I've been painstakingly debugging the issue with suspend to ram and
ftraced. The 2.6.28 code does not have this issue, but since the mcount
recording is not going to be in 27, this must be solved for the ftrace
daemon version.
The resume from suspend to ram would reboot because it was triple
faulting. Debugging further, I found that calling the mcount function
itself was not an issue, but it would fault when it incremented
preempt_count. preempt_count is on the tasks info structure that is on the
low memory address of the task's stack. For some reason, it could not
write to it. Resuming out of suspend to ram does quite a lot of funny
tricks to get to work, so it is not surprising at all that simply doing a
preempt_disable() would cause a fault.
Thanks to Rafael for suggesting to add a "while (1);" to find the place in
resuming that is causing the fault. I would place the loop somewhere in
the code, compile and reboot and see if it would either reboot (hit the
fault) or simply hang (hit the loop). Doing this over and over again, I
narrowed it down that it was happening in enable_nonboot_cpus.
At this point, I found that it is easier to simply disable tracing around
the suspend code, instead of searching for the particular function that
can not handle doing a preempt_disable.
This patch disables the tracer as it suspends and reenables it on resume.
I tested this patch on my Laptop, and it can resume fine with the patch.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
'load_module()' is a complex function that contains all the ELF section
logic, and inlining it is utterly insane. But gcc will do it, simply
because there is only one call-site. As a result, all the stack space
that is allocated for all the work to load the module will still be
active when we actually call the module init sequence, and the deep call
chain makes stack overflows happen.
And stack overflows are really hard to debug, because they not only
corrupt random pages below the stack, but also corrupt the thread_info
structure that is allocated under the stack.
In this case, Alan Brunelle reported some crazy oopses at bootup, after
loading the processor module that ends up doing complex ACPI stuff and
has quite a deep callchain. This should fix it, and is the sane thing
to do regardless.
Cc: Alan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch lets the files using linux/version.h match the files that
#include it.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
On the tickless system(CONFIG_NO_HZ=y and CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=n), after
I made an offlined cpu online, I found this cpu's event handler was
tick_handle_periodic, not tick_nohz_handler.
After debuging, I found this bug was caused by the wrong tick mode. the
tick mode is not changed to NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE when the cpu is offline.
This patch fixes this bug.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix RCU's synchronize_rcu() so that it looks like a C function, enabling
it to be recognized as a function with kernel-doc annotation.
Warning(linux-2.6.26-git11//kernel/rcupdate.c:81): No description found for parameter 'synchronize_rcu'
Warning(linux-2.6.26-git11//kernel/rcupdate.c:81): No description found for parameter 'call_rcu'
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Yanmin reported a significant regression on his 16-core machine due to:
commit 93b75217df
Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date: Fri Jun 27 13:41:33 2008 +0200
Flip back to the old behaviour.
Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When user calls sys_setpriority(PRIO_PGRP ...) on a NPTL style multi-LWP
process, only the task leader of the process is affected, all other
sibling LWP threads didn't receive the setting. The problem was that the
iterator used in sys_setpriority() only iteartes over one task for each
process, ignoring all other sibling thread.
Introduce a new macro do_each_pid_thread / while_each_pid_thread to walk
each thread of a process. Convert 4 call sites in {set/get}priority and
ioprio_{set/get}.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I outwitted myself again in commit 2b2a1ff64a,
and broke the SA_NOCLDWAIT behavior so it leaks zombies. This fixes it.
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Since f82b217e35 lockdep can output spurious
warnings related to hwirqs due to hardirq_off shrinkage from int to bit-sized
flag. Guard it with double negation to fix the warning.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
lockdep: fix build if CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING not defined
lockdep: use WARN() in kernel/lockdep.c
lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), checkpatch fixes
lockdep: build fix
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: scale sysctl_sched_shares_ratelimit with nr_cpus
sched: fix rt-bandwidth hotplug race
sched: fix the race between walk_tg_tree and sched_create_group
If CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING not defined, then no dependency information
is available.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
David reported that his Niagra spend a little too much time in
tg_shares_up(), which considering he has a large cpu count makes sense.
So scale the ratelimit value with the number of cpus like we do for
other controls as well.
Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
m68k fails to build with these functions inlined in completion.h. Move
them out of line into sched.c and export them to avoid this problem.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ftrace depends on some processor state that we destroyed during kexec and
restored by restore_processor_state(). So save_processor_state() and
restore_processor_state() are moved into machine_kexec() and ftrace is
restored after restore_processor_state().
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Rename KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE_SIZE to KEXEC_CONTROL_PAGE_SIZE, because control
page is used for not only code on some platform. For example in kexec
jump, it is used for data and stack too.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: unbreak powerpc and arm, finish conversion]
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/kexec.c: In function 'kernel_kexec':
kernel/kexec.c:1506: warning: value computed is not used
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When we hot-unplug a cpu and rebuild the sched-domain, all cpus will be
detatched. Alex observed the case where a runqueue was stealing bandwidth
from an already disabled runqueue to satisfy its own needs.
Stop this by skipping over already disabled runqueues.
Reported-by: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Alex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix the setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable() as it could corrupt the flags
the target process if that is not the current process and it is trying to
change its own flags in a different way at the same time.
__capable() is using neither atomic ops nor locking to protect t->flags. This
patch removes __capable() and introduces has_capability() that doesn't set
PF_SUPERPRIV on the process being queried.
This patch further splits security_ptrace() in two:
(1) security_ptrace_may_access(). This passes judgement on whether one
process may access another only (PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH for ptrace() and
PTRACE_MODE_READ for /proc), and takes a pointer to the child process.
current is the parent.
(2) security_ptrace_traceme(). This passes judgement on PTRACE_TRACEME only,
and takes only a pointer to the parent process. current is the child.
In Smack and commoncap, this uses has_capability() to determine whether
the parent will be permitted to use PTRACE_ATTACH if normal checks fail.
This does not set PF_SUPERPRIV.
Two of the instances of __capable() actually only act on current, and so have
been changed to calls to capable().
Of the places that were using __capable():
(1) The OOM killer calls __capable() thrice when weighing the killability of a
process. All of these now use has_capability().
(2) cap_ptrace() and smack_ptrace() were using __capable() to check to see
whether the parent was allowed to trace any process. As mentioned above,
these have been split. For PTRACE_ATTACH and /proc, capable() is now
used, and for PTRACE_TRACEME, has_capability() is used.
(3) cap_safe_nice() only ever saw current, so now uses capable().
(4) smack_setprocattr() rejected accesses to tasks other than current just
after calling __capable(), so the order of these two tests have been
switched and capable() is used instead.
(5) In smack_file_send_sigiotask(), we need to allow privileged processes to
receive SIGIO on files they're manipulating.
(6) In smack_task_wait(), we let a process wait for a privileged process,
whether or not the process doing the waiting is privileged.
I've tested this with the LTP SELinux and syscalls testscripts.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Use WARN() instead of a printk+WARN_ON() pair; this way the message
becomes part of the warning section for better reporting/collection.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
fix:
kernel/built-in.o: In function `lockdep_stats_show':
lockdep_proc.c:(.text+0x3cb2f): undefined reference to `lockdep_count_forward_deps'
kernel/built-in.o: In function `l_show':
lockdep_proc.c:(.text+0x3d02b): undefined reference to `lockdep_count_forward_deps'
lockdep_proc.c:(.text+0x3d047): undefined reference to `lockdep_count_backward_deps'
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Switch /proc/irq/*/smp_affinity , /proc/irq/default_smp_affinity to
seq_files.
cat(1) reads with 1024 chunks by default, with high enough NR_CPUS, there
will be -EINVAL.
As side effect, there are now two less users of the ->read_proc interface.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
s390 doesn't support the additional_cpus kernel parameter anymore since a
long time. So we better update the code and documentation to reflect
that.
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
generic-ipi: fix stack and rcu interaction bug in smp_call_function_mask(), fix
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
fix spinlock recursion in hvc_console
stop_machine: remove unused variable
modules: extend initcall_debug functionality to the module loader
export virtio_rng.h
lguest: use get_user_pages_fast() instead of get_user_pages()
mm: Make generic weak get_user_pages_fast and EXPORT_GPL it
lguest: don't set MAC address for guest unless specified
> > Nick Piggin (1):
> > generic-ipi: fix stack and rcu interaction bug in
> > smp_call_function_mask()
>
> I'm still not 100% sure that I have this patch right... I might have seen
> a lockup trace implicating the smp call function path... which may have
> been due to some other problem or a different bug in the new call function
> code, but if some more people can take a look at it before merging?
OK indeed it did have a couple of bugs. Firstly, I wasn't freeing the
data properly in the alloc && wait case. Secondly, I wasn't resetting
CSD_FLAG_WAIT in the for each cpu loop (so only the first CPU would
wait).
After those fixes, the patch boots and runs with the kmalloc commented
out (so it always executes the slowpath).
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The kernel has this really nice facility where if you put "initcall_debug"
on the kernel commandline, it'll print which function it's going to
execute just before calling an initcall, and then after the call completes
it will
1) print if it had an error code
2) checks for a few simple bugs (like leaving irqs off)
and
3) print how long the init call took in milliseconds.
While trying to optimize the boot speed of my laptop, I have been loving
number 3 to figure out what to optimize... ... and then I wished that
the same thing was done for module loading.
This patch makes the module loader use this exact same functionality; it's
a logical extension in my view (since modules are just sort of late
binding initcalls anyway) and so far I've found it quite useful in finding
where things are too slow in my boot.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched, cpu hotplug: fix set_cpus_allowed() use in hotplug callbacks
sched: fix mysql+oltp regression
sched_clock: delay using sched_clock()
sched clock: couple local and remote clocks
sched clock: simplify __update_sched_clock()
sched: eliminate scd->prev_raw
sched clock: clean up sched_clock_cpu()
sched clock: revert various sched_clock() changes
sched: move sched_clock before first use
sched: test runtime rather than period in global_rt_runtime()
sched: fix SCHED_HRTICK dependency
sched: fix warning in hrtick_start_fair()
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
posix-timers: fix posix_timer_event() vs dequeue_signal() race
posix-timers: do_schedule_next_timer: fix the setting of ->si_overrun
When we enable DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC but do not enable PROVE_LOCKING and or
LOCK_STAT, lock_alloc() and lock_release() turn into nops, even though
we should be doing hlock checking (check=1).
This causes a false warning and a lockdep self-disable.
Rectify this.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mark Langsdorf reported:
> One of my co-workers noticed that the powernow-k8
> driver no longer restarts when a CPU core is
> hot-disabled and then hot-enabled on AMD quad-core
> systems.
>
> The following comands work fine on 2.6.26 and fail
> on 2.6.27-rc1:
>
> echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/online
> echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/online
> find /sys -name cpufreq
>
> For 2.6.26, the find will return a cpufreq
> directory for each processor. In 2.6.27-rc1,
> the cpu3 directory is missing.
>
> After digging through the code, the following
> logic is failing when the core is hot-enabled
> at runtime. The code works during the boot
> sequence.
>
> cpumask_t = current->cpus_allowed;
> set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, &cpumask_of_cpu(cpu));
> if (smp_processor_id() != cpu)
> return -ENODEV;
So set the CPU active before calling the CPU_ONLINE notifier chain,
there are a handful of notifiers that use set_cpus_allowed().
This fix also solves the problem with x86-microcode. I've sent
alternative patches for microcode, but as this "rely on
set_cpus_allowed_ptr() being workable in cpu-hotplug(CPU_ONLINE, ...)"
assumption seems to be more broad than what we thought, perhaps this fix
should be applied.
With this patch we define that by the moment CPU_ONLINE is being sent,
a 'cpu' is online and ready for tasks to be migrated onto it.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Tested-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> wrote:
> Found a OOPS on a big SMP box during an overnight reboot test with
> upstream git.
>
> Suresh and I looked at the oops and looks like the root cause is in
> generic_smp_call_function_interrupt() and smp_call_function_mask() with
> wait parameter.
>
> The actual oops looked like
>
> [ 11.277260] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8802ffffffff
> [ 11.277815] IP: [<ffff8802ffffffff>] 0xffff8802ffffffff
> [ 11.278155] PGD 202063 PUD 0
> [ 11.278576] Oops: 0010 [1] SMP
> [ 11.279006] CPU 5
> [ 11.279336] Modules linked in:
> [ 11.279752] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27-rc2-00020-g685d87f #290
> [ 11.280039] RIP: 0010:[<ffff8802ffffffff>] [<ffff8802ffffffff>] 0xffff8802ffffffff
> [ 11.280692] RSP: 0018:ffff88027f1f7f70 EFLAGS: 00010086
> [ 11.280976] RAX: 00000000ffffffff RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
> [ 11.281264] RDX: 0000000000004f4e RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
> [ 11.281624] RBP: ffff88027f1f7f98 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffffff802509af
> [ 11.281925] R10: ffff8800280c2780 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88027f097d48
> [ 11.282214] R13: ffff88027f097d70 R14: 0000000000000005 R15: ffff88027e571000
> [ 11.282502] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88027f1c3340(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [ 11.283096] CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
> [ 11.283382] CR2: ffff8802ffffffff CR3: 0000000000201000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> [ 11.283760] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> [ 11.284048] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> [ 11.284337] Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffff88027f1f2000, task ffff88027f1f0640)
> [ 11.284936] Stack: ffffffff80250963 0000000000000212 0000000000ee8c78 0000000000ee8a66
> [ 11.285802] ffff88027e571550 ffff88027f1f7fa8 ffffffff8021adb5 ffff88027f1f3e40
> [ 11.286599] ffffffff8020bdd6 ffff88027f1f3e40 <EOI> ffff88027f1f3ef8 0000000000000000
> [ 11.287120] Call Trace:
> [ 11.287768] <IRQ> [<ffffffff80250963>] ? generic_smp_call_function_interrupt+0x61/0x12c
> [ 11.288354] [<ffffffff8021adb5>] smp_call_function_interrupt+0x17/0x27
> [ 11.288744] [<ffffffff8020bdd6>] call_function_interrupt+0x66/0x70
> [ 11.289030] <EOI> [<ffffffff8024ab3b>] ? clockevents_notify+0x19/0x73
> [ 11.289380] [<ffffffff803b9b75>] ? acpi_idle_enter_simple+0x18b/0x1fa
> [ 11.289760] [<ffffffff803b9b6b>] ? acpi_idle_enter_simple+0x181/0x1fa
> [ 11.290051] [<ffffffff8053aeca>] ? cpuidle_idle_call+0x70/0xa2
> [ 11.290338] [<ffffffff80209f61>] ? cpu_idle+0x5f/0x7d
> [ 11.290723] [<ffffffff8060224a>] ? start_secondary+0x14d/0x152
> [ 11.291010]
> [ 11.291287]
> [ 11.291654] Code: Bad RIP value.
> [ 11.292041] RIP [<ffff8802ffffffff>] 0xffff8802ffffffff
> [ 11.292380] RSP <ffff88027f1f7f70>
> [ 11.292741] CR2: ffff8802ffffffff
> [ 11.310951] ---[ end trace 137c54d525305f1c ]---
>
> The problem is with the following sequence of events:
>
> - CPU A calls smp_call_function_mask() for CPU B with wait parameter
> - CPU A sets up the call_function_data on the stack and does an rcu add to
> call_function_queue
> - CPU A waits until the WAIT flag is cleared
> - CPU B gets the call function interrupt and starts going through the
> call_function_queue
> - CPU C also gets some other call function interrupt and starts going through
> the call_function_queue
> - CPU C, which is also going through the call_function_queue, starts referencing
> CPU A's stack, as that element is still in call_function_queue
> - CPU B finishes the function call that CPU A set up and as there are no other
> references to it, rcu deletes the call_function_data (which was from CPU A
> stack)
> - CPU B sees the wait flag and just clears the flag (no call_rcu to free)
> - CPU A which was waiting on the flag continues executing and the stack
> contents change
>
> - CPU C is still in rcu_read section accessing the CPU A's stack sees
> inconsistent call_funation_data and can try to execute
> function with some random pointer, causing stack corruption for A
> (by clearing the bits in mask field) and oops.
Nice debugging work.
I'd suggest something like the attached (boot tested) patch as the simple
fix for now.
I expect the benefits from the less synchronized, multiple-in-flight-data
global queue will still outweigh the costs of dynamic allocations. But
if worst comes to worst then we just go back to a globally synchronous
one-at-a-time implementation, but that would be pretty sad!
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Defer commit 6d299f1b53 to the next release.
Testing of the tip/sched/clock tree revealed a mysql+oltp regression
which bisection eventually traced back to this commit in mainline.
Pertinent test results: Three run sysbench averages, throughput units
in read/write requests/sec.
clients 1 2 4 8 16 32 64
6e0534f 9646 17876 34774 33868 32230 30767 29441
2.6.26.1 9112 17936 34652 33383 31929 30665 29232
6d299f1 9112 14637 28370 33339 32038 30762 29204
Note: subsequent commits hide the majority of this regression until you
apply the clock fixes, at which time it reemerges at full magnitude.
We cannot see anything bad about the change itself so we defer it to the
next release until this problem is fully analysed.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
