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2015-11-06mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to ↵Mel Gorman
sleep and avoiding waking kswapd __GFP_WAIT has been used to identify atomic context in callers that hold spinlocks or are in interrupts. They are expected to be high priority and have access one of two watermarks lower than "min" which can be referred to as the "atomic reserve". __GFP_HIGH users get access to the first lower watermark and can be called the "high priority reserve". Over time, callers had a requirement to not block when fallback options were available. Some have abused __GFP_WAIT leading to a situation where an optimisitic allocation with a fallback option can access atomic reserves. This patch uses __GFP_ATOMIC to identify callers that are truely atomic, cannot sleep and have no alternative. High priority users continue to use __GFP_HIGH. __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM identifies callers that can sleep and are willing to enter direct reclaim. __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to identify callers that want to wake kswapd for background reclaim. __GFP_WAIT is redefined as a caller that is willing to enter direct reclaim and wake kswapd for background reclaim. This patch then converts a number of sites o __GFP_ATOMIC is used by callers that are high priority and have memory pools for those requests. GFP_ATOMIC uses this flag. o Callers that have a limited mempool to guarantee forward progress clear __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM but keep __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. bio allocations fall into this category where kswapd will still be woken but atomic reserves are not used as there is a one-entry mempool to guarantee progress. o Callers that are checking if they are non-blocking should use the helper gfpflags_allow_blocking() where possible. This is because checking for __GFP_WAIT as was done historically now can trigger false positives. Some exceptions like dm-crypt.c exist where the code intent is clearer if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is used instead of the helper due to flag manipulations. o Callers that built their own GFP flags instead of starting with GFP_KERNEL and friends now also need to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. The first key hazard to watch out for is callers that removed __GFP_WAIT and was depending on access to atomic reserves for inconspicuous reasons. In some cases it may be appropriate for them to use __GFP_HIGH. The second key hazard is callers that assembled their own combination of GFP flags instead of starting with something like GFP_KERNEL. They may now wish to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. It's almost certainly harmless if it's missed in most cases as other activity will wake kswapd. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-03Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were: - sched/fair load tracking fixes and cleanups (Byungchul Park) - Make load tracking frequency scale invariant (Dietmar Eggemann) - sched/deadline updates (Juri Lelli) - stop machine fixes, cleanups and enhancements for bugs triggered by CPU hotplug stress testing (Oleg Nesterov) - scheduler preemption code rework: remove PREEMPT_ACTIVE and related cleanups (Peter Zijlstra) - Rework the sched_info::run_delay code to fix races (Peter Zijlstra) - Optimize per entity utilization tracking (Peter Zijlstra) - ... misc other fixes, cleanups and smaller updates" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (57 commits) sched: Don't scan all-offline ->cpus_allowed twice if !CONFIG_CPUSETS sched: Move cpu_active() tests from stop_two_cpus() into migrate_swap_stop() sched: Start stopper early stop_machine: Kill cpu_stop_threads->setup() and cpu_stop_unpark() stop_machine: Kill smp_hotplug_thread->pre_unpark, introduce stop_machine_unpark() stop_machine: Change cpu_stop_queue_two_works() to rely on stopper->enabled stop_machine: Introduce __cpu_stop_queue_work() and cpu_stop_queue_two_works() stop_machine: Ensure that a queued callback will be called before cpu_stop_park() sched/x86: Fix typo in __switch_to() comments sched/core: Remove a parameter in the migrate_task_rq() function sched/core: Drop unlikely behind BUG_ON() sched/core: Fix task and run queue sched_info::run_delay inconsistencies sched/numa: Fix task_tick_fair() from disabling numa_balancing sched/core: Add preempt_count invariant check sched/core: More notrace annotations sched/core: Kill PREEMPT_ACTIVE sched/core, sched/x86: Kill thread_info::saved_preempt_count sched/core: Simplify preempt_count tests sched/core: Robustify preemption leak checks sched/core: Stop setting PREEMPT_ACTIVE ...
2015-11-03Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull locking changes from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were: - More gradual enhancements to atomic ops: new atomic*_read_ctrl() ops, synchronize atomic_{read,set}() ordering requirements between architectures, add atomic_long_t bitops. (Peter Zijlstra) - Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for inc/dec atomics and use them in various locking primitives: mutex, rtmutex, mcs, rwsem. This enables weakly ordered architectures (such as arm64) to make use of more locking related optimizations. (Davidlohr Bueso) - Implement atomic[64]_{inc,dec}_relaxed() on ARM. (Will Deacon) - Futex kernel data cache footprint micro-optimization. (Rasmus Villemoes) - pvqspinlock runtime overhead micro-optimization. (Waiman Long) - misc smaller fixlets" * 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: ARM, locking/atomics: Implement _relaxed variants of atomic[64]_{inc,dec} locking/rwsem: Use acquire/release semantics locking/mcs: Use acquire/release semantics locking/rtmutex: Use acquire/release semantics locking/mutex: Use acquire/release semantics locking/asm-generic: Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for inc/dec atomics atomic: Implement atomic_read_ctrl() atomic, arch: Audit atomic_{read,set}() atomic: Add atomic_long_t bitops futex: Force hot variables into a single cache line locking/pvqspinlock: Kick the PV CPU unconditionally when _Q_SLOW_VAL locking/osq: Relax atomic semantics locking/qrwlock: Rename ->lock to ->wait_lock locking/Documentation/lockstat: Fix typo - lokcing -> locking locking/atomics, cmpxchg: Privatize the inclusion of asm/cmpxchg.h
2015-10-19Merge branch 'for-mingo' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney: - Miscellaneous fixes. (Paul E. McKenney, Boqun Feng, Oleg Nesterov, Patrick Marlier) - Improvements to expedited grace periods. (Paul E. McKenney) - Performance improvements to and locktorture tests for percpu-rwsem. (Oleg Nesterov, Paul E. McKenney) - Torture-test changes. (Paul E. McKenney, Davidlohr Bueso) - Documentation updates. (Paul E. McKenney) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-10-07Merge branches 'doc.2015.10.06a', 'percpu-rwsem.2015.10.06a' and ↵Paul E. McKenney
'torture.2015.10.06a' into HEAD doc.2015.10.06a: Documentation updates. percpu-rwsem.2015.10.06a: Optimization of per-CPU reader-writer semaphores. torture.2015.10.06a: Torture-test updates.
2015-10-06locktorture: Fix module unwind when bad torture_type specifiedPaul E. McKenney
The locktorture module has a list of torture types, and specifying a type not on this list is supposed to cleanly fail the module load. Unfortunately, the "fail" happens without the "cleanly". This commit therefore adds the needed clean-up after an incorrect torture_type. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-10-06locking/percpu-rwsem: Clean up the lockdep annotations in percpu_down_read()Oleg Nesterov
Based on Peter Zijlstra's earlier patch. Change percpu_down_read() to use __down_read(), this way we can do rwsem_acquire_read() unconditionally at the start to make this code more symmetric and clean. Originally-From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-10-06locking/percpu-rwsem: Fix the comments outdated by rcu_syncOleg Nesterov
Update the comments broken by the previous change. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-10-06locking/percpu-rwsem: Make use of the rcu_sync infrastructureOleg Nesterov
Currently down_write/up_write calls synchronize_sched_expedited() twice, which is evil. Change this code to rely on rcu-sync primitives. This avoids the _expedited "big hammer", and this can be faster in the contended case or even in the case when a single thread does down_write/up_write in a loop. Of course, a single down_write() will take more time, but otoh it will be much more friendly to the whole system. To simplify the review this patch doesn't update the comments, fixed by the next change. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-10-06locking/percpu-rwsem: Make percpu_free_rwsem() after kzalloc() safeOleg Nesterov
This is the temporary ugly hack which will be reverted later. We only need it to ensure that the next patch will not break "change sb_writers to use percpu_rw_semaphore" patches routed via the VFS tree. The alloc_super()->destroy_super() error path assumes that it is safe to call percpu_free_rwsem() after kzalloc() without percpu_init_rwsem(), so let's not disappoint it. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-10-06locktorture: Add torture tests for percpu_rwsemPaul E. McKenney
This commit adds percpu_rwsem tests based on the earlier rwsem tests. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-10-06locking/percpu-rwsem: Export symbols for locktorturePaul E. McKenney
This commit exports percpu_down_read(), percpu_down_write(), __percpu_init_rwsem(), percpu_up_read(), and percpu_up_write() to allow locktorture to test them when built as a module. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-10-06locktorture: Support rtmutex torturingDavidlohr Bueso
Real time mutexes is one of the few general primitives that we do not have in locktorture. Address this -- a few considerations: o To spice things up, enable competing thread(s) to become rt, such that we can stress different prio boosting paths in the rtmutex code. Introduce a ->task_boost callback, only used by rtmutex-torturer. Tasks will boost/deboost around every 50k (arbitrarily) lock/unlock operations. o Hold times are similar to what we have for other locks: only occasionally having longer hold times (per ~200k ops). So we roughly do two full rt boost+deboosting ops with short hold times. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-10-06locking/rwsem: Use acquire/release semanticsDavidlohr Bueso
As of 654672d4ba1 (locking/atomics: Add _{acquire|release|relaxed}() variants of some atomic operations) and 6d79ef2d30e (locking, asm-generic: Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for 'atomic_long_t'), weakly ordered archs can benefit from more relaxed use of barriers when locking and unlocking, instead of regular full barrier semantics. While currently only arm64 supports such optimizations, updating corresponding locking primitives serves for other archs to immediately benefit as well, once the necessary machinery is implemented of course. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E.McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443643395-17016-6-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-10-06locking/mcs: Use acquire/release semanticsDavidlohr Bueso
As of 654672d4ba1 (locking/atomics: Add _{acquire|release|relaxed}() variants of some atomic operations) and 6d79ef2d30e (locking, asm-generic: Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for 'atomic_long_t'), weakly ordered archs can benefit from more relaxed use of barriers when locking and unlocking, instead of regular full barrier semantics. While currently only arm64 supports such optimizations, updating corresponding locking primitives serves for other archs to immediately benefit as well, once the necessary machinery is implemented of course. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E.McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443643395-17016-5-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-10-06locking/rtmutex: Use acquire/release semanticsDavidlohr Bueso
As of 654672d4ba1 (locking/atomics: Add _{acquire|release|relaxed}() variants of some atomic operations) and 6d79ef2d30e (locking, asm-generic: Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for 'atomic_long_t'), weakly ordered archs can benefit from more relaxed use of barriers when locking and unlocking, instead of regular full barrier semantics. While currently only arm64 supports such optimizations, updating corresponding locking primitives serves for other archs to immediately benefit as well, once the necessary machinery is implemented of course. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E.McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443643395-17016-4-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-10-06locking/mutex: Use acquire/release semanticsDavidlohr Bueso
As of 654672d4ba1 (locking/atomics: Add _{acquire|release|relaxed}() variants of some atomic operations) and 6d79ef2d30e (locking, asm-generic: Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for 'atomic_long_t'), weakly ordered archs can benefit from more relaxed use of barriers when locking and unlocking, instead of regular full barrier semantics. While currently only arm64 supports such optimizations, updating corresponding locking primitives serves for other archs to immediately benefit as well, once the necessary machinery is implemented of course. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul E.McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443643395-17016-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-10-06Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core, to pick up fixes before ↵Ingo Molnar
applying new changes Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-09-23Merge branch 'locking/urgent' into locking/core, to pick up fixes before ↵Ingo Molnar
applying new changes Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-09-23sched/deadline, locking/rtmutex: Fix open coded check in rt_mutex_waiter_less()Juri Lelli
rt_mutex_waiter_less() check of task deadlines is open coded. Since this is subject to wraparound bugs, make it use the correct helper. Reported-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441188096-23021-4-git-send-email-juri.lelli@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-09-23locking/lockdep: Fix hlock->pin_count reset on lock stack rebuildsPeter Zijlstra
Various people reported hitting the "unpinning an unpinned lock" warning. As it turns out there are 2 places where we take a lock out of the middle of a stack, and in those cases it would fail to preserve the pin_count when rebuilding the lock stack. Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Reported-by: Tim Spriggs <tspriggs@apple.com> Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: davej@codemonkey.org.uk Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150916141040.GA11639@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-09-18locking/pvqspinlock: Kick the PV CPU unconditionally when _Q_SLOW_VALWaiman Long
If _Q_SLOW_VAL has been set, the vCPU state must have been vcpu_hashed. The extra check at the end of __pv_queued_spin_unlock() is unnecessary and can be removed. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441996658-62854-3-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-09-18locking/osq: Relax atomic semanticsDavidlohr Bueso
... by using acquire/release for ops around the lock->tail. As such, weakly ordered archs can benefit from more relaxed use of barriers when issuing atomics. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1442216244-4409-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-09-18locking/qrwlock: Rename ->lock to ->wait_lockDavidlohr Bueso
... trivial, but reads a little nicer when we name our actual primitive 'lock'. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1442216244-4409-1-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-09-17Merge branch 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull locking fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Spinlock performance regression fix, plus documentation fixes" * 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: locking/static_keys: Fix up the static keys documentation locking/qspinlock/x86: Only emit the test-and-set fallback when building guest support locking/qspinlock/x86: Fix performance regression under unaccelerated VMs locking/static_keys: Fix a silly typo
2015-09-13Merge tag 'v4.3-rc1' into locking/core, to refresh the treeIngo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-09-11locking/qspinlock/x86: Fix performance regression under unaccelerated VMsPeter Zijlstra
Dave ran into horrible performance on a VM without PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS set and Linus noted that the test-and-set implementation was retarded. One should spin on the variable with a load, not a RMW. While there, remove 'queued' from the name, as the lock isn't queued at all, but a simple test-and-set. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Tested-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150904152523.GR18673@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-09-05Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs updates from Al Viro: "In this one: - d_move fixes (Eric Biederman) - UFS fixes (me; locking is mostly sane now, a bunch of bugs in error handling ought to be fixed) - switch of sb_writers to percpu rwsem (Oleg Nesterov) - superblock scalability (Josef Bacik and Dave Chinner) - swapon(2) race fix (Hugh Dickins)" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (65 commits) vfs: Test for and handle paths that are unreachable from their mnt_root dcache: Reduce the scope of i_lock in d_splice_alias dcache: Handle escaped paths in prepend_path mm: fix potential data race in SyS_swapon inode: don't softlockup when evicting inodes inode: rename i_wb_list to i_io_list sync: serialise per-superblock sync operations inode: convert inode_sb_list_lock to per-sb inode: add hlist_fake to avoid the inode hash lock in evict writeback: plug writeback at a high level change sb_writers to use percpu_rw_semaphore shift percpu_counter_destroy() into destroy_super_work() percpu-rwsem: kill CONFIG_PERCPU_RWSEM percpu-rwsem: introduce percpu_rwsem_release() and percpu_rwsem_acquire() percpu-rwsem: introduce percpu_down_read_trylock() document rwsem_release() in sb_wait_write() fix the broken lockdep logic in __sb_start_write() introduce __sb_writers_{acquired,release}() helpers ufs_inode_get{frag,block}(): get rid of 'phys' argument ufs_getfrag_block(): tidy up a bit ...
2015-08-15percpu-rwsem: kill CONFIG_PERCPU_RWSEMOleg Nesterov
Remove CONFIG_PERCPU_RWSEM, the next patch adds the unconditional user of percpu_rw_semaphore. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2015-08-15percpu-rwsem: introduce percpu_down_read_trylock()Oleg Nesterov
Add percpu_down_read_trylock(), it will have the user soon. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2015-08-12locking/qrwlock: Make use of _{acquire|release|relaxed}() atomicsWill Deacon
The qrwlock implementation is slightly heavy in its use of memory barriers, mainly through the use of _cmpxchg() and _return() atomics, which imply full barrier semantics. This patch modifies the qrwlock code to use the more relaxed atomic routines so that we can reduce the unnecessary barrier overhead on weakly-ordered architectures. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Waiman.Long@hp.com Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438880084-18856-7-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-03locking/pvqspinlock: Only kick CPU at unlock timeWaiman Long
For an over-committed guest with more vCPUs than physical CPUs available, it is possible that a vCPU may be kicked twice before getting the lock - once before it becomes queue head and once again before it gets the lock. All these CPU kicking and halting (VMEXIT) can be expensive and slow down system performance. This patch adds a new vCPU state (vcpu_hashed) which enables the code to delay CPU kicking until at unlock time. Once this state is set, the new lock holder will set _Q_SLOW_VAL and fill in the hash table on behalf of the halted queue head vCPU. The original vcpu_halted state will be used by pv_wait_node() only to differentiate other queue nodes from the qeue head. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436647018-49734-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-03locking/qrwlock: Reduce reader/writer to reader lock transfer latencyWaiman Long
Currently, a reader will check first to make sure that the writer mode byte is cleared before incrementing the reader count. That waiting is not really necessary. It increases the latency in the reader/writer to reader transition and reduces readers performance. This patch eliminates that waiting. It also has the side effect of reducing the chance of writer lock stealing and improving the fairness of the lock. Using a locking microbenchmark, a 10-threads 5M locking loop of mostly readers (RW ratio = 10,000:1) has the following performance numbers in a Haswell-EX box: Kernel Locking Rate (Kops/s) ------ --------------------- 4.1.1 15,063,081 4.1.1+patch 17,241,552 (+14.4%) Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436459543-29126-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-03locking/pvqspinlock: Order pv_unhash() after cmpxchg() on unlock slowpathWill Deacon
When we unlock in __pv_queued_spin_unlock(), a failed cmpxchg() on the lock value indicates that we need to take the slow-path and unhash the corresponding node blocked on the lock. Since a failed cmpxchg() does not provide any memory-ordering guarantees, it is possible that the node data could be read before the cmpxchg() on weakly-ordered architectures and therefore return a stale value, leading to hash corruption and/or a BUG(). This patch adds an smb_rmb() following the failed cmpxchg operation, so that the unhashing is ordered after the lock has been checked. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> [ Added more comments] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steve Capper <Steve.Capper@arm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150713155830.GL2632@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-03locking: Clean up pvqspinlock warningPeter Zijlstra
- Rename the on-stack variable to match the datastructure variable, - place the cmpxchg back under the comment that explains it, - clean up the WARN() statement to avoid superfluous conditionals and line-breaks. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-03Merge branch 'locking/urgent', tag 'v4.2-rc5' into locking/core, to pick up ↵Ingo Molnar
fixes before applying new changes Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-21locking/pvqspinlock: Fix kernel panic in locking-selftestWaiman Long
Enabling locking-selftest in a VM guest may cause the following kernel panic: kernel BUG at .../kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h:137! This is due to the fact that the pvqspinlock unlock function is expecting either a _Q_LOCKED_VAL or _Q_SLOW_VAL in the lock byte. This patch prevents that bug report by ignoring it when debug_locks_silent is set. Otherwise, a warning will be printed if it contains an unexpected value. With this patch applied, the kernel locking-selftest completed without any noise. Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436663959-53092-1-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-20rtmutex: Delete scriptable testerDavidlohr Bueso
No one uses this anymore, and this is not the first time the idea of replacing it with a (now possible) userspace side. Lock stealing logic was removed long ago in when the lock was granted to the highest prio. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435782588-4177-2-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-07-06locking/qrwlock: Better optimization for interrupt context readersWaiman Long
The qrwlock is fair in the process context, but becoming unfair when in the interrupt context to support use cases like the tasklist_lock. The current code isn't that well-documented on what happens when in the interrupt context. The rspin_until_writer_unlock() will only spin if the writer has gotten the lock. If the writer is still in the waiting state, the increment in the reader count will cause the writer to remain in the waiting state and the new interrupt context reader will get the lock and return immediately. The current code, however, does an additional read of the lock value which is not necessary as the information has already been there in the fast path. This may sometime cause an additional cacheline transfer when the lock is highly contended. This patch passes the lock value information gotten in the fast path to the slow path to eliminate the additional read. It also documents the action for the interrupt context readers more clearly. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434729002-57724-3-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-06locking/qrwlock: Rename functions to queued_*()Waiman Long
To sync up with the naming convention used in qspinlock, all the qrwlock functions were renamed to started with "queued" instead of "queue". Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434729002-57724-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-24Merge branch 'sched-hrtimers-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler updates from Thomas Gleixner: "This series of scheduler updates depends on sched/core and timers/core branches, which are already in your tree: - Scheduler balancing overhaul to plug a hard to trigger race which causes an oops in the balancer (Peter Zijlstra) - Lockdep updates which are related to the balancing updates (Peter Zijlstra)" * 'sched-hrtimers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched,lockdep: Employ lock pinning lockdep: Implement lock pinning lockdep: Simplify lock_release() sched: Streamline the task migration locking a little sched: Move code around sched,dl: Fix sched class hopping CBS hole sched, dl: Convert switched_{from, to}_dl() / prio_changed_dl() to balance callbacks sched,dl: Remove return value from pull_dl_task() sched, rt: Convert switched_{from, to}_rt() / prio_changed_rt() to balance callbacks sched,rt: Remove return value from pull_rt_task() sched: Allow balance callbacks for check_class_changed() sched: Use replace normalize_task() with __sched_setscheduler() sched: Replace post_schedule with a balance callback list
2015-06-24Merge branch 'sched-locking-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull locking updates from Thomas Gleixner: "These locking updates depend on the alreay merged sched/core branch: - Lockless top waiter wakeup for rtmutex (Davidlohr) - Reduce hash bucket lock contention for PI futexes (Sebastian) - Documentation update (Davidlohr)" * 'sched-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: locking/rtmutex: Update stale plist comments futex: Lower the lock contention on the HB lock during wake up locking/rtmutex: Implement lockless top-waiter wakeup
2015-06-22Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner: "A rather largish update for everything time and timer related: - Cache footprint optimizations for both hrtimers and timer wheel - Lower the NOHZ impact on systems which have NOHZ or timer migration disabled at runtime. - Optimize run time overhead of hrtimer interrupt by making the clock offset updates smarter - hrtimer cleanups and removal of restrictions to tackle some problems in sched/perf - Some more leap second tweaks - Another round of changes addressing the 2038 problem - First step to change the internals of clock event devices by introducing the necessary infrastructure - Allow constant folding for usecs/msecs_to_jiffies() - The usual pile of clockevent/clocksource driver updates The hrtimer changes contain updates to sched, perf and x86 as they depend on them plus changes all over the tree to cleanup API changes and redundant code, which got copied all over the place. The y2038 changes touch s390 to remove the last non 2038 safe code related to boot/persistant clock" * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (114 commits) clocksource: Increase dependencies of timer-stm32 to limit build wreckage timer: Minimize nohz off overhead timer: Reduce timer migration overhead if disabled timer: Stats: Simplify the flags handling timer: Replace timer base by a cpu index timer: Use hlist for the timer wheel hash buckets timer: Remove FIFO "guarantee" timers: Sanitize catchup_timer_jiffies() usage hrtimer: Allow hrtimer::function() to free the timer seqcount: Introduce raw_write_seqcount_barrier() seqcount: Rename write_seqcount_barrier() hrtimer: Fix hrtimer_is_queued() hole hrtimer: Remove HRTIMER_STATE_MIGRATE selftest: Timers: Avoid signal deadlock in leap-a-day timekeeping: Copy the shadow-timekeeper over the real timekeeper last clockevents: Check state instead of mode in suspend/resume path selftests: timers: Add leap-second timer edge testing to leap-a-day.c ntp: Do leapsecond adjustment in adjtimex read path time: Prevent early expiry of hrtimers[CLOCK_REALTIME] at the leap second edge ntp: Introduce and use SECS_PER_DAY macro instead of 86400 ...
2015-06-22Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes are: - lockless wakeup support for futexes and IPC message queues (Davidlohr Bueso, Peter Zijlstra) - Replace spinlocks with atomics in thread_group_cputimer(), to improve scalability (Jason Low) - NUMA balancing improvements (Rik van Riel) - SCHED_DEADLINE improvements (Wanpeng Li) - clean up and reorganize preemption helpers (Frederic Weisbecker) - decouple page fault disabling machinery from the preemption counter, to improve debuggability and robustness (David Hildenbrand) - SCHED_DEADLINE documentation updates (Luca Abeni) - topology CPU masks cleanups (Bartosz Golaszewski) - /proc/sched_debug improvements (Srikar Dronamraju)" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (79 commits) sched/deadline: Remove needless parameter in dl_runtime_exceeded() sched: Remove superfluous resetting of the p->dl_throttled flag sched/deadline: Drop duplicate init_sched_dl_class() declaration sched/deadline: Reduce rq lock contention by eliminating locking of non-feasible target sched/deadline: Make init_sched_dl_class() __init sched/deadline: Optimize pull_dl_task() sched/preempt: Add static_key() to preempt_notifiers sched/preempt: Fix preempt notifiers documentation about hlist_del() within unsafe iteration sched/stop_machine: Fix deadlock between multiple stop_two_cpus() sched/debug: Add sum_sleep_runtime to /proc/<pid>/sched sched/debug: Replace vruntime with wait_sum in /proc/sched_debug sched/debug: Properly format runnable tasks in /proc/sched_debug sched/numa: Only consider less busy nodes as numa balancing destinations Revert 095bebf61a46 ("sched/numa: Do not move past the balance point if unbalanced") sched/fair: Prevent throttling in early pick_next_task_fair() preempt: Reorganize the notrace definitions a bit preempt: Use preempt_schedule_context() as the official tracing preemption point sched: Make preempt_schedule_context() function-tracing safe x86: Remove cpu_sibling_mask() and cpu_core_mask() x86: Replace cpu_**_mask() with topology_**_cpumask() ...
2015-06-22Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes are: - 'qspinlock' support, enabled on x86: queued spinlocks - these are now the spinlock variant used by x86 as they outperform ticket spinlocks in every category. (Waiman Long) - 'pvqspinlock' support on x86: paravirtualized variant of queued spinlocks. (Waiman Long, Peter Zijlstra) - 'qrwlock' support, enabled on x86: queued rwlocks. Similar to queued spinlocks, they are now the variant used by x86: CONFIG_ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS=y CONFIG_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS=y CONFIG_ARCH_USE_QUEUED_RWLOCKS=y CONFIG_QUEUED_RWLOCKS=y - various lockdep fixlets - various locking primitives cleanups, further WRITE_ONCE() propagation" * 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) locking/lockdep: Remove hard coded array size dependency locking/qrwlock: Don't contend with readers when setting _QW_WAITING lockdep: Do not break user-visible string locking/arch: Rename set_mb() to smp_store_mb() locking/arch: Add WRITE_ONCE() to set_mb() rtmutex: Warn if trylock is called from hard/softirq context arch: Remove __ARCH_HAVE_CMPXCHG locking/rtmutex: Drop usage of __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG locking/qrwlock: Rename QUEUE_RWLOCK to QUEUED_RWLOCKS locking/pvqspinlock: Rename QUEUED_SPINLOCK to QUEUED_SPINLOCKS locking/pvqspinlock: Replace xchg() by the more descriptive set_mb() locking/pvqspinlock, x86: Enable PV qspinlock for Xen locking/pvqspinlock, x86: Enable PV qspinlock for KVM locking/pvqspinlock, x86: Implement the paravirt qspinlock call patching locking/pvqspinlock: Implement simple paravirt support for the qspinlock locking/qspinlock: Revert to test-and-set on hypervisors locking/qspinlock: Use a simple write to grab the lock locking/qspinlock: Optimize for smaller NR_CPUS locking/qspinlock: Extract out code snippets for the next patch locking/qspinlock: Add pending bit ...
2015-06-22Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: - Continued initialization/Kconfig updates: hide most Kconfig options from unsuspecting users. There's now a single high level configuration option: * * RCU Subsystem * Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration (RCU_EXPERT) [N/y/?] (NEW) Which if answered in the negative, leaves us with a single interactive configuration option: Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs (RCU_NOCB_CPU) [N/y/?] (NEW) All the rest of the RCU options are configured automatically. Later on we'll remove this single leftover configuration option as well. - Remove all uses of RCU-protected array indexes: replace the rcu_[access|dereference]_index_check() APIs with READ_ONCE() and rcu_lockdep_assert() - RCU CPU-hotplug cleanups - Updates to Tiny RCU: a race fix and further code shrinkage. - RCU torture-testing updates: fixes, speedups, cleanups and documentation updates. - Miscellaneous fixes - Documentation updates * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (60 commits) rcutorture: Allow repetition factors in Kconfig-fragment lists rcutorture: Display "make oldconfig" errors rcutorture: Update TREE_RCU-kconfig.txt rcutorture: Make rcutorture scripts force RCU_EXPERT rcutorture: Update configuration fragments for rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact rcutorture: TASKS_RCU set directly, so don't explicitly set it rcutorture: Test SRCU cleanup code path rcutorture: Replace barriers with smp_store_release() and smp_load_acquire() locktorture: Change longdelay_us to longdelay_ms rcutorture: Allow negative values of nreaders to oversubscribe rcutorture: Exchange TREE03 and TREE08 NR_CPUS, speed up CPU hotplug rcutorture: Exchange TREE03 and TREE04 geometries locktorture: fix deadlock in 'rw_lock_irq' type rcu: Correctly handle non-empty Tiny RCU callback list with none ready rcutorture: Test both RCU-sched and RCU-bh for Tiny RCU rcu: Further shrink Tiny RCU by making empty functions static inlines rcu: Conditionally compile RCU's eqs warnings rcu: Remove prompt for RCU implementation rcu: Make RCU able to tolerate undefined CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO rcu: Make RCU able to tolerate undefined CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF ...
2015-06-19locking/rtmutex: Update stale plist commentsDavidlohr Bueso
... as of fb00aca4744 (rtmutex: Turn the plist into an rb-tree) we no longer use plists for queuing any waiters. Update stale comments. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432056298-18738-4-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-06-19futex: Lower the lock contention on the HB lock during wake upSebastian Andrzej Siewior
wake_futex_pi() wakes the task before releasing the hash bucket lock (HB). The first thing the woken up task usually does is to acquire the lock which requires the HB lock. On SMP Systems this leads to blocking on the HB lock which is released by the owner shortly after. This patch rearranges the unlock path by first releasing the HB lock and then waking up the task. [ tglx: Fixed up the rtmutex unlock path ] Originally-from: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150617083350.GA2433@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-06-19sched/stop_machine: Fix deadlock between multiple stop_two_cpus()Peter Zijlstra
Jiri reported a machine stuck in multi_cpu_stop() with migrate_swap_stop() as function and with the following src,dst cpu pairs: {11, 4} {13, 11} { 4, 13} 4 11 13 cpuM: queue(4 ,13) *Ma cpuN: queue(13,11) *N Na *M Mb cpuO: queue(11, 4) *O Oa *Nb *Ob Where *X denotes the cpu running the queueing of cpu-X and X[ab] denotes the first/second queued work. You'll observe the top of the workqueue for each cpu: 4,11,13 to be work from cpus: M, O, N resp. IOW. deadlock. Do away with the queueing trickery and introduce lg_double_lock() to lock both CPUs and fully serialize the stop_two_cpus() callers instead of the partial (and buggy) serialization we have now. Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150605153023.GH19282@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-19locking/qrwlock: Don't contend with readers when setting _QW_WAITINGWaiman Long
The current cmpxchg() loop in setting the _QW_WAITING flag for writers in queue_write_lock_slowpath() will contend with incoming readers causing possibly extra cmpxchg() operations that are wasteful. This patch changes the code to do a byte cmpxchg() to eliminate contention with new readers. A multithreaded microbenchmark running 5M read_lock/write_lock loop on a 8-socket 80-core Westmere-EX machine running 4.0 based kernel with the qspinlock patch have the following execution times (in ms) with and without the patch: With R:W ratio = 5:1 Threads w/o patch with patch % change ------- --------- ---------- -------- 2 990 895 -9.6% 3 2136 1912 -10.5% 4 3166 2830 -10.6% 5 3953 3629 -8.2% 6 4628 4405 -4.8% 7 5344 5197 -2.8% 8 6065 6004 -1.0% 9 6826 6811 -0.2% 10 7599 7599 0.0% 15 9757 9766 +0.1% 20 13767 13817 +0.4% With small number of contending threads, this patch can improve locking performance by up to 10%. With more contending threads, however, the gain diminishes. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433863153-30722-3-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>