Improve the debuggability of kernel lockups by enhancing the debug
output of the softlockup detector: print the task that causes the lockup
and try to print a more intelligent backtrace.
The old format was:
BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1!
[<c0105e4a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x19/0x2e
[<c0105f43>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
[<c0105f59>] dump_stack+0x14/0x16
[<c015f6bc>] softlockup_tick+0xbe/0xd0
[<c013457d>] run_local_timers+0x12/0x14
[<c01346b8>] update_process_times+0x3e/0x63
[<c0145fb8>] tick_sched_timer+0x7c/0xc0
[<c0140a75>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x135/0x1ba
[<c011bde7>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6e/0x80
[<c0105aa3>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x33/0x38
[<c0104f8a>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
=======================
The new format is:
BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1! [prctl:2363]
Pid: 2363, comm: prctl
EIP: 0060:[<c013915f>] CPU: 1
EIP is at sys_prctl+0x24/0x18c
EFLAGS: 00000213 Not tainted (2.6.22-cfs-v20 #26)
EAX: 00000001 EBX: 000003e7 ECX: 00000001 EDX: f6df0000
ESI: 000003e7 EDI: 000003e7 EBP: f6df0fb0 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8
CR0: 8005003b CR2: 4d8c3340 CR3: 3731d000 CR4: 000006d0
[<c0105e4a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x19/0x2e
[<c0105f43>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
[<c01040be>] show_regs+0x1ab/0x1b3
[<c015f807>] softlockup_tick+0xef/0x108
[<c013457d>] run_local_timers+0x12/0x14
[<c01346b8>] update_process_times+0x3e/0x63
[<c0145fcc>] tick_sched_timer+0x7c/0xc0
[<c0140a89>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x135/0x1ba
[<c011bde7>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6e/0x80
[<c0105aa3>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x33/0x38
[<c0104f8a>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
=======================
Note that in the old format we only knew that some system call locked
up, we didnt know _which_. With the new format we know that it's at a
specific place in sys_prctl(). [which was where i created an artificial
kernel lockup to test the new format.]
This is also useful if the lockup happens in user-space - the user-space
EIP (and other registers) will be printed too. (such a lockup would
either suggest that the task was running at SCHED_FIFO:99 and looping
for more than 10 seconds, or that the softlockup detector has a
false-positive.)
The task name is printed too first, just in case we dont manage to print
a useful backtrace.
[satyam@infradead.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
this Xen related commit:
commit 966812dc98
Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Date: Tue May 8 00:28:02 2007 -0700
Ignore stolen time in the softlockup watchdog
broke the softlockup watchdog to never report any lockups. (!)
print_timestamp defaults to 0, this makes the following condition
always true:
if (print_timestamp < (touch_timestamp + 1) ||
and we'll in essence never report soft lockups.
apparently the functionality of the soft lockup watchdog was never
actually tested with that patch applied ...
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
sched_clock() is not a reliable time-source, use cpu_clock() instead.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Instead of testing for overlap in the memory nodes of the the nearest
exclusive ancestor of both current and the candidate task, it is better to
simply test for intersection between the task's mems_allowed in their task
descriptors. This does not require taking callback_mutex since it is only
used as a hint in the badness scoring.
Tasks that do not have an intersection in their mems_allowed with the current
task are not explicitly restricted from being OOM killed because it is quite
possible that the candidate task has allocated memory there before and has
since changed its mems_allowed.
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adds a new sysctl, 'oom_kill_allocating_task', which will automatically kill
the OOM-triggering task instead of scanning through the tasklist to find a
memory-hogging target. This is helpful for systems with an insanely large
number of tasks where scanning the tasklist significantly degrades
performance.
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Slab constructors currently have a flags parameter that is never used. And
the order of the arguments is opposite to other slab functions. The object
pointer is placed before the kmem_cache pointer.
Convert
ctor(void *object, struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned long flags)
to
ctor(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)
throughout the kernel
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coupla fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Based on ideas of Andrew:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=102912915020543&w=2
Scale the bdi dirty limit inversly with the tasks dirty rate.
This makes heavy writers have a lower dirty limit than the occasional writer.
Andrea proposed something similar:
http://lwn.net/Articles/152277/
The main disadvantage to his patch is that he uses an unrelated quantity to
measure time, which leaves him with a workload dependant tunable. Other than
that the two approaches appear quite similar.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Scale writeback cache per backing device, proportional to its writeout speed.
By decoupling the BDI dirty thresholds a number of problems we currently have
will go away, namely:
- mutual interference starvation (for any number of BDIs);
- deadlocks with stacked BDIs (loop, FUSE and local NFS mounts).
It might be that all dirty pages are for a single BDI while other BDIs are
idling. By giving each BDI a 'fair' share of the dirty limit, each one can have
dirty pages outstanding and make progress.
A global threshold also creates a deadlock for stacked BDIs; when A writes to
B, and A generates enough dirty pages to get throttled, B will never start
writeback until the dirty pages go away. Again, by giving each BDI its own
'independent' dirty limit, this problem is avoided.
So the problem is to determine how to distribute the total dirty limit across
the BDIs fairly and efficiently. A DBI that has a large dirty limit but does
not have any dirty pages outstanding is a waste.
What is done is to keep a floating proportion between the DBIs based on
writeback completions. This way faster/more active devices get a larger share
than slower/idle devices.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[hugh@veritas.com: Fix occasional hang when a task couldn't get out of balance_dirty_pages]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
improve performance of sys_time(). sys_time() returns time in seconds,
but it does so by calling do_gettimeofday() and then returning the
tv_sec portion of the GTOD time. But the data structure "xtime", which
is updated by every timer/scheduler tick, already offers HZ granularity
time.
the patch improves the sysbench oltp macrobenchmark by 4-5% on an AMD
dual-core system:
v2.6.23:
#threads
1: transactions: 4073 (407.23 per sec.)
2: transactions: 8530 (852.81 per sec.)
3: transactions: 8321 (831.88 per sec.)
4: transactions: 8407 (840.58 per sec.)
5: transactions: 8070 (806.74 per sec.)
v2.6.23 + sys_time-speedup.patch:
1: transactions: 4281 (428.09 per sec.)
2: transactions: 8910 (890.85 per sec.)
3: transactions: 8659 (865.79 per sec.)
4: transactions: 8676 (867.34 per sec.)
5: transactions: 8532 (852.91 per sec.)
and by 4-5% on an Intel dual-core system too:
2.6.23:
1: transactions: 4560 (455.94 per sec.)
2: transactions: 10094 (1009.30 per sec.)
3: transactions: 9755 (975.36 per sec.)
4: transactions: 9859 (985.78 per sec.)
5: transactions: 9701 (969.72 per sec.)
2.6.23 + sys_time-speedup.patch:
1: transactions: 4779 (477.84 per sec.)
2: transactions: 10103 (1010.14 per sec.)
3: transactions: 10141 (1013.93 per sec.)
4: transactions: 10371 (1036.89 per sec.)
5: transactions: 10178 (1017.50 per sec.)
(the more CPUs the system has, the more speedup this patch gives for
this particular workload.)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce architecture dependent kretprobe blacklists to prohibit users
from inserting return probes on the function in which kprobes can be
inserted but kretprobes can not.
This patch also removes "__kprobes" mark from "__switch_to" on x86_64 and
registers "__switch_to" to the blacklist on x86-64, because that mark is to
prohibit user from inserting only kretprobe.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the cpuset hooks that defined sched domains depending on the setting
of the 'cpu_exclusive' flag.
The cpu_exclusive flag can only be set on a child if it is set on the
parent.
This made that flag painfully unsuitable for use as a flag defining a
partitioning of a system.
It was entirely unobvious to a cpuset user what partitioning of sched
domains they would be causing when they set that one cpu_exclusive bit on
one cpuset, because it depended on what CPUs were in the remainder of that
cpusets siblings and child cpusets, after subtracting out other
cpu_exclusive cpusets.
Furthermore, there was no way on production systems to query the
result.
Using the cpu_exclusive flag for this was simply wrong from the get go.
Fortunately, it was sufficiently borked that so far as I know, almost no
successful use has been made of this. One real time group did use it to
affectively isolate CPUs from any load balancing efforts. They are willing
to adapt to alternative mechanisms for this, such as someway to manipulate
the list of isolated CPUs on a running system. They can do without this
present cpu_exclusive based mechanism while we develop an alternative.
There is a real risk, to the best of my understanding, of users
accidentally setting up a partitioned scheduler domains, inhibiting desired
load balancing across all their CPUs, due to the nonobvious (from the
cpuset perspective) side affects of the cpu_exclusive flag.
Furthermore, since there was no way on a running system to see what one was
doing with sched domains, this change will be invisible to any using code.
Unless they have real insight to the scheduler load balancing choices, they
will be unable to detect that this change has been made in the kernel's
behaviour.
Initial discussion on lkml of this patch has generated much comment. My
(probably controversial) take on that discussion is that it has reached a
rough concensus that the current cpuset cpu_exclusive mechanism for
defining sched domains is borked. There is no concensus on the
replacement. But since we can remove this mechanism, and since its
continued presence risks causing unwanted partitioning of the schedulers
load balancing, we should remove it while we can, as we proceed to work the
replacement scheduler domain mechanisms.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Convert m32r to the generic sys_ptrace. The conversion requires an
architecture hook after ptrace_attach which this patch adds. The hook
will also be needed for a conersion of ia64 to the generic ptrace code.
Thanks to Hirokazu Takata for fixing a bug in the first version of this
code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The maximum size of the huge page pool can be controlled using the overall
size of the hugetlb filesystem (via its 'size' mount option). However in the
common case the this will not be set as the pool is traditionally fixed in
size at boot time. In order to maintain the expected semantics, we need to
prevent the pool expanding by default.
This patch introduces a new sysctl controlling dynamic pool resizing. When
this is enabled the pool will expand beyond its base size up to the size of
the hugetlb filesystem. It is disabled by default.
Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Acked-by: Dave McCracken <dave.mccracken@oracle.com>
Cc: William Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A clean up patch for "scanning memory resource [start, end)" operation.
Now, find_next_system_ram() function is used in memory hotplug, but this
interface is not easy to use and codes are complicated.
This patch adds walk_memory_resouce(start,len,arg,func) function.
The function 'func' is called per valid memory resouce range in [start,pfn).
[pbadari@us.ibm.com: Error handling in walk_memory_resource()]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch marks a number of allocations that are either short-lived such as
network buffers or are reclaimable such as inode allocations. When something
like updatedb is called, long-lived and unmovable kernel allocations tend to
be spread throughout the address space which increases fragmentation.
This patch groups these allocations together as much as possible by adding a
new MIGRATE_TYPE. The MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE type is for allocations that can be
reclaimed on demand, but not moved. i.e. they can be migrated by deleting
them and re-reading the information from elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
cpusets try to ensure that any node added to a cpuset's mems_allowed is
on-line and contains memory. The assumption was that online nodes contained
memory. Thus, it is possible to add memoryless nodes to a cpuset and then add
tasks to this cpuset. This results in continuous series of oom-kill and
apparent system hang.
Change cpusets to use node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY] [a.k.a. node_memory_map] in
place of node_online_map when vetting memories. Return error if admin
attempts to write a non-empty mems_allowed node mask containing only
memoryless-nodes.
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Processors on memoryless nodes must be able to fall back to remote nodes in
order to get a profiling buffer. This may lead to excessive NUMA traffic but
I think we should allow this rather than failing.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
x86(-64) are the last architectures still using the page fault notifier
cruft for the kprobes page fault hook. This patch converts them to the
proper direct calls, and removes the now unused pagefault notifier bits
aswell as the cruft in kprobes.c that was related to this mess.
I know Andi didn't really like this, but all other architecture maintainers
agreed the direct calls are much better and besides the obvious cruft
removal a common way of dealing with kprobes across architectures is
important aswell.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc64]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Convert cpu_sibling_map from a static array sized by NR_CPUS to a per_cpu
variable. This saves sizeof(cpumask_t) * NR unused cpus. Access is mostly
from startup and CPU HOTPLUG functions.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Optionally add a boot delay after each kernel printk() call, crudely
measured in milliseconds, with a maximum delay of 10 seconds per printk.
Enable CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY=y and then add (e.g.):
"lpj=loops_per_jiffy boot_delay=100"
to the kernel command line.
It has been useful in cases like "during boot, my machine just reboots or the
screen goes black" by slowing down printk, (and adding initcall_debug), we can
usually see the last thing that happened before the lights went out which is
usually a valuable clue.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: not all architectures implement CONFIG_HZ]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix lots of stuff]
[bunk@stusta.de: kernel/printk.c: make 2 variables static]
[heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: fix slow down printk on boot compile error]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Identical handlers of PTRACE_DETACH go into ptrace_request().
Not touching compat code.
Not touching archs that don't call ptrace_request.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6: (131 commits)
NFSv4: Fix a typo in nfs_inode_reclaim_delegation
NFS: Add a boot parameter to disable 64 bit inode numbers
NFS: nfs_refresh_inode should clear cache_validity flags on success
NFS: Fix a connectathon regression in NFSv3 and NFSv4
NFS: Use nfs_refresh_inode() in ops that aren't expected to change the inode
SUNRPC: Don't call xprt_release in call refresh
SUNRPC: Don't call xprt_release() if call_allocate fails
SUNRPC: Fix buggy UDP transmission
[23/37] Clean up duplicate includes in
[2.6 patch] net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c: make struct rpcb_program static
SUNRPC: Use correct type in buffer length calculations
SUNRPC: Fix default hostname created in rpc_create()
nfs: add server port to rpc_pipe info file
NFS: Get rid of some obsolete macros
NFS: Simplify filehandle revalidation
NFS: Ensure that nfs_link() returns a hashed dentry
NFS: Be strict about dentry revalidation when doing exclusive create
NFS: Don't zap the readdir caches upon error
NFS: Remove the redundant nfs_reval_fsid()
NFSv3: Always use directory post-op attributes in nfs3_proc_lookup
...
Fix up trivial conflict due to sock_owned_by_user() cleanup manually in
net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
make sure sync wakeups preempt too - the scheduler will not
overschedule as we've got various throttles against that.
As a result, sync wakeups can be used more widely in the kernel
(to signal wakeup affinity between tasks), and no arbitrary
latencies will be introduced either.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
make sync wakeups affine for cache-cold tasks: if a cache-cold task
is woken up by a sync wakeup then use the opportunity to migrate it
straight away. (the two tasks are 'related' because they communicate)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
modify account_system_time() to add cputime to cpustat->guest if we are
running a VCPU. We add this cputime to cpustat->user instead of
cpustat->system because this part of KVM code is in fact user code
although it is executed in the kernel. We duplicate VCPU time between
guest and user to allow an unmodified "top(1)" to display correct value.
A modified "top(1)" is able to display good cpu user time and cpu guest
time by subtracting cpu guest time from cpu user time. Update "gtime" in
task_struct accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
like for cpustat, introduce the "gtime" (guest time of the task) and
"cgtime" (guest time of the task children) fields for the
tasks. Modify signal_struct and task_struct.
Modify /proc/<pid>/stat to display these new fields.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Acked-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
we had an incorrect-terminator bug in sd_alloc_ctl_domain_table()
before, so add a comment that documents it.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Now that we are calling this at runtime, a more relaxed error path is
suggested. If an allocation fails, we just register the partial table,
which will show empty directories.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Unregister and free the sysctl table before destroying domains, then
rebuild and register after creating the new domains. This prevents the
sysctl table from pointing to freed memory for root to write.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
init_sched_domain_sysctl was walking cpus 0-n and referencing per_cpu
variables. If the cpus_possible mask is not contigious this will result
in a crash referencing unallocated data. If the online mask is not
contigious then we would show offline cpus and miss online ones.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kcalloc checks for n * sizeof(element) overflows and it zeros.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In general, struct file_operations are const in the kernel, to not have
false cacheline sharing and to catch bugs at compiletime with accidental
writes to them. The new scheduler code introduces a new non-const one;
fix this up.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
activate task_hot() only for fair-scheduled tasks (i.e. disable it
for RT tasks).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
reintroduce a simplified version of cache-hot/cold scheduling
affinity. This improves performance with certain SMP workloads,
such as sysbench.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
speed up context-switches a bit by not clearing p->exec_start.
(as a side-effect, this also makes p->exec_start a universal timestamp
available to cache-hot estimations.)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Generate uevents when a user is being created/destroyed. These events
can be used to configure cpu share of a new user.
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
do not normalize kernel threads via SysRq-N: the migration threads,
softlockup threads, etc. might be essential for the system to
function properly. So only zap user tasks.
pointed out by Andi Kleen.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
remove stale comment from sched_group_set_shares().
Function never returns -EINVAL.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Replace a particularly ugly ifdef with an inline and a new macro.
Also split up the function to be easier to read.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Refactor common code of sleep_on / wait_for_completion
These functions were largely cut'n'pasted. This moves
the common code into single helpers instead. Advantage
is about 1k less code on x86-64 and 91 lines of code removed.
It adds one function call to the non timeout version of
the functions; i don't expect this to be measurable.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Prevent wakeup over-scheduling. Once a task has been preempted by a
task of the same or lower priority, it becomes ineligible for repeated
preemption by same until it has been ticked, or slept. Instead, the
task is marked for preemption at the next tick. Tasks of higher
priority still preempt immediately.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Implement feature bit to disable forced preemption. This way
it can be checked whether a workload is overscheduling or not.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
