9702 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Suresh Siddha
99bd5e2f24 sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() logic in select_task_rq_fair()
Issues in the current select_idle_sibling() logic in select_task_rq_fair()
in the context of a task wake-up:

a) Once we select the idle sibling, we use that domain (spanning the cpu that
   the task is currently woken-up and the idle sibling that we found) in our
   wake_affine() decisions. This domain is completely different from the
   domain(we are supposed to use) that spans the cpu that the task currently
   woken-up and the cpu where the task previously ran.

b) We do select_idle_sibling() check only for the cpu that the task is
   currently woken-up on. If select_task_rq_fair() selects the previously run
   cpu for waking the task, doing a select_idle_sibling() check
   for that cpu also helps and we don't do this currently.

c) In the scenarios where the cpu that the task is woken-up is busy but
   with its HT siblings are idle, we are selecting the task be woken-up
   on the idle HT sibling instead of a core that it previously ran
   and currently completely idle. i.e., we are not taking decisions based on
   wake_affine() but directly selecting an idle sibling that can cause
   an imbalance at the SMT/MC level which will be later corrected by the
   periodic load balancer.

Fix this by first going through the load imbalance calculations using
wake_affine() and once we make a decision of woken-up cpu vs previously-ran cpu,
then choose a possible idle sibling for waking up the task on.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1270079265.7835.8.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-23 11:02:02 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
669c55e9f9 sched: Pre-compute cpumask_weight(sched_domain_span(sd))
Dave reported that his large SPARC machines spend lots of time in
hweight64(), try and optimize some of those needless cpumask_weight()
invocations (esp. with the large offstack cpumasks these are very
expensive indeed).

Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-23 11:02:02 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
74f5187ac8 sched: Cure load average vs NO_HZ woes
Chase reported that due to us decrementing calc_load_task prematurely
(before the next LOAD_FREQ sample), the load average could be scewed
by as much as the number of CPUs in the machine.

This patch, based on Chase's patch, cures the problem by keeping the
delta of the CPU going into NO_HZ idle separately and folding that in
on the next LOAD_FREQ update.

This restores the balance and we get strict LOAD_FREQ period samples.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
LKML-Reference: <1271934490.1776.343.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-23 11:02:02 +02:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
4b40221048 mutex: Don't spin when the owner CPU is offline or other weird cases
Due to recent load-balancer changes that delay the task migration to
the next wakeup, the adaptive mutex spinning ends up in a live lock
when the owner's CPU gets offlined because the cpu_online() check
lives before the owner running check.

This patch changes mutex_spin_on_owner() to return 0 (don't spin) in
any case where we aren't sure about the owner struct validity or CPU
number, and if the said CPU is offline. There is no point going back &
re-evaluate spinning in corner cases like that, let's just go to
sleep.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1271212509.13059.135.camel@pasglop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-23 11:00:28 +02:00
Jiri Kosina
6c9468e9eb Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2010-04-23 02:08:44 +02:00
David Howells
e134d200d5 CRED: Fix a race in creds_are_invalid() in credentials debugging
creds_are_invalid() reads both cred->usage and cred->subscribers and then
compares them to make sure the number of processes subscribed to a cred struct
never exceeds the refcount of that cred struct.

The problem is that this can cause a race with both copy_creds() and
exit_creds() as the two counters, whilst they are of atomic_t type, are only
atomic with respect to themselves, and not atomic with respect to each other.

This means that if creds_are_invalid() can read the values on one CPU whilst
they're being modified on another CPU, and so can observe an evolving state in
which the subscribers count now is greater than the usage count a moment
before.

Switching the order in which the counts are read cannot help, so the thing to
do is to remove that particular check.

I had considered rechecking the values to see if they're in flux if the test
fails, but I can't guarantee they won't appear the same, even if they've
changed several times in the meantime.

Note that this can only happen if CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS is enabled.

The problem is only likely to occur with multithreaded programs, and can be
tested by the tst-eintr1 program from glibc's "make check".  The symptoms look
like:

	CRED: Invalid credentials
	CRED: At include/linux/cred.h:240
	CRED: Specified credentials: ffff88003dda5878 [real][eff]
	CRED: ->magic=43736564, put_addr=(null)
	CRED: ->usage=766, subscr=766
	CRED: ->*uid = { 0,0,0,0 }
	CRED: ->*gid = { 0,0,0,0 }
	CRED: ->security is ffff88003d72f538
	CRED: ->security {359, 359}
	------------[ cut here ]------------
	kernel BUG at kernel/cred.c:850!
	...
	RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81049889>]  [<ffffffff81049889>] __invalid_creds+0x4e/0x52
	...
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffff8104a37b>] copy_creds+0x6b/0x23f

Note the ->usage=766 and subscr=766.  The values appear the same because
they've been re-read since the check was made.

Reported-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-04-22 09:14:29 +10:00
Frederic Weisbecker
cecbca96da tracing: Dump either the oops's cpu source or all cpus buffers
The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, sysctl and sysrq let one
dump every cpu buffers when an oops or panic happens.

It's nice when you have few cpus but it may take ages if have many,
plus you miss the real origin of the problem in all the cpu traces.

Sometimes, all you need is to dump the cpu buffer that triggered the
opps, most of the time it is our main interest.

This patch modifies ftrace_dump_on_oops to handle this choice.

The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, when it comes alone, has
the same behaviour than before. But ftrace_dump_on_oops=orig_cpu
will only dump the buffer of the cpu that oops'ed.

Similarly, sysctl kernel.ftrace_dump_on_oops=1 and
echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops keep their previous
behaviour. But setting 2 jumps into cpu origin dump mode.

v2: Fix double setup
v3: Fix spelling issues reported by Randy Dunlap
v4: Also update __ftrace_dump in the selftests

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-04-21 23:11:42 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
ac0053fd51 Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc5' into tracing/core
Merge reason: pick up latest -rc's.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-21 09:47:05 +02:00
David Howells
eff30363c0 CRED: Fix double free in prepare_usermodehelper_creds() error handling
Patch 570b8fb505896e007fd3bb07573ba6640e51851d:

	Author: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
	Date:   Tue Mar 30 00:04:00 2010 +0100
	Subject: CRED: Fix memory leak in error handling

attempts to fix a memory leak in the error handling by making the offending
return statement into a jump down to the bottom of the function where a
kfree(tgcred) is inserted.

This is, however, incorrect, as it does a kfree() after doing put_cred() if
security_prepare_creds() fails.  That will result in a double free if 'error'
is jumped to as put_cred() will also attempt to free the new tgcred record by
virtue of it being pointed to by the new cred record.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-04-21 09:20:35 +10:00
Zhang, Yanmin
39447b386c perf: Enhance perf to allow for guest statistic collection from host
Below patch introduces perf_guest_info_callbacks and related
register/unregister functions. Add more PERF_RECORD_MISC_XXX bits
meaning guest kernel and guest user space.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-04-19 12:35:33 +03:00
Paul E. McKenney
bc293d62b2 rcu: Make RCU lockdep check the lockdep_recursion variable
The lockdep facility temporarily disables lockdep checking by
incrementing the current->lockdep_recursion variable.  Such
disabling happens in NMIs and in other situations where lockdep
might expect to recurse on itself.

This patch therefore checks current->lockdep_recursion, disabling RCU
lockdep splats when this variable is non-zero.  In addition, this patch
removes the "likely()", as suggested by Lai Jiangshan.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100415195039.GA22623@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-19 08:37:19 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
09a40af524 sched: Fix UP update_avg() build warning
update_avg() is only used for SMP builds, move it to the nearest
SMP block.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1271309399.14779.17.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-15 09:36:47 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
b257c14ceb Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Merge reason: merge the latest fixes, update to -rc4.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-15 09:36:16 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
b5a80b7e91 Merge branch 'perf' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 into perf/core 2010-04-15 09:16:51 +02:00
Divyesh Shah
b6ac23af2c blkio: fix for modular blk-cgroup build
After merging the block tree, 20100414's linux-next build (x86_64
allmodconfig) failed like this:

ERROR: "get_gendisk" [block/blk-cgroup.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "sched_clock" [block/blk-cgroup.ko] undefined!

This happens because the two symbols aren't exported and hence not available
when blk-cgroup code is built as a module. I've tried to stay consistent with
the use of EXPORT_SYMBOL or EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL with the other symbols in the
respective files.

Signed-off-by: Divyesh Shah <dpshah@google.com>
Acked-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-15 08:54:59 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
95476b64ab perf: Fix hlist related build error
hlist helpers need to be available for all software events, not
only trace events.

Pull them out outside the ifdef CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING section.

Fixes:
	kernel/perf_event.c:4573: error: implicit declaration of function 'swevent_hlist_put'
	kernel/perf_event.c:4614: error: implicit declaration of function 'swevent_hlist_get'
	kernel/perf_event.c:5534: error: implicit declaration of function 'swevent_hlist_release

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1271281338-23491-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-15 01:34:46 +02:00
Masami Hiramatsu
93ccae7a22 tracing/kprobes: Support basic types on dynamic events
Support basic types of integer (u8, u16, u32, u64, s8, s16, s32, s64) in
kprobe tracer. With this patch, users can specify above basic types on
each arguments after ':'. If omitted, the argument type is set as
unsigned long (u32 or u64, arch-dependent).

 e.g.
  echo 'p account_system_time+0 hardirq_offset=%si:s32' > kprobe_events

  adds a probe recording hardirq_offset in signed-32bits value on the
  entry of account_system_time.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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: <20100412171708.3790.18599.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-14 17:26:28 -03:00
Frederic Weisbecker
df8290bf7e perf: Make clock software events consistent with general exclusion rules
The cpu/task clock events implement their own version of exclusion
on top of exclude_user and exclude_kernel.

The result is that when the event triggered in the kernel but we
have exclude_kernel set, we try to rewind using task_pt_regs.
There are two side effects of this:

- we call task_pt_regs even on kernel threads, which doesn't give
  us the desired result.
- if the event occured in the kernel, we shouldn't rewind to the
  user context. We want to actually ignore the event.

get_irq_regs() will always give us the right interrupted context, so
use its result and submit it to perf_exclude_context() that knows
when an event must be ignored.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-14 18:20:33 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
76e1d9047e perf: Store active software events in a hashlist
Each time a software event triggers, we need to walk through
the entire list of events from the current cpu and task contexts
to retrieve a running perf event that matches.
We also need to check a matching perf event is actually counting.

This walk is wasteful and makes the event fast path scaling
down with a growing number of events running on the same
contexts.

To solve this, we store the running perf events in a hashlist to
get an immediate access to them against their type:event_id when
they trigger.

v2: - Fix SWEVENT_HLIST_SIZE definition (and re-learn some basic
      maths along the way)
    - Only allocate hlist for online cpus, but keep track of the
      refcount on offline possible cpus too, so that we allocate it
      if needed when it becomes online.
    - Drop the kref use as it's not adapted to our tricks anymore.

v3: - Fix bad refcount check (address instead of value). Thanks to
      Eric Dumazet who spotted this.
    - While exiting cpu, move the hlist release out of the IPI path
      to lock the hlist mutex sanely.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-14 18:20:33 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
b15c7b1cee Merge branch 'tip/tracing/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/core 2010-04-14 12:15:23 +02:00
Dmitry Torokhov
97f5f0cd8c Input: implement SysRq as a separate input handler
Instead of keeping SysRq support inside of legacy keyboard driver split
it out into a separate input handler (filter). This stops most SysRq input
events from leaking into evdev clients (some events, such as first SysRq
scancode - not keycode - event, are still leaked into both legacy keyboard
and evdev).

[martinez.javier@gmail.com: fix compile error when CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ is
 not defined]
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2010-04-13 23:26:02 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
6932bf37be genirq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED from core code
Remove all code which is related to IRQF_DISABLED from the core kernel
code. IRQF_DISABLED still exists as a flag, but becomes a NOOP and
will be removed after a grace period. That way we can easily revert to
the previous behaviour by just restoring the core code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100326000405.991244690@linutronix.de>
2010-04-13 16:36:40 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
e58aa3d2d0 genirq: Run irq handlers with interrupts disabled
Running interrupt handlers with interrupts enabled can cause stack
overflows. That has been observed with multiqueue NICs delivering all
their interrupts to a single core. We might band aid that somehow by
checking the interrupt stacks, but the real safe fix is to run the irq
handlers with interrupts disabled.

Drivers for whacky hardware still can reenable them in the handler
itself, if the need arises. (They do already due to lockdep)

The risk of doing this is rather low:

 - lockdep already enforces this
 - CONFIG_NOHZ has shaken out the drivers which relied on jiffies updates
 - time keeping is not longer sensitive to the timer interrupt being delayed

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100326000405.758579387@linutronix.de>
2010-04-13 16:36:40 +02:00
Marc Zyngier
ae731f8d07 genirq: Introduce request_any_context_irq()
Now that we enjoy threaded interrupts, we're starting to see irq_chip
implementations (wm831x, pca953x) that make use of threaded interrupts
for the controller, and nested interrupts for the client interrupt. It
all works very well, with one drawback:

Drivers requesting an IRQ must now know whether the handler will
run in a thread context or not, and call request_threaded_irq() or
request_irq() accordingly.

The problem is that the requesting driver sometimes doesn't know
about the nature of the interrupt, specially when the interrupt
controller is a discrete chip (typically a GPIO expander connected
over I2C) that can be connected to a wide variety of otherwise perfectly
supported hardware.

This patch introduces the request_any_context_irq() function that mostly
mimics the usual request_irq(), except that it checks whether the irq
level is configured as nested or not, and calls the right backend.
On success, it also returns either IRQC_IS_HARDIRQ or IRQC_IS_NESTED.

[ tglx: Made return value an enum, simplified code and made the export
  	of request_any_context_irq GPL ]

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@misterjones.org>
Cc: <joachim.eastwood@jotron.com>
LKML-Reference: <927ea285bd0c68934ddae1a47e44a9ba@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-04-13 16:36:39 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
7c7145f6ac Merge branch 'linus' into irq/core
Reason: Get the upstream IRQF_DISABLED related changes.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-04-13 14:12:17 +02:00
John Stultz
6a867a3955 time: Remove xtime_cache
With the earlier logarithmic time accumulation patch, xtime will now
always be within one "tick" of the current time, instead of possibly
half a second off.

This removes the need for the xtime_cache value, which always stored the
time at the last interrupt, so this patch cleans that up removing the
xtime_cache related code.

This patch also addresses an issue with an earlier version of this change,
where xtime_cache was normalizing xtime, which could in some cases be
not valid (ie: tv_nsec == NSEC_PER_SEC). This is fixed by handling
the edge case in update_wall_time().

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Petr Titěra <P.Titera@century.cz>
LKML-Reference: <1270589451-30773-1-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-04-13 12:43:42 +02:00
Eric Paris
05b90496f2 security: remove dead hook acct
Unused hook.  Remove.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-04-12 12:19:19 +10:00
Eric Paris
6307f8fee2 security: remove dead hook task_setgroups
Unused hook.  Remove.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-04-12 12:19:18 +10:00
Eric Paris
06ad187e28 security: remove dead hook task_setgid
Unused hook.  Remove.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-04-12 12:19:17 +10:00
Eric Paris
43ed8c3b45 security: remove dead hook task_setuid
Unused hook.  Remove.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-04-12 12:19:16 +10:00
Eric Paris
0968d0060a security: remove dead hook cred_commit
Unused hook.  Remove.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-04-12 12:19:15 +10:00
Jiri Slaby
d88d4050dc PM / Hibernate: user.c, fix SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA handling
When CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT is set we decode the device
improperly by old_decode_dev and it results in an error while
hibernating with s2disk.

All users already pass the new device number, so switch to
new_decode_dev().

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Reported-and-tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
2010-04-10 22:28:56 +02:00
Arnd Bergmann
5534ecb2dd ptrace: kill BKL in ptrace syscall
The comment suggests that this usage is stale. There is no bkl in the
exec path so if there is a race lurking there, the bkl in ptrace is
not going to help in this regard.

Overview of the possibility of "accidental" races this bkl might
protect:

- ptrace_traceme() is protected against task removal and concurrent
read/write on current->ptrace as it locks write tasklist_lock.

- arch_ptrace_attach() is serialized by ptrace_traceme() against
concurrent PTRACE_TRACEME or PTRACE_ATTACH

- ptrace_attach() is protected the same way ptrace_traceme() and
in turn serializes arch_ptrace_attach()

- ptrace_check_attach() does its own well described serializing too.

There is no obvious race here.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
2010-04-10 15:34:21 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
2aedd192f7 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 sched_getaffinity()
2010-04-08 08:37:05 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
ca7e0c6120 Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core
Semantic conflict: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c

Merge reason: pick up latest fixes, fix the conflict

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-08 13:37:18 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
c1ab9cab75 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Conflicts:
	include/linux/module.h
	kernel/module.c

Semantic conflict:
	include/trace/events/module.h

Merge reason: Resolve the conflict with upstream commit 5fbfb18 ("Fix up
              possibly racy module refcounting")

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-08 10:18:47 +02:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
a3a2e76c77 mm: avoid null-pointer deref in sync_mm_rss()
- We weren't zeroing p->rss_stat[] at fork()

- Consequently sync_mm_rss() was dereferencing tsk->mm for kernel
  threads and was oopsing.

- Make __sync_task_rss_stat() static, too.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15648

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove the BUG_ON(!mm->rss)]
Reported-by: Troels Liebe Bentsen <tlb@rapanden.dk>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-07 08:38:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
94c4fcec01 Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  genirq: Force MSI irq handlers to run with interrupts disabled
2010-04-06 13:03:22 -07:00
Carsten Emde
351b3f7a21 hrtimers: Provide schedule_hrtimeout for CLOCK_REALTIME
The current version of schedule_hrtimeout() always uses the
monotonic clock. Some system calls such as mq_timedsend()
and mq_timedreceive(), however, require the use of the wall
clock due to the definition of the system call.

This patch provides the infrastructure to use schedule_hrtimeout() 
with a CLOCK_REALTIME timer.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
Tested-by: Pradyumna Sampath <pradysam@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Veen <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100402204331.167439615@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-04-06 21:50:03 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
3bbb9ec946 timers: Introduce the concept of timer slack for legacy timers
While HR timers have had the concept of timer slack for quite some time
now, the legacy timers lacked this concept, and had to make do with
round_jiffies() and friends.

Timer slack is important for power management; grouping timers reduces the
number of wakeups which in turn reduces power consumption.

This patch introduces timer slack to the legacy timers using the following
pieces:
* A slack field in the timer struct
* An api (set_timer_slack) that callers can use to set explicit timer slack
* A default slack of 0.4% of the requested delay for callers that do not set
  any explicit slack
* Rounding code that is part of mod_timer() that tries to
  group timers around jiffies values every 'power of two'
  (so quick timers will group around every 2, but longer timers
  will group around every 4, 8, 16, 32 etc)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-04-06 21:50:02 +02:00
Anton Blanchard
84fba5ec91 sched: Fix sched_getaffinity()
taskset on 2.6.34-rc3 fails on one of my ppc64 test boxes with
the following error:

  sched_getaffinity(0, 16, 0x10029650030) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

This box has 128 threads and 16 bytes is enough to cover it.

Commit cd3d8031eb4311e516329aee03c79a08333141f1 (sched:
sched_getaffinity(): Allow less than NR_CPUS length) is
comparing this 16 bytes agains nr_cpu_ids.

Fix it by comparing nr_cpu_ids to the number of bits in the
cpumask we pass in.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Sharyathi Nagesh <sharyath@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100406070218.GM5594@kryten>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-06 10:01:35 +02:00
Nick Piggin
5fbfb18d7a Fix up possibly racy module refcounting
Module refcounting is implemented with a per-cpu counter for speed.
However there is a race when tallying the counter where a reference may
be taken by one CPU and released by another.  Reference count summation
may then see the decrement without having seen the previous increment,
leading to lower than expected count.  A module which never has its
actual reference drop below 1 may return a reference count of 0 due to
this race.

Module removal generally runs under stop_machine, which prevents this
race causing bugs due to removal of in-use modules.  However there are
other real bugs in module.c code and driver code (module_refcount is
exported) where the callers do not run under stop_machine.

Fix this by maintaining running per-cpu counters for the number of
module refcount increments and the number of refcount decrements.  The
increments are tallied after the decrements, so any decrement seen will
always have its corresponding increment counted.  The final refcount is
the difference of the total increments and decrements, preventing a
low-refcount from being returned.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-05 19:50:02 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker
bd6d29c25b lockstat: Make lockstat counting per cpu
Locking statistics are implemented using global atomic
variables. This is usually fine unless some path write them very
often.

This is the case for the function and function graph tracers
that disable irqs for each entry saved (except if the function
tracer is in preempt disabled only mode).
And calls to local_irq_save/restore() increment
hardirqs_on_events and hardirqs_off_events stats (or similar
stats for redundant versions).

Incrementing these global vars for each function ends up in too
much cache bouncing if lockstats are enabled.

To solve this, implement the debug_atomic_*() operations using
per cpu vars.

 -v2: Use per_cpu() instead of get_cpu_var() to fetch the desired
      cpu vars on debug_atomic_read()

 -v3: Store the stats in a structure. No need for local_t as we
      are NMI/irq safe.

 -v4: Fix tons of build errors. I thought I had tested it but I
      probably forgot to select the relevant config.

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1270505417-8144-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-04-06 00:15:37 +02:00
Eric Paris
449cedf099 audit: preface audit printk with audit
There have been a number of reports of people seeing the message:
"name_count maxed, losing inode data: dev=00:05, inode=3185"
in dmesg.  These usually lead to people reporting problems to the filesystem
group who are in turn clueless what they mean.

Eventually someone finds me and I explain what is going on and that
these come from the audit system.  The basics of the problem is that the
audit subsystem never expects a single syscall to 'interact' (for some
wish washy meaning of interact) with more than 20 inodes.  But in fact
some operations like loading kernel modules can cause changes to lots of
inodes in debugfs.

There are a couple real fixes being bandied about including removing the
fixed compile time limit of 20 or not auditing changes in debugfs (or
both) but neither are small and obvious so I am not sending them for
immediate inclusion (I hope Al forwards a real solution next devel
window).

In the meantime this patch simply adds 'audit' to the beginning of the
crap message so if a user sees it, they come blame me first and we can
talk about what it means and make sure we understand all of the reasons
it can happen and make sure this gets solved correctly in the long run.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-05 13:19:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b66696e3c0 Merge branch 'slabh' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc
* 'slabh' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc:
  eeepc-wmi: include slab.h
  staging/otus: include slab.h from usbdrv.h
  percpu: don't implicitly include slab.h from percpu.h
  kmemcheck: Fix build errors due to missing slab.h
  include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
  iwlwifi: don't include iwl-dev.h from iwl-devtrace.h
  x86: don't include slab.h from arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_32.h

Fix up trivial conflicts in include/linux/percpu.h due to
is_kernel_percpu_address() having been introduced since the slab.h
cleanup with the percpu_up.c splitup.
2010-04-05 09:39:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9e74e7c81a 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:
  module: add stub for is_module_percpu_address
  percpu, module: implement and use is_kernel/module_percpu_address()
  module: encapsulate percpu handling better and record percpu_size
2010-04-05 09:16:37 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
aa27497c2f tracing: Fix uninitialized variable of tracing/trace output
Because a local variable is not initialized, I got these
when I did 'cat tracing/trace'. (not trace_pipe):

CPU:0 [LOST 18446744071579453134 EVENTS]
              ps-3099  [000]   560.770221: lock_acquire: ffff880030865010 &(&dentry->d_lock)->rlock
CPU:0 [LOST 18446744071579453134 EVENTS]
              ps-3099  [000]   560.770221: lock_release: ffff880030865010 &(&dentry->d_lock)->rlock
CPU:0 [LOST 18446612133255294080 EVENTS]
              ps-3099  [000]   560.770221: lock_acquire: ffff880030865010 &(&dentry->d_lock)->rlock
CPU:0 [LOST 18446744071579453134 EVENTS]
              ps-3099  [000]   560.770222: lock_release: ffff880030865010 &(&dentry->d_lock)->rlock
CPU:0 [LOST 18446744071579453134 EVENTS]
              ps-3099  [000]   560.770222: lock_release: ffffffff816cfb98 dcache_lock

See peek_next_entry(), it does not set *lost_events when we 'cat tracing/trace'

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BB9A929.2000303@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-04-05 11:01:22 -04:00
Tejun Heo
336f5899d2 Merge branch 'master' into export-slabh 2010-04-05 11:37:28 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
8ce42c8b7f 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: Always build the powerpc perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs version
  perf: Always build the stub perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs version
  perf, probe-finder: Build fix on Debian
  perf/scripts: Tuple was set from long in both branches in python_process_event()
  perf: Fix 'perf sched record' deadlock
  perf, x86: Fix callgraphs of 32-bit processes on 64-bit kernels
  perf, x86: Fix AMD hotplug & constraint initialization
  x86: Move notify_cpu_starting() callback to a later stage
  x86,kgdb: Always initialize the hw breakpoint attribute
  perf: Use hot regs with software sched switch/migrate events
  perf: Correctly align perf event tracing buffer
2010-04-04 12:13:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0121b0c771 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: set_cpus_allowed_ptr(): Don't use rq->migration_thread after unlock
  sched: Fix proc_sched_set_task()
2010-04-04 12:12:31 -07:00