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About 6 months ago, I made a set of changes to how the core-dump-to-a-pipe
feature in the kernel works. We had reports of several races, including
some reports of apps bypassing our recursion check so that a process that
was forked as part of a core_pattern setup could infinitely crash and
refork until the system crashed.
We fixed those by improving our recursion checks. The new check basically
refuses to fork a process if its core limit is zero, which works well.
Unfortunately, I've been getting grief from maintainer of user space
programs that are inserted as the forked process of core_pattern. They
contend that in order for their programs (such as abrt and apport) to
work, all the running processes in a system must have their core limits
set to a non-zero value, to which I say 'yes'. I did this by design, and
think thats the right way to do things.
But I've been asked to ease this burden on user space enough times that I
thought I would take a look at it. The first suggestion was to make the
recursion check fail on a non-zero 'special' number, like one. That way
the core collector process could set its core size ulimit to 1, and enable
the kernel's recursion detection. This isn't a bad idea on the surface,
but I don't like it since its opt-in, in that if a program like abrt or
apport has a bug and fails to set such a core limit, we're left with a
recursively crashing system again.
So I've come up with this. What I've done is modify the
call_usermodehelper api such that an extra parameter is added, a function
pointer which will be called by the user helper task, after it forks, but
before it exec's the required process. This will give the caller the
opportunity to get a call back in the processes context, allowing it to do
whatever it needs to to the process in the kernel prior to exec-ing the
user space code. In the case of do_coredump, this callback is ues to set
the core ulimit of the helper process to 1. This elimnates the opt-in
problem that I had above, as it allows the ulimit for core sizes to be set
to the value of 1, which is what the recursion check looks for in
do_coredump.
This patch:
Create new function call_usermodehelper_fns() and allow it to assign both
an init and cleanup function, as we'll as arbitrary data.
The init function is called from the context of the forked process and
allows for customization of the helper process prior to calling exec. Its
return code gates the continuation of the process, or causes its exit.
Also add an arbitrary data pointer to the subprocess_info struct allowing
for data to be passed from the caller to the new process, and the
subsequent cleanup process
Also, use this patch to cleanup the cleanup function. It currently takes
an argp and envp pointer for freeing, which is ugly. Lets instead just
make the subprocess_info structure public, and pass that to the cleanup
and init routines
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Tridgell reports that aio_read(SIGEV_SIGNAL) can fail if the
notification from the helper thread races with setresuid(), see
http://samba.org/~tridge/junkcode/aio_uid.c
This happens because check_kill_permission() doesn't permit sending a
signal to the task with the different cred->xids. But there is not any
security reason to check ->cred's when the task sends a signal (private or
group-wide) to its sub-thread. Whatever we do, any thread can bypass all
security checks and send SIGKILL to all threads, or it can block a signal
SIG and do kill(gettid(), SIG) to deliver this signal to another
sub-thread. Not to mention that CLONE_THREAD implies CLONE_VM.
Change check_kill_permission() to avoid the credentials check when the
sender and the target are from the same thread group.
Also, move "cred = current_cred()" down to avoid calling get_current()
twice.
Note: David Howells pointed out we could relax this even more, the
CLONE_SIGHAND (without CLONE_THREAD) case probably does not need
these checks too.
Roland said:
: The glibc (libpthread) that does set*id across threads has
: been in use for a while (2.3.4?), probably in distro's using kernels as old
: or older than any active -stable streams. In the race in question, this
: kernel bug is breaking valid POSIX application expectations.
Reported-by: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [all kernel versions]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Now that Mike Frysinger unified the FDPIC ptrace code, we can fix the
unsafe usage of child->mm in ptrace_request(PTRACE_GETFDPIC).
We have the reference to task_struct, and ptrace_check_attach() verified
the tracee is stopped. But nothing can protect from SIGKILL after that,
we must not assume child->mm != NULL.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The Blackfin/FRV/SuperH guys all have the same exact FDPIC ptrace code in
their arch handlers (since they were probably copied & pasted). Since
these ptrace interfaces are an arch independent aspect of the FDPIC code,
unify them in the common ptrace code so new FDPIC ports don't need to copy
and paste this fundamental stuff yet again.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Some workloads that create a large number of small files tend to assign
too many pages to node 0 (multi-node systems). Part of the reason is that
the rotor (in cpuset_mem_spread_node()) used to assign nodes starts at
node 0 for newly created tasks.
This patch changes the rotor to be initialized to a random node number of
the cpuset.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix layout]
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Define stub numa_random() for !NUMA configuration]
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We have observed several workloads running on multi-node systems where
memory is assigned unevenly across the nodes in the system. There are
numerous reasons for this but one is the round-robin rotor in
cpuset_mem_spread_node().
For example, a simple test that writes a multi-page file will allocate
pages on nodes 0 2 4 6 ... Odd nodes are skipped. (Sometimes it
allocates on odd nodes & skips even nodes).
An example is shown below. The program "lfile" writes a file consisting
of 10 pages. The program then mmaps the file & uses get_mempolicy(...,
MPOL_F_NODE) to determine the nodes where the file pages were allocated.
The output is shown below:
# ./lfile
allocated on nodes: 2 4 6 0 1 2 6 0 2
There is a single rotor that is used for allocating both file pages & slab
pages. Writing the file allocates both a data page & a slab page
(buffer_head). This advances the RR rotor 2 nodes for each page
allocated.
A quick confirmation seems to confirm this is the cause of the uneven
allocation:
# echo 0 >/dev/cpuset/memory_spread_slab
# ./lfile
allocated on nodes: 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
This patch introduces a second rotor that is used for slab allocations.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Since we are unable to handle an error returned by
cftype.unregister_event() properly, let's make the callback
void-returning.
mem_cgroup_unregister_event() has been rewritten to be a "never fail"
function. On mem_cgroup_usage_register_event() we save old buffer for
thresholds array and reuse it in mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event() to
avoid allocation.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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hrtimer_get_softirq_time() has it's own xtime lock protection, so it's
safe to use plain __current_kernel_time() and avoid the double seqlock
loop.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
LKML-Reference: <20100525214912.GA1934@r2bh72.net.upc.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Fix nit-picking coding style detail.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (63 commits)
drivers/net/usb/asix.c: Fix pointer cast.
be2net: Bug fix to avoid disabling bottom half during firmware upgrade.
proc_dointvec: write a single value
hso: add support for new products
Phonet: fix potential use-after-free in pep_sock_close()
ath9k: remove VEOL support for ad-hoc
ath9k: change beacon allocation to prefer the first beacon slot
sock.h: fix kernel-doc warning
cls_cgroup: Fix build error when built-in
macvlan: do proper cleanup in macvlan_common_newlink() V2
be2net: Bug fix in init code in probe
net/dccp: expansion of error code size
ath9k: Fix rx of mcast/bcast frames in PS mode with auto sleep
wireless: fix sta_info.h kernel-doc warnings
wireless: fix mac80211.h kernel-doc warnings
iwlwifi: testing the wrong variable in iwl_add_bssid_station()
ath9k_htc: rare leak in ath9k_hif_usb_alloc_tx_urbs()
ath9k_htc: dereferencing before check in hif_usb_tx_cb()
rt2x00: Fix rt2800usb TX descriptor writing.
rt2x00: Fix failed SLEEP->AWAKE and AWAKE->SLEEP transitions.
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initialization."
This reverts commit 480b02df3aa9f07d1c7df0cd8be7a5ca73893455, since
Rafael reports that it causes occasional kernel paging request faults in
load_module().
Dropping the module lock and re-taking it deep in the call-chain is
definitely not the right thing to do. That just turns the mutex from a
lock into a "random non-locking data structure" that doesn't actually
protect what it's supposed to protect.
Requested-and-tested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The commit 00b7c3395aec3df43de5bd02a3c5a099ca51169f
"sysctl: refactor integer handling proc code"
modified the behaviour of writing to /proc.
Before the commit, write("1\n") to /proc/sys/kernel/printk succeeded. But
now it returns EINVAL.
This commit supports writing a single value to a multi-valued entry.
Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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commit f00e047ef (timers: Fix slack calculation for expired timers)
fixed the issue of slack on expired timers only partially. Linus
noticed that jiffies is volatile so it is reloaded twice, which
generates bad code.
But its worse. This can defeat the time_after() check if jiffies are
incremented between time_after() and the slack calculation.
Fix it by reading jiffies into a local variable, which prevents the
compiler from loading it twice. While at it make the > -1 check into
>= 0 which is easier to read.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently the trace splice code zeros out the excess bytes in the page before
sending it off to userspace.
This is to make sure userspace is not getting anything it should not be
when reading the pages, because the excess data was never initialized
to zero before writing (for perfomance reasons).
But the splice code has no business in doing this work, it should be
done by the ring buffer. With the latest changes for recording lost
events, the splice code gets it wrong anyway.
Move the zeroing out of excess bytes into the ring buffer code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The code to store the "lost events" requires knowing the real end
of the page. Since the 'commit' includes the padding at the end of
a page a "real_end" variable was used to keep track of the end not
including the padding.
If events were lost, the reader can place the count of events in
the padded area if there is enough room.
The bug this patch fixes is that when we fill the page we do not
reset the real_end variable, and if the writer had wrapped a few
times, the real_end would be incorrect.
This patch simply resets the real_end if the page was filled.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Remove own implementation of hex_to_bin().
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <ext-andriy.shevchenko@nokia.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Minor cleanup on duplicate __{start/stop}__ksymtab_gpl_future.
Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add global mutex zonelists_mutex to fix the possible race:
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2
(1) zone->present_pages += online_pages;
(2) build_all_zonelists();
(3) alloc_page();
(4) free_page();
(5) build_all_zonelists();
(6) __build_all_zonelists();
(7) zone->pageset = alloc_percpu();
In step (3,4), zone->pageset still points to boot_pageset, so bad
things may happen if 2+ nodes are in this state. Even if only 1 node
is accessing the boot_pageset, (3) may still consume too much memory
to fail the memory allocations in step (7).
Besides, atomic operation ensures alloc_percpu() in step (7) will never fail
since there is a new fresh memory block added in step(6).
[haicheng.li@linux.intel.com: hold zonelists_mutex when build_all_zonelists]
Signed-off-by: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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For each new populated zone of hotadded node, need to update its pagesets
with dynamically allocated per_cpu_pageset struct for all possible CPUs:
1) Detach zone->pageset from the shared boot_pageset
at end of __build_all_zonelists().
2) Use mutex to protect zone->pageset when it's still
shared in onlined_pages()
Otherwises, multiple zones of different nodes would share same boot strapping
boot_pageset for same CPU, which will finally cause below kernel panic:
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:1239!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff811300c1>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x131/0x7b0
[<ffffffff81162e67>] alloc_pages_current+0x87/0xd0
[<ffffffff81128407>] __page_cache_alloc+0x67/0x70
[<ffffffff811325f0>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x120/0x260
[<ffffffff81132751>] ra_submit+0x21/0x30
[<ffffffff811329c6>] ondemand_readahead+0x166/0x2c0
[<ffffffff81132ba0>] page_cache_async_readahead+0x80/0xa0
[<ffffffff8112a0e4>] generic_file_aio_read+0x364/0x670
[<ffffffff81266cfa>] nfs_file_read+0xca/0x130
[<ffffffff8117b20a>] do_sync_read+0xfa/0x140
[<ffffffff8117bf75>] vfs_read+0xb5/0x1a0
[<ffffffff8117c151>] sys_read+0x51/0x80
[<ffffffff8103c032>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
RIP [<ffffffff8112ff13>] get_page_from_freelist+0x883/0x900
RSP <ffff88000d1e78a8>
---[ end trace 4bda28328b9990db ]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: merge fix]
Signed-off-by: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Enable users to online CPUs even if the CPUs belongs to a numa node which
doesn't have onlined local memory.
The zonlists(pg_data_t.node_zonelists[]) of a numa node are created either
in system boot/init period, or at the time of local memory online. For a
numa node without onlined local memory, its zonelists are not initialized
at present. As a result, any memory allocation operations executed by
CPUs within this node will fail. In fact, an out-of-memory error is
triggered when attempt to online CPUs before memory comes to online.
This patch tries to create zonelists for such numa nodes, so that the
memory allocation for this node can be fallback'ed to other nodes.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded export]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: minskey guo<chaohong.guo@intel.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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and when it should be reclaimed
The kernel applies some heuristics when deciding if memory should be
compacted or reclaimed to satisfy a high-order allocation. One of these
is based on the fragmentation. If the index is below 500, memory will not
be compacted. This choice is arbitrary and not based on data. To help
optimise the system and set a sensible default for this value, this patch
adds a sysctl extfrag_threshold. The kernel will only compact memory if
the fragmentation index is above the extfrag_threshold.
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: Fix build errors when proc fs is not configured]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add a proc file /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory. When an arbitrary value is
written to the file, all zones are compacted. The expected user of such a
trigger is a job scheduler that prepares the system before the target
application runs.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Before applying this patch, cpuset updates task->mems_allowed and
mempolicy by setting all new bits in the nodemask first, and clearing all
old unallowed bits later. But in the way, the allocator may find that
there is no node to alloc memory.
The reason is that cpuset rebinds the task's mempolicy, it cleans the
nodes which the allocater can alloc pages on, for example:
(mpol: mempolicy)
task1 task1's mpol task2
alloc page 1
alloc on node0? NO 1
1 change mems from 1 to 0
1 rebind task1's mpol
0-1 set new bits
0 clear disallowed bits
alloc on node1? NO 0
...
can't alloc page
goto oom
This patch fixes this problem by expanding the nodes range first(set newly
allowed bits) and shrink it lazily(clear newly disallowed bits). So we
use a variable to tell the write-side task that read-side task is reading
nodemask, and the write-side task clears newly disallowed nodes after
read-side task ends the current memory allocation.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nick Piggin reported that the allocator may see an empty nodemask when
changing cpuset's mems[1]. It happens only on the kernel that do not do
atomic nodemask_t stores. (MAX_NUMNODES > BITS_PER_LONG)
But I found that there is also a problem on the kernel that can do atomic
nodemask_t stores. The problem is that the allocator can't find a node to
alloc page when changing cpuset's mems though there is a lot of free
memory. The reason is like this:
(mpol: mempolicy)
task1 task1's mpol task2
alloc page 1
alloc on node0? NO 1
1 change mems from 1 to 0
1 rebind task1's mpol
0-1 set new bits
0 clear disallowed bits
alloc on node1? NO 0
...
can't alloc page
goto oom
I can use the attached program reproduce it by the following step:
# mkdir /dev/cpuset
# mount -t cpuset cpuset /dev/cpuset
# mkdir /dev/cpuset/1
# echo `cat /dev/cpuset/cpus` > /dev/cpuset/1/cpus
# echo `cat /dev/cpuset/mems` > /dev/cpuset/1/mems
# echo $$ > /dev/cpuset/1/tasks
# numactl --membind=`cat /dev/cpuset/mems` ./cpuset_mem_hog <nr_tasks> &
<nr_tasks> = max(nr_cpus - 1, 1)
# killall -s SIGUSR1 cpuset_mem_hog
# ./change_mems.sh
several hours later, oom will happen though there is a lot of free memory.
This patchset fixes this problem by expanding the nodes range first(set
newly allowed bits) and shrink it lazily(clear newly disallowed bits). So
we use a variable to tell the write-side task that read-side task is
reading nodemask, and the write-side task clears newly disallowed nodes
after read-side task ends the current memory allocation.
This patch:
In order to fix no node to alloc memory, when we want to update mempolicy
and mems_allowed, we expand the set of nodes first (set all the newly
nodes) and shrink the set of nodes lazily(clean disallowed nodes), But the
mempolicy's rebind functions may breaks the expanding.
So we restructure the mempolicy's rebind functions and split the rebind
work to two steps, just like the update of cpuset's mems: The 1st step:
expand the set of the mempolicy's nodes. The 2nd step: shrink the set of
the mempolicy's nodes. It is used when there is no real lock to protect
the mempolicy in the read-side. Otherwise we can do rebind work at once.
In order to implement it, we define
enum mpol_rebind_step {
MPOL_REBIND_ONCE,
MPOL_REBIND_STEP1,
MPOL_REBIND_STEP2,
MPOL_REBIND_NSTEP,
};
If the mempolicy needn't be updated by two steps, we can pass
MPOL_REBIND_ONCE to the rebind functions. Or we can pass
MPOL_REBIND_STEP1 to do the first step of the rebind work and pass
MPOL_REBIND_STEP2 to do the second step work.
Besides that, it maybe long time between these two step and we have to
release the lock that protects mempolicy and mems_allowed. If we hold the
lock once again, we must check whether the current mempolicy is under the
rebinding (the first step has been done) or not, because the task may
alloc a new mempolicy when we don't hold the lock. So we defined the
following flag to identify it:
#define MPOL_F_REBINDING (1 << 2)
The new functions will be used in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch b7e2ecef92 (perf, trace: Optimize tracepoints by removing
IRQ-disable from perf/tracepoint interaction) made the
unfortunate mistake of assuming the world is x86 only, correct
this.
The problem was that perf_fetch_caller_regs() did
local_save_flags() into regs->flags, and I re-used that to
remove another local_save_flags(), forgetting !x86 doesn't have
regs->flags.
Do the reverse, remove the local_save_flags() from
perf_fetch_caller_regs() and let the ftrace site do the
local_save_flags() instead.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <1274778175.5882.623.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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commit 3bbb9ec946 (timers: Introduce the concept of timer slack for
legacy timers) does not take the case into account when the timer is
already expired. This broke wireless drivers.
The solution is not to apply slack to already expired timers.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
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commit 64ce4c2f (time: Clean up warp_clock()) breaks the timezone
update in a very subtle way. To avoid the direct access to timekeeping
internals it adds the timezone delta to the current time with
timespec_add_safe(). This works nicely when the timezone delta is > 0.
If timezone delta is < 0 then the wrap check in timespec_add_safe()
triggers and timespec_add_safe() returns TIME_MAX and screws up
timekeeping completely.
The comment above timespec_add_safe() says:
It's assumed that both values are valid (>= 0)
Add the timezone seconds adjustment directly.
Reported-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Tested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (36 commits)
PCI: hotplug: pciehp: Removed check for hotplug of display devices
PCI: read memory ranges out of Broadcom CNB20LE host bridge
PCI: Allow manual resource allocation for PCI hotplug bridges
x86/PCI: make ACPI MCFG reserved error messages ACPI specific
PCI hotplug: Use kmemdup
PM/PCI: Update PCI power management documentation
PCI: output FW warning in pci_read/write_vpd
PCI: fix typos pci_device_dis/enable to pci_dis/enable_device in comments
PCI quirks: disable msi on AMD rs4xx internal gfx bridges
PCI: Disable MSI for MCP55 on P5N32-E SLI
x86/PCI: irq and pci_ids patch for additional Intel Cougar Point DeviceIDs
PCI: aerdrv: trivial cleanup for aerdrv_core.c
PCI: aerdrv: trivial cleanup for aerdrv.c
PCI: aerdrv: introduce default_downstream_reset_link
PCI: aerdrv: rework find_aer_service
PCI: aerdrv: remove is_downstream
PCI: aerdrv: remove magical ROOT_ERR_STATUS_MASKS
PCI: aerdrv: redefine PCI_ERR_ROOT_*_SRC
PCI: aerdrv: rework do_recovery
PCI: aerdrv: rework get_e_source()
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* git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6:
intel-iommu: Set a more specific taint flag for invalid BIOS DMAR tables
intel-iommu: Combine the BIOS DMAR table warning messages
panic: Add taint flag TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND ('I')
panic: Allow warnings to set different taint flags
intel-iommu: intel_iommu_map_range failed at very end of address space
intel-iommu: errors with smaller iommu widths
intel-iommu: Fix boot inside 64bit virtualbox with io-apic disabled
intel-iommu: use physfn to search drhd for VF
intel-iommu: Print out iommu seq_id
intel-iommu: Don't complain that ACPI_DMAR_SCOPE_TYPE_IOAPIC is not supported
intel-iommu: Avoid global flushes with caching mode.
intel-iommu: Use correct domain ID when caching mode is enabled
intel-iommu mistakenly uses offset_pfn when caching mode is enabled
intel-iommu: use for_each_set_bit()
intel-iommu: Fix section mismatch dmar_ir_support() uses dmar_tbl.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* 'modules' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
module: drop the lock while waiting for module to complete initialization.
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(isapnp, ...) does nothing
hisax_fcpcipnp: fix broken isapnp device table.
isapnp: move definitions to mod_devicetable.h so file2alias can reach them.
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* 'for-2.6.35' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (86 commits)
pipe: set lower and upper limit on max pages in the pipe page array
pipe: add support for shrinking and growing pipes
drbd: This is now equivalent to drbd release 8.3.8rc1
drbd: Do not free p_uuid early, this is done in the exit code of the receiver
drbd: Null pointer deref fix to the large "multi bio rewrite"
drbd: Fix: Do not detach, if a bio with a barrier fails
drbd: Ensure to not trigger late-new-UUID creation multiple times
drbd: Do not Oops when C_STANDALONE when uuid gets generated
writeback: fix mixed up arguments to bdi_start_writeback()
writeback: fix problem with !CONFIG_BLOCK compilation
block: improve automatic native capacity unlocking
block: use struct parsed_partitions *state universally in partition check code
block,ide: simplify bdops->set_capacity() to ->unlock_native_capacity()
block: restart partition scan after resizing a device
buffer: make invalidate_bdev() drain all percpu LRU add caches
block: remove all rcu head initializations
writeback: fixups for !dirty_writeback_centisecs
writeback: bdi_writeback_task() must set task state before calling schedule()
writeback: ensure that WB_SYNC_NONE writeback with sb pinned is sync
drivers/block/drbd: Use kzalloc
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Fix kernel-doc warnings, kernel-doc special characters, and
typos in recent kernel/sysctl.c additions.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (46 commits)
random: simplify fips mode
crypto: authenc - Fix cryptlen calculation
crypto: talitos - add support for sha224
crypto: talitos - add hash algorithms
crypto: talitos - second prepare step for adding ahash algorithms
crypto: talitos - prepare for adding ahash algorithms
crypto: n2 - Add Niagara2 crypto driver
crypto: skcipher - Add ablkcipher_walk interfaces
crypto: testmgr - Add testing for async hashing and update/final
crypto: tcrypt - Add speed tests for async hashing
crypto: scatterwalk - Fix scatterwalk_done() test
crypto: hifn_795x - Rename ablkcipher_walk to hifn_cipher_walk
padata: Use get_online_cpus/put_online_cpus in padata_free
padata: Add some code comments
padata: Flush the padata queues actively
padata: Use a timer to handle remaining objects in the reorder queues
crypto: shash - Remove usage of CRYPTO_MINALIGN
crypto: mv_cesa - Use resource_size
crypto: omap - OMAP macros corrected
padata: Use get_online_cpus/put_online_cpus
...
Fix up conflicts in arch/arm/mach-omap2/devices.c
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Conflicts:
fs/ext3/fsync.c
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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We need at least two to guarantee proper POSIX behaviour, so
never allow a smaller limit than that.
Also expose a /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-pages sysctl file that allows
root to define a sane upper limit. Make it default to 16 times the
default size, which is 16 pages.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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This patch adds F_GETPIPE_SZ and F_SETPIPE_SZ fcntl() actions for
growing and shrinking the size of a pipe and adjusts pipe.c and splice.c
(and relay and network splice) usage to work with these larger (or smaller)
pipes.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb
* 'dbg-early-merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb:
echi-dbgp: Add kernel debugger support for the usb debug port
earlyprintk,vga,kdb: Fix \b and \r for earlyprintk=vga with kdb
kgdboc: Add ekgdboc for early use of the kernel debugger
x86,early dr regs,kgdb: Allow kernel debugger early dr register access
x86,kgdb: Implement early hardware breakpoint debugging
x86, kgdb, init: Add early and late debug states
x86, kgdb: early trap init for early debug
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb
* 'kdb-merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: (25 commits)
kdb,debug_core: Allow the debug core to receive a panic notification
MAINTAINERS: update kgdb, kdb, and debug_core info
debug_core,kdb: Allow the debug core to process a recursive debug entry
printk,kdb: capture printk() when in kdb shell
kgdboc,kdb: Allow kdb to work on a non open console port
kgdb: Add the ability to schedule a breakpoint via a tasklet
mips,kgdb: kdb low level trap catch and stack trace
powerpc,kgdb: Introduce low level trap catching
x86,kgdb: Add low level debug hook
kgdb: remove post_primary_code references
kgdb,docs: Update the kgdb docs to include kdb
kgdboc,keyboard: Keyboard driver for kdb with kgdb
kgdb: gdb "monitor" -> kdb passthrough
sparc,sunzilog: Add console polling support for sunzilog serial driver
sh,sh-sci: Use NO_POLL_CHAR in the SCIF polled console code
kgdb,8250,pl011: Return immediately from console poll
kgdb: core changes to support kdb
kdb: core for kgdb back end (2 of 2)
kdb: core for kgdb back end (1 of 2)
kgdb,blackfin: Add in kgdb_arch_set_pc for blackfin
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This allows bin_attr->read,write,mmap callbacks to check file specific data
(such as inode owner) as part of any privilege validation.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The conversion of device->sem to device->mutex resulted in lockdep
warnings. Create a novalidate class for now until the driver folks
come up with separate classes. That way we have at least the basic
mutex debugging coverage.
Add a checkpatch error so the usage is reserved for device->mutex.
[ tglx: checkpatch and compile fix for LOCKDEP=n ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Of the three uses of kref_set in the kernel:
One really should be kref_put as the code is letting go of a
reference,
Two really should be kref_init because the kref is being
initialised.
This suggests that making kref_set available encourages bad code.
So fix the three uses and remove kref_set completely.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip into trace/tip/tracing/core-7
Conflicts:
include/linux/ftrace_event.h
include/trace/ftrace.h
kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (182 commits)
[SCSI] aacraid: add an ifdef'd device delete case instead of taking the device offline
[SCSI] aacraid: prohibit access to array container space
[SCSI] aacraid: add support for handling ATA pass-through commands.
[SCSI] aacraid: expose physical devices for models with newer firmware
[SCSI] aacraid: respond automatically to volumes added by config tool
[SCSI] fcoe: fix fcoe module ref counting
[SCSI] libfcoe: FIP Keep-Alive messages for VPorts are sent with incorrect port_id and wwn
[SCSI] libfcoe: Fix incorrect MAC address clearing
[SCSI] fcoe: fix a circular locking issue with rtnl and sysfs mutex
[SCSI] libfc: Move the port_id into lport
[SCSI] fcoe: move link speed checking into its own routine
[SCSI] libfc: Remove extra pointer check
[SCSI] libfc: Remove unused fc_get_host_port_type
[SCSI] fcoe: fixes wrong error exit in fcoe_create
[SCSI] libfc: set seq_id for incoming sequence
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Updates to ISP82xx support.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Optionally disable target reset.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: ensure flash operation and host reset via sg_reset are mutually exclusive
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Silence bogus warning by gcc for wrap and did.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: T10 DIF support added.
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Since we know tracepoints come from kernel context,
avoid conditionals that try and establish that very
fact.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100521090710.904944001@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Sanity checks cost instructions.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100521090710.852926930@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Reduce code and data by using the knowledge that for
!PERF_USE_VMALLOC data_order is always 0.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100521090710.795019386@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Reduce the clutter in perf_output_copy() by keeping
an interator in perf_output_handle.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100521090710.742809176@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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RO mmap()s don't update the tail pointer, so
comparing against it for determining the written data
size doesn't really do any good.
Keep track of when we last did a wakeup, and compare
against that.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100521090710.684479310@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Since we want to ensure buffers only have a single
writer, we must avoid creating one with multiple.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100521090710.528215873@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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track events
Avoid the swevent hash-table by using per-tracepoint
hlists.
Also, avoid conditionals on the fast path by ordering
with probe unregister so that we should never get on
the callback path without the data being there.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100521090710.473188012@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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