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* stop_machine: make stop_machine_run more virtualization friendlyChristian Borntraeger2008-05-231-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On kvm I have seen some rare hangs in stop_machine when I used more guest cpus than hosts cpus. e.g. 32 guest cpus on 1 host cpu triggered the hang quite often. I could also reproduce the problem on a 4 way z/VM host with a 64 way guest. It turned out that the guest was consuming all available cpus mostly for spinning on scheduler locks like rq->lock. This is expected as the threads are calling yield all the time. The problem is now, that the host scheduling decisings together with the guest scheduling decisions and spinlocks not being fair managed to create an interesting scenario similar to a live lock. (Sometimes the hang resolved itself after some minutes) Changing stop_machine to yield the cpu to the hypervisor when yielding inside the guest fixed the problem for me. While I am not completely happy with this patch, I think it causes no harm and it really improves the situation for me. I used cpu_relax for yielding to the hypervisor, does that work on all architectures? p.s.: If you want to reproduce the problem, cpu hotplug and kprobes use stop_machine_run and both triggered the problem after some retries. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-04-221-2/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/juhl/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/juhl/trivial: (24 commits) DOC: A couple corrections and clarifications in USB doc. Generate a slightly more informative error msg for bad HZ fix typo "is" -> "if" in Makefile ext*: spelling fix prefered -> preferred DOCUMENTATION: Use newer DEFINE_SPINLOCK macro in docs. KEYS: Fix the comment to match the file name in rxrpc-type.h. RAID: remove trailing space from printk line DMA engine: typo fixes Remove unused MAX_NODES_SHIFT MAINTAINERS: Clarify access to OCFS2 development mailing list. V4L: Storage class should be before const qualifier (sn9c102) V4L: Storage class should be before const qualifier sonypi: Storage class should be before const qualifier intel_menlow: Storage class should be before const qualifier DVB: Storage class should be before const qualifier arm: Storage class should be before const qualifier ALSA: Storage class should be before const qualifier acpi: Storage class should be before const qualifier firmware_sample_driver.c: fix coding style MAINTAINERS: Add ati_remote2 driver ... Fixed up trivial conflicts in firmware_sample_driver.c
| * trivial: small cleanupsPavel Machek2008-04-221-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These are small cleanups all over the tree. Trivial style and comment changes to fs/select.c, kernel/signal.c, kernel/stop_machine.c & mm/pdflush.c Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
* | Merge branch 'semaphore' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-04-221-1/+0
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc * 'semaphore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc: Deprecate the asm/semaphore.h files in feature-removal-schedule. Convert asm/semaphore.h users to linux/semaphore.h security: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h lib: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h kernel: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h include: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h fs: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h drivers: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h net: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h arch: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h
| * | kernel: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.hMatthew Wilcox2008-04-191-1/+0
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | None of these files use any of the functionality promised by asm/semaphore.h. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
* / generic: use new set_cpus_allowed_ptr functionMike Travis2008-04-191-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Use new set_cpus_allowed_ptr() function added by previous patch, which instead of passing the "newly allowed cpus" cpumask_t arg by value, pass it by pointer: -int set_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p, cpumask_t new_mask) +int set_cpus_allowed_ptr(struct task_struct *p, const cpumask_t *new_mask) * Modify CPU_MASK_ALL Depends on: [sched-devel]: sched: add new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* stopmachine: semaphore to mutexDaniel Walker2008-02-061-3/+3
| | | | | | | | [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* cpu-hotplug: replace lock_cpu_hotplug() with get_online_cpus()Gautham R Shenoy2008-01-251-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace all lock_cpu_hotplug/unlock_cpu_hotplug from the kernel and use get_online_cpus and put_online_cpus instead as it highlights the refcount semantics in these operations. The new API guarantees protection against the cpu-hotplug operation, but it doesn't guarantee serialized access to any of the local data structures. Hence the changes needs to be reviewed. In case of pseries_add_processor/pseries_remove_processor, use cpu_maps_update_begin()/cpu_maps_update_done() as we're modifying the cpu_present_map there. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Fix stop_machine_run problem with naughty real time processSatoru Takeuchi2007-07-161-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | stop_machine_run() does its work on "kstopmachine" thread having max priority. However that thread get such priority after woken up. Therefore, in the following case ... - "kstopmachine" try to run on CPU1 - There is a real time process which doesn't relinquish CPU time voluntary on CPU1 ... "kstopmachine" can't start to run and the CPU on which stop_machine_run() is runing hangs up. To fix this problem, call sched_setscheduler() before waking up that thread. Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* stop_machine() now uses hard_irq_disableBenjamin Herrenschmidt2007-05-111-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a call to hard_irq_disable() to stop_machine so that we make sure IRQs are really disabled and not only lazy-disabled on archs like powerpc as some users of stop_machine() may rely on that. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Use stop_machine_run in the Intel RNG driverPrarit Bhargava2007-05-081-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace call_smp_function with stop_machine_run in the Intel RNG driver. CPU A has done read_lock(&lock) CPU B has done write_lock_irq(&lock) and is waiting for A to release the lock. A third CPU calls call_smp_function and issues the IPI. CPU A takes CPU C's IPI. CPU B is waiting with interrupts disabled and does not see the IPI. CPU C is stuck waiting for CPU B to respond to the IPI. Deadlock. The solution is to use stop_machine_run instead of call_smp_function (call_smp_function should not be called in situations where the CPUs may be suspended). [haruo.tomita@toshiba.co.jp: fix a typo in mod_init()] [haruo.tomita@toshiba.co.jp: fix memory leak] Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: "Tomita, Haruo" <haruo.tomita@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] stop_machine.c copyrightRusty Russell2006-09-291-0/+3
| | | | | | | | I had to look back: this code was extracted from the module.c code in 2005. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Remove redundant up() in stop_machine()Yingchao Zhou2006-08-271-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | An up() is called in kernel/stop_machine.c on failure, and also in the caller (unconditionally). Signed-off-by: Zhou Yingchao <yingchao.zhou@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] revert "kthread: convert stop_machine into a kthread"Andrew Morton2006-07-041-11/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Jiri reports that the stop_machin kthread conversion caused his machine to hang when suspending. Hyperthreading is apparently involved. I don't see why that would be and I can't reproduce it. Revert to the 2.6.17 code. Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kthread: convert stop_machine into a kthreadSerge E. Hallyn2006-06-251-6/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Update stop_machine.c to spawn stop_machine as kthreads rather than the deprecated kernel_threads. - Update stop_machine to use the more efficient kthread_bind() before running task in place of set_cpus_allowed() after. [akpm@osdl.org: remove now-wrong set_cpus_allowed()] Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Remove set_fs() in stop_machine()akpm@osdl.org2006-01-101-5/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | ) From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> Call sched_setscheduler() directly instead. Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] stop_machine() vs. synchronous IPI send deadlockKirill Korotaev2005-11-141-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes deadlock of stop_machine() vs. synchronous IPI send. The problem is that stop_machine() disables interrupts before disabling preemption on other CPUs. So if another CPU is preempted and then calls something like flush_tlb_all() it will deadlock with CPU doing stop_machine() and which can't process IPI due to disabled IRQs. I changed stop_machine() to do the same things exactly as it does on other CPUs, i.e. it should disable preemption first on _all_ CPUs including itself and only after that disable IRQs. Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: "Andrey Savochkin" <saw@sawoct.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] smp_processor_id() cleanupIngo Molnar2005-06-221-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch implements a number of smp_processor_id() cleanup ideas that Arjan van de Ven and I came up with. The previous __smp_processor_id/_smp_processor_id/smp_processor_id API spaghetti was hard to follow both on the implementational and on the usage side. Some of the complexity arose from picking wrong names, some of the complexity comes from the fact that not all architectures defined __smp_processor_id. In the new code, there are two externally visible symbols: - smp_processor_id(): debug variant. - raw_smp_processor_id(): nondebug variant. Replaces all existing uses of _smp_processor_id() and __smp_processor_id(). Defined by every SMP architecture in include/asm-*/smp.h. There is one new internal symbol, dependent on DEBUG_PREEMPT: - debug_smp_processor_id(): internal debug variant, mapped to smp_processor_id(). Also, i moved debug_smp_processor_id() from lib/kernel_lock.c into a new lib/smp_processor_id.c file. All related comments got updated and/or clarified. I have build/boot tested the following 8 .config combinations on x86: {SMP,UP} x {PREEMPT,!PREEMPT} x {DEBUG_PREEMPT,!DEBUG_PREEMPT} I have also build/boot tested x64 on UP/PREEMPT/DEBUG_PREEMPT. (Other architectures are untested, but should work just fine.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] use smp_mb/wmb/rmb where possibleakpm@osdl.org2005-05-011-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | Replace a number of memory barriers with smp_ variants. This means we won't take the unnecessary hit on UP machines. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-171-0/+212
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!