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Christoph Hellwig
f5678e7f2a kernel: better document the use_mm/unuse_mm API contract
Switch the function documentation to kerneldoc comments, and add
WARN_ON_ONCE asserts that the calling thread is a kernel thread and does
not have ->mm set (or has ->mm set in the case of unuse_mm).

Also give the functions a kthread_ prefix to better document the use case.

[hch@lst.de: fix a comment typo, cover the newly merged use_mm/unuse_mm caller in vfio]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416053158.586887-3-hch@lst.de
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: powerpc/vas: fix up for {un}use_mm() rename]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200422163935.5aa93ba5@canb.auug.org.au

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> [usb]
Acked-by: Haren Myneni <haren@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200404094101.672954-6-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-10 19:14:18 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
9bf5b9eb23 kernel: move use_mm/unuse_mm to kthread.c
Patch series "improve use_mm / unuse_mm", v2.

This series improves the use_mm / unuse_mm interface by better documenting
the assumptions, and my taking the set_fs manipulations spread over the
callers into the core API.

This patch (of 3):

Use the proper API instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200404094101.672954-1-hch@lst.de

These helpers are only for use with kernel threads, and I will tie them
more into the kthread infrastructure going forward.  Also move the
prototypes to kthread.h - mmu_context.h was a little weird to start with
as it otherwise contains very low-level MM bits.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200404094101.672954-1-hch@lst.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416053158.586887-1-hch@lst.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200404094101.672954-5-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-10 19:14:18 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
52782c92ac kthread: save thread function
It's handy to keep the kthread_fn just as a unique cookie to identify
classes of kthreads.  E.g. if you can verify that a given task is
running your thread_fn, then you may know what sort of type kthread_data
points to.

We'll use this in nfsd to pass some information into the vfs.  Note it
will need kthread_data() exported too.

Original-patch-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2020-05-08 21:23:10 -04:00
Liang Chen
26c7295be0 kthread: Do not preempt current task if it is going to call schedule()
when we create a kthread with ktrhead_create_on_cpu(),the child thread
entry is ktread.c:ktrhead() which will be preempted by the parent after
call complete(done) while schedule() is not called yet,then the parent
will call wait_task_inactive(child) but the child is still on the runqueue,
so the parent will schedule_hrtimeout() for 1 jiffy,it will waste a lot of
time,especially on startup.

  parent                             child
ktrhead_create_on_cpu()
  wait_fo_completion(&done) -----> ktread.c:ktrhead()
                             |----- complete(done);--wakeup and preempted by parent
 kthread_bind() <------------|  |-> schedule();--dequeue here
  wait_task_inactive(child)     |
   schedule_hrtimeout(1 jiffy) -|

So we hope the child just wakeup parent but not preempted by parent, and the
child is going to call schedule() soon,then the parent will not call
schedule_hrtimeout(1 jiffy) as the child is already dequeue.

The same issue for ktrhead_park()&&kthread_parkme().
This patch can save 120ms on rk312x startup with CONFIG_HZ=300.

Signed-off-by: Liang Chen <cl@rock-chips.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200306070133.18335-2-cl@rock-chips.com
2020-03-20 13:06:20 +01:00
Ben Dooks
bc88f85c6c kthread: make __kthread_queue_delayed_work static
The __kthread_queue_delayed_work is not exported so
make it static, to avoid the following sparse warning:

  kernel/kthread.c:869:6: warning: symbol '__kthread_queue_delayed_work' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-10-16 09:20:58 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
457c899653 treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files
Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

 - Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the
   initial scan/conversion to ignore the file

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-21 10:50:45 +02:00
Suren Baghdasaryan
8af0c18af1 include/: refactor headers to allow kthread.h inclusion in psi_types.h
kthread.h can't be included in psi_types.h because it creates a circular
inclusion with kthread.h eventually including psi_types.h and
complaining on kthread structures not being defined because they are
defined further in the kthread.h.  Resolve this by removing psi_types.h
inclusion from the headers included from kthread.h.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190319235619.260832-7-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-05-14 19:52:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8dcd175bc3 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few misc things

 - ocfs2 updates

 - most of MM

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (159 commits)
  tools/testing/selftests/proc/proc-self-syscall.c: remove duplicate include
  proc: more robust bulk read test
  proc: test /proc/*/maps, smaps, smaps_rollup, statm
  proc: use seq_puts() everywhere
  proc: read kernel cpu stat pointer once
  proc: remove unused argument in proc_pid_lookup()
  fs/proc/thread_self.c: code cleanup for proc_setup_thread_self()
  fs/proc/self.c: code cleanup for proc_setup_self()
  proc: return exit code 4 for skipped tests
  mm,mremap: bail out earlier in mremap_to under map pressure
  mm/sparse: fix a bad comparison
  mm/memory.c: do_fault: avoid usage of stale vm_area_struct
  writeback: fix inode cgroup switching comment
  mm/huge_memory.c: fix "orig_pud" set but not used
  mm/hotplug: fix an imbalance with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
  mm/memcontrol.c: fix bad line in comment
  mm/cma.c: cma_declare_contiguous: correct err handling
  mm/page_ext.c: fix an imbalance with kmemleak
  mm/compaction: pass pgdat to too_many_isolated() instead of zone
  mm: remove zone_lru_lock() function, access ->lru_lock directly
  ...
2019-03-06 10:31:36 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
45802da05e Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - refcount conversions

   - Solve the rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list can of worms for real.

   - improve power-aware scheduling

   - add sysctl knob for Energy Aware Scheduling

   - documentation updates

   - misc other changes"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (34 commits)
  kthread: Do not use TIMER_IRQSAFE
  kthread: Convert worker lock to raw spinlock
  sched/fair: Use non-atomic cpumask_{set,clear}_cpu()
  sched/fair: Remove unused 'sd' parameter from select_idle_smt()
  sched/wait: Use freezable_schedule() when possible
  sched/fair: Prune, fix and simplify the nohz_balancer_kick() comment block
  sched/fair: Explain LLC nohz kick condition
  sched/fair: Simplify nohz_balancer_kick()
  sched/topology: Fix percpu data types in struct sd_data & struct s_data
  sched/fair: Simplify post_init_entity_util_avg() by calling it with a task_struct pointer argument
  sched/fair: Fix O(nr_cgroups) in the load balancing path
  sched/fair: Optimize update_blocked_averages()
  sched/fair: Fix insertion in rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list
  sched/fair: Add tmp_alone_branch assertion
  sched/core: Use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() in move_queued_task()/task_rq_lock()
  sched/debug: Initialize sd_sysctl_cpus if !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
  sched/pelt: Skip updating util_est when utilization is higher than CPU's capacity
  sched/fair: Update scale invariance of PELT
  sched/fair: Move the rq_of() helper function
  sched/core: Convert task_struct.stack_refcount to refcount_t
  ...
2019-03-06 08:14:05 -08:00
Anshuman Khandual
98fa15f34c mm: replace all open encodings for NUMA_NO_NODE
Patch series "Replace all open encodings for NUMA_NO_NODE", v3.

All these places for replacement were found by running the following
grep patterns on the entire kernel code.  Please let me know if this
might have missed some instances.  This might also have replaced some
false positives.  I will appreciate suggestions, inputs and review.

1. git grep "nid == -1"
2. git grep "node == -1"
3. git grep "nid = -1"
4. git grep "node = -1"

This patch (of 2):

At present there are multiple places where invalid node number is
encoded as -1.  Even though implicitly understood it is always better to
have macros in there.  Replace these open encodings for an invalid node
number with the global macro NUMA_NO_NODE.  This helps remove NUMA
related assumptions like 'invalid node' from various places redirecting
them to a common definition.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1545127933-10711-2-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>	[ixgbe]
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>			[mtip32xx]
Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>			[dmaengine.c]
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>		[powerpc]
Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>		[drivers/infiniband]
Cc: Joseph Qi <jiangqi903@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-05 21:07:14 -08:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
ad01423aed kthread: Do not use TIMER_IRQSAFE
The TIMER_IRQSAFE usage was introduced in commit 22597dc3d9 ("kthread:
initial support for delayed kthread work") which modelled the delayed
kthread code after workqueue's code. The workqueue code requires the flag
TIMER_IRQSAFE for synchronisation purpose. This is not true for kthread's
delay timer since all operations occur under a lock.

Remove TIMER_IRQSAFE from the timer initialisation and use timer_setup()
for initialisation purpose which is the official function.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190212162554.19779-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de
2019-02-28 11:18:38 +01:00
Julia Cartwright
fe99a4f4d6 kthread: Convert worker lock to raw spinlock
In order to enable the queuing of kthread work items from hardirq context
even when PREEMPT_RT_FULL is enabled, convert the worker spin_lock to a
raw_spin_lock.

This is only acceptable to do because the work performed under the lock is
well-bounded and minimal.

Reported-by: Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar@pengutronix.de>
Reported-by: Tim Sander <tim@krieglstein.org>
Signed-off-by: Julia Cartwright <julia@ni.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190212162554.19779-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de
2019-02-28 11:18:38 +01:00
Matthias Kaehlcke
0121805d9d kthread: Add __kthread_should_park()
kthread_should_park() is used to check if the calling kthread ('current')
should park, but there is no function to check whether an arbitrary kthread
should be parked. The latter is required to plug a CPU hotplug race vs. a
parking ksoftirqd thread.

The new __kthread_should_park() receives a task_struct as parameter to
check if the corresponding kernel thread should be parked.

Call __kthread_should_park() from kthread_should_park() to avoid code
duplication.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190128234625.78241-2-mka@chromium.org
2019-02-10 21:51:39 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
f7951c33f0 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Cleanup and improvement of NUMA balancing

 - Refactoring and improvements to the PELT (Per Entity Load Tracking)
   code

 - Watchdog simplification and related cleanups

 - The usual pile of small incremental fixes and improvements

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (41 commits)
  watchdog: Reduce message verbosity
  stop_machine: Reflow cpu_stop_queue_two_works()
  sched/numa: Move task_numa_placement() closer to numa_migrate_preferred()
  sched/numa: Use group_weights to identify if migration degrades locality
  sched/numa: Update the scan period without holding the numa_group lock
  sched/numa: Remove numa_has_capacity()
  sched/numa: Modify migrate_swap() to accept additional parameters
  sched/numa: Remove unused task_capacity from 'struct numa_stats'
  sched/numa: Skip nodes that are at 'hoplimit'
  sched/debug: Reverse the order of printing faults
  sched/numa: Use task faults only if numa_group is not yet set up
  sched/numa: Set preferred_node based on best_cpu
  sched/numa: Simplify load_too_imbalanced()
  sched/numa: Evaluate move once per node
  sched/numa: Remove redundant field
  sched/debug: Show the sum wait time of a task group
  sched/fair: Remove #ifdefs from scale_rt_capacity()
  sched/core: Remove get_cpu() from sched_fork()
  sched/cpufreq: Clarify sugov_get_util()
  sched/sysctl: Remove unused sched_time_avg_ms sysctl
  ...
2018-08-13 11:25:07 -07:00
Snild Dolkow
3e536e222f kthread, tracing: Don't expose half-written comm when creating kthreads
There is a window for racing when printing directly to task->comm,
allowing other threads to see a non-terminated string. The vsnprintf
function fills the buffer, counts the truncated chars, then finally
writes the \0 at the end.

	creator                     other
	vsnprintf:
	  fill (not terminated)
	  count the rest            trace_sched_waking(p):
	  ...                         memcpy(comm, p->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN)
	  write \0

The consequences depend on how 'other' uses the string. In our case,
it was copied into the tracing system's saved cmdlines, a buffer of
adjacent TASK_COMM_LEN-byte buffers (note the 'n' where 0 should be):

	crash-arm64> x/1024s savedcmd->saved_cmdlines | grep 'evenk'
	0xffffffd5b3818640:     "irq/497-pwr_evenkworker/u16:12"

...and a strcpy out of there would cause stack corruption:

	[224761.522292] Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector:
	    Kernel stack is corrupted in: ffffff9bf9783c78

	crash-arm64> kbt | grep 'comm\|trace_print_context'
	#6  0xffffff9bf9783c78 in trace_print_context+0x18c(+396)
	      comm (char [16]) =  "irq/497-pwr_even"

	crash-arm64> rd 0xffffffd4d0e17d14 8
	ffffffd4d0e17d14:  2f71726900000000 5f7277702d373934   ....irq/497-pwr_
	ffffffd4d0e17d24:  726f776b6e657665 3a3631752f72656b   evenkworker/u16:
	ffffffd4d0e17d34:  f9780248ff003231 cede60e0ffffff9b   12..H.x......`..
	ffffffd4d0e17d44:  cede60c8ffffffd4 00000fffffffffd4   .....`..........

The workaround in e09e28671 (use strlcpy in __trace_find_cmdline) was
likely needed because of this same bug.

Solved by vsnprintf:ing to a local buffer, then using set_task_comm().
This way, there won't be a window where comm is not terminated.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180726071539.188015-1-snild@sony.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: bc0c38d139 ("ftrace: latency tracer infrastructure")
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Snild Dolkow <snild@sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-07-26 09:59:33 -04:00
Peter Zijlstra
f83ee19be4 kthread: Simplify kthread_park() completion
Oleg explains the reason we could hit park+park is that
smpboot_update_cpumask_percpu_thread()'s

  for_each_cpu_and(cpu, &tmp, cpu_online_mask)
	smpboot_park_kthread();

turns into:

  for ((cpu) = 0; (cpu) < 1; (cpu)++, (void)mask, (void)and)
	smpboot_park_kthread();

on UP, ignoring the mask. But since we just completely removed that
function, this is no longer relevant.

So revert commit:

  b1f5b378e1 ("kthread: Allow kthread_park() on a parked kthread")

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-07-03 09:20:44 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
1cef1150ef kthread, sched/core: Fix kthread_parkme() (again...)
Gaurav reports that commit:

  85f1abe001 ("kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue")

isn't working for him. Because of the following race:

> controller Thread                               CPUHP Thread
> takedown_cpu
> kthread_park
> kthread_parkme
> Set KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK
>                                                 smpboot_thread_fn
>                                                 set Task interruptible
>
>
> wake_up_process
>  if (!(p->state & state))
>                 goto out;
>
>                                                 Kthread_parkme
>                                                 SET TASK_PARKED
>                                                 schedule
>                                                 raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock)
> ttwu_remote
> waiting for __task_rq_lock
>                                                 context_switch
>
>                                                 finish_lock_switch
>
>
>
>                                                 Case TASK_PARKED
>                                                 kthread_park_complete
>
>
> SET Running

Furthermore, Oleg noticed that the whole scheduler TASK_PARKED
handling is buggered because the TASK_DEAD thing is done with
preemption disabled, the current code can still complete early on
preemption :/

So basically revert that earlier fix and go with a variant of the
alternative mentioned in the commit. Promote TASK_PARKED to special
state to avoid the store-store issue on task->state leading to the
WARN in kthread_unpark() -> __kthread_bind().

But in addition, add wait_task_inactive() to kthread_park() to ensure
the task really is PARKED when we return from kthread_park(). This
avoids the whole kthread still gets migrated nonsense -- although it
would be really good to get this done differently.

Reported-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 85f1abe001 ("kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-07-03 09:17:30 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
b1f5b378e1 kthread: Allow kthread_park() on a parked kthread
The following commit:

  85f1abe001 ("kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue")

added a WARN() in the case where we call kthread_park() on an already
parked thread, because the old code wasn't doing the right thing there
and it wasn't at all clear that would happen.

It turns out, this does in fact happen, so we have to deal with it.

Instead of potentially returning early, also wait for the completion.
This does however mean we have to use complete_all() and re-initialize
the completion on re-use.

Reported-by: LKP <lkp@01.org>
Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Cc: wfg@linux.intel.com
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 85f1abe001 ("kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180504091142.GI12235@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-05-25 08:03:51 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
85f1abe001 kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue
Even with the wait-loop fixed, there is a further issue with
kthread_parkme(). Upon hotplug, when we do takedown_cpu(),
smpboot_park_threads() can return before all those threads are in fact
blocked, due to the placement of the complete() in __kthread_parkme().

When that happens, sched_cpu_dying() -> migrate_tasks() can end up
migrating such a still runnable task onto another CPU.

Normally the task will have hit schedule() and gone to sleep by the
time we do kthread_unpark(), which will then do __kthread_bind() to
re-bind the task to the correct CPU.

However, when we loose the initial TASK_PARKED store to the concurrent
wakeup issue described previously, do the complete(), get migrated, it
is possible to either:

 - observe kthread_unpark()'s clearing of SHOULD_PARK and terminate
   the park and set TASK_RUNNING, or

 - __kthread_bind()'s wait_task_inactive() to observe the competing
   TASK_RUNNING store.

Either way the WARN() in __kthread_bind() will trigger and fail to
correctly set the CPU affinity.

Fix this by only issuing the complete() when the kthread has scheduled
out. This does away with all the icky 'still running' nonsense.

The alternative is to promote TASK_PARKED to a special state, this
guarantees wait_task_inactive() cannot observe a 'stale' TASK_RUNNING
and we'll end up doing the right thing, but this preserves the whole
icky business of potentially migating the still runnable thing.

Reported-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-05-03 07:38:05 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
741a76b350 kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() wait-loop
Gaurav reported a problem with __kthread_parkme() where a concurrent
try_to_wake_up() could result in competing stores to ->state which,
when the TASK_PARKED store got lost bad things would happen.

The comment near set_current_state() actually mentions this competing
store, but only mentions the case against TASK_RUNNING. This same
store, with different timing, can happen against a subsequent !RUNNING
store.

This normally is not a problem, because as per that same comment, the
!RUNNING state store is inside a condition based wait-loop:

  for (;;) {
    set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
    if (!need_sleep)
      break;
    schedule();
  }
  __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);

If we loose the (first) TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE store to a previous
(concurrent) wakeup, the schedule() will NO-OP and we'll go around the
loop once more.

The problem here is that the TASK_PARKED store is not inside the
KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK condition wait-loop.

There is a genuine issue with sleeps that do not have a condition;
this is addressed in a subsequent patch.

Reported-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-05-03 07:38:04 +02:00
Kees Cook
841b86f328 treewide: Remove TIMER_FUNC_TYPE and TIMER_DATA_TYPE casts
With all callbacks converted, and the timer callback prototype
switched over, the TIMER_FUNC_TYPE cast is no longer needed,
so remove it. Conversion was done with the following scripts:

    perl -pi -e 's|\(TIMER_FUNC_TYPE\)||g' \
        $(git grep TIMER_FUNC_TYPE | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u)

    perl -pi -e 's|\(TIMER_DATA_TYPE\)||g' \
        $(git grep TIMER_DATA_TYPE | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u)

The now unused macros are also dropped from include/linux/timer.h.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2017-11-21 16:35:54 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
e2c5923c34 Merge branch 'for-4.15/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull core block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the main pull request for block storage for 4.15-rc1.

  Nothing out of the ordinary in here, and no API changes or anything
  like that. Just various new features for drivers, core changes, etc.
  In particular, this pull request contains:

   - A patch series from Bart, closing the whole on blk/scsi-mq queue
     quescing.

   - A series from Christoph, building towards hidden gendisks (for
     multipath) and ability to move bio chains around.

   - NVMe
        - Support for native multipath for NVMe (Christoph).
        - Userspace notifications for AENs (Keith).
        - Command side-effects support (Keith).
        - SGL support (Chaitanya Kulkarni)
        - FC fixes and improvements (James Smart)
        - Lots of fixes and tweaks (Various)

   - bcache
        - New maintainer (Michael Lyle)
        - Writeback control improvements (Michael)
        - Various fixes (Coly, Elena, Eric, Liang, et al)

   - lightnvm updates, mostly centered around the pblk interface
     (Javier, Hans, and Rakesh).

   - Removal of unused bio/bvec kmap atomic interfaces (me, Christoph)

   - Writeback series that fix the much discussed hundreds of millions
     of sync-all units. This goes all the way, as discussed previously
     (me).

   - Fix for missing wakeup on writeback timer adjustments (Yafang
     Shao).

   - Fix laptop mode on blk-mq (me).

   - {mq,name} tupple lookup for IO schedulers, allowing us to have
     alias names. This means you can use 'deadline' on both !mq and on
     mq (where it's called mq-deadline). (me).

   - blktrace race fix, oopsing on sg load (me).

   - blk-mq optimizations (me).

   - Obscure waitqueue race fix for kyber (Omar).

   - NBD fixes (Josef).

   - Disable writeback throttling by default on bfq, like we do on cfq
     (Luca Miccio).

   - Series from Ming that enable us to treat flush requests on blk-mq
     like any other request. This is a really nice cleanup.

   - Series from Ming that improves merging on blk-mq with schedulers,
     getting us closer to flipping the switch on scsi-mq again.

   - BFQ updates (Paolo).

   - blk-mq atomic flags memory ordering fixes (Peter Z).

   - Loop cgroup support (Shaohua).

   - Lots of minor fixes from lots of different folks, both for core and
     driver code"

* 'for-4.15/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (294 commits)
  nvme: fix visibility of "uuid" ns attribute
  blk-mq: fixup some comment typos and lengths
  ide: ide-atapi: fix compile error with defining macro DEBUG
  blk-mq: improve tag waiting setup for non-shared tags
  brd: remove unused brd_mutex
  blk-mq: only run the hardware queue if IO is pending
  block: avoid null pointer dereference on null disk
  fs: guard_bio_eod() needs to consider partitions
  xtensa/simdisk: fix compile error
  nvme: expose subsys attribute to sysfs
  nvme: create 'slaves' and 'holders' entries for hidden controllers
  block: create 'slaves' and 'holders' entries for hidden gendisks
  nvme: also expose the namespace identification sysfs files for mpath nodes
  nvme: implement multipath access to nvme subsystems
  nvme: track shared namespaces
  nvme: introduce a nvme_ns_ids structure
  nvme: track subsystems
  block, nvme: Introduce blk_mq_req_flags_t
  block, scsi: Make SCSI quiesce and resume work reliably
  block: Add the QUEUE_FLAG_PREEMPT_ONLY request queue flag
  ...
2017-11-14 15:32:19 -08:00
Shaohua Li
e10237cc76 kthread: zero the kthread data structure
kthread() could bail out early before we initialize blkcg_css (if the
kthread is killed very early. Please see xchg() statement in kthread()),
which confuses free_kthread_struct. Instead of moving the blkcg_css
initialization early, we simply zero the whole 'self' data structure,
which doesn't sound much overhead.

Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Fixes: 05e3db95eb ("kthread: add a mechanism to store cgroup info")
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-11-10 19:53:25 -07:00
Kees Cook
fe5c3b69b5 kthread: Convert callback to use from_timer()
In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer
to all timer callbacks, switch kthread to use from_timer() and pass the
timer pointer explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Ursula Braun <ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Harish Patil <harish.patil@cavium.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@cavium.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Gross <mark.gross@intel.com>
Cc: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Michael Reed <mdr@sgi.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507159627-127660-13-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
2017-10-05 15:01:22 +02:00
Shaohua Li
0b508bc926 block: fix a build error
The code is only for blkcg not for all cgroups

Fixes: d4478e92d6 ("block/loop: make loop cgroup aware")
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-09-26 12:07:24 -06:00
Shaohua Li
05e3db95eb kthread: add a mechanism to store cgroup info
kthread usually runs jobs on behalf of other threads. The jobs should be
charged to cgroup of original threads. But the jobs run in a kthread,
where we lose the cgroup context of original threads. The patch adds a
machanism to record cgroup info of original threads in kthread context.
Later we can retrieve the cgroup info and attach the cgroup info to jobs.

Since this mechanism is only required by kthread, we store the cgroup
info in kthread data instead of generic task_struct.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-09-26 07:41:22 -06:00
Shaohua Li
22cf8bc6cb kernel/kthread.c: kthread_worker: don't hog the cpu
If the worker thread continues getting work, it will hog the cpu and rcu
stall complains.  Make it a good citizen.  This is triggered in a loop
block device test.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5de0a179b3184e1a2183fc503448b0269f24d75b.1503697127.git.shli@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-08-31 16:33:15 -07:00
Tejun Heo
77f88796ce cgroup, kthread: close race window where new kthreads can be migrated to non-root cgroups
Creation of a kthread goes through a couple interlocked stages between
the kthread itself and its creator.  Once the new kthread starts
running, it initializes itself and wakes up the creator.  The creator
then can further configure the kthread and then let it start doing its
job by waking it up.

In this configuration-by-creator stage, the creator is the only one
that can wake it up but the kthread is visible to userland.  When
altering the kthread's attributes from userland is allowed, this is
fine; however, for cases where CPU affinity is critical,
kthread_bind() is used to first disable affinity changes from userland
and then set the affinity.  This also prevents the kthread from being
migrated into non-root cgroups as that can affect the CPU affinity and
many other things.

Unfortunately, the cgroup side of protection is racy.  While the
PF_NO_SETAFFINITY flag prevents further migrations, userland can win
the race before the creator sets the flag with kthread_bind() and put
the kthread in a non-root cgroup, which can lead to all sorts of
problems including incorrect CPU affinity and starvation.

This bug got triggered by userland which periodically tries to migrate
all processes in the root cpuset cgroup to a non-root one.  Per-cpu
workqueue workers got caught while being created and ended up with
incorrected CPU affinity breaking concurrency management and sometimes
stalling workqueue execution.

This patch adds task->no_cgroup_migration which disallows the task to
be migrated by userland.  kthreadd starts with the flag set making
every child kthread start in the root cgroup with migration
disallowed.  The flag is cleared after the kthread finishes
initialization by which time PF_NO_SETAFFINITY is set if the kthread
should stay in the root cgroup.

It'd be better to wait for the initialization instead of failing but I
couldn't think of a way of implementing that without adding either a
new PF flag, or sleeping and retrying from waiting side.  Even if
userland depends on changing cgroup membership of a kthread, it either
has to be synchronized with kthread_create() or periodically repeat,
so it's unlikely that this would break anything.

v2: Switch to a simpler implementation using a new task_struct bit
    field suggested by Oleg.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-and-debugged-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.3+ (we can't close the race on < v4.3)
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2017-03-17 10:18:47 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
299300258d sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task.h>
We are going to split <linux/sched/task.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/task.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-02 08:42:35 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
ae7e81c077 sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <uapi/linux/sched/types.h>
We are going to move scheduler ABI details to <uapi/linux/sched/types.h>,
which will be used from a number of .c files.

Create empty placeholder header that maps to <linux/types.h>.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-02 08:42:27 +01:00
Kees Cook
dfb4357da6 time: Remove CONFIG_TIMER_STATS
Currently CONFIG_TIMER_STATS exposes process information across namespaces:

kernel/time/timer_list.c print_timer():

        SEQ_printf(m, ", %s/%d", tmp, timer->start_pid);

/proc/timer_list:

 #11: <0000000000000000>, hrtimer_wakeup, S:01, do_nanosleep, cron/2570

Given that the tracer can give the same information, this patch entirely
removes CONFIG_TIMER_STATS.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Xing Gao <xgao01@email.wm.edu>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Jessica Frazelle <me@jessfraz.com>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170208192659.GA32582@beast
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-02-10 11:15:08 +01:00
Nicolas Iooss
c0b942a763 kthread: add __printf attributes
When commit fbae2d44aa ("kthread: add kthread_create_worker*()")
introduced some kthread_create_...() functions which were taking
printf-like parametter, it introduced __printf attributes to some
functions (e.g.  kthread_create_worker()).  Nevertheless some new
functions were forgotten (they have been detected thanks to
-Wmissing-format-attribute warning flag).

Add the missing __printf attributes to the newly-introduced functions in
order to detect formatting issues at build-time with -Wformat flag.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161126193543.22672-1-nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-12-12 18:55:06 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
8fb9dcbdc3 kthread: Don't abuse kthread_create_on_cpu() in __kthread_create_worker()
kthread_create_on_cpu() sets KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU and kthread->cpu, this
only makes sense if this kthread can be parked/unparked by cpuhp code.
kthread workers never call kthread_parkme() so this has no effect.

Change __kthread_create_worker() to simply call kthread_bind(task, cpu).
The very fact that kthread_create_on_cpu() doesn't accept a generic fmt
shows that it should not be used outside of smpboot.c.

Now, the only reason we can not unexport this helper and move it into
smpboot.c is that it sets kthread->cpu and struct kthread is not exported.
And the only reason we can not kill kthread->cpu is that kthread_unpark()
is used by drivers/gpu/drm/amd/scheduler/gpu_scheduler.c and thus we can
not turn _unpark into kthread_unpark(struct smp_hotplug_thread *, cpu).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Chunming Zhou <David1.Zhou@amd.com>
Cc: Roman Pen <roman.penyaev@profitbricks.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161129175110.GA5342@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-12-08 14:36:20 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov
cf380a4a96 kthread: Don't use to_live_kthread() in kthread_[un]park()
Now that to_kthread() is always validm change kthread_park() and
kthread_unpark() to use it and kill to_live_kthread().

The conversion of kthread_unpark() is trivial. If KTHREAD_IS_PARKED is set
then the task has called complete(&self->parked) and there the function
cannot race against a concurrent kthread_stop() and exit.

kthread_park() is more tricky, because its semantics are not well
defined. It returns -ENOSYS if the thread exited but this can never happen
and as Roman pointed out kthread_park() can obviously block forever if it
would race with the exiting kthread.

The usage of kthread_park() in cpuhp code (cpu.c, smpboot.c, stop_machine.c)
is fine. It can never see an exiting/exited kthread, smpboot_destroy_threads()
clears *ht->store, smpboot_park_thread() checks it is not NULL under the same
smpboot_threads_lock. cpuhp_threads and cpu_stop_threads never exit, so other
callers are fine too.

But it has two more users:

- watchdog_park_threads():

  The code is actually correct, get_online_cpus() ensures that
  kthread_park() can't race with itself (note that kthread_park() can't
  handle this race correctly), but it should not use kthread_park()
  directly.

- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/scheduler/gpu_scheduler.c should not use
  kthread_park() either.

  kthread_park() must not be called after amd_sched_fini() which does
  kthread_stop(), otherwise even to_live_kthread() is not safe because
  task_struct can be already freed and sched->thread can point to nowhere.

The usage of kthread_park/unpark should either be restricted to core code
which is properly protected against the exit race or made more robust so it
is safe to use it in drivers.

To catch eventual exit issues, add a WARN_ON(PF_EXITING) for now.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Chunming Zhou <David1.Zhou@amd.com>
Cc: Roman Pen <roman.penyaev@profitbricks.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161129175107.GA5339@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-12-08 14:36:19 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov
efb29fbfa5 kthread: Don't use to_live_kthread() in kthread_stop()
kthread_stop() had to use to_live_kthread() simply because it was not
possible to access kthread->exited after the exiting task clears
task_struct->vfork_done. Now that to_kthread() is always valid,
wake_up_process() + wait_for_completion() can be done
ununconditionally. It's not an issue anymore if the task has already issued
complete_vfork_done() or died.

The exiting task can get the spurious wakeup after mm_release() but this is
possible without this change too and is fine; do_task_dead() ensures that
this can't make any harm.

As a further enhancement this could be converted to task_work_add() later,
so ->vfork_done can be avoided completely.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Chunming Zhou <David1.Zhou@amd.com>
Cc: Roman Pen <roman.penyaev@profitbricks.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161129175103.GA5336@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-12-08 14:36:19 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov
eff9662547 Revert "kthread: Pin the stack via try_get_task_stack()/put_task_stack() in to_live_kthread() function"
This reverts commit 23196f2e5f.

Now that struct kthread is kmalloc'ed and not longer on the task stack
there is no need anymore to pin the stack.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Chunming Zhou <David1.Zhou@amd.com>
Cc: Roman Pen <roman.penyaev@profitbricks.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161129175100.GA5333@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-12-08 14:36:18 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov
1da5c46fa9 kthread: Make struct kthread kmalloc'ed
commit 23196f2e5f "kthread: Pin the stack via try_get_task_stack() /
put_task_stack() in to_live_kthread() function" is a workaround for the
fragile design of struct kthread being allocated on the task stack.

struct kthread in its current form should be removed, but this needs
cleanups outside of kthread.c.

As a first step move struct kthread away from the task stack by making it
kmalloc'ed. This allows to access kthread.exited without the magic of
trying to pin task stack and the try logic in to_live_kthread().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Chunming Zhou <David1.Zhou@amd.com>
Cc: Roman Pen <roman.penyaev@profitbricks.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161129175057.GA5330@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-12-08 14:36:18 +01:00
Petr Mladek
dbf52682cb kthread: better support freezable kthread workers
This patch allows to make kthread worker freezable via a new @flags
parameter. It will allow to avoid an init work in some kthreads.

It currently does not affect the function of kthread_worker_fn()
but it might help to do some optimization or fixes eventually.

I currently do not know about any other use for the @flags
parameter but I believe that we will want more flags
in the future.

Finally, I hope that it will not cause confusion with @flags member
in struct kthread. Well, I guess that we will want to rework the
basic kthreads implementation once all kthreads are converted into
kthread workers or workqueues. It is possible that we will merge
the two structures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-12-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
Petr Mladek
9a6b06c8d9 kthread: allow to modify delayed kthread work
There are situations when we need to modify the delay of a delayed kthread
work. For example, when the work depends on an event and the initial delay
means a timeout. Then we want to queue the work immediately when the event
happens.

This patch implements kthread_mod_delayed_work() as inspired workqueues.
It cancels the timer, removes the work from any worker list and queues it
again with the given timeout.

A very special case is when the work is being canceled at the same time.
It might happen because of the regular kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync()
or by another kthread_mod_delayed_work(). In this case, we do nothing and
let the other operation win. This should not normally happen as the caller
is supposed to synchronize these operations a reasonable way.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-11-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
Petr Mladek
37be45d49d kthread: allow to cancel kthread work
We are going to use kthread workers more widely and sometimes we will need
to make sure that the work is neither pending nor running.

This patch implements cancel_*_sync() operations as inspired by
workqueues.  Well, we are synchronized against the other operations via
the worker lock, we use del_timer_sync() and a counter to count parallel
cancel operations.  Therefore the implementation might be easier.

First, we check if a worker is assigned.  If not, the work has newer been
queued after it was initialized.

Second, we take the worker lock.  It must be the right one.  The work must
not be assigned to another worker unless it is initialized in between.

Third, we try to cancel the timer when it exists.  The timer is deleted
synchronously to make sure that the timer call back is not running.  We
need to temporary release the worker->lock to avoid a possible deadlock
with the callback.  In the meantime, we set work->canceling counter to
avoid any queuing.

Fourth, we try to remove the work from a worker list. It might be
the list of either normal or delayed works.

Fifth, if the work is running, we call kthread_flush_work().  It might
take an arbitrary time.  We need to release the worker-lock again.  In the
meantime, we again block any queuing by the canceling counter.

As already mentioned, the check for a pending kthread work is done under a
lock.  In compare with workqueues, we do not need to fight for a single
PENDING bit to block other operations.  Therefore we do not suffer from
the thundering storm problem and all parallel canceling jobs might use
kthread_flush_work().  Any queuing is blocked until the counter gets zero.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-10-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
Petr Mladek
22597dc3d9 kthread: initial support for delayed kthread work
We are going to use kthread_worker more widely and delayed works
will be pretty useful.

The implementation is inspired by workqueues.  It uses a timer to queue
the work after the requested delay.  If the delay is zero, the work is
queued immediately.

In compare with workqueues, each work is associated with a single worker
(kthread).  Therefore the implementation could be much easier.  In
particular, we use the worker->lock to synchronize all the operations with
the work.  We do not need any atomic operation with a flags variable.

In fact, we do not need any state variable at all.  Instead, we add a list
of delayed works into the worker.  Then the pending work is listed either
in the list of queued or delayed works.  And the existing check of pending
works is the same even for the delayed ones.

A work must not be assigned to another worker unless reinitialized.
Therefore the timer handler might expect that dwork->work->worker is valid
and it could simply take the lock.  We just add some sanity checks to help
with debugging a potential misuse.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-9-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
Petr Mladek
8197b3d43b kthread: detect when a kthread work is used by more workers
Nothing currently prevents a work from queuing for a kthread worker when
it is already running on another one.  This means that the work might run
in parallel on more than one worker.  Also some operations are not
reliable, e.g.  flush.

This problem will be even more visible after we add kthread_cancel_work()
function.  It will only have "work" as the parameter and will use
worker->lock to synchronize with others.

Well, normally this is not a problem because the API users are sane.
But bugs might happen and users also might be crazy.

This patch adds a warning when we try to insert the work for another
worker.  It does not fully prevent the misuse because it would make the
code much more complicated without a big benefit.

It adds the same warning also into kthread_flush_work() instead of the
repeated attempts to get the right lock.

A side effect is that one needs to explicitly reinitialize the work if it
must be queued into another worker.  This is needed, for example, when the
worker is stopped and started again.  It is a bit inconvenient.  But it
looks like a good compromise between the stability and complexity.

I have double checked all existing users of the kthread worker API and
they all seems to initialize the work after the worker gets started.

Just for completeness, the patch adds a check that the work is not already
in a queue.

The patch also puts all the checks into a separate function.  It will be
reused when implementing delayed works.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-8-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
Petr Mladek
35033fe9cb kthread: add kthread_destroy_worker()
The current kthread worker users call flush() and stop() explicitly.
This function does the same plus it frees the kthread_worker struct
in one call.

It is supposed to be used together with kthread_create_worker*() that
allocates struct kthread_worker.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-7-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
Petr Mladek
fbae2d44aa kthread: add kthread_create_worker*()
Kthread workers are currently created using the classic kthread API,
namely kthread_run().  kthread_worker_fn() is passed as the @threadfn
parameter.

This patch defines kthread_create_worker() and
kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() functions that hide implementation details.

They enforce using kthread_worker_fn() for the main thread.  But I doubt
that there are any plans to create any alternative.  In fact, I think that
we do not want any alternative main thread because it would be hard to
support consistency with the rest of the kthread worker API.

The naming and function of kthread_create_worker() is inspired by the
workqueues API like the rest of the kthread worker API.

The kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() variant is motivated by the original
kthread_create_on_cpu().  Note that we need to bind per-CPU kthread
workers already when they are created.  It makes the life easier.
kthread_bind() could not be used later for an already running worker.

This patch does _not_ convert existing kthread workers.  The kthread
worker API need more improvements first, e.g.  a function to destroy the
worker.

IMPORTANT:

kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() allows to use any format of the worker
name, in compare with kthread_create_on_cpu().  The good thing is that it
is more generic.  The bad thing is that most users will need to pass the
cpu number in two parameters, e.g.  kthread_create_worker_on_cpu(cpu,
"helper/%d", cpu).

To be honest, the main motivation was to avoid the need for an empty
va_list.  The only legal way was to create a helper function that would be
called with an empty list.  Other attempts caused compilation warnings or
even errors on different architectures.

There were also other alternatives, for example, using #define or
splitting __kthread_create_worker().  The used solution looked like the
least ugly.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-6-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
Petr Mladek
255451e453 kthread: allow to call __kthread_create_on_node() with va_list args
kthread_create_on_node() implements a bunch of logic to create the
kthread.  It is already called by kthread_create_on_cpu().

We are going to extend the kthread worker API and will need to call
kthread_create_on_node() with va_list args there.

This patch does only a refactoring and does not modify the existing
behavior.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-5-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
Petr Mladek
a65d40961d kthread/smpboot: do not park in kthread_create_on_cpu()
kthread_create_on_cpu() was added by the commit 2a1d446019
("kthread: Implement park/unpark facility").  It is currently used only
when enabling new CPU.  For this purpose, the newly created kthread has to
be parked.

The CPU binding is a bit tricky.  The kthread is parked when the CPU has
not been allowed yet.  And the CPU is bound when the kthread is unparked.

The function would be useful for more per-CPU kthreads, e.g.
bnx2fc_thread, fcoethread.  For this purpose, the newly created kthread
should stay in the uninterruptible state.

This patch moves the parking into smpboot.  It binds the thread already
when created.  Then the function might be used universally.  Also the
behavior is consistent with kthread_create() and kthread_create_on_node().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-4-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
Petr Mladek
3989144f86 kthread: kthread worker API cleanup
A good practice is to prefix the names of functions by the name
of the subsystem.

The kthread worker API is a mix of classic kthreads and workqueues.  Each
worker has a dedicated kthread.  It runs a generic function that process
queued works.  It is implemented as part of the kthread subsystem.

This patch renames the existing kthread worker API to use
the corresponding name from the workqueues API prefixed by
kthread_:

__init_kthread_worker()		-> __kthread_init_worker()
init_kthread_worker()		-> kthread_init_worker()
init_kthread_work()		-> kthread_init_work()
insert_kthread_work()		-> kthread_insert_work()
queue_kthread_work()		-> kthread_queue_work()
flush_kthread_work()		-> kthread_flush_work()
flush_kthread_worker()		-> kthread_flush_worker()

Note that the names of DEFINE_KTHREAD_WORK*() macros stay
as they are. It is common that the "DEFINE_" prefix has
precedence over the subsystem names.

Note that INIT() macros and init() functions use different
naming scheme. There is no good solution. There are several
reasons for this solution:

  + "init" in the function names stands for the verb "initialize"
    aka "initialize worker". While "INIT" in the macro names
    stands for the noun "INITIALIZER" aka "worker initializer".

  + INIT() macros are used only in DEFINE() macros

  + init() functions are used close to the other kthread()
    functions. It looks much better if all the functions
    use the same scheme.

  + There will be also kthread_destroy_worker() that will
    be used close to kthread_cancel_work(). It is related
    to the init() function. Again it looks better if all
    functions use the same naming scheme.

  + there are several precedents for such init() function
    names, e.g. amd_iommu_init_device(), free_area_init_node(),
    jump_label_init_type(),  regmap_init_mmio_clk(),

  + It is not an argument but it was inconsistent even before.

[arnd@arndb.de: fix linux-next merge conflict]
 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160908135724.1311726-1-arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-3-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
Petr Mladek
e700591ae0 kthread: rename probe_kthread_data() to kthread_probe_data()
Patch series "kthread: Kthread worker API improvements"

The intention of this patchset is to make it easier to manipulate and
maintain kthreads.  Especially, I want to replace all the custom main
cycles with a generic one.  Also I want to make the kthreads sleep in a
consistent state in a common place when there is no work.

This patch (of 11):

A good practice is to prefix the names of functions by the name of the
subsystem.

This patch fixes the name of probe_kthread_data().  The other wrong
functions names are part of the kthread worker API and will be fixed
separately.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-2-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
23196f2e5f kthread: Pin the stack via try_get_task_stack()/put_task_stack() in to_live_kthread() function
get_task_struct(tsk) no longer pins tsk->stack so all users of
to_live_kthread() should do try_get_task_stack/put_task_stack to protect
"struct kthread" which lives on kthread's stack.

TODO: Kill to_live_kthread(), perhaps we can even kill "struct kthread" too,
and rework kthread_stop(), it can use task_work_add() to sync with the exiting
kernel thread.

Message-Id: <20160629180357.GA7178@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cb9b16bbc19d4aea4507ab0552e4644c1211d130.1474003868.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-09-16 09:18:53 +02:00
Andrew Morton
e9f069868d kernel/kthread.c:kthread_create_on_node(): clarify documentation
- Make it clear that the `node' arg refers to memory allocations only:
  kthread_create_on_node() does not pin the new thread to that node's
  CPUs.

- Encourage the use of NUMA_NO_NODE.

[nzimmer@sgi.com: use NUMA_NO_NODE in kthread_create() also]
Cc: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a1d8561172 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest change in this cycle is the rewrite of the main SMP load
  balancing metric: the CPU load/utilization.  The main goal was to make
  the metric more precise and more representative - see the changelog of
  this commit for the gory details:

    9d89c257df ("sched/fair: Rewrite runnable load and utilization average tracking")

  It is done in a way that significantly reduces complexity of the code:

    5 files changed, 249 insertions(+), 494 deletions(-)

  and the performance testing results are encouraging.  Nevertheless we
  need to keep an eye on potential regressions, since this potentially
  affects every SMP workload in existence.

  This work comes from Yuyang Du.

  Other changes:

   - SCHED_DL updates.  (Andrea Parri)

   - Simplify architecture callbacks by removing finish_arch_switch().
     (Peter Zijlstra et al)

   - cputime accounting: guarantee stime + utime == rtime.  (Peter
     Zijlstra)

   - optimize idle CPU wakeups some more - inspired by Facebook server
     loads.  (Mike Galbraith)

   - stop_machine fixes and updates.  (Oleg Nesterov)

   - Introduce the 'trace_sched_waking' tracepoint.  (Peter Zijlstra)

   - sched/numa tweaks.  (Srikar Dronamraju)

   - misc fixes and small cleanups"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits)
  sched/deadline: Fix comment in enqueue_task_dl()
  sched/deadline: Fix comment in push_dl_tasks()
  sched: Change the sched_class::set_cpus_allowed() calling context
  sched: Make sched_class::set_cpus_allowed() unconditional
  sched: Fix a race between __kthread_bind() and sched_setaffinity()
  sched: Ensure a task has a non-normalized vruntime when returning back to CFS
  sched/numa: Fix NUMA_DIRECT topology identification
  tile: Reorganize _switch_to()
  sched, sparc32: Update scheduler comments in copy_thread()
  sched: Remove finish_arch_switch()
  sched, tile: Remove finish_arch_switch
  sched, sh: Fold finish_arch_switch() into switch_to()
  sched, score: Remove finish_arch_switch()
  sched, avr32: Remove finish_arch_switch()
  sched, MIPS: Get rid of finish_arch_switch()
  sched, arm: Remove finish_arch_switch()
  sched/fair: Clean up load average references
  sched/fair: Provide runnable_load_avg back to cfs_rq
  sched/fair: Remove task and group entity load when they are dead
  sched/fair: Init cfs_rq's sched_entity load average
  ...
2015-08-31 20:26:22 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
25834c73f9 sched: Fix a race between __kthread_bind() and sched_setaffinity()
Because sched_setscheduler() checks p->flags & PF_NO_SETAFFINITY
without locks, a caller might observe an old value and race with the
set_cpus_allowed_ptr() call from __kthread_bind() and effectively undo
it:

	__kthread_bind()
	  do_set_cpus_allowed()
						<SYSCALL>
						  sched_setaffinity()
						    if (p->flags & PF_NO_SETAFFINITIY)
						    set_cpus_allowed_ptr()
	  p->flags |= PF_NO_SETAFFINITY

Fix the bug by putting everything under the regular scheduler locks.

This also closes a hole in the serialization of task_struct::{nr_,}cpus_allowed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dedekind1@gmail.com
Cc: juri.lelli@arm.com
Cc: mgorman@suse.de
Cc: riel@redhat.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150515154833.545640346@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-12 12:06:09 +02:00
David Kershner
18896451ea kthread: export kthread functions
The s-Par visornic driver, currently in staging, processes a queue being
serviced by the an s-Par service partition.  We can get a message that
something has happened with the Service Partition, when that happens, we
must not access the channel until we get a message that the service
partition is back again.

The visornic driver has a thread for processing the channel, when we get
the message, we need to be able to park the thread and then resume it
when the problem clears.

We can do this with kthread_park and unpark but they are not exported
from the kernel, this patch exports the needed functions.

Signed-off-by: David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-08-07 04:39:41 +03:00
Nishanth Aravamudan
109228389a kernel/kthread.c: partial revert of 81c98869fa ("kthread: ensure locality of task_struct allocations")
After discussions with Tejun, we don't want to spread the use of
cpu_to_mem() (and thus knowledge of allocators/NUMA topology details) into
callers, but would rather ensure the callees correctly handle memoryless
nodes.  With the previous patches ("topology: add support for
node_to_mem_node() to determine the fallback node" and "slub: fallback to
node_to_mem_node() node if allocating on memoryless node") adding and
using node_to_mem_node(), we can safely undo part of the change to the
kthread logic from 81c98869fa.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Han Pingtian <hanpt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-10-09 22:25:51 -04:00
Lai Jiangshan
ed1403ec2b kthread_work: wake up worker only when the worker is idle
If the worker is already executing a work item when another is queued,
we can safely skip wakeup without worrying about stalling queue thus
avoiding waking up the busy worker spuriously.  Spurious wakeups
should be fine but still isn't nice and avoiding it is trivial here.

tj: Updated description.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2014-07-28 14:07:52 -04:00
Tetsuo Handa
8fe6929cfd kthread: fix return value of kthread_create() upon SIGKILL.
Commit 786235eeba ("kthread: make kthread_create() killable") meant
for allowing kthread_create() to abort as soon as killed by the
OOM-killer.  But returning -ENOMEM is wrong if killed by SIGKILL from
userspace.  Change kthread_create() to return -EINTR upon SIGKILL.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.13+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04 16:53:51 -07:00
Nishanth Aravamudan
81c98869fa kthread: ensure locality of task_struct allocations
In the presence of memoryless nodes, numa_node_id() will return the
current CPU's NUMA node, but that may not be where we expect to allocate
from memory from.  Instead, we should rely on the fallback code in the
memory allocator itself, by using NUMA_NO_NODE.  Also, when calling
kthread_create_on_node(), use the nearest node with memory to the cpu in
question, rather than the node it is running on.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Ben Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-03 16:20:49 -07:00
Tetsuo Handa
786235eeba kthread: make kthread_create() killable
Any user process callers of wait_for_completion() except global init
process might be chosen by the OOM killer while waiting for completion()
call by some other process which does memory allocation.  See
CVE-2012-4398 "kernel: request_module() OOM local DoS" can happen.

When such users are chosen by the OOM killer when they are waiting for
completion() in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, the system will be kept stressed
due to memory starvation because the OOM killer cannot kill such users.

kthread_create() is one of such users and this patch fixes the problem
for kthreadd by making kthread_create() killable - the same approach
used for fixing CVE-2012-4398.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-13 12:08:59 +09:00
Tejun Heo
cd42d559e4 kthread: implement probe_kthread_data()
One of the problems that arise when converting dedicated custom threadpool
to workqueue is that the shared worker pool used by workqueue anonimizes
each worker making it more difficult to identify what the worker was doing
on which target from the output of sysrq-t or debug dump from oops, BUG()
and friends.

For example, after writeback is converted to use workqueue instead of
priviate thread pool, there's no easy to tell which backing device a
writeback work item was working on at the time of task dump, which,
according to our writeback brethren, is important in tracking down issues
with a lot of mounted file systems on a lot of different devices.

This patchset implements a way for a work function to mark its execution
instance so that task dump of the worker task includes information to
indicate what the work item was doing.

An example WARN dump would look like the following.

 WARNING: at fs/fs-writeback.c:1015 bdi_writeback_workfn+0x2b4/0x3c0()
 Modules linked in:
 CPU: 0 Pid: 28 Comm: kworker/u18:0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #24
 Hardware name: empty empty/S3992, BIOS 080011  10/26/2007
 Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-8:16)
  ffffffff820a3a98 ffff88015b927cb8 ffffffff81c61855 ffff88015b927cf8
  ffffffff8108f500 0000000000000000 ffff88007a171948 ffff88007a1716b0
  ffff88015b49df00 ffff88015b8d3940 0000000000000000 ffff88015b927d08
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff81c61855>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
  [<ffffffff8108f500>] warn_slowpath_common+0x70/0xa0
  ...

This patch:

Implement probe_kthread_data() which returns kthread_data if accessible.
The function is equivalent to kthread_data() except that the specified
@task may not be a kthread or its vfork_done is already cleared rendering
struct kthread inaccessible.  In the former case, probe_kthread_data() may
return any value.  In the latter, NULL.

This will be used to safely print debug information without affecting
synchronization in the normal paths.  Workqueue debug info printing on
dump_stack() and friends will make use of it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30 17:04:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
46d9be3e5e Merge branch 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
 "A lot of activities on workqueue side this time.  The changes achieve
  the followings.

   - WQ_UNBOUND workqueues - the workqueues which are per-cpu - are
     updated to be able to interface with multiple backend worker pools.
     This involved a lot of churning but the end result seems actually
     neater as unbound workqueues are now a lot closer to per-cpu ones.

   - The ability to interface with multiple backend worker pools are
     used to implement unbound workqueues with custom attributes.
     Currently the supported attributes are the nice level and CPU
     affinity.  It may be expanded to include cgroup association in
     future.  The attributes can be specified either by calling
     apply_workqueue_attrs() or through /sys/bus/workqueue/WQ_NAME/* if
     the workqueue in question is exported through sysfs.

     The backend worker pools are keyed by the actual attributes and
     shared by any workqueues which share the same attributes.  When
     attributes of a workqueue are changed, the workqueue binds to the
     worker pool with the specified attributes while leaving the work
     items which are already executing in its previous worker pools
     alone.

     This allows converting custom worker pool implementations which
     want worker attribute tuning to use workqueues.  The writeback pool
     is already converted in block tree and there are a couple others
     are likely to follow including btrfs io workers.

   - WQ_UNBOUND's ability to bind to multiple worker pools is also used
     to make it NUMA-aware.  Because there's no association between work
     item issuer and the specific worker assigned to execute it, before
     this change, using unbound workqueue led to unnecessary cross-node
     bouncing and it couldn't be helped by autonuma as it requires tasks
     to have implicit node affinity and workers are assigned randomly.

     After these changes, an unbound workqueue now binds to multiple
     NUMA-affine worker pools so that queued work items are executed in
     the same node.  This is turned on by default but can be disabled
     system-wide or for individual workqueues.

     Crypto was requesting NUMA affinity as encrypting data across
     different nodes can contribute noticeable overhead and doing it
     per-cpu was too limiting for certain cases and IO throughput could
     be bottlenecked by one CPU being fully occupied while others have
     idle cycles.

  While the new features required a lot of changes including
  restructuring locking, it didn't complicate the execution paths much.
  The unbound workqueue handling is now closer to per-cpu ones and the
  new features are implemented by simply associating a workqueue with
  different sets of backend worker pools without changing queue,
  execution or flush paths.

  As such, even though the amount of change is very high, I feel
  relatively safe in that it isn't likely to cause subtle issues with
  basic correctness of work item execution and handling.  If something
  is wrong, it's likely to show up as being associated with worker pools
  with the wrong attributes or OOPS while workqueue attributes are being
  changed or during CPU hotplug.

  While this creates more backend worker pools, it doesn't add too many
  more workers unless, of course, there are many workqueues with unique
  combinations of attributes.  Assuming everything else is the same,
  NUMA awareness costs an extra worker pool per NUMA node with online
  CPUs.

  There are also a couple things which are being routed outside the
  workqueue tree.

   - block tree pulled in workqueue for-3.10 so that writeback worker
     pool can be converted to unbound workqueue with sysfs control
     exposed.  This simplifies the code, makes writeback workers
     NUMA-aware and allows tuning nice level and CPU affinity via sysfs.

   - The conversion to workqueue means that there's no 1:1 association
     between a specific worker, which makes writeback folks unhappy as
     they want to be able to tell which filesystem caused a problem from
     backtrace on systems with many filesystems mounted.  This is
     resolved by allowing work items to set debug info string which is
     printed when the task is dumped.  As this change involves unifying
     implementations of dump_stack() and friends in arch codes, it's
     being routed through Andrew's -mm tree."

* 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (84 commits)
  workqueue: use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree()
  workqueue: avoid false negative WARN_ON() in destroy_workqueue()
  workqueue: update sysfs interface to reflect NUMA awareness and a kernel param to disable NUMA affinity
  workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues
  workqueue: introduce put_pwq_unlocked()
  workqueue: introduce numa_pwq_tbl_install()
  workqueue: use NUMA-aware allocation for pool_workqueues
  workqueue: break init_and_link_pwq() into two functions and introduce alloc_unbound_pwq()
  workqueue: map an unbound workqueues to multiple per-node pool_workqueues
  workqueue: move hot fields of workqueue_struct to the end
  workqueue: make workqueue->name[] fixed len
  workqueue: add workqueue->unbound_attrs
  workqueue: determine NUMA node of workers accourding to the allowed cpumask
  workqueue: drop 'H' from kworker names of unbound worker pools
  workqueue: add wq_numa_tbl_len and wq_numa_possible_cpumask[]
  workqueue: move pwq_pool_locking outside of get/put_unbound_pool()
  workqueue: fix memory leak in apply_workqueue_attrs()
  workqueue: fix unbound workqueue attrs hashing / comparison
  workqueue: fix race condition in unbound workqueue free path
  workqueue: remove pwq_lock which is no longer used
  ...
2013-04-29 19:07:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
b5c5442bb6 kthread: kill task_get_live_kthread()
task_get_live_kthread() looks confusing and unneeded.  It does
get_task_struct() but only kthread_stop() needs this, it can be called
even if the calller doesn't have a reference when we know that this
kthread can't exit until we do kthread_stop().

kthread_park() and kthread_unpark() do not need get_task_struct(), the
callers already have the reference.  And it can not help if we can race
with the exiting kthread anyway, kthread_park() can hang forever in this
case.

Change kthread_park() and kthread_unpark() to use to_live_kthread(),
change kthread_stop() to do get_task_struct() by hand and remove
task_get_live_kthread().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29 15:54:25 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
4ecdafc808 kthread: introduce to_live_kthread()
"k->vfork_done != NULL" with a barrier() after to_kthread(k) in
task_get_live_kthread(k) looks unclear, and sub-optimal because we load
->vfork_done twice.

All we need is to ensure that we do not return to_kthread(NULL).  Add a
new trivial helper which loads/checks ->vfork_done once, this also looks
more understandable.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29 15:54:25 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
f2530dc71c kthread: Prevent unpark race which puts threads on the wrong cpu
The smpboot threads rely on the park/unpark mechanism which binds per
cpu threads on a particular core. Though the functionality is racy:

CPU0	       	 	CPU1  	     	    CPU2
unpark(T)				    wake_up_process(T)
  clear(SHOULD_PARK)	T runs
			leave parkme() due to !SHOULD_PARK  
  bind_to(CPU2)		BUG_ON(wrong CPU)						    

We cannot let the tasks move themself to the target CPU as one of
those tasks is actually the migration thread itself, which requires
that it starts running on the target cpu right away.

The solution to this problem is to prevent wakeups in park mode which
are not from unpark(). That way we can guarantee that the association
of the task to the target cpu is working correctly.

Add a new task state (TASK_PARKED) which prevents other wakeups and
use this state explicitly for the unpark wakeup.

Peter noticed: Also, since the task state is visible to userspace and
all the parked tasks are still in the PID space, its a good hint in ps
and friends that these tasks aren't really there for the moment.

The migration thread has another related issue.

CPU0	      	     	 CPU1
Bring up CPU2
create_thread(T)
park(T)
 wait_for_completion()
			 parkme()
			 complete()
sched_set_stop_task()
			 schedule(TASK_PARKED)

The sched_set_stop_task() call is issued while the task is on the
runqueue of CPU1 and that confuses the hell out of the stop_task class
on that cpu. So we need the same synchronizaion before
sched_set_stop_task().

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Reported-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Peter Ziljstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: dhillf@gmail.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1304091635430.21884@ionos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-04-12 14:18:43 +02:00
Tejun Heo
14a40ffccd sched: replace PF_THREAD_BOUND with PF_NO_SETAFFINITY
PF_THREAD_BOUND was originally used to mark kernel threads which were
bound to a specific CPU using kthread_bind() and a task with the flag
set allows cpus_allowed modifications only to itself.  Workqueue is
currently abusing it to prevent userland from meddling with
cpus_allowed of workqueue workers.

What we need is a flag to prevent userland from messing with
cpus_allowed of certain kernel tasks.  In kernel, anyone can
(incorrectly) squash the flag, and, for worker-type usages,
restricting cpus_allowed modification to the task itself doesn't
provide meaningful extra proection as other tasks can inject work
items to the task anyway.

This patch replaces PF_THREAD_BOUND with PF_NO_SETAFFINITY.
sched_setaffinity() checks the flag and return -EINVAL if set.
set_cpus_allowed_ptr() is no longer affected by the flag.

This will allow simplifying workqueue worker CPU affinity management.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-03-19 13:45:20 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
aee4faa499 kthread: use N_MEMORY instead N_HIGH_MEMORY
N_HIGH_MEMORY stands for the nodes that has normal or high memory.
N_MEMORY stands for the nodes that has any memory.

The code here need to handle with the nodes which have memory, we should
use N_MEMORY instead.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Feng <linfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-12 17:38:33 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
4e21fc138b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull third pile of kernel_execve() patches from Al Viro:
 "The last bits of infrastructure for kernel_thread() et.al., with
  alpha/arm/x86 use of those.  Plus sanitizing the asm glue and
  do_notify_resume() on alpha, fixing the "disabled irq while running
  task_work stuff" breakage there.

  At that point the rest of kernel_thread/kernel_execve/sys_execve work
  can be done independently for different architectures.  The only
  pending bits that do depend on having all architectures converted are
  restrictred to fs/* and kernel/* - that'll obviously have to wait for
  the next cycle.

  I thought we'd have to wait for all of them done before we start
  eliminating the longjump-style insanity in kernel_execve(), but it
  turned out there's a very simple way to do that without flagday-style
  changes."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  alpha: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
  arm: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
  x86, um: convert to saner kernel_execve() semantics
  infrastructure for saner ret_from_kernel_thread semantics
  make sure that kernel_thread() callbacks call do_exit() themselves
  make sure that we always have a return path from kernel_execve()
  ppc: eeh_event should just use kthread_run()
  don't bother with kernel_thread/kernel_execve for launching linuxrc
  alpha: get rid of switch_stack argument of do_work_pending()
  alpha: don't bother passing switch_stack separately from regs
  alpha: take SIGPENDING/NOTIFY_RESUME loop into signal.c
  alpha: simplify TIF_NEED_RESCHED handling
2012-10-13 10:05:52 +09:00
Al Viro
a74fb73c12 infrastructure for saner ret_from_kernel_thread semantics
* allow kernel_execve() leave the actual return to userland to
caller (selected by CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE).  Callers
updated accordingly.
* architecture that does select GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE in its
Kconfig should have its ret_from_kernel_thread() do this:
	call schedule_tail
	call the callback left for it by copy_thread(); if it ever
returns, that's because it has just done successful kernel_execve()
	jump to return from syscall
IOW, its only difference from ret_from_fork() is that it does call the
callback.
* such an architecture should also get rid of ret_from_kernel_execve()
and __ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_EXECVE

This is the last part of infrastructure patches in that area - from
that point on work on different architectures can live independently.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-12 13:35:07 -04:00
Thomas Gleixner
2a1d446019 kthread: Implement park/unpark facility
To avoid the full teardown/setup of per cpu kthreads in the case of
cpu hot(un)plug, provide a facility which allows to put the kthread
into a park position and unpark it when the cpu comes online again.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120716103948.236618824@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-08-13 17:01:06 +02:00
Tejun Heo
46f3d97621 kthread_worker: reimplement flush_kthread_work() to allow freeing the work item being executed
kthread_worker provides minimalistic workqueue-like interface for
users which need a dedicated worker thread (e.g. for realtime
priority).  It has basic queue, flush_work, flush_worker operations
which mostly match the workqueue counterparts; however, due to the way
flush_work() is implemented, it has a noticeable difference of not
allowing work items to be freed while being executed.

While the current users of kthread_worker are okay with the current
behavior, the restriction does impede some valid use cases.  Also,
removing this difference isn't difficult and actually makes the code
easier to understand.

This patch reimplements flush_kthread_work() such that it uses a
flush_work item instead of queue/done sequence numbers.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-07-22 10:15:28 -07:00
Tejun Heo
9a2e03d8ed kthread_worker: reorganize to prepare for flush_kthread_work() reimplementation
Make the following two non-functional changes.

* Separate out insert_kthread_work() from queue_kthread_work().

* Relocate struct kthread_flush_work and kthread_flush_work_fn()
  definitions above flush_kthread_work().

v2: Added lockdep_assert_held() in insert_kthread_work() as suggested
    by Andy Walls.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>
2012-07-22 10:11:01 -07:00
Tejun Heo
34b087e483 freezer: kill unused set_freezable_with_signal()
There's no in-kernel user of set_freezable_with_signal() left.  Mixing
TIF_SIGPENDING with kernel threads can lead to nasty corner cases as
kernel threads never travel signal delivery path on their own.

e.g. the current implementation is buggy in the cancelation path of
__thaw_task().  It calls recalc_sigpending_and_wake() in an attempt to
clear TIF_SIGPENDING but the function never clears it regardless of
sigpending state.  This means that signallable freezable kthreads may
continue executing with !freezing() && stuck TIF_SIGPENDING, which can
be troublesome.

This patch removes set_freezable_with_signal() along with
PF_FREEZER_NOSIG and recalc_sigpending*() calls in freezer.  User
tasks get TIF_SIGPENDING, kernel tasks get woken up and the spurious
sigpending is dealt with in the usual signal delivery path.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-11-23 09:28:17 -08:00
Tejun Heo
8a32c441c1 freezer: implement and use kthread_freezable_should_stop()
Writeback and thinkpad_acpi have been using thaw_process() to prevent
deadlock between the freezer and kthread_stop(); unfortunately, this
is inherently racy - nothing prevents freezing from happening between
thaw_process() and kthread_stop().

This patch implements kthread_freezable_should_stop() which enters
refrigerator if necessary but is guaranteed to return if
kthread_stop() is invoked.  Both thaw_process() users are converted to
use the new function.

Note that this deadlock condition exists for many of freezable
kthreads.  They need to be converted to use the new should_stop or
freezable workqueue.

Tested with synthetic test case.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <ibm-acpi@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2011-11-21 12:32:23 -08:00
Paul Gortmaker
9984de1a5a kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h
The changed files were only including linux/module.h for the
EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure, and nothing else.  Revector them
onto the isolated export header for faster compile times.

Nothing to see here but a whole lot of instances of:

  -#include <linux/module.h>
  +#include <linux/export.h>

This commit is only changing the kernel dir; next targets
will probably be mm, fs, the arch dirs, etc.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
1e1b6c511d cpuset: Fix cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback(), don't update tsk->rt.nr_cpus_allowed
The rule is, we have to update tsk->rt.nr_cpus_allowed if we change
tsk->cpus_allowed. Otherwise RT scheduler may confuse.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4DD4B3FA.5060901@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-28 17:02:57 +02:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Eric Dumazet
207205a2ba kthread: NUMA aware kthread_create_on_node()
All kthreads being created from a single helper task, they all use memory
from a single node for their kernel stack and task struct.

This patch suite creates kthread_create_on_node(), adding a 'cpu' parameter
to parameters already used by kthread_create().

This parameter serves in allocating memory for the new kthread on its
memory node if possible.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:01 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
c9b5f501ef sched: Constify function scope static struct sched_param usage
Function-scope statics are discouraged because they are
easily overlooked and can cause subtle bugs/races due to
their global (non-SMP safe) nature.

Linus noticed that we did this for sched_param - at minimum
make the const.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: Message-ID: <AANLkTinotRxScOHEb0HgFgSpGPkq_6jKTv5CfvnQM=ee@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-07 15:55:45 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
27066fd484 Merge commit 'v2.6.37' into sched/core
Merge reason: Merge the final .37 tree.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-05 14:14:46 +01:00
Yong Zhang
4f32e9b1f8 kthread_work: make lockdep happy
spinlock in kthread_worker and wait_queue_head in kthread_work both
should be lockdep sensible, so change the interface to make it
suiltable for CONFIG_LOCKDEP.

tj: comment update

Reported-by: Nicolas <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net>
Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>
Tested-by: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-12-22 10:27:53 +01:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
fe7de49f9d sched: Make sched_param argument static in sched_setscheduler() callers
Andrew Morton pointed out almost all sched_setscheduler() callers are
using fixed parameters and can be converted to static.  It reduces runtime
memory use a little.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-23 17:56:48 +02:00
Tejun Heo
82805ab77d kthread: implement kthread_data()
Implement kthread_data() which takes @task pointing to a kthread and
returns @data specified when creating the kthread.  The caller is
responsible for ensuring the validity of @task when calling this
function.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:09 +02:00
Tejun Heo
b56c0d8937 kthread: implement kthread_worker
Implement simple work processor for kthread.  This is to ease using
kthread.  Single thread workqueue used to be used for things like this
but workqueue won't guarantee fixed kthread association anymore to
enable worker sharing.

This can be used in cases where specific kthread association is
necessary, for example, when it should have RT priority or be assigned
to certain cgroup.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:09 +02:00
Miao Xie
5ab116c934 cpuset: fix the problem that cpuset_mem_spread_node() returns an offline node
cpuset_mem_spread_node() returns an offline node, and causes an oops.

This patch fixes it by initializing task->mems_allowed to
node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY], and updating task->mems_allowed when doing
memory hotplug.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Tested-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-24 16:31:21 -07:00
Anton Blanchard
301ba0457f kthread, sched: Remove reference to kthread_create_on_cpu
kthread_create_on_cpu doesn't exist so update a comment in
kthread.c to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100209040740.GB3702@kryten>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-09 11:47:39 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
881232b70b sched: Move kthread_bind() back to kthread.c
Since kthread_bind() lost its dependencies on sched.c, move it
back where it came from.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <20091216170518.039524041@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-16 19:01:57 +01:00
Mike Galbraith
b84ff7d6f1 sched: Fix kthread_bind() by moving the body of kthread_bind() to sched.c
Eric Paris reported that commit
f685ceacab causes boot time
PREEMPT_DEBUG complaints.

 [    4.590699] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: rmmod/1314
 [    4.593043] caller is task_hot+0x86/0xd0

Since kthread_bind() messes with scheduler internals, move the
body to sched.c, and lock the runqueue.

Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1256813310.7574.3.camel@marge.simson.net>
[ v2: fix !SMP build and clean up ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-03 07:25:00 +01:00
Mike Galbraith
61cbe54d94 sched: Keep kthreads at default priority
Removes kthread/workqueue priority boost, they increase worst-case
desktop latencies.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1252486344.28645.18.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-09 17:30:06 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
9ae260270c update the comment in kthread_stop()
Commit 63706172f3 ("kthreads: rework
kthread_stop()") removed the limitation that the thread function mysr
not call do_exit() itself, but forgot to update the comment.

Since that commit it is OK to use kthread_stop() even if kthread can
exit itself.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-27 12:15:46 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
63706172f3 kthreads: rework kthread_stop()
Based on Eric's patch which in turn was based on my patch.

kthread_stop() has the nasty problems:

- it runs unpredictably long with the global semaphore held.

- it deadlocks if kthread itself does kthread_stop() before it obeys
  the kthread_should_stop() request.

- it is not useable if kthread exits on its own, see for example the
  ugly "wait_to_die:" hack in migration_thread()

- it is not possible to just tell kthread it should stop, we must always
  wait for its exit.

With this patch kthread() allocates all neccesary data (struct kthread) on
its own stack, globals kthread_stop_xxx are deleted.  ->vfork_done is used
as a pointer into "struct kthread", this means kthread_stop() can easily
wait for kthread's exit.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:03:54 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
cdd140bdd6 kthreads: simplify the startup synchronization
We use two completions two create the kernel thread, this is a bit ugly.
kthread() wakes up create_kthread() via ->started, then create_kthread()
wakes up the caller kthread_create() via ->done.  But kthread() does not
need to wait for kthread(), it can just return.  Instead kthread() itself
can wake up the caller of kthread_create().

Kill kthread_create_info->started, ->done is enough.  This improves the
scalability a bit and sijmplifies the code.

The only problem if kernel_thread() fails, in that case create_kthread()
must do complete(&create->done).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:03:53 -07:00
Miao Xie
58568d2a82 cpuset,mm: update tasks' mems_allowed in time
Fix allocating page cache/slab object on the unallowed node when memory
spread is set by updating tasks' mems_allowed after its cpuset's mems is
changed.

In order to update tasks' mems_allowed in time, we must modify the code of
memory policy.  Because the memory policy is applied in the process's
context originally.  After applying this patch, one task directly
manipulates anothers mems_allowed, and we use alloc_lock in the
task_struct to protect mems_allowed and memory policy of the task.

But in the fast path, we didn't use lock to protect them, because adding a
lock may lead to performance regression.  But if we don't add a lock,the
task might see no nodes when changing cpuset's mems_allowed to some
non-overlapping set.  In order to avoid it, we set all new allowed nodes,
then clear newly disallowed ones.

[lee.schermerhorn@hp.com:
  The rework of mpol_new() to extract the adjusting of the node mask to
  apply cpuset and mpol flags "context" breaks set_mempolicy() and mbind()
  with MPOL_PREFERRED and a NULL nodemask--i.e., explicit local
  allocation.  Fix this by adding the check for MPOL_PREFERRED and empty
  node mask to mpol_new_mpolicy().

  Remove the now unneeded 'nodes = NULL' from mpol_new().

  Note that mpol_new_mempolicy() is always called with a non-NULL
  'nodes' parameter now that it has been removed from mpol_new().
  Therefore, we don't need to test nodes for NULL before testing it for
  'empty'.  However, just to be extra paranoid, add a VM_BUG_ON() to
  verify this assumption.]
[lee.schermerhorn@hp.com:

  I don't think the function name 'mpol_new_mempolicy' is descriptive
  enough to differentiate it from mpol_new().

  This function applies cpuset set context, usually constraining nodes
  to those allowed by the cpuset.  However, when the 'RELATIVE_NODES flag
  is set, it also translates the nodes.  So I settled on
  'mpol_set_nodemask()', because the comment block for mpol_new() mentions
  that we need to call this function to "set nodes".

  Some additional minor line length, whitespace and typo cleanup.]
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:31 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
ad8d75fff8 tracing/events: move trace point headers into include/trace/events
Impact: clean up

Create a sub directory in include/trace called events to keep the
trace point headers in their own separate directory. Only headers that
declare trace points should be defined in this directory.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14 22:05:43 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
a8d154b009 tracing: create automated trace defines
This patch lowers the number of places a developer must modify to add
new tracepoints. The current method to add a new tracepoint
into an existing system is to write the trace point macro in the
trace header with one of the macros TRACE_EVENT, TRACE_FORMAT or
DECLARE_TRACE, then they must add the same named item into the C file
with the macro DEFINE_TRACE(name) and then add the trace point.

This change cuts out the needing to add the DEFINE_TRACE(name).
Every file that uses the tracepoint must still include the trace/<type>.h
file, but the one C file must also add a define before the including
of that file.

 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
 #include <trace/mytrace.h>

This will cause the trace/mytrace.h file to also produce the C code
necessary to implement the trace point.

Note, if more than one trace/<type>.h is used to create the C code
it is best to list them all together.

 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
 #include <trace/foo.h>
 #include <trace/bar.h>
 #include <trace/fido.h>

Thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers and Christoph Hellwig for coming up with
the cleaner solution of the define above the includes over my first
design to have the C code include a "special" header.

This patch converts sched, irq and lockdep and skb to use this new
method.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14 12:57:28 -04:00
Oleg Nesterov
1c99315bb3 kthread: move sched-realeted initialization from kthreadd context
kthreadd is the single thread which implements ths "create" request, move
sched_setscheduler/etc from create_kthread() to kthread_create() to
improve the scalability.

We should be careful with sched_setscheduler(), use _nochek helper.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-04-09 09:50:37 +09:30
Vitaliy Gusev
3217ab97f1 kthread: Don't looking for a task in create_kthread() #2
Remove the unnecessary find_task_by_pid_ns(). kthread() can just
use "current" to get the same result.

Signed-off-by: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-04-09 09:50:36 +09:30
Rusty Russell
1a2142afa5 cpumask: remove dangerous CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR, &CPU_MASK_ALL
Impact: cleanup

(Thanks to Al Viro for reminding me of this, via Ingo)

CPU_MASK_ALL is the (deprecated) "all bits set" cpumask, defined as so:

	#define CPU_MASK_ALL (cpumask_t) { { ... } }

Taking the address of such a temporary is questionable at best,
unfortunately 321a8e9d (cpumask: add CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR macro) added
CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR:

	#define CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR (&CPU_MASK_ALL)

Which formalizes this practice.  One day gcc could bite us over this
usage (though we seem to have gotten away with it so far).

So replace everywhere which used &CPU_MASK_ALL or CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR
with the modern "cpu_all_mask" (a real const struct cpumask *).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
2009-03-30 22:05:11 +10:30
Mathieu Desnoyers
7e066fb870 tracepoints: add DECLARE_TRACE() and DEFINE_TRACE()
Impact: API *CHANGE*. Must update all tracepoint users.

Add DEFINE_TRACE() to tracepoints to let them declare the tracepoint
structure in a single spot for all the kernel. It helps reducing memory
consumption, especially when declaring a lot of tracepoints, e.g. for
kmalloc tracing.

*API CHANGE WARNING*: now, DECLARE_TRACE() must be used in headers for
tracepoint declarations rather than DEFINE_TRACE(). This is the sane way
to do it. The name previously used was misleading.

Updates scheduler instrumentation to follow this API change.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 09:01:36 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
92b29b86fe Merge branch 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (131 commits)
  tracing/fastboot: improve help text
  tracing/stacktrace: improve help text
  tracing/fastboot: fix initcalls disposition in bootgraph.pl
  tracing/fastboot: fix bootgraph.pl initcall name regexp
  tracing/fastboot: fix issues and improve output of bootgraph.pl
  tracepoints: synchronize unregister static inline
  tracepoints: tracepoint_synchronize_unregister()
  ftrace: make ftrace_test_p6nop disassembler-friendly
  markers: fix synchronize marker unregister static inline
  tracing/fastboot: add better resolution to initcall debug/tracing
  trace: add build-time check to avoid overrunning hex buffer
  ftrace: fix hex output mode of ftrace
  tracing/fastboot: fix initcalls disposition in bootgraph.pl
  tracing/fastboot: fix printk format typo in boot tracer
  ftrace: return an error when setting a nonexistent tracer
  ftrace: make some tracers reentrant
  ring-buffer: make reentrant
  ring-buffer: move page indexes into page headers
  tracing/fastboot: only trace non-module initcalls
  ftrace: move pc counter in irqtrace
  ...

Manually fix conflicts:
 - init/main.c: initcall tracing
 - kernel/module.c: verbose level vs tracepoints
 - scripts/bootgraph.pl: fallout from cherry-picking commits.
2008-10-20 13:35:07 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
293adee601 kthread_bind: use wait_task_inactive(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)
Now that wait_task_inactive(task, state) checks task->state == state,
we can simplify the code and make this debugging check more robust.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:39 -07:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
0a16b60758 tracing, sched: LTTng instrumentation - scheduler
Instrument the scheduler activity (sched_switch, migration, wakeups,
wait for a task, signal delivery) and process/thread
creation/destruction (fork, exit, kthread stop). Actually, kthread
creation is not instrumented in this patch because it is architecture
dependent. It allows to connect tracers such as ftrace which detects
scheduling latencies, good/bad scheduler decisions. Tools like LTTng can
export this scheduler information along with instrumentation of the rest
of the kernel activity to perform post-mortem analysis on the scheduler
activity.

About the performance impact of tracepoints (which is comparable to
markers), even without immediate values optimizations, tests done by
Hideo Aoki on ia64 show no regression. His test case was using hackbench
on a kernel where scheduler instrumentation (about 5 events in code
scheduler code) was added. See the "Tracepoints" patch header for
performance result detail.

Changelog :

- Change instrumentation location and parameter to match ftrace
  instrumentation, previously done with kernel markers.

[ mingo@elte.hu: conflict resolutions ]
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:30:52 +02:00