user/sven/linux.git/kernel/kthread.c, branch v4.4.2

kernel/kthread.c:kthread_create_on_node(): clarify documentation

2015-09-04T23:54:41Z

- Make it clear that the `node' arg refers to memory allocations only: kthread_create_on_node() does not pin the new thread to that node's CPUs. - Encourage the use of NUMA_NO_NODE. [nzimmer@sgi.com: use NUMA_NO_NODE in kthread_create() also] Cc: Nathan Zimmer Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Eric Dumazet 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

2015-09-01T03:26:22Z

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "The biggest change in this cycle is the rewrite of the main SMP load balancing metric: the CPU load/utilization. The main goal was to make the metric more precise and more representative - see the changelog of this commit for the gory details: 9d89c257dfb9 ("sched/fair: Rewrite runnable load and utilization average tracking") It is done in a way that significantly reduces complexity of the code: 5 files changed, 249 insertions(+), 494 deletions(-) and the performance testing results are encouraging. Nevertheless we need to keep an eye on potential regressions, since this potentially affects every SMP workload in existence. This work comes from Yuyang Du. Other changes: - SCHED_DL updates. (Andrea Parri) - Simplify architecture callbacks by removing finish_arch_switch(). (Peter Zijlstra et al) - cputime accounting: guarantee stime + utime == rtime. (Peter Zijlstra) - optimize idle CPU wakeups some more - inspired by Facebook server loads. (Mike Galbraith) - stop_machine fixes and updates. (Oleg Nesterov) - Introduce the 'trace_sched_waking' tracepoint. (Peter Zijlstra) - sched/numa tweaks. (Srikar Dronamraju) - misc fixes and small cleanups" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits) sched/deadline: Fix comment in enqueue_task_dl() sched/deadline: Fix comment in push_dl_tasks() sched: Change the sched_class::set_cpus_allowed() calling context sched: Make sched_class::set_cpus_allowed() unconditional sched: Fix a race between __kthread_bind() and sched_setaffinity() sched: Ensure a task has a non-normalized vruntime when returning back to CFS sched/numa: Fix NUMA_DIRECT topology identification tile: Reorganize _switch_to() sched, sparc32: Update scheduler comments in copy_thread() sched: Remove finish_arch_switch() sched, tile: Remove finish_arch_switch sched, sh: Fold finish_arch_switch() into switch_to() sched, score: Remove finish_arch_switch() sched, avr32: Remove finish_arch_switch() sched, MIPS: Get rid of finish_arch_switch() sched, arm: Remove finish_arch_switch() sched/fair: Clean up load average references sched/fair: Provide runnable_load_avg back to cfs_rq sched/fair: Remove task and group entity load when they are dead sched/fair: Init cfs_rq's sched_entity load average ...

sched: Fix a race between __kthread_bind() and sched_setaffinity()

2015-08-12T10:06:09Z

Because sched_setscheduler() checks p->flags & PF_NO_SETAFFINITY without locks, a caller might observe an old value and race with the set_cpus_allowed_ptr() call from __kthread_bind() and effectively undo it: __kthread_bind() do_set_cpus_allowed() sched_setaffinity() if (p->flags & PF_NO_SETAFFINITIY) set_cpus_allowed_ptr() p->flags |= PF_NO_SETAFFINITY Fix the bug by putting everything under the regular scheduler locks. This also closes a hole in the serialization of task_struct::{nr_,}cpus_allowed. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: dedekind1@gmail.com Cc: juri.lelli@arm.com Cc: mgorman@suse.de Cc: riel@redhat.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150515154833.545640346@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kthread: export kthread functions

2015-08-07T01:39:41Z

The s-Par visornic driver, currently in staging, processes a queue being serviced by the an s-Par service partition. We can get a message that something has happened with the Service Partition, when that happens, we must not access the channel until we get a message that the service partition is back again. The visornic driver has a thread for processing the channel, when we get the message, we need to be able to park the thread and then resume it when the problem clears. We can do this with kthread_park and unpark but they are not exported from the kernel, this patch exports the needed functions. Signed-off-by: David Kershner Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Neil Horman Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/kthread.c: partial revert of 81c98869faa5 ("kthread: ensure locality of task_struct allocations")

2014-10-10T02:25:51Z

After discussions with Tejun, we don't want to spread the use of cpu_to_mem() (and thus knowledge of allocators/NUMA topology details) into callers, but would rather ensure the callees correctly handle memoryless nodes. With the previous patches ("topology: add support for node_to_mem_node() to determine the fallback node" and "slub: fallback to node_to_mem_node() node if allocating on memoryless node") adding and using node_to_mem_node(), we can safely undo part of the change to the kthread logic from 81c98869faa5. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Han Pingtian Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Anton Blanchard Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Wanpeng Li Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kthread_work: wake up worker only when the worker is idle

2014-07-28T18:07:52Z

If the worker is already executing a work item when another is queued, we can safely skip wakeup without worrying about stalling queue thus avoiding waking up the busy worker spuriously. Spurious wakeups should be fine but still isn't nice and avoiding it is trivial here. tj: Updated description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

kthread: fix return value of kthread_create() upon SIGKILL.

2014-06-04T23:53:51Z

Commit 786235eeba0e ("kthread: make kthread_create() killable") meant for allowing kthread_create() to abort as soon as killed by the OOM-killer. But returning -ENOMEM is wrong if killed by SIGKILL from userspace. Change kthread_create() to return -EINTR upon SIGKILL. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: [3.13+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kthread: ensure locality of task_struct allocations

2014-04-03T23:20:49Z

In the presence of memoryless nodes, numa_node_id() will return the current CPU's NUMA node, but that may not be where we expect to allocate from memory from. Instead, we should rely on the fallback code in the memory allocator itself, by using NUMA_NO_NODE. Also, when calling kthread_create_on_node(), use the nearest node with memory to the cpu in question, rather than the node it is running on. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Anton Blanchard Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Wanpeng Li Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Ben Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kthread: make kthread_create() killable

2013-11-13T03:08:59Z

Any user process callers of wait_for_completion() except global init process might be chosen by the OOM killer while waiting for completion() call by some other process which does memory allocation. See CVE-2012-4398 "kernel: request_module() OOM local DoS" can happen. When such users are chosen by the OOM killer when they are waiting for completion() in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, the system will be kept stressed due to memory starvation because the OOM killer cannot kill such users. kthread_create() is one of such users and this patch fixes the problem for kthreadd by making kthread_create() killable - the same approach used for fixing CVE-2012-4398. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kthread: implement probe_kthread_data()

2013-05-01T00:04:02Z

One of the problems that arise when converting dedicated custom threadpool to workqueue is that the shared worker pool used by workqueue anonimizes each worker making it more difficult to identify what the worker was doing on which target from the output of sysrq-t or debug dump from oops, BUG() and friends. For example, after writeback is converted to use workqueue instead of priviate thread pool, there's no easy to tell which backing device a writeback work item was working on at the time of task dump, which, according to our writeback brethren, is important in tracking down issues with a lot of mounted file systems on a lot of different devices. This patchset implements a way for a work function to mark its execution instance so that task dump of the worker task includes information to indicate what the work item was doing. An example WARN dump would look like the following. WARNING: at fs/fs-writeback.c:1015 bdi_writeback_workfn+0x2b4/0x3c0() Modules linked in: CPU: 0 Pid: 28 Comm: kworker/u18:0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #24 Hardware name: empty empty/S3992, BIOS 080011 10/26/2007 Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-8:16) ffffffff820a3a98 ffff88015b927cb8 ffffffff81c61855 ffff88015b927cf8 ffffffff8108f500 0000000000000000 ffff88007a171948 ffff88007a1716b0 ffff88015b49df00 ffff88015b8d3940 0000000000000000 ffff88015b927d08 Call Trace: [] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [] warn_slowpath_common+0x70/0xa0 ... This patch: Implement probe_kthread_data() which returns kthread_data if accessible. The function is equivalent to kthread_data() except that the specified @task may not be a kthread or its vfork_done is already cleared rendering struct kthread inaccessible. In the former case, probe_kthread_data() may return any value. In the latter, NULL. This will be used to safely print debug information without affecting synchronization in the normal paths. Workqueue debug info printing on dump_stack() and friends will make use of it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Jan Kara Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds