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Gautham R Shenoy
381be78fdc sched: Define structure to store the sched_group statistics for fbg()
Impact: cleanup

Currently a whole bunch of variables are used to store the
various statistics pertaining to the groups we iterate over
in find_busiest_group().

Group them together in a single data structure and add
appropriate comments.

This will be useful later on when we create helper functions
to calculate the sched_group statistics.

Credit: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090325091345.13992.20099.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25 10:30:45 +01:00
Gautham R Shenoy
6dfdb06290 sched: Fix indentations in find_busiest_group() using gotos
Impact: cleanup

Some indentations in find_busiest_group() can minimized by using
early exits with the help of gotos. This improves readability in
a couple of cases.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Vaidyanathan Srinivasan" <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090325091340.13992.45062.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25 10:30:44 +01:00
Gautham R Shenoy
67bb6c036d sched: Simple helper functions for find_busiest_group()
Impact: cleanup

Currently the load idx calculation code is in find_busiest_group().
Move that to a static inline helper function.

Similary, to find the first cpu of a sched_group we use
cpumask_first(sched_group_cpus(group))

Use a helper to that. It improves readability in some cases.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Dhaval Giani" <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Vaidyanathan Srinivasan" <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090325091335.13992.55424.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-25 10:30:44 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
b6d9842258 Merge branch 'sched/cleanups'; commit 'v2.6.29' into sched/core 2009-03-25 10:26:51 +01:00
Jason Baron
e9d376f0fa dynamic debug: combine dprintk and dynamic printk
This patch combines Greg Bank's dprintk() work with the existing dynamic
printk patchset, we are now calling it 'dynamic debug'.

The new feature of this patchset is a richer /debugfs control file interface,
(an example output from my system is at the bottom), which allows fined grained
control over the the debug output. The output can be controlled by function,
file, module, format string, and line number.

for example, enabled all debug messages in module 'nf_conntrack':

echo -n 'module nf_conntrack +p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control

to disable them:

echo -n 'module nf_conntrack -p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control

A further explanation can be found in the documentation patch.

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:26 -07:00
Luis Henriques
67aa0f767a sched: remove unused fields from struct rq
Impact: cleanup, new schedstat ABI

Since they are used on in statistics and are always set to zero, the
following fields from struct rq have been removed: yld_exp_empty,
yld_act_empty and yld_both_empty.

Both Sched Debug and SCHEDSTAT_VERSION versions has also been
incremented since ABIs have been changed.

The schedtop tool has been updated to properly handle new version of
schedstat:

   http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Schedtop_utility

Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@sapo.pt>
Acked-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090324221002.GA10061@hades.domain.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-24 23:16:51 +01:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
9e41d9597e Merge commit 'origin/master' into next 2009-03-24 13:38:30 +11:00
James Morris
703a3cd728 Merge branch 'master' into next 2009-03-24 10:52:46 +11:00
Oleg Nesterov
37bebc70d7 posix timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && fork()
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12911

copy_signal() copies signal->rlim, but RLIMIT_CPU is "lost". Because
posix_cpu_timers_init_group() sets cputime_expires.prof_exp = 0 and thus
fastpath_timer_check() returns false unless we have other cpu timers.

This is the minimal fix for 2.6.29 (tested) and 2.6.28. The patch is not
optimal, we need further cleanups here. With this patch update_rlimit_cpu()
is not really needed, but I don't think it should be removed.

The proper fix (I think) is:

	- set_process_cpu_timer() should just start the cputimer->running
	  logic (it does), no need to change cputime_expires.xxx_exp

	- posix_cpu_timers_init_group() should set ->running when needed

	- fastpath_timer_check() can check ->running instead of
	  task_cputime_zero(signal->cputime_expires)

Reported-by: Peter Lojkin <ia6432@inbox.ru>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [for 2.6.29.x]
LKML-Reference: <20090323193411.GA17514@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-23 20:43:35 +01:00
Miklos Szeredi
53da1d9456 fix ptrace slowness
This patch fixes bug #12208:

  Bug-Entry       : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12208
  Subject         : uml is very slow on 2.6.28 host

This turned out to be not a scheduler regression, but an already
existing problem in ptrace being triggered by subtle scheduler
changes.

The problem is this:

 - task A is ptracing task B
 - task B stops on a trace event
 - task A is woken up and preempts task B
 - task A calls ptrace on task B, which does ptrace_check_attach()
 - this calls wait_task_inactive(), which sees that task B is still on the runq
 - task A goes to sleep for a jiffy
 - ...

Since UML does lots of the above sequences, those jiffies quickly add
up to make it slow as hell.

This patch solves this by not rescheduling in read_unlock() after
ptrace_stop() has woken up the tracer.

Thanks to Oleg Nesterov and Ingo Molnar for the feedback.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-23 09:22:31 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
efd247fa34 Merge branches 'sched/debug' and 'linus' into sched/core 2009-03-23 16:53:20 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
b3e3b302cf Merge branches 'irq/sparseirq' and 'linus' into irq/core 2009-03-23 10:07:49 +01:00
Luis Henriques
af66df5ecf sched: jiffies not printed per CPU
The jiffies value was being printed for each CPU, which does not seem to make
sense.  Moved jiffies to system section.

Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@sapo.pt>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090318000425.GA2228@hades.domain.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-18 09:57:26 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
6e2b75740b module: fix refptr allocation and release order
Impact: fix ref-after-free crash on failed module load

Fix refptr bug: Change refptr allocation and release order not to access a module
data structure pointed by 'mod' after freeing mod->module_core.
This bug will cause kernel panic(e.g. failed to find undefined symbols).

This bug was reported on systemtap bugzilla.
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9927

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-18 09:31:21 +10:30
Luis Henriques
708dc51253 sched: small optimisation of can_migrate_task()
There were 3 invocations of task_hot() in can_migrate_task().

Replace these 3 invocations by only one invocation, cached in
a local variable.

Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@sapo.pt>
LKML-Reference: <20090316195902.GA6197@hades.domain.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-17 12:04:41 +01:00
Luis Henriques
80dd99b368 sched: fix typos in documentation
Fixed typos in function documentation.

Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@sapo.pt>
LKML-Reference: <20090316195809.GA6073@hades.domain.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-17 12:04:40 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
edb35028e4 Merge branches 'irq/genirq' and 'linus' into irq/core 2009-03-16 09:20:13 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
0e57aa11ab genirq: deprecate __do_IRQ
Two years migration time is enough. Remove the compability cruft.

Add the deprecated warning in kernel/irq/handle.c because marking
__do_IRQ itself is way too noisy.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-03-13 16:34:02 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
4553573277 genirq: use kzalloc instead of explicit zero initialization
Impact: simplification

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2009-03-13 14:32:29 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
c8e2aeef0b genirq: remove redundant if condition
Impact: cleanup

The code is only compiled if CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS=y so another
check for this define in the code is redundant. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-03-13 14:32:28 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
88f502fedb futex: remove the pointer math from double_unlock_hb, fix
Impact: fix double unlock crash

Thomas Gleixner noticed that the simplified double_unlock_hb()
became ... too unsophisticated: in the hb1 == hb2 case it will
do a double unlock.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090312221118.11146.68610.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13 10:32:07 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
f6411fe7e0 Merge branches 'sched/clock', 'sched/urgent' and 'linus' into sched/core 2009-03-13 04:50:44 +01:00
Darren Hart
f061d35150 futex: remove the pointer math from double_unlock_hb
Impact: simplify code

I mistakenly included the pointer value ordering in the
double_unlock_hb() in my previous patch. It's only necessary
in the double_lock_hb() function. This patch removes it.

Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
LKML-Reference: <20090312221118.11146.68610.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13 01:15:46 +01:00
Magnus Damm
eb53b4e8fe irq: export remove_irq() and setup_irq() symbols
Export the setup_irq() and remove_irq() symbols.

I'd like to export these functions since I have timer
code that needs to use setup_irq() early on (too early
for request_irq()), and the same code can also be
compiled as a module.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
LKML-Reference: <20090312120559.2926.82371.sendpatchset@rx1.opensource.se>
[ changed to _GPL as these are special APIs deep inside the irq layer. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-12 13:16:33 +01:00
Magnus Damm
cbf94f0682 irq: match remove_irq() args with setup_irq()
Modify remove_irq() to match setup_irq().

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
LKML-Reference: <20090312120551.2926.43942.sendpatchset@rx1.opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-12 13:16:33 +01:00
Magnus Damm
f21cfb258d irq: add remove_irq() for freeing of setup_irq() irqs
Impact: add new API

This patch adds a remove_irq() function for releasing
interrupts requested with setup_irq().

Without this patch we have no way of releasing such
interrupts since free_irq() today tries to kfree()
the irqaction passed with setup_irq().

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
LKML-Reference: <20090312120542.2926.56609.sendpatchset@rx1.opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-12 13:16:32 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
f8cb22cbb8 Merge branch 'linus' into irq/genirq 2009-03-12 13:16:18 +01:00
Darren Hart
e4dc5b7a36 futex: clean up fault logic
Impact: cleanup

Older versions of the futex code held the mmap_sem which had to
be dropped in order to call get_user(), so a two-pronged fault
handling mechanism was employed to handle faults of the atomic
operations.  The mmap_sem is no longer held, so get_user()
should be adequate.  This patch greatly simplifies the logic and
improves legibility.

Build and boot tested on a 4 way Intel x86_64 workstation.
Passes basic pthread_mutex and PI tests out of
ltp/testcases/realtime.

Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
LKML-Reference: <20090312075612.9856.48612.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-12 11:20:57 +01:00
Darren Hart
e8f6386c01 futex: unlock before returning -EFAULT
Impact: rt-mutex failure case fix

futex_lock_pi can potentially return -EFAULT with the rt_mutex
held.  This seems like the wrong thing to do as userspace should
assume -EFAULT means the lock was not taken.  Even if it could
figure this out, we'd be leaving the pi_state->owner in an
inconsistent state.  This patch unlocks the rt_mutex prior to
returning -EFAULT to userspace.

Build and boot tested on a 4 way Intel x86_64 workstation.
Passes basic pthread_mutex and PI tests out of
ltp/testcases/realtime.

Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
LKML-Reference: <20090312075606.9856.88729.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-12 11:20:57 +01:00
Darren Hart
16f4993f4e futex: use current->time_slack_ns for rt tasks too
RT tasks should set their timer slack to 0 on their own.  This
patch removes the 'if (rt_task()) slack = 0;' block in
futex_wait.

Build and boot tested on a 4 way Intel x86_64 workstation.
Passes basic pthread_mutex and PI tests out of
ltp/testcases/realtime.

Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090312075559.9856.28822.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-12 11:20:57 +01:00
Darren Hart
5eb3dc62fc futex: add double_unlock_hb()
Impact: cleanup

The futex code uses double_lock_hb() which locks the hb->lock's
in pointer value order.  There is no parallel unlock routine,
and the code unlocks them in name order, ignoring pointer value.

This patch adds double_unlock_hb() to refactor the duplicated
code segments.

Build and boot tested on a 4 way Intel x86_64 workstation.
Passes basic pthread_mutex and PI tests out of
ltp/testcases/realtime.

Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
LKML-Reference: <20090312075552.9856.48021.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-12 11:20:56 +01:00
Darren Hart
de87fcc124 futex: additional (get|put)_futex_key() fixes
Impact: fix races

futex_requeue and futex_lock_pi still had some bad
(get|put)_futex_key() usage. This patch adds the missing
put_futex_keys() and corrects a goto in futex_lock_pi() to avoid
a double get.

Build and boot tested on a 4 way Intel x86_64 workstation.
Passes basic pthread_mutex and PI tests out of
ltp/testcases/realtime.

Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
LKML-Reference: <20090312075545.9856.75152.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-12 11:20:56 +01:00
Darren Hart
b2d0994b13 futex: update futex commentary
Impact: cleanup

The futex_hash_bucket can be a bit confusing when first looking
at the code as it is a shared queue (and futex_q isn't a queue
at all, but rather an element on the queue).

The mmap_sem is no longer held outside of the
futex_handle_fault() routine, yet numerous comments refer to it.
The fshared argument is no an integer.  I left some of these
comments along as they are simply removed in future patches.

Some of the commentary refering to futexes by virtual page
mappings was not very clear, and completely accurate (as for
shared futexes both the page and the offset are used to
determine the key).  For the purposes of the function
description, just referring to "the futex" seems sufficient.

With hashed futexes we now access the page after the hash-bucket
is locked, and not only after it is enqueued.

Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
LKML-Reference: <20090312075537.9856.29954.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-12 11:20:55 +01:00
Mike Galbraith
df1c99d416 sched: add avg_overlap decay
Impact: more precise avg_overlap metric - better load-balancing

avg_overlap is used to measure the runtime overlap of the waker and
wakee.

However, when a process changes behaviour, eg a pipe becomes
un-congested and we don't need to go to sleep after a wakeup
for a while, the avg_overlap value grows stale.

When running we use the avg runtime between preemption as a
measure for avg_overlap since the amount of runtime can be
correlated to cache footprint.

The longer we run, the less likely we'll be wanting to be
migrated to another CPU.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1236709131.25234.576.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-11 11:31:50 +01:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
e14eee56c2 Merge commit 'origin/master' into next 2009-03-11 17:10:07 +11:00
Dhaval Giani
be50b8342d kernel/user.c: fix a memory leak when freeing up non-init usernamespaces users
We were returning early in the sysfs directory cleanup function if the
user belonged to a non init usernamespace.  Due to this a lot of the
cleanup was not done and we were left with a leak.  Fix the leak.

Reported-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-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>
2009-03-10 15:55:11 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
57310a98a3 sched: optimize ttwu vs group scheduling
Impact: micro-optimization

We can avoid the sched domain walk on try_to_wake_up() when we know
there are no groups.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1236603381.8389.455.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-10 16:43:36 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
8c54436ae9 Merge branches 'sched/cleanups' and 'linus' into sched/core 2009-03-10 16:34:43 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov
2d5516cbb9 copy_process: fix CLONE_PARENT && parent_exec_id interaction
CLONE_PARENT can fool the ->self_exec_id/parent_exec_id logic. If we
re-use the old parent, we must also re-use ->parent_exec_id to make
sure exit_notify() sees the right ->xxx_exec_id's when the CLONE_PARENT'ed
task exits.

Also, move down the "p->parent_exec_id = p->self_exec_id" thing, to place
two different cases together.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-09 13:23:25 -07:00
Heiko Carstens
6d5b5acca9 Fix fixpoint divide exception in acct_update_integrals
Frans Pop reported the crash below when running an s390 kernel under Hercules:

  Kernel BUG at 000738b4  verbose debug info unavailable!
  fixpoint divide exception: 0009  #1! SMP
  Modules linked in: nfs lockd nfs_acl sunrpc ctcm fsm tape_34xx
     cu3088 tape ccwgroup tape_class ext3 jbd mbcache dm_mirror dm_log dm_snapshot
     dm_mod dasd_eckd_mod dasd_mod
  CPU: 0 Not tainted 2.6.27.19 #13
  Process awk (pid: 2069, task: 0f9ed9b8, ksp: 0f4f7d18)
  Krnl PSW : 070c1000 800738b4 (acct_update_integrals+0x4c/0x118)
             R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:1 PM:0
  Krnl GPRS: 00000000 000007d0 7fffffff fffff830
             00000000 ffffffff 00000002 0f9ed9b8
             00000000 00008ca0 00000000 0f9ed9b8
             0f9edda4 8007386e 0f4f7ec8 0f4f7e98
  Krnl Code: 800738aa: a71807d0         lhi     %r1,2000
             800738ae: 8c200001         srdl    %r2,1
             800738b2: 1d21             dr      %r2,%r1
            >800738b4: 5810d10e         l       %r1,270(%r13)
             800738b8: 1823             lr      %r2,%r3
             800738ba: 4130f060         la      %r3,96(%r15)
             800738be: 0de1             basr    %r14,%r1
             800738c0: 5800f060         l       %r0,96(%r15)
  Call Trace:
  ( <000000000004fdea>! blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x1e/0x2c)
    <0000000000038502>! do_exit+0x106/0x7c0
    <0000000000038c36>! do_group_exit+0x7a/0xb4
    <0000000000038c8e>! SyS_exit_group+0x1e/0x30
    <0000000000021c28>! sysc_do_restart+0x12/0x16
    <0000000077e7e924>! 0x77e7e924

Reason for this is that cpu time accounting usually only happens from
interrupt context, but acct_update_integrals gets also called from
process context with interrupts enabled.

So in acct_update_integrals we may end up with the following scenario:

Between reading tsk->stime/tsk->utime and tsk->acct_timexpd an interrupt
happens which updates accouting values.  This causes acct_timexpd to be
greater than the former stime + utime.  The subsequent calculation of

	dtime = cputime_sub(time, tsk->acct_timexpd);

will be negative and the division performed by

	cputime_to_jiffies(dtime)

will generate an exception since the result won't fit into a 32 bit
register.

In order to fix this just always disable interrupts while accessing any
of the accounting values.

Reported by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Tested by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-09 08:13:35 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
5ed0cec0ac sched: TIF_NEED_RESCHED -> need_reshed() cleanup
Impact: cleanup

Use test_tsk_need_resched(), set_tsk_need_resched(), need_resched()
instead of using TIF_NEED_RESCHED.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <49B10BA4.9070209@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-06 12:48:55 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
7fc07d8410 Merge branch 'sched/core' into sched/cleanups 2009-03-06 11:47:52 +01:00
Tejun Heo
edcb463997 percpu, module: implement reserved allocation and use it for module percpu variables
Impact: add reserved allocation functionality and use it for module
	percpu variables

This patch implements reserved allocation from the first chunk.  When
setting up the first chunk, arch can ask to set aside certain number
of bytes right after the core static area which is available only
through a separate reserved allocator.  This will be used primarily
for module static percpu variables on architectures with limited
relocation range to ensure that the module perpcu symbols are inside
the relocatable range.

If reserved area is requested, the first chunk becomes reserved and
isn't available for regular allocation.  If the first chunk also
includes piggy-back dynamic allocation area, a separate chunk mapping
the same region is created to serve dynamic allocation.  The first one
is called static first chunk and the second dynamic first chunk.
Although they share the page map, their different area map
initializations guarantee they serve disjoint areas according to their
purposes.

If arch doesn't setup reserved area, reserved allocation is handled
like any other allocation.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-03-06 14:33:59 +09:00
Frederic Weisbecker
8a0be9ef82 sched: don't rebalance if attached on NULL domain
Impact: fix function graph trace hang / drop pointless softirq on UP

While debugging a function graph trace hang on an old PII, I saw
that it consumed most of its time on the timer interrupt. And
the domain rebalancing softirq was the most concerned.

The timer interrupt calls trigger_load_balance() which will
decide if it is worth to schedule a rebalancing softirq.

In case of builtin UP kernel, no problem arises because there is
no domain question.

In case of builtin SMP kernel running on an SMP box, still no
problem, the softirq will be raised each time we reach the
next_balance time.

In case of builtin SMP kernel running on a UP box (most distros
provide default SMP kernels, whatever the box you have), then
the CPU is attached to the NULL sched domain. So a kind of
unexpected behaviour happen:

trigger_load_balance() -> raises the rebalancing softirq later
on softirq: run_rebalance_domains() -> rebalance_domains() where
the for_each_domain(cpu, sd) is not taken because of the NULL
domain we are attached at. Which means rq->next_balance is never
updated. So on the next timer tick, we will enter
trigger_load_balance() which will always reschedule() the
rebalacing softirq:

if (time_after_eq(jiffies, rq->next_balance))
	raise_softirq(SCHED_SOFTIRQ);

So for each tick, we process this pointless softirq.

This patch fixes it by checking if we are attached to the null
domain before raising the softirq, another possible fix would be
to set the maximal possible JIFFIES value to rq->next_balance if
we are attached to the NULL domain.

v2: build fix on UP

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <49af242d.1c07d00a.32d5.ffffc019@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-05 14:04:44 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
49d2d266ad Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc7' into sched/core 2009-03-05 11:59:10 +01:00
David S. Miller
508827ff0a Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/tokenring/tmspci.c
	drivers/net/ucc_geth_mii.c
2009-03-05 02:06:47 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
64ca5ab913 rcu: increment quiescent state counter in ksoftirqd()
If a machine is flooded by network frames, a cpu can loop
100% of its time inside ksoftirqd() without calling schedule().
This can delay RCU grace period to insane values.

Adding rcu_qsctr_inc() call in ksoftirqd() solves this problem.

Paul: "This regression was a result of the recent change from
"schedule()" to "cond_resched()", which got rid of that quiescent
state in the common case where a reschedule is not needed".

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-04 22:08:45 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
91d75e209b Merge branch 'x86/core' into core/percpu 2009-03-04 02:29:19 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
8b0e5860cb Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cpu', 'x86/fixmap', 'x86/mm', 'x86/sched', 'x86/setup-lzma', 'x86/signal' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/core 2009-03-04 02:22:31 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
219f170a85 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: don't allow setuid to succeed if the user does not have rt bandwidth
  sched_rt: don't start timer when rt bandwidth disabled
2009-03-03 14:33:20 -08:00