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2015-10-15cgroup: reorganize css_task_iter functionsTejun Heo1-21/+28
* Rename css_advance_task_iter() to css_task_iter_advance_css_set() and make it clear it->task_pos too at the end of the iteration. * Factor out css_task_iter_advance() from css_task_iter_next(). The new function whines if called on a terminated iterator. Except for the termination check, this is pure reorganization and doesn't introduce any behavior changes. This will help the planned locking update for css_task_iter. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
2015-10-15cgroup: factor out css_set_move_task()Tejun Heo1-48/+56
A task is associated and disassociated with its css_set in three places - during migration, after a new task is created and when a task exits. The first is handled by cgroup_task_migrate() and the latter two are open-coded. These are similar operations and spreading them over multiple places makes it harder to follow and update. This patch collects all task css_set [dis]association operations into css_set_move_task(). While css_set_move_task() may check whether populated state needs to be updated when not strictly necessary, the behavior is essentially equivalent before and after this patch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
2015-10-15cgroup: keep css_set and task lists in chronological orderTejun Heo1-6/+5
css task iteration will be updated to not leak cgroup internal locking to iterator users. In preparation, update css_set and task lists to be in chronological order. For tasks, as migration path is already using list_splice_tail_init(), only cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists() and cgroup_post_fork() need updating. For css_sets, link_css_set() is the only place which needs to be updated. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
2015-10-15cgroup: make cgroup_destroy_locked() test cgroup_is_populated()Tejun Heo1-6/+5
cgroup_destroy_locked() currently tests whether any css_sets are associated to reject removal if the cgroup contains tasks. This works because a css_set's refcnt converges with the number of tasks linked to it and thus there's no css_set linked to a cgroup if it doesn't have any live tasks. To help tracking resource usage of zombie tasks, putting the ref of css_set will be separated from disassociating the task from the css_set which means that a cgroup may have css_sets linked to it even when it doesn't have any live tasks. This patch updates cgroup_destroy_locked() so that it tests cgroup_is_populated(), which counts the number of populated css_sets, instead of whether cgrp->cset_links is empty to determine whether the cgroup is populated or not. This ensures that rmdirs won't be incorrectly rejected for cgroups which only contain zombie tasks. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
2015-10-15cgroup: make css_sets pin the associated cgroupsTejun Heo1-4/+6
Currently, css_sets don't pin the associated cgroups. This is okay as a cgroup with css_sets associated are not allowed to be removed; however, to help resource tracking for zombie tasks, this is scheduled to change such that a cgroup can be removed even when it has css_sets associated as long as none of them are populated. To ensure that a cgroup doesn't go away while css_sets are still associated with it, make each associated css_set hold a reference on the cgroup if non-root. v2: Root cgroups are special and shouldn't be ref'd by css_sets. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
2015-10-15cgroup: relocate cgroup_[try]get/put()Tejun Heo1-16/+16
Relocate cgroup_get(), cgroup_tryget() and cgroup_put() upwards. This is pure code reorganization to prepare for future changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
2015-10-15cgroup: move check_for_release() invocationTejun Heo1-7/+1
To trigger release agent when the last task leaves the cgroup, check_for_release() is called from put_css_set_locked(); however, css_set being unlinked is being decoupled from task leaving the cgroup and the correct condition to test is cgroup->nr_populated dropping to zero which check_for_release() is already updated to test. This patch moves check_for_release() invocation from put_css_set_locked() to cgroup_update_populated(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
2015-10-15cgroup: replace cgroup_has_tasks() with cgroup_is_populated()Tejun Heo2-4/+4
Currently, cgroup_has_tasks() tests whether the target cgroup has any css_set linked to it. This works because a css_set's refcnt converges with the number of tasks linked to it and thus there's no css_set linked to a cgroup if it doesn't have any live tasks. To help tracking resource usage of zombie tasks, putting the ref of css_set will be separated from disassociating the task from the css_set which means that a cgroup may have css_sets linked to it even when it doesn't have any live tasks. This patch replaces cgroup_has_tasks() with cgroup_is_populated() which tests cgroup->nr_populated instead which locally counts the number of populated css_sets. Unlike cgroup_has_tasks(), cgroup_is_populated() is recursive - if any of the descendants is populated, the cgroup is populated too. While this changes the meaning of the test, all the existing users are okay with the change. While at it, replace the open-coded ->populated_cnt test in cgroup_events_show() with cgroup_is_populated(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Li Zefan <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
2015-10-15cgroup: make cgroup->nr_populated count the number of populated css_setsTejun Heo1-13/+52
Currently, cgroup->nr_populated counts whether the cgroup has any css_sets linked to it and the number of children which has non-zero ->nr_populated. This works because a css_set's refcnt converges with the number of tasks linked to it and thus there's no css_set linked to a cgroup if it doesn't have any live tasks. To help tracking resource usage of zombie tasks, putting the ref of css_set will be separated from disassociating the task from the css_set which means that a cgroup may have css_sets linked to it even when it doesn't have any live tasks. This patch updates cgroup->nr_populated so that for the cgroup itself it counts the number of css_sets which have tasks associated with them so that empty css_sets don't skew the populated test. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
2015-10-15cgroup: remove an unused parameter from cgroup_task_migrate()Tejun Heo1-5/+2
cgroup_task_migrate() no longer uses @old_cgrp. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
2015-09-25cgroup: fix too early usage of static_branch_disable()Tejun Heo1-6/+8
49d1dc4b8179 ("cgroup: implement static_key based cgroup_subsys_enabled() and cgroup_subsys_on_dfl()") converted cgroup enabled test to use static_key; however, cgroup_disable() is called before static_key subsystem itself is initialized and thus leads to the following warning when "cgroup_disable=" parameter is specified. WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/jump_label.c:99 static_key_slow_dec+0x44/0x60() static_key_slow_dec used before call to jump_label_init ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff813b18c2>] dump_stack+0x44/0x62 [<ffffffff8108dd52>] warn_slowpath_common+0x82/0xc0 [<ffffffff8108ddec>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5c/0x80 [<ffffffff8119c054>] static_key_slow_dec+0x44/0x60 [<ffffffff81d826b6>] cgroup_disable+0xaf/0xd6 [<ffffffff81d5f9de>] unknown_bootoption+0x8c/0x194 [<ffffffff810b0c03>] parse_args+0x273/0x4a0 [<ffffffff81d5fd67>] start_kernel+0x205/0x4b8 ... Fix it by making cgroup_disable() to record the subsystems to disable in cgroup_disable_mask and moving the actual application to cgroup_init() which is late enough and where the enabled state is first used. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Reported-by: Andrey Wagin <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/CANaxB-yFuS4SA2znSvcKrO9L_CbHciHYW+o9bN8sZJ8eR9FxYA@mail.gmail.com Fixes: 49d1dc4b81797f88270832b11e9f73809e7e7209
2015-09-22cgroup: make cgroup_update_dfl_csses() migrate all target processes atomicallyTejun Heo1-36/+8
cgroup_update_dfl_csses() is responsible for migrating processes when controllers are enabled or disabled on the default hierarchy. As the css association changes for all the processes in the affected cgroups, this involves migrating multiple processes. Up until now, it was implemented by migrating process-by-process until the source css_sets are empty; however, this means that if a process fails to migrate after some succeed before it, the recovery is very tricky. This was considered okay as subsystems weren't allowed to reject process migration on the default hierarchy; unfortunately, enforcing this policy turned out to be problematic for certain types of resources - realtime slices for now. As such, the default hierarchy is gonna allow restricted failures during migration and to support that this patch makes cgroup_update_dfl_csses() migrate all target processes atomically rather than one-by-one. The preceding patches made subsystems ready for multi-process migration and factored out taskset operations making this almost trivial. All tasks of the target processes are put in the same taskset and the migration operations are performed once which either fails or succeeds for all. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Acked-by: Zefan Li <[email protected]>
2015-09-22cgroup: separate out taskset operations from cgroup_migrate()Tejun Heo1-86/+125
Currently, cgroup_migreate() implements large part of the migration logic inline including building the target taskset and actually migrating them. This patch separates out the following taskset operations. CGROUP_TASKSET_INIT() : taskset initializer cgroup_taskset_add() : add a task to a taskset cgroup_taskset_migrate() : migrate a taskset to the destination cgroup This will be used to implement atomic multi-process migration in cgroup_update_dfl_csses(). This is pure reorganization which doesn't introduce any functional changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Acked-by: Zefan Li <[email protected]>
2015-09-22cgroup: reorder cgroup_migrate()'s parametersTejun Heo1-6/+6
cgroup_migrate() has the destination cgroup as the first parameter while cgroup_task_migrate() has the destination cset as the last. Another migration function is scheduled to be added which can make the discrepancy further stand out. Let's reorder cgroup_migrate()'s parameters so that the destination cgroup is the last. This doesn't cause any functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Acked-by: Zefan Li <[email protected]>
2015-09-22cgroup, memcg, cpuset: implement cgroup_taskset_for_each_leader()Tejun Heo2-16/+4
It wasn't explicitly documented but, when a process is being migrated, cpuset and memcg depend on cgroup_taskset_first() returning the threadgroup leader; however, this approach is somewhat ghetto and would no longer work for the planned multi-process migration. This patch introduces explicit cgroup_taskset_for_each_leader() which iterates over only the threadgroup leaders and replaces cgroup_taskset_first() usages for accessing the leader with it. This prepares both memcg and cpuset for multi-process migration. This patch also updates the documentation for cgroup_taskset_for_each() to clarify the iteration rules and removes comments mentioning task ordering in tasksets. v2: A previous patch which added threadgroup leader test was dropped. Patch updated accordingly. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Acked-by: Zefan Li <[email protected]> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
2015-09-22cpuset: migrate memory only for threadgroup leadersTejun Heo1-18/+22
If memory_migrate flag is set, cpuset migrates memory according to the destnation css's nodemask. The current implementation migrates memory whenever any thread of a process is migrated making the behavior somewhat arbitrary. Let's tie memory operations to the threadgroup leader so that memory is migrated only when the leader is migrated. While this is a behavior change, given the inherent fuziness, this change is not too likely to be noticed and allows us to clearly define who owns the memory (always the leader) and helps the planned atomic multi-process migration. Note that we're currently migrating memory in migration path proper while holding all the locks. In the long term, this should be moved out to an async work item. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Acked-by: Zefan Li <[email protected]>
2015-09-18cgroup: generalize obtaining the handles of and notifying cgroup filesTejun Heo1-7/+19
cgroup core handles creations and removals of cgroup interface files as described by cftypes. There are cases where the handle for a given file instance is necessary, for example, to generate a file modified event. Currently, this is handled by explicitly matching the callback method pointer and storing the file handle manually in cgroup_add_file(). While this simple approach works for cgroup core files, it can't for controller interface files. This patch generalizes cgroup interface file handle handling. struct cgroup_file is defined and each cftype can optionally tell cgroup core to store the file handle by setting ->file_offset. A file handle remains accessible as long as the containing css is accessible. Both "cgroup.procs" and "cgroup.events" are converted to use the new generic mechanism instead of hooking directly into cgroup_add_file(). Also, cgroup_file_notify() which takes a struct cgroup_file and generates a file modified event on it is added and replaces explicit kernfs_notify() invocations. This generalizes cgroup file handle handling and allows controllers to generate file modified notifications. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Li Zefan <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
2015-09-18cgroup: restructure file creation / removal handlingTejun Heo1-67/+76
The file creation / removal path has always been a bit icky and the planned notification update requires css during file creation. Restructure as follows. * cgroup_addrm_files() now takes both @css and @cgrp and is only called directly by other file handling functions. * cgroup_populate/clear_dir() are replaced with css_populate/clear_dir() taking @css and @cgrp_override. @cgrp_override is used only when files needs to be created on / removed from a cgroup which isn't attached to @css which happens during subsystem rebinds. Subsystem loops are moved to the callers. * cgroup_add_file() now takes both @css and @cgrp. @css isn't used yet but will be used by the planned notification update. This patch doens't cause any behavior changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Li Zefan <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
2015-09-18cgroup: cosmetic updates to rebind_subsystems()Tejun Heo1-16/+15
* Use local variables @scgrp and @dcgrp for @src_root->cgrp and @dst_root->cgrp respectively. * Use initializers to set @src_root and @css in the inner bind loop. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Li Zefan <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
2015-09-18cgroup: make cgroup_addrm_files() clean up after itself on failuresTejun Heo1-6/+7
After a file creation failure, cgroup_addrm_files() it didn't remove the files which had already been created. When cgroup_populate_dir() is the caller, this is fine as the caller performs cleanup; however, for other callers, this may leave unactivated dangling files behind. As kernfs directory removals are recursive, this doesn't lead to permanent memory leak but it can, for example, fail future attempts to create those files again. There's no point in keeping around this sort of subtlety and it gets in the way of planned updates to file handling. This patch makes cgroup_addrm_files() clean up after itself on failures. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Li Zefan <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
2015-09-18cgroup: relocate cgroup_populate_dir()Tejun Heo1-32/+31
Move it upwards so that it's right below cgroup_clear_dir() and the forward declaration is unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Li Zefan <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
2015-09-18cgroup: replace cftype->mode with CFTYPE_WORLD_WRITABLETejun Heo2-18/+7
cftype->mode allows controllers to give arbitrary permissions to interface knobs. Except for "cgroup.event_control", the existing uses are spurious. * Some explicitly specify S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR even though that's the default. * "cpuset.memory_pressure" specifies S_IRUGO while also setting a write callback which returns -EACCES. All it needs to do is simply not setting a write callback. "cgroup.event_control" uses cftype->mode to make the file world-writable. It's a misdesigned interface and we don't want controllers to be tweaking interface file permissions in general. This patch removes cftype->mode and all its spurious uses and implements CFTYPE_WORLD_WRITABLE for "cgroup.event_control" which is marked as compatibility-only. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Li Zefan <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
2015-09-18cgroup: replace "cgroup.populated" with "cgroup.events"Tejun Heo1-8/+9
memcg already uses "memory.events" for event reporting and other controllers may need event reporting too. Let's standardize on "$SUBSYS.events" interface file for reporting events which don't happen too frequently and thus can share event notification. "cgroup.populated" is replaced with "populated" field in "cgroup.events" and documentation is updated accordingly. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Li Zefan <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
2015-09-18cgroup: replace cgroup_on_dfl() tests in controllers with cgroup_subsys_on_dfl()Tejun Heo2-10/+71
cgroup_on_dfl() tests whether the cgroup's root is the default hierarchy; however, an individual controller is only interested in whether the controller is attached to the default hierarchy and never tests a cgroup which doesn't belong to the hierarchy that the controller is attached to. This patch replaces cgroup_on_dfl() tests in controllers with faster static_key based cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(). This leaves cgroup core as the only user of cgroup_on_dfl() and the function is moved from the header file to cgroup.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Acked-by: Zefan Li <[email protected]> Cc: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
2015-09-18cgroup: replace cgroup_subsys->disabled tests with cgroup_subsys_enabled()Tejun Heo1-7/+21
Replace cgroup_subsys->disabled tests in controllers with cgroup_subsys_enabled(). cgroup_subsys_enabled() requires literal subsys name as its parameter and thus can't be used for cgroup core which iterates through controllers. For cgroup core, introduce and use cgroup_ssid_enabled() which uses slower static_key_enabled() test and can be indexed by subsys ID. This leaves cgroup_subsys->disabled unused. Removed. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Acked-by: Zefan Li <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
2015-09-18cgroup: implement static_key based cgroup_subsys_enabled() and ↵Tejun Heo1-1/+26
cgroup_subsys_on_dfl() Whether a subsys is enabled and attached to the default hierarchy seldom changes and may be tested in the hot paths. This patch implements static_key based cgroup_subsys_enabled() and cgroup_subsys_on_dfl() tests. The following patches will update the users and remove duplicate mechanisms. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Acked-by: Zefan Li <[email protected]>
2015-09-16cgroup: simplify threadgroup lockingTejun Heo1-33/+12
Note: This commit was originally committed as b5ba75b5fc0e but got reverted by f9f9e7b77614 due to the performance regression from the percpu_rwsem write down/up operations added to cgroup task migration path. percpu_rwsem changes which alleviate the performance issue are pending for v4.4-rc1 merge window. Re-apply. Now that threadgroup locking is made global, code paths around it can be simplified. * lock-verify-unlock-retry dancing removed from __cgroup_procs_write(). * Race protection against de_thread() removed from cgroup_update_dfl_csses(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/[email protected]
2015-09-16sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsemTejun Heo2-61/+20
Note: This commit was originally committed as d59cfc09c32a but got reverted by 0c986253b939 due to the performance regression from the percpu_rwsem write down/up operations added to cgroup task migration path. percpu_rwsem changes which alleviate the performance issue are pending for v4.4-rc1 merge window. Re-apply. The cgroup side of threadgroup locking uses signal_struct->group_rwsem to synchronize against threadgroup changes. This per-process rwsem adds small overhead to thread creation, exit and exec paths, forces cgroup code paths to do lock-verify-unlock-retry dance in a couple places and makes it impossible to atomically perform operations across multiple processes. This patch replaces signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem which is cheaper on the reader side and contained in cgroups proper. This patch converts one-to-one. This does make writer side heavier and lower the granularity; however, cgroup process migration is a fairly cold path, we do want to optimize thread operations over it and cgroup migration operations don't take enough time for the lower granularity to matter. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/[email protected] Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
2015-09-16Revert "sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global ↵Tejun Heo2-20/+61
percpu_rwsem" This reverts commit d59cfc09c32a2ae31f1c3bc2983a0cd79afb3f14. d59cfc09c32a ("sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem") and b5ba75b5fc0e ("cgroup: simplify threadgroup locking") changed how cgroup synchronizes against task fork and exits so that it uses global percpu_rwsem instead of per-process rwsem; unfortunately, the write [un]lock paths of percpu_rwsem always involve synchronize_rcu_expedited() which turned out to be too expensive. Improvements for percpu_rwsem are scheduled to be merged in the coming v4.4-rc1 merge window which alleviates this issue. For now, revert the two commits to restore per-process rwsem. They will be re-applied for the v4.4-rc1 merge window. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/[email protected] Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] # v4.2+
2015-09-16Revert "cgroup: simplify threadgroup locking"Tejun Heo1-12/+33
This reverts commit b5ba75b5fc0e8404e2c50cb68f39bb6a53fc916f. d59cfc09c32a ("sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem") and b5ba75b5fc0e ("cgroup: simplify threadgroup locking") changed how cgroup synchronizes against task fork and exits so that it uses global percpu_rwsem instead of per-process rwsem; unfortunately, the write [un]lock paths of percpu_rwsem always involve synchronize_rcu_expedited() which turned out to be too expensive. Improvements for percpu_rwsem are scheduled to be merged in the coming v4.4-rc1 merge window which alleviates this issue. For now, revert the two commits to restore per-process rwsem. They will be re-applied for the v4.4-rc1 merge window. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/[email protected] Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] # v4.2+
2015-09-11Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds3-0/+70
Merge fourth patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - sys_membarier syscall - seq_file interface changes - a few misc fixups * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <[email protected]>: revert "ocfs2/dlm: use list_for_each_entry instead of list_for_each" mm/early_ioremap: add explicit #include of asm/early_ioremap.h fs/seq_file: convert int seq_vprint/seq_printf/etc... returns to void selftests: enhance membarrier syscall test selftests: add membarrier syscall test sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86) MODSIGN: fix a compilation warning in extract-cert
2015-09-11Merge tag 'pm+acpi-4.3-rc1-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull more power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki: "These are mostly fixes and cleanups on top of the previous PM+ACPI pull request (cpufreq core and drivers, cpuidle, generic power domains framework). Some of them didn't make to that pull request and some fix issues introduced by it. The only really new thing is the support for suspend frequency in the cpufreq-dt driver, but it is needed to fix an issue with Exynos platforms. Specifics: - build fix for the new Mediatek MT8173 cpufreq driver (Guenter Roeck). - generic power domains framework fixes (power on error code path, subdomain removal) and cleanup of a deprecated API user (Geert Uytterhoeven, Jon Hunter, Ulf Hansson). - cpufreq-dt driver fixes including two fixes for bugs related to the new Operating Performance Points Device Tree bindings introduced recently (Viresh Kumar). - suspend frequency support for the cpufreq-dt driver (Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Viresh Kumar). - cpufreq core cleanups (Viresh Kumar). - intel_pstate driver fixes (Chen Yu, Kristen Carlson Accardi). - additional sanity check in the cpuidle core (Xunlei Pang). - fix for a comment related to CPU power management (Lina Iyer)" * tag 'pm+acpi-4.3-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: intel_pstate: fix PCT_TO_HWP macro intel_pstate: Fix user input of min/max to legal policy region PM / OPP: Return suspend_opp only if it is enabled cpufreq-dt: add suspend frequency support cpufreq: allow cpufreq_generic_suspend() to work without suspend frequency PM / OPP: add dev_pm_opp_get_suspend_opp() helper staging: board: Migrate away from __pm_genpd_name_add_device() cpufreq: Use __func__ to print function's name cpufreq: staticize cpufreq_cpu_get_raw() PM / Domains: Ensure subdomain is not in use before removing cpufreq: Add ARM_MT8173_CPUFREQ dependency on THERMAL cpuidle/coupled: Add sanity check for safe_state_index PM / Domains: Try power off masters in error path of __pm_genpd_poweron() cpufreq: dt: Tolerance applies on both sides of target voltage cpufreq: dt: Print error on failing to mark OPPs as shared cpufreq: dt: Check OPP count before marking them shared kernel/cpu_pm: fix cpu_cluster_pm_exit comment
2015-09-11sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86)Mathieu Desnoyers3-0/+70
Here is an implementation of a new system call, sys_membarrier(), which executes a memory barrier on all threads running on the system. It is implemented by calling synchronize_sched(). It can be used to distribute the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of sys_membarrier() and a compiler barrier. For synchronization primitives that distinguish between read-side and write-side (e.g. userspace RCU [1], rwlocks), the read-side can be accelerated significantly by moving the bulk of the memory barrier overhead to the write-side. The existing applications of which I am aware that would be improved by this system call are as follows: * Through Userspace RCU library (http://urcu.so) - DNS server (Knot DNS) https://www.knot-dns.cz/ - Network sniffer (http://netsniff-ng.org/) - Distributed object storage (https://sheepdog.github.io/sheepdog/) - User-space tracing (http://lttng.org) - Network storage system (https://www.gluster.org/) - Virtual routers (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/DPDK_RCU_0MQ.pdf) - Financial software (https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/23/189) Those projects use RCU in userspace to increase read-side speed and scalability compared to locking. Especially in the case of RCU used by libraries, sys_membarrier can speed up the read-side by moving the bulk of the memory barrier cost to synchronize_rcu(). * Direct users of sys_membarrier - core dotnet garbage collector (https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/198) Microsoft core dotnet GC developers are planning to use the mprotect() side-effect of issuing memory barriers through IPIs as a way to implement Windows FlushProcessWriteBuffers() on Linux. They are referring to sys_membarrier in their github thread, specifically stating that sys_membarrier() is what they are looking for. To explain the benefit of this scheme, let's introduce two example threads: Thread A (non-frequent, e.g. executing liburcu synchronize_rcu()) Thread B (frequent, e.g. executing liburcu rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock()) In a scheme where all smp_mb() in thread A are ordering memory accesses with respect to smp_mb() present in Thread B, we can change each smp_mb() within Thread A into calls to sys_membarrier() and each smp_mb() within Thread B into compiler barriers "barrier()". Before the change, we had, for each smp_mb() pairs: Thread A Thread B previous mem accesses previous mem accesses smp_mb() smp_mb() following mem accesses following mem accesses After the change, these pairs become: Thread A Thread B prev mem accesses prev mem accesses sys_membarrier() barrier() follow mem accesses follow mem accesses As we can see, there are two possible scenarios: either Thread B memory accesses do not happen concurrently with Thread A accesses (1), or they do (2). 1) Non-concurrent Thread A vs Thread B accesses: Thread A Thread B prev mem accesses sys_membarrier() follow mem accesses prev mem accesses barrier() follow mem accesses In this case, thread B accesses will be weakly ordered. This is OK, because at that point, thread A is not particularly interested in ordering them with respect to its own accesses. 2) Concurrent Thread A vs Thread B accesses Thread A Thread B prev mem accesses prev mem accesses sys_membarrier() barrier() follow mem accesses follow mem accesses In this case, thread B accesses, which are ensured to be in program order thanks to the compiler barrier, will be "upgraded" to full smp_mb() by synchronize_sched(). * Benchmarks On Intel Xeon E5405 (8 cores) (one thread is calling sys_membarrier, the other 7 threads are busy looping) 1000 non-expedited sys_membarrier calls in 33s =3D 33 milliseconds/call. * User-space user of this system call: Userspace RCU library Both the signal-based and the sys_membarrier userspace RCU schemes permit us to remove the memory barrier from the userspace RCU rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() primitives, thus significantly accelerating them. These memory barriers are replaced by compiler barriers on the read-side, and all matching memory barriers on the write-side are turned into an invocation of a memory barrier on all active threads in the process. By letting the kernel perform this synchronization rather than dumbly sending a signal to every process threads (as we currently do), we diminish the number of unnecessary wake ups and only issue the memory barriers on active threads. Non-running threads do not need to execute such barrier anyway, because these are implied by the scheduler context switches. Results in liburcu: Operations in 10s, 6 readers, 2 writers: memory barriers in reader: 1701557485 reads, 2202847 writes signal-based scheme: 9830061167 reads, 6700 writes sys_membarrier: 9952759104 reads, 425 writes sys_membarrier (dyn. check): 7970328887 reads, 425 writes The dynamic sys_membarrier availability check adds some overhead to the read-side compared to the signal-based scheme, but besides that, sys_membarrier slightly outperforms the signal-based scheme. However, this non-expedited sys_membarrier implementation has a much slower grace period than signal and memory barrier schemes. Besides diminishing the number of wake-ups, one major advantage of the membarrier system call over the signal-based scheme is that it does not need to reserve a signal. This plays much more nicely with libraries, and with processes injected into for tracing purposes, for which we cannot expect that signals will be unused by the application. An expedited version of this system call can be added later on to speed up the grace period. Its implementation will likely depend on reading the cpu_curr()->mm without holding each CPU's rq lock. This patch adds the system call to x86 and to asm-generic. [1] http://urcu.so membarrier(2) man page: MEMBARRIER(2) Linux Programmer's Manual MEMBARRIER(2) NAME membarrier - issue memory barriers on a set of threads SYNOPSIS #include <linux/membarrier.h> int membarrier(int cmd, int flags); DESCRIPTION The cmd argument is one of the following: MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY Query the set of supported commands. It returns a bitmask of supported commands. MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED Execute a memory barrier on all threads running on the system. Upon return from system call, the caller thread is ensured that all running threads have passed through a state where all memory accesses to user-space addresses match program order between entry to and return from the system call (non-running threads are de facto in such a state). This covers threads from all pro=E2=80=90 cesses running on the system. This command returns 0. The flags argument needs to be 0. For future extensions. All memory accesses performed in program order from each targeted thread is guaranteed to be ordered with respect to sys_membarrier(). If we use the semantic "barrier()" to represent a compiler barrier forcing memory accesses to be performed in program order across the barrier, and smp_mb() to represent explicit memory barriers forcing full memory ordering across the barrier, we have the following ordering table for each pair of barrier(), sys_membarrier() and smp_mb(): The pair ordering is detailed as (O: ordered, X: not ordered): barrier() smp_mb() sys_membarrier() barrier() X X O smp_mb() X O O sys_membarrier() O O O RETURN VALUE On success, these system calls return zero. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately. For a given command, with flags argument set to 0, this system call is guaranteed to always return the same value until reboot. ERRORS ENOSYS System call is not implemented. EINVAL Invalid arguments. Linux 2015-04-15 MEMBARRIER(2) Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Cc: Nicholas Miell <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Alan Cox <[email protected]> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: David Howells <[email protected]> Cc: Pranith Kumar <[email protected]> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2015-09-11Merge branches 'pm-cpu', 'pm-cpuidle' and 'pm-domains'Rafael J. Wysocki1-1/+1
* pm-cpu: kernel/cpu_pm: fix cpu_cluster_pm_exit comment * pm-cpuidle: cpuidle/coupled: Add sanity check for safe_state_index * pm-domains: staging: board: Migrate away from __pm_genpd_name_add_device() PM / Domains: Ensure subdomain is not in use before removing PM / Domains: Try power off masters in error path of __pm_genpd_poweron()
2015-09-10Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds13-2591/+2681
Merge third patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - even more of the rest of MM - lib/ updates - checkpatch updates - small changes to a few scruffy filesystems - kmod fixes/cleanups - kexec updates - a dma-mapping cleanup series from hch * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <[email protected]>: (81 commits) dma-mapping: consolidate dma_set_mask dma-mapping: consolidate dma_supported dma-mapping: cosolidate dma_mapping_error dma-mapping: consolidate dma_{alloc,free}_noncoherent dma-mapping: consolidate dma_{alloc,free}_{attrs,coherent} mm: use vma_is_anonymous() in create_huge_pmd() and wp_huge_pmd() mm: make sure all file VMAs have ->vm_ops set mm, mpx: add "vm_flags_t vm_flags" arg to do_mmap_pgoff() mm: mark most vm_operations_struct const namei: fix warning while make xmldocs caused by namei.c ipc: convert invalid scenarios to use WARN_ON zlib_deflate/deftree: remove bi_reverse() lib/decompress_unlzma: Do a NULL check for pointer lib/decompressors: use real out buf size for gunzip with kernel fs/affs: make root lookup from blkdev logical size sysctl: fix int -> unsigned long assignments in INT_MIN case kexec: export KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE to vmcoreinfo kexec: align crash_notes allocation to make it be inside one physical page kexec: remove unnecessary test in kimage_alloc_crash_control_pages() kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code ...
2015-09-10Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netLinus Torvalds2-6/+10
Pull networking fixes from David Miller: 1) Fix out-of-bounds array access in netfilter ipset, from Jozsef Kadlecsik. 2) Use correct free operation on netfilter conntrack templates, from Daniel Borkmann. 3) Fix route leak in SCTP, from Marcelo Ricardo Leitner. 4) Fix sizeof(pointer) in mac80211, from Thierry Reding. 5) Fix cache pointer comparison in ip6mr leading to missed unlock of mrt_lock. From Richard Laing. 6) rds_conn_lookup() needs to consider network namespace in key comparison, from Sowmini Varadhan. 7) Fix deadlock in TIPC code wrt broadcast link wakeups, from Kolmakov Dmitriy. 8) Fix fd leaks in bpf syscall, from Daniel Borkmann. 9) Fix error recovery when installing ipv6 multipath routes, we would delete the old route before we would know if we could fully commit to the new set of nexthops. Fix from Roopa Prabhu. 10) Fix run-time suspend problems in r8152, from Hayes Wang. 11) In fec, don't program the MAC address into the chip when the clocks are gated off. From Fugang Duan. 12) Fix poll behavior for netlink sockets when using rx ring mmap, from Daniel Borkmann. 13) Don't allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL from get_stats64 in r8169 driver, from Corinna Vinschen. 14) In TCP Cubic congestion control, handle idle periods better where we are application limited, in order to keep cwnd from growing out of control. From Eric Dumzet. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (65 commits) tcp_cubic: better follow cubic curve after idle period tcp: generate CA_EVENT_TX_START on data frames xen-netfront: respect user provided max_queues xen-netback: respect user provided max_queues r8169: Fix sleeping function called during get_stats64, v2 ether: add IEEE 1722 ethertype - TSN netlink, mmap: fix edge-case leakages in nf queue zero-copy netlink, mmap: don't walk rx ring on poll if receive queue non-empty cxgb4: changes for new firmware 1.14.4.0 net: fec: add netif status check before set mac address r8152: fix the runtime suspend issues r8152: split DRIVER_VERSION ipv6: fix ifnullfree.cocci warnings add microchip LAN88xx phy driver stmmac: fix check for phydev being open net: qlcnic: delete redundant memsets net: mv643xx_eth: use kzalloc net: jme: use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc+memset net: cavium: liquidio: use kzalloc in setup_glist() net: ipv6: use common fib_default_rule_pref ...
2015-09-10sysctl: fix int -> unsigned long assignments in INT_MIN caseIlya Dryomov1-5/+5
The following if (val < 0) *lvalp = (unsigned long)-val; is incorrect because the compiler is free to assume -val to be positive and use a sign-extend instruction for extending the bit pattern. This is a problem if val == INT_MIN: # echo -2147483648 >/proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level # cat /proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level -18446744071562067968 Cast to unsigned long before negation - that way we first sign-extend and then negate an unsigned, which is well defined. With this: # cat /proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level -2147483648 Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <[email protected]> Cc: Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]> Cc: Robert Xiao <[email protected]> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]> Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2015-09-10kexec: export KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE to vmcoreinfoBaoquan He1-0/+3
In x86_64, since v2.6.26 the KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE is changed to 512M, and accordingly the MODULES_VADDR is changed to 0xffffffffa0000000. However, in v3.12 Kees Cook introduced kaslr to randomise the location of kernel. And the kernel text mapping addr space is enlarged from 512M to 1G. That means now KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE is variable, its value is 512M when kaslr support is not compiled in and 1G when kaslr support is compiled in. Accordingly the MODULES_VADDR is changed too to be: #define MODULES_VADDR (__START_KERNEL_map + KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE) So when kaslr is compiled in and enabled, the kernel text mapping addr space and modules vaddr space need be adjusted. Otherwise makedumpfile will collapse since the addr for some symbols is not correct. Hence KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE need be exported to vmcoreinfo and got in makedumpfile to help calculate MODULES_VADDR. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]> Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2015-09-10kexec: align crash_notes allocation to make it be inside one physical pageBaoquan He1-1/+22
People reported that crash_notes in /proc/vmcore were corrupted and this cause crash kdump failure. With code debugging and log we got the root cause. This is because percpu variable crash_notes are allocated in 2 vmalloc pages. Currently percpu is based on vmalloc by default. Vmalloc can't guarantee 2 continuous vmalloc pages are also on 2 continuous physical pages. So when 1st kernel exports the starting address and size of crash_notes through sysfs like below: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpux/crash_notes /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpux/crash_notes_size kdump kernel use them to get the content of crash_notes. However the 2nd part may not be in the next neighbouring physical page as we expected if crash_notes are allocated accross 2 vmalloc pages. That's why nhdr_ptr->n_namesz or nhdr_ptr->n_descsz could be very huge in update_note_header_size_elf64() and cause note header merging failure or some warnings. In this patch change to call __alloc_percpu() to passed in the align value by rounding crash_notes_size up to the nearest power of two. This makes sure the crash_notes is allocated inside one physical page since sizeof(note_buf_t) in all ARCHS is smaller than PAGE_SIZE. Meanwhile add a BUILD_BUG_ON to break compile if size is bigger than PAGE_SIZE since crash_notes definitely will be in 2 pages. That need be avoided, and need be reported if it's unavoidable. [[email protected]: use correct comment layout] Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]> Cc: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Young <[email protected]> Cc: Lisa Mitchell <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2015-09-10kexec: remove unnecessary test in kimage_alloc_crash_control_pages()Minfei Huang1-2/+1
Transforming PFN(Page Frame Number) to struct page is never failure, so we can simplify the code logic to do the image->control_page assignment directly in the loop, and remove the unnecessary conditional judgement. Signed-off-by: Minfei Huang <[email protected]> Acked-by: Dave Young <[email protected]> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> Cc: Simon Horman <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2015-09-10kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core codeDave Young8-1500/+1521
There are two kexec load syscalls, kexec_load another and kexec_file_load. kexec_file_load has been splited as kernel/kexec_file.c. In this patch I split kexec_load syscall code to kernel/kexec.c. And add a new kconfig option KEXEC_CORE, so we can disable kexec_load and use kexec_file_load only, or vice verse. The original requirement is from Ted Ts'o, he want kexec kernel signature being checked with CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG enabled. But kexec-tools use kexec_load syscall can bypass the checking. Vivek Goyal proposed to create a common kconfig option so user can compile in only one syscall for loading kexec kernel. KEXEC/KEXEC_FILE selects KEXEC_CORE so that old config files still work. Because there's general code need CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE, so I updated all the architecture Kconfig with a new option KEXEC_CORE, and let KEXEC selects KEXEC_CORE in arch Kconfig. Also updated general kernel code with to kexec_load syscall. [[email protected]: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Dave Young <[email protected]> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]> Cc: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> Cc: Petr Tesarik <[email protected]> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> Cc: Josh Boyer <[email protected]> Cc: David Howells <[email protected]> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2015-09-10kexec: split kexec_file syscall code to kexec_file.cDave Young4-1045/+1079
Split kexec_file syscall related code to another file kernel/kexec_file.c so that the #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE in kexec.c can be dropped. Sharing variables and functions are moved to kernel/kexec_internal.h per suggestion from Vivek and Petr. [[email protected]: fix bisectability] [[email protected]: declare the various arch_kexec functions] [[email protected]: fix build] Signed-off-by: Dave Young <[email protected]> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]> Cc: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> Cc: Petr Tesarik <[email protected]> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> Cc: Josh Boyer <[email protected]> Cc: David Howells <[email protected]> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2015-09-10kmod: handle UMH_WAIT_PROC from system unbound workqueueFrederic Weisbecker1-24/+20
The UMH_WAIT_PROC handler runs in its own thread in order to make sure that waiting for the exec kernel thread completion won't block other usermodehelper queued jobs. On older workqueue implementations, worklets couldn't sleep without blocking the rest of the queue. But now the workqueue subsystem handles that. Khelper still had the older limitation due to its singlethread properties but we replaced it to system unbound workqueues. Those are affine to the current node and can block up to some number of instances. They are a good candidate to handle UMH_WAIT_PROC assuming that we have enough system unbound workers to handle lots of parallel usermodehelper jobs. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2015-09-10kmod: use system_unbound_wq instead of khelperFrederic Weisbecker1-23/+17
We need to launch the usermodehelper kernel threads with the widest affinity and this is partly why we use khelper. This workqueue has unbound properties and thus a wide affinity inherited by all its children. Now khelper also has special properties that we aren't much interested in: ordered and singlethread. There is really no need about ordering as all we do is creating kernel threads. This can be done concurrently. And singlethread is a useless limitation as well. The workqueue engine already proposes generic unbound workqueues that don't share these useless properties and handle well parallel jobs. The only worrysome specific is their affinity to the node of the current CPU. It's fine for creating the usermodehelper kernel threads but those inherit this affinity for longer jobs such as requesting modules. This patch proposes to use these node affine unbound workqueues assuming that a node is sufficient to handle several parallel usermodehelper requests. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2015-09-10kmod: add up-to-date explanations on the purpose of each asynchronous levelsFrederic Weisbecker1-8/+24
There seem to be quite some confusions on the comments, likely due to changes that came after them. Now since it's very non obvious why we have 3 levels of asynchronous code to implement usermodehelpers, it's important to comment in detail the reason of this layout. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2015-09-10kmod: remove unecessary explicit wide CPU affinity settingFrederic Weisbecker1-3/+0
Khelper is affine to all CPUs. Now since it creates the call_usermodehelper_exec_[a]sync() kernel threads, those inherit the wide affinity. As such explicitly forcing a wide affinity from those kernel threads is like a no-op. Just remove it. It's needless and it breaks CPU isolation users who rely on workqueue affinity tuning. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2015-09-10kmod: bunch of internal functions renamesFrederic Weisbecker1-13/+17
This patchset does a bunch of cleanups and converts khelper to use system unbound workqueues. The 3 first patches should be uncontroversial. The last 2 patches are debatable. Kmod creates kernel threads that perform userspace jobs and we want those to have a large affinity in order not to contend busy CPUs. This is (partly) why we use khelper which has a wide affinity that the kernel threads it create can inherit from. Now khelper is a dedicated workqueue that has singlethread properties which we aren't interested in. Hence those two debatable changes: _ We would like to use generic workqueues. System unbound workqueues are a very good candidate but they are not wide affine, only node affine. Now probably a node is enough to perform many parallel kmod jobs. _ We would like to remove the wait_for_helper kernel thread (UMH_WAIT_PROC handler) to use the workqueue. It means that if the workqueue blocks, and no other worker can take pending kmod request, we can be screwed. Now if we have 512 threads, this should be enough. This patch (of 5): Underscores on function names aren't much verbose to explain the purpose of a function. And kmod has interesting such flavours. Lets rename the following functions: * __call_usermodehelper -> call_usermodehelper_exec_work * ____call_usermodehelper -> call_usermodehelper_exec_async * wait_for_helper -> call_usermodehelper_exec_sync Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2015-09-10kmod: correct documentation of return status of request_moduleNeilBrown1-4/+5
If request_module() successfully runs modprobe, but modprobe exits with a non-zero status, then the return value from request_module() will be that (positive) error status. So the return from request_module can be: negative errno zero for success positive exit code. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <[email protected]> Cc: Goldwyn Rodrigues <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2015-09-10kernel/cred.c: remove unnecessary kdebug atomic readsJoe Perches1-4/+9
Commit e0e817392b9a ("CRED: Add some configurable debugging [try #6]") added the kdebug mechanism to this file back in 2009. The kdebug macro calls no_printk which always evaluates arguments. Most of the kdebug uses have an unnecessary call of atomic_read(&cred->usage) Make the kdebug macro do nothing by defining it with do { if (0) no_printk(...); } while (0) when not enabled. $ size kernel/cred.o* (defconfig x86-64) text data bss dec hex filename 2748 336 8 3092 c14 kernel/cred.o.new 2788 336 8 3132 c3c kernel/cred.o.old Miscellanea: o Neaten the #define kdebug macros while there Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]> Cc: David Howells <[email protected]> Cc: James Morris <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2015-09-10kernel/extable.c: remove duplicated includeWei Yongjun1-1/+0
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>