linux-toradex.git/kernel/locking, branch v5.5-rc5

Revert "locking/mutex: Complain upon mutex API misuse in IRQ contexts"

2019-12-10T23:27:43+00:00

This ended up causing some noise in places such as rxrpc running in softirq.

The warning is misleading in this case as the mutex trylock and unlock
operations are done within the same context; and therefore we need not
worry about the PI-boosting issues that comes along with no single-owner
lock guarantees.

While we don't want to support this in mutexes, there is no way out of
this yet; so lets get rid of the WARNs for now, as it is only fair to
code that has historically relied on non-preemptible softirq guarantees.
In addition, changing the lock type is also unviable: exclusive rwsems
have the same issue (just not the WARN_ON) and counting semaphores
would introduce a performance hit as mutexes are a lot more optimized.

This reverts:

    a0855d24fc22: ("locking/mutex: Complain upon mutex API misuse in IRQ contexts")

Fixes: a0855d24fc22: ("locking/mutex: Complain upon mutex API misuse in IRQ contexts")
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Tested-by: David Howells 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: will@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191210220523.28540-1-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

locking/spinlock/debug: Fix various data races

2019-11-29T07:03:27+00:00

This fixes various data races in spinlock_debug. By testing with KCSAN,
it is observable that the console gets spammed with data races reports,
suggesting these are extremely frequent.

Example data race report:

  read to 0xffff8ab24f403c48 of 4 bytes by task 221 on cpu 2:
   debug_spin_lock_before kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:85 [inline]
   do_raw_spin_lock+0x9b/0x210 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:112
   __raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:143 [inline]
   _raw_spin_lock+0x39/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:151
   spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:338 [inline]
   get_partial_node.isra.0.part.0+0x32/0x2f0 mm/slub.c:1873
   get_partial_node mm/slub.c:1870 [inline]
  

  write to 0xffff8ab24f403c48 of 4 bytes by task 167 on cpu 3:
   debug_spin_unlock kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:103 [inline]
   do_raw_spin_unlock+0xc9/0x1a0 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:138
   __raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:159 [inline]
   _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x2d/0x50 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:191
   spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock.h:393 [inline]
   free_debug_processing+0x1b3/0x210 mm/slub.c:1214
   __slab_free+0x292/0x400 mm/slub.c:2864
  

As a side-effect, with KCSAN, this eventually locks up the console, most
likely due to deadlock, e.g. .. -> printk lock -> spinlock_debug ->
KCSAN detects data race -> kcsan_print_report() -> printk lock ->
deadlock.

This fix will 1) avoid the data races, and 2) allow using lock debugging
together with KCSAN.

Reported-by: Qian Cai 
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191120155715.28089-1-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

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

2019-11-27T00:02:40+00:00

Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - A comprehensive rewrite of the robust/PI futex code's exit handling
     to fix various exit races. (Thomas Gleixner et al)

   - Rework the generic REFCOUNT_FULL implementation using
     atomic_fetch_* operations so that the performance impact of the
     cmpxchg() loops is mitigated for common refcount operations.

     With these performance improvements the generic implementation of
     refcount_t should be good enough for everybody - and this got
     confirmed by performance testing, so remove ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT and
     REFCOUNT_FULL entirely, leaving the generic implementation enabled
     unconditionally. (Will Deacon)

   - Other misc changes, fixes, cleanups"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
  lkdtm: Remove references to CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL
  locking/refcount: Remove unused 'refcount_error_report()' function
  locking/refcount: Consolidate implementations of refcount_t
  locking/refcount: Consolidate REFCOUNT_{MAX,SATURATED} definitions
  locking/refcount: Move saturation warnings out of line
  locking/refcount: Improve performance of generic REFCOUNT_FULL code
  locking/refcount: Move the bulk of the REFCOUNT_FULL implementation into the  header
  locking/refcount: Remove unused refcount_*_checked() variants
  locking/refcount: Ensure integer operands are treated as signed
  locking/refcount: Define constants for saturation and max refcount values
  futex: Prevent exit livelock
  futex: Provide distinct return value when owner is exiting
  futex: Add mutex around futex exit
  futex: Provide state handling for exec() as well
  futex: Sanitize exit state handling
  futex: Mark the begin of futex exit explicitly
  futex: Set task::futex_state to DEAD right after handling futex exit
  futex: Split futex_mm_release() for exit/exec
  exit/exec: Seperate mm_release()
  futex: Replace PF_EXITPIDONE with a state
  ...

locking/lockdep: Update the comment for __lock_release()

2019-11-13T10:07:48+00:00

This changes "to the list" to "from the list" and also deletes the
obsolete comment about the "@nested" argument.

The "nested" argument was removed in this commit, earlier this year:

  5facae4f3549 ("locking/lockdep: Remove unused @nested argument from lock_release()").

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191104091252.GA31509@mwanda
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

locking/mutex: Complain upon mutex API misuse in IRQ contexts

2019-10-29T11:22:52+00:00

Add warning checks if mutex_trylock() or mutex_unlock() are used in
IRQ contexts, under CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y.

While the mutex rules and semantics are explicitly documented, this allows
to expose any abusers and robustifies the whole thing.

While trylock and unlock are non-blocking, calling from IRQ context
is still forbidden (lock must be within the same context as unlock).

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191025033634.3330-1-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

locking/lockdep: Remove unused @nested argument from lock_release()

2019-10-09T10:46:10+00:00

Since the following commit:

  b4adfe8e05f1 ("locking/lockdep: Remove unused argument in __lock_release")

@nested is no longer used in lock_release(), so remove it from all
lock_release() calls and friends.

Signed-off-by: Qian Cai 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Acked-by: Will Deacon 
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: airlied@linux.ie
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: alexander.levin@microsoft.com
Cc: daniel@iogearbox.net
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: duyuyang@gmail.com
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: jack@suse.com
Cc: jlbec@evilplan.or
Cc: joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com
Cc: joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com
Cc: jslaby@suse.com
Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com
Cc: maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com
Cc: mark@fasheh.com
Cc: mhocko@kernel.org
Cc: mripard@kernel.org
Cc: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Cc: rodrigo.vivi@intel.com
Cc: sean@poorly.run
Cc: st@kernel.org
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Cc: tytso@mit.edu
Cc: vdavydov.dev@gmail.com
Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1568909380-32199-1-git-send-email-cai@lca.pw
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

locking: locktorture: Do not include rwlock.h directly

2019-10-05T18:50:24+00:00

Including rwlock.h directly will cause kernel builds to fail
if CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is defined. The correct header file
(rwlock_rt.h OR rwlock.h) will be included by spinlock.h which
is included by locktorture.c anyway.

Remove the include of linux/rwlock.h.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang M. Reimer 
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

locktorture: Replace strncmp() with str_has_prefix()

2019-10-05T18:48:38+00:00

The strncmp() function is error-prone because it is easy to get the
length wrong, especially if the string is subject to change, especially
given the need to account for the terminating nul byte.  This commit
therefore substitutes the newly introduced str_has_prefix(), which
does not require a separately specified length.

Signed-off-by: Chuhong Yuan 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

Revert "locking/pvqspinlock: Don't wait if vCPU is preempted"

2019-09-25T08:22:37+00:00

This patch reverts commit 75437bb304b20 (locking/pvqspinlock: Don't
wait if vCPU is preempted).  A large performance regression was caused
by this commit.  on over-subscription scenarios.

The test was run on a Xeon Skylake box, 2 sockets, 40 cores, 80 threads,
with three VMs of 80 vCPUs each.  The score of ebizzy -M is reduced from
13000-14000 records/s to 1700-1800 records/s:

          Host                Guest                score

vanilla w/o kvm optimizations     upstream    1700-1800 records/s
vanilla w/o kvm optimizations     revert      13000-14000 records/s
vanilla w/ kvm optimizations      upstream    4500-5000 records/s
vanilla w/ kvm optimizations      revert      14000-15500 records/s

Exit from aggressive wait-early mechanism can result in premature yield
and extra scheduling latency.

Actually, only 6% of wait_early events are caused by vcpu_is_preempted()
being true.  However, when one vCPU voluntarily releases its vCPU, all
the subsequently waiters in the queue will do the same and the cascading
effect leads to bad performance.

kvm optimizations:
[1] commit d73eb57b80b (KVM: Boost vCPUs that are delivering interrupts)
[2] commit 266e85a5ec9 (KVM: X86: Boost queue head vCPU to mitigate lock waiter preemption)

Tested-by: loobinliu@tencent.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Waiman Long 
Cc: Paolo Bonzini 
Cc: Radim Krčmář 
Cc: loobinliu@tencent.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 75437bb304b20 (locking/pvqspinlock: Don't wait if vCPU is preempted)
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

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

2019-09-17T00:25:49+00:00

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

- MAINTAINERS: Add Mark Rutland as perf submaintainer, Juri Lelli and
Vincent Guittot as scheduler submaintainers. Add Dietmar Eggemann,
Steven Rostedt, Ben Segall and Mel Gorman as scheduler reviewers.

As perf and the scheduler is getting bigger and more complex,
document the status quo of current responsibilities and interests,
and spread the review pain^H^H^H^H fun via an increase in the Cc:
linecount generated by scripts/get_maintainer.pl. :-)

- Add another series of patches that brings the -rt (PREEMPT_RT) tree
closer to mainline: split the monolithic CONFIG_PREEMPT dependencies
into a new CONFIG_PREEMPTION category that will allow the eventual
introduction of CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT. Still a few more hundred patches
to go though.

- Extend the CPU cgroup controller with uclamp.min and uclamp.max to
allow the finer shaping of CPU bandwidth usage.

- Micro-optimize energy-aware wake-ups from O(CPUS^2) to O(CPUS).

- Improve the behavior of high CPU count, high thread count
applications running under cpu.cfs_quota_us constraints.

- Improve balancing with SCHED_IDLE (SCHED_BATCH) tasks present.

- Improve CPU isolation housekeeping CPU allocation NUMA locality.

- Fix deadline scheduler bandwidth calculations and logic when cpusets
rebuilds the topology, or when it gets deadline-throttled while it's
being offlined.

- Convert the cpuset_mutex to percpu_rwsem, to allow it to be used from
setscheduler() system calls without creating global serialization.
Add new synchronization between cpuset topology-changing events and
the deadline acceptance tests in setscheduler(), which were broken
before.

- Rework the active_mm state machine to be less confusing and more
optimal.

- Rework (simplify) the pick_next_task() slowpath.

- Improve load-balancing on AMD EPYC systems.

- ... and misc cleanups, smaller fixes and improvements - please see
the Git log for more details.

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (53 commits)
sched/psi: Correct overly pessimistic size calculation
sched/fair: Speed-up energy-aware wake-ups
sched/uclamp: Always use 'enum uclamp_id' for clamp_id values
sched/uclamp: Update CPU's refcount on TG's clamp changes
sched/uclamp: Use TG's clamps to restrict TASK's clamps
sched/uclamp: Propagate system defaults to the root group
sched/uclamp: Propagate parent clamps
sched/uclamp: Extend CPU's cgroup controller
sched/topology: Improve load balancing on AMD EPYC systems
arch, ia64: Make NUMA select SMP
sched, perf: MAINTAINERS update, add submaintainers and reviewers
sched/fair: Use rq_lock/unlock in online_fair_sched_group
cpufreq: schedutil: fix equation in comment
sched: Rework pick_next_task() slow-path
sched: Allow put_prev_task() to drop rq->lock
sched/fair: Expose newidle_balance()
sched: Add task_struct pointer to sched_class::set_curr_task
sched: Rework CPU hotplug task selection
sched/{rt,deadline}: Fix set_next_task vs pick_next_task
sched: Fix kerneldoc comment for ia64_set_curr_task
...