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Paul Turner
8cb120d3e4 sched: Migrate throttled tasks on HOTPLUG
Throttled tasks are invisisble to cpu-offline since they are not eligible for
selection by pick_next_task().  The regular 'escape' path for a thread that is
blocked at offline is via ttwu->select_task_rq, however this will not handle a
throttled group since there are no individual thread wakeups on an unthrottle.

Resolve this by unthrottling offline cpus so that threads can be migrated.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184757.989000590@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:03:44 +02:00
Paul Turner
5238cdd387 sched: Prevent buddy interactions with throttled entities
Buddies allow us to select "on-rq" entities without actually selecting them
from a cfs_rq's rb_tree.  As a result we must ensure that throttled entities
are not falsely nominated as buddies.  The fact that entities are dequeued
within throttle_entity is not sufficient for clearing buddy status as the
nomination may occur after throttling.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184757.886850167@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:03:42 +02:00
Paul Turner
64660c864f sched: Prevent interactions with throttled entities
From the perspective of load-balance and shares distribution, throttled
entities should be invisible.

However, both of these operations work on 'active' lists and are not
inherently aware of what group hierarchies may be present.  In some cases this
may be side-stepped (e.g. we could sideload via tg_load_down in load balance)
while in others (e.g. update_shares()) it is more difficult to compute without
incurring some O(n^2) costs.

Instead, track hierarchicaal throttled state at time of transition.  This
allows us to easily identify whether an entity belongs to a throttled hierarchy
and avoid incorrect interactions with it.

Also, when an entity leaves a throttled hierarchy we need to advance its
time averaging for shares averaging so that the elapsed throttled time is not
considered as part of the cfs_rq's operation.

We also use this information to prevent buddy interactions in the wakeup and
yield_to() paths.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184757.777916795@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:03:40 +02:00
Paul Turner
8277434ef1 sched: Allow for positional tg_tree walks
Extend walk_tg_tree to accept a positional argument

static int walk_tg_tree_from(struct task_group *from,
			     tg_visitor down, tg_visitor up, void *data)

Existing semantics are preserved, caller must hold rcu_lock() or sufficient
analogue.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184757.677889157@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:03:38 +02:00
Paul Turner
671fd9dabe sched: Add support for unthrottling group entities
At the start of each period we refresh the global bandwidth pool.  At this time
we must also unthrottle any cfs_rq entities who are now within bandwidth once
more (as quota permits).

Unthrottled entities have their corresponding cfs_rq->throttled flag cleared
and their entities re-enqueued.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184757.574628950@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:03:36 +02:00
Paul Turner
85dac906be sched: Add support for throttling group entities
Now that consumption is tracked (via update_curr()) we add support to throttle
group entities (and their corresponding cfs_rqs) in the case where this is no
run-time remaining.

Throttled entities are dequeued to prevent scheduling, additionally we mark
them as throttled (using cfs_rq->throttled) to prevent them from becoming
re-enqueued until they are unthrottled.  A list of a task_group's throttled
entities are maintained on the cfs_bandwidth structure.

Note: While the machinery for throttling is added in this patch the act of
throttling an entity exceeding its bandwidth is deferred until later within
the series.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184757.480608533@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:03:34 +02:00
Paul Turner
a9cf55b286 sched: Expire invalid runtime
Since quota is managed using a global state but consumed on a per-cpu basis
we need to ensure that our per-cpu state is appropriately synchronized.
Most importantly, runtime that is state (from a previous period) should not be
locally consumable.

We take advantage of existing sched_clock synchronization about the jiffy to
efficiently detect whether we have (globally) crossed a quota boundary above.

One catch is that the direction of spread on sched_clock is undefined,
specifically, we don't know whether our local clock is behind or ahead
of the one responsible for the current expiration time.

Fortunately we can differentiate these by considering whether the
global deadline has advanced.  If it has not, then we assume our clock to be
"fast" and advance our local expiration; otherwise, we know the deadline has
truly passed and we expire our local runtime.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184757.379275352@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:03:31 +02:00
Paul Turner
58088ad015 sched: Add a timer to handle CFS bandwidth refresh
This patch adds a per-task_group timer which handles the refresh of the global
CFS bandwidth pool.

Since the RT pool is using a similar timer there's some small refactoring to
share this support.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184757.277271273@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:03:28 +02:00
Paul Turner
ec12cb7f31 sched: Accumulate per-cfs_rq cpu usage and charge against bandwidth
Account bandwidth usage on the cfs_rq level versus the task_groups to which
they belong.  Whether we are tracking bandwidth on a given cfs_rq is maintained
under cfs_rq->runtime_enabled.

cfs_rq's which belong to a bandwidth constrained task_group have their runtime
accounted via the update_curr() path, which withdraws bandwidth from the global
pool as desired.  Updates involving the global pool are currently protected
under cfs_bandwidth->lock, local runtime is protected by rq->lock.

This patch only assigns and tracks quota, no action is taken in the case that
cfs_rq->runtime_used exceeds cfs_rq->runtime_assigned.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184757.179386821@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:03:26 +02:00
Paul Turner
a790de9959 sched: Validate CFS quota hierarchies
Add constraints validation for CFS bandwidth hierarchies.

Validate that:
   max(child bandwidth) <= parent_bandwidth

In a quota limited hierarchy, an unconstrained entity
(e.g. bandwidth==RUNTIME_INF) inherits the bandwidth of its parent.

This constraint is chosen over sum(child_bandwidth) as notion of over-commit is
valuable within SCHED_OTHER.  Some basic code from the RT case is re-factored
for reuse.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184757.083774572@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:03:22 +02:00
Paul Turner
ab84d31e15 sched: Introduce primitives to account for CFS bandwidth tracking
In this patch we introduce the notion of CFS bandwidth, partitioned into
globally unassigned bandwidth, and locally claimed bandwidth.

 - The global bandwidth is per task_group, it represents a pool of unclaimed
   bandwidth that cfs_rqs can allocate from.
 - The local bandwidth is tracked per-cfs_rq, this represents allotments from
   the global pool bandwidth assigned to a specific cpu.

Bandwidth is managed via cgroupfs, adding two new interfaces to the cpu subsystem:
 - cpu.cfs_period_us : the bandwidth period in usecs
 - cpu.cfs_quota_us : the cpu bandwidth (in usecs) that this tg will be allowed
   to consume over period above.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184756.972636699@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:03:20 +02:00
Paul Turner
953bfcd10e sched: Implement hierarchical task accounting for SCHED_OTHER
Introduce hierarchical task accounting for the group scheduling case in CFS, as
well as promoting the responsibility for maintaining rq->nr_running to the
scheduling classes.

The primary motivation for this is that with scheduling classes supporting
bandwidth throttling it is possible for entities participating in throttled
sub-trees to not have root visible changes in rq->nr_running across activate
and de-activate operations.  This in turn leads to incorrect idle and
weight-per-task load balance decisions.

This also allows us to make a small fixlet to the fastpath in pick_next_task()
under group scheduling.

Note: this issue also exists with the existing sched_rt throttling mechanism.
This patch does not address that.

Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184756.878333391@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:01:13 +02:00
Yong Zhang
5710f15b52 sched/cpupri: Remove cpupri->pri_active
Since [sched/cpupri: Remove the vec->lock], member pri_active
of struct cpupri is not needed any more, just remove it. Also
clean stuff related to it.

Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110806001004.GA2207@zhy
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:01:11 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
d473750b40 sched/cpupri: Fix memory barriers for vec updates to always be in order
[ This patch actually compiles. Thanks to Mike Galbraith for pointing
that out. I compiled and booted this patch with no issues. ]

Re-examining the cpupri patch, I see there's a possible race because the
update of the two priorities vec->counts are not protected by a memory
barrier.

When a RT runqueue is overloaded and wants to push an RT task to another
runqueue, it scans the RT priority vectors in a loop from lowest
priority to highest.

When we queue or dequeue an RT task that changes a runqueue's highest
priority task, we update the vectors to show that a runqueue is rated at
a different priority. To do this, we first set the new priority mask,
and increment the vec->count, and then set the old priority mask by
decrementing the vec->count.

If we are lowering the runqueue's RT priority rating, it will trigger a
RT pull, and we do not care if we miss pushing to this runqueue or not.

But if we raise the priority, but the priority is still lower than an RT
task that is looking to be pushed, we must make sure that this runqueue
is still seen by the push algorithm (the loop).

Because the loop reads from lowest to highest, and the new priority is
set before the old one is cleared, we will either see the new or old
priority set and the vector will be checked.

But! Since there's no memory barrier between the updates of the two, the
old count may be decremented first before the new count is incremented.
This means the loop may see the old count of zero and skip it, and also
the new count of zero before it was updated. A possible runqueue that
the RT task could move to could be missed.

A conditional memory barrier is placed between the vec->count updates
and is only called when both updates are done.

The smp_wmb() has also been changed to smp_mb__before_atomic_inc/dec(),
as they are not needed by archs that already synchronize
atomic_inc/dec().

The smp_rmb() has been moved to be called at every iteration of the loop
so that the race between seeing the two updates is visible by each
iteration of the loop, as an arch is free to optimize the reading of
memory of the counters in the loop.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1312547269.18583.194.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:01:07 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
c92211d9b7 sched/cpupri: Remove the vec->lock
sched/cpupri: Remove the vec->lock

The cpupri vec->lock has been showing up as a top contention
lately. This is because of the RT push/pull logic takes an
agressive approach for migrating RT tasks. The cpupri logic is
in place to improve the performance of the push/pull when dealing
with large number CPU machines.

The problem though is a vec->lock is required, where a vec is a
global per RT priority structure. That is, if there are lots of
RT tasks at the same priority, every time they are added or removed
from the RT queue, this global vec->lock is taken. Now that more
kernel threads are becoming RT (RCU boost and threaded interrupts)
this is becoming much more of an issue.

There are two variables that are being synced by the vec->lock.
The cpupri bitmask, and the vec->counter. The cpupri bitmask
is one bit per priority. If a RT priority vec has a process queued,
then the vec->count is > 0 and the cpupri bitmask is set for that
RT priority.

If the cpupri bitmask gets out of sync with the vec->counter, we could
end up pushing a low proirity RT task to a high priority queue.
That RT task that could have run immediately could be queued on a
run queue with a higher priority task indefinitely.

The solution is not to use the cpupri bitmask and just look at the
vec->count directly when doing a pull. The cpupri bitmask is just
a fast way to scan the RT priorities when a pull is made. Instead
of using the bitmask, and just examine all RT priorities, and
look at the vec->counts, we could eliminate the vec->lock. The
scan of RT tasks is to find a run queue that we can push an RT task
to, and we do not push to a high priority queue, thus the scan only
needs to go from 1 to RT task->prio, and not all 100 RT priorities.

The push algorithm, which does the scan of RT priorities (and
scan of the bitmask) only happens when we have an overloaded RT run
queue (more than one RT task queued). The grabbing of the vec->lock
happens every time any RT task is queued or dequeued on the run
queue for that priority. The slowing down of the scan by not using
a bitmask is negligible by the speed up of removing the vec->lock
contention, and replacing it with an atomic counter and memory barrier.

To prove this, I wrote a patch that times both the loop and the code
that grabs the vec->locks. I passed the patches to various people
(and companies) to test and show the results. I let everyone choose
their own load to test, giving different loads on the system,
for various different setups.

Here's some of the results: (snipping to a few CPUs to not make
this change log huge, but the results were consistent across
the entire system).

System 1 (24 CPUs)

Before patch:
CPU:    Name    Count   Max     Min     Average Total
----    ----    -----   ---     ---     ------- -----
[...]
cpu 20: loop    3057    1.766   0.061   0.642   1963.170
        vec     6782949 90.469  0.089   0.414   2811760.503
cpu 21: loop    2617    1.723   0.062   0.641   1679.074
        vec     6782810 90.499  0.089   0.291   1978499.900
cpu 22: loop    2212    1.863   0.063   0.699   1547.160
        vec     6767244 85.685  0.089   0.435   2949676.898
cpu 23: loop    2320    2.013   0.062   0.594   1380.265
        vec     6781694 87.923  0.088   0.431   2928538.224

After patch:
cpu 20: loop    2078    1.579   0.061   0.533   1108.006
        vec     6164555 5.704   0.060   0.143   885185.809
cpu 21: loop    2268    1.712   0.065   0.575   1305.248
        vec     6153376 5.558   0.060   0.187   1154960.469
cpu 22: loop    1542    1.639   0.095   0.533   823.249
        vec     6156510 5.720   0.060   0.190   1172727.232
cpu 23: loop    1650    1.733   0.068   0.545   900.781
        vec     6170784 5.533   0.060   0.167   1034287.953

All times are in microseconds. The 'loop' is the amount of time spent
doing the loop across the priorities (before patch uses bitmask).
the 'vec' is the amount of time in the code that requires grabbing
the vec->lock. The second patch just does not have the vec lock, but
encompasses the same code.

Amazingly the loop code even went down on average. The vec code went
from .5 down to .18, that's more than half the time spent!

Note, more than one test was run, but they all had the same results.

System 2 (64 CPUs)

Before patch:
CPU:    Name    Count   Max     Min     Average Total
----    ----    -----   ---     ---     ------- -----
cpu 60: loop    0       0       0       0       0
        vec     5410840 277.954 0.084   0.782   4232895.727
cpu 61: loop    0       0       0       0       0
        vec     4915648 188.399 0.084   0.570   2803220.301
cpu 62: loop    0       0       0       0       0
        vec     5356076 276.417 0.085   0.786   4214544.548
cpu 63: loop    0       0       0       0       0
        vec     4891837 170.531 0.085   0.799   3910948.833

After patch:
cpu 60: loop    0       0       0       0       0
        vec     5365118 5.080   0.021   0.063   340490.267
cpu 61: loop    0       0       0       0       0
        vec     4898590 1.757   0.019   0.071   347903.615
cpu 62: loop    0       0       0       0       0
        vec     5737130 3.067   0.021   0.119   687108.734
cpu 63: loop    0       0       0       0       0
        vec     4903228 1.822   0.021   0.071   348506.477

The test run during the measurement did not have any (very few,
from other CPUs) RT tasks pushing. But this shows that it helped
out tremendously with the contention, as the contention happens
because the vec->lock is taken only on queuing at an RT priority,
and different CPUs that queue tasks at the same priority will
have contention.

I tested on my own 4 CPU machine with the following results:

Before patch:
CPU:    Name    Count   Max     Min     Average Total
----    ----    -----   ---     ---     ------- -----
cpu 0:  loop    2377    1.489   0.158   0.588   1398.395
        vec     4484    770.146 2.301   4.396   19711.755
cpu 1:  loop    2169    1.962   0.160   0.576   1250.110
        vec     4425    152.769 2.297   4.030   17834.228
cpu 2:  loop    2324    1.749   0.155   0.559   1299.799
        vec     4368    779.632 2.325   4.665   20379.268
cpu 3:  loop    2325    1.629   0.157   0.561   1306.113
        vec     4650    408.782 2.394   4.348   20222.577

After patch:
CPU:    Name    Count   Max     Min     Average Total
----    ----    -----   ---     ---     ------- -----
cpu 0:  loop    2121    1.616   0.113   0.636   1349.189
        vec     4303    1.151   0.225   0.421   1811.966
cpu 1:  loop    2130    1.638   0.178   0.644   1372.927
        vec     4627    1.379   0.235   0.428   1983.648
cpu 2:  loop    2056    1.464   0.165   0.637   1310.141
        vec     4471    1.311   0.217   0.433   1937.927
cpu 3:  loop    2154    1.481   0.162   0.601   1295.083
        vec     4236    1.253   0.230   0.425   1803.008

This was running my migrate.c code that can be found at:
http://lwn.net/Articles/425763/

The migrate code does stress the RT tasks a bit. This shows that
the loop did increase a little after the patch, but not by much.
The vec code dropped dramatically. From 4.3us down to .42us.
That's a 10x improvement!

Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Tested-by: Luis Claudio R. Gonçalves <lgoncalv@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Matthew Hank Sabins<msabins@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Gregory Haskins <gregory.haskins@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1312317372.18583.101.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:01:03 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
5181f4a46a sched: Use pushable_tasks to determine next highest prio
Hillf Danton proposed a patch (see link) that cleaned up the
sched_rt code that calculates the priority of the next highest priority
task to be used in finding run queues to pull from.

His patch removed the calculating of the next prio to just use the current
prio when deteriming if we should examine a run queue to pull from. The problem
with his patch was that it caused more false checks. Because we check a run
queue for pushable tasks if the current priority of that run queue is higher
in priority than the task about to run on our run queue. But after grabbing
the locks and doing the real check, we find that there may not be a task
that has a higher prio task to pull. Thus the locks were taken with nothing to
do.

I added some trace_printks() to record when and how many times the run queue
locks were taken to check for pullable tasks, compared to how many times we
pulled a task.

With the current method, it was:

  3806 locks taken vs 2812 pulled tasks

With Hillf's patch:

  6728 locks taken vs 2804 pulled tasks

The number of times locks were taken to pull a task went up almost double with
no more success rate.

But his patch did get me thinking. When we look at the priority of the highest
task to consider taking the locks to do a pull, a failure to pull can be one
of the following: (in order of most likely)

 o RT task was pushed off already between the check and taking the lock
 o Waiting RT task can not be migrated
 o RT task's CPU affinity does not include the target run queue's CPU
 o RT task's priority changed between the check and taking the lock

And with Hillf's patch, the thing that caused most of the failures, is
the RT task to pull was not at the right priority to pull (not greater than
the current RT task priority on the target run queue).

Most of the above cases we can't help. But the current method does not check
if the next highest prio RT task can be migrated or not, and if it can not,
we still grab the locks to do the test (we don't find out about this fact until
after we have the locks). I thought about this case, and realized that the
pushable task plist that is maintained only holds RT tasks that can migrate.
If we move the calculating of the next highest prio task from the inc/dec_rt_task()
functions into the queuing of the pushable tasks, then we only measure the
priorities of those tasks that we push, and we get this basically for free.

Not only does this patch make the code a little more efficient, it cleans it
up and makes it a little simpler.

Thanks to Hillf Danton for inspiring me on this patch.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/BANLkTimQ67180HxCx5vgMqumqw1EkFh3qg@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:00:55 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
c37495fd0f sched: Balance RT tasks when forked as well
When a new task is woken, the code to balance the RT task is currently
skipped in the select_task_rq() call. But it will be pushed if the rq
is currently overloaded with RT tasks anyway. The issue is that we
already queued the task, and if it does get pushed, it will have to
be dequeued and requeued on the new run queue. The advantage with
pushing it first is that we avoid this requeuing as we are pushing it
off before the task is ever queued.

See commit 318e0893ce ("sched: pre-route RT tasks on wakeup")
for more details.

The return of select_task_rq() when it is not a wake up has also been
changed to return task_cpu() instead of smp_processor_id(). This is more
of a sanity because the current only other user of select_task_rq()
besides wake ups, is an exec, where task_cpu() should also be the same
as smp_processor_id(). But if it is used for other purposes, lets keep
the task on the same CPU. Why would we mant to migrate it to the current
CPU?

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110617015919.832743148@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:00:52 +02:00
Hillf Danton
1812a643cc sched: Remove resetting exec_start in put_prev_task_rt()
There's no reason to clean the exec_start in put_prev_task_rt() as it is reset
when the task gets back to the run queue. This saves us doing a store() in the
fast path.

Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/BANLkTimqWD=q6YnSDi-v9y=LMWecgEzEWg@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:00:50 +02:00
Hillf Danton
311e800e16 sched, rt: Fix rq->rt.pushable_tasks bug in push_rt_task()
Do not call dequeue_pushable_task() when failing to push an eligible
task, as it remains pushable, merely not at this particular moment.

Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306895385.4791.26.camel@marge.simson.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:00:48 +02:00
Hillf Danton
0835471697 sched: Remove noop in lowest_flag_domain()
Checking for the validity of sd is removed, since it is already
checked by the for_each_domain macro.

Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/BANLkTimT+Tut-3TshCDm-NiLLXrOznibNA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:00:46 +02:00
Hillf Danton
67d955383a sched: Remove noop in next_prio()
When computing the next priority for a given run-queue, the check for
RT priority of the task determined by the pick_next_highest_task_rt()
function could be removed, since only RT tasks are returned by the
function.

Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/BANLkTimxmWiof9s5AvS3v_0X+sMiE=0x5g@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:00:45 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
c350a04efd sched: fix broken SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK handling
Setting child->prio = current->normal_prio _after_ SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK has
been handled for an RT parent gives birth to a deranged mutant child with
non-RT policy, but RT prio and sched_class.

Move PI leakage protection up, always set priorities and weight, and if the
child is leaving RT class, reset rt_priority to the proper value.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1311779695.8691.2.camel@marge.simson.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:00:43 +02:00
Yong Zhang
2c2efaed9b sched: Kill WAKEUP_PREEMPT
Remove the WAKEUP_PREEMPT feature, disabling it doesn't make any sense
and its outlived its use by a long long while.

Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110729082033.GB12106@zhy
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 12:00:41 +02:00
Jan H. Schönherr
e2b245f89e sched: Remove rq->avg_load_per_task
Since commit a2d47777 ("sched: fix stale value in average load per task")
the variable rq->avg_load_per_task is no longer required. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Jan H. Schönherr <schnhrr@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1312189408-17172-1-git-send-email-schnhrr@cs.tu-berlin.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-14 11:55:24 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
eeca7360f7 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc:
  sparc: Don't do hypervisor calls on non-sun4v in DS driver.
2011-08-12 00:35:46 -07:00
David S. Miller
c92761fd9e sparc: Don't do hypervisor calls on non-sun4v in DS driver.
Reported-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-08-11 17:58:59 -07:00
Boaz Harrosh
8cf1fb2163 pnfs: Automatically select blocks & objects layouts
Just like files-layout, blocks & objects layouts are part of the
NFS 4.1 protocol and should be automatically selected if NFS_4_1
is selected. The small problem is that these depend on other
Kernel support being present, while files only depends on NFS
itself.

This patch removes from the user choice the presence of objects
and blocks layout. But makes sure these are selected only if
the depended subsystems are present in the Kernel.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Acked-by: Peng Tao <peng_tao@emc.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-11 17:51:27 -07:00
Eric Sandeen
8c20871998 ext4: Properly count journal credits for long symlinks
Commit df5e622340 ("ext4: fix deadlock in ext4_symlink() in ENOSPC
conditions") recalculated the number of credits needed for a long
symlink, in the process of splitting it into two transactions.  However,
the first credit calculation under-counted because if selinux is
enabled, credits are needed to create the selinux xattr as well.

Overrunning the reservation will result in an OOPS in
jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata() due to this assert:

  J_ASSERT_JH(jh, handle->h_buffer_credits > 0);

Fix this by increasing the reservation size.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-11 17:23:40 -07:00
Eric Sandeen
d2db60df1e ext3: Properly count journal credits for long symlinks
Commit ae54870a1d ("ext3: Fix lock inversion in ext3_symlink()")
recalculated the number of credits needed for a long symlink, in the
process of splitting it into two transactions.  However, the first
credit calculation under-counted because if selinux is enabled, credits
are needed to create the selinux xattr as well.

Overrunning the reservation will result in an OOPS in
journal_dirty_metadata() due to this assert:

  J_ASSERT_JH(jh, handle->h_buffer_credits > 0);

Fix this by increasing the reservation size.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-11 17:23:40 -07:00
Vasiliy Kulikov
72fa59970f move RLIMIT_NPROC check from set_user() to do_execve_common()
The patch http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/13/226 introduced an RLIMIT_NPROC
check in set_user() to check for NPROC exceeding via setuid() and
similar functions.

Before the check there was a possibility to greatly exceed the allowed
number of processes by an unprivileged user if the program relied on
rlimit only.  But the check created new security threat: many poorly
written programs simply don't check setuid() return code and believe it
cannot fail if executed with root privileges.  So, the check is removed
in this patch because of too often privilege escalations related to
buggy programs.

The NPROC can still be enforced in the common code flow of daemons
spawning user processes.  Most of daemons do fork()+setuid()+execve().
The check introduced in execve() (1) enforces the same limit as in
setuid() and (2) doesn't create similar security issues.

Neil Brown suggested to track what specific process has exceeded the
limit by setting PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED process flag.  With the change only
this process would fail on execve(), and other processes' execve()
behaviour is not changed.

Solar Designer suggested to re-check whether NPROC limit is still
exceeded at the moment of execve().  If the process was sleeping for
days between set*uid() and execve(), and the NPROC counter step down
under the limit, the defered execve() failure because NPROC limit was
exceeded days ago would be unexpected.  If the limit is not exceeded
anymore, we clear the flag on successful calls to execve() and fork().

The flag is also cleared on successful calls to set_user() as the limit
was exceeded for the previous user, not the current one.

Similar check was introduced in -ow patches (without the process flag).

v3 - clear PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED on successful calls to set_user().

Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-11 11:24:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1d229d54db Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf symbols: Check '/tmp/perf-' symbol file ownership
  perf sched: Usage leftover from trace -> script rename
  perf sched: Do not delete session object prematurely
  perf tools: Check $HOME/.perfconfig ownership
  perf, x86: Add model 45 SandyBridge support
  perf tools: Add support to install perf python extension
  perf tools: do not look at ./config for configuration
  perf tools: Make clean leaves some files
  perf lock: Dropping unsupported ':r' modifier
  perf probe: Fix coredump introduced by probe module option
  jump label: Reduce the cycle count by changing the link order
  perf report: Use ui__warning in some more places
  perf python: Add PERF_RECORD_{LOST,READ,SAMPLE} routine tables
  perf evlist: Introduce 'disable' method
  trace events: Update version number reference to new 3.x scheme for EVENT_POWER_TRACING_DEPRECATED
  perf buildid-cache: Zero out buffer of filenames when adding/removing buildid
2011-08-11 09:03:48 -07:00
Tracey Dent
d16adea3c9 MAINTAINERS: Update linus' git repository
Change to new git tree -
 (git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git).

Signed-off-by: Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-11 09:02:03 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a9f729f0e2 Revert "EDAC: Correct Kconfig dependencies"
This reverts commit af9d220bac.

It turns out that one was meant to be applied on top of the edac.git
tree in -next that has more i7core_edac changes, but that wasn't clear
in the original email.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-11 08:58:41 -07:00
Peng Tao
54a33b190a NFS41: make PNFS_BLOCK selectable
PNFS_BLOCK needs BLK_DEV_DM/MD, which is not a dependency for other
pnfs layout drivers. Seperate it out so others can still build when
BLK_DEV_DM/MD is not enabled.

Also change select to depends on to avoid build failures.

Reported-and-tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <peng_tao@emc.com>
Acked-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-11 08:58:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
068ef73912 Merge branch 'fixes' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* 'fixes' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
  ARM: drop experimental status for ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT
  ARM: 7008/1: alignment: Make SIGBUS sent to userspace POSIXly correct
  ARM: 7007/1: alignment: Prevent ignoring of faults with ARMv6 unaligned access model
  ARM: 7010/1: mm: fix invalid loop for poison_init_mem
  ARM: 7005/1: freshen up mm/proc-arm946.S
  dmaengine: PL08x: Fix trivial build error
  ARM: Fix build error for SMP=n builds
2011-08-10 17:37:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a0c49b6b67 Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  powerpc: Really fix build without CONFIG_PCI
  powerpc: Fix build without CONFIG_PCI
  powerpc/4xx: Fix build of PCI code on 405
  powerpc/pseries: Simplify vpa deregistration functions
  powerpc/pseries: Cleanup VPA registration and deregistration errors
  powerpc/pseries: Fix kexec on recent firmware versions
  MAINTAINERS: change maintainership of mpc5xxx
  powerpc: Make KVM_GUEST default to n
  powerpc/kvm: Fix build errors with older toolchains
  powerpc: Lack of ibm,io-events not that important!
  powerpc: Move kdump default base address to half RMO size on 64bit
  powerpc/perf: Disable pagefaults during callchain stack read
  ppc: Remove duplicate definition of PV_POWER7
  powerpc: pseries: Fix kexec on machines with more than 4TB of RAM
  powerpc: Jump label misalignment causes oops at boot
  powerpc: Clean up some panic messages in prom_init
  powerpc: Fix device tree claim code
  powerpc: Return the_cpu_ spec from identify_cpu
  powerpc: mtspr/mtmsr should take an unsigned long
2011-08-10 12:36:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d55140ce3a Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ecryptfs/ecryptfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ecryptfs/ecryptfs-2.6:
  Ecryptfs: Add mount option to check uid of device being mounted = expect uid
  eCryptfs: Fix payload_len unitialized variable warning
  eCryptfs: fix compile error
  eCryptfs: Return error when lower file pointer is NULL
2011-08-10 11:08:06 -07:00
Borislav Petkov
af9d220bac EDAC: Correct Kconfig dependencies
Both AMD and Intel i7 EDAC drivers use MCE features and are thus
dependent of this functionality present in the kernel. Express this in
Kconfig so that randconfig builds don't break.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-10 10:57:42 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
a85fe3fce8 powerpc: Really fix build without CONFIG_PCI
Brown paper bag day, previous commit wouldn't work very well with modules
enabled. Move the exports into the ifdef.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-08-11 01:15:44 +10:00
Russell King
4eb979d4d1 ARM: drop experimental status for ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT
This has now been well tested, and several platforms are now selecting
this directly.  It's time to drop its experimental status.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-08-10 10:33:29 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
7676ebbaf2 Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent 2011-08-10 10:20:52 +02:00
John Johansen
764355487e Ecryptfs: Add mount option to check uid of device being mounted = expect uid
Close a TOCTOU race for mounts done via ecryptfs-mount-private.  The mount
source (device) can be raced when the ownership test is done in userspace.
Provide Ecryptfs a means to force the uid check at mount time.

Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-08-09 23:29:01 -05:00
Jonathan Nieder
f2c0d0266c cap_syslog: don't use WARN_ONCE for CAP_SYS_ADMIN deprecation warning
syslog-ng versions before 3.3.0beta1 (2011-05-12) assume that
CAP_SYS_ADMIN is sufficient to access syslog, so ever since CAP_SYSLOG
was introduced (2010-11-25) they have triggered a warning.

Commit ee24aebffb ("cap_syslog: accept CAP_SYS_ADMIN for now")
improved matters a little by making syslog-ng work again, just keeping
the WARN_ONCE().  But still, this is a warning that writes a stack trace
we don't care about to syslog, sets a taint flag, and alarms sysadmins
when nothing worse has happened than use of an old userspace with a
recent kernel.

Convert the WARN_ONCE to a printk_once to avoid that while continuing to
give userspace developers a hint that this is an unwanted
backward-compatibility feature and won't be around forever.

Reported-by: Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebrandt@charite.de>
Reported-by: Niels <zorglub_olsen@hotmail.com>
Reported-by: Paweł Sikora <pluto@agmk.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Liked-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-09 18:22:22 -07:00
Michal Hocko
9f50fad65b Revert "memcg: get rid of percpu_charge_mutex lock"
This reverts commit 8521fc50d4.

The patch incorrectly assumes that using atomic FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE
bit operations is sufficient but that is not true.  Johannes Weiner has
reported a crash during parallel memory cgroup removal:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000018
  IP: [<ffffffff81083b70>] css_is_ancestor+0x20/0x70
  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  Pid: 19677, comm: rmdir Tainted: G        W   3.0.0-mm1-00188-gf38d32b #35 ECS MCP61M-M3/MCP61M-M3
  RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81083b70>]  css_is_ancestor+0x20/0x70
  RSP: 0018:ffff880077b09c88  EFLAGS: 00010202
  Process rmdir (pid: 19677, threadinfo ffff880077b08000, task ffff8800781bb310)
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff810feba3>] mem_cgroup_same_or_subtree+0x33/0x40
   [<ffffffff810feccf>] drain_all_stock+0x11f/0x170
   [<ffffffff81103211>] mem_cgroup_force_empty+0x231/0x6d0
   [<ffffffff811036c4>] mem_cgroup_pre_destroy+0x14/0x20
   [<ffffffff81080559>] cgroup_rmdir+0xb9/0x500
   [<ffffffff81114d26>] vfs_rmdir+0x86/0xe0
   [<ffffffff81114e7b>] do_rmdir+0xfb/0x110
   [<ffffffff81114ea6>] sys_rmdir+0x16/0x20
   [<ffffffff8154d76b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

We are crashing because we try to dereference cached memcg when we are
checking whether we should wait for draining on the cache.  The cache is
already cleaned up, though.

There is also a theoretical chance that the cached memcg gets freed
between we test for the FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE and dereference it in
mem_cgroup_same_or_subtree:

        CPU0                    CPU1                         CPU2
  mem=stock->cached
  stock->cached=NULL
                              clear_bit
                                                        test_and_set_bit
  test_bit()                    ...
  <preempted>             mem_cgroup_destroy
  use after free

The percpu_charge_mutex protected from this race because sync draining
is exclusive.

It is safer to revert now and come up with a more parallel
implementation later.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-09 17:04:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
47e180d652 Merge branch 'slab/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'slab/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slub: Fix partial count comparison confusion
2011-08-09 12:51:25 -07:00
Tyler Hicks
99b373ff2d eCryptfs: Fix payload_len unitialized variable warning
fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c: In function ‘ecryptfs_generate_key_packet_set’:
fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c:1991:28: warning: ‘payload_len’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c:1976:9: note: ‘payload_len’ was declared here

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-08-09 13:42:46 -05:00
Roberto Sassu
4b6fee17b1 eCryptfs: fix compile error
This patch fixes the compile error reported at the address:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40292

The problem arises when compiling eCryptfs as built-in and the 'encrypted'
key type as a module. The patch prevents this combination from being set in
the kernel configuration, by fixing the eCryptfs dependencies.

Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@polito.it>
Reported-by: David Hill <hilld@binarystorm.net>
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-08-09 13:42:46 -05:00
Tyler Hicks
f61500e000 eCryptfs: Return error when lower file pointer is NULL
When an eCryptfs inode's lower file has been closed, and the pointer has
been set to NULL, return an error when trying to do a lower read or
write rather than calling BUG().

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37292

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
2011-08-09 13:42:45 -05:00
Pekka Enberg
981c125269 perf symbols: Check '/tmp/perf-' symbol file ownership
The external symbol files are generated by JIT compilers, for example, but we
need to make sure they're ours before injecting them to 'perf report'.

Requested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1312919658-17158-1-git-send-email-penberg@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-08-09 15:23:08 -03:00
Christoph Lameter
81107188f1 slub: Fix partial count comparison confusion
deactivate_slab() has the comparison if more than the minimum number of
partial pages are in the partial list wrong. An effect of this may be that
empty pages are not freed from deactivate_slab(). The result could be an
OOM due to growth of the partial slabs per node. Frees mostly occur from
__slab_free which is okay so this would only affect use cases where a lot
of switching around of per cpu slabs occur.

Switching per cpu slabs occurs with high frequency if debugging options are
enabled.

Reported-and-tested-by: Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-08-09 21:12:31 +03:00