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<title>cpuset: PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB should be atomic flags</title>
<updated>2014-12-01T10:02:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zefan Li</name>
<email>lizefan@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-25T01:41:02+00:00</published>
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commit 2ad654bc5e2b211e92f66da1d819e47d79a866f0 upstream.

When we change cpuset.memory_spread_{page,slab}, cpuset will flip
PF_SPREAD_{PAGE,SLAB} bit of tsk-&gt;flags for each task in that cpuset.
This should be done using atomic bitops, but currently we don't,
which is broken.

Tetsuo reported a hard-to-reproduce kernel crash on RHEL6, which happened
when one thread tried to clear PF_USED_MATH while at the same time another
thread tried to flip PF_SPREAD_PAGE/PF_SPREAD_SLAB. They both operate on
the same task.

Here's the full report:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/19/230

To fix this, we make PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB atomic flags.

v4:
- updated mm/slab.c. (Fengguang Wu)
- updated Documentation.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Miao Xie &lt;miaox@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Fixes: 950592f7b991 ("cpusets: update tasks' page/slab spread flags in time")
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
[lizf: Backported to 3.4:
 - adjust context
 - check current-&gt;flags &amp; PF_MEMPOLICY rather than current-&gt;mempolicy]
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commit 2ad654bc5e2b211e92f66da1d819e47d79a866f0 upstream.

When we change cpuset.memory_spread_{page,slab}, cpuset will flip
PF_SPREAD_{PAGE,SLAB} bit of tsk-&gt;flags for each task in that cpuset.
This should be done using atomic bitops, but currently we don't,
which is broken.

Tetsuo reported a hard-to-reproduce kernel crash on RHEL6, which happened
when one thread tried to clear PF_USED_MATH while at the same time another
thread tried to flip PF_SPREAD_PAGE/PF_SPREAD_SLAB. They both operate on
the same task.

Here's the full report:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/19/230

To fix this, we make PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB atomic flags.

v4:
- updated mm/slab.c. (Fengguang Wu)
- updated Documentation.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Miao Xie &lt;miaox@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Fixes: 950592f7b991 ("cpusets: update tasks' page/slab spread flags in time")
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
[lizf: Backported to 3.4:
 - adjust context
 - check current-&gt;flags &amp; PF_MEMPOLICY rather than current-&gt;mempolicy]
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<entry>
<title>cpuset,mempolicy: fix sleeping function called from invalid context</title>
<updated>2014-07-17T22:39:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gu Zheng</name>
<email>guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-25T01:57:18+00:00</published>
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commit 391acf970d21219a2a5446282d3b20eace0c0d7a upstream.

When runing with the kernel(3.15-rc7+), the follow bug occurs:
[ 9969.258987] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:586
[ 9969.359906] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 160655, name: python
[ 9969.441175] INFO: lockdep is turned off.
[ 9969.488184] CPU: 26 PID: 160655 Comm: python Tainted: G       A      3.15.0-rc7+ #85
[ 9969.581032] Hardware name: FUJITSU-SV PRIMEQUEST 1800E/SB, BIOS PRIMEQUEST 1000 Series BIOS Version 1.39 11/16/2012
[ 9969.706052]  ffffffff81a20e60 ffff8803e941fbd0 ffffffff8162f523 ffff8803e941fd18
[ 9969.795323]  ffff8803e941fbe0 ffffffff8109995a ffff8803e941fc58 ffffffff81633e6c
[ 9969.884710]  ffffffff811ba5dc ffff880405c6b480 ffff88041fdd90a0 0000000000002000
[ 9969.974071] Call Trace:
[ 9970.003403]  [&lt;ffffffff8162f523&gt;] dump_stack+0x4d/0x66
[ 9970.065074]  [&lt;ffffffff8109995a&gt;] __might_sleep+0xfa/0x130
[ 9970.130743]  [&lt;ffffffff81633e6c&gt;] mutex_lock_nested+0x3c/0x4f0
[ 9970.200638]  [&lt;ffffffff811ba5dc&gt;] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x1bc/0x210
[ 9970.272610]  [&lt;ffffffff81105807&gt;] cpuset_mems_allowed+0x27/0x140
[ 9970.344584]  [&lt;ffffffff811b1303&gt;] ? __mpol_dup+0x63/0x150
[ 9970.409282]  [&lt;ffffffff811b1385&gt;] __mpol_dup+0xe5/0x150
[ 9970.471897]  [&lt;ffffffff811b1303&gt;] ? __mpol_dup+0x63/0x150
[ 9970.536585]  [&lt;ffffffff81068c86&gt;] ? copy_process.part.23+0x606/0x1d40
[ 9970.613763]  [&lt;ffffffff810bf28d&gt;] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
[ 9970.683660]  [&lt;ffffffff810ddddf&gt;] ? monotonic_to_bootbased+0x2f/0x50
[ 9970.759795]  [&lt;ffffffff81068cf0&gt;] copy_process.part.23+0x670/0x1d40
[ 9970.834885]  [&lt;ffffffff8106a598&gt;] do_fork+0xd8/0x380
[ 9970.894375]  [&lt;ffffffff81110e4c&gt;] ? __audit_syscall_entry+0x9c/0xf0
[ 9970.969470]  [&lt;ffffffff8106a8c6&gt;] SyS_clone+0x16/0x20
[ 9971.030011]  [&lt;ffffffff81642009&gt;] stub_clone+0x69/0x90
[ 9971.091573]  [&lt;ffffffff81641c29&gt;] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

The cause is that cpuset_mems_allowed() try to take
mutex_lock(&amp;callback_mutex) under the rcu_read_lock(which was hold in
__mpol_dup()). And in cpuset_mems_allowed(), the access to cpuset is
under rcu_read_lock, so in __mpol_dup, we can reduce the rcu_read_lock
protection region to protect the access to cpuset only in
current_cpuset_is_being_rebound(). So that we can avoid this bug.

This patch is a temporary solution that just addresses the bug
mentioned above, can not fix the long-standing issue about cpuset.mems
rebinding on fork():

"When the forker's task_struct is duplicated (which includes
 -&gt;mems_allowed) and it races with an update to cpuset_being_rebound
 in update_tasks_nodemask() then the task's mems_allowed doesn't get
 updated. And the child task's mems_allowed can be wrong if the
 cpuset's nodemask changes before the child has been added to the
 cgroup's tasklist."

Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng &lt;guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 391acf970d21219a2a5446282d3b20eace0c0d7a upstream.

When runing with the kernel(3.15-rc7+), the follow bug occurs:
[ 9969.258987] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:586
[ 9969.359906] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 160655, name: python
[ 9969.441175] INFO: lockdep is turned off.
[ 9969.488184] CPU: 26 PID: 160655 Comm: python Tainted: G       A      3.15.0-rc7+ #85
[ 9969.581032] Hardware name: FUJITSU-SV PRIMEQUEST 1800E/SB, BIOS PRIMEQUEST 1000 Series BIOS Version 1.39 11/16/2012
[ 9969.706052]  ffffffff81a20e60 ffff8803e941fbd0 ffffffff8162f523 ffff8803e941fd18
[ 9969.795323]  ffff8803e941fbe0 ffffffff8109995a ffff8803e941fc58 ffffffff81633e6c
[ 9969.884710]  ffffffff811ba5dc ffff880405c6b480 ffff88041fdd90a0 0000000000002000
[ 9969.974071] Call Trace:
[ 9970.003403]  [&lt;ffffffff8162f523&gt;] dump_stack+0x4d/0x66
[ 9970.065074]  [&lt;ffffffff8109995a&gt;] __might_sleep+0xfa/0x130
[ 9970.130743]  [&lt;ffffffff81633e6c&gt;] mutex_lock_nested+0x3c/0x4f0
[ 9970.200638]  [&lt;ffffffff811ba5dc&gt;] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x1bc/0x210
[ 9970.272610]  [&lt;ffffffff81105807&gt;] cpuset_mems_allowed+0x27/0x140
[ 9970.344584]  [&lt;ffffffff811b1303&gt;] ? __mpol_dup+0x63/0x150
[ 9970.409282]  [&lt;ffffffff811b1385&gt;] __mpol_dup+0xe5/0x150
[ 9970.471897]  [&lt;ffffffff811b1303&gt;] ? __mpol_dup+0x63/0x150
[ 9970.536585]  [&lt;ffffffff81068c86&gt;] ? copy_process.part.23+0x606/0x1d40
[ 9970.613763]  [&lt;ffffffff810bf28d&gt;] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
[ 9970.683660]  [&lt;ffffffff810ddddf&gt;] ? monotonic_to_bootbased+0x2f/0x50
[ 9970.759795]  [&lt;ffffffff81068cf0&gt;] copy_process.part.23+0x670/0x1d40
[ 9970.834885]  [&lt;ffffffff8106a598&gt;] do_fork+0xd8/0x380
[ 9970.894375]  [&lt;ffffffff81110e4c&gt;] ? __audit_syscall_entry+0x9c/0xf0
[ 9970.969470]  [&lt;ffffffff8106a8c6&gt;] SyS_clone+0x16/0x20
[ 9971.030011]  [&lt;ffffffff81642009&gt;] stub_clone+0x69/0x90
[ 9971.091573]  [&lt;ffffffff81641c29&gt;] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

The cause is that cpuset_mems_allowed() try to take
mutex_lock(&amp;callback_mutex) under the rcu_read_lock(which was hold in
__mpol_dup()). And in cpuset_mems_allowed(), the access to cpuset is
under rcu_read_lock, so in __mpol_dup, we can reduce the rcu_read_lock
protection region to protect the access to cpuset only in
current_cpuset_is_being_rebound(). So that we can avoid this bug.

This patch is a temporary solution that just addresses the bug
mentioned above, can not fix the long-standing issue about cpuset.mems
rebinding on fork():

"When the forker's task_struct is duplicated (which includes
 -&gt;mems_allowed) and it races with an update to cpuset_being_rebound
 in update_tasks_nodemask() then the task's mems_allowed doesn't get
 updated. And the child task's mems_allowed can be wrong if the
 cpuset's nodemask changes before the child has been added to the
 cgroup's tasklist."

Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng &lt;guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuset: fix a race condition in __cpuset_node_allowed_softwall()</title>
<updated>2014-03-24T04:37:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Zefan</name>
<email>lizefan@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-27T10:19:36+00:00</published>
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commit 99afb0fd5f05aac467ffa85c36778fec4396209b upstream.

It's not safe to access task's cpuset after releasing task_lock().
Holding callback_mutex won't help.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 99afb0fd5f05aac467ffa85c36778fec4396209b upstream.

It's not safe to access task's cpuset after releasing task_lock().
Holding callback_mutex won't help.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuset: Fix memory allocator deadlock</title>
<updated>2013-12-04T18:50:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-26T14:03:41+00:00</published>
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commit 0fc0287c9ed1ffd3706f8b4d9b314aa102ef1245 upstream.

Juri hit the below lockdep report:

[    4.303391] ======================================================
[    4.303392] [ INFO: SOFTIRQ-safe -&gt; SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order detected ]
[    4.303394] 3.12.0-dl-peterz+ #144 Not tainted
[    4.303395] ------------------------------------------------------
[    4.303397] kworker/u4:3/689 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE0:SE1] is trying to acquire:
[    4.303399]  (&amp;p-&gt;mems_allowed_seq){+.+...}, at: [&lt;ffffffff8114e63c&gt;] new_slab+0x6c/0x290
[    4.303417]
[    4.303417] and this task is already holding:
[    4.303418]  (&amp;(&amp;q-&gt;__queue_lock)-&gt;rlock){..-...}, at: [&lt;ffffffff812d2dfb&gt;] blk_execute_rq_nowait+0x5b/0x100
[    4.303431] which would create a new lock dependency:
[    4.303432]  (&amp;(&amp;q-&gt;__queue_lock)-&gt;rlock){..-...} -&gt; (&amp;p-&gt;mems_allowed_seq){+.+...}
[    4.303436]

[    4.303898] the dependencies between the lock to be acquired and SOFTIRQ-irq-unsafe lock:
[    4.303918] -&gt; (&amp;p-&gt;mems_allowed_seq){+.+...} ops: 2762 {
[    4.303922]    HARDIRQ-ON-W at:
[    4.303923]                     [&lt;ffffffff8108ab9a&gt;] __lock_acquire+0x65a/0x1ff0
[    4.303926]                     [&lt;ffffffff8108cbe3&gt;] lock_acquire+0x93/0x140
[    4.303929]                     [&lt;ffffffff81063dd6&gt;] kthreadd+0x86/0x180
[    4.303931]                     [&lt;ffffffff816ded6c&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[    4.303933]    SOFTIRQ-ON-W at:
[    4.303933]                     [&lt;ffffffff8108abcc&gt;] __lock_acquire+0x68c/0x1ff0
[    4.303935]                     [&lt;ffffffff8108cbe3&gt;] lock_acquire+0x93/0x140
[    4.303940]                     [&lt;ffffffff81063dd6&gt;] kthreadd+0x86/0x180
[    4.303955]                     [&lt;ffffffff816ded6c&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[    4.303959]    INITIAL USE at:
[    4.303960]                    [&lt;ffffffff8108a884&gt;] __lock_acquire+0x344/0x1ff0
[    4.303963]                    [&lt;ffffffff8108cbe3&gt;] lock_acquire+0x93/0x140
[    4.303966]                    [&lt;ffffffff81063dd6&gt;] kthreadd+0x86/0x180
[    4.303969]                    [&lt;ffffffff816ded6c&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[    4.303972]  }

Which reports that we take mems_allowed_seq with interrupts enabled. A
little digging found that this can only be from
cpuset_change_task_nodemask().

This is an actual deadlock because an interrupt doing an allocation will
hit get_mems_allowed()-&gt;...-&gt;__read_seqcount_begin(), which will spin
forever waiting for the write side to complete.

Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reported-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0fc0287c9ed1ffd3706f8b4d9b314aa102ef1245 upstream.

Juri hit the below lockdep report:

[    4.303391] ======================================================
[    4.303392] [ INFO: SOFTIRQ-safe -&gt; SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order detected ]
[    4.303394] 3.12.0-dl-peterz+ #144 Not tainted
[    4.303395] ------------------------------------------------------
[    4.303397] kworker/u4:3/689 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE0:SE1] is trying to acquire:
[    4.303399]  (&amp;p-&gt;mems_allowed_seq){+.+...}, at: [&lt;ffffffff8114e63c&gt;] new_slab+0x6c/0x290
[    4.303417]
[    4.303417] and this task is already holding:
[    4.303418]  (&amp;(&amp;q-&gt;__queue_lock)-&gt;rlock){..-...}, at: [&lt;ffffffff812d2dfb&gt;] blk_execute_rq_nowait+0x5b/0x100
[    4.303431] which would create a new lock dependency:
[    4.303432]  (&amp;(&amp;q-&gt;__queue_lock)-&gt;rlock){..-...} -&gt; (&amp;p-&gt;mems_allowed_seq){+.+...}
[    4.303436]

[    4.303898] the dependencies between the lock to be acquired and SOFTIRQ-irq-unsafe lock:
[    4.303918] -&gt; (&amp;p-&gt;mems_allowed_seq){+.+...} ops: 2762 {
[    4.303922]    HARDIRQ-ON-W at:
[    4.303923]                     [&lt;ffffffff8108ab9a&gt;] __lock_acquire+0x65a/0x1ff0
[    4.303926]                     [&lt;ffffffff8108cbe3&gt;] lock_acquire+0x93/0x140
[    4.303929]                     [&lt;ffffffff81063dd6&gt;] kthreadd+0x86/0x180
[    4.303931]                     [&lt;ffffffff816ded6c&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[    4.303933]    SOFTIRQ-ON-W at:
[    4.303933]                     [&lt;ffffffff8108abcc&gt;] __lock_acquire+0x68c/0x1ff0
[    4.303935]                     [&lt;ffffffff8108cbe3&gt;] lock_acquire+0x93/0x140
[    4.303940]                     [&lt;ffffffff81063dd6&gt;] kthreadd+0x86/0x180
[    4.303955]                     [&lt;ffffffff816ded6c&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[    4.303959]    INITIAL USE at:
[    4.303960]                    [&lt;ffffffff8108a884&gt;] __lock_acquire+0x344/0x1ff0
[    4.303963]                    [&lt;ffffffff8108cbe3&gt;] lock_acquire+0x93/0x140
[    4.303966]                    [&lt;ffffffff81063dd6&gt;] kthreadd+0x86/0x180
[    4.303969]                    [&lt;ffffffff816ded6c&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[    4.303972]  }

Which reports that we take mems_allowed_seq with interrupts enabled. A
little digging found that this can only be from
cpuset_change_task_nodemask().

This is an actual deadlock because an interrupt doing an allocation will
hit get_mems_allowed()-&gt;...-&gt;__read_seqcount_begin(), which will spin
forever waiting for the write side to complete.

Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reported-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>cpuset: fix cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed() vs rename() race</title>
<updated>2013-03-03T22:06:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Zefan</name>
<email>lizefan@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-25T08:08:01+00:00</published>
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rename() will change dentry-&gt;d_name. The result of this race can
be worse than seeing partially rewritten name, but we might access
a stale pointer because rename() will re-allocate memory to hold
a longer name.

It's safe in the protection of dentry-&gt;d_lock.

v2: check NULL dentry before acquiring dentry lock.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 63f43f55c9bbc14f76b582644019b8a07dc8219a upstream.

rename() will change dentry-&gt;d_name. The result of this race can
be worse than seeing partially rewritten name, but we might access
a stale pointer because rename() will re-allocate memory to hold
a longer name.

It's safe in the protection of dentry-&gt;d_lock.

v2: check NULL dentry before acquiring dentry lock.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>CPU hotplug, cpusets, suspend: Don't modify cpusets during suspend/resume</title>
<updated>2012-10-12T20:38:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srivatsa S. Bhat</name>
<email>srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-24T14:16:26+00:00</published>
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commit d35be8bab9b0ce44bed4b9453f86ebf64062721e upstream.

In the event of CPU hotplug, the kernel modifies the cpusets' cpus_allowed
masks as and when necessary to ensure that the tasks belonging to the cpusets
have some place (online CPUs) to run on. And regular CPU hotplug is
destructive in the sense that the kernel doesn't remember the original cpuset
configurations set by the user, across hotplug operations.

However, suspend/resume (which uses CPU hotplug) is a special case in which
the kernel has the responsibility to restore the system (during resume), to
exactly the same state it was in before suspend.

In order to achieve that, do the following:

1. Don't modify cpusets during suspend/resume. At all.
   In particular, don't move the tasks from one cpuset to another, and
   don't modify any cpuset's cpus_allowed mask. So, simply ignore cpusets
   during the CPU hotplug operations that are carried out in the
   suspend/resume path.

2. However, cpusets and sched domains are related. We just want to avoid
   altering cpusets alone. So, to keep the sched domains updated, build
   a single sched domain (containing all active cpus) during each of the
   CPU hotplug operations carried out in s/r path, effectively ignoring
   the cpusets' cpus_allowed masks.

   (Since userspace is frozen while doing all this, it will go unnoticed.)

3. During the last CPU online operation during resume, build the sched
   domains by looking up the (unaltered) cpusets' cpus_allowed masks.
   That will bring back the system to the same original state as it was in
   before suspend.

Ultimately, this will not only solve the cpuset problem related to suspend
resume (ie., restores the cpusets to exactly what it was before suspend, by
not touching it at all) but also speeds up suspend/resume because we avoid
running cpuset update code for every CPU being offlined/onlined.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.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: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120524141611.3692.20155.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy &lt;preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d35be8bab9b0ce44bed4b9453f86ebf64062721e upstream.

In the event of CPU hotplug, the kernel modifies the cpusets' cpus_allowed
masks as and when necessary to ensure that the tasks belonging to the cpusets
have some place (online CPUs) to run on. And regular CPU hotplug is
destructive in the sense that the kernel doesn't remember the original cpuset
configurations set by the user, across hotplug operations.

However, suspend/resume (which uses CPU hotplug) is a special case in which
the kernel has the responsibility to restore the system (during resume), to
exactly the same state it was in before suspend.

In order to achieve that, do the following:

1. Don't modify cpusets during suspend/resume. At all.
   In particular, don't move the tasks from one cpuset to another, and
   don't modify any cpuset's cpus_allowed mask. So, simply ignore cpusets
   during the CPU hotplug operations that are carried out in the
   suspend/resume path.

2. However, cpusets and sched domains are related. We just want to avoid
   altering cpusets alone. So, to keep the sched domains updated, build
   a single sched domain (containing all active cpus) during each of the
   CPU hotplug operations carried out in s/r path, effectively ignoring
   the cpusets' cpus_allowed masks.

   (Since userspace is frozen while doing all this, it will go unnoticed.)

3. During the last CPU online operation during resume, build the sched
   domains by looking up the (unaltered) cpusets' cpus_allowed masks.
   That will bring back the system to the same original state as it was in
   before suspend.

Ultimately, this will not only solve the cpuset problem related to suspend
resume (ie., restores the cpusets to exactly what it was before suspend, by
not touching it at all) but also speeds up suspend/resume because we avoid
running cpuset update code for every CPU being offlined/onlined.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.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: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120524141611.3692.20155.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy &lt;preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://github.com/rustyrussell/linux</title>
<updated>2012-04-02T15:53:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-02T15:53:24+00:00</published>
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Pull cpumask cleanups from Rusty Russell:
 "(Somehow forgot to send this out; it's been sitting in linux-next, and
  if you don't want it, it can sit there another cycle)"

I'm a sucker for things that actually delete lines of code.

Fix up trivial conflict in arch/arm/kernel/kprobes.c, where Rusty fixed
a user of &amp;cpu_online_map to be cpu_online_mask, but that code got
deleted by commit b21d55e98ac2 ("ARM: 7332/1: extract out code patch
function from kprobes").

* tag 'for-linus' of git://github.com/rustyrussell/linux:
  cpumask: remove old cpu_*_map.
  documentation: remove references to cpu_*_map.
  drivers/cpufreq/db8500-cpufreq: remove references to cpu_*_map.
  remove references to cpu_*_map in arch/
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Pull cpumask cleanups from Rusty Russell:
 "(Somehow forgot to send this out; it's been sitting in linux-next, and
  if you don't want it, it can sit there another cycle)"

I'm a sucker for things that actually delete lines of code.

Fix up trivial conflict in arch/arm/kernel/kprobes.c, where Rusty fixed
a user of &amp;cpu_online_map to be cpu_online_mask, but that code got
deleted by commit b21d55e98ac2 ("ARM: 7332/1: extract out code patch
function from kprobes").

* tag 'for-linus' of git://github.com/rustyrussell/linux:
  cpumask: remove old cpu_*_map.
  documentation: remove references to cpu_*_map.
  drivers/cpufreq/db8500-cpufreq: remove references to cpu_*_map.
  remove references to cpu_*_map in arch/
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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>2012-03-29T21:46:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-29T21:46:05+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:
  cpusets: Remove an unused variable
  sched/rt: Improve pick_next_highest_task_rt()
  sched: Fix select_fallback_rq() vs cpu_active/cpu_online
  sched/x86/smp: Do not enable IRQs over calibrate_delay()
  sched: Fix compiler warning about declared inline after use
  MAINTAINERS: Update email address for SCHEDULER and PERF EVENTS
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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:
  cpusets: Remove an unused variable
  sched/rt: Improve pick_next_highest_task_rt()
  sched: Fix select_fallback_rq() vs cpu_active/cpu_online
  sched/x86/smp: Do not enable IRQs over calibrate_delay()
  sched: Fix compiler warning about declared inline after use
  MAINTAINERS: Update email address for SCHEDULER and PERF EVENTS
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<entry>
<title>documentation: remove references to cpu_*_map.</title>
<updated>2012-03-29T05:08:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-29T05:08:31+00:00</published>
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This has been obsolescent for a while, fix documentation and
misc comments.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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This has been obsolescent for a while, fix documentation and
misc comments.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cpusets: Remove an unused variable</title>
<updated>2012-03-28T11:40:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-28T10:46:09+00:00</published>
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We don't use "cpu" any more after 2baab4e904 "sched: Fix
select_fallback_rq() vs cpu_active/cpu_online".

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Menage &lt;paul@paulmenage.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120328104608.GD29022@elgon.mountain
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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We don't use "cpu" any more after 2baab4e904 "sched: Fix
select_fallback_rq() vs cpu_active/cpu_online".

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Menage &lt;paul@paulmenage.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120328104608.GD29022@elgon.mountain
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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