linux.git/include/linux/sched.h, branch v4.4-rc5

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2015-11-10T20:07:22+00:00

Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "Outside of the new ACPI-NFIT hot-add support this pull request is more
  notable for what it does not contain, than what it does.  There were a
  handful of development topics this cycle, dax get_user_pages, dax
  fsync, and raw block dax, that need more more iteration and will wait
  for 4.5.

  The patches to make devm and the pmem driver NUMA aware have been in
  -next for several weeks.  The hot-add support has not, but is
  contained to the NFIT driver and is passing unit tests.  The coredump
  support is straightforward and was looked over by Jeff.  All of it has
  received a 0day build success notification across 107 configs.

  Summary:

   - Add support for the ACPI 6.0 NFIT hot add mechanism to process
     updates of the NFIT at runtime.

   - Teach the coredump implementation how to filter out DAX mappings.

   - Introduce NUMA hints for allocations made by the pmem driver, and
     as a side effect all devm allocations now hint their NUMA node by
     default"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  coredump: add DAX filtering for FDPIC ELF coredumps
  coredump: add DAX filtering for ELF coredumps
  acpi: nfit: Add support for hot-add
  nfit: in acpi_nfit_init, break on a 0-length table
  pmem, memremap: convert to numa aware allocations
  devm_memremap_pages: use numa_mem_id
  devm: make allocations numa aware by default
  devm_memremap: convert to return ERR_PTR
  devm_memunmap: use devres_release()
  pmem: kill memremap_pmem()
  x86, mm: quiet arch_add_memory()

coredump: add DAX filtering for ELF coredumps

2015-11-09T18:29:54+00:00

Add two new flags to the existing coredump mechanism for ELF files to
allow us to explicitly filter DAX mappings.  This is desirable because
DAX mappings, like hugetlb mappings, have the potential to be very
large.

Update the coredump_filter documentation in
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt so that it addresses the new DAX
coredump flags.  Also update the documented default value of
coredump_filter to be consistent with the core(5) man page.  The
documentation being updated talks about bit 4, Dump ELF headers, which
is enabled if CONFIG_CORE_DUMP_DEFAULT_ELF_HEADERS is turned on in the
kernel config.  This kernel config option defaults to "y" if both ELF
binaries and coredump are enabled.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler 
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer 
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

signal: introduce kernel_signal_stop() to fix jffs2_garbage_collect_thread()

2015-11-07T01:50:42+00:00

jffs2_garbage_collect_thread() can race with SIGCONT and sleep in
TASK_STOPPED state after it was already sent. Add the new helper,
kernel_signal_stop(), which does this correctly.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Felipe Balbi 
Cc: Markus Pargmann 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

signal: turn dequeue_signal_lock() into kernel_dequeue_signal()

2015-11-07T01:50:42+00:00

1. Rename dequeue_signal_lock() to kernel_dequeue_signal(). This
   matches another "for kthreads only" kernel_sigaction() helper.

2. Remove the "tsk" and "mask" arguments, they are always current
   and current->blocked. And it is simply wrong if tsk != current.

3. We could also remove the 3rd "siginfo_t *info" arg but it looks
   potentially useful. However we can simplify the callers if we
   change kernel_dequeue_signal() to accept info => NULL.

4. Remove _irqsave, it is never called from atomic context.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Felipe Balbi 
Cc: Markus Pargmann 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

signals: kill block_all_signals() and unblock_all_signals()

2015-11-07T01:50:42+00:00

It is hardly possible to enumerate all problems with block_all_signals()
and unblock_all_signals().  Just for example,

1. block_all_signals(SIGSTOP/etc) simply can't help if the caller is
   multithreaded. Another thread can dequeue the signal and force the
   group stop.

2. Even is the caller is single-threaded, it will "stop" anyway. It
   will not sleep, but it will spin in kernel space until SIGCONT or
   SIGKILL.

And a lot more. In short, this interface doesn't work at all, at least
the last 10+ years.

Daniel said:

  Yeah the only times I played around with the DRM_LOCK stuff was when
  old drivers accidentally deadlocked - my impression is that the entire
  DRM_LOCK thing was never really tested properly ;-) Hence I'm all for
  purging where this leaks out of the drm subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter 
Acked-by: Dave Airlie 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2015-11-06T07:10:54+00:00

Merge patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:

 - inotify tweaks

 - some ocfs2 updates (many more are awaiting review)

 - various misc bits

 - kernel/watchdog.c updates

 - Some of mm.  I have a huge number of MM patches this time and quite a
   lot of it is quite difficult and much will be held over to next time.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (162 commits)
  selftests: vm: add tests for lock on fault
  mm: mlock: add mlock flags to enable VM_LOCKONFAULT usage
  mm: introduce VM_LOCKONFAULT
  mm: mlock: add new mlock system call
  mm: mlock: refactor mlock, munlock, and munlockall code
  kasan: always taint kernel on report
  mm, slub, kasan: enable user tracking by default with KASAN=y
  kasan: use IS_ALIGNED in memory_is_poisoned_8()
  kasan: Fix a type conversion error
  lib: test_kasan: add some testcases
  kasan: update reference to kasan prototype repo
  kasan: move KASAN_SANITIZE in arch/x86/boot/Makefile
  kasan: various fixes in documentation
  kasan: update log messages
  kasan: accurately determine the type of the bad access
  kasan: update reported bug types for kernel memory accesses
  kasan: update reported bug types for not user nor kernel memory accesses
  mm/kasan: prevent deadlock in kasan reporting
  mm/kasan: don't use kasan shadow pointer in generic functions
  mm/kasan: MODULE_VADDR is not available on all archs
  ...

memcg: punt high overage reclaim to return-to-userland path

2015-11-06T03:34:48+00:00

Currently, try_charge() tries to reclaim memory synchronously when the
high limit is breached; however, if the allocation doesn't have
__GFP_WAIT, synchronous reclaim is skipped.  If a process performs only
speculative allocations, it can blow way past the high limit.  This is
actually easily reproducible by simply doing "find /".  slab/slub
allocator tries speculative allocations first, so as long as there's
memory which can be consumed without blocking, it can keep allocating
memory regardless of the high limit.

This patch makes try_charge() always punt the over-high reclaim to the
return-to-userland path.  If try_charge() detects that high limit is
breached, it adds the overage to current->memcg_nr_pages_over_high and
schedules execution of mem_cgroup_handle_over_high() which performs
synchronous reclaim from the return-to-userland path.

As long as kernel doesn't have a run-away allocation spree, this should
provide enough protection while making kmemcg behave more consistently.
It also has the following benefits.

- All over-high reclaims can use GFP_KERNEL regardless of the specific
  gfp mask in use, e.g. GFP_NOFS, when the limit was breached.

- It copes with prio inversion.  Previously, a low-prio task with
  small memory.high might perform over-high reclaim with a bunch of
  locks held.  If a higher prio task needed any of these locks, it
  would have to wait until the low prio task finished reclaim and
  released the locks.  By handing over-high reclaim to the task exit
  path this issue can be avoided.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memcg: flatten task_struct->memcg_oom

2015-11-06T03:34:48+00:00

task_struct->memcg_oom is a sub-struct containing fields which are used
for async memcg oom handling.  Most task_struct fields aren't packaged
this way and it can lead to unnecessary alignment paddings.  This patch
flattens it.

* task.memcg_oom.memcg          -> task.memcg_in_oom
* task.memcg_oom.gfp_mask	-> task.memcg_oom_gfp_mask
* task.memcg_oom.order          -> task.memcg_oom_order
* task.memcg_oom.may_oom        -> task.memcg_may_oom

In addition, task.memcg_may_oom is relocated to where other bitfields are
which reduces the size of task_struct.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/watchdog.c: add sysctl knob hardlockup_panic

2015-11-06T03:34:48+00:00

The only way to enable a hardlockup to panic the machine is to set
'nmi_watchdog=panic' on the kernel command line.

This makes it awkward for end users and folks who want to run automate
tests (like myself).

Mimic the softlockup_panic knob and create a /proc/sys/kernel/hardlockup_panic
knob.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus 
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell 
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina 
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2015-11-05T22:51:32+00:00

Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
 "The cgroup core saw several significant updates this cycle:

   - percpu_rwsem for threadgroup locking is reinstated.  This was
     temporarily dropped due to down_write latency issues.  Oleg's
     rework of percpu_rwsem which is scheduled to be merged in this
     merge window resolves the issue.

   - On the v2 hierarchy, when controllers are enabled and disabled, all
     operations are atomic and can fail and revert cleanly.  This allows
     ->can_attach() failure which is necessary for cpu RT slices.

   - Tasks now stay associated with the original cgroups after exit
     until released.  This allows tracking resources held by zombies
     (e.g.  pids) and makes it easy to find out where zombies came from
     on the v2 hierarchy.  The pids controller was broken before these
     changes as zombies escaped the limits; unfortunately, updating this
     behavior required too many invasive changes and I don't think it's
     a good idea to backport them, so the pids controller on 4.3, the
     first version which included the pids controller, will stay broken
     at least until I'm sure about the cgroup core changes.

   - Optimization of a couple common tests using static_key"

* 'for-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (38 commits)
  cgroup: fix race condition around termination check in css_task_iter_next()
  blkcg: don't create "io.stat" on the root cgroup
  cgroup: drop cgroup__DEVEL__legacy_files_on_dfl
  cgroup: replace error handling in cgroup_init() with WARN_ON()s
  cgroup: add cgroup_subsys->free() method and use it to fix pids controller
  cgroup: keep zombies associated with their original cgroups
  cgroup: make css_set_rwsem a spinlock and rename it to css_set_lock
  cgroup: don't hold css_set_rwsem across css task iteration
  cgroup: reorganize css_task_iter functions
  cgroup: factor out css_set_move_task()
  cgroup: keep css_set and task lists in chronological order
  cgroup: make cgroup_destroy_locked() test cgroup_is_populated()
  cgroup: make css_sets pin the associated cgroups
  cgroup: relocate cgroup_[try]get/put()
  cgroup: move check_for_release() invocation
  cgroup: replace cgroup_has_tasks() with cgroup_is_populated()
  cgroup: make cgroup->nr_populated count the number of populated css_sets
  cgroup: remove an unused parameter from cgroup_task_migrate()
  cgroup: fix too early usage of static_branch_disable()
  cgroup: make cgroup_update_dfl_csses() migrate all target processes atomically
  ...