We need to launch the usermodehelper kernel threads with the widest affinity and this is partly why we use khelper. This workqueue has unbound properties and thus a wide affinity inherited by all its children. Now khelper also has special properties that we aren't much interested in: ordered and singlethread. There is really no need about ordering as all we do is creating kernel threads. This can be done concurrently. And singlethread is a useless limitation as well. The workqueue engine already proposes generic unbound workqueues that don't share these useless properties and handle well parallel jobs. The only worrysome specific is their affinity to the node of the current CPU. It's fine for creating the usermodehelper kernel threads but those inherit this affinity for longer jobs such as requesting modules. This patch proposes to use these node affine unbound workqueues assuming that a node is sufficient to handle several parallel usermodehelper requests. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Dave Hansen reported the following;
My laptop has been behaving strangely with 4.2-rc2. Once I log
in to my X session, I start getting all kinds of strange errors
from applications and see this in my dmesg:
VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached
The problem is that the file-max is calculated before memory is fully
initialised and miscalculates how much memory the kernel is using. This
patch recalculates file-max after deferred memory initialisation. Note
that using memory hotplug infrastructure would not have avoided this
problem as the value is not recalculated after memory hot-add.
4.1: files_stat.max_files = 6582781
4.2-rc2: files_stat.max_files = 8192
4.2-rc2 patched: files_stat.max_files = 6562467
Small differences with the patch applied and 4.1 but not enough to matter.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Alex Ng <alexng@microsoft.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Waiman Long reported that 24TB machines hit OOM during basic setup when struct page initialisation was deferred. One approach is to initialise memory on demand but it interferes with page allocator paths. This patch creates dedicated threads to initialise memory before basic setup. It then blocks on a rw_semaphore until completion as a wait_queue and counter is overkill. This may be slower to boot but it's simplier overall and also gets rid of a section mangling which existed so kswapd could do the initialisation. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: include rwsem.h, use DECLARE_RWSEM, fix comment, remove unneeded cast] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com Cc: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Scott Norton <scott.norton@hp.com> Tested-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com> 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 driver core / firmware changes for 4.2-rc1. A number of small changes all over the place in the driver core, and in the firmware subsystem. Nothing really major, full details in the shortlog. Some of it is a bit of churn, given that the platform driver probing changes was found to not work well, so they were reverted. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'driver-core-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (31 commits) Revert "base/platform: Only insert MEM and IO resources" Revert "base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error" Revert "of/platform: Use platform_device interface" Revert "base/platform: Remove code duplication" firmware: add missing kfree for work on async call fs: sysfs: don't pass count == 0 to bin file readers base:dd - Fix for typo in comment to function driver_deferred_probe_trigger(). base/platform: Remove code duplication of/platform: Use platform_device interface base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error base/platform: Only insert MEM and IO resources firmware: use const for remaining firmware names firmware: fix possible use after free on name on asynchronous request firmware: check for file truncation on direct firmware loading firmware: fix __getname() missing failure check drivers: of/base: move of_init to driver_init drivers/base: cacheinfo: fix annoying typo when DT nodes are absent sysfs: disambiguate between "error code" and "failure" in comments driver-core: fix build for !CONFIG_MODULES driver-core: make __device_attach() static ...
Commit 73f7d1ca3263 "ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before timekeeping_init()" moved the ACPI subsystem initialization, including the ACPI mode enabling, to an earlier point in the initialization sequence, to allow the timekeeping subsystem use ACPI early. Unfortunately, that resulted in boot regressions on some systems and the early ACPI initialization was moved toward its original position in the kernel initialization code by commit c4e1acbb35e4 "ACPI / init: Invoke early ACPI initialization later". However, that turns out to be insufficient, as boot is still broken on the Tyan S8812 mainboard. To fix that issue, split the ACPI early initialization code into two pieces so the majority of it still located in acpi_early_init() and the part switching over the platform into the ACPI mode goes into a new function, acpi_subsystem_init(), executed at the original early ACPI initialization spot. That fixes the Tyan S8812 boot problem, but still allows ACPI tables to be loaded earlier which is useful to the EFI code in efi_enter_virtual_mode(). Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97141 Fixes: 73f7d1ca3263 "ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before timekeeping_init()" Reported-and-tested-by: Marius Tolzmann <tolzmann@molgen.mpg.de> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
This adds an extra argument onto parse_params() to be used
as a way to make the unused callback a bit more useful and
generic by allowing the caller to pass on a data structure
of its choice. An example use case is to allow us to easily
make module parameters for every module which we will do
next.
@ parse @
identifier name, args, params, num, level_min, level_max;
identifier unknown, param, val, doing;
type s16;
@@
extern char *parse_args(const char *name,
char *args,
const struct kernel_param *params,
unsigned num,
s16 level_min,
s16 level_max,
+ void *arg,
int (*unknown)(char *param, char *val,
const char *doing
+ , void *arg
));
@ parse_mod @
identifier name, args, params, num, level_min, level_max;
identifier unknown, param, val, doing;
type s16;
@@
char *parse_args(const char *name,
char *args,
const struct kernel_param *params,
unsigned num,
s16 level_min,
s16 level_max,
+ void *arg,
int (*unknown)(char *param, char *val,
const char *doing
+ , void *arg
))
{
...
}
@ parse_args_found @
expression R, E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6;
identifier func;
@@
(
R =
parse_args(E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6,
+ NULL,
func);
|
R =
parse_args(E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6,
+ NULL,
&func);
|
R =
parse_args(E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6,
+ NULL,
NULL);
|
parse_args(E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6,
+ NULL,
func);
|
parse_args(E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6,
+ NULL,
&func);
|
parse_args(E1, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6,
+ NULL,
NULL);
)
@ parse_args_unused depends on parse_args_found @
identifier parse_args_found.func;
@@
int func(char *param, char *val, const char *unused
+ , void *arg
)
{
...
}
@ mod_unused depends on parse_args_found @
identifier parse_args_found.func;
expression A1, A2, A3;
@@
- func(A1, A2, A3);
+ func(A1, A2, A3, NULL);
Generated-by: Coccinelle SmPL
Cc: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Ewan Milne <emilne@redhat.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
PAGE_SIZE is not guaranteed to be equal to or less than 8 times the THREAD_SIZE. E.g. architecture hexagon may have page size 1M and thread size 4096. This would lead to a division by zero in the calculation of max_threads. With this patch the buggy code is moved to a separate function set_max_threads. The error is not fixed. After fixing the problem in a separate patch the new function can be reused to adjust max_threads after adding or removing memory. Argument mempages of function fork_init() is removed as totalram_pages is an exported symbol. The creation of separate patches for refactoring to a new function and for fixing the logic was suggested by Ingo Molnar. Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge first patchbomb from Andrew Morton: - arch/sh updates - ocfs2 updates - kernel/watchdog feature - about half of mm/ * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (122 commits) Documentation: update arch list in the 'memtest' entry Kconfig: memtest: update number of test patterns up to 17 arm: add support for memtest arm64: add support for memtest memtest: use phys_addr_t for physical addresses mm: move memtest under mm mm, hugetlb: abort __get_user_pages if current has been oom killed mm, mempool: do not allow atomic resizing memcg: print cgroup information when system panics due to panic_on_oom mm: numa: remove migrate_ratelimited mm: fold arch_randomize_brk into ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE mm: split ET_DYN ASLR from mmap ASLR s390: redefine randomize_et_dyn for ELF_ET_DYN_BASE mm: expose arch_mmap_rnd when available s390: standardize mmap_rnd() usage powerpc: standardize mmap_rnd() usage mips: extract logic for mmap_rnd() arm64: standardize mmap_rnd() usage x86: standardize mmap_rnd() usage arm: factor out mmap ASLR into mmap_rnd ...
Add ioremap_pud_enabled() and ioremap_pmd_enabled(), which return 1 when I/O mappings with pud/pmd are enabled on the kernel. ioremap_huge_init() calls arch_ioremap_pud_supported() and arch_ioremap_pmd_supported() to initialize the capabilities at boot-time. A new kernel option "nohugeiomap" is also added, so that user can disable the huge I/O map capabilities when necessary. Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Robert Elliott <Elliott@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- changes permitting use of call_rcu() and friends very early in
boot, for example, before rcu_init() is invoked.
- add in-kernel API to enable and disable expediting of normal RCU
grace periods.
- improve RCU's handling of (hotplug-) outgoing CPUs.
- NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE fixes.
- tiny-RCU updates to make it more tiny.
- documentation updates.
- miscellaneous fixes"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (58 commits)
cpu: Provide smpboot_thread_init() on !CONFIG_SMP kernels as well
cpu: Defer smpboot kthread unparking until CPU known to scheduler
rcu: Associate quiescent-state reports with grace period
rcu: Yet another fix for preemption and CPU hotplug
rcu: Add diagnostics to grace-period cleanup
rcutorture: Default to grace-period-initialization delays
rcu: Handle outgoing CPUs on exit from idle loop
cpu: Make CPU-offline idle-loop transition point more precise
rcu: Eliminate ->onoff_mutex from rcu_node structure
rcu: Process offlining and onlining only at grace-period start
rcu: Move rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() to common code
rcu: Rework preemptible expedited bitmask handling
rcu: Remove event tracing from rcu_cpu_notify(), used by offline CPUs
rcutorture: Enable slow grace-period initializations
rcu: Provide diagnostic option to slow down grace-period initialization
rcu: Detect stalls caused by failure to propagate up rcu_node tree
rcu: Eliminate empty HOTPLUG_CPU ifdef
rcu: Simplify sync_rcu_preempt_exp_init()
rcu: Put all orphan-callback-related code under same comment
rcu: Consolidate offline-CPU callback initialization
...