GFP_THISNODE is for callers that implement their own clever fallback to
remote nodes. It restricts the allocation to the specified node and
does not invoke reclaim, assuming that the caller will take care of it
when the fallback fails, e.g. through a subsequent allocation request
without GFP_THISNODE set.
However, many current GFP_THISNODE users only want the node exclusive
aspect of the flag, without actually implementing their own fallback or
triggering reclaim if necessary. This results in things like page
migration failing prematurely even when there is easily reclaimable
memory available, unless kswapd happens to be running already or a
concurrent allocation attempt triggers the necessary reclaim.
Convert all callsites that don't implement their own fallback strategy
to __GFP_THISNODE. This restricts the allocation a single node too, but
at the same time allows the allocator to enter the slowpath, wake
kswapd, and invoke direct reclaim if necessary, to make the allocation
happen when memory is full.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:
"Two cpuset locking fixes from Li. Both tagged for -stable"
* 'for-3.14-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
cpuset: fix a race condition in __cpuset_node_allowed_softwall()
cpuset: fix a locking issue in cpuset_migrate_mm()
Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
"In the past, I've had lots of reports about trace events not working.
Developers would say they put a trace_printk() before and after the
trace event but when they enable it (and the trace event said it was
enabled) they would see the trace_printks but not the trace event.
I was not able to reproduce this, but that's because I wasn't looking
at the right location. Recently, another bug came up that showed the
issue.
If your kernel supports signed modules but allows for non-signed
modules to be loaded, then when one is, the kernel will silently set
the MODULE_FORCED taint on the module. Although, this taint happens
without the need for insmod --force or anything of the kind, it labels
the module with that taint anyway.
If this tainted module has tracepoints, the tracepoints will be
ignored because of the MODULE_FORCED taint. But no error message will
be displayed. Worse yet, the event infrastructure will still be
created letting users enable the trace event represented by the
tracepoint, although that event will never actually be enabled. This
is because the tracepoint infrastructure allows for non-existing
tracepoints to be enabled for new modules to arrive and have their
tracepoints set.
Although there are several things wrong with the above, this change
only addresses the creation of the trace event files for tracepoints
that are not created when a module is loaded and is tainted. This
change will print an error message about the module being tainted and
not the trace events will not be created, and it does not create the
trace event infrastructure"
* tag 'trace-fixes-v3.14-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Do not add event files for modules that fail tracepoints
Pull irq fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
- a bugfix for a long standing waitqueue race
- a trivial fix for a missing include
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
genirq: Include missing header file in irqdomain.c
genirq: Remove racy waitqueue_active check
If a module fails to add its tracepoints due to module tainting, do not
create the module event infrastructure in the debugfs directory. As the events
will not work and worse yet, they will silently fail, making the user wonder
why the events they enable do not display anything.
Having a warning on module load and the events not visible to the users
will make the cause of the problem much clearer.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140227154923.265882695@goodmis.org
Fixes: 6d723736e4 "tracing/events: add support for modules to TRACE_EVENT"
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.31+
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc fixes, most of them SCHED_DEADLINE fallout"
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/deadline: Prevent rt_time growth to infinity
sched/deadline: Switch CPU's presence test order
sched/deadline: Cleanup RT leftovers from {inc/dec}_dl_migration
sched: Fix double normalization of vruntime
Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc fixes, most of them on the tooling side"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf tools: Fix strict alias issue for find_first_bit
perf tools: fix BFD detection on opensuse
perf: Fix hotplug splat
perf/x86: Fix event scheduling
perf symbols: Destroy unused symsrcs
perf annotate: Check availability of annotate when processing samples
Pull filesystem fixes from Jan Kara:
"Notification, writeback, udf, quota fixes
The notification patches are (with one exception) a fallout of my
fsnotify rework which went into -rc1 (I've extented LTP to cover these
cornercases to avoid similar breakage in future).
The UDF patch is a nasty data corruption Al has recently reported,
the revert of the writeback patch is due to possibility of violating
sync(2) guarantees, and a quota bug can lead to corruption of quota
files in ocfs2"
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
fsnotify: Allocate overflow events with proper type
fanotify: Handle overflow in case of permission events
fsnotify: Fix detection whether overflow event is queued
Revert "writeback: do not sync data dirtied after sync start"
quota: Fix race between dqput() and dquot_scan_active()
udf: Fix data corruption on file type conversion
inotify: Fix reporting of cookies for inotify events
I can trigger a lockdep warning:
# mount -t cgroup -o cpuset xxx /cgroup
# mkdir /cgroup/cpuset
# mkdir /cgroup/tmp
# echo 0 > /cgroup/tmp/cpuset.cpus
# echo 0 > /cgroup/tmp/cpuset.mems
# echo 1 > /cgroup/tmp/cpuset.memory_migrate
# echo $$ > /cgroup/tmp/tasks
# echo 1 > /cgruop/tmp/cpuset.mems
===============================
[ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
3.14.0-rc1-0.1-default+ #32 Not tainted
-------------------------------
include/linux/cgroup.h:682 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
...
[<ffffffff81582174>] dump_stack+0x72/0x86
[<ffffffff810b8f01>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x101/0x140
[<ffffffff81105ba1>] cpuset_migrate_mm+0xb1/0xe0
...
We used to hold cgroup_mutex when calling cpuset_migrate_mm(), but now
we hold cpuset_mutex, which causes task_css() to complain.
This is not a false-positive but a real issue.
Holding cpuset_mutex won't prevent a task from migrating to another
cpuset, and it won't prevent the original task->cgroup from destroying
during this change.
Fixes: 5d21cc2db0 (cpuset: replace cgroup_mutex locking with cpuset internal locking)
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.9+
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Sigend-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Use the ctx pmu instead of the event pmu.
When a group leader is a software event but the group contains
hardware events, the entire group is on the hardware PMU.
Using the hardware PMU for the transaction makes most sense since
that's the most expensive one to programm (and software PMUs generally
don't have TXN support anyway).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-sctoo9t2f3nn2c9g568928q3@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Currently perf_branch_stack_sched_in iterates over the set of pmus,
checks that each pmu has a flush_branch_stack callback, then overwrites
the pmu before calling the callback. This is either redundant or broken.
In systems with a single hw pmu, pmu == cpuctx->ctx.pmu, and thus the
assignment is redundant.
In systems with multiple hw pmus (i.e. multiple pmus with task_ctx_nr ==
perf_hw_context) the pmus share the same perf_cpu_context. Thus the
assignment can cause one of the pmus to flush its branch stack
repeatedly rather than causing each of the pmus to flush their branch
stacks. Worse still, if only some pmus have the callback the assignment
can result in a branch to NULL.
This patch removes the redundant assignment.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392054264-23570-3-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Drew Richardson reported that he could make the kernel go *boom* when hotplugging
while having perf events active.
It turned out that when you have a group event, the code in
__perf_event_exit_context() fails to remove the group siblings from
the context.
We then proceed with destroying and freeing the event, and when you
re-plug the CPU and try and add another event to that CPU, things go
*boom* because you've still got dead entries there.
Reported-by: Drew Richardson <drew.richardson@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-k6v5wundvusvcseqj1si0oz0@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Kirill Tkhai noted:
Since deadline tasks share rt bandwidth, we must care about
bandwidth timer set. Otherwise rt_time may grow up to infinity
in update_curr_dl(), if there are no other available RT tasks
on top level bandwidth.
RT task were in fact throttled right after they got enqueued,
and never executed again (rt_time never again went below rt_runtime).
Peter then proposed to accrue DL execution on rt_time only when
rt timer is active, and proposed a patch (this patch is a slight
modification of that) to implement that behavior. While this
solves Kirill problem, it has a drawback.
Indeed, Kirill noted again:
It looks we may get into a situation, when all CPU time is shared
between RT and DL tasks:
rt_runtime = n
rt_period = 2n
| RT working, DL sleeping | DL working, RT sleeping |
-----------------------------------------------------------
| (1) duration = n | (2) duration = n | (repeat)
|--------------------------|------------------------------|
| (rt_bw timer is running) | (rt_bw timer is not running) |
No time for fair tasks at all.
While this can happen during the first period, if rq is always backlogged,
RT tasks won't have the opportunity to execute anymore: rt_time reached
rt_runtime during (1), suppose after (2) RT is enqueued back, it gets
throttled since rt timer didn't fire, replenishment is from now on eaten up
by DL tasks that accrue their execution on rt_time (while rt timer is
active - we have an RT task waiting for replenishment). FAIR tasks are
not touched after this first period. Ok, this is not ideal, and the situation
is even worse!
What above (the nice case), practically never happens in reality, where
your rt timer is not aligned to tasks periods, tasks are in general not
periodic, etc.. Long story short, you always risk to overload your system.
This patch is based on Peter's idea, but exploits an additional fact:
if you don't have RT tasks enqueued, it makes little sense to continue
incrementing rt_time once you reached the upper limit (DL tasks have their
own mechanism for throttling).
This cures both problems:
- no matter how many DL instances in the past, you'll have an rt_time
slightly above rt_runtime when an RT task is enqueued, and from that
point on (after the first replenishment), the task will normally execute;
- you can still eat up all bandwidth during the first period, but not
anymore after that, remember that DL execution will increment rt_time
till the upper limit is reached.
The situation is still not perfect! But, we have a simple solution for now,
that limits how much you can jeopardize your system, as we keep working
towards the right answer: RT groups scheduled using deadline servers.
Reported-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140225151515.617714e2f2cd6c558531ba61@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
dequeue_entity() is called when p->on_rq and sets se->on_rq = 0
which appears to guarentee that the !se->on_rq condition is met.
If the task has done set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) without
schedule() the second condition will be met and vruntime will be
incorrectly adjusted twice.
In certain cases this can result in the task's vruntime never increasing
past the vruntime of other tasks on the CFS' run queue, starving them of
CPU time.
This patch changes switched_from_fair() to use !p->on_rq instead of
!se->on_rq.
I'm able to cause a task with a priority of 120 to starve all other
tasks with the same priority on an ARM platform running 3.2.51-rt72
PREEMPT RT by writing one character at time to a serial tty (16550 UART)
in a tight loop. I'm also able to verify making this change corrects the
problem on that platform and kernel version.
Signed-off-by: George McCollister <george.mccollister@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392767811-28916-1-git-send-email-george.mccollister@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We hit one rare case below:
T1 calling disable_irq(), but hanging at synchronize_irq()
always;
The corresponding irq thread is in sleeping state;
And all CPUs are in idle state;
After analysis, we found there is one possible scenerio which
causes T1 is waiting there forever:
CPU0 CPU1
synchronize_irq()
wait_event()
spin_lock()
atomic_dec_and_test(&threads_active)
insert the __wait into queue
spin_unlock()
if(waitqueue_active)
atomic_read(&threads_active)
wake_up()
Here after inserted the __wait into queue on CPU0, and before
test if queue is empty on CPU1, there is no barrier, it maybe
cause it is not visible for CPU1 immediately, although CPU0 has
updated the queue list.
It is similar for CPU0 atomic_read() threads_active also.
So we'd need one smp_mb() before waitqueue_active.that, but removing
the waitqueue_active() check solves it as wel l and it makes
things simple and clear.
Signed-off-by: Chuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
Cc: Xiaoming Wang <xiaoming.wang@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393212590-32543-1-git-send-email-chuansheng.liu@intel.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Pull timer fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"Serialize the registration of a new sched_clock in the currently ARM
only generic sched_clock facilty to avoid sched_clock havoc"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched_clock: Prevent callers from seeing half-updated data
