Impact: Fix bug
I found several very very curious line.
It's so curious that it may be brought by typing mistake.
When (cpu_buffer->reader_page == cpu_buffer->commit_page):
1) We haven't copied it for bpage is changed:
bpage = cpu_buffer->reader_page->page;
memcpy(bpage->data, cpu_buffer->reader_page->page->data + read ... )
2) We need update cpu_buffer->reader_page->read, but
"cpu_buffer->reader_page += read;" is not right.
[
This bug was a typo. The commit->reader_page is a page pointer
and not an index into the page. The line should have been
commit->reader_page->read += read. The other changes
by Lai are nice clean ups to the code. - SDR
]
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix broken /proc/profile on UP machines
Commit c309b917ca "cpumask: convert
kernel/profile.c" broke profiling. prof_cpu_mask was previously
initialized to CPU_MASK_ALL, but left uninitialized in that commit.
We need to copy cpu_possible_mask (cpu_online_mask is not enough).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar suggested a series of clean ups for the splice code.
This patch implements those suggestions.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
This moves the pipe waiting code from tracing_read_pipe() into
tracing_wait_pipe(), which is useful to implement other fops, like
splice_read.
Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Added and implemented tracing_pipe_fops->splice_read(). This allows
userspace programs to get tracing data more efficiently.
Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
When one cats the trace file, the leaf functions are printed without brackets:
function();
whereas in the trace_pipe file we'll see the following:
function() {
}
This is because the ring_buffer handling is not the same between those two files.
On the trace file, when an entry is printed, the iterator advanced and then we can
check the next entry.
There is no iterator with trace_pipe, the current entry to print has been peeked
and not consumed. So checking the next entry will still return the current one while
we don't consume it.
This patch introduces a new value for the output callbacks to ask the tracing
core to not consume the current entry after printing it.
We need it because we will have to consume the current entry ourself to check
the next one.
Now the trace_pipe is able to handle well the leaf functions.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: build fix
The BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE entry used to be in block/Kconfig - which
file itself was dependent on CONFIG_BLOCK. But now the entry is
in kernel/trace/Kconfig - which is present even on !CONFIG_BLOCK.
So add a 'depends on BLOCK' to BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: simplification
Instead of requiring that plugins have the sequence:
my_tracer_stop(my_trace_array);
unregister_tracer(my_tracer);
it should be possible just do a:
unregister_tracer(my_tracer);
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When the function graph tracer picks a return address, it ensures this address
is really a kernel text one by calling __kernel_text_address()
Actually this path has never been taken.Its role was more likely to debug the tracer
on the beginning of its development but this function is wasteful since it is called
for every traced function.
The fault check is already sufficient.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Move the power tracer headers to trace/power.h to keep ftrace.h and power bits
more easy to maintain as separated topics.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Making it more easy to do a basic regression test for this tracer.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
list.h provides a dedicated primitive for
"list_del followed by list_add_tail"... list_move_tail.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Rename the async_*_special() functions to async_*_domain(), which
describes the purpose of these functions much better.
[Broke up long lines to silence checkpatch]
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Add some kerneldoc to the async interface.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
If we fail to create the manager thread, fall back to non-fastboot.
If we fail to create an async thread, try again after waiting for
a bit.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
async_schedule() should pass in async_running as the running
list, and run_one_entry() should put the entry to be run on
the provided running list instead of always on the generic one.
Reported-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Impact: clean up
Fixed several typos in the comments.
Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: clean up
Now that a generic in_nmi is available, this patch removes the
special code in the ring_buffer and implements the in_nmi generic
version instead.
With this change, I was also able to rename the "arch_ftrace_nmi_enter"
back to "ftrace_nmi_enter" and remove the code from the ring buffer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: prevent deadlock in NMI
The ring buffers are not yet totally lockless with writing to
the buffer. When a writer crosses a page, it grabs a per cpu spinlock
to protect against a reader. The spinlocks taken by a writer are not
to protect against other writers, since a writer can only write to
its own per cpu buffer. The spinlocks protect against readers that
can touch any cpu buffer. The writers are made to be reentrant
with the spinlocks disabling interrupts.
The problem arises when an NMI writes to the buffer, and that write
crosses a page boundary. If it grabs a spinlock, it can be racing
with another writer (since disabling interrupts does not protect
against NMIs) or with a reader on the same CPU. Luckily, most of the
users are not reentrant and protects against this issue. But if a
user of the ring buffer becomes reentrant (which is what the ring
buffers do allow), if the NMI also writes to the ring buffer then
we risk the chance of a deadlock.
This patch moves the ftrace_nmi_enter called by nmi_enter() to the
ring buffer code. It replaces the current ftrace_nmi_enter that is
used by arch specific code to arch_ftrace_nmi_enter and updates
the Kconfig to handle it.
When an NMI is called, it will set a per cpu variable in the ring buffer
code and will clear it when the NMI exits. If a write to the ring buffer
crosses page boundaries inside an NMI, a trylock is used on the spin
lock instead. If the spinlock fails to be acquired, then the entry
is discarded.
This bug appeared in the ftrace work in the RT tree, where event tracing
is reentrant. This workaround solved the deadlocks that appeared there.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix to prevent developers from using entry->cpu
With the new ring buffer infrastructure, the cpu for the entry is
implicit with which CPU buffer it is on.
The original code use to record the current cpu into the generic
entry header, which can be retrieved by entry->cpu. When the
ring buffer was introduced, the users were convert to use the
the cpu number of which cpu ring buffer was in use (this was passed
to the tracers by the iterator: iter->cpu).
Unfortunately, the cpu item in the entry structure was never removed.
This allowed for developers to use it instead of the proper iter->cpu,
unknowingly, using an uninitialized variable. This was not the fault
of the developers, since it would seem like the logical place to
retrieve the cpu identifier.
This patch removes the cpu item from the entry structure and fixes
all the users that should have been using iter->cpu.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
I happened to forked lots of processes, and hit NULL pointer dereference.
It is because in copy_process() after checking max_threads, 0 is returned
but not -EAGAIN.
The bug is introduced by "CRED: Detach the credentials from task_struct"
(commit f1752eec61).
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: cleanup
To make it easy for ftrace plugin writers, as this was open coded in
the existing plugins
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: new API
These new functions do what previously was being open coded, reducing
the number of details ftrace plugin writers have to worry about.
It also standardizes the handling of stacktrace, userstacktrace and
other trace options we may introduce in the future.
With this patch, for instance, the blk tracer (and some others already
in the tree) can use the "userstacktrace" /d/tracing/trace_options
facility.
$ codiff /tmp/vmlinux.before /tmp/vmlinux.after
linux-2.6-tip/kernel/trace/trace.c:
trace_vprintk | -5
trace_graph_return | -22
trace_graph_entry | -26
trace_function | -45
__ftrace_trace_stack | -27
ftrace_trace_userstack | -29
tracing_sched_switch_trace | -66
tracing_stop | +1
trace_seq_to_user | -1
ftrace_trace_special | -63
ftrace_special | +1
tracing_sched_wakeup_trace | -70
tracing_reset_online_cpus | -1
13 functions changed, 2 bytes added, 355 bytes removed, diff: -353
linux-2.6-tip/block/blktrace.c:
__blk_add_trace | -58
1 function changed, 58 bytes removed, diff: -58
linux-2.6-tip/kernel/trace/trace.c:
trace_buffer_lock_reserve | +88
trace_buffer_unlock_commit | +86
2 functions changed, 174 bytes added, diff: +174
/tmp/vmlinux.after:
16 functions changed, 176 bytes added, 413 bytes removed, diff: -237
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
With exclusive waiters, every process woken up through the wait queue must
ensure that the next waiter down the line is woken when it has finished.
Interruptible waiters don't do that when aborting due to a signal. And if
an aborting waiter is concurrently woken up through the waitqueue, noone
will ever wake up the next waiter.
This has been observed with __wait_on_bit_lock() used by
lock_page_killable(): the first contender on the queue was aborting when
the actual lock holder woke it up concurrently. The aborted contender
didn't acquire the lock and therefor never did an unlock followed by
waking up the next waiter.
Add abort_exclusive_wait() which removes the process' wait descriptor from
the waitqueue, iff still queued, or wakes up the next waiter otherwise.
It does so under the waitqueue lock. Racing with a wake up means the
aborting process is either already woken (removed from the queue) and will
wake up the next waiter, or it will remove itself from the queue and the
concurrent wake up will apply to the next waiter after it.
Use abort_exclusive_wait() in __wait_event_interruptible_exclusive() and
__wait_on_bit_lock() when they were interrupted by other means than a wake
up through the queue.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Reported-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Mentored-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> ["after some testing"]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Revert commit 0c2d64fb6c because it causes
(arguably poorly designed) existing userspace to spend interminable
periods closing billions of not-open file descriptors.
We could bring this back, with some sort of opt-in tunable in /proc, which
defaults to "off".
Peter's alanysis follows:
: I spent several hours trying to get to the bottom of a serious
: performance issue that appeared on one of our servers after upgrading to
: 2.6.28. In the end it's what could be considered a userspace bug that
: was triggered by a change in 2.6.28. Since this might also affect other
: people I figured I'd at least document what I found here, and maybe we
: can even do something about it:
:
:
: So, I upgraded some of debian.org's machines to 2.6.28.1 and immediately
: the team maintaining our ftp archive complained that one of their
: scripts that previously ran in a few minutes still hadn't even come
: close to being done after an hour or so. Downgrading to 2.6.27 fixed
: that.
:
: Turns out that script is forking a lot and something in it or python or
: whereever closes all the file descriptors it doesn't want to pass on.
: That is, it starts at zero and goes up to ulimit -n/RLIMIT_NOFILE and
: closes them all with a few exceptions.
:
: Turns out that takes a long time when your limit -n is now 2^20 (1048576).
:
: With 2.6.27.* the ulimit -n was the standard 1024, but with 2.6.28 it is
: now a thousand times that.
:
: 2.6.28 included a patch titled "rlimit: permit setting RLIMIT_NOFILE to
: RLIM_INFINITY" (0c2d64fb6c)[1] that
: allows, as the title implies, to set the limit for number of files to
: infinity.
:
: Closer investigation showed that the broken default ulimit did not apply
: to "system" processes (like stuff started from init). In the end I
: could establish that all processes that passed through pam_limit at one
: point had the bad resource limit.
:
: Apparently the pam library in Debian etch (4.0) initializes the limits
: to some default values when it doesn't have any settings in limit.conf
: to override them. Turns out that for nofiles this is RLIM_INFINITY.
: Commenting out "case RLIMIT_NOFILE" in pam_limit.c:267 of our pam
: package version 0.79-5 fixes that - tho I'm not sure what side effects
: that has.
:
: Debian lenny (the upcoming 5.0 version) doesn't have this issue as it
: uses a different pam (version).
Reported-by: Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>
Cc: Adam Tkac <vonsch@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
alpha:
kernel/async.c: In function 'run_one_entry':
kernel/async.c:141: warning: format '%lli' expects type 'long long int', but argument 2 has type 'async_cookie_t'
kernel/async.c:149: warning: format '%lli' expects type 'long long int', but argument 2 has type 'async_cookie_t'
kernel/async.c:149: warning: format '%lld' expects type 'long long int', but argument 4 has type 's64'
kernel/async.c: In function 'async_synchronize_cookie_special':
kernel/async.c:250: warning: format '%lli' expects type 'long long int', but argument 3 has type 's64'
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ingo Molnar suggested using goto logic to keep the indentation
down and to be able to remove the nasty line breaks. This actually
makes the code a bit more readable.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: simplification of tracers
As all tracers are doing this we might as well do it in
register_ftrace_event and save one branch each time we call these
callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Change the process wide cpu timers/clocks so that we:
1) don't mess up the kernel with too many threads,
2) don't have a per-cpu allocation for each process,
3) have no impact when not used.
In order to accomplish this we're going to split it into two parts:
- clocks; which can take all the time they want since they run
from user context -- ie. sys_clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID)
- timers; which need constant time sampling but since they're
explicity used, the user can pay the overhead.
The clock readout will go back to a full sum of the thread group, while the
timers will run of a global 'clock' that only runs when needed, so only
programs that make use of the facility pay the price.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We're going to split the process wide cpu accounting into two parts:
- clocks; which can take all the time they want since they run
from user context.
- timers; which need constant time tracing but can affort the overhead
because they're default off -- and rare.
The clock readout will go back to a full sum of the thread group, for this
we need to re-add the exit stats that were removed in the initial itimer
rework (f06febc9: timers: fix itimer/many thread hang).
Furthermore, since that full sum can be rather slow for large thread groups
and we have the complete dead task stats, revert the do_notify_parent time
computation.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: APIC: enable workaround on AMD Fam10h CPUs
xen: disable interrupts before saving in percpu
x86: add x86@kernel.org to MAINTAINERS
x86: push old stack address on irqstack for unwinder
irq, x86: fix lock status with numa_migrate_irq_desc
x86: add cache descriptors for Intel Core i7
x86/Voyager: make it build and boot
Christian Borntraeger reports:
> After a logical cpu offline, even on a complete idle system, there
> is one cpu with full ticks. It turns out that nohz.cpu_mask has the
> the offlined cpu still set.
>
> In select_nohz_load_balancer() we check if the system is completely
> idle to turn of load balancing. We compare cpu_online_map with
> nohz.cpu_mask. Since cpu_online_map is updated on cpu unplug,
> but nohz.cpu_mask is not, the check fails and the scheduler believes
> that we need an "idle load balancer" even on a fully idle system.
> Since the ilb cpu does not deactivate the timer tick this breaks NOHZ.
Fix the select_nohz_load_balancer() to not set the nohz.cpu_mask
while a cpu is going offline.
Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
As they actually all return these enumerators.
Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: bugfix and cleanup
Some callsites were returning either TRACE_ITER_PARTIAL_LINE if the
trace_seq routines (trace_seq_printf, etc) returned 0 meaning its buffer
was full, or zero otherwise.
But...
/* Return values for print_line callback */
enum print_line_t {
TRACE_TYPE_PARTIAL_LINE = 0, /* Retry after flushing the seq */
TRACE_TYPE_HANDLED = 1,
TRACE_TYPE_UNHANDLED = 2 /* Relay to other output functions */
};
In other cases the return value was not being relayed at all.
Most of the time it didn't hurt because the page wasn't get filled, but
for correctness sake, handle the return values everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
"ftrace: use struct pid" commit 978f3a45d9
converted ftrace_pid_trace to "struct pid*".
But we can't use do_each_pid_task() without rcu_read_lock() even if
we know the pid itself can't go away (it was pinned in ftrace_pid_write).
The exiting task can detach itself from this pid at any moment.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: API change
The trace_seq and trace_entry are in trace_iterator, where there are
more fields that may be needed by tracers, so just pass the
tracer_iterator as is already the case for struct tracer->print_line.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: make trace_event more convenient for tracers
All tracers (for the moment) that use the struct trace_event want to
have the context info printed before their own output: the pid/cmdline,
cpu, and timestamp.
But some other tracers that want to implement their trace_event
callbacks will not necessary need these information or they may want to
format them as they want.
This patch adds a new default-enabled trace option:
TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO When disabled through:
echo nocontext-info > /debugfs/tracing/trace_options
The pid, cpu and timestamps headers will not be printed.
IE with the sched_switch tracer with context-info (default):
bash-2935 [001] 100.356561: 2935:120:S ==> [001] 0:140:R <idle>
<idle>-0 [000] 100.412804: 0:140:R + [000] 11:115:S events/0
<idle>-0 [000] 100.412816: 0:140:R ==> [000] 11:115:R events/0
events/0-11 [000] 100.412829: 11:115:S ==> [000] 0:140:R <idle>
Without context-info:
2935:120:S ==> [001] 0:140:R <idle>
0:140:R + [000] 11:115:S events/0
0:140:R ==> [000] 11:115:R events/0
11:115:S ==> [000] 0:140:R <idle>
A tracer can disable it at runtime by clearing the bit
TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO in trace_flags.
The print routines were renamed to trace_print_context and
trace_print_lat_context, so that they can be used by tracers if they
want to use them for one of the trace_event callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Now that we have a working ftrace=<tracer> function, make the boot
tracer get activated by it. This way we can turn it on or off without
recompiling the kernel, as well as keeping the selftests on. The
selftests are disabled whenever a default tracer starts running.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter Zijlstra started the functionality to start up a default
tracing at bootup. This patch finishes the work.
Now if you add 'ftrace=<tracer>' to the command line, when that tracer
is registered on bootup, that tracer is selected and starts tracing.
Note, all selftests for tracers that are registered after this tracer
is disabled. This prevents the selftests from disturbing the running
tracer, or the running tracer from disturbing the selftest.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched_rt: don't use first_cpu on cpumask created with cpumask_and
sched: fix buddie group latency
sched: clear buddies more aggressively
sched: symmetric sync vs avg_overlap
sched: fix sync wakeups
cpuset: fix possible deadlock in async_rebuild_sched_domains
Current refcounting for modules (done if CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y) is
using a lot of memory.
Each 'struct module' contains an [NR_CPUS] array of full cache lines.
This patch uses existing infrastructure (percpu_modalloc() &
percpu_modfree()) to allocate percpu space for the refcount storage.
Instead of wasting NR_CPUS*128 bytes (on i386), we now use
nr_cpu_ids*sizeof(local_t) bytes.
On a typical distro, where NR_CPUS=8, shiping 2000 modules, we reduce
size of module files by about 2 Mbytes. (1Kb per module)
Instead of having all refcounters in the same memory node - with TLB misses
because of vmalloc() - this new implementation permits to have better
NUMA properties, since each CPU will use storage on its preferred node,
thanks to percpu storage.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Eric Paris reported:
> I have an hp dl785g5 which is unable to successfully run
> 2.6.29-0.66.rc3.fc11.x86_64 or 2.6.29-rc2-next-20090126. During bootup
> (early in userspace daemons starting) I get the below BUG, which quickly
> renders the machine dead. I assume it is because sparse_irq_lock never
> gets released when the BUG kills that task.
Adjust lock sequence when migrating a descriptor with
CONFIG_NUMA_MIGRATE_IRQ_DESC enabled.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
cpumask_and() only initializes nr_cpu_ids bits, so the (deprecated)
first_cpu() might find one of those uninitialized bits if nr_cpu_ids
is less than NR_CPUS (as it can be for CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Similar to the previous patch, by not clearing buddies we can select entities
past their run quota, which can increase latency. This means we have to clear
group buddies as well.
Do not use the group clear for pick_next_task(), otherwise that'll get O(n^2).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
It was noticed that a task could get re-elected past its run quota due to buddy
affinities. This could increase latency a little. Cure it by more aggresively
clearing buddy state.
We do so in two situations:
- when we force preempt
- when we select a buddy to run
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reinstate the weakening of the sync hint if set. This yields a more
symmetric usage of avg_overlap.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Pawel Dziekonski reported that the openssl benchmark and his
quantum chemistry application both show slowdowns due to the
scheduler under-parallelizing execution.
The reason are pipe wakeups still doing 'sync' wakeups which
overrides the normal buddy wakeup logic - even if waker and
wakee are loosely coupled.
Fix an inversion of logic in the buddy wakeup code.
Reported-by: Pawel Dziekonski <dzieko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
generic-ipi: use per cpu data for single cpu ipi calls
cpumask: convert lib/smp_processor_id to new cpumask ops
signals, debug: fix BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code in print_fatal_signal()
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
hrtimer: prevent negative expiry value after clock_was_set()
hrtimers: allow the hot-unplugging of all cpus
hrtimers: increase clock min delta threshold while interrupt hanging
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, ds, bts: cleanup/fix DS configuration
ring-buffer: reset timestamps when ring buffer is reset
trace: set max latency variable to zero on default
trace: stop all recording to ring buffer on ftrace_dump
trace: print ftrace_dump at KERN_EMERG log level
ring_buffer: reset write when reserve buffer fail
tracing/function-graph-tracer: fix a regression while suspend to disk
ring-buffer: fix alignment problem
Impact: prevent false positive WARN_ON() in clockevents_program_event()
clock_was_set() changes the base->offset of CLOCK_REALTIME and
enforces the reprogramming of the clockevent device to expire timers
which are based on CLOCK_REALTIME. If the clock change is large enough
then the subtraction of the timer expiry value and base->offset can
become negative which triggers the warning in
clockevents_program_event().
Check the subtraction result and set a negative value to 0.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Impact: fix CPU hotplug hang on Power6 testbox
On architectures that support offlining all cpus (at least powerpc/pseries),
hot-unpluging the tick_do_timer_cpu can result in a system hang.
This comes from the fact that if the cpu going down happens to be the
cpu doing the tick, then as the tick_do_timer_cpu handover happens after the
cpu is dead (via the CPU_DEAD notification), we're left without ticks,
jiffies are frozen and any task relying on timers (msleep, ...) is stuck.
That's particularly the case for the cpu looping in __cpu_die() waiting
for the dying cpu to be dead.
This patch addresses this by having the tick_do_timer_cpu handover happen
earlier during the CPU_DYING notification. For this, a new clockevent
notification type is introduced (CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_CPU_DYING) which is triggered
in hrtimer_cpu_notify().
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: avoid timer IRQ hanging slow systems
While using the function graph tracer on a virtualized system, the
hrtimer_interrupt can hang the system on an infinite loop.
This can be caused in several situations:
- the hardware is very slow and HZ is set too high
- something intrusive is slowing the system down (tracing under emulation)
... and the next clock events to program are always before the current time.
This patch implements a reasonable compromise: if such a situation is
detected, we share the CPUs time in 1/4 to process the hrtimer interrupts.
This is enough to let the system running without serious starvation.
It has been successfully tested under VirtualBox with 1000 HZ and 100 HZ
with function graph tracer launched. On both cases, the clock events were
increased until about 25 ms periodic ticks, which means 40 HZ.
So we change a hard to debug hang into a warning message and a system that
still manages to limp along.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The smp_call_function can be passed a wait parameter telling it to
wait for all the functions running on other CPUs to complete before
returning, or to return without waiting. Unfortunately, this is
currently just a suggestion and not manditory. That is, the
smp_call_function can decide not to return and wait instead.
The reason for this is because it uses kmalloc to allocate storage
to send to the called CPU and that CPU will free it when it is done.
But if we fail to allocate the storage, the stack is used instead.
This means we must wait for the called CPU to finish before
continuing.
Unfortunatly, some callers do no abide by this hint and act as if
the non-wait option is mandatory. The MTRR code for instance will
deadlock if the smp_call_function is set to wait. This is because
the smp_call_function will wait for the other CPUs to finish their
called functions, but those functions are waiting on the caller to
continue.
This patch changes the generic smp_call_function code to use per cpu
variables if the allocation of the data fails for a single CPU call. The
smp_call_function_many will fall back to the smp_call_function_single
if it fails its alloc. The smp_call_function_single is modified
to not force the wait state.
Since we now are using a single data per cpu we must synchronize the
callers to prevent a second caller modifying the data before the
first called IPI functions complete. To do so, I added a flag to
the call_single_data called CSD_FLAG_LOCK. When the single CPU is
called (which can be called when a many call fails an alloc), we
set the LOCK bit on this per cpu data. When the caller finishes
it clears the LOCK bit.
The caller must wait till the LOCK bit is cleared before setting
it. When it is cleared, there is no IPI function using it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
root_count was being incremented in cgroup_get_sb() after all error
checking was complete, but decremented in cgroup_kill_sb(), which can be
called on a superblock that we gave up on due to an error. This patch
changes cgroup_kill_sb() to only decrement root_count if the root was
previously linked into the list of roots.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
css_tryget() and cgroup_clear_css_refs() contain polling loops; these
loops should have cpu_relax calls in them to reduce cross-cache traffic.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I fixed a bug in cgroup_clone() in Linus' tree in commit 7b574b7
("cgroups: fix a race between cgroup_clone and umount") without noticing
there was a cleanup patch in -mm tree that should be rebased (now commit
104cbd5, "cgroups: use task_lock() for access tsk->cgroups safe in
cgroup_clone()"), thus resulted in lock inconsistency.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now, cgrp->sibling is handled under hierarchy mutex.
error route should do so, too.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move the initialization of irq_default_affinity to early_irq_init as
core_initcall is too late.
irq_default_affinity can be used in init_IRQ and potentially timer and
SMP init as well. All of these happen before core_initcall. Moving
the initialization to early_irq_init ensures that it is initialized
before it is used.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In interrupt.h these functions are declared only if
CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS is set. We should define them under identical
conditions.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'hibern_fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
SATA PIIX: Blacklist system that spins off disks during ACPI power off
SATA Sil: Blacklist system that spins off disks during ACPI power off
SATA AHCI: Blacklist system that spins off disks during ACPI power off
SATA: Blacklisting of systems that spin off disks during ACPI power off
DMI: Introduce dmi_first_match to make the interface more flexible
Hibernation: Introduce system_entering_hibernation
Introduce boolean function system_entering_hibernation() returning
'true' during the last phase of hibernation, in which devices are
being put into low power states and the sleep state (for example,
ACPI S4) is finally entered.
Some device drivers need such a function to check if the system is
in the final phase of hibernation. In particular, some SATA drivers
are going to use it for blacklisting systems in which the disks
should not be spun down during the last phase of hibernation (the
BIOS will do that anyway).
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
With print-fatal-signals=1 on a kernel with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y, sending an
unexpected signal to a process causes a BUG: using smp_processor_id() in
preemptible code.
get_signal_to_deliver() releases the siglock before calling
print_fatal_signal(), which calls show_regs(), which calls
smp_processor_id(), which is not supposed to be called from a
preemptible thread.
Make sure show_regs() runs with preemption disabled.
Signed-off-by: Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'sh/for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (22 commits)
dma-coherent: Restore dma_alloc_from_coherent() large alloc fall back policy.
dma-coherent: per-device coherent area is in pages, not bytes.
sh: fix unaligned and nonexistent address handling
nommu: Stub in vm_map_ram()/vm_unmap_ram()/vm_unmap_aliases().
sh: fix sh-sci / early printk build on sh7723
sh: export the sh7343 JPU to user space
sh: update defconfigs.
serial: sh-sci: Fix up SH7720/SH7721 SCI build.
sh: Kill off obsolete busses from arch/sh/Kconfig.
sh: sh7785lcr/highlander/hp6xx need linux/irq.h.
sh: Migo-R MMC support using spi_gpio and mmc_spi.
sh: ap325rxa MMC support using spi_gpio and mmc_spi
sh: mach-x3proto: needs linux/irq.h.
sh: Drop the BKL from sys_execve() on SH-5.
sh: convert rsk7203 to use smsc911x.
sh: convert magicpanelr2 platform to use smsc911x.
sh: convert ap325rxa platform to use smsc911x.
sh: mach-migor: Add tw9910 support.
sh: mach-migor: Delete soc_camera_platform setup.
sh: mach-migor: Add ov772x support.
...
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
debugobjects: add and use INIT_WORK_ON_STACK
rcu: remove duplicate CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
relay: fix lock imbalance in relay_late_setup_files
oprofile: fix uninitialized use of struct op_entry
rcu: move Kconfig menu
softlock: fix false panic which can occur if softlockup_thresh is reduced
rcu: add __cpuinit to rcu_init_percpu_data()
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
hrtimers: fix inconsistent lock state on resume in hres_timers_resume
time-sched.c: tick_nohz_update_jiffies should be static
locking, hpet: annotate false positive warning
kernel/fork.c: unused variable 'ret'
itimers: remove the per-cpu-ish-ness
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (29 commits)
xen: unitialised return value in xenbus_write_transaction
x86: fix section mismatch warning
x86: unmask CPUID levels on Intel CPUs, fix
x86: work around PAGE_KERNEL_WC not getting WC in iomap_atomic_prot_pfn.
x86: use standard PIT frequency
xen: handle highmem pages correctly when shrinking a domain
x86, mm: fix pte_free()
xen: actually release memory when shrinking domain
x86: unmask CPUID levels on Intel CPUs
x86: add MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE bits to <asm/msr-index.h>
x86: fix PTE corruption issue while mapping RAM using /dev/mem
x86: mtrr fix debug boot parameter
x86: fix page attribute corruption with cpa()
Revert "x86: signal: change type of paramter for sys_rt_sigreturn()"
x86: use early clobbers in usercopy*.c
x86: remove kernel_physical_mapping_init() from init section
fix: crash: IP: __bitmap_intersects+0x48/0x73
cpufreq: use work_on_cpu in acpi-cpufreq.c for drv_read and drv_write
work_on_cpu: Use our own workqueue.
work_on_cpu: don't try to get_online_cpus() in work_on_cpu.
...
Impact: New way of using the blktrace infrastructure
This drops the requirement of userspace utilities to use the blktrace
facility.
Configuration is done thru sysfs, adding a "trace" directory to the
partition directory where blktrace can be enabled for the associated
request_queue.
The same filters present in the IOCTL interface are present as sysfs
device attributes.
The /sys/block/sdX/sdXN/trace/enable file allows tracing without any
filters.
The other files in this directory: pid, act_mask, start_lba and end_lba
can be used with the same meaning as with the IOCTL interface.
Using the sysfs interface will only setup the request_queue->blk_trace
fields, tracing will only take place when the "blk" tracer is selected
via the ftrace interface, as in the following example:
To see the trace, one can use the /d/tracing/trace file or the
/d/tracign/trace_pipe file, with semantics defined in the ftrace
documentation in Documentation/ftrace.txt.
[root@f10-1 ~]# cat /t/trace
kjournald-305 [000] 3046.491224: 8,1 A WBS 6367 + 8 <- (8,1) 6304
kjournald-305 [000] 3046.491227: 8,1 Q R 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
kjournald-305 [000] 3046.491236: 8,1 G RB 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
kjournald-305 [000] 3046.491239: 8,1 P NS [kjournald]
kjournald-305 [000] 3046.491242: 8,1 I RBS 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
kjournald-305 [000] 3046.491251: 8,1 D WB 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
kjournald-305 [000] 3046.491610: 8,1 U WS [kjournald] 1
<idle>-0 [000] 3046.511914: 8,1 C RS 6367 + 8 [6367]
[root@f10-1 ~]#
The default line context (prefix) format is the one described in the ftrace
documentation, with the blktrace specific bits using its existing format,
described in blkparse(8).
If one wants to have the classic blktrace formatting, this is possible by
using:
[root@f10-1 ~]# echo blk_classic > /t/trace_options
[root@f10-1 ~]# cat /t/trace
8,1 0 3046.491224 305 A WBS 6367 + 8 <- (8,1) 6304
8,1 0 3046.491227 305 Q R 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
8,1 0 3046.491236 305 G RB 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
8,1 0 3046.491239 305 P NS [kjournald]
8,1 0 3046.491242 305 I RBS 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
8,1 0 3046.491251 305 D WB 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
8,1 0 3046.491610 305 U WS [kjournald] 1
8,1 0 3046.511914 0 C RS 6367 + 8 [6367]
[root@f10-1 ~]#
Using the ftrace standard format allows more flexibility, such
as the ability of asking for backtraces via trace_options:
[root@f10-1 ~]# echo noblk_classic > /t/trace_options
[root@f10-1 ~]# echo stacktrace > /t/trace_options
[root@f10-1 ~]# cat /t/trace
kjournald-305 [000] 3318.826779: 8,1 A WBS 6375 + 8 <- (8,1) 6312
kjournald-305 [000] 3318.826782:
<= submit_bio
<= submit_bh
<= sync_dirty_buffer
<= journal_commit_transaction
<= kjournald
<= kthread
<= child_rip
kjournald-305 [000] 3318.826836: 8,1 Q R 6375 + 8 [kjournald]
kjournald-305 [000] 3318.826837:
<= generic_make_request
<= submit_bio
<= submit_bh
<= sync_dirty_buffer
<= journal_commit_transaction
<= kjournald
<= kthread
Please read the ftrace documentation to use aditional, standardized
tracing filters such as /d/tracing/trace_cpumask, etc.
See also /d/tracing/trace_mark to add comments in the trace stream,
that is equivalent to the /d/block/sdaN/msg interface.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix kmemtrace printk warnings:
kernel/trace/kmemtrace.c:142: warning: format '%4ld' expects type 'long int', but argument 3 has type 'size_t'
kernel/trace/kmemtrace.c:147: warning: format '%4ld' expects type 'long int', but argument 3 has type 'size_t'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch brings various bugfixes:
- Drop the first irrelevant task switch on the very beginning of a trace.
- Drop the OVERHEAD word from the headers, the DURATION word is sufficient
and will not overlap other columns.
- Make the headers fit well their respective columns whatever the
selected options.
Ie, default options:
# tracer: function_graph
#
# CPU DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | | | | |
1) 0.646 us | }
1) | mem_cgroup_del_lru_list() {
1) 0.624 us | lookup_page_cgroup();
1) 1.970 us | }
echo funcgraph-proc > trace_options
# tracer: function_graph
#
# CPU TASK/PID DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | | | | | | |
0) bash-2937 | 0.895 us | }
0) bash-2937 | 0.888 us | __rcu_read_unlock();
0) bash-2937 | 0.864 us | conv_uni_to_pc();
0) bash-2937 | 1.015 us | __rcu_read_lock();
echo nofuncgraph-cpu > trace_options
echo nofuncgraph-proc > trace_options
# tracer: function_graph
#
# DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | | | |
3.752 us | native_pud_val();
0.616 us | native_pud_val();
0.624 us | native_pmd_val();
About features, one can now disable the duration (this will hide the
overhead too for convenient reasons and because on doesn't need
overhead if it hasn't the duration):
echo nofuncgraph-duration > trace_options
# tracer: function_graph
#
# FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | |
cap_vm_enough_memory() {
__vm_enough_memory() {
vm_acct_memory();
}
}
}
And at last, an option to print the absolute time:
//Restart from default options
echo funcgraph-abstime > trace_options
# tracer: function_graph
#
# TIME CPU DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | | | | | |
261.339774 | 1) + 42.823 us | }
261.339775 | 1) 1.045 us | _spin_lock_irq();
261.339777 | 1) 0.940 us | _spin_lock_irqsave();
261.339778 | 1) 0.752 us | _spin_unlock_irqrestore();
261.339780 | 1) 0.857 us | _spin_unlock_irq();
261.339782 | 1) | flush_to_ldisc() {
261.339783 | 1) | tty_ldisc_ref() {
261.339783 | 1) | tty_ldisc_try() {
261.339784 | 1) 1.075 us | _spin_lock_irqsave();
261.339786 | 1) 0.842 us | _spin_unlock_irqrestore();
261.339788 | 1) 4.211 us | }
261.339788 | 1) 5.662 us | }
The format is seconds.usecs.
I guess no one needs the nanosec precision here, the main goal is to have
an overview about the general timings of events, and to see the place when
the trace switches from one cpu to another.
ie:
274.874760 | 1) 0.676 us | _spin_unlock();
274.874762 | 1) 0.609 us | native_load_sp0();
274.874763 | 1) 0.602 us | native_load_tls();
274.878739 | 0) 0.722 us | }
274.878740 | 0) 0.714 us | native_pmd_val();
274.878741 | 0) 0.730 us | native_pmd_val();
Here there is a 4000 usecs difference when we switch the cpu.
Changes in V2:
- Completely fix the first pointless task switch.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix to preempt trace triggering lockdep check_flag failure
In local_bh_disable, the use of add_preempt_count causes the
preempt tracer to start recording the time preemption is off.
But because it already modified the preempt_count to show
softirqs disabled, and before it called the lockdep code to
handle this, it causes a state that lockdep can not handle.
The preempt tracer will reset the ring buffer on start of a trace,
and the ring buffer reset code does a spin_lock_irqsave. This
calls into lockdep and lockdep will fail when it detects the
invalid state of having softirqs disabled but the internal
current->softirqs_enabled is still set.
The fix is to manually add the SOFTIRQ_OFFSET to preempt count
and call the preempt tracer code outside the lockdep critical
area.
Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for suggesting this solution.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The logic in the tracing_start/stop code prevents the WARN_ON
from ever detecting if a start/stop pair was mismatched.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup of duplicate features
The trace output disables the ring buffer and prevents tracing to
occur. The code in irqsoff to do the same thing is no longer needed.
This patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix bad times of recent resets
The ring buffer needs to reset its timestamps when reseting of the
buffer, otherwise the timestamps are stale and might be used to
calculate times in the buffer causing funny timestamps to appear.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix bad times of recent resets
The ring buffer needs to reset its timestamps when reseting of the
buffer, otherwise the timestamps are stale and might be used to
calculate times in the buffer causing funny timestamps to appear.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: better data for wakeup tracer
This patch adds the wakeup and schedule calls that are used by
the scheduler tracer to make the wakeup tracer more readable.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add option to trace all tasks or just RT tasks
The current wakeup tracer only traces RT task wakeups. This is
fine for those interested in wake up timings of RT tasks, but
it is useless for those that are interested in the causes
of long wakeups for non RT tasks.
This patch creates a "wakeup_rt" to implement the tracing of just
RT tasks (as the current "wakeup" does). And makes "wakeup" now
trace all tasks as an average developer would expect.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If the ring buffer recording has been disabled. Do not let
swapping of ring buffers occur. Simply return -EAGAIN.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix to erased trace output
To try not to have the outputing of a trace interfere with the wakeup
tracer, it would disable tracing while the output was printing. But
if a trace had started when it was disabled, it can show a partial
trace. To try to solve this, on closing of the tracer, it would
clear the trace buffer.
The latency tracers (wakeup and irqsoff) have two buffers. One for
recording and one for holding the max trace that is printed. The
clearing of the trace above should only affect the recording buffer.
But for some reason it would move the erased trace to the print
buffer. Probably due to a race with the closing of the trace and
the saving ofhe max race.
The above is all pretty useless, and if the user does not want the
printing of the trace to be traced itself, then the user can manual
disable tracing. This patch removes all the code that tries to keep
the output of the tracer from modifying the trace.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: trace max latencies on start of latency tracing
This patch sets the max latency to zero whenever one of the
irq variant tracers or the wakeup tracer is set to current tracer.
Most developers expect to see output when starting up a latency
tracer. But since the max_latency is already set to max, and
it takes a latency greater than max_latency to be recorded, there
is no trace. This is not the expected behavior and has even confused
myself.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: limit ftrace dump output
Currently ftrace_dump only calls ftrace_kill that is a fast way
to prevent the function tracer functions from being called (just sets
a flag and clears the function to call, nothing else). It is better
to also turn off any recording to the ring buffers as well.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix to print out ftrace_dump when expected
I was debugging a hard race condition to only find out that
after I hit the race, my log level was not at level to show
KERN_INFO. The time it took to trigger the race was wasted because
I did not capture the trace.
Since ftrace_dump is only called from kernel oops (and only when
it is set in the kernel command line to do so), or when a
developer adds it to their own local tree, the log level of
the print should be at KERN_EMERG to make sure the print appears.
ftrace_dump is not called by a normal user setup, and will not
add extra unwanted print out to the console. There is no reason
it should be at KERN_INFO.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: reset struct buffer_page.write when interrupt storm
if struct buffer_page.write is not reset, any succedent committing
will corrupted ring_buffer:
static inline void
rb_set_commit_to_write(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
{
......
cpu_buffer->commit_page->commit =
cpu_buffer->commit_page->write;
......
}
when "if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, next_page == reader_page))", ring_buffer
is disabled, but some reserved buffers may haven't been committed.
we need reset struct buffer_page.write.
when "if (unlikely(next_page == cpu_buffer->commit_page))", ring_buffer
is still available, we should not corrupt it.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix a crash while kernel image restore
When the function graph tracer is running and while suspend to disk, some racy
and dangerous things happen against this tracer.
The current task will save its registers including the stack pointer which
contains the return address hooked by the tracer. But the current task will
continue to enter other functions after that to save the memory, and then
it will store other return addresses, and finally loose the old depth which
matches the return address saved in the old stack (during the registers saving).
So on image restore, the code will return to wrong addresses.
And there are other things: on restore, the task will have it's "current"
pointer overwritten during registers restoring....switching from one task to
another... That would be insane to try to trace function graphs at these
stages.
This patch makes the function graph tracer listening on power events, making
it's tracing disabled for the current task (the one that performs the
hibernation work) while suspend/resume to disk, making the tracing safe
during hibernation.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When doing large allocations (larger than the per-device coherent area)
the generic memory allocators are silently fallen back on regardless of
consideration for the per-device constraints.
In the DMA_MEMORY_EXCLUSIVE case falling back on generic memory is not
an option, as it tends not to be addressable by the DMA hardware in
question. This issue showed up with the 8139too breakage on the
Dreamcast, where non-addressable buffers were silently allocated due to
the size mismatch calculation -- while it should have simply errored out
upon being unable to satisfy the allocation with the given device
constraints.
This restores fall back behaviour to what it was before the oversized
request change caused multiple regressions.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Commit 58c6d3dfe4 ("dma-coherent: catch
oversized requests to dma_alloc_from_coherent()") attempted to add a
sanity check to bail out on allocations larger than the coherent area.
Unfortunately when this was implemented, the fact the coherent area
is tracked in pages rather than bytes was overlooked, which subsequently
broke every single dma_alloc_from_coherent() user, forcing the allocation
silently through generic memory instead.
Signed-off-by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk >
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Impact: fix to allow some archs to use the ring buffer
Commits in the ring buffer are checked by pointer arithmetic.
If the calculation is incorrect, then the commits will never take
place and the buffer will simply fill up and report an error.
Each page in the ring buffer has a small header:
struct buffer_data_page {
u64 time_stamp;
local_t commit;
unsigned char data[];
};
Unfortuntely, some of the calculations used sizeof(struct buffer_data_page)
to know the size of the header. But this is incorrect on some archs,
where sizeof(struct buffer_data_page) does not equal
offsetof(struct buffer_data_page, data), and on those archs, the commits
are never processed.
This patch replaces the sizeof with offsetof.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: use percpu data instead of a global structure
Use:
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct workqueue_global_stats, all_workqueue_stat);
instead of allocating a global structure.
percpu data also works well on NUMA.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Change the hw-branch-tracer format to be more readable.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reset the ftrace buffer on close. Since we use cyclic buffers, the
trace is not contiguous, anyway.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Dump the branch trace on an oops (based on ftrace_dump_on_oops).
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: remove potential clashes with generic kevent workqueue
Annoyingly, some places we want to use work_on_cpu are already in
workqueues. As per Ingo's suggestion, we create a different workqueue
for work_on_cpu.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: remove potential circular lock dependency with cpu hotplug lock
This has caused more problems than it solved, with a pile of cpu
hotplug locking issues.
Followup patches will get_online_cpus() in callers that need it, but
if they don't do it they're no worse than before when they were using
set_cpus_allowed without locking.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Lockdep reported some possible circular locking info when we tested cpuset on
NUMA/fake NUMA box.
=======================================================
[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
2.6.29-rc1-00224-ga652504 #111
-------------------------------------------------------
bash/2968 is trying to acquire lock:
(events){--..}, at: [<ffffffff8024c8cd>] flush_work+0x24/0xd8
but task is already holding lock:
(cgroup_mutex){--..}, at: [<ffffffff8026ad1e>] cgroup_lock_live_group+0x12/0x29
which lock already depends on the new lock.
......
-------------------------------------------------------
Steps to reproduce:
# mkdir /dev/cpuset
# mount -t cpuset xxx /dev/cpuset
# mkdir /dev/cpuset/0
# echo 0 > /dev/cpuset/0/cpus
# echo 0 > /dev/cpuset/0/mems
# echo 1 > /dev/cpuset/0/memory_migrate
# cat /dev/zero > /dev/null &
# echo $! > /dev/cpuset/0/tasks
This is because async_rebuild_sched_domains has the following lock sequence:
run_workqueue(async_rebuild_sched_domains)
-> do_rebuild_sched_domains -> cgroup_lock
But, attaching tasks when memory_migrate is set has following:
cgroup_lock_live_group(cgroup_tasks_write)
-> do_migrate_pages -> flush_work
This patch fixes it by using a separate workqueue thread.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reorder the code in kernel/power/main.c to fix compilation warning
triggered by unsetting CONFIG_SUSPEND.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Check CONFIG_FREEZER instead of CONFIG_PM because kprobe booster
depends on freeze_processes() and thaw_processes() when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y.
This fixes a linkage error which occurs when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y, CONFIG_PM=y
and CONFIG_FREEZER=n.
Reported-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Freezer fails to compile if with the following configuration
settings:
CONFIG_CGROUPS=y
CONFIG_CGROUP_FREEZER=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_FREEZER=y
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_PM_SLEEP=n
Fix this by making process.o compilation depend on CONFIG_FREEZER.
Reported-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Impact: trace max latencies on start of latency tracing
This patch sets the max latency to zero whenever one of the
irq variant tracers or the wakeup tracer is set to current tracer.
Most developers expect to see output when starting up a latency
tracer. But since the max_latency is already set to max, and
it takes a latency greater than max_latency to be recorded, there
is no trace. This is not the expected behavior and has even confused
myself.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: clean up
After reorganizing the functions in trace.c and trace_function.c,
they no longer need to be in global context. This patch makes the
functions and one variable into static.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: less likely to interleave function and stack traces
This patch does replaces the separate stack trace on function with
a record function and stack trace together. This will switch between
the function only recording to a function and stack recording.
Also some whitespace fix ups as well.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
After adding the printf format checking for trace_seq_printf, several
warnings now show up. This patch cleans them up.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Andrew Morton suggested adding a printf checker to trace_seq_printf
since there are a number of users that have improper format arguments.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: clean up of trace.c
The function tracer functions were put in trace.c because it needed
to share static variables that were in trace.c. Since then, those
variables have become global for various reasons. This patch moves
the function tracer functions into trace_function.c where they belong.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: new feature to stack trace any function
Chris Mason asked about being able to pick and choose a function
and get a stack trace from it. This feature enables his request.
# echo io_schedule > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
# echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
# echo func_stack_trace > /debug/tracing/trace_options
Produces the following in /debug/tracing/trace:
kjournald-702 [001] 135.673060: io_schedule <-sync_buffer
kjournald-702 [002] 135.673671:
<= sync_buffer
<= __wait_on_bit
<= out_of_line_wait_on_bit
<= __wait_on_buffer
<= sync_dirty_buffer
<= journal_commit_transaction
<= kjournald
Note, be careful about turning this on without filtering the functions.
You may find that you have a 10 second lag between typing and seeing
what you typed. This is why the stack trace for the function tracer
does not use the same stack_trace flag as the other tracers use.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix bug for handling partial line
trace_seq_printf(), seq_print_userip_objs(), ... return
0 -- partial line was written
other(>0) -- success
duplicate output is also removed in trace_print_raw().
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix __request_region() parameter kernel-doc notation and parameter name:
Warning(linux-2.6.28-git10//kernel/resource.c:627): No description found for parameter 'flags'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mike's change: 0a582440f "sched: fix sched_slice())" broke group
scheduling by forgetting to reload cfs_rq on each loop.
This patch fixes aim7 regression and specjbb2005 regression becomes
less than 1.5% on 8-core stokley.
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Jayson King <dev@jaysonking.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Often the cause of kernel unaligned access warnings is not
obvious from just the ip displayed in the warning. This adds
the option via proc to dump the stack in addition to the warning.
The default is off (just display the 1 line warning). To enable
the stack to be shown: echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-dump-stack
Signed-off-by: Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Impact: fix SCHED_IDLE latency problems
OK, so we have 1 running task A (which is obviously curr and the tree is
equally obviously empty).
'A' nicely chugs along, doing its thing, carrying min_vruntime along as it
goes.
Then some whacko speed freak SCHED_IDLE task gets inserted due to SMP
balancing, which is very likely far right, in that case
update_curr
update_min_vruntime
cfs_rq->rb_leftmost := true (the crazy task sitting in a tree)
vruntime = se->vruntime
and voila, min_vruntime is waaay right of where it ought to be.
OK, so why did I write it like that to begin with...
Aah, yes.
Say we've just dequeued current
schedule
deactivate_task(prev)
dequeue_entity
update_min_vruntime
Then we'll set
vruntime = cfs_rq->min_vruntime;
we find !cfs_rq->curr, but do find someone in the tree. Then we _must_
do vruntime = se->vruntime, because
vruntime = min_vruntime(vruntime := cfs_rq->min_vruntime, se->vruntime)
will not advance vruntime, and cause lags the other way around (which we
fixed with that initial patch: 1af5f730fc
(sched: more accurate min_vruntime accounting).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Stronger SCHED_IDLE isolation:
- no SCHED_IDLE buddies
- never let SCHED_IDLE preempt on wakeup
- always preempt SCHED_IDLE on wakeup
- limit SLEEPER fairness for SCHED_IDLE.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Increase the SCHED_IDLE weight from 2 to 3, this gives much more stable
vruntime numbers.
time advanced in 100ms:
weight=2
64765.988352
67012.881408
88501.412352
weight=3
35496.181411
34130.971298
35497.411573
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: make rt-limit tunables work again
Mark Glines reported:
> I've got an issue on x86-64 where I can't configure the system to allow
> RT tasks for a non-root user.
>
> In 2.6.26.5, I was able to do the following to set things up nicely:
> echo 450000 >/sys/kernel/uids/0/cpu_rt_runtime
> echo 450000 >/sys/kernel/uids/1000/cpu_rt_runtime
>
> Seems like every value I try to echo into the /sys files returns EINVAL.
For UID grouping we initialize the root group with infinite bandwidth
which by default is actually more than the global limit, therefore the
bandwidth check always fails.
Because the root group is a phantom group (for UID grouping) we cannot
runtime adjust it, therefore we let it reflect the global bandwidth
settings.
Reported-by: Mark Glines <mark@glines.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, reduce kernel size a bit, avoid sparse warning
Fixes sparse warning:
kernel/time/tick-sched.c:137:6: warning: symbol 'tick_nohz_update_jiffies' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We should unlock all_stat_sessions_mutex before returning failure.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix a crash while kernel image restore
When the function graph tracer is running and while suspend to disk, some racy
and dangerous things happen against this tracer.
The current task will save its registers including the stack pointer which
contains the return address hooked by the tracer. But the current task will
continue to enter other functions after that to save the memory, and then
it will store other return addresses, and finally loose the old depth which
matches the return address saved in the old stack (during the registers saving).
So on image restore, the code will return to wrong addresses.
And there are other things: on restore, the task will have it's "current"
pointer overwritten during registers restoring....switching from one task to
another... That would be insane to try to trace function graphs at these
stages.
This patch makes the function graph tracer listening on power events, making
it's tracing disabled for the current task (the one that performs the
hibernation work) while suspend/resume to disk, making the tracing safe
during hibernation.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: limit ftrace dump output
Currently ftrace_dump only calls ftrace_kill that is a fast way
to prevent the function tracer functions from being called (just sets
a flag and clears the function to call, nothing else). It is better
to also turn off any recording to the ring buffers as well.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: reset struct buffer_page.write when interrupt storm
if struct buffer_page.write is not reset, any succedent committing
will corrupted ring_buffer:
static inline void
rb_set_commit_to_write(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
{
......
cpu_buffer->commit_page->commit =
cpu_buffer->commit_page->write;
......
}
when "if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, next_page == reader_page))", ring_buffer
is disabled, but some reserved buffers may haven't been committed.
we need reset struct buffer_page.write.
when "if (unlikely(next_page == cpu_buffer->commit_page))", ring_buffer
is still available, we should not corrupt it.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix to print out ftrace_dump when expected
I was debugging a hard race condition to only find out that
after I hit the race, my log level was not at level to show
KERN_INFO. The time it took to trigger the race was wasted because
I did not capture the trace.
Since ftrace_dump is only called from kernel oops (and only when
it is set in the kernel command line to do so), or when a
developer adds it to their own local tree, the log level of
the print should be at KERN_EMERG to make sure the print appears.
ftrace_dump is not called by a normal user setup, and will not
add extra unwanted print out to the console. There is no reason
it should be at KERN_INFO.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'syscalls' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: (44 commits)
[CVE-2009-0029] s390 specific system call wrappers
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 33
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 32
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 31
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 30
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 29
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 28
[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 27
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This reverts commit ad7a953c52.
And commit: ("allow stripping of generated symbols under CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL")
9bb482476c
These stripping patches has caused a set of issues:
1) People have reported compatibility issues with binutils due to
lack of support for `--strip-unneeded-symbols' with objcopy 2.15.92.0.2
Reported by: Wenji
2) ccache and distcc no longer works as expeced
Reported by: Ted, Roland, + others
3) The installed modules increased a lot in size
Reported by: Ted, Davej + others
Reported-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Reported-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Spin more agressively. This is less fair but also markedly faster.
The numbers:
* dbench 50 (higher is better):
spin 1282MB/s
v10 548MB/s
v10 no wait 1868MB/s
* 4k creates (numbers in files/second higher is better):
spin avg 200.60 median 193.20 std 19.71 high 305.93 low 186.82
v10 avg 180.94 median 175.28 std 13.91 high 229.31 low 168.73
v10 no wait avg 232.18 median 222.38 std 22.91 high 314.66 low 209.12
* File stats (numbers in seconds, lower is better):
spin 2.27s
v10 5.1s
v10 no wait 1.6s
( The source changes are smaller than they look, I just moved the
need_resched checks in __mutex_lock_common after the cmpxchg. )
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix the sparc build - we were including `up.o' on SMP builds, when
CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS=n.
Tested-by: Robert Reif <reif@earthlink.net>
Fixed-by: Robert Reif <reif@earthlink.net>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change mutex contention behaviour such that it will sometimes busy wait on
acquisition - moving its behaviour closer to that of spinlocks.
This concept got ported to mainline from the -rt tree, where it was originally
implemented for rtmutexes by Steven Rostedt, based on work by Gregory Haskins.
Testing with Ingo's test-mutex application (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/50)
gave a 345% boost for VFS scalability on my testbox:
# ./test-mutex-shm V 16 10 | grep "^avg ops"
avg ops/sec: 296604
# ./test-mutex-shm V 16 10 | grep "^avg ops"
avg ops/sec: 85870
The key criteria for the busy wait is that the lock owner has to be running on
a (different) cpu. The idea is that as long as the owner is running, there is a
fair chance it'll release the lock soon, and thus we'll be better off spinning
instead of blocking/scheduling.
Since regular mutexes (as opposed to rtmutexes) do not atomically track the
owner, we add the owner in a non-atomic fashion and deal with the races in
the slowpath.
Furthermore, to ease the testing of the performance impact of this new code,
there is means to disable this behaviour runtime (without having to reboot
the system), when scheduler debugging is enabled (CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y),
by issuing the following command:
# echo NO_OWNER_SPIN > /debug/sched_features
This command re-enables spinning again (this is also the default):
# echo OWNER_SPIN > /debug/sched_features
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The problem is that dropping the spinlock right before schedule is a voluntary
preemption point and can cause a schedule, right after which we schedule again.
Fix this inefficiency by keeping preemption disabled until we schedule, do this
by explicity disabling preemption and providing a schedule() variant that
assumes preemption is already disabled.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Remove a local variable by combining an assingment and test in one.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Remove the -ENOSYS implementation for !CONFIG_PRINTK and use
the cond_syscall infrastructure instead.
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Convert all system calls to return a long. This should be a NOP since all
converted types should have the same size anyway.
With the exception of sys_exit_group which returned void. But that doesn't
matter since the system call doesn't return.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Impact: new tracer
The workqueue tracer provides some statistical informations
about each cpu workqueue thread such as the number of the
works inserted and executed since their creation. It can help
to evaluate the amount of work each of them have to perform.
For example it can help a developer to decide whether he should
choose a per cpu workqueue instead of a singlethreaded one.
It only traces statistical informations for now but it will probably later
provide event tracing too.
Such a tracer could help too, and be improved, to help rt priority sorted
workqueue development.
To have a snapshot of the workqueues state at any time, just do
cat /debugfs/tracing/trace_stat/workqueues
Ie:
1 125 125 reiserfs/1
1 0 0 scsi_tgtd/1
1 0 0 aio/1
1 0 0 ata/1
1 114 114 kblockd/1
1 0 0 kintegrityd/1
1 2147 2147 events/1
0 0 0 kpsmoused
0 105 105 reiserfs/0
0 0 0 scsi_tgtd/0
0 0 0 aio/0
0 0 0 ata_aux
0 0 0 ata/0
0 0 0 cqueue
0 0 0 kacpi_notify
0 0 0 kacpid
0 149 149 kblockd/0
0 0 0 kintegrityd/0
0 1000 1000 khelper
0 2270 2270 events/0
Changes in V2:
_ Drop the static array based on NR_CPU and dynamically allocate the stat array
with num_possible_cpus() and other cpu mask facilities....
_ Trace workqueue insertion at a bit lower level (insert_work instead of queue_work) to handle
even the workqueue barriers.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: tracing's Api change
Currently, the stat tracing depends on the events tracing.
When you switch to a new tracer, the stats files of the previous tracer
will disappear. But it's more scalable to separate those two engines.
This way, we can keep the stat files of one or several tracers when we
want, without bothering of multiple tracer stat files or tracer switching.
To build/destroys its stats files, a tracer just have to call
register_stat_tracer/unregister_stat_tracer everytimes it wants to.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Define FTRACE_ADDR. In IA64, a function pointer isn't a 'unsigned long' but a
'struct {unsigned long ip, unsigned long gp}'.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In IA64, a function pointer isn't a 'unsigned long' but a
'struct {unsigned long ip, unsigned long gp}'. MCOUNT_ADDR is determined
at link time not compile time, so explictly ignore kernel/trace/ftrace.o
in recordmcount.pl.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
At run-time, if softlockup_thresh is changed to a much lower value,
touch_timestamp is likely to be much older than the new softlock_thresh.
This will cause a false softlockup to be detected. If softlockup_panic
is enabled, the system will panic.
The fix is to touch all watchdogs before changing softlockup_thresh.
Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: reduce memory footprint
add __cpuinit to rcu_init_percpu_data(), and this function's text
will be discarded after boot when !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
smp_call_function_single(): be slightly less stupid, fix#2
lockdep, mm: fix might_fault() annotation
At 37000 feet somewhere near Greenland I woke up from a half-sleep with the
realisation that __lowest_in_progress() is buggy. After landing I checked
and there were indeed 2 problems with it; this patch fixes both:
* The order of the list checks was wrong
* The locking was not correct.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This reverts commit 7317d7b87e.
This has been reported (and bisected) by Alexey Zaytsev and
Kamalesh Babulal to produce annoying warnings during bootup
on both x86 and powerpc.
kernel_locked() is not a valid test in IRQ context (we update the
BKL's ->lock_depth and the preempt count separately and non-atomicalyy),
so we cannot put it into the generic preempt debugging checks which
can run in IRQ contexts too.
Reported-and-bisected-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>
Reported-and-bisected-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: build fix on certain configs
Added 'double_rq_lock' forward declaration, allowing double_rq_lock
to be used in _double_lock_balance().
Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: build fix on Alpha
kernel/up.c: In function 'smp_call_function_single':
kernel/up.c:12: error: 'cpuid' undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/up.c:12: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
kernel/up.c:12: error: for each function it appears in.)
The typo didnt show up on x86 because 'cpuid' happens to be a
function address as well ...
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: enhances lost events counting in mmiotrace
The tracing framework, or the ring buffer facility it uses, has a switch
to stop recording data. When recording is off, the trace events will be
lost. The framework does not count these, so mmiotrace has to count them
itself.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cosmetic change in Kconfig menu layout
This patch was originally suggested by Peter Zijlstra, but seems it
was forgotten.
CONFIG_MMIOTRACE and CONFIG_MMIOTRACE_TEST were selectable
directly under the Kernel hacking / debugging menu in the kernel
configuration system. They were present only for x86 and x86_64.
Other tracers that use the ftrace tracing framework are in their own
sub-menu. This patch moves the mmiotrace configuration options there.
Since the Kconfig file, where the tracer menu is, is not architecture
specific, HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT is introduced and provided only by
x86/x86_64. CONFIG_MMIOTRACE now depends on it.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: new API for tracers
Make the stat tracing API reentrant. And also provide the new directory
/debugfs/tracing/trace_stat which will contain all the stat files for the
current active tracer.
Now a tracer will, if desired, want to provide a zero terminated array of
tracer_stat structures.
Each one contains the callbacks necessary for one stat file.
It have to provide at least a name for its stat file, an iterator with
stat_start/start_next callback and an output callback for one stat entry.
Also adapt the branch tracer to this new API.
We create two files "all" and "annotated" inside the /debugfs/tracing/trace_stat
directory, making the both stats simultaneously available instead of needing
to change an option to switch from one stat file to another.
The output of these stats haven't changed.
Changes in v2:
_ Apply the previous memory leak fix (rebase against tip/master)
Changes in v3:
_ Merge the patch that adapted the branch tracer to this Api in this patch to
not break the kernel build.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If you do
smp_call_function_single(expression-with-side-effects, ...)
then expression-with-side-effects never gets evaluated on UP builds.
As always, implementing it in C is the correct thing to do.
While we're there, uninline it for size and possible header dependency
reasons.
And create a new kernel/up.c, as a place in which to put
uniprocessor-specific code and storage. It should mirror kernel/smp.c.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: avoid accessing NULL tg.css->cgroup
In commit 0a0db8f5c9, I removed checking
NULL tg.css->cgroup, but I realized I was wrong when I found reading
/proc/sched_debug can race with cgroup_create().
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix panic on ia64 with NR_CPUS=1024
struct sched_domain is now a dangling structure; where we really want
static ones, we need to use static_sched_domain.
(As the FIXME in this file says, cpumask_var_t would be better, but
this code is hairy enough without trying to add initialization code to
the right places).
Reported-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-async-2:
async: make async a command line option for now
partial revert of asynchronous inode delete
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-nommu:
NOMMU: Support XIP on initramfs
NOMMU: Teach kobjsize() about VMA regions.
FLAT: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated
FDPIC: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated
NOMMU: Improve procfs output using per-MM VMAs
NOMMU: Make mmap allocation page trimming behaviour configurable.
NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux
NOMMU: Delete askedalloc and realalloc variables
NOMMU: Rename ARM's struct vm_region
NOMMU: Fix cleanup handling in ramfs_nommu_get_umapped_area()
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile: (31 commits)
powerpc/oprofile: fix whitespaces in op_model_cell.c
powerpc/oprofile: IBM CELL: add SPU event profiling support
powerpc/oprofile: fix cell/pr_util.h
powerpc/oprofile: IBM CELL: cleanup and restructuring
oprofile: make new cpu buffer functions part of the api
oprofile: remove #ifdef CONFIG_OPROFILE_IBS in non-ibs code
ring_buffer: fix ring_buffer_event_length()
oprofile: use new data sample format for ibs
oprofile: add op_cpu_buffer_get_data()
oprofile: add op_cpu_buffer_add_data()
oprofile: rework implementation of cpu buffer events
oprofile: modify op_cpu_buffer_read_entry()
oprofile: add op_cpu_buffer_write_reserve()
oprofile: rename variables in add_ibs_begin()
oprofile: rename add_sample() in cpu_buffer.c
oprofile: rename variable ibs_allowed to has_ibs in op_model_amd.c
oprofile: making add_sample_entry() inline
oprofile: remove backtrace code for ibs
oprofile: remove unused ibs macro
oprofile: remove unused components in struct oprofile_cpu_buffer
...
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (94 commits)
ACPICA: hide private headers
ACPICA: create acpica/ directory
ACPI: fix build warning
ACPI : Use RSDT instead of XSDT by adding boot option of "acpi=rsdt"
ACPI: Avoid array address overflow when _CST MWAIT hint bits are set
fujitsu-laptop: Simplify SBLL/SBL2 backlight handling
fujitsu-laptop: Add BL power, LED control and radio state information
ACPICA: delete utcache.c
ACPICA: delete acdisasm.h
ACPICA: Update version to 20081204.
ACPICA: FADT: Update error msgs for consistency
ACPICA: FADT: set acpi_gbl_use_default_register_widths to TRUE by default
ACPICA: FADT parsing changes and fixes
ACPICA: Add ACPI_MUTEX_TYPE configuration option
ACPICA: Fixes for various ACPI data tables
ACPICA: Restructure includes into public/private
ACPI: remove private acpica headers from driver files
ACPI: reboot.c: use new acpi_reset interface
ACPICA: New: acpi_reset interface - write to reset register
ACPICA: Move all public H/W interfaces to new hwxface
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The newly allocated creds in prepare_kernel_cred() must be initialised
before get_uid() and get_group_info() can access them. They should be
copied from the old credentials.
Reported-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Missing put_cred() in the error handling path of prepare_kernel_cred().
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
turns out that there are real problems with allowing async
tasks that are scheduled from async tasks to run after
the async_synchronize_full() returns.
This patch makes the _full more strict and a complete
synchronization. Later I might need to add back a lighter
form of synchronization for other uses.. but not right now.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently task_active_pid_ns is not safe to call after a task becomes a
zombie and exit_task_namespaces is called, as nsproxy becomes NULL. By
reading the pid namespace from the pid of the task we can trivially solve
this problem at the cost of one extra memory read in what should be the
same cacheline as we read the namespace from.
When moving things around I have made task_active_pid_ns out of line
because keeping it in pid_namespace.h would require adding includes of
pid.h and sched.h that I don't think we want.
This change does make task_active_pid_ns unsafe to call during
copy_process until we attach a pid on the task_struct which seems to be a
reasonable trade off.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: cleanups, use new cpumask API
Final trivial cleanups: mainly s/cpumask_t/struct cpumask
Note there is a FIXME in generate_sched_domains(). A future patch will
change struct cpumask *doms to struct cpumask *doms[].
(I suppose Rusty will do this.)
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: use new cpumask API
This patch mainly does the following things:
- change cs->cpus_allowed from cpumask_t to cpumask_var_t
- call alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var() for top_cpuset in cpuset_init_early()
- call alloc_cpumask_var() for other cpusets
- replace cpus_xxx() to cpumask_xxx()
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: cleanups, reduce stack usage
This patch prepares for the next patch. When we convert
cpuset.cpus_allowed to cpumask_var_t, (trialcs = *cs) no longer works.
Another result of this patch is reducing stack usage of trialcs.
sizeof(*cs) can be as large as 148 bytes on x86_64, so it's really not
good to have it on stack.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: reduce stack usage
Allocate a global cpumask_var_t at boot, and use it in cpuset_attach(), so
we won't fail cpuset_attach().
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: reduce stack usage
Just use cs->cpus_allowed, and no need to allocate a cpumask_var_t.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujistu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patchset converts cpuset to use new cpumask API, and thus
remove on stack cpumask_t to reduce stack usage.
Before:
# cat kernel/cpuset.c include/linux/cpuset.h | grep -c cpumask_t
21
After:
# cat kernel/cpuset.c include/linux/cpuset.h | grep -c cpumask_t
0
This patch:
Impact: reduce stack usage
It's safe to call cpulist_scnprintf inside callback_mutex, and thus we can
just remove the cpumask_t and no need to allocate a cpumask_var_t.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I found a bug on my dual-cpu box. I created a sub cpuset in top cpuset
and assign 1 to its cpus. And then we attach some tasks into this sub
cpuset. After this, we offline CPU1. Now, the tasks in this new cpuset
are moved into top cpuset automatically because there is no cpu in sub
cpuset. Then we online CPU1, we find all the tasks which doesn't belong
to top cpuset originally just run on CPU0.
We fix this bug by setting task's cpu_allowed to cpu_possible_map when
attaching it into top cpuset. This method needn't modify the current
behavior of cpusets on CPU hotplug, and all of tasks in top cpuset use
cpu_possible_map to initialize their cpu_allowed.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
task_cs() calls task_subsys_state().
We must use rcu_read_lock() to protect cgroup_subsys_state().
It's correct that top_cpuset is never freed, but cgroup_subsys_state()
accesses css_set, this css_set maybe freed when task_cs() called.
We use use rcu_read_lock() to protect it.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
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>
Add css_tryget(), that obtains a counted reference on a CSS. It is used
in situations where the caller has a "weak" reference to the CSS, i.e.
one that does not protect the cgroup from removal via a reference count,
but would instead be cleaned up by a destroy() callback.
css_tryget() will return true on success, or false if the cgroup is being
removed.
This is similar to Kamezawa Hiroyuki's patch from a week or two ago, but
with the difference that in the event of css_tryget() racing with a
cgroup_rmdir(), css_tryget() will only return false if the cgroup really
does get removed.
This implementation is done by biasing css->refcnt, so that a refcnt of 1
means "releasable" and 0 means "released or releasing". In the event of a
race, css_tryget() distinguishes between "released" and "releasing" by
checking for the CSS_REMOVED flag in css->flags.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.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>
These patches introduce new locking/refcount support for cgroups to
reduce the need for subsystems to call cgroup_lock(). This will
ultimately allow the atomicity of cgroup_rmdir() (which was removed
recently) to be restored.
These three patches give:
1/3 - introduce a per-subsystem hierarchy_mutex which a subsystem can
use to prevent changes to its own cgroup tree
2/3 - use hierarchy_mutex in place of calling cgroup_lock() in the
memory controller
3/3 - introduce a css_tryget() function similar to the one recently
proposed by Kamezawa, but avoiding spurious refcount failures in
the event of a race between a css_tryget() and an unsuccessful
cgroup_rmdir()
Future patches will likely involve:
- using hierarchy mutex in place of cgroup_lock() in more subsystems
where appropriate
- restoring the atomicity of cgroup_rmdir() with respect to cgroup_create()
This patch:
Add a hierarchy_mutex to the cgroup_subsys object that protects changes to
the hierarchy observed by that subsystem. It is taken by the cgroup
subsystem (in addition to cgroup_mutex) for the following operations:
- linking a cgroup into that subsystem's cgroup tree
- unlinking a cgroup from that subsystem's cgroup tree
- moving the subsystem to/from a hierarchy (including across the
bind() callback)
Thus if the subsystem holds its own hierarchy_mutex, it can safely
traverse its own hierarchy.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.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>
Add support for building hierarchies in resource counters. Cgroups allows
us to build a deep hierarchy, but we currently don't link the resource
counters belonging to the memory controller control groups, in the same
fashion as the corresponding cgroup entries in the cgroup hierarchy. This
patch provides the infrastructure for resource counters that have the same
hiearchy as their cgroup counter parts.
These set of patches are based on the resource counter hiearchy patches
posted by Pavel Emelianov.
NOTE: Building hiearchies is expensive, deeper hierarchies imply charging
the all the way up to the root. It is known that hiearchies are
expensive, so the user needs to be careful and aware of the trade-offs
before creating very deep ones.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix races between /proc/sched_debug by freeing cgroup objects via an RCU
callback. Thus any cgroup reference obtained from an RCU-safe source will
remain valid during the RCU section. Since dentries are also RCU-safe,
this allows us to traverse up the tree safely.
Additionally, make cgroup_path() check for a NULL cgrp->dentry to avoid
trying to report a path for a partially-created cgroup.
[lizf@cn.fujitsu.com: call deactive_super() in cgroup_diput()]
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Once tasks are populated from system namespace inside cgroup, container
replaces other namespace task with 0 while listing tasks, inside
container.
Though this is expected behaviour from container end, there is no use of
showing unwanted 0s.
In this patch, we check if a process is in same namespace before loading
into pid array.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Gowrishankar M <gowrishankar.m@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a common function link_css_set() to link a css_set to a cgroup.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.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>
Though for an inactive hierarchy, we have subsys->root == &rootnode, but
rootnode's subsys_list is always empty.
This conflicts with the code in find_css_set():
for (i = 0; i < CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT; i++) {
...
if (ss->root->subsys_list.next == &ss->sibling) {
...
}
}
if (list_empty(&rootnode.subsys_list)) {
...
}
The above code assumes rootnode.subsys_list links all inactive
hierarchies.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.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>
Don't link rootnode to the root list, so root_list contains active
hierarchies only as the comment indicates. And rename for_each_root() to
for_each_active_root().
Also remove redundant check in cgroup_kill_sb().
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.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>
cgroup_iter_* do not need rcu_read_lock().
In cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists(), do_each_thread() and while_each_thread()
are protected by RCU, it's OK, for write_lock(&css_set_lock) implies
rcu_read_lock() in non-RT kernel.
If we need explicit rcu_read_lock(), we should add rcu_read_lock() in
cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists(), not cgroup_iter_*.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
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>
In cgroup_attach_task(), tsk maybe exit when we call find_css_set(). and
find_css_set() will access to invalid css_set.
This patch increases the count before get_css_set(), and decreases it
after find_css_set().
NOTE:
css_set's refcount is also taskcount, after this patch applied, taskcount
may be off-by-one WHEN cgroup_lock() is not held. but I reviewed other
code which use taskcount, they are still correct. No regression found by
reviewing and simply testing.
So I do not use two counters in css_set. (one counter for taskcount, the
other for refcount. like struct mm_struct) If this fix cause regression,
we will use two counters in css_set.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
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>
We don't access struct cgroupfs_root in fast path, so we should not put
struct cgroupfs_root protected by RCU
But the comment in struct cgroup_subsys.root confuse us.
struct cgroup_subsys.root is used in these places:
1 find_css_set(): if (ss->root->subsys_list.next == &ss->sibling)
2 rebind_subsystems(): if (ss->root != &rootnode)
rcu_assign_pointer(ss->root, root);
rcu_assign_pointer(subsys[i]->root, &rootnode);
3 cgroup_has_css_refs(): if (ss->root != cgrp->root)
4 cgroup_init_subsys(): ss->root = &rootnode;
5 proc_cgroupstats_show(): ss->name, ss->root->subsys_bits,
ss->root->number_of_cgroups, !ss->disabled);
6 cgroup_clone(): root = subsys->root;
if ((root != subsys->root) ||
All these place we have held cgroup_lock() or we don't dereference to
struct cgroupfs_root. It's means wo don't need RCU when use struct
cgroup_subsys.root, and we should not put struct cgroupfs_root protected
by RCU.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
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>
We access res->cgroups without the task_lock(), so res->cgroups may be
changed. it's unreliable, and "if (l == &res->cgroups->tasks)" may be
false forever.
We don't need add any lock for fixing this bug. we just access to struct
css_set by struct cg_cgroup_link, not by struct task_struct.
Since we hold css_set_lock, struct cg_cgroup_link is reliable.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
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>
When cgroup_post_fork() is called, child is seen by find_task_by_vpid(),
so child->cgroups maybe be changed, It'll incorrect.
child->cgroups<old>'s refcnt is decreased
child->cgroups<new>'s refcnt is increased
but child->cg_list is added to child->cgroups<old>'s list.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
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>
I happened to find the spinlock in struct ns_cgroup is never used.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- In cgroup_clone(), if vfs_mkdir() returns successfully,
dentry->d_fsdata will be the pointer to the newly created
cgroup and won't be NULL.
- a cgroup file's dentry->d_fsdata won't be NULL, guaranteed
by cgroup_add_file().
- When walking through the subsystems of a cgroup_fs (using
for_each_subsys), cgrp->subsys[ss->subsys_id] won't be NULL,
guaranteed by cgroup_create().
(Also remove 2 unused variables in cgroup_rmdir().
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix commit_creds()'s handling of a process that has no mm (such as one that is
calling or has called daemonize()). commit_creds() should check to see if
task->mm is not NULL before calling set_dumpable() on it.
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
NOMMU mmap allocates a piece of memory for an mmap that's rounded up in size to
the nearest power-of-2 number of pages. Currently it then discards the excess
pages back to the page allocator, making that memory available for use by other
things. This can, however, cause greater amount of fragmentation.
To counter this, a sysctl is added in order to fine-tune the trimming
behaviour. The default behaviour remains to trim pages aggressively, while
this can either be disabled completely or set to a higher page-granular
watermark in order to have finer-grained control.
vm region vm_top bits taken from an earlier patch by David Howells.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Make VMAs per mm_struct as for MMU-mode linux. This solves two problems:
(1) In SYSV SHM where nattch for a segment does not reflect the number of
shmat's (and forks) done.
(2) In mmap() where the VMA's vm_mm is set to point to the parent mm by an
exec'ing process when VM_EXECUTABLE is specified, regardless of the fact
that a VMA might be shared and already have its vm_mm assigned to another
process or a dead process.
A new struct (vm_region) is introduced to track a mapped region and to remember
the circumstances under which it may be shared and the vm_list_struct structure
is discarded as it's no longer required.
This patch makes the following additional changes:
(1) Regions are now allocated with alloc_pages() rather than kmalloc() and
with no recourse to __GFP_COMP, so the pages are not composite. Instead,
each page has a reference on it held by the region. Anything else that is
interested in such a page will have to get a reference on it to retain it.
When the pages are released due to unmapping, each page is passed to
put_page() and will be freed when the page usage count reaches zero.
(2) Excess pages are trimmed after an allocation as the allocation must be
made as a power-of-2 quantity of pages.
(3) VMAs are added to the parent MM's R/B tree and mmap lists. As an MM may
end up with overlapping VMAs within the tree, the VMA struct address is
appended to the sort key.
(4) Non-anonymous VMAs are now added to the backing inode's prio list.
(5) Holes may be punched in anonymous VMAs with munmap(), releasing parts of
the backing region. The VMA and region structs will be split if
necessary.
(6) sys_shmdt() only releases one attachment to a SYSV IPC shared memory
segment instead of all the attachments at that addresss. Multiple
shmat()'s return the same address under NOMMU-mode instead of different
virtual addresses as under MMU-mode.
(7) Core dumping for ELF-FDPIC requires fewer exceptions for NOMMU-mode.
(8) /proc/maps is now the global list of mapped regions, and may list bits
that aren't actually mapped anywhere.
(9) /proc/meminfo gains a line (tagged "MmapCopy") that indicates the amount
of RAM currently allocated by mmap to hold mappable regions that can't be
mapped directly. These are copies of the backing device or file if not
anonymous.
These changes make NOMMU mode more similar to MMU mode. The downside is that
NOMMU mode requires some extra memory to track things over NOMMU without this
patch (VMAs are no longer shared, and there are now region structs).
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (98 commits)
PCI PM: Put PM callbacks in the order of execution
PCI PM: Run default PM callbacks for all devices using new framework
PCI PM: Register power state of devices during initialization
PCI PM: Call pci_fixup_device from legacy routines
PCI PM: Rearrange code in pci-driver.c
PCI PM: Avoid touching devices behind bridges in unknown state
PCI PM: Move pci_has_legacy_pm_support
PCI PM: Power-manage devices without drivers during suspend-resume
PCI PM: Add suspend counterpart of pci_reenable_device
PCI PM: Fix poweroff and restore callbacks
PCI: Use msleep instead of cpu_relax during ASPM link retraining
PCI: PCIe portdrv: Add kerneldoc comments to remining core funtions
PCI: PCIe portdrv: Rearrange code so that related things are together
PCI: PCIe portdrv: Fix suspend and resume of PCI Express port services
PCI: PCIe portdrv: Add kerneldoc comments to some core functions
x86/PCI: Do not use interrupt links for devices using MSI-X
net: sfc: Use pci_clear_master() to disable bus mastering
PCI: Add pci_clear_master() as opposite of pci_set_master()
PCI hotplug: remove redundant test in cpq hotplug
PCI: pciehp: cleanup register and field definitions
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-async:
async: don't do the initcall stuff post boot
bootchart: improve output based on Dave Jones' feedback
async: make the final inode deletion an asynchronous event
fastboot: Make libata initialization even more async
fastboot: make the libata port scan asynchronous
fastboot: make scsi probes asynchronous
async: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel boot
This patch fixes an rcutorture bug found by Eric Sesterhenn that
resulted in oopses in response to "rmmod rcutorture". The problem
was in some new code that attempted to handle the case where a system
is shut down while rcutorture is still running, for example, when
rcutorture is built into the kernel so that it cannot be removed.
The fix causes the rcutorture threads to "park" in an
schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT) rather than
trying to get them to terminate cleanly. Concurrent shutdown and
rmmod is illegal.
I believe that this is 2.6.29 material, as it is used in some testing
setups.
For reference, here are the rcutorture operating modes:
CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST=m
This is the normal rcutorture build. Use "modprobe rcutorture"
(with optional arguments) to start, and "rmmod rcutorture" to
stop. If you shut the system down without doing the rmmod, you
should see console output like:
rcutorture thread rcu_torture_writer parking due to system shutdown
One for each rcutorture kthread.
CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST=y
CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE=n
Use this if you want rcutorture built in, but don't want the
test to start running during early boot. To start the
torturing:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable
To stop the torturing, s/1/0/
You will get "parking" console messages as noted above when
you shut the system down.
CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST=y
CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE=y
Same as above, except that the torturing starts during early
boot. Only for the stout of heart and strong of stomach.
The same /proc entry noted above may be used to control the
test.
Located-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Function ring_buffer_event_length() provides an interface to detect
the length of data stored in an entry. However, the length contains
offsets depending on the internal usage. This makes it unusable. This
patch fixes this and now ring_buffer_event_length() returns the
alligned length that has been used in ring_buffer_lock_reserve().
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
