Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- Implement wraparound-safe refcount_t and kref_t types based on
generic atomic primitives (Peter Zijlstra)
- Improve and fix the ww_mutex code (Nicolai Hähnle)
- Add self-tests to the ww_mutex code (Chris Wilson)
- Optimize percpu-rwsems with the 'rcuwait' mechanism (Davidlohr
Bueso)
- Micro-optimize the current-task logic all around the core kernel
(Davidlohr Bueso)
- Tidy up after recent optimizations: remove stale code and APIs,
clean up the code (Waiman Long)
- ... plus misc fixes, updates and cleanups"
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (50 commits)
fork: Fix task_struct alignment
locking/spinlock/debug: Remove spinlock lockup detection code
lockdep: Fix incorrect condition to print bug msgs for MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAIN_HLOCKS
lkdtm: Convert to refcount_t testing
kref: Implement 'struct kref' using refcount_t
refcount_t: Introduce a special purpose refcount type
sched/wake_q: Clarify queue reinit comment
sched/wait, rcuwait: Fix typo in comment
locking/mutex: Fix lockdep_assert_held() fail
locking/rtmutex: Flip unlikely() branch to likely() in __rt_mutex_slowlock()
locking/rwsem: Reinit wake_q after use
locking/rwsem: Remove unnecessary atomic_long_t casts
jump_labels: Move header guard #endif down where it belongs
locking/atomic, kref: Implement kref_put_lock()
locking/ww_mutex: Turn off __must_check for now
locking/atomic, kref: Avoid more abuse
locking/atomic, kref: Use kref_get_unless_zero() more
locking/atomic, kref: Kill kref_sub()
locking/atomic, kref: Add kref_read()
locking/atomic, kref: Add KREF_INIT()
...
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this (fairly busy) cycle were:
- There was a class of scheduler bugs related to forgetting to update
the rq-clock timestamp which can cause weird and hard to debug
problems, so there's a new debug facility for this: which uncovered
a whole lot of bugs which convinced us that we want to keep the
debug facility.
(Peter Zijlstra, Matt Fleming)
- Various cputime related updates: eliminate cputime and use u64
nanoseconds directly, simplify and improve the arch interfaces,
implement delayed accounting more widely, etc. - (Frederic
Weisbecker)
- Move code around for better structure plus cleanups (Ingo Molnar)
- Move IO schedule accounting deeper into the scheduler plus related
changes to improve the situation (Tejun Heo)
- ... plus a round of sched/rt and sched/deadline fixes, plus other
fixes, updats and cleanups"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (85 commits)
sched/core: Remove unlikely() annotation from sched_move_task()
sched/autogroup: Rename auto_group.[ch] to autogroup.[ch]
sched/topology: Split out scheduler topology code from core.c into topology.c
sched/core: Remove unnecessary #include headers
sched/rq_clock: Consolidate the ordering of the rq_clock methods
delayacct: Include <uapi/linux/taskstats.h>
sched/core: Clean up comments
sched/rt: Show the 'sched_rr_timeslice' SCHED_RR timeslice tuning knob in milliseconds
sched/clock: Add dummy clear_sched_clock_stable() stub function
sched/cputime: Remove generic asm headers
sched/cputime: Remove unused nsec_to_cputime()
s390, sched/cputime: Remove unused cputime definitions
powerpc, sched/cputime: Remove unused cputime definitions
s390, sched/cputime: Make arch_cpu_idle_time() to return nsecs
ia64, sched/cputime: Remove unused cputime definitions
ia64: Convert vtime to use nsec units directly
ia64, sched/cputime: Move the nsecs based cputime headers to the last arch using it
sched/cputime: Remove jiffies based cputime
sched/cputime, vtime: Return nsecs instead of cputime_t to account
sched/cputime: Complete nsec conversion of tick based accounting
...
When CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS is disabled, it is preferable to remove related
structures from struct task_struct and struct signal_struct as they
won't contain anything useful and shouldn't be relied upon by mistake.
Code still referencing those structures is also disabled here.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
While reviewing the ww_mutex patches, I noticed that it was still
possible to (incorrectly) succeed for (incorrect) code like:
mutex_lock(&a);
mutex_lock(&a);
This was possible if the second mutex_lock() would block (as expected)
but then receive a spurious wakeup. At that point it would find itself
at the front of the queue, request a handoff and instantly claim
ownership and continue, since owner would point to itself.
Avoid this scenario and simplify the code by introducing a third low
bit to signal handoff pickup. So once we request handoff, unlock
clears the handoff bit and sets the pickup bit along with the new
owner.
This also removes the need for the .handoff argument to
__mutex_trylock(), since that becomes superfluous with PICKUP.
In order to guarantee enough low bits, ensure task_struct alignment is
at least L1_CACHE_BYTES (which seems a good ideal regardless).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 9d659ae14b ("locking/mutex: Add lock handoff to avoid starvation")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:
PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*<asm/uaccess.h>'
sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include <linux/uaccess.h>!" \
$(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)
to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.
Requested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
"After a lot of discussion and work we have finally reachanged a basic
understanding of what is necessary to make unprivileged mounts safe in
the presence of EVM and IMA xattrs which the last commit in this
series reflects. While technically it is a revert the comments it adds
are important for people not getting confused in the future. Clearing
up that confusion allows us to seriously work on unprivileged mounts
of fuse in the next development cycle.
The rest of the fixes in this set are in the intersection of user
namespaces, ptrace, and exec. I started with the first fix which
started a feedback cycle of finding additional issues during review
and fixing them. Culiminating in a fix for a bug that has been present
since at least Linux v1.0.
Potentially these fixes were candidates for being merged during the rc
cycle, and are certainly backport candidates but enough little things
turned up during review and testing that I decided they should be
handled as part of the normal development process just to be certain
there were not any great surprises when it came time to backport some
of these fixes"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
Revert "evm: Translate user/group ids relative to s_user_ns when computing HMAC"
exec: Ensure mm->user_ns contains the execed files
ptrace: Don't allow accessing an undumpable mm
ptrace: Capture the ptracer's creds not PT_PTRACE_CAP
mm: Add a user_ns owner to mm_struct and fix ptrace permission checks
Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"Again, cpufreq gets more changes than the other parts this time (one
new driver, one old driver less, a bunch of enhancements of the
existing code, new CPU IDs, fixes, cleanups)
There also are some changes in cpuidle (idle injection rework, a
couple of new CPU IDs, online/offline rework in intel_idle, fixes and
cleanups), in the generic power domains framework (mostly related to
supporting power domains containing CPUs), and in the Operating
Performance Points (OPP) library (mostly related to supporting devices
with multiple voltage regulators)
In addition to that, the system sleep state selection interface is
modified to make it easier for distributions with unchanged user space
to support suspend-to-idle as the default system suspend method, some
issues are fixed in the PM core, the latency tolerance PM QoS
framework is improved a bit, the Intel RAPL power capping driver is
cleaned up and there are some fixes and cleanups in the devfreq
subsystem
Specifics:
- New cpufreq driver for Broadcom STB SoCs and a Device Tree binding
for it (Markus Mayer)
- Support for ARM Integrator/AP and Integrator/CP in the generic DT
cpufreq driver and elimination of the old Integrator cpufreq driver
(Linus Walleij)
- Support for the zx296718, r8a7743 and r8a7745, Socionext UniPhier,
and PXA SoCs in the the generic DT cpufreq driver (Baoyou Xie,
Geert Uytterhoeven, Masahiro Yamada, Robert Jarzmik)
- cpufreq core fix to eliminate races that may lead to using inactive
policy objects and related cleanups (Rafael Wysocki)
- cpufreq schedutil governor update to make it use SCHED_FIFO kernel
threads (instead of regular workqueues) for doing delayed work (to
reduce the response latency in some cases) and related cleanups
(Viresh Kumar)
- New cpufreq sysfs attribute for resetting statistics (Markus Mayer)
- cpufreq governors fixes and cleanups (Chen Yu, Stratos Karafotis,
Viresh Kumar)
- Support for using generic cpufreq governors in the intel_pstate
driver (Rafael Wysocki)
- Support for per-logical-CPU P-state limits and the EPP/EPB (Energy
Performance Preference/Energy Performance Bias) knobs in the
intel_pstate driver (Srinivas Pandruvada)
- New CPU ID for Knights Mill in intel_pstate (Piotr Luc)
- intel_pstate driver modification to use the P-state selection
algorithm based on CPU load on platforms with the system profile in
the ACPI tables set to "mobile" (Srinivas Pandruvada)
- intel_pstate driver cleanups (Arnd Bergmann, Rafael Wysocki,
Srinivas Pandruvada)
- cpufreq powernv driver updates including fast switching support
(for the schedutil governor), fixes and cleanus (Akshay Adiga,
Andrew Donnellan, Denis Kirjanov)
- acpi-cpufreq driver rework to switch it over to the new CPU
offline/online state machine (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)
- Assorted cleanups in cpufreq drivers (Wei Yongjun, Prashanth
Prakash)
- Idle injection rework (to make it use the regular idle path instead
of a home-grown custom one) and related powerclamp thermal driver
updates (Peter Zijlstra, Jacob Pan, Petr Mladek, Sebastian Andrzej
Siewior)
- New CPU IDs for Atom Z34xx and Knights Mill in intel_idle (Andy
Shevchenko, Piotr Luc)
- intel_idle driver cleanups and switch over to using the new CPU
offline/online state machine (Anna-Maria Gleixner, Sebastian
Andrzej Siewior)
- cpuidle DT driver update to support suspend-to-idle properly
(Sudeep Holla)
- cpuidle core cleanups and misc updates (Daniel Lezcano, Pan Bian,
Rafael Wysocki)
- Preliminary support for power domains including CPUs in the generic
power domains (genpd) framework and related DT bindings (Lina Iyer)
- Assorted fixes and cleanups in the generic power domains (genpd)
framework (Colin Ian King, Dan Carpenter, Geert Uytterhoeven)
- Preliminary support for devices with multiple voltage regulators
and related fixes and cleanups in the Operating Performance Points
(OPP) library (Viresh Kumar, Masahiro Yamada, Stephen Boyd)
- System sleep state selection interface rework to make it easier to
support suspend-to-idle as the default system suspend method
(Rafael Wysocki)
- PM core fixes and cleanups, mostly related to the interactions
between the system suspend and runtime PM frameworks (Ulf Hansson,
Sahitya Tummala, Tony Lindgren)
- Latency tolerance PM QoS framework imorovements (Andrew Lutomirski)
- New Knights Mill CPU ID for the Intel RAPL power capping driver
(Piotr Luc)
- Intel RAPL power capping driver fixes, cleanups and switch over to
using the new CPU offline/online state machine (Jacob Pan, Thomas
Gleixner, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)
- Fixes and cleanups in the exynos-ppmu, exynos-nocp, rk3399_dmc,
rockchip-dfi devfreq drivers and the devfreq core (Axel Lin,
Chanwoo Choi, Javier Martinez Canillas, MyungJoo Ham, Viresh Kumar)
- Fix for false-positive KASAN warnings during resume from ACPI S3
(suspend-to-RAM) on x86 (Josh Poimboeuf)
- Memory map verification during resume from hibernation on x86 to
ensure a consistent address space layout (Chen Yu)
- Wakeup sources debugging enhancement (Xing Wei)
- rockchip-io AVS driver cleanup (Shawn Lin)"
* tag 'pm-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (127 commits)
devfreq: rk3399_dmc: Don't use OPP structures outside of RCU locks
devfreq: rk3399_dmc: Remove dangling rcu_read_unlock()
devfreq: exynos: Don't use OPP structures outside of RCU locks
Documentation: intel_pstate: Document HWP energy/performance hints
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Support for energy performance hints with HWP
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Add locking around HWP requests
PM / sleep: Print active wakeup sources when blocking on wakeup_count reads
PM / core: Fix bug in the error handling of async suspend
PM / wakeirq: Fix dedicated wakeirq for drivers not using autosuspend
PM / Domains: Fix compatible for domain idle state
PM / OPP: Don't WARN on multiple calls to dev_pm_opp_set_regulators()
PM / OPP: Allow platform specific custom set_opp() callbacks
PM / OPP: Separate out _generic_set_opp()
PM / OPP: Add infrastructure to manage multiple regulators
PM / OPP: Pass struct dev_pm_opp_supply to _set_opp_voltage()
PM / OPP: Manage supply's voltage/current in a separate structure
PM / OPP: Don't use OPP structure outside of rcu protected section
PM / OPP: Reword binding supporting multiple regulators per device
PM / OPP: Fix incorrect cpu-supply property in binding
cpuidle: Add a kerneldoc comment to cpuidle_use_deepest_state()
..
Merge updates from Andrew Morton:
- various misc bits
- most of MM (quite a lot of MM material is awaiting the merge of
linux-next dependencies)
- kasan
- printk updates
- procfs updates
- MAINTAINERS
- /lib updates
- checkpatch updates
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (123 commits)
init: reduce rootwait polling interval time to 5ms
binfmt_elf: use vmalloc() for allocation of vma_filesz
checkpatch: don't emit unified-diff error for rename-only patches
checkpatch: don't check c99 types like uint8_t under tools
checkpatch: avoid multiple line dereferences
checkpatch: don't check .pl files, improve absolute path commit log test
scripts/checkpatch.pl: fix spelling
checkpatch: don't try to get maintained status when --no-tree is given
lib/ida: document locking requirements a bit better
lib/rbtree.c: fix typo in comment of ____rb_erase_color
lib/Kconfig.debug: make CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM depend on CONFIG_DEVMEM
MAINTAINERS: add drm and drm/i915 irc channels
MAINTAINERS: add "C:" for URI for chat where developers hang out
MAINTAINERS: add drm and drm/i915 bug filing info
MAINTAINERS: add "B:" for URI where to file bugs
get_maintainer: look for arbitrary letter prefixes in sections
printk: add Kconfig option to set default console loglevel
printk/sound: handle more message headers
printk/btrfs: handle more message headers
printk/kdb: handle more message headers
...
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"The time/timekeeping/timer folks deliver with this update:
- Fix a reintroduced signed/unsigned issue and cleanup the whole
signed/unsigned mess in the timekeeping core so this wont happen
accidentaly again.
- Add a new trace clock based on boot time
- Prevent injection of random sleep times when PM tracing abuses the
RTC for storage
- Make posix timers configurable for real tiny systems
- Add tracepoints for the alarm timer subsystem so timer based
suspend wakeups can be instrumented
- The usual pile of fixes and updates to core and drivers"
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
timekeeping: Use mul_u64_u32_shr() instead of open coding it
timekeeping: Get rid of pointless typecasts
timekeeping: Make the conversion call chain consistently unsigned
timekeeping_Force_unsigned_clocksource_to_nanoseconds_conversion
alarmtimer: Add tracepoints for alarm timers
trace: Update documentation for mono, mono_raw and boot clock
trace: Add an option for boot clock as trace clock
timekeeping: Add a fast and NMI safe boot clock
timekeeping/clocksource_cyc2ns: Document intended range limitation
timekeeping: Ignore the bogus sleep time if pm_trace is enabled
selftests/timers: Fix spelling mistake "Asyncrhonous" -> "Asynchronous"
clocksource/drivers/bcm2835_timer: Unmap region obtained by of_iomap
clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Map frame with of_io_request_and_map()
arm64: dts: rockchip: Arch counter doesn't tick in system suspend
clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Don't assume clock runs in suspend
posix-timers: Make them configurable
posix_cpu_timers: Move the add_device_randomness() call to a proper place
timer: Move sys_alarm from timer.c to itimer.c
ptp_clock: Allow for it to be optional
Kconfig: Regenerate *.c_shipped files after previous changes
...
Idle injection drivers such as Intel powerclamp and ACPI PAD drivers use
realtime tasks to take control of CPU then inject idle. There are two
issues with this approach:
1. Low efficiency: injected idle task is treated as busy so sched ticks
do not stop during injected idle period, the result of these
unwanted wakeups can be ~20% loss in power savings.
2. Idle accounting: injected idle time is presented to user as busy.
This patch addresses the issues by introducing a new PF_IDLE flag which
allows any given task to be treated as idle task while the flag is set.
Therefore, idle injection tasks can run through the normal flow of NOHZ
idle enter/exit to get the correct accounting as well as tick stop when
possible.
The implication is that idle task is then no longer limited to PID == 0.
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
During exec dumpable is cleared if the file that is being executed is
not readable by the user executing the file. A bug in
ptrace_may_access allows reading the file if the executable happens to
enter into a subordinate user namespace (aka clone(CLONE_NEWUSER),
unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER), or setns(fd, CLONE_NEWUSER).
This problem is fixed with only necessary userspace breakage by adding
a user namespace owner to mm_struct, captured at the time of exec, so
it is clear in which user namespace CAP_SYS_PTRACE must be present in
to be able to safely give read permission to the executable.
The function ptrace_may_access is modified to verify that the ptracer
has CAP_SYS_ADMIN in task->mm->user_ns instead of task->cred->user_ns.
This ensures that if the task changes it's cred into a subordinate
user namespace it does not become ptraceable.
The function ptrace_attach is modified to only set PT_PTRACE_CAP when
CAP_SYS_PTRACE is held over task->mm->user_ns. The intent of
PT_PTRACE_CAP is to be a flag to note that whatever permission changes
the task might go through the tracer has sufficient permissions for
it not to be an issue. task->cred->user_ns is always the same
as or descendent of mm->user_ns. Which guarantees that having
CAP_SYS_PTRACE over mm->user_ns is the worst case for the tasks
credentials.
To prevent regressions mm->dumpable and mm->user_ns are not considered
when a task has no mm. As simply failing ptrace_may_attach causes
regressions in privileged applications attempting to read things
such as /proc/<pid>/stat
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Fixes: 8409cca705 ("userns: allow ptrace from non-init user namespaces")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Some embedded systems have no use for them. This removes about
25KB from the kernel binary size when configured out.
Corresponding syscalls are routed to a stub logging the attempt to
use those syscalls which should be enough of a clue if they were
disabled without proper consideration. They are: timer_create,
timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, timer_settime, timer_delete,
clock_adjtime, setitimer, getitimer, alarm.
The clock_settime, clock_gettime, clock_getres and clock_nanosleep
syscalls are replaced by simple wrappers compatible with CLOCK_REALTIME,
CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only which should cover the vast
majority of use cases with very little code.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Cc: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478841010-28605-7-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook:
"This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot
time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in
CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences,
SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).
At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example
for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals"
* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy
gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin
The __latent_entropy gcc attribute can be used only on functions and
variables. If it is on a function then the plugin will instrument it for
gathering control-flow entropy. If the attribute is on a variable then
the plugin will initialize it with random contents. The variable must
be an integer, an integer array type or a structure with integer fields.
These specific functions have been selected because they are init
functions (to help gather boot-time entropy), are called at unpredictable
times, or they have variable loops, each of which provide some level of
latent entropy.
Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
[kees: expanded commit message]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot time as
possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in CPU operation
(due to runtime data differences, hardware differences, SMP ordering,
thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).
At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example for
how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals.
The need for very-early boot entropy tends to be very architecture or
system design specific, so this plugin is more suited for those sorts
of special cases. The existing kernel RNG already attempts to extract
entropy from reliable runtime variation, but this plugin takes the idea to
a logical extreme by permuting a global variable based on any variation
in code execution (e.g. a different value (and permutation function)
is used to permute the global based on loop count, case statement,
if/then/else branching, etc).
To do this, the plugin starts by inserting a local variable in every
marked function. The plugin then adds logic so that the value of this
variable is modified by randomly chosen operations (add, xor and rol) and
random values (gcc generates separate static values for each location at
compile time and also injects the stack pointer at runtime). The resulting
value depends on the control flow path (e.g., loops and branches taken).
Before the function returns, the plugin mixes this local variable into
the latent_entropy global variable. The value of this global variable
is added to the kernel entropy pool in do_one_initcall() and _do_fork(),
though it does not credit any bytes of entropy to the pool; the contents
of the global are just used to mix the pool.
Additionally, the plugin can pre-initialize arrays with build-time
random contents, so that two different kernel builds running on identical
hardware will not have the same starting values.
Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
[kees: expanded commit message and code comments]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
The global zero page is used to satisfy an anonymous read fault. If
THP(Transparent HugePage) is enabled then the global huge zero page is
used. The global huge zero page uses an atomic counter for reference
counting and is allocated/freed dynamically according to its counter
value.
CPU time spent on that counter will greatly increase if there are a lot
of processes doing anonymous read faults. This patch proposes a way to
reduce the access to the global counter so that the CPU load can be
reduced accordingly.
To do this, a new flag of the mm_struct is introduced:
MMF_USED_HUGE_ZERO_PAGE. With this flag, the process only need to touch
the global counter in two cases:
1 The first time it uses the global huge zero page;
2 The time when mm_user of its mm_struct reaches zero.
Note that right now, the huge zero page is eligible to be freed as soon
as its last use goes away. With this patch, the page will not be
eligible to be freed until the exit of the last process from which it
was ever used.
And with the use of mm_user, the kthread is not eligible to use huge
zero page either. Since no kthread is using huge zero page today, there
is no difference after applying this patch. But if that is not desired,
I can change it to when mm_count reaches zero.
Case used for test on Haswell EP:
usemem -n 72 --readonly -j 0x200000 100G
Which spawns 72 processes and each will mmap 100G anonymous space and
then do read only access to that space sequentially with a step of 2MB.
CPU cycles from perf report for base commit:
54.03% usemem [kernel.kallsyms] [k] get_huge_zero_page
CPU cycles from perf report for this commit:
0.11% usemem [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mm_get_huge_zero_page
Performance(throughput) of the workload for base commit: 1784430792
Performance(throughput) of the workload for this commit: 4726928591
164% increase.
Runtime of the workload for base commit: 707592 us
Runtime of the workload for this commit: 303970 us
50% drop.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fe51a88f-446a-4622-1363-ad1282d71385@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Lockdep complains that __mmdrop is not safe from the softirq context:
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[ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
4.6.0-oomfortification2-00011-geeb3eadeab96-dirty #949 Tainted: G W
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inconsistent {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} usage.
swapper/1/0 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE1:SE0] takes:
(pgd_lock){+.?...}, at: pgd_free+0x19/0x6b
{SOFTIRQ-ON-W} state was registered at:
__lock_acquire+0xa06/0x196e
lock_acquire+0x139/0x1e1
_raw_spin_lock+0x32/0x41
__change_page_attr_set_clr+0x2a5/0xacd
change_page_attr_set_clr+0x16f/0x32c
set_memory_nx+0x37/0x3a
free_init_pages+0x9e/0xc7
alternative_instructions+0xa2/0xb3
check_bugs+0xe/0x2d
start_kernel+0x3ce/0x3ea
x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c
x86_64_start_kernel+0x17a/0x18d
irq event stamp: 105916
hardirqs last enabled at (105916): free_hot_cold_page+0x37e/0x390
hardirqs last disabled at (105915): free_hot_cold_page+0x2c1/0x390
softirqs last enabled at (105878): _local_bh_enable+0x42/0x44
softirqs last disabled at (105879): irq_exit+0x6f/0xd1
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0
----
lock(pgd_lock);
<Interrupt>
lock(pgd_lock);
*** DEADLOCK ***
1 lock held by swapper/1/0:
#0: (rcu_callback){......}, at: rcu_process_callbacks+0x390/0x800
stack backtrace:
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Tainted: G W 4.6.0-oomfortification2-00011-geeb3eadeab96-dirty #949
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Debian-1.8.2-1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
print_usage_bug.part.25+0x259/0x268
mark_lock+0x381/0x567
__lock_acquire+0x993/0x196e
lock_acquire+0x139/0x1e1
_raw_spin_lock+0x32/0x41
pgd_free+0x19/0x6b
__mmdrop+0x25/0xb9
__put_task_struct+0x103/0x11e
delayed_put_task_struct+0x157/0x15e
rcu_process_callbacks+0x660/0x800
__do_softirq+0x1ec/0x4d5
irq_exit+0x6f/0xd1
smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x42/0x4d
apic_timer_interrupt+0x8e/0xa0
<EOI>
arch_cpu_idle+0xf/0x11
default_idle_call+0x32/0x34
cpu_startup_entry+0x20c/0x399
start_secondary+0xfe/0x101
More over commit a79e53d856 ("x86/mm: Fix pgd_lock deadlock") was
explicit about pgd_lock not to be called from the irq context. This
means that __mmdrop called from free_signal_struct has to be postponed
to a user context. We already have a similar mechanism for mmput_async
so we can use it here as well. This is safe because mm_count is pinned
by mm_users.
This fixes bug introduced by "oom: keep mm of the killed task available"
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472119394-11342-5-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
