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Ingo Molnar
7d992feb76 Merge branch 'rcu/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney:

"
 * Update RCU documentation.  These were posted to LKML at
   https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/611.

 * Miscellaneous fixes.  These were posted to LKML at
   https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/619.

 * Full-system idle detection.  This is for use by Frederic
   Weisbecker's adaptive-ticks mechanism.  Its purpose is
   to allow the timekeeping CPU to shut off its tick when
   all other CPUs are idle.  These were posted to LKML at
   https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/648.

 * Improve rcutorture test coverage.  These were posted to LKML at
   https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/675.
"

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-03 07:41:11 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
25f27ce4a6 Merge branches 'doc.2013.08.19a', 'fixes.2013.08.20a', 'sysidle.2013.08.31a' and 'torture.2013.08.20a' into HEAD
doc.2013.08.19a: Documentation updates
fixes.2013.08.20a: Miscellaneous fixes
sysidle.2013.08.31a: Detect system-wide idle state.
torture.2013.08.20a: rcutorture updates.
2013-08-31 14:44:45 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
eb75767be0 nohz_full: Force RCU's grace-period kthreads onto timekeeping CPU
Because RCU's quiescent-state-forcing mechanism is used to drive the
full-system-idle state machine, and because this mechanism is executed
by RCU's grace-period kthreads, this commit forces these kthreads to
run on the timekeeping CPU (tick_do_timer_cpu).  To do otherwise would
mean that the RCU grace-period kthreads would force the system into
non-idle state every time they drove the state machine, which would
be just a bit on the futile side.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-08-31 14:44:02 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
0edd1b1784 nohz_full: Add full-system-idle state machine
This commit adds the state machine that takes the per-CPU idle data
as input and produces a full-system-idle indication as output.  This
state machine is driven out of RCU's quiescent-state-forcing
mechanism, which invokes rcu_sysidle_check_cpu() to collect per-CPU
idle state and then rcu_sysidle_report() to drive the state machine.

The full-system-idle state is sampled using rcu_sys_is_idle(), which
also drives the state machine if RCU is idle (and does so by forcing
RCU to become non-idle).  This function returns true if all but the
timekeeping CPU (tick_do_timer_cpu) are idle and have been idle long
enough to avoid memory contention on the full_sysidle_state state
variable.  The rcu_sysidle_force_exit() may be called externally
to reset the state machine back into non-idle state.

For large systems the state machine is driven out of RCU's
force-quiescent-state logic, which provides good scalability at the price
of millisecond-scale latencies on the transition to full-system-idle
state.  This is not so good for battery-powered systems, which are usually
small enough that they don't need to care about scalability, but which
do care deeply about energy efficiency.  Small systems therefore drive
the state machine directly out of the idle-entry code.  The number of
CPUs in a "small" system is defined by a new NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE_SMALL
Kconfig parameter, which defaults to 8.  Note that this is a build-time
definition.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
[ paulmck: Use true and false for boolean constants per Lai Jiangshan. ]
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
[ paulmck: Simplify logic and provide better comments for memory barriers,
  based on review comments and questions by Lai Jiangshan. ]
2013-08-31 14:43:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a8787645e1 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) There was a simplification in the ipv6 ndisc packet sending
    attempted here, which avoided using memory accounting on the
    per-netns ndisc socket for sending NDISC packets.  It did fix some
    important issues, but it causes regressions so it gets reverted here
    too.  Specifically, the problem with this change is that the IPV6
    output path really depends upon there being a valid skb->sk
    attached.

    The reason we want to do this change in some form when we figure out
    how to do it right, is that if a device goes down the ndisc_sk
    socket send queue will fill up and block NDISC packets that we want
    to send to other devices too.  That's really bad behavior.

    Hopefully Thomas can come up with a better version of this change.

 2) Fix a severe TCP performance regression by reverting a change made
    to dev_pick_tx() quite some time ago.  From Eric Dumazet.

 3) TIPC returns wrongly signed error codes, fix from Erik Hugne.

 4) Fix OOPS when doing IPSEC over ipv4 tunnels due to orphaning the
    skb->sk too early.  Fix from Li Hongjun.

 5) RAW ipv4 sockets can use the wrong routing key during lookup, from
    Chris Clark.

 6) Similar to #1 revert an older change that tried to use plain
    alloc_skb() for SYN/ACK TCP packets, this broke the netfilter owner
    mark which needs to see the skb->sk for such frames.  From Phil
    Oester.

 7) BNX2x driver bug fixes from Ariel Elior and Yuval Mintz,
    specifically in the handling of virtual functions.

 8) IPSEC path error propagations to sockets is not done properly when
    we have v4 in v6, and v6 in v4 type rules.  Fix from Hannes Frederic
    Sowa.

 9) Fix missing channel context release in mac80211, from Johannes Berg.

10) Fix network namespace handing wrt.  SCM_RIGHTS, from Andy
    Lutomirski.

11) Fix usage of bogus NAPI weight in jme, netxen, and ps3_gelic
    drivers.  From Michal Schmidt.

12) Hopefully a complete and correct fix for the genetlink dump locking
    and module reference counting.  From Pravin B Shelar.

13) sk_busy_loop() must do a cpu_relax(), from Eliezer Tamir.

14) Fix handling of timestamp offset when restoring a snapshotted TCP
    socket.  From Andrew Vagin.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (44 commits)
  net: fec: fix time stamping logic after napi conversion
  net: bridge: convert MLDv2 Query MRC into msecs_to_jiffies for max_delay
  mISDN: return -EINVAL on error in dsp_control_req()
  net: revert 8728c544a9 ("net: dev_pick_tx() fix")
  Revert "ipv6: Don't depend on per socket memory for neighbour discovery messages"
  ipv4 tunnels: fix an oops when using ipip/sit with IPsec
  tipc: set sk_err correctly when connection fails
  tcp: tcp_make_synack() should use sock_wmalloc
  bridge: separate querier and query timer into IGMP/IPv4 and MLD/IPv6 ones
  ipv6: Don't depend on per socket memory for neighbour discovery messages
  ipv4: sendto/hdrincl: don't use destination address found in header
  tcp: don't apply tsoffset if rcv_tsecr is zero
  tcp: initialize rcv_tstamp for restored sockets
  net: xilinx: fix memleak
  net: usb: Add HP hs2434 device to ZLP exception table
  net: add cpu_relax to busy poll loop
  net: stmmac: fixed the pbl setting with DT
  genl: Hold reference on correct module while netlink-dump.
  genl: Fix genl dumpit() locking.
  xfrm: Fix potential null pointer dereference in xdst_queue_output
  ...
2013-08-30 17:43:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
41615e811b Merge branch 'for-3.11-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup fix from Tejun Heo:
 "During the percpu reference counting update which was merged during
  v3.11-rc1, the cgroup destruction path was updated so that a cgroup in
  the process of dying may linger on the children list, which was
  necessary as the cgroup should still be included in child/descendant
  iteration while percpu ref is being killed.

  Unfortunately, I forgot to update cgroup destruction path accordingly
  and cgroup destruction may fail spuriously with -EBUSY due to
  lingering dying children even when there's no live child left - e.g.
  "rmdir parent/child parent" will usually fail.

  This can be easily fixed by iterating through the children list to
  verify that there's no live child left.  While this is very late in
  the release cycle, this bug is very visible to userland and I believe
  the fix is relatively safe.

  Thanks Hugh for spotting and providing fix for the issue"

* 'for-3.11-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup: fix rmdir EBUSY regression in 3.11
2013-08-29 17:03:48 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
bb78a92f47 cgroup: fix rmdir EBUSY regression in 3.11
On 3.11-rc we are seeing cgroup directories left behind when they should
have been removed.  Here's a trivial reproducer:

cd /sys/fs/cgroup/memory
mkdir parent parent/child; rmdir parent/child parent
rmdir: failed to remove `parent': Device or resource busy

It's because cgroup_destroy_locked() (step 1 of destruction) leaves
cgroup on parent's children list, letting cgroup_offline_fn() (step 2 of
destruction) remove it; but step 2 is run by work queue, which may not
yet have removed the children when parent destruction checks the list.

Fix that by checking through a non-empty list of children: if every one
of them has already been marked CGRP_DEAD, then it's safe to proceed:
those children are invisible to userspace, and should not obstruct rmdir.

(I didn't see any reason to keep the cgrp->children checks under the
unrelated css_set_lock, so moved them out.)

tj: Flattened nested ifs a bit and updated comment so that it's
    correct on both for-3.11-fixes and for-3.12.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2013-08-29 11:05:07 -04:00
Tejun Heo
b22ce2785d workqueue: cond_resched() after processing each work item
If !PREEMPT, a kworker running work items back to back can hog CPU.
This becomes dangerous when a self-requeueing work item which is
waiting for something to happen races against stop_machine.  Such
self-requeueing work item would requeue itself indefinitely hogging
the kworker and CPU it's running on while stop_machine would wait for
that CPU to enter stop_machine while preventing anything else from
happening on all other CPUs.  The two would deadlock.

Jamie Liu reports that this deadlock scenario exists around
scsi_requeue_run_queue() and libata port multiplier support, where one
port may exclude command processing from other ports.  With the right
timing, scsi_requeue_run_queue() can end up requeueing itself trying
to execute an IO which is asked to be retried while another device has
an exclusive access, which in turn can't make forward progress due to
stop_machine.

Fix it by invoking cond_resched() after executing each work item.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jamie Liu <jamieliu@google.com>
References: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1552567
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
--
 kernel/workqueue.c |    9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
2013-08-29 09:19:28 -04:00
Nathan Zimmer
84a78a6504 timer_list: correct the iterator for timer_list
Correct an issue with /proc/timer_list reported by Holger.

When reading from the proc file with a sufficiently small buffer, 2k so
not really that small, there was one could get hung trying to read the
file a chunk at a time.

The timer_list_start function failed to account for the possibility that
the offset was adjusted outside the timer_list_next.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>
Reported-by: Holger Hans Peter Freyther <holger@freyther.de>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Berke Durak <berke.durak@xiphos.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.10.x
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-08-28 19:26:38 -07:00
Andy Lutomirski
c2b1df2eb4 Rename nsproxy.pid_ns to nsproxy.pid_ns_for_children
nsproxy.pid_ns is *not* the task's pid namespace.  The name should clarify
that.

This makes it more obvious that setns on a pid namespace is weird --
it won't change the pid namespace shown in procfs.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-27 13:52:52 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
e2982a04ed Merge branch 'for-3.11-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup fix from Tejun Heo:
 "A late fix for cgroup.

  This fixes a behavior regression visible to userland which was created
  by a commit merged during -rc1.  While the behavior change isn't too
  likely to be noticeable, the fix is relatively low risk and we'll need
  to backport it through -stable anyway if the bug gets released"

* 'for-3.11-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cpuset: fix a regression in validating config change
2013-08-23 10:58:50 -07:00
Li Zefan
1c09b195d3 cpuset: fix a regression in validating config change
It's not allowed to clear masks of a cpuset if there're tasks in it,
but it's broken:

  # mkdir /cgroup/sub
  # echo 0 > /cgroup/sub/cpuset.cpus
  # echo 0 > /cgroup/sub/cpuset.mems
  # echo $$ > /cgroup/sub/tasks
  # echo > /cgroup/sub/cpuset.cpus
  (should fail)

This bug was introduced by commit 88fa523bff
("cpuset: allow to move tasks to empty cpusets").

tj: Dropped temp bool variables and nestes the conditionals directly.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2013-08-21 08:40:27 -04:00
Paul E. McKenney
458fb381ea rcu: Simplify _rcu_barrier() processing
This commit drops an unneeded ACCESS_ONCE() and simplifies an "our work
is done" check in _rcu_barrier().  This applies feedback from Linus
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/26/777) that he gave to similar code
in an unrelated patch.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
[ paulmck: Fix comment to match code, reported by Lai Jiangshan. ]
2013-08-20 11:45:50 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
7a6a41073c rcu: Make rcutorture emit online failures if verbose
Although rcutorture counts CPU-hotplug online failures, it does
not explicitly record which CPUs were having trouble coming online.
This commit therefore emits a console message when online failure occurs.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-08-20 11:38:45 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
ef47db8e99 rcu: Remove unused variable from rcu_torture_writer()
The oldbatch variable in rcu_torture_writer() is stored to, but never
loaded from.  This commit therefore removes it.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-08-20 11:38:43 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
d10453e974 rcu: Sort rcutorture module parameters
There are getting to be too many module parameters to permit the current
semi-random order, so this patch orders them.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-08-20 11:38:42 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
2ec1f2d987 rcu: Increase rcutorture test coverage
Currently, rcutorture has separate torture_types to test synchronous,
asynchronous, and expedited grace-period primitives.  This has
two disadvantages: (1) Three times the number of runs to cover the
combinations and (2) Little testing of concurrent combinations of the
three options.  This commit therefore adds a pair of module parameters
that control normal and expedited state, with the default being both
types, randomly selected, by the fakewriter processes, thus reducing
source-code size and increasing test coverage.  In addtion, the writer
task switches between asynchronous-normal and expedited grace-period
primitives driven by the same pair of module parameters.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-08-20 11:38:41 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
d2818df168 rcu: Add duplicate-callback tests to rcutorture
This commit adds a object_debug option to rcutorture to allow the
debug-object-based checks for duplicate call_rcu() invocations to
be deterministically tested.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Banish mid-function ifdef, more or less per Josh Triplett. ]
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
[ paulmck: Improve duplicate-callback test, per Lai Jiangshan. ]
2013-08-20 11:37:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e91dade52b Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Three small fixlets"

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  nohz: fix compile warning in tick_nohz_init()
  nohz: Do not warn about unstable tsc unless user uses nohz_full
  sched_clock: Fix integer overflow
2013-08-19 09:17:35 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
2203547f82 kernel: fix new kernel-doc warning in wait.c
Fix new kernel-doc warnings in kernel/wait.c:

  Warning(kernel/wait.c:374): No description found for parameter 'p'
  Warning(kernel/wait.c:374): Excess function parameter 'word' description in 'wake_up_atomic_t'
  Warning(kernel/wait.c:374): Excess function parameter 'bit' description in 'wake_up_atomic_t'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-08-19 09:08:54 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
217af2a2ff nohz_full: Add full-system-idle arguments to API
This commit adds an isidle and jiffies argument to force_qs_rnp(),
dyntick_save_progress_counter(), and rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() to enable
RCU's force-quiescent-state process to check for full-system idle.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
[ paulmck: Use true and false for boolean constants per Lai Jiangshan. ]
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-08-18 18:59:03 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
d4bd54fbac nohz_full: Add full-system idle states and variables
This commit adds control variables and states for full-system idle.
The system will progress through the states in numerical order when
the system is fully idle (other than the timekeeping CPU), and reset
down to the initial state if any non-timekeeping CPU goes non-idle.
The current state is kept in full_sysidle_state.

One flavor of RCU will be in charge of driving the state machine,
defined by rcu_sysidle_state.  This should be the busiest flavor of RCU.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-08-18 18:58:51 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
eb348b8982 nohz_full: Add per-CPU idle-state tracking
This commit adds the code that updates the rcu_dyntick structure's
new fields to track the per-CPU idle state based on interrupts and
transitions into and out of the idle loop (NMIs are ignored because NMI
handlers cannot cleanly read out the time anyway).  This code is similar
to the code that maintains RCU's idea of per-CPU idleness, but differs
in that RCU treats CPUs running in user mode as idle, where this new
code does not.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-08-18 18:58:43 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
2333210b26 nohz_full: Add rcu_dyntick data for scalable detection of all-idle state
This commit adds fields to the rcu_dyntick structure that are used to
detect idle CPUs.  These new fields differ from the existing ones in
that the existing ones consider a CPU executing in user mode to be idle,
where the new ones consider CPUs executing in user mode to be busy.
The handling of these new fields is otherwise quite similar to that for
the exiting fields.  This commit also adds the initialization required
for these fields.

So, why is usermode execution treated differently, with RCU considering
it a quiescent state equivalent to idle, while in contrast the new
full-system idle state detection considers usermode execution to be
non-idle?

It turns out that although one of RCU's quiescent states is usermode
execution, it is not a full-system idle state.  This is because the
purpose of the full-system idle state is not RCU, but rather determining
when accurate timekeeping can safely be disabled.  Whenever accurate
timekeeping is required in a CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL kernel, at least one
CPU must keep the scheduling-clock tick going.  If even one CPU is
executing in user mode, accurate timekeeping is requires, particularly for
architectures where gettimeofday() and friends do not enter the kernel.
Only when all CPUs are really and truly idle can accurate timekeeping be
disabled, allowing all CPUs to turn off the scheduling clock interrupt,
thus greatly improving energy efficiency.

This naturally raises the question "Why is this code in RCU rather than in
timekeeping?", and the answer is that RCU has the data and infrastructure
to efficiently make this determination.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-08-18 18:58:31 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
b44379af1c nohz_full: Add Kconfig parameter for scalable detection of all-idle state
At least one CPU must keep the scheduling-clock tick running for
timekeeping purposes whenever there is a non-idle CPU.  However, with
the new nohz_full adaptive-idle machinery, it is difficult to distinguish
between all CPUs really being idle as opposed to all non-idle CPUs being
in adaptive-ticks mode.  This commit therefore adds a Kconfig parameter
as a first step towards enabling a scalable detection of full-system
idle state.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ paulmck: Update help text per Frederic Weisbecker. ]
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-08-18 18:07:02 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
feed66ed26 rcu: Eliminate unused APIs intended for adaptive ticks
The rcu_user_enter_after_irq() and rcu_user_exit_after_irq()
functions were intended for use by adaptive ticks, but changes
in implementation have rendered them unnecessary.  This commit
therefore removes them.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-08-18 18:06:44 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
1eafd31c64 rcu: Avoid redundant grace-period kthread wakeups
When setting up an in-the-future "advanced" grace period, the code needs
to wake up the relevant grace-period kthread, which it currently does
unconditionally.  However, this results in needless wakeups in the case
where the advanced grace period is being set up by the grace-period
kthread itself, which is a non-uncommon situation.  This commit therefore
checks to see if the running thread is the grace-period kthread, and
avoids doing the irq_work_queue()-mediated wakeup in that case.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-08-18 17:40:09 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
ae15018456 rcu: Make call_rcu() leak callbacks for debug-object errors
If someone does a duplicate call_rcu(), the worst thing the second
call_rcu() could do would be to actually queue the callback the second
time because doing so corrupts whatever list the callback was already
queued on.  This commit therefore makes __call_rcu() check the new
return value from debug-objects and leak the callback upon error.
This commit also substitutes rcu_leak_callback() for whatever callback
function was previously in place in order to avoid freeing the callback
out from under any readers that might still be referencing it.

These changes increase the probability that the debug-objects error
messages will actually make it somewhere visible.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-08-18 17:40:03 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
15100df81f rcu: Simplify debug-objects fixups
The current debug-objects fixups are complex and heavyweight, and the
fixups are not complete:  Even with the fixups, RCU's callback lists
can still be corrupted.  This commit therefore strips the fixups down
to their minimal form, eliminating two of the three.

It would be even better if (for example) call_rcu() simply leaked
any problematic callbacks, but for that to happen, the debug-objects
system would need to inform its caller of suspicious situations.
This is the subject of a later commit in this series.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-08-18 17:39:45 -07:00
Borislav Petkov
d1d74d14e9 rcu: Expedite grace periods during suspend/resume
CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ can increase grace-period durations by up to
a factor of four, which can result in long suspend and resume times.
Thus, this commit temporarily switches to expedited grace periods when
suspending the box and return to normal settings when resuming.  Similar
logic is applied to hibernation.

Because expedited grace periods are of dubious benefit on very large
systems, so this commit restricts their automated use during suspend
and resume to systems of 256 or fewer CPUs.  (Some day a number of
Linux-kernel facilities, including RCU's expedited grace periods,
will be more scalable, but I need to see bug reports first.)

[ paulmck: This also papers over an audio/irq bug, but hopefully that will
  be fixed soon. ]

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-08-18 17:37:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
50e37ccea0 Merge branch 'for-3.11-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup fix from Tejun Heo:
 "This contains one patch to fix the return value of cpuset's cgroups
  interface function, which used to always return -ENODEV for the writes
  on the 'memory_pressure_enabled' file"

* 'for-3.11-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cpuset: fix the return value of cpuset_write_u64()
2013-08-18 08:51:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2d2843e614 Power management fix for 3.11-rc6
- The removal of delayed_work_pending() checks from kernel/power/qos.c
   done in 3.9 introduced a deadlock in pm_qos_work_fn().  Fix from
   Stephen Boyd.
 
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Merge tag 'pm-3.11-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

Pull power management fix from Rafael Wysocki:
 "The removal of delayed_work_pending() checks from kernel/power/qos.c
  done in 3.9 introduced a deadlock in pm_qos_work_fn().

  Fix from Stephen Boyd"

* tag 'pm-3.11-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  PM / QoS: Fix workqueue deadlock when using pm_qos_update_request_timeout()
2013-08-16 09:59:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f1d6e17f54 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)
Merge a bunch of fixes from Andrew Morton.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
  fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix buffer overflow in add_page_map()
  arch: *: Kconfig: add "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" to "arch/*/Kconfig"
  ocfs2: fix null pointer dereference in ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_id()
  x86 get_unmapped_area(): use proper mmap base for bottom-up direction
  ocfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in ocfs2_duplicate_clusters_by_page
  ocfs2: Revert 40bd62e to avoid regression in extended allocation
  drivers/rtc/rtc-stmp3xxx.c: provide timeout for potentially endless loop polling a HW bit
  hugetlb: fix lockdep splat caused by pmd sharing
  aoe: adjust ref of head for compound page tails
  microblaze: fix clone syscall
  mm: save soft-dirty bits on file pages
  mm: save soft-dirty bits on swapped pages
  memcg: don't initialize kmem-cache destroying work for root caches
2013-08-14 10:04:43 -07:00
Michal Simek
dfa9771a7c microblaze: fix clone syscall
Fix inadvertent breakage in the clone syscall ABI for Microblaze that
was introduced in commit f3268edbe6 ("microblaze: switch to generic
fork/vfork/clone").

The Microblaze syscall ABI for clone takes the parent tid address in the
4th argument; the third argument slot is used for the stack size.  The
incorrectly-used CLONE_BACKWARDS type assigned parent tid to the 3rd
slot.

This commit restores the original ABI so that existing userspace libc
code will work correctly.

All kernel versions from v3.8-rc1 were affected.

Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-08-13 17:57:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
28fbc8b6a2 Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Docbook fixes that make 99% of the diffstat, plus a oneliner fix"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Ensure update_cfs_shares() is called for parents of continuously-running tasks
  sched: Fix some kernel-doc warnings
2013-08-13 16:58:17 -07:00
Stephen Boyd
40fea92ffb PM / QoS: Fix workqueue deadlock when using pm_qos_update_request_timeout()
pm_qos_update_request_timeout() updates a qos and then schedules
a delayed work item to bring the qos back down to the default
after the timeout. When the work item runs, pm_qos_work_fn() will
call pm_qos_update_request() and deadlock because it tries to
cancel itself via cancel_delayed_work_sync(). Future callers of
that qos will also hang waiting to cancel the work that is
canceling itself. Let's extract the little bit of code that does
the real work of pm_qos_update_request() and call it from the
work function so that we don't deadlock.

Before ed1ac6e (PM: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()) this didn't
happen because the work function wouldn't try to cancel itself.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: 3.9+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.9+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-08-14 00:42:05 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
e0acd0a68e sched: fix the theoretical signal_wake_up() vs schedule() race
This is only theoretical, but after try_to_wake_up(p) was changed
to check p->state under p->pi_lock the code like

	__set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
	schedule();

can miss a signal. This is the special case of wait-for-condition,
it relies on try_to_wake_up/schedule interaction and thus it does
not need mb() between __set_current_state() and if(signal_pending).

However, this __set_current_state() can move into the critical
section protected by rq->lock, now that try_to_wake_up() takes
another lock we need to ensure that it can't be reordered with
"if (signal_pending(current))" check inside that section.

The patch is actually one-liner, it simply adds smp_wmb() before
spin_lock_irq(rq->lock). This is what try_to_wake_up() already
does by the same reason.

We turn this wmb() into the new helper, smp_mb__before_spinlock(),
for better documentation and to allow the architectures to change
the default implementation.

While at it, kill smp_mb__after_lock(), it has no callers.

Perhaps we can also add smp_mb__before/after_spinunlock() for
prepare_to_wait().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-08-13 08:19:26 -07:00
Li Zefan
a903f0865a cpuset: fix the return value of cpuset_write_u64()
Writing to this file always returns -ENODEV:

  # echo 1 > cpuset.memory_pressure_enabled
  -bash: echo: write error: No such device

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.9+
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2013-08-13 10:54:40 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
278225588d Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull w/w mutex deadlock injection fix from Ingo Molnar.

This bug made the CONFIG_DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH=y option largely
useless, but wouldn't affect normal users.

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  mutex: Fix w/w mutex deadlock injection
2013-08-12 12:01:28 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
ae920eb242 Merge branch 'fortglx/3.11/time' of git://git.linaro.org/people/jstultz/linux into timers/urgent
Pull small fix for v3.11 from John Stultz.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-08-12 18:08:23 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
8742f229b6 userns: limit the maximum depth of user_namespace->parent chain
Ensure that user_namespace->parent chain can't grow too much.
Currently we use the hardroded 32 as limit.

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-08-08 13:11:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b7bc9e7d80 Oleg Nesterov has been working hard in closing all the holes that can
lead to race conditions between deleting an event and accessing an event
 debugfs file. This included a fix to the debugfs system (acked by
 Greg Kroah-Hartman). We think that all the holes have been patched and
 hopefully we don't find more. I haven't marked all of them for stable
 because I need to examine them more to figure out how far back some of
 the changes need to go.
 
 Along the way, some other fixes have been made. Alexander Z Lam fixed
 some logic where the wrong buffer was being modifed.
 
 Andrew Vagin found a possible corruption for machines that actually
 allocate cpumask, as a reference to one was being zeroed out by mistake.
 
 Dhaval Giani found a bad prototype when tracing is not configured.
 
 And I not only had some changes to help Oleg, but also finally fixed
 a long standing bug that Dave Jones and others have been hitting, where
 a module unload and reload can cause the function tracing accounting
 to get screwed up.
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Merge tag 'trace-fixes-3.11-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
 "Oleg Nesterov has been working hard in closing all the holes that can
  lead to race conditions between deleting an event and accessing an
  event debugfs file.  This included a fix to the debugfs system (acked
  by Greg Kroah-Hartman).  We think that all the holes have been patched
  and hopefully we don't find more.  I haven't marked all of them for
  stable because I need to examine them more to figure out how far back
  some of the changes need to go.

  Along the way, some other fixes have been made.  Alexander Z Lam fixed
  some logic where the wrong buffer was being modifed.

  Andrew Vagin found a possible corruption for machines that actually
  allocate cpumask, as a reference to one was being zeroed out by
  mistake.

  Dhaval Giani found a bad prototype when tracing is not configured.

  And I not only had some changes to help Oleg, but also finally fixed a
  long standing bug that Dave Jones and others have been hitting, where
  a module unload and reload can cause the function tracing accounting
  to get screwed up"

* tag 'trace-fixes-3.11-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Fix reset of time stamps during trace_clock changes
  tracing: Make TRACE_ITER_STOP_ON_FREE stop the correct buffer
  tracing: Fix trace_dump_stack() proto when CONFIG_TRACING is not set
  tracing: Fix fields of struct trace_iterator that are zeroed by mistake
  tracing/uprobes: Fail to unregister if probe event files are in use
  tracing/kprobes: Fail to unregister if probe event files are in use
  tracing: Add comment to describe special break case in probe_remove_event_call()
  tracing: trace_remove_event_call() should fail if call/file is in use
  debugfs: debugfs_remove_recursive() must not rely on list_empty(d_subdirs)
  ftrace: Check module functions being traced on reload
  ftrace: Consolidate some duplicate code for updating ftrace ops
  tracing: Change remove_event_file_dir() to clear "d_subdirs"->i_private
  tracing: Introduce remove_event_file_dir()
  tracing: Change f_start() to take event_mutex and verify i_private != NULL
  tracing: Change event_filter_read/write to verify i_private != NULL
  tracing: Change event_enable/disable_read() to verify i_private != NULL
  tracing: Turn event/id->i_private into call->event.type
2013-08-07 13:01:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8e28921e5e Merge branch 'for-3.11-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup fix from Tejun Heo:
 "Fix for a minor memory leak bug in the cgroup init failure path"

* 'for-3.11-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup: fix a leak when percpu_ref_init() fails
2013-08-06 13:59:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4264bc1371 Merge branch 'for-3.11-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
Pull two workqueue fixes from Tejun Heo:
 "A lockdep notation update so that nested work_on_cpu() invocations
  don't lead to spurious lockdep warnings and fix for an unbound attr
  bug which made what's shown in sysfs deviate from the actual ones.
  Both patches have pretty limited scope"

* 'for-3.11-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: copy workqueue_attrs with all fields
  workqueue: allow work_on_cpu() to be called recursively
2013-08-06 13:58:34 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
2cfe6c4ac7 printk: Fix return of braille_register_console()
Some of my configs I test with have CONFIG_A11Y_BRAILLE_CONSOLE set.
When I started testing against v3.11-rc4 my console went bonkers.  Using
ktest to bisect the issue, it came down to:

commit bbeddf52a "printk: move braille console support into separate
braille.[ch] files"

Looking into the patch I found the problem.  It's with the return of
braille_register_console().  As anything other than NULL is considered a
failure.

But for those of us that have CONFIG_A11Y_BRAILLE_CONSOLE set but do not
define a "brl" or "brl=" on the command line, we still may want a
console that those with sight can still use.

Return NULL (success) if "brl" or "brl=" is not on the console line.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-08-06 13:18:12 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
35114fcbe0 Revert "ptrace: PTRACE_DETACH should do flush_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(child)"
This reverts commit fab840fc2d.

This commit even has the test-case to prove that the tracee
can be killed by SIGTRAP if the debugger does not remove the
breakpoints before PTRACE_DETACH.

However, this is exactly what wineserver deliberately does,
set_thread_context() calls PTRACE_ATTACH + PTRACE_DETACH just
for PTRACE_POKEUSER(DR*) in between.

So we should revert this fix and document that PTRACE_DETACH
should keep the breakpoints.

Reported-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-08-06 13:16:32 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
6160968cee userns: unshare_userns(&cred) should not populate cred on failure
unshare_userns(new_cred) does *new_cred = prepare_creds() before
create_user_ns() which can fail. However, the caller expects that
it doesn't need to take care of new_cred if unshare_userns() fails.

We could change the single caller, sys_unshare(), but I think it
would be more clean to avoid the side effects on failure, so with
this patch unshare_userns() does put_cred() itself and initializes
*new_cred only if create_user_ns() succeeeds.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-08-06 13:13:24 -07:00
Alexander Z Lam
9457158bbc tracing: Fix reset of time stamps during trace_clock changes
Fixed two issues with changing the timestamp clock with trace_clock:

 - The global buffer was reset on instance clock changes. Change this to pass
   the correct per-instance buffer
 - ftrace_now() is used to set buf->time_start in tracing_reset_online_cpus().
   This was incorrect because ftrace_now() used the global buffer's clock to
   return the current time. Change this to use buffer_ftrace_now() which
   returns the current time for the correct per-instance buffer.

Also removed tracing_reset_current() because it is not used anywhere

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375493777-17261-2-git-send-email-azl@google.com

Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Z Lam <lambchop468@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10
Signed-off-by: Alexander Z Lam <azl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-08-02 22:40:09 -04:00
Alexander Z Lam
711e124379 tracing: Make TRACE_ITER_STOP_ON_FREE stop the correct buffer
Releasing the free_buffer file in an instance causes the global buffer
to be stopped when TRACE_ITER_STOP_ON_FREE is enabled. Operate on the
correct buffer.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375493777-17261-1-git-send-email-azl@google.com

Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Z Lam <lambchop468@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10
Signed-off-by: Alexander Z Lam <azl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-08-02 22:39:29 -04:00
Andrew Vagin
ed5467da0e tracing: Fix fields of struct trace_iterator that are zeroed by mistake
tracing_read_pipe zeros all fields bellow "seq". The declaration contains
a comment about that, but it doesn't help.

The first field is "snapshot", it's true when current open file is
snapshot. Looks obvious, that it should not be zeroed.

The second field is "started". It was converted from cpumask_t to
cpumask_var_t (v2.6.28-4983-g4462344), in other words it was
converted from cpumask to pointer on cpumask.

Currently the reference on "started" memory is lost after the first read
from tracing_read_pipe and a proper object will never be freed.

The "started" is never dereferenced for trace_pipe, because trace_pipe
can't have the TRACE_FILE_ANNOTATE options.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375463803-3085183-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.30
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-08-02 22:28:41 -04:00