1. 21 Jun, 2007 2 commits
    • Michael S. Tsirkin's avatar
      IPoIB/cm: Initialize RX before moving QP to RTR · 3ec7393a
      Michael S. Tsirkin authored
      Fix a crasher bug in IPoIB CM: once a QP is in the RTR state, a
      receive completion (or even an asynchronous error) might be observed
      on this QP, so we have to initialize all of our receive data
      structures before moving to the RTR state.
      
      As an optimization (since modify_qp might take a long time), the
      jiffies update done when moving RX to the passive_ids list is also
      left in place to reduce the chance of the RX being misdetected as
      stale.
      
      This fixes bug <https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662>.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
      3ec7393a
    • Roland Dreier's avatar
      IB/umem: Fix possible hang on process exit · 24bce508
      Roland Dreier authored
      If ib_umem_release() is called after ib_uverbs_close() sets context->closing,
      then a process can get stuck in a D state, because the code boils down to
      
      	if (down_write_trylock(&mm->mmap_sem))
      		down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
      
      which is obviously a stupid instant deadlock.  Fix the code so that we
      only try to take the lock once.
      
      This bug was introduced in commit f7c6a7b5 ("IB/uverbs: Export
      ib_umem_get()/ib_umem_release() to modules") which fortunately never
      made it into a release, and was reported by Pete Wyckoff <pw@osc.edu>.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
      24bce508
  2. 20 Jun, 2007 18 commits
  3. 19 Jun, 2007 16 commits
  4. 18 Jun, 2007 4 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