The race may happen when somebody is changing task_group of a forking task.
Child's cgroup is the same as parent's after dup_task_struct() (there just
memory copying). Also, cfs_rq and rt_rq are the same as parent's.
But if parent changes its task_group before it's called cgroup_post_fork(),
we do not reflect this situation on child. Child's cfs_rq and rt_rq remain
the same, while child's task_group changes in cgroup_post_fork().
To fix this we introduce fork() method, which calls sched_move_task() directly.
This function changes sched_task_group on appropriate (also its logic has
no problem with freshly created tasks, so we shouldn't introduce something
special; we are able just to use it).
Possibly, this decides the Burke Libbey's problem: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/24/456
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1414405105.19914.169.camel@tkhai
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Clean up the code in process.c after recent changes to get rid of
unnecessary labels and goto statements.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
as per 0c740d0afc (introduce for_each_thread() to replace the buggy
while_each_thread()) get rid of do_each_thread { } while_each_thread()
construct and replace it by a more error prone for_each_thread.
This patch doesn't introduce any user visible change.
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
PM freezer relies on having all tasks frozen by the time devices are
getting frozen so that no task will touch them while they are getting
frozen. But OOM killer is allowed to kill an already frozen task in
order to handle OOM situtation. In order to protect from late wake ups
OOM killer is disabled after all tasks are frozen. This, however, still
keeps a window open when a killed task didn't manage to die by the time
freeze_processes finishes.
Reduce the race window by checking all tasks after OOM killer has been
disabled. This is still not race free completely unfortunately because
oom_killer_disable cannot stop an already ongoing OOM killer so a task
might still wake up from the fridge and get killed without
freeze_processes noticing. Full synchronization of OOM and freezer is,
however, too heavy weight for this highly unlikely case.
Introduce and check oom_kills counter which gets incremented early when
the allocator enters __alloc_pages_may_oom path and only check all the
tasks if the counter changes during the freezing attempt. The counter
is updated so early to reduce the race window since allocator checked
oom_killer_disabled which is set by PM-freezing code. A false positive
will push the PM-freezer into a slow path but that is not a big deal.
Changes since v1
- push the re-check loop out of freeze_processes into
check_frozen_processes and invert the condition to make the code more
readable as per Rafael
Fixes: f660daac47 (oom: thaw threads if oom killed thread is frozen before deferring)
Cc: 3.2+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.2+
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
__thaw_task() no longer clears frozen flag since commit a3201227f8
(freezer: make freezing() test freeze conditions in effect instead of TIF_FREEZE).
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Since f660daac47 (oom: thaw threads if oom killed thread is frozen
before deferring) OOM killer relies on being able to thaw a frozen task
to handle OOM situation but a3201227f8 (freezer: make freezing() test
freeze conditions in effect instead of TIF_FREEZE) has reorganized the
code and stopped clearing freeze flag in __thaw_task. This means that
the target task only wakes up and goes into the fridge again because the
freezing condition hasn't changed for it. This reintroduces the bug
fixed by f660daac47.
Fix the issue by checking for TIF_MEMDIE thread flag in
freezing_slow_path and exclude the task from freezing completely. If a
task was already frozen it would get woken by __thaw_task from OOM killer
and get out of freezer after rechecking freezing().
Changes since v1
- put TIF_MEMDIE check into freezing_slowpath rather than in __refrigerator
as per Oleg
- return __thaw_task into oom_scan_process_thread because
oom_kill_process will not wake task in the fridge because it is
sleeping uninterruptible
[mhocko@suse.cz: rewrote the changelog]
Fixes: a3201227f8 (freezer: make freezing() test freeze conditions in effect instead of TIF_FREEZE)
Cc: 3.3+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.3+
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Pull audit updates from Eric Paris:
"So this change across a whole bunch of arches really solves one basic
problem. We want to audit when seccomp is killing a process. seccomp
hooks in before the audit syscall entry code. audit_syscall_entry
took as an argument the arch of the given syscall. Since the arch is
part of what makes a syscall number meaningful it's an important part
of the record, but it isn't available when seccomp shoots the
syscall...
For most arch's we have a better way to get the arch (syscall_get_arch)
So the solution was two fold: Implement syscall_get_arch() everywhere
there is audit which didn't have it. Use syscall_get_arch() in the
seccomp audit code. Having syscall_get_arch() everywhere meant it was
a useless flag on the stack and we could get rid of it for the typical
syscall entry.
The other changes inside the audit system aren't grand, fixed some
records that had invalid spaces. Better locking around the task comm
field. Removing some dead functions and structs. Make some things
static. Really minor stuff"
* git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit: (31 commits)
audit: rename audit_log_remove_rule to disambiguate for trees
audit: cull redundancy in audit_rule_change
audit: WARN if audit_rule_change called illegally
audit: put rule existence check in canonical order
next: openrisc: Fix build
audit: get comm using lock to avoid race in string printing
audit: remove open_arg() function that is never used
audit: correct AUDIT_GET_FEATURE return message type
audit: set nlmsg_len for multicast messages.
audit: use union for audit_field values since they are mutually exclusive
audit: invalid op= values for rules
audit: use atomic_t to simplify audit_serial()
kernel/audit.c: use ARRAY_SIZE instead of sizeof/sizeof[0]
audit: reduce scope of audit_log_fcaps
audit: reduce scope of audit_net_id
audit: arm64: Remove the audit arch argument to audit_syscall_entry
arm64: audit: Add audit hook in syscall_trace_enter/exit()
audit: x86: drop arch from __audit_syscall_entry() interface
sparc: implement is_32bit_task
sparc: properly conditionalize use of TIF_32BIT
...
Pull module fix from Rusty Russell:
"A single panic fix for a rare race, stable CC'd"
* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
modules, lock around setting of MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED
Commit b0c29f79ec (futexes: Avoid taking the hb->lock if there's
nothing to wake up) changes the futex code to avoid taking a lock when
there are no waiters. This code has been subsequently fixed in commit
11d4616bd0 (futex: revert back to the explicit waiter counting code).
Both the original commit and the fix-up rely on get_futex_key_refs() to
always imply a barrier.
However, for private futexes, none of the cases in the switch statement
of get_futex_key_refs() would be hit and the function completes without
a memory barrier as required before checking the "waiters" in
futex_wake() -> hb_waiters_pending(). The consequence is a race with a
thread waiting on a futex on another CPU, allowing the waker thread to
read "waiters == 0" while the waiter thread to have read "futex_val ==
locked" (in kernel).
Without this fix, the problem (user space deadlocks) can be seen with
Android bionic's mutex implementation on an arm64 multi-cluster system.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Matteo Franchin <Matteo.Franchin@arm.com>
Fixes: b0c29f79ec (futexes: Avoid taking the hb->lock if there's nothing to wake up)
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull percpu consistent-ops changes from Tejun Heo:
"Way back, before the current percpu allocator was implemented, static
and dynamic percpu memory areas were allocated and handled separately
and had their own accessors. The distinction has been gone for many
years now; however, the now duplicate two sets of accessors remained
with the pointer based ones - this_cpu_*() - evolving various other
operations over time. During the process, we also accumulated other
inconsistent operations.
This pull request contains Christoph's patches to clean up the
duplicate accessor situation. __get_cpu_var() uses are replaced with
with this_cpu_ptr() and __this_cpu_ptr() with raw_cpu_ptr().
Unfortunately, the former sometimes is tricky thanks to C being a bit
messy with the distinction between lvalues and pointers, which led to
a rather ugly solution for cpumask_var_t involving the introduction of
this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr().
This converts most of the uses but not all. Christoph will follow up
with the remaining conversions in this merge window and hopefully
remove the obsolete accessors"
* 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (38 commits)
irqchip: Properly fetch the per cpu offset
percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t -fix
ia64: sn_nodepda cannot be assigned to after this_cpu conversion. Use __this_cpu_write.
percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t
Revert "powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses"
percpu: Remove __this_cpu_ptr
clocksource: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr
sparc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
avr32: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_write
blackfin: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
tile: Use this_cpu_ptr() for hardware counters
tile: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
alpha: Replace __get_cpu_var
ia64: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
s390: cio driver &__get_cpu_var replacements
s390: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
mips: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
MIPS: Replace __get_cpu_var uses in FPU emulator.
arm: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr
...
A panic was seen in the following sitation.
There are two threads running on the system. The first thread is a system
monitoring thread that is reading /proc/modules. The second thread is
loading and unloading a module (in this example I'm using my simple
dummy-module.ko). Note, in the "real world" this occurred with the qlogic
driver module.
When doing this, the following panic occurred:
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at kernel/module.c:3739!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: binfmt_misc sg nfsv3 rpcsec_gss_krb5 nfsv4 dns_resolver nfs fscache intel_powerclamp coretemp kvm_intel kvm crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel lrw igb gf128mul glue_helper iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support ablk_helper ptp sb_edac cryptd pps_core edac_core shpchp i2c_i801 pcspkr wmi lpc_ich ioatdma mfd_core dca ipmi_si nfsd ipmi_msghandler auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd sunrpc xfs libcrc32c sr_mod cdrom sd_mod crc_t10dif crct10dif_common mgag200 syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper ttm isci drm libsas ahci libahci scsi_transport_sas libata i2c_core dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [last unloaded: dummy_module]
CPU: 37 PID: 186343 Comm: cat Tainted: GF O-------------- 3.10.0+ #7
Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600CP/S2600CP, BIOS RMLSDP.86I.00.29.D696.1311111329 11/11/2013
task: ffff8807fd2d8000 ti: ffff88080fa7c000 task.ti: ffff88080fa7c000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810d64c5>] [<ffffffff810d64c5>] module_flags+0xb5/0xc0
RSP: 0018:ffff88080fa7fe18 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000003 RBX: ffffffffa03b5200 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: ffff88080fa7fe38 RDI: ffffffffa03b5000
RBP: ffff88080fa7fe28 R08: 0000000000000010 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000000f R12: ffffffffa03b5000
R13: ffffffffa03b5008 R14: ffffffffa03b5200 R15: ffffffffa03b5000
FS: 00007f6ae57ef740(0000) GS:ffff88101e7a0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000404f70 CR3: 0000000ffed48000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Stack:
ffffffffa03b5200 ffff8810101e4800 ffff88080fa7fe70 ffffffff810d666c
ffff88081e807300 000000002e0f2fbf 0000000000000000 ffff88100f257b00
ffffffffa03b5008 ffff88080fa7ff48 ffff8810101e4800 ffff88080fa7fee0
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810d666c>] m_show+0x19c/0x1e0
[<ffffffff811e4d7e>] seq_read+0x16e/0x3b0
[<ffffffff812281ed>] proc_reg_read+0x3d/0x80
[<ffffffff811c0f2c>] vfs_read+0x9c/0x170
[<ffffffff811c1a58>] SyS_read+0x58/0xb0
[<ffffffff81605829>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: 48 63 c2 83 c2 01 c6 04 03 29 48 63 d2 eb d9 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 63 d2 c6 04 13 2d 41 8b 0c 24 8d 50 02 83 f9 01 75 b2 eb cb <0f> 0b 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41
RIP [<ffffffff810d64c5>] module_flags+0xb5/0xc0
RSP <ffff88080fa7fe18>
Consider the two processes running on the system.
CPU 0 (/proc/modules reader)
CPU 1 (loading/unloading module)
CPU 0 opens /proc/modules, and starts displaying data for each module by
traversing the modules list via fs/seq_file.c:seq_open() and
fs/seq_file.c:seq_read(). For each module in the modules list, seq_read
does
op->start() <-- this is a pointer to m_start()
op->show() <- this is a pointer to m_show()
op->stop() <-- this is a pointer to m_stop()
The m_start(), m_show(), and m_stop() module functions are defined in
kernel/module.c. The m_start() and m_stop() functions acquire and release
the module_mutex respectively.
ie) When reading /proc/modules, the module_mutex is acquired and released
for each module.
m_show() is called with the module_mutex held. It accesses the module
struct data and attempts to write out module data. It is in this code
path that the above BUG_ON() warning is encountered, specifically m_show()
calls
static char *module_flags(struct module *mod, char *buf)
{
int bx = 0;
BUG_ON(mod->state == MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED);
...
The other thread, CPU 1, in unloading the module calls the syscall
delete_module() defined in kernel/module.c. The module_mutex is acquired
for a short time, and then released. free_module() is called without the
module_mutex. free_module() then sets mod->state = MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED,
also without the module_mutex. Some additional code is called and then the
module_mutex is reacquired to remove the module from the modules list:
/* Now we can delete it from the lists */
mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
stop_machine(__unlink_module, mod, NULL);
mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
This is the sequence of events that leads to the panic.
CPU 1 is removing dummy_module via delete_module(). It acquires the
module_mutex, and then releases it. CPU 1 has NOT set dummy_module->state to
MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED yet.
CPU 0, which is reading the /proc/modules, acquires the module_mutex and
acquires a pointer to the dummy_module which is still in the modules list.
CPU 0 calls m_show for dummy_module. The check in m_show() for
MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED passed for dummy_module even though it is being
torn down.
Meanwhile CPU 1, which has been continuing to remove dummy_module without
holding the module_mutex, now calls free_module() and sets
dummy_module->state to MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED.
CPU 0 now calls module_flags() with dummy_module and ...
static char *module_flags(struct module *mod, char *buf)
{
int bx = 0;
BUG_ON(mod->state == MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED);
and BOOM.
Acquire and release the module_mutex lock around the setting of
MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED in the teardown path, which should resolve the
problem.
Testing: In the unpatched kernel I can panic the system within 1 minute by
doing
while (true) do insmod dummy_module.ko; rmmod dummy_module.ko; done
and
while (true) do cat /proc/modules; done
in separate terminals.
In the patched kernel I was able to run just over one hour without seeing
any issues. I also verified the output of panic via sysrq-c and the output
of /proc/modules looks correct for all three states for the dummy_module.
dummy_module 12661 0 - Unloading 0xffffffffa03a5000 (OE-)
dummy_module 12661 0 - Live 0xffffffffa03bb000 (OE)
dummy_module 14015 1 - Loading 0xffffffffa03a5000 (OE+)
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- a few hotfixes
- drivers/dma updates
- MAINTAINERS updates
- Quite a lot of lib/ updates
- checkpatch updates
- binfmt updates
- autofs4
- drivers/rtc/
- various small tweaks to less used filesystems
- ipc/ updates
- kernel/watchdog.c changes
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (135 commits)
mm: softdirty: enable write notifications on VMAs after VM_SOFTDIRTY cleared
kernel/param: consolidate __{start,stop}___param[] in <linux/moduleparam.h>
ia64: remove duplicate declarations of __per_cpu_start[] and __per_cpu_end[]
frv: remove unused declarations of __start___ex_table and __stop___ex_table
kvm: ensure hard lockup detection is disabled by default
kernel/watchdog.c: control hard lockup detection default
staging: rtl8192u: use %*pEn to escape buffer
staging: rtl8192e: use %*pEn to escape buffer
staging: wlan-ng: use %*pEhp to print SN
lib80211: remove unused print_ssid()
wireless: hostap: proc: print properly escaped SSID
wireless: ipw2x00: print SSID via %*pE
wireless: libertas: print esaped string via %*pE
lib/vsprintf: add %*pE[achnops] format specifier
lib / string_helpers: introduce string_escape_mem()
lib / string_helpers: refactoring the test suite
lib / string_helpers: move documentation to c-file
include/linux: remove strict_strto* definitions
arch/x86/mm/numa.c: fix boot failure when all nodes are hotpluggable
fs: check bh blocknr earlier when searching lru
...
Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
"This patch set contains the main portion of the changes for 3.18 in
regard to the s390 architecture. It is a bit bigger than usual,
mainly because of a new driver and the vector extension patches.
The interesting bits are:
- Quite a bit of work on the tracing front. Uprobes is enabled and
the ftrace code is reworked to get some of the lost performance
back if CONFIG_FTRACE is enabled.
- To improve boot time with CONFIG_DEBIG_PAGEALLOC, support for the
IPTE range facility is added.
- The rwlock code is re-factored to improve writer fairness and to be
able to use the interlocked-access instructions.
- The kernel part for the support of the vector extension is added.
- The device driver to access the CD/DVD on the HMC is added, this
will hopefully come in handy to improve the installation process.
- Add support for control-unit initiated reconfiguration.
- The crypto device driver is enhanced to enable the additional AP
domains and to allow the new crypto hardware to be used.
- Bug fixes"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (39 commits)
s390/ftrace: simplify enabling/disabling of ftrace_graph_caller
s390/ftrace: remove 31 bit ftrace support
s390/kdump: add support for vector extension
s390/disassembler: add vector instructions
s390: add support for vector extension
s390/zcrypt: Toleration of new crypto hardware
s390/idle: consolidate idle functions and definitions
s390/nohz: use a per-cpu flag for arch_needs_cpu
s390/vtime: do not reset idle data on CPU hotplug
s390/dasd: add support for control unit initiated reconfiguration
s390/dasd: fix infinite loop during format
s390/mm: make use of ipte range facility
s390/setup: correct 4-level kernel page table detection
s390/topology: call set_sched_topology early
s390/uprobes: architecture backend for uprobes
s390/uprobes: common library for kprobes and uprobes
s390/rwlock: use the interlocked-access facility 1 instructions
s390/rwlock: improve writer fairness
s390/rwlock: remove interrupt-enabling rwlock variant.
s390/mm: remove change bit override support
...
Pull x86 seccomp changes from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree includes x86 seccomp filter speedups and related preparatory
work, which touches core seccomp facilities as well.
The main idea is to split seccomp into two phases, to be able to enter
a simple fast path for syscalls with ptrace side effects.
There's no substantial user-visible (and ABI) effects expected from
this, except a change in how we emit a better audit record for
SECCOMP_RET_TRACE events"
* 'x86-seccomp-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86_64, entry: Use split-phase syscall_trace_enter for 64-bit syscalls
x86_64, entry: Treat regs->ax the same in fastpath and slowpath syscalls
x86: Split syscall_trace_enter into two phases
x86, entry: Only call user_exit if TIF_NOHZ
x86, x32, audit: Fix x32's AUDIT_ARCH wrt audit
seccomp: Document two-phase seccomp and arch-provided seccomp_data
seccomp: Allow arch code to provide seccomp_data
seccomp: Refactor the filter callback and the API
seccomp,x86,arm,mips,s390: Remove nr parameter from secure_computing
Consolidate the various external const and non-const declarations of
__start___param[] and __stop___param in <linux/moduleparam.h>. This
requires making a few struct kernel_param pointers in kernel/params.c
const.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In some cases we don't want hard lockup detection enabled by default.
An example is when running as a guest. Introduce
watchdog_enable_hardlockup_detector(bool)
allowing those cases to disable hard lockup detection. This must be
executed early by the boot processor from e.g. smp_prepare_boot_cpu, in
order to allow kernel command line arguments to override it, as well as
to avoid hard lockup detection being enabled before we've had a chance
to indicate that it's unwanted. In summary,
initial boot: default=enabled
smp_prepare_boot_cpu
watchdog_enable_hardlockup_detector(false): default=disabled
cmdline has 'nmi_watchdog=1': default=enabled
The running kernel still has the ability to enable/disable at any time
with /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog us usual. However even when the
default has been overridden /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog will initially
show '1'. To truly turn it on one must disable/enable it, i.e.
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
This patch will be immediately useful for KVM with the next patch of this
series. Other hypervisor guest types may find it useful as well.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[dzickus@redhat.com: fix compile issues on sparc]
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
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>
The kernel used to contain two functions for length-delimited,
case-insensitive string comparison, strnicmp with correct semantics and
a slightly buggy strncasecmp. The latter is the POSIX name, so strnicmp
was renamed to strncasecmp, and strnicmp made into a wrapper for the new
strncasecmp to avoid breaking existing users.
To allow the compat wrapper strnicmp to be removed at some point in the
future, and to avoid the extra indirection cost, do
s/strnicmp/strncasecmp/g.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We have a large university system in the UK that is experiencing very long
delays modprobing the driver for a specific I/O device. The delay is from
8-10 minutes per device and there are 31 devices in the system. This 4 to
5 hour delay in starting up those I/O devices is very much a burden on the
customer.
There are two causes for requiring a restart/reload of the drivers. First
is periodic preventive maintenance (PM) and the second is if any of the
devices experience a fatal error. Both of these trigger this excessively
long delay in bringing the system back up to full capability.
The problem was tracked down to a very slow IOREMAP operation and the
excessively long ioresource lookup to insure that the user is not
attempting to ioremap RAM. These patches provide a speed up to that
function.
The modprobe time appears to be affected quite a bit by previous activity
on the ioresource list, which I suspect is due to cache preloading. While
the overall improvement is impacted by other overhead of starting the
devices, this drastically improves the modprobe time.
Also our system is considerably smaller so the percentages gained will not
be the same. Best case improvement with the modprobe on our 20 device
smallish system was from 'real 5m51.913s' to 'real 0m18.275s'.
This patch (of 2):
Since the ioremap operation is verifying that the specified address range
is NOT RAM, it will search the entire ioresource list if the condition is
true. To make matters worse, it does this one 4k page at a time. For a
128M BAR region this is 32 passes to determine the entire region does not
contain any RAM addresses.
This patch provides another resource lookup function, region_is_ram, that
searches for the entire region specified, verifying that it is completely
contained within the resource region. If it is found, then it is checked
to be RAM or not, within a single pass.
The return result reflects if it was found or not (-1), and whether it is
RAM (1) or not (0). This allows the caller to fallback to the previous
page by page search if it was not found.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spellos and typos in comment]
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In locate_mem_hole functions, a memory hole is located and added as
kexec_segment. But from the name of locate_mem_hole, it should only take
responsibility of searching a available memory hole to contain data of a
specified size.
So in this patch add a new field 'mem' into kexec_buf, then take that
kexec segment adding code out of locate_mem_hole_top_down and
locate_mem_hole_bottom_up. This make clear of the functionality of
locate_mem_hole just like it declars to do. And by this
locate_mem_hole_callback chould be used later if anyone want to locate a
memory hole for other use.
Meanwhile Vivek suggested opening code function __kexec_add_segment(),
that way we have to retreive ksegment pointer once and it is easy to read.
So just do it in this patch and remove __kexec_add_segment() since no one
use it anymore.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
