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Linus Torvalds 2437dcbf55 Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  rcu: Add missing __cpuinit annotation in rcutorture code
  sched: Add "const" to is_idle_task() parameter
  rcu: Make rcutorture bool parameters really bool (core code)
  memblock: Fix alloc failure due to dumb underflow protection in memblock_find_in_range_node()
2012-01-26 12:45:41 -08:00
Randy Dunlap fa757281a0 kernel-doc: fix kernel-doc warnings in sched
Fix new kernel-doc notation warnings:

Warning(include/linux/sched.h:2094): No description found for parameter 'p'
Warning(include/linux/sched.h:2094): Excess function parameter 'tsk' description in 'is_idle_task'
Warning(kernel/sched/cpupri.c:139): No description found for parameter 'newpri'
Warning(kernel/sched/cpupri.c:139): Excess function parameter 'pri' description in 'cpupri_set'
Warning(kernel/sched/cpupri.c:208): Excess function parameter 'bootmem' description in 'cpupri_init'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-23 08:44:54 -08:00
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