linux/kernel/sysctl.c, branch v3.13

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

2013-11-14T07:30:30Z

Pull core locking changes from Ingo Molnar: "The biggest changes: - add lockdep support for seqcount/seqlocks structures, this unearthed both bugs and required extra annotation. - move the various kernel locking primitives to the new kernel/locking/ directory" * 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits) block: Use u64_stats_init() to initialize seqcounts locking/lockdep: Mark __lockdep_count_forward_deps() as static lockdep/proc: Fix lock-time avg computation locking/doc: Update references to kernel/mutex.c ipv6: Fix possible ipv6 seqlock deadlock cpuset: Fix potential deadlock w/ set_mems_allowed seqcount: Add lockdep functionality to seqcount/seqlock structures net: Explicitly initialize u64_stats_sync structures for lockdep locking: Move the percpu-rwsem code to kernel/locking/ locking: Move the lglocks code to kernel/locking/ locking: Move the rwsem code to kernel/locking/ locking: Move the rtmutex code to kernel/locking/ locking: Move the semaphore core to kernel/locking/ locking: Move the spinlock code to kernel/locking/ locking: Move the lockdep code to kernel/locking/ locking: Move the mutex code to kernel/locking/ hung_task debugging: Add tracepoint to report the hang x86/locking/kconfig: Update paravirt spinlock Kconfig description lockstat: Report avg wait and hold times lockdep, x86/alternatives: Drop ancient lockdep fixup message ...

kernel/sysctl.c: check return value after call proc_put_char() in __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax()

2013-11-13T03:09:33Z

Need to check the return value of proc_put_char(), as was done in __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(). Signed-off-by: Chen Gang Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2013-11-12T01:20:12Z

Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle are: - (much) improved CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING support from Mel Gorman, Rik van Riel, Peter Zijlstra et al. Yay! - optimize preemption counter handling: merge the NEED_RESCHED flag into the preempt_count variable, by Peter Zijlstra. - wait.h fixes and code reorganization from Peter Zijlstra - cfs_bandwidth fixes from Ben Segall - SMP load-balancer cleanups from Peter Zijstra - idle balancer improvements from Jason Low - other fixes and cleanups" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (129 commits) ftrace, sched: Add TRACE_FLAG_PREEMPT_RESCHED stop_machine: Fix race between stop_two_cpus() and stop_cpus() sched: Remove unnecessary iteration over sched domains to update nr_busy_cpus sched: Fix asymmetric scheduling for POWER7 sched: Move completion code from core.c to completion.c sched: Move wait code from core.c to wait.c sched: Move wait.c into kernel/sched/ sched/wait: Fix __wait_event_interruptible_lock_irq_timeout() sched: Avoid throttle_cfs_rq() racing with period_timer stopping sched: Guarantee new group-entities always have weight sched: Fix hrtimer_cancel()/rq->lock deadlock sched: Fix cfs_bandwidth misuse of hrtimer_expires_remaining sched: Fix race on toggling cfs_bandwidth_used sched: Remove extra put_online_cpus() inside sched_setaffinity() sched/rt: Fix task_tick_rt() comment sched/wait: Fix build breakage sched/wait: Introduce prepare_to_wait_event() sched/wait: Add ___wait_cond_timeout() to wait_event*_timeout() too sched: Remove get_online_cpus() usage sched: Fix race in migrate_swap_stop() ...

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

2013-11-12T01:06:34Z

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "As a first remark I'd like to note that the way to build perf tooling has been simplified and sped up, in the future it should be enough for you to build perf via: cd tools/perf/ make install (ie without the -j option.) The build system will figure out the number of CPUs and will do a parallel build+install. The various build system inefficiencies and breakages Linus reported against the v3.12 pull request should now be resolved - please (re-)report any remaining annoyances or bugs. Main changes on the perf kernel side: * Performance optimizations: . perf ring-buffer code optimizations, by Peter Zijlstra . perf ring-buffer code optimizations, by Oleg Nesterov . x86 NMI call-stack processing optimizations, by Peter Zijlstra . perf context-switch optimizations, by Peter Zijlstra . perf sampling speedups, by Peter Zijlstra . x86 Intel PEBS processing speedups, by Peter Zijlstra * Enhanced hardware support: . for Intel Ivy Bridge-EP uncore PMUs, by Zheng Yan . for Haswell transactions, by Andi Kleen, Peter Zijlstra * Core perf events code enhancements and fixes by Oleg Nesterov: . for uprobes, if fork() is called with pending ret-probes . for uprobes platform support code * New ABI details by Andi Kleen: . Report x86 Haswell TSX transaction abort cost as weight Main changes on the perf tooling side (some of these tooling changes utilize the above kernel side changes): * 'perf report/top' enhancements: . Convert callchain children list to rbtree, greatly reducing the time taken for callchain processing, from Namhyung Kim. . Add new COMM infrastructure, further improving histogram processing, from Frédéric Weisbecker, one fix from Namhyung Kim. . Add /proc/kcore based live-annotation improvements, including build-id cache support, multi map 'call' instruction navigation fixes, kcore address validation, objdump workarounds. From Adrian Hunter. . Show progress on histogram collapsing, that can take a long time, from Namhyung Kim. . Add --max-stack option to limit callchain stack scan in 'top' and 'report', improving callchain processing when reducing the stack depth is an option, from Waiman Long. . Add new option --ignore-vmlinux for perf top, from Willy Tarreau. * 'perf trace' enhancements: . 'perf trace' now can can use a 'perf probe' dynamic tracepoints to hook into the userspace -> kernel pathname copy so that it can map fds to pathnames without reading /proc/pid/fd/ symlinks. From Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. . Show VFS path associated with fd in live sessions, using a 'vfs_getname' 'perf probe' created dynamic tracepoint or by looking at /proc/pid/fd, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. . Add 'trace' beautifiers for lots of syscall arguments, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. . Implement more compact 'trace' output by suppressing zeroed args, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. . Show thread COMM by default in 'trace', from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. . Add option to show full timestamp in 'trace', from David Ahern. . Add 'record' command in 'trace', to record raw_syscalls:*, from David Ahern. . Add summary option to dump syscall statistics in 'trace', from David Ahern. . Improve error messages in 'trace', providing hints about system configuration steps needed for using it, from Ramkumar Ramachandra. . 'perf trace' now emits hints as to why tracing is not possible, helping the user to setup the system to allow tracing in the desired permission granularity, telling if the problem is due to debugfs not being mounted or with not enough permission for !root, /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoit value, etc. From Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. * 'perf record' enhancements: . Check maximum frequency rate for record/top, emitting better error messages, from Jiri Olsa. . 'perf record' code cleanups, from David Ahern. . Improve write_output error message in 'perf record', from Adrian Hunter. . Allow specifying B/K/M/G unit to the --mmap-pages arguments, from Jiri Olsa. . Fix command line callchain attribute tests to handle the new -g/--call-chain semantics, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. * 'perf kvm' enhancements: . Disable live kvm command if timerfd is not supported, from David Ahern. . Fix detection of non-core features, from David Ahern. * 'perf list' enhancements: . Add usage to 'perf list', from David Ahern. . Show error in 'perf list' if tracepoints not available, from Pekka Enberg. * 'perf probe' enhancements: . Support "$vars" meta argument syntax for local variables, allowing asking for all possible variables at a given probe point to be collected when it hits, from Masami Hiramatsu. * 'perf sched' enhancements: . Address the root cause of that 'perf sched' stack initialization build slowdown, by programmatically setting a big array after moving the global variable back to the stack. Fix from Adrian Hunter. * 'perf script' enhancements: . Set up output options for in-stream attributes, from Adrian Hunter. . Print addr by default for BTS in 'perf script', from Adrian Juntmer * 'perf stat' enhancements: . Improved messages when doing profiling in all or a subset of CPUs using a workload as the session delimitator, as in: 'perf stat --cpu 0,2 sleep 10s' from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. . Add units to nanosec-based counters in 'perf stat', from David Ahern. . Remove bogus info when using 'perf stat' -e cycles/instructions, from Ramkumar Ramachandra. * 'perf lock' enhancements: . 'perf lock' fixes and cleanups, from Davidlohr Bueso. * 'perf test' enhancements: . Fixup PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION handling in sample synthesizing and 'perf test', from Adrian Hunter. . Clarify the "sample parsing" test entry, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. . Consider PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION in the "sample parsing" test, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. . Memory leak fixes in 'perf test', from Felipe Pena. * 'perf bench' enhancements: . Change the procps visible command-name of invididual benchmark tests plus cleanups, from Ingo Molnar. * Generic perf tooling infrastructure/plumbing changes: . Separating data file properties from session, code reorganization from Jiri Olsa. . Fix version when building out of tree, as when using one of these: $ make help | grep perf perf-tar-src-pkg - Build perf-3.12.0.tar source tarball perf-targz-src-pkg - Build perf-3.12.0.tar.gz source tarball perf-tarbz2-src-pkg - Build perf-3.12.0.tar.bz2 source tarball perf-tarxz-src-pkg - Build perf-3.12.0.tar.xz source tarball $ from David Ahern. . Enhance option parse error message, showing just the help lines of the options affected, from Namhyung Kim. . libtraceevent updates from upstream trace-cmd repo, from Steven Rostedt. . Always use perf_evsel__set_sample_bit to set sample_type, from Adrian Hunter. . Memory and mmap leak fixes from Chenggang Qin. . Assorted build fixes for from David Ahern and Jiri Olsa. . Speed up and prettify the build system, from Ingo Molnar. . Implement addr2line directly using libbfd, from Roberto Vitillo. . Separate the GTK support in a separate libperf-gtk.so DSO, that is only loaded when --gtk is specified, from Namhyung Kim. . perf bash completion fixes and improvements from Ramkumar Ramachandra. . Support for Openembedded/Yocto -dbg packages, from Ricardo Ribalda Delgado. And lots and lots of other fixes and code reorganizations that did not make it into the list, see the shortlog, diffstat and the Git log for details!" * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (300 commits) uprobes: Fix the memory out of bound overwrite in copy_insn() uprobes: Fix the wrong usage of current->utask in uprobe_copy_process() perf tools: Remove unneeded include perf record: Remove post_processing_offset variable perf record: Remove advance_output function perf record: Refactor feature handling into a separate function perf trace: Don't relookup fields by name in each sample perf tools: Fix version when building out of tree perf evsel: Ditch evsel->handler.data field uprobes: Export write_opcode() as uprobe_write_opcode() uprobes: Introduce arch_uprobe->ixol uprobes: Kill module_init() and module_exit() uprobes: Move function declarations out of arch perf/x86/intel: Add Ivy Bridge-EP uncore IRP box support perf/x86/intel/uncore: Add filter support for IvyBridge-EP QPI boxes perf: Factor out strncpy() in perf_event_mmap_event() tools/perf: Add required memory barriers perf: Fix arch_perf_out_copy_user default perf: Update a stale comment perf: Optimize perf_output_begin() -- address calculation ...

Merge branch 'sched/core' into core/locking, to prepare the kernel/locking/ file move

2013-11-06T06:50:37Z

Conflicts: kernel/Makefile There are conflicts in kernel/Makefile due to file moving in the scheduler tree - resolve them. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sysrq: Allow magic SysRq key functions to be disabled through Kconfig

2013-10-16T20:01:44Z

Turn the initial value of sysctl kernel.sysrq (SYSRQ_DEFAULT_ENABLE) into a Kconfig variable. Original version by Bastian Blank . Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/numa: Skip some page migrations after a shared fault

2013-10-09T12:48:21Z

Shared faults can lead to lots of unnecessary page migrations, slowing down the system, and causing private faults to hit the per-pgdat migration ratelimit. This patch adds sysctl numa_balancing_migrate_deferred, which specifies how many shared page migrations to skip unconditionally, after each page migration that is skipped because it is a shared fault. This reduces the number of page migrations back and forth in shared fault situations. It also gives a strong preference to the tasks that are already running where most of the memory is, and to moving the other tasks to near the memory. Testing this with a much higher scan rate than the default still seems to result in fewer page migrations than before. Memory seems to be somewhat better consolidated than previously, with multi-instance specjbb runs on a 4 node system. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-62-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/numa: Remove the numa_balancing_scan_period_reset sysctl

2013-10-09T12:48:18Z

With scan rate adaptions based on whether the workload has properly converged or not there should be no need for the scan period reset hammer. Get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-60-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/numa: Favour moving tasks towards the preferred node

2013-10-09T10:40:26Z

This patch favours moving tasks towards NUMA node that recorded a higher number of NUMA faults during active load balancing. Ideally this is self-reinforcing as the longer the task runs on that node, the more faults it should incur causing task_numa_placement to keep the task running on that node. In reality a big weakness is that the nodes CPUs can be overloaded and it would be more efficient to queue tasks on an idle node and migrate to the new node. This would require additional smarts in the balancer so for now the balancer will simply prefer to place the task on the preferred node for a PTE scans which is controlled by the numa_balancing_settle_count sysctl. Once the settle_count number of scans has complete the schedule is free to place the task on an alternative node if the load is imbalanced. [srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com: Fixed statistics] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Srikar Dronamraju [ Tunable and use higher faults instead of preferred. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-23-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Enforce 1 as lower limit for perf_event_max_sample_rate

2013-10-04T08:06:07Z

/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate will accept negative values as well as 0. Negative values are unreasonable, and 0 causes a divide by zero exception in perf_proc_update_handler. This patch enforces a lower limit of 1. Signed-off-by: Knut Petersen Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5242DB0C.4070005@t-online.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar