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2013-05-01kernel/pid.c: improve flow of a loop inside alloc_pidmap.Raphael S. Carvalho
find_next_offset() searches for an available "cleaned bit" in the respective pid bitmap (page), so returns the offset if found, otherwise it returns a value equals to BITS_PER_PAGE. For example, suppose find_next_offset didn't find any available bit, so there's no purpose to call mk_pid (Wasteful Cpu Cycles). Therefore, I found it could be better to call mk_pid after the checking (offset < BITS_PER_PAGE) returned sucessfully! Another point: If (offset < BITS_PER_PAGE) results in a "failure", then mk_pid would be called again afterwards. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplify code] Signed-off-by: Raphael S. Carvalho <raphael.scarv@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01kexec: Use min() and min_t() to simplify logicZhang Yanfei
Simplify the logic of variable assignments. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: replace min_t with min, remove unneeded casts] Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01kexec: fix wrong types of some local variablesZhang Yanfei
The types of the following local variables: - ubytes/mbytes in kimage_load_crash_segment()/kimage_load_normal_segment() - r in vmcoreinfo_append_str() are wrong, so fix them. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01coredump: only SIGKILL should interrupt the coredumping taskOleg Nesterov
There are 2 well known and ancient problems with coredump/signals, and a lot of related bug reports: - do_coredump() clears TIF_SIGPENDING but of course this can't help if, say, SIGCHLD comes after that. In this case the coredump can fail unexpectedly. See for example wait_for_dump_helper()->signal_pending() check but there are other reasons. - At the same time, dumping a huge core on the slow media can take a lot of time/resources and there is no way to kill the coredumping task reliably. In particular this is not oom_kill-friendly. This patch tries to fix the 1st problem, and makes the preparation for the next changes. We add the new SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP flag set by zap_threads() to indicate that this process dumps the core. prepare_signal() checks this flag and nacks any signal except SIGKILL. Note that this check tries to be conservative, in the long term we should probably treat the SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT case equally but this needs more discussion. See marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120508897917439 Notes: - recalc_sigpending() doesn't check SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP. The patch assumes that dump_write/etc paths should never call it, but we can change it as well. - There is another source of TIF_SIGPENDING, freezer. This will be addressed separately. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01kmod: remove call_usermodehelper_fns()Lucas De Marchi
This function suffers from not being able to determine if the cleanup is called in case it returns -ENOMEM. Nobody is using it anymore, so let's remove it. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01kmod: split call to call_usermodehelper_fns()Lucas De Marchi
Use call_usermodehelper_setup() + call_usermodehelper_exec() instead of calling call_usermodehelper_fns(). In case the latter returns -ENOMEM the cleanup function may had not been called - in this case we would not free argv and module_name. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01usermodehelper: export call_usermodehelper_exec() and ↵Lucas De Marchi
call_usermodehelper_setup() call_usermodehelper_setup() + call_usermodehelper_exec() need to be called instead of call_usermodehelper_fns() when the cleanup function needs to be called even when an ENOMEM error occurs. In this case using call_usermodehelper_fns() the user can't distinguish if the cleanup function was called or not. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export call_usermodehelper_setup() to modules] Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01ptrace: add ability to retrieve signals without removing from a queue (v4)Andrey Vagin
This patch adds a new ptrace request PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO. This request is used to retrieve information about pending signals starting with the specified sequence number. Siginfo_t structures are copied from the child into the buffer starting at "data". The argument "addr" is a pointer to struct ptrace_peeksiginfo_args. struct ptrace_peeksiginfo_args { u64 off; /* from which siginfo to start */ u32 flags; s32 nr; /* how may siginfos to take */ }; "nr" has type "s32", because ptrace() returns "long", which has 32 bits on i386 and a negative values is used for errors. Currently here is only one flag PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO_SHARED for dumping signals from process-wide queue. If this flag is not set, signals are read from a per-thread queue. The request PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO returns a number of dumped signals. If a signal with the specified sequence number doesn't exist, ptrace returns zero. The request returns an error, if no signal has been dumped. Errors: EINVAL - one or more specified flags are not supported or nr is negative EFAULT - buf or addr is outside your accessible address space. A result siginfo contains a kernel part of si_code which usually striped, but it's required for queuing the same siginfo back during restore of pending signals. This functionality is required for checkpointing pending signals. Pedro Alves suggested using it in "gdb" to peek at pending signals. gdb already uses PTRACE_GETSIGINFO to get the siginfo for the signal which was already dequeued. This functionality allows gdb to look at the pending signals which were not reported yet. The prototype of this code was developed by Oleg Nesterov. Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01kernel/timer.c: move some non timer related syscalls to kernel/sys.cStephen Rothwell
Andrew Morton noted: akpm3:/usr/src/25> grep SYSCALL kernel/timer.c SYSCALL_DEFINE1(alarm, unsigned int, seconds) SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getpid) SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getppid) SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getuid) SYSCALL_DEFINE0(geteuid) SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getgid) SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getegid) SYSCALL_DEFINE0(gettid) SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sysinfo, struct sysinfo __user *, info) COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sysinfo, struct compat_sysinfo __user *, info) Only one of those should be in kernel/timer.c. Who wrote this thing? [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01kernel/timer.c: convert compat_sys_sysinfo to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEStephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01kernel/compat.c: make do_sysinfo() staticStephen Rothwell
The only use outside of kernel/timer.c was in kernel/compat.c, so move compat_sys_sysinfo() next to sys_sysinfo() in kernel/timer.c. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01kernel/smp.c: cleanupsAndrew Morton
We sometimes use "struct call_single_data *data" and sometimes "struct call_single_data *csd". Use "csd" consistently. We sometimes use "struct call_function_data *data" and sometimes "struct call_function_data *cfd". Use "cfd" consistently. Also, avoid some 80-col layout tricks. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01kernel/smp.c: remove 'priv' of call_single_dataliguang
The 'priv' field is redundant; we can pass data via 'info'. Signed-off-by: liguang <lig.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01kernel/smp.c: use '|=' for csd_lockliguang
csd_lock() uses assignment to data->flags rather than |=. That is not buggy at present because only one bit (CSD_FLAG_LOCK) is defined in call_single_data.flags. But it will become buggy if we later add another flag, so fix it now. Signed-off-by: liguang <lig.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01workqueue: include workqueue info when printing debug dump of a worker taskTejun Heo
One of the problems that arise when converting dedicated custom threadpool to workqueue is that the shared worker pool used by workqueue anonimizes each worker making it more difficult to identify what the worker was doing on which target from the output of sysrq-t or debug dump from oops, BUG() and friends. This patch implements set_worker_desc() which can be called from any workqueue work function to set its description. When the worker task is dumped for whatever reason - sysrq-t, WARN, BUG, oops, lockdep assertion and so on - the description will be printed out together with the workqueue name and the worker function pointer. The printing side is implemented by print_worker_info() which is called from functions in task dump paths - sched_show_task() and dump_stack_print_info(). print_worker_info() can be safely called on any task in any state as long as the task struct itself is accessible. It uses probe_*() functions to access worker fields. It may print garbage if something went very wrong, but it wouldn't cause (another) oops. The description is currently limited to 24bytes including the terminating \0. worker->desc_valid and workder->desc[] are added and the 64 bytes marker which was already incorrect before adding the new fields is moved to the correct position. Here's an example dump with writeback updated to set the bdi name as worker desc. Hardware name: Bochs Modules linked in: Pid: 7, comm: kworker/u9:0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #1 Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-8:0) ffffffff820a3ab0 ffff88000f6e9cb8 ffffffff81c61845 ffff88000f6e9cf8 ffffffff8108f50f 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88000cde16b0 ffff88000cde1aa8 ffff88001ee19240 ffff88000f6e9fd8 ffff88000f6e9d08 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81c61845>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [<ffffffff8108f50f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [<ffffffff8108f56a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff81200150>] bdi_writeback_workfn+0x2a0/0x3b0 ... Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01kthread: implement probe_kthread_data()Tejun Heo
One of the problems that arise when converting dedicated custom threadpool to workqueue is that the shared worker pool used by workqueue anonimizes each worker making it more difficult to identify what the worker was doing on which target from the output of sysrq-t or debug dump from oops, BUG() and friends. For example, after writeback is converted to use workqueue instead of priviate thread pool, there's no easy to tell which backing device a writeback work item was working on at the time of task dump, which, according to our writeback brethren, is important in tracking down issues with a lot of mounted file systems on a lot of different devices. This patchset implements a way for a work function to mark its execution instance so that task dump of the worker task includes information to indicate what the work item was doing. An example WARN dump would look like the following. WARNING: at fs/fs-writeback.c:1015 bdi_writeback_workfn+0x2b4/0x3c0() Modules linked in: CPU: 0 Pid: 28 Comm: kworker/u18:0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #24 Hardware name: empty empty/S3992, BIOS 080011 10/26/2007 Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-8:16) ffffffff820a3a98 ffff88015b927cb8 ffffffff81c61855 ffff88015b927cf8 ffffffff8108f500 0000000000000000 ffff88007a171948 ffff88007a1716b0 ffff88015b49df00 ffff88015b8d3940 0000000000000000 ffff88015b927d08 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81c61855>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [<ffffffff8108f500>] warn_slowpath_common+0x70/0xa0 ... This patch: Implement probe_kthread_data() which returns kthread_data if accessible. The function is equivalent to kthread_data() except that the specified @task may not be a kthread or its vfork_done is already cleared rendering struct kthread inaccessible. In the former case, probe_kthread_data() may return any value. In the latter, NULL. This will be used to safely print debug information without affecting synchronization in the normal paths. Workqueue debug info printing on dump_stack() and friends will make use of it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01arc, print-fatal-signals: reduce duplicated informationVineet Gupta
After the recent generic debug info on dump_stack() and friends, arc is printing duplicate information on debug dumps. [ARCLinux]$ ./crash crash/50: potentially unexpected fatal signal 11. <-- [1] /sbin/crash, TGID 50 <-- [2] Pid: 50, comm: crash Not tainted 3.9.0-rc4+ #132 <-- [3] ... Remove them. [tj@kernel.org: updated patch desc] Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01dump_stack: unify debug information printed by show_regs()Tejun Heo
show_regs() is inherently arch-dependent but it does make sense to print generic debug information and some archs already do albeit in slightly different forms. This patch introduces a generic function to print debug information from show_regs() so that different archs print out the same information and it's much easier to modify what's printed. show_regs_print_info() prints out the same debug info as dump_stack() does plus task and thread_info pointers. * Archs which didn't print debug info now do. alpha, arc, blackfin, c6x, cris, frv, h8300, hexagon, ia64, m32r, metag, microblaze, mn10300, openrisc, parisc, score, sh64, sparc, um, xtensa * Already prints debug info. Replaced with show_regs_print_info(). The printed information is superset of what used to be there. arm, arm64, avr32, mips, powerpc, sh32, tile, unicore32, x86 * s390 is special in that it used to print arch-specific information along with generic debug info. Heiko and Martin think that the arch-specific extra isn't worth keeping s390 specfic implementation. Converted to use the generic version. Note that now all archs print the debug info before actual register dumps. An example BUG() dump follows. kernel BUG at /work/os/work/kernel/workqueue.c:4841! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #7 Hardware name: empty empty/S3992, BIOS 080011 10/26/2007 task: ffff88007c85e040 ti: ffff88007c860000 task.ti: ffff88007c860000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8234a07e>] [<ffffffff8234a07e>] init_workqueues+0x4/0x6 RSP: 0000:ffff88007c861ec8 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: ffff88007c861fd8 RBX: ffffffff824466a8 RCX: 0000000000000001 RDX: 0000000000000046 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffffff8234a07a RBP: ffff88007c861ec8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff8234a07a R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88007dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: ffff88015f7ff000 CR3: 00000000021f1000 CR4: 00000000000007f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Stack: ffff88007c861ef8 ffffffff81000312 ffffffff824466a8 ffff88007c85e650 0000000000000003 0000000000000000 ffff88007c861f38 ffffffff82335e5d ffff88007c862080 ffffffff8223d8c0 ffff88007c862080 ffffffff81c47760 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81000312>] do_one_initcall+0x122/0x170 [<ffffffff82335e5d>] kernel_init_freeable+0x9b/0x1c8 [<ffffffff81c47760>] ? rest_init+0x140/0x140 [<ffffffff81c4776e>] kernel_init+0xe/0xf0 [<ffffffff81c6be9c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 [<ffffffff81c47760>] ? rest_init+0x140/0x140 ... v2: Typo fix in x86-32. v3: CPU number dropped from show_regs_print_info() as dump_stack_print_info() has been updated to print it. s390 specific implementation dropped as requested by s390 maintainers. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> [tile bits] Acked-by: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org> [hexagon bits] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01dump_stack: implement arch-specific hardware description in task dumpsTejun Heo
x86 and ia64 can acquire extra hardware identification information from DMI and print it along with task dumps; however, the usage isn't consistent. * x86 show_regs() collects vendor, product and board strings and print them out with PID, comm and utsname. Some of the information is printed again later in the same dump. * warn_slowpath_common() explicitly accesses the DMI board and prints it out with "Hardware name:" label. This applies to both x86 and ia64 but is irrelevant on all other archs. * ia64 doesn't show DMI information on other non-WARN dumps. This patch introduces arch-specific hardware description used by dump_stack(). It can be set by calling dump_stack_set_arch_desc() during boot and, if exists, printed out in a separate line with "Hardware name:" label. dmi_set_dump_stack_arch_desc() is added which sets arch-specific description from DMI data. It uses dmi_ids_string[] which is set from dmi_present() used for DMI debug message. It is superset of the information x86 show_regs() is using. The function is called from x86 and ia64 boot code right after dmi_scan_machine(). This makes the explicit DMI handling in warn_slowpath_common() unnecessary. Removed. show_regs() isn't yet converted to use generic debug information printing and this patch doesn't remove the duplicate DMI handling in x86 show_regs(). The next patch will unify show_regs() handling and remove the duplication. An example WARN dump follows. WARNING: at kernel/workqueue.c:4841 init_workqueues+0x35/0x505() Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #3 Hardware name: empty empty/S3992, BIOS 080011 10/26/2007 0000000000000009 ffff88007c861e08 ffffffff81c614dc ffff88007c861e48 ffffffff8108f500 ffffffff82228240 0000000000000040 ffffffff8234a08e 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88007c861e58 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81c614dc>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [<ffffffff8108f500>] warn_slowpath_common+0x70/0xa0 [<ffffffff8108f54a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff8234a0c3>] init_workqueues+0x35/0x505 ... v2: Use the same string as the debug message from dmi_present() which also contains BIOS information. Move hardware name into its own line as warn_slowpath_common() did. This change was suggested by Bjorn Helgaas. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01dump_stack: consolidate dump_stack() implementations and unify their behaviorsTejun Heo
Both dump_stack() and show_stack() are currently implemented by each architecture. show_stack(NULL, NULL) dumps the backtrace for the current task as does dump_stack(). On some archs, dump_stack() prints extra information - pid, utsname and so on - in addition to the backtrace while the two are identical on other archs. The usages in arch-independent code of the two functions indicate show_stack(NULL, NULL) should print out bare backtrace while dump_stack() is used for debugging purposes when something went wrong, so it does make sense to print additional information on the task which triggered dump_stack(). There's no reason to require archs to implement two separate but mostly identical functions. It leads to unnecessary subtle information. This patch expands the dummy fallback dump_stack() implementation in lib/dump_stack.c such that it prints out debug information (taken from x86) and invokes show_stack(NULL, NULL) and drops arch-specific dump_stack() implementations in all archs except blackfin. Blackfin's dump_stack() does something wonky that I don't understand. Debug information can be printed separately by calling dump_stack_print_info() so that arch-specific dump_stack() implementation can still emit the same debug information. This is used in blackfin. This patch brings the following behavior changes. * On some archs, an extra level in backtrace for show_stack() could be printed. This is because the top frame was determined in dump_stack() on those archs while generic dump_stack() can't do that reliably. It can be compensated by inlining dump_stack() but not sure whether that'd be necessary. * Most archs didn't use to print debug info on dump_stack(). They do now. An example WARN dump follows. WARNING: at kernel/workqueue.c:4841 init_workqueues+0x35/0x505() Hardware name: empty Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #9 0000000000000009 ffff88007c861e08 ffffffff81c614dc ffff88007c861e48 ffffffff8108f50f ffffffff82228240 0000000000000040 ffffffff8234a03c 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88007c861e58 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81c614dc>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [<ffffffff8108f50f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [<ffffffff8108f56a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff8234a071>] init_workqueues+0x35/0x505 ... v2: CPU number added to the generic debug info as requested by s390 folks and dropped the s390 specific dump_stack(). This loses %ksp from the debug message which the maintainers think isn't important enough to keep the s390-specific dump_stack() implementation. dump_stack_print_info() is moved to kernel/printk.c from lib/dump_stack.c. Because linkage is per objecct file, dump_stack_print_info() living in the same lib file as generic dump_stack() means that archs which implement custom dump_stack() - at this point, only blackfin - can't use dump_stack_print_info() as that will bring in the generic version of dump_stack() too. v1 The v1 patch broke build on blackfin due to this issue. The build breakage was reported by Fengguang Wu. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [s390 bits] Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Acked-by: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org> [hexagon bits] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01kernel/range.c: subtract_range: fix the broken phrase issued by printkLin Feng
Also replace deprecated printk(KERN_ERR...) with pr_err() as suggested by Yinghai, attaching the function name to provide plenty info. Signed-off-by: Lin Feng <linfeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull extable dmesg fixlet from Ingo Molnar: "Small tweak to reduce kmsg boot time spam" * 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: extable: Flip the sorting message
2013-04-30Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull core timer updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle's merge are: - Implement shadow timekeeper to shorten in kernel reader side blocking, by Thomas Gleixner. - Posix timers enhancements by Pavel Emelyanov: - allocate timer ID per process, so that exact timer ID allocations can be re-created be checkpoint/restore code. - debuggability and tooling (/proc/PID/timers, etc.) improvements. - suspend/resume enhancements by Feng Tang: on certain new Intel Atom processors (Penwell and Cloverview), there is a feature that the TSC won't stop in S3 state, so the TSC value won't be reset to 0 after resume. This can be taken advantage of by the generic via the CLOCK_SOURCE_SUSPEND_NONSTOP flag: instead of using the RTC to recover/approximate sleep time, the main (and precise) clocksource can be used. - Fix /proc/timer_list for 4096 CPUs by Nathan Zimmer: on so many CPUs the file goes beyond 4MB of size and thus the current simplistic seqfile approach fails. Convert /proc/timer_list to a proper seq_file with its own iterator. - Cleanups and refactorings of the core timekeeping code by John Stultz. - International Atomic Clock time is managed by the NTP code internally currently but not exposed externally. Separate the TAI code out and add CLOCK_TAI support and TAI support to the hrtimer and posix-timer code, by John Stultz. - Add deep idle support enhacement to the broadcast clockevents core timer code, by Daniel Lezcano: add an opt-in CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_DYNIRQ clockevents feature (which will be utilized by future clockevents driver updates), which allows the use of IRQ affinities to avoid spurious wakeups of idle CPUs - the right CPU with an expiring timer will be woken. - Add new ARM bcm281xx clocksource driver, by Christian Daudt - ... various other fixes and cleanups" * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits) clockevents: Set dummy handler on CPU_DEAD shutdown timekeeping: Update tk->cycle_last in resume posix-timers: Remove unused variable clockevents: Switch into oneshot mode even if broadcast registered late timer_list: Convert timer list to be a proper seq_file timer_list: Split timer_list_show_tickdevices posix-timers: Show sigevent info in proc file posix-timers: Introduce /proc/PID/timers file posix timers: Allocate timer id per process (v2) timekeeping: Make sure to notify hrtimers when TAI offset changes hrtimer: Fix ktime_add_ns() overflow on 32bit architectures hrtimer: Add expiry time overflow check in hrtimer_interrupt timekeeping: Shorten seq_count region timekeeping: Implement a shadow timekeeper timekeeping: Delay update of clock->cycle_last timekeeping: Store cycle_last value in timekeeper struct as well ntp: Remove ntp_lock, using the timekeeping locks to protect ntp state timekeeping: Simplify tai updating from do_adjtimex timekeeping: Hold timekeepering locks in do_adjtimex and hardpps timekeeping: Move ADJ_SETOFFSET to top level do_adjtimex() ...
2013-04-30Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull SMP/hotplug changes from Ingo Molnar: "This is a pretty large, multi-arch series unifying and generalizing the various disjunct pieces of idle routines that architectures have historically copied from each other and have grown in random, wildly inconsistent and sometimes buggy directions: 101 files changed, 455 insertions(+), 1328 deletions(-) this went through a number of review and test iterations before it was committed, it was tested on various architectures, was exposed to linux-next for quite some time - nevertheless it might cause problems on architectures that don't read the mailing lists and don't regularly test linux-next. This cat herding excercise was motivated by the -rt kernel, and was brought to you by Thomas "the Whip" Gleixner." * 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits) idle: Remove GENERIC_IDLE_LOOP config switch um: Use generic idle loop ia64: Make sure interrupts enabled when we "safe_halt()" sparc: Use generic idle loop idle: Remove unused ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE bfin: Fix typo in arch_cpu_idle() xtensa: Use generic idle loop x86: Use generic idle loop unicore: Use generic idle loop tile: Use generic idle loop tile: Enter idle with preemption disabled sh: Use generic idle loop score: Use generic idle loop s390: Use generic idle loop powerpc: Use generic idle loop parisc: Use generic idle loop openrisc: Use generic idle loop mn10300: Use generic idle loop mips: Use generic idle loop microblaze: Use generic idle loop ...
2013-04-30Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this development cycle were: - full dynticks preparatory work by Frederic Weisbecker - factor out the cpu time accounting code better, by Li Zefan - multi-CPU load balancer cleanups and improvements by Joonsoo Kim - various smaller fixes and cleanups" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits) sched: Fix init NOHZ_IDLE flag sched: Prevent to re-select dst-cpu in load_balance() sched: Rename load_balance_tmpmask to load_balance_mask sched: Move up affinity check to mitigate useless redoing overhead sched: Don't consider other cpus in our group in case of NEWLY_IDLE sched: Explicitly cpu_idle_type checking in rebalance_domains() sched: Change position of resched_cpu() in load_balance() sched: Fix wrong rq's runnable_avg update with rt tasks sched: Document task_struct::personality field sched/cpuacct/UML: Fix header file dependency bug on the UML build cgroup: Kill subsys.active flag sched/cpuacct: No need to check subsys active state sched/cpuacct: Initialize cpuacct subsystem earlier sched/cpuacct: Initialize root cpuacct earlier sched/cpuacct: Allocate per_cpu cpuusage for root cpuacct statically sched/cpuacct: Clean up cpuacct.h sched/cpuacct: Remove redundant NULL checks in cpuacct_acount_field() sched/cpuacct: Remove redundant NULL checks in cpuacct_charge() sched/cpuacct: Add cpuacct_acount_field() sched/cpuacct: Add cpuacct_init() ...
2013-04-30Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "Features: - Add "uretprobes" - an optimization to uprobes, like kretprobes are an optimization to kprobes. "perf probe -x file sym%return" now works like kretprobes. By Oleg Nesterov. - Introduce per core aggregation in 'perf stat', from Stephane Eranian. - Add memory profiling via PEBS, from Stephane Eranian. - Event group view for 'annotate' in --stdio, --tui and --gtk, from Namhyung Kim. - Add support for AMD NB and L2I "uncore" counters, by Jacob Shin. - Add Ivy Bridge-EP uncore support, by Zheng Yan - IBM zEnterprise EC12 oprofile support patchlet from Robert Richter. - Add perf test entries for checking breakpoint overflow signal handler issues, from Jiri Olsa. - Add perf test entry for for checking number of EXIT events, from Namhyung Kim. - Add perf test entries for checking --cpu in record and stat, from Jiri Olsa. - Introduce perf stat --repeat forever, from Frederik Deweerdt. - Add --no-demangle to report/top, from Namhyung Kim. - PowerPC fixes plus a couple of cleanups/optimizations in uprobes and trace_uprobes, by Oleg Nesterov. Various fixes and refactorings: - Fix dependency of the python binding wrt libtraceevent, from Naohiro Aota. - Simplify some perf_evlist methods and to allow 'stat' to share code with 'record' and 'trace', by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. - Remove dead code in related to libtraceevent integration, from Namhyung Kim. - Revert "perf sched: Handle PERF_RECORD_EXIT events" to get 'perf sched lat' back working, by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo - We don't use Newt anymore, just plain libslang, by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. - Kill a bunch of die() calls, from Namhyung Kim. - Fix build on non-glibc systems due to libio.h absence, from Cody P Schafer. - Remove some perf_session and tracing dead code, from David Ahern. - Honor parallel jobs, fix from Borislav Petkov - Introduce tools/lib/lk library, initially just removing duplication among tools/perf and tools/vm. from Borislav Petkov ... and many more I missed to list, see the shortlog and git log for more details." * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (136 commits) perf/x86/intel/P4: Robistify P4 PMU types perf/x86/amd: Fix AMD NB and L2I "uncore" support perf/x86/amd: Remove old-style NB counter support from perf_event_amd.c perf/x86: Check all MSRs before passing hw check perf/x86/amd: Add support for AMD NB and L2I "uncore" counters perf/x86/intel: Add Ivy Bridge-EP uncore support perf/x86/intel: Fix SNB-EP CBO and PCU uncore PMU filter management perf/x86: Avoid kfree() in CPU_{STARTING,DYING} uprobes/perf: Avoid perf_trace_buf_prepare/submit if ->perf_events is empty uprobes/tracing: Don't pass addr=ip to perf_trace_buf_submit() uprobes/tracing: Change create_trace_uprobe() to support uretprobes uprobes/tracing: Make seq_printf() code uretprobe-friendly uprobes/tracing: Make register_uprobe_event() paths uretprobe-friendly uprobes/tracing: Make uprobe_{trace,perf}_print() uretprobe-friendly uprobes/tracing: Introduce is_ret_probe() and uretprobe_dispatcher() uprobes/tracing: Introduce uprobe_{trace,perf}_print() helpers uprobes/tracing: Generalize struct uprobe_trace_entry_head uprobes/tracing: Kill the pointless local_save_flags/preempt_count calls uprobes/tracing: Kill the pointless seq_print_ip_sym() call uprobes/tracing: Kill the pointless task_pt_regs() calls ...
2013-04-30Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle are mostly related to preparatory work for the full-dynticks work: - Remove restrictions on no-CBs CPUs, make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacks, do callback accelerations based on numbered callbacks. Posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/18/960 - RCU documentation updates. Posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/18/570 - Miscellaneous fixes. Posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/18/594" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) rcu: Make rcu_accelerate_cbs() note need for future grace periods rcu: Abstract rcu_start_future_gp() from rcu_nocb_wait_gp() rcu: Rename n_nocb_gp_requests to need_future_gp rcu: Push lock release to rcu_start_gp()'s callers rcu: Repurpose no-CBs event tracing to future-GP events rcu: Rearrange locking in rcu_start_gp() rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacks rcu: Accelerate RCU callbacks at grace-period end rcu: Export RCU_FAST_NO_HZ parameters to sysfs rcu: Distinguish "rcuo" kthreads by RCU flavor rcu: Add event tracing for no-CBs CPUs' grace periods rcu: Add event tracing for no-CBs CPUs' callback registration rcu: Introduce proper blocking to no-CBs kthreads GP waits rcu: Provide compile-time control for no-CBs CPUs rcu: Tone down debugging during boot-up and shutdown. rcu: Add softirq-stall indications to stall-warning messages rcu: Documentation update rcu: Make bugginess of code sample more evident rcu: Fix hlist_bl_set_first_rcu() annotation rcu: Delete unused rcu_node "wakemask" field ...
2013-04-30tracing: Fix small merge bugSteven Rostedt
During the 3.10 merge, a conflict happened and the resolution was almost, but not quite, correct. An if statement was reversed. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> [ Duh. That was just silly of me - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)Linus Torvalds
Merge second batch of fixes from Andrew Morton: - various misc bits - some printk updates - a new "SRAM" driver. - MAINTAINERS updates - the backlight driver queue - checkpatch updates - a few init/ changes - a huge number of drivers/rtc changes - fatfs updates - some lib/idr.c work - some renaming of the random driver interfaces * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (285 commits) net: rename random32 to prandom net/core: remove duplicate statements by do-while loop net/core: rename random32() to prandom_u32() net/netfilter: rename random32() to prandom_u32() net/sched: rename random32() to prandom_u32() net/sunrpc: rename random32() to prandom_u32() scsi: rename random32() to prandom_u32() lguest: rename random32() to prandom_u32() uwb: rename random32() to prandom_u32() video/uvesafb: rename random32() to prandom_u32() mmc: rename random32() to prandom_u32() drbd: rename random32() to prandom_u32() kernel/: rename random32() to prandom_u32() mm/: rename random32() to prandom_u32() lib/: rename random32() to prandom_u32() x86: rename random32() to prandom_u32() x86: pageattr-test: remove srandom32 call uuid: use prandom_bytes() raid6test: use prandom_bytes() sctp: convert sctp_assoc_set_id() to use idr_alloc_cyclic() ...
2013-04-30Merge branch 'for-3.10' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: - Fixes and a lot of cleanups. Locking cleanup is finally complete. cgroup_mutex is no longer exposed to individual controlelrs which used to cause nasty deadlock issues. Li fixed and cleaned up quite a bit including long standing ones like racy cgroup_path(). - device cgroup now supports proper hierarchy thanks to Aristeu. - perf_event cgroup now supports proper hierarchy. - A new mount option "__DEVEL__sane_behavior" is added. As indicated by the name, this option is to be used for development only at this point and generates a warning message when used. Unfortunately, cgroup interface currently has too many brekages and inconsistencies to implement a consistent and unified hierarchy on top. The new flag is used to collect the behavior changes which are necessary to implement consistent unified hierarchy. It's likely that this flag won't be used verbatim when it becomes ready but will be enabled implicitly along with unified hierarchy. The option currently disables some of broken behaviors in cgroup core and also .use_hierarchy switch in memcg (will be routed through -mm), which can be used to make very unusual hierarchy where nesting is partially honored. It will also be used to implement hierarchy support for blk-throttle which would be impossible otherwise without introducing a full separate set of control knobs. This is essentially versioning of interface which isn't very nice but at this point I can't see any other options which would allow keeping the interface the same while moving towards hierarchy behavior which is at least somewhat sane. The planned unified hierarchy is likely to require some level of adaptation from userland anyway, so I think it'd be best to take the chance and update the interface such that it's supportable in the long term. Maintaining the existing interface does complicate cgroup core but shouldn't put too much strain on individual controllers and I think it'd be manageable for the foreseeable future. Maybe we'll be able to drop it in a decade. Fix up conflicts (including a semantic one adding a new #include to ppc that was uncovered by header the file changes) as per Tejun. * 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (45 commits) cpuset: fix compile warning when CONFIG_SMP=n cpuset: fix cpu hotplug vs rebuild_sched_domains() race cpuset: use rebuild_sched_domains() in cpuset_hotplug_workfn() cgroup: restore the call to eventfd->poll() cgroup: fix use-after-free when umounting cgroupfs cgroup: fix broken file xattrs devcg: remove parent_cgroup. memcg: force use_hierarchy if sane_behavior cgroup: remove cgrp->top_cgroup cgroup: introduce sane_behavior mount option move cgroupfs_root to include/linux/cgroup.h cgroup: convert cgroupfs_root flag bits to masks and add CGRP_ prefix cgroup: make cgroup_path() not print double slashes Revert "cgroup: remove bind() method from cgroup_subsys." perf: make perf_event cgroup hierarchical cgroup: implement cgroup_is_descendant() cgroup: make sure parent won't be destroyed before its children cgroup: remove bind() method from cgroup_subsys. devcg: remove broken_hierarchy tag cgroup: remove cgroup_lock_is_held() ...
2013-04-30Merge branch 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo: "A lot of activities on workqueue side this time. The changes achieve the followings. - WQ_UNBOUND workqueues - the workqueues which are per-cpu - are updated to be able to interface with multiple backend worker pools. This involved a lot of churning but the end result seems actually neater as unbound workqueues are now a lot closer to per-cpu ones. - The ability to interface with multiple backend worker pools are used to implement unbound workqueues with custom attributes. Currently the supported attributes are the nice level and CPU affinity. It may be expanded to include cgroup association in future. The attributes can be specified either by calling apply_workqueue_attrs() or through /sys/bus/workqueue/WQ_NAME/* if the workqueue in question is exported through sysfs. The backend worker pools are keyed by the actual attributes and shared by any workqueues which share the same attributes. When attributes of a workqueue are changed, the workqueue binds to the worker pool with the specified attributes while leaving the work items which are already executing in its previous worker pools alone. This allows converting custom worker pool implementations which want worker attribute tuning to use workqueues. The writeback pool is already converted in block tree and there are a couple others are likely to follow including btrfs io workers. - WQ_UNBOUND's ability to bind to multiple worker pools is also used to make it NUMA-aware. Because there's no association between work item issuer and the specific worker assigned to execute it, before this change, using unbound workqueue led to unnecessary cross-node bouncing and it couldn't be helped by autonuma as it requires tasks to have implicit node affinity and workers are assigned randomly. After these changes, an unbound workqueue now binds to multiple NUMA-affine worker pools so that queued work items are executed in the same node. This is turned on by default but can be disabled system-wide or for individual workqueues. Crypto was requesting NUMA affinity as encrypting data across different nodes can contribute noticeable overhead and doing it per-cpu was too limiting for certain cases and IO throughput could be bottlenecked by one CPU being fully occupied while others have idle cycles. While the new features required a lot of changes including restructuring locking, it didn't complicate the execution paths much. The unbound workqueue handling is now closer to per-cpu ones and the new features are implemented by simply associating a workqueue with different sets of backend worker pools without changing queue, execution or flush paths. As such, even though the amount of change is very high, I feel relatively safe in that it isn't likely to cause subtle issues with basic correctness of work item execution and handling. If something is wrong, it's likely to show up as being associated with worker pools with the wrong attributes or OOPS while workqueue attributes are being changed or during CPU hotplug. While this creates more backend worker pools, it doesn't add too many more workers unless, of course, there are many workqueues with unique combinations of attributes. Assuming everything else is the same, NUMA awareness costs an extra worker pool per NUMA node with online CPUs. There are also a couple things which are being routed outside the workqueue tree. - block tree pulled in workqueue for-3.10 so that writeback worker pool can be converted to unbound workqueue with sysfs control exposed. This simplifies the code, makes writeback workers NUMA-aware and allows tuning nice level and CPU affinity via sysfs. - The conversion to workqueue means that there's no 1:1 association between a specific worker, which makes writeback folks unhappy as they want to be able to tell which filesystem caused a problem from backtrace on systems with many filesystems mounted. This is resolved by allowing work items to set debug info string which is printed when the task is dumped. As this change involves unifying implementations of dump_stack() and friends in arch codes, it's being routed through Andrew's -mm tree." * 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (84 commits) workqueue: use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree() workqueue: avoid false negative WARN_ON() in destroy_workqueue() workqueue: update sysfs interface to reflect NUMA awareness and a kernel param to disable NUMA affinity workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues workqueue: introduce put_pwq_unlocked() workqueue: introduce numa_pwq_tbl_install() workqueue: use NUMA-aware allocation for pool_workqueues workqueue: break init_and_link_pwq() into two functions and introduce alloc_unbound_pwq() workqueue: map an unbound workqueues to multiple per-node pool_workqueues workqueue: move hot fields of workqueue_struct to the end workqueue: make workqueue->name[] fixed len workqueue: add workqueue->unbound_attrs workqueue: determine NUMA node of workers accourding to the allowed cpumask workqueue: drop 'H' from kworker names of unbound worker pools workqueue: add wq_numa_tbl_len and wq_numa_possible_cpumask[] workqueue: move pwq_pool_locking outside of get/put_unbound_pool() workqueue: fix memory leak in apply_workqueue_attrs() workqueue: fix unbound workqueue attrs hashing / comparison workqueue: fix race condition in unbound workqueue free path workqueue: remove pwq_lock which is no longer used ...
2013-04-30Merge branch 'for-3.10-async' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq Pull async update from Tejun Heo: "This contains three cleanup patches for async from Lai. All three patches are essentially cosmetic." * 'for-3.10-async' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: async: rename and redefine async_func_ptr async: remove unused @node from struct async_domain async: simplify lowest_in_progress()
2013-04-30kernel/: rename random32() to prandom_u32()Akinobu Mita
Use preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random number generator. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30printk: fix failure to return error in devkmsg_poll()Nicolas Kaiser
Error value got overwritten instantly. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30early_printk: consolidate random copies of identical codeThomas Gleixner
The early console implementations are the same all over the place. Move the print function to kernel/printk and get rid of the copies. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: arch/mips/kernel/early_printk.c needs kernel.h for va_list] [paul.gortmaker@windriver.com: sh4: make the bios early console support depend on EARLY_PRINTK] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30printk/tracing: rework console tracingzhangwei(Jovi)
Commit 7ff9554bb578 ("printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer") removed start and end parameters from call_console_drivers, but those parameters still exist in include/trace/events/printk.h. Without start and end parameters handling, printk tracing became more simple as: trace_console(text, len); Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)Linus Torvalds
Merge first batch of fixes from Andrew Morton: - A couple of kthread changes - A few minor audit patches - A number of fbdev patches. Florian remains AWOL so I'm picking up some of these. - A few kbuild things - ocfs2 updates - Almost all of the MM queue (And in the meantime, I already have the second big batch from Andrew pending in my mailbox ;^) * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (149 commits) memcg: take reference before releasing rcu_read_lock mem hotunplug: fix kfree() of bootmem memory mmKconfig: add an option to disable bounce mm, nobootmem: do memset() after memblock_reserve() mm, nobootmem: clean-up of free_low_memory_core_early() fs/buffer.c: remove unnecessary init operation after allocating buffer_head. numa, cpu hotplug: change links of CPU and node when changing node number by onlining CPU mm: fix memory_hotplug.c printk format warning mm: swap: mark swap pages writeback before queueing for direct IO swap: redirty page if page write fails on swap file mm, memcg: give exiting processes access to memory reserves thp: fix huge zero page logic for page with pfn == 0 memcg: avoid accessing memcg after releasing reference fs: fix fsync() error reporting memblock: fix missing comment of memblock_insert_region() mm: Remove unused parameter of pages_correctly_reserved() firmware, memmap: fix firmware_map_entry leak mm/vmstat: add note on safety of drain_zonestat mm: thp: add split tail pages to shrink page list in page reclaim mm: allow for outstanding swap writeback accounting ...
2013-04-29mem hotunplug: fix kfree() of bootmem memoryYasuaki Ishimatsu
When hot removing memory presented at boot time, following messages are shown: kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3409! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: ebtable_nat ebtables xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle bridge stp llc ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler sunrpc ipt_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 iptable_filter ip_tables ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables binfmt_misc vfat fat dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod vhost_net macvtap macvlan tun uinput iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support coretemp kvm_intel kvm crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel microcode pcspkr sg i2c_i801 lpc_ich mfd_core igb i2c_algo_bit i2c_core e1000e ptp pps_core tpm_infineon ioatdma dca sr_mod cdrom sd_mod crc_t10dif usb_storage megaraid_sas lpfc scsi_transport_fc scsi_tgt scsi_mod CPU 0 Pid: 5091, comm: kworker/0:2 Tainted: G W 3.9.0-rc6+ #15 RIP: kfree+0x232/0x240 Process kworker/0:2 (pid: 5091, threadinfo ffff88084678c000, task ffff88083928ca80) Call Trace: __release_region+0xd4/0xe0 __remove_pages+0x52/0x110 arch_remove_memory+0x89/0xd0 remove_memory+0xc4/0x100 acpi_memory_device_remove+0x6d/0xb1 acpi_device_remove+0x89/0xab __device_release_driver+0x7c/0xf0 device_release_driver+0x2f/0x50 acpi_bus_device_detach+0x6c/0x70 acpi_ns_walk_namespace+0x11a/0x250 acpi_walk_namespace+0xee/0x137 acpi_bus_trim+0x33/0x7a acpi_bus_hot_remove_device+0xc4/0x1a1 acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x27/0x34 process_one_work+0x1f7/0x590 worker_thread+0x11a/0x370 kthread+0xee/0x100 ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 RIP [<ffffffff811c41d2>] kfree+0x232/0x240 RSP <ffff88084678d968> The reason why the messages are shown is to release a resource structure, allocated by bootmem, by kfree(). So when we release a resource structure, we should check whether it is allocated by bootmem or not. But even if we know a resource structure is allocated by bootmem, we cannot release it since SLxB cannot treat it. So for reusing a resource structure, this patch remembers it by using bootmem_resource as follows: When releasing a resource structure by free_resource(), free_resource() checks whether the resource structure is allocated by bootmem or not. If it is allocated by bootmem, free_resource() adds it to bootmem_resource. If it is not allocated by bootmem, free_resource() release it by kfree(). And when getting a new resource structure by get_resource(), get_resource() checks whether bootmem_resource has released resource structures or not. If there is a released resource structure, get_resource() returns it. If there is not a releaed resource structure, get_resource() returns new resource structure allocated by kzalloc(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/get_resource/alloc_resource/] Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29resource: add release_mem_region_adjustable()Toshi Kani
Add release_mem_region_adjustable(), which releases a requested region from a currently busy memory resource. This interface adjusts the matched memory resource accordingly even if the requested region does not match exactly but still fits into. This new interface is intended for memory hot-delete. During bootup, memory resources are inserted from the boot descriptor table, such as EFI Memory Table and e820. Each memory resource entry usually covers the whole contigous memory range. Memory hot-delete request, on the other hand, may target to a particular range of memory resource, and its size can be much smaller than the whole contiguous memory. Since the existing release interfaces like __release_region() require a requested region to be exactly matched to a resource entry, they do not allow a partial resource to be released. This new interface is restrictive (i.e. release under certain conditions), which is consistent with other release interfaces, __release_region() and __release_resource(). Additional release conditions, such as an overlapping region to a resource entry, can be supported after they are confirmed as valid cases. There is no change to the existing interfaces since their restriction is valid for I/O resources. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use GFP_ATOMIC under write_lock()] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: switch back to GFP_KERNEL, less buggily] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded and wrong kfree(), per Toshi] Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Reviewed-by : Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: T Makphaibulchoke <tmac@hp.com> Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29resource: add __adjust_resource() for internal useToshi Kani
Add __adjust_resource(), which is called by adjust_resource() internally after the resource_lock is held. There is no interface change to adjust_resource(). This change allows other functions to call __adjust_resource() internally while the resource_lock is held. Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: T Makphaibulchoke <tmac@hp.com> Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29mm: replace hardcoded 3% with admin_reserve_pages knobAndrew Shewmaker
Add an admin_reserve_kbytes knob to allow admins to change the hardcoded memory reserve to something other than 3%, which may be multiple gigabytes on large memory systems. Only about 8MB is necessary to enable recovery in the default mode, and only a few hundred MB are required even when overcommit is disabled. This affects OVERCOMMIT_GUESS and OVERCOMMIT_NEVER. admin_reserve_kbytes is initialized to min(3% free pages, 8MB) I arrived at 8MB by summing the RSS of sshd or login, bash, and top. Please see first patch in this series for full background, motivation, testing, and full changelog. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make init_admin_reserve() static] Signed-off-by: Andrew Shewmaker <agshew@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29mm: limit growth of 3% hardcoded other user reserveAndrew Shewmaker
Add user_reserve_kbytes knob. Limit the growth of the memory reserved for other user processes to min(3% current process size, user_reserve_pages). Only about 8MB is necessary to enable recovery in the default mode, and only a few hundred MB are required even when overcommit is disabled. user_reserve_pages defaults to min(3% free pages, 128MB) I arrived at 128MB by taking the max VSZ of sshd, login, bash, and top ... then adding the RSS of each. This only affects OVERCOMMIT_NEVER mode. Background 1. user reserve __vm_enough_memory reserves a hardcoded 3% of the current process size for other applications when overcommit is disabled. This was done so that a user could recover if they launched a memory hogging process. Without the reserve, a user would easily run into a message such as: bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory 2. admin reserve Additionally, a hardcoded 3% of free memory is reserved for root in both overcommit 'guess' and 'never' modes. This was intended to prevent a scenario where root-cant-log-in and perform recovery operations. Note that this reserve shrinks, and doesn't guarantee a useful reserve. Motivation The two hardcoded memory reserves should be updated to account for current memory sizes. Also, the admin reserve would be more useful if it didn't shrink too much. When the current code was originally written, 1GB was considered "enterprise". Now the 3% reserve can grow to multiple GB on large memory systems, and it only needs to be a few hundred MB at most to enable a user or admin to recover a system with an unwanted memory hogging process. I've found that reducing these reserves is especially beneficial for a specific type of application load: * single application system * one or few processes (e.g. one per core) * allocating all available memory * not initializing every page immediately * long running I've run scientific clusters with this sort of load. A long running job sometimes failed many hours (weeks of CPU time) into a calculation. They weren't initializing all of their memory immediately, and they weren't using calloc, so I put systems into overcommit 'never' mode. These clusters run diskless and have no swap. However, with the current reserves, a user wishing to allocate as much memory as possible to one process may be prevented from using, for example, almost 2GB out of 32GB. The effect is less, but still significant when a user starts a job with one process per core. I have repeatedly seen a set of processes requesting the same amount of memory fail because one of them could not allocate the amount of memory a user would expect to be able to allocate. For example, Message Passing Interfce (MPI) processes, one per core. And it is similar for other parallel programming frameworks. Changing this reserve code will make the overcommit never mode more useful by allowing applications to allocate nearly all of the available memory. Also, the new admin_reserve_kbytes will be safer than the current behavior since the hardcoded 3% of available memory reserve can shrink to something useless in the case where applications have grabbed all available memory. Risks * "bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory" The downside of the first patch-- which creates a tunable user reserve that is only used in overcommit 'never' mode--is that an admin can set it so low that a user may not be able to kill their process, even if they already have a shell prompt. Of course, a user can get in the same predicament with the current 3% reserve--they just have to launch processes until 3% becomes negligible. * root-cant-log-in problem The second patch, adding the tunable rootuser_reserve_pages, allows the admin to shoot themselves in the foot by setting it too small. They can easily get the system into a state where root-can't-log-in. However, the new admin_reserve_kbytes will be safer than the current behavior since the hardcoded 3% of available memory reserve can shrink to something useless in the case where applications have grabbed all available memory. Alternatives * Memory cgroups provide a more flexible way to limit application memory. Not everyone wants to set up cgroups or deal with their overhead. * We could create a fourth overcommit mode which provides smaller reserves. The size of useful reserves may be drastically different depending on the whether the system is embedded or enterprise. * Force users to initialize all of their memory or use calloc. Some users don't want/expect the system to overcommit when they malloc. Overcommit 'never' mode is for this scenario, and it should work well. The new user and admin reserve tunables are simple to use, with low overhead compared to cgroups. The patches preserve current behavior where 3% of memory is less than 128MB, except that the admin reserve doesn't shrink to an unusable size under pressure. The code allows admins to tune for embedded and enterprise usage. FAQ * How is the root-cant-login problem addressed? What happens if admin_reserve_pages is set to 0? Root is free to shoot themselves in the foot by setting admin_reserve_kbytes too low. On x86_64, the minimum useful reserve is: 8MB for overcommit 'guess' 128MB for overcommit 'never' admin_reserve_pages defaults to min(3% free memory, 8MB) So, anyone switching to 'never' mode needs to adjust admin_reserve_pages. * How do you calculate a minimum useful reserve? A user or the admin needs enough memory to login and perform recovery operations, which includes, at a minimum: sshd or login + bash (or some other shell) + top (or ps, kill, etc.) For overcommit 'guess', we can sum resident set sizes (RSS) because we only need enough memory to handle what the recovery programs will typically use. On x86_64 this is about 8MB. For overcommit 'never', we can take the max of their virtual sizes (VSZ) and add the sum of their RSS. We use VSZ instead of RSS because mode forces us to ensure we can fulfill all of the requested memory allocations-- even if the programs only use a fraction of what they ask for. On x86_64 this is about 128MB. When swap is enabled, reserves are useful even when they are as small as 10MB, regardless of overcommit mode. When both swap and overcommit are disabled, then the admin should tune the reserves higher to be absolutley safe. Over 230MB each was safest in my testing. * What happens if user_reserve_pages is set to 0? Note, this only affects overcomitt 'never' mode. Then a user will be able to allocate all available memory minus admin_reserve_kbytes. However, they will easily see a message such as: "bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory" And they won't be able to recover/kill their application. The admin should be able to recover the system if admin_reserve_kbytes is set appropriately. * What's the difference between overcommit 'guess' and 'never'? "Guess" allows an allocation if there are enough free + reclaimable pages. It has a hardcoded 3% of free pages reserved for root. "Never" allows an allocation if there is enough swap + a configurable percentage (default is 50) of physical RAM. It has a hardcoded 3% of free pages reserved for root, like "Guess" mode. It also has a hardcoded 3% of the current process size reserved for additional applications. * Why is overcommit 'guess' not suitable even when an app eventually writes to every page? It takes free pages, file pages, available swap pages, reclaimable slab pages into consideration. In other words, these are all pages available, then why isn't overcommit suitable? Because it only looks at the present state of the system. It does not take into account the memory that other applications have malloced, but haven't initialized yet. It overcommits the system. Test Summary There was little change in behavior in the default overcommit 'guess' mode with swap enabled before and after the patch. This was expected. Systems run most predictably (i.e. no oom kills) in overcommit 'never' mode with swap enabled. This also allowed the most memory to be allocated to a user application. Overcommit 'guess' mode without swap is a bad idea. It is easy to crash the system. None of the other tested combinations crashed. This matches my experience on the Roadrunner supercomputer. Without the tunable user reserve, a system in overcommit 'never' mode and without swap does not allow the admin to recover, although the admin can. With the new tunable reserves, a system in overcommit 'never' mode and without swap can be configured to: 1. maximize user-allocatable memory, running close to the edge of recoverability 2. maximize recoverability, sacrificing allocatable memory to ensure that a user cannot take down a system Test Description Fedora 18 VM - 4 x86_64 cores, 5725MB RAM, 4GB Swap System is booted into multiuser console mode, with unnecessary services turned off. Caches were dropped before each test. Hogs are user memtester processes that attempt to allocate all free memory as reported by /proc/meminfo In overcommit 'never' mode, memory_ratio=100 Test Results 3.9.0-rc1-mm1 Overcommit | Swap | Hogs | MB Got/Wanted | OOMs | User Recovery | Admin Recovery ---------- ---- ---- ------------- ---- ------------- -------------- guess yes 1 5432/5432 no yes yes guess yes 4 5444/5444 1 yes yes guess no 1 5302/5449 no yes yes guess no 4 - crash no no never yes 1 5460/5460 1 yes yes never yes 4 5460/5460 1 yes yes never no 1 5218/5432 no no yes never no 4 5203/5448 no no yes 3.9.0-rc1-mm1-tunablereserves User and Admin Recovery show their respective reserves, if applicable. Overcommit | Swap | Hogs | MB Got/Wanted | OOMs | User Recovery | Admin Recovery ---------- ---- ---- ------------- ---- ------------- -------------- guess yes 1 5419/5419 no - yes 8MB yes guess yes 4 5436/5436 1 - yes 8MB yes guess no 1 5440/5440 * - yes 8MB yes guess no 4 - crash - no 8MB no * process would successfully mlock, then the oom killer would pick it never yes 1 5446/5446 no 10MB yes 20MB yes never yes 4 5456/5456 no 10MB yes 20MB yes never no 1 5387/5429 no 128MB no 8MB barely never no 1 5323/5428 no 226MB barely 8MB barely never no 1 5323/5428 no 226MB barely 8MB barely never no 1 5359/5448 no 10MB no 10MB barely never no 1 5323/5428 no 0MB no 10MB barely never no 1 5332/5428 no 0MB no 50MB yes never no 1 5293/5429 no 0MB no 90MB yes never no 1 5001/5427 no 230MB yes 338MB yes never no 4* 4998/5424 no 230MB yes 338MB yes * more memtesters were launched, able to allocate approximately another 100MB Future Work - Test larger memory systems. - Test an embedded image. - Test other architectures. - Time malloc microbenchmarks. - Would it be useful to be able to set overcommit policy for each memory cgroup? - Some lines are slightly above 80 chars. Perhaps define a macro to convert between pages and kb? Other places in the kernel do this. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make init_user_reserve() static] Signed-off-by: Andrew Shewmaker <agshew@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29kernel/cpuset.c: use register_hotmemory_notifier()Andrew Morton
Use the new interface, remove one ifdef. No code size changes. We could/should have been using __meminit/__meminitdata here but there's now no point in doing that because all this code is elided at compile time. Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29kexec, vmalloc: export additional vmalloc layer informationAtsushi Kumagai
Now, vmap_area_list is exported as VMCOREINFO for makedumpfile to get the start address of vmalloc region (vmalloc_start). The address which contains vmalloc_start value is represented as below: vmap_area_list.next - OFFSET(vmap_area.list) + OFFSET(vmap_area.va_start) However, both OFFSET(vmap_area.va_start) and OFFSET(vmap_area.list) aren't exported as VMCOREINFO. So this patch exports them externally with small cleanup. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: vmalloc.h should include list.h for list_head] Signed-off-by: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29mm, vmalloc: export vmap_area_list, instead of vmlistJoonsoo Kim
Although our intention is to unexport internal structure entirely, but there is one exception for kexec. kexec dumps address of vmlist and makedumpfile uses this information. We are about to remove vmlist, then another way to retrieve information of vmalloc layer is needed for makedumpfile. For this purpose, we export vmap_area_list, instead of vmlist. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29fs: don't compile in drop_caches.c when CONFIG_SYSCTL=nJosh Triplett
drop_caches.c provides code only invokable via sysctl, so don't compile it in when CONFIG_SYSCTL=n. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29cgroup: remove css_get_nextMichal Hocko
Now that we have generic and well ordered cgroup tree walkers there is no need to keep css_get_next in the place. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29mm,kexec: use common help functions to free reserved pagesJiang Liu
Use common help functions to free reserved pages. Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29kernel/audit_tree.c: tree will leak memory when failure occurs in ↵Chen Gang
audit_trim_trees() audit_trim_trees() calls get_tree(). If a failure occurs we must call put_tree(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: run put_tree() before mutex_lock() for small scalability improvement] Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29kernel/auditfilter.c: tree and watch will memory leak when failure occursChen Gang
In audit_data_to_entry() when a failure occurs we must check and free the tree and watch to avoid a memory leak. test: plan: test command: "auditctl -a exit,always -w /etc -F auid=-1" (on fedora17, need modify auditctl to let "-w /etc" has effect) running: under fedora17 x86_64, 2 CPUs 3.20GHz, 2.5GB RAM. let 15 auditctl processes continue running at the same time. monitor command: watch -d -n 1 "cat /proc/meminfo | awk '{print \$2}' \ | head -n 4 | xargs \ | awk '{print \"used \",\$1 - \$2 - \$3 - \$4}'" result: for original version: will use up all memory, within 3 hours. kill all auditctl, the memory still does not free. for new version (apply this patch): after 14 hours later, not find issues. Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>