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Author SHA1 Message Date
Peter Zijlstra 468a15bb4c sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup()
Impact: extend the wakeup tracepoint with the info whether the wakeup was real

Add the information needed to distinguish 'real' wakeups from 'false'
wakeups.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-25 13:10:21 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 9212ddb5ea stacktrace: provide save_stack_trace_tsk() weak alias
Impact: build fix

Some architectures have not implemented save_stack_trace_tsk() yet:

  fs/built-in.o: In function `proc_pid_stack':
  base.c:(.text+0x3f140): undefined reference to `save_stack_trace_tsk'

So warn about that if the facility is used.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-25 11:44:43 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 12d79bafb7 rcu: provide RCU options on non-preempt architectures too
Impact: build fix

Some old architectures still do not use kernel/Kconfig.preempt, so the
moving of the RCU options there broke their build:

 In file included from /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/sem.h:81,
                 from /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/sched.h:69,
                 from /home/mingo/tip/arch/alpha/kernel/asm-offsets.c:9:
 /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/rcupdate.h:62:2: error: #error "Unknown RCU implementation specified to kernel configuration"

Move these options back to init/Kconfig, which every architecture
includes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-25 09:31:28 +01:00
James Morris cbacc2c7f0 Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2008-12-25 11:40:09 +11:00
Ingo Molnar db8862eafe Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-branch-tracing 2008-12-24 21:08:26 +01:00
Li Zefan 20ca9b3f4c cgroups: avoid accessing uninitialized data in failure path
If cgroup_get_rootdir() failed, free_cg_links() will be called in the
failure path, but tmp_cg_links hasn't been initialized at that time.

I introduced this bug in the 2.6.27 merge window.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-23 15:58:21 -08:00
Sharyathi Nagesh e368d3a836 cgroups: suppress bogus warning messages
Remove spurious warning messages that are thrown onto the console during
cgroup operations.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sharyathi Nagesh <sharyathi@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-23 15:58:21 -08:00
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan 36dffab679 sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu, fix
Andrew Morton reported:

> kernel/sched.c: In function 'schedule':
> kernel/sched.c:3679: warning: 'active_balance' may be used uninitialized in this function
>
> This warning is correct - the code is buggy.

In sched.c load_balance_newidle, there's real potential use of
uninitialised variable - fix it.

Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 22:37:29 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 98db8df777 ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning
Impact: eliminate false WARN_ON message

If an interrupt goes off after the setting of the local variable
tail_page and before incrementing the write index of that page,
the interrupt could push the commit forward to the next page.

Later a check is made to see if interrupts pushed the buffer around
the entire ring buffer by comparing the next page to the last commited
page. This can produce a false positive if the interrupt had pushed
the commit page forward as stated above.

Thanks to Jiaying Zhang for finding this race.

Reported-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 18:45:26 +01:00
Steven Rostedt a8ccf1d6f6 ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race
Impact: fix stuck trace-buffers

If an interrupt comes in during the rb_set_commit_to_write and
pushes the tail page forward just at the right time, the commit
updates will miss the adding of the interrupt data. This will
cause the commit pointer to cease from moving forward.

Thanks to Jiaying Zhang for finding this race.

Reported-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 18:45:25 +01:00
Lachlan McIlroy 27a0464a6c [XFS] Fix merge conflict in fs/xfs/xfs_rename.c
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Conflicts:

	fs/xfs/xfs_rename.c

Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-12-22 17:34:26 +11:00
Thomas Gleixner 3d44cc3e01 Null pointer deref with hrtimer_try_to_cancel()
Impact: Prevent kernel crash with posix timer clockid CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW

commit 2d42244ae7 (clocksource:
introduce CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW) introduced a new clockid, which is only
available to read out the raw not NTP adjusted system time.

The above commit did not prevent that a posix timer can be created
with that clockid. The timer_create() syscall succeeds and initializes
the timer to a non existing hrtimer base. When the timer is deleted
either by timer_delete() or by the exit() cleanup the kernel crashes.

Prevent the creation of timers for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW by setting the
posix clock function to no_timer_create which returns an error code.

Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-20 14:13:45 -08:00
Markus Metzger bf53de907d x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
Impact: introduce new ptrace facility

Add arch_ptrace_untrace() function that is called when the tracer
detaches (either voluntarily or when the tracing task dies);
ptrace_disable() is only called on a voluntary detach.

Add ptrace_fork() and arch_ptrace_fork(). They are called when a
traced task is forked.

Clear DS and BTS related fields on fork.

Release DS resources and reclaim memory in ptrace_untrace(). This
releases resources already when the tracing task dies. We used to do
that when the traced task dies.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-20 09:15:46 +01:00
Yinghai Lu b909895739 sparseirq: fix numa_migrate_irq_desc dependency and comments
Impact: reduce kconfig variable scope and clean up

Bartlomiej pointed out that the config dependencies and comments are not right.

update it depend to NUMA, and fix some comments

Reported-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 22:56:02 +01:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto 26cc271db7 printk: fix discarding message when recursion_bug
Impact: fix truncated recursion bug message printout

When recursion_bug is true, kernel discards original message because printk_buf
contains recursion_bug_msg with NULL terminator. The sizeof(recursion_bug_msg)
makes this, use strlen() to get correct length without NULL terminator.

Reported-by: Toshikazu Nakayama <nakayama.ts@ncos.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 22:52:47 +01:00
Jan Beulich 9bb482476c allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL
Building upon parts of the module stripping patch, this patch
introduces similar stripping for vmlinux when CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL=y.
Using CONFIG_KALLSYMS_STRIP_GENERATED reduces the overhead of
CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL from 245k/310k to 65k/80k for the (i386/x86-64)
kernels I tested with.

The patch also does away with the need to special case the kallsyms-
internal symbols by making them available even in the first linking
stage.

While it is a generated file, the patch includes the changes to
scripts/genksyms/keywords.c_shipped, as I'm unsure what the procedure
here is.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-12-19 22:47:10 +01:00
Pekka J Enberg 213cc06079 ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper
Impact: cleanup

This patch factors out common code from multiple tracers into a
tracing_reset_online_cpus() function and converts the tracers to use it.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 16:29:34 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 30cd324e97 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/ring-buffer' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
Conflicts:
	include/linux/ftrace.h
2008-12-19 09:42:40 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 9924da434a sched: fix warning in kernel/sched.c
Impact: fix cpumask conversion bug

this warning:

  kernel/sched.c: In function ‘find_busiest_group’:
  kernel/sched.c:3429: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘__first_cpu’ from incompatible pointer type

shows that we forgot to convert a new patch to the new cpumask APIs.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 09:21:57 +01:00
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan ad273b32e4 sched: activate active load balancing in new idle cpus
Impact: tweak task balancing to save power more agressively

Active load balancing is a process by which migration thread
is woken up on the target CPU in order to pull current
running task on another package into this newly idle
package.

This method is already in use with normal load_balance(),
this patch introduces this method to new idle cpus when
sched_mc is set to POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE_WAKEUP.

This logic provides effective consolidation of short running
daemon jobs in a almost idle system

The side effect of this patch may be ping-ponging of tasks
if the system is moderately utilised. May need to adjust the
iterations before triggering.

Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 09:21:54 +01:00
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan 7eb52dfa70 sched: bias task wakeups to preferred semi-idle packages
Impact: tweak task wakeup to save power more agressively

Preferred wakeup cpu (from a semi idle package) has been
nominated in find_busiest_group() in the previous patch.  Use
this information in sched_mc_preferred_wakeup_cpu in function
wake_idle() to bias task wakeups if the following conditions
are satisfied:

        - The present cpu that is trying to wakeup the process is
          idle and waking the target process on this cpu will
          potentially wakeup a completely idle package
        - The previous cpu on which the target process ran is
          also idle and hence selecting the previous cpu may
          wakeup a semi idle cpu package
        - The task being woken up is allowed to run in the
          nominated cpu (cpu affinity and restrictions)

Basically if both the current cpu and the previous cpu on
which the task ran is idle, select the nominated cpu from semi
idle cpu package for running the new task that is waking up.

Cache hotness is considered since the actual biasing happens
in wake_idle() only if the application is cache cold.

This technique will effectively move short running bursty jobs in
a mostly idle system.

Wakeup biasing for power savings gets automatically disabled if
system utilisation increases due to the fact that the probability
of finding both this_cpu and prev_cpu idle decreases.

Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 09:21:52 +01:00
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan 7a09b1a27b sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu
Impact: extend load-balancing code (no change in behavior yet)

When the system utilisation is low and more cpus are idle,
then the process waking up from sleep should prefer to
wakeup an idle cpu from semi-idle cpu package (multi core
package) rather than a completely idle cpu package which
would waste power.

Use the sched_mc balance logic in find_busiest_group() to
nominate a preferred wakeup cpu.

This info can be stored in appropriate sched_domain, but
updating this info in all copies of sched_domain is not
practical.  Hence this information is stored in root_domain
struct which is one copy per partitioned sched domain.
The root_domain can be accessed from each cpu's runqueue
and there is one copy per partitioned sched domain.

Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 09:21:50 +01:00
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan d5679bd119 sched: favour lower logical cpu number for sched_mc balance
Impact: change load-balancing direction to match that of irqbalanced

Just in case two groups have identical load, prefer to move load to lower
logical cpu number rather than the present logic of moving to higher logical
number.

find_busiest_group() tries to look for a group_leader that has spare capacity
to take more tasks and freeup an appropriate least loaded group.  Just in case
there is a tie and the load is equal, then the group with higher logical number
is favoured.  This conflicts with user space irqbalance daemon that will move
interrupts to lower logical number if the system utilisation is very low.

Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 09:21:48 +01:00
Gautham R Shenoy afb8a9b70b sched: framework for sched_mc/smt_power_savings=N
Impact: extend range of /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings

Currently the sched_mc/smt_power_savings variable is a boolean,
which either enables or disables topology based power savings.
This patch extends the behaviour of the variable from boolean to
multivalued, such that based on the value, we decide how
aggressively do we want to perform powersavings balance at
appropriate sched domain based on topology.

Variable levels of power saving tunable would benefit end user to
match the required level of power savings vs performance
trade-off depending on the system configuration and workloads.

This version makes the sched_mc_power_savings global variable to
take more values (0,1,2).  Later versions can have a single
tunable called sched_power_savings instead of
sched_{mc,smt}_power_savings.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 09:21:46 +01:00
Darren Hart b56863630d futex: clean up futex_(un)lock_pi fault handling
Impact: cleanup

Some apparently left over cruft code was complicating the fault logic:

Testing if uval != -EFAULT doesn't have any meaning, get_user() sets ret
to either 0 or -EFAULT, there's no need to compare uval, especially not
against EFAULT which it will never be.  This patch removes the superfluous
test and clarifies the comment blocks.

Build and boot tested on an 8way x86_64 system.

Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 09:20:21 +01:00
Ingo Molnar c71dd42db2 tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c
these warnings:

  kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c: In function ‘tracing_sched_register’:
  kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c:96: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘register_trace_sched_wakeup_new’ from incompatible pointer type
  kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c:112: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘unregister_trace_sched_wakeup_new’ from incompatible pointer type
  kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c: In function ‘tracing_sched_unregister’:
  kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c:121: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘unregister_trace_sched_wakeup_new’ from incompatible pointer type

Trigger because sched_wakeup_new tracepoints need the same trace
signature as sched_wakeup - which was changed recently.

Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 01:05:38 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 3bddb9a324 tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c
this warning:

  kernel/trace/trace.c: In function ‘print_lat_fmt’:
  kernel/trace/trace.c:1826: warning: unused variable ‘state’

Triggers because 'state' has become unused - remove it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 01:01:25 +01:00
Ingo Molnar b2e3c0adec hrtimers: fix warning in kernel/hrtimer.c
this warning:

  kernel/hrtimer.c: In function ‘hrtimer_cpu_notify’:
  kernel/hrtimer.c:1574: warning: unused variable ‘dcpu’

is caused because 'dcpu' is only used in the CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU case.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 00:45:32 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney 64db4cfff9 "Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementation
This patch fixes a long-standing performance bug in classic RCU that
results in massive internal-to-RCU lock contention on systems with
more than a few hundred CPUs.  Although this patch creates a separate
flavor of RCU for ease of review and patch maintenance, it is intended
to replace classic RCU.

This patch still handles stress better than does mainline, so I am still
calling it ready for inclusion.  This patch is against the -tip tree.
Nevertheless, experience on an actual 1000+ CPU machine would still be
most welcome.

Most of the changes noted below were found while creating an rcutiny
(which should permit ejecting the current rcuclassic) and while doing
detailed line-by-line documentation.

Updates from v9 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/2/334):

o	Fixes from remainder of line-by-line code walkthrough,
	including comment spelling, initialization, undesirable
	narrowing due to type conversion, removing redundant memory
	barriers, removing redundant local-variable initialization,
	and removing redundant local variables.

	I do not believe that any of these fixes address the CPU-hotplug
	issues that Andi Kleen was seeing, but please do give it a whirl
	in case the machine is smarter than I am.

	A writeup from the walkthrough may be found at the following
	URL, in case you are suffering from terminal insomnia or
	masochism:

	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/tmp/rcutree-walkthrough.2008.12.16a.pdf

o	Made rcutree tracing use seq_file, as suggested some time
	ago by Lai Jiangshan.

o	Added a .csv variant of the rcudata debugfs trace file, to allow
	people having thousands of CPUs to drop the data into
	a spreadsheet.	Tested with oocalc and gnumeric.  Updated
	documentation to suit.

Updates from v8 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/15/139):

o	Fix a theoretical race between grace-period initialization and
	force_quiescent_state() that could occur if more than three
	jiffies were required to carry out the grace-period
	initialization.  Which it might, if you had enough CPUs.

o	Apply Ingo's printk-standardization patch.

o	Substitute local variables for repeated accesses to global
	variables.

o	Fix comment misspellings and redundant (but harmless) increments
	of ->n_rcu_pending (this latter after having explicitly added it).

o	Apply checkpatch fixes.

Updates from v7 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/10/291):

o	Fixed a number of problems noted by Gautham Shenoy, including
	the cpu-stall-detection bug that he was having difficulty
	convincing me was real.  ;-)

o	Changed cpu-stall detection to wait for ten seconds rather than
	three in order to reduce false positive, as suggested by Ingo
	Molnar.

o	Produced a design document (http://lwn.net/Articles/305782/).
	The act of writing this document uncovered a number of both
	theoretical and "here and now" bugs as noted below.

o	Fix dynticks_nesting accounting confusion, simplify WARN_ON()
	condition, fix kerneldoc comments, and add memory barriers
	in dynticks interface functions.

o	Add more data to tracing.

o	Remove unused "rcu_barrier" field from rcu_data structure.

o	Count calls to rcu_pending() from scheduling-clock interrupt
	to use as a surrogate timebase should jiffies stop counting.

o	Fix a theoretical race between force_quiescent_state() and
	grace-period initialization.  Yes, initialization does have to
	go on for some jiffies for this race to occur, but given enough
	CPUs...

Updates from v6 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/23/448):

o	Fix a number of checkpatch.pl complaints.

o	Apply review comments from Ingo Molnar and Lai Jiangshan
	on the stall-detection code.

o	Fix several bugs in !CONFIG_SMP builds.

o	Fix a misspelled config-parameter name so that RCU now announces
	at boot time if stall detection is configured.

o	Run tests on numerous combinations of configurations parameters,
	which after the fixes above, now build and run correctly.

Updates from v5 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/15/92, bad subject line):

o	Fix a compiler error in the !CONFIG_FANOUT_EXACT case (blew a
	changeset some time ago, and finally got around to retesting
	this option).

o	Fix some tracing bugs in rcupreempt that caused incorrect
	totals to be printed.

o	I now test with a more brutal random-selection online/offline
	script (attached).  Probably more brutal than it needs to be
	on the people reading it as well, but so it goes.

o	A number of optimizations and usability improvements:

	o	Make rcu_pending() ignore the grace-period timeout when
		there is no grace period in progress.

	o	Make force_quiescent_state() avoid going for a global
		lock in the case where there is no grace period in
		progress.

	o	Rearrange struct fields to improve struct layout.

	o	Make call_rcu() initiate a grace period if RCU was
		idle, rather than waiting for the next scheduling
		clock interrupt.

	o	Invoke rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit() only when
		idle, as suggested by Andi Kleen.  I still don't
		completely trust this change, and might back it out.

	o	Make CONFIG_RCU_TRACE be the single config variable
		manipulated for all forms of RCU, instead of the prior
		confusion.

	o	Document tracing files and formats for both rcupreempt
		and rcutree.

Updates from v4 for those missing v5 given its bad subject line:

o	Separated dynticks interface so that NMIs and irqs call separate
	functions, greatly simplifying it.  In particular, this code
	no longer requires a proof of correctness.  ;-)

o	Separated dynticks state out into its own per-CPU structure,
	avoiding the duplicated accounting.

o	The case where a dynticks-idle CPU runs an irq handler that
	invokes call_rcu() is now correctly handled, forcing that CPU
	out of dynticks-idle mode.

o	Review comments have been applied (thank you all!!!).
	For but one example, fixed the dynticks-ordering issue that
	Manfred pointed out, saving me much debugging.  ;-)

o	Adjusted rcuclassic and rcupreempt to handle dynticks changes.

Attached is an updated patch to Classic RCU that applies a hierarchy,
greatly reducing the contention on the top-level lock for large machines.
This passes 10-hour concurrent rcutorture and online-offline testing on
128-CPU ppc64 without dynticks enabled, and exposes some timekeeping
bugs in presence of dynticks (exciting working on a system where
"sleep 1" hangs until interrupted...), which were fixed in the
2.6.27 kernel.  It is getting more reliable than mainline by some
measures, so the next version will be against -tip for inclusion.
See also Manfred Spraul's recent patches (or his earlier work from
2004 at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=108546384711797&w=2).
We will converge onto a common patch in the fullness of time, but are
currently exploring different regions of the design space.  That said,
I have already gratefully stolen quite a few of Manfred's ideas.

This patch provides CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT, which controls the bushiness
of the RCU hierarchy.  Defaults to 32 on 32-bit machines and 64 on
64-bit machines.  If CONFIG_NR_CPUS is less than CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT,
there is no hierarchy.  By default, the RCU initialization code will
adjust CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT to balance the hierarchy, so strongly NUMA
architectures may choose to set CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT to disable
this balancing, allowing the hierarchy to be exactly aligned to the
underlying hardware.  Up to two levels of hierarchy are permitted
(in addition to the root node), allowing up to 16,384 CPUs on 32-bit
systems and up to 262,144 CPUs on 64-bit systems.  I just know that I
am going to regret saying this, but this seems more than sufficient
for the foreseeable future.  (Some architectures might wish to set
CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT=4, which would limit such architectures to 64 CPUs.
If this becomes a real problem, additional levels can be added, but I
doubt that it will make a significant difference on real hardware.)

In the common case, a given CPU will manipulate its private rcu_data
structure and the rcu_node structure that it shares with its immediate
neighbors.  This can reduce both lock and memory contention by multiple
orders of magnitude, which should eliminate the need for the strange
manipulations that are reported to be required when running Linux on
very large systems.

Some shortcomings:

o	More bugs will probably surface as a result of an ongoing
	line-by-line code inspection.

	Patches will be provided as required.

o	There are probably hangs, rcutorture failures, &c.  Seems
	quite stable on a 128-CPU machine, but that is kind of small
	compared to 4096 CPUs.  However, seems to do better than
	mainline.

	Patches will be provided as required.

o	The memory footprint of this version is several KB larger
	than rcuclassic.

	A separate UP-only rcutiny patch will be provided, which will
	reduce the memory footprint significantly, even compared
	to the old rcuclassic.  One such patch passes light testing,
	and has a memory footprint smaller even than rcuclassic.
	Initial reaction from various embedded guys was "it is not
	worth it", so am putting it aside.

Credits:

o	Manfred Spraul for ideas, review comments, and bugs spotted,
	as well as some good friendly competition.  ;-)

o	Josh Triplett, Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra, Mathieu Desnoyers,
	Lai Jiangshan, Andi Kleen, Andy Whitcroft, and Andrew Morton
	for reviews and comments.

o	Thomas Gleixner for much-needed help with some timer issues
	(see patches below).

o	Jon M. Tollefson, Tim Pepper, Andrew Theurer, Jose R. Santos,
	Andy Whitcroft, Darrick Wong, Nishanth Aravamudan, Anton
	Blanchard, Dave Kleikamp, and Nathan Lynch for keeping machines
	alive despite my heavy abuse^Wtesting.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18 21:56:04 +01:00
Ingo Molnar d110ec3a1e Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcu 2008-12-18 21:54:49 +01:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 74c8a61304 locking, irq: enclose irq_desc_lock_class in CONFIG_LOCKDEP
Impact: simplify code

commit "08678b0: generic: sparse irqs: use irq_desc() [...]" introduced
the irq_desc_lock_class variable.

But it is used only if CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=Y or CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS=Y.
Otherwise, following warnings happen:

	CC      kernel/irq/handle.o
	kernel/irq/handle.c:26: warning: 'irq_desc_lock_class' defined but not used

Actually, current early_init_irq_lock_class has a bit strange and messy ifdef.
In addition, it is not valueable.

1. this function is protected by !CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ, but that is not necessary.
   if CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=Y, desc of all irq number are initialized by NULL
   at first - then this function calling is safe.

2. this function protected by CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS too. but it is not
   necessary either, because lockdep_set_class() doesn't have bad side
   effect even if CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS=n.

This patch bloat kernel size a bit on CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS=n and
CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=Y - but that's ok. early_init_irq_lock_class() is not
a fastpatch at all.

To avoid messy ifdefs is more important than a few bytes diet.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18 14:35:53 +01:00
Ken Chen 9c2c48020e schedstat: consolidate per-task cpu runtime stats
Impact: simplify code

When we turn on CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS, per-task cpu runtime is accumulated
twice. Once in task->se.sum_exec_runtime and once in sched_info.cpu_time.
These two stats are exactly the same.

Given that task->se.sum_exec_runtime is always accumulated by the core
scheduler, sched_info can reuse that data instead of duplicate the accounting.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18 13:54:01 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan 6d102bc68f tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size
Impact: remove dead code

struct ring_buffer.size is not set after ring_buffer is initialized
or resized. it is always 0.

we can use "buffer->pages * PAGE_SIZE" to get ring_buffer's size

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18 13:49:56 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner 3d9101e925 trace: fix task state printout
Impact: fix occasionally incorrect trace output

The tracing code has interesting varieties of printing out task state.

Unfortunalely only one of the instances is correct as it copies the
code from sched.c:sched_show_task(). The others are plain wrong as
they treatthe bitfield as an integer offset into the character
array. Also the size check of the character array is wrong as it
includes the trailing \0.

Use a common state decoder inline which does the Right Thing.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18 13:03:09 +01:00
Steven Rostedt ea3a6d6d60 ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions
Impact: enhancement

Ingo Molnar has asked about a way to remove items from the filter
lists. Currently, you can only add or replace items. The way
items are added to the list is through opening one of the list
files (set_ftrace_filter or set_ftrace_notrace) via append.
If the file is opened for truncate, the list is cleared.

  echo spin_lock > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

The above will replace the list with only spin_lock

  echo spin_lock >> /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

The above will add spin_lock to the list.

Now this patch adds:

  echo '!spin_lock' >> /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

This will remove spin_lock from the list.

The limited glob features of these lists also can be notted.

  echo '!spin_*' >> /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

This will remove all functions that start with 'spin_'

Note:

  echo '!spin_*' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

will simply clear out the list (notice the '>' instead of '>>')

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18 12:57:09 +01:00
Steven Rostedt e05a43b744 trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code
Impact: clean up

Andrew Morton suggested to use the stack_tracer_enabled variable
to decide whether or not to start stack tracing on bootup.
This lets us remove the start_stack_trace variable.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18 12:56:56 +01:00
Steven Rostedt f38f1d2aa5 trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer
Impact: enhancement to stack tracer

The stack tracer currently is either on when configured in or
off when it is not. It can not be disabled when it is configured on.
(besides disabling the function tracer that it uses)

This patch adds a way to enable or disable the stack tracer at
run time. It defaults off on bootup, but a kernel parameter 'stacktrace'
has been added to enable it on bootup.

A new sysctl has been added "kernel.stack_tracer_enabled" to let
the user enable or disable the stack tracer at run time.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18 12:56:24 +01:00
Darren Hart 73500ac545 futex: rename field in futex_q to clarify single waiter semantics
Impact: simplify code

I've tripped over the naming of this field a couple times.

The futex_q uses a "waiters" list to represent a single blocked task and
then calles wake_up_all().

This can lead to confusion in trying to understand the intent of the code,
which is to have a single futex_q for every task waiting on a futex.

This patch corrects the problem, using a single pointer to the waiting
task, and an appropriate call to wake_up, rather than wake_up_all.

Compile and boot tested on an 8way x86_64 machine.

Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18 11:42:23 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 948a7b2b5e Merge branch 'irq/sparseirq' into cpus4096
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c

Merge irq/sparseirq here, to resolve conflicts.
2008-12-17 13:16:08 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 1f3f424a6b Merge branch 'linus' into cpus4096 2008-12-17 13:07:48 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 66896a85cf tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option
Impact: display ftrace_printk messages "as is"

By default, ftrace_printk() messages find their output with some other
informations like pid, caller, ...
Sometimes a developer just want to have the ftrace_printk left "as is", without
other information.

This is done by providing a default-off option called printk-msg-only.
To enable it, just do `echo printk-msg-only > /debugfs/tracing/trace_options`

Before the patch:

           <...>-2739  [000]   145.692153: __might_sleep: I'm an ftrace_printk msg in __might_sleep
           <...>-2739  [000]   145.692155: __might_sleep: I'm another ftrace_printk msg in __might_sleep

After the patch and the printk-msg-only option enabled:

I'm an ftrace_printk msg in __might_sleep
I'm another ftrace_printk msg in __might_sleep

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-17 00:26:36 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 2c2d7329d8 tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()
Impact: prevent a trace recursion

After some tests with function graph tracer under x86-32, I saw some recursions
caused by ring_buffer_time_stamp() that calls preempt_enable_no_notrace() which
calls preempt_schedule() which is traced itself.

This patch re-enables preemption without rescheduling.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-17 00:26:35 +01:00
Yinghai Lu 48a1b10aff x86, sparseirq: move irq_desc according to smp_affinity, v7
Impact: improve NUMA handling by migrating irq_desc on smp_affinity changes

if CONFIG_NUMA_MIGRATE_IRQ_DESC is set:

-  make irq_desc to go with affinity aka irq_desc moving etc
-  call move_irq_desc in irq_complete_move()
-  legacy irq_desc is not moved, because they are allocated via static array

for logical apic mode, need to add move_desc_in_progress_in_same_domain,
otherwise it will not be moved ==> also could need two phases to get
irq_desc moved.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-17 00:14:01 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney 343e9099c8 rcu: fix rcutorture behavior during reboot
Impact: fix very rare reboot hang

Because rcutorture ignored all signals, it does not terminate in
response to the signals sent at shutdown time.  This can cause strange
failures due to its continuing to make use of kernel function too late
in the shutdown sequence.  This patch therefore adds a shutdown notifier
to rcutorture, causing it to shut down in response to a reboot or an
orderly shutdown.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-17 00:04:40 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven 3ac52669c7 resources: skip sanity check of busy resources
Impact: reduce false positives in iomem_map_sanity_check()

Some drivers (vesafb) only map/reserve a portion of a resource.
If then some other driver comes in and maps the whole resource,
the current code WARN_ON's. This is not the intent of the checks
in iomem_map_sanity_check(); rather these checks want to
warn when crossing *hardware* resources only.

This patch skips BUSY resources as suggested by Linus.

Note: having two drivers talk to the same hardware at the same
time is obviously not optimal behavior, but that's a separate story.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-16 23:30:49 +01:00
Bharata B Rao 80f40ee4a0 sched: use RCU variant of list traversal in for_each_leaf_rt_rq()
Impact: fix potential of rare crash

for_each_leaf_rt_rq() walks an RCU protected list (rq->leaf_rt_rq_list),
but doesn't use list_for_each_entry_rcu(). Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-16 21:39:14 +01:00
Ken Chen e9515c3c9f sched, cpuacct: export percpu cpuacct cgroup stats
This patch export per-cpu CPU cycle usage for a given cpuacct cgroup.
There is a need for a user space monitor daemon to track group CPU
usage on per-cpu base.  It is also useful for monitoring CFS load
balancer behavior by tracking per CPU group usage.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-16 12:15:01 +01:00
Ken Chen 720f54988e sched, cpuacct: refactoring cpuusage_read / cpuusage_write
Impact: micro-optimize the code on 64-bit architectures

In the thread regarding to 'export percpu cpuacct cgroup stats'
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/7/13

akpm pointed out that current cpuacct code is inefficient.  This patch
refactoring the following:

* make cpu_rq locking only on 32-bit
* change iterator to each_present_cpu instead of each_possible_cpu to
  make it hotplug friendly.

It's a bit of code churn, but I was rewarded with 160 byte code size saving
on x86-64 arch and zero code size change on i386.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-16 12:15:00 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 9dfc3bc7d2 Merge branches 'tracing/fastboot', 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/function-graph-tracer' and 'tracing/hw-branch-tracing' into tracing/core 2008-12-16 12:03:38 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 34f28ecd0f sched: optimize update_curr()
Impact: micro-optimization

Skip the hard work when there is none.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-16 09:46:33 +01:00
Mike Galbraith 03e89e4574 sched: fix wakeup preemption clock
Impact: sharpen the wakeup-granularity to always be against current scheduler time

It was possible to do the preemption check against an old time stamp.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-16 09:45:38 +01:00
Paul Menage 307257cf47 cgroups: fix a race between rmdir and remount
When a cgroup is removed, it's unlinked from its parent's children list,
but not actually freed until the last dentry on it is released (at which
point cgrp->root->number_of_cgroups is decremented).

Currently rebind_subsystems checks for the top cgroup's child list being
empty in order to rebind subsystems into or out of a hierarchy - this can
result in the set of subsystems bound to a hierarchy being
removed-but-not-freed cgroup.

The simplest fix for this is to forbid remounts that change the set of
subsystems on a hierarchy that has removed-but-not-freed cgroups.  This
bug can be reproduced via:

mkdir /mnt/cg
mount -t cgroup -o ns,freezer cgroup /mnt/cg
mkdir /mnt/cg/foo
sleep 1h < /mnt/cg/foo &
rmdir /mnt/cg/foo
mount -t cgroup -o remount,ns,devices,freezer cgroup /mnt/cg
kill $!

Though the above will cause oops in -mm only but not mainline, but the bug
can cause memory leak in mainline (and even oops)

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-15 16:27:07 -08:00
Linus Torvalds ca7e716c78 Revert "sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards"
This reverts commit 5b7dba4ff8, which
caused a regression in hibernate, reported by and bisected by Fabio
Comolli.

This revert fixes

 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12155
 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12149

Bisected-by: Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@gmail.com>
Requested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-14 16:23:17 -08:00
Rusty Russell 968ea6d80e Merge ../linux-2.6-x86
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
	kernel/sched.c
	kernel/sched_stats.h
2008-12-13 21:55:51 +10:30
Rusty Russell 320ab2b0b1 cpumask: convert struct clock_event_device to cpumask pointers.
Impact: change calling convention of existing clock_event APIs

struct clock_event_timer's cpumask field gets changed to take pointer,
as does the ->broadcast function.

Another single-patch change.  For safety, we BUG_ON() in
clockevents_register_device() if it's not set.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-13 21:20:26 +10:30
Rusty Russell 0de26520c7 cpumask: make irq_set_affinity() take a const struct cpumask
Impact: change existing irq_chip API

Not much point with gentle transition here: the struct irq_chip's
setaffinity method signature needs to change.

Fortunately, not widely used code, but hits a few architectures.

Note: In irq_select_affinity() I save a temporary in by mangling
irq_desc[irq].affinity directly.  Ingo, does this break anything?

(Folded in fix from KOSAKI Motohiro)

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: grundler@parisc-linux.org
Cc: jeremy@xensource.com
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
2008-12-13 21:20:26 +10:30
Rusty Russell 29c0177e6a cpumask: change cpumask_scnprintf, cpumask_parse_user, cpulist_parse, and cpulist_scnprintf to take pointers.
Impact: change calling convention of existing cpumask APIs

Most cpumask functions started with cpus_: these have been replaced by
cpumask_ ones which take struct cpumask pointers as expected.

These four functions don't have good replacement names; fortunately
they're rarely used, so we just change them over.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: cl@linux-foundation.org
Cc: srostedt@redhat.com
2008-12-13 21:20:25 +10:30
Rusty Russell 98a79d6a50 cpumask: centralize cpu_online_map and cpu_possible_map
Impact: cleanup

Each SMP arch defines these themselves.  Move them to a central
location.

Twists:
1) Some archs (m32, parisc, s390) set possible_map to all 1, so we add a
   CONFIG_INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE for this rather than break them.

2) mips and sparc32 '#define cpu_possible_map phys_cpu_present_map'.
   Those archs simply have phys_cpu_present_map replaced everywhere.

3) Alpha defined cpu_possible_map to cpu_present_map; this is tricky
   so I just manipulate them both in sync.

4) IA64, cris and m32r have gratuitous 'extern cpumask_t cpu_possible_map'
   declarations.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru
Cc: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk
Cc: starvik@axis.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: takata@linux-m32r.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: grundler@parisc-linux.org
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: lethal@linux-sh.org
Cc: wli@holomorphy.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: jdike@addtoit.com
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
2008-12-13 21:19:41 +10:30
Oleg Nesterov 899921025b posix-timers: check ->it_signal instead of ->it_pid to validate the timer
Impact: clean up, speed up

->it_pid (was ->it_process) has also a special meaning: if it is NULL,
the timer is under deletion or it wasn't initialized yet. We can check
->it_signal != NULL instead, this way we can

	- simplify sys_timer_create() a bit

	- remove yet another check from lock_timer()

	- move put_pid(->it_pid) into release_posix_timer() which
	  runs outside of ->it_lock

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-12-12 17:00:34 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov 27af4245b6 posix-timers: use "struct pid*" instead of "struct task_struct*"
Impact: restructure, clean up code

k_itimer holds the ref to the ->it_process until sys_timer_delete(). This
allows to pin up to RLIMIT_SIGPENDING dead task_struct's. Change the code
to use "struct pid *" instead.

The patch doesn't kill ->it_process, it places ->it_pid into the union.
->it_process is still used by do_cpu_nanosleep() as before. It would be
trivial to change the nanosleep code as well, but since it uses it_process
in a special way I think it is better to keep this field for grep.

The patch bloats the kernel by 104 bytes and it also adds the new pointer,
->it_signal, to k_itimer. It is used by lock_timer() to verify that the
found timer was not created by another process. It is not clear why do we
use the global database (and thus the global idr_lock) for posix timers.
We still need the signal_struct->posix_timers which contains all useable
timers, perhaps it is better to use some form of per-process array
instead.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-12-12 17:00:07 +01:00
Woodruff, Richard 001474491f nohz: suppress needless timer reprogramming
In my device I get many interrupts from a high speed USB device in a very
short period of time.  The system spends a lot of time reprogramming the
hardware timer which is in a slower timing domain as compared to the CPU. 
This results in the CPU spending a huge amount of time waiting for the
timer posting to be done.  All of this reprogramming is useless as the
wake up time has not changed.

As measured using ETM trace this drops my reprogramming penalty from
almost 60% CPU load down to 15% during high interrupt rate.  I can send
traces to show this.

Suppress setting of duplicate timer event when timer already stopped. 
Timer programming can be very costly and can result in long cpu stall/wait
times.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[tglx@linutronix.de: move the check to the right place and avoid raising
		     the softirq for nothing]

Signed-off-by: Richard Woodruff <r-woodruff2@ti.com>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-12-12 16:55:31 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 8299608f14 Merge branches 'irq/sparseirq', 'x86/quirks' and 'x86/reboot' into cpus4096
We merge the irq/sparseirq, x86/quirks and x86/reboot trees into the
cpus4096 tree because the io-apic changes in the sparseirq change
conflict with the cpumask changes in the cpumask tree, and we
want to resolve those.
2008-12-12 13:49:24 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 45ab6b0c76 Merge branch 'sched/core' into cpus4096
Conflicts:
	include/linux/ftrace.h
	kernel/sched.c
2008-12-12 13:48:57 +01:00
Heiko Carstens d65bd5ecb2 sched: add missing arch_update_cpu_topology() call
arch_reinit_sched_domains() used to call arch_update_cpu_topology()
via arch_init_sched_domains(). This call got lost with
e761b77252 ("cpu hotplug, sched: Introduce
cpu_active_map and redo sched domain managment (take 2)".

So we might end up with outdated and missing cpus in the cpu core
maps (architecture used to call arch_reinit_sched_domains if cpu
topology changed).

This adds a call to arch_update_cpu_topology in partition_sched_domains
which gets called whenever scheduling domains get updated. Which is
what is supposed to happen when cpu topology changes.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-12 13:47:22 +01:00
Heiko Carstens ee79d1bdb6 sched: let arch_update_cpu_topology indicate if topology changed
Change arch_update_cpu_topology so it returns 1 if the cpu topology changed
and 0 if it didn't change. This will be useful for the next patch which adds
a call to this function in partition_sched_domains.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-12 13:47:21 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 81444a7995 Merge branch 'tracing/fastboot' into cpus4096 2008-12-12 12:43:05 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra cbc34ed1ac sched: fix tracepoints in scheduler
The trace point only caught one of many places where a task changes cpu,
put it in the right place to we get all of them.

Change the signature while we're at it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-12 12:08:26 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker f8b755ac8e tracing/function-graph-tracer: Output arrows signal on hardirq call/return
Impact: make more obvious the hardirq calls in the output

When a hardirq is triggered inside the codeflow on output, we have
now two arrows that indicate the entry and return of the hardirq.

 0)               |          bit_waitqueue() {
 0)   0.880 us    |            __phys_addr();
 0)   2.699 us    |          }
 0)               |          __wake_up_bit() {
 0)   ==========> |          smp_apic_timer_interrupt() {
 0)   0.797 us    |            native_apic_mem_write();
 0)   0.715 us    |            exit_idle();
 0)               |            irq_enter() {
 0)   0.722 us    |              idle_cpu();
 0)   5.519 us    |            }
 0)               |            hrtimer_interrupt() {
 0)               |              ktime_get() {
 0)               |                ktime_get_ts() {
 0)   0.805 us    |                  getnstimeofday();

 [...]

 0) ! 108.528 us  |            }
 0)               |            irq_exit() {
 0)               |              do_softirq() {
 0)               |                __do_softirq() {
 0)   0.895 us    |                  __local_bh_disable();
 0)               |                  run_timer_softirq() {
 0)   0.827 us    |                    hrtimer_run_pending();
 0)   1.226 us    |                    _spin_lock_irq();
 0)               |                    _spin_unlock_irq() {
 0)   6.550 us    |                  }
 0)   0.924 us    |                  _local_bh_enable();
 0) + 12.129 us   |                }
 0) + 13.911 us   |              }
 0)   0.707 us    |              idle_cpu();
 0) + 17.009 us   |            }
 0) ! 137.419 us  |          }
 0)   <========== |
 0)   1.045 us    |          }
 0) ! 148.908 us  |        }
 0) ! 151.022 us  |      }
 0) ! 153.022 us  |    }
 0)   0.963 us    |    journal_mark_dirty();
 0)   0.925 us    |    __brelse();

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-12 11:14:09 +01:00
Ingo Molnar c1dfdc7597 Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc8' into sched/core 2008-12-12 10:29:35 +01:00
Markus Metzger a93751cab7 x86, bts, ftrace: adapt the hw-branch-tracer to the ds.c interface
Impact: restructure code, cleanup

Remove BTS bits from the hw-branch-tracer (renamed from bts-tracer) and
use the ds interface.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markut.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-12 08:08:14 +01:00
Heiko Carstens fa116ea35e nohz: no softirq pending warnings for offline cpus
Impact: remove false positive warning

After a cpu was taken down during cpu hotplug (read: disabled for interrupts)
it still might have pending softirqs. However take_cpu_down makes sure
that the idle task will run next instead of ksoftirqd on the taken down cpu.
The idle task will call tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick which might warn about
pending softirqs just before the cpu kills itself completely.

However the pending softirqs on the dead cpu aren't a problem because they
will be moved to an online cpu during CPU_DEAD handling.

So make sure we warn only for online cpus.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-12 07:27:01 +01:00
Robert Richter c4f50183f9 ring_buffer: adding EXPORT_SYMBOLs
I added EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPLs for all functions part of the API
(ring_buffer.h). This is required since oprofile is using the ring
buffer and the compilation as modules would fail otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-12 06:54:55 +01:00
Linus Torvalds f9fc05e762 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 remove deadlock fix
2008-12-10 14:41:06 -08:00
Hugh Dickins b88ed20594 fix mapping_writably_mapped()
Lee Schermerhorn noticed yesterday that I broke the mapping_writably_mapped
test in 2.6.7!  Bad bad bug, good good find.

The i_mmap_writable count must be incremented for VM_SHARED (just as
i_writecount is for VM_DENYWRITE, but while holding the i_mmap_lock)
when dup_mmap() copies the vma for fork: it has its own more optimal
version of __vma_link_file(), and I missed this out.  So the count
was later going down to 0 (dangerous) when one end unmapped, then
wrapping negative (inefficient) when the other end unmapped.

The only impact on x86 would have been that setting a mandatory lock on
a file which has at some time been opened O_RDWR and mapped MAP_SHARED
(but not necessarily PROT_WRITE) across a fork, might fail with -EAGAIN
when it should succeed, or succeed when it should fail.

But those architectures which rely on flush_dcache_page() to flush
userspace modifications back into the page before the kernel reads it,
may in some cases have skipped the flush after such a fork - though any
repetitive test will soon wrap the count negative, in which case it will
flush_dcache_page() unnecessarily.

Fix would be a two-liner, but mapping variable added, and comment moved.

Reported-by: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-10 14:40:45 -08:00
Hugh Dickins 9c24624727 KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN fixes
Miles Lane tailing /sys files hit a BUG which Pekka Enberg has tracked
to my 966c8c12dc sprint_symbol(): use
less stack exposing a bug in slub's list_locations() -
kallsyms_lookup() writes a 0 to namebuf[KSYM_NAME_LEN-1], but that was
beyond the end of page provided.

The 100 slop which list_locations() allows at end of page looks roughly
enough for all the other stuff it might print after the symbol before
it checks again: break out KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN earlier than before.

Latencytop and ftrace and are using KSYM_NAME_LEN buffers where they
need KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN buffers, and vmallocinfo a 2*KSYM_NAME_LEN buffer
where it wants a KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN buffer: fix those before anyone copies
them.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: ftrace.h needs module.h]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-10 08:01:54 -08:00
Tom Zanussi fbb5b7ae4b relayfs: fix infinite loop with splice()
Running kmemtraced, which uses splice() on relayfs, causes a hard lock on
x86-64 SMP.  As described by Tom Zanussi:

  It looks like you hit the same problem as described here:

  commit 8191ecd1d1

      splice: fix infinite loop in generic_file_splice_read()

  relay uses the same loop but it never got noticed or fixed.

Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Tested-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-10 08:01:52 -08:00
Robert Richter e2ac8ef576 ftrace: remove unused function arg in trace_iterator_increment()
This removes the unused cpu function parameter.

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2008-12-10 14:20:12 +01:00
Robert Richter 68814b58c5 ring_buffer: update description for ring_buffer_alloc()
Trivial patch.

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2008-12-10 14:20:11 +01:00
Brian King 9a2bd244e1 sched: CPU remove deadlock fix
Impact: fix possible deadlock in CPU hot-remove path

This patch fixes a possible deadlock scenario in the CPU remove path.
migration_call grabs rq->lock, then wakes up everything on rq->migration_queue
with the lock held. Then one of the tasks on the migration queue ends up
calling tg_shares_up which then also tries to acquire the same rq->lock.

[c000000058eab2e0] c000000000502078 ._spin_lock_irqsave+0x98/0xf0
[c000000058eab370] c00000000008011c .tg_shares_up+0x10c/0x20c
[c000000058eab430] c00000000007867c .walk_tg_tree+0xc4/0xfc
[c000000058eab4d0] c0000000000840c8 .try_to_wake_up+0xb0/0x3c4
[c000000058eab590] c0000000000799a0 .__wake_up_common+0x6c/0xe0
[c000000058eab640] c00000000007ada4 .complete+0x54/0x80
[c000000058eab6e0] c000000000509fa8 .migration_call+0x5fc/0x6f8
[c000000058eab7c0] c000000000504074 .notifier_call_chain+0x68/0xe0
[c000000058eab860] c000000000506568 ._cpu_down+0x2b0/0x3f4
[c000000058eaba60] c000000000506750 .cpu_down+0xa4/0x108
[c000000058eabb10] c000000000507e54 .store_online+0x44/0xa8
[c000000058eabba0] c000000000396260 .sysdev_store+0x3c/0x50
[c000000058eabc10] c0000000001a39b8 .sysfs_write_file+0x124/0x18c
[c000000058eabcd0] c00000000013061c .vfs_write+0xd0/0x1bc
[c000000058eabd70] c0000000001308a4 .sys_write+0x68/0x114
[c000000058eabe30] c0000000000086b4 syscall_exit+0x0/0x40

Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-09 19:27:03 +01:00
Al Viro 48887e63d6 [PATCH] fix broken timestamps in AVC generated by kernel threads
Timestamp in audit_context is valid only if ->in_syscall is set.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-09 02:27:41 -05:00
Randy Dunlap 7f0ed77d24 [patch 1/1] audit: remove excess kernel-doc
Delete excess kernel-doc notation in kernel/auditsc.c:

Warning(linux-2.6.27-git10//kernel/auditsc.c:1481): Excess function parameter or struct member 'tsk' description in 'audit_syscall_entry'
Warning(linux-2.6.27-git10//kernel/auditsc.c:1564): Excess function parameter or struct member 'tsk' description in 'audit_syscall_exit'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-09 02:27:40 -05:00
Al Viro a64e64944f [PATCH] return records for fork() both to child and parent
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-09 02:27:38 -05:00
Eric Paris a3f07114e3 [PATCH] Audit: make audit=0 actually turn off audit
Currently audit=0 on the kernel command line does absolutely nothing.
Audit always loads and always uses its resources such as creating the
kernel netlink socket.  This patch causes audit=0 to actually disable
audit.  Audit will use no resources and starting the userspace auditd
daemon will not cause the kernel audit system to activate.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-09 02:27:37 -05:00
Serge E. Hallyn 94d6a5f734 user namespaces: document CFS behavior
Documented the currently bogus state of support for CFS user groups with
user namespaces.  In particular, all users in a user namespace should be
children of the user which created the user namespace.  This is yet to
be implemented.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-12-09 09:25:53 +11:00
Peter Zijlstra a0a99b227d hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes, fix
> Ingo, this addition fixes the hotplug issue on my machine

And because we're all human...

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08 17:20:38 +01:00
Ingo Molnar e726f5f91e tracing/function-graph-tracer: fix 'flags' variable mismatch
this warning:

 kernel/trace/trace.c: In function ‘trace_vprintk’:
 kernel/trace/trace.c:3626: warning: ‘flags’ may be used uninitialized in this function

shows some confusion about irq_flags / flags use here. We already have
irq_flags so remove the extra flags variable.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08 16:55:53 +01:00
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan efbe027e95 sched: idle_balance() does not call load_balance_newidle()
Impact: fix SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLEand broaden its use

load_balance_newidle() does not get called if SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE is
set at higher level domain (3-CPU) and not in low level domain (2-MC).

pulled_task is initialised to -1 and checked for non-zero which is
always true if the lowest level sched_domain does not have
SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE flag set.

Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08 16:48:00 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 380c4b1411 tracing/function-graph-tracer: append the tracing_graph_flag
Impact: Provide a way to pause the function graph tracer

As suggested by Steven Rostedt, the previous patch that prevented from
spinlock function tracing shouldn't use the raw_spinlock to fix it.
It's much better to follow lockdep with normal spinlock, so this patch
adds a new flag for each task to make the function graph tracer able
to be paused. We also can send an ftrace_printk whithout worrying of
the irrelevant traced spinlock during insertion.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08 15:11:45 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 8e1b82e086 tracing/function-graph-tracer: turn tracing_selftest_running into an int
Impact: cleanup

Apply some suggestions of Steven Rostedt:

_turn tracing_selftest_running into a simple int (no need of an atomic_t)
_set it __read_mostly
_fix a comment style

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08 15:11:44 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 8b96f01198 tracing/function-graph-tracer: introduce __notrace_funcgraph to filter special functions
Impact: trace more functions

When the function graph tracer is configured, three more files are not
traced to prevent only four functions to be traced. And this impacts the
normal function tracer too.

arch/x86/kernel/process_64/32.c:

I had crashes when I let this file traced. After some debugging, I saw
that the "current" task point was changed inside__swtich_to(), ie:
"write_pda(pcurrent, next_p);" inside process_64.c Since the tracer store
the original return address of the function inside current, we had
crashes. Only __switch_to() has to be excluded from tracing.

kernel/module.c and kernel/extable.c:

Because of a function used internally by the function graph tracer:
__kernel_text_address()

To let the other functions inside these files to be traced, this patch
introduces the __notrace_funcgraph function prefix which is __notrace if
function graph tracer is configured and nothing if not.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08 15:11:44 +01:00
Yinghai Lu 99d093d128 x86: use NR_IRQS_LEGACY
Impact: cleanup

Introduce NR_IRQS_LEGACY instead of hard coded number.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08 14:31:52 +01:00
Yinghai Lu 0b8f1efad3 sparse irq_desc[] array: core kernel and x86 changes
Impact: new feature

Problem on distro kernels: irq_desc[NR_IRQS] takes megabytes of RAM with
NR_CPUS set to large values. The goal is to be able to scale up to much
larger NR_IRQS value without impacting the (important) common case.

To solve this, we generalize irq_desc[NR_IRQS] to an (optional) array of
irq_desc pointers.

When CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=y is used, we use kzalloc_node to get irq_desc,
this also makes the IRQ descriptors NUMA-local (to the site that calls
request_irq()).

This gets rid of the irq_cfg[] static array on x86 as well: irq_cfg now
uses desc->chip_data for x86 to store irq_cfg.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08 14:31:51 +01:00
Ken Chen 5436499e60 sched: fix sd_parent_degenerate on non-numa smp machine
Impact: optimize the sched domains tree some more

The addition of SD_SERIALIZE flag added to SD_NODE_INIT prevented top level
dummy numa sched_domain to be properly degenerated on non-numa smp machine.
The reason is that in sd_parent_degenerate(), it found that the child and
parent does not have comon sched_domain flags due to SD_SERIALIZE.  However,
for non-numa smp box, the top level is a dummy with a single sched_group.

Filter out SD_SERIALIZE if it is on non-numa machine to properly degenerate
top level node sched_domain.  this will cut back some of the sd domain walk
in the load balancer code.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08 13:52:44 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 4d117c5c6b Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core 2008-12-08 13:52:00 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker decbec3838 tracing/function-graph-tracer: implement a print_headers function
Impact: provide trace headers to explain a bit the output

This patch implements the print_headers callback for the function graph
tracer. These headers are output according to the current trace options.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08 13:24:52 +01:00
Serge E. Hallyn 7657d90497 user namespaces: require cap_set{ug}id for CLONE_NEWUSER
While ideally CLONE_NEWUSER will eventually require no
privilege, the required permission checks are currently
not there.  As a result, CLONE_NEWUSER has the same effect
as a setuid(0)+setgroups(1,"0").  While we already require
CAP_SYS_ADMIN, requiring CAP_SETUID and CAP_SETGID seems
appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-12-08 09:16:27 +11:00
Serge E. Hallyn c37bbb0fdc user namespaces: let user_ns be cloned with fairsched
(These two patches are in the next-unacked branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/userns-2.6.
If they get some ACKs, then I hope to feed this into security-next.
After these two, I think we're ready to tackle userns+capabilities)

Fairsched creates a per-uid directory under /sys/kernel/uids/.
So when you clone(CLONE_NEWUSER), it tries to create
/sys/kernel/uids/0, which already exists, and you get back
-ENOMEM.

This was supposed to be fixed by sysfs tagging, but that
was postponed (ok, rejected until sysfs locking is fixed).
So, just as with network namespaces, we just don't create
those directories for user namespaces other than the init.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-12-08 09:16:22 +11:00
Steven Rostedt 21bbecdaae ftrace: use init_struct_pid as swapper pid
Impact: clean up

Using (struct pid *)-1 as the pointer for ftrace_swapper_pid is
a little confusing for others. This patch uses the address of the
actual init pid structure instead. This change is only for
clarity. It does not affect the code itself. Hopefully soon the
swapper tasks will all have their own pid structure and then
we can clean up the code a bit more.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-05 14:51:29 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 21a8c466f9 tracing/ftrace: provide the macro task_curr_ret_stack()
Impact: cleanup

As suggested by Steven Rostedt, this patch provide a new macro
task_curr_ret_stack() to move the cpp conditionnal CONFIG into
the linux/ftrace.h headers.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-05 14:47:44 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 77d683f3e0 tracing/ftrace: fix the check of ftrace_trace_task
Impact: fix default empty traces on function-graph-tracer

The actual ftrace_trace_task() checks if ftrace_pid_trace is allocated
and return 1 if it is true.
If it is NULL, it will check the bit of pid tracing flag for the current
task (which are not set by default).
So by default, a task is not traced.
Actually all tasks should be traced by default and filter_by_pid when
ftrace_pid_trace is allocated.

The appropriate condition should be to return 1 if filter_by_pid is
set.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acke-dby: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-05 14:47:43 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker ff32504fdc tracing/ftrace: don't insert TRACE_PRINT during selftests
Impact: fix tracer selfstests false results

After setting a ftrace_printk somewhere in th kernel, I saw the
Function tracer selftest failing.

When a selftest occurs, the ring buffer is lurked to see if
some entries were inserted. But concurrent insertion such as
ftrace_printk could occured at the same time and could give
false positive or negative results.

This patch prevent prevent from TRACE_PRINT entries insertion
during selftests.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-05 14:47:43 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 970987beb9 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/function-graph-tracer' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-12-05 14:45:22 +01:00
Linus Torvalds bbeba4c35c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev:
  [PATCH] fix bogus argument of blkdev_put() in pktcdvd
  [PATCH 2/2] documnt FMODE_ constants
  [PATCH 1/2] kill FMODE_NDELAY_NOW
  [PATCH] clean up blkdev_get a little bit
  [PATCH] Fix block dev compat ioctl handling
  [PATCH] kill obsolete temporary comment in swsusp_close()
2008-12-04 21:45:44 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 4857339d7c 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:
  time: catch xtime_nsec underflows and fix them
  posix-cpu-timers: fix clock_gettime with CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID
2008-12-04 21:40:29 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 3b666ce6a2 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:
  check_hung_task(): unsigned sysctl_hung_task_warnings cannot be less than 0
  documentation: local_ops fix on_each_cpu
2008-12-04 21:39:41 -08:00
Lachlan McIlroy 14d676f56f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2008-12-05 15:27:43 +11:00
David S. Miller 0871420fad sparc64: Add tsb-ratio sysctl.
Add a sysctl to tweak the RSS limit used to decide when to grow
the TSB for an address space.

In order to avoid expensive divides and multiplies only simply
positive and negative powers of two are supported.

The function computed takes the number of TSB translations that will
fit at one time in the TSB of a given size, and either adds or
subtracts a percentage of entries.  This final value is the
RSS limit.

See tsb_size_to_rss_limit().

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-04 09:16:59 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra 37810659ea hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes, fix hotplug
Impact: fix hrtimer locking (reported by lockdep) in the CPU hotplug case

This addition fixes the hotplug locking issue on my machine

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04 11:31:25 +01:00
Al Viro 50c396d38c [PATCH] kill obsolete temporary comment in swsusp_close()
it had been put there to mark the call of blkdev_put() that
needed proper argument propagated to it; later patch in the
same series had done just that.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-04 04:22:54 -05:00
Frederic Weisbecker 1fd8f2a3f9 tracing/function-graph-tracer: handle ftrace_printk entries
Handle the TRACE_PRINT entries from the function grapg tracer
and output them as a C comment just below the function that called
it, as if it was a comment inside this function.

Example with an ftrace_printk inside might_sleep() function:

void __might_sleep(char *file, int line)
{
	static unsigned long prev_jiffy;	/* ratelimiting */

	ftrace_printk("Hi I'm a comment in might_sleep() :-)");

A chunk of a resulting trace:

 0)               |        _reiserfs_free_block() {
 0)               |          reiserfs_read_bitmap_block() {
 0)               |            __bread() {
 0)               |              __getblk() {
 0)               |                __find_get_block() {
 0)   0.698 us    |                  mark_page_accessed();
 0)   2.267 us    |                }
 0)               |                __might_sleep() {
 0)               |                  /* Hi I'm a comment in might_sleep() :-) */
 0)   1.321 us    |                }
 0)   5.872 us    |              }
 0)   7.313 us    |            }
 0)   8.718 us    |          }

And this patch brings two minor fixes:

- The newline after a switch-out task has disappeared
- The "|" sign just before the cpu number on task-switch has been deleted.

 0)   0.616 us    |                pick_next_task_rt();
 0)   1.457 us    |                _spin_trylock();
 0)   0.653 us    |                _spin_unlock();
 0)   0.728 us    |                _spin_trylock();
 0)   0.631 us    |                _spin_unlock();
 0)   0.729 us    |                native_load_sp0();
 0)   0.593 us    |                native_load_tls();
 ------------------------------------------
 0)    cat-2834    =>   migrati-3
 ------------------------------------------

 0)               |    finish_task_switch() {
 0)   0.841 us    |      _spin_unlock_irq();
 0)   0.616 us    |      post_schedule_rt();
 0)   3.882 us    |    }

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04 10:18:39 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 00ef9f7348 lockdep: change a held lock's class
Impact: introduce new lockdep API

Allow to change a held lock's class. Basically the same as the existing
code to change a subclass therefore reuse all that.

The XFS code will be able to use this to annotate their inode locking.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04 10:08:18 +01:00
Liming Wang faec2ec505 ftrace: avoid duplicated function when writing set_graph_function
Impact: fix a bug in function filter setting

when writing function to set_graph_function, we should check whether it
has existed in set_graph_function to avoid duplicating.

Signed-off-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04 09:42:35 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 6b2539302b tracing: fix typo and missing inline function
Impact: fix build bugs

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04 09:33:01 +01:00
Steven Rostedt e32d895691 ftrace: add ability to only trace swapper tasks
Impact: new feature

This patch lets the swapper tasks of all CPUS be filtered by the
set_ftrace_pid file.

If '0' is echoed into this file, then all the idle tasks (aka swapper)
is flagged to be traced.  This affects all CPU idle tasks.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04 09:09:38 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 978f3a45d9 ftrace: use struct pid
Impact: clean up, extend PID filtering to PID namespaces

Eric Biederman suggested using the struct pid for filtering on
pids in the kernel. This patch is based off of a demonstration
of an implementation that Eric sent me in an email.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04 09:09:37 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 804a685162 ftrace: trace single pid for function graph tracer
Impact: New feature

This patch makes the changes to set_ftrace_pid apply to the function
graph tracer.

  # echo $$ > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_pid
  # echo function_graph > /debugfs/tracing/current_tracer

Will cause only the current task to be traced. Note, the trace flags are
also inherited by child processes, so the children of the shell
will also be traced.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04 09:09:36 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 0ef8cde56a ftrace: use task struct trace flag to filter on pid
Impact: clean up

Use the new task struct trace flags to determine if a process should be
traced or not.

Note: this moves the searching of the pid to the slow path of setting
the pid field. This needs to be converted to the pid name space.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04 09:09:35 +01:00
Steven Rostedt ea4e2bc4d9 ftrace: graph of a single function
This patch adds the file:

   /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function

which can be used along with the function graph tracer.

When this file is empty, the function graph tracer will act as
usual. When the file has a function in it, the function graph
tracer will only trace that function.

For example:

 # echo blk_unplug > /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function
 # cat /debugfs/tracing/trace
 [...]
 ------------------------------------------
 | 2)  make-19003  =>  kjournald-2219
 ------------------------------------------

 2)               |  blk_unplug() {
 2)               |    dm_unplug_all() {
 2)               |      dm_get_table() {
 2)      1.381 us |        _read_lock();
 2)      0.911 us |        dm_table_get();
 2)      1. 76 us |        _read_unlock();
 2) +   12.912 us |      }
 2)               |      dm_table_unplug_all() {
 2)               |        blk_unplug() {
 2)      0.778 us |          generic_unplug_device();
 2)      2.409 us |        }
 2)      5.992 us |      }
 2)      0.813 us |      dm_table_put();
 2) +   29. 90 us |    }
 2) +   34.532 us |  }

You can add up to 32 functions into this file. Currently we limit it
to 32, but this may change with later improvements.

To add another function, use the append '>>':

  # echo sys_read >> /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function
  # cat /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function
  blk_unplug
  sys_read

Using the '>' will clear out the function and write anew:

  # echo sys_write > /debug/tracing/set_graph_function
  # cat /debug/tracing/set_graph_function
  sys_write

Note, if you have function graph running while doing this, the small
time between clearing it and updating it will cause the graph to
record all functions. This should not be an issue because after
it sets the filter, only those functions will be recorded from then on.
If you need to only record a particular function then set this
file first before starting the function graph tracer. In the future
this side effect may be corrected.

The set_graph_function file is similar to the set_ftrace_filter but
it does not take wild cards nor does it allow for more than one
function to be set with a single write. There is no technical reason why
this is the case, I just do not have the time yet to implement that.

Note, dynamic ftrace must be enabled for this to appear because it
uses the dynamic ftrace records to match the name to the mcount
call sites.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04 09:09:34 +01:00
Ingo Molnar b29144c317 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/function-graph-tracer' into tracing/core 2008-12-04 09:07:44 +01:00
Ingo Molnar b8307db247 Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc7' into tracing/core 2008-12-04 09:07:19 +01:00
Ingo Molnar cb9c34e6d0 Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc7' into core/locking 2008-12-04 08:52:14 +01:00
john stultz 6c9bacb41c time: catch xtime_nsec underflows and fix them
Impact: fix time warp bug

Alex Shi, along with Yanmin Zhang have been noticing occasional time
inconsistencies recently. Through their great diagnosis, they found that
the xtime_nsec value used in update_wall_time was occasionally going
negative. After looking through the code for awhile, I realized we have
the possibility for an underflow when three conditions are met in
update_wall_time():

  1) We have accumulated a second's worth of nanoseconds, so we
     incremented xtime.tv_sec and appropriately decrement xtime_nsec.
     (This doesn't cause xtime_nsec to go negative, but it can cause it
      to be small).

  2) The remaining offset value is large, but just slightly less then
     cycle_interval.

  3) clocksource_adjust() is speeding up the clock, causing a
     corrective amount (compensating for the increase in the multiplier
     being multiplied against the unaccumulated offset value) to be
     subtracted from xtime_nsec.

This can cause xtime_nsec to underflow.

Unfortunately, since we notify the NTP subsystem via second_overflow()
whenever we accumulate a full second, and this effects the error
accumulation that has already occured, we cannot simply revert the
accumulated second from xtime nor move the second accumulation to after
the clocksource_adjust call without a change in behavior.

This leaves us with (at least) two options:

1) Simply return from clocksource_adjust() without making a change if we
   notice the adjustment would cause xtime_nsec to go negative.

This would work, but I'm concerned that if a large adjustment was needed
(due to the error being large), it may be possible to get stuck with an
ever increasing error that becomes too large to correct (since it may
always force xtime_nsec negative). This may just be paranoia on my part.

2) Catch xtime_nsec if it is negative, then add back the amount its
   negative to both xtime_nsec and the error.

This second method is consistent with how we've handled earlier rounding
issues, and also has the benefit that the error being added is always in
the oposite direction also always equal or smaller then the correction
being applied. So the risk of a corner case where things get out of
control is lessened.

This patch fixes bug 11970, as tested by Yanmin Zhang
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11970

Reported-by: alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04 08:43:02 +01:00
James Morris ec98ce480a Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c

Manually fixed above to use new creds API functions, e.g.
nfs4_save_creds().

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-12-04 17:16:36 +11:00
Steven Rostedt e8e1abe92f ftrace: fix race in function graph during fork
Impact: graph tracer race/crash fix

There is a nasy race in startup of a new process running the
function graph tracer. In fork.c:

	total_forks++;
	spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock);
	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
	ftrace_graph_init_task(p);
	proc_fork_connector(p);
	cgroup_post_fork(p);
	return p;

The new task is free to run as soon as the tasklist_lock is released.
This is before the ftrace_graph_init_task. If the task does run
it will be using the same ret_stack and curr_ret_stack as the parent.
This will cause crashes that are difficult to debug.

This patch moves the ftrace_graph_init_task to just after the alloc_pid
code. This fixes the above race.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03 17:15:03 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 0a37119d96 trace: fix output of stack trace
Impact: fix to output of stack trace

If a function is not found in the stack of the stack tracer, the
number printed is quite strange. This fixes the algorithm to handle
missing functions better.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03 17:15:02 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 764f3b9513 tracing/function-graph-tracer: enabled by default
CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER depends on FUNCTION_TRACER already,
(turning it non-default) so it so making it default-n is pointless.

So enable it by default - it's a nice extension of the function tracer.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03 10:33:58 +01:00
Roel Kluin 201955463a check_hung_task(): unsigned sysctl_hung_task_warnings cannot be less than 0
Impact: fix warnings-limit cutoff check for debug feature

unsigned sysctl_hung_task_warnings cannot be less than 0

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03 10:11:51 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 166d3c7994 tracing/function-graph-tracer: improve duration output
Impact: better trace output of duration for long calls

The old duration output didn't exceeded 9999.999 us to fit the column
and the nanosecs were always 3 numbers. As Ingo suggested, it's better
to have the whole microseconds elapsed time and shift the nanosecs precision
if needed to fit the maximum 7 numbers. And usec need more number, the case
should be rare and important enough to break a bit the column alignment to
show it.

So, depending of the duration value, we now have these patterns:

    u.nnn us
   uu.nnn us
  uuu.nnn us
 uuuu.nnn us
 uuuuu.nn us
 uuuuuu.n us
 uuuuuuuu..... us

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03 09:09:42 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 11e84acc40 tracing/function-graph-tracer: display unified style cmdline and pid
Impact: extend function-graph output: let one know which thread called a function

This patch implements a helper function to print the couple cmdline/pid.
Its output is provided during task switching and on each row if the new
"funcgraph-proc" defualt-off option is set through trace_options file.

The output is center aligned and never exceeds 14 characters. The cmdline
is truncated over 7 chars.
But note that if the pid exceeds 6 characters, the column will overflow (but
the situation is abnormal).

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03 09:09:41 +01:00
Steven Rostedt e49dc19c6a ftrace: function graph return for function entry
Impact: feature, let entry function decide to trace or not

This patch lets the graph tracer entry function decide if the tracing
should be done at the end as well. This requires all function graph
entry functions return 1 if it should trace, or 0 if the return should
not be traced.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03 08:56:26 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 044fa782eb ring-buffer: change "page" variable names to "bpage"
Impact: clean up

Andrew Morton pointed out that the kernel convention of a variable
named page should be of type page struct. The ring buffer uses
a variable named "page" for a pointer to something else.

This patch converts those to be called "bpage" (as in "buffer page").

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03 08:56:24 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 14a866c567 ftrace: add ftrace_graph_stop()
Impact: new ftrace_graph_stop function

While developing more features of function graph, I hit a bug that
caused the WARN_ON to trigger in the prepare_ftrace_return function.
Well, it was hard for me to find out that was happening because the
bug would not print, it would just cause a hard lockup or reboot.
The reason is that it is not safe to call printk from this function.

Looking further, I also found that it calls unregister_ftrace_graph,
which grabs a mutex and calls kstop machine. This would definitely
lock the box up if it were to trigger.

This patch adds a fast and safe ftrace_graph_stop() which will
stop the function tracer. Then it is safe to call the WARN ON.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03 08:56:23 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 8789a9e7df ring-buffer: read page interface
Impact: new API to ring buffer

This patch adds a new interface into the ring buffer that allows a
page to be read from the ring buffer on a given CPU. For every page
read, one must also be given to allow for a "swap" of the pages.

 rpage = ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(buffer);
 if (!rpage)
	goto err;
 ret = ring_buffer_read_page(buffer, &rpage, cpu, full);
 if (!ret)
	goto empty;
 process_page(rpage);
 ring_buffer_free_read_page(rpage);

The caller of these functions must handle any waits that are
needed to wait for new data. The ring_buffer_read_page will simply
return 0 if there is no data, or if "full" is set and the writer
is still on the current page.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03 08:56:21 +01:00
Steven Rostedt abc9b56d66 ring-buffer: move some metadata into buffer page
Impact: get ready for splice changes

This patch moves the commit and timestamp into the beginning of each
data page of the buffer. This change will allow the page to be moved
to another location (disk, network, etc) and still have information
in the page to be able to read it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03 08:56:20 +01:00
Steven Rostedt a5e25883a4 ftrace: replace raw_local_irq_save with local_irq_save
Impact: fix for lockdep and ftrace

The raw_local_irq_save/restore confuses lockdep. This patch
converts them to the local_irq_save/restore variants.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03 08:56:19 +01:00
Ingo Molnar dfdc5437bd Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc7'; branch 'x86/dumpstack' into tracing/ftrace
Merge x86/dumpstack into tracing/ftrace because upcoming ftrace changes
depend on cleanups already in x86/dumpstack.

Also merge to latest upstream -rc.
2008-12-03 08:55:34 +01:00
Ingo Molnar f0461d0146 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/function-graph-tracer' into tracing/core 2008-12-03 08:49:21 +01:00
Ingo Molnar a64d31baed Merge branch 'linus' into cpus4096
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
2008-12-02 20:09:50 +01:00
David Brownell 470c66239e genirq: warn when IRQF_DISABLED may be ignored
Impact: emit new warning

We periodically waste time tracking down problems from the genirq
framework not respecting IRQF_DISABLED for some shared IRQ cases.  Linus
views this as "will not fix", but we're still left with the bugs caused by
this misbehavior.

This patch adds a nag message in request_irq(), so that drivers can fix
their IRQ handlers to avoid this problem.

Note that developers will never see the relevant bugs when they run with
LOCKDEP, so it's no wonder these bugs are hard to find.  (That also means
LOCKDEP is overlooking some IRQ-related bugs involving IRQ handlers that
don't set IRQF_DISABLED...)

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-02 11:25:29 +01:00
David Brownell f2b662da8d genirq: record IRQ_LEVEL in irq_desc[]
Impact: fix __irq_set_trigger() for IRQ_LEVEL

When recording the irq trigger type, let's also make sure
that IRQ_LEVEL gets set correctly.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-02 11:20:46 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 48d68b20d0 tracing/function-graph-tracer: support for x86-64
Impact: extend and enable the function graph tracer to 64-bit x86

This patch implements the support for function graph tracer under x86-64.
Both static and dynamic tracing are supported.

This causes some small CPP conditional asm on arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c I
wanted to use probe_kernel_read/write to make the return address
saving/patching code more generic but it causes tracing recursion.

That would be perhaps useful to implement a notrace version of these
function for other archs ports.

Note that arch/x86/process_64.c is not traced, as in X86-32. I first
thought __switch_to() was responsible of crashes during tracing because I
believed current task were changed inside but that's actually not the
case (actually yes, but not the "current" pointer).

So I will have to investigate to find the functions that harm here, to
enable tracing of the other functions inside (but there is no issue at
this time, while process_64.c stays out of -pg flags).

A little possible race condition is fixed inside this patch too. When the
tracer allocate a return stack dynamically, the current depth is not
initialized before but after. An interrupt could occur at this time and,
after seeing that the return stack is allocated, the tracer could try to
trace it with a random uninitialized depth. It's a prevention, even if I
hadn't problems with it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-02 09:47:48 +01:00
Liming Wang 66eafebc10 function trace: fix a bug of single thread function trace
Impact: fix "no output from tracer" bug caused by ftrace_update_pid_func()

When disabling single thread function trace using
"echo -1 > set_ftrace_pid", the normal function trace
has to restore to original function, otherwise the normal
function trace will not work well.

Without this commit, something like below:

	$ ps |grep 850
	  850 root      2556 S    -/bin/sh
	$ echo 850 > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_pid
	$ echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
	$ echo 1 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
	$ sleep 1
	$ echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
	$ cat /debug/tracing/trace_pipe |wc -l
	59704
	$ echo -1 > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_pid
	$ echo 1 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
	$ sleep 1
	$ echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
	$ more /debug/tracing/trace_pipe
		<====== nothing output now!
			it should output trace record.

Signed-off-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-02 09:23:24 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 222658e08f Merge branches 'tracing/branch-tracer', 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/function-graph-tracer', 'tracing/markers', 'tracing/powerpc', 'tracing/stack-tracer' and 'tracing/tracepoints' into tracing/core 2008-12-02 09:20:44 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven a800599283 taint: add missing comment
The description for 'D' was missing in the comment...  (causing me a
minute of WTF followed by looking at more of the code)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-01 19:55:24 -08:00
Davide Libenzi 7ef9964e6d epoll: introduce resource usage limits
It has been thought that the per-user file descriptors limit would also
limit the resources that a normal user can request via the epoll
interface.  Vegard Nossum reported a very simple program (a modified
version attached) that can make a normal user to request a pretty large
amount of kernel memory, well within the its maximum number of fds.  To
solve such problem, default limits are now imposed, and /proc based
configuration has been introduced.  A new directory has been created,
named /proc/sys/fs/epoll/ and inside there, there are two configuration
points:

  max_user_instances = Maximum number of devices - per user

  max_user_watches   = Maximum number of "watched" fds - per user

The current default for "max_user_watches" limits the memory used by epoll
to store "watches", to 1/32 of the amount of the low RAM.  As example, a
256MB 32bit machine, will have "max_user_watches" set to roughly 90000.
That should be enough to not break existing heavy epoll users.  The
default value for "max_user_instances" is set to 128, that should be
enough too.

This also changes the userspace, because a new error code can now come out
from EPOLL_CTL_ADD (-ENOSPC).  The EMFILE from epoll_create() was already
listed, so that should be ok.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use get_current_user()]
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-01 19:55:24 -08:00
Arun R Bharadwaj 6c415b9234 sched: add uid information to sched_debug for CONFIG_USER_SCHED
Impact: extend information in /proc/sched_debug

This patch adds uid information in sched_debug for CONFIG_USER_SCHED

Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-01 20:39:50 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 9bd062d9ea 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: prevent divide by zero error in cpu_avg_load_per_task, update
  sched, cpusets: fix warning in kernel/cpuset.c
  sched: prevent divide by zero error in cpu_avg_load_per_task
2008-11-30 13:06:47 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 72244c0e68 Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  irq.h: fix missing/extra kernel-doc
  genirq: __irq_set_trigger: change pr_warning to pr_debug
  irq: fix typo
  x86: apic honour irq affinity which was set in early boot
  genirq: fix the affinity setting in setup_irq
  genirq: keep affinities set from userspace across free/request_irq()
2008-11-30 13:06:20 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 93b10052f9 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: consistent alignement for lockdep info
2008-11-30 13:05:46 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 7bbc67fbf6 Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  ftrace: prevent recursion
  tracing, doc: update mmiotrace documentation
  x86, mmiotrace: fix buffer overrun detection
  function tracing: fix wrong position computing of stack_trace
2008-11-30 13:05:31 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig 96b8936a9e remove __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_PTRACE
All architectures now use the generic compat_sys_ptrace, as should every
new architecture that needs 32bit compat (if we'll ever get another).

Remove the now superflous __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_PTRACE define, and also
kill a comment about __ARCH_SYS_PTRACE that was added after
__ARCH_SYS_PTRACE was already gone.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-30 11:00:15 -08:00
Al Viro 8419641450 cpuinit fixes in kernel/*
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-30 10:03:37 -08:00
Ingo Molnar af6d596fd6 sched: prevent divide by zero error in cpu_avg_load_per_task, update
Regarding the bug addressed in:

  4cd4262: sched: prevent divide by zero error in cpu_avg_load_per_task

Linus points out that the fix is not complete:

> There's nothing that keeps gcc from deciding not to reload
> rq->nr_running.
>
> Of course, in _practice_, I don't think gcc ever will (if it decides
> that it will spill, gcc is likely going to decide that it will
> literally spill the local variable to the stack rather than decide to
> reload off the pointer), but it's a valid compiler optimization, and
> it even has a name (rematerialization).
>
> So I suspect that your patch does fix the bug, but it still leaves the
> fairly unlikely _potential_ for it to re-appear at some point.
>
> We have ACCESS_ONCE() as a macro to guarantee that the compiler
> doesn't rematerialize a pointer access. That also would clarify
> the fact that we access something unsafe outside a lock.

So make sure our nr_running value is immutable and cannot change
after we check it for nonzero.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-29 20:45:15 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 1583715ddb sched, cpusets: fix warning in kernel/cpuset.c
this warning:

  kernel/cpuset.c: In function ‘generate_sched_domains’:
  kernel/cpuset.c:588: warning: ‘ndoms’ may be used uninitialized in this function

triggers because GCC does not recognize that ndoms stays uninitialized
only if doms is NULL - but that flow is covered at the end of
generate_sched_domains().

Help out GCC by initializing this variable to 0. (that's prudent anyway)

Also, this function needs a splitup and code flow simplification:
with 160 lines length it's clearly too long.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-29 20:39:29 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 65c6dc6adb tracing/branch-tracer: include missing irqflags.h
Impact: fix build error on branch tracer

This should fix a build error reported on alpha in linux-next:

 CC      kernel/trace/trace_branch.o
  kernel/trace/trace_branch.c: In function 'probe_likely_condition':
  kernel/trace/trace_branch.c:44: error: implicit declaration of function 'raw_local_irq_save'
  kernel/trace/trace_branch.c:76: error: implicit declaration of function 'raw_local_irq_restore'

Unfortunately, I can't test it since I don't have any Alpha build environment.

Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-29 10:11:54 +01:00
Alexey Dobriyan 70574a996f sched: move double_unlock_balance() higher
Move double_lock_balance()/double_unlock_balance() higher to fix the following
with gcc-3.4.6:

   CC      kernel/sched.o
 In file included from kernel/sched.c:1605:
 kernel/sched_rt.c: In function `find_lock_lowest_rq':
 kernel/sched_rt.c:914: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'double_unlock_balance': function body not available
 kernel/sched_rt.c:1077: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
 make[2]: *** [kernel/sched.o] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-28 20:11:15 +01:00
Ingo Molnar f1860c34b3 Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core 2008-11-28 20:11:05 +01:00
Ingo Molnar ec5679e513 debug warnings: eliminate warn_on_slowpath()
Impact: cleanup, eliminate code

now that warn_on_slowpath() uses warn_slowpath(...,NULL), we can
eliminate warn_on_slowpath() altogether and use warn_slowpath().

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-28 17:56:14 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven bd89bb29a0 debug warnings: print the DMI board info name in a WARN/WARN_ON
Impact: extend WARN_ON() output with DMI_PRODUCT_NAME

It's very useful for many low level WARN_ON's to find out which
motherboard has the broken BIOS etc... this patch adds a printk
to the WARN_ON code for this.

On architectures without DMI, gcc should optimize the code out.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-28 17:52:50 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven 74853dba2f debug warnings: consolidate warn_slowpath and warn_on_slowpath
Impact: cleanup, code reduction

warn_slowpath is a superset of warn_on_slowpath; just have
warn_on_slowpath call warn_slowpath with a NULL 3rd argument.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-28 17:52:50 +01:00
Liming Wang 8b752e3ef6 softirq: remove useless function __local_bh_enable
Impact: remove unused code

__local_bh_enable has been replaced with _local_bh_enable.
As comments says "it always nests inside local_bh_enable() sections"
has not been valid now. Also there is no reason to use __local_bh_enable
anywhere, so we can remove this useless function.

Signed-off-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-28 12:38:38 +01:00
Liming Wang 50cdaf08a8 ftrace: improve seq_operation of ftrace
Impact: make ftrace position computing more sane

First remove useless ->pos field. Then we needn't check seq_printf
in .show like other place.

Signed-off-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-28 12:30:40 +01:00
Török Edwin c7425acb42 tracing, alpha: fix build: add missing #ifdef CONFIG_STACKTRACE
There are architectures that still have no stacktrace support.

Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-28 11:33:00 +01:00
Ingo Molnar d51090b346 tracing/function-graph-tracer: more output tweaks
Impact: prettify the output some more

Before:

0)           |     sys_read() {
0)      0.796 us |   fget_light();
0)           |       vfs_read() {
0)           |         rw_verify_area() {
0)           |           security_file_permission() {
------------8<---------- thread sshd-1755 ------------8<----------

After:

 0)               |  sys_read() {
 0)      0.796 us |    fget_light();
 0)               |    vfs_read() {
 0)               |      rw_verify_area() {
 0)               |        security_file_permission() {
 ------------------------------------------
 | 1)  migration/0--1  =>  sshd-1755
 ------------------------------------------

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-28 10:15:06 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 1a056155ed tracing/function-graph-tracer: adjustments of the trace informations
Impact: increase the visual qualities of the call-graph-tracer output

This patch applies various trace output formatting changes:

 - CPU is now a decimal number, followed by a parenthesis.

 - Overhead is now on the second column (gives a good visibility)

 - Cost is now on the third column, can't exceed 9999.99 us. It is
   followed by a virtual line based on a "|" character.

 - Functions calls are now the last column on the right. This way, we
   haven't dynamic column (which flow is harder to follow) on its right.

 - CPU and Overhead have their own option flag. They are default-on but you
   can disable them easily:

      echo nofuncgraph-cpu > trace_options
      echo nofuncgraph-overhead > trace_options

TODO:

_ Refactoring of the thread switch output.
_ Give a default-off option to output the thread and its pid on each row.
_ Provide headers
_ ....

Here is an example of the new trace style:

0)           |             mutex_unlock() {
0)      0.639 us |           __mutex_unlock_slowpath();
0)      1.607 us |         }
0)           |             remove_wait_queue() {
0)      0.616 us |           _spin_lock_irqsave();
0)      0.616 us |           _spin_unlock_irqrestore();
0)      2.779 us |         }
0)      0.495 us |         n_tty_set_room();
0) ! 9999.999 us |       }
0)           |           tty_ldisc_deref() {
0)      0.615 us |         _spin_lock_irqsave();
0)      0.616 us |         _spin_unlock_irqrestore();
0)      2.793 us |       }
0)           |           current_fs_time() {
0)      0.488 us |         current_kernel_time();
0)      0.495 us |         timespec_trunc();
0)      2.486 us |       }
0) ! 9999.999 us |     }
0) ! 9999.999 us |   }
0) ! 9999.999 us | }
0)           |     sys_read() {
0)      0.796 us |   fget_light();
0)           |       vfs_read() {
0)           |         rw_verify_area() {
0)           |           security_file_permission() {
0)      0.488 us |         cap_file_permission();
0)      1.720 us |       }
0)      3.  4 us |     }
0)           |         tty_read() {
0)      0.488 us |       tty_paranoia_check();
0)           |           tty_ldisc_ref_wait() {
0)           |             tty_ldisc_try() {
0)      0.615 us |           _spin_lock_irqsave();
0)      0.615 us |           _spin_unlock_irqrestore();
0)      5.436 us |         }
0)      6.427 us |       }

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-28 09:45:04 +01:00
Lachlan McIlroy b5a20aa265 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2008-11-28 15:23:52 +11:00
Frederic Weisbecker 83a8df618e tracing/function-graph-tracer: enhancements for the trace output
Impact: enhance the output of the graph-tracer

This patch applies some ideas of Ingo Molnar and Steven Rostedt.

* Output leaf functions in one line with parenthesis, semicolon and duration
  output.

* Add a second column (after cpu) for an overhead sign.
  if duration > 100 us, "!"
  if duration > 10 us, "+"
  else " "

* Print output in us with remaining nanosec: u.n

* Print duration on the right end, following the indentation of the functions.
  Use also visual clues: "-" on entry call (no duration to output) and "+" on
  return (duration output).

The name of the tracer has been fixed as well: function-branch becomes
function_branch.

Here is an example of the new output:

CPU[000]           dequeue_entity() {                    -
CPU[000]             update_curr() {                    -
CPU[000]               update_min_vruntime();                    + 0.512 us
CPU[000]             }                                + 1.504 us
CPU[000]             clear_buddies();                    + 0.481 us
CPU[000]             update_min_vruntime();                    + 0.504 us
CPU[000]           }                                + 4.557 us
CPU[000]           hrtick_update() {                    -
CPU[000]             hrtick_start_fair();                    + 0.489 us
CPU[000]           }                                + 1.443 us
CPU[000] +       }                                + 14.655 us
CPU[000] +     }                                + 15.678 us
CPU[000] +   }                                + 16.686 us
CPU[000]     msecs_to_jiffies();                    + 0.481 us
CPU[000]     put_prev_task_fair();                    + 0.504 us
CPU[000]     pick_next_task_fair();                    + 0.482 us
CPU[000]     pick_next_task_rt();                    + 0.504 us
CPU[000]     pick_next_task_fair();                    + 0.481 us
CPU[000]     pick_next_task_idle();                    + 0.489 us
CPU[000]     _spin_trylock();                    + 0.655 us
CPU[000]     _spin_unlock();                    + 0.609 us

CPU[000]  ------------8<---------- thread bash-2794 ------------8<----------

CPU[000]               finish_task_switch() {                    -
CPU[000]                 _spin_unlock_irq();                    + 0.722 us
CPU[000]               }                                + 2.369 us
CPU[000] !           }                                + 501972.605 us
CPU[000] !         }                                + 501973.763 us
CPU[000]           copy_from_read_buf() {                    -
CPU[000]             _spin_lock_irqsave();                    + 0.670 us
CPU[000]             _spin_unlock_irqrestore();                    + 0.699 us
CPU[000]             copy_to_user() {                    -
CPU[000]               might_fault() {                    -
CPU[000]                 __might_sleep();                    + 0.503 us
CPU[000]               }                                + 1.632 us
CPU[000]               __copy_to_user_ll();                    + 0.542 us
CPU[000]             }                                + 3.858 us
CPU[000]             tty_audit_add_data() {                    -
CPU[000]               _spin_lock_irq();                    + 0.609 us
CPU[000]               _spin_unlock_irq();                    + 0.624 us
CPU[000]             }                                + 3.196 us
CPU[000]             _spin_lock_irqsave();                    + 0.624 us
CPU[000]             _spin_unlock_irqrestore();                    + 0.625 us
CPU[000] +         }                                + 13.611 us
CPU[000]           copy_from_read_buf() {                    -
CPU[000]             _spin_lock_irqsave();                    + 0.624 us
CPU[000]             _spin_unlock_irqrestore();                    + 0.616 us
CPU[000]           }                                + 2.820 us
CPU[000]

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-27 10:59:14 +01:00
Ingo Molnar c7cc773076 Merge branches 'tracing/blktrace', 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/function-graph-tracer' and 'tracing/power-tracer' into tracing/core 2008-11-27 10:56:13 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 4cd4262034 sched: prevent divide by zero error in cpu_avg_load_per_task
Impact: fix divide by zero crash in scheduler rebalance irq

While testing the branch profiler, I hit this crash:

divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[...]
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8024a008>]  [<ffffffff8024a008>] cpu_avg_load_per_task+0x50/0x7f
[...]
Call Trace:
 <IRQ> <0> [<ffffffff8024fd43>] find_busiest_group+0x3e5/0xcaa
 [<ffffffff8025da75>] rebalance_domains+0x2da/0xa21
 [<ffffffff80478769>] ? find_next_bit+0x1b2/0x1e6
 [<ffffffff8025e2ce>] run_rebalance_domains+0x112/0x19f
 [<ffffffff8026d7c2>] __do_softirq+0xa8/0x232
 [<ffffffff8020ea7c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x3e
 [<ffffffff8021047a>] do_softirq+0x94/0x1cd
 [<ffffffff8026d5eb>] irq_exit+0x6b/0x10e
 [<ffffffff8022e6ec>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0xd3/0xff
 [<ffffffff8020e4b3>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20

The code for cpu_avg_load_per_task has:

	if (rq->nr_running)
		rq->avg_load_per_task = rq->load.weight / rq->nr_running;

The runqueue lock is not held here, and there is nothing that prevents
the rq->nr_running from going to zero after it passes the if condition.

The branch profiler simply made the race window bigger.

This patch saves off the rq->nr_running to a local variable and uses that
for both the condition and the division.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-27 10:29:52 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan 4f5a7f40dd ftrace: prevent recursion
Impact: prevent unnecessary stack recursion

if the resched flag was set before we entered, then don't reschedule.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-27 10:11:53 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven f3f47a6768 tracing: add "power-tracer": C/P state tracer to help power optimization
Impact: new "power-tracer" ftrace plugin

This patch adds a C/P-state ftrace plugin that will generate
detailed statistics about the C/P-states that are being used,
so that we can look at detailed decisions that the C/P-state
code is making, rather than the too high level "average"
that we have today.

An example way of using this is:

 mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug
 echo cstate > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
 echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
 sleep 1
 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
 cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace | perl scripts/trace/cstate.pl > out.svg

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 08:29:32 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 7fbb8759ef Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc6' into core/debug 2008-11-26 08:22:50 +01:00
Rusty Russell 1224e376f2 sched: avoid stack var in move_task_off_dead_cpu, fix
Impact: locking fix

We can't call cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked() with the rq lock held.
However, the rq lock merely protects us from (1) cpu_online_mask changing
and (2) someone else changing p->cpus_allowed.

The first can't happen because we're being called from a cpu hotplug
notifier.  The second doesn't really matter: we are forcing the task off
a CPU it was affine to, so we're not doing very well anyway.

So we remove the rq lock from this path, and all is good.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 07:58:29 +01:00
Rusty Russell 3d8cbdf865 sched: convert local_cpu_mask to cpumask_var_t, fix
Impact: build fix for !CONFIG_SMP

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 07:58:28 +01:00
Rusty Russell bf4d83f664 sched: convert nohz struct to cpumask_var_t, fix
Impact: build fix

Fix the !CONFIG_SMP case.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 07:58:27 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 437f24fb89 ftrace: add cpu annotation for function graph tracer
Impact: enhancement for function graph tracer

When run on a SMP box, the function graph tracer is confusing because
it shows the different CPUS as changes in the trace.

This patch adds the annotation of 'CPU[###]' where ### is a three digit
number. The output will look similar to this:

CPU[001]     dput() {
CPU[000] } 726
CPU[001]     } 487
CPU[000] do_softirq() {
CPU[001]   } 2221
CPU[000]   __do_softirq() {
CPU[000]     __local_bh_disable() {
CPU[001]   unroll_tree_refs() {
CPU[000]     } 569
CPU[001]   } 501
CPU[000]     rcu_process_callbacks() {
CPU[001]   kfree() {

What makes this nice is that now you can grep the file and produce
readable format for a particular CPU.

 # cat /debug/tracing/trace > /tmp/trace
 # grep '^CPU\[000\]' /tmp/trace > /tmp/trace0
 # grep '^CPU\[001\]' /tmp/trace > /tmp/trace1

Will give you:

 # head /tmp/trace0
CPU[000] ------------8<---------- thread sshd-3899 ------------8<----------
CPU[000]     inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event() {
CPU[000]     } 2531
CPU[000]     inotify_inode_queue_event() {
CPU[000]     } 505
CPU[000]   } 69626
CPU[000] } 73089
CPU[000] audit_syscall_exit() {
CPU[000]   path_put() {
CPU[000]     dput() {

 # head /tmp/trace1
CPU[001] ------------8<---------- thread pcscd-3446 ------------8<----------
CPU[001]               } 4186
CPU[001]               dput() {
CPU[001]               } 543
CPU[001]               vfs_permission() {
CPU[001]                 inode_permission() {
CPU[001]                   shmem_permission() {
CPU[001]                     generic_permission() {
CPU[001]                     } 501
CPU[001]                   } 2205

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 06:52:57 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 660c7f9be9 ftrace: add thread comm to function graph tracer
Impact: enhancement to function graph tracer

Export the trace_find_cmdline so the function graph tracer can
use it to print the comms of the threads.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 06:52:56 +01:00
Steven Rostedt e53a6319cc ftrace: let function tracing and function return run together
Impact: feature

This patch enables function tracing and function return to run together.
I've tested this by enabling the stack tracer and return tracer, where
both the function entry and function return are used together with
dynamic ftrace.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 06:52:55 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 5a45cfe1c6 ftrace: use code patching for ftrace graph tracer
Impact: more efficient code for ftrace graph tracer

This patch uses the dynamic patching, when available, to patch
the function graph code into the kernel.

This patch will ease the way for letting both function tracing
and function graph tracing run together.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 06:52:54 +01:00
Steven Rostedt df4fc31558 ftrace: add function tracing to single thread
Impact: feature to function trace a single thread

This patch adds the ability to function trace a single thread.
The file:

  /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_pid

contains the pid to trace. Valid pids are any positive integer.
Writing any negative number to this file will disable the pid
tracing and the function tracer will go back to tracing all of
threads.

This feature works with both static and dynamic function tracing.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 06:52:52 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 287b6e68ca tracing/function-return-tracer: set a more human readable output
Impact: feature

This patch sets a C-like output for the function graph tracing.
For this aim, we now call two handler for each function: one on the entry
and one other on return. This way we can draw a well-ordered call stack.

The pid of the previous trace is loosely stored to be compared against
the one of the current trace to see if there were a context switch.

Without this little feature, the call tree would seem broken at
some locations.
We could use the sched_tracer to capture these sched_events but this
way of processing is much more simpler.

2 spaces have been chosen for indentation to fit the screen while deep
calls. The time of execution in nanosecs is printed just after closed
braces, it seems more easy this way to find the corresponding function.
If the time was printed as a first column, it would be not so easy to
find the corresponding function if it is called on a deep depth.

I plan to output the return value but on 32 bits CPU, the return value
can be 32 or 64, and its difficult to guess on which case we are.
I don't know what would be the better solution on X86-32: only print
eax (low-part) or even edx (high-part).

Actually it's thee same problem when a function return a 8 bits value, the
high part of eax could contain junk values...

Here is an example of trace:

sys_read() {
  fget_light() {
  } 526
  vfs_read() {
    rw_verify_area() {
      security_file_permission() {
        cap_file_permission() {
        } 519
      } 1564
    } 2640
    do_sync_read() {
      pipe_read() {
        __might_sleep() {
        } 511
        pipe_wait() {
          prepare_to_wait() {
          } 760
          deactivate_task() {
            dequeue_task() {
              dequeue_task_fair() {
                dequeue_entity() {
                  update_curr() {
                    update_min_vruntime() {
                    } 504
                  } 1587
                  clear_buddies() {
                  } 512
                  add_cfs_task_weight() {
                  } 519
                  update_min_vruntime() {
                  } 511
                } 5602
                dequeue_entity() {
                  update_curr() {
                    update_min_vruntime() {
                    } 496
                  } 1631
                  clear_buddies() {
                  } 496
                  update_min_vruntime() {
                  } 527
                } 4580
                hrtick_update() {
                  hrtick_start_fair() {
                  } 488
                } 1489
              } 13700
            } 14949
          } 16016
          msecs_to_jiffies() {
          } 496
          put_prev_task_fair() {
          } 504
          pick_next_task_fair() {
          } 489
          pick_next_task_rt() {
          } 496
          pick_next_task_fair() {
          } 489
          pick_next_task_idle() {
          } 489

------------8<---------- thread 4 ------------8<----------

finish_task_switch() {
} 1203
do_softirq() {
  __do_softirq() {
    __local_bh_disable() {
    } 669
    rcu_process_callbacks() {
      __rcu_process_callbacks() {
        cpu_quiet() {
          rcu_start_batch() {
          } 503
        } 1647
      } 3128
      __rcu_process_callbacks() {
      } 542
    } 5362
    _local_bh_enable() {
    } 587
  } 8880
} 9986
kthread_should_stop() {
} 669
deactivate_task() {
  dequeue_task() {
    dequeue_task_fair() {
      dequeue_entity() {
        update_curr() {
          calc_delta_mine() {
          } 511
          update_min_vruntime() {
          } 511
        } 2813

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 01:59:45 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker fb52607afc tracing/function-return-tracer: change the name into function-graph-tracer
Impact: cleanup

This patch changes the name of the "return function tracer" into
function-graph-tracer which is a more suitable name for a tracing
which makes one able to retrieve the ordered call stack during
the code flow.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 01:59:45 +01:00
Markus Metzger 1e9b51c283 x86, bts, ftrace: a BTS ftrace plug-in prototype
Impact: add new ftrace plugin

A prototype for a BTS ftrace plug-in.

The tracer collects branch trace in a cyclic buffer for each cpu.

The tracer is not configurable and the trace for each snapshot is
appended when doing cat /debug/tracing/trace.

This is a proof of concept that will be extended with future patches
to become a (hopefully) useful tool.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-25 17:31:13 +01:00
Markus Metzger 8bba1bf5e2 x86, ftrace: call trace->open() before stopping tracing; add trace->print_header()
Add a callback to allow an ftrace plug-in to write its own header.

Move the call to trace->open() up a few lines.

The changes are required by the BTS ftrace plug-in.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-25 17:31:13 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra ca109491f6 hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes
Impact: cleanup, move all hrtimer processing into hardirq context

This is an attempt at removing some of the hrtimer complexity by
reducing the number of callback modes to 1.

This means that all hrtimer callback functions will be ran from HARD-irq
context.

I went through all the 30 odd hrtimer callback functions in the kernel
and saw only one that I'm not quite sure of, which is the one in
net/can/bcm.c - hence I'm CC-ing the folks responsible for that code.

Furthermore, the hrtimer core now calls callbacks directly with IRQs
disabled in case you try to enqueue an expired timer. If this timer is a
periodic timer (which should use hrtimer_forward() to advance its time)
then it might be possible to end up in an inf. recursive loop due to the
fact that hrtimer_forward() doesn't round up to the next timer
granularity, and therefore keeps on calling the callback - obviously
this needs a fix.

Aside from that, this seems to compile and actually boot on my dual core
test box - although I'm sure there are some bugs in, me not hitting any
makes me certain :-)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-25 15:45:46 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 7807fafa52 lockdep: fix unused function warning in kernel/lockdep.c
Impact: fix build warning

this warning:

  kernel/lockdep.c:584: warning: ‘print_lock_dependencies’ defined but not used

triggers because print_lock_dependencies() is only used if both
CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS and CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING are enabled.

But adding #ifdefs is not an option here - it would spread out to 4-5
other helper functions and uglify the file. So mark this function
as __used - it's static and the compiler can eliminate it just fine.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-25 09:07:03 +01:00
Serge Hallyn 6ded6ab9be User namespaces: use the current_user_ns() macro
Fix up the last current_user()->user_ns instance to use
current_user_ns().

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
2008-11-24 18:57:46 -05:00
Serge Hallyn 18b6e0414e User namespaces: set of cleanups (v2)
The user_ns is moved from nsproxy to user_struct, so that a struct
cred by itself is sufficient to determine access (which it otherwise
would not be).  Corresponding ecryptfs fixes (by David Howells) are
here as well.

Fix refcounting.  The following rules now apply:
        1. The task pins the user struct.
        2. The user struct pins its user namespace.
        3. The user namespace pins the struct user which created it.

User namespaces are cloned during copy_creds().  Unsharing a new user_ns
is no longer possible.  (We could re-add that, but it'll cause code
duplication and doesn't seem useful if PAM doesn't need to clone user
namespaces).

When a user namespace is created, its first user (uid 0) gets empty
keyrings and a clean group_info.

This incorporates a previous patch by David Howells.  Here
is his original patch description:

>I suggest adding the attached incremental patch.  It makes the following
>changes:
>
> (1) Provides a current_user_ns() macro to wrap accesses to current's user
>     namespace.
>
> (2) Fixes eCryptFS.
>
> (3) Renames create_new_userns() to create_user_ns() to be more consistent
>     with the other associated functions and because the 'new' in the name is
>     superfluous.
>
> (4) Moves the argument and permission checks made for CLONE_NEWUSER to the
>     beginning of do_fork() so that they're done prior to making any attempts
>     at allocation.
>
> (5) Calls create_user_ns() after prepare_creds(), and gives it the new creds
>     to fill in rather than have it return the new root user.  I don't imagine
>     the new root user being used for anything other than filling in a cred
>     struct.
>
>     This also permits me to get rid of a get_uid() and a free_uid(), as the
>     reference the creds were holding on the old user_struct can just be
>     transferred to the new namespace's creator pointer.
>
> (6) Makes create_user_ns() reset the UIDs and GIDs of the creds under
>     preparation rather than doing it in copy_creds().
>
>David

>Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Changelog:
	Oct 20: integrate dhowells comments
		1. leave thread_keyring alone
		2. use current_user_ns() in set_user()

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
2008-11-24 18:57:41 -05:00
Thomas Gleixner 1acdac1046 futex: make clock selectable for FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET
FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET could be used instead of FUTEX_WAIT by setting the
bit set to FUTEX_BITSET_MATCH_ANY, but FUTEX_WAIT uses CLOCK_REALTIME
while FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET uses CLOCK_MONOTONIC.

Add a flag to select CLOCK_REALTIME for FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET so glibc can
replace the FUTEX_WAIT logic which needs to do gettimeofday() calls
before and after the syscall to convert the absolute timeout to a
relative timeout for FUTEX_WAIT.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
2008-11-24 20:00:40 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner 3e1d7a6219 Merge branch 'linus' into core/futexes 2008-11-24 19:54:37 +01:00
Rusty Russell 96f874e264 sched: convert remaining old-style cpumask operators
Impact: Trivial API conversion

  NR_CPUS -> nr_cpu_ids
  cpumask_t -> struct cpumask
  sizeof(cpumask_t) -> cpumask_size()
  cpumask_a = cpumask_b -> cpumask_copy(&cpumask_a, &cpumask_b)

  cpu_set() -> cpumask_set_cpu()
  first_cpu() -> cpumask_first()
  cpumask_of_cpu() -> cpumask_of()
  cpus_* -> cpumask_*

There are some FIXMEs where we all archs to complete infrastructure
(patches have been sent):

  cpu_coregroup_map -> cpu_coregroup_mask
  node_to_cpumask* -> cpumask_of_node

There is also one FIXME where we pass an array of cpumasks to
partition_sched_domains(): this implies knowing the definition of
'struct cpumask' and the size of a cpumask.  This will be fixed in a
future patch.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:52:42 +01:00
Rusty Russell 0e3900e6d3 sched: convert local_cpu_mask to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS.

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS.  cpumask_var_t
is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:52:35 +01:00
Rusty Russell 24600ce89a sched: convert check_preempt_equal_prio to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: stack reduction for large NR_CPUS

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
stack space.

We simply return if the allocation fails: since we don't use it we
could just pass NULL to cpupri_find and have it handle that.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:52:28 +01:00
Rusty Russell 68e74568fb sched: convert struct cpupri_vec cpumask_var_t.
Impact: stack usage reduction, (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS.

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS.

The fact cpupro_init is called both before and after the slab is
available makes for an ugly parameter unfortunately.

We also use cpumask_any_and to get rid of a temporary in cpupri_find.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:52:22 +01:00
Rusty Russell 4212823fb4 sched: convert falback_doms to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS.

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS.  cpumask_var_t
is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:52:15 +01:00
Rusty Russell dcc30a35f7 sched: convert cpu_isolated_map to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: stack usage reduction, (future) size reduction, cleanup

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS.  cpumask_var_t
is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

We can also use cpulist_parse() instead of doing it manually in
isolated_cpu_setup.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:52:10 +01:00
Rusty Russell d5dd3db1dc sched: convert sched_domain_debug to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: stack usage reduction

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
stack space.  cpumask_var_t is just a struct cpumask for
!CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

In this case, we always alloced, but we don't need to any more.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:52:03 +01:00
Rusty Russell 5a16f3d30c sched: convert struct (sys_)sched_setaffinity() to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: stack usage reduction

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space on the stack.  cpumask_var_t is just a struct cpumask for
!CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

Note the removal of the initializer of new_mask: since the first thing
we did was "cpus_and(new_mask, new_mask, cpus_allowed)" I just changed
that to "cpumask_and(new_mask, in_mask, cpus_allowed);".

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:51:59 +01:00
Rusty Russell e76bd8d985 sched: avoid stack var in move_task_off_dead_cpu
Impact: stack usage reduction

With some care, we can avoid needing a temporary cpumask (we can't
really allocate here, since we can't fail).

This version calls cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked() with the task_rq_lock
held.  I'm fairly sure this works, but there might be a deadlock
hiding.

And of course, we can't get rid of the last cpumask on stack until we
can use cpumask_of_node instead of node_to_cpumask.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:51:52 +01:00
Rusty Russell f17c860760 sched: convert sys_sched_getaffinity() to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: stack usage reduction

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space in the stack.  cpumask_var_t is just a struct cpumask for
!CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

Some jiggling here to make sure we always exit at the bottom (so we hit
the free_cpumask_var there).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:51:45 +01:00