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Kacper Kornet
aa5bd67dcf Fix prlimit64 for suid/sgid processes
Since check_prlimit_permission always fails in the case of SUID/GUID
processes, such processes are not able to read or set their own limits.
This commit changes this by assuming that process can always read/change
its own limits.

Signed-off-by: Kacper Kornet <kornet@camk.edu.pl>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-31 13:01:27 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
bffb276fff 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: Use rq->clock_task instead of rq->clock for correctly maintaining load averages
  sched: Fix/remove redundant cfs_rq checks
  sched: Fix sign under-flows in wake_affine
2011-01-28 06:45:04 +10:00
Paul Turner
05ca62c6ca sched: Use rq->clock_task instead of rq->clock for correctly maintaining load averages
The delta in clock_task is a more fair attribution of how much time a tg has
been contributing load to the current cpu.

While not really important it also means we're more in sync (by magnitude)
with respect to periodic updates (since __update_curr deltas are clock_task
based).

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110122044852.007092349@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-26 12:31:03 +01:00
Paul Turner
b815f1963e sched: Fix/remove redundant cfs_rq checks
Since updates are against an entity's queuing cfs_rq it's not possible to
enter update_cfs_{shares,load} with a NULL cfs_rq.  (Indeed, update_cfs_load
would crash prior to the check if we did anyway since we load is examined
during the initializers).

Also, in the update_cfs_load case there's no point
in maintaining averages for rq->cfs_rq since we don't perform shares
distribution at that level -- NULL check is replaced accordingly.

Thanks to Dan Carpenter for pointing out the deference before NULL check.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110122044851.825284940@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-26 12:31:02 +01:00
Paul Turner
e37b6a7b27 sched: Fix sign under-flows in wake_affine
While care is taken around the zero-point in effective_load to not exceed
the instantaneous rq->weight, it's still possible (e.g. using wake_idx != 0)
for (load + effective_load) to underflow.

In this case the comparing the unsigned values can result in incorrect balanced
decisions.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110122044851.734245014@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-26 12:31:01 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
6fb1b30425 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
  Input: wacom - pass touch resolution to clients through input_absinfo
  Input: wacom - add 2 Bamboo Pen and touch models
  Input: sysrq - ensure sysrq_enabled and __sysrq_enabled are consistent
  Input: sparse-keymap - fix KEY_VSW handling in sparse_keymap_setup
  Input: tegra-kbc - add tegra keyboard driver
  Input: gpio_keys - switch to using request_any_context_irq
  Input: serio - allow registered drivers to get status flag
  Input: ct82710c - return proper error code for ct82c710_open
  Input: bu21013_ts - added regulator support
  Input: bu21013_ts - remove duplicate resolution parameters
  Input: tnetv107x-ts - don't treat NULL clk as an error
  Input: tnetv107x-keypad - don't treat NULL clk as an error

Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/input/keyboard/Makefile due to
additions of tc3589x/Tegra drivers
2011-01-26 16:31:44 +10:00
Torben Hohn
ac751efa6a console: rename acquire/release_console_sem() to console_lock/unlock()
The -rt patches change the console_semaphore to console_mutex.  As a
result, a quite large chunk of the patches changes all
acquire/release_console_sem() to acquire/release_console_mutex()

This commit makes things use more neutral function names which dont make
implications about the underlying lock.

The only real change is the return value of console_trylock which is
inverted from try_acquire_console_sem()

This patch also paves the way to switching console_sem from a semaphore to
a mutex.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make console_trylock return 1 on success, per Geert]
Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@tglx.de>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-26 10:50:06 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
500d85ce39 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:
  perf tools: Fix time function double declaration with glibc
  perf tools: Fix build by checking if extra warnings are supported
  perf tools: Fix build when using gcc 3.4.6
  perf tools: Add missing header, fixes build
  perf tools: Fix 64 bit integer format strings
  perf test: Fix build on older glibcs
  perf: perf_event_exit_task_context: s/rcu_dereference/rcu_dereference_raw/
  perf test: Use cpu_map->[cpu] when setting affinity
  perf symbols: Fix annotation of thumb code
  perf: Annotate cpuctx->ctx.mutex to avoid a lockdep splat
  powerpc, perf: Fix frequency calculation for overflowing counters (FSL version)
  perf: Fix perf_event_init_task()/perf_event_free_task() interaction
  perf: Fix find_get_context() vs perf_event_exit_task() race
2011-01-25 05:26:47 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
ce84d539ce 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:
  RTC: Remove Kconfig symbol for UIE emulation
  RTC: Properly handle rtc_read_alarm error propagation and fix bug
  RTC: Propagate error handling via rtc_timer_enqueue properly
  acpi_pm: Clear pmtmr_ioport if acpi_pm initialization fails
  rtc: Cleanup removed UIE emulation declaration
  hrtimers: Notify hrtimer users of switches to NOHZ mode
2011-01-25 05:25:55 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
bc094757f4 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: Fix poor interactivity on UP systems due to group scheduler nice tune bug
2011-01-25 05:25:13 +10:00
Andy Whitcroft
8c6a98b22b Input: sysrq - ensure sysrq_enabled and __sysrq_enabled are consistent
Currently sysrq_enabled and __sysrq_enabled are initialised separately
and inconsistently, leading to sysrq being actually enabled by reported
as not enabled in sysfs.  The first change to the sysfs configurable
synchronises these two:

    static int __read_mostly sysrq_enabled = 1;
    static int __sysrq_enabled;

Add a common define to carry the default for these preventing them becoming
out of sync again.  Default this to 1 to mirror previous behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2011-01-24 09:33:36 -08:00
Yong Zhang
3ff6dcac73 sched: Fix poor interactivity on UP systems due to group scheduler nice tune bug
Michael Witten and Christian Kujau reported that the autogroup
scheduling feature hurts interactivity on their UP systems.

It turns out that this is an older bug in the group scheduling code,
and the wider appeal provided by the autogroup feature exposed it
more prominently.

When on UP with FAIR_GROUP_SCHED enabled, tune shares
only affect tg->shares, but is not reflected in
tg->se->load. The reason is that update_cfs_shares()
does nothing on UP.

So introduce update_cfs_shares() for UP && FAIR_GROUP_SCHED.

This issue was found when enable autogroup scheduling was enabled,
but it is an older bug that also exists on cgroup.cpu on UP.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Reported-and-Tested-by: Christian Kujau <christian@nerdbynature.de>
Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110124073352.GA24186@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-24 11:47:50 +01:00
Dmitry Torokhov
e94965ed5b module: show version information for built-in modules in sysfs
Currently only drivers that are built as modules have their versions
shown in /sys/module/<module_name>/version, but this information might
also be useful for built-in drivers as well. This especially important
for drivers that do not define any parameters - such drivers, if
built-in, are completely invisible from userspace.

This patch changes MODULE_VERSION() macro so that in case when we are
compiling built-in module, version information is stored in a separate
section. Kernel then uses this data to create 'version' sysfs attribute
in the same fashion it creates attributes for module parameters.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-01-24 14:32:51 +10:30
Linus Torvalds
5bf7a6503f Merge branch 'fixes-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
* 'fixes-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: note the nested NOT_RUNNING test in worker_clr_flags() isn't a noop
  workqueue: relax lockdep annotation on flush_work()
2011-01-21 13:38:57 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
806839b22c perf: perf_event_exit_task_context: s/rcu_dereference/rcu_dereference_raw/
In theory, almost every user of task->child->perf_event_ctxp[]
is wrong. find_get_context() can install the new context at any
moment, we need read_barrier_depends().

dbe08d82ce "perf: Fix
find_get_context() vs perf_event_exit_task() race" added
rcu_dereference() into perf_event_exit_task_context() to make
the precedent, but this makes __rcu_dereference_check() unhappy.
Use rcu_dereference_raw() to shut up the warning.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: stern@rowland.harvard.edu
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: roland@redhat.com
Cc: prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110121174547.GA8796@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-21 22:08:16 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
547e9fd7d3 perf: Annotate cpuctx->ctx.mutex to avoid a lockdep splat
Lockdep spotted:

	loop_1b_instruc/1899 is trying to acquire lock:
	 (event_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810e1908>] perf_trace_init+0x3b/0x2f7

	but task is already holding lock:
	 (&ctx->mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810eb45b>] perf_event_init_context+0xc0/0x218

	which lock already depends on the new lock.

	the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

	-> #3 (&ctx->mutex){+.+.+.}:
	-> #2 (cpu_hotplug.lock){+.+.+.}:
	-> #1 (module_mutex){+.+...}:
	-> #0 (event_mutex){+.+.+.}:

But because the deadlock would be cpuhotplug (cpu-event) vs fork
(task-event) it cannot, in fact, happen. We can annotate this by giving the
perf_event_context used for the cpuctx a different lock class from those
used by tasks.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-21 16:32:42 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
1c77ff22f5 genirq: Remove __do_IRQ
All architectures are finally converted. Remove the cruft.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
2011-01-21 11:55:31 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
2b1caf6ed7 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:
  smp: Allow on_each_cpu() to be called while early_boot_irqs_disabled status to init/main.c
  lockdep: Move early boot local IRQ enable/disable status to init/main.c
2011-01-20 18:30:37 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
8d99641f6c Merge branch 'akpm'
* akpm:
  kernel/smp.c: consolidate writes in smp_call_function_interrupt()
  kernel/smp.c: fix smp_call_function_many() SMP race
  memcg: correctly order reading PCG_USED and pc->mem_cgroup
  backlight: fix 88pm860x_bl macro collision
  drivers/leds/ledtrig-gpio.c: make output match input, tighten input checking
  MAINTAINERS: update Atmel AT91 entry
  mm: fix truncate_setsize() comment
  memcg: fix rmdir, force_empty with THP
  memcg: fix LRU accounting with THP
  memcg: fix USED bit handling at uncharge in THP
  memcg: modify accounting function for supporting THP better
  fs/direct-io.c: don't try to allocate more than BIO_MAX_PAGES in a bio
  mm: compaction: prevent division-by-zero during user-requested compaction
  mm/vmscan.c: remove duplicate include of compaction.h
  memblock: fix memblock_is_region_memory()
  thp: keep highpte mapped until it is no longer needed
  kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT
2011-01-20 17:02:14 -08:00
Milton Miller
225c8e010f kernel/smp.c: consolidate writes in smp_call_function_interrupt()
We have to test the cpu mask in the interrupt handler before checking the
refs, otherwise we can start to follow an entry before its deleted and
find it partially initailzed for the next trip.  Presently we also clear
the cpumask bit before executing the called function, which implies
getting write access to the line.  After the function is called we then
decrement refs, and if they go to zero we then unlock the structure.

However, this implies getting write access to the call function data
before and after another the function is called.  If we can assert that no
smp_call_function execution function is allowed to enable interrupts, then
we can move both writes to after the function is called, hopfully allowing
both writes with one cache line bounce.

On a 256 thread system with a kernel compiled for 1024 threads, the time
to execute testcase in the "smp_call_function_many race" changelog was
reduced by about 30-40ms out of about 545 ms.

I decided to keep this as WARN because its now a buggy function, even
though the stack trace is of no value -- a simple printk would give us the
information needed.

Raw data:

Without patch:
  ipi_test startup took 1219366ns complete 539819014ns total 541038380ns
  ipi_test startup took 1695754ns complete 543439872ns total 545135626ns
  ipi_test startup took 7513568ns complete 539606362ns total 547119930ns
  ipi_test startup took 13304064ns complete 533898562ns total 547202626ns
  ipi_test startup took 8668192ns complete 544264074ns total 552932266ns
  ipi_test startup took 4977626ns complete 548862684ns total 553840310ns
  ipi_test startup took 2144486ns complete 541292318ns total 543436804ns
  ipi_test startup took 21245824ns complete 530280180ns total 551526004ns

With patch:
  ipi_test startup took 5961748ns complete 500859628ns total 506821376ns
  ipi_test startup took 8975996ns complete 495098924ns total 504074920ns
  ipi_test startup took 19797750ns complete 492204740ns total 512002490ns
  ipi_test startup took 14824796ns complete 487495878ns total 502320674ns
  ipi_test startup took 11514882ns complete 494439372ns total 505954254ns
  ipi_test startup took 8288084ns complete 502570774ns total 510858858ns
  ipi_test startup took 6789954ns complete 493388112ns total 500178066ns

	#include <linux/module.h>
	#include <linux/init.h>
	#include <linux/sched.h> /* sched clock */

	#define ITERATIONS 100

	static void do_nothing_ipi(void *dummy)
	{
	}

	static void do_ipis(struct work_struct *dummy)
	{
		int i;

		for (i = 0; i < ITERATIONS; i++)
			smp_call_function(do_nothing_ipi, NULL, 1);

		printk(KERN_DEBUG "cpu %d finished\n", smp_processor_id());
	}

	static struct work_struct work[NR_CPUS];

	static int __init testcase_init(void)
	{
		int cpu;
		u64 start, started, done;

		start = local_clock();
		for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
			INIT_WORK(&work[cpu], do_ipis);
			schedule_work_on(cpu, &work[cpu]);
		}
		started = local_clock();
		for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
			flush_work(&work[cpu]);
		done = local_clock();
		pr_info("ipi_test startup took %lldns complete %lldns total %lldns\n",
			started-start, done-started, done-start);

		return 0;
	}

	static void __exit testcase_exit(void)
	{
	}

	module_init(testcase_init)
	module_exit(testcase_exit)
	MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
	MODULE_AUTHOR("Anton Blanchard");

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-20 17:02:06 -08:00
Anton Blanchard
6dc1989995 kernel/smp.c: fix smp_call_function_many() SMP race
I noticed a failure where we hit the following WARN_ON in
generic_smp_call_function_interrupt:

                if (!cpumask_test_and_clear_cpu(cpu, data->cpumask))
                        continue;

                data->csd.func(data->csd.info);

                refs = atomic_dec_return(&data->refs);
                WARN_ON(refs < 0);      <-------------------------

We atomically tested and cleared our bit in the cpumask, and yet the
number of cpus left (ie refs) was 0.  How can this be?

It turns out commit 54fdade1c3
("generic-ipi: make struct call_function_data lockless") is at fault.  It
removes locking from smp_call_function_many and in doing so creates a
rather complicated race.

The problem comes about because:

 - The smp_call_function_many interrupt handler walks call_function.queue
   without any locking.
 - We reuse a percpu data structure in smp_call_function_many.
 - We do not wait for any RCU grace period before starting the next
   smp_call_function_many.

Imagine a scenario where CPU A does two smp_call_functions back to back,
and CPU B does an smp_call_function in between.  We concentrate on how CPU
C handles the calls:

CPU A            CPU B                  CPU C              CPU D

smp_call_function
                                        smp_call_function_interrupt
                                            walks
					call_function.queue sees
					data from CPU A on list

                 smp_call_function

                                        smp_call_function_interrupt
                                            walks

                                        call_function.queue sees
                                          (stale) CPU A on list
							   smp_call_function int
							   clears last ref on A
							   list_del_rcu, unlock
smp_call_function reuses
percpu *data A
                                         data->cpumask sees and
                                         clears bit in cpumask
                                         might be using old or new fn!
                                         decrements refs below 0

set data->refs (too late!)

The important thing to note is since the interrupt handler walks a
potentially stale call_function.queue without any locking, then another
cpu can view the percpu *data structure at any time, even when the owner
is in the process of initialising it.

The following test case hits the WARN_ON 100% of the time on my PowerPC
box (having 128 threads does help :)

#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/init.h>

#define ITERATIONS 100

static void do_nothing_ipi(void *dummy)
{
}

static void do_ipis(struct work_struct *dummy)
{
	int i;

	for (i = 0; i < ITERATIONS; i++)
		smp_call_function(do_nothing_ipi, NULL, 1);

	printk(KERN_DEBUG "cpu %d finished\n", smp_processor_id());
}

static struct work_struct work[NR_CPUS];

static int __init testcase_init(void)
{
	int cpu;

	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
		INIT_WORK(&work[cpu], do_ipis);
		schedule_work_on(cpu, &work[cpu]);
	}

	return 0;
}

static void __exit testcase_exit(void)
{
}

module_init(testcase_init)
module_exit(testcase_exit)
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Anton Blanchard");

I tried to fix it by ordering the read and the write of ->cpumask and
->refs.  In doing so I missed a critical case but Paul McKenney was able
to spot my bug thankfully :) To ensure we arent viewing previous
iterations the interrupt handler needs to read ->refs then ->cpumask then
->refs _again_.

Thanks to Milton Miller and Paul McKenney for helping to debug this issue.

[miltonm@bga.com: add WARN_ON and BUG_ON, remove extra read of refs before initial read of mask that doesn't help (also noted by Peter Zijlstra), adjust comments, hopefully clarify scenario ]
[miltonm@bga.com: remove excess tests]
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.32+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-20 17:02:06 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
466c19063b 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, cgroup: Use exit hook to avoid use-after-free crash
  sched: Fix signed unsigned comparison in check_preempt_tick()
  sched: Replace rq->bkl_count with rq->rq_sched_info.bkl_count
  sched, autogroup: Fix CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED sched_setscheduler() failure
  sched: Display autogroup names in /proc/sched_debug
  sched: Reinstate group names in /proc/sched_debug
  sched: Update effective_load() to use global share weights
2011-01-20 16:37:55 -08:00
Tejun Heo
bd924e8cbd smp: Allow on_each_cpu() to be called while early_boot_irqs_disabled status to init/main.c
percpu may end up calling vfree() during early boot which in
turn may call on_each_cpu() for TLB flushes.  The function of
on_each_cpu() can be done safely while IRQ is disabled during
early boot but it assumed that the function is always called
with local IRQ enabled which ended up enabling local IRQ
prematurely during boot and triggering a couple of warnings.

This patch updates on_each_cpu() and smp_call_function_many()
such on_each_cpu() can be used safely while
early_boot_irqs_disabled is set.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110120110713.GC6036@htj.dyndns.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-20 13:32:34 +01:00
Tejun Heo
2ce802f62b lockdep: Move early boot local IRQ enable/disable status to init/main.c
During early boot, local IRQ is disabled until IRQ subsystem is
properly initialized.  During this time, no one should enable
local IRQ and some operations which usually are not allowed with
IRQ disabled, e.g. operations which might sleep or require
communications with other processors, are allowed.

lockdep tracked this with early_boot_irqs_off/on() callbacks.
As other subsystems need this information too, move it to
init/main.c and make it generally available.  While at it,
toggle the boolean to early_boot_irqs_disabled instead of
enabled so that it can be initialized with %false and %true
indicates the exceptional condition.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110120110635.GB6036@htj.dyndns.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-20 13:32:33 +01:00
Stephen Boyd
2d0640b47d hrtimers: Notify hrtimer users of switches to NOHZ mode
When NOHZ=y and high res timers are disabled (via cmdline or
Kconfig) tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz() will notify the user about
switching into NOHZ mode. Nothing is printed for the case where
HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y. Fix this for the HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y case by
duplicating the printk from the low res NOHZ path in the high
res NOHZ path.

This confused me since I was thinking 'dmesg | grep -i NOHZ' would
tell me if NOHZ was enabled, but if I have hrtimers there is
nothing.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1295419594-13085-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-19 20:08:15 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov
8550d7cb6e perf: Fix perf_event_init_task()/perf_event_free_task() interaction
perf_event_init_task() should clear child->perf_event_ctxp[]
before anything else. Otherwise, if
perf_event_init_context(perf_hw_context) fails,
perf_event_free_task() can free perf_event_ctxp[perf_sw_context]
copied from parent->perf_event_ctxp[] by dup_task_struct().

Also move the initialization of perf_event_mutex and
perf_event_list from perf_event_init_context() to
perf_event_init_context().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110119182228.GC12183@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-19 20:04:28 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov
dbe08d82ce perf: Fix find_get_context() vs perf_event_exit_task() race
find_get_context() must not install the new perf_event_context
if the task has already passed perf_event_exit_task().

If nothing else, this means the memory leak. Initially
ctx->refcount == 2, it is supposed that
perf_event_exit_task_context() should participate and do the
necessary put_ctx().

find_lively_task_by_vpid() checks PF_EXITING but this buys
nothing, by the time we call find_get_context() this task can be
already dead. To the point, cmpxchg() can succeed when the task
has already done the last schedule().

Change find_get_context() to populate task->perf_event_ctxp[]
under task->perf_event_mutex, this way we can trust PF_EXITING
because perf_event_exit_task() takes the same mutex.

Also, change perf_event_exit_task_context() to use
rcu_dereference(). Probably this is not strictly needed, but
with or without this change find_get_context() can race with
setup_new_exec()->perf_event_exit_task(), rcu_dereference()
looks better.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110119182207.GB12183@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-19 20:04:27 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
068c5cc5ac sched, cgroup: Use exit hook to avoid use-after-free crash
By not notifying the controller of the on-exit move back to
init_css_set, we fail to move the task out of the previous
cgroup's cfs_rq. This leads to an opportunity for a
cgroup-destroy to come in and free the cgroup (there are no
active tasks left in it after all) to which the not-quite dead
task is still enqueued.

Reported-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Fixed-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1293206353.29444.205.camel@laptop>
2011-01-19 12:51:32 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
335bc70b6b 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:
  perf: Validate cpu early in perf_event_alloc()
  perf: Find_get_context: fix the per-cpu-counter check
  perf: Fix contexted inheritance
2011-01-18 14:29:37 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
66832eb4ba perf: Validate cpu early in perf_event_alloc()
Starting from perf_event_alloc()->perf_init_event(), the kernel
assumes that event->cpu is either -1 or the valid CPU number.

Change perf_event_alloc() to validate this argument early. This
also means we can remove the similar check in
find_get_context().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de
Cc: stable@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <20110118161032.GC693@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-18 19:34:23 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov
22a4ec7290 perf: Find_get_context: fix the per-cpu-counter check
If task == NULL, find_get_context() should always check that cpu
is correct.

Afaics, the bug was introduced by 38a81da2 "perf events: Clean
up pid passing", but even before that commit "&& cpu != -1" was
not exactly right, -ESRCH from find_task_by_vpid() is not
accurate.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de
Cc: stable@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <20110118161008.GB693@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-18 19:34:23 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
c5ed514559 perf: Fix contexted inheritance
Linus reported that the RCU lockdep annotation bits triggered for this
rcu_dereference() because we're not holding rcu_read_lock().

Going over the code I cannot convince myself its correct:

 - holding a ref on the parent_ctx, doesn't avoid it being uncloned
   concurrently (as the comment says), so we can race with a free.

 - holding parent_ctx->mutex doesn't avoid the above free from taking
   place either, it would at best avoid parent_ctx from being freed.

I.e. the warning is correct. To fix the bug, serialize against the
unclone_ctx() call by extending the reach of the parent_ctx->lock.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-18 15:10:35 +01:00
Mike Galbraith
d7d8294415 sched: Fix signed unsigned comparison in check_preempt_tick()
Signed unsigned comparison may lead to superfluous resched if leftmost
is right of the current task, wasting a few cycles, and inadvertently
_lengthening_ the current task's slice.

Reported-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1294202477.9384.5.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-18 15:09:44 +01:00
Yong Zhang
fce2097983 sched: Replace rq->bkl_count with rq->rq_sched_info.bkl_count
Now rq->rq_sched_info.bkl_count is not used for rq, scroll
rq->bkl_count into it. Thus we can save some space for rq.

Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1294991859-13246-1-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-18 15:09:43 +01:00
Mike Galbraith
f44937718c sched, autogroup: Fix CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED sched_setscheduler() failure
If CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED is set, __sched_setscheduler() fails due to autogroup
not allocating rt_runtime.  Free unused/unusable rt_se and rt_rq, redirect RT
tasks to the root task group, and tell __sched_setscheduler() that it's ok.

Reported-and-tested-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1294890890.8089.39.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-18 15:09:42 +01:00
Bharata B Rao
8ecedd7a06 sched: Display autogroup names in /proc/sched_debug
Add autogroup name to cfs_rq and tasks information to /proc/sched_debug.

Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110111101257.GF4772@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-18 15:09:40 +01:00
Bharata B Rao
efe25c2c7b sched: Reinstate group names in /proc/sched_debug
Displaying of group names in /proc/sched_debug was dropped in autogroup
patches. Add group names while displaying cfs_rq and tasks information.

Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110111101153.GE4772@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-18 15:09:39 +01:00
Paul Turner
977dda7c9b sched: Update effective_load() to use global share weights
Previously effective_load would approximate the global load weight present on
a group taking advantage of:

entity_weight = tg->shares ( lw / global_lw ), where entity_weight was provided
by tg_shares_up.

This worked (approximately) for an 'empty' (at tg level) cpu since we would
place boost load representative of what a newly woken task would receive.

However, now that load is instantaneously updated this assumption is no longer
true and the load calculation is rather incorrect in this case.

Fix this (and improve the general case) by re-writing effective_load to take
advantage of the new shares distribution code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110115015817.069769529@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-18 15:09:38 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
f9ee7f60d6 Merge branches 'core-fixes-for-linus', 'x86-fixes-for-linus', 'timers-fixes-for-linus' and 'perf-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:
  rcu: avoid pointless blocked-task warnings
  rcu: demote SRCU_SYNCHRONIZE_DELAY from kernel-parameter status
  rtmutex: Fix comment about why new_owner can be NULL in wake_futex_pi()

* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, olpc: Add missing Kconfig dependencies
  x86, mrst: Set correct APB timer IRQ affinity for secondary cpu
  x86: tsc: Fix calibration refinement conditionals to avoid divide by zero
  x86, ia64, acpi: Clean up x86-ism in drivers/acpi/numa.c

* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  timekeeping: Make local variables static
  time: Rename misnamed minsec argument of clocks_calc_mult_shift()

* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: Remove syscall_exit_fields
  tracing: Only process module tracepoints once
  perf record: Add "nodelay" mode, disabled by default
  perf sched: Fix list of events, dropping unsupported ':r' modifier
  Revert "perf tools: Emit clearer message for sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return"
  perf top: Fix annotate segv
  perf evsel: Fix order of event list deletion
2011-01-15 12:45:00 -08:00
Lai Jiangshan
7f85803a26 tracing: Remove syscall_exit_fields
There is no need for syscall_exit_fields as the syscall
exit event class can already host the fields in its structure,
like most other trace events do by default. Use that
default behavior instead.

Following this scheme, we don't need anymore to override the
get_fields() callback of the syscall exit event class either.

Hence both syscall_exit_fields and syscall_get_exit_fields() can
be removed.

Also changed some indentation to keep the following under 80
characters:

".fields		= LIST_HEAD_INIT(event_class_syscall_exit.fields),"

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D301C0E.8090408@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-01-14 18:06:35 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
acda4721ae Merge branch 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin
* 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin:
  kernel: fix hlist_bl again
  cgroups: Fix a lockdep warning at cgroup removal
  fs: namei fix ->put_link on wrong inode in do_filp_open
2011-01-14 09:08:29 -08:00
Al Viro
c72a04e347 cgroup_fs: fix cgroup use of simple_lookup()
cgroup can't use simple_lookup(), since that'd override its desired ->d_op.

Tested-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-14 08:07:48 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
1161ec9449 Merge branch 'rcu/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu into core/urgent 2011-01-14 15:30:16 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
b24efdfdf6 rcu: avoid pointless blocked-task warnings
If the RCU callback-processing kthread has nothing to do, it parks in
a wait_event().  If RCU remains idle for more than two minutes, the
kernel complains about this.  This commit changes from wait_event()
to wait_event_interruptible() to prevent the kernel from complaining
just because RCU is idle.

Reported-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Weber <weber@corscience.de>
Tested-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-14 04:58:08 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
c072a388d5 rcu: demote SRCU_SYNCHRONIZE_DELAY from kernel-parameter status
Because the adaptive synchronize_srcu_expedited() approach has
worked very well in testing, remove the kernel parameter and
replace it by a C-preprocessor macro.  If someone finds problems
with this approach, a more complex and aggressively adaptive
approach might be required.

Longer term, SRCU will be merged with the other RCU implementations,
at which point synchronize_srcu_expedited() will be event driven,
just as synchronize_sched_expedited() currently is.  At that point,
there will be no need for this adaptive approach.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-01-14 04:56:49 -08:00
Li Zefan
3ec762ad8b cgroups: Fix a lockdep warning at cgroup removal
Commit 2fd6b7f5 ("fs: dcache scale subdirs") forgot to annotate a dentry
lock, which caused a lockdep warning.

Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2011-01-14 08:46:29 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
52cfd503ad Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (59 commits)
  ACPI / PM: Fix build problems for !CONFIG_ACPI related to NVS rework
  ACPI: fix resource check message
  ACPI / Battery: Update information on info notification and resume
  ACPI: Drop device flag wake_capable
  ACPI: Always check if _PRW is present before trying to evaluate it
  ACPI / PM: Check status of power resources under mutexes
  ACPI / PM: Rename acpi_power_off_device()
  ACPI / PM: Drop acpi_power_nocheck
  ACPI / PM: Drop acpi_bus_get_power()
  Platform / x86: Make fujitsu_laptop use acpi_bus_update_power()
  ACPI / Fan: Rework the handling of power resources
  ACPI / PM: Register power resource devices as soon as they are needed
  ACPI / PM: Register acpi_power_driver early
  ACPI / PM: Add function for updating device power state consistently
  ACPI / PM: Add function for device power state initialization
  ACPI / PM: Introduce __acpi_bus_get_power()
  ACPI / PM: Introduce function for refcounting device power resources
  ACPI / PM: Add functions for manipulating lists of power resources
  ACPI / PM: Prevent acpi_power_get_inferred_state() from making changes
  ACPICA: Update version to 20101209
  ...
2011-01-13 20:15:35 -08:00
Andrea Arcangeli
ba76149f47 thp: khugepaged
Add khugepaged to relocate fragmented pages into hugepages if new
hugepages become available.  (this is indipendent of the defrag logic that
will have to make new hugepages available)

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

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

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:43 -08:00
Andrea Arcangeli
e7a00c45f2 thp: add pmd_huge_pte to mm_struct
This increase the size of the mm struct a bit but it is needed to
preallocate one pte for each hugepage so that split_huge_page will not
require a fail path.  Guarantee of success is a fundamental property of
split_huge_page to avoid decrasing swapping reliability and to avoid
adding -ENOMEM fail paths that would otherwise force the hugepage-unaware
VM code to learn rolling back in the middle of its pte mangling operations
(if something we need it to learn handling pmd_trans_huge natively rather
being capable of rollback).  When split_huge_page runs a pte is needed to
succeed the split, to map the newly splitted regular pages with a regular
pte.  This way all existing VM code remains backwards compatible by just
adding a split_huge_page* one liner.  The memory waste of those
preallocated ptes is negligible and so it is worth it.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:41 -08:00
Andrea Arcangeli
a5b338f2b0 thp: update futex compound knowledge
Futex code is smarter than most other gup_fast O_DIRECT code and knows
about the compound internals.  However now doing a put_page(head_page)
will not release the pin on the tail page taken by gup-fast, leading to
all sort of refcounting bugchecks.  Getting a stable head_page is a little
tricky.

page_head = page is there because if this is not a tail page it's also the
page_head.  Only in case this is a tail page, compound_head is called,
otherwise it's guaranteed unnecessary.  And if it's a tail page
compound_head has to run atomically inside irq disabled section
__get_user_pages_fast before returning.  Otherwise ->first_page won't be a
stable pointer.

Disableing irq before __get_user_page_fast and releasing irq after running
compound_head is needed because if __get_user_page_fast returns == 1, it
means the huge pmd is established and cannot go away from under us.
pmdp_splitting_flush_notify in __split_huge_page_splitting will have to
wait for local_irq_enable before the IPI delivery can return.  This means
__split_huge_page_refcount can't be running from under us, and in turn
when we run compound_head(page) we're not reading a dangling pointer from
tailpage->first_page.  Then after we get to stable head page, we are
always safe to call compound_lock and after taking the compound lock on
head page we can finally re-check if the page returned by gup-fast is
still a tail page.  in which case we're set and we didn't need to split
the hugepage in order to take a futex on it.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:39 -08:00