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<title>Merge branches 'core-urgent-for-linus', 'perf-urgent-for-linus' and 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-07-14T18:16:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-14T18:16:24+00:00</published>
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Pull RCU, perf, and scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar.

The RCU fix is a revert for an optimization that could cause deadlocks.

One of the scheduler commits (164c33c6adee "sched: Fix fork() error path
to not crash") is correct but not complete (some architectures like Tile
are not covered yet) - the resulting additional fixes are still WIP and
Ingo did not want to delay these pending fixes.  See this thread on
lkml:

  [PATCH] fork: fix error handling in dup_task()

The perf fixes are just trivial oneliners.

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  Revert "rcu: Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf kvm: Fix segfault with report and mixed guestmount use
  perf kvm: Fix regression with guest machine creation
  perf script: Fix format regression due to libtraceevent merge
  ring-buffer: Fix accounting of entries when removing pages
  ring-buffer: Fix crash due to uninitialized new_pages list head

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  MAINTAINERS/sched: Update scheduler file pattern
  sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again
  sched: Fix fork() error path to not crash
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Pull RCU, perf, and scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar.

The RCU fix is a revert for an optimization that could cause deadlocks.

One of the scheduler commits (164c33c6adee "sched: Fix fork() error path
to not crash") is correct but not complete (some architectures like Tile
are not covered yet) - the resulting additional fixes are still WIP and
Ingo did not want to delay these pending fixes.  See this thread on
lkml:

  [PATCH] fork: fix error handling in dup_task()

The perf fixes are just trivial oneliners.

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  Revert "rcu: Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf kvm: Fix segfault with report and mixed guestmount use
  perf kvm: Fix regression with guest machine creation
  perf script: Fix format regression due to libtraceevent merge
  ring-buffer: Fix accounting of entries when removing pages
  ring-buffer: Fix crash due to uninitialized new_pages list head

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  MAINTAINERS/sched: Update scheduler file pattern
  sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again
  sched: Fix fork() error path to not crash
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<entry>
<title>sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again</title>
<updated>2012-07-05T18:58:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-22T13:52:09+00:00</published>
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Thanks to Charles Wang for spotting the defects in the current code:

 - If we go idle during the sample window -- after sampling, we get a
   negative bias because we can negate our own sample.

 - If we wake up during the sample window we get a positive bias
   because we push the sample to a known active period.

So rewrite the entire nohz load-avg muck once again, now adding
copious documentation to the code.

Reported-and-tested-by: Doug Smythies &lt;dsmythies@telus.net&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Charles Wang &lt;muming.wq@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340373782.18025.74.camel@twins
[ minor edits ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Thanks to Charles Wang for spotting the defects in the current code:

 - If we go idle during the sample window -- after sampling, we get a
   negative bias because we can negate our own sample.

 - If we wake up during the sample window we get a positive bias
   because we push the sample to a known active period.

So rewrite the entire nohz load-avg muck once again, now adding
copious documentation to the code.

Reported-and-tested-by: Doug Smythies &lt;dsmythies@telus.net&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Charles Wang &lt;muming.wq@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340373782.18025.74.camel@twins
[ minor edits ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Revert "rcu: Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation"</title>
<updated>2012-07-02T18:39:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-02T14:08:42+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 616c310e83b872024271c915c1b9ab505b9efad9.
(Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation).
Testing by Sasha Levin &lt;levinsasha928@gmail.com&gt; showed that this
can result in deadlock due to invoking the scheduler when one of
the runqueue locks is held.  Because this commit was simply a
performance optimization, revert it.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;levinsasha928@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sasha Levin &lt;levinsasha928@gmail.com&gt;
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This reverts commit 616c310e83b872024271c915c1b9ab505b9efad9.
(Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation).
Testing by Sasha Levin &lt;levinsasha928@gmail.com&gt; showed that this
can result in deadlock due to invoking the scheduler when one of
the runqueue locks is held.  Because this commit was simply a
performance optimization, revert it.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;levinsasha928@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sasha Levin &lt;levinsasha928@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-06-08T21:59:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-08T21:59:29+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar.

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Fix the relax_domain_level boot parameter
  sched: Validate assumptions in sched_init_numa()
  sched: Always initialize cpu-power
  sched: Fix domain iteration
  sched/rt: Fix lockdep annotation within find_lock_lowest_rq()
  sched/numa: Load balance between remote nodes
  sched/x86: Calculate booted cores after construction of sibling_mask
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Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar.

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Fix the relax_domain_level boot parameter
  sched: Validate assumptions in sched_init_numa()
  sched: Always initialize cpu-power
  sched: Fix domain iteration
  sched/rt: Fix lockdep annotation within find_lock_lowest_rq()
  sched/numa: Load balance between remote nodes
  sched/x86: Calculate booted cores after construction of sibling_mask
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<entry>
<title>c/r: prctl: update prctl_set_mm_exe_file() after mm-&gt;num_exe_file_vmas removal</title>
<updated>2012-06-07T21:43:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konstantin Khlebnikov</name>
<email>khlebnikov@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-07T21:21:11+00:00</published>
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A fix for commit b32dfe377102 ("c/r: prctl: add ability to set new
mm_struct::exe_file").

After removing mm-&gt;num_exe_file_vmas kernel keeps mm-&gt;exe_file until
final mmput(), it never becomes NULL while task is alive.

We can check for other mapped files in mm instead of checking
mm-&gt;num_exe_file_vmas, and mark mm with flag MMF_EXE_FILE_CHANGED in
order to forbid second changing of mm-&gt;exe_file.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@openvz.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Helsley &lt;matthltc@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&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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A fix for commit b32dfe377102 ("c/r: prctl: add ability to set new
mm_struct::exe_file").

After removing mm-&gt;num_exe_file_vmas kernel keeps mm-&gt;exe_file until
final mmput(), it never becomes NULL while task is alive.

We can check for other mapped files in mm instead of checking
mm-&gt;num_exe_file_vmas, and mark mm with flag MMF_EXE_FILE_CHANGED in
order to forbid second changing of mm-&gt;exe_file.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@openvz.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Helsley &lt;matthltc@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&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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<entry>
<title>sched: Fix domain iteration</title>
<updated>2012-06-06T14:52:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-31T12:47:33+00:00</published>
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Weird topologies can lead to asymmetric domain setups. This needs
further consideration since these setups are typically non-minimal
too.

For now, make it work by adding an extra mask selecting which CPUs
are allowed to iterate up.

The topology that triggered it is the one from David Rientjes:

	10 20 20 30
	20 10 20 20
	20 20 10 20
	30 20 20 10

resulting in boxes that wouldn't even boot.

Reported-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3p86l9cuaqnxz7uxsojmz5rm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Weird topologies can lead to asymmetric domain setups. This needs
further consideration since these setups are typically non-minimal
too.

For now, make it work by adding an extra mask selecting which CPUs
are allowed to iterate up.

The topology that triggered it is the one from David Rientjes:

	10 20 20 30
	20 10 20 20
	20 20 10 20
	30 20 20 10

resulting in boxes that wouldn't even boot.

Reported-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3p86l9cuaqnxz7uxsojmz5rm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-06-05T16:47:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-05T16:47:15+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar.

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Remove NULL assignment of dattr_cur
  sched: Remove the last NULL entry from sched_feat_names
  sched: Make sched_feat_names const
  sched/rt: Fix SCHED_RR across cgroups
  sched: Move nr_cpus_allowed out of 'struct sched_rt_entity'
  sched: Make sure to not re-read variables after validation
  sched: Fix SD_OVERLAP
  sched: Don't try allocating memory from offline nodes
  sched/nohz: Fix rq-&gt;cpu_load calculations some more
  sched/x86: Use cpu_llc_shared_mask(cpu) for coregroup_mask
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Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar.

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Remove NULL assignment of dattr_cur
  sched: Remove the last NULL entry from sched_feat_names
  sched: Make sched_feat_names const
  sched/rt: Fix SCHED_RR across cgroups
  sched: Move nr_cpus_allowed out of 'struct sched_rt_entity'
  sched: Make sure to not re-read variables after validation
  sched: Fix SD_OVERLAP
  sched: Don't try allocating memory from offline nodes
  sched/nohz: Fix rq-&gt;cpu_load calculations some more
  sched/x86: Use cpu_llc_shared_mask(cpu) for coregroup_mask
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<entry>
<title>most of set_current_blocked() callers want SIGKILL/SIGSTOP removed from set</title>
<updated>2012-06-01T16:58:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-27T17:58:59+00:00</published>
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Only 3 out of 63 do not.  Renamed the current variant to __set_current_blocked(),
added set_current_blocked() that will exclude unblockable signals, switched
open-coded instances to it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Only 3 out of 63 do not.  Renamed the current variant to __set_current_blocked(),
added set_current_blocked() that will exclude unblockable signals, switched
open-coded instances to it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>new helper: sigmask_to_save()</title>
<updated>2012-06-01T16:58:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-02T13:59:21+00:00</published>
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replace boilerplate "should we use -&gt;saved_sigmask or -&gt;blocked?"
with calls of obvious inlined helper...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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replace boilerplate "should we use -&gt;saved_sigmask or -&gt;blocked?"
with calls of obvious inlined helper...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>new helper: restore_saved_sigmask()</title>
<updated>2012-06-01T16:58:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-22T03:33:55+00:00</published>
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first fruits of ..._restore_sigmask() helpers: now we can take
boilerplate "signal didn't have a handler, clear RESTORE_SIGMASK
and restore the blocked mask from -&gt;saved_mask" into a common
helper.  Open-coded instances switched...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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first fruits of ..._restore_sigmask() helpers: now we can take
boilerplate "signal didn't have a handler, clear RESTORE_SIGMASK
and restore the blocked mask from -&gt;saved_mask" into a common
helper.  Open-coded instances switched...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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