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2010-07-16rlimits: redo do_setrlimit to more generic do_prlimitJiri Slaby
It now allows also reading of limits. I.e. all read and writes will later use this function. It takes two parameters, new and old limits which can be both NULL. If new is non-NULL, the value in it is set to rlimits. If old is non-NULL, current rlimits are stored there. If both are non-NULL, old are stored prior to setting the new ones, atomically. (Similar to sigaction.) Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
2010-07-16rlimits: do security check under task_lockJiri Slaby
Do security_task_setrlimit under task_lock. Other tasks may change limits under our hands while we are checking limits inside the function. From now on, they can't. Note that all the security work is done under a spinlock here now. Security hooks count with that, they are called from interrupt context (like security_task_kill) and with spinlocks already held (e.g. capable->security_capable). Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2010-07-16rlimits: allow setrlimit to non-current tasksJiri Slaby
Add locking to allow setrlimit accept task parameter other than current. Namely, lock tasklist_lock for read and check whether the task structure has sighand non-null. Do all the signal processing under that lock still held. There are some points: 1) security_task_setrlimit is now called with that lock held. This is not new, many security_* functions are called with this lock held already so it doesn't harm (all this security_* stuff does almost the same). 2) task->sighand->siglock (in update_rlimit_cpu) is nested in tasklist_lock. This dependence is already existing. 3) tsk->alloc_lock is nested in tasklist_lock. This is OK too, already existing dependence. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2010-07-16rlimits: split sys_setrlimitJiri Slaby
Create do_setrlimit from sys_setrlimit and declare do_setrlimit in the resource header. This is the first phase to have generic do_prlimit which allows to be called from read, write and compat rlimits code. The new do_setrlimit also accepts a task pointer to change the limits of. Currently, it cannot be other than current, but this will change with locking later. Also pass tsk->group_leader to security_task_setrlimit to check whether current is allowed to change rlimits of the process and not its arbitrary thread because it makes more sense given that rlimit are per process and not per-thread. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
2010-07-16rlimits: make sure ->rlim_max never grows in sys_setrlimitOleg Nesterov
Mostly preparation for Jiri's changes, but probably makes sense anyway. sys_setrlimit() checks new_rlim.rlim_max <= old_rlim->rlim_max, but when it takes task_lock() old_rlim->rlim_max can be already lowered. Move this check under task_lock(). Currently this is not important, we can only race with our sub-thread, this means the application is stupid. But when we change the code to allow the update of !current task's limits, it becomes important to make sure ->rlim_max can be lowered "reliably" even if we race with the application doing sys_setrlimit(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
2010-07-16rlimits: add task_struct to update_rlimit_cpuJiri Slaby
Add task_struct as a parameter to update_rlimit_cpu to be able to set rlimit_cpu of different task than current. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-07-16rlimits: security, add task_struct to setrlimitJiri Slaby
Add task_struct to task_setrlimit of security_operations to be able to set rlimit of task other than current. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-07-15tracing: Remove ksym tracerFrederic Weisbecker
The ksym (breakpoint) ftrace plugin has been superseded by perf tools that are much more poweful to use the cpu breakpoints. This tracer doesn't bring more feature. It has been deprecated for a while now, lets remove it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-14padata: simplify serialization mechanismSteffen Klassert
We count the number of processed objects on a percpu basis, so we need to go through all the percpu reorder queues to calculate the sequence number of the next object that needs serialization. This patch changes this to count the number of processed objects global. So we can calculate the sequence number and the percpu reorder queue of the next object that needs serialization without searching through the percpu reorder queues. This avoids some accesses to memory of foreign cpus. Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-14padata: make padata_do_parallel to return zero on successSteffen Klassert
To return -EINPROGRESS on success in padata_do_parallel was considered to be odd. This patch changes this to return zero on success. Also the only user of padata, pcrypt is adapted to convert a return of zero to -EINPROGRESS within the crypto layer. This also removes the pcrypt fallback if padata_do_parallel was called on a not running padata instance as we can't handle it anymore. This fallback was unused, so it's save to remove it. Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-14padata: Handle empty padata cpumasksSteffen Klassert
This patch fixes a bug when the padata cpumask does not intersect with the active cpumask. In this case we get a division by zero in padata_alloc_pd and we end up with a useless padata instance. Padata can end up with an empty cpumask for two reasons: 1. A user removed the last cpu that belongs to the padata cpumask and the active cpumask. 2. The last cpu that belongs to the padata cpumask and the active cpumask goes offline. We introduce a function padata_validate_cpumask to check if the padata cpumask does intersect with the active cpumask. If the cpumasks do not intersect we mark the instance as invalid, so it can't be used. We do not allocate the cpumask dependend recources in this case. This fixes the division by zero and keeps the padate instance in a consistent state. It's not possible to trigger this bug by now because the only padata user, pcrypt uses always the possible cpumask. Reported-by: Dan Kruchinin <dkruchinin@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-14padata: Block until the instance is unused on stopSteffen Klassert
This patch makes padata_stop to block until the padata instance is unused. Also we split padata_stop to a locked and a unlocked version. This is in preparation to be able to change the cpumask after a call to patata stop. Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-14padata: Check for valid padata instance on startSteffen Klassert
This patch introduces the PADATA_INVALID flag which is checked on padata start. This will be used to mark a padata instance as invalid, if the padata cpumask does not intersect with the active cpumask. we change padata_start to return an error if the PADATA_INVALID is set. Also we adapt the only padata user, pcrypt to this change. Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-14workqueue: fix locking in retry path of maybe_create_worker()Tejun Heo
maybe_create_worker() mismanaged locking when worker creation fails and it has to retry. Fix locking and simplify lock manipulation. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang@windriver.com>
2010-07-14async: use workqueue for worker poolTejun Heo
Replace private worker pool with system_unbound_wq. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
2010-07-11fix comment/printk typos concerning "already"Uwe Kleine-König
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-07-09init: Remove the BKL from startup codeArnd Bergmann
I have shown by code review that no driver takes the BKL at init time any more, so whatever the init code was locking against is no longer there and it is now safe to remove the BKL there. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-07-09Merge commit 'paulus-perf/master' into nextBenjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-07-07kernel/watchdog: Initialize 'result'Kulikov Vasiliy
Variable on the stack is not initialized to zero, do it explicitly. This bug was found by a compiler warning: kernel/watchdog.c:463: warning: 'result' may be used uninitialized in this function Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@gmail.com> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1278316854-28442-1-git-send-email-segooon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-06Merge branch 'perf/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 into perf/core
2010-07-05tracing/kprobes: Support "string" typeMasami Hiramatsu
Support string type tracing and printing in kprobe-tracer. This allows user to trace string data in kernel including __user data. Note that sometimes __user data may not be accessed if it is paged-out (sorry, but kprobes operation should be done in atomic, we can not wait for page-in). Commiter note: Fixed up conflicts with b7e2ece. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20100519195724.2885.18788.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-07-05Merge commit 'v2.6.35-rc4' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Pick up the latest perf fixes Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-04module: initialize module dynamic debug laterYehuda Sadeh
We should initialize the module dynamic debug datastructures only after determining that the module is not loaded yet. This fixes a bug that introduced in 2.6.35-rc2, where when a trying to load a module twice, we also load it's dynamic printing data twice which causes all sorts of nasty issues. Also handle the dynamic debug cleanup later on failure. Signed-off-by: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (removed a #ifdef) Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-07-02Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: Cure nr_iowait_cpu() users init: Fix comment init, sched: Fix race between init and kthreadd
2010-07-02workqueue: remove WQ_SINGLE_CPU and use WQ_UNBOUND insteadTejun Heo
WQ_SINGLE_CPU combined with @max_active of 1 is used to achieve full ordering among works queued to a workqueue. The same can be achieved using WQ_UNBOUND as unbound workqueues always use the gcwq for WORK_CPU_UNBOUND. As @max_active is always one and benefits from cpu locality isn't accessible anyway, serving them with unbound workqueues should be fine. Drop WQ_SINGLE_CPU support and use WQ_UNBOUND instead. Note that most single thread workqueue users will be converted to use multithread or non-reentrant instead and only the ones which require strict ordering will keep using WQ_UNBOUND + @max_active of 1. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-07-02workqueue: implement unbound workqueueTejun Heo
This patch implements unbound workqueue which can be specified with WQ_UNBOUND flag on creation. An unbound workqueue has the following properties. * It uses a dedicated gcwq with a pseudo CPU number WORK_CPU_UNBOUND. This gcwq is always online and disassociated. * Workers are not bound to any CPU and not concurrency managed. Works are dispatched to workers as soon as possible and the only applied limitation is @max_active. IOW, all unbound workqeueues are implicitly high priority. Unbound workqueues can be used as simple execution context provider. Contexts unbound to any cpu are served as soon as possible. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2010-07-02workqueue: prepare for WQ_UNBOUND implementationTejun Heo
In preparation of WQ_UNBOUND addition, make the following changes. * Add WORK_CPU_* constants for pseudo cpu id numbers used (currently only WORK_CPU_NONE) and use them instead of NR_CPUS. This is to allow another pseudo cpu id for unbound cpu. * Reorder WQ_* flags. * Make workqueue_struct->cpu_wq a union which contains a percpu pointer, regular pointer and an unsigned long value and use kzalloc/kfree() in UP allocation path. This will be used to implement unbound workqueues which will use only one cwq on SMPs. * Move alloc_cwqs() allocation after initialization of wq fields, so that alloc_cwqs() has access to wq->flags. * Trivial relocation of wq local variables in freeze functions. These changes don't cause any functional change. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-07-02workqueue: fix worker management invocation without pending worksTejun Heo
When there's no pending work to do, worker_thread() goes back to sleep after waking up without checking whether worker management is necessary. This means that idle worker exit requests can be ignored if the gcwq stays empty. Fix it by making worker_thread() always check whether worker management is necessary before going to sleep. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-07-02workqueue: fix incorrect cpu number BUG_ON() in get_work_gcwq()Tejun Heo
get_work_gcwq() was incorrectly triggering BUG_ON() if cpu number is equal to or higher than num_possible_cpus() instead of nr_cpu_ids. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-07-02workqueue: fix race condition in flush_workqueue()Tejun Heo
When one flusher is cascading to the next flusher, it first sets wq->first_flusher to the next one and sets up the next flush cycle. If there's nothing to do for the next cycle, it clears wq->flush_flusher and proceeds to the one after that. If the woken up flusher checks wq->first_flusher before it gets cleared, it will incorrectly assume the role of the first flusher, which triggers BUG_ON() sanity check. Fix it by checking wq->first_flusher again after grabbing the mutex. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-07-02workqueue: use worker_set/clr_flags() only from worker itselfTejun Heo
worker_set/clr_flags() assume that if none of NOT_RUNNING flags is set the worker must be contributing to nr_running which is only true if the worker is actually running. As when called from self, it is guaranteed that the worker is running, those functions can be safely used from the worker itself and they aren't necessary from other places anyway. Make the following changes to fix the bug. * Make worker_set/clr_flags() whine if not called from self. * Convert all places which called those functions from other tasks to manipulate flags directly. * Make trustee_thread() directly clear nr_running after setting WORKER_ROGUE on all workers. This is the only place where nr_running manipulation is necessary outside of workers themselves. * While at it, add sanity check for nr_running in worker_enter_idle(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-07-01sched: Cure nr_iowait_cpu() usersPeter Zijlstra
Commit 0224cf4c5e (sched: Intoduce get_cpu_iowait_time_us()) broke things by not making sure preemption was indeed disabled by the callers of nr_iowait_cpu() which took the iowait value of the current cpu. This resulted in a heap of preempt warnings. Cure this by making nr_iowait_cpu() take a cpu number and fix up the callers to pass in the right number. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org LKML-Reference: <1277968037.1868.120.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-01Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcuIngo Molnar
Conflicts: fs/fs-writeback.c Merge reason: Resolve the conflict Note, i picked the version from Linus's tree, which effectively reverts the fs-writeback.c bits of: b97181f: fs: remove all rcu head initializations, except on_stack initializations As the upstream changes to this file changed this code heavily and the first attempt to resolve the conflict resulted in a non-booting kernel. It's safer to re-try this portion of the commit cleanly. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-30futex: futex_find_get_task remove credentails checkMichal Hocko
futex_find_get_task is currently used (through lookup_pi_state) from two contexts, futex_requeue and futex_lock_pi_atomic. None of the paths looks it needs the credentials check, though. Different (e)uids shouldn't matter at all because the only thing that is important for shared futex is the accessibility of the shared memory. The credentail check results in glibc assert failure or process hang (if glibc is compiled without assert support) for shared robust pthread mutex with priority inheritance if a process tries to lock already held lock owned by a process with a different euid: pthread_mutex_lock.c:312: __pthread_mutex_lock_full: Assertion `(-(e)) != 3 || !robust' failed. The problem is that futex_lock_pi_atomic which is called when we try to lock already held lock checks the current holder (tid is stored in the futex value) to get the PI state. It uses lookup_pi_state which in turn gets task struct from futex_find_get_task. ESRCH is returned either when the task is not found or if credentials check fails. futex_lock_pi_atomic simply returns if it gets ESRCH. glibc code, however, doesn't expect that robust lock returns with ESRCH because it should get either success or owner died. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-29kexec: fix Oops in crash_shrink_memory()Pavan Naregundi
When crashkernel is not enabled, "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size" OOPSes the kernel in crash_shrink_memory. This happens when crash_shrink_memory tries to release the 'crashk_res' resource which are not reserved. Also value of "/sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size" shows as 1, which should be 0. This patch fixes the OOPS in crash_shrink_memory and shows "/sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size" as 0 when crash kernel memory is not reserved. Signed-off-by: Pavan Naregundi <pavan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-29sched: Fix spelling of siblingMichael Neuling
No logic changes, only spelling. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <15249.1277776921@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-29workqueue: implement cpu intensive workqueueTejun Heo
This patch implements cpu intensive workqueue which can be specified with WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE flag on creation. Works queued to a cpu intensive workqueue don't participate in concurrency management. IOW, it doesn't contribute to gcwq->nr_running and thus doesn't delay excution of other works. Note that although cpu intensive works won't delay other works, they can be delayed by other works. Combine with WQ_HIGHPRI to avoid being delayed by other works too. As the name suggests this is useful when using workqueue for cpu intensive works. Workers executing cpu intensive works are not considered for workqueue concurrency management and left for the scheduler to manage. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-29workqueue: implement high priority workqueueTejun Heo
This patch implements high priority workqueue which can be specified with WQ_HIGHPRI flag on creation. A high priority workqueue has the following properties. * A work queued to it is queued at the head of the worklist of the respective gcwq after other highpri works, while normal works are always appended at the end. * As long as there are highpri works on gcwq->worklist, [__]need_more_worker() remains %true and process_one_work() wakes up another worker before it start executing a work. The above two properties guarantee that works queued to high priority workqueues are dispatched to workers and start execution as soon as possible regardless of the state of other works. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-29workqueue: implement several utility APIsTejun Heo
Implement the following utility APIs. workqueue_set_max_active() : adjust max_active of a wq workqueue_congested() : test whether a wq is contested work_cpu() : determine the last / current cpu of a work work_busy() : query whether a work is busy * Anton Blanchard fixed missing ret initialization in work_busy(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
2010-06-29workqueue: s/__create_workqueue()/alloc_workqueue()/, and add system workqueuesTejun Heo
This patch makes changes to make new workqueue features available to its users. * Now that workqueue is more featureful, there should be a public workqueue creation function which takes paramters to control them. Rename __create_workqueue() to alloc_workqueue() and make 0 max_active mean WQ_DFL_ACTIVE. In the long run, all create_workqueue_*() will be converted over to alloc_workqueue(). * To further unify access interface, rename keventd_wq to system_wq and export it. * Add system_long_wq and system_nrt_wq. The former is to host long running works separately (so that flush_scheduled_work() dosen't take so long) and the latter guarantees any queued work item is never executed in parallel by multiple CPUs. These will be used by future patches to update workqueue users. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29workqueue: increase max_active of keventd and kill current_is_keventd()Tejun Heo
Define WQ_MAX_ACTIVE and create keventd with max_active set to half of it which means that keventd now can process upto WQ_MAX_ACTIVE / 2 - 1 works concurrently. Unless some combination can result in dependency loop longer than max_active, deadlock won't happen and thus it's unnecessary to check whether current_is_keventd() before trying to schedule a work. Kill current_is_keventd(). (Lockdep annotations are broken. We need lock_map_acquire_read_norecurse()) Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2010-06-29workqueue: implement concurrency managed dynamic worker poolTejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29workqueue: implement worker_{set|clr}_flags()Tejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29workqueue: use shared worklist and pool all workers per cpuTejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29workqueue: implement WQ_NON_REENTRANTTejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29workqueue: carry cpu number in work data once execution startsTejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29workqueue: add find_worker_executing_work() and track current_cwqTejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29workqueue: make single thread workqueue shared worker pool friendlyTejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29workqueue: reimplement CPU hotplugging support using trusteeTejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29workqueue: implement worker statesTejun Heo
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>