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John Stultz 8ab4351a4c hrtimer: Cleanup direct access to wall_to_monotonic
Provides an accessor function to replace hrtimer.c's
direct access of wall_to_monotonic.

This will allow wall_to_monotonic to be made static as
planned in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-9-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-07-27 12:40:55 +02:00
John Stultz 7615856ebf timkeeping: Fix update_vsyscall to provide wall_to_monotonic offset
update_vsyscall() did not provide the wall_to_monotoinc offset,
so arch specific implementations tend to reference wall_to_monotonic
directly. This limits future cleanups in the timekeeping core, so
this patch fixes the update_vsyscall interface to provide
wall_to_monotonic, allowing wall_to_monotonic to be made static
as planned in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-7-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-07-27 12:40:54 +02:00
John Stultz 592913ecb8 time: Kill off CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME
Now that all arches have been converted over to use generic time via
clocksources or arch_gettimeoffset(), we can remove the GENERIC_TIME
config option and simplify the generic code.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-4-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-07-27 12:40:54 +02:00
John Stultz ce3bf7ab22 time: Implement timespec_add
After accidentally misusing timespec_add_safe, I wanted to make sure
we don't accidently trip over that issue again, so I created a simple
timespec_add() function which we can use to replace the instances
of timespec_add_safe() that don't want the overflow detection.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-3-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-07-27 12:40:53 +02:00
Steffen Klassert 7424713b83 padata: Check for valid cpumasks
Now that we allow to change the cpumasks from userspace, we have
to check for valid cpumasks in padata_do_parallel. This patch adds
the necessary check. This fixes a division by zero crash if the
parallel cpumask contains no active cpu.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-26 14:13:58 +08:00
Steffen Klassert b89661dff5 padata: Allocate cpumask dependend recources in any case
The cpumask separation work assumes the cpumask dependend recources
present regardless of valid or invalid cpumasks. With this patch
we allocate the cpumask dependend recources in any case. This fixes
two NULL pointer dereference crashes in padata_replace and in
padata_get_cpumask.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-26 14:13:58 +08:00
Steffen Klassert fad3a906d3 padata: Fix cpu index counting
The counting of the cpu index got lost with a recent commit.
This patch restores it. This fixes a hang of the parallel worker
threads on cpu hotplug.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-26 14:13:57 +08:00
Andrey Vagin 2b08de0073 posix_timer: Move copy_to_user(created_timer_id) down in timer_create()
According to Oleg Nesterov:
We can move copy_to_user(created_timer_id) down after
"if (timer_event_spec)" block too. (but before CLOCK_DISPATCH(),
of course).

Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-07-23 15:08:12 +02:00
Patrick Pannuto 22b8f15c2f timer: Added usleep[_range] timer
usleep[_range] are finer precision implementations of msleep
and are designed to be drop-in replacements for udelay where
a precise sleep / busy-wait is unnecessary. They also allow
an easy interface to specify slack when a precise (ish)
wakeup is unnecessary to help minimize wakeups

Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org>
Cc: akinobu.mita@gmail.com
Cc: sboyd@codeaurora.org
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C44CDD2.1070708@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-07-23 15:08:12 +02:00
J. Bruce Fields 866e26115c timers: Document meaning of deferrable timer
Steal some text from 6e453a6751 "Add support for deferrable timers".  A
reader shouldn't have to dig through the git logs for the basic
description of a deferrable timer.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-07-23 15:08:12 +02:00
Tejun Heo 181a51f6e0 slow-work: kill it
slow-work doesn't have any user left.  Kill it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2010-07-23 13:14:49 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 3a01736e70 Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core 2010-07-23 09:10:29 +02:00
Tejun Heo e120153ddf workqueue: fix how cpu number is stored in work->data
Once a work starts execution, its data contains the cpu number it was
on instead of pointing to cwq.  This is added by commit 7a22ad75
(workqueue: carry cpu number in work data once execution starts) to
reliably determine the work was last on even if the workqueue itself
was destroyed inbetween.

Whether data points to a cwq or contains a cpu number was
distinguished by comparing the value against PAGE_OFFSET.  The
assumption was that a cpu number should be below PAGE_OFFSET while a
pointer to cwq should be above it.  However, on architectures which
use separate address spaces for user and kernel spaces, this doesn't
hold as PAGE_OFFSET is zero.

Fix it by using an explicit flag, WORK_STRUCT_CWQ, to mark what the
data field contains.  If the flag is set, it's pointing to a cwq;
otherwise, it contains a cpu number.

Reported on s390 and microblaze during linux-next testing.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@petalogix.com>
Reported-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
2010-07-22 22:39:22 +02:00
Dan Carpenter 24a461d537 trace: strlen() return doesn't account for the NULL
We need to add one to the strlen() return because of the NULL
character.  The type->name here generally comes from the kernel and I
don't think any of them come close to being MAX_TRACER_SIZE (100)
characters long so this is basically a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100710100644.GV19184@bicker>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-07-22 14:56:41 -04:00
Jason Wessel edd63cb6b9 sysrq,kdb: Use __handle_sysrq() for kdb's sysrq function
The kdb code should not toggle the sysrq state in case an end user
wants to try and resume the normal kernel execution.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
2010-07-21 19:27:07 -05:00
Jason Wessel b0679c63db debug_core,kdb: fix kgdb_connected bit set in the wrong place
Immediately following an exit from the kdb shell the kgdb_connected
variable should be set to zero, unless there are breakpoints planted.
If the kgdb_connected variable is not zeroed out with kdb, it is
impossible to turn off kdb.

This patch is merely a work around for now, the real fix will check
for the breakpoints.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-07-21 19:27:07 -05:00
Jason Wessel 9e8b624fca Fix merge regression from external kdb to upstream kdb
In the process of merging kdb to the mainline, the kdb lsmod command
stopped printing the base load address of kernel modules.  This is
needed for using kdb in conjunction with external tools such as gdb.

Simply restore the functionality by adding a kdb_printf for the base
load address of the kernel modules.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-07-21 19:27:06 -05:00
Jason Wessel fb82c0ff27 repair gdbstub to match the gdbserial protocol specification
The gdbserial protocol handler should return an empty packet instead
of an error string when ever it responds to a command it does not
implement.

The problem cases come from a debugger client sending
qTBuffer, qTStatus, qSearch, qSupported.

The incorrect response from the gdbstub leads the debugger clients to
not function correctly.  Recent versions of gdb will not detach correctly as a result of this behavior.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com>
2010-07-21 19:27:05 -05:00
Martin Hicks 1396a21ba0 kdb: break out of kdb_ll() when command is terminated
Without this patch the "ll" linked-list traversal command won't
terminate when you hit q/Q.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-07-21 19:27:05 -05:00
Josh Hunt eebef74695 sched: Use correct macro to display sched_child_runs_first in /proc/sched_debug
The sched_child_runs_first value in /proc/sched_debug is
currently displayed using a macro meant to split ns time values.
This patch uses the correct macro to display it as a plain
decimal value.

Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: juhlenko@akamai.com
Cc: efault@gmx.de
LKML-Reference: <1279567876-25418-1-git-send-email-johunt@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-21 21:46:12 +02:00
Ingo Molnar dca45ad8af Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Merge reason: Move from the -rc3 to the almost-rc6 base.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-21 21:45:08 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 23c2875725 Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/core 2010-07-21 21:44:18 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 9dcdbf7a33 Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core
Merge reason: Pick up the latest perf fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-21 21:43:06 +02:00
KOSAKI Motohiro ef710e100c tracing: Shrink max latency ringbuffer if unnecessary
Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt says

  buffer_size_kb:

        This sets or displays the number of kilobytes each CPU
        buffer can hold. The tracer buffers are the same size
        for each CPU. The displayed number is the size of the
        CPU buffer and not total size of all buffers. The
        trace buffers are allocated in pages (blocks of memory
        that the kernel uses for allocation, usually 4 KB in size).
        If the last page allocated has room for more bytes
        than requested, the rest of the page will be used,
        making the actual allocation bigger than requested.
        ( Note, the size may not be a multiple of the page size
          due to buffer management overhead. )

        This can only be updated when the current_tracer
        is set to "nop".

But it's incorrect. currently total memory consumption is
'buffer_size_kb x CPUs x 2'.

Why two times difference is there? because ftrace implicitly allocate
the buffer for max latency too.

That makes sad result when admin want to use large buffer. (If admin
want full logging and makes detail analysis). example, If admin
have 24 CPUs machine and write 200MB to buffer_size_kb, the system
consume ~10GB memory (200MB x 24 x 2). umm.. 5GB memory waste is
usually unacceptable.

Fortunatelly, almost all users don't use max latency feature.
The max latency buffer can be disabled easily.

This patch shrink buffer size of the max latency buffer if
unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100701104554.DA2D.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-07-21 10:20:17 -04:00
Lai Jiangshan bc289ae98b tracing: Reduce latency and remove percpu trace_seq
__print_flags() and __print_symbolic() use percpu trace_seq:

1) Its memory is allocated at compile time, it wastes memory if we don't use tracing.
2) It is percpu data and it wastes more memory for multi-cpus system.
3) It disables preemption when it executes its core routine
   "trace_seq_printf(s, "%s: ", #call);" and introduces latency.

So we move this trace_seq to struct trace_iterator.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C078350.7090106@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-07-20 22:05:34 -04:00
Richard Kennedy 985023dee6 trace: Reorder struct ring_buffer_per_cpu to remove padding on 64bit
Reorder structure to remove 8 bytes of padding on 64 bit builds.
This shrinks the size to 128 bytes so allowing allocation from a smaller
slab & needed one fewer cache lines.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
LKML-Reference: <1269516456.2054.8.camel@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-07-20 21:58:44 -04:00
Li Zefan e870e9a124 tracing: Allow to disable cmdline recording
We found that even enabling a single trace event that will rarely be
triggered can add big overhead to context switch.

(lmbench context switch test)
 -------------------------------------------------
 2p/0K 2p/16K 2p/64K 8p/16K 8p/64K 16p/16K 16p/64K
 ctxsw  ctxsw  ctxsw ctxsw  ctxsw   ctxsw   ctxsw
------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- -------
  2.19   2.3   2.21   2.56   2.13     2.54    2.07
  2.39   2.51  2.35   2.75   2.27     2.81    2.24

The overhead is 6% ~ 11%.

It's because when a trace event is enabled 3 tracepoints (sched_switch,
sched_wakeup, sched_wakeup_new) will be activated to map pid to cmdname.

We'd like to avoid this overhead, so add a trace option '(no)record-cmd'
to allow to disable cmdline recording.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C2D57F4.2050204@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-07-20 21:52:33 -04:00
Neil Horman 70d4bf6d46 drop_monitor: convert some kfree_skb call sites to consume_skb
Convert a few calls from kfree_skb to consume_skb

Noticed while I was working on dropwatch that I was detecting lots of internal
skb drops in several places.  While some are legitimate, several were not,
freeing skbs that were at the end of their life, rather than being discarded due
to an error.  This patch converts those calls sites from using kfree_skb to
consume_skb, which quiets the in-kernel drop_monitor code from detecting them as
drops.  Tested successfully by myself

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-20 13:28:05 -07:00
Tejun Heo f2e005aaff workqueue: fix mayday_mask handling on UP
All cpumasks are assumed to have cpu 0 permanently set on UP, so it
can't be used to signify whether there's something to be done for the
CPU.  workqueue was using cpumask to track which CPU requested rescuer
assistance and this led rescuer thread to think there always are
pending mayday requests on UP, which resulted in infinite busy loops.

This patch fixes the problem by introducing mayday_mask_t and
associated helpers which wrap cpumask on SMP and emulates its behavior
using bitops and unsigned long on UP.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-07-20 15:59:09 +02:00
Arnd Bergmann b444786f1a tracing: Use generic_file_llseek for debugfs
The default for llseek will change to no_llseek,
so the tracing debugfs files need to add explicit
.llseek assignments. Since we're dealing with regular
files from a VFS perspective, use generic_file_llseek.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <1278538820-1392-10-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-07-20 14:31:24 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker eb7beb5c09 tracing: Remove special traces
Special traces type was only used by sysprof. Lets remove it now
that sysprof ftrace plugin has been dropped.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-07-20 14:31:07 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker f376bf5ffb tracing: Remove sysprof ftrace plugin
The sysprof ftrace plugin doesn't seem to be seriously used
somewhere. There is a branch in the sysprof tree that makes
an interface to it, but the real sysprof tool uses either its
own module or perf events.

Drop the sysprof ftrace plugin then, as it's mostly useless.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-07-20 14:29:46 +02:00
Tejun Heo 931ac77ef6 workqueue: fix build problem on !CONFIG_SMP
Commit f3421797 (workqueue: implement unbound workqueue) incorrectly
tested CONFIG_SMP as part of a C expression in alloc/free_cwqs().  As
CONFIG_SMP is not defined in UP, this breaks build.  Fix it by using

Found during linux-next build test.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2010-07-20 11:15:14 +02:00
Catalin Marinas 9078370c0d kmemleak: Add support for NO_BOOTMEM configurations
With commits 08677214 and 59be5a8e, alloc_bootmem()/free_bootmem() and
friends use the early_res functions for memory management when
NO_BOOTMEM is enabled. This patch adds the kmemleak calls in the
corresponding code paths for bootmem allocations.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-07-19 11:54:15 +01:00
Pavel Machek a2531293db update email address
pavel@suse.cz no longer works, replace it with working address.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-07-19 10:56:54 +02:00
Dan Kruchinin 5e017dc3f8 padata: Added sysfs primitives to padata subsystem
Added sysfs primitives to padata subsystem. Now API user may
embedded kobject each padata instance contains into any sysfs
hierarchy. For now padata sysfs interface provides only
two objects:
    serial_cpumask   [RW] - cpumask for serial workers
    parallel_cpumask [RW] - cpumask for parallel workers

Signed-off-by: Dan Kruchinin <dkruchinin@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-19 13:50:19 +08:00
Dan Kruchinin e15bacbebb padata: Make two separate cpumasks
The aim of this patch is to make two separate cpumasks
for padata parallel and serial workers respectively.
It allows user to make more thin and sophisticated configurations
of padata framework. For example user may bind parallel and serial workers to non-intersecting
CPU groups to gain better performance. Also each padata instance has notifiers chain for its
cpumasks now. If either parallel or serial or both masks were changed all
interested subsystems will get notification about that. It's especially useful
if padata user uses algorithm for callback CPU selection according to serial cpumask.

Signed-off-by: Dan Kruchinin <dkruchinin@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-19 13:50:19 +08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki ce4410116c PM / Suspend: Fix ordering of calls in suspend error paths
The ACPI suspend code calls suspend_nvs_free() at a wrong place,
which may lead to a memory leak if there's an error executing
acpi_pm_prepare(), because acpi_pm_finish() will not be called in
that case.  However, the root cause of this problem is the
apparently confusing ordering of calls in suspend error paths that
needs to be fixed.

In addition to that, fix a typo in a label name in suspend.c.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-07-19 02:00:35 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki d074ee023f PM / Hibernate: Fix snapshot error code path
There is an inconsistency between hibernation_platform_enter()
and hibernation_snapshot(), because the latter calls
hibernation_ops->end() after failing hibernation_ops->begin(), while
the former doesn't do that.  Make hibernation_snapshot() behave in
the same way as hibernation_platform_enter() in that respect.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-07-19 02:00:35 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki f6f71f1875 PM / Hibernate: Fix hibernation_platform_enter()
The hibernation_platform_enter() function calls dpm_suspend_noirq()
instead of dpm_resume_noirq() by mistake.  Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-07-19 02:00:35 +02:00
James Bottomley 82f682514a pm_qos: Get rid of the allocation in pm_qos_add_request()
All current users of pm_qos_add_request() have the ability to supply
the memory required by the pm_qos routines, so make them do this and
eliminate the kmalloc() with pm_qos_add_request().  This has the
double benefit of making the call never fail and allowing it to be
called from atomic context.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: mark gross <markgross@thegnar.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2010-07-19 02:00:34 +02:00
James Bottomley 5f279845f9 pm_qos: Reimplement using plists
A lot of the pm_qos extremal value handling is really duplicating what a
priority ordered list does, just in a less efficient fashion.  Simply
redoing the implementation in terms of a plist gets rid of a lot of this
junk (although there are several other strange things that could do with
tidying up, like pm_qos_request_list has to carry the pm_qos_class with
every node, simply because it doesn't get passed in to
pm_qos_update_request even though every caller knows full well what
parameter it's updating).

I think this redo is a win independent of android, so we should do
something like this now.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: mark gross <markgross@thegnar.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2010-07-19 02:00:18 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki c125e96f04 PM: Make it possible to avoid races between wakeup and system sleep
One of the arguments during the suspend blockers discussion was that
the mainline kernel didn't contain any mechanisms making it possible
to avoid races between wakeup and system suspend.

Generally, there are two problems in that area.  First, if a wakeup
event occurs exactly when /sys/power/state is being written to, it
may be delivered to user space right before the freezer kicks in, so
the user space consumer of the event may not be able to process it
before the system is suspended.  Second, if a wakeup event occurs
after user space has been frozen, it is not generally guaranteed that
the ongoing transition of the system into a sleep state will be
aborted.

To address these issues introduce a new global sysfs attribute,
/sys/power/wakeup_count, associated with a running counter of wakeup
events and three helper functions, pm_stay_awake(), pm_relax(), and
pm_wakeup_event(), that may be used by kernel subsystems to control
the behavior of this attribute and to request the PM core to abort
system transitions into a sleep state already in progress.

The /sys/power/wakeup_count file may be read from or written to by
user space.  Reads will always succeed (unless interrupted by a
signal) and return the current value of the wakeup events counter.
Writes, however, will only succeed if the written number is equal to
the current value of the wakeup events counter.  If a write is
successful, it will cause the kernel to save the current value of the
wakeup events counter and to abort the subsequent system transition
into a sleep state if any wakeup events are reported after the write
has returned.

[The assumption is that before writing to /sys/power/state user space
will first read from /sys/power/wakeup_count.  Next, user space
consumers of wakeup events will have a chance to acknowledge or
veto the upcoming system transition to a sleep state.  Finally, if
the transition is allowed to proceed, /sys/power/wakeup_count will
be written to and if that succeeds, /sys/power/state will be written
to as well.  Still, if any wakeup events are reported to the PM core
by kernel subsystems after that point, the transition will be
aborted.]

Additionally, put a wakeup events counter into struct dev_pm_info and
make these per-device wakeup event counters available via sysfs,
so that it's possible to check the activity of various wakeup event
sources within the kernel.

To illustrate how subsystems can use pm_wakeup_event(), make the
low-level PCI runtime PM wakeup-handling code use it.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: markgross <markgross@thegnar.org>
Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
2010-07-19 01:58:48 +02:00
Cesar Eduardo Barros 9013367339 PM / Hibernate: Fix typos in comments in kernel/power/swap.c
There are a few typos in kernel/power/swap.c.  Fix them.

Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2010-07-19 01:58:47 +02:00
Pekka Enberg 68c38fc3cb sched: No need for bootmem special cases
As of commit dcce284 ("mm: Extend gfp masking to the page
allocator") and commit 7e85ee0 ("slab,slub: don't enable
interrupts during early boot"), the slab allocator makes
sure we don't attempt to sleep during boot.

Therefore, remove bootmem special cases from the scheduler
and use plain GFP_KERNEL instead.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1279225102-2572-1-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-17 12:06:22 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 396e894d28 sched: Revert nohz_ratelimit() for now
Norbert reported that nohz_ratelimit() causes his laptop to burn about
4W (40%) extra. For now back out the change and see if we can adjust
the power management code to make better decisions.

Reported-by: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-17 12:05:44 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra bbc8cb5bae sched: Reduce update_group_power() calls
Currently we update cpu_power() too often, update_group_power() only
updates the local group's cpu_power but it gets called for all groups.

Furthermore, CPU_NEWLY_IDLE invocations will result in all cpus
calling it, even though a slow update of cpu_power is sufficient.

Therefore move the update under 'idle != CPU_NEWLY_IDLE &&
local_group' to reduce superfluous invocations.

Reported-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1278612989.1900.176.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-17 12:05:14 +02:00
Suresh Siddha 5343bdb8fd sched: Update rq->clock for nohz balanced cpus
Suresh spotted that we don't update the rq->clock in the nohz
load-balancer path.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1278626014.2834.74.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-17 12:02:08 +02:00
Jiri Slaby c022a0acad rlimits: implement prlimit64 syscall
This patch adds the code to support the sys_prlimit64 syscall which
modifies-and-returns the rlim values of a selected process atomically.
The first parameter, pid, being 0 means current process.

Unlike the current implementation, it is a generic interface,
architecture indepentent so that we needn't handle compat stuff
anymore. In the future, after glibc start to use this we can deprecate
sys_setrlimit and sys_getrlimit in favor to clean up the code finally.

It also adds a possibility of changing limits of other processes. We
check the user's permissions to do that and if it succeeds, the new
limits are propagated online. This is good for large scale
applications such as SAP or databases where administrators need to
change limits time by time (e.g. on crashes increase core size). And
it is unacceptable to restart the service.

For safety, all rlim users now either use accessors or doesn't need
them due to
- locking
- the fact a process was just forked and nobody else knows about it
  yet (and nobody can't thus read/write limits)
hence it is safe to modify limits now.

The limitation is that we currently stay at ulong internal
representation. So the rlim64_is_infinity check is used where value is
compared against ULONG_MAX on 32-bit which is the maximum value there.

And since internally the limits are held in struct rlimit, converters
which are used before and after do_prlimit call in sys_prlimit64 are
introduced.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
2010-07-16 09:48:48 +02:00
Jiri Slaby b95183453a rlimits: switch more rlimit syscalls to do_prlimit
After we added more generic do_prlimit, switch sys_getrlimit to that.
Also switch compat handling, so we can get rid of ugly __user casts
and avoid setting process' address limit to kernel data and back.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
2010-07-16 09:48:48 +02:00
Jiri Slaby 5b41535aac rlimits: redo do_setrlimit to more generic do_prlimit
It now allows also reading of limits. I.e. all read and writes will
later use this function.

It takes two parameters, new and old limits which can be both NULL.
If new is non-NULL, the value in it is set to rlimits.
If old is non-NULL, current rlimits are stored there.
If both are non-NULL, old are stored prior to setting the new ones,
atomically.
(Similar to sigaction.)

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
2010-07-16 09:48:48 +02:00
Jiri Slaby 86f162f4c7 rlimits: do security check under task_lock
Do security_task_setrlimit under task_lock. Other tasks may change
limits under our hands while we are checking limits inside the
function. From now on, they can't.

Note that all the security work is done under a spinlock here now.
Security hooks count with that, they are called from interrupt context
(like security_task_kill) and with spinlocks already held (e.g.
capable->security_capable).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2010-07-16 09:48:47 +02:00
Jiri Slaby 1c1e618ddd rlimits: allow setrlimit to non-current tasks
Add locking to allow setrlimit accept task parameter other than
current.

Namely, lock tasklist_lock for read and check whether the task
structure has sighand non-null. Do all the signal processing under
that lock still held.

There are some points:
1) security_task_setrlimit is now called with that lock held. This is
   not new, many security_* functions are called with this lock held
   already so it doesn't harm (all this security_* stuff does almost
   the same).
2) task->sighand->siglock (in update_rlimit_cpu) is nested in
   tasklist_lock. This dependence is already existing.
3) tsk->alloc_lock is nested in tasklist_lock. This is OK too, already
   existing dependence.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2010-07-16 09:48:47 +02:00
Jiri Slaby 7855c35da7 rlimits: split sys_setrlimit
Create do_setrlimit from sys_setrlimit and declare do_setrlimit
in the resource header. This is the first phase to have generic
do_prlimit which allows to be called from read, write and compat
rlimits code.

The new do_setrlimit also accepts a task pointer to change the limits
of. Currently, it cannot be other than current, but this will change
with locking later.

Also pass tsk->group_leader to security_task_setrlimit to check
whether current is allowed to change rlimits of the process and not
its arbitrary thread because it makes more sense given that rlimit are
per process and not per-thread.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
2010-07-16 09:48:46 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 2fb9d2689a rlimits: make sure ->rlim_max never grows in sys_setrlimit
Mostly preparation for Jiri's changes, but probably makes sense anyway.

sys_setrlimit() checks new_rlim.rlim_max <= old_rlim->rlim_max, but when
it takes task_lock() old_rlim->rlim_max can be already lowered. Move this
check under task_lock().

Currently this is not important, we can only race with our sub-thread,
this means the application is stupid. But when we change the code to allow
the update of !current task's limits, it becomes important to make sure
->rlim_max can be lowered "reliably" even if we race with the application
doing sys_setrlimit().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
2010-07-16 09:48:46 +02:00
Jiri Slaby 5ab46b345e rlimits: add task_struct to update_rlimit_cpu
Add task_struct as a parameter to update_rlimit_cpu to be able to set
rlimit_cpu of different task than current.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-07-16 09:48:45 +02:00
Jiri Slaby 8fd00b4d70 rlimits: security, add task_struct to setrlimit
Add task_struct to task_setrlimit of security_operations to be able to set
rlimit of task other than current.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-07-16 09:48:45 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 5d550467b9 tracing: Remove ksym tracer
The ksym (breakpoint) ftrace plugin has been superseded by perf
tools that are much more poweful to use the cpu breakpoints.
This tracer doesn't bring more feature. It has been deprecated
for a while now, lets remove it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-15 23:59:33 +02:00
Steffen Klassert 5f1a8c1bc7 padata: simplify serialization mechanism
We count the number of processed objects on a percpu basis,
so we need to go through all the percpu reorder queues to calculate
the sequence number of the next object that needs serialization.
This patch changes this to count the number of processed objects
global. So we can calculate the sequence number and the percpu
reorder queue of the next object that needs serialization without
searching through the percpu reorder queues. This avoids some
accesses to memory of foreign cpus.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-14 20:29:30 +08:00
Steffen Klassert 83f619f3c8 padata: make padata_do_parallel to return zero on success
To return -EINPROGRESS on success in padata_do_parallel was
considered to be odd. This patch changes this to return zero
on success. Also the only user of padata, pcrypt is adapted to
convert a return of zero to -EINPROGRESS within the crypto layer.
This also removes the pcrypt fallback if padata_do_parallel
was called on a not running padata instance as we can't handle it
anymore. This fallback was unused, so it's save to remove it.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-14 20:29:29 +08:00
Steffen Klassert 33e5445068 padata: Handle empty padata cpumasks
This patch fixes a bug when the padata cpumask does not
intersect with the active cpumask. In this case we get a
division by zero in padata_alloc_pd and we end up with a
useless padata instance. Padata can end up with an empty
cpumask for two reasons:

1. A user removed the last cpu that belongs to the padata
cpumask and the active cpumask.

2. The last cpu that belongs to the padata cpumask and the
active cpumask goes offline.

We introduce a function padata_validate_cpumask to check if the padata
cpumask does intersect with the active cpumask. If the cpumasks do not
intersect we mark the instance as invalid, so it can't be used. We do not
allocate the cpumask dependend recources in this case. This fixes the
division by zero and keeps the padate instance in a consistent state.

It's not possible to trigger this bug by now because the only padata user,
pcrypt uses always the possible cpumask.

Reported-by: Dan Kruchinin <dkruchinin@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-14 20:29:29 +08:00
Steffen Klassert ee83655512 padata: Block until the instance is unused on stop
This patch makes padata_stop to block until the padata
instance is unused. Also we split padata_stop to a locked
and a unlocked version. This is in preparation to be able
to change the cpumask after a call to patata stop.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-14 20:29:29 +08:00
Steffen Klassert 4c87917029 padata: Check for valid padata instance on start
This patch introduces the PADATA_INVALID flag which is
checked on padata start. This will be used to mark a padata
instance as invalid, if the padata cpumask does not intersect
with the active cpumask. we change padata_start to return an
error if the PADATA_INVALID is set. Also we adapt the only
padata user, pcrypt to this change.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-14 20:29:28 +08:00
Tejun Heo 9f9c23644b workqueue: fix locking in retry path of maybe_create_worker()
maybe_create_worker() mismanaged locking when worker creation fails
and it has to retry.  Fix locking and simplify lock manipulation.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang@windriver.com>
2010-07-14 11:31:20 +02:00
Tejun Heo 083b804c4d async: use workqueue for worker pool
Replace private worker pool with system_unbound_wq.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
2010-07-14 11:29:46 +02:00
Uwe Kleine-König 698f93159a fix comment/printk typos concerning "already"
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-07-11 21:45:40 +02:00
Arnd Bergmann 5e3d20a68f init: Remove the BKL from startup code
I have shown by code review that no driver takes
the BKL at init time any more, so whatever the
init code was locking against is no longer there
and it is now safe to remove the BKL there.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-07-09 15:40:32 +02:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 5f07aa7524 Merge commit 'paulus-perf/master' into next 2010-07-09 11:25:48 +10:00
Kulikov Vasiliy eb703f9819 kernel/watchdog: Initialize 'result'
Variable on the stack is not initialized to zero, do it
explicitly.

This bug was found by a compiler warning:

 kernel/watchdog.c:463: warning: 'result' may be used uninitialized in this function

Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1278316854-28442-1-git-send-email-segooon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-07 08:46:42 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 8bd0e1be25 Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 into perf/core 2010-07-06 09:00:32 +02:00
Masami Hiramatsu e09c8614b3 tracing/kprobes: Support "string" type
Support string type tracing and printing in kprobe-tracer.

This allows user to trace string data in kernel including __user data. Note
that sometimes __user data may not be accessed if it is paged-out (sorry, but
kprobes operation should be done in atomic, we can not wait for page-in).

Commiter note: Fixed up conflicts with b7e2ece.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100519195724.2885.18788.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-07-05 15:54:45 -03:00
Ingo Molnar 08f8ba0799 Merge commit 'v2.6.35-rc4' into perf/core
Merge reason: Pick up the latest perf fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-05 08:30:58 +02:00
Yehuda Sadeh ff49d74ad3 module: initialize module dynamic debug later
We should initialize the module dynamic debug datastructures
only after determining that the module is not loaded yet. This
fixes a bug that introduced in 2.6.35-rc2, where when a trying
to load a module twice, we also load it's dynamic printing data
twice which causes all sorts of nasty issues. Also handle
the dynamic debug cleanup later on failure.

Signed-off-by: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (removed a #ifdef)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-07-04 20:17:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 123f94f22e Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: Cure nr_iowait_cpu() users
  init: Fix comment
  init, sched: Fix race between init and kthreadd
2010-07-02 09:52:58 -07:00
Tejun Heo c7fc77f78f workqueue: remove WQ_SINGLE_CPU and use WQ_UNBOUND instead
WQ_SINGLE_CPU combined with @max_active of 1 is used to achieve full
ordering among works queued to a workqueue.  The same can be achieved
using WQ_UNBOUND as unbound workqueues always use the gcwq for
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.  As @max_active is always one and benefits from cpu
locality isn't accessible anyway, serving them with unbound workqueues
should be fine.

Drop WQ_SINGLE_CPU support and use WQ_UNBOUND instead.  Note that most
single thread workqueue users will be converted to use multithread or
non-reentrant instead and only the ones which require strict ordering
will keep using WQ_UNBOUND + @max_active of 1.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-07-02 11:00:08 +02:00
Tejun Heo f34217977d workqueue: implement unbound workqueue
This patch implements unbound workqueue which can be specified with
WQ_UNBOUND flag on creation.  An unbound workqueue has the following
properties.

* It uses a dedicated gcwq with a pseudo CPU number WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
  This gcwq is always online and disassociated.

* Workers are not bound to any CPU and not concurrency managed.  Works
  are dispatched to workers as soon as possible and the only applied
  limitation is @max_active.  IOW, all unbound workqeueues are
  implicitly high priority.

Unbound workqueues can be used as simple execution context provider.
Contexts unbound to any cpu are served as soon as possible.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2010-07-02 11:00:02 +02:00
Tejun Heo bdbc5dd7de workqueue: prepare for WQ_UNBOUND implementation
In preparation of WQ_UNBOUND addition, make the following changes.

* Add WORK_CPU_* constants for pseudo cpu id numbers used (currently
  only WORK_CPU_NONE) and use them instead of NR_CPUS.  This is to
  allow another pseudo cpu id for unbound cpu.

* Reorder WQ_* flags.

* Make workqueue_struct->cpu_wq a union which contains a percpu
  pointer, regular pointer and an unsigned long value and use
  kzalloc/kfree() in UP allocation path.  This will be used to
  implement unbound workqueues which will use only one cwq on SMPs.

* Move alloc_cwqs() allocation after initialization of wq fields, so
  that alloc_cwqs() has access to wq->flags.

* Trivial relocation of wq local variables in freeze functions.

These changes don't cause any functional change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-07-02 10:59:57 +02:00
Tejun Heo d313dd85ad workqueue: fix worker management invocation without pending works
When there's no pending work to do, worker_thread() goes back to sleep
after waking up without checking whether worker management is
necessary.  This means that idle worker exit requests can be ignored
if the gcwq stays empty.

Fix it by making worker_thread() always check whether worker
management is necessary before going to sleep.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-07-02 10:03:51 +02:00
Tejun Heo a1e453d279 workqueue: fix incorrect cpu number BUG_ON() in get_work_gcwq()
get_work_gcwq() was incorrectly triggering BUG_ON() if cpu number is
equal to or higher than num_possible_cpus() instead of nr_cpu_ids.
Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-07-02 10:03:51 +02:00
Tejun Heo 4ce48b37bf workqueue: fix race condition in flush_workqueue()
When one flusher is cascading to the next flusher, it first sets
wq->first_flusher to the next one and sets up the next flush cycle.
If there's nothing to do for the next cycle, it clears
wq->flush_flusher and proceeds to the one after that.

If the woken up flusher checks wq->first_flusher before it gets
cleared, it will incorrectly assume the role of the first flusher,
which triggers BUG_ON() sanity check.

Fix it by checking wq->first_flusher again after grabbing the mutex.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-07-02 10:03:51 +02:00
Tejun Heo cb44476699 workqueue: use worker_set/clr_flags() only from worker itself
worker_set/clr_flags() assume that if none of NOT_RUNNING flags is set
the worker must be contributing to nr_running which is only true if
the worker is actually running.

As when called from self, it is guaranteed that the worker is running,
those functions can be safely used from the worker itself and they
aren't necessary from other places anyway.  Make the following changes
to fix the bug.

* Make worker_set/clr_flags() whine if not called from self.

* Convert all places which called those functions from other tasks to
  manipulate flags directly.

* Make trustee_thread() directly clear nr_running after setting
  WORKER_ROGUE on all workers.  This is the only place where
  nr_running manipulation is necessary outside of workers themselves.

* While at it, add sanity check for nr_running in worker_enter_idle().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-07-02 10:03:50 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 8c215bd389 sched: Cure nr_iowait_cpu() users
Commit 0224cf4c5e (sched: Intoduce get_cpu_iowait_time_us())
broke things by not making sure preemption was indeed disabled
by the callers of nr_iowait_cpu() which took the iowait value of
the current cpu.

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

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
LKML-Reference: <1277968037.1868.120.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-01 09:39:48 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 0a54cec0c2 Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcu
Conflicts:
	fs/fs-writeback.c

Merge reason: Resolve the conflict

Note, i picked the version from Linus's tree, which effectively reverts
the fs-writeback.c bits of:

  b97181f: fs: remove all rcu head initializations, except on_stack initializations

As the upstream changes to this file changed this code heavily and the
first attempt to resolve the conflict resulted in a non-booting kernel.
It's safer to re-try this portion of the commit cleanly.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-01 09:31:25 +02:00
Michal Hocko 7a0ea09ad5 futex: futex_find_get_task remove credentails check
futex_find_get_task is currently used (through lookup_pi_state) from two
contexts, futex_requeue and futex_lock_pi_atomic.  None of the paths
looks it needs the credentials check, though.  Different (e)uids
shouldn't matter at all because the only thing that is important for
shared futex is the accessibility of the shared memory.

The credentail check results in glibc assert failure or process hang (if
glibc is compiled without assert support) for shared robust pthread
mutex with priority inheritance if a process tries to lock already held
lock owned by a process with a different euid:

pthread_mutex_lock.c:312: __pthread_mutex_lock_full: Assertion `(-(e)) != 3 || !robust' failed.

The problem is that futex_lock_pi_atomic which is called when we try to
lock already held lock checks the current holder (tid is stored in the
futex value) to get the PI state.  It uses lookup_pi_state which in turn
gets task struct from futex_find_get_task.  ESRCH is returned either
when the task is not found or if credentials check fails.

futex_lock_pi_atomic simply returns if it gets ESRCH.  glibc code,
however, doesn't expect that robust lock returns with ESRCH because it
should get either success or owner died.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-30 15:43:44 -07:00
Pavan Naregundi e05bd3367b kexec: fix Oops in crash_shrink_memory()
When crashkernel is not enabled, "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size"
OOPSes the kernel in crash_shrink_memory.  This happens when
crash_shrink_memory tries to release the 'crashk_res' resource which are
not reserved.  Also value of "/sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size" shows as 1,
which should be 0.

This patch fixes the OOPS in crash_shrink_memory and shows
"/sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size" as 0 when crash kernel memory is not
reserved.

Signed-off-by: Pavan Naregundi <pavan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-29 15:29:31 -07:00
Michael Neuling 2ec57d448b sched: Fix spelling of sibling
No logic changes, only spelling.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <15249.1277776921@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-29 10:44:29 +02:00
Tejun Heo fb0e7beb5c workqueue: implement cpu intensive workqueue
This patch implements cpu intensive workqueue which can be specified
with WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE flag on creation.  Works queued to a cpu
intensive workqueue don't participate in concurrency management.  IOW,
it doesn't contribute to gcwq->nr_running and thus doesn't delay
excution of other works.

Note that although cpu intensive works won't delay other works, they
can be delayed by other works.  Combine with WQ_HIGHPRI to avoid being
delayed by other works too.

As the name suggests this is useful when using workqueue for cpu
intensive works.  Workers executing cpu intensive works are not
considered for workqueue concurrency management and left for the
scheduler to manage.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:15 +02:00
Tejun Heo 649027d73a workqueue: implement high priority workqueue
This patch implements high priority workqueue which can be specified
with WQ_HIGHPRI flag on creation.  A high priority workqueue has the
following properties.

* A work queued to it is queued at the head of the worklist of the
  respective gcwq after other highpri works, while normal works are
  always appended at the end.

* As long as there are highpri works on gcwq->worklist,
  [__]need_more_worker() remains %true and process_one_work() wakes up
  another worker before it start executing a work.

The above two properties guarantee that works queued to high priority
workqueues are dispatched to workers and start execution as soon as
possible regardless of the state of other works.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:14 +02:00
Tejun Heo dcd989cb73 workqueue: implement several utility APIs
Implement the following utility APIs.

 workqueue_set_max_active()	: adjust max_active of a wq
 workqueue_congested()		: test whether a wq is contested
 work_cpu()			: determine the last / current cpu of a work
 work_busy()			: query whether a work is busy

* Anton Blanchard fixed missing ret initialization in work_busy().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:14 +02:00
Tejun Heo d320c03830 workqueue: s/__create_workqueue()/alloc_workqueue()/, and add system workqueues
This patch makes changes to make new workqueue features available to
its users.

* Now that workqueue is more featureful, there should be a public
  workqueue creation function which takes paramters to control them.
  Rename __create_workqueue() to alloc_workqueue() and make 0
  max_active mean WQ_DFL_ACTIVE.  In the long run, all
  create_workqueue_*() will be converted over to alloc_workqueue().

* To further unify access interface, rename keventd_wq to system_wq
  and export it.

* Add system_long_wq and system_nrt_wq.  The former is to host long
  running works separately (so that flush_scheduled_work() dosen't
  take so long) and the latter guarantees any queued work item is
  never executed in parallel by multiple CPUs.  These will be used by
  future patches to update workqueue users.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:14 +02:00
Tejun Heo b71ab8c202 workqueue: increase max_active of keventd and kill current_is_keventd()
Define WQ_MAX_ACTIVE and create keventd with max_active set to half of
it which means that keventd now can process upto WQ_MAX_ACTIVE / 2 - 1
works concurrently.  Unless some combination can result in dependency
loop longer than max_active, deadlock won't happen and thus it's
unnecessary to check whether current_is_keventd() before trying to
schedule a work.  Kill current_is_keventd().

(Lockdep annotations are broken.  We need lock_map_acquire_read_norecurse())

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2010-06-29 10:07:14 +02:00
Tejun Heo e22bee782b workqueue: implement concurrency managed dynamic worker pool
Instead of creating a worker for each cwq and putting it into the
shared pool, manage per-cpu workers dynamically.

Works aren't supposed to be cpu cycle hogs and maintaining just enough
concurrency to prevent work processing from stalling due to lack of
processing context is optimal.  gcwq keeps the number of concurrent
active workers to minimum but no less.  As long as there's one or more
running workers on the cpu, no new worker is scheduled so that works
can be processed in batch as much as possible but when the last
running worker blocks, gcwq immediately schedules new worker so that
the cpu doesn't sit idle while there are works to be processed.

gcwq always keeps at least single idle worker around.  When a new
worker is necessary and the worker is the last idle one, the worker
assumes the role of "manager" and manages the worker pool -
ie. creates another worker.  Forward-progress is guaranteed by having
dedicated rescue workers for workqueues which may be necessary while
creating a new worker.  When the manager is having problem creating a
new worker, mayday timer activates and rescue workers are summoned to
the cpu and execute works which might be necessary to create new
workers.

Trustee is expanded to serve the role of manager while a CPU is being
taken down and stays down.  As no new works are supposed to be queued
on a dead cpu, it just needs to drain all the existing ones.  Trustee
continues to try to create new workers and summon rescuers as long as
there are pending works.  If the CPU is brought back up while the
trustee is still trying to drain the gcwq from the previous offlining,
the trustee will kill all idles ones and tell workers which are still
busy to rebind to the cpu, and pass control over to gcwq which assumes
the manager role as necessary.

Concurrency managed worker pool reduces the number of workers
drastically.  Only workers which are necessary to keep the processing
going are created and kept.  Also, it reduces cache footprint by
avoiding unnecessarily switching contexts between different workers.

Please note that this patch does not increase max_active of any
workqueue.  All workqueues can still only process one work per cpu.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:14 +02:00
Tejun Heo d302f01782 workqueue: implement worker_{set|clr}_flags()
Implement worker_{set|clr}_flags() to manipulate worker flags.  These
are currently simple wrappers but logics to track the current worker
state and the current level of concurrency will be added.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:13 +02:00
Tejun Heo 7e11629d0e workqueue: use shared worklist and pool all workers per cpu
Use gcwq->worklist instead of cwq->worklist and break the strict
association between a cwq and its worker.  All works queued on a cpu
are queued on gcwq->worklist and processed by any available worker on
the gcwq.

As there no longer is strict association between a cwq and its worker,
whether a work is executing can now only be determined by calling
[__]find_worker_executing_work().

After this change, the only association between a cwq and its worker
is that a cwq puts a worker into shared worker pool on creation and
kills it on destruction.  As all workqueues are still limited to
max_active of one, this means that there are always at least as many
workers as active works and thus there's no danger for deadlock.

The break of strong association between cwqs and workers requires
somewhat clumsy changes to current_is_keventd() and
destroy_workqueue().  Dynamic worker pool management will remove both
clumsy changes.  current_is_keventd() won't be necessary at all as the
only reason it exists is to avoid queueing a work from a work which
will be allowed just fine.  The clumsy part of destroy_workqueue() is
added because a worker can only be destroyed while idle and there's no
guarantee a worker is idle when its wq is going down.  With dynamic
pool management, workers are not associated with workqueues at all and
only idle ones will be submitted to destroy_workqueue() so the code
won't be necessary anymore.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:13 +02:00
Tejun Heo 18aa9effad workqueue: implement WQ_NON_REENTRANT
With gcwq managing all the workers and work->data pointing to the last
gcwq it was on, non-reentrance can be easily implemented by checking
whether the work is still running on the previous gcwq on queueing.
Implement it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:13 +02:00
Tejun Heo 7a22ad757e workqueue: carry cpu number in work data once execution starts
To implement non-reentrant workqueue, the last gcwq a work was
executed on must be reliably obtainable as long as the work structure
is valid even if the previous workqueue has been destroyed.

To achieve this, work->data will be overloaded to carry the last cpu
number once execution starts so that the previous gcwq can be located
reliably.  This means that cwq can't be obtained from work after
execution starts but only gcwq.

Implement set_work_{cwq|cpu}(), get_work_[g]cwq() and
clear_work_data() to set work data to the cpu number when starting
execution, access the overloaded work data and clear it after
cancellation.

queue_delayed_work_on() is updated to preserve the last cpu while
in-flight in timer and other callers which depended on getting cwq
from work after execution starts are converted to depend on gcwq
instead.

* Anton Blanchard fixed compile error on powerpc due to missing
  linux/threads.h include.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:13 +02:00
Tejun Heo 8cca0eea39 workqueue: add find_worker_executing_work() and track current_cwq
Now that all the workers are tracked by gcwq, we can find which worker
is executing a work from gcwq.  Implement find_worker_executing_work()
and make worker track its current_cwq so that we can find things the
other way around.  This will be used to implement non-reentrant wqs.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:13 +02:00
Tejun Heo 502ca9d819 workqueue: make single thread workqueue shared worker pool friendly
Reimplement st (single thread) workqueue so that it's friendly to
shared worker pool.  It was originally implemented by confining st
workqueues to use cwq of a fixed cpu and always having a worker for
the cpu.  This implementation isn't very friendly to shared worker
pool and suboptimal in that it ends up crossing cpu boundaries often.

Reimplement st workqueue using dynamic single cpu binding and
cwq->limit.  WQ_SINGLE_THREAD is replaced with WQ_SINGLE_CPU.  In a
single cpu workqueue, at most single cwq is bound to the wq at any
given time.  Arbitration is done using atomic accesses to
wq->single_cpu when queueing a work.  Once bound, the binding stays
till the workqueue is drained.

Note that the binding is never broken while a workqueue is frozen.
This is because idle cwqs may have works waiting in delayed_works
queue while frozen.  On thaw, the cwq is restarted if there are any
delayed works or unbound otherwise.

When combined with max_active limit of 1, single cpu workqueue has
exactly the same execution properties as the original single thread
workqueue while allowing sharing of per-cpu workers.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:13 +02:00
Tejun Heo db7bccf45c workqueue: reimplement CPU hotplugging support using trustee
Reimplement CPU hotplugging support using trustee thread.  On CPU
down, a trustee thread is created and each step of CPU down is
executed by the trustee and workqueue_cpu_callback() simply drives and
waits for trustee state transitions.

CPU down operation no longer waits for works to be drained but trustee
sticks around till all pending works have been completed.  If CPU is
brought back up while works are still draining,
workqueue_cpu_callback() tells trustee to step down and tell workers
to rebind to the cpu.

As it's difficult to tell whether cwqs are empty if it's freezing or
frozen, trustee doesn't consider draining to be complete while a gcwq
is freezing or frozen (tracked by new GCWQ_FREEZING flag).  Also,
workers which get unbound from their cpu are marked with WORKER_ROGUE.

Trustee based implementation doesn't bring any new feature at this
point but it will be used to manage worker pool when dynamic shared
worker pool is implemented.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:12 +02:00
Tejun Heo c8e55f3602 workqueue: implement worker states
Implement worker states.  After created, a worker is STARTED.  While a
worker isn't processing a work, it's IDLE and chained on
gcwq->idle_list.  While processing a work, a worker is BUSY and
chained on gcwq->busy_hash.  Also, gcwq now counts the number of all
workers and idle ones.

worker_thread() is restructured to reflect state transitions.
cwq->more_work is removed and waking up a worker makes it check for
events.  A worker is killed by setting DIE flag while it's IDLE and
waking it up.

This gives gcwq better visibility of what's going on and allows it to
find out whether a work is executing quickly which is necessary to
have multiple workers processing the same cwq.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:12 +02:00
Tejun Heo 8b03ae3cde workqueue: introduce global cwq and unify cwq locks
There is one gcwq (global cwq) per each cpu and all cwqs on an cpu
point to it.  A gcwq contains a lock to be used by all cwqs on the cpu
and an ida to give IDs to workers belonging to the cpu.

This patch introduces gcwq, moves worker_ida into gcwq and make all
cwqs on the same cpu use the cpu's gcwq->lock instead of separate
locks.  gcwq->ida is now protected by gcwq->lock too.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:12 +02:00
Tejun Heo a0a1a5fd4f workqueue: reimplement workqueue freeze using max_active
Currently, workqueue freezing is implemented by marking the worker
freezeable and calling try_to_freeze() from dispatch loop.
Reimplement it using cwq->limit so that the workqueue is frozen
instead of the worker.

* workqueue_struct->saved_max_active is added which stores the
  specified max_active on initialization.

* On freeze, all cwq->max_active's are quenched to zero.  Freezing is
  complete when nr_active on all cwqs reach zero.

* On thaw, all cwq->max_active's are restored to wq->saved_max_active
  and the worklist is repopulated.

This new implementation allows having single shared pool of workers
per cpu.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:12 +02:00
Tejun Heo 1e19ffc63d workqueue: implement per-cwq active work limit
Add cwq->nr_active, cwq->max_active and cwq->delayed_work.  nr_active
counts the number of active works per cwq.  A work is active if it's
flushable (colored) and is on cwq's worklist.  If nr_active reaches
max_active, new works are queued on cwq->delayed_work and activated
later as works on the cwq complete and decrement nr_active.

cwq->max_active can be specified via the new @max_active parameter to
__create_workqueue() and is set to 1 for all workqueues for now.  As
each cwq has only single worker now, this double queueing doesn't
cause any behavior difference visible to its users.

This will be used to reimplement freeze/thaw and implement shared
worker pool.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:12 +02:00
Tejun Heo affee4b294 workqueue: reimplement work flushing using linked works
A work is linked to the next one by having WORK_STRUCT_LINKED bit set
and these links can be chained.  When a linked work is dispatched to a
worker, all linked works are dispatched to the worker's newly added
->scheduled queue and processed back-to-back.

Currently, as there's only single worker per cwq, having linked works
doesn't make any visible behavior difference.  This change is to
prepare for multiple shared workers per cpu.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:12 +02:00
Tejun Heo c34056a3fd workqueue: introduce worker
Separate out worker thread related information to struct worker from
struct cpu_workqueue_struct and implement helper functions to deal
with the new struct worker.  The only change which is visible outside
is that now workqueue worker are all named "kworker/CPUID:WORKERID"
where WORKERID is allocated from per-cpu ida.

This is in preparation of concurrency managed workqueue where shared
multiple workers would be available per cpu.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:11 +02:00
Tejun Heo 73f53c4aa7 workqueue: reimplement workqueue flushing using color coded works
Reimplement workqueue flushing using color coded works.  wq has the
current work color which is painted on the works being issued via
cwqs.  Flushing a workqueue is achieved by advancing the current work
colors of cwqs and waiting for all the works which have any of the
previous colors to drain.

Currently there are 16 possible colors, one is reserved for no color
and 15 colors are useable allowing 14 concurrent flushes.  When color
space gets full, flush attempts are batched up and processed together
when color frees up, so even with many concurrent flushers, the new
implementation won't build up huge queue of flushers which has to be
processed one after another.

Only works which are queued via __queue_work() are colored.  Works
which are directly put on queue using insert_work() use NO_COLOR and
don't participate in workqueue flushing.  Currently only works used
for work-specific flush fall in this category.

This new implementation leaves only cleanup_workqueue_thread() as the
user of flush_cpu_workqueue().  Just make its users use
flush_workqueue() and kthread_stop() directly and kill
cleanup_workqueue_thread().  As workqueue flushing doesn't use barrier
request anymore, the comment describing the complex synchronization
around it in cleanup_workqueue_thread() is removed together with the
function.

This new implementation is to allow having and sharing multiple
workers per cpu.

Please note that one more bit is reserved for a future work flag by
this patch.  This is to avoid shifting bits and updating comments
later.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:11 +02:00
Tejun Heo 0f900049cb workqueue: update cwq alignement
work->data field is used for two purposes.  It points to cwq it's
queued on and the lower bits are used for flags.  Currently, two bits
are reserved which is always safe as 4 byte alignment is guaranteed on
every architecture.  However, future changes will need more flag bits.

On SMP, the percpu allocator is capable of honoring larger alignment
(there are other users which depend on it) and larger alignment works
just fine.  On UP, percpu allocator is a thin wrapper around
kzalloc/kfree() and don't honor alignment request.

This patch introduces WORK_STRUCT_FLAG_BITS and implements
alloc/free_cwqs() which guarantees max(1 << WORK_STRUCT_FLAG_BITS,
__alignof__(unsigned long long) alignment both on SMP and UP.  On SMP,
simply wrapping percpu allocator is enough.  On UP, extra space is
allocated so that cwq can be aligned and the original pointer can be
stored after it which is used in the free path.

* Alignment problem on UP is reported by Michal Simek.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@petalogix.com>
2010-06-29 10:07:11 +02:00
Tejun Heo 1537663f57 workqueue: kill cpu_populated_map
Worker management is about to be overhauled.  Simplify things by
removing cpu_populated_map, creating workers for all possible cpus and
making single threaded workqueues behave more like multi threaded
ones.

After this patch, all cwqs are always initialized, all workqueues are
linked on the workqueues list and workers for all possibles cpus
always exist.  This also makes CPU hotplug support simpler - checking
->cpus_allowed before processing works in worker_thread() and flushing
cwqs on CPU_POST_DEAD are enough.

While at it, make get_cwq() always return the cwq for the specified
cpu, add target_cwq() for cases where single thread distinction is
necessary and drop all direct usage of per_cpu_ptr() on wq->cpu_wq.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:11 +02:00
Tejun Heo 6416669975 workqueue: temporarily remove workqueue tracing
Strip tracing code from workqueue and remove workqueue tracing.  This
is temporary measure till concurrency managed workqueue is complete.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-06-29 10:07:11 +02:00
Tejun Heo a62428c0ae workqueue: separate out process_one_work()
Separate out process_one_work() out of run_workqueue().  This patch
doesn't cause any behavior change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:10 +02:00
Tejun Heo 22df02bb3f workqueue: define masks for work flags and conditionalize STATIC flags
Work flags are about to see more traditional mask handling.  Define
WORK_STRUCT_*_BIT as the bit position constant and redefine
WORK_STRUCT_* as bit masks.  Also, make WORK_STRUCT_STATIC_* flags
conditional

While at it, re-define these constants as enums and use
WORK_STRUCT_STATIC instead of hard-coding 2 in
WORK_DATA_STATIC_INIT().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:10 +02:00
Tejun Heo 97e37d7b9e workqueue: merge feature parameters into flags
Currently, __create_workqueue_key() takes @singlethread and
@freezeable paramters and store them separately in workqueue_struct.
Merge them into a single flags parameter and field and use
WQ_FREEZEABLE and WQ_SINGLE_THREAD.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:10 +02:00
Tejun Heo 4690c4ab56 workqueue: misc/cosmetic updates
Make the following updates in preparation of concurrency managed
workqueue.  None of these changes causes any visible behavior
difference.

* Add comments and adjust indentations to data structures and several
  functions.

* Rename wq_per_cpu() to get_cwq() and swap the position of two
  parameters for consistency.  Convert a direct per_cpu_ptr() access
  to wq->cpu_wq to get_cwq().

* Add work_static() and Update set_wq_data() such that it sets the
  flags part to WORK_STRUCT_PENDING | WORK_STRUCT_STATIC if static |
  @extra_flags.

* Move santiy check on work->entry emptiness from queue_work_on() to
  __queue_work() which all queueing paths share.

* Make __queue_work() take @cpu and @wq instead of @cwq.

* Restructure flush_work() and __create_workqueue_key() to make them
  easier to modify.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:10 +02:00
Tejun Heo c790bce048 workqueue: kill RT workqueue
With stop_machine() converted to use cpu_stop, RT workqueue doesn't
have any user left.  Kill RT workqueue support.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:09 +02:00
Tejun Heo 82805ab77d kthread: implement kthread_data()
Implement kthread_data() which takes @task pointing to a kthread and
returns @data specified when creating the kthread.  The caller is
responsible for ensuring the validity of @task when calling this
function.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:09 +02:00
Tejun Heo b56c0d8937 kthread: implement kthread_worker
Implement simple work processor for kthread.  This is to ease using
kthread.  Single thread workqueue used to be used for things like this
but workqueue won't guarantee fixed kthread association anymore to
enable worker sharing.

This can be used in cases where specific kthread association is
necessary, for example, when it should have RT priority or be assigned
to certain cgroup.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:09 +02:00
Steven Rostedt a1d0ce8213 tracing: Use class->reg() for all registering of events
Because kprobes and syscalls need special processing to register
events, the class->reg() method was created to handle the differences.

But instead of creating a default ->reg for perf and ftrace events,
the code was scattered with:

	if (class->reg)
		class->reg();
	else
		default_reg();

This is messy and can also lead to bugs.

This patch cleans up this code and creates a default reg() entry for
the events allowing for the code to directly call the class->reg()
without the condition.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-28 21:13:14 -04:00
Chase Douglas d62f85d1e2 tracing/function-graph: Use correct string size for snprintf
The nsecs_str string is a local variable defined as:

char nsecs_str[5];

It is possible for the snprintf call to use a size value larger than the
size of the string. This should not cause a buffer overrun as it is
written now due to the value for the string format "%03lu" can not be
larger than 1000. However, this change makes it correct. By making the
size correct we guard against potential future changes that could actually
cause a buffer overrun.

Signed-off-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
LKML-Reference: <1276619355-18116-1-git-send-email-chase.douglas@canonical.com>

[ added 'UL' to number 8 to fix gcc warning comparing it to sizeof() ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-28 21:11:39 -04:00
Li Zefan 67ead0a6ce tracing: Remove open-coded __trace_add_event_call()
Let trace_module_add_events() and event_trace_init() call
__trace_add_event_call().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BFA37E9.1020106@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-28 17:12:55 -04:00
Li Zefan ffb9f99528 tracing: Remove redundant raw_init callbacks
raw_init callback is optional.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BFA37D4.7070500@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-28 17:12:53 -04:00
Li Zefan c9d932cf8a tracing: Remove test of NULL define_fields callback
Every event (or event class) has it's define_fields callback,
so the test is redundant.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BFA37BC.8080707@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-28 17:12:52 -04:00
Li Zefan 8728fe501e tracing: Don't allocate common fields for every trace events
Every event has the same common fields, so it's a big waste of
memory to have a copy of those fields for every event.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BFA3759.30105@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-28 17:12:46 -04:00
Li Zefan c9642c49aa tracing: Use a global field list for all syscall exit events
All syscall exit events have the same fields.

The kernel size drops 2.5K:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
7018612 2034376 7251132 16304120         f8c7f8 vmlinux.o.orig
7018612 2031888 7251132 16301632         f8be40 vmlinux.o

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BFA3746.8070100@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-28 17:12:44 -04:00
Thomas Gleixner f384c954c9 Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core
Reason: Further changes conflict with upstream fixes

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-06-28 22:33:24 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 5904b3b81d Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: Fix undeclared ENOSYS in include/linux/tracepoint.h
  perf record: prevent kill(0, SIGTERM);
  perf session: Remove threads from tree on PERF_RECORD_EXIT
  perf/tracing: Fix regression of perf losing kprobe events
  perf_events: Fix Intel Westmere event constraints
  perf record: Don't call newt functions when not initialized
2010-06-28 12:24:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f3866db8f7 Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  genirq: Deal with desc->set_type() changing desc->chip
2010-06-28 12:23:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f014d937d6 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: Prevent compiler from optimising the sched_avg_update() loop
  sched: Fix over-scheduling bug
  sched: Fix PROVE_RCU vs cpu_cgroup
2010-06-28 12:18:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds cf91b415c8 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  nohz: Fix nohz ratelimit
2010-06-28 12:18:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e6cb6281ef Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: silence PROVE_RCU in sched_fork()
  idr: fix RCU lockdep splat in idr_get_next()
  rcu: apply RCU protection to wake_affine()
2010-06-28 12:17:40 -07:00
Will Deacon 0d98bb2656 sched: Prevent compiler from optimising the sched_avg_update() loop
GCC 4.4.1 on ARM has been observed to replace the while loop in
sched_avg_update with a call to uldivmod, resulting in the
following build failure at link-time:

kernel/built-in.o: In function `sched_avg_update':
 kernel/sched.c:1261: undefined reference to `__aeabi_uldivmod'
 kernel/sched.c:1261: undefined reference to `__aeabi_uldivmod'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

This patch introduces a fake data hazard to the loop body to
prevent the compiler optimising the loop away.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-25 16:11:50 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 45a73372ef hw_breakpoints: Fix per task breakpoint tracking
Freeing a perf event can happen in several ways. A task
calls perf_event_exit_task() right before exiting. This helper
will detach all the events from the task context and queue their
removal through free_event() if they are child tasks. The task
also loses its context reference there.

Releasing the breakpoint slot from the constraint table is made
from free_event() that calls release_bp_slot(). We count the number
of breakpoints this task is running by looking at the task's
perf_event_ctxp and iterating through its attached events.
But at this time, the reference to this context has been cleaned up
already.

So looking at the event->ctx instead of task->perf_event_ctxp
to count the remaining breakpoints should solve the problem.
At least it would for child breakpoints, but not for parent ones.
If the parent exits before the child, it will remove all its
events from the context but free_event() will be called later,
on fd release time. And checking the number of breakpoints the
task has attached to its context at this time is unreliable as all
events have been removed from the context.

To solve this, we keep track of the list of per task breakpoints.
On top of it, we maintain our array of numbers of breakpoints used
by the tasks. We use the context address as a task id.

So, instead of looking at the number of events attached to a context,
we walk through our list of per task breakpoints and count the number
of breakpoints that use the same ctx than the one to be reserved or
released from the constraint table, and update the count on top of this
result.

In the meantime it solves a bad refcounting, it also solves a warning,
reported by Paul.

Badness at /home/paulus/kernel/perf/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:114
NIP: c0000000000cb470 LR: c0000000000cb46c CTR: c00000000032d9b8
REGS: c000000118e7b570 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (2.6.35-rc3-perf-00008-g76b0f13
)
MSR: 9000000000029032 <EE,ME,CE,IR,DR>  CR: 44004424  XER: 000fffff
TASK = c0000001187dcad0[3143] 'perf' THREAD: c000000118e78000 CPU: 1
GPR00: c0000000000cb46c c000000118e7b7f0 c0000000009866a0 0000000000000020
GPR04: 0000000000000000 000000000000001d 0000000000000000 0000000000000001
GPR08: c0000000009bed68 c00000000086dff8 c000000000a5bf10 0000000000000001
GPR12: 0000000024004422 c00000000ffff200 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000018 00000000101150f4
GPR20: 0000000010206b40 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000101150f4
GPR24: c0000001199090c0 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000001
GPR28: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c0000000008ec290 0000000000000000
NIP [c0000000000cb470] .task_bp_pinned+0x5c/0x12c
LR [c0000000000cb46c] .task_bp_pinned+0x58/0x12c
Call Trace:
[c000000118e7b7f0] [c0000000000cb46c] .task_bp_pinned+0x58/0x12c (unreliable)
[c000000118e7b8a0] [c0000000000cb584] .toggle_bp_task_slot+0x44/0xe4
[c000000118e7b940] [c0000000000cb6c8] .toggle_bp_slot+0xa4/0x164
[c000000118e7b9f0] [c0000000000cbafc] .release_bp_slot+0x44/0x6c
[c000000118e7ba80] [c0000000000c4178] .bp_perf_event_destroy+0x10/0x24
[c000000118e7bb00] [c0000000000c4aec] .free_event+0x180/0x1bc
[c000000118e7bbc0] [c0000000000c54c4] .perf_event_release_kernel+0x14c/0x170

Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-06-24 23:33:40 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 8695159967 sched: silence PROVE_RCU in sched_fork()
Because cgroup_fork() is ran before sched_fork() [ from copy_process() ]
and the child's pid is not yet visible the child is pinned to its
cgroup. Therefore we can silence this warning.

A nicer solution would be moving cgroup_fork() to right after
dup_task_struct() and exclude PF_STARTING from task_subsys_state().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-06-23 15:14:09 -07:00
Daniel J Blueman f3b577dec1 rcu: apply RCU protection to wake_affine()
The task_group() function returns a pointer that must be protected
by either RCU, the ->alloc_lock, or the cgroup lock (see the
rcu_dereference_check() in task_subsys_state(), which is invoked by
task_group()).  The wake_affine() function currently does none of these,
which means that a concurrent update would be within its rights to free
the structure returned by task_group().  Because wake_affine() uses this
structure only to compute load-balancing heuristics, there is no reason
to acquire either of the two locks.

Therefore, this commit introduces an RCU read-side critical section that
starts before the first call to task_group() and ends after the last use
of the "tg" pointer returned from task_group().  Thanks to Li Zefan for
pointing out the need to extend the RCU read-side critical section from
that proposed by the original patch.

Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-06-23 06:50:44 -07:00
K.Prasad f7136c5150 hw_breakpoints: Allow arch-specific cleanup before breakpoint unregistration
Certain architectures (such as PowerPC) have a need to clean up data
structures before a breakpoint is unregistered.  This introduces an
arch-specific hook in release_bp_slot() along with a weak definition
in the form of a stub function.

Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2010-06-22 19:40:50 +10:00
Tejun Heo 0b2e918aa9 sched, cpuset: Drop __cpuexit from cpu hotplug callbacks
Commit 3a101d05 (sched: adjust when cpu_active and cpuset
configurations are updated during cpu on/offlining) added
hotplug notifiers marked with __cpuexit; however, ia64 drops
text in __cpuexit during link unlike x86.

This means that functions which are referenced during init but used
only for cpu hot unplugging afterwards shouldn't be marked with
__cpuexit. Drop __cpuexit from those functions.

Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4C1FDF5B.1040301@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-22 08:07:39 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 646b1db495 Merge commit 'v2.6.35-rc3' into perf/core
Merge reason: Go from -rc1 base to -rc3 base, merge in fixes.
2010-06-18 10:53:19 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 8d1f431cbe sched: Fix the racy usage of thread_group_cputimer() in fastpath_timer_check()
fastpath_timer_check()->thread_group_cputimer() is racy and
unneeded.

It is racy because another thread can clear ->running before
thread_group_cputimer() takes cputimer->lock. In this case
thread_group_cputimer() will set ->running = true again and call
thread_group_cputime(). But since we do not hold tasklist or
siglock, we can race with fork/exit and copy the wrong results
into cputimer->cputime.

It is unneeded because if ->running == true we can just use
the numbers in cputimer->cputime we already have.

Change fastpath_timer_check() to copy cputimer->cputime into
the local variable under cputimer->lock. We do not re-check
->running under cputimer->lock, run_posix_cpu_timers() does
this check later.

Note: we can add more optimizations on top of this change.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100611180446.GA13025@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18 10:46:57 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 0bdd2ed413 sched: run_posix_cpu_timers: Don't check ->exit_state, use lock_task_sighand()
run_posix_cpu_timers() doesn't work if current has already passed
exit_notify(). This was needed to prevent the races with do_wait().

Since ea6d290c ->signal is always valid and can't go away. We can
remove the "tsk->exit_state == 0" in fastpath_timer_check() and
convert run_posix_cpu_timers() to use lock_task_sighand().

Note: it makes sense to take group_leader's sighand instead, the
sub-thread still uses CPU after release_task(). But we need more
changes to do this.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100610231018.GA25942@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18 10:46:57 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov bfac700918 sched: thread_group_cputime: Simplify, document the "alive" check
thread_group_cputime() looks as if it is rcu-safe, but in fact this
was wrong until ea6d290c which pins task->signal to task_struct.
It checks ->sighand != NULL under rcu, but this can't help if ->signal
can go away. Fortunately the caller either holds ->siglock, or it is
fastpath_timer_check() which uses current and checks exit_state == 0.

- Since ea6d290c commit tsk->signal is stable, we can read it first
  and avoid the initialization from INIT_CPUTIME.

- Even if tsk->signal is always valid, we still have to check it
  is safe to use next_thread() under rcu_read_lock(). Currently
  the code checks ->sighand != NULL, change it to use pid_alive()
  which is commonly used to ensure the task wasn't unhashed before
  we take rcu_read_lock().

  Add the comment to explain this check.

- Change the main loop to use the while_each_thread() helper.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100610230956.GA25921@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18 10:46:56 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 48286d5088 sched: Remove the obsolete exit_state/signal hacks
account_group_xxx() functions check ->exit_state to ensure that
current->signal is valid and can't go away. This is not needed
since ea6d290c, task->signal is pinned to task_struct.

The comment and another hack in account_group_exec_runtime() refers
to task_rq_unlock_wait() which was already removed by b7b8ff63.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100610230952.GA25914@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18 10:46:56 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov c32b4fce79 sched: task_tick_rt: Remove the obsolete ->signal != NULL check
Remove the obsolete ->signal != NULL check in watchdog().
Since ea6d290c ->signal can't be NULL.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100610230948.GA25911@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18 10:46:56 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov a44702e885 sched: __sched_setscheduler: Read the RLIMIT_RTPRIO value lockless
__sched_setscheduler() takes lock_task_sighand() to access task->signal.
This is not needed since ea6d290c, ->signal can't go away.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100610230944.GA25903@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18 10:46:55 +02:00
Michael Neuling b6b1229440 sched: Fix comments to make them DocBook happy
Docbook fails in sched_fair.c due to comments added in the asymmetric
packing patch series.

This fixes these errors. No code changes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <24737.1276135581@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18 10:46:55 +02:00
Michael Neuling 694f5a1112 sched: Fix fix_small_capacity
The CPU power test is the wrong way around in fix_small_capacity.

This was due to a small changes made in the posted patch on lkml to what
was was taken upstream.

This patch fixes asymmetric packing for POWER7.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <12629.1276124617@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18 10:46:54 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 4cb6948e53 Merge commit 'v2.6.35-rc3' into sched/core
Merge reason: Update to the latest -rc.
2010-06-18 10:46:35 +02:00
Alex,Shi 3c93717cfa sched: Fix over-scheduling bug
Commit e70971591 ("sched: Optimize unused cgroup configuration") introduced
an imbalanced scheduling bug.

If we do not use CGROUP, function update_h_load won't update h_load. When the
system has a large number of tasks far more than logical CPU number, the
incorrect cfs_rq[cpu]->h_load value will cause load_balance() to pull too
many tasks to the local CPU from the busiest CPU. So the busiest CPU keeps
going in a round robin. That will hurt performance.

The issue was found originally by a scientific calculation workload that
developed by Yanmin. With that commit, the workload performance drops
about 40%.

 CPU  before    after

 00   : 2       : 7
 01   : 1       : 7
 02   : 11      : 6
 03   : 12      : 7
 04   : 6       : 6
 05   : 11      : 7
 06   : 10      : 6
 07   : 12      : 7
 08   : 11      : 6
 09   : 12      : 6
 10   : 1       : 6
 11   : 1       : 6
 12   : 6       : 6
 13   : 2       : 6
 14   : 2       : 6
 15   : 1       : 6

Reviewed-by: Yanmin zhang <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1276754893.9452.5442.camel@debian>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18 10:45:25 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 3310d4d38f nohz: Fix nohz ratelimit
Chris Wedgwood reports that 39c0cbe (sched: Rate-limit nohz) causes a
serial console regression, unresponsiveness, and indeed it does. The
reason is that the nohz code is skipped even when the tick was already
stopped before the nohz_ratelimit(cpu) condition changed.

Move the nohz_ratelimit() check to the other conditions which prevent
long idle sleeps.

Reported-by: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Tested-by: Brian Bloniarz <bmb@athenacr.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Jef Driesen <jefdriesen@telenet.be>
LKML-Reference: <1276790557.27822.516.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-06-17 19:37:29 +02:00
Eric W. Biederman 5c1469de75 user_ns: Introduce user_nsmap_uid and user_ns_map_gid.
Define what happens when a we view a uid from one user_namespace
in another user_namepece.

- If the user namespaces are the same no mapping is necessary.

- For most cases of difference use overflowuid and overflowgid,
  the uid and gid currently used for 16bit apis when we have a 32bit uid
  that does fit in 16bits.  Effectively the situation is the same,
  we want to return a uid or gid that is not assigned to any user.

- For the case when we happen to be mapping the uid or gid of the
  creator of the target user namespace use uid 0 and gid as confusing
  that user with root is not a problem.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-16 14:55:34 -07:00
Jiri Kosina f1bbbb6912 Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2010-06-16 18:08:13 +02:00
Uwe Kleine-König 732bee7af3 fix typos concerning "hierarchy"
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-06-16 18:03:14 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney a25909a4d4 lockdep: Add an in_workqueue_context() lockdep-based test function
Some recent uses of RCU make use of workqueues.  In these uses, execution
within the context of a specific workqueue takes the place of the usual
RCU read-side primitives such as rcu_read_lock(), and flushing of workqueues
takes the place of the usual RCU grace-period primitives.  Checking for
correct use of rcu_dereference() in such cases requires a test of whether
the code is executing in the context of a particular workqueue.  This
commit adds an in_workqueue_context() function that provides this test.
This new function is only defined when lockdep is enabled, which allows
it to be used as the second argument of rcu_dereference_check().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-06-14 16:37:26 -07:00
Mathieu Desnoyers 551d55a944 tree/tiny rcu: Add debug RCU head objects
Helps finding racy users of call_rcu(), which results in hangs because list
entries are overwritten and/or skipped.

Changelog since v4:
- Bissectability is now OK
- Now generate a WARN_ON_ONCE() for non-initialized rcu_head passed to
  call_rcu(). Statically initialized objects are detected with
  object_is_static().
- Rename rcu_head_init_on_stack to init_rcu_head_on_stack.
- Remove init_rcu_head() completely.

Changelog since v3:
- Include comments from Lai Jiangshan

This new patch version is based on the debugobjects with the newly introduced
"active state" tracker.

Non-initialized entries are all considered as "statically initialized". An
activation fixup (triggered by call_rcu()) takes care of performing the debug
object initialization without issuing any warning. Since we cannot increase the
size of struct rcu_head, I don't see much room to put an identifier for
statically initialized rcu_head structures. So for now, we have to live without
"activation without explicit init" detection. But the main purpose of this debug
option is to detect double-activations (double call_rcu() use of a rcu_head
before the callback is executed), which is correctly addressed here.

This also detects potential internal RCU callback corruption, which would cause
the callbacks to be executed twice.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org
CC: mingo@elte.hu
CC: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
CC: dipankar@in.ibm.com
CC: josh@joshtriplett.org
CC: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
CC: niv@us.ibm.com
CC: tglx@linutronix.de
CC: peterz@infradead.org
CC: rostedt@goodmis.org
CC: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
CC: dhowells@redhat.com
CC: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-06-14 16:37:26 -07:00
Tejun Heo 53c5f5ba42 Merge branch 'sched-wq' of ../wq into cmwq-base 2010-06-13 18:19:48 +02:00
Len Brown 42de5532f4 Merge branch 'bugzilla-13931-sleep-nvs' into release
Conflicts:
	drivers/acpi/sleep.c

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-06-12 01:15:40 -04:00
Steven Rostedt a8fb260805 perf/tracing: Fix regression of perf losing kprobe events
With the addition of the code to shrink the kernel tracepoint
infrastructure, we lost kprobes being traced by perf. The reason
is that I tested if the "tp_event->class->perf_probe" existed before
enabling it. This prevents "ftrace only" events (like the function
trace events) from being enabled by perf.

Unfortunately, kprobe events do not use perf_probe. This causes
kprobes to be missed by perf. To fix this, we add the test to
see if "tp_event->class->reg" exists as well as perf_probe.

Normal trace events have only "perf_probe" but no "reg" function,
and kprobes and syscalls have the "reg" but no "perf_probe".
The ftrace unique events do not have either, so this is a valid
test. If a kprobe or syscall is not to be probed by perf, the
"reg" function is called anyway, and will return a failure and
prevent perf from probing it.

Reported-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-10 20:56:54 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 85ca7886f5 Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: Fix null pointer deref with SEND_SIG_FORCED
  perf: Fix signed comparison in perf_adjust_period()
  powerpc/oprofile: fix potential buffer overrun in op_model_cell.c
  perf symbols: Set the DSO long name when using symbol_conf.vmlinux_name
2010-06-10 09:30:09 -07:00
Matthew Garrett dd4c4f17d7 suspend: Move NVS save/restore code to generic suspend functionality
Saving platform non-volatile state may be required for suspend to RAM as
well as hibernation. Move it to more generic code.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Tested-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-06-10 11:02:34 -04:00
Ingo Molnar c726b61c6a Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/core 2010-06-09 18:55:57 +02:00
Li Zefan 039ca4e74a tracing: Remove kmemtrace ftrace plugin
We have been resisting new ftrace plugins and removing existing
ones, and kmemtrace has been superseded by kmem trace events
and perf-kmem, so we remove it.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ remove kmemtrace from the makefile, handle slob too ]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-06-09 17:31:22 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 4673247562 genirq: Deal with desc->set_type() changing desc->chip
The set_type() function can change the chip implementation when the
trigger mode changes. That might result in using an non-initialized
irq chip when called from __setup_irq() or when called via
set_irq_type() on an already enabled irq. 

The set_irq_type() function should not be called on an enabled irq,
but because we forgot to put a check into it, we have a bunch of users
which grew the habit of doing that and it never blew up as the
function is serialized via desc->lock against all users of desc->chip
and they never hit the non-initialized irq chip issue.

The easy fix for the __setup_irq() issue would be to move the
irq_chip_set_defaults(desc->chip) call after the trigger setting to
make sure that a chip change is covered.

But as we have already users, which do the type setting after
request_irq(), the safe fix for now is to call irq_chip_set_defaults()
from __irq_set_trigger() when desc->set_type() changed the irq chip.

It needs a deeper analysis whether we should refuse to change the chip
on an already enabled irq, but that'd be a large scale change to fix
all the existing users. So that's neither stable nor 2.6.35 material.

Reported-by: Esben Haabendal <eha@doredevelopment.dk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-06-09 17:05:08 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra e78505958c perf: Convert perf_event to local_t
Since now all modification to event->count (and ->prev_count
and ->period_left) are local to a cpu, change then to local64_t so we
avoid the LOCK'ed ops.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-09 11:12:37 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra a6e6dea68c perf: Add perf_event::child_count
Only child counters adding back their values into the parent counter
are responsible for cross-cpu updates to event->count.

So if we pull that out into a new child_count variable, we get an
event->count that is only modified locally.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-09 11:12:37 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra b5e58793c7 perf: Add perf_event_count()
Create a helper function for those sites that want to read the event count.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-09 11:12:36 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra d57e34fdd6 perf: Simplify the ring-buffer logic: make perf_buffer_alloc() do everything needed
Currently there are perf_buffer_alloc() + perf_buffer_init() + some
separate bits, fold it all into a single perf_buffer_alloc() and only
leave the attachment to the event separate.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-09 11:12:35 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra ca5135e6b4 perf: Rename perf_mmap_data to perf_buffer
Rename to clarify code.

s/perf_mmap_data/perf_buffer/g and selective s/data/buffer/g

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-09 11:12:35 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 8d2cacbbb8 perf: Cleanup {start,commit,cancel}_txn details
Clarify some of the transactional group scheduling API details
and change it so that a successfull ->commit_txn also closes
the transaction.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1274803086.5882.1752.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-09 11:12:34 +02:00
Eric B Munson 3af9e85928 perf: Add non-exec mmap() tracking
Add the capacility to track data mmap()s. This can be used together
with PERF_SAMPLE_ADDR for data profiling.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
[Updated code for stable perf ABI]
Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1274193049-25997-1-git-send-email-ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-09 11:12:34 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 8ed92280be perf, trace: Remove superfluous rcu_read_lock()
__DO_TRACE() already calls the callbacks under rcu_read_lock_sched(),
which is sufficient for our needs, avoid doing it again.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-09 11:12:33 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra ecc55f84b2 perf, trace: Inline perf_swevent_put_recursion_context()
Inline perf_swevent_put_recursion_context into perf_tp_event(), this
shrinks the per trace template code footprint and saves a function
call.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-09 11:12:33 +02:00
Michael Neuling 532cb4c401 sched: Add asymmetric group packing option for sibling domain
Check to see if the group is packed in a sched doman.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <1274486981.2840.46.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-09 10:34:52 +02:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi fdf3e95d39 sched: Avoid side-effect of tickless idle on update_cpu_load
tickless idle has a negative side effect on update_cpu_load(), which
in turn can affect load balancing behavior.

update_cpu_load() is supposed to be called every tick, to keep track
of various load indicies. With tickless idle, there are no scheduler
ticks called on the idle CPUs. Idle CPUs may still do load balancing
(with idle_load_balance CPU) using the stale cpu_load. It will also
cause problems when all CPUs go idle for a while and become active
again. In this case loads would not degrade as expected.

This is how rq->nr_load_updates change looks like under different
conditions:

<cpu_num> <nr_load_updates change>
All CPUS idle for 10 seconds (HZ=1000)
0 1621
10 496
11 139
12 875
13 1672
14 12
15 21
1 1472
2 2426
3 1161
4 2108
5 1525
6 701
7 249
8 766
9 1967

One CPU busy rest idle for 10 seconds
0 10003
10 601
11 95
12 966
13 1597
14 114
15 98
1 3457
2 93
3 6679
4 1425
5 1479
6 595
7 193
8 633
9 1687

All CPUs busy for 10 seconds
0 10026
10 10026
11 10026
12 10026
13 10025
14 10025
15 10025
1 10026
2 10026
3 10026
4 10026
5 10026
6 10026
7 10026
8 10026
9 10026

That is update_cpu_load works properly only when all CPUs are busy.
If all are idle, all the CPUs get way lower updates.  And when few
CPUs are busy and rest are idle, only busy and ilb CPU does proper
updates and rest of the idle CPUs will do lower updates.

The patch keeps track of when a last update was done and fixes up
the load avg based on current time.

On one of my test system SPECjbb with warehouse 1..numcpus, patch
improves throughput numbers by ~1% (average of 6 runs).  On another
test system (with different domain hierarchy) there is no noticable
change in perf.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTilLtDWQsAUrIxJ6s04WTgmw9GuOODc5AOrYsaR5@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-09 10:34:51 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 246d86b518 sched: Simplify the reacquire_kernel_lock() logic
- Contrary to what 6d558c3a says, there is no need to reload
  prev = rq->curr after the context switch. You always schedule
  back to where you came from, prev must be equal to current
  even if cpu/rq was changed.

- This also means reacquire_kernel_lock() can use prev instead
  of current.

- No need to reassign switch_count if reacquire_kernel_lock()
  reports need_resched(), we can just move the initial assignment
  down, under the "need_resched_nonpreemptible:" label.

- Try to update the comment after context_switch().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100519125711.GA30199@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-09 10:34:50 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra c676329abb sched_clock: Add local_clock() API and improve documentation
For people who otherwise get to write: cpu_clock(smp_processor_id()),
there is now: local_clock().

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

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
LKML-Reference: <1275052414.1645.52.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-09 10:34:49 +02:00
Américo Wang 30dbb20e68 tracing: Remove boot tracer
The boot tracer is useless. It simply logs the initcalls
but in fact these initcalls are also logged through printk
while using the initcall_debug kernel parameter.

Nobody seem to be using it so far. Then just remove it.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100526105753.GA5677@cr0.nay.redhat.com>
[ remove the hooks in main.c, and the headers ]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-06-08 23:31:28 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker b0f82b81fe perf: Drop the skip argument from perf_arch_fetch_regs_caller
Drop this argument now that we always want to rewind only to the
state of the first caller.
It means frame pointers are not necessary anymore to reliably get
the source of an event. But this also means we need this helper
to be a macro now, as an inline function is not an option since
we need to know when to provide a default implentation.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-06-08 23:31:27 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker c9cf4dbb4d x86: Unify dumpstack.h and stacktrace.h
arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h and arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.h
declare headers of objects that deal with the same topic.
Actually most of the files that include stacktrace.h also include
dumpstack.h

Although dumpstack.h seems more reserved for internals of stack
traces, those are quite often needed to define specialized stack
trace operations. And perf event arch headers are going to need
access to such low level operations anyway. So don't continue to
bother with dumpstack.h as it's not anymore about isolated deep
internals.

v2: fix struct stack_frame definition conflict in sysprof

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk>
2010-06-08 23:29:52 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 95ae3c59fa Merge branch 'sched-wq' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq into sched/core 2010-06-08 23:20:59 +02:00
Tejun Heo 21aa9af03d sched: add hooks for workqueue
Concurrency managed workqueue needs to know when workers are going to
sleep and waking up.  Using these two hooks, cmwq keeps track of the
current concurrency level and throttles execution of new works if it's
too high and wakes up another worker from the sleep hook if it becomes
too low.

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-08 21:40:37 +02:00
Tejun Heo 9ed3811a6c sched: refactor try_to_wake_up()
Factor ttwu_activate() and ttwu_woken_up() out of try_to_wake_up().
The factoring out doesn't affect try_to_wake_up() much
code-generation-wise.  Depending on configuration options, it ends up
generating the same object code as before or slightly different one
due to different register assignment.

This is to help future implementation of try_to_wake_up_local().

Mike Galbraith suggested rename to ttwu_post_activation() from
ttwu_woken_up() and comment update in try_to_wake_up().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-08 21:40:36 +02:00
Tejun Heo 3a101d0548 sched: adjust when cpu_active and cpuset configurations are updated during cpu on/offlining
Currently, when a cpu goes down, cpu_active is cleared before
CPU_DOWN_PREPARE starts and cpuset configuration is updated from a
default priority cpu notifier.  When a cpu is coming up, it's set
before CPU_ONLINE but cpuset configuration again is updated from the
same cpu notifier.

For cpu notifiers, this presents an inconsistent state.  Threads which
a CPU_DOWN_PREPARE notifier expects to be bound to the CPU can be
migrated to other cpus because the cpu is no more inactive.

Fix it by updating cpu_active in the highest priority cpu notifier and
cpuset configuration in the second highest when a cpu is coming up.
Down path is updated similarly.  This guarantees that all other cpu
notifiers see consistent cpu_active and cpuset configuration.

cpuset_track_online_cpus() notifier is converted to
cpuset_update_active_cpus() which just updates the configuration and
now called from cpuset_cpu_[in]active() notifiers registered from
sched_init_smp().  If cpuset is disabled, cpuset_update_active_cpus()
degenerates into partition_sched_domains() making separate notifier
for !CONFIG_CPUSETS unnecessary.

This problem is triggered by cmwq.  During CPU_DOWN_PREPARE, hotplug
callback creates a kthread and kthread_bind()s it to the target cpu,
and the thread is expected to run on that cpu.

* Ingo's test discovered __cpuinit/exit markups were incorrect.
  Fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
2010-06-08 21:40:36 +02:00
Tejun Heo 50a323b730 sched: define and use CPU_PRI_* enums for cpu notifier priorities
Instead of hardcoding priority 10 and 20 in sched and perf, collect
them into CPU_PRI_* enums.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-06-08 21:40:36 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 6113e45f83 Merge branch 'tip/perf/core-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core 2010-06-08 19:34:40 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra dc61b1d65e sched: Fix PROVE_RCU vs cpu_cgroup
PROVE_RCU has a few issues with the cpu_cgroup because the scheduler
typically holds rq->lock around the css rcu derefs but the generic
cgroup code doesn't (and can't) know about that lock.

Provide means to add extra checks to the css dereference and use that
in the scheduler to annotate its users.

The addition of rq->lock to these checks is correct because the
cgroup_subsys::attach() method takes the rq->lock for each task it
moves, therefore by holding that lock, we ensure the task is pinned to
the current cgroup and the RCU derefence is valid.

That leaves one genuine race in __sched_setscheduler() where we used
task_group() without holding any of the required locks and thus raced
with the cgroup code. Solve this by moving the check under the
appropriate lock.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-08 18:44:04 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra f6ab91add6 perf: Fix signed comparison in perf_adjust_period()
Frederic reported that frequency driven swevents didn't work properly
and even caused a division-by-zero error.

It turns out there are two bugs, the division-by-zero comes from a
failure to deal with that in perf_calculate_period().

The other was more interesting and turned out to be a wrong comparison
in perf_adjust_period(). The comparison was between an s64 and u64 and
got implicitly converted to an unsigned comparison. The problem is
that period_left is typically < 0, so it ended up being always true.

Cure this by making the local period variables s64.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-08 18:43:00 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 90ec781973 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  module: fix bne2 "gave up waiting for init of module libcrc32c"
  module: verify_export_symbols under the lock
  module: move find_module check to end
  module: make locking more fine-grained.
  module: Make module sysfs functions private.
  module: move sysfs exposure to end of load_module
  module: fix kdb's illicit use of struct module_use.
  module: Make the 'usage' lists be two-way
2010-06-04 21:09:48 -07:00
Rusty Russell 9bea7f2395 module: fix bne2 "gave up waiting for init of module libcrc32c"
Problem: it's hard to avoid an init routine stumbling over a
request_module these days.  And it's not clear it's always a bad idea:
for example, a module like kvm with dynamic dependencies on kvm-intel
or kvm-amd would be neater if it could simply request_module the right
one.

In this particular case, it's libcrc32c:

	libcrc32c_mod_init
	 crypto_alloc_shash
	  crypto_alloc_tfm
	   crypto_find_alg
	    crypto_alg_mod_lookup
	     crypto_larval_lookup
	      request_module

If another module is waiting inside resolve_symbol() for libcrc32c to
finish initializing (ie. bne2 depends on libcrc32c) then it does so
holding the module lock, and our request_module() can't make progress
until that is released.

Waiting inside resolve_symbol() without the lock isn't all that hard:
we just need to pass the -EBUSY up the call chain so we can sleep
where we don't hold the lock.  Error reporting is a bit trickier: we
need to copy the name of the unfinished module before releasing the
lock.

Other notes:
1) This also fixes a theoretical issue where a weak dependency would allow
   symbol version mismatches to be ignored.
2) We rename use_module to ref_module to make life easier for the only
   external user (the out-of-tree ksplice patches).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tim Abbot <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Tested-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de>
2010-06-05 11:17:37 +09:30
Rusty Russell be593f4ce4 module: verify_export_symbols under the lock
It disabled preempt so it was "safe", but nothing stops another module
slipping in before this module is added to the global list now we don't
hold the lock the whole time.

So we check this just after we check for duplicate modules, and just
before we put the module in the global list.

(find_symbol finds symbols in coming and going modules, too).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-06-05 11:17:37 +09:30
Linus Torvalds 3bafeb6247 module: move find_module check to end
I think Rusty may have made the lock a bit _too_ finegrained there, and
didn't add it to some places that needed it. It looks, for example, like
PATCH 1/2 actually drops the lock in places where it's needed
("find_module()" is documented to need it, but now load_module() didn't
hold it at all when it did the find_module()).

Rather than adding a new "module_loading" list, I think we should be able
to just use the existing "modules" list, and just fix up the locking a
bit.

In fact, maybe we could just move the "look up existing module" a bit
later - optimistically assuming that the module doesn't exist, and then
just undoing the work if it turns out that we were wrong, just before
adding ourselves to the list.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-06-05 11:17:37 +09:30
Rusty Russell 75676500f8 module: make locking more fine-grained.
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> reports that we still have some
contention over module loading which is slowing boot.

Linus also disliked a previous "drop lock and regrab" patch to fix the
bne2 "gave up waiting for init of module libcrc32c" message.

This is more ambitious: we only grab the lock where we need it.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-05 11:17:36 +09:30
Rusty Russell 6407ebb271 module: Make module sysfs functions private.
These were placed in the header in ef665c1a06 to get the various
SYSFS/MODULE config combintations to compile.

That may have been necessary then, but it's not now.  These functions
are all local to module.c.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2010-06-05 11:17:36 +09:30
Rusty Russell 80a3d1bb41 module: move sysfs exposure to end of load_module
This means a little extra work, but is more logical: we don't put
anything in sysfs until we're about to put the module into the
global list an parse its parameters.

This also gives us a logical place to put duplicate module detection
in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-06-05 11:17:36 +09:30
Rusty Russell c8e21ced08 module: fix kdb's illicit use of struct module_use.
Linus changed the structure, and luckily this didn't compile any more.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
2010-06-05 11:17:36 +09:30
Linus Torvalds 2c02dfe7fe module: Make the 'usage' lists be two-way
When adding a module that depends on another one, we used to create a
one-way list of "modules_which_use_me", so that module unloading could
see who needs a module.

It's actually quite simple to make that list go both ways: so that we
not only can see "who uses me", but also see a list of modules that are
"used by me".

In fact, we always wanted that list in "module_unload_free()": when we
unload a module, we want to also release all the other modules that are
used by that module.  But because we didn't have that list, we used to
first iterate over all modules, and then iterate over each "used by me"
list of that module.

By making the list two-way, we simplify module_unload_free(), and it
allows for some trivial fixes later too.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (cleaned & rebased)
2010-06-05 11:17:35 +09:30
Linus Torvalds d2dd328b7f Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (27 commits)
  block: make blk_init_free_list and elevator_init idempotent
  block: avoid unconditionally freeing previously allocated request_queue
  pipe: change /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-pages to byte sized interface
  pipe: change the privilege required for growing a pipe beyond system max
  pipe: adjust minimum pipe size to 1 page
  block: disable preemption before using sched_clock()
  cciss: call BUG() earlier
  Preparing 8.3.8rc2
  drbd: Reduce verbosity
  drbd: use drbd specific ratelimit instead of global printk_ratelimit
  drbd: fix hang on local read errors while disconnected
  drbd: Removed the now empty w_io_error() function
  drbd: removed duplicated #includes
  drbd: improve usage of MSG_MORE
  drbd: need to set socket bufsize early to take effect
  drbd: improve network latency, TCP_QUICKACK
  drbd: Revert "drbd: Create new current UUID as late as possible"
  brd: support discard
  Revert "writeback: fix WB_SYNC_NONE writeback from umount"
  Revert "writeback: ensure that WB_SYNC_NONE writeback with sb pinned is sync"
  ...
2010-06-04 15:37:44 -07:00
Akinobu Mita 9e506f7adc kernel/: fix BUG_ON checks for cpu notifier callbacks direct call
The commit 80b5184cc5 ("kernel/: convert cpu
notifier to return encapsulate errno value") changed the return value of
cpu notifier callbacks.

Those callbacks don't return NOTIFY_BAD on failures anymore.  But there
are a few callbacks which are called directly at init time and checking
the return value.

I forgot to change BUG_ON checking by the direct callers in the commit.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-04 15:21:45 -07:00
Greg Thelen 94b3dd0f7b cgroups: alloc_css_id() increments hierarchy depth
Child groups should have a greater depth than their parents.  Prior to
this change, the parent would incorrectly report zero memory usage for
child cgroups when use_hierarchy is enabled.

test script:
  mount -t cgroup none /cgroups -o memory
  cd /cgroups
  mkdir cg1

  echo 1 > cg1/memory.use_hierarchy
  mkdir cg1/cg11

  echo $$ > cg1/cg11/tasks
  dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/foo bs=1M count=1

  echo
  echo CHILD
  grep cache cg1/cg11/memory.stat

  echo
  echo PARENT
  grep cache cg1/memory.stat

  echo $$ > tasks
  rmdir cg1/cg11 cg1
  cd /
  umount /cgroups

Using fae9c79, a recent patch that changed alloc_css_id() depth computation,
the parent incorrectly reports zero usage:
  root@ubuntu:~# ./test
  1+0 records in
  1+0 records out
  1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.0151844 s, 69.1 MB/s

  CHILD
  cache 1048576
  total_cache 1048576

  PARENT
  cache 0
  total_cache 0

With this patch, the parent correctly includes child usage:
  root@ubuntu:~# ./test
  1+0 records in
  1+0 records out
  1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.0136827 s, 76.6 MB/s

  CHILD
  cache 1052672
  total_cache 1052672

  PARENT
  cache 0
  total_cache 1052672

Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.34.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-04 15:21:45 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 485d527686 sys_personality: change sys_personality() to accept "unsigned int" instead of u_long
task_struct->pesonality is "unsigned int", but sys_personality() paths use
"unsigned long pesonality".  This means that every assignment or
comparison is not right.  In particular, if this argument does not fit
into "unsigned int" __set_personality() changes the caller's personality
and then sys_personality() returns -EINVAL.

Turn this argument into "unsigned int" and avoid overflows.  Obviously,
this is the user-visible change, we just ignore the upper bits.  But this
can't break the sane application.

There is another thing which can confuse the poorly written applications.
User-space thinks that this syscall returns int, not long.  This means
that the returned value can be negative and look like the error code.  But
note that libc won't be confused and thus errno won't be set, and with
this patch the user-space can never get -1 unless sys_personality() really
fails.  And, most importantly, the negative RET != -1 is only possible if
that app previously called personality(RET).

Pointed-out-by: Wenming Zhang <wezhang@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-04 15:21:45 -07:00
Steven Rostedt 5168ae50a6 tracing: Remove ftrace_preempt_disable/enable
The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable functions were to address a
recursive race caused by the function tracer. The function tracer
traces all functions which makes it easily susceptible to recursion.
One area was preempt_enable(). This would call the scheduler and
the schedulre would call the function tracer and loop.
(So was it thought).

The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable was made to protect against recursion
inside the scheduler by storing the NEED_RESCHED flag. If it was
set before the ftrace_preempt_disable() it would not call schedule
on ftrace_preempt_enable(), thinking that if it was set before then
it would have already scheduled unless it was already in the scheduler.

This worked fine except in the case of SMP, where another task would set
the NEED_RESCHED flag for a task on another CPU, and then kick off an
IPI to trigger it. This could cause the NEED_RESCHED to be saved at
ftrace_preempt_disable() but the IPI to arrive in the the preempt
disabled section. The ftrace_preempt_enable() would not call the scheduler
because the flag was already set before entring the section.

This bug would cause a missed preemption check and cause lower latencies.

Investigating further, I found that the recusion caused by the function
tracer was not due to schedule(), but due to preempt_schedule(). Now
that preempt_schedule is completely annotated with notrace, the recusion
no longer is an issue.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-03 19:32:38 -04:00