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Linus Torvalds ca62eec4e5 Merge branch 'for-3.14-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:
 "Two cpuset locking fixes from Li.  Both tagged for -stable"

* 'for-3.14-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cpuset: fix a race condition in __cpuset_node_allowed_softwall()
  cpuset: fix a locking issue in cpuset_migrate_mm()
2014-03-08 11:57:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 721f0c1260 Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v3.14-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "In the past, I've had lots of reports about trace events not working.
  Developers would say they put a trace_printk() before and after the
  trace event but when they enable it (and the trace event said it was
  enabled) they would see the trace_printks but not the trace event.

  I was not able to reproduce this, but that's because I wasn't looking
  at the right location.  Recently, another bug came up that showed the
  issue.

  If your kernel supports signed modules but allows for non-signed
  modules to be loaded, then when one is, the kernel will silently set
  the MODULE_FORCED taint on the module.  Although, this taint happens
  without the need for insmod --force or anything of the kind, it labels
  the module with that taint anyway.

  If this tainted module has tracepoints, the tracepoints will be
  ignored because of the MODULE_FORCED taint.  But no error message will
  be displayed.  Worse yet, the event infrastructure will still be
  created letting users enable the trace event represented by the
  tracepoint, although that event will never actually be enabled.  This
  is because the tracepoint infrastructure allows for non-existing
  tracepoints to be enabled for new modules to arrive and have their
  tracepoints set.

  Although there are several things wrong with the above, this change
  only addresses the creation of the trace event files for tracepoints
  that are not created when a module is loaded and is tainted.  This
  change will print an error message about the module being tainted and
  not the trace events will not be created, and it does not create the
  trace event infrastructure"

* tag 'trace-fixes-v3.14-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Do not add event files for modules that fail tracepoints
2014-03-07 16:32:40 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 27ea0f7811 Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull irq fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 - a bugfix for a long standing waitqueue race
 - a trivial fix for a missing include

* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  genirq: Include missing header file in irqdomain.c
  genirq: Remove racy waitqueue_active check
2014-03-07 16:31:41 -08:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 45ab2813d4 tracing: Do not add event files for modules that fail tracepoints
If a module fails to add its tracepoints due to module tainting, do not
create the module event infrastructure in the debugfs directory. As the events
will not work and worse yet, they will silently fail, making the user wonder
why the events they enable do not display anything.

Having a warning on module load and the events not visible to the users
will make the cause of the problem much clearer.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140227154923.265882695@goodmis.org

Fixes: 6d723736e4 "tracing/events: add support for modules to TRACE_EVENT"
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.31+
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-03-03 21:11:05 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 0c0bd34a14 Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc fixes, most of them SCHED_DEADLINE fallout"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/deadline: Prevent rt_time growth to infinity
  sched/deadline: Switch CPU's presence test order
  sched/deadline: Cleanup RT leftovers from {inc/dec}_dl_migration
  sched: Fix double normalization of vruntime
2014-03-03 10:49:24 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 3154da34be Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc fixes, most of them on the tooling side"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf tools: Fix strict alias issue for find_first_bit
  perf tools: fix BFD detection on opensuse
  perf: Fix hotplug splat
  perf/x86: Fix event scheduling
  perf symbols: Destroy unused symsrcs
  perf annotate: Check availability of annotate when processing samples
2014-03-02 11:37:07 -06:00
Linus Torvalds 8d7531825c Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs
Pull filesystem fixes from Jan Kara:
 "Notification, writeback, udf, quota fixes

  The notification patches are (with one exception) a fallout of my
  fsnotify rework which went into -rc1 (I've extented LTP to cover these
  cornercases to avoid similar breakage in future).

  The UDF patch is a nasty data corruption Al has recently reported,
  the revert of the writeback patch is due to possibility of violating
  sync(2) guarantees, and a quota bug can lead to corruption of quota
  files in ocfs2"

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  fsnotify: Allocate overflow events with proper type
  fanotify: Handle overflow in case of permission events
  fsnotify: Fix detection whether overflow event is queued
  Revert "writeback: do not sync data dirtied after sync start"
  quota: Fix race between dqput() and dquot_scan_active()
  udf: Fix data corruption on file type conversion
  inotify: Fix reporting of cookies for inotify events
2014-02-27 10:37:22 -08:00
Li Zefan 99afb0fd5f cpuset: fix a race condition in __cpuset_node_allowed_softwall()
It's not safe to access task's cpuset after releasing task_lock().
Holding callback_mutex won't help.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2014-02-27 09:39:54 -05:00
Li Zefan 4729583006 cpuset: fix a locking issue in cpuset_migrate_mm()
I can trigger a lockdep warning:

  # mount -t cgroup -o cpuset xxx /cgroup
  # mkdir /cgroup/cpuset
  # mkdir /cgroup/tmp
  # echo 0 > /cgroup/tmp/cpuset.cpus
  # echo 0 > /cgroup/tmp/cpuset.mems
  # echo 1 > /cgroup/tmp/cpuset.memory_migrate
  # echo $$ > /cgroup/tmp/tasks
  # echo 1 > /cgruop/tmp/cpuset.mems

  ===============================
  [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
  3.14.0-rc1-0.1-default+ #32 Not tainted
  -------------------------------
  include/linux/cgroup.h:682 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
  ...
    [<ffffffff81582174>] dump_stack+0x72/0x86
    [<ffffffff810b8f01>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x101/0x140
    [<ffffffff81105ba1>] cpuset_migrate_mm+0xb1/0xe0
  ...

We used to hold cgroup_mutex when calling cpuset_migrate_mm(), but now
we hold cpuset_mutex, which causes task_css() to complain.

This is not a false-positive but a real issue.

Holding cpuset_mutex won't prevent a task from migrating to another
cpuset, and it won't prevent the original task->cgroup from destroying
during this change.

Fixes: 5d21cc2db0 (cpuset: replace cgroup_mutex locking with cpuset internal locking)
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.9+
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Sigend-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2014-02-27 09:35:59 -05:00
Rashika Kheria 64be38ab03 genirq: Include missing header file in irqdomain.c
Include appropriate header file include/linux/of_irq.h in
kernel/irq/irqdomain.c because it contains prototype definition of
function define in kernel/irq/irqdomain.c.

This eliminates the following warning in kernel/irq/irqdomain.c:
kernel/irq/irqdomain.c:468:14: warning: no previous prototype for ‘irq_create_of_mapping’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]

Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/eb89aebea7ff1a46122918ac389ebecf8248be9a.1393493276.git.rashika.kheria@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-27 13:29:35 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra e3703f8cdf perf: Fix hotplug splat
Drew Richardson reported that he could make the kernel go *boom* when hotplugging
while having perf events active.

It turned out that when you have a group event, the code in
__perf_event_exit_context() fails to remove the group siblings from
the context.

We then proceed with destroying and freeing the event, and when you
re-plug the CPU and try and add another event to that CPU, things go
*boom* because you've still got dead entries there.

Reported-by: Drew Richardson <drew.richardson@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-k6v5wundvusvcseqj1si0oz0@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-27 12:38:03 +01:00
Juri Lelli faa5993736 sched/deadline: Prevent rt_time growth to infinity
Kirill Tkhai noted:

  Since deadline tasks share rt bandwidth, we must care about
  bandwidth timer set. Otherwise rt_time may grow up to infinity
  in update_curr_dl(), if there are no other available RT tasks
  on top level bandwidth.

RT task were in fact throttled right after they got enqueued,
and never executed again (rt_time never again went below rt_runtime).

Peter then proposed to accrue DL execution on rt_time only when
rt timer is active, and proposed a patch (this patch is a slight
modification of that) to implement that behavior. While this
solves Kirill problem, it has a drawback.

Indeed, Kirill noted again:

  It looks we may get into a situation, when all CPU time is shared
  between RT and DL tasks:

  rt_runtime = n
  rt_period  = 2n

  | RT working, DL sleeping  | DL working, RT sleeping      |
  -----------------------------------------------------------
  | (1)     duration = n     | (2)     duration = n         | (repeat)
  |--------------------------|------------------------------|
  | (rt_bw timer is running) | (rt_bw timer is not running) |

  No time for fair tasks at all.

While this can happen during the first period, if rq is always backlogged,
RT tasks won't have the opportunity to execute anymore: rt_time reached
rt_runtime during (1), suppose after (2) RT is enqueued back, it gets
throttled since rt timer didn't fire, replenishment is from now on eaten up
by DL tasks that accrue their execution on rt_time (while rt timer is
active - we have an RT task waiting for replenishment). FAIR tasks are
not touched after this first period. Ok, this is not ideal, and the situation
is even worse!

What above (the nice case), practically never happens in reality, where
your rt timer is not aligned to tasks periods, tasks are in general not
periodic, etc.. Long story short, you always risk to overload your system.

This patch is based on Peter's idea, but exploits an additional fact:
if you don't have RT tasks enqueued, it makes little sense to continue
incrementing rt_time once you reached the upper limit (DL tasks have their
own mechanism for throttling).

This cures both problems:

 - no matter how many DL instances in the past, you'll have an rt_time
   slightly above rt_runtime when an RT task is enqueued, and from that
   point on (after the first replenishment), the task will normally execute;

 - you can still eat up all bandwidth during the first period, but not
   anymore after that, remember that DL execution will increment rt_time
   till the upper limit is reached.

The situation is still not perfect! But, we have a simple solution for now,
that limits how much you can jeopardize your system, as we keep working
towards the right answer: RT groups scheduled using deadline servers.

Reported-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140225151515.617714e2f2cd6c558531ba61@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-27 12:29:41 +01:00
Juri Lelli eec751ed41 sched/deadline: Switch CPU's presence test order
Commit 82b9580 ("sched/deadline: Test for CPU's presence explicitly")
changed how we check if a CPU returned by cpudeadline machinery is
valid. But, we don't want to call cpu_present() if best_cpu is
equal to -1. So, switch the order of tests inside WARN_ON().

Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393238832-9100-1-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-27 12:29:40 +01:00
Kirill Tkhai 3908ac13b5 sched/deadline: Cleanup RT leftovers from {inc/dec}_dl_migration
In deadline class we do not have group scheduling.

So, let's remove unnecessary

	X = X;

equations.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393343543.4089.5.camel@tkhai
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-27 12:29:39 +01:00
George McCollister 791c9e0292 sched: Fix double normalization of vruntime
dequeue_entity() is called when p->on_rq and sets se->on_rq = 0
which appears to guarentee that the !se->on_rq condition is met.
If the task has done set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) without
schedule() the second condition will be met and vruntime will be
incorrectly adjusted twice.

In certain cases this can result in the task's vruntime never increasing
past the vruntime of other tasks on the CFS' run queue, starving them of
CPU time.

This patch changes switched_from_fair() to use !p->on_rq instead of
!se->on_rq.

I'm able to cause a task with a priority of 120 to starve all other
tasks with the same priority on an ARM platform running 3.2.51-rt72
PREEMPT RT by writing one character at time to a serial tty (16550 UART)
in a tight loop. I'm also able to verify making this change corrects the
problem on that platform and kernel version.

Signed-off-by: George McCollister <george.mccollister@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392767811-28916-1-git-send-email-george.mccollister@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-27 12:29:38 +01:00
Chuansheng Liu c685689fd2 genirq: Remove racy waitqueue_active check
We hit one rare case below:

T1 calling disable_irq(), but hanging at synchronize_irq()
always;
The corresponding irq thread is in sleeping state;
And all CPUs are in idle state;

After analysis, we found there is one possible scenerio which
causes T1 is waiting there forever:
CPU0                                       CPU1
 synchronize_irq()
  wait_event()
    spin_lock()
                                           atomic_dec_and_test(&threads_active)
      insert the __wait into queue
    spin_unlock()
                                           if(waitqueue_active)
    atomic_read(&threads_active)
                                             wake_up()

Here after inserted the __wait into queue on CPU0, and before
test if queue is empty on CPU1, there is no barrier, it maybe
cause it is not visible for CPU1 immediately, although CPU0 has
updated the queue list.
It is similar for CPU0 atomic_read() threads_active also.

So we'd need one smp_mb() before waitqueue_active.that, but removing
the waitqueue_active() check solves it as wel l and it makes
things simple and clear.

Signed-off-by: Chuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
Cc: Xiaoming Wang <xiaoming.wang@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393212590-32543-1-git-send-email-chuansheng.liu@intel.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-27 10:54:16 +01:00
Linus Torvalds b2880eb83d Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer fix from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Serialize the registration of a new sched_clock in the currently ARM
  only generic sched_clock facilty to avoid sched_clock havoc"

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched_clock: Prevent callers from seeing half-updated data
2014-02-23 14:17:08 -08:00
Kirill Tkhai 995b9ea440 sched/deadline: Remove useless dl_nr_total
In deadline class we do not have group scheduling like in RT.

dl_nr_total is the same as dl_nr_running. So, one of them should
be removed.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/368631392675853@web20h.yandex.ru
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-21 21:27:10 +01:00
Boris Ostrovsky 82b95800b2 sched/deadline: Test for CPU's presence explicitly
A hot-removed CPU may have ID that is numerically larger than the number of
existing CPUs in the system (e.g. we can unplug CPU 4 from a system that
has CPUs 0, 1 and 4).

Thus the WARN_ONs should check whether the CPU in question is currently
present, not whether its ID value is less than num_present_cpus().

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392646353-1874-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-21 21:27:10 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 6d35ab4809 sched: Add 'flags' argument to sched_{set,get}attr() syscalls
Because of a recent syscall design debate; its deemed appropriate for
each syscall to have a flags argument for future extension; without
immediately requiring new syscalls.

Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140214161929.GL27965@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-21 21:27:10 +01:00
Vegard Nossum 4efbc454ba sched: Fix information leak in sys_sched_getattr()
We're copying the on-stack structure to userspace, but forgot to give
the right number of bytes to copy. This allows the calling process to
obtain up to PAGE_SIZE bytes from the stack (and possibly adjacent
kernel memory).

This fix copies only as much as we actually have on the stack
(attr->size defaults to the size of the struct) and leaves the rest of
the userspace-provided buffer untouched.

Found using kmemcheck + trinity.

Fixes: d50dde5a10 ("sched: Add new scheduler syscalls to support an extended scheduling parameters ABI")
Cc: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392585857-10725-1-git-send-email-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-21 21:27:10 +01:00
Rik van Riel 3cf1962cdb sched,numa: add cond_resched to task_numa_work
Normally task_numa_work scans over a fairly small amount of memory,
but it is possible to run into a large unpopulated part of virtual
memory, with no pages mapped. In that case, task_numa_work can run
for a while, and it may make sense to reschedule as required.

Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Xing Gang <gang.xing@hp.com>
Tested-by: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392761566-24834-2-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-21 21:27:10 +01:00
Juri Lelli 495163420a sched/core: Make dl_b->lock IRQ safe
Fix this lockdep warning:

[   44.804600] =========================================================
[   44.805746] [ INFO: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected ]
[   44.805746] 3.14.0-rc2-test+ #14 Not tainted
[   44.805746] ---------------------------------------------------------
[   44.805746] bash/3674 just changed the state of lock:
[   44.805746]  (&dl_b->lock){+.....}, at: [<ffffffff8106ad15>] sched_rt_handler+0x132/0x248
[   44.805746] but this lock was taken by another, HARDIRQ-safe lock in the past:
[   44.805746]  (&rq->lock){-.-.-.}

and interrupts could create inverse lock ordering between them.

[   44.805746]
[   44.805746] other info that might help us debug this:
[   44.805746]  Possible interrupt unsafe locking scenario:
[   44.805746]
[   44.805746]        CPU0                    CPU1
[   44.805746]        ----                    ----
[   44.805746]   lock(&dl_b->lock);
[   44.805746]                                local_irq_disable();
[   44.805746]                                lock(&rq->lock);
[   44.805746]                                lock(&dl_b->lock);
[   44.805746]   <Interrupt>
[   44.805746]     lock(&rq->lock);

by making dl_b->lock acquiring always IRQ safe.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392107067-19907-3-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-21 21:27:10 +01:00
Juri Lelli e9e7cb38c2 sched/core: Fix sched_rt_global_validate
Don't compare sysctl_sched_rt_runtime against sysctl_sched_rt_period if
the former is equal to RUNTIME_INF, otherwise disabling -rt bandwidth
management (with CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=n) fails.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392107067-19907-2-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-21 21:27:10 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 4df1638cfa sched/deadline: Fix overflow to handle period==0 and deadline!=0
While debugging the crash with the bad nr_running accounting, I hit
another bug where, after running my sched deadline test, I was getting
failures to take a CPU offline. It was giving me a -EBUSY error.

Adding a bunch of trace_printk()s around, I found that the cpu
notifier that called sched_cpu_inactive() was returning a failure. The
overflow value was coming up negative?

Talking this over with Juri, the problem is that the total_bw update was
suppose to be made by dl_overflow() which, during my tests, seemed to
not be called. Adding more trace_printk()s, it wasn't that it wasn't
called, but it exited out right away with the check of new_bw being
equal to p->dl.dl_bw. The new_bw calculates the ratio between period and
runtime. The bug is that if you set a deadline, you do not need to set
a period if you plan on the period being equal to the deadline. That
is, if period is zero and deadline is not, then the system call should
set the period to be equal to the deadline. This is done elsewhere in
the code.

The fix is easy, check if period is set, and if it is not, then use the
deadline.

Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140219135335.7e74abd4@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-21 21:27:09 +01:00