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Peter Zijlstra
a7be37ac8e sched: revert the revert of: weight calculations
Try again..

initial commit: 8f1bc385cfbab474db6c27b5af1e439614f3025c
revert: f9305d4a0968201b2818dbed0dc8cb0d4ee7aeb3

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:27 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
bf647b62fd sched: clean up some unused variables
In file included from /mnt/build/linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c:1496:
/mnt/build/linux-2.6/kernel/sched_rt.c: In function '__enable_runtime':
/mnt/build/linux-2.6/kernel/sched_rt.c:339: warning: unused variable 'rd'
/mnt/build/linux-2.6/kernel/sched_rt.c: In function 'requeue_rt_entity':
/mnt/build/linux-2.6/kernel/sched_rt.c:692: warning: unused variable 'queue'

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 14:31:26 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
ce0d1b6f73 fix: "smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argument"
fix:

kernel/smp.c: In function 'smp_call_function_mask':
kernel/smp.c:303: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function_single'

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 11:50:32 +02:00
Jens Axboe
15c8b6c1aa on_each_cpu(): kill unused 'retry' parameter
It's not even passed on to smp_call_function() anymore, since that
was removed. So kill it.

Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-06-26 11:24:38 +02:00
Jens Axboe
8691e5a8f6 smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argument
It's never used and the comments refer to nonatomic and retry
interchangably. So get rid of it.

Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-06-26 11:24:35 +02:00
Jens Axboe
3d44223327 Add generic helpers for arch IPI function calls
This adds kernel/smp.c which contains helpers for IPI function calls. In
addition to supporting the existing smp_call_function() in a more efficient
manner, it also adds a more scalable variant called smp_call_function_single()
for calling a given function on a single CPU only.

The core of this is based on the x86-64 patch from Nick Piggin, lots of
changes since then. "Alan D. Brunelle" <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com> has
contributed lots of fixes and suggestions as well. Also thanks to
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> for reviewing RCU usage
and getting rid of the data allocation fallback deadlock.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-06-26 11:21:34 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
0729fbf3bc rcu: make rcutorture even more vicious: invoke RCU readers from irq handlers (timers)
This patch allows torturing RCU from irq handlers (timers, in this case).
A new module parameter irqreader enables such additional torturing,
and is enabled by default.  Variants of RCU that do not tolerate readers
being called from irq handlers (e.g., SRCU) ignore irqreader.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: josh@freedesktop.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: dino@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: vegard.nossum@gmail.com
Cc: adobriyan@gmail.com
Cc: oleg@tv-sign.ru
Cc: bunk@kernel.org
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-26 09:24:33 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
9a13150109 Merge commit 'v2.6.26-rc8' into core/rcu 2008-06-26 09:24:23 +02:00
Vegard Nossum
8d5be7f4e8 softlockup: show irqtrace
This patch adds some information about when interrupts were last
enabled and disabled to the output of the softlockup detector.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-25 17:49:48 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
c7e745c6de Merge commit 'v2.6.26-rc8' into core/softlockup 2008-06-25 17:49:08 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
37f5d732f3 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/sysprof 2008-06-25 12:29:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
97e6722b8d Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/ftrace 2008-06-25 12:27:56 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
773dc8eaca Merge branch 'linus' into sched/new-API-sched_setscheduler 2008-06-25 12:27:05 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f57aec5a87 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/devel
Conflicts:

	kernel/sched_rt.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-25 12:26:59 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
ace7f1b796 Merge branch 'linus' into core/softirq 2008-06-25 12:23:59 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
d02859ecb3 Merge commit 'v2.6.26-rc8' into x86/xen
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
	arch/x86/xen/mmu.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-25 12:16:51 +02:00
Peng Haitao
d8de72473e [PATCH] remove useless argument type in audit_filter_user()
The second argument "type" is not used in audit_filter_user(), so I think that type can be removed. If I'm wrong, please tell me.

Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-06-24 23:36:35 -04:00
Randy Dunlap
9f0aecdd1c [PATCH] audit: fix kernel-doc parameter notation
Fix auditfilter kernel-doc misssing parameter description:

Warning(lin2626-rc3//kernel/auditfilter.c:1551): No description found for parameter 'sessionid'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-06-24 23:36:28 -04:00
Peng Haitao
13d5ef97f0 [PATCH] kernel/audit.c: nlh->nlmsg_type is gotten more than once
The first argument "nlh->nlmsg_type" of audit_receive_filter() should be modified to "msg_type" in audit_receive_msg().

Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-06-24 23:36:21 -04:00
Jason Wessel
aabdc3b8c3 kgdb: sparse fix
- Fix warning reported by sparse
kernel/kgdb.c:1502:6: warning: symbol 'kgdb_console_write' was not declared.
	Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-06-24 10:52:55 -05:00
Paul E. McKenney
3ccf79f457 rcu: make quiescent rcutorture less power-hungry
This patch aligns the rcutorture wakeup times to align with all other
multiple-of-a-second wakeups to further decrease power consumption.

Suggested-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: josh@freedesktop.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: dino@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: vegard.nossum@gmail.com
Cc: adobriyan@gmail.com
Cc: oleg@tv-sign.ru
Cc: bunk@kernel.org
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-24 13:36:39 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
e3d7be270c rcu, rcutorture: make quiescent rcutorture less power-hungry
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: josh@freedesktop.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: dino@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: vegard.nossum@gmail.com
Cc: adobriyan@gmail.com
Cc: oleg@tv-sign.ru
Cc: bunk@kernel.org
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-24 13:36:38 +02:00
Huang, Ying
cd1a28e845 lockdep: add lock_class information to lock_chain and output it
It is based on x86/master branch of git-x86 tree, and has been tested
on x86_64 platform.

ChangeLog:

v2:

- Enclosing proc file system related code into CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING.

- Fix nr_chain_hlocks update code.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-24 01:28:20 +02:00
Rusty Russell
961ccddd59 sched: add new API sched_setscheduler_nocheck: add a flag to control access checks
Hidehiro Kawai noticed that sched_setscheduler() can fail in
stop_machine: it calls sched_setscheduler() from insmod, which can
have CAP_SYS_MODULE without CAP_SYS_NICE.

Two cases could have failed, so are changed to sched_setscheduler_nocheck:
  kernel/softirq.c:cpu_callback()
	- CPU hotplug callback
  kernel/stop_machine.c:__stop_machine_run()
	- Called from various places, including modprobe()

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: sugita <yumiko.sugita.yf@hitachi.com>
Cc: Satoshi OSHIMA <satoshi.oshima.fk@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-23 22:57:56 +02:00
Abhishek Sagar
f22f9a89ce ftrace: avoid modifying kprobe'd records
Avoid modifying the mcount call-site if there is a kprobe installed on it.
These records are not marked as failed however. This allowed the filter
rules on them to remain up-to-date. Whenever the kprobe on the corresponding
record is removed, the record gets updated as normal.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-23 22:10:59 +02:00
Abhishek Sagar
ecea656d1d ftrace: freeze kprobe'd records
Let records identified as being kprobe'd be marked as "frozen". The trouble
with records which have a kprobe installed on their mcount call-site is
that they don't get updated. So if such a function which is currently being
traced gets its tracing disabled due to a new filter rule (or because it
was added to the notrace list) then it won't be updated and continue being
traced. This patch allows scanning of all frozen records during tracing to
check if they should be traced.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-23 22:10:58 +02:00
Abhishek Sagar
395a59d0f8 ftrace: store mcount address in rec->ip
Record the address of the mcount call-site. Currently all archs except sparc64
record the address of the instruction following the mcount call-site. Some
general cleanups are entailed. Storing mcount addresses in rec->ip enables
looking them up in the kprobe hash table later on to check if they're kprobe'd.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-23 22:10:56 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
27f4837cbf Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  futexes: fix fault handling in futex_lock_pi
2008-06-23 12:49:22 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
1b7558e457 futexes: fix fault handling in futex_lock_pi
This patch addresses a very sporadic pi-futex related failure in
highly threaded java apps on large SMP systems.

David Holmes reported that the pi_state consistency check in
lookup_pi_state triggered with his test application. This means that
the kernel internal pi_state and the user space futex variable are out
of sync. First we assumed that this is a user space data corruption,
but deeper investigation revieled that the problem happend because the
pi-futex code is not handling a fault in the futex_lock_pi path when
the user space variable needs to be fixed up.

The fault happens when a fork mapped the anon memory which contains
the futex readonly for COW or the page got swapped out exactly between
the unlock of the futex and the return of either the new futex owner
or the task which was the expected owner but failed to acquire the
kernel internal rtmutex. The current futex_lock_pi() code drops out
with an inconsistent in case it faults and returns -EFAULT to user
space. User space has no way to fixup that state.

When we wrote this code we thought that we could not drop the hash
bucket lock at this point to handle the fault.

After analysing the code again it turned out to be wrong because there
are only two tasks involved which might modify the pi_state and the
user space variable:

 - the task which acquired the rtmutex
 - the pending owner of the pi_state which did not get the rtmutex

Both tasks drop into the fixup_pi_state() function before returning to
user space. The first task which acquired the hash bucket lock faults
in the fixup of the user space variable, drops the spinlock and calls
futex_handle_fault() to fault in the page. Now the second task could
acquire the hash bucket lock and tries to fixup the user space
variable as well. It either faults as well or it succeeds because the
first task already faulted the page in.

One caveat is to avoid a double fixup. After returning from the fault
handling we reacquire the hash bucket lock and check whether the
pi_state owner has been modified already.

Reported-by: David Holmes <david.holmes@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Holmes <david.holmes@sun.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

 kernel/futex.c |   93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 73 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
2008-06-23 13:31:15 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1de8644cc7 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/devel 2008-06-23 11:30:23 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1e74f9cbbb Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcu 2008-06-23 11:29:11 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f34bfb1bee Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/ftrace 2008-06-23 11:11:42 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
198bb971e2 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/urgent 2008-06-23 11:00:26 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
a60b33cf59 Merge branch 'linus' into core/softirq 2008-06-23 10:52:59 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
1f1e2ce8a5 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  softlockup: fix NMI hangs due to lock race - 2.6.26-rc regression
  rcupreempt: remove export of rcu_batches_completed_bh
  cpuset: limit the input of cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level
2008-06-20 12:37:13 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
ea71a54670 sched: refactor wait_for_completion_timeout()
Simplify the code and fix the boundary condition of
wait_for_completion_timeout(,0).

We can kill the first __remove_wait_queue() as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2008-06-20 17:15:49 +02:00
Johannes Berg
0f476b6d91 softirq: remove irqs_disabled warning from local_bh_enable
There's no need to use local_irq_save() over local_irq_disable() in the
local_bh_enable code since it is a bug to call it with irqs disabled and
do_softirq will enable irqs if there is any pending work.

Consolidate the code from local_bh_enable and ..._ip to avoid having a
disconnect between them in the warnings they trigger that is currently
there.

Also always trigger the warning on in_irq(), not just in the
trace-irqflags case.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: David Ellingsworth <david@identd.dyndns.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-20 15:45:29 +02:00
Roland Dreier
bb10ed0994 sched: fix wait_for_completion_timeout() spurious failure under heavy load
It seems that the current implementaton of wait_for_completion_timeout()
has a small problem under very high load for the common pattern:

	if (!wait_for_completion_timeout(&done, timeout))
		/* handle failure */

because the implementation very roughly does (lots of code deleted to
show the basic flow):

	static inline long __sched
	do_wait_for_common(struct completion *x, long timeout, int state)
	{
		if (x->done)
			return timeout;

		do {
			timeout = schedule_timeout(timeout);

			if (!timeout)
				return timeout;

		} while (!x->done);

		return timeout;
	}

so if the system is very busy and x->done is not set when
do_wait_for_common() is entered, it is possible that the first call to
schedule_timeout() returns 0 because the task doing wait_for_completion
doesn't get rescheduled for a long time, even if it is woken up early
enough.

In this case, wait_for_completion_timeout() returns 0 without even
checking x->done again, and the code above falls into its failure case
purely for scheduler reasons, even if the hardware event or whatever was
being waited for happened early enough.

It would make sense to add an extra test to do_wait_for() in the timeout
case and return 1 if x->done is actually set.

A quick audit (not exhaustive) of wait_for_completion_timeout() callers
seems to indicate that no one actually cares about the return value in
the success case -- they just test for 0 (timed out) versus non-zero
(wait succeeded).

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-20 13:19:32 +02:00
Huang, Ying
443cd507ce lockdep: add lock_class information to lock_chain and output it
This patch records array of lock_class into lock_chain, and export
lock_chain information via /proc/lockdep_chains.

It is based on x86/master branch of git-x86 tree, and has been tested
on x86_64 platform.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-20 12:21:33 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
8a8cde163e sched: rt: dont stop the period timer when there are tasks wanting to run
So if the group ever gets throttled, it will never wake up again.

Reported-by: "Daniel K." <dk@uw.no>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Daniel K. <dk@uw.no>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-20 11:00:19 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
6c3df25511 sched: rt: dont stop the period timer when there are tasks wanting to run
So if the group ever gets throttled, it will never wake up again.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Daniel K." <dk@uw.no>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reported-by: "Daniel K." <dk@uw.no>
2008-06-20 10:26:02 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
10b612f440 sched: rt: fix the bandwidth contraint computations
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Daniel K." <dk@uw.no>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-20 10:26:01 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
eff6549b95 sched: rt: move some code around
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Daniel K." <dk@uw.no>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-20 10:26:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
b79f3833d8 sched: rt: fix SMP bandwidth balancing for throttled groups
Now we exceed the runtime and get throttled - the period rollover tick
will subtract the cpu quota from the runtime and check if we're below
quota. However with this cpu having a very small portion of the runtime
it will not refresh as fast as it should.

Therefore, also rebalance the runtime when we're throttled.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Daniel K." <dk@uw.no>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-20 10:26:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
ada18de2eb sched: debug: add some rt debug output
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Daniel K." <dk@uw.no>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-20 10:25:59 +02:00
Bharath Ravi
d4abc238c9 sched, delay accounting: fix incorrect delay time when constantly waiting on runqueue
This patch corrects the incorrect value of per process run-queue wait
time reported by delay statistics. The anomaly was due to the following
reason. When a process leaves the CPU and immediately starts waiting for
CPU on the runqueue (which means it remains in the TASK_RUNNABLE state),
the time of re-entry into the run-queue is never recorded. Due to this,
the waiting time on the runqueue from this point of re-entry upto the
next time it hits the CPU is not accounted for. This is solved by
recording the time of re-entry of a process leaving the CPU in the
sched_info_depart() function IF the process will go back to waiting on
the run-queue. This IF condition is verified by checking whether the
process is still in the TASK_RUNNABLE state.

The patch was tested on 2.6.26-rc6 using two simple CPU hog programs.
The values noted prior to the fix did not account for the time spent on
the runqueue waiting. After the fix, the correct values were reported
back to user space.

Signed-off-by: Bharath Ravi <bharathravi1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhava K R  <madhavakr@gmail.com>
Cc: dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: vatsa@in.ibm.com
Cc: balbir@in.ibm.com
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-19 14:15:28 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
31a72bce0b rcu: make rcutorture more vicious: reinstate boot-time testing
This patch re-institutes the ability to build rcutorture directly into
the Linux kernel.  The reason that this capability was removed was that
this could result in your kernel being pretty much useless, as rcutorture
would be running starting from early boot.  This problem has been avoided
by (1) making rcutorture run only three seconds of every six by default,
(2) adding a CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_RUNNABLE that permits rcutorture
to be quiesced at boot time, and (3) adding a sysctl in /proc named
/proc/sys/kernel/rcutorture_runnable that permits rcutorture to be
quiesced and unquiesced when built into the kernel.

Please note that this /proc file is -not- available when rcutorture
is built as a module.  Please also note that to get the earlier
take-no-prisoners behavior, you must use the boot command line to set
rcutorture's "stutter" parameter to zero.

The rcutorture quiescing mechanism is currently quite crude: loops
in each rcutorture process that poll a global variable once per tick.
Suggestions for improvement are welcome.  The default action will
be to reduce the polling rate to a few times per second.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-19 11:22:15 +02:00
Jason Wessel
9c106c119e softlockup: fix NMI hangs due to lock race - 2.6.26-rc regression
The touch_nmi_watchdog() routine on x86 ultimately calls
touch_softlockup_watchdog().  The problem is that to touch the
softlockup watchdog, the cpu_clock code has to be called which could
involve multiple cpu locks and can lead to a hard hang if one of the
locks is held by a processor that is not going to return anytime soon
(such as could be the case with kgdb or perhaps even with some other
kind of exception).

This patch causes the public version of the
touch_softlockup_watchdog() to defer the cpu clock access to a later
point.

The test case for this problem is to use the following kernel config
options:

CONFIG_KGDB_TESTS=y
CONFIG_KGDB_TESTS_ON_BOOT=y
CONFIG_KGDB_TESTS_BOOT_STRING="V1F100I100000"

It should be noted that kgdb test suite and these options were not
available until 2.6.26-rc2, so it was necessary to patch the kgdb
test suite during the bisection.

I would consider this patch a regression fix because the problem first
appeared in commit 27ec4407790d075c325e1f4da0a19c56953cce23 when some
logic was added to try to periodically sync the clocks.  It was
possible to work around this particular problem by simply not
performing the sync anytime the system was in a critical context.
This was ok until commit 3e51f33fcc7f55e6df25d15b55ed10c8b4da84cd,
which added config option CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK and some
multi-cpu locks to sync the clocks.  It became clear that accessing
this code from an nmi was the source of the lockups.  Avoiding the
access to the low level clock code from an code inside the NMI
processing also fixed the problem with the 27ec44... commit.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-19 09:45:38 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
afd38009cc rcupreempt: remove export of rcu_batches_completed_bh
In rcupreempt, rcu_batches_completed_bh is defined as a static inline in
the header file. This does not need to be exported, and not only that,
this breaks my PPC build.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-06-19 09:45:37 +02:00
Li Zefan
30e0e17819 cpuset: limit the input of cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level
We allow the inputs to be [-1 ... SD_LV_MAX), and return -EINVAL
for inputs outside this range.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-06-19 09:45:36 +02:00