GCC 4.5 introduces behavior that forces the alignment of structures to
use the largest possible value. The default value is 32 bytes, so if
some structures are defined with a 4-byte alignment and others aren't
declared with an alignment constraint at all - it will align at 32-bytes.
For things like the ftrace events, this results in a non-standard array.
When initializing the ftrace subsystem, we traverse the _ftrace_events
section and call the initialization callback for each event. When the
structures are misaligned, we could be treating another part of the
structure (or the zeroed out space between them) as a function pointer.
This patch forces the alignment for all the ftrace_event_call structures
to 4 bytes.
Without this patch, the kernel fails to boot very early when built with
gcc 4.5.
It's trivial to check the alignment of the members of the array, so it
might be worthwhile to add something to the build system to do that
automatically. Unfortunately, that only covers this case. I've asked one
of the gcc developers about adding a warning when this condition is seen.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B85770B.6010901@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, rcu_needs_cpu() simply checks whether the current CPU
has an outstanding RCU callback, which means that the last CPU
to go into dyntick-idle mode might wait a few ticks for the
relevant grace periods to complete. However, if all the other
CPUs are in dyntick-idle mode, and if this CPU is in a quiescent
state (which it is for RCU-bh and RCU-sched any time that we are
considering going into dyntick-idle mode), then the grace period
is instantly complete.
This patch therefore repeatedly invokes the RCU grace-period
machinery in order to force any needed grace periods to complete
quickly. It does so a limited number of times in order to
prevent starvation by an RCU callback function that might pass
itself to call_rcu().
However, if any CPU other than the current one is not in
dyntick-idle mode, fall back to simply checking (with fix to bug
noted by Lai Jiangshan). Also, take advantage of last
grace-period forcing, the opportunity to do so noted by Steve
Rostedt. And apply simplified #ifdef condition suggested by
Frederic Weisbecker.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-15-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Inspection is proving insufficient to catch all RCU misuses,
which is understandable given that rcu_dereference() might be
protected by any of four different flavors of RCU (RCU, RCU-bh,
RCU-sched, and SRCU), and might also/instead be protected by any
of a number of locking primitives. It is therefore time to
enlist the aid of lockdep.
This set of patches is inspired by earlier work by Peter
Zijlstra and Thomas Gleixner, and takes the following approach:
o Set up separate lockdep classes for RCU, RCU-bh, and RCU-sched.
o Set up separate lockdep classes for each instance of SRCU.
o Create primitives that check for being in an RCU read-side
critical section. These return exact answers if lockdep is
fully enabled, but if unsure, report being in an RCU read-side
critical section. (We want to avoid false positives!)
The primitives are:
For RCU: rcu_read_lock_held(void)
For RCU-bh: rcu_read_lock_bh_held(void)
For RCU-sched: rcu_read_lock_sched_held(void)
For SRCU: srcu_read_lock_held(struct srcu_struct *sp)
o Add rcu_dereference_check(), which takes a second argument
in which one places a boolean expression based on the above
primitives and/or lockdep_is_held().
o A new kernel configuration parameter, CONFIG_PROVE_RCU, enables
rcu_dereference_check(). This depends on CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING,
and should be quite helpful during the transition period while
CONFIG_PROVE_RCU-unaware patches are in flight.
The existing rcu_dereference() primitive does no checking, but
upcoming patches will change that.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Introduce run-time PM callbacks for the PCI bus type. Make the new
callbacks work in analogy with the existing system sleep PM
callbacks, so that the drivers already converted to struct dev_pm_ops
can use their suspend and resume routines for run-time PM without
modifications.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Now that we return the new resource start position, there is no
need to update "struct resource" inside the align function.
Therefore, mark the struct resource as const.
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Make remaining netlink policies as const.
Fixup coding style where needed.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
x86/mm is on 32-rc4 and missing the spinlock namespace changes which
are needed for further commits into this topic.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Most implementations of arch_syscall_addr() are the same, so create a
default version in common code and move the one piece that differs (the
syscall table) to asm/syscall.h. New arch ports don't have to waste
time copying & pasting this simple function.
The s390/sparc versions need to be different, so document why.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1264498803-17278-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
setscheduler() saves task->sched_class outside of the rq->lock held
region for a check after the setscheduler changes have become
effective. That might result in checking a stale value.
rtmutex_setprio() has the same problem, though it is protected by
p->pi_lock against setscheduler(), but for correctness sake (and to
avoid bad examples) it needs to be fixed as well.
Retrieve task->sched_class inside of the rq->lock held region.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Re-arrange the code so that when someone disables nmi_watchdog
with:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
it releases the hardware reservation on the PMUs. This allows
the oprofile module to grab those PMUs and do its thing.
Otherwise oprofile fails to load because the hardware is
reserved by the perf_events subsystem.
Tested using:
oprofile --vm-linux --start
and watched it failed when nmi_watchdog is enabled and succeed
when:
oprofile --deinit && echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
is run.
Note: this has the side quirk of having the nmi_watchdog latch
onto the software events instead of hardware events if oprofile
has already reserved the hardware first. User beware! :-)
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com
Cc: aris@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@google.com
LKML-Reference: <1266357892-30504-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This makes the range reservation feature available to other
architectures.
-v2: add get_max_mapped, max_pfn_mapped only defined in x86...
to fix PPC compiling
-v3: according to hpa, add CONFIG_HAVE_EARLY_RES
-v4: fix typo about EARLY_RES in config
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B7B5723.4070009@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
This patch fixes following sparse warnings:
include/linux/kfifo.h:127:25: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
kernel/kfifo.c:83:21: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
After kfifo rework it's no longer possible to reliably know if kfifo is
usable, since after kfifo_free(), kfifo_initialized() would still return
true. The correct behaviour is needed for at least FHCI USB driver.
This patch fixes the issue by resetting the kfifo to zero values (the
same approach is used in kfifo_alloc() if allocation failed).
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Conflicts: kernel/sched.c
Necessary due to the urgent fixes which conflict with the code move
from sched.c to sched_fair.c
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thomas found that due to ttwu() changing a task's cpu without holding
the rq->lock, task_rq_lock() might end up locking the wrong rq.
Avoid this by serializing against TASK_WAKING.
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1266241712.15770.420.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fix a SMT scheduler performance regression that is leading to a scenario
where SMT threads in one core are completely idle while both the SMT threads
in another core (on the same socket) are busy.
This is caused by this commit (with the problematic code highlighted)
commit bdb94aa5db
Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date: Tue Sep 1 10:34:38 2009 +0200
sched: Try to deal with low capacity
@@ -4203,15 +4223,18 @@ find_busiest_queue()
...
for_each_cpu(i, sched_group_cpus(group)) {
+ unsigned long power = power_of(i);
...
- wl = weighted_cpuload(i);
+ wl = weighted_cpuload(i) * SCHED_LOAD_SCALE;
+ wl /= power;
- if (rq->nr_running == 1 && wl > imbalance)
+ if (capacity && rq->nr_running == 1 && wl > imbalance)
continue;
On a SMT system, power of the HT logical cpu will be 589 and
the scheduler load imbalance (for scenarios like the one mentioned above)
can be approximately 1024 (SCHED_LOAD_SCALE). The above change of scaling
the weighted load with the power will result in "wl > imbalance" and
ultimately resulting in find_busiest_queue() return NULL, causing
load_balance() to think that the load is well balanced. But infact
one of the tasks can be moved to the idle core for optimal performance.
We don't need to use the weighted load (wl) scaled by the cpu power to
compare with imabalance. In that condition, we already know there is only a
single task "rq->nr_running == 1" and the comparison between imbalance,
wl is to make sure that we select the correct priority thread which matches
imbalance. So we really need to compare the imabalnce with the original
weighted load of the cpu and not the scaled load.
But in other conditions where we want the most hammered(busiest) cpu, we can
use scaled load to ensure that we consider the cpu power in addition to the
actual load on that cpu, so that we can move the load away from the
guy that is getting most hammered with respect to the actual capacity,
as compared with the rest of the cpu's in that busiest group.
Fix it.
Reported-by: Ma Ling <ling.ma@intel.com>
Initial-Analysis-by: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1266023662.2808.118.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.32.x]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf top: Fix help text alignment
perf: Fix hypervisor sample reporting
perf: Make bp_len type to u64 generic across the arch
Commit 22e19085 ("Honour event state for aux stream data")
introduced a bug where we would drop FORK events.
The thing is that we deliver FORK events to the child process'
event, which at that time will be PERF_EVENT_STATE_INACTIVE
because the child won't be scheduled in (we're in the middle of
fork).
Solve this twice, change the event state filter to exclude only
disabled (STATE_OFF) or worse, and deliver FORK events to the
current (parent).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
LKML-Reference: <1266142324.5273.411.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Not all arches have a PMU or have perf_event support for their
PMU. The nmi_watchdog will fail in those cases. Fallback to
using software events to generate nmi_watchdog traffic with
local apic interrupts.
Tested on a Pentium4 and it worked as expected, excepting for
detecting cpu lockups.
The problem with using software events as a cpu lock up detector
is the nmi_watchdog uses the logic that if local apic interrupts
stop incrementing then the cpu is probably locked up. But with
software events we use the local apic to trigger the
nmi_watchdog callback to see if local apic interrupts are still
firing, which obviously they are otherwise we wouldn't have been
triggered.
The algorithm to detect cpu lock ups is the same as the old
nmi_watchdog. Perhaps we need to find a better way to detect
lock ups?
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com
Cc: aris@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1266013161-31197-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Generic support for PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET commands which
export the regsets supported by each architecture using the correponding
NT_* types. These NT_* types are already part of the userland ABI, used
in representing the architecture specific register sets as different NOTES
in an ELF core file.
'addr' parameter for the ptrace system call encode the REGSET type (using
the corresppnding NT_* type) and the 'data' parameter points to the
struct iovec having the user buffer and the length of that buffer.
struct iovec iov = { buf, len};
ret = ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET, pid, NT_XXX_TYPE, &iov);
On successful completion, iov.len will be updated by the kernel specifying
how much the kernel has written/read to/from the user's iov.buf.
x86 extended state registers are primarily exported using this interface.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100211195614.886724710@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Acked-by: Hongjiu Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
I don't see why we can only clear all functions from the filter.
After patching:
# echo sys_open > set_graph_function
# echo sys_close >> set_graph_function
# cat set_graph_function
sys_open
sys_close
# echo '!sys_close' >> set_graph_function
# cat set_graph_function
sys_open
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B726388.2000408@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
