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<title>Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux</title>
<updated>2015-07-01T17:49:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-01T17:49:25+00:00</published>
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Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "Main excitement here is Peter Zijlstra's lockless rbtree optimization
  to speed module address lookup.  He found some abusers of the module
  lock doing that too.

  A little bit of parameter work here too; including Dan Streetman's
  breaking up the big param mutex so writing a parameter can load
  another module (yeah, really).  Unfortunately that broke the usual
  suspects, !CONFIG_MODULES and !CONFIG_SYSFS, so those fixes were
  appended too"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (26 commits)
  modules: only use mod-&gt;param_lock if CONFIG_MODULES
  param: fix module param locks when !CONFIG_SYSFS.
  rcu: merge fix for Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()
  module: add per-module param_lock
  module: make perm const
  params: suppress unused variable error, warn once just in case code changes.
  modules: clarify CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS help, suggest 'N'.
  kernel/module.c: avoid ifdefs for sig_enforce declaration
  kernel/workqueue.c: remove ifdefs over wq_power_efficient
  kernel/params.c: export param_ops_bool_enable_only
  kernel/params.c: generalize bool_enable_only
  kernel/module.c: use generic module param operaters for sig_enforce
  kernel/params: constify struct kernel_param_ops uses
  sysfs: tightened sysfs permission checks
  module: Rework module_addr_{min,max}
  module: Use __module_address() for module_address_lookup()
  module: Make the mod_tree stuff conditional on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
  module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched RB-tree
  rbtree: Implement generic latch_tree
  seqlock: Introduce raw_read_seqcount_latch()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "Main excitement here is Peter Zijlstra's lockless rbtree optimization
  to speed module address lookup.  He found some abusers of the module
  lock doing that too.

  A little bit of parameter work here too; including Dan Streetman's
  breaking up the big param mutex so writing a parameter can load
  another module (yeah, really).  Unfortunately that broke the usual
  suspects, !CONFIG_MODULES and !CONFIG_SYSFS, so those fixes were
  appended too"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (26 commits)
  modules: only use mod-&gt;param_lock if CONFIG_MODULES
  param: fix module param locks when !CONFIG_SYSFS.
  rcu: merge fix for Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()
  module: add per-module param_lock
  module: make perm const
  params: suppress unused variable error, warn once just in case code changes.
  modules: clarify CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS help, suggest 'N'.
  kernel/module.c: avoid ifdefs for sig_enforce declaration
  kernel/workqueue.c: remove ifdefs over wq_power_efficient
  kernel/params.c: export param_ops_bool_enable_only
  kernel/params.c: generalize bool_enable_only
  kernel/module.c: use generic module param operaters for sig_enforce
  kernel/params: constify struct kernel_param_ops uses
  sysfs: tightened sysfs permission checks
  module: Rework module_addr_{min,max}
  module: Use __module_address() for module_address_lookup()
  module: Make the mod_tree stuff conditional on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
  module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched RB-tree
  rbtree: Implement generic latch_tree
  seqlock: Introduce raw_read_seqcount_latch()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus</title>
<updated>2015-06-27T19:44:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-27T19:44:34+00:00</published>
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Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:

 - Improvements to the tlb_dump code
 - KVM fixes
 - Add support for appended DTB
 - Minor improvements to the R12000 support
 - Minor improvements to the R12000 support
 - Various platform improvments for BCM47xx
 - The usual pile of minor cleanups
 - A number of BPF fixes and improvments
 - Some improvments to the support for R3000 and DECstations
 - Some improvments to the ATH79 platform support
 - A major patchset for the JZ4740 SOC adding support for the CI20 platform
 - Add support for the Pistachio SOC
 - Minor BMIPS/BCM63xx platform support improvments.
 - Avoid "SYNC 0" as memory barrier when unlocking spinlocks
 - Add support for the XWR-1750 board.
 - Paul's __cpuinit/__cpuinitdata cleanups.
 - New Malta CPU board support large memory so enable ZONE_DMA32.

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (131 commits)
  MIPS: spinlock: Adjust arch_spin_lock back-off time
  MIPS: asmmacro: Ensure 64-bit FP registers are used with MSA
  MIPS: BCM47xx: Simplify handling SPROM revisions
  MIPS: Cobalt Don't use module_init in non-modular MTD registration.
  MIPS: BCM47xx: Move NVRAM driver to the drivers/firmware/
  MIPS: use for_each_sg()
  MIPS: BCM47xx: Don't select BCMA_HOST_PCI
  MIPS: BCM47xx: Add helper variable for storing NVRAM length
  MIPS: IRQ/IP27: Move IRQ allocation API to platform code.
  MIPS: Replace smp_mb with release barrier function in unlocks.
  MIPS: i8259: DT support
  MIPS: Malta: Basic DT plumbing
  MIPS: include errno.h for ENODEV in mips-cm.h
  MIPS: Define GCR_GIC_STATUS register fields
  MIPS: BPF: Introduce BPF ASM helpers
  MIPS: BPF: Use BPF register names to describe the ABI
  MIPS: BPF: Move register definition to the BPF header
  MIPS: net: BPF: Replace RSIZE with SZREG
  MIPS: BPF: Free up some callee-saved registers
  MIPS: Xtalk: Update xwidget.h with known Xtalk device numbers
  ...
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<pre>
Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:

 - Improvements to the tlb_dump code
 - KVM fixes
 - Add support for appended DTB
 - Minor improvements to the R12000 support
 - Minor improvements to the R12000 support
 - Various platform improvments for BCM47xx
 - The usual pile of minor cleanups
 - A number of BPF fixes and improvments
 - Some improvments to the support for R3000 and DECstations
 - Some improvments to the ATH79 platform support
 - A major patchset for the JZ4740 SOC adding support for the CI20 platform
 - Add support for the Pistachio SOC
 - Minor BMIPS/BCM63xx platform support improvments.
 - Avoid "SYNC 0" as memory barrier when unlocking spinlocks
 - Add support for the XWR-1750 board.
 - Paul's __cpuinit/__cpuinitdata cleanups.
 - New Malta CPU board support large memory so enable ZONE_DMA32.

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (131 commits)
  MIPS: spinlock: Adjust arch_spin_lock back-off time
  MIPS: asmmacro: Ensure 64-bit FP registers are used with MSA
  MIPS: BCM47xx: Simplify handling SPROM revisions
  MIPS: Cobalt Don't use module_init in non-modular MTD registration.
  MIPS: BCM47xx: Move NVRAM driver to the drivers/firmware/
  MIPS: use for_each_sg()
  MIPS: BCM47xx: Don't select BCMA_HOST_PCI
  MIPS: BCM47xx: Add helper variable for storing NVRAM length
  MIPS: IRQ/IP27: Move IRQ allocation API to platform code.
  MIPS: Replace smp_mb with release barrier function in unlocks.
  MIPS: i8259: DT support
  MIPS: Malta: Basic DT plumbing
  MIPS: include errno.h for ENODEV in mips-cm.h
  MIPS: Define GCR_GIC_STATUS register fields
  MIPS: BPF: Introduce BPF ASM helpers
  MIPS: BPF: Use BPF register names to describe the ABI
  MIPS: BPF: Move register definition to the BPF header
  MIPS: net: BPF: Replace RSIZE with SZREG
  MIPS: BPF: Free up some callee-saved registers
  MIPS: Xtalk: Update xwidget.h with known Xtalk device numbers
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2015-06-25T03:47:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-25T03:47:21+00:00</published>
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Merge first patchbomb from Andrew Morton:

 - a few misc things

 - ocfs2 udpates

 - kernel/watchdog.c feature work (took ages to get right)

 - most of MM.  A few tricky bits are held up and probably won't make 4.2.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (91 commits)
  mm: kmemleak_alloc_percpu() should follow the gfp from per_alloc()
  mm, thp: respect MPOL_PREFERRED policy with non-local node
  tmpfs: truncate prealloc blocks past i_size
  mm/memory hotplug: print the last vmemmap region at the end of hot add memory
  mm/mmap.c: optimization of do_mmap_pgoff function
  mm: kmemleak: optimise kmemleak_lock acquiring during kmemleak_scan
  mm: kmemleak: avoid deadlock on the kmemleak object insertion error path
  mm: kmemleak: do not acquire scan_mutex in kmemleak_do_cleanup()
  mm: kmemleak: fix delete_object_*() race when called on the same memory block
  mm: kmemleak: allow safe memory scanning during kmemleak disabling
  memcg: convert mem_cgroup-&gt;under_oom from atomic_t to int
  memcg: remove unused mem_cgroup-&gt;oom_wakeups
  frontswap: allow multiple backends
  x86, mirror: x86 enabling - find mirrored memory ranges
  mm/memblock: allocate boot time data structures from mirrored memory
  mm/memblock: add extra "flags" to memblock to allow selection of memory based on attribute
  mm: do not ignore mapping_gfp_mask in page cache allocation paths
  mm/cma.c: fix typos in comments
  mm/oom_kill.c: print points as unsigned int
  mm/hugetlb: handle races in alloc_huge_page and hugetlb_reserve_pages
  ...
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<pre>
Merge first patchbomb from Andrew Morton:

 - a few misc things

 - ocfs2 udpates

 - kernel/watchdog.c feature work (took ages to get right)

 - most of MM.  A few tricky bits are held up and probably won't make 4.2.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (91 commits)
  mm: kmemleak_alloc_percpu() should follow the gfp from per_alloc()
  mm, thp: respect MPOL_PREFERRED policy with non-local node
  tmpfs: truncate prealloc blocks past i_size
  mm/memory hotplug: print the last vmemmap region at the end of hot add memory
  mm/mmap.c: optimization of do_mmap_pgoff function
  mm: kmemleak: optimise kmemleak_lock acquiring during kmemleak_scan
  mm: kmemleak: avoid deadlock on the kmemleak object insertion error path
  mm: kmemleak: do not acquire scan_mutex in kmemleak_do_cleanup()
  mm: kmemleak: fix delete_object_*() race when called on the same memory block
  mm: kmemleak: allow safe memory scanning during kmemleak disabling
  memcg: convert mem_cgroup-&gt;under_oom from atomic_t to int
  memcg: remove unused mem_cgroup-&gt;oom_wakeups
  frontswap: allow multiple backends
  x86, mirror: x86 enabling - find mirrored memory ranges
  mm/memblock: allocate boot time data structures from mirrored memory
  mm/memblock: add extra "flags" to memblock to allow selection of memory based on attribute
  mm: do not ignore mapping_gfp_mask in page cache allocation paths
  mm/cma.c: fix typos in comments
  mm/oom_kill.c: print points as unsigned int
  mm/hugetlb: handle races in alloc_huge_page and hugetlb_reserve_pages
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input</title>
<updated>2015-06-25T02:56:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-25T02:56:58+00:00</published>
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Pull input subsystem updates from Dmitry Torokhov:
 "Thanks to Samuel Thibault input device (keyboard) LEDs are no longer
  hardwired within the input core but use LED subsystem and so allow use
  of different triggers; Hans de Goede did a large update for the ALPS
  touchpad driver; we have new TI drv2665 haptics driver and DA9063
  OnKey driver, and host of other drivers got various fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (55 commits)
  Input: pixcir_i2c_ts - fix receive error
  MAINTAINERS: remove non existent input mt git tree
  Input: improve usage of gpiod API
  tty/vt/keyboard: define LED triggers for VT keyboard lock states
  tty/vt/keyboard: define LED triggers for VT LED states
  Input: export LEDs as class devices in sysfs
  Input: cyttsp4 - use swap() in cyttsp4_get_touch()
  Input: goodix - do not explicitly set evbits in input device
  Input: goodix - export id and version read from device
  Input: goodix - fix variable length array warning
  Input: goodix - fix alignment issues
  Input: add OnKey driver for DA9063 MFD part
  Input: elan_i2c - add product IDs FW names
  Input: elan_i2c - add support for multi IC type and iap format
  Input: focaltech - report finger width to userspace
  tty: remove platform_sysrq_reset_seq
  Input: synaptics_i2c - use proper boolean values
  Input: psmouse - use true instead of 1 for boolean values
  Input: cyapa - fix a few typos in comments
  Input: stmpe-ts - enforce device tree only mode
  ...
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<pre>
Pull input subsystem updates from Dmitry Torokhov:
 "Thanks to Samuel Thibault input device (keyboard) LEDs are no longer
  hardwired within the input core but use LED subsystem and so allow use
  of different triggers; Hans de Goede did a large update for the ALPS
  touchpad driver; we have new TI drv2665 haptics driver and DA9063
  OnKey driver, and host of other drivers got various fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (55 commits)
  Input: pixcir_i2c_ts - fix receive error
  MAINTAINERS: remove non existent input mt git tree
  Input: improve usage of gpiod API
  tty/vt/keyboard: define LED triggers for VT keyboard lock states
  tty/vt/keyboard: define LED triggers for VT LED states
  Input: export LEDs as class devices in sysfs
  Input: cyttsp4 - use swap() in cyttsp4_get_touch()
  Input: goodix - do not explicitly set evbits in input device
  Input: goodix - export id and version read from device
  Input: goodix - fix variable length array warning
  Input: goodix - fix alignment issues
  Input: add OnKey driver for DA9063 MFD part
  Input: elan_i2c - add product IDs FW names
  Input: elan_i2c - add support for multi IC type and iap format
  Input: focaltech - report finger width to userspace
  tty: remove platform_sysrq_reset_seq
  Input: synaptics_i2c - use proper boolean values
  Input: psmouse - use true instead of 1 for boolean values
  Input: cyapa - fix a few typos in comments
  Input: stmpe-ts - enforce device tree only mode
  ...
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: oom_kill: simplify OOM killer locking</title>
<updated>2015-06-25T00:49:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-24T23:57:19+00:00</published>
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The zonelist locking and the oom_sem are two overlapping locks that are
used to serialize global OOM killing against different things.

The historical zonelist locking serializes OOM kills from allocations with
overlapping zonelists against each other to prevent killing more tasks
than necessary in the same memory domain.  Only when neither tasklists nor
zonelists from two concurrent OOM kills overlap (tasks in separate memcgs
bound to separate nodes) are OOM kills allowed to execute in parallel.

The younger oom_sem is a read-write lock to serialize OOM killing against
the PM code trying to disable the OOM killer altogether.

However, the OOM killer is a fairly cold error path, there is really no
reason to optimize for highly performant and concurrent OOM kills.  And
the oom_sem is just flat-out redundant.

Replace both locking schemes with a single global mutex serializing OOM
kills regardless of context.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
The zonelist locking and the oom_sem are two overlapping locks that are
used to serialize global OOM killing against different things.

The historical zonelist locking serializes OOM kills from allocations with
overlapping zonelists against each other to prevent killing more tasks
than necessary in the same memory domain.  Only when neither tasklists nor
zonelists from two concurrent OOM kills overlap (tasks in separate memcgs
bound to separate nodes) are OOM kills allowed to execute in parallel.

The younger oom_sem is a read-write lock to serialize OOM killing against
the PM code trying to disable the OOM killer altogether.

However, the OOM killer is a fairly cold error path, there is really no
reason to optimize for highly performant and concurrent OOM kills.  And
the oom_sem is just flat-out redundant.

Replace both locking schemes with a single global mutex serializing OOM
kills regardless of context.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Add SysRq operation to dump TLBs on all CPUs</title>
<updated>2015-06-21T19:52:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-19T08:50:29+00:00</published>
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Add a MIPS specific SysRq operation to dump the TLB entries on all CPUs,
using the 'x' trigger key.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10072/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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<pre>
Add a MIPS specific SysRq operation to dump the TLB entries on all CPUs,
using the 'x' trigger key.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10072/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty: remove platform_sysrq_reset_seq</title>
<updated>2015-06-02T17:43:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-26T21:45:29+00:00</published>
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The platform_sysrq_reset_seq code was intended as a way for an embedded
platform to provide its own sysrq sequence at compile time. After over two
years, nobody has started using it in an upstream kernel, and the platforms
that were interested in it have moved on to devicetree, which can be used
to configure the sequence without requiring kernel changes. The method is
also incompatible with the way that most architectures build support for
multiple platforms into a single kernel.

Now the code is producing warnings when built with gcc-5.1:

drivers/tty/sysrq.c: In function 'sysrq_init':
drivers/tty/sysrq.c:959:33: warning: array subscript is above array bounds [-Warray-bounds]
   key = platform_sysrq_reset_seq[i];

We could fix this, but it seems unlikely that it will ever be used, so
let's just remove the code instead. We still have the option to pass the
sequence either in DT, using the kernel command line, or using the
/sys/module/sysrq/parameters/reset_seq file.

Fixes: 154b7a489a ("Input: sysrq - allow specifying alternate reset sequence")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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The platform_sysrq_reset_seq code was intended as a way for an embedded
platform to provide its own sysrq sequence at compile time. After over two
years, nobody has started using it in an upstream kernel, and the platforms
that were interested in it have moved on to devicetree, which can be used
to configure the sequence without requiring kernel changes. The method is
also incompatible with the way that most architectures build support for
multiple platforms into a single kernel.

Now the code is producing warnings when built with gcc-5.1:

drivers/tty/sysrq.c: In function 'sysrq_init':
drivers/tty/sysrq.c:959:33: warning: array subscript is above array bounds [-Warray-bounds]
   key = platform_sysrq_reset_seq[i];

We could fix this, but it seems unlikely that it will ever be used, so
let's just remove the code instead. We still have the option to pass the
sequence either in DT, using the kernel command line, or using the
/sys/module/sysrq/parameters/reset_seq file.

Fixes: 154b7a489a ("Input: sysrq - allow specifying alternate reset sequence")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel/params: constify struct kernel_param_ops uses</title>
<updated>2015-05-28T02:02:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis R. Rodriguez</name>
<email>mcgrof@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-27T01:39:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9c27847dda9cfae7c273cde62becf364f9fa9ea3'/>
<id>9c27847dda9cfae7c273cde62becf364f9fa9ea3</id>
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Most code already uses consts for the struct kernel_param_ops,
sweep the kernel for the last offending stragglers. Other than
include/linux/moduleparam.h and kernel/params.c all other changes
were generated with the following Coccinelle SmPL patch. Merge
conflicts between trees can be handled with Coccinelle.

In the future git could get Coccinelle merge support to deal with
patch --&gt; fail --&gt; grammar --&gt; Coccinelle --&gt; new patch conflicts
automatically for us on patches where the grammar is available and
the patch is of high confidence. Consider this a feature request.

Test compiled on x86_64 against:

	* allnoconfig
	* allmodconfig
	* allyesconfig

@ const_found @
identifier ops;
@@

const struct kernel_param_ops ops = {
};

@ const_not_found depends on !const_found @
identifier ops;
@@

-struct kernel_param_ops ops = {
+const struct kernel_param_ops ops = {
};

Generated-by: Coccinelle SmPL
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<pre>
Most code already uses consts for the struct kernel_param_ops,
sweep the kernel for the last offending stragglers. Other than
include/linux/moduleparam.h and kernel/params.c all other changes
were generated with the following Coccinelle SmPL patch. Merge
conflicts between trees can be handled with Coccinelle.

In the future git could get Coccinelle merge support to deal with
patch --&gt; fail --&gt; grammar --&gt; Coccinelle --&gt; new patch conflicts
automatically for us on patches where the grammar is available and
the patch is of high confidence. Consider this a feature request.

Test compiled on x86_64 against:

	* allnoconfig
	* allmodconfig
	* allyesconfig

@ const_found @
identifier ops;
@@

const struct kernel_param_ops ops = {
};

@ const_not_found depends on !const_found @
identifier ops;
@@

-struct kernel_param_ops ops = {
+const struct kernel_param_ops ops = {
};

Generated-by: Coccinelle SmPL
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>workqueue: dump workqueues on sysrq-t</title>
<updated>2015-03-09T13:22:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-09T13:22:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3494fc30846dceb808de4cc02930ef347fabd21a'/>
<id>3494fc30846dceb808de4cc02930ef347fabd21a</id>
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Workqueues are used extensively throughout the kernel but sometimes
it's difficult to debug stalls involving work items because visibility
into its inner workings is fairly limited.  Although sysrq-t task dump
annotates each active worker task with the information on the work
item being executed, it is challenging to find out which work items
are pending or delayed on which queues and how pools are being
managed.

This patch implements show_workqueue_state() which dumps all busy
workqueues and pools and is called from the sysrq-t handler.  At the
end of sysrq-t dump, something like the following is printed.

 Showing busy workqueues and worker pools:
 ...
 workqueue filler_wq: flags=0x0
   pwq 2: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=2/256
     in-flight: 491:filler_workfn, 507:filler_workfn
   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=2/256
     in-flight: 501:filler_workfn
     pending: filler_workfn
 ...
 workqueue test_wq: flags=0x8
   pwq 2: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/1
     in-flight: 510(RESCUER):test_workfn BAR(69) BAR(500)
     delayed: test_workfn1 BAR(492), test_workfn2
 ...
 pool 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 workers=2 manager: 137
 pool 2: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 workers=3 manager: 469
 pool 3: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=-20 workers=2 idle: 16
 pool 8: cpus=0-3 flags=0x4 nice=0 workers=2 manager: 62

The above shows that test_wq is executing test_workfn() on pid 510
which is the rescuer and also that there are two tasks 69 and 500
waiting for the work item to finish in flush_work().  As test_wq has
max_active of 1, there are two work items for test_workfn1() and
test_workfn2() which are delayed till the current work item is
finished.  In addition, pid 492 is flushing test_workfn1().

The work item for test_workfn() is being executed on pwq of pool 2
which is the normal priority per-cpu pool for CPU 1.  The pool has
three workers, two of which are executing filler_workfn() for
filler_wq and the last one is assuming the manager role trying to
create more workers.

This extra workqueue state dump will hopefully help chasing down hangs
involving workqueues.

v3: cpulist_pr_cont() replaced with "%*pbl" printf formatting.

v2: As suggested by Andrew, minor formatting change in pr_cont_work(),
    printk()'s replaced with pr_info()'s, and cpumask printing now
    uses cpulist_pr_cont().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
CC: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
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Workqueues are used extensively throughout the kernel but sometimes
it's difficult to debug stalls involving work items because visibility
into its inner workings is fairly limited.  Although sysrq-t task dump
annotates each active worker task with the information on the work
item being executed, it is challenging to find out which work items
are pending or delayed on which queues and how pools are being
managed.

This patch implements show_workqueue_state() which dumps all busy
workqueues and pools and is called from the sysrq-t handler.  At the
end of sysrq-t dump, something like the following is printed.

 Showing busy workqueues and worker pools:
 ...
 workqueue filler_wq: flags=0x0
   pwq 2: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=2/256
     in-flight: 491:filler_workfn, 507:filler_workfn
   pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=2/256
     in-flight: 501:filler_workfn
     pending: filler_workfn
 ...
 workqueue test_wq: flags=0x8
   pwq 2: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/1
     in-flight: 510(RESCUER):test_workfn BAR(69) BAR(500)
     delayed: test_workfn1 BAR(492), test_workfn2
 ...
 pool 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 workers=2 manager: 137
 pool 2: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 workers=3 manager: 469
 pool 3: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=-20 workers=2 idle: 16
 pool 8: cpus=0-3 flags=0x4 nice=0 workers=2 manager: 62

The above shows that test_wq is executing test_workfn() on pid 510
which is the rescuer and also that there are two tasks 69 and 500
waiting for the work item to finish in flush_work().  As test_wq has
max_active of 1, there are two work items for test_workfn1() and
test_workfn2() which are delayed till the current work item is
finished.  In addition, pid 492 is flushing test_workfn1().

The work item for test_workfn() is being executed on pwq of pool 2
which is the normal priority per-cpu pool for CPU 1.  The pool has
three workers, two of which are executing filler_workfn() for
filler_wq and the last one is assuming the manager role trying to
create more workers.

This extra workqueue state dump will hopefully help chasing down hangs
involving workqueues.

v3: cpulist_pr_cont() replaced with "%*pbl" printf formatting.

v2: As suggested by Andrew, minor formatting change in pr_cont_work(),
    printk()'s replaced with pr_info()'s, and cpumask printing now
    uses cpulist_pr_cont().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
CC: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>oom, PM: make OOM detection in the freezer path raceless</title>
<updated>2015-02-12T01:06:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-11T23:26:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c32b3cbe0d067a9cfae85aa70ba1e97ceba0ced7'/>
<id>c32b3cbe0d067a9cfae85aa70ba1e97ceba0ced7</id>
<content type='text'>
Commit 5695be142e20 ("OOM, PM: OOM killed task shouldn't escape PM
suspend") has left a race window when OOM killer manages to
note_oom_kill after freeze_processes checks the counter.  The race
window is quite small and really unlikely and partial solution deemed
sufficient at the time of submission.

Tejun wasn't happy about this partial solution though and insisted on a
full solution.  That requires the full OOM and freezer's task freezing
exclusion, though.  This is done by this patch which introduces oom_sem
RW lock and turns oom_killer_disable() into a full OOM barrier.

oom_killer_disabled check is moved from the allocation path to the OOM
level and we take oom_sem for reading for both the check and the whole
OOM invocation.

oom_killer_disable() takes oom_sem for writing so it waits for all
currently running OOM killer invocations.  Then it disable all the further
OOMs by setting oom_killer_disabled and checks for any oom victims.
Victims are counted via mark_tsk_oom_victim resp.  unmark_oom_victim.  The
last victim wakes up all waiters enqueued by oom_killer_disable().
Therefore this function acts as the full OOM barrier.

The page fault path is covered now as well although it was assumed to be
safe before.  As per Tejun, "We used to have freezing points deep in file
system code which may be reacheable from page fault." so it would be
better and more robust to not rely on freezing points here.  Same applies
to the memcg OOM killer.

out_of_memory tells the caller whether the OOM was allowed to trigger and
the callers are supposed to handle the situation.  The page allocation
path simply fails the allocation same as before.  The page fault path will
retry the fault (more on that later) and Sysrq OOM trigger will simply
complain to the log.

Normally there wouldn't be any unfrozen user tasks after
try_to_freeze_tasks so the function will not block. But if there was an
OOM killer racing with try_to_freeze_tasks and the OOM victim didn't
finish yet then we have to wait for it. This should complete in a finite
time, though, because

	- the victim cannot loop in the page fault handler (it would die
	  on the way out from the exception)
	- it cannot loop in the page allocator because all the further
	  allocation would fail and __GFP_NOFAIL allocations are not
	  acceptable at this stage
	- it shouldn't be blocked on any locks held by frozen tasks
	  (try_to_freeze expects lockless context) and kernel threads and
	  work queues are not frozen yet

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
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Commit 5695be142e20 ("OOM, PM: OOM killed task shouldn't escape PM
suspend") has left a race window when OOM killer manages to
note_oom_kill after freeze_processes checks the counter.  The race
window is quite small and really unlikely and partial solution deemed
sufficient at the time of submission.

Tejun wasn't happy about this partial solution though and insisted on a
full solution.  That requires the full OOM and freezer's task freezing
exclusion, though.  This is done by this patch which introduces oom_sem
RW lock and turns oom_killer_disable() into a full OOM barrier.

oom_killer_disabled check is moved from the allocation path to the OOM
level and we take oom_sem for reading for both the check and the whole
OOM invocation.

oom_killer_disable() takes oom_sem for writing so it waits for all
currently running OOM killer invocations.  Then it disable all the further
OOMs by setting oom_killer_disabled and checks for any oom victims.
Victims are counted via mark_tsk_oom_victim resp.  unmark_oom_victim.  The
last victim wakes up all waiters enqueued by oom_killer_disable().
Therefore this function acts as the full OOM barrier.

The page fault path is covered now as well although it was assumed to be
safe before.  As per Tejun, "We used to have freezing points deep in file
system code which may be reacheable from page fault." so it would be
better and more robust to not rely on freezing points here.  Same applies
to the memcg OOM killer.

out_of_memory tells the caller whether the OOM was allowed to trigger and
the callers are supposed to handle the situation.  The page allocation
path simply fails the allocation same as before.  The page fault path will
retry the fault (more on that later) and Sysrq OOM trigger will simply
complain to the log.

Normally there wouldn't be any unfrozen user tasks after
try_to_freeze_tasks so the function will not block. But if there was an
OOM killer racing with try_to_freeze_tasks and the OOM victim didn't
finish yet then we have to wait for it. This should complete in a finite
time, though, because

	- the victim cannot loop in the page fault handler (it would die
	  on the way out from the exception)
	- it cannot loop in the page allocator because all the further
	  allocation would fail and __GFP_NOFAIL allocations are not
	  acceptable at this stage
	- it shouldn't be blocked on any locks held by frozen tasks
	  (try_to_freeze expects lockless context) and kernel threads and
	  work queues are not frozen yet

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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