If we wake up a task on a little CPU, fill CPUs rather than
spread. Adds 2 new files to sys/kernel/hmp to control packing
behaviour.
packing_enable: task packing enabled (1) or disabled (0)
packing_limit: Runqueues will be filled up to this load ratio.
This functionality is disabled by default on TC2 as it lacks per-cpu
power gating so packing small tasks there doesn't make sense.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
Accessing the task_struct can be racy in certain conditions, so
we need to only acquire the data when needed.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
The previous API for hmp_up_migration reset the destination
CPU every time, regardless of if a migration was desired. The code
using it assumed that the value would not be changed unless
a migration was required. In one rare circumstance, this could
have lead to a task migrating to a little CPU at the wrong time.
Fixing that lead to a slight logical tweak to make the surrounding
APIs operate a bit more obviously.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robin Randhawa <robin.randhawa@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
1. Replace magic numbers in code for migration trace.
Trace points still emit a number as force=<n> field:
force=0 : wakeup migration
force=1 : forced migration
force=2 : offload migration
force=3 : idle pull migration
2. Add trace to expose offload decision-making.
Also adds tracing rq->nr_running so that you can
look back to see what state the RQ was in at the time.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
When the up-threshold is at 512 on TC2, behaviour looks OK since
the graphic-related tasks are very heavy due to lack of a GPU.
Increasing the up-threshold does not reduce power consumption.
When a GPU is present, graphic tasks are much less CPU-heavy and
so additional power may be saved by having a higher threshold.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
commit 6c9a27f5da upstream.
There is a small race between copy_process() and cgroup_attach_task()
where child->se.parent,cfs_rq points to invalid (old) ones.
parent doing fork() | someone moving the parent to another cgroup
-------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
copy_process()
+ dup_task_struct()
-> parent->se is copied to child->se.
se.parent,cfs_rq of them point to old ones.
cgroup_attach_task()
+ cgroup_task_migrate()
-> parent->cgroup is updated.
+ cpu_cgroup_attach()
+ sched_move_task()
+ task_move_group_fair()
+- set_task_rq()
-> se.parent,cfs_rq of parent
are updated.
+ cgroup_fork()
-> parent->cgroup is copied to child->cgroup. (*1)
+ sched_fork()
+ task_fork_fair()
-> se.parent,cfs_rq of child are accessed
while they point to old ones. (*2)
In the worst case, this bug can lead to "use-after-free" and cause a panic,
because it's new cgroup's refcount that is incremented at (*1),
so the old cgroup(and related data) can be freed before (*2).
In fact, a panic caused by this bug was originally caught in RHEL6.4.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [<ffffffff81051e3e>] sched_slice+0x6e/0xa0
[...]
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81051f25>] place_entity+0x75/0xa0
[<ffffffff81056a3a>] task_fork_fair+0xaa/0x160
[<ffffffff81063c0b>] sched_fork+0x6b/0x140
[<ffffffff8106c3c2>] copy_process+0x5b2/0x1450
[<ffffffff81063b49>] ? wake_up_new_task+0xd9/0x130
[<ffffffff8106d2f4>] do_fork+0x94/0x460
[<ffffffff81072a9e>] ? sys_wait4+0xae/0x100
[<ffffffff81009598>] sys_clone+0x28/0x30
[<ffffffff8100b393>] stub_clone+0x13/0x20
[<ffffffff8100b072>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/039601ceae06$733d3130$59b79390$@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 5a8e01f8fa upstream.
scale_stime() silently assumes that stime < rtime, otherwise
when stime == rtime and both values are big enough (operations
on them do not fit in 32 bits), the resulting scaling stime can
be bigger than rtime. In consequence utime = rtime - stime
results in negative value.
User space visible symptoms of the bug are overflowed TIME
values on ps/top, for example:
$ ps aux | grep rcu
root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 12:42 0:00 [rcuc/0]
root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 12:42 0:00 [rcub/0]
root 10 62422329 0.0 0 0 ? R 12:42 21114581:37 [rcu_preempt]
root 11 0.1 0.0 0 0 ? S 12:42 0:02 [rcuop/0]
root 12 62422329 0.0 0 0 ? S 12:42 21114581:35 [rcuop/1]
root 10 62422329 0.0 0 0 ? R 12:42 21114581:37 [rcu_preempt]
or overflowed utime values read directly from /proc/$PID/stat
Reference:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/20/259
Reported-and-tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130904131602.GC2564@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 7bd3601446 upstream.
Gerlando Falauto reported that when HRTICK is enabled, it is
possible to trigger system deadlocks. These were hard to
reproduce, as HRTICK has been broken in the past, but seemed
to be connected to the timekeeping_seq lock.
Since seqlock/seqcount's aren't supported w/ lockdep, I added
some extra spinlock based locking and triggered the following
lockdep output:
[ 15.849182] ntpd/4062 is trying to acquire lock:
[ 15.849765] (&(&pool->lock)->rlock){..-...}, at: [<ffffffff810aa9b5>] __queue_work+0x145/0x480
[ 15.850051]
[ 15.850051] but task is already holding lock:
[ 15.850051] (timekeeper_lock){-.-.-.}, at: [<ffffffff810df6df>] do_adjtimex+0x7f/0x100
<snip>
[ 15.850051] Chain exists of: &(&pool->lock)->rlock --> &p->pi_lock --> timekeeper_lock
[ 15.850051] Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[ 15.850051]
[ 15.850051] CPU0 CPU1
[ 15.850051] ---- ----
[ 15.850051] lock(timekeeper_lock);
[ 15.850051] lock(&p->pi_lock);
[ 15.850051] lock(timekeeper_lock);
[ 15.850051] lock(&(&pool->lock)->rlock);
[ 15.850051]
[ 15.850051] *** DEADLOCK ***
The deadlock was introduced by 06c017fdd4 ("timekeeping:
Hold timekeepering locks in do_adjtimex and hardpps") in 3.10
This patch avoids this deadlock, by moving the call to
schedule_delayed_work() outside of the timekeeper lock
critical section.
Reported-by: Gerlando Falauto <gerlando.falauto@keymile.com>
Tested-by: Lin Ming <minggr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1378943457-27314-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit e79f525e99 upstream.
Commit 8382fcac1b ("pidns: Outlaw thread creation after
unshare(CLONE_NEWPID)") nacks CLONE_VM if the forking process unshared
pid_ns, this obviously breaks vfork:
int main(void)
{
assert(unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWPID) == 0);
assert(vfork() >= 0);
_exit(0);
return 0;
}
fails without this patch.
Change this check to use CLONE_SIGHAND instead. This also forbids
CLONE_THREAD automatically, and this is what the comment implies.
We could probably even drop CLONE_SIGHAND and use CLONE_THREAD, but it
would be safer to not do this. The current check denies CLONE_SIGHAND
implicitely and there is no reason to change this.
Eric said "CLONE_SIGHAND is fine. CLONE_THREAD would be even better.
Having shared signal handling between two different pid namespaces is
the case that we are fundamentally guarding against."
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Colin Walters <walters@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit a606488513 upstream.
Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> writes:
> Since commit af4b8a83ad it's been
> possible to get into a situation where a pidns reaper is
> <defunct>, reparented to host pid 1, but never reaped. How to
> reproduce this is documented at
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1168526
> (and see
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1168526/comments/13)
> In short, run repeated starts of a container whose init is
>
> Process.exit(0);
>
> sysrq-t when such a task is playing zombie shows:
>
> [ 131.132978] init x ffff88011fc14580 0 2084 2039 0x00000000
> [ 131.132978] ffff880116e89ea8 0000000000000002 ffff880116e89fd8 0000000000014580
> [ 131.132978] ffff880116e89fd8 0000000000014580 ffff8801172a0000 ffff8801172a0000
> [ 131.132978] ffff8801172a0630 ffff88011729fff0 ffff880116e14650 ffff88011729fff0
> [ 131.132978] Call Trace:
> [ 131.132978] [<ffffffff816f6159>] schedule+0x29/0x70
> [ 131.132978] [<ffffffff81064591>] do_exit+0x6e1/0xa40
> [ 131.132978] [<ffffffff81071eae>] ? signal_wake_up_state+0x1e/0x30
> [ 131.132978] [<ffffffff8106496f>] do_group_exit+0x3f/0xa0
> [ 131.132978] [<ffffffff810649e4>] SyS_exit_group+0x14/0x20
> [ 131.132978] [<ffffffff8170102f>] tracesys+0xe1/0xe6
>
> Further debugging showed that every time this happened, zap_pid_ns_processes()
> started with nr_hashed being 3, while we were expecting it to drop to 2.
> Any time it didn't happen, nr_hashed was 1 or 2. So the reaper was
> waiting for nr_hashed to become 2, but free_pid() only wakes the reaper
> if nr_hashed hits 1.
The issue is that when the task group leader of an init process exits
before other tasks of the init process when the init process finally
exits it will be a secondary task sleeping in zap_pid_ns_processes and
waiting to wake up when the number of hashed pids drops to two. This
case waits forever as free_pid only sends a wake up when the number of
hashed pids drops to 1.
To correct this the simple strategy of sending a possibly unncessary
wake up when the number of hashed pids drops to 2 is adopted.
Sending one extraneous wake up is relatively harmless, at worst we
waste a little cpu time in the rare case when a pid namespace
appropaches exiting.
We can detect the case when the pid namespace drops to just two pids
hashed race free in free_pid.
Dereferencing pid_ns->child_reaper with the pidmap_lock held is safe
without out the tasklist_lock because it is guaranteed that the
detach_pid will be called on the child_reaper before it is freed and
detach_pid calls __change_pid which calls free_pid which takes the
pidmap_lock. __change_pid only calls free_pid if this is the
last use of the pid. For a thread that is not the thread group leader
the threads pid will only ever have one user because a threads pid
is not allowed to be the pid of a process, of a process group or
a session. For a thread that is a thread group leader all of
the other threads of that process will be reaped before it is allowed
for the thread group leader to be reaped ensuring there will only
be one user of the threads pid as a process pid. Furthermore
because the thread is the init process of a pid namespace all of the
other processes in the pid namespace will have also been already freed
leading to the fact that the pid will not be used as a session pid or
a process group pid for any other running process.
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Reported-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit b22ce2785d upstream.
If !PREEMPT, a kworker running work items back to back can hog CPU.
This becomes dangerous when a self-requeueing work item which is
waiting for something to happen races against stop_machine. Such
self-requeueing work item would requeue itself indefinitely hogging
the kworker and CPU it's running on while stop_machine would wait for
that CPU to enter stop_machine while preventing anything else from
happening on all other CPUs. The two would deadlock.
Jamie Liu reports that this deadlock scenario exists around
scsi_requeue_run_queue() and libata port multiplier support, where one
port may exclude command processing from other ports. With the right
timing, scsi_requeue_run_queue() can end up requeueing itself trying
to execute an IO which is asked to be retried while another device has
an exclusive access, which in turn can't make forward progress due to
stop_machine.
Fix it by invoking cond_resched() after executing each work item.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jamie Liu <jamieliu@google.com>
References: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1552567
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This merge is intended to tidyup the history of the big.LITTLE MP
patchset to enable ongoing maintenance of a standalone MP branch.
The only code change introduce by this merge is to add commit
0d5ddd14 (HMP: select 'best' task for migration rather than 'current')
This change is already in the Linaro Stable Kernel as commit
c5021c1eb9
Prevents fork-migration adversely interacting with normal
migration (i.e. runqueues containing forked tasks being
selected as migration targets when there is a better
choice available)
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
Avoids accesses through cfs_rq going bad when the cpu_rq doesn't
have a cfs member.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
When an A15 goes idle, we should up-migrate anything which is
above the threshold and running on an A7.
Reuses the HMP force-migration spinlock, but adds its own new
cpu stopper client.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
rq->nr_running was better than cfs.nr_running, since it includes
all tasks actually on the CPU. However, it includes RT tasks which
we would rather ignore at this point.
Switching to cfs.h_nr_running includes all the CFS tasks but no
RT tasks.
Signed-off-by: Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org>
