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There are four places where new filter for a given filter string is
created, which involves several different steps. This patch factors
those steps into create_[system_]filter() functions which in turn make
use of create_filter_{start|finish}() for common parts.
The only functional change is that if replace_filter_string() is
requested and fails, creation fails without any side effect instead of
being ignored.
Note that system filter is now installed after the processing is
complete which makes freeing before and then restoring filter string
on error unncessary.
-v2: Rebased to resolve conflict with 49aa29513e and updated both
create_filter() functions to always set *filterp instead of
requiring the caller to clear it to %NULL on entry.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323988305-1469-2-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Add stacktrace_filter= to the kernel command line that lets
the user pick specific functions to check the stack on.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Change set_ftrace_early_filter() to ftrace_set_early_filter()
and make it a global function. This will allow other subsystems
in the kernel to be able to enable function tracing at start
up and reuse the ftrace function parsing code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The stack_tracer is used to look at every function and check
if the current stack is bigger than the last recorded max stack size.
When a new max is found, then it saves that stack off.
Currently the stack tracer is limited by the global_ops of
the function tracer. As the stack tracer has nothing to do with
the ftrace function tracer, except that it uses it as its internal
engine, the stack tracer should have its own list.
A new file is added to the tracing debugfs directory called:
stack_trace_filter
that can be used to select which functions you want to check the stack
on.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The set_ftrace_filter shows "hashed" functions, which are functions
that are added with operations to them (like traceon and traceoff).
As other subsystems may be able to show what functions they are
using for function tracing, the hash items should no longer
be shown just because the FILTER flag is set. As they have nothing
to do with other subsystems filters.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The function tracer is set up to allow any other subsystem (like perf)
to use it. Ftrace already has a way to list what functions are enabled
by the global_ops. It would be very helpful to let other users of
the function tracer to be able to use the same code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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There are two types of hashes in the ftrace_ops; one type
is the filter_hash and the other is the notrace_hash. Either
one may be null, meaning it has no elements. But when elements
are added, the hash is allocated.
Throughout the code, a check needs to be made to see if a hash
exists or the hash has elements, but the check if the hash exists
is usually missing causing the possible "NULL pointer dereference bug".
Add a helper routine called "ftrace_hash_empty()" that returns
true if the hash doesn't exist or its count is zero. As they mean
the same thing.
Last-bug-reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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When disabling the "notrace" records, that means we want to trace them.
If the notrace_hash is zero, it means that we want to trace all
records. But to disable a zero notrace_hash means nothing.
The check for the notrace_hash count was incorrect with:
if (hash && !hash->count)
return
With the correct comment above it that states that we do nothing
if the notrace_hash has zero count. But !hash also means that
the notrace hash has zero count. I think this was done to
protect against dereferencing NULL. But if !hash is true, then
we go through the following loop without doing a single thing.
Fix it to:
if (!hash || !hash->count)
return;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Now that each set of pages in the function list are sorted by
ip, we can use bsearch to find a record within each set of pages.
This speeds up the ftrace_location() function by magnitudes.
For archs (like x86) that need to add a breakpoint at every function
that will be converted from a nop to a callback and vice versa,
the breakpoint callback needs to know if the breakpoint was for
ftrace or not. It requires finding the breakpoint ip within the
records. Doing a linear search is extremely inefficient. It is
a must to be able to do a fast binary search to find these locations.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Sort records by ip locations of the ftrace mcount calls on each of the
set of pages in the function list. This helps in localizing cache
usuage when updating the function locations, as well as gives us
the ability to quickly find an ip location in the list.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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As new functions come in to be initalized from mcount to nop,
they are done by groups of pages. Whether it is the core kernel
or a module. There's no need to keep track of these on a per record
basis.
At startup, and as any module is loaded, the functions to be
traced are stored in a group of pages and added to the function
list at the end. We just need to keep a pointer to the first
page of the list that was added, and use that to know where to
start on the list for initializing functions.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Allocate the mcount record pages as a group of pages as big
as can be allocated and waste no more than a single page.
Grouping the mcount pages as much as possible helps with cache
locality, as we do not need to redirect with descriptors as we
cross from page to page. It also allows us to do more with the
records later on (sort them with bigger benefits).
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Records that are added to the function trace table are
permanently there, except for modules. By separating out the
modules to their own pages that can be freed in one shot
we can remove the "freed" flag and simplify some of the record
management.
Another benefit of doing this is that we can also move the
records around; sort them.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The stop machine method to modify all functions in the kernel
(some 20,000 of them) is the safest way to do so across all archs.
But some archs may not need this big hammer approach to modify code
on SMP machines, and can simply just update the code it needs.
Adding a weak function arch_ftrace_update_code() that now does the
stop machine, will also let any arch override this method.
If the arch needs to check the system and then decide if it can
avoid stop machine, it can still call ftrace_run_stop_machine() to
use the old method.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Multiple users of the function tracer can register their functions
with the ftrace_ops structure. The accounting within ftrace will
update the counter on each function record that is being traced.
When the ftrace_ops filtering adds or removes functions, the
function records will be updated accordingly if the ftrace_ops is
still registered.
When a ftrace_ops is removed, the counter of the function records,
that the ftrace_ops traces, are decremented. When they reach zero
the functions that they represent are modified to stop calling the
mcount code.
When changes are made, the code is updated via stop_machine() with
a command passed to the function to tell it what to do. There is an
ENABLE and DISABLE command that tells the called function to enable
or disable the functions. But the ENABLE is really a misnomer as it
should just update the records, as records that have been enabled
and now have a count of zero should be disabled.
The DISABLE command is used to disable all functions regardless of
their counter values. This is the big off switch and is not the
complement of the ENABLE command.
To make matters worse, when a ftrace_ops is unregistered and there
is another ftrace_ops registered, neither the DISABLE nor the
ENABLE command are set when calling into the stop_machine() function
and the records will not be updated to match their counter. A command
is passed to that function that will update the mcount code to call
the registered callback directly if it is the only one left. This
means that the ftrace_ops that is still registered will have its callback
called by all functions that have been set for it as well as the ftrace_ops
that was just unregistered.
Here's a way to trigger this bug. Compile the kernel with
CONFIG_FUNCTION_PROFILER set and with CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH not set:
CONFIG_FUNCTION_PROFILER=y
# CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH is not set
This will force the function profiler to use the function tracer instead
of the function graph tracer.
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
# echo schedule > set_ftrace_filter
# echo function > current_tracer
# cat set_ftrace_filter
schedule
# cat trace
# tracer: nop
#
# entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 692/68108025 #P:4
#
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# ||| / delay
# TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | |||| | |
kworker/0:2-909 [000] .... 531.235574: schedule <-worker_thread
<idle>-0 [001] .N.. 531.235575: schedule <-cpu_idle
kworker/0:2-909 [000] .... 531.235597: schedule <-worker_thread
sshd-2563 [001] .... 531.235647: schedule <-schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock
# echo 1 > function_profile_enabled
# echo 0 > function_porfile_enabled
# cat set_ftrace_filter
schedule
# cat trace
# tracer: function
#
# entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 159701/118821262 #P:4
#
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# ||| / delay
# TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | |||| | |
<idle>-0 [002] ...1 604.870655: local_touch_nmi <-cpu_idle
<idle>-0 [002] d..1 604.870655: enter_idle <-cpu_idle
<idle>-0 [002] d..1 604.870656: atomic_notifier_call_chain <-enter_idle
<idle>-0 [002] d..1 604.870656: __atomic_notifier_call_chain <-atomic_notifier_call_chain
The same problem could have happened with the trace_probe_ops,
but they are modified with the set_frace_filter file which does the
update at closure of the file.
The simple solution is to change ENABLE to UPDATE and call it every
time an ftrace_ops is unregistered.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323105776-26961-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.0+
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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There is a small race between try_to_wake_up() and sched_move_task(),
which is trying to move the process being woken up.
try_to_wake_up() on CPU0 sched_move_task() on CPU1
--------------------------------+---------------------------------
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(p->pi_lock)
task_waking_fair()
->p.se.vruntime -= cfs_rq->min_vruntime
ttwu_queue()
->send reschedule IPI to CPU1
raw_spin_unlock_irqsave(p->pi_lock)
task_rq_lock()
-> tring to aquire both p->pi_lock and
rq->lock with IRQ disabled
task_move_group_fair()
-> p.se.vruntime
-= (old)cfs_rq->min_vruntime
+= (new)cfs_rq->min_vruntime
task_rq_unlock()
(via IPI)
sched_ttwu_pending()
raw_spin_lock(rq->lock)
ttwu_do_activate()
...
enqueue_entity()
child.se->vruntime += cfs_rq->min_vruntime
raw_spin_unlock(rq->lock)
As a result, vruntime of the process becomes far bigger than min_vruntime,
if (new)cfs_rq->min_vruntime >> (old)cfs_rq->min_vruntime.
This patch fixes this problem by just ignoring such process in
task_move_group_fair(), because the vruntime has already been normalized in
task_waking_fair().
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111215143741.df82dd50.nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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There is a small race between do_fork() and sched_move_task(), which is
trying to move the child.
do_fork() sched_move_task()
--------------------------------+---------------------------------
copy_process()
sched_fork()
task_fork_fair()
-> vruntime of the child is initialized
based on that of the parent.
-> we can see the child in "tasks" file now.
task_rq_lock()
task_move_group_fair()
-> child.se.vruntime
-= (old)cfs_rq->min_vruntime
+= (new)cfs_rq->min_vruntime
task_rq_unlock()
wake_up_new_task()
...
enqueue_entity()
child.se.vruntime += cfs_rq->min_vruntime
As a result, vruntime of the child becomes far bigger than min_vruntime,
if (new)cfs_rq->min_vruntime >> (old)cfs_rq->min_vruntime.
This patch fixes this problem by just ignoring such process in
task_move_group_fair(), because the vruntime has already been normalized in
task_fork_fair().
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111215143607.2ee12c5d.nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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There is a small race between task_fork_fair() and sched_move_task(),
which is trying to move the parent.
task_fork_fair() sched_move_task()
--------------------------------+---------------------------------
cfs_rq = task_cfs_rq(current)
-> cfs_rq is the "old" one.
curr = cfs_rq->curr
-> curr is set to the parent.
task_rq_lock()
dequeue_task()
->parent.se.vruntime -= (old)cfs_rq->min_vruntime
enqueue_task()
->parent.se.vruntime += (new)cfs_rq->min_vruntime
task_rq_unlock()
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(rq->lock)
se->vruntime = curr->vruntime
-> vruntime of the child is set to that of the parent
which has already been updated by sched_move_task().
se->vruntime -= (old)cfs_rq->min_vruntime.
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(rq->lock)
As a result, vruntime of the child becomes far bigger than expected,
if (new)cfs_rq->min_vruntime >> (old)cfs_rq->min_vruntime.
This patch fixes this problem by setting "cfs_rq" and "curr" after
holding the rq->lock.
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111215143655.662676b0.nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Remove cfs bandwidth period check from tg_set_cfs_period.
Invalid bandwidth period's lower/upper limits are denoted
by min_cfs_quota_period/max_cfs_quota_period repsectively,
and are checked against valid period in tg_set_cfs_bandwidth().
As pjt pointed out, negative input will result in very large unsigned
numbers and will be caught by the max allowed period test.
Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
[ammended changelog to mention negative values]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111210135925.GA14593@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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kernel/sched/core.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The current lock break relies on contention on the rq locks, something
which might never come because we've got IRQs disabled. Or will be
very likely because on anything with more than 2 cpus a synchronized
load-balance pass will very likely cause contention on the rq locks.
Also the sched_nr_migrate thing fails when it gets trapped the loops
of either the cgroup muck in load_balance_fair() or the move_tasks()
load condition.
Instead, use the new lb_flags field to propagate break/abort
conditions for all these loops and create a new loop outside the irq
disabled on the break being required.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-tsceb6w61q0gakmsccix6xxi@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Replace the all_pinned argument with a flags field so that we can add
some extra controls throughout that entire call chain.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-33kevm71m924ok1gpxd720v3@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Mike reported a 13% drop in netperf TCP_RR performance due to the
new remote wakeup code. Suresh too noticed some performance issues
with it.
Reducing the IPIs to only cross cache domains solves the observed
performance issues.
Reported-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323338531.17673.7.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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-> #2 (&tty->write_wait){-.-...}:
is a lot more informative than:
-> #2 (key#19){-.....}:
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8zpopbny51023rdb0qq67eye@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Merge reason: Pick up the latest fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
* 'for-3.2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
cgroups: fix a css_set not found bug in cgroup_attach_proc
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
time/clocksource: Fix kernel-doc warnings
rtc: m41t80: Workaround broken alarm functionality
rtc: Expire alarms after the time is set.
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Merge reason: Update with the latest fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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binary_sysctl() calls sysctl_getname() which allocates from names_cache
slab usin __getname()
The matching function to free the name is __putname(), and not putname()
which should be used only to match getname() allocations.
This is because when auditing is enabled, putname() calls audit_putname
*instead* (not in addition) to __putname(). Then, if a syscall is in
progress, audit_putname does not release the name - instead, it expects
the name to get released when the syscall completes, but that will happen
only if audit_getname() was called previously, i.e. if the name was
allocated with getname() rather than the naked __getname(). So,
__getname() followed by putname() ends up leaking memory.
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kernels where MAX_NUMNODES > BITS_PER_LONG may temporarily see an empty
nodemask in a tsk's mempolicy if its previous nodemask is remapped onto a
new set of allowed cpuset nodes where the two nodemasks, as a result of
the remap, are now disjoint.
c0ff7453bb5c ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing
cpuset's mems") adds get_mems_allowed() to prevent the set of allowed
nodes from changing for a thread. This causes any update to a set of
allowed nodes to stall until put_mems_allowed() is called.
This stall is unncessary, however, if at least one node remains unchanged
in the update to the set of allowed nodes. This was addressed by
89e8a244b97e ("cpusets: avoid looping when storing to mems_allowed if one
node remains set"), but it's still possible that an empty nodemask may be
read from a mempolicy because the old nodemask may be remapped to the new
nodemask during rebind. To prevent this, only avoid the stall if there is
no mempolicy for the thread being changed.
This is a temporary solution until all reads from mempolicy nodemasks can
be guaranteed to not be empty without the get_mems_allowed()
synchronization.
Also moves the check for nodemask intersection inside task_lock() so that
tsk->mems_allowed cannot change. This ensures that nothing can set this
tsk's mems_allowed out from under us and also protects tsk->mempolicy.
Reported-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into core/memblock
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into cputime-tip
Conflicts:
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
drivers/macintosh/rack-meter.c
fs/proc/stat.c
fs/proc/uptime.c
kernel/sched/core.c
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We already have a reference to all elements in newcg_list.
Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
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There is a BUG when migrating a PF_EXITING proc. Since css_set_prefetch()
is not called for the PF_EXITING case, find_existing_css_set() will return
NULL inside cgroup_task_migrate() causing a BUG.
This bug is easy to reproduce. Create a zombie and echo its pid to
cgroup.procs.
$ cat zombie.c
\#include <unistd.h>
int main()
{
if (fork())
pause();
return 0;
}
$
We are hitting this bug pretty regularly on ChromeOS.
This bug is already fixed by Tejun Heo's cgroup patchset which is
targetted for the next merge window:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/1/356
I've create a smaller patch here which just fixes this bug so that a
fix can be merged into the current release and stable.
Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Downstream-Bug-Report: http://crosbug.com/23953
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olofj@chromium.org>
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Fix various KernelDoc build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Kusanagi Kouichi <slash@ac.auone-net.jp>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111219091320.0D5AF6FC03D@msa105.auone-net.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Compensate the task's think time when computing the final pause time,
so that ->dirty_ratelimit can be executed accurately.
think time := time spend outside of balance_dirty_pages()
In the rare case that the task slept longer than the 200ms period time
(result in negative pause time), the sleep time will be compensated in
the following periods, too, if it's less than 1 second.
Accumulated errors are carefully avoided as long as the max pause area
is not hitted.
Pseudo code:
period = pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit;
think = jiffies - dirty_paused_when;
pause = period - think;
1) normal case: period > think
pause = period - think
dirty_paused_when = jiffies + pause
nr_dirtied = 0
period time
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think time pause time
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dirty_paused_when jiffies
2) no pause case: period <= think
don't pause; reduce future pause time by:
dirty_paused_when += period
nr_dirtied = 0
period time
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think time
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dirty_paused_when jiffies
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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It's a years long problem that a large number of short-lived dirtiers
(eg. gcc instances in a fast kernel build) may starve long-run dirtiers
(eg. dd) as well as pushing the dirty pages to the global hard limit.
The solution is to charge the pages dirtied by the exited gcc to the
other random dirtying tasks. It sounds not perfect, however should
behave good enough in practice, seeing as that throttled tasks aren't
actually running so those that are running are more likely to pick it up
and get throttled, therefore promoting an equal spread.
Randy: fix compile error: 'dirty_throttle_leaks' undeclared in exit.c
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf events: Fix ring_buffer_wakeup() brown paperbag bug
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() regression in selecting an idle SMT sibling
MAINTAINERS: Update tip.git related git trees
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Mike Galbraith reported that this recent commit:
commit 4dcfe1025b513c2c1da5bf5586adb0e80148f612
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Thu Nov 10 13:01:10 2011 +0100
sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possible
stopped selecting an idle SMT sibling when there are no idle
cores in a single socket system.
Intent of the select_idle_sibling() was to fallback to an idle
SMT sibling, if it fails to identify an idle core. But this
fallback was not happening on systems where all the scheduler
domains had `SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES' flag set.
Fix it. Slightly bigger patch of cleaning all these goto's etc
is queued up for the next release.
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reported-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323978421.1984.244.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Wrap another ->real_parent dereference while under rcu_read_lock.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111215164918.GA13003@www.outflux.net
[ tidied up the changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Make cputime_t and cputime64_t nocast to enable sparse checking to
detect incorrect use of cputime. Drop the cputime macros for simple
scalar operations. The conversion macros are still needed.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Merge reason: Pick up the latest fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Commit 10c6db11 ("perf: Fix loss of notification with multi-event")
seems to unconditionally dereference event->rb in the wakeup handler,
this is wrong, there might not be a buffer attached.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111213152651.GP20297@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com
[ minor edits ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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cic is association between io_context and request_queue. A cic is
linked from both ioc and q and should be destroyed when either one
goes away. As ioc and q both have their own locks, locking becomes a
bit complex - both orders work for removal from one but not from the
other.
Currently, cfq tries to circumvent this locking order issue with RCU.
ioc->lock nests inside queue_lock but the radix tree and cic's are
also protected by RCU allowing either side to walk their lists without
grabbing lock.
This rather unconventional use of RCU quickly devolves into extremely
fragile convolution. e.g. The following is from cfqd going away too
soon after ioc and q exits raced.
general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU 2
Modules linked in:
[ 88.503444]
Pid: 599, comm: hexdump Not tainted 3.1.0-rc10-work+ #158 Bochs Bochs
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81397628>] [<ffffffff81397628>] cfq_exit_single_io_context+0x58/0xf0
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81395a4a>] call_for_each_cic+0x5a/0x90
[<ffffffff81395ab5>] cfq_exit_io_context+0x15/0x20
[<ffffffff81389130>] exit_io_context+0x100/0x140
[<ffffffff81098a29>] do_exit+0x579/0x850
[<ffffffff81098d5b>] do_group_exit+0x5b/0xd0
[<ffffffff81098de7>] sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
[<ffffffff81b02f2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
The only real hot path here is cic lookup during request
initialization and avoiding extra locking requires very confined use
of RCU. This patch makes cic removal from both ioc and request_queue
perform double-locking and unlink immediately.
* From q side, the change is almost trivial as ioc->lock nests inside
queue_lock. It just needs to grab each ioc->lock as it walks
cic_list and unlink it.
* From ioc side, it's a bit more difficult because of inversed lock
order. ioc needs its lock to walk its cic_list but can't grab the
matching queue_lock and needs to perform unlock-relock dancing.
Unlinking is now wholly done from put_io_context() and fast path is
optimized by using the queue_lock the caller already holds, which is
by far the most common case. If the ioc accessed multiple devices,
it tries with trylock. In unlikely cases of fast path failure, it
falls back to full double-locking dance from workqueue.
Double-locking isn't the prettiest thing in the world but it's *far*
simpler and more understandable than RCU trick without adding any
meaningful overhead.
This still leaves a lot of now unnecessary RCU logics. Future patches
will trim them.
-v2: Vivek pointed out that cic->q was being dereferenced after
cic->release() was called. Updated to use local variable @this_q
instead.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Ignoring copy_io() during fork, io_context can be allocated from two
places - current_io_context() and set_task_ioprio(). The former is
always called from local task while the latter can be called from
different task. The synchornization between them are peculiar and
dubious.
* current_io_context() doesn't grab task_lock() and assumes that if it
saw %NULL ->io_context, it would stay that way until allocation and
assignment is complete. It has smp_wmb() between alloc/init and
assignment.
* set_task_ioprio() grabs task_lock() for assignment and does
smp_read_barrier_depends() between "ioc = task->io_context" and "if
(ioc)". Unfortunately, this doesn't achieve anything - the latter
is not a dependent load of the former. ie, if ioc itself were being
dereferenced "ioc->xxx", it would mean something (not sure what tho)
but as the code currently stands, the dependent read barrier is
noop.
As only one of the the two test-assignment sequences is task_lock()
protected, the task_lock() can't do much about race between the two.
Nothing prevents current_io_context() and set_task_ioprio() allocating
its own ioc for the same task and overwriting the other's.
Also, set_task_ioprio() can race with exiting task and create a new
ioc after exit_io_context() is finished.
ioc get/put doesn't have any reason to be complex. The only hot path
is accessing the existing ioc of %current, which is simple to achieve
given that ->io_context is never destroyed as long as the task is
alive. All other paths can happily go through task_lock() like all
other task sub structures without impacting anything.
This patch updates ioc get/put so that it becomes more conventional.
* alloc_io_context() is replaced with get_task_io_context(). This is
the only interface which can acquire access to ioc of another task.
On return, the caller has an explicit reference to the object which
should be put using put_io_context() afterwards.
* The functionality of current_io_context() remains the same but when
creating a new ioc, it shares the code path with
get_task_io_context() and always goes through task_lock().
* get_io_context() now means incrementing ref on an ioc which the
caller already has access to (be that an explicit refcnt or implicit
%current one).
* PF_EXITING inhibits creation of new io_context and once
exit_io_context() is finished, it's guaranteed that both ioc
acquisition functions return %NULL.
* All users are updated. Most are trivial but
smp_read_barrier_depends() removal from cfq_get_io_context() needs a
bit of explanation. I suppose the original intention was to ensure
ioc->ioprio is visible when set_task_ioprio() allocates new
io_context and installs it; however, this wouldn't have worked
because set_task_ioprio() doesn't have wmb between init and install.
There are other problems with this which will be fixed in another
patch.
* While at it, use NUMA_NO_NODE instead of -1 for wildcard node
specification.
-v2: Vivek spotted contamination from debug patch. Removed.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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The memparse() function already accepts const char * as the parsing string.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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These three methods are no longer used. Kill them.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
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->pre_attach() is supposed to be called before migration, which is
observed during process migration but task migration does it the other
way around. The only ->pre_attach() user is cpuset which can do the
same operaitons in ->can_attach(). Collapse cpuset_pre_attach() into
cpuset_can_attach().
-v2: Patch contamination from later patch removed. Spotted by Paul
Menage.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
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Now that subsys->can_attach() and attach() take @tset instead of
@task, they can handle per-task operations. Convert
->can_attach_task() and ->attach_task() users to use ->can_attach()
and attach() instead. Most converions are straight-forward.
Noteworthy changes are,
* In cgroup_freezer, remove unnecessary NULL assignments to unused
methods. It's useless and very prone to get out of sync, which
already happened.
* In cpuset, PF_THREAD_BOUND test is checked for each task. This
doesn't make any practical difference but is conceptually cleaner.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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