In UP systems, the idle task is initialized using the init_task
structure from which the command name is taken (currently "swapper").
In SMP systems, one idle task per CPU is forked by the worker thread
from which the task structure is copied. The command name is, therefore,
"kworker/0:0" or "kworker/0:1", if not updated. Since such update was
lacking, all idle tasks in SMP systems were incorrectly named. This
longtime bug was not discovered immediately, because there is no /proc/0
entry - the bug only becomes apparent when tracing is enabled.
This patch sets the command name of the idle tasks in SMP systems to the
name that is used in the INIT_TASK structure suffixed by a slash and the
number of the CPU.
Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111026211708.768925506@osadl.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Normally the RT bandwidth scheme will share bandwidth across the
entire root_domain. However sometimes its convenient to disable this
sharing for debug purposes. Provide a simple feature switch to this
end.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The return-value convention for these functions varies depending on
whether they're interruptible or can timeout. It can be a little
confusing--document it.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111006192246.GB28026@fieldses.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Every time I have to stare at this function I need to completely
reverse engineer its workings, about time I write a comment
explaining the thing.
Collected bits and pieces from previous changelogs, mostly:
4be9daaa1b83378269a5
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318518057.27731.2.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
For some frequencies, the clocks_calc_mult_shift() function will
unfortunately select mult values very close to 0xffffffff. This
has the potential to overflow when NTP adjusts the clock, adding
to the mult value.
This patch adds a clocksource.maxadj value, which provides
an approximation of an 11% adjustment(NTP limits adjustments to
500ppm and the tick adjustment is limited to 10%), which could
be made to the clocksource.mult value. This is then used to both
check that the current mult value won't overflow/underflow, as
well as warning us if the timekeeping_adjust() code pushes over
that 11% boundary.
v2: Fix max_adjustment calculation, and improve WARN_ONCE
messages.
v3: Don't warn before maxadj has actually been set
CC: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
CC: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Chen Jie <chenj@lemote.com>
CC: zhangfx <zhangfx@lemote.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Chen Jie <chenj@lemote.com>
Reported-by: zhangfx <zhangfx@lemote.com>
Tested-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Since commit 4a31a334, the name of this misc device is not initialized,
which leads to a funny device named /dev/(null) being created and
/proc/misc containing an entry with just a number but no name. The latter
leads to complaints by cryptsetup, which caused me to investigate this
matter.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
* 'upstream/jump-label-noearly' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen:
jump-label: initialize jump-label subsystem much earlier
x86/jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static()
s390/jump-label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static()
jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static() to optimise non-live code updates
sparc/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()
x86/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early()
jump_label: if a key has already been initialized, don't nop it out
stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient to call early
jump_label: use proper atomic_t initializer
Conflicts:
- arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c
Added __init_or_module to arch_jump_label_text_poke_early vs
removal of that function entirely
- kernel/stop_machine.c
same patch ("stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient
to call early") merged twice, with whitespace fix in one version
* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h>
net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h>
...
Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
- drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
- drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
- drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
- include/linux/dmaengine.h
* '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
* git://github.com/rustyrussell/linux:
module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree
module: Enable dynamic debugging regardless of taint
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (106 commits)
powerpc/p3060qds: Add support for P3060QDS board
powerpc/83xx: Add shutdown request support to MCU handling on MPC8349 MITX
powerpc/85xx: Make kexec to interate over online cpus
powerpc/fsl_booke: Fix comment in head_fsl_booke.S
powerpc/85xx: issue 15 EOI after core reset for FSL CoreNet devices
powerpc/8xxx: Fix interrupt handling in MPC8xxx GPIO driver
powerpc/85xx: Add 'fsl,pq3-gpio' compatiable for GPIO driver
powerpc/86xx: Correct Gianfar support for GE boards
powerpc/cpm: Clear muram before it is in use.
drivers/virt: add ioctl for 32-bit compat on 64-bit to fsl-hv-manager
powerpc/fsl_msi: add support for "msi-address-64" property
powerpc/85xx: Setup secondary cores PIR with hard SMP id
powerpc/fsl-booke: Fix settlbcam for 64-bit
powerpc/85xx: Adding DCSR node to dtsi device trees
powerpc/85xx: clean up FPGA device tree nodes for Freecsale QorIQ boards
powerpc/85xx: fix PHYS_64BIT selection for P1022DS
powerpc/fsl-booke: Fix setup_initial_memory_limit to not blindly map
powerpc: respect mem= setting for early memory limit setup
powerpc: Update corenet64_smp_defconfig
powerpc: Update mpc85xx/corenet 32-bit defconfigs
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in:
- arch/powerpc/configs/40x/hcu4_defconfig
removed stale file, edited elsewhere
- arch/powerpc/include/asm/udbg.h, arch/powerpc/kernel/udbg.c:
added opal and gelic drivers vs added ePAPR driver
- drivers/tty/serial/8250.c
moved UPIO_TSI to powerpc vs removed UPIO_DWAPB support
Use of the GPL or a compatible licence doesn't necessarily make the code
any good. We already consider staging modules to be suspect, and this
should also be true for out-of-tree modules which may receive very
little review.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (patched oops-tracing.txt)
Dynamic debugging is currently disabled for tainted modules, except
for TAINT_CRAP. This prevents use of dynamic debugging for
out-of-tree modules once the next patch is applied.
This condition was apparently intended to avoid a crash if a force-
loaded module has an incompatible definition of dynamic debug
structures. However, a administrator that forces us to load a module
is claiming that it *is* compatible even though it fails our version
checks. If they are mistaken, there are any number of ways the module
could crash the system.
As a side-effect, proprietary and other tainted modules can now use
dynamic_debug.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Commit 27920651fe "PM / Freezer: Make fake_signal_wake_up() wake
TASK_KILLABLE tasks too" updated fake_signal_wake_up() used by freezer
to wake up KILLABLE tasks. Sending unsolicited wakeups to tasks in
killable sleep is dangerous as there are code paths which depend on
tasks not waking up spuriously from KILLABLE sleep.
For example. sys_read() or page can sleep in TASK_KILLABLE assuming
that wait/down/whatever _killable can only fail if we can not return
to the usermode. TASK_TRACED is another obvious example.
The previous patch updated wait_event_freezekillable() such that it
doesn't depend on the spurious wakeup. This patch reverts the
offending commit.
Note that the spurious KILLABLE wakeup had other implicit effects in
KILLABLE sleeps in nfs and cifs and those will need further updates to
regain freezekillable behavior.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Remove an "if" check, that repeats an equivalent one 6 lines above.
Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
The CPU hotplug notifications sent out by the _cpu_up() and _cpu_down()
functions depend on the value of the 'tasks_frozen' argument passed to them
(which indicates whether tasks have been frozen or not).
(Examples for such CPU hotplug notifications: CPU_ONLINE, CPU_ONLINE_FROZEN,
CPU_DEAD, CPU_DEAD_FROZEN).
Thus, it is essential that while the callbacks for those notifications are
running, the state of the system with respect to the tasks being frozen or
not remains unchanged, *throughout that duration*. Hence there is a need for
synchronizing the CPU hotplug code with the freezer subsystem.
Since the freezer is involved only in the Suspend/Hibernate call paths, this
patch hooks the CPU hotplug code to the suspend/hibernate notifiers
PM_[SUSPEND|HIBERNATE]_PREPARE and PM_POST_[SUSPEND|HIBERNATE] to prevent
the race between CPU hotplug and freezer, thus ensuring that CPU hotplug
notifications will always be run with the state of the system really being
what the notifications indicate, _throughout_ their execution time.
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
This reverts commit 144060fee0.
It causes a resume regression for Andi on his Acer Aspire 1830T post
3.1. The screen just stays black after wakeup.
Also, it really looks like the wrong way to suspend and resume perf
events: I think they should be done as part of the CPU suspend and
resume, rather than as a notifier that does smp_call_function().
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
commit d05c65fff0 ("genirq: spurious: Run only one poller at a time")
introduced a regression, leaving the boot options 'irqfixup' and
'irqpoll' non-functional. The patch placed tests in each function, to
exit if the function is already running. The test in 'misrouted_irq'
exited when it should have proceeded, effectively disabling
'misrouted_irq' and 'poll_spurious_irqs'.
The check for an already running poller needs to be "!= 1" not "== 1"
as "1" is the value when the first poller starts running.
Signed-off-by: Edward Donovan <edward.donovan@numble.net>
Cc: maciej.rutecki@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1320175784-6745-1-git-send-email-edward.donovan@numble.net
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # >= 2.6.39
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
While back-porting Johannes Weiner's patch "mm: memcg-aware global
reclaim" for an internal effort, we noticed a significant performance
regression during page-reclaim heavy workloads due to high contention of
the ss->id_lock. This lock protects idr map, and serializes calls to
idr_get_next() in css_get_next() (which is used during the memcg hierarchy
walk).
Since idr_get_next() is just doing a look up, we need only serialize it
with respect to idr_remove()/idr_get_new(). By making the ss->id_lock a
rwlock, contention is greatly reduced and performance improves.
Tested: cat a 256m file from a ramdisk in a 128m container 50 times on
each core (one file + container per core) in parallel on a NUMA machine.
Result is the time for the test to complete in 1 of the containers.
Both kernels included Johannes' memcg-aware global reclaim patches.
Before rwlock patch: 1710.778s
After rwlock patch: 152.227s
Signed-off-by: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@google.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.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>
Adding support for poll() in sysctl fs allows userspace to receive
notifications of changes in sysctl entries. This adds a infrastructure to
allow files in sysctl fs to be pollable and implements it for hostname and
domainname.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/declare/define/ for definitions]
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
{get,put}_mems_allowed() exist so that general kernel code may locklessly
access a task's set of allowable nodes without having the chance that a
concurrent write will cause the nodemask to be empty on configurations
where MAX_NUMNODES > BITS_PER_LONG.
This could incur a significant delay, however, especially in low memory
conditions because the page allocator is blocking and reclaim requires
get_mems_allowed() itself. It is not atypical to see writes to
cpuset.mems take over 2 seconds to complete, for example. In low memory
conditions, this is problematic because it's one of the most imporant
times to change cpuset.mems in the first place!
The only way a task's set of allowable nodes may change is through cpusets
by writing to cpuset.mems and when attaching a task to a generic code is
not reading the nodemask with get_mems_allowed() at the same time, and
then clearing all the old nodes. This prevents the possibility that a
reader will see an empty nodemask at the same time the writer is storing a
new nodemask.
If at least one node remains unchanged, though, it's possible to simply
set all new nodes and then clear all the old nodes. Changing a task's
nodemask is protected by cgroup_mutex so it's guaranteed that two threads
are not changing the same task's nodemask at the same time, so the
nodemask is guaranteed to be stored before another thread changes it and
determines whether a node remains set or not.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If a task has exited to the point it has called cgroup_exit() already,
then we can't migrate it to another cgroup anymore.
This can happen when we are attaching a task to a new cgroup between the
call to ->can_attach_task() on subsystems and the migration that is
eventually tried in cgroup_task_migrate().
In this case cgroup_task_migrate() returns -ESRCH and we don't want to
attach the task to the subsystems because the attachment to the new cgroup
itself failed.
Fix this by only calling ->attach_task() on the subsystems if the cgroup
migration succeeded.
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix unstable tasklist locking in cgroup_attach_proc.
According to this thread - https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/27/243 - RCU is
not sufficient to guarantee the tasklist is stable w.r.t. de_thread and
exit. Taking tasklist_lock for reading, instead of rcu_read_lock, ensures
proper exclusion.
Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'next/dt' of git://git.linaro.org/people/arnd/arm-soc:
ARM: gic: use module.h instead of export.h
ARM: gic: fix irq_alloc_descs handling for sparse irq
ARM: gic: add OF based initialization
ARM: gic: add irq_domain support
irq: support domains with non-zero hwirq base
of/irq: introduce of_irq_init
ARM: at91: add at91sam9g20 and Calao USB A9G20 DT support
ARM: at91: dt: at91sam9g45 family and board device tree files
arm/mx5: add device tree support for imx51 babbage
arm/mx5: add device tree support for imx53 boards
ARM: msm: Add devicetree support for msm8660-surf
msm_serial: Add devicetree support
msm_serial: Use relative resources for iomem
Fix up conflicts in arch/arm/mach-at91/{at91sam9260.c,at91sam9g45.c}
Quoth Andrew:
- Most of MM. Still waiting for the poweroc guys to get off their
butts and review some threaded hugepages patches.
- alpha
- vfs bits
- drivers/misc
- a few core kerenl tweaks
- printk() features
- MAINTAINERS updates
- backlight merge
- leds merge
- various lib/ updates
- checkpatch updates
* akpm: (127 commits)
epoll: fix spurious lockdep warnings
checkpatch: add a --strict check for utf-8 in commit logs
kernel.h/checkpatch: mark strict_strto<foo> and simple_strto<foo> as obsolete
llist-return-whether-list-is-empty-before-adding-in-llist_add-fix
wireless: at76c50x: follow rename pack_hex_byte to hex_byte_pack
fat: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
security: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
kgdb: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
lib: rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
lib/string.c: fix strim() semantics for strings that have only blanks
lib/idr.c: fix comment for ida_get_new_above()
lib/percpu_counter.c: enclose hotplug only variables in hotplug ifdef
lib/bitmap.c: quiet sparse noise about address space
lib/spinlock_debug.c: print owner on spinlock lockup
lib/kstrtox: common code between kstrto*() and simple_strto*() functions
drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c: check if reset is successful
leds: turn the blink_timer off before starting to blink
leds: save the delay values after a successful call to blink_set()
drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c: use gpio_get_value_cansleep() when initializing
drivers/leds/leds-lm3530.c: add __devexit_p where needed
...
There is no functional change.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently log_prefix is testing that the first character of the log level
and facility is less than '0' and greater than '9' (which is always
false).
Since the code being updated works because strtoul bombs out (endp isn't
updated) and 0 is returned anyway just remove the check and don't change
the behavior of the function.
Signed-off-by: William Douglas <william.douglas@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently log_prefix is testing that the first character of the log level
and facility is less than '0' and greater than '9' (which is always
false). It should be testing to see if the character less than '0' or
greater than '9' instead. This patch makes that change.
The code being changed worked because strtoul bombs out (endp isn't
updated) and 0 is returned anyway.
Signed-off-by: William Douglas <william.douglas@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We are enabling some power features on medfield. To test suspend-2-RAM
conveniently, we need turn on/off console_suspend_enabled frequently.
Add a module parameter, so users could change it by:
/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend
Signed-off-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We are enabling some power features on medfield. To test suspend-2-RAM
conveniently, we need turn on/off ignore_loglevel frequently without
rebooting.
Add a module parameter, so users can change it by:
/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel
Signed-off-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Userspace needs to know the highest valid capability of the running
kernel, which right now cannot reliably be retrieved from the header files
only. The fact that this value cannot be determined properly right now
creates various problems for libraries compiled on newer header files
which are run on older kernels. They assume capabilities are available
which actually aren't. libcap-ng is one example. And we ran into the
same problem with systemd too.
Now the capability is exported in /proc/sys/kernel/cap_last_cap.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make cap_last_cap const, per Ulrich]
Signed-off-by: Dan Ballard <dan@mindstab.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@akkadia.org>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix compilation warnings for CONFIG_SYSCTL=n:
fixed compilation warnings in case of disabled CONFIG_SYSCTL
kernel/watchdog.c:483:13: warning: `watchdog_enable_all_cpus' defined but not used
kernel/watchdog.c:500:13: warning: `watchdog_disable_all_cpus' defined but not used
these functions are static and are used only in sysctl handler, so move
them inside #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL too
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make stop_machine() safe to call early in boot, before SMP has been set
up, by simply calling the callback function directly if there's only one
CPU online.
[ Fixes from AKPM:
- add comment
- local_irq_flags, not save_flags
- also call hard_irq_disable() for systems which need it
Tejun suggested using an explicit flag rather than just looking at
the online cpu count. ]
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some kernel components pin user space memory (infiniband and perf) (by
increasing the page count) and account that memory as "mlocked".
The difference between mlocking and pinning is:
A. mlocked pages are marked with PG_mlocked and are exempt from
swapping. Page migration may move them around though.
They are kept on a special LRU list.
B. Pinned pages cannot be moved because something needs to
directly access physical memory. They may not be on any
LRU list.
I recently saw an mlockalled process where mm->locked_vm became
bigger than the virtual size of the process (!) because some
memory was accounted for twice:
Once when the page was mlocked and once when the Infiniband
layer increased the refcount because it needt to pin the RDMA
memory.
This patch introduces a separate counter for pinned pages and
accounts them seperately.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Mike Marciniszyn <infinipath@qlogic.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>
Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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>
The basic idea behind cross memory attach is to allow MPI programs doing
intra-node communication to do a single copy of the message rather than a
double copy of the message via shared memory.
The following patch attempts to achieve this by allowing a destination
process, given an address and size from a source process, to copy memory
directly from the source process into its own address space via a system
call. There is also a symmetrical ability to copy from the current
process's address space into a destination process's address space.
- Use of /proc/pid/mem has been considered, but there are issues with
using it:
- Does not allow for specifying iovecs for both src and dest, assuming
preadv or pwritev was implemented either the area read from or
written to would need to be contiguous.
- Currently mem_read allows only processes who are currently
ptrace'ing the target and are still able to ptrace the target to read
from the target. This check could possibly be moved to the open call,
but its not clear exactly what race this restriction is stopping
(reason appears to have been lost)
- Having to send the fd of /proc/self/mem via SCM_RIGHTS on unix
domain socket is a bit ugly from a userspace point of view,
especially when you may have hundreds if not (eventually) thousands
of processes that all need to do this with each other
- Doesn't allow for some future use of the interface we would like to
consider adding in the future (see below)
- Interestingly reading from /proc/pid/mem currently actually
involves two copies! (But this could be fixed pretty easily)
As mentioned previously use of vmsplice instead was considered, but has
problems. Since you need the reader and writer working co-operatively if
the pipe is not drained then you block. Which requires some wrapping to
do non blocking on the send side or polling on the receive. In all to all
communication it requires ordering otherwise you can deadlock. And in the
example of many MPI tasks writing to one MPI task vmsplice serialises the
copying.
There are some cases of MPI collectives where even a single copy interface
does not get us the performance gain we could. For example in an
MPI_Reduce rather than copy the data from the source we would like to
instead use it directly in a mathops (say the reduce is doing a sum) as
this would save us doing a copy. We don't need to keep a copy of the data
from the source. I haven't implemented this, but I think this interface
could in the future do all this through the use of the flags - eg could
specify the math operation and type and the kernel rather than just
copying the data would apply the specified operation between the source
and destination and store it in the destination.
Although we don't have a "second user" of the interface (though I've had
some nibbles from people who may be interested in using it for intra
process messaging which is not MPI). This interface is something which
hardware vendors are already doing for their custom drivers to implement
fast local communication. And so in addition to this being useful for
OpenMPI it would mean the driver maintainers don't have to fix things up
when the mm changes.
There was some discussion about how much faster a true zero copy would
go. Here's a link back to the email with some testing I did on that:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=130105930902915&w=2
There is a basic man page for the proposed interface here:
http://ozlabs.org/~cyeoh/cma/process_vm_readv.txt
This has been implemented for x86 and powerpc, other architecture should
mainly (I think) just need to add syscall numbers for the process_vm_readv
and process_vm_writev. There are 32 bit compatibility versions for
64-bit kernels.
For arch maintainers there are some simple tests to be able to quickly
verify that the syscalls are working correctly here:
http://ozlabs.org/~cyeoh/cma/cma-test-20110718.tgz
Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh <yeohc@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Recent commit "irq: Track the owner of irq descriptor" in
commit ID b6873807a7 placed module.h into linux/irq.h
but we are trying to limit module.h inclusion to just C files
that really need it, due to its size and number of children
includes. This targets just reversing that include.
Add in the basic "struct module" since that is all we really need
to ensure things compile. In theory, b687380 should have added the
module.h include to the irqdesc.h header as well, but the implicit
module.h everywhere presence masked this from showing up. So give
it the "struct module" as well.
As for the C files, irqdesc.c is only using THIS_MODULE, so it
does not need module.h - give it export.h instead. The C file
irq/manage.c is now (as of b687380) using try_module_get and
module_put and so it needs module.h (which it already has).
Also convert the irq_alloc_descs variants to macros, since all
they really do is is call the __irq_alloc_descs primitive.
This avoids including export.h and no debug info is lost.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
These files were getting <linux/module.h> via an implicit non-obvious
path, but we want to crush those out of existence since they cost
time during compiles of processing thousands of lines of headers
for no reason. Give them the lightweight header that just contains
the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
The file rcutiny.c does not need moduleparam.h header, as
there are no modparams in this file.
However rcutiny_plugin.h does define a module_init() and
a module_exit() and it uses the various MODULE_ macros, so
it really does need module.h included.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Through various other implicit include paths, some files were
getting the full module.h file, and hence living the illusion
that they really only needed moduleparam.h -- but the reality
is that once you remove the module.h presence, these show up:
kernel/params.c:583: warning: ‘struct module_kobject’ declared inside parameter list
Such files really require module.h so simply make it so. As the
file module.h grabs moduleparam.h on the fly, all will be well.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
With the module.h usage cleanup, we'll get this:
kernel/ksysfs.c:161: error: ‘S_IRUGO’ undeclared here (not in a function)
make[2]: *** [kernel/ksysfs.o] Error 1
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Up until now, this file was getting percpu.h because nearly every
file was implicitly getting module.h (and all its sub-includes).
But we want to clean that up, so call out percpu.h explicitly.
Otherwise we'll get things like this on an ARM build:
kernel/irq_work.c:48: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'irq_work_list'
kernel/irq_work.c:48: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'DEFINE_PER_CPU'
The same thing was happening for builds on ARM for asm/processor.h
kernel/irq_work.c: In function 'irq_work_sync':
kernel/irq_work.c:166: error: implicit declaration of function 'cpu_relax'
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
These files were implicitly relying on <linux/kmod.h> coming in via
module.h, as without it we get things like:
kernel/power/suspend.c💯 error: implicit declaration of function ‘usermodehelper_disable’
kernel/power/suspend.c:109: error: implicit declaration of function ‘usermodehelper_enable’
kernel/power/user.c:254: error: implicit declaration of function ‘usermodehelper_disable’
kernel/power/user.c:261: error: implicit declaration of function ‘usermodehelper_enable’
kernel/sys.c:317: error: implicit declaration of function ‘usermodehelper_disable’
kernel/sys.c:1816: error: implicit declaration of function ‘call_usermodehelper_setup’
kernel/sys.c:1822: error: implicit declaration of function ‘call_usermodehelper_setfns’
kernel/sys.c:1824: error: implicit declaration of function ‘call_usermodehelper_exec’
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
These files are doing things like module_put and try_module_get
so they need to call out the module.h for explicit inclusion,
rather than getting it via <linux/device.h> which we ideally want
to remove the module.h inclusion from.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
The changed files were only including linux/module.h for the
EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure, and nothing else. Revector them
onto the isolated export header for faster compile times.
Nothing to see here but a whole lot of instances of:
-#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/export.h>
This commit is only changing the kernel dir; next targets
will probably be mm, fs, the arch dirs, etc.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
This file isn't doing anything with modules and so it should
not be including <linux/module.h> just to get basic stuff
like printk() and min/max. Revector it to <linux/kernel.h>.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Interrupt controllers can have non-zero starting value for h/w irq numbers.
Adding support in irq_domain allows the domain hwirq numbering to match
the interrupt controllers' numbering.
As this makes looping over irqs for a domain more complicated, add loop
iterators to iterate over all hwirqs and irqs for a domain.
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Reviewed-by: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Abraham <thomas.abraham@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch introduces a mechanism that allows architecture backends to
remove page tables for the crashkernel memory. This can protect the loaded
kdump kernel from being overwritten by broken kernel code. Two new
functions crash_map_reserved_pages() and crash_unmap_reserved_pages() are
added that can be implemented by architecture code. The
crash_map_reserved_pages() function is called before and
crash_unmap_reserved_pages() after the crashkernel segments are loaded. The
functions are also called in crash_shrink_memory() to create/remove page
tables when the crashkernel memory size is reduced.
To support architectures that have large pages this patch also introduces
a new define KEXEC_CRASH_MEM_ALIGN. The crashkernel start and size must
always be aligned with KEXEC_CRASH_MEM_ALIGN.
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Currently the vmcoreinfo note is only initialized in case of kdump. On s390
it is possible to create kernel dumps with other dump mechanisms than kdump
(e.g. via hypervisor dump or stand-alone dump tools). For those dumps it
would also be desirable to include the vmcoreinfo data. To accomplish this,
with this patch the vmcoreinfo ELF note is always initialized, not only in
case of a (kdump) crash. On s390 we will add an ABI defined pointer at
a well known address to vmcoreinfo so that dump analysis tools are able to
find this information.
In particular on s390 we have a tool named zgetdump. With this tool it is
possible to convert dump formats on the fly using fuse. E.g. you can mount a
s390 stand-alone dump as ELF dump. When this is done, the tool finds the
vmcoreinfo in the stand-alone dump via the well known ABI defined address and
it creates the respective VMCOREINFO ELF note in the output ELF dump. This then
can be used e.g. by makedumpfile for dump filtering. No more need for a
vmlinux file with debug information.
So this will look like the following:
$ zgetdump --mount standalone.dump -f elf /mnt
$ ls /mnt
dump.elf
$ readelf -n /mnt/dump.elf
$ ...
VMCOREINFO 0x00000474 Unknown note type: (0x00000000)
$ makedumpfile -c -d 31 /mnt/dump.elf dump.kdump
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Currently only the address of the pre-allocated ELF header is passed with
the elfcorehdr= kernel parameter. In order to reserve memory for the header
in the 2nd kernel also the size is required. Current kdump architecture
backends use different methods to do that, e.g. x86 uses the memmap= kernel
parameter. On s390 there is no easy way to transfer this information.
Therefore the elfcorehdr kernel parameter is extended to also pass the size.
This now can also be used as standard mechanism by all future kdump
architecture backends.
The syntax of the kernel parameter is extended as follows:
elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG]
This change is backward compatible because elfcorehdr=size is still allowed.
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
On s390 there is a different KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT for the normal and
the kdump kexec case. Therefore this patch introduces a new macro
KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT. This is set to
KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT for all architectures that do not define
KEXEC_CRASH_CONTROL_MEMORY_LIMIT.
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* 'gpio/next' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
h8300: Move gpio.h to gpio-internal.h
gpio: pl061: add DT binding support
gpio: fix build error in include/asm-generic/gpio.h
gpiolib: Ensure struct gpio is always defined
irq: Add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to function of irq generic-chip
gpio-ml-ioh: Use NUMA_NO_NODE not GFP_KERNEL
gpio-pch: Use NUMA_NO_NODE not GFP_KERNEL
gpio: langwell: ensure alternate function is cleared
gpio-pch: Support interrupt function
gpio-pch: Save register value in suspend()
gpio-pch: modify gpio_nums and mask
gpio-pch: support ML7223 IOH n-Bus
gpio-pch: add spinlock in suspend/resume processing
gpio-pch: Delete invalid "restore" code in suspend()
gpio-ml-ioh: Fix suspend/resume issue
gpio-ml-ioh: Support interrupt function
gpio-ml-ioh: Delete unnecessary code
gpio/mxc: add chained_irq_enter/exit() to mx3_gpio_irq_handler()
gpio/nomadik: use genirq core to track enablement
gpio/nomadik: disable clocks when unused
After getting a number of questions in private emails about the
math around admittedly very complex timekeeping_adjust() and
timekeeping_big_adjust(), I figure the code needs some better
comments.
Hopefully the explanations are clear enough and don't muddy the
water any worse.
Still needs documentation for ntp_error, but I couldn't recall
exactly the full explanation behind the code that's there
(although I do recall once working it out when Roman first
proposed it). Given a bit more time I can probably work it out,
but I don't want to hold back this documentation until then.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Chen Jie <chenj@lemote.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1319764362-32367-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
time, s390: Get rid of compile warning
dw_apb_timer: constify clocksource name
time: Cleanup old CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME references that snuck in
time: Change jiffies_to_clock_t() argument type to unsigned long
alarmtimers: Fix error handling
clocksource: Make watchdog reset lockless
posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP accounting oddities
s390: Use direct ktime path for s390 clockevent device
clockevents: Add direct ktime programming function
clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable
nohz: Remove "Switched to NOHz mode" debugging messages
proc: Consider NO_HZ when printing idle and iowait times
nohz: Make idle/iowait counter update conditional
nohz: Fix update_ts_time_stat idle accounting
cputime: Clean up cputime_to_usecs and usecs_to_cputime macros
alarmtimers: Rework RTC device selection using class interface
alarmtimers: Add try_to_cancel functionality
alarmtimers: Add more refined alarm state tracking
alarmtimers: Remove period from alarm structure
alarmtimers: Remove interval cap limit hack
...
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits)
llist: Add back llist_add_batch() and llist_del_first() prototypes
sched: Don't use tasklist_lock for debug prints
sched: Warn on rt throttling
sched: Unify the ->cpus_allowed mask copy
sched: Wrap scheduler p->cpus_allowed access
sched: Request for idle balance during nohz idle load balance
sched: Use resched IPI to kick off the nohz idle balance
sched: Fix idle_cpu()
llist: Remove cpu_relax() usage in cmpxchg loops
sched: Convert to struct llist
llist: Add llist_next()
irq_work: Use llist in the struct irq_work logic
llist: Return whether list is empty before adding in llist_add()
llist: Move cpu_relax() to after the cmpxchg()
llist: Remove the platform-dependent NMI checks
llist: Make some llist functions inline
sched, tracing: Show PREEMPT_ACTIVE state in trace_sched_switch
sched: Remove redundant test in check_preempt_tick()
sched: Add documentation for bandwidth control
sched: Return unused runtime on group dequeue
...
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (121 commits)
perf symbols: Increase symbol KSYM_NAME_LEN size
perf hists browser: Refuse 'a' hotkey on non symbolic views
perf ui browser: Use libslang to read keys
perf tools: Fix tracing info recording
perf hists browser: Elide DSO column when it is set to just one DSO, ditto for threads
perf hists: Don't consider filtered entries when calculating column widths
perf hists: Don't decay total_period for filtered entries
perf hists browser: Honour symbol_conf.show_{nr_samples,total_period}
perf hists browser: Do not exit on tab key with single event
perf annotate browser: Don't change selection line when returning from callq
perf tools: handle endianness of feature bitmap
perf tools: Add prelink suggestion to dso update message
perf script: Fix unknown feature comment
perf hists browser: Apply the dso and thread filters when merging new batches
perf hists: Move the dso and thread filters from hist_browser
perf ui browser: Honour the xterm colors
perf top tui: Give color hints just on the percentage, like on --stdio
perf ui browser: Make the colors configurable and change the defaults
perf tui: Remove unneeded call to newtCls on startup
perf hists: Don't format the percentage on hist_entry__snprintf
...
Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c manually.
Ingo's tree did the insane "add volatile to const array", which just
doesn't make sense ("volatile const"?). But we could remove the const
*and* make the array volatile to make doubly sure that gcc doesn't
optimize it away..
Also fix up kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c non-data-conflicts manually: the
reader_lock has been turned into a raw lock by the core locking merge,
and there was a new user of it introduced in this perf core merge. Make
sure that new use also uses the raw accessor functions.
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
genirq: Add IRQF_RESUME_EARLY and resume such IRQs earlier
genirq: Fix fatfinered fixup really
genirq: percpu: allow interrupt type to be set at enable time
genirq: Add support for per-cpu dev_id interrupts
genirq: Add IRQCHIP_SKIP_SET_WAKE flag
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
rcu: Move propagation of ->completed from rcu_start_gp() to rcu_report_qs_rsp()
rcu: Remove rcu_needs_cpu_flush() to avoid false quiescent states
rcu: Wire up RCU_BOOST_PRIO for rcutree
rcu: Make rcu_torture_boost() exit loops at end of test
rcu: Make rcu_torture_fqs() exit loops at end of test
rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled
rcu: Avoid having just-onlined CPU resched itself when RCU is idle
rcu: Suppress NMI backtraces when stall ends before dump
rcu: Prohibit grace periods during early boot
rcu: Simplify unboosting checks
rcu: Prevent early boot set_need_resched() from __rcu_pending()
rcu: Dump local stack if cannot dump all CPUs' stacks
rcu: Move __rcu_read_unlock()'s barrier() within if-statement
rcu: Improve rcu_assign_pointer() and RCU_INIT_POINTER() documentation
rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer() unconditionally insert a memory barrier
rcu: Make rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() locals be correct size
rcu: Eliminate in_irq() checks in rcu_enter_nohz()
nohz: Remove nohz_cpu_mask
rcu: Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats
rcu: Allow rcutorture's stat_interval parameter to be changed at runtime
...
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
rtmutex: Add missing rcu_read_unlock() in debug_rt_mutex_print_deadlock()
lockdep: Comment all warnings
lib: atomic64: Change the type of local lock to raw_spinlock_t
locking, lib/atomic64: Annotate atomic64_lock::lock as raw
locking, x86, iommu: Annotate qi->q_lock as raw
locking, x86, iommu: Annotate irq_2_ir_lock as raw
locking, x86, iommu: Annotate iommu->register_lock as raw
locking, dma, ipu: Annotate bank_lock as raw
locking, ARM: Annotate low level hw locks as raw
locking, drivers/dca: Annotate dca_lock as raw
locking, powerpc: Annotate uic->lock as raw
locking, x86: mce: Annotate cmci_discover_lock as raw
locking, ACPI: Annotate c3_lock as raw
locking, oprofile: Annotate oprofilefs lock as raw
locking, video: Annotate vga console lock as raw
locking, latencytop: Annotate latency_lock as raw
locking, timer_stats: Annotate table_lock as raw
locking, rwsem: Annotate inner lock as raw
locking, semaphores: Annotate inner lock as raw
locking, sched: Annotate thread_group_cputimer as raw
...
Fix up conflicts in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c manually: making
cputimer->cputime a raw lock conflicted with the ABBA fix in commit
bcd5cff721 ("cputimer: Cure lock inversion").
* git://github.com/rustyrussell/linux:
params: make dashes and underscores in parameter names truly equal
kmod: prevent kmod_loop_msg overflow in __request_module()
The user may use "foo-bar" for a kernel parameter defined as "foo_bar".
Make sure it works the other way around too.
Apply the equality of dashes and underscores on early_params and __setup
params as well.
The example given in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt indicates that
this is the intended behaviour.
With the patch the kernel accepts "log-buf-len=1M" as expected.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744545
Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (neatened implementations)
Due to post-increment in condition of kmod_loop_msg in __request_module(),
the system log can be spammed by much more than 5 instances of the 'runaway
loop' message if the number of events triggering it makes the kmod_loop_msg
to overflow.
Fix that by making sure we never increment it past the threshold.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Initialize jump_labels much, much earlier, so they're available for use
during system setup.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
When updating a newly loaded module, the code is definitely not yet
executing on any processor, so it can be updated with no need for any
heavyweight synchronization.
This patch adds arch_jump_label_static() which is implemented as
arch_jump_label_transform() by default, but architectures can override
it if it avoids, say, a call to stop_machine().
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
If a key has been enabled before jump_label_init() is called, don't
nop it out.
This removes arch_jump_label_text_poke_early() (which can only nop
out a site) and uses arch_jump_label_transform() instead.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Make stop_machine() safe to call early in boot, before stop_machine()
has been set up, by simply calling the callback function directly if
there's only one CPU online.
[ Fixes from AKPM:
- add comment
- local_irq_flags, not save_flags
- also call hard_irq_disable() for systems which need it
Tejun suggested using an explicit flag rather than just looking at
the online cpu count. ]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (63 commits)
PM / Clocks: Remove redundant NULL checks before kfree()
PM / Documentation: Update docs about suspend and CPU hotplug
ACPI / PM: Add Sony VGN-FW21E to nonvs blacklist.
ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A4R support (v4)
ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A3SP support (v4)
PM / Sleep: Mark devices involved in wakeup signaling during suspend
PM / Hibernate: Improve performance of LZO/plain hibernation, checksum image
PM / Hibernate: Do not initialize static and extern variables to 0
PM / Freezer: Make fake_signal_wake_up() wake TASK_KILLABLE tasks too
PM / Hibernate: Add resumedelay kernel param in addition to resumewait
MAINTAINERS: Update linux-pm list address
PM / ACPI: Blacklist Vaio VGN-FW520F machine known to require acpi_sleep=nonvs
PM / ACPI: Blacklist Sony Vaio known to require acpi_sleep=nonvs
PM / Hibernate: Add resumewait param to support MMC-like devices as resume file
PM / Hibernate: Fix typo in a kerneldoc comment
PM / Hibernate: Freeze kernel threads after preallocating memory
PM: Update the policy on default wakeup settings
PM / VT: Cleanup #if defined uglyness and fix compile error
PM / Suspend: Off by one in pm_suspend()
PM / Hibernate: Include storage keys in hibernation image on s390
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1745 commits)
dp83640: free packet queues on remove
dp83640: use proper function to free transmit time stamping packets
ipv6: Do not use routes from locally generated RAs
|PATCH net-next] tg3: add tx_dropped counter
be2net: don't create multiple RX/TX rings in multi channel mode
be2net: don't create multiple TXQs in BE2
be2net: refactor VF setup/teardown code into be_vf_setup/clear()
be2net: add vlan/rx-mode/flow-control config to be_setup()
net_sched: cls_flow: use skb_header_pointer()
ipv4: avoid useless call of the function check_peer_pmtu
TCP: remove TCP_DEBUG
net: Fix driver name for mdio-gpio.c
ipv4: tcp: fix TOS value in ACK messages sent from TIME_WAIT
rtnetlink: Add missing manual netlink notification in dev_change_net_namespaces
ipv4: fix ipsec forward performance regression
jme: fix irq storm after suspend/resume
route: fix ICMP redirect validation
net: hold sock reference while processing tx timestamps
tcp: md5: add more const attributes
Add ethtool -g support to virtio_net
...
Fix up conflicts in:
- drivers/net/Kconfig:
The split-up generated a trivial conflict with removal of a
stale reference to Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt.
Remove it from the new location instead.
- fs/sysfs/dir.c:
Fairly nasty conflicts with the sysfs rb-tree usage, conflicting
with Eric Biederman's changes for tagged directories.
* 'usb-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: (260 commits)
usb: renesas_usbhs: fixup inconsistent return from usbhs_pkt_push()
usb/isp1760: Allow to optionally trigger low-level chip reset via GPIOLIB.
USB: gadget: midi: memory leak in f_midi_bind_config()
USB: gadget: midi: fix range check in f_midi_out_open()
QE/FHCI: fixed the CONTROL bug
usb: renesas_usbhs: tidyup for smatch warnings
USB: Fix USB Kconfig dependency problem on 85xx/QoirQ platforms
EHCI: workaround for MosChip controller bug
usb: gadget: file_storage: fix race on unloading
USB: ftdi_sio.c: Use ftdi async_icount structure for TIOCMIWAIT, as in other drivers
USB: ftdi_sio.c:Fill MSR fields of the ftdi async_icount structure
USB: ftdi_sio.c: Fill LSR fields of the ftdi async_icount structure
USB: ftdi_sio.c:Fill TX field of the ftdi async_icount structure
USB: ftdi_sio.c: Fill the RX field of the ftdi async_icount structure
USB: ftdi_sio.c: Basic icount infrastructure for ftdi_sio
usb/isp1760: Let OF bindings depend on general CONFIG_OF instead of PPC_OF .
USB: ftdi_sio: Support TI/Luminary Micro Stellaris BD-ICDI Board
USB: Fix runtime wakeup on OHCI
xHCI/USB: Make xHCI driver have a BOS descriptor.
usb: gadget: add new usb gadget for ACM and mass storage
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (59 commits)
MAINTAINERS: linux-m32r is moderated for non-subscribers
linux@lists.openrisc.net is moderated for non-subscribers
Drop default from "DM365 codec select" choice
parisc: Kconfig: cleanup Kernel page size default
Kconfig: remove redundant CONFIG_ prefix on two symbols
cris: remove arch/cris/arch-v32/lib/nand_init.S
microblaze: add missing CONFIG_ prefixes
h8300: drop puzzling Kconfig dependencies
MAINTAINERS: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au is moderated for non-subscribers
tty: drop superfluous dependency in Kconfig
ARM: mxc: fix Kconfig typo 'i.MX51'
Fix file references in Kconfig files
aic7xxx: fix Kconfig references to READMEs
Fix file references in drivers/ide/
thinkpad_acpi: Fix printk typo 'bluestooth'
bcmring: drop commented out line in Kconfig
btmrvl_sdio: fix typo 'btmrvl_sdio_sd6888'
doc: raw1394: Trivial typo fix
CIFS: Don't free volume_info->UNC until we are entirely done with it.
treewide: Correct spelling of successfully in comments
...
* 'next' of git://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/linux-security: (95 commits)
TOMOYO: Fix incomplete read after seek.
Smack: allow to access /smack/access as normal user
TOMOYO: Fix unused kernel config option.
Smack: fix: invalid length set for the result of /smack/access
Smack: compilation fix
Smack: fix for /smack/access output, use string instead of byte
Smack: domain transition protections (v3)
Smack: Provide information for UDS getsockopt(SO_PEERCRED)
Smack: Clean up comments
Smack: Repair processing of fcntl
Smack: Rule list lookup performance
Smack: check permissions from user space (v2)
TOMOYO: Fix quota and garbage collector.
TOMOYO: Remove redundant tasklist_lock.
TOMOYO: Fix domain transition failure warning.
TOMOYO: Remove tomoyo_policy_memory_lock spinlock.
TOMOYO: Simplify garbage collector.
TOMOYO: Fix make namespacecheck warnings.
target: check hex2bin result
encrypted-keys: check hex2bin result
...
Some functions of irq generic-chip is undefined, because
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL is not set to these.
ERROR: "irq_setup_generic_chip" [drivers/gpio/gpio-pch.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "irq_alloc_generic_chip" [drivers/gpio/gpio-pch.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "irq_setup_generic_chip" [drivers/gpio/gpio-ml-ioh.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "irq_alloc_generic_chip" [drivers/gpio/gpio-ml-ioh.ko] undefined!
This is revised that EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL can be added and referred
to in functions.
Signed-off-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro.iwamatsu.yj@renesas.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
There's a lock inversion between the cputimer->lock and rq->lock;
notably the two callchains involved are:
update_rlimit_cpu()
sighand->siglock
set_process_cpu_timer()
cpu_timer_sample_group()
thread_group_cputimer()
cputimer->lock
thread_group_cputime()
task_sched_runtime()
->pi_lock
rq->lock
scheduler_tick()
rq->lock
task_tick_fair()
update_curr()
account_group_exec()
cputimer->lock
Where the first one is enabling a CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID timer, and
the second one is keeping up-to-date.
This problem was introduced by e8abccb719 ("posix-cpu-timers: Cure
SMP accounting oddities").
Cure the problem by removing the cputimer->lock and rq->lock nesting,
this leaves concurrent enablers doing duplicate work, but the time
wasted should be on the same order otherwise wasted spinning on the
lock and the greater-than assignment filter should ensure we preserve
monotonicity.
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318928713.21167.4.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The size is always valid, but variable-length arrays generate worse code
for no good reason (unless the function happens to be inlined and the
compiler sees the length for the simple constant it is).
Also, there seems to be some code generation problem on POWER, where
Henrik Bakken reports that register r28 can get corrupted under some
subtle circumstances (interrupt happening at the wrong time?). That all
indicates some seriously broken compiler issues, but since variable
length arrays are bad regardless, there's little point in trying to
chase it down.
"Just don't do that, then".
Reported-by: Henrik Grindal Bakken <henribak@cisco.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds a mechanism to resume selected IRQs during syscore_resume
instead of dpm_resume_noirq.
Under Xen we need to resume IRQs associated with IPIs early enough
that the resched IPI is unmasked and we can therefore schedule
ourselves out of the stop_machine where the suspend/resume takes
place.
This issue was introduced by 676dc3cf5b "xen: Use IRQF_FORCE_RESUME".
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <Jeremy.Fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318713254.11016.52.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk
Cc: stable@kernel.org (at least to 2.6.32.y)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Use threads for LZO compression/decompression on hibernate/thaw.
Improve buffering on hibernate/thaw.
Calculate/verify CRC32 of the image pages on hibernate/thaw.
In my testing, this improved write/read speed by a factor of about two.
Signed-off-by: Bojan Smojver <bojan@rexursive.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Static and extern variables in kernel/power/hibernate.c need not be
initialized to 0 explicitly, so remove those initializations.
[rjw: Modified subject, added changelog.]
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <Baohua.Song@csr.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
TASK_KILLABLE is often used to put tasks to sleep for quite some time.
One of the most common uses is to put tasks to sleep while waiting for
replies from a server on a networked filesystem (such as CIFS or NFS).
Unfortunately, fake_signal_wake_up does not currently wake up tasks
that are sleeping in TASK_KILLABLE state. This means that even if the
code were in place to allow them to freeze while in this sleep, it
wouldn't work anyway.
This patch changes this function to wake tasks in this state as well.
This should be harmless -- if the code doing the sleeping doesn't have
handling to deal with freezer events, it should just go back to sleep.
If it does, then this will allow that code to do the right thing.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Patch "PM / Hibernate: Add resumewait param to support MMC-like
devices as resume file" added the resumewait kernel command line
option. The present patch adds resumedelay so that
resumewait/delay were analogous to rootwait/delay.
[rjw: Modified the subject and changelog slightly.]
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <baohua.song@csr.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Some devices like MMC are async detected very slow. For example,
drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c launches a 200ms delayed work to detect
MMC partitions then add disk.
We have wait_for_device_probe() and scsi_complete_async_scans()
before calling swsusp_check(), but it is not enough to wait for MMC.
This patch adds resumewait kernel param just like rootwait so
that we have enough time to wait until MMC is ready. The difference is
that we wait for resume partition whereas rootwait waits for rootfs
partition (which may be on a different device).
This patch will make hibernation support many embedded products
without SCSI devices, but with devices like MMC.
[rjw: Modified the changelog slightly.]
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <Baohua.Song@csr.com>
Reviewed-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Fix a typo in a function name in the kerneldoc comment next to
resume_target_kernel().
[rjw: Changed the subject slightly, added the changelog.]
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <Baohua.Song@csr.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
There is a problem with the current ordering of hibernate code which
leads to deadlocks in some filesystems' memory shrinkers. Namely,
some filesystems use freezable kernel threads that are inactive when
the hibernate memory preallocation is carried out. Those same
filesystems use memory shrinkers that may be triggered by the
hibernate memory preallocation. If those memory shrinkers wait for
the frozen kernel threads, the hibernate process deadlocks (this
happens with XFS, for one example).
Apparently, it is not technically viable to redesign the filesystems
in question to avoid the situation described above, so the only
possible solution of this issue is to defer the freezing of kernel
threads until the hibernate memory preallocation is done, which is
implemented by this change.
Unfortunately, this requires the memory preallocation to be done
before the "prepare" stage of device freeze, so after this change the
only way drivers can allocate additional memory for their freeze
routines in a clean way is to use PM notifiers.
Reported-by: Christoph <cr2005@u-club.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Introduce the config option CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE_SLEEP in order to cleanup
the #if defined ugliness for the vt suspend support functions. Note that
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE is already dependant on CONFIG_VT.
The function pm_set_vt_switch is actually dependant on CONFIG_VT and not
CONFIG_PM_SLEEP. This fixes a compile error when CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is
not set:
drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:1794: error: redefinition of 'pm_set_vt_switch'
include/linux/suspend.h:17: error: previous definition of 'pm_set_vt_switch' was here
Also, remove the incorrect path from the comment in console.c.
[rjw: Replaced #if defined() with #ifdef in suspend.h.]
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
In enter_state() we use "state" as an offset for the pm_states[]
array. The pm_states[] array only has PM_SUSPEND_MAX elements so
this test is off by one.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
For s390 there is one additional byte associated with each page,
the storage key. This byte contains the referenced and changed
bits and needs to be included into the hibernation image.
If the storage keys are not restored to their previous state all
original pages would appear to be dirty. This can cause
inconsistencies e.g. with read-only filesystems.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Record S3 failure time about each reason and the latest two failed
devices' names in S3 progress.
We can check it through 'suspend_stats' entry in debugfs.
The motivation of the patch:
We are enabling power features on Medfield. Comparing with PC/notebook,
a mobile enters/exits suspend-2-ram (we call it s3 on Medfield) far
more frequently. If it can't enter suspend-2-ram in time, the power
might be used up soon.
We often find sometimes, a device suspend fails. Then, system retries
s3 over and over again. As display is off, testers and developers
don't know what happens.
Some testers and developers complain they don't know if system
tries suspend-2-ram, and what device fails to suspend. They need
such info for a quick check. The patch adds suspend_stats under
debugfs for users to check suspend to RAM statistics quickly.
If not using this patch, we have other methods to get info about
what device fails. One is to turn on CONFIG_PM_DEBUG, but users
would get too much info and testers need recompile the system.
In addition, dynamic debug is another good tool to dump debug info.
But it still doesn't match our utilization scenario closely.
1) user need write a user space parser to process the syslog output;
2) Our testing scenario is we leave the mobile for at least hours.
Then, check its status. No serial console available during the
testing. One is because console would be suspended, and the other
is serial console connecting with spi or HSU devices would consume
power. These devices are powered off at suspend-2-ram.
Signed-off-by: ShuoX Liu <shuox.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
The trace_pipe_raw handler holds a cached page from the time the file
is opened to the time it is closed. The cached page is used to handle
the case of the user space buffer being smaller than what was read from
the ring buffer. The left over buffer is held in the cache so that the
next read will continue where the data left off.
After EOF is returned (no more data in the buffer), the index of
the cached page is set to zero. If a user app reads the page again
after EOF, the check in the buffer will see that the cached page
is less than page size and will return the cached page again. This
will cause reading the trace_pipe_raw again after EOF to return
duplicate data, making the output look like the time went backwards
but instead data is just repeated.
The fix is to not reset the index right after all data is read
from the cache, but to reset it after all data is read and more
data exists in the ring buffer.
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jeremy Eder <jeder@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
tracing_enabled option is deprecated.
To start/stop tracing, write to /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_on
without tracing_enabled. This patch is based on Linux 3.1.0-rc1
Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313127022-23830-1-git-send-email-leemgs1@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When doing intense tracing, the kmalloc inside trace_marker can
introduce side effects to what is being traced.
As trace_marker() is used by userspace to inject data into the
kernel ring buffer, it needs to do so with the least amount
of intrusion to the operations of the kernel or the user space
application.
As the ring buffer is designed to write directly into the buffer
without the need to make a temporary buffer, and userspace already
went through the hassle of knowing how big the write will be,
we can simply pin the userspace pages and write the data directly
into the buffer. This improves the impact of tracing via trace_marker
tremendously!
Thanks to Peter Zijlstra and Thomas Gleixner for pointing out the
use of get_user_pages_fast() and kmap_atomic().
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Carsten Emde