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  1. 29 Oct, 2014 2 commits
  3. 28 Oct, 2014 1 commit
  5. 27 Oct, 2014 1 commit
    • Alexei Starovoitov's avatar
      bpf: split eBPF out of NET · f89b7755
      Alexei Starovoitov authored 
      introduce two configs:
- hidden CONFIG_BPF to select eBPF interpreter that classic socket filters
  depend on
- visible CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL (default off) that tracing and sockets can use

that solves several problems:
- tracing and others that wish to use eBPF don't need to depend on NET.
  They can use BPF_SYSCALL to allow loading from userspace or select BPF
  to use it directly from kernel in NET-less configs.
- in 3.18 programs cannot be attached to events yet, so don't force it on
- when the rest of eBPF infra is there in 3.19+, it's still useful to
  switch it off to minimize kernel size

bloat-o-meter on x64 shows:
add/remove: 0/60 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-15601 (-15601)

tested with many different config combinations. Hopefully didn't miss anything.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      f89b7755
  7. 14 Oct, 2014 1 commit
  9. 10 Oct, 2014 1 commit
    • Mel Gorman's avatar
      mm: remove misleading ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE · 6a33979d
      Mel Gorman authored 
      ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE was defined for architectures that implemented
_PAGE_NUMA using _PROT_NONE.  This saved using an additional PTE bit and
relied on the fact that PROT_NONE vmas were skipped by the NUMA hinting
fault scanner.  This was found to be conceptually confusing with a lot of
implicit assumptions and it was asked that an alternative be found.

Commit c46a7c81 "x86: define _PAGE_NUMA by reusing software bits on the
PMD and PTE levels" redefined _PAGE_NUMA on x86 to be one of the swap PTE
bits and shrunk the maximum possible swap size but it did not go far
enough.  There are no architectures that reuse _PROT_NONE as _PROT_NUMA
but the relics still exist.

This patch removes ARCH_USES_NUMA_PROT_NONE and removes some unnecessary
duplication in powerpc vs the generic implementation by defining the types
the core NUMA helpers expected to exist from x86 with their ppc64
equivalent.  This necessitated that a PTE bit mask be created that
identified the bits that distinguish present from NUMA pte entries but it
is expected this will only differ between arches based on _PAGE_PROTNONE.
The naming for the generic helpers was taken from x86 originally but ppc64
has types that are equivalent for the purposes of the helper so they are
mapped instead of duplicating code.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6a33979d
  11. 03 Oct, 2014 2 commits
  13. 16 Sep, 2014 1 commit
    • Paul E. McKenney's avatar
      rcu: Fix attempt to avoid unsolicited offloading of callbacks · f4579fc5
      Paul E. McKenney authored 
      Commit b58cc46c (rcu: Don't offload callbacks unless specifically
requested) failed to adjust the callback lists of the CPUs that are
known to be no-CBs CPUs only because they are also nohz_full= CPUs.
This failure can result in callbacks that are posted during early boot
getting stranded on nxtlist for CPUs whose no-CBs property becomes
apparent late, and there can also be spurious warnings about offline
CPUs posting callbacks.

This commit fixes these problems by adding an early-boot rcu_init_nohz()
that properly initializes the no-CBs CPUs.

Note that kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y or with
CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=n do not exhibit this bug.  Neither do kernels
booted without the nohz_full= boot parameter.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Tested-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      f4579fc5
  15. 07 Sep, 2014 1 commit
    • Paul E. McKenney's avatar
      rcu: Add call_rcu_tasks() · 8315f422
      Paul E. McKenney authored 
      This commit adds a new RCU-tasks flavor of RCU, which provides
call_rcu_tasks().  This RCU flavor's quiescent states are voluntary
context switch (not preemption!) and userspace execution (not the idle
loop -- use some sort of schedule_on_each_cpu() if you need to handle the
idle tasks.  Note that unlike other RCU flavors, these quiescent states
occur in tasks, not necessarily CPUs.  Includes fixes from Steven Rostedt.

This RCU flavor is assumed to have very infrequent latency-tolerant
updaters.  This assumption permits significant simplifications, including
a single global callback list protected by a single global lock, along
with a single task-private linked list containing all tasks that have not
yet passed through a quiescent state.  If experience shows this assumption
to be incorrect, the required additional complexity will be added.
Suggested-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      8315f422
  17. 27 Aug, 2014 1 commit
    • Bertrand Jacquin's avatar
      kbuild: handle module compression while running 'make modules_install'. · beb50df3
      Bertrand Jacquin authored 
      Since module-init-tools (gzip) and kmod (gzip and xz) support compressed
modules, it could be useful to include a support for compressing modules
right after having them installed. Doing this in kbuild instead of per
distro can permit to make this kind of usage more generic.

This patch add a Kconfig entry to "Enable loadable module support" menu
and let you choose to compress using gzip (default) or xz.

Both gzip and xz does not used any extra -[1-9] option since Andi Kleen
and Rusty Russell prove no gain is made using them. gzip is called with -n
argument to avoid storing original filename inside compressed file, that
way we can save some more bytes.

On a v3.16 kernel, 'make allmodconfig' generated 4680 modules for a
total of 378MB (no strip, no sign, no compress), the following table
shows observed disk space gain based on the allmodconfig .config :

       |           time                |
       +-------------+-----------------+
       | manual .ko  |       make      | size | percent
       | compression | modules_install |      | gain
       +-------------+-----------------+------+--------
  -    |             |     18.61s      | 378M |
  GZIP |   3m16s     |     3m37s       | 102M | 73.41%
  XZ   |   5m22s     |     5m39s       |  77M | 79.83%

The gain for restricted environnement seems to be interesting while
uncompress can be time consuming but happens only while loading a module,
that is generally done only once.

This is fully compatible with signed modules while the signed module is
compressed. module-init-tools or kmod handles decompression
and provide to other layer the uncompressed but signed payload.
Reviewed-by: default avatarWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBertrand Jacquin <beber@meleeweb.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      beb50df3
  19. 26 Aug, 2014 1 commit
  21. 18 Aug, 2014 1 commit
    • Josh Triplett's avatar
      mm: Support compiling out madvise and fadvise · d3ac21ca
      Josh Triplett authored 
      Many embedded systems will not need these syscalls, and omitting them
saves space.  Add a new EXPERT config option CONFIG_ADVISE_SYSCALLS
(default y) to support compiling them out.

bloat-o-meter:
add/remove: 0/3 grow/shrink: 0/0 up/down: 0/-2250 (-2250)
function                                     old     new   delta
sys_fadvise64                                 57       -     -57
sys_fadvise64_64                             691       -    -691
sys_madvise                                 1502       -   -1502
Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      d3ac21ca
  23. 14 Aug, 2014 1 commit
  25. 08 Aug, 2014 1 commit
    • Vivek Goyal's avatar
      kernel: build bin2c based on config option CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C · de5b56ba
      Vivek Goyal authored 
      currently bin2c builds only if CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y. But bin2c will now be
used by kexec too.  So make it compilation dependent on CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C
and this config option can be selected by CONFIG_KEXEC and CONFIG_IKCONFIG.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      de5b56ba
  27. 07 Aug, 2014 1 commit
    • Luis R. Rodriguez's avatar
      printk: allow increasing the ring buffer depending on the number of CPUs · 23b2899f
      Luis R. Rodriguez authored 
      The default size of the ring buffer is too small for machines with a
large amount of CPUs under heavy load.  What ends up happening when
debugging is the ring buffer overlaps and chews up old messages making
debugging impossible unless the size is passed as a kernel parameter.
An idle system upon boot up will on average spew out only about one or
two extra lines but where this really matters is on heavy load and that
will vary widely depending on the system and environment.

There are mechanisms to help increase the kernel ring buffer for tracing
through debugfs, and those interfaces even allow growing the kernel ring
buffer per CPU.  We also have a static value which can be passed upon
boot.  Relying on debugfs however is not ideal for production, and
relying on the value passed upon bootup is can only used *after* an
issue has creeped up.  Instead of being reactive this adds a proactive
measure which lets you scale the amount of contributions you'd expect to
the kernel ring buffer under load by each CPU in the worst case
scenario.

We use num_possible_cpus() to avoid complexities which could be
introduced by dynamically changing the ring buffer size at run time,
num_possible_cpus() lets us use the upper limit on possible number of
CPUs therefore avoiding having to deal with hotplugging CPUs on and off.
This introduces the kernel configuration option LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
which is used to specify the maximum amount of contributions to the
kernel ring buffer in the worst case before the kernel ring buffer flips
over, the size is specified as a power of 2.  The total amount of
contributions made by each CPU must be greater than half of the default
kernel ring buffer size (1 << LOG_BUF_SHIFT bytes) in order to trigger
an increase upon bootup.  The kernel ring buffer is increased to the
next power of two that would fit the required minimum kernel ring buffer
size plus the additional CPU contribution.  For example if LOG_BUF_SHIFT
is 18 (256 KB) you'd require at least 128 KB contributions by other CPUs
in order to trigger an increase of the kernel ring buffer.  With a
LOG_CPU_BUF_SHIFT of 12 (4 KB) you'd require at least anything over > 64
possible CPUs to trigger an increase.  If you had 128 possible CPUs the
amount of minimum required kernel ring buffer bumps to:

   ((1 << 18) + ((128 - 1) * (1 << 12))) / 1024 = 764 KB

Since we require the ring buffer to be a power of two the new required
size would be 1024 KB.

This CPU contributions are ignored when the "log_buf_len" kernel
parameter is used as it forces the exact size of the ring buffer to an
expected power of two value.

[pmladek@suse.cz: fix build]
Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Tested-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Tested-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Arun KS <arunks.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      23b2899f
  29. 09 Jul, 2014 1 commit
  31. 07 Jul, 2014 1 commit
    • Paul E. McKenney's avatar
      rcu: Don't offload callbacks unless specifically requested · b58cc46c
      Paul E. McKenney authored 
      Enabling NO_HZ_FULL currently has the side effect of enabling callback
offloading on all CPUs.  This results in lots of additional rcuo kthreads,
and can also increase context switching and wakeups, even in cases where
callback offloading is neither needed nor particularly desirable.  This
commit therefore enables callback offloading on a given CPU only if
specifically requested at build time or boot time, or if that CPU has
been specifically designated (again, either at build time or boot time)
as a nohz_full CPU.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      b58cc46c
  33. 04 Jun, 2014 4 commits
  35. 18 Apr, 2014 1 commit
  37. 07 Apr, 2014 1 commit
  39. 03 Apr, 2014 2 commits
  41. 20 Mar, 2014 2 commits
  43. 03 Mar, 2014 1 commit
  45. 11 Feb, 2014 1 commit
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      cgroup: convert to kernfs · 2bd59d48
      Tejun Heo authored 
      cgroup filesystem code was derived from the original sysfs
implementation which was heavily intertwined with vfs objects and
locking with the goal of re-using the existing vfs infrastructure.
That experiment turned out rather disastrous and sysfs switched, a
long time ago, to distributed filesystem model where a separate
representation is maintained which is queried by vfs.  Unfortunately,
cgroup stuck with the failed experiment all these years and
accumulated even more problems over time.

Locking and object lifetime management being entangled with vfs is
probably the most egregious.  vfs is never designed to be misused like
this and cgroup ends up jumping through various convoluted dancing to
make things work.  Even then, operations across multiple cgroups can't
be done safely as it'll deadlock with rename locking.

Recently, kernfs is separated out from sysfs so that it can be used by
users other than sysfs.  This patch converts cgroup to use kernfs,
which will bring the following benefits.

* Separation from vfs internals.  Locking and object lifetime
  management is contained in cgroup proper making things a lot
  simpler.  This removes significant amount of locking convolutions,
  hairy object lifetime rules and the restriction on multi-cgroup
  operations.

* Can drop a lot of code to implement filesystem interface as most are
  provided by kernfs.

* Proper "severing" semantics, which allows controllers to not worry
  about lingering file accesses after offline.

While the preceding patches did as much as possible to make the
transition less painful, large part of the conversion has to be one
discrete step making this patch rather large.  The rest of the commit
message lists notable changes in different areas.

Overall
-------

* vfs constructs replaced with kernfs ones.  cgroup->dentry w/ ->kn,
  cgroupfs_root->sb w/ ->kf_root.

* All dentry accessors are removed.  Helpers to map from kernfs
  constructs are added.

* All vfs plumbing around dentry, inode and bdi removed.

* cgroup_mount() now directly looks for matching root and then
  proceeds to create a new one if not found.

Synchronization and object lifetime
-----------------------------------

* vfs inode locking removed.  Among other things, this removes the
  need for the convolution in cgroup_cfts_commit().  Future patches
  will further simplify it.

* vfs refcnting replaced with cgroup internal ones.  cgroup->refcnt,
  cgroupfs_root->refcnt added.  cgroup_put_root() now directly puts
  root->refcnt and when it reaches zero proceeds to destroy it thus
  merging cgroup_put_root() and the former cgroup_kill_sb().
  Simliarly, cgroup_put() now directly schedules cgroup_free_rcu()
  when refcnt reaches zero.

* Unlike before, kernfs objects don't hold onto cgroup objects.  When
  cgroup destroys a kernfs node, all existing operations are drained
  and the association is broken immediately.  The same for
  cgroupfs_roots and mounts.

* All operations which come through kernfs guarantee that the
  associated cgroup is and stays valid for the duration of operation;
  however, there are two paths which need to find out the associated
  cgroup from dentry without going through kernfs -
  css_tryget_from_dir() and cgroupstats_build().  For these two,
  kernfs_node->priv is RCU managed so that they can dereference it
  under RCU read lock.

File and directory handling
---------------------------

* File and directory operations converted to kernfs_ops and
  kernfs_syscall_ops.

* xattrs is implicitly supported by kernfs.  No need to worry about it
  from cgroup.  This means that "xattr" mount option is no longer
  necessary.  A future patch will add a deprecated warning message
  when sane_behavior.

* When cftype->max_write_len > PAGE_SIZE, it's necessary to make a
  private copy of one of the kernfs_ops to set its atomic_write_len.
  cftype->kf_ops is added and cgroup_init/exit_cftypes() are updated
  to handle it.

* cftype->lockdep_key added so that kernfs lockdep annotation can be
  per cftype.

* Inidividual file entries and open states are now managed by kernfs.
  No need to worry about them from cgroup.  cfent, cgroup_open_file
  and their friends are removed.

* kernfs_nodes are created deactivated and kernfs_activate()
  invocations added to places where creation of new nodes are
  committed.

* cgroup_rmdir() uses kernfs_[un]break_active_protection() for
  self-removal.

v2: - Li pointed out in an earlier patch that specifying "name="
      during mount without subsystem specification should succeed if
      there's an existing hierarchy with a matching name although it
      should fail with -EINVAL if a new hierarchy should be created.
      Prior to the conversion, this used by handled by deferring
      failure from NULL return from cgroup_root_from_opts(), which was
      necessary because root was being created before checking for
      existing ones.  Note that cgroup_root_from_opts() returned an
      ERR_PTR() value for error conditions which require immediate
      mount failure.

      As we now have separate search and creation steps, deferring
      failure from cgroup_root_from_opts() is no longer necessary.
      cgroup_root_from_opts() is updated to always return ERR_PTR()
      value on failure.

    - The logic to match existing roots is updated so that a mount
      attempt with a matching name but different subsys_mask are
      rejected.  This was handled by a separate matching loop under
      the comment "Check for name clashes with existing mounts" but
      got lost during conversion.  Merge the check into the main
      search loop.

    - Add __rcu __force casting in RCU_INIT_POINTER() in
      cgroup_destroy_locked() to avoid the sparse address space
      warning reported by kbuild test bot.  Maybe we want an explicit
      interface to use kn->priv as RCU protected pointer?

v3: Make CONFIG_CGROUPS select CONFIG_KERNFS.

v4: Rebased on top of 0ab02ca8 ("cgroup: protect modifications to
    cgroup_idr with cgroup_mutex").
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarLi Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: kbuild test robot fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      2bd59d48
  47. 31 Jan, 2014 1 commit
  49. 11 Dec, 2013 1 commit
  51. 02 Dec, 2013 2 commits
  53. 27 Nov, 2013 1 commit
  55. 22 Nov, 2013 1 commit
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      cgroup, memcg: move cgroup_event implementation to memcg · 79bd9814
      Tejun Heo authored 
      cgroup_event is way over-designed and tries to build a generic
flexible event mechanism into cgroup - fully customizable event
specification for each user of the interface.  This is utterly
unnecessary and overboard especially in the light of the planned
unified hierarchy as there's gonna be single agent.  Simply generating
events at fixed points, or if that's too restrictive, configureable
cadence or single set of configureable points should be enough.

Thankfully, memcg is the only user and gets to keep it.  Replacing it
with something simpler on sane_behavior is strongly recommended.

This patch moves cgroup_event and "cgroup.event_control"
implementation to mm/memcontrol.c.  Clearing of events on cgroup
destruction is moved from cgroup_destroy_locked() to
mem_cgroup_css_offline(), which shouldn't make any noticeable
difference.

cgroup_css() and __file_cft() are exported to enable the move;
however, this will soon be reverted once the event code is updated to
be memcg specific.

Note that "cgroup.event_control" will now exist only on the hierarchy
with memcg attached to it.  While this change is visible to userland,
it is unlikely to be noticeable as the file has never been meaningful
outside memcg.

Aside from the above change, this is pure code relocation.

v2: Per Li Zefan's comments, init/Kconfig updated accordingly and
    poll.h inclusion moved from cgroup.c to memcontrol.c.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarLi Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
      79bd9814
  57. 17 Nov, 2013 1 commit
  59. 13 Nov, 2013 1 commit
  61. 07 Nov, 2013 1 commit
  63. 05 Nov, 2013 1 commit
    • Eric Paris's avatar
      audit: remove CONFIG_AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE · 83fa6bbe
      Eric Paris authored 
      After trying to use this feature in Fedora we found the hard coding
policy like this into the kernel was a bad idea.  Surprise surprise.
We ran into these problems because it was impossible to launch a
container as a logged in user and run a login daemon inside that container.
This reverts back to the old behavior before this option was added.  The
option will be re-added in a userspace selectable manor such that
userspace can choose when it is and when it is not appropriate.
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRichard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
      83fa6bbe
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