1. 22 Jul, 2011 13 commits
  2. 21 Jul, 2011 9 commits
  3. 20 Jul, 2011 18 commits
    • Dave Chinner's avatar
      xfs: add size update tracepoint to IO completion · 55fb25d5
      Dave Chinner authored
      For improving insight into IO completion behaviour.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
      55fb25d5
    • Dave Chinner's avatar
      xfs: convert AIL cursors to use struct list_head · af3e4022
      Dave Chinner authored
      The list of active AIL cursors uses a roll-your-own linked list with
      special casing for the AIL push cursor. Simplify this code by
      replacing the list with standard struct list_head lists, and use a
      separate list_head to track the active cursors. This allows us to
      treat the AIL push cursor as a generic cursor rather than as a
      special case, further simplifying the code.
      
      Further, fix the duplicate push cursor initialisation that the
      special case handling was hiding, and clean up all the comments
      around the active cursor list handling.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
      af3e4022
    • Dave Chinner's avatar
      xfs: remove confusing ail cursor wrapper · 16b59029
      Dave Chinner authored
      xfs_trans_ail_cursor_set() doesn't set the cursor to the current log
      item, it sets it to the next item. There is already a function for
      doing this - xfs_trans_ail_cursor_next() - and the _set function is
      simply a two line wrapper.  Remove it and open code the setting of
      the cursor in the two locations that call it to remove the
      confusion.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
      16b59029
    • Dave Chinner's avatar
      xfs: use a cursor for bulk AIL insertion · 1d8c95a3
      Dave Chinner authored
      Delayed logging can insert tens of thousands of log items into the
      AIL at the same LSN. When the committing of log commit records
      occur, we can get insertions occurring at an LSN that is not at the
      end of the AIL. If there are thousands of items in the AIL on the
      tail LSN, each insertion has to walk the AIL to find the correct
      place to insert the new item into the AIL. This can consume large
      amounts of CPU time and block other operations from occurring while
      the traversals are in progress.
      
      To avoid this repeated walk, use a AIL cursor to record
      where we should be inserting the new items into the AIL without
      having to repeat the walk. The cursor infrastructure already
      provides this functionality for push walks, so is a simple extension
      of existing code. While this will not avoid the initial walk, it
      will avoid repeating it tens of thousands of times during a single
      checkpoint commit.
      
      This version includes logic improvements from Christoph Hellwig.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
      1d8c95a3
    • J. Bruce Fields's avatar
      xfs: failure mapping nfs fh to inode should return ESTALE · ad1a2c87
      J. Bruce Fields authored
      On xfs exports, nfsd is incorrectly returning ENOENT instead of
      ESTALE on attempts to use a filehandle of a deleted file (spotted
      with pynfs test PUTFH3).  The ENOENT was coming from xfs_iget.
      
      (It's tempting to wonder whether we should just map all xfs_iget
      errors to ESTALE, but I don't believe so--xfs_iget can also return
      ENOMEM at least, which we wouldn't want mapped to ESTALE.)
      
      While we're at it, the other return of ENOENT in xfs_nfs_get_inode()
      also looks wrong.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
      ad1a2c87
    • Chandra Seetharaman's avatar
      xfs: Remove the second parameter to xfs_sb_count() · adab0f67
      Chandra Seetharaman authored
      Remove the second parameter to xfs_sb_count() since all callers of
      the function set them.
      
      Also, fix the header comment regarding it being called periodically.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
      adab0f67
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of... · cf6ace16
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
      
      * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
        signal: align __lock_task_sighand() irq disabling and RCU
        softirq,rcu: Inform RCU of irq_exit() activity
        sched: Add irq_{enter,exit}() to scheduler_ipi()
        rcu: protect __rcu_read_unlock() against scheduler-using irq handlers
        rcu: Streamline code produced by __rcu_read_unlock()
        rcu: Fix RCU_BOOST race handling current->rcu_read_unlock_special
        rcu: decrease rcu_report_exp_rnp coupling with scheduler
      cf6ace16
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of... · acc11eab
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
      
      * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
        sched: Avoid creating superfluous NUMA domains on non-NUMA systems
        sched: Allow for overlapping sched_domain spans
        sched: Break out cpu_power from the sched_group structure
      acc11eab
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of... · 919d25a7
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
      
      * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
        x86. reboot: Make Dell Latitude E6320 use reboot=pci
        x86, doc only: Correct real-mode kernel header offset for init_size
        x86: Disable AMD_NUMA for 32bit for now
      919d25a7
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      Merge branch 'rcu/urgent' of... · d1e9ae47
      Ingo Molnar authored
      Merge branch 'rcu/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu into core/urgent
      d1e9ae47
    • Paul E. McKenney's avatar
      signal: align __lock_task_sighand() irq disabling and RCU · a841796f
      Paul E. McKenney authored
      The __lock_task_sighand() function calls rcu_read_lock() with interrupts
      and preemption enabled, but later calls rcu_read_unlock() with interrupts
      disabled.  It is therefore possible that this RCU read-side critical
      section will be preempted and later RCU priority boosted, which means that
      rcu_read_unlock() will call rt_mutex_unlock() in order to deboost itself, but
      with interrupts disabled. This results in lockdep splats, so this commit
      nests the RCU read-side critical section within the interrupt-disabled
      region of code.  This prevents the RCU read-side critical section from
      being preempted, and thus prevents the attempt to deboost with interrupts
      disabled.
      
      It is quite possible that a better long-term fix is to make rt_mutex_unlock()
      disable irqs when acquiring the rt_mutex structure's ->wait_lock.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      a841796f
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      softirq,rcu: Inform RCU of irq_exit() activity · ec433f0c
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      The rcu_read_unlock_special() function relies on in_irq() to exclude
      scheduler activity from interrupt level.  This fails because exit_irq()
      can invoke the scheduler after clearing the preempt_count() bits that
      in_irq() uses to determine that it is at interrupt level.  This situation
      can result in failures as follows:
      
       $task			IRQ		SoftIRQ
      
       rcu_read_lock()
      
       /* do stuff */
      
       <preempt> |= UNLOCK_BLOCKED
      
       rcu_read_unlock()
         --t->rcu_read_lock_nesting
      
      			irq_enter();
      			/* do stuff, don't use RCU */
      			irq_exit();
      			  sub_preempt_count(IRQ_EXIT_OFFSET);
      			  invoke_softirq()
      
      					ttwu();
      					  spin_lock_irq(&pi->lock)
      					  rcu_read_lock();
      					  /* do stuff */
      					  rcu_read_unlock();
      					    rcu_read_unlock_special()
      					      rcu_report_exp_rnp()
      					        ttwu()
      					          spin_lock_irq(&pi->lock) /* deadlock */
      
         rcu_read_unlock_special(t);
      
      Ed can simply trigger this 'easy' because invoke_softirq() immediately
      does a ttwu() of ksoftirqd/# instead of doing the in-place softirq stuff
      first, but even without that the above happens.
      
      Cure this by also excluding softirqs from the
      rcu_read_unlock_special() handler and ensuring the force_irqthreads
      ksoftirqd/# wakeup is done from full softirq context.
      
      [ Alternatively, delaying the ->rcu_read_lock_nesting decrement
        until after the special handling would make the thing more robust
        in the face of interrupts as well.  And there is a separate patch
        for that. ]
      
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarEd Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      ec433f0c
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      sched: Add irq_{enter,exit}() to scheduler_ipi() · c5d753a5
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      Ensure scheduler_ipi() calls irq_{enter,exit} when it does some actual
      work. Traditionally we never did any actual work from the resched IPI
      and all magic happened in the return from interrupt path.
      
      Now that we do do some work, we need to ensure irq_{enter,exit} are
      called so that we don't confuse things.
      
      This affects things like timekeeping, NO_HZ and RCU, basically
      everything with a hook in irq_enter/exit.
      
      Explicit examples of things going wrong are:
      
        sched_clock_cpu() -- has a callback when leaving NO_HZ state to take
                          a new reading from GTOD and TSC. Without this
                          callback, time is stuck in the past.
      
        RCU -- needs in_irq() to work in order to avoid some nasty deadlocks
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      c5d753a5
    • Paul E. McKenney's avatar
      rcu: protect __rcu_read_unlock() against scheduler-using irq handlers · 10f39bb1
      Paul E. McKenney authored
      The addition of RCU read-side critical sections within runqueue and
      priority-inheritance lock critical sections introduced some deadlock
      cycles, for example, involving interrupts from __rcu_read_unlock()
      where the interrupt handlers call wake_up().  This situation can cause
      the instance of __rcu_read_unlock() invoked from interrupt to do some
      of the processing that would otherwise have been carried out by the
      task-level instance of __rcu_read_unlock().  When the interrupt-level
      instance of __rcu_read_unlock() is called with a scheduler lock held
      from interrupt-entry/exit situations where in_irq() returns false,
      deadlock can result.
      
      This commit resolves these deadlocks by using negative values of
      the per-task ->rcu_read_lock_nesting counter to indicate that an
      instance of __rcu_read_unlock() is in flight, which in turn prevents
      instances from interrupt handlers from doing any special processing.
      This patch is inspired by Steven Rostedt's earlier patch that similarly
      made __rcu_read_unlock() guard against interrupt-mediated recursion
      (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/15/326), but this commit refines
      Steven's approach to avoid the need for preemption disabling on the
      __rcu_read_unlock() fastpath and to also avoid the need for manipulating
      a separate per-CPU variable.
      
      This patch avoids need for preempt_disable() by instead using negative
      values of the per-task ->rcu_read_lock_nesting counter.  Note that nested
      rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pairs are still permitted, but they will
      never see ->rcu_read_lock_nesting go to zero, and will therefore never
      invoke rcu_read_unlock_special(), thus preventing them from seeing the
      RCU_READ_UNLOCK_BLOCKED bit should it be set in ->rcu_read_unlock_special.
      This patch also adds a check for ->rcu_read_unlock_special being negative
      in rcu_check_callbacks(), thus preventing the RCU_READ_UNLOCK_NEED_QS
      bit from being set should a scheduling-clock interrupt occur while
      __rcu_read_unlock() is exiting from an outermost RCU read-side critical
      section.
      
      Of course, __rcu_read_unlock() can be preempted during the time that
      ->rcu_read_lock_nesting is negative.  This could result in the setting
      of the RCU_READ_UNLOCK_BLOCKED bit after __rcu_read_unlock() checks it,
      and would also result it this task being queued on the corresponding
      rcu_node structure's blkd_tasks list.  Therefore, some later RCU read-side
      critical section would enter rcu_read_unlock_special() to clean up --
      which could result in deadlock if that critical section happened to be in
      the scheduler where the runqueue or priority-inheritance locks were held.
      
      This situation is dealt with by making rcu_preempt_note_context_switch()
      check for negative ->rcu_read_lock_nesting, thus refraining from
      queuing the task (and from setting RCU_READ_UNLOCK_BLOCKED) if we are
      already exiting from the outermost RCU read-side critical section (in
      other words, we really are no longer actually in that RCU read-side
      critical section).  In addition, rcu_preempt_note_context_switch()
      invokes rcu_read_unlock_special() to carry out the cleanup in this case,
      which clears out the ->rcu_read_unlock_special bits and dequeues the task
      (if necessary), in turn avoiding needless delay of the current RCU grace
      period and needless RCU priority boosting.
      
      It is still illegal to call rcu_read_unlock() while holding a scheduler
      lock if the prior RCU read-side critical section has ever had either
      preemption or irqs enabled.  However, the common use case is legal,
      namely where then entire RCU read-side critical section executes with
      irqs disabled, for example, when the scheduler lock is held across the
      entire lifetime of the RCU read-side critical section.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      10f39bb1
    • Eric Dumazet's avatar
      slab: shrink sizeof(struct kmem_cache) · b56efcf0
      Eric Dumazet authored
      Reduce high order allocations for some setups.
      (NR_CPUS=4096 -> we need 64KB per kmem_cache struct)
      
      We now allocate exact needed size (using nr_cpu_ids and nr_node_ids)
      
      This also makes code a bit smaller on x86_64, since some field offsets
      are less than the 127 limit :
      
      Before patch :
      # size mm/slab.o
         text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
        22605  361665      32  384302   5dd2e mm/slab.o
      
      After patch :
      # size mm/slab.o
         text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
        22349	 353473	   8224	 384046	  5dc2e	mm/slab.o
      
      CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Reported-by: default avatarKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
      b56efcf0
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      sched: Avoid creating superfluous NUMA domains on non-NUMA systems · d110235d
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      When creating sched_domains, stop when we've covered the entire
      target span instead of continuing to create domains, only to
      later find they're redundant and throw them away again.
      
      This avoids single node systems from touching funny NUMA
      sched_domain creation code and reduces the risks of the new
      SD_OVERLAP code.
      Requested-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
      Cc: mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com
      Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
      Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1311180177.29152.57.camel@twinsSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      d110235d
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      sched: Allow for overlapping sched_domain spans · e3589f6c
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      Allow for sched_domain spans that overlap by giving such domains their
      own sched_group list instead of sharing the sched_groups amongst
      each-other.
      
      This is needed for machines with more than 16 nodes, because
      sched_domain_node_span() will generate a node mask from the
      16 nearest nodes without regard if these masks have any overlap.
      
      Currently sched_domains have a sched_group that maps to their child
      sched_domain span, and since there is no overlap we share the
      sched_group between the sched_domains of the various CPUs. If however
      there is overlap, we would need to link the sched_group list in
      different ways for each cpu, and hence sharing isn't possible.
      
      In order to solve this, allocate private sched_groups for each CPU's
      sched_domain but have the sched_groups share a sched_group_power
      structure such that we can uniquely track the power.
      Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-08bxqw9wis3qti9u5inifh3y@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      e3589f6c
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      sched: Break out cpu_power from the sched_group structure · 9c3f75cb
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      In order to prepare for non-unique sched_groups per domain, we need to
      carry the cpu_power elsewhere, so put a level of indirection in.
      Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qkho2byuhe4482fuknss40ad@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      9c3f75cb