* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
module: remove CONFIG_KMOD in comment after #endif
remove CONFIG_KMOD from fs
remove CONFIG_KMOD from drivers
Manually fix conflict due to include cleanups in drivers/md/md.c
Make the needlessly global kretprobe_table_lock() static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
No functional change. Just return NULL for kzalloc failure immediately,
rather than wrapping the whole function body in the body of an "if".
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patchs adds the CONFIG_AIO option which allows to remove support
for asynchronous I/O operations, that are not necessarly used by
applications, particularly on embedded devices. As this is a
size-reduction option, it depends on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. It allows to
save ~7 kilobytes of kernel code/data:
text data bss dec hex filename
1115067 119180 217088 1451335 162547 vmlinux
1108025 119048 217088 1444161 160941 vmlinux.new
-7042 -132 0 -7174 -1C06 +/-
This patch has been originally written by Matt Mackall
<mpm@selenic.com>, and is part of the Linux Tiny project.
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
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>
name and nlen parameters passed to ->strategy hook are unused, remove
them. In general ->strategy hook should know what it's doing, and don't
do something tricky for which, say, pointer to original userspace array
may be needed (name).
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [ networking bits ]
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Nothing arch specific in get/settimeofday. The details of the timeval
conversion varied a little from arch to arch, but all with the same
results.
Also add an extern declaration for sys_tz to linux/time.h because externs
in .c files are fowned upon. I'll kill the externs in various other files
in a sparate patch.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [ sparc bits ]
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add documentation in kerneldoc for new printk format extensions
This patch documents the new %pS/%pF options in printk in kernel doc.
Hope I didn't miss any other extension.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
People can use the real name an an index into MAINTAINERS to find the
current email address.
Signed-off-by: Francois Cami <francois.cami@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 6dd06c9fbe ("module: make
module_address_lookup safe") introduced double returns in the function
kallsyms_lookup(), it's weird. The second one should be removed.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
utsname() is quite expensive to calculate. Cache it in a local.
text data bss dec hex filename
before: 11136 720 16 11872 2e60 kernel/sys.o
after: 11096 720 16 11832 2e38 kernel/sys.o
Acked-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
On sethostname() and setdomainname(), previous information may be retained
if it was longer than than the new hostname/domainname.
This can be demonstrated trivially by calling sethostname() first with a
long name, then with a short name, and then calling uname() to retrieve
the full buffer that contains the hostname (and possibly parts of the old
hostname), one just has to look past the terminating zero.
I don't know if we should really care that much (hence the RFC); the only
scenarios I can possibly think of is administrator putting something
sensitive in the hostname (or domain name) by accident, and changing it
back will not undo the mistake entirely, though it's not like we can
recover gracefully from "rm -rf /" either... The other scenario is
namespaces (CLONE_NEWUTS) where some information may be unintentionally
"inherited" from the previous namespace (a program wants to hide the
original name and does clone + sethostname, but some information is still
left).
I think the patch may be defended on grounds of the principle of least
surprise. But I am not adamant :-)
(I guess the question now is whether userspace should be able to
write embedded NULs into the buffer or not...)
At least the observation has been made and the patch has been presented.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Way too often, I have a machine that exhibits some kind of crappy
behavior. The CPU looks wedged in the kernel or it is spending way too
much system time and I wonder what is responsible.
I try to run readprofile. But, of course, Ubuntu doesn't enable it by
default. Dang!
The reason we boot-time enable it is that it takes a big bufffer that we
generally can only bootmem alloc. But, does it hurt to at least try and
runtime-alloc it?
To use:
echo 2 > /sys/kernel/profile
Then run readprofile like normal.
This should fix the compile issue with allmodconfig. I've compile-tested
on a bunch more configs now including a few more architectures.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When a process wants to set the limit of open files to RLIM_INFINITY it
gets EPERM even if it has CAP_SYS_RESOURCE capability.
For example, BIND does:
...
#elif defined(NR_OPEN) && defined(__linux__)
/*
* Some Linux kernels don't accept RLIM_INFINIT; the maximum
* possible value is the NR_OPEN defined in linux/fs.h.
*/
if (resource == isc_resource_openfiles && rlim_value == RLIM_INFINITY) {
rl.rlim_cur = rl.rlim_max = NR_OPEN;
unixresult = setrlimit(unixresource, &rl);
if (unixresult == 0)
return (ISC_R_SUCCESS);
}
#elif ...
If we allow setting RLIMIT_NOFILE to RLIM_INFINITY we increase portability
- you don't have to check if OS is linux and then use different schema for
limits.
The spec says "Specifying RLIM_INFINITY as any resource limit value on a
successful call to setrlimit() shall inhibit enforcement of that resource
limit." and we're presently not doing that.
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It's somewhat unlikely that it happens, but right now a race window
between interrupts or machine checks or oopses could corrupt the tainted
bitmap because it is modified in a non atomic fashion.
Convert the taint variable to an unsigned long and use only atomic bit
operations on it.
Unfortunately this means the intvec sysctl functions cannot be used on it
anymore.
It turned out the taint sysctl handler could actually be simplified a bit
(since it only increases capabilities) so this patch actually removes
code.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded include]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Using "def_bool n" is pointless, simply using bool here appears more
appropriate.
Further, retaining such options that don't have a prompt and aren't
selected by anything seems also at least questionable.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
is_sync_wait() is used to distinguish between sync and async waits.
Basically sync waits are the ones initialized with init_waitqueue_entry()
and async ones with init_waitqueue_func_entry(). The sync/async
distinction is used only in prepare_to_wait[_exclusive]() and its only
function is to skip setting the current task state if the wait is async.
This has a few problems.
* No one uses it. None of func_entry users use prepare_to_wait()
functions, so the code path never gets executed.
* The distinction is bogus. Maybe back when func_entry is used only
by aio but it's now also used by epoll and in future possibly by 9p
and poll/select.
* Taking @state as argument and ignoring it silenly depending on how
@wait is initialized is just a bad error-prone API.
* It prevents func_entry waits from using wait->private for no good
reason.
This patch kills is_sync_wait() and the associated code paths from
prepare_to_wait[_exclusive](). As there was no user of these code paths,
this patch doesn't cause any behavior difference.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove a CVS keyword that wasn't updated for a long time from a comment.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We currently use a PM notifier to disable user mode helpers before suspend
and hibernation and to re-enable them during resume. However, this is not
an ideal solution, because if any drivers want to upload firmware into
memory before suspend, they have to use a PM notifier for this purpose and
there is no guarantee that the ordering of PM notifiers will be as
expected (ie. the notifier that disables user mode helpers has to be run
after the driver's notifier used for uploading the firmware).
For this reason, it seems better to move the disabling and enabling of
user mode helpers to separate functions that will be called by the PM core
as necessary.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded ifdefs]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds an additional field to the mm_owner callbacks. This field
is required to get to the mm that changed. Hold mmap_sem in write mode
before calling the mm_owner_changed callback
[hugh@veritas.com: fix mmap_sem deadlock]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-2.6.28' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (59 commits)
svcrdma: Fix IRD/ORD polarity
svcrdma: Update svc_rdma_send_error to use DMA LKEY
svcrdma: Modify the RPC reply path to use FRMR when available
svcrdma: Modify the RPC recv path to use FRMR when available
svcrdma: Add support to svc_rdma_send to handle chained WR
svcrdma: Modify post recv path to use local dma key
svcrdma: Add a service to register a Fast Reg MR with the device
svcrdma: Query device for Fast Reg support during connection setup
svcrdma: Add FRMR get/put services
NLM: Remove unused argument from svc_addsock() function
NLM: Remove "proto" argument from lockd_up()
NLM: Always start both UDP and TCP listeners
lockd: Remove unused fields in the nlm_reboot structure
lockd: Add helper to sanity check incoming NOTIFY requests
lockd: change nlmclnt_grant() to take a "struct sockaddr *"
lockd: Adjust nlmsvc_lookup_host() to accomodate AF_INET6 addresses
lockd: Adjust nlmclnt_lookup_host() signature to accomodate non-AF_INET
lockd: Support non-AF_INET addresses in nlm_lookup_host()
NLM: Convert nlm_lookup_host() to use a single argument
svcrdma: Add Fast Reg MR Data Types
...
* 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc:
proc: remove kernel.maps_protect
proc: remove now unneeded ADDBUF macro
[PATCH] proc: show personality via /proc/pid/personality
[PATCH] signal, procfs: some lock_task_sighand() users do not need rcu_read_lock()
proc: move PROC_PAGE_MONITOR to fs/proc/Kconfig
proc: make grab_header() static
proc: remove unused get_dma_list()
proc: remove dummy vmcore_open()
proc: proc_sys_root tweak
proc: fix return value of proc_reg_open() in "too late" case
Fixed up trivial conflict in removed file arch/sparc/include/asm/dma_32.h
Various people outside the tty layer still stick their noses in behind the
scenes. We need to make sure they also obey the locking and referencing rules.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is pure tty code so put it in the tty layer where it can be with the
locking relevant material it uses
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce a kref to the tty structure and use it to protect the tty->signal
tty references. For now we don't introduce it for anything else.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'x86-v28-for-linus-phase4-D' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (186 commits)
x86, debug: print more information about unknown CPUs
x86 setup: handle more than 8 CPU flag words
x86: cpuid, fix typo
x86: move transmeta cap read to early_init_transmeta()
x86: identify_cpu_without_cpuid v2
x86: extended "flags" to show virtualization HW feature in /proc/cpuinfo
x86: move VMX MSRs to msr-index.h
x86: centaur_64.c remove duplicated setting of CONSTANT_TSC
x86: intel.c put workaround for old cpus together
x86: let intel 64-bit use intel.c
x86: make intel_64.c the same as intel.c
x86: make intel.c have 64-bit support code
x86: little clean up of intel.c/intel_64.c
x86: make 64 bit to use amd.c
x86: make amd_64 have 32 bit code
x86: make amd.c have 64bit support code
x86: merge header in amd_64.c
x86: add srat_detect_node for amd64
x86: remove duplicated force_mwait
x86: cpu make amd.c more like amd_64.c v2
...
* 'x86-v28-for-linus-phase3-B' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (74 commits)
AMD IOMMU: use iommu_device_max_index, fix
AMD IOMMU: use iommu_device_max_index
x86: add PCI IDs for AMD Barcelona PCI devices
x86/iommu: use __GFP_ZERO instead of memset for GART
x86/iommu: convert GART need_flush to bool
x86/iommu: make GART driver checkpatch clean
x86 gart: remove unnecessary initialization
x86: restore old GART alloc_coherent behavior
revert "x86: make GART to respect device's dma_mask about virtual mappings"
x86: export pci-nommu's alloc_coherent
iommu: remove fullflush and nofullflush in IOMMU generic option
x86: remove set_bit_string()
iommu: export iommu_area_reserve helper function
AMD IOMMU: use coherent_dma_mask in alloc_coherent
add AMD IOMMU tree to MAINTAINERS file
AMD IOMMU: use cmd_buf_size when freeing the command buffer
AMD IOMMU: calculate IVHD size with a function
AMD IOMMU: remove unnecessary cast to u64 in the init code
AMD IOMMU: free domain bitmap with its allocation order
AMD IOMMU: simplify dma_mask_to_pages
...
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
[CPUFREQ] Fix BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code
[CPUFREQ] Don't export governors for default governor
[CPUFREQ][6/6] cpufreq: Add idle microaccounting in ondemand governor
[CPUFREQ][5/6] cpufreq: Changes to get_cpu_idle_time_us(), used by ondemand governor
[CPUFREQ][4/6] cpufreq_ondemand: Parameterize down differential
[CPUFREQ][3/6] cpufreq: get_cpu_idle_time() changes in ondemand for idle-microaccounting
[CPUFREQ][2/6] cpufreq: Change load calculation in ondemand for software coordination
[CPUFREQ][1/6] cpufreq: Add cpu number parameter to __cpufreq_driver_getavg()
[CPUFREQ] use deferrable delayed work init in conservative governor
[CPUFREQ] drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c: Adjust error handling code involving cpufreq_cpu_put
[CPUFREQ] add error handling for cpufreq_register_governor() error
[CPUFREQ] acpi-cpufreq: add error handling for cpufreq_register_driver() error
[CPUFREQ] Coding style fixes to arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k6.c
[CPUFREQ] Coding style fixes to arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c
* 'rcu-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (21 commits)
rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU, fix
rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU
rcu: add rcu_read_lock_sched() / rcu_read_unlock_sched()
rcu: fix sparse shadowed variable warning
doc/RCU: fix pseudocode in rcuref.txt
rcuclassic: fix compiler warning
rcu: use irq-safe locks
rcuclassic: fix compilation NG
rcu: fix locking cleanup fallout
rcu: remove redundant ACCESS_ONCE definition from rcupreempt.c
rcu: fix classic RCU locking cleanup lockdep problem
rcu: trace fix possible mem-leak
rcu: just rename call_rcu_bh instead of making it a macro
rcu: remove list_for_each_rcu()
rcu: fixes to include/linux/rcupreempt.h
rcu: classic RCU locking and memory-barrier cleanups
rcu: prevent console flood when one CPU sees another AWOL via RCU
rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods, cleanups
rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods
rcu classic: new algorithm for callbacks-processing(v2)
...
After commit 831830b5a2 aka
"restrict reading from /proc/<pid>/maps to those who share ->mm or can ptrace"
sysctl stopped being relevant because commit moved security checks from ->show
time to ->start time (mm_for_maps()).
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
lock_task_sighand() make sure task->sighand is being protected,
so we do not need rcu_read_lock().
[ exec() will get task->sighand->siglock before change task->sighand! ]
But code using rcu_read_lock() _just_ to protect lock_task_sighand()
only appear in procfs. (and some code in procfs use lock_task_sighand()
without such redundant protection.)
Other subsystem may put lock_task_sighand() into rcu_read_lock()
critical region, but these rcu_read_lock() are used for protecting
"for_each_process()", "find_task_by_vpid()" etc. , not for protecting
lock_task_sighand().
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
[ok from Oleg]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
export get_cpu_idle_time_us() for it to be used in ondemand governor.
Last update time can be current time when the CPU is currently non-idle,
accounting for the busy time since last idle.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu0/domain0/name, to make
it easier to see which specific scheduler domain remained at
that entry.
Since we process the scheduler domain tree and
simplify it, it's not always immediately clear during debugging
which domain came from where.
depends on CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
While looking at the code I wondered why we always do:
sync && avg_overlap < migration_cost
Which is a bit odd, since the overlap test was meant to detect sync wakeups
so using it to specialize sync wakeups doesn't make much sense.
Hence change the code to do:
sync || avg_overlap < migration_cost
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The softlockup watchdog needs to be touched when resuming the from the
kgdb stopped state to avoid the printk that a CPU is stuck if the
debugger was active for longer than the softlockup threshold.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
css will be initialized by cgroup core.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
While working on the new version of the code for SCHED_SPORADIC I
noticed something strange in the present throttling mechanism. More
specifically in the throttling timer handler in sched_rt.c
(do_sched_rt_period_timer()) and in rt_rq_enqueue().
The problem is that, when unthrottling a runqueue, rt_rq_enqueue() only
asks for rescheduling if the runqueue has a sched_entity associated to
it (i.e., rt_rq->rt_se != NULL).
Now, if the runqueue is the root rq (which has a rt_se = NULL)
rescheduling does not take place, and it is delayed to some undefined
instant in the future.
This imply some random bandwidth usage by the RT tasks under throttling.
For instance, setting rt_runtime_us/rt_period_us = 950ms/1000ms an RT
task will get less than 95%. In our tests we got something varying
between 70% to 95%.
Using smaller time values, e.g., 95ms/100ms, things are even worse, and
I can see values also going down to 20-25%!!
The tests we performed are simply running 'yes' as a SCHED_FIFO task,
and checking the CPU usage with top, but we can investigate thoroughly
if you think it is needed.
Things go much better, for us, with the attached patch... Don't know if
it is the best approach, but it solved the issue for us.
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <trimarchimichael@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: jiffies increment too fast.
Hugh Dickins noted that with NOHZ=n and HIGHRES=n jiffies get
incremented too fast. The reason is a wrong check in the broadcast
enter/exit code, which keeps the local apic timer in periodic mode
when the switch happens.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This fixes a warning on latest -tip:
kernel/cpuset.c: Dans la fonction «scan_for_empty_cpusets» :
kernel/cpuset.c:1932: attention : passing argument 1 of «list_add_tail» discards qualifiers from pointer target type
Actually the struct cpuset *root passed in parameter to scan_for_empty_cpusets
is not supposed to be const since an entry is added on the tail of its list.
Just correct the qualifier.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
fix the !CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR path:
kernel/rcuclassic.c: In function '__rcu_pending':
kernel/rcuclassic.c:609: error: too few arguments to function 'check_cpu_stall'
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch adds stalled-CPU detection to Classic RCU. This capability
is enabled by a new config variable CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR, which
defaults disabled.
This is a debugging feature to detect infinite loops in kernel code, not
something that non-kernel-hackers would be expected to care about.
This feature can detect looping CPUs in !PREEMPT builds and looping CPUs
with preemption disabled in PREEMPT builds. This is essentially a port of
this functionality from the treercu patch, replacing the stall debug patch
that is already in tip/core/rcu (commit 67182ae1c4).
The changes from the patch in tip/core/rcu include making the config
variable name match that in treercu, changing from seconds to jiffies to
avoid spurious warnings, and printing a boot message when this feature
is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
