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debug_objects_maxchecked is only updated in __debug_check_no_obj_freed(),
and only read in debug_objects_maxchecked, unfortunately both of these are
optional and depend on different Kconfig symbols.
When both CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_FREE and CONFIG_DEBUG_FS are disabled this
warning is emitted:
lib/debugobjects.c:56:14: error: 'debug_objects_maxchecked' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-variable]
Rather than trying to add more complex #ifdef protections, mark the
variable as __maybe_unused so it can be silently dropped when usused.
Fixes: bd9dcd046509 ("debugobjects: Export max loops counter")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313131857.158876-1-arnd@arndb.de
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The removal of the batched object freeing has caused the debug_objects_freed
to become read-only, and the reading is inside an ifdef, so gcc warns that it
is completely unused without CONFIG_DEBUG_FS:
lib/debugobjects.c:71:14: error: 'debug_objects_freed' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-variable]
Assuming we are still interested in this number, this adds back code to
keep track of the freed objects.
Fixes: 636e1970fd7d ("debugobjects: Use global free list in free_object()")
Suggested-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180222155335.1647466-1-arnd@arndb.de
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__debug_check_no_obj_freed() iterates over the to be freed memory region in
chunks and iterates over the corresponding hash bucket list for each
chunk. This can accumulate to hundred thousands of checked objects. In the
worst case this can trigger the soft lockup detector:
NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#15 stuck for 22s!
CPU: 15 PID: 110342 Comm: stress-ng-getde
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8141177e>] debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x13e/0x220
[<ffffffff811f8751>] __free_pages_ok+0x1f1/0x5c0
[<ffffffff811fa785>] __free_pages+0x25/0x40
[<ffffffff812638db>] __free_slab+0x19b/0x270
[<ffffffff812639e9>] discard_slab+0x39/0x50
[<ffffffff812679f7>] __slab_free+0x207/0x270
[<ffffffff81269966>] ___cache_free+0xa6/0xb0
[<ffffffff8126c267>] qlist_free_all+0x47/0x80
[<ffffffff8126c5a9>] quarantine_reduce+0x159/0x190
[<ffffffff8126b3bf>] kasan_kmalloc+0xaf/0xc0
[<ffffffff8126b8a2>] kasan_slab_alloc+0x12/0x20
[<ffffffff81265e8a>] kmem_cache_alloc+0xfa/0x360
[<ffffffff812abc8f>] ? getname_flags+0x4f/0x1f0
[<ffffffff812abc8f>] getname_flags+0x4f/0x1f0
[<ffffffff812abe42>] getname+0x12/0x20
[<ffffffff81298da9>] do_sys_open+0xf9/0x210
[<ffffffff81298ede>] SyS_open+0x1e/0x20
[<ffffffff817d6e01>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xc2
The code path might be called in either atomic or non-atomic context, but
in_atomic() can't tell if the current context is atomic or not on a
PREEMPT=n kernel, so cond_resched() can't be used to prevent the
softlockup.
Utilize the global free list to shorten the loop execution time.
[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: longman@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1517872708-24207-5-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
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The newly added global free list allows to avoid lengthy pool_list
iterations in free_obj_work() by putting objects either into the pool list
when the fill level of the pool is below the maximum or by putting them on
the global free list immediately.
As the pool is now guaranteed to never exceed the maximum fill level this
allows to remove the batch removal from pool list in free_obj_work().
Split free_object() into two parts, so the actual queueing function can be
reused without invoking schedule_work() on every invocation.
[ tglx: Remove the batch removal from pool list and massage changelog ]
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: longman@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1517872708-24207-4-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
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free_object() adds objects to the pool list and schedules work when the
pool list is larger than the pool size. The worker handles the actual
kfree() of the object by iterating the pool list until the pool size is
below the maximum pool size again.
To iterate the pool list, pool_lock has to be held and the objects which
should be freed() need to be put into temporary storage so pool_lock can be
dropped for the actual kmem_cache_free() invocation. That's a pointless and
expensive exercise if there is a large number of objects to free.
In such a case its better to evaulate the fill level of the pool in
free_objects() and queue the object to free either in the pool list or if
it's full on a separate global free list.
The worker can then do the following simpler operation:
- Move objects back from the global free list to the pool list if the
pool list is not longer full.
- Remove the remaining objects in a single list move operation from the
global free list and do the kmem_cache_free() operation lockless from
the temporary list head.
In fill_pool() the global free list is checked as well to avoid real
allocations from the kmem cache.
Add the necessary list head and a counter for the number of objects on the
global free list and export that counter via sysfs:
max_chain :79
max_loops :8147
warnings :0
fixups :0
pool_free :1697
pool_min_free :346
pool_used :15356
pool_max_used :23933
on_free_list :39
objs_allocated:32617
objs_freed :16588
Nothing queues objects on the global free list yet. This happens in a
follow up change.
[ tglx: Simplified implementation and massaged changelog ]
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: longman@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1517872708-24207-3-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
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__debug_check_no_obj_freed() can be an expensive operation depending on the
size of memory freed. It already exports the maximum chain walk length via
debugfs, but this only records the maximum of a single memory chunk.
Though there is no information about the total number of objects inspected
for a __debug_check_no_obj_freed() operation, which might be significantly
larger when a huge memory region is freed.
Aggregate the number of objects inspected for a single invocation of
__debug_check_no_obj_freed() and export it via sysfs.
The resulting output of /sys/kernel/debug/debug_objects/stats looks like:
max_chain :121
max_checked :543267
warnings :0
fixups :0
pool_free :1764
pool_min_free :341
pool_used :86438
pool_max_used :268887
objs_allocated:6068254
objs_freed :5981076
[ tglx: Renamed the variable to max_checked and adjusted changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: longman@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1517872708-24207-2-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
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The allocated debug objects are either on the free list or in the
hashed bucket lists. So they won't get lost. However if both debug
objects and kmemleak are enabled and kmemleak scanning is done
while some of the debug objects are transitioning from one list to
the others, false negative reporting of memory leaks may happen for
those objects. For example,
[38687.275678] kmemleak: 12 new suspected memory leaks (see
/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
unreferenced object 0xffff92e98aabeb68 (size 40):
comm "ksmtuned", pid 4344, jiffies 4298403600 (age 906.430s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 d0 bc db 92 e9 92 ff ff ................
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 38 36 8a 61 e9 92 ff ff ........86.a....
backtrace:
[<ffffffff8fa5378a>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
[<ffffffff8f47c019>] kmem_cache_alloc+0xe9/0x320
[<ffffffff8f62ed96>] __debug_object_init+0x3e6/0x400
[<ffffffff8f62ef01>] debug_object_activate+0x131/0x210
[<ffffffff8f330d9f>] __call_rcu+0x3f/0x400
[<ffffffff8f33117d>] call_rcu_sched+0x1d/0x20
[<ffffffff8f4a183c>] put_object+0x2c/0x40
[<ffffffff8f4a188c>] __delete_object+0x3c/0x50
[<ffffffff8f4a18bd>] delete_object_full+0x1d/0x20
[<ffffffff8fa535c2>] kmemleak_free+0x32/0x80
[<ffffffff8f47af07>] kmem_cache_free+0x77/0x350
[<ffffffff8f453912>] unlink_anon_vmas+0x82/0x1e0
[<ffffffff8f440341>] free_pgtables+0xa1/0x110
[<ffffffff8f44af91>] exit_mmap+0xc1/0x170
[<ffffffff8f29db60>] mmput+0x80/0x150
[<ffffffff8f2a7609>] do_exit+0x2a9/0xd20
The references in the debug objects may also hide a real memory leak.
As there is no point in having kmemleak to track debug object
allocations, kmemleak checking is now disabled for debug objects.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502718733-8527-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
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<linux/sched/task_stack.h>
We are going to split <linux/sched/task_stack.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/task_stack.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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As suggested by Ingo, the debug_objects_alloc counter is now renamed to
debug_objects_allocated with minor twist in comment and debug output.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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/1486503630-1501-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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On a large SMP system with many CPUs, the global pool_lock may become
a performance bottleneck as all the CPUs that need to allocate or
free debug objects have to take the lock. That can sometimes cause
soft lockups like:
NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#35 stuck for 22s! [rcuos/1:21]
...
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff817c216b>] [<ffffffff817c216b>]
_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3b/0x60
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff813f40d1>] free_object+0x81/0xb0
[<ffffffff813f4f33>] debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x193/0x220
[<ffffffff81101a59>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xf9/0x1c0
[<ffffffff81284996>] ? file_free_rcu+0x36/0x60
[<ffffffff81251712>] kmem_cache_free+0xd2/0x380
[<ffffffff81284960>] ? fput+0x90/0x90
[<ffffffff81284996>] file_free_rcu+0x36/0x60
[<ffffffff81124c23>] rcu_nocb_kthread+0x1b3/0x550
[<ffffffff81124b71>] ? rcu_nocb_kthread+0x101/0x550
[<ffffffff81124a70>] ? sync_exp_work_done.constprop.63+0x50/0x50
[<ffffffff810c59d1>] kthread+0x101/0x120
[<ffffffff81101a59>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xf9/0x1c0
[<ffffffff817c2d32>] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x50
To reduce the amount of contention on the pool_lock, the actual
kmem_cache_free() of the debug objects will be delayed if the pool_lock
is busy. This will temporarily increase the amount of free objects
available at the free pool when the system is busy. As a result,
the number of kmem_cache allocation and freeing is reduced.
To further reduce the lock operations free debug objects in batches of
four.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Du Changbin" <changbin.du@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483647425-4135-4-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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On a large SMP systems with hundreds of CPUs, the current thresholds
for allocating and freeing debug objects (256 and 1024 respectively)
may not work well. This can cause a lot of needless calls to
kmem_aloc() and kmem_free() on those systems.
To alleviate this thrashing problem, the object freeing threshold
is now increased to "1024 + # of CPUs * 32". Whereas the object
allocation threshold is increased to "256 + # of CPUs * 4". That
should make the debug objects subsystem scale better with the number
of CPUs available in the system.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Du Changbin" <changbin.du@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483647425-4135-3-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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New debugfs stat counters are added to track the numbers of
kmem_cache_alloc() and kmem_cache_free() function calls to get a
sense of how the internal debug objects cache management is performing.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Du Changbin" <changbin.du@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483647425-4135-2-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
"Mostly patches to initialize workqueue subsystem earlier and get rid
of keventd_up().
The patches were headed for the last merge cycle but got delayed due
to a bug found late minute, which is fixed now.
Also, to help debugging, destroy_workqueue() is more chatty now on a
sanity check failure."
* 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: move wq_numa_init() to workqueue_init()
workqueue: remove keventd_up()
debugobj, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
slab, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
power, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
tty, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
mce, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
workqueue: make workqueue available early during boot
workqueue: dump workqueue state on sanity check failures in destroy_workqueue()
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Drivers, or other modules, that use a mixture of objects (especially
objects embedded within other objects) would like to take advantage of
the debugobjects facilities to help catch misuse. Currently, the
debugobjects interface is only available to builtin drivers and requires
a set of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for use by modules.
I am using the debugobjects in i915.ko to try and catch some invalid
operations on embedded objects. The problem currently only presents
itself across module unload so forcing i915 to be builtin is not an
option.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161122143039.6433-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: "Du, Changbin" <changbin.du@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Now that workqueue can handle work item queueing from very early
during boot, there is no need to gate schedule_work() while
!keventd_up(). Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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callbacks
When activating a static object we need make sure that the object is
tracked in the object tracker. If it is a non-static object then the
activation is illegal.
In previous implementation, each subsystem need take care of this in
their fixup callbacks. Actually we can put it into debugobjects core.
Thus we can save duplicated code, and have *pure* fixup callbacks.
To achieve this, a new callback "is_static_object" is introduced to let
the type specific code decide whether a object is static or not. If
yes, we take it into object tracker, otherwise give warning and invoke
fixup callback.
This change has paassed debugobjects selftest, and I also do some test
with all debugobjects supports enabled.
At last, I have a concern about the fixups that can it change the object
which is in incorrect state on fixup? Because the 'addr' may not point
to any valid object if a non-static object is not tracked. Then Change
such object can overwrite someone's memory and cause unexpected
behaviour. For example, the timer_fixup_activate bind timer to function
stub_timer.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462576157-14539-1-git-send-email-changbin.du@intel.com
[changbin.du@intel.com: improve code comments where invoke the new is_static_object callback]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462777431-8171-1-git-send-email-changbin.du@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Du, Changbin <changbin.du@intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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If debug_object_fixup() return non-zero when problem has been fixed.
But the code got it backwards, it taks 0 as fixup successfully. So fix
it.
Signed-off-by: Du, Changbin <changbin.du@intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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I am going to introduce debugobjects infrastructure to USB subsystem.
But before this, I found the code of debugobjects could be improved.
This patchset will make fixup functions return bool type instead of int.
Because fixup only need report success or no. boolean is the 'real'
type.
This patch (of 7):
The object debugging infrastructure core provides some fixup callbacks
for the subsystem who use it. These callbacks are called from the debug
code whenever a problem in debug_object_init is detected. And
debugobjects core suppose them returns 1 when the fixup was successful,
otherwise 0. So the return type is boolean.
A bad thing is that debug_object_fixup use the return value for
arithmetic operation. It confused me that what is the reall return
type.
Reading over the whole code, I found some place do use the return value
incorrectly(see next patch). So why use bool type instead?
Signed-off-by: Du, Changbin <changbin.du@intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On my bigger s390 systems I always get "Out of memory.
ODEBUG disabled". Since the number of objects is needed at
compile time, we can not change the size dynamically before
the caches etc are available. Doubling the size seems to
do the trick. Since it is init data it will be freed anyway,
this should be ok.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453905478-13409-1-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Direct conversion of one KERN_DEBUG message without DEBUG definition
(suggested by Josh Triplett)
That message will now be disabled by default. (see
Documentation/CodingStyle Chapter 13)
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add ODEBUG: prefix to pr_fmt
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Convert all printk to pr_foo() except KERN_DEBUG (see
Documentation/CodingStyle Chapter 13)
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Remove unnecessary work pending test before calling schedule_work(). It
has been tested in queue_work_on() already. No functional changed.
Signed-off-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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In order to better respond to things like duplicate invocations
of call_rcu(), RCU needs to see the status of a call to
debug_object_activate(). This would allow RCU to leak the callback in
order to avoid adding freelist-reuse mischief to the duplicate invoations.
This commit therefore makes debug_object_activate() return status,
zero for success and -EINVAL for failure.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived
list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member)
The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter:
hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member)
Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only
they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking
exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate.
Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required:
- Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h
- Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones.
- A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this
was modified to use 'obj->member' instead.
- Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator
properly, so those had to be fixed up manually.
The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here:
@@
iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host;
type T;
expression a,c,d,e;
identifier b;
statement S;
@@
-T b;
<+... when != b
(
hlist_for_each_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_from(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_busy_worker(a, c,
- b,
d) S
|
ax25_uid_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
ax25_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sctp_for_each_hentry(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_from
-(a, b)
+(a)
S
+ sk_for_each_from(a) S
|
sk_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
sk_for_each_bound(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a,
- b,
c, d, e) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
nr_node_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_node_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S
|
for_each_host(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_host_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
for_each_mesh_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
)
...+>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes]
Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There was a return missed in 1fda107d44 "debugobjects: Remove unused
return value from fill_pool()". It makes gcc complain:
lib/debugobjects.c: In function ‘fill_pool’:
lib/debugobjects.c:98:4: warning: ‘return’ with a value, in
function returning void [enabled by default]
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120418112810.GA2669@elgon.mountain
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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No point in keeping interrupts disabled here.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
|
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
|
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debugobjects is now printing a warning when a fixup for a NOTAVAILABLE
object is run. This causes the selftest to fail like:
ODEBUG: selftest warnings failed 4 != 5
We could just increase the number of warnings that the selftest is
expecting to see because that is actually what has changed. But, it turns
out that fixup_activate() was written with inverted logic and thus a fixup
for a static object returned 1 indicating the object had been fixed, and 0
otherwise. Fix the logic to be correct and update the counts to reflect
that nothing needed fixing for a static object.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
|
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Calling del_timer_sync() on an uninitialized timer leads to a
never ending loop in lock_timer_base() that spins checking for a
non-NULL timer base. Add an assertion to debugobjects to catch
usage of uninitialized objects so that we can initialize timers
in the del_timer_sync() path before it calls lock_timer_base().
[ sboyd@codeaurora.org: Clarify commit message ]
Signed-off-by: Christine Chan <cschan@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1320724108-20788-3-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
|
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Make debugobjects use the return code from the fixup function. That
allows us better diagnostics in the activate check than relying on a
WARN_ON() in the object specific code.
[ tglx@linutronix.de: Split out the debugobjects vs. the timer change ]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Christine Chan <cschan@codeaurora.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1320724108-20788-2-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Order of initialization look like this:
...
debugobjects
kmemleak
...(lots of other subsystems)...
workqueues (through early initcall)
...
debugobjects use schedule_work for batch freeing of its data and kmemleak
heavily use debugobjects, so when it comes to freeing and workqueues were
not initialized yet, kernel crashes:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [<ffffffff810854d1>] __queue_work+0x29/0x41a
[<ffffffff81085910>] queue_work_on+0x16/0x1d
[<ffffffff81085abc>] queue_work+0x29/0x55
[<ffffffff81085afb>] schedule_work+0x13/0x15
[<ffffffff81242de1>] free_object+0x90/0x95
[<ffffffff81242f6d>] debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x187/0x1d3
[<ffffffff814b6504>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x30/0x4d
[<ffffffff8110bd14>] ? free_object_rcu+0x68/0x6d
[<ffffffff8110890c>] kmem_cache_free+0x64/0x12c
[<ffffffff8110bd14>] free_object_rcu+0x68/0x6d
[<ffffffff810b58bc>] __rcu_process_callbacks+0x1b6/0x2d9
...
because system_wq is NULL.
Fix it by checking if workqueues susbystem was initialized before using.
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110528112342.GA3068@joi.lan
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
|
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In complex subsystems like mac80211 structures can contain several
timers and work structs, so identifying a specific instance from the
call trace and object type output of debugobjects can be hard.
Allow the subsystems which support debugobjects to provide a hint
function. This function returns a pointer to a kernel address
(preferrably the objects callback function) which is printed along
with the debugobjects type.
Add hint methods for timer_list, work_struct and hrtimer.
[ tglx: Massaged changelog, made it compile ]
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110307085809.GA9334@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
|
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (24 commits)
rcu: remove all rcu head initializations, except on_stack initializations
rcu head introduce rcu head init on stack
Debugobjects transition check
rcu: fix build bug in RCU_FAST_NO_HZ builds
rcu: RCU_FAST_NO_HZ must check RCU dyntick state
rcu: make SRCU usable in modules
rcu: improve the RCU CPU-stall warning documentation
rcu: reduce the number of spurious RCU_SOFTIRQ invocations
rcu: permit discontiguous cpu_possible_mask CPU numbering
rcu: improve RCU CPU stall-warning messages
rcu: print boot-time console messages if RCU configs out of ordinary
rcu: disable CPU stall warnings upon panic
rcu: enable CPU_STALL_VERBOSE by default
rcu: slim down rcutiny by removing rcu_scheduler_active and friends
rcu: refactor RCU's context-switch handling
rcu: rename rcutiny rcu_ctrlblk to rcu_sched_ctrlblk
rcu: shrink rcutiny by making synchronize_rcu_bh() be inline
rcu: fix now-bogus rcu_scheduler_active comments.
rcu: Fix bogus CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING in comments to reflect reality.
rcu: ignore offline CPUs in last non-dyntick-idle CPU check
...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-debugobjects-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
debugobjects: Section mismatch cleanup
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Implement a basic state machine checker in the debugobjects.
This state machine checker detects races and inconsistencies within the "active"
life of a debugobject. The checker only keeps track of the current state; all
the state machine logic is kept at the object instance level.
The checker works by adding a supplementary "unsigned int astate" field to the
debug_obj structure. It keeps track of the current "active state" of the object.
The only constraints that are imposed on the states by the debugobjects system
is that:
- activation of an object sets the current active state to 0,
- deactivation of an object expects the current active state to be 0.
For the rest of the states, the state mapping is determined by the specific
object instance. Therefore, the logic keeping track of the state machine is
within the specialized instance, without any need to know about it at the
debugobject level.
The current object active state is changed by calling:
debug_object_active_state(addr, descr, expect, next)
where "expect" is the expected state and "next" is the next state to move to if
the expected state is found. A warning is generated if the expected is not
found.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org
CC: mingo@elte.hu
CC: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
CC: dipankar@in.ibm.com
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: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
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This patch marks two functions, which only get called at
initialization, as __init.
Here is also interesting, that modpost doesn't catch here the right
function name.
WARNING: lib/built-in.o(.text+0x585f): Section mismatch in reference
from the function T.506() to the variable .init.data:obj
The function T.506() references the variable __initdata obj.
This is often because T.506 lacks a __initdata annotation or the
annotation of obj is wrong.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
LKML-Reference: <1269632315-19403-1-git-send-email-henne@nachtwindheim.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
|
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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>
|
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After m68k's task_thread_info() doesn't refer to current,
it's possible to remove sched.h from interrupt.h and not break m68k!
Many thanks to Heiko Carstens for allowing this.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
|
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Impact: avoid recursive kfree calls, less slab activity on heavy load
debugobjects checks on kfree whether tracked objects are freed. When a
tracked object is freed debugobjects frees the internal reference
object as well. The debug object slab cache is marked to not recurse
into debugobjects when a slab objects is freed, but the recursive call
can be problematic versus locking in the memory allocator.
Defer the freeing of debug slab objects via schedule_work. The reasons
not to use RCU are:
1) rcu makes the data structure larger
2) there is no real need for rcu as nothing references the obj after
we freed it
3) under heavy load it is easier to reuse the to be freed objects instead
of allocating new objects from the slab. This lowered the slab activity
significantly in a heavy load networking test where lots of timers are
created/destroyed. The workqueue based delayed free allows us just to
put the to be freed objects back into the object pool and reuse them
right away.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <200903162049.58058.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
|
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Impact: refactor/consolidate object management, prepare for delayed free
debugobjects allocates static reference objects to track objects which
are initialized or activated before the slab cache becomes
available. These static reference objects have to be handled
seperately in free_object(). The handling of these objects is in the
way of implementing a delayed free functionality. The delayed free is
required to avoid callbacks into the mm code from
debug_check_no_obj_freed().
Replace the static object references with dynamic ones after the slab
cache has been initialized. The static objects are now marked initdata.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <200903162049.58058.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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While trying to debug why my Atom netbook is falling over booting
rawhide debug-enabled kernels, I stumbled across the fact that we've
been enabling object debugging by default. However, once you default it
to on, you've got no way to turn it back off again at runtime.
Add a boolean toggle to turn it off. I would just make it an int
module_param, however people may already expect the boolean enable
behaviour, so just add an analogue for disabling.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
|
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Impact: add .config driven boot parameter default value
Right now debugobjects can only be activated if the debug_objects
boot parameter is passed in via the boot command line.
Make this more convenient (and randomizable) by also providing
a .config method. Enable it by default. (DEBUG_OBJECTS itself
is default-off)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
|
|
Daniel J. Blueman reported:
> =======================================================
> [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> 2.6.27-rc4-224c #1
> -------------------------------------------------------
> hald/4680 is trying to acquire lock:
> (&n->list_lock){++..}, at: [<ffffffff802bfa26>] add_partial+0x26/0x80
>
> but task is already holding lock:
> (&obj_hash[i].lock){++..}, at: [<ffffffff8041cfdc>]
> debug_object_free+0x5c/0x120
We fix it by moving the actual freeing to outside the lock (the lock
now only protects the list).
The pool lock is also promoted to irq-safe (suggested by Dan). It's
necessary because free_pool is now called outside the irq disabled
region. So we need to protect against an interrupt handler which calls
debug_object_init().
[tglx@linutronix.de: added hlist_move_list helper to avoid looping
through the list twice]
Reported-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
|
|
Use WARN() instead of a printk+WARN_ON() pair; this way the message becomes
part of the warning section for better reporting/collection. In addition, one
of the if() clauses collapes into the WARN() entirely now.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
|
|
lib/debugobjects.c has a function to test if an object is on the stack.
The block layer and ide needs it (they need to avoid DMA from/to stack
buffers). This patch moves the function to include/linux/sched.h so that
everyone can use it.
lib/debugobjects.c uses current->stack but this patch uses a
task_stack_page() accessor, which is a preferable way to access the stack.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
|
|
Daniel J Blueman reported:
| =======================================================
| [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
| 2.6.26-rc5-201c #1
| -------------------------------------------------------
| nscd/3669 is trying to acquire lock:
| (&n->list_lock){.+..}, at: [<ffffffff802bab03>] deactivate_slab+0x173/0x1e0
|
| but task is already holding lock:
| (&obj_hash[i].lock){++..}, at: [<ffffffff803fa56f>]
| __debug_object_init+0x2f/0x350
|
| which lock already depends on the new lock.
There are two locks involved here; the first is a SLUB-local lock, and
the second is a debugobjects-local lock. They are basically taken in two
different orders:
1. SLUB { debugobjects { ... } }
2. debugobjects { SLUB { ... } }
This patch changes pattern #2 by trying to fill the memory pool (e.g.
the call into SLUB/kmalloc()) outside the debugobjects lock, so now the
two patterns look like this:
1. SLUB { debugobjects { ... } }
2. SLUB { } debugobjects { ... }
[ daniel.blueman@gmail.com: pool_lock needs to be taken irq safe in fill_pool ]
Reported-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
|
|
We can see an ever repeating problem pattern with objects of any kind in the
kernel:
1) freeing of active objects
2) reinitialization of active objects
Both problems can be hard to debug because the crash happens at a point where
we have no chance to decode the root cause anymore. One problem spot are
kernel timers, where the detection of the problem often happens in interrupt
context and usually causes the machine to panic.
While working on a timer related bug report I had to hack specialized code
into the timer subsystem to get a reasonable hint for the root cause. This
debug hack was fine for temporary use, but far from a mergeable solution due
to the intrusiveness into the timer code.
The code further lacked the ability to detect and report the root cause
instantly and keep the system operational.
Keeping the system operational is important to get hold of the debug
information without special debugging aids like serial consoles and special
knowledge of the bug reporter.
The problems described above are not restricted to timers, but timers tend to
expose it usually in a full system crash. Other objects are less explosive,
but the symptoms caused by such mistakes can be even harder to debug.
Instead of creating specialized debugging code for the timer subsystem a
generic infrastructure is created which allows developers to verify their code
and provides an easy to enable debug facility for users in case of trouble.
The debugobjects core code keeps track of operations on static and dynamic
objects by inserting them into a hashed list and sanity checking them on
object operations and provides additional checks whenever kernel memory is
freed.
The tracked object operations are:
- initializing an object
- adding an object to a subsystem list
- deleting an object from a subsystem list
Each operation is sanity checked before the operation is executed and the
subsystem specific code can provide a fixup function which allows to prevent
the damage of the operation. When the sanity check triggers a warning message
and a stack trace is printed.
The list of operations can be extended if the need arises. For now it's
limited to the requirements of the first user (timers).
The core code enqueues the objects into hash buckets. The hash index is
generated from the address of the object to simplify the lookup for the check
on kfree/vfree. Each bucket has it's own spinlock to avoid contention on a
global lock.
The debug code can be compiled in without being active. The runtime overhead
is minimal and could be optimized by asm alternatives. A kernel command line
option enables the debugging code.
Thanks to Ingo Molnar for review, suggestions and cleanup patches.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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