linux-stable.git/kernel/softirq.c, branch v4.16.2

softirq: Eliminate cond_resched_rcu_qs() in favor of cond_resched()

2017-12-04T18:28:58+00:00

Now that cond_resched() also provides RCU quiescent states when
needed, it can be used in place of cond_resched_rcu_qs().  This
commit therefore makes this change.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: NeilBrown 
Cc: Ingo Molnar

kmemcheck: rip it out

2017-11-16T02:21:05+00:00

Fix up makefiles, remove references, and git rm kmemcheck.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171007030159.22241-4-alexander.levin@verizon.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Vegard Nossum 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Alexander Potapenko 
Cc: Tim Hansen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

irq/softirqs: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled

2017-11-08T10:13:48+00:00

Use lockdep to check that IRQs are enabled or disabled as expected. This
way the sanity check only shows overhead when concurrency correctness
debug code is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: David S . Miller 
Cc: Lai Jiangshan 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509980490-4285-3-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/core: Remove 'task' parameter and rename tsk_restore_flags() to current_restore_flags()

2017-04-11T07:06:32+00:00

It is not safe for one thread to modify the ->flags
of another thread as there is no locking that can protect
the update.

So tsk_restore_flags(), which takes a task pointer and modifies
the flags, is an invitation to do the wrong thing.

All current users pass "current" as the task, so no developers have
accepted that invitation.  It would be best to ensure it remains
that way.

So rename tsk_restore_flags() to current_restore_flags() and don't
pass in a task_struct pointer.  Always operate on current->flags.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

softirq: Display IRQ_POLL for irq-poll statistics

2016-10-21T21:45:47+00:00

This library was moved to the generic area and was
renamed to irq-poll. Hence, update proc/softirqs output accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg 
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

2016-10-15T17:03:15+00:00

Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook:
 "This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
  extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot
  time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in
  CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences,
  SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

  At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example
  for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals"

* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy
  gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin

latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy

2016-10-10T21:51:45+00:00

The __latent_entropy gcc attribute can be used only on functions and
variables.  If it is on a function then the plugin will instrument it for
gathering control-flow entropy. If the attribute is on a variable then
the plugin will initialize it with random contents.  The variable must
be an integer, an integer array type or a structure with integer fields.

These specific functions have been selected because they are init
functions (to help gather boot-time entropy), are called at unpredictable
times, or they have variable loops, each of which provide some level of
latent entropy.

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy 
[kees: expanded commit message]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2016-10-04T02:43:08+00:00

Pull CPU hotplug updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Yet another batch of cpu hotplug core updates and conversions:

   - Provide core infrastructure for multi instance drivers so the
     drivers do not have to keep custom lists.

   - Convert custom lists to the new infrastructure. The block-mq custom
     list conversion comes through the block tree and makes the diffstat
     tip over to more lines removed than added.

   - Handle unbalanced hotplug enable/disable calls more gracefully.

   - Remove the obsolete CPU_STARTING/DYING notifier support.

   - Convert another batch of notifier users.

   The relayfs changes which conflicted with the conversion have been
   shipped to me by Andrew.

   The remaining lot is targeted for 4.10 so that we finally can remove
   the rest of the notifiers"

* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits)
  cpufreq: Fix up conversion to hotplug state machine
  blk/mq: Reserve hotplug states for block multiqueue
  x86/apic/uv: Convert to hotplug state machine
  s390/mm/pfault: Convert to hotplug state machine
  mips/loongson/smp: Convert to hotplug state machine
  mips/octeon/smp: Convert to hotplug state machine
  fault-injection/cpu: Convert to hotplug state machine
  padata: Convert to hotplug state machine
  cpufreq: Convert to hotplug state machine
  ACPI/processor: Convert to hotplug state machine
  virtio scsi: Convert to hotplug state machine
  oprofile/timer: Convert to hotplug state machine
  block/softirq: Convert to hotplug state machine
  lib/irq_poll: Convert to hotplug state machine
  x86/microcode: Convert to hotplug state machine
  sh/SH-X3 SMP: Convert to hotplug state machine
  ia64/mca: Convert to hotplug state machine
  ARM/OMAP/wakeupgen: Convert to hotplug state machine
  ARM/shmobile: Convert to hotplug state machine
  arm64/FP/SIMD: Convert to hotplug state machine
  ...

softirq: Let ksoftirqd do its job

2016-09-30T08:43:36+00:00

A while back, Paolo and Hannes sent an RFC patch adding threaded-able
napi poll loop support : (https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/620657/)

The problem seems to be that softirqs are very aggressive and are often
handled by the current process, even if we are under stress and that
ksoftirqd was scheduled, so that innocent threads would have more chance
to make progress.

This patch makes sure that if ksoftirq is running, we let it
perform the softirq work.

Jonathan Corbet summarized the issue in https://lwn.net/Articles/687617/

Tested:

 - NIC receiving traffic handled by CPU 0
 - UDP receiver running on CPU 0, using a single UDP socket.
 - Incoming flood of UDP packets targeting the UDP socket.

Before the patch, the UDP receiver could almost never get CPU cycles and
could only receive ~2,000 packets per second.

After the patch, CPU cycles are split 50/50 between user application and
ksoftirqd/0, and we can effectively read ~900,000 packets per second,
a huge improvement in DOS situation. (Note that more packets are now
dropped by the NIC itself, since the BH handlers get less CPU cycles to
drain RX ring buffer)

Since the load runs in well identified threads context, an admin can
more easily tune process scheduling parameters if needed.

Reported-by: Paolo Abeni 
Reported-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa 
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472665349.14381.356.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kernel/softirq: Convert to hotplug state machine

2016-09-06T16:30:22+00:00

Install the callbacks via the state machine.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160818125731.27256-7-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner