linux/kernel/sched, branch v3.8

sched/debug: Fix format string for 32-bit platforms

2013-01-25T14:23:15Z

The type returned from atomic64_t can be either unsigned long or unsigned long long, depending on the architecture. Using a cast to unsigned long long lets us use the same format string for all architectures. Without this patch, building with scheduler debugging enabled results in: kernel/sched/debug.c: In function 'print_cfs_rq': kernel/sched/debug.c:225:2: warning: format '%ld' expects argument of type 'long int', but argument 4 has type 'long long int' [-Wformat] kernel/sched/debug.c:225:2: warning: format '%ld' expects argument of type 'long int', but argument 3 has type 'long long int' [-Wformat] Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Turner Cc: linux-arm-kernel@list.infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359123276-15833-7-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Fix warning in kernel/sched/fair.c

2013-01-25T14:23:14Z

a4c96ae319 "sched: Unthrottle rt runqueues in __disable_runtime()" turned the unthrottle_offline_cfs_rqs function into a static symbol, which now triggers a warning about it being potentially unused: kernel/sched/fair.c:2055:13: warning: 'unthrottle_offline_cfs_rqs' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] Marking it __maybe_unused shuts up the gcc warning and lets the compiler safely drop the function body when it's not being used. To reproduce, build the ARM bcm2835_defconfig. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Peter Boonstoppel Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Turner Cc: linux-arm-kernel@list.infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359123276-15833-6-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/rt: Use root_domain of rt_rq not current processor

2013-01-25T07:20:47Z

When the system has multiple domains do_sched_rt_period_timer() can run on any CPU and may iterate over all rt_rq in cpu_online_mask. This means when balance_runtime() is run for a given rt_rq that rt_rq may be in a different rd than the current processor. Thus if we use smp_processor_id() to get rd in do_balance_runtime() we may borrow runtime from a rt_rq that is not part of our rd. This changes do_balance_runtime to get the rd from the passed in rt_rq ensuring that we borrow runtime only from the correct rd for the given rt_rq. This fixes a BUG at kernel/sched/rt.c:687! in __disable_runtime when we try reclaim runtime lent to other rt_rq but runtime has been lent to a rt_rq in another rd. Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer Acked-by: Steven Rostedt Acked-by: Mike Galbraith Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358186131-29494-1-git-send-email-sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

wake_up_process() should be never used to wakeup a TASK_STOPPED/TRACED task

2013-01-22T18:08:17Z

wake_up_process() should never wakeup a TASK_STOPPED/TRACED task. Change it to use TASK_NORMAL and add the WARN_ON(). TASK_ALL has no other users, probably can be killed. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched: numa: ksm: fix oops in task_numa_placment()

2012-12-20T15:06:56Z

task_numa_placement() oopsed on NULL p->mm when task_numa_fault() got called in the handling of break_ksm() for ksmd. That might be a peculiar case, which perhaps KSM could takes steps to avoid? but it's more robust if task_numa_placement() allows for such a possibility. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2012-12-17T23:44:47Z

Pull user namespace changes from Eric Biederman: "While small this set of changes is very significant with respect to containers in general and user namespaces in particular. The user space interface is now complete. This set of changes adds support for unprivileged users to create user namespaces and as a user namespace root to create other namespaces. The tyranny of supporting suid root preventing unprivileged users from using cool new kernel features is broken. This set of changes completes the work on setns, adding support for the pid, user, mount namespaces. This set of changes includes a bunch of basic pid namespace cleanups/simplifications. Of particular significance is the rework of the pid namespace cleanup so it no longer requires sending out tendrils into all kinds of unexpected cleanup paths for operation. At least one case of broken error handling is fixed by this cleanup. The files under /proc//ns/ have been converted from regular files to magic symlinks which prevents incorrect caching by the VFS, ensuring the files always refer to the namespace the process is currently using and ensuring that the ptrace_mayaccess permission checks are always applied. The files under /proc//ns/ have been given stable inode numbers so it is now possible to see if different processes share the same namespaces. Through the David Miller's net tree are changes to relax many of the permission checks in the networking stack to allowing the user namespace root to usefully use the networking stack. Similar changes for the mount namespace and the pid namespace are coming through my tree. Two small changes to add user namespace support were commited here adn in David Miller's -net tree so that I could complete the work on the /proc//ns/ files in this tree. Work remains to make it safe to build user namespaces and 9p, afs, ceph, cifs, coda, gfs2, ncpfs, nfs, nfsd, ocfs2, and xfs so the Kconfig guard remains in place preventing that user namespaces from being built when any of those filesystems are enabled. Future design work remains to allow root users outside of the initial user namespace to mount more than just /proc and /sys." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (38 commits) proc: Usable inode numbers for the namespace file descriptors. proc: Fix the namespace inode permission checks. proc: Generalize proc inode allocation userns: Allow unprivilged mounts of proc and sysfs userns: For /proc/self/{uid,gid}_map derive the lower userns from the struct file procfs: Print task uids and gids in the userns that opened the proc file userns: Implement unshare of the user namespace userns: Implent proc namespace operations userns: Kill task_user_ns userns: Make create_new_namespaces take a user_ns parameter userns: Allow unprivileged use of setns. userns: Allow unprivileged users to create new namespaces userns: Allow setting a userns mapping to your current uid. userns: Allow chown and setgid preservation userns: Allow unprivileged users to create user namespaces. userns: Ignore suid and sgid on binaries if the uid or gid can not be mapped userns: fix return value on mntns_install() failure vfs: Allow unprivileged manipulation of the mount namespace. vfs: Only support slave subtrees across different user namespaces vfs: Add a user namespace reference from struct mnt_namespace ...

sched: numa: Fix build error if CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING && !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE

2012-12-17T16:25:50Z

Michal Hocko reported that the following build error occurs if CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING is set without THP support kernel/sched/fair.c: In function ‘task_numa_work’: kernel/sched/fair.c:932:55: error: call to ‘__build_bug_failed’ declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed The problem is that HPAGE_PMD_SHIFT triggers a BUILD_BUG() on !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE. This patch addresses the problem. Reported-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma

2012-12-16T23:18:08Z

Pull Automatic NUMA Balancing bare-bones from Mel Gorman: "There are three implementations for NUMA balancing, this tree (balancenuma), numacore which has been developed in tip/master and autonuma which is in aa.git. In almost all respects balancenuma is the dumbest of the three because its main impact is on the VM side with no attempt to be smart about scheduling. In the interest of getting the ball rolling, it would be desirable to see this much merged for 3.8 with the view to building scheduler smarts on top and adapting the VM where required for 3.9. The most recent set of comparisons available from different people are mel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/9/108 mingo: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/7/331 tglx: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/437 srikar: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/397 The results are a mixed bag. In my own tests, balancenuma does reasonably well. It's dumb as rocks and does not regress against mainline. On the other hand, Ingo's tests shows that balancenuma is incapable of converging for this workloads driven by perf which is bad but is potentially explained by the lack of scheduler smarts. Thomas' results show balancenuma improves on mainline but falls far short of numacore or autonuma. Srikar's results indicate we all suffer on a large machine with imbalanced node sizes. My own testing showed that recent numacore results have improved dramatically, particularly in the last week but not universally. We've butted heads heavily on system CPU usage and high levels of migration even when it shows that overall performance is better. There are also cases where it regresses. Of interest is that for specjbb in some configurations it will regress for lower numbers of warehouses and show gains for higher numbers which is not reported by the tool by default and sometimes missed in treports. Recently I reported for numacore that the JVM was crashing with NullPointerExceptions but currently it's unclear what the source of this problem is. Initially I thought it was in how numacore batch handles PTEs but I'm no longer think this is the case. It's possible numacore is just able to trigger it due to higher rates of migration. These reports were quite late in the cycle so I/we would like to start with this tree as it contains much of the code we can agree on and has not changed significantly over the last 2-3 weeks." * tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma: (50 commits) mm/rmap, migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem mm: migrate: Account a transhuge page properly when rate limiting mm: numa: Account for failed allocations and isolations as migration failures mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case build fix mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case. mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing if !SCHED_DEBUG mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing mm: sched: Adapt the scanning rate if a NUMA hinting fault does not migrate mm: numa: Use a two-stage filter to restrict pages being migrated for unlikely task<->node relationships mm: numa: migrate: Set last_nid on newly allocated page mm: numa: split_huge_page: Transfer last_nid on tail page mm: numa: Introduce last_nid to the page frame sched: numa: Slowly increase the scanning period as NUMA faults are handled mm: numa: Rate limit setting of pte_numa if node is saturated mm: numa: Rate limit the amount of memory that is migrated between nodes mm: numa: Structures for Migrate On Fault per NUMA migration rate limiting mm: numa: Migrate pages handled during a pmd_numa hinting fault mm: numa: Migrate on reference policy ...

Revert "sched: Update_cfs_shares at period edge"

2012-12-14T15:20:43Z

This reverts commit f269ae0469fc882332bdfb5db15d3c1315fe2a10. It turns out it causes a very noticeable interactivity regression with CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP (test-case: "make -j32" of the kernel in a terminal window, while scrolling in a browser - the autogrouping means that the two end up in separate cgroups, and the browser should be smooth as silk despite the high load). Says Paul Turner: "It seems that the update-throttling on the wake-side is reducing the interactive tasks' ability to preempt. While I suspect the right longer term answer here is force these updates only in the cross-cgroup case; this is less trivial. For this release I believe the right answer is either going to be a revert or restore the updates on the enqueue-side." Reported-by: Linus Torvalds Bisected-by: Mike Galbraith Acked-by: Paul Turner Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'kvm-3.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2012-12-13T23:31:08Z

Pull KVM updates from Marcelo Tosatti: "Considerable KVM/PPC work, x86 kvmclock vsyscall support, IA32_TSC_ADJUST MSR emulation, amongst others." Fix up trivial conflict in kernel/sched/core.c due to cross-cpu migration notifier added next to rq migration call-back. * tag 'kvm-3.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (156 commits) KVM: emulator: fix real mode segment checks in address linearization VMX: remove unneeded enable_unrestricted_guest check KVM: VMX: fix DPL during entry to protected mode x86/kexec: crash_vmclear_local_vmcss needs __rcu kvm: Fix irqfd resampler list walk KVM: VMX: provide the vmclear function and a bitmap to support VMCLEAR in kdump x86/kexec: VMCLEAR VMCSs loaded on all cpus if necessary KVM: MMU: optimize for set_spte KVM: PPC: booke: Get/set guest EPCR register using ONE_REG interface KVM: PPC: bookehv: Add EPCR support in mtspr/mfspr emulation KVM: PPC: bookehv: Add guest computation mode for irq delivery KVM: PPC: Make EPCR a valid field for booke64 and bookehv KVM: PPC: booke: Extend MAS2 EPN mask for 64-bit KVM: PPC: e500: Mask MAS2 EPN high 32-bits in 32/64 tlbwe emulation KVM: PPC: Mask ea's high 32-bits in 32/64 instr emulation KVM: PPC: e500: Add emulation helper for getting instruction ea KVM: PPC: bookehv64: Add support for interrupt handling KVM: PPC: bookehv: Remove GET_VCPU macro from exception handler KVM: PPC: booke: Fix get_tb() compile error on 64-bit KVM: PPC: e500: Silence bogus GCC warning in tlb code ...