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2010-06-29workqueue: introduce global cwq and unify cwq locksTejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29workqueue: reimplement workqueue freeze using max_activeTejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29workqueue: implement per-cwq active work limitTejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29workqueue: reimplement work flushing using linked worksTejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29workqueue: introduce workerTejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29workqueue: reimplement workqueue flushing using color coded worksTejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29workqueue: update cwq alignementTejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29workqueue: kill cpu_populated_mapTejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29workqueue: temporarily remove workqueue tracingTejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29workqueue: separate out process_one_work()Tejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29workqueue: define masks for work flags and conditionalize STATIC flagsTejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29workqueue: merge feature parameters into flagsTejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29workqueue: misc/cosmetic updatesTejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29workqueue: kill RT workqueueTejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29kthread: implement kthread_data()Tejun Heo
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>
2010-06-29kthread: implement kthread_workerTejun Heo
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>
2010-06-28tracing: Use class->reg() for all registering of eventsSteven Rostedt
Because kprobes and syscalls need special processing to register events, the class->reg() method was created to handle the differences. But instead of creating a default ->reg for perf and ftrace events, the code was scattered with: if (class->reg) class->reg(); else default_reg(); This is messy and can also lead to bugs. This patch cleans up this code and creates a default reg() entry for the events allowing for the code to directly call the class->reg() without the condition. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-28tracing/function-graph: Use correct string size for snprintfChase Douglas
The nsecs_str string is a local variable defined as: char nsecs_str[5]; It is possible for the snprintf call to use a size value larger than the size of the string. This should not cause a buffer overrun as it is written now due to the value for the string format "%03lu" can not be larger than 1000. However, this change makes it correct. By making the size correct we guard against potential future changes that could actually cause a buffer overrun. Signed-off-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com> LKML-Reference: <1276619355-18116-1-git-send-email-chase.douglas@canonical.com> [ added 'UL' to number 8 to fix gcc warning comparing it to sizeof() ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-28tracing: Remove open-coded __trace_add_event_call()Li Zefan
Let trace_module_add_events() and event_trace_init() call __trace_add_event_call(). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4BFA37E9.1020106@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-28tracing: Remove redundant raw_init callbacksLi Zefan
raw_init callback is optional. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4BFA37D4.7070500@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-28tracing: Remove test of NULL define_fields callbackLi Zefan
Every event (or event class) has it's define_fields callback, so the test is redundant. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4BFA37BC.8080707@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-28tracing: Don't allocate common fields for every trace eventsLi Zefan
Every event has the same common fields, so it's a big waste of memory to have a copy of those fields for every event. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4BFA3759.30105@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-28tracing: Use a global field list for all syscall exit eventsLi Zefan
All syscall exit events have the same fields. The kernel size drops 2.5K: text data bss dec hex filename 7018612 2034376 7251132 16304120 f8c7f8 vmlinux.o.orig 7018612 2031888 7251132 16301632 f8be40 vmlinux.o Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4BFA3746.8070100@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-28Merge branch 'linus' into perf/coreThomas Gleixner
Reason: Further changes conflict with upstream fixes Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-06-28Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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 undeclared ENOSYS in include/linux/tracepoint.h perf record: prevent kill(0, SIGTERM); perf session: Remove threads from tree on PERF_RECORD_EXIT perf/tracing: Fix regression of perf losing kprobe events perf_events: Fix Intel Westmere event constraints perf record: Don't call newt functions when not initialized
2010-06-28Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: genirq: Deal with desc->set_type() changing desc->chip
2010-06-28Merge 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: Prevent compiler from optimising the sched_avg_update() loop sched: Fix over-scheduling bug sched: Fix PROVE_RCU vs cpu_cgroup
2010-06-28Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: nohz: Fix nohz ratelimit
2010-06-28Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: silence PROVE_RCU in sched_fork() idr: fix RCU lockdep splat in idr_get_next() rcu: apply RCU protection to wake_affine()
2010-06-25sched: Prevent compiler from optimising the sched_avg_update() loopWill Deacon
GCC 4.4.1 on ARM has been observed to replace the while loop in sched_avg_update with a call to uldivmod, resulting in the following build failure at link-time: kernel/built-in.o: In function `sched_avg_update': kernel/sched.c:1261: undefined reference to `__aeabi_uldivmod' kernel/sched.c:1261: undefined reference to `__aeabi_uldivmod' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 This patch introduces a fake data hazard to the loop body to prevent the compiler optimising the loop away. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-24hw_breakpoints: Fix per task breakpoint trackingFrederic Weisbecker
Freeing a perf event can happen in several ways. A task calls perf_event_exit_task() right before exiting. This helper will detach all the events from the task context and queue their removal through free_event() if they are child tasks. The task also loses its context reference there. Releasing the breakpoint slot from the constraint table is made from free_event() that calls release_bp_slot(). We count the number of breakpoints this task is running by looking at the task's perf_event_ctxp and iterating through its attached events. But at this time, the reference to this context has been cleaned up already. So looking at the event->ctx instead of task->perf_event_ctxp to count the remaining breakpoints should solve the problem. At least it would for child breakpoints, but not for parent ones. If the parent exits before the child, it will remove all its events from the context but free_event() will be called later, on fd release time. And checking the number of breakpoints the task has attached to its context at this time is unreliable as all events have been removed from the context. To solve this, we keep track of the list of per task breakpoints. On top of it, we maintain our array of numbers of breakpoints used by the tasks. We use the context address as a task id. So, instead of looking at the number of events attached to a context, we walk through our list of per task breakpoints and count the number of breakpoints that use the same ctx than the one to be reserved or released from the constraint table, and update the count on top of this result. In the meantime it solves a bad refcounting, it also solves a warning, reported by Paul. Badness at /home/paulus/kernel/perf/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:114 NIP: c0000000000cb470 LR: c0000000000cb46c CTR: c00000000032d9b8 REGS: c000000118e7b570 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (2.6.35-rc3-perf-00008-g76b0f13 ) MSR: 9000000000029032 <EE,ME,CE,IR,DR> CR: 44004424 XER: 000fffff TASK = c0000001187dcad0[3143] 'perf' THREAD: c000000118e78000 CPU: 1 GPR00: c0000000000cb46c c000000118e7b7f0 c0000000009866a0 0000000000000020 GPR04: 0000000000000000 000000000000001d 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 GPR08: c0000000009bed68 c00000000086dff8 c000000000a5bf10 0000000000000001 GPR12: 0000000024004422 c00000000ffff200 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000018 00000000101150f4 GPR20: 0000000010206b40 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000101150f4 GPR24: c0000001199090c0 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 GPR28: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c0000000008ec290 0000000000000000 NIP [c0000000000cb470] .task_bp_pinned+0x5c/0x12c LR [c0000000000cb46c] .task_bp_pinned+0x58/0x12c Call Trace: [c000000118e7b7f0] [c0000000000cb46c] .task_bp_pinned+0x58/0x12c (unreliable) [c000000118e7b8a0] [c0000000000cb584] .toggle_bp_task_slot+0x44/0xe4 [c000000118e7b940] [c0000000000cb6c8] .toggle_bp_slot+0xa4/0x164 [c000000118e7b9f0] [c0000000000cbafc] .release_bp_slot+0x44/0x6c [c000000118e7ba80] [c0000000000c4178] .bp_perf_event_destroy+0x10/0x24 [c000000118e7bb00] [c0000000000c4aec] .free_event+0x180/0x1bc [c000000118e7bbc0] [c0000000000c54c4] .perf_event_release_kernel+0x14c/0x170 Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-06-23sched: silence PROVE_RCU in sched_fork()Peter Zijlstra
Because cgroup_fork() is ran before sched_fork() [ from copy_process() ] and the child's pid is not yet visible the child is pinned to its cgroup. Therefore we can silence this warning. A nicer solution would be moving cgroup_fork() to right after dup_task_struct() and exclude PF_STARTING from task_subsys_state(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-06-23rcu: apply RCU protection to wake_affine()Daniel J Blueman
The task_group() function returns a pointer that must be protected by either RCU, the ->alloc_lock, or the cgroup lock (see the rcu_dereference_check() in task_subsys_state(), which is invoked by task_group()). The wake_affine() function currently does none of these, which means that a concurrent update would be within its rights to free the structure returned by task_group(). Because wake_affine() uses this structure only to compute load-balancing heuristics, there is no reason to acquire either of the two locks. Therefore, this commit introduces an RCU read-side critical section that starts before the first call to task_group() and ends after the last use of the "tg" pointer returned from task_group(). Thanks to Li Zefan for pointing out the need to extend the RCU read-side critical section from that proposed by the original patch. Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-06-22hw_breakpoints: Allow arch-specific cleanup before breakpoint unregistrationK.Prasad
Certain architectures (such as PowerPC) have a need to clean up data structures before a breakpoint is unregistered. This introduces an arch-specific hook in release_bp_slot() along with a weak definition in the form of a stub function. Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2010-06-22sched, cpuset: Drop __cpuexit from cpu hotplug callbacksTejun Heo
Commit 3a101d05 (sched: adjust when cpu_active and cpuset configurations are updated during cpu on/offlining) added hotplug notifiers marked with __cpuexit; however, ia64 drops text in __cpuexit during link unlike x86. This means that functions which are referenced during init but used only for cpu hot unplugging afterwards shouldn't be marked with __cpuexit. Drop __cpuexit from those functions. Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <4C1FDF5B.1040301@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18Merge commit 'v2.6.35-rc3' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Go from -rc1 base to -rc3 base, merge in fixes.
2010-06-18sched: Fix the racy usage of thread_group_cputimer() in fastpath_timer_check()Oleg Nesterov
fastpath_timer_check()->thread_group_cputimer() is racy and unneeded. It is racy because another thread can clear ->running before thread_group_cputimer() takes cputimer->lock. In this case thread_group_cputimer() will set ->running = true again and call thread_group_cputime(). But since we do not hold tasklist or siglock, we can race with fork/exit and copy the wrong results into cputimer->cputime. It is unneeded because if ->running == true we can just use the numbers in cputimer->cputime we already have. Change fastpath_timer_check() to copy cputimer->cputime into the local variable under cputimer->lock. We do not re-check ->running under cputimer->lock, run_posix_cpu_timers() does this check later. Note: we can add more optimizations on top of this change. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100611180446.GA13025@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18sched: run_posix_cpu_timers: Don't check ->exit_state, use lock_task_sighand()Oleg Nesterov
run_posix_cpu_timers() doesn't work if current has already passed exit_notify(). This was needed to prevent the races with do_wait(). Since ea6d290c ->signal is always valid and can't go away. We can remove the "tsk->exit_state == 0" in fastpath_timer_check() and convert run_posix_cpu_timers() to use lock_task_sighand(). Note: it makes sense to take group_leader's sighand instead, the sub-thread still uses CPU after release_task(). But we need more changes to do this. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100610231018.GA25942@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18sched: thread_group_cputime: Simplify, document the "alive" checkOleg Nesterov
thread_group_cputime() looks as if it is rcu-safe, but in fact this was wrong until ea6d290c which pins task->signal to task_struct. It checks ->sighand != NULL under rcu, but this can't help if ->signal can go away. Fortunately the caller either holds ->siglock, or it is fastpath_timer_check() which uses current and checks exit_state == 0. - Since ea6d290c commit tsk->signal is stable, we can read it first and avoid the initialization from INIT_CPUTIME. - Even if tsk->signal is always valid, we still have to check it is safe to use next_thread() under rcu_read_lock(). Currently the code checks ->sighand != NULL, change it to use pid_alive() which is commonly used to ensure the task wasn't unhashed before we take rcu_read_lock(). Add the comment to explain this check. - Change the main loop to use the while_each_thread() helper. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100610230956.GA25921@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18sched: Remove the obsolete exit_state/signal hacksOleg Nesterov
account_group_xxx() functions check ->exit_state to ensure that current->signal is valid and can't go away. This is not needed since ea6d290c, task->signal is pinned to task_struct. The comment and another hack in account_group_exec_runtime() refers to task_rq_unlock_wait() which was already removed by b7b8ff63. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100610230952.GA25914@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18sched: task_tick_rt: Remove the obsolete ->signal != NULL checkOleg Nesterov
Remove the obsolete ->signal != NULL check in watchdog(). Since ea6d290c ->signal can't be NULL. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100610230948.GA25911@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18sched: __sched_setscheduler: Read the RLIMIT_RTPRIO value locklessOleg Nesterov
__sched_setscheduler() takes lock_task_sighand() to access task->signal. This is not needed since ea6d290c, ->signal can't go away. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100610230944.GA25903@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18sched: Fix comments to make them DocBook happyMichael Neuling
Docbook fails in sched_fair.c due to comments added in the asymmetric packing patch series. This fixes these errors. No code changes. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <24737.1276135581@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18sched: Fix fix_small_capacityMichael Neuling
The CPU power test is the wrong way around in fix_small_capacity. This was due to a small changes made in the posted patch on lkml to what was was taken upstream. This patch fixes asymmetric packing for POWER7. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <12629.1276124617@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-18Merge commit 'v2.6.35-rc3' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Update to the latest -rc.
2010-06-18sched: Fix over-scheduling bugAlex,Shi
Commit e70971591 ("sched: Optimize unused cgroup configuration") introduced an imbalanced scheduling bug. If we do not use CGROUP, function update_h_load won't update h_load. When the system has a large number of tasks far more than logical CPU number, the incorrect cfs_rq[cpu]->h_load value will cause load_balance() to pull too many tasks to the local CPU from the busiest CPU. So the busiest CPU keeps going in a round robin. That will hurt performance. The issue was found originally by a scientific calculation workload that developed by Yanmin. With that commit, the workload performance drops about 40%. CPU before after 00 : 2 : 7 01 : 1 : 7 02 : 11 : 6 03 : 12 : 7 04 : 6 : 6 05 : 11 : 7 06 : 10 : 6 07 : 12 : 7 08 : 11 : 6 09 : 12 : 6 10 : 1 : 6 11 : 1 : 6 12 : 6 : 6 13 : 2 : 6 14 : 2 : 6 15 : 1 : 6 Reviewed-by: Yanmin zhang <yanmin.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1276754893.9452.5442.camel@debian> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-17nohz: Fix nohz ratelimitPeter Zijlstra
Chris Wedgwood reports that 39c0cbe (sched: Rate-limit nohz) causes a serial console regression, unresponsiveness, and indeed it does. The reason is that the nohz code is skipped even when the tick was already stopped before the nohz_ratelimit(cpu) condition changed. Move the nohz_ratelimit() check to the other conditions which prevent long idle sleeps. Reported-by: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> Tested-by: Brian Bloniarz <bmb@athenacr.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Jef Driesen <jefdriesen@telenet.be> LKML-Reference: <1276790557.27822.516.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-06-16user_ns: Introduce user_nsmap_uid and user_ns_map_gid.Eric W. Biederman
Define what happens when a we view a uid from one user_namespace in another user_namepece. - If the user namespaces are the same no mapping is necessary. - For most cases of difference use overflowuid and overflowgid, the uid and gid currently used for 16bit apis when we have a 32bit uid that does fit in 16bits. Effectively the situation is the same, we want to return a uid or gid that is not assigned to any user. - For the case when we happen to be mapping the uid or gid of the creator of the target user namespace use uid 0 and gid as confusing that user with root is not a problem. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-06-16Merge branch 'master' into for-nextJiri Kosina
2010-06-16fix typos concerning "hierarchy"Uwe Kleine-König
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>