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  1. 20 Jun, 2007 15 commits
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  5. 18 Jun, 2007 7 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Fix possible runqueue lock starvation in wait_task_inactive() · fa490cfd
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Miklos Szeredi reported very long pauses (several seconds, sometimes
more) on his T60 (with a Core2Duo) which he managed to track down to
wait_task_inactive()'s open-coded busy-loop.

He observed that an interrupt on one core tries to acquire the
runqueue-lock but does not succeed in doing so for a very long time -
while wait_task_inactive() on the other core loops waiting for the first
core to deschedule a task (which it wont do while spinning in an
interrupt handler).

This rewrites wait_task_inactive() to do all its waiting optimistically
without any locks taken at all, and then just double-check the end
result with the proper runqueue lock held over just a very short
section.  If there were races in the optimistic wait, of a preemption
event scheduled the process away, we simply re-synchronize, and start
over.

So the code now looks like this:

	repeat:
		/* Unlocked, optimistic looping! */
		rq = task_rq(p);
		while (task_running(rq, p))
			cpu_relax();

		/* Get the *real* values */
		rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags);
		running = task_running(rq, p);
		array = p->array;
		task_rq_unlock(rq, &flags);

		/* Check them.. */
		if (unlikely(running)) {
			cpu_relax();
			goto repeat;
		}

		/* Preempted away? Yield if so.. */
		if (unlikely(array)) {
			yield();
			goto repeat;
		}

Basically, that first "while()" loop is done entirely without any
locking at all (and doesn't check for the case where the target process
might have been preempted away), and so it's possibly "incorrect", but
we don't really care.  Both the runqueue used, and the "task_running()"
check might be the wrong tests, but they won't oops - they just mean
that we could possibly get the wrong results due to lack of locking and
exit the loop early in the case of a race condition.

So once we've exited the loop, we then get the proper (and careful) rq
lock, and check the running/runnable state _safely_.  And if it turns
out that our quick-and-dirty and unsafe loop was wrong after all, we
just go back and try it all again.

(The patch also adds a lot of comments, which is the actual bulk of it
all, to make it more obvious why we can do these things without holding
the locks).

Thanks to Miklos for all the testing and tracking it down.
Tested-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      fa490cfd
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      sched: fix SysRq-N (normalize RT tasks) · a0f98a1c
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      Gene Heskett reported the following problem while testing CFS: SysRq-N
is not always effective in normalizing tasks back to SCHED_OTHER.

The reason for that turns out to be the following bug:

 - normalize_rt_tasks() uses for_each_process() to iterate through all
   tasks in the system.  The problem is, this method does not iterate
   through all tasks, it iterates through all thread groups.

The proper mechanism to enumerate over all threads is to use a
do_each_thread() + while_each_thread() loop.
Reported-by: default avatarGene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a0f98a1c
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6 · 4cc21505
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6:
  [SCSI] ESP: Don't forget to clear ESP_FLAG_RESETTING.
  [SCSI] fusion: fix for BZ 8426 - massive slowdown on SCSI CD/DVD drive
      4cc21505
    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
      Fix signalfd interaction with thread-private signals · caec4e8d
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored 
      Don't let signalfd dequeue private signals off other threads (in the
case of things like SIGILL or SIGSEGV, trying to do so would result
in undefined behaviour on who actually gets the signal, since they
are force unblocked).
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: default avatarDavide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      caec4e8d
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      Revert "futex_requeue_pi optimization" · bd197234
      Thomas Gleixner authored 
      This reverts commit d0aa7a70.

It not only introduced user space visible changes to the futex syscall,
it is also non-functional and there is no way to fix it proper before
the 2.6.22 release.

The breakage report ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/12/17 ) went
unanswered, and unfortunately it turned out that the concept is not
feasible at all.  It violates the rtmutex semantics badly by introducing
a virtual owner, which hacks around the coupling of the user-space
pi_futex and the kernel internal rt_mutex representation.

At the moment the only safe option is to remove it fully as it contains
user-space visible changes to broken kernel code, which we do not want
to expose in the 2.6.22 release.

The patch reverts the original patch mostly 1:1, but contains a couple
of trivial manual cleanups which were necessary due to patches, which
touched the same area of code later.

Verified against the glibc tests and my own PI futex tests.
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: default avatarUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      bd197234
    • Paul Mundt's avatar
      sh: oops_enter()/oops_exit() in die(). · 55273982
      Paul Mundt authored 
      As Russell helpfully pointed out on linux-arch:

	http://marc.info/?l=linux-arch&m=118208089204630&w=2

We were missing the oops_enter/exit() in the sh die() implementation.
As we do support lockdep, it's beneficial to add these calls so lockdep
properly disables itself in the die() case.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      55273982
    • Kaz Kojima's avatar
      sh: Fix restartable syscall arg5 clobbering. · 69a33147
      Kaz Kojima authored 
      We use R0 as the 5th argument of syscall.  When the syscall restarts
after signal handling, we should restore the old value of R0.
The attached patch does it. Without this patch, I've experienced random
failures in the situation which signals are issued frequently.
Signed-off-by: default avatarKaz Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      69a33147
  7. 17 Jun, 2007 1 commit
  9. 16 Jun, 2007 1 commit
    • Eric W. Biederman's avatar
      shm: fix the filename of hugetlb sysv shared memory · 9d66586f
      Eric W. Biederman authored 
      Some user space tools need to identify SYSV shared memory when examining
/proc/<pid>/maps.  To do so they look for a block device with major zero, a
dentry named SYSV<sysv key>, and having the minor of the internal sysv
shared memory kernel mount.

To help these tools and to make it easier for people just browsing
/proc/<pid>/maps this patch modifies hugetlb sysv shared memory to use the
SYSV<key> dentry naming convention.

User space tools will still have to be aware that hugetlb sysv shared
memory lives on a different internal kernel mount and so has a different
block device minor number from the rest of sysv shared memory.
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      9d66586f
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