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Linus Torvalds
0b3e9f3f21 Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar.

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Remove NULL assignment of dattr_cur
  sched: Remove the last NULL entry from sched_feat_names
  sched: Make sched_feat_names const
  sched/rt: Fix SCHED_RR across cgroups
  sched: Move nr_cpus_allowed out of 'struct sched_rt_entity'
  sched: Make sure to not re-read variables after validation
  sched: Fix SD_OVERLAP
  sched: Don't try allocating memory from offline nodes
  sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load calculations some more
  sched/x86: Use cpu_llc_shared_mask(cpu) for coregroup_mask
2012-06-05 09:47:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9171c670b4 Merge branches 'irq-urgent-for-linus' and 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull irq and smpboot updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Just cleanup patches with no functional change and a fix for suspend
  issues."

* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  genirq: Introduce irq_do_set_affinity() to reduce duplicated code
  genirq: Add IRQS_PENDING for nested and simple irq

* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  smpboot, idle: Fix comment mismatch over idle_threads_init()
  smpboot, idle: Optimize calls to smp_processor_id() in idle_threads_init()
2012-06-04 11:36:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c22072bdf0 Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The clocksource driver is pure hardware enablement and the skew option
  is default off, well tested and non dangerous."

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  tick: Move skew_tick option into the HIGH_RES_TIMER section
  clocksource: em_sti: Add DT support
  clocksource: em_sti: Emma Mobile STI driver
  clockevents: Make clockevents_config() a global symbol
  tick: Add tick skew boot option
2012-06-04 11:25:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
86c47b70f6 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull third pile of signal handling patches from Al Viro:
 "This time it's mostly helpers and conversions to them; there's a lot
  of stuff remaining in the tree, but that'll either go in -rc2
  (isolated bug fixes, ideally via arch maintainers' trees) or will sit
  there until the next cycle."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  x86: get rid of calling do_notify_resume() when returning to kernel mode
  blackfin: check __get_user() return value
  whack-a-mole with TIF_FREEZE
  FRV: Optimise the system call exit path in entry.S [ver #2]
  FRV: Shrink TIF_WORK_MASK [ver #2]
  FRV: Prevent syscall exit tracing and notify_resume at end of kernel exceptions
  new helper: signal_delivered()
  powerpc: get rid of restore_sigmask()
  most of set_current_blocked() callers want SIGKILL/SIGSTOP removed from set
  set_restore_sigmask() is never called without SIGPENDING (and never should be)
  TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK can be set only when TIF_SIGPENDING is set
  don't call try_to_freeze() from do_signal()
  pull clearing RESTORE_SIGMASK into block_sigmask()
  sh64: failure to build sigframe != signal without handler
  openrisc: tracehook_signal_handler() is supposed to be called on success
  new helper: sigmask_to_save()
  new helper: restore_saved_sigmask()
  new helpers: {clear,test,test_and_clear}_restore_sigmask()
  HAVE_RESTORE_SIGMASK is defined on all architectures now
2012-06-01 11:53:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1193755ac6 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs changes from Al Viro.
 "A lot of misc stuff.  The obvious groups:
   * Miklos' atomic_open series; kills the damn abuse of
     ->d_revalidate() by NFS, which was the major stumbling block for
     all work in that area.
   * ripping security_file_mmap() and dealing with deadlocks in the
     area; sanitizing the neighborhood of vm_mmap()/vm_munmap() in
     general.
   * ->encode_fh() switched to saner API; insane fake dentry in
     mm/cleancache.c gone.
   * assorted annotations in fs (endianness, __user)
   * parts of Artem's ->s_dirty work (jff2 and reiserfs parts)
   * ->update_time() work from Josef.
   * other bits and pieces all over the place.

  Normally it would've been in two or three pull requests, but
  signal.git stuff had eaten a lot of time during this cycle ;-/"

Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt (the
'truncate_range' inode method was removed by the VM changes, the VFS
update adds an 'update_time()' method), and in fs/btrfs/ulist.[ch] (due
to sparse fix added twice, with other changes nearby).

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (95 commits)
  nfs: don't open in ->d_revalidate
  vfs: retry last component if opening stale dentry
  vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): don't throw away file on error
  vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): inline __dentry_open()
  vfs: do_dentry_open(): don't put filp
  vfs: split __dentry_open()
  vfs: do_last() common post lookup
  vfs: do_last(): add audit_inode before open
  vfs: do_last(): only return EISDIR for O_CREAT
  vfs: do_last(): check LOOKUP_DIRECTORY
  vfs: do_last(): make ENOENT exit RCU safe
  vfs: make follow_link check RCU safe
  vfs: do_last(): use inode variable
  vfs: do_last(): inline walk_component()
  vfs: do_last(): make exit RCU safe
  vfs: split do_lookup()
  Btrfs: move over to use ->update_time
  fs: introduce inode operation ->update_time
  reiserfs: get rid of resierfs_sync_super
  reiserfs: mark the superblock as dirty a bit later
  ...
2012-06-01 10:34:35 -07:00
Al Viro
efee984c27 new helper: signal_delivered()
Does block_sigmask() + tracehook_signal_handler();  called when
sigframe has been successfully built.  All architectures converted
to it; block_sigmask() itself is gone now (merged into this one).

I'm still not too happy with the signature, but that's a separate
story (IMO we need a structure that would contain signal number +
siginfo + k_sigaction, so that get_signal_to_deliver() would fill one,
signal_delivered(), handle_signal() and probably setup...frame() -
take one).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:58:52 -04:00
Al Viro
77097ae503 most of set_current_blocked() callers want SIGKILL/SIGSTOP removed from set
Only 3 out of 63 do not.  Renamed the current variant to __set_current_blocked(),
added set_current_blocked() that will exclude unblockable signals, switched
open-coded instances to it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:58:51 -04:00
Al Viro
a610d6e672 pull clearing RESTORE_SIGMASK into block_sigmask()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:58:49 -04:00
Al Viro
754421c8ca HAVE_RESTORE_SIGMASK is defined on all architectures now
Everyone either defines it in arch thread_info.h or has TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
and picks default set_restore_sigmask() in linux/thread_info.h.  Kill the
ifdefs, slap #error in linux/thread_info.h to catch breakage when new ones
get merged.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:58:46 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
fb21affa49 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull second pile of signal handling patches from Al Viro:
 "This one is just task_work_add() series + remaining prereqs for it.

  There probably will be another pull request from that tree this
  cycle - at least for helpers, to get them out of the way for per-arch
  fixes remaining in the tree."

Fix trivial conflict in kernel/irq/manage.c: the merge of Andrew's pile
had brought in commit 97fd75b7b8 ("kernel/irq/manage.c: use the
pr_foo() infrastructure to prefix printks") which changed one of the
pr_err() calls that this merge moves around.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  keys: kill task_struct->replacement_session_keyring
  keys: kill the dummy key_replace_session_keyring()
  keys: change keyctl_session_to_parent() to use task_work_add()
  genirq: reimplement exit_irq_thread() hook via task_work_add()
  task_work_add: generic process-context callbacks
  avr32: missed _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME on one of do_notify_resume callers
  parisc: need to check NOTIFY_RESUME when exiting from syscall
  move key_repace_session_keyring() into tracehook_notify_resume()
  TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME is defined on all targets now
2012-05-31 18:47:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
08615d7d85 Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)
Merge misc patches from Andrew Morton:

 - the "misc" tree - stuff from all over the map

 - checkpatch updates

 - fatfs

 - kmod changes

 - procfs

 - cpumask

 - UML

 - kexec

 - mqueue

 - rapidio

 - pidns

 - some checkpoint-restore feature work.  Reluctantly.  Most of it
   delayed a release.  I'm still rather worried that we don't have a
   clear roadmap to completion for this work.

* emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (78 patches)
  kconfig: update compression algorithm info
  c/r: prctl: add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file
  c/r: prctl: extend PR_SET_MM to set up more mm_struct entries
  c/r: procfs: add arg_start/end, env_start/end and exit_code members to /proc/$pid/stat
  syscalls, x86: add __NR_kcmp syscall
  fs, proc: introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entry
  sysctl: make kernel.ns_last_pid control dependent on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
  aio/vfs: cleanup of rw_copy_check_uvector() and compat_rw_copy_check_uvector()
  eventfd: change int to __u64 in eventfd_signal()
  fs/nls: add Apple NLS
  pidns: make killed children autoreap
  pidns: use task_active_pid_ns in do_notify_parent
  rapidio/tsi721: add DMA engine support
  rapidio: add DMA engine support for RIO data transfers
  ipc/mqueue: add rbtree node caching support
  tools/selftests: add mq_perf_tests
  ipc/mqueue: strengthen checks on mqueue creation
  ipc/mqueue: correct mq_attr_ok test
  ipc/mqueue: improve performance of send/recv
  selftests: add mq_open_tests
  ...
2012-05-31 18:10:18 -07:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
b32dfe3771 c/r: prctl: add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file
When we do restore we would like to have a way to setup a former
mm_struct::exe_file so that /proc/pid/exe would point to the original
executable file a process had at checkpoint time.

For this the PR_SET_MM_EXE_FILE code is introduced.  This option takes a
file descriptor which will be set as a source for new /proc/$pid/exe
symlink.

Note it allows to change /proc/$pid/exe if there are no VM_EXECUTABLE
vmas present for current process, simply because this feature is a special
to C/R and mm::num_exe_file_vmas become meaningless after that.

To minimize the amount of transition the /proc/pid/exe symlink might have,
this feature is implemented in one-shot manner.  Thus once changed the
symlink can't be changed again.  This should help sysadmins to monitor the
symlinks over all process running in a system.

In particular one could make a snapshot of processes and ring alarm if
there unexpected changes of /proc/pid/exe's in a system.

Note -- this feature is available iif CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE is set and
the caller must have CAP_SYS_RESOURCE capability granted, otherwise the
request to change symlink will be rejected.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:32 -07:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
fe8c7f5cbf c/r: prctl: extend PR_SET_MM to set up more mm_struct entries
During checkpoint we dump whole process memory to a file and the dump
includes process stack memory.  But among stack data itself, the stack
carries additional parameters such as command line arguments, environment
data and auxiliary vector.

So when we do restore procedure and once we've restored stack data itself
we need to setup mm_struct::arg_start/end, env_start/end, so restored
process would be able to find command line arguments and environment data
it had at checkpoint time.  The same applies to auxiliary vector.

For this reason additional PR_SET_MM_(ARG_START | ARG_END | ENV_START |
ENV_END | AUXV) codes are introduced.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:32 -07:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
d97b46a646 syscalls, x86: add __NR_kcmp syscall
While doing the checkpoint-restore in the user space one need to determine
whether various kernel objects (like mm_struct-s of file_struct-s) are
shared between tasks and restore this state.

The 2nd step can be solved by using appropriate CLONE_ flags and the
unshare syscall, while there's currently no ways for solving the 1st one.

One of the ways for checking whether two tasks share e.g.  mm_struct is to
provide some mm_struct ID of a task to its proc file, but showing such
info considered to be not that good for security reasons.

Thus after some debates we end up in conclusion that using that named
'comparison' syscall might be the best candidate.  So here is it --
__NR_kcmp.

It takes up to 5 arguments - the pids of the two tasks (which
characteristics should be compared), the comparison type and (in case of
comparison of files) two file descriptors.

Lookups for pids are done in the caller's PID namespace only.

At moment only x86 is supported and tested.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up selftests, warnings]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: include errno.h]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text]
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:32 -07:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
98ed57eef9 sysctl: make kernel.ns_last_pid control dependent on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
For those who doesn't need C/R functionality there is no need to control
last pid, ie the pid for the next fork() call.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:32 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
00c10bc13c pidns: make killed children autoreap
Force SIGCHLD handling to SIG_IGN so that signals are not generated and so
that the children autoreap.  This increases the parallelize and in general
the speed of network namespace shutdown.

Note self reaping childrean can exist past zap_pid_ns_processess but they
will all be reaped before we allow the pid namespace init task with pid ==
1 to be reaped.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:32 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
3208450488 pidns: use task_active_pid_ns in do_notify_parent
Using task_active_pid_ns is more robust because it works even after we
have called exit_namespaces.  This change allows us to have parent
processes that are zombies.  Normally a zombie parent processes is crazy
and the last thing you would want to have but in the case of not letting
the init process of a pid namespace be reaped until all of it's children
are dead and reaped a zombie parent process is exactly what we want.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:31 -07:00
Anton Vorontsov
e4cc2f873a kernel/cpu.c: document clear_tasks_mm_cpumask()
Add more comments on clear_tasks_mm_cpumask, plus adds a runtime check:
the function is only suitable for offlined CPUs, and if called
inappropriately, the kernel should scream aloud.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment: s/walks up/walks/, use 80 cols]
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:30 -07:00
Anton Vorontsov
cb79295e20 cpu: introduce clear_tasks_mm_cpumask() helper
Many architectures clear tasks' mm_cpumask like this:

	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
	for_each_process(p) {
		if (p->mm)
			cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(p->mm));
	}
	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);

Depending on the context, the code above may have several problems,
such as:

1. Working with task->mm w/o getting mm or grabing the task lock is
   dangerous as ->mm might disappear (exit_mm() assigns NULL under
   task_lock(), so tasklist lock is not enough).

2. Checking for process->mm is not enough because process' main
   thread may exit or detach its mm via use_mm(), but other threads
   may still have a valid mm.

This patch implements a small helper function that does things
correctly, i.e.:

1. We take the task's lock while whe handle its mm (we can't use
   get_task_mm()/mmput() pair as mmput() might sleep);

2. To catch exited main thread case, we use find_lock_task_mm(),
   which walks up all threads and returns an appropriate task
   (with task lock held).

Also, Per Peter Zijlstra's idea, now we don't grab tasklist_lock in
the new helper, instead we take the rcu read lock. We can do this
because the function is called after the cpu is taken down and marked
offline, so no new tasks will get this cpu set in their mm mask.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:29 -07:00
Konstantin Khlebnikov
f7505d64f2 fork: call complete_vfork_done() after clearing child_tid and flushing rss-counters
Child should wake up the parent from vfork() only after finishing all
operations with shared mm.  There is no sense in using
CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID together with CLONE_VFORK, but it looks more accurate
now.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:29 -07:00
Tim Bird
168eeccbc9 stack usage: add pid to warning printk in check_stack_usage
In embedded systems, sometimes the same program (busybox) is the cause of
multiple warnings.  Outputting the pid with the program name in the
warning printk helps distinguish which instances of a program are using
the stack most.

This is a small patch, but useful.

Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:28 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
43e13cc107 cred: remove task_is_dead() from __task_cred() validation
Commit 8f92054e7c ("CRED: Fix __task_cred()'s lockdep check and banner
comment"):

    add the following validation condition:

        task->exit_state >= 0

    to permit the access if the target task is dead and therefore
    unable to change its own credentials.

OK, but afaics currently this can only help wait_task_zombie() which calls
__task_cred() without rcu lock.

Remove this validation and change wait_task_zombie() to use task_uid()
instead.  This means we do rcu_read_lock() only to shut up the lockdep,
but we already do the same in, say, wait_task_stopped().

task_is_dead() should die, task->exit_state != 0 means that this task has
passed exit_notify(), only do_wait-like code paths should use this.

Unfortunately, we can't kill task_is_dead() right now, it has already
acquired buggy users in drivers/staging.  The fix already exists.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:28 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
9b3c98cd66 kmod.c: fix kernel-doc warning
Warning(kernel/kmod.c:419): No description found for parameter 'depth'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:28 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
785042f2e2 kmod: move call_usermodehelper_fns() to .c file and unexport all it's helpers
If we move call_usermodehelper_fns() to kmod.c file and EXPORT_SYMBOL it
we can avoid exporting all it's helper functions:
	call_usermodehelper_setup
	call_usermodehelper_setfns
	call_usermodehelper_exec
And make all of them static to kmod.c

Since the optimizer will see all these as a single call site it will
inline them inside call_usermodehelper_fns().  So we loose the call to
_fns but gain 3 calls to the helpers.  (Not that it matters)

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:28 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
81ab6e7b26 kmod: convert two call sites to call_usermodehelper_fns()
Both kernel/sys.c && security/keys/request_key.c where inlining the exact
same code as call_usermodehelper_fns(); So simply convert these sites to
directly use call_usermodehelper_fns().

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:28 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
ae3cef7300 kmod: unexport call_usermodehelper_freeinfo()
call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() is not used outside of kmod.c.  So unexport
it, and make it static to kmod.c

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:28 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
d84970bbaf kernel/cpu_pm.c: fix various typos
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:27 -07:00
Andrew Morton
97fd75b7b8 kernel/irq/manage.c: use the pr_foo() infrastructure to prefix printks
Use the module-wide pr_fmt() mechanism rather than open-coding "genirq: "
everywhere.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:26 -07:00
Sasikantha babu
499eea6bf9 sethostname/setdomainname: notify userspace when there is a change in uts_kern_table
sethostname() and setdomainname() notify userspace on failure (without
modifying uts_kern_table).  Change things so that we only notify userspace
on success, when uts_kern_table was actually modified.

Signed-off-by: Sasikantha babu <sasikanth.v19@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:26 -07:00
Wei Yang
ee5e5683d8 kernel/resource.c: correct the comment of allocate_resource()
In the comment of allocate_resource(), the explanation of parameter max
and min is not correct.

Actually, these two parameters are used to specify the range of the
resource that will be allocated, not the min/max size that will be
allocated.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31 17:49:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
65a50c951a Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar.

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
  perf ui browser: Stop using 'self'
  perf annotate browser: Read perf config file for settings
  perf config: Allow '_' in config file variable names
  perf annotate browser: Make feature toggles global
  perf annotate browser: The idx_asm field should be used in asm only view
  perf tools: Convert critical messages to ui__error()
  perf ui: Make --stdio default when TUI is not supported
  tools lib traceevent: Silence compiler warning on 32bit build
  perf record: Fix branch_stack type in perf_record_opts
  perf tools: Reconstruct event with modifiers from perf_event_attr
  perf top: Fix counter name fixup when fallbacking to cpu-clock
  perf tools: fix thread_map__new_by_pid_str() memory leak in error path
  perf tools: Do not use _FORTIFY_SOURCE when DEBUG=1 is specified
  tools lib traceevent: Fix signature of create_arg_item()
  tools lib traceevent: Use proper function parameter type
  tools lib traceevent: Fix freeing arg on process_dynamic_array()
  tools lib traceevent: Fix a possibly wrong memory dereference
  tools lib traceevent: Fix a possible memory leak
  tools lib traceevent: Allow expressions in __print_symbolic() fields
  perf evlist: Explicititely initialize input_name
  ...
2012-05-30 11:12:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0d167518e0 Merge branch 'for-3.5/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Merge block/IO core bits from Jens Axboe:
 "This is a bit bigger on the core side than usual, but that is purely
  because we decided to hold off on parts of Tejun's submission on 3.4
  to give it a bit more time to simmer.  As a consequence, it's seen a
  long cycle in for-next.

  It contains:

   - Bug fix from Dan, wrong locking type.
   - Relax splice gifting restriction from Eric.
   - A ton of updates from Tejun, primarily for blkcg.  This improves
     the code a lot, making the API nicer and cleaner, and also includes
     fixes for how we handle and tie policies and re-activate on
     switches.  The changes also include generic bug fixes.
   - A simple fix from Vivek, along with a fix for doing proper delayed
     allocation of the blkcg stats."

Fix up annoying conflict just due to different merge resolution in
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

* 'for-3.5/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (92 commits)
  blkcg: tg_stats_alloc_lock is an irq lock
  vmsplice: relax alignement requirements for SPLICE_F_GIFT
  blkcg: use radix tree to index blkgs from blkcg
  blkcg: fix blkcg->css ref leak in __blkg_lookup_create()
  block: fix elvpriv allocation failure handling
  block: collapse blk_alloc_request() into get_request()
  blkcg: collapse blkcg_policy_ops into blkcg_policy
  blkcg: embed struct blkg_policy_data in policy specific data
  blkcg: mass rename of blkcg API
  blkcg: style cleanups for blk-cgroup.h
  blkcg: remove blkio_group->path[]
  blkcg: blkg_rwstat_read() was missing inline
  blkcg: shoot down blkgs if all policies are deactivated
  blkcg: drop stuff unused after per-queue policy activation update
  blkcg: implement per-queue policy activation
  blkcg: add request_queue->root_blkg
  blkcg: make request_queue bypassing on allocation
  blkcg: make sure blkg_lookup() returns %NULL if @q is bypassing
  blkcg: make blkg_conf_prep() take @pol and return with queue lock held
  blkcg: remove static policy ID enums
  ...
2012-05-30 08:52:42 -07:00
Kamalesh Babulal
6a4c96eef4 sched: Remove NULL assignment of dattr_cur
Remove explicit NULL assignment of static pointer
dattr_cur from init_sched_domains().

Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120523091411.GG5005@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-30 14:02:27 +02:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
7997a456ef sched: Remove the last NULL entry from sched_feat_names
No need to have the last NULL entry.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FBF29E7.5020805@ct.jp.nec.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-30 14:02:27 +02:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
1292531f6f sched: Make sched_feat_names const
The strings sched_feat_names are never changed.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FBF29B2.9030904@ct.jp.nec.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-30 14:02:26 +02:00
Colin Cross
454c79999f sched/rt: Fix SCHED_RR across cgroups
task_tick_rt() has an optimization to only reschedule SCHED_RR tasks
if they were the only element on their rq.  However, with cgroups
a SCHED_RR task could be the only element on its per-cgroup rq but
still be competing with other SCHED_RR tasks in its parent's
cgroup.  In this case, the SCHED_RR task in the child cgroup would
never yield at the end of its timeslice.  If the child cgroup
rt_runtime_us was the same as the parent cgroup rt_runtime_us,
the task in the parent cgroup would starve completely.

Modify task_tick_rt() to check that the task is the only task on its
rq, and that the each of the scheduling entities of its ancestors
is also the only entity on its rq.

Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337229266-15798-1-git-send-email-ccross@android.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-30 14:02:25 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
29baa7478b sched: Move nr_cpus_allowed out of 'struct sched_rt_entity'
Since nr_cpus_allowed is used outside of sched/rt.c and wants to be
used outside of there more, move it to a more natural site.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kr61f02y9brwzkh6x53pdptm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-30 14:02:25 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
b654f7de41 sched: Make sure to not re-read variables after validation
We could re-read rq->rt_avg after we validated it was smaller than
total, invalidating the check and resulting in an unintended negative.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337688268.9698.29.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-30 14:02:24 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
74a5ce20e6 sched: Fix SD_OVERLAP
SD_OVERLAP exists to allow overlapping groups, overlapping groups
appear in NUMA topologies that aren't fully connected.

The typical result of not fully connected NUMA is that each cpu (or
rather node) will have different spans for a particular distance.
However due to how sched domains are traversed -- only the first cpu
in the mask goes one level up -- the next level only cares about the
spans of the cpus that went up.

Due to this two things were observed to be broken:

 - build_overlap_sched_groups() -- since its possible the cpu we're
   building the groups for exists in multiple (or all) groups, the
   selection criteria of the first group didn't ensure there was a cpu
   for which is was true that cpumask_first(span) == cpu. Thus load-
   balancing would terminate.

 - update_group_power() -- assumed that the cpu span of the first
   group of the domain was covered by all groups of the child domain.
   The above explains why this isn't true, so deal with it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337788843.9783.14.camel@laptop
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-30 14:02:24 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
2ea45800d8 sched: Don't try allocating memory from offline nodes
Allocators don't appreciate it when you try and allocate memory from
offline nodes.

Reported-and-tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-epfc1io9whb7o22bcujf31vn@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-30 14:02:23 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
5aaa0b7a2e sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load calculations some more
Follow up on commit 556061b00 ("sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load[]
calculations") since while that fixed the busy case it regressed the
mostly idle case.

Add a callback from the nohz exit to also age the rq->cpu_load[]
array. This closes the hole where either there was no nohz load
balance pass during the nohz, or there was a 'significant' amount of
idle time between the last nohz balance and the nohz exit.

So we'll update unconditionally from the tick to not insert any
accidental 0 load periods while busy, and we try and catch up from
nohz idle balance and nohz exit. Both these are still prone to missing
a jiffy, but that has always been the case.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: pjt@google.com
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kt0trz0apodbf84ucjfdbr1a@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-30 14:02:16 +02:00
Andi Kleen
eea62f831b brlocks/lglocks: turn into functions
lglocks and brlocks are currently generated with some complicated macros
in lglock.h.  But there's no reason to not just use common utility
functions and put all the data into a common data structure.

Since there are at least two users it makes sense to share this code in a
library.  This is also easier maintainable than a macro forest.

This will also make it later possible to dynamically allocate lglocks and
also use them in modules (this would both still need some additional, but
now straightforward, code)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-05-29 23:28:41 -04:00
Stephen Boyd
4796dd200d vsprintf: fix %ps on non symbols when using kallsyms
Using %ps in a printk format will sometimes fail silently and print the
empty string if the address passed in does not match a symbol that
kallsyms knows about.  But using %pS will fall back to printing the full
address if kallsyms can't find the symbol.  Make %ps act the same as %pS
by falling back to printing the address.

While we're here also make %ps print the module that a symbol comes from
so that it matches what %pS already does.  Take this simple function for
example (in a module):

	static void test_printk(void)
	{
		int test;
		pr_info("with pS: %pS\n", &test);
		pr_info("with ps: %ps\n", &test);
	}

Before this patch:

 with pS: 0xdff7df44
 with ps:

After this patch:

 with pS: 0xdff7df44
 with ps: 0xdff7df44

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-29 16:22:32 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker
2bb2ba9d51 rescounters: add res_counter_uncharge_until()
When killing a res_counter which is a child of other counter, we need to
do

	res_counter_uncharge(child, xxx)
	res_counter_charge(parent, xxx)

This is not atomic and wastes CPU.  This patch adds
res_counter_uncharge_until().  This function's uncharge propagates to
ancestors until specified res_counter.

	res_counter_uncharge_until(child, parent, xxx)

Now the operation is atomic and efficient.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-29 16:22:27 -07:00
Johannes Weiner
91c63734f6 kernel: cgroup: push rcu read locking from css_is_ancestor() to callsite
Library functions should not grab locks when the callsites can do it,
even if the lock nests like the rcu read-side lock does.

Push the rcu_read_lock() from css_is_ancestor() to its single user,
mem_cgroup_same_or_subtree() in preparation for another user that may
already hold the rcu read-side lock.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-29 16:22:20 -07:00
Siddhesh Poyarekar
7edc8b0ac1 mm/fork: fix overflow in vma length when copying mmap on clone
The vma length in dup_mmap is calculated and stored in a unsigned int,
which is insufficient and hence overflows for very large maps (beyond
16TB). The following program demonstrates this:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>

#define GIG 1024 * 1024 * 1024L
#define EXTENT 16393

int main(void)
{
        int i, r;
        void *m;
        char buf[1024];

        for (i = 0; i < EXTENT; i++) {
                m = mmap(NULL, (size_t) 1 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024L,
                         PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, 0, 0);

                if (m == (void *)-1)
                        printf("MMAP Failed: %d\n", m);
                else
                        printf("%d : MMAP returned %p\n", i, m);

                r = fork();

                if (r == 0) {
                        printf("%d: successed\n", i);
                        return 0;
                } else if (r < 0)
                        printf("FORK Failed: %d\n", r);
                else if (r > 0)
                        wait(NULL);
        }
        return 0;
}

Increase the storage size of the result to unsigned long, which is
sufficient for storing the difference between addresses.

Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-29 16:22:19 -07:00
Rik van Riel
e709ffd616 mm: remove swap token code
The swap token code no longer fits in with the current VM model.  It
does not play well with cgroups or the better NUMA placement code in
development, since we have only one swap token globally.

It also has the potential to mess with scalability of the system, by
increasing the number of non-reclaimable pages on the active and
inactive anon LRU lists.

Last but not least, the swap token code has been broken for a year
without complaints, as reported by Konstantin Khlebnikov.  This suggests
we no longer have much use for it.

The days of sub-1G memory systems with heavy use of swap are over.  If
we ever need thrashing reducing code in the future, we will have to
implement something that does scale.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Bob Picco <bpicco@meloft.net>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-29 16:22:19 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
62cf20b32a tick: Move skew_tick option into the HIGH_RES_TIMER section
commit 5307c95 (tick: Add tick skew boot option) broke the
!CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS build.

Move the boot option parsing into the CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS section.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
2012-05-25 14:08:57 +02:00
Magnus Damm
e5400321a6 clockevents: Make clockevents_config() a global symbol
Make clockevents_config() into a global symbol to allow it to be used
by compiled-in clockevent drivers. This is needed by drivers that want
to update the timer frequency after registration time.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Tested-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Cc: lethal@linux-sh.org
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: olof@lixom.net
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120509143934.27521.46553.sendpatchset@w520
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-05-25 01:44:51 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
5307c9556b tick: Add tick skew boot option
Let the user decide whether power consumption or jitter is the
more important consideration for their machines.

Quoting removal commit af5ab277de:

"Historically, Linux has tried to make the regular timer tick on the
 various CPUs not happen at the same time, to avoid contention on
 xtime_lock.
    
 Nowadays, with the tickless kernel, this contention no longer happens
 since time keeping and updating are done differently. In addition,
 this skew is actually hurting power consumption in a measurable way on
 many-core systems."

Problems:

- Contrary to the above, systems do encounter contention on both
  xtime_lock and RCU structure locks when the tick is synchronized.
  
- Moderate sized RT systems suffer intolerable jitter due to the tick
  being synchronized.

- SGI reports the same for their large systems.

- Fully utilized systems reap no power saving benefit from skew removal,
  but do suffer from resulting induced lock contention.

- 0209f649 rcu: limit rcu_node leaf-level fanout
  This patch was born to combat lock contention which testing showed
  to have been _induced by_ skew removal.  Skew the tick, contention
  disappeared virtually completely.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336472458.21924.78.camel@marge.simpson.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-05-25 01:44:50 +02:00