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2009-01-21Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc2' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: include/linux/syscalls.h
2009-01-18Merge branch 'core/percpu' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h We merge tip/core/percpu into tip/perfcounters/core because of a semantic and contextual conflict: the former eliminates the PDA, while the latter extends it with apic_perf_irqs field. Resolve the conflict by moving the new field to the irq_cpustat structure on 64-bit too. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-17perf_counter: Add counter enable/disable ioctlsPaul Mackerras
Impact: New perf_counter features This primarily adds a way for perf_counter users to enable and disable counters and groups. Enabling or disabling a counter or group also enables or disables all of the child counters that have been cloned from it to monitor children of the task monitored by the top-level counter. The userspace interface to enable/disable counters is via ioctl on the counter file descriptor. Along the way this extends the code that handles child counters to handle child counter groups properly. A group with multiple counters will be cloned to child tasks if and only if the group leader has the hw_event.inherit bit set - if it is set the whole group is cloned as a group in the child task. In order to be able to enable or disable all child counters of a given top-level counter, we need a way to find them all. Hence I have added a child_list field to struct perf_counter, which is the head of the list of children for a top-level counter, or the link in that list for a child counter. That list is protected by the perf_counter.mutex field. This also adds a mutex to the perf_counter_context struct. Previously the list of counters was protected just by the lock field in the context, which meant that perf_counter_init_task had to take that lock and then take whatever lock/mutex protects the top-level counter's child_list. But the counter enable/disable functions need to take that lock in order to traverse the list, then for each counter take the lock in that counter's context in order to change the counter's state safely, which will lead to a deadlock. To solve this, we now have both a mutex and a spinlock in the context, and taking either is sufficient to ensure the list of counters can't change - you have to take both before changing the list. Now perf_counter_init_task takes the mutex instead of the lock (which incidentally means that inherit_counter can use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC) and thus avoids the possible deadlock. Similarly the new enable/disable functions can take the mutex while traversing the list of child counters without incurring a possible deadlock when the counter manipulation code locks the context for a child counter. We also had an misfeature that the first counter added to a context would possibly not go on until the next sched-in, because we were using ctx->nr_active to detect if the context was running on a CPU. But nr_active is the number of active counters, and if that was zero (because the context didn't have any counters yet) it would look like the context wasn't running on a cpu and so the retry code in __perf_install_in_context wouldn't retry. So this adds an 'is_active' field that is set when the context is on a CPU, even if it has no counters. The is_active field is only used for task contexts, not for per-cpu contexts. If we enable a subsidiary counter in a group that is active on a CPU, and the arch code can't enable the counter, then we have to pull the whole group off the CPU. We do this with group_sched_out, which gets moved up in the file so it comes before all its callers. This also adds similar logic to __perf_install_in_context so that the "all on, or none" invariant of groups is preserved when adding a new counter to a group. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-01-16Merge branch 'misc' into releaseLen Brown
2009-01-16kprobes: check CONFIG_FREEZER instead of CONFIG_PMMasami Hiramatsu
Check CONFIG_FREEZER instead of CONFIG_PM because kprobe booster depends on freeze_processes() and thaw_processes() when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y. This fixes a linkage error which occurs when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y, CONFIG_PM=y and CONFIG_FREEZER=n. Reported-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-01-16PM: Fix freezer compilation if PM_SLEEP is unsetRafael J. Wysocki
Freezer fails to compile if with the following configuration settings: CONFIG_CGROUPS=y CONFIG_CGROUP_FREEZER=y CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_FREEZER=y CONFIG_PM=y CONFIG_PM_SLEEP=n Fix this by making process.o compilation depend on CONFIG_FREEZER. Reported-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-01-15Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: sched_slice() fixlet sched: fix update_min_vruntime sched: SCHED_OTHER vs SCHED_IDLE isolation sched: SCHED_IDLE weight change sched: fix bandwidth validation for UID grouping Revert "sched: improve preempt debugging"
2009-01-15resources: fix parameter name and kernel-docRandy Dunlap
Fix __request_region() parameter kernel-doc notation and parameter name: Warning(linux-2.6.28-git10//kernel/resource.c:627): No description found for parameter 'flags' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-15cgroups: consolidate cgroup documentsLi Zefan
Move Documentation/cpusets.txt and Documentation/controllers/* to Documentation/cgroups/ Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-15sched: sched_slice() fixletLin Ming
Mike's change: 0a582440f "sched: fix sched_slice())" broke group scheduling by forgetting to reload cfs_rq on each loop. This patch fixes aim7 regression and specjbb2005 regression becomes less than 1.5% on 8-core stokley. Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Jayson King <dev@jaysonking.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-15[IA64] dump stack on kernel unaligned warningsDoug Chapman
Often the cause of kernel unaligned access warnings is not obvious from just the ip displayed in the warning. This adds the option via proc to dump the stack in addition to the warning. The default is off (just display the 1 line warning). To enable the stack to be shown: echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-dump-stack Signed-off-by: Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2009-01-15sched: fix update_min_vruntimePeter Zijlstra
Impact: fix SCHED_IDLE latency problems OK, so we have 1 running task A (which is obviously curr and the tree is equally obviously empty). 'A' nicely chugs along, doing its thing, carrying min_vruntime along as it goes. Then some whacko speed freak SCHED_IDLE task gets inserted due to SMP balancing, which is very likely far right, in that case update_curr update_min_vruntime cfs_rq->rb_leftmost := true (the crazy task sitting in a tree) vruntime = se->vruntime and voila, min_vruntime is waaay right of where it ought to be. OK, so why did I write it like that to begin with... Aah, yes. Say we've just dequeued current schedule deactivate_task(prev) dequeue_entity update_min_vruntime Then we'll set vruntime = cfs_rq->min_vruntime; we find !cfs_rq->curr, but do find someone in the tree. Then we _must_ do vruntime = se->vruntime, because vruntime = min_vruntime(vruntime := cfs_rq->min_vruntime, se->vruntime) will not advance vruntime, and cause lags the other way around (which we fixed with that initial patch: 1af5f730fc1bf7c62ec9fb2d307206e18bf40a69 (sched: more accurate min_vruntime accounting). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-15sched: SCHED_OTHER vs SCHED_IDLE isolationPeter Zijlstra
Stronger SCHED_IDLE isolation: - no SCHED_IDLE buddies - never let SCHED_IDLE preempt on wakeup - always preempt SCHED_IDLE on wakeup - limit SLEEPER fairness for SCHED_IDLE. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-15sched: SCHED_IDLE weight changePeter Zijlstra
Increase the SCHED_IDLE weight from 2 to 3, this gives much more stable vruntime numbers. time advanced in 100ms: weight=2 64765.988352 67012.881408 88501.412352 weight=3 35496.181411 34130.971298 35497.411573 Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-15sched: fix bandwidth validation for UID groupingPeter Zijlstra
Impact: make rt-limit tunables work again Mark Glines reported: > I've got an issue on x86-64 where I can't configure the system to allow > RT tasks for a non-root user. > > In 2.6.26.5, I was able to do the following to set things up nicely: > echo 450000 >/sys/kernel/uids/0/cpu_rt_runtime > echo 450000 >/sys/kernel/uids/1000/cpu_rt_runtime > > Seems like every value I try to echo into the /sys files returns EINVAL. For UID grouping we initialize the root group with infinite bandwidth which by default is actually more than the global limit, therefore the bandwidth check always fails. Because the root group is a phantom group (for UID grouping) we cannot runtime adjust it, therefore we let it reflect the global bandwidth settings. Reported-by: Mark Glines <mark@glines.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-15Merge branches 'cpus4096', 'x86/cleanups' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/percpuIngo Molnar
2009-01-14Merge branch 'syscalls' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'syscalls' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: (44 commits) [CVE-2009-0029] s390 specific system call wrappers [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 33 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 32 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 31 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 30 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 29 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 28 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 27 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 26 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 25 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 24 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 23 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 22 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 21 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 20 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 19 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 18 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 17 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 16 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 15 ...
2009-01-14kernel/up.c: omit it if SMP=y, USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS=nAndrew Morton
Fix the sparc build - we were including `up.o' on SMP builds, when CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS=n. Tested-by: Robert Reif <reif@earthlink.net> Fixed-by: Robert Reif <reif@earthlink.net> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 32Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 31Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 30Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 27Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 26Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 24Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 23Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 19Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 18Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 17Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 09Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 08Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 07Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 06Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 05Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 04Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 03Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 02Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 01Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] Make sys_syslog a conditional system callHeiko Carstens
Remove the -ENOSYS implementation for !CONFIG_PRINTK and use the cond_syscall infrastructure instead. Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] Convert all system calls to return a longHeiko Carstens
Convert all system calls to return a long. This should be a NOP since all converted types should have the same size anyway. With the exception of sys_exit_group which returned void. But that doesn't matter since the system call doesn't return. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14perf_counter: Add support for pinned and exclusive counter groupsPaul Mackerras
Impact: New perf_counter features A pinned counter group is one that the user wants to have on the CPU whenever possible, i.e. whenever the associated task is running, for a per-task group, or always for a per-cpu group. If the system cannot satisfy that, it puts the group into an error state where it is not scheduled any more and reads from it return EOF (i.e. 0 bytes read). The group can be released from error state and made readable again using prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_COUNTERS_ENABLE). When we have finer-grained enable/disable controls on counters we'll be able to reset the error state on individual groups. An exclusive group is one that the user wants to be the only group using the CPU performance monitor hardware whenever it is on. The counter group scheduler will not schedule an exclusive group if there are already other groups on the CPU and will not schedule other groups onto the CPU if there is an exclusive group scheduled (that statement does not apply to groups containing only software counters, which can always go on and which do not prevent an exclusive group from going on). With an exclusive group, we will be able to let users program PMU registers at a low level without the concern that those settings will perturb other measurements. Along the way this reorganizes things a little: - is_software_counter() is moved to perf_counter.h. - cpuctx->active_oncpu now records the number of hardware counters on the CPU, i.e. it now excludes software counters. Nothing was reading cpuctx->active_oncpu before, so this change is harmless. - A new cpuctx->exclusive field records whether we currently have an exclusive group on the CPU. - counter_sched_out moves higher up in perf_counter.c and gets called from __perf_counter_remove_from_context and __perf_counter_exit_task, where we used to have essentially the same code. - __perf_counter_sched_in now goes through the counter list twice, doing the pinned counters in the first loop and the non-pinned counters in the second loop, in order to give the pinned counters the best chance to be scheduled in. Note that only a group leader can be exclusive or pinned, and that attribute applies to the whole group. This avoids some awkwardness in some corner cases (e.g. where a group leader is closed and the other group members get added to the context list). If we want to relax that restriction later, we can, and it is easier to relax a restriction than to apply a new one. This doesn't yet handle the case where a pinned counter is inherited and goes into error state in the child - the error state is not propagated up to the parent when the child exits, and arguably it should. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-01-14powerpc/perf_counter: Make sure PMU gets enabled properlyPaul Mackerras
This makes sure that we call the platform-specific ppc_md.enable_pmcs function on each CPU before we try to use the PMU on that CPU. If the CPU goes off-line and then on-line, we need to do the enable_pmcs call again, so we use the hw_perf_counter_setup hook to ensure that. It gets called as each CPU comes online, but it isn't called on the CPU that is coming up, so this adds the CPU number as an argument to it (there were no non-empty instances of hw_perf_counter_setup before). This also arranges to set the pmcregs_in_use field of the lppaca (data structure shared with the hypervisor) on each CPU when we are using the PMU and clear it when we are not. This allows the hypervisor to optimize partition switches by not saving/restoring the PMU registers when we aren't using the PMU. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-01-13Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: smp_call_function_single(): be slightly less stupid, fix #2 lockdep, mm: fix might_fault() annotation
2009-01-12x86: arch_probe_nr_irqsYinghai Lu
Impact: save RAM with large NR_CPUS, get smaller nr_irqs Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
2009-01-12async: fix __lowest_in_progress()Arjan van de Ven
At 37000 feet somewhere near Greenland I woke up from a half-sleep with the realisation that __lowest_in_progress() is buggy. After landing I checked and there were indeed 2 problems with it; this patch fixes both: * The order of the list checks was wrong * The locking was not correct. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-12Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: kernel/sched.c: add missing forward declaration for 'double_rq_lock' sched: partly revert "sched debug: remove NULL checking in print_cfs_rt_rq()" cpumask: fix CONFIG_NUMA=y sched.c
2009-01-12smp_call_function_single(): be slightly less stupid, fix #2Ingo Molnar
fix m68k build failure: tip/kernel/up.c: In function 'smp_call_function_single': tip/kernel/up.c:16: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type make[2]: *** [kernel/up.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-12Revert "sched: improve preempt debugging"Ingo Molnar
This reverts commit 7317d7b87edb41a9135e30be1ec3f7ef817c53dd. This has been reported (and bisected) by Alexey Zaytsev and Kamalesh Babulal to produce annoying warnings during bootup on both x86 and powerpc. kernel_locked() is not a valid test in IRQ context (we update the BKL's ->lock_depth and the preempt count separately and non-atomicalyy), so we cannot put it into the generic preempt debugging checks which can run in IRQ contexts too. Reported-and-bisected-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com> Reported-and-bisected-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-12perf_counter: Always schedule all software counters inPaul Mackerras
Software counters aren't subject to the limitations imposed by the fixed number of hardware counter registers, so there is no reason not to enable them all in __perf_counter_sched_in. Previously we used to break out of the loop when we got to a group that wouldn't fit on the PMU; with this we continue through the list but only schedule in software counters (or groups containing only software counters) from there on. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-01-11cpumask, irq: non-x86 build failuresMike Travis
Ingo Molnar wrote: > All non-x86 architectures fail to build: > > In file included from /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/random.h:11, > from /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/stackprotector.h:6, > from /home/mingo/tip/init/main.c:17: > /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/irqnr.h:26:63: error: asm/irq_vectors.h: No such file or directory Do not include asm/irq_vectors.h in generic code - it's not available on all architectures. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-11kstat: modify kstat_irqs_legacy to be variable sizedMike Travis
Impact: reduce memory usage. Allocate kstat_irqs_legacy based on nr_cpu_ids to deal with this memory usage bump when NR_CPUS bumped from 128 to 4096: 8192 +253952 262144 +3100% kstat_irqs_legacy(.bss) This is only when CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQS=y. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>