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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads" and its fixup commits</title>
<updated>2010-05-26T21:32:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robin Holt</name>
<email>holt@sgi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-11T21:06:46+00:00</published>
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commit 34441427aab4bdb3069a4ffcda69a99357abcb2e upstream.

Originally, commit d899bf7b ("procfs: provide stack information for
threads") attempted to introduce a new feature for showing where the
threadstack was located and how many pages are being utilized by the
stack.

Commit c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") was
applied to fix the NO_MMU case.

Commit 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on
64-bit") was applied to fix a bug in ia32 executables being loaded.

Commit 9ebd4eba7 ("procfs: fix /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/stat stack pointer for kernel
threads") was applied to fix a bug which had kernel threads printing a
userland stack address.

Commit 1306d603f ('proc: partially revert "procfs: provide stack
information for threads"') was then applied to revert the stack pages
being used to solve a significant performance regression.

This patch nearly undoes the effect of all these patches.

The reason for reverting these is it provides an unusable value in
field 28.  For x86_64, a fork will result in the task-&gt;stack_start
value being updated to the current user top of stack and not the stack
start address.  This unpredictability of the stack_start value makes
it worthless.  That includes the intended use of showing how much stack
space a thread has.

Other architectures will get different values.  As an example, ia64
gets 0.  The do_fork() and copy_process() functions appear to treat the
stack_start and stack_size parameters as architecture specific.

I only partially reverted c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage
on NOMMU") .  If I had completely reverted it, I would have had to change
mm/Makefile only build pagewalk.o when CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR is
configured.  Since I could not test the builds without significant effort,
I decided to not change mm/Makefile.

I only partially reverted 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack
information for threads on 64-bit") .  I left the KSTK_ESP() change in
place as that seemed worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt &lt;holt@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Stefani Seibold &lt;stefani@seibold.net&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 34441427aab4bdb3069a4ffcda69a99357abcb2e upstream.

Originally, commit d899bf7b ("procfs: provide stack information for
threads") attempted to introduce a new feature for showing where the
threadstack was located and how many pages are being utilized by the
stack.

Commit c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") was
applied to fix the NO_MMU case.

Commit 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on
64-bit") was applied to fix a bug in ia32 executables being loaded.

Commit 9ebd4eba7 ("procfs: fix /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/stat stack pointer for kernel
threads") was applied to fix a bug which had kernel threads printing a
userland stack address.

Commit 1306d603f ('proc: partially revert "procfs: provide stack
information for threads"') was then applied to revert the stack pages
being used to solve a significant performance regression.

This patch nearly undoes the effect of all these patches.

The reason for reverting these is it provides an unusable value in
field 28.  For x86_64, a fork will result in the task-&gt;stack_start
value being updated to the current user top of stack and not the stack
start address.  This unpredictability of the stack_start value makes
it worthless.  That includes the intended use of showing how much stack
space a thread has.

Other architectures will get different values.  As an example, ia64
gets 0.  The do_fork() and copy_process() functions appear to treat the
stack_start and stack_size parameters as architecture specific.

I only partially reverted c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage
on NOMMU") .  If I had completely reverted it, I would have had to change
mm/Makefile only build pagewalk.o when CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR is
configured.  Since I could not test the builds without significant effort,
I decided to not change mm/Makefile.

I only partially reverted 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack
information for threads on 64-bit") .  I left the KSTK_ESP() change in
place as that seemed worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt &lt;holt@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Stefani Seibold &lt;stefani@seibold.net&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>sched: Fix fork vs hotplug vs cpuset namespaces</title>
<updated>2010-01-21T22:25:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-21T20:04:57+00:00</published>
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There are a number of issues:

1) TASK_WAKING vs cgroup_clone (cpusets)

copy_process():

  sched_fork()
    child-&gt;state = TASK_WAKING; /* waiting for wake_up_new_task() */
  if (current-&gt;nsproxy != p-&gt;nsproxy)
     ns_cgroup_clone()
       cgroup_clone()
         mutex_lock(inode-&gt;i_mutex)
         mutex_lock(cgroup_mutex)
         cgroup_attach_task()
	   ss-&gt;can_attach()
           ss-&gt;attach() [ -&gt; cpuset_attach() ]
             cpuset_attach_task()
               set_cpus_allowed_ptr();
                 while (child-&gt;state == TASK_WAKING)
                   cpu_relax();
will deadlock the system.


2) cgroup_clone (cpusets) vs copy_process

So even if the above would work we still have:

copy_process():

  if (current-&gt;nsproxy != p-&gt;nsproxy)
     ns_cgroup_clone()
       cgroup_clone()
         mutex_lock(inode-&gt;i_mutex)
         mutex_lock(cgroup_mutex)
         cgroup_attach_task()
	   ss-&gt;can_attach()
           ss-&gt;attach() [ -&gt; cpuset_attach() ]
             cpuset_attach_task()
               set_cpus_allowed_ptr();
  ...

  p-&gt;cpus_allowed = current-&gt;cpus_allowed

over-writing the modified cpus_allowed.


3) fork() vs hotplug

  if we unplug the child's cpu after the sanity check when the child
  gets attached to the task_list but before wake_up_new_task() shit
  will meet with fan.

Solve all these issues by moving fork cpu selection into
wake_up_new_task().

Reported-by: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1264106190.4283.1314.camel@laptop&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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There are a number of issues:

1) TASK_WAKING vs cgroup_clone (cpusets)

copy_process():

  sched_fork()
    child-&gt;state = TASK_WAKING; /* waiting for wake_up_new_task() */
  if (current-&gt;nsproxy != p-&gt;nsproxy)
     ns_cgroup_clone()
       cgroup_clone()
         mutex_lock(inode-&gt;i_mutex)
         mutex_lock(cgroup_mutex)
         cgroup_attach_task()
	   ss-&gt;can_attach()
           ss-&gt;attach() [ -&gt; cpuset_attach() ]
             cpuset_attach_task()
               set_cpus_allowed_ptr();
                 while (child-&gt;state == TASK_WAKING)
                   cpu_relax();
will deadlock the system.


2) cgroup_clone (cpusets) vs copy_process

So even if the above would work we still have:

copy_process():

  if (current-&gt;nsproxy != p-&gt;nsproxy)
     ns_cgroup_clone()
       cgroup_clone()
         mutex_lock(inode-&gt;i_mutex)
         mutex_lock(cgroup_mutex)
         cgroup_attach_task()
	   ss-&gt;can_attach()
           ss-&gt;attach() [ -&gt; cpuset_attach() ]
             cpuset_attach_task()
               set_cpus_allowed_ptr();
  ...

  p-&gt;cpus_allowed = current-&gt;cpus_allowed

over-writing the modified cpus_allowed.


3) fork() vs hotplug

  if we unplug the child's cpu after the sanity check when the child
  gets attached to the task_list but before wake_up_new_task() shit
  will meet with fan.

Solve all these issues by moving fork cpu selection into
wake_up_new_task().

Reported-by: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1264106190.4283.1314.camel@laptop&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>do_wait() optimization: do not place sub-threads on task_struct-&gt;children list</title>
<updated>2009-12-17T23:45:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-17T23:27:15+00:00</published>
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Thanks to Roland who pointed out de_thread() issues.

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

With this patch -&gt;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 -&gt;group_leader.

Henceforth do_wait_thread() can never see task_detached() &amp;&amp; !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 &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Ratan Nalumasu &lt;rnalumasu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh &lt;vmayatsk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Thanks to Roland who pointed out de_thread() issues.

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

With this patch -&gt;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 -&gt;group_leader.

Henceforth do_wait_thread() can never see task_detached() &amp;&amp; !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 &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Ratan Nalumasu &lt;rnalumasu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh &lt;vmayatsk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ptrace: copy_process() should disable stepping</title>
<updated>2009-12-16T15:20:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-16T00:47:16+00:00</published>
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If the tracee calls fork() after PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, the forked child
starts with TIF_SINGLESTEP/X86_EFLAGS_TF bits copied from ptraced parent.
This is not right, especially when the new child is not auto-attaced: in
this case it is killed by SIGTRAP.

Change copy_process() to call user_disable_single_step(). Tested on x86.

Test-case:

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;signal.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/ptrace.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/wait.h&gt;
	#include &lt;assert.h&gt;

	int main(void)
	{
		int pid, status;

		if (!(pid = fork())) {
			assert(ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME) == 0);
			kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP);

			if (!fork()) {
				/* kernel bug: this child will be killed by SIGTRAP */
				printf("Hello world\n");
				return 43;
			}

			wait(&amp;status);
			return WEXITSTATUS(status);
		}

		for (;;) {
			assert(pid == wait(&amp;status));
			if (WIFEXITED(status))
				break;
			assert(ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, pid, 0,0) == 0);
		}

		assert(WEXITSTATUS(status) == 43);
		return 0;
	}

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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If the tracee calls fork() after PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, the forked child
starts with TIF_SINGLESTEP/X86_EFLAGS_TF bits copied from ptraced parent.
This is not right, especially when the new child is not auto-attaced: in
this case it is killed by SIGTRAP.

Change copy_process() to call user_disable_single_step(). Tested on x86.

Test-case:

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;signal.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/ptrace.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/wait.h&gt;
	#include &lt;assert.h&gt;

	int main(void)
	{
		int pid, status;

		if (!(pid = fork())) {
			assert(ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME) == 0);
			kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP);

			if (!fork()) {
				/* kernel bug: this child will be killed by SIGTRAP */
				printf("Hello world\n");
				return 43;
			}

			wait(&amp;status);
			return WEXITSTATUS(status);
		}

		for (;;) {
			assert(pid == wait(&amp;status));
			if (WIFEXITED(status))
				break;
			assert(ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, pid, 0,0) == 0);
		}

		assert(WEXITSTATUS(status) == 43);
		return 0;
	}

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>memcg: coalesce uncharge during unmap/truncate</title>
<updated>2009-12-16T15:20:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki</name>
<email>kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-16T00:47:03+00:00</published>
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In massive parallel enviroment, res_counter can be a performance
bottleneck.  One strong techinque to reduce lock contention is reducing
calls by coalescing some amount of calls into one.

Considering charge/uncharge chatacteristic,
	- charge is done one by one via demand-paging.
	- uncharge is done by
		- in chunk at munmap, truncate, exit, execve...
		- one by one via vmscan/paging.

It seems we have a chance to coalesce uncharges for improving scalability
at unmap/truncation.

This patch is a for coalescing uncharge.  For avoiding scattering memcg's
structure to functions under /mm, this patch adds memcg batch uncharge
information to the task.  A reason for per-task batching is for making use
of caller's context information.  We do batched uncharge (deleyed
uncharge) when truncation/unmap occurs but do direct uncharge when
uncharge is called by memory reclaim (vmscan.c).

The degree of coalescing depends on callers
  - at invalidate/trucate... pagevec size
  - at unmap ....ZAP_BLOCK_SIZE
(memory itself will be freed in this degree.)
Then, we'll not coalescing too much.

On x86-64 8cpu server, I tested overheads of memcg at page fault by
running a program which does map/fault/unmap in a loop. Running
a task per a cpu by taskset and see sum of the number of page faults
in 60secs.

[without memcg config]
  40156968  page-faults              #      0.085 M/sec   ( +-   0.046% )
  27.67 cache-miss/faults
[root cgroup]
  36659599  page-faults              #      0.077 M/sec   ( +-   0.247% )
  31.58 miss/faults
[in a child cgroup]
  18444157  page-faults              #      0.039 M/sec   ( +-   0.133% )
  69.96 miss/faults
[child with this patch]
  27133719  page-faults              #      0.057 M/sec   ( +-   0.155% )
  47.16 miss/faults

We can see some amounts of improvement.
(root cgroup doesn't affected by this patch)
Another patch for "charge" will follow this and above will be improved more.

Changelog(since 2009/10/02):
 - renamed filed of memcg_batch (as pages to bytes, memsw to memsw_bytes)
 - some clean up and commentary/description updates.
 - added initialize code to copy_process(). (possible bug fix)

Changelog(old):
 - fixed !CONFIG_MEM_CGROUP case.
 - rebased onto the latest mmotm + softlimit fix patches.
 - unified patch for callers
 - added commetns.
 - make -&gt;do_batch as bool.
 - removed css_get() at el. We don't need it.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Balbir Singh &lt;balbir@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura &lt;nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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In massive parallel enviroment, res_counter can be a performance
bottleneck.  One strong techinque to reduce lock contention is reducing
calls by coalescing some amount of calls into one.

Considering charge/uncharge chatacteristic,
	- charge is done one by one via demand-paging.
	- uncharge is done by
		- in chunk at munmap, truncate, exit, execve...
		- one by one via vmscan/paging.

It seems we have a chance to coalesce uncharges for improving scalability
at unmap/truncation.

This patch is a for coalescing uncharge.  For avoiding scattering memcg's
structure to functions under /mm, this patch adds memcg batch uncharge
information to the task.  A reason for per-task batching is for making use
of caller's context information.  We do batched uncharge (deleyed
uncharge) when truncation/unmap occurs but do direct uncharge when
uncharge is called by memory reclaim (vmscan.c).

The degree of coalescing depends on callers
  - at invalidate/trucate... pagevec size
  - at unmap ....ZAP_BLOCK_SIZE
(memory itself will be freed in this degree.)
Then, we'll not coalescing too much.

On x86-64 8cpu server, I tested overheads of memcg at page fault by
running a program which does map/fault/unmap in a loop. Running
a task per a cpu by taskset and see sum of the number of page faults
in 60secs.

[without memcg config]
  40156968  page-faults              #      0.085 M/sec   ( +-   0.046% )
  27.67 cache-miss/faults
[root cgroup]
  36659599  page-faults              #      0.077 M/sec   ( +-   0.247% )
  31.58 miss/faults
[in a child cgroup]
  18444157  page-faults              #      0.039 M/sec   ( +-   0.133% )
  69.96 miss/faults
[child with this patch]
  27133719  page-faults              #      0.057 M/sec   ( +-   0.155% )
  47.16 miss/faults

We can see some amounts of improvement.
(root cgroup doesn't affected by this patch)
Another patch for "charge" will follow this and above will be improved more.

Changelog(since 2009/10/02):
 - renamed filed of memcg_batch (as pages to bytes, memsw to memsw_bytes)
 - some clean up and commentary/description updates.
 - added initialize code to copy_process(). (possible bug fix)

Changelog(old):
 - fixed !CONFIG_MEM_CGROUP case.
 - rebased onto the latest mmotm + softlimit fix patches.
 - unified patch for callers
 - added commetns.
 - make -&gt;do_batch as bool.
 - removed css_get() at el. We don't need it.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Balbir Singh &lt;balbir@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura &lt;nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>sched: Convert pi_lock to raw_spinlock</title>
<updated>2009-12-14T22:55:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-17T13:54:03+00:00</published>
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Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to
raw_spinlocks.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to
raw_spinlocks.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block</title>
<updated>2009-12-08T16:19:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-08T16:19:16+00:00</published>
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* '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
  ...
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* '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
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2009-12-08T16:02:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-08T16:02:38+00:00</published>
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* 'kvm-updates/2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (84 commits)
  KVM: VMX: Fix comparison of guest efer with stale host value
  KVM: s390: Fix prefix register checking in arch/s390/kvm/sigp.c
  KVM: Drop user return notifier when disabling virtualization on a cpu
  KVM: VMX: Disable unrestricted guest when EPT disabled
  KVM: x86 emulator: limit instructions to 15 bytes
  KVM: s390: Make psw available on all exits, not just a subset
  KVM: x86: Add KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTS
  KVM: VMX: Report unexpected simultaneous exceptions as internal errors
  KVM: Allow internal errors reported to userspace to carry extra data
  KVM: Reorder IOCTLs in main kvm.h
  KVM: x86: Polish exception injection via KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG
  KVM: only clear irq_source_id if irqchip is present
  KVM: x86: disallow KVM_{SET,GET}_LAPIC without allocated in-kernel lapic
  KVM: x86: disallow multiple KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP
  KVM: VMX: Remove vmx-&gt;msr_offset_efer
  KVM: MMU: update invlpg handler comment
  KVM: VMX: move CR3/PDPTR update to vmx_set_cr3
  KVM: remove duplicated task_switch check
  KVM: powerpc: Fix BUILD_BUG_ON condition
  KVM: VMX: Use shared msr infrastructure
  ...

Trivial conflicts due to new Kconfig options in arch/Kconfig and kernel/Makefile
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* 'kvm-updates/2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (84 commits)
  KVM: VMX: Fix comparison of guest efer with stale host value
  KVM: s390: Fix prefix register checking in arch/s390/kvm/sigp.c
  KVM: Drop user return notifier when disabling virtualization on a cpu
  KVM: VMX: Disable unrestricted guest when EPT disabled
  KVM: x86 emulator: limit instructions to 15 bytes
  KVM: s390: Make psw available on all exits, not just a subset
  KVM: x86: Add KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTS
  KVM: VMX: Report unexpected simultaneous exceptions as internal errors
  KVM: Allow internal errors reported to userspace to carry extra data
  KVM: Reorder IOCTLs in main kvm.h
  KVM: x86: Polish exception injection via KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG
  KVM: only clear irq_source_id if irqchip is present
  KVM: x86: disallow KVM_{SET,GET}_LAPIC without allocated in-kernel lapic
  KVM: x86: disallow multiple KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP
  KVM: VMX: Remove vmx-&gt;msr_offset_efer
  KVM: MMU: update invlpg handler comment
  KVM: VMX: move CR3/PDPTR update to vmx_set_cr3
  KVM: remove duplicated task_switch check
  KVM: powerpc: Fix BUILD_BUG_ON condition
  KVM: VMX: Use shared msr infrastructure
  ...

Trivial conflicts due to new Kconfig options in arch/Kconfig and kernel/Makefile
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<entry>
<title>block: Fix io_context leak after failure of clone with CLONE_IO</title>
<updated>2009-12-04T15:36:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Louis Rilling</name>
<email>louis.rilling@kerlabs.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-04T13:52:42+00:00</published>
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With CLONE_IO, parent's io_context-&gt;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 &lt;louis.rilling@kerlabs.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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With CLONE_IO, parent's io_context-&gt;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 &lt;louis.rilling@kerlabs.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge remote branch 'tip/x86/entry' into kvm-updates/2.6.33</title>
<updated>2009-12-03T07:30:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Avi Kivity</name>
<email>avi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-03T07:30:06+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
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