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Ingo Molnar b64b223aed Merge branch 'rcu/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/urgent 2012-01-17 09:44:17 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney 7061ca3b6c sched: Add "const" to is_idle_task() parameter
This patch fixes a build warning in -next due to a const pointer being
passed to is_idle_task().  Because is_idle_task() does not modify anything,
this commit adds the "const" to is_idle_task()'s argument declaration.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-01-16 09:44:00 -08:00
Joe Perches 9402c95f34 treewide: remove useless NORET_TYPE macro and uses
It's a very old and now unused prototype marking so just delete it.

Neaten panic pointer argument style to keep checkpatch quiet.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12 20:13:03 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 001a541ea9 Merge branch 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux
* 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
  writeback: move MIN_WRITEBACK_PAGES to fs-writeback.c
  writeback: balanced_rate cannot exceed write bandwidth
  writeback: do strict bdi dirty_exceeded
  writeback: avoid tiny dirty poll intervals
  writeback: max, min and target dirty pause time
  writeback: dirty ratelimit - think time compensation
  btrfs: fix dirtied pages accounting on sub-page writes
  writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on redirty
  writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on sub-page writes
  writeback: charge leaked page dirties to active tasks
  writeback: Include all dirty inodes in background writeback
2012-01-10 16:59:59 -08:00
Linus Torvalds db0c2bf69a Merge branch 'for-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
* 'for-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (21 commits)
  cgroup: fix to allow mounting a hierarchy by name
  cgroup: move assignement out of condition in cgroup_attach_proc()
  cgroup: Remove task_lock() from cgroup_post_fork()
  cgroup: add sparse annotation to cgroup_iter_start() and cgroup_iter_end()
  cgroup: mark cgroup_rmdir_waitq and cgroup_attach_proc() as static
  cgroup: only need to check oldcgrp==newgrp once
  cgroup: remove redundant get/put of task struct
  cgroup: remove redundant get/put of old css_set from migrate
  cgroup: Remove unnecessary task_lock before fetching css_set on migration
  cgroup: Drop task_lock(parent) on cgroup_fork()
  cgroups: remove redundant get/put of css_set from css_set_check_fetched()
  resource cgroups: remove bogus cast
  cgroup: kill subsys->can_attach_task(), pre_attach() and attach_task()
  cgroup, cpuset: don't use ss->pre_attach()
  cgroup: don't use subsys->can_attach_task() or ->attach_task()
  cgroup: introduce cgroup_taskset and use it in subsys->can_attach(), cancel_attach() and attach()
  cgroup: improve old cgroup handling in cgroup_attach_proc()
  cgroup: always lock threadgroup during migration
  threadgroup: extend threadgroup_lock() to cover exit and exec
  threadgroup: rename signal->threadgroup_fork_lock to ->group_rwsem
  ...

Fix up conflict in kernel/cgroup.c due to commit e0197aae59e5: "cgroups:
fix a css_set not found bug in cgroup_attach_proc" that already
mentioned that the bug is fixed (differently) in Tejun's cgroup
patchset. This one, in other words.
2012-01-09 12:59:24 -08:00
Linus Torvalds eb59c505f8 Merge branch 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
* 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (76 commits)
  PM / Hibernate: Implement compat_ioctl for /dev/snapshot
  PM / Freezer: fix return value of freezable_schedule_timeout_killable()
  PM / shmobile: Allow the A4R domain to be turned off at run time
  PM / input / touchscreen: Make st1232 use device PM QoS constraints
  PM / QoS: Introduce dev_pm_qos_add_ancestor_request()
  PM / shmobile: Remove the stay_on flag from SH7372's PM domains
  PM / shmobile: Don't include SH7372's INTCS in syscore suspend/resume
  PM / shmobile: Add support for the sh7372 A4S power domain / sleep mode
  PM: Drop generic_subsys_pm_ops
  PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from AMBA bus type
  PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from platform bus type
  PM: Run the driver callback directly if the subsystem one is not there
  PM / Sleep: Make pm_op() and pm_noirq_op() return callback pointers
  PM/Devfreq: Add Exynos4-bus device DVFS driver for Exynos4210/4212/4412.
  PM / Sleep: Merge internal functions in generic_ops.c
  PM / Sleep: Simplify generic system suspend callbacks
  PM / Hibernate: Remove deprecated hibernation snapshot ioctls
  PM / Sleep: Fix freezer failures due to racy usermodehelper_is_disabled()
  ARM: S3C64XX: Implement basic power domain support
  PM / shmobile: Use common always on power domain governor
  ...

Fix up trivial conflict in fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c due to removal of unused
XBT_FORCE_SLEEP bit
2012-01-08 13:10:57 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 0db49b72bc Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
  sched/tracing: Add a new tracepoint for sleeptime
  sched: Disable scheduler warnings during oopses
  sched: Fix cgroup movement of waking process
  sched: Fix cgroup movement of newly created process
  sched: Fix cgroup movement of forking process
  sched: Remove cfs bandwidth period check in tg_set_cfs_period()
  sched: Fix load-balance lock-breaking
  sched: Replace all_pinned with a generic flags field
  sched: Only queue remote wakeups when crossing cache boundaries
  sched: Add missing rcu_dereference() around ->real_parent usage
  [S390] fix cputime overflow in uptime_proc_show
  [S390] cputime: add sparse checking and cleanup
  sched: Mark parent and real_parent as __rcu
  sched, nohz: Fix missing RCU read lock
  sched, nohz: Set the NOHZ_BALANCE_KICK flag for idle load balancer
  sched, nohz: Fix the idle cpu check in nohz_idle_balance
  sched: Use jump_labels for sched_feat
  sched/accounting: Fix parameter passing in task_group_account_field
  sched/accounting: Fix user/system tick double accounting
  sched/accounting: Re-use scheduler statistics for the root cgroup
  ...

Fix up conflicts in
 - arch/ia64/include/asm/cputime.h, include/asm-generic/cputime.h
	usecs_to_cputime64() vs the sparse cleanups
 - kernel/sched/fair.c, kernel/time/tick-sched.c
	scheduler changes in multiple branches
2012-01-06 08:44:54 -08:00
Martin Schwidefsky 612ef28a04 Merge branch 'sched/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into cputime-tip
Conflicts:
	drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c
	drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
	drivers/macintosh/rack-meter.c
	fs/proc/stat.c
	fs/proc/uptime.c
	kernel/sched/core.c
2011-12-19 19:23:15 +01:00
Wu Fengguang 83712358ba writeback: dirty ratelimit - think time compensation
Compensate the task's think time when computing the final pause time,
so that ->dirty_ratelimit can be executed accurately.

        think time := time spend outside of balance_dirty_pages()

In the rare case that the task slept longer than the 200ms period time
(result in negative pause time), the sleep time will be compensated in
the following periods, too, if it's less than 1 second.

Accumulated errors are carefully avoided as long as the max pause area
is not hitted.

Pseudo code:

        period = pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit;
        think = jiffies - dirty_paused_when;
        pause = period - think;

1) normal case: period > think

        pause = period - think
        dirty_paused_when = jiffies + pause
        nr_dirtied = 0

                             period time
              |===============================>|
                  think time      pause time
              |===============>|==============>|
        ------|----------------|---------------|------------------------
        dirty_paused_when   jiffies

2) no pause case: period <= think

        don't pause; reduce future pause time by:
        dirty_paused_when += period
        nr_dirtied = 0

                           period time
              |===============================>|
                                  think time
              |===================================================>|
        ------|--------------------------------+-------------------|----
        dirty_paused_when                                       jiffies

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-12-18 14:20:27 +08:00
Martin Schwidefsky 648616343c [S390] cputime: add sparse checking and cleanup
Make cputime_t and cputime64_t nocast to enable sparse checking to
detect incorrect use of cputime. Drop the cputime macros for simple
scalar operations. The conversion macros are still needed.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2011-12-15 14:56:19 +01:00
Kees Cook abd63bc3a0 sched: Mark parent and real_parent as __rcu
The parent and real_parent pointers should be considered __rcu,
since they should be held under either tasklist_lock or
rcu_read_lock.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111214223925.GA27578@www.outflux.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-15 08:21:59 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 6a54aebf69 Merge commit 'v3.2-rc5' into sched/core
Merge reason: Pick up the latest fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-15 08:21:30 +01:00
Tejun Heo 77e4ef99d1 threadgroup: extend threadgroup_lock() to cover exit and exec
threadgroup_lock() protected only protected against new addition to
the threadgroup, which was inherently somewhat incomplete and
problematic for its only user cgroup.  On-going migration could race
against exec and exit leading to interesting problems - the symmetry
between various attach methods, task exiting during method execution,
->exit() racing against attach methods, migrating task switching basic
properties during exec and so on.

This patch extends threadgroup_lock() such that it protects against
all three threadgroup altering operations - fork, exit and exec.  For
exit, threadgroup_change_begin/end() calls are added to exit_signals
around assertion of PF_EXITING.  For exec, threadgroup_[un]lock() are
updated to also grab and release cred_guard_mutex.

With this change, threadgroup_lock() guarantees that the target
threadgroup will remain stable - no new task will be added, no new
PF_EXITING will be set and exec won't happen.

The next patch will update cgroup so that it can take full advantage
of this change.

-v2: beefed up comment as suggested by Frederic.

-v3: narrowed scope of protection in exit path as suggested by
     Frederic.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-12 18:12:21 -08:00
Tejun Heo 257058ae2b threadgroup: rename signal->threadgroup_fork_lock to ->group_rwsem
Make the following renames to prepare for extension of threadgroup
locking.

* s/signal->threadgroup_fork_lock/signal->group_rwsem/
* s/threadgroup_fork_read_lock()/threadgroup_change_begin()/
* s/threadgroup_fork_read_unlock()/threadgroup_change_end()/
* s/threadgroup_fork_write_lock()/threadgroup_lock()/
* s/threadgroup_fork_write_unlock()/threadgroup_unlock()/

This patch doesn't cause any behavior change.

-v2: Rename threadgroup_change_done() to threadgroup_change_end() per
     KAMEZAWA's suggestion.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
2011-12-12 18:12:21 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney c4f3060843 sched: Add is_idle_task() to handle invalidated uses of idle_cpu()
Commit 908a3283 (Fix idle_cpu()) invalidated some uses of idle_cpu(),
which used to say whether or not the CPU was running the idle task,
but now instead says whether or not the CPU is running the idle task
in the absence of pending wakeups.  Although this new implementation
gives a better answer to the question "is this CPU idle?", it also
invalidates other uses that were made of idle_cpu().

This commit therefore introduces a new is_idle_task() API member
that determines whether or not the specified task is one of the
idle tasks, allowing open-coded "->pid == 0" sequences to be replaced
by something more meaningful.

Suggested-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:31:47 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra fdaabd800b sched: Fix compile error for UP,!NOHZ
Commit 69e1e811 ("sched, nohz: Track nr_busy_cpus in the
sched_group_power") messed up the static inline function definition.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-abjah8ctq5qrjjtdiabe8lph@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 20:51:18 +01:00
Suresh Siddha 69e1e811dc sched, nohz: Track nr_busy_cpus in the sched_group_power
Introduce nr_busy_cpus in the struct sched_group_power [Not in sched_group
because sched groups are duplicated for the SD_OVERLAP scheduler domain]
and for each cpu that enters and exits idle, this parameter will
be updated in each scheduler group of the scheduler domain that this cpu
belongs to.

To avoid the frequent update of this state as the cpu enters
and exits idle, the update of the stat during idle exit is
delayed to the first timer tick that happens after the cpu becomes busy.
This is done using NOHZ_IDLE flag in the struct rq's nohz_flags.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111202010832.555984323@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 09:06:32 +01:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 986b11c3ee Merge branch 'pm-freezer' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into pm-freezer
* 'pm-freezer' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc: (24 commits)
  freezer: fix wait_event_freezable/__thaw_task races
  freezer: kill unused set_freezable_with_signal()
  dmatest: don't use set_freezable_with_signal()
  usb_storage: don't use set_freezable_with_signal()
  freezer: remove unused @sig_only from freeze_task()
  freezer: use lock_task_sighand() in fake_signal_wake_up()
  freezer: restructure __refrigerator()
  freezer: fix set_freezable[_with_signal]() race
  freezer: remove should_send_signal() and update frozen()
  freezer: remove now unused TIF_FREEZE
  freezer: make freezing() test freeze conditions in effect instead of TIF_FREEZE
  cgroup_freezer: prepare for removal of TIF_FREEZE
  freezer: clean up freeze_processes() failure path
  freezer: kill PF_FREEZING
  freezer: test freezable conditions while holding freezer_lock
  freezer: make freezing indicate freeze condition in effect
  freezer: use dedicated lock instead of task_lock() + memory barrier
  freezer: don't distinguish nosig tasks on thaw
  freezer: remove racy clear_freeze_flag() and set PF_NOFREEZE on dead tasks
  freezer: rename thaw_process() to __thaw_task() and simplify the implementation
  ...
2011-11-23 21:09:02 +01:00
Tejun Heo 34b087e483 freezer: kill unused set_freezable_with_signal()
There's no in-kernel user of set_freezable_with_signal() left.  Mixing
TIF_SIGPENDING with kernel threads can lead to nasty corner cases as
kernel threads never travel signal delivery path on their own.

e.g. the current implementation is buggy in the cancelation path of
__thaw_task().  It calls recalc_sigpending_and_wake() in an attempt to
clear TIF_SIGPENDING but the function never clears it regardless of
sigpending state.  This means that signallable freezable kthreads may
continue executing with !freezing() && stuck TIF_SIGPENDING, which can
be troublesome.

This patch removes set_freezable_with_signal() along with
PF_FREEZER_NOSIG and recalc_sigpending*() calls in freezer.  User
tasks get TIF_SIGPENDING, kernel tasks get woken up and the spurious
sigpending is dealt with in the usual signal delivery path.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-11-23 09:28:17 -08:00
Tejun Heo 376fede80e freezer: kill PF_FREEZING
With the previous changes, there's no meaningful difference between
PF_FREEZING and PF_FROZEN.  Remove PF_FREEZING and use PF_FROZEN
instead in task_contributes_to_load().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-11-21 12:32:24 -08:00
Wu Fengguang 468e6a20af writeback: remove vm_dirties and task->dirties
They are not used any more.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-11-17 20:49:06 +08:00
Peter Zijlstra 029632fbb7 sched: Make separate sched*.c translation units
Since once needs to do something at conferences and fixing compile
warnings doesn't actually require much if any attention I decided
to break up the sched.c #include "*.c" fest.

This further modularizes the scheduler code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-x0fcd3mnp8f9c99grcpewmhi@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-11-17 12:20:19 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 208bca0860 Merge branch 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux
* 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
  writeback: Add a 'reason' to wb_writeback_work
  writeback: send work item to queue_io, move_expired_inodes
  writeback: trace event balance_dirty_pages
  writeback: trace event bdi_dirty_ratelimit
  writeback: fix ppc compile warnings on do_div(long long, unsigned long)
  writeback: per-bdi background threshold
  writeback: dirty position control - bdi reserve area
  writeback: control dirty pause time
  writeback: limit max dirty pause time
  writeback: IO-less balance_dirty_pages()
  writeback: per task dirty rate limit
  writeback: stabilize bdi->dirty_ratelimit
  writeback: dirty rate control
  writeback: add bg_threshold parameter to __bdi_update_bandwidth()
  writeback: dirty position control
  writeback: account per-bdi accumulated dirtied pages
2011-11-06 19:02:23 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 8a4a8918ed Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits)
  llist: Add back llist_add_batch() and llist_del_first() prototypes
  sched: Don't use tasklist_lock for debug prints
  sched: Warn on rt throttling
  sched: Unify the ->cpus_allowed mask copy
  sched: Wrap scheduler p->cpus_allowed access
  sched: Request for idle balance during nohz idle load balance
  sched: Use resched IPI to kick off the nohz idle balance
  sched: Fix idle_cpu()
  llist: Remove cpu_relax() usage in cmpxchg loops
  sched: Convert to struct llist
  llist: Add llist_next()
  irq_work: Use llist in the struct irq_work logic
  llist: Return whether list is empty before adding in llist_add()
  llist: Move cpu_relax() to after the cmpxchg()
  llist: Remove the platform-dependent NMI checks
  llist: Make some llist functions inline
  sched, tracing: Show PREEMPT_ACTIVE state in trace_sched_switch
  sched: Remove redundant test in check_preempt_tick()
  sched: Add documentation for bandwidth control
  sched: Return unused runtime on group dequeue
  ...
2011-10-26 17:08:43 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 19b4a8d520 Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
  rcu: Move propagation of ->completed from rcu_start_gp() to rcu_report_qs_rsp()
  rcu: Remove rcu_needs_cpu_flush() to avoid false quiescent states
  rcu: Wire up RCU_BOOST_PRIO for rcutree
  rcu: Make rcu_torture_boost() exit loops at end of test
  rcu: Make rcu_torture_fqs() exit loops at end of test
  rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled
  rcu: Avoid having just-onlined CPU resched itself when RCU is idle
  rcu: Suppress NMI backtraces when stall ends before dump
  rcu: Prohibit grace periods during early boot
  rcu: Simplify unboosting checks
  rcu: Prevent early boot set_need_resched() from __rcu_pending()
  rcu: Dump local stack if cannot dump all CPUs' stacks
  rcu: Move __rcu_read_unlock()'s barrier() within if-statement
  rcu: Improve rcu_assign_pointer() and RCU_INIT_POINTER() documentation
  rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer() unconditionally insert a memory barrier
  rcu: Make rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() locals be correct size
  rcu: Eliminate in_irq() checks in rcu_enter_nohz()
  nohz: Remove nohz_cpu_mask
  rcu: Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats
  rcu: Allow rcutorture's stat_interval parameter to be changed at runtime
  ...
2011-10-26 16:26:53 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 3cfef95246 Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
  rtmutex: Add missing rcu_read_unlock() in debug_rt_mutex_print_deadlock()
  lockdep: Comment all warnings
  lib: atomic64: Change the type of local lock to raw_spinlock_t
  locking, lib/atomic64: Annotate atomic64_lock::lock as raw
  locking, x86, iommu: Annotate qi->q_lock as raw
  locking, x86, iommu: Annotate irq_2_ir_lock as raw
  locking, x86, iommu: Annotate iommu->register_lock as raw
  locking, dma, ipu: Annotate bank_lock as raw
  locking, ARM: Annotate low level hw locks as raw
  locking, drivers/dca: Annotate dca_lock as raw
  locking, powerpc: Annotate uic->lock as raw
  locking, x86: mce: Annotate cmci_discover_lock as raw
  locking, ACPI: Annotate c3_lock as raw
  locking, oprofile: Annotate oprofilefs lock as raw
  locking, video: Annotate vga console lock as raw
  locking, latencytop: Annotate latency_lock as raw
  locking, timer_stats: Annotate table_lock as raw
  locking, rwsem: Annotate inner lock as raw
  locking, semaphores: Annotate inner lock as raw
  locking, sched: Annotate thread_group_cputimer as raw
  ...

Fix up conflicts in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c manually: making
cputimer->cputime a raw lock conflicted with the ABBA fix in commit
bcd5cff721 ("cputimer: Cure lock inversion").
2011-10-26 16:17:32 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 1be025d3cb Merge branch 'usb-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb
* 'usb-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: (260 commits)
  usb: renesas_usbhs: fixup inconsistent return from usbhs_pkt_push()
  usb/isp1760: Allow to optionally trigger low-level chip reset via GPIOLIB.
  USB: gadget: midi: memory leak in f_midi_bind_config()
  USB: gadget: midi: fix range check in f_midi_out_open()
  QE/FHCI: fixed the CONTROL bug
  usb: renesas_usbhs: tidyup for smatch warnings
  USB: Fix USB Kconfig dependency problem on 85xx/QoirQ platforms
  EHCI: workaround for MosChip controller bug
  usb: gadget: file_storage: fix race on unloading
  USB: ftdi_sio.c: Use ftdi async_icount structure for TIOCMIWAIT, as in other drivers
  USB: ftdi_sio.c:Fill MSR fields of the ftdi async_icount structure
  USB: ftdi_sio.c: Fill LSR fields of the ftdi async_icount structure
  USB: ftdi_sio.c:Fill TX field of the ftdi async_icount structure
  USB: ftdi_sio.c: Fill the RX field of the ftdi async_icount structure
  USB: ftdi_sio.c: Basic icount infrastructure for ftdi_sio
  usb/isp1760: Let OF bindings depend on general CONFIG_OF instead of PPC_OF .
  USB: ftdi_sio: Support TI/Luminary Micro Stellaris BD-ICDI Board
  USB: Fix runtime wakeup on OHCI
  xHCI/USB: Make xHCI driver have a BOS descriptor.
  usb: gadget: add new usb gadget for ACM and mass storage
  ...
2011-10-25 12:23:15 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra fa14ff4acc sched: Convert to struct llist
Use the generic llist primitives.

We had a private lockless list implementation in the scheduler in the wake-list
code, now that we have a generic llist implementation that provides all required
operations, switch to it.

This patch is not expected to change any behavior.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315836353.26517.42.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-04 12:43:58 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 22f92bacbe Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Merge reason: pick up the latest fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-04 11:09:08 +02:00
Wu Fengguang 9d823e8f6b writeback: per task dirty rate limit
Add two fields to task_struct.

1) account dirtied pages in the individual tasks, for accuracy
2) per-task balance_dirty_pages() call intervals, for flexibility

The balance_dirty_pages() call interval (ie. nr_dirtied_pause) will
scale near-sqrt to the safety gap between dirty pages and threshold.

The main problem of per-task nr_dirtied is, if 1k+ tasks start dirtying
pages at exactly the same time, each task will be assigned a large
initial nr_dirtied_pause, so that the dirty threshold will be exceeded
long before each task reached its nr_dirtied_pause and hence call
balance_dirty_pages().

The solution is to watch for the number of pages dirtied on each CPU in
between the calls into balance_dirty_pages(). If it exceeds ratelimit_pages
(3% dirty threshold), force call balance_dirty_pages() for a chance to
set bdi->dirty_exceeded. In normal situations, this safeguarding
condition is not expected to trigger at all.

On the sqrt in dirty_poll_interval():

It will serve as an initial guess when dirty pages are still in the
freerun area.

When dirty pages are floating inside the dirty control scope [freerun,
limit], a followup patch will use some refined dirty poll interval to
get the desired pause time.

   thresh-dirty (MB)    sqrt
		   1      16
		   2      22
		   4      32
		   8      45
		  16      64
		  32      90
		  64     128
		 128     181
		 256     256
		 512     362
		1024     512

The above table means, given 1MB (or 1GB) gap and the dd tasks polling
balance_dirty_pages() on every 16 (or 512) pages, the dirty limit won't
be exceeded as long as there are less than 16 (or 512) concurrent dd's.

So sqrt naturally leads to less overheads and more safe concurrent tasks
for large memory servers, which have large (thresh-freerun) gaps.

peter: keep the per-CPU ratelimit for safeguarding the 1k+ tasks case

CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-10-03 21:08:57 +08:00
Peter Zijlstra d670ec1317 posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP wobbles
David reported:

  Attached below is a watered-down version of rt/tst-cpuclock2.c from
  GLIBC.  Just build it with "gcc -o test test.c -lpthread -lrt" or
  similar.

  Run it several times, and you will see cases where the main thread
  will measure a process clock difference before and after the nanosleep
  which is smaller than the cpu-burner thread's individual thread clock
  difference.  This doesn't make any sense since the cpu-burner thread
  is part of the top-level process's thread group.

  I've reproduced this on both x86-64 and sparc64 (using both 32-bit and
  64-bit binaries).

  For example:

  [davem@boricha build-x86_64-linux]$ ./test
  process: before(0.001221967) after(0.498624371) diff(497402404)
  thread:  before(0.000081692) after(0.498316431) diff(498234739)
  self:    before(0.001223521) after(0.001240219) diff(16698)
  [davem@boricha build-x86_64-linux]$ 

  The diff of 'process' should always be >= the diff of 'thread'.

  I make sure to wrap the 'thread' clock measurements the most tightly
  around the nanosleep() call, and that the 'process' clock measurements
  are the outer-most ones.

  ---
  #include <unistd.h>
  #include <stdio.h>
  #include <stdlib.h>
  #include <time.h>
  #include <fcntl.h>
  #include <string.h>
  #include <errno.h>
  #include <pthread.h>

  static pthread_barrier_t barrier;

  static void *chew_cpu(void *arg)
  {
	  pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier);
	  while (1)
		  __asm__ __volatile__("" : : : "memory");
	  return NULL;
  }

  int main(void)
  {
	  clockid_t process_clock, my_thread_clock, th_clock;
	  struct timespec process_before, process_after;
	  struct timespec me_before, me_after;
	  struct timespec th_before, th_after;
	  struct timespec sleeptime;
	  unsigned long diff;
	  pthread_t th;
	  int err;

	  err = clock_getcpuclockid(0, &process_clock);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = pthread_getcpuclockid(pthread_self(), &my_thread_clock);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  pthread_barrier_init(&barrier, NULL, 2);
	  err = pthread_create(&th, NULL, chew_cpu, NULL);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = pthread_getcpuclockid(th, &th_clock);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier);

	  err = clock_gettime(process_clock, &process_before);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = clock_gettime(my_thread_clock, &me_before);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = clock_gettime(th_clock, &th_before);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  sleeptime.tv_sec = 0;
	  sleeptime.tv_nsec = 500000000;
	  nanosleep(&sleeptime, NULL);

	  err = clock_gettime(th_clock, &th_after);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = clock_gettime(my_thread_clock, &me_after);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  err = clock_gettime(process_clock, &process_after);
	  if (err)
		  return 1;

	  diff = process_after.tv_nsec - process_before.tv_nsec;
	  printf("process: before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n",
		 process_before.tv_sec, process_before.tv_nsec,
		 process_after.tv_sec, process_after.tv_nsec, diff);
	  diff = th_after.tv_nsec - th_before.tv_nsec;
	  printf("thread:  before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n",
		 th_before.tv_sec, th_before.tv_nsec,
		 th_after.tv_sec, th_after.tv_nsec, diff);
	  diff = me_after.tv_nsec - me_before.tv_nsec;
	  printf("self:    before(%lu.%.9lu) after(%lu.%.9lu) diff(%lu)\n",
		 me_before.tv_sec, me_before.tv_nsec,
		 me_after.tv_sec, me_after.tv_nsec, diff);

	  return 0;
  }

This is due to us using p->se.sum_exec_runtime in
thread_group_cputime() where we iterate the thread group and sum all
data. This does not take time since the last schedule operation (tick
or otherwise) into account. We can cure this by using
task_sched_runtime() at the cost of having to take locks.

This also means we can (and must) do away with
thread_group_sched_runtime() since the modified thread_group_cputime()
is now more accurate and would deadlock when called from
thread_group_sched_runtime().

Aside of that it makes the function safe on 32 bit systems. The old
code added t->se.sum_exec_runtime unprotected. sum_exec_runtime is a
64bit value and could be changed on another cpu at the same time.

Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1314874459.7945.22.camel@twins
Tested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-09-30 14:07:06 +02:00
Serge Hallyn d178bc3a70 user namespace: usb: make usb urbs user namespace aware (v2)
Add to the dev_state and alloc_async structures the user namespace
corresponding to the uid and euid.  Pass these to kill_pid_info_as_uid(),
which can then implement a proper, user-namespace-aware uid check.

Changelog:
Sep 20: Per Oleg's suggestion: Instead of caching and passing user namespace,
	uid, and euid each separately, pass a struct cred.
Sep 26: Address Alan Stern's comments: don't define a struct cred at
	usbdev_open(), and take and put a cred at async_completed() to
	ensure it lasts for the duration of kill_pid_info_as_cred().

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-09-29 13:13:08 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 82e78d80fc rcu: Simplify unboosting checks
Commit 7765be (Fix RCU_BOOST race handling current->rcu_read_unlock_special)
introduced a new ->rcu_boosted field in the task structure.  This is
redundant because the existing ->rcu_boost_mutex will be non-NULL at
any time that ->rcu_boosted is nonzero.  Therefore, this commit removes
->rcu_boosted and tests ->rcu_boost_mutex instead.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28 21:38:39 -07:00
Shi, Alex fc0763f53e nohz: Remove nohz_cpu_mask
RCU no longer uses this global variable, nor does anyone else.  This
commit therefore removes this variable.  This reduces memory footprint
and also removes some atomic instructions and memory barriers from
the dyntick-idle path.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28 21:38:29 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner ee30a7b2fc locking, sched: Annotate thread_group_cputimer as raw
The thread_group_cputimer lock can be taken in atomic context and therefore
cannot be preempted on -rt - annotate it.

In mainline this change documents the low level nature of
the lock - otherwise there's no functional difference. Lockdep
and Sparse checking will work as usual.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-09-13 11:11:55 +02:00
Paul Turner ec12cb7f31 sched: Accumulate per-cfs_rq cpu usage and charge against bandwidth
Account bandwidth usage on the cfs_rq level versus the task_groups to which
they belong.  Whether we are tracking bandwidth on a given cfs_rq is maintained
under cfs_rq->runtime_enabled.

cfs_rq's which belong to a bandwidth constrained task_group have their runtime
accounted via the update_curr() path, which withdraws bandwidth from the global
pool as desired.  Updates involving the global pool are currently protected
under cfs_bandwidth->lock, local runtime is protected by rq->lock.

This patch only assigns and tracks quota, no action is taken in the case that
cfs_rq->runtime_used exceeds cfs_rq->runtime_assigned.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184757.179386821@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:03:26 +02:00
Vasiliy Kulikov 72fa59970f move RLIMIT_NPROC check from set_user() to do_execve_common()
The patch http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/13/226 introduced an RLIMIT_NPROC
check in set_user() to check for NPROC exceeding via setuid() and
similar functions.

Before the check there was a possibility to greatly exceed the allowed
number of processes by an unprivileged user if the program relied on
rlimit only.  But the check created new security threat: many poorly
written programs simply don't check setuid() return code and believe it
cannot fail if executed with root privileges.  So, the check is removed
in this patch because of too often privilege escalations related to
buggy programs.

The NPROC can still be enforced in the common code flow of daemons
spawning user processes.  Most of daemons do fork()+setuid()+execve().
The check introduced in execve() (1) enforces the same limit as in
setuid() and (2) doesn't create similar security issues.

Neil Brown suggested to track what specific process has exceeded the
limit by setting PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED process flag.  With the change only
this process would fail on execve(), and other processes' execve()
behaviour is not changed.

Solar Designer suggested to re-check whether NPROC limit is still
exceeded at the moment of execve().  If the process was sleeping for
days between set*uid() and execve(), and the NPROC counter step down
under the limit, the defered execve() failure because NPROC limit was
exceeded days ago would be unexpected.  If the limit is not exceeded
anymore, we clear the flag on successful calls to execve() and fork().

The flag is also cleared on successful calls to set_user() as the limit
was exceeded for the previous user, not the current one.

Similar check was introduced in -ow patches (without the process flag).

v3 - clear PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED on successful calls to set_user().

Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-11 11:24:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 096a705bbc Merge branch 'for-3.1/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
* 'for-3.1/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (24 commits)
  block: strict rq_affinity
  backing-dev: use synchronize_rcu_expedited instead of synchronize_rcu
  block: fix patch import error in max_discard_sectors check
  block: reorder request_queue to remove 64 bit alignment padding
  CFQ: add think time check for group
  CFQ: add think time check for service tree
  CFQ: move think time check variables to a separate struct
  fixlet: Remove fs_excl from struct task.
  cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs.
  block: document blk_plug list access
  block: avoid building too big plug list
  compat_ioctl: fix make headers_check regression
  block: eliminate potential for infinite loop in blkdev_issue_discard
  compat_ioctl: fix warning caused by qemu
  block: flush MEDIA_CHANGE from drivers on close(2)
  blk-throttle: Make total_nr_queued unsigned
  block: Add __attribute__((format(printf...) and fix fallout
  fs/partitions/check.c: make local symbols static
  block:remove some spare spaces in genhd.c
  block:fix the comment error in blkdev.h
  ...
2011-07-25 10:33:36 -07:00
Linus Torvalds bdc7ccfc06 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (24 commits)
  sched: Cleanup duplicate local variable in [enqueue|dequeue]_task_fair
  sched: Replace use of entity_key()
  sched: Separate group-scheduling code more clearly
  sched: Reorder root_domain to remove 64 bit alignment padding
  sched: Do not attempt to destroy uninitialized rt_bandwidth
  sched: Remove unused function cpu_cfs_rq()
  sched: Fix (harmless) typo 'CONFG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED'
  sched, cgroup: Optimize load_balance_fair()
  sched: Don't update shares twice on on_rq parent
  sched: update correct entity's runtime in check_preempt_wakeup()
  xtensa: Use generic config PREEMPT definition
  h8300: Use generic config PREEMPT definition
  m32r: Use generic PREEMPT config
  sched: Skip autogroup when looking for all rt sched groups
  sched: Simplify mutex_spin_on_owner()
  sched: Remove rcu_read_lock() from wake_affine()
  sched: Generalize sleep inside spinlock detection
  sched: Make sleeping inside spinlock detection working in !CONFIG_PREEMPT
  sched: Isolate preempt counting in its own config option
  sched: Remove pointless in_atomic() definition check
  ...
2011-07-22 16:45:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 8209f53d79 Merge branch 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc
* 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc: (39 commits)
  ptrace: do_wait(traced_leader_killed_by_mt_exec) can block forever
  ptrace: fix ptrace_signal() && STOP_DEQUEUED interaction
  connector: add an event for monitoring process tracers
  ptrace: dont send SIGSTOP on auto-attach if PT_SEIZED
  ptrace: mv send-SIGSTOP from do_fork() to ptrace_init_task()
  ptrace_init_task: initialize child->jobctl explicitly
  has_stopped_jobs: s/task_is_stopped/SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED/
  ptrace: make former thread ID available via PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG after PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC stop
  ptrace: wait_consider_task: s/same_thread_group/ptrace_reparented/
  ptrace: kill real_parent_is_ptracer() in in favor of ptrace_reparented()
  ptrace: ptrace_reparented() should check same_thread_group()
  redefine thread_group_leader() as exit_signal >= 0
  do not change dead_task->exit_signal
  kill task_detached()
  reparent_leader: check EXIT_DEAD instead of task_detached()
  make do_notify_parent() __must_check, update the callers
  __ptrace_detach: avoid task_detached(), check do_notify_parent()
  kill tracehook_notify_death()
  make do_notify_parent() return bool
  ptrace: s/tracehook_tracer_task()/ptrace_parent()/
  ...
2011-07-22 15:06:50 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 994bf1c922 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Merge reason: pick up the latest scheduler fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-21 18:00:01 +02:00
Linus Torvalds cf6ace16a3 Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  signal: align __lock_task_sighand() irq disabling and RCU
  softirq,rcu: Inform RCU of irq_exit() activity
  sched: Add irq_{enter,exit}() to scheduler_ipi()
  rcu: protect __rcu_read_unlock() against scheduler-using irq handlers
  rcu: Streamline code produced by __rcu_read_unlock()
  rcu: Fix RCU_BOOST race handling current->rcu_read_unlock_special
  rcu: decrease rcu_report_exp_rnp coupling with scheduler
2011-07-20 15:56:25 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra e3589f6c81 sched: Allow for overlapping sched_domain spans
Allow for sched_domain spans that overlap by giving such domains their
own sched_group list instead of sharing the sched_groups amongst
each-other.

This is needed for machines with more than 16 nodes, because
sched_domain_node_span() will generate a node mask from the
16 nearest nodes without regard if these masks have any overlap.

Currently sched_domains have a sched_group that maps to their child
sched_domain span, and since there is no overlap we share the
sched_group between the sched_domains of the various CPUs. If however
there is overlap, we would need to link the sched_group list in
different ways for each cpu, and hence sharing isn't possible.

In order to solve this, allocate private sched_groups for each CPU's
sched_domain but have the sched_groups share a sched_group_power
structure such that we can uniquely track the power.

Reported-and-tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-08bxqw9wis3qti9u5inifh3y@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-20 18:32:41 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 9c3f75cbd1 sched: Break out cpu_power from the sched_group structure
In order to prepare for non-unique sched_groups per domain, we need to
carry the cpu_power elsewhere, so put a level of indirection in.

Reported-and-tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qkho2byuhe4482fuknss40ad@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-20 18:32:40 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney 7765be2fec rcu: Fix RCU_BOOST race handling current->rcu_read_unlock_special
The RCU_BOOST commits for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU introduced an other-task
write to a new RCU_READ_UNLOCK_BOOSTED bit in the task_struct structure's
->rcu_read_unlock_special field, but, as noted by Steven Rostedt, without
correctly synchronizing all accesses to ->rcu_read_unlock_special.
This could result in bits in ->rcu_read_unlock_special being spuriously
set and cleared due to conflicting accesses, which in turn could result
in deadlocks between the rcu_node structure's ->lock and the scheduler's
rq and pi locks.  These deadlocks would result from RCU incorrectly
believing that the just-ended RCU read-side critical section had been
preempted and/or boosted.  If that RCU read-side critical section was
executed with either rq or pi locks held, RCU's ensuing (incorrect)
calls to the scheduler would cause the scheduler to attempt to once
again acquire the rq and pi locks, resulting in deadlock.  More complex
deadlock cycles are also possible, involving multiple rq and pi locks
as well as locks from multiple rcu_node structures.

This commit fixes synchronization by creating ->rcu_boosted field in
task_struct that is accessed and modified only when holding the ->lock
in the rcu_node structure on which the task is queued (on that rcu_node
structure's ->blkd_tasks list).  This results in tasks accessing only
their own current->rcu_read_unlock_special fields, making unsynchronized
access once again legal, and keeping the rcu_read_unlock() fastpath free
of atomic instructions and memory barriers.

The reason that the rcu_read_unlock() fastpath does not need to access
the new current->rcu_boosted field is that this new field cannot
be non-zero unless the RCU_READ_UNLOCK_BLOCKED bit is set in the
current->rcu_read_unlock_special field.  Therefore, rcu_read_unlock()
need only test current->rcu_read_unlock_special: if that is zero, then
current->rcu_boosted must also be zero.

This bug does not affect TINY_PREEMPT_RCU because this implementation
of RCU accesses current->rcu_read_unlock_special with irqs disabled,
thus preventing races on the !SMP systems that TINY_PREEMPT_RCU runs on.

Maybe-reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Maybe-reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-07-19 21:38:52 -07:00
Justin TerAvest 4aede84b33 fixlet: Remove fs_excl from struct task.
fs_excl is a poor man's priority inheritance for filesystems to hint to
the block layer that an operation is important. It was never clearly
specified, not widely adopted, and will not prevent starvation in many
cases (like across cgroups).

fs_excl was introduced with the time sliced CFQ IO scheduler, to
indicate when a process held FS exclusive resources and thus needed
a boost.

It doesn't cover all file systems, and it was never fully complete.
Lets kill it.

Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-12 08:35:10 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra e4c2fb0d57 sched: Disable (revert) SCHED_LOAD_SCALE increase
Alex reported that commit c8b281161d ("sched: Increase
SCHED_LOAD_SCALE resolution") caused a power usage regression
under light load as it increases the number of load-balance
operations and keeps idle cpus from staying idle.

Time has run out to find the root cause for this release so
disable the feature for v3.0 until we can figure out what
causes the problem.

Reported-by: "Alex, Shi" <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-m4onxn0sxnyn5iz9o88eskc3@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-05 11:28:18 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 1ecc818c51 Merge branch 'sched/core-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into sched/core 2011-07-01 13:20:51 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 087806b128 redefine thread_group_leader() as exit_signal >= 0
Change de_thread() to set old_leader->exit_signal = -1. This is
good for the consistency, it is no longer the leader and all
sub-threads have exit_signal = -1 set by copy_process(CLONE_THREAD).

And this allows us to micro-optimize thread_group_leader(), it can
simply check exit_signal >= 0. This also makes sense because we
should move ->group_leader from task_struct to signal_struct.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-06-27 20:30:10 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov e550f14dc6 kill task_detached()
Upadate the last user of task_detached(), wait_task_zombie(), to
use thread_group_leader() and kill task_detached().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-06-27 20:30:09 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 8677347378 make do_notify_parent() __must_check, update the callers
Change other callers of do_notify_parent() to check the value it
returns, this makes the subsequent task_detached() unnecessary.
Mark do_notify_parent() as __must_check.

Use thread_group_leader() instead of !task_detached() to check
if we need to notify the real parent in wait_task_zombie().

Remove the stale comment in release_task(). "just for sanity" is
no longer true, we have to set EXIT_DEAD to avoid the races with
do_wait().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-06-27 20:30:09 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 53c8f9f199 make do_notify_parent() return bool
- change do_notify_parent() to return a boolean, true if the task should
  be reaped because its parent ignores SIGCHLD.

- update the only caller which checks the returned value, exit_notify().

This temporary uglifies exit_notify() even more, will be cleanuped by
the next change.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-06-27 20:30:08 +02:00
Tejun Heo 544b2c91a9 ptrace: implement PTRACE_LISTEN
The previous patch implemented async notification for ptrace but it
only worked while trace is running.  This patch introduces
PTRACE_LISTEN which is suggested by Oleg Nestrov.

It's allowed iff tracee is in STOP trap and puts tracee into
quasi-running state - tracee never really runs but wait(2) and
ptrace(2) consider it to be running.  While ptracer is listening,
tracee is allowed to re-enter STOP to notify an async event.
Listening state is cleared on the first notification.  Ptracer can
also clear it by issuing INTERRUPT - tracee will re-trap into STOP
with listening state cleared.

This allows ptracer to monitor group stop state without running tracee
- use INTERRUPT to put tracee into STOP trap, issue LISTEN and then
wait(2) to wait for the next group stop event.  When it happens,
PTRACE_GETSIGINFO provides information to determine the current state.

Test program follows.

  #define PTRACE_SEIZE		0x4206
  #define PTRACE_INTERRUPT	0x4207
  #define PTRACE_LISTEN		0x4208

  #define PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL	0x80000000

  static const struct timespec ts1s = { .tv_sec = 1 };

  int main(int argc, char **argv)
  {
	  pid_t tracee, tracer;
	  int i;

	  tracee = fork();
	  if (!tracee)
		  while (1)
			  pause();

	  tracer = fork();
	  if (!tracer) {
		  siginfo_t si;

		  ptrace(PTRACE_SEIZE, tracee, NULL,
			 (void *)(unsigned long)PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL);
		  ptrace(PTRACE_INTERRUPT, tracee, NULL, NULL);
	  repeat:
		  waitid(P_PID, tracee, NULL, WSTOPPED);

		  ptrace(PTRACE_GETSIGINFO, tracee, NULL, &si);
		  if (!si.si_code) {
			  printf("tracer: SIG %d\n", si.si_signo);
			  ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, tracee, NULL,
				 (void *)(unsigned long)si.si_signo);
			  goto repeat;
		  }
		  printf("tracer: stopped=%d signo=%d\n",
			 si.si_signo != SIGTRAP, si.si_signo);
		  if (si.si_signo != SIGTRAP)
			  ptrace(PTRACE_LISTEN, tracee, NULL, NULL);
		  else
			  ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, tracee, NULL, NULL);
		  goto repeat;
	  }

	  for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
		  nanosleep(&ts1s, NULL);
		  printf("mother: SIGSTOP\n");
		  kill(tracee, SIGSTOP);
		  nanosleep(&ts1s, NULL);
		  printf("mother: SIGCONT\n");
		  kill(tracee, SIGCONT);
	  }
	  nanosleep(&ts1s, NULL);

	  kill(tracer, SIGKILL);
	  kill(tracee, SIGKILL);
	  return 0;
  }

This is identical to the program to test TRAP_NOTIFY except that
tracee is PTRACE_LISTEN'd instead of PTRACE_CONT'd when group stopped.
This allows ptracer to monitor when group stop ends without running
tracee.

  # ./test-listen
  tracer: stopped=0 signo=5
  mother: SIGSTOP
  tracer: SIG 19
  tracer: stopped=1 signo=19
  mother: SIGCONT
  tracer: stopped=0 signo=5
  tracer: SIG 18
  mother: SIGSTOP
  tracer: SIG 19
  tracer: stopped=1 signo=19
  mother: SIGCONT
  tracer: stopped=0 signo=5
  tracer: SIG 18
  mother: SIGSTOP
  tracer: SIG 19
  tracer: stopped=1 signo=19
  mother: SIGCONT
  tracer: stopped=0 signo=5
  tracer: SIG 18

-v2: Moved JOBCTL_LISTENING check in wait_task_stopped() into
     task_stopped_code() as suggested by Oleg.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-06-16 21:41:54 +02:00
Tejun Heo fb1d910c17 ptrace: implement TRAP_NOTIFY and use it for group stop events
Currently there's no way for ptracer to find out whether group stop
finished other than polling with INTERRUPT - GETSIGINFO - CONT
sequence.  This patch implements group stop notification for ptracer
using STOP traps.

When group stop state of a seized tracee changes, JOBCTL_TRAP_NOTIFY
is set, which schedules a STOP trap which is sticky - it isn't cleared
by other traps and at least one STOP trap will happen eventually.
STOP trap is synchronization point for event notification and the
tracer can determine the current group stop state by looking at the
signal number portion of exit code (si_status from waitid(2) or
si_code from PTRACE_GETSIGINFO).

Notifications are generated both on start and end of group stops but,
because group stop participation always happens before STOP trap, this
doesn't cause an extra trap while tracee is participating in group
stop.  The symmetry will be useful later.

Note that this notification works iff tracee is not trapped.
Currently there is no way to be notified of group stop state changes
while tracee is trapped.  This will be addressed by a later patch.

An example program follows.

  #define PTRACE_SEIZE		0x4206
  #define PTRACE_INTERRUPT	0x4207

  #define PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL	0x80000000

  static const struct timespec ts1s = { .tv_sec = 1 };

  int main(int argc, char **argv)
  {
	  pid_t tracee, tracer;
	  int i;

	  tracee = fork();
	  if (!tracee)
		  while (1)
			  pause();

	  tracer = fork();
	  if (!tracer) {
		  siginfo_t si;

		  ptrace(PTRACE_SEIZE, tracee, NULL,
			 (void *)(unsigned long)PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL);
		  ptrace(PTRACE_INTERRUPT, tracee, NULL, NULL);
	  repeat:
		  waitid(P_PID, tracee, NULL, WSTOPPED);

		  ptrace(PTRACE_GETSIGINFO, tracee, NULL, &si);
		  if (!si.si_code) {
			  printf("tracer: SIG %d\n", si.si_signo);
			  ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, tracee, NULL,
				 (void *)(unsigned long)si.si_signo);
			  goto repeat;
		  }
		  printf("tracer: stopped=%d signo=%d\n",
			 si.si_signo != SIGTRAP, si.si_signo);
		  ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, tracee, NULL, NULL);
		  goto repeat;
	  }

	  for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
		  nanosleep(&ts1s, NULL);
		  printf("mother: SIGSTOP\n");
		  kill(tracee, SIGSTOP);
		  nanosleep(&ts1s, NULL);
		  printf("mother: SIGCONT\n");
		  kill(tracee, SIGCONT);
	  }
	  nanosleep(&ts1s, NULL);

	  kill(tracer, SIGKILL);
	  kill(tracee, SIGKILL);
	  return 0;
  }

In the above program, tracer keeps tracee running and gets
notification of each group stop state changes.

  # ./test-notify
  tracer: stopped=0 signo=5
  mother: SIGSTOP
  tracer: SIG 19
  tracer: stopped=1 signo=19
  mother: SIGCONT
  tracer: stopped=0 signo=5
  tracer: SIG 18
  mother: SIGSTOP
  tracer: SIG 19
  tracer: stopped=1 signo=19
  mother: SIGCONT
  tracer: stopped=0 signo=5
  tracer: SIG 18
  mother: SIGSTOP
  tracer: SIG 19
  tracer: stopped=1 signo=19
  mother: SIGCONT
  tracer: stopped=0 signo=5
  tracer: SIG 18

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-06-16 21:41:53 +02:00
Tejun Heo 73ddff2bee job control: introduce JOBCTL_TRAP_STOP and use it for group stop trap
do_signal_stop() implemented both normal group stop and trap for group
stop while ptraced.  This approach has been enough but scheduled
changes require trap mechanism which can be used in more generic
manner and using group stop trap for generic trap site simplifies both
userland visible interface and implementation.

This patch adds a new jobctl flag - JOBCTL_TRAP_STOP.  When set, it
triggers a trap site, which behaves like group stop trap, in
get_signal_to_deliver() after checking for pending signals.  While
ptraced, do_signal_stop() doesn't stop itself.  It initiates group
stop if requested and schedules JOBCTL_TRAP_STOP and returns.  The
caller - get_signal_to_deliver() - is responsible for checking whether
TRAP_STOP is pending afterwards and handling it.

ptrace_attach() is updated to use JOBCTL_TRAP_STOP instead of
JOBCTL_STOP_PENDING and __ptrace_unlink() to clear all pending trap
bits and TRAPPING so that TRAP_STOP and future trap bits don't linger
after detach.

While at it, add proper function comment to do_signal_stop() and make
it return bool.

-v2: __ptrace_unlink() updated to clear JOBCTL_TRAP_MASK and TRAPPING
     instead of JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK.  This avoids accidentally
     clearing JOBCTL_STOP_CONSUME.  Spotted by Oleg.

-v3: do_signal_stop() updated to return %false without dropping
     siglock while ptraced and TRAP_STOP check moved inside for(;;)
     loop after group stop participation.  This avoids unnecessary
     relocking and also will help avoiding unnecessary traps by
     consuming group stop before handling pending traps.

-v4: Jobctl trap handling moved into a separate function -
     do_jobctl_trap().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-06-16 21:41:52 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker bdd4e85dc3 sched: Isolate preempt counting in its own config option
Create a new CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT that handles the inc/dec
of preempt count offset independently. So that the offset
can be updated by preempt_disable() and preempt_enable()
even without the need for CONFIG_PREEMPT beeing set.

This prepares to make CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP working
with !CONFIG_PREEMPT where it currently doesn't detect
code that sleeps inside explicit preemption disabled
sections.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2011-06-10 15:15:40 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 6715a52a58 Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: Fix/clarify set_task_cpu() locking rules
  lockdep: Fix lock_is_held() on recursion
  sched: Fix schedstat.nr_wakeups_migrate
  sched: Fix cross-cpu clock sync on remote wakeups
2011-06-07 19:20:28 -07:00
Tejun Heo 7dd3db54e7 job control: introduce task_set_jobctl_pending()
task->jobctl currently hosts JOBCTL_STOP_PENDING and will host TRAP
pending bits too.  Setting pending conditions on a dying task may make
the task unkillable.  Currently, each setting site is responsible for
checking for the condition but with to-be-added job control traps this
becomes too fragile.

This patch adds task_set_jobctl_pending() which should be used when
setting task->jobctl bits to schedule a stop or trap.  The function
performs the followings to ease setting pending bits.

* Sanity checks.

* If fatal signal is pending or PF_EXITING is set, no bit is set.

* STOP_SIGMASK is automatically cleared if new value is being set.

do_signal_stop() and ptrace_attach() are updated to use
task_set_jobctl_pending() instead of setting STOP_PENDING explicitly.
The surrounding structures around setting are changed to fit
task_set_jobctl_pending() better but there should be no userland
visible behavior difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-06-04 18:17:11 +02:00
Tejun Heo 3759a0d94c job control: introduce JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK and task_clear_jobctl_pending()
This patch introduces JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK and replaces
task_clear_jobctl_stop_pending() with task_clear_jobctl_pending()
which takes an extra @mask argument.

JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK is currently equal to JOBCTL_STOP_PENDING but
future patches will add more bits.  recalc_sigpending_tsk() is updated
to use JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK instead.

task_clear_jobctl_pending() takes @mask which in subset of
JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK and clears the relevant jobctl bits.  If
JOBCTL_STOP_PENDING is set, other STOP bits are cleared together.  All
task_clear_jobctl_stop_pending() users are updated to call
task_clear_jobctl_pending() with JOBCTL_STOP_PENDING which is
functionally identical to task_clear_jobctl_stop_pending().

This patch doesn't cause any functional change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-06-04 18:17:10 +02:00
Tejun Heo a8f072c1d6 job control: rename signal->group_stop and flags to jobctl and update them
signal->group_stop currently hosts mostly group stop related flags;
however, it's gonna be used for wider purposes and the GROUP_STOP_
flag prefix becomes confusing.  Rename signal->group_stop to
signal->jobctl and rename all GROUP_STOP_* flags to JOBCTL_*.

Bit position macros JOBCTL_*_BIT are defined and JOBCTL_* flags are
defined in terms of them to allow using bitops later.

While at it, reassign JOBCTL_TRAPPING to bit 22 to better accomodate
future additions.

This doesn't cause any functional change.

-v2: JOBCTL_*_BIT macros added as suggested by Linus.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-06-04 18:17:09 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra f339b9dc1f sched: Fix schedstat.nr_wakeups_migrate
While looking over the code I found that with the ttwu rework the
nr_wakeups_migrate test broke since we now switch cpus prior to
calling ttwu_stat(), hence the test is always true.

Cure this by passing the migration state in wake_flags. Also move the
whole test under CONFIG_SMP, its hard to migrate tasks on UP :-)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pwwxl7gdqs5676f1d4cx6pj7@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-31 14:19:57 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 6345d24daf mm: Fix boot crash in mm_alloc()
Thomas Gleixner reports that we now have a boot crash triggered by
CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at   (null)
    IP: [<c11ae035>] find_next_bit+0x55/0xb0
    Call Trace:
     [<c11addda>] cpumask_any_but+0x2a/0x70
     [<c102396b>] flush_tlb_mm+0x2b/0x80
     [<c1022705>] pud_populate+0x35/0x50
     [<c10227ba>] pgd_alloc+0x9a/0xf0
     [<c103a3fc>] mm_init+0xec/0x120
     [<c103a7a3>] mm_alloc+0x53/0xd0

which was introduced by commit de03c72cfc ("mm: convert
mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t"), and is due to wrong ordering of
mm_init() vs mm_init_cpumask

Thomas wrote a patch to just fix the ordering of initialization, but I
hate the new double allocation in the fork path, so I ended up instead
doing some more radical surgery to clean it all up.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-29 11:32:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 08a8b79600 Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  cpuset: Fix cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback(), don't update tsk->rt.nr_cpus_allowed
  sched: Fix ->min_vruntime calculation in dequeue_entity()
  sched: Fix ttwu() for __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
  sched: More sched_domain iterations fixes
2011-05-28 12:56:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds c4a227d89f Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (25 commits)
  perf: Fix SIGIO handling
  perf top: Don't stop if no kernel symtab is found
  perf top: Handle kptr_restrict
  perf top: Remove unused macro
  perf events: initialize fd array to -1 instead of 0
  perf tools: Make sure kptr_restrict warnings fit 80 col terms
  perf tools: Fix build on older systems
  perf symbols: Handle /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict
  perf: Remove duplicate headers
  ftrace: Add internal recursive checks
  tracing: Update btrfs's tracepoints to use u64 interface
  tracing: Add __print_symbolic_u64 to avoid warnings on 32bit machine
  ftrace: Set ops->flag to enabled even on static function tracing
  tracing: Have event with function tracer check error return
  ftrace: Have ftrace_startup() return failure code
  jump_label: Check entries limit in __jump_label_update
  ftrace/recordmcount: Avoid STT_FUNC symbols as base on ARM
  scripts/tags.sh: Add magic for trace-events for etags too
  scripts/tags.sh: Fix ctags for DEFINE_EVENT()
  x86/ftrace: Fix compiler warning in ftrace.c
  ...
2011-05-28 12:55:55 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 1e1b6c511d cpuset: Fix cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback(), don't update tsk->rt.nr_cpus_allowed
The rule is, we have to update tsk->rt.nr_cpus_allowed if we change
tsk->cpus_allowed. Otherwise RT scheduler may confuse.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4DD4B3FA.5060901@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28 17:02:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar d6a72fe465 Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/urgent 2011-05-27 14:28:09 +02:00
Ben Blum 4714d1d32d cgroups: read-write lock CLONE_THREAD forking per threadgroup
Adds functionality to read/write lock CLONE_THREAD fork()ing per-threadgroup

Add an rwsem that lives in a threadgroup's signal_struct that's taken for
reading in the fork path, under CONFIG_CGROUPS.  If another part of the
kernel later wants to use such a locking mechanism, the CONFIG_CGROUPS
ifdefs should be changed to a higher-up flag that CGROUPS and the other
system would both depend on.

This is a pre-patch for cgroup-procs-write.patch.

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26 17:12:34 -07:00
Steven Rostedt b1cff0ad10 ftrace: Add internal recursive checks
Witold reported a reboot caused by the selftests of the dynamic function
tracer. He sent me a config and I used ktest to do a config_bisect on it
(as my config did not cause the crash). It pointed out that the problem
config was CONFIG_PROVE_RCU.

What happened was that if multiple callbacks are attached to the
function tracer, we iterate a list of callbacks. Because the list is
managed by synchronize_sched() and preempt_disable, the access to the
pointers uses rcu_dereference_raw().

When PROVE_RCU is enabled, the rcu_dereference_raw() calls some
debugging functions, which happen to be traced. The tracing of the debug
function would then call rcu_dereference_raw() which would then call the
debug function and then... well you get the idea.

I first wrote two different patches to solve this bug.

1) add a __rcu_dereference_raw() that would not do any checks.
2) add notrace to the offending debug functions.

Both of these patches worked.

Talking with Paul McKenney on IRC, he suggested to add recursion
detection instead. This seemed to be a better solution, so I decided to
implement it. As the task_struct already has a trace_recursion to detect
recursion in the ring buffer, and that has a very small number it
allows, I decided to use that same variable to add flags that can detect
the recursion inside the infrastructure of the function tracer.

I plan to change it so that the task struct bit can be checked in
mcount, but as that requires changes to all archs, I will hold that off
to the next merge window.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306348063.1465.116.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com
Reported-by: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-05-25 22:13:49 -04:00
KOSAKI Motohiro de03c72cfc mm: convert mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t
cpumask_t is very big struct and cpu_vm_mask is placed wrong position.
It might lead to reduce cache hit ratio.

This patch has two change.
1) Move the place of cpumask into last of mm_struct. Because usually cpumask
   is accessed only front bits when the system has cpu-hotplug capability
2) Convert cpu_vm_mask into cpumask_var_t. It may help to reduce memory
   footprint if cpumask_size() will use nr_cpumask_bits properly in future.

In addition, this patch change the name of cpu_vm_mask with cpu_vm_mask_var.
It may help to detect out of tree cpu_vm_mask users.

This patch has no functional change.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:21 -07:00
David Rientjes 72788c3856 oom: replace PF_OOM_ORIGIN with toggling oom_score_adj
There's a kernel-wide shortage of per-process flags, so it's always
helpful to trim one when possible without incurring a significant penalty.
 It's even more important when you're planning on adding a per- process
flag yourself, which I plan to do shortly for transparent hugepages.

PF_OOM_ORIGIN is used by ksm and swapoff to prefer current since it has a
tendency to allocate large amounts of memory and should be preferred for
killing over other tasks.  We'd rather immediately kill the task making
the errant syscall rather than penalizing an innocent task.

This patch removes PF_OOM_ORIGIN since its behavior is equivalent to
setting the process's oom_score_adj to OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX.

The process's old oom_score_adj is stored and then set to
OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX during the time it used to have PF_OOM_ORIGIN.  The old
value is then reinstated when the process should no longer be considered a
high priority for oom killing.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 15a3d11b0f Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: Increase SCHED_LOAD_SCALE resolution
  sched: Introduce SCHED_POWER_SCALE to scale cpu_power calculations
  sched: Cleanup set_load_weight()
2011-05-23 12:53:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 19504828b4 Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf tools: Fix sample size bit operations
  perf tools: Fix ommitted mmap data update on remap
  watchdog: Change the default timeout and configure nmi watchdog period based on watchdog_thresh
  watchdog: Disable watchdog when thresh is zero
  watchdog: Only disable/enable watchdog if neccessary
  watchdog: Fix rounding bug in get_sample_period()
  perf tools: Propagate event parse error handling
  perf tools: Robustify dynamic sample content fetch
  perf tools: Pre-check sample size before parsing
  perf tools: Move evlist sample helpers to evlist area
  perf tools: Remove junk code in mmap size handling
  perf tools: Check we are able to read the event size on mmap
2011-05-23 09:25:52 -07:00
Mandeep Singh Baines 586692a5a5 watchdog: Disable watchdog when thresh is zero
This restores the previous behavior of softlock_thresh.

Currently, setting watchdog_thresh to zero causes the watchdog
kthreads to consume a lot of CPU.

In addition, the logic of proc_dowatchdog_thresh and
proc_dowatchdog_enabled has been factored into proc_dowatchdog.

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306127423-3347-3-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <20110517071018.GE22305@elte.hu>
2011-05-23 11:58:59 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 3ed4c0583d Merge branch 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc
* 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc: (41 commits)
  signal: trivial, fix the "timespec declared inside parameter list" warning
  job control: reorganize wait_task_stopped()
  ptrace: fix signal->wait_chldexit usage in task_clear_group_stop_trapping()
  signal: sys_sigprocmask() needs retarget_shared_pending()
  signal: cleanup sys_sigprocmask()
  signal: rename signandsets() to sigandnsets()
  signal: do_sigtimedwait() needs retarget_shared_pending()
  signal: introduce do_sigtimedwait() to factor out compat/native code
  signal: sys_rt_sigtimedwait: simplify the timeout logic
  signal: cleanup sys_rt_sigprocmask()
  x86: signal: sys_rt_sigreturn() should use set_current_blocked()
  x86: signal: handle_signal() should use set_current_blocked()
  signal: sigprocmask() should do retarget_shared_pending()
  signal: sigprocmask: narrow the scope of ->siglock
  signal: retarget_shared_pending: optimize while_each_thread() loop
  signal: retarget_shared_pending: consider shared/unblocked signals only
  signal: introduce retarget_shared_pending()
  ptrace: ptrace_check_attach() should not do s/STOPPED/TRACED/
  signal: Turn SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED into GROUP_STOP_DEQUEUED
  signal: do_signal_stop: Remove the unneeded task_clear_group_stop_pending()
  ...
2011-05-20 13:33:21 -07:00
Nikhil Rao c8b281161d sched: Increase SCHED_LOAD_SCALE resolution
Introduce SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION, which scales is added to
SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT and increases the resolution of
SCHED_LOAD_SCALE. This patch sets the value of
SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION to 10, scaling up the weights for all
sched entities by a factor of 1024. With this extra resolution,
we can handle deeper cgroup hiearchies and the scheduler can do
better shares distribution and load load balancing on larger
systems (especially for low weight task groups).

This does not change the existing user interface, the scaled
weights are only used internally. We do not modify
prio_to_weight values or inverses, but use the original weights
when calculating the inverse which is used to scale execution
time delta in calc_delta_mine(). This ensures we do not lose
accuracy when accounting time to the sched entities. Thanks to
Nikunj Dadhania for fixing an bug in c_d_m() that broken fairness.

Below is some analysis of the performance costs/improvements of
this patch.

1. Micro-arch performance costs:

Experiment was to run Ingo's pipe_test_100k 200 times with the
task pinned to one cpu. I measured instruction, cycles and
stalled-cycles for the runs. See:

   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1129232/focus=1129389

for more info.

-tip (baseline):

 Performance counter stats for '/root/load-scale/pipe-test-100k' (200 runs):

       964,991,769 instructions             #    0.82  insns per cycle
                                            #    0.33  stalled cycles per insn
                                            #    ( +-  0.05% )
     1,171,186,635 cycles                   #    0.000 GHz                      ( +-  0.08% )
       306,373,664 stalled-cycles-backend   #   26.16% backend  cycles idle     ( +-  0.28% )
       314,933,621 stalled-cycles-frontend  #   26.89% frontend cycles idle     ( +-  0.34% )

        1.122405684  seconds time elapsed  ( +-  0.05% )

-tip+patches:

 Performance counter stats for './load-scale/pipe-test-100k' (200 runs):

       963,624,821 instructions             #    0.82  insns per cycle
                                            #    0.33  stalled cycles per insn
                                            #    ( +-  0.04% )
     1,175,215,649 cycles                   #    0.000 GHz                      ( +-  0.08% )
       315,321,126 stalled-cycles-backend   #   26.83% backend  cycles idle     ( +-  0.28% )
       316,835,873 stalled-cycles-frontend  #   26.96% frontend cycles idle     ( +-  0.29% )

        1.122238659  seconds time elapsed  ( +-  0.06% )

With this patch, instructions decrease by ~0.10% and cycles
increase by 0.27%. This doesn't look statistically significant.
The number of stalled cycles in the backend increased from
26.16% to 26.83%. This can be attributed to the shifts we do in
c_d_m() and other places. The fraction of stalled cycles in the
frontend remains about the same, at 26.96% compared to 26.89% in -tip.

2. Balancing low-weight task groups

Test setup: run 50 tasks with random sleep/busy times (biased
around 100ms) in a low weight container (with cpu.shares = 2).
Measure %idle as reported by mpstat over a 10s window.

-tip (baseline):

06:47:48 PM  CPU    %usr   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal  %guest   %idle    intr/s
06:47:49 PM  all   94.32    0.00    0.06    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    5.62  15888.00
06:47:50 PM  all   94.57    0.00    0.62    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    4.81  16180.00
06:47:51 PM  all   94.69    0.00    0.06    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    5.25  15966.00
06:47:52 PM  all   95.81    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    4.19  16053.00
06:47:53 PM  all   94.88    0.06    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    5.06  15984.00
06:47:54 PM  all   93.31    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    6.69  15806.00
06:47:55 PM  all   94.19    0.00    0.06    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    5.75  15896.00
06:47:56 PM  all   92.87    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    7.13  15716.00
06:47:57 PM  all   94.88    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    5.12  15982.00
06:47:58 PM  all   95.44    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    4.56  16075.00
Average:     all   94.49    0.01    0.08    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    5.42  15954.60

-tip+patches:

06:47:03 PM  CPU    %usr   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal  %guest   %idle    intr/s
06:47:04 PM  all  100.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  16630.00
06:47:05 PM  all   99.69    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.31  16580.20
06:47:06 PM  all   99.69    0.00    0.06    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.25  16596.00
06:47:07 PM  all   99.20    0.00    0.74    0.00    0.00    0.06    0.00    0.00    0.00  17838.61
06:47:08 PM  all  100.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  16540.00
06:47:09 PM  all  100.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  16575.00
06:47:10 PM  all  100.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  16614.00
06:47:11 PM  all   99.94    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.06  16588.00
06:47:12 PM  all   99.94    0.00    0.06    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  16593.00
06:47:13 PM  all   99.94    0.00    0.06    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00  16551.00
Average:     all   99.84    0.00    0.09    0.00    0.00    0.01    0.00    0.00    0.06  16711.58

We see an improvement in idle% on the system (drops from 5.42% on -tip to 0.06%
with the patches).

We see an improvement in idle% on the system (drops from 5.42%
on -tip to 0.06% with the patches).

Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Nikunj A. Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephan Barwolf <stephan.baerwolf@tu-ilmenau.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305754668-18792-1-git-send-email-ncrao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-20 14:16:50 +02:00
Nikhil Rao 1399fa7807 sched: Introduce SCHED_POWER_SCALE to scale cpu_power calculations
SCHED_LOAD_SCALE is used to increase nice resolution and to
scale cpu_power calculations in the scheduler. This patch
introduces SCHED_POWER_SCALE and converts all uses of
SCHED_LOAD_SCALE for scaling cpu_power to use SCHED_POWER_SCALE
instead.

This is a preparatory patch for increasing the resolution of
SCHED_LOAD_SCALE, and there is no need to increase resolution
for cpu_power calculations.

Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Nikunj A. Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephan Barwolf <stephan.baerwolf@tu-ilmenau.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305738580-9924-3-git-send-email-ncrao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-20 14:16:50 +02:00
Samir Bellabes 3e51e3edfd sched: Remove unused parameters from sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task()
sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task() are defined with a parameter
'unsigned long clone_flags', which is unused.

This patch removes the parameters.

Signed-off-by: Samir Bellabes <sam@synack.fr>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305130685-1047-1-git-send-email-sam@synack.fr
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-12 09:36:37 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 9cb5baba5e Merge commit 'v2.6.39-rc7' into sched/core 2011-05-12 09:36:18 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker bf26c01849 ptrace: Prepare to fix racy accesses on task breakpoints
When a task is traced and is in a stopped state, the tracer
may execute a ptrace request to examine the tracee state and
get its task struct. Right after, the tracee can be killed
and thus its breakpoints released.
This can happen concurrently when the tracer is in the middle
of reading or modifying these breakpoints, leading to dereferencing
a freed pointer.

Hence, to prepare the fix, create a generic breakpoint reference
holding API. When a reference on the breakpoints of a task is
held, the breakpoints won't be released until the last reference
is dropped. After that, no more ptrace request on the task's
breakpoints can be serviced for the tracer.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: v2.6.33.. <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
2011-04-25 17:28:24 +02:00
Jonathan Corbet 625f2a378e sched: Get rid of lock_depth
Neil Brown pointed out that lock_depth somehow escaped the BKL
removal work.  Let's get rid of it now.

Note that the perf scripting utilities still have a bunch of
code for dealing with common_lock_depth in tracepoints; I have
left that in place in case anybody wants to use that code with
older kernels.

Suggested-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110422111910.456c0e84@bike.lwn.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-24 13:18:38 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 42ac9e87fd Merge commit 'v2.6.39-rc4' into sched/core
Merge reason: Pick up upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-21 11:39:28 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 6ddafdaab3 Merge branch 'sched/locking' into sched/core
Merge reason: the rq locking changes are stable,
              propagate them into the .40 queue.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-18 14:53:33 +02:00
Jiri Kosina 4471a675df brk: COMPAT_BRK: fix detection of randomized brk
5520e89 ("brk: fix min_brk lower bound computation for COMPAT_BRK")
tried to get the whole logic of brk randomization for legacy
(libc5-based) applications finally right.

It turns out that the way to detect whether brk has actually been
randomized in the end or not introduced by that patch still doesn't work
for those binaries, as reported by Geert:

: /sbin/init from my old m68k ramdisk exists prematurely.
:
: Before the patch:
:
: | brk(0x80005c8e)                         = 0x80006000
:
: After the patch:
:
: | brk(0x80005c8e)                         = 0x80005c8e
:
: Old libc5 considers brk() to have failed if the return value is not
: identical to the requested value.

I don't like it, but currently see no better option than a bit flag in
task_struct to catch the CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK && randomize_va_space == 2
case.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-14 16:06:55 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 317f394160 sched: Move the second half of ttwu() to the remote cpu
Now that we've removed the rq->lock requirement from the first part of
ttwu() and can compute placement without holding any rq->lock, ensure
we execute the second half of ttwu() on the actual cpu we want the
task to run on.

This avoids having to take rq->lock and doing the task enqueue
remotely, saving lots on cacheline transfers.

As measured using: http://oss.oracle.com/~mason/sembench.c

  $ for i in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor ; do echo performance > $i; done
  $ echo 4096 32000 64 128 > /proc/sys/kernel/sem
  $ ./sembench -t 2048 -w 1900 -o 0

  unpatched: run time 30 seconds 647278 worker burns per second
  patched:   run time 30 seconds 816715 worker burns per second

Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110405152729.515897185@chello.nl
2011-04-14 08:52:41 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra a8e4f2eaec sched: Delay task_contributes_to_load()
In prepratation of having to call task_contributes_to_load() without
holding rq->lock, we need to store the result until we do and can
update the rq accounting accordingly.

Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110405152729.151523907@chello.nl
2011-04-14 08:52:37 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 74f8e4b233 sched: Remove rq argument to sched_class::task_waking()
In preparation of calling this without rq->lock held, remove the
dependency on the rq argument.

Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110405152729.071474242@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-14 08:52:36 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 7608dec2ce sched: Drop the rq argument to sched_class::select_task_rq()
In preparation of calling select_task_rq() without rq->lock held, drop
the dependency on the rq argument.

Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110405152729.031077745@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-14 08:52:36 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra fd2f4419b4 sched: Provide p->on_rq
Provide a generic p->on_rq because the p->se.on_rq semantics are
unfavourable for lockless wakeups but needed for sched_fair.

In particular, p->on_rq is only cleared when we actually dequeue the
task in schedule() and not on any random dequeue as done by things
like __migrate_task() and __sched_setscheduler().

This also allows us to remove p->se usage from !sched_fair code.

Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110405152728.949545047@chello.nl
2011-04-14 08:52:35 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra c6eb3dda25 mutex: Use p->on_cpu for the adaptive spin
Since we now have p->on_cpu unconditionally available, use it to
re-implement mutex_spin_on_owner.

Requested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110405152728.826338173@chello.nl
2011-04-14 08:52:33 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 3ca7a440da sched: Always provide p->on_cpu
Always provide p->on_cpu so that we can determine if its on a cpu
without having to lock the rq.

Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110405152728.785452014@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-14 08:52:32 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 184748cc50 sched: Provide scheduler_ipi() callback in response to smp_send_reschedule()
For future rework of try_to_wake_up() we'd like to push part of that
function onto the CPU the task is actually going to run on.

In order to do so we need a generic callback from the existing scheduler IPI.

This patch introduces such a generic callback: scheduler_ipi() and
implements it as a NOP.

BenH notes: PowerPC might use this IPI on offline CPUs under rare conditions!

Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110405152728.744338123@chello.nl
2011-04-14 08:52:32 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 60495e7760 sched: Dynamic sched_domain::level
Remove the SD_LV_ enum and use dynamic level assignments.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110407122942.969433965@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-11 14:09:32 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 7dd04b7307 sched: Remove some dead code
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110407122942.553814623@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-11 12:58:22 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 3859173d43 sched: Reduce some allocation pressure
Since we now allocate SD_LV_MAX * nr_cpu_ids sched_domain/sched_group
structures when rebuilding the scheduler toplogy it might make sense
to shrink that depending on the CONFIG_ options.

This is only needed until we get rid of SD_LV_* alltogether and
provide a full dynamic topology interface.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110407122942.406226449@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-11 12:58:21 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra dce840a087 sched: Dynamically allocate sched_domain/sched_group data-structures
Instead of relying on static allocations for the sched_domain and
sched_group trees, dynamically allocate and RCU free them.

Allocating this dynamically also allows for some build_sched_groups()
simplification since we can now (like with other simplifications) rely
on the sched_domain tree instead of hard-coded knowledge.

One tricky to note is that detach_destroy_domains() needs to hold
rcu_read_lock() over the entire tear-down, per-cpu is not sufficient
since that can lead to partial sched_group existance (could possibly
be solved by doing the tear-down backwards but this is much more
robust).

A concequence of the above is that we can no longer print the
sched_domain debug stuff from cpu_attach_domain() since that might now
run with preemption disabled (due to classic RCU etc.) and
sched_domain_debug() does some GFP_KERNEL allocations.

Another thing to note is that we now fully rely on normal RCU and not
RCU-sched, this is because with the new and exiting RCU flavours we
grew over the years BH doesn't necessarily hold off RCU-sched grace
periods (-rt is known to break this). This would in fact already cause
us grief since we do sched_domain/sched_group iterations from softirq
context.

This patch is somewhat larger than I would like it to be, but I didn't
find any means of shrinking/splitting this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110407122942.245307941@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-11 12:58:19 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov e46bc9b6fd Merge branch 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into ptrace 2011-04-07 20:44:11 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov ee77f07592 signal: Turn SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED into GROUP_STOP_DEQUEUED
This patch moves SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED from signal_struct->flags to
task_struct->group_stop, and thus makes it per-thread.

Like SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED, GROUP_STOP_DEQUEUED can be false-positive
after return from get_signal_to_deliver(), this is fine. The only
purpose of this bit is: we can drop ->siglock after __dequeue_signal()
returns the sig_kernel_stop() signal and before we call
do_signal_stop(), in this case we must not miss SIGCONT if it comes in
between.

But, unlike SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED, GROUP_STOP_DEQUEUED can not be
false-positive in do_signal_stop() if multiple threads dequeue the
sig_kernel_stop() signal at the same time.

Consider two threads T1 and T2, SIGTTIN has a hanlder.

	- T1 dequeues SIGTSTP and sets SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED, then
	  it drops ->siglock

	- SIGCONT comes and clears SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED, SIGTSTP
	  should be cancelled.

	- T2 dequeues SIGTTIN and sets SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED again.
	  Since we have a handler we should not stop, T2 returns
	  to usermode to run the handler.

	- T1 continues, calls do_signal_stop() and wrongly starts
	  the group stop because SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED was restored
	  in between.

With or without this change:

	- we need to do something with ptrace_signal() which can
	  return SIGSTOP, but this needs another discussion

	- SIGSTOP can be lost if it races with the mt exec, will
	  be fixed later.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-04-04 02:11:05 +02:00
Lucas De Marchi 25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Linus Torvalds 8dd90265ac 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, doc: Update sched-design-CFS.txt
  sched: Remove unused 'rq' variable and cpu_rq() call from alloc_fair_sched_group()
  sched.h: Fix a typo ("its")
  sched: Fix yield_to kernel-doc
2011-03-25 17:59:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 6c51038900 Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
  Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
  cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
  cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
  blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
  blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
  cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
  block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
  block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
  block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
  cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
  fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
  block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
  jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
  mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
  blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
  block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
  block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
  blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
  ...

Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
2011-03-24 10:16:26 -07:00
Johannes Weiner 7ffd4ca7a2 memcg: convert uncharge batching from bytes to page granularity
We never uncharge subpage quantities.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-23 19:46:30 -07:00
Jonathan Neuschäfer e815f0a84f sched.h: Fix a typo ("its")
The sentence uses the possessive pronoun, which is spelled
without an apostrophe.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1300735487-2406-1-git-send-email-j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-23 12:10:02 +01:00
Tejun Heo d79fdd6d96 ptrace: Clean transitions between TASK_STOPPED and TRACED
Currently, if the task is STOPPED on ptrace attach, it's left alone
and the state is silently changed to TRACED on the next ptrace call.
The behavior breaks the assumption that arch_ptrace_stop() is called
before any task is poked by ptrace and is ugly in that a task
manipulates the state of another task directly.

With GROUP_STOP_PENDING, the transitions between TASK_STOPPED and
TRACED can be made clean.  The tracer can use the flag to tell the
tracee to retry stop on attach and detach.  On retry, the tracee will
enter the desired state in the correct way.  The lower 16bits of
task->group_stop is used to remember the signal number which caused
the last group stop.  This is used while retrying for ptrace attach as
the original group_exit_code could have been consumed with wait(2) by
then.

As the real parent may wait(2) and consume the group_exit_code
anytime, the group_exit_code needs to be saved separately so that it
can be used when switching from regular sleep to ptrace_stop().  This
is recorded in the lower 16bits of task->group_stop.

If a task is already stopped and there's no intervening SIGCONT, a
ptrace request immediately following a successful PTRACE_ATTACH should
always succeed even if the tracer doesn't wait(2) for attach
completion; however, with this change, the tracee might still be
TASK_RUNNING trying to enter TASK_TRACED which would cause the
following request to fail with -ESRCH.

This intermediate state is hidden from the ptracer by setting
GROUP_STOP_TRAPPING on attach and making ptrace_check_attach() wait
for it to clear on its signal->wait_chldexit.  Completing the
transition or getting killed clears TRAPPING and wakes up the tracer.

Note that the STOPPED -> RUNNING -> TRACED transition is still visible
to other threads which are in the same group as the ptracer and the
reverse transition is visible to all.  Please read the comments for
details.

Oleg:

* Spotted a race condition where a task may retry group stop without
  proper bookkeeping.  Fixed by redoing bookkeeping on retry.

* Spotted that the transition is visible to userland in several
  different ways.  Most are fixed with GROUP_STOP_TRAPPING.  Unhandled
  corner case is documented.

* Pointed out not setting GROUP_STOP_SIGMASK on an already stopped
  task would result in more consistent behavior.

* Pointed out that calling ptrace_stop() from do_signal_stop() in
  TASK_STOPPED can race with group stop start logic and then confuse
  the TRAPPING wait in ptrace_check_attach().  ptrace_stop() is now
  called with TASK_RUNNING.

* Suggested using signal->wait_chldexit instead of bit wait.

* Spotted a race condition between TRACED transition and clearing of
  TRAPPING.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
2011-03-23 10:37:00 +01:00
Tejun Heo 39efa3ef3a signal: Use GROUP_STOP_PENDING to stop once for a single group stop
Currently task->signal->group_stop_count is used to decide whether to
stop for group stop.  However, if there is a task in the group which
is taking a long time to stop, other tasks which are continued by
ptrace would repeatedly stop for the same group stop until the group
stop is complete.

Conversely, if a ptraced task is in TASK_TRACED state, the debugger
won't get notified of group stops which is inconsistent compared to
the ptraced task in any other state.

This patch introduces GROUP_STOP_PENDING which tracks whether a task
is yet to stop for the group stop in progress.  The flag is set when a
group stop starts and cleared when the task stops the first time for
the group stop, and consulted whenever whether the task should
participate in a group stop needs to be determined.  Note that now
tasks in TASK_TRACED also participate in group stop.

This results in the following behavior changes.

* For a single group stop, a ptracer would see at most one stop
  reported.

* A ptracee in TASK_TRACED now also participates in group stop and the
  tracer would get the notification.  However, as a ptraced task could
  be in TASK_STOPPED state or any ptrace trap could consume group
  stop, the notification may still be missing.  These will be
  addressed with further patches.

* A ptracee may start a group stop while one is still in progress if
  the tracer let it continue with stop signal delivery.  Group stop
  code handles this correctly.

Oleg:

* Spotted that a task might skip signal check even when its
  GROUP_STOP_PENDING is set.  Fixed by updating
  recalc_sigpending_tsk() to check GROUP_STOP_PENDING instead of
  group_stop_count.

* Pointed out that task->group_stop should be cleared whenever
  task->signal->group_stop_count is cleared.  Fixed accordingly.

* Pointed out the behavior inconsistency between TASK_TRACED and
  RUNNING and the last behavior change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
2011-03-23 10:37:00 +01:00
Tejun Heo e5c1902e92 signal: Fix premature completion of group stop when interfered by ptrace
task->signal->group_stop_count is used to track the progress of group
stop.  It's initialized to the number of tasks which need to stop for
group stop to finish and each stopping or trapping task decrements.
However, each task doesn't keep track of whether it decremented the
counter or not and if woken up before the group stop is complete and
stops again, it can decrement the counter multiple times.

Please consider the following example code.

 static void *worker(void *arg)
 {
	 while (1) ;
	 return NULL;
 }

 int main(void)
 {
	 pthread_t thread;
	 pid_t pid;
	 int i;

	 pid = fork();
	 if (!pid) {
		 for (i = 0; i < 5; i++)
			 pthread_create(&thread, NULL, worker, NULL);
		 while (1) ;
		 return 0;
	 }

	 ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, NULL, NULL);
	 while (1) {
		 waitid(P_PID, pid, NULL, WSTOPPED);
		 ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, pid, NULL, (void *)(long)SIGSTOP);
	 }
	 return 0;
 }

The child creates five threads and the parent continuously traps the
first thread and whenever the child gets a signal, SIGSTOP is
delivered.  If an external process sends SIGSTOP to the child, all
other threads in the process should reliably stop.  However, due to
the above bug, the first thread will often end up consuming
group_stop_count multiple times and SIGSTOP often ends up stopping
none or part of the other four threads.

This patch adds a new field task->group_stop which is protected by
siglock and uses GROUP_STOP_CONSUME flag to track which task is still
to consume group_stop_count to fix this bug.

task_clear_group_stop_pending() and task_participate_group_stop() are
added to help manipulating group stop states.  As ptrace_stop() now
also uses task_participate_group_stop(), it will set
SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED if it completes a group stop.

There still are many issues regarding the interaction between group
stop and ptrace.  Patches to address them will follow.

- Oleg spotted duplicate GROUP_STOP_CONSUME.  Dropped.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
2011-03-23 10:37:00 +01:00
Eric Dumazet 207205a2ba kthread: NUMA aware kthread_create_on_node()
All kthreads being created from a single helper task, they all use memory
from a single node for their kernel stack and task struct.

This patch suite creates kthread_create_on_node(), adding a 'cpu' parameter
to parameters already used by kthread_create().

This parameter serves in allocating memory for the new kthread on its
memory node if possible.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 420c1c572d Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (62 commits)
  posix-clocks: Check write permissions in posix syscalls
  hrtimer: Remove empty hrtimer_init_hres_timer()
  hrtimer: Update hrtimer->state documentation
  hrtimer: Update base[CLOCK_BOOTTIME].offset correctly
  timers: Export CLOCK_BOOTTIME via the posix timers interface
  timers: Add CLOCK_BOOTTIME hrtimer base
  time: Extend get_xtime_and_monotonic_offset() to also return sleep
  time: Introduce get_monotonic_boottime and ktime_get_boottime
  hrtimers: extend hrtimer base code to handle more then 2 clockids
  ntp: Remove redundant and incorrect parameter check
  mn10300: Switch do_timer() to xtimer_update()
  posix clocks: Introduce dynamic clocks
  posix-timers: Cleanup namespace
  posix-timers: Add support for fd based clocks
  x86: Add clock_adjtime for x86
  posix-timers: Introduce a syscall for clock tuning.
  time: Splitout compat timex accessors
  ntp: Add ADJ_SETOFFSET mode bit
  time: Introduce timekeeping_inject_offset
  posix-timer: Update comment
  ...

Fix up new system-call-related conflicts in
	arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
	arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
	arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
(name_to_handle_at()/open_by_handle_at() vs clock_adjtime()), and some
due to movement of get_jiffies_64() in:
	kernel/time.c
2011-03-15 18:53:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 9620639b7e Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (26 commits)
  sched: Resched proper CPU on yield_to()
  sched: Allow users with sufficient RLIMIT_NICE to change from SCHED_IDLE policy
  sched: Allow SCHED_BATCH to preempt SCHED_IDLE tasks
  sched: Clean up the IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING code
  sched: Add #ifdef around irq time accounting functions
  sched, autogroup: Stop claiming ownership of the root task group
  sched, autogroup: Stop going ahead if autogroup is disabled
  sched, autogroup, sysctl: Use proc_dointvec_minmax() instead
  sched: Fix the group_imb logic
  sched: Clean up some f_b_g() comments
  sched: Clean up remnants of sd_idle
  sched: Wholesale removal of sd_idle logic
  sched: Add yield_to(task, preempt) functionality
  sched: Use a buddy to implement yield_task_fair()
  sched: Limit the scope of clear_buddies
  sched: Check the right ->nr_running in yield_task_fair()
  sched: Avoid expensive initial update_cfs_load(), on UP too
  sched: Fix switch_from_fair()
  sched: Simplify the idle scheduling class
  softirqs: Account ksoftirqd time as cpustat softirq
  ...
2011-03-15 18:37:30 -07:00
Jens Axboe 73c1010119 block: initial patch for on-stack per-task plugging
This patch adds support for creating a queuing context outside
of the queue itself. This enables us to batch up pieces of IO
before grabbing the block device queue lock and submitting them to
the IO scheduler.

The context is created on the stack of the process and assigned in
the task structure, so that we can auto-unplug it if we hit a schedule
event.

The current queue plugging happens implicitly if IO is submitted to
an empty device, yet callers have to remember to unplug that IO when
they are going to wait for it. This is an ugly API and has caused bugs
in the past. Additionally, it requires hacks in the vm (->sync_page()
callback) to handle that logic. By switching to an explicit plugging
scheme we make the API a lot nicer and can get rid of the ->sync_page()
hack in the vm.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:45:54 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 888a8a3e9d Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core
Merge reason: Pick up updates before queueing up dependent patches.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-04 10:40:25 +01:00
Ingo Molnar d927dc9379 Merge commit 'v2.6.38-rc6' into sched/core
Merge reason: Pick up the latest fixes before queueing up new changes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-23 11:31:38 +01:00
Tejun Heo 58a69cb47e workqueue, freezer: unify spelling of 'freeze' + 'able' to 'freezable'
There are two spellings in use for 'freeze' + 'able' - 'freezable' and
'freezeable'.  The former is the more prominent one.  The latter is
mostly used by workqueue and in a few other odd places.  Unify the
spelling to 'freezable'.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-02-16 17:48:59 +01:00
Mike Galbraith d95f412200 sched: Add yield_to(task, preempt) functionality
Currently only implemented for fair class tasks.

Add a yield_to_task method() to the fair scheduling class. allowing the
caller of yield_to() to accelerate another thread in it's thread group,
task group.

Implemented via a scheduler hint, using cfs_rq->next to encourage the
target being selected.  We can rely on pick_next_entity to keep things
fair, so noone can accelerate a thread that has already used its fair
share of CPU time.

This also means callers should only call yield_to when they really
mean it.  Calling it too often can result in the scheduler just
ignoring the hint.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110201095051.4ddb7738@annuminas.surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-03 14:20:33 +01:00
Rik van Riel ac53db596c sched: Use a buddy to implement yield_task_fair()
Use the buddy mechanism to implement yield_task_fair.  This
allows us to skip onto the next highest priority se at every
level in the CFS tree, unless doing so would introduce gross
unfairness in CPU time distribution.

We order the buddy selection in pick_next_entity to check
yield first, then last, then next.  We need next to be able
to override yield, because it is possible for the "next" and
"yield" task to be different processen in the same sub-tree
of the CFS tree.  When they are, we need to go into that
sub-tree regardless of the "yield" hint, and pick the correct
entity once we get to the right level.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110201095103.3a79e92a@annuminas.surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-03 14:20:33 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra fe4b04fa31 perf: Cure task_oncpu_function_call() races
Oleg reported that on architectures with
__ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW the IPI from
task_oncpu_function_call() can land before perf_event_task_sched_in()
and cause interesting situations for eg. perf_install_in_context().

This patch reworks the task_oncpu_function_call() interface to give a
more usable primitive as well as rework all its users to hopefully be
more obvious as well as remove the races.

While looking at the code I also found a number of races against
perf_event_task_sched_out() which can flip contexts between tasks so
plug those too.

Reported-and-reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-03 12:14:43 +01:00
Torben Hohn e2830b5c1b time: Make do_timer() and xtime_lock local to kernel/time/
All callers of do_timer() are converted to xtime_update(). The only
users of xtime_lock are in kernel/time/. Make both local to
kernel/time/ and remove them from the global header files.

[ tglx: Reuse tick-internal.h instead of creating another local header
  	file. Massaged changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Cc: yong.zhang0@gmail.com
Cc: hch@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-01-31 19:26:50 +01:00
Torben Hohn f0af911a9d time: Provide xtime_update()
xtime_update() takes xtime_lock write locked and calls
do_timer(). Provided to replace the do_timer() calls in the
architecture code.

Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Cc: yong.zhang0@gmail.com
Cc: hch@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <20110127145910.23248.21379.stgit@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-01-31 14:55:43 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra da7a735e51 sched: Fix switch_from_fair()
When a task is taken out of the fair class we must ensure the vruntime
is properly normalized because when we put it back in it will assume
to be normalized.

The case that goes wrong is when changing away from the fair class
while sleeping. Sleeping tasks have non-normalized vruntime in order
to make sleeper-fairness work. So treat the switch away from fair as a
wakeup and preserve the relative vruntime.

Also update sysrq-n to call the ->switch_{to,from} methods.

Reported-by: Onkalo Samu <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-26 12:33:22 +01:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi 4dd53d891c softirqs: Free up pf flag PF_KSOFTIRQD
Cleanup patch, freeing up PF_KSOFTIRQD and use per_cpu ksoftirqd pointer
instead, as suggested by Eric Dumazet.

Tested-by: Shaun Ruffell <sruffell@digium.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1292980144-28796-2-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-26 12:33:20 +01:00
Andrea Arcangeli ba76149f47 thp: khugepaged
Add khugepaged to relocate fragmented pages into hugepages if new
hugepages become available.  (this is indipendent of the defrag logic that
will have to make new hugepages available)

The fundamental reason why khugepaged is unavoidable, is that some memory
can be fragmented and not everything can be relocated.  So when a virtual
machine quits and releases gigabytes of hugepages, we want to use those
freely available hugepages to create huge-pmd in the other virtual
machines that may be running on fragmented memory, to maximize the CPU
efficiency at all times.  The scan is slow, it takes nearly zero cpu time,
except when it copies data (in which case it means we definitely want to
pay for that cpu time) so it seems a good tradeoff.

In addition to the hugepages being released by other process releasing
memory, we have the strong suspicion that the performance impact of
potentially defragmenting hugepages during or before each page fault could
lead to more performance inconsistency than allocating small pages at
first and having them collapsed into large pages later...  if they prove
themselfs to be long lived mappings (khugepaged scan is slow so short
lived mappings have low probability to run into khugepaged if compared to
long lived mappings).

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:43 -08:00
Mandeep Singh Baines dabb16f639 oom: allow a non-CAP_SYS_RESOURCE proces to oom_score_adj down
We'd like to be able to oom_score_adj a process up/down as it
enters/leaves the foreground.  Currently, it is not possible to oom_adj
down without CAP_SYS_RESOURCE.  This patch allows a task to decrease its
oom_score_adj back to the value that a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE thread set it to
or its inherited value at fork.  Assuming the thread that has forked it
has oom_score_adj of 0, each process could decrease it back from 0 upon
activation unless a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE thread elevated it to something
higher.

Alternative considered:

* a setuid binary
* a daemon with CAP_SYS_RESOURCE

Since you don't wan't all processes to be able to reduce their oom_adj, a
setuid or daemon implementation would be complex.  The alternatives also
have much higher overhead.

This patch updated from original patch based on feedback from David
Rientjes.

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:35 -08:00
Dave Jones 43bb40c9e3 sched: remove long deprecated CLONE_STOPPED flag
This warning was added in commit bdff746a39 ("clone: prepare to recycle
CLONE_STOPPED") three years ago.  2.6.26 came and went.  As far as I know,
no-one is actually using CLONE_STOPPED.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:31 -08:00
Robin Holt 52bd19f769 epoll: convert max_user_watches to long
On a 16TB machine, max_user_watches has an integer overflow.  Convert it
to use a long and handle the associated fallout.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:12 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan 57cc7215b7 headers: kobject.h redux
Remove kobject.h from files which don't need it, notably,
sched.h and fs.h.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-10 08:51:44 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan 37721e1b0c headers: path.h redux
Remove path.h from sched.h and other files.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-10 08:51:44 -08:00
Yong Zhang 07e06b011d sched: Consolidate the name of root_task_group and init_task_group
root_task_group is the leftover of USER_SCHED, now it's always
same to init_task_group.
But as Mike suggested, root_task_group is maybe the suitable name
to keep for a tree.
So in this patch:
  init_task_group      --> root_task_group
  init_task_group_load --> root_task_group_load
  INIT_TASK_GROUP_LOAD --> ROOT_TASK_GROUP_LOAD

Suggested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110107071736.GA32635@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-07 15:54:34 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 65b2074f84 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (30 commits)
  sched: Change wait_for_completion_*_timeout() to return a signed long
  sched, autogroup: Fix reference leak
  sched, autogroup: Fix potential access to freed memory
  sched: Remove redundant CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED ifdef
  sched: Fix interactivity bug by charging unaccounted run-time on entity re-weight
  sched: Move periodic share updates to entity_tick()
  printk: Use this_cpu_{read|write} api on printk_pending
  sched: Make pushable_tasks CONFIG_SMP dependant
  sched: Add 'autogroup' scheduling feature: automated per session task groups
  sched: Fix unregister_fair_sched_group()
  sched: Remove unused argument dest_cpu to migrate_task()
  mutexes, sched: Introduce arch_mutex_cpu_relax()
  sched: Add some clock info to sched_debug
  cpu: Remove incorrect BUG_ON
  cpu: Remove unused variable
  sched: Fix UP build breakage
  sched: Make task dump print all 15 chars of proc comm
  sched: Update tg->shares after cpu.shares write
  sched: Allow update_cfs_load() to update global load
  sched: Implement demand based update_cfs_load()
  ...
2011-01-06 10:23:33 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 28d9bfc37c Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (146 commits)
  tools, perf: Documentation for the power events API
  perf: Add calls to suspend trace point
  perf script: Make some lists static
  perf script: Use the default lost event handler
  perf session: Warn about errors when processing pipe events too
  perf tools: Fix perf_event.h header usage
  perf test: Clarify some error reports in the open syscall test
  x86, NMI: Add touch_nmi_watchdog to io_check_error delay
  x86: Avoid calling arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() at the same time
  x86: Only call smp_processor_id in non-preempt cases
  perf timechart: Adjust perf timechart to the new power events
  perf: Clean up power events by introducing new, more generic ones
  perf: Do not export power_frequency, but power_start event
  perf test: Add test for counting open syscalls
  perf evsel: Auto allocate resources needed for some methods
  perf evsel: Use {cpu,thread}_map to shorten list of parameters
  perf tools: Refactor all_tids to hold nr and the map
  perf tools: Refactor cpumap to hold nr and the map
  perf evsel: Introduce per cpu and per thread open helpers
  perf evsel: Steal the counter reading routines from stat
  ...
2011-01-06 10:17:26 -08:00
Ingo Molnar 27066fd484 Merge commit 'v2.6.37' into sched/core
Merge reason: Merge the final .37 tree.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-05 14:14:46 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 394f4528c5 Merge branch 'rcu/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu into core/rcu 2010-12-23 12:57:04 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 6c529a266b Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc7' into perf/core
Merge reason: Pick up the latest -rc.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-22 11:53:23 +01:00
Dario Faggioli 806c09a7db sched: Make pushable_tasks CONFIG_SMP dependant
As noted by Peter Zijlstra at https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/10/391
(while reviewing other stuff, though), tracking pushable tasks
only makes sense on SMP systems.

Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1291143093.2697.298.camel@Palantir>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-08 20:16:00 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 0f004f5a69 sched: Cure more NO_HZ load average woes
There's a long-running regression that proved difficult to fix and
which is hitting certain people and is rather annoying in its effects.

Damien reported that after 74f5187ac8 (sched: Cure load average vs
NO_HZ woes) his load average is unnaturally high, he also noted that
even with that patch reverted the load avgerage numbers are not
correct.

The problem is that the previous patch only solved half the NO_HZ
problem, it addressed the part of going into NO_HZ mode, not of
comming out of NO_HZ mode. This patch implements that missing half.

When comming out of NO_HZ mode there are two important things to take
care of:

 - Folding the pending idle delta into the global active count.
 - Correctly aging the averages for the idle-duration.

So with this patch the NO_HZ interaction should be complete and
behaviour between CONFIG_NO_HZ=[yn] should be equivalent.

Furthermore, this patch slightly changes the load average computation
by adding a rounding term to the fixed point multiplication.

Reported-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
Reported-by: Tim McGrath <tmhikaru@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
Tested-by: Orion Poplawski <orion@cora.nwra.com>
Tested-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
LKML-Reference: <1291129145.32004.874.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-08 20:15:04 +01:00
Mike Galbraith 5091faa449 sched: Add 'autogroup' scheduling feature: automated per session task groups
A recurring complaint from CFS users is that parallel kbuild has
a negative impact on desktop interactivity.  This patch
implements an idea from Linus, to automatically create task
groups.  Currently, only per session autogroups are implemented,
but the patch leaves the way open for enhancement.

Implementation: each task's signal struct contains an inherited
pointer to a refcounted autogroup struct containing a task group
pointer, the default for all tasks pointing to the
init_task_group.  When a task calls setsid(), a new task group
is created, the process is moved into the new task group, and a
reference to the preveious task group is dropped.  Child
processes inherit this task group thereafter, and increase it's
refcount.  When the last thread of a process exits, the
process's reference is dropped, such that when the last process
referencing an autogroup exits, the autogroup is destroyed.

At runqueue selection time, IFF a task has no cgroup assignment,
its current autogroup is used.

Autogroup bandwidth is controllable via setting it's nice level
through the proc filesystem:

  cat /proc/<pid>/autogroup

Displays the task's group and the group's nice level.

  echo <nice level> > /proc/<pid>/autogroup

Sets the task group's shares to the weight of nice <level> task.
Setting nice level is rate limited for !admin users due to the
abuse risk of task group locking.

The feature is enabled from boot by default if
CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y is selected, but can be disabled via
the boot option noautogroup, and can also be turned on/off on
the fly via:

  echo [01] > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_autogroup_enabled

... which will automatically move tasks to/from the root task group.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
[ Removed the task_group_path() debug code, and fixed !EVENTFD build failure. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1290281700.28711.9.camel@maggy.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-30 16:03:35 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney 24278d1483 rcu: priority boosting for TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
Add priority boosting, but only for TINY_PREEMPT_RCU.  This is enabled
by the default-off RCU_BOOST kernel parameter.  The priority to which to
boost preempted RCU readers is controlled by the RCU_BOOST_PRIO kernel
parameter (defaulting to real-time priority 1) and the time to wait
before boosting the readers blocking a given grace period is controlled
by the RCU_BOOST_DELAY kernel parameter (defaulting to 500 milliseconds).

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-11-29 22:01:54 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra 004417a6d4 perf, arch: Cleanup perf-pmu init vs lockup-detector
The perf hardware pmu got initialized at various points in the boot,
some before early_initcall() some after (notably arch_initcall).

The problem is that the NMI lockup detector is ran from early_initcall()
and expects the hardware pmu to be present.

Sanitize this by moving all architecture hardware pmu implementations to
initialize at early_initcall() and move the lockup detector to an explicit
initcall right after that.

Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: davem <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1290707759.2145.119.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-26 15:14:56 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 22a867d817 Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc3' into sched/core
Merge reason: Pick up latest fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-26 15:05:21 +01:00
Paul Turner a7a4f8a752 sched: Add sysctl_sched_shares_window
Introduce a new sysctl for the shares window and disambiguate it from
sched_time_avg.

A 10ms window appears to be a good compromise between accuracy and performance.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234938.112173964@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:27:49 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 2069dd75c7 sched: Rewrite tg_shares_up)
By tracking a per-cpu load-avg for each cfs_rq and folding it into a
global task_group load on each tick we can rework tg_shares_up to be
strictly per-cpu.

This should improve cpu-cgroup performance for smp systems
significantly.

[ Paul: changed to use queueing cfs_rq + bug fixes ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234937.580480400@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:27:46 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 48c5ccae88 sched: Simplify cpu-hot-unplug task migration
While discussing the need for sched_idle_next(), Oleg remarked that
since try_to_wake_up() ensures sleeping tasks will end up running on a
sane cpu, we can do away with migrate_live_tasks().

If we then extend the existing hack of migrating current from
CPU_DYING to migrating the full rq worth of tasks from CPU_DYING, the
need for the sched_idle_next() abomination disappears as well, since
idle will be the only possible thread left after the migration thread
stops.

This greatly simplifies the hot-unplug task migration path, as can be
seen from the resulting code reduction (and about half the new lines
are comments).

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1289851597.2109.547.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:27:46 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 92fd4d4d67 Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc2' into sched/core
Merge reason: Move to a .37-rc base.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:22:26 +01:00
Suresh Siddha aae6d3ddd8 sched: Use group weight, idle cpu metrics to fix imbalances during idle
Currently we consider a sched domain to be well balanced when the imbalance
is less than the domain's imablance_pct. As the number of cores and threads
are increasing, current values of imbalance_pct (for example 25% for a
NUMA domain) are not enough to detect imbalances like:

a) On a WSM-EP system (two sockets, each having 6 cores and 12 logical threads),
24 cpu-hogging tasks get scheduled as 13 on one socket and 11 on another
socket. Leading to an idle HT cpu.

b) On a hypothetial 2 socket NHM-EX system (each socket having 8 cores and
16 logical threads), 16 cpu-hogging tasks can get scheduled as 9 on one
socket and 7 on another socket. Leaving one core in a socket idle
whereas in another socket we have a core having both its HT siblings busy.

While this issue can be fixed by decreasing the domain's imbalance_pct
(by making it a function of number of logical cpus in the domain), it
can potentially cause more task migrations across sched groups in an
overloaded case.

Fix this by using imbalance_pct only during newly_idle and busy
load balancing. And during idle load balancing, check if there
is an imbalance in number of idle cpu's across the busiest and this
sched_group or if the busiest group has more tasks than its weight that
the idle cpu in this_group can pull.

Reported-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1284760952.2676.11.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-10 23:13:56 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 1792f17b72 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify
* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify: (22 commits)
  Ensure FMODE_NONOTIFY is not set by userspace
  make fanotify_read() restartable across signals
  fsnotify: remove alignment padding from fsnotify_mark on 64 bit builds
  fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c: fix warnings
  fanotify: Fix FAN_CLOSE comments
  fanotify: do not recalculate the mask if the ignored mask changed
  fanotify: ignore events on directories unless specifically requested
  fsnotify: rename FS_IN_ISDIR to FS_ISDIR
  fanotify: do not send events for irregular files
  fanotify: limit number of listeners per user
  fanotify: allow userspace to override max marks
  fanotify: limit the number of marks in a single fanotify group
  fanotify: allow userspace to override max queue depth
  fsnotify: implement a default maximum queue depth
  fanotify: ignore fanotify ignore marks if open writers
  fanotify: allow userspace to flush all marks
  fsnotify: call fsnotify_parent in perm events
  fsnotify: correctly handle return codes from listeners
  fanotify: use __aligned_u64 in fanotify userspace metadata
  fanotify: implement fanotify listener ordering
  ...
2010-10-30 11:50:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 37542b6a7e 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_stat: Update sched_info_queue/dequeue() code comments
  sched, cgroup: Fixup broken cgroup movement
2010-10-29 08:05:33 -07:00
Eric Paris 4afeff8505 fanotify: limit number of listeners per user
fanotify currently has no limit on the number of listeners a given user can
have open.  This patch limits the total number of listeners per user to
128.  This is the same as the inotify default limit.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-10-28 17:22:15 -04:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 9b1bf12d5d signals: move cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct
Oleg Nesterov pointed out we have to prevent multiple-threads-inside-exec
itself and we can reuse ->cred_guard_mutex for it.  Yes, concurrent
execve() has no worth.

Let's move ->cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct.  It
naturally prevent multiple-threads-inside-exec.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-27 18:03:12 -07:00
Namhyung Kim b8ed374e20 signals: annotate lock_task_sighand()
lock_task_sighand() grabs sighand->siglock in case of returning non-NULL
but unlock_task_sighand() releases it unconditionally.  This leads sparse
to complain about the lock context imbalance.  Rename and wrap
lock_task_sighand() using __cond_lock() macro to make sparse happy.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-27 18:03:12 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 766f916419 kernel: remove PF_FLUSHER
PF_FLUSHER is only ever set, not tested, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26 16:52:15 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro fe7de49f9d sched: Make sched_param argument static in sched_setscheduler() callers
Andrew Morton pointed out almost all sched_setscheduler() callers are
using fixed parameters and can be converted to static.  It reduces runtime
memory use a little.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-23 17:56:48 +02:00
Linus Torvalds e9dd2b6837 Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.37/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (39 commits)
  cfq-iosched: Fix a gcc 4.5 warning and put some comments
  block: Turn bvec_k{un,}map_irq() into static inline functions
  block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges
  block: Make the integrity mapped property a bio flag
  block: Fix double free in blk_integrity_unregister
  block: Ensure physical block size is unsigned int
  blkio-throttle: Fix possible multiplication overflow in iops calculations
  blkio-throttle: limit max iops value to UINT_MAX
  blkio-throttle: There is no need to convert jiffies to milli seconds
  blkio-throttle: Fix link failure failure on i386
  blkio: Recalculate the throttled bio dispatch time upon throttle limit change
  blkio: Add root group to td->tg_list
  blkio: deletion of a cgroup was causes oops
  blkio: Do not export throttle files if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=n
  block: set the bounce_pfn to the actual DMA limit rather than to max memory
  block: revert bad fix for memory hotplug causing bounces
  Fix compile error in blk-exec.c for !CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK
  block: set the bounce_pfn to the actual DMA limit rather than to max memory
  block: Prevent hang_check firing during long I/O
  cfq: improve fsync performance for small files
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts due to __rcu sparse annotation in include/linux/genhd.h
2010-10-22 17:00:32 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra b2b5ce022a sched, cgroup: Fixup broken cgroup movement
Dima noticed that we fail to correct the ->vruntime of sleeping tasks
when we move them between cgroups.

Reported-by: Dima Zavin <dima@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1287150604.29097.1513.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-22 14:16:45 +02:00
Linus Torvalds bc4016f481 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (29 commits)
  sched: Export account_system_vtime()
  sched: Call tick_check_idle before __irq_enter
  sched: Remove irq time from available CPU power
  sched: Do not account irq time to current task
  x86: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
  sched: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING, finer accounting of irq time
  sched: Add a PF flag for ksoftirqd identification
  sched: Consolidate account_system_vtime extern declaration
  sched: Fix softirq time accounting
  sched: Drop group_capacity to 1 only if local group has extra capacity
  sched: Force balancing on newidle balance if local group has capacity
  sched: Set group_imb only a task can be pulled from the busiest cpu
  sched: Do not consider SCHED_IDLE tasks to be cache hot
  sched: Drop all load weight manipulation for RT tasks
  sched: Create special class for stop/migrate work
  sched: Unindent labels
  sched: Comment updates: fix default latency and granularity numbers
  tracing/sched: Add sched_pi_setprio tracepoint
  sched: Give CPU bound RT tasks preference
  sched: Try not to migrate higher priority RT tasks
  ...
2010-10-21 12:55:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5d70f79b5e Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (163 commits)
  tracing: Fix compile issue for trace_sched_wakeup.c
  [S390] hardirq: remove pointless header file includes
  [IA64] Move local_softirq_pending() definition
  perf, powerpc: Fix power_pmu_event_init to not use event->ctx
  ftrace: Remove recursion between recordmcount and scripts/mod/empty
  jump_label: Add COND_STMT(), reducer wrappery
  perf: Optimize sw events
  perf: Use jump_labels to optimize the scheduler hooks
  jump_label: Add atomic_t interface
  jump_label: Use more consistent naming
  perf, hw_breakpoint: Fix crash in hw_breakpoint creation
  perf: Find task before event alloc
  perf: Fix task refcount bugs
  perf: Fix group moving
  irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks
  perf_events: Fix transaction recovery in group_sched_in()
  perf_events: Fix bogus AMD64 generic TLB events
  perf_events: Fix bogus context time tracking
  tracing: Remove parent recording in latency tracer graph options
  tracing: Use one prologue for the preempt irqs off tracer function tracers
  ...
2010-10-21 12:54:49 -07:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi b52bfee445 sched: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING, finer accounting of irq time
s390/powerpc/ia64 have support for CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING which does
the fine granularity accounting of user, system, hardirq, softirq times.
Adding that option on archs like x86 will be challenging however, given the
state of TSC reliability on various platforms and also the overhead it will
add in syscall entry exit.

Instead, add a lighter variant that only does finer accounting of
hardirq and softirq times, providing precise irq times (instead of timer tick
based samples). This accounting is added with a new config option
CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING so that there won't be any overhead for users not
interested in paying the perf penalty.

This accounting is based on sched_clock, with the code being generic.
So, other archs may find it useful as well.

This patch just adds the core logic and does not enable this logic yet.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-5-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 20:52:24 +02:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi 6cdd5199da sched: Add a PF flag for ksoftirqd identification
To account softirq time cleanly in scheduler, we need to identify whether
softirq is invoked in ksoftirqd context or softirq at hardirq tail context.
Add PF_KSOFTIRQD for that purpose.

As all PF flag bits are currently taken, create space by moving one of the
infrequently used bits (PF_THREAD_BOUND) down in task_struct to be along
with some other state fields.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-4-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 20:52:22 +02:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi 75e1056f5c sched: Fix softirq time accounting
Peter Zijlstra found a bug in the way softirq time is accounted in
VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING on this thread:

   http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail//linux/kernel/1009.2/01366.html

The problem is, softirq processing uses local_bh_disable internally. There
is no way, later in the flow, to differentiate between whether softirq is
being processed or is it just that bh has been disabled. So, a hardirq when bh
is disabled results in time being wrongly accounted as softirq.

Looking at the code a bit more, the problem exists in !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
as well. As account_system_time() in normal tick based accouting also uses
softirq_count, which will be set even when not in softirq with bh disabled.

Peter also suggested solution of using 2*SOFTIRQ_OFFSET as irq count
for local_bh_{disable,enable} and using just SOFTIRQ_OFFSET while softirq
processing. The patch below does that and adds API in_serving_softirq() which
returns whether we are currently processing softirq or not.

Also changes one of the usages of softirq_count in net/sched/cls_cgroup.c
to in_serving_softirq.

Looks like many usages of in_softirq really want in_serving_softirq. Those
changes can be made individually on a case by case basis.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-2-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 20:52:20 +02:00
Mark Lord e4ecda1b60 Fix compile error in blk-exec.c for !CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK
Ensure that 'sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs' is defined
even when CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is not set.
This way we can safely reference it without need for
ifdefs in the code elsewhere.  eg. in block/blk-exec.c

Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-25 11:17:22 +02:00
Dave Young 637bbdc5b8 sched: Remove unused PF_ALIGNWARN flag
PF_ALIGNWARN is not implemented and it is for 486 as the
comment.

It is not likely someone will implement this flag feature.
So here remove this flag and leave the valuable 0x00000001 for
future use.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100913121903.GB22238@darkstar>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-13 20:39:08 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 89a1e18731 perf: Provide a separate task context for swevents
Since software events are always schedulable, mixing them up with
hardware events (who are not) can lead to funny scheduling oddities.

Giving them their own context solves this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-09 20:46:34 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 8dc85d5472 perf: Multiple task contexts
Provide the infrastructure for multiple task contexts.

A more flexible approach would have resulted in more pointer chases
in the scheduling hot-paths. This approach has the limitation of a
static number of task contexts.

Since I expect most external PMUs to be system wide, or at least node
wide (as per the intel uncore unit) they won't actually need a task
context.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-09 20:46:33 +02:00
Heiko Carstens 01a08546af sched: Add book scheduling domain
On top of the SMT and MC scheduling domains this adds the BOOK scheduling
domain. This is useful for NUMA like machines which do not have an interface
which tells which piece of memory is attached to which node or where the
hardware performs striping.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100831082844.253053798@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-09 20:41:20 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney a57eb940d1 rcu: Add a TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
Implement a small-memory-footprint uniprocessor-only implementation of
preemptible RCU.  This implementation uses but a single blocked-tasks
list rather than the combinatorial number used per leaf rcu_node by
TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, which reduces memory consumption and greatly simplifies
processing.  This version also takes advantage of uniprocessor execution
to accelerate grace periods in the case where there are no readers.

The general design is otherwise broadly similar to that of TREE_PREEMPT_RCU.

This implementation is a step towards having RCU implementation driven
off of the SMP and PREEMPT kernel configuration variables, which can
happen once this implementation has accumulated sufficient experience.

Removed ACCESS_ONCE() from __rcu_read_unlock() and added barrier() as
suggested by Steve Rostedt in order to avoid the compiler-reordering
issue noted by Mathieu Desnoyers (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/16/183).

As can be seen below, CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU represents almost 5Kbyte
savings compared to CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU.  Of course, for non-real-time
workloads, CONFIG_TINY_RCU is even better.

	CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	   filename
	     13	      0	      0	     13	   kernel/rcupdate.o
	   6170	    825	     28	   7023	   kernel/rcutree.o
				   ----
				   7026    Total

	CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	   filename
	     13	      0	      0	     13	   kernel/rcupdate.o
	   2081	     81	      8	   2170	   kernel/rcutiny.o
				   ----
				   2183    Total

	CONFIG_TINY_RCU (non-preemptible)

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	   filename
	     13	      0	      0	     13	   kernel/rcupdate.o
	    719	     25	      0	    744	   kernel/rcutiny.o
				    ---
				    757    Total

Requested-by: Loïc Minier <loic.minier@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-20 08:55:00 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann 1b0ba1c903 credentials: rcu annotation
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2010-08-19 17:18:00 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann 2c392b8c34 cgroups: __rcu annotations
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2010-08-19 17:18:00 -07:00
David Howells d7627467b7 Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer
Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
correctly on ARM:

arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to.  This is
because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
copy_strings_kernel().  A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().

do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
const should be fine.

Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.

This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-17 18:07:43 -07:00
David Rientjes a63d83f427 oom: badness heuristic rewrite
This a complete rewrite of the oom killer's badness() heuristic which is
used to determine which task to kill in oom conditions.  The goal is to
make it as simple and predictable as possible so the results are better
understood and we end up killing the task which will lead to the most
memory freeing while still respecting the fine-tuning from userspace.

Instead of basing the heuristic on mm->total_vm for each task, the task's
rss and swap space is used instead.  This is a better indication of the
amount of memory that will be freeable if the oom killed task is chosen
and subsequently exits.  This helps specifically in cases where KDE or
GNOME is chosen for oom kill on desktop systems instead of a memory
hogging task.

The baseline for the heuristic is a proportion of memory that each task is
currently using in memory plus swap compared to the amount of "allowable"
memory.  "Allowable," in this sense, means the system-wide resources for
unconstrained oom conditions, the set of mempolicy nodes, the mems
attached to current's cpuset, or a memory controller's limit.  The
proportion is given on a scale of 0 (never kill) to 1000 (always kill),
roughly meaning that if a task has a badness() score of 500 that the task
consumes approximately 50% of allowable memory resident in RAM or in swap
space.

The proportion is always relative to the amount of "allowable" memory and
not the total amount of RAM systemwide so that mempolicies and cpusets may
operate in isolation; they shall not need to know the true size of the
machine on which they are running if they are bound to a specific set of
nodes or mems, respectively.

Root tasks are given 3% extra memory just like __vm_enough_memory()
provides in LSMs.  In the event of two tasks consuming similar amounts of
memory, it is generally better to save root's task.

Because of the change in the badness() heuristic's baseline, it is also
necessary to introduce a new user interface to tune it.  It's not possible
to redefine the meaning of /proc/pid/oom_adj with a new scale since the
ABI cannot be changed for backward compatability.  Instead, a new tunable,
/proc/pid/oom_score_adj, is added that ranges from -1000 to +1000.  It may
be used to polarize the heuristic such that certain tasks are never
considered for oom kill while others may always be considered.  The value
is added directly into the badness() score so a value of -500, for
example, means to discount 50% of its memory consumption in comparison to
other tasks either on the system, bound to the mempolicy, in the cpuset,
or sharing the same memory controller.

/proc/pid/oom_adj is changed so that its meaning is rescaled into the
units used by /proc/pid/oom_score_adj, and vice versa.  Changing one of
these per-task tunables will rescale the value of the other to an
equivalent meaning.  Although /proc/pid/oom_adj was originally defined as
a bitshift on the badness score, it now shares the same linear growth as
/proc/pid/oom_score_adj but with different granularity.  This is required
so the ABI is not broken with userspace applications and allows oom_adj to
be deprecated for future removal.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09 20:45:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds c4efd6b569 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (27 commits)
  sched: Use correct macro to display sched_child_runs_first in /proc/sched_debug
  sched: No need for bootmem special cases
  sched: Revert nohz_ratelimit() for now
  sched: Reduce update_group_power() calls
  sched: Update rq->clock for nohz balanced cpus
  sched: Fix spelling of sibling
  sched, cpuset: Drop __cpuexit from cpu hotplug callbacks
  sched: Fix the racy usage of thread_group_cputimer() in fastpath_timer_check()
  sched: run_posix_cpu_timers: Don't check ->exit_state, use lock_task_sighand()
  sched: thread_group_cputime: Simplify, document the "alive" check
  sched: Remove the obsolete exit_state/signal hacks
  sched: task_tick_rt: Remove the obsolete ->signal != NULL check
  sched: __sched_setscheduler: Read the RLIMIT_RTPRIO value lockless
  sched: Fix comments to make them DocBook happy
  sched: Fix fix_small_capacity
  powerpc: Exclude arch_sd_sibiling_asym_packing() on UP
  powerpc: Enable asymmetric SMT scheduling on POWER7
  sched: Add asymmetric group packing option for sibling domain
  sched: Fix capacity calculations for SMT4
  sched: Change nohz idle load balancing logic to push model
  ...
2010-08-06 09:39:22 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 0bcfe75807 Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core
Conflicts:
	include/linux/sched.h

Merge reason: Add the leftover .35 urgent bits, fix the conflict.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-05 09:46:29 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 61be7fdec2 Merge branch 'perf/nmi' into perf/core
Conflicts:
	kernel/Makefile

Merge reason: Add the now complete topic, fix the conflict.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-05 08:45:05 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 3772b73472 Merge commit 'v2.6.35' into perf/core
Conflicts:
	tools/perf/Makefile
	tools/perf/util/hist.c

Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts and update to latest upstream.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-02 08:31:54 +02:00
David Howells 8f92054e7c CRED: Fix __task_cred()'s lockdep check and banner comment
Fix __task_cred()'s lockdep check by removing the following validation
condition:

	lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held()

as commit_creds() does not take the tasklist_lock, and nor do most of the
functions that call it, so this check is pointless and it can prevent
detection of the RCU lock not being held if the tasklist_lock is held.

Instead, add the following validation condition:

	task->exit_state >= 0

to permit the access if the target task is dead and therefore unable to change
its own credentials.

Fix __task_cred()'s comment to:

 (1) discard the bit that says that the caller must prevent the target task
     from being deleted.  That shouldn't need saying.

 (2) Add a comment indicating the result of __task_cred() should not be passed
     directly to get_cred(), but rather than get_task_cred() should be used
     instead.

Also put a note into the documentation to enforce this point there too.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-07-29 15:16:18 -07:00
Ingo Molnar dca45ad8af Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Merge reason: Move from the -rc3 to the almost-rc6 base.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-21 21:45:08 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker eb7beb5c09 tracing: Remove special traces
Special traces type was only used by sysprof. Lets remove it now
that sysprof ftrace plugin has been dropped.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-07-20 14:31:07 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 396e894d28 sched: Revert nohz_ratelimit() for now
Norbert reported that nohz_ratelimit() causes his laptop to burn about
4W (40%) extra. For now back out the change and see if we can adjust
the power management code to make better decisions.

Reported-by: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-17 12:05:44 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 8c215bd389 sched: Cure nr_iowait_cpu() users
Commit 0224cf4c5e (sched: Intoduce get_cpu_iowait_time_us())
broke things by not making sure preemption was indeed disabled
by the callers of nr_iowait_cpu() which took the iowait value of
the current cpu.

This resulted in a heap of preempt warnings. Cure this by making
nr_iowait_cpu() take a cpu number and fix up the callers to pass
in the right number.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
LKML-Reference: <1277968037.1868.120.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-01 09:39:48 +02:00
Michael Neuling 532cb4c401 sched: Add asymmetric group packing option for sibling domain
Check to see if the group is packed in a sched doman.

This is primarily intended to used at the sibling level.  Some cores
like POWER7 prefer to use lower numbered SMT threads.  In the case of
POWER7, it can move to lower SMT modes only when higher threads are
idle.  When in lower SMT modes, the threads will perform better since
they share less core resources.  Hence when we have idle threads, we
want them to be the higher ones.

This adds a hook into f_b_g() called check_asym_packing() to check the
packing.  This packing function is run on idle threads.  It checks to
see if the busiest CPU in this domain (core in the P7 case) has a
higher CPU number than what where the packing function is being run
on.  If it is, calculate the imbalance and return the higher busier
thread as the busiest group to f_b_g().  Here we are assuming a lower
CPU number will be equivalent to a lower SMT thread number.

It also creates a new SD_ASYM_PACKING flag to enable this feature at
any scheduler domain level.

It also creates an arch hook to enable this feature at the sibling
level.  The default function doesn't enable this feature.

Based heavily on patch from Peter Zijlstra.
Fixes from Srivatsa Vaddagiri.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <20100608045702.2936CCC897@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-09 10:34:55 +02:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri 9d5efe05eb sched: Fix capacity calculations for SMT4
Handle cpu capacity being reported as 0 on cores with more number of
hardware threads. For example on a Power7 core with 4 hardware
threads, core power is 1177 and thus power of each hardware thread is
1177/4 = 294. This low power can lead to capacity for each hardware
thread being calculated as 0, which leads to tasks bouncing within the
core madly!

Fix this by reporting capacity for hardware threads as 1, provided
their power is not scaled down significantly because of frequency
scaling or real-time tasks usage of cpu.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100608045702.21D03CC895@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-09 10:34:54 +02:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi 83cd4fe27a sched: Change nohz idle load balancing logic to push model
In the new push model, all idle CPUs indeed go into nohz mode. There is
still the concept of idle load balancer (performing the load balancing
on behalf of all the idle cpu's in the system). Busy CPU kicks the nohz
balancer when any of the nohz CPUs need idle load balancing.
The kickee CPU does the idle load balancing on behalf of all idle CPUs
instead of the normal idle balance.

This addresses the below two problems with the current nohz ilb logic:
* the idle load balancer continued to have periodic ticks during idle and
  wokeup frequently, even though it did not have any rebalancing to do on
  behalf of any of the idle CPUs.
* On x86 and CPUs that have APIC timer stoppage on idle CPUs, this
  periodic wakeup can result in a periodic additional interrupt on a CPU
  doing the timer broadcast.

Also currently we are migrating the unpinned timers from an idle to the cpu
doing idle load balancing (when all the cpus in the system are idle,
there is no idle load balancing cpu and timers get added to the same idle cpu
where the request was made. So the existing optimization works only on semi idle
system).

And In semi idle system, we no longer have periodic ticks on the idle load
balancer CPU. Using that cpu will add more delays to the timers than intended
(as that cpu's timer base may not be uptodate wrt jiffies etc). This was
causing mysterious slowdowns during boot etc.

For now, in the semi idle case, use the nearest busy cpu for migrating timers
from an idle cpu.  This is good for power-savings anyway.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <1274486981.2840.46.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-09 10:34:52 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra c676329abb sched_clock: Add local_clock() API and improve documentation
For people who otherwise get to write: cpu_clock(smp_processor_id()),
there is now: local_clock().

Also, as per suggestion from Andrew, provide some documentation on
the various clock interfaces, and minimize the unsigned long long vs
u64 mess.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
LKML-Reference: <1275052414.1645.52.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-09 10:34:49 +02:00
Tejun Heo 21aa9af03d sched: add hooks for workqueue
Concurrency managed workqueue needs to know when workers are going to
sleep and waking up.  Using these two hooks, cmwq keeps track of the
current concurrency level and throttles execution of new works if it's
too high and wakes up another worker from the sleep hook if it becomes
too low.

This patch introduces PF_WQ_WORKER to identify workqueue workers and
adds the following two hooks.

* wq_worker_waking_up(): called when a worker is woken up.

* wq_worker_sleeping(): called when a worker is going to sleep and may
  return a pointer to a local task which should be woken up.  The
  returned task is woken up using try_to_wake_up_local() which is
  simplified ttwu which is called under rq lock and can only wake up
  local tasks.

Both hooks are currently defined as noop in kernel/workqueue_sched.h.
Later cmwq implementation will replace them with proper
implementation.

These hooks are hard coded as they'll always be enabled.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-08 21:40:37 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov b3ac022cb9 proc: turn signal_struct->count into "int nr_threads"
No functional changes, just s/atomic_t count/int nr_threads/.

With the recent changes this counter has a single user, get_nr_threads()
And, none of its callers need the really accurate number of threads, not
to mention each caller obviously races with fork/exit.  It is only used to
report this value to the user-space, except first_tid() uses it to avoid
the unnecessary while_each_thread() loop in the unlikely case.

It is a bit sad we need a word in struct signal_struct for this, perhaps
we can change get_nr_threads() to approximate the number of threads using
signal->live and kill ->nr_threads later.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:47 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 7e49827cc9 proc: get_nr_threads() doesn't need ->siglock any longer
Now that task->signal can't go away get_nr_threads() doesn't need
->siglock to read signal->count.

Also, make it inline, move into sched.h, and convert 2 other proc users of
signal->count to use this (now trivial) helper.

Henceforth get_nr_threads() is the only valid user of signal->count, we
are ready to turn it into "int nr_threads" or, perhaps, kill it.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:47 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov a705be6b5e kill the obsolete thread_group_cputime_free() helper
Kill the empty thread_group_cputime_free() helper.  It was needed to free
the per-cpu data which we no longer have.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:46 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov b7b8ff6373 signals: kill the awful task_rq_unlock_wait() hack
Now that task->signal can't go away we can revert the horrible hack added
by ad474caca3 ("fix for
account_group_exec_runtime(), make sure ->signal can't be freed under
rq->lock").

And we can do more cleanups sched_stats.h/posix-cpu-timers.c later.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:46 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov ea6d290ca3 signals: make task_struct->signal immutable/refcountable
We have a lot of problems with accessing task_struct->signal, it can
"disappear" at any moment.  Even current can't use its ->signal safely
after exit_notify().  ->siglock helps, but it is not convenient, not
always possible, and sometimes it makes sense to use task->signal even
after this task has already dead.

This patch adds the reference counter, sigcnt, into signal_struct.  This
reference is owned by task_struct and it is dropped in
__put_task_struct().  Perhaps it makes sense to export
get/put_signal_struct() later, but currently I don't see the immediate
reason.

Rename __cleanup_signal() to free_signal_struct() and unexport it.  With
the previous changes it does nothing except kmem_cache_free().

Change __exit_signal() to not clear/free ->signal, it will be freed when
the last reference to any thread in the thread group goes away.

Note:
	- when the last thead exits signal->tty can point to nowhere, see
	  the next patch.

	- with or without this patch signal_struct->count should go away,
	  or at least it should be "int nr_threads" for fs/proc. This will
	  be addressed later.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:46 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 09faef11df exit: change zap_other_threads() to count sub-threads
Change zap_other_threads() to return the number of other sub-threads found
on ->thread_group list.

Other changes are cosmetic:

	- change the code to use while_each_thread() helper

	- remove the obsolete comment about SIGKILL/SIGSTOP

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:46 -07:00
Jack Steiner 6adef3ebe5 cpusets: new round-robin rotor for SLAB allocations
We have observed several workloads running on multi-node systems where
memory is assigned unevenly across the nodes in the system.  There are
numerous reasons for this but one is the round-robin rotor in
cpuset_mem_spread_node().

For example, a simple test that writes a multi-page file will allocate
pages on nodes 0 2 4 6 ...  Odd nodes are skipped.  (Sometimes it
allocates on odd nodes & skips even nodes).

An example is shown below.  The program "lfile" writes a file consisting
of 10 pages.  The program then mmaps the file & uses get_mempolicy(...,
MPOL_F_NODE) to determine the nodes where the file pages were allocated.
The output is shown below:

	# ./lfile
	 allocated on nodes: 2 4 6 0 1 2 6 0 2

There is a single rotor that is used for allocating both file pages & slab
pages.  Writing the file allocates both a data page & a slab page
(buffer_head).  This advances the RR rotor 2 nodes for each page
allocated.

A quick confirmation seems to confirm this is the cause of the uneven
allocation:

	# echo 0 >/dev/cpuset/memory_spread_slab
	# ./lfile
	 allocated on nodes: 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5

This patch introduces a second rotor that is used for slab allocations.

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:44 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 4be929be34 kernel-wide: replace USHORT_MAX, SHORT_MAX and SHORT_MIN with USHRT_MAX, SHRT_MAX and SHRT_MIN
- C99 knows about USHRT_MAX/SHRT_MAX/SHRT_MIN, not
  USHORT_MAX/SHORT_MAX/SHORT_MIN.

- Make SHRT_MIN of type s16, not int, for consistency.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/dma/timb_dma.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix security/keys/keyring.c]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 08:07:02 -07:00
Miao Xie c0ff7453bb cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems
Before applying this patch, cpuset updates task->mems_allowed and
mempolicy by setting all new bits in the nodemask first, and clearing all
old unallowed bits later.  But in the way, the allocator may find that
there is no node to alloc memory.

The reason is that cpuset rebinds the task's mempolicy, it cleans the
nodes which the allocater can alloc pages on, for example:

(mpol: mempolicy)
	task1			task1's mpol	task2
	alloc page		1
	  alloc on node0? NO	1
				1		change mems from 1 to 0
				1		rebind task1's mpol
				0-1		  set new bits
				0	  	  clear disallowed bits
	  alloc on node1? NO	0
	  ...
	can't alloc page
	  goto oom

This patch fixes this problem by expanding the nodes range first(set newly
allowed bits) and shrink it lazily(clear newly disallowed bits).  So we
use a variable to tell the write-side task that read-side task is reading
nodemask, and the write-side task clears newly disallowed nodes after
read-side task ends the current memory allocation.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 08:06:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds b8ae30ee26 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (49 commits)
  stop_machine: Move local variable closer to the usage site in cpu_stop_cpu_callback()
  sched, wait: Use wrapper functions
  sched: Remove a stale comment
  ondemand: Make the iowait-is-busy time a sysfs tunable
  ondemand: Solve a big performance issue by counting IOWAIT time as busy
  sched: Intoduce get_cpu_iowait_time_us()
  sched: Eliminate the ts->idle_lastupdate field
  sched: Fold updating of the last_update_time_info into update_ts_time_stats()
  sched: Update the idle statistics in get_cpu_idle_time_us()
  sched: Introduce a function to update the idle statistics
  sched: Add a comment to get_cpu_idle_time_us()
  cpu_stop: add dummy implementation for UP
  sched: Remove rq argument to the tracepoints
  rcu: need barrier() in UP synchronize_sched_expedited()
  sched: correctly place paranioa memory barriers in synchronize_sched_expedited()
  sched: kill paranoia check in synchronize_sched_expedited()
  sched: replace migration_thread with cpu_stop
  stop_machine: reimplement using cpu_stop
  cpu_stop: implement stop_cpu[s]()
  sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() logic in select_task_rq_fair()
  ...
2010-05-18 08:27:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 4d7b4ac22f Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (311 commits)
  perf tools: Add mode to build without newt support
  perf symbols: symbol inconsistency message should be done only at verbose=1
  perf tui: Add explicit -lslang option
  perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants
  perf options: Type check OPT_BOOLEAN and fix the offenders
  perf options: Check v type in OPT_U?INTEGER
  perf options: Introduce OPT_UINTEGER
  perf tui: Add workaround for slang < 2.1.4
  perf record: Fix bug mismatch with -c option definition
  perf options: Introduce OPT_U64
  perf tui: Add help window to show key associations
  perf tui: Make <- exit menus too
  perf newt: Add single key shortcuts for zoom into DSO and threads
  perf newt: Exit browser unconditionally when CTRL+C, q or Q is pressed
  perf newt: Fix the 'A'/'a' shortcut for annotate
  perf newt: Make <- exit the ui_browser
  x86, perf: P4 PMU - fix counters management logic
  perf newt: Make <- zoom out filters
  perf report: Report number of events, not samples
  perf hist: Clarify events_stats fields usage
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in kernel/fork.c and tools/perf/builtin-record.c
2010-05-18 08:19:03 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker 19cc36c0f0 lockup_detector: Fix forgotten config conversion
Fix forgotten CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP -> CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR
in sched.h

Fixes:
	arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `touch_nmi_watchdog':
	(.text+0x1bd59): undefined reference to `touch_softlockup_watchdog'
	kernel/built-in.o: In function `show_state_filter':
	(.text+0x10d01): undefined reference to `touch_all_softlockup_watchdogs'
	kernel/built-in.o: In function `sched_clock_idle_wakeup_event':
	(.text+0x362f9): undefined reference to `touch_softlockup_watchdog'
	kernel/built-in.o: In function `timekeeping_resume':
	timekeeping.c:(.text+0x38757): undefined reference to `touch_softlockup_watchdog'
	kernel/built-in.o: In function `tick_nohz_handler':
	tick-sched.c:(.text+0x3e5b9): undefined reference to `touch_softlockup_watchdog'
	kernel/built-in.o: In function `tick_sched_timer':
	tick-sched.c:(.text+0x3e671): undefined reference to `touch_softlockup_watchdog'
	kernel/built-in.o: In function `tick_check_idle':
	(.text+0x3e90b): undefined reference to `touch_softlockup_watchdog'

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2010-05-13 02:30:49 +02:00
Don Zickus 332fbdbca3 lockup_detector: Touch_softlockup cleanups and softlockup_tick removal
Just some code cleanup to make touch_softlockup clearer and remove the
softlockup_tick function as it is no longer needed.

Also remove the /proc softlockup_thres call as it has been changed to
watchdog_thres.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273266711-18706-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-05-12 23:55:43 +02:00
Don Zickus 58687acba5 lockup_detector: Combine nmi_watchdog and softlockup detector
The new nmi_watchdog (which uses the perf event subsystem) is very
similar in structure to the softlockup detector.  Using Ingo's
suggestion, I combined the two functionalities into one file:
kernel/watchdog.c.

Now both the nmi_watchdog (or hardlockup detector) and softlockup
detector sit on top of the perf event subsystem, which is run every
60 seconds or so to see if there are any lockups.

To detect hardlockups, cpus not responding to interrupts, I
implemented an hrtimer that runs 5 times for every perf event
overflow event.  If that stops counting on a cpu, then the cpu is
most likely in trouble.

To detect softlockups, tasks not yielding to the scheduler, I used the
previous kthread idea that now gets kicked every time the hrtimer fires.
If the kthread isn't being scheduled neither is anyone else and the
warning is printed to the console.

I tested this on x86_64 and both the softlockup and hardlockup paths
work.

V2:
- cleaned up the Kconfig and softlockup combination
- surrounded hardlockup cases with #ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
- seperated out the softlockup case from perf event subsystem
- re-arranged the enabling/disabling nmi watchdog from proc space
- added cpumasks for hardlockup failure cases
- removed fallback to soft events if no PMU exists for hard events

V3:
- comment cleanups
- drop support for older softlockup code
- per_cpu cleanups
- completely remove software clock base hardlockup detector
- use per_cpu masking on hard/soft lockup detection
- #ifdef cleanups
- rename config option NMI_WATCHDOG to LOCKUP_DETECTOR
- documentation additions

V4:
- documentation fixes
- convert per_cpu to __get_cpu_var
- powerpc compile fixes

V5:
- split apart warn flags for hard and soft lockups

TODO:
- figure out how to make an arch-agnostic clock2cycles call
  (if possible) to feed into perf events as a sample period

[fweisbec: merged conflict patch]

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273266711-18706-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-05-12 23:55:33 +02:00
Robin Holt 34441427aa revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads" and its fixup commits
Originally, commit d899bf7b ("procfs: provide stack information for
threads") attempted to introduce a new feature for showing where the
threadstack was located and how many pages are being utilized by the
stack.

Commit c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") was
applied to fix the NO_MMU case.

Commit 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on
64-bit") was applied to fix a bug in ia32 executables being loaded.

Commit 9ebd4eba7 ("procfs: fix /proc/<pid>/stat stack pointer for kernel
threads") was applied to fix a bug which had kernel threads printing a
userland stack address.

Commit 1306d603f ('proc: partially revert "procfs: provide stack
information for threads"') was then applied to revert the stack pages
being used to solve a significant performance regression.

This patch nearly undoes the effect of all these patches.

The reason for reverting these is it provides an unusable value in
field 28.  For x86_64, a fork will result in the task->stack_start
value being updated to the current user top of stack and not the stack
start address.  This unpredictability of the stack_start value makes
it worthless.  That includes the intended use of showing how much stack
space a thread has.

Other architectures will get different values.  As an example, ia64
gets 0.  The do_fork() and copy_process() functions appear to treat the
stack_start and stack_size parameters as architecture specific.

I only partially reverted c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage
on NOMMU") .  If I had completely reverted it, I would have had to change
mm/Makefile only build pagewalk.o when CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR is
configured.  Since I could not test the builds without significant effort,
I decided to not change mm/Makefile.

I only partially reverted 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack
information for threads on 64-bit") .  I left the KSTK_ESP() change in
place as that seemed worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-11 17:33:41 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 669c55e9f9 sched: Pre-compute cpumask_weight(sched_domain_span(sd))
Dave reported that his large SPARC machines spend lots of time in
hweight64(), try and optimize some of those needless cpumask_weight()
invocations (esp. with the large offstack cpumasks these are very
expensive indeed).

Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-23 11:02:02 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 371fd7e7a5 sched: Add enqueue/dequeue flags
In order to reduce the dependency on TASK_WAKING rework the enqueue
interface to support a proper flags field.

Replace the int wakeup, bool head arguments with an int flags argument
and create the following flags:

  ENQUEUE_WAKEUP - the enqueue is a wakeup of a sleeping task,
  ENQUEUE_WAKING - the enqueue has relative vruntime due to
                   having sched_class::task_waking() called,
  ENQUEUE_HEAD - the waking task should be places on the head
                 of the priority queue (where appropriate).

For symmetry also convert sched_class::dequeue() to a flags scheme.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02 20:12:05 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 0017d73509 sched: Fix TASK_WAKING vs fork deadlock
Oleg noticed a few races with the TASK_WAKING usage on fork.

 - since TASK_WAKING is basically a spinlock, it should be IRQ safe
 - since we set TASK_WAKING (*) without holding rq->lock it could
   be there still is a rq->lock holder, thereby not actually
   providing full serialization.

(*) in fact we clear PF_STARTING, which in effect enables TASK_WAKING.

Cure the second issue by not setting TASK_WAKING in sched_fork(), but
only temporarily in wake_up_new_task() while calling select_task_rq().

Cure the first by holding rq->lock around the select_task_rq() call,
this will disable IRQs, this however requires that we push down the
rq->lock release into select_task_rq_fair()'s cgroup stuff.

Because select_task_rq_fair() still needs to drop the rq->lock we
cannot fully get rid of TASK_WAKING.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02 20:12:03 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 6a1bdc1b57 sched: _cpu_down(): Don't play with current->cpus_allowed
_cpu_down() changes the current task's affinity and then recovers it at
the end. The problems are well known: we can't restore old_allowed if it
was bound to the now-dead-cpu, and we can race with the userspace which
can change cpu-affinity during unplug.

_cpu_down() should not play with current->cpus_allowed at all. Instead,
take_cpu_down() can migrate the caller of _cpu_down() after __cpu_disable()
removes the dying cpu from cpu_online_mask.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100315091023.GA9148@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02 20:12:03 +02:00
Ingo Molnar c9494727cf Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Merge reason: update to latest upstream

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02 20:03:08 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra faa4602e47 x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code
Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in
v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS,
as Linus noticed it not so long ago.

It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without
regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility
needed for perf either.

Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts
was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a
much simpler approach.

So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*()
APIs in mm/mlock.c as well.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-26 11:33:55 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 4e3eaddd14 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  locking: Make sparse work with inline spinlocks and rwlocks
  x86/mce: Fix RCU lockdep splats
  rcu: Increase RCU CPU stall timeouts if PROVE_RCU
  ftrace: Replace read_barrier_depends() with rcu_dereference_raw()
  rcu: Suppress RCU lockdep warnings during early boot
  rcu, ftrace: Fix RCU lockdep splat in ftrace_perf_buf_prepare()
  rcu: Suppress __mpol_dup() false positive from RCU lockdep
  rcu: Make rcu_read_lock_sched_held() handle !PREEMPT
  rcu: Add control variables to lockdep_rcu_dereference() diagnostics
  rcu, cgroup: Relax the check in task_subsys_state() as early boot is now handled by lockdep-RCU
  rcu: Use wrapper function instead of exporting tasklist_lock
  sched, rcu: Fix rcu_dereference() for RCU-lockdep
  rcu: Make task_subsys_state() RCU-lockdep checks handle boot-time use
  rcu: Fix holdoff for accelerated GPs for last non-dynticked CPU
  x86/gart: Unexport gart_iommu_aperture

Fix trivial conflicts in kernel/trace/ftrace.c
2010-03-13 14:43:01 -08:00
Linus Torvalds c32da02342 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (56 commits)
  doc: fix typo in comment explaining rb_tree usage
  Remove fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
  doc: fix console doc typo
  doc: cpuset: Update the cpuset flag file
  Fix of spelling in arch/sparc/kernel/leon_kernel.c no longer needed
  Remove drivers/parport/ChangeLog
  Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog
  doc: typo - Table 1-2 should refer to "status", not "statm"
  tree-wide: fix typos "ass?o[sc]iac?te" -> "associate" in comments
  No need to patch AMD-provided drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios.h
  devres/irq: Fix devm_irq_match comment
  Remove reference to kthread_create_on_cpu
  tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes
  tree-wide: fix 'lenght' typo in comments and code
  drm/kms: fix spelling in error message
  doc: capitalization and other minor fixes in pnp doc
  devres: typo fix s/dev/devm/
  Remove redundant trailing semicolons from macros
  fix typo "definetly" -> "definitely" in comment
  tree-wide: s/widht/width/g typo in comments
  ...

Fix trivial conflict in Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX
2010-03-12 16:04:50 -08:00
Veaceslav Falico 93c59907c6 copy_signal() cleanup: clean thread_group_cputime_init()
Remove unneeded initializations in thread_group_cputime_init() and in
posix_cpu_timers_init_group().  They are useless after kmem_cache_zalloc()
was used in copy_signal().

Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:39 -08:00
Mike Galbraith e12f31d3e5 sched: Remove avg_overlap
Both avg_overlap and avg_wakeup had an inherent problem in that their accuracy
was detrimentally affected by cross-cpu wakeups, this because we are missing
the necessary call to update_curr().  This can't be fixed without increasing
overhead in our already too fat fastpath.

Additionally, with recent load balancing changes making us prefer to place tasks
in an idle cache domain (which is good for compute bound loads), communicating
tasks suffer when a sync wakeup, which would enable affine placement, is turned
into a non-sync wakeup by SYNC_LESS.  With one task on the runqueue, wake_affine()
rejects the affine wakeup request, leaving the unfortunate where placed, taking
frequent cache misses.

Remove it, and recover some fastpath cycles.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1268301121.6785.30.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11 18:32:50 +01:00
Mike Galbraith b42e0c41a4 sched: Remove avg_wakeup
Testing the load which led to this heuristic (nfs4 kbuild) shows that it has
outlived it's usefullness.  With intervening load balancing changes, I cannot
see any difference with/without, so recover there fastpath cycles.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1268301062.6785.29.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11 18:32:50 +01:00
Mike Galbraith 39c0cbe215 sched: Rate-limit nohz
Entering nohz code on every micro-idle is costing ~10% throughput for netperf
TCP_RR when scheduling cross-cpu.  Rate limiting entry fixes this, but raises
ticks a bit.  On my Q6600, an idle box goes from ~85 interrupts/sec to 128.

The higher the context switch rate, the more nohz entry costs.  With this patch
and some cycle recovery patches in my tree, max cross cpu context switch rate is
improved by ~16%, a large portion of which of which is this ratelimiting.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1268301003.6785.28.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11 18:32:49 +01:00
Lucas De Marchi 41acab8851 sched: Implement group scheduler statistics in one struct
Put all statistic fields of sched_entity in one struct, sched_statistics,
and embed it into sched_entity.

This change allows to memset the sched_statistics to 0 when needed (for
instance when forking), avoiding bugs of non initialized fields.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1268275065-18542-1-git-send-email-lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-11 15:22:28 +01:00
Jiri Kosina 318ae2edc3 Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus
Conflicts:
	Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
	arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
	drivers/net/typhoon.c
2010-03-08 16:55:37 +01:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 34e55232e5 mm: avoid false sharing of mm_counter
Considering the nature of per mm stats, it's the shared object among
threads and can be a cache-miss point in the page fault path.

This patch adds per-thread cache for mm_counter.  RSS value will be
counted into a struct in task_struct and synchronized with mm's one at
events.

Now, in this patch, the event is the number of calls to handle_mm_fault.
Per-thread value is added to mm at each 64 calls.

 rough estimation with small benchmark on parallel thread (2threads) shows
 [before]
     4.5 cache-miss/faults
 [after]
     4.0 cache-miss/faults
 Anyway, the most contended object is mmap_sem if the number of threads grows.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:24 -08:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki d559db086f mm: clean up mm_counter
Presently, per-mm statistics counter is defined by macro in sched.h

This patch modifies it to
  - defined in mm.h as inlinf functions
  - use array instead of macro's name creation.

This patch is for reducing patch size in future patch to modify
implementation of per-mm counter.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:23 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney db1466b3e1 rcu: Use wrapper function instead of exporting tasklist_lock
Lockdep-RCU commit d11c563d exported tasklist_lock, which is not
a good thing.  This patch instead exports a function that uses
lockdep to check whether tasklist_lock is held.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
LKML-Reference: <1267631219-8713-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-04 11:46:14 +01:00
Linus Torvalds b1bf936840 Merge branch 'for-2.6.34' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.34' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (38 commits)
  block: don't access jiffies when initialising io_context
  cfq: remove 8 bytes of padding from cfq_rb_root on 64 bit builds
  block: fix for "Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits"
  cfq-iosched: quantum check tweak
  blktrace: perform cleanup after setup error
  blkdev: fix merge_bvec_fn return value checks
  cfq-iosched: requests "in flight" vs "in driver" clarification
  cciss: Fix problem with scatter gather elements in the scsi half of the driver
  cciss: eliminate unnecessary pointer use in cciss scsi code
  cciss: do not use void pointer for scsi hba data
  cciss: factor out scatter gather chain block mapping code
  cciss: fix scatter gather chain block dma direction kludge
  cciss: simplify scatter gather code
  cciss: factor out scatter gather chain block allocation and freeing
  cciss: detect bad alignment of scsi commands at build time
  cciss: clarify command list padding calculation
  cfq-iosched: rethink seeky detection for SSDs
  cfq-iosched: rework seeky detection
  block: remove padding from io_context on 64bit builds
  block: Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits
  ...
2010-03-01 09:00:29 -08:00
Akinobu Mita bddd87c7e6 blk-core: use BIO list management functions
Now that the bio list management stuff is generic, convert
generic_make_request to use bio lists instead of its own private bio
list implementation.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-23 08:55:42 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner 6e40f5bbbc Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core
Conflicts: kernel/sched.c

Necessary due to the urgent fixes which conflict with the code move
from sched.c to sched_fair.c

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-02-16 16:48:56 +01:00
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan 28f5318167 sched: Fix sched_mv_power_savings for !SMT
Fix for sched_mc_powersavigs for pre-Nehalem platforms.
Child sched domain should clear SD_PREFER_SIBLING if parent will have
SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE because they are contradicting.

Sets the flags correctly based on sched_mc_power_savings.

Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100208100555.GD2931@dirshya.in.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.32.x]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-02-16 15:13:59 +01:00
Daniel Mack 3ad2f3fbb9 tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes
In particular, several occurances of funny versions of 'success',
'unknown', 'therefore', 'acknowledge', 'argument', 'achieve', 'address',
'beginning', 'desirable', 'separate' and 'necessary' are fixed.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-02-09 11:13:56 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 6d3e0907b8 Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core
Merge reason: Merge dependent fix, update to latest -rc.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-08 08:55:46 +01:00
Linus Torvalds aa16cd8d12 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:
  futex: Handle futex value corruption gracefully
  futex: Handle user space corruption gracefully
  futex_lock_pi() key refcnt fix
  softlockup: Add sched_clock_tick() to avoid kernel warning on kgdb resume
2010-02-04 16:07:41 -08:00
Jason Wessel d6ad3e286d softlockup: Add sched_clock_tick() to avoid kernel warning on kgdb resume
When CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK is set, sched_clock() gets
the time from hardware such as the TSC on x86. In this
configuration kgdb will report a softlock warning message on
resuming or detaching from a debug session.

Sequence of events in the problem case:

 1) "cpu sched clock" and "hardware time" are at 100 sec prior
    to a call to kgdb_handle_exception()

 2) Debugger waits in kgdb_handle_exception() for 80 sec and on
    exit the following is called ...  touch_softlockup_watchdog() -->
    __raw_get_cpu_var(touch_timestamp) = 0;

 3) "cpu sched clock" = 100s (it was not updated, because the
    interrupt was disabled in kgdb) but the "hardware time" = 180 sec

 4) The first timer interrupt after resuming from
    kgdb_handle_exception updates the watchdog from the "cpu sched clock"

update_process_times() { ...  run_local_timers() -->
softlockup_tick() --> check (touch_timestamp == 0) (it is "YES"
here, we have set "touch_timestamp = 0" at kgdb) -->
__touch_softlockup_watchdog() ***(A)--> reset "touch_timestamp"
to "get_timestamp()" (Here, the "touch_timestamp" will still be
set to 100s.)  ...

    scheduler_tick() ***(B)--> sched_clock_tick() (update "cpu sched
    clock" to "hardware time" = 180s) ...  }

 5) The Second timer interrupt handler appears to have a large
    jump and trips the softlockup warning.

update_process_times() { ...  run_local_timers() -->
softlockup_tick() --> "cpu sched clock" - "touch_timestamp" =
180s-100s > 60s --> printk "soft lockup error messages" ...  }

note: ***(A) reset "touch_timestamp" to
"get_timestamp(this_cpu)"

Why is "touch_timestamp" 100 sec, instead of 180 sec?

When CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK is set, the call trace of
get_timestamp() is:

get_timestamp(this_cpu)
 -->cpu_clock(this_cpu)
 -->sched_clock_cpu(this_cpu)
 -->__update_sched_clock(sched_clock_data, now)

The __update_sched_clock() function uses the GTOD tick value to
create a window to normalize the "now" values.  So if "now"
value is too big for sched_clock_data, it will be ignored.

The fix is to invoke sched_clock_tick() to update "cpu sched
clock" in order to recover from this state.  This is done by
introducing the function touch_softlockup_watchdog_sync(). This
allows kgdb to request that the sched clock is updated when the
watchdog thread runs the first time after a resume from kgdb.

[yong.zhang0@gmail.com: Use per cpu instead of an array]
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <Dongdong.Deng@windriver.com>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <1264631124-4837-2-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-01 08:22:32 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 221af7f87b Split 'flush_old_exec' into two functions
'flush_old_exec()' is the point of no return when doing an execve(), and
it is pretty badly misnamed.  It doesn't just flush the old executable
environment, it also starts up the new one.

Which is very inconvenient for things like setting up the new
personality, because we want the new personality to affect the starting
of the new environment, but at the same time we do _not_ want the new
personality to take effect if flushing the old one fails.

As a result, the x86-64 '32-bit' personality is actually done using this
insane "I'm going to change the ABI, but I haven't done it yet" bit
(TIF_ABI_PENDING), with SET_PERSONALITY() not actually setting the
personality, but just the "pending" bit, so that "flush_thread()" can do
the actual personality magic.

This patch in no way changes any of that insanity, but it does split the
'flush_old_exec()' function up into a preparatory part that can fail
(still called flush_old_exec()), and a new part that will actually set
up the new exec environment (setup_new_exec()).  All callers are changed
to trivially comply with the new world order.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-29 08:22:01 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner ea87bb7853 sched: Extend enqueue_task to allow head queueing
The ability of enqueueing a task to the head of a SCHED_FIFO priority
list is required to fix some violations of POSIX scheduling policy.

Extend the related functions with a "head" argument.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Carsten Emde <cbe@osadl.org>
Tested-by: Mathias Weber <mathias.weber.mw1@roche.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100120171629.734886007@linutronix.de>
2010-01-22 18:09:59 +01:00
Dhaval Giani 7c9414385e sched: Remove USER_SCHED
Remove the USER_SCHED feature. It has been scheduled to be removed in
2.6.34 as per http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125728479022976&w=2

Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1263990378.24844.3.camel@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21 13:40:18 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 3d45fd804a sched: Remove the sched_class load_balance methods
Take out the sched_class methods for load-balancing.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21 13:40:09 +01:00
David Howells efc1a3b169 nommu: don't need get_unmapped_area() for NOMMU
get_unmapped_area() is unnecessary for NOMMU as no-one calls it.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-16 12:15:40 -08:00
Jiri Slaby 3e10e716ab resource: add helpers for fetching rlimits
We want to be sure that compiler fetches the limit variable only
once, so add helpers for fetching current and maximal resource
limits which do that.

Add them to sched.h (instead of resource.h) due to circular dependency
 sched.h->resource.h->task_struct
Alternative would be to create a separate res_access.h or similar.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-04 11:35:18 +01:00
Linus Torvalds aac3d39693 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: (25 commits)
  sched: Fix broken assertion
  sched: Assert task state bits at build time
  sched: Update task_state_arraypwith new states
  sched: Add missing state chars to TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR
  sched: Move TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR near the TASK_state bits
  sched: Teach might_sleep() about preemptible RCU
  sched: Make warning less noisy
  sched: Simplify set_task_cpu()
  sched: Remove the cfs_rq dependency from set_task_cpu()
  sched: Add pre and post wakeup hooks
  sched: Move kthread_bind() back to kthread.c
  sched: Fix select_task_rq() vs hotplug issues
  sched: Fix sched_exec() balancing
  sched: Ensure set_task_cpu() is never called on blocked tasks
  sched: Use TASK_WAKING for fork wakups
  sched: Select_task_rq_fair() must honour SD_LOAD_BALANCE
  sched: Fix task_hot() test order
  sched: Fix set_cpu_active() in cpu_down()
  sched: Mark boot-cpu active before smp_init()
  sched: Fix cpu_clock() in NMIs, on !CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
  ...
2009-12-19 09:47:49 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 55db493b65 Merge branch 'cpumask-cleanups' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* 'cpumask-cleanups' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  cpumask: rename tsk_cpumask to tsk_cpus_allowed
  cpumask: don't recommend set_cpus_allowed hack in Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
  cpumask: avoid dereferencing struct cpumask
  cpumask: convert drivers/idle/i7300_idle.c to cpumask_var_t
  cpumask: use modern cpumask style in drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
  cpumask: avoid deprecated function in mm/slab.c
  cpumask: use cpu_online in kernel/perf_event.c
2009-12-17 17:00:20 -08:00
Linus Torvalds b6e3224fb2 Revert "task_struct: make journal_info conditional"
This reverts commit e4c570c4cb, as
requested by Alexey:

 "I think I gave a good enough arguments to not merge it.
  To iterate:
   * patch makes impossible to start using ext3 on EXT3_FS=n kernels
     without reboot.
   * this is done only for one pointer on task_struct"

  None of config options which define task_struct are tristate directly
  or effectively."

Requested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-17 13:23:24 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra e1781538cf sched: Assert task state bits at build time
Since everybody is lazy and prone to forgetting things, make the
compiler help us a bit.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20091217121830.060186433@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-17 13:22:45 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 44d90df6b7 sched: Add missing state chars to TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR
We grew 3 new task states since the last time someone touched
it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20091217121829.892737686@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-17 13:22:44 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 733421516b sched: Move TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR near the TASK_state bits
So that we don't keep forgetting about it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20091217121829.815779372@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-17 13:22:43 +01:00
Rusty Russell a4636818f8 cpumask: rename tsk_cpumask to tsk_cpus_allowed
Noone uses this wrapper yet, and Ingo asked that it be kept consistent
with current task_struct usage.

(One user crept in via linux-next: fixed)

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-12-17 11:43:30 +10:30
Peter Zijlstra 88ec22d3ed sched: Remove the cfs_rq dependency from set_task_cpu()
In order to remove the cfs_rq dependency from set_task_cpu() we
need to ensure the task is cfs_rq invariant for all callsites.

The simple approach is to substract cfs_rq->min_vruntime from
se->vruntime on dequeue, and add cfs_rq->min_vruntime on
enqueue.

However, this has the downside of breaking FAIR_SLEEPERS since
we loose the old vruntime as we only maintain the relative
position.

To solve this, we observe that we only migrate runnable tasks,
we do this using deactivate_task(.sleep=0) and
activate_task(.wakeup=0), therefore we can restrain the
min_vruntime invariance to that state.

The only other case is wakeup balancing, since we want to
maintain the old vruntime we cannot make it relative on dequeue,
but since we don't migrate inactive tasks, we can do so right
before we activate it again.

This is where we need the new pre-wakeup hook, we need to call
this while still holding the old rq->lock. We could fold it into
->select_task_rq(), but since that has multiple callsites and
would obfuscate the locking requirements, that seems like a
fudge.

This leaves the fork() case, simply make sure that ->task_fork()
leaves the ->vruntime in a relative state.

This covers all cases where set_task_cpu() gets called, and
ensures it sees a relative vruntime.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <20091216170518.191697025@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-16 19:01:58 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra efbbd05a59 sched: Add pre and post wakeup hooks
As will be apparent in the next patch, we need a pre wakeup hook
for sched_fair task migration, hence rename the post wakeup hook
and one pre wakeup.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <20091216170518.114746117@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-16 19:01:58 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov ad09750b51 signals: kill force_sig_specific()
Kill force_sig_specific(), this trivial wrapper has no callers.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16 07:20:09 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 614c517d7c signals: SEND_SIG_NOINFO should be considered as SI_FROMUSER()
No changes in compiled code. The patch adds the new helper, si_fromuser()
and changes check_kill_permission() to use this helper.

The real effect of this patch is that from now we "officially" consider
SEND_SIG_NOINFO signal as "from user-space" signals. This is already true
if we look at the code which uses SEND_SIG_NOINFO, except __send_signal()
has another opinion - see the next patch.

The naming of these special SEND_SIG_XXX siginfo's is really bad
imho.  From __send_signal()'s pov they mean

	SEND_SIG_NOINFO		from user
	SEND_SIG_PRIV		from kernel
	SEND_SIG_FORCED		no info

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16 07:20:08 -08:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 569b846df5 memcg: coalesce uncharge during unmap/truncate
In massive parallel enviroment, res_counter can be a performance
bottleneck.  One strong techinque to reduce lock contention is reducing
calls by coalescing some amount of calls into one.

Considering charge/uncharge chatacteristic,
	- charge is done one by one via demand-paging.
	- uncharge is done by
		- in chunk at munmap, truncate, exit, execve...
		- one by one via vmscan/paging.

It seems we have a chance to coalesce uncharges for improving scalability
at unmap/truncation.

This patch is a for coalescing uncharge.  For avoiding scattering memcg's
structure to functions under /mm, this patch adds memcg batch uncharge
information to the task.  A reason for per-task batching is for making use
of caller's context information.  We do batched uncharge (deleyed
uncharge) when truncation/unmap occurs but do direct uncharge when
uncharge is called by memory reclaim (vmscan.c).

The degree of coalescing depends on callers
  - at invalidate/trucate... pagevec size
  - at unmap ....ZAP_BLOCK_SIZE
(memory itself will be freed in this degree.)
Then, we'll not coalescing too much.

On x86-64 8cpu server, I tested overheads of memcg at page fault by
running a program which does map/fault/unmap in a loop. Running
a task per a cpu by taskset and see sum of the number of page faults
in 60secs.

[without memcg config]
  40156968  page-faults              #      0.085 M/sec   ( +-   0.046% )
  27.67 cache-miss/faults
[root cgroup]
  36659599  page-faults              #      0.077 M/sec   ( +-   0.247% )
  31.58 miss/faults
[in a child cgroup]
  18444157  page-faults              #      0.039 M/sec   ( +-   0.133% )
  69.96 miss/faults
[child with this patch]
  27133719  page-faults              #      0.057 M/sec   ( +-   0.155% )
  47.16 miss/faults

We can see some amounts of improvement.
(root cgroup doesn't affected by this patch)
Another patch for "charge" will follow this and above will be improved more.

Changelog(since 2009/10/02):
 - renamed filed of memcg_batch (as pages to bytes, memsw to memsw_bytes)
 - some clean up and commentary/description updates.
 - added initialize code to copy_process(). (possible bug fix)

Changelog(old):
 - fixed !CONFIG_MEM_CGROUP case.
 - rebased onto the latest mmotm + softlimit fix patches.
 - unified patch for callers
 - added commetns.
 - make ->do_batch as bool.
 - removed css_get() at el. We don't need it.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16 07:20:07 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 8f0ddf91f2 Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (26 commits)
  clockevents: Convert to raw_spinlock
  clockevents: Make tick_device_lock static
  debugobjects: Convert to raw_spinlocks
  perf_event: Convert to raw_spinlock
  hrtimers: Convert to raw_spinlocks
  genirq: Convert irq_desc.lock to raw_spinlock
  smp: Convert smplocks to raw_spinlocks
  rtmutes: Convert rtmutex.lock to raw_spinlock
  sched: Convert pi_lock to raw_spinlock
  sched: Convert cpupri lock to raw_spinlock
  sched: Convert rt_runtime_lock to raw_spinlock
  sched: Convert rq->lock to raw_spinlock
  plist: Make plist debugging raw_spinlock aware
  bkl: Fixup core_lock fallout
  locking: Cleanup the name space completely
  locking: Further name space cleanups
  alpha: Fix fallout from locking changes
  locking: Implement new raw_spinlock
  locking: Convert raw_rwlock functions to arch_rwlock
  locking: Convert raw_rwlock to arch_rwlock
  ...
2009-12-15 09:02:01 -08:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto e4c570c4cb task_struct: make journal_info conditional
journal_info in task_struct is used in journaling file system only.  So
introduce CONFIG_FS_JOURNAL_INFO and make it conditional.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 08:53:27 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner 1d61548254 sched: Convert pi_lock to raw_spinlock
Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to
raw_spinlocks.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14 23:55:33 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 702a7c7609 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: (21 commits)
  sched: Remove forced2_migrations stats
  sched: Fix memory leak in two error corner cases
  sched: Fix build warning in get_update_sysctl_factor()
  sched: Update normalized values on user updates via proc
  sched: Make tunable scaling style configurable
  sched: Fix missing sched tunable recalculation on cpu add/remove
  sched: Fix task priority bug
  sched: cgroup: Implement different treatment for idle shares
  sched: Remove unnecessary RCU exclusion
  sched: Discard some old bits
  sched: Clean up check_preempt_wakeup()
  sched: Move update_curr() in check_preempt_wakeup() to avoid redundant call
  sched: Sanitize fork() handling
  sched: Clean up ttwu() rq locking
  sched: Remove rq->clock coupling from set_task_cpu()
  sched: Consolidate select_task_rq() callers
  sched: Remove sysctl.sched_features
  sched: Protect sched_rr_get_param() access to task->sched_class
  sched: Protect task->cpus_allowed access in sched_getaffinity()
  sched: Fix balance vs hotplug race
  ...

Fixed up conflicts in kernel/sysctl.c (due to sysctl cleanup)
2009-12-12 11:34:10 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 6f696eb17b Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (57 commits)
  x86, perf events: Check if we have APIC enabled
  perf_event: Fix variable initialization in other codepaths
  perf kmem: Fix unused argument build warning
  perf symbols: perf_header__read_build_ids() offset'n'size should be u64
  perf symbols: dsos__read_build_ids() should read both user and kernel buildids
  perf tools: Align long options which have no short forms
  perf kmem: Show usage if no option is specified
  sched: Mark sched_clock() as notrace
  perf sched: Add max delay time snapshot
  perf tools: Correct size given to memset
  perf_event: Fix perf_swevent_hrtimer() variable initialization
  perf sched: Fix for getting task's execution time
  tracing/kprobes: Fix field creation's bad error handling
  perf_event: Cleanup for cpu_clock_perf_event_update()
  perf_event: Allocate children's perf_event_ctxp at the right time
  perf_event: Clean up __perf_event_init_context()
  hw-breakpoints: Modify breakpoints without unregistering them
  perf probe: Update perf-probe document
  perf probe: Support --del option
  trace-kprobe: Support delete probe syntax
  ...
2009-12-11 20:47:30 -08:00
Ingo Molnar b9889ed1dd sched: Remove forced2_migrations stats
This build warning:

 kernel/sched.c: In function 'set_task_cpu':
 kernel/sched.c:2070: warning: unused variable 'old_rq'

Made me realize that the forced2_migrations stat looks pretty
pointless (and a misnomer) - remove it.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-10 20:32:39 +01:00
Mike Frysinger 1bbfa6f256 sched: Mark sched_clock() as notrace
The core ftrace code (trace_clock_local) calls sched_clock()
directly, so we don't want to recurisvely trigger the ftrace
code.  Rather than update every sched_clock() definition, tag
the prototype for everyone as notrace.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1260407223-10900-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-10 08:30:27 +01:00
Christian Ehrhardt 1983a922a1 sched: Make tunable scaling style configurable
As scaling now takes place on all kind of cpu add/remove events a user
that configures values via proc should be able to configure if his set
values are still rescaled or kept whatever happens.

As the comments state that log2 was just a second guess that worked the
interface is not just designed for on/off, but to choose a scaling type.
Currently this allows none, log and linear, but more important it allwos
us to keep the interface even if someone has an even better idea how to
scale the values.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1259579808-11357-3-git-send-email-ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 10:04:01 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 6cecd084d0 sched: Discard some old bits
WAKEUP_RUNNING was an experiment, not sure why that ever ended up being
merged...

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 10:03:07 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra cd29fe6f26 sched: Sanitize fork() handling
Currently we try to do task placement in wake_up_new_task() after we do
the load-balance pass in sched_fork(). This yields complicated semantics
in that we have to deal with tasks on different RQs and the
set_task_cpu() calls in copy_process() and sched_fork()

Rename ->task_new() to ->task_fork() and call it from sched_fork()
before the balancing, this gives the policy a clear point to place the
task.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 10:03:05 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 6b314d0e11 sched: Remove sysctl.sched_features
Since we've had a much saner debugfs interface to this, remove the
sysctl one.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
[ v2: build fix ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 10:03:01 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner dba091b9e3 sched: Protect sched_rr_get_param() access to task->sched_class
sched_rr_get_param calls
task->sched_class->get_rr_interval(task) without protection
against a concurrent sched_setscheduler() call which modifies
task->sched_class.

Serialize the access with task_rq_lock(task) and hand the rq
pointer into get_rr_interval() as it's needed at least in the
sched_fair implementation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0912090930120.3089@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-09 10:01:07 +01:00