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Konstantin Khlebnikov c3f0327f8e mm: add rss counters consistency check
Warn about non-zero rss counters at final mmdrop.

This check will prevent reoccurences of bugs such as that fixed in "mm:
fix rss count leakage during migration".

I didn't hide this check under CONFIG_VM_DEBUG because it rather small and
rss counters cover whole page-table management, so this is a good
invariant.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-21 17:54:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 3556485f15 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security
Pull security subsystem updates for 3.4 from James Morris:
 "The main addition here is the new Yama security module from Kees Cook,
  which was discussed at the Linux Security Summit last year.  Its
  purpose is to collect miscellaneous DAC security enhancements in one
  place.  This also marks a departure in policy for LSM modules, which
  were previously limited to being standalone access control systems.
  Chromium OS is using Yama, and I believe there are plans for Ubuntu,
  at least.

  This patchset also includes maintenance updates for AppArmor, TOMOYO
  and others."

Fix trivial conflict in <net/sock.h> due to the jumo_label->static_key
rename.

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (38 commits)
  AppArmor: Fix location of const qualifier on generated string tables
  TOMOYO: Return error if fails to delete a domain
  AppArmor: add const qualifiers to string arrays
  AppArmor: Add ability to load extended policy
  TOMOYO: Return appropriate value to poll().
  AppArmor: Move path failure information into aa_get_name and rename
  AppArmor: Update dfa matching routines.
  AppArmor: Minor cleanup of d_namespace_path to consolidate error handling
  AppArmor: Retrieve the dentry_path for error reporting when path lookup fails
  AppArmor: Add const qualifiers to generated string tables
  AppArmor: Fix oops in policy unpack auditing
  AppArmor: Fix error returned when a path lookup is disconnected
  KEYS: testing wrong bit for KEY_FLAG_REVOKED
  TOMOYO: Fix mount flags checking order.
  security: fix ima kconfig warning
  AppArmor: Fix the error case for chroot relative path name lookup
  AppArmor: fix mapping of META_READ to audit and quiet flags
  AppArmor: Fix underflow in xindex calculation
  AppArmor: Fix dropping of allowed operations that are force audited
  AppArmor: Add mising end of structure test to caps unpacking
  ...
2012-03-21 13:25:04 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 5f8aadd8b9 CLONE_PARENT shouldn't allow to set ->exit_signal
The child must not control its ->exit_signal, it is the parent who
decides which signal the child should use for notification.

This means that CLONE_PARENT should not use "clone_flags & CSIGNAL",
the forking task is the sibling of the new process and their parent
doesn't control exit_signal in this case.

This patch uses ->exit_signal of the forking process, but perhaps
we should simply use SIGCHLD.

We read group_leader->exit_signal lockless, this can race with the
ORIGINAL_SIGNAL -> SIGCHLD transition, but this is fine.

Potentially this change allows to kill self_exec_id/parent_exec_id.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-20 14:16:50 -07:00
Srikar Dronamraju 0326f5a94d uprobes/core: Handle breakpoint and singlestep exceptions
Uprobes uses exception notifiers to get to know if a thread hit
a breakpoint or a singlestep exception.

When a thread hits a uprobe or is singlestepping post a uprobe
hit, the uprobe exception notifier sets its TIF_UPROBE bit,
which will then be checked on its return to userspace path
(do_notify_resume() ->uprobe_notify_resume()), where the
consumers handlers are run (in task context) based on the
defined filters.

Uprobe hits are thread specific and hence we need to maintain
information about if a task hit a uprobe, what uprobe was hit,
the slot where the original instruction was copied for xol so
that it can be singlestepped with appropriate fixups.

In some cases, special care is needed for instructions that are
executed out of line (xol). These are architecture specific
artefacts, such as handling RIP relative instructions on x86_64.

Since the instruction at which the uprobe was inserted is
executed out of line, architecture specific fixups are added so
that the thread continues normal execution in the presence of a
uprobe.

Postpone the signals until we execute the probed insn.
post_xol() path does a recalc_sigpending() before return to
user-mode, this ensures the signal can't be lost.

Uprobes relies on DIE_DEBUG notification to notify if a
singlestep is complete.

Adds x86 specific uprobe exception notifiers and appropriate
hooks needed to determine a uprobe hit and subsequent post
processing.

Add requisite x86 fixups for xol for uprobes. Specific cases
needing fixups include relative jumps (x86_64), calls, etc.

Where possible, we check and skip singlestepping the
breakpointed instructions. For now we skip single byte as well
as few multibyte nop instructions. However this can be extended
to other instructions too.

Credits to Oleg Nesterov for suggestions/patches related to
signal, breakpoint, singlestep handling code.

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120313180011.29771.89027.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com
[ Performed various cleanliness edits ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-14 07:41:36 +01:00
Tejun Heo 3d48749d93 block: ioc_task_link() can't fail
ioc_task_link() is used to share %current's ioc on clone.  If
%current->io_context is set, %current is guaranteed to have refcount
on the ioc and, thus, ioc_task_link() can't fail.

Replace error checking in ioc_task_link() with WARN_ON_ONCE() and make
it just increment refcount and nr_tasks.

-v2: Description typo fix (Vivek).

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-03-06 21:27:24 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov 6e27f63edb vfork: kill PF_STARTING
Previously it was (ab)used by utrace.  Then it was wrongly used by the
scheduler code.

Currently it is not used, kill it before it finds the new erroneous user.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-05 15:49:42 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 57b59c4a14 coredump_wait: don't call complete_vfork_done()
Now that CLONE_VFORK is killable, coredump_wait() no longer needs
complete_vfork_done().  zap_threads() should find and kill all tasks with
the same ->mm, this includes our parent if ->vfork_done is set.

mm_release() becomes the only caller, unexport complete_vfork_done().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-05 15:49:42 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov d68b46fe16 vfork: make it killable
Make vfork() killable.

Change do_fork(CLONE_VFORK) to do wait_for_completion_killable().  If it
fails we do not return to the user-mode and never touch the memory shared
with our child.

However, in this case we should clear child->vfork_done before return, we
use task_lock() in do_fork()->wait_for_vfork_done() and
complete_vfork_done() to serialize with each other.

Note: now that we use task_lock() we don't really need completion, we
could turn task->vfork_done into "task_struct *wake_up_me" but this needs
some complications.

NOTE: this and the next patches do not affect in-kernel users of
CLONE_VFORK, kernel threads run with all signals ignored including
SIGKILL/SIGSTOP.

However this is obviously the user-visible change.  Not only a fatal
signal can kill the vforking parent, a sub-thread can do execve or
exit_group() and kill the thread sleeping in vfork().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-05 15:49:42 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov c415c3b47e vfork: introduce complete_vfork_done()
No functional changes.

Move the clear-and-complete-vfork_done code into the new trivial helper,
complete_vfork_done().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-05 15:49:42 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov d80e731eca epoll: introduce POLLFREE to flush ->signalfd_wqh before kfree()
This patch is intentionally incomplete to simplify the review.
It ignores ep_unregister_pollwait() which plays with the same wqh.
See the next change.

epoll assumes that the EPOLL_CTL_ADD'ed file controls everything
f_op->poll() needs. In particular it assumes that the wait queue
can't go away until eventpoll_release(). This is not true in case
of signalfd, the task which does EPOLL_CTL_ADD uses its ->sighand
which is not connected to the file.

This patch adds the special event, POLLFREE, currently only for
epoll. It expects that init_poll_funcptr()'ed hook should do the
necessary cleanup. Perhaps it should be defined as EPOLLFREE in
eventpoll.

__cleanup_sighand() is changed to do wake_up_poll(POLLFREE) if
->signalfd_wqh is not empty, we add the new signalfd_cleanup()
helper.

ep_poll_callback(POLLFREE) simply does list_del_init(task_list).
This make this poll entry inconsistent, but we don't care. If you
share epoll fd which contains our sigfd with another process you
should blame yourself. signalfd is "really special". I simply do
not know how we can define the "right" semantics if it used with
epoll.

The main problem is, epoll calls signalfd_poll() once to establish
the connection with the wait queue, after that signalfd_poll(NULL)
returns the different/inconsistent results depending on who does
EPOLL_CTL_MOD/signalfd_read/etc. IOW: apart from sigmask, signalfd
has nothing to do with the file, it works with the current thread.

In short: this patch is the hack which tries to fix the symptoms.
It also assumes that nobody can take tasklist_lock under epoll
locks, this seems to be true.

Note:

	- we do not have wake_up_all_poll() but wake_up_poll()
	  is fine, poll/epoll doesn't use WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE.

	- signalfd_cleanup() uses POLLHUP along with POLLFREE,
	  we need a couple of simple changes in eventpoll.c to
	  make sure it can't be "lost".

Reported-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-24 11:42:50 -08:00
Al Viro 191c542442 mm: collapse security_vm_enough_memory() variants into a single function
Collapse security_vm_enough_memory() variants into a single function.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2012-02-14 10:45:39 +11:00
Linus Torvalds 3ec1e88b33 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Says Jens:

 "Time to push off some of the pending items.  I really wanted to wait
  until we had the regression nailed, but alas it's not quite there yet.
  But I'm very confident that it's "just" a missing expire on exit, so
  fix from Tejun should be fairly trivial.  I'm headed out for a week on
  the slopes.

  - Killing the barrier part of mtip32xx.  It doesn't really support
    barriers, and it doesn't need them (writes are fully ordered).

  - A few fixes from Dan Carpenter, preventing overflows of integer
    multiplication.

  - A fixup for loop, fixing a previous commit that didn't quite solve
    the partial read problem from Dave Young.

  - A bio integer overflow fix from Kent Overstreet.

  - Improvement/fix of the door "keep locked" part of the cdrom shared
    code from Paolo Benzini.

  - A few cfq fixes from Shaohua Li.

  - A fix for bsg sysfs warning when removing a file it did not create
    from Stanislaw Gruszka.

  - Two fixes for floppy from Vivek, preventing a crash.

  - A few block core fixes from Tejun.  One killing the over-optimized
    ioc exit path, cleaning that up nicely.  Two others fixing an oops
    on elevator switch, due to calling into the scheduler merge check
    code without holding the queue lock."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block: fix lockdep warning on io_context release put_io_context()
  relay: prevent integer overflow in relay_open()
  loop: zero fill bio instead of return -EIO for partial read
  bio: don't overflow in bio_get_nr_vecs()
  floppy: Fix a crash during rmmod
  floppy: Cleanup disk->queue before caling put_disk() if add_disk() was never called
  cdrom: move shared static to cdrom_device_info
  bsg: fix sysfs link remove warning
  block: don't call elevator callbacks for plug merges
  block: separate out blk_rq_merge_ok() and blk_try_merge() from elevator functions
  mtip32xx: removed the irrelevant argument of mtip_hw_submit_io() and the unused member of struct driver_data
  block: strip out locking optimization in put_io_context()
  cdrom: use copy_to_user() without the underscores
  block: fix ioc locking warning
  block: fix NULL icq_cache reference
  block,cfq: change code order
2012-02-11 10:07:11 -08:00
Kees Cook 1a2a4d06e1 security: create task_free security callback
The current LSM interface to cred_free is not sufficient for allowing
an LSM to track the life and death of a task. This patch adds the
task_free hook so that an LSM can clean up resources on task death.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2012-02-10 09:14:51 +11:00
Tejun Heo 11a3122f6c block: strip out locking optimization in put_io_context()
put_io_context() performed a complex trylock dancing to avoid
deferring ioc release to workqueue.  It was also broken on UP because
trylock was always assumed to succeed which resulted in unbalanced
preemption count.

While there are ways to fix the UP breakage, even the most
pathological microbench (forced ioc allocation and tight fork/exit
loop) fails to show any appreciable performance benefit of the
optimization.  Strip it out.  If there turns out to be workloads which
are affected by this change, simpler optimization from the discussion
thread can be applied later.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1328514611.21268.66.camel@sli10-conroe>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-02-07 07:51:30 +01:00
Christopher Yeoh 8cdb878dcb Fix race in process_vm_rw_core
This fixes the race in process_vm_core found by Oleg (see

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1235667/

for details).

This has been updated since I last sent it as the creation of the new
mm_access() function did almost exactly the same thing as parts of the
previous version of this patch did.

In order to use mm_access() even when /proc isn't enabled, we move it to
kernel/fork.c where other related process mm access functions already
are.

Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh <yeohc@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-02 12:55:17 -08:00
Linus Torvalds f429ee3b80 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit: (29 commits)
  audit: no leading space in audit_log_d_path prefix
  audit: treat s_id as an untrusted string
  audit: fix signedness bug in audit_log_execve_info()
  audit: comparison on interprocess fields
  audit: implement all object interfield comparisons
  audit: allow interfield comparison between gid and ogid
  audit: complex interfield comparison helper
  audit: allow interfield comparison in audit rules
  Kernel: Audit Support For The ARM Platform
  audit: do not call audit_getname on error
  audit: only allow tasks to set their loginuid if it is -1
  audit: remove task argument to audit_set_loginuid
  audit: allow audit matching on inode gid
  audit: allow matching on obj_uid
  audit: remove audit_finish_fork as it can't be called
  audit: reject entry,always rules
  audit: inline audit_free to simplify the look of generic code
  audit: drop audit_set_macxattr as it doesn't do anything
  audit: inline checks for not needing to collect aux records
  audit: drop some potentially inadvisable likely notations
  ...

Use evil merge to fix up grammar mistakes in Kconfig file.

Bad speling and horrible grammar (and copious swearing) is to be
expected, but let's keep it to commit messages and comments, rather than
expose it to users in config help texts or printouts.
2012-01-17 16:41:31 -08:00
Eric Paris 6422e78de6 audit: remove audit_finish_fork as it can't be called
Audit entry,always rules are not allowed and are automatically changed in
exit,always rules in userspace.  The kernel refuses to load such rules.

Thus a task in the middle of a syscall (and thus in audit_finish_fork())
can only be in one of two states: AUDIT_BUILD_CONTEXT or AUDIT_DISABLED.
Since the current task cannot be in AUDIT_RECORD_CONTEXT we aren't every
going to actually use the code in audit_finish_fork() since it will
return without doing anything.  Thus drop the code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2012-01-17 16:16:59 -05:00
Linus Torvalds b3c9dd182e Merge branch 'for-3.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
* 'for-3.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (37 commits)
  Revert "block: recursive merge requests"
  block: Stop using macro stubs for the bio data integrity calls
  blockdev: convert some macros to static inlines
  fs: remove unneeded plug in mpage_readpages()
  block: Add BLKROTATIONAL ioctl
  block: Introduce blk_set_stacking_limits function
  block: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() in exit_io_context()
  block: an exiting task should be allowed to create io_context
  block: ioc_cgroup_changed() needs to be exported
  block: recursive merge requests
  block, cfq: fix empty queue crash caused by request merge
  block, cfq: move icq creation and rq->elv.icq association to block core
  block, cfq: restructure io_cq creation path for io_context interface cleanup
  block, cfq: move io_cq exit/release to blk-ioc.c
  block, cfq: move icq cache management to block core
  block, cfq: move io_cq lookup to blk-ioc.c
  block, cfq: move cfqd->icq_list to request_queue and add request->elv.icq
  block, cfq: reorganize cfq_io_context into generic and cfq specific parts
  block: remove elevator_queue->ops
  block: reorder elevator switch sequence
  ...

Fix up conflicts in:
 - block/blk-cgroup.c
	Switch from can_attach_task to can_attach
 - block/cfq-iosched.c
	conflict with now removed cic index changes (we now use q->id instead)
2012-01-15 12:24:45 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 001a541ea9 Merge branch 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux
* 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
  writeback: move MIN_WRITEBACK_PAGES to fs-writeback.c
  writeback: balanced_rate cannot exceed write bandwidth
  writeback: do strict bdi dirty_exceeded
  writeback: avoid tiny dirty poll intervals
  writeback: max, min and target dirty pause time
  writeback: dirty ratelimit - think time compensation
  btrfs: fix dirtied pages accounting on sub-page writes
  writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on redirty
  writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on sub-page writes
  writeback: charge leaked page dirties to active tasks
  writeback: Include all dirty inodes in background writeback
2012-01-10 16:59:59 -08:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 43d2b11324 tracepoint: add tracepoints for debugging oom_score_adj
oom_score_adj is used for guarding processes from OOM-Killer.  One of
problem is that it's inherited at fork().  When a daemon set oom_score_adj
and make children, it's hard to know where the value is set.

This patch adds some tracepoints useful for debugging. This patch adds
3 trace points.
  - creating new task
  - renaming a task (exec)
  - set oom_score_adj

To debug, users need to enable some trace pointer. Maybe filtering is useful as

# EVENT=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/task/
# echo "oom_score_adj != 0" > $EVENT/task_newtask/filter
# echo "oom_score_adj != 0" > $EVENT/task_rename/filter
# echo 1 > $EVENT/enable
# EVENT=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/oom/
# echo 1 > $EVENT/enable

output will be like this.
# grep oom /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
bash-7699  [007] d..3  5140.744510: oom_score_adj_update: pid=7699 comm=bash oom_score_adj=-1000
bash-7699  [007] ...1  5151.818022: task_newtask: pid=7729 comm=bash clone_flags=1200011 oom_score_adj=-1000
ls-7729  [003] ...2  5151.818504: task_rename: pid=7729 oldcomm=bash newcomm=ls oom_score_adj=-1000
bash-7699  [002] ...1  5175.701468: task_newtask: pid=7730 comm=bash clone_flags=1200011 oom_score_adj=-1000
grep-7730  [007] ...2  5175.701993: task_rename: pid=7730 oldcomm=bash newcomm=grep oom_score_adj=-1000

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-10 16:30:44 -08:00
Linus Torvalds db0c2bf69a Merge branch 'for-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
* 'for-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (21 commits)
  cgroup: fix to allow mounting a hierarchy by name
  cgroup: move assignement out of condition in cgroup_attach_proc()
  cgroup: Remove task_lock() from cgroup_post_fork()
  cgroup: add sparse annotation to cgroup_iter_start() and cgroup_iter_end()
  cgroup: mark cgroup_rmdir_waitq and cgroup_attach_proc() as static
  cgroup: only need to check oldcgrp==newgrp once
  cgroup: remove redundant get/put of task struct
  cgroup: remove redundant get/put of old css_set from migrate
  cgroup: Remove unnecessary task_lock before fetching css_set on migration
  cgroup: Drop task_lock(parent) on cgroup_fork()
  cgroups: remove redundant get/put of css_set from css_set_check_fetched()
  resource cgroups: remove bogus cast
  cgroup: kill subsys->can_attach_task(), pre_attach() and attach_task()
  cgroup, cpuset: don't use ss->pre_attach()
  cgroup: don't use subsys->can_attach_task() or ->attach_task()
  cgroup: introduce cgroup_taskset and use it in subsys->can_attach(), cancel_attach() and attach()
  cgroup: improve old cgroup handling in cgroup_attach_proc()
  cgroup: always lock threadgroup during migration
  threadgroup: extend threadgroup_lock() to cover exit and exec
  threadgroup: rename signal->threadgroup_fork_lock to ->group_rwsem
  ...

Fix up conflict in kernel/cgroup.c due to commit e0197aae59e5: "cgroups:
fix a css_set not found bug in cgroup_attach_proc" that already
mentioned that the bug is fixed (differently) in Tejun's cgroup
patchset. This one, in other words.
2012-01-09 12:59:24 -08:00
Linus Torvalds eb59c505f8 Merge branch 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
* 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (76 commits)
  PM / Hibernate: Implement compat_ioctl for /dev/snapshot
  PM / Freezer: fix return value of freezable_schedule_timeout_killable()
  PM / shmobile: Allow the A4R domain to be turned off at run time
  PM / input / touchscreen: Make st1232 use device PM QoS constraints
  PM / QoS: Introduce dev_pm_qos_add_ancestor_request()
  PM / shmobile: Remove the stay_on flag from SH7372's PM domains
  PM / shmobile: Don't include SH7372's INTCS in syscore suspend/resume
  PM / shmobile: Add support for the sh7372 A4S power domain / sleep mode
  PM: Drop generic_subsys_pm_ops
  PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from AMBA bus type
  PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from platform bus type
  PM: Run the driver callback directly if the subsystem one is not there
  PM / Sleep: Make pm_op() and pm_noirq_op() return callback pointers
  PM/Devfreq: Add Exynos4-bus device DVFS driver for Exynos4210/4212/4412.
  PM / Sleep: Merge internal functions in generic_ops.c
  PM / Sleep: Simplify generic system suspend callbacks
  PM / Hibernate: Remove deprecated hibernation snapshot ioctls
  PM / Sleep: Fix freezer failures due to racy usermodehelper_is_disabled()
  ARM: S3C64XX: Implement basic power domain support
  PM / shmobile: Use common always on power domain governor
  ...

Fix up trivial conflict in fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c due to removal of unused
XBT_FORCE_SLEEP bit
2012-01-08 13:10:57 -08:00
Wu Fengguang 83712358ba writeback: dirty ratelimit - think time compensation
Compensate the task's think time when computing the final pause time,
so that ->dirty_ratelimit can be executed accurately.

        think time := time spend outside of balance_dirty_pages()

In the rare case that the task slept longer than the 200ms period time
(result in negative pause time), the sleep time will be compensated in
the following periods, too, if it's less than 1 second.

Accumulated errors are carefully avoided as long as the max pause area
is not hitted.

Pseudo code:

        period = pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit;
        think = jiffies - dirty_paused_when;
        pause = period - think;

1) normal case: period > think

        pause = period - think
        dirty_paused_when = jiffies + pause
        nr_dirtied = 0

                             period time
              |===============================>|
                  think time      pause time
              |===============>|==============>|
        ------|----------------|---------------|------------------------
        dirty_paused_when   jiffies

2) no pause case: period <= think

        don't pause; reduce future pause time by:
        dirty_paused_when += period
        nr_dirtied = 0

                           period time
              |===============================>|
                                  think time
              |===================================================>|
        ------|--------------------------------+-------------------|----
        dirty_paused_when                                       jiffies

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-12-18 14:20:27 +08:00
Martin Schwidefsky 648616343c [S390] cputime: add sparse checking and cleanup
Make cputime_t and cputime64_t nocast to enable sparse checking to
detect incorrect use of cputime. Drop the cputime macros for simple
scalar operations. The conversion macros are still needed.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2011-12-15 14:56:19 +01:00
Tejun Heo b2efa05265 block, cfq: unlink cfq_io_context's immediately
cic is association between io_context and request_queue.  A cic is
linked from both ioc and q and should be destroyed when either one
goes away.  As ioc and q both have their own locks, locking becomes a
bit complex - both orders work for removal from one but not from the
other.

Currently, cfq tries to circumvent this locking order issue with RCU.
ioc->lock nests inside queue_lock but the radix tree and cic's are
also protected by RCU allowing either side to walk their lists without
grabbing lock.

This rather unconventional use of RCU quickly devolves into extremely
fragile convolution.  e.g. The following is from cfqd going away too
soon after ioc and q exits raced.

 general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 CPU 2
 Modules linked in:
 [   88.503444]
 Pid: 599, comm: hexdump Not tainted 3.1.0-rc10-work+ #158 Bochs Bochs
 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81397628>]  [<ffffffff81397628>] cfq_exit_single_io_context+0x58/0xf0
 ...
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff81395a4a>] call_for_each_cic+0x5a/0x90
  [<ffffffff81395ab5>] cfq_exit_io_context+0x15/0x20
  [<ffffffff81389130>] exit_io_context+0x100/0x140
  [<ffffffff81098a29>] do_exit+0x579/0x850
  [<ffffffff81098d5b>] do_group_exit+0x5b/0xd0
  [<ffffffff81098de7>] sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
  [<ffffffff81b02f2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

The only real hot path here is cic lookup during request
initialization and avoiding extra locking requires very confined use
of RCU.  This patch makes cic removal from both ioc and request_queue
perform double-locking and unlink immediately.

* From q side, the change is almost trivial as ioc->lock nests inside
  queue_lock.  It just needs to grab each ioc->lock as it walks
  cic_list and unlink it.

* From ioc side, it's a bit more difficult because of inversed lock
  order.  ioc needs its lock to walk its cic_list but can't grab the
  matching queue_lock and needs to perform unlock-relock dancing.

  Unlinking is now wholly done from put_io_context() and fast path is
  optimized by using the queue_lock the caller already holds, which is
  by far the most common case.  If the ioc accessed multiple devices,
  it tries with trylock.  In unlikely cases of fast path failure, it
  falls back to full double-locking dance from workqueue.

Double-locking isn't the prettiest thing in the world but it's *far*
simpler and more understandable than RCU trick without adding any
meaningful overhead.

This still leaves a lot of now unnecessary RCU logics.  Future patches
will trim them.

-v2: Vivek pointed out that cic->q was being dereferenced after
     cic->release() was called.  Updated to use local variable @this_q
     instead.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:39 +01:00
Tejun Heo 6e736be7f2 block: make ioc get/put interface more conventional and fix race on alloction
Ignoring copy_io() during fork, io_context can be allocated from two
places - current_io_context() and set_task_ioprio().  The former is
always called from local task while the latter can be called from
different task.  The synchornization between them are peculiar and
dubious.

* current_io_context() doesn't grab task_lock() and assumes that if it
  saw %NULL ->io_context, it would stay that way until allocation and
  assignment is complete.  It has smp_wmb() between alloc/init and
  assignment.

* set_task_ioprio() grabs task_lock() for assignment and does
  smp_read_barrier_depends() between "ioc = task->io_context" and "if
  (ioc)".  Unfortunately, this doesn't achieve anything - the latter
  is not a dependent load of the former.  ie, if ioc itself were being
  dereferenced "ioc->xxx", it would mean something (not sure what tho)
  but as the code currently stands, the dependent read barrier is
  noop.

As only one of the the two test-assignment sequences is task_lock()
protected, the task_lock() can't do much about race between the two.
Nothing prevents current_io_context() and set_task_ioprio() allocating
its own ioc for the same task and overwriting the other's.

Also, set_task_ioprio() can race with exiting task and create a new
ioc after exit_io_context() is finished.

ioc get/put doesn't have any reason to be complex.  The only hot path
is accessing the existing ioc of %current, which is simple to achieve
given that ->io_context is never destroyed as long as the task is
alive.  All other paths can happily go through task_lock() like all
other task sub structures without impacting anything.

This patch updates ioc get/put so that it becomes more conventional.

* alloc_io_context() is replaced with get_task_io_context().  This is
  the only interface which can acquire access to ioc of another task.
  On return, the caller has an explicit reference to the object which
  should be put using put_io_context() afterwards.

* The functionality of current_io_context() remains the same but when
  creating a new ioc, it shares the code path with
  get_task_io_context() and always goes through task_lock().

* get_io_context() now means incrementing ref on an ioc which the
  caller already has access to (be that an explicit refcnt or implicit
  %current one).

* PF_EXITING inhibits creation of new io_context and once
  exit_io_context() is finished, it's guaranteed that both ioc
  acquisition functions return %NULL.

* All users are updated.  Most are trivial but
  smp_read_barrier_depends() removal from cfq_get_io_context() needs a
  bit of explanation.  I suppose the original intention was to ensure
  ioc->ioprio is visible when set_task_ioprio() allocates new
  io_context and installs it; however, this wouldn't have worked
  because set_task_ioprio() doesn't have wmb between init and install.
  There are other problems with this which will be fixed in another
  patch.

* While at it, use NUMA_NO_NODE instead of -1 for wildcard node
  specification.

-v2: Vivek spotted contamination from debug patch.  Removed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-12-14 00:33:38 +01:00
Tejun Heo 257058ae2b threadgroup: rename signal->threadgroup_fork_lock to ->group_rwsem
Make the following renames to prepare for extension of threadgroup
locking.

* s/signal->threadgroup_fork_lock/signal->group_rwsem/
* s/threadgroup_fork_read_lock()/threadgroup_change_begin()/
* s/threadgroup_fork_read_unlock()/threadgroup_change_end()/
* s/threadgroup_fork_write_lock()/threadgroup_lock()/
* s/threadgroup_fork_write_unlock()/threadgroup_unlock()/

This patch doesn't cause any behavior change.

-v2: Rename threadgroup_change_done() to threadgroup_change_end() per
     KAMEZAWA's suggestion.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
2011-12-12 18:12:21 -08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 986b11c3ee Merge branch 'pm-freezer' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into pm-freezer
* 'pm-freezer' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc: (24 commits)
  freezer: fix wait_event_freezable/__thaw_task races
  freezer: kill unused set_freezable_with_signal()
  dmatest: don't use set_freezable_with_signal()
  usb_storage: don't use set_freezable_with_signal()
  freezer: remove unused @sig_only from freeze_task()
  freezer: use lock_task_sighand() in fake_signal_wake_up()
  freezer: restructure __refrigerator()
  freezer: fix set_freezable[_with_signal]() race
  freezer: remove should_send_signal() and update frozen()
  freezer: remove now unused TIF_FREEZE
  freezer: make freezing() test freeze conditions in effect instead of TIF_FREEZE
  cgroup_freezer: prepare for removal of TIF_FREEZE
  freezer: clean up freeze_processes() failure path
  freezer: kill PF_FREEZING
  freezer: test freezable conditions while holding freezer_lock
  freezer: make freezing indicate freeze condition in effect
  freezer: use dedicated lock instead of task_lock() + memory barrier
  freezer: don't distinguish nosig tasks on thaw
  freezer: remove racy clear_freeze_flag() and set PF_NOFREEZE on dead tasks
  freezer: rename thaw_process() to __thaw_task() and simplify the implementation
  ...
2011-11-23 21:09:02 +01:00
Tejun Heo a3201227f8 freezer: make freezing() test freeze conditions in effect instead of TIF_FREEZE
Using TIF_FREEZE for freezing worked when there was only single
freezing condition (the PM one); however, now there is also the
cgroup_freezer and single bit flag is getting clumsy.
thaw_processes() is already testing whether cgroup freezing in in
effect to avoid thawing tasks which were frozen by both PM and cgroup
freezers.

This is racy (nothing prevents race against cgroup freezing) and
fragile.  A much simpler way is to test actual freeze conditions from
freezing() - ie. directly test whether PM or cgroup freezing is in
effect.

This patch adds variables to indicate whether and what type of
freezing conditions are in effect and reimplements freezing() such
that it directly tests whether any of the two freezing conditions is
active and the task should freeze.  On fast path, freezing() is still
very cheap - it only tests system_freezing_cnt.

This makes the clumsy dancing aroung TIF_FREEZE unnecessary and
freeze/thaw operations more usual - updating state variables for the
new state and nudging target tasks so that they notice the new state
and comply.  As long as the nudging happens after state update, it's
race-free.

* This allows use of freezing() in freeze_task().  Replace the open
  coded tests with freezing().

* p != current test is added to warning printing conditions in
  try_to_freeze_tasks() failure path.  This is necessary as freezing()
  is now true for the task which initiated freezing too.

-v2: Oleg pointed out that re-freezing FROZEN cgroup could increment
     system_freezing_cnt.  Fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>  (for the cgroup portions)
2011-11-21 12:32:25 -08:00
Wu Fengguang 468e6a20af writeback: remove vm_dirties and task->dirties
They are not used any more.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-11-17 20:49:06 +08:00
Linus Torvalds 208bca0860 Merge branch 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux
* 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
  writeback: Add a 'reason' to wb_writeback_work
  writeback: send work item to queue_io, move_expired_inodes
  writeback: trace event balance_dirty_pages
  writeback: trace event bdi_dirty_ratelimit
  writeback: fix ppc compile warnings on do_div(long long, unsigned long)
  writeback: per-bdi background threshold
  writeback: dirty position control - bdi reserve area
  writeback: control dirty pause time
  writeback: limit max dirty pause time
  writeback: IO-less balance_dirty_pages()
  writeback: per task dirty rate limit
  writeback: stabilize bdi->dirty_ratelimit
  writeback: dirty rate control
  writeback: add bg_threshold parameter to __bdi_update_bandwidth()
  writeback: dirty position control
  writeback: account per-bdi accumulated dirtied pages
2011-11-06 19:02:23 -08:00
David Rientjes c9f01245b6 oom: remove oom_disable_count
This removes mm->oom_disable_count entirely since it's unnecessary and
currently buggy.  The counter was intended to be per-process but it's
currently decremented in the exit path for each thread that exits, causing
it to underflow.

The count was originally intended to prevent oom killing threads that
share memory with threads that cannot be killed since it doesn't lead to
future memory freeing.  The counter could be fixed to represent all
threads sharing the same mm, but it's better to remove the count since:

 - it is possible that the OOM_DISABLE thread sharing memory with the
   victim is waiting on that thread to exit and will actually cause
   future memory freeing, and

 - there is no guarantee that a thread is disabled from oom killing just
   because another thread sharing its mm is oom disabled.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31 17:30:45 -07:00
Wu Fengguang 9d823e8f6b writeback: per task dirty rate limit
Add two fields to task_struct.

1) account dirtied pages in the individual tasks, for accuracy
2) per-task balance_dirty_pages() call intervals, for flexibility

The balance_dirty_pages() call interval (ie. nr_dirtied_pause) will
scale near-sqrt to the safety gap between dirty pages and threshold.

The main problem of per-task nr_dirtied is, if 1k+ tasks start dirtying
pages at exactly the same time, each task will be assigned a large
initial nr_dirtied_pause, so that the dirty threshold will be exceeded
long before each task reached its nr_dirtied_pause and hence call
balance_dirty_pages().

The solution is to watch for the number of pages dirtied on each CPU in
between the calls into balance_dirty_pages(). If it exceeds ratelimit_pages
(3% dirty threshold), force call balance_dirty_pages() for a chance to
set bdi->dirty_exceeded. In normal situations, this safeguarding
condition is not expected to trigger at all.

On the sqrt in dirty_poll_interval():

It will serve as an initial guess when dirty pages are still in the
freerun area.

When dirty pages are floating inside the dirty control scope [freerun,
limit], a followup patch will use some refined dirty poll interval to
get the desired pause time.

   thresh-dirty (MB)    sqrt
		   1      16
		   2      22
		   4      32
		   8      45
		  16      64
		  32      90
		  64     128
		 128     181
		 256     256
		 512     362
		1024     512

The above table means, given 1MB (or 1GB) gap and the dd tasks polling
balance_dirty_pages() on every 16 (or 512) pages, the dirty limit won't
be exceeded as long as there are less than 16 (or 512) concurrent dd's.

So sqrt naturally leads to less overheads and more safe concurrent tasks
for large memory servers, which have large (thresh-freerun) gaps.

peter: keep the per-CPU ratelimit for safeguarding the 1k+ tasks case

CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-10-03 21:08:57 +08:00
Vasiliy Kulikov 72fa59970f move RLIMIT_NPROC check from set_user() to do_execve_common()
The patch http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/13/226 introduced an RLIMIT_NPROC
check in set_user() to check for NPROC exceeding via setuid() and
similar functions.

Before the check there was a possibility to greatly exceed the allowed
number of processes by an unprivileged user if the program relied on
rlimit only.  But the check created new security threat: many poorly
written programs simply don't check setuid() return code and believe it
cannot fail if executed with root privileges.  So, the check is removed
in this patch because of too often privilege escalations related to
buggy programs.

The NPROC can still be enforced in the common code flow of daemons
spawning user processes.  Most of daemons do fork()+setuid()+execve().
The check introduced in execve() (1) enforces the same limit as in
setuid() and (2) doesn't create similar security issues.

Neil Brown suggested to track what specific process has exceeded the
limit by setting PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED process flag.  With the change only
this process would fail on execve(), and other processes' execve()
behaviour is not changed.

Solar Designer suggested to re-check whether NPROC limit is still
exceeded at the moment of execve().  If the process was sleeping for
days between set*uid() and execve(), and the NPROC counter step down
under the limit, the defered execve() failure because NPROC limit was
exceeded days ago would be unexpected.  If the limit is not exceeded
anymore, we clear the flag on successful calls to execve() and fork().

The flag is also cleared on successful calls to set_user() as the limit
was exceeded for the previous user, not the current one.

Similar check was introduced in -ow patches (without the process flag).

v3 - clear PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED on successful calls to set_user().

Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-11 11:24:42 -07:00
Daniel Rebelo de Oliveira fb0a685cb9 kernel/fork.c: fix a few coding style issues
Signed-off-by: Daniel Rebelo de Oliveira <psykon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:44 -07:00
Michal Hocko 778d3b0ff0 cpusets: randomize node rotor used in cpuset_mem_spread_node()
[ This patch has already been accepted as commit 0ac0c0d0f8 but later
  reverted (commit 35926ff5fb) because it itroduced arch specific
  __node_random which was defined only for x86 code so it broke other
  archs.  This is a followup without any arch specific code.  Other than
  that there are no functional changes.]

Some workloads that create a large number of small files tend to assign
too many pages to node 0 (multi-node systems).  Part of the reason is
that the rotor (in cpuset_mem_spread_node()) used to assign nodes starts
at node 0 for newly created tasks.

This patch changes the rotor to be initialized to a random node number
of the cpuset.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix layout]
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Define stub numa_random() for !NUMA configuration]
[mhocko@suse.cz: Make it arch independent]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_NUMA=y, MAX_NUMNODES>1 build]
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 096a705bbc Merge branch 'for-3.1/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
* 'for-3.1/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (24 commits)
  block: strict rq_affinity
  backing-dev: use synchronize_rcu_expedited instead of synchronize_rcu
  block: fix patch import error in max_discard_sectors check
  block: reorder request_queue to remove 64 bit alignment padding
  CFQ: add think time check for group
  CFQ: add think time check for service tree
  CFQ: move think time check variables to a separate struct
  fixlet: Remove fs_excl from struct task.
  cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs.
  block: document blk_plug list access
  block: avoid building too big plug list
  compat_ioctl: fix make headers_check regression
  block: eliminate potential for infinite loop in blkdev_issue_discard
  compat_ioctl: fix warning caused by qemu
  block: flush MEDIA_CHANGE from drivers on close(2)
  blk-throttle: Make total_nr_queued unsigned
  block: Add __attribute__((format(printf...) and fix fallout
  fs/partitions/check.c: make local symbols static
  block:remove some spare spaces in genhd.c
  block:fix the comment error in blkdev.h
  ...
2011-07-25 10:33:36 -07:00
Linus Torvalds bbd9d6f7fb Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (107 commits)
  vfs: use ERR_CAST for err-ptr tossing in lookup_instantiate_filp
  isofs: Remove global fs lock
  jffs2: fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() killing a directory
  fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() on ramfs et.al.
  mm/truncate.c: fix build for CONFIG_BLOCK not enabled
  fs:update the NOTE of the file_operations structure
  Remove dead code in dget_parent()
  AFS: Fix silly characters in a comment
  switch d_add_ci() to d_splice_alias() in "found negative" case as well
  simplify gfs2_lookup()
  jfs_lookup(): don't bother with . or ..
  get rid of useless dget_parent() in btrfs rename() and link()
  get rid of useless dget_parent() in fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
  fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlers
  drivers: fix up various ->llseek() implementations
  fs: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA properly in all fs's that define their own llseek
  Ext4: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA generically
  Btrfs: implement our own ->llseek
  fs: add SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags
  reiserfs: make reiserfs default to barrier=flush
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c due to the new
shrinker callout for the inode cache, that clashed with the xfs code to
start the periodic workers later.
2011-07-22 19:02:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 75b56ec294 Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  lockdep: Fix lockdep_no_validate against IRQ states
  mutex: Make mutex_destroy() an inline function
  plist: Remove the need to supply locks to plist heads
  lockup detector: Fix reference to the non-existent CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP option
2011-07-22 16:43:21 -07:00
Al Viro 6657719390 make sure that nsproxy_cache is initialized early enough
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:07 -04:00
Oleg Nesterov dcace06cc2 ptrace: mv send-SIGSTOP from do_fork() to ptrace_init_task()
If the new child is traced, do_fork() adds the pending SIGSTOP.
It assumes that either it is traced because of auto-attach or the
tracer attached later, in both cases sigaddset/set_thread_flag is
correct even if SIGSTOP is already pending.

Now that we have PTRACE_SEIZE this is no longer right in the latter
case. If the tracer does PTRACE_SEIZE after copy_process() makes the
child visible the queued SIGSTOP is wrong.

We could check PT_SEIZED bit and change ptrace_attach() to set both
PT_PTRACED and PT_SEIZED bits simultaneously but see the next patch,
we need to know whether this child was auto-attached or not anyway.

So this patch simply moves this code to ptrace_init_task(), this
way we can never race with ptrace_attach().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-07-17 20:23:51 +02:00
Justin TerAvest 4aede84b33 fixlet: Remove fs_excl from struct task.
fs_excl is a poor man's priority inheritance for filesystems to hint to
the block layer that an operation is important. It was never clearly
specified, not widely adopted, and will not prevent starvation in many
cases (like across cgroups).

fs_excl was introduced with the time sliced CFQ IO scheduler, to
indicate when a process held FS exclusive resources and thus needed
a boost.

It doesn't cover all file systems, and it was never fully complete.
Lets kill it.

Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-12 08:35:10 +02:00
Dima Zavin 732375c6a5 plist: Remove the need to supply locks to plist heads
This was legacy code brought over from the RT tree and
is no longer necessary.

Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin <dima@android.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310084879-10351-2-git-send-email-dima@android.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-08 14:02:53 +02:00
Tejun Heo 4b9d33e6d8 ptrace: kill clone/exec tracehooks
At this point, tracehooks aren't useful to mainline kernel and mostly
just add an extra layer of obfuscation.  Although they have comments,
without actual in-kernel users, it is difficult to tell what are their
assumptions and they're actually trying to achieve.  To mainline
kernel, they just aren't worth keeping around.

This patch kills the following clone and exec related tracehooks.

	tracehook_prepare_clone()
	tracehook_finish_clone()
	tracehook_report_clone()
	tracehook_report_clone_complete()
	tracehook_unsafe_exec()

The changes are mostly trivial - logic is moved to the caller and
comments are merged and adjusted appropriately.

The only exception is in check_unsafe_exec() where LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE*
are OR'd to bprm->unsafe instead of setting it, which produces the
same result as the field is always zero on entry.  It also tests
p->ptrace instead of (p->ptrace & PT_PTRACED) for consistency, which
also gives the same result.

This doesn't introduce any behavior change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-06-22 19:26:29 +02:00
Tejun Heo a288eecce5 ptrace: kill trivial tracehooks
At this point, tracehooks aren't useful to mainline kernel and mostly
just add an extra layer of obfuscation.  Although they have comments,
without actual in-kernel users, it is difficult to tell what are their
assumptions and they're actually trying to achieve.  To mainline
kernel, they just aren't worth keeping around.

This patch kills the following trivial tracehooks.

* Ones testing whether task is ptraced.  Replace with ->ptrace test.

	tracehook_expect_breakpoints()
	tracehook_consider_ignored_signal()
	tracehook_consider_fatal_signal()

* ptrace_event() wrappers.  Call directly.

	tracehook_report_exec()
	tracehook_report_exit()
	tracehook_report_vfork_done()

* ptrace_release_task() wrapper.  Call directly.

	tracehook_finish_release_task()

* noop

	tracehook_prepare_release_task()
	tracehook_report_death()

This doesn't introduce any behavior change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-06-22 19:26:28 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 6345d24daf mm: Fix boot crash in mm_alloc()
Thomas Gleixner reports that we now have a boot crash triggered by
CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at   (null)
    IP: [<c11ae035>] find_next_bit+0x55/0xb0
    Call Trace:
     [<c11addda>] cpumask_any_but+0x2a/0x70
     [<c102396b>] flush_tlb_mm+0x2b/0x80
     [<c1022705>] pud_populate+0x35/0x50
     [<c10227ba>] pgd_alloc+0x9a/0xf0
     [<c103a3fc>] mm_init+0xec/0x120
     [<c103a7a3>] mm_alloc+0x53/0xd0

which was introduced by commit de03c72cfc ("mm: convert
mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t"), and is due to wrong ordering of
mm_init() vs mm_init_cpumask

Thomas wrote a patch to just fix the ordering of initialization, but I
hate the new double allocation in the fork path, so I ended up instead
doing some more radical surgery to clean it all up.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-29 11:32:28 -07:00
Jiri Slaby 3864601387 mm: extract exe_file handling from procfs
Setup and cleanup of mm_struct->exe_file is currently done in fs/proc/.
This was because exe_file was needed only for /proc/<pid>/exe.  Since we
will need the exe_file functionality also for core dumps (so core name can
contain full binary path), built this functionality always into the
kernel.

To achieve that move that out of proc FS to the kernel/ where in fact it
should belong.  By doing that we can make dup_mm_exe_file static.  Also we
can drop linux/proc_fs.h inclusion in fs/exec.c and kernel/fork.c.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26 17:12:36 -07:00
Daniel Lezcano a77aea9201 cgroup: remove the ns_cgroup
The ns_cgroup is an annoying cgroup at the namespace / cgroup frontier and
leads to some problems:

  * cgroup creation is out-of-control
  * cgroup name can conflict when pids are looping
  * it is not possible to have a single process handling a lot of
    namespaces without falling in a exponential creation time
  * we may want to create a namespace without creating a cgroup

  The ns_cgroup was replaced by a compatibility flag 'clone_children',
  where a newly created cgroup will copy the parent cgroup values.
  The userspace has to manually create a cgroup and add a task to
  the 'tasks' file.

This patch removes the ns_cgroup as suggested in the following thread:

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-June/018616.html

The 'cgroup_clone' function is removed because it is no longer used.

This is a userspace-visible change.  Commit 45531757b4 ("cgroup: notify
ns_cgroup deprecated") (merged into 2.6.27) caused the kernel to emit a
printk warning users that the feature is planned for removal.  Since that
time we have heard from XXX users who were affected by this.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26 17:12:34 -07:00
Ben Blum 4714d1d32d cgroups: read-write lock CLONE_THREAD forking per threadgroup
Adds functionality to read/write lock CLONE_THREAD fork()ing per-threadgroup

Add an rwsem that lives in a threadgroup's signal_struct that's taken for
reading in the fork path, under CONFIG_CGROUPS.  If another part of the
kernel later wants to use such a locking mechanism, the CONFIG_CGROUPS
ifdefs should be changed to a higher-up flag that CGROUPS and the other
system would both depend on.

This is a pre-patch for cgroup-procs-write.patch.

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-26 17:12:34 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro de03c72cfc mm: convert mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t
cpumask_t is very big struct and cpu_vm_mask is placed wrong position.
It might lead to reduce cache hit ratio.

This patch has two change.
1) Move the place of cpumask into last of mm_struct. Because usually cpumask
   is accessed only front bits when the system has cpu-hotplug capability
2) Convert cpu_vm_mask into cpumask_var_t. It may help to reduce memory
   footprint if cpumask_size() will use nr_cpumask_bits properly in future.

In addition, this patch change the name of cpu_vm_mask with cpu_vm_mask_var.
It may help to detect out of tree cpu_vm_mask users.

This patch has no functional change.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:21 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 3d48ae45e7 mm: Convert i_mmap_lock to a mutex
Straightforward conversion of i_mmap_lock to a mutex.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:18 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 97a894136f mm: Remove i_mmap_lock lockbreak
Hugh says:
 "The only significant loser, I think, would be page reclaim (when
  concurrent with truncation): could spin for a long time waiting for
  the i_mmap_mutex it expects would soon be dropped? "

Counter points:
 - cpu contention makes the spin stop (need_resched())
 - zap pages should be freeing pages at a higher rate than reclaim
   ever can

I think the simplification of the truncate code is definitely worth it.

Effectively reverts: 2aa15890f3 ("mm: prevent concurrent
unmap_mapping_range() on the same inode") and takes out the code that
caused its problem.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:17 -07:00
Samir Bellabes 3e51e3edfd sched: Remove unused parameters from sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task()
sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task() are defined with a parameter
'unsigned long clone_flags', which is unused.

This patch removes the parameters.

Signed-off-by: Samir Bellabes <sam@synack.fr>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305130685-1047-1-git-send-email-sam@synack.fr
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-12 09:36:37 +02:00
Jonathan Corbet 625f2a378e sched: Get rid of lock_depth
Neil Brown pointed out that lock_depth somehow escaped the BKL
removal work.  Let's get rid of it now.

Note that the perf scripting utilities still have a bunch of
code for dealing with common_lock_depth in tracepoints; I have
left that in place in case anybody wants to use that code with
older kernels.

Suggested-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110422111910.456c0e84@bike.lwn.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-24 13:18:38 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 6c51038900 Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
  Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
  cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
  cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
  blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
  blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
  cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
  block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
  block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
  block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
  cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
  fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
  block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
  jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
  mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
  blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
  block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
  block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
  blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
  ...

Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
2011-03-24 10:16:26 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 4308eebbeb pidns: call pid_ns_prepare_proc() from create_pid_namespace()
Reorganize proc_get_sb() so it can be called before the struct pid of the
first process is allocated.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-23 19:46:58 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 45a68628d3 pid: remove the child_reaper special case in init/main.c
This patchset is a cleanup and a preparation to unshare the pid namespace.
These prerequisites prepare for Eric's patchset to give a file descriptor
to a namespace and join an existing namespace.

This patch:

It turns out that the existing assignment in copy_process of the
child_reaper can handle the initial assignment of child_reaper we just
need to generalize the test in kernel/fork.c

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-23 19:46:57 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 9bfb23fc4a sys_unshare: remove the dead CLONE_THREAD/SIGHAND/VM code
Cleanup: kill the dead code which does nothing but complicates the code
and confuses the reader.

sys_unshare(CLONE_THREAD/SIGHAND/VM) is not really implemented, and I
doubt very much it will ever work.  At least, nobody even tried since the
original 99d1419d96 ("unshare system call -v5: system call
handler function") was applied more than 4 years ago.

And the code is not consistent.  unshare_thread() always fails
unconditionally, while unshare_sighand() and unshare_vm() pretend to work
if there is nothing to unshare.

Remove unshare_thread(), unshare_sighand(), unshare_vm() helpers and
related variables and add a simple CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_SIGHAND| CLONE_VM
check into check_unshare_flags().

Also, move the "CLONE_NEWNS needs CLONE_FS" check from
check_unshare_flags() to sys_unshare().  This looks more consistent and
matches the similar do_sysvsem check in sys_unshare().

Note: with or without this patch "atomic_read(mm->mm_users) > 1" can give
a false positive due to get_task_mm().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:11 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 207205a2ba kthread: NUMA aware kthread_create_on_node()
All kthreads being created from a single helper task, they all use memory
from a single node for their kernel stack and task struct.

This patch suite creates kthread_create_on_node(), adding a 'cpu' parameter
to parameters already used by kthread_create().

This parameter serves in allocating memory for the new kthread on its
memory node if possible.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:01 -07:00
Eric Dumazet b6a84016bd mm: NUMA aware alloc_thread_info_node()
Add a node parameter to alloc_thread_info(), and change its name to
alloc_thread_info_node()

This change is needed to allow NUMA aware kthread_create_on_cpu()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:01 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 504f52b543 mm: NUMA aware alloc_task_struct_node()
All kthreads being created from a single helper task, they all use memory
from a single node for their kernel stack and task struct.

This patch suite creates kthread_create_on_cpu(), adding a 'cpu' parameter
to parameters already used by kthread_create().

This parameter serves in allocating memory for the new kthread on its
memory node if available.

Users of this new function are : ksoftirqd, kworker, migration, pktgend...

This patch:

Add a node parameter to alloc_task_struct(), and change its name to
alloc_task_struct_node()

This change is needed to allow NUMA aware kthread_create_on_cpu()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:01 -07:00
Rik van Riel 77c100c83e export pid symbols needed for kvm_vcpu_on_spin
Export the symbols required for a race-free kvm_vcpu_on_spin.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-03-17 13:08:28 -03:00
Jens Axboe 73c1010119 block: initial patch for on-stack per-task plugging
This patch adds support for creating a queuing context outside
of the queue itself. This enables us to batch up pieces of IO
before grabbing the block device queue lock and submitting them to
the IO scheduler.

The context is created on the stack of the process and assigned in
the task structure, so that we can auto-unplug it if we hit a schedule
event.

The current queue plugging happens implicitly if IO is submitted to
an empty device, yet callers have to remember to unplug that IO when
they are going to wait for it. This is an ugly API and has caused bugs
in the past. Additionally, it requires hacks in the vm (->sync_page()
callback) to handle that logic. By switching to an explicit plugging
scheme we make the API a lot nicer and can get rid of the ->sync_page()
hack in the vm.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:45:54 +01:00
Andrea Arcangeli ba76149f47 thp: khugepaged
Add khugepaged to relocate fragmented pages into hugepages if new
hugepages become available.  (this is indipendent of the defrag logic that
will have to make new hugepages available)

The fundamental reason why khugepaged is unavoidable, is that some memory
can be fragmented and not everything can be relocated.  So when a virtual
machine quits and releases gigabytes of hugepages, we want to use those
freely available hugepages to create huge-pmd in the other virtual
machines that may be running on fragmented memory, to maximize the CPU
efficiency at all times.  The scan is slow, it takes nearly zero cpu time,
except when it copies data (in which case it means we definitely want to
pay for that cpu time) so it seems a good tradeoff.

In addition to the hugepages being released by other process releasing
memory, we have the strong suspicion that the performance impact of
potentially defragmenting hugepages during or before each page fault could
lead to more performance inconsistency than allocating small pages at
first and having them collapsed into large pages later...  if they prove
themselfs to be long lived mappings (khugepaged scan is slow so short
lived mappings have low probability to run into khugepaged if compared to
long lived mappings).

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:43 -08:00
Andrea Arcangeli e7a00c45f2 thp: add pmd_huge_pte to mm_struct
This increase the size of the mm struct a bit but it is needed to
preallocate one pte for each hugepage so that split_huge_page will not
require a fail path.  Guarantee of success is a fundamental property of
split_huge_page to avoid decrasing swapping reliability and to avoid
adding -ENOMEM fail paths that would otherwise force the hugepage-unaware
VM code to learn rolling back in the middle of its pte mangling operations
(if something we need it to learn handling pmd_trans_huge natively rather
being capable of rollback).  When split_huge_page runs a pte is needed to
succeed the split, to map the newly splitted regular pages with a regular
pte.  This way all existing VM code remains backwards compatible by just
adding a split_huge_page* one liner.  The memory waste of those
preallocated ptes is negligible and so it is worth it.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:41 -08:00
Mandeep Singh Baines dabb16f639 oom: allow a non-CAP_SYS_RESOURCE proces to oom_score_adj down
We'd like to be able to oom_score_adj a process up/down as it
enters/leaves the foreground.  Currently, it is not possible to oom_adj
down without CAP_SYS_RESOURCE.  This patch allows a task to decrease its
oom_score_adj back to the value that a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE thread set it to
or its inherited value at fork.  Assuming the thread that has forked it
has oom_score_adj of 0, each process could decrease it back from 0 upon
activation unless a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE thread elevated it to something
higher.

Alternative considered:

* a setuid binary
* a daemon with CAP_SYS_RESOURCE

Since you don't wan't all processes to be able to reduce their oom_adj, a
setuid or daemon implementation would be complex.  The alternatives also
have much higher overhead.

This patch updated from original patch based on feedback from David
Rientjes.

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:35 -08:00
Dave Jones 43bb40c9e3 sched: remove long deprecated CLONE_STOPPED flag
This warning was added in commit bdff746a39 ("clone: prepare to recycle
CLONE_STOPPED") three years ago.  2.6.26 came and went.  As far as I know,
no-one is actually using CLONE_STOPPED.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:31 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 72eb6a7914 Merge branch 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (30 commits)
  gameport: use this_cpu_read instead of lookup
  x86: udelay: Use this_cpu_read to avoid address calculation
  x86: Use this_cpu_inc_return for nmi counter
  x86: Replace uses of current_cpu_data with this_cpu ops
  x86: Use this_cpu_ops to optimize code
  vmstat: User per cpu atomics to avoid interrupt disable / enable
  irq_work: Use per cpu atomics instead of regular atomics
  cpuops: Use cmpxchg for xchg to avoid lock semantics
  x86: this_cpu_cmpxchg and this_cpu_xchg operations
  percpu: Generic this_cpu_cmpxchg() and this_cpu_xchg support
  percpu,x86: relocate this_cpu_add_return() and friends
  connector: Use this_cpu operations
  xen: Use this_cpu_inc_return
  taskstats: Use this_cpu_ops
  random: Use this_cpu_inc_return
  fs: Use this_cpu_inc_return in buffer.c
  highmem: Use this_cpu_xx_return() operations
  vmstat: Use this_cpu_inc_return for vm statistics
  x86: Support for this_cpu_add, sub, dec, inc_return
  percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_add, sub, dec, inc_return
  ...

Fixed up conflicts: in arch/x86/kernel/{apic/nmi.c, apic/x2apic_uv_x.c, process.c}
as per Tejun.
2011-01-07 17:02:58 -08:00
Mike Galbraith 1c5354de90 sched: Move sched_autogroup_exit() to free_signal_struct()
Per Oleg's suggestion, undo fork failure free/put_signal_struct change,
and move sched_autogroup_exit() to free_signal_struct() instead.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1294222564.8369.6.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-07 15:54:39 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 27066fd484 Merge commit 'v2.6.37' into sched/core
Merge reason: Merge the final .37 tree.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-05 14:14:46 +01:00
Mike Galbraith 101e5f77bf sched, autogroup: Fix reference leak
The cgroup exit mess also uncovered a struct autogroup reference leak.
copy_process() was simply freeing vs putting the signal_struct,
stranding a reference.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1293784350.6839.2.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-04 15:10:36 +01:00
Christoph Lameter 909ea96468 core: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_read if not used for an address.
__get_cpu_var() can be replaced with this_cpu_read and will then use a
single read instruction with implied address calculation to access the
correct per cpu instance.

However, the address of a per cpu variable passed to __this_cpu_read()
cannot be determined (since it's an implied address conversion through
segment prefixes).  Therefore apply this only to uses of __get_cpu_var
where the address of the variable is not used.

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-12-17 15:07:19 +01:00
Mike Galbraith f26f9aff6a Sched: fix skip_clock_update optimization
idle_balance() drops/retakes rq->lock, leaving the previous task
vulnerable to set_tsk_need_resched().  Clear it after we return
from balancing instead, and in setup_thread_stack() as well, so
no successfully descheduled or never scheduled task has it set.

Need resched confused the skip_clock_update logic, which assumes
that the next call to update_rq_clock() will come nearly immediately
after being set.  Make the optimization robust against the waking
a sleeper before it sucessfully deschedules case by checking that
the current task has not been dequeued before setting the flag,
since it is that useless clock update we're trying to save, and
clear unconditionally in schedule() proper instead of conditionally
in put_prev_task().

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Reported-by: Bjoern B. Brandenburg <bbb.lst@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1291802742.1417.9.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-08 20:15:06 +01:00
Mike Galbraith 5091faa449 sched: Add 'autogroup' scheduling feature: automated per session task groups
A recurring complaint from CFS users is that parallel kbuild has
a negative impact on desktop interactivity.  This patch
implements an idea from Linus, to automatically create task
groups.  Currently, only per session autogroups are implemented,
but the patch leaves the way open for enhancement.

Implementation: each task's signal struct contains an inherited
pointer to a refcounted autogroup struct containing a task group
pointer, the default for all tasks pointing to the
init_task_group.  When a task calls setsid(), a new task group
is created, the process is moved into the new task group, and a
reference to the preveious task group is dropped.  Child
processes inherit this task group thereafter, and increase it's
refcount.  When the last thread of a process exits, the
process's reference is dropped, such that when the last process
referencing an autogroup exits, the autogroup is destroyed.

At runqueue selection time, IFF a task has no cgroup assignment,
its current autogroup is used.

Autogroup bandwidth is controllable via setting it's nice level
through the proc filesystem:

  cat /proc/<pid>/autogroup

Displays the task's group and the group's nice level.

  echo <nice level> > /proc/<pid>/autogroup

Sets the task group's shares to the weight of nice <level> task.
Setting nice level is rate limited for !admin users due to the
abuse risk of task group locking.

The feature is enabled from boot by default if
CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y is selected, but can be disabled via
the boot option noautogroup, and can also be turned on/off on
the fly via:

  echo [01] > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_autogroup_enabled

... which will automatically move tasks to/from the root task group.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
[ Removed the task_group_path() debug code, and fixed !EVENTFD build failure. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1290281700.28711.9.camel@maggy.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-30 16:03:35 +01:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 9b1bf12d5d signals: move cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct
Oleg Nesterov pointed out we have to prevent multiple-threads-inside-exec
itself and we can reuse ->cred_guard_mutex for it.  Yes, concurrent
execve() has no worth.

Let's move ->cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct.  It
naturally prevent multiple-threads-inside-exec.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-27 18:03:12 -07:00
Ying Han 3d5992d2ac oom: add per-mm oom disable count
It's pointless to kill a task if another thread sharing its mm cannot be
killed to allow future memory freeing.  A subsequent patch will prevent
kills in such cases, but first it's necessary to have a way to flag a task
that shares memory with an OOM_DISABLE task that doesn't incur an
additional tasklist scan, which would make select_bad_process() an O(n^2)
function.

This patch adds an atomic counter to struct mm_struct that follows how
many threads attached to it have an oom_score_adj of OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN.
They cannot be killed by the kernel, so their memory cannot be freed in
oom conditions.

This only requires task_lock() on the task that we're operating on, it
does not require mm->mmap_sem since task_lock() pins the mm and the
operation is atomic.

[rientjes@google.com: changelog and sys_unshare() code]
[rientjes@google.com: protect oom_disable_count with task_lock in fork]
[rientjes@google.com: use old_mm for oom_disable_count in exec]
Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26 16:52:05 -07:00
Andrea Arcangeli a247c3a97a rmap: fix walk during fork
The below bug in fork led to the rmap walk finding the parent huge-pmd
twice instead of just once, because the anon_vma_chain objects of the
child vma still point to the vma->vm_mm of the parent.

The patch fixes it by making the rmap walk accurate during fork.  It's not
a big deal normally but it worth being accurate considering the cost is
the same.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-22 17:22:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 297c5eee37 mm: make the vma list be doubly linked
It's a really simple list, and several of the users want to go backwards
in it to find the previous vma.  So rather than have to look up the
previous entry with 'find_vma_prev()' or something similar, just make it
doubly linked instead.

Tested-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-21 08:49:21 -07:00
Nick Piggin 2a4419b5b2 fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock
fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock

struct fs_struct.lock is an rwlock with the read-side used to protect root and
pwd members while taking references to them. Taking a reference to a path
typically requires just 2 atomic ops, so the critical section is very small.
Parallel read-side operations would have cacheline contention on the lock, the
dentry, and the vfsmount cachelines, so the rwlock is unlikely to ever give a
real parallelism increase.

Replace it with a spinlock to avoid one or two atomic operations in typical
path lookup fastpath.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-18 08:35:46 -04:00
David Rientjes a63d83f427 oom: badness heuristic rewrite
This a complete rewrite of the oom killer's badness() heuristic which is
used to determine which task to kill in oom conditions.  The goal is to
make it as simple and predictable as possible so the results are better
understood and we end up killing the task which will lead to the most
memory freeing while still respecting the fine-tuning from userspace.

Instead of basing the heuristic on mm->total_vm for each task, the task's
rss and swap space is used instead.  This is a better indication of the
amount of memory that will be freeable if the oom killed task is chosen
and subsequently exits.  This helps specifically in cases where KDE or
GNOME is chosen for oom kill on desktop systems instead of a memory
hogging task.

The baseline for the heuristic is a proportion of memory that each task is
currently using in memory plus swap compared to the amount of "allowable"
memory.  "Allowable," in this sense, means the system-wide resources for
unconstrained oom conditions, the set of mempolicy nodes, the mems
attached to current's cpuset, or a memory controller's limit.  The
proportion is given on a scale of 0 (never kill) to 1000 (always kill),
roughly meaning that if a task has a badness() score of 500 that the task
consumes approximately 50% of allowable memory resident in RAM or in swap
space.

The proportion is always relative to the amount of "allowable" memory and
not the total amount of RAM systemwide so that mempolicies and cpusets may
operate in isolation; they shall not need to know the true size of the
machine on which they are running if they are bound to a specific set of
nodes or mems, respectively.

Root tasks are given 3% extra memory just like __vm_enough_memory()
provides in LSMs.  In the event of two tasks consuming similar amounts of
memory, it is generally better to save root's task.

Because of the change in the badness() heuristic's baseline, it is also
necessary to introduce a new user interface to tune it.  It's not possible
to redefine the meaning of /proc/pid/oom_adj with a new scale since the
ABI cannot be changed for backward compatability.  Instead, a new tunable,
/proc/pid/oom_score_adj, is added that ranges from -1000 to +1000.  It may
be used to polarize the heuristic such that certain tasks are never
considered for oom kill while others may always be considered.  The value
is added directly into the badness() score so a value of -500, for
example, means to discount 50% of its memory consumption in comparison to
other tasks either on the system, bound to the mempolicy, in the cpuset,
or sharing the same memory controller.

/proc/pid/oom_adj is changed so that its meaning is rescaled into the
units used by /proc/pid/oom_score_adj, and vice versa.  Changing one of
these per-task tunables will rescale the value of the other to an
equivalent meaning.  Although /proc/pid/oom_adj was originally defined as
a bitshift on the badness score, it now shares the same linear growth as
/proc/pid/oom_score_adj but with different granularity.  This is required
so the ABI is not broken with userspace applications and allows oom_adj to
be deprecated for future removal.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09 20:45:02 -07:00
Tejun Heo 21aa9af03d sched: add hooks for workqueue
Concurrency managed workqueue needs to know when workers are going to
sleep and waking up.  Using these two hooks, cmwq keeps track of the
current concurrency level and throttles execution of new works if it's
too high and wakes up another worker from the sleep hook if it becomes
too low.

This patch introduces PF_WQ_WORKER to identify workqueue workers and
adds the following two hooks.

* wq_worker_waking_up(): called when a worker is woken up.

* wq_worker_sleeping(): called when a worker is going to sleep and may
  return a pointer to a local task which should be woken up.  The
  returned task is woken up using try_to_wake_up_local() which is
  simplified ttwu which is called under rq lock and can only wake up
  local tasks.

Both hooks are currently defined as noop in kernel/workqueue_sched.h.
Later cmwq implementation will replace them with proper
implementation.

These hooks are hard coded as they'll always be enabled.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-08 21:40:37 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 35926ff5fb Revert "cpusets: randomize node rotor used in cpuset_mem_spread_node()"
This reverts commit 0ac0c0d0f8, which
caused cross-architecture build problems for all the wrong reasons.
IA64 already added its own version of __node_random(), but the fact is,
there is nothing architectural about the function, and the original
commit was just badly done. Revert it, since no fix is forthcoming.

Requested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-30 09:00:03 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov f106eee100 pids: fix fork_idle() to setup ->pids correctly
copy_process(pid => &init_struct_pid) doesn't do attach_pid/etc.

It shouldn't, but this means that the idle threads run with the wrong
pids copied from the caller's task_struct. In x86 case the caller is
either kernel_init() thread or keventd.

In particular, this means that after the series of cpu_up/cpu_down an
idle thread (which never exits) can run with .pid pointing to nowhere.

Change fork_idle() to initialize idle->pids[] correctly. We only set
.pid = &init_struct_pid but do not add .node to list, INIT_TASK() does
the same for the boot-cpu idle thread (swapper).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Mathias Krause <Mathias.Krause@secunet.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:52 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov b3ac022cb9 proc: turn signal_struct->count into "int nr_threads"
No functional changes, just s/atomic_t count/int nr_threads/.

With the recent changes this counter has a single user, get_nr_threads()
And, none of its callers need the really accurate number of threads, not
to mention each caller obviously races with fork/exit.  It is only used to
report this value to the user-space, except first_tid() uses it to avoid
the unnecessary while_each_thread() loop in the unlikely case.

It is a bit sad we need a word in struct signal_struct for this, perhaps
we can change get_nr_threads() to approximate the number of threads using
signal->live and kill ->nr_threads later.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:47 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 6e1be45aa6 check_unshare_flags: kill the bogus CLONE_SIGHAND/sig->count check
check_unshare_flags(CLONE_SIGHAND) adds CLONE_THREAD to *flags_ptr if the
task is multithreaded to ensure unshare_thread() will fail.

Not only this is a bit strange way to return the error, this is absolutely
meaningless.  If signal->count > 1 then sighand->count must be also > 1,
and unshare_sighand() will fail anyway.

In fact, all CLONE_THREAD/SIGHAND/VM checks inside sys_unshare() do not
look right.  Fortunately this code doesn't really work anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:47 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 97101eb41d exit: move taskstats_tgid_free() from __exit_signal() to free_signal_struct()
Move taskstats_tgid_free() from __exit_signal() to free_signal_struct().

This way signal->stats never points to nowhere and we can read ->stats
lockless.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:46 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov a705be6b5e kill the obsolete thread_group_cputime_free() helper
Kill the empty thread_group_cputime_free() helper.  It was needed to free
the per-cpu data which we no longer have.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:46 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov ea6d290ca3 signals: make task_struct->signal immutable/refcountable
We have a lot of problems with accessing task_struct->signal, it can
"disappear" at any moment.  Even current can't use its ->signal safely
after exit_notify().  ->siglock helps, but it is not convenient, not
always possible, and sometimes it makes sense to use task->signal even
after this task has already dead.

This patch adds the reference counter, sigcnt, into signal_struct.  This
reference is owned by task_struct and it is dropped in
__put_task_struct().  Perhaps it makes sense to export
get/put_signal_struct() later, but currently I don't see the immediate
reason.

Rename __cleanup_signal() to free_signal_struct() and unexport it.  With
the previous changes it does nothing except kmem_cache_free().

Change __exit_signal() to not clear/free ->signal, it will be freed when
the last reference to any thread in the thread group goes away.

Note:
	- when the last thead exits signal->tty can point to nowhere, see
	  the next patch.

	- with or without this patch signal_struct->count should go away,
	  or at least it should be "int nr_threads" for fs/proc. This will
	  be addressed later.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:46 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 4dec2a91fd fork/exit: move tty_kref_put() outside of __cleanup_signal()
tty_kref_put() has two callsites in copy_process() paths,

	1. if copy_process() suceeds it is called before we copy
	   signal->tty from parent

	2. otherwise it is called from __cleanup_signal() under
	   bad_fork_cleanup_signal: label

In both cases tty_kref_put() is not right and unneeded because we don't
have the balancing tty_kref_get().  Fortunately, this is harmless because
this can only happen without CLONE_THREAD, and in this case signal->tty
must be NULL.

Remove tty_kref_put() from copy_process() and __cleanup_signal(), and
change another caller of __cleanup_signal(), __exit_signal(), to call
tty_kref_put() by hand.

I hope this change makes sense by itself, but it is also needed to make
->signal refcountable.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:46 -07:00
Jack Steiner 0ac0c0d0f8 cpusets: randomize node rotor used in cpuset_mem_spread_node()
Some workloads that create a large number of small files tend to assign
too many pages to node 0 (multi-node systems).  Part of the reason is that
the rotor (in cpuset_mem_spread_node()) used to assign nodes starts at
node 0 for newly created tasks.

This patch changes the rotor to be initialized to a random node number of
the cpuset.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix layout]
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Define stub numa_random() for !NUMA configuration]
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 4d7b4ac22f Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (311 commits)
  perf tools: Add mode to build without newt support
  perf symbols: symbol inconsistency message should be done only at verbose=1
  perf tui: Add explicit -lslang option
  perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants
  perf options: Type check OPT_BOOLEAN and fix the offenders
  perf options: Check v type in OPT_U?INTEGER
  perf options: Introduce OPT_UINTEGER
  perf tui: Add workaround for slang < 2.1.4
  perf record: Fix bug mismatch with -c option definition
  perf options: Introduce OPT_U64
  perf tui: Add help window to show key associations
  perf tui: Make <- exit menus too
  perf newt: Add single key shortcuts for zoom into DSO and threads
  perf newt: Exit browser unconditionally when CTRL+C, q or Q is pressed
  perf newt: Fix the 'A'/'a' shortcut for annotate
  perf newt: Make <- exit the ui_browser
  x86, perf: P4 PMU - fix counters management logic
  perf newt: Make <- zoom out filters
  perf report: Report number of events, not samples
  perf hist: Clarify events_stats fields usage
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in kernel/fork.c and tools/perf/builtin-record.c
2010-05-18 08:19:03 -07:00
Robin Holt 34441427aa revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads" and its fixup commits
Originally, commit d899bf7b ("procfs: provide stack information for
threads") attempted to introduce a new feature for showing where the
threadstack was located and how many pages are being utilized by the
stack.

Commit c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") was
applied to fix the NO_MMU case.

Commit 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on
64-bit") was applied to fix a bug in ia32 executables being loaded.

Commit 9ebd4eba7 ("procfs: fix /proc/<pid>/stat stack pointer for kernel
threads") was applied to fix a bug which had kernel threads printing a
userland stack address.

Commit 1306d603f ('proc: partially revert "procfs: provide stack
information for threads"') was then applied to revert the stack pages
being used to solve a significant performance regression.

This patch nearly undoes the effect of all these patches.

The reason for reverting these is it provides an unusable value in
field 28.  For x86_64, a fork will result in the task->stack_start
value being updated to the current user top of stack and not the stack
start address.  This unpredictability of the stack_start value makes
it worthless.  That includes the intended use of showing how much stack
space a thread has.

Other architectures will get different values.  As an example, ia64
gets 0.  The do_fork() and copy_process() functions appear to treat the
stack_start and stack_size parameters as architecture specific.

I only partially reverted c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage
on NOMMU") .  If I had completely reverted it, I would have had to change
mm/Makefile only build pagewalk.o when CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR is
configured.  Since I could not test the builds without significant effort,
I decided to not change mm/Makefile.

I only partially reverted 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack
information for threads on 64-bit") .  I left the KSTK_ESP() change in
place as that seemed worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-11 17:33:41 -07:00
Ingo Molnar ca7e0c6120 Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core
Semantic conflict: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c

Merge reason: pick up latest fixes, fix the conflict

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-08 13:37:18 +02:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki a3a2e76c77 mm: avoid null-pointer deref in sync_mm_rss()
- We weren't zeroing p->rss_stat[] at fork()

- Consequently sync_mm_rss() was dereferencing tsk->mm for kernel
  threads and was oopsing.

- Make __sync_task_rss_stat() static, too.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15648

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove the BUG_ON(!mm->rss)]
Reported-by: Troels Liebe Bentsen <tlb@rapanden.dk>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-07 08:38:02 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra faa4602e47 x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code
Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in
v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS,
as Linus noticed it not so long ago.

It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without
regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility
needed for perf either.

Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts
was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a
much simpler approach.

So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*()
APIs in mm/mlock.c as well.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-26 11:33:55 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 4e3eaddd14 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  locking: Make sparse work with inline spinlocks and rwlocks
  x86/mce: Fix RCU lockdep splats
  rcu: Increase RCU CPU stall timeouts if PROVE_RCU
  ftrace: Replace read_barrier_depends() with rcu_dereference_raw()
  rcu: Suppress RCU lockdep warnings during early boot
  rcu, ftrace: Fix RCU lockdep splat in ftrace_perf_buf_prepare()
  rcu: Suppress __mpol_dup() false positive from RCU lockdep
  rcu: Make rcu_read_lock_sched_held() handle !PREEMPT
  rcu: Add control variables to lockdep_rcu_dereference() diagnostics
  rcu, cgroup: Relax the check in task_subsys_state() as early boot is now handled by lockdep-RCU
  rcu: Use wrapper function instead of exporting tasklist_lock
  sched, rcu: Fix rcu_dereference() for RCU-lockdep
  rcu: Make task_subsys_state() RCU-lockdep checks handle boot-time use
  rcu: Fix holdoff for accelerated GPs for last non-dynticked CPU
  x86/gart: Unexport gart_iommu_aperture

Fix trivial conflicts in kernel/trace/ftrace.c
2010-03-13 14:43:01 -08:00
Veaceslav Falico 93c59907c6 copy_signal() cleanup: clean thread_group_cputime_init()
Remove unneeded initializations in thread_group_cputime_init() and in
posix_cpu_timers_init_group().  They are useless after kmem_cache_zalloc()
was used in copy_signal().

Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:39 -08:00
Veaceslav Falico a56704ef6b copy_signal() cleanup: use zalloc and remove initializations
Use kmem_cache_zalloc() on signal creation and remove unneeded
initialization lines in copy_signal().

Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:39 -08:00
Jiri Slaby 78d7d407b6 kernel core: use helpers for rlimits
Make sure compiler won't do weird things with limits.  E.g.  fetching them
twice may return 2 different values after writable limits are implemented.

I.e.  either use rlimit helpers added in commit 3e10e716ab ("resource:
add helpers for fetching rlimits") or ACCESS_ONCE if not applicable.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:33 -08:00
Rik van Riel 5beb493052 mm: change anon_vma linking to fix multi-process server scalability issue
The old anon_vma code can lead to scalability issues with heavily forking
workloads.  Specifically, each anon_vma will be shared between the parent
process and all its child processes.

In a workload with 1000 child processes and a VMA with 1000 anonymous
pages per process that get COWed, this leads to a system with a million
anonymous pages in the same anon_vma, each of which is mapped in just one
of the 1000 processes.  However, the current rmap code needs to walk them
all, leading to O(N) scanning complexity for each page.

This can result in systems where one CPU is walking the page tables of
1000 processes in page_referenced_one, while all other CPUs are stuck on
the anon_vma lock.  This leads to catastrophic failure for a benchmark
like AIM7, where the total number of processes can reach in the tens of
thousands.  Real workloads are still a factor 10 less process intensive
than AIM7, but they are catching up.

This patch changes the way anon_vmas and VMAs are linked, which allows us
to associate multiple anon_vmas with a VMA.  At fork time, each child
process gets its own anon_vmas, in which its COWed pages will be
instantiated.  The parents' anon_vma is also linked to the VMA, because
non-COWed pages could be present in any of the children.

This reduces rmap scanning complexity to O(1) for the pages of the 1000
child processes, with O(N) complexity for at most 1/N pages in the system.
 This reduces the average scanning cost in heavily forking workloads from
O(N) to 2.

The only real complexity in this patch stems from the fact that linking a
VMA to anon_vmas now involves memory allocations.  This means vma_adjust
can fail, if it needs to attach a VMA to anon_vma structures.  This in
turn means error handling needs to be added to the calling functions.

A second source of complexity is that, because there can be multiple
anon_vmas, the anon_vma linking in vma_adjust can no longer be done under
"the" anon_vma lock.  To prevent the rmap code from walking up an
incomplete VMA, this patch introduces the VM_LOCK_RMAP VMA flag.  This bit
flag uses the same slot as the NOMMU VM_MAPPED_COPY, with an ifdef in mm.h
to make sure it is impossible to compile a kernel that needs both symbolic
values for the same bitflag.

Some test results:

Without the anon_vma changes, when AIM7 hits around 9.7k users (on a test
box with 16GB RAM and not quite enough IO), the system ends up running
>99% in system time, with every CPU on the same anon_vma lock in the
pageout code.

With these changes, AIM7 hits the cross-over point around 29.7k users.
This happens with ~99% IO wait time, there never seems to be any spike in
system time.  The anon_vma lock contention appears to be resolved.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:26 -08:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki d559db086f mm: clean up mm_counter
Presently, per-mm statistics counter is defined by macro in sched.h

This patch modifies it to
  - defined in mm.h as inlinf functions
  - use array instead of macro's name creation.

This patch is for reducing patch size in future patch to modify
implementation of per-mm counter.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:23 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney db1466b3e1 rcu: Use wrapper function instead of exporting tasklist_lock
Lockdep-RCU commit d11c563d exported tasklist_lock, which is not
a good thing.  This patch instead exports a function that uses
lockdep to check whether tasklist_lock is held.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
LKML-Reference: <1267631219-8713-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-04 11:46:14 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney d11c563dd2 sched: Use lockdep-based checking on rcu_dereference()
Update the rcu_dereference() usages to take advantage of the new
lockdep-based checking.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-6-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ -v2: fix allmodconfig missing symbol export build failure on x86 ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-25 10:34:26 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra fabf318e5e sched: Fix fork vs hotplug vs cpuset namespaces
There are a number of issues:

1) TASK_WAKING vs cgroup_clone (cpusets)

copy_process():

  sched_fork()
    child->state = TASK_WAKING; /* waiting for wake_up_new_task() */
  if (current->nsproxy != p->nsproxy)
     ns_cgroup_clone()
       cgroup_clone()
         mutex_lock(inode->i_mutex)
         mutex_lock(cgroup_mutex)
         cgroup_attach_task()
	   ss->can_attach()
           ss->attach() [ -> cpuset_attach() ]
             cpuset_attach_task()
               set_cpus_allowed_ptr();
                 while (child->state == TASK_WAKING)
                   cpu_relax();
will deadlock the system.


2) cgroup_clone (cpusets) vs copy_process

So even if the above would work we still have:

copy_process():

  if (current->nsproxy != p->nsproxy)
     ns_cgroup_clone()
       cgroup_clone()
         mutex_lock(inode->i_mutex)
         mutex_lock(cgroup_mutex)
         cgroup_attach_task()
	   ss->can_attach()
           ss->attach() [ -> cpuset_attach() ]
             cpuset_attach_task()
               set_cpus_allowed_ptr();
  ...

  p->cpus_allowed = current->cpus_allowed

over-writing the modified cpus_allowed.


3) fork() vs hotplug

  if we unplug the child's cpu after the sanity check when the child
  gets attached to the task_list but before wake_up_new_task() shit
  will meet with fan.

Solve all these issues by moving fork cpu selection into
wake_up_new_task().

Reported-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1264106190.4283.1314.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-01-21 23:25:31 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov 9cd80bbb07 do_wait() optimization: do not place sub-threads on task_struct->children list
Thanks to Roland who pointed out de_thread() issues.

Currently we add sub-threads to ->real_parent->children list.  This buys
nothing but slows down do_wait().

With this patch ->children contains only main threads (group leaders).
The only complication is that forget_original_parent() should iterate over
sub-threads by hand, and de_thread() needs another list_replace() when it
changes ->group_leader.

Henceforth do_wait_thread() can never see task_detached() && !EXIT_DEAD
tasks, we can remove this check (and we can unify do_wait_thread() and
ptrace_do_wait()).

This change can confuse the optimistic search in mm_update_next_owner(),
but this is fixable and minor.

Perhaps badness() and oom_kill_process() should be updated, but they
should be fixed in any case.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ratan Nalumasu <rnalumasu@gmail.com>
Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-17 15:45:31 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 6580807da1 ptrace: copy_process() should disable stepping
If the tracee calls fork() after PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, the forked child
starts with TIF_SINGLESTEP/X86_EFLAGS_TF bits copied from ptraced parent.
This is not right, especially when the new child is not auto-attaced: in
this case it is killed by SIGTRAP.

Change copy_process() to call user_disable_single_step(). Tested on x86.

Test-case:

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <unistd.h>
	#include <signal.h>
	#include <sys/ptrace.h>
	#include <sys/wait.h>
	#include <assert.h>

	int main(void)
	{
		int pid, status;

		if (!(pid = fork())) {
			assert(ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME) == 0);
			kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP);

			if (!fork()) {
				/* kernel bug: this child will be killed by SIGTRAP */
				printf("Hello world\n");
				return 43;
			}

			wait(&status);
			return WEXITSTATUS(status);
		}

		for (;;) {
			assert(pid == wait(&status));
			if (WIFEXITED(status))
				break;
			assert(ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, pid, 0,0) == 0);
		}

		assert(WEXITSTATUS(status) == 43);
		return 0;
	}

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16 07:20:08 -08:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 569b846df5 memcg: coalesce uncharge during unmap/truncate
In massive parallel enviroment, res_counter can be a performance
bottleneck.  One strong techinque to reduce lock contention is reducing
calls by coalescing some amount of calls into one.

Considering charge/uncharge chatacteristic,
	- charge is done one by one via demand-paging.
	- uncharge is done by
		- in chunk at munmap, truncate, exit, execve...
		- one by one via vmscan/paging.

It seems we have a chance to coalesce uncharges for improving scalability
at unmap/truncation.

This patch is a for coalescing uncharge.  For avoiding scattering memcg's
structure to functions under /mm, this patch adds memcg batch uncharge
information to the task.  A reason for per-task batching is for making use
of caller's context information.  We do batched uncharge (deleyed
uncharge) when truncation/unmap occurs but do direct uncharge when
uncharge is called by memory reclaim (vmscan.c).

The degree of coalescing depends on callers
  - at invalidate/trucate... pagevec size
  - at unmap ....ZAP_BLOCK_SIZE
(memory itself will be freed in this degree.)
Then, we'll not coalescing too much.

On x86-64 8cpu server, I tested overheads of memcg at page fault by
running a program which does map/fault/unmap in a loop. Running
a task per a cpu by taskset and see sum of the number of page faults
in 60secs.

[without memcg config]
  40156968  page-faults              #      0.085 M/sec   ( +-   0.046% )
  27.67 cache-miss/faults
[root cgroup]
  36659599  page-faults              #      0.077 M/sec   ( +-   0.247% )
  31.58 miss/faults
[in a child cgroup]
  18444157  page-faults              #      0.039 M/sec   ( +-   0.133% )
  69.96 miss/faults
[child with this patch]
  27133719  page-faults              #      0.057 M/sec   ( +-   0.155% )
  47.16 miss/faults

We can see some amounts of improvement.
(root cgroup doesn't affected by this patch)
Another patch for "charge" will follow this and above will be improved more.

Changelog(since 2009/10/02):
 - renamed filed of memcg_batch (as pages to bytes, memsw to memsw_bytes)
 - some clean up and commentary/description updates.
 - added initialize code to copy_process(). (possible bug fix)

Changelog(old):
 - fixed !CONFIG_MEM_CGROUP case.
 - rebased onto the latest mmotm + softlimit fix patches.
 - unified patch for callers
 - added commetns.
 - make ->do_batch as bool.
 - removed css_get() at el. We don't need it.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16 07:20:07 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner 1d61548254 sched: Convert pi_lock to raw_spinlock
Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to
raw_spinlocks.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14 23:55:33 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 6035ccd8e9 Merge branch 'for-2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (113 commits)
  cfq-iosched: Do not access cfqq after freeing it
  block: include linux/err.h to use ERR_PTR
  cfq-iosched: use call_rcu() instead of doing grace period stall on queue exit
  blkio: Allow CFQ group IO scheduling even when CFQ is a module
  blkio: Implement dynamic io controlling policy registration
  blkio: Export some symbols from blkio as its user CFQ can be a module
  block: Fix io_context leak after failure of clone with CLONE_IO
  block: Fix io_context leak after clone with CLONE_IO
  cfq-iosched: make nonrot check logic consistent
  io controller: quick fix for blk-cgroup and modular CFQ
  cfq-iosched: move IO controller declerations to a header file
  cfq-iosched: fix compile problem with !CONFIG_CGROUP
  blkio: Documentation
  blkio: Wait on sync-noidle queue even if rq_noidle = 1
  blkio: Implement group_isolation tunable
  blkio: Determine async workload length based on total number of queues
  blkio: Wait for cfq queue to get backlogged if group is empty
  blkio: Propagate cgroup weight updation to cfq groups
  blkio: Drop the reference to queue once the task changes cgroup
  blkio: Provide some isolation between groups
  ...
2009-12-08 08:19:16 -08:00
Linus Torvalds ed9216c171 Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (84 commits)
  KVM: VMX: Fix comparison of guest efer with stale host value
  KVM: s390: Fix prefix register checking in arch/s390/kvm/sigp.c
  KVM: Drop user return notifier when disabling virtualization on a cpu
  KVM: VMX: Disable unrestricted guest when EPT disabled
  KVM: x86 emulator: limit instructions to 15 bytes
  KVM: s390: Make psw available on all exits, not just a subset
  KVM: x86: Add KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTS
  KVM: VMX: Report unexpected simultaneous exceptions as internal errors
  KVM: Allow internal errors reported to userspace to carry extra data
  KVM: Reorder IOCTLs in main kvm.h
  KVM: x86: Polish exception injection via KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG
  KVM: only clear irq_source_id if irqchip is present
  KVM: x86: disallow KVM_{SET,GET}_LAPIC without allocated in-kernel lapic
  KVM: x86: disallow multiple KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP
  KVM: VMX: Remove vmx->msr_offset_efer
  KVM: MMU: update invlpg handler comment
  KVM: VMX: move CR3/PDPTR update to vmx_set_cr3
  KVM: remove duplicated task_switch check
  KVM: powerpc: Fix BUILD_BUG_ON condition
  KVM: VMX: Use shared msr infrastructure
  ...

Trivial conflicts due to new Kconfig options in arch/Kconfig and kernel/Makefile
2009-12-08 08:02:38 -08:00
Louis Rilling b69f229206 block: Fix io_context leak after failure of clone with CLONE_IO
With CLONE_IO, parent's io_context->nr_tasks is incremented, but never
decremented whenever copy_process() fails afterwards, which prevents
exit_io_context() from calling IO schedulers exit functions.

Give a task_struct to exit_io_context(), and call exit_io_context() instead of
put_io_context() in copy_process() cleanup path.

Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-12-04 16:36:18 +01:00
Avi Kivity 58988b07cf Merge remote branch 'tip/x86/entry' into kvm-updates/2.6.33
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:30:06 +02:00
Hidetoshi Seto 0cf55e1ec0 sched, cputime: Introduce thread_group_times()
This is a real fix for problem of utime/stime values decreasing
described in the thread:

   http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/3/522

Now cputime is accounted in the following way:

 - {u,s}time in task_struct are increased every time when the thread
   is interrupted by a tick (timer interrupt).

 - When a thread exits, its {u,s}time are added to signal->{u,s}time,
   after adjusted by task_times().

 - When all threads in a thread_group exits, accumulated {u,s}time
   (and also c{u,s}time) in signal struct are added to c{u,s}time
   in signal struct of the group's parent.

So {u,s}time in task struct are "raw" tick count, while
{u,s}time and c{u,s}time in signal struct are "adjusted" values.

And accounted values are used by:

 - task_times(), to get cputime of a thread:
   This function returns adjusted values that originates from raw
   {u,s}time and scaled by sum_exec_runtime that accounted by CFS.

 - thread_group_cputime(), to get cputime of a thread group:
   This function returns sum of all {u,s}time of living threads in
   the group, plus {u,s}time in the signal struct that is sum of
   adjusted cputimes of all exited threads belonged to the group.

The problem is the return value of thread_group_cputime(),
because it is mixed sum of "raw" value and "adjusted" value:

  group's {u,s}time = foreach(thread){{u,s}time} + exited({u,s}time)

This misbehavior can break {u,s}time monotonicity.
Assume that if there is a thread that have raw values greater
than adjusted values (e.g. interrupted by 1000Hz ticks 50 times
but only runs 45ms) and if it exits, cputime will decrease (e.g.
-5ms).

To fix this, we could do:

  group's {u,s}time = foreach(t){task_times(t)} + exited({u,s}time)

But task_times() contains hard divisions, so applying it for
every thread should be avoided.

This patch fixes the above problem in the following way:

 - Modify thread's exit (= __exit_signal()) not to use task_times().
   It means {u,s}time in signal struct accumulates raw values instead
   of adjusted values.  As the result it makes thread_group_cputime()
   to return pure sum of "raw" values.

 - Introduce a new function thread_group_times(*task, *utime, *stime)
   that converts "raw" values of thread_group_cputime() to "adjusted"
   values, in same calculation procedure as task_times().

 - Modify group's exit (= wait_task_zombie()) to use this introduced
   thread_group_times().  It make c{u,s}time in signal struct to
   have adjusted values like before this patch.

 - Replace some thread_group_cputime() by thread_group_times().
   This replacements are only applied where conveys the "adjusted"
   cputime to users, and where already uses task_times() near by it.
   (i.e. sys_times(), getrusage(), and /proc/<PID>/stat.)

This patch have a positive side effect:

 - Before this patch, if a group contains many short-life threads
   (e.g. runs 0.9ms and not interrupted by ticks), the group's
   cputime could be invisible since thread's cputime was accumulated
   after adjusted: imagine adjustment function as adj(ticks, runtime),
     {adj(0, 0.9) + adj(0, 0.9) + ....} = {0 + 0 + ....} = 0.
   After this patch it will not happen because the adjustment is
   applied after accumulated.

v2:
 - remove if()s, put new variables into signal_struct.

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Spencer Candland <spencer@bluehost.com>
Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B162517.8040909@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-02 17:32:40 +01:00
Hidetoshi Seto d99ca3b977 sched, cputime: Cleanups related to task_times()
- Remove if({u,s}t)s because no one call it with NULL now.
- Use cputime_{add,sub}().
- Add ifndef-endif for prev_{u,s}time since they are used
  only when !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING.

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Spencer Candland <spencer@bluehost.com>
Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B1624C7.7040302@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-02 17:32:39 +01:00
Avi Kivity 8e7cac7980 core: Fix user return notifier on fork()
fork() clones all thread_info flags, including
TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY; if the new task is first scheduled on a cpu
which doesn't have user return notifiers set, this causes user
return notifiers to trigger without any way of clearing itself.

This is easy to trigger with a forky workload on the host in
parallel with kvm, resulting in a cpu in an endless loop on the
verge of returning to userspace.

Fix by dropping the TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY immediately after fork.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1259505288-16559-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-29 22:03:04 +01:00
Ian Campbell 1d51075094 Correct nr_processes() when CPUs have been unplugged
nr_processes() returns the sum of the per cpu counter process_counts for
all online CPUs. This counter is incremented for the current CPU on
fork() and decremented for the current CPU on exit(). Since a process
does not necessarily fork and exit on the same CPU the process_count for
an individual CPU can be either positive or negative and effectively has
no meaning in isolation.

Therefore calculating the sum of process_counts over only the online
CPUs omits the processes which were started or stopped on any CPU which
has since been unplugged. Only the sum of process_counts across all
possible CPUs has meaning.

The only caller of nr_processes() is proc_root_getattr() which
calculates the number of links to /proc as
        stat->nlink = proc_root.nlink + nr_processes();

You don't have to be all that unlucky for the nr_processes() to return a
negative value leading to a negative number of links (or rather, an
apparently enormous number of links). If this happens then you can get
failures where things like "ls /proc" start to fail because they got an
-EOVERFLOW from some stat() call.

Example with some debugging inserted to show what goes on:
        # ps haux|wc -l
        nr_processes: CPU0:     90
        nr_processes: CPU1:     1030
        nr_processes: CPU2:     -900
        nr_processes: CPU3:     -136
        nr_processes: TOTAL:    84
        proc_root_getattr. nlink 12 + nr_processes() 84 = 96
        84
        # echo 0 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
        # ps haux|wc -l
        nr_processes: CPU0:     85
        nr_processes: CPU2:     -901
        nr_processes: CPU3:     -137
        nr_processes: TOTAL:    -953
        proc_root_getattr. nlink 12 + nr_processes() -953 = -941
        75
        # stat /proc/
        nr_processes: CPU0:     84
        nr_processes: CPU2:     -901
        nr_processes: CPU3:     -137
        nr_processes: TOTAL:    -954
        proc_root_getattr. nlink 12 + nr_processes() -954 = -942
          File: `/proc/'
          Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 1024   directory
        Device: 3h/3d   Inode: 1           Links: 4294966354
        Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
        Access: 2009-11-03 09:06:55.000000000 +0000
        Modify: 2009-11-03 09:06:55.000000000 +0000
        Change: 2009-11-03 09:06:55.000000000 +0000

I'm not 100% convinced that the per_cpu regions remain valid for offline
CPUs, although my testing suggests that they do. If not then I think the
correct solution would be to aggregate the process_count for a given CPU
into a global base value in cpu_down().

This bug appears to pre-date the transition to git and it looks like it
may even have been present in linux-2.6.0-test7-bk3 since it looks like
the code Rusty patched in http://lwn.net/Articles/64773/ was already
wrong.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-11-03 07:52:39 -08:00
Linus Torvalds f579bbcd9b Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  futex: fix requeue_pi key imbalance
  futex: Fix typo in FUTEX_WAIT/WAKE_BITSET_PRIVATE definitions
  rcu: Place root rcu_node structure in separate lockdep class
  rcu: Make hot-unplugged CPU relinquish its own RCU callbacks
  rcu: Move rcu_barrier() to rcutree
  futex: Move exit_pi_state() call to release_mm()
  futex: Nullify robust lists after cleanup
  futex: Fix locking imbalance
  panic: Fix panic message visibility by calling bust_spinlocks(0) before dying
  rcu: Replace the rcu_barrier enum with pointer to call_rcu*() function
  rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 4
  rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 3
  rcu: Fix rcu_lock_map build failure on CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y
  rcu: Clean up code to address Ingo's checkpatch feedback
  rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 2
  rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett
2009-10-08 12:16:35 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner 322a2c100a futex: Move exit_pi_state() call to release_mm()
exit_pi_state() is called from do_exit() but not from do_execve().
Move it to release_mm() so it gets called from do_execve() as well.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Anirban Sinha <ani@anirban.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2009-10-06 17:00:01 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra fc6b177dee futex: Nullify robust lists after cleanup
The robust list pointers of user space held futexes are kept intact
over an exec() call. When the exec'ed task exits exit_robust_list() is
called with the stale pointer. The risk of corruption is minimal, but
still it is incorrect to keep the pointers valid. Actually glibc
should uninstall the robust list before calling exec() but we have to
deal with it anyway.

Nullify the pointers after [compat_]exit_robust_list() has been
called.

Reported-by: Anirban Sinha <ani@anirban.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-10-06 17:00:01 +02:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto 801460d0cf task_struct cleanup: move binfmt field to mm_struct
Because the binfmt is not different between threads in the same process,
it can be moved from task_struct to mm_struct.  And binfmt moudle is
handled per mm_struct instead of task_struct.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:21:05 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 858f09930b aio: ifdef fields in mm_struct
->ioctx_lock and ->ioctx_list are used only under CONFIG_AIO.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:21:05 -07:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu 123be07b0b fork(): disable CLONE_PARENT for init
When global or container-init processes use CLONE_PARENT, they create a
multi-rooted process tree.  Besides siblings of global init remain as
zombies on exit since they are not reaped by their parent (swapper).  So
prevent global and container-inits from creating siblings.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 31bbb9b58d Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  itimers: Add tracepoints for itimer
  hrtimer: Add tracepoint for hrtimers
  timers: Add tracepoints for timer_list timers
  cputime: Optimize jiffies_to_cputime(1)
  itimers: Simplify arm_timer() code a bit
  itimers: Fix periodic tics precision
  itimers: Merge ITIMER_VIRT and ITIMER_PROF

Trivial header file include conflicts in kernel/fork.c
2009-09-23 09:46:15 -07:00
Stefani Seibold d899bf7b55 procfs: provide stack information for threads
A patch to give a better overview of the userland application stack usage,
especially for embedded linux.

Currently you are only able to dump the main process/thread stack usage
which is showed in /proc/pid/status by the "VmStk" Value.  But you get no
information about the consumed stack memory of the the threads.

There is an enhancement in the /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/*maps and which marks
the vm mapping where the thread stack pointer reside with "[thread stack
xxxxxxxx]".  xxxxxxxx is the maximum size of stack.  This is a value
information, because libpthread doesn't set the start of the stack to the
top of the mapped area, depending of the pthread usage.

A sample output of /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/maps looks like:

08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8312       /opt/z
08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312       /opt/z
0804a000-0806b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
a7d12000-a7d13000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
a7d13000-a7f13000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [thread stack: 001ff4b4]
a7f13000-a7f14000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
a7f14000-a7f36000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a7f36000-a8069000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
a8069000-a806b000 r--p 00133000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
a806b000-a806c000 rw-p 00135000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
a806c000-a806f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a806f000-a8083000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 14462      /lib/libpthread.so.0
a8083000-a8084000 r--p 00013000 03:00 14462      /lib/libpthread.so.0
a8084000-a8085000 rw-p 00014000 03:00 14462      /lib/libpthread.so.0
a8085000-a8088000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a8088000-a80a4000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8317       /lib/ld-linux.so.2
a80a4000-a80a5000 r--p 0001b000 03:00 8317       /lib/ld-linux.so.2
a80a5000-a80a6000 rw-p 0001c000 03:00 8317       /lib/ld-linux.so.2
afaf5000-afb0a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [stack]
ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]

Also there is a new entry "stack usage" in /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/status
which will you give the current stack usage in kb.

A sample output of /proc/self/status looks like:

Name:	cat
State:	R (running)
Tgid:	507
Pid:	507
.
.
.
CapBnd:	fffffffffffffeff
voluntary_ctxt_switches:	0
nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches:	0
Stack usage:	12 kB

I also fixed stack base address in /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/stat to the base
address of the associated thread stack and not the one of the main
process.  This makes more sense.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/proc/array.c now needs walk_page_range()]
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23 07:39:41 -07:00
Jiri Pirko 1f10206cf8 getrusage: fill ru_maxrss value
Make ->ru_maxrss value in struct rusage filled accordingly to rss hiwater
mark.  This struct is filled as a parameter to getrusage syscall.
->ru_maxrss value is set to KBs which is the way it is done in BSD
systems.  /usr/bin/time (gnu time) application converts ->ru_maxrss to KBs
which seems to be incorrect behavior.  Maintainer of this util was
notified by me with the patch which corrects it and cc'ed.

To make this happen we extend struct signal_struct by two fields.  The
first one is ->maxrss which we use to store rss hiwater of the task.  The
second one is ->cmaxrss which we use to store highest rss hiwater of all
task childs.  These values are used in k_getrusage() to actually fill
->ru_maxrss.  k_getrusage() uses current rss hiwater value directly if mm
struct exists.

Note:
exec() clear mm->hiwater_rss, but doesn't clear sig->maxrss.
it is intetionally behavior. *BSD getrusage have exec() inheriting.

test programs
========================================================

getrusage.c
===========
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/time.h>
 #include <sys/resource.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/wait.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <signal.h>
 #include <sys/mman.h>

 #include "common.h"

 #define err(str) perror(str), exit(1)

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
	int status;

	printf("allocate 100MB\n");
	consume(100);

	printf("testcase1: fork inherit? \n");
	printf("  expect: initial.self ~= child.self\n");
	show_rusage("initial");
	if (__fork()) {
		wait(&status);
	} else {
		show_rusage("fork child");
		_exit(0);
	}
	printf("\n");

	printf("testcase2: fork inherit? (cont.) \n");
	printf("  expect: initial.children ~= 100MB, but child.children = 0\n");
	show_rusage("initial");
	if (__fork()) {
		wait(&status);
	} else {
		show_rusage("child");
		_exit(0);
	}
	printf("\n");

	printf("testcase3: fork + malloc \n");
	printf("  expect: child.self ~= initial.self + 50MB\n");
	show_rusage("initial");
	if (__fork()) {
		wait(&status);
	} else {
		printf("allocate +50MB\n");
		consume(50);
		show_rusage("fork child");
		_exit(0);
	}
	printf("\n");

	printf("testcase4: grandchild maxrss\n");
	printf("  expect: post_wait.children ~= 300MB\n");
	show_rusage("initial");
	if (__fork()) {
		wait(&status);
		show_rusage("post_wait");
	} else {
		system("./child -n 0 -g 300");
		_exit(0);
	}
	printf("\n");

	printf("testcase5: zombie\n");
	printf("  expect: pre_wait ~= initial, IOW the zombie process is not accounted.\n");
	printf("          post_wait ~= 400MB, IOW wait() collect child's max_rss. \n");
	show_rusage("initial");
	if (__fork()) {
		sleep(1); /* children become zombie */
		show_rusage("pre_wait");
		wait(&status);
		show_rusage("post_wait");
	} else {
		system("./child -n 400");
		_exit(0);
	}
	printf("\n");

	printf("testcase6: SIG_IGN\n");
	printf("  expect: initial ~= after_zombie (child's 500MB alloc should be ignored).\n");
	show_rusage("initial");
	signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN);
	if (__fork()) {
		sleep(1); /* children become zombie */
		show_rusage("after_zombie");
	} else {
		system("./child -n 500");
		_exit(0);
	}
	printf("\n");
	signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL);

	printf("testcase7: exec (without fork) \n");
	printf("  expect: initial ~= exec \n");
	show_rusage("initial");
	execl("./child", "child", "-v", NULL);

	return 0;
}

child.c
=======
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/wait.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/time.h>
 #include <sys/resource.h>

 #include "common.h"

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
	int status;
	int c;
	long consume_size = 0;
	long grandchild_consume_size = 0;
	int show = 0;

	while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "n:g:v")) != -1) {
		switch (c) {
		case 'n':
			consume_size = atol(optarg);
			break;
		case 'v':
			show = 1;
			break;
		case 'g':

			grandchild_consume_size = atol(optarg);
			break;
		default:
			break;
		}
	}

	if (show)
		show_rusage("exec");

	if (consume_size) {
		printf("child alloc %ldMB\n", consume_size);
		consume(consume_size);
	}

	if (grandchild_consume_size) {
		if (fork()) {
			wait(&status);
		} else {
			printf("grandchild alloc %ldMB\n", grandchild_consume_size);
			consume(grandchild_consume_size);

			exit(0);
		}
	}

	return 0;
}

common.c
========
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/time.h>
 #include <sys/resource.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/wait.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <signal.h>
 #include <sys/mman.h>

 #include "common.h"
 #define err(str) perror(str), exit(1)

void show_rusage(char *prefix)
{
    	int err, err2;
    	struct rusage rusage_self;
    	struct rusage rusage_children;

    	printf("%s: ", prefix);
    	err = getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF, &rusage_self);
    	if (!err)
    		printf("self %ld ", rusage_self.ru_maxrss);
    	err2 = getrusage(RUSAGE_CHILDREN, &rusage_children);
    	if (!err2)
    		printf("children %ld ", rusage_children.ru_maxrss);

    	printf("\n");
}

/* Some buggy OS need this worthless CPU waste. */
void make_pagefault(void)
{
	void *addr;
	int size = getpagesize();
	int i;

	for (i=0; i<1000; i++) {
		addr = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANON, -1, 0);
		if (addr == MAP_FAILED)
			err("make_pagefault");
		memset(addr, 0, size);
		munmap(addr, size);
	}
}

void consume(int mega)
{
    	size_t sz = mega * 1024 * 1024;
    	void *ptr;

    	ptr = malloc(sz);
    	memset(ptr, 0, sz);
	make_pagefault();
}

pid_t __fork(void)
{
	pid_t pid;

	pid = fork();
	make_pagefault();

	return pid;
}

common.h
========
void show_rusage(char *prefix);
void make_pagefault(void);
void consume(int mega);
pid_t __fork(void);

FreeBSD result (expected result)
========================================================
allocate 100MB
testcase1: fork inherit?
  expect: initial.self ~= child.self
initial: self 103492 children 0
fork child: self 103540 children 0

testcase2: fork inherit? (cont.)
  expect: initial.children ~= 100MB, but child.children = 0
initial: self 103540 children 103540
child: self 103564 children 0

testcase3: fork + malloc
  expect: child.self ~= initial.self + 50MB
initial: self 103564 children 103564
allocate +50MB
fork child: self 154860 children 0

testcase4: grandchild maxrss
  expect: post_wait.children ~= 300MB
initial: self 103564 children 154860
grandchild alloc 300MB
post_wait: self 103564 children 308720

testcase5: zombie
  expect: pre_wait ~= initial, IOW the zombie process is not accounted.
          post_wait ~= 400MB, IOW wait() collect child's max_rss.
initial: self 103564 children 308720
child alloc 400MB
pre_wait: self 103564 children 308720
post_wait: self 103564 children 411312

testcase6: SIG_IGN
  expect: initial ~= after_zombie (child's 500MB alloc should be ignored).
initial: self 103564 children 411312
child alloc 500MB
after_zombie: self 103624 children 411312

testcase7: exec (without fork)
  expect: initial ~= exec
initial: self 103624 children 411312
exec: self 103624 children 411312

Linux result (actual test result)
========================================================
allocate 100MB
testcase1: fork inherit?
  expect: initial.self ~= child.self
initial: self 102848 children 0
fork child: self 102572 children 0

testcase2: fork inherit? (cont.)
  expect: initial.children ~= 100MB, but child.children = 0
initial: self 102876 children 102644
child: self 102572 children 0

testcase3: fork + malloc
  expect: child.self ~= initial.self + 50MB
initial: self 102876 children 102644
allocate +50MB
fork child: self 153804 children 0

testcase4: grandchild maxrss
  expect: post_wait.children ~= 300MB
initial: self 102876 children 153864
grandchild alloc 300MB
post_wait: self 102876 children 307536

testcase5: zombie
  expect: pre_wait ~= initial, IOW the zombie process is not accounted.
          post_wait ~= 400MB, IOW wait() collect child's max_rss.
initial: self 102876 children 307536
child alloc 400MB
pre_wait: self 102876 children 307536
post_wait: self 102876 children 410076

testcase6: SIG_IGN
  expect: initial ~= after_zombie (child's 500MB alloc should be ignored).
initial: self 102876 children 410076
child alloc 500MB
after_zombie: self 102880 children 410076

testcase7: exec (without fork)
  expect: initial ~= exec
initial: self 102880 children 410076
exec: self 102880 children 410076

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23 07:39:30 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 28b83c5193 oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to signal_struct
Currently, OOM logic callflow is here.

    __out_of_memory()
        select_bad_process()            for each task
            badness()                   calculate badness of one task
                oom_kill_process()      search child
                    oom_kill_task()     kill target task and mm shared tasks with it

example, process-A have two thread, thread-A and thread-B and it have very
fat memory and each thread have following oom_adj and oom_score.

     thread-A: oom_adj = OOM_DISABLE, oom_score = 0
     thread-B: oom_adj = 0,           oom_score = very-high

Then, select_bad_process() select thread-B, but oom_kill_task() refuse
kill the task because thread-A have OOM_DISABLE.  Thus __out_of_memory()
call select_bad_process() again.  but select_bad_process() select the same
task.  It mean kernel fall in livelock.

The fact is, select_bad_process() must select killable task.  otherwise
OOM logic go into livelock.

And root cause is, oom_adj shouldn't be per-thread value.  it should be
per-process value because OOM-killer kill a process, not thread.  Thus
This patch moves oomkilladj (now more appropriately named oom_adj) from
struct task_struct to struct signal_struct.  it naturally prevent
select_bad_process() choose wrong task.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:39 -07:00
Andrea Arcangeli 1c2fb7a4c2 ksm: fix deadlock with munlock in exit_mmap
Rawhide users have reported hang at startup when cryptsetup is run: the
same problem can be simply reproduced by running a program int main() {
mlockall(MCL_CURRENT | MCL_FUTURE); return 0; }

The problem is that exit_mmap() applies munlock_vma_pages_all() to
clean up VM_LOCKED areas, and its current implementation (stupidly)
tries to fault in absent pages, for example where PROT_NONE prevented
them being faulted in when mlocking.  Whereas the "ksm: fix oom
deadlock" patch, knowing there's a race by which KSM might try to fault
in pages after exit_mmap() had finally zapped the range, backs out of
such faults doing nothing when its ksm_test_exit() notices mm_users 0.

So revert that part of "ksm: fix oom deadlock" which moved the
ksm_exit() call from before exit_mmap() to the middle of exit_mmap();
and remove those ksm_test_exit() checks from the page fault paths, so
allowing the munlocking to proceed without interference.

ksm_exit, if there are rmap_items still chained on this mm slot, takes
mmap_sem write side: so preventing KSM from working on an mm while
exit_mmap runs.  And KSM will bail out as soon as it notices that
mm_users is already zero, thanks to its internal ksm_test_exit checks.
So that when a task is killed by OOM killer or the user, KSM will not
indefinitely prevent it from running exit_mmap to release its memory.

This does break a part of what "ksm: fix oom deadlock" was trying to
achieve.  When unmerging KSM (echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm), and even
when ksmd itself has to cancel a KSM page, it is possible that the
first OOM-kill victim would be the KSM process being faulted: then its
memory won't be freed until a second victim has been selected (freeing
memory for the unmerging fault to complete).

But the OOM killer is already liable to kill a second victim once the
intended victim's p->mm goes to NULL: so there's not much point in
rejecting this KSM patch before fixing that OOM behaviour.  It is very
much more important to allow KSM users to boot up, than to haggle over
an unlikely and poorly supported OOM case.

We also intend to fix munlocking to not fault pages: at which point
this patch _could_ be reverted; though that would be controversial, so
we hope to find a better solution.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com>
Acked-for-now-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:32 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 9ba6929480 ksm: fix oom deadlock
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.

Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.

But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem.  And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.

The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.

But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.

Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte.  All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.

__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with.  __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).

But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself.  This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:32 -07:00
Hugh Dickins f8af4da3b4 ksm: the mm interface to ksm
This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for
better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later.

When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and
MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than
pretending that they can be serviced.  But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them
even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not
touch (e.g.  hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings).

Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the
range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory.

Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try
merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it.
Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain
VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting.

Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:31 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro c6a7f5728a mm: oom analysis: Show kernel stack usage in /proc/meminfo and OOM log output
The amount of memory allocated to kernel stacks can become significant and
cause OOM conditions.  However, we do not display the amount of memory
consumed by stacks.

Add code to display the amount of memory used for stacks in /proc/meminfo.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:27 -07:00
Ingo Molnar cdd6c482c9 perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!

In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.

Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.

All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)

The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.

Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.

User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)

This patch has been generated via the following script:

  FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

  sed -i \
    -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
    -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
    -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
    -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
    -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
    $FILES

  for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
    M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
    mv $N $M
  done

  FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)

  sed -i \
    -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
    -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
    -e 's/counter/event/g' \
    -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
    $FILES

... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.

Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.

( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
  with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
  over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
  in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
  better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
  instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )

Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
Linus Torvalds eee2775d99 Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (28 commits)
  rcu: Move end of special early-boot RCU operation earlier
  rcu: Changes from reviews: avoid casts, fix/add warnings, improve comments
  rcu: Create rcutree plugins to handle hotplug CPU for multi-level trees
  rcu: Remove lockdep annotations from RCU's _notrace() API members
  rcu: Add #ifdef to suppress __rcu_offline_cpu() warning in !HOTPLUG_CPU builds
  rcu: Add CPU-offline processing for single-node configurations
  rcu: Add "notrace" to RCU function headers used by ftrace
  rcu: Remove CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
  rcu: Merge preemptable-RCU functionality into hierarchical RCU
  rcu: Simplify rcu_pending()/rcu_check_callbacks() API
  rcu: Use debugfs_remove_recursive() simplify code.
  rcu: Merge per-RCU-flavor initialization into pre-existing macro
  rcu: Fix online/offline indication for rcudata.csv trace file
  rcu: Consolidate sparse and lockdep declarations in include/linux/rcupdate.h
  rcu: Renamings to increase RCU clarity
  rcu: Move private definitions from include/linux/rcutree.h to kernel/rcutree.h
  rcu: Expunge lingering references to CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU, optimize on !SMP
  rcu: Delay rcu_barrier() wait until beginning of next CPU-hotunplug operation.
  rcu: Fix typo in rcu_irq_exit() comment header
  rcu: Make rcupreempt_trace.c look at offline CPUs
  ...
2009-09-11 13:20:18 -07:00
James Morris a3c8b97396 Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2009-09-11 08:04:49 +10:00
Ingo Molnar 29e2035bdd Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcu
Merge reason: Avoid fuzz in init/main.c and update from rc6 to rc8.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 09:29:05 +02:00
David Howells e0e817392b CRED: Add some configurable debugging [try #6]
Add a config option (CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS) to turn on some debug checking
for credential management.  The additional code keeps track of the number of
pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to see that
this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred struct (which includes
all references, not just those from task_structs).

Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, the code also checks that the security
pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.

This attempts to catch the bug whereby inode_has_perm() faults in an nfsd
kernel thread on seeing cred->security be a NULL pointer (it appears that the
credential struct has been previously released):

	http://www.kerneloops.org/oops.php?number=252883

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-02 21:29:01 +10:00
Thomas Gleixner f71bb0ac5e Merge branch 'timers/posixtimers' into timers/tracing
Merge reason: timer tracepoint patches depend on both branches

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-08-29 10:34:29 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 4ab6c08336 clone(): fix race between copy_process() and de_thread()
Spotted by Hiroshi Shimamoto who also provided the test-case below.

copy_process() uses signal->count as a reference counter, but it is not.
This test case

	#include <sys/types.h>
	#include <sys/wait.h>
	#include <unistd.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <errno.h>
	#include <pthread.h>

	void *null_thread(void *p)
	{
		for (;;)
			sleep(1);

		return NULL;
	}

	void *exec_thread(void *p)
	{
		execl("/bin/true", "/bin/true", NULL);

		return null_thread(p);
	}

	int main(int argc, char **argv)
	{
		for (;;) {
			pid_t pid;
			int ret, status;

			pid = fork();
			if (pid < 0)
				break;

			if (!pid) {
				pthread_t tid;

				pthread_create(&tid, NULL, exec_thread, NULL);
				for (;;)
					pthread_create(&tid, NULL, null_thread, NULL);
			}

			do {
				ret = waitpid(pid, &status, 0);
			} while (ret == -1 && errno == EINTR);
		}

		return 0;
	}

quickly creates an unkillable task.

If copy_process(CLONE_THREAD) races with de_thread()
copy_signal()->atomic(signal->count) breaks the signal->notify_count
logic, and the execing thread can hang forever in kernel space.

Change copy_process() to increment count/live only when we know for sure
we can't fail.  In this case the forked thread will take care of its
reference to signal correctly.

If copy_process() fails, check CLONE_THREAD flag.  If it it set - do
nothing, the counters were not changed and current belongs to the same
thread group.  If it is not set, ->signal must be released in any case
(and ->count must be == 1), the forked child is the only thread in the
thread group.

We need more cleanups here, in particular signal->count should not be used
by de_thread/__exit_signal at all.  This patch only fixes the bug.

Reported-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Tested-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-26 20:06:52 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney f41d911f8c rcu: Merge preemptable-RCU functionality into hierarchical RCU
Create a kernel/rcutree_plugin.h file that contains definitions
for preemptable RCU (or, under the #else branch of the #ifdef,
empty definitions for the classic non-preemptable semantics).
These definitions fit into plugins defined in kernel/rcutree.c
for this purpose.

This variant of preemptable RCU uses a new algorithm whose
read-side expense is roughly that of classic hierarchical RCU
under CONFIG_PREEMPT. This new algorithm's update-side expense
is similar to that of classic hierarchical RCU, and, in absence
of read-side preemption or blocking, is exactly that of classic
hierarchical RCU.  Perhaps more important, this new algorithm
has a much simpler implementation, saving well over 1,000 lines
of code compared to mainline's implementation of preemptable
RCU, which will hopefully be retired in favor of this new
algorithm.

The simplifications are obtained by maintaining per-task
nesting state for running tasks, and using a simple
lock-protected algorithm to handle accounting when tasks block
within RCU read-side critical sections, making use of lessons
learned while creating numerous user-level RCU implementations
over the past 18 months.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <12509746134003-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-23 10:32:40 +02:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 0753ba01e1 mm: revert "oom: move oom_adj value"
The commit 2ff05b2b (oom: move oom_adj value) moveed the oom_adj value to
the mm_struct.  It was a very good first step for sanitize OOM.

However Paul Menage reported the commit makes regression to his job
scheduler.  Current OOM logic can kill OOM_DISABLED process.

Why? His program has the code of similar to the following.

	...
	set_oom_adj(OOM_DISABLE); /* The job scheduler never killed by oom */
	...
	if (vfork() == 0) {
		set_oom_adj(0); /* Invoked child can be killed */
		execve("foo-bar-cmd");
	}
	....

vfork() parent and child are shared the same mm_struct.  then above
set_oom_adj(0) doesn't only change oom_adj for vfork() child, it's also
change oom_adj for vfork() parent.  Then, vfork() parent (job scheduler)
lost OOM immune and it was killed.

Actually, fork-setting-exec idiom is very frequently used in userland program.
We must not break this assumption.

Then, this patch revert commit 2ff05b2b and related commit.

Reverted commit list
---------------------
- commit 2ff05b2b4e (oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to mm_struct)
- commit 4d8b9135c3 (oom: avoid unnecessary mm locking and scanning for OOM_DISABLE)
- commit 8123681022 (oom: only oom kill exiting tasks with attached memory)
- commit 933b787b57 (mm: copy over oom_adj value at fork time)

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-18 16:31:13 -07:00
Eric Dumazet 9c8a8228d0 execve: must clear current->clear_child_tid
While looking at Jens Rosenboom bug report
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/27/35) about strange sys_futex call done from
a dying "ps" program, we found following problem.

clone() syscall has special support for TID of created threads.  This
support includes two features.

One (CLONE_CHILD_SETTID) is to set an integer into user memory with the
TID value.

One (CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID) is to clear this same integer once the created
thread dies.

The integer location is a user provided pointer, provided at clone()
time.

kernel keeps this pointer value into current->clear_child_tid.

At execve() time, we should make sure kernel doesnt keep this user
provided pointer, as full user memory is replaced by a new one.

As glibc fork() actually uses clone() syscall with CLONE_CHILD_SETTID and
CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID set, chances are high that we might corrupt user
memory in forked processes.

Following sequence could happen:

1) bash (or any program) starts a new process, by a fork() call that
   glibc maps to a clone( ...  CLONE_CHILD_SETTID | CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID
   ...) syscall

2) When new process starts, its current->clear_child_tid is set to a
   location that has a meaning only in bash (or initial program) context
   (&THREAD_SELF->tid)

3) This new process does the execve() syscall to start a new program.
   current->clear_child_tid is left unchanged (a non NULL value)

4) If this new program creates some threads, and initial thread exits,
   kernel will attempt to clear the integer pointed by
   current->clear_child_tid from mm_release() :

        if (tsk->clear_child_tid
            && !(tsk->flags & PF_SIGNALED)
            && atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) > 1) {
                u32 __user * tidptr = tsk->clear_child_tid;
                tsk->clear_child_tid = NULL;

                /*
                 * We don't check the error code - if userspace has
                 * not set up a proper pointer then tough luck.
                 */
<< here >>      put_user(0, tidptr);
                sys_futex(tidptr, FUTEX_WAKE, 1, NULL, NULL, 0);
        }

5) OR : if new program is not multi-threaded, but spied by /proc/pid
   users (ps command for example), mm_users > 1, and the exiting program
   could corrupt 4 bytes in a persistent memory area (shm or memory mapped
   file)

If current->clear_child_tid points to a writeable portion of memory of the
new program, kernel happily and silently corrupts 4 bytes of memory, with
unexpected effects.

Fix is straightforward and should not break any sane program.

Reported-by: Jens Rosenboom <jens@mcbone.net>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-07 10:39:56 -07:00
Stanislaw Gruszka 42c4ab41a1 itimers: Merge ITIMER_VIRT and ITIMER_PROF
Both cpu itimers have same data flow in the few places, this
patch make unification of code related with VIRT and PROF
itimers.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
LKML-Reference: <1248862529-6063-2-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-03 14:48:35 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 9f498cc5be perf_counter: Full task tracing
In order to be able to distinguish between no samples due to
inactivity and no samples due to task ended, Arjan asked for
PERF_EVENT_EXIT events. This is useful to the boot delay
instrumentation (bootchart) app.

This patch changes the PERF_EVENT_FORK to be emitted on every
clone, and adds PERF_EVENT_EXIT to be emitted on task exit,
after the task's counters have been closed.

This task tracing is controlled through: attr.comm || attr.mmap
and through the new attr.task field.

Suggested-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
[ cleaned up perf_counter.h a bit ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-02 13:47:56 +02:00
Rik van Riel 933b787b57 mm: copy over oom_adj value at fork time
Fix a post-2.6.31 regression which was introduced by
2ff05b2b4e ("oom: move oom_adj value from
task_struct to mm_struct").

After moving the oom_adj value from the task struct to the mm_struct, the
oom_adj value was no longer properly inherited by child processes.

Copying over the oom_adj value at fork time fixes that bug.

[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: test for current->mm before dereferencing it]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Paul Menage <manage@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-29 19:10:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 3c3301083e Merge branch 'perf-counters-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-perf
* 'perf-counters-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-perf: (31 commits)
  perf_counter tools: Give perf top inherit option
  perf_counter tools: Fix vmlinux symbol generation breakage
  perf_counter: Detect debugfs location
  perf_counter: Add tracepoint support to perf list, perf stat
  perf symbol: C++ demangling
  perf: avoid structure size confusion by using a fixed size
  perf_counter: Fix throttle/unthrottle event logging
  perf_counter: Improve perf stat and perf record option parsing
  perf_counter: PERF_SAMPLE_ID and inherited counters
  perf_counter: Plug more stack leaks
  perf: Fix stack data leak
  perf_counter: Remove unused variables
  perf_counter: Make call graph option consistent
  perf_counter: Add perf record option to log addresses
  perf_counter: Log vfork as a fork event
  perf_counter: Synthesize VDSO mmap event
  perf_counter: Make sure we dont leak kernel memory to userspace
  perf_counter tools: Fix index boundary check
  perf_counter: Fix the tracepoint channel to perfcounters
  perf_counter, x86: Extend perf_counter Pentium M support
  ...
2009-07-22 11:41:56 -07:00
Anton Blanchard ed900c054b perf_counter: Log vfork as a fork event
Right now we don't output vfork events. Even though we should
always see an exec after a vfork, we may get perfcounter
samples between the vfork and exec. These samples can lead to
some confusion when parsing perfcounter data.

To keep things consistent we should always log a fork event. It
will result in a little more log data, but is less confusing to
trace parsing tools.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090716104817.589309391@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-18 11:21:31 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan b43f3cbd21 headers: mnt_namespace.h redux
Fix various silly problems wrt mnt_namespace.h:

 - exit_mnt_ns() isn't used, remove it
 - done that, sched.h and nsproxy.h inclusions aren't needed
 - mount.h inclusion was need for vfsmount_lock, but no longer
 - remove mnt_namespace.h inclusion from files which don't use anything
   from mnt_namespace.h

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-08 09:31:56 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 72a1de39f8 copy_process(): remove the unneeded clear_tsk_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING)
The forked child can have TIF_SIGPENDING if it was copied from parent's
ti->flags.  But this is harmless and actually almost never happens,
because copy_process() can't succeed if signal_pending() == T.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:03:52 -07:00
Vegard Nossum 2dff440525 kmemcheck: add mm functions
With kmemcheck enabled, the slab allocator needs to do this:

1. Tell kmemcheck to allocate the shadow memory which stores the status of
   each byte in the allocation proper, e.g. whether it is initialized or
   uninitialized.
2. Tell kmemcheck which parts of memory that should be marked uninitialized.
   There are actually a few more states, such as "not yet allocated" and
   "recently freed".

If a slab cache is set up using the SLAB_NOTRACK flag, it will never return
memory that can take page faults because of kmemcheck.

If a slab cache is NOT set up using the SLAB_NOTRACK flag, callers can still
request memory with the __GFP_NOTRACK flag. This does not prevent the page
faults from occuring, however, but marks the object in question as being
initialized so that no warnings will ever be produced for this object.

In addition to (and in contrast to) __GFP_NOTRACK, the
__GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE flag indicates that the allocation should
not be tracked _because_ it would produce a false positive. Their values
are identical, but need not be so in the future (for example, we could now
enable/disable false positives with a config option).

Parts of this patch were contributed by Pekka Enberg but merged for
atomicity.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-15 12:40:03 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 940010c5a3 Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c
	arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
	include/linux/sched.h
	kernel/exit.c
2009-06-11 17:55:42 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 991ec02cdc Merge branch 'tracing-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  function-graph: always initialize task ret_stack
  function-graph: move initialization of new tasks up in fork
  function-graph: add memory barriers for accessing task's ret_stack
  function-graph: enable the stack after initialization of other variables
  function-graph: only allocate init tasks if it was not already done

Manually fix trivial conflict in kernel/trace/ftrace.c
2009-06-10 19:58:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 8623661180 Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits)
  Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support"
  tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format
  ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name
  tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK
  tracing: add protection around module events unload
  tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface
  tracing: fix the block trace points print size
  tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()
  ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp
  ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock
  tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded
  tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic
  tracing/events: fix output format of user stack
  tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack
  tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header
  ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer
  ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps
  ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit
  ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled
  tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag
  ...
2009-06-10 19:53:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 087eb43705 ptrace: tracehook_report_clone: fix false positives
The "trace || CLONE_PTRACE" check in tracehook_report_clone() is not right,

- If the untraced task does clone(CLONE_PTRACE) the new child is not traced,
  we must not queue SIGSTOP.

- If we forked the traced task, but the tracer exits and untraces both the
  forking task and the new child (after copy_process() drops tasklist_lock),
  we should not queue SIGSTOP too.

Change the code to check task_ptrace() != 0 instead. This is still racy, but
the race is harmless.

We can race with another tracer attaching to this child, or the tracer can
exit and detach in parallel. But giwen that we didn't do wake_up_new_task()
yet, the child must have the pending SIGSTOP anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-04 18:07:40 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 60313ebed7 perf_counter: Add fork event
Create a fork event so that we can easily clone the comm and
dso maps without having to generate all those events.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-04 17:51:38 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 226f62fdd5 perf_counter: Add a comm hook for pure fork()s
I noticed missing COMM events and found that we missed
reporting them for pure forks.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-03 14:14:30 +02:00
Steven Rostedt f7e8b616ed function-graph: move initialization of new tasks up in fork
When the function graph tracer is enabled, all new tasks must allocate
a ret_stack to place the return address of functions. This is because
the function graph tracer will replace the real return address with a
call to the tracing of the exit function.

This initialization happens in fork, but it happens too late. If fork
fails, then it will call free_task and that calls the freeing of this
ret_stack. But before initialization happens, the new (failed) task
points to its parents ret_stack. If a fork failure happens during
the function trace, it would be catastrophic for the parent.

Also, there's no need to call ftrace_graph_exit_task from fork, since
it is called by free_task which fork calls on failure.

[ Impact: prevent crash during failed fork running function graph tracer ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-02 16:49:57 -04:00
Peter Zijlstra bbbee90829 perf_counter: Ammend cleanup in fork() fail
When fork() fails we cannot use perf_counter_exit_task() since that
assumes to operate on current. Write a new helper that cleans up
unused/clean contexts.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-29 16:21:52 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 6ab423e0ea perf_counter: Propagate inheritance failures down the fork() path
Fail fork() when we fail inheritance for some reason (-ENOMEM most likely).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090525124600.324656474@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-25 14:55:01 +02:00
Ingo Molnar e4cbb4e3ac perf_counter: Move child perfcounter init to after scheduler init
Initialize a task's perfcounters (inherit from parent, etc.) after
the child task's scheduler fields have been initialized already.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-25 13:05:06 +02:00
Paul Mackerras a63eaf34ae perf_counter: Dynamically allocate tasks' perf_counter_context struct
This replaces the struct perf_counter_context in the task_struct with
a pointer to a dynamically allocated perf_counter_context struct.  The
main reason for doing is this is to allow us to transfer a
perf_counter_context from one task to another when we do lazy PMU
switching in a later patch.

This has a few side-benefits: the task_struct becomes a little smaller,
we save some memory because only tasks that have perf_counters attached
get a perf_counter_context allocated for them, and we can remove the
inclusion of <linux/perf_counter.h> in sched.h, meaning that we don't
end up recompiling nearly everything whenever perf_counter.h changes.

The perf_counter_context structures are reference-counted and freed
when the last reference is dropped.  A context can have references
from its task and the counters on its task.  Counters can outlive the
task so it is possible that a context will be freed well after its
task has exited.

Contexts are allocated on fork if the parent had a context, or
otherwise the first time that a per-task counter is created on a task.
In the latter case, we set the context pointer in the task struct
locklessly using an atomic compare-and-exchange operation in case we
raced with some other task in creating a context for the subject task.

This also removes the task pointer from the perf_counter struct.  The
task pointer was not used anywhere and would make it harder to move a
context from one task to another.  Anything that needed to know which
task a counter was attached to was already using counter->ctx->task.

The __perf_counter_init_context function moves up in perf_counter.c
so that it can be called from find_get_context, and now initializes
the refcount, but is otherwise unchanged.

We were potentially calling list_del_counter twice: once from
__perf_counter_exit_task when the task exits and once from
__perf_counter_remove_from_context when the counter's fd gets closed.
This adds a check in list_del_counter so it doesn't do anything if
the counter has already been removed from the lists.

Since perf_counter_task_sched_in doesn't do anything if the task doesn't
have a context, and leaves cpuctx->task_ctx = NULL, this adds code to
__perf_install_in_context to set cpuctx->task_ctx if necessary, i.e. in
the case where the current task adds the first counter to itself and
thus creates a context for itself.

This also adds similar code to __perf_counter_enable to handle a
similar situation which can arise when the counters have been disabled
using prctl; that also leaves cpuctx->task_ctx = NULL.

[ Impact: refactor counter context management to prepare for new feature ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <18966.10075.781053.231153@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-22 12:18:19 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 0ad5d703c6 Merge branch 'tracing/hw-branch-tracing' into tracing/core
Merge reason: this topic is ready for upstream now. It passed
              Oleg's review and Andrew had no further mm/*
              objections/observations either.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-07 13:36:22 +02:00
Ingo Molnar e7fd5d4b3d Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Merge reason: This brach was on -rc1, refresh it to almost-rc4 to pick up
              the latest upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29 14:47:05 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 416dfdcdb8 Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc3' into tracing/hw-branch-tracing
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c

Merge reason: fix the conflict above, and also pick up the CONFIG_BROKEN
              dependency change from upstream so that we can remove it
	      here.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-24 10:11:23 +02:00
Steven Rostedt ad8d75fff8 tracing/events: move trace point headers into include/trace/events
Impact: clean up

Create a sub directory in include/trace called events to keep the
trace point headers in their own separate directory. Only headers that
declare trace points should be defined in this directory.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14 22:05:43 -04:00
Steven Rostedt a8d154b009 tracing: create automated trace defines
This patch lowers the number of places a developer must modify to add
new tracepoints. The current method to add a new tracepoint
into an existing system is to write the trace point macro in the
trace header with one of the macros TRACE_EVENT, TRACE_FORMAT or
DECLARE_TRACE, then they must add the same named item into the C file
with the macro DEFINE_TRACE(name) and then add the trace point.

This change cuts out the needing to add the DEFINE_TRACE(name).
Every file that uses the tracepoint must still include the trace/<type>.h
file, but the one C file must also add a define before the including
of that file.

 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
 #include <trace/mytrace.h>

This will cause the trace/mytrace.h file to also produce the C code
necessary to implement the trace point.

Note, if more than one trace/<type>.h is used to create the C code
it is best to list them all together.

 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
 #include <trace/foo.h>
 #include <trace/bar.h>
 #include <trace/fido.h>

Thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers and Christoph Hellwig for coming up with
the cleaner solution of the define above the includes over my first
design to have the C code include a "special" header.

This patch converts sched, irq and lockdep and skb to use this new
method.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14 12:57:28 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 422a253483 Merge branches 'core-fixes-for-linus', 'irq-fixes-for-linus' and 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  printk: fix wrong format string iter for printk
  futex: comment requeue key reference semantics

* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  irq: fix cpumask memory leak on offstack cpumask kernels

* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  posix-timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && setitimer(CPUCLOCK_PROF)
  posix-timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && fork()
  timers: add missing kernel-doc
2009-04-09 10:35:30 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 6279a751fe posix-timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && fork()
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12911

copy_signal() copies signal->rlim, but RLIMIT_CPU is "lost". Because
posix_cpu_timers_init_group() sets cputime_expires.prof_exp = 0 and thus
fastpath_timer_check() returns false unless we have other expired cpu timers.

Change copy_signal() to set cputime_expires.prof_exp if we have RLIMIT_CPU.
Also, set cputimer.running = 1 in that case. This is not strictly necessary,
but imho makes sense.

Reported-by: Peter Lojkin <ia6432@inbox.ru>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Lojkin <ia6432@inbox.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <20090327000607.GA10104@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08 17:51:38 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 5ea472a77f Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc1' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h
	arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h
	include/linux/init_task.h

Merge reason: the conflicts are non-trivial: PowerPC placement
              of sys_perf_counter_open has to be mixed with the
	      new preadv/pwrite syscalls.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-08 10:35:30 +02:00
Markus Metzger 0f4814065f x86, ptrace: add bts context unconditionally
Add the ptrace bts context field to task_struct unconditionally.

Initialize the field directly in copy_process().
Remove all the unneeded functionality used to initialize that field.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: roland@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com
LKML-Reference: <20090403144603.292754000@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 13:36:31 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 5e34437840 Merge branch 'linus' into core/softlockup
Conflicts:
	kernel/sysctl.c
2009-04-07 11:15:40 +02:00
Ingo Molnar f541ae326f Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core-v2
Merge reason: we have gathered quite a few conflicts, need to merge upstream

Conflicts:
	arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
	arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
	arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
	arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
	arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
	arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c
	include/linux/sched.h
	kernel/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:02:57 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 8fe74cf053 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  Remove two unneeded exports and make two symbols static in fs/mpage.c
  Cleanup after commit 585d3bc06f
  Trim includes of fdtable.h
  Don't crap into descriptor table in binfmt_som
  Trim includes in binfmt_elf
  Don't mess with descriptor table in load_elf_binary()
  Get rid of indirect include of fs_struct.h
  New helper - current_umask()
  check_unsafe_exec() doesn't care about signal handlers sharing
  New locking/refcounting for fs_struct
  Take fs_struct handling to new file (fs/fs_struct.c)
  Get rid of bumping fs_struct refcount in pivot_root(2)
  Kill unsharing fs_struct in __set_personality()
2009-04-02 21:09:10 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 1b0f7ffd0e pids: kill signal_struct-> __pgrp/__session and friends
We are wasting 2 words in signal_struct without any reason to implement
task_pgrp_nr() and task_session_nr().

task_session_nr() has no callers since
2e2ba22ea4, we can remove it.

task_pgrp_nr() is still (I believe wrongly) used in fs/autofsX and
fs/coda.

This patch reimplements task_pgrp_nr() via task_pgrp_nr_ns(), and kills
__pgrp/__session and the related helpers.

The change in drivers/char/tty_io.c is cosmetic, but hopefully makes sense
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <number6@the-village.bc.nu>		[tty parts]
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-02 19:05:02 -07:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu b3bfa0cba8 signals: protect cinit from blocked fatal signals
Normally SIG_DFL signals to global and container-init are dropped early.
But if a signal is blocked when it is posted, we cannot drop the signal
since the receiver may install a handler before unblocking the signal.
Once this signal is queued however, the receiver container-init has no way
of knowing if the signal was sent from an ancestor or descendant
namespace.  This patch ensures that contianer-init drops all SIG_DFL
signals in get_signal_to_deliver() except SIGKILL/SIGSTOP.

If SIGSTOP/SIGKILL originate from a descendant of container-init they are
never queued (i.e dropped in sig_ignored() in an earler patch).

If SIGSTOP/SIGKILL originate from parent namespace, the signal is queued
and container-init processes the signal.

IOW, if get_signal_to_deliver() sees a sig_kernel_only() signal for global
or container-init, the signal must have been generated internally or must
have come from an ancestor ns and we process the signal.

Further, the signal_group_exit() check was needed to cover the case of a
multi-threaded init sending SIGKILL to other threads when doing an exit()
or exec().  But since the new sig_kernel_only() check covers the SIGKILL,
the signal_group_exit() check is no longer needed and can be removed.

Finally, now that we have all pieces in place, set SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE for
container-inits.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-02 19:04:58 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 6f2c55b843 Simplify copy_thread()
First argument unused since 2.3.11.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-02 19:04:51 -07:00
David Howells 33e5d76979 nommu: fix a number of issues with the per-MM VMA patch
Fix a number of issues with the per-MM VMA patch:

 (1) Make mmap_pages_allocated an atomic_long_t, just in case this is used on
     a NOMMU system with more than 2G pages.  Makes no difference on a 32-bit
     system.

 (2) Report vma->vm_pgoff * PAGE_SIZE as a 64-bit value, not a 32-bit value,
     lest it overflow.

 (3) Move the allocation of the vm_area_struct slab back for fork.c.

 (4) Use KMEM_CACHE() for both vm_area_struct and vm_region slabs.

 (5) Use BUG_ON() rather than if () BUG().

 (6) Make the default validate_nommu_regions() a static inline rather than a
     #define.

 (7) Make free_page_series()'s objection to pages with a refcount != 1 more
     informative.

 (8) Adjust the __put_nommu_region() banner comment to indicate that the
     semaphore must be held for writing.

 (9) Limit the number of warnings about munmaps of non-mmapped regions.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-02 19:04:48 -07:00
Al Viro 5ad4e53bd5 Get rid of indirect include of fs_struct.h
Don't pull it in sched.h; very few files actually need it and those
can include directly.  sched.h itself only needs forward declaration
of struct fs_struct;

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-31 23:00:27 -04:00
Al Viro 498052bba5 New locking/refcounting for fs_struct
* all changes of current->fs are done under task_lock and write_lock of
  old fs->lock
* refcount is not atomic anymore (same protection)
* its decrements are done when removing reference from current; at the
  same time we decide whether to free it.
* put_fs_struct() is gone
* new field - ->in_exec.  Set by check_unsafe_exec() if we are trying to do
  execve() and only subthreads share fs_struct.  Cleared when finishing exec
  (success and failure alike).  Makes CLONE_FS fail with -EAGAIN if set.
* check_unsafe_exec() may fail with -EAGAIN if another execve() from subthread
  is in progress.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-31 23:00:26 -04:00
Al Viro 3e93cd6718 Take fs_struct handling to new file (fs/fs_struct.c)
Pure code move; two new helper functions for nfsd and daemonize
(unshare_fs_struct() and daemonize_fs_struct() resp.; for now -
the same code as used to be in callers).  unshare_fs_struct()
exported (for nfsd, as copy_fs_struct()/exit_fs() used to be),
copy_fs_struct() and exit_fs() don't need exports anymore.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-31 23:00:26 -04:00
Rusty Russell 9489424454 cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: kernel/fork.c
Impact: futureproof

Makes code futureproof against the impending change to mm->cpu_vm_mask.

It's also a chance to use the new cpumask_ ops which take a pointer.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-30 22:05:13 +10:30
Ingo Molnar 6e15cf0486 Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2
Conflicts:
	arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c
	arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_64.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h
	kernel/irq/handle.c

Semantic merge:
        arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-27 17:28:43 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov 2d5516cbb9 copy_process: fix CLONE_PARENT && parent_exec_id interaction
CLONE_PARENT can fool the ->self_exec_id/parent_exec_id logic. If we
re-use the old parent, we must also re-use ->parent_exec_id to make
sure exit_notify() sees the right ->xxx_exec_id's when the CLONE_PARENT'ed
task exits.

Also, move down the "p->parent_exec_id = p->self_exec_id" thing, to place
two different cases together.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-09 13:23:25 -07:00
Ingo Molnar f8a6b2b9ce Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
2009-02-13 09:44:22 +01:00
Ingo Molnar e9c4ffb11f Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
2009-02-13 09:34:07 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 871cafcc96 Merge branch 'linus' into core/softlockup 2009-02-12 13:08:57 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 94dba89533 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  timers: fix TIMER_ABSTIME for process wide cpu timers
  timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers, fix
  x86: clean up hpet timer reinit
  timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers, remove spurious warning
  timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers
  signal: re-add dead task accumulation stats.
  x86: fix hpet timer reinit for x86_64
  sched: fix nohz load balancer on cpu offline
2009-02-11 08:24:32 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 9ce04f9238 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  ptrace, x86: fix the usage of ptrace_fork()
  i8327: fix outb() parameter order
  x86: fix math_emu register frame access
  x86: math_emu info cleanup
  x86: include correct %gs in a.out core dump
  x86, vmi: put a missing paravirt_release_pmd in pgd_dtor
  x86: find nr_irqs_gsi with mp_ioapic_routing
  x86: add clflush before monitor for Intel 7400 series
  x86: disable intel_iommu support by default
  x86: don't apply __supported_pte_mask to non-present ptes
  x86: fix grammar in user-visible BIOS warning
  x86/Kconfig.cpu: make Kconfig help readable in the console
  x86, 64-bit: print DMI info in the oops trace
2009-02-11 08:23:22 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 06eb23b1ba ptrace, x86: fix the usage of ptrace_fork()
I noticed by pure accident we have ptrace_fork() and friends. This was
added by "x86, bts: add fork and exit handling", commit
bf53de907d.

I can't test this, ds_request_bts() returns -EOPNOTSUPP, but I strongly
believe this needs the fix. I think something like this program

	int main(void)
	{
		int pid = fork();

		if (!pid) {
			ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0, NULL, NULL);
			kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP);
			fork();
		} else {
			struct ptrace_bts_config bts = {
				.flags = PTRACE_BTS_O_ALLOC,
				.size  = 4 * 4096,
			};

			wait(NULL);

			ptrace(PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, pid, NULL, PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK);
			ptrace(PTRACE_BTS_CONFIG, pid, &bts, sizeof(bts));
			ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, NULL, NULL);

			sleep(1);
		}

		return 0;
	}

should crash the kernel.

If the task is traced by its natural parent ptrace_reparented() returns 0
but we should clear ->btsxxx anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11 10:32:46 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 95fd4845ed Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc4' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
	drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
	kernel/irq/handle.c
2009-02-11 09:22:04 +01:00
Mandeep Singh Baines 17406b82d6 softlockup: remove timestamp checking from hung_task
Impact: saves sizeof(long) bytes per task_struct

By guaranteeing that sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs have elapsed between
tasklist scans we can avoid using timestamps.

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09 11:03:49 +01:00
Li Zefan 04ec93fe9b fork.c: fix NULL pointer dereference when nr_threads == threads-max
I happened to forked lots of processes, and hit NULL pointer dereference.
It is because in copy_process() after checking max_threads, 0 is returned
but not -EAGAIN.

The bug is introduced by "CRED: Detach the credentials from task_struct"
(commit f1752eec61).

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-06 08:43:11 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra 32bd671d6c signal: re-add dead task accumulation stats.
We're going to split the process wide cpu accounting into two parts:

 - clocks; which can take all the time they want since they run
           from user context.

 - timers; which need constant time tracing but can affort the overhead
           because they're default off -- and rare.

The clock readout will go back to a full sum of the thread group, for this
we need to re-add the exit stats that were removed in the initial itimer
rework (f06febc9: timers: fix itimer/many thread hang).

Furthermore, since that full sum can be rather slow for large thread groups
and we have the complete dead task stats, revert the do_notify_parent time
computation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-05 13:04:33 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 3ddeb51d9c Merge branch 'linus' into core/percpu
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
2009-01-27 12:01:51 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 1e70c7f7a9 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  hrtimers: fix inconsistent lock state on resume in hres_timers_resume
  time-sched.c: tick_nohz_update_jiffies should be static
  locking, hpet: annotate false positive warning
  kernel/fork.c: unused variable 'ret'
  itimers: remove the per-cpu-ish-ness
2009-01-26 09:47:43 -08:00
Ingo Molnar bfe2a3c3b5 Merge branch 'core/percpu' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq_32.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq_64.h

Semantic merge:
	arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h
	[ added apic_perf_irqs field. ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-23 10:20:15 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 77835492ed Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc2' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	include/linux/syscalls.h
2009-01-21 16:37:27 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 198030782c Merge branch 'x86/mm' into core/percpu
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
2009-01-21 10:39:51 +01:00
Ingo Molnar b2b062b816 Merge branch 'core/percpu' into stackprotector
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/system.h

Also, moved include/asm-x86/stackprotector.h to arch/x86/include/asm.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-18 18:37:14 +01:00
Mandeep Singh Baines af432eb1cc softlockup: fix to allow compiling with !DETECT_HUNG_TASK
Fixes the following compile error:

 kernel/fork.c:1049: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'last_switch_count'
 kernel/fork.c:1050: error: 'struct task_struct' has no member named 'last_switch_timestamp'

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-16 18:17:34 +01:00
Heiko Carstens 6559eed8ca [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 30
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:30 +01:00
Heiko Carstens 17da2bd90a [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 08
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:21 +01:00
Steven Noonan 783adf42cf kernel/fork.c: unused variable 'ret'
Removed the unused variable.

Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-11 15:34:10 +01:00
Ingo Molnar d19b85db9d Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc1' into timers/urgent 2009-01-11 15:34:05 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 506c10f26c Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc1' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	include/linux/kernel_stat.h
2009-01-11 02:42:53 +01:00
Linus Torvalds c40f6f8bbc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-nommu
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-nommu:
  NOMMU: Support XIP on initramfs
  NOMMU: Teach kobjsize() about VMA regions.
  FLAT: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated
  FDPIC: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated
  NOMMU: Improve procfs output using per-MM VMAs
  NOMMU: Make mmap allocation page trimming behaviour configurable.
  NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux
  NOMMU: Delete askedalloc and realalloc variables
  NOMMU: Rename ARM's struct vm_region
  NOMMU: Fix cleanup handling in ramfs_nommu_get_umapped_area()
2009-01-09 14:00:58 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 61bce0f137 pid: generalize task_active_pid_ns
Currently task_active_pid_ns is not safe to call after a task becomes a
zombie and exit_task_namespaces is called, as nsproxy becomes NULL.  By
reading the pid namespace from the pid of the task we can trivially solve
this problem at the cost of one extra memory read in what should be the
same cacheline as we read the namespace from.

When moving things around I have made task_active_pid_ns out of line
because keeping it in pid_namespace.h would require adding includes of
pid.h and sched.h that I don't think we want.

This change does make task_active_pid_ns unsafe to call during
copy_process until we attach a pid on the task_struct which seems to be a
reasonable trade off.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08 08:31:12 -08:00
David Howells 8feae13110 NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux
Make VMAs per mm_struct as for MMU-mode linux.  This solves two problems:

 (1) In SYSV SHM where nattch for a segment does not reflect the number of
     shmat's (and forks) done.

 (2) In mmap() where the VMA's vm_mm is set to point to the parent mm by an
     exec'ing process when VM_EXECUTABLE is specified, regardless of the fact
     that a VMA might be shared and already have its vm_mm assigned to another
     process or a dead process.

A new struct (vm_region) is introduced to track a mapped region and to remember
the circumstances under which it may be shared and the vm_list_struct structure
is discarded as it's no longer required.

This patch makes the following additional changes:

 (1) Regions are now allocated with alloc_pages() rather than kmalloc() and
     with no recourse to __GFP_COMP, so the pages are not composite.  Instead,
     each page has a reference on it held by the region.  Anything else that is
     interested in such a page will have to get a reference on it to retain it.
     When the pages are released due to unmapping, each page is passed to
     put_page() and will be freed when the page usage count reaches zero.

 (2) Excess pages are trimmed after an allocation as the allocation must be
     made as a power-of-2 quantity of pages.

 (3) VMAs are added to the parent MM's R/B tree and mmap lists.  As an MM may
     end up with overlapping VMAs within the tree, the VMA struct address is
     appended to the sort key.

 (4) Non-anonymous VMAs are now added to the backing inode's prio list.

 (5) Holes may be punched in anonymous VMAs with munmap(), releasing parts of
     the backing region.  The VMA and region structs will be split if
     necessary.

 (6) sys_shmdt() only releases one attachment to a SYSV IPC shared memory
     segment instead of all the attachments at that addresss.  Multiple
     shmat()'s return the same address under NOMMU-mode instead of different
     virtual addresses as under MMU-mode.

 (7) Core dumping for ELF-FDPIC requires fewer exceptions for NOMMU-mode.

 (8) /proc/maps is now the global list of mapped regions, and may list bits
     that aren't actually mapped anywhere.

 (9) /proc/meminfo gains a line (tagged "MmapCopy") that indicates the amount
     of RAM currently allocated by mmap to hold mappable regions that can't be
     mapped directly.  These are copies of the backing device or file if not
     anonymous.

These changes make NOMMU mode more similar to MMU mode.  The downside is that
NOMMU mode requires some extra memory to track things over NOMMU without this
patch (VMAs are no longer shared, and there are now region structs).

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-01-08 12:04:47 +00:00
Peter Zijlstra 490dea45d0 itimers: remove the per-cpu-ish-ness
Either we bounce once cacheline per cpu per tick, yielding n^2 bounces
or we just bounce a single..

Also, using per-cpu allocations for the thread-groups complicates the
per-cpu allocator in that its currently aimed to be a fixed sized
allocator and the only possible extention to that would be vmap based,
which is seriously constrained on 32 bit archs.

So making the per-cpu memory requirement depend on the number of
processes is an issue.

Lastly, it didn't deal with cpu-hotplug, although admittedly that might
be fixable.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-07 18:52:44 +01:00
Hidehiro Kawai 4cb0e11b15 coredump_filter: permit changing of the default filter
Introduce a new kernel parameter `coredump_filter'.  Setting a value to
this parameter causes the default bitmask of coredump_filter to be
changed.

It is useful for users to change coredump_filter settings for the whole
system at boot time.  Without this parameter, users have to change
coredump_filter settings for each /proc/<pid>/ in an initializing script.

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:29 -08:00
Zhaolei 60348802e9 fork.c: cleanup for copy_sighand()
Check CLONE_SIGHAND only is enough, because combination of CLONE_THREAD and
CLONE_SIGHAND is already done in copy_process().

Impact: cleanup, no functionality changed

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:11 -08:00
Ingo Molnar a9de18eb76 Merge branch 'linus' into stackprotector
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h
	kernel/fork.c
2008-12-31 08:31:57 +01:00
Ingo Molnar e1df957670 Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	fs/exec.c
	include/linux/init_task.h

Simple context conflicts.
2008-12-29 09:45:15 +01:00
Jens Axboe abf137dd77 aio: make the lookup_ioctx() lockless
The mm->ioctx_list is currently protected by a reader-writer lock,
so we always grab that lock on the read side for doing ioctx
lookups. As the workload is extremely reader biased, turn this into
an rcu hlist so we can make lookup_ioctx() lockless. Get rid of
the rwlock and use a spinlock for providing update side exclusion.

There's usually only 1 entry on this list, so it doesn't make sense
to look into fancier data structures.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:50 +01:00
Linus Torvalds b0f4b285d7 Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (241 commits)
  sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup()
  tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3
  Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS"
  ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning
  ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race
  ftrace: enable format arguments checking
  x86, bts: memory accounting
  x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
  ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper
  tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c
  tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c
  tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size
  trace: fix task state printout
  ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions
  trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code
  trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer
  x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2
  tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option
  tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()
  x86, bts: correctly report invalid bts records
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflict in scripts/recordmcount.pl due to SH bits
being already partly merged by the SH merge.
2008-12-28 12:21:10 -08:00
James Morris cbacc2c7f0 Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2008-12-25 11:40:09 +11:00
Markus Metzger bf53de907d x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
Impact: introduce new ptrace facility

Add arch_ptrace_untrace() function that is called when the tracer
detaches (either voluntarily or when the tracing task dies);
ptrace_disable() is only called on a voluntary detach.

Add ptrace_fork() and arch_ptrace_fork(). They are called when a
traced task is forked.

Clear DS and BTS related fields on fork.

Release DS resources and reclaim memory in ptrace_untrace(). This
releases resources already when the tracing task dies. We used to do
that when the traced task dies.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-20 09:15:46 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 30cd324e97 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/ring-buffer' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
Conflicts:
	include/linux/ftrace.h
2008-12-19 09:42:40 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 92bf73e90a Merge branch 'x86/irq' into perfcounters/core
( with manual semantic merge of arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c )
2008-12-12 12:00:14 +01:00
Hugh Dickins b88ed20594 fix mapping_writably_mapped()
Lee Schermerhorn noticed yesterday that I broke the mapping_writably_mapped
test in 2.6.7!  Bad bad bug, good good find.

The i_mmap_writable count must be incremented for VM_SHARED (just as
i_writecount is for VM_DENYWRITE, but while holding the i_mmap_lock)
when dup_mmap() copies the vma for fork: it has its own more optimal
version of __vma_link_file(), and I missed this out.  So the count
was later going down to 0 (dangerous) when one end unmapped, then
wrapping negative (inefficient) when the other end unmapped.

The only impact on x86 would have been that setting a mandatory lock on
a file which has at some time been opened O_RDWR and mapped MAP_SHARED
(but not necessarily PROT_WRITE) across a fork, might fail with -EAGAIN
when it should succeed, or succeed when it should fail.

But those architectures which rely on flush_dcache_page() to flush
userspace modifications back into the page before the kernel reads it,
may in some cases have skipped the flush after such a fork - though any
repetitive test will soon wrap the count negative, in which case it will
flush_dcache_page() unnecessarily.

Fix would be a two-liner, but mapping variable added, and comment moved.

Reported-by: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-10 14:40:45 -08:00
Al Viro a64e64944f [PATCH] return records for fork() both to child and parent
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-09 02:27:38 -05:00
Thomas Gleixner 0793a61d4d performance counters: core code
Implement the core kernel bits of Performance Counters subsystem.

The Linux Performance Counter subsystem provides an abstraction of
performance counter hardware capabilities. It provides per task and per
CPU counters, and it provides event capabilities on top of those.

Performance counters are accessed via special file descriptors.
There's one file descriptor per virtual counter used.

The special file descriptor is opened via the perf_counter_open()
system call:

 int
 perf_counter_open(u32 hw_event_type,
                   u32 hw_event_period,
                   u32 record_type,
                   pid_t pid,
                   int cpu);

The syscall returns the new fd. The fd can be used via the normal
VFS system calls: read() can be used to read the counter, fcntl()
can be used to set the blocking mode, etc.

Multiple counters can be kept open at a time, and the counters
can be poll()ed.

See more details in Documentation/perf-counters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08 15:47:03 +01:00
Serge E. Hallyn 7657d90497 user namespaces: require cap_set{ug}id for CLONE_NEWUSER
While ideally CLONE_NEWUSER will eventually require no
privilege, the required permission checks are currently
not there.  As a result, CLONE_NEWUSER has the same effect
as a setuid(0)+setgroups(1,"0").  While we already require
CAP_SYS_ADMIN, requiring CAP_SETUID and CAP_SETGID seems
appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-12-08 09:16:27 +11:00
Steven Rostedt e8e1abe92f ftrace: fix race in function graph during fork
Impact: graph tracer race/crash fix

There is a nasy race in startup of a new process running the
function graph tracer. In fork.c:

	total_forks++;
	spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock);
	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
	ftrace_graph_init_task(p);
	proc_fork_connector(p);
	cgroup_post_fork(p);
	return p;

The new task is free to run as soon as the tasklist_lock is released.
This is before the ftrace_graph_init_task. If the task does run
it will be using the same ret_stack and curr_ret_stack as the parent.
This will cause crashes that are difficult to debug.

This patch moves the ftrace_graph_init_task to just after the alloc_pid
code. This fixes the above race.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03 17:15:03 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker fb52607afc tracing/function-return-tracer: change the name into function-graph-tracer
Impact: cleanup

This patch changes the name of the "return function tracer" into
function-graph-tracer which is a more suitable name for a tracing
which makes one able to retrieve the ordered call stack during
the code flow.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 01:59:45 +01:00
Serge Hallyn 18b6e0414e User namespaces: set of cleanups (v2)
The user_ns is moved from nsproxy to user_struct, so that a struct
cred by itself is sufficient to determine access (which it otherwise
would not be).  Corresponding ecryptfs fixes (by David Howells) are
here as well.

Fix refcounting.  The following rules now apply:
        1. The task pins the user struct.
        2. The user struct pins its user namespace.
        3. The user namespace pins the struct user which created it.

User namespaces are cloned during copy_creds().  Unsharing a new user_ns
is no longer possible.  (We could re-add that, but it'll cause code
duplication and doesn't seem useful if PAM doesn't need to clone user
namespaces).

When a user namespace is created, its first user (uid 0) gets empty
keyrings and a clean group_info.

This incorporates a previous patch by David Howells.  Here
is his original patch description:

>I suggest adding the attached incremental patch.  It makes the following
>changes:
>
> (1) Provides a current_user_ns() macro to wrap accesses to current's user
>     namespace.
>
> (2) Fixes eCryptFS.
>
> (3) Renames create_new_userns() to create_user_ns() to be more consistent
>     with the other associated functions and because the 'new' in the name is
>     superfluous.
>
> (4) Moves the argument and permission checks made for CLONE_NEWUSER to the
>     beginning of do_fork() so that they're done prior to making any attempts
>     at allocation.
>
> (5) Calls create_user_ns() after prepare_creds(), and gives it the new creds
>     to fill in rather than have it return the new root user.  I don't imagine
>     the new root user being used for anything other than filling in a cred
>     struct.
>
>     This also permits me to get rid of a get_uid() and a free_uid(), as the
>     reference the creds were holding on the old user_struct can just be
>     transferred to the new namespace's creator pointer.
>
> (6) Makes create_user_ns() reset the UIDs and GIDs of the creds under
>     preparation rather than doing it in copy_creds().
>
>David

>Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Changelog:
	Oct 20: integrate dhowells comments
		1. leave thread_keyring alone
		2. use current_user_ns() in set_user()

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
2008-11-24 18:57:41 -05:00
Frederic Weisbecker 65afa5e603 tracing/function-return-tracer: free the return stack on free_task()
Impact: avoid losing some traces when a task is freed

do_exit() is not the last function called when a task finishes.
There are still some functions which are to be called such as
ree_task().  So we delay the freeing of the return stack to the
last moment.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23 22:34:02 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 82f60f0bc8 tracing/function-return-tracer: clean up task start/exit callbacks
Impact: cleanup

Eliminate #ifdefs in core code by using empty inline functions.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23 09:19:35 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker f201ae2356 tracing/function-return-tracer: store return stack into task_struct and allocate it dynamically
Impact: use deeper function tracing depth safely

Some tests showed that function return tracing needed a more deeper depth
of function calls. But it could be unsafe to store these return addresses
to the stack.

So these arrays will now be allocated dynamically into task_struct of current
only when the tracer is activated.

Typical scheme when tracer is activated:
- allocate a return stack for each task in global list.
- fork: allocate the return stack for the newly created task
- exit: free return stack of current
- idle init: same as fork

I chose a default depth of 50. I don't have overruns anymore.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23 09:17:26 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 9676e73a9e Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/ftrace.c

[ We conflicted here because we backported a few fixes to
  tracing/urgent - which has different internal APIs. ]
2008-11-19 10:04:25 +01:00
James Morris f3a5c54701 Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	fs/cifs/misc.c

Merge to resolve above, per the patch below.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

diff --cc fs/cifs/misc.c
index ec36410,addd1dc..0000000
--- a/fs/cifs/misc.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/misc.c
@@@ -347,13 -338,13 +338,13 @@@ header_assemble(struct smb_hdr *buffer
  		/*  BB Add support for establishing new tCon and SMB Session  */
  		/*      with userid/password pairs found on the smb session   */
  		/*	for other target tcp/ip addresses 		BB    */
 -				if (current->fsuid != treeCon->ses->linux_uid) {
 +				if (current_fsuid() != treeCon->ses->linux_uid) {
  					cFYI(1, ("Multiuser mode and UID "
  						 "did not match tcon uid"));
- 					read_lock(&GlobalSMBSeslock);
- 					list_for_each(temp_item, &GlobalSMBSessionList) {
- 						ses = list_entry(temp_item, struct cifsSesInfo, cifsSessionList);
+ 					read_lock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock);
+ 					list_for_each(temp_item, &treeCon->ses->server->smb_ses_list) {
+ 						ses = list_entry(temp_item, struct cifsSesInfo, smb_ses_list);
 -						if (ses->linux_uid == current->fsuid) {
 +						if (ses->linux_uid == current_fsuid()) {
  							if (ses->server == treeCon->ses->server) {
  								cFYI(1, ("found matching uid substitute right smb_uid"));
  								buffer->Uid = ses->Suid;
2008-11-18 18:52:37 +11:00
Mathieu Desnoyers 7e066fb870 tracepoints: add DECLARE_TRACE() and DEFINE_TRACE()
Impact: API *CHANGE*. Must update all tracepoint users.

Add DEFINE_TRACE() to tracepoints to let them declare the tracepoint
structure in a single spot for all the kernel. It helps reducing memory
consumption, especially when declaring a lot of tracepoints, e.g. for
kmalloc tracing.

*API CHANGE WARNING*: now, DECLARE_TRACE() must be used in headers for
tracepoint declarations rather than DEFINE_TRACE(). This is the sane way
to do it. The name previously used was misleading.

Updates scheduler instrumentation to follow this API change.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 09:01:36 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 8141c7f3e7 Move "exit_robust_list" into mm_release()
We don't want to get rid of the futexes just at exit() time, we want to
drop them when doing an execve() too, since that gets rid of the
previous VM image too.

Doing it at mm_release() time means that we automatically always do it
when we disassociate a VM map from the task.

Reported-by: pageexec@freemail.hu
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Cc: Alex Efros <powerman@powerman.name>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-15 10:20:36 -08:00
David Howells 3b11a1dece CRED: Differentiate objective and effective subjective credentials on a task
Differentiate the objective and real subjective credentials from the effective
subjective credentials on a task by introducing a second credentials pointer
into the task_struct.

task_struct::real_cred then refers to the objective and apparent real
subjective credentials of a task, as perceived by the other tasks in the
system.

task_struct::cred then refers to the effective subjective credentials of a
task, as used by that task when it's actually running.  These are not visible
to the other tasks in the system.

__task_cred(task) then refers to the objective/real credentials of the task in
question.

current_cred() refers to the effective subjective credentials of the current
task.

prepare_creds() uses the objective creds as a base and commit_creds() changes
both pointers in the task_struct (indeed commit_creds() requires them to be the
same).

override_creds() and revert_creds() change the subjective creds pointer only,
and the former returns the old subjective creds.  These are used by NFSD,
faccessat() and do_coredump(), and will by used by CacheFiles.

In SELinux, current_has_perm() is provided as an alternative to
task_has_perm().  This uses the effective subjective context of current,
whereas task_has_perm() uses the objective/real context of the subject.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:26 +11:00
David Howells d84f4f992c CRED: Inaugurate COW credentials
Inaugurate copy-on-write credentials management.  This uses RCU to manage the
credentials pointer in the task_struct with respect to accesses by other tasks.
A process may only modify its own credentials, and so does not need locking to
access or modify its own credentials.

A mutex (cred_replace_mutex) is added to the task_struct to control the effect
of PTRACE_ATTACHED on credential calculations, particularly with respect to
execve().

With this patch, the contents of an active credentials struct may not be
changed directly; rather a new set of credentials must be prepared, modified
and committed using something like the following sequence of events:

	struct cred *new = prepare_creds();
	int ret = blah(new);
	if (ret < 0) {
		abort_creds(new);
		return ret;
	}
	return commit_creds(new);

There are some exceptions to this rule: the keyrings pointed to by the active
credentials may be instantiated - keyrings violate the COW rule as managing
COW keyrings is tricky, given that it is possible for a task to directly alter
the keys in a keyring in use by another task.

To help enforce this, various pointers to sets of credentials, such as those in
the task_struct, are declared const.  The purpose of this is compile-time
discouragement of altering credentials through those pointers.  Once a set of
credentials has been made public through one of these pointers, it may not be
modified, except under special circumstances:

  (1) Its reference count may incremented and decremented.

  (2) The keyrings to which it points may be modified, but not replaced.

The only safe way to modify anything else is to create a replacement and commit
using the functions described in Documentation/credentials.txt (which will be
added by a later patch).

This patch and the preceding patches have been tested with the LTP SELinux
testsuite.

This patch makes several logical sets of alteration:

 (1) execve().

     This now prepares and commits credentials in various places in the
     security code rather than altering the current creds directly.

 (2) Temporary credential overrides.

     do_coredump() and sys_faccessat() now prepare their own credentials and
     temporarily override the ones currently on the acting thread, whilst
     preventing interference from other threads by holding cred_replace_mutex
     on the thread being dumped.

     This will be replaced in a future patch by something that hands down the
     credentials directly to the functions being called, rather than altering
     the task's objective credentials.

 (3) LSM interface.

     A number of functions have been changed, added or removed:

     (*) security_capset_check(), ->capset_check()
     (*) security_capset_set(), ->capset_set()

     	 Removed in favour of security_capset().

     (*) security_capset(), ->capset()

     	 New.  This is passed a pointer to the new creds, a pointer to the old
     	 creds and the proposed capability sets.  It should fill in the new
     	 creds or return an error.  All pointers, barring the pointer to the
     	 new creds, are now const.

     (*) security_bprm_apply_creds(), ->bprm_apply_creds()

     	 Changed; now returns a value, which will cause the process to be
     	 killed if it's an error.

     (*) security_task_alloc(), ->task_alloc_security()

     	 Removed in favour of security_prepare_creds().

     (*) security_cred_free(), ->cred_free()

     	 New.  Free security data attached to cred->security.

     (*) security_prepare_creds(), ->cred_prepare()

     	 New. Duplicate any security data attached to cred->security.

     (*) security_commit_creds(), ->cred_commit()

     	 New. Apply any security effects for the upcoming installation of new
     	 security by commit_creds().

     (*) security_task_post_setuid(), ->task_post_setuid()

     	 Removed in favour of security_task_fix_setuid().

     (*) security_task_fix_setuid(), ->task_fix_setuid()

     	 Fix up the proposed new credentials for setuid().  This is used by
     	 cap_set_fix_setuid() to implicitly adjust capabilities in line with
     	 setuid() changes.  Changes are made to the new credentials, rather
     	 than the task itself as in security_task_post_setuid().

     (*) security_task_reparent_to_init(), ->task_reparent_to_init()

     	 Removed.  Instead the task being reparented to init is referred
     	 directly to init's credentials.

	 NOTE!  This results in the loss of some state: SELinux's osid no
	 longer records the sid of the thread that forked it.

     (*) security_key_alloc(), ->key_alloc()
     (*) security_key_permission(), ->key_permission()

     	 Changed.  These now take cred pointers rather than task pointers to
     	 refer to the security context.

 (4) sys_capset().

     This has been simplified and uses less locking.  The LSM functions it
     calls have been merged.

 (5) reparent_to_kthreadd().

     This gives the current thread the same credentials as init by simply using
     commit_thread() to point that way.

 (6) __sigqueue_alloc() and switch_uid()

     __sigqueue_alloc() can't stop the target task from changing its creds
     beneath it, so this function gets a reference to the currently applicable
     user_struct which it then passes into the sigqueue struct it returns if
     successful.

     switch_uid() is now called from commit_creds(), and possibly should be
     folded into that.  commit_creds() should take care of protecting
     __sigqueue_alloc().

 (7) [sg]et[ug]id() and co and [sg]et_current_groups.

     The set functions now all use prepare_creds(), commit_creds() and
     abort_creds() to build and check a new set of credentials before applying
     it.

     security_task_set[ug]id() is called inside the prepared section.  This
     guarantees that nothing else will affect the creds until we've finished.

     The calling of set_dumpable() has been moved into commit_creds().

     Much of the functionality of set_user() has been moved into
     commit_creds().

     The get functions all simply access the data directly.

 (8) security_task_prctl() and cap_task_prctl().

     security_task_prctl() has been modified to return -ENOSYS if it doesn't
     want to handle a function, or otherwise return the return value directly
     rather than through an argument.

     Additionally, cap_task_prctl() now prepares a new set of credentials, even
     if it doesn't end up using it.

 (9) Keyrings.

     A number of changes have been made to the keyrings code:

     (a) switch_uid_keyring(), copy_keys(), exit_keys() and suid_keys() have
     	 all been dropped and built in to the credentials functions directly.
     	 They may want separating out again later.

     (b) key_alloc() and search_process_keyrings() now take a cred pointer
     	 rather than a task pointer to specify the security context.

     (c) copy_creds() gives a new thread within the same thread group a new
     	 thread keyring if its parent had one, otherwise it discards the thread
     	 keyring.

     (d) The authorisation key now points directly to the credentials to extend
     	 the search into rather pointing to the task that carries them.

     (e) Installing thread, process or session keyrings causes a new set of
     	 credentials to be created, even though it's not strictly necessary for
     	 process or session keyrings (they're shared).

(10) Usermode helper.

     The usermode helper code now carries a cred struct pointer in its
     subprocess_info struct instead of a new session keyring pointer.  This set
     of credentials is derived from init_cred and installed on the new process
     after it has been cloned.

     call_usermodehelper_setup() allocates the new credentials and
     call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() discards them if they haven't been used.  A
     special cred function (prepare_usermodeinfo_creds()) is provided
     specifically for call_usermodehelper_setup() to call.

     call_usermodehelper_setkeys() adjusts the credentials to sport the
     supplied keyring as the new session keyring.

(11) SELinux.

     SELinux has a number of changes, in addition to those to support the LSM
     interface changes mentioned above:

     (a) selinux_setprocattr() no longer does its check for whether the
     	 current ptracer can access processes with the new SID inside the lock
     	 that covers getting the ptracer's SID.  Whilst this lock ensures that
     	 the check is done with the ptracer pinned, the result is only valid
     	 until the lock is released, so there's no point doing it inside the
     	 lock.

(12) is_single_threaded().

     This function has been extracted from selinux_setprocattr() and put into
     a file of its own in the lib/ directory as join_session_keyring() now
     wants to use it too.

     The code in SELinux just checked to see whether a task shared mm_structs
     with other tasks (CLONE_VM), but that isn't good enough.  We really want
     to know if they're part of the same thread group (CLONE_THREAD).

(13) nfsd.

     The NFS server daemon now has to use the COW credentials to set the
     credentials it is going to use.  It really needs to pass the credentials
     down to the functions it calls, but it can't do that until other patches
     in this series have been applied.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:23 +11:00
David Howells bb952bb98a CRED: Separate per-task-group keyrings from signal_struct
Separate per-task-group keyrings from signal_struct and dangle their anchor
from the cred struct rather than the signal_struct.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:20 +11:00
David Howells f1752eec61 CRED: Detach the credentials from task_struct
Detach the credentials from task_struct, duplicating them in copy_process()
and releasing them in __put_task_struct().

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:17 +11:00
David Howells b6dff3ec5e CRED: Separate task security context from task_struct
Separate the task security context from task_struct.  At this point, the
security data is temporarily embedded in the task_struct with two pointers
pointing to it.

Note that the Alpha arch is altered as it refers to (E)UID and (E)GID in
entry.S via asm-offsets.

With comment fixes Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:16 +11:00
Thomas Gleixner 268a3dcfea Merge branch 'timers/range-hrtimers' into v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2
Conflicts:

	kernel/time/tick-sched.c

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-10-22 09:48:06 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 92b29b86fe Merge branch 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (131 commits)
  tracing/fastboot: improve help text
  tracing/stacktrace: improve help text
  tracing/fastboot: fix initcalls disposition in bootgraph.pl
  tracing/fastboot: fix bootgraph.pl initcall name regexp
  tracing/fastboot: fix issues and improve output of bootgraph.pl
  tracepoints: synchronize unregister static inline
  tracepoints: tracepoint_synchronize_unregister()
  ftrace: make ftrace_test_p6nop disassembler-friendly
  markers: fix synchronize marker unregister static inline
  tracing/fastboot: add better resolution to initcall debug/tracing
  trace: add build-time check to avoid overrunning hex buffer
  ftrace: fix hex output mode of ftrace
  tracing/fastboot: fix initcalls disposition in bootgraph.pl
  tracing/fastboot: fix printk format typo in boot tracer
  ftrace: return an error when setting a nonexistent tracer
  ftrace: make some tracers reentrant
  ring-buffer: make reentrant
  ring-buffer: move page indexes into page headers
  tracing/fastboot: only trace non-module initcalls
  ftrace: move pc counter in irqtrace
  ...

Manually fix conflicts:
 - init/main.c: initcall tracing
 - kernel/module.c: verbose level vs tracepoints
 - scripts/bootgraph.pl: fallout from cherry-picking commits.
2008-10-20 13:35:07 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner c465a76af6 Merge branches 'timers/clocksource', 'timers/hrtimers', 'timers/nohz', 'timers/ntp', 'timers/posixtimers' and 'timers/debug' into v28-timers-for-linus 2008-10-20 13:14:06 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven 651dab4264 Merge commit 'linus/master' into merge-linus
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
2008-10-17 09:20:26 -07:00
Ingo Molnar b2aaf8f74c Merge branch 'linus' into stackprotector
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
	include/asm-x86/pda.h
2008-10-15 13:46:29 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers 0a16b60758 tracing, sched: LTTng instrumentation - scheduler
Instrument the scheduler activity (sched_switch, migration, wakeups,
wait for a task, signal delivery) and process/thread
creation/destruction (fork, exit, kthread stop). Actually, kthread
creation is not instrumented in this patch because it is architecture
dependent. It allows to connect tracers such as ftrace which detects
scheduling latencies, good/bad scheduler decisions. Tools like LTTng can
export this scheduler information along with instrumentation of the rest
of the kernel activity to perform post-mortem analysis on the scheduler
activity.

About the performance impact of tracepoints (which is comparable to
markers), even without immediate values optimizations, tests done by
Hideo Aoki on ia64 show no regression. His test case was using hackbench
on a kernel where scheduler instrumentation (about 5 events in code
scheduler code) was added. See the "Tracepoints" patch header for
performance result detail.

Changelog :

- Change instrumentation location and parameter to match ftrace
  instrumentation, previously done with kernel markers.

[ mingo@elte.hu: conflict resolutions ]
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:30:52 +02:00
Alan Cox 9c9f4ded90 tty: Add a kref count
Introduce a kref to the tty structure and use it to protect the tty->signal
tty references. For now we don't introduce it for anything else.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:40 -07:00
Frank Mayhar bb34d92f64 timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, v2
This is the second resubmission of the posix timer rework patch, posted
a few days ago.

This includes the changes from the previous resubmittion, which addressed
Oleg Nesterov's comments, removing the RCU stuff from the patch and
un-inlining the thread_group_cputime() function for SMP.

In addition, per Ingo Molnar it simplifies the UP code, consolidating much
of it with the SMP version and depending on lower-level SMP/UP handling to
take care of the differences.

It also cleans up some UP compile errors, moves the scheduler stats-related
macros into kernel/sched_stats.h, cleans up a merge error in
kernel/fork.c and has a few other minor fixes and cleanups as suggested
by Oleg and Ingo. Thanks for the review, guys.

Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 13:38:44 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 430b5294bd timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, fix
fix:

 kernel/fork.c:843: error: ‘struct signal_struct’ has no member named ‘sum_sched_runtime’
 kernel/irq/handle.c:117: warning: ‘sparse_irq_lock’ defined but not used

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14 16:40:11 +02:00
Frank Mayhar f06febc96b timers: fix itimer/many thread hang
Overview

This patch reworks the handling of POSIX CPU timers, including the
ITIMER_PROF, ITIMER_VIRT timers and rlimit handling.  It was put together
with the help of Roland McGrath, the owner and original writer of this code.

The problem we ran into, and the reason for this rework, has to do with using
a profiling timer in a process with a large number of threads.  It appears
that the performance of the old implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() was
at least O(n*3) (where "n" is the number of threads in a process) or worse.
Everything is fine with an increasing number of threads until the time taken
for that routine to run becomes the same as or greater than the tick time, at
which point things degrade rather quickly.

This patch fixes bug 9906, "Weird hang with NPTL and SIGPROF."

Code Changes

This rework corrects the implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() to make it
run in constant time for a particular machine.  (Performance may vary between
one machine and another depending upon whether the kernel is built as single-
or multiprocessor and, in the latter case, depending upon the number of
running processors.)  To do this, at each tick we now update fields in
signal_struct as well as task_struct.  The run_posix_cpu_timers() function
uses those fields to make its decisions.

We define a new structure, "task_cputime," to contain user, system and
scheduler times and use these in appropriate places:

struct task_cputime {
	cputime_t utime;
	cputime_t stime;
	unsigned long long sum_exec_runtime;
};

This is included in the structure "thread_group_cputime," which is a new
substructure of signal_struct and which varies for uniprocessor versus
multiprocessor kernels.  For uniprocessor kernels, it uses "task_cputime" as
a simple substructure, while for multiprocessor kernels it is a pointer:

struct thread_group_cputime {
	struct task_cputime totals;
};

struct thread_group_cputime {
	struct task_cputime *totals;
};

We also add a new task_cputime substructure directly to signal_struct, to
cache the earliest expiration of process-wide timers, and task_cputime also
replaces the it_*_expires fields of task_struct (used for earliest expiration
of thread timers).  The "thread_group_cputime" structure contains process-wide
timers that are updated via account_user_time() and friends.  In the non-SMP
case the structure is a simple aggregator; unfortunately in the SMP case that
simplicity was not achievable due to cache-line contention between CPUs (in
one measured case performance was actually _worse_ on a 16-cpu system than
the same test on a 4-cpu system, due to this contention).  For SMP, the
thread_group_cputime counters are maintained as a per-cpu structure allocated
using alloc_percpu().  The timer functions update only the timer field in
the structure corresponding to the running CPU, obtained using per_cpu_ptr().

We define a set of inline functions in sched.h that we use to maintain the
thread_group_cputime structure and hide the differences between UP and SMP
implementations from the rest of the kernel.  The thread_group_cputime_init()
function initializes the thread_group_cputime structure for the given task.
The thread_group_cputime_alloc() is a no-op for UP; for SMP it calls the
out-of-line function thread_group_cputime_alloc_smp() to allocate and fill
in the per-cpu structures and fields.  The thread_group_cputime_free()
function, also a no-op for UP, in SMP frees the per-cpu structures.  The
thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() function (also a UP no-op) for SMP calls
thread_group_cputime_alloc() if the per-cpu structures haven't yet been
allocated.  The thread_group_cputime() function fills the task_cputime
structure it is passed with the contents of the thread_group_cputime fields;
in UP it's that simple but in SMP it must also safely check that tsk->signal
is non-NULL (if it is it just uses the appropriate fields of task_struct) and,
if so, sums the per-cpu values for each online CPU.  Finally, the three
functions account_group_user_time(), account_group_system_time() and
account_group_exec_runtime() are used by timer functions to update the
respective fields of the thread_group_cputime structure.

Non-SMP operation is trivial and will not be mentioned further.

The per-cpu structure is always allocated when a task creates its first new
thread, via a call to thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() from copy_signal().
It is freed at process exit via a call to thread_group_cputime_free() from
cleanup_signal().

All functions that formerly summed utime/stime/sum_sched_runtime values from
from all threads in the thread group now use thread_group_cputime() to
snapshot the values in the thread_group_cputime structure or the values in
the task structure itself if the per-cpu structure hasn't been allocated.

Finally, the code in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c has changed quite a bit.
The run_posix_cpu_timers() function has been split into a fast path and a
slow path; the former safely checks whether there are any expired thread
timers and, if not, just returns, while the slow path does the heavy lifting.
With the dedicated thread group fields, timers are no longer "rebalanced" and
the process_timer_rebalance() function and related code has gone away.  All
summing loops are gone and all code that used them now uses the
thread_group_cputime() inline.  When process-wide timers are set, the new
task_cputime structure in signal_struct is used to cache the earliest
expiration; this is checked in the fast path.

Performance

The fix appears not to add significant overhead to existing operations.  It
generally performs the same as the current code except in two cases, one in
which it performs slightly worse (Case 5 below) and one in which it performs
very significantly better (Case 2 below).  Overall it's a wash except in those
two cases.

I've since done somewhat more involved testing on a dual-core Opteron system.

Case 1: With no itimer running, for a test with 100,000 threads, the fixed
	kernel took 1428.5 seconds, 513 seconds more than the unfixed system,
	all of which was spent in the system.  There were twice as many
	voluntary context switches with the fix as without it.

Case 2: With an itimer running at .01 second ticks and 4000 threads (the most
	an unmodified kernel can handle), the fixed kernel ran the test in
	eight percent of the time (5.8 seconds as opposed to 70 seconds) and
	had better tick accuracy (.012 seconds per tick as opposed to .023
	seconds per tick).

Case 3: A 4000-thread test with an initial timer tick of .01 second and an
	interval of 10,000 seconds (i.e. a timer that ticks only once) had
	very nearly the same performance in both cases:  6.3 seconds elapsed
	for the fixed kernel versus 5.5 seconds for the unfixed kernel.

With fewer threads (eight in these tests), the Case 1 test ran in essentially
the same time on both the modified and unmodified kernels (5.2 seconds versus
5.8 seconds).  The Case 2 test ran in about the same time as well, 5.9 seconds
versus 5.4 seconds but again with much better tick accuracy, .013 seconds per
tick versus .025 seconds per tick for the unmodified kernel.

Since the fix affected the rlimit code, I also tested soft and hard CPU limits.

Case 4: With a hard CPU limit of 20 seconds and eight threads (and an itimer
	running), the modified kernel was very slightly favored in that while
	it killed the process in 19.997 seconds of CPU time (5.002 seconds of
	wall time), only .003 seconds of that was system time, the rest was
	user time.  The unmodified kernel killed the process in 20.001 seconds
	of CPU (5.014 seconds of wall time) of which .016 seconds was system
	time.  Really, though, the results were too close to call.  The results
	were essentially the same with no itimer running.

Case 5: With a soft limit of 20 seconds and a hard limit of 2000 seconds
	(where the hard limit would never be reached) and an itimer running,
	the modified kernel exhibited worse tick accuracy than the unmodified
	kernel: .050 seconds/tick versus .028 seconds/tick.  Otherwise,
	performance was almost indistinguishable.  With no itimer running this
	test exhibited virtually identical behavior and times in both cases.

In times past I did some limited performance testing.  those results are below.

On a four-cpu Opteron system without this fix, a sixteen-thread test executed
in 3569.991 seconds, of which user was 3568.435s and system was 1.556s.  On
the same system with the fix, user and elapsed time were about the same, but
system time dropped to 0.007 seconds.  Performance with eight, four and one
thread were comparable.  Interestingly, the timer ticks with the fix seemed
more accurate:  The sixteen-thread test with the fix received 149543 ticks
for 0.024 seconds per tick, while the same test without the fix received 58720
for 0.061 seconds per tick.  Both cases were configured for an interval of
0.01 seconds.  Again, the other tests were comparable.  Each thread in this
test computed the primes up to 25,000,000.

I also did a test with a large number of threads, 100,000 threads, which is
impossible without the fix.  In this case each thread computed the primes only
up to 10,000 (to make the runtime manageable).  System time dominated, at
1546.968 seconds out of a total 2176.906 seconds (giving a user time of
629.938s).  It received 147651 ticks for 0.015 seconds per tick, still quite
accurate.  There is obviously no comparable test without the fix.

Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14 16:25:35 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven 6976675d94 hrtimer: create a "timer_slack" field in the task struct
We want to be able to control the default "rounding" that is used by
select() and poll() and friends. This is a per process property
(so that we can have a "nice" like program to start certain programs with
a looser or stricter rounding) that can be set/get via a prctl().

For this purpose, a field called "timer_slack_ns" is added to the task
struct. In addition, a field called "default_timer_slack"ns" is added
so that tasks easily can temporarily to a more/less accurate slack and then
back to the default.

The default value of the slack is set to 50 usec; this is significantly less
than 2.6.27's average select() and poll() timing error but still allows
the kernel to group timers somewhat to preserve power behavior. Applications
and admins can override this via the prctl()

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-05 21:35:30 -07:00
Andrea Arcangeli cddb8a5c14 mmu-notifiers: core
With KVM/GFP/XPMEM there isn't just the primary CPU MMU pointing to pages.
 There are secondary MMUs (with secondary sptes and secondary tlbs) too.
sptes in the kvm case are shadow pagetables, but when I say spte in
mmu-notifier context, I mean "secondary pte".  In GRU case there's no
actual secondary pte and there's only a secondary tlb because the GRU
secondary MMU has no knowledge about sptes and every secondary tlb miss
event in the MMU always generates a page fault that has to be resolved by
the CPU (this is not the case of KVM where the a secondary tlb miss will
walk sptes in hardware and it will refill the secondary tlb transparently
to software if the corresponding spte is present).  The same way
zap_page_range has to invalidate the pte before freeing the page, the spte
(and secondary tlb) must also be invalidated before any page is freed and
reused.

Currently we take a page_count pin on every page mapped by sptes, but that
means the pages can't be swapped whenever they're mapped by any spte
because they're part of the guest working set.  Furthermore a spte unmap
event can immediately lead to a page to be freed when the pin is released
(so requiring the same complex and relatively slow tlb_gather smp safe
logic we have in zap_page_range and that can be avoided completely if the
spte unmap event doesn't require an unpin of the page previously mapped in
the secondary MMU).

The mmu notifiers allow kvm/GRU/XPMEM to attach to the tsk->mm and know
when the VM is swapping or freeing or doing anything on the primary MMU so
that the secondary MMU code can drop sptes before the pages are freed,
avoiding all page pinning and allowing 100% reliable swapping of guest
physical address space.  Furthermore it avoids the code that teardown the
mappings of the secondary MMU, to implement a logic like tlb_gather in
zap_page_range that would require many IPI to flush other cpu tlbs, for
each fixed number of spte unmapped.

To make an example: if what happens on the primary MMU is a protection
downgrade (from writeable to wrprotect) the secondary MMU mappings will be
invalidated, and the next secondary-mmu-page-fault will call
get_user_pages and trigger a do_wp_page through get_user_pages if it
called get_user_pages with write=1, and it'll re-establishing an updated
spte or secondary-tlb-mapping on the copied page.  Or it will setup a
readonly spte or readonly tlb mapping if it's a guest-read, if it calls
get_user_pages with write=0.  This is just an example.

This allows to map any page pointed by any pte (and in turn visible in the
primary CPU MMU), into a secondary MMU (be it a pure tlb like GRU, or an
full MMU with both sptes and secondary-tlb like the shadow-pagetable layer
with kvm), or a remote DMA in software like XPMEM (hence needing of
schedule in XPMEM code to send the invalidate to the remote node, while no
need to schedule in kvm/gru as it's an immediate event like invalidating
primary-mmu pte).

At least for KVM without this patch it's impossible to swap guests
reliably.  And having this feature and removing the page pin allows
several other optimizations that simplify life considerably.

Dependencies:

1) mm_take_all_locks() to register the mmu notifier when the whole VM
   isn't doing anything with "mm".  This allows mmu notifier users to keep
   track if the VM is in the middle of the invalidate_range_begin/end
   critical section with an atomic counter incraese in range_begin and
   decreased in range_end.  No secondary MMU page fault is allowed to map
   any spte or secondary tlb reference, while the VM is in the middle of
   range_begin/end as any page returned by get_user_pages in that critical
   section could later immediately be freed without any further
   ->invalidate_page notification (invalidate_range_begin/end works on
   ranges and ->invalidate_page isn't called immediately before freeing
   the page).  To stop all page freeing and pagetable overwrites the
   mmap_sem must be taken in write mode and all other anon_vma/i_mmap
   locks must be taken too.

2) It'd be a waste to add branches in the VM if nobody could possibly
   run KVM/GRU/XPMEM on the kernel, so mmu notifiers will only enabled if
   CONFIG_KVM=m/y.  In the current kernel kvm won't yet take advantage of
   mmu notifiers, but this already allows to compile a KVM external module
   against a kernel with mmu notifiers enabled and from the next pull from
   kvm.git we'll start using them.  And GRU/XPMEM will also be able to
   continue the development by enabling KVM=m in their config, until they
   submit all GRU/XPMEM GPLv2 code to the mainline kernel.  Then they can
   also enable MMU_NOTIFIERS in the same way KVM does it (even if KVM=n).
   This guarantees nobody selects MMU_NOTIFIER=y if KVM and GRU and XPMEM
   are all =n.

The mmu_notifier_register call can fail because mm_take_all_locks may be
interrupted by a signal and return -EINTR.  Because mmu_notifier_reigster
is used when a driver startup, a failure can be gracefully handled.  Here
an example of the change applied to kvm to register the mmu notifiers.
Usually when a driver startups other allocations are required anyway and
-ENOMEM failure paths exists already.

 struct  kvm *kvm_arch_create_vm(void)
 {
        struct kvm *kvm = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm), GFP_KERNEL);
+       int err;

        if (!kvm)
                return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kvm->arch.active_mmu_pages);

+       kvm->arch.mmu_notifier.ops = &kvm_mmu_notifier_ops;
+       err = mmu_notifier_register(&kvm->arch.mmu_notifier, current->mm);
+       if (err) {
+               kfree(kvm);
+               return ERR_PTR(err);
+       }
+
        return kvm;
 }

mmu_notifier_unregister returns void and it's reliable.

The patch also adds a few needed but missing includes that would prevent
kernel to compile after these changes on non-x86 archs (x86 didn't need
them by luck).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/filemap_xip.c build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/mmu_notifier.c build]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@yahoo.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
Andrea Righi 5995477ab7 task IO accounting: improve code readability
Put all i/o statistics in struct proc_io_accounting and use inline functions to
initialize and increment statistics, removing a lot of single variable
assignments.

This also reduces the kernel size as following (with CONFIG_TASK_XACCT=y and
CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING=y).

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   11651       0       0   11651    2d83 kernel/exit.o.before
   11619       0       0   11619    2d63 kernel/exit.o.after
   10886     132     136   11154    2b92 kernel/fork.o.before
   10758     132     136   11026    2b12 kernel/fork.o.after

 3082029  807968 4818600 8708597  84e1f5 vmlinux.o.before
 3081869  807968 4818600 8708437  84e155 vmlinux.o.after

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-27 09:58:20 -07:00
Al Viro 7f2da1e7d0 [PATCH] kill altroot
long overdue...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:20 -04:00