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Merge reason: pull in the latest fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf tools: Makefile: Use gcc to determine ARCH
perf events, x86: Fix Intel Nehalem and Westmere last level cache event definitions
hw_breakpoints, powerpc: Fix CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT off-case in ptrace_set_debugreg()
sh, hw_breakpoints: Fix racy access to ptrace breakpoints
arm, hw_breakpoints: Fix racy access to ptrace breakpoints
powerpc, hw_breakpoints: Fix racy access to ptrace breakpoints
x86, hw_breakpoints: Fix racy access to ptrace breakpoints
ptrace: Prepare to fix racy accesses on task breakpoints
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This partially reverts commit e6e1e2593592a8f6f6380496655d8c6f67431266.
That commit changed the structure layout of the trace structure, which
in turn broke PowerTOP (1.9x generation) quite badly.
I appreciate not wanting to expose the variable in question, and
PowerTOP was not using it, so I've replaced the variable with just a
padding field - that way if in the future a new field is needed it can
just use this padding field.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into perf/urgent
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/urgent
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Fix a few inconsistent style bits that were added over the past few
months.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yv4hwf9yhnzoada8pcpb3a97@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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As part of the events sybsystem unification, relocate hw_breakpoint.c
into its new destination.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
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mv kernel/perf_event.c -> kernel/events/core.c. From there, all further
sensible splitting can happen. The idea is that due to perf_event.c
becoming pretty sizable and with the advent of the marriage with ftrace,
splitting functionality into its logical parts should help speeding up
the unification and to manage the complexity of the subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
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commit ab7798ffcf98b11a9525cf65bacdae3fd58d357f ("genirq: Expand generic
show_interrupts()") added the Kconfig option GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW_LEVEL to
accomodate PowerPC, but this doesn't actually enable the functionality due
to a typo in the #ifdef check.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3Calpine.DEB.2.00.1104302251370.19068%40ayla.of.borg%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
* 'fixes-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: fix deadlock in worker_maybe_bind_and_lock()
workqueue: Document debugging tricks
Fix up trivial spelling conflict in kernel/workqueue.c
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The code used for matching functions is almost identical between normal
selecting of functions and using the :mod: feature of set_ftrace_notrace.
Consolidate the two users into one function.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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There are three locations that perform almost identical functions in order
to update the ftrace_trace_function (the ftrace function variable that gets
called by mcount).
Consolidate these into a single function called update_ftrace_function().
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The updating of a function record is moved to a single function. This will allow
us to add specific changes in one location for both modules and kernel
functions.
Later patches will determine if the function record itself needs to be updated
(which enables the mcount caller), or just the ftrace_ops needs the update.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Since we disable all function tracer processing if we detect
that a modification of a instruction had failed, we do not need
to track that the record has failed. No more ftrace processing
is allowed, and the FTRACE_FL_CONVERTED flag is pointless.
The FTRACE_FL_CONVERTED flag was used to denote records that were
successfully converted from mcount calls into nops. But if a single
record fails, all of ftrace is disabled.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Since we disable all function tracer processing if we detect
that a modification of a instruction had failed, we do not need
to track that the record has failed. No more ftrace processing
is allowed, and the FTRACE_FL_FAILED flag is pointless.
Removing this flag simplifies some of the code, but some ftrace_disabled
checks needed to be added or move around a little.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The failures file in the debugfs tracing directory would list the
functions that failed to convert when the old dead ftrace daemon
tried to update code but failed. Since this code is now dead along
with the daemon the failures file is useless. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The disabling of interrupts around ftrace_update_code() was used
to protect against the evil ftrace daemon from years past. But that
daemon has long been killed. It is safe to keep interrupts enabled
while updating the initial mcount into nops.
The ftrace_mutex is also held which keeps other users at bay.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Let FTRACE_WARN_ON() be used as a stand alone statement or
inside a conditional: if (FTRACE_WARN_ON(x))
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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If function tracing is enabled, a read of the filter files will
cause the call to stop_machine to update the function trace sites.
It should only call stop_machine on write.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf, x86, nmi: Move LVT un-masking into irq handlers
perf events, x86: Work around the Nehalem AAJ80 erratum
perf, x86: Fix BTS condition
ftrace: Build without frame pointers on Microblaze
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timer-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
hrtimer: Initialize CLOCK_ID to HRTIMER_BASE table statically
rtc: max8925: Call dev_set_drvdata before rtc_device_register
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If a rescuer and stop_machine() bringing down a CPU race with each
other, they may deadlock on non-preemptive kernel. The CPU won't
accept a new task, so the rescuer can't migrate to the target CPU,
while stop_machine() can't proceed because the rescuer is holding one
of the CPU retrying migration. GCWQ_DISASSOCIATED is never cleared
and worker_maybe_bind_and_lock() retries indefinitely.
This problem can be reproduced semi reliably while the system is
entering suspend.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1122051
A lot of kudos to Thilo-Alexander for reporting this tricky issue and
painstaking testing.
stable: This affects all kernels with cmwq, so all kernels since and
including v2.6.36 need this fix.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Thilo-Alexander Ginkel <thilo@ginkel.com>
Tested-by: Thilo-Alexander Ginkel <thilo@ginkel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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Sedat and Bruno reported RCU stalls which turned out to be caused by
the following;
sched_init() calls init_rt_bandwidth() which calls hrtimer_init()
_BEFORE_ hrtimers_init() is called. While not entirely correct this
worked because hrtimer_init() only accessed statically initialized
data (hrtimer_bases.clock_base[CLOCK_MONOTONIC])
Commit e06383db9 (hrtimers: extend hrtimer base code to handle more
then 2 clockids) added an indirection to the hrtimer_bases.clock_base
lookup to avoid gap handling in the hot path. The table which is used
for the translataion from CLOCK_ID to HRTIMER_BASE index is
initialized at runtime in hrtimers_init(). So the early call of the
scheduler code translates CLOCK_MONOTONIC to HRTIMER_BASE_REALTIME.
Thus the rt_bandwith timer ends up on CLOCK_REALTIME. If the timer is
armed and the wall clock time is set (e.g. ntpdate in the early boot
process - which also gives the problem deterministic behaviour
i.e. magic recovery after N hours), then the timer ends up with an
expiry time far into the future. That breaks the RT throttler
mechanism as rt runtime is accumulated and never cleared, so the rt
throttler detects a false cpu hog condition and blocks all RT tasks
until the timer finally expires. That in turn stalls the RCU thread of
TINYRCU which leads to an huge amount of RCU callbacks piling up.
Make the translation table statically initialized, so we are back to
the status of <= 2.6.39.
Reported-and-tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
Cc: John stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3Calpine.LFD.2.02.1104282353140.3005%40ionos%3E
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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In corner cases where softlockup watchdog is not setup successfully, the
relevant nmi perf event for hardlockup watchdog could be disabled, then
the status of the underlying hardware remains unchanged.
Also, if the kthread doesn't start then the hrtimer won't run and the
hardlockup detector will falsely fire.
Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
Conflicts:
include/linux/perf_event.h
Merge reason: pick up the latest jump-label enhancements, they are cooked ready.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/urgent
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When a task is traced and is in a stopped state, the tracer
may execute a ptrace request to examine the tracee state and
get its task struct. Right after, the tracee can be killed
and thus its breakpoints released.
This can happen concurrently when the tracer is in the middle
of reading or modifying these breakpoints, leading to dereferencing
a freed pointer.
Hence, to prepare the fix, create a generic breakpoint reference
holding API. When a reference on the breakpoints of a task is
held, the breakpoints won't be released until the last reference
is dropped. After that, no more ptrace request on the task's
breakpoints can be serviced for the tracer.
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: v2.6.33.. <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6
* 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6:
PM: Add missing syscore_suspend() and syscore_resume() calls
PM: Fix error code paths executed after failing syscore_suspend()
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Microblaze doesn't need/support FRAME_POINTERS in order to have a working
function tracer.
The patch remove Kconfig warning.
Warning log:
warning: (LOCKDEP && FAULT_INJECTION_STACKTRACE_FILTER && LATENCYTOP &&
FUNCTION_TRACER && KMEMCHECK) selects FRAME_POINTER which has unmet direct
dependencies (DEBUG_KERNEL && (CRIS || M68K || FRV || UML || AVR32 ||
SUPERH || BLACKFIN || MN10300) || ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS)
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1301908812-8119-2-git-send-email-monstr@monstr.eu
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Device suspend/resume infrastructure is used not only by the suspend
and hibernate code in kernel/power, but also by APM, Xen and the
kexec jump feature. However, commit 40dc166cb5dddbd36aa4ad11c03915ea
(PM / Core: Introduce struct syscore_ops for core subsystems PM)
failed to add syscore_suspend() and syscore_resume() calls to that
code, which generally leads to breakage when the features in question
are used.
To fix this problem, add the missing syscore_suspend() and
syscore_resume() calls to arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c, kernel/kexec.c
and drivers/xen/manage.c.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timer-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
RTC: rtc-omap: Fix a leak of the IRQ during init failure
posix clocks: Replace mutex with reader/writer semaphore
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If syscore_suspend() fails in suspend_enter(), create_image() or
resume_target_kernel(), it is necessary to call sysdev_resume(),
because sysdev_suspend() has been called already and succeeded
and we are going to abort the transition.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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next_pidmap() just quietly accepted whatever 'last' pid that was passed
in, which is not all that safe when one of the users is /proc.
Admittedly the proc code should do some sanity checking on the range
(and that will be the next commit), but that doesn't mean that the
helper functions should just do that pidmap pointer arithmetic without
checking the range of its arguments.
So clamp 'last' to PID_MAX_LIMIT. The fact that we then do "last+1"
doesn't really matter, the for-loop does check against the end of the
pidmap array properly (it's only the actual pointer arithmetic overflow
case we need to worry about, and going one bit beyond isn't going to
overflow).
[ Use PID_MAX_LIMIT rather than pid_max as per Eric Biederman ]
Reported-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@cmpxchg8b.com>
Analyzed-by: Robert Święcki <robert@swiecki.net>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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A dynamic posix clock is protected from asynchronous removal by a mutex.
However, using a mutex has the unwanted effect that a long running clock
operation in one process will unnecessarily block other processes.
For example, one process might call read() to get an external time stamp
coming in at one pulse per second. A second process calling clock_gettime
would have to wait for almost a whole second.
This patch fixes the issue by using a reader/writer semaphore instead of
a mutex.
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C20110330132421.GA31771%40riccoc20.at.omicron.at%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
block: make unplug timer trace event correspond to the schedule() unplug
block: let io_schedule() flush the plug inline
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'sched-fixes-for-linus', 'timer-fixes-for-linus' and 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
futex: Set FLAGS_HAS_TIMEOUT during futex_wait restart setup
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf_event: Fix cgrp event scheduling bug in perf_enable_on_exec()
perf: Fix a build error with some GCC versions
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: Fix erroneous all_pinned logic
sched: Fix sched-domain avg_load calculation
* 'timer-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
RTC: rtc-mrst: follow on to the change of rtc_device_register()
RTC: add missing "return 0" in new alarm func for rtc-bfin.c
RTC: Fix s3c compile error due to missing s3c_rtc_setpie
RTC: Fix early irqs caused by calling rtc_set_alarm too early
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, amd: Disable GartTlbWlkErr when BIOS forgets it
x86, NUMA: Fix fakenuma boot failure
x86/mrst: Fix boot crash caused by incorrect pin to irq mapping
x86/ce4100: Add reg property to bridges
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It's a pretty close match to what we had before - the timer triggering
would mean that nobody unplugged the plug in due time, in the new
scheme this matches very closely what the schedule() unplug now is.
It's essentially the difference between an explicit unplug (IO unplug)
or an implicit unplug (timer unplug, we scheduled with pending IO
queued).
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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Linus correctly observes that the most important dispatch cases
are now done from kblockd, this isn't ideal for latency reasons.
The original reason for switching dispatches out-of-line was to
avoid too deep a stack, so by _only_ letting the "accidental"
flush directly in schedule() be guarded by offload to kblockd,
we should be able to get the best of both worlds.
So add a blk_schedule_flush_plug() that offloads to kblockd,
and only use that from the schedule() path.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
block: only force kblockd unplugging from the schedule() path
block: cleanup the block plug helper functions
block, blk-sysfs: Use the variable directly instead of a function call
block: move queue run on unplug to kblockd
block: kill queue_sync_plugs()
block: readd plug trace event
block: add callback function for unplug notification
block: add comment on why we save and disable interrupts in flush_plug_list()
block: fixup block IO unplug trace call
block: remove block_unplug_timer() trace point
block: splice plug list to local context
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The FLAGS_HAS_TIMEOUT flag was not getting set, causing the restart_block to
restart futex_wait() without a timeout after a signal.
Commit b41277dc7a18ee332d in 2.6.38 introduced the regression by accidentally
removing the the FLAGS_HAS_TIMEOUT assignment from futex_wait() during the setup
of the restart block. Restore the originaly behavior.
Fixes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32922
Reported-by: Tim Smith <tsmith201104@yahoo.com>
Reported-by: Torsten Hilbrich <torsten.hilbrich@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3Cdaac0eb3af607f72b9a4d3126b2ba8fb5ed3b883.1302820917.git.dvhart%40linux.intel.com%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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We really only want to unplug the pending IO when the process actually
goes to sleep. So move the test for flushing the plug up to the place
where we actually deactivate the task - where we have properly checked
for preemption and for the process really sleeping.
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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It was removed with the on-stack plugging, readd it and track the
depth of requests added when flushing the plug.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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We no longer have an unplug timer running, so no point in keeping
the trace point.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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Make XEN_SAVE_RESTORE select HIBERNATE_CALLBACKS.
Remove XEN_SAVE_RESTORE dependency from PM_SLEEP.
Signed-off-by: Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@cs.ubc.ca>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
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Xen save/restore is going to use hibernate device callbacks for
quiescing devices and putting them back to normal operations and it
would need to select CONFIG_HIBERNATION for this purpose. However,
that also would cause the hibernate interfaces for user space to be
enabled, which might confuse user space, because the Xen kernels
don't support hibernation. Moreover, it would be wasteful, as it
would make the Xen kernels include a substantial amount of code that
they would never use.
To address this issue introduce new power management Kconfig option
CONFIG_HIBERNATE_CALLBACKS, such that it will only select the code
that is necessary for the hibernate device callbacks to work and make
CONFIG_HIBERNATION select it. Then, Xen save/restore will be able to
select CONFIG_HIBERNATE_CALLBACKS without dragging the entire
hibernate code along with it.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Tested-by: Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@cs.ubc.ca>
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The scheduler load balancer has specific code to deal with cases of
unbalanced system due to lots of unmovable tasks (for example because of
hard CPU affinity). In those situation, it excludes the busiest CPU that
has pinned tasks for load balance consideration such that it can perform
second 2nd load balance pass on the rest of the system.
This all works as designed if there is only one cgroup in the system.
However, when we have multiple cgroups, this logic has false positives and
triggers multiple load balance passes despite there are actually no pinned
tasks at all.
The reason it has false positives is that the all pinned logic is deep in
the lowest function of can_migrate_task() and is too low level:
load_balance_fair() iterates each task group and calls balance_tasks() to
migrate target load. Along the way, balance_tasks() will also set a
all_pinned variable. Given that task-groups are iterated, this all_pinned
variable is essentially the status of last group in the scanning process.
Task group can have number of reasons that no load being migrated, none
due to cpu affinity. However, this status bit is being propagated back up
to the higher level load_balance(), which incorrectly think that no tasks
were moved. It kick off the all pinned logic and start multiple passes
attempt to move load onto puller CPU.
To fix this, move the all_pinned aggregation up at the iterator level.
This ensures that the status is aggregated over all task-groups, not just
last one in the list.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/BANLkTi=ernzNawaR5tJZEsV_QVnfxqXmsQ@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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In function find_busiest_group(), the sched-domain avg_load isn't
calculated at all if there is a group imbalance within the domain. This
will cause erroneous imbalance calculation.
The reason is that calculate_imbalance() sees sds->avg_load = 0 and it
will dump entire sds->max_load into imbalance variable, which is used
later on to migrate entire load from busiest CPU to the puller CPU.
This has two really bad effect:
1. stampede of task migration, and they won't be able to break out
of the bad state because of positive feedback loop: large load
delta -> heavier load migration -> larger imbalance and the cycle
goes on.
2. severe imbalance in CPU queue depth. This causes really long
scheduling latency blip which affects badly on application that
has tight latency requirement.
The fix is to have kernel calculate domain avg_load in both cases. This
will ensure that imbalance calculation is always sensible and the target
is usually half way between busiest and puller CPU.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110408002322.3A0D812217F@elm.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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There is a bug in perf_event_enable_on_exec() when cgroup events are
active on a CPU: the cgroup events may be scheduled twice causing event
state corruptions which eventually may lead to kernel panics.
The reason is that the function needs to first schedule out the cgroup
events, just like for the per-thread events. The cgroup event are
scheduled back in automatically from the perf_event_context_sched_in()
function.
The patch also adds a WARN_ON_ONCE() is perf_cgroup_switch() to catch any
bogus state.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110406005454.GA1062@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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