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Balbir Singh
31a78f23ba mm owner: fix race between swapoff and exit
There's a race between mm->owner assignment and swapoff, more easily
seen when task slab poisoning is turned on.  The condition occurs when
try_to_unuse() runs in parallel with an exiting task.  A similar race
can occur with callers of get_task_mm(), such as /proc/<pid>/<mmstats>
or ptrace or page migration.

CPU0                                    CPU1
                                        try_to_unuse
                                        looks at mm = task0->mm
                                        increments mm->mm_users
task 0 exits
mm->owner needs to be updated, but no
new owner is found (mm_users > 1, but
no other task has task->mm = task0->mm)
mm_update_next_owner() leaves
                                        mmput(mm) decrements mm->mm_users
task0 freed
                                        dereferencing mm->owner fails

The fix is to notify the subsystem via mm_owner_changed callback(),
if no new owner is found, by specifying the new task as NULL.

Jiri Slaby:
mm->owner was set to NULL prior to calling cgroup_mm_owner_callbacks(), but
must be set after that, so as not to pass NULL as old owner causing oops.

Daisuke Nishimura:
mm_update_next_owner() may set mm->owner to NULL, but mem_cgroup_from_task()
and its callers need to take account of this situation to avoid oops.

Hugh Dickins:
Lockdep warning and hang below exec_mmap() when testing these patches.
exit_mm() up_reads mmap_sem before calling mm_update_next_owner(),
so exec_mmap() now needs to do the same.  And with that repositioning,
there's now no point in mm_need_new_owner() allowing for NULL mm.

Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-29 08:41:47 -07:00
Jason Wessel
d7161a6534 kgdb, x86, arm, mips, powerpc: ignore user space single stepping
On the x86 arch, user space single step exceptions should be ignored
if they occur in the kernel space, such as ptrace stepping through a
system call.

First check if it is kgdb that is executing a single step, then ensure
it is not an accidental traversal into the user space, while in kgdb,
any other time the TIF_SINGLESTEP is set, kgdb should ignore the
exception.

On x86, arm, mips and powerpc, the kgdb_contthread usage was
inconsistent with the way single stepping is implemented in the kgdb
core.  The arch specific stub should always set the
kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step correctly if it is single stepping.  This
allows kgdb to correctly process an instruction steps if ptrace
happens to be requesting an instruction step over a system call.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-09-26 10:36:41 -05:00
Atsuo Igarashi
18d6522b86 kgdb: could not write to the last of valid memory with kgdb
On the ARM architecture, kgdb will crash the kernel if the last byte
of valid memory is written due to a flush_icache_range flushing
beyond the memory boundary.

Signed-off-by: Atsuo Igarashi <atsuo_igarashi@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-09-26 10:36:41 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
8553f321e0 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  timers: fix build error in !oneshot case
  x86: c1e_idle: don't mark TSC unstable if CPU has invariant TSC
  x86: prevent C-states hang on AMD C1E enabled machines
  clockevents: prevent mode mismatch on cpu online
  clockevents: check broadcast device not tick device
  clockevents: prevent stale tick_next_period for onlining CPUs
  x86: prevent stale state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online
  clockevents: prevent cpu online to interfere with nohz
2008-09-23 14:57:36 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
be3be89058 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: fix init_hrtick() section mismatch warning
2008-09-23 14:57:22 -07:00
Jonathan Steel
f9092f358b kexec: fix segmentation fault in kimage_add_entry
A segmentation fault can occur in kimage_add_entry in kexec.c when loading
a kernel image into memory.  The fault occurs because a page is requested
by calling kimage_alloc_page with gfp_mask GFP_KERNEL and the function may
actually return a page with gfp_mask GFP_HIGHUSER.  The high mem page is
returned because it was swapped with the kernel page due to the kernel
page being a page that will shortly be copied to.

This patch ensures that kimage_alloc_page returns a page that was created
with the correct gfp flags.

I have verified the change and fixed the whitespace damage of the original
patch.  Jonathan did a great job of tracking this down after he hit the
problem.  -- Eric

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Steel <jon.steel@esentire.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23 08:09:14 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
f8e256c687 timers: fix build error in !oneshot case
kernel/time/tick-common.c: In function ‘tick_setup_periodic’:
 kernel/time/tick-common.c:113: error: implicit declaration of function ‘tick_broadcast_oneshot_active’

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 12:57:00 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
27ce4cb4a0 clockevents: prevent mode mismatch on cpu online
Impact: timer hang on CPU online observed on AMD C1E systems

When a CPU is brought online then the broadcast machinery can
be in the one shot state already. Check this and setup the timer 
device of the new CPU in one shot mode so the broadcast code
can pick up the next_event value correctly.

Another AMD C1E oddity, as we switch to broadcast immediately and
not after the full bring up via the ACPI cpu idle code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23 11:38:53 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
302745699c clockevents: check broadcast device not tick device
Impact: Possible hang on CPU online observed on AMD C1E machines.

The broadcast setup code looks at the mode of the tick device to
determine whether it needs to be shut down or setup. This is wrong
when the broadcast mode is set to one shot already. This can happen
when a CPU is brought online as it goes through the periodic setup
first.

The problem went unnoticed as sane systems do not call into that code
before the switch to one shot for the clock event device happens.
The AMD C1E idle routine switches over immediately and thereby shuts
down the just setup device before the first interrupt happens.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23 11:38:53 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
49d670fb8d clockevents: prevent stale tick_next_period for onlining CPUs
Impact: possible hang on CPU onlining in timer one shot mode.

The tick_next_period variable is only used during boot on nohz/highres
enabled systems, but for CPU onlining it needs to be maintained when
the per cpu clock events device operates in one shot mode.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23 11:38:53 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
6441402b1f clockevents: prevent cpu online to interfere with nohz
Impact: rare hang which can be triggered on CPU online.

tick_do_timer_cpu keeps track of the CPU which updates jiffies
via do_timer. The value -1 is used to signal, that currently no
CPU is doing this. There are two cases, where the variable can 
have this state:

 boot:
    necessary for systems where the boot cpu id can be != 0

 nohz long idle sleep:
    When the CPU which did the jiffies update last goes into
    a long idle sleep it drops the update jiffies duty so
    another CPU which is not idle can pick it up and keep
    jiffies going.

Using the same value for both situations is wrong, as the CPU online
code can see the -1 state when the timer of the newly onlined CPU is
setup. The setup for a newly onlined CPU goes through periodic mode
and can pick up the do_timer duty without being aware of the nohz /
highres mode of the already running system.

Use two separate states and make them constants to avoid magic
numbers confusion. 

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23 11:38:52 +02:00
Rakib Mullick
fa74820317 sched: fix init_hrtick() section mismatch warning
LD      kernel/built-in.o
WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x326): Section mismatch in reference
from the function init_hrtick() to the variable
.cpuinit.data:hotplug_hrtick_nb.8
The function init_hrtick() references
the variable __cpuinitdata hotplug_hrtick_nb.8.
This is often because init_hrtick lacks a __cpuinitdata
annotation or the annotation of hotplug_hrtick_nb.8 is wrong.

Signed-off-by: Md.Rakib H. Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 11:02:13 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
b4df9d88a6 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: fix deadlock in setting scheduler parameter to zero
  sched: fix 2.6.27-rc5 couldn't boot on tulsa machine randomly
2008-09-19 16:17:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
902f2ac9da Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  clockevents: make device shutdown robust
  clocksource, acpi_pm.c: fix check for monotonicity
  clockevents: remove WARN_ON which was used to gather information
2008-09-19 16:16:50 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
2344abbcbd clockevents: make device shutdown robust
The device shut down does not cleanup the next_event variable of the
clock event device. So when the device is reactivated the possible
stale next_event value can prevent the device to be reprogrammed as it
claims to wait on a event already.

This is the root cause of the resurfacing suspend/resume problem,
where systems need key press to come back to life.

Fix this by setting next_event to KTIME_MAX when the device is shut
down. Use a separate function for shutdown which takes care of that
and only keep the direct set mode call in the broadcast code, where we
can not touch the next_event value.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-16 13:47:02 -07:00
Li Zefan
4e74339af6 cpuset: avoid changing cpuset's cpus when -errno returned
After the patch:

commit 0b2f630a28
Author: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:   Fri Jul 25 01:47:21 2008 -0700

    cpusets: restructure the function update_cpumask() and update_nodemask()

It might happen that 'echo 0 > /cpuset/sub/cpus' returned failure but 'cpus'
has been changed, because cpus was changed before calling heap_init() which
may return -ENOMEM.

This patch restores the orginal behavior.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13 14:41:50 -07:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
ec5d498991 sched: fix deadlock in setting scheduler parameter to zero
Andrei Gusev wrote:

> I played witch scheduler settings. After doing something like:
> echo -n 1000000 >sched_rt_period_us
>
> command is locked. I found in kernel.log:
>
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Pid: 4495, comm: bash Tainted: G        W
> (2.6.26.3 #12)
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EIP: 0060:[<c0213fc7>] EFLAGS: 00210246 CPU: 0
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EIP is at div64_u64+0x57/0x80
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EAX: 0000389f EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000
> EDX: 00000000
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra ESI: d9800000 EDI: d9800000 EBP: 0000389f
> ESP: ea7a6edc
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Process bash (pid: 4495, ti=ea7a6000
> task=ea744000 task.ti=ea7a6000)
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Stack: 00000000 000003e8 d9800000 0000389f
> c0119042 00000000 00000000 00000001
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra 00000000 00000000 ea7a6f54 00010000 00000000
> c04d2e80 00000001 000e7ef0
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra c01191a3 00000000 00000000 ea7a6fa0 00000001
> ffffffff c04d2e80 ea5b2480
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Call Trace:
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c0119042>] __rt_schedulable+0x52/0x130
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01191a3>] sched_rt_handler+0x83/0x120
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01a76a6>] proc_sys_call_handler+0xb6/0xd0
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01a76c0>] proc_sys_write+0x0/0x20
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01a76d9>] proc_sys_write+0x19/0x20
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c016cc68>] vfs_write+0xa8/0x140
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c016cdd1>] sys_write+0x41/0x80
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c0103051>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6a/0x91
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra =======================
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Code: c8 41 0f ad f3 d3 ee f6 c1 20 0f 45 de
> 31 f6 0f ad ef d3 ed f6 c1 20 0f 45 fd 0f 45 ee 31 c9 39 eb 89 fe 89 ea
> 77 08 89 e8 31 d2 <f7> f3 89 c1 89 f0 8b 7c 24 08 f7 f3 8b 74 24 04 89
> ca 8b 1c 24
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EIP: [<c0213fc7>] div64_u64+0x57/0x80 SS:ESP
> 0068:ea7a6edc
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]---

fix the boundary condition.

sysctl_sched_rt_period=0 makes exception at to_ratio().

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-11 09:39:18 +02:00
Zhang, Yanmin
baf25731e5 sched: fix 2.6.27-rc5 couldn't boot on tulsa machine randomly
On my tulsa x86-64 machine, kernel 2.6.25-rc5 couldn't boot randomly.

Basically, function __enable_runtime forgets to reset rt_rq->rt_throttled
to 0. When every cpu is up, per-cpu migration_thread is created and it runs
very fast, sometimes to mark the corresponding rt_rq->rt_throttled to 1 very
quickly. After all cpus are up, with below calling chain:

   sched_init_smp => arch_init_sched_domains => build_sched_domains => ...
=> cpu_attach_domain => rq_attach_root => set_rq_online => ...
=> _enable_runtime

_enable_runtime is called against every rt_rq again, so rt_rq->rt_time is
reset to 0, but rt_rq->rt_throttled might be still 1. Later on function
do_sched_rt_period_timer couldn't reset it, and all RT tasks couldn't be
scheduled to run on that cpu. here is RT task migration_thread which is
woken up when a task is migrated to another cpu.

Below patch fixes it against 2.6.27-rc5.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-11 09:34:28 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
61c22c34c6 clockevents: remove WARN_ON which was used to gather information
The issue of the endless reprogramming loop due to a too small
min_delta_ns was fixed with the previous updates of the clock events
code, but we had no information about the spread of this problem. I
added a WARN_ON to get automated information via kerneloops.org and to
get some direct reports, which allowed me to analyse the affected
machines.

The WARN_ON has served its purpose and would be annoying for a release
kernel. Remove it and just keep the information about the increase of
the min_delta_ns value.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-09 22:20:01 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
e1d7bf1499 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: arch_reinit_sched_domains() must destroy domains to force rebuild
  sched, cpuset: rework sched domains and CPU hotplug handling (v4)
2008-09-08 15:47:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f532522565 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  clocksource, acpi_pm.c: check for monotonicity
  clocksource, acpi_pm.c: use proper read function also in errata mode
  ntp: fix calculation of the next jiffie to trigger RTC sync
  x86: HPET: read back compare register before reading counter
  x86: HPET fix moronic 32/64bit thinko
  clockevents: broadcast fixup possible waiters
  HPET: make minimum reprogramming delta useful
  clockevents: prevent endless loop lockup
  clockevents: prevent multiple init/shutdown
  clockevents: enforce reprogram in oneshot setup
  clockevents: prevent endless loop in periodic broadcast handler
  clockevents: prevent clockevent event_handler ending up handler_noop
2008-09-06 19:33:26 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
291c54ff76 Merge branch 'sched/cpuset' into sched/urgent 2008-09-06 21:03:16 +02:00
Max Krasnyansky
dfb512ec48 sched: arch_reinit_sched_domains() must destroy domains to force rebuild
What I realized recently is that calling rebuild_sched_domains() in
arch_reinit_sched_domains() by itself is not enough when cpusets are enabled.
partition_sched_domains() code is trying to avoid unnecessary domain rebuilds
and will not actually rebuild anything if new domain masks match the old ones.

What this means is that doing
     echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings
on a system with cpusets enabled will not take affect untill something changes
in the cpuset setup (ie new sets created or deleted).

This patch fixes restore correct behaviour where domains must be rebuilt in
order to enable MC powersaving flags.

Test on quad-core Core2 box with both CONFIG_CPUSETS and !CONFIG_CPUSETS.
Also tested on dual-core Core2 laptop. Lockdep is happy and things are working
as expected.

Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06 19:22:15 +02:00
Maciej W. Rozycki
4ff4b9e19a ntp: fix calculation of the next jiffie to trigger RTC sync
We have a bug in the calculation of the next jiffie to trigger the RTC
synchronisation.  The aim here is to run sync_cmos_clock() as close as
possible to the middle of a second.  Which means we want this function to
be called less than or equal to half a jiffie away from when now.tv_nsec
equals 5e8 (500000000).

If this is not the case for a given call to the function, for this purpose
instead of updating the RTC we calculate the offset in nanoseconds to the
next point in time where now.tv_nsec will be equal 5e8.  The calculated
offset is then converted to jiffies as these are the unit used by the
timer.

Hovewer timespec_to_jiffies() used here uses a ceil()-type rounding mode,
where the resulting value is rounded up.  As a result the range of
now.tv_nsec when the timer will trigger is from 5e8 to 5e8 + TICK_NSEC
rather than the desired 5e8 - TICK_NSEC / 2 to 5e8 + TICK_NSEC / 2.

As a result if for example sync_cmos_clock() happens to be called at the
time when now.tv_nsec is between 5e8 + TICK_NSEC / 2 and 5e8 to 5e8 +
TICK_NSEC, it will simply be rescheduled HZ jiffies later, falling in the
same range of now.tv_nsec again.  Similarly for cases offsetted by an
integer multiple of TICK_NSEC.

This change addresses the problem by subtracting TICK_NSEC / 2 from the
nanosecond offset to the next point in time where now.tv_nsec will be
equal 5e8, effectively shifting the following rounding in
timespec_to_jiffies() so that it produces a rounded-to-nearest result.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06 15:31:48 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
7300711e8c clockevents: broadcast fixup possible waiters
Until the C1E patches arrived there where no users of periodic broadcast
before switching to oneshot mode. Now we need to trigger a possible
waiter for a periodic broadcast when switching to oneshot mode.
Otherwise we can starve them for ever.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-06 07:21:17 +02:00
Balbir Singh
49048622ea sched: fix process time monotonicity
Spencer reported a problem where utime and stime were going negative despite
the fixes in commit b27f03d4bd. The suspected
reason for the problem is that signal_struct maintains it's own utime and
stime (of exited tasks), these are not updated using the new task_utime()
routine, hence sig->utime can go backwards and cause the same problem
to occur (sig->utime, adds tsk->utime and not task_utime()). This patch
fixes the problem

TODO: using max(task->prev_utime, derived utime) works for now, but a more
generic solution is to implement cputime_max() and use the cputime_gt()
function for comparison.

Reported-by: spencer@bluehost.com
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 18:14:35 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
56c7426b39 sched_clock: fix NOHZ interaction
If HLT stops the TSC, we'll fail to account idle time, thereby inflating the
actual process times. Fix this by re-calibrating the clock against GTOD when
leaving nohz mode.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 18:14:08 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
1fb9b7d29d clockevents: prevent endless loop lockup
The C1E/HPET bug reports on AMDX2/RS690 systems where tracked down to a
too small value of the HPET minumum delta for programming an event.

The clockevents code needs to enforce an interrupt event on the clock event
device in some cases. The enforcement code was stupid and naive, as it just
added the minimum delta to the current time and tried to reprogram the device.
When the minimum delta is too small, then this loops forever.

Add a sanity check. Allow reprogramming to fail 3 times, then print a warning
and double the minimum delta value to make sure, that this does not happen again.
Use the same function for both tick-oneshot and tick-broadcast code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 11:11:53 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
9c17bcda99 clockevents: prevent multiple init/shutdown
While chasing the C1E/HPET bugreports I went through the clock events
code inch by inch and found that the broadcast device can be initialized
and shutdown multiple times. Multiple shutdowns are not critical, but
useless waste of time. Multiple initializations are simply broken. Another
CPU might have the device in use already after the first initialization and
the second init could just render it unusable again.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 11:11:52 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
7205656ab4 clockevents: enforce reprogram in oneshot setup
In tick_oneshot_setup we program the device to the given next_event,
but we do not check the return value. We need to make sure that the
device is programmed enforced so the interrupt handler engine starts
working. Split out the reprogramming function from tick_program_event()
and call it with the device, which was handed in to tick_setup_oneshot().
Set the force argument, so the devices is firing an interrupt.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 11:11:52 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
d4496b3955 clockevents: prevent endless loop in periodic broadcast handler
The reprogramming of the periodic broadcast handler was broken,
when the first programming returned -ETIME. The clockevents code
stores the new expiry value in the clock events device next_event field
only when the programming time has not been elapsed yet. The loop in
question calculates the new expiry value from the next_event value
and therefor never increases.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 11:11:51 +02:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
7c1e768974 clockevents: prevent clockevent event_handler ending up handler_noop
There is a ordering related problem with clockevents code, due to which
clockevents_register_device() called after tickless/highres switch
will not work. The new clockevent ends up with clockevents_handle_noop as
event handler, resulting in no timer activity.

The problematic path seems to be

* old device already has hrtimer_interrupt as the event_handler
* new clockevent device registers with a higher rating
* tick_check_new_device() is called
  * clockevents_exchange_device() gets called
    * old->event_handler is set to clockevents_handle_noop
  * tick_setup_device() is called for the new device
    * which sets new->event_handler using the old->event_handler which is noop.

Change the ordering so that new device inherits the proper handler.

This does not have any issue in normal case as most likely all the clockevent
devices are setup before the highres switch. But, can potentially be affecting
some corner case where HPET force detect happens after the highres switch.
This was a problem with HPET in MSI mode code that we have been experimenting
with.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 11:11:51 +02:00
Al Viro
b380b0d4f7 forgotten refcount on sysctl root table
We should've set refcount on the root sysctl table; otherwise we'll blow
up the first time we get down to zero dynamically registered sysctl
tables.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-04 11:06:21 -07:00
John Kacur
9d35935747 pm_qos_requirement might sleep
Make PM_QOS and CPU_IDLE play nicer when run with the RT-Preempt kernel.

The purpose of the patch is to remove the spin_lock around the read in the
function pm_qos_requirement - since spinlocks can sleep in -rt and this
function is called from idle.

CPU_IDLE polls the target_value's of some of the pm_qos parameters from
the idle loop causing sleeping locking warnings.  Changing the
target_value to an atomic avoids this issue.

Remove the spinlock in pm_qos_requirement by making target_value an atomic
type.

Signed-off-by: mark gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-02 19:21:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
950bbabb5a pid_ns: (BUG 11391) change ->child_reaper when init->group_leader exits
We don't change pid_ns->child_reaper when the main thread of the
subnamespace init exits.  As Robert Rex <robert.rex@exasol.com> pointed
out this is wrong.

Yes, the re-parenting itself works correctly, but if the reparented task
exits it needs ->parent->nsproxy->pid_ns in do_notify_parent(), and if the
main thread is zombie its ->nsproxy was already cleared by
exit_task_namespaces().

Introduce the new function, find_new_reaper(), which finds the new
->parent for the re-parenting and changes ->child_reaper if needed.  Kill
the now unneeded exit_child_reaper().

Also move the changing of ->child_reaper from zap_pid_ns_processes() to
find_new_reaper(), this consolidates the games with ->child_reaper and
makes it stable under tasklist_lock.

Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11391

Reported-by: Robert Rex <robert.rex@exasol.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-02 19:21:38 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
add0d4dfd6 pid_ns: zap_pid_ns_processes: fix the ->child_reaper changing
zap_pid_ns_processes() sets pid_ns->child_reaper = NULL, this is wrong.

Yes, we have already killed all tasks in this namespace, and sys_wait4()
doesn't see any child.  But this doesn't mean ->children list is empty, we
may have EXIT_DEAD tasks which are not visible to do_wait().  In that case
the subsequent forget_original_parent() will crash the kernel because it
will try to re-parent these tasks to the NULL reaper.

Even if there are no childs, it is not good that forget_original_parent()
uses reaper == NULL.

Change the code to set ->child_reaper = init_pid_ns.child_reaper instead.
We could use pid_ns->parent->child_reaper as well, I think this does not
really matter.  These EXIT_DEAD tasks are not visible to the new ->parent
after re-parenting, they will silently do release_task() eventually.

Note that we must change ->child_reaper, otherwise
forget_original_parent() will use reaper == father, and in that case we
will hit the (correct) BUG_ON(!list_empty(&father->children)).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-02 19:21:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
99039e1352 Merge branch 'audit.b57' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current
* 'audit.b57' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
  [PATCH] audit: Moved variable declaration to beginning of function
2008-09-02 11:04:47 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
cbaed698f3 softlockup: minor cleanup, don't check task->state twice
The recent commit 16d9679f33caf7e683471647d1472bfe133d858 changed
check_hung_task() to filter out the TASK_KILLABLE tasks. We can
move this check to the caller which has to test t->state anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-02 10:49:51 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
6781f4ae30 kernel/resource.c: fix new kernel-doc warning
Fix kernel-doc warning for new function:

Warning(linux-2.6.27-rc5-git2//kernel/resource.c:448): No description found for parameter 'root'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-02 10:47:30 -07:00
Cordelia
c4bacefb7a [PATCH] audit: Moved variable declaration to beginning of function
got rid of compilation warning:
ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code

Signed-off-by: Cordelia Sam <cordesam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-09-01 23:06:45 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
bef69ea0dc Resource handling: add 'insert_resource_expand_to_fit()' function
Not used anywhere yet, but this complements the existing plain
'insert_resource()' functionality with a version that can expand the
resource we are adding in order to fix up any conflicts it has with
existing resources.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-29 20:25:20 -07:00
Andi Kleen
316d9679f3 Don't trigger softlockup detector on network fs blocked tasks
Pulling the ethernet cable on a 2.6.27-rc system with NFS mounts
currently leads to an ongoing flood of soft lockup detector backtraces
for all tasks blocked on the NFS mounts when the hickup takes
longer than 120s.

I don't think NFS problems should be all that noisy.

Luckily there's a reasonably easy way to distingush this case.

Don't report task softlockup warnings for tasks in TASK_KILLABLE
state, which is used by the network file systems.

I believe this patch is a 2.6.27 candidate.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-29 14:46:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
66833d5f39 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of 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:
  exit signals: use of uninitialized field notify_count
  lockdep: fix invalid list_del_rcu in zap_class
  lockstat: repair erronous contention statistics
  lockstat: fix numerical output rounding error
2008-08-28 12:31:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0234bf1d98 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: rt-bandwidth accounting fix
  sched: fix sched_rt_rq_enqueue() resched idle
2008-08-28 12:31:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e52c8857e0 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: update defconfigs
  x86: msr: fix bogus return values from rdmsr_safe/wrmsr_safe
  x86: cpuid: correct return value on partial operations
  x86: msr: correct return value on partial operations
  x86: cpuid: propagate error from smp_call_function_single()
  x86: msr: propagate errors from smp_call_function_single()
  smp: have smp_call_function_single() detect invalid CPUs
2008-08-28 12:30:59 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
41108eb101 ftrace: disable tracing for hibernation
In accordance with commit f42ac38c59
("ftrace: disable tracing for suspend to ram"), disable tracing
around the suspend code in hibernation code paths.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-28 12:27:39 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
cc2991cf15 sched: rt-bandwidth accounting fix
It fixes an accounting bug where we would continue accumulating runtime
even though the bandwidth control is disabled. This would lead to very long
throttle periods once bandwidth control gets turned on again.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-28 13:42:38 +02:00
John Blackwood
f3ade83780 sched: fix sched_rt_rq_enqueue() resched idle
When sysctl_sched_rt_runtime is set to something other than -1 and the
CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED kernel parameter is NOT enabled, we get into a state
where we see one or more CPUs idling forvever even though there are
real-time
tasks in their rt runqueue that are able to run (no longer throttled).

The sequence is:

- A real-time task is running when the timer sets the rt runqueue
    to throttled, and the rt task is resched_task()ed and switched
    out, and idle is switched in since there are no non-rt tasks to
    run on that cpu.

- Eventually the do_sched_rt_period_timer() runs and un-throttles
    the rt runqueue, but we just exit the timer interrupt and go back
    to executing the idle task in the idle loop forever.

If we change the sched_rt_rq_enqueue() routine to use some of the code
from the CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED enabled version of this same routine and
resched_task() the currently executing task (idle in our case) if it is
a lower priority task than the higher rt task in the now un-throttled
runqueue, the problem is no longer observed.

Signed-off-by: John Blackwood <john.blackwood@ccur.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-28 11:13:24 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
f42ac38c59 ftrace: disable tracing for suspend to ram
I've been painstakingly debugging the issue with suspend to ram and
ftraced. The 2.6.28 code does not have this issue, but since the mcount
recording is not going to be in 27, this must be solved for the ftrace
daemon version.

The resume from suspend to ram would reboot because it was triple
faulting. Debugging further, I found that calling the mcount function
itself was not an issue, but it would fault when it incremented
preempt_count. preempt_count is on the tasks info structure that is on the
low memory address of the task's stack.  For some reason, it could not
write to it. Resuming out of suspend to ram does quite a lot of funny
tricks to get to work, so it is not surprising at all that simply doing a
preempt_disable() would cause a fault.

Thanks to Rafael for suggesting to add a "while (1);" to find the place in
resuming that is causing the fault. I would place the loop somewhere in
the code, compile and reboot and see if it would either reboot (hit the
fault) or simply hang (hit the loop).  Doing this over and over again, I
narrowed it down that it was happening in enable_nonboot_cpus.

At this point, I found that it is easier to simply disable tracing around
the suspend code, instead of searching for the particular function that
can not handle doing a preempt_disable.

This patch disables the tracer as it suspends and reenables it on resume.

I tested this patch on my Laptop, and it can resume fine with the patch.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-27 13:54:20 -07:00
Steve VanDeBogart
2633f0e57b exit signals: use of uninitialized field notify_count
task->signal->notify_count is only initialized if
task->signal->group_exit_task is not NULL.  Reorder a conditional so
that uninitialised memory is not used.  Found by Valgrind.

Signed-off-by: Steve VanDeBogart <vandebo-lkml@nerdbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-27 09:10:09 +02:00