Commit 13e12d14e2 ("vfs: reorganize 'struct inode' layout a bit")
moved things around a bit changed i_state to be unsigned int instead of
unsigned long. That was to help structure layout for the 64-bit case,
and shrink 'struct inode' a bit (admittedly that only happened when
spinlock debugging was on and i_flags didn't pack with i_lock).
However, Meelis Roos reports that this results in unaligned exceptions
on sprc, and it turns out that the bit-locking primitives that we use
for the I_NEW bit want to use the bitops. Which want 'unsigned long',
not 'unsigned int'.
We really should fix the bit locking code to not have that kind of
requirement, but that's a much bigger change. So for now, revert that
field back to 'unsigned long' (but keep the other re-ordering changes
from the commit that caused this).
Andi points out that we have played games with this in 'struct page', so
it's solvable with other hacks too, but since right now the struct inode
size advantage only happens with some rare config options, it's not
worth fighting.
It _would_ be worth fixing the bitlocking code, though. Especially
since there is no type safety in the bitlocking code (this never caused
any warnings, and worked fine on x86-64, because the bitlocks take a
'void *' and x86-64 doesn't care that deeply about alignment). So it's
currently a very easy problem to trigger by mistake and never notice.
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-2.6.40' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux:
nfsd4: fix break_lease flags on nfsd open
nfsd: link returns nfserr_delay when breaking lease
nfsd: v4 support requires CRYPTO
nfsd: fix dependency of nfsd on auth_rpcgss
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (40 commits)
pxa168_eth: fix race in transmit path.
ipv4, ping: Remove duplicate icmp.h include
netxen: fix race in skb->len access
sgi-xp: fix a use after free
hp100: fix an skb->len race
netpoll: copy dev name of slaves to struct netpoll
ipv4: fix multicast losses
r8169: fix static initializers.
inet_diag: fix inet_diag_bc_audit()
gigaset: call module_put before restart of if_open()
farsync: add module_put to error path in fst_open()
net: rfs: enable RFS before first data packet is received
fs_enet: fix freescale FCC ethernet dp buffer alignment
netdev: bfin_mac: fix memory leak when freeing dma descriptors
vlan: don't call ndo_vlan_rx_register on hardware that doesn't have vlan support
caif: Bugfix - XOFF removed channel from caif-mux
tun: teach the tun/tap driver to support netpoll
dp83640: drop PHY status frames in the driver.
dp83640: fix phy status frame event parsing
phylib: Allow BCM63XX PHY to be selected only on BCM63XX.
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
devcgroup_inode_permission: take "is it a device node" checks to inlined wrapper
fix comment in generic_permission()
kill obsolete comment for follow_down()
proc_sys_permission() is OK in RCU mode
reiserfs_permission() doesn't need to bail out in RCU mode
proc_fd_permission() is doesn't need to bail out in RCU mode
nilfs2_permission() doesn't need to bail out in RCU mode
logfs doesn't need ->permission() at all
coda_ioctl_permission() is safe in RCU mode
cifs_permission() doesn't need to bail out in RCU mode
bad_inode_permission() is safe from RCU mode
ubifs: dereferencing an ERR_PTR in ubifs_mount()
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
Input: sh_keysc - 8x8 MODE_6 fix
Input: omap-keypad - add missing input_sync()
Input: evdev - try to wake up readers only if we have full packet
Input: properly assign return value of clamp() macro.
inode_permission() calls devcgroup_inode_permission() and almost all such
calls are _not_ for device nodes; let's at least keep the common path
straight...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The comment for the skb_tx_timestamp() function suggests calling it just
after a buffer is released to the hardware for transmission. However,
for drivers that free the buffer in an ISR, this produces a race between
the time stamp code and the ISR. This commit changes the comment to advise
placing the call just before handing the buffer over to the hardware.
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tools/perf: Fix static build of perf tool
tracing: Fix regression in printk_formats file
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
generic-ipi: Fix kexec boot crash by initializing call_single_queue before enabling interrupts
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
clocksource: Make watchdog robust vs. interruption
timerfd: Fix wakeup of processes when timer is cancelled on clock change
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, MAINTAINERS: Add x86 MCE people
x86, efi: Do not reserve boot services regions within reserved areas
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
rcu: Move RCU_BOOST #ifdefs to header file
rcu: use softirq instead of kthreads except when RCU_BOOST=y
rcu: Use softirq to address performance regression
rcu: Simplify curing of load woes
According to the data sheet for G4, AP4 and AG5 KEYSC MODE_6 is 8x8 keys.
Bump up MAXKEYS to 64 too.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
* 'gpio/merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
gpio: add GPIOF_ values regardless on kconfig settings
gpio: include linux/gpio.h where needed
gpio/omap4: Fix missing interrupts during device wakeup due to IOPAD.
* 'spi/merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
spi/bfin_spi: fix handling of default bits per word setting
____call_usermodehelper() now erases any credentials set by the
subprocess_inf::init() function. The problem is that commit
17f60a7da1 ("capabilites: allow the application of capability limits
to usermode helpers") creates and commits new credentials with
prepare_kernel_cred() after the call to the init() function. This wipes
all keyrings after umh_keys_init() is called.
The best way to deal with this is to put the init() call just prior to
the commit_creds() call, and pass the cred pointer to init(). That
means that umh_keys_init() and suchlike can modify the credentials
_before_ they are published and potentially in use by the rest of the
system.
This prevents request_key() from working as it is prevented from passing
the session keyring it set up with the authorisation token to
/sbin/request-key, and so the latter can't assume the authority to
instantiate the key. This causes the in-kernel DNS resolver to fail
with ENOKEY unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is a problem that kdump(2nd kernel) sometimes hangs up due
to a pending IPI from 1st kernel. Kernel panic occurs because IPI
comes before call_single_queue is initialized.
To fix the crash, rename init_call_single_data() to call_function_init()
and call it in start_kernel() so that call_single_queue can be
initialized before enabling interrupts.
The details of the crash are:
(1) 2nd kernel boots up
(2) A pending IPI from 1st kernel comes when irqs are first enabled
in start_kernel().
(3) Kernel tries to handle the interrupt, but call_single_queue
is not initialized yet at this point. As a result, in the
generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt(), NULL pointer
dereference occurs when list_replace_init() tries to access
&q->list.next.
Therefore this patch changes the name of init_call_single_data()
to call_function_init() and calls it before local_irq_enable()
in start_kernel().
Signed-off-by: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/D6CBEE2F420741indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
drm/radeon/kms: use helper functions for fence read/write
drm/radeon/kms: set DP link config properly for DP bridges
drm/radeon/kms/atom: AdjustPixelClock fixes for DP bridges
drm/radeon/kms: fix handling of DP to LVDS bridges
drm/radeon/kms: issue blank/unblank commands for ext encoders
drm/radeon/kms: fix support for DDC on dp bridges
drm/radeon/kms: add support for load detection on dp bridges
drm/radeon/kms: add missing external encoder action
drm/radeon/kms: rework atombios_get_encoder_mode()
drm/radeon/kms: fix num crtcs for Cedar and Caicos
Revert "drm/i915: Enable GMBUS for post-gen2 chipsets"
drivers/gpu/drm: use printk_ratelimited instead of printk_ratelimit
drm/radeon: workaround a hw bug on some radeon chipsets with all-0 EDIDs.
drm: make debug levels match in edid failure code.
drm/radeon/kms: clear wb memory by default
drm/radeon/kms: be more pedantic about the g5 quirk (v2)
drm/radeon/kms: signed fix for evergreen thermal
drm: populate irq_by_busid-member for pci
The clocksource watchdog code is interruptible and it has been
observed that this can trigger false positives which disable the TSC.
The reason is that an interrupt storm or a long running interrupt
handler between the read of the watchdog source and the read of the
TSC brings the two far enough apart that the delta is larger than the
unstable treshold. Move both reads into a short interrupt disabled
region to avoid that.
Reported-and-tested-by: Vernon Mauery <vernux@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
AFS: Use i_generation not i_version for the vnode uniquifier
AFS: Set s_id in the superblock to the volume name
vfs: Fix data corruption after failed write in __block_write_begin()
afs: afs_fill_page reads too much, or wrong data
VFS: Fix vfsmount overput on simultaneous automount
fix wrong iput on d_inode introduced by e6bc45d65d
Delay struct net freeing while there's a sysfs instance refering to it
afs: fix sget() races, close leak on umount
ubifs: fix sget races
ubifs: split allocation of ubifs_info into a separate function
fix leak in proc_set_super()
The hash:net,iface type makes possible to store network address and
interface name pairs in a set. It's mostly suitable for egress
and ingress filtering. Examples:
# ipset create test hash:net,iface
# ipset add test 192.168.0.0/16,eth0
# ipset add test 192.168.0.0/24,eth1
Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
With the change the sets can use any parameter available for the match
and target extensions, like input/output interface. It's required for
the hash:net,iface set type.
Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
The patch "Fix adding ranges to hash types" had got a mistypeing
in the timeout variant of the hash types, which actually made
the patch ineffective. Fixed!
Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
The range internally is converted to the network(s) equal to the range.
Example:
# ipset new test hash:net
# ipset add test 10.2.0.0-10.2.1.12
# ipset list test
Name: test
Type: hash:net
Header: family inet hashsize 1024 maxelem 65536
Size in memory: 16888
References: 0
Members:
10.2.1.12
10.2.1.0/29
10.2.0.0/24
10.2.1.8/30
Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
A set type may have multiple revisions, for example when syntax is
extended. Support continuous revision ranges in set types.
Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
When ranges are added to hash types, the elements may trigger rehashing
the set. However, the last successfully added element was not kept track
so the adding started again with the first element after the rehashing.
Bug reported by Mr Dash Four.
Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Current listing makes possible to list sets with full content only.
The patch adds support partial listings, i.e. listing just
the existing setnames or listing set headers, without set members.
Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
The support makes possible to specify the timeout value for
the SET target and a flag to reset the timeout for already existing
entries.
Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
When an element to a set with timeout added, one can change the timeout
by "readding" the element with the "-exist" flag. That means the timeout
value is reset to the specified one (or to the default from the set
specification if the "timeout n" option is not used). Example
ipset add foo 1.2.3.4 timeout 10
ipset add foo 1.2.3.4 timeout 600 -exist
Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Avoid double seq adjustment for loopback traffic
because it causes silent repetition of TCP data. One
example is passive FTP with DNAT rule and difference in the
length of IP addresses.
This patch adds check if packet is sent and
received via loopback device. As the same conntrack is
used both for outgoing and incoming direction, we restrict
seq adjustment to happen only in POSTROUTING.
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Make GPIOF_ defined values available even when GPIOLIB nor GENERIC_GPIO
is enabled by moving them to <linux/gpio.h>.
Fixes these build errors in linux-next:
sound/soc/codecs/ak4641.c:524: error: 'GPIOF_OUT_INIT_LOW' undeclared (first use in this function)
sound/soc/codecs/wm8915.c:2921: error: 'GPIOF_OUT_INIT_LOW' undeclared (first use in this function)
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Some RS690 chipsets seem to end up with floating connectors, either
a DVI connector isn't actually populated, or an add-in HDMI card
is available but not installed. In this case we seem to get a NULL byte
response for each byte of the i2c transaction, so we detect this
case and if we see it we don't do anymore DDC transactions on this
connector.
I've tested this on my RS690 without the HDMI card installed and
it seems to work fine.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The "hostname" tool falls back to setting the hostname to "localhost" if
/etc/hostname does not exist. Distribution init scripts have the same
fallback. However, if userspace never calls sethostname, such as when
booting with init=/bin/sh, or otherwise booting a minimal system without
the usual init scripts, the default hostname of "(none)" remains,
unhelpfully appearing in various places such as prompts ("root@(none):~#")
and logs. Furthermore, "(none)" doesn't typically resolve to anything
useful.
Make the default hostname configurable. This removes the need for the
standard fallback, provides a useful default for systems that never call
sethostname, and makes minimal systems that much more useful with less
configuration. Distributions could choose to use "localhost" here to
avoid the fallback, while embedded systems may wish to use a specific
target hostname.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO and BUILD_BUG_ON_NULL must return values, even in the
CHECKER case otherwise various users of it become syntactically invalid.
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Recently, Robert Mueller reported (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/12/236)
that zone_reclaim_mode doesn't work properly on his new NUMA server (Dual
Xeon E5520 + Intel S5520UR MB). He is using Cyrus IMAPd and it's built on
a very traditional single-process model.
* a master process which reads config files and manages the other
process
* multiple imapd processes, one per connection
* multiple pop3d processes, one per connection
* multiple lmtpd processes, one per connection
* periodical "cleanup" processes.
There are thousands of independent processes. The problem is, recent
Intel motherboard turn on zone_reclaim_mode by default and traditional
prefork model software don't work well on it. Unfortunatelly, such models
are still typical even in the 21st century. We can't ignore them.
This patch raises the zone_reclaim_mode threshold to 30. 30 doesn't have
any specific meaning. but 20 means that one-hop QPI/Hypertransport and
such relatively cheap 2-4 socket machine are often used for traditional
servers as above. The intention is that these machines don't use
zone_reclaim_mode.
Note: ia64 and Power have arch specific RECLAIM_DISTANCE definitions.
This patch doesn't change such high-end NUMA machine behavior.
Dave Hansen said:
: I know specifically of pieces of x86 hardware that set the information
: in the BIOS to '21' *specifically* so they'll get the zone_reclaim_mode
: behavior which that implies.
:
: They've done performance testing and run very large and scary benchmarks
: to make sure that they _want_ this turned on. What this means for them
: is that they'll probably be de-optimized, at least on newer versions of
: the kernel.
:
: If you want to do this for particular systems, maybe _that_'s what we
: should do. Have a list of specific configurations that need the
: defaults overridden either because they're buggy, or they have an
: unusual hardware configuration not really reflected in the distance
: table.
And later said:
: The original change in the hardware tables was for the benefit of a
: benchmark. Said benchmark isn't going to get run on mainline until the
: next batch of enterprise distros drops, at which point the hardware where
: this was done will be irrelevant for the benchmark. I'm sure any new
: hardware will just set this distance to another yet arbitrary value to
: make the kernel do what it wants. :)
:
: Also, when the hardware got _set_ to this initially, I complained. So, I
: guess I'm getting my way now, with this patch. I'm cool with it.
Reported-by: Robert Mueller <robm@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix <linux/kmsg_dump.h> when CONFIG_PRINTK is not enabled:
include/linux/kmsg_dump.h:56: error: 'EINVAL' undeclared (first use in this function)
include/linux/kmsg_dump.h:61: error: 'EINVAL' undeclared (first use in this function)
Looks like commit 595dd3d8bf ("kmsg_dump: fix build for
CONFIG_PRINTK=n") uses EINVAL without having the needed header file(s),
but I'm sure that I build tested that patch also. oh well.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
While testing for memcg aware swap token, I observed a swap token was
often grabbed an intermittent running process (eg init, auditd) and they
never release a token.
Why?
Some processes (eg init, auditd, audispd) wake up when a process exiting.
And swap token can be get first page-in process when a process exiting
makes no swap token owner. Thus such above intermittent running process
often get a token.
And currently, swap token priority is only decreased at page fault path.
Then, if the process sleep immediately after to grab swap token, the swap
token priority never be decreased. That's obviously undesirable.
This patch implement very poor (and lightweight) priority aging. It only
be affect to the above corner case and doesn't change swap tendency
workload performance (eg multi process qsbench load)
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-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>
Currently, memcg reclaim can disable swap token even if the swap token mm
doesn't belong in its memory cgroup. It's slightly risky. If an admin
creates very small mem-cgroup and silly guy runs contentious heavy memory
pressure workload, every tasks are going to lose swap token and then
system may become unresponsive. That's bad.
This patch adds 'memcg' parameter into disable_swap_token(). and if the
parameter doesn't match swap token, VM doesn't disable it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch changes to code to use some of the preprocessor
definitions from mii.h over its homegrown equivalents.
Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Li <benli@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@conan.davemloft.net>
Commit a26ac2455ffcf3(rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread)
introduced performance regression. In an AIM7 test, this commit degraded
performance by about 40%.
The commit runs rcu callbacks in a kthread instead of softirq. We observed
high rate of context switch which is caused by this. Out test system has
64 CPUs and HZ is 1000, so we saw more than 64k context switch per second
which is caused by RCU's per-CPU kthread. A trace showed that most of
the time the RCU per-CPU kthread doesn't actually handle any callbacks,
but instead just does a very small amount of work handling grace periods.
This means that RCU's per-CPU kthreads are making the scheduler do quite
a bit of work in order to allow a very small amount of RCU-related
processing to be done.
Alex Shi's analysis determined that this slowdown is due to lock
contention within the scheduler. Unfortunately, as Peter Zijlstra points
out, the scheduler's real-time semantics require global action, which
means that this contention is inherent in real-time scheduling. (Yes,
perhaps someone will come up with a workaround -- otherwise, -rt is not
going to do well on large SMP systems -- but this patch will work around
this issue in the meantime. And "the meantime" might well be forever.)
This patch therefore re-introduces softirq processing to RCU, but only
for core RCU work. RCU callbacks are still executed in kthread context,
so that only a small amount of RCU work runs in softirq context in the
common case. This should minimize ksoftirqd execution, allowing us to
skip boosting of ksoftirqd for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y kernels.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Tested-by: "Alex,Shi" <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
After restructuring, there is some unused or empty functions
left to be removed.
Signed-off-by: Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
SLAB: Record actual last user of freed objects.
slub: always align cpu_slab to honor cmpxchg_double requirement
Make it more clear what the functions does,
on request by Julian.
Signed-off-by: Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Schillstrom <hans@schillstrom.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Remove variable ctl_key from struct netns_ipvs,
it's a leftover from early netns work.
Signed-off-by: Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
* new refcount in struct net, controlling actual freeing of the memory
* new method in kobj_ns_type_operations (->drop_ns())
* ->current_ns() semantics change - it's supposed to be followed by
corresponding ->drop_ns(). For struct net in case of CONFIG_NET_NS it bumps
the new refcount; net_drop_ns() decrements it and calls net_free() if the
last reference has been dropped. Method renamed to ->grab_current_ns().
* old net_free() callers call net_drop_ns() instead.
* sysfs_exit_ns() is gone, along with a large part of callchain
leading to it; now that the references stored in ->ns[...] stay valid we
do not need to hunt them down and replace them with NULL. That fixes
problems in sysfs_lookup() and sysfs_readdir(), along with getting rid
of sb->s_instances abuse.
Note that struct net *shutdown* logics has not changed - net_cleanup()
is called exactly when it used to be called. The only thing postponed by
having a sysfs instance refering to that struct net is actual freeing of
memory occupied by struct net.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'gpio/merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
gpio/basic_mmio: add missing include of spinlock_types.h
gpio/nomadik: fix sleepmode for elder Nomadik
