user/sven/linux.git/kernel, branch v3.14.38

perf: Fix irq_work 'tail' recursion

2015-04-13T12:03:01Z

commit d525211f9d1be8b523ec7633f080f2116f5ea536 upstream. Vince reported a watchdog lockup like: [] perf_tp_event+0xc4/0x210 [] perf_trace_lock+0x12a/0x160 [] lock_release+0x130/0x260 [] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x24/0x40 [] do_send_sig_info+0x5d/0x80 [] send_sigio_to_task+0x12f/0x1a0 [] send_sigio+0xae/0x100 [] kill_fasync+0x97/0xf0 [] perf_event_wakeup+0xd4/0xf0 [] perf_pending_event+0x33/0x60 [] irq_work_run_list+0x4c/0x80 [] irq_work_run+0x18/0x40 [] smp_trace_irq_work_interrupt+0x3f/0xc0 [] trace_irq_work_interrupt+0x6d/0x80 Which is caused by an irq_work generating new irq_work and therefore not allowing forward progress. This happens because processing the perf irq_work triggers another perf event (tracepoint stuff) which in turn generates an irq_work ad infinitum. Avoid this by raising the recursion counter in the irq_work -- which effectively disables all software events (including tracepoints) from actually triggering again. Reported-by: Vince Weaver Tested-by: Vince Weaver Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Steven Rostedt Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150219170311.GH21418@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cpuset: Fix cpuset sched_relax_domain_level

2015-03-26T14:06:54Z

commit 283cb41f426b723a0255702b761b0fc5d1b53a81 upstream. The cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level can control how far we do immediate load balancing on a system. However, it was found on recent kernels that echo'ing a value into cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level did not reduce any immediate load balancing. The reason this occurred was because the update_domain_attr_tree() traversal did not update for the "top_cpuset". This resulted in nothing being changed when modifying the sched_relax_domain_level parameter. This patch is able to address that problem by having update_domain_attr_tree() allow updates for the root in the cpuset traversal. Fixes: fc560a26acce ("cpuset: replace cpuset->stack_list with cpuset_for_each_descendant_pre()") Signed-off-by: Jason Low Signed-off-by: Zefan Li Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Tested-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

workqueue: fix hang involving racing cancel[_delayed]_work_sync()'s for PREEMPT_NONE

2015-03-26T14:06:54Z

commit 8603e1b30027f943cc9c1eef2b291d42c3347af1 upstream. cancel[_delayed]_work_sync() are implemented using __cancel_work_timer() which grabs the PENDING bit using try_to_grab_pending() and then flushes the work item with PENDING set to prevent the on-going execution of the work item from requeueing itself. try_to_grab_pending() can always grab PENDING bit without blocking except when someone else is doing the above flushing during cancelation. In that case, try_to_grab_pending() returns -ENOENT. In this case, __cancel_work_timer() currently invokes flush_work(). The assumption is that the completion of the work item is what the other canceling task would be waiting for too and thus waiting for the same condition and retrying should allow forward progress without excessive busy looping Unfortunately, this doesn't work if preemption is disabled or the latter task has real time priority. Let's say task A just got woken up from flush_work() by the completion of the target work item. If, before task A starts executing, task B gets scheduled and invokes __cancel_work_timer() on the same work item, its try_to_grab_pending() will return -ENOENT as the work item is still being canceled by task A and flush_work() will also immediately return false as the work item is no longer executing. This puts task B in a busy loop possibly preventing task A from executing and clearing the canceling state on the work item leading to a hang. task A task B worker executing work __cancel_work_timer() try_to_grab_pending() set work CANCELING flush_work() block for work completion completion, wakes up A __cancel_work_timer() while (forever) { try_to_grab_pending() -ENOENT as work is being canceled flush_work() false as work is no longer executing } This patch removes the possible hang by updating __cancel_work_timer() to explicitly wait for clearing of CANCELING rather than invoking flush_work() after try_to_grab_pending() fails with -ENOENT. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20150206171156.GA8942@axis.com v3: bit_waitqueue() can't be used for work items defined in vmalloc area. Switched to custom wake function which matches the target work item and exclusive wait and wakeup. v2: v1 used wake_up() on bit_waitqueue() which leads to NULL deref if the target bit waitqueue has wait_bit_queue's on it. Use DEFINE_WAIT_BIT() and __wake_up_bit() instead. Reported by Tomeu Vizoso. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Rabin Vincent Cc: Tomeu Vizoso Tested-by: Jesper Nilsson Tested-by: Rabin Vincent Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

console: Fix console name size mismatch

2015-03-26T14:06:53Z

commit 30a22c215a0007603ffc08021f2e8b64018517dd upstream. commit 6ae9200f2cab7 ("enlarge console.name") increased the storage for the console name to 16 bytes, but not the corresponding struct console_cmdline::name storage. Console names longer than 8 bytes cause read beyond end-of-string and failure to match console; I'm not sure if there are other unexpected consequences. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ntp: Fixup adjtimex freq validation on 32-bit systems

2015-03-06T22:43:30Z

commit 29183a70b0b828500816bd794b3fe192fce89f73 upstream. Additional validation of adjtimex freq values to avoid potential multiplication overflows were added in commit 5e5aeb4367b (time: adjtimex: Validate the ADJ_FREQUENCY values) Unfortunately the patch used LONG_MAX/MIN instead of LLONG_MAX/MIN, which was fine on 64-bit systems, but being much smaller on 32-bit systems caused false positives resulting in most direct frequency adjustments to fail w/ EINVAL. ntpd only does direct frequency adjustments at startup, so the issue was not as easily observed there, but other time sync applications like ptpd and chrony were more effected by the bug. See bugs: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92481 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1188074 This patch changes the checks to use LLONG_MAX for clarity, and additionally the checks are disabled on 32-bit systems since LLONG_MAX/PPM_SCALE is always larger then the 32-bit long freq value, so multiplication overflows aren't possible there. Reported-by: Josh Boyer Reported-by: George Joseph Tested-by: George Joseph Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Sasha Levin Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1423553436-29747-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org [ Prettified the changelog and the comments a bit. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kdb: fix incorrect counts in KDB summary command output

2015-03-06T22:43:30Z

commit 146755923262037fc4c54abc28c04b1103f3cc51 upstream. The output of KDB 'summary' command should report MemTotal, MemFree and Buffers output in kB. Current codes report in unit of pages. A define of K(x) as is defined in the code, but not used. This patch would apply the define to convert the values to kB. Please include me on Cc on replies. I do not subscribe to linux-kernel. Signed-off-by: Jay Lan Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Fix unmapping loop in tracing_mark_write

2015-03-06T22:43:28Z

commit 7215853e985a4bef1a6c14e00e89dfec84f1e457 upstream. Commit 6edb2a8a385f0cdef51dae37ff23e74d76d8a6ce introduced an array map_pages that contains the addresses returned by kmap_atomic. However, when unmapping those pages, map_pages[0] is unmapped before map_pages[1], breaking the nesting requirement as specified in the documentation for kmap_atomic/kunmap_atomic. This was caught by the highmem debug code present in kunmap_atomic. Fix the loop to do the unmapping properly. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1418871056-6614-1-git-send-email-markivx@codeaurora.org Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd Reported-by: Lime Yang Signed-off-by: Vikram Mulukutla Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

smpboot: Add missing get_online_cpus() in smpboot_register_percpu_thread()

2015-02-11T06:54:49Z

commit 4bee96860a65c3a62d332edac331b3cf936ba3ad upstream. The following race exists in the smpboot percpu threads management: CPU0 CPU1 cpu_up(2) get_online_cpus(); smpboot_create_threads(2); smpboot_register_percpu_thread(); for_each_online_cpu(); __smpboot_create_thread(); __cpu_up(2); This results in a missing per cpu thread for the newly onlined cpu2 and in a NULL pointer dereference on a consecutive offline of that cpu. Proctect smpboot_register_percpu_thread() with get_online_cpus() to prevent that. [ tglx: Massaged changelog and removed the change in smpboot_unregister_percpu_thread() because that's an optimization and therefor not stable material. ] Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat Cc: David Rientjes Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406777421-12830-1-git-send-email-laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

workqueue: fix subtle pool management issue which can stall whole worker_pool

2015-02-06T06:35:52Z

commit 29187a9eeaf362d8422e62e17a22a6e115277a49 upstream. A worker_pool's forward progress is guaranteed by the fact that the last idle worker assumes the manager role to create more workers and summon the rescuers if creating workers doesn't succeed in timely manner before proceeding to execute work items. This manager role is implemented in manage_workers(), which indicates whether the worker may proceed to work item execution with its return value. This is necessary because multiple workers may contend for the manager role, and, if there already is a manager, others should proceed to work item execution. Unfortunately, the function also indicates that the worker may proceed to work item execution if need_to_create_worker() is false at the head of the function. need_to_create_worker() tests the following conditions. pending work items && !nr_running && !nr_idle The first and third conditions are protected by pool->lock and thus won't change while holding pool->lock; however, nr_running can change asynchronously as other workers block and resume and while it's likely to be zero, as someone woke this worker up in the first place, some other workers could have become runnable inbetween making it non-zero. If this happens, manage_worker() could return false even with zero nr_idle making the worker, the last idle one, proceed to execute work items. If then all workers of the pool end up blocking on a resource which can only be released by a work item which is pending on that pool, the whole pool can deadlock as there's no one to create more workers or summon the rescuers. This patch fixes the problem by removing the early exit condition from maybe_create_worker() and making manage_workers() return false iff there's already another manager, which ensures that the last worker doesn't start executing work items. We can leave the early exit condition alone and just ignore the return value but the only reason it was put there is because the manage_workers() used to perform both creations and destructions of workers and thus the function may be invoked while the pool is trying to reduce the number of workers. Now that manage_workers() is called only when more workers are needed, the only case this early exit condition is triggered is rare race conditions rendering it pointless. Tested with simulated workload and modified workqueue code which trigger the pool deadlock reliably without this patch. tj: Updated to v3.14 where manage_workers() is responsible not only for creating more workers but also destroying surplus ones. maybe_create_worker() needs to keep its early exit condition to avoid creating a new worker when manage_workers() is called to destroy surplus ones. Other than that, the adaptabion is straight-forward. Both maybe_{create|destroy}_worker() functions are converted to return void and manage_workers() returns %false iff it lost manager arbitration. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Eric Sandeen Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/54B019F4.8030009@sandeen.net Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: page_alloc: use jump labels to avoid checking number_of_cpusets

2015-01-30T01:40:51Z

commit 664eeddeef6539247691197c1ac124d4aa872ab6 upstream. If cpusets are not in use then we still check a global variable on every page allocation. Use jump labels to avoid the overhead. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Theodore Ts'o Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman