user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/sched.h, branch v3.4.67

ptrace: introduce signal_wake_up_state() and ptrace_signal_wake_up()

2013-01-28T04:47:43Z

commit 910ffdb18a6408e14febbb6e4b6840fd2c928c82 upstream. Cleanup and preparation for the next change. signal_wake_up(resume => true) is overused. None of ptrace/jctl callers actually want to wakeup a TASK_WAKEKILL task, but they can't specify the necessary mask. Turn signal_wake_up() into signal_wake_up_state(state), reintroduce signal_wake_up() as a trivial helper, and add ptrace_signal_wake_up() which adds __TASK_TRACED. This way ptrace_signal_wake_up() can work "inside" ptrace_request() even if the tracee doesn't have the TASK_WAKEKILL bit set. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched: Fix race in task_group()

2012-10-02T17:30:35Z

commit 8323f26ce3425460769605a6aece7a174edaa7d1 upstream. Stefan reported a crash on a kernel before a3e5d1091c1 ("sched: Don't call task_group() too many times in set_task_rq()"), he found the reason to be that the multiple task_group() invocations in set_task_rq() returned different values. Looking at all that I found a lack of serialization and plain wrong comments. The below tries to fix it using an extra pointer which is updated under the appropriate scheduler locks. Its not pretty, but I can't really see another way given how all the cgroup stuff works. Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Bader Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340364965.18025.71.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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

2012-07-19T15:58:56Z

commit 5167e8d5417bf5c322a703d2927daec727ea40dd upstream. 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 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340373782.18025.74.camel@twins [ minor edits ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system

2012-03-28T22:58:21Z

Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells: "Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion dependencies. I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can and made sure that they don't break. The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2(). This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h. The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h. It holds a number of low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg. memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that aren't used in many places (eg. switch_to()). These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces: (1) asm/barrier.h Move memory barriers here. This already done for MIPS and Alpha. (2) asm/switch_to.h Move switch_to() and related stuff here. (3) asm/exec.h Move arch_align_stack() here. Other process execution related bits could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h. (4) asm/cmpxchg.h Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg(). (5) asm/bug.h Move die() and related bits. (6) asm/auxvec.h Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here. Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis." Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat weakened by that. We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it.. * tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits) Delete all instances of asm/system.h Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h Create asm-generic/barrier.h Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt] Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390 Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300 ...

Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h

2012-03-28T17:30:03Z

Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing it. Performed with the following command: perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*' *` Signed-off-by: David Howells

prctl: add PR_{SET,GET}_CHILD_SUBREAPER to allow simple process supervision

2012-03-23T23:58:32Z

Userspace service managers/supervisors need to track their started services. Many services daemonize by double-forking and get implicitly re-parented to PID 1. The service manager will no longer be able to receive the SIGCHLD signals for them, and is no longer in charge of reaping the children with wait(). All information about the children is lost at the moment PID 1 cleans up the re-parented processes. With this prctl, a service manager process can mark itself as a sort of 'sub-init', able to stay as the parent for all orphaned processes created by the started services. All SIGCHLD signals will be delivered to the service manager. Receiving SIGCHLD and doing wait() is in cases of a service-manager much preferred over any possible asynchronous notification about specific PIDs, because the service manager has full access to the child process data in /proc and the PID can not be re-used until the wait(), the service-manager itself is in charge of, has happened. As a side effect, the relevant parent PID information does not get lost by a double-fork, which results in a more elaborate process tree and 'ps' output: before: # ps afx 253 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --system --nofork 294 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd 328 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/modem-manager 608 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/colord 658 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/upowerd 819 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/imsettings-daemon 916 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/libexec/udisks-daemon 917 ? S 0:00 \_ udisks-daemon: not polling any devices after: # ps afx 294 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --system --nofork 426 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/polkit-1/polkitd 449 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/modem-manager 635 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/colord 705 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/upowerd 959 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/udisks-daemon 960 ? S 0:00 | \_ udisks-daemon: not polling any devices 977 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/packagekitd This prctl is orthogonal to PID namespaces. PID namespaces are isolated from each other, while a service management process usually requires the services to live in the same namespace, to be able to talk to each other. Users of this will be the systemd per-user instance, which provides init-like functionality for the user's login session and D-Bus, which activates bus services on-demand. Both need init-like capabilities to be able to properly keep track of the services they start. Many thanks to Oleg for several rounds of review and insights. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment layout and spelling] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add lengthy code comment from Oleg] Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Lennart Poettering Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Acked-by: Valdis Kletnieks Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3

2012-03-22T00:54:59Z

Commit c0ff7453bb5c ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems") wins a super prize for the largest number of memory barriers entered into fast paths for one commit. [get|put]_mems_allowed is incredibly heavy with pairs of full memory barriers inserted into a number of hot paths. This was detected while investigating at large page allocator slowdown introduced some time after 2.6.32. The largest portion of this overhead was shown by oprofile to be at an mfence introduced by this commit into the page allocator hot path. For extra style points, the commit introduced the use of yield() in an implementation of what looks like a spinning mutex. This patch replaces the full memory barriers on both read and write sides with a sequence counter with just read barriers on the fast path side. This is much cheaper on some architectures, including x86. The main bulk of the patch is the retry logic if the nodemask changes in a manner that can cause a false failure. While updating the nodemask, a check is made to see if a false failure is a risk. If it is, the sequence number gets bumped and parallel allocators will briefly stall while the nodemask update takes place. In a page fault test microbenchmark, oprofile samples from __alloc_pages_nodemask went from 4.53% of all samples to 1.15%. The actual results were 3.3.0-rc3 3.3.0-rc3 rc3-vanilla nobarrier-v2r1 Clients 1 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.08 (-14.19%) Clients 2 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 2.72%) Clients 4 UserTime 0.08 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 3.29%) Clients 1 SysTime 0.70 ( 0.00%) 0.65 ( 6.65%) Clients 2 SysTime 0.85 ( 0.00%) 0.82 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 SysTime 1.41 ( 0.00%) 1.41 ( 0.32%) Clients 1 WallTime 0.77 ( 0.00%) 0.74 ( 4.19%) Clients 2 WallTime 0.47 ( 0.00%) 0.45 ( 3.73%) Clients 4 WallTime 0.38 ( 0.00%) 0.37 ( 1.58%) Clients 1 Flt/sec/cpu 497620.28 ( 0.00%) 520294.53 ( 4.56%) Clients 2 Flt/sec/cpu 414639.05 ( 0.00%) 429882.01 ( 3.68%) Clients 4 Flt/sec/cpu 257959.16 ( 0.00%) 258761.48 ( 0.31%) Clients 1 Flt/sec 495161.39 ( 0.00%) 517292.87 ( 4.47%) Clients 2 Flt/sec 820325.95 ( 0.00%) 850289.77 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 Flt/sec 1020068.93 ( 0.00%) 1022674.06 ( 0.26%) MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 135.68 132.17 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 164.2 160.13 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 123.46 120.87 The overall improvement is small but the System CPU time is much improved and roughly in correlation to what oprofile reported (these performance figures are without profiling so skew is expected). The actual number of page faults is noticeably improved. For benchmarks like kernel builds, the overall benefit is marginal but the system CPU time is slightly reduced. To test the actual bug the commit fixed I opened two terminals. The first ran within a cpuset and continually ran a small program that faulted 100M of anonymous data. In a second window, the nodemask of the cpuset was continually randomised in a loop. Without the commit, the program would fail every so often (usually within 10 seconds) and obviously with the commit everything worked fine. With this patch applied, it also worked fine so the fix should be functionally equivalent. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Miao Xie Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2012-03-20T17:31:44Z

Pull scheduler changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits) printk: Make it compile with !CONFIG_PRINTK sched/x86: Fix overflow in cyc2ns_offset sched: Fix nohz load accounting -- again! sched: Update yield() docs printk/sched: Introduce special printk_sched() for those awkward moments sched/nohz: Correctly initialize 'next_balance' in 'nohz' idle balancer sched: Cleanup cpu_active madness sched: Fix load-balance wreckage sched: Clean up parameter passing of proc_sched_autogroup_set_nice() sched: Ditch per cgroup task lists for load-balancing sched: Rename load-balancing fields sched: Move load-balancing arguments into helper struct sched/rt: Do not submit new work when PI-blocked sched/rt: Prevent idle task boosting sched/wait: Add __wake_up_all_locked() API sched/rt: Document scheduler related skip-resched-check sites sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled() sched/rt: Add schedule_preempt_disabled() sched/rt: Do not throttle when PI boosting sched/rt: Keep period timer ticking when rt throttling is active ...

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

2012-03-20T17:28:56Z

Pull irq/core changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar * 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: genirq: Remove paranoid warnons and bogus fixups genirq: Flush the irq thread on synchronization genirq: Get rid of unnecessary IRQTF_DIED flag genirq: No need to check IRQTF_DIED before stopping a thread handler genirq: Get rid of unnecessary irqaction field in task_struct genirq: Fix incorrect check for forced IRQ thread handler softirq: Reduce invoke_softirq() code duplication genirq: Fix long-term regression in genirq irq_set_irq_type() handling x86-32/irq: Don't switch to irq stack for a user-mode irq

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

2012-03-20T17:10:18Z

Pull RCU changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar. The major features of this series are: - making RCU more aggressive about entering dyntick-idle mode in order to improve energy efficiency - converting a few more call_rcu()s to kfree_rcu()s - applying a number of rcutree fixes and cleanups to rcutiny - removing CONFIG_SMP #ifdefs from treercu - allowing RCU CPU stall times to be set via sysfs - adding CPU-stall capability to rcutorture - adding more RCU-abuse diagnostics - updating documentation - fixing yet more issues located by the still-ongoing top-to-bottom inspection of RCU, this time with a special focus on the CPU-hotplug code path. * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (48 commits) rcu: Stop spurious warnings from synchronize_sched_expedited rcu: Hold off RCU_FAST_NO_HZ after timer posted rcu: Eliminate softirq-mediated RCU_FAST_NO_HZ idle-entry loop rcu: Add RCU_NONIDLE() for idle-loop RCU read-side critical sections rcu: Allow nesting of rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() rcu: Remove redundant check for rcu_head misalignment PTR_ERR should be called before its argument is cleared. rcu: Convert WARN_ON_ONCE() in rcu_lock_acquire() to lockdep rcu: Trace only after NULL-pointer check rcu: Call out dangers of expedited RCU primitives rcu: Rework detection of use of RCU by offline CPUs lockdep: Add CPU-idle/offline warning to lockdep-RCU splat rcu: No interrupt disabling for rcu_prepare_for_idle() rcu: Move synchronize_sched_expedited() to rcutree.c rcu: Check for illegal use of RCU from offlined CPUs rcu: Update stall-warning documentation rcu: Add CPU-stall capability to rcutorture rcu: Make documentation give more realistic rcutorture duration rcutorture: Permit holding off CPU-hotplug operations during boot rcu: Print scheduling-clock information on RCU CPU stall-warning messages ...