linux-toradex.git/kernel/exit.c, branch v2.6.33.5

do_wait() optimization: do not place sub-threads on task_struct->children list

2009-12-17T23:45:31+00:00

Thanks to Roland who pointed out de_thread() issues.

Currently we add sub-threads to ->real_parent->children list.  This buys
nothing but slows down do_wait().

With this patch ->children contains only main threads (group leaders).
The only complication is that forget_original_parent() should iterate over
sub-threads by hand, and de_thread() needs another list_replace() when it
changes ->group_leader.

Henceforth do_wait_thread() can never see task_detached() && !EXIT_DEAD
tasks, we can remove this check (and we can unify do_wait_thread() and
ptrace_do_wait()).

This change can confuse the optimistic search in mm_update_next_owner(),
but this is fixable and minor.

Perhaps badness() and oom_kill_process() should be updated, but they
should be fixed in any case.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Roland McGrath 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Ratan Nalumasu 
Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched: Convert pi_lock to raw_spinlock

2009-12-14T22:55:33+00:00

Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to
raw_spinlocks.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar

tty: Move the leader test in disassociate

2009-12-11T23:18:08+00:00

There are two call points, both want to check that tty->signal->leader is
set. Move the test into disassociate_ctty() as that will make locking
changes easier in a bit

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block

2009-12-08T16:19:16+00:00

* 'for-2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (113 commits)
  cfq-iosched: Do not access cfqq after freeing it
  block: include linux/err.h to use ERR_PTR
  cfq-iosched: use call_rcu() instead of doing grace period stall on queue exit
  blkio: Allow CFQ group IO scheduling even when CFQ is a module
  blkio: Implement dynamic io controlling policy registration
  blkio: Export some symbols from blkio as its user CFQ can be a module
  block: Fix io_context leak after failure of clone with CLONE_IO
  block: Fix io_context leak after clone with CLONE_IO
  cfq-iosched: make nonrot check logic consistent
  io controller: quick fix for blk-cgroup and modular CFQ
  cfq-iosched: move IO controller declerations to a header file
  cfq-iosched: fix compile problem with !CONFIG_CGROUP
  blkio: Documentation
  blkio: Wait on sync-noidle queue even if rq_noidle = 1
  blkio: Implement group_isolation tunable
  blkio: Determine async workload length based on total number of queues
  blkio: Wait for cfq queue to get backlogged if group is empty
  blkio: Propagate cgroup weight updation to cfq groups
  blkio: Drop the reference to queue once the task changes cgroup
  blkio: Provide some isolation between groups
  ...

Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2009-12-05T23:30:49+00:00

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (35 commits)
  sched, cputime: Introduce thread_group_times()
  sched, cputime: Cleanups related to task_times()
  Revert "sched, x86: Optimize branch hint in __switch_to()"
  sched: Fix isolcpus boot option
  sched: Revert 498657a478c60be092208422fefa9c7b248729c2
  sched, time: Define nsecs_to_jiffies()
  sched: Remove task_{u,s,g}time()
  sched: Introduce task_times() to replace task_{u,s}time() pair
  sched: Limit the number of scheduler debug messages
  sched.c: Call debug_show_all_locks() when dumping all tasks
  sched, x86: Optimize branch hint in __switch_to()
  sched: Optimize branch hint in context_switch()
  sched: Optimize branch hint in pick_next_task_fair()
  sched_feat_write(): Update ppos instead of file->f_pos
  sched: Sched_rt_periodic_timer vs cpu hotplug
  sched, kvm: Fix race condition involving sched_in_preempt_notifers
  sched: More generic WAKE_AFFINE vs select_idle_sibling()
  sched: Cleanup select_task_rq_fair()
  sched: Fix granularity of task_u/stime()
  sched: Fix/add missing update_rq_clock() calls
  ...

block: Fix io_context leak after failure of clone with CLONE_IO

2009-12-04T15:36:18+00:00

With CLONE_IO, parent's io_context->nr_tasks is incremented, but never
decremented whenever copy_process() fails afterwards, which prevents
exit_io_context() from calling IO schedulers exit functions.

Give a task_struct to exit_io_context(), and call exit_io_context() instead of
put_io_context() in copy_process() cleanup path.

Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

sched, cputime: Introduce thread_group_times()

2009-12-02T16:32:40+00:00

This is a real fix for problem of utime/stime values decreasing
described in the thread:

   http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/3/522

Now cputime is accounted in the following way:

 - {u,s}time in task_struct are increased every time when the thread
   is interrupted by a tick (timer interrupt).

 - When a thread exits, its {u,s}time are added to signal->{u,s}time,
   after adjusted by task_times().

 - When all threads in a thread_group exits, accumulated {u,s}time
   (and also c{u,s}time) in signal struct are added to c{u,s}time
   in signal struct of the group's parent.

So {u,s}time in task struct are "raw" tick count, while
{u,s}time and c{u,s}time in signal struct are "adjusted" values.

And accounted values are used by:

 - task_times(), to get cputime of a thread:
   This function returns adjusted values that originates from raw
   {u,s}time and scaled by sum_exec_runtime that accounted by CFS.

 - thread_group_cputime(), to get cputime of a thread group:
   This function returns sum of all {u,s}time of living threads in
   the group, plus {u,s}time in the signal struct that is sum of
   adjusted cputimes of all exited threads belonged to the group.

The problem is the return value of thread_group_cputime(),
because it is mixed sum of "raw" value and "adjusted" value:

  group's {u,s}time = foreach(thread){{u,s}time} + exited({u,s}time)

This misbehavior can break {u,s}time monotonicity.
Assume that if there is a thread that have raw values greater
than adjusted values (e.g. interrupted by 1000Hz ticks 50 times
but only runs 45ms) and if it exits, cputime will decrease (e.g.
-5ms).

To fix this, we could do:

  group's {u,s}time = foreach(t){task_times(t)} + exited({u,s}time)

But task_times() contains hard divisions, so applying it for
every thread should be avoided.

This patch fixes the above problem in the following way:

 - Modify thread's exit (= __exit_signal()) not to use task_times().
   It means {u,s}time in signal struct accumulates raw values instead
   of adjusted values.  As the result it makes thread_group_cputime()
   to return pure sum of "raw" values.

 - Introduce a new function thread_group_times(*task, *utime, *stime)
   that converts "raw" values of thread_group_cputime() to "adjusted"
   values, in same calculation procedure as task_times().

 - Modify group's exit (= wait_task_zombie()) to use this introduced
   thread_group_times().  It make c{u,s}time in signal struct to
   have adjusted values like before this patch.

 - Replace some thread_group_cputime() by thread_group_times().
   This replacements are only applied where conveys the "adjusted"
   cputime to users, and where already uses task_times() near by it.
   (i.e. sys_times(), getrusage(), and /proc//stat.)

This patch have a positive side effect:

 - Before this patch, if a group contains many short-life threads
   (e.g. runs 0.9ms and not interrupted by ticks), the group's
   cputime could be invisible since thread's cputime was accumulated
   after adjusted: imagine adjustment function as adj(ticks, runtime),
     {adj(0, 0.9) + adj(0, 0.9) + ....} = {0 + 0 + ....} = 0.
   After this patch it will not happen because the adjustment is
   applied after accumulated.

v2:
 - remove if()s, put new variables into signal_struct.

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Spencer Candland 
Cc: Americo Wang 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka 
LKML-Reference: <4B162517.8040909@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Remove task_{u,s,g}time()

2009-11-26T11:59:20+00:00

Now all task_{u,s}time() pairs are replaced by task_times().
And task_gtime() is too simple to be an inline function.

Cleanup them all.

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka 
Cc: Spencer Candland 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Americo Wang 
LKML-Reference: <4B0E16D1.70902@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Introduce task_times() to replace task_{u,s}time() pair

2009-11-26T11:59:19+00:00

Functions task_{u,s}time() are called in pair in almost all
cases.  However task_stime() is implemented to call task_utime()
from its inside, so such paired calls run task_utime() twice.

It means we do heavy divisions (div_u64 + do_div) twice to get
utime and stime which can be obtained at same time by one set
of divisions.

This patch introduces a function task_times(*tsk, *utime,
*stime) to retrieve utime and stime at once in better, optimized
way.

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka 
Cc: Spencer Candland 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Americo Wang 
LKML-Reference: <4B0E16AE.906@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'tracing/hw-breakpoints' into perf/core

2009-11-21T13:07:23+00:00

Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
	kernel/trace/Makefile

Merge reason: hw-breakpoints perf integration is looking
              good in testing and in reviews, plus conflicts
              are mounting up - so merge & resolve.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar