linux/init/Kconfig, branch v4.5

mm: memcontrol: rein in the CONFIG space madness

2016-01-21T01:09:18Z

What CONFIG_INET and CONFIG_LEGACY_KMEM guard inside the memory controller code is insignificant, having these conditionals is not worth the complication and fragility that comes with them. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: rework mem_cgroup_css_free() statement ordering] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcontrol: introduce CONFIG_MEMCG_LEGACY_KMEM

2016-01-21T01:09:18Z

Let the user know that CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM does not apply to the cgroup2 interface. This also makes legacy-only code sections stand out better. [arnd@arndb.de: mm: memcontrol: only manage socket pressure for CONFIG_INET] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit

2016-01-18T02:48:49Z

Pull audit updates from Paul Moore: "Seven audit patches for 4.5, all very minor despite the diffstat. The diffstat churn for linux/audit.h can be attributed to needing to reshuffle the linux/audit.h header to fix the seccomp auditing issue (see the commit description for details). Besides the seccomp/audit fix, most of the fixes are around trying to improve the connection with the audit daemon and a Kconfig simplification. Nothing crazy, and everything passes our little audit-testsuite" * 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit: audit: always enable syscall auditing when supported and audit is enabled audit: force seccomp event logging to honor the audit_enabled flag audit: Delete unnecessary checks before two function calls audit: wake up threads if queue switched from limited to unlimited audit: include auditd's threads in audit_log_start() wait exception audit: remove audit_backlog_wait_overflow audit: don't needlessly reset valid wait time

uselib: default depending if libc5 was used

2016-01-16T19:17:24Z

uselib hasn't been used since libc5; glibc does not use it. Deprecate uselib a bit more, by making the default y only if libc5 was widely used on the plaform. This makes arm64 kernel built with defconfig slightly smaller bloat-o-meter: add/remove: 0/3 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-1390 (-1390) function old new delta kernel_config_data 18164 18162 -2 uselib_flags 20 - -20 padzero 216 192 -24 sys_uselib 380 - -380 load_elf_library 964 - -964 Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

audit: always enable syscall auditing when supported and audit is enabled

2016-01-13T14:18:55Z

To the best of our knowledge, everyone who enables audit at compile time also enables syscall auditing; this patch simplifies the Kconfig menus by removing the option to disable syscall auditing when audit is selected and the target arch supports it. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

Merge branch 'for-4.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2016-01-13T03:20:32Z

Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: - cgroup v2 interface is now official. It's no longer hidden behind a devel flag and can be mounted using the new cgroup2 fs type. Unfortunately, cpu v2 interface hasn't made it yet due to the discussion around in-process hierarchical resource distribution and only memory and io controllers can be used on the v2 interface at the moment. - The existing documentation which has always been a bit of mess is relocated under Documentation/cgroup-v1/. Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt is added as the authoritative documentation for the v2 interface. - Some features are added through for-4.5-ancestor-test branch to enable netfilter xt_cgroup match to use cgroup v2 paths. The actual netfilter changes will be merged through the net tree which pulled in the said branch. - Various cleanups * 'for-4.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: rename cgroup documentations cgroup: fix a typo. cgroup: Remove resource_counter.txt in Documentation/cgroup-legacy/00-INDEX. cgroup: demote subsystem init messages to KERN_DEBUG cgroup: Fix uninitialized variable warning cgroup: put controller Kconfig options in meaningful order cgroup: clean up the kernel configuration menu nomenclature cgroup_pids: fix a typo. Subject: cgroup: Fix incomplete dd command in blkio documentation cgroup: kill cgrp_ss_priv[CGROUP_CANFORK_COUNT] and friends cpuset: Replace all instances of time_t with time64_t cgroup: replace unified-hierarchy.txt with a proper cgroup v2 documentation cgroup: rename Documentation/cgroups/ to Documentation/cgroup-legacy/ cgroup: replace __DEVEL__sane_behavior with cgroup2 fs type

cgroup: put controller Kconfig options in meaningful order

2015-12-18T17:43:15Z

To make it easier to quickly find what's needed list the basic resource controllers of cgroup2 first - io, memory, cpu - while pushing the more exotic and/or legacy controllers to the bottom. tj: Removed spurious "&& CGROUPS" from CGROUP_PERF as suggested by Li. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Zefan Li Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

cgroup: clean up the kernel configuration menu nomenclature

2015-12-18T17:43:15Z

The config options for the different cgroup controllers use various terms: resource controller, cgroup subsystem, etc. Simplify this to "controller", which is clear enough in the cgroup context. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

kernel: remove stop_machine() Kconfig dependency

2015-12-12T18:15:34Z

Currently the full stop_machine() routine is only enabled on SMP if module unloading is enabled, or if the CPUs are hotpluggable. This leads to configurations where stop_machine() is broken as it will then only run the callback on the local CPU with irqs disabled, and not stop the other CPUs or run the callback on them. For example, this breaks MTRR setup on x86 in certain configs since ea8596bb2d8d379 ("kprobes/x86: Remove unused text_poke_smp() and text_poke_smp_batch() functions") as the MTRR is only established on the boot CPU. This patch removes the Kconfig option for STOP_MACHINE and uses the SMP and HOTPLUG_CPU config options to compile the correct stop_machine() for the architecture, removing the false dependency on MODULE_UNLOAD in the process. Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/8/124 References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84794 Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Pranith Kumar Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Iulia Manda Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Chuck Ebbert Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86)

2015-09-11T22:21:34Z

Here is an implementation of a new system call, sys_membarrier(), which executes a memory barrier on all threads running on the system. It is implemented by calling synchronize_sched(). It can be used to distribute the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by transforming pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of sys_membarrier() and a compiler barrier. For synchronization primitives that distinguish between read-side and write-side (e.g. userspace RCU [1], rwlocks), the read-side can be accelerated significantly by moving the bulk of the memory barrier overhead to the write-side. The existing applications of which I am aware that would be improved by this system call are as follows: * Through Userspace RCU library (http://urcu.so) - DNS server (Knot DNS) https://www.knot-dns.cz/ - Network sniffer (http://netsniff-ng.org/) - Distributed object storage (https://sheepdog.github.io/sheepdog/) - User-space tracing (http://lttng.org) - Network storage system (https://www.gluster.org/) - Virtual routers (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/DPDK_RCU_0MQ.pdf) - Financial software (https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/23/189) Those projects use RCU in userspace to increase read-side speed and scalability compared to locking. Especially in the case of RCU used by libraries, sys_membarrier can speed up the read-side by moving the bulk of the memory barrier cost to synchronize_rcu(). * Direct users of sys_membarrier - core dotnet garbage collector (https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/198) Microsoft core dotnet GC developers are planning to use the mprotect() side-effect of issuing memory barriers through IPIs as a way to implement Windows FlushProcessWriteBuffers() on Linux. They are referring to sys_membarrier in their github thread, specifically stating that sys_membarrier() is what they are looking for. To explain the benefit of this scheme, let's introduce two example threads: Thread A (non-frequent, e.g. executing liburcu synchronize_rcu()) Thread B (frequent, e.g. executing liburcu rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock()) In a scheme where all smp_mb() in thread A are ordering memory accesses with respect to smp_mb() present in Thread B, we can change each smp_mb() within Thread A into calls to sys_membarrier() and each smp_mb() within Thread B into compiler barriers "barrier()". Before the change, we had, for each smp_mb() pairs: Thread A Thread B previous mem accesses previous mem accesses smp_mb() smp_mb() following mem accesses following mem accesses After the change, these pairs become: Thread A Thread B prev mem accesses prev mem accesses sys_membarrier() barrier() follow mem accesses follow mem accesses As we can see, there are two possible scenarios: either Thread B memory accesses do not happen concurrently with Thread A accesses (1), or they do (2). 1) Non-concurrent Thread A vs Thread B accesses: Thread A Thread B prev mem accesses sys_membarrier() follow mem accesses prev mem accesses barrier() follow mem accesses In this case, thread B accesses will be weakly ordered. This is OK, because at that point, thread A is not particularly interested in ordering them with respect to its own accesses. 2) Concurrent Thread A vs Thread B accesses Thread A Thread B prev mem accesses prev mem accesses sys_membarrier() barrier() follow mem accesses follow mem accesses In this case, thread B accesses, which are ensured to be in program order thanks to the compiler barrier, will be "upgraded" to full smp_mb() by synchronize_sched(). * Benchmarks On Intel Xeon E5405 (8 cores) (one thread is calling sys_membarrier, the other 7 threads are busy looping) 1000 non-expedited sys_membarrier calls in 33s =3D 33 milliseconds/call. * User-space user of this system call: Userspace RCU library Both the signal-based and the sys_membarrier userspace RCU schemes permit us to remove the memory barrier from the userspace RCU rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() primitives, thus significantly accelerating them. These memory barriers are replaced by compiler barriers on the read-side, and all matching memory barriers on the write-side are turned into an invocation of a memory barrier on all active threads in the process. By letting the kernel perform this synchronization rather than dumbly sending a signal to every process threads (as we currently do), we diminish the number of unnecessary wake ups and only issue the memory barriers on active threads. Non-running threads do not need to execute such barrier anyway, because these are implied by the scheduler context switches. Results in liburcu: Operations in 10s, 6 readers, 2 writers: memory barriers in reader: 1701557485 reads, 2202847 writes signal-based scheme: 9830061167 reads, 6700 writes sys_membarrier: 9952759104 reads, 425 writes sys_membarrier (dyn. check): 7970328887 reads, 425 writes The dynamic sys_membarrier availability check adds some overhead to the read-side compared to the signal-based scheme, but besides that, sys_membarrier slightly outperforms the signal-based scheme. However, this non-expedited sys_membarrier implementation has a much slower grace period than signal and memory barrier schemes. Besides diminishing the number of wake-ups, one major advantage of the membarrier system call over the signal-based scheme is that it does not need to reserve a signal. This plays much more nicely with libraries, and with processes injected into for tracing purposes, for which we cannot expect that signals will be unused by the application. An expedited version of this system call can be added later on to speed up the grace period. Its implementation will likely depend on reading the cpu_curr()->mm without holding each CPU's rq lock. This patch adds the system call to x86 and to asm-generic. [1] http://urcu.so membarrier(2) man page: MEMBARRIER(2) Linux Programmer's Manual MEMBARRIER(2) NAME membarrier - issue memory barriers on a set of threads SYNOPSIS #include int membarrier(int cmd, int flags); DESCRIPTION The cmd argument is one of the following: MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY Query the set of supported commands. It returns a bitmask of supported commands. MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED Execute a memory barrier on all threads running on the system. Upon return from system call, the caller thread is ensured that all running threads have passed through a state where all memory accesses to user-space addresses match program order between entry to and return from the system call (non-running threads are de facto in such a state). This covers threads from all pro=E2=80=90 cesses running on the system. This command returns 0. The flags argument needs to be 0. For future extensions. All memory accesses performed in program order from each targeted thread is guaranteed to be ordered with respect to sys_membarrier(). If we use the semantic "barrier()" to represent a compiler barrier forcing memory accesses to be performed in program order across the barrier, and smp_mb() to represent explicit memory barriers forcing full memory ordering across the barrier, we have the following ordering table for each pair of barrier(), sys_membarrier() and smp_mb(): The pair ordering is detailed as (O: ordered, X: not ordered): barrier() smp_mb() sys_membarrier() barrier() X X O smp_mb() X O O sys_membarrier() O O O RETURN VALUE On success, these system calls return zero. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately. For a given command, with flags argument set to 0, this system call is guaranteed to always return the same value until reboot. ERRORS ENOSYS System call is not implemented. EINVAL Invalid arguments. Linux 2015-04-15 MEMBARRIER(2) Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Nicholas Miell Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Alan Cox Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: David Howells Cc: Pranith Kumar Cc: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Shuah Khan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds