- 24 Sep, 2009 40 commits
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Yang Shi authored
Based on Kumar's new compatible types patch, add P2020 into MPC85xx EDAC compatible lists so that EDAC can recognize P2020 meomry controller and L2 cache controller and export the relevant fields to sysfs. EDAC MPC85xx DDR3 support is needed if DDR3 memory stick is installed on a P2020DS board so that EDAC core can recognize DDR3 memory type. Signed-off-by:
Yang Shi <yang.shi@windriver.com> Acked-by:
Dave Jiang <djiang@mvista.com> Signed-off-by:
Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mike Frysinger authored
The forward decls for some kernel types are only needed by the code behind __KERNEL__, so don't bleed these types to userspace. Signed-off-by:
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Sukadev Bhattiprolu authored
CLONE_PARENT was used to implement an older threading model. For consistency with the CLONE_THREAD check in copy_pid_ns(), disable CLONE_PARENT with CLONE_NEWPID, at least until the required semantics of pid namespaces are clear. Signed-off-by:
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Sukadev Bhattiprolu authored
When global or container-init processes use CLONE_PARENT, they create a multi-rooted process tree. Besides siblings of global init remain as zombies on exit since they are not reaped by their parent (swapper). So prevent global and container-inits from creating siblings. Signed-off-by:
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
It's unused. It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl shouldn't care about the rest. It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason. Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
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Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mike Frysinger authored
The on-chip OTP may be written at runtime, so enable support for it in the driver. However, since writing should really be done only on development systems, don't bend over backwards to make sure the simple software lock is per-fd -- per-device is OK. Signed-off-by:
Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Dimitri Sivanich authored
This driver memory maps the UV Hub RTC. Signed-off-by:
Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Dan Carpenter authored
If DownLoad.ProductCode == MAX_PRODUCT, that would be a problem when we do RIOBootTable[DownLoad.ProductCode] a couple lines down. Found by smatch (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git). Signed-off-by:
Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Nils Carlson authored
The periodic interrupt from drivers/char/hpet.c does not work correctly, both when using the periodic capability of the hardware and while emulating the periodic interrupt (when hardware does not support periodic mode). With timers capable of periodic interrupts, the comparator field is first set with the period value followed by set of hidden accumulator, which has the side effect of overwriting the comparator value. This results in wrong periodicity for the interrupts. For, periodic interrupts to work, following steps are necessary, in that order. * Set config with Tn_VAL_SET_CNF bit * Write to hidden accumulator, the value written is the time when the first interrupt should be generated * Write compartor with period interval for subsequent interrupts (http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf ) When emulating periodic timer with timers not capable of periodic interrupt, driver is adding the period to counter value instead of comparator value, which causes slow drift when using this emulation. Also, driver seems to add hpetp->hp_delta both while setting up periodic interrupt and while emulating periodic interrupts with timers not capable of doing periodic interrupts. This hp_delta will result in slower than expected interrupt rate and should not be used while setting the interval. Signed-off-by:
Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Nils Carlson <nils.carlson@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by:
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Roel Kluin authored
Check whether index is within bounds before grabbing the element. Signed-off-by:
Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Renzo Davoli authored
There are two useless lines in fs/char_dev.c. In register_chrdev there is a loop to change all '/' into '!' in the kernel object name. This code is useless as the same substitution is in kobject_set_name_vargs in lib/kobject.c: 228 /* ewww... some of these buggers have '/' in the name ... */ 229 while ((s = strchr(kobj->name, '/'))) 230 s[0] = '!'; kobject_set_name_vargs is called by kobject_set_name. kobject_set_name is called just above the useless loop. [hidave.darkstar@gmail.com: fix warning, remove the unused char *s] Signed-off-by:
Renzo Davoli <renzo@cs.unibo.it> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Nikanth Karthikesan authored
In read_zero, we check for access_ok() once for the count bytes. It is unnecessarily checked again in clear_user. Use __clear_user, which does not check for access_ok(). Signed-off-by:
Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Mike Frysinger authored
There is a common macro now for testing mixed pointer/errno values, so use that rather than handling the casts ourself. Signed-off-by:
David McCullough <david_mccullough@securecomputing.com> Acked-by:
Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Ignore the loader's PT_GNU_STACK when calculating the stack size, and only consider the executable's PT_GNU_STACK, assuming the executable has one. Currently the behaviour is to take the largest stack size and use that, but that means you can't reduce the stack size in the executable. The loader's stack size should probably only be used when executing the loader directly. WARNING: This patch is slightly dangerous - it may render a system inoperable if the loader's stack size is larger than that of important executables, and the system relies unknowingly on this increasing the size of the stack. Signed-off-by:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Amerigo Wang authored
Introduce a helper function elf_note_info_init() to help fill_note_info() to do initializations, also fix the potential memory leaks. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove NUM_NOTES] Signed-off-by:
WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
__fatal_signal_pending inlines to one instruction on x86, probably two instructions on other machines. It takes two longer x86 instructions just to call it and test its return value, not to mention the function itself. On my random x86_64 config, this saved 70 bytes of text (59 of those being __fatal_signal_pending itself). Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
In order to direct the SIGIO signal to a particular thread of a multi-threaded application we cannot, like suggested by the manpage, put a TID into the regular fcntl(F_SETOWN) call. It will still be send to the whole process of which that thread is part. Since people do want to properly direct SIGIO we introduce F_SETOWN_EX. The need to direct SIGIO comes from self-monitoring profiling such as with perf-counters. Perf-counters uses SIGIO to notify that new sample data is available. If the signal is delivered to the same task that generated the new sample it can augment that data by inspecting the task's user-space state right after it returns from the kernel. This is esp. convenient for interpreted or virtual machine driven environments. Both F_SETOWN_EX and F_GETOWN_EX take a pointer to a struct f_owner_ex as argument: struct f_owner_ex { int type; pid_t pid; }; Where type is one of F_OWNER_TID, F_OWNER_PID or F_OWNER_GID. Signed-off-by:Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Tested-by:
stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
group_send_sig_info()->check_kill_permission() assumes that current is the sender and uses current_cred(). This is not true in send_sigio_to_task() case. From the security pov the sender is not current, but the task which did fcntl(F_SETOWN), that is why we have sigio_perm() which uses the right creds to check. Fortunately, send_sigio() always sends either SEND_SIG_PRIV or SI_FROMKERNEL() signal, so check_kill_permission() does nothing. But still it would be tidier to avoid this bogus security check and save a couple of cycles. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Introduce do_send_sig_info() and convert group_send_sig_info(), send_sig_info(), do_send_specific() to use this helper. Hopefully it will have more users soon, it allows to specify specific/group behaviour via "bool group" argument. Shaves 80 bytes from .text. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
sys_delete_module() can set MODULE_STATE_GOING after search_binary_handler() does try_module_get(). In this case set_binfmt()->try_module_get() fails but since none of the callers check the returned error, the task will run with the wrong old ->binfmt. The proper fix should change all ->load_binary() methods, but we can rely on fact that the caller must hold a reference to binfmt->module and use __module_get() which never fails. Signed-off-by:
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Neil Horman authored
Allow core_pattern pipes to wait for user space to complete One of the things that user space processes like to do is look at metadata for a crashing process in their /proc/<pid> directory. this is racy however, since do_coredump in the kernel doesn't wait for the user space process to complete before it reaps the crashing process. This patch corrects that. Allowing the kernel to wait for the user space process to complete before cleaning up the crashing process. This is a bit tricky to do for a few reasons: 1) The user space process isn't our child, so we can't sys_wait4 on it 2) We need to close the pipe before waiting for the user process to complete, since the user process may rely on an EOF condition I've discussed several solutions with Oleg Nesterov off-list about this, and this is the one we've come up with. We add ourselves as a pipe reader (to prevent premature cleanup of the pipe_inode_info), and remove ourselves as a writer (to provide an EOF condition to the writer in user space), then we iterate until the user space process exits (which we detect by pipe->readers == 1, hence the > 1 check in the loop). When we exit the loop, we restore the proper reader/writer values, then we return and let filp_close in do_coredump clean up the pipe data properly. Signed-off-by:
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Reported-by:
Earl Chew <earl_chew@agilent.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Neil Horman authored
Introduce core pipe limiting sysctl. Since we can dump cores to pipe, rather than directly to the filesystem, we create a condition in which a user can create a very high load on the system simply by running bad applications. If the pipe reader specified in core_pattern is poorly written, we can have lots of ourstandig resources and processes in the system. This sysctl introduces an ability to limit that resource consumption. core_pipe_limit defines how many in-flight dumps may be run in parallel, dumps beyond this value are skipped and a note is made in the kernel log. A special value of 0 in core_pipe_limit denotes unlimited core dumps may be handled (this is the default value). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
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Neil Horman authored
Change how we detect recursive dumps. Currently we have a mechanism by which we try to compare pathnames of the crashing process to the core_pattern path. This is broken for a dozen reasons, and just doesn't work in any sort of robust way. I'm replacing it with the use of a 0 RLIMIT_CORE value. Since helper apps set RLIMIT_CORE to zero, we don't write out core files for any process with that particular limit set. It the core_pattern is a pipe, any non-zero limit is translated to RLIM_INFINITY. This allows complete dumps to be captured, but prevents infinite recursion in the event that the core_pattern process itself crashes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
This changes tracehook_notify_jctl() so it's called with the siglock held, and changes its argument and return value definition. These clean-ups make it a better fit for what new tracing hooks need to check. Tracing needs the siglock here, held from the time TASK_STOPPED was set, to avoid potential SIGCONT races if it wants to allow any blocking in its tracing hooks. This also folds the finish_stop() function into its caller do_signal_stop(). The function is short, called only once and only unconditionally. It aids readability to fold it in. [oleg@redhat.com: do not call tracehook_notify_jctl() in TASK_STOPPED state] [oleg@redhat.com: introduce tracehook_finish_jctl() helper] Signed-off-by:
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Vitaly Mayatskikh authored
Current behaviour of sys_waitid() looks odd. If user passes infop == NULL, sys_waitid() returns success. When user additionally specifies flag WNOWAIT, sys_waitid() returns -EFAULT on the same conditions. When user combines WNOWAIT with WCONTINUED, sys_waitid() again returns success. This patch adds check for ->wo_info in wait_noreap_copyout(). User-visible change: starting from this commit, sys_waitid() always checks infop != NULL and does not fail if it is NULL. Signed-off-by:
Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
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Vitaly Mayatskikh authored
do_wait() checks ->wo_info to figure out who is the caller. If it's not NULL the caller should be sys_waitid(), in that case do_wait() fixes up the retval or zeros ->wo_info, depending on retval from underlying function. This is bug: user can pass ->wo_info == NULL and sys_waitid() will return incorrect value. man 2 waitid says: waitid(): returns 0 on success Test-case: int main(void) { if (fork()) assert(waitid(P_ALL, 0, NULL, WEXITED) == 0); return 0; } Result: Assertion `waitid(P_ALL, 0, ((void *)0), 4) == 0' failed. Move that code to sys_waitid(). User-visible change: sys_waitid() will return 0 on success, either infop is set or not. Note, there's another bug in wait_noreap_copyout() which affects return value of sys_waitid(). It will be fixed in next patch. Signed-off-by: -
Oleg Nesterov authored
Kill the unused "parent" argument in wait_consider_task(), it was never used. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
task_pid_type() is only used by eligible_pid() which has to check wo_type != PIDTYPE_MAX anyway. Remove this check from task_pid_type() and factor out ->pids[type] access, this shrinks .text a bit and simplifies the code. The matches the behaviour of other similar helpers, say get_task_pid(). The caller must ensure that pid_type is valid, not the callee. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
child_wait_callback()->eligible_child() is not right, we can miss the wakeup if the task was detached before __wake_up_parent() and the caller of do_wait() didn't use __WALL. Move ->wo_pid checks from eligible_child() to the new helper, eligible_pid(), and change child_wait_callback() to use it instead of eligible_child(). Note: actually I think it would be better to fix the __WCLONE check in eligible_child(), it doesn't look exactly right. But it is not clear what is the supposed behaviour, and any change is user-visible. Reported-by:
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Suggested by Roland. do_wait(__WNOTHREAD) can only succeed if the caller is either ptracer, or it is ->real_parent and the child is not traced. IOW, caller == p->parent otherwise we should not wake up. Change child_wait_callback() to check this. Ratan reports the workload with CPU load >99% caused by unnecessary wakeups, should be fixed by this patch. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Ratan Nalumasu reported that in a process with many threads doing unnecessary wakeups. Every waiting thread in the process wakes up to loop through the children and see that the only ones it cares about are still not ready. Now that we have struct wait_opts we can change do_wait/__wake_up_parent to use filtered wakeups. We can make child_wait_callback() more clever later, right now it only checks eligible_child(). Signed-off-by:
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Tested-by:
Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Acked-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
do_wait() wakeup optimization: shift security_task_wait() from eligible_child() to wait_consider_task() Preparation, no functional changes. eligible_child() has a single caller, wait_consider_task(). We can move security_task_wait() out from eligible_child(), this allows us to use it for filtered wake_up(). Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
The bug is old, it wasn't cause by recent changes. Test case: static void *tfunc(void *arg) { int pid = (long)arg; assert(ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, NULL, NULL) == 0); kill(pid, SIGKILL); sleep(1); return NULL; } int main(void) { pthread_t th; long pid = fork(); if (!pid) pause(); signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN); assert(pthread_create(&th, NULL, tfunc, (void*)pid) == 0); int r = waitpid(-1, NULL, __WNOTHREAD); printf("waitpid: %d %m\n", r); return 0; } Before the patch this program hangs, after this patch waitpid() correctly fails with errno == -ECHILD. The problem is, __ptrace_detach() reaps the EXIT_ZOMBIE tracee if its ->real_parent is our sub-thread and we ignore SIGCHLD. But in this case we should wake up other threads which can sleep in do_wait(). Signed-off-by: -
Daisuke Nishimura authored
We now count MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAPOUT, so we can show swap usage. It would be useful for users to show swap usage in memory.stat file, because they don't need calculate memsw.usage - res.usage to know swap usage. Signed-off-by:
Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Reviewed-by:
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Balbir Singh authored
Reduce the resource counter overhead (mostly spinlock) associated with the root cgroup. This is a part of the several patches to reduce mem cgroup overhead. I had posted other approaches earlier (including using percpu counters). Those patches will be a natural addition and will be added iteratively on top of these. The patch stops resource counter accounting for the root cgroup. The data for display is derived from the statisitcs we maintain via mem_cgroup_charge_statistics (which is more scalable). What happens today is that, we do double accounting, once using res_counter_charge() and once using memory_cgroup_charge_statistics(). For the root, since we don't implement limits any more, we don't need to track every charge via res_counter_charge() and check for limit being exceeded and reclaim. The main mem->res usage_in_bytes can be derived by summing the cache and rss usage data from memory statistics (MEM_CGROUP_STAT_RSS and MEM_CGROUP_STAT_CACHE). However, for memsw->res usage_in_bytes, we need additional data about swapped out memory. This patch adds a MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAPOUT and uses that along with MEM_CGROUP_STAT_RSS and MEM_CGROUP_STAT_CACHE to derive the memsw data. This data is computed recursively when hierarchy is enabled. The tests results I see on a 24 way show that 1. The lock contention disappears from /proc/lock_stats 2. The results of the test are comparable to running with cgroup_disable=memory. Here is a sample of my program runs Without Patch Performance counter stats for '/home/balbir/parallel_pagefault': 7192804.124144 task-clock-msecs # 23.937 CPUs 424691 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 267 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 28498113 page-faults # 0.004 M/sec 5826093739340 cycles # 809.989 M/sec 408883496292 instructions # 0.070 IPC 7057079452 cache-references # 0.981 M/sec 3036086243 cache-misses # 0.422 M/sec 300.485365680 seconds time elapsed With cgroup_disable=memory Performance counter stats for '/home/balbir/parallel_pagefault': 7182183.546587 task-clock-msecs # 23.915 CPUs 425458 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 203 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 92545093 page-faults # 0.013 M/sec 6034363609986 cycles # 840.185 M/sec 437204346785 instructions # 0.072 IPC 6636073192 cache-references # 0.924 M/sec 2358117732 cache-misses # 0.328 M/sec 300.320905827 seconds time elapsed With this patch applied Performance counter stats for '/home/balbir/parallel_pagefault': 7191619.223977 task-clock-msecs # 23.955 CPUs 422579 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 88 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 91946060 page-faults # 0.013 M/sec 5957054385619 cycles # 828.333 M/sec 1058117350365 instructions # 0.178 IPC 9161776218 cache-references # 1.274 M/sec 1920494280 cache-misses # 0.267 M/sec 300.218764862 seconds time elapsed Data from Prarit (kernel compile with make -j64 on a 64 CPU/32G machine) For a single run Without patch real 27m8.988s user 87m24.916s sys 382m6.037s With patch real 4m18.607s user 84m58.943s sys 50m52.682s With config turned off real 4m54.972s user 90m13.456s sys 50m19.711s NOTE: The data looks counterintuitive due to the increased performance with the patch, even over the config being turned off. We probably need more runs, but so far all testing has shown that the patches definitely help. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: -
Balbir Singh authored
Implement reclaim from groups over their soft limit Permit reclaim from memory cgroups on contention (via the direct reclaim path). memory cgroup soft limit reclaim finds the group that exceeds its soft limit by the largest number of pages and reclaims pages from it and then reinserts the cgroup into its correct place in the rbtree. Add additional checks to mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim() to detect long loops in case all swap is turned off. The code has been refactored and the loop check (loop < 2) has been enhanced for soft limits. For soft limits, we try to do more targetted reclaim. Instead of bailing out after two loops, the routine now reclaims memory proportional to the size by which the soft limit is exceeded. The proportion has been empirically determined. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: fix softlimit css refcnt handling] [nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: refcount of the "victim" should be decremented before exiting the loop] Signed-off-by:
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Balbir Singh authored
Refactor mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim() Refactor the arguments passed to mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim() into flags, so that new parameters don't have to be passed as we make the reclaim routine more flexible Signed-off-by:
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Balbir Singh authored
Organize cgroups over soft limit in a RB-Tree Introduce an RB-Tree for storing memory cgroups that are over their soft limit. The overall goal is to 1. Add a memory cgroup to the RB-Tree when the soft limit is exceeded. We are careful about updates, updates take place only after a particular time interval has passed 2. We remove the node from the RB-Tree when the usage goes below the soft limit The next set of patches will exploit the RB-Tree to get the group that is over its soft limit by the largest amount and reclaim from it, when we face memory contention. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR=y CONFIG_PREEMPT=y fails to boot] Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Balbir Singh authored
Add an interface to allow get/set of soft limits. Soft limits for memory plus swap controller (memsw) is currently not supported. Resource counters have been enhanced to support soft limits and new type RES_SOFT_LIMIT has been added. Unlike hard limits, soft limits can be directly set and do not need any reclaim or checks before setting them to a newer value. Kamezawa-San raised a question as to whether soft limit should belong to res_counter. Since all resources understand the basic concepts of hard and soft limits, it is justified to add soft limits here. Soft limits are a generic resource usage feature, even file system quotas support soft limits. Signed-off-by:
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