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2015-03-23sched: Fix RLIMIT_RTTIME when PI-boosting to RTBrian Silverman
When non-realtime tasks get priority-inheritance boosted to a realtime scheduling class, RLIMIT_RTTIME starts to apply to them. However, the counter used for checking this (the same one used for SCHED_RR timeslices) was not getting reset. This meant that tasks running with a non-realtime scheduling class which are repeatedly boosted to a realtime one, but never block while they are running realtime, eventually hit the timeout without ever running for a time over the limit. This patch resets the realtime timeslice counter when un-PI-boosting from an RT to a non-RT scheduling class. I have some test code with two threads and a shared PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex which induces priority boosting and spins while boosted that gets killed by a SIGXCPU on non-fixed kernels but doesn't with this patch applied. It happens much faster with a CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT kernel, and does happen eventually with PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY kernels. Signed-off-by: Brian Silverman <brian@peloton-tech.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: austin@peloton-tech.com Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424305436-6716-1-git-send-email-brian@peloton-tech.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-23perf: Fix irq_work 'tail' recursionPeter Zijlstra
Vince reported a watchdog lockup like: [<ffffffff8115e114>] perf_tp_event+0xc4/0x210 [<ffffffff810b4f8a>] perf_trace_lock+0x12a/0x160 [<ffffffff810b7f10>] lock_release+0x130/0x260 [<ffffffff816c7474>] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x24/0x40 [<ffffffff8107bb4d>] do_send_sig_info+0x5d/0x80 [<ffffffff811f69df>] send_sigio_to_task+0x12f/0x1a0 [<ffffffff811f71ce>] send_sigio+0xae/0x100 [<ffffffff811f72b7>] kill_fasync+0x97/0xf0 [<ffffffff8115d0b4>] perf_event_wakeup+0xd4/0xf0 [<ffffffff8115d103>] perf_pending_event+0x33/0x60 [<ffffffff8114e3fc>] irq_work_run_list+0x4c/0x80 [<ffffffff8114e448>] irq_work_run+0x18/0x40 [<ffffffff810196af>] smp_trace_irq_work_interrupt+0x3f/0xc0 [<ffffffff816c99bd>] trace_irq_work_interrupt+0x6d/0x80 Which is caused by an irq_work generating new irq_work and therefore not allowing forward progress. This happens because processing the perf irq_work triggers another perf event (tracepoint stuff) which in turn generates an irq_work ad infinitum. Avoid this by raising the recursion counter in the irq_work -- which effectively disables all software events (including tracepoints) from actually triggering again. Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150219170311.GH21418@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-20ebpf: add sched_act_type and map it to sk_filter's verifier opsDaniel Borkmann
In order to prepare eBPF support for tc action, we need to add sched_act_type, so that the eBPF verifier is aware of what helper function act_bpf may use, that it can load skb data and read out currently available skb fields. This is bascially analogous to 96be4325f443 ("ebpf: add sched_cls_type and map it to sk_filter's verifier ops"). BPF_PROG_TYPE_SCHED_CLS and BPF_PROG_TYPE_SCHED_ACT need to be separate since both will have a different set of functionality in future (classifier vs action), thus we won't run into ABI troubles when the point in time comes to diverge functionality from the classifier. The future plan for act_bpf would be that it will be able to write into skb->data and alter selected fields mirrored in struct __sk_buff. For an initial support, it's sufficient to map it to sk_filter_ops. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-20Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c net/core/sysctl_net_core.c net/ipv4/inet_diag.c The be_main.c conflict resolution was really tricky. The conflict hunks generated by GIT were very unhelpful, to say the least. It split functions in half and moved them around, when the real actual conflict only existed solely inside of one function, that being be_map_pci_bars(). So instead, to resolve this, I checked out be_main.c from the top of net-next, then I applied the be_main.c changes from 'net' since the last time I merged. And this worked beautifully. The inet_diag.c and sysctl_net_core.c conflicts were simple overlapping changes, and were easily to resolve. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-20Merge branches 'doc.2015.02.26a', 'earlycb.2015.03.03a', ↵Paul E. McKenney
'fixes.2015.03.03a', 'gpexp.2015.02.26a', 'hotplug.2015.03.20a', 'sysidle.2015.02.26b' and 'tiny.2015.02.26a' into HEAD doc.2015.02.26a: Documentation changes earlycb.2015.03.03a: Permit early-boot RCU callbacks fixes.2015.03.03a: Miscellaneous fixes gpexp.2015.02.26a: In-kernel expediting of normal grace periods hotplug.2015.03.20a: CPU hotplug fixes sysidle.2015.02.26b: NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE fixes tiny.2015.02.26a: TINY_RCU fixes
2015-03-20rcu: Associate quiescent-state reports with grace periodPaul E. McKenney
As noted in earlier commit logs, CPU hotplug operations running concurrently with grace-period initialization can result in a given leaf rcu_node structure having all CPUs offline and no blocked readers, but with this rcu_node structure nevertheless blocking the current grace period. Therefore, the quiescent-state forcing code now checks for this situation and repairs it. Unfortunately, this checking can result in false positives, for example, when the last task has just removed itself from this leaf rcu_node structure, but has not yet started clearing the ->qsmask bits further up the structure. This means that the grace-period kthread (which forces quiescent states) and some other task might be attempting to concurrently clear these ->qsmask bits. This is usually not a problem: One of these tasks will be the first to acquire the upper-level rcu_node structure's lock and with therefore clear the bit, and the other task, seeing the bit already cleared, will stop trying to clear bits. Sadly, this means that the following unusual sequence of events -can- result in a problem: 1. The grace-period kthread wins, and clears the ->qsmask bits. 2. This is the last thing blocking the current grace period, so that the grace-period kthread clears ->qsmask bits all the way to the root and finds that the root ->qsmask field is now zero. 3. Another grace period is required, so that the grace period kthread initializes it, including setting all the needed qsmask bits. 4. The leaf rcu_node structure (the one that started this whole mess) is blocking this new grace period, either because it has at least one online CPU or because there is at least one task that had blocked within an RCU read-side critical section while running on one of this leaf rcu_node structure's CPUs. (And yes, that CPU might well have gone offline before the grace period in step (3) above started, which can mean that there is a task on the leaf rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks list, but ->qsmask equal to zero.) 5. The other kthread didn't get around to trying to clear the upper level ->qsmask bits until all the above had happened. This means that it now sees bits set in the upper-level ->qsmask field, so it proceeds to clear them. Too bad that it is doing so on behalf of a quiescent state that does not apply to the current grace period! This sequence of events can result in the new grace period being too short. It can also result in the new grace period ending before the leaf rcu_node structure's ->qsmask bits have been cleared, which will result in splats during initialization of the next grace period. In addition, it can result in tasks blocking the new grace period still being queued at the start of the next grace period, which will result in other splats. Sasha's testing turned up another of these splats, as did rcutorture testing. (And yes, rcutorture is being adjusted to make these splats show up more quickly. Which probably is having the undesirable side effect of making other problems show up less quickly. Can't have everything!) Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.0.x Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
2015-03-20rcu: Yet another fix for preemption and CPU hotplugPaul E. McKenney
As noted earlier, the following sequence of events can occur when running PREEMPT_RCU and HOTPLUG_CPU on a system with a multi-level rcu_node combining tree: 1. A group of tasks block on CPUs corresponding to a given leaf rcu_node structure while within RCU read-side critical sections. 2. All CPUs corrsponding to that rcu_node structure go offline. 3. The next grace period starts, but because there are still tasks blocked, the upper-level bits corresponding to this leaf rcu_node structure remain set. 4. All the tasks exit their RCU read-side critical sections and remove themselves from the leaf rcu_node structure's list, leaving it empty. 5. But because there now is code to check for this condition at force-quiescent-state time, the upper bits are cleared and the grace period completes. However, there is another complication that can occur following step 4 above: 4a. The grace period starts, and the leaf rcu_node structure's gp_tasks pointer is set to NULL because there are no tasks blocked on this structure. 4b. One of the CPUs corresponding to the leaf rcu_node structure comes back online. 4b. An endless stream of tasks are preempted within RCU read-side critical sections on this CPU, such that the ->blkd_tasks list is always non-empty. The grace period will never end. This commit therefore makes the force-quiescent-state processing check only for absence of tasks blocking the current grace period rather than absence of tasks altogether. This will cause a quiescent state to be reported if the current leaf rcu_node structure is not blocking the current grace period and its parent thinks that it is, regardless of how RCU managed to get itself into this state. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.0.x Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
2015-03-19cpusets, isolcpus: exclude isolcpus from load balancing in cpusetsRik van Riel
Ensure that cpus specified with the isolcpus= boot commandline option stay outside of the load balancing in the kernel scheduler. Operations like load balancing can introduce unwanted latencies, which is exactly what the isolcpus= commandline is there to prevent. Previously, simply creating a new cpuset, without even touching the cpuset.cpus field inside the new cpuset, would undo the effects of isolcpus=, by creating a scheduler domain spanning the whole system, and setting up load balancing inside that domain. The cpuset root cpuset.cpus file is read-only, so there was not even a way to undo that effect. This does not impact the majority of cpusets users, since isolcpus= is a fairly specialized feature used for realtime purposes. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Tested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-03-19sched, isolcpu: make cpu_isolated_map visible outside schedulerRik van Riel
Needed by the next patch. Also makes cpu_isolated_map present when compiled without SMP and/or with CONFIG_NR_CPUS=1, like the other cpu masks. At some point we may want to clean things up so cpumasks do not exist in UP kernels. Maybe something for the CONFIG_TINY crowd. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-03-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching Pull livepatching fix from Jiri Kosina: - fix for potential race with module loading, from Petr Mladek. The race is very unlikely to be seen in real world and has been found by code inspection, but should be fixed for 4.0 anyway. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching: livepatch: Fix subtle race with coming and going modules
2015-03-18PM / sleep: add pm-trace support for suspending phaseZhonghui Fu
Occasionally, the system can't come back up after suspend/resume due to problems of device suspending phase. This patch make PM_TRACE infrastructure cover device suspending phase of suspend/resume process, and the information in RTC can tell developers which device suspending function make system hang. Signed-off-by: Zhonghui Fu <zhonghui.fu@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2015-03-17Merge branches 'perf-urgent-for-linus' and 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf and timer fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Two small perf fixes: - kernel side context leak fix - tooling crash fix And two clocksource driver fixes" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf: Fix context leak in put_event() perf annotate: Fix fallback to unparsed disassembler line * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: clockevents: sun5i: Fix setup_irq init sequence clocksource: efm32: Fix a NULL pointer dereference
2015-03-17fs: add dirtytime_expire_seconds sysctlTheodore Ts'o
Add a tuning knob so we can adjust the dirtytime expiration timeout, which is very useful for testing lazytime. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2015-03-17livepatch: Fix subtle race with coming and going modulesPetr Mladek
There is a notifier that handles live patches for coming and going modules. It takes klp_mutex lock to avoid races with coming and going patches but it does not keep the lock all the time. Therefore the following races are possible: 1. The notifier is called sometime in STATE_MODULE_COMING. The module is visible by find_module() in this state all the time. It means that new patch can be registered and enabled even before the notifier is called. It might create wrong order of stacked patches, see below for an example. 2. New patch could still see the module in the GOING state even after the notifier has been called. It will try to initialize the related object structures but the module could disappear at any time. There will stay mess in the structures. It might even cause an invalid memory access. This patch solves the problem by adding a boolean variable into struct module. The value is true after the coming and before the going handler is called. New patches need to be applied when the value is true and they need to ignore the module when the value is false. Note that we need to know state of all modules on the system. The races are related to new patches. Therefore we do not know what modules will get patched. Also note that we could not simply ignore going modules. The code from the module could be called even in the GOING state until mod->exit() finishes. If we start supporting patches with semantic changes between function calls, we need to apply new patches to any still usable code. See below for an example. Finally note that the patch solves only the situation when a new patch is registered. There are no such problems when the patch is being removed. It does not matter who disable the patch first, whether the normal disable_patch() or the module notifier. There is nothing to do once the patch is disabled. Alternative solutions: ====================== + reject new patches when a patched module is coming or going; this is ugly + wait with adding new patch until the module leaves the COMING and GOING states; this might be dangerous and complicated; we would need to release kgr_lock in the middle of the patch registration to avoid a deadlock with the coming and going handlers; also we might need a waitqueue for each module which seems to be even bigger overhead than the boolean + stop modules from entering COMING and GOING states; wait until modules leave these states when they are already there; looks complicated; we would need to ignore the module that asked to stop the others to avoid a deadlock; also it is unclear what to do when two modules asked to stop others and both are in COMING state (situation when two new patches are applied) + always register/enable new patches and fix up the potential mess (registered patches order) in klp_module_init(); this is nasty and prone to regressions in the future development + add another MODULE_STATE where the kallsyms are visible but the module is not used yet; this looks too complex; the module states are checked on "many" locations Example of patch stacking breakage: =================================== The notifier could _not_ _simply_ ignore already initialized module objects. For example, let's have three patches (P1, P2, P3) for functions a() and b() where a() is from vmcore and b() is from a module M. Something like: a() b() P1 a1() b1() P2 a2() b2() P3 a3() b3(3) If you load the module M after all patches are registered and enabled. The ftrace ops for function a() and b() has listed the functions in this order: ops_a->func_stack -> list(a3,a2,a1) ops_b->func_stack -> list(b3,b2,b1) , so the pointer to b3() is the first and will be used. Then you might have the following scenario. Let's start with state when patches P1 and P2 are registered and enabled but the module M is not loaded. Then ftrace ops for b() does not exist. Then we get into the following race: CPU0 CPU1 load_module(M) complete_formation() mod->state = MODULE_STATE_COMING; mutex_unlock(&module_mutex); klp_register_patch(P3); klp_enable_patch(P3); # STATE 1 klp_module_notify(M) klp_module_notify_coming(P1); klp_module_notify_coming(P2); klp_module_notify_coming(P3); # STATE 2 The ftrace ops for a() and b() then looks: STATE1: ops_a->func_stack -> list(a3,a2,a1); ops_b->func_stack -> list(b3); STATE2: ops_a->func_stack -> list(a3,a2,a1); ops_b->func_stack -> list(b2,b1,b3); therefore, b2() is used for the module but a3() is used for vmcore because they were the last added. Example of the race with going modules: ======================================= CPU0 CPU1 delete_module() #SYSCALL try_stop_module() mod->state = MODULE_STATE_GOING; mutex_unlock(&module_mutex); klp_register_patch() klp_enable_patch() #save place to switch universe b() # from module that is going a() # from core (patched) mod->exit(); Note that the function b() can be called until we call mod->exit(). If we do not apply patch against b() because it is in MODULE_STATE_GOING, it will call patched a() with modified semantic and things might get wrong. [jpoimboe@redhat.com: use one boolean instead of two] Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-03-16Merge branch 'nohz/guest' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/nohz Pull full dynticks support for virt guests from Frederic Weisbecker: "Some measurements showed that disabling the tick on the host while the guest is running can be interesting on some workloads. Indeed the host tick is irrelevant while a vcpu runs, it consumes CPU time and cache footprint for no good reasons. Full dynticks already works in every context, but RCU prevents it to be effective outside userspace, because the CPU needs to take part of RCU grace period completion as long as RCU may be used on it, which is the case in kernel context. However guest is similar to userspace and idle in that we know RCU is unused on such context. Therefore a CPU in guest/userspace/idle context can let other CPUs report its own RCU quiescent state on its behalf and shut down the tick safely, provided it isn't needed for other reasons than RCU. This is called RCU extended quiescent state. This was already implemented for idle and userspace. This patchset now brings it for guest contexts through the following steps: - Generalize the context tracking APIs to also track guest state - Rename/sanitize a few CPP symbols accordingly - Report guest entry/exit to RCU and define this context area as an RCU extended quiescent state." Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-15bpf: allow extended BPF programs access skb fieldsAlexei Starovoitov
introduce user accessible mirror of in-kernel 'struct sk_buff': struct __sk_buff { __u32 len; __u32 pkt_type; __u32 mark; __u32 queue_mapping; }; bpf programs can do: int bpf_prog(struct __sk_buff *skb) { __u32 var = skb->pkt_type; which will be compiled to bpf assembler as: dst_reg = *(u32 *)(src_reg + 4) // 4 == offsetof(struct __sk_buff, pkt_type) bpf verifier will check validity of access and will convert it to: dst_reg = *(u8 *)(src_reg + offsetof(struct sk_buff, __pkt_type_offset)) dst_reg &= 7 since skb->pkt_type is a bitfield. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-15ebpf: add helper for obtaining current processor idDaniel Borkmann
This patch adds the possibility to obtain raw_smp_processor_id() in eBPF. Currently, this is only possible in classic BPF where commit da2033c28226 ("filter: add SKF_AD_RXHASH and SKF_AD_CPU") has added facilities for this. Perhaps most importantly, this would also allow us to track per CPU statistics with eBPF maps, or to implement a poor-man's per CPU data structure through eBPF maps. Example function proto-type looks like: u32 (*smp_processor_id)(void) = (void *)BPF_FUNC_get_smp_processor_id; Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-15ebpf: add prandom helper for packet samplingDaniel Borkmann
This work is similar to commit 4cd3675ebf74 ("filter: added BPF random opcode") and adds a possibility for packet sampling in eBPF. Currently, this is only possible in classic BPF and useful to combine sampling with f.e. packet sockets, possible also with tc. Example function proto-type looks like: u32 (*prandom_u32)(void) = (void *)BPF_FUNC_get_prandom_u32; Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-15genirq: Add irqchip_set_wake_parentMarc Zyngier
This proves to be useful with stacked domains, when the current domain doesn't implement wake-up, but expect the parent to do so. Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426088629-15377-2-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
2015-03-13audit: Remove condition which always evaluates to falsePranith Kumar
After commit 3e1d0bb6224f019893d1c498cc3327559d183674 ("audit: Convert int limit uses to u32"), by converting an int to u32, few conditions will always evaluate to false. These warnings were emitted during compilation: kernel/audit.c: In function ‘audit_set_enabled’: kernel/audit.c:347:2: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false [-Wtype-limits] if (state < AUDIT_OFF || state > AUDIT_LOCKED) ^ kernel/audit.c: In function ‘audit_receive_msg’: kernel/audit.c:880:9: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false [-Wtype-limits] if (s.backlog_wait_time < 0 || The following patch removes those unnecessary conditions. Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
2015-03-13perf: Fix context leak in put_event()Leon Yu
Commit: a83fe28e2e45 ("perf: Fix put_event() ctx lock") changed the locking logic in put_event() by replacing mutex_lock_nested() with perf_event_ctx_lock_nested(), but didn't fix the subsequent mutex_unlock() with a correct counterpart, perf_event_ctx_unlock(). Contexts are thus leaked as a result of incremented refcount in perf_event_ctx_lock_nested(). Signed-off-by: Leon Yu <chianglungyu@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Fixes: a83fe28e2e45 ("perf: Fix put_event() ctx lock") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424954613-5034-1-git-send-email-chianglungyu@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-13clocksource: Rename __clocksource_updatefreq_*() to ↵John Stultz
__clocksource_update_freq_*() Ingo requested this function be renamed to improve readability, so I've renamed __clocksource_updatefreq_scale() as well as the __clocksource_updatefreq_hz/khz() functions to avoid squishedtogethernames. This touches some of the sh clocksources, which I've not tested. The arch/arm/plat-omap change is just a comment change for consistency. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426133800-29329-13-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-13clocksource: Add some debug info about clocksources being registeredJohn Stultz
Print the mask, max_cycles, and max_idle_ns values for clocksources being registered. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426133800-29329-12-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-13clocksource: Mostly kill clocksource_register()John Stultz
A long running project has been to clean up remaining uses of clocksource_register(), replacing it with the simpler clocksource_register_khz/hz() functions. However, there are a few cases where we need to self-define our mult/shift values, so switch the function to a more obviously internal __clocksource_register() name, and consolidate much of the internal logic so we don't have duplication. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426133800-29329-10-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org [ Minor cleanups. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-13clocksource: Improve clocksource watchdog reportingJohn Stultz
The clocksource watchdog reporting has been less helpful then desired, as it just printed the delta between the two clocksources. This prevents any useful analysis of why the skew occurred. Thus this patch tries to improve the output when we mark a clocksource as unstable, printing out the cycle last and now values for both the current clocksource and the watchdog clocksource. This will allow us to see if the result was due to a false positive caused by a problematic watchdog. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426133800-29329-9-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org [ Minor cleanups of kernel messages. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-13timekeeping: Add warnings when overflows or underflows are observedJohn Stultz
It was suggested that the underflow/overflow protection should probably throw some sort of warning out, rather than just silently fixing the issue. So this patch adds some warnings here. The flag variables used are not protected by locks, but since we can't print from the reading functions, just being able to say we saw an issue in the update interval is useful enough, and can be slightly racy without real consequence. The big complication is that we're only under a read seqlock, so the data could shift under us during our calculation to see if there was a problem. This patch avoids this issue by nesting another seqlock which allows us to snapshot the just required values atomically. So we shouldn't see false positives. I also added some basic rate-limiting here, since on one build machine w/ skewed TSCs it was fairly noisy at bootup. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426133800-29329-8-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-13timekeeping: Try to catch clocksource delta underflowsJohn Stultz
In the case where there is a broken clocksource where there are multiple actual clocks that aren't perfectly aligned, we may see small "negative" deltas when we subtract 'now' from 'cycle_last'. The values are actually negative with respect to the clocksource mask value, not necessarily negative if cast to a s64, but we can check by checking the delta to see if it is a small (relative to the mask) negative value (again negative relative to the mask). If so, we assume we jumped backwards somehow and instead use zero for our delta. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426133800-29329-7-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-13timekeeping: Add checks to cap clocksource reads to the 'max_cycles' valueJohn Stultz
When calculating the current delta since the last tick, we currently have no hard protections to prevent a multiplication overflow from occuring. This patch introduces infrastructure to allow a cap that limits the clocksource read delta value to the 'max_cycles' value, which is where an overflow would occur. Since this is in the hotpath, it adds the extra checking under CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING=y. There was some concern that capping time like this could cause problems as we may stop expiring timers, which could go circular if the timer that triggers time accumulation were mis-scheduled too far in the future, which would cause time to stop. However, since the mult overflow would result in a smaller time value, we would effectively have the same problem there. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426133800-29329-6-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-13timekeeping: Add debugging checks to warn if we see delaysJohn Stultz
Recently there's been requests for better sanity checking in the time code, so that it's more clear when something is going wrong, since timekeeping issues could manifest in a large number of strange ways in various subsystems. Thus, this patch adds some extra infrastructure to add a check to update_wall_time() to print two new warnings: 1) if we see the call delayed beyond the 'max_cycles' overflow point, 2) or if we see the call delayed beyond the clocksource's 'max_idle_ns' value, which is currently 50% of the overflow point. This extra infrastructure is conditional on a new CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING option, also added in this patch - default off. Tested this a bit by halting qemu for specified lengths of time to trigger the warnings. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426133800-29329-5-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org [ Improved the changelog and the messages a bit. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-12fs: remove ki_nbytesChristoph Hellwig
There is no need to pass the total request length in the kiocb, as we already get passed in through the iov_iter argument. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-03-12kasan, module, vmalloc: rework shadow allocation for modulesAndrey Ryabinin
Current approach in handling shadow memory for modules is broken. Shadow memory could be freed only after memory shadow corresponds it is no longer used. vfree() called from interrupt context could use memory its freeing to store 'struct llist_node' in it: void vfree(const void *addr) { ... if (unlikely(in_interrupt())) { struct vfree_deferred *p = this_cpu_ptr(&vfree_deferred); if (llist_add((struct llist_node *)addr, &p->list)) schedule_work(&p->wq); Later this list node used in free_work() which actually frees memory. Currently module_memfree() called in interrupt context will free shadow before freeing module's memory which could provoke kernel crash. So shadow memory should be freed after module's memory. However, such deallocation order could race with kasan_module_alloc() in module_alloc(). Free shadow right before releasing vm area. At this point vfree()'d memory is not used anymore and yet not available for other allocations. New VM_KASAN flag used to indicate that vm area has dynamically allocated shadow memory so kasan frees shadow only if it was previously allocated. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-03-12rcu: Add diagnostics to grace-period cleanupPaul E. McKenney
At grace-period initialization time, RCU checks that all quiescent states were really reported for the previous grace period. Now that grace-period cleanup has been split out of grace-period initialization, this commit also performs those checks at grace-period cleanup time. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12rcu: Handle outgoing CPUs on exit from idle loopPaul E. McKenney
This commit informs RCU of an outgoing CPU just before that CPU invokes arch_cpu_idle_dead() during its last pass through the idle loop (via a new CPU_DYING_IDLE notifier value). This change means that RCU need not deal with outgoing CPUs passing through the scheduler after informing RCU that they are no longer online. Note that removing the CPU from the rcu_node ->qsmaskinit bit masks is done at CPU_DYING_IDLE time, and orphaning callbacks is still done at CPU_DEAD time, the reason being that at CPU_DEAD time we have another CPU that can adopt them. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12cpu: Make CPU-offline idle-loop transition point more precisePaul E. McKenney
This commit uses a per-CPU variable to make the CPU-offline code path through the idle loop more precise, so that the outgoing CPU is guaranteed to make it into the idle loop before it is powered off. This commit is in preparation for putting the RCU offline-handling code on this code path, which will eliminate the magic one-jiffy wait that RCU uses as the maximum time for an outgoing CPU to get all the way through the scheduler. The magic one-jiffy wait for incoming CPUs remains a separate issue. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12rcu: Eliminate ->onoff_mutex from rcu_node structurePaul E. McKenney
Because that RCU grace-period initialization need no longer exclude CPU-hotplug operations, this commit eliminates the ->onoff_mutex and its uses. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12rcu: Process offlining and onlining only at grace-period startPaul E. McKenney
Races between CPU hotplug and grace periods can be difficult to resolve, so the ->onoff_mutex is used to exclude the two events. Unfortunately, this means that it is impossible for an outgoing CPU to perform the last bits of its offlining from its last pass through the idle loop, because sleeplocks cannot be acquired in that context. This commit avoids these problems by buffering online and offline events in a new ->qsmaskinitnext field in the leaf rcu_node structures. When a grace period starts, the events accumulated in this mask are applied to the ->qsmaskinit field, and, if needed, up the rcu_node tree. The special case of all CPUs corresponding to a given leaf rcu_node structure being offline while there are still elements in that structure's ->blkd_tasks list is handled using a new ->wait_blkd_tasks field. In this case, propagating the offline bits up the tree is deferred until the beginning of the grace period after all of the tasks have exited their RCU read-side critical sections and removed themselves from the list, at which point the ->wait_blkd_tasks flag is cleared. If one of that leaf rcu_node structure's CPUs comes back online before the list empties, then the ->wait_blkd_tasks flag is simply cleared. This of course means that RCU's notion of which CPUs are offline can be out of date. This is OK because RCU need only wait on CPUs that were online at the time that the grace period started. In addition, RCU's force-quiescent-state actions will handle the case where a CPU goes offline after the grace period starts. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12rcu: Move rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() to common codePaul E. McKenney
The rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() function is invoked when the last task blocking the current grace period exits its outermost RCU read-side critical section. Previously, this was called only from rcu_read_unlock_special(), and was therefore defined only when CONFIG_RCU_PREEMPT=y. However, this function will be invoked even when CONFIG_RCU_PREEMPT=n once CPU-hotplug operations are processed only at the beginnings of RCU grace periods. The reason for this change is that the last task on a given leaf rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks list might well exit its RCU read-side critical section between the time that recent CPU-hotplug operations were applied and when the new grace period was initialized. This situation could result in RCU waiting forever on that leaf rcu_node structure, because if all that structure's CPUs were already offline, there would be no quiescent-state events to drive that structure's part of the grace period. This commit therefore moves rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() to common code that is built unconditionally so that the quiescent-state-forcing code can clean up after this situation, avoiding the grace-period stall. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12rcu: Rework preemptible expedited bitmask handlingPaul E. McKenney
Currently, the rcu_node tree ->expmask bitmasks are initially set to reflect the online CPUs. This is pointless, because only the CPUs preempted within RCU read-side critical sections by the preceding synchronize_sched_expedited() need to be tracked. This commit therefore instead sets up these bitmasks based on the state of the ->blkd_tasks lists. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12ebpf: verifier: check that call reg with ARG_ANYTHING is initializedDaniel Borkmann
I noticed that a helper function with argument type ARG_ANYTHING does not need to have an initialized value (register). This can worst case lead to unintented stack memory leakage in future helper functions if they are not carefully designed, or unintended application behaviour in case the application developer was not careful enough to match a correct helper function signature in the API. The underlying issue is that ARG_ANYTHING should actually be split into two different semantics: 1) ARG_DONTCARE for function arguments that the helper function does not care about (in other words: the default for unused function arguments), and 2) ARG_ANYTHING that is an argument actually being used by a helper function and *guaranteed* to be an initialized register. The current risk is low: ARG_ANYTHING is only used for the 'flags' argument (r4) in bpf_map_update_elem() that internally does strict checking. Fixes: 17a5267067f3 ("bpf: verifier (add verifier core)") Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-12clocksource: Add 'max_cycles' to 'struct clocksource'John Stultz
In order to facilitate clocksource validation, add a 'max_cycles' field to the clocksource structure which will hold the maximum cycle value that can safely be multiplied without potentially causing an overflow. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426133800-29329-4-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-12clocksource: Simplify the logic around clocksource wrapping safety marginsJohn Stultz
The clocksource logic has a number of places where we try to include a safety margin. Most of these are 12% safety margins, but they are inconsistently applied and sometimes are applied on top of each other. Additionally, in the previous patch, we corrected an issue where we unintentionally in effect created a 50% safety margin, which these 12.5% margins where then added to. So to simplify the logic here, this patch removes the various 12.5% margins, and consolidates adding the margin in one place: clocks_calc_max_nsecs(). Additionally, Linus prefers a 50% safety margin, as it allows bad clock values to be more easily caught. This should really have no net effect, due to the corrected issue earlier which caused greater then 50% margins to be used w/o issue. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> (for the sched_clock.c bit) Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426133800-29329-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-12clocksource: Simplify the clocks_calc_max_nsecs() logicJohn Stultz
The previous clocks_calc_max_nsecs() code had some unecessarily complex bit logic to find the max interval that could cause multiplication overflows. Since this is not in the hot path, just do the divide to make it easier to read. The previous implementation also had a subtle issue that it avoided overflows with signed 64-bit values, where as the intervals are always unsigned. This resulted in overly conservative intervals, which other safety margins were then added to, reducing the intended interval length. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426133800-29329-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-11rcu: Remove event tracing from rcu_cpu_notify(), used by offline CPUsPaul E. McKenney
Offline CPUs cannot safely invoke trace events, but such CPUs do execute within rcu_cpu_notify(). Therefore, this commit removes the trace events from rcu_cpu_notify(). These trace events are for utilization, against which rcu_cpu_notify() execution time should be negligible. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11rcu: Provide diagnostic option to slow down grace-period initializationPaul E. McKenney
Grace-period initialization normally proceeds quite quickly, so that it is very difficult to reproduce races against grace-period initialization. This commit therefore allows grace-period initialization to be artificially slowed down, increasing race-reproduction probability. A pair of new Kconfig parameters are provided, CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT to enable the slowdowns, and CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY to specify the number of jiffies of slowdown to apply. A boot-time parameter named rcutree.gp_init_delay allows boot-time delay to be specified. By default, no delay will be applied even if CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT is set. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11rcu: Detect stalls caused by failure to propagate up rcu_node treePaul E. McKenney
If all CPUs have passed through quiescent states, then stalls might be due to starvation of the grace-period kthread or to failure to propagate the quiescent states up the rcu_node combining tree. The current stall warning messages do not differentiate, so this commit adds a printout of the root rcu_node structure's ->qsmask field. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11rcu: Eliminate empty HOTPLUG_CPU ifdefPaul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11rcu: Simplify sync_rcu_preempt_exp_init()Paul E. McKenney
This commit eliminates a boolean and associated "if" statement by rearranging the code. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11rcu: Put all orphan-callback-related code under same commentPaul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11rcu: Consolidate offline-CPU callback initializationPaul E. McKenney
Currently, both rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu() and rcu_send_cbs_to_orphanage() initialize the outgoing CPU's callback list. However, only rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu() invokes rcu_send_cbs_to_orphanage(), and it does so unconditionally, which means that only one of these initializations is required. This commit therefore consolidates the callback-list initialization with the rest of the callback handling in rcu_send_cbs_to_orphanage(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11smpboot: Add common code for notification from dying CPUPaul E. McKenney
RCU ignores offlined CPUs, so they cannot safely run RCU read-side code. (They -can- use SRCU, but not RCU.) This means that any use of RCU during or after the call to arch_cpu_idle_dead(). Unfortunately, commit 2ed53c0d6cc99 added a complete() call, which will contain RCU read-side critical sections if there is a task waiting to be awakened. Which, as it turns out, there almost never is. In my qemu/KVM testing, the to-be-awakened task is not yet asleep more than 99.5% of the time. In current mainline, failure is even harder to reproduce, requiring a virtualized environment that delays the outgoing CPU by at least three jiffies between the time it exits its stop_machine() task at CPU_DYING time and the time it calls arch_cpu_idle_dead() from the idle loop. However, this problem really can occur, especially in virtualized environments, and therefore really does need to be fixed This suggests moving back to the polling loop, but using a much shorter wait, with gentle exponential backoff instead of the old 100-millisecond wait. Most of the time, the loop will exit without waiting at all, and almost all of the remaining uses will wait only five microseconds. If the outgoing CPU is preempted, a loop will wait one jiffy, then increase the wait by a factor of 11/10ths, rounding up. As before, there is a five-second timeout. This commit therefore provides common-code infrastructure to do the dying-to-surviving CPU handoff in a safe manner. This code also provides an indication at CPU-online of whether the CPU to be onlined previously timed out on offline. The new cpu_check_up_prepare() function returns -EBUSY if this CPU previously took more than five seconds to go offline, or -EAGAIN if it has not yet managed to go offline. The rationale for -EAGAIN is that it might still be preempted, so an additional wait might well find it correctly offlined. Architecture-specific code can decide how to handle these conditions. Systems in which CPUs take themselves completely offline might respond to an -EBUSY return as if it was a zero (success) return. Systems in which the surviving CPU must take some action might take it at this time, or might simply mark the other CPU as unusable. Note that architectures that take the easy way out and simply pass the -EBUSY and -EAGAIN upwards will change the sysfs API. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> [ paulmck: Fixed state machine for architectures that don't check earlier CPU-hotplug results as suggested by James Hogan. ]