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Tejun Heo
e22bee782b workqueue: implement concurrency managed dynamic worker pool
Instead of creating a worker for each cwq and putting it into the
shared pool, manage per-cpu workers dynamically.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Alignment problem on UP is reported by Michal Simek.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:09 +02:00
Tejun Heo
53c5f5ba42 Merge branch 'sched-wq' of ../wq into cmwq-base 2010-06-13 18:19:48 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
85ca7886f5 Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: Fix null pointer deref with SEND_SIG_FORCED
  perf: Fix signed comparison in perf_adjust_period()
  powerpc/oprofile: fix potential buffer overrun in op_model_cell.c
  perf symbols: Set the DSO long name when using symbol_conf.vmlinux_name
2010-06-10 09:30:09 -07:00
Tejun Heo
21aa9af03d sched: add hooks for workqueue
Concurrency managed workqueue needs to know when workers are going to
sleep and waking up.  Using these two hooks, cmwq keeps track of the
current concurrency level and throttles execution of new works if it's
too high and wakes up another worker from the sleep hook if it becomes
too low.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is to help future implementation of try_to_wake_up_local().

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-06-08 21:40:36 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f6ab91add6 perf: Fix signed comparison in perf_adjust_period()
Frederic reported that frequency driven swevents didn't work properly
and even caused a division-by-zero error.

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

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

Cure this by making the local period variables s64.

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

In this particular case, it's libcrc32c:

	libcrc32c_mod_init
	 crypto_alloc_shash
	  crypto_alloc_tfm
	   crypto_find_alg
	    crypto_alg_mod_lookup
	     crypto_larval_lookup
	      request_module

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  echo
  echo PARENT
  grep cache cg1/memory.stat

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

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

  CHILD
  cache 1048576
  total_cache 1048576

  PARENT
  cache 0
  total_cache 0

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

  CHILD
  cache 1052672
  total_cache 1052672

  PARENT
  cache 0
  total_cache 1052672

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

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

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

Pointed-out-by: Wenming Zhang <wezhang@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-04 15:21:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
39d112100e 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, trace: Fix sched_switch() prev_state argument
  sched: Fix wake_affine() vs RT tasks
  sched: Make sure timers have migrated before killing the migration_thread
2010-06-03 15:47:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f150dba6d4 Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf: Fix crash in swevents
  perf buildid-list: Fix --with-hits event processing
  perf scripts python: Give field dict to unhandled callback
  perf hist: fix objdump output parsing
  perf-record: Check correct pid when forking
  perf: Do the comm inheritance per thread in event__process_task
  perf: Use event__process_task from perf sched
  perf: Process comm events by tid
  blktrace: Fix new kernel-doc warnings
  perf_events: Fix unincremented buffer base on partial copy
  perf_events: Fix event scheduling issues introduced by transactional API
  perf_events, trace: Fix perf_trace_destroy(), mutex went missing
  perf_events, trace: Fix probe unregister race
  perf_events: Fix races in group composition
  perf_events: Fix races and clean up perf_event and perf_mmap_data interaction
2010-06-03 15:45:26 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
c6df8d5ab8 perf: Fix crash in swevents
Frederic reported that because swevents handling doesn't disable IRQs
anymore, we can get a recursion of perf_adjust_period(), once from
overflow handling and once from the tick.

If both call ->disable, we get a double hlist_del_rcu() and trigger
a LIST_POISON2 dereference.

Since we don't actually need to stop/start a swevent to re-programm
the hardware (lack of hardware to program), simply nop out these
callbacks for the swevent pmu.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1275557609.27810.35218.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-03 17:03:08 +02:00
Jens Axboe
ff9da691c0 pipe: change /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-pages to byte sized interface
This changes the interface to be based on bytes instead. The API
matches that of F_SETPIPE_SZ in that it rounds up the passed in
size so that the resulting page array is a power-of-2 in size.

The proc file is renamed to /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size to
reflect this change.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-06-03 14:54:39 +02:00
Daniel J Blueman
5c113fbeed fix cpu_chain section mismatch...
In commit e9fb7631eb ("cpu-hotplug: introduce cpu_notify(),
__cpu_notify(), cpu_notify_nofail()") the new helper functions access
cpu_chain.  As a result, it shouldn't be marked __cpuinitdata (via
section mismatch warning).

Alternatively, the helper functions should be forced inline, or marked
__ref or __cpuinit.  In the meantime, this patch silences the warning
the trivial way.

Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-01 09:22:50 -07:00