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Davidlohr Bueso a23ba907d5 locking/rtmutex: replace top-waiter and pi_waiters leftmost caching
... with the generic rbtree flavor instead. No changes
in semantics whatsoever.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170719014603.19029-10-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-08 18:26:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f57091767a Merge branch 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 cache quality monitoring update from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This update provides a complete rewrite of the Cache Quality
  Monitoring (CQM) facility.

  The existing CQM support was duct taped into perf with a lot of issues
  and the attempts to fix those turned out to be incomplete and
  horrible.

  After lengthy discussions it was decided to integrate the CQM support
  into the Resource Director Technology (RDT) facility, which is the
  obvious choise as in hardware CQM is part of RDT. This allowed to add
  Memory Bandwidth Monitoring support on top.

  As a result the mechanisms for allocating cache/memory bandwidth and
  the corresponding monitoring mechanisms are integrated into a single
  management facility with a consistent user interface"

* 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
  x86/intel_rdt: Turn off most RDT features on Skylake
  x86/intel_rdt: Add command line options for resource director technology
  x86/intel_rdt: Move special case code for Haswell to a quirk function
  x86/intel_rdt: Remove redundant ternary operator on return
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Improve limbo list processing
  x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Fix MBM overflow handler during CPU hotplug
  x86/intel_rdt: Modify the intel_pqr_state for better performance
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Clear the default RMID during hotcpu
  x86/intel_rdt: Show bitmask of shareable resource with other executing units
  x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Handle counter overflow
  x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Add mbm counter initialization
  x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Basic counting of MBM events (total and local)
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add CPU hotplug support
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add sched_in support
  x86/intel_rdt: Introduce rdt_enable_key for scheduling
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mount,umount support
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add rmdir support
  x86/intel_rdt: Separate the ctrl bits from rmdir
  x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mon_data
  x86/intel_rdt: Prepare for RDT monitor data support
  ...
2017-09-04 13:56:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5f82e71a00 Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Add 'cross-release' support to lockdep, which allows APIs like
   completions, where it's not the 'owner' who releases the lock, to be
   tracked. It's all activated automatically under
   CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y.

 - Clean up (restructure) the x86 atomics op implementation to be more
   readable, in preparation of KASAN annotations. (Dmitry Vyukov)

 - Fix static keys (Paolo Bonzini)

 - Add killable versions of down_read() et al (Kirill Tkhai)

 - Rework and fix jump_label locking (Marc Zyngier, Paolo Bonzini)

 - Rework (and fix) tlb_flush_pending() barriers (Peter Zijlstra)

 - Remove smp_mb__before_spinlock() and convert its usages, introduce
   smp_mb__after_spinlock() (Peter Zijlstra)

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (56 commits)
  locking/lockdep/selftests: Fix mixed read-write ABBA tests
  sched/completion: Avoid unnecessary stack allocation for COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK()
  acpi/nfit: Fix COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK() abuse
  locking/pvqspinlock: Relax cmpxchg's to improve performance on some architectures
  smp: Avoid using two cache lines for struct call_single_data
  locking/lockdep: Untangle xhlock history save/restore from task independence
  locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Disable CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT for the time being
  futex: Remove duplicated code and fix undefined behaviour
  Documentation/locking/atomic: Finish the document...
  locking/lockdep: Fix workqueue crossrelease annotation
  workqueue/lockdep: 'Fix' flush_work() annotation
  locking/lockdep/selftests: Add mixed read-write ABBA tests
  mm, locking/barriers: Clarify tlb_flush_pending() barriers
  locking/lockdep: Make CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE and CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS truly non-interactive
  locking/lockdep: Explicitly initialize wq_barrier::done::map
  locking/lockdep: Rename CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETE to CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS
  locking/lockdep: Reword title of LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE config
  locking/lockdep: Make CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE part of CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
  locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Implement fast refcount overflow protection
  locking/lockdep: Fix the rollback and overwrite detection logic in crossrelease
  ...
2017-09-04 11:52:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f213a6c84c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - fix affine wakeups (Peter Zijlstra)

   - improve CPU onlining (and general bootup) scalability on systems
     with ridiculous number (thousands) of CPUs (Peter Zijlstra)

   - sched/numa updates (Rik van Riel)

   - sched/deadline updates (Byungchul Park)

   - sched/cpufreq enhancements and related cleanups (Viresh Kumar)

   - sched/debug enhancements (Xie XiuQi)

   - various fixes"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
  sched/debug: Optimize sched_domain sysctl generation
  sched/topology: Avoid pointless rebuild
  sched/topology, cpuset: Avoid spurious/wrong domain rebuilds
  sched/topology: Improve comments
  sched/topology: Fix memory leak in __sdt_alloc()
  sched/completion: Document that reinit_completion() must be called after complete_all()
  sched/autogroup: Fix error reporting printk text in autogroup_create()
  sched/fair: Fix wake_affine() for !NUMA_BALANCING
  sched/debug: Intruduce task_state_to_char() helper function
  sched/debug: Show task state in /proc/sched_debug
  sched/debug: Use task_pid_nr_ns in /proc/$pid/sched
  sched/core: Remove unnecessary initialization init_idle_bootup_task()
  sched/deadline: Change return value of cpudl_find()
  sched/deadline: Make find_later_rq() choose a closer CPU in topology
  sched/numa: Scale scan period with tasks in group and shared/private
  sched/numa: Slow down scan rate if shared faults dominate
  sched/pelt: Fix false running accounting
  sched: Mark pick_next_task_dl() and build_sched_domain() as static
  sched/cpupri: Don't re-initialize 'struct cpupri'
  sched/deadline: Don't re-initialize 'struct cpudl'
  ...
2017-09-04 09:10:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 0081a0ce80 Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnad:
 "The main RCU related changes in this cycle were:

   - Removal of spin_unlock_wait()
   - SRCU updates
   - RCU torture-test updates
   - RCU Documentation updates
   - Extend the sys_membarrier() ABI with the MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED variant
   - Miscellaneous RCU fixes
   - CPU-hotplug fixes"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (63 commits)
  arch: Remove spin_unlock_wait() arch-specific definitions
  locking: Remove spin_unlock_wait() generic definitions
  drivers/ata: Replace spin_unlock_wait() with lock/unlock pair
  ipc: Replace spin_unlock_wait() with lock/unlock pair
  exit: Replace spin_unlock_wait() with lock/unlock pair
  completion: Replace spin_unlock_wait() with lock/unlock pair
  doc: Set down RCU's scheduling-clock-interrupt needs
  doc: No longer allowed to use rcu_dereference on non-pointers
  doc: Add RCU files to docbook-generation files
  doc: Update memory-barriers.txt for read-to-write dependencies
  doc: Update RCU documentation
  membarrier: Provide expedited private command
  rcu: Remove exports from rcu_idle_exit() and rcu_idle_enter()
  rcu: Add warning to rcu_idle_enter() for irqs enabled
  rcu: Make rcu_idle_enter() rely on callers disabling irqs
  rcu: Add assertions verifying blocked-tasks list
  rcu/tracing: Set disable_rcu_irq_enter on rcu_eqs_exit()
  rcu: Add TPS() protection for _rcu_barrier_trace strings
  rcu: Use idle versions of swait to make idle-hack clear
  swait: Add idle variants which don't contribute to load average
  ...
2017-09-04 08:13:52 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 3a9ff4fd04 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core, to pick up fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-08-25 11:07:13 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 10c9850cb2 Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to pick up fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-08-25 11:04:51 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov dd1c1f2f20 pids: make task_tgid_nr_ns() safe
This was reported many times, and this was even mentioned in commit
52ee2dfdd4 ("pids: refactor vnr/nr_ns helpers to make them safe") but
somehow nobody bothered to fix the obvious problem: task_tgid_nr_ns() is
not safe because task->group_leader points to nowhere after the exiting
task passes exit_notify(), rcu_read_lock() can not help.

We really need to change __unhash_process() to nullify group_leader,
parent, and real_parent, but this needs some cleanups.  Until then we
can turn task_tgid_nr_ns() into another user of __task_pid_nr_ns() and
fix the problem.

Reported-by: Troy Kensinger <tkensinger@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-08-21 12:47:31 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney ccdd29ffff rcu: Create reasonable API for do_exit() TASKS_RCU processing
Currently, the exit-time support for TASKS_RCU is open-coded in do_exit().
This commit creates exit_tasks_rcu_start() and exit_tasks_rcu_finish()
APIs for do_exit() use.  This has the benefit of confining the use of the
tasks_rcu_exit_srcu variable to one file, allowing it to become static.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-08-17 07:26:05 -07:00
Byungchul Park 23f873d8f9 locking/lockdep: Detect and handle hist_lock ring buffer overwrite
The ring buffer can be overwritten by hardirq/softirq/work contexts.
That cases must be considered on rollback or commit. For example,

          |<------ hist_lock ring buffer size ----->|
          ppppppppppppiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
wrapped > iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii....................

          where 'p' represents an acquisition in process context,
          'i' represents an acquisition in irq context.

On irq exit, crossrelease tries to rollback idx to original position,
but it should not because the entry already has been invalid by
overwriting 'i'. Avoid rollback or commit for entries overwritten.

Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: kernel-team@lge.com
Cc: kirill@shutemov.name
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: walken@google.com
Cc: willy@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502089981-21272-7-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-08-10 12:29:08 +02:00
Byungchul Park b09be676e0 locking/lockdep: Implement the 'crossrelease' feature
Lockdep is a runtime locking correctness validator that detects and
reports a deadlock or its possibility by checking dependencies between
locks. It's useful since it does not report just an actual deadlock but
also the possibility of a deadlock that has not actually happened yet.
That enables problems to be fixed before they affect real systems.

However, this facility is only applicable to typical locks, such as
spinlocks and mutexes, which are normally released within the context in
which they were acquired. However, synchronization primitives like page
locks or completions, which are allowed to be released in any context,
also create dependencies and can cause a deadlock.

So lockdep should track these locks to do a better job. The 'crossrelease'
implementation makes these primitives also be tracked.

Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: kernel-team@lge.com
Cc: kirill@shutemov.name
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: walken@google.com
Cc: willy@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502089981-21272-6-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-08-10 12:29:07 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra d92a8cfcb3 locking/lockdep: Rework FS_RECLAIM annotation
A while ago someone, and I cannot find the email just now, asked if we
could not implement the RECLAIM_FS inversion stuff with a 'fake' lock
like we use for other things like workqueues etc. I think this should
be possible which allows reducing the 'irq' states and will reduce the
amount of __bfs() lookups we do.

Removing the 1 IRQ state results in 4 less __bfs() walks per
dependency, improving lockdep performance. And by moving this
annotation out of the lockdep code it becomes easier for the mm people
to extend.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Cc: kernel-team@lge.com
Cc: kirill@shutemov.name
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: walken@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-08-10 12:29:03 +02:00
Xie XiuQi 20435d84e5 sched/debug: Intruduce task_state_to_char() helper function
Now that we have more than one place to get the task state,
intruduce the task_state_to_char() helper function to save some code.

No functionality changed.

Signed-off-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <cj.chengjian@huawei.com>
Cc: <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502095463-160172-3-git-send-email-xiexiuqi@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-08-10 12:18:20 +02:00
Vikas Shivappa d6aaba615a x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add tasks file support
The root directory, ctrl_mon and monitor groups are populated
with a read/write file named "tasks". When read, it shows all the task
IDs assigned to the resource group.

Tasks can be added to groups by writing the PID to the file. A task can
be present in one "ctrl_mon" group "and" one "monitor" group. IOW a
PID_x can be seen in a ctrl_mon group and a monitor group at the same
time. When a task is added to a ctrl_mon group, it is automatically
removed from the previous ctrl_mon group where it belonged. Similarly if
a task is moved to a monitor group it is removed from the previous
monitor group . Also since the monitor groups can only have subset of
tasks of parent ctrl_mon group, a task can be moved to a monitor group
only if its already present in the parent ctrl_mon group.

Task membership is indicated by a new field in the task_struct "u32
rmid" which holds the RMID for the task. RMID=0 is reserved for the
default root group where the tasks belong to at mount.

[tony: zero the rmid if rdtgroup was deleted when task was being moved]

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: vikas.shivappa@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: davidcc@google.com
Cc: reinette.chatre@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501017287-28083-16-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com
2017-08-01 22:41:24 +02:00
Vikas Shivappa 0734ded1ab x86/intel_rdt: Change closid type from int to u32
OS associates a CLOSid(Class of service id) to a task by writing the
high 32 bits of per CPU IA32_PQR_ASSOC MSR when a task is scheduled in.
CPUID.(EAX=10H, ECX=1):EDX[15:0] enumerates the max CLOSID supported and
it is zero indexed. Hence change the type to u32 from int.

Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: vikas.shivappa@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: davidcc@google.com
Cc: reinette.chatre@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501017287-28083-15-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com
2017-08-01 22:41:24 +02:00
Vikas Shivappa f01d7d51f5 x86/intel_rdt: Introduce a common compile option for RDT
We currently have a CONFIG_RDT_A which is for RDT(Resource directory
technology) allocation based resctrl filesystem interface. As a
preparation to add support for RDT monitoring as well into the same
resctrl filesystem, change the config option to be CONFIG_RDT which
would include both RDT allocation and monitoring code.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: vikas.shivappa@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: davidcc@google.com
Cc: reinette.chatre@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501017287-28083-4-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com
2017-08-01 22:41:19 +02:00
Linus Torvalds e06fdaf40a Now that IPC and other changes have landed, enable manual markings for
randstruct plugin, including the task_struct.
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Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.13-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

Pull structure randomization updates from Kees Cook:
 "Now that IPC and other changes have landed, enable manual markings for
  randstruct plugin, including the task_struct.

  This is the rest of what was staged in -next for the gcc-plugins, and
  comes in three patches, largest first:

   - mark "easy" structs with __randomize_layout

   - mark task_struct with an optional anonymous struct to isolate the
     __randomize_layout section

   - mark structs to opt _out_ of automated marking (which will come
     later)

  And, FWIW, this continues to pass allmodconfig (normal and patched to
  enable gcc-plugins) builds of x86_64, i386, arm64, arm, powerpc, and
  s390 for me"

* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.13-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  randstruct: opt-out externally exposed function pointer structs
  task_struct: Allow randomized layout
  randstruct: Mark various structs for randomization
2017-07-19 08:55:18 -07:00
Akinobu Mita 9049f2f6e7 fault-inject: parse as natural 1-based value for fail-nth write interface
The value written to fail-nth file is parsed as 0-based.  Parsing as
one-based is more natural to understand and it enables to cancel the
previous setup by simply writing '0'.

This change also converts task->fail_nth from signed to unsigned int.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491490561-10485-3-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-14 15:05:13 -07:00
Dmitry Vyukov e41d58185f fault-inject: support systematic fault injection
Add /proc/self/task/<current-tid>/fail-nth file that allows failing
0-th, 1-st, 2-nd and so on calls systematically.
Excerpt from the added documentation:

 "Write to this file of integer N makes N-th call in the current task
  fail (N is 0-based). Read from this file returns a single char 'Y' or
  'N' that says if the fault setup with a previous write to this file
  was injected or not, and disables the fault if it wasn't yet injected.
  Note that this file enables all types of faults (slab, futex, etc).
  This setting takes precedence over all other generic settings like
  probability, interval, times, etc. But per-capability settings (e.g.
  fail_futex/ignore-private) take precedence over it. This feature is
  intended for systematic testing of faults in a single system call. See
  an example below"

Why add a new setting:
1. Existing settings are global rather than per-task.
   So parallel testing is not possible.
2. attr->interval is close but it depends on attr->count
   which is non reset to 0, so interval does not work as expected.
3. Trying to model this with existing settings requires manipulations
   of all of probability, interval, times, space, task-filter and
   unexposed count and per-task make-it-fail files.
4. Existing settings are per-failure-type, and the set of failure
   types is potentially expanding.
5. make-it-fail can't be changed by unprivileged user and aggressive
   stress testing better be done from an unprivileged user.
   Similarly, this would require opening the debugfs files to the
   unprivileged user, as he would need to reopen at least times file
   (not possible to pre-open before dropping privs).

The proposed interface solves all of the above (see the example).

We want to integrate this into syzkaller fuzzer.  A prototype has found
10 bugs in kernel in first day of usage:

  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/syzkaller/%22FAULT_INJECTION%22%7Csort:relevance

I've made the current interface work with all types of our sandboxes.
For setuid the secret sauce was prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 1, 0, 0, 0) to
make /proc entries non-root owned.  So I am fine with the current
version of the code.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170328130128.101773-1-dvyukov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-12 16:26:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 4fde846ac0 Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This scheduler update provides:

   - The (hopefully) final fix for the vtime accounting issues which
     were around for quite some time

   - Use types known to user space in UAPI headers to unbreak user space
     builds

   - Make load balancing respect the current scheduling domain again
     instead of evaluating unrelated CPUs"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/headers/uapi: Fix linux/sched/types.h userspace compilation errors
  sched/fair: Fix load_balance() affinity redo path
  sched/cputime: Accumulate vtime on top of nsec clocksource
  sched/cputime: Move the vtime task fields to their own struct
  sched/cputime: Rename vtime fields
  sched/cputime: Always set tsk->vtime_snap_whence after accounting vtime
  vtime, sched/cputime: Remove vtime_account_user()
  Revert "sched/cputime: Refactor the cputime_adjust() code"
2017-07-09 10:52:16 -07:00
Vlastimil Babka 45816682b2 mm, mempolicy: stop adjusting current->il_next in mpol_rebind_nodemask()
The task->il_next variable stores the next allocation node id for task's
MPOL_INTERLEAVE policy.  mpol_rebind_nodemask() updates interleave and
bind mempolicies due to changing cpuset mems.  Currently it also tries
to make sure that current->il_next is valid within the updated nodemask.
This is bogus, because 1) we are updating potentially any task's
mempolicy, not just current, and 2) we might be updating a per-vma
mempolicy, not task one.

The interleave_nodes() function that uses il_next can cope fine with the
value not being within the currently allowed nodes, so this hasn't
manifested as an actual issue.

We can remove the need for updating il_next completely by changing it to
il_prev and store the node id of the previous interleave allocation
instead of the next id.  Then interleave_nodes() can calculate the next
id using the current nodemask and also store it as il_prev, except when
querying the next node via do_get_mempolicy().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170517081140.30654-3-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
Wanpeng Li 2a42eb9594 sched/cputime: Accumulate vtime on top of nsec clocksource
Currently the cputime source used by vtime is jiffies. When we cross
a context boundary and jiffies have changed since the last snapshot, the
pending cputime is accounted to the switching out context.

This system works ok if the ticks are not aligned across CPUs. If they
instead are aligned (ie: all fire at the same time) and the CPUs run in
userspace, the jiffies change is only observed on tick exit and therefore
the user cputime is accounted as system cputime. This is because the
CPU that maintains timekeeping fires its tick at the same time as the
others. It updates jiffies in the middle of the tick and the other CPUs
see that update on IRQ exit:

    CPU 0 (timekeeper)                  CPU 1
    -------------------              -------------
                      jiffies = N
    ...                              run in userspace for a jiffy
    tick entry                       tick entry (sees jiffies = N)
    set jiffies = N + 1
    tick exit                        tick exit (sees jiffies = N + 1)
                                                account 1 jiffy as stime

Fix this with using a nanosec clock source instead of jiffies. The
cputime is then accumulated and flushed everytime the pending delta
reaches a jiffy in order to mitigate the accounting overhead.

[ fweisbec: changelog, rebase on struct vtime, field renames, add delta
  on cputime readers, keep idle vtime as-is (low overhead accounting),
  harmonize clock sources. ]

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498756511-11714-6-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-07-05 09:54:15 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker bac5b6b6b1 sched/cputime: Move the vtime task fields to their own struct
We are about to add vtime accumulation fields to the task struct. Let's
avoid more bloatification and gather vtime information to their own
struct.

Tested-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498756511-11714-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-07-05 09:54:15 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 60a9ce57e7 sched/cputime: Rename vtime fields
The current "snapshot" based naming on vtime fields suggests we record
some past event but that's a low level picture of their actual purpose
which comes out blurry. The real point of these fields is to run a basic
state machine that tracks down cputime entry while switching between
contexts.

So lets reflect that with more meaningful names.

Tested-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498756511-11714-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-07-05 09:54:14 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 9a9594efe5 Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull SMP hotplug updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This update is primarily a cleanup of the CPU hotplug locking code.

  The hotplug locking mechanism is an open coded RWSEM, which allows
  recursive locking. The main problem with that is the recursive nature
  as it evades the full lockdep coverage and hides potential deadlocks.

  The rework replaces the open coded RWSEM with a percpu RWSEM and
  establishes full lockdep coverage that way.

  The bulk of the changes fix up recursive locking issues and address
  the now fully reported potential deadlocks all over the place. Some of
  these deadlocks have been observed in the RT tree, but on mainline the
  probability was low enough to hide them away."

* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
  cpu/hotplug: Constify attribute_group structures
  powerpc: Only obtain cpu_hotplug_lock if called by rtasd
  ARM/hw_breakpoint: Fix possible recursive locking for arch_hw_breakpoint_init
  cpu/hotplug: Remove unused check_for_tasks() function
  perf/core: Don't release cred_guard_mutex if not taken
  cpuhotplug: Link lock stacks for hotplug callbacks
  acpi/processor: Prevent cpu hotplug deadlock
  sched: Provide is_percpu_thread() helper
  cpu/hotplug: Convert hotplug locking to percpu rwsem
  s390: Prevent hotplug rwsem recursion
  arm: Prevent hotplug rwsem recursion
  arm64: Prevent cpu hotplug rwsem recursion
  kprobes: Cure hotplug lock ordering issues
  jump_label: Reorder hotplug lock and jump_label_lock
  perf/tracing/cpuhotplug: Fix locking order
  ACPI/processor: Use cpu_hotplug_disable() instead of get_online_cpus()
  PCI: Replace the racy recursion prevention
  PCI: Use cpu_hotplug_disable() instead of get_online_cpus()
  perf/x86/intel: Drop get_online_cpus() in intel_snb_check_microcode()
  x86/perf: Drop EXPORT of perf_check_microcode
  ...
2017-07-03 18:08:06 -07:00
Kees Cook 29e48ce87f task_struct: Allow randomized layout
This marks most of the layout of task_struct as randomizable, but leaves
thread_info and scheduler state untouched at the start, and thread_struct
untouched at the end.

Other parts of the kernel use unnamed structures, but the 0-day builder
using gcc-4.4 blows up on static initializers. Officially, it's documented
as only working on gcc 4.6 and later, which further confuses me:
	https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/C11Status
The structure layout randomization already requires gcc 4.7, but instead
of depending on the plugin being enabled, just check the gcc versions
for wider build testing. At Linus's suggestion, the marking is hidden
in a macro to reduce how ugly it looks. Additionally, indenting is left
unchanged since it would make things harder to read.

Randomization of task_struct is modified from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's
code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my understanding
of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are mine and
don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2017-06-30 12:00:52 -07:00
Kees Cook 3859a271a0 randstruct: Mark various structs for randomization
This marks many critical kernel structures for randomization. These are
structures that have been targeted in the past in security exploits, or
contain functions pointers, pointers to function pointer tables, lists,
workqueues, ref-counters, credentials, permissions, or are otherwise
sensitive. This initial list was extracted from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's
code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my understanding
of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are mine and
don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.

Left out of this list is task_struct, which requires special handling
and will be covered in a subsequent patch.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2017-06-30 12:00:51 -07:00
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira 3effcb4247 sched/deadline: Use the revised wakeup rule for suspending constrained dl tasks
We have been facing some problems with self-suspending constrained
deadline tasks. The main reason is that the original CBS was not
designed for such sort of tasks.

One problem reported by Xunlei Pang takes place when a task
suspends, and then is awakened before the deadline, but so close
to the deadline that its remaining runtime can cause the task
to have an absolute density higher than allowed. In such situation,
the original CBS assumes that the task is facing an early activation,
and so it replenishes the task and set another deadline, one deadline
in the future. This rule works fine for implicit deadline tasks.
Moreover, it allows the system to adapt the period of a task in which
the external event source suffered from a clock drift.

However, this opens the window for bandwidth leakage for constrained
deadline tasks. For instance, a task with the following parameters:

  runtime   = 5 ms
  deadline  = 7 ms
  [density] = 5 / 7 = 0.71
  period    = 1000 ms

If the task runs for 1 ms, and then suspends for another 1ms,
it will be awakened with the following parameters:

  remaining runtime = 4
  laxity = 5

presenting a absolute density of 4 / 5 = 0.80.

In this case, the original CBS would assume the task had an early
wakeup. Then, CBS will reset the runtime, and the absolute deadline will
be postponed by one relative deadline, allowing the task to run.

The problem is that, if the task runs this pattern forever, it will keep
receiving bandwidth, being able to run 1ms every 2ms. Following this
behavior, the task would be able to run 500 ms in 1 sec. Thus running
more than the 5 ms / 1 sec the admission control allowed it to run.

Trying to address the self-suspending case, Luca Abeni, Giuseppe
Lipari, and Juri Lelli [1] revisited the CBS in order to deal with
self-suspending tasks. In the new approach, rather than
replenishing/postponing the absolute deadline, the revised wakeup rule
adjusts the remaining runtime, reducing it to fit into the allowed
density.

A revised version of the idea is:

At a given time t, the maximum absolute density of a task cannot be
higher than its relative density, that is:

  runtime / (deadline - t) <= dl_runtime / dl_deadline

Knowing the laxity of a task (deadline - t), it is possible to move
it to the other side of the equality, thus enabling to define max
remaining runtime a task can use within the absolute deadline, without
over-running the allowed density:

  runtime = (dl_runtime / dl_deadline) * (deadline - t)

For instance, in our previous example, the task could still run:

  runtime = ( 5 / 7 ) * 5
  runtime = 3.57 ms

Without causing damage for other deadline tasks. It is note worthy
that the laxity cannot be negative because that would cause a negative
runtime. Thus, this patch depends on the patch:

  df8eac8caf ("sched/deadline: Throttle a constrained deadline task activated after the deadline")

Which throttles a constrained deadline task activated after the
deadline.

Finally, it is also possible to use the revised wakeup rule for
all other tasks, but that would require some more discussions
about pros and cons.

Reported-by: Xunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
[peterz: replaced dl_is_constrained with dl_is_implicit]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Romulo Silva de Oliveira <romulo.deoliveira@ufsc.br>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5c800ab3a74a168a84ee5f3f84d12a02e11383be.1495803804.git.bristot@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-06-08 10:32:03 +02:00
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira 54d6d3039e sched/deadline: Fix dl_bw comment
The sched_dl_entity's dl_bw variable stores the utilization (dl_runtime / dl_period)
of a task, not its density (dl_runtime / dl_deadline), as the comment says.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Romulo Silva de Oliveira <romulo.deoliveira@ufsc.br>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it>
Cc: Xunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8d05f1ccfd02da1a11bda62494d98f5456c1469a.1495803804.git.bristot@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-06-08 10:32:00 +02:00
Luca Abeni 209a0cbda7 sched/deadline: Improve the tracking of active utilization
This patch implements a more theoretically sound algorithm for
tracking active utilization: instead of decreasing it when a
task blocks, use a timer (the "inactive timer", named after the
"Inactive" task state of the GRUB algorithm) to decrease the
active utilization at the so called "0-lag time".

Tested-by: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495138417-6203-3-git-send-email-luca.abeni@santannapisa.it
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-06-08 10:31:49 +02:00
Perr Zhang 9b01d43170 sched/header: Remove leftover, obsolete comment
There is no more set_task_vxid() helper, remove its description.

Signed-off-by: Perr Zhang <strongbox8@zoho.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170602035953.28949-1-strongbox8@zoho.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-06-05 09:32:42 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 62ec05dd71 sched: Provide is_percpu_thread() helper
Provide a helper function for checking whether current task is a per cpu
thread.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524081549.541649540@linutronix.de
2017-05-26 10:10:47 +02:00
Linus Torvalds c6a677c6f3 Staging/IIO patches for 4.12-rc1
Here is the big staging tree update for 4.12-rc1.  And it's a big one,
 adding about 350k new lines of crap^Wcode, mostly all in a big dump of
 media drivers from Intel.  But there's other new drivers in here as
 well, yet-another-wifi driver, new IIO drivers, and a new crypto
 accelerator.  We also deleted a bunch of stuff, mostly in patch
 cleanups, but also the Android ION code has shrunk a lot, and the
 Android low memory killer driver was finally deleted, much to the
 celebration of the -mm developers.
 
 All of these have been in linux-next with a few build issues that will
 show up when you merge to your tree, I'll follow up with fixes for those
 after this gets merged.
 
 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'staging-4.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging

Pull staging/IIO updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big staging tree update for 4.12-rc1.

  It's a big one, adding about 350k new lines of crap^Wcode, mostly all
  in a big dump of media drivers from Intel. But there's other new
  drivers in here as well, yet-another-wifi driver, new IIO drivers, and
  a new crypto accelerator.

  We also deleted a bunch of stuff, mostly in patch cleanups, but also
  the Android ION code has shrunk a lot, and the Android low memory
  killer driver was finally deleted, much to the celebration of the -mm
  developers.

  All of these have been in linux-next with a few build issues that will
  show up when you merge to your tree"

Merge conflicts in the new rtl8723bs driver (due to the wifi changes
this merge window) handled as per linux-next, courtesy of Stephen
Rothwell.

* tag 'staging-4.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (1182 commits)
  staging: fsl-mc/dpio: add cpu <--> LE conversion for dpaa2_fd
  staging: ks7010: remove line continuations in quoted strings
  staging: vt6656: use tabs instead of spaces
  staging: android: ion: Fix unnecessary initialization of static variable
  staging: media: atomisp: fix range checking on clk_num
  staging: media: atomisp: fix misspelled word in comment
  staging: media: atomisp: kmap() can't fail
  staging: atomisp: remove #ifdef for runtime PM functions
  staging: atomisp: satm include directory is gone
  atomisp: remove some more unused files
  atomisp: remove hmm_load/store/clear indirections
  atomisp: kill off mmgr_free
  atomisp: clean up the hmm init/cleanup indirections
  atomisp: handle allocation calls before init in the hmm layer
  staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Add maintainer for Ethernet driver
  staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Add TODO file
  staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Add trace points
  staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Add driver specific stats
  staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Add ethtool support
  staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Add Freescale DPAA2 Ethernet driver
  ...
2017-05-05 18:16:23 -07:00
Michal Hocko 7dea19f9ee mm: introduce memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} API
GFP_NOFS context is used for the following 5 reasons currently:

 - to prevent from deadlocks when the lock held by the allocation
   context would be needed during the memory reclaim

 - to prevent from stack overflows during the reclaim because the
   allocation is performed from a deep context already

 - to prevent lockups when the allocation context depends on other
   reclaimers to make a forward progress indirectly

 - just in case because this would be safe from the fs POV

 - silence lockdep false positives

Unfortunately overuse of this allocation context brings some problems to
the MM.  Memory reclaim is much weaker (especially during heavy FS
metadata workloads), OOM killer cannot be invoked because the MM layer
doesn't have enough information about how much memory is freeable by the
FS layer.

In many cases it is far from clear why the weaker context is even used
and so it might be used unnecessarily.  We would like to get rid of
those as much as possible.  One way to do that is to use the flag in
scopes rather than isolated cases.  Such a scope is declared when really
necessary, tracked per task and all the allocation requests from within
the context will simply inherit the GFP_NOFS semantic.

Not only this is easier to understand and maintain because there are
much less problematic contexts than specific allocation requests, this
also helps code paths where FS layer interacts with other layers (e.g.
crypto, security modules, MM etc...) and there is no easy way to convey
the allocation context between the layers.

Introduce memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} API to control the scope of
GFP_NOFS allocation context.  This is basically copying
memalloc_noio_{save,restore} API we have for other restricted allocation
context GFP_NOIO.  The PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS flag already exists and it is
just an alias for PF_FSTRANS which has been xfs specific until recently.
There are no more PF_FSTRANS users anymore so let's just drop it.

PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS is now checked in the MM layer and drops __GFP_FS
implicitly same as PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO drops __GFP_IO.  memalloc_noio_flags
is renamed to current_gfp_context because it now cares about both
PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS and PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO contexts.  Xfs code paths preserve
their semantic.  kmem_flags_convert() doesn't need to evaluate the flag
anymore.

This patch shouldn't introduce any functional changes.

Let's hope that filesystems will drop direct GFP_NOFS (resp.  ~__GFP_FS)
usage as much as possible and only use a properly documented
memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} checkpoints where they are appropriate.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment typo, reflow comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306131408.9828-5-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-03 15:52:09 -07:00
Michal Hocko 9070733b4e xfs: abstract PF_FSTRANS to PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS
xfs has defined PF_FSTRANS to declare a scope GFP_NOFS semantic quite
some time ago.  We would like to make this concept more generic and use
it for other filesystems as well.  Let's start by giving the flag a more
generic name PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS which is in line with an exiting
PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO already used for the same purpose for GFP_NOIO
contexts.  Replace all PF_FSTRANS usage from the xfs code in the first
step before we introduce a full API for it as xfs uses the flag directly
anyway.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional change.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306131408.9828-4-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-03 15:52:09 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 0302e28dee Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
 "Highlights:

  IMA:
   - provide ">" and "<" operators for fowner/uid/euid rules

  KEYS:
   - add a system blacklist keyring

   - add KEYCTL_RESTRICT_KEYRING, exposes keyring link restriction
     functionality to userland via keyctl()

  LSM:
   - harden LSM API with __ro_after_init

   - add prlmit security hook, implement for SELinux

   - revive security_task_alloc hook

  TPM:
   - implement contextual TPM command 'spaces'"

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (98 commits)
  tpm: Fix reference count to main device
  tpm_tis: convert to using locality callbacks
  tpm: fix handling of the TPM 2.0 event logs
  tpm_crb: remove a cruft constant
  keys: select CONFIG_CRYPTO when selecting DH / KDF
  apparmor: Make path_max parameter readonly
  apparmor: fix parameters so that the permission test is bypassed at boot
  apparmor: fix invalid reference to index variable of iterator line 836
  apparmor: use SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK
  security/apparmor/lsm.c: set debug messages
  apparmor: fix boolreturn.cocci warnings
  Smack: Use GFP_KERNEL for smk_netlbl_mls().
  smack: fix double free in smack_parse_opts_str()
  KEYS: add SP800-56A KDF support for DH
  KEYS: Keyring asymmetric key restrict method with chaining
  KEYS: Restrict asymmetric key linkage using a specific keychain
  KEYS: Add a lookup_restriction function for the asymmetric key type
  KEYS: Add KEYCTL_RESTRICT_KEYRING
  KEYS: Consistent ordering for __key_link_begin and restrict check
  KEYS: Add an optional lookup_restriction hook to key_type
  ...
2017-05-03 08:50:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 89c9fea3c8 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
  tty: fix comment for __tty_alloc_driver()
  init/main: properly align the multi-line comment
  init/main: Fix double "the" in comment
  Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org
  drivers: Clean up duplicated email address
  treewide: Fix typo in xml/driver-api/basics.xml
  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc: remove redundant CFLAGS in Makefile: "-Wall -O2 -Wall" -> "-O2 -Wall"
  selftests/timers: Spelling s/privledges/privileges/
  HID: picoLCD: Spelling s/REPORT_WRTIE_MEMORY/REPORT_WRITE_MEMORY/
  net: phy: dp83848: Fix Typo
  UBI: Fix typos
  Documentation: ftrace.txt: Correct nice value of 120 priority
  net: fec: Fix typo in error msg and comment
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
2017-05-02 19:09:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 76f1948a79 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching
Pull livepatch updates from Jiri Kosina:

 - a per-task consistency model is being added for architectures that
   support reliable stack dumping (extending this, currently rather
   trivial set, is currently in the works).

   This extends the nature of the types of patches that can be applied
   by live patching infrastructure. The code stems from the design
   proposal made [1] back in November 2014. It's a hybrid of SUSE's
   kGraft and RH's kpatch, combining advantages of both: it uses
   kGraft's per-task consistency and syscall barrier switching combined
   with kpatch's stack trace switching. There are also a number of
   fallback options which make it quite flexible.

   Most of the heavy lifting done by Josh Poimboeuf with help from
   Miroslav Benes and Petr Mladek

   [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141107140458.GA21774@suse.cz

 - module load time patch optimization from Zhou Chengming

 - a few assorted small fixes

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching:
  livepatch: add missing printk newlines
  livepatch: Cancel transition a safe way for immediate patches
  livepatch: Reduce the time of finding module symbols
  livepatch: make klp_mutex proper part of API
  livepatch: allow removal of a disabled patch
  livepatch: add /proc/<pid>/patch_state
  livepatch: change to a per-task consistency model
  livepatch: store function sizes
  livepatch: use kstrtobool() in enabled_store()
  livepatch: move patching functions into patch.c
  livepatch: remove unnecessary object loaded check
  livepatch: separate enabled and patched states
  livepatch/s390: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag
  livepatch/s390: reorganize TIF thread flag bits
  livepatch/powerpc: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag
  livepatch/x86: add TIF_PATCH_PENDING thread flag
  livepatch: create temporary klp_update_patch_state() stub
  x86/entry: define _TIF_ALLWORK_MASK flags explicitly
  stacktrace/x86: add function for detecting reliable stack traces
2017-05-02 18:24:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 207fb8c304 Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - a big round of FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI improvements, fixes, cleanups and
     general restructuring

   - lockdep updates such as new checks for lock_downgrade()

   - introduce the new atomic_try_cmpxchg() locking API and use it to
     optimize refcount code generation

   - ... plus misc fixes, updates and cleanups"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (38 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: Add FUTEX SUBSYSTEM
  futex: Clarify mark_wake_futex memory barrier usage
  futex: Fix small (and harmless looking) inconsistencies
  futex: Avoid freeing an active timer
  rtmutex: Plug preempt count leak in rt_mutex_futex_unlock()
  rtmutex: Fix more prio comparisons
  rtmutex: Fix PI chain order integrity
  sched,tracing: Update trace_sched_pi_setprio()
  sched/rtmutex: Refactor rt_mutex_setprio()
  rtmutex: Clean up
  sched/deadline/rtmutex: Dont miss the dl_runtime/dl_period update
  sched/rtmutex/deadline: Fix a PI crash for deadline tasks
  rtmutex: Deboost before waking up the top waiter
  locking/ww-mutex: Limit stress test to 2 seconds
  locking/atomic: Fix atomic_try_cmpxchg() semantics
  lockdep: Fix per-cpu static objects
  futex: Drop hb->lock before enqueueing on the rtmutex
  futex: Futex_unlock_pi() determinism
  futex: Rework futex_lock_pi() to use rt_mutex_*_proxy_lock()
  futex,rt_mutex: Restructure rt_mutex_finish_proxy_lock()
  ...
2017-05-01 19:36:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 3527d3e951 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - another round of rq-clock handling debugging, robustization and
     fixes

   - PELT accounting improvements

   - CPU hotplug related ->cpus_allowed affinity handling fixes all
     around the tree

   - ... plus misc fixes, cleanups and updates"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (35 commits)
  sched/x86: Update reschedule warning text
  crypto: N2 - Replace racy task affinity logic
  cpufreq/sparc-us2e: Replace racy task affinity logic
  cpufreq/sparc-us3: Replace racy task affinity logic
  cpufreq/sh: Replace racy task affinity logic
  cpufreq/ia64: Replace racy task affinity logic
  ACPI/processor: Replace racy task affinity logic
  ACPI/processor: Fix error handling in __acpi_processor_start()
  sparc/sysfs: Replace racy task affinity logic
  powerpc/smp: Replace open coded task affinity logic
  ia64/sn/hwperf: Replace racy task affinity logic
  ia64/salinfo: Replace racy task affinity logic
  workqueue: Provide work_on_cpu_safe()
  ia64/topology: Remove cpus_allowed manipulation
  sched/fair: Move the PELT constants into a generated header
  sched/fair: Increase PELT accuracy for small tasks
  sched/fair: Fix comments
  sched/Documentation: Add 'sched-pelt' tool
  sched/fair: Fix corner case in __accumulate_sum()
  sched/core: Remove 'task' parameter and rename tsk_restore_flags() to current_restore_flags()
  ...
2017-05-01 19:12:53 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 0ba78a95a6 Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to pick up fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-04-14 10:29:40 +02:00
NeilBrown 717a94b5fc sched/core: Remove 'task' parameter and rename tsk_restore_flags() to current_restore_flags()
It is not safe for one thread to modify the ->flags
of another thread as there is no locking that can protect
the update.

So tsk_restore_flags(), which takes a task pointer and modifies
the flags, is an invitation to do the wrong thing.

All current users pass "current" as the task, so no developers have
accepted that invitation.  It would be best to ensure it remains
that way.

So rename tsk_restore_flags() to current_restore_flags() and don't
pass in a task_struct pointer.  Always operate on current->flags.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-04-11 09:06:32 +02:00
Xunlei Pang e96a7705e7 sched/rtmutex/deadline: Fix a PI crash for deadline tasks
A crash happened while I was playing with deadline PI rtmutex.

    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000018
    IP: [<ffffffff810eeb8f>] rt_mutex_get_top_task+0x1f/0x30
    PGD 232a75067 PUD 230947067 PMD 0
    Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
    CPU: 1 PID: 10994 Comm: a.out Not tainted

    Call Trace:
    [<ffffffff810b658c>] enqueue_task+0x2c/0x80
    [<ffffffff810ba763>] activate_task+0x23/0x30
    [<ffffffff810d0ab5>] pull_dl_task+0x1d5/0x260
    [<ffffffff810d0be6>] pre_schedule_dl+0x16/0x20
    [<ffffffff8164e783>] __schedule+0xd3/0x900
    [<ffffffff8164efd9>] schedule+0x29/0x70
    [<ffffffff8165035b>] __rt_mutex_slowlock+0x4b/0xc0
    [<ffffffff81650501>] rt_mutex_slowlock+0xd1/0x190
    [<ffffffff810eeb33>] rt_mutex_timed_lock+0x53/0x60
    [<ffffffff810ecbfc>] futex_lock_pi.isra.18+0x28c/0x390
    [<ffffffff810ed8b0>] do_futex+0x190/0x5b0
    [<ffffffff810edd50>] SyS_futex+0x80/0x180

This is because rt_mutex_enqueue_pi() and rt_mutex_dequeue_pi()
are only protected by pi_lock when operating pi waiters, while
rt_mutex_get_top_task(), will access them with rq lock held but
not holding pi_lock.

In order to tackle it, we introduce new "pi_top_task" pointer
cached in task_struct, and add new rt_mutex_update_top_task()
to update its value, it can be called by rt_mutex_setprio()
which held both owner's pi_lock and rq lock. Thus "pi_top_task"
can be safely accessed by enqueue_task_dl() under rq lock.

Originally-From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: juri.lelli@arm.com
Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Cc: jdesfossez@efficios.com
Cc: bristot@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170323150216.157682758@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-04-04 11:44:05 +02:00
Tetsuo Handa e4e55b47ed LSM: Revive security_task_alloc() hook and per "struct task_struct" security blob.
We switched from "struct task_struct"->security to "struct cred"->security
in Linux 2.6.29. But not all LSM modules were happy with that change.
TOMOYO LSM module is an example which want to use per "struct task_struct"
security blob, for TOMOYO's security context is defined based on "struct
task_struct" rather than "struct cred". AppArmor LSM module is another
example which want to use it, for AppArmor is currently abusing the cred
a little bit to store the change_hat and setexeccon info. Although
security_task_free() hook was revived in Linux 3.4 because Yama LSM module
wanted to release per "struct task_struct" security blob,
security_task_alloc() hook and "struct task_struct"->security field were
not revived. Nowadays, we are getting proposals of lightweight LSM modules
which want to use per "struct task_struct" security blob.

We are already allowing multiple concurrent LSM modules (up to one fully
armored module which uses "struct cred"->security field or exclusive hooks
like security_xfrm_state_pol_flow_match(), plus unlimited number of
lightweight modules which do not use "struct cred"->security nor exclusive
hooks) as long as they are built into the kernel. But this patch does not
implement variable length "struct task_struct"->security field which will
become needed when multiple LSM modules want to use "struct task_struct"->
security field. Although it won't be difficult to implement variable length
"struct task_struct"->security field, let's think about it after we merged
this patch.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Tested-by: Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@gmail.com>
Acked-by: José Bollo <jobol@nonadev.net>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Cc: José Bollo <jobol@nonadev.net>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
2017-03-28 11:05:14 +11:00
Masanari Iida 0ba42a599f treewide: Fix typo in xml/driver-api/basics.xml
This patch fix spelling typos found in
Documentation/output/xml/driver-api/basics.xml.
It is because the xml file was generated from comments in source,
so I had to fix the comments.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2017-03-24 15:47:57 +01:00
Tejun Heo 77f88796ce cgroup, kthread: close race window where new kthreads can be migrated to non-root cgroups
Creation of a kthread goes through a couple interlocked stages between
the kthread itself and its creator.  Once the new kthread starts
running, it initializes itself and wakes up the creator.  The creator
then can further configure the kthread and then let it start doing its
job by waking it up.

In this configuration-by-creator stage, the creator is the only one
that can wake it up but the kthread is visible to userland.  When
altering the kthread's attributes from userland is allowed, this is
fine; however, for cases where CPU affinity is critical,
kthread_bind() is used to first disable affinity changes from userland
and then set the affinity.  This also prevents the kthread from being
migrated into non-root cgroups as that can affect the CPU affinity and
many other things.

Unfortunately, the cgroup side of protection is racy.  While the
PF_NO_SETAFFINITY flag prevents further migrations, userland can win
the race before the creator sets the flag with kthread_bind() and put
the kthread in a non-root cgroup, which can lead to all sorts of
problems including incorrect CPU affinity and starvation.

This bug got triggered by userland which periodically tries to migrate
all processes in the root cpuset cgroup to a non-root one.  Per-cpu
workqueue workers got caught while being created and ended up with
incorrected CPU affinity breaking concurrency management and sometimes
stalling workqueue execution.

This patch adds task->no_cgroup_migration which disallows the task to
be migrated by userland.  kthreadd starts with the flag set making
every child kthread start in the root cgroup with migration
disallowed.  The flag is cleared after the kthread finishes
initialization by which time PF_NO_SETAFFINITY is set if the kthread
should stay in the root cgroup.

It'd be better to wait for the initialization instead of failing but I
couldn't think of a way of implementing that without adding either a
new PF flag, or sleeping and retrying from waiting side.  Even if
userland depends on changing cgroup membership of a kthread, it either
has to be synchronized with kthread_create() or periodically repeat,
so it's unlikely that this would break anything.

v2: Switch to a simpler implementation using a new task_struct bit
    field suggested by Oleg.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-and-debugged-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.3+ (we can't close the race on < v4.3)
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2017-03-17 10:18:47 -04:00
Michal Hocko 915e70f926 staging, android: remove lowmemory killer from the tree
Lowmemory killer is sitting in the staging tree since 2008 without any
serious interest for fixing issues brought up by the MM folks. The main
objection is that the implementation is basically broken by design:
	- it hooks into slab shrinker API which is not suitable for this
	  purpose. lowmem_count implementation just shows this nicely.
	  There is no scaling based on the memory pressure and no
	  feedback to the generic shrinker infrastructure.
	  Moreover lowmem_scan is called way too often for the heavy
	  work it performs.
	- it is not reclaim context aware - no NUMA and/or memcg
	  awareness.

As the code stands right now it just adds a maintenance overhead when
core MM changes have to update lowmemorykiller.c as well. It also seems
that the alternative LMK implementation will be solely in the userspace
so this code has no perspective it seems. The staging tree is supposed
to be for a code which needs to be put in shape before it can be merged
which is not the case here obviously.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-03-09 13:47:03 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf d83a7cb375 livepatch: change to a per-task consistency model
Change livepatch to use a basic per-task consistency model.  This is the
foundation which will eventually enable us to patch those ~10% of
security patches which change function or data semantics.  This is the
biggest remaining piece needed to make livepatch more generally useful.

This code stems from the design proposal made by Vojtech [1] in November
2014.  It's a hybrid of kGraft and kpatch: it uses kGraft's per-task
consistency and syscall barrier switching combined with kpatch's stack
trace switching.  There are also a number of fallback options which make
it quite flexible.

Patches are applied on a per-task basis, when the task is deemed safe to
switch over.  When a patch is enabled, livepatch enters into a
transition state where tasks are converging to the patched state.
Usually this transition state can complete in a few seconds.  The same
sequence occurs when a patch is disabled, except the tasks converge from
the patched state to the unpatched state.

An interrupt handler inherits the patched state of the task it
interrupts.  The same is true for forked tasks: the child inherits the
patched state of the parent.

Livepatch uses several complementary approaches to determine when it's
safe to patch tasks:

1. The first and most effective approach is stack checking of sleeping
   tasks.  If no affected functions are on the stack of a given task,
   the task is patched.  In most cases this will patch most or all of
   the tasks on the first try.  Otherwise it'll keep trying
   periodically.  This option is only available if the architecture has
   reliable stacks (HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE).

2. The second approach, if needed, is kernel exit switching.  A
   task is switched when it returns to user space from a system call, a
   user space IRQ, or a signal.  It's useful in the following cases:

   a) Patching I/O-bound user tasks which are sleeping on an affected
      function.  In this case you have to send SIGSTOP and SIGCONT to
      force it to exit the kernel and be patched.
   b) Patching CPU-bound user tasks.  If the task is highly CPU-bound
      then it will get patched the next time it gets interrupted by an
      IRQ.
   c) In the future it could be useful for applying patches for
      architectures which don't yet have HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE.  In
      this case you would have to signal most of the tasks on the
      system.  However this isn't supported yet because there's
      currently no way to patch kthreads without
      HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE.

3. For idle "swapper" tasks, since they don't ever exit the kernel, they
   instead have a klp_update_patch_state() call in the idle loop which
   allows them to be patched before the CPU enters the idle state.

   (Note there's not yet such an approach for kthreads.)

All the above approaches may be skipped by setting the 'immediate' flag
in the 'klp_patch' struct, which will disable per-task consistency and
patch all tasks immediately.  This can be useful if the patch doesn't
change any function or data semantics.  Note that, even with this flag
set, it's possible that some tasks may still be running with an old
version of the function, until that function returns.

There's also an 'immediate' flag in the 'klp_func' struct which allows
you to specify that certain functions in the patch can be applied
without per-task consistency.  This might be useful if you want to patch
a common function like schedule(), and the function change doesn't need
consistency but the rest of the patch does.

For architectures which don't have HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE, the user
must set patch->immediate which causes all tasks to be patched
immediately.  This option should be used with care, only when the patch
doesn't change any function or data semantics.

In the future, architectures which don't have HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
may be allowed to use per-task consistency if we can come up with
another way to patch kthreads.

The /sys/kernel/livepatch/<patch>/transition file shows whether a patch
is in transition.  Only a single patch (the topmost patch on the stack)
can be in transition at a given time.  A patch can remain in transition
indefinitely, if any of the tasks are stuck in the initial patch state.

A transition can be reversed and effectively canceled by writing the
opposite value to the /sys/kernel/livepatch/<patch>/enabled file while
the transition is in progress.  Then all the tasks will attempt to
converge back to the original patch state.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141107140458.GA21774@suse.cz

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>        # for the scheduler changes
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2017-03-08 09:36:21 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 5eca1c10cb sched/headers: Clean up <linux/sched.h>
Now that <linux/sched.h> dependencies have been sorted out,
do various trivial cleanups:

 - remove unnecessary structure predeclarations
 - fix various typos
 - update comments where necessary
 - remove pointless comments
 - use consistent types
 - tabulate consistently
 - use a consistent comment style
 - clean up the header section a bit
 - use a consistent style of a single field per line
 - remove line-breaks where they make the code look worse
 - etc ...

No change in functionality.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-03 01:45:41 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 7f5f8e8d97 sched/headers: Remove #ifdefs from <linux/sched.h>
We can remove two pairs of #ifdefs by defining structures in a smarter way.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-03 01:45:41 +01:00