user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/sched.h, branch v3.9

kthread: Prevent unpark race which puts threads on the wrong cpu

2013-04-12T12:18:43Z

The smpboot threads rely on the park/unpark mechanism which binds per cpu threads on a particular core. Though the functionality is racy: CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 unpark(T) wake_up_process(T) clear(SHOULD_PARK) T runs leave parkme() due to !SHOULD_PARK bind_to(CPU2) BUG_ON(wrong CPU) We cannot let the tasks move themself to the target CPU as one of those tasks is actually the migration thread itself, which requires that it starts running on the target cpu right away. The solution to this problem is to prevent wakeups in park mode which are not from unpark(). That way we can guarantee that the association of the task to the target cpu is working correctly. Add a new task state (TASK_PARKED) which prevents other wakeups and use this state explicitly for the unpark wakeup. Peter noticed: Also, since the task state is visible to userspace and all the parked tasks are still in the PID space, its a good hint in ps and friends that these tasks aren't really there for the moment. The migration thread has another related issue. CPU0 CPU1 Bring up CPU2 create_thread(T) park(T) wait_for_completion() parkme() complete() sched_set_stop_task() schedule(TASK_PARKED) The sched_set_stop_task() call is issued while the task is on the runqueue of CPU1 and that confuses the hell out of the stop_task class on that cpu. So we need the same synchronizaion before sched_set_stop_task(). Reported-by: Dave Jones Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Hansen Reported-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov Acked-by: Peter Ziljstra Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat Cc: dhillf@gmail.com Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1304091635430.21884@ionos Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

coredump: remove redundant defines for dumpable states

2013-02-28T03:10:11Z

The existing SUID_DUMP_* defines duplicate the newer SUID_DUMPABLE_* defines introduced in 54b501992dd2 ("coredump: warn about unsafe suid_dumpable / core_pattern combo"). Remove the new ones, and use the prior values instead. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Reported-by: Chen Gang Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Alan Cox Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Doug Ledford Cc: Serge Hallyn Cc: James Morris Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2013-02-27T03:42:08Z

Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar. * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: cputime: Use local_clock() for full dynticks cputime accounting cputime: Constify timeval_to_cputime(timeval) argument sched: Move RR_TIMESLICE from sysctl.h to rt.h sched: Fix /proc/sched_debug failure on very very large systems sched: Fix /proc/sched_stat failure on very very large systems sched/core: Remove the obsolete and unused nr_uninterruptible() function

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal

2013-02-24T02:50:11Z

Pull signal handling cleanups from Al Viro: "This is the first pile; another one will come a bit later and will contain SYSCALL_DEFINE-related patches. - a bunch of signal-related syscalls (both native and compat) unified. - a bunch of compat syscalls switched to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE (fixing several potential problems with missing argument validation, while we are at it) - a lot of now-pointless wrappers killed - a couple of architectures (cris and hexagon) forgot to save altstack settings into sigframe, even though they used the (uninitialized) values in sigreturn; fixed. - microblaze fixes for delivery of multiple signals arriving at once - saner set of helpers for signal delivery introduced, several architectures switched to using those." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (143 commits) x86: convert to ksignal sparc: convert to ksignal arm: switch to struct ksignal * passing alpha: pass k_sigaction and siginfo_t using ksignal pointer burying unused conditionals make do_sigaltstack() static arm64: switch to generic old sigaction() (compat-only) arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigaction() arm64: switch compat to generic old sigsuspend arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigqueueinfo() arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigpending() arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigprocmask() arm64: switch to generic sigaltstack sparc: switch to generic old sigsuspend sparc: COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE does all sign-extension as well as SYSCALL_DEFINE sparc: kill sign-extending wrappers for native syscalls kill sparc32_open() sparc: switch to use of generic old sigaction sparc: switch sys_compat_rt_sigaction() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE mips: switch to generic sys_fork() and sys_clone() ...

mm: teach mm by current context info to not do I/O during memory allocation

2013-02-24T01:50:16Z

This patch introduces PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO on process flag('flags' field of 'struct task_struct'), so that the flag can be set by one task to avoid doing I/O inside memory allocation in the task's context. The patch trys to solve one deadlock problem caused by block device, and the problem may happen at least in the below situations: - during block device runtime resume, if memory allocation with GFP_KERNEL is called inside runtime resume callback of any one of its ancestors(or the block device itself), the deadlock may be triggered inside the memory allocation since it might not complete until the block device becomes active and the involed page I/O finishes. The situation is pointed out first by Alan Stern. It is not a good approach to convert all GFP_KERNEL[1] in the path into GFP_NOIO because several subsystems may be involved(for example, PCI, USB and SCSI may be involved for usb mass stoarage device, network devices involved too in the iSCSI case) - during block device runtime suspend, because runtime resume need to wait for completion of concurrent runtime suspend. - during error handling of usb mass storage deivce, USB bus reset will be put on the device, so there shouldn't have any memory allocation with GFP_KERNEL during USB bus reset, otherwise the deadlock similar with above may be triggered. Unfortunately, any usb device may include one mass storage interface in theory, so it requires all usb interface drivers to handle the situation. In fact, most usb drivers don't know how to handle bus reset on the device and don't provide .pre_set() and .post_reset() callback at all, so USB core has to unbind and bind driver for these devices. So it is still not practical to resort to GFP_NOIO for solving the problem. Also the introduced solution can be used by block subsystem or block drivers too, for example, set the PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO flag before doing actual I/O transfer. It is not a good idea to convert all these GFP_KERNEL in the affected path into GFP_NOIO because these functions doing that may be implemented as library and will be called in many other contexts. In fact, memalloc_noio_flags() can convert some of current static GFP_NOIO allocation into GFP_KERNEL back in other non-affected contexts, at least almost all GFP_NOIO in USB subsystem can be converted into GFP_KERNEL after applying the approach and make allocation with GFP_NOIO only happen in runtime resume/bus reset/block I/O transfer contexts generally. [1], several GFP_KERNEL allocation examples in runtime resume path - pci subsystem acpi_os_allocate <-acpi_ut_allocate <-ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED <-acpi_evaluate_object <-__acpi_bus_set_power <-acpi_bus_set_power <-acpi_pci_set_power_state <-platform_pci_set_power_state <-pci_platform_power_transition <-__pci_complete_power_transition <-pci_set_power_state <-pci_restore_standard_config <-pci_pm_runtime_resume - usb subsystem usb_get_status <-finish_port_resume <-usb_port_resume <-generic_resume <-usb_resume_device <-usb_resume_both <-usb_runtime_resume - some individual usb drivers usblp, uvc, gspca, most of dvb-usb-v2 media drivers, cpia2, az6007, .... That is just what I have found. Unfortunately, this allocation can only be found by human being now, and there should be many not found since any function in the resume path(call tree) may allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim Cc: Alan Stern Cc: Oliver Neukum Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Greg KH Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: David Decotigny Cc: Tom Herbert Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-3.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2013-02-20T17:16:21Z

Pull cgroup changes from Tejun Heo: "Nothing too drastic. - Removal of synchronize_rcu() from userland visible paths. - Various fixes and cleanups from Li. - cgroup_rightmost_descendant() added which will be used by cpuset changes (it will be a separate pull request)." * 'for-3.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: fail if monitored file and event_control are in different cgroup cgroup: fix cgroup_rmdir() vs close(eventfd) race cpuset: fix cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed() vs rename() race cgroup: fix exit() vs rmdir() race cgroup: remove bogus comments in cgroup_diput() cgroup: remove synchronize_rcu() from cgroup_diput() cgroup: remove duplicate RCU free on struct cgroup sched: remove redundant NULL cgroup check in task_group_path() sched: split out css_online/css_offline from tg creation/destruction cgroup: initialize cgrp->dentry before css_alloc() cgroup: remove a NULL check in cgroup_exit() cgroup: fix bogus kernel warnings when cgroup_create() failed cgroup: remove synchronize_rcu() from rebind_subsystems() cgroup: remove synchronize_rcu() from cgroup_attach_{task|proc}() cgroup: use new hashtable implementation cgroups: fix cgroup_event_listener error handling cgroups: move cgroup_event_listener.c to tools/cgroup cgroup: implement cgroup_rightmost_descendant() cgroup: remove unused dummy cgroup_fork_callbacks()

sched/core: Remove the obsolete and unused nr_uninterruptible() function

2013-02-20T10:39:24Z

Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361351678-8065-1-git-send-email-handai.szj@taobao.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

make do_sigaltstack() static

2013-02-14T14:21:15Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header file

2013-02-07T19:51:08Z

Move rt scheduler definitions out of include/linux/sched.h into new file include/linux/sched/rt.h Signed-off-by: Clark Williams Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130207094707.7b9f825f@riff.lan Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Move sched.h sysctl bits into separate header

2013-02-07T19:50:54Z

Move the sysctl-related bits from include/linux/sched.h into a new file: include/linux/sched/sysctl.h. Then update source files requiring access to those bits by including the new header file. Signed-off-by: Clark Williams Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130207094659.06dced96@riff.lan Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar