26 Jan, 2008
18 commits
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Replace all lock_cpu_hotplug/unlock_cpu_hotplug from the kernel and use
get_online_cpus and put_online_cpus instead as it highlights the
refcount semantics in these operations.The new API guarantees protection against the cpu-hotplug operation, but
it doesn't guarantee serialized access to any of the local data
structures. Hence the changes needs to be reviewed.In case of pseries_add_processor/pseries_remove_processor, use
cpu_maps_update_begin()/cpu_maps_update_done() as we're modifying the
cpu_present_map there.Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
This patch implements a Refcount + Waitqueue based model for
cpu-hotplug.Now, a thread which wants to prevent cpu-hotplug, will bump up a global
refcount and the thread which wants to perform a cpu-hotplug operation
will block till the global refcount goes to zero.The readers, if any, during an ongoing cpu-hotplug operation are blocked
until the cpu-hotplug operation is over.Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson [For !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
The current load balancing scheme isn't good enough for precise
group fairness.For example: on a 8-cpu system, I created 3 groups as under:
a = 8 tasks (cpu.shares = 1024)
b = 4 tasks (cpu.shares = 1024)
c = 3 tasks (cpu.shares = 1024)a, b and c are task groups that have equal weight. We would expect each
of the groups to receive 33.33% of cpu bandwidth under a fair scheduler.This is what I get with the latest scheduler git tree:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
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Col1 | Col2 | Col3 | Col4
------|---------|-------|-------------------------------------------------------
a | 277.676 | 57.8% | 54.1% 54.1% 54.1% 54.2% 56.7% 62.2% 62.8% 64.5%
b | 116.108 | 24.2% | 47.4% 48.1% 48.7% 49.3%
c | 86.326 | 18.0% | 47.5% 47.9% 48.5%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Explanation of o/p:
Col1 -> Group name
Col2 -> Cumulative execution time (in seconds) received by all tasks of that
group in a 60sec window across 8 cpus
Col3 -> CPU bandwidth received by the group in the 60sec window, expressed in
percentage. Col3 data is derived as:
Col3 = 100 * Col2 / (NR_CPUS * 60)
Col4 -> CPU bandwidth received by each individual task of the group.
Col4 = 100 * cpu_time_recd_by_task / 60[I can share the test case that produces a similar o/p if reqd]
The deviation from desired group fairness is as below:
a = +24.47%
b = -9.13%
c = -15.33%which is quite high.
After the patch below is applied, here are the results:
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Col1 | Col2 | Col3 | Col4
------|---------|-------|-------------------------------------------------------
a | 163.112 | 34.0% | 33.2% 33.4% 33.5% 33.5% 33.7% 34.4% 34.8% 35.3%
b | 156.220 | 32.5% | 63.3% 64.5% 66.1% 66.5%
c | 160.653 | 33.5% | 85.8% 90.6% 91.4%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Deviation from desired group fairness is as below:
a = +0.67%
b = -0.83%
c = +0.17%which is far better IMO. Most of other runs have yielded a deviation within
+-2% at the most, which is good.Why do we see bad (group) fairness with current scheuler?
=========================================================Currently cpu's weight is just the summation of individual task weights.
This can yield incorrect results. For ex: consider three groups as below
on a 2-cpu system:CPU0 CPU1
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A (10) B(5)
C(5)
---------------------------Group A has 10 tasks, all on CPU0, Group B and C have 5 tasks each all
of which are on CPU1. Each task has the same weight (NICE_0_LOAD =
1024).The current scheme would yield a cpu weight of 10240 (10*1024) for each cpu and
the load balancer will think both CPUs are perfectly balanced and won't
move around any tasks. This, however, would yield this bandwidth:A = 50%
B = 25%
C = 25%which is not the desired result.
What's changing in the patch?
=============================- How cpu weights are calculated when CONFIF_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is
defined (see below)
- API Change
- Two tunables introduced in sysfs (under SCHED_DEBUG) to
control the frequency at which the load balance monitor
thread runs.The basic change made in this patch is how cpu weight (rq->load.weight) is
calculated. Its now calculated as the summation of group weights on a cpu,
rather than summation of task weights. Weight exerted by a group on a
cpu is dependent on the shares allocated to it and also the number of
tasks the group has on that cpu compared to the total number of
(runnable) tasks the group has in the system.Let,
W(K,i) = Weight of group K on cpu i
T(K,i) = Task load present in group K's cfs_rq on cpu i
T(K) = Total task load of group K across various cpus
S(K) = Shares allocated to group K
NRCPUS = Number of online cpus in the scheduler domain to
which group K is assigned.Then,
W(K,i) = S(K) * NRCPUS * T(K,i) / T(K)A load balance monitor thread is created at bootup, which periodically
runs and adjusts group's weight on each cpu. To avoid its overhead, two
min/max tunables are introduced (under SCHED_DEBUG) to control the rate
at which it runs.Fixes from: Peter Zijlstra
- don't start the load_balance_monitor when there is only a single cpu.
- rename the kthread because its currently longer than TASK_COMM_LENSigned-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
doms_cur[] array represents various scheduling domains which are
mutually exclusive. Currently cpusets code can modify this array (by
calling partition_sched_domains()) as a result of user modifying
sched_load_balance flag for various cpusets.This patch introduces a mutex and corresponding API (only when
CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is defined) which allows a reader to safely read
the doms_cur[] array w/o worrying abt concurrent modifications to the
array.The fair group scheduler code (introduced in next patch of this series)
makes use of this mutex to walk thr' doms_cur[] array while rebalancing
shares of task groups across cpus.Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
This patch changes how the cpu load exerted by fair_sched_class tasks
is calculated. Load exerted by fair_sched_class tasks on a cpu is now
a summation of the group weights, rather than summation of task weights.
Weight exerted by a group on a cpu is dependent on the shares allocated
to it.This version of patch has a minor impact on code size, but should have
no runtime/functional impact for !CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED.Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Minor bug fixes for the group scheduler:
- Use a mutex to serialize add/remove of task groups and also when
changing shares of a task group. Use the same mutex when printing
cfs_rq debugging stats for various task groups.- Use list_for_each_entry_rcu in for_each_leaf_cfs_rq macro (when
walking task group list)Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Minor cleanups:
- Fix coding style
- remove obsolete commentSigned-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
remove remaining printk_clock references from ia64.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
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printk_clock() is obsolete - it has been replaced with cpu_clock().
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
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Stefano Brivio reported weird printk timestamp behavior during
CPU frequency changes:http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9475
fix CONFIG_PRINT_TIME's reliance on sched_clock() and use cpu_clock()
instead.Reported-and-bisected-by: Stefano Brivio
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
make printk more robust by allowing recursion only if there's a crash
going on. Also add recursion detection.I've tested it with an artificially injected printk recursion - instead
of a lockup or spontaneous reboot or other crash, the output was a well
controlled:[ 41.057335] SysRq : BUG: recent printk recursion!
[ 41.057335] loglevel0-8 reBoot Crashdump show-all-locks(D) tErm Full kIll saK showMem Nice powerOff showPc show-all-timers(Q) unRaw Sync showTasks Unmount shoW-blocked-tasksalso do all this printk-debug logic with irqs disabled.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Reviewed-by: Nick Piggin -
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6:
selinux: make mls_compute_sid always polyinstantiate
security/selinux: constify function pointer tables and fields
security: add a secctx_to_secid() hook
security: call security_file_permission from rw_verify_area
security: remove security_sb_post_mountroot hook
Security: remove security.h include from mm.h
Security: remove security_file_mmap hook sparse-warnings (NULL as 0).
Security: add get, set, and cloning of superblock security information
security/selinux: Add missing "space" -
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6:
[AVR32] extint: Set initial irq type to low level
[AVR32] extint: change set_irq_type() handling
[AVR32] NMI debugging
[AVR32] constify function pointer tables
[AVR32] ATNGW100: Update defconfig
[AVR32] ATSTK1002: Update defconfig
[AVR32] Kconfig: Choose daughterboard instead of CPU
[AVR32] Add support for ATSTK1003 and ATSTK1004
[AVR32] Clean up external DAC setup code
[AVR32] ATSTK1000: Move gpio-leds setup to setup.c
[AVR32] Add support for AT32AP7001 and AT32AP7002
[AVR32] Provide more CPU information in /proc/cpuinfo and dmesg
[AVR32] Oprofile support
[AVR32] Include instrumentation menu
Disable VGA text console for AVR32 architecture
[AVR32] Enable debugging only when needed
ptrace: Call arch_ptrace_attach() when request=PTRACE_TRACEME
[AVR32] Remove redundant try_to_freeze() call from do_signal()
[AVR32] Drop GFP_COMP for DMA memory allocations -
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw: (56 commits)
[GFS2] Allow journal recovery on read-only mount
[GFS2] Lockup on error
[GFS2] Fix page_mkwrite truncation race path
[GFS2] Fix typo
[GFS2] Fix write alloc required shortcut calculation
[GFS2] gfs2_alloc_required performance
[GFS2] Remove unneeded i_spin
[GFS2] Reduce inode size by moving i_alloc out of line
[GFS2] Fix assert in log code
[GFS2] Fix problems relating to execution of files on GFS2
[GFS2] Initialize extent_list earlier
[GFS2] Allow page migration for writeback and ordered pages
[GFS2] Remove unused variable
[GFS2] Fix log block mapper
[GFS2] Minor correction
[GFS2] Eliminate the no longer needed sd_statfs_mutex
[GFS2] Incremental patch to fix compiler warning
[GFS2] Function meta_read optimization
[GFS2] Only fetch the dinode once in block_map
[GFS2] Reorganize function gfs2_glmutex_lock
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (125 commits)
[CRYPTO] twofish: Merge common glue code
[CRYPTO] hifn_795x: Fixup container_of() usage
[CRYPTO] cast6: inline bloat--
[CRYPTO] api: Set default CRYPTO_MINALIGN to unsigned long long
[CRYPTO] tcrypt: Make xcbc available as a standalone test
[CRYPTO] xcbc: Remove bogus hash/cipher test
[CRYPTO] xcbc: Fix algorithm leak when block size check fails
[CRYPTO] tcrypt: Zero axbuf in the right function
[CRYPTO] padlock: Only reset the key once for each CBC and ECB operation
[CRYPTO] api: Include sched.h for cond_resched in scatterwalk.h
[CRYPTO] salsa20-asm: Remove unnecessary dependency on CRYPTO_SALSA20
[CRYPTO] tcrypt: Add select of AEAD
[CRYPTO] salsa20: Add x86-64 assembly version
[CRYPTO] salsa20_i586: Salsa20 stream cipher algorithm (i586 version)
[CRYPTO] gcm: Introduce rfc4106
[CRYPTO] api: Show async type
[CRYPTO] chainiv: Avoid lock spinning where possible
[CRYPTO] seqiv: Add select AEAD in Kconfig
[CRYPTO] scatterwalk: Handle zero nbytes in scatterwalk_map_and_copy
[CRYPTO] null: Allow setkey on digest_null
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This can be broken down into these major areas:
- Documentation updates (language translations and fixes, as
well as kobject and kset documenatation updates.)
- major kset/kobject/ktype rework and fixes. This cleans up the
kset and kobject and ktype relationship and architecture,
making sense of things now, and good documenation and samples
are provided for others to use. Also the attributes for
kobjects are much easier to handle now. This cleaned up a LOT
of code all through the kernel, making kobjects easier to use
if you want to.
- struct bus_type has been reworked to now handle the lifetime
rules properly, as the kobject is properly dynamic.
- struct driver has also been reworked, and now the lifetime
issues are resolved.
- the block subsystem has been converted to use struct device
now, and not "raw" kobjects. This patch has been in the -mm
tree for over a year now, and finally all the issues are
worked out with it. Older distros now properly work with new
kernels, and no userspace updates are needed at all.
- nozomi driver is added. This has also been in -mm for a long
time, and many people have asked for it to go in. It is now
in good enough shape to do so.
- lots of class_device conversions to use struct device instead.
The tree is almost all cleaned up now, only SCSI and IB is the
remaining code to fix up...* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (196 commits)
Driver core: coding style fixes
Kobject: fix coding style issues in kobject c files
Kobject: fix coding style issues in kobject.h
Driver core: fix coding style issues in device.h
spi: use class iteration api
scsi: use class iteration api
rtc: use class iteration api
power supply : use class iteration api
ieee1394: use class iteration api
Driver Core: add class iteration api
Driver core: Cleanup get_device_parent() in device_add() and device_move()
UIO: constify function pointer tables
Driver Core: constify the name passed to platform_device_register_simple
driver core: fix build with SYSFS=n
sysfs: make SYSFS_DEPRECATED depend on SYSFS
Driver core: use LIST_HEAD instead of call to INIT_LIST_HEAD in __init
kobject: add sample code for how to use ksets/ktypes/kobjects
kobject: add sample code for how to use kobjects in a simple manner.
kobject: update the kobject/kset documentation
kobject: remove old, outdated documentation.
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If the node we're booting on doesn't have memory, bootstrapping kmalloc()
caches resorts to fallback_alloc() which requires ->nodelists set for all
nodes. Fix that by calling set_up_list3s() for CACHE_CACHE in
kmem_cache_init().As kmem_getpages() is called with GFP_THISNODE set, this used to work before
because of breakage in 2.6.22 and before with GFP_THISNODE returning pages from
the wrong node if a node had no memory. So it may have worked accidentally and
in an unsafe manner because the pages would have been associated with the wrong
node which could trigger bug ons and locking troubles.Tested-by: Mel Gorman
Tested-by: Olaf Hering
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg
[ With additional one-liner by Olaf Hering - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Fix overwriting the stack with the version string
(it is currently 10 bytes + zero) when unloading the
capidrv module. Safeguard against overwriting it
should the version string grow in the future.Should fix Kernel Bug Tracker Bug 9696.
Signed-off-by: Gerd v. Egidy
Acked-by: Karsten Keil
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 Jan, 2008
22 commits
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This patch allows gfs2 to perform journal recovery even if it is mounted
read-only. Strictly speaking, a read-only mount should not be writing to
the filesystem, but we do this only to perform journal recovery. A
read-only mount will fail if we don't recover the dirty journal. Also,
when gfs2 is used as a root filesystem, it will be mounted read-only
before being mounted read-write during the boot sequence. A failed
read-only mount will panic the machine during bootup.Signed-off-by: Abhijith Das
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse -
I spotted this bug while I was digging around. Looks like it could cause
a lockup in some rare error condition.Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse -
There was a bug in the truncation/invalidation race path for
->page_mkwrite for gfs2. It ought to return 0 so that the effect is the
same as if the page was truncated at any of the other points at which
the page_lock is dropped. This will result in the restart of the whole
page fault path. If it was due to a real truncation (as opposed to an
invalidate because we let a glock go) then the ->fault path will pick
that up when it gets called again.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
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This patch fixes a minor typo. Surprisingly, it still compiled.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse -
The comparison was being made against the wrong quantity.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
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This is a small I/O performance enhancement to gfs2. (Actually, it is a rework of
an earlier version I got wrong). The idea here is to check if the write extends
past the last block in the file. If so, the function can save itself a lot of
time and trouble because it knows an allocate will be required. Benchmarks like
iozone should see better performance.Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse -
This patch removes a vestigial variable "i_spin" from the gfs2_inode
structure. This not only saves us memory (>300000 of these in memory
for the oom test) it also saves us time because we don't have to
spend time initializing it (i.e. slightly better performance).Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse -
It is possible to reduce the size of GFS2 inodes by taking the i_alloc
structure out of the gfs2_inode. This patch allocates the i_alloc
structure whenever its needed, and frees it afterward. This decreases
the amount of low memory we use at the expense of requiring a memory
allocation for each page or partial page that we write. A quick test
with postmark shows that the overhead is not measurable and I also note
that OCFS2 use the same approach.In the future I'd like to solve the problem by shrinking down the size
of the members of the i_alloc structure, but for now, this reduces the
immediate problem of using too much low-memory on x86 and doesn't add
too much overhead.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
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Although the values were all being calculated correctly, there was a
race in the assert due to the way it was using atomic variables. This
changes the value we assert on so that we get the same effect by testing
a different variable. This prevents the assert triggering when it shouldn't.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
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This patch fixes a couple of problems which affected the execution of files
on GFS2. The first is that there was a corner case where inodes were not
always uptodate at the point at which permissions checks were being carried
out, this was resulting in refusal of execute permission, but only on the
first lookup, subsequent requests worked correctly. The second was a problem
relating to incorrect updating of file sizes which was introduced with the
write_begin/end code for GFS2 a little while back.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
Cc: Abhijith Das -
Here is a patch for the latest upstream GFS2 code:
The journal extent map needs to be initialized sooner than it
currently is. Otherwise failed mount attempts (e.g. not enough
journals, etc.) may panic trying to access the uninitialized list.Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse -
To improve performance on NUMA, we use the VM's standard page
migration for writeback and ordered pages. Probably we could
also do the same for journaled data, but that would need a
careful audit of the code, so will be the subject of a later
patch.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
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The go_drop_th function is never called or referenced.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
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A missing offset in the calculation.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
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This is a small correction to my previously posted patch1.
It just changes a divide to a shift. It's faster and doesn't
introduce odd dependencies on 32-bit compiles.Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse -
This patch eliminates the unneeded sd_statfs_mutex mutex but preserves
the ordering as discussed.Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse -
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse -
This patch optimizes function gfs2_meta_read. Basically, gfs2_meta_wait
was being called regardless of whether a disk read was requested.
This just pulls that wait into the if that triggers the read.Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse -
Function gfs2_block_map was often looking up the disk inode twice.
This optimizes it so that only does it once.Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse -
This patch optimizes the function gfs2_glmutex_lock.
The basic theory is: Why bother initializing a holder, setting up
wait bits and then waiting on them, if you know the glock can be
yours. So the holder stuff is placed inside the if checking if the
glock is locked. This one needs careful scrutiny because changing
anything to do with locking should strike terror into one's heart.Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse -
I eliminated the passing of an unused parameter into gfs2_bitfit called rgd.
This also changes the gfs2_bitfit code that searches for free (or used) blocks.
Before, the code was trying to check for bytes that indicated 4 blocks in
the undesired state. The problem is, it was spending more time trying to
do this than it actually was saving. This version only optimizes the case
where we're looking for free blocks, and it checks a machine word at a time.
So on 32-bit machines, it will check 32-bits (16 blocks) and on 64-bit
machines, it will check 64-bits (32 blocks) at a time. The compiler
optimizes that quite well and we save some time, especially when running
through full bitmaps (like the bitmaps allocated for the journals).There's probably a more elegant or optimized way to do this, but I haven't
thought of it yet. I'm open to suggestions.Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse -
This just eliminates an unused variable from the quota code.
Not likely to be a time saver.Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
