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2009-02-08async: use list_move_tailStefan Richter
list.h provides a dedicated primitive for "list_del followed by list_add_tail"... list_move_tail. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2009-02-08async: Rename _special -> _domain for clarity.Cornelia Huck
Rename the async_*_special() functions to async_*_domain(), which describes the purpose of these functions much better. [Broke up long lines to silence checkpatch] Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-08async: Add some documentation.Cornelia Huck
Add some kerneldoc to the async interface. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-08async: Handle kthread_run() return codes.Cornelia Huck
If we fail to create the manager thread, fall back to non-fastboot. If we fail to create an async thread, try again after waiting for a bit. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-08async: Fix running list handling.Cornelia Huck
async_schedule() should pass in async_running as the running list, and run_one_entry() should put the entry to be run on the provided running list instead of always on the generic one. Reported-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-07Merge branches 'release', 'asus', 'bugzilla-12450', 'cpuidle', 'debug', ↵Len Brown
'ec', 'misc', 'printk' and 'processor' into release
2009-02-06fork.c: fix NULL pointer dereference when nr_threads == threads-maxLi Zefan
I happened to forked lots of processes, and hit NULL pointer dereference. It is because in copy_process() after checking max_threads, 0 is returned but not -EAGAIN. The bug is introduced by "CRED: Detach the credentials from task_struct" (commit f1752eec6145c97163dbce62d17cf5d928e28a27). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05wait: prevent exclusive waiter starvationJohannes Weiner
With exclusive waiters, every process woken up through the wait queue must ensure that the next waiter down the line is woken when it has finished. Interruptible waiters don't do that when aborting due to a signal. And if an aborting waiter is concurrently woken up through the waitqueue, noone will ever wake up the next waiter. This has been observed with __wait_on_bit_lock() used by lock_page_killable(): the first contender on the queue was aborting when the actual lock holder woke it up concurrently. The aborted contender didn't acquire the lock and therefor never did an unlock followed by waking up the next waiter. Add abort_exclusive_wait() which removes the process' wait descriptor from the waitqueue, iff still queued, or wakes up the next waiter otherwise. It does so under the waitqueue lock. Racing with a wake up means the aborting process is either already woken (removed from the queue) and will wake up the next waiter, or it will remove itself from the queue and the concurrent wake up will apply to the next waiter after it. Use abort_exclusive_wait() in __wait_event_interruptible_exclusive() and __wait_on_bit_lock() when they were interrupted by other means than a wake up through the queue. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Reported-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Mentored-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> ["after some testing"] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05revert "rlimit: permit setting RLIMIT_NOFILE to RLIM_INFINITY"Andrew Morton
Revert commit 0c2d64fb6cae9aae480f6a46cfe79f8d7d48b59f because it causes (arguably poorly designed) existing userspace to spend interminable periods closing billions of not-open file descriptors. We could bring this back, with some sort of opt-in tunable in /proc, which defaults to "off". Peter's alanysis follows: : I spent several hours trying to get to the bottom of a serious : performance issue that appeared on one of our servers after upgrading to : 2.6.28. In the end it's what could be considered a userspace bug that : was triggered by a change in 2.6.28. Since this might also affect other : people I figured I'd at least document what I found here, and maybe we : can even do something about it: : : : So, I upgraded some of debian.org's machines to 2.6.28.1 and immediately : the team maintaining our ftp archive complained that one of their : scripts that previously ran in a few minutes still hadn't even come : close to being done after an hour or so. Downgrading to 2.6.27 fixed : that. : : Turns out that script is forking a lot and something in it or python or : whereever closes all the file descriptors it doesn't want to pass on. : That is, it starts at zero and goes up to ulimit -n/RLIMIT_NOFILE and : closes them all with a few exceptions. : : Turns out that takes a long time when your limit -n is now 2^20 (1048576). : : With 2.6.27.* the ulimit -n was the standard 1024, but with 2.6.28 it is : now a thousand times that. : : 2.6.28 included a patch titled "rlimit: permit setting RLIMIT_NOFILE to : RLIM_INFINITY" (0c2d64fb6cae9aae480f6a46cfe79f8d7d48b59f)[1] that : allows, as the title implies, to set the limit for number of files to : infinity. : : Closer investigation showed that the broken default ulimit did not apply : to "system" processes (like stuff started from init). In the end I : could establish that all processes that passed through pam_limit at one : point had the bad resource limit. : : Apparently the pam library in Debian etch (4.0) initializes the limits : to some default values when it doesn't have any settings in limit.conf : to override them. Turns out that for nofiles this is RLIM_INFINITY. : Commenting out "case RLIMIT_NOFILE" in pam_limit.c:267 of our pam : package version 0.79-5 fixes that - tho I'm not sure what side effects : that has. : : Debian lenny (the upcoming 5.0 version) doesn't have this issue as it : uses a different pam (version). Reported-by: Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org> Cc: Adam Tkac <vonsch@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05kernel/async.c: fix printk warningsAndrew Morton
alpha: kernel/async.c: In function 'run_one_entry': kernel/async.c:141: warning: format '%lli' expects type 'long long int', but argument 2 has type 'async_cookie_t' kernel/async.c:149: warning: format '%lli' expects type 'long long int', but argument 2 has type 'async_cookie_t' kernel/async.c:149: warning: format '%lld' expects type 'long long int', but argument 4 has type 's64' kernel/async.c: In function 'async_synchronize_cookie_special': kernel/async.c:250: warning: format '%lli' expects type 'long long int', but argument 3 has type 's64' Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-04Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: APIC: enable workaround on AMD Fam10h CPUs xen: disable interrupts before saving in percpu x86: add x86@kernel.org to MAINTAINERS x86: push old stack address on irqstack for unwinder irq, x86: fix lock status with numa_migrate_irq_desc x86: add cache descriptors for Intel Core i7 x86/Voyager: make it build and boot
2009-02-04Merge branch 'core/xen' into x86/urgentIngo Molnar
2009-02-03ftrace: do_each_pid_task() needs rcu lockOleg Nesterov
"ftrace: use struct pid" commit 978f3a45d9499c7a447ca7615455cefb63d44165 converted ftrace_pid_trace to "struct pid*". But we can't use do_each_pid_task() without rcu_read_lock() even if we know the pid itself can't go away (it was pinned in ftrace_pid_write). The exiting task can detach itself from this pid at any moment. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-02Merge 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_rt: don't use first_cpu on cpumask created with cpumask_and sched: fix buddie group latency sched: clear buddies more aggressively sched: symmetric sync vs avg_overlap sched: fix sync wakeups cpuset: fix possible deadlock in async_rebuild_sched_domains
2009-02-02modules: Use a better scheme for refcountingEric Dumazet
Current refcounting for modules (done if CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y) is using a lot of memory. Each 'struct module' contains an [NR_CPUS] array of full cache lines. This patch uses existing infrastructure (percpu_modalloc() & percpu_modfree()) to allocate percpu space for the refcount storage. Instead of wasting NR_CPUS*128 bytes (on i386), we now use nr_cpu_ids*sizeof(local_t) bytes. On a typical distro, where NR_CPUS=8, shiping 2000 modules, we reduce size of module files by about 2 Mbytes. (1Kb per module) Instead of having all refcounters in the same memory node - with TLB misses because of vmalloc() - this new implementation permits to have better NUMA properties, since each CPU will use storage on its preferred node, thanks to percpu storage. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-01irq, x86: fix lock status with numa_migrate_irq_descYinghai Lu
Eric Paris reported: > I have an hp dl785g5 which is unable to successfully run > 2.6.29-0.66.rc3.fc11.x86_64 or 2.6.29-rc2-next-20090126. During bootup > (early in userspace daemons starting) I get the below BUG, which quickly > renders the machine dead. I assume it is because sparse_irq_lock never > gets released when the BUG kills that task. Adjust lock sequence when migrating a descriptor with CONFIG_NUMA_MIGRATE_IRQ_DESC enabled. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-01sched_rt: don't use first_cpu on cpumask created with cpumask_andRusty Russell
cpumask_and() only initializes nr_cpu_ids bits, so the (deprecated) first_cpu() might find one of those uninitialized bits if nr_cpu_ids is less than NR_CPUS (as it can be for CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-01sched: fix buddie group latencyPeter Zijlstra
Similar to the previous patch, by not clearing buddies we can select entities past their run quota, which can increase latency. This means we have to clear group buddies as well. Do not use the group clear for pick_next_task(), otherwise that'll get O(n^2). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-01sched: clear buddies more aggressivelyMike Galbraith
It was noticed that a task could get re-elected past its run quota due to buddy affinities. This could increase latency a little. Cure it by more aggresively clearing buddy state. We do so in two situations: - when we force preempt - when we select a buddy to run 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>
2009-02-01sched: symmetric sync vs avg_overlapPeter Zijlstra
Reinstate the weakening of the sync hint if set. This yields a more symmetric usage of avg_overlap. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-01sched: fix sync wakeupsPeter Zijlstra
Pawel Dziekonski reported that the openssl benchmark and his quantum chemistry application both show slowdowns due to the scheduler under-parallelizing execution. The reason are pipe wakeups still doing 'sync' wakeups which overrides the normal buddy wakeup logic - even if waker and wakee are loosely coupled. Fix an inversion of logic in the buddy wakeup code. Reported-by: Pawel Dziekonski <dzieko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-31Merge 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: generic-ipi: use per cpu data for single cpu ipi calls cpumask: convert lib/smp_processor_id to new cpumask ops signals, debug: fix BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code in print_fatal_signal()
2009-01-31Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: irq: export __set_irq_handler() and handle_level_irq()
2009-01-31Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: hrtimer: prevent negative expiry value after clock_was_set() hrtimers: allow the hot-unplugging of all cpus hrtimers: increase clock min delta threshold while interrupt hanging
2009-01-31Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, ds, bts: cleanup/fix DS configuration ring-buffer: reset timestamps when ring buffer is reset trace: set max latency variable to zero on default trace: stop all recording to ring buffer on ftrace_dump trace: print ftrace_dump at KERN_EMERG log level ring_buffer: reset write when reserve buffer fail tracing/function-graph-tracer: fix a regression while suspend to disk ring-buffer: fix alignment problem
2009-01-30hrtimer: prevent negative expiry value after clock_was_set()Thomas Gleixner
Impact: prevent false positive WARN_ON() in clockevents_program_event() clock_was_set() changes the base->offset of CLOCK_REALTIME and enforces the reprogramming of the clockevent device to expire timers which are based on CLOCK_REALTIME. If the clock change is large enough then the subtraction of the timer expiry value and base->offset can become negative which triggers the warning in clockevents_program_event(). Check the subtraction result and set a negative value to 0. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-01-30hrtimers: allow the hot-unplugging of all cpusSebastien Dugue
Impact: fix CPU hotplug hang on Power6 testbox On architectures that support offlining all cpus (at least powerpc/pseries), hot-unpluging the tick_do_timer_cpu can result in a system hang. This comes from the fact that if the cpu going down happens to be the cpu doing the tick, then as the tick_do_timer_cpu handover happens after the cpu is dead (via the CPU_DEAD notification), we're left without ticks, jiffies are frozen and any task relying on timers (msleep, ...) is stuck. That's particularly the case for the cpu looping in __cpu_die() waiting for the dying cpu to be dead. This patch addresses this by having the tick_do_timer_cpu handover happen earlier during the CPU_DYING notification. For this, a new clockevent notification type is introduced (CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_CPU_DYING) which is triggered in hrtimer_cpu_notify(). Signed-off-by: Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-30hrtimers: increase clock min delta threshold while interrupt hangingFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: avoid timer IRQ hanging slow systems While using the function graph tracer on a virtualized system, the hrtimer_interrupt can hang the system on an infinite loop. This can be caused in several situations: - the hardware is very slow and HZ is set too high - something intrusive is slowing the system down (tracing under emulation) ... and the next clock events to program are always before the current time. This patch implements a reasonable compromise: if such a situation is detected, we share the CPUs time in 1/4 to process the hrtimer interrupts. This is enough to let the system running without serious starvation. It has been successfully tested under VirtualBox with 1000 HZ and 100 HZ with function graph tracer launched. On both cases, the clock events were increased until about 25 ms periodic ticks, which means 40 HZ. So we change a hard to debug hang into a warning message and a system that still manages to limp along. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-30generic-ipi: use per cpu data for single cpu ipi callsSteven Rostedt
The smp_call_function can be passed a wait parameter telling it to wait for all the functions running on other CPUs to complete before returning, or to return without waiting. Unfortunately, this is currently just a suggestion and not manditory. That is, the smp_call_function can decide not to return and wait instead. The reason for this is because it uses kmalloc to allocate storage to send to the called CPU and that CPU will free it when it is done. But if we fail to allocate the storage, the stack is used instead. This means we must wait for the called CPU to finish before continuing. Unfortunatly, some callers do no abide by this hint and act as if the non-wait option is mandatory. The MTRR code for instance will deadlock if the smp_call_function is set to wait. This is because the smp_call_function will wait for the other CPUs to finish their called functions, but those functions are waiting on the caller to continue. This patch changes the generic smp_call_function code to use per cpu variables if the allocation of the data fails for a single CPU call. The smp_call_function_many will fall back to the smp_call_function_single if it fails its alloc. The smp_call_function_single is modified to not force the wait state. Since we now are using a single data per cpu we must synchronize the callers to prevent a second caller modifying the data before the first called IPI functions complete. To do so, I added a flag to the call_single_data called CSD_FLAG_LOCK. When the single CPU is called (which can be called when a many call fails an alloc), we set the LOCK bit on this per cpu data. When the caller finishes it clears the LOCK bit. The caller must wait till the LOCK bit is cleared before setting it. When it is cleared, there is no IPI function using it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-29cgroup: fix root_count when mount fails due to busy subsystemPaul Menage
root_count was being incremented in cgroup_get_sb() after all error checking was complete, but decremented in cgroup_kill_sb(), which can be called on a superblock that we gave up on due to an error. This patch changes cgroup_kill_sb() to only decrement root_count if the root was previously linked into the list of roots. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.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>
2009-01-29cgroups: add cpu_relax() calls in css_tryget() and cgroup_clear_css_refs()Paul Menage
css_tryget() and cgroup_clear_css_refs() contain polling loops; these loops should have cpu_relax calls in them to reduce cross-cache traffic. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-29cgroups: fix lock inconsistency in cgroup_clone()Li Zefan
I fixed a bug in cgroup_clone() in Linus' tree in commit 7b574b7 ("cgroups: fix a race between cgroup_clone and umount") without noticing there was a cleanup patch in -mm tree that should be rebased (now commit 104cbd5, "cgroups: use task_lock() for access tsk->cgroups safe in cgroup_clone()"), thus resulted in lock inconsistency. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.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>
2009-01-29cgroups: use hierarchy mutex in creation failure pathKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Now, cgrp->sibling is handled under hierarchy mutex. error route should do so, too. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.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>
2009-01-27cpumask fallout: Initialize irq_default_affinity earlierDavid Daney
Move the initialization of irq_default_affinity to early_irq_init as core_initcall is too late. irq_default_affinity can be used in init_IRQ and potentially timer and SMP init as well. All of these happen before core_initcall. Moving the initialization to early_irq_init ensures that it is initialized before it is used. Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-27Make irq_*_affinity depend on CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS too.David Daney
In interrupt.h these functions are declared only if CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS is set. We should define them under identical conditions. Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-27Merge branch 'hibern_fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev * 'hibern_fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: SATA PIIX: Blacklist system that spins off disks during ACPI power off SATA Sil: Blacklist system that spins off disks during ACPI power off SATA AHCI: Blacklist system that spins off disks during ACPI power off SATA: Blacklisting of systems that spin off disks during ACPI power off DMI: Introduce dmi_first_match to make the interface more flexible Hibernation: Introduce system_entering_hibernation
2009-01-27Hibernation: Introduce system_entering_hibernationRafael J. Wysocki
Introduce boolean function system_entering_hibernation() returning 'true' during the last phase of hibernation, in which devices are being put into low power states and the sleep state (for example, ACPI S4) is finally entered. Some device drivers need such a function to check if the system is in the final phase of hibernation. In particular, some SATA drivers are going to use it for blacklisting systems in which the disks should not be spun down during the last phase of hibernation (the BIOS will do that anyway). Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-01-27signals, debug: fix BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code in ↵Ed Swierk
print_fatal_signal() With print-fatal-signals=1 on a kernel with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y, sending an unexpected signal to a process causes a BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code. get_signal_to_deliver() releases the siglock before calling print_fatal_signal(), which calls show_regs(), which calls smp_processor_id(), which is not supposed to be called from a preemptible thread. Make sure show_regs() runs with preemption disabled. Signed-off-by: Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-26Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixesLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes: kbuild: fix kbuild.txt typos kbuild: print usage with no arguments in scripts/config Revert "kbuild: strip generated symbols from *.ko"
2009-01-26Merge branch 'sh/for-2.6.29' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6 * 'sh/for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (22 commits) dma-coherent: Restore dma_alloc_from_coherent() large alloc fall back policy. dma-coherent: per-device coherent area is in pages, not bytes. sh: fix unaligned and nonexistent address handling nommu: Stub in vm_map_ram()/vm_unmap_ram()/vm_unmap_aliases(). sh: fix sh-sci / early printk build on sh7723 sh: export the sh7343 JPU to user space sh: update defconfigs. serial: sh-sci: Fix up SH7720/SH7721 SCI build. sh: Kill off obsolete busses from arch/sh/Kconfig. sh: sh7785lcr/highlander/hp6xx need linux/irq.h. sh: Migo-R MMC support using spi_gpio and mmc_spi. sh: ap325rxa MMC support using spi_gpio and mmc_spi sh: mach-x3proto: needs linux/irq.h. sh: Drop the BKL from sys_execve() on SH-5. sh: convert rsk7203 to use smsc911x. sh: convert magicpanelr2 platform to use smsc911x. sh: convert ap325rxa platform to use smsc911x. sh: mach-migor: Add tw9910 support. sh: mach-migor: Delete soc_camera_platform setup. sh: mach-migor: Add ov772x support. ...
2009-01-26Merge 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: debugobjects: add and use INIT_WORK_ON_STACK rcu: remove duplicate CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR relay: fix lock imbalance in relay_late_setup_files oprofile: fix uninitialized use of struct op_entry rcu: move Kconfig menu softlock: fix false panic which can occur if softlockup_thresh is reduced rcu: add __cpuinit to rcu_init_percpu_data()
2009-01-26Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: hrtimers: fix inconsistent lock state on resume in hres_timers_resume time-sched.c: tick_nohz_update_jiffies should be static locking, hpet: annotate false positive warning kernel/fork.c: unused variable 'ret' itimers: remove the per-cpu-ish-ness
2009-01-26Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: (29 commits) xen: unitialised return value in xenbus_write_transaction x86: fix section mismatch warning x86: unmask CPUID levels on Intel CPUs, fix x86: work around PAGE_KERNEL_WC not getting WC in iomap_atomic_prot_pfn. x86: use standard PIT frequency xen: handle highmem pages correctly when shrinking a domain x86, mm: fix pte_free() xen: actually release memory when shrinking domain x86: unmask CPUID levels on Intel CPUs x86: add MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE bits to <asm/msr-index.h> x86: fix PTE corruption issue while mapping RAM using /dev/mem x86: mtrr fix debug boot parameter x86: fix page attribute corruption with cpa() Revert "x86: signal: change type of paramter for sys_rt_sigreturn()" x86: use early clobbers in usercopy*.c x86: remove kernel_physical_mapping_init() from init section fix: crash: IP: __bitmap_intersects+0x48/0x73 cpufreq: use work_on_cpu in acpi-cpufreq.c for drv_read and drv_write work_on_cpu: Use our own workqueue. work_on_cpu: don't try to get_online_cpus() in work_on_cpu. ...
2009-01-22ring-buffer: reset timestamps when ring buffer is resetSteven Rostedt
Impact: fix bad times of recent resets The ring buffer needs to reset its timestamps when reseting of the buffer, otherwise the timestamps are stale and might be used to calculate times in the buffer causing funny timestamps to appear. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-22Merge branch 'core/debugobjects' into core/urgentThomas Gleixner
2009-01-21trace: set max latency variable to zero on defaultSteven Rostedt
Impact: trace max latencies on start of latency tracing This patch sets the max latency to zero whenever one of the irq variant tracers or the wakeup tracer is set to current tracer. Most developers expect to see output when starting up a latency tracer. But since the max_latency is already set to max, and it takes a latency greater than max_latency to be recorded, there is no trace. This is not the expected behavior and has even confused myself. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-21trace: stop all recording to ring buffer on ftrace_dumpSteven Rostedt
Impact: limit ftrace dump output Currently ftrace_dump only calls ftrace_kill that is a fast way to prevent the function tracer functions from being called (just sets a flag and clears the function to call, nothing else). It is better to also turn off any recording to the ring buffers as well. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-21trace: print ftrace_dump at KERN_EMERG log levelSteven Rostedt
Impact: fix to print out ftrace_dump when expected I was debugging a hard race condition to only find out that after I hit the race, my log level was not at level to show KERN_INFO. The time it took to trigger the race was wasted because I did not capture the trace. Since ftrace_dump is only called from kernel oops (and only when it is set in the kernel command line to do so), or when a developer adds it to their own local tree, the log level of the print should be at KERN_EMERG to make sure the print appears. ftrace_dump is not called by a normal user setup, and will not add extra unwanted print out to the console. There is no reason it should be at KERN_INFO. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-21ring_buffer: reset write when reserve buffer failLai Jiangshan
Impact: reset struct buffer_page.write when interrupt storm if struct buffer_page.write is not reset, any succedent committing will corrupted ring_buffer: static inline void rb_set_commit_to_write(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer) { ...... cpu_buffer->commit_page->commit = cpu_buffer->commit_page->write; ...... } when "if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, next_page == reader_page))", ring_buffer is disabled, but some reserved buffers may haven't been committed. we need reset struct buffer_page.write. when "if (unlikely(next_page == cpu_buffer->commit_page))", ring_buffer is still available, we should not corrupt it. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-21tracing/function-graph-tracer: fix a regression while suspend to diskFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: fix a crash while kernel image restore When the function graph tracer is running and while suspend to disk, some racy and dangerous things happen against this tracer. The current task will save its registers including the stack pointer which contains the return address hooked by the tracer. But the current task will continue to enter other functions after that to save the memory, and then it will store other return addresses, and finally loose the old depth which matches the return address saved in the old stack (during the registers saving). So on image restore, the code will return to wrong addresses. And there are other things: on restore, the task will have it's "current" pointer overwritten during registers restoring....switching from one task to another... That would be insane to try to trace function graphs at these stages. This patch makes the function graph tracer listening on power events, making it's tracing disabled for the current task (the one that performs the hibernation work) while suspend/resume to disk, making the tracing safe during hibernation. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>