This allows an exclusive wait_queue_entry to be added at the head of the
queue, instead of the tail as normal. Thus, it gets to consume events
first without allowing non-exclusive waiters to be woken at all.
The (first) intended use is for KVM IRQFD, which currently has
inconsistent behaviour depending on whether posted interrupts are
available or not. If they are, KVM will bypass the eventfd completely
and deliver interrupts directly to the appropriate vCPU. If not, events
are delivered through the eventfd and userspace will receive them when
polling on the eventfd.
By using add_wait_queue_priority(), KVM will be able to consistently
consume events within the kernel without accidentally exposing them
to userspace when they're supposed to be bypassed. This, in turn, means
that userspace doesn't have to jump through hoops to avoid listening
on the erroneously noisy eventfd and injecting duplicate interrupts.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Message-Id: <20201027143944.648769-2-dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Commit 2a9127fcf2 ("mm: rewrite wait_on_page_bit_common() logic") made
the page locking entirely fair, in that if a waiter came in while the
lock was held, the lock would be transferred to the lockers strictly in
order.
That was intended to finally get rid of the long-reported watchdog
failures that involved the page lock under extreme load, where a process
could end up waiting essentially forever, as other page lockers stole
the lock from under it.
It also improved some benchmarks, but it ended up causing huge
performance regressions on others, simply because fair lock behavior
doesn't end up giving out the lock as aggressively, causing better
worst-case latency, but potentially much worse average latencies and
throughput.
Instead of reverting that change entirely, this introduces a controlled
amount of unfairness, with a sysctl knob to tune it if somebody needs
to. But the default value should hopefully be good for any normal load,
allowing a few rounds of lock stealing, but enforcing the strict
ordering before the lock has been stolen too many times.
There is also a hint from Matthieu Baerts that the fair page coloring
may end up exposing an ABBA deadlock that is hidden by the usual
optimistic lock stealing, and while the unfairness doesn't fix the
fundamental issue (and I'm still looking at that), it avoids it in
practice.
The amount of unfairness can be modified by writing a new value to the
'sysctl_page_lock_unfairness' variable (default value of 5, exposed
through /proc/sys/vm/page_lock_unfairness), but that is hopefully
something we'd use mainly for debugging rather than being necessary for
any deep system tuning.
This whole issue has exposed just how critical the page lock can be, and
how contended it gets under certain locks. And the main contention
doesn't really seem to be anything related to IO (which was the origin
of this lock), but for things like just verifying that the page file
mapping is stable while faulting in the page into a page table.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/ed8442fd-6f54-dd84-cd4a-941e8b7ee603@MichaelLarabel.com/
Link: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-50-59&num=1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/c560a38d-8313-51fb-b1ec-e904bd8836bc@tessares.net/
Reported-and-tested-by: Michael Larabel <Michael@michaellarabel.com>
Tested-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A running task's state can be sampled in a consistent manner (for example,
for diagnostic purposes) simply by invoking smp_call_function_single()
on its CPU, which may be obtained using task_cpu(), then having the
IPI handler verify that the desired task is in fact still running.
However, if the task is not running, this sampling can in theory be done
immediately and directly. In practice, the task might start running at
any time, including during the sampling period. Gaining a consistent
sample of a not-running task therefore requires that something be done
to lock down the target task's state.
This commit therefore adds a try_invoke_on_locked_down_task() function
that invokes a specified function if the specified task can be locked
down, returning true if successful and if the specified function returns
true. Otherwise this function simply returns false. Given that the
function passed to try_invoke_on_nonrunning_task() might be invoked with
a runqueue lock held, that function had better be quite lightweight.
The function is passed the target task's task_struct pointer and the
argument passed to try_invoke_on_locked_down_task(), allowing easy access
to task state and to a location for further variables to be passed in
and out.
Note that the specified function will be called even if the specified
task is currently running. The function can use ->on_rq and task_curr()
to quickly and easily determine the task's state, and can return false
if this state is not to the function's liking. The caller of the
try_invoke_on_locked_down_task() would then see the false return value,
and could take appropriate action, for example, trying again later or
sending an IPI if matters are more urgent.
It is expected that use cases such as the RCU CPU stall warning code will
simply return false if the task is currently running. However, there are
use cases involving nohz_full CPUs where the specified function might
instead fall back to an alternative sampling scheme that relies on heavier
synchronization (such as memory barriers) in the target task.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
[ paulmck: Apply feedback from Peter Zijlstra and Steven Rostedt. ]
[ paulmck: Invoke if running to handle feedback from Mathieu Desnoyers. ]
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The filesystem freezer uses percpu-rwsem in a way that is effectively
write_non_owner() and achieves this with a few horrible hacks that
rely on the rwsem (!percpu) implementation.
When PREEMPT_RT replaces the rwsem implementation with a PI aware
variant this comes apart.
Remove the embedded rwsem and implement it using a waitqueue and an
atomic_t.
- make readers_block an atomic, and use it, with the waitqueue
for a blocking test-and-set write-side.
- have the read-side wait for the 'lock' state to clear.
Have the waiters use FIFO queueing and mark them (reader/writer) with
a new WQ_FLAG. Use a custom wake_function to wake either a single
writer or all readers until a writer.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200204092403.GB14879@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Add a wakeup call for a case whereby the caller already has the waitqueue
spinlock held. This can be used by pipes to alter the ring buffer indices
and issue a wakeup under the same spinlock.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Remove the nr_exclusive argument from __wake_up_sync_key() and derived
functions as everything seems to set it to 1. Note also that if it wasn't
set to 1, it would clear WF_SYNC anyway.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Pull core timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Timers and timekeeping updates:
- A large overhaul of the posix CPU timer code which is a preparation
for moving the CPU timer expiry out into task work so it can be
properly accounted on the task/process.
An update to the bogus permission checks will come later during the
merge window as feedback was not complete before heading of for
travel.
- Switch the timerqueue code to use cached rbtrees and get rid of the
homebrewn caching of the leftmost node.
- Consolidate hrtimer_init() + hrtimer_init_sleeper() calls into a
single function
- Implement the separation of hrtimers to be forced to expire in hard
interrupt context even when PREEMPT_RT is enabled and mark the
affected timers accordingly.
- Implement a mechanism for hrtimers and the timer wheel to protect
RT against priority inversion and live lock issues when a (hr)timer
which should be canceled is currently executing the callback.
Instead of infinitely spinning, the task which tries to cancel the
timer blocks on a per cpu base expiry lock which is held and
released by the (hr)timer expiry code.
- Enable the Hyper-V TSC page based sched_clock for Hyper-V guests
resulting in faster access to timekeeping functions.
- Updates to various clocksource/clockevent drivers and their device
tree bindings.
- The usual small improvements all over the place"
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (101 commits)
posix-cpu-timers: Fix permission check regression
posix-cpu-timers: Always clear head pointer on dequeue
hrtimer: Add a missing bracket and hide `migration_base' on !SMP
posix-cpu-timers: Make expiry_active check actually work correctly
posix-timers: Unbreak CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS=n build
tick: Mark sched_timer to expire in hard interrupt context
hrtimer: Add kernel doc annotation for HRTIMER_MODE_HARD
x86/hyperv: Hide pv_ops access for CONFIG_PARAVIRT=n
posix-cpu-timers: Utilize timerqueue for storage
posix-cpu-timers: Move state tracking to struct posix_cputimers
posix-cpu-timers: Deduplicate rlimit handling
posix-cpu-timers: Remove pointless comparisons
posix-cpu-timers: Get rid of 64bit divisions
posix-cpu-timers: Consolidate timer expiry further
posix-cpu-timers: Get rid of zero checks
rlimit: Rewrite non-sensical RLIMIT_CPU comment
posix-cpu-timers: Respect INFINITY for hard RTTIME limit
posix-cpu-timers: Switch thread group sampling to array
posix-cpu-timers: Restructure expiry array
posix-cpu-timers: Remove cputime_expires
...
hrtimer_init_sleeper() calls require prior initialisation of the hrtimer
object which is embedded into the hrtimer_sleeper.
Combine the initialization and spare a function call. Fixup all call sites.
This is also a preparatory change for PREEMPT_RT to do hrtimer sleeper
specific initializations of the embedded hrtimer without modifying any of
the call sites.
No functional change.
[ anna-maria: Minor cleanups ]
[ tglx: Adopted to the removal of the task argument of
hrtimer_init_sleeper() and trivial polishing.
Folded a fix from Stephen Rothwell for the vsoc code ]
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190726185752.887468908@linutronix.de
rq-qos sits in the io path so we want to take locks as sparingly as
possible. To accomplish this we try not to take the waitqueue head lock
unless we are sure we need to go to sleep, and we have an optimization
to make sure that we don't starve out existing waiters. Since we check
if there are existing waiters locklessly we need to be able to update
our view of the waitqueue list after we've added ourselves to the
waitqueue. Accomplish this by adding this helper to see if there is
more than just ourselves on the list.
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Sphinx emits various warnings all caused by a missing colon before code
block:
WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
ERROR: Unexpected indentation.
WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Add the colon, clearing sphinx warnings.
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Replace 'schedule(); try_to_freeze();' with a call to freezable_schedule().
Tasks calling freezable_schedule() set the PF_FREEZER_SKIP flag
before calling schedule(). Unlike tasks calling schedule();
try_to_freeze() tasks calling freezable_schedule() are not awaken by
try_to_freeze_tasks(). Instead they call try_to_freeze() when they
wake up if the freeze is still underway.
It is not a problem since sleeping tasks can't do anything which isn't
allowed for a frozen task while sleeping.
The result is a potential performance gain during freeze, since less
tasks have to be awaken.
For instance on a bare Debian vm running a 4.19 stable kernel, the
number of tasks skipped in freeze_task() went up from 12 without the
patch to 32 with the patch (out of 448), an increase of > x2.5.
Signed-off-by: Hugo Lefeuvre <hle@owl.eu.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190207200352.GA27859@behemoth.owl.eu.com.local
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Short of reverting commit 00d909a107 ("scsi: target: Make the session
shutdown code also wait for commands that are being aborted") for v4.19,
target-core needs a wait_event_t macro can be executed using
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE to function correctly with existing fabric drivers that
expect to run with signals pending during session shutdown and active se_cmd
I/O quiesce.
The most notable is iscsi-target/iser-target, while ibmvscsi_tgt invokes
session shutdown logic from userspace via configfs attribute that could also
potentially have signals pending.
So go ahead and introduce wait_event_lock_irq_timeout() to achieve this, and
update + rename __wait_event_lock_irq_timeout() to make it accept 'state' as a
parameter.
Fixes: 00d909a107 ("scsi: target: Make the session shutdown code also wait for commands that are being aborted")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.19+
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Cc: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Reviewed-by: Bryant G. Ly <bly@catalogicsoftware.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
The new TASK_IDLE state (TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE | __TASK_NOLOAD)
is not much used. One way to make it easier to use is to
add wait_event*() family functions that make use of it.
This patch adds:
wait_event_idle()
wait_event_idle_timeout()
wait_event_idle_exclusive()
wait_event_idle_exclusive_timeout()
This set was chosen because lustre needs them before
it can discard its own l_wait_event() macro.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Farrell <paf@cray.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
__poll_t is also used as wait key in some waitqueues.
Verify that wait_..._poll() gets __poll_t as key and
provide a helper for wakeup functions to get back to
that __poll_t value.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.
Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.
How this work was done:
Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,
Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.
The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.
The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).
All documentation files were explicitly excluded.
The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.
- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.
For non */uapi/* files that summary was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139
and resulted in the first patch in this series.
If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930
and resulted in the second patch in this series.
- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1
and that resulted in the third patch in this series.
- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).
- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.
- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).
- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.
In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.
Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.
In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.
Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct
This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.
These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Now that we have added breaks in the wait queue scan and allow bookmark
on scan position, we put this logic in the wake_up_page_bit function.
We can have very long page wait list in large system where multiple
pages share the same wait list. We break the wake up walk here to allow
other cpus a chance to access the list, and not to disable the interrupts
when traversing the list for too long. This reduces the interrupt and
rescheduling latency, and excessive page wait queue lock hold time.
[ v2: Remove bookmark_wake_function ]
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We encountered workloads that have very long wake up list on large
systems. A waker takes a long time to traverse the entire wake list and
execute all the wake functions.
We saw page wait list that are up to 3700+ entries long in tests of
large 4 and 8 socket systems. It took 0.8 sec to traverse such list
during wake up. Any other CPU that contends for the list spin lock will
spin for a long time. It is a result of the numa balancing migration of
hot pages that are shared by many threads.
Multiple CPUs waking are queued up behind the lock, and the last one
queued has to wait until all CPUs did all the wakeups.
The page wait list is traversed with interrupt disabled, which caused
various problems. This was the original cause that triggered the NMI
watch dog timer in: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9800303/ . Only
extending the NMI watch dog timer there helped.
This patch bookmarks the waker's scan position in wake list and break
the wake up walk, to allow access to the list before the waker resume
its walk down the rest of the wait list. It lowers the interrupt and
rescheduling latency.
This patch also provides a performance boost when combined with the next
patch to break up page wakeup list walk. We saw 22% improvement in the
will-it-scale file pread2 test on a Xeon Phi system running 256 threads.
[ v2: Merged in Linus' changes to remove the bookmark_wake_function, and
simply access to flags. ]
Reported-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
These are the few pending fixes I have queued up for v4.13-final. One
is a a generic regression fix for recursive loops on kmod and the other
one is a trivial print out correction.
During the v4.13 development we assumed that recursive kmod loops were
no longer possible. Clearly that is not true. The regression fix makes
use of a new killable wait. We use a killable wait to be paranoid in
how signals might be sent to modprobe and only accept a proper SIGKILL.
The signal will only be available to userspace to issue *iff* a thread
has already entered a wait state, and that happens only if we've already
throttled after 50 kmod threads have been hit.
Note that although it may seem excessive to trigger a failure afer 5
seconds if all kmod thread remain busy, prior to the series of changes
that went into v4.13 we would actually *always* fatally fail any request
which came in if the limit was already reached. The new waiting
implemented in v4.13 actually gives us *more* breathing room -- the wait
for 5 seconds is a wait for *any* kmod thread to finish. We give up and
fail *iff* no kmod thread has finished and they're *all* running
straight for 5 consecutive seconds. If 50 kmod threads are running
consecutively for 5 seconds something else must be really bad.
Recursive loops with kmod are bad but they're also hard to implement
properly as a selftest without currently fooling current userspace tools
like kmod [1]. For instance kmod will complain when you run depmod if
it finds a recursive loop with symbol dependency between modules as such
this type of recursive loop cannot go upstream as the modules_install
target will fail after running depmod.
These tests already exist on userspace kmod upstream though (refer to
the testsuite/module-playground/mod-loop-*.c files). The same is not
true if request_module() is used though, or worst if aliases are used.
Likewise the issue with 64-bit kernels booting 32-bit userspace without
a binfmt handler built-in is also currently not detected and proactively
avoided by userspace kmod tools, or kconfig for all architectures.
Although we could complain in the kernel when some of these individual
recursive issues creep up, proactively avoiding these situations in
userspace at build time is what we should keep striving for.
Lastly, since recursive loops could happen with kmod it may mean
recursive loops may also be possible with other kernel usermode helpers,
this should be investigated and long term if we can come up with a more
sensible generic solution even better!
[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux.git/log/?h=20170809-kmod-for-v4.13-final
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git
This patch (of 3):
This wait is similar to wait_event_interruptible_timeout() but only
accepts SIGKILL interrupt signal. Other signals are ignored.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170809234635.13443-2-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com>
Cc: David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com>
Cc: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgetc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A couple of kerneldoc comments in <linux/wait.h> had incorrect names for
macro parameters, with this unsightly result:
./include/linux/wait.h:555: warning: No description found for parameter 'wq'
./include/linux/wait.h:555: warning: Excess function parameter 'wq_head' description in 'wait_event_interruptible_hrtimeout'
./include/linux/wait.h:759: warning: No description found for parameter 'wq_head'
./include/linux/wait.h:759: warning: Excess function parameter 'wq' description in 'wait_event_killable'
Correct the comments and kill the warnings.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724135800.769c4042@lwn.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
So I've noticed a number of instances where it was not obvious from the
code whether ->task_list was for a wait-queue head or a wait-queue entry.
Furthermore, there's a number of wait-queue users where the lists are
not for 'tasks' but other entities (poll tables, etc.), in which case
the 'task_list' name is actively confusing.
To clear this all up, name the wait-queue head and entry list structure
fields unambiguously:
struct wait_queue_head::task_list => ::head
struct wait_queue_entry::task_list => ::entry
For example, this code:
rqw->wait.task_list.next != &wait->task_list
... is was pretty unclear (to me) what it's doing, while now it's written this way:
rqw->wait.head.next != &wait->entry
... which makes it pretty clear that we are iterating a list until we see the head.
Other examples are:
list_for_each_entry_safe(pos, next, &x->task_list, task_list) {
list_for_each_entry(wq, &fence->wait.task_list, task_list) {
... where it's unclear (to me) what we are iterating, and during review it's
hard to tell whether it's trying to walk a wait-queue entry (which would be
a bug), while now it's written as:
list_for_each_entry_safe(pos, next, &x->head, entry) {
list_for_each_entry(wq, &fence->wait.head, entry) {
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The wait_bit*() types and APIs are mixed into wait.h, but they
are a pretty orthogonal extension of wait-queues.
Furthermore, only about 50 kernel files use these APIs, while
over 1000 use the regular wait-queue functionality.
So clean up the main wait.h by moving the wait-bit functionality
out of it, into a separate .h and .c file:
include/linux/wait_bit.h for types and APIs
kernel/sched/wait_bit.c for the implementation
Update all header dependencies.
This reduces the size of wait.h rather significantly, by about 30%.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
So there's over 300 CPP macro line-continuation backslashes in
include/linux/wait.h (!!), which are aligned vertically to make
the macro maze a bit more navigable.
The recent renames and reorganization broke some of them, and
instead of re-aligning them in every patch (which would add
a lot of stylistic noise to the patches and make them less
readable), I just ignored them - and fixed them up in a single
go in this patch.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Contrary to kernel tradition, most of the bit-wait function prototypes
in <linux/wait.h> don't fully define the parameter names, they only
list the types:
int out_of_line_wait_on_bit_timeout(void *, int, wait_bit_action_f *, unsigned, unsigned long);
... which is pretty passive-aggressive in terms of informing the reader
about what these functions are doing.
Fill in the parameter names, such as:
int out_of_line_wait_on_bit_timeout(void *word, int, wait_bit_action_f *action, unsigned int mode, unsigned long timeout);
Also turn spurious (and inconsistently utilized) cases of 'unsigned' into 'unsigned int'.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
So wait-bit-queue head variables are often named:
struct wait_bit_queue *q
... which is a bit ambiguous and super confusing, because
they clearly suggest wait-queue head semantics and behavior
(they rhyme with the old wait_queue_t *q naming), while they
are extended wait-queue _entries_, not heads!
They are misnomers in two ways:
- the 'wait_bit_queue' leaves open the question of whether
it's an entry or a head
- the 'q' parameter and local variable naming falsely implies
that it's a 'queue' - while it's an entry.
This resulted in sometimes confusing cases such as:
finish_wait(wq, &q->wait);
where the 'q' is not a wait-queue head, but a wait-bit-queue entry.
So improve this all by standardizing wait-bit-queue nomenclature
similar to wait-queue head naming:
struct wait_bit_queue => struct wait_bit_queue_entry
q => wbq_entry
Which makes it all a much clearer:
struct wait_bit_queue_entry *wbq_entry
... and turns the former confusing piece of code into:
finish_wait(wq_head, &wbq_entry->wq_entry;
which IMHO makes it apparently clear what we are doing,
without having to analyze the context of the code: we are
adding a wait-queue entry to a regular wait-queue head,
which entry is embedded in a wait-bit-queue entry.
I'm not a big fan of acronyms, but repeating wait_bit_queue_entry
in field and local variable names is too long, so Hopefully it's
clear enough that 'wq_' prefixes stand for wait-queues, while
'wbq_' prefixes stand for wait-bit-queues.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
David Woodhouse
Linus Torvalds
Paul E. McKenney
Peter Zijlstra
David Howells
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Thomas Gleixner
Josef Bacik
Tobin C. Harding
Hugo Lefeuvre
Nicholas Bellinger
NeilBrown
Al Viro
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Tim Chen
Luis R. Rodriguez
Jonathan Corbet
Ingo Molnar