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Paul E. McKenney [Wed, 5 Sep 2012 19:09:42 +0000 (12:09 -0700)]
Merge branches 'bigrt.2012.09.05a', 'doctorture.2012.09.04a', 'fixes.2012.09.04a', 'hotplug.2012.09.04a' and 'idle.2012.09.04a' into HEAD

Conflicts:
kernel/rcutree.c

12 years agorcu: Simplify quiescent-state detection
Paul E. McKenney [Tue, 21 Aug 2012 22:00:05 +0000 (15:00 -0700)]
rcu: Simplify quiescent-state detection

The current quiescent-state detection algorithm is needlessly
complex.  It records the grace-period number corresponding to
the quiescent state at the time of the quiescent state, which
works, but it seems better to simply erase any record of previous
quiescent states at the time that the CPU notices the new grace
period.  This has the further advantage of removing another piece
of RCU for which lockless reasoning is required.

Therefore, this commit makes this change.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Reduce synchronize_rcu_expedited() latency
Paul E. McKenney [Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:19:25 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
rcu: Reduce synchronize_rcu_expedited() latency

The synchronize_rcu_expedited() function disables interrupts across a
scan of all leaf rcu_node structures, which is not good for real-time
scheduling latency on large systems (hundreds or especially thousands
of CPUs).  This commit therefore holds off CPU-hotplug operations using
get_online_cpus(), and removes the prior acquisiion of the ->onofflock
(which required disabling interrupts).

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Eliminate signed overflow in synchronize_rcu_expedited()
Paul E. McKenney [Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:03:51 +0000 (16:03 -0700)]
rcu: Eliminate signed overflow in synchronize_rcu_expedited()

In the C language, signed overflow is undefined.  It is true that
twos-complement arithmetic normally comes to the rescue, but if the
compiler can subvert this any time it has any information about the values
being compared.  For example, given "if (a - b > 0)", if the compiler
has enough information to realize that (for example) the value of "a"
is positive and that of "b" is negative, the compiler is within its
rights to optimize to a simple "if (1)", which might not be what you want.

This commit therefore converts synchronize_rcu_expedited()'s work-done
detection counter from signed to unsigned.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Remove callback acceleration from grace-period initialization
Paul E. McKenney [Thu, 12 Jul 2012 06:34:53 +0000 (23:34 -0700)]
rcu: Remove callback acceleration from grace-period initialization

Before grace-period initialization was moved to a kthread, the CPU
invoking this code would have at least one callback that needed
a grace period, often a newly registered callback.  However, moving
grace-period initialization means that the CPU with the callback
that was requesting a grace period is not necessarily the CPU that
is initializing the grace period, so this acceleration is less
valuable.  Because it also adds to the complexity of reasoning about
correctness, this commit removes it.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Adjust for unconditional ->completed assignment
Paul E. McKenney [Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:23:18 +0000 (05:23 -0700)]
rcu: Adjust for unconditional ->completed assignment

Now that the rcu_node structures' ->completed fields are unconditionally
assigned at grace-period cleanup time, they should already have the
correct value for the new grace period at grace-period initialization
time.  This commit therefore inserts a WARN_ON_ONCE() to verify this
invariant.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Add random PROVE_RCU_DELAY to grace-period initialization
Paul E. McKenney [Sat, 7 Jul 2012 12:57:03 +0000 (05:57 -0700)]
rcu: Add random PROVE_RCU_DELAY to grace-period initialization

There are some additional potential grace-period initialization races
on systems with more than one rcu_node structure, for example:

1. CPU 0 completes a grace period, but needs an additional
grace period, so starts initializing one, initializing all
the non-leaf rcu_node strcutures and the first leaf rcu_node
structure.  Because CPU 0 is both completing the old grace
period and starting a new one, it marks the completion of
the old grace period and the start of the new grace period
in a single traversal of the rcu_node structures.

Therefore, CPUs corresponding to the first rcu_node structure
can become aware that the prior grace period has ended, but
CPUs corresponding to the other rcu_node structures cannot
yet become aware of this.

2. CPU 1 passes through a quiescent state, and therefore informs
the RCU core.  Because its leaf rcu_node structure has already
been initialized, so this CPU's quiescent state is applied to
the new (and only partially initialized) grace period.

3. CPU 1 enters an RCU read-side critical section and acquires
a reference to data item A.  Note that this critical section
will not block the new grace period.

4. CPU 16 exits dyntick-idle mode.  Because it was in dyntick-idle
mode, some other CPU informed the RCU core of its extended
quiescent state for the past several grace periods.  This means
that CPU 16 is not yet aware that these grace periods have ended.

5. CPU 16 on the second leaf rcu_node structure removes data item A
from its enclosing data structure and passes it to call_rcu(),
which queues a callback in the RCU_NEXT_TAIL segment of the
callback queue.

6. CPU 16 enters the RCU core, possibly because it has taken a
scheduling-clock interrupt, or alternatively because it has
more than 10,000 callbacks queued.  It notes that the second
most recent grace period has ended (recall that it cannot yet
become aware that the most recent grace period has completed),
and therefore advances its callbacks.  The callback for data
item A is therefore in the RCU_NEXT_READY_TAIL segment of the
callback queue.

7. CPU 0 completes initialization of the remaining leaf rcu_node
structures for the new grace period, including the structure
corresponding to CPU 16.

8. CPU 16 again enters the RCU core, again, possibly because it has
taken a scheduling-clock interrupt, or alternatively because
it now has more than 10,000 callbacks queued. It notes that
the most recent grace period has ended, and therefore advances
its callbacks. The callback for data item A is therefore in
the RCU_NEXT_TAIL segment of the callback queue.

9. All CPUs other than CPU 1 pass through quiescent states, so that
the new grace period completes.  Note that CPU 1 is still in
its RCU read-side critical section, still referencing data item A.

10. Suppose that CPU 2 is the last CPU to pass through a quiescent
state for the new grace period, and suppose further that CPU 2
does not have any callbacks queued.  It therefore traverses
all of the rcu_node structures, marking the new grace period
as completed, but does not initialize a new grace period.

11. CPU 16 yet again enters the RCU core, yet again possibly because
it has taken a scheduling-clock interrupt, or alternatively
because it now has more than 10,000 callbacks queued. It notes
that the new grace period has ended, and therefore advances
its callbacks. The callback for data item A is therefore in
the RCU_DONE_TAIL segment of the callback queue.  This means
that this callback is now considered ready to be invoked.

12. CPU 16 invokes the callback, freeing data item A while CPU 1
is still referencing it.

This sort of scenario represents a day-one bug for TREE_RCU, however,
the recent changes that permit RCU grace-period initialization to
be preempted made it much more probable.  Still, it is sufficiently
improbable to make validation lengthy and inconvenient, so this commit
adds an anti-heisenbug to greatly increase the collision cross section,
also known as the probability of occurrence.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Fix day-zero grace-period initialization/cleanup race
Paul E. McKenney [Sat, 7 Jul 2012 14:56:57 +0000 (07:56 -0700)]
rcu: Fix day-zero grace-period initialization/cleanup race

The current approach to grace-period initialization is vulnerable to
extremely low-probabity races.  These races stem fro the fact that the
old grace period is marked completed on the same traversal through the
rcu_node structure that is marking the start of the new grace period.
These races can result in too-short grace periods, as shown in the
following scenario:

1. CPU 0 completes a grace period, but needs an additional
grace period, so starts initializing one, initializing all
the non-leaf rcu_node strcutures and the first leaf rcu_node
structure.  Because CPU 0 is both completing the old grace
period and starting a new one, it marks the completion of
the old grace period and the start of the new grace period
in a single traversal of the rcu_node structures.

Therefore, CPUs corresponding to the first rcu_node structure
can become aware that the prior grace period has completed, but
CPUs corresponding to the other rcu_node structures will see
this same prior grace period as still being in progress.

2. CPU 1 passes through a quiescent state, and therefore informs
the RCU core.  Because its leaf rcu_node structure has already
been initialized, this CPU's quiescent state is applied to the
new (and only partially initialized) grace period.

3. CPU 1 enters an RCU read-side critical section and acquires
a reference to data item A.  Note that this critical section
started after the beginning of the new grace period, and
therefore will not block this new grace period.

4. CPU 16 exits dyntick-idle mode.  Because it was in dyntick-idle
mode, other CPUs informed the RCU core of its extended quiescent
state for the past several grace periods.  This means that CPU
16 is not yet aware that these past grace periods have ended.
Assume that CPU 16 corresponds to the second leaf rcu_node
structure.

5. CPU 16 removes data item A from its enclosing data structure
and passes it to call_rcu(), which queues a callback in the
RCU_NEXT_TAIL segment of the callback queue.

6. CPU 16 enters the RCU core, possibly because it has taken a
scheduling-clock interrupt, or alternatively because it has more
than 10,000 callbacks queued.  It notes that the second most
recent grace period has completed (recall that it cannot yet
become aware that the most recent grace period has completed),
and therefore advances its callbacks.  The callback for data
item A is therefore in the RCU_NEXT_READY_TAIL segment of the
callback queue.

7. CPU 0 completes initialization of the remaining leaf rcu_node
structures for the new grace period, including the structure
corresponding to CPU 16.

8. CPU 16 again enters the RCU core, again, possibly because it has
taken a scheduling-clock interrupt, or alternatively because
it now has more than 10,000 callbacks queued. It notes that
the most recent grace period has ended, and therefore advances
its callbacks. The callback for data item A is therefore in
the RCU_WAIT_TAIL segment of the callback queue.

9. All CPUs other than CPU 1 pass through quiescent states.  Because
CPU 1 already passed through its quiescent state, the new grace
period completes.  Note that CPU 1 is still in its RCU read-side
critical section, still referencing data item A.

10. Suppose that CPU 2 wais the last CPU to pass through a quiescent
state for the new grace period, and suppose further that CPU 2
did not have any callbacks queued, therefore not needing an
additional grace period.  CPU 2 therefore traverses all of the
rcu_node structures, marking the new grace period as completed,
but does not initialize a new grace period.

11. CPU 16 yet again enters the RCU core, yet again possibly because
it has taken a scheduling-clock interrupt, or alternatively
because it now has more than 10,000 callbacks queued. It notes
that the new grace period has ended, and therefore advances
its callbacks. The callback for data item A is therefore in
the RCU_DONE_TAIL segment of the callback queue.  This means
that this callback is now considered ready to be invoked.

12. CPU 16 invokes the callback, freeing data item A while CPU 1
is still referencing it.

This scenario represents a day-zero bug for TREE_RCU.  This commit
therefore ensures that the old grace period is marked completed in
all leaf rcu_node structures before a new grace period is marked
started in any of them.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Prevent initialization-time quiescent-state race
Paul E. McKenney [Fri, 6 Jul 2012 18:18:51 +0000 (11:18 -0700)]
rcu: Prevent initialization-time quiescent-state race

Now the the grace-period initialization procedure is preemptible, it is
subject to the following race on systems whose rcu_node tree contains
more than one node:

1. CPU 31 starts initializing the grace period, including the
first leaf rcu_node structures, and is then preempted.

2. CPU 0 refers to the first leaf rcu_node structure, and notes
that a new grace period has started.  It passes through a
quiescent state shortly thereafter, and informs the RCU core
of this rite of passage.

3. CPU 0 enters an RCU read-side critical section, acquiring
a pointer to an RCU-protected data item.

4. CPU 31 removes the data item referenced by CPU 0 from the
data structure, and registers an RCU callback in order to
free it.

5. CPU 31 resumes initializing the grace period, including its
own rcu_node structure.  In invokes rcu_start_gp_per_cpu(),
which advances all callbacks, including the one registered
in #4 above, to be handled by the current grace period.

6. The remaining CPUs pass through quiescent states and inform
the RCU core, but CPU 0 remains in its RCU read-side critical
section, still referencing the now-removed data item.

7. The grace period completes and all the callbacks are invoked,
including the one that frees the data item that CPU 0 is still
referencing.  Oops!!!

This commit therefore moves the callback handling to precede initialization
of any of the rcu_node structures, thus avoiding this race.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
12 years agorcu: Make rcutree module parameters visible in sysfs
Paul E. McKenney [Sun, 1 Jul 2012 22:42:33 +0000 (15:42 -0700)]
rcu: Make rcutree module parameters visible in sysfs

The module parameters blimit, qhimark, and qlomark (and more
recently, rcu_fanout_leaf) have permission masks of zero, so
that their values are not visible from sysfs.  This is unnecessary
and inconvenient to administrators who might like an easy way to
see what these values are on a running system.  This commit therefore
sets their permission masks to 0444, allowing them to be read but
not written.

Reported-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@ozlabs.org>
Reported-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Remove now-unused rcu_state fields
Paul E. McKenney [Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:25:07 +0000 (08:25 -0700)]
rcu: Remove now-unused rcu_state fields

Moving the RCU grace-period processing to a kthread and adjusting the
tracing resulted in two of the rcu_state structure's fields being unused.
This commit therefore removes them.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Control grace-period duration from sysfs
Paul E. McKenney [Wed, 27 Jun 2012 03:45:57 +0000 (20:45 -0700)]
rcu: Control grace-period duration from sysfs

Some uses of RCU benefit from shorter grace periods, while others benefit
more from the greater efficiency provided by longer grace periods.
Therefore, this commit allows the durations to be controlled from sysfs.
There are two sysfs parameters, one named "jiffies_till_first_fqs" that
specifies the delay in jiffies from the end of grace-period initialization
until the first attempt to force quiescent states, and the other named
"jiffies_till_next_fqs" that specifies the delay (again in jiffies)
between subsequent attempts to force quiescent states.  They both default
to three jiffies, which is compatible with the old hard-coded behavior.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Prevent force_quiescent_state() memory contention
Paul E. McKenney [Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:35 +0000 (17:00 -0700)]
rcu: Prevent force_quiescent_state() memory contention

Large systems running RCU_FAST_NO_HZ kernels see extreme memory
contention on the rcu_state structure's ->fqslock field.  This
can be avoided by disabling RCU_FAST_NO_HZ, either at compile time
or at boot time (via the nohz kernel boot parameter), but large
systems will no doubt become sensitive to energy consumption.
This commit therefore uses a combining-tree approach to spread the
memory contention across new cache lines in the leaf rcu_node structures.
This can be thought of as a tournament lock that has only a try-lock
acquisition primitive.

The effect on small systems is minimal, because such systems have
an rcu_node "tree" consisting of a single node.  In addition, this
functionality is not used on fastpaths.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Adjust debugfs tracing for kthread-based quiescent-state forcing
Paul E. McKenney [Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:00:48 +0000 (14:00 -0700)]
rcu: Adjust debugfs tracing for kthread-based quiescent-state forcing

Moving quiescent-state forcing into a kthread dispenses with the need
for the ->n_rp_need_fqs field, so this commit removes it.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Allow RCU quiescent-state forcing to be preempted
Paul E. McKenney [Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:41:11 +0000 (08:41 -0700)]
rcu: Allow RCU quiescent-state forcing to be preempted

RCU quiescent-state forcing is currently carried out without preemption
points, which can result in excessive latency spikes on large systems
(many hundreds or thousands of CPUs).  This patch therefore inserts
a voluntary preemption point into force_qs_rnp(), which should greatly
reduce the magnitude of these spikes.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Reported-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Move quiescent-state forcing into kthread
Paul E. McKenney [Sat, 23 Jun 2012 00:06:26 +0000 (17:06 -0700)]
rcu: Move quiescent-state forcing into kthread

As the first step towards allowing quiescent-state forcing to be
preemptible, this commit moves RCU quiescent-state forcing into the
same kthread that is now used to initialize and clean up after grace
periods.  This is yet another step towards keeping scheduling
latency down to a dull roar.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Reported-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
12 years agorcu: Segregate rcu_state fields to improve cache locality
Dimitri Sivanich [Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:17:29 +0000 (14:17 -0700)]
rcu: Segregate rcu_state fields to improve cache locality

The fields in the rcu_state structure that are protected by the
root rcu_node structure's ->lock can share a cache line with the
fields protected by ->onofflock.  This can result in excessive
memory contention on large systems, so this commit applies
____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp to the ->onofflock field in
order to segregate them.

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Provide OOM handler to motivate lazy RCU callbacks
Paul E. McKenney [Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:39:43 +0000 (17:39 -0700)]
rcu: Provide OOM handler to motivate lazy RCU callbacks

In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y, CPUs can accumulate a
large number of lazy callbacks, which as the name implies will be slow
to be invoked.  This can be a problem on small-memory systems, where the
default 6-second sleep for CPUs having only lazy RCU callbacks could well
be fatal.  This commit therefore installs an OOM hander that ensures that
every CPU with lazy callbacks has at least one non-lazy callback, in turn
ensuring timely advancement for these callbacks.

Also fix bug that disabled OOM killing, noted by Lai Jiangshan.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Break up rcu_gp_kthread() into subfunctions
Paul E. McKenney [Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:08:41 +0000 (11:08 -0700)]
rcu: Break up rcu_gp_kthread() into subfunctions

Then rcu_gp_kthread() function is too large and furthermore needs to
have the force_quiescent_state() code pulled in.  This commit therefore
breaks up rcu_gp_kthread() into rcu_gp_init() and rcu_gp_cleanup().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Prevent offline CPUs from executing RCU core code
Paul E. McKenney [Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:54:10 +0000 (09:54 -0700)]
rcu: Prevent offline CPUs from executing RCU core code

Earlier versions of RCU invoked the RCU core from the CPU_DYING notifier
in order to note a quiescent state for the outgoing CPU.  Because the
CPU is marked "offline" during the execution of the CPU_DYING notifiers,
the RCU core had to tolerate being invoked from an offline CPU.  However,
commit b1420f1c (Make rcu_barrier() less disruptive) left only tracing
code in the CPU_DYING notifier, so the RCU core need no longer execute
on offline CPUs.  This commit therefore enforces this restriction.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Allow RCU grace-period cleanup to be preempted
Paul E. McKenney [Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:19:05 +0000 (08:19 -0700)]
rcu: Allow RCU grace-period cleanup to be preempted

RCU grace-period cleanup is currently carried out with interrupts
disabled, which can result in excessive latency spikes on large systems
(many hundreds or thousands of CPUs).  This patch therefore makes the
RCU grace-period cleanup be preemptible, including voluntary preemption
points, which should eliminate those latency spikes.  Similar spikes from
forcing of quiescent states will be dealt with similarly by later patches.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Reported-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Move RCU grace-period cleanup into kthread
Paul E. McKenney [Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:07:14 +0000 (17:07 -0700)]
rcu: Move RCU grace-period cleanup into kthread

As a first step towards allowing grace-period cleanup to be preemptible,
this commit moves the RCU grace-period cleanup into the same kthread
that is now used to initialize grace periods.  This is needed to keep
scheduling latency down to a dull roar.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Reported-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Allow RCU grace-period initialization to be preempted
Paul E. McKenney [Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:18:20 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
rcu: Allow RCU grace-period initialization to be preempted

RCU grace-period initialization is currently carried out with interrupts
disabled, which can result in 200-microsecond latency spikes on systems
on which RCU has been configured for 4096 CPUs.  This patch therefore
makes the RCU grace-period initialization be preemptible, which should
eliminate those latency spikes.  Similar spikes from grace-period cleanup
and the forcing of quiescent states will be dealt with similarly by later
patches.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Reported-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Move RCU grace-period initialization into a kthread
Paul E. McKenney [Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:36:08 +0000 (18:36 -0700)]
rcu: Move RCU grace-period initialization into a kthread

As the first step towards allowing grace-period initialization to be
preemptible, this commit moves the RCU grace-period initialization
into its own kthread.  This is needed to keep large-system scheduling
latency at reasonable levels.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Reported-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agoia64: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop
Paul E. McKenney [Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:22:13 +0000 (13:22 -0700)]
ia64: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop

Traditionally, the entire idle task served as an RCU quiescent state.
But when RCU read side critical sections started appearing within the
idle loop, this traditional strategy became untenable.  The fix was to
create new RCU APIs named rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit(), which
must be called by each architecture's idle loop so that RCU can tell
when it is safe to ignore a given idle CPU.

Unfortunately, this fix was never applied to ia64, a shortcoming remedied
by this commit.

Reported by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agoxtensa: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop
Frederic Weisbecker [Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:27:34 +0000 (17:27 +0200)]
xtensa: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop

In the old times, the whole idle task was considered
as an RCU quiescent state. But as RCU became more and
more successful overtime, some RCU read side critical
section have been added even in the code of some
architectures idle tasks, for tracing for example.

So nowadays, rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() must
be called by the architecture to tell RCU about the part
in the idle loop that doesn't make use of rcu read side
critical sections, typically the part that puts the CPU
in low power mode.

This is necessary for RCU to find the quiescent states in
idle in order to complete grace periods.

Add this missing pair of calls in the xtensa's idle loop.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agoscore: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop
Frederic Weisbecker [Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:27:34 +0000 (17:27 +0200)]
score: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop

In the old times, the whole idle task was considered
as an RCU quiescent state. But as RCU became more and
more successful overtime, some RCU read side critical
section have been added even in the code of some
architectures idle tasks, for tracing for example.

So nowadays, rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() must
be called by the architecture to tell RCU about the part
in the idle loop that doesn't make use of rcu read side
critical sections, typically the part that puts the CPU
in low power mode.

This is necessary for RCU to find the quiescent states in
idle in order to complete grace periods.

Add this missing pair of calls in scores's idle loop.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agoparisc: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop
Frederic Weisbecker [Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:27:34 +0000 (17:27 +0200)]
parisc: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop

In the old times, the whole idle task was considered
as an RCU quiescent state. But as RCU became more and
more successful overtime, some RCU read side critical
section have been added even in the code of some
architectures idle tasks, for tracing for example.

So nowadays, rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() must
be called by the architecture to tell RCU about the part
in the idle loop that doesn't make use of rcu read side
critical sections, typically the part that puts the CPU
in low power mode.

This is necessary for RCU to find the quiescent states in
idle in order to complete grace periods.

Add this missing pair of calls in the parisc's idle loop.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Parisc <linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agomn10300: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop
Frederic Weisbecker [Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:27:34 +0000 (17:27 +0200)]
mn10300: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop

In the old times, the whole idle task was considered
as an RCU quiescent state. But as RCU became more and
more successful overtime, some RCU read side critical
section have been added even in the code of some
architectures idle tasks, for tracing for example.

So nowadays, rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() must
be called by the architecture to tell RCU about the part
in the idle loop that doesn't make use of rcu read side
critical sections, typically the part that puts the CPU
in low power mode.

This is necessary for RCU to find the quiescent states in
idle in order to complete grace periods.

Add this missing pair of calls in the mn10300's idle loop.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agom68k: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop
Frederic Weisbecker [Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:27:34 +0000 (17:27 +0200)]
m68k: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop

In the old times, the whole idle task was considered
as an RCU quiescent state. But as RCU became more and
more successful overtime, some RCU read side critical
section have been added even in the code of some
architectures idle tasks, for tracing for example.

So nowadays, rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() must
be called by the architecture to tell RCU about the part
in the idle loop that doesn't make use of rcu read side
critical sections, typically the part that puts the CPU
in low power mode.

This is necessary for RCU to find the quiescent states in
idle in order to complete grace periods.

Add this missing pair of calls in the m68k's idle loop.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: m68k <linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agom32r: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop
Frederic Weisbecker [Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:27:34 +0000 (17:27 +0200)]
m32r: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop

In the old times, the whole idle task was considered
as an RCU quiescent state. But as RCU became more and
more successful overtime, some RCU read side critical
section have been added even in the code of some
architectures idle tasks, for tracing for example.

So nowadays, rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() must
be called by the architecture to tell RCU about the part
in the idle loop that doesn't make use of rcu read side
critical sections, typically the part that puts the CPU
in low power mode.

This is necessary for RCU to find the quiescent states in
idle in order to complete grace periods.

Add this missing pair of calls in the m32r's idle loop.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agoh8300: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop
Frederic Weisbecker [Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:27:34 +0000 (17:27 +0200)]
h8300: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop

In the old times, the whole idle task was considered
as an RCU quiescent state. But as RCU became more and
more successful overtime, some RCU read side critical
section have been added even in the code of some
architectures idle tasks, for tracing for example.

So nowadays, rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() must
be called by the architecture to tell RCU about the part
in the idle loop that doesn't make use of rcu read side
critical sections, typically the part that puts the CPU
in low power mode.

This is necessary for RCU to find the quiescent states in
idle in order to complete grace periods.

Add this missing pair of calls in the h8300's idle loop.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agofrv: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop
Frederic Weisbecker [Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:27:34 +0000 (17:27 +0200)]
frv: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop

In the old times, the whole idle task was considered
as an RCU quiescent state. But as RCU became more and
more successful overtime, some RCU read side critical
section have been added even in the code of some
architectures idle tasks, for tracing for example.

So nowadays, rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() must
be called by the architecture to tell RCU about the part
in the idle loop that doesn't make use of rcu read side
critical sections, typically the part that puts the CPU
in low power mode.

This is necessary for RCU to find the quiescent states in
idle in order to complete grace periods.

Add this missing pair of calls in the Frv's idle loop.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agocris: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop
Frederic Weisbecker [Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:27:34 +0000 (17:27 +0200)]
cris: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop

In the old times, the whole idle task was considered
as an RCU quiescent state. But as RCU became more and
more successful overtime, some RCU read side critical
section have been added even in the code of some
architectures idle tasks, for tracing for example.

So nowadays, rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() must
be called by the architecture to tell RCU about the part
in the idle loop that doesn't make use of rcu read side
critical sections, typically the part that puts the CPU
in low power mode.

This is necessary for RCU to find the quiescent states in
idle in order to complete grace periods.

Add this missing pair of calls in the Cris's idle loop.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Cris <linux-cris-kernel@axis.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agoalpha: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop
Frederic Weisbecker [Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:27:34 +0000 (17:27 +0200)]
alpha: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop

In the old times, the whole idle task was considered
as an RCU quiescent state. But as RCU became more and
more successful overtime, some RCU read side critical
section have been added even in the code of some
architectures idle tasks, for tracing for example.

So nowadays, rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() must
be called by the architecture to tell RCU about the part
in the idle loop that doesn't make use of rcu read side
critical sections, typically the part that puts the CPU
in low power mode.

This is necessary for RCU to find the quiescent states in
idle in order to complete grace periods.

Add this missing pair of calls in the Alpha's idle loop.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: alpha <linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agoalpha: Fix preemption handling in idle loop
Frederic Weisbecker [Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:11:25 +0000 (14:11 +0200)]
alpha: Fix preemption handling in idle loop

cpu_idle() is called on the boot CPU by the init code with
preemption disabled. But the cpu_idle() function in alpha
doesn't handle this when it calls schedule() directly.

Fix it by converting it into schedule_preempt_disabled().

Also disable preemption before calling cpu_idle() from
secondary CPU entry code to stay consistent with this
state.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: alpha <linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Apply micro-optimization and int/bool fixes to RCU's idle handling
Paul E. McKenney [Wed, 5 Sep 2012 00:35:31 +0000 (17:35 -0700)]
rcu: Apply micro-optimization and int/bool fixes to RCU's idle handling

Checking "user" before "is_idle_task()" allows better optimizations
in cases where inlining is possible.  Also, "bool" should be passed
"true" or "false" rather than "1" or "0".  This commit therefore makes
these changes, as noted in Josh's review.

Reported-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Userspace RCU extended QS selftest
Frederic Weisbecker [Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:26:40 +0000 (20:26 +0200)]
rcu: Userspace RCU extended QS selftest

Provide a config option that enables the userspace
RCU extended quiescent state on every CPUs by default.

This is for testing purpose.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agox86: Exit RCU extended QS on notify resume
Frederic Weisbecker [Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:26:39 +0000 (20:26 +0200)]
x86: Exit RCU extended QS on notify resume

do_notify_resume() may be called on irq or exception
exit. But at that time the exception has already called
rcu_user_enter() and the irq has already called rcu_irq_exit().

Since it can use RCU read side critical section, we must call
rcu_user_exit() before doing anything there. Then we must call
back rcu_user_enter() after this function because we know we are
going to userspace from there.

This complete support for userspace RCU extended quiescent state
in x86-64.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agox86: Use the new schedule_user API on userspace preemption
Frederic Weisbecker [Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:26:38 +0000 (20:26 +0200)]
x86: Use the new schedule_user API on userspace preemption

This way we can exit the RCU extended quiescent state before
we schedule a new task from irq/exception exit.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Exit RCU extended QS on user preemption
Frederic Weisbecker [Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:26:37 +0000 (20:26 +0200)]
rcu: Exit RCU extended QS on user preemption

When exceptions or irq are about to resume userspace, if
the task needs to be rescheduled, the arch low level code
calls schedule() directly.

At that time we may be in extended quiescent state from RCU
POV: the exception is not anymore protected inside
rcu_user_exit() - rcu_user_enter() and the irq has called
rcu_irq_exit() already.

Create a new API schedule_user() that calls schedule() inside
rcu_user_exit()-rcu_user_enter() in order to protect it. Archs
will need to rely on it now to implement user preemption safely.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Exit RCU extended QS on kernel preemption after irq/exception
Frederic Weisbecker [Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:26:36 +0000 (20:26 +0200)]
rcu: Exit RCU extended QS on kernel preemption after irq/exception

When an exception or an irq exits, and we are going to resume into
interrupted kernel code, the low level architecture code calls
preempt_schedule_irq() if there is a need to reschedule.

If the interrupt/exception occured between a call to rcu_user_enter()
(from syscall exit, exception exit, do_notify_resume exit, ...) and
a real resume to userspace (iret,...), preempt_schedule_irq() can be
called whereas RCU thinks we are in userspace. But preempt_schedule_irq()
is going to run kernel code and may be some RCU read side critical
section. We must exit the userspace extended quiescent state before
we call it.

To solve this, just call rcu_user_exit() in the beginning of
preempt_schedule_irq().

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agox86: Exception hooks for userspace RCU extended QS
Frederic Weisbecker [Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:26:35 +0000 (20:26 +0200)]
x86: Exception hooks for userspace RCU extended QS

Add necessary hooks to x86 exception for userspace
RCU extended quiescent state support.

This includes traps, page fault, debug exceptions, etc...

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agox86: Syscall hooks for userspace RCU extended QS
Frederic Weisbecker [Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:26:34 +0000 (20:26 +0200)]
x86: Syscall hooks for userspace RCU extended QS

Add syscall slow path hooks to notify syscall entry
and exit on CPUs that want to support userspace RCU
extended quiescent state.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Switch task's syscall hooks on context switch
Frederic Weisbecker [Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:06:40 +0000 (15:06 -0700)]
rcu: Switch task's syscall hooks on context switch

Clear the syscalls hook of a task when it's scheduled out so that if
the task migrates, it doesn't run the syscall slow path on a CPU
that might not need it.

Also set the syscalls hook on the next task if needed.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Ignore userspace extended quiescent state by default
Frederic Weisbecker [Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:26:32 +0000 (20:26 +0200)]
rcu: Ignore userspace extended quiescent state by default

By default we don't want to enter into RCU extended quiescent
state while in userspace because doing this produces some overhead
(eg: use of syscall slowpath). Set it off by default and ready to
run when some feature like adaptive tickless need it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Allow rcu_user_enter()/exit() to nest
Frederic Weisbecker [Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:26:31 +0000 (20:26 +0200)]
rcu: Allow rcu_user_enter()/exit() to nest

Allow calls to rcu_user_enter() even if we are already
in userspace (as seen by RCU) and allow calls to rcu_user_exit()
even if we are already in the kernel.

This makes the APIs more flexible to be called from architectures.
Exception entries for example won't need to know if they come from
userspace before calling rcu_user_exit().

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Settle config for userspace extended quiescent state
Frederic Weisbecker [Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:26:30 +0000 (20:26 +0200)]
rcu: Settle config for userspace extended quiescent state

Create a new config option under the RCU menu that put
CPUs under RCU extended quiescent state (as in dynticks
idle mode) when they run in userspace. This require
some contribution from architectures to hook into kernel
and userspace boundaries.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ handle adaptive ticks
Paul E. McKenney [Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:33:51 +0000 (12:33 -0700)]
rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ handle adaptive ticks

The current implementation of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ tries reasonably hard to rid
the current CPU of RCU callbacks.  This is appropriate when the CPU is
entering idle, where it doesn't have much useful to do anyway, but is most
definitely not what you want when transitioning to user-mode execution.
This commit therefore detects the adaptive-tick case, and refrains from
burning CPU time getting rid of RCU callbacks in that case.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: New rcu_user_enter_irq() and rcu_user_exit_irq() APIs
Frederic Weisbecker [Mon, 4 Jun 2012 23:42:35 +0000 (16:42 -0700)]
rcu: New rcu_user_enter_irq() and rcu_user_exit_irq() APIs

In some cases, it is necessary to enter or exit userspace-RCU-idle mode
from an interrupt handler, for example, if some other CPU sends this
CPU a resched IPI.  In this case, the current CPU would enter the IPI
handler in userspace-RCU-idle mode, but would need to exit the IPI handler
after having exited that mode.

To allow this to work, this commit adds two new APIs to TREE_RCU:

- rcu_user_enter_irq(). This must be called from an interrupt between
rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit().  After the irq calls rcu_irq_exit(),
the irq handler will return into an RCU extended quiescent state.
In theory, this interrupt is never a nested interrupt, but in practice
it might interrupt softirq, which looks to RCU like a nested interrupt.

- rcu_user_exit_irq(). This must be called from a non-nesting
interrupt, interrupting an RCU extended quiescent state, also
between rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit(). After the irq calls
rcu_irq_exit(), the irq handler will return in an RCU non-quiescent
state.

[ Combined with "Allow calls to rcu_exit_user_irq from nesting irqs." ]

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: New rcu_user_enter() and rcu_user_exit() APIs
Frederic Weisbecker [Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:20:21 +0000 (11:20 -0700)]
rcu: New rcu_user_enter() and rcu_user_exit() APIs

RCU currently insists that only idle tasks can enter RCU idle mode, which
prohibits an adaptive tickless kernel (AKA nohz cpusets), which in turn
would mean that usermode execution would always take scheduling-clock
interrupts, even when there is only one task runnable on the CPU in
question.

This commit therefore adds rcu_user_enter() and rcu_user_exit(), which
allow non-idle tasks to enter RCU idle mode.  These are quite similar
to rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit(), respectively, except that they
omit the idle-task checks.

[ Updated to use "user" flag rather than separate check functions. ]

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Prevent initialization race in rcutorture kthreads
Paul E. McKenney [Sat, 25 Aug 2012 22:27:40 +0000 (15:27 -0700)]
rcu: Prevent initialization race in rcutorture kthreads

When you do something like "t = kthread_run(...)", it is possible that
the kthread will start running before the assignment to "t" happens.
If the child kthread expects to find a pointer to its task_struct in "t",
it will then be fatally disappointed.  This commit therefore switches
such cases to kthread_create() followed by wake_up_process(), guaranteeing
that the assignment happens before the child kthread starts running.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
12 years agorcu: Switch rcutorture to pr_alert() and friends
Paul E. McKenney [Thu, 9 Aug 2012 23:30:45 +0000 (16:30 -0700)]
rcu: Switch rcutorture to pr_alert() and friends

Drop a few characters by switching kernel/rcutorture.c from
"printk(KERN_ALERT" to "pr_alert(".

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
12 years agorcu: Document SRCU dead-CPU capabilities, emphasize read-side limits
Paul E. McKenney [Fri, 3 Aug 2012 23:41:23 +0000 (16:41 -0700)]
rcu: Document SRCU dead-CPU capabilities, emphasize read-side limits

The current documentation did not help someone grepping for SRCU to
learn that disabling preemption is not a replacement for srcu_read_lock(),
so upgrade the documentation to bring this out, not just for SRCU,
but also for RCU-bh.  Also document the fact that SRCU readers are
respected on CPUs executing in user mode, idle CPUs, and even on
offline CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Track CPU-hotplug duration statistics
Paul E. McKenney [Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:05:55 +0000 (12:05 -0700)]
rcu: Track CPU-hotplug duration statistics

Many rcutorture runs include CPU-hotplug operations in their stress
testing.  This commit accumulates statistics on the durations of these
operations in deference to the recent concern about the overhead and
latency of these operations.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Update rcutorture defaults
Paul E. McKenney [Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:30:22 +0000 (12:30 -0700)]
rcu: Update rcutorture defaults

A number of new features have been added to rcutorture over the years, but
the defaults have not been updated to include them.  This commit therefore
turns on a couple of them that have proven helpful and trustworthy, namely
periodic progress reports and testing of NO_HZ.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agoUse get_online_cpus to avoid races involving CPU hotplug
Silas Boyd-Wickizer [Fri, 3 Aug 2012 19:34:50 +0000 (12:34 -0700)]
Use get_online_cpus to avoid races involving CPU hotplug

If arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.c is a module, a CPU might offline or online
between the for_each_online_cpu() loop and the call to
register_hotcpu_notifier in cpuid_init or the call to
unregister_hotcpu_notifier in cpuid_exit.  The potential races can
lead to leaks/duplicates, attempts to destroy non-existant devices, or
random pointer dereferences.

For example, in cpuid_exit if:

        for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
                cpuid_device_destroy(cpu);
        class_destroy(cpuid_class);
        __unregister_chrdev(CPUID_MAJOR, 0, NR_CPUS, "cpu/cpuid");
        <----- CPU onlines
        unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&cpuid_class_cpu_notifier);

the hotcpu notifier will attempt to create a device for the
cpuid_class, which the module already destroyed.

This fix surrounds for_each_online_cpu and register_hotcpu_notifier or
unregister_hotcpu_notifier with get_online_cpus+put_online_cpus.

Tested on a VM.

Signed-off-by: Silas Boyd-Wickizer <sbw@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
12 years agoUse get_online_cpus to avoid races involving CPU hotplug
Silas Boyd-Wickizer [Fri, 3 Aug 2012 19:33:27 +0000 (12:33 -0700)]
Use get_online_cpus to avoid races involving CPU hotplug

If arch/x86/kernel/msr.c is a module, a CPU might offline or online
between the for_each_online_cpu(i) loop and the call to
register_hotcpu_notifier in msr_init or the call to
unregister_hotcpu_notifier in msr_exit. The potential races can lead
to leaks/duplicates, attempts to destroy non-existant devices, or
random pointer dereferences.

For example, in msr_init if:

        for_each_online_cpu(i) {
                err = msr_device_create(i);
                if (err != 0)
                        goto out_class;
        }
        <----- CPU offlines
        register_hotcpu_notifier(&msr_class_cpu_notifier);

and the CPU never onlines before msr_exit, then the module will never
call msr_device_destroy for the associated CPU.

This fix surrounds for_each_online_cpu and register_hotcpu_notifier or
unregister_hotcpu_notifier with get_online_cpus+put_online_cpus.

Tested on a VM.

Signed-off-by: Silas Boyd-Wickizer <sbw@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
12 years agosched: Fix load avg vs cpu-hotplug
Peter Zijlstra [Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:26:57 +0000 (11:26 +0200)]
sched: Fix load avg vs cpu-hotplug

Rabik and Paul reported two different issues related to the same few
lines of code.

Rabik's issue is that the nr_uninterruptible migration code is wrong in
that he sees artifacts due to this (Rabik please do expand in more
detail).

Paul's issue is that this code as it stands relies on us using
stop_machine() for unplug, we all would like to remove this assumption
so that eventually we can remove this stop_machine() usage altogether.

The only reason we'd have to migrate nr_uninterruptible is so that we
could use for_each_online_cpu() loops in favour of
for_each_possible_cpu() loops, however since nr_uninterruptible() is the
only such loop and its using possible lets not bother at all.

The problem Rabik sees is (probably) caused by the fact that by
migrating nr_uninterruptible we screw rq->calc_load_active for both rqs
involved.

So don't bother with fancy migration schemes (meaning we now have to
keep using for_each_possible_cpu()) and instead fold any nr_active delta
after we migrate all tasks away to make sure we don't have any skewed
nr_active accounting.

[ paulmck: Move call to calc_load_migration to CPU_DEAD to avoid
miscounting noted by Rakib. ]

Reported-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
12 years agorcu: Disallow callback registry on offline CPUs
Paul E. McKenney [Fri, 3 Aug 2012 20:16:15 +0000 (13:16 -0700)]
rcu: Disallow callback registry on offline CPUs

Posting a callback after the CPU_DEAD notifier effectively leaks
that callback unless/until that CPU comes back online.  Silence is
unhelpful when attempting to track down such leaks, so this commit emits
a WARN_ON_ONCE() and unconditionally leaks the callback when an offline
CPU attempts to register a callback.  The rdp->nxttail[RCU_NEXT_TAIL] is
set to NULL in the CPU_DEAD notifier and restored in the CPU_UP_PREPARE
notifier, allowing _call_rcu() to determine exactly when posting callbacks
is illegal.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Remove _rcu_barrier() dependency on __stop_machine()
Paul E. McKenney [Fri, 3 Aug 2012 00:43:50 +0000 (17:43 -0700)]
rcu: Remove _rcu_barrier() dependency on __stop_machine()

Currently, _rcu_barrier() relies on preempt_disable() to prevent
any CPU from going offline, which in turn depends on CPU hotplug's
use of __stop_machine().

This patch therefore makes _rcu_barrier() use get_online_cpus() to
block CPU-hotplug operations.  This has the added benefit of removing
the need for _rcu_barrier() to adopt callbacks:  Because CPU-hotplug
operations are excluded, there can be no callbacks to adopt.  This
commit simplifies the code accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agokmemleak: Replace list_for_each_continue_rcu with new interface
Michael Wang [Fri, 17 Aug 2012 04:33:34 +0000 (12:33 +0800)]
kmemleak: Replace list_for_each_continue_rcu with new interface

This patch replaces list_for_each_continue_rcu() with
list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu() to save a few lines
of code and allow removing list_for_each_continue_rcu().

Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agotime: RCU permitted to stop idle entry via softirq
Paul E. McKenney [Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:34:07 +0000 (08:34 -0700)]
time: RCU permitted to stop idle entry via softirq

The can_stop_idle_tick() function complains if a softirq vector is
raised too late in the idle-entry process, presumably in order to
prevent dangling softirq invocations from being delayed across the
full idle period, which might be indefinitely long -- and if softirq
was asserted any later than the call to this function, such a delay
might well happen.

However, RCU needs to be able to use softirq to stop idle entry in
order to be able to drain RCU callbacks from the current CPU, which in
turn enables faster entry into dyntick-idle mode, which in turn reduces
power consumption.  Because RCU takes this action at a well-defined
point in the idle-entry path, it is safe for RCU to take this approach.

This commit therefore silences the error message that is sometimes
produced when the going-idle CPU suddenly finds that it has an RCU_SOFTIRQ
to process.  The error message will continue to be issued for other
softirq vectors.

Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Move TINY_PREEMPT_RCU away from raw_local_irq_save()
Paul E. McKenney [Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:14:19 +0000 (12:14 -0700)]
rcu: Move TINY_PREEMPT_RCU away from raw_local_irq_save()

The use of raw_local_irq_save() is unnecessary, given that local_irq_save()
really does disable interrupts.  Also, it appears to interfere with lockdep.
Therefore, this commit moves to local_irq_save().

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
12 years agorcu: Remove redundant memory barrier from __call_rcu()
Paul E. McKenney [Mon, 13 Aug 2012 23:34:12 +0000 (16:34 -0700)]
rcu: Remove redundant memory barrier from __call_rcu()

The first memory barrier in __call_rcu() is supposed to order any
updates done beforehand by the caller against the actual queuing
of the callback.  However, the second memory barrier (which is intended
to order incrementing the queue lengths before queuing the callback)
is also between the caller's updates and the queuing of the callback.
The second memory barrier can therefore serve both purposes.

This commit therefore removes the first memory barrier.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Avoid spurious RCU CPU stall warnings
Paul E. McKenney [Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:17:06 +0000 (11:17 -0700)]
rcu: Avoid spurious RCU CPU stall warnings

If a given CPU avoids the idle loop but also avoids starting a new
RCU grace period for a full minute, RCU can issue spurious RCU CPU
stall warnings.  This commit fixes this issue by adding a check for
ongoing grace period to avoid these spurious stall warnings.

Reported-by: Becky Bruce <bgillbruce@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Protect rcu_node accesses during CPU stall warnings
Paul E. McKenney [Fri, 10 Aug 2012 23:55:59 +0000 (16:55 -0700)]
rcu: Protect rcu_node accesses during CPU stall warnings

The print_other_cpu_stall() function accesses a number of rcu_node
fields without protection from the ->lock.  In theory, this is not
a problem because the fields accessed are all integers, but in
practice the compiler can get nasty.  Therefore, the commit extends
the existing critical section to cover the entire loop body.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
12 years agorcu: Avoid rcu_print_detail_task_stall_rnp() segfault
Paul E. McKenney [Fri, 10 Aug 2012 23:00:11 +0000 (16:00 -0700)]
rcu: Avoid rcu_print_detail_task_stall_rnp() segfault

The rcu_print_detail_task_stall_rnp() function invokes
rcu_preempt_blocked_readers_cgp() to verify that there are some preempted
RCU readers blocking the current grace period outside of the protection
of the rcu_node structure's ->lock.  This means that the last blocked
reader might exit its RCU read-side critical section and remove itself
from the ->blkd_tasks list before the ->lock is acquired, resulting in
a segmentation fault when the subsequent code attempts to dereference
the now-NULL gp_tasks pointer.

This commit therefore moves the test under the lock.  This will not
have measurable effect on lock contention because this code is invoked
only when printing RCU CPU stall warnings, in other words, in the common
case, never.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
12 years agorcu: Apply for_each_rcu_flavor() to increment_cpu_stall_ticks()
Paul E. McKenney [Fri, 10 Aug 2012 20:55:03 +0000 (13:55 -0700)]
rcu: Apply for_each_rcu_flavor() to increment_cpu_stall_ticks()

The increment_cpu_stall_ticks() function listed each RCU flavor
explicitly, with an ifdef to handle preemptible RCU.  This commit
therefore applies for_each_rcu_flavor() to save a line of code.

Because this commit switches from a code-based enumeration of the
flavors of RCU to an rcu_state-list-based enumeration, it is no longer
possible to apply __get_cpu_var() to the per-CPU rcu_data structures.
We instead use __this_cpu_var() on the rcu_state structure's ->rda field
that references the corresponding rcu_data structures.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
12 years agorcu: Fix obsolete rcu_initiate_boost() header comment
Paul E. McKenney [Wed, 1 Aug 2012 22:57:54 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
rcu: Fix obsolete rcu_initiate_boost() header comment

Commit 1217ed1b (rcu: permit rcu_read_unlock() to be called while holding
runqueue locks) made rcu_initiate_boost() restore irq state when releasing
the rcu_node structure's ->lock, but failed to update the header comment
accordingly.  This commit therefore brings the header comment up to date.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Make offline-CPU checking allow for indefinite delays
Paul E. McKenney [Wed, 1 Aug 2012 21:29:20 +0000 (14:29 -0700)]
rcu: Make offline-CPU checking allow for indefinite delays

The rcu_implicit_offline_qs() function implicitly assumed that execution
would progress predictably when interrupts are disabled, which is of course
not guaranteed when running on a hypervisor.  Furthermore, this function
is short, and is called from one place only in a short function.

This commit therefore ensures that the timing is checked before
checking the condition, which guarantees correct behavior even given
indefinite delays.  It also inlines rcu_implicit_offline_qs() into
rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Improve boost selection when moving tasks to root rcu_node
Paul E. McKenney [Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:09:49 +0000 (14:09 -0700)]
rcu: Improve boost selection when moving tasks to root rcu_node

The rcu_preempt_offline_tasks() moves all tasks queued on a given leaf
rcu_node structure to the root rcu_node, which is done when the last CPU
corresponding the the leaf rcu_node structure goes offline.  Now that
RCU-preempt's synchronize_rcu_expedited() implementation blocks CPU-hotplug
operations during the initialization of each rcu_node structure's
->boost_tasks pointer, rcu_preempt_offline_tasks() can do a better job
of setting the root rcu_node's ->boost_tasks pointer.

The key point is that rcu_preempt_offline_tasks() runs as part of the
CPU-hotplug process, so that a concurrent synchronize_rcu_expedited()
is guaranteed to either have not started on the one hand (in which case
there is no boosting on behalf of the expedited grace period) or to be
completely initialized on the other (in which case, in the absence of
other priority boosting, all ->boost_tasks pointers will be initialized).
Therefore, if rcu_preempt_offline_tasks() finds that the ->boost_tasks
pointer is equal to the ->exp_tasks pointer, it can be sure that it is
correctly placed.

In the case where there was boosting ongoing at the time that the
synchronize_rcu_expedited() function started, different nodes might start
boosting the tasks blocking the expedited grace period at different times.
In this mixed case, the root node will either be boosting tasks for
the expedited grace period already, or it will start as soon as it gets
done boosting for the normal grace period -- but in this latter case,
the root node's tasks needed to be boosted in any case.

This commit therefore adds a check of the ->boost_tasks pointer against
the ->exp_tasks pointer to the list that prevents updating ->boost_tasks.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Permit RCU_NONIDLE() to be used from interrupt context
Paul E. McKenney [Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:12:48 +0000 (10:12 -0700)]
rcu: Permit RCU_NONIDLE() to be used from interrupt context

There is a need to use RCU from interrupt context, but either before
rcu_irq_enter() is called or after rcu_irq_exit() is called.  If the
interrupt occurs from idle, then lockdep-RCU will complain about such
uses, as they appear to be illegal uses of RCU from the idle loop.
In other environments, RCU_NONIDLE() could be used to properly protect
the use of RCU, but RCU_NONIDLE() currently cannot be invoked except
from process context.

This commit therefore modifies RCU_NONIDLE() to permit its use more
globally.

It also exports rcu_irq_exit() and rcu_irq_enter() in order to avoid
build errors.  The need for this is a bit counter-intuitive, hence this
explanation from Steven Rostedt:

Because some trace events happen inside the idle loop after rcu
has "shutdown", we needed to create "trace_foo_rcuidle()" handlers
that can handle this condition. That is, for every trace_foo()
static inline (used at the tracepoint location), there exists a
static inline trace_foo_rcuidle(), that looks something like this:

static inline void trace_##name##_rcuidle(proto) {
if (static_key_false(&__tracepoint_##name.key)) {
rcu_idle_exit();
__DO_TRACE();
rcu_idle_enter();
}
}

Although these calls are never used by module code, because they
are static inlines, they are still defined for all tracepoints,
kernel tracepoints as well as module tracepoints. And thus,
need the export :-(

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
12 years agorcu: Properly initialize ->boost_tasks on CPU offline
Paul E. McKenney [Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:41:47 +0000 (13:41 -0700)]
rcu: Properly initialize ->boost_tasks on CPU offline

When rcu_preempt_offline_tasks() clears tasks from a leaf rcu_node
structure, it does not NULL out the structure's ->boost_tasks field.
This commit therefore fixes this issue.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Pull TINY_RCU dyntick-idle tracing into non-idle region
Paul E. McKenney [Wed, 11 Jul 2012 07:24:57 +0000 (00:24 -0700)]
rcu: Pull TINY_RCU dyntick-idle tracing into non-idle region

Because TINY_RCU's idle detection keys directly off of the nesting
level, rather than from a separate variable as in TREE_RCU, the
TINY_RCU dyntick-idle tracing on transition to idle must happen
before the change to the nesting level.  This commit therefore makes
this change by passing the desired new value (rather than the old value)
of the nesting level in to rcu_idle_enter_common().

[ paulmck: Add fix for wrong-variable bug spotted by
  Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>. ]

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agorcu: Add PROVE_RCU_DELAY to provoke difficult races
Paul E. McKenney [Mon, 2 Jul 2012 21:42:01 +0000 (14:42 -0700)]
rcu: Add PROVE_RCU_DELAY to provoke difficult races

There have been some recent bugs that were triggered only when
preemptible RCU's __rcu_read_unlock() was preempted just after setting
->rcu_read_lock_nesting to INT_MIN, which is a low-probability event.
Therefore, reproducing those bugs (to say nothing of gaining confidence
in alleged fixes) was quite difficult.  This commit therefore creates
a new debug-only RCU kernel config option that forces a short delay
in __rcu_read_unlock() to increase the probability of those sorts of
bugs occurring.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
12 years agoLinux 3.6-rc1 v3.6-rc1
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 2 Aug 2012 23:38:10 +0000 (16:38 -0700)]
Linux 3.6-rc1

12 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus-3.6' of git://dev.laptop.org/users/dilinger/linux-olpc
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 2 Aug 2012 18:52:39 +0000 (11:52 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus-3.6' of git://dev.laptop.org/users/dilinger/linux-olpc

Pull OLPC platform updates from Andres Salomon:
 "These move the OLPC Embedded Controller driver out of
  arch/x86/platform and into drivers/platform/olpc.

  OLPC machines are now ARM-based (which means lots of x86 and ARM
  changes), but are typically pretty self-contained..  so it makes more
  sense to go through a separate OLPC tree after getting the appropriate
  review/ACKs."

* 'for-linus-3.6' of git://dev.laptop.org/users/dilinger/linux-olpc:
  x86: OLPC: move s/r-related EC cmds to EC driver
  Platform: OLPC: move global variables into priv struct
  Platform: OLPC: move debugfs support from x86 EC driver
  x86: OLPC: switch over to using new EC driver on x86
  Platform: OLPC: add a suspended flag to the EC driver
  Platform: OLPC: turn EC driver into a platform_driver
  Platform: OLPC: allow EC cmd to be overridden, and create a workqueue to call it
  drivers: OLPC: update various drivers to include olpc-ec.h
  Platform: OLPC: add a stub to drivers/platform/ for the OLPC EC driver

12 years agoMerge tag 'dt2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 2 Aug 2012 18:50:24 +0000 (11:50 -0700)]
Merge tag 'dt2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

Pull arm-soc Marvell Orion device-tree updates from Olof Johansson:
 "This contains a set of device-tree conversions for Marvell Orion
  platforms that were staged early but took a few tries to get the
  branch into a format where it was suitable for us to pick up.

  Given that most people working on these platforms are hobbyists with
  limited time, we were a bit more flexible with merging it even though
  it came in late."

* tag 'dt2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (21 commits)
  ARM: Kirkwood: Replace mrvl with marvell
  ARM: Kirkwood: Describe GoFlex Net LEDs and SATA in DT.
  ARM: Kirkwood: Describe Dreamplug LEDs in DT.
  ARM: Kirkwood: Describe iConnects LEDs in DT.
  ARM: Kirkwood: Describe iConnects temperature sensor in DT.
  ARM: Kirkwood: Describe IB62x0 LEDs in DT.
  ARM: Kirkwood: Describe IB62x0 gpio-keys in DT.
  ARM: Kirkwood: Describe DNS32? gpio-keys in DT.
  ARM: Kirkwood: Move common portions into a kirkwood-dnskw.dtsi
  ARM: Kirkwood: Replace DNS-320/DNS-325 leds with dt bindings
  ARM: Kirkwood: Describe DNS325 temperature sensor in DT.
  ARM: Kirkwood: Use DT to configure SATA device.
  ARM: kirkwood: use devicetree for SPI on dreamplug
  ARM: kirkwood: Add LS-XHL and LS-CHLv2 support
  ARM: Kirkwood: Initial DTS support for Kirkwood GoFlex Net
  ARM: Kirkwood: Add basic device tree support for QNAP TS219.
  ATA: sata_mv: Add device tree support
  ARM: Orion: DTify the watchdog timer.
  ARM: Orion: Add arch support needed for I2C via DT.
  ARM: kirkwood: use devicetree for orion-spi
  ...

Conflicts:
drivers/watchdog/orion_wdt.c

12 years agoMerge tag 'pm2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 2 Aug 2012 18:48:54 +0000 (11:48 -0700)]
Merge tag 'pm2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

Pull arm-soc cpuidle enablement for OMAP from Olof Johansson:
 "Coupled cpuidle was meant to merge for 3.5 through Len Brown's tree,
  but didn't go in because the pull request ended up rejected.  So it
  just got merged, and we got this staged branch that enables the
  coupled cpuidle code on OMAP.

  With a stable git workflow from the other maintainer we could have
  staged this earlier, but that wasn't the case so we have had to merge
  it late.

  The alternative is to hold it off until 3.7 but given that the code is
  well-isolated to OMAP and they are eager to see it go in, I didn't
  push back hard in that direction."

* tag 'pm2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc:
  ARM: OMAP4: CPUidle: Open broadcast clock-event device.
  ARM: OMAP4: CPUidle: add synchronization for coupled idle states
  ARM: OMAP4: CPUidle: Use coupled cpuidle states to implement SMP cpuidle.
  ARM: OMAP: timer: allow gp timer clock-event to be used on both cpus

12 years agoMerge tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm...
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 2 Aug 2012 18:48:20 +0000 (11:48 -0700)]
Merge tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

Pull ARM SoC fixes from Olof Johansson:
 "A few fixes for merge window fallout, and a bugfix for timer resume on
  PRIMA2."

* tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc:
  ARM: mmp: add missing irqs.h
  arm: mvebu: fix typo in .dtsi comment for Armada XP SoCs
  ARM: PRIMA2: delete redundant codes to restore LATCHED when timer resumes
  ARM: mxc: Include missing irqs.h header

12 years agoMerge tag 'sh-for-linus' of git://github.com/pmundt/linux-sh
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 2 Aug 2012 18:45:42 +0000 (11:45 -0700)]
Merge tag 'sh-for-linus' of git://github.com/pmundt/linux-sh

Pull SuperH fixes from Paul Mundt.

* tag 'sh-for-linus' of git://github.com/pmundt/linux-sh: (24 commits)
  sh: explicitly include sh_dma.h in setup-sh7722.c
  sh: ecovec: care CN5 VBUS if USB host mode
  sh: sh7724: fixup renesas_usbhs clock settings
  sh: intc: initial irqdomain support.
  sh: pfc: Fix up init ordering mess.
  serial: sh-sci: fix compilation breakage, when DMA is enabled
  dmaengine: shdma: restore partial transfer calculation
  sh: modify the sh_dmae_slave_config for RSPI in setup-sh7757
  sh: Fix up recursive fault in oops with unset TTB.
  sh: pfc: Build fix for pinctrl_remove_gpio_range() changes.
  sh: select the fixed regulator driver on several boards
  sh: ecovec: switch MMC power control to regulators
  sh: add fixed voltage regulators to se7724
  sh: add fixed voltage regulators to sdk7786
  sh: add fixed voltage regulators to rsk
  sh: add fixed voltage regulators to migor
  sh: add fixed voltage regulators to kfr2r09
  sh: add fixed voltage regulators to ap325rxa
  sh: add fixed voltage regulators to sh7757lcr
  sh: add fixed voltage regulators to sh2007
  ...

12 years agoMerge tag 'md-3.6' of git://neil.brown.name/md
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 2 Aug 2012 18:34:40 +0000 (11:34 -0700)]
Merge tag 'md-3.6' of git://neil.brown.name/md

Pull additional md update from NeilBrown:
 "This contains a few patches that depend on plugging changes in the
  block layer so needed to wait for those.

  It also contains a Kconfig fix for the new RAID10 support in dm-raid."

* tag 'md-3.6' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md/dm-raid: DM_RAID should select MD_RAID10
  md/raid1: submit IO from originating thread instead of md thread.
  raid5: raid5d handle stripe in batch way
  raid5: make_request use batch stripe release

12 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph...
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 2 Aug 2012 17:57:31 +0000 (10:57 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client

Pull two ceph fixes from Sage Weil:
 "The first patch fixes up the old crufty open intent code to use the
  atomic_open stuff properly, and the second fixes a possible null deref
  and memory leak with the crypto keys."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client:
  libceph: fix crypto key null deref, memory leak
  ceph: simplify+fix atomic_open

12 years agoMerge tag 'ecryptfs-3.6-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git...
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 2 Aug 2012 17:56:34 +0000 (10:56 -0700)]
Merge tag 'ecryptfs-3.6-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tyhicks/ecryptfs

Pull ecryptfs fixes from Tyler Hicks:
 - Fixes a bug when the lower filesystem mount options include 'acl',
   but the eCryptfs mount options do not
 - Cleanups in the messaging code
 - Better handling of empty files in the lower filesystem to improve
   usability.  Failed file creations are now cleaned up and empty lower
   files are converted into eCryptfs during open().
 - The write-through cache changes are being reverted due to bugs that
   are not easy to fix.  Stability outweighs the performance
   enhancements here.
 - Improvement to the mount code to catch unsupported ciphers specified
   in the mount options

* tag 'ecryptfs-3.6-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tyhicks/ecryptfs:
  eCryptfs: check for eCryptfs cipher support at mount
  eCryptfs: Revert to a writethrough cache model
  eCryptfs: Initialize empty lower files when opening them
  eCryptfs: Unlink lower inode when ecryptfs_create() fails
  eCryptfs: Make all miscdev functions use daemon ptr in file private_data
  eCryptfs: Remove unused messaging declarations and function
  eCryptfs: Copy up POSIX ACL and read-only flags from lower mount

12 years agoMerge branch 'for-next' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 2 Aug 2012 17:54:11 +0000 (10:54 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6

Pull CIFS update from Steve French:
 "Adds SMB2 rmdir/mkdir capability to the SMB2/SMB2.1 support in cifs.

  I am holding up a few more days on merging the remainder of the
  SMB2/SMB2.1 enablement although it is nearing review completion, in
  order to address some review comments from Jeff Layton on a few of the
  subsequent SMB2 patches, and also to debug an unrelated cifs problem
  that Pavel discovered."

* 'for-next' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
  CIFS: Add SMB2 support for rmdir
  CIFS: Move rmdir code to ops struct
  CIFS: Add SMB2 support for mkdir operation
  CIFS: Separate protocol specific part from mkdir
  CIFS: Simplify cifs_mkdir call

12 years agomm: remove node_start_pfn checking in new WARN_ON for now
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 2 Aug 2012 17:37:03 +0000 (10:37 -0700)]
mm: remove node_start_pfn checking in new WARN_ON for now

Borislav Petkov reports that the new warning added in commit
88fdf75d1bb5 ("mm: warn if pg_data_t isn't initialized with zero")
triggers for him, and it is the node_start_pfn field that has already
been initialized once.

The call trace looks like this:

  x86_64_start_kernel ->
    x86_64_start_reservations ->
    start_kernel ->
    setup_arch ->
    paging_init ->
    zone_sizes_init ->
    free_area_init_nodes ->
    free_area_init_node

and (with the warning replaced by debug output), Borislav sees

  On node 0 totalpages: 4193848
    DMA zone: 64 pages used for memmap
    DMA zone: 6 pages reserved
    DMA zone: 3890 pages, LIFO batch:0
    DMA32 zone: 16320 pages used for memmap
    DMA32 zone: 798464 pages, LIFO batch:31
    Normal zone: 52736 pages used for memmap
    Normal zone: 3322368 pages, LIFO batch:31
  free_area_init_node: pgdat->node_start_pfn: 4423680      <----
  On node 1 totalpages: 4194304
    Normal zone: 65536 pages used for memmap
    Normal zone: 4128768 pages, LIFO batch:31
  free_area_init_node: pgdat->node_start_pfn: 8617984      <----
  On node 2 totalpages: 4194304
    Normal zone: 65536 pages used for memmap
    Normal zone: 4128768 pages, LIFO batch:31
  free_area_init_node: pgdat->node_start_pfn: 12812288     <----
  On node 3 totalpages: 4194304
    Normal zone: 65536 pages used for memmap
    Normal zone: 4128768 pages, LIFO batch:31

so remove the bogus warning for now to avoid annoying people.  Minchan
Kim is looking at it.

Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
12 years agoARM: mmp: add missing irqs.h
Haojian Zhuang [Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:20:34 +0000 (22:20 +0800)]
ARM: mmp: add missing irqs.h

arch/arm/mach-mmp/gplugd.c:195:13: error: ‘MMP_NR_IRQS’ undeclared here
(not in a function)
make[1]: *** [arch/arm/mach-mmp/gplugd.o] Error 1

Include <mach/irqs.h> to fix this issue.

Signed-off-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
12 years agoarm: mvebu: fix typo in .dtsi comment for Armada XP SoCs
Thomas Petazzoni [Thu, 2 Aug 2012 15:13:47 +0000 (17:13 +0200)]
arm: mvebu: fix typo in .dtsi comment for Armada XP SoCs

The comment was wrongly referring to Armada 370 while the file is
related to Armada XP.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
12 years agoARM: PRIMA2: delete redundant codes to restore LATCHED when timer resumes
Barry Song [Mon, 30 Jul 2012 05:29:30 +0000 (13:29 +0800)]
ARM: PRIMA2: delete redundant codes to restore LATCHED when timer resumes

The only way to write LATCHED registers to write LATCH_BIT to LATCH register,
that will latch COUNTER into LATCHED.e.g.
writel_relaxed(SIRFSOC_TIMER_LATCH_BIT, sirfsoc_timer_base +
SIRFSOC_TIMER_LATCH);

Writing values to LATCHED registers directly is useless at all.

Signed-off-by: Barry Song <Baohua.Song@csr.com>
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
12 years agolibceph: fix crypto key null deref, memory leak
Sylvain Munaut [Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:12:59 +0000 (09:12 -0700)]
libceph: fix crypto key null deref, memory leak

Avoid crashing if the crypto key payload was NULL, as when it was not correctly
allocated and initialized.  Also, avoid leaking it.

Signed-off-by: Sylvain Munaut <tnt@246tNt.com>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <elder@inktank.com>
12 years agoceph: simplify+fix atomic_open
Sage Weil [Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:27:36 +0000 (11:27 -0700)]
ceph: simplify+fix atomic_open

The initial ->atomic_open op was carried over from the old intent code,
which was incomplete and didn't really work.  Replace it with a fresh
method.  In particular:

 * always attempt to do an atomic open+lookup, both for the create case
   and for lookups of existing files.
 * fix symlink handling by returning 1 to the VFS so that we can follow
   the link to its destination. This fixes a longstanding ceph bug (#2392).

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
12 years agosh: explicitly include sh_dma.h in setup-sh7722.c
Guennadi Liakhovetski [Wed, 1 Aug 2012 08:44:57 +0000 (10:44 +0200)]
sh: explicitly include sh_dma.h in setup-sh7722.c

setup-sh7722.c defines several objects, whose types are defined in
sh_dma.h, so, it has to be included explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
12 years agoMerge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 1 Aug 2012 23:47:15 +0000 (16:47 -0700)]
Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus

Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
 "The lion share of this pull request are fixes for clk-related breakage
  caused by other changes during this merge window.  For some platforms
  the fix was as simple as selecting HAVE_CLK, for others like the
  Loongson 2 significant restructuring was required.

  The remainder are changes required to get the Lantiq code to work
  again."

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus:
  MIPS: Loongson 2: Sort out clock managment.
  MIPS: Loongson 1: more clk support and add select HAVE_CLK
  MIPS: txx9: Fix redefinition of clk_* by adding select HAVE_CLK
  MIPS: BCM63xx: Fix redefinition of clk_* by adding select HAVE_CLK
  MIPS: AR7: Fix redefinition of clk_* by adding select HAVE_CLK
  MIPS: Lantiq: Platform specific CLK fixup
  MIPS: Lantiq: Add device_tree_init function
  MIPS: Lantiq: Fix interface clock and PCI control register offset

12 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus-3.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git...
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 1 Aug 2012 23:45:02 +0000 (16:45 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus-3.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml

Pull UML fixes from Richard Weinberger:
 "This patch set contains mostly fixes and cleanups.  The UML tty driver
  uses now tty_port and is no longer broken like hell  :-)"

* 'for-linus-3.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml:
  um: Add arch/x86/um to MAINTAINERS
  um: pass siginfo to guest process
  um: fix ubd_file_size for read-only files
  um: pull interrupt_end() into userspace()
  um: split syscall_trace(), pass pt_regs to it
  um: switch UPT_SET_RETURN_VALUE and regs_return_value to pt_regs
  um: set BLK_CGROUP=y in defconfig
  um: remove count_lock
  um: fully use tty_port
  um: Remove dead code
  um: remove line_ioctl()
  TTY: um/line, use tty from tty_port
  TTY: um/line, add tty_port

12 years agoMerge branch 'dmaengine' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 1 Aug 2012 23:41:07 +0000 (16:41 -0700)]
Merge branch 'dmaengine' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm

Pull ARM DMA engine updates from Russell King:
 "This looks scary at first glance, but what it is is:
   - a rework of the sa11x0 DMA engine driver merged during the previous
     cycle, to extract a common set of helper functions for DMA engine
     implementations.
   - conversion of amba-pl08x.c to use these helper functions.
   - addition of OMAP DMA engine driver (using these helper functions),
     and conversion of some of the OMAP DMA users to use DMA engine.

  Nothing in the helper functions is ARM specific, so I hope that other
  implementations can consolidate some of their code by making use of
  these helpers.

  This has been sitting in linux-next most of the merge cycle, and has
  been tested by several OMAP folk.  I've tested it on sa11x0 platforms,
  and given it my best shot on my broken platforms which have the
  amba-pl08x controller.

  The last point is the addition to feature-removal-schedule.txt, which
  will have a merge conflict.  Between myself and TI, we're planning to
  remove the old TI DMA implementation next year."

Fix up trivial add/add conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
and drivers/dma/{Kconfig,Makefile}

* 'dmaengine' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: (53 commits)
  ARM: 7481/1: OMAP2+: omap2plus_defconfig: enable OMAP DMA engine
  ARM: 7464/1: mmc: omap_hsmmc: ensure probe returns error if DMA channel request fails
  Add feature removal of old OMAP private DMA implementation
  mtd: omap2: remove private DMA API implementation
  mtd: omap2: add DMA engine support
  spi: omap2-mcspi: remove private DMA API implementation
  spi: omap2-mcspi: add DMA engine support
  ARM: omap: remove mmc platform data dma_mask and initialization
  mmc: omap: remove private DMA API implementation
  mmc: omap: add DMA engine support
  mmc: omap_hsmmc: remove private DMA API implementation
  mmc: omap_hsmmc: add DMA engine support
  dmaengine: omap: add support for cyclic DMA
  dmaengine: omap: add support for setting fi
  dmaengine: omap: add support for returning residue in tx_state method
  dmaengine: add OMAP DMA engine driver
  dmaengine: sa11x0-dma: add cyclic DMA support
  dmaengine: sa11x0-dma: fix DMA residue support
  dmaengine: PL08x: ensure all descriptors are freed when channel is released
  dmaengine: PL08x: get rid of write only pool_ctr and free_txd locking
  ...

12 years agoMerge branch 'audit' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 1 Aug 2012 23:35:37 +0000 (16:35 -0700)]
Merge branch 'audit' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm

Pull ARM audit/signal updates from Russell King:
 "ARM audit/signal handling updates from Al and Will.  This improves on
  the work Viro did last merge window, and sorts out some of the issues
  found with that work."

* 'audit' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: 7475/1: sys_trace: allow all syscall arguments to be updated via ptrace
  ARM: 7474/1: get rid of TIF_SYSCALL_RESTARTSYS
  ARM: 7473/1: deal with handlerless restarts without leaving the kernel
  ARM: 7472/1: pull all work_pending logics into C function
  ARM: 7471/1: Revert "7442/1: Revert "remove unused restart trampoline""
  ARM: 7470/1: Revert "7443/1: Revert "new way of handling ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK""

12 years agoMerge branch 'fixes' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 1 Aug 2012 23:30:45 +0000 (16:30 -0700)]
Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm

Pull ARM fixes from Russell King:
 "This fixes various issues found during July"

* 'fixes' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm:
  ARM: 7479/1: mm: avoid NULL dereference when flushing gate_vma with VIVT caches
  ARM: Fix undefined instruction exception handling
  ARM: 7480/1: only call smp_send_stop() on SMP
  ARM: 7478/1: errata: extend workaround for erratum #720789
  ARM: 7477/1: vfp: Always save VFP state in vfp_pm_suspend on UP
  ARM: 7476/1: vfp: only clear vfp state for current cpu in vfp_pm_suspend
  ARM: 7468/1: ftrace: Trace function entry before updating index
  ARM: 7467/1: mutex: use generic xchg-based implementation for ARMv6+
  ARM: 7466/1: disable interrupt before spinning endlessly
  ARM: 7465/1: Handle >4GB memory sizes in device tree and mem=size@start option

12 years agoum: Add arch/x86/um to MAINTAINERS
Richard Weinberger [Wed, 1 Aug 2012 23:00:47 +0000 (01:00 +0200)]
um: Add arch/x86/um to MAINTAINERS

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
12 years agoum: pass siginfo to guest process
Martin Pärtel [Wed, 1 Aug 2012 22:49:17 +0000 (00:49 +0200)]
um: pass siginfo to guest process

UML guest processes now get correct siginfo_t for SIGTRAP, SIGFPE,
SIGILL and SIGBUS. Specifically, si_addr and si_code are now correct
where previously they were si_addr = NULL and si_code = 128.

Signed-off-by: Martin Pärtel <martin.partel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>