The current implementation of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ prevents CPUs from entering
dyntick-idle state if they have RCU callbacks pending. Unfortunately,
this has the side-effect of often preventing them from entering this
state, especially if at least one other CPU is not in dyntick-idle state.
However, the resulting per-tick wakeup is wasteful in many cases: if the
CPU has already fully responded to the current RCU grace period, there
will be nothing for it to do until this grace period ends, which will
frequently take several jiffies.
This commit therefore permits a CPU that has done everything that the
current grace period has asked of it (rcu_pending() == 0) even if it
still as RCU callbacks pending. However, such a CPU posts a timer to
wake it up several jiffies later (6 jiffies, based on experience with
grace-period lengths). This wakeup is required to handle situations
that can result in all CPUs being in dyntick-idle mode, thus failing
to ever complete the current grace period. If a CPU wakes up before
the timer goes off, then it cancels that timer, thus avoiding spurious
wakeups.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
With the new implementation of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ, it was possible to hang
RCU grace periods as follows:
o CPU 0 attempts to go idle, cycles several times through the
rcu_prepare_for_idle() loop, then goes dyntick-idle when
RCU needs nothing more from it, while still having at least
on RCU callback pending.
o CPU 1 goes idle with no callbacks.
Both CPUs can then stay in dyntick-idle mode indefinitely, preventing
the RCU grace period from ever completing, possibly hanging the system.
This commit therefore prevents CPUs that have RCU callbacks from entering
dyntick-idle mode. This approach also eliminates the need for the
end-of-grace-period IPIs used previously.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds trace_rcu_prep_idle(), which is invoked from
rcu_prepare_for_idle() and rcu_wake_cpu() to trace attempts on
the part of RCU to force CPUs into dyntick-idle mode.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit updates the trace_rcu_dyntick() header comment to reflect
events added by commit 4b4f421.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The trace_rcu_dyntick() trace event did not print both the old and
the new value of the nesting level, and furthermore printed only
the low-order 32 bits of it. This could result in some confusion
when interpreting trace-event dumps, so this commit prints both
the old and the new value, prints the full 64 bits, and also selects
the process-entry/exit increment to print nicely in hexadecimal.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Earlier versions of RCU used the scheduling-clock tick to detect idleness
by checking for the idle task, but handled idleness differently for
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y. But there are now a number of uses of RCU read-side
critical sections in the idle task, for example, for tracing. A more
fine-grained detection of idleness is therefore required.
This commit presses the old dyntick-idle code into full-time service,
so that rcu_idle_enter(), previously known as rcu_enter_nohz(), is
always invoked at the beginning of an idle loop iteration. Similarly,
rcu_idle_exit(), previously known as rcu_exit_nohz(), is always invoked
at the end of an idle-loop iteration. This allows the idle task to
use RCU everywhere except between consecutive rcu_idle_enter() and
rcu_idle_exit() calls, in turn allowing architecture maintainers to
specify exactly where in the idle loop that RCU may be used.
Because some of the userspace upcall uses can result in what looks
to RCU like half of an interrupt, it is not possible to expect that
the irq_enter() and irq_exit() hooks will give exact counts. This
patch therefore expands the ->dynticks_nesting counter to 64 bits
and uses two separate bitfields to count process/idle transitions
and interrupt entry/exit transitions. It is presumed that userspace
upcalls do not happen in the idle loop or from usermode execution
(though usermode might do a system call that results in an upcall).
The counter is hard-reset on each process/idle transition, which
avoids the interrupt entry/exit error from accumulating. Overflow
is avoided by the 64-bitness of the ->dyntick_nesting counter.
This commit also adds warnings if a non-idle task asks RCU to enter
idle state (and these checks will need some adjustment before applying
Frederic's OS-jitter patches (http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/7/246).
In addition, validation of ->dynticks and ->dynticks_nesting is added.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h>
net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h>
...
Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
- drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
- drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
- drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
- include/linux/dmaengine.h
* 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
writeback: Add a 'reason' to wb_writeback_work
writeback: send work item to queue_io, move_expired_inodes
writeback: trace event balance_dirty_pages
writeback: trace event bdi_dirty_ratelimit
writeback: fix ppc compile warnings on do_div(long long, unsigned long)
writeback: per-bdi background threshold
writeback: dirty position control - bdi reserve area
writeback: control dirty pause time
writeback: limit max dirty pause time
writeback: IO-less balance_dirty_pages()
writeback: per task dirty rate limit
writeback: stabilize bdi->dirty_ratelimit
writeback: dirty rate control
writeback: add bg_threshold parameter to __bdi_update_bandwidth()
writeback: dirty position control
writeback: account per-bdi accumulated dirtied pages
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (97 commits)
jbd2: Unify log messages in jbd2 code
jbd/jbd2: validate sb->s_first in journal_get_superblock()
ext4: let ext4_ext_rm_leaf work with EXT_DEBUG defined
ext4: fix a syntax error in ext4_ext_insert_extent when debugging enabled
ext4: fix a typo in struct ext4_allocation_context
ext4: Don't normalize an falloc request if it can fit in 1 extent.
ext4: remove comments about extent mount option in ext4_new_inode()
ext4: let ext4_discard_partial_buffers handle unaligned range correctly
ext4: return ENOMEM if find_or_create_pages fails
ext4: move vars to local scope in ext4_discard_partial_page_buffers_no_lock()
ext4: Create helper function for EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN and i_aiodio_unwritten
ext4: optimize locking for end_io extent conversion
ext4: remove unnecessary call to waitqueue_active()
ext4: Use correct locking for ext4_end_io_nolock()
ext4: fix race in xattr block allocation path
ext4: trace punch_hole correctly in ext4_ext_map_blocks
ext4: clean up AGGRESSIVE_TEST code
ext4: move variables to their scope
ext4: fix quota accounting during migration
ext4: migrate cleanup
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Change ISOLATE_XXX macro with bitwise isolate_mode_t type. Normally,
macro isn't recommended as it's type-unsafe and making debugging harder as
symbol cannot be passed throught to the debugger.
Quote from Johannes
" Hmm, it would probably be cleaner to fully convert the isolation mode
into independent flags. INACTIVE, ACTIVE, BOTH is currently a
tri-state among flags, which is a bit ugly."
This patch moves isolate mode from swap.h to mmzone.h by memcontrol.h
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This reverts commit 3a9f987b31.
With all the files that are real modules now having module.h
explicitly called out for inclusion, and no reliance on any
implicit presence of module.h assumed, we should no longer
need this workaround.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
The <linux/module.h> pretty much brings in the kitchen sink along
with it, so it should be avoided wherever reasonably possible in
terms of being included from other commonly used <linux/something.h>
files, as it results in a measureable increase on compile times.
The worst culprit was probably device.h since it is used everywhere.
This file also had an implicit dependency/usage of mutex.h which was
masked by module.h, and is also fixed here at the same time.
There are over a dozen other headers that simply declare the
struct instead of pulling in the whole file, so follow their lead
and simply make it a few more.
Most of the implicit dependencies on module.h being present by
these headers pulling it in have been now weeded out, so we can
finally make this change with hopefully minimal breakage.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
This creates a new 'reason' field in a wb_writeback_work
structure, which unambiguously identifies who initiates
writeback activity. A 'wb_reason' enumeration has been
added to writeback.h, to enumerate the possible reasons.
The 'writeback_work_class' and tracepoint event class and
'writeback_queue_io' tracepoints are updated to include the
symbolic 'reason' in all trace events.
And the 'writeback_inodes_sbXXX' family of routines has had
a wb_stats parameter added to them, so callers can specify
why writeback is being started.
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Instead of sending ->older_than_this to queue_io() and
move_expired_inodes(), send the entire wb_writeback_work
structure. There are other fields of a work item that are
useful in these routines and in tracepoints.
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Useful for analyzing the dynamics of the throttling algorithms and
debugging user reported problems.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound: (549 commits)
ALSA: hda - Fix ADC input-amp handling for Cx20549 codec
ALSA: hda - Keep EAPD turned on for old Conexant chips
ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix missing volume controls with ALC260
ASoC: wm8940: Properly set codec->dapm.bias_level
ALSA: hda - Fix pin-config for ASUS W90V
ALSA: hda - Fix surround/CLFE headphone and speaker pins order
ALSA: hda - Fix typo
ALSA: Update the sound git tree URL
ALSA: HDA: Add new revision for ALC662
ASoC: max98095: Convert codec->hw_write to snd_soc_write
ASoC: keep pointer to resource so it can be freed
ASoC: sgtl5000: Fix wrong mask in some snd_soc_update_bits calls
ASoC: wm8996: Fix wrong mask for setting WM8996_AIF_CLOCKING_2
ASoC: da7210: Add support for line out and DAC
ASoC: da7210: Add support for DAPM
ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix DAC assignments of multiple speakers
ASoC: Use SGTL5000_LINREG_VDDD_MASK instead of hardcoded mask value
ASoC: Set sgtl5000->ldo in ldo_regulator_register
ASoC: wm8996: Use SND_SOC_DAPM_AIF_OUT for AIF2 Capture
ASoC: wm8994: Use SND_SOC_DAPM_AIF_OUT for AIF3 Capture
...
This patch introduces a fast path in ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized()
for the case when the conversion can be performed by transferring
the newly initialized blocks from the uninitialized extent into
an adjacent initialized extent. Doing so removes the expensive
invocations of memmove() which occur during extent insertion and
the subsequent merge.
In practice this should be the common case for clients performing
append writes into files pre-allocated via
fallocate(FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE). In such a workload performed via
direct IO and when using a suboptimal implementation of memmove()
(x86_64 prior to the 2.6.39 rewrite), this patch reduces kernel CPU
consumption by 32%.
Two new trace points are added to ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized()
to offer visibility into its operations. No exit trace point has
been added due to the multiplicity of return points. This can be
revisited once the upstream cleanup is backported.
Signed-off-by: Eric Gouriou <egouriou@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits)
llist: Add back llist_add_batch() and llist_del_first() prototypes
sched: Don't use tasklist_lock for debug prints
sched: Warn on rt throttling
sched: Unify the ->cpus_allowed mask copy
sched: Wrap scheduler p->cpus_allowed access
sched: Request for idle balance during nohz idle load balance
sched: Use resched IPI to kick off the nohz idle balance
sched: Fix idle_cpu()
llist: Remove cpu_relax() usage in cmpxchg loops
sched: Convert to struct llist
llist: Add llist_next()
irq_work: Use llist in the struct irq_work logic
llist: Return whether list is empty before adding in llist_add()
llist: Move cpu_relax() to after the cmpxchg()
llist: Remove the platform-dependent NMI checks
llist: Make some llist functions inline
sched, tracing: Show PREEMPT_ACTIVE state in trace_sched_switch
sched: Remove redundant test in check_preempt_tick()
sched: Add documentation for bandwidth control
sched: Return unused runtime on group dequeue
...
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (121 commits)
perf symbols: Increase symbol KSYM_NAME_LEN size
perf hists browser: Refuse 'a' hotkey on non symbolic views
perf ui browser: Use libslang to read keys
perf tools: Fix tracing info recording
perf hists browser: Elide DSO column when it is set to just one DSO, ditto for threads
perf hists: Don't consider filtered entries when calculating column widths
perf hists: Don't decay total_period for filtered entries
perf hists browser: Honour symbol_conf.show_{nr_samples,total_period}
perf hists browser: Do not exit on tab key with single event
perf annotate browser: Don't change selection line when returning from callq
perf tools: handle endianness of feature bitmap
perf tools: Add prelink suggestion to dso update message
perf script: Fix unknown feature comment
perf hists browser: Apply the dso and thread filters when merging new batches
perf hists: Move the dso and thread filters from hist_browser
perf ui browser: Honour the xterm colors
perf top tui: Give color hints just on the percentage, like on --stdio
perf ui browser: Make the colors configurable and change the defaults
perf tui: Remove unneeded call to newtCls on startup
perf hists: Don't format the percentage on hist_entry__snprintf
...
Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c manually.
Ingo's tree did the insane "add volatile to const array", which just
doesn't make sense ("volatile const"?). But we could remove the const
*and* make the array volatile to make doubly sure that gcc doesn't
optimize it away..
Also fix up kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c non-data-conflicts manually: the
reader_lock has been turned into a raw lock by the core locking merge,
and there was a new user of it introduced in this perf core merge. Make
sure that new use also uses the raw accessor functions.
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
rcu: Move propagation of ->completed from rcu_start_gp() to rcu_report_qs_rsp()
rcu: Remove rcu_needs_cpu_flush() to avoid false quiescent states
rcu: Wire up RCU_BOOST_PRIO for rcutree
rcu: Make rcu_torture_boost() exit loops at end of test
rcu: Make rcu_torture_fqs() exit loops at end of test
rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled
rcu: Avoid having just-onlined CPU resched itself when RCU is idle
rcu: Suppress NMI backtraces when stall ends before dump
rcu: Prohibit grace periods during early boot
rcu: Simplify unboosting checks
rcu: Prevent early boot set_need_resched() from __rcu_pending()
rcu: Dump local stack if cannot dump all CPUs' stacks
rcu: Move __rcu_read_unlock()'s barrier() within if-statement
rcu: Improve rcu_assign_pointer() and RCU_INIT_POINTER() documentation
rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer() unconditionally insert a memory barrier
rcu: Make rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() locals be correct size
rcu: Eliminate in_irq() checks in rcu_enter_nohz()
nohz: Remove nohz_cpu_mask
rcu: Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats
rcu: Allow rcutorture's stat_interval parameter to be changed at runtime
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* 'for-linus' of git://github.com/ericvh/linux:
9p: fix 9p.txt to advertise msize instead of maxdata
net/9p: Convert net/9p protocol dumps to tracepoints
fs/9p: change an int to unsigned int
fs/9p: Cleanup option parsing in 9p
9p: move dereference after NULL check
fs/9p: inode file operation is properly initialized init_special_inode
fs/9p: Update zero-copy implementation in 9p
* 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (63 commits)
PM / Clocks: Remove redundant NULL checks before kfree()
PM / Documentation: Update docs about suspend and CPU hotplug
ACPI / PM: Add Sony VGN-FW21E to nonvs blacklist.
ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A4R support (v4)
ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A3SP support (v4)
PM / Sleep: Mark devices involved in wakeup signaling during suspend
PM / Hibernate: Improve performance of LZO/plain hibernation, checksum image
PM / Hibernate: Do not initialize static and extern variables to 0
PM / Freezer: Make fake_signal_wake_up() wake TASK_KILLABLE tasks too
PM / Hibernate: Add resumedelay kernel param in addition to resumewait
MAINTAINERS: Update linux-pm list address
PM / ACPI: Blacklist Vaio VGN-FW520F machine known to require acpi_sleep=nonvs
PM / ACPI: Blacklist Sony Vaio known to require acpi_sleep=nonvs
PM / Hibernate: Add resumewait param to support MMC-like devices as resume file
PM / Hibernate: Fix typo in a kerneldoc comment
PM / Hibernate: Freeze kernel threads after preallocating memory
PM: Update the policy on default wakeup settings
PM / VT: Cleanup #if defined uglyness and fix compile error
PM / Suspend: Off by one in pm_suspend()
PM / Hibernate: Include storage keys in hibernation image on s390
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* 'for-linus' of git://opensource.wolfsonmicro.com/regmap: (62 commits)
mfd: Enable rbtree cache for wm831x devices
regmap: Support some block operations on cached devices
regmap: Allow caches for devices with no defaults
regmap: Ensure rbtree syncs registers set to zero properly
regmap: Allow rbtree to cache zero default values
regmap: Warn on raw I/O as well as bulk reads that bypass cache
regmap: Return a sensible error code if we fail to read the cache
regmap: Use bsearch() to search the register defaults
regmap: Fix doc comment
regmap: Optimize the lookup path to use binary search
regmap: Ensure we scream if we enable cache bypass/only at the same time
regmap: Implement regcache_cache_bypass helper function
regmap: Save/restore the bypass state upon syncing
regmap: Lock the sync path, ensure we use the lockless _regmap_write()
regmap: Fix apostrophe usage
regmap: Make _regmap_write() global
regmap: Fix lock used for regcache_cache_only()
regmap: Grab the lock in regcache_cache_only()
regmap: Modify map->cache_bypass directly
regmap: Fix regcache_sync generic implementation
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