The documented[1] behavior of sched_attr() in the proposed man page text is:
sched_attr::size must be set to the size of the structure, as in
sizeof(struct sched_attr), if the provided structure is smaller
than the kernel structure, any additional fields are assumed
'0'. If the provided structure is larger than the kernel structure,
the kernel verifies all additional fields are '0' if not the
syscall will fail with -E2BIG.
As currently implemented, sched_copy_attr() returns -EFBIG for
for this case, but the logic in sys_sched_setattr() converts that
error to -EFAULT. This patch fixes the behavior.
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1615615/focus=1697760
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/536CEC17.9070903@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tim wrote:
"The current code will call pick_next_task_fair a second time in the
slow path if we did not pull any task in our first try. This is
really unnecessary as we already know no task can be pulled and it
doubles the delay for the cpu to enter idle.
We instrumented some network workloads and that saw that
pick_next_task_fair is frequently called twice before a cpu enters
idle. The call to pick_next_task_fair can add non trivial latency as
it calls load_balance which runs find_busiest_group on an hierarchy of
sched domains spanning the cpus for a large system. For some 4 socket
systems, we saw almost 0.25 msec spent per call of pick_next_task_fair
before a cpu can be idled."
Optimize the second call away for the common case and document the
dependency.
Reported-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140424100047.GP11096@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The check at the beginning of cpupri_find() makes sure that the task_pri
variable does not exceed the cp->pri_to_cpu array length. But that length
is CPUPRI_NR_PRIORITIES not MAX_RT_PRIO, where it will miss the last two
priorities in that array.
As task_pri is computed from convert_prio() which should never be bigger
than CPUPRI_NR_PRIORITIES, if the check should cause a panic if it is
hit.
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397015410.5212.13.camel@marge.simpson.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
yield_task_dl() is broken:
o it forces current to be throttled setting its runtime to zero;
o it sets current's dl_se->dl_new to one, expecting that dl_task_timer()
will queue it back with proper parameters at replenish time.
Unfortunately, dl_task_timer() has this check at the very beginning:
if (!dl_task(p) || dl_se->dl_new)
goto unlock;
So, it just bails out and the task is never replenished. It actually
yielded forever.
To fix this, introduce a new flag indicating that the task properly yielded
the CPU before its current runtime expired. While this is a little overdoing
at the moment, the flag would be useful in the future to discriminate between
"good" jobs (of which remaining runtime could be reclaimed, i.e. recycled)
and "bad" jobs (for which dl_throttled task has been set) that needed to be
stopped.
Reported-by: yjay.kim <yjay.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140429103953.e68eba1b2ac3309214e3dc5a@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Russell reported, that irqtime_account_idle_ticks() takes ages due to:
for (i = 0; i < ticks; i++)
irqtime_account_process_tick(current, 0, rq);
It's sad, that this code was written way _AFTER_ the NOHZ idle
functionality was available. I charge myself guitly for not paying
attention when that crap got merged with commit abb74cefa ("sched:
Export ns irqtimes through /proc/stat")
So instead of looping nr_ticks times just apply the whole thing at
once.
As a side note: The whole cputime_t vs. u64 business in that context
wants to be cleaned up as well. There is no point in having all these
back and forth conversions. Lets standardise on u64 nsec for all
kernel internal accounting and be done with it. Everything else does
not make sense at all for fine grained accounting. Frederic, can you
please take care of that?
Reported-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: Shaun Ruffell <sruffell@digium.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1405022307000.6261@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When 'flags' argument to sched_{set,get}attr() syscalls were
added in:
6d35ab4809 ("sched: Add 'flags' argument to sched_{set,get}attr() syscalls")
no description for 'flags' was added. It causes the following warnings on "make htmldocs":
Warning(/kernel/sched/core.c:3645): No description found for parameter 'flags'
Warning(/kernel/sched/core.c:3789): No description found for parameter 'flags'
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397753955-2914-1-git-send-email-standby24x7@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull more networking fixes from David Miller:
1) Fix mlx4_en_netpoll implementation, it needs to schedule a NAPI
context, not synchronize it. From Chris Mason.
2) Ipv4 flow input interface should never be zero, it should be
LOOPBACK_IFINDEX instead. From Cong Wang and Julian Anastasov.
3) Properly configure MAC to PHY connection in mvneta devices, from
Thomas Petazzoni.
4) sys_recv should use SYSCALL_DEFINE. From Jan Glauber.
5) Tunnel driver ioctls do not use the correct namespace, fix from
Nicolas Dichtel.
6) Fix memory leak on seccomp filter attach, from Kees Cook.
7) Fix lockdep warning for nested vlans, from Ding Tianhong.
8) Crashes can happen in SCTP due to how the auth_enable value is
managed, fix from Vlad Yasevich.
9) Wireless fixes from John W Linville and co.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (45 commits)
net: sctp: cache auth_enable per endpoint
tg3: update rx_jumbo_pending ring param only when jumbo frames are enabled
vlan: Fix lockdep warning when vlan dev handle notification
seccomp: fix memory leak on filter attach
isdn: icn: buffer overflow in icn_command()
ip6_tunnel: use the right netns in ioctl handler
sit: use the right netns in ioctl handler
ip_tunnel: use the right netns in ioctl handler
net: use SYSCALL_DEFINEx for sys_recv
net: mdio-gpio: Add support for separate MDI and MDO gpio pins
net: mdio-gpio: Add support for active low gpio pins
net: mdio-gpio: Use devm_ functions where possible
ipv4, route: pass 0 instead of LOOPBACK_IFINDEX to fib_validate_source()
ipv4, fib: pass LOOPBACK_IFINDEX instead of 0 to flowi4_iif
mlx4_en: don't use napi_synchronize inside mlx4_en_netpoll
net: mvneta: properly configure the MAC <-> PHY connection in all situations
net: phy: add minimal support for QSGMII PHY
sfc:On MCDI timeout, issue an FLR (and mark MCDI to fail-fast)
mwifiex: fix hung task on command timeout
mwifiex: process event before command response
...
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
"This contains two fixes.
The first is to remove a duplication of creating debugfs files that
already exist and causes an error report to be printed due to the
failure of the second creation.
The second is a memory leak fix that was introduced in 3.14"
* tag 'trace-fixes-v3.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing/uprobes: Fix uprobe_cpu_buffer memory leak
tracing: Do not try to recreated toplevel set_ftrace_* files
Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Viresh unearthed the following three hickups in the timer/timekeeping
code:
- Negated check for the result of a clock event selection
- A missing early exit in the jiffies update path which causes
update_wall_time to be called for nothing causing lock contention
and wasted cycles in the timer interrupt
- Checking a variable in the NOHZ code enable code for true which can
only be set by that very code after the check succeeds. That
results in a rock solid runtime disablement of that feature"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
tick-sched: Check tick_nohz_enabled in tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz()
tick-sched: Don't call update_wall_time() when delta is lesser than tick_period
tick-common: Fix wrong check in tick_check_replacement()
With the restructing of the function tracer working with instances, the
"top level" buffer is a bit special, as the function tracing is mapped
to the same set of filters. This is done by using a "global_ops" descriptor
and having the "set_ftrace_filter" and "set_ftrace_notrace" map to it.
When an instance is created, it creates the same files but its for the
local instance and not the global_ops.
The issues is that the local instance creation shares some code with
the global instance one and we end up trying to create th top level
"set_ftrace_*" files twice, and on boot up, we get an error like this:
Could not create debugfs 'set_ftrace_filter' entry
Could not create debugfs 'set_ftrace_notrace' entry
The reason they failed to be created was because they were created
twice, and the second time gives this error as you can not create the
same file twice.
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
1) Fix BPF filter validation of netlink attribute accesses, from
Mathias Kruase.
2) Netfilter conntrack generation seqcount not initialized properly,
from Andrey Vagin.
3) Fix comparison mask computation on big-endian in nft_cmp_fast(),
from Patrick McHardy.
4) Properly limit MTU over ipv6, from Eric Dumazet.
5) Fix seccomp system call argument population on 32-bit, from Daniel
Borkmann.
6) skb_network_protocol() should not use hard-coded ETH_HLEN, instead
skb->mac_len needs to be used. From Vlad Yasevich.
7) We have several cases of using socket based communications to
implement a tunnel. For example, some tunnels are encapsulations
over UDP so we use an internal kernel UDP socket to do the
transmits.
These tunnels should behave just like other software devices and
pass the packets on down to the next layer.
Most importantly we want the top-level socket (eg TCP) that created
the traffic to be charged for the SKB memory.
However, once you get into the IP output path, we have code that
assumed that whatever was attached to skb->sk is an IP socket.
To keep the top-level socket being charged for the SKB memory,
whilst satisfying the needs of the IP output path, we now pass in an
explicit 'sk' argument.
From Eric Dumazet.
8) ping_init_sock() leaks group info, from Xiaoming Wang.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (33 commits)
cxgb4: use the correct max size for firmware flash
qlcnic: Fix MSI-X initialization code
ip6_gre: don't allow to remove the fb_tunnel_dev
ipv4: add a sock pointer to dst->output() path.
ipv4: add a sock pointer to ip_queue_xmit()
driver/net: cosa driver uses udelay incorrectly
at86rf230: fix __at86rf230_read_subreg function
at86rf230: remove check if AVDD settled
net: cadence: Add architecture dependencies
net: Start with correct mac_len in skb_network_protocol
Revert "net: sctp: Fix a_rwnd/rwnd management to reflect real state of the receiver's buffer"
cxgb4: Save the correct mac addr for hw-loopback connections in the L2T
net: filter: seccomp: fix wrong decoding of BPF_S_ANC_SECCOMP_LD_W
seccomp: fix populating a0-a5 syscall args in 32-bit x86 BPF
qlcnic: Do not disable SR-IOV when VFs are assigned to VMs
qlcnic: Fix QLogic application/driver interface for virtual NIC configuration
qlcnic: Fix PVID configuration on eSwitch port.
qlcnic: Fix max ring count calculation
qlcnic: Fix to send INIT_NIC_FUNC as first mailbox.
qlcnic: Fix panic due to uninitialzed delayed_work struct in use.
...
smp_read_barrier_depends() can be used if there is data dependency between
the readers - i.e. if the read operation after the barrier uses address
that was obtained from the read operation before the barrier.
In this file, there is only control dependency, no data dependecy, so the
use of smp_read_barrier_depends() is incorrect. The code could fail in the
following way:
* the cpu predicts that idx < entries is true and starts executing the
body of the for loop
* the cpu fetches map->extent[0].first and map->extent[0].count
* the cpu fetches map->nr_extents
* the cpu verifies that idx < extents is true, so it commits the
instructions in the body of the for loop
The problem is that in this scenario, the cpu read map->extent[0].first
and map->nr_extents in the wrong order. We need a full read memory barrier
to prevent it.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
