user/sven/linux.git/kernel, branch v3.4.15

kdb,vt_console: Fix missed data due to pager overruns

2012-10-21T16:27:59Z

commit 17b572e82032bc246324ce136696656b66d4e3f1 upstream. It is possible to miss data when using the kdb pager. The kdb pager does not pay attention to the maximum column constraint of the screen or serial terminal. This result is not incrementing the shown lines correctly and the pager will print more lines that fit on the screen. Obviously that is less than useful when using a VGA console where you cannot scroll back. The pager will now look at the kdb_buffer string to see how many characters are printed. It might not be perfect considering you can output ASCII that might move the cursor position, but it is a substantially better approximation for viewing dmesg and trace logs. This also means that the vt screen needs to set the kdb COLUMNS variable. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

timers: Fix endless looping between cascade() and internal_add_timer()

2012-10-21T16:27:59Z

commit 26cff4e2aa4d666dc6a120ea34336b5057e3e187 upstream. Adding two (or more) timers with large values for "expires" (they have to reside within tv5 in the same list) leads to endless looping between cascade() and internal_add_timer() in case CONFIG_BASE_SMALL is one and jiffies are crossing the value 1 << 18. The bug was introduced between 2.6.11 and 2.6.12 (and survived for quite some time). This patch ensures that when cascade() is called timers within tv5 are not added endlessly to their own list again, instead they are added to the next lower tv level tv4 (as expected). Signed-off-by: Christian Hildner Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/98673C87CB31274881CFFE0B65ECC87B0F5FC1963E@DEFTHW99EA4MSX.ww902.siemens.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

module: taint kernel when lve module is loaded

2012-10-21T16:27:59Z

commit c99af3752bb52ba3aece5315279a57a477edfaf1 upstream. Cloudlinux have a product called lve that includes a kernel module. This was previously GPLed but is now under a proprietary license, but the module continues to declare MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") and makes use of some EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL symbols. Forcibly taint it in order to avoid this. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett Cc: Alex Lyashkov Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched: Fix migration thread runtime bogosity

2012-10-12T20:39:01Z

commit 8f6189684eb4e85e6c593cd710693f09c944450a upstream. Make stop scheduler class do the same accounting as other classes, Migration threads can be caught in the act while doing exec balancing, leading to the below due to use of unmaintained ->se.exec_start. The load that triggered this particular instance was an apparently out of control heavily threaded application that does system monitoring in what equated to an exec bomb, with one of the VERY frequently migrated tasks being ps. %CPU PID USER CMD 99.3 45 root [migration/10] 97.7 53 root [migration/12] 97.0 57 root [migration/13] 90.1 49 root [migration/11] 89.6 65 root [migration/15] 88.7 17 root [migration/3] 80.4 37 root [migration/8] 78.1 41 root [migration/9] 44.2 13 root [migration/2] Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344051854.6739.19.camel@marge.simpson.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

CPU hotplug, cpusets, suspend: Don't modify cpusets during suspend/resume

2012-10-12T20:38:57Z

commit d35be8bab9b0ce44bed4b9453f86ebf64062721e upstream. In the event of CPU hotplug, the kernel modifies the cpusets' cpus_allowed masks as and when necessary to ensure that the tasks belonging to the cpusets have some place (online CPUs) to run on. And regular CPU hotplug is destructive in the sense that the kernel doesn't remember the original cpuset configurations set by the user, across hotplug operations. However, suspend/resume (which uses CPU hotplug) is a special case in which the kernel has the responsibility to restore the system (during resume), to exactly the same state it was in before suspend. In order to achieve that, do the following: 1. Don't modify cpusets during suspend/resume. At all. In particular, don't move the tasks from one cpuset to another, and don't modify any cpuset's cpus_allowed mask. So, simply ignore cpusets during the CPU hotplug operations that are carried out in the suspend/resume path. 2. However, cpusets and sched domains are related. We just want to avoid altering cpusets alone. So, to keep the sched domains updated, build a single sched domain (containing all active cpus) during each of the CPU hotplug operations carried out in s/r path, effectively ignoring the cpusets' cpus_allowed masks. (Since userspace is frozen while doing all this, it will go unnoticed.) 3. During the last CPU online operation during resume, build the sched domains by looking up the (unaltered) cpusets' cpus_allowed masks. That will bring back the system to the same original state as it was in before suspend. Ultimately, this will not only solve the cpuset problem related to suspend resume (ie., restores the cpusets to exactly what it was before suspend, by not touching it at all) but also speeds up suspend/resume because we avoid running cpuset update code for every CPU being offlined/onlined. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120524141611.3692.20155.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

rcu: Fix day-one dyntick-idle stall-warning bug

2012-10-12T20:38:55Z

commit a10d206ef1a83121ab7430cb196e0376a7145b22 upstream. Each grace period is supposed to have at least one callback waiting for that grace period to complete. However, if CONFIG_NO_HZ=n, an extra callback-free grace period is no big problem -- it will chew up a tiny bit of CPU time, but it will complete normally. In contrast, CONFIG_NO_HZ=y kernels have the potential for all the CPUs to go to sleep indefinitely, in turn indefinitely delaying completion of the callback-free grace period. Given that nothing is waiting on this grace period, this is also not a problem. That is, unless RCU CPU stall warnings are also enabled, as they are in recent kernels. In this case, if a CPU wakes up after at least one minute of inactivity, an RCU CPU stall warning will result. The reason that no one noticed until quite recently is that most systems have enough OS noise that they will never remain absolutely idle for a full minute. But there are some embedded systems with cut-down userspace configurations that consistently get into this situation. All this begs the question of exactly how a callback-free grace period gets started in the first place. This can happen due to the fact that CPUs do not necessarily agree on which grace period is in progress. If a CPU still believes that the grace period that just completed is still ongoing, it will believe that it has callbacks that need to wait for another grace period, never mind the fact that the grace period that they were waiting for just completed. This CPU can therefore erroneously decide to start a new grace period. Note that this can happen in TREE_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU even on a single-CPU system: Deadlock considerations mean that the CPU that detected the end of the grace period is not necessarily officially informed of this fact for some time. Once this CPU notices that the earlier grace period completed, it will invoke its callbacks. It then won't have any callbacks left. If no other CPU has any callbacks, we now have a callback-free grace period. This commit therefore makes CPUs check more carefully before starting a new grace period. This new check relies on an array of tail pointers into each CPU's list of callbacks. If the CPU is up to date on which grace periods have completed, it checks to see if any callbacks follow the RCU_DONE_TAIL segment, otherwise it checks to see if any callbacks follow the RCU_WAIT_TAIL segment. The reason that this works is that the RCU_WAIT_TAIL segment will be promoted to the RCU_DONE_TAIL segment as soon as the CPU is officially notified that the old grace period has ended. This change is to cpu_needs_another_gp(), which is called in a number of places. The only one that really matters is in rcu_start_gp(), where the root rcu_node structure's ->lock is held, which prevents any other CPU from starting or completing a grace period, so that the comparison that determines whether the CPU is missing the completion of a grace period is stable. Reported-by: Becky Bruce Reported-by: Subodh Nijsure Reported-by: Paul Walmsley Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Tested-by: Paul Walmsley Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

workqueue: add missing smp_wmb() in process_one_work()

2012-10-12T20:38:39Z

commit 959d1af8cffc8fd38ed53e8be1cf4ab8782f9c00 upstream. WORK_STRUCT_PENDING is used to claim ownership of a work item and process_one_work() releases it before starting execution. When someone else grabs PENDING, all pre-release updates to the work item should be visible and all updates made by the new owner should happen afterwards. Grabbing PENDING uses test_and_set_bit() and thus has a full barrier; however, clearing doesn't have a matching wmb. Given the preceding spin_unlock and use of clear_bit, I don't believe this can be a problem on an actual machine and there hasn't been any related report but it still is theretically possible for clear_pending to permeate upwards and happen before work->entry update. Add an explicit smp_wmb() before work_clear_pending(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kernel/sys.c: call disable_nonboot_cpus() in kernel_restart()

2012-10-12T20:38:38Z

commit f96972f2dc6365421cf2366ebd61ee4cf060c8d5 upstream. As kernel_power_off() calls disable_nonboot_cpus(), we may also want to have kernel_restart() call disable_nonboot_cpus(). Doing so can help machines that require boot cpu be the last alive cpu during reboot to survive with kernel restart. This fixes one reboot issue seen on imx6q (Cortex-A9 Quad). The machine requires that the restart routine be run on the primary cpu rather than secondary ones. Otherwise, the secondary core running the restart routine will fail to come to online after reboot. Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kthread_worker: reimplement flush_kthread_work() to allow freeing the work item being executed

2012-10-02T17:30:40Z

commit 46f3d976213452350f9d10b0c2780c2681f7075b upstream. kthread_worker provides minimalistic workqueue-like interface for users which need a dedicated worker thread (e.g. for realtime priority). It has basic queue, flush_work, flush_worker operations which mostly match the workqueue counterparts; however, due to the way flush_work() is implemented, it has a noticeable difference of not allowing work items to be freed while being executed. While the current users of kthread_worker are okay with the current behavior, the restriction does impede some valid use cases. Also, removing this difference isn't difficult and actually makes the code easier to understand. This patch reimplements flush_kthread_work() such that it uses a flush_work item instead of queue/done sequence numbers. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Colin Cross Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kthread_worker: reorganize to prepare for flush_kthread_work() reimplementation

2012-10-02T17:30:38Z

commit 9a2e03d8ed518a61154f18d83d6466628e519f94 upstream. Make the following two non-functional changes. * Separate out insert_kthread_work() from queue_kthread_work(). * Relocate struct kthread_flush_work and kthread_flush_work_fn() definitions above flush_kthread_work(). v2: Added lockdep_assert_held() in insert_kthread_work() as suggested by Andy Walls. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Andy Walls Cc: Colin Cross Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman