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2012-02-11Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
Says Jens: "Time to push off some of the pending items. I really wanted to wait until we had the regression nailed, but alas it's not quite there yet. But I'm very confident that it's "just" a missing expire on exit, so fix from Tejun should be fairly trivial. I'm headed out for a week on the slopes. - Killing the barrier part of mtip32xx. It doesn't really support barriers, and it doesn't need them (writes are fully ordered). - A few fixes from Dan Carpenter, preventing overflows of integer multiplication. - A fixup for loop, fixing a previous commit that didn't quite solve the partial read problem from Dave Young. - A bio integer overflow fix from Kent Overstreet. - Improvement/fix of the door "keep locked" part of the cdrom shared code from Paolo Benzini. - A few cfq fixes from Shaohua Li. - A fix for bsg sysfs warning when removing a file it did not create from Stanislaw Gruszka. - Two fixes for floppy from Vivek, preventing a crash. - A few block core fixes from Tejun. One killing the over-optimized ioc exit path, cleaning that up nicely. Two others fixing an oops on elevator switch, due to calling into the scheduler merge check code without holding the queue lock." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: block: fix lockdep warning on io_context release put_io_context() relay: prevent integer overflow in relay_open() loop: zero fill bio instead of return -EIO for partial read bio: don't overflow in bio_get_nr_vecs() floppy: Fix a crash during rmmod floppy: Cleanup disk->queue before caling put_disk() if add_disk() was never called cdrom: move shared static to cdrom_device_info bsg: fix sysfs link remove warning block: don't call elevator callbacks for plug merges block: separate out blk_rq_merge_ok() and blk_try_merge() from elevator functions mtip32xx: removed the irrelevant argument of mtip_hw_submit_io() and the unused member of struct driver_data block: strip out locking optimization in put_io_context() cdrom: use copy_to_user() without the underscores block: fix ioc locking warning block: fix NULL icq_cache reference block,cfq: change code order
2012-02-07block: strip out locking optimization in put_io_context()Tejun Heo1-1/+1
put_io_context() performed a complex trylock dancing to avoid deferring ioc release to workqueue. It was also broken on UP because trylock was always assumed to succeed which resulted in unbalanced preemption count. While there are ways to fix the UP breakage, even the most pathological microbench (forced ioc allocation and tight fork/exit loop) fails to show any appreciable performance benefit of the optimization. Strip it out. If there turns out to be workloads which are affected by this change, simpler optimization from the discussion thread can be applied later. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1328514611.21268.66.camel@sli10-conroe> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-02-02Fix race in process_vm_rw_coreChristopher Yeoh1-0/+20
This fixes the race in process_vm_core found by Oleg (see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1235667/ for details). This has been updated since I last sent it as the creation of the new mm_access() function did almost exactly the same thing as parts of the previous version of this patch did. In order to use mm_access() even when /proc isn't enabled, we move it to kernel/fork.c where other related process mm access functions already are. Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh <yeohc@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-17Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit: (29 commits) audit: no leading space in audit_log_d_path prefix audit: treat s_id as an untrusted string audit: fix signedness bug in audit_log_execve_info() audit: comparison on interprocess fields audit: implement all object interfield comparisons audit: allow interfield comparison between gid and ogid audit: complex interfield comparison helper audit: allow interfield comparison in audit rules Kernel: Audit Support For The ARM Platform audit: do not call audit_getname on error audit: only allow tasks to set their loginuid if it is -1 audit: remove task argument to audit_set_loginuid audit: allow audit matching on inode gid audit: allow matching on obj_uid audit: remove audit_finish_fork as it can't be called audit: reject entry,always rules audit: inline audit_free to simplify the look of generic code audit: drop audit_set_macxattr as it doesn't do anything audit: inline checks for not needing to collect aux records audit: drop some potentially inadvisable likely notations ... Use evil merge to fix up grammar mistakes in Kconfig file. Bad speling and horrible grammar (and copious swearing) is to be expected, but let's keep it to commit messages and comments, rather than expose it to users in config help texts or printouts.
2012-01-17audit: remove audit_finish_fork as it can't be calledEric Paris1-2/+0
Audit entry,always rules are not allowed and are automatically changed in exit,always rules in userspace. The kernel refuses to load such rules. Thus a task in the middle of a syscall (and thus in audit_finish_fork()) can only be in one of two states: AUDIT_BUILD_CONTEXT or AUDIT_DISABLED. Since the current task cannot be in AUDIT_RECORD_CONTEXT we aren't every going to actually use the code in audit_finish_fork() since it will return without doing anything. Thus drop the code. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2012-01-15Merge branch 'for-3.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds1-3/+5
* 'for-3.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (37 commits) Revert "block: recursive merge requests" block: Stop using macro stubs for the bio data integrity calls blockdev: convert some macros to static inlines fs: remove unneeded plug in mpage_readpages() block: Add BLKROTATIONAL ioctl block: Introduce blk_set_stacking_limits function block: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() in exit_io_context() block: an exiting task should be allowed to create io_context block: ioc_cgroup_changed() needs to be exported block: recursive merge requests block, cfq: fix empty queue crash caused by request merge block, cfq: move icq creation and rq->elv.icq association to block core block, cfq: restructure io_cq creation path for io_context interface cleanup block, cfq: move io_cq exit/release to blk-ioc.c block, cfq: move icq cache management to block core block, cfq: move io_cq lookup to blk-ioc.c block, cfq: move cfqd->icq_list to request_queue and add request->elv.icq block, cfq: reorganize cfq_io_context into generic and cfq specific parts block: remove elevator_queue->ops block: reorder elevator switch sequence ... Fix up conflicts in: - block/blk-cgroup.c Switch from can_attach_task to can_attach - block/cfq-iosched.c conflict with now removed cic index changes (we now use q->id instead)
2012-01-10Merge branch 'writeback-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux * 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux: writeback: move MIN_WRITEBACK_PAGES to fs-writeback.c writeback: balanced_rate cannot exceed write bandwidth writeback: do strict bdi dirty_exceeded writeback: avoid tiny dirty poll intervals writeback: max, min and target dirty pause time writeback: dirty ratelimit - think time compensation btrfs: fix dirtied pages accounting on sub-page writes writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on redirty writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on sub-page writes writeback: charge leaked page dirties to active tasks writeback: Include all dirty inodes in background writeback
2012-01-10tracepoint: add tracepoints for debugging oom_score_adjKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki1-0/+6
oom_score_adj is used for guarding processes from OOM-Killer. One of problem is that it's inherited at fork(). When a daemon set oom_score_adj and make children, it's hard to know where the value is set. This patch adds some tracepoints useful for debugging. This patch adds 3 trace points. - creating new task - renaming a task (exec) - set oom_score_adj To debug, users need to enable some trace pointer. Maybe filtering is useful as # EVENT=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/task/ # echo "oom_score_adj != 0" > $EVENT/task_newtask/filter # echo "oom_score_adj != 0" > $EVENT/task_rename/filter # echo 1 > $EVENT/enable # EVENT=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/oom/ # echo 1 > $EVENT/enable output will be like this. # grep oom /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace bash-7699 [007] d..3 5140.744510: oom_score_adj_update: pid=7699 comm=bash oom_score_adj=-1000 bash-7699 [007] ...1 5151.818022: task_newtask: pid=7729 comm=bash clone_flags=1200011 oom_score_adj=-1000 ls-7729 [003] ...2 5151.818504: task_rename: pid=7729 oldcomm=bash newcomm=ls oom_score_adj=-1000 bash-7699 [002] ...1 5175.701468: task_newtask: pid=7730 comm=bash clone_flags=1200011 oom_score_adj=-1000 grep-7730 [007] ...2 5175.701993: task_rename: pid=7730 oldcomm=bash newcomm=grep oom_score_adj=-1000 Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-09Merge branch 'for-3.3' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-4/+4
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup * 'for-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (21 commits) cgroup: fix to allow mounting a hierarchy by name cgroup: move assignement out of condition in cgroup_attach_proc() cgroup: Remove task_lock() from cgroup_post_fork() cgroup: add sparse annotation to cgroup_iter_start() and cgroup_iter_end() cgroup: mark cgroup_rmdir_waitq and cgroup_attach_proc() as static cgroup: only need to check oldcgrp==newgrp once cgroup: remove redundant get/put of task struct cgroup: remove redundant get/put of old css_set from migrate cgroup: Remove unnecessary task_lock before fetching css_set on migration cgroup: Drop task_lock(parent) on cgroup_fork() cgroups: remove redundant get/put of css_set from css_set_check_fetched() resource cgroups: remove bogus cast cgroup: kill subsys->can_attach_task(), pre_attach() and attach_task() cgroup, cpuset: don't use ss->pre_attach() cgroup: don't use subsys->can_attach_task() or ->attach_task() cgroup: introduce cgroup_taskset and use it in subsys->can_attach(), cancel_attach() and attach() cgroup: improve old cgroup handling in cgroup_attach_proc() cgroup: always lock threadgroup during migration threadgroup: extend threadgroup_lock() to cover exit and exec threadgroup: rename signal->threadgroup_fork_lock to ->group_rwsem ... Fix up conflict in kernel/cgroup.c due to commit e0197aae59e5: "cgroups: fix a css_set not found bug in cgroup_attach_proc" that already mentioned that the bug is fixed (differently) in Tejun's cgroup patchset. This one, in other words.
2012-01-08Merge branch 'pm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm * 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (76 commits) PM / Hibernate: Implement compat_ioctl for /dev/snapshot PM / Freezer: fix return value of freezable_schedule_timeout_killable() PM / shmobile: Allow the A4R domain to be turned off at run time PM / input / touchscreen: Make st1232 use device PM QoS constraints PM / QoS: Introduce dev_pm_qos_add_ancestor_request() PM / shmobile: Remove the stay_on flag from SH7372's PM domains PM / shmobile: Don't include SH7372's INTCS in syscore suspend/resume PM / shmobile: Add support for the sh7372 A4S power domain / sleep mode PM: Drop generic_subsys_pm_ops PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from AMBA bus type PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from platform bus type PM: Run the driver callback directly if the subsystem one is not there PM / Sleep: Make pm_op() and pm_noirq_op() return callback pointers PM/Devfreq: Add Exynos4-bus device DVFS driver for Exynos4210/4212/4412. PM / Sleep: Merge internal functions in generic_ops.c PM / Sleep: Simplify generic system suspend callbacks PM / Hibernate: Remove deprecated hibernation snapshot ioctls PM / Sleep: Fix freezer failures due to racy usermodehelper_is_disabled() ARM: S3C64XX: Implement basic power domain support PM / shmobile: Use common always on power domain governor ... Fix up trivial conflict in fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c due to removal of unused XBT_FORCE_SLEEP bit
2011-12-18writeback: dirty ratelimit - think time compensationWu Fengguang1-0/+1
Compensate the task's think time when computing the final pause time, so that ->dirty_ratelimit can be executed accurately. think time := time spend outside of balance_dirty_pages() In the rare case that the task slept longer than the 200ms period time (result in negative pause time), the sleep time will be compensated in the following periods, too, if it's less than 1 second. Accumulated errors are carefully avoided as long as the max pause area is not hitted. Pseudo code: period = pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit; think = jiffies - dirty_paused_when; pause = period - think; 1) normal case: period > think pause = period - think dirty_paused_when = jiffies + pause nr_dirtied = 0 period time |===============================>| think time pause time |===============>|==============>| ------|----------------|---------------|------------------------ dirty_paused_when jiffies 2) no pause case: period <= think don't pause; reduce future pause time by: dirty_paused_when += period nr_dirtied = 0 period time |===============================>| think time |===================================================>| ------|--------------------------------+-------------------|---- dirty_paused_when jiffies Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-12-15[S390] cputime: add sparse checking and cleanupMartin Schwidefsky1-9/+5
Make cputime_t and cputime64_t nocast to enable sparse checking to detect incorrect use of cputime. Drop the cputime macros for simple scalar operations. The conversion macros are still needed. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2011-12-14block, cfq: unlink cfq_io_context's immediatelyTejun Heo1-1/+1
cic is association between io_context and request_queue. A cic is linked from both ioc and q and should be destroyed when either one goes away. As ioc and q both have their own locks, locking becomes a bit complex - both orders work for removal from one but not from the other. Currently, cfq tries to circumvent this locking order issue with RCU. ioc->lock nests inside queue_lock but the radix tree and cic's are also protected by RCU allowing either side to walk their lists without grabbing lock. This rather unconventional use of RCU quickly devolves into extremely fragile convolution. e.g. The following is from cfqd going away too soon after ioc and q exits raced. general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP CPU 2 Modules linked in: [ 88.503444] Pid: 599, comm: hexdump Not tainted 3.1.0-rc10-work+ #158 Bochs Bochs RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81397628>] [<ffffffff81397628>] cfq_exit_single_io_context+0x58/0xf0 ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff81395a4a>] call_for_each_cic+0x5a/0x90 [<ffffffff81395ab5>] cfq_exit_io_context+0x15/0x20 [<ffffffff81389130>] exit_io_context+0x100/0x140 [<ffffffff81098a29>] do_exit+0x579/0x850 [<ffffffff81098d5b>] do_group_exit+0x5b/0xd0 [<ffffffff81098de7>] sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20 [<ffffffff81b02f2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b The only real hot path here is cic lookup during request initialization and avoiding extra locking requires very confined use of RCU. This patch makes cic removal from both ioc and request_queue perform double-locking and unlink immediately. * From q side, the change is almost trivial as ioc->lock nests inside queue_lock. It just needs to grab each ioc->lock as it walks cic_list and unlink it. * From ioc side, it's a bit more difficult because of inversed lock order. ioc needs its lock to walk its cic_list but can't grab the matching queue_lock and needs to perform unlock-relock dancing. Unlinking is now wholly done from put_io_context() and fast path is optimized by using the queue_lock the caller already holds, which is by far the most common case. If the ioc accessed multiple devices, it tries with trylock. In unlikely cases of fast path failure, it falls back to full double-locking dance from workqueue. Double-locking isn't the prettiest thing in the world but it's *far* simpler and more understandable than RCU trick without adding any meaningful overhead. This still leaves a lot of now unnecessary RCU logics. Future patches will trim them. -v2: Vivek pointed out that cic->q was being dereferenced after cic->release() was called. Updated to use local variable @this_q instead. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14block: make ioc get/put interface more conventional and fix race on alloctionTejun Heo1-3/+5
Ignoring copy_io() during fork, io_context can be allocated from two places - current_io_context() and set_task_ioprio(). The former is always called from local task while the latter can be called from different task. The synchornization between them are peculiar and dubious. * current_io_context() doesn't grab task_lock() and assumes that if it saw %NULL ->io_context, it would stay that way until allocation and assignment is complete. It has smp_wmb() between alloc/init and assignment. * set_task_ioprio() grabs task_lock() for assignment and does smp_read_barrier_depends() between "ioc = task->io_context" and "if (ioc)". Unfortunately, this doesn't achieve anything - the latter is not a dependent load of the former. ie, if ioc itself were being dereferenced "ioc->xxx", it would mean something (not sure what tho) but as the code currently stands, the dependent read barrier is noop. As only one of the the two test-assignment sequences is task_lock() protected, the task_lock() can't do much about race between the two. Nothing prevents current_io_context() and set_task_ioprio() allocating its own ioc for the same task and overwriting the other's. Also, set_task_ioprio() can race with exiting task and create a new ioc after exit_io_context() is finished. ioc get/put doesn't have any reason to be complex. The only hot path is accessing the existing ioc of %current, which is simple to achieve given that ->io_context is never destroyed as long as the task is alive. All other paths can happily go through task_lock() like all other task sub structures without impacting anything. This patch updates ioc get/put so that it becomes more conventional. * alloc_io_context() is replaced with get_task_io_context(). This is the only interface which can acquire access to ioc of another task. On return, the caller has an explicit reference to the object which should be put using put_io_context() afterwards. * The functionality of current_io_context() remains the same but when creating a new ioc, it shares the code path with get_task_io_context() and always goes through task_lock(). * get_io_context() now means incrementing ref on an ioc which the caller already has access to (be that an explicit refcnt or implicit %current one). * PF_EXITING inhibits creation of new io_context and once exit_io_context() is finished, it's guaranteed that both ioc acquisition functions return %NULL. * All users are updated. Most are trivial but smp_read_barrier_depends() removal from cfq_get_io_context() needs a bit of explanation. I suppose the original intention was to ensure ioc->ioprio is visible when set_task_ioprio() allocates new io_context and installs it; however, this wouldn't have worked because set_task_ioprio() doesn't have wmb between init and install. There are other problems with this which will be fixed in another patch. * While at it, use NUMA_NO_NODE instead of -1 for wildcard node specification. -v2: Vivek spotted contamination from debug patch. Removed. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-12threadgroup: rename signal->threadgroup_fork_lock to ->group_rwsemTejun Heo1-4/+4
Make the following renames to prepare for extension of threadgroup locking. * s/signal->threadgroup_fork_lock/signal->group_rwsem/ * s/threadgroup_fork_read_lock()/threadgroup_change_begin()/ * s/threadgroup_fork_read_unlock()/threadgroup_change_end()/ * s/threadgroup_fork_write_lock()/threadgroup_lock()/ * s/threadgroup_fork_write_unlock()/threadgroup_unlock()/ This patch doesn't cause any behavior change. -v2: Rename threadgroup_change_done() to threadgroup_change_end() per KAMEZAWA's suggestion. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
2011-11-23Merge branch 'pm-freezer' of ↵Rafael J. Wysocki1-1/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into pm-freezer * 'pm-freezer' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc: (24 commits) freezer: fix wait_event_freezable/__thaw_task races freezer: kill unused set_freezable_with_signal() dmatest: don't use set_freezable_with_signal() usb_storage: don't use set_freezable_with_signal() freezer: remove unused @sig_only from freeze_task() freezer: use lock_task_sighand() in fake_signal_wake_up() freezer: restructure __refrigerator() freezer: fix set_freezable[_with_signal]() race freezer: remove should_send_signal() and update frozen() freezer: remove now unused TIF_FREEZE freezer: make freezing() test freeze conditions in effect instead of TIF_FREEZE cgroup_freezer: prepare for removal of TIF_FREEZE freezer: clean up freeze_processes() failure path freezer: kill PF_FREEZING freezer: test freezable conditions while holding freezer_lock freezer: make freezing indicate freeze condition in effect freezer: use dedicated lock instead of task_lock() + memory barrier freezer: don't distinguish nosig tasks on thaw freezer: remove racy clear_freeze_flag() and set PF_NOFREEZE on dead tasks freezer: rename thaw_process() to __thaw_task() and simplify the implementation ...
2011-11-21freezer: make freezing() test freeze conditions in effect instead of TIF_FREEZETejun Heo1-1/+0
Using TIF_FREEZE for freezing worked when there was only single freezing condition (the PM one); however, now there is also the cgroup_freezer and single bit flag is getting clumsy. thaw_processes() is already testing whether cgroup freezing in in effect to avoid thawing tasks which were frozen by both PM and cgroup freezers. This is racy (nothing prevents race against cgroup freezing) and fragile. A much simpler way is to test actual freeze conditions from freezing() - ie. directly test whether PM or cgroup freezing is in effect. This patch adds variables to indicate whether and what type of freezing conditions are in effect and reimplements freezing() such that it directly tests whether any of the two freezing conditions is active and the task should freeze. On fast path, freezing() is still very cheap - it only tests system_freezing_cnt. This makes the clumsy dancing aroung TIF_FREEZE unnecessary and freeze/thaw operations more usual - updating state variables for the new state and nudging target tasks so that they notice the new state and comply. As long as the nudging happens after state update, it's race-free. * This allows use of freezing() in freeze_task(). Replace the open coded tests with freezing(). * p != current test is added to warning printing conditions in try_to_freeze_tasks() failure path. This is necessary as freezing() is now true for the task which initiated freezing too. -v2: Oleg pointed out that re-freezing FROZEN cgroup could increment system_freezing_cnt. Fixed. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> (for the cgroup portions)
2011-11-17writeback: remove vm_dirties and task->dirtiesWu Fengguang1-5/+0
They are not used any more. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-11-06Merge branch 'writeback-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux * 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux: writeback: Add a 'reason' to wb_writeback_work writeback: send work item to queue_io, move_expired_inodes writeback: trace event balance_dirty_pages writeback: trace event bdi_dirty_ratelimit writeback: fix ppc compile warnings on do_div(long long, unsigned long) writeback: per-bdi background threshold writeback: dirty position control - bdi reserve area writeback: control dirty pause time writeback: limit max dirty pause time writeback: IO-less balance_dirty_pages() writeback: per task dirty rate limit writeback: stabilize bdi->dirty_ratelimit writeback: dirty rate control writeback: add bg_threshold parameter to __bdi_update_bandwidth() writeback: dirty position control writeback: account per-bdi accumulated dirtied pages
2011-10-31oom: remove oom_disable_countDavid Rientjes1-9/+1
This removes mm->oom_disable_count entirely since it's unnecessary and currently buggy. The counter was intended to be per-process but it's currently decremented in the exit path for each thread that exits, causing it to underflow. The count was originally intended to prevent oom killing threads that share memory with threads that cannot be killed since it doesn't lead to future memory freeing. The counter could be fixed to represent all threads sharing the same mm, but it's better to remove the count since: - it is possible that the OOM_DISABLE thread sharing memory with the victim is waiting on that thread to exit and will actually cause future memory freeing, and - there is no guarantee that a thread is disabled from oom killing just because another thread sharing its mm is oom disabled. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-03writeback: per task dirty rate limitWu Fengguang1-0/+3
Add two fields to task_struct. 1) account dirtied pages in the individual tasks, for accuracy 2) per-task balance_dirty_pages() call intervals, for flexibility The balance_dirty_pages() call interval (ie. nr_dirtied_pause) will scale near-sqrt to the safety gap between dirty pages and threshold. The main problem of per-task nr_dirtied is, if 1k+ tasks start dirtying pages at exactly the same time, each task will be assigned a large initial nr_dirtied_pause, so that the dirty threshold will be exceeded long before each task reached its nr_dirtied_pause and hence call balance_dirty_pages(). The solution is to watch for the number of pages dirtied on each CPU in between the calls into balance_dirty_pages(). If it exceeds ratelimit_pages (3% dirty threshold), force call balance_dirty_pages() for a chance to set bdi->dirty_exceeded. In normal situations, this safeguarding condition is not expected to trigger at all. On the sqrt in dirty_poll_interval(): It will serve as an initial guess when dirty pages are still in the freerun area. When dirty pages are floating inside the dirty control scope [freerun, limit], a followup patch will use some refined dirty poll interval to get the desired pause time. thresh-dirty (MB) sqrt 1 16 2 22 4 32 8 45 16 64 32 90 64 128 128 181 256 256 512 362 1024 512 The above table means, given 1MB (or 1GB) gap and the dd tasks polling balance_dirty_pages() on every 16 (or 512) pages, the dirty limit won't be exceeded as long as there are less than 16 (or 512) concurrent dd's. So sqrt naturally leads to less overheads and more safe concurrent tasks for large memory servers, which have large (thresh-freerun) gaps. peter: keep the per-CPU ratelimit for safeguarding the 1k+ tasks case CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-08-11move RLIMIT_NPROC check from set_user() to do_execve_common()Vasiliy Kulikov1-0/+1
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>
2011-07-26kernel/fork.c: fix a few coding style issuesDaniel Rebelo de Oliveira1-35/+48
Signed-off-by: Daniel Rebelo de Oliveira <psykon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26cpusets: randomize node rotor used in cpuset_mem_spread_node()Michal Hocko1-0/+4
[ This patch has already been accepted as commit 0ac0c0d0f837 but later reverted (commit 35926ff5fba8) because it itroduced arch specific __node_random which was defined only for x86 code so it broke other archs. This is a followup without any arch specific code. Other than that there are no functional changes.] Some workloads that create a large number of small files tend to assign too many pages to node 0 (multi-node systems). Part of the reason is that the rotor (in cpuset_mem_spread_node()) used to assign nodes starts at node 0 for newly created tasks. This patch changes the rotor to be initialized to a random node number of the cpuset. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix layout] [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Define stub numa_random() for !NUMA configuration] [mhocko@suse.cz: Make it arch independent] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_NUMA=y, MAX_NUMNODES>1 build] Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25Merge branch 'for-3.1/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds1-1/+0
* 'for-3.1/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (24 commits) block: strict rq_affinity backing-dev: use synchronize_rcu_expedited instead of synchronize_rcu block: fix patch import error in max_discard_sectors check block: reorder request_queue to remove 64 bit alignment padding CFQ: add think time check for group CFQ: add think time check for service tree CFQ: move think time check variables to a separate struct fixlet: Remove fs_excl from struct task. cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs. block: document blk_plug list access block: avoid building too big plug list compat_ioctl: fix make headers_check regression block: eliminate potential for infinite loop in blkdev_issue_discard compat_ioctl: fix warning caused by qemu block: flush MEDIA_CHANGE from drivers on close(2) blk-throttle: Make total_nr_queued unsigned block: Add __attribute__((format(printf...) and fix fallout fs/partitions/check.c: make local symbols static block:remove some spare spaces in genhd.c block:fix the comment error in blkdev.h ...
2011-07-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (107 commits) vfs: use ERR_CAST for err-ptr tossing in lookup_instantiate_filp isofs: Remove global fs lock jffs2: fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() killing a directory fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() on ramfs et.al. mm/truncate.c: fix build for CONFIG_BLOCK not enabled fs:update the NOTE of the file_operations structure Remove dead code in dget_parent() AFS: Fix silly characters in a comment switch d_add_ci() to d_splice_alias() in "found negative" case as well simplify gfs2_lookup() jfs_lookup(): don't bother with . or .. get rid of useless dget_parent() in btrfs rename() and link() get rid of useless dget_parent() in fs/btrfs/ioctl.c fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlers drivers: fix up various ->llseek() implementations fs: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA properly in all fs's that define their own llseek Ext4: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA generically Btrfs: implement our own ->llseek fs: add SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags reiserfs: make reiserfs default to barrier=flush ... Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c due to the new shrinker callout for the inode cache, that clashed with the xfs code to start the periodic workers later.
2011-07-22Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: lockdep: Fix lockdep_no_validate against IRQ states mutex: Make mutex_destroy() an inline function plist: Remove the need to supply locks to plist heads lockup detector: Fix reference to the non-existent CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP option
2011-07-20make sure that nsproxy_cache is initialized early enoughAl Viro1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-17ptrace: mv send-SIGSTOP from do_fork() to ptrace_init_task()Oleg Nesterov1-12/+0
If the new child is traced, do_fork() adds the pending SIGSTOP. It assumes that either it is traced because of auto-attach or the tracer attached later, in both cases sigaddset/set_thread_flag is correct even if SIGSTOP is already pending. Now that we have PTRACE_SEIZE this is no longer right in the latter case. If the tracer does PTRACE_SEIZE after copy_process() makes the child visible the queued SIGSTOP is wrong. We could check PT_SEIZED bit and change ptrace_attach() to set both PT_PTRACED and PT_SEIZED bits simultaneously but see the next patch, we need to know whether this child was auto-attached or not anyway. So this patch simply moves this code to ptrace_init_task(), this way we can never race with ptrace_attach(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-07-12fixlet: Remove fs_excl from struct task.Justin TerAvest1-1/+0
fs_excl is a poor man's priority inheritance for filesystems to hint to the block layer that an operation is important. It was never clearly specified, not widely adopted, and will not prevent starvation in many cases (like across cgroups). fs_excl was introduced with the time sliced CFQ IO scheduler, to indicate when a process held FS exclusive resources and thus needed a boost. It doesn't cover all file systems, and it was never fully complete. Lets kill it. Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-08plist: Remove the need to supply locks to plist headsDima Zavin1-1/+1
This was legacy code brought over from the RT tree and is no longer necessary. Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin <dima@android.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310084879-10351-2-git-send-email-dima@android.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-22ptrace: kill clone/exec tracehooksTejun Heo1-9/+32
At this point, tracehooks aren't useful to mainline kernel and mostly just add an extra layer of obfuscation. Although they have comments, without actual in-kernel users, it is difficult to tell what are their assumptions and they're actually trying to achieve. To mainline kernel, they just aren't worth keeping around. This patch kills the following clone and exec related tracehooks. tracehook_prepare_clone() tracehook_finish_clone() tracehook_report_clone() tracehook_report_clone_complete() tracehook_unsafe_exec() The changes are mostly trivial - logic is moved to the caller and comments are merged and adjusted appropriately. The only exception is in check_unsafe_exec() where LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE* are OR'd to bprm->unsafe instead of setting it, which produces the same result as the field is always zero on entry. It also tests p->ptrace instead of (p->ptrace & PT_PTRACED) for consistency, which also gives the same result. This doesn't introduce any behavior change. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-06-22ptrace: kill trivial tracehooksTejun Heo1-1/+1
At this point, tracehooks aren't useful to mainline kernel and mostly just add an extra layer of obfuscation. Although they have comments, without actual in-kernel users, it is difficult to tell what are their assumptions and they're actually trying to achieve. To mainline kernel, they just aren't worth keeping around. This patch kills the following trivial tracehooks. * Ones testing whether task is ptraced. Replace with ->ptrace test. tracehook_expect_breakpoints() tracehook_consider_ignored_signal() tracehook_consider_fatal_signal() * ptrace_event() wrappers. Call directly. tracehook_report_exec() tracehook_report_exit() tracehook_report_vfork_done() * ptrace_release_task() wrapper. Call directly. tracehook_finish_release_task() * noop tracehook_prepare_release_task() tracehook_report_death() This doesn't introduce any behavior change. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-05-29mm: Fix boot crash in mm_alloc()Linus Torvalds1-32/+10
Thomas Gleixner reports that we now have a boot crash triggered by CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [<c11ae035>] find_next_bit+0x55/0xb0 Call Trace: [<c11addda>] cpumask_any_but+0x2a/0x70 [<c102396b>] flush_tlb_mm+0x2b/0x80 [<c1022705>] pud_populate+0x35/0x50 [<c10227ba>] pgd_alloc+0x9a/0xf0 [<c103a3fc>] mm_init+0xec/0x120 [<c103a7a3>] mm_alloc+0x53/0xd0 which was introduced by commit de03c72cfce5 ("mm: convert mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t"), and is due to wrong ordering of mm_init() vs mm_init_cpumask Thomas wrote a patch to just fix the ordering of initialization, but I hate the new double allocation in the fork path, so I ended up instead doing some more radical surgery to clean it all up. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26mm: extract exe_file handling from procfsJiri Slaby1-1/+51
Setup and cleanup of mm_struct->exe_file is currently done in fs/proc/. This was because exe_file was needed only for /proc/<pid>/exe. Since we will need the exe_file functionality also for core dumps (so core name can contain full binary path), built this functionality always into the kernel. To achieve that move that out of proc FS to the kernel/ where in fact it should belong. By doing that we can make dup_mm_exe_file static. Also we can drop linux/proc_fs.h inclusion in fs/exec.c and kernel/fork.c. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26cgroup: remove the ns_cgroupDaniel Lezcano1-6/+0
The ns_cgroup is an annoying cgroup at the namespace / cgroup frontier and leads to some problems: * cgroup creation is out-of-control * cgroup name can conflict when pids are looping * it is not possible to have a single process handling a lot of namespaces without falling in a exponential creation time * we may want to create a namespace without creating a cgroup The ns_cgroup was replaced by a compatibility flag 'clone_children', where a newly created cgroup will copy the parent cgroup values. The userspace has to manually create a cgroup and add a task to the 'tasks' file. This patch removes the ns_cgroup as suggested in the following thread: https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-June/018616.html The 'cgroup_clone' function is removed because it is no longer used. This is a userspace-visible change. Commit 45531757b45c ("cgroup: notify ns_cgroup deprecated") (merged into 2.6.27) caused the kernel to emit a printk warning users that the feature is planned for removal. Since that time we have heard from XXX users who were affected by this. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26cgroups: read-write lock CLONE_THREAD forking per threadgroupBen Blum1-0/+10
Adds functionality to read/write lock CLONE_THREAD fork()ing per-threadgroup Add an rwsem that lives in a threadgroup's signal_struct that's taken for reading in the fork path, under CONFIG_CGROUPS. If another part of the kernel later wants to use such a locking mechanism, the CONFIG_CGROUPS ifdefs should be changed to a higher-up flag that CGROUPS and the other system would both depend on. This is a pre-patch for cgroup-procs-write.patch. Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: convert mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_tKOSAKI Motohiro1-3/+34
cpumask_t is very big struct and cpu_vm_mask is placed wrong position. It might lead to reduce cache hit ratio. This patch has two change. 1) Move the place of cpumask into last of mm_struct. Because usually cpumask is accessed only front bits when the system has cpu-hotplug capability 2) Convert cpu_vm_mask into cpumask_var_t. It may help to reduce memory footprint if cpumask_size() will use nr_cpumask_bits properly in future. In addition, this patch change the name of cpu_vm_mask with cpu_vm_mask_var. It may help to detect out of tree cpu_vm_mask users. This patch has no functional change. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: Convert i_mmap_lock to a mutexPeter Zijlstra1-2/+2
Straightforward conversion of i_mmap_lock to a mutex. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: Remove i_mmap_lock lockbreakPeter Zijlstra1-1/+0
Hugh says: "The only significant loser, I think, would be page reclaim (when concurrent with truncation): could spin for a long time waiting for the i_mmap_mutex it expects would soon be dropped? " Counter points: - cpu contention makes the spin stop (need_resched()) - zap pages should be freeing pages at a higher rate than reclaim ever can I think the simplification of the truncate code is definitely worth it. Effectively reverts: 2aa15890f3c ("mm: prevent concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same inode") and takes out the code that caused its problem. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-12sched: Remove unused parameters from sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task()Samir Bellabes1-2/+2
sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task() are defined with a parameter 'unsigned long clone_flags', which is unused. This patch removes the parameters. Signed-off-by: Samir Bellabes <sam@synack.fr> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305130685-1047-1-git-send-email-sam@synack.fr Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-24sched: Get rid of lock_depthJonathan Corbet1-1/+0
Neil Brown pointed out that lock_depth somehow escaped the BKL removal work. Let's get rid of it now. Note that the perf scripting utilities still have a bunch of code for dealing with common_lock_depth in tracepoints; I have left that in place in case anybody wants to use that code with older kernels. Suggested-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110422111910.456c0e84@bike.lwn.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-24Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds1-0/+3
* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits) Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc. cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt. blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get() cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used. block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout. blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq. ... Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
2011-03-23pidns: call pid_ns_prepare_proc() from create_pid_namespace()Eric W. Biederman1-6/+0
Reorganize proc_get_sb() so it can be called before the struct pid of the first process is allocated. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-23pid: remove the child_reaper special case in init/main.cEric W. Biederman1-1/+1
This patchset is a cleanup and a preparation to unshare the pid namespace. These prerequisites prepare for Eric's patchset to give a file descriptor to a namespace and join an existing namespace. This patch: It turns out that the existing assignment in copy_process of the child_reaper can handle the initial assignment of child_reaper we just need to generalize the test in kernel/fork.c Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22sys_unshare: remove the dead CLONE_THREAD/SIGHAND/VM codeOleg Nesterov1-98/+25
Cleanup: kill the dead code which does nothing but complicates the code and confuses the reader. sys_unshare(CLONE_THREAD/SIGHAND/VM) is not really implemented, and I doubt very much it will ever work. At least, nobody even tried since the original 99d1419d96d7df9cfa56 ("unshare system call -v5: system call handler function") was applied more than 4 years ago. And the code is not consistent. unshare_thread() always fails unconditionally, while unshare_sighand() and unshare_vm() pretend to work if there is nothing to unshare. Remove unshare_thread(), unshare_sighand(), unshare_vm() helpers and related variables and add a simple CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_SIGHAND| CLONE_VM check into check_unshare_flags(). Also, move the "CLONE_NEWNS needs CLONE_FS" check from check_unshare_flags() to sys_unshare(). This looks more consistent and matches the similar do_sysvsem check in sys_unshare(). Note: with or without this patch "atomic_read(mm->mm_users) > 1" can give a false positive due to get_task_mm(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22kthread: NUMA aware kthread_create_on_node()Eric Dumazet1-1/+2
All kthreads being created from a single helper task, they all use memory from a single node for their kernel stack and task struct. This patch suite creates kthread_create_on_node(), adding a 'cpu' parameter to parameters already used by kthread_create(). This parameter serves in allocating memory for the new kthread on its memory node if possible. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22mm: NUMA aware alloc_thread_info_node()Eric Dumazet1-3/+6
Add a node parameter to alloc_thread_info(), and change its name to alloc_thread_info_node() This change is needed to allow NUMA aware kthread_create_on_cpu() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22mm: NUMA aware alloc_task_struct_node()Eric Dumazet1-4/+6
All kthreads being created from a single helper task, they all use memory from a single node for their kernel stack and task struct. This patch suite creates kthread_create_on_cpu(), adding a 'cpu' parameter to parameters already used by kthread_create(). This parameter serves in allocating memory for the new kthread on its memory node if available. Users of this new function are : ksoftirqd, kworker, migration, pktgend... This patch: Add a node parameter to alloc_task_struct(), and change its name to alloc_task_struct_node() This change is needed to allow NUMA aware kthread_create_on_cpu() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-17export pid symbols needed for kvm_vcpu_on_spinRik van Riel1-0/+1
Export the symbols required for a race-free kvm_vcpu_on_spin. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>