Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
do_adjtimex() is currently a monster function with a maze of
branches. Refactor the txc->modes setting aspects of it into
two new helper functions:
process_adj_status()
process_adjtimex_modes()
kernel/time/ntp.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
2512 114 136 2762 aca ntp.o.before
2512 114 136 2762 aca ntp.o.after
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: change (fix) the way the NTP PLL seconds offset is initialized/tracked
Fix a bug and do a micro-optimization:
When PLL is enabled we do not reset time_reftime. If the PLL
was off for a long time (for example after bootup), this is
arguably the wrong thing to do.
We already had a hack for the common boot-time case in
ntp_update_offset(), in form of:
if (unlikely(time_status & STA_FREQHOLD || time_reftime == 0))
secs = 0;
But the update delta should be reset later on too - not just when
the PLL is enabled for the first time after bootup.
So do it on !STA_PLL -> STA_PLL transitions.
This changes behavior, as previously if ntpd was disabled for
a long time and we restarted it, we'd run from that last update,
with a very large delta.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
The time_reftime update in ntp_update_offset() to xtime.tv_sec
is a convoluted way of saying that we want to freeze the frequency
and want the 'secs' delta to be 0. Also make this branch unlikely.
This shaves off 8 bytes from the code size:
text data bss dec hex filename
2504 114 136 2754 ac2 ntp.o.before
2496 114 136 2746 aba ntp.o.after
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
Change ntp_update_offset_fll() to delta logic instead of
absolute value logic. This eliminates 'freq_adj' from the
function.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
Change ntp_update_frequency() from a hard to follow code
flow that uses global variables as temporaries, to a clean
input+output flow.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
There's an ugly u64 typecase in the MAX_TICKADJ_SCALED definition,
this can be eliminated by making the MAX_TICKADJ constant's type
64-bit (signed).
kernel/time/ntp.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
2504 114 136 2754 ac2 ntp.o.before
2504 114 136 2754 ac2 ntp.o.after
md5:
41f3009debc9b397d7394dd77d912f0a ntp.o.before.asm
41f3009debc9b397d7394dd77d912f0a ntp.o.after.asm
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
Instead of a hierarchy of conditions, transform them to clean
gradual conditions and return's.
This makes the flow easier to read and makes the purpose of
the function easier to understand.
kernel/time/ntp.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
2552 170 168 2890 b4a ntp.o.before
2552 170 168 2890 b4a ntp.o.after
md5:
eae1275df0b7d6290c13f6f6f8f05c8c ntp.o.before.asm
eae1275df0b7d6290c13f6f6f8f05c8c ntp.o.after.asm
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed
Make this file a bit more readable by applying a consistent coding style.
No code changed:
kernel/time/ntp.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
2552 170 168 2890 b4a ntp.o.before
2552 170 168 2890 b4a ntp.o.after
md5:
eae1275df0b7d6290c13f6f6f8f05c8c ntp.o.before.asm
eae1275df0b7d6290c13f6f6f8f05c8c ntp.o.after.asm
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Since the GENERIC_TIME changes landed, the adjtimex behavior changed
for struct timex.tick and .freq changed. When the tick or freq value
is set, we adjust the tick_length_base in ntp_update_frequency().
However, this new value doesn't get applied to tick_length until the
next second (via second_overflow).
This means some applications that do quick time tweaking do not see the
requested change made as quickly as expected.
I've run a few tests with this change, and ntpd still functions fine.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
block: fix deadlock in blk_abort_queue() for drivers that readd to timeout list
block: fix booting from partitioned md array
block: revert part of 18ce3751cc
cciss: PCI power management reset for kexec
paride/pg.c: xs(): &&/|| confusion
fs/bio: bio_alloc_bioset: pass right object ptr to mempool_free
block: fix bad definition of BIO_RW_SYNC
bsg: Fix sense buffer bug in SG_IO
Compilation of kprobes.c with CONFIG_PM unset is broken due to some broken
config dependncies. Fix that.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In cgroup_kill_sb(), root is freed before sb is detached from the list, so
another sget() may find this sb and call cgroup_test_super(), which will
access the root that has been freed.
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We can't OR shift values, so get rid of BIO_RW_SYNC and use BIO_RW_SYNCIO
and BIO_RW_UNPLUG explicitly. This brings back the behaviour from before
213d9417fe.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
doc: mmiotrace.txt, buffer size control change
trace: mmiotrace to the tracer menu in Kconfig
mmiotrace: count events lost due to not recording
Impact: cosmetic change in Kconfig menu layout
This patch was originally suggested by Peter Zijlstra, but seems it
was forgotten.
CONFIG_MMIOTRACE and CONFIG_MMIOTRACE_TEST were selectable
directly under the Kernel hacking / debugging menu in the kernel
configuration system. They were present only for x86 and x86_64.
Other tracers that use the ftrace tracing framework are in their own
sub-menu. This patch moves the mmiotrace configuration options there.
Since the Kconfig file, where the tracer menu is, is not architecture
specific, HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT is introduced and provided only by
x86/x86_64. CONFIG_MMIOTRACE now depends on it.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: enhances lost events counting in mmiotrace
The tracing framework, or the ring buffer facility it uses, has a switch
to stop recording data. When recording is off, the trace events will be
lost. The framework does not count these, so mmiotrace has to count them
itself.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
uids in namespaces other than init don't get a sysfs entry.
For those in the init namespace, while we're waiting to remove
the sysfs entry for the uid the uid is still hashed, and
alloc_uid() may re-grab that uid without getting a new
reference to the user_ns, which we've already put in free_user
before scheduling remove_user_sysfs_dir().
Reported-and-tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
While reviewing the manpages, I noticed I'd missed some clock vs timer sites.
Make sure that all timer functions call cpu_timer_sample_group() and not
cpu_clock_sample_group(). This ensures that we enable the process wide timer
in time, and therefore pay the O(n) thread group cost from the syscall.
Not doing it here, will result in the first jiffy tick after setting the timer
doing this, resulting in a very expensive tick (but only once) and a delay in
actually starting the timer.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
I enabled all cgroup subsystems when compiling kernel, and then:
# mount -t cgroup -o net_cls xxx /mnt
# mkdir /mnt/0
This showed up immediately:
BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES too low!
turning off the locking correctness validator.
It's caused by the cgroup hierarchy lock:
for (i = 0; i < CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT; i++) {
struct cgroup_subsys *ss = subsys[i];
if (ss->root == root)
mutex_lock_nested(&ss->hierarchy_mutex, i);
}
Now we have 9 cgroup subsystems, and the above 'i' for net_cls is 8, but
MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES is 8.
This patch uses different lockdep keys for different subsystems.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We need to pass an unsigned long as the minimum, because it gets casted
to an unsigned long in the sysctl handler. If we pass an int, we'll
access four more bytes on 64bit arches, resulting in a random minimum
value.
[rientjes@google.com: fix type of `old_bytes']
Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Catalin noticed that (38d47c1b70: futex: rely on get_user_pages() for
shared futexes) caused an mm_struct leak.
Some tracing with the function graph tracer quickly pointed out that
futex_wait() has exit paths with unbalanced reference counts.
This regression was discovered by kmemleak.
Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
timers: fix TIMER_ABSTIME for process wide cpu timers
timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers, fix
x86: clean up hpet timer reinit
timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers, remove spurious warning
timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers
signal: re-add dead task accumulation stats.
x86: fix hpet timer reinit for x86_64
sched: fix nohz load balancer on cpu offline
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
ptrace, x86: fix the usage of ptrace_fork()
i8327: fix outb() parameter order
x86: fix math_emu register frame access
x86: math_emu info cleanup
x86: include correct %gs in a.out core dump
x86, vmi: put a missing paravirt_release_pmd in pgd_dtor
x86: find nr_irqs_gsi with mp_ioapic_routing
x86: add clflush before monitor for Intel 7400 series
x86: disable intel_iommu support by default
x86: don't apply __supported_pte_mask to non-present ptes
x86: fix grammar in user-visible BIOS warning
x86/Kconfig.cpu: make Kconfig help readable in the console
x86, 64-bit: print DMI info in the oops trace
Intel reported a 10% regression (mysql+sysbench) on a 16-way machine
with these patches:
1596e29: sched: symmetric sync vs avg_overlap
d942fb6: sched: fix sync wakeups
Revert them.
Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Bisected-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The POSIX timer interface allows for absolute time expiry values through the
TIMER_ABSTIME flag, therefore we have to synchronize the timer to the clock
every time we start it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To decrease the chance of a missed enable, always enable the timer when we
sample it, we'll always disable it when we find that there are no active timers
in the jiffy tick.
This fixes a flood of warnings reported by Mike Galbraith.
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
I noticed by pure accident we have ptrace_fork() and friends. This was
added by "x86, bts: add fork and exit handling", commit
bf53de907d.
I can't test this, ds_request_bts() returns -EOPNOTSUPP, but I strongly
believe this needs the fix. I think something like this program
int main(void)
{
int pid = fork();
if (!pid) {
ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0, NULL, NULL);
kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP);
fork();
} else {
struct ptrace_bts_config bts = {
.flags = PTRACE_BTS_O_ALLOC,
.size = 4 * 4096,
};
wait(NULL);
ptrace(PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, pid, NULL, PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK);
ptrace(PTRACE_BTS_CONFIG, pid, &bts, sizeof(bts));
ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, NULL, NULL);
sleep(1);
}
return 0;
}
should crash the kernel.
If the task is traced by its natural parent ptrace_reparented() returns 0
but we should clear ->btsxxx anyway.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix broken /proc/profile on UP machines
Commit c309b917ca "cpumask: convert
kernel/profile.c" broke profiling. prof_cpu_mask was previously
initialized to CPU_MASK_ALL, but left uninitialized in that commit.
We need to copy cpu_possible_mask (cpu_online_mask is not enough).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
list.h provides a dedicated primitive for
"list_del followed by list_add_tail"... list_move_tail.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Rename the async_*_special() functions to async_*_domain(), which
describes the purpose of these functions much better.
[Broke up long lines to silence checkpatch]
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Add some kerneldoc to the async interface.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
If we fail to create the manager thread, fall back to non-fastboot.
If we fail to create an async thread, try again after waiting for
a bit.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
async_schedule() should pass in async_running as the running
list, and run_one_entry() should put the entry to be run on
the provided running list instead of always on the generic one.
Reported-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
I happened to forked lots of processes, and hit NULL pointer dereference.
It is because in copy_process() after checking max_threads, 0 is returned
but not -EAGAIN.
The bug is introduced by "CRED: Detach the credentials from task_struct"
(commit f1752eec61).
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With exclusive waiters, every process woken up through the wait queue must
ensure that the next waiter down the line is woken when it has finished.
Interruptible waiters don't do that when aborting due to a signal. And if
an aborting waiter is concurrently woken up through the waitqueue, noone
will ever wake up the next waiter.
This has been observed with __wait_on_bit_lock() used by
lock_page_killable(): the first contender on the queue was aborting when
the actual lock holder woke it up concurrently. The aborted contender
didn't acquire the lock and therefor never did an unlock followed by
waking up the next waiter.
Add abort_exclusive_wait() which removes the process' wait descriptor from
the waitqueue, iff still queued, or wakes up the next waiter otherwise.
It does so under the waitqueue lock. Racing with a wake up means the
aborting process is either already woken (removed from the queue) and will
wake up the next waiter, or it will remove itself from the queue and the
concurrent wake up will apply to the next waiter after it.
Use abort_exclusive_wait() in __wait_event_interruptible_exclusive() and
__wait_on_bit_lock() when they were interrupted by other means than a wake
up through the queue.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Reported-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Mentored-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> ["after some testing"]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Revert commit 0c2d64fb6c because it causes
(arguably poorly designed) existing userspace to spend interminable
periods closing billions of not-open file descriptors.
We could bring this back, with some sort of opt-in tunable in /proc, which
defaults to "off".
Peter's alanysis follows:
: I spent several hours trying to get to the bottom of a serious
: performance issue that appeared on one of our servers after upgrading to
: 2.6.28. In the end it's what could be considered a userspace bug that
: was triggered by a change in 2.6.28. Since this might also affect other
: people I figured I'd at least document what I found here, and maybe we
: can even do something about it:
:
:
: So, I upgraded some of debian.org's machines to 2.6.28.1 and immediately
: the team maintaining our ftp archive complained that one of their
: scripts that previously ran in a few minutes still hadn't even come
: close to being done after an hour or so. Downgrading to 2.6.27 fixed
: that.
:
: Turns out that script is forking a lot and something in it or python or
: whereever closes all the file descriptors it doesn't want to pass on.
: That is, it starts at zero and goes up to ulimit -n/RLIMIT_NOFILE and
: closes them all with a few exceptions.
:
: Turns out that takes a long time when your limit -n is now 2^20 (1048576).
:
: With 2.6.27.* the ulimit -n was the standard 1024, but with 2.6.28 it is
: now a thousand times that.
:
: 2.6.28 included a patch titled "rlimit: permit setting RLIMIT_NOFILE to
: RLIM_INFINITY" (0c2d64fb6c)[1] that
: allows, as the title implies, to set the limit for number of files to
: infinity.
:
: Closer investigation showed that the broken default ulimit did not apply
: to "system" processes (like stuff started from init). In the end I
: could establish that all processes that passed through pam_limit at one
: point had the bad resource limit.
:
: Apparently the pam library in Debian etch (4.0) initializes the limits
: to some default values when it doesn't have any settings in limit.conf
: to override them. Turns out that for nofiles this is RLIM_INFINITY.
: Commenting out "case RLIMIT_NOFILE" in pam_limit.c:267 of our pam
: package version 0.79-5 fixes that - tho I'm not sure what side effects
: that has.
:
: Debian lenny (the upcoming 5.0 version) doesn't have this issue as it
: uses a different pam (version).
Reported-by: Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>
Cc: Adam Tkac <vonsch@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
alpha:
kernel/async.c: In function 'run_one_entry':
kernel/async.c:141: warning: format '%lli' expects type 'long long int', but argument 2 has type 'async_cookie_t'
kernel/async.c:149: warning: format '%lli' expects type 'long long int', but argument 2 has type 'async_cookie_t'
kernel/async.c:149: warning: format '%lld' expects type 'long long int', but argument 4 has type 's64'
kernel/async.c: In function 'async_synchronize_cookie_special':
kernel/async.c:250: warning: format '%lli' expects type 'long long int', but argument 3 has type 's64'
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change the process wide cpu timers/clocks so that we:
1) don't mess up the kernel with too many threads,
2) don't have a per-cpu allocation for each process,
3) have no impact when not used.
In order to accomplish this we're going to split it into two parts:
- clocks; which can take all the time they want since they run
from user context -- ie. sys_clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID)
- timers; which need constant time sampling but since they're
explicity used, the user can pay the overhead.
The clock readout will go back to a full sum of the thread group, while the
timers will run of a global 'clock' that only runs when needed, so only
programs that make use of the facility pay the price.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We're going to split the process wide cpu accounting into two parts:
- clocks; which can take all the time they want since they run
from user context.
- timers; which need constant time tracing but can affort the overhead
because they're default off -- and rare.
The clock readout will go back to a full sum of the thread group, for this
we need to re-add the exit stats that were removed in the initial itimer
rework (f06febc9: timers: fix itimer/many thread hang).
Furthermore, since that full sum can be rather slow for large thread groups
and we have the complete dead task stats, revert the do_notify_parent time
computation.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: APIC: enable workaround on AMD Fam10h CPUs
xen: disable interrupts before saving in percpu
x86: add x86@kernel.org to MAINTAINERS
x86: push old stack address on irqstack for unwinder
irq, x86: fix lock status with numa_migrate_irq_desc
x86: add cache descriptors for Intel Core i7
x86/Voyager: make it build and boot
Christian Borntraeger reports:
> After a logical cpu offline, even on a complete idle system, there
> is one cpu with full ticks. It turns out that nohz.cpu_mask has the
> the offlined cpu still set.
>
> In select_nohz_load_balancer() we check if the system is completely
> idle to turn of load balancing. We compare cpu_online_map with
> nohz.cpu_mask. Since cpu_online_map is updated on cpu unplug,
> but nohz.cpu_mask is not, the check fails and the scheduler believes
> that we need an "idle load balancer" even on a fully idle system.
> Since the ilb cpu does not deactivate the timer tick this breaks NOHZ.
Fix the select_nohz_load_balancer() to not set the nohz.cpu_mask
while a cpu is going offline.
Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>