linux-toradex.git/kernel/softirq.c, branch v4.9.16

softirq: Display IRQ_POLL for irq-poll statistics

2016-10-21T21:45:47+00:00

This library was moved to the generic area and was
renamed to irq-poll. Hence, update proc/softirqs output accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg 
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

2016-10-15T17:03:15+00:00

Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook:
 "This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
  extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot
  time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in
  CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences,
  SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

  At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example
  for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals"

* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy
  gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin

latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy

2016-10-10T21:51:45+00:00

The __latent_entropy gcc attribute can be used only on functions and
variables.  If it is on a function then the plugin will instrument it for
gathering control-flow entropy. If the attribute is on a variable then
the plugin will initialize it with random contents.  The variable must
be an integer, an integer array type or a structure with integer fields.

These specific functions have been selected because they are init
functions (to help gather boot-time entropy), are called at unpredictable
times, or they have variable loops, each of which provide some level of
latent entropy.

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy 
[kees: expanded commit message]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

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

2016-10-04T02:43:08+00:00

Pull CPU hotplug updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Yet another batch of cpu hotplug core updates and conversions:

   - Provide core infrastructure for multi instance drivers so the
     drivers do not have to keep custom lists.

   - Convert custom lists to the new infrastructure. The block-mq custom
     list conversion comes through the block tree and makes the diffstat
     tip over to more lines removed than added.

   - Handle unbalanced hotplug enable/disable calls more gracefully.

   - Remove the obsolete CPU_STARTING/DYING notifier support.

   - Convert another batch of notifier users.

   The relayfs changes which conflicted with the conversion have been
   shipped to me by Andrew.

   The remaining lot is targeted for 4.10 so that we finally can remove
   the rest of the notifiers"

* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits)
  cpufreq: Fix up conversion to hotplug state machine
  blk/mq: Reserve hotplug states for block multiqueue
  x86/apic/uv: Convert to hotplug state machine
  s390/mm/pfault: Convert to hotplug state machine
  mips/loongson/smp: Convert to hotplug state machine
  mips/octeon/smp: Convert to hotplug state machine
  fault-injection/cpu: Convert to hotplug state machine
  padata: Convert to hotplug state machine
  cpufreq: Convert to hotplug state machine
  ACPI/processor: Convert to hotplug state machine
  virtio scsi: Convert to hotplug state machine
  oprofile/timer: Convert to hotplug state machine
  block/softirq: Convert to hotplug state machine
  lib/irq_poll: Convert to hotplug state machine
  x86/microcode: Convert to hotplug state machine
  sh/SH-X3 SMP: Convert to hotplug state machine
  ia64/mca: Convert to hotplug state machine
  ARM/OMAP/wakeupgen: Convert to hotplug state machine
  ARM/shmobile: Convert to hotplug state machine
  arm64/FP/SIMD: Convert to hotplug state machine
  ...

softirq: Let ksoftirqd do its job

2016-09-30T08:43:36+00:00

A while back, Paolo and Hannes sent an RFC patch adding threaded-able
napi poll loop support : (https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/620657/)

The problem seems to be that softirqs are very aggressive and are often
handled by the current process, even if we are under stress and that
ksoftirqd was scheduled, so that innocent threads would have more chance
to make progress.

This patch makes sure that if ksoftirq is running, we let it
perform the softirq work.

Jonathan Corbet summarized the issue in https://lwn.net/Articles/687617/

Tested:

 - NIC receiving traffic handled by CPU 0
 - UDP receiver running on CPU 0, using a single UDP socket.
 - Incoming flood of UDP packets targeting the UDP socket.

Before the patch, the UDP receiver could almost never get CPU cycles and
could only receive ~2,000 packets per second.

After the patch, CPU cycles are split 50/50 between user application and
ksoftirqd/0, and we can effectively read ~900,000 packets per second,
a huge improvement in DOS situation. (Note that more packets are now
dropped by the NIC itself, since the BH handlers get less CPU cycles to
drain RX ring buffer)

Since the load runs in well identified threads context, an admin can
more easily tune process scheduling parameters if needed.

Reported-by: Paolo Abeni 
Reported-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa 
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472665349.14381.356.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kernel/softirq: Convert to hotplug state machine

2016-09-06T16:30:22+00:00

Install the callbacks via the state machine.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160818125731.27256-7-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

arch, ftrace: for KASAN put hard/soft IRQ entries into separate sections

2016-03-25T23:37:42+00:00

KASAN needs to know whether the allocation happens in an IRQ handler.
This lets us strip everything below the IRQ entry point to reduce the
number of unique stack traces needed to be stored.

Move the definition of __irq_entry to  so that the
users don't need to pull in .  Also introduce the
__softirq_entry macro which is similar to __irq_entry, but puts the
corresponding functions to the .softirqentry.text section.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Andrey Konovalov 
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov 
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin 
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany 
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched/debug: Fix preempt_disable_ip recording for preempt_disable()

2016-02-29T08:53:10+00:00

The preempt_disable() invokes preempt_count_add() which saves the caller
in ->preempt_disable_ip. It uses CALLER_ADDR1 which does not look for
its caller but for the parent of the caller. Which means we get the correct
caller for something like spin_lock() unless the architectures inlines
those invocations. It is always wrong for preempt_disable() or
local_bh_disable().

This patch makes the function get_lock_parent_ip() which tries
CALLER_ADDR0,1,2 if the former is a locking function.
This seems to record the preempt_disable() caller properly for
preempt_disable() itself as well as for get_cpu_var() or
local_bh_disable().

Steven asked for the get_parent_ip() -> get_lock_parent_ip() rename.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160226135456.GB18244@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

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

2015-02-09T23:24:03+00:00

Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes are:

   - mutex, completions and rtmutex micro-optimizations
   - lock debugging fix
   - various cleanups in the MCS and the futex code"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  locking/rtmutex: Optimize setting task running after being blocked
  locking/rwsem: Use task->state helpers
  sched/completion: Add lock-free checking of the blocking case
  sched/completion: Remove unnecessary ->wait.lock serialization when reading completion state
  locking/mutex: Explicitly mark task as running after wakeup
  futex: Fix argument handling in futex_lock_pi() calls
  doc: Fix misnamed FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI op constants
  locking/Documentation: Update code path
  softirq/preempt: Add missing current->preempt_disable_ip update
  locking/osq: No need for load/acquire when acquire-polling
  locking/mcs: Better differentiate between MCS variants
  locking/mutex: Introduce ww_mutex_set_context_slowpath()
  locking/mutex: Move MCS related comments to proper location
  locking/mutex: Checking the stamp is WW only

ksoftirqd: Use new cond_resched_rcu_qs() function

2015-01-14T21:20:26+00:00

Simplify run_ksoftirqd() by using the new cond_resched_rcu_qs() function
that conditionally reschedules, but unconditionally supplies an RCU
quiescent state.  This commit is separate from the previous commit by
Calvin Owens because Calvin's approach can be backported, while this
commit cannot be.  The reason that this commit cannot be backported is
that cond_resched_rcu_qs() does not always provide the needed quiescent
state in earlier kernels.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney