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* hibernation doesn't even build on frv - tons of helpers are missingAl Viro2007-09-261-1/+1
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* clockevents: remove the suspend/resume workaround^WthinkoThomas Gleixner2007-09-221-16/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In a desparate attempt to fix the suspend/resume problem on Andrews VAIO I added a workaround which enforced the broadcast of the oneshot timer on resume. This was actually resolving the problem on the VAIO but was just a stupid workaround, which was not tackling the root cause: the assignement of lower idle C-States in the ACPI processor_idle code. The cpuidle patches, which utilize the dynamic tick feature and go faster into deeper C-states exposed the problem again. The correct solution is the previous patch, which prevents lower C-states across the suspend/resume. Remove the enforcement code, including the conditional broadcast timer arming, which helped to pamper over the real problem for quite a time. The oneshot broadcast flag for the cpu, which runs the resume code can never be set at the time when this code is executed. It only gets set, when the CPU is entering a lower idle C-State. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* signalfd simplificationDavide Libenzi2007-09-203-15/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This simplifies signalfd code, by avoiding it to remain attached to the sighand during its lifetime. In this way, the signalfd remain attached to the sighand only during poll(2) (and select and epoll) and read(2). This also allows to remove all the custom "tsk == current" checks in kernel/signal.c, since dequeue_signal() will only be called by "current". I think this is also what Ben was suggesting time ago. The external effect of this, is that a thread can extract only its own private signals and the group ones. I think this is an acceptable behaviour, in that those are the signals the thread would be able to fetch w/out signalfd. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sched: fix invalid sched_class useHiroshi Shimamoto2007-09-191-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When using rt_mutex, a NULL pointer dereference is occurred at enqueue_task_rt. Here is a scenario; 1) there are two threads, the thread A is fair_sched_class and thread B is rt_sched_class. 2) Thread A is boosted up to rt_sched_class, because the thread A has a rt_mutex lock and the thread B is waiting the lock. 3) At this time, when thread A create a new thread C, the thread C has a rt_sched_class. 4) When doing wake_up_new_task() for the thread C, the priority of the thread C is out of the RT priority range, because the normal priority of thread A is not the RT priority. It makes data corruption by overflowing the rt_prio_array. The new thread C should be fair_sched_class. The new thread should be valid scheduler class before queuing. This patch fixes to set the suitable scheduler class. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
* sched: add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_compat_yieldIngo Molnar2007-09-193-10/+66
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_compat_yield to make sys_sched_yield() more agressive, by moving the yielding task to the last position in the rbtree. with sched_compat_yield=0: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2539 mingo 20 0 1576 252 204 R 50 0.0 0:02.03 loop_yield 2541 mingo 20 0 1576 244 196 R 50 0.0 0:02.05 loop with sched_compat_yield=1: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2584 mingo 20 0 1576 248 196 R 99 0.0 0:52.45 loop 2582 mingo 20 0 1576 256 204 R 0 0.0 0:00.00 loop_yield Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
* Fix user namespace exiting OOPsPavel Emelyanov2007-09-192-2/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It turned out, that the user namespace is released during the do_exit() in exit_task_namespaces(), but the struct user_struct is released only during the put_task_struct(), i.e. MUCH later. On debug kernels with poisoned slabs this will cause the oops in uid_hash_remove() because the head of the chain, which resides inside the struct user_namespace, will be already freed and poisoned. Since the uid hash itself is required only when someone can search it, i.e. when the namespace is alive, we can safely unhash all the user_struct-s from it during the namespace exiting. The subsequent free_uid() will complete the user_struct destruction. For example simple program #include <sched.h> char stack[2 * 1024 * 1024]; int f(void *foo) { return 0; } int main(void) { clone(f, stack + 1 * 1024 * 1024, 0x10000000, 0); return 0; } run on kernel with CONFIG_USER_NS turned on will oops the kernel immediately. This was spotted during OpenVZ kernel testing. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Acked-by: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Convert uid hash to hlistPavel Emelyanov2007-09-192-8/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | Surprisingly, but (spotted by Alexey Dobriyan) the uid hash still uses list_heads, thus occupying twice as much place as it could. Convert it to hlist_heads. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kernel/user.c: Use list_for_each_entry instead of list_for_eachMatthias Kaehlcke2007-09-191-6/+2
| | | | | | | | | kernel/user.c: Convert list_for_each to list_for_each_entry in uid_hash_find() Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Fix UTS corruption during clone(CLONE_NEWUTS)Alexey Dobriyan2007-09-191-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | struct utsname is copied from master one without any exclusion. Here is sample output from one proggie doing sethostname("aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"); sethostname("bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb"); and another clone(,, CLONE_NEWUTS, ...) uname() hostname = 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabbbbb' hostname = 'bbbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa' hostname = 'aaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb' hostname = 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabbbb' hostname = 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabb' hostname = 'aaabbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb' hostname = 'bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbaaaaaaaaaaaaaa' Hostname is sometimes corrupted. Yes, even _the_ simplest namespace activity had bug in it. :-( Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* clockevents: prevent stale tick update on offline cpuThomas Gleixner2007-09-161-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Taking a cpu offline removes the cpu from the online mask before the CPU_DEAD notification is done. The clock events layer does the cleanup of the dead CPU from the CPU_DEAD notifier chain. tick_do_timer_cpu is used to avoid xtime lock contention by assigning the task of jiffies xtime updates to one CPU. If a CPU is taken offline, then this assignment becomes stale. This went unnoticed because most of the time the offline CPU went dead before the online CPU reached __cpu_die(), where the CPU_DEAD state is checked. In the case that the offline CPU did not reach the DEAD state before we reach __cpu_die(), the code in there goes to sleep for 100ms. Due to the stale time update assignment, the system is stuck forever. Take the assignment away when a cpu is not longer in the cpu_online_mask. We do this in the last call to tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() when the offline CPU is on the way to the final play_dead() idle entry. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* clockevents: do not shutdown the oneshot broadcast deviceThomas Gleixner2007-09-161-7/+4
| | | | | | | | | | When a cpu goes offline it is removed from the broadcast masks. If the mask becomes empty the code shuts down the broadcast device. This is wrong, because the broadcast device needs to be ready for the online cpu going idle (into a c-state, which stops the local apic timer). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* clockevents: Enforce oneshot broadcast when broadcast mask is set on resumeThomas Gleixner2007-09-161-1/+12
| | | | | | | | | | The jinxed VAIO refuses to resume without hitting keys on the keyboard when this is not enforced. It is unclear why the cpu ends up in a lower C State without notifying the clock events layer, but enforcing the oneshot broadcast here is safe. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* timekeeping: Prevent time going backwards on resumeThomas Gleixner2007-09-161-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Timekeeping resume adjusts xtime by adding the slept time in seconds and resets the reference value of the clock source (clock->cycle_last). clock->cycle last is used to calculate the delta between the last xtime update and the readout of the clock source in __get_nsec_offset(). xtime plus the offset is the current time. The resume code ignores the delta which had already elapsed between the last xtime update and the actual time of suspend. If the suspend time is short, then we can see time going backwards on resume. Suspend: offs_s = clock->read() - clock->cycle_last; now = xtime + offs_s; timekeeping_suspend_time = read_rtc(); Resume: sleep_time = read_rtc() - timekeeping_suspend_time; xtime.tv_sec += sleep_time; clock->cycle_last = clock->read(); offs_r = clock->read() - clock->cycle_last; now = xtime + offs_r; if sleep_time_seconds == 0 and offs_r < offs_s, then time goes backwards. Fix this by storing the offset from the last xtime update and add it to xtime during resume, when we reset clock->cycle_last: sleep_time = read_rtc() - timekeeping_suspend_time; xtime.tv_sec += sleep_time; xtime += offs_s; /* Fixup xtime offset at suspend time */ clock->cycle_last = clock->read(); offs_r = clock->read() - clock->cycle_last; now = xtime + offs_r; Thanks to Marcelo for tracking this down on the OLPC and providing the necessary details to analyze the root cause. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>
* timekeeping: access rtc outside of xtime lockThomas Gleixner2007-09-161-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Lockdep complains about the access of rtc in timekeeping_suspend inside the interrupt disabled region of the write locked xtime lock. Move the access outside. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
* Fix "no_sync_cmos_clock" logic inversion in kernel/time/ntp.cTony Breeds2007-09-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Seems to me that this timer will only get started on platforms that say they don't want it? Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Restore call_usermodehelper_pipe() behaviourMichael Ellerman2007-09-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The semantics of call_usermodehelper_pipe() used to be that it would fork the helper, and wait for the kernel thread to be started. This was implemented by setting sub_info.wait to 0 (implicitly), and doing a wait_for_completion(). As part of the cleanup done in 0ab4dc92278a0f3816e486d6350c6652a72e06c8, call_usermodehelper_pipe() was changed to pass 1 as the value for wait to call_usermodehelper_exec(). This is equivalent to setting sub_info.wait to 1, which is a change from the previous behaviour. Using 1 instead of 0 causes __call_usermodehelper() to start the kernel thread running wait_for_helper(), rather than directly calling ____call_usermodehelper(). The end result is that the calling kernel code blocks until the user mode helper finishes. As the helper is expecting input on stdin, and now no one is writing anything, everything locks up (observed in do_coredump). The fix is to change the 1 to UMH_WAIT_EXEC (aka 0), indicating that we want to wait for the kernel thread to be started, but not for the helper to finish. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* futex_compat: fix list traversal bugsArnd Bergmann2007-09-111-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The futex list traversal on the compat side appears to have a bug. It's loop termination condition compares: while (compat_ptr(uentry) != &head->list) But that can't be right because "uentry" has the special "pi" indicator bit still potentially set at bit 0. This is cleared by fetch_robust_entry() into the "entry" return value. What this seems to mean is that the list won't terminate when list iteration gets back to the the head. And we'll also process the list head like a normal entry, which could cause all kinds of problems. So we should check for equality with "entry". That pointer is of the non-compat type so we have to do a little casting to keep the compiler and sparse happy. The same problem can in theory occur with the 'pending' variable, although that has not been reported from users so far. Based on the original patch from David Miller. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Fix spurious syscall tracing after PTRACE_DETACH + PTRACE_ATTACHRoland McGrath2007-09-101-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When PTRACE_SYSCALL was used and then PTRACE_DETACH is used, the TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE flag is left set on the formerly-traced task. This means that when a new tracer comes along and does PTRACE_ATTACH, it's possible he gets a syscall tracing stop even though he's never used PTRACE_SYSCALL. This happens if the task was in the middle of a system call when the second PTRACE_ATTACH was done. The symptom is an unexpected SIGTRAP when the tracer thinks that only SIGSTOP should have been provoked by his ptrace calls so far. A few machines already fixed this in ptrace_disable (i386, ia64, m68k). But all other machines do not, and still have this bug. On x86_64, this constitutes a regression in IA32 compatibility support. Since all machines now use TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE for this, I put the clearing of TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE in the generic ptrace_detach code rather than adding it to every other machine's ptrace_disable. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sched: fix ideal_runtime calculations for reniced tasksPeter Zijlstra2007-09-051-16/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | fix ideal_runtime: - do not scale it using niced_granularity() it is against sum_exec_delta, so its wall-time, not fair-time. - move the whole check into __check_preempt_curr_fair() so that wakeup preemption can also benefit from the new logic. this also results in code size reduction: text data bss dec hex filename 13391 228 1204 14823 39e7 sched.o.before 13369 228 1204 14801 39d1 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: improve prev_sum_exec_runtime settingPeter Zijlstra2007-09-051-3/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Second preparatory patch for fix-ideal runtime: Mark prev_sum_exec_runtime at the beginning of our run, the same spot that adds our wait period to wait_runtime. This seems a more natural location to do this, and it also reduces the code a bit: text data bss dec hex filename 13397 228 1204 14829 39ed sched.o.before 13391 228 1204 14823 39e7 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: simplify __check_preempt_curr_fair()Peter Zijlstra2007-09-051-5/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Preparatory patch for fix-ideal-runtime: simplify __check_preempt_curr_fair(): get rid of the integer return. text data bss dec hex filename 13404 228 1204 14836 39f4 sched.o.before 13393 228 1204 14825 39e9 sched.o.after functionality is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: fix xtensa build warningIngo Molnar2007-09-051-3/+3
| | | | | | | | rename RSR to SRR - 'RSR' is already defined on xtensa. found by Adrian Bunk. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: debug: fix sum_exec_runtime clearingIngo Molnar2007-09-051-0/+1
| | | | | | when cleaning sched-stats also clear prev_sum_exec_runtime. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: debug: fix cfs_rq->wait_runtime accountingIngo Molnar2007-09-052-6/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | the cfs_rq->wait_runtime debug/statistics counter was not maintained properly - fix this. this also removes some code: text data bss dec hex filename 13420 228 1204 14852 3a04 sched.o.before 13404 228 1204 14836 39f4 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
* sched: fix niced_granularity() shiftIngo Molnar2007-09-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | fix niced_granularity(). This resulted in under-scheduling for CPU-bound negative nice level tasks (and this in turn caused higher than necessary latencies in nice-0 tasks). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: fix MC/HT scheduler optimization, without breaking the FUZZ logic.Suresh Siddha2007-09-051-5/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | First fix the check if (*imbalance + SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ < busiest_load_per_task) with this if (*imbalance < busiest_load_per_task) As the current check is always false for nice 0 tasks (as SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ is same as busiest_load_per_task for nice 0 tasks). With the above change, imbalance was getting reset to 0 in the corner case condition, making the FUZZ logic fail. Fix it by not corrupting the imbalance and change the imbalance, only when it finds that the HT/MC optimization is needed. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-schedLinus Torvalds2007-08-312-11/+36
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched: sched: clean up task_new_fair() sched: small schedstat fix sched: fix wait_start_fair condition in update_stats_wait_end() sched: call update_curr() in task_tick_fair() sched: make the scheduler converge to the ideal latency sched: fix sleeper bonus limit
| * sched: clean up task_new_fair()Ingo Molnar2007-08-281-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cleanup: we have the 'se' and 'curr' entity-pointers already, no need to use p->se and current->se. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
| * sched: small schedstat fixIngo Molnar2007-08-281-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | small schedstat fix: the cfs_rq->wait_runtime 'sum of all runtimes' statistics counters missed newly forked tasks and thus had a constant negative skew. Fix this. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
| * sched: fix wait_start_fair condition in update_stats_wait_end()Ingo Molnar2007-08-281-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Peter Zijlstra noticed the following bug in SCHED_FEAT_SKIP_INITIAL (which is disabled by default at the moment): it relies on se.wait_start_fair being 0 while update_stats_wait_end() did not recognize a 0 value, so instead of 'skipping' the initial interval we gave the new child a maximum boost of +runtime-limit ... (No impact on the default kernel, but nice to fix for completeness.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
| * sched: call update_curr() in task_tick_fair()Ting Yang2007-08-281-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | update the fair-clock before using it for the key value. [ mingo@elte.hu: small cleanups. ] Signed-off-by: Ting Yang <tingy@cs.umass.edu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
| * sched: make the scheduler converge to the ideal latencyIngo Molnar2007-08-282-4/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | de-HZ-ification of the granularity defaults unearthed a pre-existing property of CFS: while it correctly converges to the granularity goal, it does not prevent run-time fluctuations in the range of [-gran ... 0 ... +gran]. With the increase of the granularity due to the removal of HZ dependencies, this becomes visible in chew-max output (with 5 tasks running): out: 28 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 9 . 13 | per: 37 . 40 out: 27 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 17 . 13 | per: 44 . 40 out: 27 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 9 . 13 | per: 36 . 40 out: 29 . 27. 32 | flu: 2 . 0 | ran: 17 . 13 | per: 46 . 40 out: 28 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 9 . 13 | per: 37 . 40 out: 29 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 18 . 13 | per: 47 . 40 out: 28 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 9 . 13 | per: 37 . 40 average slice is the ideal 13 msecs and the period is picture-perfect 40 msecs. But the 'ran' field fluctuates around 13.33 msecs and there's no mechanism in CFS to keep that from happening: it's a perfectly valid solution that CFS finds. to fix this we add a granularity/preemption rule that knows about the "target latency", which makes tasks that run longer than the ideal latency run a bit less. The simplest approach is to simply decrease the preemption granularity when a task overruns its ideal latency. For this we have to track how much the task executed since its last preemption. ( this adds a new field to task_struct, but we can eliminate that overhead in 2.6.24 by putting all the scheduler timestamps into an anonymous union. ) with this change in place, chew-max output is fluctuation-less all around: out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 2 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40 out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 2 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40 out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 2 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40 out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 2 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40 out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 1 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40 out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 1 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40 this patch has no impact on any fastpath or on any globally observable scheduling property. (unless you have sharp enough eyes to see millisecond-level ruckles in glxgears smoothness :-) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
| * sched: fix sleeper bonus limitMike Galbraith2007-08-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is an Amarok song switch time increase (regression) under hefty load. What is happening is that sleeper_bonus is never consumed, and only rarely goes below runtime_limit, so for the most part, Amarok isn't getting any bonus at all. We're keeping sleeper_bonus right at runtime_limit (sched_latency == sched_runtime_limit == 40ms) forever, ie we don't consume if we're lower that that, and don't add if we're above it. One Amarok thread waking (or anybody else) will push us past the threshold, so the next thread waking gets nada, but will reap pain from the previous thread waking until we drop back to runtime_limit. It looks to me like under load, some random task gets a bonus, and everybody else pays, whether deserving or not. This diff fixed the regression for me at any load rate. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
* | sigqueue_free: fix the race with collect_signal()Oleg Nesterov2007-08-311-10/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spotted by taoyue <yue.tao@windriver.com> and Jeremy Katz <jeremy.katz@windriver.com>. collect_signal: sigqueue_free: list_del_init(&first->list); if (!list_empty(&q->list)) { // not taken } q->flags &= ~SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC; __sigqueue_free(first); __sigqueue_free(q); Now, __sigqueue_free() is called twice on the same "struct sigqueue" with the obviously bad implications. In particular, this double free breaks the array_cache->avail logic, so the same sigqueue could be "allocated" twice, and the bug can manifest itself via the "impossible" BUG_ON(!SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC) in sigqueue_free/send_sigqueue. Hopefully this can explain these mysterious bug-reports, see http://marc.info/?t=118766926500003 http://marc.info/?t=118466273000005 Alexey Dobriyan reports this patch makes the difference for the testcase, but nobody has an access to the application which opened the problems originally. Also, this patch removes tasklist lock/unlock, ->siglock is enough. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: taoyue <yue.tao@windriver.com> Cc: Jeremy Katz <jeremy.katz@windriver.com> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | userns: don't leak root userAlexey Dobriyan2007-08-311-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Acked-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | request_irq: fix DEBUG_SHIRQ handlingJarek Poplawski2007-08-311-7/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mariusz Kozlowski reported lockdep's warning: > ================================= > [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] > 2.6.23-rc2-mm1 #7 > --------------------------------- > inconsistent {in-hardirq-W} -> {hardirq-on-W} usage. > ifconfig/5492 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes: > (&tp->lock){+...}, at: [<de8706e0>] rtl8139_interrupt+0x27/0x46b [8139too] > {in-hardirq-W} state was registered at: > [<c0138eeb>] __lock_acquire+0x949/0x11ac > [<c01397e7>] lock_acquire+0x99/0xb2 > [<c0452ff3>] _spin_lock+0x35/0x42 > [<de8706e0>] rtl8139_interrupt+0x27/0x46b [8139too] > [<c0147a5d>] handle_IRQ_event+0x28/0x59 > [<c01493ca>] handle_level_irq+0xad/0x10b > [<c0105a13>] do_IRQ+0x93/0xd0 > [<c010441e>] common_interrupt+0x2e/0x34 ... > other info that might help us debug this: > 1 lock held by ifconfig/5492: > #0: (rtnl_mutex){--..}, at: [<c0451778>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f > > stack backtrace: ... > [<c0452ff3>] _spin_lock+0x35/0x42 > [<de8706e0>] rtl8139_interrupt+0x27/0x46b [8139too] > [<c01480fd>] free_irq+0x11b/0x146 > [<de871d59>] rtl8139_close+0x8a/0x14a [8139too] > [<c03bde63>] dev_close+0x57/0x74 ... This shows that a driver's irq handler was running both in hard interrupt and process contexts with irqs enabled. The latter was done during free_irq() call and was possible only with CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ enabled. This was fixed by another patch. But similar problem is possible with request_irq(): any locks taken from irq handler could be vulnerable - especially with soft interrupts. This patch fixes it by disabling local interrupts during handler's run. (It seems, disabling softirqs should be enough, but it needs more checking on possible races or other special cases). Reported-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | PM: Fix dependencies of CONFIG_SUSPEND and CONFIG_HIBERNATIONRafael J. Wysocki2007-08-312-12/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Dependencies of CONFIG_SUSPEND and CONFIG_HIBERNATION introduced by commit 296699de6bdc717189a331ab6bbe90e05c94db06 "Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND for suspend-to-Ram and standby" are incorrect, as they don't cover the facts that (1) not all architectures support suspend and (2) SMP hibernation is only possible on X86 and PPC64 (if CONFIG_PPC64_SWSUSP is set). Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | setpgid(child) fails if the child was forked by sub-threadOleg Nesterov2007-08-311-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spotted by Marcin Kowalczyk <qrczak@knm.org.pl>. sys_setpgid(child) fails if the child was forked by sub-thread. Fix the "is it our child" check. The previous commit ee0acf90d320c29916ba8c5c1b2e908d81f5057d was not complete. (this patch asks for the new same_thread_group() helper, but mainline doesn't have it yet). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Tested-by: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@knm.org.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Assign task_struct.exit_code before taskstats_exit()Jonathan Lim2007-08-311-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | taskstats.ac_exitcode is assigned to task_struct.exit_code in bacct_add_tsk() through the following kernel function calls: do_exit() taskstats_exit() fill_pid() bacct_add_tsk() The problem is that in do_exit(), task_struct.exit_code is set to 'code' only after taskstats_exit() has been called. So we need to move the assignment before taskstats_exit(). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Lim <jlim@sgi.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fix bogus hotplug cpu warningHugh Dickins2007-08-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Fix bogus DEBUG_PREEMPT warning on x86_64, when cpu brought online after bootup: current_is_keventd is right to note its use of smp_processor_id is preempt-safe, but should use raw_smp_processor_id to avoid the warning. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sched: s/sched_latency/sched_min_granularityIngo Molnar2007-08-251-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | runtime limit and wakeup granularity used to be a function of granularity and that was incorrect changed to sched_latency. Fix this to make wakeup granularity a function of min-granularity, and the runtime limit equal to latency. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: cleanup, sched_granularity -> sched_min_granularityIngo Molnar2007-08-253-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | due to adaptive granularity scheduling the role of sched_granularity has changed to "minimum granularity", so rename the variable (and the tunable) accordingly. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
* sched: adaptive scheduler granularityPeter Zijlstra2007-08-253-17/+85
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of specifying the preemption granularity, specify the wanted latency. By fixing the granlarity to a constany the wakeup latency it a function of the number of running tasks on the rq. Invert this relation. sysctl_sched_granularity becomes a minimum for the dynamic granularity computed from the new sysctl_sched_latency. Then use this latency to do more intelligent granularity decisions: if there are fewer tasks running then we can schedule coarser. This helps performance while still always keeping the latency target. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: fix CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG dependency of lockdep sysctlsPeter Zijlstra2007-08-251-9/+9
| | | | | | | Make the lockdep sysctls not depend on CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: fix startup penalty calculationIngo Molnar2007-08-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | fix task startup penalty miscalculation: sysctl_sched_granularity is unsigned int and wait_runtime is long so we first have to convert it to long before turning it negative ... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: simplify bonus calculation #2Peter Zijlstra2007-08-241-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | current code: delta = calc_delta_mine(delta_exec, curr->load.weight, lw); delta = min((u64)delta, cfs_rq->sleeper_bonus); Notice that this calc_delta_mine() line is exactly delta_mine, which gives: delta = min((u64)delta_mine, cfs_rq->sleeper_bonus); Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: simplify bonus calculation #1Peter Zijlstra2007-08-241-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | current code: delta = min(cfs_rq->sleeper_bonus, (u64)delta_exec); delta = calc_delta_mine(delta, curr->load.weight, lw); delta = min((u64)delta, cfs_rq->sleeper_bonus); drop the first min(), because we clip against sleeper_bonus in the 3rd line again. That gives: delta = calc_delta_mine(delta_exec, curr->load.weight, lw); delta = min((u64)delta, cfs_rq->sleeper_bonus); Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: tidy up and simplify the bonus balanceIngo Molnar2007-08-241-4/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | make the bonus balance more consistent: do not hand out a bonus if there's too much in flight already, and only deduct as much from a runner as it has the capacity. This makes the bonus engine a zero-sum game (as intended). this also simplifies the code: text data bss dec hex filename 34770 2998 24 37792 93a0 sched.o.before 34749 2998 24 37771 938b sched.o.after and it also avoids overscheduling in sleep-happy workloads like hackbench.c. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: optimize task_tick_rt() a bitDmitry Adamushko2007-08-241-3/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mitchell Erblich suggested a quality-of-implementation change to not requeue SCHED_RR tasks if there's only a single task on the runqueue, by checking for rq->nr_running == 1. provide a more efficient implementation of that, to check that particular RT priority-queue only. [ From: mingo@elte.hu ] Also first requeue the task then set need_resched - results in slightly better machine-instruction ordering. Also clean up the code a bit. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: simplify can_migrate_task()Sven-Thorsten Dietrich2007-08-241-6/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | Remove trivial conditional branch in Linux scheduler's can_migrate_task() function. text data bss dec hex filename 34770 2998 24 37792 93a0 sched.o.before 34757 2998 24 37779 9393 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sven@thebigcorporation.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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