user/sven/linux.git/kernel/workqueue.c, branch v3.0-rc2

Merge branch 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu

2011-05-24T18:53:42Z

* 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: percpu: Unify input section names percpu: Avoid extra NOP in percpu_cmpxchg16b_double percpu: Cast away printk format warning percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE Fix up fairly trivial conflict in arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h as per Tejun

workqueue: fix deadlock in worker_maybe_bind_and_lock()

2011-04-29T16:08:37Z

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 Reported-by: Thilo-Alexander Ginkel Tested-by: Thilo-Alexander Ginkel Cc: stable@kernel.org

percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE

2011-03-24T17:50:09Z

Percpu allocator honors alignment request upto PAGE_SIZE and both the percpu addresses in the percpu address space and the translated kernel addresses should be aligned accordingly. The calculation of the former depends on the alignment of percpu output section in the kernel image. The linker script macros PERCPU_VADDR() and PERCPU() are used to define this output section and the latter takes @align parameter. Several architectures are using @align smaller than PAGE_SIZE breaking percpu memory alignment. This patch removes @align parameter from PERCPU(), renames it to PERCPU_SECTION() and makes it always align to PAGE_SIZE. While at it, add PCPU_SETUP_BUG_ON() checks such that alignment problems are reliably detected and remove percpu alignment comment recently added in workqueue.c as the condition would trigger BUG way before reaching there. For um, this patch raises the alignment of percpu area. As the area is in .init, there shouldn't be any noticeable difference. This problem was discovered by David Howells while debugging boot failure on mn10300. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Mike Frysinger Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org Cc: David Howells Cc: Jeff Dike Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

kthread: use kthread_create_on_node()

2011-03-23T00:44:01Z

ksoftirqd, kworker, migration, and pktgend kthreads can be created with kthread_create_on_node(), to get proper NUMA affinities for their stack and task_struct. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: David S. Miller Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Rusty Russell Acked-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: David Howells Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

2011-03-16T15:20:19Z

* 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: fix build failure introduced by s/freezeable/freezable/ workqueue: add system_freezeable_wq rds/ib: use system_wq instead of rds_ib_fmr_wq net/9p: replace p9_poll_task with a work net/9p: use system_wq instead of p9_mux_wq xfs: convert to alloc_workqueue() reiserfs: make commit_wq use the default concurrency level ocfs2: use system_wq instead of ocfs2_quota_wq ext4: convert to alloc_workqueue() scsi/scsi_tgt_lib: scsi_tgtd isn't used in memory reclaim path scsi/be2iscsi,qla2xxx: convert to alloc_workqueue() misc/iwmc3200top: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues i2o: use alloc_workqueue() instead of create_workqueue() acpi: kacpi*_wq don't need WQ_MEM_RECLAIM fs/aio: aio_wq isn't used in memory reclaim path input/tps6507x-ts: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueue cpufreq: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues wireless/ipw2x00: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues arm/omap: use system_wq in mailbox workqueue: use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM instead of WQ_RESCUER

debugobjects: Add hint for better object identification

2011-03-08T15:10:38Z

In complex subsystems like mac80211 structures can contain several timers and work structs, so identifying a specific instance from the call trace and object type output of debugobjects can be hard. Allow the subsystems which support debugobjects to provide a hint function. This function returns a pointer to a kernel address (preferrably the objects callback function) which is printed along with the debugobjects type. Add hint methods for timer_list, work_struct and hrtimer. [ tglx: Massaged changelog, made it compile ] Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka LKML-Reference: <20110307085809.GA9334@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

workqueue: fix build failure introduced by s/freezeable/freezable/

2011-02-21T09:07:23Z

wq:fixes-2.6.38 does s/WQ_FREEZEABLE/WQ_FREEZABLE and wq:for-2.6.39 adds new usage of the flag. The combination of the two creates a build failure after merge. Fix it by renaming all freezeables to freezables. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell

Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.39

2011-02-21T08:43:56Z

workqueue: make sure MAYDAY_INITIAL_TIMEOUT is at least 2 jiffies long

2011-02-16T17:10:19Z

MAYDAY_INITIAL_TIMEOUT is defined as HZ / 100 and depending on configuration may end up 0 or 1. Even when it's 1, depending on when the mayday timer is added in the current jiffy interval, it may expire way before a jiffy has passed. Make sure MAYDAY_INITIAL_TIMEOUT is at least two to guarantee that at least a full jiffy has passed before calling rescuers. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Ray Jui Cc: stable@kernel.org

workqueue, freezer: unify spelling of 'freeze' + 'able' to 'freezable'

2011-02-16T16:48:59Z

There are two spellings in use for 'freeze' + 'able' - 'freezable' and 'freezeable'. The former is the more prominent one. The latter is mostly used by workqueue and in a few other odd places. Unify the spelling to 'freezable'. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Alan Stern Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Alex Dubov Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Steven Whitehouse