight. This works nicely as long as the kmem cache allocations do not hit the slow path and cause latencies. To cure this an optimistic caching was introduced (limited to RT tasks) which allows a task to cache a single sigqueue in a pointer in task_struct instead of handing it back to the kmem cache after consuming a signal. When the next signal is sent to the task then the cached sigqueue is used instead of allocating a new one. This solved the problem for this set of application scenarios nicely. The task cache is not preallocated so the first signal sent to a task goes always to the cache allocator. The cached sigqueue stays around until the task exits and is freed when task::sighand is dropped. After posting this solution for mainline the discussion came up whether this would be useful in general and should not be limited to realtime tasks: https://lore.kernel.org/r/m11rcu7nbr.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org One concern leading to the original limitation was to avoid a large amount of pointlessly cached sigqueues in alive tasks. The other concern was vs. RLIMIT_SIGPENDING as these cached sigqueues are not accounted for. The accounting problem is real, but on the other hand slightly academic. After gathering some statistics it turned out that after boot of a regular distro install there are less than 10 sigqueues cached in ~1500 tasks. In case of a 'mass fork and fire signal to child' scenario the extra 80 bytes of memory per task are well in the noise of the overall memory consumption of the fork bomb. If this should be limited then this would need an extra counter in struct user, more atomic instructions and a seperate rlimit. Yet another tunable which is mostly unused. The caching is actually used. After boot and a full kernel compile on a 64CPU machine with make -j128 the number of 'allocations' looks like this: From slab: 23996 From task cache: 52223 I.e. it reduces the number of slab cache operations by ~68%. A typical pattern there is: <...>-58490 __sigqueue_alloc: for 58488 from slab ffff8881132df460 <...>-58488 __sigqueue_free: cache ffff8881132df460 <...>-58488 __sigqueue_alloc: for 1149 from cache ffff8881103dc550 bash-1149 exit_task_sighand: free ffff8881132df460 bash-1149 __sigqueue_free: cache ffff8881103dc550 The interesting sequence is that the exiting task 58488 grabs the sigqueue from bash's task cache to signal exit and bash sticks it back into it's own cache. Lather, rinse and repeat. The caching is probably not noticable for the general use case, but the benefit for latency sensitive applications is clear. While kmem caches are usually just serving from the fast path the slab merging (default) can depending on the usage pattern of the merged slabs cause occasional slow path allocations. The time spared per cached entry is a few micro seconds per signal which is not relevant for e.g. a kernel build, but for signal heavy workloads it's measurable. As there is no real downside of this caching mechanism making it unconditionally available is preferred over more conditional code or new magic tunables. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87sg4lbmxo.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
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18-Mar-2021 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched: Fix various typos Fix ~42 single-word typos in scheduler code comments. We have accumulated a few fun ones over the years. :-) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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18-Feb-2021 |
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> |
kcov: Remove kcov include from sched.h and move it to its users. The recent addition of in_serving_softirq() to kconv.h results in compile failure on PREEMPT_RT because it requires task_struct::softirq_disable_cnt. This is not available if kconv.h is included from sched.h. It is not needed to include kconv.h from sched.h. All but the net/ user already include the kconv header file. Move the include of the kconv.h header from sched.h it its users. Additionally include sched.h from kconv.h to ensure that everything task_struct related is available. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210218173124.iy5iyqv3a4oia4vv@linutronix.de
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09-Mar-2021 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
softirq: Add RT specific softirq accounting RT requires the softirq processing and local bottomhalf disabled regions to be preemptible. Using the normal preempt count based serialization is therefore not possible because this implicitely disables preemption. RT kernels use a per CPU local lock to serialize bottomhalfs. As local_bh_disable() can nest the lock can only be acquired on the outermost invocation of local_bh_disable() and released when the nest count becomes zero. Tasks which hold the local lock can be preempted so its required to keep track of the nest count per task. Add a RT only counter to task struct and adjust the relevant macros in preempt.h. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210309085726.983627589@linutronix.de
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16-Feb-2021 |
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> |
io-wq: fork worker threads from original task Instead of using regular kthread kernel threads, create kernel threads that are like a real thread that the task would create. This ensures that we get all the context that we need, without having to carry that state around. This greatly reduces the code complexity, and the risk of missing state for a given request type. With the move away from kthread, we can also dump everything related to assigned state to the new threads. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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25-Jan-2021 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Harden PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Use the new EXPORT_STATIC_CALL_TRAMP() / static_call_mod() to unexport the static_call_key for the PREEMPT_DYNAMIC calls such that modules can no longer update these calls. Having modules change/hi-jack the preemption calls would be horrible. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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18-Jan-2021 |
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> |
preempt/dynamic: Provide cond_resched() and might_resched() static calls Provide static calls to control cond_resched() (called in !CONFIG_PREEMPT) and might_resched() (called in CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY) to that we can override their behaviour when preempt= is overriden. Since the default behaviour is full preemption, both their calls are ignored when preempt= isn't passed. [fweisbec: branch might_resched() directly to __cond_resched(), only define static calls when PREEMPT_DYNAMIC] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210118141223.123667-6-frederic@kernel.org
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02-Feb-2021 |
Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com> |
sched: Add cond_resched_rwlock Safely rescheduling while holding a spin lock is essential for keeping long running kernel operations running smoothly. Add the facility to cond_resched rwlocks. CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> CC: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com> Message-Id: <20210202185734.1680553-9-bgardon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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02-Feb-2021 |
Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com> |
sched: Add needbreak for rwlocks Contention awareness while holding a spin lock is essential for reducing latency when long running kernel operations can hold that lock. Add the same contention detection interface for read/write spin locks. CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> CC: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com> Message-Id: <20210202185734.1680553-8-bgardon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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26-Jan-2021 |
Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com> |
sched: Correctly sort struct predeclarations The comment says: /* task_struct member predeclarations (sorted alphabetically): */ So move io_uring_task where it belongs (alphabetically). Signed-off-by: Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210126193449.487547-1-posk@google.com
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07-Dec-2020 |
Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> |
sched/core: Rename schedutil_cpu_util() and allow rest of the kernel to use it There is nothing schedutil specific in schedutil_cpu_util(), rename it to effective_cpu_util(). Also create and expose another wrapper sched_cpu_util() which can be used by other parts of the kernel, like thermal core (that will be done in a later commit). Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/db011961fb3bb8bef1c0eda5cd64564637d3ef31.1607400596.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
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22-Dec-2020 |
Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> |
kasan, arm64: only use kasan_depth for software modes This is a preparatory commit for the upcoming addition of a new hardware tag-based (MTE-based) KASAN mode. Hardware tag-based KASAN won't use kasan_depth. Only define and use it when one of the software KASAN modes are enabled. No functional changes for software modes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e16f15aeda90bc7fb4dfc2e243a14b74cc5c8219.1606161801.git.andreyknvl@google.com Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Branislav Rankov <Branislav.Rankov@arm.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com> Cc: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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27-Nov-2020 |
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com> |
kernel: Implement selective syscall userspace redirection Introduce a mechanism to quickly disable/enable syscall handling for a specific process and redirect to userspace via SIGSYS. This is useful for processes with parts that require syscall redirection and parts that don't, but who need to perform this boundary crossing really fast, without paying the cost of a system call to reconfigure syscall handling on each boundary transition. This is particularly important for Windows games running over Wine. The proposed interface looks like this: prctl(PR_SET_SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH, <op>, <off>, <length>, [selector]) The range [<offset>,<offset>+<length>) is a part of the process memory map that is allowed to by-pass the redirection code and dispatch syscalls directly, such that in fast paths a process doesn't need to disable the trap nor the kernel has to check the selector. This is essential to return from SIGSYS to a blocked area without triggering another SIGSYS from rt_sigreturn. selector is an optional pointer to a char-sized userspace memory region that has a key switch for the mechanism. This key switch is set to either PR_SYS_DISPATCH_ON, PR_SYS_DISPATCH_OFF to enable and disable the redirection without calling the kernel. The feature is meant to be set per-thread and it is disabled on fork/clone/execv. Internally, this doesn't add overhead to the syscall hot path, and it requires very little per-architecture support. I avoided using seccomp, even though it duplicates some functionality, due to previous feedback that maybe it shouldn't mix with seccomp since it is not a security mechanism. And obviously, this should never be considered a security mechanism, since any part of the program can by-pass it by using the syscall dispatcher. For the sysinfo benchmark, which measures the overhead added to executing a native syscall that doesn't require interception, the overhead using only the direct dispatcher region to issue syscalls is pretty much irrelevant. The overhead of using the selector goes around 40ns for a native (unredirected) syscall in my system, and it is (as expected) dominated by the supervisor-mode user-address access. In fact, with SMAP off, the overhead is consistently less than 5ns on my test box. Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201127193238.821364-4-krisman@collabora.com
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18-Nov-2020 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched: highmem: Store local kmaps in task struct Instead of storing the map per CPU provide and use per task storage. That prepares for local kmaps which are preemptible. The context switch code is preparatory and not yet in use because kmap_atomic() runs with preemption disabled. Will be made usable in the next step. The context switch logic is safe even when an interrupt happens after clearing or before restoring the kmaps. The kmap index in task struct is not modified so any nesting kmap in an interrupt will use unused indices and on return the counter is the same as before. Also add an assert into the return to user space code. Going back to user space with an active kmap local is a nono. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201118204007.372935758@linutronix.de
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18-Nov-2020 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched: Make migrate_disable/enable() independent of RT Now that the scheduler can deal with migrate disable properly, there is no real compelling reason to make it only available for RT. There are quite some code pathes which needlessly disable preemption in order to prevent migration and some constructs like kmap_atomic() enforce it implicitly. Making it available independent of RT allows to provide a preemptible variant of kmap_atomic() and makes the code more consistent in general. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Grudgingly-Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201118204007.269943012@linutronix.de
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16-Nov-2020 |
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> |
sched/deadline: Fix priority inheritance with multiple scheduling classes Glenn reported that "an application [he developed produces] a BUG in deadline.c when a SCHED_DEADLINE task contends with CFS tasks on nested PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutexes. I believe the bug is triggered when a CFS task that was boosted by a SCHED_DEADLINE task boosts another CFS task (nested priority inheritance). ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at kernel/sched/deadline.c:1462! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP CPU: 12 PID: 19171 Comm: dl_boost_bug Tainted: ... Hardware name: ... RIP: 0010:enqueue_task_dl+0x335/0x910 Code: ... RSP: 0018:ffffc9000c2bbc68 EFLAGS: 00010002 RAX: 0000000000000009 RBX: ffff888c0af94c00 RCX: ffffffff81e12500 RDX: 000000000000002e RSI: ffff888c0af94c00 RDI: ffff888c10b22600 RBP: ffffc9000c2bbd08 R08: 0000000000000009 R09: 0000000000000078 R10: ffffffff81e12440 R11: ffffffff81e1236c R12: ffff888bc8932600 R13: ffff888c0af94eb8 R14: ffff888c10b22600 R15: ffff888bc8932600 FS: 00007fa58ac55700(0000) GS:ffff888c10b00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fa58b523230 CR3: 0000000bf44ab003 CR4: 00000000007606e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: ? intel_pstate_update_util_hwp+0x13/0x170 rt_mutex_setprio+0x1cc/0x4b0 task_blocks_on_rt_mutex+0x225/0x260 rt_spin_lock_slowlock_locked+0xab/0x2d0 rt_spin_lock_slowlock+0x50/0x80 hrtimer_grab_expiry_lock+0x20/0x30 hrtimer_cancel+0x13/0x30 do_nanosleep+0xa0/0x150 hrtimer_nanosleep+0xe1/0x230 ? __hrtimer_init_sleeper+0x60/0x60 __x64_sys_nanosleep+0x8d/0xa0 do_syscall_64+0x4a/0x100 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe RIP: 0033:0x7fa58b52330d ... ---[ end trace 0000000000000002 ]— He also provided a simple reproducer creating the situation below: So the execution order of locking steps are the following (N1 and N2 are non-deadline tasks. D1 is a deadline task. M1 and M2 are mutexes that are enabled * with priority inheritance.) Time moves forward as this timeline goes down: N1 N2 D1 | | | | | | Lock(M1) | | | | | | Lock(M2) | | | | | | Lock(M2) | | | | Lock(M1) | | (!!bug triggered!) | Daniel reported a similar situation as well, by just letting ksoftirqd run with DEADLINE (and eventually block on a mutex). Problem is that boosted entities (Priority Inheritance) use static DEADLINE parameters of the top priority waiter. However, there might be cases where top waiter could be a non-DEADLINE entity that is currently boosted by a DEADLINE entity from a different lock chain (i.e., nested priority chains involving entities of non-DEADLINE classes). In this case, top waiter static DEADLINE parameters could be null (initialized to 0 at fork()) and replenish_dl_entity() would hit a BUG(). Fix this by keeping track of the original donor and using its parameters when a task is boosted. Reported-by: Glenn Elliott <glenn@aurora.tech> Reported-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201117061432.517340-1-juri.lelli@redhat.com
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17-Nov-2020 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Fix data-race in wakeup Mel reported that on some ARM64 platforms loadavg goes bananas and Will tracked it down to the following race: CPU0 CPU1 schedule() prev->sched_contributes_to_load = X; deactivate_task(prev); try_to_wake_up() if (p->on_rq &&) // false if (smp_load_acquire(&p->on_cpu) && // true ttwu_queue_wakelist()) p->sched_remote_wakeup = Y; smp_store_release(prev->on_cpu, 0); where both p->sched_contributes_to_load and p->sched_remote_wakeup are in the same word, and thus the stores X and Y race (and can clobber one another's data). Whereas prior to commit c6e7bd7afaeb ("sched/core: Optimize ttwu() spinning on p->on_cpu") the p->on_cpu handoff serialized access to p->sched_remote_wakeup (just as it still does with p->sched_contributes_to_load) that commit broke that by calling ttwu_queue_wakelist() with p->on_cpu != 0. However, due to p->XXX = X ttwu() schedule() if (p->on_rq && ...) // false smp_mb__after_spinlock() if (smp_load_acquire(&p->on_cpu) && deactivate_task() ttwu_queue_wakelist()) p->on_rq = 0; p->sched_remote_wakeup = Y; We can be sure any 'current' store is complete and 'current' is guaranteed asleep. Therefore we can move p->sched_remote_wakeup into the current flags word. Note: while the observed failure was loadavg accounting gone wrong due to ttwu() cobbering p->sched_contributes_to_load, the reverse problem is also possible where schedule() clobbers p->sched_remote_wakeup, this could result in enqueue_entity() wrecking ->vruntime and causing scheduling artifacts. Fixes: c6e7bd7afaeb ("sched/core: Optimize ttwu() spinning on p->on_cpu") Reported-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Debugged-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201117083016.GK3121392@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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28-Sep-2020 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Fix migrate_disable() vs rt/dl balancing In order to minimize the interference of migrate_disable() on lower priority tasks, which can be deprived of runtime due to being stuck below a higher priority task. Teach the RT/DL balancers to push away these higher priority tasks when a lower priority task gets selected to run on a freshly demoted CPU (pull). This adds migration interference to the higher priority task, but restores bandwidth to system that would otherwise be irrevocably lost. Without this it would be possible to have all tasks on the system stuck on a single CPU, each task preempted in a migrate_disable() section with a single high priority task running. This way we can still approximate running the M highest priority tasks on the system. Migrating the top task away is (ofcourse) still subject to migrate_disable() too, which means the lower task is subject to an interference equivalent to the worst case migrate_disable() section. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201023102347.499155098@infradead.org
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18-Sep-2020 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Fix migrate_disable() vs set_cpus_allowed_ptr() Concurrent migrate_disable() and set_cpus_allowed_ptr() has interesting features. We rely on set_cpus_allowed_ptr() to not return until the task runs inside the provided mask. This expectation is exported to userspace. This means that any set_cpus_allowed_ptr() caller must wait until migrate_enable() allows migrations. At the same time, we don't want migrate_enable() to schedule, due to patterns like: preempt_disable(); migrate_disable(); ... migrate_enable(); preempt_enable(); And: raw_spin_lock(&B); spin_unlock(&A); this means that when migrate_enable() must restore the affinity mask, it cannot wait for completion thereof. Luck will have it that that is exactly the case where there is a pending set_cpus_allowed_ptr(), so let that provide storage for the async stop machine. Much thanks to Valentin who used TLA+ most effective and found lots of 'interesting' cases. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201023102346.921768277@infradead.org
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17-Sep-2020 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Add migrate_disable() Add the base migrate_disable() support (under protest). While migrate_disable() is (currently) required for PREEMPT_RT, it is also one of the biggest flaws in the system. Notably this is just the base implementation, it is broken vs sched_setaffinity() and hotplug, both solved in additional patches for ease of review. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201023102346.818170844@infradead.org
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15-Oct-2020 |
Elena Petrova <lenaptr@google.com> |
sched.h: drop in_ubsan field when UBSAN is in trap mode in_ubsan field of task_struct is only used in lib/ubsan.c, which in its turn is used only `ifneq ($(CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP),y)`. Removing unnecessary field from a task_struct will help preserve the ABI between vanilla and CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP'ed kernels. In particular, this will help enabling bounds sanitizer transparently for Android's GKI. Signed-off-by: Elena Petrova <lenaptr@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200910134802.3160311-1-lenaptr@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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13-Oct-2020 |
Patricia Alfonso <trishalfonso@google.com> |
kasan/kunit: add KUnit Struct to Current Task Patch series "KASAN-KUnit Integration", v14. This patchset contains everything needed to integrate KASAN and KUnit. KUnit will be able to: (1) Fail tests when an unexpected KASAN error occurs (2) Pass tests when an expected KASAN error occurs Convert KASAN tests to KUnit with the exception of copy_user_test because KUnit is unable to test those. Add documentation on how to run the KASAN tests with KUnit and what to expect when running these tests. This patch (of 5): In order to integrate debugging tools like KASAN into the KUnit framework, add KUnit struct to the current task to keep track of the current KUnit test. Signed-off-by: Patricia Alfonso <trishalfonso@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200915035828.570483-1-davidgow@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200915035828.570483-2-davidgow@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200910070331.3358048-1-davidgow@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200910070331.3358048-2-davidgow@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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29-Aug-2020 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
kprobes: Remove kretprobe hash The kretprobe hash is mostly superfluous, replace it with a per-task variable. This gets rid of the task hash and it's related locking. Note that this may change the kprobes module-exported API for kretprobe handlers. If any out-of-tree kretprobe user uses ri->rp, use get_kretprobe(ri) instead. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/159870620431.1229682.16325792502413731312.stgit@devnote2
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06-Oct-2020 |
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> |
x86/mce: Recover from poison found while copying from user space Existing kernel code can only recover from a machine check on code that is tagged in the exception table with a fault handling recovery path. Add two new fields in the task structure to pass information from machine check handler to the "task_work" that is queued to run before the task returns to user mode: + mce_vaddr: will be initialized to the user virtual address of the fault in the case where the fault occurred in the kernel copying data from a user address. This is so that kill_me_maybe() can provide that information to the user SIGBUS handler. + mce_kflags: copy of the struct mce.kflags needed by kill_me_maybe() to determine if mce_vaddr is applicable to this error. Add code to recover from a machine check while copying data from user space to the kernel. Action for this case is the same as if the user touched the poison directly; unmap the page and send a SIGBUS to the task. Use a new helper function to share common code between the "fault in user mode" case and the "fault while copying from user" case. New code paths will be activated by the next patch which sets MCE_IN_KERNEL_COPYIN. Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201006210910.21062-6-tony.luck@intel.com
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28-Aug-2020 |
Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@arm.com> |
sched/debug: Add new tracepoint to track cpu_capacity rq->cpu_capacity is a key element in several scheduler parts, such as EAS task placement and load balancing. Tracking this value enables testing and/or debugging by a toolkit. Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1598605249-72651-1-git-send-email-vincent.donnefort@arm.com
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13-Sep-2020 |
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> |
io_uring: don't rely on weak ->files references Grab actual references to the files_struct. To avoid circular references issues due to this, we add a per-task note that keeps track of what io_uring contexts a task has used. When the tasks execs or exits its assigned files, we cancel requests based on this tracking. With that, we can grab proper references to the files table, and no longer need to rely on stashing away ring_fd and ring_file to check if the ring_fd may have been closed. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.5+ Reviewed-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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19-Aug-2020 |
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> |
sched: Bring the PF_IO_WORKER and PF_WQ_WORKER bits closer together The bits PF_IO_WORKER and PF_WQ_WORKER are tested together in sched_submit_work() which is considered to be a hot path. If the two bits cross the 8 or 16 bit boundary then most architecture require multiple load instructions in order to create the constant value. Also, such a value can not be encoded within the compare opcode. By moving the bit definition within the same block, the compiler can create/use one immediate value. For some reason gcc-10 on ARM64 requires both bits to be next to each other in order to issue "tst reg, val; bne label". Otherwise the result is "mov reg1, val; tst reg, reg1; bne label". Move PF_VCPU out of the way so that PF_IO_WORKER can be next to PF_WQ_WORKER. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200819195505.y3fxk72sotnrkczi@linutronix.de
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20-Aug-2020 |
Marco Elver <elver@google.com> |
sched: Use __always_inline on is_idle_task() is_idle_task() may be used from noinstr functions such as irqentry_enter(). Since the compiler is free to not inline regular inline functions, switch to using __always_inline. Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200820172046.GA177701@elver.google.com
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29-Jul-2020 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
posix-cpu-timers: Provide mechanisms to defer timer handling to task_work Running posix CPU timers in hard interrupt context has a few downsides: - For PREEMPT_RT it cannot work as the expiry code needs to take sighand lock, which is a 'sleeping spinlock' in RT. The original RT approach of offloading the posix CPU timer handling into a high priority thread was clumsy and provided no real benefit in general. - For fine grained accounting it's just wrong to run this in context of the timer interrupt because that way a process specific CPU time is accounted to the timer interrupt. - Long running timer interrupts caused by a large amount of expiring timers which can be created and armed by unpriviledged user space. There is no hard requirement to expire them in interrupt context. If the signal is targeted at the task itself then it won't be delivered before the task returns to user space anyway. If the signal is targeted at a supervisor process then it might be slightly delayed, but posix CPU timers are inaccurate anyway due to the fact that they are tied to the tick. Provide infrastructure to schedule task work which allows splitting the posix CPU timer code into a quick check in interrupt context and a thread context expiry and signal delivery function. This has to be enabled by architectures as it requires that the architecture specific KVM implementation handles pending task work before exiting to guest mode. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200730102337.783470146@linutronix.de
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06-Aug-2020 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
locking/seqlock, headers: Untangle the spaghetti monster By using lockdep_assert_*() from seqlock.h, the spaghetti monster attacked. Attack back by reducing seqlock.h dependencies from two key high level headers: - <linux/seqlock.h>: -Remove <linux/ww_mutex.h> - <linux/time.h>: -Remove <linux/seqlock.h> - <linux/sched.h>: +Add <linux/seqlock.h> The price was to add it to sched.h ... Core header fallout, we add direct header dependencies instead of gaining them parasitically from higher level headers: - <linux/dynamic_queue_limits.h>: +Add <asm/bug.h> - <linux/hrtimer.h>: +Add <linux/seqlock.h> - <linux/ktime.h>: +Add <asm/bug.h> - <linux/lockdep.h>: +Add <linux/smp.h> - <linux/sched.h>: +Add <linux/seqlock.h> - <linux/videodev2.h>: +Add <linux/kernel.h> Arch headers fallout: - PARISC: <asm/timex.h>: +Add <asm/special_insns.h> - SH: <asm/io.h>: +Add <asm/page.h> - SPARC: <asm/timer_64.h>: +Add <uapi/asm/asi.h> - SPARC: <asm/vvar.h>: +Add <asm/processor.h>, <asm/barrier.h> -Remove <linux/seqlock.h> - X86: <asm/fixmap.h>: +Add <asm/pgtable_types.h> -Remove <asm/acpi.h> There's also a bunch of parasitic header dependency fallout in .c files, not listed separately. [ mingo: Extended the changelog, split up & fixed the original patch. ] Co-developed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200804133438.GK2674@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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29-Jul-2020 |
Marco Elver <elver@google.com> |
kcsan: Improve IRQ state trace reporting To improve the general usefulness of the IRQ state trace events with KCSAN enabled, save and restore the trace information when entering and exiting the KCSAN runtime as well as when generating a KCSAN report. Without this, reporting the IRQ trace events (whether via a KCSAN report or outside of KCSAN via a lockdep report) is rather useless due to continuously being touched by KCSAN. This is because if KCSAN is enabled, every instrumented memory access causes changes to IRQ trace events (either by KCSAN disabling/enabling interrupts or taking report_lock when generating a report). Before "lockdep: Prepare for NMI IRQ state tracking", KCSAN avoided touching the IRQ trace events via raw_local_irq_save/restore() and lockdep_off/on(). Fixes: 248591f5d257 ("kcsan: Make KCSAN compatible with new IRQ state tracking") Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200729110916.3920464-2-elver@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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29-Jul-2020 |
Marco Elver <elver@google.com> |
lockdep: Refactor IRQ trace events fields into struct Refactor the IRQ trace events fields, used for printing information about the IRQ trace events, into a separate struct 'irqtrace_events'. This improves readability by separating the information only used in reporting, as well as enables (simplified) storing/restoring of irqtrace_events snapshots. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200729110916.3920464-1-elver@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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20-Jul-2020 |
Ahmed S. Darwish <a.darwish@linutronix.de> |
sched: tasks: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock A sequence counter write side critical section must be protected by some form of locking to serialize writers. A plain seqcount_t does not contain the information of which lock must be held when entering a write side critical section. Use the new seqcount_spinlock_t data type, which allows to associate a spinlock with the sequence counter. This enables lockdep to verify that the spinlock used for writer serialization is held when the write side critical section is entered. If lockdep is disabled this lock association is compiled out and has neither storage size nor runtime overhead. Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <a.darwish@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200720155530.1173732-14-a.darwish@linutronix.de
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15-Jul-2020 |
Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com> |
sched/uclamp: Add a new sysctl to control RT default boost value RT tasks by default run at the highest capacity/performance level. When uclamp is selected this default behavior is retained by enforcing the requested uclamp.min (p->uclamp_req[UCLAMP_MIN]) of the RT tasks to be uclamp_none(UCLAMP_MAX), which is SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE; the maximum value. This is also referred to as 'the default boost value of RT tasks'. See commit 1a00d999971c ("sched/uclamp: Set default clamps for RT tasks"). On battery powered devices, it is desired to control this default (currently hardcoded) behavior at runtime to reduce energy consumed by RT tasks. For example, a mobile device manufacturer where big.LITTLE architecture is dominant, the performance of the little cores varies across SoCs, and on high end ones the big cores could be too power hungry. Given the diversity of SoCs, the new knob allows manufactures to tune the best performance/power for RT tasks for the particular hardware they run on. They could opt to further tune the value when the user selects a different power saving mode or when the device is actively charging. The runtime aspect of it further helps in creating a single kernel image that can be run on multiple devices that require different tuning. Keep in mind that a lot of RT tasks in the system are created by the kernel. On Android for instance I can see over 50 RT tasks, only a handful of which created by the Android framework. To control the default behavior globally by system admins and device integrator, introduce the new sysctl_sched_uclamp_util_min_rt_default to change the default boost value of the RT tasks. I anticipate this to be mostly in the form of modifying the init script of a particular device. To avoid polluting the fast path with unnecessary code, the approach taken is to synchronously do the update by traversing all the existing tasks in the system. This could race with a concurrent fork(), which is dealt with by introducing sched_post_fork() function which will ensure the racy fork will get the right update applied. Tested on Juno-r2 in combination with the RT capacity awareness [1]. By default an RT task will go to the highest capacity CPU and run at the maximum frequency, which is particularly energy inefficient on high end mobile devices because the biggest core[s] are 'huge' and power hungry. With this patch the RT task can be controlled to run anywhere by default, and doesn't cause the frequency to be maximum all the time. Yet any task that really needs to be boosted can easily escape this default behavior by modifying its requested uclamp.min value (p->uclamp_req[UCLAMP_MIN]) via sched_setattr() syscall. [1] 804d402fb6f6: ("sched/rt: Make RT capacity-aware") Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200716110347.19553-2-qais.yousef@arm.com
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27-Jul-2020 |
王文虎 <wenhu.wang@vivo.com> |
sched: Fix a typo in a comment Change the comment typo: "direcly" -> "directly". Signed-off-by: Wang Wenhu <wenhu.wang@vivo.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/AAcAXwBTDSpsKN-5iyIOtaqk.1.1595857191899.Hmail.wenhu.wang@vivo.com
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02-Jul-2020 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Better document ttwu() Dave hit the problem fixed by commit: b6e13e85829f ("sched/core: Fix ttwu() race") and failed to understand much of the code involved. Per his request a few comments to (hopefully) clarify things. Requested-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200702125211.GQ4800@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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24-May-2020 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
lockdep: Change hardirq{s_enabled,_context} to per-cpu variables Currently all IRQ-tracking state is in task_struct, this means that task_struct needs to be defined before we use it. Especially for lockdep_assert_irq*() this can lead to header-hell. Move the hardirq state into per-cpu variables to avoid the task_struct dependency. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200623083721.512673481@infradead.org
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29-Jun-2020 |
Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> |
sched: Add a tracepoint to track rq->nr_running Add a bare tracepoint trace_sched_update_nr_running_tp which tracks ->nr_running CPU's rq. This is used to accurately trace this data and provide a visualization of scheduler imbalances in, for example, the form of a heat map. The tracepoint is accessed by loading an external kernel module. An example module (forked from Qais' module and including the pelt related tracepoints) can be found at: https://github.com/auldp/tracepoints-helpers.git A script to turn the trace-cmd report output into a heatmap plot can be found at: https://github.com/jirvoz/plot-nr-running The tracepoints are added to add_nr_running() and sub_nr_running() which are in kernel/sched/sched.h. In order to avoid CREATE_TRACE_POINTS in the header a wrapper call is used and the trace/events/sched.h include is moved before sched.h in kernel/sched/core. Signed-off-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200629192303.GC120228@lorien.usersys.redhat.com
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02-Jul-2020 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Fix loadavg accounting race The recent commit: c6e7bd7afaeb ("sched/core: Optimize ttwu() spinning on p->on_cpu") moved these lines in ttwu(): p->sched_contributes_to_load = !!task_contributes_to_load(p); p->state = TASK_WAKING; up before: smp_cond_load_acquire(&p->on_cpu, !VAL); into the 'p->on_rq == 0' block, with the thinking that once we hit schedule() the current task cannot change it's ->state anymore. And while this is true, it is both incorrect and flawed. It is incorrect in that we need at least an ACQUIRE on 'p->on_rq == 0' to avoid weak hardware from re-ordering things for us. This can fairly easily be achieved by relying on the control-dependency already in place. The second problem, which makes the flaw in the original argument, is that while schedule() will not change prev->state, it will read it a number of times (arguably too many times since it's marked volatile). The previous condition 'p->on_cpu == 0' was sufficient because that indicates schedule() has completed, and will no longer read prev->state. So now the trick is to make this same true for the (much) earlier 'prev->on_rq == 0' case. Furthermore, in order to make the ordering stick, the 'prev->on_rq = 0' assignment needs to he a RELEASE, but adding additional ordering to schedule() is an unwelcome proposition at the best of times, doubly so for mere accounting. Luckily we can push the prev->state load up before rq->lock, with the only caveat that we then have to re-read the state after. However, we know that if it changed, we no longer have to worry about the blocking path. This gives us the required ordering, if we block, we did the prev->state load before an (effective) smp_mb() and the p->on_rq store needs not change. With this we end up with the effective ordering: LOAD p->state LOAD-ACQUIRE p->on_rq == 0 MB STORE p->on_rq, 0 STORE p->state, TASK_WAKING which ensures the TASK_WAKING store happens after the prev->state load, and all is well again. Fixes: c6e7bd7afaeb ("sched/core: Optimize ttwu() spinning on p->on_cpu") Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Reported-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200707102957.GN117543@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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25-Jun-2020 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
umd: Remove exit_umh The bpfilter code no longer uses the umd_info.cleanup callback. This callback is what exit_umh exists to call. So remove exit_umh and all of it's associated booking. v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bll6dlte.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org v2: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87y2o53abg.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200702164140.4468-15-ebiederm@xmission.com Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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25-Jun-2020 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
umh: Separate the user mode driver and the user mode helper support This makes it clear which code is part of the core user mode helper support and which code is needed to implement user mode drivers. This makes the kernel smaller for everyone who does not use a usermode driver. v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87tuyyf0ln.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org v2: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87imf963s6.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200702164140.4468-5-ebiederm@xmission.com Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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21-Jun-2020 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
smp, irq_work: Continue smp_call_function*() and irq_work*() integration Instead of relying on BUG_ON() to ensure the various data structures line up, use a bunch of horrible unions to make it all automatic. Much of the union magic is to ensure irq_work and smp_call_function do not (yet) see the members of their respective data structures change name. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200622100825.844455025@infradead.org
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09-Jun-2020 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/core: Fix CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT build fail As a temporary build fix, the proper cleanup needs more work. Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Fixes: a148866489fb ("sched: Replace rq::wake_list") Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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22-Apr-2020 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Remove sched_set_*() return value Ingo suggested that since the new sched_set_*() functions are implemented using the 'nocheck' variants, they really shouldn't ever fail, so remove the return value. Cc: axboe@kernel.dk Cc: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org Cc: sudeep.holla@arm.com Cc: airlied@redhat.com Cc: broonie@kernel.org Cc: paulmck@kernel.org Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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20-Apr-2020 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Provide sched_set_fifo() SCHED_FIFO (or any static priority scheduler) is a broken scheduler model; it is fundamentally incapable of resource management, the one thing an OS is actually supposed to do. It is impossible to compose static priority workloads. One cannot take two well designed and functional static priority workloads and mash them together and still expect them to work. Therefore it doesn't make sense to expose the priority field; the kernel is fundamentally incapable of setting a sensible value, it needs systems knowledge that it doesn't have. Take away sched_setschedule() / sched_setattr() from modules and replace them with: - sched_set_fifo(p); create a FIFO task (at prio 50) - sched_set_fifo_low(p); create a task higher than NORMAL, which ends up being a FIFO task at prio 1. - sched_set_normal(p, nice); (re)set the task to normal This stops the proliferation of randomly chosen, and irrelevant, FIFO priorities that dont't really mean anything anyway. The system administrator/integrator, whoever has insight into the actual system design and requirements (userspace) can set-up appropriate priorities if and when needed. Cc: airlied@redhat.com Cc: alexander.deucher@amd.com Cc: awalls@md.metrocast.net Cc: axboe@kernel.dk Cc: broonie@kernel.org Cc: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Cc: hverkuil@xs4all.nl Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org Cc: nico@fluxnic.net Cc: paulmck@kernel.org Cc: rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com Cc: rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk Cc: sudeep.holla@arm.com Cc: tglx@linutronix.de Cc: ulf.hansson@linaro.org Cc: wim@linux-watchdog.org Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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20-May-2020 |
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> |
x86/{mce,mm}: Unmap the entire page if the whole page is affected and poisoned An interesting thing happened when a guest Linux instance took a machine check. The VMM unmapped the bad page from guest physical space and passed the machine check to the guest. Linux took all the normal actions to offline the page from the process that was using it. But then guest Linux crashed because it said there was a second machine check inside the kernel with this stack trace: do_memory_failure set_mce_nospec set_memory_uc _set_memory_uc change_page_attr_set_clr cpa_flush clflush_cache_range_opt This was odd, because a CLFLUSH instruction shouldn't raise a machine check (it isn't consuming the data). Further investigation showed that the VMM had passed in another machine check because is appeared that the guest was accessing the bad page. Fix is to check the scope of the poison by checking the MCi_MISC register. If the entire page is affected, then unmap the page. If only part of the page is affected, then mark the page as uncacheable. This assumes that VMMs will do the logical thing and pass in the "whole page scope" via the MCi_MISC register (since they unmapped the entire page). [ bp: Adjust to x86/entry changes. ] Fixes: 284ce4011ba6 ("x86/memory_failure: Introduce {set, clear}_mce_nospec()") Reported-by: Jue Wang <juew@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Jue Wang <juew@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520163546.GA7977@agluck-desk2.amr.corp.intel.com
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04-Jun-2020 |
Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> |
kcov: collect coverage from interrupts This change extends kcov remote coverage support to allow collecting coverage from soft interrupts in addition to kernel background threads. To collect coverage from code that is executed in softirq context, a part of that code has to be annotated with kcov_remote_start/stop() in a similar way as how it is done for global kernel background threads. Then the handle used for the annotations has to be passed to the KCOV_REMOTE_ENABLE ioctl. Internally this patch adjusts the __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() compiler inserted callback to not bail out when called from softirq context. kcov_remote_start/stop() are updated to save/restore the current per task kcov state in a per-cpu area (in case the softirq came when the kernel was already collecting coverage in task context). Coverage from softirqs is collected into pre-allocated per-cpu areas, whose size is controlled by the new CONFIG_KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE. [andreyknvl@google.com: turn current->kcov_softirq into unsigned int to fix objtool warning] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/841c778aa3849c5cb8c3761f56b87ce653a88671.1585233617.git.andreyknvl@google.com Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/469bd385c431d050bc38a593296eff4baae50666.1584655448.git.andreyknvl@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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01-Jun-2020 |
NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> |
mm/writeback: replace PF_LESS_THROTTLE with PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE PF_LESS_THROTTLE exists for loop-back nfsd (and a similar need in the loop block driver and callers of prctl(PR_SET_IO_FLUSHER)), where a daemon needs to write to one bdi (the final bdi) in order to free up writes queued to another bdi (the client bdi). The daemon sets PF_LESS_THROTTLE and gets a larger allowance of dirty pages, so that it can still dirty pages after other processses have been throttled. The purpose of this is to avoid deadlock that happen when the PF_LESS_THROTTLE process must write for any dirty pages to be freed, but it is being thottled and cannot write. This approach was designed when all threads were blocked equally, independently on which device they were writing to, or how fast it was. Since that time the writeback algorithm has changed substantially with different threads getting different allowances based on non-trivial heuristics. This means the simple "add 25%" heuristic is no longer reliable. The important issue is not that the daemon needs a *larger* dirty page allowance, but that it needs a *private* dirty page allowance, so that dirty pages for the "client" bdi that it is helping to clear (the bdi for an NFS filesystem or loop block device etc) do not affect the throttling of the daemon writing to the "final" bdi. This patch changes the heuristic so that the task is not throttled when the bdi it is writing to has a dirty page count below below (or equal to) the free-run threshold for that bdi. This ensures it will always be able to have some pages in flight, and so will not deadlock. In a steady-state, it is expected that PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE tasks might still be throttled by global threshold, but that is acceptable as it is only the deadlock state that is interesting for this flag. This approach of "only throttle when target bdi is busy" is consistent with the other use of PF_LESS_THROTTLE in current_may_throttle(), were it causes attention to be focussed only on the target bdi. So this patch - renames PF_LESS_THROTTLE to PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE, - removes the 25% bonus that that flag gives, and - If PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE is set, don't delay at all unless the global and the local free-run thresholds are exceeded. Note that previously realtime threads were treated the same as PF_LESS_THROTTLE threads. This patch does *not* change the behvaiour for real-time threads, so it is now different from the behaviour of nfsd and loop tasks. I don't know what is wanted for realtime. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes] Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> [nfsd] Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87ftbf7gs3.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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26-May-2020 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Replace rq::wake_list The recent commit: 90b5363acd47 ("sched: Clean up scheduler_ipi()") got smp_call_function_single_async() subtly wrong. Even though it will return -EBUSY when trying to re-use a csd, that condition is not atomic and still requires external serialization. The change in ttwu_queue_remote() got this wrong. While on first reading ttwu_queue_remote() has an atomic test-and-set that appears to serialize the use, the matching 'release' is not in the right place to actually guarantee this serialization. The actual race is vs the sched_ttwu_pending() call in the idle loop; that can run the wakeup-list without consuming the CSD. Instead of trying to chain the lists, merge them. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526161908.129371594@infradead.org
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19-Feb-2020 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
x86/mce: Send #MC singal from task work Convert #MC over to using task_work_add(); it will run the same code slightly later, on the return to user path of the same exception. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200505134100.957390899@linutronix.de
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18-Mar-2020 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
lockdep: Prepare for noinstr sections Force inlining and prevent instrumentation of all sorts by marking the functions which are invoked from low level entry code with 'noinstr'. Split the irqflags tracking into two parts. One which does the heavy lifting while RCU is watching and the final one which can be invoked after RCU is turned off. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200505134100.484532537@linutronix.de
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26-Mar-2020 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched: Make scheduler_ipi inline Now that the scheduler IPI is trivial and simple again there is no point to have the little function out of line. This simplifies the effort of constraining the instrumentation nicely. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200505134058.453581595@linutronix.de
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17-Mar-2020 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu-tasks: Split ->trc_reader_need_end This commit splits ->trc_reader_need_end by using the rcu_special union. This change permits readers to check to see if a memory barrier is required without any added overhead in the common case where no such barrier is required. This commit also adds the read-side checking. Later commits will add the machinery to properly set the new ->trc_reader_special.b.need_mb field. This commit also makes rcu_read_unlock_trace_special() tolerate nested read-side critical sections within interrupt and NMI handlers. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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09-Mar-2020 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu-tasks: Add an RCU Tasks Trace to simplify protection of tracing hooks Because RCU does not watch exception early-entry/late-exit, idle-loop, or CPU-hotplug execution, protection of tracing and BPF operations is needlessly complicated. This commit therefore adds a variant of Tasks RCU that: o Has explicit read-side markers to allow finite grace periods in the face of in-kernel loops for PREEMPT=n builds. These markers are rcu_read_lock_trace() and rcu_read_unlock_trace(). o Protects code in the idle loop, exception entry/exit, and CPU-hotplug code paths. In this respect, RCU-tasks trace is similar to SRCU, but with lighter-weight readers. o Avoids expensive read-side instruction, having overhead similar to that of Preemptible RCU. There are of course downsides: o The grace-period code can send IPIs to CPUs, even when those CPUs are in the idle loop or in nohz_full userspace. This is mitigated by later commits. o It is necessary to scan the full tasklist, much as for Tasks RCU. o There is a single callback queue guarded by a single lock, again, much as for Tasks RCU. However, those early use cases that request multiple grace periods in quick succession are expected to do so from a single task, which makes the single lock almost irrelevant. If needed, multiple callback queues can be provided using any number of schemes. Perhaps most important, this variant of RCU does not affect the vanilla flavors, rcu_preempt and rcu_sched. The fact that RCU Tasks Trace readers can operate from idle, offline, and exception entry/exit in no way enables rcu_preempt and rcu_sched readers to do so. The memory ordering was outlined here: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200319034030.GX3199@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72/ This effort benefited greatly from off-list discussions of BPF requirements with Alexei Starovoitov and Andrii Nakryiko. At least some of the on-list discussions are captured in the Link: tags below. In addition, KCSAN was quite helpful in finding some early bugs. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200219150744.428764577@infradead.org/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87mu8p797b.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200225221305.605144982@linutronix.de/ Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> [ paulmck: Apply feedback from Steve Rostedt and Joel Fernandes. ] [ paulmck: Decrement trc_n_readers_need_end upon IPI failure. ] [ paulmck: Fix locking issue reported by rcutorture. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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15-Feb-2020 |
Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com> |
rcu: Remove unused ->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.deferred_qs field The ->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.deferred_qs field is set to true in rcu_read_unlock_special() but never set to false. This is not particularly useful, so this commit removes this field. The only possible justification for this field is to ease debugging of RCU deferred quiscent states, but the combination of the other ->rcu_read_unlock_special fields plus ->rcu_blocked_node and of course ->rcu_read_lock_nesting should cover debugging needs. And if this last proves incorrect, this patch can always be reverted, along with the required setting of ->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.deferred_qs to false in rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_irqrestore(). Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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30-Mar-2020 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
signal: Extend exec_id to 64bits Replace the 32bit exec_id with a 64bit exec_id to make it impossible to wrap the exec_id counter. With care an attacker can cause exec_id wrap and send arbitrary signals to a newly exec'd parent. This bypasses the signal sending checks if the parent changes their credentials during exec. The severity of this problem can been seen that in my limited testing of a 32bit exec_id it can take as little as 19s to exec 65536 times. Which means that it can take as little as 14 days to wrap a 32bit exec_id. Adam Zabrocki has succeeded wrapping the self_exe_id in 7 days. Even my slower timing is in the uptime of a typical server. Which means self_exec_id is simply a speed bump today, and if exec gets noticably faster self_exec_id won't even be a speed bump. Extending self_exec_id to 64bits introduces a problem on 32bit architectures where reading self_exec_id is no longer atomic and can take two read instructions. Which means that is is possible to hit a window where the read value of exec_id does not match the written value. So with very lucky timing after this change this still remains expoiltable. I have updated the update of exec_id on exec to use WRITE_ONCE and the read of exec_id in do_notify_parent to use READ_ONCE to make it clear that there is no locking between these two locations. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-hardening/20200324215049.GA3710@pi3.com.pl Fixes: 2.3.23pre2 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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20-Mar-2020 |
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> |
lockdep: Add hrtimer context tracing bits Set current->irq_config = 1 for hrtimers which are not marked to expire in hard interrupt context during hrtimer_init(). These timers will expire in softirq context on PREEMPT_RT. Setting this allows lockdep to differentiate these timers. If a timer is marked to expire in hard interrupt context then the timer callback is not supposed to acquire a regular spinlock instead of a raw_spinlock in the expiry callback. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200321113242.534508206@linutronix.de
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20-Mar-2020 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
lockdep: Introduce wait-type checks Extend lockdep to validate lock wait-type context. The current wait-types are: LD_WAIT_FREE, /* wait free, rcu etc.. */ LD_WAIT_SPIN, /* spin loops, raw_spinlock_t etc.. */ LD_WAIT_CONFIG, /* CONFIG_PREEMPT_LOCK, spinlock_t etc.. */ LD_WAIT_SLEEP, /* sleeping locks, mutex_t etc.. */ Where lockdep validates that the current lock (the one being acquired) fits in the current wait-context (as generated by the held stack). This ensures that there is no attempt to acquire mutexes while holding spinlocks, to acquire spinlocks while holding raw_spinlocks and so on. In other words, its a more fancy might_sleep(). Obviously RCU made the entire ordeal more complex than a simple single value test because RCU can be acquired in (pretty much) any context and while it presents a context to nested locks it is not the same as it got acquired in. Therefore its necessary to split the wait_type into two values, one representing the acquire (outer) and one representing the nested context (inner). For most 'normal' locks these two are the same. [ To make static initialization easier we have the rule that: .outer == INV means .outer == .inner; because INV == 0. ] It further means that its required to find the minimal .inner of the held stack to compare against the outer of the new lock; because while 'normal' RCU presents a CONFIG type to nested locks, if it is taken while already holding a SPIN type it obviously doesn't relax the rules. Below is an example output generated by the trivial test code: raw_spin_lock(&foo); spin_lock(&bar); spin_unlock(&bar); raw_spin_unlock(&foo); [ BUG: Invalid wait context ] ----------------------------- swapper/0/1 is trying to lock: ffffc90000013f20 (&bar){....}-{3:3}, at: kernel_init+0xdb/0x187 other info that might help us debug this: 1 lock held by swapper/0/1: #0: ffffc90000013ee0 (&foo){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: kernel_init+0xd1/0x187 The way to read it is to look at the new -{n,m} part in the lock description; -{3:3} for the attempted lock, and try and match that up to the held locks, which in this case is the one: -{2,2}. This tells that the acquiring lock requires a more relaxed environment than presented by the lock stack. Currently only the normal locks and RCU are converted, the rest of the lockdep users defaults to .inner = INV which is ignored. More conversions can be done when desired. The check for spinlock_t nesting is not enabled by default. It's a separate config option for now as there are known problems which are currently addressed. The config option allows to identify these problems and to verify that the solutions found are indeed solving them. The config switch will be removed and the checks will permanently enabled once the vast majority of issues has been addressed. [ bigeasy: Move LD_WAIT_FREE,… out of CONFIG_LOCKDEP to avoid compile failure with CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK + !CONFIG_LOCKDEP] [ tglx: Add the config option ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200321113242.427089655@linutronix.de
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16-Mar-2020 |
Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> |
psi: Move PF_MEMSTALL out of task->flags The task->flags is a 32-bits flag, in which 31 bits have already been consumed. So it is hardly to introduce other new per process flag. Currently there're still enough spaces in the bit-field section of task_struct, so we can define the memstall state as a single bit in task_struct instead. This patch also removes an out-of-date comment pointed by Matthew. Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1584408485-1921-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com
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24-Feb-2020 |
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> |
sched/pelt: Add a new runnable average signal Now that runnable_load_avg has been removed, we can replace it by a new signal that will highlight the runnable pressure on a cfs_rq. This signal track the waiting time of tasks on rq and can help to better define the state of rqs. At now, only util_avg is used to define the state of a rq: A rq with more that around 80% of utilization and more than 1 tasks is considered as overloaded. But the util_avg signal of a rq can become temporaly low after that a task migrated onto another rq which can bias the classification of the rq. When tasks compete for the same rq, their runnable average signal will be higher than util_avg as it will include the waiting time and we can use this signal to better classify cfs_rqs. The new runnable_avg will track the runnable time of a task which simply adds the waiting time to the running time. The runnable _avg of cfs_rq will be the /Sum of se's runnable_avg and the runnable_avg of group entity will follow the one of the rq similarly to util_avg. Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: "Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>" Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200224095223.13361-9-mgorman@techsingularity.net
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24-Feb-2020 |
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> |
sched/pelt: Remove unused runnable load average Now that runnable_load_avg is no more used, we can remove it to make space for a new signal. Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: "Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>" Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200224095223.13361-8-mgorman@techsingularity.net
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23-Jan-2020 |
Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com> |
sched.h: Annotate sighand_struct with __rcu This patch fixes the following sparse errors by annotating the sighand_struct with __rcu kernel/fork.c:1511:9: error: incompatible types in comparison expression kernel/exit.c:100:19: error: incompatible types in comparison expression kernel/signal.c:1370:27: error: incompatible types in comparison expression This fix introduces the following sparse error in signal.c due to checking the sighand pointer without rcu primitives: kernel/signal.c:1386:21: error: incompatible types in comparison expression This new sparse error is also fixed in this patch. Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200124045908.26389-1-madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
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11-Dec-2019 |
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> |
rseq: Unregister rseq for clone CLONE_VM It has been reported by Google that rseq is not behaving properly with respect to clone when CLONE_VM is used without CLONE_THREAD. It keeps the prior thread's rseq TLS registered when the TLS of the thread has moved, so the kernel can corrupt the TLS of the parent. The approach of clearing the per task-struct rseq registration on clone with CLONE_THREAD flag is incomplete. It does not cover the use-case of clone with CLONE_VM set, but without CLONE_THREAD. Here is the rationale for unregistering rseq on clone with CLONE_VM flag set: 1) CLONE_THREAD requires CLONE_SIGHAND, which requires CLONE_VM to be set. Therefore, just checking for CLONE_VM covers all CLONE_THREAD uses. There is no point in checking for both CLONE_THREAD and CLONE_VM, 2) There is the possibility of an unlikely scenario where CLONE_SETTLS is used without CLONE_VM. In order to be an issue, it would require that the rseq TLS is in a shared memory area. I do not plan on adding CLONE_SETTLS to the set of clone flags which unregister RSEQ, because it would require that we also unregister RSEQ on set_thread_area(2) and arch_prctl(2) ARCH_SET_FS for completeness. So rather than doing a partial solution, it appears better to let user-space explicitly perform rseq unregistration across clone if needed in scenarios where CLONE_VM is not set. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191211161713.4490-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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04-Dec-2019 |
Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> |
kcov: remote coverage support Patch series " kcov: collect coverage from usb and vhost", v3. This patchset extends kcov to allow collecting coverage from backgound kernel threads. This extension requires custom annotations for each of the places where coverage collection is desired. This patchset implements this for hub events in the USB subsystem and for vhost workers. See the first patch description for details about the kcov extension. The other two patches apply this kcov extension to USB and vhost. Examples of other subsystems that might potentially benefit from this when custom annotations are added (the list is based on process_one_work() callers for bugs recently reported by syzbot): 1. fs: writeback wb_workfn() worker, 2. net: addrconf_dad_work()/addrconf_verify_work() workers, 3. net: neigh_periodic_work() worker, 4. net/p9: p9_write_work()/p9_read_work() workers, 5. block: blk_mq_run_work_fn() worker. These patches have been used to enable coverage-guided USB fuzzing with syzkaller for the last few years, see the details here: https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/linux/external_fuzzing_usb.md This patchset has been pushed to the public Linux kernel Gerrit instance: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/c/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux/+/1524 This patch (of 3): Add background thread coverage collection ability to kcov. With KCOV_ENABLE coverage is collected only for syscalls that are issued from the current process. With KCOV_REMOTE_ENABLE it's possible to collect coverage for arbitrary parts of the kernel code, provided that those parts are annotated with kcov_remote_start()/kcov_remote_stop(). This allows to collect coverage from two types of kernel background threads: the global ones, that are spawned during kernel boot in a limited number of instances (e.g. one USB hub_event() worker thread is spawned per USB HCD); and the local ones, that are spawned when a user interacts with some kernel interface (e.g. vhost workers). To enable collecting coverage from a global background thread, a unique global handle must be assigned and passed to the corresponding kcov_remote_start() call. Then a userspace process can pass a list of such handles to the KCOV_REMOTE_ENABLE ioctl in the handles array field of the kcov_remote_arg struct. This will attach the used kcov device to the code sections, that are referenced by those handles. Since there might be many local background threads spawned from different userspace processes, we can't use a single global handle per annotation. Instead, the userspace process passes a non-zero handle through the common_handle field of the kcov_remote_arg struct. This common handle gets saved to the kcov_handle field in the current task_struct and needs to be passed to the newly spawned threads via custom annotations. Those threads should in turn be annotated with kcov_remote_start()/kcov_remote_stop(). Internally kcov stores handles as u64 integers. The top byte of a handle is used to denote the id of a subsystem that this handle belongs to, and the lower 4 bytes are used to denote the id of a thread instance within that subsystem. A reserved value 0 is used as a subsystem id for common handles as they don't belong to a particular subsystem. The bytes 4-7 are currently reserved and must be zero. In the future the number of bytes used for the subsystem or handle ids might be increased. When a particular userspace process collects coverage by via a common handle, kcov will collect coverage for each code section that is annotated to use the common handle obtained as kcov_handle from the current task_struct. However non common handles allow to collect coverage selectively from different subsystems. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e90e315426a384207edbec1d6aa89e43008e4caf.1572366574.git.andreyknvl@google.com Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com> Cc: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> Cc: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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06-Nov-2019 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
futex: Add mutex around futex exit The mutex will be used in subsequent changes to replace the busy looping of a waiter when the futex owner is currently executing the exit cleanup to prevent a potential live lock. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191106224556.845798895@linutronix.de
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06-Nov-2019 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
futex: Replace PF_EXITPIDONE with a state The futex exit handling relies on PF_ flags. That's suboptimal as it requires a smp_mb() and an ugly lock/unlock of the exiting tasks pi_lock in the middle of do_exit() to enforce the observability of PF_EXITING in the futex code. Add a futex_state member to task_struct and convert the PF_EXITPIDONE logic over to the new state. The PF_EXITING dependency will be cleaned up in a later step. This prepares for handling various futex exit issues later. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191106224556.149449274@linutronix.de
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14-Nov-2019 |
Marco Elver <elver@google.com> |
kcsan: Add Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer infrastructure Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (KCSAN) is a dynamic data-race detector for kernel space. KCSAN is a sampling watchpoint-based data-race detector. See the included Documentation/dev-tools/kcsan.rst for more details. This patch adds basic infrastructure, but does not yet enable KCSAN for any architecture. Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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07-Nov-2019 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
time: Rename tsk->real_start_time to ->start_boottime Since it stores CLOCK_BOOTTIME, not, as the name suggests, CLOCK_REALTIME, let's rename ->real_start_time to ->start_bootime. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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22-Oct-2019 |
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> |
io-wq: small threadpool implementation for io_uring This adds support for io-wq, a smaller and specialized thread pool implementation. This is meant to replace workqueues for io_uring. Among the reasons for this addition are: - We can assign memory context smarter and more persistently if we manage the life time of threads. - We can drop various work-arounds we have in io_uring, like the async_list. - We can implement hashed work insertion, to manage concurrency of buffered writes without needing a) an extra workqueue, or b) needlessly making the concurrency of said workqueue very low which hurts performance of multiple buffered file writers. - We can implement cancel through signals, for cancelling interruptible work like read/write (or send/recv) to/from sockets. - We need the above cancel for being able to assign and use file tables from a process. - We can implement a more thorough cancel operation in general. - We need it to move towards a syslet/threadlet model for even faster async execution. For that we need to take ownership of the used threads. This list is just off the top of my head. Performance should be the same, or better, at least that's what I've seen in my testing. io-wq supports basic NUMA functionality, setting up a pool per node. io-wq hooks up to the scheduler schedule in/out just like workqueue and uses that to drive the need for more/less workers. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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15-Oct-2019 |
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> |
sched/cputime: Add vtime guest task state Record guest as a VTIME state instead of guessing it from VTIME_SYS and PF_VCPU. This is going to simplify the cputime read side especially as its state machine is going to further expand in order to fully support kcpustat on nohz_full. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Cc: Yauheni Kaliuta <yauheni.kaliuta@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191016025700.31277-4-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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15-Oct-2019 |
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> |
sched/cputime: Add vtime idle task state Record idle as a VTIME state instead of guessing it from VTIME_SYS and is_idle_task(). This is going to simplify the cputime read side especially as its state machine is going to further expand in order to fully support kcpustat on nohz_full. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Cc: Yauheni Kaliuta <yauheni.kaliuta@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191016025700.31277-3-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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15-Oct-2019 |
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> |
sched/vtime: Record CPU under seqcount for kcpustat needs In order to compute the kcpustat delta on a nohz CPU, we'll need to fetch the task running on that target. Checking that its vtime state snapshot actually refers to the relevant target involves recording that CPU under the seqcount locked on task switch. This is a step toward making kcpustat moving forward on full nohz CPUs. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com> Cc: Yauheni Kaliuta <yauheni.kaliuta@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191016025700.31277-2-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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15-Oct-2019 |
Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@gmail.com> |
arm64: entry.S: Do not preempt from IRQ before all cpufeatures are enabled Preempting from IRQ-return means that the task has its PSTATE saved on the stack, which will get restored when the task is resumed and does the actual IRQ return. However, enabling some CPU features requires modifying the PSTATE. This means that, if a task was scheduled out during an IRQ-return before all CPU features are enabled, the task might restore a PSTATE that does not include the feature enablement changes once scheduled back in. * Task 1: PAN == 0 ---| |--------------- | |<- return from IRQ, PSTATE.PAN = 0 | <- IRQ | +--------+ <- preempt() +-- ^ | reschedule Task 1, PSTATE.PAN == 1 * Init: --------------------+------------------------ ^ | enable_cpu_features set PSTATE.PAN on all CPUs Worse than this, since PSTATE is untouched when task switching is done, a task missing the new bits in PSTATE might affect another task, if both do direct calls to schedule() (outside of IRQ/exception contexts). Fix this by preventing preemption on IRQ-return until features are enabled on all CPUs. This way the only PSTATE values that are saved on the stack are from synchronous exceptions. These are expected to be fatal this early, the exception is BRK for WARN_ON(), but as this uses do_debug_exception() which keeps IRQs masked, it shouldn't call schedule(). Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> [james: Replaced a really cool hack, with an even simpler static key in C. expanded commit message with Julien's cover-letter ascii art] Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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14-Sep-2019 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
tasks: Add a count of task RCU users Add a count of the number of RCU users (currently 1) of the task struct so that we can later add the scheduler case and get rid of the very subtle task_rcu_dereference(), and just use rcu_dereference(). As suggested by Oleg have the count overlap rcu_head so that no additional space in task_struct is required. Inspired-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Inspired-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87woebdplt.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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17-Sep-2019 |
Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> |
sched/core: Convert vcpu_is_preempted() from macro to an inline function Clang reports this warning: kernel/locking/osq_lock.c:25:19: warning: unused function 'node_cpu' [-Wunused-function] due to osq_lock() calling vcpu_is_preempted(node_cpu(node->prev))), but vcpu_is_preempted() is compiled away. Fix it by converting the dummy vcpu_is_preempted() from a macro to a proper static inline function. Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: bsegall@google.com Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1568730894-10483-1-git-send-email-cai@lca.pw Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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26-Aug-2019 |
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> |
kernel.h: Add non_block_start/end() In some special cases we must not block, but there's not a spinlock, preempt-off, irqs-off or similar critical section already that arms the might_sleep() debug checks. Add a non_block_start/end() pair to annotate these. This will be used in the oom paths of mmu-notifiers, where blocking is not allowed to make sure there's forward progress. Quoting Michal: "The notifier is called from quite a restricted context - oom_reaper - which shouldn't depend on any locks or sleepable conditionals. The code should be swift as well but we mostly do care about it to make a forward progress. Checking for sleepable context is the best thing we could come up with that would describe these demands at least partially." Peter also asked whether we want to catch spinlocks on top, but Michal said those are less of a problem because spinlocks can't have an indirect dependency upon the page allocator and hence close the loop with the oom reaper. Suggested by Michal Hocko. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190826201425.17547-4-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> (v1) Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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21-Aug-2019 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
posix-cpu-timers: Move expiry cache into struct posix_cputimers The expiry cache belongs into the posix_cputimers container where the other cpu timers information is. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190821192921.014444012@linutronix.de
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21-Aug-2019 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched: Move struct task_cputime to types.h For upcoming posix-timer changes to avoid include recursion hell. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190821192920.909530418@linutronix.de
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21-Aug-2019 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
posix-cpu-timers: Create a container struct Per task/process data of posix CPU timers is all over the place which makes the code hard to follow and requires ifdeffery. Create a container to hold all this information in one place, so data is consolidated and the ifdeffery can be confined to the posix timer header file and removed from places like fork. As a first step, move the cpu_timers list head array into the new struct and clean up the initializers and simplify fork. The remaining #ifdef in fork will be removed later. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190821192920.819418976@linutronix.de
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26-Jul-2019 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched/preempt: Use CONFIG_PREEMPTION where appropriate CONFIG_PREEMPTION is selected by CONFIG_PREEMPT and by CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT. Both PREEMPT and PREEMPT_RT require the same functionality which today depends on CONFIG_PREEMPT. Switch the preemption code, scheduler and init task over to use CONFIG_PREEMPTION. That's the first step towards RT in that area. The more complex changes are coming separately. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190726212124.117528401@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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19-Jul-2019 |
Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> |
cpusets: Rebuild root domain deadline accounting information When the topology of root domains is modified by CPUset or CPUhotplug operations information about the current deadline bandwidth held in the root domain is lost. This patch addresses the issue by recalculating the lost deadline bandwidth information by circling through the deadline tasks held in CPUsets and adding their current load to the root domain they are associated with. Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> [ Various additional modifications. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: bristot@redhat.com Cc: claudio@evidence.eu.com Cc: lizefan@huawei.com Cc: longman@redhat.com Cc: luca.abeni@santannapisa.it Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: tj@kernel.org Cc: tommaso.cucinotta@santannapisa.it Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190719140000.31694-4-juri.lelli@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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16-Jul-2019 |
Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> |
sched/fair: Use RCU accessors consistently for ->numa_group The old code used RCU annotations and accessors inconsistently for ->numa_group, which can lead to use-after-frees and NULL dereferences. Let all accesses to ->numa_group use proper RCU helpers to prevent such issues. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Fixes: 8c8a743c5087 ("sched/numa: Use {cpu, pid} to create task groups for shared faults") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190716152047.14424-3-jannh@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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21-Jun-2019 |
Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com> |
sched/uclamp: Extend sched_setattr() to support utilization clamping The SCHED_DEADLINE scheduling class provides an advanced and formal model to define tasks requirements that can translate into proper decisions for both task placements and frequencies selections. Other classes have a more simplified model based on the POSIX concept of priorities. Such a simple priority based model however does not allow to exploit most advanced features of the Linux scheduler like, for example, driving frequencies selection via the schedutil cpufreq governor. However, also for non SCHED_DEADLINE tasks, it's still interesting to define tasks properties to support scheduler decisions. Utilization clamping exposes to user-space a new set of per-task attributes the scheduler can use as hints about the expected/required utilization for a task. This allows to implement a "proactive" per-task frequency control policy, a more advanced policy than the current one based just on "passive" measured task utilization. For example, it's possible to boost interactive tasks (e.g. to get better performance) or cap background tasks (e.g. to be more energy/thermal efficient). Introduce a new API to set utilization clamping values for a specified task by extending sched_setattr(), a syscall which already allows to define task specific properties for different scheduling classes. A new pair of attributes allows to specify a minimum and maximum utilization the scheduler can consider for a task. Do that by validating the required clamp values before and then applying the required changes using _the_ same pattern already in use for __setscheduler(). This ensures that the task is re-enqueued with the new clamp values. Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alessio Balsini <balsini@android.com> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com> Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190621084217.8167-7-patrick.bellasi@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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21-Jun-2019 |
Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com> |
sched/uclamp: Add system default clamps Tasks without a user-defined clamp value are considered not clamped and by default their utilization can have any value in the [0..SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE] range. Tasks with a user-defined clamp value are allowed to request any value in that range, and the required clamp is unconditionally enforced. However, a "System Management Software" could be interested in limiting the range of clamp values allowed for all tasks. Add a privileged interface to define a system default configuration via: /proc/sys/kernel/sched_uclamp_util_{min,max} which works as an unconditional clamp range restriction for all tasks. With the default configuration, the full SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE range of values is allowed for each clamp index. Otherwise, the task-specific clamp is capped by the corresponding system default value. Do that by tracking, for each task, the "effective" clamp value and bucket the task has been refcounted in at enqueue time. This allows to lazy aggregate "requested" and "system default" values at enqueue time and simplifies refcounting updates at dequeue time. The cached bucket ids are used to avoid (relatively) more expensive integer divisions every time a task is enqueued. An active flag is used to report when the "effective" value is valid and thus the task is actually refcounted in the corresponding rq's bucket. Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alessio Balsini <balsini@android.com> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com> Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190621084217.8167-5-patrick.bellasi@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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21-Jun-2019 |
Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com> |
sched/uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets refcounting Utilization clamping allows to clamp the CPU's utilization within a [util_min, util_max] range, depending on the set of RUNNABLE tasks on that CPU. Each task references two "clamp buckets" defining its minimum and maximum (util_{min,max}) utilization "clamp values". A CPU's clamp bucket is active if there is at least one RUNNABLE tasks enqueued on that CPU and refcounting that bucket. When a task is {en,de}queued {on,from} a rq, the set of active clamp buckets on that CPU can change. If the set of active clamp buckets changes for a CPU a new "aggregated" clamp value is computed for that CPU. This is because each clamp bucket enforces a different utilization clamp value. Clamp values are always MAX aggregated for both util_min and util_max. This ensures that no task can affect the performance of other co-scheduled tasks which are more boosted (i.e. with higher util_min clamp) or less capped (i.e. with higher util_max clamp). A task has: task_struct::uclamp[clamp_id]::bucket_id to track the "bucket index" of the CPU's clamp bucket it refcounts while enqueued, for each clamp index (clamp_id). A runqueue has: rq::uclamp[clamp_id]::bucket[bucket_id].tasks to track how many RUNNABLE tasks on that CPU refcount each clamp bucket (bucket_id) of a clamp index (clamp_id). It also has a: rq::uclamp[clamp_id]::bucket[bucket_id].value to track the clamp value of each clamp bucket (bucket_id) of a clamp index (clamp_id). The rq::uclamp::bucket[clamp_id][] array is scanned every time it's needed to find a new MAX aggregated clamp value for a clamp_id. This operation is required only when it's dequeued the last task of a clamp bucket tracking the current MAX aggregated clamp value. In this case, the CPU is either entering IDLE or going to schedule a less boosted or more clamped task. The expected number of different clamp values configured at build time is small enough to fit the full unordered array into a single cache line, for configurations of up to 7 buckets. Add to struct rq the basic data structures required to refcount the number of RUNNABLE tasks for each clamp bucket. Add also the max aggregation required to update the rq's clamp value at each enqueue/dequeue event. Use a simple linear mapping of clamp values into clamp buckets. Pre-compute and cache bucket_id to avoid integer divisions at enqueue/dequeue time. Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alessio Balsini <balsini@android.com> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com> Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190621084217.8167-2-patrick.bellasi@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Jun-2019 |
Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com> |
sched/debug: Add a new sched_trace_*() helper functions The new functions allow modules to access internal data structures of unexported struct cfs_rq and struct rq to extract important information from the tracepoints to be introduced in later patches. While at it fix alphabetical order of struct declarations in sched.h Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pavankumar Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Uwe Kleine-Konig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604111459.2862-3-qais.yousef@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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19-Jun-2019 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
keys: Cache result of request_key*() temporarily in task_struct If a filesystem uses keys to hold authentication tokens, then it needs a token for each VFS operation that might perform an authentication check - either by passing it to the server, or using to perform a check based on authentication data cached locally. For open files this isn't a problem, since the key should be cached in the file struct since it represents the subject performing operations on that file descriptor. During pathwalk, however, there isn't anywhere to cache the key, except perhaps in the nameidata struct - but that isn't exposed to the filesystems. Further, a pathwalk can incur a lot of operations, calling one or more of the following, for instance: ->lookup() ->permission() ->d_revalidate() ->d_automount() ->get_acl() ->getxattr() on each dentry/inode it encounters - and each one may need to call request_key(). And then, at the end of pathwalk, it will call the actual operation: ->mkdir() ->mknod() ->getattr() ->open() ... which may need to go and get the token again. However, it is very likely that all of the operations on a single dentry/inode - and quite possibly a sequence of them - will all want to use the same authentication token, which suggests that caching it would be a good idea. To this end: (1) Make it so that a positive result of request_key() and co. that didn't require upcalling to userspace is cached temporarily in task_struct. (2) The cache is 1 deep, so a new result displaces the old one. (3) The key is released by exit and by notify-resume. (4) The cache is cleared in a newly forked process. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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07-Jun-2019 |
Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> |
processor: get rid of cpu_relax_yield stop_machine is the only user left of cpu_relax_yield. Given that it now has special semantics which are tied to stop_machine introduce a weak stop_machine_yield function which architectures can override, and get rid of the generic cpu_relax_yield implementation. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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16-May-2019 |
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> |
s390: improve wait logic of stop_machine The stop_machine loop to advance the state machine and to wait for all affected CPUs to check-in calls cpu_relax_yield in a tight loop until the last missing CPUs acknowledged the state transition. On a virtual system where not all logical CPUs are backed by real CPUs all the time it can take a while for all CPUs to check-in. With the current definition of cpu_relax_yield a diagnose 0x44 is done which tells the hypervisor to schedule *some* other CPU. That can be any CPU and not necessarily one of the CPUs that need to run in order to advance the state machine. This can lead to a pretty bad diagnose 0x44 storm until the last missing CPU finally checked-in. Replace the undirected cpu_relax_yield based on diagnose 0x44 with a directed yield. Each CPU in the wait loop will pick up the next CPU in the cpumask of stop_machine. The diagnose 0x9c is used to tell the hypervisor to run this next CPU instead of the current one. If there is only a limited number of real CPUs backing the virtual CPUs we end up with the real CPUs passed around in a round-robin fashion. [heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com]: Use cpumask_next_wrap as suggested by Peter Zijlstra. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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23-Apr-2019 |
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> |
sched/core: Provide a pointer to the valid CPU mask In commit: 4b53a3412d66 ("sched/core: Remove the tsk_nr_cpus_allowed() wrapper") the tsk_nr_cpus_allowed() wrapper was removed. There was not much difference in !RT but in RT we used this to implement migrate_disable(). Within a migrate_disable() section the CPU mask is restricted to single CPU while the "normal" CPU mask remains untouched. As an alternative implementation Ingo suggested to use: struct task_struct { const cpumask_t *cpus_ptr; cpumask_t cpus_mask; }; with t->cpus_ptr = &t->cpus_mask; In -RT we then can switch the cpus_ptr to: t->cpus_ptr = &cpumask_of(task_cpu(p)); in a migration disabled region. The rules are simple: - Code that 'uses' ->cpus_allowed would use the pointer. - Code that 'modifies' ->cpus_allowed would use the direct mask. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190423142636.14347-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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24-Mar-2019 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Check for wakeup-safe conditions in rcu_read_unlock_special() When RCU core processing is offloaded from RCU_SOFTIRQ to the rcuc kthreads, a full and unconditional wakeup is required to initiate RCU core processing. In contrast, when RCU core processing is carried out by RCU_SOFTIRQ, a raise_softirq() suffices. Of course, there are situations where raise_softirq() does a full wakeup, but these do not occur with normal usage of rcu_read_unlock(). The reason that full wakeups can be problematic is that the scheduler sometimes invokes rcu_read_unlock() with its pi or rq locks held, which can of course result in deadlock in CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernels when rcu_read_unlock() invokes the scheduler. Scheduler invocations can happen in the following situations: (1) The just-ended reader has been subjected to RCU priority boosting, in which case rcu_read_unlock() must deboost, (2) Interrupts were disabled across the call to rcu_read_unlock(), so the quiescent state must be deferred, requiring a wakeup of the rcuc kthread corresponding to the current CPU. Now, the scheduler may hold one of its locks across rcu_read_unlock() only if preemption has been disabled across the entire RCU read-side critical section, which in the days prior to RCU flavor consolidation meant that rcu_read_unlock() never needed to do wakeups. However, this is no longer the case for any but the first rcu_read_unlock() following a condition (e.g., preempted RCU reader) requiring special rcu_read_unlock() attention. For example, an RCU read-side critical section might be preempted, but preemption might be disabled across the rcu_read_unlock(). The rcu_read_unlock() must defer the quiescent state, and therefore leaves the task queued on its leaf rcu_node structure. If a scheduler interrupt occurs, the scheduler might well invoke rcu_read_unlock() with one of its locks held. However, the preempted task is still queued, so rcu_read_unlock() will attempt to defer the quiescent state once more. When RCU core processing is carried out by RCU_SOFTIRQ, this works just fine: The raise_softirq() function simply sets a bit in a per-CPU mask and the RCU core processing will be undertaken upon return from interrupt. Not so when RCU core processing is carried out by the rcuc kthread: In this case, the required wakeup can result in deadlock. The initial solution to this problem was to use set_tsk_need_resched() and set_preempt_need_resched() to force a future context switch, which allows rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() to report the deferred quiescent state to RCU's core processing. Unfortunately for expedited grace periods, there can be a significant delay between the call for a context switch and the actual context switch. This commit therefore introduces a ->deferred_qs flag to the task_struct structure's rcu_special structure. This flag is initially false, and is set to true by the first call to rcu_read_unlock() requiring special attention, then finally reset back to false when the quiescent state is finally reported. Then rcu_read_unlock() attempts full wakeups only when ->deferred_qs is false, that is, on the first rcu_read_unlock() requiring special attention. Note that a chain of RCU readers linked by some other sort of reader may find that a later rcu_read_unlock() is once again able to do a full wakeup, courtesy of an intervening preemption: rcu_read_lock(); /* preempted */ local_irq_disable(); rcu_read_unlock(); /* Can do full wakeup, sets ->deferred_qs. */ rcu_read_lock(); local_irq_enable(); preempt_disable() rcu_read_unlock(); /* Cannot do full wakeup, ->deferred_qs set. */ rcu_read_lock(); preempt_enable(); /* preempted, >deferred_qs reset. */ local_irq_disable(); rcu_read_unlock(); /* Can again do full wakeup, sets ->deferred_qs. */ Such linked RCU readers do not yet seem to appear in the Linux kernel, and it is probably best if they don't. However, RCU needs to handle them, and some variations on this theme could make even raise_softirq() unsafe due to the possibility of its doing a full wakeup. This commit therefore also avoids invoking raise_softirq() when the ->deferred_qs set flag is set. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
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14-May-2019 |
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> |
include/: refactor headers to allow kthread.h inclusion in psi_types.h kthread.h can't be included in psi_types.h because it creates a circular inclusion with kthread.h eventually including psi_types.h and complaining on kthread structures not being defined because they are defined further in the kthread.h. Resolve this by removing psi_types.h inclusion from the headers included from kthread.h. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190319235619.260832-7-surenb@google.com Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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19-Apr-2019 |
Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> |
cgroup: cgroup v2 freezer Cgroup v1 implements the freezer controller, which provides an ability to stop the workload in a cgroup and temporarily free up some resources (cpu, io, network bandwidth and, potentially, memory) for some other tasks. Cgroup v2 lacks this functionality. This patch implements freezer for cgroup v2. Cgroup v2 freezer tries to put tasks into a state similar to jobctl stop. This means that tasks can be killed, ptraced (using PTRACE_SEIZE*), and interrupted. It is possible to attach to a frozen task, get some information (e.g. read registers) and detach. It's also possible to migrate a frozen tasks to another cgroup. This differs cgroup v2 freezer from cgroup v1 freezer, which mostly tried to imitate the system-wide freezer. However uninterruptible sleep is fine when all tasks are going to be frozen (hibernation case), it's not the acceptable state for some subset of the system. Cgroup v2 freezer is not supporting freezing kthreads. If a non-root cgroup contains kthread, the cgroup still can be frozen, but the kthread will remain running, the cgroup will be shown as non-frozen, and the notification will not be delivered. * PTRACE_ATTACH is not working because non-fatal signal delivery is blocked in frozen state. There are some interface differences between cgroup v1 and cgroup v2 freezer too, which are required to conform the cgroup v2 interface design principles: 1) There is no separate controller, which has to be turned on: the functionality is always available and is represented by cgroup.freeze and cgroup.events cgroup control files. 2) The desired state is defined by the cgroup.freeze control file. Any hierarchical configuration is allowed. 3) The interface is asynchronous. The actual state is available using cgroup.events control file ("frozen" field). There are no dedicated transitional states. 4) It's allowed to make any changes with the cgroup hierarchy (create new cgroups, remove old cgroups, move tasks between cgroups) no matter if some cgroups are frozen. Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> No-objection-from-me-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
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05-Mar-2019 |
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> |
rseq: Remove superfluous rseq_len from task_struct The rseq system call, when invoked with flags of "0" or "RSEQ_FLAG_UNREGISTER" values, expects the rseq_len parameter to be equal to sizeof(struct rseq), which is fixed-size and fixed-layout, specified in uapi linux/rseq.h. Expecting a fixed size for rseq_len is a design choice that ensures multiple libraries and application defining __rseq_abi in the same process agree on its exact size. Considering that this size is and will always be the same value, there is no point in saving this value within task_struct rseq_len. Remove this field from task_struct. No change in functionality intended. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Ben Maurer <bmaurer@fb.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Chris Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190305194755.2602-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Mar-2019 |
Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> |
mm/cma: add PF flag to force non cma alloc Patch series "mm/kvm/vfio/ppc64: Migrate compound pages out of CMA region", v8. ppc64 uses the CMA area for the allocation of guest page table (hash page table). We won't be able to start guest if we fail to allocate hash page table. We have observed hash table allocation failure because we failed to migrate pages out of CMA region because they were pinned. This happen when we are using VFIO. VFIO on ppc64 pins the entire guest RAM. If the guest RAM pages get allocated out of CMA region, we won't be able to migrate those pages. The pages are also pinned for the lifetime of the guest. Currently we support migration of non-compound pages. With THP and with the addition of hugetlb migration we can end up allocating compound pages from CMA region. This patch series add support for migrating compound pages. This patch (of 4): Add PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA which make sure any allocation in that context is marked non-movable and hence cannot be satisfied by CMA region. This is useful with get_user_pages_longterm where we want to take a page pin by migrating pages from CMA region. Marking the section PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA ensures that we avoid unnecessary page migration later. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190114095438.32470-2-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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05-Mar-2019 |
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> |
mm, compaction: capture a page under direct compaction Compaction is inherently race-prone as a suitable page freed during compaction can be allocated by any parallel task. This patch uses a capture_control structure to isolate a page immediately when it is freed by a direct compactor in the slow path of the page allocator. The intent is to avoid redundant scanning. 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 selective-v3r17 capture-v3r19 Amean fault-both-1 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 * 0.00%* Amean fault-both-3 2582.11 ( 0.00%) 2563.68 ( 0.71%) Amean fault-both-5 4500.26 ( 0.00%) 4233.52 ( 5.93%) Amean fault-both-7 5819.53 ( 0.00%) 6333.65 ( -8.83%) Amean fault-both-12 9321.18 ( 0.00%) 9759.38 ( -4.70%) Amean fault-both-18 9782.76 ( 0.00%) 10338.76 ( -5.68%) Amean fault-both-24 15272.81 ( 0.00%) 13379.55 * 12.40%* Amean fault-both-30 15121.34 ( 0.00%) 16158.25 ( -6.86%) Amean fault-both-32 18466.67 ( 0.00%) 18971.21 ( -2.73%) Latency is only moderately affected but the devil is in the details. A closer examination indicates that base page fault latency is reduced but latency of huge pages is increased as it takes creater care to succeed. Part of the "problem" is that allocation success rates are close to 100% even when under pressure and compaction gets harder 5.0.0-rc1 5.0.0-rc1 selective-v3r17 capture-v3r19 Percentage huge-3 96.70 ( 0.00%) 98.23 ( 1.58%) Percentage huge-5 96.99 ( 0.00%) 95.30 ( -1.75%) Percentage huge-7 94.19 ( 0.00%) 97.24 ( 3.24%) Percentage huge-12 94.95 ( 0.00%) 97.35 ( 2.53%) Percentage huge-18 96.74 ( 0.00%) 97.30 ( 0.58%) Percentage huge-24 97.07 ( 0.00%) 97.55 ( 0.50%) Percentage huge-30 95.69 ( 0.00%) 98.50 ( 2.95%) Percentage huge-32 96.70 ( 0.00%) 99.27 ( 2.65%) And scan rates are reduced as expected by 6% for the migration scanner and 29% for the free scanner indicating that there is less redundant work. Compaction migrate scanned 20815362 19573286 Compaction free scanned 16352612 11510663 [mgorman@techsingularity.net: remove redundant check] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190201143853.GH9565@techsingularity.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190118175136.31341-23-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-Feb-2019 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Revert "x86/fault: BUG() when uaccess helpers fault on kernel addresses" This reverts commit 9da3f2b74054406f87dff7101a569217ffceb29b. It was well-intentioned, but wrong. Overriding the exception tables for instructions for random reasons is just wrong, and that is what the new code did. It caused problems for tracing, and it caused problems for strncpy_from_user(), because the new checks made perfectly valid use cases break, rather than catch things that did bad things. Unchecked user space accesses are a problem, but that's not a reason to add invalid checks that then people have to work around with silly flags (in this case, that 'kernel_uaccess_faults_ok' flag, which is just an odd way to say "this commit was wrong" and was sprinked into random places to hide the wrongness). The real fix to unchecked user space accesses is to get rid of the special "let's not check __get_user() and __put_user() at all" logic. Make __{get|put}_user() be just aliases to the regular {get|put}_user() functions, and make it impossible to access user space without having the proper checks in places. The raison d'être of the special double-underscore versions used to be that the range check was expensive, and if you did multiple user accesses, you'd do the range check up front (like the signal frame handling code, for example). But SMAP (on x86) and PAN (on ARM) have made that optimization pointless, because the _real_ expense is the "set CPU flag to allow user space access". Do let's not break the valid cases to catch invalid cases that shouldn't even exist. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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21-Jan-2019 |
Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com> |
sched/core: Use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() in move_queued_task()/task_rq_lock() move_queued_task() synchronizes with task_rq_lock() as follows: move_queued_task() task_rq_lock() [S] ->on_rq = MIGRATING [L] rq = task_rq() WMB (__set_task_cpu()) ACQUIRE (rq->lock); [S] ->cpu = new_cpu [L] ->on_rq where "[L] rq = task_rq()" is ordered before "ACQUIRE (rq->lock)" by an address dependency and, in turn, "ACQUIRE (rq->lock)" is ordered before "[L] ->on_rq" by the ACQUIRE itself. Use READ_ONCE() to load ->cpu in task_rq() (c.f., task_cpu()) to honor this address dependency. Also, mark the accesses to ->cpu and ->on_rq with READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() to comply with the LKMM. Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190121155240.27173-1-andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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23-Jan-2019 |
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> |
sched/fair: Update scale invariance of PELT The current implementation of load tracking invariance scales the contribution with current frequency and uarch performance (only for utilization) of the CPU. One main result of this formula is that the figures are capped by current capacity of CPU. Another one is that the load_avg is not invariant because not scaled with uarch. The util_avg of a periodic task that runs r time slots every p time slots varies in the range : U * (1-y^r)/(1-y^p) * y^i < Utilization < U * (1-y^r)/(1-y^p) with U is the max util_avg value = SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE At a lower capacity, the range becomes: U * C * (1-y^r')/(1-y^p) * y^i' < Utilization < U * C * (1-y^r')/(1-y^p) with C reflecting the compute capacity ratio between current capacity and max capacity. so C tries to compensate changes in (1-y^r') but it can't be accurate. Instead of scaling the contribution value of PELT algo, we should scale the running time. The PELT signal aims to track the amount of computation of tasks and/or rq so it seems more correct to scale the running time to reflect the effective amount of computation done since the last update. In order to be fully invariant, we need to apply the same amount of running time and idle time whatever the current capacity. Because running at lower capacity implies that the task will run longer, we have to ensure that the same amount of idle time will be applied when system becomes idle and no idle time has been "stolen". But reaching the maximum utilization value (SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE) means that the task is seen as an always-running task whatever the capacity of the CPU (even at max compute capacity). In this case, we can discard this "stolen" idle times which becomes meaningless. In order to achieve this time scaling, a new clock_pelt is created per rq. The increase of this clock scales with current capacity when something is running on rq and synchronizes with clock_task when rq is idle. With this mechanism, we ensure the same running and idle time whatever the current capacity. This also enables to simplify the pelt algorithm by removing all references of uarch and frequency and applying the same contribution to utilization and loads. Furthermore, the scaling is done only once per update of clock (update_rq_clock_task()) instead of during each update of sched_entities and cfs/rt/dl_rq of the rq like the current implementation. This is interesting when cgroup are involved as shown in the results below: On a hikey (octo Arm64 platform). Performance cpufreq governor and only shallowest c-state to remove variance generated by those power features so we only track the impact of pelt algo. each test runs 16 times: ./perf bench sched pipe (higher is better) kernel tip/sched/core + patch ops/seconds ops/seconds diff cgroup root 59652(+/- 0.18%) 59876(+/- 0.24%) +0.38% level1 55608(+/- 0.27%) 55923(+/- 0.24%) +0.57% level2 52115(+/- 0.29%) 52564(+/- 0.22%) +0.86% hackbench -l 1000 (lower is better) kernel tip/sched/core + patch duration(sec) duration(sec) diff cgroup root 4.453(+/- 2.37%) 4.383(+/- 2.88%) -1.57% level1 4.859(+/- 8.50%) 4.830(+/- 7.07%) -0.60% level2 5.063(+/- 9.83%) 4.928(+/- 9.66%) -2.66% Then, the responsiveness of PELT is improved when CPU is not running at max capacity with this new algorithm. I have put below some examples of duration to reach some typical load values according to the capacity of the CPU with current implementation and with this patch. These values has been computed based on the geometric series and the half period value: Util (%) max capacity half capacity(mainline) half capacity(w/ patch) 972 (95%) 138ms not reachable 276ms 486 (47.5%) 30ms 138ms 60ms 256 (25%) 13ms 32ms 26ms On my hikey (octo Arm64 platform) with schedutil governor, the time to reach max OPP when starting from a null utilization, decreases from 223ms with current scale invariance down to 121ms with the new algorithm. Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: bsegall@google.com Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: patrick.bellasi@arm.com Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: pkondeti@codeaurora.org Cc: quentin.perret@arm.com Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net Cc: srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com Cc: thara.gopinath@linaro.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548257214-13745-3-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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18-Jan-2019 |
Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> |
sched/core: Convert task_struct.stack_refcount to refcount_t atomic_t variables are currently used to implement reference counters with the following properties: - counter is initialized to 1 using atomic_set() - a resource is freed upon counter reaching zero - once counter reaches zero, its further increments aren't allowed - counter schema uses basic atomic operations (set, inc, inc_not_zero, dec_and_test, etc.) Such atomic variables should be converted to a newly provided refcount_t type and API that prevents accidental counter overflows and underflows. This is important since overflows and underflows can lead to use-after-free situation and be exploitable. The variable task_struct.stack_refcount is used as pure reference counter. Convert it to refcount_t and fix up the operations. ** Important note for maintainers: Some functions from refcount_t API defined in lib/refcount.c have different memory ordering guarantees than their atomic counterparts. The full comparison can be seen in https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/15/57 and it is hopefully soon in state to be merged to the documentation tree. Normally the differences should not matter since refcount_t provides enough guarantees to satisfy the refcounting use cases, but in some rare cases it might matter. Please double check that you don't have some undocumented memory guarantees for this variable usage. For the task_struct.stack_refcount it might make a difference in following places: - try_get_task_stack(): increment in refcount_inc_not_zero() only guarantees control dependency on success vs. fully ordered atomic counterpart - put_task_stack(): decrement in refcount_dec_and_test() only provides RELEASE ordering and control dependency on success vs. fully ordered atomic counterpart Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547814450-18902-6-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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18-Jan-2019 |
Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> |
sched/core: Convert task_struct.usage to refcount_t atomic_t variables are currently used to implement reference counters with the following properties: - counter is initialized to 1 using atomic_set() - a resource is freed upon counter reaching zero - once counter reaches zero, its further increments aren't allowed - counter schema uses basic atomic operations (set, inc, inc_not_zero, dec_and_test, etc.) Such atomic variables should be converted to a newly provided refcount_t type and API that prevents accidental counter overflows and underflows. This is important since overflows and underflows can lead to use-after-free situation and be exploitable. The variable task_struct.usage is used as pure reference counter. Convert it to refcount_t and fix up the operations. ** Important note for maintainers: Some functions from refcount_t API defined in lib/refcount.c have different memory ordering guarantees than their atomic counterparts. The full comparison can be seen in https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/15/57 and it is hopefully soon in state to be merged to the documentation tree. Normally the differences should not matter since refcount_t provides enough guarantees to satisfy the refcounting use cases, but in some rare cases it might matter. Please double check that you don't have some undocumented memory guarantees for this variable usage. For the task_struct.usage it might make a difference in following places: - put_task_struct(): decrement in refcount_dec_and_test() only provides RELEASE ordering and control dependency on success vs. fully ordered atomic counterpart Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547814450-18902-5-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Feb-2019 |
Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> |
audit: remove audit_context when CONFIG_ AUDIT and not AUDITSYSCALL Remove audit_context from struct task_struct and struct audit_buffer when CONFIG_AUDIT is enabled but CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is not. Also, audit_log_name() (and supporting inode and fcaps functions) should have been put back in auditsc.c when soft and hard link logging was normalized since it is only used by syscall auditing. See github issue https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/105 Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
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29-Jan-2019 |
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> |
x86/resctrl: Avoid confusion over the new X86_RESCTRL config "Resource Control" is a very broad term for this CPU feature, and a term that is also associated with containers, cgroups etc. This can easily cause confusion. Make the user prompt more specific. Match the config symbol name. [ bp: In the future, the corresponding ARM arch-specific code will be under ARM_CPU_RESCTRL and the arch-agnostic bits will be carved out under the CPU_RESCTRL umbrella symbol. ] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Babu Moger <Babu.Moger@amd.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Pu Wen <puwen@hygon.cn> Cc: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190130195621.GA30653@cmpxchg.org
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16-Jan-2019 |
Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> |
x86/speculation: Add PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC With the default SPEC_STORE_BYPASS_SECCOMP/SPEC_STORE_BYPASS_PRCTL mode, the TIF_SSBD bit will be inherited when a new task is fork'ed or cloned. It will also remain when a new program is execve'ed. Only certain class of applications (like Java) that can run on behalf of multiple users on a single thread will require disabling speculative store bypass for security purposes. Those applications will call prctl(2) at startup time to disable SSB. They won't rely on the fact the SSB might have been disabled. Other applications that don't need SSBD will just move on without checking if SSBD has been turned on or not. The fact that the TIF_SSBD is inherited across execve(2) boundary will cause performance of applications that don't need SSBD but their predecessors have SSBD on to be unwittingly impacted especially if they write to memory a lot. To remedy this problem, a new PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC argument for the PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL option of prctl(2) is added to allow applications to specify that the SSBD feature bit on the task structure should be cleared whenever a new program is being execve'ed. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547676096-3281-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
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19-Dec-2018 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched: Remove stale PF_MUTEX_TESTER bit The RTMUTEX tester was removed long ago but the PF bit stayed around. Remove it and free up the space. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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22-Jan-2019 |
Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> |
audit: move loginuid and sessionid from CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL to CONFIG_AUDIT loginuid and sessionid (and audit_log_session_info) should be part of CONFIG_AUDIT scope and not CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL since it is used in CONFIG_CHANGE, ANOM_LINK, FEATURE_CHANGE (and INTEGRITY_RULE), none of which are otherwise dependent on AUDITSYSCALL. Please see github issue https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/104 Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> [PM: tweaked subject line for better grep'ing] Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
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08-Jan-2019 |
Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com> |
umh: add exit routine for UMH process A UMH process which is created by the fork_usermode_blob() such as bpfilter needs to release members of the umh_info when process is terminated. But the do_exit() does not release members of the umh_info. hence module which uses UMH needs own code to detect whether UMH process is terminated or not. But this implementation needs extra code for checking the status of UMH process. it eventually makes the code more complex. The new PF_UMH flag is added and it is used to identify UMH processes. The exit_umh() does not release members of the umh_info. Hence umh_info->cleanup callback should release both members of the umh_info and the private data. Suggested-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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08-Jan-2019 |
Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> |
x86/cache: Rename config option to CONFIG_X86_RESCTRL CONFIG_RESCTRL is too generic. The final goal is to have a generic option called like this which is selected by the arch-specific ones CONFIG_X86_RESCTRL and CONFIG_ARM64_RESCTRL. The generic one will cover the resctrl filesystem and other generic and shared bits of functionality. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Requested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190108171401.GC12235@zn.tnic
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03-Dec-2018 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched: Fix various typos in comments Go over the scheduler source code and fix common typos in comments - and a typo in an actual variable name. No change in functionality intended. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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25-Nov-2018 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
x86/speculation: Add prctl() control for indirect branch speculation Add the PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH option for the PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL and PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL prctls to allow fine grained per task control of indirect branch speculation via STIBP and IBPB. Invocations: Check indirect branch speculation status with - prctl(PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH, 0, 0, 0); Enable indirect branch speculation with - prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH, PR_SPEC_ENABLE, 0, 0); Disable indirect branch speculation with - prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH, PR_SPEC_DISABLE, 0, 0); Force disable indirect branch speculation with - prctl(PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL, PR_SPEC_INDIRECT_BRANCH, PR_SPEC_FORCE_DISABLE, 0, 0); See Documentation/userspace-api/spec_ctrl.rst. Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey.schaufler@intel.com> Cc: Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Cc: Waiman Long <longman9394@gmail.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Dave Stewart <david.c.stewart@intel.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181125185005.866780996@linutronix.de
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19-Nov-2018 |
Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> |
function_graph: Use new curr_ret_depth to manage depth instead of curr_ret_stack Currently, the depth of the ret_stack is determined by curr_ret_stack index. The issue is that there's a race between setting of the curr_ret_stack and calling of the callback attached to the return of the function. Commit 03274a3ffb44 ("tracing/fgraph: Adjust fgraph depth before calling trace return callback") moved the calling of the callback to after the setting of the curr_ret_stack, even stating that it was safe to do so, when in fact, it was the reason there was a barrier() there (yes, I should have commented that barrier()). Not only does the curr_ret_stack keep track of the current call graph depth, it also keeps the ret_stack content from being overwritten by new data. The function profiler, uses the "subtime" variable of ret_stack structure and by moving the curr_ret_stack, it allows for interrupts to use the same structure it was using, corrupting the data, and breaking the profiler. To fix this, there needs to be two variables to handle the call stack depth and the pointer to where the ret_stack is being used, as they need to change at two different locations. Cc: stable@kernel.org Fixes: 03274a3ffb449 ("tracing/fgraph: Adjust fgraph depth before calling trace return callback") Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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21-Nov-2018 |
Babu Moger <Babu.Moger@amd.com> |
x86/resctrl: Rename the config option INTEL_RDT to RESCTRL The resource control feature is supported by both Intel and AMD. So, rename CONFIG_INTEL_RDT to the vendor-neutral CONFIG_RESCTRL. Now CONFIG_RESCTRL will be used for both Intel and AMD to enable Resource Control support. Update the texts in config and condition accordingly. [ bp: Simplify Kconfig text. ] Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com> Cc: "Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Cc: Pu Wen <puwen@hygon.cn> Cc: <qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Cc: Rian Hunter <rian@alum.mit.edu> Cc: Sherry Hurwitz <sherry.hurwitz@amd.com> Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Lendacky <Thomas.Lendacky@amd.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Cc: <xiaochen.shen@intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181121202811.4492-9-babu.moger@amd.com
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16-Oct-2018 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Speed up expedited GPs when interrupting RCU reader In PREEMPT kernels, an expedited grace period might send an IPI to a CPU that is executing an RCU read-side critical section. In that case, it would be nice if the rcu_read_unlock() directly interacted with the RCU core code to immediately report the quiescent state. And this does happen in the case where the reader has been preempted. But it would also be a nice performance optimization if immediate reporting also happened in the preemption-free case. This commit therefore adds an ->exp_hint field to the task_struct structure's ->rcu_read_unlock_special field. The IPI handler sets this hint when it has interrupted an RCU read-side critical section, and this causes the outermost rcu_read_unlock() call to invoke rcu_read_unlock_special(), which, if preemption is enabled, reports the quiescent state immediately. If preemption is disabled, then the report is required to be deferred until preemption (or bottom halves or interrupts or whatever) is re-enabled. Because this is a hint, it does nothing for more complicated cases. For example, if the IPI interrupts an RCU reader, but interrupts are disabled across the rcu_read_unlock(), but another rcu_read_lock() is executed before interrupts are re-enabled, the hint will already have been cleared. If you do crazy things like this, reporting will be deferred until some later RCU_SOFTIRQ handler, context switch, cond_resched(), or similar. Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
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26-Oct-2018 |
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> |
memcg: remove memcg_kmem_skip_account The flag memcg_kmem_skip_account was added during the era of opt-out kmem accounting. There is no need for such flag in the opt-in world as there aren't any __GFP_ACCOUNT allocations within memcg_create_cache_enqueue(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180919004501.178023-1-shakeelb@google.com Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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26-Oct-2018 |
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> |
psi: pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and IO When systems are overcommitted and resources become contended, it's hard to tell exactly the impact this has on workload productivity, or how close the system is to lockups and OOM kills. In particular, when machines work multiple jobs concurrently, the impact of overcommit in terms of latency and throughput on the individual job can be enormous. In order to maximize hardware utilization without sacrificing individual job health or risk complete machine lockups, this patch implements a way to quantify resource pressure in the system. A kernel built with CONFIG_PSI=y creates files in /proc/pressure/ that expose the percentage of time the system is stalled on CPU, memory, or IO, respectively. Stall states are aggregate versions of the per-task delay accounting delays: cpu: some tasks are runnable but not executing on a CPU memory: tasks are reclaiming, or waiting for swapin or thrashing cache io: tasks are waiting for io completions These percentages of walltime can be thought of as pressure percentages, and they give a general sense of system health and productivity loss incurred by resource overcommit. They can also indicate when the system is approaching lockup scenarios and OOMs. To do this, psi keeps track of the task states associated with each CPU and samples the time they spend in stall states. Every 2 seconds, the samples are averaged across CPUs - weighted by the CPUs' non-idle time to eliminate artifacts from unused CPUs - and translated into percentages of walltime. A running average of those percentages is maintained over 10s, 1m, and 5m periods (similar to the loadaverage). [hannes@cmpxchg.org: doc fixlet, per Randy] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828205625.GA14030@cmpxchg.org [hannes@cmpxchg.org: code optimization] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180907175015.GA8479@cmpxchg.org [hannes@cmpxchg.org: rename psi_clock() to psi_update_work(), per Peter] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180907145404.GB11088@cmpxchg.org [hannes@cmpxchg.org: fix build] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180913014222.GA2370@cmpxchg.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828172258.3185-9-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com> Tested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@fb.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Enderborg <peter.enderborg@sony.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-Sep-2018 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfo Linus recently observed that if we did not worry about the padding member in struct siginfo it is only about 48 bytes, and 48 bytes is much nicer than 128 bytes for allocating on the stack and copying around in the kernel. The obvious thing of only adding the padding when userspace is including siginfo.h won't work as there are sigframe definitions in the kernel that embed struct siginfo. So split siginfo in two; kernel_siginfo and siginfo. Keeping the traditional name for the userspace definition. While the version that is used internally to the kernel and ultimately will not be padded to 128 bytes is called kernel_siginfo. The definition of struct kernel_siginfo I have put in include/signal_types.h A set of buildtime checks has been added to verify the two structures have the same field offsets. To make it easy to verify the change kernel_siginfo retains the same size as siginfo. The reduction in size comes in a following change. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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16-Aug-2018 |
Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com> |
fs/proc: Show STACKLEAK metrics in the /proc file system Introduce CONFIG_STACKLEAK_METRICS providing STACKLEAK information about tasks via the /proc file system. In particular, /proc/<pid>/stack_depth shows the maximum kernel stack consumption for the current and previous syscalls. Although this information is not precise, it can be useful for estimating the STACKLEAK performance impact for your workloads. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com> Tested-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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16-Aug-2018 |
Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com> |
x86/entry: Add STACKLEAK erasing the kernel stack at the end of syscalls The STACKLEAK feature (initially developed by PaX Team) has the following benefits: 1. Reduces the information that can be revealed through kernel stack leak bugs. The idea of erasing the thread stack at the end of syscalls is similar to CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING and memzero_explicit() in kernel crypto, which all comply with FDP_RIP.2 (Full Residual Information Protection) of the Common Criteria standard. 2. Blocks some uninitialized stack variable attacks (e.g. CVE-2017-17712, CVE-2010-2963). That kind of bugs should be killed by improving C compilers in future, which might take a long time. This commit introduces the code filling the used part of the kernel stack with a poison value before returning to userspace. Full STACKLEAK feature also contains the gcc plugin which comes in a separate commit. The STACKLEAK feature is ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: https://grsecurity.net/ https://pax.grsecurity.net/ This code is modified from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on our understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are ours and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code. Performance impact: Hardware: Intel Core i7-4770, 16 GB RAM Test #1: building the Linux kernel on a single core 0.91% slowdown Test #2: hackbench -s 4096 -l 2000 -g 15 -f 25 -P 4.2% slowdown So the STACKLEAK description in Kconfig includes: "The tradeoff is the performance impact: on a single CPU system kernel compilation sees a 1% slowdown, other systems and workloads may vary and you are advised to test this feature on your expected workload before deploying it". Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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28-Aug-2018 |
Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> |
x86/fault: BUG() when uaccess helpers fault on kernel addresses There have been multiple kernel vulnerabilities that permitted userspace to pass completely unchecked pointers through to userspace accessors: - the waitid() bug - commit 96ca579a1ecc ("waitid(): Add missing access_ok() checks") - the sg/bsg read/write APIs - the infiniband read/write APIs These don't happen all that often, but when they do happen, it is hard to test for them properly; and it is probably also hard to discover them with fuzzing. Even when an unmapped kernel address is supplied to such buggy code, it just returns -EFAULT instead of doing a proper BUG() or at least WARN(). Try to make such misbehaving code a bit more visible by refusing to do a fixup in the pagefault handler code when a userspace accessor causes a #PF on a kernel address and the current context isn't whitelisted. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Cc: dvyukov@google.com Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828201421.157735-7-jannh@google.com
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28-Jun-2018 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Remove now-unused ->b.exp_need_qs field from the rcu_special union The ->b.exp_need_qs field is now set only to false, so this commit removes it. The job this field used to do is now done by the rcu_data structure's ->deferred_qs field, which is a consequence of a better split between task-based (the rcu_node structure's ->exp_tasks field) and CPU-based (the aforementioned rcu_data structure's ->deferred_qs field) tracking of quiescent states for RCU-preempt expedited grace periods. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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21-Aug-2018 |
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> |
kernel/hung_task.c: allow to set checking interval separately from timeout Currently task hung checking interval is equal to timeout, as the result hung is detected anywhere between timeout and 2*timeout. This is fine for most interactive environments, but this hurts automated testing setups (syzbot). In an automated setup we need to strictly order CPU lockup < RCU stall < workqueue lockup < task hung < silent loss, so that RCU stall is not detected as task hung and task hung is not detected as silent machine loss. The large variance in task hung detection timeout requires setting silent machine loss timeout to a very large value (e.g. if task hung is 3 mins, then silent loss need to be set to ~7 mins). The additional 3 minutes significantly reduce testing efficiency because usually we crash kernel within a minute, and this can add hours to bug localization process as it needs to do dozens of tests. Allow setting checking interval separately from timeout. This allows to set timeout to, say, 3 minutes, but checking interval to 10 secs. The interval is controlled via a new hung_task_check_interval_secs sysctl, similar to the existing hung_task_timeout_secs sysctl. The default value of 0 results in the current behavior: checking interval is equal to timeout. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: update hung_task_timeout_max's comment] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180611111004.203513-1-dvyukov@google.com Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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17-Aug-2018 |
Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> |
mm: introduce CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM as combination of CONFIG_MEMCG && !CONFIG_SLOB Introduce new config option, which is used to replace repeating CONFIG_MEMCG && !CONFIG_SLOB pattern. Next patches add a little more memcg+kmem related code, so let's keep the defines more clearly. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153063053670.1818.15013136946600481138.stgit@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Tested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Cc: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Sahitya Tummala <stummala@codeaurora.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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17-Aug-2018 |
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> |
memcg, oom: move out_of_memory back to the charge path Commit 3812c8c8f395 ("mm: memcg: do not trap chargers with full callstack on OOM") has changed the ENOMEM semantic of memcg charges. Rather than invoking the oom killer from the charging context it delays the oom killer to the page fault path (pagefault_out_of_memory). This in turn means that many users (e.g. slab or g-u-p) will get ENOMEM when the corresponding memcg hits the hard limit and the memcg is is OOM. This is behavior is inconsistent with !memcg case where the oom killer is invoked from the allocation context and the allocator keeps retrying until it succeeds. The difference in the behavior is user visible. mmap(MAP_POPULATE) might result in not fully populated ranges while the mmap return code doesn't tell that to the userspace. Random syscalls might fail with ENOMEM etc. The primary motivation of the different memcg oom semantic was the deadlock avoidance. Things have changed since then, though. We have an async oom teardown by the oom reaper now and so we do not have to rely on the victim to tear down its memory anymore. Therefore we can return to the original semantic as long as the memcg oom killer is not handed over to the users space. There is still one thing to be careful about here though. If the oom killer is not able to make any forward progress - e.g. because there is no eligible task to kill - then we have to bail out of the charge path to prevent from same class of deadlocks. We have basically two options here. Either we fail the charge with ENOMEM or force the charge and allow overcharge. The first option has been considered more harmful than useful because rare inconsistencies in the ENOMEM behavior is hard to test for and error prone. Basically the same reason why the page allocator doesn't fail allocations under such conditions. The later might allow runaways but those should be really unlikely unless somebody misconfigures the system. E.g. allowing to migrate tasks away from the memcg to a different unlimited memcg with move_charge_at_immigrate disabled. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180628151101.25307-1-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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17-Aug-2018 |
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> |
fs: fsnotify: account fsnotify metadata to kmemcg Patch series "Directed kmem charging", v8. The Linux kernel's memory cgroup allows limiting the memory usage of the jobs running on the system to provide isolation between the jobs. All the kernel memory allocated in the context of the job and marked with __GFP_ACCOUNT will also be included in the memory usage and be limited by the job's limit. The kernel memory can only be charged to the memcg of the process in whose context kernel memory was allocated. However there are cases where the allocated kernel memory should be charged to the memcg different from the current processes's memcg. This patch series contains two such concrete use-cases i.e. fsnotify and buffer_head. The fsnotify event objects can consume a lot of system memory for large or unlimited queues if there is either no or slow listener. The events are allocated in the context of the event producer. However they should be charged to the event consumer. Similarly the buffer_head objects can be allocated in a memcg different from the memcg of the page for which buffer_head objects are being allocated. To solve this issue, this patch series introduces mechanism to charge kernel memory to a given memcg. In case of fsnotify events, the memcg of the consumer can be used for charging and for buffer_head, the memcg of the page can be charged. For directed charging, the caller can use the scope API memalloc_[un]use_memcg() to specify the memcg to charge for all the __GFP_ACCOUNT allocations within the scope. This patch (of 2): A lot of memory can be consumed by the events generated for the huge or unlimited queues if there is either no or slow listener. This can cause system level memory pressure or OOMs. So, it's better to account the fsnotify kmem caches to the memcg of the listener. However the listener can be in a different memcg than the memcg of the producer and these allocations happen in the context of the event producer. This patch introduces remote memcg charging API which the producer can use to charge the allocations to the memcg of the listener. There are seven fsnotify kmem caches and among them allocations from dnotify_struct_cache, dnotify_mark_cache, fanotify_mark_cache and inotify_inode_mark_cachep happens in the context of syscall from the listener. So, SLAB_ACCOUNT is enough for these caches. The objects from fsnotify_mark_connector_cachep are not accounted as they are small compared to the notification mark or events and it is unclear whom to account connector to since it is shared by all events attached to the inode. The allocations from the event caches happen in the context of the event producer. For such caches we will need to remote charge the allocations to the listener's memcg. Thus we save the memcg reference in the fsnotify_group structure of the listener. This patch has also moved the members of fsnotify_group to keep the size same, at least for 64 bit build, even with additional member by filling the holes. [shakeelb@google.com: use GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT rather than open-coding it] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180702215439.211597-1-shakeelb@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180627191250.209150-2-shakeelb@google.com Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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20-Jun-2018 |
Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched/numa: Remove redundant field 'numa_entry' is a struct list_head defined in task_struct, but never used. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1529514181-9842-2-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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04-Jun-2017 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
pid: Implement PIDTYPE_TGID Everywhere except in the pid array we distinguish between a tasks pid and a tasks tgid (thread group id). Even in the enumeration we want that distinction sometimes so we have added __PIDTYPE_TGID. With leader_pid we almost have an implementation of PIDTYPE_TGID in struct signal_struct. Add PIDTYPE_TGID as a first class member of the pid_type enumeration and into the pids array. Then remove the __PIDTYPE_TGID special case and the leader_pid in signal_struct. The net size increase is just an extra pointer added to struct pid and an extra pair of pointers of an hlist_node added to task_struct. The effect on code maintenance is the removal of a number of special cases today and the potential to remove many more special cases as PIDTYPE_TGID gets used to it's fullest. The long term potential is allowing zombie thread group leaders to exit, which will remove a lot more special cases in the code. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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26-Sep-2017 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
pids: Move the pgrp and session pid pointers from task_struct to signal_struct To access these fields the code always has to go to group leader so going to signal struct is no loss and is actually a fundamental simplification. This saves a little bit of memory by only allocating the pid pointer array once instead of once for every thread, and even better this removes a few potential races caused by the fact that group_leader can be changed by de_thread, while signal_struct can not. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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25-Sep-2017 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
pids: Compute task_tgid using signal->leader_pid The cost is the the same and this removes the need to worry about complications that come from de_thread and group_leader changing. __task_pid_nr_ns has been updated to take advantage of this change. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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16-Jul-2018 |
Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com> |
sched/Documentation: Update wake_up() & co. memory-barrier guarantees Both the implementation and the users' expectation [1] for the various wakeup primitives have evolved over time, but the documentation has not kept up with these changes: brings it into 2018. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180424091510.GB4064@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net Also applied feedback from Alan Stern. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Daniel Lustig <dlustig@nvidia.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: parri.andrea@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180716180605.16115-12-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Jul-2018 |
Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> |
blkcg: add generic throttling mechanism Since IO can be issued from literally anywhere it's almost impossible to do throttling without having some sort of adverse effect somewhere else in the system because of locking or other dependencies. The best way to solve this is to do the throttling when we know we aren't holding any other kernel resources. Do this by tracking throttling in a per-blkg basis, and if we require throttling flag the task that it needs to check before it returns to user space and possibly sleep there. This is to address the case where a process is doing work that is generating IO that can't be throttled, whether that is directly with a lot of REQ_META IO, or indirectly by allocating so much memory that it is swamping the disk with REQ_SWAP. We can't use task_add_work as we don't want to induce a memory allocation in the IO path, so simply saving the request queue in the task and flagging it to do the notify_resume thing achieves the same result without the overhead of a memory allocation. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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07-Jun-2018 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
kthread, sched/core: Fix kthread_parkme() (again...) Gaurav reports that commit: 85f1abe0019f ("kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue") isn't working for him. Because of the following race: > controller Thread CPUHP Thread > takedown_cpu > kthread_park > kthread_parkme > Set KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK > smpboot_thread_fn > set Task interruptible > > > wake_up_process > if (!(p->state & state)) > goto out; > > Kthread_parkme > SET TASK_PARKED > schedule > raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock) > ttwu_remote > waiting for __task_rq_lock > context_switch > > finish_lock_switch > > > > Case TASK_PARKED > kthread_park_complete > > > SET Running Furthermore, Oleg noticed that the whole scheduler TASK_PARKED handling is buggered because the TASK_DEAD thing is done with preemption disabled, the current code can still complete early on preemption :/ So basically revert that earlier fix and go with a variant of the alternative mentioned in the commit. Promote TASK_PARKED to special state to avoid the store-store issue on task->state leading to the WARN in kthread_unpark() -> __kthread_bind(). But in addition, add wait_task_inactive() to kthread_park() to ensure the task really is PARKED when we return from kthread_park(). This avoids the whole kthread still gets migrated nonsense -- although it would be really good to get this done differently. Reported-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: 85f1abe0019f ("kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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22-Jun-2018 |
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> |
rseq: Avoid infinite recursion when delivering SIGSEGV When delivering a signal to a task that is using rseq, we call into __rseq_handle_notify_resume() so that the registers pushed in the sigframe are updated to reflect the state of the restartable sequence (for example, ensuring that the signal returns to the abort handler if necessary). However, if the rseq management fails due to an unrecoverable fault when accessing userspace or certain combinations of RSEQ_CS_* flags, then we will attempt to deliver a SIGSEGV. This has the potential for infinite recursion if the rseq code continuously fails on signal delivery. Avoid this problem by using force_sigsegv() instead of force_sig(), which is explicitly designed to reset the SEGV handler to SIG_DFL in the case of a recursive fault. In doing so, remove rseq_signal_deliver() from the internal rseq API and have an optional struct ksignal * parameter to rseq_handle_notify_resume() instead. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1529664307-983-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
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19-Jun-2018 |
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> |
rseq/cleanup: Do not abort rseq c.s. in child on fork() Considering that we explicitly forbid system calls in rseq critical sections, it is not valid to issue a fork or clone system call within a rseq critical section, so rseq_fork() is not required to restart an active rseq c.s. in the child process. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Ben Maurer <bmaurer@fb.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Chris Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Paul E . McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180619133230.4087-4-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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14-Jun-2018 |
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> |
sched/core / kcov: avoid kcov_area during task switch During a context switch, we first switch_mm() to the next task's mm, then switch_to() that new task. This means that vmalloc'd regions which had previously been faulted in can transiently disappear in the context of the prev task. Functions instrumented by KCOV may try to access a vmalloc'd kcov_area during this window, and as the fault handling code is instrumented, this results in a recursive fault. We must avoid accessing any kcov_area during this window. We can do so with a new flag in kcov_mode, set prior to switching the mm, and cleared once the new task is live. Since task_struct::kcov_mode isn't always a specific enum kcov_mode value, this is made an unsigned int. The manipulation is hidden behind kcov_{prepare,finish}_switch() helpers, which are empty for !CONFIG_KCOV kernels. The code uses macros because I can't use static inline functions without a circular include dependency between <linux/sched.h> and <linux/kcov.h>, since the definition of task_struct uses things defined in <linux/kcov.h> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180504135535.53744-4-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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13-Jun-2018 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Kbuild: rename CC_STACKPROTECTOR[_STRONG] config variables The changes to automatically test for working stack protector compiler support in the Kconfig files removed the special STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO option that picked the strongest stack protector that the compiler supported. That was all a nice cleanup - it makes no sense to have the AUTO case now that the Kconfig phase can just determine the compiler support directly. HOWEVER. It also meant that doing "make oldconfig" would now _disable_ the strong stackprotector if you had AUTO enabled, because in a legacy config file, the sane stack protector configuration would look like CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE is not set # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR is not set # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG is not set CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO=y and when you ran this through "make oldconfig" with the Kbuild changes, it would ask you about the regular CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR (that had been renamed from CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR to just CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR), but it would think that the STRONG version used to be disabled (because it was really enabled by AUTO), and would disable it in the new config, resulting in: CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE=y CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG is not set CONFIG_CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR=y That's dangerously subtle - people could suddenly find themselves with the weaker stack protector setup without even realizing. The solution here is to just rename not just the old RECULAR stack protector option, but also the strong one. This does that by just removing the CC_ prefix entirely for the user choices, because it really is not about the compiler support (the compiler support now instead automatially impacts _visibility_ of the options to users). This results in "make oldconfig" actually asking the user for their choice, so that we don't have any silent subtle security model changes. The end result would generally look like this: CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE=y CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR=y CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG=y CONFIG_CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR=y where the "CC_" versions really are about internal compiler infrastructure, not the user selections. Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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02-Jun-2018 |
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> |
rseq: Introduce restartable sequences system call Expose a new system call allowing each thread to register one userspace memory area to be used as an ABI between kernel and user-space for two purposes: user-space restartable sequences and quick access to read the current CPU number value from user-space. * Restartable sequences (per-cpu atomics) Restartables sequences allow user-space to perform update operations on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations. The restartable critical sections (percpu atomics) work has been started by Paul Turner and Andrew Hunter. It lets the kernel handle restart of critical sections. [1] [2] The re-implementation proposed here brings a few simplifications to the ABI which facilitates porting to other architectures and speeds up the user-space fast path. Here are benchmarks of various rseq use-cases. Test hardware: arm32: ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l) "Cubietruck", 2-core x86-64: Intel E5-2630 v3@2.40GHz, 16-core, hyperthreading The following benchmarks were all performed on a single thread. * Per-CPU statistic counter increment getcpu+atomic (ns/op) rseq (ns/op) speedup arm32: 344.0 31.4 11.0 x86-64: 15.3 2.0 7.7 * LTTng-UST: write event 32-bit header, 32-bit payload into tracer per-cpu buffer getcpu+atomic (ns/op) rseq (ns/op) speedup arm32: 2502.0 2250.0 1.1 x86-64: 117.4 98.0 1.2 * liburcu percpu: lock-unlock pair, dereference, read/compare word getcpu+atomic (ns/op) rseq (ns/op) speedup arm32: 751.0 128.5 5.8 x86-64: 53.4 28.6 1.9 * jemalloc memory allocator adapted to use rseq Using rseq with per-cpu memory pools in jemalloc at Facebook (based on rseq 2016 implementation): The production workload response-time has 1-2% gain avg. latency, and the P99 overall latency drops by 2-3%. * Reading the current CPU number Speeding up reading the current CPU number on which the caller thread is running is done by keeping the current CPU number up do date within the cpu_id field of the memory area registered by the thread. This is done by making scheduler preemption set the TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME flag on the current thread. Upon return to user-space, a notify-resume handler updates the current CPU value within the registered user-space memory area. User-space can then read the current CPU number directly from memory. Keeping the current cpu id in a memory area shared between kernel and user-space is an improvement over current mechanisms available to read the current CPU number, which has the following benefits over alternative approaches: - 35x speedup on ARM vs system call through glibc - 20x speedup on x86 compared to calling glibc, which calls vdso executing a "lsl" instruction, - 14x speedup on x86 compared to inlined "lsl" instruction, - Unlike vdso approaches, this cpu_id value can be read from an inline assembly, which makes it a useful building block for restartable sequences. - The approach of reading the cpu id through memory mapping shared between kernel and user-space is portable (e.g. ARM), which is not the case for the lsl-based x86 vdso. On x86, yet another possible approach would be to use the gs segment selector to point to user-space per-cpu data. This approach performs similarly to the cpu id cache, but it has two disadvantages: it is not portable, and it is incompatible with existing applications already using the gs segment selector for other purposes. Benchmarking various approaches for reading the current CPU number: ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l) Machine model: Cubietruck - Baseline (empty loop): 8.4 ns - Read CPU from rseq cpu_id: 16.7 ns - Read CPU from rseq cpu_id (lazy register): 19.8 ns - glibc 2.19-0ubuntu6.6 getcpu: 301.8 ns - getcpu system call: 234.9 ns x86-64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz: - Baseline (empty loop): 0.8 ns - Read CPU from rseq cpu_id: 0.8 ns - Read CPU from rseq cpu_id (lazy register): 0.8 ns - Read using gs segment selector: 0.8 ns - "lsl" inline assembly: 13.0 ns - glibc 2.19-0ubuntu6 getcpu: 16.6 ns - getcpu system call: 53.9 ns - Speed (benchmark taken on v8 of patchset) Running 10 runs of hackbench -l 100000 seems to indicate, contrary to expectations, that enabling CONFIG_RSEQ slightly accelerates the scheduler: Configuration: 2 sockets * 8-core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz (directly on hardware, hyperthreading disabled in BIOS, energy saving disabled in BIOS, turboboost disabled in BIOS, cpuidle.off=1 kernel parameter), with a Linux v4.6 defconfig+localyesconfig, restartable sequences series applied. * CONFIG_RSEQ=n avg.: 41.37 s std.dev.: 0.36 s * CONFIG_RSEQ=y avg.: 40.46 s std.dev.: 0.33 s - Size On x86-64, between CONFIG_RSEQ=n/y, the text size increase of vmlinux is 567 bytes, and the data size increase of vmlinux is 5696 bytes. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/650333/ [2] http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2013/ocw/system/presentations/1695/original/LPC%20-%20PerCpu%20Atomics.pdf Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Chris Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ben Maurer <bmaurer@fb.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151027235635.16059.11630.stgit@pjt-glaptop.roam.corp.google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150624222609.6116.86035.stgit@kitami.mtv.corp.google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180602124408.8430-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
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11-Apr-2018 |
Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> |
thread_info: Add update_thread_flag() helpers There are a number of bits of code sprinkled around the kernel to set a thread flag if a certain condition is true, and clear it otherwise. To help make those call sites terser and less cumbersome, this patch adds a new family of thread flag manipulators update*_thread_flag([...,] flag, cond) which do the equivalent of: if (cond) set*_thread_flag([...,] flag); else clear*_thread_flag([...,] flag); Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
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05-Mar-2018 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
softirq: Eliminate unused cond_resched_softirq() macro The cond_resched_softirq() macro is not used anywhere in mainline, so this commit simplifies the kernel by eliminating it. Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
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09-May-2018 |
Rohit Jain <rohit.k.jain@oracle.com> |
sched/core: Distinguish between idle_cpu() calls based on desired effect, introduce available_idle_cpu() In the following commit: 247f2f6f3c70 ("sched/core: Don't schedule threads on pre-empted vCPUs") ... we distinguish between idle_cpu() when the vCPU is not running for scheduling threads. However, the idle_cpu() function is used in other places for actually checking whether the state of the CPU is idle or not. Hence split the use of that function based on the desired return value, by introducing the available_idle_cpu() function. This fixes a (slight) regression in that initial vCPU commit, because some code paths (like the load-balancer) don't care and shouldn't care if the vCPU is preempted or not, they just want to know if there's any tasks on the CPU. Signed-off-by: Rohit Jain <rohit.k.jain@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dhaval.giani@oracle.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: matt@codeblueprint.co.uk Cc: steven.sistare@oracle.com Cc: subhra.mazumdar@oracle.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1525883988-10356-1-git-send-email-rohit.k.jain@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-May-2018 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
prctl: Add force disable speculation For certain use cases it is desired to enforce mitigations so they cannot be undone afterwards. That's important for loader stubs which want to prevent a child from disabling the mitigation again. Will also be used for seccomp(). The extra state preserving of the prctl state for SSB is a preparatory step for EBPF dymanic speculation control. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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30-Apr-2018 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/core: Introduce set_special_state() Gaurav reported a perceived problem with TASK_PARKED, which turned out to be a broken wait-loop pattern in __kthread_parkme(), but the reported issue can (and does) in fact happen for states that do not do condition based sleeps. When the 'current->state = TASK_RUNNING' store of a previous (concurrent) try_to_wake_up() collides with the setting of a 'special' sleep state, we can loose the sleep state. Normal condition based wait-loops are immune to this problem, but for sleep states that are not condition based are subject to this problem. There already is a fix for TASK_DEAD. Abstract that and also apply it to TASK_STOPPED and TASK_TRACED, both of which are also without condition based wait-loop. Reported-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Apr-2018 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/core: Force proper alignment of 'struct util_est' For some as yet not understood reason, Tony gets unaligned access traps on IA64 because of: struct util_est ue = READ_ONCE(p->se.avg.util_est); and: WRITE_ONCE(p->se.avg.util_est, ue); introduced by commit: d519329f72a6 ("sched/fair: Update util_est only on util_avg updates") Normally those two fields should end up on an 8-byte aligned location, but UP and RANDSTRUCT can mess that up so enforce the alignment explicitly. Also make the alignment on sched_avg unconditional, as it is really about data locality, not false-sharing. With or without this patch the layout for sched_avg on a ia64-defconfig build looks like: $ pahole -EC sched_avg ia64-defconfig/kernel/sched/core.o die__process_function: tag not supported (INVALID)! struct sched_avg { /* typedef u64 */ long long unsigned int last_update_time; /* 0 8 */ /* typedef u64 */ long long unsigned int load_sum; /* 8 8 */ /* typedef u64 */ long long unsigned int runnable_load_sum; /* 16 8 */ /* typedef u32 */ unsigned int util_sum; /* 24 4 */ /* typedef u32 */ unsigned int period_contrib; /* 28 4 */ long unsigned int load_avg; /* 32 8 */ long unsigned int runnable_load_avg; /* 40 8 */ long unsigned int util_avg; /* 48 8 */ struct util_est { unsigned int enqueued; /* 56 4 */ unsigned int ewma; /* 60 4 */ } util_est; /* 56 8 */ /* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */ /* size: 64, cachelines: 1, members: 9 */ }; Reported-and-Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Norbert Manthey <nmanthey@amazon.de> Cc: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Fixes: d519329f72a6 ("sched/fair: Update util_est only on util_avg updates") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180405080521.GG4129@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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09-Mar-2018 |
Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com> |
sched/fair: Add util_est on top of PELT The util_avg signal computed by PELT is too variable for some use-cases. For example, a big task waking up after a long sleep period will have its utilization almost completely decayed. This introduces some latency before schedutil will be able to pick the best frequency to run a task. The same issue can affect task placement. Indeed, since the task utilization is already decayed at wakeup, when the task is enqueued in a CPU, this can result in a CPU running a big task as being temporarily represented as being almost empty. This leads to a race condition where other tasks can be potentially allocated on a CPU which just started to run a big task which slept for a relatively long period. Moreover, the PELT utilization of a task can be updated every [ms], thus making it a continuously changing value for certain longer running tasks. This means that the instantaneous PELT utilization of a RUNNING task is not really meaningful to properly support scheduler decisions. For all these reasons, a more stable signal can do a better job of representing the expected/estimated utilization of a task/cfs_rq. Such a signal can be easily created on top of PELT by still using it as an estimator which produces values to be aggregated on meaningful events. This patch adds a simple implementation of util_est, a new signal built on top of PELT's util_avg where: util_est(task) = max(task::util_avg, f(task::util_avg@dequeue)) This allows to remember how big a task has been reported by PELT in its previous activations via f(task::util_avg@dequeue), which is the new _task_util_est(struct task_struct*) function added by this patch. If a task should change its behavior and it runs longer in a new activation, after a certain time its util_est will just track the original PELT signal (i.e. task::util_avg). The estimated utilization of cfs_rq is defined only for root ones. That's because the only sensible consumer of this signal are the scheduler and schedutil when looking for the overall CPU utilization due to FAIR tasks. For this reason, the estimated utilization of a root cfs_rq is simply defined as: util_est(cfs_rq) = max(cfs_rq::util_avg, cfs_rq::util_est::enqueued) where: cfs_rq::util_est::enqueued = sum(_task_util_est(task)) for each RUNNABLE task on that root cfs_rq It's worth noting that the estimated utilization is tracked only for objects of interests, specifically: - Tasks: to better support tasks placement decisions - root cfs_rqs: to better support both tasks placement decisions as well as frequencies selection Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180309095245.11071-2-patrick.bellasi@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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27-Feb-2018 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/core: Remove TASK_ALL It's unused: $ git grep "\<TASK_ALL\>" | wc -l 1 ... and it is also dangerous, kill the bugger. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180227160510.10829-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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06-Feb-2018 |
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
pids: introduce find_get_task_by_vpid() helper There are several functions that do find_task_by_vpid() followed by get_task_struct(). We can use a helper function instead. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509602027-11337-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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30-Jan-2018 |
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> |
sched/fair: Use a recently used CPU as an idle candidate and the basis for SIS The select_idle_sibling() (SIS) rewrite in commit: 10e2f1acd010 ("sched/core: Rewrite and improve select_idle_siblings()") ... replaced a domain iteration with a search that broadly speaking does a wrapped walk of the scheduler domain sharing a last-level-cache. While this had a number of improvements, one consequence is that two tasks that share a waker/wakee relationship push each other around a socket. Even though two tasks may be active, all cores are evenly used. This is great from a search perspective and spreads a load across individual cores, but it has adverse consequences for cpufreq. As each CPU has relatively low utilisation, cpufreq may decide the utilisation is too low to used a higher P-state and overall computation throughput suffers. While individual cpufreq and cpuidle drivers may compensate by artifically boosting P-state (at c0) or avoiding lower C-states (during idle), it does not help if hardware-based cpufreq (e.g. HWP) is used. This patch tracks a recently used CPU based on what CPU a task was running on when it last was a waker a CPU it was recently using when a task is a wakee. During SIS, the recently used CPU is used as a target if it's still allowed by the task and is idle. The benefit may be non-obvious so consider an example of two tasks communicating back and forth. Task A may be an application doing IO where task B is a kworker or kthread like journald. Task A may issue IO, wake B and B wakes up A on completion. With the existing scheme this may look like the following (potentially different IDs if SMT is in use but similar principal applies). A (cpu 0) wake B (wakes on cpu 1) B (cpu 1) wake A (wakes on cpu 2) A (cpu 2) wake B (wakes on cpu 3) etc. A careful reader may wonder why CPU 0 was not idle when B wakes A the first time and it's simply due to the fact that A can be rescheduled to another CPU and the pattern is that prev == target when B tries to wakeup A and the information about CPU 0 has been lost. With this patch, the pattern is more likely to be: A (cpu 0) wake B (wakes on cpu 1) B (cpu 1) wake A (wakes on cpu 0) A (cpu 0) wake B (wakes on cpu 1) etc i.e. two communicating casts are more likely to use just two cores instead of all available cores sharing a LLC. The most dramatic speedup was noticed on dbench using the XFS filesystem on UMA as clients interact heavily with workqueues in that configuration. Note that a similar speedup is not observed on ext4 as the wakeup pattern is different: 4.15.0-rc9 4.15.0-rc9 waprev-v1 biasancestor-v1 Hmean 1 287.54 ( 0.00%) 817.01 ( 184.14%) Hmean 2 1268.12 ( 0.00%) 1781.24 ( 40.46%) Hmean 4 1739.68 ( 0.00%) 1594.47 ( -8.35%) Hmean 8 2464.12 ( 0.00%) 2479.56 ( 0.63%) Hmean 64 1455.57 ( 0.00%) 1434.68 ( -1.44%) The results can be less dramatic on NUMA where automatic balancing interferes with the test. It's also known that network benchmarks running on localhost also benefit quite a bit from this patch (roughly 10% on netperf RR for UDP and TCP depending on the machine). Hackbench also seens small improvements (6-11% depending on machine and thread count). The facebook schbench was also tested but in most cases showed little or no different to wakeup latencies. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180130104555.4125-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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04-Dec-2017 |
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> |
sched/cpufreq: Change the worker kthread to SCHED_DEADLINE Worker kthread needs to be able to change frequency for all other threads. Make it special, just under STOP class. Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Cc: alessio.balsini@arm.com Cc: bristot@redhat.com Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: joelaf@google.com Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com Cc: patrick.bellasi@arm.com Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: tkjos@android.com Cc: tommaso.cucinotta@santannapisa.it Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204102325.5110-4-juri.lelli@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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11-Dec-2017 |
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> |
sched/deadline: Implement "runtime overrun signal" support This patch adds the possibility of getting the delivery of a SIGXCPU signal whenever there is a runtime overrun. The request is done through the sched_flags field within the sched_attr structure. Forward port of https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/16/170 Tested-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1513077024-25461-1-git-send-email-claudio@evidence.eu.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Jan-2018 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
Construct init thread stack in the linker script rather than by union Construct the init thread stack in the linker script rather than doing it by means of a union so that ia64's init_task.c can be got rid of. The following symbols are then made available from INIT_TASK_DATA() linker script macro: init_thread_union init_stack INIT_TASK_DATA() also expands the region to THREAD_SIZE to accommodate the size of the init stack. init_thread_union is given its own section so that it can be placed into the stack space in the right order. I'm assuming that the ia64 ordering is correct and that the task_struct is first and the thread_info second. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> (arm64) Tested-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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14-Dec-2017 |
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> |
exec: avoid gcc-8 warning for get_task_comm gcc-8 warns about using strncpy() with the source size as the limit: fs/exec.c:1223:32: error: argument to 'sizeof' in 'strncpy' call is the same expression as the source; did you mean to use the size of the destination? [-Werror=sizeof-pointer-memaccess] This is indeed slightly suspicious, as it protects us from source arguments without NUL-termination, but does not guarantee that the destination is terminated. This keeps the strncpy() to ensure we have properly padded target buffer, but ensures that we use the correct length, by passing the actual length of the destination buffer as well as adding a build-time check to ensure it is exactly TASK_COMM_LEN. There are only 23 callsites which I all reviewed to ensure this is currently the case. We could get away with doing only the check or passing the right length, but it doesn't hurt to do both. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171205151724.1764896-1-arnd@arndb.de Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Cc: Aleksa Sarai <asarai@suse.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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11-Dec-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
locking/lockdep: Remove the cross-release locking checks This code (CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE=y and CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS=y), while it found a number of old bugs initially, was also causing too many false positives that caused people to disable lockdep - which is arguably a worse overall outcome. If we disable cross-release by default but keep the code upstream then in practice the most likely outcome is that we'll allow the situation to degrade gradually, by allowing entropy to introduce more and more false positives, until it overwhelms maintenance capacity. Another bad side effect was that people were trying to work around the false positives by uglifying/complicating unrelated code. There's a marked difference between annotating locking operations and uglifying good code just due to bad lock debugging code ... This gradual decrease in quality happened to a number of debugging facilities in the kernel, and lockdep is pretty complex already, so we cannot risk this outcome. Either cross-release checking can be done right with no false positives, or it should not be included in the upstream kernel. ( Note that it might make sense to maintain it out of tree and go through the false positives every now and then and see whether new bugs were introduced. ) Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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13-Oct-2017 |
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> |
sched/deadline: Don't use dubious signed bitfields It doesn't cause a run-time bug, but these bitfields should be unsigned. When it's signed ->dl_throttled is set to either 0 or -1, instead of 0 and 1 as expected. The sched.h file is included into tons of places so Sparse generates a flood of warnings like this: ./include/linux/sched.h:477:54: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Reported-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Cc: luca abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013070121.dzcncojuj2f4utij@mwanda Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Nov-2017 |
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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26-Oct-2017 |
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> |
sched/isolation: Move isolcpus= handling to the housekeeping code We want to centralize the isolation features, to be done by the housekeeping subsystem and scheduler domain isolation is a significant part of it. No intended behaviour change, we just reuse the housekeeping cpumask and core code. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509072159-31808-11-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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06-Sep-2017 |
luca abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> |
sched/deadline: Use C bitfields for the state flags Ask the compiler to use a single bit for storing true / false values, instead of wasting the size of a whole int value. Tested with gcc 5.4.0 on x86_64, and the compiler produces the expected Assembly (similar to the Assembly code generated when explicitly accessing the bits with bitmasks, "&" and "|"). Signed-off-by: luca abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1504778971-13573-5-git-send-email-luca.abeni@santannapisa.it Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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29-Sep-2017 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/debug: Rename task-state printing helpers Steve requested better names for the new task-state helper functions. So introduce the concept of task-state index for the printing and rename __get_task_state() to task_state_index() and __task_state_to_char() to task_index_to_char(). Requested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170929115016.pzlqc7ss3ccystyg@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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06-May-2017 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/fair: Propagate an effective runnable_load_avg The load balancer uses runnable_load_avg as load indicator. For !cgroup this is: runnable_load_avg = \Sum se->avg.load_avg ; where se->on_rq That is, a direct sum of all runnable tasks on that runqueue. As opposed to load_avg, which is a sum of all tasks on the runqueue, which includes a blocked component. However, in the cgroup case, this comes apart since the group entities are always runnable, even if most of their constituent entities are blocked. Therefore introduce a runnable_weight which for task entities is the same as the regular weight, but for group entities is a fraction of the entity weight and represents the runnable part of the group runqueue. Then propagate this load through the PELT hierarchy to arrive at an effective runnable load avgerage -- which we should not confuse with the canonical runnable load average. Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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22-Sep-2017 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/debug: Add explicit TASK_PARKED printing Currently TASK_PARKED is masqueraded as TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, give it its own print state because it will not in fact get woken by regular wakeups and is a long-term state. This requires moving TASK_PARKED into the TASK_REPORT mask, and since that latter needs to be a contiguous bitmask, we need to shuffle the bits around a bit. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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22-Sep-2017 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/debug: Add explicit TASK_IDLE printing Markus reported that kthreads that idle using TASK_IDLE instead of TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE are reported in as TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE and things like htop mark those red. This is undesirable, so add an explicit state for TASK_IDLE. Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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22-Sep-2017 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/tracing: Use common task-state helpers Remove yet another task-state char instance. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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22-Sep-2017 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/tracing: Fix trace_sched_switch task-state printing Convert trace_sched_switch to use the common task-state helpers and fix the "X" and "Z" order, possibly they ended up in the wrong order because TASK_REPORT has them in the wrong order too. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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22-Sep-2017 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/debug: Convert TASK_state to hex Bit patterns are easier in hex. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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22-Sep-2017 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/debug: Implement consistent task-state printing Currently get_task_state() and task_state_to_char() report different states, create a number of common helpers and unify the reported state space. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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08-Sep-2017 |
Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> |
locking/rtmutex: replace top-waiter and pi_waiters leftmost caching ... with the generic rbtree flavor instead. No changes in semantics whatsoever. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170719014603.19029-10-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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21-Aug-2017 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
pids: make task_tgid_nr_ns() safe This was reported many times, and this was even mentioned in commit 52ee2dfdd4f5 ("pids: refactor vnr/nr_ns helpers to make them safe") but somehow nobody bothered to fix the obvious problem: task_tgid_nr_ns() is not safe because task->group_leader points to nowhere after the exiting task passes exit_notify(), rcu_read_lock() can not help. We really need to change __unhash_process() to nullify group_leader, parent, and real_parent, but this needs some cleanups. Until then we can turn task_tgid_nr_ns() into another user of __task_pid_nr_ns() and fix the problem. Reported-by: Troy Kensinger <tkensinger@google.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-May-2017 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Create reasonable API for do_exit() TASKS_RCU processing Currently, the exit-time support for TASKS_RCU is open-coded in do_exit(). This commit creates exit_tasks_rcu_start() and exit_tasks_rcu_finish() APIs for do_exit() use. This has the benefit of confining the use of the tasks_rcu_exit_srcu variable to one file, allowing it to become static. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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07-Aug-2017 |
Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> |
locking/lockdep: Detect and handle hist_lock ring buffer overwrite The ring buffer can be overwritten by hardirq/softirq/work contexts. That cases must be considered on rollback or commit. For example, |<------ hist_lock ring buffer size ----->| ppppppppppppiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii wrapped > iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.................... where 'p' represents an acquisition in process context, 'i' represents an acquisition in irq context. On irq exit, crossrelease tries to rollback idx to original position, but it should not because the entry already has been invalid by overwriting 'i'. Avoid rollback or commit for entries overwritten. Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: kernel-team@lge.com Cc: kirill@shutemov.name Cc: npiggin@gmail.com Cc: walken@google.com Cc: willy@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502089981-21272-7-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Aug-2017 |
Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> |
locking/lockdep: Implement the 'crossrelease' feature Lockdep is a runtime locking correctness validator that detects and reports a deadlock or its possibility by checking dependencies between locks. It's useful since it does not report just an actual deadlock but also the possibility of a deadlock that has not actually happened yet. That enables problems to be fixed before they affect real systems. However, this facility is only applicable to typical locks, such as spinlocks and mutexes, which are normally released within the context in which they were acquired. However, synchronization primitives like page locks or completions, which are allowed to be released in any context, also create dependencies and can cause a deadlock. So lockdep should track these locks to do a better job. The 'crossrelease' implementation makes these primitives also be tracked. Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: kernel-team@lge.com Cc: kirill@shutemov.name Cc: npiggin@gmail.com Cc: walken@google.com Cc: willy@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502089981-21272-6-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Mar-2017 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
locking/lockdep: Rework FS_RECLAIM annotation A while ago someone, and I cannot find the email just now, asked if we could not implement the RECLAIM_FS inversion stuff with a 'fake' lock like we use for other things like workqueues etc. I think this should be possible which allows reducing the 'irq' states and will reduce the amount of __bfs() lookups we do. Removing the 1 IRQ state results in 4 less __bfs() walks per dependency, improving lockdep performance. And by moving this annotation out of the lockdep code it becomes easier for the mm people to extend. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com Cc: kernel-team@lge.com Cc: kirill@shutemov.name Cc: npiggin@gmail.com Cc: walken@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Aug-2017 |
Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> |
sched/debug: Intruduce task_state_to_char() helper function Now that we have more than one place to get the task state, intruduce the task_state_to_char() helper function to save some code. No functionality changed. Signed-off-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <cj.chengjian@huawei.com> Cc: <huawei.libin@huawei.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502095463-160172-3-git-send-email-xiexiuqi@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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25-Jul-2017 |
Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> |
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add tasks file support The root directory, ctrl_mon and monitor groups are populated with a read/write file named "tasks". When read, it shows all the task IDs assigned to the resource group. Tasks can be added to groups by writing the PID to the file. A task can be present in one "ctrl_mon" group "and" one "monitor" group. IOW a PID_x can be seen in a ctrl_mon group and a monitor group at the same time. When a task is added to a ctrl_mon group, it is automatically removed from the previous ctrl_mon group where it belonged. Similarly if a task is moved to a monitor group it is removed from the previous monitor group . Also since the monitor groups can only have subset of tasks of parent ctrl_mon group, a task can be moved to a monitor group only if its already present in the parent ctrl_mon group. Task membership is indicated by a new field in the task_struct "u32 rmid" which holds the RMID for the task. RMID=0 is reserved for the default root group where the tasks belong to at mount. [tony: zero the rmid if rdtgroup was deleted when task was being moved] Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com Cc: tony.luck@intel.com Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: vikas.shivappa@intel.com Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: davidcc@google.com Cc: reinette.chatre@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501017287-28083-16-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com
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25-Jul-2017 |
Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> |
x86/intel_rdt: Change closid type from int to u32 OS associates a CLOSid(Class of service id) to a task by writing the high 32 bits of per CPU IA32_PQR_ASSOC MSR when a task is scheduled in. CPUID.(EAX=10H, ECX=1):EDX[15:0] enumerates the max CLOSID supported and it is zero indexed. Hence change the type to u32 from int. Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com Cc: tony.luck@intel.com Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: vikas.shivappa@intel.com Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: davidcc@google.com Cc: reinette.chatre@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501017287-28083-15-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com
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25-Jul-2017 |
Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> |
x86/intel_rdt: Introduce a common compile option for RDT We currently have a CONFIG_RDT_A which is for RDT(Resource directory technology) allocation based resctrl filesystem interface. As a preparation to add support for RDT monitoring as well into the same resctrl filesystem, change the config option to be CONFIG_RDT which would include both RDT allocation and monitoring code. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com Cc: tony.luck@intel.com Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: vikas.shivappa@intel.com Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: davidcc@google.com Cc: reinette.chatre@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501017287-28083-4-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com
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14-Jul-2017 |
Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> |
fault-inject: parse as natural 1-based value for fail-nth write interface The value written to fail-nth file is parsed as 0-based. Parsing as one-based is more natural to understand and it enables to cancel the previous setup by simply writing '0'. This change also converts task->fail_nth from signed to unsigned int. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491490561-10485-3-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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12-Jul-2017 |
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> |
fault-inject: support systematic fault injection Add /proc/self/task/<current-tid>/fail-nth file that allows failing 0-th, 1-st, 2-nd and so on calls systematically. Excerpt from the added documentation: "Write to this file of integer N makes N-th call in the current task fail (N is 0-based). Read from this file returns a single char 'Y' or 'N' that says if the fault setup with a previous write to this file was injected or not, and disables the fault if it wasn't yet injected. Note that this file enables all types of faults (slab, futex, etc). This setting takes precedence over all other generic settings like probability, interval, times, etc. But per-capability settings (e.g. fail_futex/ignore-private) take precedence over it. This feature is intended for systematic testing of faults in a single system call. See an example below" Why add a new setting: 1. Existing settings are global rather than per-task. So parallel testing is not possible. 2. attr->interval is close but it depends on attr->count which is non reset to 0, so interval does not work as expected. 3. Trying to model this with existing settings requires manipulations of all of probability, interval, times, space, task-filter and unexposed count and per-task make-it-fail files. 4. Existing settings are per-failure-type, and the set of failure types is potentially expanding. 5. make-it-fail can't be changed by unprivileged user and aggressive stress testing better be done from an unprivileged user. Similarly, this would require opening the debugfs files to the unprivileged user, as he would need to reopen at least times file (not possible to pre-open before dropping privs). The proposed interface solves all of the above (see the example). We want to integrate this into syzkaller fuzzer. A prototype has found 10 bugs in kernel in first day of usage: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/syzkaller/%22FAULT_INJECTION%22%7Csort:relevance I've made the current interface work with all types of our sandboxes. For setuid the secret sauce was prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 1, 0, 0, 0) to make /proc entries non-root owned. So I am fine with the current version of the code. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170328130128.101773-1-dvyukov@google.com Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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06-Jul-2017 |
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> |
mm, mempolicy: stop adjusting current->il_next in mpol_rebind_nodemask() The task->il_next variable stores the next allocation node id for task's MPOL_INTERLEAVE policy. mpol_rebind_nodemask() updates interleave and bind mempolicies due to changing cpuset mems. Currently it also tries to make sure that current->il_next is valid within the updated nodemask. This is bogus, because 1) we are updating potentially any task's mempolicy, not just current, and 2) we might be updating a per-vma mempolicy, not task one. The interleave_nodes() function that uses il_next can cope fine with the value not being within the currently allowed nodes, so this hasn't manifested as an actual issue. We can remove the need for updating il_next completely by changing it to il_prev and store the node id of the previous interleave allocation instead of the next id. Then interleave_nodes() can calculate the next id using the current nodemask and also store it as il_prev, except when querying the next node via do_get_mempolicy(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170517081140.30654-3-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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29-Jun-2017 |
Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> |
sched/cputime: Accumulate vtime on top of nsec clocksource Currently the cputime source used by vtime is jiffies. When we cross a context boundary and jiffies have changed since the last snapshot, the pending cputime is accounted to the switching out context. This system works ok if the ticks are not aligned across CPUs. If they instead are aligned (ie: all fire at the same time) and the CPUs run in userspace, the jiffies change is only observed on tick exit and therefore the user cputime is accounted as system cputime. This is because the CPU that maintains timekeeping fires its tick at the same time as the others. It updates jiffies in the middle of the tick and the other CPUs see that update on IRQ exit: CPU 0 (timekeeper) CPU 1 ------------------- ------------- jiffies = N ... run in userspace for a jiffy tick entry tick entry (sees jiffies = N) set jiffies = N + 1 tick exit tick exit (sees jiffies = N + 1) account 1 jiffy as stime Fix this with using a nanosec clock source instead of jiffies. The cputime is then accumulated and flushed everytime the pending delta reaches a jiffy in order to mitigate the accounting overhead. [ fweisbec: changelog, rebase on struct vtime, field renames, add delta on cputime readers, keep idle vtime as-is (low overhead accounting), harmonize clock sources. ] Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reported-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Tested-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498756511-11714-6-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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29-Jun-2017 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
sched/cputime: Move the vtime task fields to their own struct We are about to add vtime accumulation fields to the task struct. Let's avoid more bloatification and gather vtime information to their own struct. Tested-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498756511-11714-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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29-Jun-2017 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
sched/cputime: Rename vtime fields The current "snapshot" based naming on vtime fields suggests we record some past event but that's a low level picture of their actual purpose which comes out blurry. The real point of these fields is to run a basic state machine that tracks down cputime entry while switching between contexts. So lets reflect that with more meaningful names. Tested-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498756511-11714-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Apr-2017 |
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> |
task_struct: Allow randomized layout This marks most of the layout of task_struct as randomizable, but leaves thread_info and scheduler state untouched at the start, and thread_struct untouched at the end. Other parts of the kernel use unnamed structures, but the 0-day builder using gcc-4.4 blows up on static initializers. Officially, it's documented as only working on gcc 4.6 and later, which further confuses me: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/C11Status The structure layout randomization already requires gcc 4.7, but instead of depending on the plugin being enabled, just check the gcc versions for wider build testing. At Linus's suggestion, the marking is hidden in a macro to reduce how ugly it looks. Additionally, indenting is left unchanged since it would make things harder to read. Randomization of task_struct is modified from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are mine and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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28-Oct-2016 |
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> |
randstruct: Mark various structs for randomization This marks many critical kernel structures for randomization. These are structures that have been targeted in the past in security exploits, or contain functions pointers, pointers to function pointer tables, lists, workqueues, ref-counters, credentials, permissions, or are otherwise sensitive. This initial list was extracted from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are mine and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code. Left out of this list is task_struct, which requires special handling and will be covered in a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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29-May-2017 |
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> |
sched/deadline: Use the revised wakeup rule for suspending constrained dl tasks We have been facing some problems with self-suspending constrained deadline tasks. The main reason is that the original CBS was not designed for such sort of tasks. One problem reported by Xunlei Pang takes place when a task suspends, and then is awakened before the deadline, but so close to the deadline that its remaining runtime can cause the task to have an absolute density higher than allowed. In such situation, the original CBS assumes that the task is facing an early activation, and so it replenishes the task and set another deadline, one deadline in the future. This rule works fine for implicit deadline tasks. Moreover, it allows the system to adapt the period of a task in which the external event source suffered from a clock drift. However, this opens the window for bandwidth leakage for constrained deadline tasks. For instance, a task with the following parameters: runtime = 5 ms deadline = 7 ms [density] = 5 / 7 = 0.71 period = 1000 ms If the task runs for 1 ms, and then suspends for another 1ms, it will be awakened with the following parameters: remaining runtime = 4 laxity = 5 presenting a absolute density of 4 / 5 = 0.80. In this case, the original CBS would assume the task had an early wakeup. Then, CBS will reset the runtime, and the absolute deadline will be postponed by one relative deadline, allowing the task to run. The problem is that, if the task runs this pattern forever, it will keep receiving bandwidth, being able to run 1ms every 2ms. Following this behavior, the task would be able to run 500 ms in 1 sec. Thus running more than the 5 ms / 1 sec the admission control allowed it to run. Trying to address the self-suspending case, Luca Abeni, Giuseppe Lipari, and Juri Lelli [1] revisited the CBS in order to deal with self-suspending tasks. In the new approach, rather than replenishing/postponing the absolute deadline, the revised wakeup rule adjusts the remaining runtime, reducing it to fit into the allowed density. A revised version of the idea is: At a given time t, the maximum absolute density of a task cannot be higher than its relative density, that is: runtime / (deadline - t) <= dl_runtime / dl_deadline Knowing the laxity of a task (deadline - t), it is possible to move it to the other side of the equality, thus enabling to define max remaining runtime a task can use within the absolute deadline, without over-running the allowed density: runtime = (dl_runtime / dl_deadline) * (deadline - t) For instance, in our previous example, the task could still run: runtime = ( 5 / 7 ) * 5 runtime = 3.57 ms Without causing damage for other deadline tasks. It is note worthy that the laxity cannot be negative because that would cause a negative runtime. Thus, this patch depends on the patch: df8eac8cafce ("sched/deadline: Throttle a constrained deadline task activated after the deadline") Which throttles a constrained deadline task activated after the deadline. Finally, it is also possible to use the revised wakeup rule for all other tasks, but that would require some more discussions about pros and cons. Reported-by: Xunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> [peterz: replaced dl_is_constrained with dl_is_implicit] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Romulo Silva de Oliveira <romulo.deoliveira@ufsc.br> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5c800ab3a74a168a84ee5f3f84d12a02e11383be.1495803804.git.bristot@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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29-May-2017 |
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> |
sched/deadline: Fix dl_bw comment The sched_dl_entity's dl_bw variable stores the utilization (dl_runtime / dl_period) of a task, not its density (dl_runtime / dl_deadline), as the comment says. Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Romulo Silva de Oliveira <romulo.deoliveira@ufsc.br> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it> Cc: Xunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8d05f1ccfd02da1a11bda62494d98f5456c1469a.1495803804.git.bristot@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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18-May-2017 |
Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> |
sched/deadline: Improve the tracking of active utilization This patch implements a more theoretically sound algorithm for tracking active utilization: instead of decreasing it when a task blocks, use a timer (the "inactive timer", named after the "Inactive" task state of the GRUB algorithm) to decrease the active utilization at the so called "0-lag time". Tested-by: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com> Tested-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495138417-6203-3-git-send-email-luca.abeni@santannapisa.it Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Jun-2017 |
Perr Zhang <strongbox8@zoho.com> |
sched/header: Remove leftover, obsolete comment There is no more set_task_vxid() helper, remove its description. Signed-off-by: Perr Zhang <strongbox8@zoho.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170602035953.28949-1-strongbox8@zoho.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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24-May-2017 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched: Provide is_percpu_thread() helper Provide a helper function for checking whether current task is a per cpu thread. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524081549.541649540@linutronix.de
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03-May-2017 |
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> |
mm: introduce memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} API GFP_NOFS context is used for the following 5 reasons currently: - to prevent from deadlocks when the lock held by the allocation context would be needed during the memory reclaim - to prevent from stack overflows during the reclaim because the allocation is performed from a deep context already - to prevent lockups when the allocation context depends on other reclaimers to make a forward progress indirectly - just in case because this would be safe from the fs POV - silence lockdep false positives Unfortunately overuse of this allocation context brings some problems to the MM. Memory reclaim is much weaker (especially during heavy FS metadata workloads), OOM killer cannot be invoked because the MM layer doesn't have enough information about how much memory is freeable by the FS layer. In many cases it is far from clear why the weaker context is even used and so it might be used unnecessarily. We would like to get rid of those as much as possible. One way to do that is to use the flag in scopes rather than isolated cases. Such a scope is declared when really necessary, tracked per task and all the allocation requests from within the context will simply inherit the GFP_NOFS semantic. Not only this is easier to understand and maintain because there are much less problematic contexts than specific allocation requests, this also helps code paths where FS layer interacts with other layers (e.g. crypto, security modules, MM etc...) and there is no easy way to convey the allocation context between the layers. Introduce memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} API to control the scope of GFP_NOFS allocation context. This is basically copying memalloc_noio_{save,restore} API we have for other restricted allocation context GFP_NOIO. The PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS flag already exists and it is just an alias for PF_FSTRANS which has been xfs specific until recently. There are no more PF_FSTRANS users anymore so let's just drop it. PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS is now checked in the MM layer and drops __GFP_FS implicitly same as PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO drops __GFP_IO. memalloc_noio_flags is renamed to current_gfp_context because it now cares about both PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS and PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO contexts. Xfs code paths preserve their semantic. kmem_flags_convert() doesn't need to evaluate the flag anymore. This patch shouldn't introduce any functional changes. Let's hope that filesystems will drop direct GFP_NOFS (resp. ~__GFP_FS) usage as much as possible and only use a properly documented memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} checkpoints where they are appropriate. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment typo, reflow comment] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306131408.9828-5-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Cc: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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03-May-2017 |
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> |
xfs: abstract PF_FSTRANS to PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS xfs has defined PF_FSTRANS to declare a scope GFP_NOFS semantic quite some time ago. We would like to make this concept more generic and use it for other filesystems as well. Let's start by giving the flag a more generic name PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS which is in line with an exiting PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO already used for the same purpose for GFP_NOIO contexts. Replace all PF_FSTRANS usage from the xfs code in the first step before we introduce a full API for it as xfs uses the flag directly anyway. This patch doesn't introduce any functional change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306131408.9828-4-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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06-Apr-2017 |
NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> |
sched/core: Remove 'task' parameter and rename tsk_restore_flags() to current_restore_flags() It is not safe for one thread to modify the ->flags of another thread as there is no locking that can protect the update. So tsk_restore_flags(), which takes a task pointer and modifies the flags, is an invitation to do the wrong thing. All current users pass "current" as the task, so no developers have accepted that invitation. It would be best to ensure it remains that way. So rename tsk_restore_flags() to current_restore_flags() and don't pass in a task_struct pointer. Always operate on current->flags. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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23-Mar-2017 |
Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com> |
sched/rtmutex/deadline: Fix a PI crash for deadline tasks A crash happened while I was playing with deadline PI rtmutex. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000018 IP: [<ffffffff810eeb8f>] rt_mutex_get_top_task+0x1f/0x30 PGD 232a75067 PUD 230947067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP CPU: 1 PID: 10994 Comm: a.out Not tainted Call Trace: [<ffffffff810b658c>] enqueue_task+0x2c/0x80 [<ffffffff810ba763>] activate_task+0x23/0x30 [<ffffffff810d0ab5>] pull_dl_task+0x1d5/0x260 [<ffffffff810d0be6>] pre_schedule_dl+0x16/0x20 [<ffffffff8164e783>] __schedule+0xd3/0x900 [<ffffffff8164efd9>] schedule+0x29/0x70 [<ffffffff8165035b>] __rt_mutex_slowlock+0x4b/0xc0 [<ffffffff81650501>] rt_mutex_slowlock+0xd1/0x190 [<ffffffff810eeb33>] rt_mutex_timed_lock+0x53/0x60 [<ffffffff810ecbfc>] futex_lock_pi.isra.18+0x28c/0x390 [<ffffffff810ed8b0>] do_futex+0x190/0x5b0 [<ffffffff810edd50>] SyS_futex+0x80/0x180 This is because rt_mutex_enqueue_pi() and rt_mutex_dequeue_pi() are only protected by pi_lock when operating pi waiters, while rt_mutex_get_top_task(), will access them with rq lock held but not holding pi_lock. In order to tackle it, we introduce new "pi_top_task" pointer cached in task_struct, and add new rt_mutex_update_top_task() to update its value, it can be called by rt_mutex_setprio() which held both owner's pi_lock and rq lock. Thus "pi_top_task" can be safely accessed by enqueue_task_dl() under rq lock. Originally-From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: juri.lelli@arm.com Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Cc: jdesfossez@efficios.com Cc: bristot@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170323150216.157682758@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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24-Mar-2017 |
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> |
LSM: Revive security_task_alloc() hook and per "struct task_struct" security blob. We switched from "struct task_struct"->security to "struct cred"->security in Linux 2.6.29. But not all LSM modules were happy with that change. TOMOYO LSM module is an example which want to use per "struct task_struct" security blob, for TOMOYO's security context is defined based on "struct task_struct" rather than "struct cred". AppArmor LSM module is another example which want to use it, for AppArmor is currently abusing the cred a little bit to store the change_hat and setexeccon info. Although security_task_free() hook was revived in Linux 3.4 because Yama LSM module wanted to release per "struct task_struct" security blob, security_task_alloc() hook and "struct task_struct"->security field were not revived. Nowadays, we are getting proposals of lightweight LSM modules which want to use per "struct task_struct" security blob. We are already allowing multiple concurrent LSM modules (up to one fully armored module which uses "struct cred"->security field or exclusive hooks like security_xfrm_state_pol_flow_match(), plus unlimited number of lightweight modules which do not use "struct cred"->security nor exclusive hooks) as long as they are built into the kernel. But this patch does not implement variable length "struct task_struct"->security field which will become needed when multiple LSM modules want to use "struct task_struct"-> security field. Although it won't be difficult to implement variable length "struct task_struct"->security field, let's think about it after we merged this patch. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Tested-by: Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@gmail.com> Acked-by: José Bollo <jobol@nonadev.net> Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Cc: José Bollo <jobol@nonadev.net> Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
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07-Mar-2017 |
Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> |
treewide: Fix typo in xml/driver-api/basics.xml This patch fix spelling typos found in Documentation/output/xml/driver-api/basics.xml. It is because the xml file was generated from comments in source, so I had to fix the comments. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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16-Mar-2017 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
cgroup, kthread: close race window where new kthreads can be migrated to non-root cgroups Creation of a kthread goes through a couple interlocked stages between the kthread itself and its creator. Once the new kthread starts running, it initializes itself and wakes up the creator. The creator then can further configure the kthread and then let it start doing its job by waking it up. In this configuration-by-creator stage, the creator is the only one that can wake it up but the kthread is visible to userland. When altering the kthread's attributes from userland is allowed, this is fine; however, for cases where CPU affinity is critical, kthread_bind() is used to first disable affinity changes from userland and then set the affinity. This also prevents the kthread from being migrated into non-root cgroups as that can affect the CPU affinity and many other things. Unfortunately, the cgroup side of protection is racy. While the PF_NO_SETAFFINITY flag prevents further migrations, userland can win the race before the creator sets the flag with kthread_bind() and put the kthread in a non-root cgroup, which can lead to all sorts of problems including incorrect CPU affinity and starvation. This bug got triggered by userland which periodically tries to migrate all processes in the root cpuset cgroup to a non-root one. Per-cpu workqueue workers got caught while being created and ended up with incorrected CPU affinity breaking concurrency management and sometimes stalling workqueue execution. This patch adds task->no_cgroup_migration which disallows the task to be migrated by userland. kthreadd starts with the flag set making every child kthread start in the root cgroup with migration disallowed. The flag is cleared after the kthread finishes initialization by which time PF_NO_SETAFFINITY is set if the kthread should stay in the root cgroup. It'd be better to wait for the initialization instead of failing but I couldn't think of a way of implementing that without adding either a new PF flag, or sleeping and retrying from waiting side. Even if userland depends on changing cgroup membership of a kthread, it either has to be synchronized with kthread_create() or periodically repeat, so it's unlikely that this would break anything. v2: Switch to a simpler implementation using a new task_struct bit field suggested by Oleg. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reported-and-debugged-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.3+ (we can't close the race on < v4.3) Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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22-Feb-2017 |
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> |
staging, android: remove lowmemory killer from the tree Lowmemory killer is sitting in the staging tree since 2008 without any serious interest for fixing issues brought up by the MM folks. The main objection is that the implementation is basically broken by design: - it hooks into slab shrinker API which is not suitable for this purpose. lowmem_count implementation just shows this nicely. There is no scaling based on the memory pressure and no feedback to the generic shrinker infrastructure. Moreover lowmem_scan is called way too often for the heavy work it performs. - it is not reclaim context aware - no NUMA and/or memcg awareness. As the code stands right now it just adds a maintenance overhead when core MM changes have to update lowmemorykiller.c as well. It also seems that the alternative LMK implementation will be solely in the userspace so this code has no perspective it seems. The staging tree is supposed to be for a code which needs to be put in shape before it can be merged which is not the case here obviously. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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13-Feb-2017 |
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> |
livepatch: change to a per-task consistency model Change livepatch to use a basic per-task consistency model. This is the foundation which will eventually enable us to patch those ~10% of security patches which change function or data semantics. This is the biggest remaining piece needed to make livepatch more generally useful. This code stems from the design proposal made by Vojtech [1] in November 2014. It's a hybrid of kGraft and kpatch: it uses kGraft's per-task consistency and syscall barrier switching combined with kpatch's stack trace switching. There are also a number of fallback options which make it quite flexible. Patches are applied on a per-task basis, when the task is deemed safe to switch over. When a patch is enabled, livepatch enters into a transition state where tasks are converging to the patched state. Usually this transition state can complete in a few seconds. The same sequence occurs when a patch is disabled, except the tasks converge from the patched state to the unpatched state. An interrupt handler inherits the patched state of the task it interrupts. The same is true for forked tasks: the child inherits the patched state of the parent. Livepatch uses several complementary approaches to determine when it's safe to patch tasks: 1. The first and most effective approach is stack checking of sleeping tasks. If no affected functions are on the stack of a given task, the task is patched. In most cases this will patch most or all of the tasks on the first try. Otherwise it'll keep trying periodically. This option is only available if the architecture has reliable stacks (HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE). 2. The second approach, if needed, is kernel exit switching. A task is switched when it returns to user space from a system call, a user space IRQ, or a signal. It's useful in the following cases: a) Patching I/O-bound user tasks which are sleeping on an affected function. In this case you have to send SIGSTOP and SIGCONT to force it to exit the kernel and be patched. b) Patching CPU-bound user tasks. If the task is highly CPU-bound then it will get patched the next time it gets interrupted by an IRQ. c) In the future it could be useful for applying patches for architectures which don't yet have HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE. In this case you would have to signal most of the tasks on the system. However this isn't supported yet because there's currently no way to patch kthreads without HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE. 3. For idle "swapper" tasks, since they don't ever exit the kernel, they instead have a klp_update_patch_state() call in the idle loop which allows them to be patched before the CPU enters the idle state. (Note there's not yet such an approach for kthreads.) All the above approaches may be skipped by setting the 'immediate' flag in the 'klp_patch' struct, which will disable per-task consistency and patch all tasks immediately. This can be useful if the patch doesn't change any function or data semantics. Note that, even with this flag set, it's possible that some tasks may still be running with an old version of the function, until that function returns. There's also an 'immediate' flag in the 'klp_func' struct which allows you to specify that certain functions in the patch can be applied without per-task consistency. This might be useful if you want to patch a common function like schedule(), and the function change doesn't need consistency but the rest of the patch does. For architectures which don't have HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE, the user must set patch->immediate which causes all tasks to be patched immediately. This option should be used with care, only when the patch doesn't change any function or data semantics. In the future, architectures which don't have HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE may be allowed to use per-task consistency if we can come up with another way to patch kthreads. The /sys/kernel/livepatch/<patch>/transition file shows whether a patch is in transition. Only a single patch (the topmost patch on the stack) can be in transition at a given time. A patch can remain in transition indefinitely, if any of the tasks are stuck in the initial patch state. A transition can be reversed and effectively canceled by writing the opposite value to the /sys/kernel/livepatch/<patch>/enabled file while the transition is in progress. Then all the tasks will attempt to converge back to the original patch state. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141107140458.GA21774@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> # for the scheduler changes Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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06-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Clean up <linux/sched.h> Now that <linux/sched.h> dependencies have been sorted out, do various trivial cleanups: - remove unnecessary structure predeclarations - fix various typos - update comments where necessary - remove pointless comments - use consistent types - tabulate consistently - use a consistent comment style - clean up the header section a bit - use a consistent style of a single field per line - remove line-breaks where they make the code look worse - etc ... No change in functionality. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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06-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Remove #ifdefs from <linux/sched.h> We can remove two pairs of #ifdefs by defining structures in a smarter way. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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06-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Remove the <linux/topology.h> include from <linux/sched.h> It's used only by a single (rarely used) inline function (task_node(p)), which we can move to <linux/sched/topology.h>. ( Add <linux/nodemask.h>, because we rely on that. ) Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Remove <linux/magic.h> from <linux/sched/task_stack.h> It's not used by any of the scheduler methods, but <linux/sched/task_stack.h> needs it to pick up STACK_END_MAGIC. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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04-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/core: Remove unused prefetch_stack() prefetch_stack() is defined by IA64, but not actually used anywhere anymore. Remove it. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Remove <linux/rculist.h> from <linux/sched.h> We don't actually need the full rculist.h header anymore, include the smaller rcupdate.h header instead. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Remove the 'init_pid_ns' prototype from <linux/sched.h> pid.h already defines it. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Remove <linux/signal.h> from <linux/sched.h> Instead of including the full <linux/signal.h>, only include the types-only <linux/signal_types.h> header in <linux/sched.h>, to further decouple the scheduler header from the signal headers. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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08-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Remove <linux/rwsem.h> from <linux/sched.h> This is a stray header that is not needed by anything in sched.h, so remove it. Update files that relied on the stray inclusion. This reduces the size of the header dependency graph. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Remove the runqueue_is_locked() prototype Remove the runqueue_is_locked() prototype, the function does not exist anymore. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Remove the <linux/gfp.h> include from <linux/sched.h> This reduces sched.h header dependencies. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Remove <linux/rtmutex.h> from <linux/sched.h> This reduces header dependencies. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Remove <asm/ptrace.h> from <linux/sched.h> This reduces header dependencies. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Remove <linux/cred.h> inclusion from <linux/sched.h> This reduces header dependencies and speeds up the build. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Remove <linux/cgroup-defs.h> from <linux/sched.h> It's not used by anything in <linux/sched.h> anymore. This reduces the preprocessed size of <linux/sched.h> and speeds up the build a bit. Also fix code that implicitly relied on headers included by <linux/cgroup-defs.h>. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Remove #include <linux/capability.h> from <linux/sched.h> The <linux/sched.h> header does not actually make use of any types or APIs defined in <linux/capability.h>, so remove its inclusion. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Remove unused 'task_can_switch_user()' prototype The function does not exist anymore. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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06-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move the sched_exec() prototype to <linux/sched/task.h> sched_exec() better fits into the task lifetime APIs than into the core scheduler APIs. This reduces the size of <linux/sched.h> a bit. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move the get_task_struct()/put_task_struct() and related APIs from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/task.h> These belong into the task lifetime API header. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers, mm: Move 'struct tlbflush_unmap_batch' from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/mm_types_task.h> Unclutter <linux/sched.h> some more. Also move the CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH condition inside the structure body definition, to remove a pair of #ifdefs from sched.h. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers, timekeeping: Move the timer tick function prototypes to <linux/timekeeping.h> Move the update_process_times() and xtime_update() prototypes to <linux/timekeeping.h>. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move _init() prototypes from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/init.h> trap_init() and cpu_init() belong into <linux/cpu.h>, sched_init*() into <linux/sched/init.h>. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move exit_files() and exit_itimers() from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/task.h> These two functions are task management related, not core scheduler APIs. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move kstack_end() from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/task_stack.h> This is a task-stack related API, not core scheduler functionality. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers, vfs/execve: Move the do_execve*() prototypes from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/binfmts.h> These are not scheduler related. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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04-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move sched_info_on() and force_schedstat_enabled() from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/stat.h> These APIs are not core scheduler but scheduler statistics related. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move cputime functionality from <linux/sched.h> and <linux/cputime.h> into <linux/sched/cputime.h> Move cputime related functionality out of <linux/sched.h>, as most code that includes <linux/sched.h> does not use that functionality. Move data types that are not included in task_struct directly to the signal definitions, into <linux/sched/signal.h>. Also merge the (small) existing <linux/cputime.h> header into <linux/sched/cputime.h>. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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06-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move the task_lock()/unlock() APIs to <linux/sched/task.h> The task_lock()/task_unlock() APIs are not realated to core scheduling, they are task lifetime APIs, i.e. they belong into <linux/sched/task.h>. Move them. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move 'init_task' and 'init_thread_union' from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/task.h> 'init_task' is really not part of core scheduler APIs but part of the fork() interface between the scheduler and process management. So move the declarations. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Remove the <linux/mm_types.h> dependency from <linux/sched.h> Use the freshly introduced, reduced size <linux/mm_types_task.h> header instead. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move the 'root_task_group' declaration to <linux/sched/autogroup.h> Also remove the duplicate declaration from <linux/init_task.h>. ( That declaration was originally duplicated for dependency hell reasons, but there's no problem including the much smaller <linux/sched/autogroup.h> header now, to pick up the right prototype. ) Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move task-stack related APIs from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/task_stack.h> Split out the task->stack related functionality, which is not really part of the core scheduler APIs. Only keep task_thread_info() because it's used by sched.h. Update the code that uses those facilities. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move the PREEMPT_COUNT defines from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/preempt.h> These defines are not really part of the scheduler's driver API, but are related to the preempt count - so move them to <linux/preempt.h>. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/core: Move, sort and clean up <linux/sched.h> structure predeclarations Most of the structure predeclarations were at the head of sched.h, but not all of them - there were a number of lines spread around sched.h, in random places. Move them to the head, and also sort them alphabetically. Remove unused entries. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move task lifetime APIs from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/task.h> There's a fair amount of task lifetime management (a.k.a fork()/exit()) related APIs in <linux/sched.h>, but only a small fraction of the users of the generic sched.h header make use of them. Move these functions to the <linux/sched/task.h> header. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Split hotplug CPU interfaces out of <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/hotplug.h> Split the CPU hotplug scheduler APIs out of the common header. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move <asm/current.h> include from the middle of <linux/sched.h> to the header portion Linux-0.01 already defined 'current' in the middle of sched.h, so this is an ancient historical precedent - but still in a modern kernel it looks a bit weird that we have: #include <asm/current.h> in the middle of the header. Move it further up. If this was done for some obscure dependency reasons then we'll trigger and document it. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers, time/timekeeping: Move the xtime_update() prototype from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/time.h> This was in <linux/sched.h> only for hysterical raisins. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move debugging functions from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/debug.h> Collect the various scheduler and task state debugging APIs scattered around <linux/sched.h> into the new <linux/sched/debug.h> header. In particular the show_regs() and show_stack() prototype affects many files, update them. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move the NOHZ APIs from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/nohz.h> There's a number of NOHZ/dyntics related functionality in <linux/sched.h>, but only a handful of timer files are making use of them. Move them into their own header. This better documents these APIs and unclutters <linux/sched.h>. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move task statistics APIs from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/stat.h> There are a number of task statistics related variables and methods exported via sched.h - collect them into <linux/sched/stat.h> and include it from their usage sites. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move the memalloc_noio_*() APIs to <linux/sched/mm.h> In preparation to remove the <linux/gfp.h> include from <linux/sched.h>. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move signal wakeup & sigpending methods from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/signal.h> This reduces the size of <linux/sched.h>. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move CONFIG_TASK_XACCT bits from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/xacct.h> The CONFIG_TASK_XACCT=y accounting inline functions are only used by fs/read_write.c, so move them into their separate header. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Remove various unrelated headers from <linux/sched.h> Remove the following header inclusions from <linux/sched.h>: #include <asm/param.h> #include <linux/threads.h> #include <linux/kernel.h> #include <linux/types.h> #include <linux/timex.h> #include <linux/jiffies.h> #include <linux/rbtree.h> #include <linux/thread_info.h> #include <linux/cpumask.h> #include <linux/errno.h> #include <linux/nodemask.h> #include <linux/preempt.h> #include <asm/page.h> #include <linux/smp.h> #include <linux/compiler.h> #include <linux/completion.h> #include <linux/percpu.h> #include <linux/topology.h> #include <linux/rcupdate.h> #include <linux/time.h> #include <linux/timer.h> #include <linux/llist.h> #include <linux/uidgid.h> #include <asm/processor.h> because they are either not required, or are already included naturally as part of the remaining headers. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move the JOBCTL_ defines and methods from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/jobctl.h> Only a small fraction of sched.h users actually utilizes these defines, and they are not scheduler functionality in any case, so move them into their separate header. (Also make <linux/sched/jobctl.h> a self-contained header.) Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move the NUMA balancing interfaces from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/numa_balancing.h> Split out the interface between the scheduler and the MM which deals with page fault driven NUMA balancing, into the new <linux/sched/numa_balancing.h> header. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move in_vfork() from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/mm.h> The in_vfork() function deals with task->mm, so it better belongs into <linux/sched/mm.h>. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move the 'init_mm' declaration from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/mm_types.h> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move more mm_struct related functionality from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/mm.h> Neither the mmap_layout nor the mm_update_next_owner() methods need to be in <linux/sched.h> - move them to the more appropriate <linux/sched/mm.h> header. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move the cpufreq interfaces to <linux/sched/cpufreq.h> No need to have this in the generic <linux/sched.h> header. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move 'struct pacct_struct' and 'struct cpu_itimer' form <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/signal.h> These structures are actually part of 'struct signal', so move them to <linux/sched/signal.h> where they belong. This further decreases the size and complexity of <linux/sched.h>. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move softlockup detector watchdog methods to <linux/nmi.h> These methods don't belong into <linux/sched.h>, they are neither directly related to task_struct or are scheduler functionality. Put them next to the other watchdog methods in <linux/nmi.h>. ( Arguably that header's name is a misnomer, and this patch makes it more so - but it should be renamed in another patch. ) Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move 'struct user_struct' definition and APIs to the new <linux/sched/user.h> header 'struct user_struct' was added to sched.h historically, but it's actually entirely independent of task_struct and of scheduler details, so move it to its own header. Fix up .c files using those facilities. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move task_struct::signal and task_struct::sighand types and accessors into <linux/sched/signal.h> task_struct::signal and task_struct::sighand are pointers, which would normally make it straightforward to not define those types in sched.h. That is not so, because the types are accompanied by a myriad of APIs (macros and inline functions) that dereference them. Split the types and the APIs out of sched.h and move them into a new header, <linux/sched/signal.h>. With this change sched.h does not know about 'struct signal' and 'struct sighand' anymore, trying to put accessors into sched.h as a test fails the following way: ./include/linux/sched.h: In function ‘test_signal_types’: ./include/linux/sched.h:2461:18: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type ‘struct signal_struct’ ^ This reduces the size and complexity of sched.h significantly. Update all headers and .c code that relied on getting the signal handling functionality from <linux/sched.h> to include <linux/sched/signal.h>. The list of affected files in the preparatory patch was partly generated by grepping for the APIs, and partly by doing coverage build testing, both all[yes|mod|def|no]config builds on 64-bit and 32-bit x86, and an array of cross-architecture builds. Nevertheless some (trivial) build breakage is still expected related to rare Kconfig combinations and in-flight patches to various kernel code, but most of it should be handled by this patch. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move task->mm coredumping related defines and methods from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/coredump.h> This further reduces the size and complexity of <linux/sched.h>. These are the definitions and APIs that are moved: # MMF_*: fs/binfmt_elf.c fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c fs/exec.c fs/proc/base.c include/linux/khugepaged.h include/linux/ksm.h include/linux/sched/coredump.h kernel/events/uprobes.c kernel/fork.c mm/huge_memory.c mm/khugepaged.c mm/ksm.c mm/memory.c mm/oom_kill.c # SUID_DUMP_*: arch/ia64/include/asm/processor.h fs/coredump.c fs/exec.c fs/proc/internal.h include/linux/sched/coredump.h kernel/ptrace.c kernel/sys.c kernel/sysctl.c # get_dumpable(): arch/ia64/include/asm/processor.h fs/coredump.c fs/exec.c fs/proc/internal.h include/linux/sched/coredump.h kernel/ptrace.c kernel/sys.c # set_dumpable(): fs/exec.c include/linux/sched/coredump.h kernel/cred.c kernel/sys.c Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move task->mm handling methods to <linux/sched/mm.h> Move the following task->mm helper APIs into a new header file, <linux/sched/mm.h>, to further reduce the size and complexity of <linux/sched.h>. Here are how the APIs are used in various kernel files: # mm_alloc(): arch/arm/mach-rpc/ecard.c fs/exec.c include/linux/sched/mm.h kernel/fork.c # __mmdrop(): arch/arc/include/asm/mmu_context.h include/linux/sched/mm.h kernel/fork.c # mmdrop(): arch/arm/mach-rpc/ecard.c arch/m68k/sun3/mmu_emu.c arch/x86/mm/tlb.c drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/file_ops.c drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c fs/exec.c fs/proc/base.c fs/proc/task_mmu.c fs/proc/task_nommu.c fs/userfaultfd.c include/linux/mmu_notifier.h include/linux/sched/mm.h kernel/fork.c kernel/futex.c kernel/sched/core.c mm/khugepaged.c mm/ksm.c mm/mmu_context.c mm/mmu_notifier.c mm/oom_kill.c virt/kvm/kvm_main.c # mmdrop_async_fn(): include/linux/sched/mm.h # mmdrop_async(): include/linux/sched/mm.h kernel/fork.c # mmget_not_zero(): fs/userfaultfd.c include/linux/sched/mm.h mm/oom_kill.c # mmput(): arch/arc/include/asm/mmu_context.h arch/arc/kernel/troubleshoot.c arch/frv/mm/mmu-context.c arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/context.c arch/sparc/include/asm/mmu_context_32.h drivers/android/binder.c drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gem.c drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_userptr.c drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c drivers/infiniband/core/umem_odp.c drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_uiom.c drivers/iommu/amd_iommu_v2.c drivers/iommu/intel-svm.c drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c drivers/misc/cxl/fault.c drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_rma.c drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c drivers/vhost/vhost.c drivers/xen/gntdev.c fs/exec.c fs/proc/array.c fs/proc/base.c fs/proc/task_mmu.c fs/proc/task_nommu.c fs/userfaultfd.c include/linux/sched/mm.h kernel/cpuset.c kernel/events/core.c kernel/events/uprobes.c kernel/exit.c kernel/fork.c kernel/ptrace.c kernel/sys.c kernel/trace/trace_output.c kernel/tsacct.c mm/memcontrol.c mm/memory.c mm/mempolicy.c mm/migrate.c mm/mmu_notifier.c mm/nommu.c mm/oom_kill.c mm/process_vm_access.c mm/rmap.c mm/swapfile.c mm/util.c virt/kvm/async_pf.c # mmput_async(): include/linux/sched/mm.h kernel/fork.c mm/oom_kill.c # get_task_mm(): arch/arc/kernel/troubleshoot.c arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/context.c drivers/android/binder.c drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_gem.c drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c drivers/infiniband/core/umem_odp.c drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_uiom.c drivers/iommu/amd_iommu_v2.c drivers/iommu/intel-svm.c drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c drivers/misc/cxl/fault.c drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_rma.c drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c drivers/vhost/vhost.c drivers/xen/gntdev.c fs/proc/array.c fs/proc/base.c fs/proc/task_mmu.c include/linux/sched/mm.h kernel/cpuset.c kernel/events/core.c kernel/exit.c kernel/fork.c kernel/ptrace.c kernel/sys.c kernel/trace/trace_output.c kernel/tsacct.c mm/memcontrol.c mm/memory.c mm/mempolicy.c mm/migrate.c mm/mmu_notifier.c mm/nommu.c mm/util.c # mm_access(): fs/proc/base.c include/linux/sched/mm.h kernel/fork.c mm/process_vm_access.c # mm_release(): arch/arc/include/asm/mmu_context.h fs/exec.c include/linux/sched/mm.h include/uapi/linux/sched.h kernel/exit.c kernel/fork.c Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move autogroup APIs into <linux/sched/autogroup.h> Further reduce the size of sched.h. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move loadavg related definitions from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/loadavg.h> Move these bits to <linux/sched/loadavg.h>, to reduce the size and complexity of <linux/sched.h>. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move various ABI definitions to <uapi/linux/sched/types.h> Move scheduler ABI types (struct sched_attr, struct sched_param, etc.) into the new UAPI header. This further reduces the size and complexity of <linux/sched.h>. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers, delayacct: Move the 'struct task_delay_info' definition from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/delayacct.h> The 'struct task_delay_info' definition does not have to be in sched.h, because task_struct only has a pointer to it. So move it to <linux/delayacct.h> to reduce the size of <linux/sched.h>. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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06-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move scheduler clock interfaces to <linux/sched/clock.h> Move the sched_clock interfaces into a separate header file, to reduce the size of sched.h. Include <linux/sched/clock.h> in all files that made use of one of the Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move the wake-queue types and interfaces from sched.h into <linux/sched/wake_q.h> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move idle polling methods to <linux/sched/idle.h> Further reduce the size of <linux/sched.h> by moving these APIs: tsk_is_polling() __current_set_polling() current_set_polling_and_test() __current_clr_polling() current_clr_polling_and_test() current_clr_polling() Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move the wake_up_if_idle() prototype to <linux/sched/idle.h> No need to clutter <linux/sched.h> with this rarely used prototype. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move the 'cpu_idle_type' enum from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/idle.h> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Move scheduler topology interfaces to <linux/sched/topology.h> The vast majority of sched.h users does not require the topology types and interfaces, so split them out into <linux/sched/topology.h>. This reduces the size of linux/sched.h by ~6%. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Prepare to remove spurious <linux/sched.h> inclusion dependencies In the following patches we are going to remove various headers from sched.h and other headers that sched.h includes. To make those patches build cleanly prepare the scene by adding dependencies to various files that learned to rely on those to-be-removed dependencies. These changes all make sense standalone: they add a header for a data type that a particular .c or .h file is using. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Prepare for the reduction of <linux/sched.h>'s signal API dependency Instead of including the full <linux/signal.h>, we are going to include the types-only <linux/signal_types.h> header in <linux/sched.h>, to further decouple the scheduler header from the signal headers. This means that various files which relied on the full <linux/signal.h> need to be updated to gain an explicit dependency on it. Update the code that relies on sched.h's inclusion of the <linux/signal.h> header. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers: Prepare to remove the <linux/gfp.h> include from <linux/sched.h> <linux/topology.h> is still needed - also update other headers and .c files that depend on sched.h including gfp.h (and its sub-headers) for them. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
mm/vmacache, sched/headers: Introduce 'struct vmacache' and move it from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/mm_types> The <linux/sched.h> header includes various vmacache related defines, which are arguably misplaced. Move them to mm_types.h and minimize the sched.h impact by putting all task vmacache state into a new 'struct vmacache' structure. No change in functionality. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/headers, cgroups: Remove the threadgroup_change_*() wrappery threadgroup_change_begin()/end() is a pointless wrapper around cgroup_threadgroup_change_begin()/end(), minus a might_sleep() in the !CONFIG_CGROUPS=y case. Remove the wrappery, move the might_sleep() (the down_read() already has a might_sleep() check). This debloats <linux/sched.h> a bit and simplifies this API. Update all call sites. No change in functionality. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/core: Remove the tsk_nr_cpus_allowed() wrapper tsk_nr_cpus_allowed() too is a pretty pointless wrapper that is not used consistently and which makes the code both harder to read and longer as well. So remove it - this also shrinks <linux/sched.h> a bit. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/core: Remove the tsk_cpus_allowed() wrapper So the original intention of tsk_cpus_allowed() was to 'future-proof' the field - but it's pretty ineffectual at that, because half of the code uses ->cpus_allowed directly ... Also, the wrapper makes the code longer than the original expression! So just get rid of it. This also shrinks <linux/sched.h> a bit. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/core: Move the get_preempt_disable_ip() inline to sched/core.c It's defined in <linux/sched.h>, but nothing outside the scheduler uses it - so move it to the sched/core.c usage site. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/core: Convert ___assert_task_state() link time assert to BUILD_BUG_ON() The length of TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR was still checked using the old link-time manual error method - convert it to BUILD_BUG_ON(). This has a couple of advantages: - it's more obvious what's going on - it reduces the size and complexity of <linux/sched.h> - BUILD_BUG_ON() will fail during compilation, with a clearer error message than the link time assert. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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27-Feb-2017 |
Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> |
mm: add new mmget() helper Apart from adding the helper function itself, the rest of the kernel is converted mechanically using: git grep -l 'atomic_inc.*mm_users' | xargs sed -i 's/atomic_inc(&\(.*\)->mm_users);/mmget\(\1\);/' git grep -l 'atomic_inc.*mm_users' | xargs sed -i 's/atomic_inc(&\(.*\)\.mm_users);/mmget\(\&\1\);/' This is needed for a later patch that hooks into the helper, but might be a worthwhile cleanup on its own. (Michal Hocko provided most of the kerneldoc comment.) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161218123229.22952-2-vegard.nossum@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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27-Feb-2017 |
Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> |
mm: add new mmgrab() helper Apart from adding the helper function itself, the rest of the kernel is converted mechanically using: git grep -l 'atomic_inc.*mm_count' | xargs sed -i 's/atomic_inc(&\(.*\)->mm_count);/mmgrab\(\1\);/' git grep -l 'atomic_inc.*mm_count' | xargs sed -i 's/atomic_inc(&\(.*\)\.mm_count);/mmgrab\(\&\1\);/' This is needed for a later patch that hooks into the helper, but might be a worthwhile cleanup on its own. (Michal Hocko provided most of the kerneldoc comment.) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161218123229.22952-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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30-Jan-2017 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
introduce the walk_process_tree() helper Add the new helper to walk the process tree, the next patch adds a user. Note that it visits the group leaders only, proc_visitor can do for_each_thread itself or we can trivially extend walk_process_tree() to do this. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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26-Jan-2017 |
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> |
sched/clock: Add dummy clear_sched_clock_stable() stub function In commit: acb04058de494 ("sched/clock: Fix hotplug crash") the PARISC code gained a call to this function. However the prototype for it is within a CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK=y #ifdef/#endif. That, combined with this: arch/parisc/Kconfig: select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK if SMP means that PARISC can have it either enabled or disabled, resulting in the following build fail: arch/parisc/kernel/setup.c:180:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'clear_sched_clock_stable' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] Add a no-op stub for the non-SMP case to prevent this. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: acb04058de49 ("sched/clock: Fix hotplug crash") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170127173816.22733-1-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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29-Jan-2017 |
Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> |
sched/wake_q: Clarify queue reinit comment As of: bcc9a76d5ac ("locking/rwsem: Reinit wake_q after use") the comment regarding the list reinitialization no longer applies, update it with the new wake_q_init() helper. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: longman@redhat.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170129151531.GA2444@linux-80c1.suse Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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30-Jan-2017 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
sched/cputime: Remove temporary cputime_t accessors Now that the whole cputime conversion to nsec units is complete, we can remove the compatibility accessors. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485832191-26889-21-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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30-Jan-2017 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
timers/itimer: Convert internal cputime_t units to nsec Use the new nsec based cputime accessors as part of the whole cputime conversion from cputime_t to nsecs. Also convert itimers to use nsec based internal counters. This simplifies it and removes the whole game with error/inc_error which served to deal with cputime_t random granularity. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485832191-26889-20-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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30-Jan-2017 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
timers/posix-timers: Convert internals to use nsecs Use the new nsec based cputime accessors as part of the whole cputime conversion from cputime_t to nsecs. Also convert posix-cpu-timers to use nsec based internal counters to simplify it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485832191-26889-19-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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30-Jan-2017 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
tsacct: Convert obsolete cputime type to nsecs Use the new nsec based cputime accessors as part of the whole cputime conversion from cputime_t to nsecs. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485832191-26889-15-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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30-Jan-2017 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
acct: Convert obsolete cputime type to nsecs Use the new nsec based cputime accessors as part of the whole cputime conversion from cputime_t to nsecs. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485832191-26889-13-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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30-Jan-2017 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
sched/cputime: Convert task/group cputime to nsecs Now that most cputime readers use the transition API which return the task cputime in old style cputime_t, we can safely store the cputime in nsecs. This will eventually make cputime statistics less opaque and more granular. Back and forth convertions between cputime_t and nsecs in order to deal with cputime_t random granularity won't be needed anymore. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485832191-26889-8-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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30-Jan-2017 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
sched/cputime: Introduce special task_cputime_t() API to return old-typed cputime This API returns a task's cputime in cputime_t in order to ease the conversion of cputime internals to use nsecs units instead. Blindly converting all cputime readers to use this API now will later let us convert more smoothly and step by step all these places to use the new nsec based cputime. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485832191-26889-7-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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30-Jan-2017 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
sched/cputime: Convert guest time accounting to nsecs (u64) cputime_t is being obsolete and replaced by nsecs units in order to make internal timestamps less opaque and more granular. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485832191-26889-6-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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30-Jan-2017 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
sched/cputime: Remove the unused INIT_CPUTIME macro It's a leftover from removed code. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485832191-26889-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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20-Jan-2017 |
Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> |
timers: Omit POSIX timer stuff from task_struct when disabled When CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS is disabled, it is preferable to remove related structures from struct task_struct and struct signal_struct as they won't contain anything useful and shouldn't be relied upon by mistake. Code still referencing those structures is also disabled here. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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14-Dec-2016 |
Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com> |
inotify: Convert to using per-namespace limits This patchset converts inotify to using the newly introduced per-userns sysctl infrastructure. Currently the inotify instances/watches are being accounted in the user_struct structure. This means that in setups where multiple users in unprivileged containers map to the same underlying real user (i.e. pointing to the same user_struct) the inotify limits are going to be shared as well, allowing one user(or application) to exhaust all others limits. Fix this by switching the inotify sysctls to using the per-namespace/per-user limits. This will allow the server admin to set sensible global limits, which can further be tuned inside every individual user namespace. Additionally, in order to preserve the sysctl ABI make the existing inotify instances/watches sysctls modify the values of the initial user namespace. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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21-Jan-2017 |
Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> |
locking/rwsem: Reinit wake_q after use In __rwsem_down_write_failed_common(), the same wake_q variable name is defined twice, with the inner wake_q hiding the one in outer scope. We can either use different names for the two wake_q's. Even better, we can use the same wake_q twice, if necessary. To enable the latter change, we need to define a new helper function wake_q_init() to enable reinitalization of wake_q after use. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485052415-9611-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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19-Jan-2017 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/clock: Fix hotplug crash Mike reported that he could trigger the WARN_ON_ONCE() in set_sched_clock_stable() using hotplug. This exposed a fundamental problem with the interface, we should never mark the TSC stable if we ever find it to be unstable. Therefore set_sched_clock_stable() is a broken interface. The reason it existed is that not having it is a pain, it means all relevant architecture code needs to call clear_sched_clock_stable() where appropriate. Of the three architectures that select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK ia64 and parisc are trivial in that they never called set_sched_clock_stable(), so add an unconditional call to clear_sched_clock_stable() to them. For x86 the story is a lot more involved, and what this patch tries to do is ensure we preserve the status quo. So even is Cyrix or Transmeta have usable TSC they never called set_sched_clock_stable() so they now get an explicit mark unstable. Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: 9881b024b7d7 ("sched/clock: Delay switching sched_clock to stable") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170119133633.GB6536@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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27-Oct-2016 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
sched/core: Separate out io_schedule_prepare() and io_schedule_finish() Now that IO schedule accounting is done inside __schedule(), io_schedule() can be split into three steps - prep, schedule, and finish - where the schedule part doesn't need any special annotation. This allows marking a sleep as iowait by simply wrapping an existing blocking function with io_schedule_prepare() and io_schedule_finish(). Because task_struct->in_iowait is single bit, the caller of io_schedule_prepare() needs to record and the pass its state to io_schedule_finish() to be safe regarding nesting. While this isn't the prettiest, these functions are mostly gonna be used by core functions and we don't want to use more space for ->in_iowait. While at it, as it's simple to do now, reimplement io_schedule() without unnecessarily going through io_schedule_timeout(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: adilger.kernel@dilger.ca Cc: jack@suse.com Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: mingbo@fb.com Cc: tytso@mit.edu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477673892-28940-3-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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15-Dec-2016 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/clock: Delay switching sched_clock to stable Currently we switch to the stable sched_clock if we guess the TSC is usable, and then switch back to the unstable path if it turns out TSC isn't stable during SMP bringup after all. Delay switching to the stable path until after SMP bringup is complete. This way we'll avoid switching during the time we detect the worst of the TSC offences. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-Jan-2017 |
Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> |
sched/core: Remove set_task_state() This is a nasty interface and setting the state of a foreign task must not be done. As of the following commit: be628be0956 ("bcache: Make gc wakeup sane, remove set_task_state()") ... everyone in the kernel calls set_task_state() with current, allowing the helper to be removed. However, as the comment indicates, it is still around for those archs where computing current is more expensive than using a pointer, at least in theory. An important arch that is affected is arm64, however this has been addressed now [1] and performance is up to par making no difference with either calls. Of all the callers, if any, it's the locking bits that would care most about this -- ie: we end up passing a tsk pointer to a lot of the lock slowpath, and setting ->state on that. The following numbers are based on two tests: a custom ad-hoc microbenchmark that just measures latencies (for ~65 million calls) between get_task_state() vs get_current_state(). Secondly for a higher overview, an unlink microbenchmark was used, which pounds on a single file with open, close,unlink combos with increasing thread counts (up to 4x ncpus). While the workload is quite unrealistic, it does contend a lot on the inode mutex or now rwsem. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483468021-8237-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com == 1. x86-64 == Avg runtime set_task_state(): 601 msecs Avg runtime set_current_state(): 552 msecs vanilla dirty Hmean unlink1-processes-2 36089.26 ( 0.00%) 38977.33 ( 8.00%) Hmean unlink1-processes-5 28555.01 ( 0.00%) 29832.55 ( 4.28%) Hmean unlink1-processes-8 37323.75 ( 0.00%) 44974.57 ( 20.50%) Hmean unlink1-processes-12 43571.88 ( 0.00%) 44283.01 ( 1.63%) Hmean unlink1-processes-21 34431.52 ( 0.00%) 38284.45 ( 11.19%) Hmean unlink1-processes-30 34813.26 ( 0.00%) 37975.17 ( 9.08%) Hmean unlink1-processes-48 37048.90 ( 0.00%) 39862.78 ( 7.59%) Hmean unlink1-processes-79 35630.01 ( 0.00%) 36855.30 ( 3.44%) Hmean unlink1-processes-110 36115.85 ( 0.00%) 39843.91 ( 10.32%) Hmean unlink1-processes-141 32546.96 ( 0.00%) 35418.52 ( 8.82%) Hmean unlink1-processes-172 34674.79 ( 0.00%) 36899.21 ( 6.42%) Hmean unlink1-processes-203 37303.11 ( 0.00%) 36393.04 ( -2.44%) Hmean unlink1-processes-224 35712.13 ( 0.00%) 36685.96 ( 2.73%) == 2. ppc64le == Avg runtime set_task_state(): 938 msecs Avg runtime set_current_state: 940 msecs vanilla dirty Hmean unlink1-processes-2 19269.19 ( 0.00%) 30704.50 ( 59.35%) Hmean unlink1-processes-5 20106.15 ( 0.00%) 21804.15 ( 8.45%) Hmean unlink1-processes-8 17496.97 ( 0.00%) 17243.28 ( -1.45%) Hmean unlink1-processes-12 14224.15 ( 0.00%) 17240.21 ( 21.20%) Hmean unlink1-processes-21 14155.66 ( 0.00%) 15681.23 ( 10.78%) Hmean unlink1-processes-30 14450.70 ( 0.00%) 15995.83 ( 10.69%) Hmean unlink1-processes-48 16945.57 ( 0.00%) 16370.42 ( -3.39%) Hmean unlink1-processes-79 15788.39 ( 0.00%) 14639.27 ( -7.28%) Hmean unlink1-processes-110 14268.48 ( 0.00%) 14377.40 ( 0.76%) Hmean unlink1-processes-141 14023.65 ( 0.00%) 16271.69 ( 16.03%) Hmean unlink1-processes-172 13417.62 ( 0.00%) 16067.55 ( 19.75%) Hmean unlink1-processes-203 15293.08 ( 0.00%) 15440.40 ( 0.96%) Hmean unlink1-processes-234 13719.32 ( 0.00%) 16190.74 ( 18.01%) Hmean unlink1-processes-265 16400.97 ( 0.00%) 16115.22 ( -1.74%) Hmean unlink1-processes-296 14388.60 ( 0.00%) 16216.13 ( 12.70%) Hmean unlink1-processes-320 15771.85 ( 0.00%) 15905.96 ( 0.85%) x86-64 (known to be fast for get_current()/this_cpu_read_stable() caching) and ppc64 (with paca) show similar improvements in the unlink microbenches. The small delta for ppc64 (2ms), does not represent the gains on the unlink runs. In the case of x86, there was a decent amount of variation in the latency runs, but always within a 20 to 50ms increase), ppc was more constant. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dave@stgolabs.net Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483479794-14013-5-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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10-Jan-2017 |
Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@oracle.com> |
signal: protect SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE from unintentional clearing. Since commit 00cd5c37afd5 ("ptrace: permit ptracing of /sbin/init") we can now trace init processes. init is initially protected with SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE which will prevent fatal signals such as SIGSTOP, but there are a number of paths during tracing where SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE can be implicitly cleared. This can result in init becoming stoppable/killable after tracing. For example, running: while true; do kill -STOP 1; done & strace -p 1 and then stopping strace and the kill loop will result in init being left in state TASK_STOPPED. Sending SIGCONT to init will resume it, but init will now respond to future SIGSTOP signals rather than ignoring them. Make sure that when setting SIGNAL_STOP_CONTINUED/SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED that we don't clear SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104122017.25047-1-jamie.iles@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@oracle.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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12-Dec-2016 |
Stanislav Kinsburskiy <skinsbursky@virtuozzo.com> |
prctl: remove one-shot limitation for changing exe link This limitation came with the reason to remove "another way for malicious code to obscure a compromised program and masquerade as a benign process" by allowing "security-concious program can use this prctl once during its early initialization to ensure the prctl cannot later be abused for this purpose": http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=133160684517468&w=2 This explanation doesn't look sufficient. The only thing "exe" link is indicating is the file, used to execve, which is basically nothing and not reliable immediately after process has returned from execve system call. Moreover, to use this feture, all the mappings to previous exe file have to be unmapped and all the new exe file permissions must be satisfied. Which means, that changing exe link is very similar to calling execve on the binary. The need to remove this limitations comes from migration of NFS mount point, which is not accessible during restore and replaced by other file system. Because of this exe link has to be changed twice. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up comment] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160927153755.9337.69650.stgit@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsburskiy <skinsbursky@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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29-Nov-2016 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/idle: Add support for tasks that inject idle Idle injection drivers such as Intel powerclamp and ACPI PAD drivers use realtime tasks to take control of CPU then inject idle. There are two issues with this approach: 1. Low efficiency: injected idle task is treated as busy so sched ticks do not stop during injected idle period, the result of these unwanted wakeups can be ~20% loss in power savings. 2. Idle accounting: injected idle time is presented to user as busy. This patch addresses the issues by introducing a new PF_IDLE flag which allows any given task to be treated as idle task while the flag is set. Therefore, idle injection tasks can run through the normal flow of NOHZ idle enter/exit to get the correct accounting as well as tick stop when possible. The implication is that idle task is then no longer limited to PID == 0. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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22-Nov-2016 |
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> |
sched: Extend scheduler's asym packing We generalize the scheduler's asym packing to provide an ordering of the cpu beyond just the cpu number. This allows the use of the ASYM_PACKING scheduler machinery to move loads to preferred CPU in a sched domain. The preference is defined with the cpu priority given by arch_asym_cpu_priority(cpu). We also record the most preferred cpu in a sched group when we build the cpu's capacity for fast lookup of preferred cpu during load balancing. Co-developed-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> Cc: bp@suse.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0e73ae12737dfaafa46c07066cc7c5d3f1675e46.1479844244.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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14-Nov-2016 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
ptrace: Capture the ptracer's creds not PT_PTRACE_CAP When the flag PT_PTRACE_CAP was added the PTRACE_TRACEME path was overlooked. This can result in incorrect behavior when an application like strace traces an exec of a setuid executable. Further PT_PTRACE_CAP does not have enough information for making good security decisions as it does not report which user namespace the capability is in. This has already allowed one mistake through insufficient granulariy. I found this issue when I was testing another corner case of exec and discovered that I could not get strace to set PT_PTRACE_CAP even when running strace as root with a full set of caps. This change fixes the above issue with strace allowing stracing as root a setuid executable without disabling setuid. More fundamentaly this change allows what is allowable at all times, by using the correct information in it's decision. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 4214e42f96d4 ("v2.4.9.11 -> v2.4.9.12") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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02-Nov-2016 |
Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched/core: Introduce the vcpu_is_preempted(cpu) interface This patch is the first step to add support to improve lock holder preemption beaviour. vcpu_is_preempted(cpu) does the obvious thing: it tells us whether a vCPU is preempted or not. Defaults to false on architectures that don't support it. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> [ Translated the changelog to English. ] Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: bsingharora@gmail.com Cc: dave@stgolabs.net Cc: kernellwp@gmail.com Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Cc: xen-devel-request@lists.xenproject.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478077718-37424-2-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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14-Nov-2016 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
sched/autogroup: Do not use autogroup->tg in zombie threads Exactly because for_each_thread() in autogroup_move_group() can't see it and update its ->sched_task_group before _put() and possibly free(). So the exiting task needs another sched_move_task() before exit_notify() and we need to re-introduce the PF_EXITING (or similar) check removed by the previous change for another reason. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: hartsjc@redhat.com Cc: vbendel@redhat.com Cc: vlovejoy@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161114184612.GA15968@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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17-Nov-2016 |
Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> |
sched/wake_q: Rename WAKE_Q to DEFINE_WAKE_Q Currently the wake_q data structure is defined by the WAKE_Q() macro. This macro, however, looks like a function doing something as "wake" is a verb. Even checkpatch.pl was confused as it reported warnings like WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations #548: FILE: kernel/futex.c:3665: + int ret; + WAKE_Q(wake_q); This patch renames the WAKE_Q() macro to DEFINE_WAKE_Q() which clarifies what the macro is doing and eliminates the checkpatch.pl warnings. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479401198-1765-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com [ Resolved conflict and added missing rename. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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16-Nov-2016 |
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> |
locking/core: Provide common cpu_relax_yield() definition No need to duplicate the same define everywhere. Since the only user is stop-machine and the only provider is s390, we can use a default implementation of cpu_relax_yield() in sched.h. Suggested-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-s390 <linux-s390@vger.kernel.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479298985-191589-1-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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14-Nov-2016 |
Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> |
sched/cputime: Simplify task_cputime() Now since fetch_task_cputime() has no other users than task_cputime(), its code could be used directly in task_cputime(). Moreover since only 2 task_cputime() calls of 17 use a NULL argument, we can add dummy variables to those calls and remove NULL checks from task_cputimes(). Also remove NULL checks from task_cputimes_scaled(). Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479175612-14718-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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14-Nov-2016 |
Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> |
sched/cputime, powerpc, s390: Make scaled cputime arch specific Only s390 and powerpc have hardware facilities allowing to measure cputimes scaled by frequency. On all other architectures utimescaled/stimescaled are equal to utime/stime (however they are accounted separately). Remove {u,s}timescaled accounting on all architectures except powerpc and s390, where those values are explicitly accounted in the proper places. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161031162143.GB12646@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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28-Oct-2016 |
Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> |
x86/intel_rdt: Add tasks files The root directory all subdirectories are automatically populated with a read/write (mode 0644) file named "tasks". When read it will show all the task IDs assigned to the resource group. Tasks can be added (one at a time) to a group by writing the task ID to the file. E.g. Membership in a resource group is indicated by a new field in the task_struct "int closid" which holds the CLOSID for each task. The default resource group uses CLOSID=0 which means that all existing tasks when the resctrl file system is mounted belong to the default group. If a group is removed, tasks which are members of that group are moved to the default group. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: "Ravi V Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com> Cc: "Tony Luck" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: "Shaohua Li" <shli@fb.com> Cc: "Sai Prakhya" <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com> Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Stephane Eranian" <eranian@google.com> Cc: "Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: "David Carrillo-Cisneros" <davidcc@google.com> Cc: "Nilay Vaish" <nilayvaish@gmail.com> Cc: "Vikas Shivappa" <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> Cc: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "Borislav Petkov" <bp@suse.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <h.peter.anvin@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477692289-37412-8-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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19-Oct-2016 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/core: Explain sleep/wakeup in a better way There were a few questions wrt. how sleep-wakeup works. Try and explain it more. Requested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Oct-2016 |
Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> |
thp: reduce usage of huge zero page's atomic counter The global zero page is used to satisfy an anonymous read fault. If THP(Transparent HugePage) is enabled then the global huge zero page is used. The global huge zero page uses an atomic counter for reference counting and is allocated/freed dynamically according to its counter value. CPU time spent on that counter will greatly increase if there are a lot of processes doing anonymous read faults. This patch proposes a way to reduce the access to the global counter so that the CPU load can be reduced accordingly. To do this, a new flag of the mm_struct is introduced: MMF_USED_HUGE_ZERO_PAGE. With this flag, the process only need to touch the global counter in two cases: 1 The first time it uses the global huge zero page; 2 The time when mm_user of its mm_struct reaches zero. Note that right now, the huge zero page is eligible to be freed as soon as its last use goes away. With this patch, the page will not be eligible to be freed until the exit of the last process from which it was ever used. And with the use of mm_user, the kthread is not eligible to use huge zero page either. Since no kthread is using huge zero page today, there is no difference after applying this patch. But if that is not desired, I can change it to when mm_count reaches zero. Case used for test on Haswell EP: usemem -n 72 --readonly -j 0x200000 100G Which spawns 72 processes and each will mmap 100G anonymous space and then do read only access to that space sequentially with a step of 2MB. CPU cycles from perf report for base commit: 54.03% usemem [kernel.kallsyms] [k] get_huge_zero_page CPU cycles from perf report for this commit: 0.11% usemem [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mm_get_huge_zero_page Performance(throughput) of the workload for base commit: 1784430792 Performance(throughput) of the workload for this commit: 4726928591 164% increase. Runtime of the workload for base commit: 707592 us Runtime of the workload for this commit: 303970 us 50% drop. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fe51a88f-446a-4622-1363-ad1282d71385@intel.com Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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07-Oct-2016 |
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> |
mm: make sure that kthreads will not refault oom reaped memory There are only few use_mm() users in the kernel right now. Most of them write to the target memory but vhost driver relies on copy_from_user/get_user from a kernel thread context. This makes it impossible to reap the memory of an oom victim which shares the mm with the vhost kernel thread because it could see a zero page unexpectedly and theoretically make an incorrect decision visible outside of the killed task context. To quote Michael S. Tsirkin: : Getting an error from __get_user and friends is handled gracefully. : Getting zero instead of a real value will cause userspace : memory corruption. The vhost kernel thread is bound to an open fd of the vhost device which is not tight to the mm owner life cycle in general. The device fd can be inherited or passed over to another process which means that we really have to be careful about unexpected memory corruption because unlike for normal oom victims the result will be visible outside of the oom victim context. Make sure that no kthread context (users of use_mm) can ever see corrupted data because of the oom reaper and hook into the page fault path by checking MMF_UNSTABLE mm flag. __oom_reap_task_mm will set the flag before it starts unmapping the address space while the flag is checked after the page fault has been handled. If the flag is set then SIGBUS is triggered so any g-u-p user will get a error code. Regular tasks do not need this protection because all which share the mm are killed when the mm is reaped and so the corruption will not outlive them. This patch shouldn't have any visible effect at this moment because the OOM killer doesn't invoke oom reaper for tasks with mm shared with kthreads yet. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472119394-11342-9-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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07-Oct-2016 |
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> |
mm, oom: get rid of signal_struct::oom_victims After "oom: keep mm of the killed task available" we can safely detect an oom victim by checking task->signal->oom_mm so we do not need the signal_struct counter anymore so let's get rid of it. This alone wouldn't be sufficient for nommu archs because exit_oom_victim doesn't hide the process from the oom killer anymore. We can, however, mark the mm with a MMF flag in __mmput. We can reuse MMF_OOM_REAPED and rename it to a more generic MMF_OOM_SKIP. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472119394-11342-6-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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07-Oct-2016 |
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> |
kernel, oom: fix potential pgd_lock deadlock from __mmdrop Lockdep complains that __mmdrop is not safe from the softirq context: ================================= [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] 4.6.0-oomfortification2-00011-geeb3eadeab96-dirty #949 Tainted: G W --------------------------------- inconsistent {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} usage. swapper/1/0 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE1:SE0] takes: (pgd_lock){+.?...}, at: pgd_free+0x19/0x6b {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} state was registered at: __lock_acquire+0xa06/0x196e lock_acquire+0x139/0x1e1 _raw_spin_lock+0x32/0x41 __change_page_attr_set_clr+0x2a5/0xacd change_page_attr_set_clr+0x16f/0x32c set_memory_nx+0x37/0x3a free_init_pages+0x9e/0xc7 alternative_instructions+0xa2/0xb3 check_bugs+0xe/0x2d start_kernel+0x3ce/0x3ea x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c x86_64_start_kernel+0x17a/0x18d irq event stamp: 105916 hardirqs last enabled at (105916): free_hot_cold_page+0x37e/0x390 hardirqs last disabled at (105915): free_hot_cold_page+0x2c1/0x390 softirqs last enabled at (105878): _local_bh_enable+0x42/0x44 softirqs last disabled at (105879): irq_exit+0x6f/0xd1 other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 ---- lock(pgd_lock); <Interrupt> lock(pgd_lock); *** DEADLOCK *** 1 lock held by swapper/1/0: #0: (rcu_callback){......}, at: rcu_process_callbacks+0x390/0x800 stack backtrace: CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Tainted: G W 4.6.0-oomfortification2-00011-geeb3eadeab96-dirty #949 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Debian-1.8.2-1 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <IRQ> print_usage_bug.part.25+0x259/0x268 mark_lock+0x381/0x567 __lock_acquire+0x993/0x196e lock_acquire+0x139/0x1e1 _raw_spin_lock+0x32/0x41 pgd_free+0x19/0x6b __mmdrop+0x25/0xb9 __put_task_struct+0x103/0x11e delayed_put_task_struct+0x157/0x15e rcu_process_callbacks+0x660/0x800 __do_softirq+0x1ec/0x4d5 irq_exit+0x6f/0xd1 smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x42/0x4d apic_timer_interrupt+0x8e/0xa0 <EOI> arch_cpu_idle+0xf/0x11 default_idle_call+0x32/0x34 cpu_startup_entry+0x20c/0x399 start_secondary+0xfe/0x101 More over commit a79e53d85683 ("x86/mm: Fix pgd_lock deadlock") was explicit about pgd_lock not to be called from the irq context. This means that __mmdrop called from free_signal_struct has to be postponed to a user context. We already have a similar mechanism for mmput_async so we can use it here as well. This is safe because mm_count is pinned by mm_users. This fixes bug introduced by "oom: keep mm of the killed task available" Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472119394-11342-5-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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07-Oct-2016 |
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> |
oom: keep mm of the killed task available oom_reap_task has to call exit_oom_victim in order to make sure that the oom vicim will not block the oom killer for ever. This is, however, opening new problems (e.g oom_killer_disable exclusion - see commit 74070542099c ("oom, suspend: fix oom_reaper vs. oom_killer_disable race")). exit_oom_victim should be only called from the victim's context ideally. One way to achieve this would be to rely on per mm_struct flags. We already have MMF_OOM_REAPED to hide a task from the oom killer since "mm, oom: hide mm which is shared with kthread or global init". The problem is that the exit path: do_exit exit_mm tsk->mm = NULL; mmput __mmput exit_oom_victim doesn't guarantee that exit_oom_victim will get called in a bounded amount of time. At least exit_aio depends on IO which might get blocked due to lack of memory and who knows what else is lurking there. This patch takes a different approach. We remember tsk->mm into the signal_struct and bind it to the signal struct life time for all oom victims. __oom_reap_task_mm as well as oom_scan_process_thread do not have to rely on find_lock_task_mm anymore and they will have a reliable reference to the mm struct. As a result all the oom specific communication inside the OOM killer can be done via tsk->signal->oom_mm. Increasing the signal_struct for something as unlikely as the oom killer is far from ideal but this approach will make the code much more reasonable and long term we even might want to move task->mm into the signal_struct anyway. In the next step we might want to make the oom killer exclusion and access to memory reserves completely independent which would be also nice. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472119394-11342-4-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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07-Oct-2016 |
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> |
mm,oom_reaper: do not attempt to reap a task twice "mm, oom_reaper: do not attempt to reap a task twice" tried to give the OOM reaper one more chance to retry using MMF_OOM_NOT_REAPABLE flag. But the usefulness of the flag is rather limited and actually never shown in practice. If the flag is set, it means that the holder of mm->mmap_sem cannot call up_write() due to presumably being blocked at unkillable wait waiting for other thread's memory allocation. But since one of threads sharing that mm will queue that mm immediately via task_will_free_mem() shortcut (otherwise, oom_badness() will select the same mm again due to oom_score_adj value unchanged), retrying MMF_OOM_NOT_REAPABLE mm is unlikely helpful. Let's always set MMF_OOM_REAPED. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472119394-11342-3-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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20-Sep-2016 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/core, ia64: Rename set_curr_task() Rename the ia64 only set_curr_task() function to free up the name. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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09-May-2016 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/core: Rewrite and improve select_idle_siblings() select_idle_siblings() is a known pain point for a number of workloads; it either does too much or not enough and sometimes just does plain wrong. This rewrite attempts to address a number of issues (but sadly not all). The current code does an unconditional sched_domain iteration; with the intent of finding an idle core (on SMT hardware). The problems which this patch tries to address are: - its pointless to look for idle cores if the machine is real busy; at which point you're just wasting cycles. - it's behaviour is inconsistent between SMT and !SMT hardware in that !SMT hardware ends up doing a scan for any idle CPU in the LLC domain, while SMT hardware does a scan for idle cores and if that fails, falls back to a scan for idle threads on the 'target' core. The new code replaces the sched_domain scan with 3 explicit scans: 1) search for an idle core in the LLC 2) search for an idle CPU in the LLC 3) search for an idle thread in the 'target' core where 1 and 3 are conditional on SMT support and 1 and 2 have runtime heuristics to skip the step. Step 1) is conditional on sd_llc_shared->has_idle_cores; when a cpu goes idle and sd_llc_shared->has_idle_cores is false, we scan all SMT siblings of the CPU going idle. Similarly, we clear sd_llc_shared->has_idle_cores when we fail to find an idle core. Step 2) tracks the average cost of the scan and compares this to the average idle time guestimate for the CPU doing the wakeup. There is a significant fudge factor involved to deal with the variability of the averages. Esp. hackbench was sensitive to this. Step 3) is unconditional; we assume (also per step 1) that scanning all SMT siblings in a core is 'cheap'. With this; SMT systems gain step 2, which cures a few benchmarks -- notably one from Facebook. One 'feature' of the sched_domain iteration, which we preserve in the new code, is that it would start scanning from the 'target' CPU, instead of scanning the cpumask in cpu id order. This avoids multiple CPUs in the LLC scanning for idle to gang up and find the same CPU quite as much. The down side is that tasks can end up hopping across the LLC for no apparent reason. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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09-May-2016 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/core: Replace sd_busy/nr_busy_cpus with sched_domain_shared Move the nr_busy_cpus thing from its hacky sd->parent->groups->sgc location into the much more natural sched_domain_shared location. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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09-May-2016 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/core: Introduce 'struct sched_domain_shared' Since struct sched_domain is strictly per cpu; introduce a structure that is shared between all 'identical' sched_domains. Limit to SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES domains for now, as we'll only use it for shared cache state; if another use comes up later we can easily relax this. While the sched_group's are normally shared between CPUs, these are not natural to use when we need some shared state on a domain level -- since that would require the domain to have a parent, which is not a given. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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18-Sep-2016 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/core: Avoid _cond_resched() for PREEMPT=y On fully preemptible kernels _cond_resched() is pointless, so avoid emitting any code for it. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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13-Sep-2016 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/core: Optimize __schedule() Oleg noted that by making do_exit() use __schedule() for the TASK_DEAD context switch, we can avoid the TASK_DEAD special case currently in __schedule() because that avoids the extra preempt_disable() from schedule(). In order to facilitate this, create a do_task_dead() helper which we place in the scheduler code, such that it can access __schedule(). Also add some __noreturn annotations to the functions, there's no coming back from do_exit(). Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Cheng Chao <cs.os.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: chris@chris-wilson.co.uk Cc: tj@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160913163729.GB5012@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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15-Sep-2016 |
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> |
sched/core: Free the stack early if CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK We currently keep every task's stack around until the task_struct itself is freed. This means that we keep the stack allocation alive for longer than necessary and that, under load, we free stacks in big batches whenever RCU drops the last task reference. Neither of these is good for reuse of cache-hot memory, and freeing in batches prevents us from usefully caching small numbers of vmalloced stacks. On architectures that have thread_info on the stack, we can't easily change this, but on architectures that set THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK, we can free it as soon as the task is dead. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/08ca06cde00ebed0046c5d26cbbf3fbb7ef5b812.1474003868.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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15-Sep-2016 |
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> |
sched/core: Add try_get_task_stack() and put_task_stack() There are a few places in the kernel that access stack memory belonging to a different task. Before we can start freeing task stacks before the task_struct is freed, we need a way for those code paths to pin the stack. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/17a434f50ad3d77000104f21666575e10a9c1fbd.1474003868.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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13-Sep-2016 |
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> |
sched/core: Allow putting thread_info into task_struct If an arch opts in by setting CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK_STRUCT, then thread_info is defined as a single 'u32 flags' and is the first entry of task_struct. thread_info::task is removed (it serves no purpose if thread_info is embedded in task_struct), and thread_info::cpu gets its own slot in task_struct. This is heavily based on a patch written by Linus. Originally-from: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a0898196f0476195ca02713691a5037a14f2aac5.1473801993.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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09-Sep-2016 |
Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> |
cpufreq / sched: SCHED_CPUFREQ_IOWAIT flag to indicate iowait condition Testing indicates that it is possible to improve performace significantly without increasing energy consumption too much by teaching cpufreq governors to bump up the CPU performance level if the in_iowait flag is set for the task in enqueue_task_fair(). For this purpose, define a new cpufreq_update_util() flag SCHED_CPUFREQ_IOWAIT and modify enqueue_task_fair() to pass that flag to cpufreq_update_util() in the in_iowait case. That generally requires cpufreq_update_util() to be called directly from there, because update_load_avg() may not be invoked in that case. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Looks-good-to: Steve Muckle <smuckle@linaro.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
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11-Aug-2016 |
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> |
fork: Add generic vmalloced stack support If CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y is selected, kernel stacks are allocated with __vmalloc_node_range(). Grsecurity has had a similar feature (called GRKERNSEC_KSTACKOVERFLOW=y) for a long time. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/14c07d4fd173a5b117f51e8b939f9f4323e39899.1470907718.git.luto@kernel.org [ Minor edits. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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25-Jul-2016 |
Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> |
sched/core: Introduce SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY sched_domain topology flag Add a topology flag to the sched_domain hierarchy indicating the lowest domain level where the full range of CPU capacities is represented by the domain members for asymmetric capacity topologies (e.g. ARM big.LITTLE). The flag is intended to indicate that extra care should be taken when placing tasks on CPUs and this level spans all the different types of CPUs found in the system (no need to look further up the domain hierarchy). This information is currently only available through iterating through the capacities of all the CPUs at parent levels in the sched_domain hierarchy. SD 2 [ 0 1 2 3] SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY SD 1 [ 0 1] [ 2 3] !SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY CPU: 0 1 2 3 capacity: 756 756 1024 1024 If the topology in the example above is duplicated to create an eight CPU example with third sched_domain level on top (SD 3), this level should not have the flag set (!SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY) as its two group would both have all CPU capacities represented within them. Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: freedom.tan@mediatek.com Cc: keita.kobayashi.ym@renesas.com Cc: mgalbraith@suse.de Cc: sgurrappadi@nvidia.com Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Cc: yuyang.du@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469453670-2660-6-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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16-Aug-2016 |
Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> |
cpufreq / sched: Pass flags to cpufreq_update_util() It is useful to know the reason why cpufreq_update_util() has just been called and that can be passed as flags to cpufreq_update_util() and to the ->func() callback in struct update_util_data. However, doing that in addition to passing the util and max arguments they already take would be clumsy, so avoid it. Instead, use the observation that the schedutil governor is part of the scheduler proper, so it can access scheduler data directly. This allows the util and max arguments of cpufreq_update_util() and the ->func() callback in struct update_util_data to be replaced with a flags one, but schedutil has to be modified to follow. Thus make the schedutil governor obtain the CFS utilization information from the scheduler and use the "RT" and "DL" flags instead of the special utilization value of ULONG_MAX to track updates from the RT and DL sched classes. Make it non-modular too to avoid having to export scheduler variables to modules at large. Next, update all of the other users of cpufreq_update_util() and the ->func() callback in struct update_util_data accordingly. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
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23-Jul-2016 |
Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> |
sched/debug: Make the "Preemption disabled at ..." message more useful This message is currently really useless since it always prints a value that comes from the printk() we just did, e.g.: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.h:388 in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 31996, name: trinity-c1 Preemption disabled at:[<ffffffff8119db33>] down_trylock+0x13/0x80 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/freezer.h:56 in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 31996, name: trinity-c1 Preemption disabled at:[<ffffffff811aaa37>] console_unlock+0x2f7/0x930 Here, both down_trylock() and console_unlock() is somewhere in the printk() path. We should save the value before calling printk() and use the saved value instead. That immediately reveals the offending callsite: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.h:388 in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 14971, name: trinity-c2 Preemption disabled at:[<ffffffff819bcd46>] rhashtable_walk_start+0x46/0x150 Bug report: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=146925979821849&w=2 Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rusty Russel <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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22-Jun-2016 |
Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> |
sched/core: Fix power to capacity renaming in comment It is seems that this one escaped Nico's renaming of cpu_power to cpu_capacity a while back. Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mgalbraith@suse.de Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Cc: yuyang.du@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466615004-3503-2-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Aug-2016 |
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> |
signal: consolidate {TS,TLF}_RESTORE_SIGMASK code In general, there's no need for the "restore sigmask" flag to live in ti->flags. alpha, ia64, microblaze, powerpc, sh, sparc (64-bit only), tile, and x86 use essentially identical alternative implementations, placing the flag in ti->status. Replace those optimized implementations with an equally good common implementation that stores it in a bitfield in struct task_struct and drop the custom implementations. Additional architectures can opt in by removing their TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK defines. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8a14321d64a28e40adfddc90e18a96c086a6d6f9.1468522723.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> [powerpc] Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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28-Jul-2016 |
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> |
mm, oom_reaper: do not attempt to reap a task more than twice oom_reaper relies on the mmap_sem for read to do its job. Many places which might block readers have been converted to use down_write_killable and that has reduced chances of the contention a lot. Some paths where the mmap_sem is held for write can take other locks and they might either be not prepared to fail due to fatal signal pending or too impractical to be changed. This patch introduces MMF_OOM_NOT_REAPABLE flag which gets set after the first attempt to reap a task's mm fails. If the flag is present after the failure then we set MMF_OOM_REAPED to hide this mm from the oom killer completely so it can go and chose another victim. As a result a risk of OOM deadlock when the oom victim would be blocked indefinetly and so the oom killer cannot make any progress should be mitigated considerably while we still try really hard to perform all reclaim attempts and stay predictable in the behavior. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466426628-15074-10-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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28-Jul-2016 |
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> |
mm, oom: skip vforked tasks from being selected vforked tasks are not really sitting on any memory. They are sharing the mm with parent until they exec into a new code. Until then it is just pinning the address space. OOM killer will kill the vforked task along with its parent but we still can end up selecting vforked task when the parent wouldn't be selected. E.g. init doing vfork to launch a task or vforked being a child of oom unkillable task with an updated oom_score_adj to be killable. Add a new helper to check whether a task is in the vfork sharing memory with its parent and use it in oom_badness to skip over these tasks. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466426628-15074-6-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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16-Jun-2016 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/fair: Fix PELT integrity for new tasks Vincent and Yuyang found another few scenarios in which entity tracking goes wobbly. The scenarios are basically due to the fact that new tasks are not immediately attached and thereby differ from the normal situation -- a task is always attached to a cfs_rq load average (such that it includes its blocked contribution) and are explicitly detached/attached on migration to another cfs_rq. Scenario 1: switch to fair class p->sched_class = fair_class; if (queued) enqueue_task(p); ... enqueue_entity() enqueue_entity_load_avg() migrated = !sa->last_update_time (true) if (migrated) attach_entity_load_avg() check_class_changed() switched_from() (!fair) switched_to() (fair) switched_to_fair() attach_entity_load_avg() If @p is a new task that hasn't been fair before, it will have !last_update_time and, per the above, end up in attach_entity_load_avg() _twice_. Scenario 2: change between cgroups sched_move_group(p) if (queued) dequeue_task() task_move_group_fair() detach_task_cfs_rq() detach_entity_load_avg() set_task_rq() attach_task_cfs_rq() attach_entity_load_avg() if (queued) enqueue_task(); ... enqueue_entity() enqueue_entity_load_avg() migrated = !sa->last_update_time (true) if (migrated) attach_entity_load_avg() Similar as with scenario 1, if @p is a new task, it will have !load_update_time and we'll end up in attach_entity_load_avg() _twice_. Furthermore, notice how we do a detach_entity_load_avg() on something that wasn't attached to begin with. As stated above; the problem is that the new task isn't yet attached to the load tracking and thereby violates the invariant assumption. This patch remedies this by ensuring a new task is indeed properly attached to the load tracking on creation, through post_init_entity_util_avg(). Of course, this isn't entirely as straightforward as one might think, since the task is hashed before we call wake_up_new_task() and thus can be poked at. We avoid this by adding TASK_NEW and teaching cpu_cgroup_can_attach() to refuse such tasks. Reported-by: Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> Reported-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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24-Jun-2016 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Clarify naming of thread info/stack allocators We've had the thread info allocated together with the thread stack for most architectures for a long time (since the thread_info was split off from the task struct), but that is about to change. But the patches that move the thread info to be off-stack (and a part of the task struct instead) made it clear how confused the allocator and freeing functions are. Because the common case was that we share an allocation with the thread stack and the thread_info, the two pointers were identical. That identity then meant that we would have things like ti = alloc_thread_info_node(tsk, node); ... tsk->stack = ti; which certainly _worked_ (since stack and thread_info have the same value), but is rather confusing: why are we assigning a thread_info to the stack? And if we move the thread_info away, the "confusing" code just gets to be entirely bogus. So remove all this confusion, and make it clear that we are doing the stack allocation by renaming and clarifying the function names to be about the stack. The fact that the thread_info then shares the allocation is an implementation detail, and not really about the allocation itself. This is a pure renaming and type fix: we pass in the same pointer, it's just that we clarify what the pointer means. The ia64 code that actually only has one single allocation (for all of task_struct, thread_info and kernel thread stack) now looks a bit odd, but since "tsk->stack" is actually not even used there, that oddity doesn't matter. It would be a separate thing to clean that up, I intentionally left the ia64 changes as a pure brute-force renaming and type change. Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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18-May-2016 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
sched/api: Introduce task_rcu_dereference() and try_get_task_struct() Generally task_struct is only protected by RCU if it was found on a RCU protected list (say, for_each_process() or find_task_by_vpid()). As Kirill pointed out rq->curr isn't protected by RCU, the scheduler drops the (potentially) last reference without RCU gp, this means that we need to fix the code which uses foreign_rq->curr under rcu_read_lock(). Add a new helper which can be used to dereference rq->curr or any other pointer to task_struct assuming that it should be cleared or updated before the final put_task_struct(). It returns non-NULL only if this task can't go away before rcu_read_unlock(). ( Also add try_get_task_struct() to make it easier to use this API correctly. ) Suggested-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> [ Updated comments; added try_get_task_struct()] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160518170218.GY3192@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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26-May-2016 |
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> |
mm: oom_reaper: remove some bloat mmput_async is currently used only from the oom_reaper which is defined only for CONFIG_MMU. We can save work_struct in mm_struct for !CONFIG_MMU. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo, per Minchan] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160520061658.GB19172@dhcp22.suse.cz Reported-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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23-May-2016 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/core: Fix remote wakeups Commit: b5179ac70de8 ("sched/fair: Prepare to fix fairness problems on migration") ... introduced a bug: Mike Galbraith found that it introduced a performance regression, while Paul E. McKenney reported lost wakeups and bisected it to this commit. The reason is that I mis-read ttwu_queue() such that I assumed any wakeup that got a remote queue must have had the task migrated. Since this is not so; we need to transfer this information between queueing the wakeup and actually doing the wakeup. Use a new task_struct::sched_flag for this, we already write to sched_contributes_to_load in the wakeup path so this is a hot and modified cacheline. Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Pavan Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: byungchul.park@lge.com Fixes: b5179ac70de8 ("sched/fair: Prepare to fix fairness problems on migration") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160523091907.GD15728@worktop.ger.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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23-May-2016 |
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> |
signal: make oom_flags a bool Currently the size of "struct signal_struct"->oom_flags member is sizeof(unsigned) bytes, but only one flag OOM_FLAG_ORIGIN which is updated by current thread is defined. We can convert OOM_FLAG_ORIGIN into a bool, and reuse the saved bytes for updating from the OOM killer and/or the OOM reaper thread. By the way, do we care about a race window between run_store() and swapoff() because it would be theoretically possible that two threads sharing the "struct signal_struct" concurrently call respective functions? If we care, we can make oom_flags an atomic_t. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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20-May-2016 |
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> |
exit_thread: accept a task parameter to be exited We need to call exit_thread from copy_process in a fail path. So make it accept task_struct as a parameter. [v2] * s390: exit_thread_runtime_instr doesn't make sense to be called for non-current tasks. * arm: fix the comment in vfp_thread_copy * change 'me' to 'tsk' for task_struct * now we can change only archs that actually have exit_thread [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se> Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com> Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com> Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Steven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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20-May-2016 |
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> |
exit_thread: remove empty bodies Define HAVE_EXIT_THREAD for archs which want to do something in exit_thread. For others, let's define exit_thread as an empty inline. This is a cleanup before we change the prototype of exit_thread to accept a task parameter. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips] Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se> Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com> Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com> Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Steven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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20-May-2016 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
userfaultfd: don't pin the user memory in userfaultfd_file_create() userfaultfd_file_create() increments mm->mm_users; this means that the memory won't be unmapped/freed if mm owner exits/execs, and UFFDIO_COPY after that can populate the orphaned mm more. Change userfaultfd_file_create() and userfaultfd_ctx_put() to use mm->mm_count to pin mm_struct. This means that atomic_inc_not_zero(mm->mm_users) is needed when we are going to actually play with this memory. Except handle_userfault() path doesn't need this, the caller must already have a reference. The patch adds the new trivial helper, mmget_not_zero(), it can have more users. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160516172254.GA8595@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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20-May-2016 |
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> |
mm,oom: speed up select_bad_process() loop Since commit 3a5dda7a17cf ("oom: prevent unnecessary oom kills or kernel panics"), select_bad_process() is using for_each_process_thread(). Since oom_unkillable_task() scans all threads in the caller's thread group and oom_task_origin() scans signal_struct of the caller's thread group, we don't need to call oom_unkillable_task() and oom_task_origin() on each thread. Also, since !mm test will be done later at oom_badness(), we don't need to do !mm test on each thread. Therefore, we only need to do TIF_MEMDIE test on each thread. Although the original code was correct it was quite inefficient because each thread group was scanned num_threads times which can be a lot especially with processes with many threads. Even though the OOM is extremely cold path it is always good to be as effective as possible when we are inside rcu_read_lock() - aka unpreemptible context. If we track number of TIF_MEMDIE threads inside signal_struct, we don't need to do TIF_MEMDIE test on each thread. This will allow select_bad_process() to use for_each_process(). This patch adds a counter to signal_struct for tracking how many TIF_MEMDIE threads are in a given thread group, and check it at oom_scan_process_thread() so that select_bad_process() can use for_each_process() rather than for_each_process_thread(). [mhocko@suse.com: do not blow the signal_struct size] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160520075035.GF19172@dhcp22.suse.cz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201605182230.IDC73435.MVSOHLFOQFOJtF@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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20-May-2016 |
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> |
mm, oom_reaper: do not mmput synchronously from the oom reaper context Tetsuo has properly noted that mmput slow path might get blocked waiting for another party (e.g. exit_aio waits for an IO). If that happens the oom_reaper would be put out of the way and will not be able to process next oom victim. We should strive for making this context as reliable and independent on other subsystems as much as possible. Introduce mmput_async which will perform the slow path from an async (WQ) context. This will delay the operation but that shouldn't be a problem because the oom_reaper has reclaimed the victim's address space for most cases as much as possible and the remaining context shouldn't bind too much memory anymore. The only exception is when mmap_sem trylock has failed which shouldn't happen too often. The issue is only theoretical but not impossible. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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20-May-2016 |
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> |
mm, oom_reaper: hide oom reaped tasks from OOM killer more carefully Commit 36324a990cf5 ("oom: clear TIF_MEMDIE after oom_reaper managed to unmap the address space") not only clears TIF_MEMDIE for oom reaped task but also set OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN for the target task to hide it from the oom killer. This works in simple cases but it is not sufficient for (unlikely) cases where the mm is shared between independent processes (as they do not share signal struct). If the mm had only small amount of memory which could be reaped then another task sharing the mm could be selected and that wouldn't help to move out from the oom situation. Introduce MMF_OOM_REAPED mm flag which is checked in oom_badness (same as OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN) and task is skipped if the flag is set. Set the flag after __oom_reap_task is done with a task. This will force the select_bad_process() to ignore all already oom reaped tasks as well as no such task is sacrificed for its parent. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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11-May-2016 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched/core: Provide a tsk_nr_cpus_allowed() helper tsk_nr_cpus_allowed() is an accessor for task->nr_cpus_allowed which allows us to change the representation of ->nr_cpus_allowed if required. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462969411-17735-2-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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09-Mar-2016 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched/hotplug: Move migration CPU_DYING to sched_cpu_dying() Remove the hotplug notifier and make it an explicit state. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: rt@linutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160310120025.502222097@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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09-Mar-2016 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched/hotplug: Convert cpu_[in]active notifiers to state machine Now that we reduced everything into single notifiers, it's simple to move them into the hotplug state machine space. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: rt@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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09-Mar-2016 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched: Make set_cpu_rq_start_time() a built in hotplug state Start distangling the maze of hotplug notifiers in the scheduler. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: rt@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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04-Apr-2016 |
Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> |
sched/fair: Add detailed description to the sched load avg metrics These sched metrics have become complex enough, so describe them in detail at their definition. Signed-off-by: Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> [ Fixed the text to improve its spelling and typography. ] Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: bsegall@google.com Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: lizefan@huawei.com Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459829551-21625-4-git-send-email-yuyang.du@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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04-Apr-2016 |
Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> |
sched/fair: Generalize the load/util averages resolution definition Integer metric needs fixed point arithmetic. In sched/fair, a few metrics, e.g., weight, load, load_avg, util_avg, freq, and capacity, may have different fixed point ranges, which makes their update and usage error-prone. In order to avoid the errors relating to the fixed point range, we definie a basic fixed point range, and then formalize all metrics to base on the basic range. The basic range is 1024 or (1 << 10). Further, one can recursively apply the basic range to have larger range. Pointed out by Ben Segall, weight (visible to user, e.g., NICE-0 has 1024) and load (e.g., NICE_0_LOAD) have independent ranges, but they must be well calibrated. Signed-off-by: Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: bsegall@google.com Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: lizefan@huawei.com Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459829551-21625-2-git-send-email-yuyang.du@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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03-May-2016 |
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> |
signals/sigaltstack: If SS_AUTODISARM, bypass on_sig_stack() If a signal stack is set up with SS_AUTODISARM, then the kernel inherently avoids incorrectly resetting the signal stack if signals recurse: the signal stack will be reset on the first signal delivery. This means that we don't need check the stack pointer when delivering signals if SS_AUTODISARM is set. This will make segmented x86 programs more robust: currently there's a hole that could be triggered if ESP/RSP appears to point to the signal stack but actually doesn't due to a nonzero SS base. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Cc: Amanieu d'Antras <amanieu@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Cc: Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c46bee4654ca9e68c498462fd11746e2bd0d98c8.1462296606.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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14-Apr-2016 |
Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru> |
signals/sigaltstack: Implement SS_AUTODISARM flag This patch implements the SS_AUTODISARM flag that can be OR-ed with SS_ONSTACK when forming ss_flags. When this flag is set, sigaltstack will be disabled when entering the signal handler; more precisely, after saving sas to uc_stack. When leaving the signal handler, the sigaltstack is restored by uc_stack. When this flag is used, it is safe to switch from sighandler with swapcontext(). Without this flag, the subsequent signal will corrupt the state of the switched-away sighandler. To detect the support of this functionality, one can do: err = sigaltstack(SS_DISABLE | SS_AUTODISARM); if (err && errno == EINVAL) unsupported(); Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Cc: Amanieu d'Antras <amanieu@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460665206-13646-4-git-send-email-stsp@list.ru Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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13-Apr-2016 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
sched/fair: Correctly handle nohz ticks CPU load accounting Ticks can happen while the CPU is in dynticks-idle or dynticks-singletask mode. In fact "nohz" or "dynticks" only mean that we exit the periodic mode and we try to minimize the ticks as much as possible. The nohz subsystem uses a confusing terminology with the internal state "ts->tick_stopped" which is also available through its public interface with tick_nohz_tick_stopped(). This is a misnomer as the tick is instead reduced with the best effort rather than stopped. In the best case the tick can indeed be actually stopped but there is no guarantee about that. If a timer needs to fire one second later, a tick will fire while the CPU is in nohz mode and this is a very common scenario. Now this confusion happens to be a problem with CPU load updates: cpu_load_update_active() doesn't handle nohz ticks correctly because it assumes that ticks are completely stopped in nohz mode and that cpu_load_update_active() can't be called in dynticks mode. When that happens, the whole previous tickless load is ignored and the function just records the load for the current tick, ignoring potentially long idle periods behind. In order to solve this, we could account the current load for the previous nohz time but there is a risk that we account the load of a task that got freshly enqueued for the whole nohz period. So instead, lets record the dynticks load on nohz frame entry so we know what to record in case of nohz ticks, then use this record to account the tickless load on nohz ticks and nohz frame end. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E . McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460555812-25375-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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13-Apr-2016 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
sched/fair: Gather CPU load functions under a more conventional namespace The CPU load update related functions have a weak naming convention currently, starting with update_cpu_load_*() which isn't ideal as "update" is a very generic concept. Since two of these functions are public already (and a third is to come) that's enough to introduce a more conventional naming scheme. So let's do the following rename instead: update_cpu_load_*() -> cpu_load_update_*() Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E . McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460555812-25375-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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11-Apr-2016 |
Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> |
sched/clock: Make local_clock()/cpu_clock() inline The local_clock/cpu_clock functions were changed to prevent a double identical test with sched_clock_cpu() when HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK is set. That resulted in one line functions. As these functions are in all the cases one line functions and in the hot path, it is useful to specify them as static inline in order to give a strong hint to the compiler. After verification, it appears the compiler does not inline them without this hint. Change those functions to static inline. sched_clock_cpu() is called via the inlined local_clock()/cpu_clock() functions from sched.h. So any module code including sched.h will reference sched_clock_cpu(). Thus it must be exported with the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL macro. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460385514-14700-2-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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08-Mar-2016 |
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> |
android,lowmemorykiller: Don't abuse TIF_MEMDIE. Currently, lowmemorykiller (LMK) is using TIF_MEMDIE for two purposes. One is to remember processes killed by LMK, and the other is to accelerate termination of processes killed by LMK. But since LMK is invoked as a memory shrinker function, there still should be some memory available. It is very likely that memory allocations by processes killed by LMK will succeed without using ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS via TIF_MEMDIE. Even if their allocations cannot escape from memory allocation loop unless they use ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS, lowmem_deathpending_timeout can guarantee forward progress by choosing next victim process. On the other hand, mark_oom_victim() assumes that it must be called with oom_lock held and it must not be called after oom_killer_disable() was called. But LMK is calling it without holding oom_lock and checking oom_killer_disabled. It is possible that LMK calls mark_oom_victim() due to allocation requests by kernel threads after current thread returned from oom_killer_disabled(). This will break synchronization for PM/suspend. This patch introduces per a task_struct flag for remembering processes killed by LMK, and replaces TIF_MEMDIE with that flag. By applying this patch, assumption by mark_oom_victim() becomes true. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Arve Hjonnevag <arve@android.com> Cc: Riley Andrews <riandrews@android.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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01-Apr-2016 |
Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> |
cpufreq: sched: Helpers to add and remove update_util hooks Replace the single helper for adding and removing cpufreq utilization update hooks, cpufreq_set_update_util_data(), with a pair of helpers, cpufreq_add_update_util_hook() and cpufreq_remove_update_util_hook(), and modify the users of cpufreq_set_update_util_data() accordingly. With the new helpers, the code using them doesn't need to worry about the internals of struct update_util_data and in particular it doesn't need to worry about populating the func field in it properly upfront. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
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31-Mar-2016 |
Richard Cochran <rcochran@linutronix.de> |
lib/proportions: Remove unused code By accident I stumbled across code that is no longer used. According to git grep, the global functions in lib/proportions.c are not used anywhere. This patch removes the old, unused code. Peter Zijlstra further commented: "Ah indeed, that got replaced with the flex proportion code a while back." Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <rcochran@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4265b49bed713fbe3faaf8c05da0e1792f09c0b3.1459432020.git.rcochran@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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24-Mar-2016 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
timers/nohz: Convert tick dependency mask to atomic_t The tick dependency mask was intially unsigned long because this is the type on which clear_bit() operates on and fetch_or() accepts it. But now that we have atomic_fetch_or(), we can instead use atomic_andnot() to clear the bit. This consolidates the type of our tick dependency mask, reduce its size on structures and benefit from possible architecture optimizations on atomic_t operations. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1458830281-4255-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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25-Mar-2016 |
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> |
oom, oom_reaper: protect oom_reaper_list using simpler way "oom, oom_reaper: disable oom_reaper for oom_kill_allocating_task" tried to protect oom_reaper_list using MMF_OOM_KILLED flag. But we can do it by simply checking tsk->oom_reaper_list != NULL. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-Mar-2016 |
Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> |
oom: make oom_reaper_list single linked Entries are only added/removed from oom_reaper_list at head so we can use a single linked list and hence save a word in task_struct. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-Mar-2016 |
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> |
oom, oom_reaper: disable oom_reaper for oom_kill_allocating_task Tetsuo has reported that oom_kill_allocating_task=1 will cause oom_reaper_list corruption because oom_kill_process doesn't follow standard OOM exclusion (aka ignores TIF_MEMDIE) and allows to enqueue the same task multiple times - e.g. by sacrificing the same child multiple times. This patch fixes the issue by introducing a new MMF_OOM_KILLED mm flag which is set in oom_kill_process atomically and oom reaper is disabled if the flag was already set. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-Mar-2016 |
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> |
mm, oom_reaper: implement OOM victims queuing wake_oom_reaper has allowed only 1 oom victim to be queued. The main reason for that was the simplicity as other solutions would require some way of queuing. The current approach is racy and that was deemed sufficient as the oom_reaper is considered a best effort approach to help with oom handling when the OOM victim cannot terminate in a reasonable time. The race could lead to missing an oom victim which can get stuck out_of_memory wake_oom_reaper cmpxchg // OK oom_reaper oom_reap_task __oom_reap_task oom_victim terminates atomic_inc_not_zero // fail out_of_memory wake_oom_reaper cmpxchg // fails task_to_reap = NULL This race requires 2 OOM invocations in a short time period which is not very likely but certainly not impossible. E.g. the original victim might have not released a lot of memory for some reason. The situation would improve considerably if wake_oom_reaper used a more robust queuing. This is what this patch implements. This means adding oom_reaper_list list_head into task_struct (eat a hole before embeded thread_struct for that purpose) and a oom_reaper_lock spinlock for queuing synchronization. wake_oom_reaper will then add the task on the queue and oom_reaper will dequeue it. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Andrea Argangeli <andrea@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-Mar-2016 |
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
sched: add schedule_timeout_idle() This will be needed in the patch "mm, oom: introduce oom reaper". Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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19-Mar-2016 |
Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> |
parisc,metag: Implement CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE option On parisc and metag the stack grows upwards, so for those we need to scan the stack downwards in order to calculate how much stack a process has used. Tested on a 64bit parisc kernel. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
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22-Mar-2016 |
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> |
kernel: add kcov code coverage kcov provides code coverage collection for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). Coverage-guided fuzzing is a testing technique that uses coverage feedback to determine new interesting inputs to a system. A notable user-space example is AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/). However, this technique is not widely used for kernel testing due to missing compiler and kernel support. kcov does not aim to collect as much coverage as possible. It aims to collect more or less stable coverage that is function of syscall inputs. To achieve this goal it does not collect coverage in soft/hard interrupts and instrumentation of some inherently non-deterministic or non-interesting parts of kernel is disbled (e.g. scheduler, locking). Currently there is a single coverage collection mode (tracing), but the API anticipates additional collection modes. Initially I also implemented a second mode which exposes coverage in a fixed-size hash table of counters (what Quentin used in his original patch). I've dropped the second mode for simplicity. This patch adds the necessary support on kernel side. The complimentary compiler support was added in gcc revision 231296. We've used this support to build syzkaller system call fuzzer, which has found 90 kernel bugs in just 2 months: https://github.com/google/syzkaller/wiki/Found-Bugs We've also found 30+ bugs in our internal systems with syzkaller. Another (yet unexplored) direction where kcov coverage would greatly help is more traditional "blob mutation". For example, mounting a random blob as a filesystem, or receiving a random blob over wire. Why not gcov. Typical fuzzing loop looks as follows: (1) reset coverage, (2) execute a bit of code, (3) collect coverage, repeat. A typical coverage can be just a dozen of basic blocks (e.g. an invalid input). In such context gcov becomes prohibitively expensive as reset/collect coverage steps depend on total number of basic blocks/edges in program (in case of kernel it is about 2M). Cost of kcov depends only on number of executed basic blocks/edges. On top of that, kernel requires per-thread coverage because there are always background threads and unrelated processes that also produce coverage. With inlined gcov instrumentation per-thread coverage is not possible. kcov exposes kernel PCs and control flow to user-space which is insecure. But debugfs should not be mapped as user accessible. Based on a patch by Quentin Casasnovas. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make task_struct.kcov_mode have type `enum kcov_mode'] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: unbreak allmodconfig] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: follow x86 Makefile layout standards] Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com> Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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17-Mar-2016 |
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> |
timer: convert timer_slack_ns from unsigned long to u64 This patchset introduces a /proc/<pid>/timerslack_ns interface which would allow controlling processes to be able to set the timerslack value on other processes in order to save power by avoiding wakeups (Something Android currently does via out-of-tree patches). The first patch tries to fix the internal timer_slack_ns usage which was defined as a long, which limits the slack range to ~4 seconds on 32bit systems. It converts it to a u64, which provides the same basically unlimited slack (500 years) on both 32bit and 64bit machines. The second patch introduces the /proc/<pid>/timerslack_ns interface which allows the full 64bit slack range for a task to be read or set on both 32bit and 64bit machines. With these two patches, on a 32bit machine, after setting the slack on bash to 10 seconds: $ time sleep 1 real 0m10.747s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.005s The first patch is a little ugly, since I had to chase the slack delta arguments through a number of functions converting them to u64s. Let me know if it makes sense to break that up more or not. Other than that things are fairly straightforward. This patch (of 2): The timer_slack_ns value in the task struct is currently a unsigned long. This means that on 32bit applications, the maximum slack is just over 4 seconds. However, on 64bit machines, its much much larger (~500 years). This disparity could make application development a little (as well as the default_slack) to a u64. This means both 32bit and 64bit systems have the same effective internal slack range. Now the existing ABI via PR_GET_TIMERSLACK and PR_SET_TIMERSLACK specify the interface as a unsigned long, so we preserve that limitation on 32bit systems, where SET_TIMERSLACK can only set the slack to a unsigned long value, and GET_TIMERSLACK will return ULONG_MAX if the slack is actually larger then what can be stored by an unsigned long. This patch also modifies hrtimer functions which specified the slack delta as a unsigned long. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cellrox.com> Cc: Ruchi Kandoi <kandoiruchi@google.com> Cc: Rom Lemarchand <romlem@android.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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10-Mar-2016 |
Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> |
cpufreq: Move scheduler-related code to the sched directory Create cpufreq.c under kernel/sched/ and move the cpufreq code related to the scheduler to that file and to sched.h. Redefine cpufreq_update_util() as a static inline function to avoid function calls at its call sites in the scheduler code (as suggested by Peter Zijlstra). Also move the definition of struct update_util_data and declaration of cpufreq_set_update_util_data() from include/linux/cpufreq.h to include/linux/sched.h. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
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06-Mar-2016 |
Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it> |
sched/deadline: Remove dl_new from struct sched_dl_entity The dl_new field of struct sched_dl_entity is currently used to identify new deadline tasks, so that their deadline and runtime can be properly initialised. However, these tasks can be easily identified by checking if their deadline is smaller than the current time when they switch to SCHED_DEADLINE. So, dl_new can be removed by introducing this check in switched_to_dl(); this allows to simplify the SCHED_DEADLINE code. Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457350024-7825-2-git-send-email-luca.abeni@unitn.it Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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17-Jul-2015 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
sched: Migrate sched to use new tick dependency mask model Instead of providing asynchronous checks for the nohz subsystem to verify sched tick dependency, migrate sched to the new mask. Everytime a task is enqueued or dequeued, we evaluate the state of the tick dependency on top of the policy of the tasks in the runqueue, by order of priority: SCHED_DEADLINE: Need the tick in order to periodically check for runtime SCHED_FIFO : Don't need the tick (no round-robin) SCHED_RR : Need the tick if more than 1 task of the same priority for round robin (simplified with checking if more than one SCHED_RR task no matter what priority). SCHED_NORMAL : Need the tick if more than 1 task for round-robin. We could optimize that further with one flag per sched policy on the tick dependency mask and perform only the checks relevant to the policy concerned by an enqueue/dequeue operation. Since the checks aren't based on the current task anymore, we could get rid of the task switch hook but it's still needed for posix cpu timers. Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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07-Jun-2015 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
nohz: New tick dependency mask The tick dependency is evaluated on every IRQ and context switch. This consists is a batch of checks which determine whether it is safe to stop the tick or not. These checks are often split in many details: posix cpu timers, scheduler, sched clock, perf events.... each of which are made of smaller details: posix cpu timer involves checking process wide timers then thread wide timers. Perf involves checking freq events then more per cpu details. Checking these informations asynchronously every time we update the full dynticks state bring avoidable overhead and a messy layout. Let's introduce instead tick dependency masks: one for system wide dependency (unstable sched clock, freq based perf events), one for CPU wide dependency (sched, throttling perf events), and task/signal level dependencies (posix cpu timers). The subsystems are responsible for setting and clearing their dependency through a set of APIs that will take care of concurrent dependency mask modifications and kick targets to restart the relevant CPU tick whenever needed. This new dependency engine stays beside the old one until all subsystems having a tick dependency are converted to it. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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26-Feb-2016 |
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> |
sched/debug: Fix preempt_disable_ip recording for preempt_disable() The preempt_disable() invokes preempt_count_add() which saves the caller in ->preempt_disable_ip. It uses CALLER_ADDR1 which does not look for its caller but for the parent of the caller. Which means we get the correct caller for something like spin_lock() unless the architectures inlines those invocations. It is always wrong for preempt_disable() or local_bh_disable(). This patch makes the function get_lock_parent_ip() which tries CALLER_ADDR0,1,2 if the former is a locking function. This seems to record the preempt_disable() caller properly for preempt_disable() itself as well as for get_cpu_var() or local_bh_disable(). Steven asked for the get_parent_ip() -> get_lock_parent_ip() rename. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160226135456.GB18244@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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18-Jan-2016 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/rt: Fix PI handling vs. sched_setscheduler() Andrea Parri reported: > I found that the following scenario (with CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=y) is not > handled correctly: > > T1 (prio = 20) > lock(rtmutex); > > T2 (prio = 20) > blocks on rtmutex (rt_nr_boosted = 0 on T1's rq) > > T1 (prio = 20) > sys_set_scheduler(prio = 0) > [new_effective_prio == oldprio] > T1 prio = 20 (rt_nr_boosted = 0 on T1's rq) > > The last step is incorrect as T1 is now boosted (c.f., rt_se_boosted()); > in particular, if we continue with > > T1 (prio = 20) > unlock(rtmutex) > wakeup(T2) > adjust_prio(T1) > [prio != rt_mutex_getprio(T1)] > dequeue(T1) > rt_nr_boosted = (unsigned long)(-1) > ... > T1 prio = 0 > > then we end up leaving rt_nr_boosted in an "inconsistent" state. > > The simple program attached could reproduce the previous scenario; note > that, as a consequence of the presence of this state, the "assertion" > > WARN_ON(!rt_nr_running && rt_nr_boosted) > > from dec_rt_group() may trigger. So normally we dequeue/enqueue tasks in sched_setscheduler(), which would ensure the accounting stays correct. However in the early PI path we fail to do so. So this was introduced at around v3.14, by: c365c292d059 ("sched: Consider pi boosting in setscheduler()") which fixed another problem exactly because that dequeue/enqueue, joy. Fix this by teaching rt about DEQUEUE_SAVE/ENQUEUE_RESTORE and have it preserve runqueue location with that option. This requires decoupling the on_rt_rq() state from being on the list. In order to allow for explicit movement during the SAVE/RESTORE, introduce {DE,EN}QUEUE_MOVE. We still must use SAVE/RESTORE in these cases to preserve other invariants. Respecting the SAVE/RESTORE flags also has the (nice) side-effect that things like sys_nice()/sys_sched_setaffinity() also do not reorder FIFO tasks (whereas they used to before this patch). Reported-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Tested-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Feb-2016 |
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> |
sched/debug: Make schedstats a runtime tunable that is disabled by default schedstats is very useful during debugging and performance tuning but it incurs overhead to calculate the stats. As such, even though it can be disabled at build time, it is often enabled as the information is useful. This patch adds a kernel command-line and sysctl tunable to enable or disable schedstats on demand (when it's built in). It is disabled by default as someone who knows they need it can also learn to enable it when necessary. The benefits are dependent on how scheduler-intensive the workload is. If it is then the patch reduces the number of cycles spent calculating the stats with a small benefit from reducing the cache footprint of the scheduler. These measurements were taken from a 48-core 2-socket machine with Xeon(R) E5-2670 v3 cpus although they were also tested on a single socket machine 8-core machine with Intel i7-3770 processors. netperf-tcp 4.5.0-rc1 4.5.0-rc1 vanilla nostats-v3r1 Hmean 64 560.45 ( 0.00%) 575.98 ( 2.77%) Hmean 128 766.66 ( 0.00%) 795.79 ( 3.80%) Hmean 256 950.51 ( 0.00%) 981.50 ( 3.26%) Hmean 1024 1433.25 ( 0.00%) 1466.51 ( 2.32%) Hmean 2048 2810.54 ( 0.00%) 2879.75 ( 2.46%) Hmean 3312 4618.18 ( 0.00%) 4682.09 ( 1.38%) Hmean 4096 5306.42 ( 0.00%) 5346.39 ( 0.75%) Hmean 8192 10581.44 ( 0.00%) 10698.15 ( 1.10%) Hmean 16384 18857.70 ( 0.00%) 18937.61 ( 0.42%) Small gains here, UDP_STREAM showed nothing intresting and neither did the TCP_RR tests. The gains on the 8-core machine were very similar. tbench4 4.5.0-rc1 4.5.0-rc1 vanilla nostats-v3r1 Hmean mb/sec-1 500.85 ( 0.00%) 522.43 ( 4.31%) Hmean mb/sec-2 984.66 ( 0.00%) 1018.19 ( 3.41%) Hmean mb/sec-4 1827.91 ( 0.00%) 1847.78 ( 1.09%) Hmean mb/sec-8 3561.36 ( 0.00%) 3611.28 ( 1.40%) Hmean mb/sec-16 5824.52 ( 0.00%) 5929.03 ( 1.79%) Hmean mb/sec-32 10943.10 ( 0.00%) 10802.83 ( -1.28%) Hmean mb/sec-64 15950.81 ( 0.00%) 16211.31 ( 1.63%) Hmean mb/sec-128 15302.17 ( 0.00%) 15445.11 ( 0.93%) Hmean mb/sec-256 14866.18 ( 0.00%) 15088.73 ( 1.50%) Hmean mb/sec-512 15223.31 ( 0.00%) 15373.69 ( 0.99%) Hmean mb/sec-1024 14574.25 ( 0.00%) 14598.02 ( 0.16%) Hmean mb/sec-2048 13569.02 ( 0.00%) 13733.86 ( 1.21%) Hmean mb/sec-3072 12865.98 ( 0.00%) 13209.23 ( 2.67%) Small gains of 2-4% at low thread counts and otherwise flat. The gains on the 8-core machine were slightly different tbench4 on 8-core i7-3770 single socket machine Hmean mb/sec-1 442.59 ( 0.00%) 448.73 ( 1.39%) Hmean mb/sec-2 796.68 ( 0.00%) 794.39 ( -0.29%) Hmean mb/sec-4 1322.52 ( 0.00%) 1343.66 ( 1.60%) Hmean mb/sec-8 2611.65 ( 0.00%) 2694.86 ( 3.19%) Hmean mb/sec-16 2537.07 ( 0.00%) 2609.34 ( 2.85%) Hmean mb/sec-32 2506.02 ( 0.00%) 2578.18 ( 2.88%) Hmean mb/sec-64 2511.06 ( 0.00%) 2569.16 ( 2.31%) Hmean mb/sec-128 2313.38 ( 0.00%) 2395.50 ( 3.55%) Hmean mb/sec-256 2110.04 ( 0.00%) 2177.45 ( 3.19%) Hmean mb/sec-512 2072.51 ( 0.00%) 2053.97 ( -0.89%) In constract, this shows a relatively steady 2-3% gain at higher thread counts. Due to the nature of the patch and the type of workload, it's not a surprise that the result will depend on the CPU used. hackbench-pipes 4.5.0-rc1 4.5.0-rc1 vanilla nostats-v3r1 Amean 1 0.0637 ( 0.00%) 0.0660 ( -3.59%) Amean 4 0.1229 ( 0.00%) 0.1181 ( 3.84%) Amean 7 0.1921 ( 0.00%) 0.1911 ( 0.52%) Amean 12 0.3117 ( 0.00%) 0.2923 ( 6.23%) Amean 21 0.4050 ( 0.00%) 0.3899 ( 3.74%) Amean 30 0.4586 ( 0.00%) 0.4433 ( 3.33%) Amean 48 0.5910 ( 0.00%) 0.5694 ( 3.65%) Amean 79 0.8663 ( 0.00%) 0.8626 ( 0.43%) Amean 110 1.1543 ( 0.00%) 1.1517 ( 0.22%) Amean 141 1.4457 ( 0.00%) 1.4290 ( 1.16%) Amean 172 1.7090 ( 0.00%) 1.6924 ( 0.97%) Amean 192 1.9126 ( 0.00%) 1.9089 ( 0.19%) Some small gains and losses and while the variance data is not included, it's close to the noise. The UMA machine did not show anything particularly different pipetest 4.5.0-rc1 4.5.0-rc1 vanilla nostats-v2r2 Min Time 4.13 ( 0.00%) 3.99 ( 3.39%) 1st-qrtle Time 4.38 ( 0.00%) 4.27 ( 2.51%) 2nd-qrtle Time 4.46 ( 0.00%) 4.39 ( 1.57%) 3rd-qrtle Time 4.56 ( 0.00%) 4.51 ( 1.10%) Max-90% Time 4.67 ( 0.00%) 4.60 ( 1.50%) Max-93% Time 4.71 ( 0.00%) 4.65 ( 1.27%) Max-95% Time 4.74 ( 0.00%) 4.71 ( 0.63%) Max-99% Time 4.88 ( 0.00%) 4.79 ( 1.84%) Max Time 4.93 ( 0.00%) 4.83 ( 2.03%) Mean Time 4.48 ( 0.00%) 4.39 ( 1.91%) Best99%Mean Time 4.47 ( 0.00%) 4.39 ( 1.91%) Best95%Mean Time 4.46 ( 0.00%) 4.38 ( 1.93%) Best90%Mean Time 4.45 ( 0.00%) 4.36 ( 1.98%) Best50%Mean Time 4.36 ( 0.00%) 4.25 ( 2.49%) Best10%Mean Time 4.23 ( 0.00%) 4.10 ( 3.13%) Best5%Mean Time 4.19 ( 0.00%) 4.06 ( 3.20%) Best1%Mean Time 4.13 ( 0.00%) 4.00 ( 3.39%) Small improvement and similar gains were seen on the UMA machine. The gain is small but it stands to reason that doing less work in the scheduler is a good thing. The downside is that the lack of schedstats and tracepoints may be surprising to experts doing performance analysis until they find the existence of the schedstats= parameter or schedstats sysctl. It will be automatically activated for latencytop and sleep profiling to alleviate the problem. For tracepoints, there is a simple warning as it's not safe to activate schedstats in the context when it's known the tracepoint may be wanted but is unavailable. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454663316-22048-1-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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09-Jan-2016 |
Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> |
tty: audit: Handle tty audit enable atomically The audit_tty and audit_tty_log_passwd fields are actually bool values, so merge into single memory location to access atomically. NB: audit log operations may still occur after tty audit is disabled which is consistent with the existing functionality Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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20-Jan-2016 |
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> |
mm: memcontrol: move kmem accounting code to CONFIG_MEMCG The cgroup2 memory controller will account important in-kernel memory consumers per default. Move all necessary components to CONFIG_MEMCG. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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20-Jan-2016 |
Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> |
UBSAN: run-time undefined behavior sanity checker UBSAN uses compile-time instrumentation to catch undefined behavior (UB). Compiler inserts code that perform certain kinds of checks before operations that could cause UB. If check fails (i.e. UB detected) __ubsan_handle_* function called to print error message. So the most of the work is done by compiler. This patch just implements ubsan handlers printing errors. GCC has this capability since 4.9.x [1] (see -fsanitize=undefined option and its suboptions). However GCC 5.x has more checkers implemented [2]. Article [3] has a bit more details about UBSAN in the GCC. [1] - https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.9.0/gcc/Debugging-Options.html [2] - https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Debugging-Options.html [3] - http://developerblog.redhat.com/2014/10/16/gcc-undefined-behavior-sanitizer-ubsan/ Issues which UBSAN has found thus far are: Found bugs: * out-of-bounds access - 97840cb67ff5 ("netfilter: nfnetlink: fix insufficient validation in nfnetlink_bind") undefined shifts: * d48458d4a768 ("jbd2: use a better hash function for the revoke table") * 10632008b9e1 ("clockevents: Prevent shift out of bounds") * 'x << -1' shift in ext4 - http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<5444EF21.8020501@samsung.com> * undefined rol32(0) - http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<1449198241-20654-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> * undefined dirty_ratelimit calculation - http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<566594E2.3050306@odin.com> * undefined roundown_pow_of_two(0) - http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<1449156616-11474-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> * [WONTFIX] undefined shift in __bpf_prog_run - http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<CACT4Y+ZxoR3UjLgcNdUm4fECLMx2VdtfrENMtRRCdgHB2n0bJA@mail.gmail.com> WONTFIX here because it should be fixed in bpf program, not in kernel. signed overflows: * 32a8df4e0b33f ("sched: Fix odd values in effective_load() calculations") * mul overflow in ntp - http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<1449175608-1146-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> * incorrect conversion into rtc_time in rtc_time64_to_tm() - http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<1449187944-11730-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> * unvalidated timespec in io_getevents() - http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<CACT4Y+bBxVYLQ6LtOKrKtnLthqLHcw-BMp3aqP3mjdAvr9FULQ@mail.gmail.com> * [NOTABUG] signed overflow in ktime_add_safe() - http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<CACT4Y+aJ4muRnWxsUe1CMnA6P8nooO33kwG-c8YZg=0Xc8rJqw@mail.gmail.com> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix unused local warning] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix __int128 build woes] Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Yury Gribov <y.gribov@samsung.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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18-Jan-2016 |
Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> |
pipe: limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes On no-so-small systems, it is possible for a single process to cause an OOM condition by filling large pipes with data that are never read. A typical process filling 4000 pipes with 1 MB of data will use 4 GB of memory. On small systems it may be tricky to set the pipe max size to prevent this from happening. This patch makes it possible to enforce a per-user soft limit above which new pipes will be limited to a single page, effectively limiting them to 4 kB each, as well as a hard limit above which no new pipes may be created for this user. This has the effect of protecting the system against memory abuse without hurting other users, and still allowing pipes to work correctly though with less data at once. The limit are controlled by two new sysctls : pipe-user-pages-soft, and pipe-user-pages-hard. Both may be disabled by setting them to zero. The default soft limit allows the default number of FDs per process (1024) to create pipes of the default size (64kB), thus reaching a limit of 64MB before starting to create only smaller pipes. With 256 processes limited to 1024 FDs each, this results in 1024*64kB + (256*1024 - 1024) * 4kB = 1084 MB of memory allocated for a user. The hard limit is disabled by default to avoid breaking existing applications that make intensive use of pipes (eg: for splicing). Reported-by: socketpair@gmail.com Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Mitigates: CVE-2013-4312 (Linux 2.0+) Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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09-Jan-2016 |
willy tarreau <w@1wt.eu> |
unix: properly account for FDs passed over unix sockets It is possible for a process to allocate and accumulate far more FDs than the process' limit by sending them over a unix socket then closing them to keep the process' fd count low. This change addresses this problem by keeping track of the number of FDs in flight per user and preventing non-privileged processes from having more FDs in flight than their configured FD limit. Reported-by: socketpair@gmail.com Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Mitigates: CVE-2013-4312 (Linux 2.0+) Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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08-Dec-2015 |
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> |
sched/core: Move sched_entity::avg into separate cache line The sched_entity::avg collides with read-mostly sched_entity data. The perf c2c tool showed many read HITM accesses across many CPUs for sched_entity's cfs_rq and my_q, while having at the same time tons of stores for avg. After placing sched_entity::avg into separate cache line, the perf bench sched pipe showed around 20 seconds speedup. NOTE I cut out all perf events except for cycles and instructions from following output. Before: $ perf stat -r 5 perf bench sched pipe -l 10000000 # Running 'sched/pipe' benchmark: # Executed 10000000 pipe operations between two processes Total time: 270.348 [sec] 27.034805 usecs/op 36989 ops/sec ... 245,537,074,035 cycles # 1.433 GHz 187,264,548,519 instructions # 0.77 insns per cycle 272.653840535 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.31% ) After: $ perf stat -r 5 perf bench sched pipe -l 10000000 # Running 'sched/pipe' benchmark: # Executed 10000000 pipe operations between two processes Total time: 251.076 [sec] 25.107678 usecs/op 39828 ops/sec ... 244,573,513,928 cycles # 1.572 GHz 187,409,641,157 instructions # 0.76 insns per cycle 251.679315188 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.31% ) Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1449606239-28602-1-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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25-Nov-2015 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/core: Fix unserialized r-m-w scribbling stuff Some of the sched bitfieds (notably sched_reset_on_fork) can be set on other than current, this can cause the r-m-w to race with other updates. Since all the sched bits are serialized by scheduler locks, pull them in a separate word. Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org Cc: mhocko@kernel.org Cc: vdavydov@parallels.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151125150207.GM11639@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-Jan-2016 |
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> |
sched/core: Check tgid in is_global_init() Our global init task can have sub-threads, so ->pid check is not reliable enough for is_global_init(), we need to check tgid instead. This has been spotted by Oleg and a fix was proposed by Richard a long time ago (see the link below). Oleg wrote: : Because is_global_init() is only true for the main thread of /sbin/init. : : Just look at oom_unkillable_task(). It tries to not kill init. But, say, : select_bad_process() can happily find a sub-thread of is_global_init() : and still kill it. I recently hit the problem in question; re-sending the patch (to the best of my knowledge it has never been submitted) with updated function comment. Credit goes to Oleg and Richard. Suggested-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Eric W . Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Serge E . Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2013-December/msg00086.html Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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08-Dec-2015 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
watchdog: introduce touch_softlockup_watchdog_sched() touch_softlockup_watchdog() is used to tell watchdog that scheduler stall is expected. One group of usage is from paths where the task may not be able to yield for a long time such as performing slow PIO to finicky device and coming out of suspend. The other is to account for scheduler and timer going idle. For scheduler softlockup detection, there's no reason to distinguish the two cases; however, workqueue lockup detector is planned and it can use the same signals from the former group while the latter would spuriously prevent detection. This patch introduces a new function touch_softlockup_watchdog_sched() and convert the latter group to call it instead. For now, it just calls touch_softlockup_watchdog() and there's no functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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19-Nov-2015 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
sched/cputime: Convert vtime_seqlock to seqcount The cputime can only be updated by the current task itself, even in vtime case. So we can safely use seqcount instead of seqlock as there is no writer concurrency involved. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E . McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447948054-28668-8-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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19-Nov-2015 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
sched/cputime: Clarify vtime symbols and document them VTIME_SLEEPING state happens either when: 1) The task is sleeping and no tickless delta is to be added on the task cputime stats. 2) The CPU isn't running vtime at all, so the same properties of 1) applies. Lets rename the vtime symbol to reflect both states. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E . McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447948054-28668-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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09-Nov-2015 |
Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> |
sched/fair: Consider missed ticks in NOHZ_FULL in update_cpu_load_nohz() Usually the tick can be stopped for an idle CPU in NOHZ. However in NOHZ_FULL mode, a non-idle CPU's tick can also be stopped. However, update_cpu_load_nohz() does not consider the case a non-idle CPU's tick has been stopped at all. This patch makes the update_cpu_load_nohz() know if the calling path comes from NOHZ_FULL or idle NOHZ. Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447115762-19734-3-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Oct-2015 |
Ross Zwisler <zwisler@kernel.org> |
coredump: add DAX filtering for ELF coredumps Add two new flags to the existing coredump mechanism for ELF files to allow us to explicitly filter DAX mappings. This is desirable because DAX mappings, like hugetlb mappings, have the potential to be very large. Update the coredump_filter documentation in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt so that it addresses the new DAX coredump flags. Also update the documented default value of coredump_filter to be consistent with the core(5) man page. The documentation being updated talks about bit 4, Dump ELF headers, which is enabled if CONFIG_CORE_DUMP_DEFAULT_ELF_HEADERS is turned on in the kernel config. This kernel config option defaults to "y" if both ELF binaries and coredump are enabled. Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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06-Nov-2015 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
signal: introduce kernel_signal_stop() to fix jffs2_garbage_collect_thread() jffs2_garbage_collect_thread() can race with SIGCONT and sleep in TASK_STOPPED state after it was already sent. Add the new helper, kernel_signal_stop(), which does this correctly. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Cc: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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06-Nov-2015 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
signal: turn dequeue_signal_lock() into kernel_dequeue_signal() 1. Rename dequeue_signal_lock() to kernel_dequeue_signal(). This matches another "for kthreads only" kernel_sigaction() helper. 2. Remove the "tsk" and "mask" arguments, they are always current and current->blocked. And it is simply wrong if tsk != current. 3. We could also remove the 3rd "siginfo_t *info" arg but it looks potentially useful. However we can simplify the callers if we change kernel_dequeue_signal() to accept info => NULL. 4. Remove _irqsave, it is never called from atomic context. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Cc: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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06-Nov-2015 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
signals: kill block_all_signals() and unblock_all_signals() It is hardly possible to enumerate all problems with block_all_signals() and unblock_all_signals(). Just for example, 1. block_all_signals(SIGSTOP/etc) simply can't help if the caller is multithreaded. Another thread can dequeue the signal and force the group stop. 2. Even is the caller is single-threaded, it will "stop" anyway. It will not sleep, but it will spin in kernel space until SIGCONT or SIGKILL. And a lot more. In short, this interface doesn't work at all, at least the last 10+ years. Daniel said: Yeah the only times I played around with the DRM_LOCK stuff was when old drivers accidentally deadlocked - my impression is that the entire DRM_LOCK thing was never really tested properly ;-) Hence I'm all for purging where this leaks out of the drm subsystem. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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05-Nov-2015 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
memcg: punt high overage reclaim to return-to-userland path Currently, try_charge() tries to reclaim memory synchronously when the high limit is breached; however, if the allocation doesn't have __GFP_WAIT, synchronous reclaim is skipped. If a process performs only speculative allocations, it can blow way past the high limit. This is actually easily reproducible by simply doing "find /". slab/slub allocator tries speculative allocations first, so as long as there's memory which can be consumed without blocking, it can keep allocating memory regardless of the high limit. This patch makes try_charge() always punt the over-high reclaim to the return-to-userland path. If try_charge() detects that high limit is breached, it adds the overage to current->memcg_nr_pages_over_high and schedules execution of mem_cgroup_handle_over_high() which performs synchronous reclaim from the return-to-userland path. As long as kernel doesn't have a run-away allocation spree, this should provide enough protection while making kmemcg behave more consistently. It also has the following benefits. - All over-high reclaims can use GFP_KERNEL regardless of the specific gfp mask in use, e.g. GFP_NOFS, when the limit was breached. - It copes with prio inversion. Previously, a low-prio task with small memory.high might perform over-high reclaim with a bunch of locks held. If a higher prio task needed any of these locks, it would have to wait until the low prio task finished reclaim and released the locks. By handing over-high reclaim to the task exit path this issue can be avoided. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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05-Nov-2015 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
memcg: flatten task_struct->memcg_oom task_struct->memcg_oom is a sub-struct containing fields which are used for async memcg oom handling. Most task_struct fields aren't packaged this way and it can lead to unnecessary alignment paddings. This patch flattens it. * task.memcg_oom.memcg -> task.memcg_in_oom * task.memcg_oom.gfp_mask -> task.memcg_oom_gfp_mask * task.memcg_oom.order -> task.memcg_oom_order * task.memcg_oom.may_oom -> task.memcg_may_oom In addition, task.memcg_may_oom is relocated to where other bitfields are which reduces the size of task_struct. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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05-Nov-2015 |
Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> |
kernel/watchdog.c: add sysctl knob hardlockup_panic The only way to enable a hardlockup to panic the machine is to set 'nmi_watchdog=panic' on the kernel command line. This makes it awkward for end users and folks who want to run automate tests (like myself). Mimic the softlockup_panic knob and create a /proc/sys/kernel/hardlockup_panic knob. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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14-Oct-2015 |
Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> |
posix_cpu_timer: Reduce unnecessary sighand lock contention It was found while running a database workload on large systems that significant time was spent trying to acquire the sighand lock. The issue was that whenever an itimer expired, many threads ended up simultaneously trying to send the signal. Most of the time, nothing happened after acquiring the sighand lock because another thread had just already sent the signal and updated the "next expire" time. The fastpath_timer_check() didn't help much since the "next expire" time was updated after the threads exit fastpath_timer_check(). This patch addresses this by having the thread_group_cputimer structure maintain a boolean to signify when a thread in the group is already checking for process wide timers, and adds extra logic in the fastpath to check the boolean. Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: hideaki.kimura@hpe.com Cc: terry.rudd@hpe.com Cc: scott.norton@hpe.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444849677-29330-5-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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14-Oct-2015 |
Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> |
posix_cpu_timer: Convert cputimer->running to bool In the next patch in this series, a new field 'checking_timer' will be added to 'struct thread_group_cputimer'. Both this and the existing 'running' integer field are just used as boolean values. To save space in the structure, we can make both of these fields booleans. This is a preparatory patch to convert the existing running integer field to a boolean. Suggested-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Reviewed: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: hideaki.kimura@hpe.com Cc: terry.rudd@hpe.com Cc: scott.norton@hpe.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444849677-29330-4-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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07-Oct-2015 |
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> |
bpf: charge user for creation of BPF maps and programs since eBPF programs and maps use kernel memory consider it 'locked' memory from user accounting point of view and charge it against RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limit. This limit is typically set to 64Kbytes by distros, so almost all bpf+tracing programs would need to increase it, since they use maps, but kernel charges maximum map size upfront. For example the hash map of 1024 elements will be charged as 64Kbyte. It's inconvenient for current users and changes current behavior for root, but probably worth doing to be consistent root vs non-root. Similar accounting logic is done by mmap of perf_event. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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28-Sep-2015 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/core: Create preempt_count invariant Assuming units of PREEMPT_DISABLE_OFFSET for preempt_count() numbers. Now that TASK_DEAD no longer results in preempt_count() == 3 during scheduling, we will always call context_switch() with preempt_count() == 2. However, we don't always end up with preempt_count() == 2 in finish_task_switch() because new tasks get created with preempt_count() == 1. Create FORK_PREEMPT_COUNT and set it to 2 and use that in the right places. Note that we cannot use INIT_PREEMPT_COUNT as that serves another purpose (boot). After this, preempt_count() is invariant across the context switch, with exception of PREEMPT_ACTIVE. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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28-Sep-2015 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/core: Simplify INIT_PREEMPT_COUNT As per the following commit: d86ee4809d03 ("sched: optimize cond_resched()") we need PREEMPT_ACTIVE to avoid cond_resched() from working before the scheduler is set up. However, keeping preemption disabled should do the same thing already, making the PREEMPT_ACTIVE part entirely redundant. The only complication is !PREEMPT_COUNT kernels, where PREEMPT_DISABLED ends up being 0. Instead we use an unconditional PREEMPT_OFFSET to set preempt_count() even on !PREEMPT_COUNT kernels. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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21-Sep-2015 |
Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> |
sched/core: Make 'sched_domain_topology' declaration static The 'sched_domain_topology' variable is only used within kernel/sched/core.c. Make it static. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1442918939-9907-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Aug-2015 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Use single-stage IPI algorithm for RCU expedited grace period The current preemptible-RCU expedited grace-period algorithm invokes synchronize_sched_expedited() to enqueue all tasks currently running in a preemptible-RCU read-side critical section, then waits for all the ->blkd_tasks lists to drain. This works, but results in both an IPI and a double context switch even on CPUs that do not happen to be running in a preemptible RCU read-side critical section. This commit implements a new algorithm that causes less OS jitter. This new algorithm IPIs all online CPUs that are not idle (from an RCU perspective), but refrains from self-IPIs. If a CPU receiving this IPI is not in a preemptible RCU read-side critical section (or is just now exiting one), it pushes quiescence up the rcu_node tree, otherwise, it sets a flag that will be handled by the upcoming outermost rcu_read_unlock(), which will then push quiescence up the tree. The expedited grace period must of course wait on any pre-existing blocked readers, and newly blocked readers must be queued carefully based on the state of both the normal and the expedited grace periods. This new queueing approach also avoids the need to update boost state, courtesy of the fact that blocked tasks are no longer ever migrated to the root rcu_node structure. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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15-Sep-2015 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem Note: This commit was originally committed as d59cfc09c32a but got reverted by 0c986253b939 due to the performance regression from the percpu_rwsem write down/up operations added to cgroup task migration path. percpu_rwsem changes which alleviate the performance issue are pending for v4.4-rc1 merge window. Re-apply. The cgroup side of threadgroup locking uses signal_struct->group_rwsem to synchronize against threadgroup changes. This per-process rwsem adds small overhead to thread creation, exit and exec paths, forces cgroup code paths to do lock-verify-unlock-retry dance in a couple places and makes it impossible to atomically perform operations across multiple processes. This patch replaces signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem which is cheaper on the reader side and contained in cgroups proper. This patch converts one-to-one. This does make writer side heavier and lower the granularity; however, cgroup process migration is a fairly cold path, we do want to optimize thread operations over it and cgroup migration operations don't take enough time for the lower granularity to matter. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/55F8097A.7000206@de.ibm.com Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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16-Sep-2015 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
Revert "sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem" This reverts commit d59cfc09c32a2ae31f1c3bc2983a0cd79afb3f14. d59cfc09c32a ("sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem") and b5ba75b5fc0e ("cgroup: simplify threadgroup locking") changed how cgroup synchronizes against task fork and exits so that it uses global percpu_rwsem instead of per-process rwsem; unfortunately, the write [un]lock paths of percpu_rwsem always involve synchronize_rcu_expedited() which turned out to be too expensive. Improvements for percpu_rwsem are scheduled to be merged in the coming v4.4-rc1 merge window which alleviates this issue. For now, revert the two commits to restore per-process rwsem. They will be re-applied for the v4.4-rc1 merge window. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/55F8097A.7000206@de.ibm.com Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+
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14-Aug-2015 |
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> |
sched/fair: Make utilization tracking CPU scale-invariant Besides the existing frequency scale-invariance correction factor, apply CPU scale-invariance correction factor to utilization tracking to compensate for any differences in compute capacity. This could be due to micro-architectural differences (i.e. instructions per seconds) between cpus in HMP systems (e.g. big.LITTLE), and/or differences in the current maximum frequency supported by individual cpus in SMP systems. In the existing implementation utilization isn't comparable between cpus as it is relative to the capacity of each individual CPU. Each segment of the sched_avg.util_sum geometric series is now scaled by the CPU performance factor too so the sched_avg.util_avg of each sched entity will be invariant from the particular CPU of the HMP/SMP system on which the sched entity is scheduled. With this patch, the utilization of a CPU stays relative to the max CPU performance of the fastest CPU in the system. In contrast to utilization (sched_avg.util_sum), load (sched_avg.load_sum) should not be scaled by compute capacity. The utilization metric is based on running time which only makes sense when cpus are _not_ fully utilized (utilization cannot go beyond 100% even if more tasks are added), where load is runnable time which isn't limited by the capacity of the CPU and therefore is a better metric for overloaded scenarios. If we run two nice-0 busy loops on two cpus with different compute capacity their load should be similar since their compute demands are the same. We have to assume that the compute demand of any task running on a fully utilized CPU (no spare cycles = 100% utilization) is high and the same no matter of the compute capacity of its current CPU, hence we shouldn't scale load by CPU capacity. Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/55CE7409.1000700@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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14-Aug-2015 |
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> |
sched/fair: Make load tracking frequency scale-invariant Apply frequency scaling correction factor to per-entity load tracking to make it frequency invariant. Currently, load appears bigger when the CPU is running slower which affects load-balancing decisions. Each segment of the sched_avg.load_sum geometric series is now scaled by the current frequency so that the sched_avg.load_avg of each sched entity will be invariant from frequency scaling. Moreover, cfs_rq.runnable_load_sum is scaled by the current frequency as well. Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <Dietmar.Eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <Juri.Lelli@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org Cc: mturquette@baylibre.com Cc: pang.xunlei@zte.com.cn Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net Cc: sgurrappadi@nvidia.com Cc: yuyang.du@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439569394-11974-2-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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04-Sep-2015 |
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> |
mm: defer flush of writable TLB entries If a PTE is unmapped and it's dirty then it was writable recently. Due to deferred TLB flushing, it's best to assume a writable TLB cache entry exists. With that assumption, the TLB must be flushed before any IO can start or the page is freed to avoid lost writes or data corruption. This patch defers flushing of potentially writable TLBs as long as possible. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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04-Sep-2015 |
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> |
mm: send one IPI per CPU to TLB flush all entries after unmapping pages An IPI is sent to flush remote TLBs when a page is unmapped that was potentially accesssed by other CPUs. There are many circumstances where this happens but the obvious one is kswapd reclaiming pages belonging to a running process as kswapd and the task are likely running on separate CPUs. On small machines, this is not a significant problem but as machine gets larger with more cores and more memory, the cost of these IPIs can be high. This patch uses a simple structure that tracks CPUs that potentially have TLB entries for pages being unmapped. When the unmapping is complete, the full TLB is flushed on the assumption that a refill cost is lower than flushing individual entries. Architectures wishing to do this must give the following guarantee. If a clean page is unmapped and not immediately flushed, the architecture must guarantee that a write to that linear address from a CPU with a cached TLB entry will trap a page fault. This is essentially what the kernel already depends on but the window is much larger with this patch applied and is worth highlighting. The architecture should consider whether the cost of the full TLB flush is higher than sending an IPI to flush each individual entry. An additional architecture helper called flush_tlb_local is required. It's a trivial wrapper with some accounting in the x86 case. The impact of this patch depends on the workload as measuring any benefit requires both mapped pages co-located on the LRU and memory pressure. The case with the biggest impact is multiple processes reading mapped pages taken from the vm-scalability test suite. The test case uses NR_CPU readers of mapped files that consume 10*RAM. Linear mapped reader on a 4-node machine with 64G RAM and 48 CPUs 4.2.0-rc1 4.2.0-rc1 vanilla flushfull-v7 Ops lru-file-mmap-read-elapsed 159.62 ( 0.00%) 120.68 ( 24.40%) Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_range 30.59 ( 0.00%) 2.80 ( 90.85%) Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_stddv 6.70 ( 0.00%) 0.64 ( 90.38%) 4.2.0-rc1 4.2.0-rc1 vanilla flushfull-v7 User 581.00 611.43 System 5804.93 4111.76 Elapsed 161.03 122.12 This is showing that the readers completed 24.40% faster with 29% less system CPU time. From vmstats, it is known that the vanilla kernel was interrupted roughly 900K times per second during the steady phase of the test and the patched kernel was interrupts 180K times per second. The impact is lower on a single socket machine. 4.2.0-rc1 4.2.0-rc1 vanilla flushfull-v7 Ops lru-file-mmap-read-elapsed 25.33 ( 0.00%) 20.38 ( 19.54%) Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_range 0.91 ( 0.00%) 1.44 (-58.24%) Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_stddv 0.28 ( 0.00%) 0.47 (-65.34%) 4.2.0-rc1 4.2.0-rc1 vanilla flushfull-v7 User 58.09 57.64 System 111.82 76.56 Elapsed 27.29 22.55 It's still a noticeable improvement with vmstat showing interrupts went from roughly 500K per second to 45K per second. The patch will have no impact on workloads with no memory pressure or have relatively few mapped pages. It will have an unpredictable impact on the workload running on the CPU being flushed as it'll depend on how many TLB entries need to be refilled and how long that takes. Worst case, the TLB will be completely cleared of active entries when the target PFNs were not resident at all. [sasha.levin@oracle.com: trace tlb flush after disabling preemption in try_to_unmap_flush] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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15-May-2015 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Fix a race between __kthread_bind() and sched_setaffinity() Because sched_setscheduler() checks p->flags & PF_NO_SETAFFINITY without locks, a caller might observe an old value and race with the set_cpus_allowed_ptr() call from __kthread_bind() and effectively undo it: __kthread_bind() do_set_cpus_allowed() <SYSCALL> sched_setaffinity() if (p->flags & PF_NO_SETAFFINITIY) set_cpus_allowed_ptr() p->flags |= PF_NO_SETAFFINITY Fix the bug by putting everything under the regular scheduler locks. This also closes a hole in the serialization of task_struct::{nr_,}cpus_allowed. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dedekind1@gmail.com Cc: juri.lelli@arm.com Cc: mgorman@suse.de Cc: riel@redhat.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150515154833.545640346@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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14-Jul-2015 |
Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> |
sched/fair: Rewrite runnable load and utilization average tracking The idea of runnable load average (let runnable time contribute to weight) was proposed by Paul Turner and Ben Segall, and it is still followed by this rewrite. This rewrite aims to solve the following issues: 1. cfs_rq's load average (namely runnable_load_avg and blocked_load_avg) is updated at the granularity of an entity at a time, which results in the cfs_rq's load average is stale or partially updated: at any time, only one entity is up to date, all other entities are effectively lagging behind. This is undesirable. To illustrate, if we have n runnable entities in the cfs_rq, as time elapses, they certainly become outdated: t0: cfs_rq { e1_old, e2_old, ..., en_old } and when we update: t1: update e1, then we have cfs_rq { e1_new, e2_old, ..., en_old } t2: update e2, then we have cfs_rq { e1_old, e2_new, ..., en_old } ... We solve this by combining all runnable entities' load averages together in cfs_rq's avg, and update the cfs_rq's avg as a whole. This is based on the fact that if we regard the update as a function, then: w * update(e) = update(w * e) and update(e1) + update(e2) = update(e1 + e2), then w1 * update(e1) + w2 * update(e2) = update(w1 * e1 + w2 * e2) therefore, by this rewrite, we have an entirely updated cfs_rq at the time we update it: t1: update cfs_rq { e1_new, e2_new, ..., en_new } t2: update cfs_rq { e1_new, e2_new, ..., en_new } ... 2. cfs_rq's load average is different between top rq->cfs_rq and other task_group's per CPU cfs_rqs in whether or not blocked_load_average contributes to the load. The basic idea behind runnable load average (the same for utilization) is that the blocked state is taken into account as opposed to only accounting for the currently runnable state. Therefore, the average should include both the runnable/running and blocked load averages. This rewrite does that. In addition, we also combine runnable/running and blocked averages of all entities into the cfs_rq's average, and update it together at once. This is based on the fact that: update(runnable) + update(blocked) = update(runnable + blocked) This significantly reduces the code as we don't need to separately maintain/update runnable/running load and blocked load. 3. How task_group entities' share is calculated is complex and imprecise. We reduce the complexity in this rewrite to allow a very simple rule: the task_group's load_avg is aggregated from its per CPU cfs_rqs's load_avgs. Then group entity's weight is simply proportional to its own cfs_rq's load_avg / task_group's load_avg. To illustrate, if a task_group has { cfs_rq1, cfs_rq2, ..., cfs_rqn }, then, task_group_avg = cfs_rq1_avg + cfs_rq2_avg + ... + cfs_rqn_avg, then cfs_rqx's entity's share = cfs_rqx_avg / task_group_avg * task_group's share To sum up, this rewrite in principle is equivalent to the current one, but fixes the issues described above. Turns out, it significantly reduces the code complexity and hence increases clarity and efficiency. In addition, the new averages are more smooth/continuous (no spurious spikes and valleys) and updated more consistently and quickly to reflect the load dynamics. As a result, we have less load tracking overhead, better performance, and especially better power efficiency due to more balanced load. Signed-off-by: Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com Cc: bsegall@google.com Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: fengguang.wu@intel.com Cc: len.brown@intel.com Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436918682-4971-3-git-send-email-yuyang.du@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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14-Jul-2015 |
Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> |
sched/preempt: Fix cond_resched_lock() and cond_resched_softirq() These functions check should_resched() before unlocking spinlock/bh-enable: preempt_count always non-zero => should_resched() always returns false. cond_resched_lock() worked iff spin_needbreak is set. This patch adds argument "preempt_offset" to should_resched(). preempt_count offset constants for that: PREEMPT_DISABLE_OFFSET - offset after preempt_disable() PREEMPT_LOCK_OFFSET - offset after spin_lock() SOFTIRQ_DISABLE_OFFSET - offset after local_bh_distable() SOFTIRQ_LOCK_OFFSET - offset after spin_lock_bh() Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: bdb438065890 ("sched: Extract the basic add/sub preempt_count modifiers") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150715095204.12246.98268.stgit@buzz Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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14-Jul-2015 |
Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> |
sched/fair: Beef up wake_wide() Josef Bacik reported that Facebook sees better performance with their 1:N load (1 dispatch/node, N workers/node) when carrying an old patch to try very hard to wake to an idle CPU. While looking at wake_wide(), I noticed that it doesn't pay attention to the wakeup of a many partner waker, returning 1 only when waking one of its many partners. Correct that, letting explicit domain flags override the heuristic. While at it, adjust task_struct bits, we don't need a 64-bit counter. Tested-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> [ Tidy things up. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: kernel-team<Kernel-team@fb.com> Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com Cc: riel@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436888390.7983.49.camel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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30-Jun-2015 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/cputime: Guarantee stime + utime == rtime While the current code guarantees monotonicity for stime and utime independently of one another, it does not guarantee that the sum of both is equal to the total time we started out with. This confuses things (and peoples) who look at this sum, like top, and will report >100% usage followed by a matching period of 0%. Rework the code to provide both individual monotonicity and a coherent sum. Suggested-by: Fredrik Markstrom <fredrik.markstrom@gmail.com> Reported-by: Fredrik Markstrom <fredrik.markstrom@gmail.com> Tested-by: Fredrik Markstrom <fredrik.markstrom@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: jason.low2@hp.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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16-Jul-2015 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
x86/fpu, sched: Introduce CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT and use it on x86 Don't burden architectures without dynamic task_struct sizing with the overhead of dynamic sizing. Also optimize the x86 code a bit by caching task_struct_size. Acked-and-Tested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437128892-9831-3-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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16-Jul-2015 |
Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> |
x86/fpu, sched: Dynamically allocate 'struct fpu' The FPU rewrite removed the dynamic allocations of 'struct fpu'. But, this potentially wastes massive amounts of memory (2k per task on systems that do not have AVX-512 for instance). Instead of having a separate slab, this patch just appends the space that we need to the 'task_struct' which we dynamically allocate already. This saves from doing an extra slab allocation at fork(). The only real downside here is that we have to stick everything and the end of the task_struct. But, I think the BUILD_BUG_ON()s I stuck in there should keep that from being too fragile. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437128892-9831-2-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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25-Jun-2015 |
Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched/debug: Move print_cfs_rq() declaration to kernel/sched/sched.h Currently print_cfs_rq() is declared in include/linux/sched.h. However it's not used outside kernel/sched. Hence move the declaration to kernel/sched/sched.h Also some functions are only available for CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y. Hence move the declarations to within the #ifdef. Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Iulia Manda <iulia.manda21@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435252903-1081-2-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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25-Jun-2015 |
Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched/stat: Simplify the sched_info accounting dependency Both CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS=y and CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT=y track task sched_info, which results in ugly #if clauses. Simplify the code by introducing a synthethic CONFIG_SCHED_INFO switch, selected by both. Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: ricklind@us.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8d19eef800811a94b0f91bcbeb27430a884d7433.1435255405.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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25-Jun-2015 |
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> |
clone: support passing tls argument via C rather than pt_regs magic clone has some of the quirkiest syscall handling in the kernel, with a pile of special cases, historical curiosities, and architecture-specific calling conventions. In particular, clone with CLONE_SETTLS accepts a parameter "tls" that the C entry point completely ignores and some assembly entry points overwrite; instead, the low-level arch-specific code pulls the tls parameter out of the arch-specific register captured as part of pt_regs on entry to the kernel. That's a massive hack, and it makes the arch-specific code only work when called via the specific existing syscall entry points; because of this hack, any new clone-like system call would have to accept an identical tls argument in exactly the same arch-specific position, rather than providing a unified system call entry point across architectures. The first patch allows architectures to handle the tls argument via normal C parameter passing, if they opt in by selecting HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS. The second patch makes 32-bit and 64-bit x86 opt into this. These two patches came out of the clone4 series, which isn't ready for this merge window, but these first two cleanup patches were entirely uncontroversial and have acks. I'd like to go ahead and submit these two so that other architectures can begin building on top of this and opting into HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS. However, I'm also happy to wait and send these through the next merge window (along with v3 of clone4) if anyone would prefer that. This patch (of 2): clone with CLONE_SETTLS accepts an argument to set the thread-local storage area for the new thread. sys_clone declares an int argument tls_val in the appropriate point in the argument list (based on the various CLONE_BACKWARDS variants), but doesn't actually use or pass along that argument. Instead, sys_clone calls do_fork, which calls copy_process, which calls the arch-specific copy_thread, and copy_thread pulls the corresponding syscall argument out of the pt_regs captured at kernel entry (knowing what argument of clone that architecture passes tls in). Apart from being awful and inscrutable, that also only works because only one code path into copy_thread can pass the CLONE_SETTLS flag, and that code path comes from sys_clone with its architecture-specific argument-passing order. This prevents introducing a new version of the clone system call without propagating the same architecture-specific position of the tls argument. However, there's no reason to pull the argument out of pt_regs when sys_clone could just pass it down via C function call arguments. Introduce a new CONFIG_HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS for architectures to opt into, and a new copy_thread_tls that accepts the tls parameter as an additional unsigned long (syscall-argument-sized) argument. Change sys_clone's tls argument to an unsigned long (which does not change the ABI), and pass that down to copy_thread_tls. Architectures that don't opt into copy_thread_tls will continue to ignore the C argument to sys_clone in favor of the pt_regs captured at kernel entry, and thus will be unable to introduce new versions of the clone syscall. Patch co-authored by Josh Triplett and Thiago Macieira. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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26-May-2015 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
timer: Reduce timer migration overhead if disabled Eric reported that the timer_migration sysctl is not really nice performance wise as it needs to check at every timer insertion whether the feature is enabled or not. Further the check does not live in the timer code, so we have an extra function call which checks an extra cache line to figure out that it is disabled. We can do better and store that information in the per cpu (hr)timer bases. I pondered to use a static key, but that's a nightmare to update from the nohz code and the timer base cache line is hot anyway when we select a timer base. The old logic enabled the timer migration unconditionally if CONFIG_NO_HZ was set even if nohz was disabled on the kernel command line. With this modification, we start off with migration disabled. The user visible sysctl is still set to enabled. If the kernel switches to NOHZ migration is enabled, if the user did not disable it via the sysctl prior to the switch. If nohz=off is on the kernel command line, migration stays disabled no matter what. Before: 47.76% hog [.] main 14.84% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave 9.55% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore 6.71% [kernel] [k] mod_timer 6.24% [kernel] [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38 3.76% [kernel] [k] detach_if_pending 3.71% [kernel] [k] del_timer 2.50% [kernel] [k] internal_add_timer 1.51% [kernel] [k] get_nohz_timer_target 1.28% [kernel] [k] __internal_add_timer 0.78% [kernel] [k] timerfn 0.48% [kernel] [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu After: 48.10% hog [.] main 15.25% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave 9.76% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore 6.50% [kernel] [k] mod_timer 6.44% [kernel] [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38 3.87% [kernel] [k] detach_if_pending 3.80% [kernel] [k] del_timer 2.67% [kernel] [k] internal_add_timer 1.33% [kernel] [k] __internal_add_timer 0.73% [kernel] [k] timerfn 0.54% [kernel] [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org> Cc: Wenbo Wang <wenbo.wang@memblaze.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150526224512.127050787@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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04-Jun-2015 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
signals: don't abuse __flush_signals() in selinux_bprm_committed_creds() selinux_bprm_committed_creds()->__flush_signals() is not right, we shouldn't clear TIF_SIGPENDING unconditionally. There can be other reasons for signal_pending(): freezing(), JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK, and potentially more. Also change this code to check fatal_signal_pending() rather than SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT, it looks a bit better. Now we can kill __flush_signals() before it finds another buggy user. Note: this code looks racy, we can flush a signal which was sent after the task SID has been updated. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
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13-May-2015 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem The cgroup side of threadgroup locking uses signal_struct->group_rwsem to synchronize against threadgroup changes. This per-process rwsem adds small overhead to thread creation, exit and exec paths, forces cgroup code paths to do lock-verify-unlock-retry dance in a couple places and makes it impossible to atomically perform operations across multiple processes. This patch replaces signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem which is cheaper on the reader side and contained in cgroups proper. This patch converts one-to-one. This does make writer side heavier and lower the granularity; however, cgroup process migration is a fairly cold path, we do want to optimize thread operations over it and cgroup migration operations don't take enough time for the lower granularity to matter. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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13-May-2015 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
sched, cgroup: reorganize threadgroup locking threadgroup_change_begin/end() are used to mark the beginning and end of threadgroup modifying operations to allow code paths which require a threadgroup to stay stable across blocking operations to synchronize against those sections using threadgroup_lock/unlock(). It's currently implemented as a general mechanism in sched.h using per-signal_struct rwsem; however, this never grew non-cgroup use cases and becomes noop if !CONFIG_CGROUPS. It turns out that cgroups is gonna be better served with a different sycnrhonization scheme and is a bit silly to keep cgroups specific details as a general mechanism. What's general here is identifying the places where threadgroups are modified. This patch restructures threadgroup locking so that threadgroup_change_begin/end() become a place where subsystems which need to sycnhronize against threadgroup changes can hook into. cgroup_threadgroup_change_begin/end() which operate on the per-signal_struct rwsem are created and threadgroup_lock/unlock() are moved to cgroup.c and made static. This is pure reorganization which doesn't cause any functional changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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08-May-2015 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/wait: Introduce TASK_NOLOAD and TASK_IDLE Currently people use TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE to idle kthreads and wait for 'work' because TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE contributes to the loadavg. Having all idle kthreads contribute to the loadavg is somewhat silly. Now mostly this works OK, because kthreads have all their signals masked. However there's a few sites where this is causing problems and TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE should be used, except for that loadavg issue. This patch adds TASK_NOLOAD which, when combined with TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE avoids the loadavg accounting. As most of imagined usage sites are loops where a thread wants to idle, waiting for work, a helper TASK_IDLE is introduced. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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11-May-2015 |
David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched/preempt, mm/fault: Count pagefault_disable() levels in pagefault_disabled Until now, pagefault_disable()/pagefault_enabled() used the preempt count to track whether in an environment with pagefaults disabled (can be queried via in_atomic()). This patch introduces a separate counter in task_struct to count the level of pagefault_disable() calls. We'll keep manipulating the preempt count to retain compatibility to existing pagefault handlers. It is now possible to verify whether in a pagefault_disable() envionment by calling pagefault_disabled(). In contrast to in_atomic() it will not be influenced by preempt_enable()/preempt_disable(). This patch is based on a patch from Ingo Molnar. Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: airlied@linux.ie Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com Cc: daniel.vetter@intel.com Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Cc: hocko@suse.cz Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: mst@redhat.com Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com Cc: yang.shi@windriver.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431359540-32227-2-git-send-email-dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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12-May-2015 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
sched/preempt: Merge preempt_mask.h into preempt.h preempt_mask.h defines all the preempt_count semantics and related symbols: preempt, softirq, hardirq, nmi, preempt active, need resched, etc... preempt.h defines the accessors and mutators of preempt_count. But there is a messy dependency game around those two header files: * preempt_mask.h includes preempt.h in order to access preempt_count() * preempt_mask.h defines all preempt_count semantic and symbols except PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED that is needed by asm/preempt.h Thus we need to define it from preempt.h, right before including asm/preempt.h, instead of defining it to preempt_mask.h with the other preempt_count symbols. Therefore the preempt_count semantics happen to be spread out. * We plan to introduce preempt_active_[enter,exit]() to consolidate preempt_schedule*() code. But we'll need to access both preempt_count mutators (preempt_count_add()) and preempt_count symbols (PREEMPT_ACTIVE, PREEMPT_OFFSET). The usual place to define preempt operations is in preempt.h but then we'll need symbols in preempt_mask.h which already includes preempt.h. So we end up with a ressource circle dependency. Lets merge preempt_mask.h into preempt.h to solve these dependency issues. This way we gather semantic symbols and operation definition of preempt_count in a single file. This is a dumb copy-paste merge. Further merge re-arrangments are performed in a subsequent patch to ease review. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431441711-29753-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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12-May-2015 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
locking/arch: Rename set_mb() to smp_store_mb() Since set_mb() is really about an smp_mb() -- not a IO/DMA barrier like mb() rename it to match the recent smp_load_acquire() and smp_store_release(). Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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12-May-2015 |
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
get rid of assorted nameidata-related debris pointless forward declarations, stale comments Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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14-May-2015 |
Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov@siteground.com> |
sched: Remove redundant #ifdef Two adjacent members in task_struct were guarded by the same #define, so we can merge the two blocks. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov@siteground.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431603061-29408-1-git-send-email-kernel@kyup.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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22-Mar-2015 |
NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> |
VFS: replace {, total_}link_count in task_struct with pointer to nameidata task_struct currently contains two ad-hoc members for use by the VFS: link_count and total_link_count. These are only interesting to fs/namei.c, so exposing them explicitly is poor layering. Incidentally, link_count isn't used anymore, so it can just die. This patches replaces those with a single pointer to 'struct nameidata'. This structure represents the current filename lookup of which there can only be one per process, and is a natural place to store total_link_count. This will allow the current "nameidata" argument to all follow_link operations to be removed as current->nameidata can be used instead in the _very_ few instances that care about it at all. As there are occasional circumstances where pathname lookup can recurse, such as through kern_path_locked, we always save and old current->nameidata (if there is one) when setting a new value, and make sure any active link_counts are preserved. follow_mount and follow_automount now get a 'struct nameidata *' rather than 'int flags' so that they can directly access total_link_count, rather than going through 'current'. Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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08-May-2015 |
Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> |
sched, timer: Fix documentation for 'struct thread_group_cputimer' Fix the docbook build bug reported by Fengguang Wu. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Waiman.Long@hp.com Cc: aswin@hp.com Cc: bp@alien8.de Cc: dave@stgolabs.net Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: mgorman@suse.de Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: riel@redhat.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: scott.norton@hp.com Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431120710.5136.12.camel@j-VirtualBox Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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17-Apr-2015 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
perf: Fix software migrate events Stephane asked about PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_MIGRATIONS and I realized it was borken: > The problem is that the task isn't actually scheduled while its being > migrated (obviously), and if its not scheduled, the counters aren't > scheduled either, so there's no observing of the fact. > > A further problem with migrations is that many migrations happen from > softirq context, which is nested inside the 'random' task context of > whoemever happens to run at that time, similarly for the wakeup > migrations triggered from (soft)irq context. All those end up being > accounted in the task that's currently running, eg. your 'ls'. The below cures this by marking a task as migrated and accounting it on the subsequent sched_in(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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01-May-2015 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Implement lockless wake-queues This is useful for locking primitives that can effect multiple wakeups per operation and want to avoid lock internal lock contention by delaying the wakeups until we've released the lock internal locks. Alternatively it can be used to avoid issuing multiple wakeups, and thus save a few cycles, in packet processing. Queue all target tasks and wakeup once you've processed all packets. That way you avoid waking the target task multiple times if there were multiple packets for the same task. Properties of a wake_q are: - Lockless, as queue head must reside on the stack. - Being a queue, maintains wakeup order passed by the callers. This can be important for otherwise, in scenarios where highly contended locks could affect any reliance on lock fairness. - A queued task cannot be added again until it is woken up. This patch adds the needed infrastructure into the scheduler code and uses the new wake_list to delay the futex wakeups until after we've released the hash bucket locks. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> [tweaks, adjustments, comments, etc.] Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430494072-30283-2-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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28-Apr-2015 |
Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> |
sched, timer: Use the atomic task_cputime in thread_group_cputimer Recent optimizations were made to thread_group_cputimer to improve its scalability by keeping track of cputime stats without a lock. However, the values were open coded to the structure, causing them to be at a different abstraction level from the regular task_cputime structure. Furthermore, any subsequent similar optimizations would not be able to share the new code, since they are specific to thread_group_cputimer. This patch adds the new task_cputime_atomic data structure (introduced in the previous patch in the series) to thread_group_cputimer for keeping track of the cputime atomically, which also helps generalize the code. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430251224-5764-6-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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28-Apr-2015 |
Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> |
sched, timer: Provide an atomic 'struct task_cputime' data structure This patch adds an atomic variant of the 'struct task_cputime' data structure, which can be used to store and update task_cputime statistics without needing to do locking. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430251224-5764-5-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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28-Apr-2015 |
Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> |
sched, timer: Replace spinlocks with atomics in thread_group_cputimer(), to improve scalability While running a database workload, we found a scalability issue with itimers. Much of the problem was caused by the thread_group_cputimer spinlock. Each time we account for group system/user time, we need to obtain a thread_group_cputimer's spinlock to update the timers. On larger systems (such as a 16 socket machine), this caused more than 30% of total time spent trying to obtain this kernel lock to update these group timer stats. This patch converts the timers to 64-bit atomic variables and use atomic add to update them without a lock. With this patch, the percent of total time spent updating thread group cputimer timers was reduced from 30% down to less than 1%. Note: On 32-bit systems using the generic 64-bit atomics, this causes sample_group_cputimer() to take locks 3 times instead of just 1 time. However, we tested this patch on a 32-bit system ARM system using the generic atomics and did not find the overhead to be much of an issue. An explanation for why this isn't an issue is that 32-bit systems usually have small numbers of CPUs, and cacheline contention from extra spinlocks called periodically is not really apparent on smaller systems. Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430251224-5764-4-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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28-Apr-2015 |
Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> |
sched, timer: Convert usages of ACCESS_ONCE() in the scheduler to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() ACCESS_ONCE doesn't work reliably on non-scalar types. This patch removes the rest of the existing usages of ACCESS_ONCE() in the scheduler, and use the new READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() APIs as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430251224-5764-2-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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30-Apr-2015 |
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> |
signals, ptrace, sched: Fix a misaligned load inside ptrace_attach() The misaligned load exception arises when running ptrace_attach() on the RISC-V (which hasn't been upstreamed yet). The problem is that wait_on_bit() takes a void* but then proceeds to call test_bit(), which takes a long*. This allows an int-aligned pointer to be passed to test_bit(), which promptly fails. This will manifest on any other asm-generic port where unaligned loads trap, where sizeof(long) > sizeof(int), and where task_struct.jobctl ends up not being long-aligned. This patch changes task_struct.jobctl to be a long, which ensures it has the correct alignment. Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: bobby.prani@gmail.com Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: richard@nod.at Cc: vdavydov@parallels.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430453997-32459-2-git-send-email-palmer@dabbelt.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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30-Apr-2015 |
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> |
signals, sched: Change all uses of JOBCTL_* from 'int' to 'long' c56fb6564dcd ("Fix a misaligned load inside ptrace_attach()") makes jobctl an "unsigned long". It makes sense to have the masks applied to it match that type. This is currently just a cosmetic change, but it will prevent the mask from being unexpectedly truncated if we ever end up with masks with more bits. One instance of "signr" is an int, but I left this alone because the mask ensures that it will never overflow. Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: bobby.prani@gmail.com Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: richard@nod.at Cc: vdavydov@parallels.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430453997-32459-4-git-send-email-palmer@dabbelt.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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14-Apr-2015 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Move the loadavg code to a more obvious location I could not find the loadavg code.. turns out it was hidden in a file called proc.c. It further got mingled up with the cruft per rq load indexes (which we really want to get rid of). Move the per rq load indexes into the fair.c load-balance code (that's the only thing that uses them) and rename proc.c to loadavg.c so we can find it again. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [ Did minor cleanups to the code. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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06-May-2015 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
context_tracking: Inherit TIF_NOHZ through forks instead of context switches TIF_NOHZ is used by context_tracking to force syscall slow-path on every task in order to track userspace roundtrips. As such, it must be set on all running tasks. It's currently explicitly inherited through context switches. There is no need to do it in this fast-path though. The flag could simply be set once for all on all tasks, whether they are running or not. Lets do this by setting the flag for the init task on early boot, and let it propagate through fork inheritance. While at it, mark context_tracking_cpu_set() as init code, we only need it at early boot time. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: Paul E . McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430928266-24888-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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23-Apr-2015 |
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> |
x86: pvclock: Really remove the sched notifier for cross-cpu migrations This reverts commits 0a4e6be9ca17c54817cf814b4b5aa60478c6df27 and 80f7fdb1c7f0f9266421f823964fd1962681f6ce. The task migration notifier was originally introduced in order to support the pvclock vsyscall with non-synchronized TSC, but KVM only supports it with synchronized TSC. Hence, on KVM the race condition is only needed due to a bad implementation on the host side, and even then it's so rare that it's mostly theoretical. As far as KVM is concerned it's possible to fix the host, avoiding the additional complexity in the vDSO and the (re)introduction of the task migration notifier. Xen, on the other hand, hasn't yet implemented vsyscall support at all, so we do not care about its plans for non-synchronized TSC. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Suggested-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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11-Apr-2015 |
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> |
Remove rest of exec domains. It is gone from all archs, now we can remove the final bits. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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27-Feb-2015 |
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> |
sched: Add sched_avg::utilization_avg_contrib Add new statistics which reflect the average time a task is running on the CPU and the sum of these running time of the tasks on a runqueue. The latter is named utilization_load_avg. This patch is based on the usage metric that was proposed in the 1st versions of the per-entity load tracking patchset by Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> but that has be removed afterwards. This version differs from the original one in the sense that it's not linked to task_group. The rq's utilization_load_avg will be used to check if a rq is overloaded or not instead of trying to compute how many tasks a group of CPUs can handle. Rename runnable_avg_period into avg_period as it is now used with both runnable_avg_sum and running_avg_sum. Add some descriptions of the variables to explain their differences. Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: efault@gmx.de Cc: kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org Cc: nicolas.pitre@linaro.org Cc: preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: riel@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425052454-25797-2-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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25-Mar-2015 |
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> |
mm: numa: slow PTE scan rate if migration failures occur Dave Chinner reported the following on https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/1/226 Across the board the 4.0-rc1 numbers are much slower, and the degradation is far worse when using the large memory footprint configs. Perf points straight at the cause - this is from 4.0-rc1 on the "-o bhash=101073" config: - 56.07% 56.07% [kernel] [k] default_send_IPI_mask_sequence_phys - default_send_IPI_mask_sequence_phys - 99.99% physflat_send_IPI_mask - 99.37% native_send_call_func_ipi smp_call_function_many - native_flush_tlb_others - 99.85% flush_tlb_page ptep_clear_flush try_to_unmap_one rmap_walk try_to_unmap migrate_pages migrate_misplaced_page - handle_mm_fault - 99.73% __do_page_fault trace_do_page_fault do_async_page_fault + async_page_fault 0.63% native_send_call_func_single_ipi generic_exec_single smp_call_function_single This is showing excessive migration activity even though excessive migrations are meant to get throttled. Normally, the scan rate is tuned on a per-task basis depending on the locality of faults. However, if migrations fail for any reason then the PTE scanner may scan faster if the faults continue to be remote. This means there is higher system CPU overhead and fault trapping at exactly the time we know that migrations cannot happen. This patch tracks when migration failures occur and slows the PTE scanner. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reported-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Tested-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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23-Mar-2015 |
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> |
x86: kvm: Revert "remove sched notifier for cross-cpu migrations" The following point: 2. per-CPU pvclock time info is updated if the underlying CPU changes. Is not true anymore since "KVM: x86: update pvclock area conditionally, on cpu migration". Add task migration notification back. Problem noticed by Andy Lutomirski. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> CC: stable@kernel.org # 3.11+
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08-Mar-2015 |
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> |
sched, isolcpu: make cpu_isolated_map visible outside scheduler Needed by the next patch. Also makes cpu_isolated_map present when compiled without SMP and/or with CONFIG_NR_CPUS=1, like the other cpu masks. At some point we may want to clean things up so cpumasks do not exist in UP kernels. Maybe something for the CONFIG_TINY crowd. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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12-Feb-2015 |
NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> |
sched: Prevent recursion in io_schedule() io_schedule() calls blk_flush_plug() which, depending on the contents of current->plug, can initiate arbitrary blk-io requests. Note that this contrasts with blk_schedule_flush_plug() which requires all non-trivial work to be handed off to a separate thread. This makes it possible for io_schedule() to recurse, and initiating block requests could possibly call mempool_alloc() which, in times of memory pressure, uses io_schedule(). Apart from any stack usage issues, io_schedule() will not behave correctly when called recursively as delayacct_blkio_start() does not allow for repeated calls. So: - use ->in_iowait to detect recursion. Set it earlier, and restore it to the old value. - move the call to "raw_rq" after the call to blk_flush_plug(). As this is some sort of per-cpu thing, we want some chance that we are on the right CPU - When io_schedule() is called recurively, use blk_schedule_flush_plug() which cannot further recurse. - as this makes io_schedule() a lot more complex and as io_schedule() must match io_schedule_timeout(), but all the changes in io_schedule_timeout() and make io_schedule a simple wrapper for that. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> [ Moved the now rudimentary io_schedule() into sched.h. ] Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150213162600.059fffb2@notabene.brown Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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13-Feb-2015 |
Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> |
kasan: add kernel address sanitizer infrastructure Kernel Address sanitizer (KASan) is a dynamic memory error detector. It provides fast and comprehensive solution for finding use-after-free and out-of-bounds bugs. KASAN uses compile-time instrumentation for checking every memory access, therefore GCC > v4.9.2 required. v4.9.2 almost works, but has issues with putting symbol aliases into the wrong section, which breaks kasan instrumentation of globals. This patch only adds infrastructure for kernel address sanitizer. It's not available for use yet. The idea and some code was borrowed from [1]. Basic idea: The main idea of KASAN is to use shadow memory to record whether each byte of memory is safe to access or not, and use compiler's instrumentation to check the shadow memory on each memory access. Address sanitizer uses 1/8 of the memory addressable in kernel for shadow memory and uses direct mapping with a scale and offset to translate a memory address to its corresponding shadow address. Here is function to translate address to corresponding shadow address: unsigned long kasan_mem_to_shadow(unsigned long addr) { return (addr >> KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT) + KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET; } where KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT = 3. So for every 8 bytes there is one corresponding byte of shadow memory. The following encoding used for each shadow byte: 0 means that all 8 bytes of the corresponding memory region are valid for access; k (1 <= k <= 7) means that the first k bytes are valid for access, and other (8 - k) bytes are not; Any negative value indicates that the entire 8-bytes are inaccessible. Different negative values used to distinguish between different kinds of inaccessible memory (redzones, freed memory) (see mm/kasan/kasan.h). To be able to detect accesses to bad memory we need a special compiler. Such compiler inserts a specific function calls (__asan_load*(addr), __asan_store*(addr)) before each memory access of size 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16. These functions check whether memory region is valid to access or not by checking corresponding shadow memory. If access is not valid an error printed. Historical background of the address sanitizer from Dmitry Vyukov: "We've developed the set of tools, AddressSanitizer (Asan), ThreadSanitizer and MemorySanitizer, for user space. We actively use them for testing inside of Google (continuous testing, fuzzing, running prod services). To date the tools have found more than 10'000 scary bugs in Chromium, Google internal codebase and various open-source projects (Firefox, OpenSSL, gcc, clang, ffmpeg, MySQL and lots of others): [2] [3] [4]. The tools are part of both gcc and clang compilers. We have not yet done massive testing under the Kernel AddressSanitizer (it's kind of chicken and egg problem, you need it to be upstream to start applying it extensively). To date it has found about 50 bugs. Bugs that we've found in upstream kernel are listed in [5]. We've also found ~20 bugs in out internal version of the kernel. Also people from Samsung and Oracle have found some. [...] As others noted, the main feature of AddressSanitizer is its performance due to inline compiler instrumentation and simple linear shadow memory. User-space Asan has ~2x slowdown on computational programs and ~2x memory consumption increase. Taking into account that kernel usually consumes only small fraction of CPU and memory when running real user-space programs, I would expect that kernel Asan will have ~10-30% slowdown and similar memory consumption increase (when we finish all tuning). I agree that Asan can well replace kmemcheck. We have plans to start working on Kernel MemorySanitizer that finds uses of unitialized memory. Asan+Msan will provide feature-parity with kmemcheck. As others noted, Asan will unlikely replace debug slab and pagealloc that can be enabled at runtime. Asan uses compiler instrumentation, so even if it is disabled, it still incurs visible overheads. Asan technology is easily portable to other architectures. Compiler instrumentation is fully portable. Runtime has some arch-dependent parts like shadow mapping and atomic operation interception. They are relatively easy to port." Comparison with other debugging features: ======================================== KMEMCHECK: - KASan can do almost everything that kmemcheck can. KASan uses compile-time instrumentation, which makes it significantly faster than kmemcheck. The only advantage of kmemcheck over KASan is detection of uninitialized memory reads. Some brief performance testing showed that kasan could be x500-x600 times faster than kmemcheck: $ netperf -l 30 MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 0 AF_INET Recv Send Send Socket Socket Message Elapsed Size Size Size Time Throughput bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec no debug: 87380 16384 16384 30.00 41624.72 kasan inline: 87380 16384 16384 30.00 12870.54 kasan outline: 87380 16384 16384 30.00 10586.39 kmemcheck: 87380 16384 16384 30.03 20.23 - Also kmemcheck couldn't work on several CPUs. It always sets number of CPUs to 1. KASan doesn't have such limitation. DEBUG_PAGEALLOC: - KASan is slower than DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, but KASan works on sub-page granularity level, so it able to find more bugs. SLUB_DEBUG (poisoning, redzones): - SLUB_DEBUG has lower overhead than KASan. - SLUB_DEBUG in most cases are not able to detect bad reads, KASan able to detect both reads and writes. - In some cases (e.g. redzone overwritten) SLUB_DEBUG detect bugs only on allocation/freeing of object. KASan catch bugs right before it will happen, so we always know exact place of first bad read/write. [1] https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/AddressSanitizerForKernel [2] https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/FoundBugs [3] https://code.google.com/p/thread-sanitizer/wiki/FoundBugs [4] https://code.google.com/p/memory-sanitizer/wiki/FoundBugs [5] https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/AddressSanitizerForKernel#Trophies Based on work by Andrey Konovalov. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com> Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com> Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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12-Feb-2015 |
Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com> |
kernel/sched/clock.c: add another clock for use with the soft lockup watchdog When the hypervisor pauses a virtualised kernel the kernel will observe a jump in timebase, this can cause spurious messages from the softlockup detector. Whilst these messages are harmless, they are accompanied with a stack trace which causes undue concern and more problematically the stack trace in the guest has nothing to do with the observed problem and can only be misleading. Futhermore, on POWER8 this is completely avoidable with the introduction of the Virtual Time Base (VTB) register. This patch (of 2): This permits the use of arch specific clocks for which virtualised kernels can use their notion of 'running' time, not the elpased wall time which will include host execution time. Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Cc: chai wen <chaiw.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Cc: Ben Zhang <benzh@chromium.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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12-Feb-2015 |
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> |
all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct If an attacker can cause a controlled kernel stack overflow, overwriting the restart block is a very juicy exploit target. This is because the restart_block is held in the same memory allocation as the kernel stack. Moving the restart block to struct task_struct prevents this exploit by making the restart_block harder to locate. Note that there are other fields in thread_info that are also easy targets, at least on some architectures. It's also a decent simplification, since the restart code is more or less identical on all architectures. [james.hogan@imgtec.com: metag: align thread_info::supervisor_stack] Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no> Cc: Steven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc) Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc) Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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12-Dec-2014 |
David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com> |
syscalls: implement execveat() system call This patchset adds execveat(2) for x86, and is derived from Meredydd Luff's patch from Sept 2012 (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/11/528). The primary aim of adding an execveat syscall is to allow an implementation of fexecve(3) that does not rely on the /proc filesystem, at least for executables (rather than scripts). The current glibc version of fexecve(3) is implemented via /proc, which causes problems in sandboxed or otherwise restricted environments. Given the desire for a /proc-free fexecve() implementation, HPA suggested (https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/11/556) that an execveat(2) syscall would be an appropriate generalization. Also, having a new syscall means that it can take a flags argument without back-compatibility concerns. The current implementation just defines the AT_EMPTY_PATH and AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flags, but other flags could be added in future -- for example, flags for new namespaces (as suggested at https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/11/474). Related history: - https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/27/123 is an example of someone realizing that fexecve() is likely to fail in a chroot environment. - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514043 covered documenting the /proc requirement of fexecve(3) in its manpage, to "prevent other people from wasting their time". - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=241609 described a problem where a process that did setuid() could not fexecve() because it no longer had access to /proc/self/fd; this has since been fixed. This patch (of 4): Add a new execveat(2) system call. execveat() is to execve() as openat() is to open(): it takes a file descriptor that refers to a directory, and resolves the filename relative to that. In addition, if the filename is empty and AT_EMPTY_PATH is specified, execveat() executes the file to which the file descriptor refers. This replicates the functionality of fexecve(), which is a system call in other UNIXen, but in Linux glibc it depends on opening "/proc/self/fd/<fd>" (and so relies on /proc being mounted). The filename fed to the executed program as argv[0] (or the name of the script fed to a script interpreter) will be of the form "/dev/fd/<fd>" (for an empty filename) or "/dev/fd/<fd>/<filename>", effectively reflecting how the executable was found. This does however mean that execution of a script in a /proc-less environment won't work; also, script execution via an O_CLOEXEC file descriptor fails (as the file will not be accessible after exec). Based on patches by Meredydd Luff. Signed-off-by: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com> Cc: Meredydd Luff <meredydd@senatehouse.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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12-Dec-2014 |
Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> |
memcg: turn memcg_kmem_skip_account into a bit field It isn't supposed to stack, so turn it into a bit-field to save 4 bytes on the task_struct. Also, remove the memcg_stop/resume_kmem_account helpers - it is clearer to set/clear the flag inline. Regarding the overwhelming comment to the helpers, which is removed by this patch too, we already have a compact yet accurate explanation in memcg_schedule_cache_create, no need in yet another one. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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30-Oct-2014 |
Iulia Manda <iulia.manda21@gmail.com> |
sched: Refactor task_struct to use numa_faults instead of numa_* pointers This patch simplifies task_struct by removing the four numa_* pointers in the same array and replacing them with the array pointer. By doing this, on x86_64, the size of task_struct is reduced by 3 ulong pointers (24 bytes on x86_64). A new parameter is added to the task_faults_idx function so that it can return an index to the correct offset, corresponding with the old precalculated pointers. All of the code in sched/ that depended on task_faults_idx and numa_* was changed in order to match the new logic. Signed-off-by: Iulia Manda <iulia.manda21@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: mgorman@suse.de Cc: dave@stgolabs.net Cc: riel@redhat.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141031001331.GA30662@winterfell Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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22-Sep-2014 |
Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> |
rcu: Remove redundant TREE_PREEMPT_RCU config option PREEMPT_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU serve the same function after TINY_PREEMPT_RCU has been removed. This patch removes TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and uses PREEMPT_RCU config option in its place. Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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24-Sep-2014 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Exclude cond_resched() from nested sleep test cond_resched() is a preemption point, not strictly a blocking primitive, so exclude it from the ->state test. In particular, preemption preserves task_struct::state. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: tglx@linutronix.de Cc: ilya.dryomov@inktank.com Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: Alex Elder <alex.elder@linaro.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140924082242.656559952@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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24-Sep-2014 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Debug nested sleeps Validate we call might_sleep() with TASK_RUNNING, which catches places where we nest blocking primitives, eg. mutex usage in a wait loop. Since all blocking is arranged through task_struct::state, nesting this will cause the inner primitive to set TASK_RUNNING and the outer will thus not block. Another observed problem is calling a blocking function from schedule()->sched_submit_work()->blk_schedule_flush_plug() which will then destroy the task state for the actual __schedule() call that comes after it. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: tglx@linutronix.de Cc: ilya.dryomov@inktank.com Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140924082242.591637616@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Oct-2014 |
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> |
sched/deadline: Ensure that updates to exclusive cpusets don't break AC How we deal with updates to exclusive cpusets is currently broken. As an example, suppose we have an exclusive cpuset composed of two cpus: A[cpu0,cpu1]. We can assign SCHED_DEADLINE task to it up to the allowed bandwidth. If we want now to modify cpusetA's cpumask, we have to check that removing a cpu's amount of bandwidth doesn't break AC guarantees. This thing isn't checked in the current code. This patch fixes the problem above, denying an update if the new cpumask won't have enough bandwidth for SCHED_DEADLINE tasks that are currently active. Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5433E6AF.5080105@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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19-Sep-2014 |
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> |
sched/deadline: Fix bandwidth check/update when migrating tasks between exclusive cpusets Exclusive cpusets are the only way users can restrict SCHED_DEADLINE tasks affinity (performing what is commonly called clustered scheduling). Unfortunately, such thing is currently broken for two reasons: - No check is performed when the user tries to attach a task to an exlusive cpuset (recall that exclusive cpusets have an associated maximum allowed bandwidth). - Bandwidths of source and destination cpusets are not correctly updated after a task is migrated between them. This patch fixes both things at once, as they are opposite faces of the same coin. The check is performed in cpuset_can_attach(), as there aren't any points of failure after that function. The updated is split in two halves. We first reserve bandwidth in the destination cpuset, after we pass the check in cpuset_can_attach(). And we then release bandwidth from the source cpuset when the task's affinity is actually changed. Even if there can be time windows when sched_setattr() may erroneously fail in the source cpuset, we are fine with it, as we can't perfom an atomic update of both cpusets at once. Reported-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de> Reported-by: Vincent Legout <vincent@legout.info> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> Cc: Michael Trimarchi <michael@amarulasolutions.com> Cc: Fabio Checconi <fchecconi@gmail.com> Cc: michael@amarulasolutions.com Cc: luca.abeni@unitn.it Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1411118561-26323-3-git-send-email-juri.lelli@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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09-Oct-2014 |
Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com> |
mm: clear __GFP_FS when PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO is set commit 21caf2fc1931 ("mm: teach mm by current context info to not do I/O during memory allocation") introduces PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO flag to avoid doing I/O inside memory allocation, __GFP_IO is cleared when this flag is set, but __GFP_FS implies __GFP_IO, it should also be cleared. Or it may still run into I/O, like in superblock shrinker. And this will make the kernel run into the deadlock case described in that commit. See Dave Chinner's comment about io in superblock shrinker: Filesystem shrinkers do indeed perform IO from the superblock shrinker and have for years. Even clean inodes can require IO before they can be freed - e.g. on an orphan list, need truncation of post-eof blocks, need to wait for ordered operations to complete before it can be freed, etc. IOWs, Ext4, btrfs and XFS all can issue and/or block on arbitrary amounts of IO in the superblock shrinker context. XFS, in particular, has been doing transactions and IO from the VFS inode cache shrinker since it was first introduced.... Fix this by clearing __GFP_FS in memalloc_noio_flags(), this function has masked all the gfp_mask that will be passed into fs for the processes setting PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO in the direct reclaim path. v1 thread at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/3/32 Signed-off-by: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: joyce.xue <xuejiufei@huawei.com> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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24-Sep-2014 |
Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> |
cpuset: PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB should be atomic flags When we change cpuset.memory_spread_{page,slab}, cpuset will flip PF_SPREAD_{PAGE,SLAB} bit of tsk->flags for each task in that cpuset. This should be done using atomic bitops, but currently we don't, which is broken. Tetsuo reported a hard-to-reproduce kernel crash on RHEL6, which happened when one thread tried to clear PF_USED_MATH while at the same time another thread tried to flip PF_SPREAD_PAGE/PF_SPREAD_SLAB. They both operate on the same task. Here's the full report: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/19/230 To fix this, we make PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB atomic flags. v4: - updated mm/slab.c. (Fengguang Wu) - updated Documentation. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Fixes: 950592f7b991 ("cpusets: update tasks' page/slab spread flags in time") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 2.6.31+ Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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24-Sep-2014 |
Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> |
sched: add macros to define bitops for task atomic flags This will simplify code when we add new flags. v3: - Kees pointed out that no_new_privs should never be cleared, so we shouldn't define task_clear_no_new_privs(). we define 3 macros instead of a single one. v2: - updated scripts/tags.sh, suggested by Peter Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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24-Sep-2014 |
Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> |
sched: fix confusing PFA_NO_NEW_PRIVS constant Commit 1d4457f99928 ("sched: move no_new_privs into new atomic flags") defined PFA_NO_NEW_PRIVS as hexadecimal value, but it is confusing because it is used as bit number. Redefine it as decimal bit number. Note this changes the bit position of PFA_NOW_NEW_PRIVS from 1 to 0. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> [ lizf: slightly modified subject and changelog ] Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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20-Sep-2014 |
Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com> |
sched: Fix end_of_stack() and location of stack canary for architectures using CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP Aaron Tomlin recently posted patches [1] to enable checking the stack canary on every task switch. Looking at the canary code, I realized that every arch (except ia64, which adds some space for register spill above the stack) shares a definition of end_of_stack() that makes it the first long after the threadinfo. For stacks that grow down, this low address is correct because the stack starts at the end of the thread area and grows toward lower addresses. However, for stacks that grow up, toward higher addresses, this is wrong. (The stack actually grows away from the canary.) On these archs end_of_stack() should return the address of the last long, at the highest possible address for the stack. [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/12/293 Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140920101751.6c5166b6@as Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Tested-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> [metag] Acked-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Acked-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
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12-Sep-2014 |
Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> |
sched: Add helper for task stack page overrun checking This facility is used in a few places so let's introduce a helper function to improve code readability. Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dzickus@redhat.com Cc: bmr@redhat.com Cc: jcastillo@redhat.com Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: riel@redhat.com Cc: prarit@redhat.com Cc: jgh@redhat.com Cc: minchan@kernel.org Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au Cc: tglx@linutronix.de Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410527779-8133-3-git-send-email-atomlin@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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12-Sep-2014 |
Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> |
init/main.c: Give init_task a canary Tasks get their end of stack set to STACK_END_MAGIC with the aim to catch stack overruns. Currently this feature does not apply to init_task. This patch removes this restriction. Note that a similar patch was posted by Prarit Bhargava some time ago but was never merged: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127144305403241&w=2 Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dzickus@redhat.com Cc: bmr@redhat.com Cc: jcastillo@redhat.com Cc: jgh@redhat.com Cc: minchan@kernel.org Cc: tglx@linutronix.de Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410527779-8133-2-git-send-email-atomlin@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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04-Sep-2014 |
Chuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@intel.com> |
sched: Add new API wake_up_if_idle() to wake up the idle cpu Implementing one new API wake_up_if_idle(), which is used to wake up the idle CPU. Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: Chuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Cc: changcheng.liu@intel.com Cc: xiaoming.wang@intel.com Cc: souvik.k.chakravarty@intel.com Cc: chuansheng.liu@intel.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1409815075-4180-1-git-send-email-chuansheng.liu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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16-Aug-2014 |
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> |
time, signal: Protect resource use statistics with seqlock Both times() and clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID) have scalability issues on large systems, due to both functions being serialized with a lock. The lock protects against reporting a wrong value, due to a thread in the task group exiting, its statistics reporting up to the signal struct, and that exited task's statistics being counted twice (or not at all). Protecting that with a lock results in times() and clock_gettime() being completely serialized on large systems. This can be fixed by using a seqlock around the events that gather and propagate statistics. As an additional benefit, the protection code can be moved into thread_group_cputime(), slightly simplifying the calling functions. In the case of posix_cpu_clock_get_task() things can be simplified a lot, because the calling function already ensures that the task sticks around, and the rest is now taken care of in thread_group_cputime(). This way the statistics reporting code can run lockless. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Guillaume Morin <guillaume@morinfr.org> Cc: Ionut Alexa <ionut.m.alexa@gmail.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: srao@redhat.com Cc: lwoodman@redhat.com Cc: atheurer@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140816134010.26a9b572@annuminas.surriel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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14-Aug-2014 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Remove local_irq_disable() in rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() The rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() function is on a scheduling fast path, so it would be good to avoid disabling irqs. The reason that irqs are disabled is to synchronize process-level and irq-handler access to the task_struct ->rcu_read_unlock_special bitmask. This commit therefore makes ->rcu_read_unlock_special instead be a union of bools with a short allowing single-access checks in RCU's __rcu_read_unlock(). This results in the process-level and irq-handler accesses being simple loads and stores, so that irqs need no longer be disabled. This commit therefore removes the irq disabling from rcu_preempt_note_context_switch(). Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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04-Aug-2014 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Make TASKS_RCU handle nohz_full= CPUs Currently TASKS_RCU would ignore a CPU running a task in nohz_full= usermode execution. There would be neither a context switch nor a scheduling-clock interrupt to tell TASKS_RCU that the task in question had passed through a quiescent state. The grace period would therefore extend indefinitely. This commit therefore makes RCU's dyntick-idle subsystem record the task_struct structure of the task that is running in dyntick-idle mode on each CPU. The TASKS_RCU grace period can then access this information and record a quiescent state on behalf of any CPU running in dyntick-idle usermode. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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27-Jun-2014 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Add call_rcu_tasks() This commit adds a new RCU-tasks flavor of RCU, which provides call_rcu_tasks(). This RCU flavor's quiescent states are voluntary context switch (not preemption!) and userspace execution (not the idle loop -- use some sort of schedule_on_each_cpu() if you need to handle the idle tasks. Note that unlike other RCU flavors, these quiescent states occur in tasks, not necessarily CPUs. Includes fixes from Steven Rostedt. This RCU flavor is assumed to have very infrequent latency-tolerant updaters. This assumption permits significant simplifications, including a single global callback list protected by a single global lock, along with a single task-private linked list containing all tasks that have not yet passed through a quiescent state. If experience shows this assumption to be incorrect, the required additional complexity will be added. Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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31-Jul-2014 |
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> |
sched: Add function single_task_running to let a task check if it is the only task running on a cpu This function will help an async task processing batched jobs from workqueue decide if it wants to keep processing on more chunks of batched work that can be delayed, or to accumulate more work for more efficient batched processing later. If no other tasks are running on the cpu, the batching process can take advantgae of the available cpu cycles to a make decision to continue processing the existing accumulated work to minimize delay, otherwise it will yield. Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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08-Aug-2014 |
Jack Miller <millerjo@us.ibm.com> |
shm: make exit_shm work proportional to task activity This is small set of patches our team has had kicking around for a few versions internally that fixes tasks getting hung on shm_exit when there are many threads hammering it at once. Anton wrote a simple test to cause the issue: http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/bust_shm_exit.c Before applying this patchset, this test code will cause either hanging tracebacks or pthread out of memory errors. After this patchset, it will still produce output like: root@somehost:~# ./bust_shm_exit 1024 160 ... INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: {} (detected by 116, t=2111 jiffies, g=241, c=240, q=7113) INFO: Stall ended before state dump start ... But the task will continue to run along happily, so we consider this an improvement over hanging, even if it's a bit noisy. This patch (of 3): exit_shm obtains the ipc_ns shm rwsem for write and holds it while it walks every shared memory segment in the namespace. Thus the amount of work is related to the number of shm segments in the namespace not the number of segments that might need to be cleaned. In addition, this occurs after the task has been notified the thread has exited, so the number of tasks waiting for the ns shm rwsem can grow without bound until memory is exausted. Add a list to the task struct of all shmids allocated by this task. Init the list head in copy_process. Use the ns->rwsem for locking. Add segments after id is added, remove before removing from id. On unshare of NEW_IPCNS orphan any ids as if the task had exited, similar to handling of semaphore undo. I chose a define for the init sequence since its a simple list init, otherwise it would require a function call to avoid include loops between the semaphore code and the task struct. Converting the list_del to list_del_init for the unshare cases would remove the exit followed by init, but I left it blow up if not inited. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Jack Miller <millerjo@us.ibm.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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08-Aug-2014 |
Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> |
kernel/fork.c: make mm_init_owner static It's only used in fork.c:mm_init(). Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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08-Aug-2014 |
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> |
mm: memcontrol: use page lists for uncharge batching Pages are now uncharged at release time, and all sources of batched uncharges operate on lists of pages. Directly use those lists, and get rid of the per-task batching state. This also batches statistics accounting, in addition to the res counter charges, to reduce IRQ-disabling and re-enabling. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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06-Aug-2014 |
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> |
cpuidle: menu: Lookup CPU runqueues less The menu governer makes separate lookups of the CPU runqueue to get load and number of IO waiters but it can be done with a single lookup. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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05-Mar-2014 |
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> |
sas_ss_flags: Remove nested ternary if ...to make it readable. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
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16-Jul-2014 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
delayacct: Make accounting nanosecond based Kill the timespec juggling and calculate with plain nanoseconds. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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16-Jul-2014 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched: Make task->start_time nanoseconds based Simplify the timespec to nsec/usec conversions. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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16-Jul-2014 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched: Make task->real_start_time nanoseconds based Simplify the only user of this data by removing the timespec conversion. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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21-May-2014 |
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> |
sched: move no_new_privs into new atomic flags Since seccomp transitions between threads requires updates to the no_new_privs flag to be atomic, the flag must be part of an atomic flag set. This moves the nnp flag into a separate task field, and introduces accessors. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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28-Jun-2014 |
Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru> |
sched: Transform resched_task() into resched_curr() We always use resched_task() with rq->curr argument. It's not possible to reschedule any task but rq's current. The patch introduces resched_curr(struct rq *) to replace all of the repeating patterns. The main aim is cleanup, but there is a little size profit too: (before) $ size kernel/sched/built-in.o text data bss dec hex filename 155274 16445 7042 178761 2ba49 kernel/sched/built-in.o $ size vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 7411490 1178376 991232 9581098 92322a vmlinux (after) $ size kernel/sched/built-in.o text data bss dec hex filename 155130 16445 7042 178617 2b9b9 kernel/sched/built-in.o $ size vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 7411362 1178376 991232 9580970 9231aa vmlinux I was choosing between resched_curr() and resched_rq(), and the first name looks better for me. A little lie in Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt. I have not actually collected the tracing again. With a hope the patch won't make execution times much worse :) Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140628200219.1778.18735.stgit@localhost Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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06-Jun-2014 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
sched/deadline: Kill task_struct->pi_top_task Remove task_struct->pi_top_task. The only user, rt_mutex_setprio(), can use a local. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com> Cc: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@chromium.org> Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140606165206.GB29465@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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12-Jun-2014 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Simplify priority boosting by putting rt_mutex in rcu_node RCU priority boosting currently checks for boosting via a pointer in task_struct. However, this is not needed: As Oleg noted, if the rt_mutex is placed in the rcu_node instead of on the booster's stack, the boostee can simply check it see if it owns the lock. This commit makes this change, shrinking task_struct by one pointer and the kernel by thirteen lines. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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24-Jun-2014 |
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> |
sched: Fix compiler warnings Commit 143e1e28cb (sched: Rework sched_domain topology definition) introduced a number of functions with a return value of 'const int'. gcc doesn't know what to do with that and, if the kernel is compiled with W=1, complains with the following warnings whenever sched.h is included. include/linux/sched.h:875:25: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type include/linux/sched.h:882:25: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type include/linux/sched.h:889:25: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type include/linux/sched.h:1002:21: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type Commits fb2aa855 (sched, ARM: Create a dedicated scheduler topology table) and 607b45e9a (sched, powerpc: Create a dedicated topology table) introduce the same warning in the arm and powerpc code. Drop 'const' from the function declarations to fix the problem. The fix for all three patches has to be applied together to avoid compilation failures for the affected architectures. Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403658329-13196-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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06-Jun-2014 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
signals: mv {dis,}allow_signal() from sched.h/exit.c to signal.[ch] Move the declaration/definition of allow_signal/disallow_signal to signal.h/signal.c. The new place is more logical and allows to use the static helpers in signal.c (see the next changes). While at it, make them return void and remove the valid_signal() check. Nobody checks the returned value, and in-kernel users must not pass the wrong signal number. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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28-May-2014 |
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> |
perf: Differentiate exec() and non-exec() comm events perf tools like 'perf report' can aggregate samples by comm strings, which generally works. However, there are other potential use-cases. For example, to pair up 'calls' with 'returns' accurately (from branch events like Intel BTS) it is necessary to identify whether the process has exec'd. Although a comm event is generated when an 'exec' happens it is also generated whenever the comm string is changed on a whim (e.g. by prctl PR_SET_NAME). This patch adds a flag to the comm event to differentiate one case from the other. In order to determine whether the kernel supports the new flag, a selection bit named 'exec' is added to struct perf_event_attr. The bit does nothing but will cause perf_event_open() to fail if the bit is set on kernels that do not have it defined. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/537D9EBE.7030806@intel.com Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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27-May-2014 |
Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> |
sched: Rename capacity related flags It is better not to think about compute capacity as being equivalent to "CPU power". The upcoming "power aware" scheduler work may create confusion with the notion of energy consumption if "power" is used too liberally. Let's rename the following feature flags since they do relate to capacity: SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER -> SD_SHARE_CPUCAPACITY ARCH_POWER -> ARCH_CAPACITY NONTASK_POWER -> NONTASK_CAPACITY Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org Cc: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Cc: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-e93lpnxb87owfievqatey6b5@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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26-May-2014 |
Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> |
sched: Final power vs. capacity cleanups It is better not to think about compute capacity as being equivalent to "CPU power". The upcoming "power aware" scheduler work may create confusion with the notion of energy consumption if "power" is used too liberally. This contains the architecture visible changes. Incidentally, only ARM takes advantage of the available pow^H^H^Hcapacity scaling hooks and therefore those changes outside kernel/sched/ are confined to one ARM specific file. The default arch_scale_smt_power() hook is not overridden by anyone. Replacements are as follows: arch_scale_freq_power --> arch_scale_freq_capacity arch_scale_smt_power --> arch_scale_smt_capacity SCHED_POWER_SCALE --> SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE SCHED_POWER_SHIFT --> SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT The local usage of "power" in arch/arm/kernel/topology.c is also changed to "capacity" as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@arm.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-48zba9qbznvglwelgq2cfygh@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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26-May-2014 |
Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> |
sched: Let 'struct sched_group_power' care about CPU capacity It is better not to think about compute capacity as being equivalent to "CPU power". The upcoming "power aware" scheduler work may create confusion with the notion of energy consumption if "power" is used too liberally. Since struct sched_group_power is really about compute capacity of sched groups, let's rename it to struct sched_group_capacity. Similarly sgp becomes sgc. Related variables and functions dealing with groups are also adjusted accordingly. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-5yeix833vvgf2uyj5o36hpu9@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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23-May-2014 |
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> |
sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to() yield_to() is supposed to return -ESRCH if there is no task to yield to, but because the type is bool that is the same as returning true. The only place I see which cares is kvm_vcpu_on_spin(). Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Raghavendra <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140523102042.GA7267@mwanda Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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04-Jun-2014 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
kthreads: kill CLONE_KERNEL, change kernel_thread(kernel_init) to avoid CLONE_SIGHAND 1. Remove CLONE_KERNEL, it has no users and it is dangerous. The (old) comment says "List of flags we want to share for kernel threads" but this is not true, we do not want to share ->sighand by default. This flag can only be used if the caller is sure that both parent/child will never play with signals (say, allow_signal/etc). 2. Change rest_init() to clone kernel_init() without CLONE_SIGHAND. In this case CLONE_SIGHAND does not really hurt, and it looks like optimization because copy_sighand() can avoid kmem_cache_alloc(). But in fact this only adds the minor pessimization. kernel_init() is going to exec the init process, and de_thread() will need to unshare ->sighand and do kmem_cache_alloc(sighand_cachep) anyway, but it needs to do more work and take tasklist_lock and siglock. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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04-Jun-2014 |
Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> |
kernel/user.c: drop unused field 'files' from user_struct Nobody seems uses it for a long time. Let's drop it. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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04-Jun-2014 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
memcg: kill CONFIG_MM_OWNER CONFIG_MM_OWNER makes no sense. It is not user-selectable, it is only selected by CONFIG_MEMCG automatically. So we can kill this option in init/Kconfig and do s/CONFIG_MM_OWNER/CONFIG_MEMCG/ globally. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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22-May-2014 |
Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com> |
wait: swap EXIT_ZOMBIE(Z) and EXIT_DEAD(X) chars in TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR In commit ad86622b478e ("wait: swap EXIT_ZOMBIE and EXIT_DEAD to hide EXIT_TRACE from user-space") the order of task state definitions were changed: EXIT_DEAD and EXIT_ZOMBIE were swapped. Though the charterers for the states in TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR string were not updated. This patch synchronizes the string to the order of definitions. Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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08-May-2014 |
xiaofeng.yan <xiaofeng.yan@huawei.com> |
sched/rt: Fix 'struct sched_dl_entity' and dl_task_time() comments, to match the current upstream code Signed-off-by: xiaofeng.yan <xiaofeng.yan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1399605687-18094-1-git-send-email-xiaofeng.yan@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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09-Apr-2014 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/idle: Remove TS_POLLING support Now that there are no architectures left using it, kill the support for TS_POLLING. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-6yurip2tfix2f4bfc5agu2s0@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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11-Apr-2014 |
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> |
sched: Add a new SD_SHARE_POWERDOMAIN for sched_domain A new flag SD_SHARE_POWERDOMAIN is created to reflect whether groups of CPUs in a sched_domain level can or not reach different power state. As an example, the flag should be cleared at CPU level if groups of cores can be power gated independently. This information can be used in the load balance decision or to add load balancing level between group of CPUs that can power gate independantly. This flag is part of the topology flags that can be set by arch. Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: tony.luck@intel.com Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com Cc: cmetcalf@tilera.com Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397209481-28542-5-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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11-Apr-2014 |
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> |
sched, powerpc: Create a dedicated topology table Create a dedicated topology table for handling asymetric feature of powerpc. Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Preeti U. Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Cc: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: tony.luck@intel.com Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com Cc: cmetcalf@tilera.com Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397209481-28542-4-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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11-Apr-2014 |
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> |
sched: Rework sched_domain topology definition We replace the old way to configure the scheduler topology with a new method which enables a platform to declare additionnal level (if needed). We still have a default topology table definition that can be used by platform that don't want more level than the SMT, MC, CPU and NUMA ones. This table can be overwritten by an arch which either wants to add new level where a load balance make sense like BOOK or powergating level or wants to change the flags configuration of some levels. For each level, we need a function pointer that returns cpumask for each cpu, a function pointer that returns the flags for the level and a name. Only flags that describe topology, can be set by an architecture. The current topology flags are: SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES SD_NUMA SD_ASYM_PACKING Then, each level must be a subset on the next one. The build sequence of the sched_domain will take care of removing useless levels like those with 1 CPU and those with the same CPU span and no more relevant information for load balancing than its children. Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397209481-28542-2-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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15-Apr-2014 |
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> |
sched/deadline: Fix sched_yield() behavior yield_task_dl() is broken: o it forces current to be throttled setting its runtime to zero; o it sets current's dl_se->dl_new to one, expecting that dl_task_timer() will queue it back with proper parameters at replenish time. Unfortunately, dl_task_timer() has this check at the very beginning: if (!dl_task(p) || dl_se->dl_new) goto unlock; So, it just bails out and the task is never replenished. It actually yielded forever. To fix this, introduce a new flag indicating that the task properly yielded the CPU before its current runtime expired. While this is a little overdoing at the moment, the flag would be useful in the future to discriminate between "good" jobs (of which remaining runtime could be reclaimed, i.e. recycled) and "bad" jobs (for which dl_throttled task has been set) that needed to be stopped. Reported-by: yjay.kim <yjay.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140429103953.e68eba1b2ac3309214e3dc5a@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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17-Mar-2014 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*() Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Apr-2014 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
wait: swap EXIT_ZOMBIE and EXIT_DEAD to hide EXIT_TRACE from user-space get_task_state() uses the most significant bit to report the state to user-space, this means that EXIT_ZOMBIE->EXIT_TRACE->EXIT_DEAD transition can be noticed via /proc as Z -> X -> Z change. Note that this was possible even before EXIT_TRACE was introduced. This is not really bad but imho it make sense to hide EXIT_TRACE from user-space completely. So the patch simply swaps EXIT_ZOMBIE and EXIT_DEAD, this way EXIT_TRACE will be seen as EXIT_ZOMBIE by user-space. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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07-Apr-2014 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
wait: introduce EXIT_TRACE to avoid the racy EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE transition wait_task_zombie() first does EXIT_ZOMBIE->EXIT_DEAD transition and drops tasklist_lock. If this task is not the natural child and it is traced, we change its state back to EXIT_ZOMBIE for ->real_parent. The last transition is racy, this is even documented in 50b8d257486a "ptrace: partially fix the do_wait(WEXITED) vs EXIT_DEAD->EXIT_ZOMBIE race". wait_consider_task() tries to detect this transition and clear ->notask_error but we can't rely on ptrace_reparented(), debugger can exit and do ptrace_unlink() before its sub-thread sets EXIT_ZOMBIE. And there is another problem which were missed before: this transition can also race with reparent_leader() which doesn't reset >exit_signal if EXIT_DEAD, assuming that this task must be reaped by someone else. So the tracee can be re-parented with ->exit_signal != SIGCHLD, and if /sbin/init doesn't use __WALL it becomes unreapable. This was fixed by the previous commit, but it was the temporary hack. 1. Add the new exit_state, EXIT_TRACE. It means that the task is the traced zombie, debugger is going to detach and notify its natural parent. This new state is actually EXIT_ZOMBIE | EXIT_DEAD. This way we can avoid the changes in proc/kgdb code, get_task_state() still reports "X (dead)" in this case. Note: with or without this change userspace can see Z -> X -> Z transition. Not really bad, but probably makes sense to fix. 2. Change wait_task_zombie() to use EXIT_TRACE instead of EXIT_DEAD if we need to notify the ->real_parent. 3. Revert the previous hack in reparent_leader(), now that EXIT_DEAD is always the final state we can safely ignore such a task. 4. Change wait_consider_task() to check EXIT_TRACE separately and kill the racy and no longer needed ptrace_reparented() case. If ptrace == T an EXIT_TRACE thread should be simply ignored, the owner of this state is going to ptrace_unlink() this task. We can pretend that it was already removed from ->ptraced list. Otherwise we should skip this thread too but clear ->notask_error, we must be the natural parent and debugger is going to untrace and notify us. IOW, this doesn't differ from "EXIT_ZOMBIE && p->ptrace" even if the task was already untraced. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reported-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Reported-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Tested-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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07-Apr-2014 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
exec: kill bprm->tcomm[], simplify the "basename" logic Starting from commit c4ad8f98bef7 ("execve: use 'struct filename *' for executable name passing") bprm->filename can not go away after flush_old_exec(), so we do not need to save the binary name in bprm->tcomm[] added by 96e02d158678 ("exec: fix use-after-free bug in setup_new_exec()"). And there was never need for filename_to_taskname-like code, we can simply do set_task_comm(kbasename(filename). This patch has to change set_task_comm() and trace_task_rename() to accept "const char *", but I think this change is also good. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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07-Apr-2014 |
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> |
mm, mempolicy: remove per-process flag PF_MEMPOLICY is an unnecessary optimization for CONFIG_SLAB users. There's no significant performance degradation to checking current->mempolicy rather than current->flags & PF_MEMPOLICY in the allocation path, especially since this is considered unlikely(). Running TCP_RR with netperf-2.4.5 through localhost on 16 cpu machine with 64GB of memory and without a mempolicy: threads before after 16 1249409 1244487 32 1281786 1246783 48 1239175 1239138 64 1244642 1241841 80 1244346 1248918 96 1266436 1254316 112 1307398 1312135 128 1327607 1326502 Per-process flags are a scarce resource so we should free them up whenever possible and make them available. We'll be using it shortly for memcg oom reserves. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com> Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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07-Apr-2014 |
Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> |
mm: per-thread vma caching This patch is a continuation of efforts trying to optimize find_vma(), avoiding potentially expensive rbtree walks to locate a vma upon faults. The original approach (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/1/410), where the largest vma was also cached, ended up being too specific and random, thus further comparison with other approaches were needed. There are two things to consider when dealing with this, the cache hit rate and the latency of find_vma(). Improving the hit-rate does not necessarily translate in finding the vma any faster, as the overhead of any fancy caching schemes can be too high to consider. We currently cache the last used vma for the whole address space, which provides a nice optimization, reducing the total cycles in find_vma() by up to 250%, for workloads with good locality. On the other hand, this simple scheme is pretty much useless for workloads with poor locality. Analyzing ebizzy runs shows that, no matter how many threads are running, the mmap_cache hit rate is less than 2%, and in many situations below 1%. The proposed approach is to replace this scheme with a small per-thread cache, maximizing hit rates at a very low maintenance cost. Invalidations are performed by simply bumping up a 32-bit sequence number. The only expensive operation is in the rare case of a seq number overflow, where all caches that share the same address space are flushed. Upon a miss, the proposed replacement policy is based on the page number that contains the virtual address in question. Concretely, the following results are seen on an 80 core, 8 socket x86-64 box: 1) System bootup: Most programs are single threaded, so the per-thread scheme does improve ~50% hit rate by just adding a few more slots to the cache. +----------------+----------+------------------+ | caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) | +----------------+----------+------------------+ | baseline | 50.61% | 19.90 | | patched | 73.45% | 13.58 | +----------------+----------+------------------+ 2) Kernel build: This one is already pretty good with the current approach as we're dealing with good locality. +----------------+----------+------------------+ | caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) | +----------------+----------+------------------+ | baseline | 75.28% | 11.03 | | patched | 88.09% | 9.31 | +----------------+----------+------------------+ 3) Oracle 11g Data Mining (4k pages): Similar to the kernel build workload. +----------------+----------+------------------+ | caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) | +----------------+----------+------------------+ | baseline | 70.66% | 17.14 | | patched | 91.15% | 12.57 | +----------------+----------+------------------+ 4) Ebizzy: There's a fair amount of variation from run to run, but this approach always shows nearly perfect hit rates, while baseline is just about non-existent. The amounts of cycles can fluctuate between anywhere from ~60 to ~116 for the baseline scheme, but this approach reduces it considerably. For instance, with 80 threads: +----------------+----------+------------------+ | caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) | +----------------+----------+------------------+ | baseline | 1.06% | 91.54 | | patched | 99.97% | 14.18 | +----------------+----------+------------------+ [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build, per Davidlohr] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: document vmacache_valid() logic] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: attempt to untangle header files] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add vmacache_find() BUG_ON] [hughd@google.com: add vmacache_valid_mm() (from Oleg)] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: adjust and enhance comments] Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Tested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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16-Mar-2014 |
Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> |
sched: declare pid_alive as inline We accidentally declared pid_alive without any extern/inline connotation. Some platforms were fine with this, some like ia64 and mips were very angry. If the function is inline, the prototype should be inline! on ia64: include/linux/sched.h:1718: warning: 'pid_alive' declared inline after being called Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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15-Aug-2013 |
Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> |
pid: get pid_t ppid of task in init_pid_ns Added the functions task_ppid_nr_ns() and task_ppid_nr() to abstract the lookup of the PPID (real_parent's pid_t) of a process, including rcu locking, in the arbitrary and init_pid_ns. This provides an alternative to sys_getppid(), which is relative to the child process' pid namespace. (informed by ebiederman's 6c621b7e) Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
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18-Mar-2014 |
Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> |
timer: Remove code redundancy while calling get_nohz_timer_target() There are only two users of get_nohz_timer_target(): timer and hrtimer. Both call it under same circumstances, i.e. #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON if (!pinned && get_sysctl_timer_migration() && idle_cpu(this_cpu)) return get_nohz_timer_target(); #endif So, it makes more sense to get all this as part of get_nohz_timer_target() instead of duplicating code at two places. For this another parameter is required to be passed to this routine, pinned. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1e1b53537217d58d48c2d7a222a9c3ac47d5b64c.1395140107.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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05-Mar-2014 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
cputime: Default implementation of nsecs -> cputime conversion The architectures that override cputime_t (s390, ppc) don't provide any version of nsecs_to_cputime(). Indeed this cputime_t implementation by backend only happens when CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE=y under which the core code doesn't make any use of nsecs_to_cputime(). At least for now. We are going to make a broader use of it so lets provide a default version with a per usecs granularity. It should be good enough for most usecases. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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07-Feb-2014 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched: Add better debug output for might_sleep() might_sleep() can tell us where interrupts have been disabled, but we have no idea what disabled preemption. Add some debug infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391803122-4425-4-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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10-Feb-2012 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/fair: Track cgroup depth Track depth in cgroup tree, this is useful for things like find_matching_se() where you need to get to a common parent of two sched entities. Keeping the depth avoids having to calculate it on the spot, which saves a number of possible cache-misses. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328936700.2476.17.camel@laptop Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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27-Jan-2014 |
Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> |
sched: Implement task_nice() as static inline function As patch "sched: Move the priority specific bits into a new header file" exposes the priority related macros in linux/sched/prio.h, we don't have to implement task_nice() in kernel/sched/core.c any more. This patch implements it in linux/sched/sched.h as static inline function, saving the kernel stack and enhancing performance a bit. Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: clark.williams@gmail.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: raistlin@linux.it Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390878045-7096-1-git-send-email-yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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27-Jan-2014 |
Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> |
sched: Move the priority specific bits into a new header file Some bits about priority are defined in linux/sched/rt.h, but some of them are not only for rt scheduler, such as MAX_PRIO. This patch move them all into a new header file, linux/sched/prio.h. Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: clark.williams@gmail.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: raistlin@linux.it Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f7549508a1588da2c613d601748ca9de30fa5dcf.1390859827.git.yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Feb-2014 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
execve: use 'struct filename *' for executable name passing This changes 'do_execve()' to get the executable name as a 'struct filename', and to free it when it is done. This is what the normal users want, and it simplifies and streamlines their error handling. The controlled lifetime of the executable name also fixes a use-after-free problem with the trace_sched_process_exec tracepoint: the lifetime of the passed-in string for kernel users was not at all obvious, and the user-mode helper code used UMH_WAIT_EXEC to serialize the pathname allocation lifetime with the execve() having finished, which in turn meant that the trace point that happened after mm_release() of the old process VM ended up using already free'd memory. To solve the kernel string lifetime issue, this simply introduces "getname_kernel()" that works like the normal user-space getname() function, except with the source coming from kernel memory. As Oleg points out, this also means that we could drop the tcomm[] array from 'struct linux_binprm', since the pathname lifetime now covers setup_new_exec(). That would be a separate cleanup. Reported-by: Igor Zhbanov <i.zhbanov@samsung.com> Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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27-Jan-2014 |
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> |
sched/numa: Normalize faults_cpu stats and weigh by CPU use Tracing the code that decides the active nodes has made it abundantly clear that the naive implementation of the faults_from code has issues. Specifically, the garbage collector in some workloads will access orders of magnitudes more memory than the threads that do all the active work. This resulted in the node with the garbage collector being marked the only active node in the group. This issue is avoided if we weigh the statistics by CPU use of each task in the numa group, instead of by how many faults each thread has occurred. To achieve this, we normalize the number of faults to the fraction of faults that occurred on each node, and then multiply that fraction by the fraction of CPU time the task has used since the last time task_numa_placement was invoked. This way the nodes in the active node mask will be the ones where the tasks from the numa group are most actively running, and the influence of eg. the garbage collector and other do-little threads is properly minimized. On a 4 node system, using CPU use statistics calculated over a longer interval results in about 1% fewer page migrations with two 32-warehouse specjbb runs on a 4 node system, and about 5% fewer page migrations, as well as 1% better throughput, with two 8-warehouse specjbb runs, as compared with the shorter term statistics kept by the scheduler. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-7-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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27-Jan-2014 |
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> |
sched/numa, mm: Use active_nodes nodemask to limit numa migrations Use the active_nodes nodemask to make smarter decisions on NUMA migrations. In order to maximize performance of workloads that do not fit in one NUMA node, we want to satisfy the following criteria: 1) keep private memory local to each thread 2) avoid excessive NUMA migration of pages 3) distribute shared memory across the active nodes, to maximize memory bandwidth available to the workload This patch accomplishes that by implementing the following policy for NUMA migrations: 1) always migrate on a private fault 2) never migrate to a node that is not in the set of active nodes for the numa_group 3) always migrate from a node outside of the set of active nodes, to a node that is in that set 4) within the set of active nodes in the numa_group, only migrate from a node with more NUMA page faults, to a node with fewer NUMA page faults, with a 25% margin to avoid ping-ponging This results in most pages of a workload ending up on the actively used nodes, with reduced ping-ponging of pages between those nodes. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-6-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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27-Jan-2014 |
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> |
sched/numa: Track from which nodes NUMA faults are triggered Track which nodes NUMA faults are triggered from, in other words the CPUs on which the NUMA faults happened. This uses a similar mechanism to what is used to track the memory involved in numa faults. The next patches use this to build up a bitmap of which nodes a workload is actively running on. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-4-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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27-Jan-2014 |
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> |
sched/numa: Rename p->numa_faults to numa_faults_memory In order to get a more consistent naming scheme, making it clear which fault statistics track memory locality, and which track CPU locality, rename the memory fault statistics. Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-3-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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27-Jan-2014 |
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> |
sched/numa, mm: Remove p->numa_migrate_deferred Excessive migration of pages can hurt the performance of workloads that span multiple NUMA nodes. However, it turns out that the p->numa_migrate_deferred knob is a really big hammer, which does reduce migration rates, but does not actually help performance. Now that the second stage of the automatic numa balancing code has stabilized, it is time to replace the simplistic migration deferral code with something smarter. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-2-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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23-Jan-2014 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
exec: kill task_struct->did_exec We can kill either task->did_exec or PF_FORKNOEXEC, they are mutually exclusive. The patch kills ->did_exec because it has a single user. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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23-Jan-2014 |
DaeSeok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com> |
kernel/fork.c: make dup_mm() static dup_mm() is used only in kernel/fork.c Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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23-Jan-2014 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
proc: cleanup/simplify get_task_state/task_state_array get_task_state() and task_state_array[] look confusing and suboptimal, it is not clear what it can actually report to user-space and task_state_array[] blows .data for no reason. 1. state = (tsk->state & TASK_REPORT) | tsk->exit_state is not clear. TASK_REPORT is self-documenting but it is not clear what ->exit_state can add. Move the potential exit_state's (EXIT_ZOMBIE and EXIT_DEAD) into TASK_REPORT and use it to calculate the final result. 2. With the change above it is obvious that task_state_array[] has the unused entries just to make BUILD_BUG_ON() happy. Change this BUILD_BUG_ON() to use TASK_REPORT rather than TASK_STATE_MAX and shrink task_state_array[]. 3. Turn the "while (state)" loop into fls(state). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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23-Jan-2014 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
coredump: make __get_dumpable/get_dumpable inline, kill fs/coredump.h 1. Remove fs/coredump.h. It is not clear why do we need it, it only declares __get_dumpable(), signal.c includes it for no reason. 2. Now that get_dumpable() and __get_dumpable() are really trivial make them inline in linux/sched.h. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Alex Kelly <alex.page.kelly@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com> Cc: Vasily Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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23-Jan-2014 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
coredump: kill MMF_DUMPABLE and MMF_DUMP_SECURELY Nobody actually needs MMF_DUMPABLE/MMF_DUMP_SECURELY, they are only used to enforce the encoding of SUID_DUMP_* enum in mm->flags & MMF_DUMPABLE_MASK. Now that set_dumpable() updates both bits atomically we can kill them and simply store the value "as is" in 2 lower bits. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Alex Kelly <alex.page.kelly@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com> Cc: Vasily Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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21-Jan-2014 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
introduce for_each_thread() to replace the buggy while_each_thread() while_each_thread() and next_thread() should die, almost every lockless usage is wrong. 1. Unless g == current, the lockless while_each_thread() is not safe. while_each_thread(g, t) can loop forever if g exits, next_thread() can't reach the unhashed thread in this case. Note that this can happen even if g is the group leader, it can exec. 2. Even if while_each_thread() itself was correct, people often use it wrongly. It was never safe to just take rcu_read_lock() and loop unless you verify that pid_alive(g) == T, even the first next_thread() can point to the already freed/reused memory. This patch adds signal_struct->thread_head and task->thread_node to create the normal rcu-safe list with the stable head. The new for_each_thread(g, t) helper is always safe under rcu_read_lock() as long as this task_struct can't go away. Note: of course it is ugly to have both task_struct->thread_node and the old task_struct->thread_group, we will kill it later, after we change the users of while_each_thread() to use for_each_thread(). Perhaps we can kill it even before we convert all users, we can reimplement next_thread(t) using the new thread_head/thread_node. But we can't do this right now because this will lead to subtle behavioural changes. For example, do/while_each_thread() always sees at least one task, while for_each_thread() can do nothing if the whole thread group has died. Or thread_group_empty(), currently its semantics is not clear unless thread_group_leader(p) and we need to audit the callers before we can change it. So this patch adds the new interface which has to coexist with the old one for some time, hopefully the next changes will be more or less straightforward and the old one will go away soon. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Sergey Dyasly <dserrg@gmail.com> Tested-by: Sergey Dyasly <dserrg@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sameer Nanda <snanda@chromium.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: "Ma, Xindong" <xindong.ma@intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: "Tu, Xiaobing" <xiaobing.tu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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19-Nov-2013 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/preempt: Fix up missed PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED folding With various drivers wanting to inject idle time; we get people calling idle routines outside of the idle loop proper. Therefore we need to be extra careful about not missing TIF_NEED_RESCHED -> PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED propagations. While looking at this, I also realized there's a small window in the existing idle loop where we can miss TIF_NEED_RESCHED; when it hits right after the tif_need_resched() test at the end of the loop but right before the need_resched() test at the start of the loop. So move preempt_fold_need_resched() out of the loop where we're guaranteed to have TIF_NEED_RESCHED set. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-x9jgh45oeayzajz2mjt0y7d6@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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28-Nov-2013 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/clock, x86: Use a static_key for sched_clock_stable In order to avoid the runtime condition and variable load turn sched_clock_stable into a static_key. Also provide a shorter implementation of local_clock() and cpu_clock(int) when sched_clock_stable==1. MAINLINE PRE POST sched_clock_stable: 1 1 1 (cold) sched_clock: 329841 221876 215295 (cold) local_clock: 301773 234692 220773 (warm) sched_clock: 38375 25602 25659 (warm) local_clock: 100371 33265 27242 (warm) rdtsc: 27340 24214 24208 sched_clock_stable: 0 0 0 (cold) sched_clock: 382634 235941 237019 (cold) local_clock: 396890 297017 294819 (warm) sched_clock: 38194 25233 25609 (warm) local_clock: 143452 71234 71232 (warm) rdtsc: 27345 24245 24243 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-eummbdechzz37mwmpags1gjr@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Nov-2013 |
Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> |
sched/deadline: Add bandwidth management for SCHED_DEADLINE tasks In order of deadline scheduling to be effective and useful, it is important that some method of having the allocation of the available CPU bandwidth to tasks and task groups under control. This is usually called "admission control" and if it is not performed at all, no guarantee can be given on the actual scheduling of the -deadline tasks. Since when RT-throttling has been introduced each task group have a bandwidth associated to itself, calculated as a certain amount of runtime over a period. Moreover, to make it possible to manipulate such bandwidth, readable/writable controls have been added to both procfs (for system wide settings) and cgroupfs (for per-group settings). Therefore, the same interface is being used for controlling the bandwidth distrubution to -deadline tasks and task groups, i.e., new controls but with similar names, equivalent meaning and with the same usage paradigm are added. However, more discussion is needed in order to figure out how we want to manage SCHED_DEADLINE bandwidth at the task group level. Therefore, this patch adds a less sophisticated, but actually very sensible, mechanism to ensure that a certain utilization cap is not overcome per each root_domain (the single rq for !SMP configurations). Another main difference between deadline bandwidth management and RT-throttling is that -deadline tasks have bandwidth on their own (while -rt ones doesn't!), and thus we don't need an higher level throttling mechanism to enforce the desired bandwidth. This patch, therefore: - adds system wide deadline bandwidth management by means of: * /proc/sys/kernel/sched_dl_runtime_us, * /proc/sys/kernel/sched_dl_period_us, that determine (i.e., runtime / period) the total bandwidth available on each CPU of each root_domain for -deadline tasks; - couples the RT and deadline bandwidth management, i.e., enforces that the sum of how much bandwidth is being devoted to -rt -deadline tasks to stay below 100%. This means that, for a root_domain comprising M CPUs, -deadline tasks can be created until the sum of their bandwidths stay below: M * (sched_dl_runtime_us / sched_dl_period_us) It is also possible to disable this bandwidth management logic, and be thus free of oversubscribing the system up to any arbitrary level. Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-12-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Nov-2013 |
Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> |
sched/deadline: Add SCHED_DEADLINE inheritance logic Some method to deal with rt-mutexes and make sched_dl interact with the current PI-coded is needed, raising all but trivial issues, that needs (according to us) to be solved with some restructuring of the pi-code (i.e., going toward a proxy execution-ish implementation). This is under development, in the meanwhile, as a temporary solution, what this commits does is: - ensure a pi-lock owner with waiters is never throttled down. Instead, when it runs out of runtime, it immediately gets replenished and it's deadline is postponed; - the scheduling parameters (relative deadline and default runtime) used for that replenishments --during the whole period it holds the pi-lock-- are the ones of the waiting task with earliest deadline. Acting this way, we provide some kind of boosting to the lock-owner, still by using the existing (actually, slightly modified by the previous commit) pi-architecture. We would stress the fact that this is only a surely needed, all but clean solution to the problem. In the end it's only a way to re-start discussion within the community. So, as always, comments, ideas, rants, etc.. are welcome! :-) Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> [ Added !RT_MUTEXES build fix. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-11-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Nov-2013 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
rtmutex: Turn the plist into an rb-tree Turn the pi-chains from plist to rb-tree, in the rt_mutex code, and provide a proper comparison function for -deadline and -priority tasks. This is done mainly because: - classical prio field of the plist is just an int, which might not be enough for representing a deadline; - manipulating such a list would become O(nr_deadline_tasks), which might be to much, as the number of -deadline task increases. Therefore, an rb-tree is used, and tasks are queued in it according to the following logic: - among two -priority (i.e., SCHED_BATCH/OTHER/RR/FIFO) tasks, the one with the higher (lower, actually!) prio wins; - among a -priority and a -deadline task, the latter always wins; - among two -deadline tasks, the one with the earliest deadline wins. Queueing and dequeueing functions are changed accordingly, for both the list of a task's pi-waiters and the list of tasks blocked on a pi-lock. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-again-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-10-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Nov-2013 |
Harald Gustafsson <harald.gustafsson@ericsson.com> |
sched/deadline: Add period support for SCHED_DEADLINE tasks Make it possible to specify a period (different or equal than deadline) for -deadline tasks. Relative deadlines (D_i) are used on task arrivals to generate new scheduling (absolute) deadlines as "d = t + D_i", and periods (P_i) to postpone the scheduling deadlines as "d = d + P_i" when the budget is zero. This is in general useful to model (and schedule) tasks that have slow activation rates (long periods), but have to be scheduled soon once activated (short deadlines). Signed-off-by: Harald Gustafsson <harald.gustafsson@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-7-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Nov-2013 |
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> |
sched/deadline: Add SCHED_DEADLINE SMP-related data structures & logic Introduces data structures relevant for implementing dynamic migration of -deadline tasks and the logic for checking if runqueues are overloaded with -deadline tasks and for choosing where a task should migrate, when it is the case. Adds also dynamic migrations to SCHED_DEADLINE, so that tasks can be moved among CPUs when necessary. It is also possible to bind a task to a (set of) CPU(s), thus restricting its capability of migrating, or forbidding migrations at all. The very same approach used in sched_rt is utilised: - -deadline tasks are kept into CPU-specific runqueues, - -deadline tasks are migrated among runqueues to achieve the following: * on an M-CPU system the M earliest deadline ready tasks are always running; * affinity/cpusets settings of all the -deadline tasks is always respected. Therefore, this very special form of "load balancing" is done with an active method, i.e., the scheduler pushes or pulls tasks between runqueues when they are woken up and/or (de)scheduled. IOW, every time a preemption occurs, the descheduled task might be sent to some other CPU (depending on its deadline) to continue executing (push). On the other hand, every time a CPU becomes idle, it might pull the second earliest deadline ready task from some other CPU. To enforce this, a pull operation is always attempted before taking any scheduling decision (pre_schedule()), as well as a push one after each scheduling decision (post_schedule()). In addition, when a task arrives or wakes up, the best CPU where to resume it is selected taking into account its affinity mask, the system topology, but also its deadline. E.g., from the scheduling point of view, the best CPU where to wake up (and also where to push) a task is the one which is running the task with the latest deadline among the M executing ones. In order to facilitate these decisions, per-runqueue "caching" of the deadlines of the currently running and of the first ready task is used. Queued but not running tasks are also parked in another rb-tree to speed-up pushes. Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-5-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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28-Nov-2013 |
Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> |
sched/deadline: Add SCHED_DEADLINE structures & implementation Introduces the data structures, constants and symbols needed for SCHED_DEADLINE implementation. Core data structure of SCHED_DEADLINE are defined, along with their initializers. Hooks for checking if a task belong to the new policy are also added where they are needed. Adds a scheduling class, in sched/dl.c and a new policy called SCHED_DEADLINE. It is an implementation of the Earliest Deadline First (EDF) scheduling algorithm, augmented with a mechanism (called Constant Bandwidth Server, CBS) that makes it possible to isolate the behaviour of tasks between each other. The typical -deadline task will be made up of a computation phase (instance) which is activated on a periodic or sporadic fashion. The expected (maximum) duration of such computation is called the task's runtime; the time interval by which each instance need to be completed is called the task's relative deadline. The task's absolute deadline is dynamically calculated as the time instant a task (better, an instance) activates plus the relative deadline. The EDF algorithms selects the task with the smallest absolute deadline as the one to be executed first, while the CBS ensures each task to run for at most its runtime every (relative) deadline length time interval, avoiding any interference between different tasks (bandwidth isolation). Thanks to this feature, also tasks that do not strictly comply with the computational model sketched above can effectively use the new policy. To summarize, this patch: - introduces the data structures, constants and symbols needed; - implements the core logic of the scheduling algorithm in the new scheduling class file; - provides all the glue code between the new scheduling class and the core scheduler and refines the interactions between sched/dl and the other existing scheduling classes. Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <michael@amarulasolutions.com> Signed-off-by: Fabio Checconi <fchecconi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-4-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Nov-2013 |
Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> |
sched: Add new scheduler syscalls to support an extended scheduling parameters ABI Add the syscalls needed for supporting scheduling algorithms with extended scheduling parameters (e.g., SCHED_DEADLINE). In general, it makes possible to specify a periodic/sporadic task, that executes for a given amount of runtime at each instance, and is scheduled according to the urgency of their own timing constraints, i.e.: - a (maximum/typical) instance execution time, - a minimum interval between consecutive instances, - a time constraint by which each instance must be completed. Thus, both the data structure that holds the scheduling parameters of the tasks and the system calls dealing with it must be extended. Unfortunately, modifying the existing struct sched_param would break the ABI and result in potentially serious compatibility issues with legacy binaries. For these reasons, this patch: - defines the new struct sched_attr, containing all the fields that are necessary for specifying a task in the computational model described above; - defines and implements the new scheduling related syscalls that manipulate it, i.e., sched_setattr() and sched_getattr(). Syscalls are introduced for x86 (32 and 64 bits) and ARM only, as a proof of concept and for developing and testing purposes. Making them available on other architectures is straightforward. Since no "user" for these new parameters is introduced in this patch, the implementation of the new system calls is just identical to their already existing counterpart. Future patches that implement scheduling policies able to exploit the new data structure must also take care of modifying the sched_*attr() calls accordingly with their own purposes. Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> [ Rewrote to use sched_attr. ] Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> [ Removed sched_setscheduler2() for now. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-3-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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18-Nov-2013 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/fair: Rework sched_fair time accounting Christian suffers from a bad BIOS that wrecks his i5's TSC sync. This results in him occasionally seeing time going backwards - which crashes the scheduler ... Most of our time accounting can actually handle that except the most common one; the tick time update of sched_fair. There is a further problem with that code; previously we assumed that because we get a tick every TICK_NSEC our time delta could never exceed 32bits and math was simpler. However, ever since Frederic managed to get NO_HZ_FULL merged; this is no longer the case since now a task can run for a long time indeed without getting a tick. It only takes about ~4.2 seconds to overflow our u32 in nanoseconds. This means we not only need to better deal with time going backwards; but also means we need to be able to deal with large deltas. This patch reworks the entire code and uses mul_u64_u32_shr() as proposed by Andy a long while ago. We express our virtual time scale factor in a u32 multiplier and shift right and the 32bit mul_u64_u32_shr() implementation reduces to a single 32x32->64 multiply if the time delta is still short (common case). For 64bit a 64x64->128 multiply can be used if ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128. Reported-and-Tested-by: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@gmx.at> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131118172706.GI3866@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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28-Nov-2013 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Remove PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED from generic code While hunting a preemption issue with Alexander, Ben noticed that the currently generic PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED stuff is horribly broken for load-store architectures. We currently rely on the IPI to fold TIF_NEED_RESCHED into PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED, but when this IPI lands while we already have a load for the preempt-count but before the store, the store will erase the PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED change. The current preempt-count only works on load-store archs because interrupts are assumed to be completely balanced wrt their preempt_count fiddling; the previous preempt_count load will match the preempt_count state after the interrupt and therefore nothing gets lost. This patch removes the PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED usage from generic code and pushes it into x86 arch code; the generic code goes back to relying on TIF_NEED_RESCHED. Boot tested on x86_64 and compile tested on ppc64. Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Reported-and-Tested-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131128132641.GP10022@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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13-Nov-2013 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
tasks/exit: Remove unused task_is_dead() method task_is_dead() has no users since commit 43e13cc107cf ("cred: remove task_is_dead() from __task_cred() validation"), and nobody except exit.c should rely on ->exit_state (we still have the users which should be changed). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131113143614.GA10547@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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19-Nov-2013 |
Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> |
sched: Remove unused variable in 'struct sched_domain' The 'u64 last_update' variable isn't used now, remove it to save a bit of space. Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384852912-24791-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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17-Sep-2013 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
preempt: Make PREEMPT_ACTIVE generic No point in having this bit defined by architecture. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130917183629.090698799@linutronix.de
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12-Nov-2013 |
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> |
exec/ptrace: fix get_dumpable() incorrect tests The get_dumpable() return value is not boolean. Most users of the function actually want to be testing for non-SUID_DUMP_USER(1) rather than SUID_DUMP_DISABLE(0). The SUID_DUMP_ROOT(2) is also considered a protected state. Almost all places did this correctly, excepting the two places fixed in this patch. Wrong logic: if (dumpable == SUID_DUMP_DISABLE) { /* be protective */ } or if (dumpable == 0) { /* be protective */ } or if (!dumpable) { /* be protective */ } Correct logic: if (dumpable != SUID_DUMP_USER) { /* be protective */ } or if (dumpable != 1) { /* be protective */ } Without this patch, if the system had set the sysctl fs/suid_dumpable=2, a user was able to ptrace attach to processes that had dropped privileges to that user. (This may have been partially mitigated if Yama was enabled.) The macros have been moved into the file that declares get/set_dumpable(), which means things like the ia64 code can see them too. CVE-2013-2929 Reported-by: Vasily Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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12-Nov-2013 |
Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com> |
sched: remove ARCH specific fpu_counter from task_struct fpu_counter in task_struct was used only by sh/x86. Both of these now carry it in ARCH specific thread_struct, hence this can now be removed from generic task_struct, shrinking it slightly for other arches. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <paul.mundt@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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11-Oct-2013 |
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> |
hung_task: add method to reset detector In certain occasions it is possible for a hung task detector positive to be false: continuation from a paused VM, for example. Add a method to reset detection, similar as is done with other kernel watchdogs. Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
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16-Oct-2013 |
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> |
mm: memcg: handle non-error OOM situations more gracefully Commit 3812c8c8f395 ("mm: memcg: do not trap chargers with full callstack on OOM") assumed that only a few places that can trigger a memcg OOM situation do not return VM_FAULT_OOM, like optional page cache readahead. But there are many more and it's impractical to annotate them all. First of all, we don't want to invoke the OOM killer when the failed allocation is gracefully handled, so defer the actual kill to the end of the fault handling as well. This simplifies the code quite a bit for added bonus. Second, since a failed allocation might not be the abrupt end of the fault, the memcg OOM handler needs to be re-entrant until the fault finishes for subsequent allocation attempts. If an allocation is attempted after the task already OOMed, allow it to bypass the limit so that it can quickly finish the fault and invoke the OOM killer. Reported-by: azurIt <azurit@pobox.sk> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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07-Oct-2013 |
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> |
sched/numa: Skip some page migrations after a shared fault Shared faults can lead to lots of unnecessary page migrations, slowing down the system, and causing private faults to hit the per-pgdat migration ratelimit. This patch adds sysctl numa_balancing_migrate_deferred, which specifies how many shared page migrations to skip unconditionally, after each page migration that is skipped because it is a shared fault. This reduces the number of page migrations back and forth in shared fault situations. It also gives a strong preference to the tasks that are already running where most of the memory is, and to moving the other tasks to near the memory. Testing this with a much higher scan rate than the default still seems to result in fewer page migrations than before. Memory seems to be somewhat better consolidated than previously, with multi-instance specjbb runs on a 4 node system. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-62-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Oct-2013 |
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> |
mm: numa: Revert temporarily disabling of NUMA migration With the scan rate code working (at least for multi-instance specjbb), the large hammer that is "sched: Do not migrate memory immediately after switching node" can be replaced with something smarter. Revert temporarily migration disabling and all traces of numa_migrate_seq. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-61-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Oct-2013 |
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> |
sched/numa: Adjust scan rate in task_numa_placement Adjust numa_scan_period in task_numa_placement, depending on how much useful work the numa code can do. The more local faults there are in a given scan window the longer the period (and hence the slower the scan rate) during the next window. If there are excessive shared faults then the scan period will decrease with the amount of scaling depending on whether the ratio of shared/private faults. If the preferred node changes then the scan rate is reset to recheck if the task is properly placed. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-59-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Oct-2013 |
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> |
sched/numa: Be more careful about joining numa groups Due to the way the pid is truncated, and tasks are moved between CPUs by the scheduler, it is possible for the current task_numa_fault to group together tasks that do not actually share memory together. This patch adds a few easy sanity checks to task_numa_fault, joining tasks together if they share the same tsk->mm, or if the fault was on a page with an elevated mapcount, in a shared VMA. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-57-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Oct-2013 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
sched/numa: Add debugging Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-53-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
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07-Oct-2013 |
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> |
sched/numa: Call task_numa_free() from do_execve() It is possible for a task in a numa group to call exec, and have the new (unrelated) executable inherit the numa group association from its former self. This has the potential to break numa grouping, and is trivial to fix. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-51-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Oct-2013 |
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> |
sched/numa: Use group fault statistics in numa placement This patch uses the fraction of faults on a particular node for both task and group, to figure out the best node to place a task. If the task and group statistics disagree on what the preferred node should be then a full rescan will select the node with the best combined weight. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-50-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Oct-2013 |
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> |
sched/numa: Stay on the same node if CLONE_VM A newly spawned thread inside a process should stay on the same NUMA node as its parent. This prevents processes from being "torn" across multiple NUMA nodes every time they spawn a new thread. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-49-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Oct-2013 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
mm: numa: Do not group on RO pages And here's a little something to make sure not the whole world ends up in a single group. As while we don't migrate shared executable pages, we do scan/fault on them. And since everybody links to libc, everybody ends up in the same group. Suggested-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-47-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Oct-2013 |
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> |
sched/numa: Report a NUMA task group ID It is desirable to model from userspace how the scheduler groups tasks over time. This patch adds an ID to the numa_group and reports it via /proc/PID/status. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-45-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Oct-2013 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/numa: Use {cpu, pid} to create task groups for shared faults While parallel applications tend to align their data on the cache boundary, they tend not to align on the page or THP boundary. Consequently tasks that partition their data can still "false-share" pages presenting a problem for optimal NUMA placement. This patch uses NUMA hinting faults to chain tasks together into numa_groups. As well as storing the NID a task was running on when accessing a page a truncated representation of the faulting PID is stored. If subsequent faults are from different PIDs it is reasonable to assume that those two tasks share a page and are candidates for being grouped together. Note that this patch makes no scheduling decisions based on the grouping information. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-44-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Oct-2013 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched/numa: Introduce migrate_swap() Use the new stop_two_cpus() to implement migrate_swap(), a function that flips two tasks between their respective cpus. I'm fairly sure there's a less crude way than employing the stop_two_cpus() method, but everything I tried either got horribly fragile and/or complex. So keep it simple for now. The notable detail is how we 'migrate' tasks that aren't runnable anymore. We'll make it appear like we migrated them before they went to sleep. The sole difference is the previous cpu in the wakeup path, so we override this. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-39-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Oct-2013 |
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> |
sched/numa: Retry migration of tasks to CPU on a preferred node When a preferred node is selected for a tasks there is an attempt to migrate the task to a CPU there. This may fail in which case the task will only migrate if the active load balancer takes action. This may never happen if the conditions are not right. This patch will check at NUMA hinting fault time if another attempt should be made to migrate the task. It will only make an attempt once every five seconds. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-34-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Oct-2013 |
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> |
sched/numa: Add infrastructure for split shared/private accounting of NUMA hinting faults Ideally it would be possible to distinguish between NUMA hinting faults that are private to a task and those that are shared. This patch prepares infrastructure for separately accounting shared and private faults by allocating the necessary buffers and passing in relevant information. For now, all faults are treated as private and detection will be introduced later. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-26-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Oct-2013 |
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> |
sched/numa: Favour moving tasks towards the preferred node This patch favours moving tasks towards NUMA node that recorded a higher number of NUMA faults during active load balancing. Ideally this is self-reinforcing as the longer the task runs on that node, the more faults it should incur causing task_numa_placement to keep the task running on that node. In reality a big weakness is that the nodes CPUs can be overloaded and it would be more efficient to queue tasks on an idle node and migrate to the new node. This would require additional smarts in the balancer so for now the balancer will simply prefer to place the task on the preferred node for a PTE scans which is controlled by the numa_balancing_settle_count sysctl. Once the settle_count number of scans has complete the schedule is free to place the task on an alternative node if the load is imbalanced. [srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com: Fixed statistics] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ Tunable and use higher faults instead of preferred. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-23-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Oct-2013 |
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> |
sched/numa: Update NUMA hinting faults once per scan NUMA hinting fault counts and placement decisions are both recorded in the same array which distorts the samples in an unpredictable fashion. The values linearly accumulate during the scan and then decay creating a sawtooth-like pattern in the per-node counts. It also means that placement decisions are time sensitive. At best it means that it is very difficult to state that the buffer holds a decaying average of past faulting behaviour. At worst, it can confuse the load balancer if it sees one node with an artifically high count due to very recent faulting activity and may create a bouncing effect. This patch adds a second array. numa_faults stores the historical data which is used for placement decisions. numa_faults_buffer holds the fault activity during the current scan window. When the scan completes, numa_faults decays and the values from numa_faults_buffer are copied across. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-22-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Oct-2013 |
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> |
sched/numa: Select a preferred node with the most numa hinting faults This patch selects a preferred node for a task to run on based on the NUMA hinting faults. This information is later used to migrate tasks towards the node during balancing. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-21-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Oct-2013 |
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> |
sched/numa: Track NUMA hinting faults on per-node basis This patch tracks what nodes numa hinting faults were incurred on. This information is later used to schedule a task on the node storing the pages most frequently faulted by the task. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-20-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Oct-2013 |
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> |
sched/numa: Set the scan rate proportional to the memory usage of the task being scanned The NUMA PTE scan rate is controlled with a combination of the numa_balancing_scan_period_min, numa_balancing_scan_period_max and numa_balancing_scan_size. This scan rate is independent of the size of the task and as an aside it is further complicated by the fact that numa_balancing_scan_size controls how many pages are marked pte_numa and not how much virtual memory is scanned. In combination, it is almost impossible to meaningfully tune the min and max scan periods and reasoning about performance is complex when the time to complete a full scan is is partially a function of the tasks memory size. This patch alters the semantic of the min and max tunables to be about tuning the length time it takes to complete a scan of a tasks occupied virtual address space. Conceptually this is a lot easier to understand. There is a "sanity" check to ensure the scan rate is never extremely fast based on the amount of virtual memory that should be scanned in a second. The default of 2.5G seems arbitrary but it is to have the maximum scan rate after the patch roughly match the maximum scan rate before the patch was applied. On a similar note, numa_scan_period is in milliseconds and not jiffies. Properly placed pages slow the scanning rate but adding 10 jiffies to numa_scan_period means that the rate scanning slows depends on HZ which is confusing. Get rid of the jiffies_to_msec conversion and treat it as ms. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-18-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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27-Sep-2013 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Revert need_resched() to look at TIF_NEED_RESCHED Yuanhan reported a serious throughput regression in his pigz benchmark. Using the ftrace patch I found that several idle paths need more TLC before we can switch the generic need_resched() over to preempt_need_resched. The preemption paths benefit most from preempt_need_resched and do indeed use it; all other need_resched() users don't really care that much so reverting need_resched() back to tif_need_resched() is the simple and safe solution. Reported-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: lkp@linux.intel.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130927153003.GF15690@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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23-Sep-2013 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Prepare for per-cpu preempt_count When using per-cpu preempt_count variables we need to save/restore the preempt_count on context switch (into per task storage; for instance the old thread_info::preempt_count variable) because of PREEMPT_ACTIVE. However, this means that on fork() the preempt_count value of the last context switch gets copied and if we had a PREEMPT_ACTIVE switch right before cloning a child task the child task will now too have PREEMPT_ACTIVE set and start its life with an extra PREEMPT_ACTIVE count. Therefore we need to make init_task_preempt_count() unconditional; this resets whatever preempt_count we inherited from our parent process. Doing so for !per-cpu implementations is harmless. For !PREEMPT_COUNT kernels we need to be careful not to start life with an increased preempt_count. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4k0b7oy1rcdyzochwiixuwi9@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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09-Sep-2013 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Extract the basic add/sub preempt_count modifiers Rewrite the preempt_count macros in order to extract the 3 basic preempt_count value modifiers: __preempt_count_add() __preempt_count_sub() and the new: __preempt_count_dec_and_test() And since we're at it anyway, replace the unconventional $op_preempt_count names with the more conventional preempt_count_$op. Since these basic operators are equivalent to the previous _notrace() variants, do away with the _notrace() versions. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ewbpdbupy9xpsjhg960zwbv8@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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14-Aug-2013 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Add NEED_RESCHED to the preempt_count In order to combine the preemption and need_resched test we need to fold the need_resched information into the preempt_count value. Since the NEED_RESCHED flag is set across CPUs this needs to be an atomic operation, however we very much want to avoid making preempt_count atomic, therefore we keep the existing TIF_NEED_RESCHED infrastructure in place but at 3 sites test it and fold its value into preempt_count; namely: - resched_task() when setting TIF_NEED_RESCHED on the current task - scheduler_ipi() when resched_task() sets TIF_NEED_RESCHED on a remote task it follows it up with a reschedule IPI and we can modify the cpu local preempt_count from there. - cpu_idle_loop() for when resched_task() found tsk_is_polling(). We use an inverted bitmask to indicate need_resched so that a 0 means both need_resched and !atomic. Also remove the barrier() in preempt_enable() between preempt_enable_no_resched() and preempt_check_resched() to avoid having to reload the preemption value and allow the compiler to use the flags of the previuos decrement. I couldn't come up with any sane reason for this barrier() to be there as preempt_enable_no_resched() already has a barrier() before doing the decrement. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7a7m5qqbn5pmwnd4wko9u6da@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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10-Sep-2013 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched, idle: Fix the idle polling state logic Mike reported that commit 7d1a9417 ("x86: Use generic idle loop") regressed several workloads and caused excessive reschedule interrupts. The patch in question failed to notice that the x86 code had an inverted sense of the polling state versus the new generic code (x86: default polling, generic: default !polling). Fix the two prominent x86 mwait based idle drivers and introduce a few new generic polling helpers (fixing the wrong smp_mb__after_clear_bit usage). Also switch the idle routines to using tif_need_resched() which is an immediate TIF_NEED_RESCHED test as opposed to need_resched which will end up being slightly different. Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: lenb@kernel.org Cc: tglx@linutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-nc03imb0etuefmzybzj7sprf@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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13-Sep-2013 |
Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> |
sched/balancing: Periodically decay max cost of idle balance This patch builds on patch 2 and periodically decays that max value to do idle balancing per sched domain by approximately 1% per second. Also decay the rq's max_idle_balance_cost value. Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379096813-3032-4-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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13-Sep-2013 |
Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> |
sched/balancing: Consider max cost of idle balance per sched domain In this patch, we keep track of the max cost we spend doing idle load balancing for each sched domain. If the avg time the CPU remains idle is less then the time we have already spent on idle balancing + the max cost of idle balancing in the sched domain, then we don't continue to attempt the balance. We also keep a per rq variable, max_idle_balance_cost, which keeps track of the max time spent on newidle load balances throughout all its domains so that we can determine the avg_idle's max value. By using the max, we avoid overrunning the average. This further reduces the chance we attempt balancing when the CPU is not idle for longer than the cost to balance. Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379096813-3032-3-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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12-Sep-2013 |
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> |
mm: memcg: do not trap chargers with full callstack on OOM The memcg OOM handling is incredibly fragile and can deadlock. When a task fails to charge memory, it invokes the OOM killer and loops right there in the charge code until it succeeds. Comparably, any other task that enters the charge path at this point will go to a waitqueue right then and there and sleep until the OOM situation is resolved. The problem is that these tasks may hold filesystem locks and the mmap_sem; locks that the selected OOM victim may need to exit. For example, in one reported case, the task invoking the OOM killer was about to charge a page cache page during a write(), which holds the i_mutex. The OOM killer selected a task that was just entering truncate() and trying to acquire the i_mutex: OOM invoking task: mem_cgroup_handle_oom+0x241/0x3b0 mem_cgroup_cache_charge+0xbe/0xe0 add_to_page_cache_locked+0x4c/0x140 add_to_page_cache_lru+0x22/0x50 grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x8b/0xe0 ext3_write_begin+0x88/0x270 generic_file_buffered_write+0x116/0x290 __generic_file_aio_write+0x27c/0x480 generic_file_aio_write+0x76/0xf0 # takes ->i_mutex do_sync_write+0xea/0x130 vfs_write+0xf3/0x1f0 sys_write+0x51/0x90 system_call_fastpath+0x18/0x1d OOM kill victim: do_truncate+0x58/0xa0 # takes i_mutex do_last+0x250/0xa30 path_openat+0xd7/0x440 do_filp_open+0x49/0xa0 do_sys_open+0x106/0x240 sys_open+0x20/0x30 system_call_fastpath+0x18/0x1d The OOM handling task will retry the charge indefinitely while the OOM killed task is not releasing any resources. A similar scenario can happen when the kernel OOM killer for a memcg is disabled and a userspace task is in charge of resolving OOM situations. In this case, ALL tasks that enter the OOM path will be made to sleep on the OOM waitqueue and wait for userspace to free resources or increase the group's limit. But a userspace OOM handler is prone to deadlock itself on the locks held by the waiting tasks. For example one of the sleeping tasks may be stuck in a brk() call with the mmap_sem held for writing but the userspace handler, in order to pick an optimal victim, may need to read files from /proc/<pid>, which tries to acquire the same mmap_sem for reading and deadlocks. This patch changes the way tasks behave after detecting a memcg OOM and makes sure nobody loops or sleeps with locks held: 1. When OOMing in a user fault, invoke the OOM killer and restart the fault instead of looping on the charge attempt. This way, the OOM victim can not get stuck on locks the looping task may hold. 2. When OOMing in a user fault but somebody else is handling it (either the kernel OOM killer or a userspace handler), don't go to sleep in the charge context. Instead, remember the OOMing memcg in the task struct and then fully unwind the page fault stack with -ENOMEM. pagefault_out_of_memory() will then call back into the memcg code to check if the -ENOMEM came from the memcg, and then either put the task to sleep on the memcg's OOM waitqueue or just restart the fault. The OOM victim can no longer get stuck on any lock a sleeping task may hold. Debugged by Michal Hocko. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: azurIt <azurit@pobox.sk> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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12-Sep-2013 |
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> |
mm: memcg: enable memcg OOM killer only for user faults System calls and kernel faults (uaccess, gup) can handle an out of memory situation gracefully and just return -ENOMEM. Enable the memcg OOM killer only for user faults, where it's really the only option available. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: azurIt <azurit@pobox.sk> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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11-Sep-2013 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
include/linux/sched.h: don't use task->pid/tgid in same_thread_group/has_group_leader_pid task_struct->pid/tgid should go away. 1. Change same_thread_group() to use task->signal for comparison. 2. Change has_group_leader_pid(task) to compare task_pid(task) with signal->leader_pid. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Sergey Dyasly <dserrg@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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22-Aug-2013 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Revert "x86 get_unmapped_area(): use proper mmap base for bottom-up direction" This reverts commit df54d6fa54275ce59660453e29d1228c2b45a826. The commit isn't necessarily wrong, but because it recalculates the random mmap_base every time, it seems to confuse user memory allocators that expect contiguous mmap allocations even when the mmap address isn't specified. In particular, the MATLAB Java runtime seems to be unhappy. See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60774 So we'll want to apply the random offset only once, and Radu has a patch for that. Revert this older commit in order to apply the other one. Reported-by: Jeff Shorey <shoreyjeff@gmail.com> Cc: Radu Caragea <sinaelgl@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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13-Aug-2013 |
Radu Caragea <sinaelgl@gmail.com> |
x86 get_unmapped_area(): use proper mmap base for bottom-up direction When the stack is set to unlimited, the bottomup direction is used for mmap-ings but the mmap_base is not used and thus effectively renders ASLR for mmapings along with PIE useless. Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Sendroiu <molecula2788@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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24-Jul-2013 |
Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> |
freezer: set PF_SUSPEND_TASK flag on tasks that call freeze_processes Calling freeze_processes sets a global flag that will cause any process that calls try_to_freeze to enter the refrigerator. It skips sending a signal to the current task, but if the current task ever hits try_to_freeze, all threads will be frozen and the system will deadlock. Set a new flag, PF_SUSPEND_TASK, on the task that calls freeze_processes. The flag notifies the freezer that the thread is involved in suspend and should not be frozen. Also add a WARN_ON in thaw_processes if the caller does not have the PF_SUSPEND_TASK flag set to catch if a different task calls thaw_processes than the one that called freeze_processes, leaving a task with PF_SUSPEND_TASK permanently set on it. Threads that spawn off a task with PF_SUSPEND_TASK set (which swsusp does) will also have PF_SUSPEND_TASK set, preventing them from freezing while they are helping with suspend, but they need to be dead by the time suspend is triggered, otherwise they may run when userspace is expected to be frozen. Add a WARN_ON in thaw_processes if more than one thread has the PF_SUSPEND_TASK flag set. Reported-and-tested-by: Michael Leun <lkml20130126@newton.leun.net> Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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03-Jul-2013 |
Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched: Implement smarter wake-affine logic The wake-affine scheduler feature is currently always trying to pull the wakee close to the waker. In theory this should be beneficial if the waker's CPU caches hot data for the wakee, and it's also beneficial in the extreme ping-pong high context switch rate case. Testing shows it can benefit hackbench up to 15%. However, the feature is somewhat blind, from which some workloads such as pgbench suffer. It's also time-consuming algorithmically. Testing shows it can damage pgbench up to 50% - far more than the benefit it brings in the best case. So wake-affine should be smarter and it should realize when to stop its thankless effort at trying to find a suitable CPU to wake on. This patch introduces 'wakee_flips', which will be increased each time the task flips (switches) its wakee target. So a high 'wakee_flips' value means the task has more than one wakee, and the bigger the number, the higher the wakeup frequency. Now when making the decision on whether to pull or not, pay attention to the wakee with a high 'wakee_flips', pulling such a task may benefit the wakee. Also imply that the waker will face cruel competition later, it could be very cruel or very fast depends on the story behind 'wakee_flips', waker therefore suffers. Furthermore, if waker also has a high 'wakee_flips', that implies that multiple tasks rely on it, then waker's higher latency will damage all of them, so pulling wakee seems to be a bad deal. Thus, when 'waker->wakee_flips / wakee->wakee_flips' becomes higher and higher, the cost of pulling seems to be worse and worse. The patch therefore helps the wake-affine feature to stop its pulling work when: wakee->wakee_flips > factor && waker->wakee_flips > (factor * wakee->wakee_flips) The 'factor' here is the number of CPUs in the current CPU's NUMA node, so a bigger node will lead to more pulling since the trial becomes more severe. After applying the patch, pgbench shows up to 40% improvements and no regressions. Tested with 12 cpu x86 server and tip 3.10.0-rc7. The percentages in the final column highlight the areas with the biggest wins, all other areas improved as well: pgbench base smart | db_size | clients | tps | | tps | +---------+---------+-------+ +-------+ | 22 MB | 1 | 10598 | | 10796 | | 22 MB | 2 | 21257 | | 21336 | | 22 MB | 4 | 41386 | | 41622 | | 22 MB | 8 | 51253 | | 57932 | | 22 MB | 12 | 48570 | | 54000 | | 22 MB | 16 | 46748 | | 55982 | +19.75% | 22 MB | 24 | 44346 | | 55847 | +25.93% | 22 MB | 32 | 43460 | | 54614 | +25.66% | 7484 MB | 1 | 8951 | | 9193 | | 7484 MB | 2 | 19233 | | 19240 | | 7484 MB | 4 | 37239 | | 37302 | | 7484 MB | 8 | 46087 | | 50018 | | 7484 MB | 12 | 42054 | | 48763 | | 7484 MB | 16 | 40765 | | 51633 | +26.66% | 7484 MB | 24 | 37651 | | 52377 | +39.11% | 7484 MB | 32 | 37056 | | 51108 | +37.92% | 15 GB | 1 | 8845 | | 9104 | | 15 GB | 2 | 19094 | | 19162 | | 15 GB | 4 | 36979 | | 36983 | | 15 GB | 8 | 46087 | | 49977 | | 15 GB | 12 | 41901 | | 48591 | | 15 GB | 16 | 40147 | | 50651 | +26.16% | 15 GB | 24 | 37250 | | 52365 | +40.58% | 15 GB | 32 | 36470 | | 50015 | +37.14% Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51D50057.9000809@linux.vnet.ibm.com [ Improved the changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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10-Jul-2013 |
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> |
remove sched notifier for cross-cpu migrations Linux as a guest on KVM hypervisor, the only user of the pvclock vsyscall interface, does not require notification on task migration because: 1. cpu ID number maps 1:1 to per-CPU pvclock time info. 2. per-CPU pvclock time info is updated if the underlying CPU changes. 3. that version is increased whenever underlying CPU changes. Which is sufficient to guarantee nanoseconds counter is calculated properly. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
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12-Jul-2013 |
Yacine Belkadi <yacine.belkadi.1@gmail.com> |
sched: Fix some kernel-doc warnings When building the htmldocs (in verbose mode), scripts/kernel-doc reports the follwing type of warnings: Warning(kernel/sched/core.c:936): No description found for return value of 'task_curr' ... Fix those by: - adding the missing descriptions - using "Return" sections for the descriptions Signed-off-by: Yacine Belkadi <yacine.belkadi.1@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1373654747-2389-1-git-send-email-yacine.belkadi.1@gmail.com [ While at it, fix the cpupri_set() explanation. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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10-Jul-2013 |
Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> |
mm: remove free_area_cache Since all architectures have been converted to use vm_unmapped_area(), there is no remaining use for the free_area_cache. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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08-Jul-2013 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
ptrace: revert "Prepare to fix racy accesses on task breakpoints" This reverts commit bf26c018490c ("Prepare to fix racy accesses on task breakpoints"). The patch was fine but we can no longer race with SIGKILL after commit 9899d11f6544 ("ptrace: ensure arch_ptrace/ptrace_request can never race with SIGKILL"), the __TASK_TRACED tracee can't be woken up and ->ptrace_bps[] can't go away. Now that ptrace_get_breakpoints/ptrace_put_breakpoints have no callers, we can kill them and remove task->ptrace_bp_refcnt. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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03-Jul-2013 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
exit.c: unexport __set_special_pids() Move __set_special_pids() from exit.c to sys.c close to its single caller and make it static. And rename it to set_special_pids(), another helper with this name has gone away. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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27-Jun-2013 |
Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched: Fix typo in struct sched_avg member description Remove extra 'for' from the description about member of struct sched_avg. Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130627060409.GB18582@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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25-Jun-2013 |
Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> |
Revert "sched: Introduce temporary FAIR_GROUP_SCHED dependency for load-tracking" Remove CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED that covers the runnable info, then we can use runnable load variables. Also remove 2 CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED setting which is not in reverted patch(introduced in 9ee474f), but also need to revert. Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51CA76A3.3050207@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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21-May-2013 |
Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> |
sched: add cond_resched_rcu() helper This is intended for use in loops which read data protected by RCU and may have a large number of iterations. Such an example is dumping the list of connections known to IPVS: ip_vs_conn_array() and ip_vs_conn_seq_next(). The benefits are for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y where we save CPU cycles by moving rcu_read_lock and rcu_read_unlock out of large loops but still allowing the current task to be preempted after every loop iteration for the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=n case. The call to cond_resched() is not needed when CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y. Thanks to Paul E. McKenney for explaining this and for the final version that checks the context with CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y for all possible configurations. The function can be empty in the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU case, rcu_read_lock and rcu_read_unlock are not needed in this case because the task can be preempted on indication from scheduler. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for catching this and for his help in trying a solution that changes __might_sleep. Initial cond_resched_rcu_lock() function suggested by Eric Dumazet. Tested-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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07-May-2013 |
Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> |
aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h Faster kernel compiles by way of fewer unnecessary includes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallout] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com> Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com> Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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02-May-2013 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks The scheduler doesn't yet fully support environments with a single task running without a periodic tick. In order to ensure we still maintain the duties of scheduler_tick(), keep at least 1 tick per second. This makes sure that we keep the progression of various scheduler accounting and background maintainance even with a very low granularity. Examples include cpu load, sched average, CFS entity vruntime, avenrun and events such as load balancing, amongst other details handled in sched_class::task_tick(). This limitation will be removed in the future once we get these individual items to work in full dynticks CPUs. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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30-Apr-2013 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
exec: do not abuse ->cred_guard_mutex in threadgroup_lock() threadgroup_lock() takes signal->cred_guard_mutex to ensure that thread_group_leader() is stable. This doesn't look nice, the scope of this lock in do_execve() is huge. And as Dave pointed out this can lead to deadlock, we have the following dependencies: do_execve: cred_guard_mutex -> i_mutex cgroup_mount: i_mutex -> cgroup_mutex attach_task_by_pid: cgroup_mutex -> cred_guard_mutex Change de_thread() to take threadgroup_change_begin() around the switch-the-leader code and change threadgroup_lock() to avoid ->cred_guard_mutex. Note that de_thread() can't sleep with ->group_rwsem held, this can obviously deadlock with the exiting leader if the writer is active, so it does threadgroup_change_end() before schedule(). Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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30-Apr-2013 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
coredump: only SIGKILL should interrupt the coredumping task There are 2 well known and ancient problems with coredump/signals, and a lot of related bug reports: - do_coredump() clears TIF_SIGPENDING but of course this can't help if, say, SIGCHLD comes after that. In this case the coredump can fail unexpectedly. See for example wait_for_dump_helper()->signal_pending() check but there are other reasons. - At the same time, dumping a huge core on the slow media can take a lot of time/resources and there is no way to kill the coredumping task reliably. In particular this is not oom_kill-friendly. This patch tries to fix the 1st problem, and makes the preparation for the next changes. We add the new SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP flag set by zap_threads() to indicate that this process dumps the core. prepare_signal() checks this flag and nacks any signal except SIGKILL. Note that this check tries to be conservative, in the long term we should probably treat the SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT case equally but this needs more discussion. See marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120508897917439 Notes: - recalc_sigpending() doesn't check SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP. The patch assumes that dump_write/etc paths should never call it, but we can change it as well. - There is another source of TIF_SIGPENDING, freezer. This will be addressed separately. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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03-May-2013 |
Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> |
audit: add an option to control logging of passwords with pam_tty_audit Most commands are entered one line at a time and processed as complete lines in non-canonical mode. Commands that interactively require a password, enter canonical mode to do this while shutting off echo. This pair of features (icanon and !echo) can be used to avoid logging passwords by audit while still logging the rest of the command. Adding a member (log_passwd) to the struct audit_tty_status passed in by pam_tty_audit allows control of canonical mode without echo per task. Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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23-Apr-2013 |
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> |
sched: Fix init NOHZ_IDLE flag On my SMP platform which is made of 5 cores in 2 clusters, I have the nr_busy_cpu field of sched_group_power struct that is not null when the platform is fully idle - which makes the scheduler unhappy. The root cause is: During the boot sequence, some CPUs reach the idle loop and set their NOHZ_IDLE flag while waiting for others CPUs to boot. But the nr_busy_cpus field is initialized later with the assumption that all CPUs are in the busy state whereas some CPUs have already set their NOHZ_IDLE flag. More generally, the NOHZ_IDLE flag must be initialized when new sched_domains are created in order to ensure that NOHZ_IDLE and nr_busy_cpus are aligned. This condition can be ensured by adding a synchronize_rcu() between the destruction of old sched_domains and the creation of new ones so the NOHZ_IDLE flag will not be updated with old sched_domain once it has been initialized. But this solution introduces a additionnal latency in the rebuild sequence that is called during cpu hotplug. As suggested by Frederic Weisbecker, another solution is to have the same rcu lifecycle for both NOHZ_IDLE and sched_domain struct. A new nohz_idle field is added to sched_domain so both status and sched_domain will share the same RCU lifecycle and will be always synchronized. In addition, there is no more need to protect nohz_idle against concurrent access as it is only modified by 2 exclusive functions called by local cpu. This solution has been prefered to the creation of a new struct with an extra pointer indirection for sched_domain. The synchronization is done at the cost of : - An additional indirection and a rcu_dereference for accessing nohz_idle. - We use only the nohz_idle field of the top sched_domain. Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: efault@gmx.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366729142-14662-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org [ Fixed !NO_HZ build bug. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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20-Apr-2013 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
sched: New helper to prevent from stopping the tick in full dynticks Provide a new helper to be called from the full dynticks engine before stopping the tick in order to make sure we don't stop it when there is more than one task running on the CPU. This way we make sure that the tick stays alive to maintain fairness. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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17-Apr-2013 |
Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> |
mutex: Move mutex spinning code from sched/core.c back to mutex.c As mentioned by Ingo, the SCHED_FEAT_OWNER_SPIN scheduler feature bit was really just an early hack to make with/without mutex-spinning testable. So it is no longer necessary. This patch removes the SCHED_FEAT_OWNER_SPIN feature bit and move the mutex spinning code from kernel/sched/core.c back to kernel/mutex.c which is where they should belong. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Chandramouleeswaran Aswin <aswin@hp.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com> Cc: Norton Scott J <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366226594-5506-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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11-Mar-2013 |
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> |
posix timers: Allocate timer id per process (v2) Currently kernel generates IDs for posix timers in a global manner -- there's a kernel-wide IDR tree from which IDs are created. This makes it impossible to recreate a timer with a desired ID (in particular this is done by the CRIU checkpoint-restore project) -- since these IDs are global it may happen, that at the time we recreate a timer, the ID we want for it is already busy by some other timer. In order to address this, replace the IDR tree with a global hash table for timers and makes timer IDs unique per signal_struct (to which timers are linked anyway). With this, two timers belonging to different processes may have equal IDs and we can recreate either of them with the ID we want. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Helsley <matt.helsley@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/513D9FF5.9010004@parallels.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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09-Apr-2013 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
kthread: Prevent unpark race which puts threads on the wrong cpu The smpboot threads rely on the park/unpark mechanism which binds per cpu threads on a particular core. Though the functionality is racy: CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 unpark(T) wake_up_process(T) clear(SHOULD_PARK) T runs leave parkme() due to !SHOULD_PARK bind_to(CPU2) BUG_ON(wrong CPU) We cannot let the tasks move themself to the target CPU as one of those tasks is actually the migration thread itself, which requires that it starts running on the target cpu right away. The solution to this problem is to prevent wakeups in park mode which are not from unpark(). That way we can guarantee that the association of the task to the target cpu is working correctly. Add a new task state (TASK_PARKED) which prevents other wakeups and use this state explicitly for the unpark wakeup. Peter noticed: Also, since the task state is visible to userspace and all the parked tasks are still in the PID space, its a good hint in ps and friends that these tasks aren't really there for the moment. The migration thread has another related issue. CPU0 CPU1 Bring up CPU2 create_thread(T) park(T) wait_for_completion() parkme() complete() sched_set_stop_task() schedule(TASK_PARKED) The sched_set_stop_task() call is issued while the task is on the runqueue of CPU1 and that confuses the hell out of the stop_task class on that cpu. So we need the same synchronizaion before sched_set_stop_task(). Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Reported-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Acked-by: Peter Ziljstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: dhillf@gmail.com Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1304091635430.21884@ionos Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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11-Apr-2013 |
Andrei Epure <epure.andrei@gmail.com> |
sched: Document task_struct::personality field Signed-off-by: Andrei Epure <epure.andrei@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365701429-4721-1-git-send-email-epure.andrei@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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21-Mar-2013 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
idle: Implement set/clr functions for need_resched poll Implement set/clear functions for the idle need_resched poll implementation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130321215233.518839807@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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21-Mar-2013 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
arch: Consolidate tsk_is_polling() Move it to a common place. Preparatory patch for implementing set/clear for the idle need_resched poll implementation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130321215233.446034505@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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10-Aug-2011 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
nohz: Rename CONFIG_NO_HZ to CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON We are planning to convert the dynticks Kconfig options layout into a choice menu. The user must be able to easily pick any of the following implementations: constant periodic tick, idle dynticks, full dynticks. As this implies a mutual exclusion, the two dynticks implementions need to converge on the selection of a common Kconfig option in order to ease the sharing of a common infrastructure. It would thus seem pretty natural to reuse CONFIG_NO_HZ to that end. It already implements all the idle dynticks code and the full dynticks depends on all that code for now. So ideally the choice menu would propose CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED then both would select CONFIG_NO_HZ. On the other hand we want to stay backward compatible: if CONFIG_NO_HZ is set in an older config file, we want to enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE by default. But we can't afford both at the same time or we run into a circular dependency: 1) CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED both select CONFIG_NO_HZ 2) If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, we default to CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE We might be able to support that from Kconfig/Kbuild but it may not be wise to introduce such a confusing behaviour. So to solve this, create a new CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON option which gathers the common code between idle and full dynticks (that common code for now is simply the idle dynticks code) and select it from their referring Kconfig. Then we'll later create CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and map CONFIG_NO_HZ to it for backward compatibility. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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23-Mar-2013 |
Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> |
bcache: A block layer cache Does writethrough and writeback caching, handles unclean shutdown, and has a bunch of other nifty features motivated by real world usage. See the wiki at http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org for more. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
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10-Aug-2011 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
nohz: Wake up full dynticks CPUs when a timer gets enqueued Wake up a CPU when a timer list timer is enqueued there and the target is part of the full dynticks range. Sending an IPI to it makes it reconsidering the next timer to program on top of recent updates. This may later be improved by checking if the tick is really stopped on the target. This would need some careful synchronization though. So deal with such optimization later and start simple. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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19-Mar-2013 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
sched: replace PF_THREAD_BOUND with PF_NO_SETAFFINITY PF_THREAD_BOUND was originally used to mark kernel threads which were bound to a specific CPU using kthread_bind() and a task with the flag set allows cpus_allowed modifications only to itself. Workqueue is currently abusing it to prevent userland from meddling with cpus_allowed of workqueue workers. What we need is a flag to prevent userland from messing with cpus_allowed of certain kernel tasks. In kernel, anyone can (incorrectly) squash the flag, and, for worker-type usages, restricting cpus_allowed modification to the task itself doesn't provide meaningful extra proection as other tasks can inject work items to the task anyway. This patch replaces PF_THREAD_BOUND with PF_NO_SETAFFINITY. sched_setaffinity() checks the flag and return -EINVAL if set. set_cpus_allowed_ptr() is no longer affected by the flag. This will allow simplifying workqueue worker CPU affinity management. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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25-Feb-2013 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
cputime: Dynamically scale cputime for full dynticks accounting The full dynticks cputime accounting is able to account either using the tick or the context tracking subsystem. This way the housekeeping CPU can keep the low overhead tick based solution. This latter mode has a low jiffies resolution granularity and need to be scaled against CFS precise runtime accounting to improve its result. We are doing this for CONFIG_TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING, now we also need to expand it to full dynticks accounting dynamic off-case as well. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Mats Liljegren <mats.liljegren@enea.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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05-Mar-2013 |
Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> |
sched: Move group scheduling functions out of include/linux/sched.h - Make sched_group_{set_,}runtime(), sched_group_{set_,}period() and sched_rt_can_attach() static. - Move sched_{create,destroy,online,offline}_group() to kernel/sched/sched.h. - Remove declaration of sched_group_shares(). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A7C5.3000708@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Mar-2013 |
Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> |
sched: Make default_scale_freq_power() static As default_scale_{freq,smt}_power() and update_rt_power() are used in kernel/sched/fair.c only, annotate them as static functions. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A7AF.8010900@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Mar-2013 |
Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> |
sched: Move struct sched_class to kernel/sched/sched.h It's used internally only. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A79F.8090502@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Mar-2013 |
Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> |
sched: Move wake flags to kernel/sched/sched.h They are used internally only. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A78E.7040609@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Mar-2013 |
Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> |
sched: Move struct sched_group to kernel/sched/sched.h Move struct sched_group_power and sched_group and related inline functions to kernel/sched/sched.h, as they are used internally only. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A77F.2010705@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Mar-2013 |
Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> |
sched: Move SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT macros to kernel/sched/sched.h They are used internally only. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A771.4070104@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Mar-2013 |
Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> |
sched: Remove test_sd_parent() It's unused. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A75F.4070202@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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05-Mar-2013 |
Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> |
sched: Remove some dummy functions No one will call those functions if CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=n. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5135A748.3050206@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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27-Feb-2013 |
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> |
coredump: remove redundant defines for dumpable states The existing SUID_DUMP_* defines duplicate the newer SUID_DUMPABLE_* defines introduced in 54b501992dd2 ("coredump: warn about unsafe suid_dumpable / core_pattern combo"). Remove the new ones, and use the prior values instead. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reported-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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22-Feb-2013 |
Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> |
mm: teach mm by current context info to not do I/O during memory allocation This patch introduces PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO on process flag('flags' field of 'struct task_struct'), so that the flag can be set by one task to avoid doing I/O inside memory allocation in the task's context. The patch trys to solve one deadlock problem caused by block device, and the problem may happen at least in the below situations: - during block device runtime resume, if memory allocation with GFP_KERNEL is called inside runtime resume callback of any one of its ancestors(or the block device itself), the deadlock may be triggered inside the memory allocation since it might not complete until the block device becomes active and the involed page I/O finishes. The situation is pointed out first by Alan Stern. It is not a good approach to convert all GFP_KERNEL[1] in the path into GFP_NOIO because several subsystems may be involved(for example, PCI, USB and SCSI may be involved for usb mass stoarage device, network devices involved too in the iSCSI case) - during block device runtime suspend, because runtime resume need to wait for completion of concurrent runtime suspend. - during error handling of usb mass storage deivce, USB bus reset will be put on the device, so there shouldn't have any memory allocation with GFP_KERNEL during USB bus reset, otherwise the deadlock similar with above may be triggered. Unfortunately, any usb device may include one mass storage interface in theory, so it requires all usb interface drivers to handle the situation. In fact, most usb drivers don't know how to handle bus reset on the device and don't provide .pre_set() and .post_reset() callback at all, so USB core has to unbind and bind driver for these devices. So it is still not practical to resort to GFP_NOIO for solving the problem. Also the introduced solution can be used by block subsystem or block drivers too, for example, set the PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO flag before doing actual I/O transfer. It is not a good idea to convert all these GFP_KERNEL in the affected path into GFP_NOIO because these functions doing that may be implemented as library and will be called in many other contexts. In fact, memalloc_noio_flags() can convert some of current static GFP_NOIO allocation into GFP_KERNEL back in other non-affected contexts, at least almost all GFP_NOIO in USB subsystem can be converted into GFP_KERNEL after applying the approach and make allocation with GFP_NOIO only happen in runtime resume/bus reset/block I/O transfer contexts generally. [1], several GFP_KERNEL allocation examples in runtime resume path - pci subsystem acpi_os_allocate <-acpi_ut_allocate <-ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED <-acpi_evaluate_object <-__acpi_bus_set_power <-acpi_bus_set_power <-acpi_pci_set_power_state <-platform_pci_set_power_state <-pci_platform_power_transition <-__pci_complete_power_transition <-pci_set_power_state <-pci_restore_standard_config <-pci_pm_runtime_resume - usb subsystem usb_get_status <-finish_port_resume <-usb_port_resume <-generic_resume <-usb_resume_device <-usb_resume_both <-usb_runtime_resume - some individual usb drivers usblp, uvc, gspca, most of dvb-usb-v2 media drivers, cpia2, az6007, .... That is just what I have found. Unfortunately, this allocation can only be found by human being now, and there should be many not found since any function in the resume path(call tree) may allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jiri.kosina@suse.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: David Decotigny <david.decotigny@google.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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20-Feb-2013 |
Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@taobao.com> |
sched/core: Remove the obsolete and unused nr_uninterruptible() function Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@taobao.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361351678-8065-1-git-send-email-handai.szj@taobao.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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20-Nov-2012 |
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
make do_sigaltstack() static Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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07-Feb-2013 |
Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> |
sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header file Move rt scheduler definitions out of include/linux/sched.h into new file include/linux/sched/rt.h Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130207094707.7b9f825f@riff.lan Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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07-Feb-2013 |
Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> |
sched: Move sched.h sysctl bits into separate header Move the sysctl-related bits from include/linux/sched.h into a new file: include/linux/sched/sysctl.h. Then update source files requiring access to those bits by including the new header file. Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130207094659.06dced96@riff.lan Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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06-Nov-2012 |
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
new helper: sigsp() Normal logics for altstack handling in sigframe allocation Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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16-Dec-2012 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
cputime: Safely read cputime of full dynticks CPUs While remotely reading the cputime of a task running in a full dynticks CPU, the values stored in utime/stime fields of struct task_struct may be stale. Its values may be those of the last kernel <-> user transition time snapshot and we need to add the tickless time spent since this snapshot. To fix this, flush the cputime of the dynticks CPUs on kernel <-> user transition and record the time / context where we did this. Then on top of this snapshot and the current time, perform the fixup on the reader side from task_times() accessors. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [fixed kvm module related build errors] Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
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13-Nov-2012 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
cputime: Use accessors to read task cputime stats This is in preparation for the full dynticks feature. While remotely reading the cputime of a task running in a full dynticks CPU, we'll need to do some extra-computation. This way we can account the time it spent tickless in userspace since its last cputime snapshot. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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17-Jul-2012 |
Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> |
sched/rt: Avoid updating RT entry timeout twice within one tick period The issue below was found in 2.6.34-rt rather than mainline rt kernel, but the issue still exists upstream as well. So please let me describe how it was noticed on 2.6.34-rt: On this version, each softirq has its own thread, it means there is at least one RT FIFO task per cpu. The priority of these tasks is set to 49 by default. If user launches an RT FIFO task with priority lower than 49 of softirq RT tasks, it's possible there are two RT FIFO tasks enqueued one cpu runqueue at one moment. By current strategy of balancing RT tasks, when it comes to RT tasks, we really need to put them off to a CPU that they can run on as soon as possible. Even if it means a bit of cache line flushing, we want RT tasks to be run with the least latency. When the user RT FIFO task which just launched before is running, the sched timer tick of the current cpu happens. In this tick period, the timeout value of the user RT task will be updated once. Subsequently, we try to wake up one softirq RT task on its local cpu. As the priority of current user RT task is lower than the softirq RT task, the current task will be preempted by the higher priority softirq RT task. Before preemption, we check to see if current can readily move to a different cpu. If so, we will reschedule to allow the RT push logic to try to move current somewhere else. Whenever the woken softirq RT task runs, it first tries to migrate the user FIFO RT task over to a cpu that is running a task of lesser priority. If migration is done, it will send a reschedule request to the found cpu by IPI interrupt. Once the target cpu responds the IPI interrupt, it will pick the migrated user RT task to preempt its current task. When the user RT task is running on the new cpu, the sched timer tick of the cpu fires. So it will tick the user RT task again. This also means the RT task timeout value will be updated again. As the migration may be done in one tick period, it means the user RT task timeout value will be updated twice within one tick. If we set a limit on the amount of cpu time for the user RT task by setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTTIME), the SIGXCPU signal should be posted upon reaching the soft limit. But exactly when the SIGXCPU signal should be sent depends on the RT task timeout value. In fact the timeout mechanism of sending the SIGXCPU signal assumes the RT task timeout is increased once every tick. However, currently the timeout value may be added twice per tick. So it results in the SIGXCPU signal being sent earlier than expected. To solve this issue, we prevent the timeout value from increasing twice within one tick time by remembering the jiffies value of last updating the timeout. As long as the RT task's jiffies is different with the global jiffies value, we allow its timeout to be updated. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342508623-2887-1-git-send-email-ying.xue@windriver.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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23-Jan-2013 |
Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> |
sched: split out css_online/css_offline from tg creation/destruction This is a preparaton for later patches. - What do we gain from cpu_cgroup_css_online(): After ss->css_alloc() and before ss->css_online(), there's a small window that tg->css.cgroup is NULL. With this change, tg won't be seen before ss->css_online(), where it's added to the global list, so we're guaranteed we'll never see NULL tg->css.cgroup. - What do we gain from cpu_cgroup_css_offline(): tg is freed via RCU, so is cgroup. Without this change, This is how synchronization works: cgroup_rmdir() no ss->css_offline() diput() syncornize_rcu() ss->css_free() <-- unregister tg, and free it via call_rcu() kfree_rcu(cgroup) <-- wait possible refs to cgroup, and free cgroup We can't just kfree(cgroup), because tg might access tg->css.cgroup. With this change: cgroup_rmdir() ss->css_offline() <-- unregister tg diput() synchronize_rcu() <-- wait possible refs to tg and cgroup ss->css_free() <-- free tg kfree_rcu(cgroup) <-- free cgroup As you see, kfree_rcu() is redundant now. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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21-Jan-2013 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
ptrace: introduce signal_wake_up_state() and ptrace_signal_wake_up() Cleanup and preparation for the next change. signal_wake_up(resume => true) is overused. None of ptrace/jctl callers actually want to wakeup a TASK_WAKEKILL task, but they can't specify the necessary mask. Turn signal_wake_up() into signal_wake_up_state(state), reintroduce signal_wake_up() as a trivial helper, and add ptrace_signal_wake_up() which adds __TASK_TRACED. This way ptrace_signal_wake_up() can work "inside" ptrace_request() even if the tracee doesn't have the TASK_WAKEKILL bit set. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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15-Jan-2013 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
module, async: async_synchronize_full() on module init iff async is used If the default iosched is built as module, the kernel may deadlock while trying to load the iosched module on device probe if the probing was running off async. This is because async_synchronize_full() at the end of module init ends up waiting for the async job which initiated the module loading. async A modprobe 1. finds a device 2. registers the block device 3. request_module(default iosched) 4. modprobe in userland 5. load and init module 6. async_synchronize_full() Async A waits for modprobe to finish in request_module() and modprobe waits for async A to finish in async_synchronize_full(). Because there's no easy to track dependency once control goes out to userland, implementing properly nested flushing is difficult. For now, make module init perform async_synchronize_full() iff module init has queued async jobs as suggested by Linus. This avoids the described deadlock because iosched module doesn't use async and thus wouldn't invoke async_synchronize_full(). This is hacky and incomplete. It will deadlock if async module loading nests; however, this works around the known problem case and seems to be the best of bad options. For more details, please refer to the following thread. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1420814 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Tested-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Tested-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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13-Dec-2012 |
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
Bury the conditionals from kernel_thread/kernel_execve series All architectures have CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE __ARCH_WANT_SYS_EXECVE None of them have __ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_EXECVE and there are only two callers of kernel_execve() (which is a trivial wrapper for do_execve() now) left. Kill the conditionals and make both callers use do_execve(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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18-Dec-2012 |
Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> |
memcg: skip memcg kmem allocations in specified code regions Create a mechanism that skip memcg allocations during certain pieces of our core code. It basically works in the same way as preempt_disable()/preempt_enable(): By marking a region under which all allocations will be accounted to the root memcg. We need this to prevent races in early cache creation, when we allocate data using caches that are not necessarily created already. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> yCc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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17-Dec-2012 |
Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> |
pidns: remove unused is_container_init() Since commit 1cdcbec1a337 ("CRED: Neuter sys_capset()") is_container_init() has no callers. Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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11-Dec-2012 |
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> |
mm, oom: fix race when specifying a thread as the oom origin test_set_oom_score_adj() and compare_swap_oom_score_adj() are used to specify that current should be killed first if an oom condition occurs in between the two calls. The usage is short oom_score_adj = test_set_oom_score_adj(OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX); ... compare_swap_oom_score_adj(OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX, oom_score_adj); to store the thread's oom_score_adj, temporarily change it to the maximum score possible, and then restore the old value if it is still the same. This happens to still be racy, however, if the user writes OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX to /proc/pid/oom_score_adj in between the two calls. The compare_swap_oom_score_adj() will then incorrectly reset the old value prior to the write of OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX. To fix this, introduce a new oom_flags_t member in struct signal_struct that will be used for per-thread oom killer flags. KSM and swapoff can now use a bit in this member to specify that threads should be killed first in oom conditions without playing around with oom_score_adj. This also allows the correct oom_score_adj to always be shown when reading /proc/pid/oom_score. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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11-Dec-2012 |
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> |
mm, oom: change type of oom_score_adj to short The maximum oom_score_adj is 1000 and the minimum oom_score_adj is -1000, so this range can be represented by the signed short type with no functional change. The extra space this frees up in struct signal_struct will be used for per-thread oom kill flags in the next patch. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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22-Nov-2012 |
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> |
mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing This patch adds Kconfig options and kernel parameters to allow the enabling and disabling of automatic NUMA balancing. The existance of such a switch was and is very important when debugging problems related to transparent hugepages and we should have the same for automatic NUMA placement. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
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20-Nov-2012 |
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> |
mm: sched: Adapt the scanning rate if a NUMA hinting fault does not migrate The PTE scanning rate and fault rates are two of the biggest sources of system CPU overhead with automatic NUMA placement. Ideally a proper policy would detect if a workload was properly placed, schedule and adjust the PTE scanning rate accordingly. We do not track the necessary information to do that but we at least know if we migrated or not. This patch scans slower if a page was not migrated as the result of a NUMA hinting fault up to sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_max which is now higher than the previous default. Once every minute it will reset the scanner in case of phase changes. This is hilariously crude and the numbers are arbitrary. Workloads will converge quite slowly in comparison to what a proper policy should be able to do. On the plus side, we will chew up less CPU for workloads that have no need for automatic balancing. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
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25-Oct-2012 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
mm: sched: numa: Implement slow start for working set sampling Add a 1 second delay before starting to scan the working set of a task and starting to balance it amongst nodes. [ note that before the constant per task WSS sampling rate patch the initial scan would happen much later still, in effect that patch caused this regression. ] The theory is that short-run tasks benefit very little from NUMA placement: they come and go, and they better stick to the node they were started on. As tasks mature and rebalance to other CPUs and nodes, so does their NUMA placement have to change and so does it start to matter more and more. In practice this change fixes an observable kbuild regression: # [ a perf stat --null --repeat 10 test of ten bzImage builds to /dev/shm ] !NUMA: 45.291088843 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.40% ) 45.154231752 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.36% ) +NUMA, no slow start: 46.172308123 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.30% ) 46.343168745 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.25% ) +NUMA, 1 sec slow start: 45.224189155 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.25% ) 45.160866532 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.17% ) and it also fixes an observable perf bench (hackbench) regression: # perf stat --null --repeat 10 perf bench sched messaging -NUMA: -NUMA: 0.246225691 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.31% ) +NUMA no slow start: 0.252620063 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.13% ) +NUMA 1sec delay: 0.248076230 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.35% ) The implementation is simple and straightforward, most of the patch deals with adding the /proc/sys/kernel/numa_balancing_scan_delay_ms tunable knob. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> [ Wrote the changelog, ran measurements, tuned the default. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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25-Oct-2012 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
mm: sched: numa: Implement constant, per task Working Set Sampling (WSS) rate Previously, to probe the working set of a task, we'd use a very simple and crude method: mark all of its address space PROT_NONE. That method has various (obvious) disadvantages: - it samples the working set at dissimilar rates, giving some tasks a sampling quality advantage over others. - creates performance problems for tasks with very large working sets - over-samples processes with large address spaces but which only very rarely execute Improve that method by keeping a rotating offset into the address space that marks the current position of the scan, and advance it by a constant rate (in a CPU cycles execution proportional manner). If the offset reaches the last mapped address of the mm then it then it starts over at the first address. The per-task nature of the working set sampling functionality in this tree allows such constant rate, per task, execution-weight proportional sampling of the working set, with an adaptive sampling interval/frequency that goes from once per 100ms up to just once per 8 seconds. The current sampling volume is 256 MB per interval. As tasks mature and converge their working set, so does the sampling rate slow down to just a trickle, 256 MB per 8 seconds of CPU time executed. This, beyond being adaptive, also rate-limits rarely executing systems and does not over-sample on overloaded systems. [ In AutoNUMA speak, this patch deals with the effective sampling rate of the 'hinting page fault'. AutoNUMA's scanning is currently rate-limited, but it is also fundamentally single-threaded, executing in the knuma_scand kernel thread, so the limit in AutoNUMA is global and does not scale up with the number of CPUs, nor does it scan tasks in an execution proportional manner. So the idea of rate-limiting the scanning was first implemented in the AutoNUMA tree via a global rate limit. This patch goes beyond that by implementing an execution rate proportional working set sampling rate that is not implemented via a single global scanning daemon. ] [ Dan Carpenter pointed out a possible NULL pointer dereference in the first version of this patch. ] Based-on-idea-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Bug-Found-By: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> [ Wrote changelog and fixed bug. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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25-Oct-2012 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
mm: numa: Add fault driven placement and migration NOTE: This patch is based on "sched, numa, mm: Add fault driven placement and migration policy" but as it throws away all the policy to just leave a basic foundation I had to drop the signed-offs-by. This patch creates a bare-bones method for setting PTEs pte_numa in the context of the scheduler that when faulted later will be faulted onto the node the CPU is running on. In itself this does nothing useful but any placement policy will fundamentally depend on receiving hints on placement from fault context and doing something intelligent about it. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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22-Oct-2012 |
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
flagday: kill pt_regs argument of do_fork() Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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22-Oct-2012 |
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread() Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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20-Oct-2012 |
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
get rid of pt_regs argument of do_execve() Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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02-Oct-2012 |
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
kill daemonize() Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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21-Nov-2012 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
cputime: Consolidate cputime adjustment code task_cputime_adjusted() and thread_group_cputime_adjusted() essentially share the same code. They just don't use the same source: * The first function uses the cputime in the task struct and the previous adjusted snapshot that ensures monotonicity. * The second adds the cputime of all tasks in the group and the previous adjusted snapshot of the whole group from the signal structure. Just consolidate the common code that does the adjustment. These functions just need to fetch the values from the appropriate source. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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21-Nov-2012 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
cputime: Rename thread_group_times to thread_group_cputime_adjusted We have thread_group_cputime() and thread_group_times(). The naming doesn't provide enough information about the difference between these two APIs. To lower the confusion, rename thread_group_times() to thread_group_cputime_adjusted(). This name better suggests that it's a version of thread_group_cputime() that does some stabilization on the raw cputime values. ie here: scale on top of CFS runtime stats and bound lower value for monotonicity. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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27-Nov-2012 |
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> |
sched: add notifier for cross-cpu migrations Originally from Jeremy Fitzhardinge. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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04-Oct-2012 |
Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> |
sched: Introduce temporary FAIR_GROUP_SCHED dependency for load-tracking While per-entity load-tracking is generally useful, beyond computing shares distribution, e.g. runnable based load-balance (in progress), governors, power-management, etc. These facilities are not yet consumers of this data. This may be trivially reverted when the information is required; but avoid paying the overhead for calculations we will not use until then. Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141507.422162369@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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04-Oct-2012 |
Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> |
sched: Add an rq migration call-back to sched_class Since we are now doing bottom up load accumulation we need explicit notification when a task has been re-parented so that the old hierarchy can be updated. Adds: migrate_task_rq(struct task_struct *p, int next_cpu) (The alternative is to do this out of __set_task_cpu, but it was suggested that this would be a cleaner encapsulation.) Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141506.660023400@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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04-Oct-2012 |
Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> |
sched: Maintain the load contribution of blocked entities We are currently maintaining: runnable_load(cfs_rq) = \Sum task_load(t) For all running children t of cfs_rq. While this can be naturally updated for tasks in a runnable state (as they are scheduled); this does not account for the load contributed by blocked task entities. This can be solved by introducing a separate accounting for blocked load: blocked_load(cfs_rq) = \Sum runnable(b) * weight(b) Obviously we do not want to iterate over all blocked entities to account for their decay, we instead observe that: runnable_load(t) = \Sum p_i*y^i and that to account for an additional idle period we only need to compute: y*runnable_load(t). This means that we can compute all blocked entities at once by evaluating: blocked_load(cfs_rq)` = y * blocked_load(cfs_rq) Finally we maintain a decay counter so that when a sleeping entity re-awakens we can determine how much of its load should be removed from the blocked sum. Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141506.585389902@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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04-Oct-2012 |
Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> |
sched: Aggregate load contributed by task entities on parenting cfs_rq For a given task t, we can compute its contribution to load as: task_load(t) = runnable_avg(t) * weight(t) On a parenting cfs_rq we can then aggregate: runnable_load(cfs_rq) = \Sum task_load(t), for all runnable children t Maintain this bottom up, with task entities adding their contributed load to the parenting cfs_rq sum. When a task entity's load changes we add the same delta to the maintained sum. Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141506.514678907@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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04-Oct-2012 |
Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> |
sched: Track the runnable average on a per-task entity basis Instead of tracking averaging the load parented by a cfs_rq, we can track entity load directly. With the load for a given cfs_rq then being the sum of its children. To do this we represent the historical contribution to runnable average within each trailing 1024us of execution as the coefficients of a geometric series. We can express this for a given task t as: runnable_sum(t) = \Sum u_i * y^i, runnable_avg_period(t) = \Sum 1024 * y^i load(t) = weight_t * runnable_sum(t) / runnable_avg_period(t) Where: u_i is the usage in the last i`th 1024us period (approximately 1ms) ~ms and y is chosen such that y^k = 1/2. We currently choose k to be 32 which roughly translates to about a sched period. Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Reviewed-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120823141506.372695337@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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19-Sep-2012 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Print remote CPU's stacks in stall warnings The RCU CPU stall warnings rely on trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() to do NMI-based dump of the stack traces of all CPUs. Unfortunately, a number of architectures do not implement trigger_all_cpu_backtrace(), in which case RCU falls back to just dumping the stack of the running CPU. This is unhelpful in the case where the running CPU has detected that some other CPU has stalled. This commit therefore makes the running CPU dump the stacks of the tasks running on the stalled CPUs. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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10-Oct-2012 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
rcu: Remove rcu_switch() It's only there to call rcu_user_hooks_switch(). Let's just call rcu_user_hooks_switch() directly, we don't need this function in the middle. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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13-Oct-2012 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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08-Oct-2012 |
Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org> |
oom: remove deprecated oom_adj The deprecated /proc/<pid>/oom_adj is scheduled for removal this month. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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04-Oct-2012 |
Alex Kelly <alex.page.kelly@gmail.com> |
coredump: update coredump-related headers Create a new header file, fs/coredump.h, which contains functions only used by the new coredump.c. It also moves do_coredump to the include/linux/coredump.h header file, for consistency. Signed-off-by: Alex Kelly <alex.page.kelly@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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26-Sep-2012 |
Alex Kelly <alex.page.kelly@gmail.com> |
coredump: move core dump functionality into its own file This prepares for making core dump functionality optional. The variable "suid_dumpable" and associated functions are left in fs/exec.c because they're used elsewhere, such as in ptrace. Signed-off-by: Alex Kelly <alex.page.kelly@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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21-Sep-2012 |
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
preparation for generic kernel_thread() Let architectures select GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD and have their copy_thread() treat NULL regs as "it came from kernel_thread(), sp argument contains the function new thread will be calling and stack_size - the argument for that function". Switching the architectures begins shortly... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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16-Jul-2012 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
rcu: Switch task's syscall hooks on context switch Clear the syscalls hook of a task when it's scheduled out so that if the task migrates, it doesn't run the syscall slow path on a CPU that might not need it. Also set the syscalls hook on the next task if needed. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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23-Sep-2012 |
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> |
net: use a per task frag allocator We currently use a per socket order-0 page cache for tcp_sendmsg() operations. This page is used to build fragments for skbs. Its done to increase probability of coalescing small write() into single segments in skbs still in write queue (not yet sent) But it wastes a lot of memory for applications handling many mostly idle sockets, since each socket holds one page in sk->sk_sndmsg_page Its also quite inefficient to build TSO 64KB packets, because we need about 16 pages per skb on arches where PAGE_SIZE = 4096, so we hit page allocator more than wanted. This patch adds a per task frag allocator and uses bigger pages, if available. An automatic fallback is done in case of memory pressure. (up to 32768 bytes per frag, thats order-3 pages on x86) This increases TCP stream performance by 20% on loopback device, but also benefits on other network devices, since 8x less frags are mapped on transmit and unmapped on tx completion. Alexander Duyck mentioned a probable performance win on systems with IOMMU enabled. Its possible some SG enabled hardware cant cope with bigger fragments, but their ndo_start_xmit() should already handle this, splitting a fragment in sub fragments, since some arches have PAGE_SIZE=65536 Successfully tested on various ethernet devices. (ixgbe, igb, bnx2x, tg3, mellanox mlx4) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Cc: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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10-Sep-2012 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
userns: Convert the audit loginuid to be a kuid Always store audit loginuids in type kuid_t. Print loginuids by converting them into uids in the appropriate user namespace, and then printing the resulting uid. Modify audit_get_loginuid to return a kuid_t. Modify audit_set_loginuid to take a kuid_t. Modify /proc/<pid>/loginuid on read to convert the loginuid into the user namespace of the opener of the file. Modify /proc/<pid>/loginud on write to convert the loginuid rom the user namespace of the opener of the file. Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> ? Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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16-Sep-2012 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Revert "sched: Improve scalability via 'CPU buddies', which withstand random perturbations" This reverts commit 970e178985cadbca660feb02f4d2ee3a09f7fdda. Nikolay Ulyanitsky reported thatthe 3.6-rc5 kernel has a 15-20% performance drop on PostgreSQL 9.2 on his machine (running "pgbench"). Borislav Petkov was able to reproduce this, and bisected it to this commit 970e178985ca ("sched: Improve scalability via 'CPU buddies' ...") apparently because the new single-idle-buddy model simply doesn't find idle CPU's to reschedule on aggressively enough. Mike Galbraith suspects that it is likely due to the user-mode spinlocks in PostgreSQL not reacting well to preemption, but we don't really know the details - I'll just revert the commit for now. There are hopefully other approaches to improve scheduler scalability without it causing these kinds of downsides. Reported-by: Nikolay Ulyanitsky <lystor@gmail.com> Bisected-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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19-Aug-2012 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
uprobes: Introduce MMF_RECALC_UPROBES Add the new MMF_RECALC_UPROBES flag, it means that MMF_HAS_UPROBES can be false positive after remove_breakpoint() or uprobe_munmap(). It is also set by uprobe_dup_mmap(), this is not optimal but simple. We could add the new hook, uprobe_dup_vma(), to set MMF_HAS_UPROBES only if the new mm actually has uprobes, but I don't think this makes sense. The next patch will use this flag to clear MMF_HAS_UPROBES. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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10-Sep-2012 |
Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> |
sched/nohz: Clean up select_nohz_load_balancer() There is no load_balancer to be selected now. It just sets the state of the nohz tick to stop. So rename the function, pass the 'cpu' as a parameter and then remove the useless call from tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(). [ s/set_nohz_tick_stopped/nohz_balance_enter_idle/g s/clear_nohz_tick_stopped/nohz_balance_exit_idle/g ] Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347261059-24747-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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12-Sep-2012 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Remove __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW Now that the last architecture to use this has stopped doing so (ARM, thanks Catalin!) we can remove this complexity from the scheduler core. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-g9p2a1w81xxbrze25v9zpzbf@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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08-Aug-2012 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
uprobes: Introduce MMF_HAS_UPROBES Add the new MMF_HAS_UPROBES flag. It is set by install_breakpoint() and it is copied by dup_mmap(), uprobe_pre_sstep_notifier() checks it to avoid the slow path if the task was never probed. Perhaps it makes sense to check it in valid_vma(is_register => false) as well. This needs the new dup_mmap()->uprobe_dup_mmap() hook. We can't use uprobe_reset_state() or put MMF_HAS_UPROBES into MMF_INIT_MASK, we need oldmm->mmap_sem to avoid the race with uprobe_register() or mmap() from another thread. Currently we never clear this bit, it can be false-positive after uprobe_unregister() or uprobe_munmap() or if dup_mmap() hits the probed VM_DONTCOPY vma. But this is fine correctness-wise and has no effect unless the task hits the non-uprobe breakpoint. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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25-Jul-2012 |
Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> |
sched: recover SD_WAKE_AFFINE in select_task_rq_fair and code clean up Since power saving code was removed from sched now, the implement code is out of service in this function, and even pollute other logical. like, 'want_sd' never has chance to be set '0', that remove the effect of SD_WAKE_AFFINE here. So, clean up the obsolete code, includes SD_PREFER_LOCAL. Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5028F431.6000306@intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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07-Aug-2012 |
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> |
Revert "NMI watchdog: fix for lockup detector breakage on resume" Revert commit 45226e9 (NMI watchdog: fix for lockup detector breakage on resume) which breaks resume from system suspend on my SH7372 Mackerel board (by causing a NULL pointer dereference to happen) and is generally wrong, because it abuses the CPU hotplug functionality in a shamelessly blatant way. The original issue should be addressed through appropriate syscore resume callback instead. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
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31-Jul-2012 |
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> |
mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context This is needed to allow network softirq packet processing to make use of PF_MEMALLOC. Currently softirq context cannot use PF_MEMALLOC due to it not being associated with a task, and therefore not having task flags to fiddle with - thus the gfp to alloc flag mapping ignores the task flags when in interrupts (hard or soft) context. Allowing softirqs to make use of PF_MEMALLOC therefore requires some trickery. This patch borrows the task flags from whatever process happens to be preempted by the softirq. It then modifies the gfp to alloc flags mapping to not exclude task flags in softirq context, and modify the softirq code to save, clear and restore the PF_MEMALLOC flag. The save and clear, ensures the preempted task's PF_MEMALLOC flag doesn't leak into the softirq. The restore ensures a softirq's PF_MEMALLOC flag cannot leak back into the preempted process. This should be safe due to the following reasons Softirqs can run on multiple CPUs sure but the same task should not be executing the same softirq code. Neither should the softirq handler be preempted by any other softirq handler so the flags should not leak to an unrelated softirq. Softirqs re-enable hardware interrupts in __do_softirq() so can be preempted by hardware interrupts so PF_MEMALLOC is inherited by the hard IRQ. However, this is similar to a process in reclaim being preempted by a hardirq. While PF_MEMALLOC is set, gfp_to_alloc_flags() distinguishes between hard and soft irqs and avoids giving a hardirq the ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS flag. If the softirq is deferred to ksoftirq then its flags may be used instead of a normal tasks but as the softirq cannot be preempted, the PF_MEMALLOC flag does not leak to other code by accident. [davem@davemloft.net: Document why PF_MEMALLOC is safe] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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31-Jul-2012 |
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
memcg: rename config variables Sanity: CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR -> CONFIG_MEMCG CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP -> CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED -> CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM -> CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM [mhocko@suse.cz: fix missed bits] Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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30-Jul-2012 |
Sameer Nanda <snanda@chromium.org> |
NMI watchdog: fix for lockup detector breakage on resume On the suspend/resume path the boot CPU does not go though an offline->online transition. This breaks the NMI detector post-resume since it depends on PMU state that is lost when the system gets suspended. Fix this by forcing a CPU offline->online transition for the lockup detector on the boot CPU during resume. To provide more context, we enable NMI watchdog on Chrome OS. We have seen several reports of systems freezing up completely which indicated that the NMI watchdog was not firing for some reason. Debugging further, we found a simple way of repro'ing system freezes -- issuing the command 'tasket 1 sh -c "echo nmilockup > /proc/breakme"' after the system has been suspended/resumed one or more times. With this patch in place, the system freeze result in panics, as expected. These panics provide a nice stack trace for us to debug the actual issue causing the freeze. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fiddle with code comment] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make lockup_detector_bootcpu_resume() conditional on CONFIG_SUSPEND] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix section errors] Signed-off-by: Sameer Nanda <snanda@chromium.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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30-Jul-2012 |
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> |
coredump: warn about unsafe suid_dumpable / core_pattern combo When suid_dumpable=2, detect unsafe core_pattern settings and warn when they are seen. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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22-Jun-2012 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Fix race in task_group() Stefan reported a crash on a kernel before a3e5d1091c1 ("sched: Don't call task_group() too many times in set_task_rq()"), he found the reason to be that the multiple task_group() invocations in set_task_rq() returned different values. Looking at all that I found a lack of serialization and plain wrong comments. The below tries to fix it using an extra pointer which is updated under the appropriate scheduler locks. Its not pretty, but I can't really see another way given how all the cgroup stuff works. Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340364965.18025.71.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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11-Jun-2012 |
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> |
sched: Improve scalability via 'CPU buddies', which withstand random perturbations Traversing an entire package is not only expensive, it also leads to tasks bouncing all over a partially idle and possible quite large package. Fix that up by assigning a 'buddy' CPU to try to motivate. Each buddy may try to motivate that one other CPU, if it's busy, tough, it may then try its SMT sibling, but that's all this optimization is allowed to cost. Sibling cache buddies are cross-wired to prevent bouncing. 4 socket 40 core + SMT Westmere box, single 30 sec tbench runs, higher is better: clients 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 .......................................................................... pre 30 41 118 645 3769 6214 12233 14312 post 299 603 1211 2418 4697 6847 11606 14557 A nice increase in performance. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339471112.7352.32.camel@marge.simpson.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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24-Jun-2012 |
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
get rid of ->scm_work_list recursion in __scm_destroy() will be cut by delaying final fput() Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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27-Jun-2012 |
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
merge task_work and rcu_head, get rid of separate allocation for keyring case task_work and rcu_head are identical now; merge them (calling the result struct callback_head, rcu_head #define'd to it), kill separate allocation in security/keys since we can just use cred->rcu now. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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26-Jun-2012 |
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
trim task_work: get rid of hlist layout based on Oleg's suggestion; single-linked list, task->task_works points to the last element, forward pointer from said last element points to head. I'd still prefer much more regular scheme with two pointers in task_work, but... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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22-Jun-2012 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again Thanks to Charles Wang for spotting the defects in the current code: - If we go idle during the sample window -- after sampling, we get a negative bias because we can negate our own sample. - If we wake up during the sample window we get a positive bias because we push the sample to a known active period. So rewrite the entire nohz load-avg muck once again, now adding copious documentation to the code. Reported-and-tested-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net> Reported-and-tested-by: Charles Wang <muming.wq@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340373782.18025.74.camel@twins [ minor edits ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Jul-2012 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
Revert "rcu: Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation" This reverts commit 616c310e83b872024271c915c1b9ab505b9efad9. (Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation). Testing by Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> showed that this can result in deadlock due to invoking the scheduler when one of the runqueue locks is held. Because this commit was simply a performance optimization, revert it. Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
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07-Jun-2012 |
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> |
c/r: prctl: update prctl_set_mm_exe_file() after mm->num_exe_file_vmas removal A fix for commit b32dfe377102 ("c/r: prctl: add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file"). After removing mm->num_exe_file_vmas kernel keeps mm->exe_file until final mmput(), it never becomes NULL while task is alive. We can check for other mapped files in mm instead of checking mm->num_exe_file_vmas, and mark mm with flag MMF_EXE_FILE_CHANGED in order to forbid second changing of mm->exe_file. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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29-May-2012 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
uprobes: Kill uprobes_srcu/uprobe_srcu_id Kill the no longer needed uprobes_srcu/uprobe_srcu_id code. It doesn't really work anyway. synchronize_srcu() can only synchronize with the code "inside" the srcu_read_lock/srcu_read_unlock section, while uprobe_pre_sstep_notifier() does srcu_read_lock() _after_ we already hit the breakpoint. I guess this probably works "in practice". synchronize_srcu() is slow and it implies synchronize_sched(), and the probed task enters the non- preemptible section at the start of exception handler. Still this is not right at least in theory, and task->uprobe_srcu_id blows task_struct. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120529193008.GG8057@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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31-May-2012 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Fix domain iteration Weird topologies can lead to asymmetric domain setups. This needs further consideration since these setups are typically non-minimal too. For now, make it work by adding an extra mask selecting which CPUs are allowed to iterate up. The topology that triggered it is the one from David Rientjes: 10 20 20 30 20 10 20 20 20 20 10 20 30 20 20 10 resulting in boxes that wouldn't even boot. Reported-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3p86l9cuaqnxz7uxsojmz5rm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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27-Apr-2012 |
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
most of set_current_blocked() callers want SIGKILL/SIGSTOP removed from set Only 3 out of 63 do not. Renamed the current variant to __set_current_blocked(), added set_current_blocked() that will exclude unblockable signals, switched open-coded instances to it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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02-May-2012 |
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
new helper: sigmask_to_save() replace boilerplate "should we use ->saved_sigmask or ->blocked?" with calls of obvious inlined helper... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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21-May-2012 |
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
new helper: restore_saved_sigmask() first fruits of ..._restore_sigmask() helpers: now we can take boilerplate "signal didn't have a handler, clear RESTORE_SIGMASK and restore the blocked mask from ->saved_mask" into a common helper. Open-coded instances switched... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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22-Apr-2012 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Move nr_cpus_allowed out of 'struct sched_rt_entity' Since nr_cpus_allowed is used outside of sched/rt.c and wants to be used outside of there more, move it to a more natural site. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kr61f02y9brwzkh6x53pdptm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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17-May-2012 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load calculations some more Follow up on commit 556061b00 ("sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load[] calculations") since while that fixed the busy case it regressed the mostly idle case. Add a callback from the nohz exit to also age the rq->cpu_load[] array. This closes the hole where either there was no nohz load balance pass during the nohz, or there was a 'significant' amount of idle time between the last nohz balance and the nohz exit. So we'll update unconditionally from the tick to not insert any accidental 0 load periods while busy, and we try and catch up from nohz idle balance and nohz exit. Both these are still prone to missing a jiffy, but that has always been the case. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kt0trz0apodbf84ucjfdbr1a@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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10-May-2012 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
keys: kill task_struct->replacement_session_keyring Kill the no longer used task_struct->replacement_session_keyring, update copy_creds() and exit_creds(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com> Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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10-May-2012 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
genirq: reimplement exit_irq_thread() hook via task_work_add() exit_irq_thread() and task->irq_thread are needed to handle the unexpected (and unlikely) exit of irq-thread. We can use task_work instead and make this all private to kernel/irq/manage.c, cleanup plus micro-optimization. 1. rename exit_irq_thread() to irq_thread_dtor(), make it static, and move it up before irq_thread(). 2. change irq_thread() to do task_work_add(irq_thread_dtor) at the start and task_work_cancel() before return. tracehook_notify_resume() can never play with kthreads, only do_exit()->exit_task_work() can call the callback and this is what we want. 3. remove task_struct->irq_thread and the special hook in do_exit(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com> Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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10-May-2012 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
task_work_add: generic process-context callbacks Provide a simple mechanism that allows running code in the (nonatomic) context of the arbitrary task. The caller does task_work_add(task, task_work) and this task executes task_work->func() either from do_notify_resume() or from do_exit(). The callback can rely on PF_EXITING to detect the latter case. "struct task_work" can be embedded in another struct, still it has "void *data" to handle the most common/simple case. This allows us to kill the ->replacement_session_keyring hack, and potentially this can have more users. Performance-wise, this adds 2 "unlikely(!hlist_empty())" checks into tracehook_notify_resume() and do_exit(). But at the same time we can remove the "replacement_session_keyring != NULL" checks from arch/*/signal.c and exit_creds(). Note: task_work_add/task_work_run abuses ->pi_lock. This is only because this lock is already used by lookup_pi_state() to synchronize with do_exit() setting PF_EXITING. Fortunately the scope of this lock in task_work.c is really tiny, and the code is unlikely anyway. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com> Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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09-Jan-2012 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Remove stale power aware scheduling remnants and dysfunctional knobs It's been broken forever (i.e. it's not scheduling in a power aware fashion), as reported by Suresh and others sending patches, and nobody cares enough to fix it properly ... so remove it to make space free for something better. There's various problems with the code as it stands today, first and foremost the user interface which is bound to topology levels and has multiple values per level. This results in a state explosion which the administrator or distro needs to master and almost nobody does. Furthermore large configuration state spaces aren't good, it means the thing doesn't just work right because it's either under so many impossibe to meet constraints, or even if there's an achievable state workloads have to be aware of it precisely and can never meet it for dynamic workloads. So pushing this kind of decision to user-space was a bad idea even with a single knob - it's exponentially worse with knobs on every node of the topology. There is a proposal to replace the user interface with a single 3 state knob: sched_balance_policy := { performance, power, auto } where 'auto' would be the preferred default which looks at things like Battery/AC mode and possible cpufreq state or whatever the hw exposes to show us power use expectations - but there's been no progress on it in the past many months. Aside from that, the actual implementation of the various knobs is known to be broken. There have been sporadic attempts at fixing things but these always stop short of reaching a mergable state. Therefore this wholesale removal with the hopes of spurring people who care to come forward once again and work on a coherent replacement. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1326104915.2442.53.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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10-May-2012 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched/fair: Revert sched-domain iteration breakage Patches c22402a2f ("sched/fair: Let minimally loaded cpu balance the group") and 0ce90475 ("sched/fair: Add some serialization to the sched_domain load-balance walk") are horribly broken so revert them. The problem is that while it sounds good to have the minimally loaded cpu do the pulling of more load, the way we walk the domains there is absolutely no guarantee this cpu will actually get to the domain. In fact its very likely it wont. Therefore the higher up the tree we get, the less likely it is we'll balance at all. The first of mask always walks up, while sucky in that it accumulates load on the first cpu and needs extra passes to spread it out at least guarantees a cpu gets up that far and load-balancing happens at all. Since its now always the first and idle cpus should always be able to balance so they get a task as fast as possible we can also do away with the added serialization. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rpuhs5s56aiv1aw7khv9zkw6@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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24-Apr-2012 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched/fair: Add some serialization to the sched_domain load-balance walk Since the sched_domain walk is completely unserialized (!SD_SERIALIZE) it is possible that multiple cpus in the group get elected to do the next level. Avoid this by adding some serialization. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vqh9ai6s0ewmeakjz80w4qz6@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Apr-2012 |
Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> |
sched: Update documentation and comments Change sched_*.c to sched/*.c in documentation and comments. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F795CAC.9080206@ct.jp.nec.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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27-Mar-2012 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation Currently, PREEMPT_RCU readers are enqueued upon entry to the scheduler. This is inefficient because enqueuing is required only if there is a context switch, and entry to the scheduler does not guarantee a context switch. The commit therefore moves the enqueuing to immediately precede the call to switch_to() from the scheduler. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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12-Apr-2012 |
Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org> |
seccomp: kill the seccomp_t typedef Replaces the seccomp_t typedef with struct seccomp to match modern kernel style. Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> v18: rebase ... v14: rebase/nochanges v13: rebase on to 88ebdda6159ffc15699f204c33feb3e431bf9bdc v12: rebase on to linux-next v8-v11: no changes v7: struct seccomp_struct -> struct seccomp v6: original inclusion in this series. Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
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12-Apr-2012 |
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> |
Add PR_{GET,SET}_NO_NEW_PRIVS to prevent execve from granting privs With this change, calling prctl(PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, 1, 0, 0, 0) disables privilege granting operations at execve-time. For example, a process will not be able to execute a setuid binary to change their uid or gid if this bit is set. The same is true for file capabilities. Additionally, LSM_UNSAFE_NO_NEW_PRIVS is defined to ensure that LSMs respect the requested behavior. To determine if the NO_NEW_PRIVS bit is set, a task may call prctl(PR_GET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, 0, 0, 0, 0); It returns 1 if set and 0 if it is not set. If any of the arguments are non-zero, it will return -1 and set errno to -EINVAL. (PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS behaves similarly.) This functionality is desired for the proposed seccomp filter patch series. By using PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, it allows a task to modify the system call behavior for itself and its child tasks without being able to impact the behavior of a more privileged task. Another potential use is making certain privileged operations unprivileged. For example, chroot may be considered "safe" if it cannot affect privileged tasks. Note, this patch causes execve to fail when PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS is set and AppArmor is in use. It is fixed in a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> v18: updated change desc v17: using new define values as per 3.4 Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
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17-Nov-2011 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
userns: Disassociate user_struct from the user_namespace. Modify alloc_uid to take a kuid and make the user hash table global. Stop holding a reference to the user namespace in struct user_struct. This simplifies the code and makes the per user accounting not care about which user namespace a uid happens to appear in. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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17-Nov-2011 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
userns: Deprecate and rename the user_namespace reference in the user_struct With a user_ns reference in struct cred the only user of the user namespace reference in struct user_struct is to keep the uid hash table alive. The user_namespace reference in struct user_struct will be going away soon, and I have removed all of the references. Rename the field from user_ns to _user_ns so that the compiler can verify nothing follows the user struct to the user namespace anymore. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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16-Nov-2011 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
userns: Kill bogus declaration of function release_uids There is no release_uids function remove the declaration from sched.h Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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28-Mar-2012 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing it. Performed with the following command: perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *` Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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23-Mar-2012 |
Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> |
prctl: add PR_{SET,GET}_CHILD_SUBREAPER to allow simple process supervision Userspace service managers/supervisors need to track their started services. Many services daemonize by double-forking and get implicitly re-parented to PID 1. The service manager will no longer be able to receive the SIGCHLD signals for them, and is no longer in charge of reaping the children with wait(). All information about the children is lost at the moment PID 1 cleans up the re-parented processes. With this prctl, a service manager process can mark itself as a sort of 'sub-init', able to stay as the parent for all orphaned processes created by the started services. All SIGCHLD signals will be delivered to the service manager. Receiving SIGCHLD and doing wait() is in cases of a service-manager much preferred over any possible asynchronous notification about specific PIDs, because the service manager has full access to the child process data in /proc and the PID can not be re-used until the wait(), the service-manager itself is in charge of, has happened. As a side effect, the relevant parent PID information does not get lost by a double-fork, which results in a more elaborate process tree and 'ps' output: before: # ps afx 253 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --system --nofork 294 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd 328 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/modem-manager 608 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/colord 658 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/upowerd 819 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/imsettings-daemon 916 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/udisks-daemon 917 ? S 0:00 \_ udisks-daemon: not polling any devices after: # ps afx 294 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --system --nofork 426 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd 449 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/modem-manager 635 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/colord 705 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/upowerd 959 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/udisks-daemon 960 ? S 0:00 | \_ udisks-daemon: not polling any devices 977 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/packagekitd This prctl is orthogonal to PID namespaces. PID namespaces are isolated from each other, while a service management process usually requires the services to live in the same namespace, to be able to talk to each other. Users of this will be the systemd per-user instance, which provides init-like functionality for the user's login session and D-Bus, which activates bus services on-demand. Both need init-like capabilities to be able to properly keep track of the services they start. Many thanks to Oleg for several rounds of review and insights. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment layout and spelling] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add lengthy code comment from Oleg] Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Acked-by: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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21-Mar-2012 |
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> |
cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3 Commit c0ff7453bb5c ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems") wins a super prize for the largest number of memory barriers entered into fast paths for one commit. [get|put]_mems_allowed is incredibly heavy with pairs of full memory barriers inserted into a number of hot paths. This was detected while investigating at large page allocator slowdown introduced some time after 2.6.32. The largest portion of this overhead was shown by oprofile to be at an mfence introduced by this commit into the page allocator hot path. For extra style points, the commit introduced the use of yield() in an implementation of what looks like a spinning mutex. This patch replaces the full memory barriers on both read and write sides with a sequence counter with just read barriers on the fast path side. This is much cheaper on some architectures, including x86. The main bulk of the patch is the retry logic if the nodemask changes in a manner that can cause a false failure. While updating the nodemask, a check is made to see if a false failure is a risk. If it is, the sequence number gets bumped and parallel allocators will briefly stall while the nodemask update takes place. In a page fault test microbenchmark, oprofile samples from __alloc_pages_nodemask went from 4.53% of all samples to 1.15%. The actual results were 3.3.0-rc3 3.3.0-rc3 rc3-vanilla nobarrier-v2r1 Clients 1 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.08 (-14.19%) Clients 2 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 2.72%) Clients 4 UserTime 0.08 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 3.29%) Clients 1 SysTime 0.70 ( 0.00%) 0.65 ( 6.65%) Clients 2 SysTime 0.85 ( 0.00%) 0.82 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 SysTime 1.41 ( 0.00%) 1.41 ( 0.32%) Clients 1 WallTime 0.77 ( 0.00%) 0.74 ( 4.19%) Clients 2 WallTime 0.47 ( 0.00%) 0.45 ( 3.73%) Clients 4 WallTime 0.38 ( 0.00%) 0.37 ( 1.58%) Clients 1 Flt/sec/cpu 497620.28 ( 0.00%) 520294.53 ( 4.56%) Clients 2 Flt/sec/cpu 414639.05 ( 0.00%) 429882.01 ( 3.68%) Clients 4 Flt/sec/cpu 257959.16 ( 0.00%) 258761.48 ( 0.31%) Clients 1 Flt/sec 495161.39 ( 0.00%) 517292.87 ( 4.47%) Clients 2 Flt/sec 820325.95 ( 0.00%) 850289.77 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 Flt/sec 1020068.93 ( 0.00%) 1022674.06 ( 0.26%) MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 135.68 132.17 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 164.2 160.13 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 123.46 120.87 The overall improvement is small but the System CPU time is much improved and roughly in correlation to what oprofile reported (these performance figures are without profiling so skew is expected). The actual number of page faults is noticeably improved. For benchmarks like kernel builds, the overall benefit is marginal but the system CPU time is slightly reduced. To test the actual bug the commit fixed I opened two terminals. The first ran within a cpuset and continually ran a small program that faulted 100M of anonymous data. In a second window, the nodemask of the cpuset was continually randomised in a loop. Without the commit, the program would fail every so often (usually within 10 seconds) and obviously with the commit everything worked fine. With this patch applied, it also worked fine so the fix should be functionally equivalent. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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13-Mar-2012 |
Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
uprobes/core: Handle breakpoint and singlestep exceptions Uprobes uses exception notifiers to get to know if a thread hit a breakpoint or a singlestep exception. When a thread hits a uprobe or is singlestepping post a uprobe hit, the uprobe exception notifier sets its TIF_UPROBE bit, which will then be checked on its return to userspace path (do_notify_resume() ->uprobe_notify_resume()), where the consumers handlers are run (in task context) based on the defined filters. Uprobe hits are thread specific and hence we need to maintain information about if a task hit a uprobe, what uprobe was hit, the slot where the original instruction was copied for xol so that it can be singlestepped with appropriate fixups. In some cases, special care is needed for instructions that are executed out of line (xol). These are architecture specific artefacts, such as handling RIP relative instructions on x86_64. Since the instruction at which the uprobe was inserted is executed out of line, architecture specific fixups are added so that the thread continues normal execution in the presence of a uprobe. Postpone the signals until we execute the probed insn. post_xol() path does a recalc_sigpending() before return to user-mode, this ensures the signal can't be lost. Uprobes relies on DIE_DEBUG notification to notify if a singlestep is complete. Adds x86 specific uprobe exception notifiers and appropriate hooks needed to determine a uprobe hit and subsequent post processing. Add requisite x86 fixups for xol for uprobes. Specific cases needing fixups include relative jumps (x86_64), calls, etc. Where possible, we check and skip singlestepping the breakpointed instructions. For now we skip single byte as well as few multibyte nop instructions. However this can be extended to other instructions too. Credits to Oleg Nesterov for suggestions/patches related to signal, breakpoint, singlestep handling code. Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120313180011.29771.89027.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com [ Performed various cleanliness edits ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Mar-2012 |
Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> |
genirq: Get rid of unnecessary irqaction field in task_struct When a new thread handler is created, an irqaction is passed to it as data. Not only that irqaction is stored in task_struct by the handler for later use, but also a structure associated with the kernel thread keeps this value as long as the thread exists. This fix kicks irqaction out off task_struct. Yes, I introduce new bit field. But it allows not only to eliminate the duplicate, but also shortens size of task_struct. Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120309135925.GB2114@dhcp-26-207.brq.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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05-Mar-2012 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
vfork: kill PF_STARTING Previously it was (ab)used by utrace. Then it was wrongly used by the scheduler code. Currently it is not used, kill it before it finds the new erroneous user. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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05-Mar-2012 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
coredump_wait: don't call complete_vfork_done() Now that CLONE_VFORK is killable, coredump_wait() no longer needs complete_vfork_done(). zap_threads() should find and kill all tasks with the same ->mm, this includes our parent if ->vfork_done is set. mm_release() becomes the only caller, unexport complete_vfork_done(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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05-Mar-2012 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
vfork: make it killable Make vfork() killable. Change do_fork(CLONE_VFORK) to do wait_for_completion_killable(). If it fails we do not return to the user-mode and never touch the memory shared with our child. However, in this case we should clear child->vfork_done before return, we use task_lock() in do_fork()->wait_for_vfork_done() and complete_vfork_done() to serialize with each other. Note: now that we use task_lock() we don't really need completion, we could turn task->vfork_done into "task_struct *wake_up_me" but this needs some complications. NOTE: this and the next patches do not affect in-kernel users of CLONE_VFORK, kernel threads run with all signals ignored including SIGKILL/SIGSTOP. However this is obviously the user-visible change. Not only a fatal signal can kill the vforking parent, a sub-thread can do execve or exit_group() and kill the thread sleeping in vfork(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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05-Mar-2012 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
vfork: introduce complete_vfork_done() No functional changes. Move the clear-and-complete-vfork_done code into the new trivial helper, complete_vfork_done(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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23-Feb-2012 |
Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> |
sched: Clean up parameter passing of proc_sched_autogroup_set_nice() Pass nice as a value to proc_sched_autogroup_set_nice(). No side effect is expected, and the variable err will be overwritten with the return value. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F45FBB7.5090607@ct.jp.nec.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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17-Jul-2011 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched/rt: Do not submit new work when PI-blocked When we are PI-blocked then we want to get things done ASAP. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vw8et3445km5b8mpihf4trae@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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20-Mar-2011 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched/rt: Add schedule_preempt_disabled() Add helper to get rid of the ever repeating: preempt_enable_no_resched(); schedule(); preempt_disable(); patterns. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wxx7btox7coby6ifv5vzhzgp@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Feb-2012 |
Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> |
sched: Make initial SCHED_RR timeslace DEF_TIMESLICE Current the initial SCHED_RR timeslice of init_task is HZ, which means 1s, and is not same as the default SCHED_RR timeslice DEF_TIMESLICE. Change that initial timeslice to the DEF_TIMESLICE. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> [ s/DEF_TIMESLICE/RR_TIMESLICE/g ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F3C9995.3010800@ct.jp.nec.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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11-Jan-2012 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Simplify unboosting checks This is a port of commit #82e78d80 from TREE_PREEMPT_RCU to TINY_PREEMPT_RCU. This commit uses the fact that current->rcu_boost_mutex is set any time that the RCU_READ_UNLOCK_BOOSTED flag is set in the current->rcu_read_unlock_special bitmask. This allows tests of the bit to be changed to tests of the pointer, which in turn allows the RCU_READ_UNLOCK_BOOSTED flag to be eliminated. Please note that the check of current->rcu_read_unlock_special need not change because any time that RCU_READ_UNLOCK_BOOSTED was set, so was RCU_READ_UNLOCK_BLOCKED. Therefore, __rcu_read_unlock() can continue testing current->rcu_read_unlock_special for non-zero, as before. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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09-Feb-2012 |
Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> |
sched: Turn lock_task_sighand() into a static inline It appears that sparse tool understands static inline functions for context balance checking, so let's turn the macros into an inline func. This makes the code a little bit more robust. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arve <arve@android.com> Cc: San Mehat <san@google.com> Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: kernel-team@android.com Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120209164519.GA10266@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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01-Feb-2012 |
Christopher Yeoh <cyeoh@au1.ibm.com> |
Fix race in process_vm_rw_core This fixes the race in process_vm_core found by Oleg (see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1235667/ for details). This has been updated since I last sent it as the creation of the new mm_access() function did almost exactly the same thing as parts of the previous version of this patch did. In order to use mm_access() even when /proc isn't enabled, we move it to kernel/fork.c where other related process mm access functions already are. Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh <yeohc@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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12-Dec-2011 |
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> |
sched: Ensure cpu_power periodic update With a lot of small tasks, the softirq sched is nearly never called when no_hz is enabled. In this case load_balance() is mainly called with the newly_idle mode which doesn't update the cpu_power. Add a next_update field which ensure a maximum update period when there is short activity. Having stale cpu_power information can skew the load-balancing decisions, this is cured by the guaranteed update. Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323717668-2143-1-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
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25-Jan-2012 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched, block: Unify cache detection The block layer has some code trying to determine if two CPUs share a cache, the scheduler has a similar function. Expose the function used by the scheduler and make the block layer use it, thereby removing the block layers usage of CONFIG_SCHED* and topology bits. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1327579450.2446.95.camel@twins
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21-Jan-2012 |
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> |
kernel-doc: fix kernel-doc warnings in sched Fix new kernel-doc notation warnings: Warning(include/linux/sched.h:2094): No description found for parameter 'p' Warning(include/linux/sched.h:2094): Excess function parameter 'tsk' description in 'is_idle_task' Warning(kernel/sched/cpupri.c:139): No description found for parameter 'newpri' Warning(kernel/sched/cpupri.c:139): Excess function parameter 'pri' description in 'cpupri_set' Warning(kernel/sched/cpupri.c:208): Excess function parameter 'bootmem' description in 'cpupri_init' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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20-Dec-2011 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
sched: Add "const" to is_idle_task() parameter This patch fixes a build warning in -next due to a const pointer being passed to is_idle_task(). Because is_idle_task() does not modify anything, this commit adds the "const" to is_idle_task()'s argument declaration. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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12-Jan-2012 |
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> |
treewide: remove useless NORET_TYPE macro and uses It's a very old and now unused prototype marking so just delete it. Neaten panic pointer argument style to keep checkpatch quiet. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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11-Jun-2011 |
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> |
writeback: dirty ratelimit - think time compensation Compensate the task's think time when computing the final pause time, so that ->dirty_ratelimit can be executed accurately. think time := time spend outside of balance_dirty_pages() In the rare case that the task slept longer than the 200ms period time (result in negative pause time), the sleep time will be compensated in the following periods, too, if it's less than 1 second. Accumulated errors are carefully avoided as long as the max pause area is not hitted. Pseudo code: period = pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit; think = jiffies - dirty_paused_when; pause = period - think; 1) normal case: period > think pause = period - think dirty_paused_when = jiffies + pause nr_dirtied = 0 period time |===============================>| think time pause time |===============>|==============>| ------|----------------|---------------|------------------------ dirty_paused_when jiffies 2) no pause case: period <= think don't pause; reduce future pause time by: dirty_paused_when += period nr_dirtied = 0 period time |===============================>| think time |===================================================>| ------|--------------------------------+-------------------|---- dirty_paused_when jiffies Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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15-Dec-2011 |
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> |
[S390] cputime: add sparse checking and cleanup Make cputime_t and cputime64_t nocast to enable sparse checking to detect incorrect use of cputime. Drop the cputime macros for simple scalar operations. The conversion macros are still needed. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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14-Dec-2011 |
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> |
sched: Mark parent and real_parent as __rcu The parent and real_parent pointers should be considered __rcu, since they should be held under either tasklist_lock or rcu_read_lock. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111214223925.GA27578@www.outflux.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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12-Dec-2011 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
threadgroup: extend threadgroup_lock() to cover exit and exec threadgroup_lock() protected only protected against new addition to the threadgroup, which was inherently somewhat incomplete and problematic for its only user cgroup. On-going migration could race against exec and exit leading to interesting problems - the symmetry between various attach methods, task exiting during method execution, ->exit() racing against attach methods, migrating task switching basic properties during exec and so on. This patch extends threadgroup_lock() such that it protects against all three threadgroup altering operations - fork, exit and exec. For exit, threadgroup_change_begin/end() calls are added to exit_signals around assertion of PF_EXITING. For exec, threadgroup_[un]lock() are updated to also grab and release cred_guard_mutex. With this change, threadgroup_lock() guarantees that the target threadgroup will remain stable - no new task will be added, no new PF_EXITING will be set and exec won't happen. The next patch will update cgroup so that it can take full advantage of this change. -v2: beefed up comment as suggested by Frederic. -v3: narrowed scope of protection in exit path as suggested by Frederic. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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12-Dec-2011 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
threadgroup: rename signal->threadgroup_fork_lock to ->group_rwsem Make the following renames to prepare for extension of threadgroup locking. * s/signal->threadgroup_fork_lock/signal->group_rwsem/ * s/threadgroup_fork_read_lock()/threadgroup_change_begin()/ * s/threadgroup_fork_read_unlock()/threadgroup_change_end()/ * s/threadgroup_fork_write_lock()/threadgroup_lock()/ * s/threadgroup_fork_write_unlock()/threadgroup_unlock()/ This patch doesn't cause any behavior change. -v2: Rename threadgroup_change_done() to threadgroup_change_end() per KAMEZAWA's suggestion. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
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10-Nov-2011 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
sched: Add is_idle_task() to handle invalidated uses of idle_cpu() Commit 908a3283 (Fix idle_cpu()) invalidated some uses of idle_cpu(), which used to say whether or not the CPU was running the idle task, but now instead says whether or not the CPU is running the idle task in the absence of pending wakeups. Although this new implementation gives a better answer to the question "is this CPU idle?", it also invalidates other uses that were made of idle_cpu(). This commit therefore introduces a new is_idle_task() API member that determines whether or not the specified task is one of the idle tasks, allowing open-coded "->pid == 0" sequences to be replaced by something more meaningful. Suggested-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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05-Dec-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Fix compile error for UP,!NOHZ Commit 69e1e811 ("sched, nohz: Track nr_busy_cpus in the sched_group_power") messed up the static inline function definition. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-abjah8ctq5qrjjtdiabe8lph@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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01-Dec-2011 |
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> |
sched, nohz: Track nr_busy_cpus in the sched_group_power Introduce nr_busy_cpus in the struct sched_group_power [Not in sched_group because sched groups are duplicated for the SD_OVERLAP scheduler domain] and for each cpu that enters and exits idle, this parameter will be updated in each scheduler group of the scheduler domain that this cpu belongs to. To avoid the frequent update of this state as the cpu enters and exits idle, the update of the stat during idle exit is delayed to the first timer tick that happens after the cpu becomes busy. This is done using NOHZ_IDLE flag in the struct rq's nohz_flags. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111202010832.555984323@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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23-Nov-2011 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
freezer: kill unused set_freezable_with_signal() There's no in-kernel user of set_freezable_with_signal() left. Mixing TIF_SIGPENDING with kernel threads can lead to nasty corner cases as kernel threads never travel signal delivery path on their own. e.g. the current implementation is buggy in the cancelation path of __thaw_task(). It calls recalc_sigpending_and_wake() in an attempt to clear TIF_SIGPENDING but the function never clears it regardless of sigpending state. This means that signallable freezable kthreads may continue executing with !freezing() && stuck TIF_SIGPENDING, which can be troublesome. This patch removes set_freezable_with_signal() along with PF_FREEZER_NOSIG and recalc_sigpending*() calls in freezer. User tasks get TIF_SIGPENDING, kernel tasks get woken up and the spurious sigpending is dealt with in the usual signal delivery path. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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21-Nov-2011 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
freezer: kill PF_FREEZING With the previous changes, there's no meaningful difference between PF_FREEZING and PF_FROZEN. Remove PF_FREEZING and use PF_FROZEN instead in task_contributes_to_load(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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07-Sep-2011 |
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> |
writeback: remove vm_dirties and task->dirties They are not used any more. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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25-Oct-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Make separate sched*.c translation units Since once needs to do something at conferences and fixing compile warnings doesn't actually require much if any attention I decided to break up the sched.c #include "*.c" fest. This further modularizes the scheduler code. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-x0fcd3mnp8f9c99grcpewmhi@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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12-Sep-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Convert to struct llist Use the generic llist primitives. We had a private lockless list implementation in the scheduler in the wake-list code, now that we have a generic llist implementation that provides all required operations, switch to it. This patch is not expected to change any behavior. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315836353.26517.42.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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11-Jun-2011 |
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> |
writeback: per task dirty rate limit Add two fields to task_struct. 1) account dirtied pages in the individual tasks, for accuracy 2) per-task balance_dirty_pages() call intervals, for flexibility The balance_dirty_pages() call interval (ie. nr_dirtied_pause) will scale near-sqrt to the safety gap between dirty pages and threshold. The main problem of per-task nr_dirtied is, if 1k+ tasks start dirtying pages at exactly the same time, each task will be assigned a large initial nr_dirtied_pause, so that the dirty threshold will be exceeded long before each task reached its nr_dirtied_pause and hence call balance_dirty_pages(). The solution is to watch for the number of pages dirtied on each CPU in between the calls into balance_dirty_pages(). If it exceeds ratelimit_pages (3% dirty threshold), force call balance_dirty_pages() for a chance to set bdi->dirty_exceeded. In normal situations, this safeguarding condition is not expected to trigger at all. On the sqrt in dirty_poll_interval(): It will serve as an initial guess when dirty pages are still in the freerun area. When dirty pages are floating inside the dirty control scope [freerun, limit], a followup patch will use some refined dirty poll interval to get the desired pause time. thresh-dirty (MB) sqrt 1 16 2 22 4 32 8 45 16 64 32 90 64 128 128 181 256 256 512 362 1024 512 The above table means, given 1MB (or 1GB) gap and the dd tasks polling balance_dirty_pages() on every 16 (or 512) pages, the dirty limit won't be exceeded as long as there are less than 16 (or 512) concurrent dd's. So sqrt naturally leads to less overheads and more safe concurrent tasks for large memory servers, which have large (thresh-freerun) gaps. peter: keep the per-CPU ratelimit for safeguarding the 1k+ tasks case CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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31-Aug-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP wobbles David reported: Attached below is a watered-down version of rt/tst-cpuclock2.c from GLIBC. Just build it with "gcc -o test test.c -lpthread -lrt" or similar. Run it several times, and you will see cases where the main thread will measure a process clock difference before and after the nanosleep which is smaller than the cpu-burner thread's individual thread clock difference. This doesn't make any sense since the cpu-burner thread is part of the top-level process's thread group. I've reproduced this on both x86-64 and sparc64 (using both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries). For example: [davem@boricha build-x86_64-linux]$ ./test process: before(0.001221967) after(0.498624371) diff(497402404) thread: before(0.000081692) after(0.498316431) diff(498234739) self: before(0.001223521) after(0.001240219) diff(16698) [davem@boricha build-x86_64-linux]$ The diff of 'process' should always be >= the diff of 'thread'. I make sure to wrap the 'thread' clock measurements the most tightly around the nanosleep() call, and that the 'process' clock measurements are the outer-most ones. --- #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <string.h> #include <errno.h> #include <pthread.h> static pthread_barrier_t barrier; static void *chew_cpu(void *arg) { pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier); while (1) __asm__ __volatile__("" : : : "memory"); return NULL; } int main(void) { clockid_t process_clock, my_thread_clock, th_clock; struct timespec process_before, process_after; struct timespec me_before, me_after; struct timespec th_before, th_after; struct timespec sleeptime; unsigned long diff; pthread_t th; int err; err = clock_getcpuclockid(0, &process_clock); if (err) return 1; err = pthread_getcpuclockid(pthread_self(), &my_thread_clock); if (err) return 1; pthread_barrier_init(&barrier, NULL, 2); err = pthread_create(&th, NULL, chew_cpu, NULL); if (err) return 1; err = pthread_getcpuclockid(th, &th_clock); if (err) return 1; pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier); err = clock_gettime(process_clock, &process_before); if (err) return 1; err = clock_gettime(my_thread_clock, &me_before); if (err) return 1; err = clock_gettime(th_clock, &th_before); if (err) return 1; sleeptime.tv_sec = 0; sleeptime.tv_nsec = 500000000; nanosleep(&sleeptime, NULL); err = clock_gettime(th_clock, &th_after); if (err) return 1; err = clock_gettime(my_thread_clock, &me_after); if (err) return 1; err = clock_gettime(process_clock, &process_after); if (err) return 1; diff = process_after.tv_nsec - process_before.tv_nsec; printf("process: before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n", process_before.tv_sec, process_before.tv_nsec, process_after.tv_sec, process_after.tv_nsec, diff); diff = th_after.tv_nsec - th_before.tv_nsec; printf("thread: before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n", th_before.tv_sec, th_before.tv_nsec, th_after.tv_sec, th_after.tv_nsec, diff); diff = me_after.tv_nsec - me_before.tv_nsec; printf("self: before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n", me_before.tv_sec, me_before.tv_nsec, me_after.tv_sec, me_after.tv_nsec, diff); return 0; } This is due to us using p->se.sum_exec_runtime in thread_group_cputime() where we iterate the thread group and sum all data. This does not take time since the last schedule operation (tick or otherwise) into account. We can cure this by using task_sched_runtime() at the cost of having to take locks. This also means we can (and must) do away with thread_group_sched_runtime() since the modified thread_group_cputime() is now more accurate and would deadlock when called from thread_group_sched_runtime(). Aside of that it makes the function safe on 32 bit systems. The old code added t->se.sum_exec_runtime unprotected. sum_exec_runtime is a 64bit value and could be changed on another cpu at the same time. Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: stable@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1314874459.7945.22.camel@twins Tested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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26-Sep-2011 |
Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> |
user namespace: usb: make usb urbs user namespace aware (v2) Add to the dev_state and alloc_async structures the user namespace corresponding to the uid and euid. Pass these to kill_pid_info_as_uid(), which can then implement a proper, user-namespace-aware uid check. Changelog: Sep 20: Per Oleg's suggestion: Instead of caching and passing user namespace, uid, and euid each separately, pass a struct cred. Sep 26: Address Alan Stern's comments: don't define a struct cred at usbdev_open(), and take and put a cred at async_completed() to ensure it lasts for the duration of kill_pid_info_as_cred(). Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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04-Aug-2011 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Simplify unboosting checks Commit 7765be (Fix RCU_BOOST race handling current->rcu_read_unlock_special) introduced a new ->rcu_boosted field in the task structure. This is redundant because the existing ->rcu_boost_mutex will be non-NULL at any time that ->rcu_boosted is nonzero. Therefore, this commit removes ->rcu_boosted and tests ->rcu_boost_mutex instead. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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28-Jul-2011 |
Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> |
nohz: Remove nohz_cpu_mask RCU no longer uses this global variable, nor does anyone else. This commit therefore removes this variable. This reduces memory footprint and also removes some atomic instructions and memory barriers from the dyntick-idle path. Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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25-Jul-2009 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
locking, sched: Annotate thread_group_cputimer as raw The thread_group_cputimer lock can be taken in atomic context and therefore cannot be preempted on -rt - annotate it. In mainline this change documents the low level nature of the lock - otherwise there's no functional difference. Lockdep and Sparse checking will work as usual. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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31-Aug-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP accounting oddities David reported: Attached below is a watered-down version of rt/tst-cpuclock2.c from GLIBC. Just build it with "gcc -o test test.c -lpthread -lrt" or similar. Run it several times, and you will see cases where the main thread will measure a process clock difference before and after the nanosleep which is smaller than the cpu-burner thread's individual thread clock difference. This doesn't make any sense since the cpu-burner thread is part of the top-level process's thread group. I've reproduced this on both x86-64 and sparc64 (using both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries). For example: [davem@boricha build-x86_64-linux]$ ./test process: before(0.001221967) after(0.498624371) diff(497402404) thread: before(0.000081692) after(0.498316431) diff(498234739) self: before(0.001223521) after(0.001240219) diff(16698) [davem@boricha build-x86_64-linux]$ The diff of 'process' should always be >= the diff of 'thread'. I make sure to wrap the 'thread' clock measurements the most tightly around the nanosleep() call, and that the 'process' clock measurements are the outer-most ones. --- #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <string.h> #include <errno.h> #include <pthread.h> static pthread_barrier_t barrier; static void *chew_cpu(void *arg) { pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier); while (1) __asm__ __volatile__("" : : : "memory"); return NULL; } int main(void) { clockid_t process_clock, my_thread_clock, th_clock; struct timespec process_before, process_after; struct timespec me_before, me_after; struct timespec th_before, th_after; struct timespec sleeptime; unsigned long diff; pthread_t th; int err; err = clock_getcpuclockid(0, &process_clock); if (err) return 1; err = pthread_getcpuclockid(pthread_self(), &my_thread_clock); if (err) return 1; pthread_barrier_init(&barrier, NULL, 2); err = pthread_create(&th, NULL, chew_cpu, NULL); if (err) return 1; err = pthread_getcpuclockid(th, &th_clock); if (err) return 1; pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier); err = clock_gettime(process_clock, &process_before); if (err) return 1; err = clock_gettime(my_thread_clock, &me_before); if (err) return 1; err = clock_gettime(th_clock, &th_before); if (err) return 1; sleeptime.tv_sec = 0; sleeptime.tv_nsec = 500000000; nanosleep(&sleeptime, NULL); err = clock_gettime(th_clock, &th_after); if (err) return 1; err = clock_gettime(my_thread_clock, &me_after); if (err) return 1; err = clock_gettime(process_clock, &process_after); if (err) return 1; diff = process_after.tv_nsec - process_before.tv_nsec; printf("process: before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n", process_before.tv_sec, process_before.tv_nsec, process_after.tv_sec, process_after.tv_nsec, diff); diff = th_after.tv_nsec - th_before.tv_nsec; printf("thread: before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n", th_before.tv_sec, th_before.tv_nsec, th_after.tv_sec, th_after.tv_nsec, diff); diff = me_after.tv_nsec - me_before.tv_nsec; printf("self: before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n", me_before.tv_sec, me_before.tv_nsec, me_after.tv_sec, me_after.tv_nsec, diff); return 0; } This is due to us using p->se.sum_exec_runtime in thread_group_cputime() where we iterate the thread group and sum all data. This does not take time since the last schedule operation (tick or otherwise) into account. We can cure this by using task_sched_runtime() at the cost of having to take locks. This also means we can (and must) do away with thread_group_sched_runtime() since the modified thread_group_cputime() is now more accurate and would deadlock when called from thread_group_sched_runtime(). Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1314874459.7945.22.camel@twins Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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21-Jul-2011 |
Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> |
sched: Accumulate per-cfs_rq cpu usage and charge against bandwidth Account bandwidth usage on the cfs_rq level versus the task_groups to which they belong. Whether we are tracking bandwidth on a given cfs_rq is maintained under cfs_rq->runtime_enabled. cfs_rq's which belong to a bandwidth constrained task_group have their runtime accounted via the update_curr() path, which withdraws bandwidth from the global pool as desired. Updates involving the global pool are currently protected under cfs_bandwidth->lock, local runtime is protected by rq->lock. This patch only assigns and tracks quota, no action is taken in the case that cfs_rq->runtime_used exceeds cfs_rq->runtime_assigned. Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184757.179386821@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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08-Aug-2011 |
Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> |
move RLIMIT_NPROC check from set_user() to do_execve_common() The patch http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/13/226 introduced an RLIMIT_NPROC check in set_user() to check for NPROC exceeding via setuid() and similar functions. Before the check there was a possibility to greatly exceed the allowed number of processes by an unprivileged user if the program relied on rlimit only. But the check created new security threat: many poorly written programs simply don't check setuid() return code and believe it cannot fail if executed with root privileges. So, the check is removed in this patch because of too often privilege escalations related to buggy programs. The NPROC can still be enforced in the common code flow of daemons spawning user processes. Most of daemons do fork()+setuid()+execve(). The check introduced in execve() (1) enforces the same limit as in setuid() and (2) doesn't create similar security issues. Neil Brown suggested to track what specific process has exceeded the limit by setting PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED process flag. With the change only this process would fail on execve(), and other processes' execve() behaviour is not changed. Solar Designer suggested to re-check whether NPROC limit is still exceeded at the moment of execve(). If the process was sleeping for days between set*uid() and execve(), and the NPROC counter step down under the limit, the defered execve() failure because NPROC limit was exceeded days ago would be unexpected. If the limit is not exceeded anymore, we clear the flag on successful calls to execve() and fork(). The flag is also cleared on successful calls to set_user() as the limit was exceeded for the previous user, not the current one. Similar check was introduced in -ow patches (without the process flag). v3 - clear PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED on successful calls to set_user(). Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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15-Jul-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Allow for overlapping sched_domain spans Allow for sched_domain spans that overlap by giving such domains their own sched_group list instead of sharing the sched_groups amongst each-other. This is needed for machines with more than 16 nodes, because sched_domain_node_span() will generate a node mask from the 16 nearest nodes without regard if these masks have any overlap. Currently sched_domains have a sched_group that maps to their child sched_domain span, and since there is no overlap we share the sched_group between the sched_domains of the various CPUs. If however there is overlap, we would need to link the sched_group list in different ways for each cpu, and hence sharing isn't possible. In order to solve this, allocate private sched_groups for each CPU's sched_domain but have the sched_groups share a sched_group_power structure such that we can uniquely track the power. Reported-and-tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-08bxqw9wis3qti9u5inifh3y@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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14-Jul-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Break out cpu_power from the sched_group structure In order to prepare for non-unique sched_groups per domain, we need to carry the cpu_power elsewhere, so put a level of indirection in. Reported-and-tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qkho2byuhe4482fuknss40ad@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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14-Jul-2011 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Fix RCU_BOOST race handling current->rcu_read_unlock_special The RCU_BOOST commits for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU introduced an other-task write to a new RCU_READ_UNLOCK_BOOSTED bit in the task_struct structure's ->rcu_read_unlock_special field, but, as noted by Steven Rostedt, without correctly synchronizing all accesses to ->rcu_read_unlock_special. This could result in bits in ->rcu_read_unlock_special being spuriously set and cleared due to conflicting accesses, which in turn could result in deadlocks between the rcu_node structure's ->lock and the scheduler's rq and pi locks. These deadlocks would result from RCU incorrectly believing that the just-ended RCU read-side critical section had been preempted and/or boosted. If that RCU read-side critical section was executed with either rq or pi locks held, RCU's ensuing (incorrect) calls to the scheduler would cause the scheduler to attempt to once again acquire the rq and pi locks, resulting in deadlock. More complex deadlock cycles are also possible, involving multiple rq and pi locks as well as locks from multiple rcu_node structures. This commit fixes synchronization by creating ->rcu_boosted field in task_struct that is accessed and modified only when holding the ->lock in the rcu_node structure on which the task is queued (on that rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks list). This results in tasks accessing only their own current->rcu_read_unlock_special fields, making unsynchronized access once again legal, and keeping the rcu_read_unlock() fastpath free of atomic instructions and memory barriers. The reason that the rcu_read_unlock() fastpath does not need to access the new current->rcu_boosted field is that this new field cannot be non-zero unless the RCU_READ_UNLOCK_BLOCKED bit is set in the current->rcu_read_unlock_special field. Therefore, rcu_read_unlock() need only test current->rcu_read_unlock_special: if that is zero, then current->rcu_boosted must also be zero. This bug does not affect TINY_PREEMPT_RCU because this implementation of RCU accesses current->rcu_read_unlock_special with irqs disabled, thus preventing races on the !SMP systems that TINY_PREEMPT_RCU runs on. Maybe-reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Maybe-reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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12-Jul-2011 |
Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com> |
fixlet: Remove fs_excl from struct task. fs_excl is a poor man's priority inheritance for filesystems to hint to the block layer that an operation is important. It was never clearly specified, not widely adopted, and will not prevent starvation in many cases (like across cgroups). fs_excl was introduced with the time sliced CFQ IO scheduler, to indicate when a process held FS exclusive resources and thus needed a boost. It doesn't cover all file systems, and it was never fully complete. Lets kill it. Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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05-Jul-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Disable (revert) SCHED_LOAD_SCALE increase Alex reported that commit c8b281161df ("sched: Increase SCHED_LOAD_SCALE resolution") caused a power usage regression under light load as it increases the number of load-balance operations and keeps idle cpus from staying idle. Time has run out to find the root cause for this release so disable the feature for v3.0 until we can figure out what causes the problem. Reported-by: "Alex, Shi" <alex.shi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com> Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-m4onxn0sxnyn5iz9o88eskc3@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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22-Jun-2011 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
redefine thread_group_leader() as exit_signal >= 0 Change de_thread() to set old_leader->exit_signal = -1. This is good for the consistency, it is no longer the leader and all sub-threads have exit_signal = -1 set by copy_process(CLONE_THREAD). And this allows us to micro-optimize thread_group_leader(), it can simply check exit_signal >= 0. This also makes sense because we should move ->group_leader from task_struct to signal_struct. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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22-Jun-2011 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
kill task_detached() Upadate the last user of task_detached(), wait_task_zombie(), to use thread_group_leader() and kill task_detached(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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22-Jun-2011 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
make do_notify_parent() __must_check, update the callers Change other callers of do_notify_parent() to check the value it returns, this makes the subsequent task_detached() unnecessary. Mark do_notify_parent() as __must_check. Use thread_group_leader() instead of !task_detached() to check if we need to notify the real parent in wait_task_zombie(). Remove the stale comment in release_task(). "just for sanity" is no longer true, we have to set EXIT_DEAD to avoid the races with do_wait(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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22-Jun-2011 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
make do_notify_parent() return bool - change do_notify_parent() to return a boolean, true if the task should be reaped because its parent ignores SIGCHLD. - update the only caller which checks the returned value, exit_notify(). This temporary uglifies exit_notify() even more, will be cleanuped by the next change. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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14-Jun-2011 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
ptrace: implement PTRACE_LISTEN The previous patch implemented async notification for ptrace but it only worked while trace is running. This patch introduces PTRACE_LISTEN which is suggested by Oleg Nestrov. It's allowed iff tracee is in STOP trap and puts tracee into quasi-running state - tracee never really runs but wait(2) and ptrace(2) consider it to be running. While ptracer is listening, tracee is allowed to re-enter STOP to notify an async event. Listening state is cleared on the first notification. Ptracer can also clear it by issuing INTERRUPT - tracee will re-trap into STOP with listening state cleared. This allows ptracer to monitor group stop state without running tracee - use INTERRUPT to put tracee into STOP trap, issue LISTEN and then wait(2) to wait for the next group stop event. When it happens, PTRACE_GETSIGINFO provides information to determine the current state. Test program follows. #define PTRACE_SEIZE 0x4206 #define PTRACE_INTERRUPT 0x4207 #define PTRACE_LISTEN 0x4208 #define PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL 0x80000000 static const struct timespec ts1s = { .tv_sec = 1 }; int main(int argc, char **argv) { pid_t tracee, tracer; int i; tracee = fork(); if (!tracee) while (1) pause(); tracer = fork(); if (!tracer) { siginfo_t si; ptrace(PTRACE_SEIZE, tracee, NULL, (void *)(unsigned long)PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL); ptrace(PTRACE_INTERRUPT, tracee, NULL, NULL); repeat: waitid(P_PID, tracee, NULL, WSTOPPED); ptrace(PTRACE_GETSIGINFO, tracee, NULL, &si); if (!si.si_code) { printf("tracer: SIG %d\n", si.si_signo); ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, tracee, NULL, (void *)(unsigned long)si.si_signo); goto repeat; } printf("tracer: stopped=%d signo=%d\n", si.si_signo != SIGTRAP, si.si_signo); if (si.si_signo != SIGTRAP) ptrace(PTRACE_LISTEN, tracee, NULL, NULL); else ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, tracee, NULL, NULL); goto repeat; } for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) { nanosleep(&ts1s, NULL); printf("mother: SIGSTOP\n"); kill(tracee, SIGSTOP); nanosleep(&ts1s, NULL); printf("mother: SIGCONT\n"); kill(tracee, SIGCONT); } nanosleep(&ts1s, NULL); kill(tracer, SIGKILL); kill(tracee, SIGKILL); return 0; } This is identical to the program to test TRAP_NOTIFY except that tracee is PTRACE_LISTEN'd instead of PTRACE_CONT'd when group stopped. This allows ptracer to monitor when group stop ends without running tracee. # ./test-listen tracer: stopped=0 signo=5 mother: SIGSTOP tracer: SIG 19 tracer: stopped=1 signo=19 mother: SIGCONT tracer: stopped=0 signo=5 tracer: SIG 18 mother: SIGSTOP tracer: SIG 19 tracer: stopped=1 signo=19 mother: SIGCONT tracer: stopped=0 signo=5 tracer: SIG 18 mother: SIGSTOP tracer: SIG 19 tracer: stopped=1 signo=19 mother: SIGCONT tracer: stopped=0 signo=5 tracer: SIG 18 -v2: Moved JOBCTL_LISTENING check in wait_task_stopped() into task_stopped_code() as suggested by Oleg. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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14-Jun-2011 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
ptrace: implement TRAP_NOTIFY and use it for group stop events Currently there's no way for ptracer to find out whether group stop finished other than polling with INTERRUPT - GETSIGINFO - CONT sequence. This patch implements group stop notification for ptracer using STOP traps. When group stop state of a seized tracee changes, JOBCTL_TRAP_NOTIFY is set, which schedules a STOP trap which is sticky - it isn't cleared by other traps and at least one STOP trap will happen eventually. STOP trap is synchronization point for event notification and the tracer can determine the current group stop state by looking at the signal number portion of exit code (si_status from waitid(2) or si_code from PTRACE_GETSIGINFO). Notifications are generated both on start and end of group stops but, because group stop participation always happens before STOP trap, this doesn't cause an extra trap while tracee is participating in group stop. The symmetry will be useful later. Note that this notification works iff tracee is not trapped. Currently there is no way to be notified of group stop state changes while tracee is trapped. This will be addressed by a later patch. An example program follows. #define PTRACE_SEIZE 0x4206 #define PTRACE_INTERRUPT 0x4207 #define PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL 0x80000000 static const struct timespec ts1s = { .tv_sec = 1 }; int main(int argc, char **argv) { pid_t tracee, tracer; int i; tracee = fork(); if (!tracee) while (1) pause(); tracer = fork(); if (!tracer) { siginfo_t si; ptrace(PTRACE_SEIZE, tracee, NULL, (void *)(unsigned long)PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL); ptrace(PTRACE_INTERRUPT, tracee, NULL, NULL); repeat: waitid(P_PID, tracee, NULL, WSTOPPED); ptrace(PTRACE_GETSIGINFO, tracee, NULL, &si); if (!si.si_code) { printf("tracer: SIG %d\n", si.si_signo); ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, tracee, NULL, (void *)(unsigned long)si.si_signo); goto repeat; } printf("tracer: stopped=%d signo=%d\n", si.si_signo != SIGTRAP, si.si_signo); ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, tracee, NULL, NULL); goto repeat; } for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) { nanosleep(&ts1s, NULL); printf("mother: SIGSTOP\n"); kill(tracee, SIGSTOP); nanosleep(&ts1s, NULL); printf("mother: SIGCONT\n"); kill(tracee, SIGCONT); } nanosleep(&ts1s, NULL); kill(tracer, SIGKILL); kill(tracee, SIGKILL); return 0; } In the above program, tracer keeps tracee running and gets notification of each group stop state changes. # ./test-notify tracer: stopped=0 signo=5 mother: SIGSTOP tracer: SIG 19 tracer: stopped=1 signo=19 mother: SIGCONT tracer: stopped=0 signo=5 tracer: SIG 18 mother: SIGSTOP tracer: SIG 19 tracer: stopped=1 signo=19 mother: SIGCONT tracer: stopped=0 signo=5 tracer: SIG 18 mother: SIGSTOP tracer: SIG 19 tracer: stopped=1 signo=19 mother: SIGCONT tracer: stopped=0 signo=5 tracer: SIG 18 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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14-Jun-2011 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
job control: introduce JOBCTL_TRAP_STOP and use it for group stop trap do_signal_stop() implemented both normal group stop and trap for group stop while ptraced. This approach has been enough but scheduled changes require trap mechanism which can be used in more generic manner and using group stop trap for generic trap site simplifies both userland visible interface and implementation. This patch adds a new jobctl flag - JOBCTL_TRAP_STOP. When set, it triggers a trap site, which behaves like group stop trap, in get_signal_to_deliver() after checking for pending signals. While ptraced, do_signal_stop() doesn't stop itself. It initiates group stop if requested and schedules JOBCTL_TRAP_STOP and returns. The caller - get_signal_to_deliver() - is responsible for checking whether TRAP_STOP is pending afterwards and handling it. ptrace_attach() is updated to use JOBCTL_TRAP_STOP instead of JOBCTL_STOP_PENDING and __ptrace_unlink() to clear all pending trap bits and TRAPPING so that TRAP_STOP and future trap bits don't linger after detach. While at it, add proper function comment to do_signal_stop() and make it return bool. -v2: __ptrace_unlink() updated to clear JOBCTL_TRAP_MASK and TRAPPING instead of JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK. This avoids accidentally clearing JOBCTL_STOP_CONSUME. Spotted by Oleg. -v3: do_signal_stop() updated to return %false without dropping siglock while ptraced and TRAP_STOP check moved inside for(;;) loop after group stop participation. This avoids unnecessary relocking and also will help avoiding unnecessary traps by consuming group stop before handling pending traps. -v4: Jobctl trap handling moved into a separate function - do_jobctl_trap(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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07-Jun-2011 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
sched: Isolate preempt counting in its own config option Create a new CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT that handles the inc/dec of preempt count offset independently. So that the offset can be updated by preempt_disable() and preempt_enable() even without the need for CONFIG_PREEMPT beeing set. This prepares to make CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP working with !CONFIG_PREEMPT where it currently doesn't detect code that sleeps inside explicit preemption disabled sections. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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02-Jun-2011 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
job control: introduce task_set_jobctl_pending() task->jobctl currently hosts JOBCTL_STOP_PENDING and will host TRAP pending bits too. Setting pending conditions on a dying task may make the task unkillable. Currently, each setting site is responsible for checking for the condition but with to-be-added job control traps this becomes too fragile. This patch adds task_set_jobctl_pending() which should be used when setting task->jobctl bits to schedule a stop or trap. The function performs the followings to ease setting pending bits. * Sanity checks. * If fatal signal is pending or PF_EXITING is set, no bit is set. * STOP_SIGMASK is automatically cleared if new value is being set. do_signal_stop() and ptrace_attach() are updated to use task_set_jobctl_pending() instead of setting STOP_PENDING explicitly. The surrounding structures around setting are changed to fit task_set_jobctl_pending() better but there should be no userland visible behavior difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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02-Jun-2011 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
job control: introduce JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK and task_clear_jobctl_pending() This patch introduces JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK and replaces task_clear_jobctl_stop_pending() with task_clear_jobctl_pending() which takes an extra @mask argument. JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK is currently equal to JOBCTL_STOP_PENDING but future patches will add more bits. recalc_sigpending_tsk() is updated to use JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK instead. task_clear_jobctl_pending() takes @mask which in subset of JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK and clears the relevant jobctl bits. If JOBCTL_STOP_PENDING is set, other STOP bits are cleared together. All task_clear_jobctl_stop_pending() users are updated to call task_clear_jobctl_pending() with JOBCTL_STOP_PENDING which is functionally identical to task_clear_jobctl_stop_pending(). This patch doesn't cause any functional change. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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02-Jun-2011 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
job control: rename signal->group_stop and flags to jobctl and update them signal->group_stop currently hosts mostly group stop related flags; however, it's gonna be used for wider purposes and the GROUP_STOP_ flag prefix becomes confusing. Rename signal->group_stop to signal->jobctl and rename all GROUP_STOP_* flags to JOBCTL_*. Bit position macros JOBCTL_*_BIT are defined and JOBCTL_* flags are defined in terms of them to allow using bitops later. While at it, reassign JOBCTL_TRAPPING to bit 22 to better accomodate future additions. This doesn't cause any functional change. -v2: JOBCTL_*_BIT macros added as suggested by Linus. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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31-May-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Fix schedstat.nr_wakeups_migrate While looking over the code I found that with the ttwu rework the nr_wakeups_migrate test broke since we now switch cpus prior to calling ttwu_stat(), hence the test is always true. Cure this by passing the migration state in wake_flags. Also move the whole test under CONFIG_SMP, its hard to migrate tasks on UP :-) Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pwwxl7gdqs5676f1d4cx6pj7@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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29-May-2011 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
mm: Fix boot crash in mm_alloc() Thomas Gleixner reports that we now have a boot crash triggered by CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [<c11ae035>] find_next_bit+0x55/0xb0 Call Trace: [<c11addda>] cpumask_any_but+0x2a/0x70 [<c102396b>] flush_tlb_mm+0x2b/0x80 [<c1022705>] pud_populate+0x35/0x50 [<c10227ba>] pgd_alloc+0x9a/0xf0 [<c103a3fc>] mm_init+0xec/0x120 [<c103a7a3>] mm_alloc+0x53/0xd0 which was introduced by commit de03c72cfce5 ("mm: convert mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t"), and is due to wrong ordering of mm_init() vs mm_init_cpumask Thomas wrote a patch to just fix the ordering of initialization, but I hate the new double allocation in the fork path, so I ended up instead doing some more radical surgery to clean it all up. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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19-May-2011 |
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> |
cpuset: Fix cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback(), don't update tsk->rt.nr_cpus_allowed The rule is, we have to update tsk->rt.nr_cpus_allowed if we change tsk->cpus_allowed. Otherwise RT scheduler may confuse. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4DD4B3FA.5060901@jp.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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26-May-2011 |
Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu> |
cgroups: read-write lock CLONE_THREAD forking per threadgroup Adds functionality to read/write lock CLONE_THREAD fork()ing per-threadgroup Add an rwsem that lives in a threadgroup's signal_struct that's taken for reading in the fork path, under CONFIG_CGROUPS. If another part of the kernel later wants to use such a locking mechanism, the CONFIG_CGROUPS ifdefs should be changed to a higher-up flag that CGROUPS and the other system would both depend on. This is a pre-patch for cgroup-procs-write.patch. Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-May-2011 |
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> |
ftrace: Add internal recursive checks Witold reported a reboot caused by the selftests of the dynamic function tracer. He sent me a config and I used ktest to do a config_bisect on it (as my config did not cause the crash). It pointed out that the problem config was CONFIG_PROVE_RCU. What happened was that if multiple callbacks are attached to the function tracer, we iterate a list of callbacks. Because the list is managed by synchronize_sched() and preempt_disable, the access to the pointers uses rcu_dereference_raw(). When PROVE_RCU is enabled, the rcu_dereference_raw() calls some debugging functions, which happen to be traced. The tracing of the debug function would then call rcu_dereference_raw() which would then call the debug function and then... well you get the idea. I first wrote two different patches to solve this bug. 1) add a __rcu_dereference_raw() that would not do any checks. 2) add notrace to the offending debug functions. Both of these patches worked. Talking with Paul McKenney on IRC, he suggested to add recursion detection instead. This seemed to be a better solution, so I decided to implement it. As the task_struct already has a trace_recursion to detect recursion in the ring buffer, and that has a very small number it allows, I decided to use that same variable to add flags that can detect the recursion inside the infrastructure of the function tracer. I plan to change it so that the task struct bit can be checked in mcount, but as that requires changes to all archs, I will hold that off to the next merge window. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306348063.1465.116.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com Reported-by: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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24-May-2011 |
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> |
mm: convert mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t cpumask_t is very big struct and cpu_vm_mask is placed wrong position. It might lead to reduce cache hit ratio. This patch has two change. 1) Move the place of cpumask into last of mm_struct. Because usually cpumask is accessed only front bits when the system has cpu-hotplug capability 2) Convert cpu_vm_mask into cpumask_var_t. It may help to reduce memory footprint if cpumask_size() will use nr_cpumask_bits properly in future. In addition, this patch change the name of cpu_vm_mask with cpu_vm_mask_var. It may help to detect out of tree cpu_vm_mask users. This patch has no functional change. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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24-May-2011 |
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> |
oom: replace PF_OOM_ORIGIN with toggling oom_score_adj There's a kernel-wide shortage of per-process flags, so it's always helpful to trim one when possible without incurring a significant penalty. It's even more important when you're planning on adding a per- process flag yourself, which I plan to do shortly for transparent hugepages. PF_OOM_ORIGIN is used by ksm and swapoff to prefer current since it has a tendency to allocate large amounts of memory and should be preferred for killing over other tasks. We'd rather immediately kill the task making the errant syscall rather than penalizing an innocent task. This patch removes PF_OOM_ORIGIN since its behavior is equivalent to setting the process's oom_score_adj to OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX. The process's old oom_score_adj is stored and then set to OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX during the time it used to have PF_OOM_ORIGIN. The old value is then reinstated when the process should no longer be considered a high priority for oom killing. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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22-May-2011 |
Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> |
watchdog: Disable watchdog when thresh is zero This restores the previous behavior of softlock_thresh. Currently, setting watchdog_thresh to zero causes the watchdog kthreads to consume a lot of CPU. In addition, the logic of proc_dowatchdog_thresh and proc_dowatchdog_enabled has been factored into proc_dowatchdog. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306127423-3347-3-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <20110517071018.GE22305@elte.hu>
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18-May-2011 |
Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com> |
sched: Increase SCHED_LOAD_SCALE resolution Introduce SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION, which scales is added to SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT and increases the resolution of SCHED_LOAD_SCALE. This patch sets the value of SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION to 10, scaling up the weights for all sched entities by a factor of 1024. With this extra resolution, we can handle deeper cgroup hiearchies and the scheduler can do better shares distribution and load load balancing on larger systems (especially for low weight task groups). This does not change the existing user interface, the scaled weights are only used internally. We do not modify prio_to_weight values or inverses, but use the original weights when calculating the inverse which is used to scale execution time delta in calc_delta_mine(). This ensures we do not lose accuracy when accounting time to the sched entities. Thanks to Nikunj Dadhania for fixing an bug in c_d_m() that broken fairness. Below is some analysis of the performance costs/improvements of this patch. 1. Micro-arch performance costs: Experiment was to run Ingo's pipe_test_100k 200 times with the task pinned to one cpu. I measured instruction, cycles and stalled-cycles for the runs. See: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1129232/focus=1129389 for more info. -tip (baseline): Performance counter stats for '/root/load-scale/pipe-test-100k' (200 runs): 964,991,769 instructions # 0.82 insns per cycle # 0.33 stalled cycles per insn # ( +- 0.05% ) 1,171,186,635 cycles # 0.000 GHz ( +- 0.08% ) 306,373,664 stalled-cycles-backend # 26.16% backend cycles idle ( +- 0.28% ) 314,933,621 stalled-cycles-frontend # 26.89% frontend cycles idle ( +- 0.34% ) 1.122405684 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.05% ) -tip+patches: Performance counter stats for './load-scale/pipe-test-100k' (200 runs): 963,624,821 instructions # 0.82 insns per cycle # 0.33 stalled cycles per insn # ( +- 0.04% ) 1,175,215,649 cycles # 0.000 GHz ( +- 0.08% ) 315,321,126 stalled-cycles-backend # 26.83% backend cycles idle ( +- 0.28% ) 316,835,873 stalled-cycles-frontend # 26.96% frontend cycles idle ( +- 0.29% ) 1.122238659 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.06% ) With this patch, instructions decrease by ~0.10% and cycles increase by 0.27%. This doesn't look statistically significant. The number of stalled cycles in the backend increased from 26.16% to 26.83%. This can be attributed to the shifts we do in c_d_m() and other places. The fraction of stalled cycles in the frontend remains about the same, at 26.96% compared to 26.89% in -tip. 2. Balancing low-weight task groups Test setup: run 50 tasks with random sleep/busy times (biased around 100ms) in a low weight container (with cpu.shares = 2). Measure %idle as reported by mpstat over a 10s window. -tip (baseline): 06:47:48 PM CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %idle intr/s 06:47:49 PM all 94.32 0.00 0.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5.62 15888.00 06:47:50 PM all 94.57 0.00 0.62 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 4.81 16180.00 06:47:51 PM all 94.69 0.00 0.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5.25 15966.00 06:47:52 PM all 95.81 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 4.19 16053.00 06:47:53 PM all 94.88 0.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5.06 15984.00 06:47:54 PM all 93.31 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 6.69 15806.00 06:47:55 PM all 94.19 0.00 0.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5.75 15896.00 06:47:56 PM all 92.87 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 7.13 15716.00 06:47:57 PM all 94.88 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5.12 15982.00 06:47:58 PM all 95.44 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 4.56 16075.00 Average: all 94.49 0.01 0.08 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5.42 15954.60 -tip+patches: 06:47:03 PM CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %idle intr/s 06:47:04 PM all 100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 16630.00 06:47:05 PM all 99.69 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.31 16580.20 06:47:06 PM all 99.69 0.00 0.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.25 16596.00 06:47:07 PM all 99.20 0.00 0.74 0.00 0.00 0.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 17838.61 06:47:08 PM all 100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 16540.00 06:47:09 PM all 100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 16575.00 06:47:10 PM all 100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 16614.00 06:47:11 PM all 99.94 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.06 16588.00 06:47:12 PM all 99.94 0.00 0.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 16593.00 06:47:13 PM all 99.94 0.00 0.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 16551.00 Average: all 99.84 0.00 0.09 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.06 16711.58 We see an improvement in idle% on the system (drops from 5.42% on -tip to 0.06% with the patches). We see an improvement in idle% on the system (drops from 5.42% on -tip to 0.06% with the patches). Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Nikunj A. Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Stephan Barwolf <stephan.baerwolf@tu-ilmenau.de> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305754668-18792-1-git-send-email-ncrao@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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18-May-2011 |
Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com> |
sched: Introduce SCHED_POWER_SCALE to scale cpu_power calculations SCHED_LOAD_SCALE is used to increase nice resolution and to scale cpu_power calculations in the scheduler. This patch introduces SCHED_POWER_SCALE and converts all uses of SCHED_LOAD_SCALE for scaling cpu_power to use SCHED_POWER_SCALE instead. This is a preparatory patch for increasing the resolution of SCHED_LOAD_SCALE, and there is no need to increase resolution for cpu_power calculations. Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Nikunj A. Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Stephan Barwolf <stephan.baerwolf@tu-ilmenau.de> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305738580-9924-3-git-send-email-ncrao@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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11-May-2011 |
Samir Bellabes <sam@synack.fr> |
sched: Remove unused parameters from sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task() sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task() are defined with a parameter 'unsigned long clone_flags', which is unused. This patch removes the parameters. Signed-off-by: Samir Bellabes <sam@synack.fr> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305130685-1047-1-git-send-email-sam@synack.fr Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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07-Apr-2011 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
ptrace: Prepare to fix racy accesses on task breakpoints When a task is traced and is in a stopped state, the tracer may execute a ptrace request to examine the tracee state and get its task struct. Right after, the tracee can be killed and thus its breakpoints released. This can happen concurrently when the tracer is in the middle of reading or modifying these breakpoints, leading to dereferencing a freed pointer. Hence, to prepare the fix, create a generic breakpoint reference holding API. When a reference on the breakpoints of a task is held, the breakpoints won't be released until the last reference is dropped. After that, no more ptrace request on the task's breakpoints can be serviced for the tracer. Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: v2.6.33.. <stable@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
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22-Apr-2011 |
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> |
sched: Get rid of lock_depth Neil Brown pointed out that lock_depth somehow escaped the BKL removal work. Let's get rid of it now. Note that the perf scripting utilities still have a bunch of code for dealing with common_lock_depth in tracepoints; I have left that in place in case anybody wants to use that code with older kernels. Suggested-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110422111910.456c0e84@bike.lwn.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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14-Apr-2011 |
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> |
brk: COMPAT_BRK: fix detection of randomized brk 5520e89 ("brk: fix min_brk lower bound computation for COMPAT_BRK") tried to get the whole logic of brk randomization for legacy (libc5-based) applications finally right. It turns out that the way to detect whether brk has actually been randomized in the end or not introduced by that patch still doesn't work for those binaries, as reported by Geert: : /sbin/init from my old m68k ramdisk exists prematurely. : : Before the patch: : : | brk(0x80005c8e) = 0x80006000 : : After the patch: : : | brk(0x80005c8e) = 0x80005c8e : : Old libc5 considers brk() to have failed if the return value is not : identical to the requested value. I don't like it, but currently see no better option than a bit flag in task_struct to catch the CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK && randomize_va_space == 2 case. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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05-Apr-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Move the second half of ttwu() to the remote cpu Now that we've removed the rq->lock requirement from the first part of ttwu() and can compute placement without holding any rq->lock, ensure we execute the second half of ttwu() on the actual cpu we want the task to run on. This avoids having to take rq->lock and doing the task enqueue remotely, saving lots on cacheline transfers. As measured using: http://oss.oracle.com/~mason/sembench.c $ for i in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor ; do echo performance > $i; done $ echo 4096 32000 64 128 > /proc/sys/kernel/sem $ ./sembench -t 2048 -w 1900 -o 0 unpatched: run time 30 seconds 647278 worker burns per second patched: run time 30 seconds 816715 worker burns per second Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110405152729.515897185@chello.nl
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05-Apr-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Delay task_contributes_to_load() In prepratation of having to call task_contributes_to_load() without holding rq->lock, we need to store the result until we do and can update the rq accounting accordingly. Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110405152729.151523907@chello.nl
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05-Apr-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Remove rq argument to sched_class::task_waking() In preparation of calling this without rq->lock held, remove the dependency on the rq argument. Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110405152729.071474242@chello.nl Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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05-Apr-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Drop the rq argument to sched_class::select_task_rq() In preparation of calling select_task_rq() without rq->lock held, drop the dependency on the rq argument. Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110405152729.031077745@chello.nl Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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05-Apr-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Provide p->on_rq Provide a generic p->on_rq because the p->se.on_rq semantics are unfavourable for lockless wakeups but needed for sched_fair. In particular, p->on_rq is only cleared when we actually dequeue the task in schedule() and not on any random dequeue as done by things like __migrate_task() and __sched_setscheduler(). This also allows us to remove p->se usage from !sched_fair code. Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110405152728.949545047@chello.nl
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05-Apr-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
mutex: Use p->on_cpu for the adaptive spin Since we now have p->on_cpu unconditionally available, use it to re-implement mutex_spin_on_owner. Requested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110405152728.826338173@chello.nl
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05-Apr-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Always provide p->on_cpu Always provide p->on_cpu so that we can determine if its on a cpu without having to lock the rq. Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110405152728.785452014@chello.nl Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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05-Apr-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Provide scheduler_ipi() callback in response to smp_send_reschedule() For future rework of try_to_wake_up() we'd like to push part of that function onto the CPU the task is actually going to run on. In order to do so we need a generic callback from the existing scheduler IPI. This patch introduces such a generic callback: scheduler_ipi() and implements it as a NOP. BenH notes: PowerPC might use this IPI on offline CPUs under rare conditions! Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110405152728.744338123@chello.nl
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07-Apr-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Dynamic sched_domain::level Remove the SD_LV_ enum and use dynamic level assignments. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110407122942.969433965@chello.nl Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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07-Apr-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Remove some dead code Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110407122942.553814623@chello.nl Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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07-Apr-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Reduce some allocation pressure Since we now allocate SD_LV_MAX * nr_cpu_ids sched_domain/sched_group structures when rebuilding the scheduler toplogy it might make sense to shrink that depending on the CONFIG_ options. This is only needed until we get rid of SD_LV_* alltogether and provide a full dynamic topology interface. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110407122942.406226449@chello.nl Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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07-Apr-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Dynamically allocate sched_domain/sched_group data-structures Instead of relying on static allocations for the sched_domain and sched_group trees, dynamically allocate and RCU free them. Allocating this dynamically also allows for some build_sched_groups() simplification since we can now (like with other simplifications) rely on the sched_domain tree instead of hard-coded knowledge. One tricky to note is that detach_destroy_domains() needs to hold rcu_read_lock() over the entire tear-down, per-cpu is not sufficient since that can lead to partial sched_group existance (could possibly be solved by doing the tear-down backwards but this is much more robust). A concequence of the above is that we can no longer print the sched_domain debug stuff from cpu_attach_domain() since that might now run with preemption disabled (due to classic RCU etc.) and sched_domain_debug() does some GFP_KERNEL allocations. Another thing to note is that we now fully rely on normal RCU and not RCU-sched, this is because with the new and exiting RCU flavours we grew over the years BH doesn't necessarily hold off RCU-sched grace periods (-rt is known to break this). This would in fact already cause us grief since we do sched_domain/sched_group iterations from softirq context. This patch is somewhat larger than I would like it to be, but I didn't find any means of shrinking/splitting this. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110407122942.245307941@chello.nl Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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01-Apr-2011 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
signal: Turn SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED into GROUP_STOP_DEQUEUED This patch moves SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED from signal_struct->flags to task_struct->group_stop, and thus makes it per-thread. Like SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED, GROUP_STOP_DEQUEUED can be false-positive after return from get_signal_to_deliver(), this is fine. The only purpose of this bit is: we can drop ->siglock after __dequeue_signal() returns the sig_kernel_stop() signal and before we call do_signal_stop(), in this case we must not miss SIGCONT if it comes in between. But, unlike SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED, GROUP_STOP_DEQUEUED can not be false-positive in do_signal_stop() if multiple threads dequeue the sig_kernel_stop() signal at the same time. Consider two threads T1 and T2, SIGTTIN has a hanlder. - T1 dequeues SIGTSTP and sets SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED, then it drops ->siglock - SIGCONT comes and clears SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED, SIGTSTP should be cancelled. - T2 dequeues SIGTTIN and sets SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED again. Since we have a handler we should not stop, T2 returns to usermode to run the handler. - T1 continues, calls do_signal_stop() and wrongly starts the group stop because SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED was restored in between. With or without this change: - we need to do something with ptrace_signal() which can return SIGSTOP, but this needs another discussion - SIGSTOP can be lost if it races with the mt exec, will be fixed later. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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30-Mar-2011 |
Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> |
Fix common misspellings Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
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23-Mar-2011 |
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> |
memcg: convert uncharge batching from bytes to page granularity We never uncharge subpage quantities. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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21-Mar-2011 |
Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> |
sched.h: Fix a typo ("its") The sentence uses the possessive pronoun, which is spelled without an apostrophe. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <1300735487-2406-1-git-send-email-j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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23-Mar-2011 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
ptrace: Clean transitions between TASK_STOPPED and TRACED Currently, if the task is STOPPED on ptrace attach, it's left alone and the state is silently changed to TRACED on the next ptrace call. The behavior breaks the assumption that arch_ptrace_stop() is called before any task is poked by ptrace and is ugly in that a task manipulates the state of another task directly. With GROUP_STOP_PENDING, the transitions between TASK_STOPPED and TRACED can be made clean. The tracer can use the flag to tell the tracee to retry stop on attach and detach. On retry, the tracee will enter the desired state in the correct way. The lower 16bits of task->group_stop is used to remember the signal number which caused the last group stop. This is used while retrying for ptrace attach as the original group_exit_code could have been consumed with wait(2) by then. As the real parent may wait(2) and consume the group_exit_code anytime, the group_exit_code needs to be saved separately so that it can be used when switching from regular sleep to ptrace_stop(). This is recorded in the lower 16bits of task->group_stop. If a task is already stopped and there's no intervening SIGCONT, a ptrace request immediately following a successful PTRACE_ATTACH should always succeed even if the tracer doesn't wait(2) for attach completion; however, with this change, the tracee might still be TASK_RUNNING trying to enter TASK_TRACED which would cause the following request to fail with -ESRCH. This intermediate state is hidden from the ptracer by setting GROUP_STOP_TRAPPING on attach and making ptrace_check_attach() wait for it to clear on its signal->wait_chldexit. Completing the transition or getting killed clears TRAPPING and wakes up the tracer. Note that the STOPPED -> RUNNING -> TRACED transition is still visible to other threads which are in the same group as the ptracer and the reverse transition is visible to all. Please read the comments for details. Oleg: * Spotted a race condition where a task may retry group stop without proper bookkeeping. Fixed by redoing bookkeeping on retry. * Spotted that the transition is visible to userland in several different ways. Most are fixed with GROUP_STOP_TRAPPING. Unhandled corner case is documented. * Pointed out not setting GROUP_STOP_SIGMASK on an already stopped task would result in more consistent behavior. * Pointed out that calling ptrace_stop() from do_signal_stop() in TASK_STOPPED can race with group stop start logic and then confuse the TRAPPING wait in ptrace_check_attach(). ptrace_stop() is now called with TASK_RUNNING. * Suggested using signal->wait_chldexit instead of bit wait. * Spotted a race condition between TRACED transition and clearing of TRAPPING. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
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23-Mar-2011 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
signal: Use GROUP_STOP_PENDING to stop once for a single group stop Currently task->signal->group_stop_count is used to decide whether to stop for group stop. However, if there is a task in the group which is taking a long time to stop, other tasks which are continued by ptrace would repeatedly stop for the same group stop until the group stop is complete. Conversely, if a ptraced task is in TASK_TRACED state, the debugger won't get notified of group stops which is inconsistent compared to the ptraced task in any other state. This patch introduces GROUP_STOP_PENDING which tracks whether a task is yet to stop for the group stop in progress. The flag is set when a group stop starts and cleared when the task stops the first time for the group stop, and consulted whenever whether the task should participate in a group stop needs to be determined. Note that now tasks in TASK_TRACED also participate in group stop. This results in the following behavior changes. * For a single group stop, a ptracer would see at most one stop reported. * A ptracee in TASK_TRACED now also participates in group stop and the tracer would get the notification. However, as a ptraced task could be in TASK_STOPPED state or any ptrace trap could consume group stop, the notification may still be missing. These will be addressed with further patches. * A ptracee may start a group stop while one is still in progress if the tracer let it continue with stop signal delivery. Group stop code handles this correctly. Oleg: * Spotted that a task might skip signal check even when its GROUP_STOP_PENDING is set. Fixed by updating recalc_sigpending_tsk() to check GROUP_STOP_PENDING instead of group_stop_count. * Pointed out that task->group_stop should be cleared whenever task->signal->group_stop_count is cleared. Fixed accordingly. * Pointed out the behavior inconsistency between TASK_TRACED and RUNNING and the last behavior change. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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23-Mar-2011 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
signal: Fix premature completion of group stop when interfered by ptrace task->signal->group_stop_count is used to track the progress of group stop. It's initialized to the number of tasks which need to stop for group stop to finish and each stopping or trapping task decrements. However, each task doesn't keep track of whether it decremented the counter or not and if woken up before the group stop is complete and stops again, it can decrement the counter multiple times. Please consider the following example code. static void *worker(void *arg) { while (1) ; return NULL; } int main(void) { pthread_t thread; pid_t pid; int i; pid = fork(); if (!pid) { for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) pthread_create(&thread, NULL, worker, NULL); while (1) ; return 0; } ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, NULL, NULL); while (1) { waitid(P_PID, pid, NULL, WSTOPPED); ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, pid, NULL, (void *)(long)SIGSTOP); } return 0; } The child creates five threads and the parent continuously traps the first thread and whenever the child gets a signal, SIGSTOP is delivered. If an external process sends SIGSTOP to the child, all other threads in the process should reliably stop. However, due to the above bug, the first thread will often end up consuming group_stop_count multiple times and SIGSTOP often ends up stopping none or part of the other four threads. This patch adds a new field task->group_stop which is protected by siglock and uses GROUP_STOP_CONSUME flag to track which task is still to consume group_stop_count to fix this bug. task_clear_group_stop_pending() and task_participate_group_stop() are added to help manipulating group stop states. As ptrace_stop() now also uses task_participate_group_stop(), it will set SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED if it completes a group stop. There still are many issues regarding the interaction between group stop and ptrace. Patches to address them will follow. - Oleg spotted duplicate GROUP_STOP_CONSUME. Dropped. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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22-Mar-2011 |
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> |
kthread: NUMA aware kthread_create_on_node() All kthreads being created from a single helper task, they all use memory from a single node for their kernel stack and task struct. This patch suite creates kthread_create_on_node(), adding a 'cpu' parameter to parameters already used by kthread_create(). This parameter serves in allocating memory for the new kthread on its memory node if possible. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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08-Mar-2011 |
Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> |
block: initial patch for on-stack per-task plugging This patch adds support for creating a queuing context outside of the queue itself. This enables us to batch up pieces of IO before grabbing the block device queue lock and submitting them to the IO scheduler. The context is created on the stack of the process and assigned in the task structure, so that we can auto-unplug it if we hit a schedule event. The current queue plugging happens implicitly if IO is submitted to an empty device, yet callers have to remember to unplug that IO when they are going to wait for it. This is an ugly API and has caused bugs in the past. Additionally, it requires hacks in the vm (->sync_page() callback) to handle that logic. By switching to an explicit plugging scheme we make the API a lot nicer and can get rid of the ->sync_page() hack in the vm. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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16-Feb-2011 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
workqueue, freezer: unify spelling of 'freeze' + 'able' to 'freezable' There are two spellings in use for 'freeze' + 'able' - 'freezable' and 'freezeable'. The former is the more prominent one. The latter is mostly used by workqueue and in a few other odd places. Unify the spelling to 'freezable'. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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01-Feb-2011 |
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> |
sched: Add yield_to(task, preempt) functionality Currently only implemented for fair class tasks. Add a yield_to_task method() to the fair scheduling class. allowing the caller of yield_to() to accelerate another thread in it's thread group, task group. Implemented via a scheduler hint, using cfs_rq->next to encourage the target being selected. We can rely on pick_next_entity to keep things fair, so noone can accelerate a thread that has already used its fair share of CPU time. This also means callers should only call yield_to when they really mean it. Calling it too often can result in the scheduler just ignoring the hint. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20110201095051.4ddb7738@annuminas.surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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01-Feb-2011 |
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> |
sched: Use a buddy to implement yield_task_fair() Use the buddy mechanism to implement yield_task_fair. This allows us to skip onto the next highest priority se at every level in the CFS tree, unless doing so would introduce gross unfairness in CPU time distribution. We order the buddy selection in pick_next_entity to check yield first, then last, then next. We need next to be able to override yield, because it is possible for the "next" and "yield" task to be different processen in the same sub-tree of the CFS tree. When they are, we need to go into that sub-tree regardless of the "yield" hint, and pick the correct entity once we get to the right level. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20110201095103.3a79e92a@annuminas.surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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02-Feb-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Cure task_oncpu_function_call() races Oleg reported that on architectures with __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW the IPI from task_oncpu_function_call() can land before perf_event_task_sched_in() and cause interesting situations for eg. perf_install_in_context(). This patch reworks the task_oncpu_function_call() interface to give a more usable primitive as well as rework all its users to hopefully be more obvious as well as remove the races. While looking at the code I also found a number of races against perf_event_task_sched_out() which can flip contexts between tasks so plug those too. Reported-and-reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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27-Jan-2011 |
Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de> |
time: Make do_timer() and xtime_lock local to kernel/time/ All callers of do_timer() are converted to xtime_update(). The only users of xtime_lock are in kernel/time/. Make both local to kernel/time/ and remove them from the global header files. [ tglx: Reuse tick-internal.h instead of creating another local header file. Massaged changelog ] Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com Cc: yong.zhang0@gmail.com Cc: hch@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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27-Jan-2011 |
Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de> |
time: Provide xtime_update() xtime_update() takes xtime_lock write locked and calls do_timer(). Provided to replace the do_timer() calls in the architecture code. Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com Cc: yong.zhang0@gmail.com Cc: hch@infradead.org LKML-Reference: <20110127145910.23248.21379.stgit@localhost> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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17-Jan-2011 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Fix switch_from_fair() When a task is taken out of the fair class we must ensure the vruntime is properly normalized because when we put it back in it will assume to be normalized. The case that goes wrong is when changing away from the fair class while sleeping. Sleeping tasks have non-normalized vruntime in order to make sleeper-fairness work. So treat the switch away from fair as a wakeup and preserve the relative vruntime. Also update sysrq-n to call the ->switch_{to,from} methods. Reported-by: Onkalo Samu <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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21-Dec-2010 |
Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> |
softirqs: Free up pf flag PF_KSOFTIRQD Cleanup patch, freeing up PF_KSOFTIRQD and use per_cpu ksoftirqd pointer instead, as suggested by Eric Dumazet. Tested-by: Shaun Ruffell <sruffell@digium.com> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1292980144-28796-2-git-send-email-venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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13-Jan-2011 |
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> |
thp: khugepaged Add khugepaged to relocate fragmented pages into hugepages if new hugepages become available. (this is indipendent of the defrag logic that will have to make new hugepages available) The fundamental reason why khugepaged is unavoidable, is that some memory can be fragmented and not everything can be relocated. So when a virtual machine quits and releases gigabytes of hugepages, we want to use those freely available hugepages to create huge-pmd in the other virtual machines that may be running on fragmented memory, to maximize the CPU efficiency at all times. The scan is slow, it takes nearly zero cpu time, except when it copies data (in which case it means we definitely want to pay for that cpu time) so it seems a good tradeoff. In addition to the hugepages being released by other process releasing memory, we have the strong suspicion that the performance impact of potentially defragmenting hugepages during or before each page fault could lead to more performance inconsistency than allocating small pages at first and having them collapsed into large pages later... if they prove themselfs to be long lived mappings (khugepaged scan is slow so short lived mappings have low probability to run into khugepaged if compared to long lived mappings). Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.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>
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13-Jan-2011 |
Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> |
oom: allow a non-CAP_SYS_RESOURCE proces to oom_score_adj down We'd like to be able to oom_score_adj a process up/down as it enters/leaves the foreground. Currently, it is not possible to oom_adj down without CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. This patch allows a task to decrease its oom_score_adj back to the value that a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE thread set it to or its inherited value at fork. Assuming the thread that has forked it has oom_score_adj of 0, each process could decrease it back from 0 upon activation unless a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE thread elevated it to something higher. Alternative considered: * a setuid binary * a daemon with CAP_SYS_RESOURCE Since you don't wan't all processes to be able to reduce their oom_adj, a setuid or daemon implementation would be complex. The alternatives also have much higher overhead. This patch updated from original patch based on feedback from David Rientjes. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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13-Jan-2011 |
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> |
sched: remove long deprecated CLONE_STOPPED flag This warning was added in commit bdff746a3915 ("clone: prepare to recycle CLONE_STOPPED") three years ago. 2.6.26 came and went. As far as I know, no-one is actually using CLONE_STOPPED. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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12-Jan-2011 |
Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> |
epoll: convert max_user_watches to long On a 16TB machine, max_user_watches has an integer overflow. Convert it to use a long and handle the associated fallout. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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09-Jan-2011 |
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> |
headers: kobject.h redux Remove kobject.h from files which don't need it, notably, sched.h and fs.h. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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09-Jan-2011 |
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> |
headers: path.h redux Remove path.h from sched.h and other files. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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07-Jan-2011 |
Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> |
sched: Consolidate the name of root_task_group and init_task_group root_task_group is the leftover of USER_SCHED, now it's always same to init_task_group. But as Mike suggested, root_task_group is maybe the suitable name to keep for a tree. So in this patch: init_task_group --> root_task_group init_task_group_load --> root_task_group_load INIT_TASK_GROUP_LOAD --> ROOT_TASK_GROUP_LOAD Suggested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20110107071736.GA32635@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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30-Nov-2010 |
Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> |
sched: Make pushable_tasks CONFIG_SMP dependant As noted by Peter Zijlstra at https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/10/391 (while reviewing other stuff, though), tracking pushable tasks only makes sense on SMP systems. Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1291143093.2697.298.camel@Palantir> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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30-Nov-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Cure more NO_HZ load average woes There's a long-running regression that proved difficult to fix and which is hitting certain people and is rather annoying in its effects. Damien reported that after 74f5187ac8 (sched: Cure load average vs NO_HZ woes) his load average is unnaturally high, he also noted that even with that patch reverted the load avgerage numbers are not correct. The problem is that the previous patch only solved half the NO_HZ problem, it addressed the part of going into NO_HZ mode, not of comming out of NO_HZ mode. This patch implements that missing half. When comming out of NO_HZ mode there are two important things to take care of: - Folding the pending idle delta into the global active count. - Correctly aging the averages for the idle-duration. So with this patch the NO_HZ interaction should be complete and behaviour between CONFIG_NO_HZ=[yn] should be equivalent. Furthermore, this patch slightly changes the load average computation by adding a rounding term to the fixed point multiplication. Reported-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> Reported-by: Tim McGrath <tmhikaru@gmail.com> Tested-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> Tested-by: Orion Poplawski <orion@cora.nwra.com> Tested-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com> LKML-Reference: <1291129145.32004.874.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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30-Nov-2010 |
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> |
sched: Add 'autogroup' scheduling feature: automated per session task groups A recurring complaint from CFS users is that parallel kbuild has a negative impact on desktop interactivity. This patch implements an idea from Linus, to automatically create task groups. Currently, only per session autogroups are implemented, but the patch leaves the way open for enhancement. Implementation: each task's signal struct contains an inherited pointer to a refcounted autogroup struct containing a task group pointer, the default for all tasks pointing to the init_task_group. When a task calls setsid(), a new task group is created, the process is moved into the new task group, and a reference to the preveious task group is dropped. Child processes inherit this task group thereafter, and increase it's refcount. When the last thread of a process exits, the process's reference is dropped, such that when the last process referencing an autogroup exits, the autogroup is destroyed. At runqueue selection time, IFF a task has no cgroup assignment, its current autogroup is used. Autogroup bandwidth is controllable via setting it's nice level through the proc filesystem: cat /proc/<pid>/autogroup Displays the task's group and the group's nice level. echo <nice level> > /proc/<pid>/autogroup Sets the task group's shares to the weight of nice <level> task. Setting nice level is rate limited for !admin users due to the abuse risk of task group locking. The feature is enabled from boot by default if CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y is selected, but can be disabled via the boot option noautogroup, and can also be turned on/off on the fly via: echo [01] > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_autogroup_enabled ... which will automatically move tasks to/from the root task group. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> [ Removed the task_group_path() debug code, and fixed !EVENTFD build failure. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <1290281700.28711.9.camel@maggy.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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27-Sep-2010 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: priority boosting for TINY_PREEMPT_RCU Add priority boosting, but only for TINY_PREEMPT_RCU. This is enabled by the default-off RCU_BOOST kernel parameter. The priority to which to boost preempted RCU readers is controlled by the RCU_BOOST_PRIO kernel parameter (defaulting to real-time priority 1) and the time to wait before boosting the readers blocking a given grace period is controlled by the RCU_BOOST_DELAY kernel parameter (defaulting to 500 milliseconds). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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25-Nov-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf, arch: Cleanup perf-pmu init vs lockup-detector The perf hardware pmu got initialized at various points in the boot, some before early_initcall() some after (notably arch_initcall). The problem is that the NMI lockup detector is ran from early_initcall() and expects the hardware pmu to be present. Sanitize this by moving all architecture hardware pmu implementations to initialize at early_initcall() and move the lockup detector to an explicit initcall right after that. Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org> Cc: davem <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1290707759.2145.119.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Nov-2010 |
Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> |
sched: Add sysctl_sched_shares_window Introduce a new sysctl for the shares window and disambiguate it from sched_time_avg. A 10ms window appears to be a good compromise between accuracy and performance. Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20101115234938.112173964@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Nov-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Rewrite tg_shares_up) By tracking a per-cpu load-avg for each cfs_rq and folding it into a global task_group load on each tick we can rework tg_shares_up to be strictly per-cpu. This should improve cpu-cgroup performance for smp systems significantly. [ Paul: changed to use queueing cfs_rq + bug fixes ] Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20101115234937.580480400@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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13-Nov-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Simplify cpu-hot-unplug task migration While discussing the need for sched_idle_next(), Oleg remarked that since try_to_wake_up() ensures sleeping tasks will end up running on a sane cpu, we can do away with migrate_live_tasks(). If we then extend the existing hack of migrating current from CPU_DYING to migrating the full rq worth of tasks from CPU_DYING, the need for the sched_idle_next() abomination disappears as well, since idle will be the only possible thread left after the migration thread stops. This greatly simplifies the hot-unplug task migration path, as can be seen from the resulting code reduction (and about half the new lines are comments). Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1289851597.2109.547.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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17-Sep-2010 |
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> |
sched: Use group weight, idle cpu metrics to fix imbalances during idle Currently we consider a sched domain to be well balanced when the imbalance is less than the domain's imablance_pct. As the number of cores and threads are increasing, current values of imbalance_pct (for example 25% for a NUMA domain) are not enough to detect imbalances like: a) On a WSM-EP system (two sockets, each having 6 cores and 12 logical threads), 24 cpu-hogging tasks get scheduled as 13 on one socket and 11 on another socket. Leading to an idle HT cpu. b) On a hypothetial 2 socket NHM-EX system (each socket having 8 cores and 16 logical threads), 16 cpu-hogging tasks can get scheduled as 9 on one socket and 7 on another socket. Leaving one core in a socket idle whereas in another socket we have a core having both its HT siblings busy. While this issue can be fixed by decreasing the domain's imbalance_pct (by making it a function of number of logical cpus in the domain), it can potentially cause more task migrations across sched groups in an overloaded case. Fix this by using imbalance_pct only during newly_idle and busy load balancing. And during idle load balancing, check if there is an imbalance in number of idle cpu's across the busiest and this sched_group or if the busiest group has more tasks than its weight that the idle cpu in this_group can pull. Reported-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1284760952.2676.11.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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28-Oct-2010 |
Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> |
fanotify: limit number of listeners per user fanotify currently has no limit on the number of listeners a given user can have open. This patch limits the total number of listeners per user to 128. This is the same as the inotify default limit. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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27-Oct-2010 |
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> |
signals: move cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct Oleg Nesterov pointed out we have to prevent multiple-threads-inside-exec itself and we can reuse ->cred_guard_mutex for it. Yes, concurrent execve() has no worth. Let's move ->cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct. It naturally prevent multiple-threads-inside-exec. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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27-Oct-2010 |
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> |
signals: annotate lock_task_sighand() lock_task_sighand() grabs sighand->siglock in case of returning non-NULL but unlock_task_sighand() releases it unconditionally. This leads sparse to complain about the lock context imbalance. Rename and wrap lock_task_sighand() using __cond_lock() macro to make sparse happy. Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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26-Oct-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
kernel: remove PF_FLUSHER PF_FLUSHER is only ever set, not tested, remove it. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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20-Oct-2010 |
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> |
sched: Make sched_param argument static in sched_setscheduler() callers Andrew Morton pointed out almost all sched_setscheduler() callers are using fixed parameters and can be converted to static. It reduces runtime memory use a little. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Oct-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched, cgroup: Fixup broken cgroup movement Dima noticed that we fail to correct the ->vruntime of sleeping tasks when we move them between cgroups. Reported-by: Dima Zavin <dima@android.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <1287150604.29097.1513.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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04-Oct-2010 |
Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> |
sched: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING, finer accounting of irq time s390/powerpc/ia64 have support for CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING which does the fine granularity accounting of user, system, hardirq, softirq times. Adding that option on archs like x86 will be challenging however, given the state of TSC reliability on various platforms and also the overhead it will add in syscall entry exit. Instead, add a lighter variant that only does finer accounting of hardirq and softirq times, providing precise irq times (instead of timer tick based samples). This accounting is added with a new config option CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING so that there won't be any overhead for users not interested in paying the perf penalty. This accounting is based on sched_clock, with the code being generic. So, other archs may find it useful as well. This patch just adds the core logic and does not enable this logic yet. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-5-git-send-email-venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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04-Oct-2010 |
Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> |
sched: Add a PF flag for ksoftirqd identification To account softirq time cleanly in scheduler, we need to identify whether softirq is invoked in ksoftirqd context or softirq at hardirq tail context. Add PF_KSOFTIRQD for that purpose. As all PF flag bits are currently taken, create space by moving one of the infrequently used bits (PF_THREAD_BOUND) down in task_struct to be along with some other state fields. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-4-git-send-email-venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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04-Oct-2010 |
Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> |
sched: Fix softirq time accounting Peter Zijlstra found a bug in the way softirq time is accounted in VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING on this thread: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail//linux/kernel/1009.2/01366.html The problem is, softirq processing uses local_bh_disable internally. There is no way, later in the flow, to differentiate between whether softirq is being processed or is it just that bh has been disabled. So, a hardirq when bh is disabled results in time being wrongly accounted as softirq. Looking at the code a bit more, the problem exists in !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING as well. As account_system_time() in normal tick based accouting also uses softirq_count, which will be set even when not in softirq with bh disabled. Peter also suggested solution of using 2*SOFTIRQ_OFFSET as irq count for local_bh_{disable,enable} and using just SOFTIRQ_OFFSET while softirq processing. The patch below does that and adds API in_serving_softirq() which returns whether we are currently processing softirq or not. Also changes one of the usages of softirq_count in net/sched/cls_cgroup.c to in_serving_softirq. Looks like many usages of in_softirq really want in_serving_softirq. Those changes can be made individually on a case by case basis. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-2-git-send-email-venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Sep-2010 |
Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> |
Fix compile error in blk-exec.c for !CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK Ensure that 'sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs' is defined even when CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is not set. This way we can safely reference it without need for ifdefs in the code elsewhere. eg. in block/blk-exec.c Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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13-Sep-2010 |
Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> |
sched: Remove unused PF_ALIGNWARN flag PF_ALIGNWARN is not implemented and it is for 486 as the comment. It is not likely someone will implement this flag feature. So here remove this flag and leave the valuable 0x00000001 for future use. Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20100913121903.GB22238@darkstar> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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07-Sep-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Provide a separate task context for swevents Since software events are always schedulable, mixing them up with hardware events (who are not) can lead to funny scheduling oddities. Giving them their own context solves this. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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02-Sep-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf: Multiple task contexts Provide the infrastructure for multiple task contexts. A more flexible approach would have resulted in more pointer chases in the scheduling hot-paths. This approach has the limitation of a static number of task contexts. Since I expect most external PMUs to be system wide, or at least node wide (as per the intel uncore unit) they won't actually need a task context. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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31-Aug-2010 |
Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> |
sched: Add book scheduling domain On top of the SMT and MC scheduling domains this adds the BOOK scheduling domain. This is useful for NUMA like machines which do not have an interface which tells which piece of memory is attached to which node or where the hardware performs striping. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100831082844.253053798@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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29-Jun-2010 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Add a TINY_PREEMPT_RCU Implement a small-memory-footprint uniprocessor-only implementation of preemptible RCU. This implementation uses but a single blocked-tasks list rather than the combinatorial number used per leaf rcu_node by TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, which reduces memory consumption and greatly simplifies processing. This version also takes advantage of uniprocessor execution to accelerate grace periods in the case where there are no readers. The general design is otherwise broadly similar to that of TREE_PREEMPT_RCU. This implementation is a step towards having RCU implementation driven off of the SMP and PREEMPT kernel configuration variables, which can happen once this implementation has accumulated sufficient experience. Removed ACCESS_ONCE() from __rcu_read_unlock() and added barrier() as suggested by Steve Rostedt in order to avoid the compiler-reordering issue noted by Mathieu Desnoyers (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/16/183). As can be seen below, CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU represents almost 5Kbyte savings compared to CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU. Of course, for non-real-time workloads, CONFIG_TINY_RCU is even better. CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU text data bss dec filename 13 0 0 13 kernel/rcupdate.o 6170 825 28 7023 kernel/rcutree.o ---- 7026 Total CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU text data bss dec filename 13 0 0 13 kernel/rcupdate.o 2081 81 8 2170 kernel/rcutiny.o ---- 2183 Total CONFIG_TINY_RCU (non-preemptible) text data bss dec filename 13 0 0 13 kernel/rcupdate.o 719 25 0 744 kernel/rcutiny.o --- 757 Total Requested-by: Loïc Minier <loic.minier@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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24-Feb-2010 |
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> |
credentials: rcu annotation Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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24-Feb-2010 |
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> |
cgroups: __rcu annotations Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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17-Aug-2010 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles correctly on ARM: arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to. This is because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to copy_strings_kernel(). A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel(). do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as const should be fine. Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match. This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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09-Aug-2010 |
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> |
oom: badness heuristic rewrite This a complete rewrite of the oom killer's badness() heuristic which is used to determine which task to kill in oom conditions. The goal is to make it as simple and predictable as possible so the results are better understood and we end up killing the task which will lead to the most memory freeing while still respecting the fine-tuning from userspace. Instead of basing the heuristic on mm->total_vm for each task, the task's rss and swap space is used instead. This is a better indication of the amount of memory that will be freeable if the oom killed task is chosen and subsequently exits. This helps specifically in cases where KDE or GNOME is chosen for oom kill on desktop systems instead of a memory hogging task. The baseline for the heuristic is a proportion of memory that each task is currently using in memory plus swap compared to the amount of "allowable" memory. "Allowable," in this sense, means the system-wide resources for unconstrained oom conditions, the set of mempolicy nodes, the mems attached to current's cpuset, or a memory controller's limit. The proportion is given on a scale of 0 (never kill) to 1000 (always kill), roughly meaning that if a task has a badness() score of 500 that the task consumes approximately 50% of allowable memory resident in RAM or in swap space. The proportion is always relative to the amount of "allowable" memory and not the total amount of RAM systemwide so that mempolicies and cpusets may operate in isolation; they shall not need to know the true size of the machine on which they are running if they are bound to a specific set of nodes or mems, respectively. Root tasks are given 3% extra memory just like __vm_enough_memory() provides in LSMs. In the event of two tasks consuming similar amounts of memory, it is generally better to save root's task. Because of the change in the badness() heuristic's baseline, it is also necessary to introduce a new user interface to tune it. It's not possible to redefine the meaning of /proc/pid/oom_adj with a new scale since the ABI cannot be changed for backward compatability. Instead, a new tunable, /proc/pid/oom_score_adj, is added that ranges from -1000 to +1000. It may be used to polarize the heuristic such that certain tasks are never considered for oom kill while others may always be considered. The value is added directly into the badness() score so a value of -500, for example, means to discount 50% of its memory consumption in comparison to other tasks either on the system, bound to the mempolicy, in the cpuset, or sharing the same memory controller. /proc/pid/oom_adj is changed so that its meaning is rescaled into the units used by /proc/pid/oom_score_adj, and vice versa. Changing one of these per-task tunables will rescale the value of the other to an equivalent meaning. Although /proc/pid/oom_adj was originally defined as a bitshift on the badness score, it now shares the same linear growth as /proc/pid/oom_score_adj but with different granularity. This is required so the ABI is not broken with userspace applications and allows oom_adj to be deprecated for future removal. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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28-Jul-2010 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
CRED: Fix __task_cred()'s lockdep check and banner comment Fix __task_cred()'s lockdep check by removing the following validation condition: lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held() as commit_creds() does not take the tasklist_lock, and nor do most of the functions that call it, so this check is pointless and it can prevent detection of the RCU lock not being held if the tasklist_lock is held. Instead, add the following validation condition: task->exit_state >= 0 to permit the access if the target task is dead and therefore unable to change its own credentials. Fix __task_cred()'s comment to: (1) discard the bit that says that the caller must prevent the target task from being deleted. That shouldn't need saying. (2) Add a comment indicating the result of __task_cred() should not be passed directly to get_cred(), but rather than get_task_cred() should be used instead. Also put a note into the documentation to enforce this point there too. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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15-Jul-2010 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
tracing: Remove special traces Special traces type was only used by sysprof. Lets remove it now that sysprof ftrace plugin has been dropped. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
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09-Jul-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Revert nohz_ratelimit() for now Norbert reported that nohz_ratelimit() causes his laptop to burn about 4W (40%) extra. For now back out the change and see if we can adjust the power management code to make better decisions. Reported-by: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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01-Jul-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Cure nr_iowait_cpu() users Commit 0224cf4c5e (sched: Intoduce get_cpu_iowait_time_us()) broke things by not making sure preemption was indeed disabled by the callers of nr_iowait_cpu() which took the iowait value of the current cpu. This resulted in a heap of preempt warnings. Cure this by making nr_iowait_cpu() take a cpu number and fix up the callers to pass in the right number. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org LKML-Reference: <1277968037.1868.120.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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07-Jun-2010 |
Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> |
sched: Add asymmetric group packing option for sibling domain Check to see if the group is packed in a sched doman. This is primarily intended to used at the sibling level. Some cores like POWER7 prefer to use lower numbered SMT threads. In the case of POWER7, it can move to lower SMT modes only when higher threads are idle. When in lower SMT modes, the threads will perform better since they share less core resources. Hence when we have idle threads, we want them to be the higher ones. This adds a hook into f_b_g() called check_asym_packing() to check the packing. This packing function is run on idle threads. It checks to see if the busiest CPU in this domain (core in the P7 case) has a higher CPU number than what where the packing function is being run on. If it is, calculate the imbalance and return the higher busier thread as the busiest group to f_b_g(). Here we are assuming a lower CPU number will be equivalent to a lower SMT thread number. It also creates a new SD_ASYM_PACKING flag to enable this feature at any scheduler domain level. It also creates an arch hook to enable this feature at the sibling level. The default function doesn't enable this feature. Based heavily on patch from Peter Zijlstra. Fixes from Srivatsa Vaddagiri. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <20100608045702.2936CCC897@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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07-Jun-2010 |
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched: Fix capacity calculations for SMT4 Handle cpu capacity being reported as 0 on cores with more number of hardware threads. For example on a Power7 core with 4 hardware threads, core power is 1177 and thus power of each hardware thread is 1177/4 = 294. This low power can lead to capacity for each hardware thread being calculated as 0, which leads to tasks bouncing within the core madly! Fix this by reporting capacity for hardware threads as 1, provided their power is not scaled down significantly because of frequency scaling or real-time tasks usage of cpu. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20100608045702.21D03CC895@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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21-May-2010 |
Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> |
sched: Change nohz idle load balancing logic to push model In the new push model, all idle CPUs indeed go into nohz mode. There is still the concept of idle load balancer (performing the load balancing on behalf of all the idle cpu's in the system). Busy CPU kicks the nohz balancer when any of the nohz CPUs need idle load balancing. The kickee CPU does the idle load balancing on behalf of all idle CPUs instead of the normal idle balance. This addresses the below two problems with the current nohz ilb logic: * the idle load balancer continued to have periodic ticks during idle and wokeup frequently, even though it did not have any rebalancing to do on behalf of any of the idle CPUs. * On x86 and CPUs that have APIC timer stoppage on idle CPUs, this periodic wakeup can result in a periodic additional interrupt on a CPU doing the timer broadcast. Also currently we are migrating the unpinned timers from an idle to the cpu doing idle load balancing (when all the cpus in the system are idle, there is no idle load balancing cpu and timers get added to the same idle cpu where the request was made. So the existing optimization works only on semi idle system). And In semi idle system, we no longer have periodic ticks on the idle load balancer CPU. Using that cpu will add more delays to the timers than intended (as that cpu's timer base may not be uptodate wrt jiffies etc). This was causing mysterious slowdowns during boot etc. For now, in the semi idle case, use the nearest busy cpu for migrating timers from an idle cpu. This is good for power-savings anyway. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <1274486981.2840.46.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-May-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched_clock: Add local_clock() API and improve documentation For people who otherwise get to write: cpu_clock(smp_processor_id()), there is now: local_clock(). Also, as per suggestion from Andrew, provide some documentation on the various clock interfaces, and minimize the unsigned long long vs u64 mess. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> LKML-Reference: <1275052414.1645.52.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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08-Jun-2010 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
sched: add hooks for workqueue Concurrency managed workqueue needs to know when workers are going to sleep and waking up. Using these two hooks, cmwq keeps track of the current concurrency level and throttles execution of new works if it's too high and wakes up another worker from the sleep hook if it becomes too low. This patch introduces PF_WQ_WORKER to identify workqueue workers and adds the following two hooks. * wq_worker_waking_up(): called when a worker is woken up. * wq_worker_sleeping(): called when a worker is going to sleep and may return a pointer to a local task which should be woken up. The returned task is woken up using try_to_wake_up_local() which is simplified ttwu which is called under rq lock and can only wake up local tasks. Both hooks are currently defined as noop in kernel/workqueue_sched.h. Later cmwq implementation will replace them with proper implementation. These hooks are hard coded as they'll always be enabled. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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26-May-2010 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
proc: turn signal_struct->count into "int nr_threads" No functional changes, just s/atomic_t count/int nr_threads/. With the recent changes this counter has a single user, get_nr_threads() And, none of its callers need the really accurate number of threads, not to mention each caller obviously races with fork/exit. It is only used to report this value to the user-space, except first_tid() uses it to avoid the unnecessary while_each_thread() loop in the unlikely case. It is a bit sad we need a word in struct signal_struct for this, perhaps we can change get_nr_threads() to approximate the number of threads using signal->live and kill ->nr_threads later. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.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>
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26-May-2010 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
proc: get_nr_threads() doesn't need ->siglock any longer Now that task->signal can't go away get_nr_threads() doesn't need ->siglock to read signal->count. Also, make it inline, move into sched.h, and convert 2 other proc users of signal->count to use this (now trivial) helper. Henceforth get_nr_threads() is the only valid user of signal->count, we are ready to turn it into "int nr_threads" or, perhaps, kill it. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.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>
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26-May-2010 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
kill the obsolete thread_group_cputime_free() helper Kill the empty thread_group_cputime_free() helper. It was needed to free the per-cpu data which we no longer have. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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26-May-2010 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
signals: kill the awful task_rq_unlock_wait() hack Now that task->signal can't go away we can revert the horrible hack added by ad474caca3e2a0550b7ce0706527ad5ab389a4d4 ("fix for account_group_exec_runtime(), make sure ->signal can't be freed under rq->lock"). And we can do more cleanups sched_stats.h/posix-cpu-timers.c later. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> 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>
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26-May-2010 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
signals: make task_struct->signal immutable/refcountable We have a lot of problems with accessing task_struct->signal, it can "disappear" at any moment. Even current can't use its ->signal safely after exit_notify(). ->siglock helps, but it is not convenient, not always possible, and sometimes it makes sense to use task->signal even after this task has already dead. This patch adds the reference counter, sigcnt, into signal_struct. This reference is owned by task_struct and it is dropped in __put_task_struct(). Perhaps it makes sense to export get/put_signal_struct() later, but currently I don't see the immediate reason. Rename __cleanup_signal() to free_signal_struct() and unexport it. With the previous changes it does nothing except kmem_cache_free(). Change __exit_signal() to not clear/free ->signal, it will be freed when the last reference to any thread in the thread group goes away. Note: - when the last thead exits signal->tty can point to nowhere, see the next patch. - with or without this patch signal_struct->count should go away, or at least it should be "int nr_threads" for fs/proc. This will be addressed later. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> 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>
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26-May-2010 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
exit: change zap_other_threads() to count sub-threads Change zap_other_threads() to return the number of other sub-threads found on ->thread_group list. Other changes are cosmetic: - change the code to use while_each_thread() helper - remove the obsolete comment about SIGKILL/SIGSTOP Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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26-May-2010 |
Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> |
cpusets: new round-robin rotor for SLAB allocations We have observed several workloads running on multi-node systems where memory is assigned unevenly across the nodes in the system. There are numerous reasons for this but one is the round-robin rotor in cpuset_mem_spread_node(). For example, a simple test that writes a multi-page file will allocate pages on nodes 0 2 4 6 ... Odd nodes are skipped. (Sometimes it allocates on odd nodes & skips even nodes). An example is shown below. The program "lfile" writes a file consisting of 10 pages. The program then mmaps the file & uses get_mempolicy(..., MPOL_F_NODE) to determine the nodes where the file pages were allocated. The output is shown below: # ./lfile allocated on nodes: 2 4 6 0 1 2 6 0 2 There is a single rotor that is used for allocating both file pages & slab pages. Writing the file allocates both a data page & a slab page (buffer_head). This advances the RR rotor 2 nodes for each page allocated. A quick confirmation seems to confirm this is the cause of the uneven allocation: # echo 0 >/dev/cpuset/memory_spread_slab # ./lfile allocated on nodes: 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 This patch introduces a second rotor that is used for slab allocations. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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24-May-2010 |
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> |
kernel-wide: replace USHORT_MAX, SHORT_MAX and SHORT_MIN with USHRT_MAX, SHRT_MAX and SHRT_MIN - C99 knows about USHRT_MAX/SHRT_MAX/SHRT_MIN, not USHORT_MAX/SHORT_MAX/SHORT_MIN. - Make SHRT_MIN of type s16, not int, for consistency. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/dma/timb_dma.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix security/keys/keyring.c] Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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24-May-2010 |
Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> |
cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems Before applying this patch, cpuset updates task->mems_allowed and mempolicy by setting all new bits in the nodemask first, and clearing all old unallowed bits later. But in the way, the allocator may find that there is no node to alloc memory. The reason is that cpuset rebinds the task's mempolicy, it cleans the nodes which the allocater can alloc pages on, for example: (mpol: mempolicy) task1 task1's mpol task2 alloc page 1 alloc on node0? NO 1 1 change mems from 1 to 0 1 rebind task1's mpol 0-1 set new bits 0 clear disallowed bits alloc on node1? NO 0 ... can't alloc page goto oom This patch fixes this problem by expanding the nodes range first(set newly allowed bits) and shrink it lazily(clear newly disallowed bits). So we use a variable to tell the write-side task that read-side task is reading nodemask, and the write-side task clears newly disallowed nodes after read-side task ends the current memory allocation. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello] Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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12-May-2010 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
lockup_detector: Fix forgotten config conversion Fix forgotten CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP -> CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR in sched.h Fixes: arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `touch_nmi_watchdog': (.text+0x1bd59): undefined reference to `touch_softlockup_watchdog' kernel/built-in.o: In function `show_state_filter': (.text+0x10d01): undefined reference to `touch_all_softlockup_watchdogs' kernel/built-in.o: In function `sched_clock_idle_wakeup_event': (.text+0x362f9): undefined reference to `touch_softlockup_watchdog' kernel/built-in.o: In function `timekeeping_resume': timekeeping.c:(.text+0x38757): undefined reference to `touch_softlockup_watchdog' kernel/built-in.o: In function `tick_nohz_handler': tick-sched.c:(.text+0x3e5b9): undefined reference to `touch_softlockup_watchdog' kernel/built-in.o: In function `tick_sched_timer': tick-sched.c:(.text+0x3e671): undefined reference to `touch_softlockup_watchdog' kernel/built-in.o: In function `tick_check_idle': (.text+0x3e90b): undefined reference to `touch_softlockup_watchdog' Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
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07-May-2010 |
Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> |
lockup_detector: Touch_softlockup cleanups and softlockup_tick removal Just some code cleanup to make touch_softlockup clearer and remove the softlockup_tick function as it is no longer needed. Also remove the /proc softlockup_thres call as it has been changed to watchdog_thres. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> LKML-Reference: <1273266711-18706-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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07-May-2010 |
Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> |
lockup_detector: Combine nmi_watchdog and softlockup detector The new nmi_watchdog (which uses the perf event subsystem) is very similar in structure to the softlockup detector. Using Ingo's suggestion, I combined the two functionalities into one file: kernel/watchdog.c. Now both the nmi_watchdog (or hardlockup detector) and softlockup detector sit on top of the perf event subsystem, which is run every 60 seconds or so to see if there are any lockups. To detect hardlockups, cpus not responding to interrupts, I implemented an hrtimer that runs 5 times for every perf event overflow event. If that stops counting on a cpu, then the cpu is most likely in trouble. To detect softlockups, tasks not yielding to the scheduler, I used the previous kthread idea that now gets kicked every time the hrtimer fires. If the kthread isn't being scheduled neither is anyone else and the warning is printed to the console. I tested this on x86_64 and both the softlockup and hardlockup paths work. V2: - cleaned up the Kconfig and softlockup combination - surrounded hardlockup cases with #ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS_NMI - seperated out the softlockup case from perf event subsystem - re-arranged the enabling/disabling nmi watchdog from proc space - added cpumasks for hardlockup failure cases - removed fallback to soft events if no PMU exists for hard events V3: - comment cleanups - drop support for older softlockup code - per_cpu cleanups - completely remove software clock base hardlockup detector - use per_cpu masking on hard/soft lockup detection - #ifdef cleanups - rename config option NMI_WATCHDOG to LOCKUP_DETECTOR - documentation additions V4: - documentation fixes - convert per_cpu to __get_cpu_var - powerpc compile fixes V5: - split apart warn flags for hard and soft lockups TODO: - figure out how to make an arch-agnostic clock2cycles call (if possible) to feed into perf events as a sample period [fweisbec: merged conflict patch] Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> LKML-Reference: <1273266711-18706-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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11-May-2010 |
Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> |
revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads" and its fixup commits Originally, commit d899bf7b ("procfs: provide stack information for threads") attempted to introduce a new feature for showing where the threadstack was located and how many pages are being utilized by the stack. Commit c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") was applied to fix the NO_MMU case. Commit 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on 64-bit") was applied to fix a bug in ia32 executables being loaded. Commit 9ebd4eba7 ("procfs: fix /proc/<pid>/stat stack pointer for kernel threads") was applied to fix a bug which had kernel threads printing a userland stack address. Commit 1306d603f ('proc: partially revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads"') was then applied to revert the stack pages being used to solve a significant performance regression. This patch nearly undoes the effect of all these patches. The reason for reverting these is it provides an unusable value in field 28. For x86_64, a fork will result in the task->stack_start value being updated to the current user top of stack and not the stack start address. This unpredictability of the stack_start value makes it worthless. That includes the intended use of showing how much stack space a thread has. Other architectures will get different values. As an example, ia64 gets 0. The do_fork() and copy_process() functions appear to treat the stack_start and stack_size parameters as architecture specific. I only partially reverted c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") . If I had completely reverted it, I would have had to change mm/Makefile only build pagewalk.o when CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR is configured. Since I could not test the builds without significant effort, I decided to not change mm/Makefile. I only partially reverted 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on 64-bit") . I left the KSTK_ESP() change in place as that seemed worthwhile. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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16-Apr-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Pre-compute cpumask_weight(sched_domain_span(sd)) Dave reported that his large SPARC machines spend lots of time in hweight64(), try and optimize some of those needless cpumask_weight() invocations (esp. with the large offstack cpumasks these are very expensive indeed). Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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24-Mar-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Add enqueue/dequeue flags In order to reduce the dependency on TASK_WAKING rework the enqueue interface to support a proper flags field. Replace the int wakeup, bool head arguments with an int flags argument and create the following flags: ENQUEUE_WAKEUP - the enqueue is a wakeup of a sleeping task, ENQUEUE_WAKING - the enqueue has relative vruntime due to having sched_class::task_waking() called, ENQUEUE_HEAD - the waking task should be places on the head of the priority queue (where appropriate). For symmetry also convert sched_class::dequeue() to a flags scheme. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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24-Mar-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Fix TASK_WAKING vs fork deadlock Oleg noticed a few races with the TASK_WAKING usage on fork. - since TASK_WAKING is basically a spinlock, it should be IRQ safe - since we set TASK_WAKING (*) without holding rq->lock it could be there still is a rq->lock holder, thereby not actually providing full serialization. (*) in fact we clear PF_STARTING, which in effect enables TASK_WAKING. Cure the second issue by not setting TASK_WAKING in sched_fork(), but only temporarily in wake_up_new_task() while calling select_task_rq(). Cure the first by holding rq->lock around the select_task_rq() call, this will disable IRQs, this however requires that we push down the rq->lock release into select_task_rq_fair()'s cgroup stuff. Because select_task_rq_fair() still needs to drop the rq->lock we cannot fully get rid of TASK_WAKING. Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Mar-2010 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
sched: _cpu_down(): Don't play with current->cpus_allowed _cpu_down() changes the current task's affinity and then recovers it at the end. The problems are well known: we can't restore old_allowed if it was bound to the now-dead-cpu, and we can race with the userspace which can change cpu-affinity during unplug. _cpu_down() should not play with current->cpus_allowed at all. Instead, take_cpu_down() can migrate the caller of _cpu_down() after __cpu_disable() removes the dying cpu from cpu_online_mask. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100315091023.GA9148@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Mar-2010 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS, as Linus noticed it not so long ago. It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility needed for perf either. Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a much simpler approach. So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*() APIs in mm/mlock.c as well. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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10-Mar-2010 |
Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> |
copy_signal() cleanup: clean thread_group_cputime_init() Remove unneeded initializations in thread_group_cputime_init() and in posix_cpu_timers_init_group(). They are useless after kmem_cache_zalloc() was used in copy_signal(). Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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11-Mar-2010 |
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> |
sched: Remove avg_overlap Both avg_overlap and avg_wakeup had an inherent problem in that their accuracy was detrimentally affected by cross-cpu wakeups, this because we are missing the necessary call to update_curr(). This can't be fixed without increasing overhead in our already too fat fastpath. Additionally, with recent load balancing changes making us prefer to place tasks in an idle cache domain (which is good for compute bound loads), communicating tasks suffer when a sync wakeup, which would enable affine placement, is turned into a non-sync wakeup by SYNC_LESS. With one task on the runqueue, wake_affine() rejects the affine wakeup request, leaving the unfortunate where placed, taking frequent cache misses. Remove it, and recover some fastpath cycles. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1268301121.6785.30.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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11-Mar-2010 |
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> |
sched: Remove avg_wakeup Testing the load which led to this heuristic (nfs4 kbuild) shows that it has outlived it's usefullness. With intervening load balancing changes, I cannot see any difference with/without, so recover there fastpath cycles. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1268301062.6785.29.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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11-Mar-2010 |
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> |
sched: Rate-limit nohz Entering nohz code on every micro-idle is costing ~10% throughput for netperf TCP_RR when scheduling cross-cpu. Rate limiting entry fixes this, but raises ticks a bit. On my Q6600, an idle box goes from ~85 interrupts/sec to 128. The higher the context switch rate, the more nohz entry costs. With this patch and some cycle recovery patches in my tree, max cross cpu context switch rate is improved by ~16%, a large portion of which of which is this ratelimiting. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1268301003.6785.28.camel@marge.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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10-Mar-2010 |
Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> |
sched: Implement group scheduler statistics in one struct Put all statistic fields of sched_entity in one struct, sched_statistics, and embed it into sched_entity. This change allows to memset the sched_statistics to 0 when needed (for instance when forking), avoiding bugs of non initialized fields. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1268275065-18542-1-git-send-email-lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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05-Mar-2010 |
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> |
mm: avoid false sharing of mm_counter Considering the nature of per mm stats, it's the shared object among threads and can be a cache-miss point in the page fault path. This patch adds per-thread cache for mm_counter. RSS value will be counted into a struct in task_struct and synchronized with mm's one at events. Now, in this patch, the event is the number of calls to handle_mm_fault. Per-thread value is added to mm at each 64 calls. rough estimation with small benchmark on parallel thread (2threads) shows [before] 4.5 cache-miss/faults [after] 4.0 cache-miss/faults Anyway, the most contended object is mmap_sem if the number of threads grows. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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05-Mar-2010 |
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> |
mm: clean up mm_counter Presently, per-mm statistics counter is defined by macro in sched.h This patch modifies it to - defined in mm.h as inlinf functions - use array instead of macro's name creation. This patch is for reducing patch size in future patch to modify implementation of per-mm counter. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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03-Mar-2010 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Use wrapper function instead of exporting tasklist_lock Lockdep-RCU commit d11c563d exported tasklist_lock, which is not a good thing. This patch instead exports a function that uses lockdep to check whether tasklist_lock is held. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> LKML-Reference: <1267631219-8713-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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23-Feb-2010 |
Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> |
blk-core: use BIO list management functions Now that the bio list management stuff is generic, convert generic_make_request to use bio lists instead of its own private bio list implementation. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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08-Feb-2010 |
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched: Fix sched_mv_power_savings for !SMT Fix for sched_mc_powersavigs for pre-Nehalem platforms. Child sched domain should clear SD_PREFER_SIBLING if parent will have SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE because they are contradicting. Sets the flags correctly based on sched_mc_power_savings. Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100208100555.GD2931@dirshya.in.ibm.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.32.x] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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02-Feb-2010 |
Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de> |
tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes In particular, several occurances of funny versions of 'success', 'unknown', 'therefore', 'acknowledge', 'argument', 'achieve', 'address', 'beginning', 'desirable', 'separate' and 'necessary' are fixed. Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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27-Jan-2010 |
Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> |
softlockup: Add sched_clock_tick() to avoid kernel warning on kgdb resume When CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK is set, sched_clock() gets the time from hardware such as the TSC on x86. In this configuration kgdb will report a softlock warning message on resuming or detaching from a debug session. Sequence of events in the problem case: 1) "cpu sched clock" and "hardware time" are at 100 sec prior to a call to kgdb_handle_exception() 2) Debugger waits in kgdb_handle_exception() for 80 sec and on exit the following is called ... touch_softlockup_watchdog() --> __raw_get_cpu_var(touch_timestamp) = 0; 3) "cpu sched clock" = 100s (it was not updated, because the interrupt was disabled in kgdb) but the "hardware time" = 180 sec 4) The first timer interrupt after resuming from kgdb_handle_exception updates the watchdog from the "cpu sched clock" update_process_times() { ... run_local_timers() --> softlockup_tick() --> check (touch_timestamp == 0) (it is "YES" here, we have set "touch_timestamp = 0" at kgdb) --> __touch_softlockup_watchdog() ***(A)--> reset "touch_timestamp" to "get_timestamp()" (Here, the "touch_timestamp" will still be set to 100s.) ... scheduler_tick() ***(B)--> sched_clock_tick() (update "cpu sched clock" to "hardware time" = 180s) ... } 5) The Second timer interrupt handler appears to have a large jump and trips the softlockup warning. update_process_times() { ... run_local_timers() --> softlockup_tick() --> "cpu sched clock" - "touch_timestamp" = 180s-100s > 60s --> printk "soft lockup error messages" ... } note: ***(A) reset "touch_timestamp" to "get_timestamp(this_cpu)" Why is "touch_timestamp" 100 sec, instead of 180 sec? When CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK is set, the call trace of get_timestamp() is: get_timestamp(this_cpu) -->cpu_clock(this_cpu) -->sched_clock_cpu(this_cpu) -->__update_sched_clock(sched_clock_data, now) The __update_sched_clock() function uses the GTOD tick value to create a window to normalize the "now" values. So if "now" value is too big for sched_clock_data, it will be ignored. The fix is to invoke sched_clock_tick() to update "cpu sched clock" in order to recover from this state. This is done by introducing the function touch_softlockup_watchdog_sync(). This allows kgdb to request that the sched clock is updated when the watchdog thread runs the first time after a resume from kgdb. [yong.zhang0@gmail.com: Use per cpu instead of an array] Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <Dongdong.Deng@windriver.com> Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: peterz@infradead.org LKML-Reference: <1264631124-4837-2-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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28-Jan-2010 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Split 'flush_old_exec' into two functions 'flush_old_exec()' is the point of no return when doing an execve(), and it is pretty badly misnamed. It doesn't just flush the old executable environment, it also starts up the new one. Which is very inconvenient for things like setting up the new personality, because we want the new personality to affect the starting of the new environment, but at the same time we do _not_ want the new personality to take effect if flushing the old one fails. As a result, the x86-64 '32-bit' personality is actually done using this insane "I'm going to change the ABI, but I haven't done it yet" bit (TIF_ABI_PENDING), with SET_PERSONALITY() not actually setting the personality, but just the "pending" bit, so that "flush_thread()" can do the actual personality magic. This patch in no way changes any of that insanity, but it does split the 'flush_old_exec()' function up into a preparatory part that can fail (still called flush_old_exec()), and a new part that will actually set up the new exec environment (setup_new_exec()). All callers are changed to trivially comply with the new world order. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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20-Jan-2010 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched: Extend enqueue_task to allow head queueing The ability of enqueueing a task to the head of a SCHED_FIFO priority list is required to fix some violations of POSIX scheduling policy. Extend the related functions with a "head" argument. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Carsten Emde <cbe@osadl.org> Tested-by: Mathias Weber <mathias.weber.mw1@roche.com> LKML-Reference: <20100120171629.734886007@linutronix.de>
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20-Jan-2010 |
Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com> |
sched: Remove USER_SCHED Remove the USER_SCHED feature. It has been scheduled to be removed in 2.6.34 as per http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125728479022976&w=2 Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1263990378.24844.3.camel@localhost> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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17-Dec-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Remove the sched_class load_balance methods Take out the sched_class methods for load-balancing. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Jan-2010 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
nommu: don't need get_unmapped_area() for NOMMU get_unmapped_area() is unnecessary for NOMMU as no-one calls it. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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19-Nov-2009 |
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> |
resource: add helpers for fetching rlimits We want to be sure that compiler fetches the limit variable only once, so add helpers for fetching current and maximal resource limits which do that. Add them to sched.h (instead of resource.h) due to circular dependency sched.h->resource.h->task_struct Alternative would be to create a separate res_access.h or similar. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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17-Dec-2009 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Revert "task_struct: make journal_info conditional" This reverts commit e4c570c4cb7a95dbfafa3d016d2739bf3fdfe319, as requested by Alexey: "I think I gave a good enough arguments to not merge it. To iterate: * patch makes impossible to start using ext3 on EXT3_FS=n kernels without reboot. * this is done only for one pointer on task_struct" None of config options which define task_struct are tristate directly or effectively." Requested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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17-Dec-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Assert task state bits at build time Since everybody is lazy and prone to forgetting things, make the compiler help us a bit. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20091217121830.060186433@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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17-Dec-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Add missing state chars to TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR We grew 3 new task states since the last time someone touched it. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20091217121829.892737686@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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17-Dec-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Move TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR near the TASK_state bits So that we don't keep forgetting about it. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20091217121829.815779372@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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17-Dec-2009 |
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> |
cpumask: rename tsk_cpumask to tsk_cpus_allowed Noone uses this wrapper yet, and Ingo asked that it be kept consistent with current task_struct usage. (One user crept in via linux-next: fixed) Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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16-Dec-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Remove the cfs_rq dependency from set_task_cpu() In order to remove the cfs_rq dependency from set_task_cpu() we need to ensure the task is cfs_rq invariant for all callsites. The simple approach is to substract cfs_rq->min_vruntime from se->vruntime on dequeue, and add cfs_rq->min_vruntime on enqueue. However, this has the downside of breaking FAIR_SLEEPERS since we loose the old vruntime as we only maintain the relative position. To solve this, we observe that we only migrate runnable tasks, we do this using deactivate_task(.sleep=0) and activate_task(.wakeup=0), therefore we can restrain the min_vruntime invariance to that state. The only other case is wakeup balancing, since we want to maintain the old vruntime we cannot make it relative on dequeue, but since we don't migrate inactive tasks, we can do so right before we activate it again. This is where we need the new pre-wakeup hook, we need to call this while still holding the old rq->lock. We could fold it into ->select_task_rq(), but since that has multiple callsites and would obfuscate the locking requirements, that seems like a fudge. This leaves the fork() case, simply make sure that ->task_fork() leaves the ->vruntime in a relative state. This covers all cases where set_task_cpu() gets called, and ensures it sees a relative vruntime. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170518.191697025@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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16-Dec-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Add pre and post wakeup hooks As will be apparent in the next patch, we need a pre wakeup hook for sched_fair task migration, hence rename the post wakeup hook and one pre wakeup. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170518.114746117@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Dec-2009 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
signals: kill force_sig_specific() Kill force_sig_specific(), this trivial wrapper has no callers. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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15-Dec-2009 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
signals: SEND_SIG_NOINFO should be considered as SI_FROMUSER() No changes in compiled code. The patch adds the new helper, si_fromuser() and changes check_kill_permission() to use this helper. The real effect of this patch is that from now we "officially" consider SEND_SIG_NOINFO signal as "from user-space" signals. This is already true if we look at the code which uses SEND_SIG_NOINFO, except __send_signal() has another opinion - see the next patch. The naming of these special SEND_SIG_XXX siginfo's is really bad imho. From __send_signal()'s pov they mean SEND_SIG_NOINFO from user SEND_SIG_PRIV from kernel SEND_SIG_FORCED no info Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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15-Dec-2009 |
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> |
memcg: coalesce uncharge during unmap/truncate In massive parallel enviroment, res_counter can be a performance bottleneck. One strong techinque to reduce lock contention is reducing calls by coalescing some amount of calls into one. Considering charge/uncharge chatacteristic, - charge is done one by one via demand-paging. - uncharge is done by - in chunk at munmap, truncate, exit, execve... - one by one via vmscan/paging. It seems we have a chance to coalesce uncharges for improving scalability at unmap/truncation. This patch is a for coalescing uncharge. For avoiding scattering memcg's structure to functions under /mm, this patch adds memcg batch uncharge information to the task. A reason for per-task batching is for making use of caller's context information. We do batched uncharge (deleyed uncharge) when truncation/unmap occurs but do direct uncharge when uncharge is called by memory reclaim (vmscan.c). The degree of coalescing depends on callers - at invalidate/trucate... pagevec size - at unmap ....ZAP_BLOCK_SIZE (memory itself will be freed in this degree.) Then, we'll not coalescing too much. On x86-64 8cpu server, I tested overheads of memcg at page fault by running a program which does map/fault/unmap in a loop. Running a task per a cpu by taskset and see sum of the number of page faults in 60secs. [without memcg config] 40156968 page-faults # 0.085 M/sec ( +- 0.046% ) 27.67 cache-miss/faults [root cgroup] 36659599 page-faults # 0.077 M/sec ( +- 0.247% ) 31.58 miss/faults [in a child cgroup] 18444157 page-faults # 0.039 M/sec ( +- 0.133% ) 69.96 miss/faults [child with this patch] 27133719 page-faults # 0.057 M/sec ( +- 0.155% ) 47.16 miss/faults We can see some amounts of improvement. (root cgroup doesn't affected by this patch) Another patch for "charge" will follow this and above will be improved more. Changelog(since 2009/10/02): - renamed filed of memcg_batch (as pages to bytes, memsw to memsw_bytes) - some clean up and commentary/description updates. - added initialize code to copy_process(). (possible bug fix) Changelog(old): - fixed !CONFIG_MEM_CGROUP case. - rebased onto the latest mmotm + softlimit fix patches. - unified patch for callers - added commetns. - make ->do_batch as bool. - removed css_get() at el. We don't need it. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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14-Dec-2009 |
Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> |
task_struct: make journal_info conditional journal_info in task_struct is used in journaling file system only. So introduce CONFIG_FS_JOURNAL_INFO and make it conditional. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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17-Nov-2009 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched: Convert pi_lock to raw_spinlock Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to raw_spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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10-Dec-2009 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: Remove forced2_migrations stats This build warning: kernel/sched.c: In function 'set_task_cpu': kernel/sched.c:2070: warning: unused variable 'old_rq' Made me realize that the forced2_migrations stat looks pretty pointless (and a misnomer) - remove it. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Dec-2009 |
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> |
sched: Mark sched_clock() as notrace The core ftrace code (trace_clock_local) calls sched_clock() directly, so we don't want to recurisvely trigger the ftrace code. Rather than update every sched_clock() definition, tag the prototype for everyone as notrace. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <1260407223-10900-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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29-Nov-2009 |
Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched: Make tunable scaling style configurable As scaling now takes place on all kind of cpu add/remove events a user that configures values via proc should be able to configure if his set values are still rescaled or kept whatever happens. As the comments state that log2 was just a second guess that worked the interface is not just designed for on/off, but to choose a scaling type. Currently this allows none, log and linear, but more important it allwos us to keep the interface even if someone has an even better idea how to scale the values. Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1259579808-11357-3-git-send-email-ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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30-Nov-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Discard some old bits WAKEUP_RUNNING was an experiment, not sure why that ever ended up being merged... Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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27-Nov-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Sanitize fork() handling Currently we try to do task placement in wake_up_new_task() after we do the load-balance pass in sched_fork(). This yields complicated semantics in that we have to deal with tasks on different RQs and the set_task_cpu() calls in copy_process() and sched_fork() Rename ->task_new() to ->task_fork() and call it from sched_fork() before the balancing, this gives the policy a clear point to place the task. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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02-Dec-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Remove sysctl.sched_features Since we've had a much saner debugfs interface to this, remove the sysctl one. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> [ v2: build fix ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Dec-2009 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched: Protect sched_rr_get_param() access to task->sched_class sched_rr_get_param calls task->sched_class->get_rr_interval(task) without protection against a concurrent sched_setscheduler() call which modifies task->sched_class. Serialize the access with task_rq_lock(task) and hand the rq pointer into get_rr_interval() as it's needed at least in the sched_fair implementation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0912090930120.3089@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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02-Dec-2009 |
Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> |
sched, cputime: Introduce thread_group_times() This is a real fix for problem of utime/stime values decreasing described in the thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/3/522 Now cputime is accounted in the following way: - {u,s}time in task_struct are increased every time when the thread is interrupted by a tick (timer interrupt). - When a thread exits, its {u,s}time are added to signal->{u,s}time, after adjusted by task_times(). - When all threads in a thread_group exits, accumulated {u,s}time (and also c{u,s}time) in signal struct are added to c{u,s}time in signal struct of the group's parent. So {u,s}time in task struct are "raw" tick count, while {u,s}time and c{u,s}time in signal struct are "adjusted" values. And accounted values are used by: - task_times(), to get cputime of a thread: This function returns adjusted values that originates from raw {u,s}time and scaled by sum_exec_runtime that accounted by CFS. - thread_group_cputime(), to get cputime of a thread group: This function returns sum of all {u,s}time of living threads in the group, plus {u,s}time in the signal struct that is sum of adjusted cputimes of all exited threads belonged to the group. The problem is the return value of thread_group_cputime(), because it is mixed sum of "raw" value and "adjusted" value: group's {u,s}time = foreach(thread){{u,s}time} + exited({u,s}time) This misbehavior can break {u,s}time monotonicity. Assume that if there is a thread that have raw values greater than adjusted values (e.g. interrupted by 1000Hz ticks 50 times but only runs 45ms) and if it exits, cputime will decrease (e.g. -5ms). To fix this, we could do: group's {u,s}time = foreach(t){task_times(t)} + exited({u,s}time) But task_times() contains hard divisions, so applying it for every thread should be avoided. This patch fixes the above problem in the following way: - Modify thread's exit (= __exit_signal()) not to use task_times(). It means {u,s}time in signal struct accumulates raw values instead of adjusted values. As the result it makes thread_group_cputime() to return pure sum of "raw" values. - Introduce a new function thread_group_times(*task, *utime, *stime) that converts "raw" values of thread_group_cputime() to "adjusted" values, in same calculation procedure as task_times(). - Modify group's exit (= wait_task_zombie()) to use this introduced thread_group_times(). It make c{u,s}time in signal struct to have adjusted values like before this patch. - Replace some thread_group_cputime() by thread_group_times(). This replacements are only applied where conveys the "adjusted" cputime to users, and where already uses task_times() near by it. (i.e. sys_times(), getrusage(), and /proc/<PID>/stat.) This patch have a positive side effect: - Before this patch, if a group contains many short-life threads (e.g. runs 0.9ms and not interrupted by ticks), the group's cputime could be invisible since thread's cputime was accumulated after adjusted: imagine adjustment function as adj(ticks, runtime), {adj(0, 0.9) + adj(0, 0.9) + ....} = {0 + 0 + ....} = 0. After this patch it will not happen because the adjustment is applied after accumulated. v2: - remove if()s, put new variables into signal_struct. Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Spencer Candland <spencer@bluehost.com> Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <4B162517.8040909@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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02-Dec-2009 |
Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> |
sched, cputime: Cleanups related to task_times() - Remove if({u,s}t)s because no one call it with NULL now. - Use cputime_{add,sub}(). - Add ifndef-endif for prev_{u,s}time since they are used only when !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING. Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Spencer Candland <spencer@bluehost.com> Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <4B1624C7.7040302@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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29-Nov-2009 |
Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> |
locking, task_struct: Reduce size on TRACE_IRQFLAGS and 64bit Reorder task_struct field for TRACE_IRQFLAGS to remove padding on 64-bit. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4B135F50.8070302@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Nov-2009 |
Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> |
sched: Remove task_{u,s,g}time() Now all task_{u,s}time() pairs are replaced by task_times(). And task_gtime() is too simple to be an inline function. Cleanup them all. Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Spencer Candland <spencer@bluehost.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B0E16D1.70902@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Nov-2009 |
Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> |
sched: Introduce task_times() to replace task_{u,s}time() pair Functions task_{u,s}time() are called in pair in almost all cases. However task_stime() is implemented to call task_utime() from its inside, so such paired calls run task_utime() twice. It means we do heavy divisions (div_u64 + do_div) twice to get utime and stime which can be obtained at same time by one set of divisions. This patch introduces a function task_times(*tsk, *utime, *stime) to retrieve utime and stime at once in better, optimized way. Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Spencer Candland <spencer@bluehost.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B0E16AE.906@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Oct-2009 |
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> |
signal: Fix alternate signal stack check All architectures in the kernel increment/decrement the stack pointer before storing values on the stack. On architectures which have the stack grow down sas_ss_sp == sp is not on the alternate signal stack while sas_ss_sp + sas_ss_size == sp is on the alternate signal stack. On architectures which have the stack grow up sas_ss_sp == sp is on the alternate signal stack while sas_ss_sp + sas_ss_size == sp is not on the alternate signal stack. The current implementation fails for architectures which have the stack grow down on the corner case where sas_ss_sp == sp.This was reported as Debian bug #544905 on AMD64. Simplified test case: http://download.breakpoint.cc/tc-sig-stack.c The test case creates the following stack scenario: 0xn0300 stack top 0xn0200 alt stack pointer top (when switching to alt stack) 0xn01ff alt stack end 0xn0100 alt stack start == stack pointer If the signal is sent the stack pointer is pointing to the base address of the alt stack and the kernel erroneously decides that it has already switched to the alternate stack because of the current check for "sp - sas_ss_sp < sas_ss_size" On parisc (stack grows up) the scenario would be: 0xn0200 stack pointer 0xn01ff alt stack end 0xn0100 alt stack start = alt stack pointer base (when switching to alt stack) 0xn0000 stack base This is handled correctly by the current implementation. [ tglx: Modified for archs which have the stack grow up (parisc) which would fail with the correct implementation for stack grows down. Added a check for sp >= current->sas_ss_sp which is strictly not necessary but makes the code symetric for both variants ] Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: stable@kernel.org LKML-Reference: <20091025143758.GA6653@Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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02-Nov-2009 |
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> |
cpumask: Partition_sched_domains takes array of cpumask_var_t Currently partition_sched_domains() takes a 'struct cpumask *doms_new' which is a kmalloc'ed array of cpumask_t. You can't have such an array if 'struct cpumask' is undefined, as we plan for CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y. So, we make this an array of cpumask_var_t instead: this is the same for the CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=n case, but requires multiple allocations for the CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y case. Hence we add alloc_sched_domains() and free_sched_domains() functions. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <200911031453.40668.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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04-Nov-2009 |
Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> |
sched: Remove unused cpu_nr_migrations() cpu_nr_migrations() is not used, remove it. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4AF12A66.6020609@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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04-Nov-2009 |
Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> |
sched: Remove unused time_sync_thresh declaration time_sync_thresh had been removed. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4AF12A3A.5050200@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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04-Nov-2009 |
Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> |
sched: Remove unused __schedule() declaration __schedule() had been removed. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4AF129C8.3030008@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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23-Sep-2009 |
Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> |
task_struct cleanup: move binfmt field to mm_struct Because the binfmt is not different between threads in the same process, it can be moved from task_struct to mm_struct. And binfmt moudle is handled per mm_struct instead of task_struct. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> 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>
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23-Sep-2009 |
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> |
sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler It's unused. It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl shouldn't care about the rest. It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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23-Sep-2009 |
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> |
signals: inline __fatal_signal_pending __fatal_signal_pending inlines to one instruction on x86, probably two instructions on other machines. It takes two longer x86 instructions just to call it and test its return value, not to mention the function itself. On my random x86_64 config, this saved 70 bytes of text (59 of those being __fatal_signal_pending itself). Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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23-Sep-2009 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
ptrace: __ptrace_detach: do __wake_up_parent() if we reap the tracee The bug is old, it wasn't cause by recent changes. Test case: static void *tfunc(void *arg) { int pid = (long)arg; assert(ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, NULL, NULL) == 0); kill(pid, SIGKILL); sleep(1); return NULL; } int main(void) { pthread_t th; long pid = fork(); if (!pid) pause(); signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN); assert(pthread_create(&th, NULL, tfunc, (void*)pid) == 0); int r = waitpid(-1, NULL, __WNOTHREAD); printf("waitpid: %d %m\n", r); return 0; } Before the patch this program hangs, after this patch waitpid() correctly fails with errno == -ECHILD. The problem is, __ptrace_detach() reaps the EXIT_ZOMBIE tracee if its ->real_parent is our sub-thread and we ignore SIGCHLD. But in this case we should wake up other threads which can sleep in do_wait(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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24-Sep-2009 |
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> |
cpumask: don't define set_cpus_allowed() if CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y You're not supposed to pass cpumasks on the stack in that case. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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22-Sep-2009 |
Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> |
procfs: provide stack information for threads A patch to give a better overview of the userland application stack usage, especially for embedded linux. Currently you are only able to dump the main process/thread stack usage which is showed in /proc/pid/status by the "VmStk" Value. But you get no information about the consumed stack memory of the the threads. There is an enhancement in the /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/*maps and which marks the vm mapping where the thread stack pointer reside with "[thread stack xxxxxxxx]". xxxxxxxx is the maximum size of stack. This is a value information, because libpthread doesn't set the start of the stack to the top of the mapped area, depending of the pthread usage. A sample output of /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/maps looks like: 08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8312 /opt/z 08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312 /opt/z 0804a000-0806b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] a7d12000-a7d13000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 a7d13000-a7f13000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [thread stack: 001ff4b4] a7f13000-a7f14000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 a7f14000-a7f36000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 a7f36000-a8069000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 a8069000-a806b000 r--p 00133000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 a806b000-a806c000 rw-p 00135000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 a806c000-a806f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 a806f000-a8083000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0 a8083000-a8084000 r--p 00013000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0 a8084000-a8085000 rw-p 00014000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0 a8085000-a8088000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 a8088000-a80a4000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 a80a4000-a80a5000 r--p 0001b000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 a80a5000-a80a6000 rw-p 0001c000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 afaf5000-afb0a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] Also there is a new entry "stack usage" in /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/status which will you give the current stack usage in kb. A sample output of /proc/self/status looks like: Name: cat State: R (running) Tgid: 507 Pid: 507 . . . CapBnd: fffffffffffffeff voluntary_ctxt_switches: 0 nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches: 0 Stack usage: 12 kB I also fixed stack base address in /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/stat to the base address of the associated thread stack and not the one of the main process. This makes more sense. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/proc/array.c now needs walk_page_range()] Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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22-Sep-2009 |
Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> |
getrusage: fill ru_maxrss value Make ->ru_maxrss value in struct rusage filled accordingly to rss hiwater mark. This struct is filled as a parameter to getrusage syscall. ->ru_maxrss value is set to KBs which is the way it is done in BSD systems. /usr/bin/time (gnu time) application converts ->ru_maxrss to KBs which seems to be incorrect behavior. Maintainer of this util was notified by me with the patch which corrects it and cc'ed. To make this happen we extend struct signal_struct by two fields. The first one is ->maxrss which we use to store rss hiwater of the task. The second one is ->cmaxrss which we use to store highest rss hiwater of all task childs. These values are used in k_getrusage() to actually fill ->ru_maxrss. k_getrusage() uses current rss hiwater value directly if mm struct exists. Note: exec() clear mm->hiwater_rss, but doesn't clear sig->maxrss. it is intetionally behavior. *BSD getrusage have exec() inheriting. test programs ======================================================== getrusage.c =========== #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include <sys/resource.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <signal.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include "common.h" #define err(str) perror(str), exit(1) int main(int argc, char** argv) { int status; printf("allocate 100MB\n"); consume(100); printf("testcase1: fork inherit? \n"); printf(" expect: initial.self ~= child.self\n"); show_rusage("initial"); if (__fork()) { wait(&status); } else { show_rusage("fork child"); _exit(0); } printf("\n"); printf("testcase2: fork inherit? (cont.) \n"); printf(" expect: initial.children ~= 100MB, but child.children = 0\n"); show_rusage("initial"); if (__fork()) { wait(&status); } else { show_rusage("child"); _exit(0); } printf("\n"); printf("testcase3: fork + malloc \n"); printf(" expect: child.self ~= initial.self + 50MB\n"); show_rusage("initial"); if (__fork()) { wait(&status); } else { printf("allocate +50MB\n"); consume(50); show_rusage("fork child"); _exit(0); } printf("\n"); printf("testcase4: grandchild maxrss\n"); printf(" expect: post_wait.children ~= 300MB\n"); show_rusage("initial"); if (__fork()) { wait(&status); show_rusage("post_wait"); } else { system("./child -n 0 -g 300"); _exit(0); } printf("\n"); printf("testcase5: zombie\n"); printf(" expect: pre_wait ~= initial, IOW the zombie process is not accounted.\n"); printf(" post_wait ~= 400MB, IOW wait() collect child's max_rss. \n"); show_rusage("initial"); if (__fork()) { sleep(1); /* children become zombie */ show_rusage("pre_wait"); wait(&status); show_rusage("post_wait"); } else { system("./child -n 400"); _exit(0); } printf("\n"); printf("testcase6: SIG_IGN\n"); printf(" expect: initial ~= after_zombie (child's 500MB alloc should be ignored).\n"); show_rusage("initial"); signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN); if (__fork()) { sleep(1); /* children become zombie */ show_rusage("after_zombie"); } else { system("./child -n 500"); _exit(0); } printf("\n"); signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL); printf("testcase7: exec (without fork) \n"); printf(" expect: initial ~= exec \n"); show_rusage("initial"); execl("./child", "child", "-v", NULL); return 0; } child.c ======= #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include <sys/resource.h> #include "common.h" int main(int argc, char** argv) { int status; int c; long consume_size = 0; long grandchild_consume_size = 0; int show = 0; while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "n:g:v")) != -1) { switch (c) { case 'n': consume_size = atol(optarg); break; case 'v': show = 1; break; case 'g': grandchild_consume_size = atol(optarg); break; default: break; } } if (show) show_rusage("exec"); if (consume_size) { printf("child alloc %ldMB\n", consume_size); consume(consume_size); } if (grandchild_consume_size) { if (fork()) { wait(&status); } else { printf("grandchild alloc %ldMB\n", grandchild_consume_size); consume(grandchild_consume_size); exit(0); } } return 0; } common.c ======== #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include <sys/resource.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <signal.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include "common.h" #define err(str) perror(str), exit(1) void show_rusage(char *prefix) { int err, err2; struct rusage rusage_self; struct rusage rusage_children; printf("%s: ", prefix); err = getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF, &rusage_self); if (!err) printf("self %ld ", rusage_self.ru_maxrss); err2 = getrusage(RUSAGE_CHILDREN, &rusage_children); if (!err2) printf("children %ld ", rusage_children.ru_maxrss); printf("\n"); } /* Some buggy OS need this worthless CPU waste. */ void make_pagefault(void) { void *addr; int size = getpagesize(); int i; for (i=0; i<1000; i++) { addr = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANON, -1, 0); if (addr == MAP_FAILED) err("make_pagefault"); memset(addr, 0, size); munmap(addr, size); } } void consume(int mega) { size_t sz = mega * 1024 * 1024; void *ptr; ptr = malloc(sz); memset(ptr, 0, sz); make_pagefault(); } pid_t __fork(void) { pid_t pid; pid = fork(); make_pagefault(); return pid; } common.h ======== void show_rusage(char *prefix); void make_pagefault(void); void consume(int mega); pid_t __fork(void); FreeBSD result (expected result) ======================================================== allocate 100MB testcase1: fork inherit? expect: initial.self ~= child.self initial: self 103492 children 0 fork child: self 103540 children 0 testcase2: fork inherit? (cont.) expect: initial.children ~= 100MB, but child.children = 0 initial: self 103540 children 103540 child: self 103564 children 0 testcase3: fork + malloc expect: child.self ~= initial.self + 50MB initial: self 103564 children 103564 allocate +50MB fork child: self 154860 children 0 testcase4: grandchild maxrss expect: post_wait.children ~= 300MB initial: self 103564 children 154860 grandchild alloc 300MB post_wait: self 103564 children 308720 testcase5: zombie expect: pre_wait ~= initial, IOW the zombie process is not accounted. post_wait ~= 400MB, IOW wait() collect child's max_rss. initial: self 103564 children 308720 child alloc 400MB pre_wait: self 103564 children 308720 post_wait: self 103564 children 411312 testcase6: SIG_IGN expect: initial ~= after_zombie (child's 500MB alloc should be ignored). initial: self 103564 children 411312 child alloc 500MB after_zombie: self 103624 children 411312 testcase7: exec (without fork) expect: initial ~= exec initial: self 103624 children 411312 exec: self 103624 children 411312 Linux result (actual test result) ======================================================== allocate 100MB testcase1: fork inherit? expect: initial.self ~= child.self initial: self 102848 children 0 fork child: self 102572 children 0 testcase2: fork inherit? (cont.) expect: initial.children ~= 100MB, but child.children = 0 initial: self 102876 children 102644 child: self 102572 children 0 testcase3: fork + malloc expect: child.self ~= initial.self + 50MB initial: self 102876 children 102644 allocate +50MB fork child: self 153804 children 0 testcase4: grandchild maxrss expect: post_wait.children ~= 300MB initial: self 102876 children 153864 grandchild alloc 300MB post_wait: self 102876 children 307536 testcase5: zombie expect: pre_wait ~= initial, IOW the zombie process is not accounted. post_wait ~= 400MB, IOW wait() collect child's max_rss. initial: self 102876 children 307536 child alloc 400MB pre_wait: self 102876 children 307536 post_wait: self 102876 children 410076 testcase6: SIG_IGN expect: initial ~= after_zombie (child's 500MB alloc should be ignored). initial: self 102876 children 410076 child alloc 500MB after_zombie: self 102880 children 410076 testcase7: exec (without fork) expect: initial ~= exec initial: self 102880 children 410076 exec: self 102880 children 410076 Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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21-Sep-2009 |
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> |
cpuidle: fix the menu governor to boost IO performance Fix the menu idle governor which balances power savings, energy efficiency and performance impact. The reason for a reworked governor is that there have been serious performance issues reported with the existing code on Nehalem server systems. To show this I'm sure Andrew wants to see benchmark results: (benchmark is "fio", "no cstates" is using "idle=poll") no cstates current linux new algorithm 1 disk 107 Mb/s 85 Mb/s 105 Mb/s 2 disks 215 Mb/s 123 Mb/s 209 Mb/s 12 disks 590 Mb/s 320 Mb/s 585 Mb/s In various power benchmark measurements, no degredation was found by our measurement&diagnostics team. Obviously a small percentage more power was used in the "fio" benchmark, due to the much higher performance. While it would be a novel idea to describe the new algorithm in this commit message, I cheaped out and described it in comments in the code instead. [changes since first post: spelling fixes from akpm, review feedback, folded menu-tng into menu.c] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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21-Sep-2009 |
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> |
oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to signal_struct Currently, OOM logic callflow is here. __out_of_memory() select_bad_process() for each task badness() calculate badness of one task oom_kill_process() search child oom_kill_task() kill target task and mm shared tasks with it example, process-A have two thread, thread-A and thread-B and it have very fat memory and each thread have following oom_adj and oom_score. thread-A: oom_adj = OOM_DISABLE, oom_score = 0 thread-B: oom_adj = 0, oom_score = very-high Then, select_bad_process() select thread-B, but oom_kill_task() refuse kill the task because thread-A have OOM_DISABLE. Thus __out_of_memory() call select_bad_process() again. but select_bad_process() select the same task. It mean kernel fall in livelock. The fact is, select_bad_process() must select killable task. otherwise OOM logic go into livelock. And root cause is, oom_adj shouldn't be per-thread value. it should be per-process value because OOM-killer kill a process, not thread. Thus This patch moves oomkilladj (now more appropriately named oom_adj) from struct task_struct to struct signal_struct. it naturally prevent select_bad_process() choose wrong task. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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21-Sep-2009 |
Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> |
ksm: unmerge is an origin of OOMs Just as the swapoff system call allocates many pages of RAM to various processes, perhaps triggering OOM, so "echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run" (unmerge) is liable to allocate many pages of RAM to various processes, perhaps triggering OOM; and each is normally run from a modest admin process (swapoff or shell), easily repeated until it succeeds. So treat unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items() in the same way that we treat try_to_unuse(): generalize PF_SWAPOFF to PF_OOM_ORIGIN, and bracket both with that, to ask the OOM killer to kill them first, to prevent them from spawning more and more OOM kills. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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21-Sep-2009 |
Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> |
ksm: the mm interface to ksm This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later. When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than pretending that they can be serviced. But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not touch (e.g. hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings). Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory. Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it. Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting. Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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20-Sep-2009 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events! In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging, monitoring, analysis facility. Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem 'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and less appropriate. All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion) The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well. Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and suggested a rename. User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to keep the size down.) This patch has been generated via the following script: FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config') sed -i \ -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \ -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \ -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \ -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \ -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \ -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \ $FILES for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g') mv $N $M done FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*) sed -i \ -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \ -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \ -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \ -e 's/counter/event/g' \ -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \ $FILES ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches is the smallest: the end of the merge window. Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch. ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but in case there's something left where 'counter' would be better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. ) Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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20-Sep-2009 |
Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> |
sched: Simplify sys_sched_rr_get_interval() system call By removing the need for it to know details of scheduling classes. This allows PlugSched to define orthogonal scheduling classes. Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <06d1b89ee15a0eef82d7.1253496713@mudlark.pw.nest> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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19-Sep-2009 |
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
sched: Fix raciness in runqueue_is_locked() runqueue_is_locked() is unavoidably racy due to a poor interface design. It does cpu = get_cpu() ret = some_perpcu_thing(cpu); put_cpu(cpu); return ret; Its return value is unreliable. Fix. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <200909191855.n8JItiko022148@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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13-Sep-2009 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Simplify rcu_read_unlock_special() quiescent-state accounting The earlier approach required two scheduling-clock ticks to note an preemptable-RCU quiescent state in the situation in which the scheduling-clock interrupt is unlucky enough to always interrupt an RCU read-side critical section. With this change, the quiescent state is instead noted by the outermost rcu_read_unlock() immediately following the first scheduling-clock tick, or, alternatively, by the first subsequent context switch. Therefore, this change also speeds up grace periods. Suggested-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu LKML-Reference: <12528585111945-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Sep-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
sched: Add new wakeup preemption mode: WAKEUP_RUNNING Create a new wakeup preemption mode, preempt towards tasks that run shorter on avg. It sets next buddy to be sure we actually run the task we preempted for. Test results: root@twins:~# while :; do :; done & [1] 6537 root@twins:~# while :; do :; done & [2] 6538 root@twins:~# while :; do :; done & [3] 6539 root@twins:~# while :; do :; done & [4] 6540 root@twins:/home/peter# ./latt -c4 sleep 4 Entries: 48 (clients=4) Averages: ------------------------------ Max 4750 usec Avg 497 usec Stdev 737 usec root@twins:/home/peter# echo WAKEUP_RUNNING > /debug/sched_features root@twins:/home/peter# ./latt -c4 sleep 4 Entries: 48 (clients=4) Averages: ------------------------------ Max 14 usec Avg 5 usec Stdev 3 usec Disabled by default - needs more testing. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
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16-Sep-2009 |
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> |
HWPOISON: Add PR_MCE_KILL prctl to control early kill behaviour per process This allows processes to override their early/late kill behaviour on hardware memory errors. Typically applications which are memory error aware is better of with early kill (see the error as soon as possible), all others with late kill (only see the error when the error is really impacting execution) There's a global sysctl, but this way an application can set its specific policy. We're using two bits, one to signify that the process stated its intention and that I also made the prctl future proof by enforcing the unused arguments are 0. The state is inherited to children. Note this makes us officially run out of process flags on 32bit, but the next patch can easily add another field. Manpage patch will be supplied separately. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
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16-Sep-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Add SD_PREFER_LOCAL And turn it on for NUMA and MC domains. This improves locality in balancing decisions by keeping up to capacity amount of tasks local before looking for idle CPUs. (and twice the capacity if SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE is set.) Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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14-Sep-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Add WF_FORK Avoid the cache buddies from biasing the time distribution away from fork()ers. Normally the next buddy will be the preferred scheduling target, but this makes fork()s prefer to run the new child, whereas we prefer to run the parent, since that will generate more work. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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14-Sep-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Rename sync arguments In order to extend the functions to have more than 1 flag (sync), rename the argument to flags, and explicitly define a WF_ space for individual flags. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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14-Sep-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Rename select_task_rq() argument In order to be able to rename the sync argument, we need to rename the current flag argument. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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02-Sep-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
x86: sched: Provide arch implementations using aperf/mperf APERF/MPERF support for cpu_power. APERF/MPERF is arch defined to be a relative scale of work capacity per logical cpu, this is assumed to include SMT and Turbo mode. APERF/MPERF are specified to both reset to 0 when either counter wraps, which is highly inconvenient, since that'll give a blimp when that happens. The manual specifies writing 0 to the counters after each read, but that's 1) too expensive, and 2) destroys the possibility of sharing these counters with other users, so we live with the blimp - the other existing user does too. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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10-Sep-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Merge select_task_rq_fair() and sched_balance_self() The problem with wake_idle() is that is doesn't respect things like cpu_power, which means it doesn't deal well with SMT nor the recent RT interaction. To cure this, it needs to do what sched_balance_self() does, which leads to the possibility of merging select_task_rq_fair() and sched_balance_self(). Modify sched_balance_self() to: - update_shares() when walking up the domain tree, (it only called it for the top domain, but it should have done this anyway), which allows us to remove this ugly bit from try_to_wake_up(). - do wake_affine() on the smallest domain that contains both this (the waking) and the prev (the wakee) cpu for WAKE invocations. Then use the top-down balance steps it had to replace wake_idle(). This leads to the dissapearance of SD_WAKE_BALANCE and SD_WAKE_IDLE_FAR, with SD_WAKE_IDLE replaced with SD_BALANCE_WAKE. SD_WAKE_AFFINE needs SD_BALANCE_WAKE to be effective. Touch all topology bits to replace the old with new SD flags -- platforms might need re-tuning, enabling SD_BALANCE_WAKE conditionally on a NUMA distance seems like a good additional feature, magny-core and small nehalem systems would want this enabled, systems with slow interconnects would not. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Sep-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Add TASK_WAKING We're going to want to drop rq->lock in try_to_wake_up() for a longer period of time, however we also want to deal with concurrent waking of the same task, which is currently handled by holding rq->lock. So introduce a new TASK state, namely TASK_WAKING, which indicates someone is already waking the task (other wakers will fail p->state & state). We also keep preemption disabled over the whole ttwu(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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10-Sep-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Hook sched_balance_self() into sched_class::select_task_rq() Rather ugly patch to fully place the sched_balance_self() code inside the fair class. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Sep-2009 |
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> |
sched: Turn off child_runs_first Set child_runs_first default to off. It hurts 'optimal' make -j<NR_CPUS> workloads as make jobs get preempted by child tasks, reducing parallelism. Note, this patch might make existing races in user applications more prominent than before - so breakages might be bisected to this commit. Child-runs-first is broken on SMP to begin with, and we already had it off briefly in v2.6.23 so most of the offenders ought to be fixed. Would be nice not to revert this commit but fix those apps finally ... Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1252486344.28645.18.camel@marge.simson.net> [ made the sysctl independent of CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG, in case people want to work around broken apps. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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01-Sep-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Remove reciprocal for cpu_power Its a source of fail, also, now that cpu_power is dynamical, its a waste of time. before: <idle>-0 [000] 132.877936: find_busiest_group: avg_load: 0 group_load: 8241 power: 1 after: bash-1689 [001] 137.862151: find_busiest_group: avg_load: 10636288 group_load: 10387 power: 1 [ v2: build fix from From: Andreas Herrmann ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.425896304@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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01-Sep-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Scale down cpu_power due to RT tasks Keep an average on the amount of time spend on RT tasks and use that fraction to scale down the cpu_power for regular tasks. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.287778431@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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01-Sep-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Add smt_gain The idea is that multi-threading a core yields more work capacity than a single thread, provide a way to express a static gain for threads. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.073345955@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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01-Sep-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: Add SD_PREFER_SIBLING Do the placement thing using SD flags. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090901083825.897028974@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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02-Sep-2009 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6] Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring onto its parent. This replaces the parent's session keyring. Because the COW credential code does not permit one process to change another process's credentials directly, the change is deferred until userspace next starts executing again. Normally this will be after a wait*() syscall. To support this, three new security hooks have been provided: cred_alloc_blank() to allocate unset security creds, cred_transfer() to fill in the blank security creds and key_session_to_parent() - which asks the LSM if the process may replace its parent's session keyring. The replacement may only happen if the process has the same ownership details as its parent, and the process has LINK permission on the session keyring, and the session keyring is owned by the process, and the LSM permits it. Note that this requires alteration to each architecture's notify_resume path. This has been done for all arches barring blackfin, m68k* and xtensa, all of which need assembly alteration to support TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME. This allows the replacement to be performed at the point the parent process resumes userspace execution. This allows the userspace AFS pioctl emulation to fully emulate newpag() and the VIOCSETTOK and VIOCSETTOK2 pioctls, all of which require the ability to alter the parent process's PAG membership. However, since kAFS doesn't use PAGs per se, but rather dumps the keys into the session keyring, the session keyring of the parent must be replaced if, for example, VIOCSETTOK is passed the newpag flag. This can be tested with the following program: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <keyutils.h> #define KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT 18 #define OSERROR(X, S) do { if ((long)(X) == -1) { perror(S); exit(1); } } while(0) int main(int argc, char **argv) { key_serial_t keyring, key; long ret; keyring = keyctl_join_session_keyring(argv[1]); OSERROR(keyring, "keyctl_join_session_keyring"); key = add_key("user", "a", "b", 1, keyring); OSERROR(key, "add_key"); ret = keyctl(KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT); OSERROR(ret, "KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT"); return 0; } Compiled and linked with -lkeyutils, you should see something like: [dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show Session Keyring -3 --alswrv 4043 4043 keyring: _ses 355907932 --alswrv 4043 -1 \_ keyring: _uid.4043 [dhowells@andromeda ~]$ /tmp/newpag [dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show Session Keyring -3 --alswrv 4043 4043 keyring: _ses 1055658746 --alswrv 4043 4043 \_ user: a [dhowells@andromeda ~]$ /tmp/newpag hello [dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show Session Keyring -3 --alswrv 4043 4043 keyring: hello 340417692 --alswrv 4043 4043 \_ user: a Where the test program creates a new session keyring, sticks a user key named 'a' into it and then installs it on its parent. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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20-Jul-2009 |
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> |
sched: Provide iowait counters For counting how long an application has been waiting for (disk) IO, there currently is only the HZ sample driven information available, while for all other counters in this class, a high resolution version is available via CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS. In order to make an improved bootchart tool possible, we also need a higher resolution version of the iowait time. This patch below adds this scheduler statistic to the kernel. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4A64B813.1080506@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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27-Aug-2009 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Changes from reviews: avoid casts, fix/add warnings, improve comments Changes suggested by review comments from Josh Triplett and Mathieu Desnoyers. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org LKML-Reference: <20090827220012.GA30525@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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27-Aug-2009 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Create rcutree plugins to handle hotplug CPU for multi-level trees When offlining CPUs from a multi-level tree, there is the possibility of offlining the last CPU from a given node when there are preempted RCU read-side critical sections that started life on one of the CPUs on that node. In this case, the corresponding tasks will be enqueued via the task_struct's rcu_node_entry list_head onto one of the rcu_node's blocked_tasks[] lists. These tasks need to be moved somewhere else so that they will prevent the current grace period from ending. That somewhere is the root rcu_node. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org LKML-Reference: <20090827215816.GA30472@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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22-Aug-2009 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Remove CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU Now that CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU is in place, there is no further need for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU. Remove it, along with whatever subtle bugs it may (or may not) contain. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org LKML-Reference: <125097461396-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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22-Aug-2009 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Merge preemptable-RCU functionality into hierarchical RCU Create a kernel/rcutree_plugin.h file that contains definitions for preemptable RCU (or, under the #else branch of the #ifdef, empty definitions for the classic non-preemptable semantics). These definitions fit into plugins defined in kernel/rcutree.c for this purpose. This variant of preemptable RCU uses a new algorithm whose read-side expense is roughly that of classic hierarchical RCU under CONFIG_PREEMPT. This new algorithm's update-side expense is similar to that of classic hierarchical RCU, and, in absence of read-side preemption or blocking, is exactly that of classic hierarchical RCU. Perhaps more important, this new algorithm has a much simpler implementation, saving well over 1,000 lines of code compared to mainline's implementation of preemptable RCU, which will hopefully be retired in favor of this new algorithm. The simplifications are obtained by maintaining per-task nesting state for running tasks, and using a simple lock-protected algorithm to handle accounting when tasks block within RCU read-side critical sections, making use of lessons learned while creating numerous user-level RCU implementations over the past 18 months. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org LKML-Reference: <12509746134003-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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18-Aug-2009 |
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> |
mm: revert "oom: move oom_adj value" The commit 2ff05b2b (oom: move oom_adj value) moveed the oom_adj value to the mm_struct. It was a very good first step for sanitize OOM. However Paul Menage reported the commit makes regression to his job scheduler. Current OOM logic can kill OOM_DISABLED process. Why? His program has the code of similar to the following. ... set_oom_adj(OOM_DISABLE); /* The job scheduler never killed by oom */ ... if (vfork() == 0) { set_oom_adj(0); /* Invoked child can be killed */ execve("foo-bar-cmd"); } .... vfork() parent and child are shared the same mm_struct. then above set_oom_adj(0) doesn't only change oom_adj for vfork() child, it's also change oom_adj for vfork() parent. Then, vfork() parent (job scheduler) lost OOM immune and it was killed. Actually, fork-setting-exec idiom is very frequently used in userland program. We must not break this assumption. Then, this patch revert commit 2ff05b2b and related commit. Reverted commit list --------------------- - commit 2ff05b2b4e (oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to mm_struct) - commit 4d8b9135c3 (oom: avoid unnecessary mm locking and scanning for OOM_DISABLE) - commit 8123681022 (oom: only oom kill exiting tasks with attached memory) - commit 933b787b57 (mm: copy over oom_adj value at fork time) Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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18-Aug-2009 |
Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> |
sched, task_struct: stack_canary is not needed without CC_STACKPROTECTOR The field stack_canary is only used with CC_STACKPROTECTOR. This patch reduces task_struct size without CC_STACKPROTECTOR. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> LKML-Reference: <4A8A44CA.2020701@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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28-Jul-2009 |
Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> |
itimers: Fix periodic tics precision Measure ITIMER_PROF and ITIMER_VIRT timers interval error between real ticks and requested by user. Take it into account when scheduling next tick. This patch introduce possibility where time between two consecutive tics is smaller then requested interval, it preserve however dependency that n tick is generated not earlier than n*interval time - counting from the beginning of periodic signal generation. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> LKML-Reference: <1248862529-6063-3-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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28-Jul-2009 |
Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> |
itimers: Merge ITIMER_VIRT and ITIMER_PROF Both cpu itimers have same data flow in the few places, this patch make unification of code related with VIRT and PROF itimers. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> LKML-Reference: <1248862529-6063-2-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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29-Jul-2009 |
Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> |
sched: Enhance the pre/post scheduling logic We currently have an explicit "needs_post" vtable method which returns a stack variable for whether we should later run post-schedule. This leads to an awkward exchange of the variable as it bubbles back up out of the context switch. Peter Zijlstra observed that this information could be stored in the run-queue itself instead of handled on the stack. Therefore, we revert to the method of having context_switch return void, and update an internal rq->post_schedule variable when we require further processing. In addition, we fix a race condition where we try to access current->sched_class without holding the rq->lock. This is technically racy, as the sched-class could change out from under us. Instead, we reference the per-rq post_schedule variable with the runqueue unlocked, but with preemption disabled to see if we need to reacquire the rq->lock. Finally, we clean the code up slightly by removing the #ifdef CONFIG_SMP conditionals from the schedule() call, and implement some inline helper functions instead. This patch passes checkpatch, and rt-migrate. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20090729150422.17691.55590.stgit@dev.haskins.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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24-Jul-2009 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
sched: Fix cond_resched_lock() in !CONFIG_PREEMPT The might_sleep() test inside cond_resched_lock() assumes the spinlock is held and then preemption is disabled. This is true with CONFIG_PREEMPT but the preempt_count() doesn't change otherwise. Check by starting from the appropriate preempt offset depending on the config. Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1248458723-12146-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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16-Jul-2009 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
sched: Convert the only user of cond_resched_bkl to use cond_resched() fs/locks.c:flock_lock_file() is the only user of cond_resched_bkl() This helper doesn't do anything more than cond_resched(). The latter naming is enough to explain that we are rescheduling if needed. The bkl suffix suggests another semantics but it's actually a synonym of cond_resched(). Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1247725694-6082-7-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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16-Jul-2009 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
sched: Pull up the might_sleep() check into cond_resched() might_sleep() is called late-ish in cond_resched(), after the need_resched()/preempt enabled/system running tests are checked. It's better to check the sleeps while atomic earlier and not depend on some environment datas that reduce the chances to detect a problem. Also define cond_resched_*() helpers as macros, so that the FILE/LINE reported in the sleeping while atomic warning displays the real origin and not sched.h Changes in v2: - Call __might_sleep() directly instead of might_sleep() which may call cond_resched() - Turn cond_resched() into a macro so that the file:line couple reported refers to the caller of cond_resched() and not __cond_resched() itself. Changes in v3: - Also propagate this __might_sleep() pull up to cond_resched_lock() and cond_resched_softirq() Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1247725694-6082-6-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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16-Jul-2009 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
sched: Remove the CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL case definition of cond_resched() CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL doesn't exist anymore. So remove this config-on case definition of cond_resched(). Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1247725694-6082-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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17-Jul-2009 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched: fix nr_uninterruptible accounting of frozen tasks really commit e3c8ca8336 (sched: do not count frozen tasks toward load) broke the nr_uninterruptible accounting on freeze/thaw. On freeze the task is excluded from accounting with a check for (task->flags & PF_FROZEN), but that flag is cleared before the task is thawed. So while we prevent that the task with state TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE is accounted to nr_uninterruptible on freeze we decrement nr_uninterruptible on thaw. Use a separate flag which is handled by the freezing task itself. Set it before calling the scheduler with TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state and clear it after we return from frozen state. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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09-Jul-2009 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
kernel: rename is_single_threaded(task) to current_is_single_threaded(void) - is_single_threaded(task) is not safe unless task == current, we can't use task->signal or task->mm. - it doesn't make sense unless task == current, the task can fork right after the check. Rename it to current_is_single_threaded() and kill the argument. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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10-Jul-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: optimize cond_resched() Optimize cond_resched() by removing one conditional. Currently cond_resched() checks system_state == SYSTEM_RUNNING in order to avoid scheduling before the scheduler is running. We can however, as per suggestion of Matt, use PREEMPT_ACTIVE to accomplish that very same. Suggested-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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10-Jul-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: INIT_PREEMPT_COUNT Pull the initial preempt_count value into a single definition site. Maintainers for: alpha, ia64 and m68k, please have a look, your arch code is funny. The header magic is a bit odd, but similar to the KERNEL_DS one, CPP waits with expanding these macros until the INIT_THREAD_INFO macro itself is expanded, which is in arch/*/kernel/init_task.c where we've already included sched.h so we're good. Cc: tony.luck@intel.com Cc: rth@twiddle.net Cc: geert@linux-m68k.org Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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30-Jun-2009 |
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> |
elf: limit max map count to safe value With ELF, at generating coredump, some more headers other than used vmas are added. When max_map_count == 65536, a core generated by following kinds of code can be unreadable because the number of ELF's program header is written in 16bit in Ehdr (please see elf.h) and the number overflows. == ... = mmap(); (munmap, mprotect, etc...) if (failed) abort(); == This can happen in mmap/munmap/mprotect/etc...which calls split_vma(). I think 65536 is not safe as _default_ and reduce it to 65530 is good for avoiding unexpected corrupted core. Anyway, max_map_count can be enlarged by sysctl if a user is brave.. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@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>
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17-Jun-2009 |
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> |
pids: clean up find_task_by_pid variants find_task_by_pid_type_ns is only used to implement find_task_by_vpid and find_task_by_pid_ns, but both of them pass PIDTYPE_PID as first argument. So just fold find_task_by_pid_type_ns into find_task_by_pid_ns and use find_task_by_pid_ns to implement find_task_by_vpid. While we're at it also remove the exports for find_task_by_pid_ns and find_task_by_vpid - we don't have any modular callers left as the only modular caller of he old pre pid namespace find_task_by_pid (gfs2) was switched to pid_task which operates on a struct pid pointer instead of a pid_t. Given the confusion about pid_t values vs namespace that's generally the better option anyway and I think we're better of restricting modules to do it that way. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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17-Jun-2009 |
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> |
memcg: remove unneeded forward declaration from sched.h This forward declaration seems pointless. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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16-Jun-2009 |
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> |
oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to mm_struct The per-task oom_adj value is a characteristic of its mm more than the task itself since it's not possible to oom kill any thread that shares the mm. If a task were to be killed while attached to an mm that could not be freed because another thread were set to OOM_DISABLE, it would have needlessly been terminated since there is no potential for future memory freeing. This patch moves oomkilladj (now more appropriately named oom_adj) from struct task_struct to struct mm_struct. This requires task_lock() on a task to check its oom_adj value to protect against exec, but it's already necessary to take the lock when dereferencing the mm to find the total VM size for the badness heuristic. This fixes a livelock if the oom killer chooses a task and another thread sharing the same memory has an oom_adj value of OOM_DISABLE. This occurs because oom_kill_task() repeatedly returns 1 and refuses to kill the chosen task while select_bad_process() will repeatedly choose the same task during the next retry. Taking task_lock() in select_bad_process() to check for OOM_DISABLE and in oom_kill_task() to check for threads sharing the same memory will be removed in the next patch in this series where it will no longer be necessary. Writing to /proc/pid/oom_adj for a kthread will now return -EINVAL since these threads are immune from oom killing already. They simply report an oom_adj value of OOM_DISABLE. Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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16-Jun-2009 |
Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> |
cpuset,mm: update tasks' mems_allowed in time Fix allocating page cache/slab object on the unallowed node when memory spread is set by updating tasks' mems_allowed after its cpuset's mems is changed. In order to update tasks' mems_allowed in time, we must modify the code of memory policy. Because the memory policy is applied in the process's context originally. After applying this patch, one task directly manipulates anothers mems_allowed, and we use alloc_lock in the task_struct to protect mems_allowed and memory policy of the task. But in the fast path, we didn't use lock to protect them, because adding a lock may lead to performance regression. But if we don't add a lock,the task might see no nodes when changing cpuset's mems_allowed to some non-overlapping set. In order to avoid it, we set all new allowed nodes, then clear newly disallowed ones. [lee.schermerhorn@hp.com: The rework of mpol_new() to extract the adjusting of the node mask to apply cpuset and mpol flags "context" breaks set_mempolicy() and mbind() with MPOL_PREFERRED and a NULL nodemask--i.e., explicit local allocation. Fix this by adding the check for MPOL_PREFERRED and empty node mask to mpol_new_mpolicy(). Remove the now unneeded 'nodes = NULL' from mpol_new(). Note that mpol_new_mempolicy() is always called with a non-NULL 'nodes' parameter now that it has been removed from mpol_new(). Therefore, we don't need to test nodes for NULL before testing it for 'empty'. However, just to be extra paranoid, add a VM_BUG_ON() to verify this assumption.] [lee.schermerhorn@hp.com: I don't think the function name 'mpol_new_mempolicy' is descriptive enough to differentiate it from mpol_new(). This function applies cpuset set context, usually constraining nodes to those allowed by the cpuset. However, when the 'RELATIVE_NODES flag is set, it also translates the nodes. So I settled on 'mpol_set_nodemask()', because the comment block for mpol_new() mentions that we need to call this function to "set nodes". Some additional minor line length, whitespace and typo cleanup.] Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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24-Mar-2009 |
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> |
sched: delayed cleanup of user_struct During bootup performance tracing we see repeated occurrences of /sys/kernel/uid/* events for the same uid, leading to a, in this case, rather pointless userspace processing for the same uid over and over. This is usually caused by tools which change their uid to "nobody", to run without privileges to read data supplied by untrusted users. This change delays the execution of the (already existing) scheduled work, to cleanup the uid after one second, so the allocated and announced uid can possibly be re-used by another process. This is the current behavior, where almost every invocation of a binary, which changes the uid, creates two events: $ read START < /sys/kernel/uevent_seqnum; \ for i in `seq 100`; do su --shell=/bin/true bin; done; \ read END < /sys/kernel/uevent_seqnum; \ echo $(($END - $START)) 178 With the delayed cleanup, we get only two events, and userspace finishes a bit faster too: $ read START < /sys/kernel/uevent_seqnum; \ for i in `seq 100`; do su --shell=/bin/true bin; done; \ read END < /sys/kernel/uevent_seqnum; \ echo $(($END - $START)) 1 Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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15-Jun-2009 |
Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> |
sched: Introduce SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK scheduling policy flag This patch introduces a new flag SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK which can be passed to the kernel via sched_setscheduler(), ORed in the policy parameter. If set this will make sure that when the process forks a) the scheduling priority is reset to DEFAULT_PRIO if it was higher and b) the scheduling policy is reset to SCHED_NORMAL if it was either SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR. Why have this? Currently, if a process is real-time scheduled this will 'leak' to all its child processes. For security reasons it is often (always?) a good idea to make sure that if a process acquires RT scheduling this is confined to this process and only this process. More specifically this makes the per-process resource limit RLIMIT_RTTIME useful for security purposes, because it makes it impossible to use a fork bomb to circumvent the per-process RLIMIT_RTTIME accounting. This feature is also useful for tools like 'renice' which can then change the nice level of a process without having this spill to all its child processes. Why expose this via sched_setscheduler() and not other syscalls such as prctl() or sched_setparam()? prctl() does not take a pid parameter. Due to that it would be impossible to modify this flag for other processes than the current one. The struct passed to sched_setparam() can unfortunately not be extended without breaking compatibility, since sched_setparam() lacks a size parameter. How to use this from userspace? In your RT program simply replace this: sched_setscheduler(pid, SCHED_FIFO, ¶m); by this: sched_setscheduler(pid, SCHED_FIFO|SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK, ¶m); Signed-off-by: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20090615152714.GA29092@tango.0pointer.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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23-May-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf_counter: Change pctrl() behaviour Instead of en/dis-abling all counters acting on a particular task, en/dis- able all counters we created. [ v2: fix crash on first counter enable ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090523163012.916937244@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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21-May-2009 |
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> |
perf_counter: Dynamically allocate tasks' perf_counter_context struct This replaces the struct perf_counter_context in the task_struct with a pointer to a dynamically allocated perf_counter_context struct. The main reason for doing is this is to allow us to transfer a perf_counter_context from one task to another when we do lazy PMU switching in a later patch. This has a few side-benefits: the task_struct becomes a little smaller, we save some memory because only tasks that have perf_counters attached get a perf_counter_context allocated for them, and we can remove the inclusion of <linux/perf_counter.h> in sched.h, meaning that we don't end up recompiling nearly everything whenever perf_counter.h changes. The perf_counter_context structures are reference-counted and freed when the last reference is dropped. A context can have references from its task and the counters on its task. Counters can outlive the task so it is possible that a context will be freed well after its task has exited. Contexts are allocated on fork if the parent had a context, or otherwise the first time that a per-task counter is created on a task. In the latter case, we set the context pointer in the task struct locklessly using an atomic compare-and-exchange operation in case we raced with some other task in creating a context for the subject task. This also removes the task pointer from the perf_counter struct. The task pointer was not used anywhere and would make it harder to move a context from one task to another. Anything that needed to know which task a counter was attached to was already using counter->ctx->task. The __perf_counter_init_context function moves up in perf_counter.c so that it can be called from find_get_context, and now initializes the refcount, but is otherwise unchanged. We were potentially calling list_del_counter twice: once from __perf_counter_exit_task when the task exits and once from __perf_counter_remove_from_context when the counter's fd gets closed. This adds a check in list_del_counter so it doesn't do anything if the counter has already been removed from the lists. Since perf_counter_task_sched_in doesn't do anything if the task doesn't have a context, and leaves cpuctx->task_ctx = NULL, this adds code to __perf_install_in_context to set cpuctx->task_ctx if necessary, i.e. in the case where the current task adds the first counter to itself and thus creates a context for itself. This also adds similar code to __perf_counter_enable to handle a similar situation which can arise when the counters have been disabled using prctl; that also leaves cpuctx->task_ctx = NULL. [ Impact: refactor counter context management to prepare for new feature ] Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <18966.10075.781053.231153@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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19-May-2009 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: properly define the sched_group::cpumask and sched_domain::span fields Properly document the variable-size structure tricks we are doing wrt. struct sched_group and sched_domain, and use the field[0] GCC extension instead of defining a vla array. Dont use unions for this, as pointed out by Linus. [ Impact: cleanup, un-confuse Sparse and LLVM ] Reported-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0905180850110.3301@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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13-May-2009 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
syscall: Implement a convinience function restart_syscall Currently when we have a signal pending we have the functionality to restart that the current system call. There are other cases such as nasty lock ordering issues where it makes sense to have a simple fix that uses try lock and restarts the system call. Buying time to figure out how to rework the locking strategy. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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02-May-2009 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched, timers: cleanup avenrun users avenrun is an rough estimate so we don't have to worry about consistency of the three avenrun values. Remove the xtime lock dependency and provide a function to scale the values. Cleanup the users. [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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11-Apr-2009 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
sched, timers: move calc_load() to scheduler Dimitri Sivanich noticed that xtime_lock is held write locked across calc_load() which iterates over all online CPUs. That can cause long latencies for xtime_lock readers on large SMP systems. The load average calculation is an rough estimate anyway so there is no real need to protect the readers vs. the update. It's not a problem when the avenrun array is updated while a reader copies the values. Instead of iterating over all online CPUs let the scheduler_tick code update the number of active tasks shortly before the avenrun update happens. The avenrun update itself is handled by the CPU which calls do_timer(). [ Impact: reduce xtime_lock write locked section ] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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15-May-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf_counter: per user mlock gift Instead of a per-process mlock gift for perf-counters, use a per-user gift so that there is less of a DoS potential. [ Impact: allow less worst-case unprivileged memory consumption ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090515132018.496182835@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Apr-2009 |
Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
timers: Logic to move non pinned timers * Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]: This patch migrates all non pinned timers and hrtimers to the current idle load balancer, from all the idle CPUs. Timers firing on busy CPUs are not migrated. While migrating hrtimers, care should be taken to check if migrating a hrtimer would result in a latency or not. So we compare the expiry of the hrtimer with the next timer interrupt on the target cpu and migrate the hrtimer only if it expires *after* the next interrupt on the target cpu. So, added a clockevents_get_next_event() helper function to return the next_event on the target cpu's clock_event_device. [ tglx: cleanups and simplifications ] Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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15-Apr-2009 |
Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
timers: /proc/sys sysctl hook to enable timer migration * Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]: This patch creates the /proc/sys sysctl interface at /proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration Timer migration is enabled by default. To disable timer migration, when CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG = y, echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/timer_migration Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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08-May-2009 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
CRED: Rename cred_exec_mutex to reflect that it's a guard against ptrace Rename cred_exec_mutex to reflect that it's a guard against foreign intervention on a process's credential state, such as is made by ptrace(). The attachment of a debugger to a process affects execve()'s calculation of the new credential state - _and_ also setprocattr()'s calculation of that state. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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29-Apr-2009 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
SELinux: Don't flush inherited SIGKILL during execve() Don't flush inherited SIGKILL during execve() in SELinux's post cred commit hook. This isn't really a security problem: if the SIGKILL came before the credentials were changed, then we were right to receive it at the time, and should honour it; if it came after the creds were changed, then we definitely should honour it; and in any case, all that will happen is that the process will be scrapped before it ever returns to userspace. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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16-Apr-2009 |
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> |
tracing: add same level recursion detection The tracing infrastructure allows for recursion. That is, an interrupt may interrupt the act of tracing an event, and that interrupt may very well perform its own trace. This is a recursive trace, and is fine to do. The problem arises when there is a bug, and the utility doing the trace calls something that recurses back into the tracer. This recursion is not caused by an external event like an interrupt, but by code that is not expected to recurse. The result could be a lockup. This patch adds a bitmask to the task structure that keeps track of the trace recursion. To find the interrupt depth, the following algorithm is used: level = hardirq_count() + softirq_count() + in_nmi; Here, level will be the depth of interrutps and softirqs, and even handles the nmi. Then the corresponding bit is set in the recursion bitmask. If the bit was already set, we know we had a recursion at the same level and we warn about it and fail the writing to the buffer. After the data has been committed to the buffer, we clear the bit. No atomics are needed. The only races are with interrupts and they reset the bitmask before returning anywy. [ Impact: detect same irq level trace recursion ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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14-Apr-2009 |
Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> |
rculist: use list_entry_rcu in places where it's appropriate Use previously introduced list_entry_rcu instead of an open-coded list_entry + rcu_dereference combination. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com LKML-Reference: <20090414181715.GA3634@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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08-Apr-2009 |
Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> |
sched: do not count frozen tasks toward load Freezing tasks via the cgroup freezer causes the load average to climb because the freezer's current implementation puts frozen tasks in uninterruptible sleep (D state). Some applications which perform job-scheduling functions consult the load average when making decisions. If a cgroup is frozen, the load average does not provide a useful measure of the system's utilization to such applications. This is especially inconvenient if the job scheduler employs the cgroup freezer as a mechanism for preempting low priority jobs. Contrast this with using SIGSTOP for the same purpose: the stopped tasks do not count toward system load. Change task_contributes_to_load() to return false if the task is frozen. This results in /proc/loadavg behavior that better meets users' expectations. Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net> Tested-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090408194512.47a99b95@manatee.lan> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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03-Apr-2009 |
Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> |
x86, ptrace: add bts context unconditionally Add the ptrace bts context field to task_struct unconditionally. Initialize the field directly in copy_process(). Remove all the unneeded functionality used to initialize that field. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Cc: roland@redhat.com Cc: eranian@googlemail.com Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com LKML-Reference: <20090403144603.292754000@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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03-Apr-2009 |
Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> |
mm, x86, ptrace, bts: defer branch trace stopping When a ptraced task is unlinked, we need to stop branch tracing for that task. Since the unlink is called with interrupts disabled, and we need interrupts enabled to stop branch tracing, we defer the work. Collect all branch tracing related stuff in a branch tracing context. Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: roland@redhat.com Cc: eranian@googlemail.com Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com LKML-Reference: <20090403144550.712401000@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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03-Apr-2009 |
Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> |
sched, hw-branch-tracer: add wait_task_context_switch() function to sched.h Add a function to wait until some other task has been switched out at least once. This differs from wait_task_inactive() subtly, in that the latter will wait until the task has left the CPU. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Cc: markus.t.metzger@gmail.com Cc: roland@redhat.com Cc: eranian@googlemail.com Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com LKML-Reference: <20090403144549.794157000@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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19-Mar-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
perf_counter: generic context switch event Impact: cleanup Use the generic software events for context switches. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090319194233.283522645@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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02-Apr-2009 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
pids: kill signal_struct-> __pgrp/__session and friends We are wasting 2 words in signal_struct without any reason to implement task_pgrp_nr() and task_session_nr(). task_session_nr() has no callers since 2e2ba22ea4fd4bb85f0fa37c521066db6775cbef, we can remove it. task_pgrp_nr() is still (I believe wrongly) used in fs/autofsX and fs/coda. This patch reimplements task_pgrp_nr() via task_pgrp_nr_ns(), and kills __pgrp/__session and the related helpers. The change in drivers/char/tty_io.c is cosmetic, but hopefully makes sense anyway. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <number6@the-village.bc.nu> [tty parts] Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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02-Apr-2009 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
pids: refactor vnr/nr_ns helpers to make them safe Inho, the safety rules for vnr/nr_ns helpers are horrible and buggy. task_pid_nr_ns(task) needs rcu/tasklist depending on task == current. As for "special" pids, vnr/nr_ns helpers always need rcu. However, if task != current, they are unsafe even under rcu lock, we can't trust task->group_leader without the special checks. And almost every helper has a callsite which needs a fix. Also, it is a bit annoying that the implementations of, say, task_pgrp_vnr() and task_pgrp_nr_ns() are not "symmetrical". This patch introduces the new helper, __task_pid_nr_ns(), which is always safe to use, and turns all other helpers into the trivial wrappers. After this I'll send another patch which converts task_tgid_xxx() as well, they're are a bit special. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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02-Apr-2009 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
pids: document task_pgrp/task_session is not safe without tasklist/rcu Even if task == current, it is not safe to dereference the result of task_pgrp/task_session. We can race with another thread which changes the special pid via setpgid/setsid. Document this. The next 2 patches give an example of the unsafe usage, we have more bad users. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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02-Apr-2009 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
forget_original_parent: split out the un-ptrace part By discussion with Roland. - Rename ptrace_exit() to exit_ptrace(), and change it to do all the necessary work with ->ptraced list by its own. - Move this code from exit.c to ptrace.c - Update the comment in ptrace_detach() to explain the rechecking of the child->ptrace. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "Metzger, Markus T" <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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02-Apr-2009 |
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> |
Simplify copy_thread() First argument unused since 2.3.11. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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31-Mar-2009 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
get_mm_hiwater_xxx: trivial, s/define/inline/ Andrew pointed out get_mm_hiwater_xxx() evaluate "mm" argument thrice/twice, make them inline. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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29-Mar-2009 |
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
Get rid of indirect include of fs_struct.h Don't pull it in sched.h; very few files actually need it and those can include directly. sched.h itself only needs forward declaration of struct fs_struct; Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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23-Mar-2009 |
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> |
function-graph: ignore times across schedule Impact: more accurate timings The current method of function graph tracing does not take into account the time spent when a task is not running. This shows functions that call schedule have increased costs: 3) + 18.664 us | } ------------------------------------------ 3) <idle>-0 => kblockd-123 ------------------------------------------ 3) | finish_task_switch() { 3) 1.441 us | _spin_unlock_irq(); 3) 3.966 us | } 3) ! 2959.433 us | } 3) ! 2961.465 us | } This patch uses the tracepoint in the scheduling context switch to account for time that has elapsed while a task is scheduled out. Now we see: ------------------------------------------ 3) <idle>-0 => edac-po-1067 ------------------------------------------ 3) | finish_task_switch() { 3) 0.685 us | _spin_unlock_irq(); 3) 2.331 us | } 3) + 41.439 us | } 3) + 42.663 us | } Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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23-Mar-2009 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
genirq: add threaded interrupt handler support Add support for threaded interrupt handlers: A device driver can request that its main interrupt handler runs in a thread. To achive this the device driver requests the interrupt with request_threaded_irq() and provides additionally to the handler a thread function. The handler function is called in hard interrupt context and needs to check whether the interrupt originated from the device. If the interrupt originated from the device then the handler can either return IRQ_HANDLED or IRQ_WAKE_THREAD. IRQ_HANDLED is returned when no further action is required. IRQ_WAKE_THREAD causes the genirq code to invoke the threaded (main) handler. When IRQ_WAKE_THREAD is returned handler must have disabled the interrupt on the device level. This is mandatory for shared interrupt handlers, but we need to do it as well for obscure x86 hardware where disabling an interrupt on the IO_APIC level redirects the interrupt to the legacy PIC interrupt lines. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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12-Mar-2009 |
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> |
cpumask: tsk_cpumask for accessing the struct task_struct's cpus_allowed. This allows us to change the representation (to a dangling bitmap or cpumask_var_t) without breaking all the callers: they can use tsk_cpumask() now and won't see a difference as the changes roll into linux-next. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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27-Feb-2009 |
Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched: don't allow setuid to succeed if the user does not have rt bandwidth Impact: fix hung task with certain (non-default) rt-limit settings Corey Hickey reported that on using setuid to change the uid of a rt process, the process would be unkillable and not be running. This is because there was no rt runtime for that user group. Add in a check to see if a user can attach an rt task to its task group. On failure, return EINVAL, which is also returned in CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED. Reported-by: Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org> Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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26-Feb-2009 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: allow architectures to specify sched_clock_stable Allow CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK architectures to still specify that their sched_clock() implementation is reliable. This will be used by x86 to switch on a faster sched_clock_cpu() implementation on certain CPU types. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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21-Jan-2009 |
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> |
lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS) Here is another version, with the incremental patch rolled up, and added reclaim context annotation to kswapd, and allocation tracing to slab allocators (which may only ever reach the page allocator in rare cases, so it is good to put annotations here too). Haven't tested this version as such, but it should be getting closer to merge worthy ;) -- After noticing some code in mm/filemap.c accidentally perform a __GFP_FS allocation when it should not have been, I thought it might be a good idea to try to catch this kind of thing with lockdep. I coded up a little idea that seems to work. Unfortunately the system has to actually be in __GFP_FS page reclaim, then take the lock, before it will mark it. But at least that might still be some orders of magnitude more common (and more debuggable) than an actual deadlock condition, so we have some improvement I hope (the concept is no less complete than discovery of a lock's interrupt contexts). I guess we could even do the same thing with __GFP_IO (normal reclaim), and even GFP_NOIO locks too... but filesystems will have the most locks and fiddly code paths, so let's start there and see how it goes. It *seems* to work. I did a quick test. ================================= [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] 2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348-dirty #26 --------------------------------- inconsistent {in-reclaim-W} -> {ov-reclaim-W} usage. modprobe/8526 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes: (testlock){--..}, at: [<ffffffffa0020055>] brd_init+0x55/0x216 [brd] {in-reclaim-W} state was registered at: [<ffffffff80267bdb>] __lock_acquire+0x75b/0x1a60 [<ffffffff80268f71>] lock_acquire+0x91/0xc0 [<ffffffff8070f0e1>] mutex_lock_nested+0xb1/0x310 [<ffffffffa002002b>] brd_init+0x2b/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffff8020903b>] _stext+0x3b/0x170 [<ffffffff80272ebf>] sys_init_module+0xaf/0x1e0 [<ffffffff8020c3fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff irq event stamp: 3929 hardirqs last enabled at (3929): [<ffffffff8070f2b5>] mutex_lock_nested+0x285/0x310 hardirqs last disabled at (3928): [<ffffffff8070f089>] mutex_lock_nested+0x59/0x310 softirqs last enabled at (3732): [<ffffffff8061f623>] sk_filter+0x83/0xe0 softirqs last disabled at (3730): [<ffffffff8061f5b6>] sk_filter+0x16/0xe0 other info that might help us debug this: 1 lock held by modprobe/8526: #0: (testlock){--..}, at: [<ffffffffa0020055>] brd_init+0x55/0x216 [brd] stack backtrace: Pid: 8526, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348-dirty #26 Call Trace: [<ffffffff80265483>] print_usage_bug+0x193/0x1d0 [<ffffffff80266530>] mark_lock+0xaf0/0xca0 [<ffffffff80266735>] mark_held_locks+0x55/0xc0 [<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffff802667ca>] trace_reclaim_fs+0x2a/0x60 [<ffffffff80285005>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x475/0x580 [<ffffffff8070f29e>] ? mutex_lock_nested+0x26e/0x310 [<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffffa002006a>] brd_init+0x6a/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffff8020903b>] _stext+0x3b/0x170 [<ffffffff8070f8b9>] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0x10 [<ffffffff8070f83d>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x10d/0x180 [<ffffffff802669ec>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x12c/0x190 [<ffffffff80272ebf>] sys_init_module+0xaf/0x1e0 [<ffffffff8020c3fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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05-Feb-2009 |
Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp> |
Add in_execve flag into task_struct. This patch allows LSM modules to determine whether current process is in an execve operation or not so that they can behave differently while an execve operation is in progress. This patch is needed by TOMOYO. Please see another patch titled "LSM adapter functions." for backgrounds. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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11-Feb-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
timers: fix TIMER_ABSTIME for process wide cpu timers The POSIX timer interface allows for absolute time expiry values through the TIMER_ABSTIME flag, therefore we have to synchronize the timer to the clock every time we start it. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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10-Feb-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers, fix To decrease the chance of a missed enable, always enable the timer when we sample it, we'll always disable it when we find that there are no active timers in the jiffy tick. This fixes a flood of warnings reported by Mike Galbraith. Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Feb-2009 |
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> |
perf_counters: make software counters work as per-cpu counters Impact: kernel crash fix Yanmin Zhang reported that using a PERF_COUNT_TASK_CLOCK software counter as a per-cpu counter would reliably crash the system, because it calls __task_delta_exec with a null pointer. The page fault, context switch and cpu migration counters also won't function correctly as per-cpu counters since they reference the current task. This fixes the problem by redirecting the task_clock counter to the cpu_clock counter when used as a per-cpu counter, and by implementing per-cpu page fault, context switch and cpu migration counters. Along the way, this: - Initializes counter->ctx earlier, in perf_counter_alloc, so that sw_perf_counter_init can use it - Adds code to kernel/sched.c to count task migrations into each cpu, in rq->nr_migrations_in - Exports the per-cpu context switch and task migration counts via new functions added to kernel/sched.c - Makes sure that if sw_perf_counter_init fails, we don't try to initialize the counter as a hardware counter. Since the user has passed a negative, non-raw event type, they clearly don't intend for it to be interpreted as a hardware event. Reported-by: "Zhang Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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06-Feb-2009 |
Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com> |
softlockup: remove timestamp checking from hung_task Impact: saves sizeof(long) bytes per task_struct By guaranteeing that sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs have elapsed between tasklist scans we can avoid using timestamps. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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06-Feb-2009 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers, remove spurious warning Mike Galbraith reported that the new warning in thread_group_cputimer() triggers en masse with Amarok running. Oleg Nesterov observed: Can't fastpath_timer_check()->thread_group_cputimer() have the false warning too? Suppose we had the timer, then posix_cpu_timer_del() removes this timer, but task_cputime_zero(&sig->cputime_expires) still not true. Remove the spurious debug warning. Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Explained-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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04-Feb-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers Change the process wide cpu timers/clocks so that we: 1) don't mess up the kernel with too many threads, 2) don't have a per-cpu allocation for each process, 3) have no impact when not used. In order to accomplish this we're going to split it into two parts: - clocks; which can take all the time they want since they run from user context -- ie. sys_clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID) - timers; which need constant time sampling but since they're explicity used, the user can pay the overhead. The clock readout will go back to a full sum of the thread group, while the timers will run of a global 'clock' that only runs when needed, so only programs that make use of the facility pay the price. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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04-Feb-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
signal: re-add dead task accumulation stats. We're going to split the process wide cpu accounting into two parts: - clocks; which can take all the time they want since they run from user context. - timers; which need constant time tracing but can affort the overhead because they're default off -- and rare. The clock readout will go back to a full sum of the thread group, for this we need to re-add the exit stats that were removed in the initial itimer rework (f06febc9: timers: fix itimer/many thread hang). Furthermore, since that full sum can be rather slow for large thread groups and we have the complete dead task stats, revert the do_notify_parent time computation. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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02-Feb-2009 |
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> |
sched: add missing kernel-doc in sched.h Add kernel-doc notation for @lock: include/linux/sched.h:457: No description found for parameter 'lock' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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30-Jan-2009 |
Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com> |
softlockup: remove unused definition for spawn_softlockup_task The definition of spawn_softlockup_task in sched.h became unnecessary once it was converted to the early_initcall() interface. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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29-Jan-2009 |
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> |
epoll: drop max_user_instances and rely only on max_user_watches Linus suggested to put limits where the money is, and max_user_watches already does that w/out the need of max_user_instances. That has the advantage to mitigate the potential DoS while allowing pretty generous default behavior. Allowing top 4% of low memory (per user) to be allocated in epoll watches, we have: LOMEM MAX_WATCHES (per user) 512MB ~178000 1GB ~356000 2GB ~712000 A box with 512MB of lomem, will meet some challenge in hitting 180K watches, socket buffers math teaches us. No more max_user_instances limits then. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Cc: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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22-Jan-2009 |
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> |
trace, lockdep: manual preempt count adding for local_bh_disable Impact: fix to preempt trace triggering lockdep check_flag failure In local_bh_disable, the use of add_preempt_count causes the preempt tracer to start recording the time preemption is off. But because it already modified the preempt_count to show softirqs disabled, and before it called the lockdep code to handle this, it causes a state that lockdep can not handle. The preempt tracer will reset the ring buffer on start of a trace, and the ring buffer reset code does a spin_lock_irqsave. This calls into lockdep and lockdep will fail when it detects the invalid state of having softirqs disabled but the internal current->softirqs_enabled is still set. The fix is to manually add the SOFTIRQ_OFFSET to preempt count and call the preempt tracer code outside the lockdep critical area. Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for suggesting this solution. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Jan-2009 |
Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com> |
softlockup: decouple hung tasks check from softlockup detection Decoupling allows: * hung tasks check to happen at very low priority * hung tasks check and softlockup to be enabled/disabled independently at compile and/or run-time * individual panic settings to be enabled disabled independently at compile and/or run-time * softlockup threshold to be reduced without increasing hung tasks poll frequency (hung task check is expensive relative to softlock watchdog) * hung task check to be zero over-head when disabled at run-time Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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16-Jan-2009 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: fix !CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS build failure Stephen Rothwell reported this linux-next build failure with !CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS: | In file included from kernel/sched.c:1703: | kernel/sched_fair.c: In function 'adaptive_gran': | kernel/sched_fair.c:1324: error: 'struct sched_entity' has no member named 'avg_wakeup' The start_runtime and avg_wakeup metrics are now not just for statistics, but also for scheduling - so they always need to be available. (Also move out the nr_migrations fields - for future perfcounters usage.) Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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13-Jan-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: introduce avg_wakeup Introduce a new avg_wakeup statistic. avg_wakeup is a measure of how frequently a task wakes up other tasks, it represents the average time between wakeups, with a limit of avg_runtime for when it doesn't wake up anybody. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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12-Jan-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
mutex: implement adaptive spinning Change mutex contention behaviour such that it will sometimes busy wait on acquisition - moving its behaviour closer to that of spinlocks. This concept got ported to mainline from the -rt tree, where it was originally implemented for rtmutexes by Steven Rostedt, based on work by Gregory Haskins. Testing with Ingo's test-mutex application (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/50) gave a 345% boost for VFS scalability on my testbox: # ./test-mutex-shm V 16 10 | grep "^avg ops" avg ops/sec: 296604 # ./test-mutex-shm V 16 10 | grep "^avg ops" avg ops/sec: 85870 The key criteria for the busy wait is that the lock owner has to be running on a (different) cpu. The idea is that as long as the owner is running, there is a fair chance it'll release the lock soon, and thus we'll be better off spinning instead of blocking/scheduling. Since regular mutexes (as opposed to rtmutexes) do not atomically track the owner, we add the owner in a non-atomic fashion and deal with the races in the slowpath. Furthermore, to ease the testing of the performance impact of this new code, there is means to disable this behaviour runtime (without having to reboot the system), when scheduler debugging is enabled (CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y), by issuing the following command: # echo NO_OWNER_SPIN > /debug/sched_features This command re-enables spinning again (this is also the default): # echo OWNER_SPIN > /debug/sched_features Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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14-Jan-2009 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
mutex: preemption fixes The problem is that dropping the spinlock right before schedule is a voluntary preemption point and can cause a schedule, right after which we schedule again. Fix this inefficiency by keeping preemption disabled until we schedule, do this by explicity disabling preemption and providing a schedule() variant that assumes preemption is already disabled. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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12-Jan-2009 |
Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com> |
softlock: fix false panic which can occur if softlockup_thresh is reduced At run-time, if softlockup_thresh is changed to a much lower value, touch_timestamp is likely to be much older than the new softlock_thresh. This will cause a false softlockup to be detected. If softlockup_panic is enabled, the system will panic. The fix is to touch all watchdogs before changing softlockup_thresh. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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24-Nov-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
itimers: remove the per-cpu-ish-ness Either we bounce once cacheline per cpu per tick, yielding n^2 bounces or we just bounce a single.. Also, using per-cpu allocations for the thread-groups complicates the per-cpu allocator in that its currently aimed to be a fixed sized allocator and the only possible extention to that would be vmap based, which is seriously constrained on 32 bit archs. So making the per-cpu memory requirement depend on the number of processes is an issue. Lastly, it didn't deal with cpu-hotplug, although admittedly that might be fixable. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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06-Jan-2009 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
mm: introduce get_mm_hiwater_xxx(), fix taskstats->hiwater_xxx accounting xacct_add_tsk() relies on do_exit()->update_hiwater_xxx() and uses mm->hiwater_xxx directly, this leads to 2 problems: - taskstats_user_cmd() can call fill_pid()->xacct_add_tsk() at any moment before the task exits, so we should check the current values of rss/vm anyway. - do_exit()->update_hiwater_xxx() calls are racy. An exiting thread can be preempted right before mm->hiwater_xxx = new_val, and another thread can use A_LOT of memory and exit in between. When the first thread resumes it can be the last thread in the thread group, in that case we report the wrong hiwater_xxx values which do not take A_LOT into account. Introduce get_mm_hiwater_rss() and get_mm_hiwater_vm() helpers and change xacct_add_tsk() to use them. The first helper will also be used by rusage->ru_maxrss accounting. Kill do_exit()->update_hiwater_xxx() calls. Unless we are going to decrease rss/vm there is no point to update mm->hiwater_xxx, and nobody can look at this mm_struct when exit_mmap() actually unmaps the memory. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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05-Jan-2009 |
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> |
sched: clean up arch_reinit_sched_domains() - Make arch_reinit_sched_domains() static. It was exported to be used in s390, but now rebuild_sched_domains() is used instead. - Make it return void. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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31-Dec-2008 |
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> |
[PATCH] idle cputime accounting The cpu time spent by the idle process actually doing something is currently accounted as idle time. This is plain wrong, the architectures that support VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y can do better: distinguish between the time spent doing nothing and the time spent by idle doing work. The first is accounted with account_idle_time and the second with account_system_time. The architectures that use the account_xxx_time interface directly and not the account_xxx_ticks interface now need to do the check for the idle process in their arch code. In particular to improve the system vs true idle time accounting the arch code needs to measure the true idle time instead of just testing for the idle process. To improve the tick based accounting as well we would need an architecture primitive that can tell us if the pt_regs of the interrupted context points to the magic instruction that halts the cpu. In addition idle time is no more added to the stime of the idle process. This field now contains the system time of the idle process as it should be. On systems without VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING this will always be zero as every tick that occurs while idle is running will be accounted as idle time. This patch contains the necessary common code changes to be able to distinguish idle system time and true idle time. The architectures with support for VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING need some changes to exploit this. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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29-Dec-2008 |
Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@infradead.org> |
sched: sched.c declare variables before they get used Impact: cleanup, avoid sparse warnings In linux/sched.h moved out sysctl_sched_latency, sysctl_sched_min_granularity, sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity, sysctl_sched_shares_ratelimit and sysctl_sched_shares_thresh from #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG as these variables are common for both. Fixes these sparse warnings: kernel/sched.c:825:14: warning: symbol 'sysctl_sched_shares_ratelimit' was not declared. Should it be static? kernel/sched.c:832:14: warning: symbol 'sysctl_sched_shares_thresh' was not declared. Should it be static? kernel/sched_fair.c:37:14: warning: symbol 'sysctl_sched_latency' was not declared. Should it be static? kernel/sched_fair.c:43:14: warning: symbol 'sysctl_sched_min_granularity' was not declared. Should it be static? kernel/sched_fair.c:72:14: warning: symbol 'sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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29-Dec-2008 |
Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> |
sched: create "pushable_tasks" list to limit pushing to one attempt The RT scheduler employs a "push/pull" design to actively balance tasks within the system (on a per disjoint cpuset basis). When a task is awoken, it is immediately determined if there are any lower priority cpus which should be preempted. This is opposed to the way normal SCHED_OTHER tasks behave, which will wait for a periodic rebalancing operation to occur before spreading out load. When a particular RQ has more than 1 active RT task, it is said to be in an "overloaded" state. Once this occurs, the system enters the active balancing mode, where it will try to push the task away, or persuade a different cpu to pull it over. The system will stay in this state until the system falls back below the <= 1 queued RT task per RQ. However, the current implementation suffers from a limitation in the push logic. Once overloaded, all tasks (other than current) on the RQ are analyzed on every push operation, even if it was previously unpushable (due to affinity, etc). Whats more, the operation stops at the first task that is unpushable and will not look at items lower in the queue. This causes two problems: 1) We can have the same tasks analyzed over and over again during each push, which extends out the fast path in the scheduler for no gain. Consider a RQ that has dozens of tasks that are bound to a core. Each one of those tasks will be encountered and skipped for each push operation while they are queued. 2) There may be lower-priority tasks under the unpushable task that could have been successfully pushed, but will never be considered until either the unpushable task is cleared, or a pull operation succeeds. The net result is a potential latency source for mid priority tasks. This patch aims to rectify these two conditions by introducing a new priority sorted list: "pushable_tasks". A task is added to the list each time a task is activated or preempted. It is removed from the list any time it is deactivated, made current, or fails to push. This works because a task only needs to be attempted to push once. After an initial failure to push, the other cpus will eventually try to pull the task when the conditions are proper. This also solves the problem that we don't completely analyze all tasks due to encountering an unpushable tasks. Now every task will have a push attempted (when appropriate). This reduces latency both by shorting the critical section of the rq->lock for certain workloads, and by making sure the algorithm considers all eligible tasks in the system. [ rostedt: added a couple more BUG_ONs ] Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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29-Dec-2008 |
Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> |
sched: add sched_class->needs_post_schedule() member We currently run class->post_schedule() outside of the rq->lock, which means that we need to test for the need to post_schedule outside of the lock to avoid a forced reacquistion. This is currently not a problem as we only look at rq->rt.overloaded. However, we want to enhance this going forward to look at more state to reduce the need to post_schedule to a bare minimum set. Therefore, we introduce a new member-func called needs_post_schedule() which tests for the post_schedule condtion without actually performing the work. Therefore it is safe to call this function before the rq->lock is released, because we are guaranteed not to drop the lock at an intermediate point (such as what post_schedule() may do). We will use this later in the series [ rostedt: removed paranoid BUG_ON ] Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
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18-Dec-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: move test_sd_parent() to an SMP section of sched.h Impact: build fix Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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18-Dec-2008 |
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched: add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level for sched_mc>0 Impact: change task balancing to save power more agressively Add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE flag at MC level and CPU level if sched_mc is set. This helps power savings and will not affect performance when sched_mc=0 Ingo and Mike Galbraith have optimised the SD flags by removing SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE at MC and CPU level. This helps performance but hurts power savings since this slows down task consolidation by reducing the number of times load_balance is run. sched: fine-tune SD_MC_INIT commit 14800984706bf6936bbec5187f736e928be5c218 Author: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Date: Fri Nov 7 15:26:50 2008 +0100 sched: re-tune balancing -- revert commit 9fcd18c9e63e325dbd2b4c726623f760788d5aa8 Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Date: Wed Nov 5 16:52:08 2008 +0100 This patch selectively enables SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE flag only when sched_mc is set to 1 or 2. This helps power savings by task consolidation and also does not hurt performance at sched_mc=0 where all power saving optimisations are turned off. Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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18-Dec-2008 |
Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> |
sched: framework for sched_mc/smt_power_savings=N Impact: extend range of /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings Currently the sched_mc/smt_power_savings variable is a boolean, which either enables or disables topology based power savings. This patch extends the behaviour of the variable from boolean to multivalued, such that based on the value, we decide how aggressively do we want to perform powersavings balance at appropriate sched domain based on topology. Variable levels of power saving tunable would benefit end user to match the required level of power savings vs performance trade-off depending on the system configuration and workloads. This version makes the sched_mc_power_savings global variable to take more values (0,1,2). Later versions can have a single tunable called sched_power_savings instead of sched_{mc,smt}_power_savings. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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18-Dec-2008 |
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched: convert BALANCE_FOR_xx_POWER to inline functions Impact: cleanup BALANCE_FOR_MC_POWER and similar macros defined in sched.h are not constants and have various condition checks and significant amount of code that is not suitable to be contain in a macro. Also there could be side effects on the expressions passed to some of them like test_sd_parent(). This patch converts all complex macros related to power savings balance to inline functions. Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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17-Dec-2008 |
Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> |
schedstat: consolidate per-task cpu runtime stats 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>
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13-Dec-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
perfcounters: add task migrations counter Impact: add new feature, new sw counter Add a counter that counts the number of cross-CPU migrations a task is suffering. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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11-Dec-2008 |
Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> |
x86, bts: provide in-kernel branch-trace interface Impact: cleanup Move the BTS bits from ptrace.c into ds.c. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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04-Dec-2008 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
performance counters: core code Implement the core kernel bits of Performance Counters subsystem. The Linux Performance Counter subsystem provides an abstraction of performance counter hardware capabilities. It provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event capabilities on top of those. Performance counters are accessed via special file descriptors. There's one file descriptor per virtual counter used. The special file descriptor is opened via the perf_counter_open() system call: int perf_counter_open(u32 hw_event_type, u32 hw_event_period, u32 record_type, pid_t pid, int cpu); The syscall returns the new fd. The fd can be used via the normal VFS system calls: read() can be used to read the counter, fcntl() can be used to set the blocking mode, etc. Multiple counters can be kept open at a time, and the counters can be poll()ed. See more details in Documentation/perf-counters.txt. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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05-Dec-2008 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
tracing/function-graph-tracer: append the tracing_graph_flag Impact: Provide a way to pause the function graph tracer As suggested by Steven Rostedt, the previous patch that prevented from spinlock function tracing shouldn't use the raw_spinlock to fix it. It's much better to follow lockdep with normal spinlock, so this patch adds a new flag for each task to make the function graph tracer able to be paused. We also can send an ftrace_printk whithout worrying of the irrelevant traced spinlock during insertion. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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03-Dec-2008 |
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> |
ftrace: graph of a single function This patch adds the file: /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function which can be used along with the function graph tracer. When this file is empty, the function graph tracer will act as usual. When the file has a function in it, the function graph tracer will only trace that function. For example: # echo blk_unplug > /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function # cat /debugfs/tracing/trace [...] ------------------------------------------ | 2) make-19003 => kjournald-2219 ------------------------------------------ 2) | blk_unplug() { 2) | dm_unplug_all() { 2) | dm_get_table() { 2) 1.381 us | _read_lock(); 2) 0.911 us | dm_table_get(); 2) 1. 76 us | _read_unlock(); 2) + 12.912 us | } 2) | dm_table_unplug_all() { 2) | blk_unplug() { 2) 0.778 us | generic_unplug_device(); 2) 2.409 us | } 2) 5.992 us | } 2) 0.813 us | dm_table_put(); 2) + 29. 90 us | } 2) + 34.532 us | } You can add up to 32 functions into this file. Currently we limit it to 32, but this may change with later improvements. To add another function, use the append '>>': # echo sys_read >> /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function # cat /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function blk_unplug sys_read Using the '>' will clear out the function and write anew: # echo sys_write > /debug/tracing/set_graph_function # cat /debug/tracing/set_graph_function sys_write Note, if you have function graph running while doing this, the small time between clearing it and updating it will cause the graph to record all functions. This should not be an issue because after it sets the filter, only those functions will be recorded from then on. If you need to only record a particular function then set this file first before starting the function graph tracer. In the future this side effect may be corrected. The set_graph_function file is similar to the set_ftrace_filter but it does not take wild cards nor does it allow for more than one function to be set with a single write. There is no technical reason why this is the case, I just do not have the time yet to implement that. Note, dynamic ftrace must be enabled for this to appear because it uses the dynamic ftrace records to match the name to the mcount call sites. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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01-Dec-2008 |
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> |
epoll: introduce resource usage limits It has been thought that the per-user file descriptors limit would also limit the resources that a normal user can request via the epoll interface. Vegard Nossum reported a very simple program (a modified version attached) that can make a normal user to request a pretty large amount of kernel memory, well within the its maximum number of fds. To solve such problem, default limits are now imposed, and /proc based configuration has been introduced. A new directory has been created, named /proc/sys/fs/epoll/ and inside there, there are two configuration points: max_user_instances = Maximum number of devices - per user max_user_watches = Maximum number of "watched" fds - per user The current default for "max_user_watches" limits the memory used by epoll to store "watches", to 1/32 of the amount of the low RAM. As example, a 256MB 32bit machine, will have "max_user_watches" set to roughly 90000. That should be enough to not break existing heavy epoll users. The default value for "max_user_instances" is set to 128, that should be enough too. This also changes the userspace, because a new error code can now come out from EPOLL_CTL_ADD (-ENOSPC). The EMFILE from epoll_create() was already listed, so that should be ok. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use get_current_user()] Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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01-Dec-2008 |
Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched: add uid information to sched_debug for CONFIG_USER_SCHED Impact: extend information in /proc/sched_debug This patch adds uid information in sched_debug for CONFIG_USER_SCHED Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Nov-2008 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
tracing/function-return-tracer: change the name into function-graph-tracer Impact: cleanup This patch changes the name of the "return function tracer" into function-graph-tracer which is a more suitable name for a tracing which makes one able to retrieve the ordered call stack during the code flow. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Nov-2008 |
Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> |
x86, bts, ptrace: move BTS buffer allocation from ds.c into ptrace.c Impact: restructure DS memory allocation to be done by the usage site of DS Require pre-allocated buffers in ds.h. Move the BTS buffer allocation for ptrace into ptrace.c. The pointer to the allocated buffer is stored in the traced task's task_struct together with the handle returned by ds_request_bts(). Removes memory accounting code. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Nov-2008 |
Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> |
x86, bts: base in-kernel ds interface on handles Impact: generalize the DS code to shared buffers Change the in-kernel ds.h interface to identify the tracer via a handle returned on ds_request_~(). Tracers used to be identified via their task_struct. The changes are required to allow DS to be shared between different tasks, which is needed for perfmon2 and for ftrace. For ptrace, the handle is stored in the traced task's task_struct. This should probably go into a (arch-specific) ptrace context some time. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Oct-2008 |
Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> |
User namespaces: set of cleanups (v2) The user_ns is moved from nsproxy to user_struct, so that a struct cred by itself is sufficient to determine access (which it otherwise would not be). Corresponding ecryptfs fixes (by David Howells) are here as well. Fix refcounting. The following rules now apply: 1. The task pins the user struct. 2. The user struct pins its user namespace. 3. The user namespace pins the struct user which created it. User namespaces are cloned during copy_creds(). Unsharing a new user_ns is no longer possible. (We could re-add that, but it'll cause code duplication and doesn't seem useful if PAM doesn't need to clone user namespaces). When a user namespace is created, its first user (uid 0) gets empty keyrings and a clean group_info. This incorporates a previous patch by David Howells. Here is his original patch description: >I suggest adding the attached incremental patch. It makes the following >changes: > > (1) Provides a current_user_ns() macro to wrap accesses to current's user > namespace. > > (2) Fixes eCryptFS. > > (3) Renames create_new_userns() to create_user_ns() to be more consistent > with the other associated functions and because the 'new' in the name is > superfluous. > > (4) Moves the argument and permission checks made for CLONE_NEWUSER to the > beginning of do_fork() so that they're done prior to making any attempts > at allocation. > > (5) Calls create_user_ns() after prepare_creds(), and gives it the new creds > to fill in rather than have it return the new root user. I don't imagine > the new root user being used for anything other than filling in a cred > struct. > > This also permits me to get rid of a get_uid() and a free_uid(), as the > reference the creds were holding on the old user_struct can just be > transferred to the new namespace's creator pointer. > > (6) Makes create_user_ns() reset the UIDs and GIDs of the creds under > preparation rather than doing it in copy_creds(). > >David >Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Changelog: Oct 20: integrate dhowells comments 1. leave thread_keyring alone 2. use current_user_ns() in set_user() Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
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24-Nov-2008 |
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> |
sched: convert remaining old-style cpumask operators Impact: Trivial API conversion NR_CPUS -> nr_cpu_ids cpumask_t -> struct cpumask sizeof(cpumask_t) -> cpumask_size() cpumask_a = cpumask_b -> cpumask_copy(&cpumask_a, &cpumask_b) cpu_set() -> cpumask_set_cpu() first_cpu() -> cpumask_first() cpumask_of_cpu() -> cpumask_of() cpus_* -> cpumask_* There are some FIXMEs where we all archs to complete infrastructure (patches have been sent): cpu_coregroup_map -> cpu_coregroup_mask node_to_cpumask* -> cpumask_of_node There is also one FIXME where we pass an array of cpumasks to partition_sched_domains(): this implies knowing the definition of 'struct cpumask' and the size of a cpumask. This will be fixed in a future patch. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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24-Nov-2008 |
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> |
sched: convert nohz_cpu_mask to cpumask_var_t. Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS. Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS. cpumask_var_t is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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24-Nov-2008 |
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> |
sched: convert struct sched_group/sched_domain cpumask_ts to variable bitmaps Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS. We move the 'cpumask' member of sched_group to the end, so when we kmalloc it we can do a minimal allocation: saves space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS. Similar trick for 'span' in sched_domain. This isn't quite as good as converting to a cpumask_var_t, as some sched_groups are actually static, but it's safer: we don't have to figure out where to call alloc_cpumask_var/free_cpumask_var. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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24-Nov-2008 |
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> |
sched: wrap sched_group and sched_domain cpumask accesses. Impact: trivial wrap of member accesses This eases the transition in the next patch. We also get rid of a temporary cpumask in find_idlest_cpu() thanks to for_each_cpu_and, and sched_balance_self() due to getting weight before setting sd to NULL. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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22-Nov-2008 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
tracing/function-return-tracer: store return stack into task_struct and allocate it dynamically Impact: use deeper function tracing depth safely Some tests showed that function return tracing needed a more deeper depth of function calls. But it could be unsafe to store these return addresses to the stack. So these arrays will now be allocated dynamically into task_struct of current only when the tracer is activated. Typical scheme when tracer is activated: - allocate a return stack for each task in global list. - fork: allocate the return stack for the newly created task - exit: free return stack of current - idle init: same as fork I chose a default depth of 50. I don't have overruns anymore. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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16-Nov-2008 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
tracing/function-return-tracer: add the overrun field Impact: help to find the better depth of trace We decided to arbitrary define the depth of function return trace as "20". Perhaps this is not enough. To help finding an optimal depth, we measure now the overrun: the number of functions that have been missed for the current thread. By default this is not displayed, we have to do set a particular flag on the return tracer: echo overrun > /debug/tracing/trace_options And the overrun will be printed on the right. As the trace shows below, the current 20 depth is not enough. update_wall_time+0x37f/0x8c0 -> update_xtime_cache (345 ns) (Overruns: 2838) update_wall_time+0x384/0x8c0 -> clocksource_get_next (1141 ns) (Overruns: 2838) do_timer+0x23/0x100 -> update_wall_time (3882 ns) (Overruns: 2838) tick_do_update_jiffies64+0xbf/0x160 -> do_timer (5339 ns) (Overruns: 2838) tick_sched_timer+0x6a/0xf0 -> tick_do_update_jiffies64 (7209 ns) (Overruns: 2838) vgacon_set_cursor_size+0x98/0x120 -> native_io_delay (2613 ns) (Overruns: 274) vgacon_cursor+0x16e/0x1d0 -> vgacon_set_cursor_size (33151 ns) (Overruns: 274) set_cursor+0x5f/0x80 -> vgacon_cursor (36432 ns) (Overruns: 274) con_flush_chars+0x34/0x40 -> set_cursor (38790 ns) (Overruns: 274) release_console_sem+0x1ec/0x230 -> up (721 ns) (Overruns: 274) release_console_sem+0x225/0x230 -> wake_up_klogd (316 ns) (Overruns: 274) con_flush_chars+0x39/0x40 -> release_console_sem (2996 ns) (Overruns: 274) con_write+0x22/0x30 -> con_flush_chars (46067 ns) (Overruns: 274) n_tty_write+0x1cc/0x360 -> con_write (292670 ns) (Overruns: 274) smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x2a/0x90 -> native_apic_mem_write (330 ns) (Overruns: 274) irq_enter+0x17/0x70 -> idle_cpu (413 ns) (Overruns: 274) smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x2f/0x90 -> irq_enter (1525 ns) (Overruns: 274) ktime_get_ts+0x40/0x70 -> getnstimeofday (465 ns) (Overruns: 274) ktime_get_ts+0x60/0x70 -> set_normalized_timespec (436 ns) (Overruns: 274) ktime_get+0x16/0x30 -> ktime_get_ts (2501 ns) (Overruns: 274) hrtimer_interrupt+0x77/0x1a0 -> ktime_get (3439 ns) (Overruns: 274) Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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13-Nov-2008 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
CRED: Differentiate objective and effective subjective credentials on a task Differentiate the objective and real subjective credentials from the effective subjective credentials on a task by introducing a second credentials pointer into the task_struct. task_struct::real_cred then refers to the objective and apparent real subjective credentials of a task, as perceived by the other tasks in the system. task_struct::cred then refers to the effective subjective credentials of a task, as used by that task when it's actually running. These are not visible to the other tasks in the system. __task_cred(task) then refers to the objective/real credentials of the task in question. current_cred() refers to the effective subjective credentials of the current task. prepare_creds() uses the objective creds as a base and commit_creds() changes both pointers in the task_struct (indeed commit_creds() requires them to be the same). override_creds() and revert_creds() change the subjective creds pointer only, and the former returns the old subjective creds. These are used by NFSD, faccessat() and do_coredump(), and will by used by CacheFiles. In SELinux, current_has_perm() is provided as an alternative to task_has_perm(). This uses the effective subjective context of current, whereas task_has_perm() uses the objective/real context of the subject. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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13-Nov-2008 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
CRED: Inaugurate COW credentials Inaugurate copy-on-write credentials management. This uses RCU to manage the credentials pointer in the task_struct with respect to accesses by other tasks. A process may only modify its own credentials, and so does not need locking to access or modify its own credentials. A mutex (cred_replace_mutex) is added to the task_struct to control the effect of PTRACE_ATTACHED on credential calculations, particularly with respect to execve(). With this patch, the contents of an active credentials struct may not be changed directly; rather a new set of credentials must be prepared, modified and committed using something like the following sequence of events: struct cred *new = prepare_creds(); int ret = blah(new); if (ret < 0) { abort_creds(new); return ret; } return commit_creds(new); There are some exceptions to this rule: the keyrings pointed to by the active credentials may be instantiated - keyrings violate the COW rule as managing COW keyrings is tricky, given that it is possible for a task to directly alter the keys in a keyring in use by another task. To help enforce this, various pointers to sets of credentials, such as those in the task_struct, are declared const. The purpose of this is compile-time discouragement of altering credentials through those pointers. Once a set of credentials has been made public through one of these pointers, it may not be modified, except under special circumstances: (1) Its reference count may incremented and decremented. (2) The keyrings to which it points may be modified, but not replaced. The only safe way to modify anything else is to create a replacement and commit using the functions described in Documentation/credentials.txt (which will be added by a later patch). This patch and the preceding patches have been tested with the LTP SELinux testsuite. This patch makes several logical sets of alteration: (1) execve(). This now prepares and commits credentials in various places in the security code rather than altering the current creds directly. (2) Temporary credential overrides. do_coredump() and sys_faccessat() now prepare their own credentials and temporarily override the ones currently on the acting thread, whilst preventing interference from other threads by holding cred_replace_mutex on the thread being dumped. This will be replaced in a future patch by something that hands down the credentials directly to the functions being called, rather than altering the task's objective credentials. (3) LSM interface. A number of functions have been changed, added or removed: (*) security_capset_check(), ->capset_check() (*) security_capset_set(), ->capset_set() Removed in favour of security_capset(). (*) security_capset(), ->capset() New. This is passed a pointer to the new creds, a pointer to the old creds and the proposed capability sets. It should fill in the new creds or return an error. All pointers, barring the pointer to the new creds, are now const. (*) security_bprm_apply_creds(), ->bprm_apply_creds() Changed; now returns a value, which will cause the process to be killed if it's an error. (*) security_task_alloc(), ->task_alloc_security() Removed in favour of security_prepare_creds(). (*) security_cred_free(), ->cred_free() New. Free security data attached to cred->security. (*) security_prepare_creds(), ->cred_prepare() New. Duplicate any security data attached to cred->security. (*) security_commit_creds(), ->cred_commit() New. Apply any security effects for the upcoming installation of new security by commit_creds(). (*) security_task_post_setuid(), ->task_post_setuid() Removed in favour of security_task_fix_setuid(). (*) security_task_fix_setuid(), ->task_fix_setuid() Fix up the proposed new credentials for setuid(). This is used by cap_set_fix_setuid() to implicitly adjust capabilities in line with setuid() changes. Changes are made to the new credentials, rather than the task itself as in security_task_post_setuid(). (*) security_task_reparent_to_init(), ->task_reparent_to_init() Removed. Instead the task being reparented to init is referred directly to init's credentials. NOTE! This results in the loss of some state: SELinux's osid no longer records the sid of the thread that forked it. (*) security_key_alloc(), ->key_alloc() (*) security_key_permission(), ->key_permission() Changed. These now take cred pointers rather than task pointers to refer to the security context. (4) sys_capset(). This has been simplified and uses less locking. The LSM functions it calls have been merged. (5) reparent_to_kthreadd(). This gives the current thread the same credentials as init by simply using commit_thread() to point that way. (6) __sigqueue_alloc() and switch_uid() __sigqueue_alloc() can't stop the target task from changing its creds beneath it, so this function gets a reference to the currently applicable user_struct which it then passes into the sigqueue struct it returns if successful. switch_uid() is now called from commit_creds(), and possibly should be folded into that. commit_creds() should take care of protecting __sigqueue_alloc(). (7) [sg]et[ug]id() and co and [sg]et_current_groups. The set functions now all use prepare_creds(), commit_creds() and abort_creds() to build and check a new set of credentials before applying it. security_task_set[ug]id() is called inside the prepared section. This guarantees that nothing else will affect the creds until we've finished. The calling of set_dumpable() has been moved into commit_creds(). Much of the functionality of set_user() has been moved into commit_creds(). The get functions all simply access the data directly. (8) security_task_prctl() and cap_task_prctl(). security_task_prctl() has been modified to return -ENOSYS if it doesn't want to handle a function, or otherwise return the return value directly rather than through an argument. Additionally, cap_task_prctl() now prepares a new set of credentials, even if it doesn't end up using it. (9) Keyrings. A number of changes have been made to the keyrings code: (a) switch_uid_keyring(), copy_keys(), exit_keys() and suid_keys() have all been dropped and built in to the credentials functions directly. They may want separating out again later. (b) key_alloc() and search_process_keyrings() now take a cred pointer rather than a task pointer to specify the security context. (c) copy_creds() gives a new thread within the same thread group a new thread keyring if its parent had one, otherwise it discards the thread keyring. (d) The authorisation key now points directly to the credentials to extend the search into rather pointing to the task that carries them. (e) Installing thread, process or session keyrings causes a new set of credentials to be created, even though it's not strictly necessary for process or session keyrings (they're shared). (10) Usermode helper. The usermode helper code now carries a cred struct pointer in its subprocess_info struct instead of a new session keyring pointer. This set of credentials is derived from init_cred and installed on the new process after it has been cloned. call_usermodehelper_setup() allocates the new credentials and call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() discards them if they haven't been used. A special cred function (prepare_usermodeinfo_creds()) is provided specifically for call_usermodehelper_setup() to call. call_usermodehelper_setkeys() adjusts the credentials to sport the supplied keyring as the new session keyring. (11) SELinux. SELinux has a number of changes, in addition to those to support the LSM interface changes mentioned above: (a) selinux_setprocattr() no longer does its check for whether the current ptracer can access processes with the new SID inside the lock that covers getting the ptracer's SID. Whilst this lock ensures that the check is done with the ptracer pinned, the result is only valid until the lock is released, so there's no point doing it inside the lock. (12) is_single_threaded(). This function has been extracted from selinux_setprocattr() and put into a file of its own in the lib/ directory as join_session_keyring() now wants to use it too. The code in SELinux just checked to see whether a task shared mm_structs with other tasks (CLONE_VM), but that isn't good enough. We really want to know if they're part of the same thread group (CLONE_THREAD). (13) nfsd. The NFS server daemon now has to use the COW credentials to set the credentials it is going to use. It really needs to pass the credentials down to the functions it calls, but it can't do that until other patches in this series have been applied. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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13-Nov-2008 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
CRED: Separate per-task-group keyrings from signal_struct Separate per-task-group keyrings from signal_struct and dangle their anchor from the cred struct rather than the signal_struct. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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13-Nov-2008 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
CRED: Detach the credentials from task_struct Detach the credentials from task_struct, duplicating them in copy_process() and releasing them in __put_task_struct(). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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13-Nov-2008 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
CRED: Separate task security context from task_struct Separate the task security context from task_struct. At this point, the security data is temporarily embedded in the task_struct with two pointers pointing to it. Note that the Alpha arch is altered as it refers to (E)UID and (E)GID in entry.S via asm-offsets. With comment fixes Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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11-Nov-2008 |
Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched/rt: removed unneeded defintion Impact: cleanup This function no longer exists, so remove the defintion. Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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10-Nov-2008 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
tracing, x86: add low level support for ftrace return tracing Impact: add infrastructure for function-return tracing Add low level support for ftrace return tracing. This plug-in stores return addresses on the thread_info structure of the current task. The index of the current return address is initialized when the task is the first one (init) and when a process forks (the child). It is not needed when a task does a sys_execve because after this syscall, it still needs to return on the kernel functions it called. Note that the code of return_to_handler has been suggested by Steven Rostedt as almost all of the ideas of improvements in this V3. For purpose of security, arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c is not traced because __switch_to() changes the current task during its execution. That could cause inconsistency in the stored return address of this function even if I didn't have any crash after testing with tracing on this function enabled. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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10-Nov-2008 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> |
fix for account_group_exec_runtime(), make sure ->signal can't be freed under rq->lock Impact: fix hang/crash on ia64 under high load This is ugly, but the simplest patch by far. Unlike other similar routines, account_group_exec_runtime() could be called "implicitly" from within scheduler after exit_notify(). This means we can race with the parent doing release_task(), we can't just check ->signal != NULL. Change __exit_signal() to do spin_unlock_wait(&task_rq(tsk)->lock) before __cleanup_signal() to make sure ->signal can't be freed under task_rq(tsk)->lock. Note that task_rq_unlock_wait() doesn't care about the case when tsk changes cpu/rq under us, this should be OK. Thanks to Ingo who nacked my previous buggy patch. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reported-by: Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
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06-Nov-2008 |
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
net: Fix recursive descent in __scm_destroy(). __scm_destroy() walks the list of file descriptors in the scm_fp_list pointed to by the scm_cookie argument. Those, in turn, can close sockets and invoke __scm_destroy() again. There is nothing which limits how deeply this can occur. The idea for how to fix this is from Linus. Basically, we do all of the fput()s at the top level by collecting all of the scm_fp_list objects hit by an fput(). Inside of the initial __scm_destroy() we keep running the list until it is empty. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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06-Nov-2008 |
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
net: Fix recursive descent in __scm_destroy(). __scm_destroy() walks the list of file descriptors in the scm_fp_list pointed to by the scm_cookie argument. Those, in turn, can close sockets and invoke __scm_destroy() again. There is nothing which limits how deeply this can occur. The idea for how to fix this is from Linus. Basically, we do all of the fput()s at the top level by collecting all of the scm_fp_list objects hit by an fput(). Inside of the initial __scm_destroy() we keep running the list until it is empty. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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06-Oct-2008 |
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> |
proc: move /proc/schedstat boilerplate to kernel/sched_stats.h Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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22-Oct-2008 |
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> |
sched: add CONFIG_SMP consistency a patch from Henrik Austad did this: >> Do not declare select_task_rq as part of sched_class when CONFIG_SMP is >> not set. Peter observed: > While a proper cleanup, could you do it by re-arranging the methods so > as to not create an additional ifdef? Do not declare select_task_rq and some other methods as part of sched_class when CONFIG_SMP is not set. Also gather those methods to avoid CONFIG_SMP mess. Idea-by: Henrik Austad <henrik.austad@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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18-Oct-2008 |
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> |
add CONFIG_CORE_DUMP_DEFAULT_ELF_HEADERS This adds a kconfig option to change the /proc/PID/coredump_filter default. Fedora has been carrying a trivial patch to change the hard-wired value for this default, since Fedora 8. The default default can't change safely because there are old GDB versions out there (all before 6.7) that are confused by the core dump files created by the MMF_DUMP_ELF_HEADERS setting. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kawai Hidehiro <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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18-Oct-2008 |
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> |
coredump_filter: add hugepage dumping Presently hugepage's vma has a VM_RESERVED flag in order not to be swapped. But a VM_RESERVED vma isn't core dumped because this flag is often used for some kernel vmas (e.g. vmalloc, sound related). Thus hugepages are never dumped and it can't be debugged easily. Many developers want hugepages to be included into core-dump. However, We can't read generic VM_RESERVED area because this area is often IO mapping area. then these area reading may change device state. it is definitly undesiable side-effect. So adding a hugepage specific bit to the coredump filter is better. It will be able to hugepage core dumping and doesn't cause any side-effect to any i/o devices. In additional, libhugetlb use hugetlb private mapping pages as anonymous page. Then, hugepage private mapping pages should be core dumped by default. Then, /proc/[pid]/core_dump_filter has two new bits. - bit 5 mean hugetlb private mapping pages are dumped or not. (default: yes) - bit 6 mean hugetlb shared mapping pages are dumped or not. (default: no) I tested by following method. % ulimit -c unlimited % ./crash_hugepage 50 % ./crash_hugepage 50 -p % ls -lh % gdb ./crash_hugepage core % % echo 0x43 > /proc/self/coredump_filter % ./crash_hugepage 50 % ./crash_hugepage 50 -p % ls -lh % gdb ./crash_hugepage core #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include <string.h> #include "hugetlbfs.h" int main(int argc, char** argv){ char* p; int ch; int mmap_flags = MAP_SHARED; int fd; int nr_pages; while((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "p")) != -1) { switch (ch) { case 'p': mmap_flags &= ~MAP_SHARED; mmap_flags |= MAP_PRIVATE; break; default: /* nothing*/ break; } } argc -= optind; argv += optind; if (argc == 0){ printf("need # of pages\n"); exit(1); } nr_pages = atoi(argv[0]); if (nr_pages < 2) { printf("nr_pages must >2\n"); exit(1); } fd = hugetlbfs_unlinked_fd(); p = mmap(NULL, nr_pages * gethugepagesize(), PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, mmap_flags, fd, 0); sleep(2); *(p + gethugepagesize()) = 1; /* COW */ sleep(2); /* crash! */ *(int*)0 = 1; return 0; } Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Kawai Hidehiro <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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17-Oct-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: optimize group load balancer I noticed that tg_shares_up() unconditionally takes rq-locks for all cpus in the sched_domain. This hurts. We need the rq-locks whenever we change the weight of the per-cpu group sched entities. To allevate this a little, only change the weight when the new weight is at least shares_thresh away from the old value. This avoids the rq-lock for the top level entries, since those will never be re-weighted, and fuzzes the lower level entries a little to gain performance in semi-stable situations. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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16-Oct-2008 |
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
sched: kill unused scheduler decl. I noticed this while making investigations into the tbench regressions. Please apply. sched: Remove hrtick_resched() extern decl. This function was removed by 31656519e132f6612584815f128c83976a9aaaef ("sched, x86: clean up hrtick implementation"). Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Oct-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched debug: add name to sched_domain sysctl entries add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu0/domain0/name, to make it easier to see which specific scheduler domain remained at that entry. Since we process the scheduler domain tree and simplify it, it's not always immediately clear during debugging which domain came from where. depends on CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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12-Sep-2008 |
Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com> |
timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, v3 - fix UP lockup - another set of UP/SMP cleanups and simplifications Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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12-Sep-2008 |
Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com> |
timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, v2 This is the second resubmission of the posix timer rework patch, posted a few days ago. This includes the changes from the previous resubmittion, which addressed Oleg Nesterov's comments, removing the RCU stuff from the patch and un-inlining the thread_group_cputime() function for SMP. In addition, per Ingo Molnar it simplifies the UP code, consolidating much of it with the SMP version and depending on lower-level SMP/UP handling to take care of the differences. It also cleans up some UP compile errors, moves the scheduler stats-related macros into kernel/sched_stats.h, cleans up a merge error in kernel/fork.c and has a few other minor fixes and cleanups as suggested by Oleg and Ingo. Thanks for the review, guys. Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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20-Sep-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: wakeup preempt when small overlap Lin Ming reported a 10% OLTP regression against 2.6.27-rc4. The difference seems to come from different preemption agressiveness, which affects the cache footprint of the workload and its effective cache trashing. Aggresively preempt a task if its avg overlap is very small, this should avoid the task going to sleep and find it still running when we schedule back to it - saving a wakeup. Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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14-Sep-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, cleanups Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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14-Sep-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, fix #2 fix the UP build: In file included from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c:9, from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:3: include/linux/sched.h: In function ‘thread_group_cputime_clone_thread’: include/linux/sched.h:2272: warning: no return statement in function returning non-void include/linux/sched.h: In function ‘thread_group_cputime_account_user’: include/linux/sched.h:2284: error: invalid type argument of ‘->’ (have ‘struct task_cputime’) include/linux/sched.h:2284: error: invalid type argument of ‘->’ (have ‘struct task_cputime’) include/linux/sched.h: In function ‘thread_group_cputime_account_system’: include/linux/sched.h:2291: error: invalid type argument of ‘->’ (have ‘struct task_cputime’) include/linux/sched.h:2291: error: invalid type argument of ‘->’ (have ‘struct task_cputime’) include/linux/sched.h: In function ‘thread_group_cputime_account_exec_runtime’: include/linux/sched.h:2298: error: invalid type argument of ‘->’ (have ‘struct task_cputime’) distcc[14501] ERROR: compile arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c on a/30 failed make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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12-Sep-2008 |
Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com> |
timers: fix itimer/many thread hang Overview This patch reworks the handling of POSIX CPU timers, including the ITIMER_PROF, ITIMER_VIRT timers and rlimit handling. It was put together with the help of Roland McGrath, the owner and original writer of this code. The problem we ran into, and the reason for this rework, has to do with using a profiling timer in a process with a large number of threads. It appears that the performance of the old implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() was at least O(n*3) (where "n" is the number of threads in a process) or worse. Everything is fine with an increasing number of threads until the time taken for that routine to run becomes the same as or greater than the tick time, at which point things degrade rather quickly. This patch fixes bug 9906, "Weird hang with NPTL and SIGPROF." Code Changes This rework corrects the implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() to make it run in constant time for a particular machine. (Performance may vary between one machine and another depending upon whether the kernel is built as single- or multiprocessor and, in the latter case, depending upon the number of running processors.) To do this, at each tick we now update fields in signal_struct as well as task_struct. The run_posix_cpu_timers() function uses those fields to make its decisions. We define a new structure, "task_cputime," to contain user, system and scheduler times and use these in appropriate places: struct task_cputime { cputime_t utime; cputime_t stime; unsigned long long sum_exec_runtime; }; This is included in the structure "thread_group_cputime," which is a new substructure of signal_struct and which varies for uniprocessor versus multiprocessor kernels. For uniprocessor kernels, it uses "task_cputime" as a simple substructure, while for multiprocessor kernels it is a pointer: struct thread_group_cputime { struct task_cputime totals; }; struct thread_group_cputime { struct task_cputime *totals; }; We also add a new task_cputime substructure directly to signal_struct, to cache the earliest expiration of process-wide timers, and task_cputime also replaces the it_*_expires fields of task_struct (used for earliest expiration of thread timers). The "thread_group_cputime" structure contains process-wide timers that are updated via account_user_time() and friends. In the non-SMP case the structure is a simple aggregator; unfortunately in the SMP case that simplicity was not achievable due to cache-line contention between CPUs (in one measured case performance was actually _worse_ on a 16-cpu system than the same test on a 4-cpu system, due to this contention). For SMP, the thread_group_cputime counters are maintained as a per-cpu structure allocated using alloc_percpu(). The timer functions update only the timer field in the structure corresponding to the running CPU, obtained using per_cpu_ptr(). We define a set of inline functions in sched.h that we use to maintain the thread_group_cputime structure and hide the differences between UP and SMP implementations from the rest of the kernel. The thread_group_cputime_init() function initializes the thread_group_cputime structure for the given task. The thread_group_cputime_alloc() is a no-op for UP; for SMP it calls the out-of-line function thread_group_cputime_alloc_smp() to allocate and fill in the per-cpu structures and fields. The thread_group_cputime_free() function, also a no-op for UP, in SMP frees the per-cpu structures. The thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() function (also a UP no-op) for SMP calls thread_group_cputime_alloc() if the per-cpu structures haven't yet been allocated. The thread_group_cputime() function fills the task_cputime structure it is passed with the contents of the thread_group_cputime fields; in UP it's that simple but in SMP it must also safely check that tsk->signal is non-NULL (if it is it just uses the appropriate fields of task_struct) and, if so, sums the per-cpu values for each online CPU. Finally, the three functions account_group_user_time(), account_group_system_time() and account_group_exec_runtime() are used by timer functions to update the respective fields of the thread_group_cputime structure. Non-SMP operation is trivial and will not be mentioned further. The per-cpu structure is always allocated when a task creates its first new thread, via a call to thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() from copy_signal(). It is freed at process exit via a call to thread_group_cputime_free() from cleanup_signal(). All functions that formerly summed utime/stime/sum_sched_runtime values from from all threads in the thread group now use thread_group_cputime() to snapshot the values in the thread_group_cputime structure or the values in the task structure itself if the per-cpu structure hasn't been allocated. Finally, the code in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c has changed quite a bit. The run_posix_cpu_timers() function has been split into a fast path and a slow path; the former safely checks whether there are any expired thread timers and, if not, just returns, while the slow path does the heavy lifting. With the dedicated thread group fields, timers are no longer "rebalanced" and the process_timer_rebalance() function and related code has gone away. All summing loops are gone and all code that used them now uses the thread_group_cputime() inline. When process-wide timers are set, the new task_cputime structure in signal_struct is used to cache the earliest expiration; this is checked in the fast path. Performance The fix appears not to add significant overhead to existing operations. It generally performs the same as the current code except in two cases, one in which it performs slightly worse (Case 5 below) and one in which it performs very significantly better (Case 2 below). Overall it's a wash except in those two cases. I've since done somewhat more involved testing on a dual-core Opteron system. Case 1: With no itimer running, for a test with 100,000 threads, the fixed kernel took 1428.5 seconds, 513 seconds more than the unfixed system, all of which was spent in the system. There were twice as many voluntary context switches with the fix as without it. Case 2: With an itimer running at .01 second ticks and 4000 threads (the most an unmodified kernel can handle), the fixed kernel ran the test in eight percent of the time (5.8 seconds as opposed to 70 seconds) and had better tick accuracy (.012 seconds per tick as opposed to .023 seconds per tick). Case 3: A 4000-thread test with an initial timer tick of .01 second and an interval of 10,000 seconds (i.e. a timer that ticks only once) had very nearly the same performance in both cases: 6.3 seconds elapsed for the fixed kernel versus 5.5 seconds for the unfixed kernel. With fewer threads (eight in these tests), the Case 1 test ran in essentially the same time on both the modified and unmodified kernels (5.2 seconds versus 5.8 seconds). The Case 2 test ran in about the same time as well, 5.9 seconds versus 5.4 seconds but again with much better tick accuracy, .013 seconds per tick versus .025 seconds per tick for the unmodified kernel. Since the fix affected the rlimit code, I also tested soft and hard CPU limits. Case 4: With a hard CPU limit of 20 seconds and eight threads (and an itimer running), the modified kernel was very slightly favored in that while it killed the process in 19.997 seconds of CPU time (5.002 seconds of wall time), only .003 seconds of that was system time, the rest was user time. The unmodified kernel killed the process in 20.001 seconds of CPU (5.014 seconds of wall time) of which .016 seconds was system time. Really, though, the results were too close to call. The results were essentially the same with no itimer running. Case 5: With a soft limit of 20 seconds and a hard limit of 2000 seconds (where the hard limit would never be reached) and an itimer running, the modified kernel exhibited worse tick accuracy than the unmodified kernel: .050 seconds/tick versus .028 seconds/tick. Otherwise, performance was almost indistinguishable. With no itimer running this test exhibited virtually identical behavior and times in both cases. In times past I did some limited performance testing. those results are below. On a four-cpu Opteron system without this fix, a sixteen-thread test executed in 3569.991 seconds, of which user was 3568.435s and system was 1.556s. On the same system with the fix, user and elapsed time were about the same, but system time dropped to 0.007 seconds. Performance with eight, four and one thread were comparable. Interestingly, the timer ticks with the fix seemed more accurate: The sixteen-thread test with the fix received 149543 ticks for 0.024 seconds per tick, while the same test without the fix received 58720 for 0.061 seconds per tick. Both cases were configured for an interval of 0.01 seconds. Again, the other tests were comparable. Each thread in this test computed the primes up to 25,000,000. I also did a test with a large number of threads, 100,000 threads, which is impossible without the fix. In this case each thread computed the primes only up to 10,000 (to make the runtime manageable). System time dominated, at 1546.968 seconds out of a total 2176.906 seconds (giving a user time of 629.938s). It received 147651 ticks for 0.015 seconds per tick, still quite accurate. There is obviously no comparable test without the fix. Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Sep-2008 |
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> |
mm: define USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS rather than repeating expression Define USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS as a constant expression rather than repeating "NR_CPUS >= CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS" all over the place. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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01-Sep-2008 |
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> |
hrtimer: create a "timer_slack" field in the task struct We want to be able to control the default "rounding" that is used by select() and poll() and friends. This is a per process property (so that we can have a "nice" like program to start certain programs with a looser or stricter rounding) that can be set/get via a prctl(). For this purpose, a field called "timer_slack_ns" is added to the task struct. In addition, a field called "default_timer_slack"ns" is added so that tasks easily can temporarily to a more/less accurate slack and then back to the default. The default value of the slack is set to 50 usec; this is significantly less than 2.6.27's average select() and poll() timing error but still allows the kernel to group timers somewhat to preserve power behavior. Applications and admins can override this via the prctl() Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
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05-Sep-2008 |
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched: fix process time monotonicity Spencer reported a problem where utime and stime were going negative despite the fixes in commit b27f03d4bdc145a09fb7b0c0e004b29f1ee555fa. The suspected reason for the problem is that signal_struct maintains it's own utime and stime (of exited tasks), these are not updated using the new task_utime() routine, hence sig->utime can go backwards and cause the same problem to occur (sig->utime, adds tsk->utime and not task_utime()). This patch fixes the problem TODO: using max(task->prev_utime, derived utime) works for now, but a more generic solution is to implement cputime_max() and use the cputime_gt() function for comparison. Reported-by: spencer@bluehost.com Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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01-Aug-2008 |
Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> |
sched: reorder struct sched_rt_entity to remove padding on 64 bit builds remove 8 bytes of padding on 64 bit builds (also removes 8 bytes from task_struct) Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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01-Aug-2008 |
Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> |
sched: reorder signal_struct to remove 8 bytes on 64 bit builds reorder structure to remove 8 bytes of padding on 64 bit builds Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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13-Aug-2008 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
CRED: Introduce credential access wrappers The patches that are intended to introduce copy-on-write credentials for 2.6.28 require abstraction of access to some fields of the task structure, particularly for the case of one task accessing another's credentials where RCU will have to be observed. Introduced here are trivial no-op versions of the desired accessors for current and other tasks so that other subsystems can start to be converted over more easily. Wrappers are introduced into a new header (linux/cred.h) for UID/GID, EUID/EGID, SUID/SGID, FSUID/FSGID, cap_effective and current's subscribed user_struct. These wrappers are macros because the ordering between header files mitigates against making them inline functions. linux/cred.h is #included from linux/sched.h. Further, XFS is modified such that it no longer defines and uses parameterised versions of current_fs[ug]id(), thus getting rid of the namespace collision otherwise incurred. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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11-Aug-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched_clock: delay using sched_clock() Some arch's can't handle sched_clock() being called too early - delay this until sched_clock_init() has been called. Reported-by: Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> CC: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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14-Apr-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched clock: revert various sched_clock() changes Found an interactivity problem on a quad core test-system - simple CPU loops would occasionally delay the system un an unacceptable way. After much debugging with Peter Zijlstra it turned out that the problem is caused by the string of sched_clock() changes - they caused the CPU clock to jump backwards a bit - which confuses the scheduler arithmetics. (which is unsigned for performance reasons) So revert: # c300ba2: sched_clock: and multiplier for TSC to gtod drift # c0c8773: sched_clock: only update deltas with local reads. # af52a90: sched_clock: stop maximum check on NO HZ # f7cce27: sched_clock: widen the max and min time This solves the interactivity problems. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
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27-Jul-2008 |
Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> |
task IO accounting: move all IO statistics in struct task_io_accounting Simplify the code of include/linux/task_io_accounting.h. It is also more reasonable to have all the task i/o-related statistics in a single struct (task_io_accounting). Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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27-Jul-2008 |
Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> |
task IO accounting: improve code readability Put all i/o statistics in struct proc_io_accounting and use inline functions to initialize and increment statistics, removing a lot of single variable assignments. This also reduces the kernel size as following (with CONFIG_TASK_XACCT=y and CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING=y). text data bss dec hex filename 11651 0 0 11651 2d83 kernel/exit.o.before 11619 0 0 11619 2d63 kernel/exit.o.after 10886 132 136 11154 2b92 kernel/fork.o.before 10758 132 136 11026 2b12 kernel/fork.o.after 3082029 807968 4818600 8708597 84e1f5 vmlinux.o.before 3081869 807968 4818600 8708437 84e155 vmlinux.o.after Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-Jul-2008 |
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> |
tracehook: wait_task_inactive This extends wait_task_inactive() with a new argument so it can be used in a "soft" mode where it will check for the task changing state unexpectedly and back off. There is no change to existing callers. This lays the groundwork to allow robust, noninvasive tracing that can try to sample a blocked thread but back off safely if it wakes up. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-Jul-2008 |
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> |
tracehook: death This moves the ptrace logic in task death (exit_notify) into tracehook.h inlines. Some code is rearranged slightly to make things nicer. There is no change, only cleanup. There is one hook called with the tasklist_lock write-locked, as ptrace needs. There is also a new hook called after exit_state changes and without locks. This is a better place for tracing work to be in the future, since it doesn't delay the whole system with locking. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-Jul-2008 |
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> |
Full conversion to early_initcall() interface, remove old interface A previous patch added the early_initcall(), to allow a cleaner hooking of pre-SMP initcalls. Now we remove the older interface, converting all existing users to the new one. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: warning fix] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: warning fix] Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-Jul-2008 |
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
uninline arch_pick_mmap_layout() Fix this, on avr32: include/linux/utsname.h:35, from init/main.c:20: include/linux/sched.h: In function 'arch_pick_mmap_layout': include/linux/sched.h:2149: error: implicit declaration of function 'PAGE_ALIGN' Reported-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-Jul-2008 |
Keika Kobayashi <kobayashi.kk@ncos.nec.co.jp> |
per-task-delay-accounting: add memory reclaim delay Sometimes, application responses become bad under heavy memory load. Applications take a bit time to reclaim memory. The statistics, how long memory reclaim takes, will be useful to measure memory usage. This patch adds accounting memory reclaim to per-task-delay-accounting for accounting the time of do_try_to_free_pages(). <i.e> - When System is under low memory load, memory reclaim may not occur. $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 8197800 1577300 6620500 0 4808 1516724 -/+ buffers/cache: 55768 8142032 Swap: 16386292 0 16386292 $ vmstat 1 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 0 0 5069748 10612 3014060 0 0 0 0 3 26 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 5069748 10612 3014060 0 0 0 0 4 22 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 5069748 10612 3014060 0 0 0 0 3 18 0 0 100 0 Measure the time of tar command. $ ls -s test.dat 1501472 test.dat $ time tar cvf test.tar test.dat real 0m13.388s user 0m0.116s sys 0m5.304s $ ./delayget -d -p <pid> CPU count real total virtual total delay total 428 5528345500 5477116080 62749891 IO count delay total 338 8078977189 SWAP count delay total 0 0 RECLAIM count delay total 0 0 - When system is under heavy memory load memory reclaim may occur. $ vmstat 1 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 0 7159032 49724 1812 3012 0 0 0 0 3 24 0 0 100 0 0 0 7159032 49724 1812 3012 0 0 0 0 4 24 0 0 100 0 0 0 7159032 49848 1812 3012 0 0 0 0 3 22 0 0 100 0 In this case, one process uses more 8G memory by execution of malloc() and memset(). $ time tar cvf test.tar test.dat real 1m38.563s <- increased by 85 sec user 0m0.140s sys 0m7.060s $ ./delayget -d -p <pid> CPU count real total virtual total delay total 9021 7140446250 7315277975 923201824 IO count delay total 8965 90466349669 SWAP count delay total 3 21036367 RECLAIM count delay total 740 61011951153 In the later case, the value of RECLAIM is increasing. So, taskstats can show how much memory reclaim influences TAT. Signed-off-by: Keika Kobayashi <kobayashi.kk@ncos.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujistu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-Jul-2008 |
Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> |
task IO accounting: provide distinct tgid/tid I/O statistics Report per-thread I/O statistics in /proc/pid/task/tid/io and aggregate parent I/O statistics in /proc/pid/io. This approach follows the same model used to account per-process and per-thread CPU times. As a practial application, this allows for example to quickly find the top I/O consumer when a process spawns many child threads that perform the actual I/O work, because the aggregated I/O statistics can always be found in /proc/pid/io. [ Oleg Nesterov points out that we should check that the task is still alive before we iterate over the threads, but also says that we can do that fixup on top of this later. - Linus ] Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> Cc: Matt Heaton <matt@hostmonster.com> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Acked-by-with-comments: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-Jul-2008 |
Jonathan Lim <jlim@sgi.com> |
accounting: account for user time when updating memory integrals Adapt acct_update_integrals() to include user time when calculating the time difference. The units of acct_rss_mem1 and acct_vm_mem1 are also changed from pages-jiffies to pages-usecs to avoid calling jiffies_to_usecs() in xacct_add_tsk() which might overflow. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Lim <jlim@sgi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-Jul-2008 |
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> |
pidns: remove find_task_by_pid, unused for a long time It seems to me that it was a mistake marking this function as deprecated and scheduling it for removal, rather than resolutely removing it after the last caller's death. Anyway - better late, then never. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-Jul-2008 |
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> |
pidns: remove now unused find_pid function. This one had the only users so far - the kill_proc, which is removed, so drop this (invalid in namespaced world) call too. And of course - erase all references on it from comments. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-Jul-2008 |
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> |
pidns: remove now unused kill_proc function This function operated on a pid_t to kill a task, which is no longer valid in a containerized system. It has finally lost all its users and we can safely remove it from the tree. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-Jul-2008 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
kill PF_BORROWED_MM in favour of PF_KTHREAD Kill PF_BORROWED_MM. Change use_mm/unuse_mm to not play with ->flags, and do s/PF_BORROWED_MM/PF_KTHREAD/ for a couple of other users. No functional changes yet. But this allows us to do further fixes/cleanups. oom_kill/ptrace/etc often check "p->mm != NULL" to filter out the kthreads, this is wrong because of use_mm(). The problem with PF_BORROWED_MM is that we need task_lock() to avoid races. With this patch we can check PF_KTHREAD directly, or use a simple lockless helper: /* The result must not be dereferenced !!! */ struct mm_struct *__get_task_mm(struct task_struct *tsk) { if (tsk->flags & PF_KTHREAD) return NULL; return tsk->mm; } Note also ecard_task(). It runs with ->mm != NULL, but it's the kernel thread without PF_BORROWED_MM. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-Jul-2008 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
introduce PF_KTHREAD flag Introduce the new PF_KTHREAD flag to mark the kernel threads. It is set by INIT_TASK() and copied to the forked childs (we could set it in kthreadd() along with PF_NOFREEZE instead). daemonize() was changed as well. In that case testing of PF_KTHREAD is racy, but daemonize() is hopeless anyway. This flag is cleared in do_execve(), before search_binary_handler(). Probably not the best place, we can do this in exec_mmap() or in start_thread(), or clear it along with PF_FORKNOEXEC. But I think this doesn't matter in practice, and if do_execve() fails kthread should die soon. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-Jul-2008 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
ptrace: give more respect to SIGKILL ptrace_stop() has some complicated checks to prevent the scheduling in the TASK_TRACED state with the pending SIGKILL, but these checks are racy, and they depend on arch_ptrace_stop_needed(). This patch assumes that the traced task should die asap if it was killed by SIGKILL, in that case schedule()->signal_pending_state() has no reason to ignore the TASK_WAKEKILL part of TASK_TRACED, and we can kill this nasty special case. Note: do_exit()->ptrace_notify() is special, the killed task can already dequeue SIGKILL at this point. Another indication that fatal_signal_pending() is not exactly right. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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23-Jul-2008 |
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> |
add a helper function to test if an object is on the stack lib/debugobjects.c has a function to test if an object is on the stack. The block layer and ide needs it (they need to avoid DMA from/to stack buffers). This patch moves the function to include/linux/sched.h so that everyone can use it. lib/debugobjects.c uses current->stack but this patch uses a task_stack_page() accessor, which is a preferable way to access the stack. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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18-Jul-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: fix build error, provide partition_sched_domains() unconditionally provide an empty partition_sched_domains() definition for the UP case: include/linux/cpuset.h: In function ‘rebuild_sched_domains': include/linux/cpuset.h:163: error: implicit declaration of function ‘partition_sched_domains' Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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24-Mar-2008 |
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> |
ptrace children revamp ptrace no longer fiddles with the children/sibling links, and the old ptrace_children list is gone. Now ptrace, whether of one's own children or another's via PTRACE_ATTACH, just uses the new ptraced list instead. There should be no user-visible difference that matters. The only change is the order in which do_wait() sees multiple stopped children and stopped ptrace attachees. Since wait_task_stopped() was changed earlier so it no longer reorders the children list, we already know this won't cause any new problems. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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11-Jun-2008 |
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> |
Freezer: Introduce PF_FREEZER_NOSIG The freezer currently attempts to distinguish kernel threads from user space tasks by checking if their mm pointer is unset and it does not send fake signals to kernel threads. However, there are kernel threads, mostly related to networking, that behave like user space tasks and may want to be sent a fake signal to be frozen. Introduce the new process flag PF_FREEZER_NOSIG that will be set by default for all kernel threads and make the freezer only send fake signals to the tasks having PF_FREEZER_NOSIG unset. Provide the set_freezable_with_signal() function to be called by the kernel threads that want to be sent a fake signal for freezing. This patch should not change the freezer's observable behavior. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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07-Jul-2008 |
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> |
sched_clock: stop maximum check on NO HZ Working with ftrace I would get large jumps of 11 millisecs or more with the clock tracer. This killed the latencing timings of ftrace and also caused the irqoff self tests to fail. What was happening is with NO_HZ the idle would stop the jiffy counter and before the jiffy counter was updated the sched_clock would have a bad delta jiffies to compare with the gtod with the maximum. The jiffies would stop and the last sched_tick would record the last gtod. On wakeup, the sched clock update would compare the gtod + delta jiffies (which would be zero) and compare it to the TSC. The TSC would have correctly (with a stable TSC) moved forward several jiffies. But because the jiffies has not been updated yet the clock would be prevented from moving forward because it would appear that the TSC jumped too far ahead. The clock would then virtually stop, until the jiffies are updated. Then the next sched clock update would see that the clock was very much behind since the delta jiffies is now correct. This would then jump the clock forward by several jiffies. This caused ftrace to report several milliseconds of interrupts off latency at every resume from NO_HZ idle. This patch adds hooks into the nohz code to disable the checking of the maximum clock update when nohz is in effect. It resumes the max check when nohz has updated the jiffies again. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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27-Jun-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: update shares on wakeup We found that the affine wakeup code needs rather accurate load figures to be effective. The trouble is that updating the load figures is fairly expensive with group scheduling. Therefore ratelimit the updating. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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27-Jun-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: fix sched_domain aggregation Keeping the aggregate on the first cpu of the sched domain has two problems: - it could collide between different sched domains on different cpus - it could slow things down because of the remote accesses Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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27-Jun-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: revert revert of: fair-group: SMP-nice for group scheduling Try again.. Initial commit: 18d95a2832c1392a2d63227a7a6d433cb9f2037e Revert: 6363ca57c76b7b83639ca8c83fc285fa26a7880e Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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22-Jun-2008 |
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> |
sched: add new API sched_setscheduler_nocheck: add a flag to control access checks Hidehiro Kawai noticed that sched_setscheduler() can fail in stop_machine: it calls sched_setscheduler() from insmod, which can have CAP_SYS_MODULE without CAP_SYS_NICE. Two cases could have failed, so are changed to sched_setscheduler_nocheck: kernel/softirq.c:cpu_callback() - CPU hotplug callback kernel/stop_machine.c:__stop_machine_run() - Called from various places, including modprobe() Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: sugita <yumiko.sugita.yf@hitachi.com> Cc: Satoshi OSHIMA <satoshi.oshima.fk@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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05-Jun-2008 |
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> |
sched: prevent bound kthreads from changing cpus_allowed Kthreads that have called kthread_bind() are bound to specific cpus, so other tasks should not be able to change their cpus_allowed from under them. Otherwise, it is possible to move kthreads, such as the migration or software watchdog threads, so they are not allowed access to the cpu they work on. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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08-Jun-2008 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
sched: fix TASK_WAKEKILL vs SIGKILL race schedule() has the special "TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE && signal_pending()" case, this allows us to do current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE; schedule(); without fear to sleep with pending signal. However, the code like current->state = TASK_KILLABLE; schedule(); is not right, schedule() doesn't take TASK_WAKEKILL into account. This means that mutex_lock_killable(), wait_for_completion_killable(), down_killable(), schedule_timeout_killable() can miss SIGKILL (and btw the second SIGKILL has no effect). Introduce the new helper, signal_pending_state(), and change schedule() to use it. Hopefully it will have more users, that is why the task's state is passed separately. Note this "__TASK_STOPPED | __TASK_TRACED" check in signal_pending_state(). This is needed to preserve the current behaviour (ptrace_notify). I hope this check will be removed soon, but this (afaics good) change needs the separate discussion. The fast path is "(state & (INTERRUPTIBLE | WAKEKILL)) + signal_pending(p)", basically the same that schedule() does now. However, this patch of course bloats schedule(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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04-Jun-2008 |
Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> |
sched: fix cpupri hotplug support The RT folks over at RedHat found an issue w.r.t. hotplug support which was traced to problems with the cpupri infrastructure in the scheduler: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449676 This bug affects 23-rt12+, 24-rtX, 25-rtX, and sched-devel. This patch applies to 25.4-rt4, though it should trivially apply to most cpupri enabled kernels mentioned above. It turned out that the issue was that offline cpus could get inadvertently registered with cpupri so that they were erroneously selected during migration decisions. The end result would be an OOPS as the offline cpu had tasks routed to it. This patch generalizes the old join/leave domain interface into an online/offline interface, and adjusts the root-domain/hotplug code to utilize it. I was able to easily reproduce the issue prior to this patch, and am no longer able to reproduce it after this patch. I can offline cpus indefinately and everything seems to be in working order. Thanks to Arnaldo (acme), Thomas, and Peter for doing the legwork to point me in the right direction. Also thank you to Peter for reviewing the early iterations of this patch. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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14-May-2008 |
Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> |
sched: reorder task_struct to reduce padding on 64bit builds This patch removes 24 bytes of padding and allows 1 extra object per slab on my fedora based config. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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12-May-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
namespacecheck: more sched.c fixes [ Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>: build fix ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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29-May-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
revert ("sched: fair-group: SMP-nice for group scheduling") Yanmin Zhang reported: Comparing with 2.6.25, volanoMark has big regression with kernel 2.6.26-rc1. It's about 50% on my 8-core stoakley, 16-core tigerton, and Itanium Montecito. With bisect, I located the following patch: | 18d95a2832c1392a2d63227a7a6d433cb9f2037e is first bad commit | commit 18d95a2832c1392a2d63227a7a6d433cb9f2037e | Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | Date: Sat Apr 19 19:45:00 2008 +0200 | | sched: fair-group: SMP-nice for group scheduling Revert it so that we get v2.6.25 behavior. Bisected-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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26-May-2008 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
posix timers: discard SI_TIMER signals on exec Based on Roland's patch. This approach was suggested by Austin Clements from the very beginning, and then by Linus. As Austin pointed out, the execing task can be killed by SI_TIMER signal because exec flushes the signal handlers, but doesn't discard the pending signals generated by posix timers. Perhaps not a bug, but people find this surprising. See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10460 Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Austin Clements <amdragon+kernelbugzilla@mit.edu> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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22-Apr-2008 |
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> |
stackprotector: use canary at end of stack to indicate overruns at oops time (Updated with a common max-stack-used checker that knows about the canary, as suggested by Joe Perches) Use a canary at the end of the stack to clearly indicate at oops time whether the stack has ever overflowed. This is a very simple implementation with a couple of drawbacks: 1) a thread may legitimately use exactly up to the last word on the stack -- but the chances of doing this and then oopsing later seem slim 2) it's possible that the stack usage isn't dense enough that the canary location could get skipped over -- but the worst that happens is that we don't flag the overrun -- though this happens fairly often in my testing :( With the code in place, an intentionally-bloated stack oops might do: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8103f84cc680 IP: [<ffffffff810253df>] update_curr+0x9a/0xa8 PGD 8063 PUD 0 Thread overran stack or stack corrupted Oops: 0000 [1] SMP CPU 0 ... ... unless the stack overrun is so bad that it corrupts some other thread. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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14-Feb-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
x86: fix stackprotector canary updates during context switches fix a bug noticed and fixed by pageexec@freemail.hu. if built with -fstack-protector-all then we'll have canary checks built into the __switch_to() function. That does not work well with the canary-switching code there: while we already use the %rsp of the new task, we still call __switch_to() whith the previous task's canary value in the PDA, hence the __switch_to() ssp prologue instructions will store the previous canary. Then we update the PDA and upon return from __switch_to() the canary check triggers and we panic. so update the canary after we have called __switch_to(), where we are at the same stackframe level as the last stackframe of the next (and now freshly current) task. Note: this means that we call __switch_to() [and its sub-functions] still with the old canary, but that is not a problem, both the previous and the next task has a high-quality canary. The only (mostly academic) disadvantage is that the canary of one task may leak onto the stack of another task, increasing the risk of information leaks, were an attacker able to read the stack of specific tasks (but not that of others). To solve this we'll have to reorganize the way we switch tasks, and move the PDA setting into the switch_to() assembly code. That will happen in another patch. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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12-May-2008 |
Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> |
softlockup: fix softlockup_thresh unaligned access and disable detection at runtime Fix unaligned access errors when setting softlockup_thresh on 64 bit platforms. Allow softlockup detection to be disabled by setting softlockup_thresh <= 0. Detect that boot time softlockup detection has been disabled earlier in softlockup_tick. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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12-May-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
softlockup: allow panic on lockup allow users to configure the softlockup detector to generate a panic instead of a warning message. high-availability systems might opt for this strict method (combined with panic_timeout= boot option/sysctl), instead of generating softlockup warnings ad infinitum. also, automated tests work better if the system reboots reliably (into a safe kernel) in case of a lockup. The full spectrum of configurability is supported: boot option, sysctl option and Kconfig option. it's default-disabled. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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12-May-2008 |
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> |
Port ftrace to markers Porting ftrace to the marker infrastructure. Don't need to chain to the wakeup tracer from the sched tracer, because markers support multiple probes connected. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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12-May-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
ftrace: sched special Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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12-May-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
ftrace: fix __trace_special() Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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12-May-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
ftrace: fix wakeups Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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12-May-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
ftrace: sched tracer, trace full rbtree Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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12-May-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
ftrace: sched tracer fix Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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12-May-2008 |
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> |
ftrace: make the task state char-string visible to all The tracer wants to be able to convert the state number into a user visible character. This patch pulls that conversion string out the scheduler into the header. This way if it were to ever change, other parts of the kernel will know. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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12-May-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: add latency tracer callbacks to the scheduler add 3 lightweight callbacks to the tracer backend. zero impact if tracing is turned off. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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12-May-2008 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Make 'cond_resched()' nullification depend on PREEMPT_BKL Because it's not correct with a non-preemptable BKL and just causes PREEMPT kernels to have longer latencies than non-PREEMPT ones (which is obviously not the point of it at all). Of course, that config option actually got removed as an option earlier, so for now this basically disables it entirely, but if BKL preemption is ever resurrected it will be a meaningful optimization. And in the meantime, it at least documents the intent of the code, while not doing the wrong thing. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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12-May-2008 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Fix up 'need_resched()' definition We should not go through the task pointer to get at the thread info, since it's usually cheaper to just access the thread info directly. So don't make the code look up 'current', when we can just use the thread info accessor functions directly. This generally avoids one level of indirection and tends to work better together with code that also looks at other thread flags (eg preempt_count). Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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11-May-2008 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Add new 'cond_resched_bkl()' helper function It acts exactly like a regular 'cond_resched()', but will not get optimized away when CONFIG_PREEMPT is set. Normal kernel code is already preemptable in the presense of CONFIG_PREEMPT, so cond_resched() is optimized away (see commit 02b67cc3ba36bdba351d6c3a00593f4ec550d9d3 "sched: do not do cond_resched() when CONFIG_PREEMPT"). But when wanting to conditionally reschedule while holding a lock, you need to use "cond_sched_lock(lock)", and the new function is the BKL equivalent of that. Also make fs/locks.c use it. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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03-May-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: add optional support for CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK this replaces the rq->clock stuff (and possibly cpu_clock()). - architectures that have an 'imperfect' hardware clock can set CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK - the 'jiffie' window might be superfulous when we update tick_gtod before the __update_sched_clock() call in sched_clock_tick() - cpu_clock() might be implemented as: sched_clock_cpu(smp_processor_id()) if the accuracy proves good enough - how far can TSC drift in a single jiffie when considering the filtering and idle hooks? [ mingo@elte.hu: various fixes and cleanups ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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23-Apr-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: make clock sync tunable by architecture code make time_sync_thresh tunable to architecture code. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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23-Apr-2008 |
Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> |
sched: fix RT task-wakeup logic Dmitry Adamushko pointed out a logic error in task_wake_up_rt() where we will always evaluate to "true". You can find the thread here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/22/296 In reality, we only want to try to push tasks away when a wake up request is not going to preempt the current task. So lets fix it. Note: We introduce test_tsk_need_resched() instead of open-coding the flag check so that the merge-conflict with -rt should help remind us that we may need to support NEEDS_RESCHED_DELAYED in the future, too. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> CC: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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30-Apr-2008 |
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> |
Deprecate find_task_by_pid() There are some places that are known to operate on tasks' global pids only: * the rest_init() call (called on boot) * the kgdb's getthread * the create_kthread() (since the kthread is run in init ns) So use the find_task_by_pid_ns(..., &init_pid_ns) there and schedule the find_task_by_pid for removal. [sukadev@us.ibm.com: Fix warning in kernel/pid.c] Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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30-Apr-2008 |
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> |
signals: use HAVE_SET_RESTORE_SIGMASK Change all the #ifdef TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK conditionals in non-arch code to #ifdef HAVE_SET_RESTORE_SIGMASK. If arch code defines it first, the generic set_restore_sigmask() using TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK is not defined. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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30-Apr-2008 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
signals: fix /sbin/init protection from unwanted signals The global init has a lot of long standing problems with the unhandled fatal signals. - The "is_global_init(current)" check in get_signal_to_deliver() protects only the main thread. Sub-thread can dequee the fatal signal and shutdown the whole thread group except the main thread. If it dequeues SIGSTOP /sbin/init will be stopped, this is not right too. Note that we can't use is_global_init(->group_leader), this breaks exec and this can't solve other problems we have. - Even if afterwards ignored, the fatal signals sets SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT on delivery. This breaks exec, has other bad implications, and this is just wrong. Introduce the new SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE flag to fix these problems. It also helps to solve some other problems addressed by the subsequent patches. Currently we use this flag for the global init only, but it could also be used by kthreads and (perhaps) by the sub-namespace inits. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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30-Apr-2008 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
signals: join send_sigqueue() with send_group_sigqueue() We export send_sigqueue() and send_group_sigqueue() for the only user, posix_timer_event(). This is a bit silly, because both are just trivial helpers on top of do_send_sigqueue() and because the we pass the unused .si_signo parameter. Kill them both, rename do_send_sigqueue() to send_sigqueue(), and export it. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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30-Apr-2008 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
signals: re-assign CLD_CONTINUED notification from the sender to reciever Based on discussion with Jiri and Roland. In short: currently handle_stop_signal(SIGCONT, p) sends the notification to p->parent, with this patch p itself notifies its parent when it becomes running. handle_stop_signal(SIGCONT) has to drop ->siglock temporary in order to notify the parent with do_notify_parent_cldstop(). This leads to multiple problems: - as Jiri Kosina pointed out, the stopped task can resume without actually seeing SIGCONT which may have a handler. - we race with another sig_kernel_stop() signal which may come in that window. - we race with sig_fatal() signals which may set SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT in that window. - we can't avoid taking tasklist_lock() while sending SIGCONT. With this patch handle_stop_signal() just sets the new SIGNAL_CLD_CONTINUED flag in p->signal->flags and returns. The notification is sent by the first task which returns from finish_stop() (there should be at least one) or any other signalled thread from get_signal_to_deliver(). This is a user-visible change. Say, currently kill(SIGCONT, stopped_child) can't return without seeing SIGCHLD, with this patch SIGCHLD can be delayed unpredictably. Another difference is that if the child is ptraced by another process, CLD_CONTINUED may be delivered to ->real_parent after ptrace_detach() while currently it always goes to the tracer which doesn't actually need this notification. Hopefully not a problem. The patch asks for the futher obvious cleanups, I'll send them separately. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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29-Apr-2008 |
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
cgroups: add an owner to the mm_struct Remove the mem_cgroup member from mm_struct and instead adds an owner. This approach was suggested by Paul Menage. The advantage of this approach is that, once the mm->owner is known, using the subsystem id, the cgroup can be determined. It also allows several control groups that are virtually grouped by mm_struct, to exist independent of the memory controller i.e., without adding mem_cgroup's for each controller, to mm_struct. A new config option CONFIG_MM_OWNER is added and the memory resource controller selects this config option. This patch also adds cgroup callbacks to notify subsystems when mm->owner changes. The mm_cgroup_changed callback is called with the task_lock() of the new task held and is called just prior to changing the mm->owner. I am indebted to Paul Menage for the several reviews of this patchset and helping me make it lighter and simpler. This patch was tested on a powerpc box, it was compiled with both the MM_OWNER config turned on and off. After the thread group leader exits, it's moved to init_css_state by cgroup_exit(), thus all future charges from runnings threads would be redirected to the init_css_set's subsystem. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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28-Apr-2008 |
Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> |
capabilities: implement per-process securebits Filesystem capability support makes it possible to do away with (set)uid-0 based privilege and use capabilities instead. That is, with filesystem support for capabilities but without this present patch, it is (conceptually) possible to manage a system with capabilities alone and never need to obtain privilege via (set)uid-0. Of course, conceptually isn't quite the same as currently possible since few user applications, certainly not enough to run a viable system, are currently prepared to leverage capabilities to exercise privilege. Further, many applications exist that may never get upgraded in this way, and the kernel will continue to want to support their setuid-0 base privilege needs. Where pure-capability applications evolve and replace setuid-0 binaries, it is desirable that there be a mechanisms by which they can contain their privilege. In addition to leveraging the per-process bounding and inheritable sets, this should include suppressing the privilege of the uid-0 superuser from the process' tree of children. The feature added by this patch can be leveraged to suppress the privilege associated with (set)uid-0. This suppression requires CAP_SETPCAP to initiate, and only immediately affects the 'current' process (it is inherited through fork()/exec()). This reimplementation differs significantly from the historical support for securebits which was system-wide, unwieldy and which has ultimately withered to a dead relic in the source of the modern kernel. With this patch applied a process, that is capable(CAP_SETPCAP), can now drop all legacy privilege (through uid=0) for itself and all subsequently fork()'d/exec()'d children with: prctl(PR_SET_SECUREBITS, 0x2f); This patch represents a no-op unless CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES is enabled at configure time. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix uninitialised var warning] [serue@us.ibm.com: capabilities: use cap_task_prctl when !CONFIG_SECURITY] Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-Mar-2008 |
Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> |
s390: KVM preparation: provide hook to enable pgstes in user pagetable The SIE instruction on s390 uses the 2nd half of the page table page to virtualize the storage keys of a guest. This patch offers the s390_enable_sie function, which reorganizes the page tables of a single-threaded process to reserve space in the page table: s390_enable_sie makes sure that the process is single threaded and then uses dup_mm to create a new mm with reorganized page tables. The old mm is freed and the process has now a page status extended field after every page table. Code that wants to exploit pgstes should SELECT CONFIG_PGSTE. This patch has a small common code hit, namely making dup_mm non-static. Edit (Carsten): I've modified Martin's patch, following Jeremy Fitzhardinge's review feedback. Now we do have the prototype for dup_mm in include/linux/sched.h. Following Martin's suggestion, s390_enable_sie() does now call task_lock() to prevent race against ptrace modification of mm_users. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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18-Apr-2008 |
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> |
[POWERPC] Add thread_info_cache_init() weak hook Some architectures need to maintain a kmem cache for thread info structures. The next commit adds that to powerpc to fix an alignment problem. There is no good arch callback to use to initialize that cache that I can find, so this adds a new one in the form of a weak function whose default is empty. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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19-Apr-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: fair-group: de-couple load-balancing from the rb-trees De-couple load-balancing from the rb-trees, so that I can change their organization. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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19-Apr-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: rt-group: optimize dequeue_rt_stack Now that the group hierarchy can have an arbitrary depth the O(n^2) nature of RT task dequeues will really hurt. Optimize this by providing space to store the tree path, so we can walk it the other way. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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19-Apr-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: fair-group: SMP-nice for group scheduling Implement SMP nice support for the full group hierarchy. On each load-balance action, compile a sched_domain wide view of the full task_group tree. We compute the domain wide view when walking down the hierarchy, and readjust the weights when walking back up. After collecting and readjusting the domain wide view, we try to balance the tasks within the task_groups. The current approach is a naively balance each task group until we've moved the targeted amount of load. Inspired by Srivatsa Vaddsgiri's previous code and Abhishek Chandra's H-SMP paper. XXX: there will be some numerical issues due to the limited nature of SCHED_LOAD_SCALE wrt to representing a task_groups influence on the total weight. When the tree is deep enough, or the task weight small enough, we'll run out of bits. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> CC: Abhishek Chandra <chandra@cs.umn.edu> CC: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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14-Apr-2008 |
Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> |
sched, cpuset: customize sched domains, core [rebased for sched-devel/latest] - Add a new cpuset file, having levels: sched_relax_domain_level - Modify partition_sched_domains() and build_sched_domains() to take attributes parameter passed from cpuset. - Fill newidle_idx for node domains which currently unused but might be required if sched_relax_domain_level become higher. - We can change the default level by boot option 'relax_domain_level='. Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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19-Apr-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: fix the task_group hierarchy for UID grouping UID grouping doesn't actually have a task_group representing the root of the task_group tree. Add one. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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19-Apr-2008 |
Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched: allow the group scheduler to have multiple levels This patch makes the group scheduler multi hierarchy aware. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: rt-parts and assorted fixes] Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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26-Mar-2008 |
Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> |
sched: add new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function Add a new function that accepts a pointer to the "newly allowed cpus" cpumask argument. int set_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p, const cpumask_t *new_mask) The current set_cpus_allowed() function is modified to use the above but this does not result in an ABI change. And with some compiler optimization help, it may not introduce any additional overhead. Additionally, to enforce the read only nature of the new_mask arg, the "const" property is migrated to sub-functions called by set_cpus_allowed. This silences compiler warnings. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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04-Apr-2008 |
Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> |
generic: reduce stack pressure in sched_affinity * Modify sched_affinity functions to pass cpumask_t variables by reference instead of by value. * Use new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function. Depends on: [sched-devel]: sched: add new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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19-Apr-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: rt-group: synchonised bandwidth period Various SMP balancing algorithms require that the bandwidth period run in sync. Possible improvements are moving the rt_bandwidth thing into root_domain and keeping a span per rt_bandwidth which marks throttled cpus. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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14-Mar-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: remove sysctl_sched_batch_wakeup_granularity it's unused. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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26-Feb-2008 |
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> |
include: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h None of these files use any of the functionality promised by asm/semaphore.h. It's possible that they (or some user of them) rely on it dragging in some unrelated header file, but I can't build all these files, so we'll have to fix any build failures as they come up. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
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22-Mar-2008 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
NOHZ: reevaluate idle sleep length after add_timer_on() add_timer_on() can add a timer on a CPU which is currently in a long idle sleep, but the timer wheel is not reevaluated by the nohz code on that CPU. So a timer can be delayed for quite a long time. This triggered a false positive in the clocksource watchdog code. To avoid this we need to wake up the idle CPU and enforce the reevaluation of the timer wheel for the next timer event. Add a function, which checks a given CPU for idle state, marks the idle task with NEED_RESCHED and sends a reschedule IPI to notify the other CPU of the change in the timer wheel. Call this function from add_timer_on(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: stable@kernel.org -- include/linux/sched.h | 6 ++++++ kernel/sched.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/timer.c | 10 +++++++++- 3 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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12-Mar-2008 |
Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> |
sched: add exported arch_reinit_sched_domains() to header file. Needed so it can be called from outside of sched.c. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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18-Mar-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: improve affine wakeups 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>
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29-Feb-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: retain vruntime 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>
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25-Feb-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: revert load_balance_monitor() changes 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>
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25-Feb-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
lockdep: increase MAX_LOCK_DEPTH Some code paths exceed the current max lock depth (XFS), so increase this limit a bit. I looked at making this a dynamic allocated array, but we should not advocate insane lock depths, so stay with this as long as it works... Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Feb-2008 |
Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> |
sched: add declaration of sched_tail to sched.h Avoids sparse warnings: kernel/sched.c:2170:17: warning: symbol 'schedule_tail' was not declared. Should it be static? Avoids the need for an external declaration in arch/um/process.c Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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13-Feb-2008 |
Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> |
include/linux: Remove all users of FASTCALL() macro FASTCALL() is always expanded to empty, remove it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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13-Feb-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: rt-group: make rt groups scheduling configurable Make the rt group scheduler compile time configurable. Keep it experimental for now. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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13-Feb-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: rt-group: interface Change the rt_ratio interface to rt_runtime_us, to match rt_period_us. This avoids picking a granularity for the ratio. Extend the /sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/ interface to allow setting the group's rt_runtime. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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08-Feb-2008 |
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> |
Get rid of the kill_pgrp_info() function There's only one caller left - the kill_pgrp one - so merge these two functions and forget the kill_pgrp_info one. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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08-Feb-2008 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
ITIMER_REAL: convert to use struct pid signal_struct->tsk points to the ->group_leader and thus we have the nasty code in de_thread() which has to change it and restart ->real_timer if the leader is changed. Use "struct pid *leader_pid" instead. This also allows us to kill now unneeded send_group_sig_info(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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08-Feb-2008 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
pid: Extend/Fix pid_vnr pid_vnr returns the user space pid with respect to the pid namespace the struct pid was allocated in. What we want before we return a pid to user space is the user space pid with respect to the pid namespace of current. pid_vnr is a very nice optimization but because it isn't quite what we want it is easy to use pid_vnr at times when we aren't certain the struct pid was allocated in our pid namespace. Currently this describes at least tiocgpgrp and tiocgsid in ttyio.c the parent process reported in the core dumps and the parent process in get_signal_to_deliver. So unless the performance impact is huge having an interface that does what we want instead of always what we want should be much more reliable and much less error prone. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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08-Feb-2008 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
teach set_special_pids() to use struct pid Change set_special_pids() to work with struct pid, not pid_t from global name space. This again speedups and imho cleanups the code, also a preparation for the next patch. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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07-Feb-2008 |
Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> |
Memory controller: accounting setup Basic setup routines, the mm_struct has a pointer to the cgroup that it belongs to and the the page has a page_cgroup associated with it. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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06-Feb-2008 |
Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> |
kernel/sys.c: get rid of expensive divides in groups_sort() groups_sort() can be quite long if user loads a large gid table. This is because GROUP_AT(group_info, some_integer) uses an integer divide. So having to do XXX thousand divides during one syscall can lead to very high latencies. (NGROUPS_MAX=65536) In the past (25 Mar 2006), an analog problem was found in groups_search() (commit d74beb9f33a5f16d2965f11b275e401f225c949d ) and at that time I changed some variables to unsigned int. I believe that a more generic fix is to make sure NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK is unsigned. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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04-Feb-2008 |
Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> |
capabilities: introduce per-process capability bounding set The capability bounding set is a set beyond which capabilities cannot grow. Currently cap_bset is per-system. It can be manipulated through sysctl, but only init can add capabilities. Root can remove capabilities. By default it includes all caps except CAP_SETPCAP. This patch makes the bounding set per-process when file capabilities are enabled. It is inherited at fork from parent. Noone can add elements, CAP_SETPCAP is required to remove them. One example use of this is to start a safer container. For instance, until device namespaces or per-container device whitelists are introduced, it is best to take CAP_MKNOD away from a container. The bounding set will not affect pP and pE immediately. It will only affect pP' and pE' after subsequent exec()s. It also does not affect pI, and exec() does not constrain pI'. So to really start a shell with no way of regain CAP_MKNOD, you would do prctl(PR_CAPBSET_DROP, CAP_MKNOD); cap_t cap = cap_get_proc(); cap_value_t caparray[1]; caparray[0] = CAP_MKNOD; cap_set_flag(cap, CAP_INHERITABLE, 1, caparray, CAP_DROP); cap_set_proc(cap); cap_free(cap); The following test program will get and set the bounding set (but not pI). For instance ./bset get (lists capabilities in bset) ./bset drop cap_net_raw (starts shell with new bset) (use capset, setuid binary, or binary with file capabilities to try to increase caps) ************************************************************ cap_bound.c ************************************************************ #include <sys/prctl.h> #include <linux/capability.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #ifndef PR_CAPBSET_READ #define PR_CAPBSET_READ 23 #endif #ifndef PR_CAPBSET_DROP #define PR_CAPBSET_DROP 24 #endif int usage(char *me) { printf("Usage: %s get\n", me); printf(" %s drop <capability>\n", me); return 1; } #define numcaps 32 char *captable[numcaps] = { "cap_chown", "cap_dac_override", "cap_dac_read_search", "cap_fowner", "cap_fsetid", "cap_kill", "cap_setgid", "cap_setuid", "cap_setpcap", "cap_linux_immutable", "cap_net_bind_service", "cap_net_broadcast", "cap_net_admin", "cap_net_raw", "cap_ipc_lock", "cap_ipc_owner", "cap_sys_module", "cap_sys_rawio", "cap_sys_chroot", "cap_sys_ptrace", "cap_sys_pacct", "cap_sys_admin", "cap_sys_boot", "cap_sys_nice", "cap_sys_resource", "cap_sys_time", "cap_sys_tty_config", "cap_mknod", "cap_lease", "cap_audit_write", "cap_audit_control", "cap_setfcap" }; int getbcap(void) { int comma=0; unsigned long i; int ret; printf("i know of %d capabilities\n", numcaps); printf("capability bounding set:"); for (i=0; i<numcaps; i++) { ret = prctl(PR_CAPBSET_READ, i); if (ret < 0) perror("prctl"); else if (ret==1) printf("%s%s", (comma++) ? ", " : " ", captable[i]); } printf("\n"); return 0; } int capdrop(char *str) { unsigned long i; int found=0; for (i=0; i<numcaps; i++) { if (strcmp(captable[i], str) == 0) { found=1; break; } } if (!found) return 1; if (prctl(PR_CAPBSET_DROP, i)) { perror("prctl"); return 1; } return 0; } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { if (argc<2) return usage(argv[0]); if (strcmp(argv[1], "get")==0) return getbcap(); if (strcmp(argv[1], "drop")!=0 || argc<3) return usage(argv[0]); if (capdrop(argv[2])) { printf("unknown capability\n"); return 1; } return execl("/bin/bash", "/bin/bash", NULL); } ************************************************************ [serue@us.ibm.com: fix typo] Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>a Signed-off-by: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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04-Feb-2008 |
Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> |
maps4: rework TASK_SIZE macros The following replaces the earlier patches sent. It should address David Rientjes's comments, and has been compile tested on all the architectures that it touches, save for parisc. For the /proc/<pid>/pagemap code[1], we need to able to query how much virtual address space a particular task has. The trick is that we do it through /proc and can't use TASK_SIZE since it references "current" on some arches. The process opening the /proc file might be a 32-bit process opening a 64-bit process's pagemap file. x86_64 already has a TASK_SIZE_OF() macro: #define TASK_SIZE_OF(child) ((test_tsk_thread_flag(child, TIF_IA32)) ? IA32_PAGE_OFFSET : TASK_SIZE64) I'd like to have that for other architectures. So, add it for all the architectures that actually use "current" in their TASK_SIZE. For the others, just add a quick #define in sched.h to use plain old TASK_SIZE. 1. http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/042407-kernel.html - MIPS portion from Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips build] Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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04-Feb-2008 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
exec: rework the group exit and fix the race with kill As Roland pointed out, we have the very old problem with exec. de_thread() sets SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT, kills other threads, changes ->group_leader and then clears signal->flags. All signals (even fatal ones) sent in this window (which is not too small) will be lost. With this patch exec doesn't abuse SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT. signal_group_exit(), the new helper, should be used to detect exit_group() or exec() in progress. It can have more users, but this patch does only strictly necessary changes. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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04-Feb-2008 |
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
get_task_comm(): return the result It was dumb to make get_task_comm() return void. Change it to return a pointer to the resulting output for caller convenience. Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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08-Jan-2008 |
Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> |
[AUDIT] add session id to audit messages In order to correlate audit records to an individual login add a session id. This is incremented every time a user logs in and is included in almost all messages which currently output the auid. The field is labeled ses= or oses= Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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10-Jan-2008 |
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
[PATCH] get rid of loginuid races Keeping loginuid in audit_context is racy and results in messier code. Taken to task_struct, out of the way of ->audit_context changes. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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30-Jan-2008 |
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> |
spinlock: lockbreak cleanup The break_lock data structure and code for spinlocks is quite nasty. Not only does it double the size of a spinlock but it changes locking to a potentially less optimal trylock. Put all of that under CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK, and introduce a __raw_spin_is_contended that uses the lock data itself to determine whether there are waiters on the lock, to be used if CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK is not set. Rename need_lockbreak to spin_needbreak, make it use spin_is_contended to decouple it from the spinlock implementation, and make it typesafe (rwlocks do not have any need_lockbreak sites -- why do they even get bloated up with that break_lock then?). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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24-Jan-2008 |
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> |
kernel: add CLONE_IO to specifically request sharing of IO contexts syslets (or other threads/processes that want io context sharing) can set this to enforce sharing of io context. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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24-Jan-2008 |
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> |
ioprio: move io priority from task_struct to io_context This is where it belongs and then it doesn't take up space for a process that doesn't do IO. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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25-Jan-2008 |
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> |
sched: keep total / count stats in addition to the max for Right now, the linux kernel (with scheduler statistics enabled) keeps track of the maximum time a process is waiting to be scheduled. While the maximum is a very useful metric, tracking average and total is equally useful (at least for latencytop) to figure out the accumulated effect of scheduler delays. The accumulated effect is important to judge the performance impact of scheduler tuning/behavior. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Jan-2008 |
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> |
sched, futex: detach sched.h and futex.h Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Jan-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
softlockup: fix signedness fix softlockup tunables signedness. mark tunables read-mostly. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Jan-2008 |
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> |
sched: latencytop support LatencyTOP kernel infrastructure; it measures latencies in the scheduler and tracks it system wide and per process. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Jan-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: rt throttling vs no_hz We need to teach no_hz about the rt throttling because its tick driven. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Jan-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: rt group scheduling Extend group scheduling to also cover the realtime classes. It uses the time limiting introduced by the previous patch to allow multiple realtime groups. The hard time limit is required to keep behaviour deterministic. The algorithms used make the realtime scheduler O(tg), linear scaling wrt the number of task groups. This is the worst case behaviour I can't seem to get out of, the avg. case of the algorithms can be improved, I focused on correctness and worst case. [ akpm@linux-foundation.org: move side-effects out of BUG_ON(). ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Jan-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: rt time limit Very simple time limit on the realtime scheduling classes. Allow the rq's realtime class to consume sched_rt_ratio of every sched_rt_period slice. If the class exceeds this quota the fair class will preempt the realtime class. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Jan-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: high-res preemption tick Use HR-timers (when available) to deliver an accurate preemption tick. The regular scheduler tick that runs at 1/HZ can be too coarse when nice level are used. The fairness system will still keep the cpu utilisation 'fair' by then delaying the task that got an excessive amount of CPU time but try to minimize this by delivering preemption points spot-on. The average frequency of this extra interrupt is sched_latency / nr_latency. Which need not be higher than 1/HZ, its just that the distribution within the sched_latency period is important. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Jan-2008 |
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> |
sched: do not do cond_resched() when CONFIG_PREEMPT Why do we even have cond_resched when real preemption is on? It seems to be a waste of space and time. remove cond_resched with CONFIG_PREEMPT on. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Jan-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: SCHED_FIFO/SCHED_RR watchdog timer Introduce a new rlimit that allows the user to set a runtime timeout on real-time tasks their slice. Once this limit is exceeded the task will receive SIGXCPU. So it measures runtime since the last sleep. Input and ideas by Thomas Gleixner and Lennart Poettering. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> CC: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de> CC: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> CC: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Jan-2008 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: sched_rt_entity Move the task_struct members specific to rt scheduling together. A future optimization could be to put sched_entity and sched_rt_entity into a union. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> CC: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Jan-2008 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
Preempt-RCU: implementation This patch implements a new version of RCU which allows its read-side critical sections to be preempted. It uses a set of counter pairs to keep track of the read-side critical sections and flips them when all tasks exit read-side critical section. The details of this implementation can be found in this paper - http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/OLSrtRCU.2006.08.11a.pdf and the article- http://lwn.net/Articles/253651/ This patch was developed as a part of the -rt kernel development and meant to provide better latencies when read-side critical sections of RCU don't disable preemption. As a consequence of keeping track of RCU readers, the readers have a slight overhead (optimizations in the paper). This implementation co-exists with the "classic" RCU implementations and can be switched to at compiler. Also includes RCU tracing summarized in debugfs. [ akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes on non-preempt architectures ] Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Jan-2008 |
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> |
sched: RT-balance, add new methods to sched_class Dmitry Adamushko found that the current implementation of the RT balancing code left out changes to the sched_setscheduler and rt_mutex_setprio. This patch addresses this issue by adding methods to the schedule classes to handle being switched out of (switched_from) and being switched into (switched_to) a sched_class. Also a method for changing of priorities is also added (prio_changed). This patch also removes some duplicate logic between rt_mutex_setprio and sched_setscheduler. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Jan-2008 |
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> |
sched: RT-balance, replace hooks with pre/post schedule and wakeup methods To make the main sched.c code more agnostic to the schedule classes. Instead of having specific hooks in the schedule code for the RT class balancing. They are replaced with a pre_schedule, post_schedule and task_wake_up methods. These methods may be used by any of the classes but currently, only the sched_rt class implements them. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Jan-2008 |
Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> |
sched: add sched-domain roots We add the notion of a root-domain which will be used later to rescope global variables to per-domain variables. Each exclusive cpuset essentially defines an island domain by fully partitioning the member cpus from any other cpuset. However, we currently still maintain some policy/state as global variables which transcend all cpusets. Consider, for instance, rt-overload state. Whenever a new exclusive cpuset is created, we also create a new root-domain object and move each cpu member to the root-domain's span. By default the system creates a single root-domain with all cpus as members (mimicking the global state we have today). We add some plumbing for storing class specific data in our root-domain. Whenever a RQ is switching root-domains (because of repartitioning) we give each sched_class the opportunity to remove any state from its old domain and add state to the new one. This logic doesn't have any clients yet but it will later in the series. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> CC: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> CC: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> CC: Simon Derr <simon.derr@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Jan-2008 |
Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> |
sched: de-SCHED_OTHER-ize the RT path The current wake-up code path tries to determine if it can optimize the wake-up to "this_cpu" by computing load calculations. The problem is that these calculations are only relevant to SCHED_OTHER tasks where load is king. For RT tasks, priority is king. So the load calculation is completely wasted bandwidth. Therefore, we create a new sched_class interface to help with pre-wakeup routing decisions and move the load calculation as a function of CFS task's class. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Jan-2008 |
Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> |
sched: add RT-balance cpu-weight Some RT tasks (particularly kthreads) are bound to one specific CPU. It is fairly common for two or more bound tasks to get queued up at the same time. Consider, for instance, softirq_timer and softirq_sched. A timer goes off in an ISR which schedules softirq_thread to run at RT50. Then the timer handler determines that it's time to smp-rebalance the system so it schedules softirq_sched to run. So we are in a situation where we have two RT50 tasks queued, and the system will go into rt-overload condition to request other CPUs for help. This causes two problems in the current code: 1) If a high-priority bound task and a low-priority unbounded task queue up behind the running task, we will fail to ever relocate the unbounded task because we terminate the search on the first unmovable task. 2) We spend precious futile cycles in the fast-path trying to pull overloaded tasks over. It is therefore optimial to strive to avoid the overhead all together if we can cheaply detect the condition before overload even occurs. This patch tries to achieve this optimization by utilizing the hamming weight of the task->cpus_allowed mask. A weight of 1 indicates that the task cannot be migrated. We will then utilize this information to skip non-migratable tasks and to eliminate uncessary rebalance attempts. We introduce a per-rq variable to count the number of migratable tasks that are currently running. We only go into overload if we have more than one rt task, AND at least one of them is migratable. In addition, we introduce a per-task variable to cache the cpus_allowed weight, since the hamming calculation is probably relatively expensive. We only update the cached value when the mask is updated which should be relatively infrequent, especially compared to scheduling frequency in the fast path. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Jan-2008 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
softlockup: automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks this patch extends the soft-lockup detector to automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks. Such hung tasks are printed the following way: ------------------> INFO: task prctl:3042 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message prctl D fd5e3793 0 3042 2997 f6050f38 00000046 00000001 fd5e3793 00000009 c06d8264 c06dae80 00000286 f6050f40 f6050f00 f7d34d90 f7d34fc8 c1e1be80 00000001 f6050000 00000000 f7e92d00 00000286 f6050f18 c0489d1a f6050f40 00006605 00000000 c0133a5b Call Trace: [<c04883a5>] schedule_timeout+0x6d/0x8b [<c04883d8>] schedule_timeout_uninterruptible+0x15/0x17 [<c0133a76>] msleep+0x10/0x16 [<c0138974>] sys_prctl+0x30/0x1e2 [<c0104c52>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0xa5 ======================= 2 locks held by prctl/3042: #0: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#5){--..}, at: [<c0197d11>] do_fsync+0x38/0x7a #1: (jbd_handle){--..}, at: [<c01ca3d2>] journal_start+0xc7/0xe9 <------------------ the current default timeout is 120 seconds. Such messages are printed up to 10 times per bootup. If the system has crashed already then the messages are not printed. if lockdep is enabled then all held locks are printed as well. this feature is a natural extension to the softlockup-detector (kernel locked up without scheduling) and to the NMI watchdog (kernel locked up with IRQs disabled). [ Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>: CPU hotplug fixes. ] [ Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: build warning fix. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
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25-Jan-2008 |
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched: group scheduler, fix fairness of cpu bandwidth allocation for task groups The current load balancing scheme isn't good enough for precise group fairness. For example: on a 8-cpu system, I created 3 groups as under: a = 8 tasks (cpu.shares = 1024) b = 4 tasks (cpu.shares = 1024) c = 3 tasks (cpu.shares = 1024) a, b and c are task groups that have equal weight. We would expect each of the groups to receive 33.33% of cpu bandwidth under a fair scheduler. This is what I get with the latest scheduler git tree: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Col1 | Col2 | Col3 | Col4 ------|---------|-------|------------------------------------------------------- a | 277.676 | 57.8% | 54.1% 54.1% 54.1% 54.2% 56.7% 62.2% 62.8% 64.5% b | 116.108 | 24.2% | 47.4% 48.1% 48.7% 49.3% c | 86.326 | 18.0% | 47.5% 47.9% 48.5% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Explanation of o/p: Col1 -> Group name Col2 -> Cumulative execution time (in seconds) received by all tasks of that group in a 60sec window across 8 cpus Col3 -> CPU bandwidth received by the group in the 60sec window, expressed in percentage. Col3 data is derived as: Col3 = 100 * Col2 / (NR_CPUS * 60) Col4 -> CPU bandwidth received by each individual task of the group. Col4 = 100 * cpu_time_recd_by_task / 60 [I can share the test case that produces a similar o/p if reqd] The deviation from desired group fairness is as below: a = +24.47% b = -9.13% c = -15.33% which is quite high. After the patch below is applied, here are the results: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Col1 | Col2 | Col3 | Col4 ------|---------|-------|------------------------------------------------------- a | 163.112 | 34.0% | 33.2% 33.4% 33.5% 33.5% 33.7% 34.4% 34.8% 35.3% b | 156.220 | 32.5% | 63.3% 64.5% 66.1% 66.5% c | 160.653 | 33.5% | 85.8% 90.6% 91.4% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deviation from desired group fairness is as below: a = +0.67% b = -0.83% c = +0.17% which is far better IMO. Most of other runs have yielded a deviation within +-2% at the most, which is good. Why do we see bad (group) fairness with current scheuler? ========================================================= Currently cpu's weight is just the summation of individual task weights. This can yield incorrect results. For ex: consider three groups as below on a 2-cpu system: CPU0 CPU1 --------------------------- A (10) B(5) C(5) --------------------------- Group A has 10 tasks, all on CPU0, Group B and C have 5 tasks each all of which are on CPU1. Each task has the same weight (NICE_0_LOAD = 1024). The current scheme would yield a cpu weight of 10240 (10*1024) for each cpu and the load balancer will think both CPUs are perfectly balanced and won't move around any tasks. This, however, would yield this bandwidth: A = 50% B = 25% C = 25% which is not the desired result. What's changing in the patch? ============================= - How cpu weights are calculated when CONFIF_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is defined (see below) - API Change - Two tunables introduced in sysfs (under SCHED_DEBUG) to control the frequency at which the load balance monitor thread runs. The basic change made in this patch is how cpu weight (rq->load.weight) is calculated. Its now calculated as the summation of group weights on a cpu, rather than summation of task weights. Weight exerted by a group on a cpu is dependent on the shares allocated to it and also the number of tasks the group has on that cpu compared to the total number of (runnable) tasks the group has in the system. Let, W(K,i) = Weight of group K on cpu i T(K,i) = Task load present in group K's cfs_rq on cpu i T(K) = Total task load of group K across various cpus S(K) = Shares allocated to group K NRCPUS = Number of online cpus in the scheduler domain to which group K is assigned. Then, W(K,i) = S(K) * NRCPUS * T(K,i) / T(K) A load balance monitor thread is created at bootup, which periodically runs and adjusts group's weight on each cpu. To avoid its overhead, two min/max tunables are introduced (under SCHED_DEBUG) to control the rate at which it runs. Fixes from: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> - don't start the load_balance_monitor when there is only a single cpu. - rename the kthread because its currently longer than TASK_COMM_LEN Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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02-Nov-2007 |
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> |
fix struct user_info export's sysfs interaction Clean up the use of ksets and kobjects. Kobjects are instances of objects (like struct user_info), ksets are collections of objects of a similar type (like the uids directory containing the user_info directories). So, use kobjects for the user_info directories, and a kset for the "uids" directory. On object cleanup, the final kobject_put() was missing. Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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10-Jan-2008 |
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> |
remove task_ppid_nr_ns task_ppid_nr_ns is called in three places. One of these should never have called it. In the other two, using it broke the existing semantics. This was presumably accidental. If the function had not been there, it would have been much more obvious to the eye that those patches were changing the behavior. We don't need this function. In task_state, the pid of the ptracer is not the ppid of the ptracer. In do_task_stat, ppid is the tgid of the real_parent, not its pid. I also moved the call outside of lock_task_sighand, since it doesn't need it. In sys_getppid, ppid is the tgid of the real_parent, not its pid. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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06-Dec-2007 |
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> |
Add schedule_timeout_killable Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
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06-Dec-2007 |
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> |
Add fatal_signal_pending Like signal_pending, but it's only true for signals which are fatal to this process Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
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06-Dec-2007 |
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> |
Add TASK_WAKEKILL Set TASK_WAKEKILL for TASK_STOPPED and TASK_TRACED, add TASK_KILLABLE and use TASK_WAKEKILL in signal_wake_up() Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
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06-Dec-2007 |
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> |
Add macros to replace direct uses of TASK_ flags With the changes to support TASK_KILLABLE, ->state becomes a bitmask, and moving these tests to convenience macros will fix all the users. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
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28-Nov-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: clean up, move __sched_text_start/end to sched.h move __sched_text_start/end to sched.h. No code changed: text data bss dec hex filename 26582 2310 28 28920 70f8 sched.o.before 26582 2310 28 28920 70f8 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Nov-2007 |
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> |
sched: proper prototype for kernel/sched.c:migration_init() This patch adds a proper prototype for migration_init() in include/linux/sched.h Since there's no point in always returning 0 to a caller that doesn't check the return value it also changes the function to return void. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Nov-2007 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: avoid large irq-latencies in smp-balancing SMP balancing is done with IRQs disabled and can iterate the full rq. When rqs are large this can cause large irq-latencies. Limit the nr of iterations on each run. This fixes a scheduling latency regression reported by the -rt folks. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Tested-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Nov-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: remove PREEMPT_RESTRICT remove PREEMPT_RESTRICT. (this is a separate commit so that any regression related to the removal itself is bisectable) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Nov-2007 |
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> |
sched: restore deterministic CPU accounting on powerpc Since powerpc started using CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS, the deterministic CPU accounting (CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING) has been broken on powerpc, because we end up counting user time twice: once in timer_interrupt() and once in update_process_times(). This fixes the problem by pulling the code in update_process_times that updates utime and stime into a separate function called account_process_tick. If CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is not defined, there is a version of account_process_tick in kernel/timer.c that simply accounts a whole tick to either utime or stime as before. If CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is defined, then arch code gets to implement account_process_tick. This also lets us simplify the s390 code a bit; it means that the s390 timer interrupt can now call update_process_times even when CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is turned on, and can just implement a suitable account_process_tick(). account_process_tick() now takes the task_struct * as an argument. Tested both with and without CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Nov-2007 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: reintroduce the sched_min_granularity tunable we lost the sched_min_granularity tunable to a clever optimization that uses the sched_latency/min_granularity ratio - but the ratio is quite unintuitive to users and can also crash the kernel if the ratio is set to 0. So reintroduce the min_granularity tunable, while keeping the ratio maintained internally. no functionality changed. [ mingo@elte.hu: some fixlets. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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29-Oct-2007 |
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched: fix /proc/<PID>/stat stime/utime monotonicity, part 2 Extend Peter's patch to fix accounting issues, by keeping stime monotonic too. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
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29-Oct-2007 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: keep utime/stime monotonic keep utime/stime monotonic. cpustats use utime/stime as a ratio against sum_exec_runtime, as a consequence it can happen - when the ratio changes faster than time accumulates - that either can be appear to go backwards. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Oct-2007 |
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> |
De-constify sched.h [PATCH] De-constify sched.h This reverts commit a8972ccf00b7184a743eb6cd9bc7f3443357910c ("sched: constify sched.h") 1) Patch doesn't change any code here, so gcc is already smart enough to "feel" constness in such simple functions. 2) There is no such thing as const task_struct. Anyone who think otherwise deserves compiler warning. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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24-Oct-2007 |
Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> |
sched: isolate SMP balancing code a bit more At the moment, a lot of load balancing code that is irrelevant to non SMP systems gets included during non SMP builds. This patch addresses this issue and reduces the binary size on non SMP systems: text data bss dec hex filename 10983 28 1192 12203 2fab sched.o.before 10739 28 1192 11959 2eb7 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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24-Oct-2007 |
Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> |
sched: reduce balance-tasks overhead At the moment, balance_tasks() provides low level functionality for both move_tasks() and move_one_task() (indirectly) via the load_balance() function (in the sched_class interface) which also provides dual functionality. This dual functionality complicates the interfaces and internal mechanisms and makes the run time overhead of operations that are called with two run queue locks held. This patch addresses this issue and reduces the overhead of these operations. Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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24-Oct-2007 |
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> |
sched: constify sched.h Add const to some struct task_struct * uses Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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19-Oct-2007 |
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> |
Isolate the explicit usage of signal->pgrp The pgrp field is not used widely around the kernel so it is now marked as deprecated with appropriate comment. The initialization of INIT_SIGNALS is trimmed because a) they are set to 0 automatically; b) gcc cannot properly initialize two anonymous (the second one is the one with the session) unions. In this particular case to make it compile we'd have to add some field initialized right before the .pgrp. This is the same patch as the 1ec320afdc9552c92191d5f89fcd1ebe588334ca one (from Cedric), but for the pgrp field. Some progress report: We have to deprecate the pid, tgid, session and pgrp fields on struct task_struct and struct signal_struct. The session and pgrp are already deprecated. The tgid value is close to being such - the worst known usage in in fs/locks.c and audit code. The pid field deprecation is mainly blocked by numerous printk-s around the kernel that print the tsk->pid to log. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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19-Oct-2007 |
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> |
cpuset sched_load_balance flag Add a new per-cpuset flag called 'sched_load_balance'. When enabled in a cpuset (the default value) it tells the kernel scheduler that the scheduler should provide the normal load balancing on the CPUs in that cpuset, sometimes moving tasks from one CPU to a second CPU if the second CPU is less loaded and if that task is allowed to run there. When disabled (write "0" to the file) then it tells the kernel scheduler that load balancing is not required for the CPUs in that cpuset. Now even if this flag is disabled for some cpuset, the kernel may still have to load balance some or all the CPUs in that cpuset, if some overlapping cpuset has its sched_load_balance flag enabled. If there are some CPUs that are not in any cpuset whose sched_load_balance flag is enabled, the kernel scheduler will not load balance tasks to those CPUs. Moreover the kernel will partition the 'sched domains' (non-overlapping sets of CPUs over which load balancing is attempted) into the finest granularity partition that it can find, while still keeping any two CPUs that are in the same shed_load_balance enabled cpuset in the same element of the partition. This serves two purposes: 1) It provides a mechanism for real time isolation of some CPUs, and 2) it can be used to improve performance on systems with many CPUs by supporting configurations in which load balancing is not done across all CPUs at once, but rather only done in several smaller disjoint sets of CPUs. This mechanism replaces the earlier overloading of the per-cpuset flag 'cpu_exclusive', which overloading was removed in an earlier patch: cpuset-remove-sched-domain-hooks-from-cpusets See further the Documentation and comments in the code itself. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't be weird] Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 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>
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19-Oct-2007 |
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> |
Uninline the task_xid_nr_ns() calls Since these are expanded into call to pid_nr_ns() anyway, it's OK to move the whole routine out-of-line. This is a cheap way to save ~100 bytes from vmlinux. Together with the previous two patches, it saves half-a-kilo from the vmlinux. Un-inline other (currently inlined) functions must be done with additional performance testing. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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19-Oct-2007 |
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> |
Isolate some explicit usage of task->tgid With pid namespaces this field is now dangerous to use explicitly, so hide it behind the helpers. Also the pid and pgrp fields o task_struct and signal_struct are to be deprecated. Unfortunately this patch cannot be sent right now as this leads to tons of warnings, so start isolating them, and deprecate later. Actually the p->tgid == pid has to be changed to has_group_leader_pid(), but Oleg pointed out that in case of posix cpu timers this is the same, and thread_group_leader() is more preferable. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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19-Oct-2007 |
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> |
Uninline find_task_by_xxx set of functions The find_task_by_something is a set of macros are used to find task by pid depending on what kind of pid is proposed - global or virtual one. All of them are wrappers above the most generic one - find_task_by_pid_type_ns() - and just substitute some args for it. It turned out, that dereferencing the current->nsproxy->pid_ns construction and pushing one more argument on the stack inline cause kernel text size to grow. This patch moves all this stuff out-of-line into kernel/pid.c. Together with the next patch it saves a bit less than 400 bytes from the .text section. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> 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>
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19-Oct-2007 |
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> |
pid namespaces: allow cloning of new namespace When clone() is invoked with CLONE_NEWPID, create a new pid namespace and then create a new struct pid for the new process. Allocate pid_t's for the new process in the new pid namespace and all ancestor pid namespaces. Make the newly cloned process the session and process group leader. Since the active pid namespace is special and expected to be the first entry in pid->upid_list, preserve the order of pid namespaces. The size of 'struct pid' is dependent on the the number of pid namespaces the process exists in, so we use multiple pid-caches'. Only one pid cache is created during system startup and this used by processes that exist only in init_pid_ns. When a process clones its pid namespace, we create additional pid caches as necessary and use the pid cache to allocate 'struct pids' for that depth. Note, that with this patch the newly created namespace won't work, since the rest of the kernel still uses global pids, but this is to be fixed soon. Init pid namespace still works. [oleg@tv-sign.ru: merge fix] Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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19-Oct-2007 |
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> |
pid namespaces: miscellaneous preparations for pid namespaces * remove pid.h from pid_namespaces.h; * rework is_(cgroup|global)_init; * optimize (get|put)_pid_ns for init_pid_ns; * declare task_child_reaper to return actual reaper. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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19-Oct-2007 |
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> |
pid namespaces: helpers to find the task by its numerical ids When searching the task by numerical id on may need to find it using global pid (as it is done now in kernel) or by its virtual id, e.g. when sending a signal to a task from one namespace the sender will specify the task's virtual id and we should find the task by this value. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix gfs2 linkage] Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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19-Oct-2007 |
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> |
pid namespaces: helpers to obtain pid numbers When showing pid to user or getting the pid numerical id for in-kernel use the value of this id may differ depending on the namespace. This set of helpers is used to get the global pid nr, the virtual (i.e. seen by task in its namespace) nr and the nr as it is seen from the specified namespace. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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19-Oct-2007 |
Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> |
pid namespaces: define is_global_init() and is_container_init() is_init() is an ambiguous name for the pid==1 check. Split it into is_global_init() and is_container_init(). A cgroup init has it's tsk->pid == 1. A global init also has it's tsk->pid == 1 and it's active pid namespace is the init_pid_ns. But rather than check the active pid namespace, compare the task structure with 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper', which is initialized during boot to the /sbin/init process and never changes. Changelog: 2.6.22-rc4-mm2-pidns1: - Use 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper' to determine if a given task is the global init (/sbin/init) process. This would improve performance and remove dependence on the task_pid(). 2.6.21-mm2-pidns2: - [Sukadev Bhattiprolu] Changed is_container_init() calls in {powerpc, ppc,avr32}/traps.c for the _exception() call to is_global_init(). This way, we kill only the cgroup if the cgroup's init has a bug rather than force a kernel panic. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment] [sukadev@us.ibm.com: Use is_global_init() in arch/m32r/mm/fault.c] [bunk@stusta.de: kernel/pid.c: remove unused exports] [sukadev@us.ibm.com: Fix capability.c to work with threaded init] Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzel <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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19-Oct-2007 |
Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> |
pid namespaces: round up the API The set of functions process_session, task_session, process_group and task_pgrp is confusing, as the names can be mixed with each other when looking at the code for a long time. The proposals are to * equip the functions that return the integer with _nr suffix to represent that fact, * and to make all functions work with task (not process) by making the common prefix of the same name. For monotony the routines signal_session() and set_signal_session() are replaced with task_session_nr() and set_task_session(), especially since they are only used with the explicit task->signal dereference. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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19-Oct-2007 |
Paul Menage <menage@google.com> |
Task Control Groups: make cpusets a client of cgroups Remove the filesystem support logic from the cpusets system and makes cpusets a cgroup subsystem The "cpuset" filesystem becomes a dummy filesystem; attempts to mount it get passed through to the cgroup filesystem with the appropriate options to emulate the old cpuset filesystem behaviour. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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19-Oct-2007 |
Paul Menage <menage@google.com> |
Task Control Groups: shared cgroup subsystem group arrays Replace the struct css_set embedded in task_struct with a pointer; all tasks that have the same set of memberships across all hierarchies will share a css_set object, and will be linked via their css_sets field to the "tasks" list_head in the css_set. Assuming that many tasks share the same cgroup assignments, this reduces overall space usage and keeps the size of the task_struct down (three pointers added to task_struct compared to a non-cgroups kernel, no matter how many subsystems are registered). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix a printk] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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19-Oct-2007 |
Paul Menage <menage@google.com> |
Task Control Groups: basic task cgroup framework Generic Process Control Groups -------------------------- There have recently been various proposals floating around for resource management/accounting and other task grouping subsystems in the kernel, including ResGroups, User BeanCounters, NSProxy cgroups, and others. These all need the basic abstraction of being able to group together multiple processes in an aggregate, in order to track/limit the resources permitted to those processes, or control other behaviour of the processes, and all implement this grouping in different ways. This patchset provides a framework for tracking and grouping processes into arbitrary "cgroups" and assigning arbitrary state to those groupings, in order to control the behaviour of the cgroup as an aggregate. The intention is that the various resource management and virtualization/cgroup efforts can also become task cgroup clients, with the result that: - the userspace APIs are (somewhat) normalised - it's easier to test e.g. the ResGroups CPU controller in conjunction with the BeanCounters memory controller, or use either of them as the resource-control portion of a virtual server system. - the additional kernel footprint of any of the competing resource management systems is substantially reduced, since it doesn't need to provide process grouping/containment, hence improving their chances of getting into the kernel This patch: Add the main task cgroups framework - the cgroup filesystem, and the basic structures for tracking membership and associating subsystem state objects to tasks. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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18-Oct-2007 |
Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> |
Add scaled time to taskstats based process accounting This adds items to the taststats struct to account for user and system time based on scaling the CPU frequency and instruction issue rates. Adds account_(user|system)_time_scaled callbacks which architectures can use to account for time using this mechanism. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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18-Oct-2007 |
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> |
Remove struct task_struct::io_wait Hell knows what happened in commit 63b05203af57e7de4f3bb63b8b81d43bc196d32b during 2.6.9 development. Commit introduced io_wait field which remained write-only than and still remains write-only. Also garbage collect macros which "use" io_wait. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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18-Oct-2007 |
Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> |
sched: reduce schedstat variable overhead a bit schedstat is useful in investigating CPU scheduler behavior. Ideally, I think it is beneficial to have it on all the time. However, the cost of turning it on in production system is quite high, largely due to number of events it collects and also due to its large memory footprint. Most of the fields probably don't need to be full 64-bit on 64-bit arch. Rolling over 4 billion events will most like take a long time and user space tool can be made to accommodate that. I'm proposing kernel to cut back most of variable width on 64-bit system. (note, the following patch doesn't affect 32-bit system). Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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17-Oct-2007 |
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> |
ifdef struct task_struct::security For those who don't care about CONFIG_SECURITY. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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17-Oct-2007 |
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> |
task_struct: move ->fpu_counter and ->oomkilladj There is nice 2 byte hole after struct task_struct::ioprio field into which we can put two 1-byte fields: ->fpu_counter and ->oomkilladj. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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17-Oct-2007 |
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> |
user.c: #ifdef ->mq_bytes For those who deselect POSIX message queues. Reduces SLAB size of user_struct from 64 to 32 bytes here, SLUB size -- from 40 bytes to 32 bytes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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17-Oct-2007 |
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> |
Shrink task_struct if CONFIG_FUTEX=n robust_list, compat_robust_list, pi_state_list, pi_state_cache are really used if futexes are on. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> 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>
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17-Oct-2007 |
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> |
Shrink struct task_struct::oomkilladj oomkilladj is int, but values which can be assigned to it are -17, [-16, 15], thus fitting into s8. While patch itself doesn't help in making task_struct smaller, because of natural alignment of ->link_count, it will make picture clearer wrt futher task_struct reduction patches. My plan is to move ->fpu_counter and ->oomkilladj after ->ioprio filling hole on i386 and x86_64. But that's for later, because bloated distro configs need looking at as well. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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17-Oct-2007 |
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> |
Add MMF_DUMP_ELF_HEADERS This adds the MMF_DUMP_ELF_HEADERS option to /proc/pid/coredump_filter. This dumps the first page (only) of a private file mapping if it appears to be a mapping of an ELF file. Including these pages in the core dump may give sufficient identifying information to associate the original DSO and executable file images and their debugging information with a core file in a generic way just from its contents (e.g. when those binaries were built with ld --build-id). I expect this to become the default behavior eventually. Existing versions of gdb can be confused by the core dumps it creates, so it won't enabled by default for some time to come. Soon many people will have systems with a gdb that handle these dumps, so they can arrange to set the bit at boot and have it inherited system-wide. This also cleans up the checking of the MMF_DUMP_* flag bits, which did not need to be using atomic macros. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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17-Oct-2007 |
Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> |
softlockup: add a /proc tuning parameter Control the trigger limit for softlockup warnings. This is useful for debugging softlockups, by lowering the softlockup_thresh to identify possible softlockups earlier. This patch: 1. Adds a sysctl softlockup_thresh with valid values of 1-60s (Higher value to disable false positives) 2. Changes the softlockup printk to print the cpu softlockup time [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Fix various warnings and add definition of "two"] Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> 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>
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17-Oct-2007 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
mm: dirty balancing for tasks Based on ideas of Andrew: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=102912915020543&w=2 Scale the bdi dirty limit inversly with the tasks dirty rate. This makes heavy writers have a lower dirty limit than the occasional writer. Andrea proposed something similar: http://lwn.net/Articles/152277/ The main disadvantage to his patch is that he uses an unrelated quantity to measure time, which leaves him with a workload dependant tunable. Other than that the two approaches appear quite similar. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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17-Oct-2007 |
Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched: fix !SYSFS build breakage When CONFIG_SYSFS is not set, CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED fails to build with kernel/built-in.o: In function `uids_kobject_init': (.init.text+0x1488): undefined reference to `kernel_subsys' kernel/built-in.o: In function `uids_kobject_init': (.init.text+0x1490): undefined reference to `kernel_subsys' kernel/built-in.o: In function `uids_kobject_init': (.init.text+0x1480): undefined reference to `kernel_subsys' kernel/built-in.o: In function `uids_kobject_init': (.init.text+0x1494): undefined reference to `kernel_subsys' This patch fixes this build error. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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16-Oct-2007 |
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> |
cpuset: remove sched domain hooks from cpusets Remove the cpuset hooks that defined sched domains depending on the setting of the 'cpu_exclusive' flag. The cpu_exclusive flag can only be set on a child if it is set on the parent. This made that flag painfully unsuitable for use as a flag defining a partitioning of a system. It was entirely unobvious to a cpuset user what partitioning of sched domains they would be causing when they set that one cpu_exclusive bit on one cpuset, because it depended on what CPUs were in the remainder of that cpusets siblings and child cpusets, after subtracting out other cpu_exclusive cpusets. Furthermore, there was no way on production systems to query the result. Using the cpu_exclusive flag for this was simply wrong from the get go. Fortunately, it was sufficiently borked that so far as I know, almost no successful use has been made of this. One real time group did use it to affectively isolate CPUs from any load balancing efforts. They are willing to adapt to alternative mechanisms for this, such as someway to manipulate the list of isolated CPUs on a running system. They can do without this present cpu_exclusive based mechanism while we develop an alternative. There is a real risk, to the best of my understanding, of users accidentally setting up a partitioned scheduler domains, inhibiting desired load balancing across all their CPUs, due to the nonobvious (from the cpuset perspective) side affects of the cpu_exclusive flag. Furthermore, since there was no way on a running system to see what one was doing with sched domains, this change will be invisible to any using code. Unless they have real insight to the scheduler load balancing choices, they will be unable to detect that this change has been made in the kernel's behaviour. Initial discussion on lkml of this patch has generated much comment. My (probably controversial) take on that discussion is that it has reached a rough concensus that the current cpuset cpu_exclusive mechanism for defining sched domains is borked. There is no concensus on the replacement. But since we can remove this mechanism, and since its continued presence risks causing unwanted partitioning of the schedulers load balancing, we should remove it while we can, as we proceed to work the replacement scheduler domain mechanisms. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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16-Oct-2007 |
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> |
move mm_struct and vm_area_struct Move the definitions of struct mm_struct and struct vma_area_struct to include/mm_types.h. This allows to define more function in asm/pgtable.h and friends with inline assemblies instead of macros. Compile tested on i386, powerpc, powerpc64, s390-32, s390-64 and x86_64. [aurelien@aurel32.net: build fix] Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net> |
sched: guest CPU accounting: maintain stats in account_system_time() modify account_system_time() to add cputime to cpustat->guest if we are running a VCPU. We add this cputime to cpustat->user instead of cpustat->system because this part of KVM code is in fact user code although it is executed in the kernel. We duplicate VCPU time between guest and user to allow an unmodified "top(1)" to display correct value. A modified "top(1)" is able to display good cpu user time and cpu guest time by subtracting cpu guest time from cpu user time. Update "gtime" in task_struct accordingly. Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net> Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net> |
sched: guest CPU accounting: add guest-CPU /proc/<pid>/stat fields like for cpustat, introduce the "gtime" (guest time of the task) and "cgtime" (guest time of the task children) fields for the tasks. Modify signal_struct and task_struct. Modify /proc/<pid>/stat to display these new fields. Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net> Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: debug, improve migration statistics add new migration statistics when SCHED_DEBUG and SCHEDSTATS is enabled. Available in /proc/<PID>/sched. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: reintroduce cache-hot affinity reintroduce a simplified version of cache-hot/cold scheduling affinity. This improves performance with certain SMP workloads, such as sysbench. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> |
sched: prevent wakeup over-scheduling Prevent wakeup over-scheduling. Once a task has been preempted by a task of the same or lower priority, it becomes ineligible for repeated preemption by same until it has been ticked, or slept. Instead, the task is marked for preemption at the next tick. Tasks of higher priority still preempt immediately. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched: group scheduling, sysfs tunables Add tunables in sysfs to modify a user's cpu share. A directory is created in sysfs for each new user in the system. /sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/cpu_share Reading this file returns the cpu shares granted for the user. Writing into this file modifies the cpu share for the user. Only an administrator is allowed to modify a user's cpu share. Ex: # cd /sys/kernel/uids/ # cat 512/cpu_share 1024 # echo 2048 > 512/cpu_share # cat 512/cpu_share 2048 # Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: cleanup: rename task_grp to task_group cleanup: rename task_grp to task_group. No need to save two characters and 'grp' is annoying to read. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> |
sched: cleanup, remove the TASK_NONINTERACTIVE flag Here's another piece of low hanging obsolete fruit. Remove obsolete TASK_NONINTERACTIVE. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: mark scheduling classes as const mark scheduling classes as const. The speeds up the code a bit and shrinks it: text data bss dec hex filename 40027 4018 292 44337 ad31 sched.o.before 40190 3842 292 44324 ad24 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: speed up and simplify vslice calculations speed up and simplify vslice calculations. [ From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>: build fix ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: clean up schedstats, cnt -> count rename all 'cnt' fields and variables to the less yucky 'count' name. yuckage noticed by Andrew Morton. no change in code, other than the /proc/sched_debug bkl_count string got a bit larger: text data bss dec hex filename 38236 3506 24 41766 a326 sched.o.before 38240 3506 24 41770 a32a sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: undo some of the recent changes undo some of the recent changes that are not needed after all, such as last_min_vruntime. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: add vslice add vslice: the load-dependent "virtual slice" a task should run ideally, so that the observed latency stays within the sched_latency window. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: remove unneeded tunables remove unneeded tunables. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched debug: BKL usage statistics add per task and per rq BKL usage statistics. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched: add fair-user scheduler Enable user-id based fair group scheduling. This is useful for anyone who wants to test the group scheduler w/o having to enable CONFIG_CGROUPS. A separate scheduling group (i.e struct task_grp) is automatically created for every new user added to the system. Upon uid change for a task, it is made to move to the corresponding scheduling group. A /proc tunable (/proc/root_user_share) is also provided to tune root user's quota of cpu bandwidth. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched: clean up code under CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED With the view of supporting user-id based fair scheduling (and not just container-based fair scheduling), this patch renames several functions and makes them independent of whether they are being used for container or user-id based fair scheduling. Also fix a problem reported by KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki (wrt allocating less-sized array for tg->cfs_rq[] and tf->se[]). Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched: revert recent removal of set_curr_task() Revert removal of set_curr_task. Use put_prev_task/set_curr_task when changing groups/policies Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri < vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> |
sched: rework enqueue/dequeue_entity() to get rid of set_curr_task() rework enqueue/dequeue_entity() to get rid of sched_class::set_curr_task(). This simplifies sched_setscheduler(), rt_mutex_setprio() and sched_move_tasks(). text data bss dec hex filename 24330 2734 20 27084 69cc sched.o.before 24233 2730 20 26983 6967 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> |
sched: simplify sched_class::yield_task() the 'p' (task_struct) parameter in the sched_class :: yield_task() is redundant as the caller is always the 'current'. Get rid of it. text data bss dec hex filename 24341 2734 20 27095 69d7 sched.o.before 24330 2734 20 27084 69cc sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> |
sched: do not keep current in the tree and get rid of sched_entity::fair_key Get rid of 'sched_entity::fair_key'. As a side effect, 'current' is not kept withing the tree for SCHED_NORMAL/BATCH tasks anymore. This simplifies some parts of code (e.g. entity_tick() and yield_task_fair()) and also somewhat optimizes them (e.g. a single update_curr() now vs. dequeue/enqueue() before in entity_tick()). Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: remove wait_runtime fields and features remove wait_runtime based fields and features, now that the CFS math has been changed over to the vruntime metric. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: remove wait_runtime limit remove the wait_runtime-limit fields and the code depending on it, now that the math has been changed over to rely on the vruntime metric. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: introduce se->vruntime introduce se->vruntime as a sum of weighted delta-exec's, and use that as the key into the tree. the idea to use absolute virtual time as the basic metric of scheduling has been first raised by William Lee Irwin, advanced by Tong Li and first prototyped by Roman Zippel in the "Really Fair Scheduler" (RFS) patchset. also see: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/2/76 for a simpler variant of this patch. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: remove stat_gran remove the stat_gran code - it was disabled by default and it causes unnecessary overhead. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: use constants if !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG use constants if !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG. this speeds up the code and reduces code-size: text data bss dec hex filename 27464 3014 16 30494 771e sched.o.before 26929 3010 20 29959 7507 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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15-Oct-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: debug: track maximum 'slice' track the maximum amount of time a task has executed while the CPU load was at least 2x. (i.e. at least two nice-0 tasks were runnable) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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27-Sep-2007 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
[NETNS]: CLONE_NEWNET don't use the same clone flag as the pid namespace. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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26-Sep-2007 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
[NET]: Add network namespace clone & unshare support. This patch allows you to create a new network namespace using sys_clone, or sys_unshare. As the network namespace is still experimental and under development clone and unshare support is only made available when CONFIG_NET_NS is selected at compile time. As this patch introduces network namespace support into code paths that exist when the CONFIG_NET is not selected there are a few additions made to net_namespace.h to allow a few more functions to be used when the networking stack is not compiled in. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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07-Oct-2007 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> |
Don't do load-average calculations at even 5-second intervals It turns out that there are a few other five-second timers in the kernel, and if the timers get in sync, the load-average can get artificially inflated by events that just happen to coincide. So just offset the load average calculation it by a timer tick. Noticed by Anders Boström, for whom the coincidence started triggering on one of his machines with the JBD jiffies rounding code (JBD is one of the subsystems that also end up using a 5-second timer by default). Tested-by: Anders Boström <anders@bostrom.dyndns.org> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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20-Sep-2007 |
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> |
signalfd simplification This simplifies signalfd code, by avoiding it to remain attached to the sighand during its lifetime. In this way, the signalfd remain attached to the sighand only during poll(2) (and select and epoll) and read(2). This also allows to remove all the custom "tsk == current" checks in kernel/signal.c, since dequeue_signal() will only be called by "current". I think this is also what Ben was suggesting time ago. The external effect of this, is that a thread can extract only its own private signals and the group ones. I think this is an acceptable behaviour, in that those are the signals the thread would be able to fetch w/out signalfd. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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19-Sep-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_compat_yield add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_compat_yield to make sys_sched_yield() more agressive, by moving the yielding task to the last position in the rbtree. with sched_compat_yield=0: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2539 mingo 20 0 1576 252 204 R 50 0.0 0:02.03 loop_yield 2541 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 50 0.0 0:02.05 loop with sched_compat_yield=1: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2584 mingo 20 0 1576 248 196 R 99 0.0 0:52.45 loop 2582 mingo 20 0 1576 256 204 R 0 0.0 0:00.00 loop_yield Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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18-Sep-2007 |
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> |
Fix user namespace exiting OOPs It turned out, that the user namespace is released during the do_exit() in exit_task_namespaces(), but the struct user_struct is released only during the put_task_struct(), i.e. MUCH later. On debug kernels with poisoned slabs this will cause the oops in uid_hash_remove() because the head of the chain, which resides inside the struct user_namespace, will be already freed and poisoned. Since the uid hash itself is required only when someone can search it, i.e. when the namespace is alive, we can safely unhash all the user_struct-s from it during the namespace exiting. The subsequent free_uid() will complete the user_struct destruction. For example simple program #include <sched.h> char stack[2 * 1024 * 1024]; int f(void *foo) { return 0; } int main(void) { clone(f, stack + 1 * 1024 * 1024, 0x10000000, 0); return 0; } run on kernel with CONFIG_USER_NS turned on will oops the kernel immediately. This was spotted during OpenVZ kernel testing. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Acked-by: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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18-Sep-2007 |
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> |
Convert uid hash to hlist Surprisingly, but (spotted by Alexey Dobriyan) the uid hash still uses list_heads, thus occupying twice as much place as it could. Convert it to hlist_heads. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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27-Aug-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: make the scheduler converge to the ideal latency de-HZ-ification of the granularity defaults unearthed a pre-existing property of CFS: while it correctly converges to the granularity goal, it does not prevent run-time fluctuations in the range of [-gran ... 0 ... +gran]. With the increase of the granularity due to the removal of HZ dependencies, this becomes visible in chew-max output (with 5 tasks running): out: 28 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 9 . 13 | per: 37 . 40 out: 27 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 17 . 13 | per: 44 . 40 out: 27 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 9 . 13 | per: 36 . 40 out: 29 . 27. 32 | flu: 2 . 0 | ran: 17 . 13 | per: 46 . 40 out: 28 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 9 . 13 | per: 37 . 40 out: 29 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 18 . 13 | per: 47 . 40 out: 28 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 9 . 13 | per: 37 . 40 average slice is the ideal 13 msecs and the period is picture-perfect 40 msecs. But the 'ran' field fluctuates around 13.33 msecs and there's no mechanism in CFS to keep that from happening: it's a perfectly valid solution that CFS finds. to fix this we add a granularity/preemption rule that knows about the "target latency", which makes tasks that run longer than the ideal latency run a bit less. The simplest approach is to simply decrease the preemption granularity when a task overruns its ideal latency. For this we have to track how much the task executed since its last preemption. ( this adds a new field to task_struct, but we can eliminate that overhead in 2.6.24 by putting all the scheduler timestamps into an anonymous union. ) with this change in place, chew-max output is fluctuation-less all around: out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 2 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40 out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 2 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40 out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 2 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40 out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 2 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40 out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 1 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40 out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 1 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40 this patch has no impact on any fastpath or on any globally observable scheduling property. (unless you have sharp enough eyes to see millisecond-level ruckles in glxgears smoothness :-) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
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25-Aug-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: cleanup, sched_granularity -> sched_min_granularity due to adaptive granularity scheduling the role of sched_granularity has changed to "minimum granularity", so rename the variable (and the tunable) accordingly. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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25-Aug-2007 |
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
sched: adaptive scheduler granularity Instead of specifying the preemption granularity, specify the wanted latency. By fixing the granlarity to a constany the wakeup latency it a function of the number of running tasks on the rq. Invert this relation. sysctl_sched_granularity becomes a minimum for the dynamic granularity computed from the new sysctl_sched_latency. Then use this latency to do more intelligent granularity decisions: if there are fewer tasks running then we can schedule coarser. This helps performance while still always keeping the latency target. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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23-Aug-2007 |
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> |
sched: fix broken SMT/MC optimizations On a four package system with HT - HT load balancing optimizations were broken. For example, if two tasks end up running on two logical threads of one of the packages, scheduler is not able to pull one of the tasks to a completely idle package. In this scenario, for nice-0 tasks, imbalance calculated by scheduler will be 512 and find_busiest_queue() will return 0 (as each cpu's load is 1024 > imbalance and has only one task running). Similarly MC scheduler optimizations also get fixed with this patch. [ mingo@elte.hu: restored fair balancing by increasing the fuzz and adding it back to the power decision, without the /2 factor. ] Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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23-Aug-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: sched_clock_idle_[sleep|wakeup]_event() construct a more or less wall-clock time out of sched_clock(), by using ACPI-idle's existing knowledge about how much time we spent idling. This allows the rq clock to work around TSC-stops-in-C2, TSC-gets-corrupted-in-C3 type of problems. ( Besides the scheduler's statistics this also benefits blktrace and printk-timestamps as well. ) Furthermore, the precise before-C2/C3-sleep and after-C2/C3-wakeup callbacks allow the scheduler to get out the most of the period where the CPU has a reliable TSC. This results in slightly more precise task statistics. the ACPI bits were acked by Len. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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09-Aug-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->task_new() remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->task_new(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Aug-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->put_prev_task() remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->put_prev_task(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Aug-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->pick_next_task() remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->pick_next_task(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Aug-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->dequeue_task() remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->dequeue_task(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Aug-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->enqueue_task() remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->enqueue_task(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Aug-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from print_cfs_rq() remove the 'u64 now' parameter from print_cfs_rq(). ( identity transformation that causes no change in functionality. ) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Aug-2007 |
Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> |
sched: fix bug in balance_tasks() There are two problems with balance_tasks() and how it used: 1. The variables best_prio and best_prio_seen (inherited from the old move_tasks()) were only required to handle problems caused by the active/expired arrays, the order in which they were processed and the possibility that the task with the highest priority could be on either. These issues are no longer present and the extra overhead associated with their use is unnecessary (and possibly wrong). 2. In the absence of CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED being set, the same this_best_prio variable needs to be used by all scheduling classes or there is a risk of moving too much load. E.g. if the highest priority task on this at the beginning is a fairly low priority task and the rt class migrates a task (during its turn) then that moved task becomes the new highest priority task on this_rq but when the sched_fair class initializes its copy of this_best_prio it will get the priority of the original highest priority task as, due to the run queue locks being held, the reschedule triggered by pull_task() will not have taken place. This could result in inappropriate overriding of skip_for_load and excessive load being moved. The attached patch addresses these problems by deleting all reference to best_prio and best_prio_seen and making this_best_prio a reference parameter to the various functions involved. load_balance_fair() has also been modified so that this_best_prio is only reset (in the loop) if CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is set. This should preserve the effect of helping spread groups' higher priority tasks around the available CPUs while improving system performance when CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED isn't set. Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Aug-2007 |
Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> |
sched: simplify move_tasks() The move_tasks() function is currently multiplexed with two distinct capabilities: 1. attempt to move a specified amount of weighted load from one run queue to another; and 2. attempt to move a specified number of tasks from one run queue to another. The first of these capabilities is used in two places, load_balance() and load_balance_idle(), and in both of these cases the return value of move_tasks() is used purely to decide if tasks/load were moved and no notice of the actual number of tasks moved is taken. The second capability is used in exactly one place, active_load_balance(), to attempt to move exactly one task and, as before, the return value is only used as an indicator of success or failure. This multiplexing of sched_task() was introduced, by me, as part of the smpnice patches and was motivated by the fact that the alternative, one function to move specified load and one to move a single task, would have led to two functions of roughly the same complexity as the old move_tasks() (or the new balance_tasks()). However, the new modular design of the new CFS scheduler allows a simpler solution to be adopted and this patch addresses that solution by: 1. adding a new function, move_one_task(), to be used by active_load_balance(); and 2. making move_tasks() a single purpose function that tries to move a specified weighted load and returns 1 for success and 0 for failure. One of the consequences of these changes is that neither move_one_task() or the new move_tasks() care how many tasks sched_class.load_balance() moves and this enables its interface to be simplified by returning the amount of load moved as its result and removing the load_moved pointer from the argument list. This helps simplify the new move_tasks() and slightly reduces the amount of work done in each of sched_class.load_balance()'s implementations. Further simplification, e.g. changes to balance_tasks(), are possible but (slightly) complicated by the special needs of load_balance_fair() so I've left them to a later patch (if this one gets accepted). NB Since move_tasks() gets called with two run queue locks held even small reductions in overhead are worthwhile. [ mingo@elte.hu ] this change also reduces code size nicely: text data bss dec hex filename 39216 3618 24 42858 a76a sched.o.before 39173 3618 24 42815 a73f sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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02-Aug-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] sched: reduce task_struct size more task_struct size reduction, by moving the debugging/instrumentation fields to under CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS: (i386, nodebug): size ---- pre-CFS 1328 CFS 1472 CFS+patch 1376 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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02-Aug-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] sched: ->task_new cleanup make sched_class.task_new == NULL a 'default method', this allows the removal of task_rt_new. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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02-Aug-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] sched: remove cache_hot_time remove the last unused remains of cache_hot_time. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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26-Jul-2007 |
Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> |
[PATCH] sched: add above_background_load() function Add an above_background_load() function which can be used by other subsystems to detect if there is anything besides niced tasks running. Place it in sched.h to allow it to be compiled out if not used. Unused for now, but it is a useful hint to the IO scheduler and to swap-prefetch. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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26-Jul-2007 |
Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> |
[PATCH] sched: arch preempt notifier mechanism This adds a general mechanism whereby a task can request the scheduler to notify it whenever it is preempted or scheduled back in. This allows the task to swap any special-purpose registers like the fpu or Intel's VT registers. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> [ mingo@elte.hu: fixes, cleanups ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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26-Jul-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] sched: increase SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ increase SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ that adds a small amount of over-balancing: to help distribute CPU-bound tasks more fairly on SMP systems. the problem of unfair balancing was noticed and reported by Tong N Li. 10 CPU-bound tasks running on 8 CPUs, v2.6.23-rc1: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2572 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 100 0.0 1:03.61 loop 2578 mingo 20 0 1576 248 196 R 100 0.0 1:03.59 loop 2576 mingo 20 0 1576 248 196 R 100 0.0 1:03.52 loop 2571 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 100 0.0 1:03.46 loop 2569 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 99 0.0 1:03.36 loop 2570 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 95 0.0 1:00.55 loop 2577 mingo 20 0 1576 248 196 R 50 0.0 0:31.88 loop 2574 mingo 20 0 1576 248 196 R 50 0.0 0:31.87 loop 2573 mingo 20 0 1576 248 196 R 50 0.0 0:31.86 loop 2575 mingo 20 0 1576 248 196 R 50 0.0 0:31.86 loop v2.6.23-rc1 + patch: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2681 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 85 0.0 3:51.68 loop 2688 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 81 0.0 3:46.35 loop 2682 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 80 0.0 3:43.68 loop 2685 mingo 20 0 1576 248 196 R 80 0.0 3:45.97 loop 2683 mingo 20 0 1576 248 196 R 80 0.0 3:40.25 loop 2679 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 80 0.0 3:33.53 loop 2680 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 79 0.0 3:43.53 loop 2686 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 79 0.0 3:39.31 loop 2687 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 78 0.0 3:33.31 loop 2684 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 77 0.0 3:27.52 loop so they now nicely converge to the expected 80% long-term CPU usage. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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19-Jul-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] sched: implement cpu_clock(cpu) high-speed time source Implement the cpu_clock(cpu) interface for kernel-internal use: high-speed (but slightly incorrect) per-cpu clock constructed from sched_clock(). This API, unused at the moment, will be used in the future by blktrace, by the softlockup-watchdog, by printk and by lockstat. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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19-Jul-2007 |
Kawai, Hidehiro <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> |
coredump masking: add an interface for core dump filter This patch adds an interface to set/reset flags which determines each memory segment should be dumped or not when a core file is generated. /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter file is provided to access the flags. You can change the flag status for a particular process by writing to or reading from the file. The flag status is inherited to the child process when it is created. Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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19-Jul-2007 |
Kawai, Hidehiro <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> |
coredump masking: reimplementation of dumpable using two flags This patch changes mm_struct.dumpable to a pair of bit flags. set_dumpable() converts three-value dumpable to two flags and stores it into lower two bits of mm_struct.flags instead of mm_struct.dumpable. get_dumpable() behaves in the opposite way. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export set_dumpable] Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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16-Jul-2007 |
Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> |
user namespace: add unshare This patch enables the unshare of user namespaces. It adds a new clone flag CLONE_NEWUSER and implements copy_user_ns() which resets the current user_struct and adds a new root user (uid == 0) For now, unsharing the user namespace allows a process to reset its user_struct accounting and uid 0 in the new user namespace should be contained using appropriate means, for instance selinux The plan, when the full support is complete (all uid checks covered), is to keep the original user's rights in the original namespace, and let a process become uid 0 in the new namespace, with full capabilities to the new namespace. Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Acked-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Andrew Morgan <agm@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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16-Jul-2007 |
Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> |
user namespace: add the framework Basically, it will allow a process to unshare its user_struct table, resetting at the same time its own user_struct and all the associated accounting. A new root user (uid == 0) is added to the user namespace upon creation. Such root users have full privileges and it seems that theses privileges should be controlled through some means (process capabilities ?) The unshare is not included in this patch. Changes since [try #4]: - Updated get_user_ns and put_user_ns to accept NULL, and get_user_ns to return the namespace. Changes since [try #3]: - moved struct user_namespace to files user_namespace.{c,h} Changes since [try #2]: - removed struct user_namespace* argument from find_user() Changes since [try #1]: - removed struct user_namespace* argument from find_user() - added a root_user per user namespace Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Andrew Morgan <agm@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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16-Jul-2007 |
Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com> |
Audit: add TTY input auditing Add TTY input auditing, used to audit system administrator's actions. This is required by various security standards such as DCID 6/3 and PCI to provide non-repudiation of administrator's actions and to allow a review of past actions if the administrator seems to overstep their duties or if the system becomes misconfigured for unknown reasons. These requirements do not make it necessary to audit TTY output as well. Compared to an user-space keylogger, this approach records TTY input using the audit subsystem, correlated with other audit events, and it is completely transparent to the user-space application (e.g. the console ioctls still work). TTY input auditing works on a higher level than auditing all system calls within the session, which would produce an overwhelming amount of mostly useless audit events. Add an "audit_tty" attribute, inherited across fork (). Data read from TTYs by process with the attribute is sent to the audit subsystem by the kernel. The audit netlink interface is extended to allow modifying the audit_tty attribute, and to allow sending explanatory audit events from user-space (for example, a shell might send an event containing the final command, after the interactive command-line editing and history expansion is performed, which might be difficult to decipher from the TTY input alone). Because the "audit_tty" attribute is inherited across fork (), it would be set e.g. for sshd restarted within an audited session. To prevent this, the audit_tty attribute is cleared when a process with no open TTY file descriptors (e.g. after daemon startup) opens a TTY. See https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2007-June/msg00000.html for a more detailed rationale document for an older version of this patch. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Cc: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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16-Jul-2007 |
Tomas Janousek <tjanouse@redhat.com> |
Use boot based time for process start time and boot time in /proc Commit 411187fb05cd11676b0979d9fbf3291db69dbce2 caused boot time to move and process start times to become invalid after suspend. Using boot based time for those restores the old behaviour and fixes the issue. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: little cleanup] Signed-off-by: Tomas Janousek <tjanouse@redhat.com> Cc: Tomas Smetana <tsmetana@redhat.com> Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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09-Jul-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: micro-optimize mmdrop() micro-optimize mmdrop(). Improves schedule()'s assembly a bit. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Jul-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: scheduler debugging, core scheduler debugging core: implement /proc/sched_debug and /proc/<PID>/sched files for scheduler debugging. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Jul-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: remove old cpu accounting field remove the old cpu-accounting field from signal_struct, now that the code is using CFS's stats. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Jul-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: remove batch_task() batch_task() in sched.h is now unused - remove it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Jul-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: remove interactivity types from sched.h remove now-unused types/fields used by the old scheduler. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Jul-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: clean up fastcall uses of sched_fork()/sched_exit() sched_fork()/sched_exit() does not need to specify fastcall anymore, as the x86 kernel defaults to regparm3, and no assembly code calls these functions. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Jul-2007 |
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
sched: update delay-accounting to use CFS's precise stats update delay-accounting to use CFS's precise stats. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Jul-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: x86, track TSC-unstable events track TSC-unstable events and propagate it to the scheduler code. Also allow sched_clock() to be used when the TSC is unstable, the rq_clock() wrapper creates a reliable clock out of it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Jul-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: remove sleep_type remove the sleep_type heuristics from the core scheduler - scheduling policy is implemented in the scheduling-policy modules. (and CFS does not use this type of sleep-type heuristics) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Jul-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: clean up the rt priority macros clean up the rt priority macros, pointed out by Andrew Morton. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Jul-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: make posix-cpu-timers use CFS's accounting information update the posix-cpu-timers code to use CFS's CPU accounting information. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Jul-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: cfs, core data types add the CFS data types to sched.h. (the old scheduler is still fully intact.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Jul-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: cfs core, kernel/sched_fair.c add kernel/sched_fair.c - which implements the bulk of CFS's behavioral changes for SCHED_OTHER tasks. see Documentation/sched-design-CFS.txt about details. Authors: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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09-Jul-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: increase the resolution of smpnice increase SMP-nice's resolution. This is needed by CFS to implement SCHED_IDLE and cleaned up nice level support. no behavioral changes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Jul-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: add init_idle_bootup_task() add the init_idle_bootup_task() callback to the bootup thread, unused at the moment. (CFS will use it to switch the scheduling class of the boot thread to the idle class) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Jul-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: uninline set_task_cpu() uninline set_task_cpu(): CFS will add more code to it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Jul-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: zap the migration init / cache-hot balancing code the SMP load-balancer uses the boot-time migration-cost estimation code to attempt to improve the quality of balancing. The reason for this code is that the discrete priority queues do not preserve the order of scheduling accurately, so the load-balancer skips tasks that were running on a CPU 'recently'. this code is fundamental fragile: the boot-time migration cost detector doesnt really work on systems that had large L3 caches, it caused boot delays on large systems and the whole cache-hot concept made the balancing code pretty undeterministic as well. (and hey, i wrote most of it, so i can say it out loud that it sucks ;-) under CFS the same purpose of cache affinity can be achieved without any special cache-hot special-case: tasks are sorted in the 'timeline' tree and the SMP balancer picks tasks from the left side of the tree, thus the most cache-cold task is balanced automatically. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Jul-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: add SCHED_IDLE policy this patch adds the SCHED_IDLE policy to sched.h. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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09-Jul-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
sched: rename idle_type/SCHED_IDLE enum idle_type (used by the load-balancer) clashes with the SCHED_IDLE name that we want to introduce. 'CPU_IDLE' instead of 'SCHED_IDLE' is more descriptive as well. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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08-Jun-2007 |
Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> |
pi-futex: fix exit races and locking problems 1. New entries can be added to tsk->pi_state_list after task completed exit_pi_state_list(). The result is memory leakage and deadlocks. 2. handle_mm_fault() is called under spinlock. The result is obvious. 3. results in self-inflicted deadlock inside glibc. Sometimes futex_lock_pi returns -ESRCH, when it is not expected and glibc enters to for(;;) sleep() to simulate deadlock. This problem is quite obvious and I think the patch is right. Though it looks like each "if" in futex_lock_pi() got some stupid special case "else if". :-) 4. sometimes futex_lock_pi() returns -EDEADLK, when nobody has the lock. The reason is also obvious (see comment in the patch), but correct fix is far beyond my comprehension. I guess someone already saw this, the chunk: if (rt_mutex_trylock(&q.pi_state->pi_mutex)) ret = 0; is obviously from the same opera. But it does not work, because the rtmutex is really taken at this point: wake_futex_pi() of previous owner reassigned it to us. My fix works. But it looks very stupid. I would think about removal of shift of ownership in wake_futex_pi() and making all the work in context of process taking lock. From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fix 1) Avoid the tasklist lock variant of the exit race fix by adding an additional state transition to the exit code. This fixes also the issue, when a task with recursive segfaults is not able to release the futexes. Fix 2) Cleanup the lookup_pi_state() failure path and solve the -ESRCH problem finally. Fix 3) Solve the fixup_pi_state_owner() problem which needs to do the fixup in the lock protected section by using the in_atomic userspace access functions. This removes also the ugly lock drop / unqueue inside of fixup_pi_state() Fix 4) Fix a stale lock in the error path of futex_wake_pi() Added some error checks for verification. The -EDEADLK problem is solved by the rtmutex fixups. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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23-May-2007 |
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> |
recalc_sigpending_tsk fixes Steve Hawkes discovered a problem where recalc_sigpending_tsk was called in do_sigaction but no signal_wake_up call was made, preventing later signals from waking up blocked threads with TIF_SIGPENDING already set. In fact, the few other calls to recalc_sigpending_tsk outside the signals code are also subject to this problem in other race conditions. This change makes recalc_sigpending_tsk private to the signals code. It changes the outside calls, as well as do_sigaction, to use the new recalc_sigpending_and_wake instead. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: <Steve.Hawkes@motorola.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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23-May-2007 |
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> |
freezer: fix vfork problem Currently try_to_freeze_tasks() has to wait until all of the vforked processes exit and for this reason every user can make it fail. To fix this problem we can introduce the additional process flag PF_FREEZER_SKIP to be used by tasks that do not want to be counted as freezable by the freezer and want to have TIF_FREEZE set nevertheless. Then, this flag can be set by tasks using sys_vfork() before they call wait_for_completion(&vfork) and cleared after they have woken up. After clearing it, the tasks should call try_to_freeze() as soon as possible. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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10-May-2007 |
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> |
signal/timer/event: signalfd core This patch series implements the new signalfd() system call. I took part of the original Linus code (and you know how badly it can be broken :), and I added even more breakage ;) Signals are fetched from the same signal queue used by the process, so signalfd will compete with standard kernel delivery in dequeue_signal(). If you want to reliably fetch signals on the signalfd file, you need to block them with sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK). This seems to be working fine on my Dual Opteron machine. I made a quick test program for it: http://www.xmailserver.org/signafd-test.c The signalfd() system call implements signal delivery into a file descriptor receiver. The signalfd file descriptor if created with the following API: int signalfd(int ufd, const sigset_t *mask, size_t masksize); The "ufd" parameter allows to change an existing signalfd sigmask, w/out going to close/create cycle (Linus idea). Use "ufd" == -1 if you want a brand new signalfd file. The "mask" allows to specify the signal mask of signals that we are interested in. The "masksize" parameter is the size of "mask". The signalfd fd supports the poll(2) and read(2) system calls. The poll(2) will return POLLIN when signals are available to be dequeued. As a direct consequence of supporting the Linux poll subsystem, the signalfd fd can use used together with epoll(2) too. The read(2) system call will return a "struct signalfd_siginfo" structure in the userspace supplied buffer. The return value is the number of bytes copied in the supplied buffer, or -1 in case of error. The read(2) call can also return 0, in case the sighand structure to which the signalfd was attached, has been orphaned. The O_NONBLOCK flag is also supported, and read(2) will return -EAGAIN in case no signal is available. If the size of the buffer passed to read(2) is lower than sizeof(struct signalfd_siginfo), -EINVAL is returned. A read from the signalfd can also return -ERESTARTSYS in case a signal hits the process. The format of the struct signalfd_siginfo is, and the valid fields depends of the (->code & __SI_MASK) value, in the same way a struct siginfo would: struct signalfd_siginfo { __u32 signo; /* si_signo */ __s32 err; /* si_errno */ __s32 code; /* si_code */ __u32 pid; /* si_pid */ __u32 uid; /* si_uid */ __s32 fd; /* si_fd */ __u32 tid; /* si_fd */ __u32 band; /* si_band */ __u32 overrun; /* si_overrun */ __u32 trapno; /* si_trapno */ __s32 status; /* si_status */ __s32 svint; /* si_int */ __u64 svptr; /* si_ptr */ __u64 utime; /* si_utime */ __u64 stime; /* si_stime */ __u64 addr; /* si_addr */ }; [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix signalfd_copyinfo() on i386] Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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10-May-2007 |
Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> |
getrusage(): fill ru_inblock and ru_oublock fields if possible If CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING is defined, we update io accounting counters for each task. This patch permits reporting of values using the well known getrusage() syscall, filling ru_inblock and ru_oublock instead of null values. As TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING currently counts bytes counts, we approximate blocks count doing : nr_blocks = nr_bytes / 512 Example of use : ---------------------- After patch is applied, /usr/bin/time command can now give a good approximation of IO that the process had to do. $ /usr/bin/time grep tototo /usr/include/* Command exited with non-zero status 1 0.00user 0.02system 0:02.11elapsed 1%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 24288inputs+0outputs (0major+259minor)pagefaults 0swaps $ /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/testfile count=1000 1000+0 enregistrements lus 1000+0 enregistrements écrits 512000 octets (512 kB) copiés, 0,00326601 seconde, 157 MB/s 0.00user 0.00system 0:00.00elapsed 80%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+3000outputs (0major+299minor)pagefaults 0swaps Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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01-May-2007 |
Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> |
When stacked block devices are in-use (e.g. md or dm), the recursive calls to generic_make_request can use up a lot of space, and we would rather they didn't. As generic_make_request is a void function, and as it is generally not expected that it will have any effect immediately, it is safe to delay any call to generic_make_request until there is sufficient stack space available. As ->bi_next is reserved for the driver to use, it can have no valid value when generic_make_request is called, and as __make_request implicitly assumes it will be NULL (ELEVATOR_BACK_MERGE fork of switch) we can be certain that all callers set it to NULL. We can therefore safely use bi_next to link pending requests together, providing we clear it before making the real call. So, we choose to allow each thread to only be active in one generic_make_request at a time. If a subsequent (recursive) call is made, the bio is linked into a per-thread list, and is handled when the active call completes. As the list of pending bios is per-thread, there are no locking issues to worry about. I say above that it is "safe to delay any call...". There are, however, some behaviours of a make_request_fn which would make it unsafe. These include any behaviour that assumes anything will have changed after a recursive call to generic_make_request. These could include: - waiting for that call to finish and call it's bi_end_io function. md use to sometimes do this (marking the superblock dirty before completing a write) but doesn't any more - inspecting the bio for fields that generic_make_request might change, such as bi_sector or bi_bdev. It is hard to see a good reason for this, and I don't think anyone actually does it. - inspecing the queue to see if, e.g. it is 'full' yet. Again, I think this is very unlikely to be useful, or to be done. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: <dm-devel@redhat.com> Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> said: I can see nothing wrong with this in principle. For device-mapper at the moment though it's essential that, while the bio mappings may now get delayed, they still get processed in exactly the same order as they were passed to generic_make_request(). My main concern is whether the timing changes implicit in this patch will make the rare data-corrupting races in the existing snapshot code more likely. (I'm working on a fix for these races, but the unfinished patch is already several hundred lines long.) It would be helpful if some people on this mailing list would test this patch in various scenarios and report back. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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09-May-2007 |
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> |
rename thread_info to stack This finally renames the thread_info field in task structure to stack, so that the assumptions about this field are gone and archs have more freedom about placing the thread_info structure. Nonbroken archs which have a proper thread pointer can do the access to both current thread and task structure via a single pointer. It'll allow for a few more cleanups of the fork code, from which e.g. ia64 could benefit. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp> Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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09-May-2007 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
change kernel threads to ignore signals instead of blocking them Currently kernel threads use sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK) to protect against signals. This doesn't prevent the signal delivery, this only blocks signal_wake_up(). Every "killall -33 kthreadd" means a "struct siginfo" leak. Change kthreadd_setup() to set all handlers to SIG_IGN instead of blocking them (make a new helper ignore_signals() for that). If the kernel thread needs some signal, it should use allow_signal() anyway, and in that case it should not use CLONE_SIGHAND. Note that we can't change daemonize() (should die!) in the same way, because it can be used along with CLONE_SIGHAND. This means that allow_signal() still should unblock the signal to work correctly with daemonize()ed threads. However, disallow_signal() doesn't block the signal any longer but ignores it. NOTE: with or without this patch the kernel threads are not protected from handle_stop_signal(), this seems harmless, but not good. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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08-May-2007 |
Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> |
Speed up divides by cpu_power in scheduler I noticed expensive divides done in try_to_wakeup() and find_busiest_group() on a bi dual core Opteron machine (total of 4 cores), moderatly loaded (15.000 context switch per second) oprofile numbers : CPU: AMD64 processors, speed 2600.05 MHz (estimated) Counted CPU_CLK_UNHALTED events (Cycles outside of halt state) with a unit mask of 0x00 (No unit mask) count 50000 samples % symbol name ... 613914 1.0498 try_to_wake_up 834 0.0013 :ffffffff80227ae1: div %rcx 77513 0.1191 :ffffffff80227ae4: mov %rax,%r11 608893 1.0413 find_busiest_group 1841 0.0031 :ffffffff802260bf: div %rdi 140109 0.2394 :ffffffff802260c2: test %sil,%sil Some of these divides can use the reciprocal divides we introduced some time ago (currently used in slab AFAIK) We can assume a load will fit in a 32bits number, because with a SCHED_LOAD_SCALE=128 value, its still a theorical limit of 33554432 When/if we reach this limit one day, probably cpus will have a fast hardware divide and we can zap the reciprocal divide trick. Ingo suggested to rename cpu_power to __cpu_power to make clear it should not be modified without changing its reciprocal value too. I did not convert the divide in cpu_avg_load_per_task(), because tracking nr_running changes may be not worth it ? We could use a static table of 32 reciprocal values but it would add a conditional branch and table lookup. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: !SMP build fix] Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> 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>
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08-May-2007 |
Siddha, Suresh B <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> |
sched: dynticks idle load balancing Fix the process idle load balancing in the presence of dynticks. cpus for which ticks are stopped will sleep till the next event wakes it up. Potentially these sleeps can be for large durations and during which today, there is no periodic idle load balancing being done. This patch nominates an owner among the idle cpus, which does the idle load balancing on behalf of the other idle cpus. And once all the cpus are completely idle, then we can stop this idle load balancing too. Checks added in fast path are minimized. Whenever there are busy cpus in the system, there will be an owner(idle cpu) doing the system wide idle load balancing. Open items: 1. Intelligent owner selection (like an idle core in a busy package). 2. Merge with rcu's nohz_cpu_mask? Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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08-May-2007 |
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> |
add touch_all_softlockup_watchdogs() Add touch_all_softlockup_watchdogs() to allow the softlockup watchdog timers on all cpus to be updated. This is used to prevent sysrq-t from generating a spurious watchdog message when generating lots of output. Softlockup watchdogs use sched_clock() as its timebase, which is inherently per-cpu (at least, when it is measuring unstolen time). Because of this, it isn't possible for one CPU to directly update the other CPU's timers, but it is possible to tell the other CPUs to do update themselves appropriately. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Acked-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Rick Lindsley <ricklind@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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08-May-2007 |
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> |
<linux/sysdev.h> needs to include <linux/module.h> sysdev.h uses THIS_MODULE so should include <linux/module.h>. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: couple of fixes] Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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08-May-2007 |
William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> |
reduce size of task_struct on 64-bit machines This past week I was playing around with that pahole tool (http://oops.ghostprotocols.net:81/acme/dwarves/) and looking at the size of various struct in the kernel. I was surprised by the size of the task_struct on x86_64, approaching 4K. I looked through the fields in task_struct and found that a number of them were declared as "unsigned long" rather than "unsigned int" despite them appearing okay as 32-bit sized fields. On x86_64 "unsigned long" ends up being 8 bytes in size and forces 8 byte alignment. Is there a reason there a reason they are "unsigned long"? The patch below drops the size of the struct from 3808 bytes (60 64-byte cachelines) to 3760 bytes (59 64-byte cachelines). A couple other fields in the task struct take a signficant amount of space: struct thread_struct thread; 688 struct held_lock held_locks[30]; 1680 CONFIG_LOCKDEP is turned on in the .config [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warnings] Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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25-Apr-2007 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
make SysRq-T show all tasks again show_state() (SysRq-T) developed the buggy habbit of not showing TASK_RUNNING tasks. This was due to the mistaken belief that state_filter == -1 would be a pass-through filter - while in reality it did not let TASK_RUNNING == 0 p->state values through. Fix this by restoring the original '!state_filter means all tasks' special-case i had in the original version. Test-built and test-booted on i686, SysRq-T now works as intended. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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05-Mar-2007 |
Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> |
[PATCH] sched: remove SMT nice Remove the SMT-nice feature which idles sibling cpus on SMT cpus to facilitiate nice working properly where cpu power is shared. The idling of cpus in the presence of runnable tasks is considered too fragile, easy to break with outside code, and the complexity of managing this system if an architecture comes along with many logical cores sharing cpu power will be unworkable. Remove the associated per_cpu_gain variable in sched_domains used only by this code. Also: The reason is that with dynticks enabled, this code breaks without yet further tweaks so dynticks brought on the rapid demise of this code. So either we tweak this code or kill it off entirely. It was Ingo's preference to kill it off. Either way this needs to happen for 2.6.21 since dynticks has gone in. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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09-Feb-2007 |
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> |
Revert "[PATCH] make kernel/signal.c:kill_proc_info() static" This reverts commit d3228a887cae75ef2b8b1211c31c539bef5a5698. DeBunk this code. We need it for compat_sys_rt_sigqueueinfo. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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12-Feb-2007 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
[PATCH] pid: remove the now unused kill_pg kill_pg_info and __kill_pg_info Now that I have changed all of the in-tree users remove the old version of these functions. This should make it clear to any out of tree users that they should be using kill_pgrp kill_pgrp_info or __kill_pgrp_info instead. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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12-Feb-2007 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
[PATCH] tty: update the tty layer to work with struct pid Of kernel subsystems that work with pids the tty layer is probably the largest consumer. But it has the nice virtue that the assiation with a session only lasts until the session leader exits. Which means that no reference counting is required. So using struct pid winds up being a simple optimization to avoid hash table lookups. In the long term the use of pid_nr also ensures that when we have multiple pid spaces mixed everything will work correctly. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <eric@maxwell.lnxi.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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10-Feb-2007 |
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> |
[PATCH] ifdef ->rchar, ->wchar, ->syscr, ->syscw from task_struct They are fat: 4x8 bytes in task_struct. They are uncoditionally updated in every fork, read, write and sendfile. They are used only if you have some "extended acct fields feature". And please, please, please, read(2) knows about bytes, not characters, why it is called "rchar"? Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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13-Dec-2006 |
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> |
[PATCH] PM: Fix SMP races in the freezer Currently, to tell a task that it should go to the refrigerator, we set the PF_FREEZE flag for it and send a fake signal to it. Unfortunately there are two SMP-related problems with this approach. First, a task running on another CPU may be updating its flags while the freezer attempts to set PF_FREEZE for it and this may leave the task's flags in an inconsistent state. Second, there is a potential race between freeze_process() and refrigerator() in which freeze_process() running on one CPU is reading a task's PF_FREEZE flag while refrigerator() running on another CPU has just set PF_FROZEN for the same task and attempts to reset PF_FREEZE for it. If the refrigerator wins the race, freeze_process() will state that PF_FREEZE hasn't been set for the task and will set it unnecessarily, so the task will go to the refrigerator once again after it's been thawed. To solve first of these problems we need to stop using PF_FREEZE to tell tasks that they should go to the refrigerator. Instead, we can introduce a special TIF_*** flag and use it for this purpose, since it is allowed to change the other tasks' TIF_*** flags and there are special calls for it. To avoid the freeze_process()-refrigerator() race we can make freeze_process() to always check the task's PF_FROZEN flag after it's read its "freeze" flag. We should also make sure that refrigerator() will always reset the task's "freeze" flag after it's set PF_FROZEN for it. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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10-Dec-2006 |
Kenneth W Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> |
[PATCH] sched: remove lb_stopbalance counter Remove scheduler stats lb_stopbalance counter. This counter can be calculated by: lb_balanced - lb_nobusyg - lb_nobusyq. There is no need to create gazillion counters while we can derive the value. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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10-Dec-2006 |
Siddha, Suresh B <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> |
[PATCH] sched: decrease number of load balances Currently at a particular domain, each cpu in the sched group will do a load balance at the frequency of balance_interval. More the cores and threads, more the cpus will be in each sched group at SMP and NUMA domain. And we endup spending quite a bit of time doing load balancing in those domains. Fix this by making only one cpu(first idle cpu or first cpu in the group if all the cpus are busy) in the sched group do the load balance at that particular sched domain and this load will slowly percolate down to the other cpus with in that group(when they do load balancing at lower domains). Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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10-Dec-2006 |
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> |
[PATCH] sched: add option to serialize load balancing Large sched domains can be very expensive to scan. Add an option SD_SERIALIZE to the sched domain flags. If that flag is set then we make sure that no other such domain is being balanced. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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10-Dec-2006 |
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> |
[PATCH] io-accounting: core statistics The present per-task IO accounting isn't very useful. It simply counts the number of bytes passed into read() and write(). So if a process reads 1MB from an already-cached file, it is accused of having performed 1MB of I/O, which is wrong. (David Wright had some comments on the applicability of the present logical IO accounting: For billing purposes it is useless but for workload analysis it is very useful read_bytes/read_calls average read request size write_bytes/write_calls average write request size read_bytes/read_blocks ie logical/physical can indicate hit rate or thrashing write_bytes/write_blocks ie logical/physical guess since pdflush writes can be missed I often look for logical larger than physical to see filesystem cache problems. And the bytes/cpusec can help find applications that are dominating the cache and causing slow interactive response from page cache contention. I want to find the IO intensive applications and make sure they are doing efficient IO. Thus the acctcms(sysV) or csacms command would give the high IO commands). This patchset adds new accounting which tries to be more accurate. We account for three things: reads: attempt to count the number of bytes which this process really did cause to be fetched from the storage layer. Done at the submit_bio() level, so it is accurate for block-backed filesystems. I also attempt to wire up NFS and CIFS. writes: attempt to count the number of bytes which this process caused to be sent to the storage layer. This is done at page-dirtying time. The big inaccuracy here is truncate. If a process writes 1MB to a file and then deletes the file, it will in fact perform no writeout. But it will have been accounted as having caused 1MB of write. So... cancelled_writes: account the number of bytes which this process caused to not happen, by truncating pagecache. We _could_ just subtract this from the process's `write' accounting. But that means that some processes would be reported to have done negative amounts of write IO, which is silly. So we just report the raw number and punt this decision up to userspace. Now, we _could_ account for writes at the physical I/O level. But - This would require that we track memory-dirtying tasks at the per-page level (would require a new pointer in struct page). - It would mean that IO statistics for a process are usually only available long after that process has exitted. Which means that we probably cannot communicate this info via taskstats. This patch: Wire up the kernel-private data structures and the accessor functions to manipulate them. Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Chris Sturtivant <csturtiv@sgi.com> Cc: Tony Ernst <tee@sgi.com> Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net> Cc: David Wright <daw@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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08-Dec-2006 |
Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> |
[PATCH] fault injection: process filtering for fault-injection capabilities This patch provides process filtering feature. The process filter allows failing only permitted processes by /proc/<pid>/make-it-fail Please see the example that demostrates how to inject slab allocation failures into module init/cleanup code in Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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08-Dec-2006 |
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> |
[PATCH] add child reaper to pid_namespace Add a per pid_namespace child-reaper. This is needed so processes are reaped within the same pid space and do not spill over to the parent pid space. Its also needed so containers preserve existing semantic that pid == 1 would reap orphaned children. This is based on Eric Biederman's patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/6/285 Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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08-Dec-2006 |
Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> |
[PATCH] add process_session() helper routine: deprecate old field Add an anonymous union and ((deprecated)) to catch direct usage of the session field. [akpm@osdl.org: fix various missed conversions] [jdike@addtoit.com: fix UML bug] Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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08-Dec-2006 |
Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> |
[PATCH] add process_session() helper routine Replace occurences of task->signal->session by a new process_session() helper routine. It will be useful for pid namespaces to abstract the session pid number. Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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08-Dec-2006 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
[PATCH] make set_special_pids() static Make set_special_pids() static, the only caller is daemonize(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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06-Dec-2006 |
Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> |
[PATCH] struct seq_operations and struct file_operations constification - move some file_operations structs into the .rodata section - move static strings from policy_types[] array into the .rodata section - fix generic seq_operations usages, so that those structs may be defined as "const" as well [akpm@osdl.org: couple of fixes] Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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06-Dec-2006 |
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> |
[PATCH] make kernel/signal.c:kill_proc_info() static Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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06-Dec-2006 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] SysRq-X: show blocked tasks Add SysRq-X support: show blocked (TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) tasks only. Useful for debugging IO stalls. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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06-Dec-2006 |
Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org> |
[PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h Move process freezing functions from include/linux/sched.h to freezer.h, so that modifications to the freezer or the kernel configuration don't require recompiling just about everything. [akpm@osdl.org: fix ueagle driver] Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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06-Dec-2006 |
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com> |
[PATCH] Save some bytes in struct mm_struct Before: [acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ pahole --cacheline 32 kernel/sched.o mm_struct /* include2/asm/processor.h:542 */ struct mm_struct { struct vm_area_struct * mmap; /* 0 4 */ struct rb_root mm_rb; /* 4 4 */ struct vm_area_struct * mmap_cache; /* 8 4 */ long unsigned int (*get_unmapped_area)(); /* 12 4 */ void (*unmap_area)(); /* 16 4 */ long unsigned int mmap_base; /* 20 4 */ long unsigned int task_size; /* 24 4 */ long unsigned int cached_hole_size; /* 28 4 */ /* ---------- cacheline 1 boundary ---------- */ long unsigned int free_area_cache; /* 32 4 */ pgd_t * pgd; /* 36 4 */ atomic_t mm_users; /* 40 4 */ atomic_t mm_count; /* 44 4 */ int map_count; /* 48 4 */ struct rw_semaphore mmap_sem; /* 52 64 */ spinlock_t page_table_lock; /* 116 40 */ struct list_head mmlist; /* 156 8 */ mm_counter_t _file_rss; /* 164 4 */ mm_counter_t _anon_rss; /* 168 4 */ long unsigned int hiwater_rss; /* 172 4 */ long unsigned int hiwater_vm; /* 176 4 */ long unsigned int total_vm; /* 180 4 */ long unsigned int locked_vm; /* 184 4 */ long unsigned int shared_vm; /* 188 4 */ /* ---------- cacheline 6 boundary ---------- */ long unsigned int exec_vm; /* 192 4 */ long unsigned int stack_vm; /* 196 4 */ long unsigned int reserved_vm; /* 200 4 */ long unsigned int def_flags; /* 204 4 */ long unsigned int nr_ptes; /* 208 4 */ long unsigned int start_code; /* 212 4 */ long unsigned int end_code; /* 216 4 */ long unsigned int start_data; /* 220 4 */ /* ---------- cacheline 7 boundary ---------- */ long unsigned int end_data; /* 224 4 */ long unsigned int start_brk; /* 228 4 */ long unsigned int brk; /* 232 4 */ long unsigned int start_stack; /* 236 4 */ long unsigned int arg_start; /* 240 4 */ long unsigned int arg_end; /* 244 4 */ long unsigned int env_start; /* 248 4 */ long unsigned int env_end; /* 252 4 */ /* ---------- cacheline 8 boundary ---------- */ long unsigned int saved_auxv[44]; /* 256 176 */ unsigned int dumpable:2; /* 432 4 */ cpumask_t cpu_vm_mask; /* 436 4 */ mm_context_t context; /* 440 68 */ long unsigned int swap_token_time; /* 508 4 */ /* ---------- cacheline 16 boundary ---------- */ char recent_pagein; /* 512 1 */ /* XXX 3 bytes hole, try to pack */ int core_waiters; /* 516 4 */ struct completion * core_startup_done; /* 520 4 */ struct completion core_done; /* 524 52 */ rwlock_t ioctx_list_lock; /* 576 36 */ struct kioctx * ioctx_list; /* 612 4 */ }; /* size: 616, sum members: 613, holes: 1, sum holes: 3, cachelines: 20, last cacheline: 8 bytes */ After: [acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ pahole --cacheline 32 kernel/sched.o mm_struct /* include2/asm/processor.h:542 */ struct mm_struct { struct vm_area_struct * mmap; /* 0 4 */ struct rb_root mm_rb; /* 4 4 */ struct vm_area_struct * mmap_cache; /* 8 4 */ long unsigned int (*get_unmapped_area)(); /* 12 4 */ void (*unmap_area)(); /* 16 4 */ long unsigned int mmap_base; /* 20 4 */ long unsigned int task_size; /* 24 4 */ long unsigned int cached_hole_size; /* 28 4 */ /* ---------- cacheline 1 boundary ---------- */ long unsigned int free_area_cache; /* 32 4 */ pgd_t * pgd; /* 36 4 */ atomic_t mm_users; /* 40 4 */ atomic_t mm_count; /* 44 4 */ int map_count; /* 48 4 */ struct rw_semaphore mmap_sem; /* 52 64 */ spinlock_t page_table_lock; /* 116 40 */ struct list_head mmlist; /* 156 8 */ mm_counter_t _file_rss; /* 164 4 */ mm_counter_t _anon_rss; /* 168 4 */ long unsigned int hiwater_rss; /* 172 4 */ long unsigned int hiwater_vm; /* 176 4 */ long unsigned int total_vm; /* 180 4 */ long unsigned int locked_vm; /* 184 4 */ long unsigned int shared_vm; /* 188 4 */ /* ---------- cacheline 6 boundary ---------- */ long unsigned int exec_vm; /* 192 4 */ long unsigned int stack_vm; /* 196 4 */ long unsigned int reserved_vm; /* 200 4 */ long unsigned int def_flags; /* 204 4 */ long unsigned int nr_ptes; /* 208 4 */ long unsigned int start_code; /* 212 4 */ long unsigned int end_code; /* 216 4 */ long unsigned int start_data; /* 220 4 */ /* ---------- cacheline 7 boundary ---------- */ long unsigned int end_data; /* 224 4 */ long unsigned int start_brk; /* 228 4 */ long unsigned int brk; /* 232 4 */ long unsigned int start_stack; /* 236 4 */ long unsigned int arg_start; /* 240 4 */ long unsigned int arg_end; /* 244 4 */ long unsigned int env_start; /* 248 4 */ long unsigned int env_end; /* 252 4 */ /* ---------- cacheline 8 boundary ---------- */ long unsigned int saved_auxv[44]; /* 256 176 */ cpumask_t cpu_vm_mask; /* 432 4 */ mm_context_t context; /* 436 68 */ long unsigned int swap_token_time; /* 504 4 */ char recent_pagein; /* 508 1 */ unsigned char dumpable:2; /* 509 1 */ /* XXX 2 bytes hole, try to pack */ int core_waiters; /* 512 4 */ struct completion * core_startup_done; /* 516 4 */ struct completion core_done; /* 520 52 */ rwlock_t ioctx_list_lock; /* 572 36 */ struct kioctx * ioctx_list; /* 608 4 */ }; /* size: 612, sum members: 610, holes: 1, sum holes: 2, cachelines: 20, last cacheline: 4 bytes */ [acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ codiff -V /tmp/sched.o.before kernel/sched.o /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6.20/kernel/sched.c: struct mm_struct | -4 dumpable:2; from: unsigned int /* 432(30) 4(2) */ to: unsigned char /* 509(6) 1(2) */ < SNIP other offset changes > 1 struct changed [acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ I'm not aware of any problem about using 2 byte wide bitfields where previously a 4 byte wide one was, holler if there is any, I wouldn't be surprised, bitfields are things from hell. For the curious, 432(30) means: at offset 432 from the struct start, at offset 30 in the bitfield (yeah, it comes backwards, hellish, huh?) ditto for 509(6), while 4(2) and 1(2) means "struct field size(bitfield size)". Now we have a 2 bytes hole and are using only 4 bytes of the last 32 bytes cacheline, any takers? :-) Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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06-Dec-2006 |
Ashwin Chaugule <ashwin.chaugule@celunite.com> |
[PATCH] new scheme to preempt swap token The new swap token patches replace the current token traversal algo. The old algo had a crude timeout parameter that was used to handover the token from one task to another. This algo, transfers the token to the tasks that are in need of the token. The urgency for the token is based on the number of times a task is required to swap-in pages. Accordingly, the priority of a task is incremented if it has been badly affected due to swap-outs. To ensure that the token doesnt bounce around rapidly, the token holders are given a priority boost. The priority of tasks is also decremented, if their rate of swap-in's keeps reducing. This way, the condition to check whether to pre-empt the swap token, is a matter of comparing two task's priority fields. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule <ashwin.chaugule@celunite.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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28-Oct-2006 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
[PATCH] taskstats: kill ->taskstats_lock in favor of ->siglock signal_struct is (mostly) protected by ->sighand->siglock, I think we don't need ->taskstats_lock to protect ->stats. This also allows us to simplify the locking in fill_tgid(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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06-Oct-2006 |
Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de> |
[PATCH] sched: fix a kerneldoc error on is_init() Fix a kerneldoc warning and reorderd the description for is_init(). Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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03-Oct-2006 |
Siddha, Suresh B <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> |
[PATCH] sched: cleanup sched_group cpu_power setup Up to now sched group's cpu_power for each sched domain is initialized independently. This made the setup code ugly as the new sched domains are getting added. Make the sched group cpu_power setup code generic, by using domain child field and new domain flag in sched_domain. For most of the sched domains(except NUMA), sched group's cpu_power is now computed generically using the domain properties of itself and of the child domain. sched groups in NUMA domains are setup little differently and hence they don't use this generic mechanism. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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03-Oct-2006 |
Siddha, Suresh B <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> |
[PATCH] sched: introduce child field in sched_domain Introduce the child field in sched_domain struct and use it in sched_balance_self(). We will also use this field in cleaning up the sched group cpu_power setup(done in a different patch) code. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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02-Oct-2006 |
Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> |
[PATCH] replace cad_pid by a struct pid There are a few places in the kernel where the init task is signaled. The ctrl+alt+del sequence is one them. It kills a task, usually init, using a cached pid (cad_pid). This patch replaces the pid_t by a struct pid to avoid pid wrap around problem. The struct pid is initialized at boot time in init() and can be modified through systctl with /proc/sys/kernel/cad_pid [ I haven't found any distro using it ? ] It also introduces a small helper routine kill_cad_pid() which is used where it seemed ok to use cad_pid instead of pid 1. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, build fix] Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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02-Oct-2006 |
Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> |
[PATCH] IPC namespace core This patch set allows to unshare IPCs and have a private set of IPC objects (sem, shm, msg) inside namespace. Basically, it is another building block of containers functionality. This patch implements core IPC namespace changes: - ipc_namespace structure - new config option CONFIG_IPC_NS - adds CLONE_NEWIPC flag - unshare support [clg@fr.ibm.com: small fix for unshare of ipc namespace] [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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02-Oct-2006 |
Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> |
[PATCH] namespaces: utsname: implement CLONE_NEWUTS flag Implement a CLONE_NEWUTS flag, and use it at clone and sys_unshare. [clg@fr.ibm.com: IPC unshare fix] [bunk@stusta.de: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Andrey Savochkin <saw@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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02-Oct-2006 |
Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> |
[PATCH] namespaces: utsname: implement utsname namespaces This patch defines the uts namespace and some manipulators. Adds the uts namespace to task_struct, and initializes a system-wide init namespace. It leaves a #define for system_utsname so sysctl will compile. This define will be removed in a separate patch. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix, cleanup] Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Andrey Savochkin <saw@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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02-Oct-2006 |
Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> |
[PATCH] namespaces: incorporate fs namespace into nsproxy This moves the mount namespace into the nsproxy. The mount namespace count now refers to the number of nsproxies point to it, rather than the number of tasks. As a result, the unshare_namespace() function in kernel/fork.c no longer checks whether it is being shared. Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Andrey Savochkin <saw@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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02-Oct-2006 |
Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> |
[PATCH] namespaces: add nsproxy This patch adds a nsproxy structure to the task struct. Later patches will move the fs namespace pointer into this structure, and introduce a new utsname namespace into the nsproxy. The vserver and openvz functionality, then, would be implemented in large part by virtualizing/isolating more and more resources into namespaces, each contained in the nsproxy. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Andrey Savochkin <saw@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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02-Oct-2006 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
[PATCH] usb: fixup usb so it uses struct pid The problem with remembering a user space process by its pid is that it is possible that the process will exit, pid wrap around will occur. Converting to a struct pid avoid that problem, and paves the way for implementing a pid namespace. Also since usb is the only user of kill_proc_info_as_uid rename kill_proc_info_as_uid to kill_pid_info_as_uid and have the new version take a struct pid. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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02-Oct-2006 |
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> |
[PATCH] Define struct pspace Define a per-container pid space object. And create one instance of this object, init_pspace, to define the entire pid space. Subsequent patches will provide/use interfaces to create/destroy pid spaces. Its a subset/rework of Eric Biederman's patch http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/6/285 . Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Cc: Andrey Savochkin <saw@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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02-Oct-2006 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
[PATCH] pid: implement signal functions that take a struct pid * Currently the signal functions all either take a task or a pid_t argument. This patch implements variants that take a struct pid *. After all of the users have been update it is my intention to remove the variants that take a pid_t as using pid_t can be more work (an extra hash table lookup) and difficult to get right in the presence of multiple pid namespaces. There are two kinds of functions introduced in this patch. The are the general use functions kill_pgrp and kill_pid which take a priv argument that is ultimately used to create the appropriate siginfo information, Then there are _kill_pgrp_info, kill_pgrp_info, kill_pid_info the internal implementation helpers that take an explicit siginfo. The distinction is made because filling out an explcit siginfo is tricky, and will be even more tricky when pid namespaces are introduced. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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02-Oct-2006 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
[PATCH] pid: implement access helpers for a tacks various process groups In the last round of cleaning up the pid hash table a more general struct pid was introduced, that can be referenced counted. With the more general struct pid most if not all places where we store a pid_t we can now store a struct pid * and remove the need for a hash table lookup, and avoid any possible problems with pid roll over. Looking forward to the pid namespaces struct pid * gives us an absolute form a pid so we can compare and use them without caring which pid namespace we are in. This patchset introduces the infrastructure needed to use struct pid instead of pid_t, and then it goes on to convert two different kernel users that currently store a pid_t value. There are a lot more places to go but this is enough to get the basic idea. Before we can merge a pid namespace patch all of the kernel pid_t users need to be examined. Those that deal with user space processes need to be converted to using a struct pid *. Those that deal with kernel processes need to converted to using the kthread api. A rare few that only use their current processes pid values get to be left alone. This patch: task_session returns the struct pid of a tasks session. task_pgrp returns the struct pid of a tasks process group. task_tgid returns the struct pid of a tasks thread group. task_pid returns the struct pid of a tasks process id. These can be used to avoid unnecessary hash table lookups, and to implement safe pid comparisions in the face of a pid namespace. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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02-Oct-2006 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
[PATCH] proc: readdir race fix (take 3) The problem: An opendir, readdir, closedir sequence can fail to report process ids that are continually in use throughout the sequence of system calls. For this race to trigger the process that proc_pid_readdir stops at must exit before readdir is called again. This can cause ps to fail to report processes, and it is in violation of posix guarantees and normal application expectations with respect to readdir. Currently there is no way to work around this problem in user space short of providing a gargantuan buffer to user space so the directory read all happens in on system call. This patch implements the normal directory semantics for proc, that guarantee that a directory entry that is neither created nor destroyed while reading the directory entry will be returned. For directory that are either created or destroyed during the readdir you may or may not see them. Furthermore you may seek to a directory offset you have previously seen. These are the guarantee that ext[23] provides and that posix requires, and more importantly that user space expects. Plus it is a simple semantic to implement reliable service. It is just a matter of calling readdir a second time if you are wondering if something new has show up. These better semantics are implemented by scanning through the pids in numerical order and by making the file offset a pid plus a fixed offset. The pid scan happens on the pid bitmap, which when you look at it is remarkably efficient for a brute force algorithm. Given that a typical cache line is 64 bytes and thus covers space for 64*8 == 200 pids. There are only 40 cache lines for the entire 32K pid space. A typical system will have 100 pids or more so this is actually fewer cache lines we have to look at to scan a linked list, and the worst case of having to scan the entire pid bitmap is pretty reasonable. If we need something more efficient we can go to a more efficient data structure for indexing the pids, but for now what we have should be sufficient. In addition this takes no additional locks and is actually less code than what we are doing now. Also another very subtle bug in this area has been fixed. It is possible to catch a task in the middle of de_thread where a thread is assuming the thread of it's thread group leader. This patch carefully handles that case so if we hit it we don't fail to return the pid, that is undergoing the de_thread dance. Thanks to KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> for providing the first fix, pointing this out and working on it. [oleg@tv-sign.ru: fix it] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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01-Oct-2006 |
Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> |
[PATCH] csa accounting taskstats update ChangeLog: Feedbacks from Andrew Morton: - define TS_COMM_LEN to 32 - change acct_stimexpd field of task_struct to be of cputime_t, which is to be used to save the tsk->stime of last timer interrupt update. - a new Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt to describe fields of taskstats struct. Feedback from Balbir Singh: - keep the stime of a task to be zero when both stime and utime are zero as recoreded in task_struct. Misc: - convert accumulated RSS/VM from platform dependent pages-ticks to MBytes-usecs in the kernel Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Cc: Chris Sturtivant <csturtiv@sgi.com> Cc: Tony Ernst <tee@sgi.com> Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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01-Oct-2006 |
Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> |
[PATCH] csa: convert CONFIG tag for extended accounting routines There were a few accounting data/macros that are used in CSA but are #ifdef'ed inside CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT. This patch is to change those ifdef's from CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT to CONFIG_TASK_XACCT. A few defines are moved from kernel/acct.c and include/linux/acct.h to kernel/tsacct.c and include/linux/tsacct_kern.h. Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Cc: Chris Sturtivant <csturtiv@sgi.com> Cc: Tony Ernst <tee@sgi.com> Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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29-Aug-2006 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
[PATCH] BLOCK: Remove duplicate declaration of exit_io_context() [try #6] Remove the duplicate declaration of exit_io_context() from linux/sched.h. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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29-Sep-2006 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
[PATCH] introduce TASK_DEAD state I am not sure about this patch, I am asking Ingo to take a decision. task_struct->state == EXIT_DEAD is a very special case, to avoid a confusion it makes sense to introduce a new state, TASK_DEAD, while EXIT_DEAD should live only in ->exit_state as documented in sched.h. Note that this state is not visible to user-space, get_task_state() masks off unsuitable states. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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29-Sep-2006 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
[PATCH] kill PF_DEAD flag After the previous change (->flags & PF_DEAD) <=> (->state == EXIT_DEAD), we don't need PF_DEAD any longer. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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29-Sep-2006 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
[PATCH] introduce is_rt_policy() helper Imho, makes the code a bit easier to read. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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29-Sep-2006 |
Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> |
[PATCH] simplify update_times (avoid jiffies/jiffies_64 aliasing problem) Pass ticks to do_timer() and update_times(), and adjust x86_64 and s390 timer interrupt handler with this change. Currently update_times() calculates ticks by "jiffies - wall_jiffies", but callers of do_timer() should know how many ticks to update. Passing ticks get rid of this redundant calculation. Also there are another redundancy pointed out by Martin Schwidefsky. This cleanup make a barrier added by 5aee405c662ca644980c184774277fc6d0769a84 needless. So this patch removes it. As a bonus, this cleanup make wall_jiffies can be removed easily, since now wall_jiffies is always synced with jiffies. (This patch does not really remove wall_jiffies. It would be another cleanup patch) Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata.hirokazu@renesas.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp> Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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29-Sep-2006 |
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> |
[PATCH] pidspace: is_init() This is an updated version of Eric Biederman's is_init() patch. (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/6/280). It applies cleanly to 2.6.18-rc3 and replaces a few more instances of ->pid == 1 with is_init(). Further, is_init() checks pid and thus removes dependency on Eric's other patches for now. Eric's original description: There are a lot of places in the kernel where we test for init because we give it special properties. Most significantly init must not die. This results in code all over the kernel test ->pid == 1. Introduce is_init to capture this case. With multiple pid spaces for all of the cases affected we are looking for only the first process on the system, not some other process that has pid == 1. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: <lxc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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29-Sep-2006 |
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> |
[PATCH] ifdef blktrace debugging fields Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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29-Sep-2006 |
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> |
[PATCH] task_struct: ifdef Missed'em V IPC ipc/sem.c only. $ agrep sysvsem -w -n ipc/sem.c:912: undo_list = current->sysvsem.undo_list; ipc/sem.c:932: undo_list = current->sysvsem.undo_list; ipc/sem.c:954: undo_list = current->sysvsem.undo_list; ipc/sem.c:963: current->sysvsem.undo_list = undo_list; ipc/sem.c:1247: tsk->sysvsem.undo_list = undo_list; ipc/sem.c:1249: tsk->sysvsem.undo_list = NULL; ipc/sem.c:1271: undo_list = tsk->sysvsem.undo_list; include/linux/sched.h:876: struct sysv_sem sysvsem; Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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26-Sep-2006 |
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> |
[PATCH] Add the canary field to the PDA area and the task struct This patch adds the per thread cookie field to the task struct and the PDA. Also it makes sure that the PDA value gets the new cookie value at context switch, and that a new task gets a new cookie at task creation time. Signed-off-by: Arjan van Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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26-Sep-2006 |
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> |
[PATCH] non lazy "sleazy" fpu implementation Right now the kernel on x86-64 has a 100% lazy fpu behavior: after *every* context switch a trap is taken for the first FPU use to restore the FPU context lazily. This is of course great for applications that have very sporadic or no FPU use (since then you avoid doing the expensive save/restore all the time). However for very frequent FPU users... you take an extra trap every context switch. The patch below adds a simple heuristic to this code: After 5 consecutive context switches of FPU use, the lazy behavior is disabled and the context gets restored every context switch. If the app indeed uses the FPU, the trap is avoided. (the chance of the 6th time slice using FPU after the previous 5 having done so are quite high obviously). After 256 switches, this is reset and lazy behavior is returned (until there are 5 consecutive ones again). The reason for this is to give apps that do longer bursts of FPU use still the lazy behavior back after some time. [akpm@osdl.org: place new task_struct field next to jit_keyring to save space] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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31-Aug-2006 |
Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> |
[PATCH] task delay accounting fixes Cleanup allocation and freeing of tsk->delays used by delay accounting. This solves two problems reported for delay accounting: 1. oops in __delayacct_blkio_ticks http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.2/1844.html Currently tsk->delays is getting freed too early in task exit which can cause a NULL tsk->delays to get accessed via reading of /proc/<tgid>/stats. The patch fixes this problem by freeing tsk->delays closer to when task_struct itself is freed up. As a result, it also eliminates the use of tsk->delays_lock which was only being used (inadequately) to safeguard access to tsk->delays while a task was exiting. 2. Possible memory leak in kernel/delayacct.c http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.2/1389.html The patch cleans up tsk->delays allocations after a bad fork which was missing earlier. The patch has been tested to fix the problems listed above and stress tested with rapid calls to delay accounting's taskstats command interface (which is the other path that can access the same data, besides the /proc interface causing the oops above). Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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05-Aug-2006 |
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> |
[PATCH] Make suspend possible with a traced process at a breakpoint It should be possible to suspend, either to RAM or to disk, if there's a traced process that has just reached a breakpoint. However, this is a special case, because its parent process might have been frozen already and then we are unable to deliver the "freeze" signal to the traced process. If this happens, it's better to cancel the freezing of the traced process. Ref. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6787 Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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14-Jul-2006 |
Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> |
[PATCH] delay accounting taskstats interface send tgid once Send per-tgid data only once during exit of a thread group instead of once with each member thread exit. Currently, when a thread exits, besides its per-tid data, the per-tgid data of its thread group is also sent out, if its thread group is non-empty. The per-tgid data sent consists of the sum of per-tid stats for all *remaining* threads of the thread group. This patch modifies this sending in two ways: - the per-tgid data is sent only when the last thread of a thread group exits. This cuts down heavily on the overhead of sending/receiving per-tgid data, especially when other exploiters of the taskstats interface aren't interested in per-tgid stats - the semantics of the per-tgid data sent are changed. Instead of being the sum of per-tid data for remaining threads, the value now sent is the true total accumalated statistics for all threads that are/were part of the thread group. The patch also addresses a minor issue where failure of one accounting subsystem to fill in the taskstats structure was causing the send of taskstats to not be sent at all. The patch has been tested for stability and run cerberus for over 4 hours on an SMP. [akpm@osdl.org: bugfixes] Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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14-Jul-2006 |
Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> |
[PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: delay accounting usage of taskstats interface Usage of taskstats interface by delay accounting. Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de> Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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14-Jul-2006 |
Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> |
[PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: cpu delay collection via schedstats Make the task-related schedstats functions callable by delay accounting even if schedstats collection isn't turned on. This removes the dependency of delay accounting on schedstats. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de> Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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14-Jul-2006 |
Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> |
[PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: sync block I/O and swapin delay collection Unlike earlier iterations of the delay accounting patches, now delays are only collected for the actual I/O waits rather than try and cover the delays seen in I/O submission paths. Account separately for block I/O delays incurred as a result of swapin page faults whose frequency can be affected by the task/process' rss limit. Hence swapin delays can act as feedback for rss limit changes independent of I/O priority changes. Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de> Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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14-Jul-2006 |
Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> |
[PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: setup Initialization code related to collection of per-task "delay" statistics which measure how long it had to wait for cpu, sync block io, swapping etc. The collection of statistics and the interface are in other patches. This patch sets up the data structures and allows the statistics collection to be disabled through a kernel boot parameter. Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de> Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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03-Jul-2006 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] sched: cleanup, convert sched.c-internal typedefs to struct convert: - runqueue_t to 'struct rq' - prio_array_t to 'struct prio_array' - migration_req_t to 'struct migration_req' I was the one who added these but they are both against the kernel coding style and also were used inconsistently at places. So just get rid of them at once, now that we are flushing the scheduler patch-queue anyway. Conversion was mostly scripted, the result was reviewed and all secondary whitespace and style impact (if any) was fixed up by hand. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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03-Jul-2006 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] sched: cleanup, remove task_t, convert to struct task_struct cleanup: remove task_t and convert all the uses to struct task_struct. I introduced it for the scheduler anno and it was a mistake. Conversion was mostly scripted, the result was reviewed and all secondary whitespace and style impact (if any) was fixed up by hand. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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03-Jul-2006 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] lockdep: core Do 'make oldconfig' and accept all the defaults for new config options - reboot into the kernel and if everything goes well it should boot up fine and you should have /proc/lockdep and /proc/lockdep_stats files. Typically if the lock validator finds some problem it will print out voluminous debug output that begins with "BUG: ..." and which syslog output can be used by kernel developers to figure out the precise locking scenario. What does the lock validator do? It "observes" and maps all locking rules as they occur dynamically (as triggered by the kernel's natural use of spinlocks, rwlocks, mutexes and rwsems). Whenever the lock validator subsystem detects a new locking scenario, it validates this new rule against the existing set of rules. If this new rule is consistent with the existing set of rules then the new rule is added transparently and the kernel continues as normal. If the new rule could create a deadlock scenario then this condition is printed out. When determining validity of locking, all possible "deadlock scenarios" are considered: assuming arbitrary number of CPUs, arbitrary irq context and task context constellations, running arbitrary combinations of all the existing locking scenarios. In a typical system this means millions of separate scenarios. This is why we call it a "locking correctness" validator - for all rules that are observed the lock validator proves it with mathematical certainty that a deadlock could not occur (assuming that the lock validator implementation itself is correct and its internal data structures are not corrupted by some other kernel subsystem). [see more details and conditionals of this statement in include/linux/lockdep.h and Documentation/lockdep-design.txt] Furthermore, this "all possible scenarios" property of the validator also enables the finding of complex, highly unlikely multi-CPU multi-context races via single single-context rules, increasing the likelyhood of finding bugs drastically. In practical terms: the lock validator already found a bug in the upstream kernel that could only occur on systems with 3 or more CPUs, and which needed 3 very unlikely code sequences to occur at once on the 3 CPUs. That bug was found and reported on a single-CPU system (!). So in essence a race will be found "piecemail-wise", triggering all the necessary components for the race, without having to reproduce the race scenario itself! In its short existence the lock validator found and reported many bugs before they actually caused a real deadlock. To further increase the efficiency of the validator, the mapping is not per "lock instance", but per "lock-class". For example, all struct inode objects in the kernel have inode->inotify_mutex. If there are 10,000 inodes cached, then there are 10,000 lock objects. But ->inotify_mutex is a single "lock type", and all locking activities that occur against ->inotify_mutex are "unified" into this single lock-class. The advantage of the lock-class approach is that all historical ->inotify_mutex uses are mapped into a single (and as narrow as possible) set of locking rules - regardless of how many different tasks or inode structures it took to build this set of rules. The set of rules persist during the lifetime of the kernel. To see the rough magnitude of checking that the lock validator does, here's a portion of /proc/lockdep_stats, fresh after bootup: lock-classes: 694 [max: 2048] direct dependencies: 1598 [max: 8192] indirect dependencies: 17896 all direct dependencies: 16206 dependency chains: 1910 [max: 8192] in-hardirq chains: 17 in-softirq chains: 105 in-process chains: 1065 stack-trace entries: 38761 [max: 131072] combined max dependencies: 2033928 hardirq-safe locks: 24 hardirq-unsafe locks: 176 softirq-safe locks: 53 softirq-unsafe locks: 137 irq-safe locks: 59 irq-unsafe locks: 176 The lock validator has observed 1598 actual single-thread locking patterns, and has validated all possible 2033928 distinct locking scenarios. More details about the design of the lock validator can be found in Documentation/lockdep-design.txt, which can also found at: http://redhat.com/~mingo/lockdep-patches/lockdep-design.txt [bunk@stusta.de: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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03-Jul-2006 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] lockdep: irqtrace subsystem, core Accurate hard-IRQ-flags and softirq-flags state tracing. This allows us to attach extra functionality to IRQ flags on/off events (such as trace-on/off). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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03-Jul-2006 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging Generic lock debugging: - generalized lock debugging framework. For example, a bug in one lock subsystem turns off debugging in all lock subsystems. - got rid of the caller address passing (__IP__/__IP_DECL__/etc.) from the mutex/rtmutex debugging code: it caused way too much prototype hackery, and lockdep will give the same information anyway. - ability to do silent tests - check lock freeing in vfree too. - more finegrained debugging options, to allow distributions to turn off more expensive debugging features. There's no separate 'held mutexes' list anymore - but there's a 'held locks' stack within lockdep, which unifies deadlock detection across all lock classes. (this is independent of the lockdep validation stuff - lockdep first checks whether we are holding a lock already) Here are the current debugging options: CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y which do: config DEBUG_MUTEXES bool "Mutex debugging, basic checks" config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC bool "Detect incorrect freeing of live mutexes" Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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30-Jun-2006 |
David Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov> |
[PATCH] SELinux: add security hook call to kill_proc_info_as_uid This patch adds a call to the extended security_task_kill hook introduced by the prior patch to the kill_proc_info_as_uid function so that these signals can be properly mediated by security modules. It also updates the existing hook call in check_kill_permission. Signed-off-by: David Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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27-Jun-2006 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
[PATCH] rtmutex: Propagate priority settings into PI lock chains When the priority of a task, which is blocked on a lock, changes we must propagate this change into the PI lock chain. Therefor the chain walk code is changed to get rid of the references to current to avoid false positives in the deadlock detector, as setscheduler might be called by a task which holds the lock on which the task whose priority is changed is blocked. Also add some comments about the get/put_task_struct usage to avoid confusion. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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27-Jun-2006 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] pi-futex: futex_lock_pi/futex_unlock_pi support This adds the actual pi-futex implementation, based on rt-mutexes. [dino@in.ibm.com: fix an oops-causing race] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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27-Jun-2006 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
[PATCH] pi-futex: rt mutex tester RT-mutex tester: scriptable tester for rt mutexes, which allows userspace scripting of mutex unit-tests (and dynamic tests as well), using the actual rt-mutex implementation of the kernel. [akpm@osdl.org: fixlet] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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27-Jun-2006 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] pi-futex: rt mutex core Core functions for the rt-mutex subsystem. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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27-Jun-2006 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] pi-futex: scheduler support for pi Add framework to boost/unboost the priority of RT tasks. This consists of: - caching the 'normal' priority in ->normal_prio - providing a functions to set/get the priority of the task - make sched_setscheduler() aware of boosting The effective_prio() cleanups also fix a priority-calculation bug pointed out by Andrey Gelman, in set_user_nice(). has_rt_policy() fix: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrey Gelman <agelman@012.net.il> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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27-Jun-2006 |
Siddha, Suresh B <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> |
[PATCH] sched: mc/smt power savings sched policy sysfs entries 'sched_mc_power_savings' and 'sched_smt_power_savings' in /sys/devices/system/cpu/ control the MC/SMT power savings policy for the scheduler. Based on the values (1-enable, 0-disable) for these controls, sched groups cpu power will be determined for different domains. When power savings policy is enabled and under light load conditions, scheduler will minimize the physical packages/cpu cores carrying the load and thus conserving power(with a perf impact based on the workload characteristics... see OLS 2005 CMP kernel scheduler paper for more details..) Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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27-Jun-2006 |
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> |
[PATCH] sched_domain: handle kmalloc failure Try to handle mem allocation failures in build_sched_domains by bailing out and cleaning up thus-far allocated memory. The patch has a direct consequence that we disable load balancing completely (even at sibling level) upon *any* memory allocation failure. [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: bugfix] Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagir <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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27-Jun-2006 |
Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> |
[PATCH] sched: implement smpnice Problem: The introduction of separate run queues per CPU has brought with it "nice" enforcement problems that are best described by a simple example. For the sake of argument suppose that on a single CPU machine with a nice==19 hard spinner and a nice==0 hard spinner running that the nice==0 task gets 95% of the CPU and the nice==19 task gets 5% of the CPU. Now suppose that there is a system with 2 CPUs and 2 nice==19 hard spinners and 2 nice==0 hard spinners running. The user of this system would be entitled to expect that the nice==0 tasks each get 95% of a CPU and the nice==19 tasks only get 5% each. However, whether this expectation is met is pretty much down to luck as there are four equally likely distributions of the tasks to the CPUs that the load balancing code will consider to be balanced with loads of 2.0 for each CPU. Two of these distributions involve one nice==0 and one nice==19 task per CPU and in these circumstances the users expectations will be met. The other two distributions both involve both nice==0 tasks being on one CPU and both nice==19 being on the other CPU and each task will get 50% of a CPU and the user's expectations will not be met. Solution: The solution to this problem that is implemented in the attached patch is to use weighted loads when determining if the system is balanced and, when an imbalance is detected, to move an amount of weighted load between run queues (as opposed to a number of tasks) to restore the balance. Once again, the easiest way to explain why both of these measures are necessary is to use a simple example. Suppose that (in a slight variation of the above example) that we have a two CPU system with 4 nice==0 and 4 nice=19 hard spinning tasks running and that the 4 nice==0 tasks are on one CPU and the 4 nice==19 tasks are on the other CPU. The weighted loads for the two CPUs would be 4.0 and 0.2 respectively and the load balancing code would move 2 tasks resulting in one CPU with a load of 2.0 and the other with load of 2.2. If this was considered to be a big enough imbalance to justify moving a task and that task was moved using the current move_tasks() then it would move the highest priority task that it found and this would result in one CPU with a load of 3.0 and the other with a load of 1.2 which would result in the movement of a task in the opposite direction and so on -- infinite loop. If, on the other hand, an amount of load to be moved is calculated from the imbalance (in this case 0.1) and move_tasks() skips tasks until it find ones whose contributions to the weighted load are less than this amount it would move two of the nice==19 tasks resulting in a system with 2 nice==0 and 2 nice=19 on each CPU with loads of 2.1 for each CPU. One of the advantages of this mechanism is that on a system where all tasks have nice==0 the load balancing calculations would be mathematically identical to the current load balancing code. Notes: struct task_struct: has a new field load_weight which (in a trade off of space for speed) stores the contribution that this task makes to a CPU's weighted load when it is runnable. struct runqueue: has a new field raw_weighted_load which is the sum of the load_weight values for the currently runnable tasks on this run queue. This field always needs to be updated when nr_running is updated so two new inline functions inc_nr_running() and dec_nr_running() have been created to make sure that this happens. This also offers a convenient way to optimize away this part of the smpnice mechanism when CONFIG_SMP is not defined. int try_to_wake_up(): in this function the value SCHED_LOAD_BALANCE is used to represent the load contribution of a single task in various calculations in the code that decides which CPU to put the waking task on. While this would be a valid on a system where the nice values for the runnable tasks were distributed evenly around zero it will lead to anomalous load balancing if the distribution is skewed in either direction. To overcome this problem SCHED_LOAD_SCALE has been replaced by the load_weight for the relevant task or by the average load_weight per task for the queue in question (as appropriate). int move_tasks(): The modifications to this function were complicated by the fact that active_load_balance() uses it to move exactly one task without checking whether an imbalance actually exists. This precluded the simple overloading of max_nr_move with max_load_move and necessitated the addition of the latter as an extra argument to the function. The internal implementation is then modified to move up to max_nr_move tasks and max_load_move of weighted load. This slightly complicates the code where move_tasks() is called and if ever active_load_balance() is changed to not use move_tasks() the implementation of move_tasks() should be simplified accordingly. struct sched_group *find_busiest_group(): Similar to try_to_wake_up(), there are places in this function where SCHED_LOAD_SCALE is used to represent the load contribution of a single task and the same issues are created. A similar solution is adopted except that it is now the average per task contribution to a group's load (as opposed to a run queue) that is required. As this value is not directly available from the group it is calculated on the fly as the queues in the groups are visited when determining the busiest group. A key change to this function is that it is no longer to scale down *imbalance on exit as move_tasks() uses the load in its scaled form. void set_user_nice(): has been modified to update the task's load_weight field when it's nice value and also to ensure that its run queue's raw_weighted_load field is updated if it was runnable. From: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> With smpnice, sched groups with highest priority tasks can mask the imbalance between the other sched groups with in the same domain. This patch fixes some of the listed down scenarios by not considering the sched groups which are lightly loaded. a) on a simple 4-way MP system, if we have one high priority and 4 normal priority tasks, with smpnice we would like to see the high priority task scheduled on one cpu, two other cpus getting one normal task each and the fourth cpu getting the remaining two normal tasks. but with current smpnice extra normal priority task keeps jumping from one cpu to another cpu having the normal priority task. This is because of the busiest_has_loaded_cpus, nr_loaded_cpus logic.. We are not including the cpu with high priority task in max_load calculations but including that in total and avg_load calcuations.. leading to max_load < avg_load and load balance between cpus running normal priority tasks(2 Vs 1) will always show imbalanace as one normal priority and the extra normal priority task will keep moving from one cpu to another cpu having normal priority task.. b) 4-way system with HT (8 logical processors). Package-P0 T0 has a highest priority task, T1 is idle. Package-P1 Both T0 and T1 have 1 normal priority task each.. P2 and P3 are idle. With this patch, one of the normal priority tasks on P1 will be moved to P2 or P3.. c) With the current weighted smp nice calculations, it doesn't always make sense to look at the highest weighted runqueue in the busy group.. Consider a load balance scenario on a DP with HT system, with Package-0 containing one high priority and one low priority, Package-1 containing one low priority(with other thread being idle).. Package-1 thinks that it need to take the low priority thread from Package-0. And find_busiest_queue() returns the cpu thread with highest priority task.. And ultimately(with help of active load balance) we move high priority task to Package-1. And same continues with Package-0 now, moving high priority task from package-1 to package-0.. Even without the presence of active load balance, load balance will fail to balance the above scenario.. Fix find_busiest_queue to use "imbalance" when it is lightly loaded. [kernel@kolivas.org: sched: store weighted load on up] [kernel@kolivas.org: sched: add discrete weighted cpu load function] [suresh.b.siddha@intel.com: sched: remove dead code] Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.com.au> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Cc: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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26-Jun-2006 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
[PATCH] proc: Rewrite the proc dentry flush on exit optimization To keep the dcache from filling up with dead /proc entries we flush them on process exit. However over the years that code has gotten hairy with a dentry_pointer and a lock in task_struct and misdocumented as a correctness feature. I have rewritten this code to look and see if we have a corresponding entry in the dcache and if so flush it on process exit. This removes the extra fields in the task_struct and allows me to trivially handle the case of a /proc/<tgid>/task/<pid> entry as well as the current /proc/<pid> entries. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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25-Jun-2006 |
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> |
[PATCH] pacct: none-delayed process accounting accumulation In current 2.6.17 implementation, signal_struct refered from task_struct is used for per-process data structure. The pacct facility also uses it as a per-process data structure to store stime, utime, minflt, majflt. But those members are saved in __exit_signal(). It's too late. For example, if some threads exits at same time, pacct facility has a possibility to drop accountings for a part of those threads. (see, the following 'The results of original 2.6.17 kernel') I think accounting information should be completely collected into the per-process data structure before writing out an accounting record. This patch fixes this matter. Accumulation of stime, utime, minflt and majflt are done before generating accounting record. [mingo@elte.hu: fix acct_collect() siglock bug found by lockdep] Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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25-Jun-2006 |
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> |
[PATCH] pacct: avoidance to refer the last thread as a representation of the process When pacct facility generate an 'ac_flag' field in accounting record, it refers a task_struct of the thread which died last in the process. But any other task_structs are ignored. Therefore, pacct facility drops ASU flag even if root-privilege operations are used by any other threads except the last one. In addition, AFORK flag is always set when the thread of group-leader didn't die last, although this process has called execve() after fork(). We have a same matter in ac_exitcode. The recorded ac_exitcode is an exit code of the last thread in the process. There is a possibility this exitcode is not the group leader's one.
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25-Jun-2006 |
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> |
[PATCH] pacct: add pacct_struct to fix some pacct bugs. The pacct facility need an i/o operation when an accounting record is generated. There is a possibility to wake OOM killer up. If OOM killer is activated, it kills some processes to make them release process memory regions. But acct_process() is called in the killed processes context before calling exit_mm(), so those processes cannot release own memory. In the results, any processes stop in this point and it finally cause a system stall.
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13-Jun-2006 |
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> |
[PATCH] Kill PF_SYNCWRITE flag A process flag to indicate whether we are doing sync io is incredibly ugly. It also causes performance problems when one does a lot of async io and then proceeds to sync it. Part of the io will go out as async, and the other part as sync. This causes a disconnect between the previously submitted io and the synced io. For io schedulers such as CFQ, this will cause us lost merges and suboptimal behaviour in scheduling. Remove PF_SYNCWRITE completely from the fsync/msync paths, and let the O_DIRECT path just directly indicate that the writes are sync by using WRITE_SYNC instead. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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23-Jun-2006 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
[PATCH] ptrace: document the locking rules After a lot of reading the code and thinking about how it behaves I have managed to figure out what the current ptrace locking rules are. The current code is in much better that it appears at first glance. The troublesome code paths are actually the code paths that violate the current rules. ptrace uses simple exclusive access as it's locking. You can only touch task->ptrace if the task is stopped and you are the ptracer, or if the task is running and are the task itself. Very simple, very easy to maintain. It just needs to be documented so people know not to touch ptrace from elsewhere. Currently we do have a few pieces of code that are in violation of this rule. Particularly the core dump code, and ptrace_attach. But so far the code looks fixable. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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01-Jun-2006 |
Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com> |
[PATCH] inotify (1/5): split kernel API from userspace support The following series of patches introduces a kernel API for inotify, making it possible for kernel modules to benefit from inotify's mechanism for watching inodes. With these patches, inotify will maintain for each caller a list of watches (via an embedded struct inotify_watch), where each inotify_watch is associated with a corresponding struct inode. The caller registers an event handler and specifies for which filesystem events their event handler should be called per inotify_watch. Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com> Acked-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Acked-by: John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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26-Apr-2006 |
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> |
Sanitise linux/sched.h for userspace consumption There was a whole load of crap exposed which should have been inside the existing #ifdef __KERNEL__ part. Also hide struct sched_param for now, since glibc has its own and doesn't like being given ours (yet). Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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25-Apr-2006 |
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> |
Partially sanitise linux/sched.h for userspace consumption For now, just make sure all inclusion of private header files is done within #ifdef __KERNEL__. There'll be more to clean up later. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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18-Apr-2006 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
[PATCH] task: Make task list manipulations RCU safe While we can currently walk through thread groups, process groups, and sessions with just the rcu_read_lock, this opens the door to walking the entire task list. We already have all of the other RCU guarantees so there is no cost in doing this, this should be enough so that proc can stop taking the tasklist lock during readdir. prev_task was killed because it has no users, and using it will miss new tasks when doing an rcu traversal. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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14-Apr-2006 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
[PATCH] kill unushed __put_task_struct_cb Somehow in the midst of dotting i's and crossing t's during the merge up to rc1 we wound up keeping __put_task_struct_cb when it should have been killed as it no longer has any users. Sorry I probably should have caught this while it was still in the -mm tree. Having the old code there gets confusing when reading through the code and trying to understand what is happening. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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10-Apr-2006 |
Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> |
[PATCH] Reinstate const in next_thread() Before commit 47e65328a7b1cdfc4e3102e50d60faf94ebba7d3, next_thread() took a const task_t. Reinstate the const qualifier, getting the next thread never changes the current thread. Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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11-Apr-2006 |
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> |
[PATCH] splice: add direct fd <-> fd splicing support It's more efficient for sendfile() emulation. Basically we cache an internal private pipe and just use that as the intermediate area for pages. Direct splicing is not available from sys_splice(), it is only meant to be used for sendfile() emulation. Additional patch from Ingo Molnar to avoid the PIPE_BUFFERS loop at exit for the normal fast path. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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10-Apr-2006 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
[PATCH] de_thread: Don't confuse users do_each_thread. Oleg Nesterov spotted two interesting bugs with the current de_thread code. The simplest is a long standing double decrement of __get_cpu_var(process_counts) in __unhash_process. Caused by two processes exiting when only one was created. The other is that since we no longer detach from the thread_group list it is possible for do_each_thread when run under the tasklist_lock to see the same task_struct twice. Once on the task list as a thread_group_leader, and once on the thread list of another thread. The double appearance in do_each_thread can cause a double increment of mm_core_waiters in zap_threads resulting in problems later on in coredump_wait. To remedy those two problems this patch takes the simple approach of changing the old thread group leader into a child thread. The only routine in release_task that cares is __unhash_process, and it can be trivially seen that we handle cleaning up a thread group leader properly. Since de_thread doesn't change the pid of the exiting leader process and instead shares it with the new leader process. I change thread_group_leader to recognize group leadership based on the group_leader field and not based on pids. This should also be slightly cheaper then the existing thread_group_leader macro. I performed a quick audit and I couldn't see any user of thread_group_leader that cared about the difference. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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31-Mar-2006 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
[PATCH] pidhash: Refactor the pid hash table Simplifies the code, reduces the need for 4 pid hash tables, and makes the code more capable. In the discussions I had with Oleg it was felt that to a large extent the cleanup itself justified the work. With struct pid being dynamically allocated meant we could create the hash table entry when the pid was allocated and free the hash table entry when the pid was freed. Instead of playing with the hash lists when ever a process would attach or detach to a process. For myself the fact that it gave what my previous task_ref patch gave for free with simpler code was a big win. The problem is that if you hold a reference to struct task_struct you lock in 10K of low memory. If you do that in a user controllable way like /proc does, with an unprivileged but hostile user space application with typical resource limits of 1000 fds and 100 processes I can trigger the OOM killer by consuming all of low memory with task structs, on a machine wight 1GB of low memory. If I instead hold a reference to struct pid which holds a pointer to my task_struct, I don't suffer from that problem because struct pid is 2 orders of magnitude smaller. In fact struct pid is small enough that most other kernel data structures dwarf it, so simply limiting the number of referring data structures is enough to prevent exhaustion of low memory. This splits the current struct pid into two structures, struct pid and struct pid_link, and reduces our number of hash tables from PIDTYPE_MAX to just one. struct pid_link is the per process linkage into the hash tables and lives in struct task_struct. struct pid is given an indepedent lifetime, and holds pointers to each of the pid types. The independent life of struct pid simplifies attach_pid, and detach_pid, because we are always manipulating the list of pids and not the hash table. In addition in giving struct pid an indpendent life it makes the concept much more powerful. Kernel data structures can now embed a struct pid * instead of a pid_t and not suffer from pid wrap around problems or from keeping unnecessarily large amounts of memory allocated. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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31-Mar-2006 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
[PATCH] task: RCU protect task->usage A big problem with rcu protected data structures that are also reference counted is that you must jump through several hoops to increase the reference count. I think someone finally implemented atomic_inc_not_zero(&count) to automate the common case. Unfortunately this means you must special case the rcu access case. When data structures are only visible via rcu in a manner that is not determined by the reference count on the object (i.e. tasks are visible until their zombies are reaped) there is a much simpler technique we can employ. Simply delaying the decrement of the reference count until the rcu interval is over. What that means is that the proc code that looks up a task and later wants to sleep can now do: rcu_read_lock(); task = find_task_by_pid(some_pid); if (task) { get_task_struct(task); } rcu_read_unlock(); The effect on the rest of the kernel is that put_task_struct becomes cheaper and immediate, and in the case where the task has been reaped it frees the task immediate instead of unnecessarily waiting an until the rcu interval is over. Cleanup of task_struct does not happen when its reference count drops to zero, instead cleanup happens when release_task is called. Tasks can only be looked up via rcu before release_task is called. All rcu protected members of task_struct are freed by release_task. Therefore we can move call_rcu from put_task_struct into release_task. And we can modify release_task to not immediately release the reference count but instead have it call put_task_struct from the function it gives to call_rcu. The end result: - get_task_struct is safe in an rcu context where we have just looked up the task. - put_task_struct() simplifies into its old pre rcu self. This reorganization also makes put_task_struct uncallable from modules as it is not exported but it does not appear to be called from any modules so this should not be an issue, and is trivially fixed. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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31-Mar-2006 |
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> |
[PATCH] resurrect __put_task_struct This just got nuked in mainline. Bring it back because Eric's patches use it. Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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31-Mar-2006 |
Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> |
[PATCH] sched: activate SCHED BATCH expired To increase the strength of SCHED_BATCH as a scheduling hint we can activate batch tasks on the expired array since by definition they are latency insensitive tasks. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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31-Mar-2006 |
Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> |
[PATCH] sched: cleanup task_activated() The activated flag in task_struct is used to track different sleep types and its usage is somewhat obfuscated. Convert the variable to an enum with more descriptive names without altering the function. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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31-Mar-2006 |
Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> |
[PATCH] sched: reduce overhead of calc_load Currently, count_active_tasks() calls both nr_running() & nr_interruptible(). Each of these functions does a "for_each_cpu" & reads values from the runqueue of each cpu. Although this is not a lot of instructions, each runqueue may be located on different node. Depending on the architecture, a unique TLB entry may be required to access each runqueue. Since there may be more runqueues than cpu TLB entries, a scan of all runqueues can trash the TLB. Each memory reference incurs a TLB miss & refill. In addition, the runqueue cacheline that contains nr_running & nr_uninterruptible may be evicted from the cache between the two passes. This causes unnecessary cache misses. Combining nr_running() & nr_interruptible() into a single function substantially reduces the TLB & cache misses on large systems. This should have no measureable effect on smaller systems. On a 128p IA64 system running a memory stress workload, the new function reduced the overhead of calc_load() from 605 usec/call to 324 usec/call. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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28-Mar-2006 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
[PATCH] cleanup __exit_signal->cleanup_sighand path Move 'tsk->sighand = NULL' from cleanup_sighand() to __exit_signal(). This makes the exit path more understandable and allows us to do cleanup_sighand() outside of ->siglock protected section. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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28-Mar-2006 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
[PATCH] pids: kill PIDTYPE_TGID This patch kills PIDTYPE_TGID pid_type thus saving one hash table in kernel/pid.c and speeding up subthreads create/destroy a bit. It is also a preparation for the further tref/pids rework. This patch adds 'struct list_head thread_group' to 'struct task_struct' instead. We don't detach group leader from PIDTYPE_PID namespace until another thread inherits it's ->pid == ->tgid, so we are safe wrt premature free_pidmap(->tgid) call. Currently there are no users of find_task_by_pid_type(PIDTYPE_TGID). Should the need arise, we can use find_task_by_pid()->group_leader. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-By: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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28-Mar-2006 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
[PATCH] move __exit_signal() to kernel/exit.c __exit_signal() is private to release_task() now. I think it is better to make it static in kernel/exit.c and export flush_sigqueue() instead - this function is much more simple and straightforward. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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28-Mar-2006 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
[PATCH] rename __exit_sighand to cleanup_sighand Cosmetic, rename __exit_sighand to cleanup_sighand and move it close to copy_sighand(). This matches copy_signal/cleanup_signal naming, and I think it is easier to follow. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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28-Mar-2006 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
[PATCH] copy_process: cleanup bad_fork_cleanup_signal __exit_signal() does important cleanups atomically under ->siglock. It is also called from copy_process's error path. This is not good, for example we can't move __unhash_process() under ->siglock for that reason. We should not mix these 2 paths, just look at ugly 'if (p->sighand)' under 'bad_fork_cleanup_sighand:' label. For copy_process() case it is sufficient to just backout copy_signal(), nothing more. Again, nobody can see this task yet. For CLONE_THREAD case we just decrement signal->count, otherwise nobody can see this ->signal and we can free it lockless. This patch assumes it is safe to do exit_thread_group_keys() without tasklist_lock. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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28-Mar-2006 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
[PATCH] copy_process: cleanup bad_fork_cleanup_sighand The only caller of exit_sighand(tsk) is copy_process's error path. We can call __exit_sighand() directly and kill exit_sighand(). This 'tsk' was not yet registered in pid_hash[] or init_task.tasks, it has no external references, nobody can see it, and IF (clone_flags & CLONE_SIGHAND) At least 'current' has a reference to ->sighand, this means atomic_dec_and_test(sighand->count) can't be true. ELSE Nobody can see this ->sighand, this means we can free it without any locking. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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28-Mar-2006 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
[PATCH] introduce lock_task_sighand() helper Add lock_task_sighand() helper and converts group_send_sig_info() to use it. Hopefully we will have more users soon. This patch also removes '!sighand->count' and '!p->usage' checks, I think they both are bogus, racy and unneeded (but probably it makes sense to restore them as BUG_ON()s). ->sighand is cleared and it's ->count is decremented in release_task() with sighand->siglock held, so it is a bug to have '!p->usage || !->count' after we already locked and verified it is the same. On the other hand, an already dead task without ->sighand can have a non-zero ->usage due to ptrace, for example. If we read the stale value of ->sighand we must see the change after spin_lock(), because that change was done while holding that same old ->sighand.siglock. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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28-Mar-2006 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
[PATCH] convert sighand_cache to use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU This patch borrows a clever Hugh's 'struct anon_vma' trick. Without tasklist_lock held we can't trust task->sighand until we locked it and re-checked that it is still the same. But this means we don't need to defer 'kmem_cache_free(sighand)'. We can return the memory to slab immediately, all we need is to be sure that sighand->siglock can't dissapear inside rcu protected section. To do so we need to initialize ->siglock inside ctor function, SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU does the rest. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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28-Mar-2006 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
[PATCH] pidhash: don't count idle threads fork_idle() does unhash_process() just after copy_process(). Contrary, boot_cpu's idle thread explicitely registers itself for each pid_type with nr = 0. copy_process() already checks p->pid != 0 before process_counts++, I think we can just skip attach_pid() calls and job control inits for idle threads and kill unhash_process(). We don't need to cleanup ->proc_dentry in fork_idle() because with this patch idle threads are never hashed in kernel/pid.c:pid_hash[]. We don't need to hash pid == 0 in pidmap_init(). free_pidmap() is never called with pid == 0 arg, so it will never be reused. So it is still possible to use pid == 0 in any PIDTYPE_xxx namespace from kernel/pid.c's POV. However with this patch we don't hash pid == 0 for PIDTYPE_PID case. We still have have PIDTYPE_PGID/PIDTYPE_SID entries with pid == 0: /sbin/init and kernel threads which don't call daemonize(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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28-Mar-2006 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
[PATCH] kill SET_LINKS/REMOVE_LINKS Both SET_LINKS() and SET_LINKS/REMOVE_LINKS() have exactly one caller, and these callers already check thread_group_leader(). This patch kills theese macros, they mix two different things: setting process's parent and registering it in init_task.tasks list. Callers are updated to do these actions by hand. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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28-Mar-2006 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
[PATCH] remove add_parent()'s parent argument add_parent(p, parent) is always called with parent == p->parent, and it makes no sense to do it differently. This patch removes this argument. No changes in affected .o files. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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28-Mar-2006 |
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> |
[PATCH] Remove dead kill_sl prototype from sched.h The kill_sl function doesn't exist in the kernel so a prototype is completely unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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27-Mar-2006 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] lightweight robust futexes: compat 32-bit syscall compatibility support. (This patch also moves all futex related compat functionality into kernel/futex_compat.c.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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27-Mar-2006 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] lightweight robust futexes: core Add the core infrastructure for robust futexes: structure definitions, the new syscalls and the do_exit() based cleanup mechanism. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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26-Mar-2006 |
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> |
[PATCH] hrtimers: remove data field The nanosleep cleanup allows to remove the data field of hrtimer. The callback function can use container_of() to get it's own data. Since the hrtimer structure is anyway embedded in other structures, this adds no overhead. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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24-Mar-2006 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] timer-irq-driven soft-watchdog, cleanups Make the softlockup detector purely timer-interrupt driven, removing softirq-context (timer) dependencies. This means that if the softlockup watchdog triggers, it has truly observed a longer than 10 seconds scheduling delay of a SCHED_FIFO prio 99 task. (the patch also turns off the softlockup detector during the initial bootup phase and does small style fixes) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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24-Mar-2006 |
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> |
[PATCH] cpuset memory spread slab cache optimizations The hooks in the slab cache allocator code path for support of NUMA mempolicies and cpuset memory spreading are in an important code path. Many systems will use neither feature. This patch optimizes those hooks down to a single check of some bits in the current tasks task_struct flags. For non NUMA systems, this hook and related code is already ifdef'd out. The optimization is done by using another task flag, set if the task is using a non-default NUMA mempolicy. Taking this flag bit along with the PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB flag bits added earlier in this 'cpuset memory spreading' patch set, one can check for the combination of any of these special case memory placement mechanisms with a single test of the current tasks task_struct flags. This patch also tightens up the code, to save a few bytes of kernel text space, and moves some of it out of line. Due to the nested inlines called from multiple places, we were ending up with three copies of this code, which once we get off the main code path (for local node allocation) seems a bit wasteful of instruction memory. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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24-Mar-2006 |
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> |
[PATCH] cpuset memory spread basic implementation This patch provides the implementation and cpuset interface for an alternative memory allocation policy that can be applied to certain kinds of memory allocations, such as the page cache (file system buffers) and some slab caches (such as inode caches). The policy is called "memory spreading." If enabled, it spreads out these kinds of memory allocations over all the nodes allowed to a task, instead of preferring to place them on the node where the task is executing. All other kinds of allocations, including anonymous pages for a tasks stack and data regions, are not affected by this policy choice, and continue to be allocated preferring the node local to execution, as modified by the NUMA mempolicy. There are two boolean flag files per cpuset that control where the kernel allocates pages for the file system buffers and related in kernel data structures. They are called 'memory_spread_page' and 'memory_spread_slab'. If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'memory_spread_page' is set, then the kernel will spread the file system buffers (page cache) evenly over all the nodes that the faulting task is allowed to use, instead of preferring to put those pages on the node where the task is running. If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'memory_spread_slab' is set, then the kernel will spread some file system related slab caches, such as for inodes and dentries evenly over all the nodes that the faulting task is allowed to use, instead of preferring to put those pages on the node where the task is running. The implementation is simple. Setting the cpuset flags 'memory_spread_page' or 'memory_spread_cache' turns on the per-process flags PF_SPREAD_PAGE or PF_SPREAD_SLAB, respectively, for each task that is in the cpuset or subsequently joins that cpuset. In subsequent patches, the page allocation calls for the affected page cache and slab caches are modified to perform an inline check for these flags, and if set, a call to a new routine cpuset_mem_spread_node() returns the node to prefer for the allocation. The cpuset_mem_spread_node() routine is also simple. It uses the value of a per-task rotor cpuset_mem_spread_rotor to select the next node in the current tasks mems_allowed to prefer for the allocation. This policy can provide substantial improvements for jobs that need to place thread local data on the corresponding node, but that need to access large file system data sets that need to be spread across the several nodes in the jobs cpuset in order to fit. Without this patch, especially for jobs that might have one thread reading in the data set, the memory allocation across the nodes in the jobs cpuset can become very uneven. A couple of Copyright year ranges are updated as well. And a couple of email addresses that can be found in the MAINTAINERS file are removed. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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23-Mar-2006 |
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> |
[PATCH] Block queue IO tracing support (blktrace) as of 2006-03-23 Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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11-Mar-2006 |
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> |
[PATCH] remove __put_task_struct_cb export again The patch '[PATCH] RCU signal handling' [1] added an export for __put_task_struct_cb, a put_task_struct helper newly introduced in that patch. But the put_task_struct couldn't be used modular previously as __put_task_struct wasn't exported. There are not callers of it in modular code, and it shouldn't be exported because we don't want drivers to hold references to task_structs. This patch removes the export and folds __put_task_struct into __put_task_struct_cb as there's no other caller. [1] http://www2.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e56d090310d7625ecb43a1eeebd479f04affb48b Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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28-Feb-2006 |
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> |
[PATCH] Add mm->task_size and fix powerpc vdso This patch adds mm->task_size to keep track of the task size of a given mm and uses that to fix the powerpc vdso so that it uses the mm task size to decide what pages to fault in instead of the current thread flags (which broke when ptracing). (akpm: I expect that mm_struct.task_size will become the way in which we finally sort out the confusion between 32-bit processes and 32-bit mm's. It may need tweaks, but at this stage this patch is powerpc-only.) Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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14-Feb-2006 |
Kenneth W Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> |
[PATCH] sched: revert "filter affine wakeups" Revert commit d7102e95b7b9c00277562c29aad421d2d521c5f6: [PATCH] sched: filter affine wakeups Apparently caused more than 10% performance regression for aim7 benchmark. The setup in use is 16-cpu HP rx8620, 64Gb of memory and 12 MSA1000s with 144 disks. Each disk is 72Gb with a single ext3 filesystem (courtesy of HP, who supplied benchmark results). The problem is, for aim7, the wake-up pattern is random, but it still needs load balancing action in the wake-up path to achieve best performance. With the above commit, lack of load balancing hurts that workload. However, for workloads like database transaction processing, the requirement is exactly opposite. In the wake up path, best performance is achieved with absolutely zero load balancing. We simply wake up the process on the CPU that it was previously run. Worst performance is obtained when we do load balancing at wake up. There isn't an easy way to auto detect the workload characteristics. Ingo's earlier patch that detects idle CPU and decide whether to load balance or not doesn't perform with aim7 either since all CPUs are busy (it causes even bigger perf. regression). Revert commit d7102e95b7b9c00277562c29aad421d2d521c5f6, which causes more than 10% performance regression with aim7. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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09-Feb-2006 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
[PATCH] do_sigaction: cleanup ->sa_mask manipulation Clear unblockable signals beforehand. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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18-Jan-2006 |
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> |
[PATCH] Generic sys_rt_sigsuspend() The TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag allows us to have a generic implementation of sys_rt_sigsuspend() instead of duplicating it for each architecture. This provides such an implementation and makes arch/powerpc use it. It also tidies up the ppc32 sys_sigsuspend() to use TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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14-Jan-2006 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] sched: add new SCHED_BATCH policy Add a new SCHED_BATCH (3) scheduling policy: such tasks are presumed CPU-intensive, and will acquire a constant +5 priority level penalty. Such policy is nice for workloads that are non-interactive, but which do not want to give up their nice levels. The policy is also useful for workloads that want a deterministic scheduling policy without interactivity causing extra preemptions (between that workload's tasks). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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12-Jan-2006 |
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> |
[PATCH] missing helper - task_stack_page() Patchset annotates arch/* uses of ->thread_info. Ones that really are about access of thread_info of given process are simply switched to task_thread_info(task); ones that deal with access to objects on stack are switched to new helper - task_stack_page(). A _lot_ of the latter are actually open-coded instances of "find where pt_regs are"; those are consolidated into task_pt_regs(task) (many architectures actually have such helper already). Note that these annotations are not mandatory - any code not converted to these helpers still works. However, they clean up a lot of places and have actually caught a number of bugs, so converting out of tree ports would be a good idea... As an example of breakage caught by that stuff, see i386 pt_regs mess - we used to have it open-coded in a bunch of places and when back in April Stas had fixed a bug in copy_thread(), the rest had been left out of sync. That required two followup patches (the latest - just before 2.6.15) _and_ still had left /proc/*/stat eip field broken. Try ps -eo eip on i386 and watch the junk... This patch: new helper - task_stack_page(task). Returns pointer to the memory object containing task stack; usually thread_info of task sits in the beginning of that object. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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12-Jan-2006 |
akpm@osdl.org <akpm@osdl.org> |
[PATCH] sched: filter affine wakeups From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Track the last waker CPU, and only consider wakeup-balancing if there's a match between current waker CPU and the previous waker CPU. This ensures that there is some correlation between two subsequent wakeup events before we move the task. Should help random-wakeup workloads on large SMP systems, by reducing the migration attempts by a factor of nr_cpus. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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12-Jan-2006 |
akpm@osdl.org <akpm@osdl.org> |
[PATCH] scheduler cache-hot-autodetect From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> This is the latest version of the scheduler cache-hot-auto-tune patch. The first problem was that detection time scaled with O(N^2), which is unacceptable on larger SMP and NUMA systems. To solve this: - I've added a 'domain distance' function, which is used to cache measurement results. Each distance is only measured once. This means that e.g. on NUMA distances of 0, 1 and 2 might be measured, on HT distances 0 and 1, and on SMP distance 0 is measured. The code walks the domain tree to determine the distance, so it automatically follows whatever hierarchy an architecture sets up. This cuts down on the boot time significantly and removes the O(N^2) limit. The only assumption is that migration costs can be expressed as a function of domain distance - this covers the overwhelming majority of existing systems, and is a good guess even for more assymetric systems. [ People hacking systems that have assymetries that break this assumption (e.g. different CPU speeds) should experiment a bit with the cpu_distance() function. Adding a ->migration_distance factor to the domain structure would be one possible solution - but lets first see the problem systems, if they exist at all. Lets not overdesign. ] Another problem was that only a single cache-size was used for measuring the cost of migration, and most architectures didnt set that variable up. Furthermore, a single cache-size does not fit NUMA hierarchies with L3 caches and does not fit HT setups, where different CPUs will often have different 'effective cache sizes'. To solve this problem: - Instead of relying on a single cache-size provided by the platform and sticking to it, the code now auto-detects the 'effective migration cost' between two measured CPUs, via iterating through a wide range of cachesizes. The code searches for the maximum migration cost, which occurs when the working set of the test-workload falls just below the 'effective cache size'. I.e. real-life optimized search is done for the maximum migration cost, between two real CPUs. This, amongst other things, has the positive effect hat if e.g. two CPUs share a L2/L3 cache, a different (and accurate) migration cost will be found than between two CPUs on the same system that dont share any caches. (The reliable measurement of migration costs is tricky - see the source for details.) Furthermore i've added various boot-time options to override/tune migration behavior. Firstly, there's a blanket override for autodetection: migration_cost=1000,2000,3000 will override the depth 0/1/2 values with 1msec/2msec/3msec values. Secondly, there's a global factor that can be used to increase (or decrease) the autodetected values: migration_factor=120 will increase the autodetected values by 20%. This option is useful to tune things in a workload-dependent way - e.g. if a workload is cache-insensitive then CPU utilization can be maximized by specifying migration_factor=0. I've tested the autodetection code quite extensively on x86, on 3 P3/Xeon/2MB, and the autodetected values look pretty good: Dual Celeron (128K L2 cache): --------------------- migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 131072, cpu: 467 MHz): --------------------- [00] [01] [00]: - 1.7(1) [01]: 1.7(1) - --------------------- cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 1.7 (1784008) --------------------- Here the slow memory subsystem dominates system performance, and even though caches are small, the migration cost is 1.7 msecs. Dual HT P4 (512K L2 cache): --------------------- migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 524288, cpu: 2379 MHz): --------------------- [00] [01] [02] [03] [00]: - 0.4(1) 0.0(0) 0.4(1) [01]: 0.4(1) - 0.4(1) 0.0(0) [02]: 0.0(0) 0.4(1) - 0.4(1) [03]: 0.4(1) 0.0(0) 0.4(1) - --------------------- cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (33900) 0.4 (448514) --------------------- Here it can be seen that there is no migration cost between two HT siblings (CPU#0/2 and CPU#1/3 are separate physical CPUs). A fast memory system makes inter-physical-CPU migration pretty cheap: 0.4 msecs. 8-way P3/Xeon [2MB L2 cache]: --------------------- migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 2097152, cpu: 700 MHz): --------------------- [00] [01] [02] [03] [04] [05] [06] [07] [00]: - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [01]: 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [02]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [03]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [04]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [05]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) [06]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) [07]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - --------------------- cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 19.2 (19281756) --------------------- This one has huge caches and a relatively slow memory subsystem - so the migration cost is 19 msecs. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: <wilder@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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11-Jan-2006 |
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> |
[PATCH] move capable() to capability.h - Move capable() from sched.h to capability.h; - Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used (in include/, block/, ipc/, kernel/, a few drivers/, mm/, security/, & sound/; many more drivers/ to go) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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11-Jan-2006 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] uninline capable() Uninline capable(). Saves 2K of kernel text on a generic .config, and 1K on a tiny config. In addition it makes the use of capable more consistent between CONFIG_SECURITY and !CONFIG_SECURITY Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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09-Jan-2006 |
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> |
[PATCH] include/linux/sched.h: no need to guard the normalize_rt_tasks() prototype There's no need to guard the normalize_rt_tasks() prototype with an #ifdef CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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09-Jan-2006 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
[PATCH] hrtimer: switch itimers to hrtimer switch itimers to a hrtimers-based implementation Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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09-Jan-2006 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] mutex subsystem, debugging code mutex implementation - add debugging code. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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08-Jan-2006 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
[PATCH] keys: Permit running process to instantiate keys Make it possible for a running process (such as gssapid) to be able to instantiate a key, as was requested by Trond Myklebust for NFS4. The patch makes the following changes: (1) A new, optional key type method has been added. This permits a key type to intercept requests at the point /sbin/request-key is about to be spawned and do something else with them - passing them over the rpc_pipefs files or netlink sockets for instance. The uninstantiated key, the authorisation key and the intended operation name are passed to the method. (2) The callout_info is no longer passed as an argument to /sbin/request-key to prevent unauthorised viewing of this data using ps or by looking in /proc/pid/cmdline. This means that the old /sbin/request-key program will not work with the patched kernel as it will expect to see an extra argument that is no longer there. A revised keyutils package will be made available tomorrow. (3) The callout_info is now attached to the authorisation key. Reading this key will retrieve the information. (4) A new field has been added to the task_struct. This holds the authorisation key currently active for a thread. Searches now look here for the caller's set of keys rather than looking for an auth key in the lowest level of the session keyring. This permits a thread to be servicing multiple requests at once and to switch between them. Note that this is per-thread, not per-process, and so is usable in multithreaded programs. The setting of this field is inherited across fork and exec. (5) A new keyctl function (KEYCTL_ASSUME_AUTHORITY) has been added that permits a thread to assume the authority to deal with an uninstantiated key. Assumption is only permitted if the authorisation key associated with the uninstantiated key is somewhere in the thread's keyrings. This function can also clear the assumption. (6) A new magic key specifier has been added to refer to the currently assumed authorisation key (KEY_SPEC_REQKEY_AUTH_KEY). (7) Instantiation will only proceed if the appropriate authorisation key is assumed first. The assumed authorisation key is discarded if instantiation is successful. (8) key_validate() is moved from the file of request_key functions to the file of permissions functions. (9) The documentation is updated. From: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Build fix. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Alexander Zangerl <az@bond.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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08-Jan-2006 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
[PATCH] remove get_task_struct_rcu() The latest set of signal-RCU patches does not use get_task_struct_rcu(). Attached is a patch that removes it. Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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08-Jan-2006 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] RCU signal handling RCU tasklist_lock and RCU signal handling: send signals RCU-read-locked instead of tasklist_lock read-locked. This is a scalability improvement on SMP and a preemption-latency improvement under PREEMPT_RCU. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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08-Jan-2006 |
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> |
[PATCH] Swap Migration V5: PF_SWAPWRITE to allow writing to swap Add PF_SWAPWRITE to control a processes permission to write to swap. - Use PF_SWAPWRITE in may_write_to_queue() instead of checking for kswapd and pdflush - Set PF_SWAPWRITE flag for kswapd and pdflush Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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06-Jan-2006 |
Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> |
[PATCH] atomic_long_t & include/asm-generic/atomic.h V2 Several counters already have the need to use 64 atomic variables on 64 bit platforms (see mm_counter_t in sched.h). We have to do ugly ifdefs to fall back to 32 bit atomic on 32 bit platforms. The VM statistics patch that I am working on will also make more extensive use of atomic64. This patch introduces a new type atomic_long_t by providing definitions in asm-generic/atomic.h that works similar to the c "long" type. Its 32 bits on 32 bit platforms and 64 bits on 64 bit platforms. Also cleans up the determination of the mm_counter_t in sched.h. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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28-Nov-2005 |
Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> |
[PATCH] clean up lock_cpu_hotplug() in cpufreq There are some callers in cpufreq hotplug notify path that the lowest function calls lock_cpu_hotplug(). The lock is already held during cpu_up() and cpu_down() calls when the notify calls are broadcast to registered clients. Ideally if possible, we could disable_preempt() at the highest caller and make sure we dont sleep in the path down in cpufreq->driver_target() calls but the calls are so intertwined and cumbersome to cleanup. Hence we consistently use lock_cpu_hotplug() and unlock_cpu_hotplug() in all places. - Removed export of cpucontrol semaphore and made it static. - removed explicit uses of up/down with lock_cpu_hotplug() so we can keep track of the the callers in same thread context and just keep refcounts without calling a down() that causes a deadlock. - Removed current_in_hotplug() uses - Removed PF_HOTPLUG_CPU in sched.h introduced for the current_in_hotplug() temporary workaround. Tested with insmod of cpufreq_stat.ko, and logical online/offline to make sure we dont have any hang situations. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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13-Nov-2005 |
Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> |
[PATCH] aio: remove kioctx from mm_struct Sync iocbs have a life cycle that don't need a kioctx. Their retrying, if any, is done in the context of their owner who has allocated them on the stack. The sole user of a sync iocb's ctx reference was aio_complete() checking for an elevated iocb ref count that could never happen. No path which grabs an iocb ref has access to sync iocbs. If we were to implement sync iocb cancelation it would be done by the owner of the iocb using its on-stack reference. Removing this chunk from aio_complete allows us to remove the entire kioctx instance from mm_struct, reducing its size by a third. On a i386 testing box the slab size went from 768 to 504 bytes and from 5 to 8 per page. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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13-Nov-2005 |
Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> |
[PATCH] m68k: thread_info header cleanup a) in smp_lock.h #include of sched.h and spinlock.h moved under #ifdef CONFIG_LOCK_KERNEL. b) interrupt.h now explicitly pulls sched.h (not via smp_lock.h from hardirq.h as it used to) c) in three more places we need changes to compensate for (a) - one place in arch/sparc needs string.h now, hardirq.h needs forward declaration of task_struct and preempt.h needs direct include of thread_info.h. d) thread_info-related helpers in sched.h and thread_info.h put under ifndef __HAVE_THREAD_FUNCTIONS. Obviously safe. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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13-Nov-2005 |
Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> |
[PATCH] m68k: introduce setup_thread_stack() and end_of_stack() encapsulates the rest of arch-dependent operations with thread_info access. Two new helpers - setup_thread_stack() and end_of_stack(). For normal case the former consists of copying thread_info of parent to new thread_info and the latter returns pointer immediately past the end of thread_info. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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13-Nov-2005 |
Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> |
[PATCH] m68k: introduce task_thread_info new helper - task_thread_info(task). On platforms that have thread_info allocated separately (i.e. in default case) it simply returns task->thread_info. m68k wants (and for good reasons) to embed its thread_info into task_struct. So it will (in later patch) have task_thread_info() of its own. For now we just add a macro for generic case and convert existing instances of its body in core kernel to uses of new macro. Obviously safe - all normal architectures get the same preprocessor output they used to get. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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08-Nov-2005 |
Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> |
[PATCH] cpu hotplug: fix locking in cpufreq drivers When calling target drivers to set frequency, we take cpucontrol lock. When we modified the code to accomodate CPU hotplug, there was an attempt to take a double lock of cpucontrol leading to a deadlock. Since the current thread context is already holding the cpucontrol lock, we dont need to make another attempt to acquire it. Now we leave a trace in current->flags indicating current thread already is under cpucontrol lock held, so we dont attempt to do this another time. Thanks to Andrew Morton for the beating:-) From: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> Build fix (akpm: this patch is still unpleasant. Ashok continues to look for a cleaner solution, doesn't he? ;)) Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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30-Oct-2005 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
[PATCH] cleanup the usage of SEND_SIG_xxx constants This patch simplifies some checks for magic siginfo values. It should not change the behaviour in any way. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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30-Oct-2005 |
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> |
[PATCH] sched: hardcode non-smp set_cpus_allowed Simplify the UP (1 CPU) implementatin of set_cpus_allowed. The one CPU is hardcoded to be cpu 0 - so just test for that bit, and avoid having to pick up the cpu_online_map. Also, unexport cpu_online_map: it was only needed for set_cpus_allowed(). Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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30-Oct-2005 |
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> |
[PATCH] cpusets: dual semaphore locking overhaul Overhaul cpuset locking. Replace single semaphore with two semaphores. The suggestion to use two locks was made by Roman Zippel. Both locks are global. Code that wants to modify cpusets must first acquire the exclusive manage_sem, which allows them read-only access to cpusets, and holds off other would-be modifiers. Before making actual changes, the second semaphore, callback_sem must be acquired as well. Code that needs only to query cpusets must acquire callback_sem, which is also a global exclusive lock. The earlier problems with double tripping are avoided, because it is allowed for holders of manage_sem to nest the second callback_sem lock, and only callback_sem is needed by code called from within __alloc_pages(), where the double tripping had been possible. This is not quite the same as a normal read/write semaphore, because obtaining read-only access with intent to change must hold off other such attempts, while allowing read-only access w/o such intention. Changing cpusets involves several related checks and changes, which must be done while allowing read-only queries (to avoid the double trip), but while ensuring nothing changes (holding off other would be modifiers.) This overhaul of cpuset locking also makes careful use of task_lock() to guard access to the task->cpuset pointer, closing a couple of race conditions noticed while reading this code (thanks, Roman). I've never seen these races fail in any use or test. See further the comments in the code. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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29-Oct-2005 |
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> |
[PATCH] mm: fix rss and mmlist locking A couple of oddities were guarded by page_table_lock, no longer properly guarded when that is split. The mm_counters of file_rss and anon_rss: make those an atomic_t, or an atomic64_t if the architecture supports it, in such a case. Definitions by courtesy of Christoph Lameter: who spent considerable effort on more scalable ways of counting, but found insufficient benefit in practice. And adding an mm with swap to the mmlist for swapoff: the list is well- guarded by its own lock, but the list_empty check now has to be repeated inside it. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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29-Oct-2005 |
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> |
[PATCH] mm: mm_struct hiwaters moved Slight and timid rearrangement of mm_struct: hiwater_rss and hiwater_vm were tacked on the end, but it seems better to keep them near _file_rss, _anon_rss and total_vm, in the same cacheline on those arches verified. There are likely to be more profitable rearrangements, but less obvious (is it good or bad that saved_auxv[AT_VECTOR_SIZE] isolates cpu_vm_mask and context from many others?), needing serious instrumentation. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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29-Oct-2005 |
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> |
[PATCH] mm: update_hiwaters just in time update_mem_hiwater has attracted various criticisms, in particular from those concerned with mm scalability. Originally it was called whenever rss or total_vm got raised. Then many of those callsites were replaced by a timer tick call from account_system_time. Now Frank van Maarseveen reports that to be found inadequate. How about this? Works for Frank. Replace update_mem_hiwater, a poor combination of two unrelated ops, by macros update_hiwater_rss and update_hiwater_vm. Don't attempt to keep mm->hiwater_rss up to date at timer tick, nor every time we raise rss (usually by 1): those are hot paths. Do the opposite, update only when about to lower rss (usually by many), or just before final accounting in do_exit. Handle mm->hiwater_vm in the same way, though it's much less of an issue. Demand that whoever collects these hiwater statistics do the work of taking the maximum with rss or total_vm. And there has been no collector of these hiwater statistics in the tree. The new convention needs an example, so match Frank's usage by adding a VmPeak line above VmSize to /proc/<pid>/status, and also a VmHWM line above VmRSS (High-Water-Mark or High-Water-Memory). There was a particular anomaly during mremap move, that hiwater_vm might be captured too high. A fleeting such anomaly remains, but it's quickly corrected now, whereas before it would stick. What locking? None: if the app is racy then these statistics will be racy, it's not worth any overhead to make them exact. But whenever it suits, hiwater_vm is updated under exclusive mmap_sem, and hiwater_rss under page_table_lock (for now) or with preemption disabled (later on): without going to any trouble, minimize the time between reading current values and updating, to minimize those occasions when a racing thread bumps a count up and back down in between. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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29-Oct-2005 |
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> |
[PATCH] mm: rss = file_rss + anon_rss I was lazy when we added anon_rss, and chose to change as few places as possible. So currently each anonymous page has to be counted twice, in rss and in anon_rss. Which won't be so good if those are atomic counts in some configurations. Change that around: keep file_rss and anon_rss separately, and add them together (with get_mm_rss macro) when the total is needed - reading two atomics is much cheaper than updating two atomics. And update anon_rss upfront, typically in memory.c, not tucked away in page_add_anon_rmap. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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10-Oct-2005 |
Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> |
[PATCH] Fix signal sending in usbdevio on async URB completion If a process issues an URB from userspace and (starts to) terminate before the URB comes back, we run into the issue described above. This is because the urb saves a pointer to "current" when it is posted to the device, but there's no guarantee that this pointer is still valid afterwards. In fact, there are three separate issues: 1) the pointer to "current" can become invalid, since the task could be completely gone when the URB completion comes back from the device. 2) Even if the saved task pointer is still pointing to a valid task_struct, task_struct->sighand could have gone meanwhile. 3) Even if the process is perfectly fine, permissions may have changed, and we can no longer send it a signal. So what we do instead, is to save the PID and uid's of the process, and introduce a new kill_proc_info_as_uid() function. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> [ Fixed up types and added symbol exports ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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29-Sep-2005 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> |
Revert task flag re-ordering, add comments Roland points out that the flags end up having non-obvious dependencies elsewhere, so revert aa55a08687059aa169d10a313c41f238c2070488 and add some comments about why things are as they are. We'll just have to fix up the broken comparisons. Roland has a patch. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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29-Sep-2005 |
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> |
[PATCH] fix TASK_STOPPED vs TASK_NONINTERACTIVE interaction do_signal_stop: for_each_thread(t) { if (t->state < TASK_STOPPED) ++sig->group_stop_count; } However, TASK_NONINTERACTIVE > TASK_STOPPED, so this loop will not count TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE | TASK_NONINTERACTIVE threads. See also wait_task_stopped(), which checks ->state > TASK_STOPPED. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> [ We really probably should always use the appropriate bitmasks to test task states, not do it like this. Using something like #define TASK_RUNNABLE (TASK_RUNNING | TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE | \ TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE | TASK_NONINTERACTIVE) and then doing "if (task->state & TASK_RUNNABLE)" or similar. But the ordering of the task states is historical, and keeping the ordering does make sense regardless. ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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13-Sep-2005 |
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> |
[PATCH] set_current_state() commentary Explain the mysteries of set_current_state(). Quoth Linus: The scheduler itself never needs the memory barrier at all. The barrier is needed only if the user itself ends up testing some other thing afterwards, ie if you have set_process_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); if (still_need_to_sleep()) schedule(); then the "still_need_to_sleep()" thing may test flags and wakeup events, and then you _may_ want to (and often do) make sure that the write of TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE is serialized wrt the reads of any wakeup data (since the wakeup may have happened on another CPU). So the comment is somewhat wrong. We don't really _care_ whether the state propagates out to other CPU's since all of our actions are purely local, and there is nothing we do that is conditional on any other CPU: we're going to sleep unconditionally, and the scheduler only cares about _our_ state, not about somebody elses state. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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12-Sep-2005 |
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> |
[PATCH] cpuset semaphore depth check optimize Optimize the deadlock avoidance check on the global cpuset semaphore cpuset_sem. Instead of adding a depth counter to the task struct of each task, rather just two words are enough, one to store the depth and the other the current cpuset_sem holder. Thanks to Nikita Danilov for the idea. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> [ We may want to change this further, but at least it's now a totally internal decision to the cpusets code ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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11-Sep-2005 |
Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> |
[PATCH] MCA/INIT: scheduler hooks Scheduler hooks to see/change which process is deemed to be on a cpu. Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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10-Sep-2005 |
Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> |
[PATCH] add schedule_timeout_{,un}interruptible() interfaces Add schedule_timeout_{,un}interruptible() interfaces so that schedule_timeout() callers don't have to worry about forgetting to add the set_current_state() call beforehand. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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10-Sep-2005 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] sched: TASK_NONINTERACTIVE This patch implements a task state bit (TASK_NONINTERACTIVE), which can be used by blocking points to mark the task's wait as "non-interactive". This does not mean the task will be considered a CPU-hog - the wait will simply not have an effect on the waiting task's priority - positive or negative alike. Right now only pipe_wait() will make use of it, because it's a common source of not-so-interactive waits (kernel compilation jobs, etc.). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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10-Sep-2005 |
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> |
[PATCH] cpuset semaphore depth check deadlock fix The cpusets-formalize-intermediate-gfp_kernel-containment patch has a deadlock problem. This patch was part of a set of four patches to make more extensive use of the cpuset 'mem_exclusive' attribute to manage kernel GFP_KERNEL memory allocations and to constrain the out-of-memory (oom) killer. A task that is changing cpusets in particular ways on a system when it is very short of free memory could double trip over the global cpuset_sem semaphore (get the lock and then deadlock trying to get it again). The second attempt to get cpuset_sem would be in the routine cpuset_zone_allowed(). This was discovered by code inspection. I can not reproduce the problem except with an artifically hacked kernel and a specialized stress test. In real life you cannot hit this unless you are manipulating cpusets, and are very unlikely to hit it unless you are rapidly modifying cpusets on a memory tight system. Even then it would be a rare occurence. If you did hit it, the task double tripping over cpuset_sem would deadlock in the kernel, and any other task also trying to manipulate cpusets would deadlock there too, on cpuset_sem. Your batch manager would be wedged solid (if it was cpuset savvy), but classic Unix shells and utilities would work well enough to reboot the system. The unusual condition that led to this bug is that unlike most semaphores, cpuset_sem _can_ be acquired while in the page allocation code, when __alloc_pages() calls cpuset_zone_allowed. So it easy to mistakenly perform the following sequence: 1) task makes system call to alter a cpuset 2) take cpuset_sem 3) try to allocate memory 4) memory allocator, via cpuset_zone_allowed, trys to take cpuset_sem 5) deadlock The reason that this is not a serious bug for most users is that almost all calls to allocate memory don't require taking cpuset_sem. Only some code paths off the beaten track require taking cpuset_sem -- which is good. Taking a global semaphore on the main code path for allocating memory would not scale well. This patch fixes this deadlock by wrapping the up() and down() calls on cpuset_sem in kernel/cpuset.c with code that tracks the nesting depth of the current task on that semaphore, and only does the real down() if the task doesn't hold the lock already, and only does the real up() if the nesting depth (number of unmatched downs) is exactly one. The previous required use of refresh_mems(), anytime that the cpuset_sem semaphore was acquired and the code executed while holding that semaphore might try to allocate memory, is no longer required. Two refresh_mems() calls were removed thanks to this. This is a good change, as failing to get all the necessary refresh_mems() calls placed was a primary source of bugs in this cpuset code. The only remaining call to refresh_mems() is made while doing a memory allocation, if certain task memory placement data needs to be updated from its cpuset, due to the cpuset having been changed behind the tasks back. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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09-Sep-2005 |
Kenneth W Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> |
[PATCH] Prefetch kernel stacks to speed up context switch For architecture like ia64, the switch stack structure is fairly large (currently 528 bytes). For context switch intensive application, we found that significant amount of cache misses occurs in switch_to() function. The following patch adds a hook in the schedule() function to prefetch switch stack structure as soon as 'next' task is determined. This allows maximum overlap in prefetch cache lines for that structure. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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06-Sep-2005 |
John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> |
[PATCH] cpusets: Move the ia64 domain setup code to the generic code Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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06-Sep-2005 |
H. J. Lu <hjl@lucon.org> |
[PATCH] auxiliary vector cleanups The size of auxiliary vector is fixed at 42 in linux/sched.h. But it isn't very obvious when looking at linux/elf.h. This patch adds AT_VECTOR_SIZE so that we can change it if necessary when a new vector is added. Because of include file ordering problems, doing this necessitated the extraction of the AT_* symbols into a standalone header file. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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06-Sep-2005 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
[PATCH] detect soft lockups This patch adds a new kernel debug feature: CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP. When enabled then per-CPU watchdog threads are started, which try to run once per second. If they get delayed for more than 10 seconds then a callback from the timer interrupt detects this condition and prints out a warning message and a stack dump (once per lockup incident). The feature is otherwise non-intrusive, it doesnt try to unlock the box in any way, it only gets the debug info out, automatically, and on all CPUs affected by the lockup. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-Off-By: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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12-Jul-2005 |
Robert Love <rml@novell.com> |
[PATCH] inotify inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly its inability to scale and its terrible user interface: * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount. * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of stat structures. * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful. Signals? inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change notification: * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO. You get a single fd, which is select()-able. * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item you were watching is on was unmounted." * inotify can watch directories or files. Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure), Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects. See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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27-Jun-2005 |
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> |
[PATCH] Update cfq io scheduler to time sliced design This updates the CFQ io scheduler to the new time sliced design (cfq v3). It provides full process fairness, while giving excellent aggregate system throughput even for many competing processes. It supports io priorities, either inherited from the cpu nice value or set directly with the ioprio_get/set syscalls. The latter closely mimic set/getpriority. This import is based on my latest from -mm. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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25-Jun-2005 |
Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> |
[PATCH] Cleanup patch for process freezing 1. Establish a simple API for process freezing defined in linux/include/sched.h: frozen(process) Check for frozen process freezing(process) Check if a process is being frozen freeze(process) Tell a process to freeze (go to refrigerator) thaw_process(process) Restart process frozen_process(process) Process is frozen now 2. Remove all references to PF_FREEZE and PF_FROZEN from all kernel sources except sched.h 3. Fix numerous locations where try_to_freeze is manually done by a driver 4. Remove the argument that is no longer necessary from two function calls. 5. Some whitespace cleanup 6. Clear potential race in refrigerator (provides an open window of PF_FREEZE cleared before setting PF_FROZEN, recalc_sigpending does not check PF_FROZEN). This patch does not address the problem of freeze_processes() violating the rule that a task may only modify its own flags by setting PF_FREEZE. This is not clean in an SMP environment. freeze(process) is therefore not SMP safe! Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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25-Jun-2005 |
Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com> |
[PATCH] Dynamic sched domains: sched changes The following patches add dynamic sched domains functionality that was extensively discussed on lkml and lse-tech. I would like to see this added to -mm o The main advantage with this feature is that it ensures that the scheduler load balacing code only balances against the cpus that are in the sched domain as defined by an exclusive cpuset and not all of the cpus in the system. This removes any overhead due to load balancing code trying to pull tasks outside of the cpu exclusive cpuset only to be prevented by the tasks' cpus_allowed mask. o cpu exclusive cpusets are useful for servers running orthogonal workloads such as RT applications requiring low latency and HPC applications that are throughput sensitive o It provides a new API partition_sched_domains in sched.c that makes dynamic sched domains possible. o cpu_exclusive cpusets sets are now associated with a sched domain. Which means that the users can dynamically modify the sched domains through the cpuset file system interface o ia64 sched domain code has been updated to support this feature as well o Currently, this does not support hotplug. (However some of my tests indicate hotplug+preempt is currently broken) o I have tested it extensively on x86. o This should have very minimal impact on performance as none of the fast paths are affected Signed-off-by: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Acked-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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25-Jun-2005 |
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> |
[PATCH] sched: consolidate sbe sbf Consolidate balance-on-exec with balance-on-fork. This is made easy by the sched-domains RCU patches. As well as the general goodness of code reduction, this allows the runqueues to be unlocked during balance-on-fork. schedstats is a problem. Maybe just have balance-on-event instead of distinguishing fork and exec? Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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25-Jun-2005 |
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> |
[PATCH] sched: cleanup context switch locking Instead of requiring architecture code to interact with the scheduler's locking implementation, provide a couple of defines that can be used by the architecture to request runqueue unlocked context switches, and ask for interrupts to be enabled over the context switch. Also replaces the "switch_lock" used by these architectures with an oncpu flag (note, not a potentially slow bitflag). This eliminates one bus locked memory operation when context switching, and simplifies the task_running function. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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25-Jun-2005 |
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> |
[PATCH] sched: schedstats update for balance on fork Add SCHEDSTAT statistics for sched-balance-fork. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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25-Jun-2005 |
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> |
[PATCH] sched: balance on fork Reimplement the balance on exec balancing to be sched-domains aware. Use this to also do balance on fork balancing. Make x86_64 do balance on fork over the NUMA domain. The problem that the non sched domains aware blancing became apparent on dual core, multi socket opterons. What we want is for the new tasks to be sent to a different socket, but more often than not, we would first load up our sibling core, or fill two cores of a single remote socket before selecting a new one. This gives large improvements to STREAM on such systems. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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25-Jun-2005 |
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> |
[PATCH] sched: balance timers Do CPU load averaging over a number of different intervals. Allow each interval to be chosen by sending a parameter to source_load and target_load. 0 is instantaneous, idx > 0 returns a decaying average with the most recent sample weighted at 2^(idx-1). To a maximum of 3 (could be easily increased). So generally a higher number will result in more conservative balancing. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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23-Jun-2005 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
[PATCH] Keys: Make request-key create an authorisation key The attached patch makes the following changes: (1) There's a new special key type called ".request_key_auth". This is an authorisation key for when one process requests a key and another process is started to construct it. This type of key cannot be created by the user; nor can it be requested by kernel services. Authorisation keys hold two references: (a) Each refers to a key being constructed. When the key being constructed is instantiated the authorisation key is revoked, rendering it of no further use. (b) The "authorising process". This is either: (i) the process that called request_key(), or: (ii) if the process that called request_key() itself had an authorisation key in its session keyring, then the authorising process referred to by that authorisation key will also be referred to by the new authorisation key. This means that the process that initiated a chain of key requests will authorise the lot of them, and will, by default, wind up with the keys obtained from them in its keyrings. (2) request_key() creates an authorisation key which is then passed to /sbin/request-key in as part of a new session keyring. (3) When request_key() is searching for a key to hand back to the caller, if it comes across an authorisation key in the session keyring of the calling process, it will also search the keyrings of the process specified therein and it will use the specified process's credentials (fsuid, fsgid, groups) to do that rather than the calling process's credentials. This allows a process started by /sbin/request-key to find keys belonging to the authorising process. (4) A key can be read, even if the process executing KEYCTL_READ doesn't have direct read or search permission if that key is contained within the keyrings of a process specified by an authorisation key found within the calling process's session keyring, and is searchable using the credentials of the authorising process. This allows a process started by /sbin/request-key to read keys belonging to the authorising process. (5) The magic KEY_SPEC_*_KEYRING key IDs when passed to KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE or KEYCTL_NEGATE will specify a keyring of the authorising process, rather than the process doing the instantiation. (6) One of the process keyrings can be nominated as the default to which request_key() should attach new keys if not otherwise specified. This is done with KEYCTL_SET_REQKEY_KEYRING and one of the KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_* constants. The current setting can also be read using this call. (7) request_key() is partially interruptible. If it is waiting for another process to finish constructing a key, it can be interrupted. This permits a request-key cycle to be broken without recourse to rebooting. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-Off-By: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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23-Jun-2005 |
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> |
[PATCH] setuid core dump Add a new `suid_dumpable' sysctl: This value can be used to query and set the core dump mode for setuid or otherwise protected/tainted binaries. The modes are 0 - (default) - traditional behaviour. Any process which has changed privilege levels or is execute only will not be dumped 1 - (debug) - all processes dump core when possible. The core dump is owned by the current user and no security is applied. This is intended for system debugging situations only. Ptrace is unchecked. 2 - (suidsafe) - any binary which normally would not be dumped is dumped readable by root only. This allows the end user to remove such a dump but not access it directly. For security reasons core dumps in this mode will not overwrite one another or other files. This mode is appropriate when adminstrators are attempting to debug problems in a normal environment. (akpm: > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(suid_dumpable); > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL? No problem to me. > > if (current->euid == current->uid && current->egid == current->gid) > > current->mm->dumpable = 1; > > Should this be SUID_DUMP_USER? Actually the feedback I had from last time was that the SUID_ defines should go because its clearer to follow the numbers. They can go everywhere (and there are lots of places where dumpable is tested/used as a bool in untouched code) > Maybe this should be renamed to `dump_policy' or something. Doing that > would help us catch any code which isn't using the #defines, too. Fair comment. The patch was designed to be easy to maintain for Red Hat rather than for merging. Changing that field would create a gigantic diff because it is used all over the place. ) Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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21-Jun-2005 |
Wolfgang Wander <wwc@rentec.com> |
[PATCH] Avoiding mmap fragmentation Ingo recently introduced a great speedup for allocating new mmaps using the free_area_cache pointer which boosts the specweb SSL benchmark by 4-5% and causes huge performance increases in thread creation. The downside of this patch is that it does lead to fragmentation in the mmap-ed areas (visible via /proc/self/maps), such that some applications that work fine under 2.4 kernels quickly run out of memory on any 2.6 kernel. The problem is twofold: 1) the free_area_cache is used to continue a search for memory where the last search ended. Before the change new areas were always searched from the base address on. So now new small areas are cluttering holes of all sizes throughout the whole mmap-able region whereas before small holes tended to close holes near the base leaving holes far from the base large and available for larger requests. 2) the free_area_cache also is set to the location of the last munmap-ed area so in scenarios where we allocate e.g. five regions of 1K each, then free regions 4 2 3 in this order the next request for 1K will be placed in the position of the old region 3, whereas before we appended it to the still active region 1, placing it at the location of the old region 2. Before we had 1 free region of 2K, now we only get two free regions of 1K -> fragmentation. The patch addresses thes issues by introducing yet another cache descriptor cached_hole_size that contains the largest known hole size below the current free_area_cache. If a new request comes in the size is compared against the cached_hole_size and if the request can be filled with a hole below free_area_cache the search is started from the base instead. The results look promising: Whereas 2.6.12-rc4 fragments quickly and my (earlier posted) leakme.c test program terminates after 50000+ iterations with 96 distinct and fragmented maps in /proc/self/maps it performs nicely (as expected) with thread creation, Ingo's test_str02 with 20000 threads requires 0.7s system time. Taking out Ingo's patch (un-patch available per request) by basically deleting all mentions of free_area_cache from the kernel and starting the search for new memory always at the respective bases we observe: leakme terminates successfully with 11 distinctive hardly fragmented areas in /proc/self/maps but thread creating is gringdingly slow: 30+s(!) system time for Ingo's test_str02 with 20000 threads. Now - drumroll ;-) the appended patch works fine with leakme: it ends with only 7 distinct areas in /proc/self/maps and also thread creation seems sufficiently fast with 0.71s for 20000 threads. Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Wander <wwc@rentec.com> Credit-to: "Richard Purdie" <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> (partly) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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05-May-2005 |
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> |
[PATCH] comments on locking of task->comm Add some comments about task->comm, to explain what it is near its definition and provide some important pointers to its uses. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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01-May-2005 |
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> |
[PATCH] make lots of things static Another large rollup of various patches from Adrian which make things static where they were needlessly exported. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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01-May-2005 |
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> |
[PATCH] nice and rt-prio rlimits Add a pair of rlimits for allowing non-root tasks to raise nice and rt priorities. Defaults to traditional behavior. Originally written by Chris Wright. The patch implements a simple rlimit ceiling for the RT (and nice) priorities a task can set. The rlimit defaults to 0, meaning no change in behavior by default. A value of 50 means RT priority levels 1-50 are allowed. A value of 100 means all 99 privilege levels from 1 to 99 are allowed. CAP_SYS_NICE is blanket permission. (akpm: see http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0503.1/1921.html for tips on integrating this with PAM). Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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16-Apr-2005 |
Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@lovecn.org> |
[PATCH] reparent_to_init cleanup This patch hides reparent_to_init(). reparent_to_init() should only be called by daemonize(). Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@lovecn.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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16-Apr-2005 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> |
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
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