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Davidlohr Bueso
45ab4effc3 locking/rtmutex: Implement lockless top-waiter wakeup
Mark the task for later wakeup after the wait_lock has been released.
This way, once the next task is awoken, it will have a better chance
to of finding the wait_lock free when continuing executing in
__rt_mutex_slowlock() when trying to acquire the rtmutex, calling
try_to_take_rt_mutex(). Upon contended scenarios, other tasks attempting
take the lock may acquire it first, right after the wait_lock is released,
but (a) this can also occur with the current code, as it relies on the
spinlock fairness, and (b) we are dealing with the top-waiter anyway,
so it will always take the lock next.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432056298-18738-2-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-06-18 22:27:46 +02:00
Rik van Riel
6f9aad0bc3 sched/numa: Only consider less busy nodes as numa balancing destinations
Changeset a43455a1d5 ("sched/numa: Ensure task_numa_migrate() checks
the preferred node") fixes an issue where workloads would never
converge on a fully loaded (or overloaded) system.

However, it introduces a regression on less than fully loaded systems,
where workloads converge on a few NUMA nodes, instead of properly
staying spread out across the whole system. This leads to a reduction
in available memory bandwidth, and usable CPU cache, with predictable
performance problems.

The root cause appears to be an interaction between the load balancer
and NUMA balancing, where the short term load represented by the load
balancer differs from the long term load the NUMA balancing code would
like to base its decisions on.

Simply reverting a43455a1d5 would re-introduce the non-convergence
of workloads on fully loaded systems, so that is not a good option. As
an aside, the check done before a43455a1d5 only applied to a task's
preferred node, not to other candidate nodes in the system, so the
converge-on-too-few-nodes problem still happens, just to a lesser
degree.

Instead, try to compensate for the impedance mismatch between the load
balancer and NUMA balancing by only ever considering a lesser loaded
node as a destination for NUMA balancing, regardless of whether the
task is trying to move to the preferred node, or to another node.

This patch also addresses the issue that a system with a single
runnable thread would never migrate that thread to near its memory,
introduced by 095bebf61a ("sched/numa: Do not move past the balance
point if unbalanced").

A test where the main thread creates a large memory area, and spawns a
worker thread to iterate over the memory (placed on another node by
select_task_rq_fair), after which the main thread goes to sleep and
waits for the worker thread to loop over all the memory now sees the
worker thread migrated to where the memory is, instead of having all
the memory migrated over like before.

Jirka has run a number of performance tests on several systems: single
instance SpecJBB 2005 performance is 7-15% higher on a 4 node system,
with higher gains on systems with more cores per socket.
Multi-instance SpecJBB 2005 (one per node), linpack, and stream see
little or no changes with the revert of 095bebf61a and this patch.

Reported-by: Artem Bityutski <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150528095249.3083ade0@annuminas.surriel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-07 15:57:45 +02:00
Rik van Riel
e4991b240c Revert 095bebf61a ("sched/numa: Do not move past the balance point if unbalanced")
Commit 095bebf61a ("sched/numa: Do not move past the balance point
if unbalanced") broke convergence of workloads with just one runnable
thread, by making it impossible for the one runnable thread on the
system to move from one NUMA node to another.

Instead, the thread would remain where it was, and pull all the memory
across to its location, which is much slower than just migrating the
thread to where the memory is.

The next patch has a better fix for the issue that 095bebf61a tried
to address.

Reported-by: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dedekind1@gmail.com
Cc: mgorman@suse.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432753468-7785-2-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-07 15:57:44 +02:00
Ben Segall
54d27365ca sched/fair: Prevent throttling in early pick_next_task_fair()
The optimized task selection logic optimistically selects a new task
to run without first doing a full put_prev_task(). This is so that we
can avoid a put/set on the common ancestors of the old and new task.

Similarly, we should only call check_cfs_rq_runtime() to throttle
eligible groups if they're part of the common ancestry, otherwise it
is possible to end up with no eligible task in the simple task
selection.

Imagine:
		/root
	/prev		/next
	/A		/B

If our optimistic selection ends up throttling /next, we goto simple
and our put_prev_task() ends up throttling /prev, after which we're
going to bug out in set_next_entity() because there aren't any tasks
left.

Avoid this scenario by only throttling common ancestors.

Reported-by: Mohammed Naser <mnaser@vexxhost.com>
Reported-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
[ munged Changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: pjt@google.com
Fixes: 678d5718d8 ("sched/fair: Optimize cgroup pick_next_task_fair()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/xm26wq1oswoq.fsf@sword-of-the-dawn.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-07 15:57:44 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
4eaca0a887 preempt: Use preempt_schedule_context() as the official tracing preemption point
preempt_schedule_context() is a tracing safe preemption point but it's
only used when CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING=y. Other configs have tracing
recursion issues since commit:

  b30f0e3ffe ("sched/preempt: Optimize preemption operations on __schedule() callers")

introduced function based preemp_count_*() ops.

Lets make it available on all configs and give it a more appropriate
name for its new position.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433432349-1021-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-07 15:57:42 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
be690035df sched: Make preempt_schedule_context() function-tracing safe
Since function tracing disables preemption, it needs a safe preemption
point to use when preemption is re-enabled without worrying about tracing
recursion. Ie: to avoid tracing recursion, that preemption point can't
be traced (use of notrace qualifier) and it can't call any traceable
function before that preemption point disables preemption itself, which
disarms the recursion.

preempt_schedule() was fine until commit:

  b30f0e3ffe ("sched/preempt: Optimize preemption operations on __schedule() callers")

because PREEMPT_ACTIVE (which has the property to disable preemption
and this disarm tracing preemption recursion) was set before calling
any further function.

But that commit introduced the use of preempt_count_add/sub() functions
to set PREEMPT_ACTIVE and because these functions are called before
preemption gets a chance to be disabled, we have a tracing recursion.

preempt_schedule_context() is one of the possible preemption functions
used by tracing. Its special purpose is to avoid tracing recursion
against context tracking. Lets enhance this function to become more
generally tracing safe by disabling preemption with raw accessors, such
that no function is called before preemption gets disabled and disarm
the tracing recursion.

This function is going to become the specific tracing-safe preemption
point in further commit.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433432349-1021-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-07 15:57:41 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f407a82586 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core, to resolve conflict
Conflicts:
	arch/sparc/include/asm/topology_64.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-02 08:05:42 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
6e49ba1bb1 ** NOW WITH TESTING! **
Two fixes which got lost in my recent distraction.  One is a weird
 cpumask function which needed to be rewritten, the other is a module
 bug which is cc:stable.
 
 Thanks,
 Rusty.
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Merge tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux

Pull fixes for cpumask and modules from Rusty Russell:
 "** NOW WITH TESTING! **

  Two fixes which got lost in my recent distraction.  One is a weird
  cpumask function which needed to be rewritten, the other is a module
  bug which is cc:stable"

* tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  cpumask_set_cpu_local_first => cpumask_local_spread, lament
  module: Call module notifier on failure after complete_formation()
2015-05-29 11:24:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c5db6a3bde Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer fix from Thomas Gleixner:
 "One more fix from the timer departement:

    - Handle division of negative nanosecond values proper on 32bit.

      A recent cleanup wrecked the sign handling of the dividend and
      dropped the check for negative divisors"

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  ktime: Fix ktime_divns to do signed division
2015-05-23 17:57:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1c8df7bd48 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "Three small fixes that have been picked up the last few weeks.
  Specifically:

   - Fix a memory corruption issue in NVMe with malignant user
     constructed request.  From Christoph.

   - Kill (now) unused blk_queue_bio(), dm was changed to not need this
     anymore.  From Mike Snitzer.

   - Always use blk_schedule_flush_plug() from the io_schedule() path
     when flushing a plug, fixing a !TASK_RUNNING warning with md.  From
     Shaohua"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  sched: always use blk_schedule_flush_plug in io_schedule_out
  nvme: fix kernel memory corruption with short INQUIRY buffers
  block: remove export for blk_queue_bio
2015-05-22 15:15:30 -07:00
Michal Hocko
1173ff09b9 watchdog: fix double lock in watchdog_nmi_enable_all
Commit ab992dc38f ("watchdog: Fix merge 'conflict'") has introduced an
obvious deadlock because of a typo.  watchdog_proc_mutex should be
unlocked on exit.

Thanks to Miroslav Benes who was staring at the code with me and noticed
this.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Duh-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-05-19 10:57:03 -07:00
Rik van Riel
c1ceac6276 sched/numa: Reduce conflict between fbq_classify_rq() and migration
It is possible for fbq_classify_rq() to indicate that a CPU has tasks that
should be moved to another NUMA node, but for migrate_improves_locality
and migrate_degrades_locality to not identify those tasks.

This patch always gives preference to preferred node evaluations, and
only checks the number of faults when evaluating moves between two
non-preferred nodes on a larger NUMA system.

On a two node system, the number of faults is never evaluated. Either
a task is about to be pulled off its preferred node, or migrated onto
it.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: mgorman@suse.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150514225936.35b91717@annuminas.surriel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19 08:39:19 +02:00
David Hildenbrand
8bcbde5480 sched/preempt, mm/fault: Count pagefault_disable() levels in pagefault_disabled
Until now, pagefault_disable()/pagefault_enabled() used the preempt
count to track whether in an environment with pagefaults disabled (can
be queried via in_atomic()).

This patch introduces a separate counter in task_struct to count the
level of pagefault_disable() calls. We'll keep manipulating the preempt
count to retain compatibility to existing pagefault handlers.

It is now possible to verify whether in a pagefault_disable() envionment
by calling pagefault_disabled(). In contrast to in_atomic() it will not
be influenced by preempt_enable()/preempt_disable().

This patch is based on a patch from Ingo Molnar.

Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: airlied@linux.ie
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de
Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Cc: daniel.vetter@intel.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: hocko@suse.cz
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: mst@redhat.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: yang.shi@windriver.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431359540-32227-2-git-send-email-dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19 08:39:13 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
b30f0e3ffe sched/preempt: Optimize preemption operations on __schedule() callers
__schedule() disables preemption and some of its callers
(the preempt_schedule*() family) also set PREEMPT_ACTIVE.

So we have two preempt_count() modifications that could be performed
at once.

Lets remove the preemption disablement from __schedule() and pull
this responsibility to its callers in order to optimize preempt_count()
operations in a single place.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431441711-29753-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19 08:39:12 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
a22ae71806 Linux 4.1-rc4
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Merge tag 'v4.1-rc4' into sched/core, before applying new patches

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19 08:37:30 +02:00
Shaohua Li
10d784eae2 sched: always use blk_schedule_flush_plug in io_schedule_out
block plug callback could sleep, so we introduce a parameter
'from_schedule' and corresponding drivers can use it to destinguish a
schedule plug flush or a plug finish. Unfortunately io_schedule_out
still uses blk_flush_plug(). This causes below output (Note, I added a
might_sleep() in raid1_unplug to make it trigger faster, but the whole
thing doesn't matter if I add might_sleep). In raid1/10, this can cause
deadlock.

This patch makes io_schedule_out always uses blk_schedule_flush_plug.
This should only impact drivers (as far as I know, raid 1/10) which are
sensitive to the 'from_schedule' parameter.

[  370.817949] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  370.817960] WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 145 at ../kernel/sched/core.c:7306 __might_sleep+0x7f/0x90()
[  370.817969] do not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING; state=2 set at [<ffffffff81092fcf>] prepare_to_wait+0x2f/0x90
[  370.817971] Modules linked in: raid1
[  370.817976] CPU: 7 PID: 145 Comm: kworker/u16:9 Tainted: G        W       4.0.0+ #361
[  370.817977] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.7.5-20140709_153802- 04/01/2014
[  370.817983] Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-9:1)
[  370.817985]  ffffffff81cd83be ffff8800ba8cb298 ffffffff819dd7af 0000000000000001
[  370.817988]  ffff8800ba8cb2e8 ffff8800ba8cb2d8 ffffffff81051afc ffff8800ba8cb2c8
[  370.817990]  ffffffffa00061a8 000000000000041e 0000000000000000 ffff8800ba8cba28
[  370.817993] Call Trace:
[  370.817999]  [<ffffffff819dd7af>] dump_stack+0x4f/0x7b
[  370.818002]  [<ffffffff81051afc>] warn_slowpath_common+0x8c/0xd0
[  370.818004]  [<ffffffff81051b86>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
[  370.818006]  [<ffffffff81092fcf>] ? prepare_to_wait+0x2f/0x90
[  370.818008]  [<ffffffff81092fcf>] ? prepare_to_wait+0x2f/0x90
[  370.818010]  [<ffffffff810776ef>] __might_sleep+0x7f/0x90
[  370.818014]  [<ffffffffa0000c03>] raid1_unplug+0xd3/0x170 [raid1]
[  370.818024]  [<ffffffff81421d9a>] blk_flush_plug_list+0x8a/0x1e0
[  370.818028]  [<ffffffff819e3550>] ? bit_wait+0x50/0x50
[  370.818031]  [<ffffffff819e21b0>] io_schedule_timeout+0x130/0x140
[  370.818033]  [<ffffffff819e3586>] bit_wait_io+0x36/0x50
[  370.818034]  [<ffffffff819e31b5>] __wait_on_bit+0x65/0x90
[  370.818041]  [<ffffffff8125b67c>] ? ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait+0xbc/0x630
[  370.818043]  [<ffffffff819e3550>] ? bit_wait+0x50/0x50
[  370.818045]  [<ffffffff819e3302>] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x72/0x80
[  370.818047]  [<ffffffff810935e0>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x40/0x40
[  370.818050]  [<ffffffff811de744>] __wait_on_buffer+0x44/0x50
[  370.818053]  [<ffffffff8125ae80>] ext4_wait_block_bitmap+0xe0/0xf0
[  370.818058]  [<ffffffff812975d6>] ext4_mb_init_cache+0x206/0x790
[  370.818062]  [<ffffffff8114bc6c>] ? lru_cache_add+0x1c/0x50
[  370.818064]  [<ffffffff81297c7e>] ext4_mb_init_group+0x11e/0x200
[  370.818066]  [<ffffffff81298231>] ext4_mb_load_buddy+0x341/0x360
[  370.818068]  [<ffffffff8129a1a3>] ext4_mb_find_by_goal+0x93/0x2f0
[  370.818070]  [<ffffffff81295b54>] ? ext4_mb_normalize_request+0x1e4/0x5b0
[  370.818072]  [<ffffffff8129ab67>] ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x67/0x460
[  370.818074]  [<ffffffff81295b54>] ? ext4_mb_normalize_request+0x1e4/0x5b0
[  370.818076]  [<ffffffff8129ca4b>] ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x4cb/0x620
[  370.818079]  [<ffffffff81290956>] ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x4c6/0x14d0
[  370.818081]  [<ffffffff812a4d4e>] ? ext4_es_lookup_extent+0x4e/0x290
[  370.818085]  [<ffffffff8126399d>] ext4_map_blocks+0x14d/0x4f0
[  370.818088]  [<ffffffff81266fbd>] ext4_writepages+0x76d/0xe50
[  370.818094]  [<ffffffff81149691>] do_writepages+0x21/0x50
[  370.818097]  [<ffffffff811d5c00>] __writeback_single_inode+0x60/0x490
[  370.818099]  [<ffffffff811d630a>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x2da/0x590
[  370.818103]  [<ffffffff811abf4b>] ? trylock_super+0x1b/0x50
[  370.818105]  [<ffffffff811abf4b>] ? trylock_super+0x1b/0x50
[  370.818107]  [<ffffffff811d665f>] __writeback_inodes_wb+0x9f/0xd0
[  370.818109]  [<ffffffff811d69db>] wb_writeback+0x34b/0x3c0
[  370.818111]  [<ffffffff811d70df>] bdi_writeback_workfn+0x23f/0x550
[  370.818116]  [<ffffffff8106bbd8>] process_one_work+0x1c8/0x570
[  370.818117]  [<ffffffff8106bb5b>] ? process_one_work+0x14b/0x570
[  370.818119]  [<ffffffff8106c09b>] worker_thread+0x11b/0x470
[  370.818121]  [<ffffffff8106bf80>] ? process_one_work+0x570/0x570
[  370.818124]  [<ffffffff81071868>] kthread+0xf8/0x110
[  370.818126]  [<ffffffff81071770>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x210/0x210
[  370.818129]  [<ffffffff819e9322>] ret_from_fork+0x42/0x70
[  370.818131]  [<ffffffff81071770>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x210/0x210
[  370.818132] ---[ end trace 7b4deb71e68b6605 ]---

V2: don't change ->in_iowait

Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-05-18 16:06:41 -06:00
Peter Zijlstra
ab992dc38f watchdog: Fix merge 'conflict'
Two watchdog changes that came through different trees had a non
conflicting conflict, that is, one changed the semantics of a variable
but no actual code conflict happened. So the merge appeared fine, but
the resulting code did not behave as expected.

Commit 195daf665a ("watchdog: enable the new user interface of the
watchdog mechanism") changes the semantics of watchdog_user_enabled,
which thereafter is only used by the functions introduced by
b3738d2932 ("watchdog: Add watchdog enable/disable all functions").

There further appears to be a distinct lack of serialization between
setting and using watchdog_enabled, so perhaps we should wrap the
{en,dis}able_all() things in watchdog_proc_mutex.

This patch fixes a s2r failure reported by Michal; which I cannot
readily explain. But this does make the code internally consistent
again.

Reported-and-tested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-05-18 10:08:29 -07:00
Nicholas Mc Guire
58ac93e4f2 sched: Fix function declaration return type mismatch
static code checking was unhappy with:

  ./kernel/sched/fair.c:162 WARNING: return of wrong type
                int != unsigned int

get_update_sysctl_factor() is declared to return int but is
currently  returning an unsigned int. The first few preprocessed
lines are:

 static int get_update_sysctl_factor(void)
 {
 unsigned int cpus = ({ int __min1 = (cpumask_weight(cpu_online_mask));
 int __min2 = (8); __min1 < __min2 ? __min1: __min2; });
 unsigned int factor;

The type used by min_t() should be 'unsigned int' and the return type
of get_update_sysctl_factor() should also be 'unsigned int' as its
call-site update_sysctl() is expecting 'unsigned int' and the values
utilizing:

  'factor'
  'sysctl_sched_min_granularity'
  'sched_nr_latency'
  'sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity'

... are also all 'unsigned int', plus cpumask_weight() is also
returning 'unsigned int'.

So the natural type to use around here is 'unsigned int'.

( Patch was compile tested with x86_64_defconfig +
  CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y and the changed sections in
  kernel/sched/fair.i were reviewed. )

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
[ Improved the changelog a bit. ]
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431716742-11077-1-git-send-email-hofrat@osadl.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-17 06:47:46 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
14db1e8dc0 Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Two fixes: a suspend/resume related regression fix, and an RT priority
  boosting fix"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/core: Fix regression in cpuset_cpu_inactive() for suspend
  sched: Handle priority boosted tasks proper in setscheduler()
2015-05-15 12:42:33 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ef4a293a44 Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Mostly tooling fixes, but also a lockdep annotation fix, a PMU event
  list fix and a new model addition"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  tools/liblockdep: Fix compilation error
  tools/liblockdep: Fix linker error in case of cross compile
  perf tools: Use getconf to determine number of online CPUs
  tools: Fix tools/vm build
  perf/x86/rapl: Enable Broadwell-U RAPL support
  perf/x86/intel: Fix SLM cache event list
  perf: Annotate inherited event ctx->mutex recursion
2015-05-15 12:38:21 -07:00
John Stultz
f7bcb70eba ktime: Fix ktime_divns to do signed division
It was noted that the 32bit implementation of ktime_divns()
was doing unsigned division and didn't properly handle
negative values.

And when a ktime helper was changed to utilize
ktime_divns, it caused a regression on some IR blasters.
See the following bugzilla for details:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1200353

This patch fixes the problem in ktime_divns by checking
and preserving the sign bit, and then reapplying it if
appropriate after the division, it also changes the return
type to a s64 to make it more obvious this is expected.

Nicolas also pointed out that negative dividers would
cause infinite loops on 32bit systems, negative dividers
is unlikely for users of this function, but out of caution
this patch adds checks for negative dividers for both
32-bit (BUG_ON) and 64-bit(WARN_ON) versions to make sure
no such use cases creep in.

[ tglx: Hand an u64 to do_div() to avoid the compiler warning ]

Fixes: 166afb6451 'ktime: Sanitize ktime_to_us/ms conversion'
Reported-and-tested-by: Trevor Cordes <trevor@tecnopolis.ca>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431118043-23452-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-05-13 10:19:35 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
9d88f22a81 Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull irq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Two patches from the irq departement:

   - a simple fix to make dummy_irq_chip usable for wakeup scenarios

   - removal of the gic arch_extn hackery.  Now that all users are
     converted we really want to get rid of the interface so people wont
     come up with new use cases"

* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  irqchip: gic: Drop support for gic_arch_extn
  genirq: Set IRQCHIP_SKIP_SET_WAKE flag for dummy_irq_chip
2015-05-09 14:59:05 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
95f3b1f4b1 Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer fix from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A simple fix to actually shut down a detached device instead of
  keeping it active"

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  clockevents: Shutdown detached clockevent device
2015-05-09 14:57:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
26b293e854 The newly added ftrace_print_array_seq() function had a bug in it. Luckily,
the only user of it didn't make the 4.1 merge window. But the helper
 function should be fixed before 4.2 when the users start coming in.
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Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v4.1-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "The newly added ftrace_print_array_seq() function had a bug in it.
  Luckily, the only user of it didn't make the 4.1 merge window.

  But the helper function should be fixed before 4.2 when the users
  start coming in"

* tag 'trace-fixes-v4.1-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Make ftrace_print_array_seq compute buf_len
2015-05-08 18:22:05 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
37815bf866 module: Call module notifier on failure after complete_formation()
The module notifier call chain for MODULE_STATE_COMING was moved up before
the parsing of args, into the complete_formation() call. But if the module failed
to load after that, the notifier call chain for MODULE_STATE_GOING was
never called and that prevented the users of those call chains from
cleaning up anything that was allocated.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/554C52B9.9060700@gmail.com

Reported-by: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com>
Fixes: 4982223e51 "module: set nx before marking module MODULE_STATE_COMING"
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2015-05-09 03:29:24 +09:30
Davidlohr Bueso
1d0dcb3ad9 futex: Implement lockless wakeups
Given the overall futex architecture, any chance of reducing
hb->lock contention is welcome. In this particular case, using
wake-queues to enable lockless wakeups addresses very much real
world performance concerns, even cases of soft-lockups in cases
of large amounts of blocked tasks (which is not hard to find in
large boxes, using but just a handful of futex).

At the lowest level, this patch can reduce latency of a single thread
attempting to acquire hb->lock in highly contended scenarios by a
up to 2x. At lower counts of nr_wake there are no regressions,
confirming, of course, that the wake_q handling overhead is practically
non existent. For instance, while a fair amount of variation,
the extended pef-bench wakeup benchmark shows for a 20 core machine
the following avg per-thread time to wakeup its share of tasks:

	nr_thr	ms-before	ms-after
	16 	0.0590		0.0215
	32 	0.0396		0.0220
	48 	0.0417		0.0182
	64 	0.0536		0.0236
	80 	0.0414		0.0097
	96 	0.0672		0.0152

Naturally, this can cause spurious wakeups. However there is no core code
that cannot handle them afaict, and furthermore tglx does have the point
that other events can already trigger them anyway.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430494072-30283-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 12:21:40 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
7675104990 sched: Implement lockless wake-queues
This is useful for locking primitives that can effect multiple
wakeups per operation and want to avoid lock internal lock contention
by delaying the wakeups until we've released the lock internal locks.

Alternatively it can be used to avoid issuing multiple wakeups, and
thus save a few cycles, in packet processing. Queue all target tasks
and wakeup once you've processed all packets. That way you avoid
waking the target task multiple times if there were multiple packets
for the same task.

Properties of a wake_q are:
- Lockless, as queue head must reside on the stack.
- Being a queue, maintains wakeup order passed by the callers. This can
  be important for otherwise, in scenarios where highly contended locks
  could affect any reliance on lock fairness.
- A queued task cannot be added again until it is woken up.

This patch adds the needed infrastructure into the scheduler code
and uses the new wake_list to delay the futex wakeups until
after we've released the hash bucket locks.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
[tweaks, adjustments, comments, etc.]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430494072-30283-2-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 12:20:45 +02:00
Jason Low
7110744516 sched, timer: Use the atomic task_cputime in thread_group_cputimer
Recent optimizations were made to thread_group_cputimer to improve its
scalability by keeping track of cputime stats without a lock. However,
the values were open coded to the structure, causing them to be at
a different abstraction level from the regular task_cputime structure.
Furthermore, any subsequent similar optimizations would not be able to
share the new code, since they are specific to thread_group_cputimer.

This patch adds the new task_cputime_atomic data structure (introduced in
the previous patch in the series) to thread_group_cputimer for keeping
track of the cputime atomically, which also helps generalize the code.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430251224-5764-6-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 12:17:46 +02:00
Jason Low
1018016c70 sched, timer: Replace spinlocks with atomics in thread_group_cputimer(), to improve scalability
While running a database workload, we found a scalability issue with itimers.

Much of the problem was caused by the thread_group_cputimer spinlock.
Each time we account for group system/user time, we need to obtain a
thread_group_cputimer's spinlock to update the timers. On larger systems
(such as a 16 socket machine), this caused more than 30% of total time
spent trying to obtain this kernel lock to update these group timer stats.

This patch converts the timers to 64-bit atomic variables and use
atomic add to update them without a lock. With this patch, the percent
of total time spent updating thread group cputimer timers was reduced
from 30% down to less than 1%.

Note: On 32-bit systems using the generic 64-bit atomics, this causes
sample_group_cputimer() to take locks 3 times instead of just 1 time.
However, we tested this patch on a 32-bit system ARM system using the
generic atomics and did not find the overhead to be much of an issue.
An explanation for why this isn't an issue is that 32-bit systems usually
have small numbers of CPUs, and cacheline contention from extra spinlocks
called periodically is not really apparent on smaller systems.

Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430251224-5764-4-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 12:15:31 +02:00
Jason Low
7e5a2c1729 sched/numa: Document usages of mm->numa_scan_seq
The p->mm->numa_scan_seq is accessed using READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE
and modified without exclusive access. It is not clear why it is
accessed this way. This patch provides some documentation on that.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430440094.2475.61.camel@j-VirtualBox
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 12:13:13 +02:00
Jason Low
316c1608d1 sched, timer: Convert usages of ACCESS_ONCE() in the scheduler to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE()
ACCESS_ONCE doesn't work reliably on non-scalar types. This patch removes
the rest of the existing usages of ACCESS_ONCE() in the scheduler, and use
the new READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() APIs as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430251224-5764-2-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 12:11:32 +02:00
Nicholas Mc Guire
ce2f5fe463 sched/core: Remove unnecessary down/up conversion
'rt_period_us' is automatically type converted from u64 to long and then cast
back to u64 - this down/up conversion is unnecessary and can be removed to
improve readability.

This will also help us not truncate 'rt_period_us' to 32 bits on 32-bit kernels,
should we ever have so large values. (unlikely, not the least due to procfs.)

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430643116-24049-1-git-send-email-hofrat@osadl.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 12:10:07 +02:00
Palmer Dabbelt
b76808e680 signals, sched: Change all uses of JOBCTL_* from 'int' to 'long'
c56fb6564dcd ("Fix a misaligned load inside ptrace_attach()") makes
jobctl an "unsigned long".  It makes sense to have the masks applied
to it match that type.  This is currently just a cosmetic change, but
it will prevent the mask from being unexpectedly truncated if we ever
end up with masks with more bits.

One instance of "signr" is an int, but I left this alone because the
mask ensures that it will never overflow.

Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: bobby.prani@gmail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: richard@nod.at
Cc: vdavydov@parallels.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430453997-32459-4-git-send-email-palmer@dabbelt.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 12:04:36 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
3289bdb429 sched: Move the loadavg code to a more obvious location
I could not find the loadavg code.. turns out it was hidden in a file
called proc.c. It further got mingled up with the cruft per rq load
indexes (which we really want to get rid of).

Move the per rq load indexes into the fair.c load-balance code (that's
the only thing that uses them) and rename proc.c to loadavg.c so we
can find it again.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[ Did minor cleanups to the code. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 12:04:12 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
bb2ebf0886 Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core, before applying new patches
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 11:59:57 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
8b10c5e2b5 perf: Annotate inherited event ctx->mutex recursion
While fuzzing Sasha tripped over another ctx->mutex recursion lockdep
splat. Annotate this.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 11:59:40 +02:00
Paul Gortmaker
6a82b60da2 sched/core: Remove __cpuinit section tag that crept back in
We removed __cpuinit support (leaving no-op stubs) quite some time
ago.  However this one crept back in as of commit a803f0261b
("sched: Initialize rq->age_stamp on processor start")

Since we want to clobber the stubs too, get this removed now.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430174880-27958-2-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 11:54:43 +02:00
Omar Sandoval
533445c6e5 sched/core: Fix regression in cpuset_cpu_inactive() for suspend
Commit 3c18d447b3 ("sched/core: Check for available DL bandwidth in
cpuset_cpu_inactive()"), a SCHED_DEADLINE bugfix, had a logic error that
caused a regression in setting a CPU inactive during suspend. I ran into
this when a program was failing pthread_setaffinity_np() with EINVAL after
a suspend+wake up.

A simple reproducer:

	$ ./a.out
	sched_setaffinity: Success
	$ systemctl suspend
	$ ./a.out
	sched_setaffinity: Invalid argument

... where ./a.out is:

	#define _GNU_SOURCE
	#include <errno.h>
	#include <sched.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <string.h>
	#include <unistd.h>

	int main(void)
	{
		long num_cores;
		cpu_set_t cpu_set;
		int ret;

		num_cores = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN);
		CPU_ZERO(&cpu_set);
		CPU_SET(num_cores - 1, &cpu_set);
		errno = 0;
		ret = sched_setaffinity(getpid(), sizeof(cpu_set), &cpu_set);
		perror("sched_setaffinity");
		return ret ? EXIT_FAILURE : EXIT_SUCCESS;
	}

The mistake is that suspend is handled in the action ==
CPU_DOWN_PREPARE_FROZEN case of the switch statement in
cpuset_cpu_inactive().

However, the commit in question masked out CPU_TASKS_FROZEN
from the action, making this case dead.

The fix is straightforward.

Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 3c18d447b3 ("sched/core: Check for available DL bandwidth in cpuset_cpu_inactive()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1cb5ecb3d6543c38cce5790387f336f54ec8e2bc.1430733960.git.osandov@osandov.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 11:53:56 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
0782e63bc6 sched: Handle priority boosted tasks proper in setscheduler()
Ronny reported that the following scenario is not handled correctly:

	T1 (prio = 10)
	   lock(rtmutex);

	T2 (prio = 20)
	   lock(rtmutex)
	      boost T1

	T1 (prio = 20)
	   sys_set_scheduler(prio = 30)
	   T1 prio = 30
	   ....
	   sys_set_scheduler(prio = 10)
	   T1 prio = 30

The last step is wrong as T1 should now be back at prio 20.

Commit c365c292d0 ("sched: Consider pi boosting in setscheduler()")
only handles the case where a boosted tasks tries to lower its
priority.

Fix it by taking the new effective priority into account for the
decision whether a change of the priority is required.

Reported-by: Ronny Meeus <ronny.meeus@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Fixes: c365c292d0 ("sched: Consider pi boosting in setscheduler()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1505051806060.4225@nanos
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 11:53:55 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
ed7b40c90e Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core
So this isn't really a fix but a cleanup that can wait for v4.2.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 11:50:24 +02:00
Alex Bennée
ac01ce1410 tracing: Make ftrace_print_array_seq compute buf_len
The only caller to this function (__print_array) was getting it wrong by
passing the array length instead of buffer length. As the element size
was already being passed for other reasons it seems reasonable to push
the calculation of buffer length into the function.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430320727-14582-1-git-send-email-alex.bennee@linaro.org

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-05-06 23:03:23 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
02f0f5721e Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU fix from Ingo Molnar:
 "An RCU Kconfig fix that eliminates an annoying interactive kconfig
  question for CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT"

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  rcu: Control grace-period delays directly from value
2015-05-06 10:26:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6c3c1eb3c3 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Receive packet length needs to be adjust by 2 on RX to accomodate
    the two padding bytes in altera_tse driver.  From Vlastimil Setka.

 2) If rx frame is dropped due to out of memory in macb driver, we leave
    the receive ring descriptors in an undefined state.  From Punnaiah
    Choudary Kalluri

 3) Some netlink subsystems erroneously signal NLM_F_MULTI.  That is
    only for dumps.  Fix from Nicolas Dichtel.

 4) Fix mis-use of raw rt->rt_pmtu value in ipv4, one must always go via
    the ipv4_mtu() helper.  From Herbert Xu.

 5) Fix null deref in bridge netfilter, and miscalculated lengths in
    jump/goto nf_tables verdicts.  From Florian Westphal.

 6) Unhash ping sockets properly.

 7) Software implementation of BPF divide did 64/32 rather than 64/64
    bit divide.  The JITs got it right.  Fix from Alexei Starovoitov.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (30 commits)
  ipv4: Missing sk_nulls_node_init() in ping_unhash().
  net: fec: Fix RGMII-ID mode
  net/mlx4_en: Schedule napi when RX buffers allocation fails
  netxen_nic: use spin_[un]lock_bh around tx_clean_lock
  net/mlx4_core: Fix unaligned accesses
  mlx4_en: Use correct loop cursor in error path.
  cxgb4: Fix MC1 memory offset calculation
  bnx2x: Delay during kdump load
  net: Fix Kernel Panic in bonding driver debugfs file: rlb_hash_table
  net: dsa: Fix scope of eeprom-length property
  net: macb: Fix race condition in driver when Rx frame is dropped
  hv_netvsc: Fix a bug in netvsc_start_xmit()
  altera_tse: Correct rx packet length
  mlx4: Fix tx ring affinity_mask creation
  tipc: fix problem with parallel link synchronization mechanism
  tipc: remove wrong use of NLM_F_MULTI
  bridge/nl: remove wrong use of NLM_F_MULTI
  bridge/mdb: remove wrong use of NLM_F_MULTI
  net: sched: act_connmark: don't zap skb->nfct
  trivial: net: systemport: bcmsysport.h: fix 0x0x prefix
  ...
2015-05-01 20:51:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4a152c3913 Power management and ACPI fixes for v4.1-rc2
- Fix for a regression in the cpuidle core introduced by one of
    the recent commits in the clockevents_notify() removal series
    that put a call to a function which had to be executed with
    disabled interrupts into a code path running with enabled
    interrupts (Rafael J Wysocki).
 
  - Fix for a build problem in ACPICA (with GCC 4.5) introduced by one
    of the recent ACPICA tools commits that added a duplicate typedef
    to one of the ACPICA's header files by mistake (Olaf Hering).
 
  - Fix for a regression in the ACPI SBS (Smart Battery Subsystem)
    driver introduced during the 3.18 development cycle causing the
    smart battery manager to be marked as not present when it should
    be marked as present (Chris Bainbridge).
 
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Merge tag 'pm+acpi-4.1-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

Pull power management and ACPI fixes from Rafael Wysocki:
 "Three regression fixes this time, one for a recent regression in the
  cpuidle core affecting multiple systems, one for an inadvertently
  added duplicate typedef in ACPICA that breaks compilation with GCC 4.5
  and one for an ACPI Smart Battery Subsystem driver regression
  introduced during the 3.18 cycle (stable-candidate).

  Specifics:

   - Fix for a regression in the cpuidle core introduced by one of the
     recent commits in the clockevents_notify() removal series that put
     a call to a function which had to be executed with disabled
     interrupts into a code path running with enabled interrupts (Rafael
     J Wysocki)

   - Fix for a build problem in ACPICA (with GCC 4.5) introduced by one
     of the recent ACPICA tools commits that added a duplicate typedef
     to one of the ACPICA's header files by mistake (Olaf Hering)

   - Fix for a regression in the ACPI SBS (Smart Battery Subsystem)
     driver introduced during the 3.18 development cycle causing the
     smart battery manager to be marked as not present when it should be
     marked as present (Chris Bainbridge)"

* tag 'pm+acpi-4.1-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  cpuidle: Run tick_broadcast_exit() with disabled interrupts
  ACPI / SBS: Enable battery manager when present
  ACPICA: remove duplicate u8 typedef
2015-04-30 14:23:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9dbbe3cfc3 Remove from guest code the handling of task migration during a
pvclock read; instead use the correct protocol in KVM.
 
 This removes the need for task migration notifiers in core
 scheduler code.
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

Pull kvm changes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Remove from guest code the handling of task migration during a pvclock
  read; instead use the correct protocol in KVM.

  This removes the need for task migration notifiers in core scheduler
  code"

[ The scheduler people really hated the migration notifiers, so this was
  kind of required  - Linus ]

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  x86: pvclock: Really remove the sched notifier for cross-cpu migrations
  kvm: x86: fix kvmclock update protocol
2015-04-30 09:44:04 -07:00
David Howells
9c4249c8e0 modsign: change default key details
Change default key details to be more obviously unspecified.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-30 09:35:41 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
df8d9eeadd cpuidle: Run tick_broadcast_exit() with disabled interrupts
Commit 335f49196f (sched/idle: Use explicit broadcast oneshot
control function) replaced clockevents_notify() invocations in
cpuidle_idle_call() with direct calls to tick_broadcast_enter()
and tick_broadcast_exit(), but it overlooked the fact that
interrupts were already enabled before calling the latter which
led to functional breakage on systems using idle states with the
CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP flag set.

Fix that by moving the invocations of tick_broadcast_enter()
and tick_broadcast_exit() down into cpuidle_enter_state() where
interrupts are still disabled when tick_broadcast_exit() is
called.  Also ensure that interrupts will be disabled before
running tick_broadcast_exit() even if they have been enabled by
the idle state's ->enter callback.  Trigger a WARN_ON_ONCE() in
that case, as we generally don't want that to happen for states
with CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP set.

Fixes: 335f49196f (sched/idle: Use explicit broadcast oneshot control function)
Reported-and-tested-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2015-04-29 15:19:21 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
14bc84ce0b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux
Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
 "One additional new feature for 4.1, a new PRNG based on SHA-512 for
  the zcrypt driver.

  Two memory management related changes, the page table reallocation for
  KVM is removed, and with file ptes gone the encoding of page table
  entries is improved.

  And three bug fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux:
  s390/zcrypt: Introduce new SHA-512 based Pseudo Random Generator.
  s390/mm: change swap pte encoding and pgtable cleanup
  s390/mm: correct transfer of dirty & young bits in __pmd_to_pte
  s390/bpf: add dependency to z196 features
  s390/3215: free memory in error path
  s390/kvm: remove delayed reallocation of page tables for KVM
  kexec: allocate the kexec control page with KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_GFP
2015-04-28 09:58:46 -07:00
Alexei Starovoitov
876a7ae65b bpf: fix 64-bit divide
ALU64_DIV instruction should be dividing 64-bit by 64-bit,
whereas do_div() does 64-bit by 32-bit divide.
x64 and arm64 JITs correctly implement 64 by 64 unsigned divide.
llvm BPF backend emits code assuming that ALU64_DIV does 64 by 64.

Fixes: 89aa075832 ("net: sock: allow eBPF programs to be attached to sockets")
Reported-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-04-27 23:11:49 -04:00
Paolo Bonzini
73459e2a1a x86: pvclock: Really remove the sched notifier for cross-cpu migrations
This reverts commits 0a4e6be9ca
and 80f7fdb1c7.

The task migration notifier was originally introduced in order to support
the pvclock vsyscall with non-synchronized TSC, but KVM only supports it
with synchronized TSC.  Hence, on KVM the race condition is only needed
due to a bad implementation on the host side, and even then it's so rare
that it's mostly theoretical.

As far as KVM is concerned it's possible to fix the host, avoiding the
additional complexity in the vDSO and the (re)introduction of the task
migration notifier.

Xen, on the other hand, hasn't yet implemented vsyscall support at
all, so we do not care about its plans for non-synchronized TSC.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-04-27 15:49:30 +02:00