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Frederic Weisbecker
07f4e4f790 tracing/ftrace: adapt mmiotrace to the new type of print_line
Adapt mmiotrace to the new print_line type.
By default, it ignores (and consumes) types it doesn't support.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:02 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen
9ff4b9744c tracing/ftrace: fix pipe breaking
This patch fixes a bug which break the pipe when the seq is empty.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:01 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
2c4f035f6c tracing/ftrace: change the type of the print_line callback
We need a kind of disambiguation when a print_line callback
returns 0.

_There is not enough space to print all the entry.
 Please flush the seq and retry.
_I can't handle this type of entry

This patch changes the type of this callback for better information.

Also some changes have been made in this V2.

_ Only relay to default functions after the print_line callback fails.
_ This patch doesn't fix the issue with the broken pipe (see patch 2/4 for that)

Some things are still in discussion:

_ Find better names for the enum print_line_t values
_ Change the type of print_trace_line into boolean.

Patches to change that can be sent later.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:00 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
777e208d40 ftrace: take advantage of variable length entries
Now that the underlining ring buffer for ftrace now hold variable length
entries, we can take advantage of this by only storing the size of the
actual event into the buffer. This happens to increase the number of
entries in the buffer dramatically.

We can also get rid of the "trace_cont" operation, but I'm keeping that
until we have no more users. Some of the ftrace tracers can now change
their code to adapt to this new feature.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:59 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
3928a8a2d9 ftrace: make work with new ring buffer
This patch ports ftrace over to the new ring buffer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:57 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
ed56829cb3 ring_buffer: reset buffer page when freeing
Mathieu Desnoyers pointed out that the freeing of the page frame needs
to be reset otherwise we might trigger BUG_ON in the page free code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:56 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
a7b1374333 ring_buffer: add paranoid check for buffer page
If for some strange reason the buffer_page gets bigger, or the page struct
gets smaller, I want to know this ASAP.  The best way is to not let the
kernel compile.

This patch adds code to test the size of the struct buffer_page against the
page struct and will cause compile issues if the buffer_page ever gets bigger
than the page struct.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:55 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
7a8e76a382 tracing: unified trace buffer
This is a unified tracing buffer that implements a ring buffer that
hopefully everyone will eventually be able to use.

The events recorded into the buffer have the following structure:

  struct ring_buffer_event {
	u32 type:2, len:3, time_delta:27;
	u32 array[];
  };

The minimum size of an event is 8 bytes. All events are 4 byte
aligned inside the buffer.

There are 4 types (all internal use for the ring buffer, only
the data type is exported to the interface users).

 RINGBUF_TYPE_PADDING: this type is used to note extra space at the end
	of a buffer page.

 RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_EXTENT: This type is used when the time between events
	is greater than the 27 bit delta can hold. We add another
	32 bits, and record that in its own event (8 byte size).

 RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_STAMP: (Not implemented yet). This will hold data to
	help keep the buffer timestamps in sync.

RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA: The event actually holds user data.

The "len" field is only three bits. Since the data must be
4 byte aligned, this field is shifted left by 2, giving a
max length of 28 bytes. If the data load is greater than 28
bytes, the first array field holds the full length of the
data load and the len field is set to zero.

Example, data size of 7 bytes:

	type = RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA
	len = 2
	time_delta: <time-stamp> - <prev_event-time-stamp>
	array[0..1]: <7 bytes of data> <1 byte empty>

This event is saved in 12 bytes of the buffer.

An event with 82 bytes of data:

	type = RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA
	len = 0
	time_delta: <time-stamp> - <prev_event-time-stamp>
	array[0]: 84 (Note the alignment)
	array[1..14]: <82 bytes of data> <2 bytes empty>

The above event is saved in 92 bytes (if my math is correct).
82 bytes of data, 2 bytes empty, 4 byte header, 4 byte length.

Do not reference the above event struct directly. Use the following
functions to gain access to the event table, since the
ring_buffer_event structure may change in the future.

ring_buffer_event_length(event): get the length of the event.
	This is the size of the memory used to record this
	event, and not the size of the data pay load.

ring_buffer_time_delta(event): get the time delta of the event
	This returns the delta time stamp since the last event.
	Note: Even though this is in the header, there should
		be no reason to access this directly, accept
		for debugging.

ring_buffer_event_data(event): get the data from the event
	This is the function to use to get the actual data
	from the event. Note, it is only a pointer to the
	data inside the buffer. This data must be copied to
	another location otherwise you risk it being written
	over in the buffer.

ring_buffer_lock: A way to lock the entire buffer.
ring_buffer_unlock: unlock the buffer.

ring_buffer_alloc: create a new ring buffer. Can choose between
	overwrite or consumer/producer mode. Overwrite will
	overwrite old data, where as consumer producer will
	throw away new data if the consumer catches up with the
	producer.  The consumer/producer is the default.

ring_buffer_free: free the ring buffer.

ring_buffer_resize: resize the buffer. Changes the size of each cpu
	buffer. Note, it is up to the caller to provide that
	the buffer is not being used while this is happening.
	This requirement may go away but do not count on it.

ring_buffer_lock_reserve: locks the ring buffer and allocates an
	entry on the buffer to write to.
ring_buffer_unlock_commit: unlocks the ring buffer and commits it to
	the buffer.

ring_buffer_write: writes some data into the ring buffer.

ring_buffer_peek: Look at a next item in the cpu buffer.
ring_buffer_consume: get the next item in the cpu buffer and
	consume it. That is, this function increments the head
	pointer.

ring_buffer_read_start: Start an iterator of a cpu buffer.
	For now, this disables the cpu buffer, until you issue
	a finish. This is just because we do not want the iterator
	to be overwritten. This restriction may change in the future.
	But note, this is used for static reading of a buffer which
	is usually done "after" a trace. Live readings would want
	to use the ring_buffer_consume above, which will not
	disable the ring buffer.

ring_buffer_read_finish: Finishes the read iterator and reenables
	the ring buffer.

ring_buffer_iter_peek: Look at the next item in the cpu iterator.
ring_buffer_read: Read the iterator and increment it.
ring_buffer_iter_reset: Reset the iterator to point to the beginning
	of the cpu buffer.
ring_buffer_iter_empty: Returns true if the iterator is at the end
	of the cpu buffer.

ring_buffer_size: returns the size in bytes of each cpu buffer.
	Note, the real size is this times the number of CPUs.

ring_buffer_reset_cpu: Sets the cpu buffer to empty
ring_buffer_reset: sets all cpu buffers to empty

ring_buffer_swap_cpu: swaps a cpu buffer from one buffer with a
	cpu buffer of another buffer. This is handy when you
	want to take a snap shot of a running trace on just one
	cpu. Having a backup buffer, to swap with facilitates this.
	Ftrace max latencies use this.

ring_buffer_empty: Returns true if the ring buffer is empty.
ring_buffer_empty_cpu: Returns true if the cpu buffer is empty.

ring_buffer_record_disable: disable all cpu buffers (read only)
ring_buffer_record_disable_cpu: disable a single cpu buffer (read only)
ring_buffer_record_enable: enable all cpu buffers.
ring_buffer_record_enabl_cpu: enable a single cpu buffer.

ring_buffer_entries: The number of entries in a ring buffer.
ring_buffer_overruns: The number of entries removed due to writing wrap.

ring_buffer_time_stamp: Get the time stamp used by the ring buffer
ring_buffer_normalize_time_stamp: normalize the ring buffer time stamp
	into nanosecs.

I still need to implement the GTOD feature. But we need support from
the cpu frequency infrastructure.  But this can be done at a later
time without affecting the ring buffer interface.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:54 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
5aa60c6073 ftrace: give time for wakeup test to run
It is possible that the testing thread in the ftrace wakeup test does not
run before we stop the trace. This will cause the trace to fail since nothing
will be in the buffers.

This patch adds a small wait in the wakeup test to allow for the woken task
to run and be traced.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:53 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker
7c572ac0cf tracing/ftrace: don't consume unhandled entries by boot tracer
When the boot tracer can't handle an entry output, it returns 1.
It should return 0 to relay on other output functions.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:52 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker
3ce2b9200d ftrace/fastboot: disable tracers self-tests when boot tracer is selected
The tracing engine resets the ring buffer and the tracers touch it
too during self-tests. These self-tests happen during tracers registering
and work against boot tracing which is logging initcalls.

We have to disable tracing self-tests if the boot-tracer is selected.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:51 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker
1f5c2abbde tracing/ftrace: give an entry on the config for boot tracer
Bring the entry to choose the boot tracer on the kernel config.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:49 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker
b5ad384e79 tracing/ftrace: make tracing suitable to run the boot tracer
The tracing engine have now to be init in early_initcall to set the
boot tracer. Only the debugfs settings will be initialized at
fs_initcall time.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:48 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker
d13744cd6e tracing/ftrace: add the boot tracer
Add the boot/initcall tracer.

It's primary purpose is to be able to trace the initcalls.

It is intended to be used with scripts/bootgraph.pl after some small
improvements.

Note that it is not active after its init. To avoid tracing (and so
crashing) before the whole tracing engine init, you have to explicitly
call start_boot_trace() after do_pre_smp_initcalls() to enable it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:47 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
1b7ae37c03 markers: bit-field is not thread-safe nor smp-safe
bit-field is not thread-safe nor smp-safe.

struct marker_entry.rcu_pending is not protected by any lock
in rcu-callback free_old_closure().
so we must turn it into a safe type.

detail:

I suppose rcu_pending and ptype are store in struct marker_entry.tmp1

free_old_closure() side:           change ptype side:

                                |  load struct marker_entry.tmp1
--------------------------------|--------------------------------
                                |  change ptype bit in tmp1
load struct marker_entry.tmp1   |
change rcu_pending bit in tmp1  |
store tmp1                      |
--------------------------------|--------------------------------
                                |  store tmp1

now this result equals that free_old_closure() do not change rcu_pending
bit, bug! This bug will cause redundant rcu_barrier_sched() called.
not too harmful.

----- corresponding:

free_old_closure() side:           change ptype side:

load struct marker_entry.tmp1   |
--------------------------------|--------------------------------
                                |  load struct marker_entry.tmp1
change rcu_pending bit in tmp1  |
                                |  change ptype bit in tmp1
                                |  store tmp1
--------------------------------|--------------------------------
store tmp1                      |

now this result equals that change ptype side do not change ptype
bit, bug! this bug cause marker_probe_cb() access to invalid memory.
oops!

see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_field

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:45 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
48043bcdf8 markers: fix unchecked format
when the second, third... probe is registered, its format is
not checked, this patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:42 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
ed86a59071 markers: re-enable fast batch registration
Lai Jiangshan discovered a reentrancy issue with markers and fixed it by
adding synchronize_sched() calls at each registration/unregistraiton.

It works, but it removes the ability to do batch
registration/unregistration and can cause registration of ~100 markers
to take about 30 seconds on a loaded machine (synchronize_sched() is
much slower on such workloads).

This patch implements a version of the fix which won't slow down marker batch
registration/unregistration. It also go back to the original non-synchronized
reg/unreg.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:38 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
e2d3b75dbc markers: fix unregister bug and reenter bug, cleanup
Use the new rcu_read_lock_sched/unlock_sched() in marker code around the call
site instead of preempt_disable/enable(). It helps reviewing the code more
easily.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:28 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
9a1e9693f5 tracepoints: fix reentrancy
The tracepoints had the same problem markers did have wrt reentrancy. Apply a
similar fix using a rcu_barrier after each tracepoint mutex lock.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:23 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
ca2db6cf30 tracepoints: use rcu sched
Make tracepoints use rcu sched. (cleanup)

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:21 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
d74185ed27 markers: fix unregister bug and reenter bug
unregister bug:

codes using makers are typically calling marker_probe_unregister()
and then destroying the data that marker_probe_func needs(or
unloading this module). This is bug when the corresponding
marker_probe_func is still running(on other cpus),
it is using the destroying/ed data.

we should call synchronize_sched() after marker_update_probes().

reenter bug:

marker_probe_register(), marker_probe_unregister() and
marker_probe_unregister_private_data() are not reentrant safe
functions. these 3 functions release markers_mutex and then
require it again and do "entry->oldptr = old; ...", but entry->oldptr
maybe is using now for these 3 functions may reenter when markers_mutex
is released.

we use synchronize_sched() instead of call_rcu_sched() to fix
this bug. actually we can do:
"
if (entry->rcu_pending)
		rcu_barrier_sched();
"
after require markers_mutex again. but synchronize_sched()
is better and simpler. For these 3 functions are not critical path.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:19 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
05736a427f ftrace: warn on failure to disable mcount callers
With the recent updates to ftrace, there should not be any failures when
modifying the code. If there is, then we need to warn about it.

This patch has a cleaned up version of the code that I used to discover
that the weak symbols were causing failures.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:11 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker
43a15386c4 tracing/ftrace: replace none tracer by nop tracer
Replace "none" tracer by the recently created "nop" tracer.
Both are pretty similar except that nop accepts TRACE_PRINT
or TRACE_SPECIAL entries.

And as a consequence, changing the size of the ring buffer now
requires that tracing has already been disabled.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:09 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker
2a3a4f669d tracing/ftrace: tracing engine depends on Nop Tracer
Now that the nop tracer is used as the default tracer by
replacing the "none" tracer, tracing engine depends on it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:06 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker
35cb5ed012 tracing/ftrace: make nop tracer reset previous entries
If nop tracer is selected, some old entries from the previous tracer
could still be enqueued. Tracing have to be reset.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:04 +02:00
Steven Noonan
8925b394ec trace: remove pointless ifdefs
The functions are already 'extern' anyway, so there's no problem
with linkage. Removing these ifdefs also helps find any potential
compiler errors.

Suggested by Andrew Morton.

Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:01 +02:00
Steven Noonan
71c67d58b5 ftrace: mcount_addr defined but not used
When CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE isn't used, neither is mcount_addr. This
patch eliminates that warning.

Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:37:58 +02:00
Steven Noonan
fb1b6d8b51 ftrace: add nop tracer
A no-op tracer which can serve two purposes:

 1. A template for development of a new tracer.
 2. A convenient way to see ftrace_printk() calls without
    an irrelevant trace making the output messy.

[ mingo@elte.hu: resolved conflicts ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:37:43 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen
5bf9a1ee35 ftrace: inject markers via trace_marker file
Allow a user to inject a marker (TRACE_PRINT entry) into the trace ring
buffer. The related file operations are derived from code by Frédéric
Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:37:20 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen
fc5e27ae4b mmiotrace: handle TRACE_PRINT entries
Also make trace_seq_print_cont() non-static, and add a newline if the
seq buffer can't hold all data.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:37:14 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen
9e57fb35d7 x86 mmiotrace: implement mmiotrace_printk()
Offer mmiotrace users a function to inject markers from inside the kernel.
This depends on the trace_vprintk() patch.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:37:11 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen
801fe40001 ftrace: add trace_vprintk()
trace_vprintk() for easier implementation of tracer specific *_printk
functions. Add check check for no_tracer, and implement
__ftrace_printk() as a wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:37:07 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen
45dcd8b8a8 ftrace: move mmiotrace functions out of trace.c
Moves the mmiotrace specific functions from trace.c to
trace_mmiotrace.c. Functions trace_wake_up(), tracing_get_trace_entry(),
and tracing_generic_entry_update() are therefore made available outside
trace.c.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:37:04 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
644f991d4b ftrace: fix unlocking of hash
This must be brown paper bag week for Steven Rostedt!

While working on ftrace for PPC, I discovered that the hash locking done
when CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD is not set, is totally incorrect.

With a cut and paste error, I had the hash lock macro to lock for both
hash_lock _and_ hash_unlock!

This bug did not affect x86 since this bug was introduced when
CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD was added to x86.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:58 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
d3ee6d9928 ftrace: make it depend on DEBUG_KERNEL
make most of the tracers depend on DEBUG_KERNEL - that's their intended
purpose. (most distributions have DEBUG_KERNEL enabled anyway so this is
not a practical limitation - but it simplifies the tracing menu in the
normal case)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:51 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
80b5e94005 ftrace: sched_switch: show the wakee's cpu
While profiling the smp behaviour of the scheduler it was needed to know to
which cpu a task got woken.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:48 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f09ce573f5 ftrace: make ftrace_printk usable with the other tracers
Currently ftrace_printk only works with the ftrace tracer, switch it to an
iter_ctrl setting so we can make us of them with other tracers too.

[rostedt@redhat.com: tweak to the disable condition]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:45 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
5a90f577e5 ftrace: print continue index fix
An item in the trace buffer that is bigger than one entry may be split
up using the TRACE_CONT entry. This makes it a virtual single entry.
The current code increments the iterator index even while traversing
TRACE_CONT entries, making it look like the iterator is further than
it actually is.

This patch adds code to not increment the iterator index while skipping
over TRACE_CONT entries.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:42 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
652567aa20 ftrace: binary and not logical for continue test
Peter Zijlstra provided me with a nice brown paper bag while letting me know
that I was doing a logical AND and not a binary one, making a condition
true more often than it should be.

Luckily, a false true is handled by the calling function and no harm is
done. But this needs to be fixed regardless.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:39 +02:00
Michael Ellerman
a6168353d1 ftrace: make output nicely spaced for up to 999 cpus
Currently some of the ftrace output goes skewiff if you have more
than 9 cpus, and some if you have more than 99.

Twiddle with the headers and format strings to make up to 999 cpus
display without causing spacing problems.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:34 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
2ff01c6a17 stack tracer: depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:31 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
1b6cced6ec ftrace: stack trace add indexes
This patch adds indexes into the stack that the functions in the
stack dump were found at. As an added bonus, I also added a diff
to show which function is the most notorious consumer of the stack.

The output now looks like this:

# cat /debug/tracing/stack_trace
        Depth   Size      Location    (48 entries)
        -----   ----      --------
  0)     2476     212   blk_recount_segments+0x39/0x59
  1)     2264      12   bio_phys_segments+0x16/0x1d
  2)     2252      20   blk_rq_bio_prep+0x23/0xaf
  3)     2232      12   init_request_from_bio+0x74/0x77
  4)     2220      56   __make_request+0x294/0x331
  5)     2164     136   generic_make_request+0x34f/0x37d
  6)     2028      56   submit_bio+0xe7/0xef
  7)     1972      28   submit_bh+0xd1/0xf0
  8)     1944     112   block_read_full_page+0x299/0x2a9
  9)     1832       8   blkdev_readpage+0x14/0x16
 10)     1824      28   read_cache_page_async+0x7e/0x109
 11)     1796      16   read_cache_page+0x11/0x49
 12)     1780      32   read_dev_sector+0x3c/0x72
 13)     1748      48   read_lba+0x4d/0xaa
 14)     1700     168   efi_partition+0x85/0x61b
 15)     1532      72   rescan_partitions+0x10e/0x266
 16)     1460      40   do_open+0x1c7/0x24e
 17)     1420     292   __blkdev_get+0x79/0x84
 18)     1128      12   blkdev_get+0x12/0x14
 19)     1116      20   register_disk+0xd1/0x11e
 20)     1096      28   add_disk+0x34/0x90
 21)     1068      52   sd_probe+0x2b1/0x366
 22)     1016      20   driver_probe_device+0xa5/0x120
 23)      996       8   __device_attach+0xd/0xf
 24)      988      32   bus_for_each_drv+0x3e/0x68
 25)      956      24   device_attach+0x56/0x6c
 26)      932      16   bus_attach_device+0x26/0x4d
 27)      916      64   device_add+0x380/0x4b4
 28)      852      28   scsi_sysfs_add_sdev+0xa1/0x1c9
 29)      824     160   scsi_probe_and_add_lun+0x919/0xa2a
 30)      664      36   __scsi_add_device+0x88/0xae
 31)      628      44   ata_scsi_scan_host+0x9e/0x21c
 32)      584      28   ata_host_register+0x1cb/0x1db
 33)      556      24   ata_host_activate+0x98/0xb5
 34)      532     192   ahci_init_one+0x9bd/0x9e9
 35)      340      20   pci_device_probe+0x3e/0x5e
 36)      320      20   driver_probe_device+0xa5/0x120
 37)      300      20   __driver_attach+0x3f/0x5e
 38)      280      36   bus_for_each_dev+0x40/0x62
 39)      244      12   driver_attach+0x19/0x1b
 40)      232      28   bus_add_driver+0x9c/0x1af
 41)      204      28   driver_register+0x76/0xd2
 42)      176      20   __pci_register_driver+0x44/0x71
 43)      156       8   ahci_init+0x14/0x16
 44)      148     100   _stext+0x42/0x122
 45)       48      20   kernel_init+0x175/0x1dc
 46)       28      28   kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10

The first column is simply an index starting from the inner most function
and counting down to the outer most.

The next column is the location that the function was found on the stack.

The next column is the size of the stack for that function.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:28 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
3b47bfc1fc ftrace: remove direct reference to mcount in trace code
The mcount record method of ftrace scans objdump for references to mcount.
Using mcount as the reference to test if the calls to mcount being replaced
are indeed calls to mcount, this use of mcount was also caught as a
location to change. Using a variable that points to the mcount address
moves this reference into the data section that is not scanned, and
we do not use a false location to try and modify.

The warn on code was what was used to detect this bug.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:22 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
e5a81b629e ftrace: add stack tracer
This is another tracer using the ftrace infrastructure, that examines
at each function call the size of the stack. If the stack use is greater
than the previous max it is recorded.

You can always see (and set) the max stack size seen. By setting it
to zero will start the recording again. The backtrace is also available.

For example:

# cat /debug/tracing/stack_max_size
1856

# cat /debug/tracing/stack_trace
[<c027764d>] stack_trace_call+0x8f/0x101
[<c021b966>] ftrace_call+0x5/0x8
[<c02553cc>] clocksource_get_next+0x12/0x48
[<c02542a5>] update_wall_time+0x538/0x6d1
[<c0245913>] do_timer+0x23/0xb0
[<c0257657>] tick_do_update_jiffies64+0xd9/0xf1
[<c02576b9>] tick_sched_timer+0x4a/0xad
[<c0250fe6>] __run_hrtimer+0x3e/0x75
[<c02518ed>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xf1/0x154
[<c022c870>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x71/0x84
[<c021b7e9>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x2d/0x34
[<c0238597>] finish_task_switch+0x29/0xa0
[<c05abd13>] schedule+0x765/0x7be
[<c05abfca>] schedule_timeout+0x1b/0x90
[<c05ab4d4>] wait_for_common+0xab/0x101
[<c05ab5ac>] wait_for_completion+0x12/0x14
[<c033cfc3>] blk_execute_rq+0x84/0x99
[<c0402470>] scsi_execute+0xc2/0x105
[<c040250a>] scsi_execute_req+0x57/0x7f
[<c043afe0>] sr_test_unit_ready+0x3e/0x97
[<c043bbd6>] sr_media_change+0x43/0x205
[<c046b59f>] media_changed+0x48/0x77
[<c046b5ff>] cdrom_media_changed+0x31/0x37
[<c043b091>] sr_block_media_changed+0x16/0x18
[<c02b9e69>] check_disk_change+0x1b/0x63
[<c046f4c3>] cdrom_open+0x7a1/0x806
[<c043b148>] sr_block_open+0x78/0x8d
[<c02ba4c0>] do_open+0x90/0x257
[<c02ba869>] blkdev_open+0x2d/0x56
[<c0296a1f>] __dentry_open+0x14d/0x23c
[<c0296b32>] nameidata_to_filp+0x24/0x38
[<c02a1c68>] do_filp_open+0x347/0x626
[<c02967ef>] do_sys_open+0x47/0xbc
[<c02968b0>] sys_open+0x23/0x2b
[<c021aadd>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26

I've tested this on both x86_64 and i386.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:19 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
ac8825ec6d ftrace: clean up macro usage
enclose the argument in parenthesis. (especially since we cast it,
which is a high prio operation)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:09 +02:00
Stephen Rothwell
2d7da80f71 ftrace: fix build failure
After disabling FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD via a patch, a dormant build
failure surfaced:

 kernel/trace/ftrace.c: In function 'ftrace_record_ip':
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c:416: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of '_spin_lock_irqsave'
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c:433: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of '_spin_lock_irqsave'

Introduced by commit 6dad8e07f4c10b17b038e84d29f3ca41c2e55cd0 ("ftrace:
add necessary locking for ftrace records").

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:06 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
99ecdc43bc ftrace: add necessary locking for ftrace records
The new design of pre-recorded mcounts and updating the code outside of
kstop_machine has changed the way the records themselves are protected.

This patch uses the ftrace_lock to protect the records. Note, the lock
still does not need to be taken within calls that are only called via
kstop_machine, since the that code can not run while the spin lock is held.

Also removed the hash_lock needed for the daemon when MCOUNT_RECORD is
configured. Also did a slight cleanup of an unused variable.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:47 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
00fd61aee1 ftrace: do not init module on ftrace disabled
If one of the self tests of ftrace has disabled the function tracer,
do not run the code to convert the mcount calls in modules.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:43 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker
98a983aad2 ftrace: fix some mistakes in error messages
This patch fixes some mistakes on the tracer in warning messages when
debugfs fails to create tracing files.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: srostedt@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:40 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
3f5a54e371 ftrace: dump out ftrace buffers to console on panic
At OLS I had a lot of interest to be able to have the ftrace buffers
dumped on panic.  Usually one would expect to uses kexec and examine
the buffers after a new kernel is loaded. But sometimes the resources
do not permit kdump and kexec, so having an option to still see the
sequence of events up to the crash is very advantageous.

This patch adds the option to have the ftrace buffers dumped to the
console in the latency_trace format on a panic. When the option is set,
the default entries per CPU buffer are lowered to 16384, since the writing
to the serial (if that is the console) may take an awful long time
otherwise.

[
 Changes since -v1:
  Got alpine to send correctly (as well as spell check working).
  Removed config option.
  Moved the static variables into ftrace_dump itself.
  Gave printk a log level.
]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:26 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
2f2c99dba2 ftrace: ftrace_printk doc moved
Based on Randy Dunlap's suggestion, the ftrace_printk kernel-doc belongs
with the ftrace_printk macro that should be used. Not with the
__ftrace_printk internal function.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:22 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
dd0e545f06 ftrace: printk formatting infrastructure
This patch adds a feature that can help kernel developers debug their
code using ftrace.

  int ftrace_printk(const char *fmt, ...);

This records into the ftrace buffer using printf formatting. The entry
size in the buffers are still a fixed length. A new type has been added
that allows for more entries to be used for a single recording.

The start of the print is still the same as the other entries.

It returns the number of characters written to the ftrace buffer.

For example:

Having a module with the following code:

static int __init ftrace_print_test(void)
{
        ftrace_printk("jiffies are %ld\n", jiffies);
        return 0;
}

Gives me:

  insmod-5441  3...1 7569us : ftrace_print_test: jiffies are 4296626666

for the latency_trace file and:

          insmod-5441  [03]  1959.370498: ftrace_print_test jiffies are 4296626666

for the trace file.

Note: Only the infrastructure should go into the kernel. It is to help
facilitate debugging for other kernel developers. Calls to ftrace_printk
is not intended to be left in the kernel, and should be frowned upon just
like scattering printks around in the code.

But having this easily at your fingertips helps the debugging go faster
and bugs be solved quicker.

Maybe later on, we can hook this with markers and have their printf format
be sucked into ftrace output.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:19 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
2e2ca155cd ftrace: new continue entry - separate out from trace_entry
Some tracers will need to work with more than one entry. In order to do this
the trace_entry structure was split into two fields. One for the start of
all entries, and one to continue an existing entry.

The trace_entry structure now has a "field" entry that consists of the previous
content of the trace_entry, and a "cont" entry that is just a string buffer
the size of the "field" entry.

Thanks to Andrew Morton for suggesting this idea.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:15 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
fed1939c64 ftrace: remove old pointers to mcount
When a mcount pointer is recorded into a table, it is used to add or
remove calls to mcount (replacing them with nops). If the code is removed
via removing a module, the pointers still exist.  At modifying the code
a check is always made to make sure the code being replaced is the code
expected. In-other-words, the code being replaced is compared to what
it is expected to be before being replaced.

There is a very small chance that the code being replaced just happens
to look like code that calls mcount (very small since the call to mcount
is relative). To remove this chance, this patch adds ftrace_release to
allow module unloading to remove the pointers to mcount within the module.

Another change for init calls is made to not trace calls marked with
__init. The tracing can not be started until after init is done anyway.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:12 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
a9fdda33cd ftrace: do not show freed records in available_filter_functions
Seems that freed records can appear in the available_filter_functions list.
This patch fixes that.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:05 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
90d595fe5c ftrace: enable mcount recording for modules
This patch enables the loading of the __mcount_section of modules and
changing all the callers of mcount into nops.

The modification is done before the init_module function is called, so
again, we do not need to use kstop_machine to make these changes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:47 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
68bf21aa15 ftrace: mcount call site on boot nops core
This is the infrastructure to the converting the mcount call sites
recorded by the __mcount_loc section into nops on boot. It also allows
for using these sites to enable tracing as normal. When the __mcount_loc
section is used, the "ftraced" kernel thread is disabled.

This uses the current infrastructure to record the mcount call sites
as well as convert them to nops. The mcount function is kept as a stub
on boot up and not converted to the ftrace_record_ip function. We use the
ftrace_record_ip to only record from the table.

This patch does not handle modules. That comes with a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:44 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
8da3821ba5 ftrace: create __mcount_loc section
This patch creates a section in the kernel called "__mcount_loc".
This will hold a list of pointers to the mcount relocation for
each call site of mcount.

For example:

objdump -dr init/main.o
[...]
Disassembly of section .text:

0000000000000000 <do_one_initcall>:
   0:   55                      push   %rbp
[...]
000000000000017b <init_post>:
 17b:   55                      push   %rbp
 17c:   48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
 17f:   53                      push   %rbx
 180:   48 83 ec 08             sub    $0x8,%rsp
 184:   e8 00 00 00 00          callq  189 <init_post+0xe>
                        185: R_X86_64_PC32      mcount+0xfffffffffffffffc
[...]

We will add a section to point to each function call.

   .section __mcount_loc,"a",@progbits
[...]
   .quad .text + 0x185
[...]

The offset to of the mcount call site in init_post is an offset from
the start of the section, and not the start of the function init_post.
The mcount relocation is at the call site 0x185 from the start of the
.text section.

  .text + 0x185  == init_post + 0xa

We need a way to add this __mcount_loc section in a way that we do not
lose the relocations after final link.  The .text section here will
be attached to all other .text sections after final link and the
offsets will be meaningless.  We need to keep track of where these
.text sections are.

To do this, we use the start of the first function in the section.
do_one_initcall.  We can make a tmp.s file with this function as a reference
to the start of the .text section.

   .section __mcount_loc,"a",@progbits
[...]
   .quad do_one_initcall + 0x185
[...]

Then we can compile the tmp.s into a tmp.o

  gcc -c tmp.s -o tmp.o

And link it into back into main.o.

  ld -r main.o tmp.o -o tmp_main.o
  mv tmp_main.o main.o

But we have a problem.  What happens if the first function in a section
is not exported, and is a static function. The linker will not let
the tmp.o use it.  This case exists in main.o as well.

Disassembly of section .init.text:

0000000000000000 <set_reset_devices>:
   0:   55                      push   %rbp
   1:   48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
   4:   e8 00 00 00 00          callq  9 <set_reset_devices+0x9>
                        5: R_X86_64_PC32        mcount+0xfffffffffffffffc

The first function in .init.text is a static function.

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 t set_reset_devices

The lowercase 't' means that set_reset_devices is local and is not exported.
If we simply try to link the tmp.o with the set_reset_devices we end
up with two symbols: one local and one global.

 .section __mcount_loc,"a",@progbits
 .quad set_reset_devices + 0x10

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 t set_reset_devices
                 U set_reset_devices

We still have an undefined reference to set_reset_devices, and if we try
to compile the kernel, we will end up with an undefined reference to
set_reset_devices, or even worst, it could be exported someplace else,
and then we will have a reference to the wrong location.

To handle this case, we make an intermediate step using objcopy.
We convert set_reset_devices into a global exported symbol before linking
it with tmp.o and set it back afterwards.

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 T set_reset_devices

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 T set_reset_devices

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 t set_reset_devices

Now we have a section in main.o called __mcount_loc that we can place
somewhere in the kernel using vmlinux.ld.S and access it to convert
all these locations that call mcount into nops before starting SMP
and thus, eliminating the need to do this with kstop_machine.

Note, A well documented perl script (scripts/recordmcount.pl) is used
to do all this in one location.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:40 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
36dcd67ae9 ftrace: ignore functions that cannot be kprobe-ed
kprobes already has an extensive list of annotations for functions
that should not be instrumented. Add notrace annotations to these
functions as well.

This is particularly useful for functions called by the NMI path.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:22 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
9795302acf tracepoints: use TABLE_SIZE macro
Steven Rostedt suggested:

| Wouldn't it look nicer to have: (TRACEPOINT_TABLE_SIZE - 1) ?

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:07 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
5f87f11218 tracing: clean up tracepoints kconfig structure
do not expose users to CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS - tracers can select it
just fine.

update ftrace to select CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:33:32 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
b07c3f193a ftrace: port to tracepoints
Porting the trace_mark() used by ftrace to tracepoints. (cleanup)

Changelog :
- Change error messages : marker -> tracepoint

[ mingo@elte.hu: conflict resolutions ]
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:32:26 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
0a16b60758 tracing, sched: LTTng instrumentation - scheduler
Instrument the scheduler activity (sched_switch, migration, wakeups,
wait for a task, signal delivery) and process/thread
creation/destruction (fork, exit, kthread stop). Actually, kthread
creation is not instrumented in this patch because it is architecture
dependent. It allows to connect tracers such as ftrace which detects
scheduling latencies, good/bad scheduler decisions. Tools like LTTng can
export this scheduler information along with instrumentation of the rest
of the kernel activity to perform post-mortem analysis on the scheduler
activity.

About the performance impact of tracepoints (which is comparable to
markers), even without immediate values optimizations, tests done by
Hideo Aoki on ia64 show no regression. His test case was using hackbench
on a kernel where scheduler instrumentation (about 5 events in code
scheduler code) was added. See the "Tracepoints" patch header for
performance result detail.

Changelog :

- Change instrumentation location and parameter to match ftrace
  instrumentation, previously done with kernel markers.

[ mingo@elte.hu: conflict resolutions ]
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:30:52 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
97e1c18e8d tracing: Kernel Tracepoints
Implementation of kernel tracepoints. Inspired from the Linux Kernel
Markers. Allows complete typing verification by declaring both tracing
statement inline functions and probe registration/unregistration static
inline functions within the same macro "DEFINE_TRACE". No format string
is required. See the tracepoint Documentation and Samples patches for
usage examples.

Taken from the documentation patch :

"A tracepoint placed in code provides a hook to call a function (probe)
that you can provide at runtime. A tracepoint can be "on" (a probe is
connected to it) or "off" (no probe is attached). When a tracepoint is
"off" it has no effect, except for adding a tiny time penalty (checking
a condition for a branch) and space penalty (adding a few bytes for the
function call at the end of the instrumented function and adds a data
structure in a separate section).  When a tracepoint is "on", the
function you provide is called each time the tracepoint is executed, in
the execution context of the caller. When the function provided ends its
execution, it returns to the caller (continuing from the tracepoint
site).

You can put tracepoints at important locations in the code. They are
lightweight hooks that can pass an arbitrary number of parameters, which
prototypes are described in a tracepoint declaration placed in a header
file."

Addition and removal of tracepoints is synchronized by RCU using the
scheduler (and preempt_disable) as guarantees to find a quiescent state
(this is really RCU "classic"). The update side uses rcu_barrier_sched()
with call_rcu_sched() and the read/execute side uses
"preempt_disable()/preempt_enable()".

We make sure the previous array containing probes, which has been
scheduled for deletion by the rcu callback, is indeed freed before we
proceed to the next update. It therefore limits the rate of modification
of a single tracepoint to one update per RCU period. The objective here
is to permit fast batch add/removal of probes on _different_
tracepoints.

Changelog :
- Use #name ":" #proto as string to identify the tracepoint in the
  tracepoint table. This will make sure not type mismatch happens due to
  connexion of a probe with the wrong type to a tracepoint declared with
  the same name in a different header.
- Add tracepoint_entry_free_old.
- Change __TO_TRACE to get rid of the 'i' iterator.

Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> :
Tested on x86-64.

Performance impact of a tracepoint : same as markers, except that it
adds about 70 bytes of instructions in an unlikely branch of each
instrumented function (the for loop, the stack setup and the function
call). It currently adds a memory read, a test and a conditional branch
at the instrumentation site (in the hot path). Immediate values will
eventually change this into a load immediate, test and branch, which
removes the memory read which will make the i-cache impact smaller
(changing the memory read for a load immediate removes 3-4 bytes per
site on x86_32 (depending on mov prefixes), or 7-8 bytes on x86_64, it
also saves the d-cache hit).

About the performance impact of tracepoints (which is comparable to
markers), even without immediate values optimizations, tests done by
Hideo Aoki on ia64 show no regression. His test case was using hackbench
on a kernel where scheduler instrumentation (about 5 events in code
scheduler code) was added.

Quoting Hideo Aoki about Markers :

I evaluated overhead of kernel marker using linux-2.6-sched-fixes git
tree, which includes several markers for LTTng, using an ia64 server.

While the immediate trace mark feature isn't implemented on ia64, there
is no major performance regression. So, I think that we don't have any
issues to propose merging marker point patches into Linus's tree from
the viewpoint of performance impact.

I prepared two kernels to evaluate. The first one was compiled without
CONFIG_MARKERS. The second one was enabled CONFIG_MARKERS.

I downloaded the original hackbench from the following URL:
http://devresources.linux-foundation.org/craiger/hackbench/src/hackbench.c

I ran hackbench 5 times in each condition and calculated the average and
difference between the kernels.

    The parameter of hackbench: every 50 from 50 to 800
    The number of CPUs of the server: 2, 4, and 8

Below is the results. As you can see, major performance regression
wasn't found in any case. Even if number of processes increases,
differences between marker-enabled kernel and marker- disabled kernel
doesn't increase. Moreover, if number of CPUs increases, the differences
doesn't increase either.

Curiously, marker-enabled kernel is better than marker-disabled kernel
in more than half cases, although I guess it comes from the difference
of memory access pattern.

* 2 CPUs

Number of | without      | with         | diff     | diff    |
processes | Marker [Sec] | Marker [Sec] |   [Sec]  |   [%]   |
--------------------------------------------------------------
       50 |      4.811   |       4.872  |  +0.061  |  +1.27  |
      100 |      9.854   |      10.309  |  +0.454  |  +4.61  |
      150 |     15.602   |      15.040  |  -0.562  |  -3.6   |
      200 |     20.489   |      20.380  |  -0.109  |  -0.53  |
      250 |     25.798   |      25.652  |  -0.146  |  -0.56  |
      300 |     31.260   |      30.797  |  -0.463  |  -1.48  |
      350 |     36.121   |      35.770  |  -0.351  |  -0.97  |
      400 |     42.288   |      42.102  |  -0.186  |  -0.44  |
      450 |     47.778   |      47.253  |  -0.526  |  -1.1   |
      500 |     51.953   |      52.278  |  +0.325  |  +0.63  |
      550 |     58.401   |      57.700  |  -0.701  |  -1.2   |
      600 |     63.334   |      63.222  |  -0.112  |  -0.18  |
      650 |     68.816   |      68.511  |  -0.306  |  -0.44  |
      700 |     74.667   |      74.088  |  -0.579  |  -0.78  |
      750 |     78.612   |      79.582  |  +0.970  |  +1.23  |
      800 |     85.431   |      85.263  |  -0.168  |  -0.2   |
--------------------------------------------------------------

* 4 CPUs

Number of | without      | with         | diff     | diff    |
processes | Marker [Sec] | Marker [Sec] |   [Sec]  |   [%]   |
--------------------------------------------------------------
       50 |      2.586   |       2.584  |  -0.003  |  -0.1   |
      100 |      5.254   |       5.283  |  +0.030  |  +0.56  |
      150 |      8.012   |       8.074  |  +0.061  |  +0.76  |
      200 |     11.172   |      11.000  |  -0.172  |  -1.54  |
      250 |     13.917   |      14.036  |  +0.119  |  +0.86  |
      300 |     16.905   |      16.543  |  -0.362  |  -2.14  |
      350 |     19.901   |      20.036  |  +0.135  |  +0.68  |
      400 |     22.908   |      23.094  |  +0.186  |  +0.81  |
      450 |     26.273   |      26.101  |  -0.172  |  -0.66  |
      500 |     29.554   |      29.092  |  -0.461  |  -1.56  |
      550 |     32.377   |      32.274  |  -0.103  |  -0.32  |
      600 |     35.855   |      35.322  |  -0.533  |  -1.49  |
      650 |     39.192   |      38.388  |  -0.804  |  -2.05  |
      700 |     41.744   |      41.719  |  -0.025  |  -0.06  |
      750 |     45.016   |      44.496  |  -0.520  |  -1.16  |
      800 |     48.212   |      47.603  |  -0.609  |  -1.26  |
--------------------------------------------------------------

* 8 CPUs

Number of | without      | with         | diff     | diff    |
processes | Marker [Sec] | Marker [Sec] |   [Sec]  |   [%]   |
--------------------------------------------------------------
       50 |      2.094   |       2.072  |  -0.022  |  -1.07  |
      100 |      4.162   |       4.273  |  +0.111  |  +2.66  |
      150 |      6.485   |       6.540  |  +0.055  |  +0.84  |
      200 |      8.556   |       8.478  |  -0.078  |  -0.91  |
      250 |     10.458   |      10.258  |  -0.200  |  -1.91  |
      300 |     12.425   |      12.750  |  +0.325  |  +2.62  |
      350 |     14.807   |      14.839  |  +0.032  |  +0.22  |
      400 |     16.801   |      16.959  |  +0.158  |  +0.94  |
      450 |     19.478   |      19.009  |  -0.470  |  -2.41  |
      500 |     21.296   |      21.504  |  +0.208  |  +0.98  |
      550 |     23.842   |      23.979  |  +0.137  |  +0.57  |
      600 |     26.309   |      26.111  |  -0.198  |  -0.75  |
      650 |     28.705   |      28.446  |  -0.259  |  -0.9   |
      700 |     31.233   |      31.394  |  +0.161  |  +0.52  |
      750 |     34.064   |      33.720  |  -0.344  |  -1.01  |
      800 |     36.320   |      36.114  |  -0.206  |  -0.57  |
--------------------------------------------------------------

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:28:28 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
20272c8994 Merge branch 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc
* 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc:
  proc: remove kernel.maps_protect
  proc: remove now unneeded ADDBUF macro
  [PATCH] proc: show personality via /proc/pid/personality
  [PATCH] signal, procfs: some lock_task_sighand() users do not need rcu_read_lock()
  proc: move PROC_PAGE_MONITOR to fs/proc/Kconfig
  proc: make grab_header() static
  proc: remove unused get_dma_list()
  proc: remove dummy vmcore_open()
  proc: proc_sys_root tweak
  proc: fix return value of proc_reg_open() in "too late" case

Fixed up trivial conflict in removed file arch/sparc/include/asm/dma_32.h
2008-10-13 10:04:04 -07:00
Alan Cox
dbda4c0b97 tty: Fix abusers of current->sighand->tty
Various people outside the tty layer still stick their noses in behind the
scenes. We need to make sure they also obey the locking and referencing rules.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:42 -07:00
Alan Cox
95f9bfc6b7 tty: Move tty_write_message out of kernel/printk
This is pure tty code so put it in the tty layer where it can be with the
locking relevant material it uses

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:41 -07:00
Alan Cox
9c9f4ded90 tty: Add a kref count
Introduce a kref to the tty structure and use it to protect the tty->signal
tty references. For now we don't introduce it for anything else.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:40 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
dc4304f7de rangetimers: fix the bug reported by Ingo for real
and please hand me a brown paper bag

(thanks to Thomas for pointing out this very obvious bug)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-10-13 11:08:34 -04:00
David S. Miller
56c5d900db Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	sound/core/memalloc.c
2008-10-11 12:39:35 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
030aebd2e4 rangetimer: fix BUG_ON reported by Ingo
There's a small race/chance that, while hrtimers are enabled globally,
they're later not enabled when we're calling the hrtimer_interrupt() function,
which then BUG_ON()'s for that. This patch closes that race/gap.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-10-11 12:25:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ead9d23d80 Merge phase #4 (X2APIC, APIC unification, CPU identification unification) of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-v28-for-linus-phase4-D' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (186 commits)
  x86, debug: print more information about unknown CPUs
  x86 setup: handle more than 8 CPU flag words
  x86: cpuid, fix typo
  x86: move transmeta cap read to early_init_transmeta()
  x86: identify_cpu_without_cpuid v2
  x86: extended "flags" to show virtualization HW feature in /proc/cpuinfo
  x86: move VMX MSRs to msr-index.h
  x86: centaur_64.c remove duplicated setting of CONSTANT_TSC
  x86: intel.c put workaround for old cpus together
  x86: let intel 64-bit use intel.c
  x86: make intel_64.c the same as intel.c
  x86: make intel.c have 64-bit support code
  x86: little clean up of intel.c/intel_64.c
  x86: make 64 bit to use amd.c
  x86: make amd_64 have 32 bit code
  x86: make amd.c have 64bit support code
  x86: merge header in amd_64.c
  x86: add srat_detect_node for amd64
  x86: remove duplicated force_mwait
  x86: cpu make amd.c more like amd_64.c v2
  ...
2008-10-11 11:51:16 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
0afe2db213 Merge branch 'x86/unify-cpu-detect' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase4-D
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
	arch/x86/kernel/signal_64.c
	include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
2008-10-11 20:23:20 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
d84705969f Merge branch 'x86/apic' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase4-B
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
	drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c
	include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
	include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
2008-10-11 20:17:36 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
bf6f51e3a4 Merge phase #3 (IOMMU) of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-v28-for-linus-phase3-B' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (74 commits)
  AMD IOMMU: use iommu_device_max_index, fix
  AMD IOMMU: use iommu_device_max_index
  x86: add PCI IDs for AMD Barcelona PCI devices
  x86/iommu: use __GFP_ZERO instead of memset for GART
  x86/iommu: convert GART need_flush to bool
  x86/iommu: make GART driver checkpatch clean
  x86 gart: remove unnecessary initialization
  x86: restore old GART alloc_coherent behavior
  revert "x86: make GART to respect device's dma_mask about virtual mappings"
  x86: export pci-nommu's alloc_coherent
  iommu: remove fullflush and nofullflush in IOMMU generic option
  x86: remove set_bit_string()
  iommu: export iommu_area_reserve helper function
  AMD IOMMU: use coherent_dma_mask in alloc_coherent
  add AMD IOMMU tree to MAINTAINERS file
  AMD IOMMU: use cmd_buf_size when freeing the command buffer
  AMD IOMMU: calculate IVHD size with a function
  AMD IOMMU: remove unnecessary cast to u64 in the init code
  AMD IOMMU: free domain bitmap with its allocation order
  AMD IOMMU: simplify dma_mask_to_pages
  ...
2008-10-11 11:03:12 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
5b16a2212f Merge branch 'sched/clock' into sched/urgent 2008-10-11 18:50:45 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
098ef215b1 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] Fix BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code
  [CPUFREQ] Don't export governors for default governor
  [CPUFREQ][6/6] cpufreq: Add idle microaccounting in ondemand governor
  [CPUFREQ][5/6] cpufreq: Changes to get_cpu_idle_time_us(), used by ondemand governor
  [CPUFREQ][4/6] cpufreq_ondemand: Parameterize down differential
  [CPUFREQ][3/6] cpufreq: get_cpu_idle_time() changes in ondemand for idle-microaccounting
  [CPUFREQ][2/6] cpufreq: Change load calculation in ondemand for software coordination
  [CPUFREQ][1/6] cpufreq: Add cpu number parameter to __cpufreq_driver_getavg()
  [CPUFREQ] use deferrable delayed work init in conservative governor
  [CPUFREQ] drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c: Adjust error handling code involving cpufreq_cpu_put
  [CPUFREQ] add error handling for cpufreq_register_governor() error
  [CPUFREQ] acpi-cpufreq: add error handling for cpufreq_register_driver() error
  [CPUFREQ] Coding style fixes to arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k6.c
  [CPUFREQ] Coding style fixes to arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c
2008-10-11 08:49:34 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
061b1bd394 Staging: add TAINT_CRAP for all drivers/staging code
We need to add a flag for all code that is in the drivers/staging/
directory to prevent all other kernel developers from worrying about
issues here, and to notify users that the drivers might not be as good
as they are normally used to.

Based on code from Andreas Gruenbacher and Jeff Mahoney to provide a
TAINT flag for the support level of a kernel module in the Novell
enterprise kernel release.

This is the kernel portion of this feature, the ability for the flag to
be set needs to be done in the build process and will happen in a
follow-up patch.

Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-10 15:31:05 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b922df7383 Merge branch 'rcu-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'rcu-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (21 commits)
  rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU, fix
  rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU
  rcu: add rcu_read_lock_sched() / rcu_read_unlock_sched()
  rcu: fix sparse shadowed variable warning
  doc/RCU: fix pseudocode in rcuref.txt
  rcuclassic: fix compiler warning
  rcu: use irq-safe locks
  rcuclassic: fix compilation NG
  rcu: fix locking cleanup fallout
  rcu: remove redundant ACCESS_ONCE definition from rcupreempt.c
  rcu: fix classic RCU locking cleanup lockdep problem
  rcu: trace fix possible mem-leak
  rcu: just rename call_rcu_bh instead of making it a macro
  rcu: remove list_for_each_rcu()
  rcu: fixes to include/linux/rcupreempt.h
  rcu: classic RCU locking and memory-barrier cleanups
  rcu: prevent console flood when one CPU sees another AWOL via RCU
  rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods, cleanups
  rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods
  rcu classic: new algorithm for callbacks-processing(v2)
  ...
2008-10-10 13:10:51 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
725c25819e Merge branches 'core/iommu', 'x86/amd-iommu' and 'x86/iommu' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase3-B
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c
	include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
2008-10-10 19:47:12 +02:00
Dave Kleikamp
5b7dba4ff8 sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards
When sched_clock_cpu() couples the clocks between two cpus, it may
increment scd->clock beyond the GTOD tick window that __update_sched_clock()
uses to clamp the clock.  A later call to __update_sched_clock() may move
the clock back to scd->tick_gtod + TICK_NSEC, violating the clock's
monotonic property.

This patch ensures that scd->clock will not be set backward.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-10 11:17:04 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan
3bbfe05967 proc: remove kernel.maps_protect
After commit 831830b5a2 aka
"restrict reading from /proc/<pid>/maps to those who share ->mm or can ptrace"
sysctl stopped being relevant because commit moved security checks from ->show
time to ->start time (mm_for_maps()).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
2008-10-10 04:24:51 +04:00
Lai Jiangshan
a6bebbc87a [PATCH] signal, procfs: some lock_task_sighand() users do not need rcu_read_lock()
lock_task_sighand() make sure task->sighand is being protected,
so we do not need rcu_read_lock().
[ exec() will get task->sighand->siglock before change task->sighand! ]

But code using rcu_read_lock() _just_ to protect lock_task_sighand()
only appear in procfs. (and some code in procfs use lock_task_sighand()
without such redundant protection.)

Other subsystem may put lock_task_sighand() into rcu_read_lock()
critical region, but these rcu_read_lock() are used for protecting
"for_each_process()", "find_task_by_vpid()" etc. , not for protecting
lock_task_sighand().

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
[ok from Oleg]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-10 04:18:57 +04:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
8083e4ad97 [CPUFREQ][5/6] cpufreq: Changes to get_cpu_idle_time_us(), used by ondemand governor
export get_cpu_idle_time_us() for it to be used in ondemand governor.
Last update time can be current time when the CPU is currently non-idle,
accounting for the busy time since last idle.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-10-09 13:52:44 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
a5d8c3483a 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>
2008-10-09 17:13:06 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
cdbb92b31d Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcu 2008-10-09 00:17:25 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
2fb7635c4c sched: sync wakeups vs avg_overlap
While looking at the code I wondered why we always do:

  sync && avg_overlap < migration_cost

Which is a bit odd, since the overlap test was meant to detect sync wakeups
so using it to specialize sync wakeups doesn't make much sense.

Hence change the code to do:

  sync || avg_overlap < migration_cost

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-08 12:20:26 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
990d0f2ced Merge branches 'sched/devel', 'sched/cpu-hotplug', 'sched/cpusets' and 'sched/urgent' into sched/core 2008-10-08 11:31:02 +02:00
Jason Wessel
cc1e0f4f7a kgdb: call touch_softlockup_watchdog on resume
The softlockup watchdog needs to be touched when resuming the from the
kgdb stopped state to avoid the printk that a CPU is stuck if the
debugger was active for longer than the softlockup threshold.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-10-06 13:50:59 -05:00
Li Zefan
34b3ede235 sched: remove redundant code in cpu_cgroup_create()
css will be initialized by cgroup core.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-06 08:13:34 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
2c10c22af0 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/devel 2008-10-06 08:13:18 +02:00
Dario Faggioli
f6121f4f87 sched_rt.c: resch needed in rt_rq_enqueue() for the root rt_rq
While working on the new version of the code for SCHED_SPORADIC I
noticed something strange in the present throttling mechanism. More
specifically in the throttling timer handler in sched_rt.c
(do_sched_rt_period_timer()) and in rt_rq_enqueue().

The problem is that, when unthrottling a runqueue, rt_rq_enqueue() only
asks for rescheduling if the runqueue has a sched_entity associated to
it (i.e., rt_rq->rt_se != NULL).
Now, if the runqueue is the root rq (which has a rt_se = NULL)
rescheduling does not take place, and it is delayed to some undefined
instant in the future.

This imply some random bandwidth usage by the RT tasks under throttling.
For instance, setting rt_runtime_us/rt_period_us = 950ms/1000ms an RT
task will get less than 95%. In our tests we got something varying
between 70% to 95%.
Using smaller time values, e.g., 95ms/100ms, things are even worse, and
I can see values also going down to 20-25%!!

The tests we performed are simply running 'yes' as a SCHED_FIFO task,
and checking the CPU usage with top, but we can investigate thoroughly
if you think it is needed.

Things go much better, for us, with the attached patch... Don't know if
it is the best approach, but it solved the issue for us.

Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <trimarchimichael@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-04 14:31:54 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
07454bfff1 clockevents: check broadcast tick device not the clock events device
Impact: jiffies increment too fast.

Hugh Dickins noted that with NOHZ=n and HIGHRES=n jiffies get
incremented too fast. The reason is a wrong check in the broadcast
enter/exit code, which keeps the local apic timer in periodic mode
when the switch happens.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-10-04 10:51:07 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
d294eb83d8 cpusets: scan_for_empty_cpusets(), cpuset doesn't seem to be so const
This fixes a warning on latest -tip:

 kernel/cpuset.c: Dans la fonction «scan_for_empty_cpusets» :
 kernel/cpuset.c:1932: attention : passing argument 1 of «list_add_tail» discards qualifiers from pointer target type

Actually the struct cpuset *root passed in parameter to scan_for_empty_cpusets
is not supposed to be const since an entry is added on the tail of its list.
Just correct the qualifier.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-03 13:39:50 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
77af7e3403 softirq, warning fix: correct a format to avoid a warning
Last -tip gives this warning:

kernel/softirq.c: Dans la fonction «__do_softirq» :
kernel/softirq.c:216: attention : format «%ld» expects type «long int», but argument 2 has type «int»

This patch corrects the format type, and a small mistake in the "softirq" word.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-03 11:41:41 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
2ec2b482b1 rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU, fix
fix the !CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR path:

 kernel/rcuclassic.c: In function '__rcu_pending':
 kernel/rcuclassic.c:609: error: too few arguments to function 'check_cpu_stall'

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-03 10:41:00 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
2133b5d7ff rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU
This patch adds stalled-CPU detection to Classic RCU.  This capability
is enabled by a new config variable CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR, which
defaults disabled.

This is a debugging feature to detect infinite loops in kernel code, not
something that non-kernel-hackers would be expected to care about.

This feature can detect looping CPUs in !PREEMPT builds and looping CPUs
with preemption disabled in PREEMPT builds.  This is essentially a port of
this functionality from the treercu patch, replacing the stall debug patch
that is already in tip/core/rcu (commit 67182ae1c4).

The changes from the patch in tip/core/rcu include making the config
variable name match that in treercu, changing from seconds to jiffies to
avoid spurious warnings, and printing a boot message when this feature
is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-03 10:36:08 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
b5259d9442 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc8' into core/rcu 2008-10-03 10:34:36 +02:00
Dan Carpenter
aa94fbd5cc fix error-path NULL deref in alloc_posix_timer()
Found by static checker (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git).

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.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>
2008-10-02 15:53:13 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
8e85b4b553 softirqs, debug: preemption check
if a preempt count leaks out of a softirq handler it can be very hard
to figure it out. Add a debug check for this.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-02 10:58:04 +02:00
David Brownell
0c5d1eb77a genirq: record trigger type
Genirq hasn't previously recorded the trigger type used by any given IRQ,
although some irq_chip support has done so.  That data can be useful when
troubleshooting.  This patch records it in the relevant irq_desc.status
bits, and improves consistency between the two driver-visible calls
affected:

 - Make set_irq_type() usage match request_irq() usage:
    * IRQ_TYPE_NONE should be a NOP; succeed, so irq_chip methods
      won't have to handle that case any more (many do it wrong).
    * IRQ_TYPE_PROBE is ignored; any buggy out-of-tree callers
      might need to switch over to the real IRQ probing code.
    * emit the same diagnostics (from shared utility code)

 - Their kerneldoc now reflects usage:
    * request_irq() flags include IRQF_TRIGGER_* to specify
      active edge(s)/level ... docs previously omitted that
    * set_irq_type() is declared in <linux/irq.h> so callers
      should use the (bit-equivalent) IRQ_TYPE_* symbols there

Also: adds a warning about shared IRQs that don't end up using the
requested trigger mode; and fix an unrelated "sparse" warning.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-02 10:24:09 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
d6d5aeb661 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc8' into genirq 2008-10-02 10:21:26 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
cf4b0b2c95 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  hrtimer: prevent migration of per CPU hrtimers
  hrtimer: mark migration state
  hrtimer: fix migration of CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ hrtimers
  hrtimer: migrate pending list on cpu offline

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-09-30 08:39:28 -07:00
Amit K. Arora
64b9e0294d sched: minor optimizations in wake_affine and select_task_rq_fair
This patch does following:
o Removes unused variable and argument "rq".
o Optimizes one of the "if" conditions in wake_affine() - i.e.  if
  "balanced" is true, we need not do rest of the calculations in the
  condition.
o If this cpu is same as the previous cpu (on which woken up task
  was running when it went to sleep), no need to call wake_affine at all.

Signed-off-by: Amit K Arora <aarora@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-30 15:25:44 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1508487e7f timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, fix
fix bogus rq dereference: v3 removed the locking but also removed the rq
initialization.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-30 08:28:17 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
bfcd17a6c5 Configure out file locking features
This patch adds the CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING option which allows to remove
support for advisory locks. With this patch enabled, the flock()
system call, the F_GETLK, F_SETLK and F_SETLKW operations of fcntl()
and NFS support are disabled. These features are not necessarly needed
on embedded systems. It allows to save ~11 Kb of kernel code and data:

   text          data     bss     dec     hex filename
1125436        118764  212992 1457192  163c28 vmlinux.old
1114299        118564  212992 1445855  160fdf vmlinux
 -11137    -200       0  -11337   -2C49 +/-

This patch has originally been written by Matt Mackall
<mpm@selenic.com>, and is part of the Linux Tiny project.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: matthew@wil.cx
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mpm@selenic.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2008-09-29 17:56:57 -04:00
Balbir Singh
31a78f23ba mm owner: fix race between swapoff and exit
There's a race between mm->owner assignment and swapoff, more easily
seen when task slab poisoning is turned on.  The condition occurs when
try_to_unuse() runs in parallel with an exiting task.  A similar race
can occur with callers of get_task_mm(), such as /proc/<pid>/<mmstats>
or ptrace or page migration.

CPU0                                    CPU1
                                        try_to_unuse
                                        looks at mm = task0->mm
                                        increments mm->mm_users
task 0 exits
mm->owner needs to be updated, but no
new owner is found (mm_users > 1, but
no other task has task->mm = task0->mm)
mm_update_next_owner() leaves
                                        mmput(mm) decrements mm->mm_users
task0 freed
                                        dereferencing mm->owner fails

The fix is to notify the subsystem via mm_owner_changed callback(),
if no new owner is found, by specifying the new task as NULL.

Jiri Slaby:
mm->owner was set to NULL prior to calling cgroup_mm_owner_callbacks(), but
must be set after that, so as not to pass NULL as old owner causing oops.

Daisuke Nishimura:
mm_update_next_owner() may set mm->owner to NULL, but mem_cgroup_from_task()
and its callers need to take account of this situation to avoid oops.

Hugh Dickins:
Lockdep warning and hang below exec_mmap() when testing these patches.
exit_mm() up_reads mmap_sem before calling mm_update_next_owner(),
so exec_mmap() now needs to do the same.  And with that repositioning,
there's now no point in mm_need_new_owner() allowing for NULL mm.

Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-29 08:41:47 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
ccc7dadf73 hrtimer: prevent migration of per CPU hrtimers
Impact: per CPU hrtimers can be migrated from a dead CPU

The hrtimer code has no knowledge about per CPU timers, but we need to
prevent the migration of such timers and warn when such a timer is
active at migration time.

Explicitely mark the timers as per CPU and use a more understandable
mode descriptor for the interrupts safe unlocked callback mode, which
is used by hrtimer_sleeper and the scheduler code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-29 17:09:14 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
b00c1a99e7 hrtimer: mark migration state
Impact: during migration active hrtimers can be seen as inactive

The migration code removes the hrtimers from the queues of the dead
CPU and sets the state temporary to INACTIVE. The enqueue code sets it
to ACTIVE/PENDING again.

Prevent that the wrong state can be seen by using a separate migration
state bit.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-29 17:09:14 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
41e1022eae hrtimer: fix migration of CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ hrtimers
Impact: Stale timers after a CPU went offline.

commit 37bb6cb409
       hrtimer: unlock hrtimer_wakeup

changed the hrtimer sleeper callback mode to CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ due
to locking problems. A result of this change is that when enqueue is
called for an already expired hrtimer the callback function is not
longer called directly from the enqueue code. The normal callers have
been fixed in the code, but the migration code which moves hrtimers
from a dead CPU to a live CPU was not made aware of this.

This can be fixed by checking the timer state after the call to
enqueue in the migration code.


Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-29 17:09:14 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
7659e34967 hrtimer: migrate pending list on cpu offline
Impact: hrtimers which are on the pending list are not migrated at cpu
	offline and can be stale forever

Add the pending list migration when CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS is enabled

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-29 17:09:13 +02:00
Frank Mayhar
7086efe1c1 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>
2008-09-27 20:04:45 +02:00
Jason Wessel
d7161a6534 kgdb, x86, arm, mips, powerpc: ignore user space single stepping
On the x86 arch, user space single step exceptions should be ignored
if they occur in the kernel space, such as ptrace stepping through a
system call.

First check if it is kgdb that is executing a single step, then ensure
it is not an accidental traversal into the user space, while in kgdb,
any other time the TIF_SINGLESTEP is set, kgdb should ignore the
exception.

On x86, arm, mips and powerpc, the kgdb_contthread usage was
inconsistent with the way single stepping is implemented in the kgdb
core.  The arch specific stub should always set the
kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step correctly if it is single stepping.  This
allows kgdb to correctly process an instruction steps if ptrace
happens to be requesting an instruction step over a system call.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-09-26 10:36:41 -05:00
Atsuo Igarashi
18d6522b86 kgdb: could not write to the last of valid memory with kgdb
On the ARM architecture, kgdb will crash the kernel if the last byte
of valid memory is written due to a flush_icache_range flushing
beyond the memory boundary.

Signed-off-by: Atsuo Igarashi <atsuo_igarashi@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-09-26 10:36:41 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
13eb83754b IO resources, x86: ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding, fix
fix this build error:

 kernel/resource.c: In function 'iomem_map_sanity_check':
 kernel/resource.c:842: error: implicit declaration of function 'r_next'
 kernel/resource.c:842: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast

r_next() was only available if CONFIG_PROCFS was enabled.

and fix this build warning:

 kernel/resource.c:855: warning: format '%llx' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'resource_size_t'
 kernel/resource.c:855: warning: format '%llx' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'long unsigned int'
 kernel/resource.c:855: warning: format '%llx' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'resource_size_t'
 kernel/resource.c:855: warning: format '%llx' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'resource_size_t'

resource_t can be 32 bits.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-26 10:10:12 +02:00
Suresh Siddha
379daf6290 IO resources, x86: ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding the BAR sizes
Go through the iomem resource tree to check if any of the ioremap()
requests span more than any slot in the iomem resource tree and do
a WARN_ON() if we hit this check.

This will raise a red-flag, if some driver is mapping more than what
is needed. And hopefully identify possible corruptions much earlier.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-26 09:42:20 +02:00
Bharata B Rao
b87f17242d sched: maintain only task entities in cfs_rq->tasks list
cfs_rq->tasks list is used by the load balancer to iterate
over all the tasks. Currently it holds all the entities
(both task and group entities) because of which there is
a need to check for group entities explicitly during load
balancing. This patch changes the cfs_rq->tasks list to
hold only task entities.

Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-25 11:24:11 +02:00
Roman Zippel
d40e944c25 ntp: improve adjtimex frequency rounding
Change PPM_SCALE_INV_SHIFT so that it doesn't throw away any input bits
(19 is the amount of the factor 2 in PPM_SCALE), the output frequency
can then be calculated back to its input value, as the inverse divide
produce a slightly larger value, which is then correctly rounded by the
final shift.

Reported-by: Martin Ziegler <ziegler@uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 17:33:13 +02:00
Roman Zippel
5cd1c9c5cf timekeeping: fix rounding problem during clock update
Due to a rounding problem during a clock update it's possible for readers
to observe the clock jumping back by 1nsec.  The following simplified
example demonstrates the problem:

cycle	xtime
0	0
1000	999999.6
2000	1999999.2
3000	2999998.8
...

1500 =	1499999.4
=	0.0 + 1499999.4
=	999999.6 + 499999.8

When reading the clock only the full nanosecond part is used, while
timekeeping internally keeps nanosecond fractions.  If the clock is now
updated at cycle 1500 here, a nanosecond is missing due to the truncation.

The simple fix is to round up the xtime value during the update, this also
changes the distance to the reference time, but the adjustment will
automatically take care that it stays under control.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 17:33:13 +02:00
Maciej W. Rozycki
eb3f938fd6 ntp: let update_persistent_clock() sleep
This is a change that makes the 11-minute RTC update be run in the process
context.  This is so that update_persistent_clock() can sleep, which may
be required for certain types of RTC hardware -- most notably I2C devices.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 17:33:12 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
31d9284569 posix-timers: lock_timer: make it readable
Cleanup.  Imho makes the code much more understandable.  At least this
patch lessens both the source and compiled code.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
5a51b713cc posix-timers: lock_timer: kill the bogus ->it_id check
lock_timer() checks that the timer found by idr_find(timer_id) has ->it_id
== timer_id.  This buys nothing.  This check can fail only if
sys_timer_create() unlocked idr_lock after idr_get_new(), but didn't set
->it_id = new_timer_id yet.  But in that case ->it_process == NULL so
lock_timer() can't succeed anyway.

Also remove a couple of unneeded typecasts.

Note that with or without this patch we have a small problem. 
sys_timer_create() doesn't ensure that the result of setting (say)
->it_sigev_notify must be visible if lock_timer() succeeds.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
5a9fa73072 posix-timers: kill ->it_sigev_signo and ->it_sigev_value
With the recent changes ->it_sigev_signo and ->it_sigev_value are only
used in sys_timer_create(), kill them.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
ef864c9588 posix-timers: sys_timer_create: cleanup the error handling
Cleanup.

- sys_timer_create() is big and complicated. The code above the "out:"
  label relies on the fact that "error" must be == 0. This is not very
  robust, make the code more explicit. Remove the unneeded initialization
  of error.

- If idr_get_new() succeeds (as it normally should), we check the returned
  value twice. Move the "-EAGAIN" check under "if (error)".

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
717835d94d posix-timers: move the initialization of timer->sigq from send to create path
posix_timer_event() always populates timer->sigq with the same numbers,
move this code into sys_timer_create().

Note that with this patch we can kill it_sigev_signo and it_sigev_value.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
36b2f04600 posix-timers: sys_timer_create: simplify and s/tasklist/rcu/
- Change the code to do rcu_read_lock() instead of taking tasklist_lock,
  it is safe to get_task_struct(p) if p was found under RCU.

  However, now we must not use process's sighand/signal, they may be NULL.
  We can use current->sighand/signal instead, this "process" must belong
  to the current's thread-group.

- Factor out the common code for 2 "if (timer_event_spec)" branches, the
  !timer_event_spec case can use current too.

- use spin_lock_irq() instead of _irqsave(), kill "flags".

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
2cd499e38e posix-timers: sys_timer_create: remove the buggy PF_EXITING check
sys_timer_create() return -EINVAL if the target thread has PF_EXITING.

This doesn't really make sense, the sub-thread can die right after unlock.
And in fact, this is just wrong.  Without SIGEV_THREAD_ID good_sigevent()
returns ->group_leader, and it is very possible that the leader is already
dead.  This is OK, we shouldn't return the error in this case.

Remove this check and the comment.  Note that the "process" was found
under tasklist_lock, it must have ->sighand != NULL.

Also, remove a couple of unneeded initializations.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:47 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
918fc03728 posix-timers: always do get_task_struct(timer->it_process)
Change the code to get/put timer->it_process regardless of
SIGEV_THREAD_ID.  This streamlines the create/destroy paths and allows us
to simplify the usage of exit_itimers() in de_thread().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:47 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
4aa7361179 posix-timers: don't switch to ->group_leader if ->it_process dies
posix_timer_event() drops SIGEV_THREAD_ID and switches to ->group_leader
if send_sigqueue() fails.

This is not very useful and doesn't work reliably.  send_sigqueue() can
only fail if ->it_process is dead.  But it can die before it dequeues the
SI_TIMER signal, in that case the timer stops anyway.

Remove this code.  I guess it was needed a long ago to ensure that the
timer is not destroyed when when its creator thread dies.

Q: perhaps it makes sense to change sys_timer_settime() to return an error
if ->it_process is dead?

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:47 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
8553f321e0 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  timers: fix build error in !oneshot case
  x86: c1e_idle: don't mark TSC unstable if CPU has invariant TSC
  x86: prevent C-states hang on AMD C1E enabled machines
  clockevents: prevent mode mismatch on cpu online
  clockevents: check broadcast device not tick device
  clockevents: prevent stale tick_next_period for onlining CPUs
  x86: prevent stale state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online
  clockevents: prevent cpu online to interfere with nohz
2008-09-23 14:57:36 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
be3be89058 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: fix init_hrtick() section mismatch warning
2008-09-23 14:57:22 -07:00
Jonathan Steel
f9092f358b kexec: fix segmentation fault in kimage_add_entry
A segmentation fault can occur in kimage_add_entry in kexec.c when loading
a kernel image into memory.  The fault occurs because a page is requested
by calling kimage_alloc_page with gfp_mask GFP_KERNEL and the function may
actually return a page with gfp_mask GFP_HIGHUSER.  The high mem page is
returned because it was swapped with the kernel page due to the kernel
page being a page that will shortly be copied to.

This patch ensures that kimage_alloc_page returns a page that was created
with the correct gfp flags.

I have verified the change and fixed the whitespace damage of the original
patch.  Jonathan did a great job of tracking this down after he hit the
problem.  -- Eric

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Steel <jon.steel@esentire.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23 08:09:14 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
57fdc26d4a sched: fixup buddy selection
We should set the buddy even though we might already have the
TIF_RESCHED flag set.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 16:23:17 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
4653f803e6 sched: more sanity checks on the bandwidth settings
While playing around with it, I noticed we missed some sanity checks.
Also add some comments while we're there.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 16:23:16 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
78333cdd0e sched: add some comments to the bandwidth code
Hopefully clarify some of this code a little.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 16:23:16 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
940959e939 sched: fixlet for group load balance
We should not only correct the increment for the initial group, but should
be consistent and do so for all the groups we encounter.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 16:23:15 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
63e5c39859 Merge branches 'sched/urgent' and 'sched/rt' into sched/devel 2008-09-23 16:23:05 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
6956985009 sched: rework wakeup preemption
Rework the wakeup preemption to work on real runtime instead of
the virtual runtime. This greatly simplifies the code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 14:54:23 +02:00
Frank Mayhar
bb34d92f64 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>
2008-09-23 13:38:44 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f8e256c687 timers: fix build error in !oneshot case
kernel/time/tick-common.c: In function ‘tick_setup_periodic’:
 kernel/time/tick-common.c:113: error: implicit declaration of function ‘tick_broadcast_oneshot_active’

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 12:57:00 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
27ce4cb4a0 clockevents: prevent mode mismatch on cpu online
Impact: timer hang on CPU online observed on AMD C1E systems

When a CPU is brought online then the broadcast machinery can
be in the one shot state already. Check this and setup the timer 
device of the new CPU in one shot mode so the broadcast code
can pick up the next_event value correctly.

Another AMD C1E oddity, as we switch to broadcast immediately and
not after the full bring up via the ACPI cpu idle code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23 11:38:53 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
302745699c clockevents: check broadcast device not tick device
Impact: Possible hang on CPU online observed on AMD C1E machines.

The broadcast setup code looks at the mode of the tick device to
determine whether it needs to be shut down or setup. This is wrong
when the broadcast mode is set to one shot already. This can happen
when a CPU is brought online as it goes through the periodic setup
first.

The problem went unnoticed as sane systems do not call into that code
before the switch to one shot for the clock event device happens.
The AMD C1E idle routine switches over immediately and thereby shuts
down the just setup device before the first interrupt happens.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23 11:38:53 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
49d670fb8d clockevents: prevent stale tick_next_period for onlining CPUs
Impact: possible hang on CPU onlining in timer one shot mode.

The tick_next_period variable is only used during boot on nohz/highres
enabled systems, but for CPU onlining it needs to be maintained when
the per cpu clock events device operates in one shot mode.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23 11:38:53 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
6441402b1f clockevents: prevent cpu online to interfere with nohz
Impact: rare hang which can be triggered on CPU online.

tick_do_timer_cpu keeps track of the CPU which updates jiffies
via do_timer. The value -1 is used to signal, that currently no
CPU is doing this. There are two cases, where the variable can 
have this state:

 boot:
    necessary for systems where the boot cpu id can be != 0

 nohz long idle sleep:
    When the CPU which did the jiffies update last goes into
    a long idle sleep it drops the update jiffies duty so
    another CPU which is not idle can pick it up and keep
    jiffies going.

Using the same value for both situations is wrong, as the CPU online
code can see the -1 state when the timer of the newly onlined CPU is
setup. The setup for a newly onlined CPU goes through periodic mode
and can pick up the do_timer duty without being aware of the nohz /
highres mode of the already running system.

Use two separate states and make them constants to avoid magic
numbers confusion. 

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23 11:38:52 +02:00
Harvey Harrison
3a72dc8eb5 rcu: fix sparse shadowed variable warning
kernel/rcuclassic.c:564:18: warning: symbol 'flags' shadows an earlier one
kernel/rcuclassic.c:527:16: originally declared here

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 11:04:30 +02:00
Andrew Morton
006c75f146 sched: clarify ifdef tangle
- Add some comments to try to make the ifdef puzzle a bit clearer

- Explicitly inline one of the three init_hrtick() implementations.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 11:02:31 +02:00
Rakib Mullick
fa74820317 sched: fix init_hrtick() section mismatch warning
LD      kernel/built-in.o
WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x326): Section mismatch in reference
from the function init_hrtick() to the variable
.cpuinit.data:hotplug_hrtick_nb.8
The function init_hrtick() references
the variable __cpuinitdata hotplug_hrtick_nb.8.
This is often because init_hrtick lacks a __cpuinitdata
annotation or the annotation of hotplug_hrtick_nb.8 is wrong.

Signed-off-by: Md.Rakib H. Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 11:02:13 +02:00
Chris Friesen
caea8a0370 sched: fix list traversal to use _rcu variant
load_balance_fair() calls rcu_read_lock() but then traverses the list
 using the regular list traversal routine.  This patch converts the
list traversal to use the _rcu version.

Signed-off-by: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-22 19:43:10 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f681bbd656 sched: turn off WAKEUP_OVERLAP
WAKEUP_OVERLAP is not a winner on a 16way box, running psql+sysbench:

       .27-rc7-NO_WAKEUP_OVERLAP  .27-rc7-WAKEUP_OVERLAP
-------------------------------------------------
    1:             694              811    +14.39%
    2:            1454             1427    -1.86%
    4:            3017             3070    +1.70%
    8:            5694             5808    +1.96%
   16:           10592            10612    +0.19%
   32:            9693             9647    -0.48%
   64:            8507             8262    -2.97%
  128:            8402             7087    -18.55%
  256:            8419             5124    -64.30%
  512:            7990             3671    -117.62%
-------------------------------------------------
  SUM:           64466            55524    -16.11%

... so turn it off by default.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-22 16:29:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
15afe09bf4 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>
2008-09-22 16:28:32 +02:00
Mark McLoughlin
d7cfb60c5c hrtimer: remove hrtimer_clock_base::get_softirq_time()
Peter Zijlstra noticed this 8 months ago and I just noticed
it again.

hrtimer_clock_base::get_softirq_time() is currently unused
in the entire tree. In fact, looking at the logs, it appears
as if it was never used. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-22 13:52:42 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
b4df9d88a6 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: fix deadlock in setting scheduler parameter to zero
  sched: fix 2.6.27-rc5 couldn't boot on tulsa machine randomly
2008-09-19 16:17:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
902f2ac9da Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  clockevents: make device shutdown robust
  clocksource, acpi_pm.c: fix check for monotonicity
  clockevents: remove WARN_ON which was used to gather information
2008-09-19 16:16:50 -07:00
David S. Miller
2e57572a50 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
Conflicts:

	arch/sparc64/kernel/pci_psycho.c
2008-09-16 14:11:43 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
2344abbcbd clockevents: make device shutdown robust
The device shut down does not cleanup the next_event variable of the
clock event device. So when the device is reactivated the possible
stale next_event value can prevent the device to be reprogrammed as it
claims to wait on a event already.

This is the root cause of the resurfacing suspend/resume problem,
where systems need key press to come back to life.

Fix this by setting next_event to KTIME_MAX when the device is shut
down. Use a separate function for shutdown which takes care of that
and only keep the direct set mode call in the broadcast code, where we
can not touch the next_event value.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-16 13:47:02 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
9dfed08eb4 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into core/resources 2008-09-14 17:23:29 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
5ce73a4a5a timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, cleanups
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14 17:11:46 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
430b5294bd timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, fix
fix:

 kernel/fork.c:843: error: ‘struct signal_struct’ has no member named ‘sum_sched_runtime’
 kernel/irq/handle.c:117: warning: ‘sparse_irq_lock’ defined but not used

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14 16:40:11 +02:00
Frank Mayhar
f06febc96b 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>
2008-09-14 16:25:35 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
6e03f99803 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/iommu
Conflicts:
	lib/swiotlb.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14 14:07:00 +02:00
Li Zefan
4e74339af6 cpuset: avoid changing cpuset's cpus when -errno returned
After the patch:

commit 0b2f630a28
Author: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:   Fri Jul 25 01:47:21 2008 -0700

    cpusets: restructure the function update_cpumask() and update_nodemask()

It might happen that 'echo 0 > /cpuset/sub/cpus' returned failure but 'cpus'
has been changed, because cpus was changed before calling heap_init() which
may return -ENOMEM.

This patch restores the orginal behavior.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.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>
2008-09-13 14:41:50 -07:00
David S. Miller
17f04fbb0f sysctl: Use header file for sysctl knob declarations on sparc.
This also takes care of a sparse warning as scons_pwroff's definition
point.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-11 23:33:53 -07:00
David S. Miller
72c57ed506 sysctl: Use CONFIG_SPARC instead of __sparc__ for ifdef tests.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-11 23:29:54 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
2e94d1f71f hrtimer: peek at the timer queue just before going idle
As part of going idle, we already look at the time of the next timer event to determine
which C-state to select etc.

This patch adds functionality that causes the timers that are past their
soft expire time, to fire at this time, before we calculate the next wakeup
time. This functionality will thus avoid wakeups by running timers before
going idle rather than specially waking up for it.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-11 07:17:49 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
ae4b748e81 hrtimer: make the futex() system call use the per process slack value
This patch makes the futex() system call use the per process
slack value; with this users are able to externally control existing
applications to reduce the wakeup rate.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-11 07:17:00 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
3bd012060f hrtimer: make the nanosleep() syscall use the per process slack
This patch makes the nanosleep() system call use the per process
slack value; with this users are able to externally control existing
applications to reduce the wakeup rate.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-11 07:16:55 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
09b22a2f67 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into sched/devel 2008-09-11 13:37:28 +02:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
ec5d498991 sched: fix deadlock in setting scheduler parameter to zero
Andrei Gusev wrote:

> I played witch scheduler settings. After doing something like:
> echo -n 1000000 >sched_rt_period_us
>
> command is locked. I found in kernel.log:
>
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Pid: 4495, comm: bash Tainted: G        W
> (2.6.26.3 #12)
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EIP: 0060:[<c0213fc7>] EFLAGS: 00210246 CPU: 0
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EIP is at div64_u64+0x57/0x80
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EAX: 0000389f EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000
> EDX: 00000000
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra ESI: d9800000 EDI: d9800000 EBP: 0000389f
> ESP: ea7a6edc
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Process bash (pid: 4495, ti=ea7a6000
> task=ea744000 task.ti=ea7a6000)
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Stack: 00000000 000003e8 d9800000 0000389f
> c0119042 00000000 00000000 00000001
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra 00000000 00000000 ea7a6f54 00010000 00000000
> c04d2e80 00000001 000e7ef0
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra c01191a3 00000000 00000000 ea7a6fa0 00000001
> ffffffff c04d2e80 ea5b2480
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Call Trace:
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c0119042>] __rt_schedulable+0x52/0x130
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01191a3>] sched_rt_handler+0x83/0x120
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01a76a6>] proc_sys_call_handler+0xb6/0xd0
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01a76c0>] proc_sys_write+0x0/0x20
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01a76d9>] proc_sys_write+0x19/0x20
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c016cc68>] vfs_write+0xa8/0x140
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c016cdd1>] sys_write+0x41/0x80
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c0103051>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6a/0x91
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra =======================
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Code: c8 41 0f ad f3 d3 ee f6 c1 20 0f 45 de
> 31 f6 0f ad ef d3 ed f6 c1 20 0f 45 fd 0f 45 ee 31 c9 39 eb 89 fe 89 ea
> 77 08 89 e8 31 d2 <f7> f3 89 c1 89 f0 8b 7c 24 08 f7 f3 8b 74 24 04 89
> ca 8b 1c 24
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EIP: [<c0213fc7>] div64_u64+0x57/0x80 SS:ESP
> 0068:ea7a6edc
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]---

fix the boundary condition.

sysctl_sched_rt_period=0 makes exception at to_ratio().

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-11 09:39:18 +02:00
Zhang, Yanmin
baf25731e5 sched: fix 2.6.27-rc5 couldn't boot on tulsa machine randomly
On my tulsa x86-64 machine, kernel 2.6.25-rc5 couldn't boot randomly.

Basically, function __enable_runtime forgets to reset rt_rq->rt_throttled
to 0. When every cpu is up, per-cpu migration_thread is created and it runs
very fast, sometimes to mark the corresponding rt_rq->rt_throttled to 1 very
quickly. After all cpus are up, with below calling chain:

   sched_init_smp => arch_init_sched_domains => build_sched_domains => ...
=> cpu_attach_domain => rq_attach_root => set_rq_online => ...
=> _enable_runtime

_enable_runtime is called against every rt_rq again, so rt_rq->rt_time is
reset to 0, but rt_rq->rt_throttled might be still 1. Later on function
do_sched_rt_period_timer couldn't reset it, and all RT tasks couldn't be
scheduled to run on that cpu. here is RT task migration_thread which is
woken up when a task is migrated to another cpu.

Below patch fixes it against 2.6.27-rc5.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-11 09:34:28 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
59c37bf892 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into x86/unify-cpu-detect
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/feature_names.c
	include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-10 14:00:45 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
e92b4fdacc Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into x86/iommu 2008-09-10 11:32:52 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
429b022af4 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into core/rcu 2008-09-10 08:35:40 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
61c22c34c6 clockevents: remove WARN_ON which was used to gather information
The issue of the endless reprogramming loop due to a too small
min_delta_ns was fixed with the previous updates of the clock events
code, but we had no information about the spread of this problem. I
added a WARN_ON to get automated information via kerneloops.org and to
get some direct reports, which allowed me to analyse the affected
machines.

The WARN_ON has served its purpose and would be annoying for a release
kernel. Remove it and just keep the information about the increase of
the min_delta_ns value.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-09 22:20:01 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
e1d7bf1499 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: arch_reinit_sched_domains() must destroy domains to force rebuild
  sched, cpuset: rework sched domains and CPU hotplug handling (v4)
2008-09-08 15:47:21 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
e545a6140b kernel/cpu.c: create a CPU_STARTING cpu_chain notifier
Right now, there is no notifier that is called on a new cpu, before the new
cpu begins processing interrupts/softirqs.
Various kernel function would need that notification, e.g. kvm works around
by calling smp_call_function_single(), rcu polls cpu_online_map.

The patch adds a CPU_STARTING notification. It also adds a helper function
that sends the message to all cpu_chain handlers.

Tested on x86-64.
All other archs are untested. Especially on sparc, I'm not sure if I got
it right.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-08 19:25:24 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
704af52bd1 hrtimer: show the timer ranges in /proc/timer_list
to help debugging and visibility of timer ranges, show them
in the existing timer list in /proc/timer_list

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-07 16:10:20 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
da8f2e170e hrtimer: add a hrtimer_start_range() function
this patch adds a _range version of hrtimer_start() so that range timers
can be created; the hrtimer_start() function is just a wrapper around this.

In addition, hrtimer_start_expires() will now preserve existing ranges.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-07 10:58:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f532522565 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  clocksource, acpi_pm.c: check for monotonicity
  clocksource, acpi_pm.c: use proper read function also in errata mode
  ntp: fix calculation of the next jiffie to trigger RTC sync
  x86: HPET: read back compare register before reading counter
  x86: HPET fix moronic 32/64bit thinko
  clockevents: broadcast fixup possible waiters
  HPET: make minimum reprogramming delta useful
  clockevents: prevent endless loop lockup
  clockevents: prevent multiple init/shutdown
  clockevents: enforce reprogram in oneshot setup
  clockevents: prevent endless loop in periodic broadcast handler
  clockevents: prevent clockevent event_handler ending up handler_noop
2008-09-06 19:33:26 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
291c54ff76 Merge branch 'sched/cpuset' into sched/urgent 2008-09-06 21:03:16 +02:00
Pawel MOLL
7e6e178ab1 genirq: irq_chip->startup() usage in setup_irq and set_irq_chained handler
This patch clarifies usage of irq_chip->startup() callback:

1. The "if (startup) startup(); else enabled();" code in setup_irq()
   is unnecessary, as startup() falls back to enabled() via
   default callbacks, set by irq_chip_set_defaults().

2. When using set_irq_chained_handler() the startup() was never called,
   which is not good at all... Fixed. And again - when startup() is not
   defined the call will fall back to enable() than to unmask() via
   default callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@st.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06 20:36:38 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan
978b0116cd softirq: allocate less vectors
We don't need whole 32 of them, only NR_SOFTIRQS.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06 20:04:36 +02:00
Max Krasnyansky
dfb512ec48 sched: arch_reinit_sched_domains() must destroy domains to force rebuild
What I realized recently is that calling rebuild_sched_domains() in
arch_reinit_sched_domains() by itself is not enough when cpusets are enabled.
partition_sched_domains() code is trying to avoid unnecessary domain rebuilds
and will not actually rebuild anything if new domain masks match the old ones.

What this means is that doing
     echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings
on a system with cpusets enabled will not take affect untill something changes
in the cpuset setup (ie new sets created or deleted).

This patch fixes restore correct behaviour where domains must be rebuilt in
order to enable MC powersaving flags.

Test on quad-core Core2 box with both CONFIG_CPUSETS and !CONFIG_CPUSETS.
Also tested on dual-core Core2 laptop. Lockdep is happy and things are working
as expected.

Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06 19:22:15 +02:00
Manfred Spraul
3ba35573ad kernel/cpu.c: Move the CPU_DYING notifiers
When a cpu is taken offline, the CPU_DYING notifiers are called on the
dying cpu. According to <linux/notifiers.h>, the cpu should be "not
running any task, not handling interrupts, soon dead".

For the current implementation, this is not true:
- __cpu_disable can fail. If it fails, then the cpu will remain alive
  and happy.
- At least on x86, __cpu_disable() briefly enables the local interrupts
  to handle any outstanding interrupts.

What about moving CPU_DYING down a few lines, behind the __cpu_disable()
line?
There are only two CPU_DYING handlers in the kernel right now: one in
kvm, one in the scheduler. Both should work with the patch applied
[and: I'm not sure if either one handles a failing __cpu_disable()]

The patch survives simple offlining a cpu. kvm untested due to lack
of a test setup.

Signed-off-By: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06 19:13:59 +02:00
Gautham R Shenoy
38736f4750 sched: fix __load_balance_iterator() for cfq with only one task
The __load_balance_iterator() returns a NULL when there's only one
sched_entity which is a task. It is caused by the following code-path.

	/* Skip over entities that are not tasks */
	do {
		se = list_entry(next, struct sched_entity, group_node);
		next = next->next;
	} while (next != &cfs_rq->tasks && !entity_is_task(se));

	if (next == &cfs_rq->tasks)
		return NULL;
	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      This will return NULL even when se is a task.

As a side-effect, there was a regression in sched_mc behavior since 2.6.25,
since iter_move_one_task() when it calls load_balance_start_fair(),
would not get any tasks to move!

Fix this by checking if the last entity was a task or not.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06 16:53:34 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
7f79d852ed Merge branch 'linus' into sched/devel 2008-09-06 16:51:57 +02:00
Maciej W. Rozycki
4ff4b9e19a ntp: fix calculation of the next jiffie to trigger RTC sync
We have a bug in the calculation of the next jiffie to trigger the RTC
synchronisation.  The aim here is to run sync_cmos_clock() as close as
possible to the middle of a second.  Which means we want this function to
be called less than or equal to half a jiffie away from when now.tv_nsec
equals 5e8 (500000000).

If this is not the case for a given call to the function, for this purpose
instead of updating the RTC we calculate the offset in nanoseconds to the
next point in time where now.tv_nsec will be equal 5e8.  The calculated
offset is then converted to jiffies as these are the unit used by the
timer.

Hovewer timespec_to_jiffies() used here uses a ceil()-type rounding mode,
where the resulting value is rounded up.  As a result the range of
now.tv_nsec when the timer will trigger is from 5e8 to 5e8 + TICK_NSEC
rather than the desired 5e8 - TICK_NSEC / 2 to 5e8 + TICK_NSEC / 2.

As a result if for example sync_cmos_clock() happens to be called at the
time when now.tv_nsec is between 5e8 + TICK_NSEC / 2 and 5e8 to 5e8 +
TICK_NSEC, it will simply be rescheduled HZ jiffies later, falling in the
same range of now.tv_nsec again.  Similarly for cases offsetted by an
integer multiple of TICK_NSEC.

This change addresses the problem by subtracting TICK_NSEC / 2 from the
nanosecond offset to the next point in time where now.tv_nsec will be
equal 5e8, effectively shifting the following rounding in
timespec_to_jiffies() so that it produces a rounded-to-nearest result.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06 15:31:48 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
77dd3b3bd2 Merge branch 'linus' into timers/ntp 2008-09-06 15:31:03 +02:00
Krzysztof Helt
c8bfff6dd4 sched: compilation fix with gcc 3.4.6
I found that 2.6.27-rc5-mm1 does not compile with gcc 3.4.6.
The error is:
  CC      kernel/sched.o
kernel/sched.c: In function `start_rt_bandwidth':
kernel/sched.c:208: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'rt_bandwidth_enabled': function body not available
kernel/sched.c:214: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
make[1]: *** [kernel/sched.o] Error 1
make: *** [kernel] Error 2

It seems that the gcc 3.4.6 requires full inline definition before first usage.
The patch below fixes the compilation problem.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> (if needed>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06 15:17:09 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
7300711e8c clockevents: broadcast fixup possible waiters
Until the C1E patches arrived there where no users of periodic broadcast
before switching to oneshot mode. Now we need to trigger a possible
waiter for a periodic broadcast when switching to oneshot mode.
Otherwise we can starve them for ever.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-06 07:21:17 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
6976675d94 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>
2008-09-05 21:35:30 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
654c8e0b1c hrtimer: turn hrtimers into range timers
this patch turns hrtimers into range timers; they have 2 expire points
1) the soft expire point
2) the hard expire point

the kernel will do it's regular best effort attempt to get the timer run
at the hard expire point. However, if some other time fires after the soft
expire point, the kernel now has the freedom to fire this timer at this point,
and thus grouping the events and preventing a power-expensive wakeup in the
future.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-05 21:35:27 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
cc584b213f hrtimer: convert kernel/* to the new hrtimer apis
In order to be able to do range hrtimers we need to use accessor functions
to the "expire" member of the hrtimer struct.
This patch converts kernel/* to these accessors.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-05 21:35:13 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
df0cc0539b select: add a timespec_add_safe() function
For the select() rework, it's important to be able to add timespec
structures in an overflow-safe manner.

This patch adds a timespec_add_safe() function for this which is similar in
operation to ktime_add_safe(), but works on a struct timespec.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-05 21:34:57 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
7bb67439bf select: Introduce a hrtimeout function
This patch adds a schedule_hrtimeout() function, to be used by select() and
poll() in a later patch. This function works similar to schedule_timeout()
in most ways, but takes a timespec rather than jiffies.

With a lot of contributions/fixes from Thomas

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-05 21:34:53 -07:00
Balbir Singh
49048622ea sched: fix process time monotonicity
Spencer reported a problem where utime and stime were going negative despite
the fixes in commit b27f03d4bd. 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>
2008-09-05 18:14:35 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
56c7426b39 sched_clock: fix NOHZ interaction
If HLT stops the TSC, we'll fail to account idle time, thereby inflating the
actual process times. Fix this by re-calibrating the clock against GTOD when
leaving nohz mode.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 18:14:08 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
1fb9b7d29d clockevents: prevent endless loop lockup
The C1E/HPET bug reports on AMDX2/RS690 systems where tracked down to a
too small value of the HPET minumum delta for programming an event.

The clockevents code needs to enforce an interrupt event on the clock event
device in some cases. The enforcement code was stupid and naive, as it just
added the minimum delta to the current time and tried to reprogram the device.
When the minimum delta is too small, then this loops forever.

Add a sanity check. Allow reprogramming to fail 3 times, then print a warning
and double the minimum delta value to make sure, that this does not happen again.
Use the same function for both tick-oneshot and tick-broadcast code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 11:11:53 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
9c17bcda99 clockevents: prevent multiple init/shutdown
While chasing the C1E/HPET bugreports I went through the clock events
code inch by inch and found that the broadcast device can be initialized
and shutdown multiple times. Multiple shutdowns are not critical, but
useless waste of time. Multiple initializations are simply broken. Another
CPU might have the device in use already after the first initialization and
the second init could just render it unusable again.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 11:11:52 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
7205656ab4 clockevents: enforce reprogram in oneshot setup
In tick_oneshot_setup we program the device to the given next_event,
but we do not check the return value. We need to make sure that the
device is programmed enforced so the interrupt handler engine starts
working. Split out the reprogramming function from tick_program_event()
and call it with the device, which was handed in to tick_setup_oneshot().
Set the force argument, so the devices is firing an interrupt.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 11:11:52 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
d4496b3955 clockevents: prevent endless loop in periodic broadcast handler
The reprogramming of the periodic broadcast handler was broken,
when the first programming returned -ETIME. The clockevents code
stores the new expiry value in the clock events device next_event field
only when the programming time has not been elapsed yet. The loop in
question calculates the new expiry value from the next_event value
and therefor never increases.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 11:11:51 +02:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
7c1e768974 clockevents: prevent clockevent event_handler ending up handler_noop
There is a ordering related problem with clockevents code, due to which
clockevents_register_device() called after tickless/highres switch
will not work. The new clockevent ends up with clockevents_handle_noop as
event handler, resulting in no timer activity.

The problematic path seems to be

* old device already has hrtimer_interrupt as the event_handler
* new clockevent device registers with a higher rating
* tick_check_new_device() is called
  * clockevents_exchange_device() gets called
    * old->event_handler is set to clockevents_handle_noop
  * tick_setup_device() is called for the new device
    * which sets new->event_handler using the old->event_handler which is noop.

Change the ordering so that new device inherits the proper handler.

This does not have any issue in normal case as most likely all the clockevent
devices are setup before the highres switch. But, can potentially be affecting
some corner case where HPET force detect happens after the highres switch.
This was a problem with HPET in MSI mode code that we have been experimenting
with.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 11:11:51 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
0c8c708a7e Merge branch 'x86/core' into x86/unify-cpu-detect 2008-09-05 09:27:23 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1cf44baad7 IO resources: fix/remove printk
Andrew Morton noticed that the printk in kernel/resource.c was buggy:

| start and end have type resource_size_t.  Such types CANNOT be printed
| unless cast to a known type.
|
| Because there is a %s following an incorrect %lld, the above code will
| crash the machine.

... and it's probably quite unneeded as well, so remove it.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-04 22:08:24 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
8040d77688 Merge branch 'core/resources' into x86/core 2008-09-04 21:04:04 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
268364a0f4 IO resources: add reserve_region_with_split()
add reserve_region_with_split() to not lose e820 reserved entries if
they overlap with existing IO regions:

with test case by extend 0xe0000000 - 0xeffffff to 0xdd800000 -
we get:
	e0000000-efffffff : PCI MMCONFIG 0
		 e0000000-efffffff : reserved

and in /proc/iomem we get:
	found conflict for reserved [dd800000, efffffff], try to reserve with split
	    __reserve_region_with_split: (PCI Bus #80) [dd000000, ddffffff], res: (reserved) [dd800000, efffffff]
	    __reserve_region_with_split: (PCI Bus #00) [de000000, dfffffff], res: (reserved) [de000000, efffffff]
	initcall pci_subsys_init+0x0/0x121 returned 0 after 381 msecs
in dmesg

various fixes and improvements suggested by Linus.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-04 21:02:44 +02:00
Al Viro
b380b0d4f7 forgotten refcount on sysctl root table
We should've set refcount on the root sysctl table; otherwise we'll blow
up the first time we get down to zero dynamically registered sysctl
tables.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-04 11:06:21 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
0ccd8c39bc Merge branch 'linus' into x86/core 2008-09-04 08:09:09 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
7203781c98 Merge branch 'x86/cpu' into x86/core
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/feature_names.c
	include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
2008-09-04 08:08:42 -07:00
John Kacur
9d35935747 pm_qos_requirement might sleep
Make PM_QOS and CPU_IDLE play nicer when run with the RT-Preempt kernel.

The purpose of the patch is to remove the spin_lock around the read in the
function pm_qos_requirement - since spinlocks can sleep in -rt and this
function is called from idle.

CPU_IDLE polls the target_value's of some of the pm_qos parameters from
the idle loop causing sleeping locking warnings.  Changing the
target_value to an atomic avoids this issue.

Remove the spinlock in pm_qos_requirement by making target_value an atomic
type.

Signed-off-by: mark gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@gmail.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>
2008-09-02 19:21:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
950bbabb5a pid_ns: (BUG 11391) change ->child_reaper when init->group_leader exits
We don't change pid_ns->child_reaper when the main thread of the
subnamespace init exits.  As Robert Rex <robert.rex@exasol.com> pointed
out this is wrong.

Yes, the re-parenting itself works correctly, but if the reparented task
exits it needs ->parent->nsproxy->pid_ns in do_notify_parent(), and if the
main thread is zombie its ->nsproxy was already cleared by
exit_task_namespaces().

Introduce the new function, find_new_reaper(), which finds the new
->parent for the re-parenting and changes ->child_reaper if needed.  Kill
the now unneeded exit_child_reaper().

Also move the changing of ->child_reaper from zap_pid_ns_processes() to
find_new_reaper(), this consolidates the games with ->child_reaper and
makes it stable under tasklist_lock.

Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11391

Reported-by: Robert Rex <robert.rex@exasol.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-02 19:21:38 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
add0d4dfd6 pid_ns: zap_pid_ns_processes: fix the ->child_reaper changing
zap_pid_ns_processes() sets pid_ns->child_reaper = NULL, this is wrong.

Yes, we have already killed all tasks in this namespace, and sys_wait4()
doesn't see any child.  But this doesn't mean ->children list is empty, we
may have EXIT_DEAD tasks which are not visible to do_wait().  In that case
the subsequent forget_original_parent() will crash the kernel because it
will try to re-parent these tasks to the NULL reaper.

Even if there are no childs, it is not good that forget_original_parent()
uses reaper == NULL.

Change the code to set ->child_reaper = init_pid_ns.child_reaper instead.
We could use pid_ns->parent->child_reaper as well, I think this does not
really matter.  These EXIT_DEAD tasks are not visible to the new ->parent
after re-parenting, they will silently do release_task() eventually.

Note that we must change ->child_reaper, otherwise
forget_original_parent() will use reaper == father, and in that case we
will hit the (correct) BUG_ON(!list_empty(&father->children)).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2008-09-02 19:21:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
99039e1352 Merge branch 'audit.b57' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current
* 'audit.b57' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
  [PATCH] audit: Moved variable declaration to beginning of function
2008-09-02 11:04:47 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
cbaed698f3 softlockup: minor cleanup, don't check task->state twice
The recent commit 16d9679f33caf7e683471647d1472bfe133d858 changed
check_hung_task() to filter out the TASK_KILLABLE tasks. We can
move this check to the caller which has to test t->state anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-02 10:49:51 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
6781f4ae30 kernel/resource.c: fix new kernel-doc warning
Fix kernel-doc warning for new function:

Warning(linux-2.6.27-rc5-git2//kernel/resource.c:448): No description found for parameter 'root'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-02 10:47:30 -07:00
Cordelia
c4bacefb7a [PATCH] audit: Moved variable declaration to beginning of function
got rid of compilation warning:
ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code

Signed-off-by: Cordelia Sam <cordesam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-09-01 23:06:45 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
bef69ea0dc Resource handling: add 'insert_resource_expand_to_fit()' function
Not used anywhere yet, but this complements the existing plain
'insert_resource()' functionality with a version that can expand the
resource we are adding in order to fix up any conflicts it has with
existing resources.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-29 20:25:20 -07:00
Andi Kleen
316d9679f3 Don't trigger softlockup detector on network fs blocked tasks
Pulling the ethernet cable on a 2.6.27-rc system with NFS mounts
currently leads to an ongoing flood of soft lockup detector backtraces
for all tasks blocked on the NFS mounts when the hickup takes
longer than 120s.

I don't think NFS problems should be all that noisy.

Luckily there's a reasonably easy way to distingush this case.

Don't report task softlockup warnings for tasks in TASK_KILLABLE
state, which is used by the network file systems.

I believe this patch is a 2.6.27 candidate.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-29 14:46:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
66833d5f39 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  exit signals: use of uninitialized field notify_count
  lockdep: fix invalid list_del_rcu in zap_class
  lockstat: repair erronous contention statistics
  lockstat: fix numerical output rounding error
2008-08-28 12:31:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0234bf1d98 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: rt-bandwidth accounting fix
  sched: fix sched_rt_rq_enqueue() resched idle
2008-08-28 12:31:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e52c8857e0 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: update defconfigs
  x86: msr: fix bogus return values from rdmsr_safe/wrmsr_safe
  x86: cpuid: correct return value on partial operations
  x86: msr: correct return value on partial operations
  x86: cpuid: propagate error from smp_call_function_single()
  x86: msr: propagate errors from smp_call_function_single()
  smp: have smp_call_function_single() detect invalid CPUs
2008-08-28 12:30:59 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
41108eb101 ftrace: disable tracing for hibernation
In accordance with commit f42ac38c59
("ftrace: disable tracing for suspend to ram"), disable tracing
around the suspend code in hibernation code paths.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-28 12:27:39 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
cc2991cf15 sched: rt-bandwidth accounting fix
It fixes an accounting bug where we would continue accumulating runtime
even though the bandwidth control is disabled. This would lead to very long
throttle periods once bandwidth control gets turned on again.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-28 13:42:38 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
7940ca3605 sched: extract walk_tg_tree(), fix
fix:

 kernel/sched.c: In function '__rt_schedulable':
 kernel/sched.c:8771: error: implicit declaration of function 'walk_tg_tree'
 kernel/sched.c:8771: error: 'tg_nop' undeclared (first use in this function)
 kernel/sched.c:8771: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
 kernel/sched.c:8771: error: for each function it appears in.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-28 12:08:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
aef745fca0 sched: clean up __might_sleep()
add KERN_ to the printout and clean up the flow a bit.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-28 11:36:03 +02:00
Joe Korty
29cbef4869 make might_sleep() display the oopsing process
Expand might_sleep's printk to indicate the oopsing process.

Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-28 11:36:02 +02:00
Bharata B Rao
aec0a5142c sched: call resched_task() conditionally from new task wake up path
- During wake up of a new task, task_new_fair() can do a resched_task()
  on the current task. Later in the code path, check_preempt_curr() also ends
  up doing the same, which can be avoided. Check if TIF_NEED_RESCHED is
  already set for the current task.

- task_new_fair() does a resched_task() on the current task unconditionally.
  This can be done only in case when child runs before the parent.

So this is a small speedup.

Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-28 11:35:51 +02:00
John Blackwood
f3ade83780 sched: fix sched_rt_rq_enqueue() resched idle
When sysctl_sched_rt_runtime is set to something other than -1 and the
CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED kernel parameter is NOT enabled, we get into a state
where we see one or more CPUs idling forvever even though there are
real-time
tasks in their rt runqueue that are able to run (no longer throttled).

The sequence is:

- A real-time task is running when the timer sets the rt runqueue
    to throttled, and the rt task is resched_task()ed and switched
    out, and idle is switched in since there are no non-rt tasks to
    run on that cpu.

- Eventually the do_sched_rt_period_timer() runs and un-throttles
    the rt runqueue, but we just exit the timer interrupt and go back
    to executing the idle task in the idle loop forever.

If we change the sched_rt_rq_enqueue() routine to use some of the code
from the CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED enabled version of this same routine and
resched_task() the currently executing task (idle in our case) if it is
a lower priority task than the higher rt task in the now un-throttled
runqueue, the problem is no longer observed.

Signed-off-by: John Blackwood <john.blackwood@ccur.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-28 11:13:24 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
f42ac38c59 ftrace: disable tracing for suspend to ram
I've been painstakingly debugging the issue with suspend to ram and
ftraced. The 2.6.28 code does not have this issue, but since the mcount
recording is not going to be in 27, this must be solved for the ftrace
daemon version.

The resume from suspend to ram would reboot because it was triple
faulting. Debugging further, I found that calling the mcount function
itself was not an issue, but it would fault when it incremented
preempt_count. preempt_count is on the tasks info structure that is on the
low memory address of the task's stack.  For some reason, it could not
write to it. Resuming out of suspend to ram does quite a lot of funny
tricks to get to work, so it is not surprising at all that simply doing a
preempt_disable() would cause a fault.

Thanks to Rafael for suggesting to add a "while (1);" to find the place in
resuming that is causing the fault. I would place the loop somewhere in
the code, compile and reboot and see if it would either reboot (hit the
fault) or simply hang (hit the loop).  Doing this over and over again, I
narrowed it down that it was happening in enable_nonboot_cpus.

At this point, I found that it is easier to simply disable tracing around
the suspend code, instead of searching for the particular function that
can not handle doing a preempt_disable.

This patch disables the tracer as it suspends and reenables it on resume.

I tested this patch on my Laptop, and it can resume fine with the patch.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-27 13:54:20 -07:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
0cd418ddb1 rcuclassic: fix compiler warning
CC      kernel/rcuclassic.o
kernel/rcuclassic.c: In function 'rcu_init_percpu_data':
kernel/rcuclassic.c:705: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
kernel/rcuclassic.c:713: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast

flags should be unsigned long.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-27 09:28:07 +02:00
Steve VanDeBogart
2633f0e57b exit signals: use of uninitialized field notify_count
task->signal->notify_count is only initialized if
task->signal->group_exit_task is not NULL.  Reorder a conditional so
that uninitialised memory is not used.  Found by Valgrind.

Signed-off-by: Steve VanDeBogart <vandebo-lkml@nerdbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-27 09:10:09 +02:00
Zhu Yi
7487017282 lockdep: fix invalid list_del_rcu in zap_class
The problem is found during iwlagn driver testing on
v2.6.27-rc4-176-gb8e6c91 kernel, but it turns out to be a lockdep bug.
In our testing, we frequently load and unload the iwlagn driver
(>50 times). Then the MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES is reached (expected
behaviour?). The error message with the call trace is as below.

BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!
turning off the locking correctness validator.
Pid: 4895, comm: iwlagn Not tainted 2.6.27-rc4 #13

Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff81014aa1>] save_stack_trace+0x22/0x3e
 [<ffffffff8105390a>] save_trace+0x8b/0x91
 [<ffffffff81054e60>] mark_lock+0x1b0/0x8fa
 [<ffffffff81056f71>] __lock_acquire+0x5b9/0x716
 [<ffffffffa00d818a>] ieee80211_sta_work+0x0/0x6ea [mac80211]
 [<ffffffff81057120>] lock_acquire+0x52/0x6b
 [<ffffffff81045f0e>] run_workqueue+0x97/0x1ed
 [<ffffffff81045f5e>] run_workqueue+0xe7/0x1ed
 [<ffffffff81045f0e>] run_workqueue+0x97/0x1ed
 [<ffffffff81046ae4>] worker_thread+0xd8/0xe3
 [<ffffffff81049503>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
 [<ffffffff81046a0c>] worker_thread+0x0/0xe3
 [<ffffffff810493ec>] kthread+0x47/0x73
 [<ffffffff8128e3ab>] trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
 [<ffffffff8100cea9>] child_rip+0xa/0x11
 [<ffffffff8100c4df>] restore_args+0x0/0x30
 [<ffffffff810316e1>] finish_task_switch+0x0/0xcc
 [<ffffffff810493a5>] kthread+0x0/0x73
 [<ffffffff8100ce9f>] child_rip+0x0/0x11

Although the above is harmless, when the ilwagn module is removed
later lockdep will trigger a kernel oops as below.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
0000000000000008
IP: [<ffffffff810531e1>] zap_class+0x24/0x82
PGD 73128067 PUD 7448c067 PMD 0
Oops: 0002 [1] SMP
CPU 0
Modules linked in: rfcomm l2cap bluetooth autofs4 sunrpc
nf_conntrack_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack xt_tcpudp ip6t_ipv6header
ip6t_REJECT ip6table_filter ip6_tables x_tables ipv6 cpufreq_ondemand
acpi_cpufreq dm_mirror dm_log dm_multipath dm_mod snd_hda_intel sr_mod
snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event battery snd_seq
snd_seq_device cdrom button snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm
snd_timer snd_page_alloc e1000e snd_hwdep sg iTCO_wdt
iTCO_vendor_support ac pcspkr i2c_i801 i2c_core snd soundcore video
output ata_piix ata_generic libata sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd mbcache
uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd [last unloaded: mac80211]
Pid: 4941, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.27-rc4 #10
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810531e1>]  [<ffffffff810531e1>]
zap_class+0x24/0x82
RSP: 0000:ffff88007bcb3eb0  EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: 0000000000068ee8 RBX: ffffffff8192a0a0 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000001dfb RDI: ffffffff816e70b0
RBP: ffffffffa00cd000 R08: ffffffff816818f8 R09: ffff88007c923558
R10: ffffe20002ad2408 R11: ffffffff811028ec R12: ffffffff8192a0a0
R13: 000000000002bd90 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000296
FS:  00007f9d1cee56f0(0000) GS:ffffffff814a58c0(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 0000000073047000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process modprobe (pid: 4941, threadinfo ffff88007bcb2000, task
ffff8800758d1fc0)
Stack:  ffffffff81057376 0000000000000000 ffffffffa00f7b00
0000000000000000
 0000000000000080 0000000000618278 00007fff24f16720 0000000000000000
 ffffffff8105d37a ffffffffa00f7b00 ffffffff8105d591 313132303863616d
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff81057376>] ? lockdep_free_key_range+0x61/0xf5
 [<ffffffff8105d37a>] ? free_module+0xd4/0xe4
 [<ffffffff8105d591>] ? sys_delete_module+0x1de/0x1f9
 [<ffffffff8106dbfa>] ? audit_syscall_entry+0x12d/0x160
 [<ffffffff8100be2b>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Code: b2 00 01 00 00 00 c3 31 f6 49 c7 c0 10 8a 61 81 eb 32 49 39 38
75 26 48 98 48 6b c0 38 48 8b 90 08 8a 61 81 48 8b 88 00 8a 61 81 <48>
89 51 08 48 89 0a 48 c7 80 08 8a 61 81 00 02 20 00 48 ff c6
RIP  [<ffffffff810531e1>] zap_class+0x24/0x82
 RSP <ffff88007bcb3eb0>
CR2: 0000000000000008
---[ end trace a1297e0c4abb0f2e ]---

The root cause for this oops is in add_lock_to_list() when
save_trace() fails due to MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES is reached,
entry->class is assigned but entry is never added into any lock list.
This makes the list_del_rcu() in zap_class() oops later when the
module is unloaded. This patch fixes the problem by assigning
entry->class after save_trace() returns success.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-27 08:40:36 +02:00
Joe Korty
04148b73b8 lockstat: repair erronous contention statistics
Fix bad contention counting in /proc/lock_stat.

/proc/lockstat tries to gather per-ip contention
statistics per-lock.  This was failing due to
a garbage per-ip index selector being used.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-26 10:37:47 +02:00
Joe Korty
2189459d25 lockstat: fix numerical output rounding error
Fix rounding error in /proc/lock_stat numerical output.

On occasion the two digit fractional part contains the three
digit value '100'.  This is due to a bug in the rounding algorithm
which pushes values in the range '95..99' to '100' rather than
to '00' + an increment to the integer part.  For example,

	- 123456.100      old display
	+ 123457.00	  new display

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-26 10:37:46 +02:00
Kevin Diggs
65eb3dc609 sched: add kernel doc for the completion, fix kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
This patch adds kernel doc for the completion feature.

An error in the split-man.pl PERL snippet in kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt is
also fixed.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Diggs <kevdig@hypersurf.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-26 10:26:54 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
3cf430b063 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/devel 2008-08-26 10:25:59 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
f73be6dedf smp: have smp_call_function_single() detect invalid CPUs
Have smp_call_function_single() return invalid CPU indicies and return
-ENXIO.  This function is already executed inside a
get_cpu()..put_cpu() which locks out CPU removal, so rather than
having the higher layers doing another layer of locking to guard
against unplugged CPUs do the test here.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-08-25 17:45:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
cc556c5c92 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched_clock: fix cpu_clock()
2008-08-25 11:26:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ffb4ba76a2 [module] Don't let gcc inline load_module()
'load_module()' is a complex function that contains all the ELF section
logic, and inlining it is utterly insane.  But gcc will do it, simply
because there is only one call-site.  As a result, all the stack space
that is allocated for all the work to load the module will still be
active when we actually call the module init sequence, and the deep call
chain makes stack overflows happen.

And stack overflows are really hard to debug, because they not only
corrupt random pages below the stack, but also corrupt the thread_info
structure that is allocated under the stack.

In this case, Alan Brunelle reported some crazy oopses at bootup, after
loading the processor module that ends up doing complex ACPI stuff and
has quite a deep callchain.  This should fix it, and is the sane thing
to do regardless.

Cc: Alan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-25 11:10:26 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
354879bb97 sched_clock: fix cpu_clock()
This patch fixes 3 issues:

a) it removes the dependency on jiffies, because jiffies are incremented
   by a single CPU, and the tick is not synchronized between CPUs. Therefore
   relying on it to calculate a window to clip whacky TSC values doesn't work
   as it can drift around.

   So instead use [GTOD, GTOD+TICK_NSEC) as the window.

b) __update_sched_clock() did (roughly speaking):

   delta = sched_clock() - scd->tick_raw;
   clock += delta;

   Which gives exponential growth, instead of linear.

c) allows the sched_clock_cpu() value to warp the u64 without breaking.

the results are more reliable sched_clock() deltas:

           before       after   sched_clock

cpu_clock: 15750        51312   51488
cpu_clock: 59719        51052   50947
cpu_clock: 15879        51249   51061
cpu_clock: 1            50933   51198
cpu_clock: 1            50931   51039
cpu_clock: 1            51093   50981
cpu_clock: 1            51043   51040
cpu_clock: 1            50959   50938
cpu_clock: 1            50981   51011
cpu_clock: 1            51364   51212
cpu_clock: 1            51219   51273
cpu_clock: 1            51389   51048
cpu_clock: 1            51285   51611
cpu_clock: 1            50964   51137
cpu_clock: 1            50973   50968
cpu_clock: 1            50967   50972
cpu_clock: 1            58910   58485
cpu_clock: 1            51082   51025
cpu_clock: 1            50957   50958
cpu_clock: 1            50958   50957
cpu_clock: 1006128      51128   50971
cpu_clock: 1            51107   51155
cpu_clock: 1            51371   51081
cpu_clock: 1            51104   51365
cpu_clock: 1            51363   51309
cpu_clock: 1            51107   51160
cpu_clock: 1            51139   51100
cpu_clock: 1            51216   51136
cpu_clock: 1            51207   51215
cpu_clock: 1            51087   51263
cpu_clock: 1            51249   51177
cpu_clock: 1            51519   51412
cpu_clock: 1            51416   51255
cpu_clock: 1            51591   51594
cpu_clock: 1            50966   51374
cpu_clock: 1            50966   50966
cpu_clock: 1            51291   50948
cpu_clock: 1            50973   50867
cpu_clock: 1            50970   50970
cpu_clock: 998306       50970   50971
cpu_clock: 1            50971   50970
cpu_clock: 1            50970   50970
cpu_clock: 1            50971   50971
cpu_clock: 1            50970   50970
cpu_clock: 1            51351   50970
cpu_clock: 1            50970   51352
cpu_clock: 1            50971   50970
cpu_clock: 1            50970   50970
cpu_clock: 1            51321   50971
cpu_clock: 1            50974   51324

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-25 17:39:57 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
7a8fc9b248 removed unused #include <linux/version.h>'s
This patch lets the files using linux/version.h match the files that
#include it.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-23 12:14:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
43cc071db8 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: enable LB_BIAS by default
2008-08-22 08:36:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
05f57f50e0 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  rcu: fix synchronize_rcu() so that kernel-doc works
2008-08-22 08:36:42 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
93dcf55f82 wait_task_inactive: "improve" the returned value for ->nvcsw == 0
wait_task_inactive() returns 1 when p->nvcsw == 0 || p->nvcsw == 1.  This
means that two subsequent calls can return the same number while the task
was scheduled in between.

Change the code to return "nvcsw | LONG_MIN" instead of "nvcsw ?: 1", now
the overlap always needs LONG_MAX schedules.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-22 15:17:31 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
f31e11d87a wait_task_inactive(): don't consider task->nivcsw
If wait_task_inactive() returns success the task was deactivated.  In that
case schedule() always increments ->nvcsw which alone can be used as a
"generation counter".

If the next call returns the same number, we can be sure that the task was
unscheduled.  Otherwise, because we know that .on_rq == 0 again, ->nvcsw
should have been changed in between.

Q: perhaps it is better to do "ncsw = (p->nvcsw << 1) | 1" ?  This
decreases the possibility of "was it unscheduled" false positive when
->nvcsw == 0.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-22 15:17:29 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
94d3d8247d sched: do_wait_for_common: use signal_pending_state()
Change do_wait_for_common() to use signal_pending_state() instead of open
coding.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-22 15:17:28 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
a38409fbb5 dma-coherent: export dma_[alloc|release]_from_coherent methods
fixes modular builds:

  ERROR: "dma_alloc_from_coherent" [sound/core/snd-page-alloc.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "dma_release_from_coherent" [sound/core/snd-page-alloc.ko] undefined!

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-22 08:34:53 +02:00
Anton Vorontsov
377bf1e4ac genirq: fix irq_desc->depth handling with DEBUG_SHIRQ
When DEBUG_SHIRQ is selected, a spurious IRQ is issued before
the setup_irq() initializes the desc->depth. An IRQ handler may
call disable_irq_nosync(), but then setup_irq() will overwrite
desc->depth, and upon enable_irq() we'll catch this WARN:

------------[ cut here ]------------
Badness at kernel/irq/manage.c:180
NIP: c0061ab8 LR: c0061f10 CTR: 00000000
REGS: cf83be50 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (2.6.27-rc3-23450-g74919b0)
MSR: 00021032 <ME,IR,DR>  CR: 22042022  XER: 20000000
TASK = cf829100[5] 'events/0' THREAD: cf83a000
GPR00: c0061f10 cf83bf00 cf829100 c038e674 00000016 00000000 cf83bef8 00000038
GPR08: c0298910 00000000 c0310d28 cf83a000 00000c9c 1001a1a8 0fffe000 00800000
GPR16: ffffffff 00000000 007fff00 00000000 007ffeb0 c03320a0 c031095c c0310924
GPR24: cf8292ec cf807190 cf83a000 00009032 c038e6a4 c038e674 cf99b1cc c038e674
NIP [c0061ab8] __enable_irq+0x20/0x80
LR [c0061f10] enable_irq+0x50/0x70
Call Trace:
[cf83bf00] [c038e674] irq_desc+0x630/0x9000 (unreliable)
[cf83bf10] [c0061f10] enable_irq+0x50/0x70
[cf83bf30] [c01abe94] phy_change+0x68/0x108
[cf83bf50] [c0046394] run_workqueue+0xc4/0x16c
[cf83bf90] [c0046834] worker_thread+0x74/0xd4
[cf83bfd0] [c004ab7c] kthread+0x48/0x84
[cf83bff0] [c00135e0] kernel_thread+0x44/0x60
Instruction dump:
4e800020 3d20c031 38a94214 4bffffcc 9421fff0 7c0802a6 93e1000c 7c7f1b78
90010014 8123001c 2f890000 409e001c <0fe00000> 80010014 83e1000c 38210010

That trace corresponds to this line:
WARN(1, KERN_WARNING "Unbalanced enable for IRQ %d\n", irq);

The patch fixes the problem by moving the SHIRQ code below the
setup_irq().

Unfortunately we can't easily move the SHIRQ code inside the
setup_irq(), since it grabs a spinlock, so to prvent a 'real'
IRQ from interfere us we should disable that IRQ.

p.s. The driver in question is drivers/net/phy/phy.c.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-22 08:07:21 +02:00
Roman Zippel
916c7a8551 ntp: fix ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ bug and do_adjtimex() cleanup
Thanks to the review by Michael Kerrisk a bug in the recent
ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ option was discovered, where the ntp time_offset was
inadvertently set by it.  This fixes this by making the adjtime code
more separate from the ntp_adjtime code (both of which really want to
be separate syscalls).

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-22 06:40:18 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
275a89bdd3 rcu: use irq-safe locks
Some earlier tip/core/rcu patches caused RCU to incorrectly enable irqs
too early in boot.  This caused Yinghai's repeated-kexec testing to
hit oopses, presumably due to so that device interrupts left over from
the prior kernel instance (which would oops the newly booting kernel
before it got a chance to reset said devices).  This patch therefore
converts all the local_irq_disable()s in rcuclassic.c to local_irq_save().

Besides, I never did like local_irq_disable() anyway.  ;-)

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-21 16:01:02 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
d82f0b0f6f migrate_timers: add comment, use spinlock_irq()
Add the comment to explain why the double lock in migrate_timers()
can't deadlock.

Change the code to use spinlock_irq() instead of local_irq_disable()
+ spin_lock().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-21 13:34:54 +02:00
Miao Xie
3c4fbe5e01 nohz: fix wrong event handler after online an offlined cpu
On the tickless system(CONFIG_NO_HZ=y and CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=n), after
I made an offlined cpu online, I found this cpu's event handler was
tick_handle_periodic, not tick_nohz_handler.

After debuging, I found this bug was caused by the wrong tick mode.  the
tick mode is not changed to NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE when the cpu is offline.

This patch fixes this bug.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-21 09:54:06 +02:00
John Stultz
2d42244ae7 clocksource: introduce CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW
In talking with Josip Loncaric, and his work on clock synchronization (see
btime.sf.net), he mentioned that for really close synchronization, it is
useful to have access to "hardware time", that is a notion of time that is
not in any way adjusted by the clock slewing done to keep close time sync.

Part of the issue is if we are using the kernel's ntp adjusted
representation of time in order to measure how we should correct time, we
can run into what Paul McKenney aptly described as "Painting a road using
the lines we're painting as the guide".

I had been thinking of a similar problem, and was trying to come up with a
way to give users access to a purely hardware based time representation
that avoided users having to know the underlying frequency and mask values
needed to deal with the wide variety of possible underlying hardware
counters.

My solution is to introduce CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW.  This exposes a
nanosecond based time value, that increments starting at bootup and has no
frequency adjustments made to it what so ever.

The time is accessed from userspace via the posix_clock_gettime() syscall,
passing CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW as the clock_id.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-21 09:50:24 +02:00
Roman Zippel
9a055117d3 clocksource: introduce clocksource_forward_now()
To keep the raw monotonic patch simple first introduce
clocksource_forward_now(), which takes care of the offset since the last
update_wall_time() call and adds it to the clock, so there is no need
anymore to deal with it explicitly at various places, which need to make
significant changes to the clock.

This is also gets rid of the timekeeping_suspend_nsecs, instead of
waiting until resume, the value is accumulated during suspend. In the end
there is only a single user of __get_nsec_offset() left, so I integrated
it back to getnstimeofday().

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-21 09:50:24 +02:00
John Stultz
1aa5dfb751 clocksource: keep track of original clocksource frequency
The clocksource frequency is represented by
clocksource->mult/2^(clocksource->shift).  Currently, when NTP makes
adjustments to the clock frequency, they are made directly to the mult
value.

This has the drawback that once changed, we cannot know what the orignal
mult value was, or how much adjustment has been applied.

This property causes problems in calculating proper ntp intervals when
switching back and forth between clocksources.

This patch separates the current mult value into a mult and mult_orig
pair.  The mult_orig value stays constant, while the ntp clocksource
adjustments are done only to the mult value.

This allows for correct ntp interval calculation and additionally lays the
groundwork for a new notion of time, what I'm calling the monotonic-raw
time, which is introduced in a following patch.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-21 09:50:23 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
01dcb0443e rcu: fix synchronize_rcu() so that kernel-doc works
Fix RCU's synchronize_rcu() so that it looks like a C function, enabling
it to be recognized as a function with kernel-doc annotation.

Warning(linux-2.6.26-git11//kernel/rcupdate.c:81): No description found for parameter 'synchronize_rcu'
Warning(linux-2.6.26-git11//kernel/rcupdate.c:81): No description found for parameter 'call_rcu'

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-21 09:31:44 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
efc2dead2c sched: enable LB_BIAS by default
Yanmin reported a significant regression on his 16-core machine due to:

  commit 93b75217df
  Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
  Date:   Fri Jun 27 13:41:33 2008 +0200

Flip back to the old behaviour.

Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-21 08:18:02 +02:00
Ken Chen
2d70b68d42 fix setpriority(PRIO_PGRP) thread iterator breakage
When user calls sys_setpriority(PRIO_PGRP ...) on a NPTL style multi-LWP
process, only the task leader of the process is affected, all other
sibling LWP threads didn't receive the setting.  The problem was that the
iterator used in sys_setpriority() only iteartes over one task for each
process, ignoring all other sibling thread.

Introduce a new macro do_each_pid_thread / while_each_pid_thread to walk
each thread of a process.  Convert 4 call sites in {set/get}priority and
ioprio_{set/get}.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-20 15:40:32 -07:00
Jiri Kosina
1fa63a817d printk: robustify printk, update comment
Remove the comment describing the possibility of printk() deadlocking on
runqueue lock.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-20 15:39:59 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
fa33507a22 printk: robustify printk, fix #2
Dmitry Adamushko reported:

> [*] btw., with DEBUG being enabled, pr_debug() generates [1] when
> debug_smp_processor_id() is used (CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT).
>
> the problem seems to be caused by the following commit:
> commit b845b517b5
> Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Date:   Fri Aug 8 21:47:09 2008 +0200
>
>     printk: robustify printk
>
>
> wake_up_klogd() -> __get_cpu_var() -> smp_processor_id()
>
> and that's being called from release_console_sem() which is, in turn,
> said to be "may be called from any context" [2]
>
> and in this case, it seems to be called from some non-preemptible
> context (although, it can't be printk()...
> although, I haven't looked carefully yet).
>
> Provided [2], __get_cpu_var() is perhaps not the right solution there.
>
>
> [1]
>
> [ 7697.942005] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: syslogd/3542
> [ 7697.942005] caller is wake_up_klogd+0x1b/0x50
> [ 7697.942005] Pid: 3542, comm: syslogd Not tainted 2.6.27-rc3-tip-git #2
> [ 7697.942005] Call Trace:
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff8036b398>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xe8/0xf0
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff80239d3b>] wake_up_klogd+0x1b/0x50
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff8023a047>] release_console_sem+0x1e7/0x200
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff803c0f17>] do_con_write+0xb7/0x1f30
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff8020d920>] ? show_trace+0x10/0x20
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff8020dc42>] ? dump_stack+0x72/0x80
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff8036392d>] ? __ratelimit+0xbd/0xe0
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff8036b398>] ? debug_smp_processor_id+0xe8/0xf0
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff80239d3b>] ? wake_up_klogd+0x1b/0x50
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff8023a047>] ? release_console_sem+0x1e7/0x200
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff803c2de9>] con_write+0x19/0x30
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff803b37b6>] write_chan+0x276/0x3c0
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff80232b20>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff804cb872>] ? _spin_lock_irqsave+0x22/0x50
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff803b1334>] tty_write+0x194/0x260
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff803b3540>] ? write_chan+0x0/0x3c0
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff803b14a4>] redirected_tty_write+0xa4/0xb0
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff803b1400>] ? redirected_tty_write+0x0/0xb0
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff802a88c2>] do_loop_readv_writev+0x52/0x80
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff802a939d>] do_readv_writev+0x1bd/0x1d0
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff802a93e9>] vfs_writev+0x39/0x60
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff802a9870>] sys_writev+0x50/0x90
> [ 7697.942005]  [<ffffffff8020bb3b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reported-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-20 12:22:37 +02:00
Roland McGrath
1b04624f93 tracehook: fix SA_NOCLDWAIT
I outwitted myself again in commit 2b2a1ff64a,
and broke the SA_NOCLDWAIT behavior so it leaks zombies.  This fixes it.

Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
2008-08-19 20:37:07 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
9a7e0b180d sched: rt-bandwidth fixes
The last patch allows sysctl_sched_rt_runtime to disable bandwidth accounting
for the group scheduler - however it doesn't deal with sched_setscheduler(),
which will keep tasks out of groups that have no assigned runtime.

If we relax this, we get into the situation where RT tasks can get into a group
when we disable bandwidth control, and then starve them by enabling it again.

Rework the schedulability code to check for this condition and fail to turn
on bandwidth control with -EBUSY when this situation is found.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-19 13:10:12 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
eb755805f2 sched: extract walk_tg_tree()
Extract walk_tg_tree() and make it a little more generic so we can use it
in the schedulablity test.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-19 13:10:11 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
0b148fa048 sched: rt-bandwidth group disable fixes
More extensive disable of bandwidth control. It allows sysctl_sched_rt_runtime
to disable full group bandwidth control.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-19 13:10:10 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
6f0d5c390e sched: rt-bandwidth accounting fix
It fixes an accounting bug where we would continue accumulating runtime
even though the bandwidth control is disabled. This would lead to very long
throttle periods once bandwidth control gets turned on again.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-19 13:10:09 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
af4491e516 sched: rt-bandwidth for user grouping interface
rt_runtime is a signed value

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-19 13:10:09 +02:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
0c925d7923 rcuclassic: fix compilation NG
fix:

  CC      kernel/rcuclassic.o
kernel/rcuclassic.c: In function '__rcu_process_callbacks':
kernel/rcuclassic.c:561: error: 'flags' undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/rcuclassic.c:561: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
kernel/rcuclassic.c:561: error: for each function it appears in.)

Declare missing variable flags.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-19 11:03:33 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
eff9b713ee rcu: fix locking cleanup fallout
Given that the rcp->lock is now acquired from call_rcu(), which can be
invoked from irq-disable regions, all acquisitions need to disable irqs.
The following patch fixes this.

Although I don't have any reason to believe that this is the cause of
Yinghai's oops, it does need to be fixed.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-19 04:15:36 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
ded00a56e9 rcu: remove redundant ACCESS_ONCE definition from rcupreempt.c
Remove the redundant definition of ACCESS_ONCE() from rcupreempt.c in
favor of the one in compiler.h.  Also merge the comment header from
rcupreempt.c's definition into that in compiler.h.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-18 09:45:22 +02:00
Dmitry Baryshkov
6951b12a0f lockdep: fix spurious 'inconsistent lock state' warning
Since f82b217e35 lockdep can output spurious
warnings related to hwirqs due to hardirq_off shrinkage from int to bit-sized
flag. Guard it with double negation to fix the warning.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-18 09:42:31 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
cd95851785 rcu: fix classic RCU locking cleanup lockdep problem
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 04:24:30PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Paul,
>
> one of your two recent RCU patches caused this lockdep splat in -tip
> testing:
>
> ------------------->
> Brought up 2 CPUs
> Total of 2 processors activated (6850.87 BogoMIPS).
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:platform
> khelper used greatest stack depth: 3124 bytes left
>
> =================================
> [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
> 2.6.27-rc3-tip #1
> ---------------------------------
> inconsistent {softirq-on-W} -> {in-softirq-W} usage.
> ksoftirqd/0/4 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE1:SE0] takes:
>  (&rcu_ctrlblk.lock){-+..}, at: [<c016d91c>] __rcu_process_callbacks+0x1ac/0x1f0
> {softirq-on-W} state was registered at:
>   [<c01528e4>] __lock_acquire+0x3f4/0x5b0
>   [<c0152b29>] lock_acquire+0x89/0xc0
>   [<c076142b>] _spin_lock+0x3b/0x70
>   [<c016d649>] rcu_init_percpu_data+0x29/0x80
>   [<c075e43f>] rcu_cpu_notify+0xaf/0xd0
>   [<c076458d>] notifier_call_chain+0x2d/0x60
>   [<c0145ede>] __raw_notifier_call_chain+0x1e/0x30
>   [<c075db29>] _cpu_up+0x79/0x110
>   [<c075dc0d>] cpu_up+0x4d/0x70
>   [<c0a769e1>] kernel_init+0xb1/0x200
>   [<c01048a3>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
>   [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
> irq event stamp: 14
> hardirqs last  enabled at (14): [<c01534db>] trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10
> hardirqs last disabled at (13): [<c014dbeb>] trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0x10
> softirqs last  enabled at (0): [<c012b186>] copy_process+0x276/0x1190
> softirqs last disabled at (11): [<c0105c0a>] call_on_stack+0x1a/0x30
>
> other info that might help us debug this:
> no locks held by ksoftirqd/0/4.
>
> stack backtrace:
> Pid: 4, comm: ksoftirqd/0 Not tainted 2.6.27-rc3-tip #1
>  [<c01504dc>] print_usage_bug+0x16c/0x1b0
>  [<c0152455>] mark_lock+0xa75/0xb10
>  [<c0108b75>] ? sched_clock+0x15/0x30
>  [<c015289d>] __lock_acquire+0x3ad/0x5b0
>  [<c0152b29>] lock_acquire+0x89/0xc0
>  [<c016d91c>] ? __rcu_process_callbacks+0x1ac/0x1f0
>  [<c076142b>] _spin_lock+0x3b/0x70
>  [<c016d91c>] ? __rcu_process_callbacks+0x1ac/0x1f0
>  [<c016d91c>] __rcu_process_callbacks+0x1ac/0x1f0
>  [<c016d986>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x26/0x50
>  [<c0132305>] __do_softirq+0x95/0x120
>  [<c0132270>] ? __do_softirq+0x0/0x120
>  [<c0105c0a>] call_on_stack+0x1a/0x30
>  [<c0132426>] ? ksoftirqd+0x96/0x110
>  [<c0132390>] ? ksoftirqd+0x0/0x110
>  [<c01411f7>] ? kthread+0x47/0x80
>  [<c01411b0>] ? kthread+0x0/0x80
>  [<c01048a3>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
>  =======================
> calling  init_cpufreq_transition_notifier_list+0x0/0x20
> initcall init_cpufreq_transition_notifier_list+0x0/0x20 returned 0 after 0 msecs
> calling  net_ns_init+0x0/0x190
> net_namespace: 676 bytes
> initcall net_ns_init+0x0/0x190 returned 0 after 0 msecs
> calling  cpufreq_tsc+0x0/0x20
> initcall cpufreq_tsc+0x0/0x20 returned 0 after 0 msecs
> calling  reboot_init+0x0/0x20
> initcall reboot_init+0x0/0x20 returned 0 after 0 msecs
> calling  print_banner+0x0/0x10
> Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
>
> <-----------------------
>
> my guess is on:
>
>  commit 1f7b94cd3d
>  Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>  Date:   Tue Aug 5 09:21:44 2008 -0700
>
>     rcu: classic RCU locking and memory-barrier cleanups
>
> 	Ingo

Fixes a problem detected by lockdep in which rcu->lock was acquired
both in irq context and in process context, but without disabling from
process context.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-17 17:38:01 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
406703f8de Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  lockdep: fix build if CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING not defined
  lockdep: use WARN() in kernel/lockdep.c
  lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), checkpatch fixes
  lockdep: build fix
2008-08-16 17:16:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c100548d46 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: scale sysctl_sched_shares_ratelimit with nr_cpus
  sched: fix rt-bandwidth hotplug race
  sched: fix the race between walk_tg_tree and sched_create_group
2008-08-16 17:15:32 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
71ef2a46fc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
  security: Fix setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable()
2008-08-15 15:32:13 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
df60a84418 lockdep: fix build if CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING not defined
If CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING not defined, then no dependency information
is available.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-15 19:22:04 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
55cd53404c sched: scale sysctl_sched_shares_ratelimit with nr_cpus
David reported that his Niagra spend a little too much time in
tg_shares_up(), which considering he has a large cpu count makes sense.

So scale the ratelimit value with the number of cpus like we do for
other controls as well.

Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-15 18:25:07 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
5802294f1b rcu: trace fix possible mem-leak
In the initialization of the RCU trace module, if
rcupreempt_debugfs_init() fails, we never free the the trace buffer.

This patch frees the trace buffer in case the debugfs fails.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-15 17:54:40 +02:00
Dave Chinner
be4de35263 completions: uninline try_wait_for_completion and completion_done
m68k fails to build with these functions inlined in completion.h.  Move
them out of line into sched.c and export them to avoid this problem.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-15 08:35:44 -07:00
Andrew Morton
8c5a1cf0ad kexec: use a mutex for locking rather than xchg()
Functionally the same, but more conventional.

Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@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>
2008-08-15 08:35:43 -07:00
Huang Ying
3122c33119 kexec jump: fix for ftrace
Ftrace depends on some processor state that we destroyed during kexec and
restored by restore_processor_state().  So save_processor_state() and
restore_processor_state() are moved into machine_kexec() and ftrace is
restored after restore_processor_state().

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-15 08:35:43 -07:00
Huang Ying
73bd9c72a2 kexec jump: in sync with hibernation implementation
Add device_pm_lock() and device_pm_unlock() in kernel_kexec() in sync with
current hibernation implementation.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.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>
2008-08-15 08:35:42 -07:00
Huang Ying
ca195b7f6d kexec jump: remove duplication of kexec_restart_prepare()
Call kernel_restart_prepare() in kernel_kexec() instead of duplicating the
code.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.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>
2008-08-15 08:35:42 -07:00
Huang Ying
163f6876f5 kexec jump: rename KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE_SIZE to KEXEC_CONTROL_PAGE_SIZE
Rename KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE_SIZE to KEXEC_CONTROL_PAGE_SIZE, because control
page is used for not only code on some platform.  For example in kexec
jump, it is used for data and stack too.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: unbreak powerpc and arm, finish conversion]
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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>
2008-08-15 08:35:42 -07:00
Huang Ying
7ade3fcc1f kexec jump: clean up #ifdef and comments
Move if (kexec_image->preserve_context) { ...  } into #ifdef
CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP to make code looks cleaner.

Fix no longer correct comments of kernel_kexec().

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.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>
2008-08-15 08:35:42 -07:00
Huang Ying
4cd69b986e kexec: fix compilation warning on xchg(&kexec_lock, 0) in kernel_kexec()
kernel/kexec.c: In function 'kernel_kexec':
kernel/kexec.c:1506: warning: value computed is not used

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.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>
2008-08-15 08:35:42 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
1f7b94cd3d rcu: classic RCU locking and memory-barrier cleanups
This patch simplifies the locking and memory-barrier usage in the Classic
RCU grace-period-detection mechanism, incorporating Lai Jiangshan's
feedback from the earlier version (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/1/400
and http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/3/43).  Passed 10 hours of
rcutorture concurrent with CPUs being put online and taken offline on
a 128-hardware-thread Power machine.  My apologies to whoever in the
Eastern Hemisphere was planning to use this machine over the Western
Hemisphere night, but it was sitting idle and...

So this is ready for tip/core/rcu.

This patch is in preparation for moving to a hierarchical
algorithm to allow the very large SMP machines -- requested by some
people at OLS, and there seem to have been a few recent patches in the
4096-CPU direction as well.  The general idea is to move to a much more
conservative concurrency design, then apply a hierarchy to reduce
contention on the global lock by a few orders of magnitude (larger
machines would see greater reductions).  The reason for taking a
conservative approach is that this code isn't on any fast path.

Prototype in progress.

This patch is against the linux-tip git tree (tip/core/rcu).  If you
wish to test this against 2.6.26, use the following set of patches:

http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/patches/2.6.26-ljsimp-1.patch
http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/patches/2.6.26-ljsimpfix-3.patch

The first patch combines commits 5127bed588
and 3cac97cbb1 from Lai Jiangshan
<laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>, and the second patch contains my changes.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-15 16:08:47 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
293a17ebc9 rcu: prevent console flood when one CPU sees another AWOL via RCU
One small change needed to keep from flooding the console when one
CPU notices that another is AWOL.  Unless I am missing something subtle.
Otherwise the cleanups look good!

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-15 15:08:58 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f1679d0848 sched: fix rt-bandwidth hotplug race
When we hot-unplug a cpu and rebuild the sched-domain, all cpus will be
detatched. Alex observed the case where a runqueue was stealing bandwidth
from an already disabled runqueue to satisfy its own needs.

Stop this by skipping over already disabled runqueues.

Reported-by: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-14 15:50:58 +02:00
David Howells
5cd9c58fbe security: Fix setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable()
Fix the setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable() as it could corrupt the flags
the target process if that is not the current process and it is trying to
change its own flags in a different way at the same time.

__capable() is using neither atomic ops nor locking to protect t->flags.  This
patch removes __capable() and introduces has_capability() that doesn't set
PF_SUPERPRIV on the process being queried.

This patch further splits security_ptrace() in two:

 (1) security_ptrace_may_access().  This passes judgement on whether one
     process may access another only (PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH for ptrace() and
     PTRACE_MODE_READ for /proc), and takes a pointer to the child process.
     current is the parent.

 (2) security_ptrace_traceme().  This passes judgement on PTRACE_TRACEME only,
     and takes only a pointer to the parent process.  current is the child.

     In Smack and commoncap, this uses has_capability() to determine whether
     the parent will be permitted to use PTRACE_ATTACH if normal checks fail.
     This does not set PF_SUPERPRIV.

Two of the instances of __capable() actually only act on current, and so have
been changed to calls to capable().

Of the places that were using __capable():

 (1) The OOM killer calls __capable() thrice when weighing the killability of a
     process.  All of these now use has_capability().

 (2) cap_ptrace() and smack_ptrace() were using __capable() to check to see
     whether the parent was allowed to trace any process.  As mentioned above,
     these have been split.  For PTRACE_ATTACH and /proc, capable() is now
     used, and for PTRACE_TRACEME, has_capability() is used.

 (3) cap_safe_nice() only ever saw current, so now uses capable().

 (4) smack_setprocattr() rejected accesses to tasks other than current just
     after calling __capable(), so the order of these two tests have been
     switched and capable() is used instead.

 (5) In smack_file_send_sigiotask(), we need to allow privileged processes to
     receive SIGIO on files they're manipulating.

 (6) In smack_task_wait(), we let a process wait for a privileged process,
     whether or not the process doing the waiting is privileged.

I've tested this with the LTP SELinux and syscalls testscripts.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-08-14 22:59:43 +10:00
Ingo Molnar
51ca3c6791 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/genapic_64.c
	include/asm-x86/kvm_host.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-14 14:58:01 +02:00
Max Krasnyansky
cf417141cb sched, cpuset: rework sched domains and CPU hotplug handling (v4)
This is an updated version of my previous cpuset patch on top of
the latest mainline git.
The patch fixes CPU hotplug handling issues in the current cpusets code.
Namely circular locking in rebuild_sched_domains() and unsafe access to
the cpu_online_map in the cpuset cpu hotplug handler.

This version includes changes suggested by Paul Jackson (naming, comments,
style, etc). I also got rid of the separate workqueue thread because it is
now safe to call get_online_cpus() from workqueue callbacks.

Here are some more details:

rebuild_sched_domains() is the only way to rebuild sched domains
correctly based on the current cpuset settings. What this means
is that we need to be able to call it from different contexts,
like cpu hotplug for example.
Also latest scheduler code in -tip now calls rebuild_sched_domains()
directly from functions like arch_reinit_sched_domains().

In order to support that properly we need to rework cpuset locking
rules to avoid circular dependencies, which is what this patch does.
New lock nesting rules are explained in the comments.
We can now safely call rebuild_sched_domains() from virtually any
context. The only requirement is that it needs to be called under
get_online_cpus(). This allows cpu hotplug handlers and the scheduler
to call rebuild_sched_domains() directly.
The rest of the cpuset code now offloads sched domains rebuilds to
a workqueue (async_rebuild_sched_domains()).

This version of the patch addresses comments from the previous review.
I fixed all miss-formated comments and trailing spaces.

I also factored out the code that builds domain masks and split up CPU and
memory hotplug handling. This was needed to simplify locking, to avoid unsafe
access to the cpu_online_map from mem hotplug handler, and in general to make
things cleaner.

The patch passes moderate testing (building kernel with -j 16, creating &
removing domains and bringing cpus off/online at the same time) on the
quad-core2 based machine.

It passes lockdep checks, even with preemptable RCU enabled.
This time I also tested in with suspend/resume path and everything is working
as expected.

Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: menage@google.com
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: vegard.nossum@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-14 11:23:51 +02:00
Zhang, Yanmin
09f2724a78 sched: fix the race between walk_tg_tree and sched_create_group
With 2.6.27-rc3, I hit a kernel panic when running volanoMark on my
new x86_64 machine. I also hit it with other 2.6.27-rc kernels.
See below log.

Basically, function walk_tg_tree and sched_create_group have a race
between accessing and initiating tg->children. Below patch fixes it
by moving tg->children initiation to the front of linking tg->siblings
to parent->children.

{----------------panic log------------}

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
IP: [<ffffffff802292ab>] walk_tg_tree+0x45/0x7f
PGD 1be1c4067 PUD 1bdd8d067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
CPU 11
Modules linked in: igb
Pid: 22979, comm: java Not tainted 2.6.27-rc3 #1
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff802292ab>]  [<ffffffff802292ab>] walk_tg_tree+0x45/0x7f
RSP: 0018:ffff8801bfbbbd18  EFLAGS: 00010083
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8800be0dce40 RCX: ffffffffffffffc0
RDX: ffff880102c43740 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8800be0dce40
RBP: ffff8801bfbbbd48 R08: ffff8800ba437bc8 R09: 0000000000001f40
R10: ffff8801be812100 R11: ffffffff805fdf44 R12: ffff880102c43740
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff8022cf0f R15: ffffffff8022749f
FS:  00000000568ac950(0063) GS:ffff8801bfa26d00(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000001bd848000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process java (pid: 22979, threadinfo ffff8801b145a000, task ffff8801bf18e450)
Stack:  0000000000000001 ffff8800ba5c8d60 0000000000000001 0000000000000001
 ffff8800bad1ccb8 0000000000000000 ffff8801bfbbbd98 ffffffff8022ed37
 0000000000000001 0000000000000286 ffff8801bd5ee180 ffff8800ba437bc8
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>  [<ffffffff8022ed37>] try_to_wake_up+0x71/0x24c
 [<ffffffff80247177>] autoremove_wake_function+0x9/0x2e
 [<ffffffff80228039>] ? __wake_up_common+0x46/0x76
 [<ffffffff802296d5>] __wake_up+0x38/0x4f
 [<ffffffff806169cc>] tcp_v4_rcv+0x380/0x62e

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-14 10:58:48 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
2df8b1d656 lockdep: use WARN() in kernel/lockdep.c
Use WARN() instead of a printk+WARN_ON() pair; this way the message
becomes part of the warning section for better reporting/collection.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-13 19:06:46 +02:00
Andrew Morton
c72f4573a5 lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), checkpatch fixes
fix:

 WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable
 #46: FILE: kernel/spinlock.c:326:
 +EXPORT_SYMBOL(_spin_lock_nest_lock);

total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 26 lines checked

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-13 13:56:51 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
73909f7a66 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc3' into core/urgent 2008-08-13 13:56:44 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
d6672c5018 lockdep: build fix
fix:

 kernel/built-in.o: In function `lockdep_stats_show':
 lockdep_proc.c:(.text+0x3cb2f): undefined reference to `lockdep_count_forward_deps'
 kernel/built-in.o: In function `l_show':
 lockdep_proc.c:(.text+0x3d02b): undefined reference to `lockdep_count_forward_deps'
 lockdep_proc.c:(.text+0x3d047): undefined reference to `lockdep_count_backward_deps'

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-13 12:55:10 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan
f18e439d10 genirq: switch /proc/irq/*/smp_affinity et al to seqfiles
Switch /proc/irq/*/smp_affinity , /proc/irq/default_smp_affinity to
seq_files.

cat(1) reads with 1024 chunks by default, with high enough NR_CPUS, there
will be -EINVAL.

As side effect, there are now two less users of the ->read_proc interface.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.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>
2008-08-12 16:07:30 -07:00
Heiko Carstens
3ee1062b4e cpu hotplug: s390 doesn't support additional_cpus anymore.
s390 doesn't support the additional_cpus kernel parameter anymore since a
long time.  So we better update the code and documentation to reflect
that.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: 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>
2008-08-12 16:07:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
96348852cf Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  generic-ipi: fix stack and rcu interaction bug in smp_call_function_mask(), fix
2008-08-12 08:49:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1c89ac5501 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  fix spinlock recursion in hvc_console
  stop_machine: remove unused variable
  modules: extend initcall_debug functionality to the module loader
  export virtio_rng.h
  lguest: use get_user_pages_fast() instead of get_user_pages()
  mm: Make generic weak get_user_pages_fast and EXPORT_GPL it
  lguest: don't set MAC address for guest unless specified
2008-08-12 08:40:19 -07:00
Nick Piggin
c2fc11985d generic-ipi: fix stack and rcu interaction bug in smp_call_function_mask(), fix
> > Nick Piggin (1):
> >       generic-ipi: fix stack and rcu interaction bug in
> > smp_call_function_mask()
>
> I'm still not 100% sure that I have this patch right... I might have seen
> a lockup trace implicating the smp call function path... which may have
> been due to some other problem or a different bug in the new call function
> code, but if some more people can take a look at it before merging?

OK indeed it did have a couple of bugs. Firstly, I wasn't freeing the
data properly in the alloc && wait case. Secondly, I wasn't resetting
CSD_FLAG_WAIT in the for each cpu loop (so only the first CPU would
wait).

After those fixes, the patch boots and runs with the kmalloc commented
out (so it always executes the slowpath).

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-12 11:21:27 +02:00
Li Zefan
ed6d68763b stop_machine: remove unused variable
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-08-12 17:52:55 +10:00
Arjan van de Ven
59f9415ffb modules: extend initcall_debug functionality to the module loader
The kernel has this really nice facility where if you put "initcall_debug"
on the kernel commandline, it'll print which function it's going to
execute just before calling an initcall, and then after the call completes
it will

1) print if it had an error code

2) checks for a few simple bugs (like leaving irqs off)
and

3) print how long the init call took in milliseconds.

While trying to optimize the boot speed of my laptop, I have been loving
number 3 to figure out what to optimize...  ...  and then I wished that
the same thing was done for module loading.

This patch makes the module loader use this exact same functionality; it's
a logical extension in my view (since modules are just sort of late
binding initcalls anyway) and so far I've found it quite useful in finding
where things are too slow in my boot.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-08-12 17:52:54 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
1ea2950884 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched, cpu hotplug: fix set_cpus_allowed() use in hotplug callbacks
  sched: fix mysql+oltp regression
  sched_clock: delay using sched_clock()
  sched clock: couple local and remote clocks
  sched clock: simplify __update_sched_clock()
  sched: eliminate scd->prev_raw
  sched clock: clean up sched_clock_cpu()
  sched clock: revert various sched_clock() changes
  sched: move sched_clock before first use
  sched: test runtime rather than period in global_rt_runtime()
  sched: fix SCHED_HRTICK dependency
  sched: fix warning in hrtick_start_fair()
2008-08-11 16:46:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
67a077dca4 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  posix-timers: fix posix_timer_event() vs dequeue_signal() race
  posix-timers: do_schedule_next_timer: fix the setting of ->si_overrun
2008-08-11 16:46:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9b4d0bab32 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  lockdep: fix debug_lock_alloc
  lockdep: increase MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS
  generic-ipi: fix stack and rcu interaction bug in smp_call_function_mask()
  lockdep: fix overflow in the hlock shrinkage code
  lockdep: rename map_[acquire|release]() => lock_map_[acquire|release]()
  lockdep: handle chains involving classes defined in modules
  mm: fix mm_take_all_locks() locking order
  lockdep: annotate mm_take_all_locks()
  lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock()
  lockdep: lock protection locks
  lockdep: map_acquire
  lockdep: shrink held_lock structure
  lockdep: re-annotate scheduler runqueues
  lockdep: lock_set_subclass - reset a held lock's subclass
  lockdep: change scheduler annotation
  debug_locks: set oops_in_progress if we will log messages.
  lockdep: fix combinatorial explosion in lock subgraph traversal
2008-08-11 16:45:46 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
23a0ee908c Merge branch 'core/locking' into core/urgent 2008-08-12 00:11:49 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
e26b33e955 Merge branch 'sched/clock' into sched/urgent 2008-08-12 00:07:02 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
0f2bc27be2 lockdep: fix debug_lock_alloc
When we enable DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC but do not enable PROVE_LOCKING and or
LOCK_STAT, lock_alloc() and lock_release() turn into nops, even though
we should be doing hlock checking (check=1).

This causes a false warning and a lockdep self-disable.

Rectify this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 22:45:51 +02:00
Dmitry Adamushko
279ef6bbb8 sched, cpu hotplug: fix set_cpus_allowed() use in hotplug callbacks
Mark Langsdorf reported:

> One of my co-workers noticed that the powernow-k8
> driver no longer restarts when a CPU core is
> hot-disabled and then hot-enabled on AMD quad-core
> systems.
>
> The following comands work fine on 2.6.26 and fail
> on 2.6.27-rc1:
>
> echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/online
> echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/online
> find /sys -name cpufreq
>
> For 2.6.26, the find will return a cpufreq
> directory for each processor.  In 2.6.27-rc1,
> the cpu3 directory is missing.
>
> After digging through the code, the following
> logic is failing when the core is hot-enabled
> at runtime.  The code works during the boot
> sequence.
>
>       cpumask_t = current->cpus_allowed;
>       set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, &cpumask_of_cpu(cpu));
>       if (smp_processor_id() != cpu)
>               return -ENODEV;

So set the CPU active before calling the CPU_ONLINE notifier chain,
there are a handful of notifiers that use set_cpus_allowed().

This fix also solves the problem with x86-microcode. I've sent
alternative patches for microcode, but as this "rely on
set_cpus_allowed_ptr() being workable in cpu-hotplug(CPU_ONLINE, ...)"
assumption seems to be more broad than what we thought, perhaps this fix
should be applied.

With this patch we define that by the moment CPU_ONLINE is being sent,
a 'cpu' is online and ready for tasks to be migrated onto it.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Tested-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 16:32:41 +02:00
Nick Piggin
cc7a486cac generic-ipi: fix stack and rcu interaction bug in smp_call_function_mask()
* Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> wrote:

> Found a OOPS on a big SMP box during an overnight reboot test with
> upstream git.
>
> Suresh and I looked at the oops and looks like the root cause is in
> generic_smp_call_function_interrupt() and smp_call_function_mask() with
> wait parameter.
>
> The actual oops looked like
>
> [   11.277260] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8802ffffffff
> [   11.277815] IP: [<ffff8802ffffffff>] 0xffff8802ffffffff
> [   11.278155] PGD 202063 PUD 0
> [   11.278576] Oops: 0010 [1] SMP
> [   11.279006] CPU 5
> [   11.279336] Modules linked in:
> [   11.279752] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27-rc2-00020-g685d87f #290
> [   11.280039] RIP: 0010:[<ffff8802ffffffff>]  [<ffff8802ffffffff>] 0xffff8802ffffffff
> [   11.280692] RSP: 0018:ffff88027f1f7f70  EFLAGS: 00010086
> [   11.280976] RAX: 00000000ffffffff RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
> [   11.281264] RDX: 0000000000004f4e RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
> [   11.281624] RBP: ffff88027f1f7f98 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffffff802509af
> [   11.281925] R10: ffff8800280c2780 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88027f097d48
> [   11.282214] R13: ffff88027f097d70 R14: 0000000000000005 R15: ffff88027e571000
> [   11.282502] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88027f1c3340(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [   11.283096] CS:  0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
> [   11.283382] CR2: ffff8802ffffffff CR3: 0000000000201000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> [   11.283760] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> [   11.284048] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> [   11.284337] Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffff88027f1f2000, task ffff88027f1f0640)
> [   11.284936] Stack:  ffffffff80250963 0000000000000212 0000000000ee8c78 0000000000ee8a66
> [   11.285802]  ffff88027e571550 ffff88027f1f7fa8 ffffffff8021adb5 ffff88027f1f3e40
> [   11.286599]  ffffffff8020bdd6 ffff88027f1f3e40 <EOI>  ffff88027f1f3ef8 0000000000000000
> [   11.287120] Call Trace:
> [   11.287768]  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff80250963>] ? generic_smp_call_function_interrupt+0x61/0x12c
> [   11.288354]  [<ffffffff8021adb5>] smp_call_function_interrupt+0x17/0x27
> [   11.288744]  [<ffffffff8020bdd6>] call_function_interrupt+0x66/0x70
> [   11.289030]  <EOI>  [<ffffffff8024ab3b>] ? clockevents_notify+0x19/0x73
> [   11.289380]  [<ffffffff803b9b75>] ? acpi_idle_enter_simple+0x18b/0x1fa
> [   11.289760]  [<ffffffff803b9b6b>] ? acpi_idle_enter_simple+0x181/0x1fa
> [   11.290051]  [<ffffffff8053aeca>] ? cpuidle_idle_call+0x70/0xa2
> [   11.290338]  [<ffffffff80209f61>] ? cpu_idle+0x5f/0x7d
> [   11.290723]  [<ffffffff8060224a>] ? start_secondary+0x14d/0x152
> [   11.291010]
> [   11.291287]
> [   11.291654] Code:  Bad RIP value.
> [   11.292041] RIP  [<ffff8802ffffffff>] 0xffff8802ffffffff
> [   11.292380]  RSP <ffff88027f1f7f70>
> [   11.292741] CR2: ffff8802ffffffff
> [   11.310951] ---[ end trace 137c54d525305f1c ]---
>
> The problem is with the following sequence of events:
>
> - CPU A calls smp_call_function_mask() for CPU B with wait parameter
> - CPU A sets up the call_function_data on the stack and does an rcu add to
>   call_function_queue
> - CPU A waits until the WAIT flag is cleared
> - CPU B gets the call function interrupt and starts going through the
>   call_function_queue
> - CPU C also gets some other call function interrupt and starts going through
>   the call_function_queue
> - CPU C, which is also going through the call_function_queue, starts referencing
>   CPU A's stack, as that element is still in call_function_queue
> - CPU B finishes the function call that CPU A set up and as there are no other
>   references to it, rcu deletes the call_function_data (which was from CPU A
>   stack)
> - CPU B sees the wait flag and just clears the flag (no call_rcu to free)
> - CPU A which was waiting on the flag continues executing and the stack
>   contents change
>
> - CPU C is still in rcu_read section accessing the CPU A's stack sees
>   inconsistent call_funation_data and can try to execute
>   function with some random pointer, causing stack corruption for A
>   (by clearing the bits in mask field) and oops.

Nice debugging work.

I'd suggest something like the attached (boot tested) patch as the simple
fix for now.

I expect the benefits from the less synchronized, multiple-in-flight-data
global queue will still outweigh the costs of dynamic allocations. But
if worst comes to worst then we just go back to a globally synchronous
one-at-a-time implementation, but that would be pretty sad!

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 15:21:28 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
77ae651347 sched: fix mysql+oltp regression
Defer commit 6d299f1b53 to the next release.

Testing of the tip/sched/clock tree revealed a mysql+oltp regression
which bisection eventually traced back to this commit in mainline.

Pertinent test results:  Three run sysbench averages, throughput units
in read/write requests/sec.

clients         1     2     4     8    16    32    64
6e0534f      9646 17876 34774 33868 32230 30767 29441
2.6.26.1     9112 17936 34652 33383 31929 30665 29232
6d299f1      9112 14637 28370 33339 32038 30762 29204

Note: subsequent commits hide the majority of this regression until you
apply the clock fixes, at which time it reemerges at full magnitude.

We cannot see anything bad about the change itself so we defer it to the
next release until this problem is fully analysed.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 14:49:29 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
b845b517b5 printk: robustify printk
Avoid deadlocks against rq->lock and xtime_lock by deferring the klogd
wakeup by polling from the timer tick.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 13:46:53 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
251a169c69 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/urgent 2008-08-11 13:40:56 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
78635fc739 rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods, cleanups
small cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 13:35:18 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
67182ae1c4 rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods
this is a diagnostic patch for Classic RCU.

The approach is to record a timestamp at the beginning
of the grace period (in rcu_start_batch()), then have
rcu_check_callbacks() complain if:

 1.	it is running on a CPU that has holding up grace periods for
 	a long time (say one second).  This will identify the culprit
 	assuming that the culprit has not disabled hardware irqs,
 	instruction execution, or some such.

 2.	it is running on a CPU that is not holding up grace periods,
 	but grace periods have been held up for an even longer time
 	(say two seconds).

It is enabled via the default-off CONFIG_DEBUG_RCU_STALL kernel parameter.

Rather than exponential backoff, it backs off to once per 30 seconds.
My feeling upon thinking on it was that if you have stalled RCU grace
periods for that long, a few extra printk() messages are probably the
least of your worries...

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: David Witbrodt <dawitbro@sbcglobal.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 13:35:18 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
c4c0c56a7a Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcu 2008-08-11 13:27:47 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
3295f0ef9f lockdep: rename map_[acquire|release]() => lock_map_[acquire|release]()
the names were too generic:

 drivers/uio/uio.c:87: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'do'
 drivers/uio/uio.c:87: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'while'
 drivers/uio/uio.c:113: error: 'map_release' undeclared here (not in a function)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 10:30:30 +02:00
Rabin Vincent
8bfe0298f7 lockdep: handle chains involving classes defined in modules
Solve this by marking the classes as unused and not printing information
about the unused classes.

Reported-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Acked-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 09:30:26 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
b7d39aff91 lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock()
Expose the new lock protection lock.

This can be used to annotate places where we take multiple locks of the
same class and avoid deadlocks by always taking another (top-level) lock
first.

NOTE: we're still bound to the MAX_LOCK_DEPTH (48) limit.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 09:30:24 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
7531e2f34d lockdep: lock protection locks
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 16:26 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, David Miller wrote:
> >
> > Taking more than a few locks of the same class at once is bad
> > news and it's better to find an alternative method.
>
> It's not always wrong.
>
> If you can guarantee that anybody that takes more than one lock of a
> particular class will always take a single top-level lock _first_, then
> that's all good. You can obviously screw up and take the same lock _twice_
> (which will deadlock), but at least you cannot get into ABBA situations.
>
> So maybe the right thing to do is to just teach lockdep about "lock
> protection locks". That would have solved the multi-queue issues for
> networking too - all the actual network drivers would still have taken
> just their single queue lock, but the one case that needs to take all of
> them would have taken a separate top-level lock first.
>
> Never mind that the multi-queue locks were always taken in the same order:
> it's never wrong to just have some top-level serialization, and anybody
> who needs to take <n> locks might as well do <n+1>, because they sure as
> hell aren't going to be on _any_ fastpaths.
>
> So the simplest solution really sounds like just teaching lockdep about
> that one special case. It's not "nesting" exactly, although it's obviously
> related to it.

Do as Linus suggested. The lock protection lock is called nest_lock.

Note that we still have the MAX_LOCK_DEPTH (48) limit to consider, so anything
that spills that it still up shit creek.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 09:30:24 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
4f3e7524b2 lockdep: map_acquire
Most the free-standing lock_acquire() usages look remarkably similar, sweep
them into a new helper.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 09:30:23 +02:00
Dave Jones
f82b217e35 lockdep: shrink held_lock structure
struct held_lock {
        u64                        prev_chain_key;       /*     0     8 */
        struct lock_class *        class;                /*     8     8 */
        long unsigned int          acquire_ip;           /*    16     8 */
        struct lockdep_map *       instance;             /*    24     8 */
        int                        irq_context;          /*    32     4 */
        int                        trylock;              /*    36     4 */
        int                        read;                 /*    40     4 */
        int                        check;                /*    44     4 */
        int                        hardirqs_off;         /*    48     4 */

        /* size: 56, cachelines: 1 */
        /* padding: 4 */
        /* last cacheline: 56 bytes */
};

struct held_lock {
        u64                        prev_chain_key;       /*     0     8 */
        long unsigned int          acquire_ip;           /*     8     8 */
        struct lockdep_map *       instance;             /*    16     8 */
        unsigned int               class_idx:11;         /*    24:21  4 */
        unsigned int               irq_context:2;        /*    24:19  4 */
        unsigned int               trylock:1;            /*    24:18  4 */
        unsigned int               read:2;               /*    24:16  4 */
        unsigned int               check:2;              /*    24:14  4 */
        unsigned int               hardirqs_off:1;       /*    24:13  4 */

        /* size: 32, cachelines: 1 */
        /* padding: 4 */
        /* bit_padding: 13 bits */
        /* last cacheline: 32 bytes */
};

[mingo@elte.hu: shrunk hlock->class too]
[peterz@infradead.org: fixup bit sizes]
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2008-08-11 09:30:23 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
1b12bbc747 lockdep: re-annotate scheduler runqueues
Instead of using a per-rq lock class, use the regular nesting operations.

However, take extra care with double_lock_balance() as it can release the
already held rq->lock (and therefore change its nesting class).

So what can happen is:

 spin_lock(rq->lock);	// this rq subclass 0

 double_lock_balance(rq, other_rq);
   // release rq
   // acquire other_rq->lock subclass 0
   // acquire rq->lock subclass 1

 spin_unlock(other_rq->lock);

leaving you with rq->lock in subclass 1

So a subsequent double_lock_balance() call can try to nest a subclass 1
lock while already holding a subclass 1 lock.

Fix this by introducing double_unlock_balance() which releases the other
rq's lock, but also re-sets the subclass for this rq's lock to 0.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 09:30:22 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
64aa348edc lockdep: lock_set_subclass - reset a held lock's subclass
this can be used to reset a held lock's subclass, for arbitrary-depth
iterated data structures such as trees or lists which have per-node
locks.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 09:30:21 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
cf206bffbb Merge branch 'linus' into sched/clock 2008-08-11 08:59:21 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
c1955a3d47 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>
2008-08-11 08:59:03 +02:00
Dmitry Baryshkov
cb3952bf78 DMA: make dma-coherent.c documentation kdoc-friendly
Spotted by Randy.

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2008-08-07 06:52:01 -07:00
Richard Hughes
bf1db69fbf pm_qos: spelling fixes
A documentation cleanup patch.  With a minor tweak to clarify units for
kbs.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: mark gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-05 14:33:50 -07:00
Jan Beulich
d2dc1f4adb dma: fix order calculation in dma_mark_declared_memory_occupied()
get_order() takes byte-sized input, not a page-granular one.

Irrespective of this fix I'm inclined to believe that this doesn't work
right anyway - bitmap_allocate_region() has an implicit assumption of
'pos' being suitable for 'order', which this function doesn't seem to
enforce (and since it's being called with a byte-granular value there's no
reason to believe that the callers would make sure device_addr is passed
accordingly - it's also not documented that way).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-05 14:33:49 -07:00
David Brownell
c69ad71bcd genirq: better warning on irqchip->set_type() failure
While I'm glad to finally see the hole fixed whereby passing an invalid
IRQ trigger type to request_irq() would be ignored, the current diagnostic
isn't quite useful.  Fixed by also listing the trigger type which was
rejected.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
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>
2008-08-05 14:33:47 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
5b2becc8cf semaphore: __down_common: use signal_pending_state()
Change __down_common() to use signal_pending_state() instead of open
coding.

The changes in kernel/semaphore.o are just artifacts, the state checks are
optimized away.

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>
2008-08-05 14:33:47 -07:00
Tom Zanussi
3219445033 relay: fix "full buffer with exactly full last subbuffer" accounting problem
In relay's current read implementation, if the buffer is completely full
but hasn't triggered the buffer-full condition (i.e. the last write
didn't cross the subbuffer boundary) and the last subbuffer is exactly
full, the subbuffer accounting code erroneously finds nothing available.
This patch fixes the problem.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-05 14:33:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b13ad6f47c Merge branch 'audit.b56' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current
* 'audit.b56' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
  Re: [PATCH] Fix the kernel panic of audit_filter_task when key field is set
2008-08-04 17:21:38 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
725aad24c3 __sched_setscheduler: don't do any policy checks when not "user"
The "user" parameter to __sched_setscheduler indicates whether the
change is being done on behalf of a user process or not.  If not, we
shouldn't apply any permissions checks, so don't call
security_task_setscheduler().

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Tested-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-04 17:16:20 -07:00
zhangxiliang
1a61c88def Re: [PATCH] Fix the kernel panic of audit_filter_task when key field is set
Sorry, I miss a blank between if and "(".
And I add "unlikely" to check "ctx" in audit_match_perm() and audit_match_filetype().
This is a new patch for it.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiliang <zhangxiliang@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-04 06:13:50 -04:00
Roland McGrath
5c7edcd7ee tracehook: fix exit_signal=0 case
My commit 2b2a1ff64a introduced a regression
(sorry about that) for the odd case of exit_signal=0 (e.g. clone_flags=0).
This is not a normal use, but it's used by a case in the glibc test suite.

Dying with exit_signal=0 sends no signal, but it's supposed to wake up a
parent's blocked wait*() calls (unlike the delayed_group_leader case).
This fixes tracehook_notify_death() and its caller to distinguish a
"signal 0" wakeup from the delayed_group_leader case (with no wakeup).

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-01 12:01:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5adf2b03d9 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  locking: fix mutex @key parameter kernel-doc notation
2008-08-01 11:52:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
31582b094d Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb:
  kgdb: fix gdb serial thread queries
  kgdb: fix kgdb_validate_break_address to perform a mem write
  kgdb: remove the requirement for CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
2008-08-01 11:45:09 -07:00
zhangxiliang
20c6aaa39a [PATCH] Fix the bug of using AUDIT_STATUS_RATE_LIMIT when set fail, no error output.
When the "status_get->mask" is "AUDIT_STATUS_RATE_LIMIT || AUDIT_STATUS_BACKLOG_LIMIT".
If "audit_set_rate_limit" fails and "audit_set_backlog_limit" succeeds, the "err" value
will be greater than or equal to 0. It will miss the failure of rate set.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiliang <zhangxiliang@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-01 12:15:16 -04:00
zhangxiliang
980dfb0db3 [PATCH] Fix the kernel panic of audit_filter_task when key field is set
When calling audit_filter_task(), it calls audit_filter_rules() with audit_context is NULL.
If the key field is set, the result in audit_filter_rules() will be set to 1 and
ctx->filterkey will be set to key.
But the ctx is NULL in this condition, so kernel will panic.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiliang <zhangxiliang@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-01 12:15:03 -04:00
zhangxiliang
036bbf76ad Re: [PATCH] the loginuid field should be output in all AUDIT_CONFIG_CHANGE audit messages
> shouldn't these be using the "audit_get_loginuid(current)"  and if we
> are going to output loginuid we also should be outputting sessionid

Thanks for your detailed explanation.
I have made a new patch for outputing "loginuid" and "sessionid" by audit_get_loginuid(current) and audit_get_sessionid(current).
If there are some deficiencies, please give me your indication.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiliang <zhangxiliang@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-01 12:15:03 -04:00
Vesa-Matti J Kari
1d6c9649e2 kernel/audit.c control character detection is off-by-one
Hello,

According to my understanding there is an off-by-one bug in the
function:

   audit_string_contains_control()

in:

  kernel/audit.c

Patch is included.

I do not know from how many places the function is called from, but for
example, SELinux Access Vector Cache tries to log untrusted filenames via
call path:

avc_audit()
     audit_log_untrustedstring()
         audit_log_n_untrustedstring()
             audit_string_contains_control()

If audit_string_contains_control() detects control characters, then the
string is hex-encoded. But the hex=0x7f dec=127, DEL-character, is not
detected.

I guess this could have at least some minor security implications, since a
user can create a filename with 0x7f in it, causing logged filename to
possibly look different when someone reads it on the terminal.

Signed-off-by: Vesa-Matti Kari <vmkari@cc.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-01 12:05:35 -04:00
Eric Paris
ee1d315663 [PATCH] Audit: Collect signal info when SIGUSR2 is sent to auditd
Makes the kernel audit subsystem collect information about the sending
process when that process sends SIGUSR2 to the userspace audit daemon.
SIGUSR2 is a new interesting signal to auditd telling auditd that it
should try to start logging to disk again and the error condition which
caused it to stop logging to disk (usually out of space) has been
rectified.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-01 12:05:32 -04:00
Jason Wessel
25fc999913 kgdb: fix gdb serial thread queries
The command "info threads" did not work correctly with kgdb.  It would
result in a silent kernel hang if used.

This patach addresses several problems.
 - Fix use of deprecated NR_CPUS
 - Fix kgdb to not walk linearly through the pid space
 - Correctly implement shadow pids
 - Change the threads per query to a #define
 - Fix kgdb_hex2long to work with negated values

The threads 0 and -1 are reserved to represent the current task.  That
means that CPU 0 will start with a shadow thread id of -2, and CPU 1
will have a shadow thread id of -3, etc...

From the debugger you can switch to a shadow thread to see what one of
the other cpus was doing, however it is not possible to execute run
control operations on any other cpu execept the cpu executing the
kgdb_handle_exception().

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-08-01 08:39:35 -05:00
Jason Wessel
a9b60bf4c2 kgdb: fix kgdb_validate_break_address to perform a mem write
A regression to the kgdb core was found in the case of using the
CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA kernel option.  When this option is on, a breakpoint
cannot be written into any readonly memory page.  When an external
debugger requests a breakpoint to get set, the
kgdb_validate_break_address() was only checking to see if the address
to place the breakpoint was readable and lacked a write check.

This patch changes the validate routine to try reading (via the
breakpoint set request) and also to try immediately writing the break
point.  If either fails, an error is correctly returned and the
debugger behaves correctly.  Then an end user can make the
descision to use hardware breakpoints.

Also update the documentation to reflect that using
CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA will inhibit the use of software breakpoints.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-08-01 08:39:34 -05:00
Peter Zijlstra
5e710e37bd lockdep: change scheduler annotation
While thinking about David's graph walk lockdep patch it _finally_
dawned on me that there is no reason we have a lock class per cpu ...

Sorry for being dense :-/

The below changes the annotation from a lock class per cpu, to a single
nested lock, as the scheduler never holds more that 2 rq locks at a time
anyway.

If there was code requiring holding all rq locks this would not work and
the original annotation would be the only option, but that not being the
case, this is a much lighter one.

Compiles and boots on a 2-way x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-01 10:46:48 +02:00
David Miller
419ca3f135 lockdep: fix combinatorial explosion in lock subgraph traversal
When we traverse the graph, either forwards or backwards, we
are interested in whether a certain property exists somewhere
in a node reachable in the graph.

Therefore it is never necessary to traverse through a node more
than once to get a correct answer to the given query.

Take advantage of this property using a global ID counter so that we
need not clear all the markers in all the lock_class entries before
doing a traversal.  A new ID is choosen when we start to traverse, and
we continue through a lock_class only if it's ID hasn't been marked
with the new value yet.

This short-circuiting is essential especially for high CPU count
systems.  The scheduler has a runqueue per cpu, and needs to take
two runqueue locks at a time, which leads to long chains of
backwards and forwards subgraphs from these runqueue lock nodes.
Without the short-circuit implemented here, a graph traversal on
a runqueue lock can take up to (1 << (N - 1)) checks on a system
with N cpus.

For anything more than 16 cpus or so, lockdep will eventually bring
the machine to a complete standstill.

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>
2008-07-31 18:38:28 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
6679ce6e5f Merge branch 'linus' into sched/urgent 2008-07-31 18:34:22 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
4a273f209c sched clock: couple local and remote clocks
When taking the time of a remote CPU, use the opportunity to
couple (sync) the clocks to each other. (in a monotonic way)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
2008-07-31 17:21:01 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
56b906126d sched clock: simplify __update_sched_clock()
- return the current clock instead of letting callers
  fetch it from scd->clock

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
2008-07-31 17:20:55 +02:00