This code (CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE=y and CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS=y),
while it found a number of old bugs initially, was also causing too many
false positives that caused people to disable lockdep - which is arguably
a worse overall outcome.
If we disable cross-release by default but keep the code upstream then
in practice the most likely outcome is that we'll allow the situation
to degrade gradually, by allowing entropy to introduce more and more
false positives, until it overwhelms maintenance capacity.
Another bad side effect was that people were trying to work around
the false positives by uglifying/complicating unrelated code. There's
a marked difference between annotating locking operations and
uglifying good code just due to bad lock debugging code ...
This gradual decrease in quality happened to a number of debugging
facilities in the kernel, and lockdep is pretty complex already,
so we cannot risk this outcome.
Either cross-release checking can be done right with no false positives,
or it should not be included in the upstream kernel.
( Note that it might make sense to maintain it out of tree and go through
the false positives every now and then and see whether new bugs were
introduced. )
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
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>
find_bit functions are widely used in the kernel, including hot paths.
This module tests performance of those functions in 2 typical scenarios:
randomly filled bitmap with relatively equal distribution of set and
cleared bits, and sparse bitmap which has 1 set bit for 500 cleared
bits.
On ThunderX machine:
Start testing find_bit() with random-filled bitmap
find_next_bit: 240043 cycles, 164062 iterations
find_next_zero_bit: 312848 cycles, 163619 iterations
find_last_bit: 193748 cycles, 164062 iterations
find_first_bit: 177720874 cycles, 164062 iterations
Start testing find_bit() with sparse bitmap
find_next_bit: 3633 cycles, 656 iterations
find_next_zero_bit: 620399 cycles, 327025 iterations
find_last_bit: 3038 cycles, 656 iterations
find_first_bit: 691407 cycles, 656 iterations
[arnd@arndb.de: use correct format string for find-bit tests]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171113135605.3166307-1-arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171109140714.13168-1-ynorov@caviumnetworks.com
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Clement Courbet <courbet@google.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the set of driver core / debugfs patches for 4.15-rc1.
Not many here, mostly all are debugfs fixes to resolve some
long-reported problems with files going away with references to them
in userspace. There's also some SPDX cleanups for the debugfs code, as
well as a few other minor driver core changes for issues reported by
people.
All of these have been in linux-next for a week or more with no
reported issues"
* tag 'driver-core-4.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
driver core: Fix device link deferred probe
debugfs: Remove redundant license text
debugfs: add SPDX identifiers to all debugfs files
debugfs: defer debugfs_fsdata allocation to first usage
debugfs: call debugfs_real_fops() only after debugfs_file_get()
debugfs: purge obsolete SRCU based removal protection
IB/hfi1: convert to debugfs_file_get() and -put()
debugfs: convert to debugfs_file_get() and -put()
debugfs: debugfs_real_fops(): drop __must_hold sparse annotation
debugfs: implement per-file removal protection
debugfs: add support for more elaborate ->d_fsdata
driver core: Move device_links_purge() after bus_remove_device()
arch_topology: Fix section miss match warning due to free_raw_capacity()
driver-core: pr_err() strings should end with newlines
Pull x86 core updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Note that in this cycle most of the x86 topics interacted at a level
that caused them to be merged into tip:x86/asm - but this should be a
temporary phenomenon, hopefully we'll back to the usual patterns in
the next merge window.
The main changes in this cycle were:
Hardware enablement:
- Add support for the Intel UMIP (User Mode Instruction Prevention)
CPU feature. This is a security feature that disables certain
instructions such as SGDT, SLDT, SIDT, SMSW and STR. (Ricardo Neri)
[ Note that this is disabled by default for now, there are some
smaller enhancements in the pipeline that I'll follow up with in
the next 1-2 days, which allows this to be enabled by default.]
- Add support for the AMD SEV (Secure Encrypted Virtualization) CPU
feature, on top of SME (Secure Memory Encryption) support that was
added in v4.14. (Tom Lendacky, Brijesh Singh)
- Enable new SSE/AVX/AVX512 CPU features: AVX512_VBMI2, GFNI, VAES,
VPCLMULQDQ, AVX512_VNNI, AVX512_BITALG. (Gayatri Kammela)
Other changes:
- A big series of entry code simplifications and enhancements (Andy
Lutomirski)
- Make the ORC unwinder default on x86 and various objtool
enhancements. (Josh Poimboeuf)
- 5-level paging enhancements (Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Micro-optimize the entry code a bit (Borislav Petkov)
- Improve the handling of interdependent CPU features in the early
FPU init code (Andi Kleen)
- Build system enhancements (Changbin Du, Masahiro Yamada)
- ... plus misc enhancements, fixes and cleanups"
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (118 commits)
x86/build: Make the boot image generation less verbose
selftests/x86: Add tests for the STR and SLDT instructions
selftests/x86: Add tests for User-Mode Instruction Prevention
x86/traps: Fix up general protection faults caused by UMIP
x86/umip: Enable User-Mode Instruction Prevention at runtime
x86/umip: Force a page fault when unable to copy emulated result to user
x86/umip: Add emulation code for UMIP instructions
x86/cpufeature: Add User-Mode Instruction Prevention definitions
x86/insn-eval: Add support to resolve 16-bit address encodings
x86/insn-eval: Handle 32-bit address encodings in virtual-8086 mode
x86/insn-eval: Add wrapper function for 32 and 64-bit addresses
x86/insn-eval: Add support to resolve 32-bit address encodings
x86/insn-eval: Compute linear address in several utility functions
resource: Fix resource_size.cocci warnings
X86/KVM: Clear encryption attribute when SEV is active
X86/KVM: Decrypt shared per-cpu variables when SEV is active
percpu: Introduce DEFINE_PER_CPU_DECRYPTED
x86: Add support for changing memory encryption attribute in early boot
x86/io: Unroll string I/O when SEV is active
x86/boot: Add early boot support when running with SEV active
...
Purge the SRCU based file removal race protection in favour of the new,
refcount based debugfs_file_get()/debugfs_file_put() API.
Fixes: 49d200deaa ("debugfs: prevent access to removed files' private data")
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull locking fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Two lockdep fixes for bugs introduced by the cross-release dependency
tracking feature - plus a commit that disables it because performance
regressed in an absymal fashion on some systems"
* 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
locking/lockdep: Disable cross-release features for now
locking/selftest: Avoid false BUG report
locking/lockdep: Fix stacktrace mess
The parisc architecture has larger stack frames than most other
architectures on 32-bit kernels.
Increase the maximum allowed stack frame to 1280 bytes for parisc to
avoid warnings in the do_sys_poll() and pat_memconfig() functions.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Add 'cross-release' support to lockdep, which allows APIs like
completions, where it's not the 'owner' who releases the lock, to be
tracked. It's all activated automatically under
CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y.
- Clean up (restructure) the x86 atomics op implementation to be more
readable, in preparation of KASAN annotations. (Dmitry Vyukov)
- Fix static keys (Paolo Bonzini)
- Add killable versions of down_read() et al (Kirill Tkhai)
- Rework and fix jump_label locking (Marc Zyngier, Paolo Bonzini)
- Rework (and fix) tlb_flush_pending() barriers (Peter Zijlstra)
- Remove smp_mb__before_spinlock() and convert its usages, introduce
smp_mb__after_spinlock() (Peter Zijlstra)
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (56 commits)
locking/lockdep/selftests: Fix mixed read-write ABBA tests
sched/completion: Avoid unnecessary stack allocation for COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK()
acpi/nfit: Fix COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK() abuse
locking/pvqspinlock: Relax cmpxchg's to improve performance on some architectures
smp: Avoid using two cache lines for struct call_single_data
locking/lockdep: Untangle xhlock history save/restore from task independence
locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Disable CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT for the time being
futex: Remove duplicated code and fix undefined behaviour
Documentation/locking/atomic: Finish the document...
locking/lockdep: Fix workqueue crossrelease annotation
workqueue/lockdep: 'Fix' flush_work() annotation
locking/lockdep/selftests: Add mixed read-write ABBA tests
mm, locking/barriers: Clarify tlb_flush_pending() barriers
locking/lockdep: Make CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE and CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS truly non-interactive
locking/lockdep: Explicitly initialize wq_barrier::done::map
locking/lockdep: Rename CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETE to CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS
locking/lockdep: Reword title of LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE config
locking/lockdep: Make CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE part of CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Implement fast refcount overflow protection
locking/lockdep: Fix the rollback and overwrite detection logic in crossrelease
...
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Introduce the ORC unwinder, which can be enabled via
CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER=y.
The ORC unwinder is a lightweight, Linux kernel specific debuginfo
implementation, which aims to be DWARF done right for unwinding.
Objtool is used to generate the ORC unwinder tables during build, so
the data format is flexible and kernel internal: there's no
dependency on debuginfo created by an external toolchain.
The ORC unwinder is almost two orders of magnitude faster than the
(out of tree) DWARF unwinder - which is important for perf call graph
profiling. It is also significantly simpler and is coded defensively:
there has not been a single ORC related kernel crash so far, even
with early versions. (knock on wood!)
But the main advantage is that enabling the ORC unwinder allows
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTERS to be turned off - which speeds up the kernel
measurably:
With frame pointers disabled, GCC does not have to add frame pointer
instrumentation code to every function in the kernel. The kernel's
.text size decreases by about 3.2%, resulting in better cache
utilization and fewer instructions executed, resulting in a broad
kernel-wide speedup. Average speedup of system calls should be
roughly in the 1-3% range - measurements by Mel Gorman [1] have shown
a speedup of 5-10% for some function execution intense workloads.
The main cost of the unwinder is that the unwinder data has to be
stored in RAM: the memory cost is 2-4MB of RAM, depending on kernel
config - which is a modest cost on modern x86 systems.
Given how young the ORC unwinder code is it's not enabled by default
- but given the performance advantages the plan is to eventually make
it the default unwinder on x86.
See Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt for more details.
- Remove lguest support: its intended role was that of a temporary
proof of concept for virtualization, plus its removal will enable the
reduction (removal) of the paravirt API as well, so Rusty agreed to
its removal. (Juergen Gross)
- Clean up and fix FSGS related functionality (Andy Lutomirski)
- Clean up IO access APIs (Andy Shevchenko)
- Enhance the symbol namespace (Jiri Slaby)
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (47 commits)
objtool: Handle GCC stack pointer adjustment bug
x86/entry/64: Use ENTRY() instead of ALIGN+GLOBAL for stub32_clone()
x86/fpu/math-emu: Add ENDPROC to functions
x86/boot/64: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_64()
x86/boot/32: Extract efi_pe_entry() from startup_32()
x86/lguest: Remove lguest support
x86/paravirt/xen: Remove xen_patch()
objtool: Fix objtool fallthrough detection with function padding
x86/xen/64: Fix the reported SS and CS in SYSCALL
objtool: Track DRAP separately from callee-saved registers
objtool: Fix validate_branch() return codes
x86: Clarify/fix no-op barriers for text_poke_bp()
x86/switch_to/64: Rewrite FS/GS switching yet again to fix AMD CPUs
selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test selectors 1, 2, and 3
x86/fsgsbase/64: Report FSBASE and GSBASE correctly in core dumps
x86/fsgsbase/64: Fully initialize FS and GS state in start_thread_common
x86/asm: Fix UNWIND_HINT_REGS macro for older binutils
x86/asm/32: Fix regs_get_register() on segment registers
x86/xen/64: Rearrange the SYSCALL entries
x86/asm/32: Remove a bunch of '& 0xffff' from pt_regs segment reads
...
The hardlockup detector on x86 uses a performance counter based on unhalted
CPU cycles and a periodic hrtimer. The hrtimer period is about 2/5 of the
performance counter period, so the hrtimer should fire 2-3 times before the
performance counter NMI fires. The NMI code checks whether the hrtimer
fired since the last invocation. If not, it assumess a hard lockup.
The calculation of those periods is based on the nominal CPU
frequency. Turbo modes increase the CPU clock frequency and therefore
shorten the period of the perf/NMI watchdog. With extreme Turbo-modes (3x
nominal frequency) the perf/NMI period is shorter than the hrtimer period
which leads to false positives.
A simple fix would be to shorten the hrtimer period, but that comes with
the side effect of more frequent hrtimer and softlockup thread wakeups,
which is not desired.
Implement a low pass filter, which checks the perf/NMI period against
kernel time. If the perf/NMI fires before 4/5 of the watchdog period has
elapsed then the event is ignored and postponed to the next perf/NMI.
That solves the problem and avoids the overhead of shorter hrtimer periods
and more frequent softlockup thread wakeups.
Fixes: 58687acba5 ("lockup_detector: Combine nmi_watchdog and softlockup detector")
Reported-and-tested-by: Kan Liang <Kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dzickus@redhat.com
Cc: prarit@redhat.com
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: babu.moger@oracle.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: atomlin@redhat.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1708150931310.1886@nanos
