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Randy Dunlap 4f0f4af59c printk.c: fix kernel-doc warnings
Fix kernel-doc warnings in printk.c: use correct parameter name.

  Warning(kernel/printk.c:2429): No description found for parameter 'buf'
  Warning(kernel/printk.c:2429): Excess function parameter 'line' description in 'kmsg_dump_get_buffer'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-30 15:56:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 21f27291f5 Driver Core fixes for 3.5-rc5
Here is a number of printk() fixes, specifically a few reported by the
 crazy blog program that ships in SUSE releases (that's "boot log" and
 not "web log", it predates the general "blog" terminology by many
 years), and the restoration of the continuation line functionality
 reported by Stephen and others.  Yes, the changes seem a bit big this
 late in the cycle, but I've been beating on them for a while now, and
 Stephen has even optimized it a bit, so all looks good to me.
 
 The other change in here is a Documentation update for the stable kernel
 rules describing how some distro patches should be backported, to
 hopefully drive a bit more response from the distros to the stable
 kernel releases.
 
 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-3.5-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull driver Core fixes from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here is a number of printk() fixes, specifically a few reported by the
  crazy blog program that ships in SUSE releases (that's "boot log" and
  not "web log", it predates the general "blog" terminology by many
  years), and the restoration of the continuation line functionality
  reported by Stephen and others.  Yes, the changes seem a bit big this
  late in the cycle, but I've been beating on them for a while now, and
  Stephen has even optimized it a bit, so all looks good to me.

  The other change in here is a Documentation update for the stable
  kernel rules describing how some distro patches should be backported,
  to hopefully drive a bit more response from the distros to the stable
  kernel releases.

  Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>"

* tag 'driver-core-3.5-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
  printk: Optimize if statement logic where newline exists
  printk: flush continuation lines immediately to console
  syslog: fill buffer with more than a single message for SYSLOG_ACTION_READ
  Revert "printk: return -EINVAL if the message len is bigger than the buf size"
  printk: fix regression in SYSLOG_ACTION_CLEAR
  stable: Allow merging of backports for serious user-visible performance issues
2012-06-30 10:11:24 -07:00
Steven Rostedt d36208227d printk: Optimize if statement logic where newline exists
In reviewing Kay's fix up patch: "printk: Have printk() never buffer its
data", I found two if statements that could be combined and optimized.

Put together the two 'cont.len && cont.owner == current' if statements
into a single one, and check if we need to call cont_add(). This also
removes the unneeded double cont_flush() calls.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340869133.876.10.camel@mop

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-29 16:55:35 -04:00
Kay Sievers 084681d14e printk: flush continuation lines immediately to console
Continuation lines are buffered internally, intended to merge the
chunked printk()s into a single record, and to isolate potentially
racy continuation users from usual terminated line users.

This though, has the effect that partial lines are not printed to
the console in the moment they are emitted. In case the kernel
crashes in the meantime, the potentially interesting printed
information would never reach the consoles.

Here we share the continuation buffer with the console copy logic,
and partial lines are always immediately flushed to the available
consoles. They are still buffered internally to improve the
readability and integrity of the messages and minimize the amount
of needed record headers to store.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-29 11:39:42 -04:00
Jan Beulich 116e90b23f syslog: fill buffer with more than a single message for SYSLOG_ACTION_READ
The recent changes to the printk buffer management resulted in
SYSLOG_ACTION_READ to only return a single message, whereas previously
the buffer would get filled as much as possible. As, when too small to
fit everything, filling it to the last byte would be pretty ugly with
the new code, the patch arranges for as many messages as possible to
get returned in a single invocation. User space tools in at least all
SLES versions depend on the old behavior.

This at once addresses the issue attempted to get fixed with commit
b56a39ac26 ("printk: return -EINVAL if
the message len is bigger than the buf size"), and since that commit
widened the possibility for losing a message altogether, the patch
here assumes that this other commit would get reverted first
(otherwise the patch here won't apply).

Furthermore, this patch also addresses the problem dealt with in
commit 4a77a5a06e ("printk: use mutex
lock to stop syslog_seq from going wild"), so I'd recommend reverting
that one too (albeit there's no direct collision between the two).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-26 12:37:36 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 6fda135c90 Revert "printk: return -EINVAL if the message len is bigger than the buf size"
This reverts commit b56a39ac26.

A better patch from Jan will follow this to resolve the issue.

Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-26 12:35:24 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney b41772abeb rcu: Stop rcu_do_batch() from multiplexing the "count" variable
Commit b1420f1c (Make rcu_barrier() less disruptive) rearranged the
code in rcu_do_batch(), moving the ->qlen manipulation to follow
the requeueing of the callbacks.  Unfortunately, this rearrangement
clobbered the value of the "count" local variable before the value
of rdp->qlen was adjusted, resulting in the value of rdp->qlen being
inaccurate.  This commit therefore introduces an index variable "i",
avoiding the inadvertent multiplexing.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-06-25 12:35:25 -07:00
Alan Stern 4661e3568a printk: fix regression in SYSLOG_ACTION_CLEAR
Commit 7ff9554bb5 (printk: convert
byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer) introduced a regression
by accidentally removing a "break" statement from inside the big
switch in printk's do_syslog().  The symptom of this bug is that the
"dmesg -C" command doesn't only clear the kernel's log buffer; it also
disables console logging.

This patch (as1561) fixes the regression by adding the missing
"break".

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
CC: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-25 12:11:58 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a11637194a 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:
  ftrace: Make all inline tags also include notrace
  perf: Use css_tryget() to avoid propping up css refcount
  perf tools: Fix synthesizing tracepoint names from the perf.data headers
  perf stat: Fix default output file
  perf tools: Fix endianity swapping for adds_features bitmask
2012-06-22 10:58:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 2ce5682947 Merge branch 'for-3.5-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull two cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:
 "This containes two patches fixing a refcnt race bug during css_put().
  Decrementing and checking the value weren't atomic and two tasks could
  think that they both pushed the counter to zero."

* 'for-3.5-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroups: Account for CSS_DEACT_BIAS in __css_put
  cgroup: make sure that decisions in __css_put are atomic
2012-06-20 22:11:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds fe80352460 Driver core and printk fixes for 3.5-rc4
Here are some fixes for 3.5-rc4 that resolve the kmsg problems that
 people have reported showing up after the printk and kmsg changes went
 into 3.5-rc1.  There are also a smattering of other tiny fixes for the
 extcon and hyper-v drivers that people have reported.
 
 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-3.5-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull driver core and printk fixes from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here are some fixes for 3.5-rc4 that resolve the kmsg problems that
  people have reported showing up after the printk and kmsg changes went
  into 3.5-rc1.  There are also a smattering of other tiny fixes for the
  extcon and hyper-v drivers that people have reported.

  Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>"

* tag 'driver-core-3.5-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
  extcon: max8997: Add missing kfree for info->edev in max8997_muic_remove()
  extcon: Set platform drvdata in gpio_extcon_probe() and fix irq leak
  extcon: Fix wrong index in max8997_extcon_cable[]
  kmsg - kmsg_dump() fix CONFIG_PRINTK=n compilation
  printk: return -EINVAL if the message len is bigger than the buf size
  printk: use mutex lock to stop syslog_seq from going wild
  kmsg - kmsg_dump() use iterator to receive log buffer content
  vme: change maintainer e-mail address
  Extcon: Don't try to create duplicate link names
  driver core: fixup reversed deferred probe order
  printk: Fix alignment of buf causing crash on ARM EABI
  Tools: hv: verify origin of netlink connector message
2012-06-20 15:14:28 -07:00
Cyrill Gorcunov 5702c5eeab c/r: prctl: Move PR_GET_TID_ADDRESS to a proper place
During merging of PR_GET_TID_ADDRESS patch the code has been misplaced (it
happened to appear under PR_MCE_KILL) in result noone can use this option.

Fix it by moving code snippet to a proper place.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 50d75f8dae pidns: find_new_reaper() can no longer switch to init_pid_ns.child_reaper
find_new_reaper() changes pid_ns->child_reaper, see add0d4df ("pid_ns:
zap_pid_ns_processes: fix the ->child_reaper changing").

The original reason has gone away after the previous patch, ->children
list must be empty after zap_pid_ns_processes().

However now we can not switch to init_pid_ns.child_reaper.
__unhash_process() relies on the "->child_reaper == parent" check, but
this check does not work if the last exiting task is also the child
reaper.

As Eric sugested, we can change __unhash_process() to use the parent's
pid_ns and remove this code.

Also, with this change we can move detach_pid(PIDTYPE_PID) back, where it
was before the previous fix.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Wagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 6347e90091 pidns: guarantee that the pidns init will be the last pidns process reaped
Today we have a twofold bug.  Sometimes release_task on pid == 1 in a pid
namespace can run before other processes in a pid namespace have had
release task called.  With the result that pid_ns_release_proc can be
called before the last proc_flus_task() is done using upid->ns->proc_mnt,
resulting in the use of a stale pointer.  This same set of circumstances
can lead to waitpid(...) returning for a processes started with
clone(CLONE_NEWPID) before the every process in the pid namespace has
actually exited.

To fix this modify zap_pid_ns_processess wait until all other processes in
the pid namespace have exited, even EXIT_DEAD zombies.

The delay_group_leader and related tests ensure that the thread gruop
leader will be the last thread of a process group to be reaped, or to
become EXIT_DEAD and self reap.  With the change to zap_pid_ns_processes
we get the guarantee that pid == 1 in a pid namespace will be the last
task that release_task is called on.

With pid == 1 being the last task to pass through release_task
pid_ns_release_proc can no longer be called too early nor can wait return
before all of the EXIT_DEAD tasks in a pid namespace have exited.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Wagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
Konstantin Khlebnikov 4fe7efdbdf mm: correctly synchronize rss-counters at exit/exec
do_exit() and exec_mmap() call sync_mm_rss() before mm_release() does
put_user(clear_child_tid) which can update task->rss_stat and thus make
mm->rss_stat inconsistent.  This triggers the "BUG:" printk in check_mm().

Let's fix this bug in the safest way, and optimize/cleanup this later.

Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: 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>
2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
Salman Qazi 8e3bbf42c6 cgroups: Account for CSS_DEACT_BIAS in __css_put
When we fixed the race between atomic_dec and css_refcnt, we missed
the fact that css_refcnt internally subtracts CSS_DEACT_BIAS to get
the actual reference count.  This can potentially cause a refcount leak
if __css_put races with cgroup_clear_css_refs.

Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-06-18 15:38:02 -07:00
Salman Qazi 9c5da09d26 perf: Use css_tryget() to avoid propping up css refcount
An rmdir pushes css's ref count to zero.  However, if the associated
directory is open at the time, the dentry ref count is non-zero.  If
the fd for this directory is then passed into perf_event_open, it
does a css_get().  This bounces the ref count back up from zero.  This
is a problem by itself.  But what makes it turn into a crash is the
fact that we end up doing an extra dput, since we perform a dput
when css_put sees the ref count go down to zero.

css_tryget() does not fall into that trap. So, we use that instead.

Reproduction test-case for the bug:

 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <fcntl.h>
 #include <linux/unistd.h>
 #include <linux/perf_event.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <stdio.h>

 #define PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP    (1U << 2)

 int perf_event_open(struct perf_event_attr *hw_event_uptr,
                     pid_t pid, int cpu, int group_fd, unsigned long flags) {
         return syscall(__NR_perf_event_open,hw_event_uptr, pid, cpu,
                 group_fd, flags);
 }

 /*
  * Directly poke at the perf_event bug, since it's proving hard to repro
  * depending on where in the kernel tree.  what moved?
  */
 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
        int fd;
        struct perf_event_attr attr;
        memset(&attr, 0, sizeof(attr));
        attr.exclude_kernel = 1;
        attr.size = sizeof(attr);
        mkdir("/dev/cgroup/perf_event/blah", 0777);
        fd = open("/dev/cgroup/perf_event/blah", O_RDONLY);
        perror("open");
        rmdir("/dev/cgroup/perf_event/blah");
        sleep(2);
        perf_event_open(&attr, fd, 0, -1,  PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP);
        perror("perf_event_open");
        close(fd);
        return 0;
 }

Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120614223108.1025.2503.stgit@dungbeetle.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-18 11:45:57 +02:00
Yuanhan Liu b56a39ac26 printk: return -EINVAL if the message len is bigger than the buf size
Just like what devkmsg_read() does, return -EINVAL if the message len is
bigger than the buf size, or it will trigger a segfault error.

Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-16 08:36:03 -07:00
Yuanhan Liu 4a77a5a06e printk: use mutex lock to stop syslog_seq from going wild
Although syslog_seq and log_next_seq stuff are protected by logbuf_lock
spin log, it's not enough. Say we have two processes A and B, and let
syslog_seq = N, while log_next_seq = N + 1, and the two processes both
come to syslog_print at almost the same time. And No matter which
process get the spin lock first, it will increase syslog_seq by one,
then release spin lock; thus later, another process increase syslog_seq
by one again. In this case, syslog_seq is bigger than syslog_next_seq.
And latter, it would make:
   wait_event_interruptiable(log_wait, syslog != log_next_seq)
don't wait any more even there is no new write comes. Thus it introduce
a infinite loop reading.

I can easily see this kind of issue by the following steps:
  # cat /proc/kmsg # at meantime, I don't kill rsyslog
                   # So they are the two processes.
  # xinit          # I added drm.debug=6 in the kernel parameter line,
                   # so that it will produce lots of message and let that
                   # issue happen

It's 100% reproducable on my side. And my disk will be filled up by
/var/log/messages in a quite short time.

So, introduce a mutex_lock to stop syslog_seq from going wild just like
what devkmsg_read() does. It does fix this issue as expected.

v2: use mutex_lock_interruptiable() instead (comments from Kay)

Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-By: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-16 08:36:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ed21a66c18 Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar.

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  watchdog: Quiet down the boot messages
  perf/x86: Fix broken LBR fixup code
  tracing: Have tracing_off() actually turn tracing off
2012-06-15 16:58:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a95f9b6e09 Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull core updates (RCU and locking) from Ingo Molnar:
 "Most of the diffstat comes from the RCU slow boot regression fixes,
  but there's also a debuggability improvements/fixes."

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  memblock: Document memblock_is_region_{memory,reserved}()
  rcu: Precompute RCU_FAST_NO_HZ timer offsets
  rcu: Move RCU_FAST_NO_HZ per-CPU variables to rcu_dynticks structure
  rcu: Update RCU_FAST_NO_HZ tracing for lazy callbacks
  rcu: RCU_FAST_NO_HZ detection of callback adoption
  spinlock: Indicate that a lockup is only suspected
  kdump: Execute kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC) after smp_send_stop()
  panic: Make panic_on_oops configurable
2012-06-15 16:52:35 -07:00
Kay Sievers e2ae715d66 kmsg - kmsg_dump() use iterator to receive log buffer content
Provide an iterator to receive the log buffer content, and convert all
kmsg_dump() users to it.

The structured data in the kmsg buffer now contains binary data, which
should no longer be copied verbatim to the kmsg_dump() users.

The iterator should provide reliable access to the buffer data, and also
supports proper log line-aware chunking of data while iterating.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reported-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-15 14:53:59 -07:00
Don Zickus a702704682 watchdog: Quiet down the boot messages
A bunch of bugzillas have complained how noisy the nmi_watchdog
is during boot-up especially with its expected failure cases
(like virt and bios resource contention).

This is my attempt to quiet them down and keep it less confusing
for the end user.  What I did is print the message for cpu0 and
save it for future comparisons.  If future cpus have an
identical message as cpu0, then don't print the redundant info.
However, if a future cpu has a different message, happily print
that loudly.

Before the change, you would see something like:

    ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
    CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q9550  @ 2.83GHz stepping 0a
    Performance Events: PEBS fmt0+, Core2 events, Intel PMU driver.
    ... version:                2
    ... bit width:              40
    ... generic registers:      2
    ... value mask:             000000ffffffffff
    ... max period:             000000007fffffff
    ... fixed-purpose events:   3
    ... event mask:             0000000700000003
    NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter.
    Booting Node   0, Processors  #1
    NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter.
     #2
    NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter.
     #3 Ok.
    NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter.
    Brought up 4 CPUs
    Total of 4 processors activated (22607.24 BogoMIPS).

After the change, it is simplified to:

    ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
    CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q9550  @ 2.83GHz stepping 0a
    Performance Events: PEBS fmt0+, Core2 events, Intel PMU driver.
    ... version:                2
    ... bit width:              40
    ... generic registers:      2
    ... value mask:             000000ffffffffff
    ... max period:             000000007fffffff
    ... fixed-purpose events:   3
    ... event mask:             0000000700000003
    NMI watchdog: enabled on all CPUs, permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter.
    Booting Node   0, Processors  #1 #2 #3 Ok.
    Brought up 4 CPUs

V2: little changes based on Joe Perches' feedback
V3: printk cleanup based on Ingo's feedback; checkpatch fix
V4: keep printk as one long line
V5: Ingo fix ups

Reported-and-tested-by: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: nzimmer@sgi.com
Cc: joe@perches.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339594548-17227-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-14 12:20:50 +02:00
Andrew Lunn 6ebb017de9 printk: Fix alignment of buf causing crash on ARM EABI
Commit 7ff9554bb5, printk: convert
byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer, causes systems using
EABI to crash very early in the boot cycle. The first entry in struct
log is a u64, which for EABI must be 8 byte aligned.

Make use of __alignof__() so the compiler to decide the alignment, but
allow it to be overridden using CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS,
for systems which can perform unaligned access and want to save
a few bytes of space.

Tested on Orion5x and Kirkwood.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-12 16:20:17 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 4a1e001d2b Merge branch 'rcu/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/urgent
Merge RCU fixes from Paul E. McKenney:

 " This series has four patches, the major point of which is to eliminate
   some slowdowns (including boot-time slowdowns) resulting from some
   RCU_FAST_NO_HZ changes.  The issue with the changes is that posting timers
   from the idle loop has no effect if the CPU has entered dyntick-idle
   mode because the CPU has already computed its wakeup time, and posting
   a timer does not cause it to be recomputed.  The short-term fix is for
   RCU to precompute the timeout value so that the CPU's calculation is
   correct. "

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-11 10:30:23 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 7249450449 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: Fix the relax_domain_level boot parameter
  sched: Validate assumptions in sched_init_numa()
  sched: Always initialize cpu-power
  sched: Fix domain iteration
  sched/rt: Fix lockdep annotation within find_lock_lowest_rq()
  sched/numa: Load balance between remote nodes
  sched/x86: Calculate booted cores after construction of sibling_mask
2012-06-08 14:59:29 -07:00
Randy Dunlap cd96891d48 sched/fair: fix lots of kernel-doc warnings
Fix lots of new kernel-doc warnings in kernel/sched/fair.c:

  Warning(kernel/sched/fair.c:3625): No description found for parameter 'env'
  Warning(kernel/sched/fair.c:3625): Excess function parameter 'sd' description in 'update_sg_lb_stats'
  Warning(kernel/sched/fair.c:3735): No description found for parameter 'env'
  Warning(kernel/sched/fair.c:3735): Excess function parameter 'sd' description in 'update_sd_pick_busiest'
  Warning(kernel/sched/fair.c:3735): Excess function parameter 'this_cpu' description in 'update_sd_pick_busiest'
  .. more warnings

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-08 14:59:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 106544d81d Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "A bit larger than what I'd wish for - half of it is due to hw driver
  updates to Intel Ivy-Bridge which info got recently released,
  cycles:pp should work there now too, amongst other things.  (but we
  are generally making exceptions for hardware enablement of this type.)

  There are also callchain fixes in it - responding to mostly
  theoretical (but valid) concerns.  The tooling side sports perf.data
  endianness/portability fixes which did not make it for the merge
  window - and various other fixes as well."

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (26 commits)
  perf/x86: Check user address explicitly in copy_from_user_nmi()
  perf/x86: Check if user fp is valid
  perf: Limit callchains to 127
  perf/x86: Allow multiple stacks
  perf/x86: Update SNB PEBS constraints
  perf/x86: Enable/Add IvyBridge hardware support
  perf/x86: Implement cycles:p for SNB/IVB
  perf/x86: Fix Intel shared extra MSR allocation
  x86/decoder: Fix bsr/bsf/jmpe decoding with operand-size prefix
  perf: Remove duplicate invocation on perf_event_for_each
  perf uprobes: Remove unnecessary check before strlist__delete
  perf symbols: Check for valid dso before creating map
  perf evsel: Fix 32 bit values endianity swap for sample_id_all header
  perf session: Handle endianity swap on sample_id_all header data
  perf symbols: Handle different endians properly during symbol load
  perf evlist: Pass third argument to ioctl explicitly
  perf tools: Update ioctl documentation for PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP
  perf tools: Make --version show kernel version instead of pull req tag
  perf tools: Check if callchain is corrupted
  perf callchain: Make callchain cursors TLS
  ...
2012-06-08 09:14:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds b1e25f4109 Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull leap second timer fix from Thomas Gleixner.

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  timekeeping: Fix CLOCK_MONOTONIC inconsistency during leapsecond
2012-06-08 09:11:33 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 9ee6ddc9da Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/urgent
Pull brown paper bag fix from Steve Rostedt.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-08 12:23:22 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 48d212a2ee Revert "mm: correctly synchronize rss-counters at exit/exec"
This reverts commit 40af1bbdca.

It's horribly and utterly broken for at least the following reasons:

 - calling sync_mm_rss() from mmput() is fundamentally wrong, because
   there's absolutely no reason to believe that the task that does the
   mmput() always does it on its own VM.  Example: fork, ptrace, /proc -
   you name it.

 - calling it *after* having done mmdrop() on it is doubly insane, since
   the mm struct may well be gone now.

 - testing mm against NULL before you call it is insane too, since a
NULL mm there would have caused oopses long before.

.. and those are just the three bugs I found before I decided to give up
looking for me and revert it asap.  I should have caught it before I
even took it, but I trusted Andrew too much.

Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-07 17:54:07 -07:00
Konstantin Khlebnikov 40af1bbdca mm: correctly synchronize rss-counters at exit/exec
mm->rss_stat counters have per-task delta: task->rss_stat.  Before
changing task->mm pointer the kernel must flush this delta with
sync_mm_rss().

do_exit() already calls sync_mm_rss() to flush the rss-counters before
committing the rss statistics into task->signal->maxrss, taskstats,
audit and other stuff.  Unfortunately the kernel does this before
calling mm_release(), which can call put_user() for processing
task->clear_child_tid.  So at this point we can trigger page-faults and
task->rss_stat becomes non-zero again.  As a result mm->rss_stat becomes
inconsistent and check_mm() will print something like this:

| BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff88020813c380 idx:1 val:-1
| BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff88020813c380 idx:2 val:1

This patch moves sync_mm_rss() into mm_release(), and moves mm_release()
out of do_exit() and calls it earlier.  After mm_release() there should
be no pagefaults.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment]
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>		[3.4.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-07 14:43:55 -07:00
Cyrill Gorcunov 736f24d5e5 c/r: prctl: drop VMA flags test on PR_SET_MM_ stack data assignment
In commit b76437579d ("procfs: mark thread stack correctly in
proc/<pid>/maps") the stack allocated via clone() is marked in
/proc/<pid>/maps as [stack:%d] thus it might be out of the former
mm->start_stack/end_stack values (and even has some custom VMA flags
set).

So to be able to restore mm->start_stack/end_stack drop vma flags test,
but still require the underlying VMA to exist.

As always note this feature is under CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE and
requires CAP_SYS_RESOURCE to be granted.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-07 14:43:55 -07:00
Cyrill Gorcunov 300f786b26 c/r: prctl: add ability to get clear_tid_address
Zero is written at clear_tid_address when the process exits.  This
functionality is used by pthread_join().

We already have sys_set_tid_address() to change this address for the
current task but there is no way to obtain it from user space.

Without the ability to find this address and dump it we can't restore
pthread'ed apps which call pthread_join() once they have been restored.

This patch introduces the PR_GET_TID_ADDRESS prctl option which allows
the current process to obtain own clear_tid_address.

This feature is available iif CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE is set.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix prctl numbering]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-07 14:43:55 -07:00
Cyrill Gorcunov 1ad75b9e16 c/r: prctl: add minimal address test to PR_SET_MM
Make sure the address being set is greater than mmap_min_addr (as
suggested by Kees Cook).

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-07 14:43:55 -07:00
Konstantin Khlebnikov bafb282df2 c/r: prctl: update prctl_set_mm_exe_file() after mm->num_exe_file_vmas removal
A fix for commit b32dfe3771 ("c/r: prctl: add ability to set new
mm_struct::exe_file").

After removing mm->num_exe_file_vmas kernel keeps mm->exe_file until
final mmput(), it never becomes NULL while task is alive.

We can check for other mapped files in mm instead of checking
mm->num_exe_file_vmas, and mark mm with flag MMF_EXE_FILE_CHANGED in
order to forbid second changing of mm->exe_file.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-07 14:43:55 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney aa9b16306e rcu: Precompute RCU_FAST_NO_HZ timer offsets
When a CPU is entering dyntick-idle mode, tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick()
calls rcu_needs_cpu() see if RCU needs that CPU, and, if not, computes the
next wakeup time based on the timer wheels.  Only later, when actually
entering the idle loop, rcu_prepare_for_idle() will be invoked.  In some
cases, rcu_prepare_for_idle() will post timers to wake the CPU back up.
But all for naught: The next wakeup time for the CPU has already been
computed, and posting a timer afterwards does not force that wakeup
time to be recomputed.  This means that rcu_prepare_for_idle()'s have
no effect.

This is not a problem on a busy system because something else will wake
up the CPU soon enough.  However, on lightly loaded systems, the CPU
might stay asleep for a considerable length of time.  If that CPU has
a callback that the rest of the system is waiting on, the system might
run very slowly or (in theory) even hang.

This commit avoids this problem by having rcu_needs_cpu() give
tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() an estimate of when RCU will need the CPU
to wake back up, which tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() takes into account
when programming the CPU's wakeup time.  An alternative approach is
for rcu_prepare_for_idle() to use hrtimers instead of normal timers,
but timers are much more efficient than are hrtimers for frequently
and repeatedly posting and cancelling a given timer, which is exactly
what RCU_FAST_NO_HZ does.

Reported-by: Pascal Chapperon <pascal.chapperon@wanadoo.fr>
Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Pascal Chapperon <pascal.chapperon@wanadoo.fr>
2012-06-06 20:43:28 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 5955f7eecd rcu: Move RCU_FAST_NO_HZ per-CPU variables to rcu_dynticks structure
The RCU_FAST_NO_HZ code relies on a number of per-CPU variables.
This works, but is hidden from someone scanning the data structures
in rcutree.h.  This commit therefore converts these per-CPU variables
to fields in the per-CPU rcu_dynticks structures.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Pascal Chapperon <pascal.chapperon@wanadoo.fr>
2012-06-06 20:43:28 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney fd4b352687 rcu: Update RCU_FAST_NO_HZ tracing for lazy callbacks
In the current code, a short dyntick-idle interval (where there is
at least one non-lazy callback on the CPU) and a long dyntick-idle
interval (where there are only lazy callbacks on the CPU) are traced
identically, which can be less than helpful.  This commit therefore
emits different event traces in these two cases.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Pascal Chapperon <pascal.chapperon@wanadoo.fr>
2012-06-06 20:43:27 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 8f5af6f1f2 rcu: RCU_FAST_NO_HZ detection of callback adoption
In the present implementations of CPU hotplug, the outgoing CPU is
guaranteed to run its stop-machine process on the way out, which
will guarantee that RCU_FAST_NO_HZ forces the CPU out of dyntick-idle
mode.

However, new versions of CPU hotplug might not work this way.  This
commit therefore removes this design constraint by explicitly notifying
CPUs when they adopt non-lazy RCU callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Pascal Chapperon <pascal.chapperon@wanadoo.fr>
2012-06-06 20:43:27 -07:00
Steven Rostedt f2bf1f6f5f tracing: Have tracing_off() actually turn tracing off
A recent update to have tracing_on/off() only affect the ftrace ring
buffers instead of all ring buffers had a cut and paste error.
The tracing_off() did the exact same thing as tracing_on() and
would not actually turn off tracing. Unfortunately, tracing_off()
is more important to be working than tracing_on() as this is a key
development tool, as it lets the developer turn off tracing as soon
as a problem is discovered. It is also used by panic and oops code.

This bug also breaks the 'echo func:traceoff > set_ftrace_filter'

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.4
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-06-06 22:15:14 -04:00
Salman Qazi 967db0ea65 cgroup: make sure that decisions in __css_put are atomic
__css_put is using atomic_dec on the ref count, and then
looking at the ref count to make decisions.  This is prone
to races, as someone else may decrement ref count between
our decrement and our decision.  Instead, we should base our
decisions on the value that we decremented the ref count to.

(This results in an actual race on Google's kernel which I
haven't been able to reproduce on the upstream kernel.  Having
said that, it's still incorrect by inspection).

Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2012-06-06 18:51:35 -07:00
Dimitri Sivanich a841f8cef4 sched: Fix the relax_domain_level boot parameter
It does not get processed because sched_domain_level_max is 0 at the
time that setup_relax_domain_level() is run.

Simply accept the value as it is, as we don't know the value of
sched_domain_level_max until sched domain construction is completed.

Fix sched_relax_domain_level in cpuset.  The build_sched_domain() routine calls
the set_domain_attribute() routine prior to setting the sd->level, however,
the set_domain_attribute() routine relies on the sd->level to decide whether
idle load balancing will be off/on.

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120605184436.GA15668@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-06 17:07:41 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra d039ac6080 sched: Validate assumptions in sched_init_numa()
Add some code to validate assumptions we're making and output
warnings if they are not.

If this trigger we want to know about it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Alex Shi <lkml.alex@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-6uc3wk5s9udxtdl9cnku0vtt@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-06 16:52:30 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra c3decf0dfb sched: Always initialize cpu-power
Often when we run into mis-shapen topologies the balance iteration
fails to update the cpu power properly and we'll end up in /0 traps.

Always initialize the cpu-power to a semi-sane value so that we can
at least boot the machine, even if the load-balancer might not
function correctly.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3lbhyj25sr169ha7z3qht5na@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-06 16:52:27 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra c117487687 sched: Fix domain iteration
Weird topologies can lead to asymmetric domain setups. This needs
further consideration since these setups are typically non-minimal
too.

For now, make it work by adding an extra mask selecting which CPUs
are allowed to iterate up.

The topology that triggered it is the one from David Rientjes:

	10 20 20 30
	20 10 20 20
	20 20 10 20
	30 20 20 10

resulting in boxes that wouldn't even boot.

Reported-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3p86l9cuaqnxz7uxsojmz5rm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-06 16:52:26 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 7f1b43936f sched/rt: Fix lockdep annotation within find_lock_lowest_rq()
Roland Dreier reported spurious, hard to trigger lockdep warnings
within the scheduler - without any real lockup.

This bit gives us the right clue:

> [89945.640512]  [<ffffffff8103fa1a>] double_lock_balance+0x5a/0x90
> [89945.640568]  [<ffffffff8104c546>] push_rt_task+0xc6/0x290

if you look at that code you'll find the double_lock_balance() in
question is the one in find_lock_lowest_rq() [yay for inlining].

Now find_lock_lowest_rq() has a bug.. it fails to use
double_unlock_balance() in one exit path, if this results in a retry in
push_rt_task() we'll call double_lock_balance() again, at which point
we'll run into said lockdep confusion.

Reported-by: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337282386.4281.77.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-06 16:52:26 +02:00
Alex Shi 10717dcde1 sched/numa: Load balance between remote nodes
Commit cb83b629b ("sched/numa: Rewrite the CONFIG_NUMA sched
domain support") removed the NODE sched domain and started checking
if the node distance in SLIT table is farther than REMOTE_DISTANCE,
if so, it will lose the load balance chance at exec/fork/wake_affine
points.

But actually, even the node distance is farther than REMOTE_DISTANCE.

Modern CPUs also has QPI like connections, which ensures that memory
access is not too slow between nodes. So the above change in behavior
on NUMA machine causes a performance regression on various benchmarks:
hackbench, tbench, netperf, oltp, etc.

This patch will recover the scheduler behavior to old mode on all my
Intel platforms: NHM EP/EX, WSM EP, SNB EP/EP4S, and thus fixes the
perfromance regressions. (all of them just have 2 kinds distance, 10, 21)

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1338965571-9812-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-06 16:52:25 +02:00
Ingo Molnar c7f5f4ab10 Merge branch 'core/debug' into core/urgent
Merge two debugging patchlets that were waiting for
preparatory commits to hit upstream.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-06 11:12:55 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 02e03040a3 Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent
Pull perf fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

 * Endianness fixes from Jiri Olsa

 * Fixes for make perf tarball

 * Fix for DSO name in perf script callchains, from David Ahern

 * Segfault fixes for perf top --callchain, from Namhyung Kim

 * Minor function result fixes from Srikar Dronamraju

 * Add missing 3rd ioctl parameter, from Namhyung Kim

 * Fix pager usage in minimal embedded systems, from Avik Sil

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-06 08:46:33 +02:00