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2012-03-21mm, counters: remove task argument to sync_mm_rss() and __sync_task_rss_stat()David Rientjes
sync_mm_rss() can only be used for current to avoid race conditions in iterating and clearing its per-task counters. Remove the task argument for it and its helper function, __sync_task_rss_stat(), to avoid thinking it can be used safely for anything other than current. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-21cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3Mel Gorman
Commit c0ff7453bb5c ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems") wins a super prize for the largest number of memory barriers entered into fast paths for one commit. [get|put]_mems_allowed is incredibly heavy with pairs of full memory barriers inserted into a number of hot paths. This was detected while investigating at large page allocator slowdown introduced some time after 2.6.32. The largest portion of this overhead was shown by oprofile to be at an mfence introduced by this commit into the page allocator hot path. For extra style points, the commit introduced the use of yield() in an implementation of what looks like a spinning mutex. This patch replaces the full memory barriers on both read and write sides with a sequence counter with just read barriers on the fast path side. This is much cheaper on some architectures, including x86. The main bulk of the patch is the retry logic if the nodemask changes in a manner that can cause a false failure. While updating the nodemask, a check is made to see if a false failure is a risk. If it is, the sequence number gets bumped and parallel allocators will briefly stall while the nodemask update takes place. In a page fault test microbenchmark, oprofile samples from __alloc_pages_nodemask went from 4.53% of all samples to 1.15%. The actual results were 3.3.0-rc3 3.3.0-rc3 rc3-vanilla nobarrier-v2r1 Clients 1 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.08 (-14.19%) Clients 2 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 2.72%) Clients 4 UserTime 0.08 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 3.29%) Clients 1 SysTime 0.70 ( 0.00%) 0.65 ( 6.65%) Clients 2 SysTime 0.85 ( 0.00%) 0.82 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 SysTime 1.41 ( 0.00%) 1.41 ( 0.32%) Clients 1 WallTime 0.77 ( 0.00%) 0.74 ( 4.19%) Clients 2 WallTime 0.47 ( 0.00%) 0.45 ( 3.73%) Clients 4 WallTime 0.38 ( 0.00%) 0.37 ( 1.58%) Clients 1 Flt/sec/cpu 497620.28 ( 0.00%) 520294.53 ( 4.56%) Clients 2 Flt/sec/cpu 414639.05 ( 0.00%) 429882.01 ( 3.68%) Clients 4 Flt/sec/cpu 257959.16 ( 0.00%) 258761.48 ( 0.31%) Clients 1 Flt/sec 495161.39 ( 0.00%) 517292.87 ( 4.47%) Clients 2 Flt/sec 820325.95 ( 0.00%) 850289.77 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 Flt/sec 1020068.93 ( 0.00%) 1022674.06 ( 0.26%) MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 135.68 132.17 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 164.2 160.13 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 123.46 120.87 The overall improvement is small but the System CPU time is much improved and roughly in correlation to what oprofile reported (these performance figures are without profiling so skew is expected). The actual number of page faults is noticeably improved. For benchmarks like kernel builds, the overall benefit is marginal but the system CPU time is slightly reduced. To test the actual bug the commit fixed I opened two terminals. The first ran within a cpuset and continually ran a small program that faulted 100M of anonymous data. In a second window, the nodemask of the cpuset was continually randomised in a loop. Without the commit, the program would fail every so often (usually within 10 seconds) and obviously with the commit everything worked fine. With this patch applied, it also worked fine so the fix should be functionally equivalent. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-21mm: add rss counters consistency checkKonstantin Khlebnikov
Warn about non-zero rss counters at final mmdrop. This check will prevent reoccurences of bugs such as that fixed in "mm: fix rss count leakage during migration". I didn't hide this check under CONFIG_VM_DEBUG because it rather small and rss counters cover whole page-table management, so this is a good invariant. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-21Merge tag 'irqdomain-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
Pull irq_domain support for all architectures from Grant Likely: "Generialize powerpc's irq_host as irq_domain This branch takes the PowerPC irq_host infrastructure (reverse mapping from Linux IRQ numbers to hardware irq numbering), generalizes it, renames it to irq_domain, and makes it available to all architectures. Originally the plan has been to create an all-new irq_domain implementation which addresses some of the powerpc shortcomings such as not handling 1:1 mappings well, but doing that proved to be far more difficult and invasive than generalizing the working code and refactoring it in-place. So, this branch rips out the 'new' irq_domain and replaces it with the modified powerpc version (in a fully bisectable way of course). It converts all users over to the new API and makes irq_domain selectable on any architecture. No architecture is forced to enable irq_domain, but the infrastructure is required for doing OpenFirmware style irq translations. It will even work on SPARC even though SPARC has it's own mechanism for translating irqs at boot time. MIPS, microblaze, embedded x86 and c6x are converted too. The resulting irq_domain code is probably still too verbose and can be optimized more, but that can be done incrementally and is a task for follow-on patches." * tag 'irqdomain-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6: (31 commits) dt: fix twl4030 for non-dt compile on x86 mfd: twl-core: Add IRQ_DOMAIN dependency devicetree: Add empty of_platform_populate() for !CONFIG_OF_ADDRESS (sparc) irq_domain: Centralize definition of irq_dispose_mapping() irq_domain/mips: Allow irq_domain on MIPS irq_domain/x86: Convert x86 (embedded) to use common irq_domain ppc-6xx: fix build failure in flipper-pic.c and hlwd-pic.c irq_domain/microblaze: Convert microblaze to use irq_domains irq_domain/powerpc: Replace custom xlate functions with library functions irq_domain/powerpc: constify irq_domain_ops irq_domain/c6x: Use library of xlate functions irq_domain/c6x: constify irq_domain structures irq_domain/c6x: Convert c6x to use generic irq_domain support. irq_domain: constify irq_domain_ops irq_domain: Create common xlate functions that device drivers can use irq_domain: Remove irq_domain_add_simple() irq_domain: Remove 'new' irq_domain in favour of the ppc one mfd: twl-core.c: Fix the number of interrupts managed by twl4030 of/address: add empty static inlines for !CONFIG_OF irq_domain: Add support for base irq and hwirq in legacy mappings ...
2012-03-21Merge tag 'pm-for-3.4' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull power management updates for 3.4 from Rafael Wysocki: "Assorted extensions and fixes including: * Introduction of early/late suspend/hibernation device callbacks. * Generic PM domains extensions and fixes. * devfreq updates from Axel Lin and MyungJoo Ham. * Device PM QoS updates. * Fixes of concurrency problems with wakeup sources. * System suspend and hibernation fixes." * tag 'pm-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (43 commits) PM / Domains: Check domain status during hibernation restore of devices PM / devfreq: add relation of recommended frequency. PM / shmobile: Make MTU2 driver use pm_genpd_dev_always_on() PM / shmobile: Make CMT driver use pm_genpd_dev_always_on() PM / shmobile: Make TMU driver use pm_genpd_dev_always_on() PM / Domains: Introduce "always on" device flag PM / Domains: Fix hibernation restore of devices, v2 PM / Domains: Fix handling of wakeup devices during system resume sh_mmcif / PM: Use PM QoS latency constraint tmio_mmc / PM: Use PM QoS latency constraint PM / QoS: Make it possible to expose PM QoS latency constraints PM / Sleep: JBD and JBD2 missing set_freezable() PM / Domains: Fix include for PM_GENERIC_DOMAINS=n case PM / Freezer: Remove references to TIF_FREEZE in comments PM / Sleep: Add more wakeup source initialization routines PM / Hibernate: Enable usermodehelpers in hibernate() error path PM / Sleep: Make __pm_stay_awake() delete wakeup source timers PM / Sleep: Fix race conditions related to wakeup source timer function PM / Sleep: Fix possible infinite loop during wakeup source destruction PM / Hibernate: print physical addresses consistently with other parts of kernel ...
2012-03-21Merge branch 'kmap_atomic' of git://github.com/congwang/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull kmap_atomic cleanup from Cong Wang. It's been in -next for a long time, and it gets rid of the (no longer used) second argument to k[un]map_atomic(). Fix up a few trivial conflicts in various drivers, and do an "evil merge" to catch some new uses that have come in since Cong's tree. * 'kmap_atomic' of git://github.com/congwang/linux: (59 commits) feature-removal-schedule.txt: schedule the deprecated form of kmap_atomic() for removal highmem: kill all __kmap_atomic() [swarren@nvidia.com: highmem: Fix ARM build break due to __kmap_atomic rename] drbd: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() zcache: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() gma500: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() dm: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() tomoyo: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() sunrpc: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() rds: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() net: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() mm: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() lib: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() power: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() kdb: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() udf: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() ubifs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() squashfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() reiserfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() ocfs2: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() ntfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() ...
2012-03-20Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina: "It's indeed trivial -- mostly documentation updates and a bunch of typo fixes from Masanari. There are also several linux/version.h include removals from Jesper." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (101 commits) kcore: fix spelling in read_kcore() comment constify struct pci_dev * in obvious cases Revert "char: Fix typo in viotape.c" init: fix wording error in mm_init comment usb: gadget: Kconfig: fix typo for 'different' Revert "power, max8998: Include linux/module.h just once in drivers/power/max8998_charger.c" writeback: fix fn name in writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle() comment header writeback: fix typo in the writeback_control comment Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation tpm_tis: fix tis_lock with respect to RCU Revert "media: Fix typo in mixer_drv.c and hdmi_drv.c" Doc: Update numastat.txt qla4xxx: Add missing spaces to error messages compiler.h: Fix typo security: struct security_operations kerneldoc fix Documentation: broken URL in libata.tmpl Documentation: broken URL in filesystems.tmpl mtd: simplify return logic in do_map_probe() mm: fix comment typo of truncate_inode_pages_range power: bq27x00: Fix typos in comment ...
2012-03-20Merge branch 'for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo: "This contains only one commit which cleans up UP allocation path a bit." * 'for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: use percpu allocator for cwq on UP
2012-03-20Merge branch 'for-3.4' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup changes from Tejun Heo: "Out of the 8 commits, one fixes a long-standing locking issue around tasklist walking and others are cleanups." * 'for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: Walk task list under tasklist_lock in cgroup_enable_task_cg_list cgroup: Remove wrong comment on cgroup_enable_task_cg_list() cgroup: remove cgroup_subsys argument from callbacks cgroup: remove extra calls to find_existing_css_set cgroup: replace tasklist_lock with rcu_read_lock cgroup: simplify double-check locking in cgroup_attach_proc cgroup: move struct cgroup_pidlist out from the header file cgroup: remove cgroup_attach_task_current_cg()
2012-03-20exit_signal: fix the "parent has changed security domain" logicOleg Nesterov
exit_notify() changes ->exit_signal if the parent already did exec. This doesn't really work, we are not going to send the signal now if there is another live thread or the exiting task is traced. The parent can exec before the last dies or the tracer detaches. Move this check into do_notify_parent() which actually sends the signal. The user-visible change is that we do not change ->exit_signal, and thus the exiting task is still "clone children" for do_wait()->eligible_child(__WCLONE). Hopefully this is fine, the current logic is racy anyway. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-20exit_signal: simplify the "we have changed execution domain" logicOleg Nesterov
exit_notify() checks "tsk->self_exec_id != tsk->parent_exec_id" to handle the "we have changed execution domain" case. We can change do_thread() to always set ->exit_signal = SIGCHLD and remove this check to simplify the code. We could change setup_new_exec() instead, this looks more logical because it increments ->self_exec_id. But note that de_thread() already resets ->exit_signal if it changes the leader, let's keep both changes close to each other. Note that we change ->exit_signal lockless, this changes the rules. Thereafter ->exit_signal is not stable under tasklist but this is fine, the only possible change is OLDSIG -> SIGCHLD. This can race with eligible_child() but the race is harmless. We can race with reparent_leader() which changes our ->exit_signal in parallel, but it does the same change to SIGCHLD. The noticeable user-visible change is that the execing task is not "visible" to do_wait()->eligible_child(__WCLONE) right after exec. To me this looks more logical, and this is consistent with mt case. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-20CLONE_PARENT shouldn't allow to set ->exit_signalOleg Nesterov
The child must not control its ->exit_signal, it is the parent who decides which signal the child should use for notification. This means that CLONE_PARENT should not use "clone_flags & CSIGNAL", the forking task is the sibling of the new process and their parent doesn't control exit_signal in this case. This patch uses ->exit_signal of the forking process, but perhaps we should simply use SIGCHLD. We read group_leader->exit_signal lockless, this can race with the ORIGINAL_SIGNAL -> SIGCHLD transition, but this is fine. Potentially this change allows to kill self_exec_id/parent_exec_id. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-20Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits) ntp: Fix integer overflow when setting time math: Introduce div64_long cs5535-clockevt: Allow the MFGPT IRQ to be shared cs5535-clockevt: Don't ignore MFGPT on SMP-capable kernels x86/time: Eliminate unused irq0_irqs counter clocksource: scx200_hrt: Fix the build x86/tsc: Reduce the TSC sync check time for core-siblings timer: Fix bad idle check on irq entry nohz: Remove ts->Einidle checks before restarting the tick nohz: Remove update_ts_time_stat from tick_nohz_start_idle clockevents: Leave the broadcast device in shutdown mode when not needed clocksource: Load the ACPI PM clocksource asynchronously clocksource: scx200_hrt: Convert scx200 to use clocksource_register_hz clocksource: Get rid of clocksource_calc_mult_shift() clocksource: dbx500: convert to clocksource_register_hz() clocksource: scx200_hrt: use pr_<level> instead of printk time: Move common updates to a function time: Reorder so the hot data is together time: Remove most of xtime_lock usage in timekeeping.c ntp: Add ntp_lock to replace xtime_locking ...
2012-03-20Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits) printk: Make it compile with !CONFIG_PRINTK sched/x86: Fix overflow in cyc2ns_offset sched: Fix nohz load accounting -- again! sched: Update yield() docs printk/sched: Introduce special printk_sched() for those awkward moments sched/nohz: Correctly initialize 'next_balance' in 'nohz' idle balancer sched: Cleanup cpu_active madness sched: Fix load-balance wreckage sched: Clean up parameter passing of proc_sched_autogroup_set_nice() sched: Ditch per cgroup task lists for load-balancing sched: Rename load-balancing fields sched: Move load-balancing arguments into helper struct sched/rt: Do not submit new work when PI-blocked sched/rt: Prevent idle task boosting sched/wait: Add __wake_up_all_locked() API sched/rt: Document scheduler related skip-resched-check sites sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled() sched/rt: Add schedule_preempt_disabled() sched/rt: Do not throttle when PI boosting sched/rt: Keep period timer ticking when rt throttling is active ...
2012-03-20Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf events changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar: - New "hardware based branch profiling" feature both on the kernel and the tooling side, on CPUs that support it. (modern x86 Intel CPUs with the 'LBR' hardware feature currently.) This new feature is basically a sophisticated 'magnifying glass' for branch execution - something that is pretty difficult to extract from regular, function histogram centric profiles. The simplest mode is activated via 'perf record -b', and the result looks like this in perf report: $ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy $ perf report -b --sort=symbol 52.34% [.] main [.] f1 24.04% [.] f1 [.] f3 23.60% [.] f1 [.] f2 0.01% [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn [k] _IO_file_overflow 0.01% [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn 0.01% [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal [k] strchrnul 0.01% [k] __printf [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal 0.01% [k] main [k] __printf This output shows from/to branch columns and shows the highest percentage (from,to) jump combinations - i.e. the most likely taken branches in the system. "branches" can also include function calls and any other synchronous and asynchronous transitions of the instruction pointer that are not 'next instruction' - such as system calls, traps, interrupts, etc. This feature comes with (hopefully intuitive) flat ascii and TUI support in perf report. - Various 'perf annotate' visual improvements for us assembly junkies. It will now recognize function calls in the TUI and by hitting enter you can follow the call (recursively) and back, amongst other improvements. - Multiple threads/processes recording support in perf record, perf stat, perf top - which is activated via a comma-list of PIDs: perf top -p 21483,21485 perf stat -p 21483,21485 -ddd perf record -p 21483,21485 - Support for per UID views, via the --uid paramter to perf top, perf report, etc. For example 'perf top --uid mingo' will only show the tasks that I am running, excluding other users, root, etc. - Jump label restructurings and improvements - this includes the factoring out of the (hopefully much clearer) include/linux/static_key.h generic facility: struct static_key key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE; ... if (static_key_false(&key)) do unlikely code else do likely code ... static_key_slow_inc(); ... static_key_slow_inc(); ... The static_key_false() branch will be generated into the code with as little impact to the likely code path as possible. the static_key_slow_*() APIs flip the branch via live kernel code patching. This facility can now be used more widely within the kernel to micro-optimize hot branches whose likelihood matches the static-key usage and fast/slow cost patterns. - SW function tracer improvements: perf support and filtering support. - Various hardenings of the perf.data ABI, to make older perf.data's smoother on newer tool versions, to make new features integrate more smoothly, to support cross-endian recording/analyzing workflows better, etc. - Restructuring of the kprobes code, the splitting out of 'optprobes', and a corner case bugfix. - Allow the tracing of kernel console output (printk). - Improvements/fixes to user-space RDPMC support, allowing user-space self-profiling code to extract PMU counts without performing any system calls, while playing nice with the kernel side. - 'perf bench' improvements - ... and lots of internal restructurings, cleanups and fixes that made these features possible. And, as usual this list is incomplete as there were also lots of other improvements * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (120 commits) perf report: Fix annotate double quit issue in branch view mode perf report: Remove duplicate annotate choice in branch view mode perf/x86: Prettify pmu config literals perf report: Enable TUI in branch view mode perf report: Auto-detect branch stack sampling mode perf record: Add HEADER_BRANCH_STACK tag perf record: Provide default branch stack sampling mode option perf tools: Make perf able to read files from older ABIs perf tools: Fix ABI compatibility bug in print_event_desc() perf tools: Enable reading of perf.data files from different ABI rev perf: Add ABI reference sizes perf report: Add support for taken branch sampling perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch perf tools: Add code to support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK x86/kprobes: Split out optprobe related code to kprobes-opt.c x86/kprobes: Fix a bug which can modify kernel code permanently x86/kprobes: Fix instruction recovery on optimized path perf: Add callback to flush branch_stack on context switch perf: Disable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* when not supported perf/x86: Add LBR software filter support for Intel CPUs ...
2012-03-20Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull irq/core changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar * 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: genirq: Remove paranoid warnons and bogus fixups genirq: Flush the irq thread on synchronization genirq: Get rid of unnecessary IRQTF_DIED flag genirq: No need to check IRQTF_DIED before stopping a thread handler genirq: Get rid of unnecessary irqaction field in task_struct genirq: Fix incorrect check for forced IRQ thread handler softirq: Reduce invoke_softirq() code duplication genirq: Fix long-term regression in genirq irq_set_irq_type() handling x86-32/irq: Don't switch to irq stack for a user-mode irq
2012-03-20Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar. The major features of this series are: - making RCU more aggressive about entering dyntick-idle mode in order to improve energy efficiency - converting a few more call_rcu()s to kfree_rcu()s - applying a number of rcutree fixes and cleanups to rcutiny - removing CONFIG_SMP #ifdefs from treercu - allowing RCU CPU stall times to be set via sysfs - adding CPU-stall capability to rcutorture - adding more RCU-abuse diagnostics - updating documentation - fixing yet more issues located by the still-ongoing top-to-bottom inspection of RCU, this time with a special focus on the CPU-hotplug code path. * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (48 commits) rcu: Stop spurious warnings from synchronize_sched_expedited rcu: Hold off RCU_FAST_NO_HZ after timer posted rcu: Eliminate softirq-mediated RCU_FAST_NO_HZ idle-entry loop rcu: Add RCU_NONIDLE() for idle-loop RCU read-side critical sections rcu: Allow nesting of rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() rcu: Remove redundant check for rcu_head misalignment PTR_ERR should be called before its argument is cleared. rcu: Convert WARN_ON_ONCE() in rcu_lock_acquire() to lockdep rcu: Trace only after NULL-pointer check rcu: Call out dangers of expedited RCU primitives rcu: Rework detection of use of RCU by offline CPUs lockdep: Add CPU-idle/offline warning to lockdep-RCU splat rcu: No interrupt disabling for rcu_prepare_for_idle() rcu: Move synchronize_sched_expedited() to rcutree.c rcu: Check for illegal use of RCU from offlined CPUs rcu: Update stall-warning documentation rcu: Add CPU-stall capability to rcutorture rcu: Make documentation give more realistic rcutorture duration rcutorture: Permit holding off CPU-hotplug operations during boot rcu: Print scheduling-clock information on RCU CPU stall-warning messages ...
2012-03-20power: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()Cong Wang
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-20kdb: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()Cong Wang
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-19Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull core/locking changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar * 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: futex: Simplify return logic futex: Cover all PI opcodes with cmpxchg enabled check
2012-03-16genirq: Remove paranoid warnons and bogus fixupsThomas Gleixner
Alexander pointed out that the warnons in the regular exit path are bogus and the thread_mask one actually could be triggered when __setup_irq() hands out that thread_mask again after __free_irq() dropped irq_desc->lock. Thinking more about it, neither IRQTF_RUNTHREAD nor the bit in thread_mask can be set as this is the regular exit path. We come here due to: __free_irq() remove action from desc synchronize_irq() kthread_stop() So synchronize_irq() makes sure that the thread finished running and cleaned up both the thread_active count and thread_mask. After that point nothing can set IRQTF_RUNTHREAD on this action. So the warnons and the cleanups are pointless. Reported-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> Cc: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120315190755.GA6732@dhcp-26-207.brq.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-03-15prctl: use CAP_SYS_RESOURCE for PR_SET_MM optionCyrill Gorcunov
CAP_SYS_ADMIN is already overloaded left and right, so to have more fine-grained access control use CAP_SYS_RESOURCE here. The CAP_SYS_RESOUCE is chosen because this prctl option allows a current process to adjust some fields of memory map descriptor which rather represents what the process owns: pointers to code, data, stack segments, command line, auxiliary vector data and etc. Suggested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-15ntp: Fix integer overflow when setting timeSasha Levin
'long secs' is passed as divisor to div_s64, which accepts a 32bit divisor. On 64bit machines that value is trimmed back from 8 bytes back to 4, causing a divide by zero when the number is bigger than (1 << 32) - 1 and all 32 lower bits are 0. Use div64_long() instead. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331829374-31543-2-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-03-15printk: Make it compile with !CONFIG_PRINTKPeter Zijlstra
Commit 3ccf3e830615 ("printk/sched: Introduce special printk_sched() for those awkward moments") overlooked an #ifdef, so move code around to respect these directives. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331811337.18960.179.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-14Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe: "Been sitting on this for a while, but lets get this out the door. This fixes various important bugs for 3.3 final, along with a few more trivial ones. Please pull!" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: block: fix ioc leak in put_io_context block, sx8: fix pointer math issue getting fw version Block: use a freezable workqueue for disk-event polling drivers/block/DAC960: fix -Wuninitialized warning drivers/block/DAC960: fix DAC960_V2_IOCTL_Opcode_T -Wenum-compare warning block: fix __blkdev_get and add_disk race condition block: Fix setting bio flags in drivers (sd_dif/floppy) block: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sd_revalidate_disk block: exit_io_context() should call elevator_exit_icq_fn() block: simplify ioc_release_fn() block: replace icq->changed with icq->flags
2012-03-14genirq: Flush the irq thread on synchronizationIdo Yariv
The current implementation does not always flush the threaded handler when disabling the irq. In case the irq handler was called, but the threaded handler hasn't started running yet, the interrupt will be flagged as pending, and the handler will not run. This implementation has some issues: First, if the interrupt is a wake source and flagged as pending, the system will not be able to suspend. Second, when quickly disabling and re-enabling the irq, the threaded handler might continue to run after the irq is re-enabled without the irq handler being called first. This might be an unexpected behavior. In addition, it might be counter-intuitive that the threaded handler will not be called even though the irq handler was called and returned IRQ_WAKE_THREAD. Fix this by always waiting for the threaded handler to complete in synchronize_irq(). [ tglx: Massaged comments, added WARN_ONs and the missing IRQTF_RUNTHREAD check in exit_irq_thread() ] Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322843052-7166-1-git-send-email-ido@wizery.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-03-13Merge branch 'linus' into irq/coreThomas Gleixner
Reason: Get upstream fixes integrated before further modifications. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-03-13Merge tag 'v3.3-rc7' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: merge back final fixes, prepare for the merge window. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-12Merge branch 'perf/hw-branch-sampling' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: The 'perf record -b' hardware branch sampling feature is ready for upstream. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-12Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: We are going to queue up a dependent patch. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-12sched: Fix nohz load accounting -- again!Peter Zijlstra
Various people reported nohz load tracking still being wrecked, but Doug spotted the actual problem. We fold the nohz remainder in too soon, causing us to loose samples and under-account. So instead of playing catch-up up-front, always do a single load-fold with whatever state we encounter and only then fold the nohz remainder and play catch-up. Reported-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net> Reported-by: LesÅ=82aw Kope=C4=87 <leslaw.kopec@nasza-klasa.pl> Reported-by: Aman Gupta <aman@tmm1.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4v31etnhgg9kwd6ocgx3rxl8@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-12sched: Update yield() docsPeter Zijlstra
Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331056466.11248.327.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-12printk/sched: Introduce special printk_sched() for those awkward momentsPeter Zijlstra
There's a few awkward printk()s inside of scheduler guts that people prefer to keep but really are rather deadlock prone. Fudge around it by storing the text in a per-cpu buffer and poll it using the existing printk_tick() handler. This will drop output when its more frequent than once a tick, however only the affinity thing could possible go that fast and for that just one should suffice to notify the admin he's done something silly.. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wua3lmkt3dg8nfts66o6brne@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-12sched/nohz: Correctly initialize 'next_balance' in 'nohz' idle balancerDiwakar Tundlam
The 'next_balance' field of 'nohz' idle balancer must be initialized to jiffies. Since jiffies is initialized to negative 300 seconds the 'nohz' idle balancer does not run for the first 300s (5mins) after bootup. If no new processes are spawed or no idle cycles happen, the load on the cpus will remain unbalanced for that duration. Signed-off-by: Diwakar Tundlam <dtundlam@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1DD7BFEDD3147247B1355BEFEFE4665237994F30EF@HQMAIL04.nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-12sched: Cleanup cpu_active madnessPeter Zijlstra
Stepan found: CPU0 CPUn _cpu_up() __cpu_up() boostrap() notify_cpu_starting() set_cpu_online() while (!cpu_active()) cpu_relax() <PREEMPT-out> smp_call_function(.wait=1) /* we find cpu_online() is true */ arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask() /* wait-forever-more */ <PREEMPT-in> local_irq_enable() cpu_notify(CPU_ONLINE) sched_cpu_active() set_cpu_active() Now the purpose of cpu_active is mostly with bringing down a cpu, where we mark it !active to avoid the load-balancer from moving tasks to it while we tear down the cpu. This is required because we only update the sched_domain tree after we brought the cpu-down. And this is needed so that some tasks can still run while we bring it down, we just don't want new tasks to appear. On cpu-up however the sched_domain tree doesn't yet include the new cpu, so its invisible to the load-balancer, regardless of the active state. So instead of setting the active state after we boot the new cpu (and consequently having to wait for it before enabling interrupts) set the cpu active before we set it online and avoid the whole mess. Reported-by: Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323965362.18942.71.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-12sched: Fix load-balance wreckagePeter Zijlstra
Commit 367456c ("sched: Ditch per cgroup task lists for load-balancing") completely wrecked load-balancing due to a few silly mistakes. Correct those and remove more pointless code. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-zk04ihygwxn7qqrlpaf73b0r@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-12workqueue: use percpu allocator for cwq on UPLai Jiangshan
I notice that the commit bbddff makes percpu allocator can work on UP, So we don't need the magic way for UP. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-03-09genirq: Get rid of unnecessary IRQTF_DIED flagAlexander Gordeev
Currently IRQTF_DIED flag is set when a IRQ thread handler calls do_exit() But also PF_EXITING per process flag gets set when a thread exits. This fix eliminates the duplicate by using PF_EXITING flag. Also, there is a race condition in exit_irq_thread(). In case a thread's bit is cleared in desc->threads_oneshot (and the IRQ line gets unmasked), but before IRQTF_DIED flag is set, a new interrupt might come in and set just cleared bit again, this time forever. This fix throws IRQTF_DIED flag away, eliminating the race as a result. [ tglx: Test THREAD_EXITING first as suggested by Oleg ] Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120309135958.GD2114@dhcp-26-207.brq.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-03-09genirq: No need to check IRQTF_DIED before stopping a thread handlerAlexander Gordeev
Since 63706172f332fd3f6e7458ebfb35fa6de9c21dc5 kthread_stop() is not afraid of dead kernel threads. So no need to check if a thread is alive before stopping it. These checks still were racy. Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120309135939.GC2114@dhcp-26-207.brq.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-03-09genirq: Get rid of unnecessary irqaction field in task_structAlexander Gordeev
When a new thread handler is created, an irqaction is passed to it as data. Not only that irqaction is stored in task_struct by the handler for later use, but also a structure associated with the kernel thread keeps this value as long as the thread exists. This fix kicks irqaction out off task_struct. Yes, I introduce new bit field. But it allows not only to eliminate the duplicate, but also shortens size of task_struct. Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120309135925.GB2114@dhcp-26-207.brq.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-03-09genirq: Fix incorrect check for forced IRQ thread handlerAlexander Gordeev
We do not want a bitwise AND between boolean operands Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120309135912.GA2114@dhcp-26-207.brq.redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-03-07Revert "CPU hotplug, cpusets, suspend: Don't touch cpusets during ↵Linus Torvalds
suspend/resume" This reverts commit 8f2f748b0656257153bcf0941df8d6060acc5ca6. It causes some odd regression that we have not figured out, and it's too late in the -rc series to try to figure it out now. As reported by Konstantin Khlebnikov, it causes consistent hangs on his laptop (Thinkpad x220: 2x cores + HT). They can be avoided by adding calls to "rebuild_sched_domains();" in cpuset_cpu_[in]active() for the CPU_{ONLINE/DOWN_FAILED/DOWN_PREPARE}_FROZEN cases, but it's not at all clear why, and it makes no sense. Konstantin's config doesn't even have CONFIG_CPUSETS enabled, just to make things even more interesting. So it's not the cpusets, it's just the scheduling domains. So until this is understood, revert. Bisected-reported-and-tested-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-06genirq: Clear action->thread_mask if IRQ_ONESHOT is not setThomas Gleixner
Xommit ac5637611(genirq: Unmask oneshot irqs when thread was not woken) fails to unmask when a !IRQ_ONESHOT threaded handler is handled by handle_level_irq. This happens because thread_mask is or'ed unconditionally in irq_wake_thread(), but for !IRQ_ONESHOT interrupts never cleared. So the check for !desc->thread_active fails and keeps the interrupt disabled. Keep the thread_mask zero for !IRQ_ONESHOT interrupts. Document the thread_mask magic while at it. Reported-and-tested-by: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-06softirq: Reduce invoke_softirq() code duplicationHeiko Carstens
The two invoke_softirq() variants are identical except for a single line. So move the #ifdef __ARCH_IRQ_EXIT_IRQS_DISABLED inside one of the functions and get rid of the other one. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-03-06genirq: Fix long-term regression in genirq irq_set_irq_type() handlingRussell King
In 2008, commit 0c5d1eb77a8be ("genirq: record trigger type") modified the way set_irq_type() handles the 'no trigger' condition. However, this has an adverse effect on PCMCIA support on Intel StrongARM and probably PXA platforms. PCMCIA has several status signals on the socket which can trigger interrupts; some of these status signals depend on the card's mode (whether it is configured in memory or IO mode). For example, cards have a 'Ready/IRQ' signal: in memory mode, this provides an indication to PCMCIA that the card has finished its power up initialization. In IO mode, it provides the device interrupt signal. Other status signals switch between on-board battery status and loud speaker output. In classical PCMCIA implementations, where you have a specific socket controller, the controller provides a method to mask interrupts from the socket, and importantly ignore any state transitions on the pins which correspond with interrupts once masked. This masking prevents unwanted events caused by the removal and application of socket power being forwarded. However, on platforms where there is no socket controller, the PCMCIA status and interrupt signals are routed to standard edge-triggered GPIOs. These GPIOs can be configured to interrupt on rising edge, falling edge, or never. This is where the problems start. Edge triggered interrupts are required to record events while disabled via the usual methods of {free,request,disable,enable}_irq() to prevent problems with dropped interrupts (eg, the 8390 driver uses disable_irq() to defer the delivery of interrupts). As a result, these interfaces can not be used to implement the desired behaviour. The side effect of this is that if the 'Ready/IRQ' GPIO is disabled via disable_irq() on suspend, and enabled via enable_irq() after resume, we will record the state transitions caused by powering events as valid interrupts, and foward them to the card driver, which may attempt to access a card which is not powered up. This leads delays resume while drivers spin in their interrupt handlers, and complaints from drivers before they realize what's happened. Moreover, in the case of the 'Ready/IRQ' signal, this is requested and freed by the card driver itself; the PCMCIA core has no idea whether the interrupt is requested, and, therefore, whether a call to disable_irq() would be valid. (We tried this around 2.4.17 / 2.5.1 kernel era, and ended up throwing it out because of this problem.) Therefore, it was decided back in around 2002 to disable the edge triggering instead, resulting in all state transitions on the GPIO being ignored. That's what we actually need the hardware to do. The commit above changes this behaviour; it explicitly prevents the 'no trigger' state being selected. The reason that request_irq() does not accept the 'no trigger' state is for compatibility with existing drivers which do not provide their desired triggering configuration. The set_irq_type() function is 'new' and not used by non-trigger aware drivers. Therefore, revert this change, and restore previously working platforms back to their former state. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux@arm.linux.org.uk Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-03-05hung_task: fix the broken rcu_lock_break() logicOleg Nesterov
check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks()->rcu_lock_break() introduced by "softlockup: check all tasks in hung_task" commit ce9dbe24 looks absolutely wrong. - rcu_lock_break() does put_task_struct(). If the task has exited it is not safe to even read its ->state, nothing protects this task_struct. - The TASK_DEAD checks are wrong too. Contrary to the comment, we can't use it to check if the task was unhashed. It can be unhashed without TASK_DEAD, or it can be valid with TASK_DEAD. For example, an autoreaping task can do release_task(current) long before it sets TASK_DEAD in do_exit(). Or, a zombie task can have ->state == TASK_DEAD but release_task() was not called, and in this case we must not break the loop. Change this code to check pid_alive() instead, and do this before we drop the reference to the task_struct. Note: while_each_thread() under rcu_read_lock() is not really safe, it can livelock. This will be fixed later, but fortunately in this case the "max_count" logic saves us anyway. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-05vfork: kill PF_STARTINGOleg Nesterov
Previously it was (ab)used by utrace. Then it was wrongly used by the scheduler code. Currently it is not used, kill it before it finds the new erroneous user. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-05coredump_wait: don't call complete_vfork_done()Oleg Nesterov
Now that CLONE_VFORK is killable, coredump_wait() no longer needs complete_vfork_done(). zap_threads() should find and kill all tasks with the same ->mm, this includes our parent if ->vfork_done is set. mm_release() becomes the only caller, unexport complete_vfork_done(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-05vfork: make it killableOleg Nesterov
Make vfork() killable. Change do_fork(CLONE_VFORK) to do wait_for_completion_killable(). If it fails we do not return to the user-mode and never touch the memory shared with our child. However, in this case we should clear child->vfork_done before return, we use task_lock() in do_fork()->wait_for_vfork_done() and complete_vfork_done() to serialize with each other. Note: now that we use task_lock() we don't really need completion, we could turn task->vfork_done into "task_struct *wake_up_me" but this needs some complications. NOTE: this and the next patches do not affect in-kernel users of CLONE_VFORK, kernel threads run with all signals ignored including SIGKILL/SIGSTOP. However this is obviously the user-visible change. Not only a fatal signal can kill the vforking parent, a sub-thread can do execve or exit_group() and kill the thread sleeping in vfork(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-05vfork: introduce complete_vfork_done()Oleg Nesterov
No functional changes. Move the clear-and-complete-vfork_done code into the new trivial helper, complete_vfork_done(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>