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2013-08-19Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds2-4/+3
Pull timer fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Three small fixlets" * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: nohz: fix compile warning in tick_nohz_init() nohz: Do not warn about unstable tsc unless user uses nohz_full sched_clock: Fix integer overflow
2013-08-19kernel: fix new kernel-doc warning in wait.cRandy Dunlap1-2/+1
Fix new kernel-doc warnings in kernel/wait.c: Warning(kernel/wait.c:374): No description found for parameter 'p' Warning(kernel/wait.c:374): Excess function parameter 'word' description in 'wake_up_atomic_t' Warning(kernel/wait.c:374): Excess function parameter 'bit' description in 'wake_up_atomic_t' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-08-18Merge branch 'for-3.11-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroupLinus Torvalds1-2/+4
Pull cgroup fix from Tejun Heo: "This contains one patch to fix the return value of cpuset's cgroups interface function, which used to always return -ENODEV for the writes on the 'memory_pressure_enabled' file" * 'for-3.11-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cpuset: fix the return value of cpuset_write_u64()
2013-08-16Merge tag 'pm-3.11-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pmLinus Torvalds1-7/+13
Pull power management fix from Rafael Wysocki: "The removal of delayed_work_pending() checks from kernel/power/qos.c done in 3.9 introduced a deadlock in pm_qos_work_fn(). Fix from Stephen Boyd" * tag 'pm-3.11-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: PM / QoS: Fix workqueue deadlock when using pm_qos_update_request_timeout()
2013-08-14Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)Linus Torvalds1-0/+6
Merge a bunch of fixes from Andrew Morton. * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix buffer overflow in add_page_map() arch: *: Kconfig: add "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" to "arch/*/Kconfig" ocfs2: fix null pointer dereference in ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_id() x86 get_unmapped_area(): use proper mmap base for bottom-up direction ocfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in ocfs2_duplicate_clusters_by_page ocfs2: Revert 40bd62e to avoid regression in extended allocation drivers/rtc/rtc-stmp3xxx.c: provide timeout for potentially endless loop polling a HW bit hugetlb: fix lockdep splat caused by pmd sharing aoe: adjust ref of head for compound page tails microblaze: fix clone syscall mm: save soft-dirty bits on file pages mm: save soft-dirty bits on swapped pages memcg: don't initialize kmem-cache destroying work for root caches
2013-08-13microblaze: fix clone syscallMichal Simek1-0/+6
Fix inadvertent breakage in the clone syscall ABI for Microblaze that was introduced in commit f3268edbe6fe ("microblaze: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone"). The Microblaze syscall ABI for clone takes the parent tid address in the 4th argument; the third argument slot is used for the stack size. The incorrectly-used CLONE_BACKWARDS type assigned parent tid to the 3rd slot. This commit restores the original ABI so that existing userspace libc code will work correctly. All kernel versions from v3.8-rc1 were affected. Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-08-13Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds3-25/+71
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Docbook fixes that make 99% of the diffstat, plus a oneliner fix" * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched: Ensure update_cfs_shares() is called for parents of continuously-running tasks sched: Fix some kernel-doc warnings
2013-08-14PM / QoS: Fix workqueue deadlock when using pm_qos_update_request_timeout()Stephen Boyd1-7/+13
pm_qos_update_request_timeout() updates a qos and then schedules a delayed work item to bring the qos back down to the default after the timeout. When the work item runs, pm_qos_work_fn() will call pm_qos_update_request() and deadlock because it tries to cancel itself via cancel_delayed_work_sync(). Future callers of that qos will also hang waiting to cancel the work that is canceling itself. Let's extract the little bit of code that does the real work of pm_qos_update_request() and call it from the work function so that we don't deadlock. Before ed1ac6e (PM: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()) this didn't happen because the work function wouldn't try to cancel itself. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: 3.9+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.9+ Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-08-13sched: fix the theoretical signal_wake_up() vs schedule() raceOleg Nesterov1-1/+13
This is only theoretical, but after try_to_wake_up(p) was changed to check p->state under p->pi_lock the code like __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); schedule(); can miss a signal. This is the special case of wait-for-condition, it relies on try_to_wake_up/schedule interaction and thus it does not need mb() between __set_current_state() and if(signal_pending). However, this __set_current_state() can move into the critical section protected by rq->lock, now that try_to_wake_up() takes another lock we need to ensure that it can't be reordered with "if (signal_pending(current))" check inside that section. The patch is actually one-liner, it simply adds smp_wmb() before spin_lock_irq(rq->lock). This is what try_to_wake_up() already does by the same reason. We turn this wmb() into the new helper, smp_mb__before_spinlock(), for better documentation and to allow the architectures to change the default implementation. While at it, kill smp_mb__after_lock(), it has no callers. Perhaps we can also add smp_mb__before/after_spinunlock() for prepare_to_wait(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-08-13cpuset: fix the return value of cpuset_write_u64()Li Zefan1-2/+4
Writing to this file always returns -ENODEV: # echo 1 > cpuset.memory_pressure_enabled -bash: echo: write error: No such device Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.9+ Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2013-08-12Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-2/+2
Pull w/w mutex deadlock injection fix from Ingo Molnar. This bug made the CONFIG_DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH=y option largely useless, but wouldn't affect normal users. * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: mutex: Fix w/w mutex deadlock injection
2013-08-12Merge branch 'fortglx/3.11/time' of git://git.linaro.org/people/jstultz/linux into timers/urgentIngo Molnar1-1/+1
Pull small fix for v3.11 from John Stultz. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-08-08userns: limit the maximum depth of user_namespace->parent chainOleg Nesterov1-0/+4
Ensure that user_namespace->parent chain can't grow too much. Currently we use the hardroded 32 as limit. Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-08-07Merge tag 'trace-fixes-3.11-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-traceLinus Torvalds6-131/+272
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt: "Oleg Nesterov has been working hard in closing all the holes that can lead to race conditions between deleting an event and accessing an event debugfs file. This included a fix to the debugfs system (acked by Greg Kroah-Hartman). We think that all the holes have been patched and hopefully we don't find more. I haven't marked all of them for stable because I need to examine them more to figure out how far back some of the changes need to go. Along the way, some other fixes have been made. Alexander Z Lam fixed some logic where the wrong buffer was being modifed. Andrew Vagin found a possible corruption for machines that actually allocate cpumask, as a reference to one was being zeroed out by mistake. Dhaval Giani found a bad prototype when tracing is not configured. And I not only had some changes to help Oleg, but also finally fixed a long standing bug that Dave Jones and others have been hitting, where a module unload and reload can cause the function tracing accounting to get screwed up" * tag 'trace-fixes-3.11-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: tracing: Fix reset of time stamps during trace_clock changes tracing: Make TRACE_ITER_STOP_ON_FREE stop the correct buffer tracing: Fix trace_dump_stack() proto when CONFIG_TRACING is not set tracing: Fix fields of struct trace_iterator that are zeroed by mistake tracing/uprobes: Fail to unregister if probe event files are in use tracing/kprobes: Fail to unregister if probe event files are in use tracing: Add comment to describe special break case in probe_remove_event_call() tracing: trace_remove_event_call() should fail if call/file is in use debugfs: debugfs_remove_recursive() must not rely on list_empty(d_subdirs) ftrace: Check module functions being traced on reload ftrace: Consolidate some duplicate code for updating ftrace ops tracing: Change remove_event_file_dir() to clear "d_subdirs"->i_private tracing: Introduce remove_event_file_dir() tracing: Change f_start() to take event_mutex and verify i_private != NULL tracing: Change event_filter_read/write to verify i_private != NULL tracing: Change event_enable/disable_read() to verify i_private != NULL tracing: Turn event/id->i_private into call->event.type
2013-08-06Merge branch 'for-3.11-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroupLinus Torvalds1-1/+3
Pull cgroup fix from Tejun Heo: "Fix for a minor memory leak bug in the cgroup init failure path" * 'for-3.11-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: fix a leak when percpu_ref_init() fails
2013-08-06Merge branch 'for-3.11-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds1-10/+34
Pull two workqueue fixes from Tejun Heo: "A lockdep notation update so that nested work_on_cpu() invocations don't lead to spurious lockdep warnings and fix for an unbound attr bug which made what's shown in sysfs deviate from the actual ones. Both patches have pretty limited scope" * 'for-3.11-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: copy workqueue_attrs with all fields workqueue: allow work_on_cpu() to be called recursively
2013-08-06printk: Fix return of braille_register_console()Steven Rostedt1-1/+2
Some of my configs I test with have CONFIG_A11Y_BRAILLE_CONSOLE set. When I started testing against v3.11-rc4 my console went bonkers. Using ktest to bisect the issue, it came down to: commit bbeddf52a "printk: move braille console support into separate braille.[ch] files" Looking into the patch I found the problem. It's with the return of braille_register_console(). As anything other than NULL is considered a failure. But for those of us that have CONFIG_A11Y_BRAILLE_CONSOLE set but do not define a "brl" or "brl=" on the command line, we still may want a console that those with sight can still use. Return NULL (success) if "brl" or "brl=" is not on the console line. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-08-06Revert "ptrace: PTRACE_DETACH should do flush_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(child)"Oleg Nesterov1-1/+0
This reverts commit fab840fc2d542fabcab903db8e03589a6702ba5f. This commit even has the test-case to prove that the tracee can be killed by SIGTRAP if the debugger does not remove the breakpoints before PTRACE_DETACH. However, this is exactly what wineserver deliberately does, set_thread_context() calls PTRACE_ATTACH + PTRACE_DETACH just for PTRACE_POKEUSER(DR*) in between. So we should revert this fix and document that PTRACE_DETACH should keep the breakpoints. Reported-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-08-06userns: unshare_userns(&cred) should not populate cred on failureOleg Nesterov1-4/+9
unshare_userns(new_cred) does *new_cred = prepare_creds() before create_user_ns() which can fail. However, the caller expects that it doesn't need to take care of new_cred if unshare_userns() fails. We could change the single caller, sys_unshare(), but I think it would be more clean to avoid the side effects on failure, so with this patch unshare_userns() does put_cred() itself and initializes *new_cred only if create_user_ns() succeeeds. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-08-02tracing: Fix reset of time stamps during trace_clock changesAlexander Z Lam1-12/+12
Fixed two issues with changing the timestamp clock with trace_clock: - The global buffer was reset on instance clock changes. Change this to pass the correct per-instance buffer - ftrace_now() is used to set buf->time_start in tracing_reset_online_cpus(). This was incorrect because ftrace_now() used the global buffer's clock to return the current time. Change this to use buffer_ftrace_now() which returns the current time for the correct per-instance buffer. Also removed tracing_reset_current() because it is not used anywhere Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375493777-17261-2-git-send-email-azl@google.com Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com> Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com> Cc: Alexander Z Lam <lambchop468@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10 Signed-off-by: Alexander Z Lam <azl@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-08-02tracing: Make TRACE_ITER_STOP_ON_FREE stop the correct bufferAlexander Z Lam1-1/+1
Releasing the free_buffer file in an instance causes the global buffer to be stopped when TRACE_ITER_STOP_ON_FREE is enabled. Operate on the correct buffer. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375493777-17261-1-git-send-email-azl@google.com Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com> Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com> Cc: Alexander Z Lam <lambchop468@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10 Signed-off-by: Alexander Z Lam <azl@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-08-02tracing: Fix fields of struct trace_iterator that are zeroed by mistakeAndrew Vagin1-0/+1
tracing_read_pipe zeros all fields bellow "seq". The declaration contains a comment about that, but it doesn't help. The first field is "snapshot", it's true when current open file is snapshot. Looks obvious, that it should not be zeroed. The second field is "started". It was converted from cpumask_t to cpumask_var_t (v2.6.28-4983-g4462344), in other words it was converted from cpumask to pointer on cpumask. Currently the reference on "started" memory is lost after the first read from tracing_read_pipe and a proper object will never be freed. The "started" is never dereferenced for trace_pipe, because trace_pipe can't have the TRACE_FILE_ANNOTATE options. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375463803-3085183-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.30 Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-08-02Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.11-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pmLinus Torvalds3-8/+14
Pull ACPI and power management fixes from Rafael Wysocki: - Revert two cpuidle commits added during the 3.8 development cycle that turn out to have introduced a significant performance regression as requested by Jeremy Eder. - The recent patches that made the freezer less heavy-weight introduced a regression causing user-space-driven hibernation using the ioctl() interface to block indefinitely when the hibernate process executes try_to_freeze(). Fix from Colin Cross addresses this by adding a process flag to mark the hibernate/suspend process to inform the freezer that that process should be ignored. - One of the recent cpufreq reverts uncovered a problem in the core causing the cpufreq driver module refcount to become negative after a system suspend-resume cycle. Fix from Rafael J Wysocki. - The evaluation of the ACPI battery _BIX method has never worked correctly, because the commit that added support for it forgot to take the "Revision" field in the return package into account. As a result, the reading of battery info doesn't work at all on some systems, which is addressed by a fix from Lan Tianyu. * tag 'pm+acpi-3.11-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: freezer: set PF_SUSPEND_TASK flag on tasks that call freeze_processes ACPI / battery: Fix parsing _BIX return value cpufreq: Fix cpufreq driver module refcount balance after suspend/resume Revert "cpuidle: Quickly notice prediction failure for repeat mode" Revert "cpuidle: Quickly notice prediction failure in general case"
2013-08-01tracing/uprobes: Fail to unregister if probe event files are in useSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-13/+38
Uprobes suffer the same problem that kprobes have. There's a race between writing to the "enable" file and removing the probe. The probe checks for it being in use and if it is not, goes about deleting the probe and the event that represents it. But the problem with that is, after it checks if it is in use it can be enabled, and the deletion of the event (access to the probe) will fail, as it is in use. But the uprobe will still be deleted. This is a problem as the event can reference the uprobe that was deleted. The fix is to remove the event first, and check to make sure the event removal succeeds. Then it is safe to remove the probe. When the event exists, either ftrace or perf can enable the probe and prevent the event from being removed. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130704034038.991525256@goodmis.org Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-08-01workqueue: copy workqueue_attrs with all fieldsShaohua Li1-0/+12
$echo '0' > /sys/bus/workqueue/devices/xxx/numa $cat /sys/bus/workqueue/devices/xxx/numa I got 1. It should be 0, the reason is copy_workqueue_attrs() called in apply_workqueue_attrs() doesn't copy no_numa field. Fix it by making copy_workqueue_attrs() copy ->no_numa too. This would also make get_unbound_pool() set a pool's ->no_numa attribute according to the workqueue attributes used when the pool was created. While harmelss, as ->no_numa isn't a pool attribute, this is a bit confusing. Clear it explicitly. tj: Updated description and comments a bit. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2013-07-31tracing/kprobes: Fail to unregister if probe event files are in useSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-6/+15
When a probe is being removed, it cleans up the event files that correspond to the probe. But there is a race between writing to one of these files and deleting the probe. This is especially true for the "enable" file. CPU 0 CPU 1 ----- ----- fd = open("enable",O_WRONLY); probes_open() release_all_trace_probes() unregister_trace_probe() if (trace_probe_is_enabled(tp)) return -EBUSY write(fd, "1", 1) __ftrace_set_clr_event() call->class->reg() (kprobe_register) enable_trace_probe(tp) __unregister_trace_probe(tp); list_del(&tp->list) unregister_probe_event(tp) <-- fails! free_trace_probe(tp) write(fd, "0", 1) __ftrace_set_clr_event() call->class->unreg (kprobe_register) disable_trace_probe(tp) <-- BOOM! A test program was written that used two threads to simulate the above scenario adding a nanosleep() interval to change the timings and after several thousand runs, it was able to trigger this bug and crash: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00000005000000f9 IP: [<ffffffff810dee70>] probes_open+0x3b/0xa7 PGD 7808a067 PUD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Dumping ftrace buffer: --------------------------------- Modules linked in: ipt_MASQUERADE sunrpc ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 CPU: 1 PID: 2070 Comm: test-kprobe-rem Not tainted 3.11.0-rc3-test+ #47 Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./To be filled by O.E.M., BIOS SDBLI944.86P 05/08/2007 task: ffff880077756440 ti: ffff880076e52000 task.ti: ffff880076e52000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810dee70>] [<ffffffff810dee70>] probes_open+0x3b/0xa7 RSP: 0018:ffff880076e53c38 EFLAGS: 00010203 RAX: 0000000500000001 RBX: ffff88007844f440 RCX: 0000000000000003 RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffff880076e52000 RBP: ffff880076e53c58 R08: ffff880076e53bd8 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffff880077756440 R11: 0000000000000006 R12: ffffffff810dee35 R13: ffff880079250418 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88007844f450 FS: 00007f87a276f700(0000) GS:ffff88007d480000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 00000005000000f9 CR3: 0000000077262000 CR4: 00000000000007e0 Stack: ffff880076e53c58 ffffffff81219ea0 ffff88007844f440 ffffffff810dee35 ffff880076e53ca8 ffffffff81130f78 ffff8800772986c0 ffff8800796f93a0 ffffffff81d1b5d8 ffff880076e53e04 0000000000000000 ffff88007844f440 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81219ea0>] ? security_file_open+0x2c/0x30 [<ffffffff810dee35>] ? unregister_trace_probe+0x4b/0x4b [<ffffffff81130f78>] do_dentry_open+0x162/0x226 [<ffffffff81131186>] finish_open+0x46/0x54 [<ffffffff8113f30b>] do_last+0x7f6/0x996 [<ffffffff8113cc6f>] ? inode_permission+0x42/0x44 [<ffffffff8113f6dd>] path_openat+0x232/0x496 [<ffffffff8113fc30>] do_filp_open+0x3a/0x8a [<ffffffff8114ab32>] ? __alloc_fd+0x168/0x17a [<ffffffff81131f4e>] do_sys_open+0x70/0x102 [<ffffffff8108f06e>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x160/0x197 [<ffffffff81131ffe>] SyS_open+0x1e/0x20 [<ffffffff81522742>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Code: e5 41 54 53 48 89 f3 48 83 ec 10 48 23 56 78 48 39 c2 75 6c 31 f6 48 c7 RIP [<ffffffff810dee70>] probes_open+0x3b/0xa7 RSP <ffff880076e53c38> CR2: 00000005000000f9 ---[ end trace 35f17d68fc569897 ]--- The unregister_trace_probe() must be done first, and if it fails it must fail the removal of the kprobe. Several changes have already been made by Oleg Nesterov and Masami Hiramatsu to allow moving the unregister_probe_event() before the removal of the probe and exit the function if it fails. This prevents the tp structure from being used after it is freed. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130704034038.819592356@goodmis.org Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-31Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)Linus Torvalds7-105/+197
Merge more patches from Andrew Morton: "A bunch of fixes. Plus Joe's printk move and rework. It's not a -rc3 thing but now would be a nice time to offload it, while things are quiet. I've been sitting on it all for a couple of weeks, no issues" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: vmpressure: make sure there are no events queued after memcg is offlined vmpressure: do not check for pending work to prevent from new work vmpressure: change vmpressure::sr_lock to spinlock printk: rename struct log to struct printk_log printk: use pointer for console_cmdline indexing printk: move braille console support into separate braille.[ch] files printk: add console_cmdline.h printk: move to separate directory for easier modification drivers/rtc/rtc-twl.c: fix: rtcX/wakealarm attribute isn't created mm: zbud: fix condition check on allocation size thp, mm: avoid PageUnevictable on active/inactive lru lists mm/swap.c: clear PageActive before adding pages onto unevictable list arch/x86/platform/ce4100/ce4100.c: include reboot.h mm: sched: numa: fix NUMA balancing when !SCHED_DEBUG rapidio: fix use after free in rio_unregister_scan() .gitignore: ignore *.lz4 files MAINTAINERS: dynamic debug: Jason's not there... dmi_scan: add comments on dmi_present() and the loop in dmi_scan_machine() ocfs2/refcounttree: add the missing NULL check of the return value of find_or_create_page() mm: mempolicy: fix mbind_range() && vma_adjust() interaction
2013-07-31printk: rename struct log to struct printk_logJoe Perches1-40/+40
Rename the struct to enable moving portions of printk.c to separate files. The rename changes output of /proc/vmcoreinfo. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-31printk: use pointer for console_cmdline indexingJoe Perches1-23/+26
Make the code a bit more compact by always using a pointer for the active console_cmdline. Move overly indented code to correct indent level. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-31printk: move braille console support into separate braille.[ch] filesJoe Perches4-31/+110
Create files with prototypes and static inlines for braille support. Make braille_console functions return 1 on success. Corrected CONFIG_A11Y_BRAILLE_CONSOLE=n _braille_console_setup return value to NULL. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-31printk: add console_cmdline.hJoe Perches2-9/+17
Add an include file for the console_cmdline struct so that the braille console driver can be separated. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-31printk: move to separate directory for easier modificationJoe Perches3-1/+3
Make it easier to break up printk into bite-sized chunks. Remove printk path/filename from comment. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-31mm: sched: numa: fix NUMA balancing when !SCHED_DEBUGDave Kleikamp1-2/+2
Commit 3105b86a9fee ("mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing if !SCHED_DEBUG") defined numabalancing_enabled to control the enabling and disabling of automatic NUMA balancing, but it is never used. I believe the intention was to use this in place of sched_feat_numa(NUMA). Currently, if SCHED_DEBUG is not defined, sched_feat_numa(NUMA) will never be changed from the initial "false". Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-31Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netLinus Torvalds1-1/+5
Pull networking fixes from David Miller: 1) Fix association failures not triggering a connect-failure event in cfg80211, from Johannes Berg. 2) Eliminate a potential NULL deref with older iptables tools when configuring xt_socket rules, from Eric Dumazet. 3) Missing RTNL locking in wireless regulatory code, from Johannes Berg. 4) Fix OOPS caused by firmware loading races in ath9k_htc, from Alexey Khoroshilov. 5) Fix usb URB leak in usb_8dev CAN driver, also from Alexey Khoroshilov. 6) VXLAN namespace teardown fails to unregister devices, from Stephen Hemminger. 7) Fix multicast settings getting dropped by firmware in qlcnic driver, from Sucheta Chakraborty. 8) Add sysctl range enforcement for tcp_syn_retries, from Michal Tesar. 9) Fix a nasty bug in bridging where an active timer would get reinitialized with a setup_timer() call. From Eric Dumazet. 10) Fix use after free in new mlx5 driver, from Dan Carpenter. 11) Fix freed pointer reference in ipv6 multicast routing on namespace cleanup, from Hannes Frederic Sowa. 12) Some usbnet drivers report TSO and SG in their feature set, but the usbnet layer doesn't really support them. From Eric Dumazet. 13) Fix crash on EEH errors in tg3 driver, from Gavin Shan. 14) Drop cb_lock when requesting modules in genetlink, from Stanislaw Gruszka. 15) Kernel stack leaks in cbq scheduler and af_key pfkey messages, from Dan Carpenter. 16) FEC driver erroneously signals NETDEV_TX_BUSY on transmit leading to endless loops, from Uwe Kleine-König. 17) Fix hangs from loading mvneta driver, from Arnaud Patard. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (84 commits) mlx5: fix error return code in mlx5_alloc_uuars() mvneta: Try to fix mvneta when compiled as module mvneta: Fix hang when loading the mvneta driver atl1c: Fix misuse of netdev_alloc_skb in refilling rx ring genetlink: fix usage of NLM_F_EXCL or NLM_F_REPLACE af_key: more info leaks in pfkey messages net/fec: Don't let ndo_start_xmit return NETDEV_TX_BUSY without link net_sched: Fix stack info leak in cbq_dump_wrr(). igb: fix vlan filtering in promisc mode when not in VT mode ixgbe: Fix Tx Hang issue with lldpad on 82598EB genetlink: release cb_lock before requesting additional module net: fec: workaround stop tx during errata ERR006358 qlcnic: Fix diagnostic interrupt test for 83xx adapters. qlcnic: Fix setting Guest VLAN qlcnic: Fix operation type and command type. qlcnic: Fix initialization of work function. Revert "atl1c: Fix misuse of netdev_alloc_skb in refilling rx ring" atl1c: Fix misuse of netdev_alloc_skb in refilling rx ring net/tg3: Fix warning from pci_disable_device() net/tg3: Fix kernel crash ...
2013-07-31tracing: Add comment to describe special break case in probe_remove_event_call()Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-0/+6
The "break" used in the do_for_each_event_file() is used as an optimization as the loop is really a double loop. The loop searches all event files for each trace_array. There's only one matching event file per trace_array and after we find the event file for the trace_array, the break is used to jump to the next trace_array and start the search there. As this is not a standard way of using "break" in C code, it requires a comment right before the break to let people know what is going on. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-31tracing: trace_remove_event_call() should fail if call/file is in useOleg Nesterov1-2/+33
Change trace_remove_event_call(call) to return the error if this call is active. This is what the callers assume but can't verify outside of the tracing locks. Both trace_kprobe.c/trace_uprobe.c need the additional changes, unregister_trace_probe() should abort if trace_remove_event_call() fails. The caller is going to free this call/file so we must ensure that nobody can use them after trace_remove_event_call() succeeds. debugfs should be fine after the previous changes and event_remove() does TRACE_REG_UNREGISTER, but still there are 2 reasons why we need the additional checks: - There could be a perf_event(s) attached to this tp_event, so the patch checks ->perf_refcount. - TRACE_REG_UNREGISTER can be suppressed by FTRACE_EVENT_FL_SOFT_MODE, so we simply check FTRACE_EVENT_FL_ENABLED protected by event_mutex. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130729175033.GB26284@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-31cgroup: fix a leak when percpu_ref_init() failsLi Zefan1-1/+3
ss->css_free() is not called when perfcpu_ref_init() fails. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2013-07-30ftrace: Check module functions being traced on reloadSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-9/+62
There's been a nasty bug that would show up and not give much info. The bug displayed the following warning: WARNING: at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1529 __ftrace_hash_rec_update+0x1e3/0x230() Pid: 20903, comm: bash Tainted: G O 3.6.11+ #38405.trunk Call Trace: [<ffffffff8103e5ff>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [<ffffffff8103e65a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff810c2ee3>] __ftrace_hash_rec_update+0x1e3/0x230 [<ffffffff810c4f28>] ftrace_hash_move+0x28/0x1d0 [<ffffffff811401cc>] ? kfree+0x2c/0x110 [<ffffffff810c68ee>] ftrace_regex_release+0x8e/0x150 [<ffffffff81149f1e>] __fput+0xae/0x220 [<ffffffff8114a09e>] ____fput+0xe/0x10 [<ffffffff8105fa22>] task_work_run+0x72/0x90 [<ffffffff810028ec>] do_notify_resume+0x6c/0xc0 [<ffffffff8126596e>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3c [<ffffffff815c0f88>] int_signal+0x12/0x17 ---[ end trace 793179526ee09b2c ]--- It was finally narrowed down to unloading a module that was being traced. It was actually more than that. When functions are being traced, there's a table of all functions that have a ref count of the number of active tracers attached to that function. When a function trace callback is registered to a function, the function's record ref count is incremented. When it is unregistered, the function's record ref count is decremented. If an inconsistency is detected (ref count goes below zero) the above warning is shown and the function tracing is permanently disabled until reboot. The ftrace callback ops holds a hash of functions that it filters on (and/or filters off). If the hash is empty, the default means to filter all functions (for the filter_hash) or to disable no functions (for the notrace_hash). When a module is unloaded, it frees the function records that represent the module functions. These records exist on their own pages, that is function records for one module will not exist on the same page as function records for other modules or even the core kernel. Now when a module unloads, the records that represents its functions are freed. When the module is loaded again, the records are recreated with a default ref count of zero (unless there's a callback that traces all functions, then they will also be traced, and the ref count will be incremented). The problem is that if an ftrace callback hash includes functions of the module being unloaded, those hash entries will not be removed. If the module is reloaded in the same location, the hash entries still point to the functions of the module but the module's ref counts do not reflect that. With the help of Steve and Joern, we found a reproducer: Using uinput module and uinput_release function. cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing modprobe uinput echo uinput_release > set_ftrace_filter echo function > current_tracer rmmod uinput modprobe uinput # check /proc/modules to see if loaded in same addr, otherwise try again echo nop > current_tracer [BOOM] The above loads the uinput module, which creates a table of functions that can be traced within the module. We add uinput_release to the filter_hash to trace just that function. Enable function tracincg, which increments the ref count of the record associated to uinput_release. Remove uinput, which frees the records including the one that represents uinput_release. Load the uinput module again (and make sure it's at the same address). This recreates the function records all with a ref count of zero, including uinput_release. Disable function tracing, which will decrement the ref count for uinput_release which is now zero because of the module removal and reload, and we have a mismatch (below zero ref count). The solution is to check all currently tracing ftrace callbacks to see if any are tracing any of the module's functions when a module is loaded (it already does that with callbacks that trace all functions). If a callback happens to have a module function being traced, it increments that records ref count and starts tracing that function. There may be a strange side effect with this, where tracing module functions on unload and then reloading a new module may have that new module's functions being traced. This may be something that confuses the user, but it's not a big deal. Another approach is to disable all callback hashes on module unload, but this leaves some ftrace callbacks that may not be registered, but can still have hashes tracing the module's function where ftrace doesn't know about it. That situation can cause the same bug. This solution solves that case too. Another benefit of this solution, is it is possible to trace a module's function on unload and load. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130705142629.GA325@redhat.com Reported-by: Jörn Engel <joern@logfs.org> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Reported-by: Steve Hodgson <steve@purestorage.com> Tested-by: Steve Hodgson <steve@purestorage.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-30mutex: Fix w/w mutex deadlock injectionMaarten Lankhorst1-2/+2
The check needs to be for > 1, because ctx->acquired is already incremented. This will prevent ww_mutex_lock_slow from returning -EDEADLK and not locking the mutex. It caused a lot of false gpu lockups on radeon with CONFIG_DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH=y because a function that shouldn't be able to return -EDEADLK did. Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51F775B5.201@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-30sched: Ensure update_cfs_shares() is called for parents of continuously-running tasksPeter Zijlstra1-0/+1
We typically update a task_group's shares within the dequeue/enqueue path. However, continuously running tasks sharing a CPU are not subject to these updates as they are only put/picked. Unfortunately, when we reverted f269ae046 (in 17bc14b7), we lost the augmenting periodic update that was supposed to account for this; resulting in a potential loss of fairness. To fix this, re-introduce the explicit update in update_cfs_rq_blocked_load() [called via entity_tick()]. Reported-by: Max Hailperin <max@gustavus.edu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9545m3apw5d93ubyrotrj31y@git.kernel.org Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-30freezer: set PF_SUSPEND_TASK flag on tasks that call freeze_processesColin Cross2-1/+12
Calling freeze_processes sets a global flag that will cause any process that calls try_to_freeze to enter the refrigerator. It skips sending a signal to the current task, but if the current task ever hits try_to_freeze, all threads will be frozen and the system will deadlock. Set a new flag, PF_SUSPEND_TASK, on the task that calls freeze_processes. The flag notifies the freezer that the thread is involved in suspend and should not be frozen. Also add a WARN_ON in thaw_processes if the caller does not have the PF_SUSPEND_TASK flag set to catch if a different task calls thaw_processes than the one that called freeze_processes, leaving a task with PF_SUSPEND_TASK permanently set on it. Threads that spawn off a task with PF_SUSPEND_TASK set (which swsusp does) will also have PF_SUSPEND_TASK set, preventing them from freezing while they are helping with suspend, but they need to be dead by the time suspend is triggered, otherwise they may run when userspace is expected to be frozen. Add a WARN_ON in thaw_processes if more than one thread has the PF_SUSPEND_TASK flag set. Reported-and-tested-by: Michael Leun <lkml20130126@newton.leun.net> Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-07-29ftrace: Consolidate some duplicate code for updating ftrace opsSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-6/+10
When ftrace ops modifies the functions that it will trace, the update to the function mcount callers may need to be modified. Consolidate the two places that do the checks to see if an update is required with a wrapper function for those checks. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-29tracing: Change remove_event_file_dir() to clear "d_subdirs"->i_privateOleg Nesterov1-32/+15
Change remove_event_file_dir() to clear ->i_private for every file we are going to remove. We need to check file->dir != NULL because event_create_dir() can fail. debugfs_remove_recursive(NULL) is fine but the patch moves it under the same check anyway for readability. spin_lock(d_lock) and "d_inode != NULL" check are not needed afaics, but I do not understand this code enough. tracing_open_generic_file() and tracing_release_generic_file() can go away, ftrace_enable_fops and ftrace_event_filter_fops() use tracing_open_generic() but only to check tracing_disabled. This fixes all races with event_remove() or instance_delete(). f_op->read/write/whatever can never use the freed file/call, all event/* files were changed to check and use ->i_private under event_mutex. Note: this doesn't not fix other problems, event_remove() can destroy the active ftrace_event_call, we need more changes but those changes are completely orthogonal. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130728183527.GB16723@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-29tracing: Introduce remove_event_file_dir()Oleg Nesterov1-24/+23
Preparation for the next patch. Extract the common code from remove_event_from_tracers() and __trace_remove_event_dirs() into the new helper, remove_event_file_dir(). The patch looks more complicated than it actually is, it also moves remove_subsystem() up to avoid the forward declaration. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130726172547.GA3629@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-29tracing: Change f_start() to take event_mutex and verify i_private != NULLOleg Nesterov1-4/+9
trace_format_open() and trace_format_seq_ops are racy, nothing protects ftrace_event_call from trace_remove_event_call(). Change f_start() to take event_mutex and verify i_private != NULL, change f_stop() to drop this lock. This fixes nothing, but now we can change debugfs_remove("format") callers to nullify ->i_private and fix the the problem. Note: the usage of event_mutex is sub-optimal but simple, we can change this later. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130726172543.GA3622@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-29tracing: Change event_filter_read/write to verify i_private != NULLOleg Nesterov2-18/+25
event_filter_read/write() are racy, ftrace_event_call can be already freed by trace_remove_event_call() callers. 1. Shift mutex_lock(event_mutex) from print/apply_event_filter to the callers. 2. Change the callers, event_filter_read() and event_filter_write() to read i_private under this mutex and abort if it is NULL. This fixes nothing, but now we can change debugfs_remove("filter") callers to nullify ->i_private and fix the the problem. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130726172540.GA3619@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-29tracing: Change event_enable/disable_read() to verify i_private != NULLOleg Nesterov1-10/+20
tracing_open_generic_file() is racy, ftrace_event_file can be already freed by rmdir or trace_remove_event_call(). Change event_enable_read() and event_disable_read() to read and verify "file = i_private" under event_mutex. This fixes nothing, but now we can change debugfs_remove("enable") callers to nullify ->i_private and fix the the problem. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130726172536.GA3612@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-29tracing: Turn event/id->i_private into call->event.typeOleg Nesterov1-5/+13
event_id_read() is racy, ftrace_event_call can be already freed by trace_remove_event_call() callers. Change event_create_dir() to pass "data = call->event.type", this is all event_id_read() needs. ftrace_event_id_fops no longer needs tracing_open_generic(). We add the new helper, event_file_data(), to read ->i_private, it will have more users. Note: currently ACCESS_ONCE() and "id != 0" check are not needed, but we are going to change event_remove/rmdir to clear ->i_private. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130726172532.GA3605@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-29Revert "cpuidle: Quickly notice prediction failure for repeat mode"Rafael J. Wysocki1-7/+2
Revert commit 69a37bea (cpuidle: Quickly notice prediction failure for repeat mode), because it has been identified as the source of a significant performance regression in v3.8 and later as explained by Jeremy Eder: We believe we've identified a particular commit to the cpuidle code that seems to be impacting performance of variety of workloads. The simplest way to reproduce is using netperf TCP_RR test, so we're using that, on a pair of Sandy Bridge based servers. We also have data from a large database setup where performance is also measurably/positively impacted, though that test data isn't easily share-able. Included below are test results from 3 test kernels: kernel reverts ----------------------------------------------------------- 1) vanilla upstream (no reverts) 2) perfteam2 reverts e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c 3) test reverts 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4 e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c In summary, netperf TCP_RR numbers improve by approximately 4% after reverting 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4. When 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4 is included, C0 residency never seems to get above 40%. Taking that patch out gets C0 near 100% quite often, and performance increases. The below data are histograms representing the %c0 residency @ 1-second sample rates (using turbostat), while under netperf test. - If you look at the first 4 histograms, you can see %c0 residency almost entirely in the 30,40% bin. - The last pair, which reverts 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4, shows %c0 in the 80,90,100% bins. Below each kernel name are netperf TCP_RR trans/s numbers for the particular kernel that can be disclosed publicly, comparing the 3 test kernels. We ran a 4th test with the vanilla kernel where we've also set /dev/cpu_dma_latency=0 to show overall impact boosting single-threaded TCP_RR performance over 11% above baseline. 3.10-rc2 vanilla RX + c0 lock (/dev/cpu_dma_latency=0): TCP_RR trans/s 54323.78 ----------------------------------------------------------- 3.10-rc2 vanilla RX (no reverts) TCP_RR trans/s 48192.47 Receiver %c0 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 0]: 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 59]: *********************************************************** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 1]: * 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 0]: 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 0]: 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 0]: 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 0]: 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 0]: Sender %c0 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 0]: 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 11]: *********** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 49]: ************************************************* 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 0]: 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 0]: 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 0]: 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 0]: 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 0]: ----------------------------------------------------------- 3.10-rc2 perfteam2 RX (reverts commit e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c) TCP_RR trans/s 49698.69 Receiver %c0 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 1]: * 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 59]: *********************************************************** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 0]: 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 0]: 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 0]: 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 0]: 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 0]: 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 0]: Sender %c0 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 0]: 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 2]: ** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 58]: ********************************************************** 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 0]: 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 0]: 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 0]: 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 0]: 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 0]: ----------------------------------------------------------- 3.10-rc2 test RX (reverts 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4 and e11538d1f03914eb92af5a1a378375c05ae8520c) TCP_RR trans/s 47766.95 Receiver %c0 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 1]: * 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 27]: *************************** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 2]: ** 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 0]: 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 2]: ** 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 0]: 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 0]: 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 28]: **************************** Sender: 0.0000 - 10.0000 [ 1]: * 10.0000 - 20.0000 [ 0]: 20.0000 - 30.0000 [ 0]: 30.0000 - 40.0000 [ 11]: *********** 40.0000 - 50.0000 [ 0]: 50.0000 - 60.0000 [ 1]: * 60.0000 - 70.0000 [ 0]: 70.0000 - 80.0000 [ 3]: *** 80.0000 - 90.0000 [ 7]: ******* 90.0000 - 100.0000 [ 38]: ************************************** These results demonstrate gaining back the tendency of the CPU to stay in more responsive, performant C-states (and thus yield measurably better performance), by reverting commit 69a37beabf1f0a6705c08e879bdd5d82ff6486c4. Requested-by: Jeremy Eder <jeder@redhat.com> Tested-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: 3.8+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-07-28Merge tag 'trace-fixes-3.11-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-traceLinus Torvalds3-128/+95
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt: "Oleg is working on fixing a very tight race between opening a event file and deleting that event at the same time (both must be done as root). I also found a bug while testing Oleg's patches which has to do with a race with kprobes using the function tracer. There's also a deadlock fix that was introduced with the previous fixes" * tag 'trace-fixes-3.11-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: tracing: Remove locking trace_types_lock from tracing_reset_all_online_cpus() ftrace: Add check for NULL regs if ops has SAVE_REGS set tracing: Kill trace_cpu struct/members tracing: Change tracing_fops/snapshot_fops to rely on tracing_get_cpu() tracing: Change tracing_entries_fops to rely on tracing_get_cpu() tracing: Change tracing_stats_fops to rely on tracing_get_cpu() tracing: Change tracing_buffers_fops to rely on tracing_get_cpu() tracing: Change tracing_pipe_fops() to rely on tracing_get_cpu() tracing: Introduce trace_create_cpu_file() and tracing_get_cpu()