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<title>Merge tag 'pm-fixes-for-3.3-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2012-02-04T23:21:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-04T23:21:39+00:00</published>
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Power management fixes for 3.3-rc3

Three power management regression fixes, one for a recent regression introcuded
by the freezer changes during the 3.3 merge window and two for regressions
in cpuidle (resulting from PM QoS changes) and in the hibernate user space
interface, both introduced during the 3.2 development cycle.

They include:

* Two hibernate (s2disk) regression fixes from Srivatsa S. Bhat (for
 regressions introduced during the 3.3 merge window and during the 3.2
 development cycle).

* A cpuidle fix from Venki Pallipadi for a regression resulting from PM QoS
 changes during the 3.2 development cycle causing cpuidle to work incorrectly
 for CONFIG_PM unset.

* tag 'pm-fixes-for-3.3-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  PM / QoS: CPU C-state breakage with PM Qos change
  PM / Freezer: Thaw only kernel threads if freezing of kernel threads fails
  PM / Hibernate: Thaw kernel threads in SNAPSHOT_CREATE_IMAGE ioctl path
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Power management fixes for 3.3-rc3

Three power management regression fixes, one for a recent regression introcuded
by the freezer changes during the 3.3 merge window and two for regressions
in cpuidle (resulting from PM QoS changes) and in the hibernate user space
interface, both introduced during the 3.2 development cycle.

They include:

* Two hibernate (s2disk) regression fixes from Srivatsa S. Bhat (for
 regressions introduced during the 3.3 merge window and during the 3.2
 development cycle).

* A cpuidle fix from Venki Pallipadi for a regression resulting from PM QoS
 changes during the 3.2 development cycle causing cpuidle to work incorrectly
 for CONFIG_PM unset.

* tag 'pm-fixes-for-3.3-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  PM / QoS: CPU C-state breakage with PM Qos change
  PM / Freezer: Thaw only kernel threads if freezing of kernel threads fails
  PM / Hibernate: Thaw kernel threads in SNAPSHOT_CREATE_IMAGE ioctl path
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<title>PM / Freezer: Thaw only kernel threads if freezing of kernel threads fails</title>
<updated>2012-02-04T21:23:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srivatsa S. Bhat</name>
<email>srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-03T21:22:41+00:00</published>
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If freezing of kernel threads fails, we are expected to automatically
thaw tasks in the error recovery path. However, at times, we encounter
situations in which we would like the automatic error recovery path
to thaw only the kernel threads, because we want to be able to do
some more cleanup before we thaw userspace. Something like:

error = freeze_kernel_threads();
if (error) {
	/* Do some cleanup */

	/* Only then thaw userspace tasks*/
	thaw_processes();
}

An example of such a situation is where we freeze/thaw filesystems
during suspend/hibernation. There, if freezing of kernel threads
fails, we would like to thaw the frozen filesystems before thawing
the userspace tasks.

So, modify freeze_kernel_threads() to thaw only kernel threads in
case of freezing failure. And change suspend_freeze_processes()
accordingly. (At the same time, let us also get rid of the rather
cryptic usage of the conditional operator (:?) in that function.)

[rjw: In fact, this patch fixes a regression introduced during the
 3.3 merge window, because without it thaw_processes() may be called
 before swsusp_free() in some situations and that may lead to massive
 memory allocation failures.]

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham &lt;nigel@tuxonice.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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If freezing of kernel threads fails, we are expected to automatically
thaw tasks in the error recovery path. However, at times, we encounter
situations in which we would like the automatic error recovery path
to thaw only the kernel threads, because we want to be able to do
some more cleanup before we thaw userspace. Something like:

error = freeze_kernel_threads();
if (error) {
	/* Do some cleanup */

	/* Only then thaw userspace tasks*/
	thaw_processes();
}

An example of such a situation is where we freeze/thaw filesystems
during suspend/hibernation. There, if freezing of kernel threads
fails, we would like to thaw the frozen filesystems before thawing
the userspace tasks.

So, modify freeze_kernel_threads() to thaw only kernel threads in
case of freezing failure. And change suspend_freeze_processes()
accordingly. (At the same time, let us also get rid of the rather
cryptic usage of the conditional operator (:?) in that function.)

[rjw: In fact, this patch fixes a regression introduced during the
 3.3 merge window, because without it thaw_processes() may be called
 before swsusp_free() in some situations and that may lead to massive
 memory allocation failures.]

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham &lt;nigel@tuxonice.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kprobes: fix a memory leak in function pre_handler_kretprobe()</title>
<updated>2012-02-04T00:16:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiang Liu</name>
<email>liuj97@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-03T23:37:16+00:00</published>
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In function pre_handler_kretprobe(), the allocated kretprobe_instance
object will get leaked if the entry_handler callback returns non-zero.
This may cause all the preallocated kretprobe_instance objects exhausted.

This issue can be reproduced by changing
samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c to probe "mutex_unlock".  And the fix
is straightforward: just put the allocated kretprobe_instance object back
onto the free_instances list.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use raw_spin_lock/unlock]
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jim Keniston &lt;jkenisto@us.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy &lt;anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&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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In function pre_handler_kretprobe(), the allocated kretprobe_instance
object will get leaked if the entry_handler callback returns non-zero.
This may cause all the preallocated kretprobe_instance objects exhausted.

This issue can be reproduced by changing
samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c to probe "mutex_unlock".  And the fix
is straightforward: just put the allocated kretprobe_instance object back
onto the free_instances list.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use raw_spin_lock/unlock]
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jim Keniston &lt;jkenisto@us.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy &lt;anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&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>Fix race in process_vm_rw_core</title>
<updated>2012-02-02T20:55:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christopher Yeoh</name>
<email>cyeoh@au1.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-02T01:04:09+00:00</published>
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This fixes the race in process_vm_core found by Oleg (see

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1235667/

for details).

This has been updated since I last sent it as the creation of the new
mm_access() function did almost exactly the same thing as parts of the
previous version of this patch did.

In order to use mm_access() even when /proc isn't enabled, we move it to
kernel/fork.c where other related process mm access functions already
are.

Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh &lt;yeohc@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This fixes the race in process_vm_core found by Oleg (see

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1235667/

for details).

This has been updated since I last sent it as the creation of the new
mm_access() function did almost exactly the same thing as parts of the
previous version of this patch did.

In order to use mm_access() even when /proc isn't enabled, we move it to
kernel/fork.c where other related process mm access functions already
are.

Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh &lt;yeohc@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'core-urgent-for-linus', 'perf-urgent-for-linus', 'sched-urgent-for-linus' and 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-02-02T19:11:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-02T19:11:13+00:00</published>
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* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  bugs, x86: Fix printk levels for panic, softlockups and stack dumps

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf top: Fix number of samples displayed
  perf tools: Fix strlen() bug in perf_event__synthesize_event_type()
  perf tools: Fix broken build by defining _GNU_SOURCE in Makefile
  x86/dumpstack: Remove unneeded check in dump_trace()
  perf: Fix broken interrupt rate throttling

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/rt: Fix task stack corruption under __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
  sched: Fix ancient race in do_exit()
  sched/nohz: Fix nohz cpu idle load balancing state with cpu hotplug
  sched/s390: Fix compile error in sched/core.c
  sched: Fix rq-&gt;nr_uninterruptible update race

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/reboot: Remove VersaLogic Menlow reboot quirk
  x86/reboot: Skip DMI checks if reboot set by user
  x86: Properly parenthesize cmpxchg() macro arguments
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* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  bugs, x86: Fix printk levels for panic, softlockups and stack dumps

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf top: Fix number of samples displayed
  perf tools: Fix strlen() bug in perf_event__synthesize_event_type()
  perf tools: Fix broken build by defining _GNU_SOURCE in Makefile
  x86/dumpstack: Remove unneeded check in dump_trace()
  perf: Fix broken interrupt rate throttling

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/rt: Fix task stack corruption under __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
  sched: Fix ancient race in do_exit()
  sched/nohz: Fix nohz cpu idle load balancing state with cpu hotplug
  sched/s390: Fix compile error in sched/core.c
  sched: Fix rq-&gt;nr_uninterruptible update race

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/reboot: Remove VersaLogic Menlow reboot quirk
  x86/reboot: Skip DMI checks if reboot set by user
  x86: Properly parenthesize cmpxchg() macro arguments
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<entry>
<title>PM / Hibernate: Thaw kernel threads in SNAPSHOT_CREATE_IMAGE ioctl path</title>
<updated>2012-02-01T21:16:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srivatsa S. Bhat</name>
<email>srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-01T21:16:36+00:00</published>
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In the SNAPSHOT_CREATE_IMAGE ioctl, if the call to hibernation_snapshot()
fails, the frozen tasks are not thawed.

And in the case of success, if we happen to exit due to a successful freezer
test, all tasks (including those of userspace) are thawed, whereas actually
we should have thawed only the kernel threads at that point. Fix both these
issues.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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In the SNAPSHOT_CREATE_IMAGE ioctl, if the call to hibernation_snapshot()
fails, the frozen tasks are not thawed.

And in the case of success, if we happen to exit due to a successful freezer
test, all tasks (including those of userspace) are thawed, whereas actually
we should have thawed only the kernel threads at that point. Fix both these
issues.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>PM / Hibernate: Fix s2disk regression related to freezing workqueues</title>
<updated>2012-01-29T19:35:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-29T19:35:52+00:00</published>
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Commit 2aede851ddf08666f68ffc17be446420e9d2a056

  PM / Hibernate: Freeze kernel threads after preallocating memory

introduced a mechanism by which kernel threads were frozen after
the preallocation of hibernate image memory to avoid problems with
frozen kernel threads not responding to memory freeing requests.
However, it overlooked the s2disk code path in which the
SNAPSHOT_CREATE_IMAGE ioctl was run directly after SNAPSHOT_FREE,
which caused freeze_workqueues_begin() to BUG(), because it saw
that worqueues had been already frozen.

Although in principle this issue might be addressed by removing
the relevant BUG_ON() from freeze_workqueues_begin(), that would
reintroduce the very problem that commit 2aede851ddf08666f68ffc17be4
attempted to avoid into that particular code path.  For this reason,
to fix the issue at hand, introduce thaw_kernel_threads() and make
the SNAPSHOT_FREE ioctl execute it.

Special thanks to Srivatsa S. Bhat for detailed analysis of the
problem.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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Commit 2aede851ddf08666f68ffc17be446420e9d2a056

  PM / Hibernate: Freeze kernel threads after preallocating memory

introduced a mechanism by which kernel threads were frozen after
the preallocation of hibernate image memory to avoid problems with
frozen kernel threads not responding to memory freeing requests.
However, it overlooked the s2disk code path in which the
SNAPSHOT_CREATE_IMAGE ioctl was run directly after SNAPSHOT_FREE,
which caused freeze_workqueues_begin() to BUG(), because it saw
that worqueues had been already frozen.

Although in principle this issue might be addressed by removing
the relevant BUG_ON() from freeze_workqueues_begin(), that would
reintroduce the very problem that commit 2aede851ddf08666f68ffc17be4
attempted to avoid into that particular code path.  For this reason,
to fix the issue at hand, introduce thaw_kernel_threads() and make
the SNAPSHOT_FREE ioctl execute it.

Special thanks to Srivatsa S. Bhat for detailed analysis of the
problem.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>sched/rt: Fix task stack corruption under __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW</title>
<updated>2012-01-27T11:49:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chanho Min</name>
<email>chanho0207@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-05T11:00:19+00:00</published>
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This issue happens under the following conditions:

 1. preemption is off
 2. __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW is defined
 3. RT scheduling class
 4. SMP system

Sequence is as follows:

 1.suppose current task is A. start schedule()
 2.task A is enqueued pushable task at the entry of schedule()
   __schedule
    prev = rq-&gt;curr;
    ...
    put_prev_task
     put_prev_task_rt
      enqueue_pushable_task
 4.pick the task B as next task.
   next = pick_next_task(rq);
 3.rq-&gt;curr set to task B and context_switch is started.
   rq-&gt;curr = next;
 4.At the entry of context_swtich, release this cpu's rq-&gt;lock.
   context_switch
    prepare_task_switch
     prepare_lock_switch
      raw_spin_unlock_irq(&amp;rq-&gt;lock);
 5.Shortly after rq-&gt;lock is released, interrupt is occurred and start IRQ context
 6.try_to_wake_up() which called by ISR acquires rq-&gt;lock
    try_to_wake_up
     ttwu_remote
      rq = __task_rq_lock(p)
      ttwu_do_wakeup(rq, p, wake_flags);
        task_woken_rt
 7.push_rt_task picks the task A which is enqueued before.
   task_woken_rt
    push_rt_tasks(rq)
     next_task = pick_next_pushable_task(rq)
 8.At find_lock_lowest_rq(), If double_lock_balance() returns 0,
   lowest_rq can be the remote rq.
  (But,If preemption is on, double_lock_balance always return 1 and it
   does't happen.)
   push_rt_task
    find_lock_lowest_rq
     if (double_lock_balance(rq, lowest_rq))..
 9.find_lock_lowest_rq return the available rq. task A is migrated to
   the remote cpu/rq.
   push_rt_task
    ...
    deactivate_task(rq, next_task, 0);
    set_task_cpu(next_task, lowest_rq-&gt;cpu);
    activate_task(lowest_rq, next_task, 0);
 10. But, task A is on irq context at this cpu.
     So, task A is scheduled by two cpus at the same time until restore from IRQ.
     Task A's stack is corrupted.

To fix it, don't migrate an RT task if it's still running.

Signed-off-by: Chanho Min &lt;chanho.min@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOAMb1BHA=5fm7KTewYyke6u-8DP0iUuJMpgQw54vNeXFsGpoQ@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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This issue happens under the following conditions:

 1. preemption is off
 2. __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW is defined
 3. RT scheduling class
 4. SMP system

Sequence is as follows:

 1.suppose current task is A. start schedule()
 2.task A is enqueued pushable task at the entry of schedule()
   __schedule
    prev = rq-&gt;curr;
    ...
    put_prev_task
     put_prev_task_rt
      enqueue_pushable_task
 4.pick the task B as next task.
   next = pick_next_task(rq);
 3.rq-&gt;curr set to task B and context_switch is started.
   rq-&gt;curr = next;
 4.At the entry of context_swtich, release this cpu's rq-&gt;lock.
   context_switch
    prepare_task_switch
     prepare_lock_switch
      raw_spin_unlock_irq(&amp;rq-&gt;lock);
 5.Shortly after rq-&gt;lock is released, interrupt is occurred and start IRQ context
 6.try_to_wake_up() which called by ISR acquires rq-&gt;lock
    try_to_wake_up
     ttwu_remote
      rq = __task_rq_lock(p)
      ttwu_do_wakeup(rq, p, wake_flags);
        task_woken_rt
 7.push_rt_task picks the task A which is enqueued before.
   task_woken_rt
    push_rt_tasks(rq)
     next_task = pick_next_pushable_task(rq)
 8.At find_lock_lowest_rq(), If double_lock_balance() returns 0,
   lowest_rq can be the remote rq.
  (But,If preemption is on, double_lock_balance always return 1 and it
   does't happen.)
   push_rt_task
    find_lock_lowest_rq
     if (double_lock_balance(rq, lowest_rq))..
 9.find_lock_lowest_rq return the available rq. task A is migrated to
   the remote cpu/rq.
   push_rt_task
    ...
    deactivate_task(rq, next_task, 0);
    set_task_cpu(next_task, lowest_rq-&gt;cpu);
    activate_task(lowest_rq, next_task, 0);
 10. But, task A is on irq context at this cpu.
     So, task A is scheduled by two cpus at the same time until restore from IRQ.
     Task A's stack is corrupted.

To fix it, don't migrate an RT task if it's still running.

Signed-off-by: Chanho Min &lt;chanho.min@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOAMb1BHA=5fm7KTewYyke6u-8DP0iUuJMpgQw54vNeXFsGpoQ@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Fix broken interrupt rate throttling</title>
<updated>2012-01-27T11:06:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephane Eranian</name>
<email>eranian@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-26T16:03:19+00:00</published>
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This patch fixes the sampling interrupt throttling mechanism.

It was broken in v3.2. Events were not being unthrottled. The
unthrottling mechanism required that events be checked at each
timer tick.

This patch solves this problem and also separates:

  - unthrottling
  - multiplexing
  - frequency-mode period adjustments

Not all of them need to be executed at each timer tick.

This third version of the patch is based on my original patch +
PeterZ proposal (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/7/87).

At each timer tick, for each context:

  - if the current CPU has throttled events, we unthrottle events

  - if context has frequency-based events, we adjust sampling periods

  - if we have reached the jiffies interval, we multiplex (rotate)

We decoupled rotation (multiplexing) from frequency-mode sampling
period adjustments.  They should not necessarily happen at the same
rate. Multiplexing is subject to jiffies_interval (currently at 1
but could be higher once the tunable is exposed via sysfs).

We have grouped frequency-mode adjustment and unthrottling into the
same routine to minimize code duplication. When throttled while in
frequency mode, we scan the events only once.

We have fixed the threshold enforcement code in __perf_event_overflow().
There was a bug whereby it would allow more than the authorized rate
because an increment of hwc-&gt;interrupts was not executed at the right
place.

The patch was tested with low sampling limit (2000) and fixed periods,
frequency mode, overcommitted PMU.

On a 2.1GHz AMD CPU:

 $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate
 2000

We set a rate of 3000 samples/sec (2.1GHz/3000 = 700000):

 $ perf record -e cycles,cycles -c 700000  noploop 10
 $ perf report -D | tail -21

 Aggregated stats:
           TOTAL events:      80086
            MMAP events:         88
            COMM events:          2
            EXIT events:          4
        THROTTLE events:      19996
      UNTHROTTLE events:      19996
          SAMPLE events:      40000

 cycles stats:
           TOTAL events:      40006
            MMAP events:          5
            COMM events:          1
            EXIT events:          4
        THROTTLE events:       9998
      UNTHROTTLE events:       9998
          SAMPLE events:      20000

 cycles stats:
           TOTAL events:      39996
        THROTTLE events:       9998
      UNTHROTTLE events:       9998
          SAMPLE events:      20000

For 10s, the cap is 2x2000x10 = 40000 samples.
We get exactly that: 20000 samples/event.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # v3.2+
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120126160319.GA5655@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<pre>
This patch fixes the sampling interrupt throttling mechanism.

It was broken in v3.2. Events were not being unthrottled. The
unthrottling mechanism required that events be checked at each
timer tick.

This patch solves this problem and also separates:

  - unthrottling
  - multiplexing
  - frequency-mode period adjustments

Not all of them need to be executed at each timer tick.

This third version of the patch is based on my original patch +
PeterZ proposal (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/7/87).

At each timer tick, for each context:

  - if the current CPU has throttled events, we unthrottle events

  - if context has frequency-based events, we adjust sampling periods

  - if we have reached the jiffies interval, we multiplex (rotate)

We decoupled rotation (multiplexing) from frequency-mode sampling
period adjustments.  They should not necessarily happen at the same
rate. Multiplexing is subject to jiffies_interval (currently at 1
but could be higher once the tunable is exposed via sysfs).

We have grouped frequency-mode adjustment and unthrottling into the
same routine to minimize code duplication. When throttled while in
frequency mode, we scan the events only once.

We have fixed the threshold enforcement code in __perf_event_overflow().
There was a bug whereby it would allow more than the authorized rate
because an increment of hwc-&gt;interrupts was not executed at the right
place.

The patch was tested with low sampling limit (2000) and fixed periods,
frequency mode, overcommitted PMU.

On a 2.1GHz AMD CPU:

 $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate
 2000

We set a rate of 3000 samples/sec (2.1GHz/3000 = 700000):

 $ perf record -e cycles,cycles -c 700000  noploop 10
 $ perf report -D | tail -21

 Aggregated stats:
           TOTAL events:      80086
            MMAP events:         88
            COMM events:          2
            EXIT events:          4
        THROTTLE events:      19996
      UNTHROTTLE events:      19996
          SAMPLE events:      40000

 cycles stats:
           TOTAL events:      40006
            MMAP events:          5
            COMM events:          1
            EXIT events:          4
        THROTTLE events:       9998
      UNTHROTTLE events:       9998
          SAMPLE events:      20000

 cycles stats:
           TOTAL events:      39996
        THROTTLE events:       9998
      UNTHROTTLE events:       9998
          SAMPLE events:      20000

For 10s, the cap is 2x2000x10 = 40000 samples.
We get exactly that: 20000 samples/event.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # v3.2+
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120126160319.GA5655@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: Fix ancient race in do_exit()</title>
<updated>2012-01-27T10:55:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yasunori Goto</name>
<email>y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-17T08:40:31+00:00</published>
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try_to_wake_up() has a problem which may change status from TASK_DEAD to
TASK_RUNNING in race condition with SMI or guest environment of virtual
machine. As a result, exited task is scheduled() again and panic occurs.

Here is the sequence how it occurs:

 ----------------------------------+-----------------------------
                                   |
            CPU A                  |             CPU B
 ----------------------------------+-----------------------------

TASK A calls exit()....

do_exit()

  exit_mm()
    down_read(mm-&gt;mmap_sem);

    rwsem_down_failed_common()

      set TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE
      set waiter.task &lt;= task A
      list_add to sem-&gt;wait_list
           :
      raw_spin_unlock_irq()
      (I/O interruption occured)

                                      __rwsem_do_wake(mmap_sem)

                                        list_del(&amp;waiter-&gt;list);
                                        waiter-&gt;task = NULL
                                        wake_up_process(task A)
                                          try_to_wake_up()
                                             (task is still
                                               TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)
                                              p-&gt;on_rq is still 1.)

                                              ttwu_do_wakeup()
                                                 (*A)
                                                   :
     (I/O interruption handler finished)

      if (!waiter.task)
          schedule() is not called
          due to waiter.task is NULL.

      tsk-&gt;state = TASK_RUNNING

          :
                                              check_preempt_curr();
                                                  :
  task-&gt;state = TASK_DEAD
                                              (*B)
                                        &lt;---    set TASK_RUNNING (*C)

     schedule()
     (exit task is running again)
     BUG_ON() is called!
 --------------------------------------------------------

The execution time between (*A) and (*B) is usually very short,
because the interruption is disabled, and setting TASK_RUNNING at (*C)
must be executed before setting TASK_DEAD.

HOWEVER, if SMI is interrupted between (*A) and (*B),
(*C) is able to execute AFTER setting TASK_DEAD!
Then, exited task is scheduled again, and BUG_ON() is called....

If the system works on guest system of virtual machine, the time
between (*A) and (*B) may be also long due to scheduling of hypervisor,
and same phenomenon can occur.

By this patch, do_exit() waits for releasing task-&gt;pi_lock which is used
in try_to_wake_up(). It guarantees the task becomes TASK_DEAD after
waking up.

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto &lt;y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.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;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120117174031.3118.E1E9C6FF@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<pre>
try_to_wake_up() has a problem which may change status from TASK_DEAD to
TASK_RUNNING in race condition with SMI or guest environment of virtual
machine. As a result, exited task is scheduled() again and panic occurs.

Here is the sequence how it occurs:

 ----------------------------------+-----------------------------
                                   |
            CPU A                  |             CPU B
 ----------------------------------+-----------------------------

TASK A calls exit()....

do_exit()

  exit_mm()
    down_read(mm-&gt;mmap_sem);

    rwsem_down_failed_common()

      set TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE
      set waiter.task &lt;= task A
      list_add to sem-&gt;wait_list
           :
      raw_spin_unlock_irq()
      (I/O interruption occured)

                                      __rwsem_do_wake(mmap_sem)

                                        list_del(&amp;waiter-&gt;list);
                                        waiter-&gt;task = NULL
                                        wake_up_process(task A)
                                          try_to_wake_up()
                                             (task is still
                                               TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)
                                              p-&gt;on_rq is still 1.)

                                              ttwu_do_wakeup()
                                                 (*A)
                                                   :
     (I/O interruption handler finished)

      if (!waiter.task)
          schedule() is not called
          due to waiter.task is NULL.

      tsk-&gt;state = TASK_RUNNING

          :
                                              check_preempt_curr();
                                                  :
  task-&gt;state = TASK_DEAD
                                              (*B)
                                        &lt;---    set TASK_RUNNING (*C)

     schedule()
     (exit task is running again)
     BUG_ON() is called!
 --------------------------------------------------------

The execution time between (*A) and (*B) is usually very short,
because the interruption is disabled, and setting TASK_RUNNING at (*C)
must be executed before setting TASK_DEAD.

HOWEVER, if SMI is interrupted between (*A) and (*B),
(*C) is able to execute AFTER setting TASK_DEAD!
Then, exited task is scheduled again, and BUG_ON() is called....

If the system works on guest system of virtual machine, the time
between (*A) and (*B) may be also long due to scheduling of hypervisor,
and same phenomenon can occur.

By this patch, do_exit() waits for releasing task-&gt;pi_lock which is used
in try_to_wake_up(). It guarantees the task becomes TASK_DEAD after
waking up.

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto &lt;y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.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;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120117174031.3118.E1E9C6FF@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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