linux-toradex.git/kernel/fork.c, branch v3.14.3

exec: kill task_struct->did_exec

2014-01-24T00:37:02+00:00

We can kill either task->did_exec or PF_FORKNOEXEC, they are mutually
exclusive.  The patch kills ->did_exec because it has a single user.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/fork.c: remove redundant NULL check in dup_mm()

2014-01-24T00:37:02+00:00

current->mm doesn't need a NULL check in dup_mm().  Becasue dup_mm() is
used only in copy_mm() and current->mm is checked whether it is NULL or
not in copy_mm() before calling dup_mm().

Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn 
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/fork.c: fix coding style issues

2014-01-24T00:37:02+00:00

Fix errors reported by checkpatch.pl.  One error is parentheses, the other
is a whitespace issue.

Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/fork.c: make dup_mm() static

2014-01-24T00:37:02+00:00

dup_mm() is used only in kernel/fork.c

Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

introduce for_each_thread() to replace the buggy while_each_thread()

2014-01-22T00:19:46+00:00

while_each_thread() and next_thread() should die, almost every lockless
usage is wrong.

1. Unless g == current, the lockless while_each_thread() is not safe.

   while_each_thread(g, t) can loop forever if g exits, next_thread()
   can't reach the unhashed thread in this case. Note that this can
   happen even if g is the group leader, it can exec.

2. Even if while_each_thread() itself was correct, people often use
   it wrongly.

   It was never safe to just take rcu_read_lock() and loop unless
   you verify that pid_alive(g) == T, even the first next_thread()
   can point to the already freed/reused memory.

This patch adds signal_struct->thread_head and task->thread_node to
create the normal rcu-safe list with the stable head.  The new
for_each_thread(g, t) helper is always safe under rcu_read_lock() as
long as this task_struct can't go away.

Note: of course it is ugly to have both task_struct->thread_node and the
old task_struct->thread_group, we will kill it later, after we change
the users of while_each_thread() to use for_each_thread().

Perhaps we can kill it even before we convert all users, we can
reimplement next_thread(t) using the new thread_head/thread_node.  But
we can't do this right now because this will lead to subtle behavioural
changes.  For example, do/while_each_thread() always sees at least one
task, while for_each_thread() can do nothing if the whole thread group
has died.  Or thread_group_empty(), currently its semantics is not clear
unless thread_group_leader(p) and we need to audit the callers before we
can change it.

So this patch adds the new interface which has to coexist with the old
one for some time, hopefully the next changes will be more or less
straightforward and the old one will go away soon.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Reviewed-by: Sergey Dyasly 
Tested-by: Sergey Dyasly 
Reviewed-by: Sameer Nanda 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines 
Cc: "Ma, Xindong" 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: "Tu, Xiaobing" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2014-01-20T18:42:08+00:00

Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:

 - Add the initial implementation of SCHED_DEADLINE support: a real-time
   scheduling policy where tasks that meet their deadlines and
   periodically execute their instances in less than their runtime quota
   see real-time scheduling and won't miss any of their deadlines.
   Tasks that go over their quota get delayed (Available to privileged
   users for now)

 - Clean up and fix preempt_enable_no_resched() abuse all around the
   tree

 - Do sched_clock() performance optimizations on x86 and elsewhere

 - Fix and improve auto-NUMA balancing

 - Fix and clean up the idle loop

 - Apply various cleanups and fixes

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (60 commits)
  sched: Fix __sched_setscheduler() nice test
  sched: Move SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK into attr::sched_flags
  sched: Fix up attr::sched_priority warning
  sched: Fix up scheduler syscall LTP fails
  sched: Preserve the nice level over sched_setscheduler() and sched_setparam() calls
  sched/core: Fix htmldocs warnings
  sched/deadline: No need to check p if dl_se is valid
  sched/deadline: Remove unused variables
  sched/deadline: Fix sparse static warnings
  m68k: Fix build warning in mac_via.h
  sched, thermal: Clean up preempt_enable_no_resched() abuse
  sched, net: Fixup busy_loop_us_clock()
  sched, net: Clean up preempt_enable_no_resched() abuse
  sched/preempt: Fix up missed PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED folding
  sched/preempt, locking: Rework local_bh_{dis,en}able()
  sched/clock, x86: Avoid a runtime condition in native_sched_clock()
  sched/clock: Fix up clear_sched_clock_stable()
  sched/clock, x86: Use a static_key for sched_clock_stable
  sched/clock: Remove local_irq_disable() from the clocks
  sched/clock, x86: Rewrite cyc2ns() to avoid the need to disable IRQs
  ...

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

2014-01-18T01:29:36+00:00

Pull namespace fixes from Eric Biederman:
 "This is a set of 3 regression fixes.

  This fixes /proc/mounts when using "ip netns add " to display
  the actual mount point.

  This fixes a regression in clone that broke lxc-attach.

  This fixes a regression in the permission checks for mounting /proc
  that made proc unmountable if binfmt_misc was in use.  Oops.

  My apologies for sending this pull request so late.  Al Viro gave
  interesting review comments about the d_path fix that I wanted to
  address in detail before I sent this pull request.  Unfortunately a
  bad round of colds kept from addressing that in detail until today.
  The executive summary of the review was:

  Al: Is patching d_path really sufficient?
      The prepend_path, d_path, d_absolute_path, and __d_path family of
      functions is a really mess.

  Me: Yes, patching d_path is really sufficient.  Yes, the code is mess.
      No it is not appropriate to rewrite all of d_path for a regression
      that has existed for entirely too long already, when a two line
      change will do"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  vfs: Fix a regression in mounting proc
  fork:  Allow CLONE_PARENT after setns(CLONE_NEWPID)
  vfs: In d_path don't call d_dname on a mount point

sched/deadline: Add SCHED_DEADLINE inheritance logic

2014-01-13T12:42:56+00:00

Some method to deal with rt-mutexes and make sched_dl interact with
the current PI-coded is needed, raising all but trivial issues, that
needs (according to us) to be solved with some restructuring of
the pi-code (i.e., going toward a proxy execution-ish implementation).

This is under development, in the meanwhile, as a temporary solution,
what this commits does is:

 - ensure a pi-lock owner with waiters is never throttled down. Instead,
   when it runs out of runtime, it immediately gets replenished and it's
   deadline is postponed;

 - the scheduling parameters (relative deadline and default runtime)
   used for that replenishments --during the whole period it holds the
   pi-lock-- are the ones of the waiting task with earliest deadline.

Acting this way, we provide some kind of boosting to the lock-owner,
still by using the existing (actually, slightly modified by the previous
commit) pi-architecture.

We would stress the fact that this is only a surely needed, all but
clean solution to the problem. In the end it's only a way to re-start
discussion within the community. So, as always, comments, ideas, rants,
etc.. are welcome! :-)

Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli 
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli 
[ Added !RT_MUTEXES build fix. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-11-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

rtmutex: Turn the plist into an rb-tree

2014-01-13T12:41:50+00:00

Turn the pi-chains from plist to rb-tree, in the rt_mutex code,
and provide a proper comparison function for -deadline and
-priority tasks.

This is done mainly because:
 - classical prio field of the plist is just an int, which might
   not be enough for representing a deadline;
 - manipulating such a list would become O(nr_deadline_tasks),
   which might be to much, as the number of -deadline task increases.

Therefore, an rb-tree is used, and tasks are queued in it according
to the following logic:
 - among two -priority (i.e., SCHED_BATCH/OTHER/RR/FIFO) tasks, the
   one with the higher (lower, actually!) prio wins;
 - among a -priority and a -deadline task, the latter always wins;
 - among two -deadline tasks, the one with the earliest deadline
   wins.

Queueing and dequeueing functions are changed accordingly, for both
the list of a task's pi-waiters and the list of tasks blocked on
a pi-lock.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli 
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli 
Signed-off-again-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-10-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/deadline: Add SCHED_DEADLINE structures & implementation

2014-01-13T12:41:06+00:00

Introduces the data structures, constants and symbols needed for
SCHED_DEADLINE implementation.

Core data structure of SCHED_DEADLINE are defined, along with their
initializers. Hooks for checking if a task belong to the new policy
are also added where they are needed.

Adds a scheduling class, in sched/dl.c and a new policy called
SCHED_DEADLINE. It is an implementation of the Earliest Deadline
First (EDF) scheduling algorithm, augmented with a mechanism (called
Constant Bandwidth Server, CBS) that makes it possible to isolate
the behaviour of tasks between each other.

The typical -deadline task will be made up of a computation phase
(instance) which is activated on a periodic or sporadic fashion. The
expected (maximum) duration of such computation is called the task's
runtime; the time interval by which each instance need to be completed
is called the task's relative deadline. The task's absolute deadline
is dynamically calculated as the time instant a task (better, an
instance) activates plus the relative deadline.

The EDF algorithms selects the task with the smallest absolute
deadline as the one to be executed first, while the CBS ensures each
task to run for at most its runtime every (relative) deadline
length time interval, avoiding any interference between different
tasks (bandwidth isolation).
Thanks to this feature, also tasks that do not strictly comply with
the computational model sketched above can effectively use the new
policy.

To summarize, this patch:
 - introduces the data structures, constants and symbols needed;
 - implements the core logic of the scheduling algorithm in the new
   scheduling class file;
 - provides all the glue code between the new scheduling class and
   the core scheduler and refines the interactions between sched/dl
   and the other existing scheduling classes.

Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli 
Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi 
Signed-off-by: Fabio Checconi 
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-4-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar