The spinning mutex implementation uses cpu_relax() in busy loops as a
compiler barrier. Depending on the architecture, cpu_relax() may do more
than needed in this specific mutex spin loops. On System z we also give
up the time slice of the virtual cpu in cpu_relax(), which prevents
effective spinning on the mutex.
This patch replaces cpu_relax() in the spinning mutex code with
arch_mutex_cpu_relax(), which can be defined by each architecture that
selects HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX. The default is still cpu_relax(), so
this patch should not affect other architectures than System z for now.
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1290437256.7455.4.camel@thinkpad>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add more clock information to /proc/sched_debug, Thomas wanted to see
the sched_clock_stable state.
Requested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Oleg mentioned that there is no actual guarantee the dying cpu's
migration thread is actually finished running when we get there, so
replace the BUG_ON() with a spinloop waiting for it.
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
GCC warns us about:
kernel/cpu.c: In function ‘take_cpu_down’:
kernel/cpu.c:200:15: warning: unused variable ‘cpu’
This variable is unused since param->hcpu is directly
used later on in cpu_notify.
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval_giani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1290091494.1145.5.camel@gondor.retis>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The recent cgroup-scheduling rework caused a UP build problem.
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This reverts commit 59365d136d.
It turns out that this can break certain existing user land setups.
Quoth Sarah Sharp:
"On Wednesday, I updated my branch to commit 460781b from linus' tree,
and my box would not boot. klogd segfaulted, which stalled the whole
system.
At first I thought it actually hung the box, but it continued booting
after 5 minutes, and I was able to log in. It dropped back to the
text console instead of the graphical bootup display for that period
of time. dmesg surprisingly still works. I've bisected the problem
down to this commit (commit 59365d136d)
The box is running klogd 1.5.5ubuntu3 (from Jaunty). Yes, I know
that's old. I read the bit in the commit about changing the
permissions of kallsyms after boot, but if I can't boot that doesn't
help."
So let's just keep the old default, and encourage distributions to do
the "chmod -r /proc/kallsyms" in their bootup scripts. This is not
worth a kernel option to change default behavior, since it's so easily
done in user space.
Reported-and-bisected-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb:
kgdb,ppc: Fix regression in evr register handling
kgdb,x86: fix regression in detach handling
kdb: fix crash when KDB_BASE_CMD_MAX is exceeded
kdb: fix memory leak in kdb_main.c
Formerly sched_group_set_shares would force a rebalance by overflowing domain
share sums. Now that per-cpu averages are maintained we can set the true value
by issuing an update_cfs_shares() following a tg->shares update.
Also initialize tg se->load to 0 for consistency since we'll now set correct
weights on enqueue.
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com?>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234938.465521344@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Refactor the global load updates from update_shares_cpu() so that
update_cfs_load() can update global load when it is more than ~10%
out of sync.
The new global_load parameter allows us to force an update, regardless of
the error factor so that we can synchronize w/ update_shares().
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234938.377473595@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When the system is busy, dilation of rq->next_balance makes lb->update_shares()
insufficiently frequent for threads which don't sleep (no dequeue/enqueue
updates). Adjust for this by making demand based updates based on the
accumulation of execution time sufficient to wrap our averaging window.
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234938.291159744@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Since shares updates are no longer expensive and effectively local, update them
at idle_balance(). This allows us to more quickly redistribute shares to
another cpu when our load becomes idle.
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234938.204191702@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Introduce a new sysctl for the shares window and disambiguate it from
sched_time_avg.
A 10ms window appears to be a good compromise between accuracy and performance.
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234938.112173964@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Avoid duplicate shares update calls by ensuring children always appear before
parents in rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list.
This allows us to do a single in-order traversal for update_shares().
Since we always enqueue in bottom-up order this reduces to 2 cases:
1) Our parent is already in the list, e.g.
root
\
b
/\
c d* (root->b->c already enqueued)
Since d's parent is enqueued we push it to the head of the list, implicitly ahead of b.
2) Our parent does not appear in the list (or we have no parent)
In this case we enqueue to the tail of the list, if our parent is subsequently enqueued
(bottom-up) it will appear to our right by the same rule.
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234938.022488865@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Using cfs_rq->nr_running is not sufficient to synchronize update_cfs_load with
the put path since nr_running accounting occurs at deactivation.
It's also not safe to make the removal decision based on load_avg as this fails
with both high periods and low shares. Resolve this by clipping history after
4 periods without activity.
Note: the above will always occur from update_shares() since in the
last-task-sleep-case that task will still be cfs_rq->curr when update_cfs_load
is called.
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234937.933428187@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
As part of enqueue_entity both a new entity weight and its contribution to the
queuing cfs_rq / rq are updated. Since update_cfs_shares will only update the
queueing weights when the entity is on_rq (which in this case it is not yet),
there's a dependency loop here:
update_cfs_shares needs account_entity_enqueue to update cfs_rq->load.weight
account_entity_enqueue needs the updated weight for the queuing cfs_rq load[*]
Fix this and avoid spurious dequeue/enqueues by issuing update_cfs_shares as
if we had accounted the enqueue already.
This was also resulting in rq->load corruption previously.
[*]: this dependency also exists when using the group cfs_rq w/
update_cfs_shares as the weight of the enqueued entity changes
without the load being updated.
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234937.844900206@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Make tg_shares_up() use the active cgroup list, this means we cannot
do a strict bottom-up walk of the hierarchy, but assuming its a very
wide tree with a small number of active groups it should be a win.
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234937.754159484@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Make certain load-balance actions scale per number of active cgroups
instead of the number of existing cgroups.
This makes wakeup/sleep paths more expensive, but is a win for systems
where the vast majority of existing cgroups are idle.
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234937.666535048@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
By tracking a per-cpu load-avg for each cfs_rq and folding it into a
global task_group load on each tick we can rework tg_shares_up to be
strictly per-cpu.
This should improve cpu-cgroup performance for smp systems
significantly.
[ Paul: changed to use queueing cfs_rq + bug fixes ]
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101115234937.580480400@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
While discussing the need for sched_idle_next(), Oleg remarked that
since try_to_wake_up() ensures sleeping tasks will end up running on a
sane cpu, we can do away with migrate_live_tasks().
If we then extend the existing hack of migrating current from
CPU_DYING to migrating the full rq worth of tasks from CPU_DYING, the
need for the sched_idle_next() abomination disappears as well, since
idle will be the only possible thread left after the migration thread
stops.
This greatly simplifies the hot-unplug task migration path, as can be
seen from the resulting code reduction (and about half the new lines
are comments).
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1289851597.2109.547.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When the number of dyanmic kdb commands exceeds KDB_BASE_CMD_MAX, the
kernel will fault.
Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point,
leaving only the #include.
Remove this too as a cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Making /proc/kallsyms readable only for root by default makes it
slightly harder for attackers to write generic kernel exploits by
removing one source of knowledge where things are in the kernel.
This is the second submit, discussion happened on this on first submit
and mostly concerned that this is just one hole of the sieve ... but
one of the bigger ones.
Changing the permissions of at least System.map and vmlinux is also
required to fix the same set, but a packaging issue.
Target of this starter patch and follow ups is removing any kind of
kernel space address information leak from the kernel.
[ Side note: the default of root-only reading is the "safe" value, and
it's easy enough to then override at any time after boot. The /proc
filesystem allows root to change the permissions with a regular
chmod, so you can "revert" this at run-time by simply doing
chmod og+r /proc/kallsyms
as root if you really want regular users to see the kernel symbols.
It does help some tools like "perf" figure them out without any
setup, so it may well make sense in some situations. - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: Fix cross-sched-class wakeup preemption
sched: Fix runnable condition for stoptask
sched: Use group weight, idle cpu metrics to fix imbalances during idle
* 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6:
PM / PM QoS: Fix reversed min and max
PM / OPP: Hide OPP configuration when SoCs do not provide an implementation
PM: Allow devices to be removed during late suspend and early resume
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
[S390] kprobes: Fix the return address of multiple kretprobes
[S390] kprobes: disable interrupts throughout
[S390] ftrace: build without frame pointers on s390
[S390] mm: add devmem_is_allowed() for STRICT_DEVMEM checking
[S390] vmlogrdr: purge after recording is switched off
[S390] cio: fix incorrect ccw_device_init_count
[S390] tape: add medium state notifications
[S390] fix get_user_pages_fast
The addition of CONFIG_SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT resulted in a build
failure when CONFIG_PRINTK=n. This is because the capabilities code
which used the new option was built even though the variable in question
didn't exist.
The patch here fixes this by moving the capabilities checks out of the
LSM and into the caller. All (known) LSMs should have been calling the
capabilities hook already so it actually makes the code organization
better to eliminate the hook altogether.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (27 commits)
block: remove unused copy_io_context()
Documentation: remove anticipatory scheduler info
block: remove REQ_HARDBARRIER
ioprio: rcu_read_lock/unlock protect find_task_by_vpid call (V2)
ioprio: fix RCU locking around task dereference
block: ioctl: fix information leak to userland
block: read i_size with i_size_read()
cciss: fix proc warning on attempt to remove non-existant directory
bio: take care not overflow page count when mapping/copying user data
block: limit vec count in bio_kmalloc() and bio_alloc_map_data()
block: take care not to overflow when calculating total iov length
block: check for proper length of iov entries in blk_rq_map_user_iov()
cciss: remove controllers supported by hpsa
cciss: use usleep_range not msleep for small sleeps
cciss: limit commands allocated on reset_devices
cciss: Use kernel provided PCI state save and restore functions
cciss: fix board status waiting code
drbd: Removed checks for REQ_HARDBARRIER on incomming BIOs
drbd: REQ_HARDBARRIER -> REQ_FUA transition for meta data accesses
drbd: Removed the BIO_RW_BARRIER support form the receiver/epoch code
...
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf, amd: Use kmalloc_node(,__GFP_ZERO) for northbridge structure allocation
perf_events: Fix time tracking in samples
perf trace: update usage
perf trace: update Documentation with new perf trace variants
perf trace: live-mode command-line cleanup
perf trace record: handle commands correctly
perf record: make the record options available outside perf record
perf trace scripting: remove system-wide param from shell scripts
perf trace scripting: fix some small memory leaks and missing error checks
perf: Fix usages of profile_cpu in builtin-top.c to use cpu_list
perf, ui: Eliminate stack-smashing protection compiler complaint
The kernel syslog contains debugging information that is often useful
during exploitation of other vulnerabilities, such as kernel heap
addresses. Rather than futilely attempt to sanitize hundreds (or
thousands) of printk statements and simultaneously cripple useful
debugging functionality, it is far simpler to create an option that
prevents unprivileged users from reading the syslog.
This patch, loosely based on grsecurity's GRKERNSEC_DMESG, creates the
dmesg_restrict sysctl. When set to "0", the default, no restrictions are
enforced. When set to "1", only users with CAP_SYS_ADMIN can read the
kernel syslog via dmesg(8) or other mechanisms.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: explain the config option in kernel.txt]
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Per task latencytop accumulator prematurely terminates due to erroneous
placement of latency_record_count. It should be incremented whenever a
new record is allocated instead of increment on every latencytop event.
Also fix search iterator to only search known record events instead of
blindly searching all pre-allocated space.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
clean_sort_range() should return a number of nonempty elements of range
array, but if the array is full clean_sort_range() returns 0.
The problem is that the number of nonempty elements is evaluated by
finding the first empty element of the array. If there is no such element
it returns an initial value of local variable nr_range that is zero.
The fix is trivial: it changes initial value of nr_range to size of the
array.
The bug can lead to loss of information regarding all ranges, since
typically returned value of clean_sort_range() is considered as an actual
number of ranges in the array after a series of add/subtract operations.
Found by Analytical Verification project of Linux Verification Center
(linuxtesting.org), thanks to Alexander Kolosov.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Instead of dealing with sched classes inside each check_preempt_curr()
implementation, pull out this logic into the generic wakeup preemption
path.
This fixes a hang in KVM (and others) where we are waiting for the
stop machine thread to run ...
Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Tested-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1288891946.2039.31.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Since the OPP API is only useful with an appropraite SoC-specific
implementation there is no point in offering the ability to enable
the API on general systems. Provide an ARCH_HAS OPP Kconfig symbol
which masks out the option unless selected by an implementation.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Acked-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Heiko reported that the TASK_RUNNING check is not sufficient for
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y since we can get preempted with !TASK_RUNNING.
He suggested adding a ->se.on_rq test to the existing TASK_RUNNING
one, however TASK_RUNNING will always have ->se.on_rq, so we might as
well reduce that to a single test.
[ stop tasks should never get preempted, but its good to handle
this case correctly should this ever happen ]
Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Currently we consider a sched domain to be well balanced when the imbalance
is less than the domain's imablance_pct. As the number of cores and threads
are increasing, current values of imbalance_pct (for example 25% for a
NUMA domain) are not enough to detect imbalances like:
a) On a WSM-EP system (two sockets, each having 6 cores and 12 logical threads),
24 cpu-hogging tasks get scheduled as 13 on one socket and 11 on another
socket. Leading to an idle HT cpu.
b) On a hypothetial 2 socket NHM-EX system (each socket having 8 cores and
16 logical threads), 16 cpu-hogging tasks can get scheduled as 9 on one
socket and 7 on another socket. Leaving one core in a socket idle
whereas in another socket we have a core having both its HT siblings busy.
While this issue can be fixed by decreasing the domain's imbalance_pct
(by making it a function of number of logical cpus in the domain), it
can potentially cause more task migrations across sched groups in an
overloaded case.
Fix this by using imbalance_pct only during newly_idle and busy
load balancing. And during idle load balancing, check if there
is an imbalance in number of idle cpu's across the busiest and this
sched_group or if the busiest group has more tasks than its weight that
the idle cpu in this_group can pull.
Reported-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1284760952.2676.11.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch corrects time tracking in samples. Without this patch
both time_enabled and time_running are bogus when user asks for
PERF_SAMPLE_READ.
One uses PERF_SAMPLE_READ to sample the values of other counters
in each sample. Because of multiplexing, it is necessary to know
both time_enabled, time_running to be able to scale counts correctly.
In this second version of the patch, we maintain a shadow
copy of ctx->time which allows us to compute ctx->time without
calling update_context_time() from NMI context. We avoid the
issue that update_context_time() must always be called with
ctx->lock held.
We do not keep shadow copies of the other event timings
because if the lead event is overflowing then it is active
and thus it's been scheduled in via event_sched_in() in
which case neither tstamp_stopped, tstamp_running can be modified.
This timing logic only applies to samples when PERF_SAMPLE_READ
is used.
Note that this patch does not address timing issues related
to sampling inheritance between tasks. This will be addressed
in a future patch.
With this patch, the libpfm4 example task_smpl now reports
correct counts (shown on 2.4GHz Core 2):
$ task_smpl -p 2400000000 -e unhalted_core_cycles:u,instructions_retired:u,baclears noploop 5
noploop for 5 seconds
IIP:0x000000004006d6 PID:5596 TID:5596 TIME:466,210,211,430 STREAM_ID:33 PERIOD:2,400,000,000 ENA=1,010,157,814 RUN=1,010,157,814 NR=3
2,400,000,254 unhalted_core_cycles:u (33)
2,399,273,744 instructions_retired:u (34)
53,340 baclears (35)
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4cc6e14b.1e07e30a.256e.5190@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
REQ_HARDBARRIER is dead now, so remove the leftovers. What's left
at this point is:
- various checks inside the block layer.
- sanity checks in bio based drivers.
- now unused bio_empty_barrier helper.
- Xen blockfront use of BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER - it's dead for a while,
but Xen really needs to sort out it's barrier situaton.
- setting of ordered tags in uas - dead code copied from old scsi
drivers.
- scsi different retry for barriers - it's dead and should have been
removed when flushes were converted to FS requests.
- blktrace handling of barriers - removed. Someone who knows blktrace
better should add support for REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA, though.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Since commit 1dcc41bb (futex: Change 3rd arg of fetch_robust_entry()
to unsigned int*) some gcc versions decided to emit the following
warning:
kernel/futex.c: In function ‘exit_robust_list’:
kernel/futex.c:2492: warning: ‘next_pi’ may be used uninitialized in this function
The commit did not introduce the warning as gcc should have warned
before that commit as well. It's just gcc being silly.
The code path really can't result in next_pi being unitialized (or
should not), but let's keep the build clean. Annotate next_pi as an
uninitialized_var.
[ tglx: Addressed the same issue in futex_compat.c and massaged the
changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1288897200-13008-1-git-send-email-dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
s390 doesn't need FRAME_POINTERS in order to have a working function tracer.
We don't need frame pointers in order to get strack traces since we always
have valid backchains by using the -mkernel-backchain gcc option.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
posix-cpu-timers.c correctly assumes that the dying process does
posix_cpu_timers_exit_group() and removes all !CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD
timers from signal->cpu_timers list.
But, it also assumes that timer->it.cpu.task is always the group
leader, and thus the dead ->task means the dead thread group.
This is obviously not true after de_thread() changes the leader.
After that almost every posix_cpu_timer_ method has problems.
It is not simple to fix this bug correctly. First of all, I think
that timer->it.cpu should use struct pid instead of task_struct.
Also, the locking should be reworked completely. In particular,
tasklist_lock should not be used at all. This all needs a lot of
nontrivial and hard-to-test changes.
Change __exit_signal() to do posix_cpu_timers_exit_group() when
the old leader dies during exec. This is not the fix, just the
temporary hack to hide the problem for 2.6.37 and stable. IOW,
this is obviously wrong but this is what we currently have anyway:
cpu timers do not work after mt exec.
In theory this change adds another race. The exiting leader can
detach the timers which were attached to the new leader. However,
the window between de_thread() and release_task() is small, we
can pretend that sys_timer_create() was called before de_thread().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We can optimize kernel/relay.c::relay_alloc_page_array() slightly by
using vzalloc. The patch makes these changes:
- use vzalloc instead of vmalloc+memset.
- remove redundant local variable 'array'.
- declare local 'pa_size' as const.
Cuts down nicely on both source and object-code size.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
genirq: Fix up irq_node() for irq_data changes.
genirq: Add single IRQ reservation helper
genirq: Warn if enable_irq is called before irq is set up
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
semaphore: Remove mutex emulation
staging: Final semaphore cleanup
jbd2: Convert jbd2_slab_create_sem to mutex
hpfs: Convert sbi->hpfs_creation_de to mutex
Fix up trivial change/delete conflicts with deleted 'dream' drivers
(drivers/staging/dream/camera/{mt9d112.c,mt9p012_fox.c,mt9t013.c,s5k3e2fx.c})
