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Frederic Weisbecker
c02260277e mutex: Better control mutex adaptive spinning config
Introduce CONFIG_MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER so that we can centralize
in a single place the conditions that determine its definition
and use.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1259783357-8542-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2009-12-03 11:50:11 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
8e13c7b772 locking: Reduce ifdefs in kernel/spinlock.c
With the Kconfig based inline decisions we can remove extra ifdefs in
kernel/spinlock.c by creating the complex lockbreak functions as
inlines which are inserted into the non inlined lock functions.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <20091109151428.548614772@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2009-11-13 20:53:28 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
6beb000923 locking: Make inlining decision Kconfig based
commit 892a7c67 (locking: Allow arch-inlined spinlocks) implements the
selection of which lock functions are inlined based on defines in
arch/.../spinlock.h: #define __always_inline__LOCK_FUNCTION

Despite of the name __always_inline__* the lock functions can be built
out of line depending on config options. Also if the arch does not set
some inline defines the generic code might set them; again depending on
config options.

This makes it unnecessary hard to figure out when and which lock
functions are inlined. Aside of that it makes it way harder and
messier for -rt to manipulate the lock functions.

Convert the inlining decision to CONFIG switches. Each lock function
is inlined depending on CONFIG_INLINE_*. The configs implement the
existing dependencies. The architecture code can select ARCH_INLINE_*
to signal that it wants the corresponding lock function inlined.
ARCH_INLINE_* is necessary as Kconfig ignores "depends on"
restrictions when a config element is selected.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <20091109151428.504477141@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2009-11-13 20:53:28 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
961767b75d 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:
  highmem: Fix debug_kmap_atomic() to also handle KM_IRQ_PTE, KM_NMI, and KM_NMI_PTE
  highmem: Fix race in debug_kmap_atomic() which could cause warn_count to underflow
  rcu: Fix long-grace-period race between forcing and initialization
  uids: Prevent tear down race
2009-11-11 11:30:15 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
1fd18a871a 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: try_one_irq() must be called with irq disabled
2009-11-11 11:29:58 -08:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
e9036b36ee sched: Use root_task_group_empty only with FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
root_task_group_empty is used only with FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
so if we use other scheduler options we get:

  kernel/sched.c:314: warning: 'root_task_group_empty' defined but not used

So move CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED up that it covers
root_task_group_empty().

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091026192414.GB5321@lenovo>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-08 13:15:48 +01:00
Randy Dunlap
968c86458a sched: Fix kernel-doc function parameter name
Fix variable name in sched.c kernel-doc notation.

Fixes this DocBook warning:

 Warning(kernel/sched.c:2008): No description found for parameter
 'p' Warning(kernel/sched.c:2008): Excess function parameter 'k'
 description in 'kthread_bind'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AF4B1BC.8020604@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-08 11:26:25 +01:00
Yong Zhang
e7e7e0c084 genirq: try_one_irq() must be called with irq disabled
Prarit reported:
=================================
[ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
2.6.32-rc5 #1
---------------------------------
inconsistent {IN-HARDIRQ-W} -> {HARDIRQ-ON-W} usage.
swapper/0 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE1:SE0] takes:
 (&irq_desc_lock_class){?.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810c264e>] try_one_irq+0x32/0x138
{IN-HARDIRQ-W} state was registered at:
 [<ffffffff81095160>] __lock_acquire+0x2fc/0xd5d
 [<ffffffff81095cb4>] lock_acquire+0xf3/0x12d
 [<ffffffff814cdadd>] _spin_lock+0x40/0x89
 [<ffffffff810c3389>] handle_level_irq+0x30/0x105
 [<ffffffff81014e0e>] handle_irq+0x95/0xb7
 [<ffffffff810141bd>] do_IRQ+0x6a/0xe0
 [<ffffffff81012813>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0x16
irq event stamp: 195096
hardirqs last  enabled at (195096): [<ffffffff814cd7f7>] _spin_unlock_irq+0x3a/0x5c
hardirqs last disabled at (195095): [<ffffffff814cdbdd>] _spin_lock_irq+0x29/0x95
softirqs last  enabled at (195088): [<ffffffff81068c92>] __do_softirq+0x1c1/0x1ef
softirqs last disabled at (195093): [<ffffffff8101304c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30

other info that might help us debug this:
1 lock held by swapper/0:
 #0:  (kernel/irq/spurious.c:21){+.-...}, at: [<ffffffff81070cf2>]
run_timer_softirq+0x1a9/0x315

stack backtrace:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32-rc5 #1
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>  [<ffffffff81093e94>] valid_state+0x187/0x1ae
 [<ffffffff81093fe4>] mark_lock+0x129/0x253
 [<ffffffff810951d4>] __lock_acquire+0x370/0xd5d
 [<ffffffff81095cb4>] lock_acquire+0xf3/0x12d
 [<ffffffff814cdadd>] _spin_lock+0x40/0x89
 [<ffffffff810c264e>] try_one_irq+0x32/0x138
 [<ffffffff810c2795>] poll_all_shared_irqs+0x41/0x6d
 [<ffffffff810c27dd>] poll_spurious_irqs+0x1c/0x49
 [<ffffffff81070d82>] run_timer_softirq+0x239/0x315
 [<ffffffff81068bd3>] __do_softirq+0x102/0x1ef
 [<ffffffff8101304c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
 [<ffffffff81014b65>] do_softirq+0x59/0xca
 [<ffffffff810686ad>] irq_exit+0x58/0xae
 [<ffffffff81029b84>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x94/0xba
 [<ffffffff81012a33>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20

The reason is that try_one_irq() is called from hardirq context with
interrupts disabled and from softirq context (poll_all_shared_irqs())
with interrupts enabled.

Disable interrupts before calling it from poll_all_shared_irqs().

Reported-and-tested-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1257563773-4620-1-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-11-07 21:44:45 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
608221fdf9 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 kthread_bind() by moving the body of kthread_bind() to sched.c
  sched: Disable SD_PREFER_LOCAL at node level
  sched: Fix boot crash by zalloc()ing most of the cpu masks
  sched: Strengthen buddies and mitigate buddy induced latencies
2009-11-05 10:56:47 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
72cc129e8d Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  ftrace: Fix unmatched locking in ftrace_regex_write()
  ring-buffer: Synchronize resizing buffer with reader lock
2009-11-05 10:56:25 -08:00
Li Zefan
ed146b2594 ftrace: Fix unmatched locking in ftrace_regex_write()
When a command is passed to the set_ftrace_filter, then
the ftrace_regex_lock is still held going back to user space.

 # echo 'do_open : foo' > set_ftrace_filter
 (still holding ftrace_regex_lock when returning to user space!)

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AEF7F8A.3080300@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-04 01:42:10 -05:00
Lai Jiangshan
f7112949f6 ring-buffer: Synchronize resizing buffer with reader lock
We got a sudden panic when we reduced the size of the
ringbuffer.

We can reproduce the panic by the following steps:

echo 1 > events/sched/enable
cat trace_pipe > /dev/null &

while ((1))
do
echo 12000 > buffer_size_kb
echo 512 > buffer_size_kb
done

(not more than 5 seconds, panic ...)

Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AF01735.9060409@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-04 00:04:20 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
38dc63459f Merge branch 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6
* 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6:
  PM: Remove some debug messages producing too much noise
  PM: Fix warning on suspend errors
  PM / Hibernate: Add newline to load_image() fail path
  PM / Hibernate: Fix error handling in save_image()
  PM / Hibernate: Fix blkdev refleaks
  PM / yenta: Split resume into early and late parts (rev. 4)
2009-11-03 07:52:57 -08:00
Ian Campbell
1d51075094 Correct nr_processes() when CPUs have been unplugged
nr_processes() returns the sum of the per cpu counter process_counts for
all online CPUs. This counter is incremented for the current CPU on
fork() and decremented for the current CPU on exit(). Since a process
does not necessarily fork and exit on the same CPU the process_count for
an individual CPU can be either positive or negative and effectively has
no meaning in isolation.

Therefore calculating the sum of process_counts over only the online
CPUs omits the processes which were started or stopped on any CPU which
has since been unplugged. Only the sum of process_counts across all
possible CPUs has meaning.

The only caller of nr_processes() is proc_root_getattr() which
calculates the number of links to /proc as
        stat->nlink = proc_root.nlink + nr_processes();

You don't have to be all that unlucky for the nr_processes() to return a
negative value leading to a negative number of links (or rather, an
apparently enormous number of links). If this happens then you can get
failures where things like "ls /proc" start to fail because they got an
-EOVERFLOW from some stat() call.

Example with some debugging inserted to show what goes on:
        # ps haux|wc -l
        nr_processes: CPU0:     90
        nr_processes: CPU1:     1030
        nr_processes: CPU2:     -900
        nr_processes: CPU3:     -136
        nr_processes: TOTAL:    84
        proc_root_getattr. nlink 12 + nr_processes() 84 = 96
        84
        # echo 0 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
        # ps haux|wc -l
        nr_processes: CPU0:     85
        nr_processes: CPU2:     -901
        nr_processes: CPU3:     -137
        nr_processes: TOTAL:    -953
        proc_root_getattr. nlink 12 + nr_processes() -953 = -941
        75
        # stat /proc/
        nr_processes: CPU0:     84
        nr_processes: CPU2:     -901
        nr_processes: CPU3:     -137
        nr_processes: TOTAL:    -954
        proc_root_getattr. nlink 12 + nr_processes() -954 = -942
          File: `/proc/'
          Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 1024   directory
        Device: 3h/3d   Inode: 1           Links: 4294966354
        Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
        Access: 2009-11-03 09:06:55.000000000 +0000
        Modify: 2009-11-03 09:06:55.000000000 +0000
        Change: 2009-11-03 09:06:55.000000000 +0000

I'm not 100% convinced that the per_cpu regions remain valid for offline
CPUs, although my testing suggests that they do. If not then I think the
correct solution would be to aggregate the process_count for a given CPU
into a global base value in cpu_down().

This bug appears to pre-date the transition to git and it looks like it
may even have been present in linux-2.6.0-test7-bk3 since it looks like
the code Rusty patched in http://lwn.net/Articles/64773/ was already
wrong.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-11-03 07:52:39 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
bf9fd67a03 PM / Hibernate: Add newline to load_image() fail path
Finish a line by \n when load_image fails in the middle of loading.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2009-11-03 11:03:09 +01:00
Jiri Slaby
4ff277f9e4 PM / Hibernate: Fix error handling in save_image()
There are too many retval variables in save_image(). Thus error return
value from snapshot_read_next() may be ignored and only part of the
snapshot (successfully) written.

Remove 'error' variable, invert the condition in the do-while loop
and convert the loop to use only 'ret' variable.

Switch the rest of the function to consider only 'ret'.

Also make sure we end printed line by \n if an error occurs.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2009-11-03 11:02:43 +01:00
Jiri Slaby
76b57e613f PM / Hibernate: Fix blkdev refleaks
While cruising through the swsusp code I found few blkdev reference
leaks of resume_bdev.

swsusp_read: remove blkdev_put altogether. Some fail paths do
             not do that.
swsusp_check: make sure we always put a reference on fail paths
software_resume: all fail paths between swsusp_check and swsusp_read
                 omit swsusp_close. Add it in those cases. And since
                 swsusp_read doesn't drop the reference anymore, do
                 it here unconditionally.

[rjw: Fixed a small coding style issue.]

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2009-11-03 11:01:46 +01:00
Mike Galbraith
b84ff7d6f1 sched: Fix kthread_bind() by moving the body of kthread_bind() to sched.c
Eric Paris reported that commit
f685ceacab causes boot time
PREEMPT_DEBUG complaints.

 [    4.590699] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: rmmod/1314
 [    4.593043] caller is task_hot+0x86/0xd0

Since kthread_bind() messes with scheduler internals, move the
body to sched.c, and lock the runqueue.

Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1256813310.7574.3.camel@marge.simson.net>
[ v2: fix !SMP build and clean up ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-03 07:25:00 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
3fe866ca6c Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  futex: Fix spurious wakeup for requeue_pi really
2009-11-02 09:46:33 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
bce8fc4cb7 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: Remove -Wcast-align
  perf tools: Fix compatibility with libelf 0.8 and autodetect
  perf events: Don't generate events for the idle task when exclude_idle is set
  perf events: Fix swevent hrtimer sampling by keeping track of remaining time when enabling/disabling swevent hrtimers
2009-11-02 09:46:06 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
a5e3013d66 Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: Remove cpu arg from the rb_time_stamp() function
  tracing: Fix comment typo and documentation example
  tracing: Fix trace_seq_printf() return value
  tracing: Update *ppos instead of filp->f_pos
2009-11-02 09:45:44 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
83f5b01ffb rcu: Fix long-grace-period race between forcing and initialization
Very long RCU read-side critical sections (50 milliseconds or
so) can cause a race between force_quiescent_state() and
rcu_start_gp() as follows on kernel builds with multi-level
rcu_node hierarchies:

1.	CPU 0 calls force_quiescent_state(), sees that there is a
	grace period in progress, and acquires ->fsqlock.

2.	CPU 1 detects the end of the grace period, and so
	cpu_quiet_msk_finish() sets rsp->completed to rsp->gpnum.
	This operation is carried out under the root rnp->lock,
	but CPU 0 has not yet acquired that lock.  Note that
	rsp->signaled is still RCU_SAVE_DYNTICK from the last
	grace period.

3.	CPU 1 calls rcu_start_gp(), but no one wants a new grace
	period, so it drops the root rnp->lock and returns.

4.	CPU 0 acquires the root rnp->lock and picks up rsp->completed
	and rsp->signaled, then drops rnp->lock.  It then enters the
	RCU_SAVE_DYNTICK leg of the switch statement.

5.	CPU 2 invokes call_rcu(), and now needs a new grace period.
	It calls rcu_start_gp(), which acquires the root rnp->lock, sets
	rsp->signaled to RCU_GP_INIT (too bad that CPU 0 is already in
	the RCU_SAVE_DYNTICK leg of the switch statement!)  and starts
	initializing the rcu_node hierarchy.  If there are multiple
	levels to the hierarchy, it will drop the root rnp->lock and
	initialize the lower levels of the hierarchy.

6.	CPU 0 notes that rsp->completed has not changed, which permits
        both CPU 2 and CPU 0 to try updating it concurrently.  If CPU 0's
	update prevails, later calls to force_quiescent_state() can
	count old quiescent states against the new grace period, which
	can in turn result in premature ending of grace periods.

	Not good.

This patch adds an RCU_GP_IDLE state for rsp->signaled that is
set initially at boot time and any time a grace period ends.
This prevents CPU 0 from getting into the workings of
force_quiescent_state() in step 4.  Additional locking and
checks prevent the concurrent update of rsp->signaled in step 6.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1256742889199-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-02 16:06:21 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
b00bc0b237 uids: Prevent tear down race
Ingo triggered the following warning:

WARNING: at lib/debugobjects.c:255 debug_print_object+0x42/0x50()
Hardware name: System Product Name
ODEBUG: init active object type: timer_list
Modules linked in:
Pid: 2619, comm: dmesg Tainted: G        W  2.6.32-rc5-tip+ #5298
Call Trace:
 [<81035443>] warn_slowpath_common+0x6a/0x81
 [<8120e483>] ? debug_print_object+0x42/0x50
 [<81035498>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x29/0x2c
 [<8120e483>] debug_print_object+0x42/0x50
 [<8120ec2a>] __debug_object_init+0x279/0x2d7
 [<8120ecb3>] debug_object_init+0x13/0x18
 [<810409d2>] init_timer_key+0x17/0x6f
 [<81041526>] free_uid+0x50/0x6c
 [<8104ed2d>] put_cred_rcu+0x61/0x72
 [<81067fac>] rcu_do_batch+0x70/0x121

debugobjects warns about an enqueued timer being initialized. If
CONFIG_USER_SCHED=y the user management code uses delayed work to
remove the user from the hash table and tear down the sysfs objects.

free_uid is called from RCU and initializes/schedules delayed work if
the usage count of the user_struct is 0. The init/schedule happens
outside of the uidhash_lock protected region which allows a concurrent
caller of find_user() to reference the about to be destroyed
user_struct w/o preventing the work from being scheduled. If the next
free_uid call happens before the work timer expired then the active
timer is initialized and the work scheduled again.

The race was introduced in commit 5cb350ba (sched: group scheduling,
sysfs tunables) and made more prominent by commit 3959214f (sched:
delayed cleanup of user_struct)

Move the init/schedule_delayed_work inside of the uidhash_lock
protected region to prevent the race.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-11-02 16:02:39 +01:00
Rusty Russell
49557e6203 sched: Fix boot crash by zalloc()ing most of the cpu masks
I got a boot crash when forcing cpumasks offstack on 32 bit,
because find_new_ilb() returned 3 on my UP system (nohz.cpu_mask
wasn't zeroed).

AFAICT the others need to be zeroed too: only
nohz.ilb_grp_nohz_mask is initialized before use.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <200911022037.21282.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-02 15:48:54 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
8633322c5f Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  sched: move rq_weight data array out of .percpu
  percpu: allow pcpu_alloc() to be called with IRQs off
2009-10-29 09:19:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9532faeb29 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-param-fixes
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-param-fixes:
  param: fix setting arrays of bool
  param: fix NULL comparison on oom
  param: fix lots of bugs with writing charp params from sysfs, by leaking mem.
2009-10-29 09:18:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3242f9804b Merge branch 'hwpoison-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6
* 'hwpoison-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6:
  HWPOISON: fix invalid page count in printk output
  HWPOISON: Allow schedule_on_each_cpu() from keventd
  HWPOISON: fix/proc/meminfo alignment
  HWPOISON: fix oops on ksm pages
  HWPOISON: Fix page count leak in hwpoison late kill in do_swap_page
  HWPOISON: return early on non-LRU pages
  HWPOISON: Add brief hwpoison description to Documentation
  HWPOISON: Clean up PR_MCE_KILL interface
2009-10-29 08:20:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
fefcfd431b Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  futex: Move drop_futex_key_refs out of spinlock'ed region
  rcu: Fix TREE_PREEMPT_RCU CPU_HOTPLUG bad-luck hang
  rcu: Stopgap fix for synchronize_rcu_expedited() for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
  rcu: Prevent RCU IPI storms in presence of high call_rcu() load
  futex: Check for NULL keys in match_futex
  futex: Handle spurious wake up
2009-10-29 08:12:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
37c2ca2411 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 timechart: Improve the visual appearance of scheduler delays
  perf timechart: Fix the wakeup-arrows that point to non-visible processes
  perf top: Fix --delay_secs 0 division by zero
  perf tools: Bump version to 0.0.2
  perf_event: Adjust frequency and unthrottle for non-group-leader events
2009-10-29 08:12:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6e958d73c2 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: Do less agressive buddy clearing
  sched: Disable SD_PREFER_LOCAL for MC/CPU domains
2009-10-29 08:10:38 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
8c85dd8730 sysctl: fix false positives when PROC_SYSCTL=n
Having ->procname but not ->proc_handler is valid when PROC_SYSCTL=n,
people use such combination to reduce ifdefs with non-standard handlers.

Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14408

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-29 07:39:30 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
478988d3b2 cgroup: fix strstrip() misuse
cgroup_write_X64() and cgroup_write_string() ignore the return value of
strstrip().  it makes small inconsistent behavior.

example:
=========================
 # cd /mnt/cgroup/hoge
 # cat memory.swappiness
 60
 # echo "59 " > memory.swappiness
 # cat memory.swappiness
 59
 # echo " 58" > memory.swappiness
 bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

This patch fixes it.

Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-29 07:39:25 -07:00
Christian Borntraeger
0d0df599f1 connector: fix regression introduced by sid connector
Since commit 02b51df1b0 (proc connector: add
event for process becoming session leader) we have the following warning:

Badness at kernel/softirq.c:143
[...]
Krnl PSW : 0404c00180000000 00000000001481d4 (local_bh_enable+0xb0/0xe0)
[...]
Call Trace:
([<000000013fe04100>] 0x13fe04100)
 [<000000000048a946>] sk_filter+0x9a/0xd0
 [<000000000049d938>] netlink_broadcast+0x2c0/0x53c
 [<00000000003ba9ae>] cn_netlink_send+0x272/0x2b0
 [<00000000003baef0>] proc_sid_connector+0xc4/0xd4
 [<0000000000142604>] __set_special_pids+0x58/0x90
 [<0000000000159938>] sys_setsid+0xb4/0xd8
 [<00000000001187fe>] sysc_noemu+0x10/0x16
 [<00000041616cb266>] 0x41616cb266

The warning is
--->    WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq() || irqs_disabled());

The network code must not be called with disabled interrupts but
sys_setsid holds the tasklist_lock with spinlock_irq while calling the
connector.

After a discussion we agreed that we can move proc_sid_connector from
__set_special_pids to sys_setsid.

We also agreed that it is sufficient to change the check from
task_session(curr) != pid into err > 0, since if we don't change the
session, this means we were already the leader and return -EPERM.

One last thing:
There is also daemonize(), and some people might want to get a
notification in that case. Since daemonize() is only needed if a user
space does kernel_thread this does not look important (and there seems
to be no consensus if this connector should be called in daemonize). If
we really want this, we can add proc_sid_connector to daemonize() in an
additional patch (Scott?)

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-29 07:39:25 -07:00
Rusty Russell
3c7d76e371 param: fix setting arrays of bool
We create a dummy struct kernel_param on the stack for parsing each
array element, but we didn't initialize the flags word.  This matters
for arrays of type "bool", where the flag indicates if it really is
an array of bools or unsigned int (old-style).

Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-10-29 08:56:20 +10:30
Rusty Russell
d553ad864e param: fix NULL comparison on oom
kp->arg is always true: it's the contents of that pointer we care about.

Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-10-29 08:56:18 +10:30
Rusty Russell
65afac7d80 param: fix lots of bugs with writing charp params from sysfs, by leaking mem.
e180a6b775 "param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs" fixed the case
where charp parameters written via sysfs were freed, leaving drivers
accessing random memory.

Unfortunately, storing a flag in the kparam struct was a bad idea: it's
rodata so setting it causes an oops on some archs.  But that's not all:

1) module_param_array() on charp doesn't work reliably, since we use an
   uninitialized temporary struct kernel_param.
2) there's a fundamental race if a module uses this parameter and then
   it's changed: they will still access the old, freed, memory.

The simplest fix (ie. for 2.6.32) is to never free the memory.  This
prevents all these problems, at cost of a memory leak.  In practice, there
are only 18 places where a charp is writable via sysfs, and all are
root-only writable.

Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-10-29 08:56:17 +10:30
Thomas Gleixner
11df6dddcb futex: Fix spurious wakeup for requeue_pi really
The requeue_pi path doesn't use unqueue_me() (and the racy lock_ptr ==
NULL test) nor does it use the wake_list of futex_wake() which where
the reason for commit 41890f2 (futex: Handle spurious wake up)

See debugging discussing on LKML Message-ID: <4AD4080C.20703@us.ibm.com>

The changes in this fix to the wait_requeue_pi path were considered to
be a likely unecessary, but harmless safety net. But it turns out that
due to the fact that for unknown $@#!*( reasons EWOULDBLOCK is defined
as EAGAIN we built an endless loop in the code path which returns
correctly EWOULDBLOCK.

Spurious wakeups in wait_requeue_pi code path are unlikely so we do
the easy solution and return EWOULDBLOCK^WEAGAIN to user space and let
it deal with the spurious wakeup.

Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AE23C74.1090502@us.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-10-28 20:34:34 +01:00
Jiri Kosina
4a6cc4bd32 sched: move rq_weight data array out of .percpu
Commit 34d76c41 introduced percpu array update_shares_data, size of which
being proportional to NR_CPUS. Unfortunately this blows up ia64 for large
NR_CPUS configuration, as ia64 allows only 64k for .percpu section.

Fix this by allocating this array dynamically and keep only pointer to it
percpu.

The per-cpu handling doesn't impose significant performance penalty on
potentially contented path in tg_shares_up().

...
ffffffff8104337c:       65 48 8b 14 25 20 cd    mov    %gs:0xcd20,%rdx
ffffffff81043383:       00 00
ffffffff81043385:       48 c7 c0 00 e1 00 00    mov    $0xe100,%rax
ffffffff8104338c:       48 c7 45 a0 00 00 00    movq   $0x0,-0x60(%rbp)
ffffffff81043393:       00
ffffffff81043394:       48 c7 45 a8 00 00 00    movq   $0x0,-0x58(%rbp)
ffffffff8104339b:       00
ffffffff8104339c:       48 01 d0                add    %rdx,%rax
ffffffff8104339f:       49 8d 94 24 08 01 00    lea    0x108(%r12),%rdx
ffffffff810433a6:       00
ffffffff810433a7:       b9 ff ff ff ff          mov    $0xffffffff,%ecx
ffffffff810433ac:       48 89 45 b0             mov    %rax,-0x50(%rbp)
ffffffff810433b0:       bb 00 04 00 00          mov    $0x400,%ebx
ffffffff810433b5:       48 89 55 c0             mov    %rdx,-0x40(%rbp)
...

After:

...
ffffffff8104337c:       65 8b 04 25 28 cd 00    mov    %gs:0xcd28,%eax
ffffffff81043383:       00
ffffffff81043384:       48 98                   cltq
ffffffff81043386:       49 8d bc 24 08 01 00    lea    0x108(%r12),%rdi
ffffffff8104338d:       00
ffffffff8104338e:       48 8b 15 d3 7f 76 00    mov    0x767fd3(%rip),%rdx        # ffffffff817ab368 <update_shares_data>
ffffffff81043395:       48 8b 34 c5 00 ee 6d    mov    -0x7e921200(,%rax,8),%rsi
ffffffff8104339c:       81
ffffffff8104339d:       48 c7 45 a0 00 00 00    movq   $0x0,-0x60(%rbp)
ffffffff810433a4:       00
ffffffff810433a5:       b9 ff ff ff ff          mov    $0xffffffff,%ecx
ffffffff810433aa:       48 89 7d c0             mov    %rdi,-0x40(%rbp)
ffffffff810433ae:       48 c7 45 a8 00 00 00    movq   $0x0,-0x58(%rbp)
ffffffff810433b5:       00
ffffffff810433b6:       bb 00 04 00 00          mov    $0x400,%ebx
ffffffff810433bb:       48 01 f2                add    %rsi,%rdx
ffffffff810433be:       48 89 55 b0             mov    %rdx,-0x50(%rbp)
...

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-10-29 00:26:00 +09:00
Jiri Olsa
6d3f1e12f4 tracing: Remove cpu arg from the rb_time_stamp() function
The cpu argument is not used inside the rb_time_stamp() function.
Plus fix a typo.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091023233647.118547500@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-24 11:07:51 +02:00
Jiri Olsa
67b394f7f2 tracing: Fix comment typo and documentation example
Trivial patch to fix a documentation example and to fix a
comment.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.871719877@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-24 11:07:50 +02:00
Jiri Olsa
3e69533b51 tracing: Fix trace_seq_printf() return value
trace_seq_printf() return value is a little ambiguous. It
currently returns the length of the space available in the
buffer. printf usually returns the amount written. This is not
adequate here, because:

  trace_seq_printf(s, "");

is perfectly legal, and returning 0 would indicate that it
failed.

We can always see the amount written by looking at the before
and after values of s->len. This is not quite the same use as
printf. We only care if the string was successfully written to
the buffer or not.

Make trace_seq_printf() return 0 if the trace oversizes the
buffer's free space, 1 otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.631787612@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-24 11:07:50 +02:00
Jiri Olsa
cf8517cf90 tracing: Update *ppos instead of filp->f_pos
Instead of directly updating filp->f_pos we should update the *ppos
argument. The filp->f_pos gets updated within the file_pos_write()
function called from sys_write().

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.399670810@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-24 11:07:49 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
f685ceacab sched: Strengthen buddies and mitigate buddy induced latencies
This patch restores the effectiveness of LAST_BUDDY in preventing
pgsql+oltp from collapsing due to wakeup preemption. It also
switches LAST_BUDDY to exclusively do what it does best, namely
mitigate the effects of aggressive wakeup preemption, which
improves vmark throughput markedly, and restores mysql+oltp
scalability.

Since buddies are about scalability, enable them beginning at the
point where we begin expanding sched_latency, namely
sched_nr_latency. Previously, buddies were cleared aggressively,
which seriously reduced their effectiveness. Not clearing
aggressively however, produces a small drop in mysql+oltp
throughput immediately after peak, indicating that LAST_BUDDY is
actually doing some harm. This is right at the point where X on the
desktop in competition with another load wants low latency service.
Ergo, do not enable until we need to scale.

To mitigate latency induced by buddies, or by a task just missing
wakeup preemption, check latency at tick time.

Last hunk prevents buddies from stymieing BALANCE_NEWIDLE via
CACHE_HOT_BUDDY.

Supporting performance tests:

 tip   = v2.6.32-rc5-1497-ga525b32
 tipx  = NO_GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS NEXT_BUDDY granularity knobs = 31 knobs + 31 buddies
 tip+x = NO_GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS granularity knobs = 31 knobs

(Three run averages except where noted.)

 vmark:
 ------
 tip           108466 messages per second
 tip+          125307 messages per second
 tip+x         125335 messages per second
 tipx          117781 messages per second
 2.6.31.3      122729 messages per second

 mysql+oltp:
 -----------
 clients          1        2        4        8       16       32       64        128    256
 ..........................................................................................
 tip        9949.89 18690.20 34801.24 34460.04 32682.88 30765.97 28305.27 25059.64 19548.08
 tip+      10013.90 18526.84 34900.38 34420.14 33069.83 32083.40 30578.30 28010.71 25605.47
 tipx       9698.71 18002.70 34477.56 33420.01 32634.30 31657.27 29932.67 26827.52 21487.18
 2.6.31.3   8243.11 18784.20 34404.83 33148.38 31900.32 31161.90 29663.81 25995.94 18058.86

 pgsql+oltp:
 -----------
 clients          1        2        4        8       16       32       64      128      256
 ..........................................................................................
 tip       13686.37 26609.25 51934.28 51347.81 49479.51 45312.65 36691.91 26851.57 24145.35
 tip+ (1x) 13907.85 27135.87 52951.98 52514.04 51742.52 50705.43 49947.97 48374.19 46227.94
 tip+x     13906.78 27065.81 52951.19 52542.59 52176.11 51815.94 50838.90 49439.46 46891.00
 tipx      13742.46 26769.81 52351.99 51891.73 51320.79 50938.98 50248.65 48908.70 46553.84
 2.6.31.3  13815.35 26906.46 52683.34 52061.31 51937.10 51376.80 50474.28 49394.47 47003.25

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-23 23:48:28 +02:00
Soeren Sandmann
54f4407608 perf events: Don't generate events for the idle task when exclude_idle is set
Getting samples for the idle task is often not interesting, so
don't generate them when exclude_idle is set for the event in
question.

Signed-off-by: Søren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <ye8pr8fmlq7.fsf@camel16.daimi.au.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-23 09:35:02 +02:00
Soeren Sandmann
721a669b72 perf events: Fix swevent hrtimer sampling by keeping track of remaining time when enabling/disabling swevent hrtimers
Make the hrtimer based events work for sysprof.

Whenever a swevent is scheduled out, the hrtimer is canceled.
When it is scheduled back in, the timer is restarted. This
happens every scheduler tick, which means the timer never
expired because it was getting repeatedly restarted over and
over with the same period.

To fix that, save the remaining time when disabling; when
reenabling, use that saved time as the period instead of the
user-specified sampling period.

Also, move the starting and stopping of the hrtimers to helper
functions instead of duplicating the code.

Signed-off-by: Søren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <ye8vdi7mluz.fsf@camel16.daimi.au.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-23 09:35:02 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
04bf7539c0 PM: Make warning in suspend_test_finish() less likely to happen
Increase TEST_SUSPEND_SECONDS to 10 so the warning in
suspend_test_finish() doesn't annoy the users of slower systems so much.

Also, make the warning print the suspend-resume cycle time, so that we
know why the warning actually triggered.

Patch prepared during the hacking session at the Kernel Summit in Tokyo.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-22 08:23:45 +09:00
Andi Kleen
65a6446434 HWPOISON: Allow schedule_on_each_cpu() from keventd
Right now when calling schedule_on_each_cpu() from keventd there
is a deadlock because it tries to schedule a work item on the current CPU
too. This happens via lru_add_drain_all() in hwpoison.

Just call the function for the current CPU in this case. This is actually
faster too.

Debugging with Fengguang Wu & Max Asbock

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-10-19 07:29:22 +02:00
Darren Hart
89061d3d58 futex: Move drop_futex_key_refs out of spinlock'ed region
When requeuing tasks from one futex to another, the reference held
by the requeued task to the original futex location needs to be
dropped eventually.

Dropping the reference may ultimately lead to a call to
"iput_final" and subsequently call into filesystem- specific code -
which may be non-atomic.

It is therefore safer to defer this drop operation until after the
futex_hash_bucket spinlock has been dropped.

Originally-From: Helge Bahmann <hcb@chaoticmind.net>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sdietrich@novell.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AD7A298.5040802@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-16 10:19:18 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
bd0704111e Merge the right tty-fixes branch
* branch 'tty-fixes'
  tty: use the new 'flush_delayed_work()' helper to do ldisc flush
  workqueue: add 'flush_delayed_work()' to run and wait for delayed work
  tty: Make flush_to_ldisc() locking more robust
2009-10-15 14:59:24 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
237c80c5c8 rcu: Fix TREE_PREEMPT_RCU CPU_HOTPLUG bad-luck hang
If the following sequence of events occurs, then
TREE_PREEMPT_RCU will hang waiting for a grace period to
complete, eventually OOMing the system:

o	A TREE_PREEMPT_RCU build of the kernel is booted on a system
	with more than 64 physical CPUs present (32 on a 32-bit system).
	Alternatively, a TREE_PREEMPT_RCU build of the kernel is booted
	with RCU_FANOUT set to a sufficiently small value that the
	physical CPUs populate two or more leaf rcu_node structures.

o	A task is preempted in an RCU read-side critical section
	while running on a CPU corresponding to a given leaf rcu_node
	structure.

o	All CPUs corresponding to this same leaf rcu_node structure
	record quiescent states for the current grace period.

o	All of these same CPUs go offline (hence the need for enough
	physical CPUs to populate more than one leaf rcu_node structure).
	This causes the preempted task to be moved to the root rcu_node
	structure.

At this point, there is nothing left to cause the quiescent
state to be propagated up the rcu_node tree, so the current
grace period never completes.

The simplest fix, especially after considering the deadlock
possibilities, is to detect this situation when the last CPU is
offlined, and to set that CPU's ->qsmask bit in its leaf
rcu_node structure.  This will cause the next invocation of
force_quiescent_state() to end the grace period.

Without this fix, this hang can be triggered in an hour or so on
some machines with rcutorture and random CPU onlining/offlining.
With this fix, these same machines pass a full 10 hours of this
sort of abuse.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <20091015162614.GA19131@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-15 20:33:01 +02:00