pm24.git/kernel/time, branch v3.5-rc7

Merge branches 'core-urgent-for-linus', 'perf-urgent-for-linus' and 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-07-14T18:16:24Z

Pull RCU, perf, and scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar. The RCU fix is a revert for an optimization that could cause deadlocks. One of the scheduler commits (164c33c6adee "sched: Fix fork() error path to not crash") is correct but not complete (some architectures like Tile are not covered yet) - the resulting additional fixes are still WIP and Ingo did not want to delay these pending fixes. See this thread on lkml: [PATCH] fork: fix error handling in dup_task() The perf fixes are just trivial oneliners. * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: Revert "rcu: Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf kvm: Fix segfault with report and mixed guestmount use perf kvm: Fix regression with guest machine creation perf script: Fix format regression due to libtraceevent merge ring-buffer: Fix accounting of entries when removing pages ring-buffer: Fix crash due to uninitialized new_pages list head * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: MAINTAINERS/sched: Update scheduler file pattern sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again sched: Fix fork() error path to not crash

timekeeping: Provide hrtimer update function

2012-07-11T21:34:39Z

To finally fix the infamous leap second issue and other race windows caused by functions which change the offsets between the various time bases (CLOCK_MONOTONIC, CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_BOOTTIME) we need a function which atomically gets the current monotonic time and updates the offsets of CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_BOOTTIME with minimalistic overhead. The previous patch which provides ktime_t offsets allows us to make this function almost as cheap as ktime_get() which is going to be replaced in hrtimer_interrupt(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341960205-56738-7-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

timekeeping: Maintain ktime_t based offsets for hrtimers

2012-07-11T21:34:38Z

We need to update the hrtimer clock offsets from the hrtimer interrupt context. To avoid conversions from timespec to ktime_t maintain a ktime_t based representation of those offsets in the timekeeper. This puts the conversion overhead into the code which updates the underlying offsets and provides fast accessible values in the hrtimer interrupt. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: John Stultz Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341960205-56738-4-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

timekeeping: Fix leapsecond triggered load spike issue

2012-07-11T21:34:37Z

The timekeeping code misses an update of the hrtimer subsystem after a leap second happened. Due to that timers based on CLOCK_REALTIME are either expiring a second early or late depending on whether a leap second has been inserted or deleted until an operation is initiated which causes that update. Unless the update happens by some other means this discrepancy between the timekeeping and the hrtimer data stays forever and timers are expired either early or late. The reported immediate workaround - $ data -s "`date`" - is causing a call to clock_was_set() which updates the hrtimer data structures. See: http://www.sheeri.com/content/mysql-and-leap-second-high-cpu-and-fix Add the missing clock_was_set() call to update_wall_time() in case of a leap second event. The actual update is deferred to softirq context as the necessary smp function call cannot be invoked from hard interrupt context. Signed-off-by: John Stultz Reported-by: Jan Engelhardt Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341960205-56738-3-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again

2012-07-05T18:58:13Z

Thanks to Charles Wang for spotting the defects in the current code: - If we go idle during the sample window -- after sampling, we get a negative bias because we can negate our own sample. - If we wake up during the sample window we get a positive bias because we push the sample to a known active period. So rewrite the entire nohz load-avg muck once again, now adding copious documentation to the code. Reported-and-tested-by: Doug Smythies Reported-and-tested-by: Charles Wang Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: stable@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340373782.18025.74.camel@twins [ minor edits ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-06-15T23:52:35Z

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

Merge branch 'rcu/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/urgent

2012-06-11T08:30:23Z

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

Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-06-08T16:11:33Z

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

rcu: Precompute RCU_FAST_NO_HZ timer offsets

2012-06-07T03:43:28Z

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 Reported-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Tested-by: Heiko Carstens Tested-by: Pascal Chapperon

Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-06-05T16:47:15Z

Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar. * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched: Remove NULL assignment of dattr_cur sched: Remove the last NULL entry from sched_feat_names sched: Make sched_feat_names const sched/rt: Fix SCHED_RR across cgroups sched: Move nr_cpus_allowed out of 'struct sched_rt_entity' sched: Make sure to not re-read variables after validation sched: Fix SD_OVERLAP sched: Don't try allocating memory from offline nodes sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load calculations some more sched/x86: Use cpu_llc_shared_mask(cpu) for coregroup_mask