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* pids: fix fork_idle() to setup ->pids correctlyOleg Nesterov2010-05-271-1/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | copy_process(pid => &init_struct_pid) doesn't do attach_pid/etc. It shouldn't, but this means that the idle threads run with the wrong pids copied from the caller's task_struct. In x86 case the caller is either kernel_init() thread or keventd. In particular, this means that after the series of cpu_up/cpu_down an idle thread (which never exits) can run with .pid pointing to nowhere. Change fork_idle() to initialize idle->pids[] correctly. We only set .pid = &init_struct_pid but do not add .node to list, INIT_TASK() does the same for the boot-cpu idle thread (swapper). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Mathias Krause <Mathias.Krause@secunet.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* proc: turn signal_struct->count into "int nr_threads"Oleg Nesterov2010-05-271-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No functional changes, just s/atomic_t count/int nr_threads/. With the recent changes this counter has a single user, get_nr_threads() And, none of its callers need the really accurate number of threads, not to mention each caller obviously races with fork/exit. It is only used to report this value to the user-space, except first_tid() uses it to avoid the unnecessary while_each_thread() loop in the unlikely case. It is a bit sad we need a word in struct signal_struct for this, perhaps we can change get_nr_threads() to approximate the number of threads using signal->live and kill ->nr_threads later. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* check_unshare_flags: kill the bogus CLONE_SIGHAND/sig->count checkOleg Nesterov2010-05-271-8/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | check_unshare_flags(CLONE_SIGHAND) adds CLONE_THREAD to *flags_ptr if the task is multithreaded to ensure unshare_thread() will fail. Not only this is a bit strange way to return the error, this is absolutely meaningless. If signal->count > 1 then sighand->count must be also > 1, and unshare_sighand() will fail anyway. In fact, all CLONE_THREAD/SIGHAND/VM checks inside sys_unshare() do not look right. Fortunately this code doesn't really work anyway. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* exit: move taskstats_tgid_free() from __exit_signal() to free_signal_struct()Oleg Nesterov2010-05-271-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move taskstats_tgid_free() from __exit_signal() to free_signal_struct(). This way signal->stats never points to nowhere and we can read ->stats lockless. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kill the obsolete thread_group_cputime_free() helperOleg Nesterov2010-05-271-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Kill the empty thread_group_cputime_free() helper. It was needed to free the per-cpu data which we no longer have. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* signals: make task_struct->signal immutable/refcountableOleg Nesterov2010-05-271-7/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We have a lot of problems with accessing task_struct->signal, it can "disappear" at any moment. Even current can't use its ->signal safely after exit_notify(). ->siglock helps, but it is not convenient, not always possible, and sometimes it makes sense to use task->signal even after this task has already dead. This patch adds the reference counter, sigcnt, into signal_struct. This reference is owned by task_struct and it is dropped in __put_task_struct(). Perhaps it makes sense to export get/put_signal_struct() later, but currently I don't see the immediate reason. Rename __cleanup_signal() to free_signal_struct() and unexport it. With the previous changes it does nothing except kmem_cache_free(). Change __exit_signal() to not clear/free ->signal, it will be freed when the last reference to any thread in the thread group goes away. Note: - when the last thead exits signal->tty can point to nowhere, see the next patch. - with or without this patch signal_struct->count should go away, or at least it should be "int nr_threads" for fs/proc. This will be addressed later. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fork/exit: move tty_kref_put() outside of __cleanup_signal()Oleg Nesterov2010-05-271-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | tty_kref_put() has two callsites in copy_process() paths, 1. if copy_process() suceeds it is called before we copy signal->tty from parent 2. otherwise it is called from __cleanup_signal() under bad_fork_cleanup_signal: label In both cases tty_kref_put() is not right and unneeded because we don't have the balancing tty_kref_get(). Fortunately, this is harmless because this can only happen without CLONE_THREAD, and in this case signal->tty must be NULL. Remove tty_kref_put() from copy_process() and __cleanup_signal(), and change another caller of __cleanup_signal(), __exit_signal(), to call tty_kref_put() by hand. I hope this change makes sense by itself, but it is also needed to make ->signal refcountable. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* cpusets: randomize node rotor used in cpuset_mem_spread_node()Jack Steiner2010-05-271-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some workloads that create a large number of small files tend to assign too many pages to node 0 (multi-node systems). Part of the reason is that the rotor (in cpuset_mem_spread_node()) used to assign nodes starts at node 0 for newly created tasks. This patch changes the rotor to be initialized to a random node number of the cpuset. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix layout] [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Define stub numa_random() for !NUMA configuration] Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-05-181-2/+0
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (311 commits) perf tools: Add mode to build without newt support perf symbols: symbol inconsistency message should be done only at verbose=1 perf tui: Add explicit -lslang option perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants perf options: Type check OPT_BOOLEAN and fix the offenders perf options: Check v type in OPT_U?INTEGER perf options: Introduce OPT_UINTEGER perf tui: Add workaround for slang < 2.1.4 perf record: Fix bug mismatch with -c option definition perf options: Introduce OPT_U64 perf tui: Add help window to show key associations perf tui: Make <- exit menus too perf newt: Add single key shortcuts for zoom into DSO and threads perf newt: Exit browser unconditionally when CTRL+C, q or Q is pressed perf newt: Fix the 'A'/'a' shortcut for annotate perf newt: Make <- exit the ui_browser x86, perf: P4 PMU - fix counters management logic perf newt: Make <- zoom out filters perf report: Report number of events, not samples perf hist: Clarify events_stats fields usage ... Fix up trivial conflicts in kernel/fork.c and tools/perf/builtin-record.c
| * Merge branch 'linus' into perf/coreIngo Molnar2010-04-081-0/+3
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Semantic conflict: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c Merge reason: pick up latest fixes, fix the conflict Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace codePeter Zijlstra2010-03-261-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS, as Linus noticed it not so long ago. It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility needed for perf either. Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a much simpler approach. So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*() APIs in mm/mlock.c as well. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads" and its fixup commitsRobin Holt2010-05-111-2/+0
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Originally, commit d899bf7b ("procfs: provide stack information for threads") attempted to introduce a new feature for showing where the threadstack was located and how many pages are being utilized by the stack. Commit c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") was applied to fix the NO_MMU case. Commit 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on 64-bit") was applied to fix a bug in ia32 executables being loaded. Commit 9ebd4eba7 ("procfs: fix /proc/<pid>/stat stack pointer for kernel threads") was applied to fix a bug which had kernel threads printing a userland stack address. Commit 1306d603f ('proc: partially revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads"') was then applied to revert the stack pages being used to solve a significant performance regression. This patch nearly undoes the effect of all these patches. The reason for reverting these is it provides an unusable value in field 28. For x86_64, a fork will result in the task->stack_start value being updated to the current user top of stack and not the stack start address. This unpredictability of the stack_start value makes it worthless. That includes the intended use of showing how much stack space a thread has. Other architectures will get different values. As an example, ia64 gets 0. The do_fork() and copy_process() functions appear to treat the stack_start and stack_size parameters as architecture specific. I only partially reverted c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") . If I had completely reverted it, I would have had to change mm/Makefile only build pagewalk.o when CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR is configured. Since I could not test the builds without significant effort, I decided to not change mm/Makefile. I only partially reverted 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on 64-bit") . I left the KSTK_ESP() change in place as that seemed worthwhile. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm: avoid null-pointer deref in sync_mm_rss()KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2010-04-071-0/+3
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - We weren't zeroing p->rss_stat[] at fork() - Consequently sync_mm_rss() was dereferencing tsk->mm for kernel threads and was oopsing. - Make __sync_task_rss_stat() static, too. Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15648 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove the BUG_ON(!mm->rss)] Reported-by: Troels Liebe Bentsen <tlb@rapanden.dk> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-03-131-1/+8
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: locking: Make sparse work with inline spinlocks and rwlocks x86/mce: Fix RCU lockdep splats rcu: Increase RCU CPU stall timeouts if PROVE_RCU ftrace: Replace read_barrier_depends() with rcu_dereference_raw() rcu: Suppress RCU lockdep warnings during early boot rcu, ftrace: Fix RCU lockdep splat in ftrace_perf_buf_prepare() rcu: Suppress __mpol_dup() false positive from RCU lockdep rcu: Make rcu_read_lock_sched_held() handle !PREEMPT rcu: Add control variables to lockdep_rcu_dereference() diagnostics rcu, cgroup: Relax the check in task_subsys_state() as early boot is now handled by lockdep-RCU rcu: Use wrapper function instead of exporting tasklist_lock sched, rcu: Fix rcu_dereference() for RCU-lockdep rcu: Make task_subsys_state() RCU-lockdep checks handle boot-time use rcu: Fix holdoff for accelerated GPs for last non-dynticked CPU x86/gart: Unexport gart_iommu_aperture Fix trivial conflicts in kernel/trace/ftrace.c
| * rcu: Use wrapper function instead of exporting tasklist_lockPaul E. McKenney2010-03-041-1/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Lockdep-RCU commit d11c563d exported tasklist_lock, which is not a good thing. This patch instead exports a function that uses lockdep to check whether tasklist_lock is held. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> LKML-Reference: <1267631219-8713-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | copy_signal() cleanup: clean thread_group_cputime_init()Veaceslav Falico2010-03-121-11/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove unneeded initializations in thread_group_cputime_init() and in posix_cpu_timers_init_group(). They are useless after kmem_cache_zalloc() was used in copy_signal(). Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | copy_signal() cleanup: use zalloc and remove initializationsVeaceslav Falico2010-03-121-26/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use kmem_cache_zalloc() on signal creation and remove unneeded initialization lines in copy_signal(). Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | kernel core: use helpers for rlimitsJiri Slaby2010-03-061-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make sure compiler won't do weird things with limits. E.g. fetching them twice may return 2 different values after writable limits are implemented. I.e. either use rlimit helpers added in commit 3e10e716abf3 ("resource: add helpers for fetching rlimits") or ACCESS_ONCE if not applicable. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm: change anon_vma linking to fix multi-process server scalability issueRik van Riel2010-03-061-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The old anon_vma code can lead to scalability issues with heavily forking workloads. Specifically, each anon_vma will be shared between the parent process and all its child processes. In a workload with 1000 child processes and a VMA with 1000 anonymous pages per process that get COWed, this leads to a system with a million anonymous pages in the same anon_vma, each of which is mapped in just one of the 1000 processes. However, the current rmap code needs to walk them all, leading to O(N) scanning complexity for each page. This can result in systems where one CPU is walking the page tables of 1000 processes in page_referenced_one, while all other CPUs are stuck on the anon_vma lock. This leads to catastrophic failure for a benchmark like AIM7, where the total number of processes can reach in the tens of thousands. Real workloads are still a factor 10 less process intensive than AIM7, but they are catching up. This patch changes the way anon_vmas and VMAs are linked, which allows us to associate multiple anon_vmas with a VMA. At fork time, each child process gets its own anon_vmas, in which its COWed pages will be instantiated. The parents' anon_vma is also linked to the VMA, because non-COWed pages could be present in any of the children. This reduces rmap scanning complexity to O(1) for the pages of the 1000 child processes, with O(N) complexity for at most 1/N pages in the system. This reduces the average scanning cost in heavily forking workloads from O(N) to 2. The only real complexity in this patch stems from the fact that linking a VMA to anon_vmas now involves memory allocations. This means vma_adjust can fail, if it needs to attach a VMA to anon_vma structures. This in turn means error handling needs to be added to the calling functions. A second source of complexity is that, because there can be multiple anon_vmas, the anon_vma linking in vma_adjust can no longer be done under "the" anon_vma lock. To prevent the rmap code from walking up an incomplete VMA, this patch introduces the VM_LOCK_RMAP VMA flag. This bit flag uses the same slot as the NOMMU VM_MAPPED_COPY, with an ifdef in mm.h to make sure it is impossible to compile a kernel that needs both symbolic values for the same bitflag. Some test results: Without the anon_vma changes, when AIM7 hits around 9.7k users (on a test box with 16GB RAM and not quite enough IO), the system ends up running >99% in system time, with every CPU on the same anon_vma lock in the pageout code. With these changes, AIM7 hits the cross-over point around 29.7k users. This happens with ~99% IO wait time, there never seems to be any spike in system time. The anon_vma lock contention appears to be resolved. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm: clean up mm_counterKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2010-03-061-2/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Presently, per-mm statistics counter is defined by macro in sched.h This patch modifies it to - defined in mm.h as inlinf functions - use array instead of macro's name creation. This patch is for reducing patch size in future patch to modify implementation of per-mm counter. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sched: Use lockdep-based checking on rcu_dereference()Paul E. McKenney2010-02-251-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update the rcu_dereference() usages to take advantage of the new lockdep-based checking. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-6-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ -v2: fix allmodconfig missing symbol export build failure on x86 ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* sched: Fix fork vs hotplug vs cpuset namespacesPeter Zijlstra2010-01-211-15/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are a number of issues: 1) TASK_WAKING vs cgroup_clone (cpusets) copy_process(): sched_fork() child->state = TASK_WAKING; /* waiting for wake_up_new_task() */ if (current->nsproxy != p->nsproxy) ns_cgroup_clone() cgroup_clone() mutex_lock(inode->i_mutex) mutex_lock(cgroup_mutex) cgroup_attach_task() ss->can_attach() ss->attach() [ -> cpuset_attach() ] cpuset_attach_task() set_cpus_allowed_ptr(); while (child->state == TASK_WAKING) cpu_relax(); will deadlock the system. 2) cgroup_clone (cpusets) vs copy_process So even if the above would work we still have: copy_process(): if (current->nsproxy != p->nsproxy) ns_cgroup_clone() cgroup_clone() mutex_lock(inode->i_mutex) mutex_lock(cgroup_mutex) cgroup_attach_task() ss->can_attach() ss->attach() [ -> cpuset_attach() ] cpuset_attach_task() set_cpus_allowed_ptr(); ... p->cpus_allowed = current->cpus_allowed over-writing the modified cpus_allowed. 3) fork() vs hotplug if we unplug the child's cpu after the sanity check when the child gets attached to the task_list but before wake_up_new_task() shit will meet with fan. Solve all these issues by moving fork cpu selection into wake_up_new_task(). Reported-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1264106190.4283.1314.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* do_wait() optimization: do not place sub-threads on task_struct->children listOleg Nesterov2009-12-171-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Thanks to Roland who pointed out de_thread() issues. Currently we add sub-threads to ->real_parent->children list. This buys nothing but slows down do_wait(). With this patch ->children contains only main threads (group leaders). The only complication is that forget_original_parent() should iterate over sub-threads by hand, and de_thread() needs another list_replace() when it changes ->group_leader. Henceforth do_wait_thread() can never see task_detached() && !EXIT_DEAD tasks, we can remove this check (and we can unify do_wait_thread() and ptrace_do_wait()). This change can confuse the optimistic search in mm_update_next_owner(), but this is fixable and minor. Perhaps badness() and oom_kill_process() should be updated, but they should be fixed in any case. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Ratan Nalumasu <rnalumasu@gmail.com> Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ptrace: copy_process() should disable steppingOleg Nesterov2009-12-161-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the tracee calls fork() after PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, the forked child starts with TIF_SINGLESTEP/X86_EFLAGS_TF bits copied from ptraced parent. This is not right, especially when the new child is not auto-attaced: in this case it is killed by SIGTRAP. Change copy_process() to call user_disable_single_step(). Tested on x86. Test-case: #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <signal.h> #include <sys/ptrace.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <assert.h> int main(void) { int pid, status; if (!(pid = fork())) { assert(ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME) == 0); kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP); if (!fork()) { /* kernel bug: this child will be killed by SIGTRAP */ printf("Hello world\n"); return 43; } wait(&status); return WEXITSTATUS(status); } for (;;) { assert(pid == wait(&status)); if (WIFEXITED(status)) break; assert(ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, pid, 0,0) == 0); } assert(WEXITSTATUS(status) == 43); return 0; } Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: coalesce uncharge during unmap/truncateKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2009-12-161-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In massive parallel enviroment, res_counter can be a performance bottleneck. One strong techinque to reduce lock contention is reducing calls by coalescing some amount of calls into one. Considering charge/uncharge chatacteristic, - charge is done one by one via demand-paging. - uncharge is done by - in chunk at munmap, truncate, exit, execve... - one by one via vmscan/paging. It seems we have a chance to coalesce uncharges for improving scalability at unmap/truncation. This patch is a for coalescing uncharge. For avoiding scattering memcg's structure to functions under /mm, this patch adds memcg batch uncharge information to the task. A reason for per-task batching is for making use of caller's context information. We do batched uncharge (deleyed uncharge) when truncation/unmap occurs but do direct uncharge when uncharge is called by memory reclaim (vmscan.c). The degree of coalescing depends on callers - at invalidate/trucate... pagevec size - at unmap ....ZAP_BLOCK_SIZE (memory itself will be freed in this degree.) Then, we'll not coalescing too much. On x86-64 8cpu server, I tested overheads of memcg at page fault by running a program which does map/fault/unmap in a loop. Running a task per a cpu by taskset and see sum of the number of page faults in 60secs. [without memcg config] 40156968 page-faults # 0.085 M/sec ( +- 0.046% ) 27.67 cache-miss/faults [root cgroup] 36659599 page-faults # 0.077 M/sec ( +- 0.247% ) 31.58 miss/faults [in a child cgroup] 18444157 page-faults # 0.039 M/sec ( +- 0.133% ) 69.96 miss/faults [child with this patch] 27133719 page-faults # 0.057 M/sec ( +- 0.155% ) 47.16 miss/faults We can see some amounts of improvement. (root cgroup doesn't affected by this patch) Another patch for "charge" will follow this and above will be improved more. Changelog(since 2009/10/02): - renamed filed of memcg_batch (as pages to bytes, memsw to memsw_bytes) - some clean up and commentary/description updates. - added initialize code to copy_process(). (possible bug fix) Changelog(old): - fixed !CONFIG_MEM_CGROUP case. - rebased onto the latest mmotm + softlimit fix patches. - unified patch for callers - added commetns. - make ->do_batch as bool. - removed css_get() at el. We don't need it. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sched: Convert pi_lock to raw_spinlockThomas Gleixner2009-12-141-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to raw_spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Merge branch 'for-2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2009-12-081-1/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (113 commits) cfq-iosched: Do not access cfqq after freeing it block: include linux/err.h to use ERR_PTR cfq-iosched: use call_rcu() instead of doing grace period stall on queue exit blkio: Allow CFQ group IO scheduling even when CFQ is a module blkio: Implement dynamic io controlling policy registration blkio: Export some symbols from blkio as its user CFQ can be a module block: Fix io_context leak after failure of clone with CLONE_IO block: Fix io_context leak after clone with CLONE_IO cfq-iosched: make nonrot check logic consistent io controller: quick fix for blk-cgroup and modular CFQ cfq-iosched: move IO controller declerations to a header file cfq-iosched: fix compile problem with !CONFIG_CGROUP blkio: Documentation blkio: Wait on sync-noidle queue even if rq_noidle = 1 blkio: Implement group_isolation tunable blkio: Determine async workload length based on total number of queues blkio: Wait for cfq queue to get backlogged if group is empty blkio: Propagate cgroup weight updation to cfq groups blkio: Drop the reference to queue once the task changes cgroup blkio: Provide some isolation between groups ...
| * block: Fix io_context leak after failure of clone with CLONE_IOLouis Rilling2009-12-041-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With CLONE_IO, parent's io_context->nr_tasks is incremented, but never decremented whenever copy_process() fails afterwards, which prevents exit_io_context() from calling IO schedulers exit functions. Give a task_struct to exit_io_context(), and call exit_io_context() instead of put_io_context() in copy_process() cleanup path. Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds2009-12-081-0/+2
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'kvm-updates/2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (84 commits) KVM: VMX: Fix comparison of guest efer with stale host value KVM: s390: Fix prefix register checking in arch/s390/kvm/sigp.c KVM: Drop user return notifier when disabling virtualization on a cpu KVM: VMX: Disable unrestricted guest when EPT disabled KVM: x86 emulator: limit instructions to 15 bytes KVM: s390: Make psw available on all exits, not just a subset KVM: x86: Add KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTS KVM: VMX: Report unexpected simultaneous exceptions as internal errors KVM: Allow internal errors reported to userspace to carry extra data KVM: Reorder IOCTLs in main kvm.h KVM: x86: Polish exception injection via KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG KVM: only clear irq_source_id if irqchip is present KVM: x86: disallow KVM_{SET,GET}_LAPIC without allocated in-kernel lapic KVM: x86: disallow multiple KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP KVM: VMX: Remove vmx->msr_offset_efer KVM: MMU: update invlpg handler comment KVM: VMX: move CR3/PDPTR update to vmx_set_cr3 KVM: remove duplicated task_switch check KVM: powerpc: Fix BUILD_BUG_ON condition KVM: VMX: Use shared msr infrastructure ... Trivial conflicts due to new Kconfig options in arch/Kconfig and kernel/Makefile
| * \ Merge remote branch 'tip/x86/entry' into kvm-updates/2.6.33Avi Kivity2009-12-031-0/+2
| |\ \ | | |/ | |/| | | | Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
| | * core: Fix user return notifier on fork()Avi Kivity2009-11-291-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | fork() clones all thread_info flags, including TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY; if the new task is first scheduled on a cpu which doesn't have user return notifiers set, this causes user return notifiers to trigger without any way of clearing itself. This is easy to trigger with a forky workload on the host in parallel with kvm, resulting in a cpu in an endless loop on the verge of returning to userspace. Fix by dropping the TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY immediately after fork. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1259505288-16559-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | sched, cputime: Introduce thread_group_times()Hidetoshi Seto2009-12-021-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a real fix for problem of utime/stime values decreasing described in the thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/3/522 Now cputime is accounted in the following way: - {u,s}time in task_struct are increased every time when the thread is interrupted by a tick (timer interrupt). - When a thread exits, its {u,s}time are added to signal->{u,s}time, after adjusted by task_times(). - When all threads in a thread_group exits, accumulated {u,s}time (and also c{u,s}time) in signal struct are added to c{u,s}time in signal struct of the group's parent. So {u,s}time in task struct are "raw" tick count, while {u,s}time and c{u,s}time in signal struct are "adjusted" values. And accounted values are used by: - task_times(), to get cputime of a thread: This function returns adjusted values that originates from raw {u,s}time and scaled by sum_exec_runtime that accounted by CFS. - thread_group_cputime(), to get cputime of a thread group: This function returns sum of all {u,s}time of living threads in the group, plus {u,s}time in the signal struct that is sum of adjusted cputimes of all exited threads belonged to the group. The problem is the return value of thread_group_cputime(), because it is mixed sum of "raw" value and "adjusted" value: group's {u,s}time = foreach(thread){{u,s}time} + exited({u,s}time) This misbehavior can break {u,s}time monotonicity. Assume that if there is a thread that have raw values greater than adjusted values (e.g. interrupted by 1000Hz ticks 50 times but only runs 45ms) and if it exits, cputime will decrease (e.g. -5ms). To fix this, we could do: group's {u,s}time = foreach(t){task_times(t)} + exited({u,s}time) But task_times() contains hard divisions, so applying it for every thread should be avoided. This patch fixes the above problem in the following way: - Modify thread's exit (= __exit_signal()) not to use task_times(). It means {u,s}time in signal struct accumulates raw values instead of adjusted values. As the result it makes thread_group_cputime() to return pure sum of "raw" values. - Introduce a new function thread_group_times(*task, *utime, *stime) that converts "raw" values of thread_group_cputime() to "adjusted" values, in same calculation procedure as task_times(). - Modify group's exit (= wait_task_zombie()) to use this introduced thread_group_times(). It make c{u,s}time in signal struct to have adjusted values like before this patch. - Replace some thread_group_cputime() by thread_group_times(). This replacements are only applied where conveys the "adjusted" cputime to users, and where already uses task_times() near by it. (i.e. sys_times(), getrusage(), and /proc/<PID>/stat.) This patch have a positive side effect: - Before this patch, if a group contains many short-life threads (e.g. runs 0.9ms and not interrupted by ticks), the group's cputime could be invisible since thread's cputime was accumulated after adjusted: imagine adjustment function as adj(ticks, runtime), {adj(0, 0.9) + adj(0, 0.9) + ....} = {0 + 0 + ....} = 0. After this patch it will not happen because the adjustment is applied after accumulated. v2: - remove if()s, put new variables into signal_struct. Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Spencer Candland <spencer@bluehost.com> Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <4B162517.8040909@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | sched, cputime: Cleanups related to task_times()Hidetoshi Seto2009-12-021-0/+2
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Remove if({u,s}t)s because no one call it with NULL now. - Use cputime_{add,sub}(). - Add ifndef-endif for prev_{u,s}time since they are used only when !VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING. Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Spencer Candland <spencer@bluehost.com> Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <4B1624C7.7040302@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | Correct nr_processes() when CPUs have been unpluggedIan Campbell2009-11-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | nr_processes() returns the sum of the per cpu counter process_counts for all online CPUs. This counter is incremented for the current CPU on fork() and decremented for the current CPU on exit(). Since a process does not necessarily fork and exit on the same CPU the process_count for an individual CPU can be either positive or negative and effectively has no meaning in isolation. Therefore calculating the sum of process_counts over only the online CPUs omits the processes which were started or stopped on any CPU which has since been unplugged. Only the sum of process_counts across all possible CPUs has meaning. The only caller of nr_processes() is proc_root_getattr() which calculates the number of links to /proc as stat->nlink = proc_root.nlink + nr_processes(); You don't have to be all that unlucky for the nr_processes() to return a negative value leading to a negative number of links (or rather, an apparently enormous number of links). If this happens then you can get failures where things like "ls /proc" start to fail because they got an -EOVERFLOW from some stat() call. Example with some debugging inserted to show what goes on: # ps haux|wc -l nr_processes: CPU0: 90 nr_processes: CPU1: 1030 nr_processes: CPU2: -900 nr_processes: CPU3: -136 nr_processes: TOTAL: 84 proc_root_getattr. nlink 12 + nr_processes() 84 = 96 84 # echo 0 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online # ps haux|wc -l nr_processes: CPU0: 85 nr_processes: CPU2: -901 nr_processes: CPU3: -137 nr_processes: TOTAL: -953 proc_root_getattr. nlink 12 + nr_processes() -953 = -941 75 # stat /proc/ nr_processes: CPU0: 84 nr_processes: CPU2: -901 nr_processes: CPU3: -137 nr_processes: TOTAL: -954 proc_root_getattr. nlink 12 + nr_processes() -954 = -942 File: `/proc/' Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 1024 directory Device: 3h/3d Inode: 1 Links: 4294966354 Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2009-11-03 09:06:55.000000000 +0000 Modify: 2009-11-03 09:06:55.000000000 +0000 Change: 2009-11-03 09:06:55.000000000 +0000 I'm not 100% convinced that the per_cpu regions remain valid for offline CPUs, although my testing suggests that they do. If not then I think the correct solution would be to aggregate the process_count for a given CPU into a global base value in cpu_down(). This bug appears to pre-date the transition to git and it looks like it may even have been present in linux-2.6.0-test7-bk3 since it looks like the code Rusty patched in http://lwn.net/Articles/64773/ was already wrong. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-10-081-2/+8
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: futex: fix requeue_pi key imbalance futex: Fix typo in FUTEX_WAIT/WAKE_BITSET_PRIVATE definitions rcu: Place root rcu_node structure in separate lockdep class rcu: Make hot-unplugged CPU relinquish its own RCU callbacks rcu: Move rcu_barrier() to rcutree futex: Move exit_pi_state() call to release_mm() futex: Nullify robust lists after cleanup futex: Fix locking imbalance panic: Fix panic message visibility by calling bust_spinlocks(0) before dying rcu: Replace the rcu_barrier enum with pointer to call_rcu*() function rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 4 rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 3 rcu: Fix rcu_lock_map build failure on CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y rcu: Clean up code to address Ingo's checkpatch feedback rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 2 rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett
| * futex: Move exit_pi_state() call to release_mm()Thomas Gleixner2009-10-061-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | exit_pi_state() is called from do_exit() but not from do_execve(). Move it to release_mm() so it gets called from do_execve() as well. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: Anirban Sinha <ani@anirban.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
| * futex: Nullify robust lists after cleanupPeter Zijlstra2009-10-061-2/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The robust list pointers of user space held futexes are kept intact over an exec() call. When the exec'ed task exits exit_robust_list() is called with the stale pointer. The risk of corruption is minimal, but still it is incorrect to keep the pointers valid. Actually glibc should uninstall the robust list before calling exec() but we have to deal with it anyway. Nullify the pointers after [compat_]exit_robust_list() has been called. Reported-by: Anirban Sinha <ani@anirban.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Cc: stable@kernel.org
* | task_struct cleanup: move binfmt field to mm_structHiroshi Shimamoto2009-09-241-6/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because the binfmt is not different between threads in the same process, it can be moved from task_struct to mm_struct. And binfmt moudle is handled per mm_struct instead of task_struct. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | aio: ifdef fields in mm_structAlexey Dobriyan2009-09-241-2/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ->ioctx_lock and ->ioctx_list are used only under CONFIG_AIO. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | fork(): disable CLONE_PARENT for initSukadev Bhattiprolu2009-09-241-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When global or container-init processes use CLONE_PARENT, they create a multi-rooted process tree. Besides siblings of global init remain as zombies on exit since they are not reaped by their parent (swapper). So prevent global and container-inits from creating siblings. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-09-231-4/+5
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: itimers: Add tracepoints for itimer hrtimer: Add tracepoint for hrtimers timers: Add tracepoints for timer_list timers cputime: Optimize jiffies_to_cputime(1) itimers: Simplify arm_timer() code a bit itimers: Fix periodic tics precision itimers: Merge ITIMER_VIRT and ITIMER_PROF Trivial header file include conflicts in kernel/fork.c
| * \ Merge branch 'timers/posixtimers' into timers/tracingThomas Gleixner2009-08-291-4/+5
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: timer tracepoint patches depend on both branches Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| | * | itimers: Merge ITIMER_VIRT and ITIMER_PROFStanislaw Gruszka2009-08-031-4/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Both cpu itimers have same data flow in the few places, this patch make unification of code related with VIRT and PROF itimers. Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> LKML-Reference: <1248862529-6063-2-git-send-email-sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | | procfs: provide stack information for threadsStefani Seibold2009-09-231-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A patch to give a better overview of the userland application stack usage, especially for embedded linux. Currently you are only able to dump the main process/thread stack usage which is showed in /proc/pid/status by the "VmStk" Value. But you get no information about the consumed stack memory of the the threads. There is an enhancement in the /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/*maps and which marks the vm mapping where the thread stack pointer reside with "[thread stack xxxxxxxx]". xxxxxxxx is the maximum size of stack. This is a value information, because libpthread doesn't set the start of the stack to the top of the mapped area, depending of the pthread usage. A sample output of /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/maps looks like: 08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8312 /opt/z 08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312 /opt/z 0804a000-0806b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] a7d12000-a7d13000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 a7d13000-a7f13000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [thread stack: 001ff4b4] a7f13000-a7f14000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 a7f14000-a7f36000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 a7f36000-a8069000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 a8069000-a806b000 r--p 00133000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 a806b000-a806c000 rw-p 00135000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 a806c000-a806f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 a806f000-a8083000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0 a8083000-a8084000 r--p 00013000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0 a8084000-a8085000 rw-p 00014000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0 a8085000-a8088000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 a8088000-a80a4000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 a80a4000-a80a5000 r--p 0001b000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 a80a5000-a80a6000 rw-p 0001c000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 afaf5000-afb0a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] Also there is a new entry "stack usage" in /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/status which will you give the current stack usage in kb. A sample output of /proc/self/status looks like: Name: cat State: R (running) Tgid: 507 Pid: 507 . . . CapBnd: fffffffffffffeff voluntary_ctxt_switches: 0 nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches: 0 Stack usage: 12 kB I also fixed stack base address in /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/stat to the base address of the associated thread stack and not the one of the main process. This makes more sense. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/proc/array.c now needs walk_page_range()] Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | getrusage: fill ru_maxrss valueJiri Pirko2009-09-231-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make ->ru_maxrss value in struct rusage filled accordingly to rss hiwater mark. This struct is filled as a parameter to getrusage syscall. ->ru_maxrss value is set to KBs which is the way it is done in BSD systems. /usr/bin/time (gnu time) application converts ->ru_maxrss to KBs which seems to be incorrect behavior. Maintainer of this util was notified by me with the patch which corrects it and cc'ed. To make this happen we extend struct signal_struct by two fields. The first one is ->maxrss which we use to store rss hiwater of the task. The second one is ->cmaxrss which we use to store highest rss hiwater of all task childs. These values are used in k_getrusage() to actually fill ->ru_maxrss. k_getrusage() uses current rss hiwater value directly if mm struct exists. Note: exec() clear mm->hiwater_rss, but doesn't clear sig->maxrss. it is intetionally behavior. *BSD getrusage have exec() inheriting. test programs ======================================================== getrusage.c =========== #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include <sys/resource.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <signal.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include "common.h" #define err(str) perror(str), exit(1) int main(int argc, char** argv) { int status; printf("allocate 100MB\n"); consume(100); printf("testcase1: fork inherit? \n"); printf(" expect: initial.self ~= child.self\n"); show_rusage("initial"); if (__fork()) { wait(&status); } else { show_rusage("fork child"); _exit(0); } printf("\n"); printf("testcase2: fork inherit? (cont.) \n"); printf(" expect: initial.children ~= 100MB, but child.children = 0\n"); show_rusage("initial"); if (__fork()) { wait(&status); } else { show_rusage("child"); _exit(0); } printf("\n"); printf("testcase3: fork + malloc \n"); printf(" expect: child.self ~= initial.self + 50MB\n"); show_rusage("initial"); if (__fork()) { wait(&status); } else { printf("allocate +50MB\n"); consume(50); show_rusage("fork child"); _exit(0); } printf("\n"); printf("testcase4: grandchild maxrss\n"); printf(" expect: post_wait.children ~= 300MB\n"); show_rusage("initial"); if (__fork()) { wait(&status); show_rusage("post_wait"); } else { system("./child -n 0 -g 300"); _exit(0); } printf("\n"); printf("testcase5: zombie\n"); printf(" expect: pre_wait ~= initial, IOW the zombie process is not accounted.\n"); printf(" post_wait ~= 400MB, IOW wait() collect child's max_rss. \n"); show_rusage("initial"); if (__fork()) { sleep(1); /* children become zombie */ show_rusage("pre_wait"); wait(&status); show_rusage("post_wait"); } else { system("./child -n 400"); _exit(0); } printf("\n"); printf("testcase6: SIG_IGN\n"); printf(" expect: initial ~= after_zombie (child's 500MB alloc should be ignored).\n"); show_rusage("initial"); signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN); if (__fork()) { sleep(1); /* children become zombie */ show_rusage("after_zombie"); } else { system("./child -n 500"); _exit(0); } printf("\n"); signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL); printf("testcase7: exec (without fork) \n"); printf(" expect: initial ~= exec \n"); show_rusage("initial"); execl("./child", "child", "-v", NULL); return 0; } child.c ======= #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include <sys/resource.h> #include "common.h" int main(int argc, char** argv) { int status; int c; long consume_size = 0; long grandchild_consume_size = 0; int show = 0; while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "n:g:v")) != -1) { switch (c) { case 'n': consume_size = atol(optarg); break; case 'v': show = 1; break; case 'g': grandchild_consume_size = atol(optarg); break; default: break; } } if (show) show_rusage("exec"); if (consume_size) { printf("child alloc %ldMB\n", consume_size); consume(consume_size); } if (grandchild_consume_size) { if (fork()) { wait(&status); } else { printf("grandchild alloc %ldMB\n", grandchild_consume_size); consume(grandchild_consume_size); exit(0); } } return 0; } common.c ======== #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include <sys/resource.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <signal.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include "common.h" #define err(str) perror(str), exit(1) void show_rusage(char *prefix) { int err, err2; struct rusage rusage_self; struct rusage rusage_children; printf("%s: ", prefix); err = getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF, &rusage_self); if (!err) printf("self %ld ", rusage_self.ru_maxrss); err2 = getrusage(RUSAGE_CHILDREN, &rusage_children); if (!err2) printf("children %ld ", rusage_children.ru_maxrss); printf("\n"); } /* Some buggy OS need this worthless CPU waste. */ void make_pagefault(void) { void *addr; int size = getpagesize(); int i; for (i=0; i<1000; i++) { addr = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANON, -1, 0); if (addr == MAP_FAILED) err("make_pagefault"); memset(addr, 0, size); munmap(addr, size); } } void consume(int mega) { size_t sz = mega * 1024 * 1024; void *ptr; ptr = malloc(sz); memset(ptr, 0, sz); make_pagefault(); } pid_t __fork(void) { pid_t pid; pid = fork(); make_pagefault(); return pid; } common.h ======== void show_rusage(char *prefix); void make_pagefault(void); void consume(int mega); pid_t __fork(void); FreeBSD result (expected result) ======================================================== allocate 100MB testcase1: fork inherit? expect: initial.self ~= child.self initial: self 103492 children 0 fork child: self 103540 children 0 testcase2: fork inherit? (cont.) expect: initial.children ~= 100MB, but child.children = 0 initial: self 103540 children 103540 child: self 103564 children 0 testcase3: fork + malloc expect: child.self ~= initial.self + 50MB initial: self 103564 children 103564 allocate +50MB fork child: self 154860 children 0 testcase4: grandchild maxrss expect: post_wait.children ~= 300MB initial: self 103564 children 154860 grandchild alloc 300MB post_wait: self 103564 children 308720 testcase5: zombie expect: pre_wait ~= initial, IOW the zombie process is not accounted. post_wait ~= 400MB, IOW wait() collect child's max_rss. initial: self 103564 children 308720 child alloc 400MB pre_wait: self 103564 children 308720 post_wait: self 103564 children 411312 testcase6: SIG_IGN expect: initial ~= after_zombie (child's 500MB alloc should be ignored). initial: self 103564 children 411312 child alloc 500MB after_zombie: self 103624 children 411312 testcase7: exec (without fork) expect: initial ~= exec initial: self 103624 children 411312 exec: self 103624 children 411312 Linux result (actual test result) ======================================================== allocate 100MB testcase1: fork inherit? expect: initial.self ~= child.self initial: self 102848 children 0 fork child: self 102572 children 0 testcase2: fork inherit? (cont.) expect: initial.children ~= 100MB, but child.children = 0 initial: self 102876 children 102644 child: self 102572 children 0 testcase3: fork + malloc expect: child.self ~= initial.self + 50MB initial: self 102876 children 102644 allocate +50MB fork child: self 153804 children 0 testcase4: grandchild maxrss expect: post_wait.children ~= 300MB initial: self 102876 children 153864 grandchild alloc 300MB post_wait: self 102876 children 307536 testcase5: zombie expect: pre_wait ~= initial, IOW the zombie process is not accounted. post_wait ~= 400MB, IOW wait() collect child's max_rss. initial: self 102876 children 307536 child alloc 400MB pre_wait: self 102876 children 307536 post_wait: self 102876 children 410076 testcase6: SIG_IGN expect: initial ~= after_zombie (child's 500MB alloc should be ignored). initial: self 102876 children 410076 child alloc 500MB after_zombie: self 102880 children 410076 testcase7: exec (without fork) expect: initial ~= exec initial: self 102880 children 410076 exec: self 102880 children 410076 Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to signal_structKOSAKI Motohiro2009-09-221-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, OOM logic callflow is here. __out_of_memory() select_bad_process() for each task badness() calculate badness of one task oom_kill_process() search child oom_kill_task() kill target task and mm shared tasks with it example, process-A have two thread, thread-A and thread-B and it have very fat memory and each thread have following oom_adj and oom_score. thread-A: oom_adj = OOM_DISABLE, oom_score = 0 thread-B: oom_adj = 0, oom_score = very-high Then, select_bad_process() select thread-B, but oom_kill_task() refuse kill the task because thread-A have OOM_DISABLE. Thus __out_of_memory() call select_bad_process() again. but select_bad_process() select the same task. It mean kernel fall in livelock. The fact is, select_bad_process() must select killable task. otherwise OOM logic go into livelock. And root cause is, oom_adj shouldn't be per-thread value. it should be per-process value because OOM-killer kill a process, not thread. Thus This patch moves oomkilladj (now more appropriately named oom_adj) from struct task_struct to struct signal_struct. it naturally prevent select_bad_process() choose wrong task. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | ksm: fix deadlock with munlock in exit_mmapAndrea Arcangeli2009-09-221-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rawhide users have reported hang at startup when cryptsetup is run: the same problem can be simply reproduced by running a program int main() { mlockall(MCL_CURRENT | MCL_FUTURE); return 0; } The problem is that exit_mmap() applies munlock_vma_pages_all() to clean up VM_LOCKED areas, and its current implementation (stupidly) tries to fault in absent pages, for example where PROT_NONE prevented them being faulted in when mlocking. Whereas the "ksm: fix oom deadlock" patch, knowing there's a race by which KSM might try to fault in pages after exit_mmap() had finally zapped the range, backs out of such faults doing nothing when its ksm_test_exit() notices mm_users 0. So revert that part of "ksm: fix oom deadlock" which moved the ksm_exit() call from before exit_mmap() to the middle of exit_mmap(); and remove those ksm_test_exit() checks from the page fault paths, so allowing the munlocking to proceed without interference. ksm_exit, if there are rmap_items still chained on this mm slot, takes mmap_sem write side: so preventing KSM from working on an mm while exit_mmap runs. And KSM will bail out as soon as it notices that mm_users is already zero, thanks to its internal ksm_test_exit checks. So that when a task is killed by OOM killer or the user, KSM will not indefinitely prevent it from running exit_mmap to release its memory. This does break a part of what "ksm: fix oom deadlock" was trying to achieve. When unmerging KSM (echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm), and even when ksmd itself has to cancel a KSM page, it is possible that the first OOM-kill victim would be the KSM process being faulted: then its memory won't be freed until a second victim has been selected (freeing memory for the unmerging fault to complete). But the OOM killer is already liable to kill a second victim once the intended victim's p->mm goes to NULL: so there's not much point in rejecting this KSM patch before fixing that OOM behaviour. It is very much more important to allow KSM users to boot up, than to haggle over an unlikely and poorly supported OOM case. We also intend to fix munlocking to not fault pages: at which point this patch _could_ be reverted; though that would be controversial, so we hope to find a better solution. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com> Acked-for-now-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | ksm: fix oom deadlockHugh Dickins2009-09-221-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling: imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex, trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex. Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow? And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages: __ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd. But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes are on their way to being freed will not be freed. The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem. But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table. Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached. So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users. __ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd, that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it, similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd). But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication (no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor), it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would otherwise leak mm_structs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | ksm: the mm interface to ksmHugh Dickins2009-09-221-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later. When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than pretending that they can be serviced. But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not touch (e.g. hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings). Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory. Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it. Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting. Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | mm: oom analysis: Show kernel stack usage in /proc/meminfo and OOM log outputKOSAKI Motohiro2009-09-221-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The amount of memory allocated to kernel stacks can become significant and cause OOM conditions. However, we do not display the amount of memory consumed by stacks. Add code to display the amount of memory used for stacks in /proc/meminfo. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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