Merge fourth patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- sys_membarier syscall
- seq_file interface changes
- a few misc fixups
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
revert "ocfs2/dlm: use list_for_each_entry instead of list_for_each"
mm/early_ioremap: add explicit #include of asm/early_ioremap.h
fs/seq_file: convert int seq_vprint/seq_printf/etc... returns to void
selftests: enhance membarrier syscall test
selftests: add membarrier syscall test
sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86)
MODSIGN: fix a compilation warning in extract-cert
Pull more power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"These are mostly fixes and cleanups on top of the previous PM+ACPI
pull request (cpufreq core and drivers, cpuidle, generic power domains
framework). Some of them didn't make to that pull request and some
fix issues introduced by it.
The only really new thing is the support for suspend frequency in the
cpufreq-dt driver, but it is needed to fix an issue with Exynos
platforms.
Specifics:
- build fix for the new Mediatek MT8173 cpufreq driver (Guenter
Roeck).
- generic power domains framework fixes (power on error code path,
subdomain removal) and cleanup of a deprecated API user (Geert
Uytterhoeven, Jon Hunter, Ulf Hansson).
- cpufreq-dt driver fixes including two fixes for bugs related to the
new Operating Performance Points Device Tree bindings introduced
recently (Viresh Kumar).
- suspend frequency support for the cpufreq-dt driver (Bartlomiej
Zolnierkiewicz, Viresh Kumar).
- cpufreq core cleanups (Viresh Kumar).
- intel_pstate driver fixes (Chen Yu, Kristen Carlson Accardi).
- additional sanity check in the cpuidle core (Xunlei Pang).
- fix for a comment related to CPU power management (Lina Iyer)"
* tag 'pm+acpi-4.3-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
intel_pstate: fix PCT_TO_HWP macro
intel_pstate: Fix user input of min/max to legal policy region
PM / OPP: Return suspend_opp only if it is enabled
cpufreq-dt: add suspend frequency support
cpufreq: allow cpufreq_generic_suspend() to work without suspend frequency
PM / OPP: add dev_pm_opp_get_suspend_opp() helper
staging: board: Migrate away from __pm_genpd_name_add_device()
cpufreq: Use __func__ to print function's name
cpufreq: staticize cpufreq_cpu_get_raw()
PM / Domains: Ensure subdomain is not in use before removing
cpufreq: Add ARM_MT8173_CPUFREQ dependency on THERMAL
cpuidle/coupled: Add sanity check for safe_state_index
PM / Domains: Try power off masters in error path of __pm_genpd_poweron()
cpufreq: dt: Tolerance applies on both sides of target voltage
cpufreq: dt: Print error on failing to mark OPPs as shared
cpufreq: dt: Check OPP count before marking them shared
kernel/cpu_pm: fix cpu_cluster_pm_exit comment
Here is an implementation of a new system call, sys_membarrier(), which
executes a memory barrier on all threads running on the system. It is
implemented by calling synchronize_sched(). It can be used to
distribute the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by
transforming pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of
sys_membarrier() and a compiler barrier. For synchronization primitives
that distinguish between read-side and write-side (e.g. userspace RCU
[1], rwlocks), the read-side can be accelerated significantly by moving
the bulk of the memory barrier overhead to the write-side.
The existing applications of which I am aware that would be improved by
this system call are as follows:
* Through Userspace RCU library (http://urcu.so)
- DNS server (Knot DNS) https://www.knot-dns.cz/
- Network sniffer (http://netsniff-ng.org/)
- Distributed object storage (https://sheepdog.github.io/sheepdog/)
- User-space tracing (http://lttng.org)
- Network storage system (https://www.gluster.org/)
- Virtual routers (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/DPDK_RCU_0MQ.pdf)
- Financial software (https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/23/189)
Those projects use RCU in userspace to increase read-side speed and
scalability compared to locking. Especially in the case of RCU used by
libraries, sys_membarrier can speed up the read-side by moving the bulk of
the memory barrier cost to synchronize_rcu().
* Direct users of sys_membarrier
- core dotnet garbage collector (https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/198)
Microsoft core dotnet GC developers are planning to use the mprotect()
side-effect of issuing memory barriers through IPIs as a way to implement
Windows FlushProcessWriteBuffers() on Linux. They are referring to
sys_membarrier in their github thread, specifically stating that
sys_membarrier() is what they are looking for.
To explain the benefit of this scheme, let's introduce two example threads:
Thread A (non-frequent, e.g. executing liburcu synchronize_rcu())
Thread B (frequent, e.g. executing liburcu
rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock())
In a scheme where all smp_mb() in thread A are ordering memory accesses
with respect to smp_mb() present in Thread B, we can change each
smp_mb() within Thread A into calls to sys_membarrier() and each
smp_mb() within Thread B into compiler barriers "barrier()".
Before the change, we had, for each smp_mb() pairs:
Thread A Thread B
previous mem accesses previous mem accesses
smp_mb() smp_mb()
following mem accesses following mem accesses
After the change, these pairs become:
Thread A Thread B
prev mem accesses prev mem accesses
sys_membarrier() barrier()
follow mem accesses follow mem accesses
As we can see, there are two possible scenarios: either Thread B memory
accesses do not happen concurrently with Thread A accesses (1), or they
do (2).
1) Non-concurrent Thread A vs Thread B accesses:
Thread A Thread B
prev mem accesses
sys_membarrier()
follow mem accesses
prev mem accesses
barrier()
follow mem accesses
In this case, thread B accesses will be weakly ordered. This is OK,
because at that point, thread A is not particularly interested in
ordering them with respect to its own accesses.
2) Concurrent Thread A vs Thread B accesses
Thread A Thread B
prev mem accesses prev mem accesses
sys_membarrier() barrier()
follow mem accesses follow mem accesses
In this case, thread B accesses, which are ensured to be in program
order thanks to the compiler barrier, will be "upgraded" to full
smp_mb() by synchronize_sched().
* Benchmarks
On Intel Xeon E5405 (8 cores)
(one thread is calling sys_membarrier, the other 7 threads are busy
looping)
1000 non-expedited sys_membarrier calls in 33s =3D 33 milliseconds/call.
* User-space user of this system call: Userspace RCU library
Both the signal-based and the sys_membarrier userspace RCU schemes
permit us to remove the memory barrier from the userspace RCU
rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() primitives, thus significantly
accelerating them. These memory barriers are replaced by compiler
barriers on the read-side, and all matching memory barriers on the
write-side are turned into an invocation of a memory barrier on all
active threads in the process. By letting the kernel perform this
synchronization rather than dumbly sending a signal to every process
threads (as we currently do), we diminish the number of unnecessary wake
ups and only issue the memory barriers on active threads. Non-running
threads do not need to execute such barrier anyway, because these are
implied by the scheduler context switches.
Results in liburcu:
Operations in 10s, 6 readers, 2 writers:
memory barriers in reader: 1701557485 reads, 2202847 writes
signal-based scheme: 9830061167 reads, 6700 writes
sys_membarrier: 9952759104 reads, 425 writes
sys_membarrier (dyn. check): 7970328887 reads, 425 writes
The dynamic sys_membarrier availability check adds some overhead to
the read-side compared to the signal-based scheme, but besides that,
sys_membarrier slightly outperforms the signal-based scheme. However,
this non-expedited sys_membarrier implementation has a much slower grace
period than signal and memory barrier schemes.
Besides diminishing the number of wake-ups, one major advantage of the
membarrier system call over the signal-based scheme is that it does not
need to reserve a signal. This plays much more nicely with libraries,
and with processes injected into for tracing purposes, for which we
cannot expect that signals will be unused by the application.
An expedited version of this system call can be added later on to speed
up the grace period. Its implementation will likely depend on reading
the cpu_curr()->mm without holding each CPU's rq lock.
This patch adds the system call to x86 and to asm-generic.
[1] http://urcu.so
membarrier(2) man page:
MEMBARRIER(2) Linux Programmer's Manual MEMBARRIER(2)
NAME
membarrier - issue memory barriers on a set of threads
SYNOPSIS
#include <linux/membarrier.h>
int membarrier(int cmd, int flags);
DESCRIPTION
The cmd argument is one of the following:
MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY
Query the set of supported commands. It returns a bitmask of
supported commands.
MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED
Execute a memory barrier on all threads running on the system.
Upon return from system call, the caller thread is ensured that
all running threads have passed through a state where all memory
accesses to user-space addresses match program order between
entry to and return from the system call (non-running threads
are de facto in such a state). This covers threads from all pro=E2=80=90
cesses running on the system. This command returns 0.
The flags argument needs to be 0. For future extensions.
All memory accesses performed in program order from each targeted
thread is guaranteed to be ordered with respect to sys_membarrier(). If
we use the semantic "barrier()" to represent a compiler barrier forcing
memory accesses to be performed in program order across the barrier,
and smp_mb() to represent explicit memory barriers forcing full memory
ordering across the barrier, we have the following ordering table for
each pair of barrier(), sys_membarrier() and smp_mb():
The pair ordering is detailed as (O: ordered, X: not ordered):
barrier() smp_mb() sys_membarrier()
barrier() X X O
smp_mb() X O O
sys_membarrier() O O O
RETURN VALUE
On success, these system calls return zero. On error, -1 is returned,
and errno is set appropriately. For a given command, with flags
argument set to 0, this system call is guaranteed to always return the
same value until reboot.
ERRORS
ENOSYS System call is not implemented.
EINVAL Invalid arguments.
Linux 2015-04-15 MEMBARRIER(2)
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* pm-cpu:
kernel/cpu_pm: fix cpu_cluster_pm_exit comment
* pm-cpuidle:
cpuidle/coupled: Add sanity check for safe_state_index
* pm-domains:
staging: board: Migrate away from __pm_genpd_name_add_device()
PM / Domains: Ensure subdomain is not in use before removing
PM / Domains: Try power off masters in error path of __pm_genpd_poweron()
Merge third patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- even more of the rest of MM
- lib/ updates
- checkpatch updates
- small changes to a few scruffy filesystems
- kmod fixes/cleanups
- kexec updates
- a dma-mapping cleanup series from hch
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (81 commits)
dma-mapping: consolidate dma_set_mask
dma-mapping: consolidate dma_supported
dma-mapping: cosolidate dma_mapping_error
dma-mapping: consolidate dma_{alloc,free}_noncoherent
dma-mapping: consolidate dma_{alloc,free}_{attrs,coherent}
mm: use vma_is_anonymous() in create_huge_pmd() and wp_huge_pmd()
mm: make sure all file VMAs have ->vm_ops set
mm, mpx: add "vm_flags_t vm_flags" arg to do_mmap_pgoff()
mm: mark most vm_operations_struct const
namei: fix warning while make xmldocs caused by namei.c
ipc: convert invalid scenarios to use WARN_ON
zlib_deflate/deftree: remove bi_reverse()
lib/decompress_unlzma: Do a NULL check for pointer
lib/decompressors: use real out buf size for gunzip with kernel
fs/affs: make root lookup from blkdev logical size
sysctl: fix int -> unsigned long assignments in INT_MIN case
kexec: export KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE to vmcoreinfo
kexec: align crash_notes allocation to make it be inside one physical page
kexec: remove unnecessary test in kimage_alloc_crash_control_pages()
kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code
...
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
1) Fix out-of-bounds array access in netfilter ipset, from Jozsef
Kadlecsik.
2) Use correct free operation on netfilter conntrack templates, from
Daniel Borkmann.
3) Fix route leak in SCTP, from Marcelo Ricardo Leitner.
4) Fix sizeof(pointer) in mac80211, from Thierry Reding.
5) Fix cache pointer comparison in ip6mr leading to missed unlock of
mrt_lock. From Richard Laing.
6) rds_conn_lookup() needs to consider network namespace in key
comparison, from Sowmini Varadhan.
7) Fix deadlock in TIPC code wrt broadcast link wakeups, from Kolmakov
Dmitriy.
8) Fix fd leaks in bpf syscall, from Daniel Borkmann.
9) Fix error recovery when installing ipv6 multipath routes, we would
delete the old route before we would know if we could fully commit
to the new set of nexthops. Fix from Roopa Prabhu.
10) Fix run-time suspend problems in r8152, from Hayes Wang.
11) In fec, don't program the MAC address into the chip when the clocks
are gated off. From Fugang Duan.
12) Fix poll behavior for netlink sockets when using rx ring mmap, from
Daniel Borkmann.
13) Don't allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL from get_stats64 in r8169
driver, from Corinna Vinschen.
14) In TCP Cubic congestion control, handle idle periods better where we
are application limited, in order to keep cwnd from growing out of
control. From Eric Dumzet.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (65 commits)
tcp_cubic: better follow cubic curve after idle period
tcp: generate CA_EVENT_TX_START on data frames
xen-netfront: respect user provided max_queues
xen-netback: respect user provided max_queues
r8169: Fix sleeping function called during get_stats64, v2
ether: add IEEE 1722 ethertype - TSN
netlink, mmap: fix edge-case leakages in nf queue zero-copy
netlink, mmap: don't walk rx ring on poll if receive queue non-empty
cxgb4: changes for new firmware 1.14.4.0
net: fec: add netif status check before set mac address
r8152: fix the runtime suspend issues
r8152: split DRIVER_VERSION
ipv6: fix ifnullfree.cocci warnings
add microchip LAN88xx phy driver
stmmac: fix check for phydev being open
net: qlcnic: delete redundant memsets
net: mv643xx_eth: use kzalloc
net: jme: use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc+memset
net: cavium: liquidio: use kzalloc in setup_glist()
net: ipv6: use common fib_default_rule_pref
...
The following
if (val < 0)
*lvalp = (unsigned long)-val;
is incorrect because the compiler is free to assume -val to be positive
and use a sign-extend instruction for extending the bit pattern. This is
a problem if val == INT_MIN:
# echo -2147483648 >/proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level
# cat /proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level
-18446744071562067968
Cast to unsigned long before negation - that way we first sign-extend and
then negate an unsigned, which is well defined. With this:
# cat /proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level
-2147483648
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@twibright.com>
Cc: Robert Xiao <nneonneo@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In x86_64, since v2.6.26 the KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE is changed to 512M, and
accordingly the MODULES_VADDR is changed to 0xffffffffa0000000. However,
in v3.12 Kees Cook introduced kaslr to randomise the location of kernel.
And the kernel text mapping addr space is enlarged from 512M to 1G. That
means now KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE is variable, its value is 512M when kaslr
support is not compiled in and 1G when kaslr support is compiled in.
Accordingly the MODULES_VADDR is changed too to be:
#define MODULES_VADDR (__START_KERNEL_map + KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE)
So when kaslr is compiled in and enabled, the kernel text mapping addr
space and modules vaddr space need be adjusted. Otherwise makedumpfile
will collapse since the addr for some symbols is not correct.
Hence KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE need be exported to vmcoreinfo and got in
makedumpfile to help calculate MODULES_VADDR.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
People reported that crash_notes in /proc/vmcore were corrupted and this
cause crash kdump failure. With code debugging and log we got the root
cause. This is because percpu variable crash_notes are allocated in 2
vmalloc pages. Currently percpu is based on vmalloc by default. Vmalloc
can't guarantee 2 continuous vmalloc pages are also on 2 continuous
physical pages. So when 1st kernel exports the starting address and size
of crash_notes through sysfs like below:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpux/crash_notes
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpux/crash_notes_size
kdump kernel use them to get the content of crash_notes. However the 2nd
part may not be in the next neighbouring physical page as we expected if
crash_notes are allocated accross 2 vmalloc pages. That's why
nhdr_ptr->n_namesz or nhdr_ptr->n_descsz could be very huge in
update_note_header_size_elf64() and cause note header merging failure or
some warnings.
In this patch change to call __alloc_percpu() to passed in the align value
by rounding crash_notes_size up to the nearest power of two. This makes
sure the crash_notes is allocated inside one physical page since
sizeof(note_buf_t) in all ARCHS is smaller than PAGE_SIZE. Meanwhile add
a BUILD_BUG_ON to break compile if size is bigger than PAGE_SIZE since
crash_notes definitely will be in 2 pages. That need be avoided, and need
be reported if it's unavoidable.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use correct comment layout]
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Lisa Mitchell <lisa.mitchell@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Transforming PFN(Page Frame Number) to struct page is never failure, so we
can simplify the code logic to do the image->control_page assignment
directly in the loop, and remove the unnecessary conditional judgement.
Signed-off-by: Minfei Huang <mnfhuang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are two kexec load syscalls, kexec_load another and kexec_file_load.
kexec_file_load has been splited as kernel/kexec_file.c. In this patch I
split kexec_load syscall code to kernel/kexec.c.
And add a new kconfig option KEXEC_CORE, so we can disable kexec_load and
use kexec_file_load only, or vice verse.
The original requirement is from Ted Ts'o, he want kexec kernel signature
being checked with CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG enabled. But kexec-tools use
kexec_load syscall can bypass the checking.
Vivek Goyal proposed to create a common kconfig option so user can compile
in only one syscall for loading kexec kernel. KEXEC/KEXEC_FILE selects
KEXEC_CORE so that old config files still work.
Because there's general code need CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE, so I updated all the
architecture Kconfig with a new option KEXEC_CORE, and let KEXEC selects
KEXEC_CORE in arch Kconfig. Also updated general kernel code with to
kexec_load syscall.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Split kexec_file syscall related code to another file kernel/kexec_file.c
so that the #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE in kexec.c can be dropped.
Sharing variables and functions are moved to kernel/kexec_internal.h per
suggestion from Vivek and Petr.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix bisectability]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: declare the various arch_kexec functions]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The UMH_WAIT_PROC handler runs in its own thread in order to make sure
that waiting for the exec kernel thread completion won't block other
usermodehelper queued jobs.
On older workqueue implementations, worklets couldn't sleep without
blocking the rest of the queue. But now the workqueue subsystem handles
that. Khelper still had the older limitation due to its singlethread
properties but we replaced it to system unbound workqueues.
Those are affine to the current node and can block up to some number of
instances.
They are a good candidate to handle UMH_WAIT_PROC assuming that we have
enough system unbound workers to handle lots of parallel usermodehelper
jobs.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We need to launch the usermodehelper kernel threads with the widest
affinity and this is partly why we use khelper. This workqueue has
unbound properties and thus a wide affinity inherited by all its children.
Now khelper also has special properties that we aren't much interested in:
ordered and singlethread. There is really no need about ordering as all
we do is creating kernel threads. This can be done concurrently. And
singlethread is a useless limitation as well.
The workqueue engine already proposes generic unbound workqueues that
don't share these useless properties and handle well parallel jobs.
The only worrysome specific is their affinity to the node of the current
CPU. It's fine for creating the usermodehelper kernel threads but those
inherit this affinity for longer jobs such as requesting modules.
This patch proposes to use these node affine unbound workqueues assuming
that a node is sufficient to handle several parallel usermodehelper
requests.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There seem to be quite some confusions on the comments, likely due to
changes that came after them.
Now since it's very non obvious why we have 3 levels of asynchronous code
to implement usermodehelpers, it's important to comment in detail the
reason of this layout.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Khelper is affine to all CPUs. Now since it creates the
call_usermodehelper_exec_[a]sync() kernel threads, those inherit the wide
affinity.
As such explicitly forcing a wide affinity from those kernel threads
is like a no-op.
Just remove it. It's needless and it breaks CPU isolation users who
rely on workqueue affinity tuning.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patchset does a bunch of cleanups and converts khelper to use system
unbound workqueues. The 3 first patches should be uncontroversial. The
last 2 patches are debatable.
Kmod creates kernel threads that perform userspace jobs and we want those
to have a large affinity in order not to contend busy CPUs. This is
(partly) why we use khelper which has a wide affinity that the kernel
threads it create can inherit from. Now khelper is a dedicated workqueue
that has singlethread properties which we aren't interested in.
Hence those two debatable changes:
_ We would like to use generic workqueues. System unbound workqueues are
a very good candidate but they are not wide affine, only node affine.
Now probably a node is enough to perform many parallel kmod jobs.
_ We would like to remove the wait_for_helper kernel thread (UMH_WAIT_PROC
handler) to use the workqueue. It means that if the workqueue blocks,
and no other worker can take pending kmod request, we can be screwed.
Now if we have 512 threads, this should be enough.
This patch (of 5):
Underscores on function names aren't much verbose to explain the purpose
of a function. And kmod has interesting such flavours.
Lets rename the following functions:
* __call_usermodehelper -> call_usermodehelper_exec_work
* ____call_usermodehelper -> call_usermodehelper_exec_async
* wait_for_helper -> call_usermodehelper_exec_sync
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If request_module() successfully runs modprobe, but modprobe exits with a
non-zero status, then the return value from request_module() will be that
(positive) error status. So the return from request_module can be:
negative errno
zero for success
positive exit code.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit e0e817392b ("CRED: Add some configurable debugging [try #6]")
added the kdebug mechanism to this file back in 2009.
The kdebug macro calls no_printk which always evaluates arguments.
Most of the kdebug uses have an unnecessary call of
atomic_read(&cred->usage)
Make the kdebug macro do nothing by defining it with
do { if (0) no_printk(...); } while (0)
when not enabled.
$ size kernel/cred.o* (defconfig x86-64)
text data bss dec hex filename
2748 336 8 3092 c14 kernel/cred.o.new
2788 336 8 3132 c3c kernel/cred.o.old
Miscellanea:
o Neaten the #define kdebug macros while there
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
when the verifier log is enabled the print_bpf_insn() is doing
bpf_alu_string[BPF_OP(insn->code) >> 4]
and
bpf_jmp_string[BPF_OP(insn->code) >> 4]
where BPF_OP is a 4-bit instruction opcode.
Malformed insns can cause out of bounds access.
Fix it by sizing arrays appropriately.
The bug was found by clang address sanitizer with libfuzzer.
Reported-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We may already have gotten a proper fd struct through fdget(), so
whenever we return at the end of an map operation, we need to call
fdput(). However, each map operation from syscall side first probes
CHECK_ATTR() to verify that unused fields in the bpf_attr union are
zero.
In case of malformed input, we return with error, but the lookup to
the map_fd was already performed at that time, so that we return
without an corresponding fdput(). Fix it by performing an fdget()
only right before bpf_map_get(). The fdget() invocation on maps in
the verifier is not affected.
Fixes: db20fd2b01 ("bpf: add lookup/update/delete/iterate methods to BPF maps")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
"Almost all of the rest of MM. There was an unusually large amount of
MM material this time"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (141 commits)
zpool: remove no-op module init/exit
mm: zbud: constify the zbud_ops
mm: zpool: constify the zpool_ops
mm: swap: zswap: maybe_preload & refactoring
zram: unify error reporting
zsmalloc: remove null check from destroy_handle_cache()
zsmalloc: do not take class lock in zs_shrinker_count()
zsmalloc: use class->pages_per_zspage
zsmalloc: consider ZS_ALMOST_FULL as migrate source
zsmalloc: partial page ordering within a fullness_list
zsmalloc: use shrinker to trigger auto-compaction
zsmalloc: account the number of compacted pages
zsmalloc/zram: introduce zs_pool_stats api
zsmalloc: cosmetic compaction code adjustments
zsmalloc: introduce zs_can_compact() function
zsmalloc: always keep per-class stats
zsmalloc: drop unused variable `nr_to_migrate'
mm/memblock.c: fix comment in __next_mem_range()
mm/page_alloc.c: fix type information of memoryless node
memory-hotplug: fix comments in zone_spanned_pages_in_node() and zone_spanned_pages_in_node()
...
alloc_pages_exact_node() was introduced in commit 6484eb3e2a ("page
allocator: do not check NUMA node ID when the caller knows the node is
valid") as an optimized variant of alloc_pages_node(), that doesn't
fallback to current node for nid == NUMA_NO_NODE. Unfortunately the
name of the function can easily suggest that the allocation is
restricted to the given node and fails otherwise. In truth, the node is
only preferred, unless __GFP_THISNODE is passed among the gfp flags.
The misleading name has lead to mistakes in the past, see for example
commits 5265047ac3 ("mm, thp: really limit transparent hugepage
allocation to local node") and b360edb43f ("mm, mempolicy:
migrate_to_node should only migrate to node").
Another issue with the name is that there's a family of
alloc_pages_exact*() functions where 'exact' means exact size (instead
of page order), which leads to more confusion.
To prevent further mistakes, this patch effectively renames
alloc_pages_exact_node() to __alloc_pages_node() to better convey that
it's an optimized variant of alloc_pages_node() not intended for general
usage. Both functions get described in comments.
It has been also considered to really provide a convenience function for
allocations restricted to a node, but the major opinion seems to be that
__GFP_THISNODE already provides that functionality and we shouldn't
duplicate the API needlessly. The number of users would be small
anyway.
Existing callers of alloc_pages_exact_node() are simply converted to
call __alloc_pages_node(), with the exception of sba_alloc_coherent()
which open-codes the check for NUMA_NO_NODE, so it is converted to use
alloc_pages_node() instead. This means it no longer performs some
VM_BUG_ON checks, and since the current check for nid in
alloc_pages_node() uses a 'nid < 0' comparison (which includes
NUMA_NO_NODE), it may hide wrong values which would be previously
exposed.
Both differences will be rectified by the next patch.
To sum up, this patch makes no functional changes, except temporarily
hiding potentially buggy callers. Restricting the checks in
alloc_pages_node() is left for the next patch which can in turn expose
more existing buggy callers.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Robin Holt <robinmholt@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Cliff Whickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When seq_show_option (commit a068acf2ee: "fs: create and use
seq_show_option for escaping") was merged, it did not correctly collide
with cgroup's addition of legacy_name (commit 3e1d2eed39: "cgroup:
introduce cgroup_subsys->legacy_name") changes.
This fixes the reported name.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds
Mathieu Desnoyers
Rafael J. Wysocki
Ilya Dryomov
Baoquan He
Minfei Huang
Dave Young
Frederic Weisbecker
NeilBrown
Joe Perches
Wei Yongjun
Alexei Starovoitov
Daniel Borkmann
Vlastimil Babka
Kees Cook