When trying to load a module with the same name as a built-in one, a
scary kobject backtrace comes up. Prevent that from checking for this
condition and warning the user as to what exactly is going on.
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
The struct module taints member is supposed to store per-module taint
data. The kernel knows about certain specific external modules that will
taint the kernel, such as ndiswrapper. Use of ndiswrapper possibly
should set the per-module taint in addition to the global kernel
taint flag, unless we're arguing not because wrapper module itself
is not what actually causes the kernel to be tainted as such?
Signed-off-by: Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
the original code use KOBJ_NAME_LEN for built-in module name length,
that's defined to 20 in linux/kobject.h, but this is not enough appearntly,
many module names are longer than this;
#define KOBJ_NAME_LEN 20
another macro is MODULE_NAME_LEN defined in linux/module.h, I think this is
enough for module names:
#define MODULE_NAME_LEN (64 - sizeof(unsigned long))
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
module_address_lookup releases preemption then returns a pointer into
the module space. The only user (kallsyms) copies the result, so just
do that under the preempt disable.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
If we put the module in the linked list *before* calling into to, we
get the module name and functions in the OOPS (is_module_address can
find the module). It also helps lockdep in a similar way.
Acked-and-tested-by: Joern Engel <joern@lazybastard.org>
Tested-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
There have been reports of modules failing to load because the modules
they depend on are still loading. This changes the modules to wait
for a reasonable length of time in that case. We time out eventually,
because there can be module loops or broken modules.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Current code could cause a bug in symbol_put_addr() if an arch used
kmalloc module text: we might think the symbol belongs to the core
kernel.
The downside is that this might make backtraces through (discarded)
init functions harder to read on some archs, but we already have that
issue for modules and noone has complained.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
I have removed all the entries from this table (core_table,
ipv4_table and tr_table), so now we can safely drop it.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch implements the basic infrastructure for per namespace sysctls.
A list of lists of sysctl headers is added, allowing each namespace to have
it's own list of sysctl headers.
Each list of sysctl headers has a lookup function to find the first
sysctl header in the list, allowing the lists to have a per namespace
instance.
register_sysct_root is added to tell sysctl.c about additional
lists of sysctl_headers. As all of the users are expected to be in
kernel no unregister function is provided.
sysctl_head_next is updated to walk through the list of lists.
__register_sysctl_paths is added to add a new sysctl table on
a non-default sysctl list.
The only intrusive part of this patch is propagating the information
to decided which list of sysctls to use for sysctl_check_table.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
By doing this we allow users of register_sysctl_paths that build
and dynamically allocate their ctl_table to be simpler. This allows
them to just remember the ctl_table_header returned from
register_sysctl_paths from which they can now find the
ctl_table array they need to free.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There are a number of modules that register a sysctl table
somewhere deeply nested in the sysctl hierarchy, such as
fs/nfs, fs/xfs, dev/cdrom, etc.
They all specify several dummy ctl_tables for the path name.
This patch implements register_sysctl_path that takes
an additional path name, and makes up dummy sysctl nodes
for each component.
This patch was originally written by Olaf Kirch and
brought to my attention and reworked some by Olaf Hering.
I have changed a few additional things so the bugs are mine.
After converting all of the easy callers Olaf Hering observed
allyesconfig ARCH=i386, the patch reduces the final binary size by 9369 bytes.
.text +897
.data -7008
text data bss dec hex filename
26959310 4045899 4718592 35723801 2211a19 ../vmlinux-vanilla
26960207 4038891 4718592 35717690 221023a ../O-allyesconfig/vmlinux
So this change is both a space savings and a code simplification.
CC: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
CC: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
syslets (or other threads/processes that want io context sharing) can
set this to enforce sharing of io context.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
revert 19ef930927.
Kevin Winchester reported a lockup during X startup an bisected
it to this commit.
Reported-by: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Forgot to remove this when removing the appldata binary sysctls.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Right now, the linux kernel (with scheduler statistics enabled) keeps track
of the maximum time a process is waiting to be scheduled. While the maximum
is a very useful metric, tracking average and total is equally useful
(at least for latencytop) to figure out the accumulated effect of scheduler
delays. The accumulated effect is important to judge the performance impact
of scheduler tuning/behavior.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
print_cfs_stats is callable from interrupt context (sysrq), hence it should
not take mutexes. Change it to use RCU since the task group data is RCU
freed anyway.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The attached patch is something really simple that can sometimes help
in getting more info out of a hung system.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
printk timestamps: use ktime_get().
Some platforms have a functioning clocksource function only after
they are done with early bootup, so delay this until out of
SYSTEM_BOOTING state.
it's also inherently safe now, as any bugs in this area will be
caught by the printk recursion checks.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LatencyTOP kernel infrastructure; it measures latencies in the
scheduler and tracks it system wide and per process.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
looking at it one more time:
(1) it looks to me that there is no need to call
sched_rt_ratio_exceeded() from pick_next_rt_entity()
- [ for CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED ] queues with rt_rq->rt_throttled are
not within this 'tree-like hierarchy' (or whatever we should call it
:-)
- there is also no need to re-check 'rt_rq->rt_time > ratio' at this
point as 'rt_rq->rt_time' couldn't have been increased since the last
call to update_curr_rt() (which obviously calls
sched_rt_ratio_esceeded())
well, it might be that 'ratio' for this rt_rq has been re-configured
(and the period over which this rt_rq was active has not yet been
finished)... but I don't think we should really take this into
account.
(2) now pick_next_rt_entity() must never return NULL, so let's change
pick_next_task_rt() accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
sched: fix rq->clock warps on frequency changes
Fix 2bacec8c31
(sched: touch softlockup watchdog after idling) that reintroduced warps
on frequency changes. touch_softlockup_watchdog() calls __update_rq_clock
that checks rq->clock for warps, so call it after adjusting rq->clock.
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@yahoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ensure that the kernel threads are created with the usual nice level
and affinity even if kthreadd's properties were changed from the
default by root.
Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Based on a suggestion from Andi:
In various cases, the unload of a module may leave some bad state around
that causes a kernel crash AFTER a module is unloaded; and it's then hard
to find which module caused that.
This patch tracks the last unloaded module, and prints this as part of the
module list in the oops trace.
Right now, only the last 1 module is tracked; I expect that this is enough
for the vast majority of cases where this information matters; if it turns
out that tracking more is important, we can always extend it to that.
[ mingo@elte.hu: build fix ]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
It's rather common that an oops/WARN_ON/BUG happens during the load or
unload of a module. Unfortunatly, it's not always easy to see directly
which module is being loaded/unloaded from the oops itself. Worse,
it's not even always possible to ask the bug reporter, since there
are so many components (udev etc) that auto-load modules that there's
a good chance that even the reporter doesn't know which module this is.
This patch extends the existing "show if it's tainting" print code,
which is used as part of printing the modules in the oops/BUG/WARN_ON
to include a "+" for "being loaded" and a "-" for "being unloaded".
As a result this extension, the "taint_flags()" function gets renamed to
"module_flags()" (and takes a module struct as argument, not a taint
flags int).
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Remove the curious logic to set it_sched_expires in the future. It useless
because rt.timeout wouldn't be incremented anyway.
Explicity check for RLIM_INFINITY as a test programm that had a 1s soft limit
and a inf hard limit would SIGKILL at 1s. This is because RLIM_INFINITY+d-1
is d-2.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlsta <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Only reschedule if the new group has a higher prio task.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
hrtimer_wakeup creates a
base->lock
rq->lock
lock dependancy. Avoid this by switching to HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ
which doesn't hold base->lock.
This fully untangles hrtimer locks from the scheduler locks, and allows
hrtimer usage in the scheduler proper.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Currently all highres=off timers are run from softirq context, but
HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ timers expect to run from irq context.
Fix this up by splitting it similar to the highres=on case.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In order to more easily allow for the scheduler to use timers, clean up
the locking a bit.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We need to teach no_hz about the rt throttling because its tick driven.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Extend group scheduling to also cover the realtime classes. It uses the time
limiting introduced by the previous patch to allow multiple realtime groups.
The hard time limit is required to keep behaviour deterministic.
The algorithms used make the realtime scheduler O(tg), linear scaling wrt the
number of task groups. This is the worst case behaviour I can't seem to get out
of, the avg. case of the algorithms can be improved, I focused on correctness
and worst case.
[ akpm@linux-foundation.org: move side-effects out of BUG_ON(). ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Very simple time limit on the realtime scheduling classes.
Allow the rq's realtime class to consume sched_rt_ratio of every
sched_rt_period slice. If the class exceeds this quota the fair class
will preempt the realtime class.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use HR-timers (when available) to deliver an accurate preemption tick.
The regular scheduler tick that runs at 1/HZ can be too coarse when nice
level are used. The fairness system will still keep the cpu utilisation 'fair'
by then delaying the task that got an excessive amount of CPU time but try to
minimize this by delivering preemption points spot-on.
The average frequency of this extra interrupt is sched_latency / nr_latency.
Which need not be higher than 1/HZ, its just that the distribution within the
sched_latency period is important.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Why do we even have cond_resched when real preemption
is on? It seems to be a waste of space and time.
remove cond_resched with CONFIG_PREEMPT on.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Introduce a new rlimit that allows the user to set a runtime timeout on
real-time tasks their slice. Once this limit is exceeded the task will receive
SIGXCPU.
So it measures runtime since the last sleep.
Input and ideas by Thomas Gleixner and Lennart Poettering.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
CC: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
CC: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Move the task_struct members specific to rt scheduling together.
A future optimization could be to put sched_entity and sched_rt_entity
into a union.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
There are already 4 error paths in alloc_uid() that do incremental rollbacks.
I think it's time to merge them. This costs us 8 lines of code :)
Maybe it would be better to merge this patch with the previous one, but I
remember that some time ago I sent a similar patch (fixing the error path and
cleaning it), but I was told to make two patches in such cases.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The baseline code statically builds the span maps when the domain is formed.
Previous attempts at dynamically updating the maps caused a suspend-to-ram
regression, which should now be fixed.
Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
CC: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch allows preemptible RCU to tolerate CPU-hotplug operations.
It accomplishes this by maintaining a local copy of a map of online
CPUs, which it accesses under its own lock.
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch implements a new version of RCU which allows its read-side
critical sections to be preempted. It uses a set of counter pairs
to keep track of the read-side critical sections and flips them
when all tasks exit read-side critical section. The details
of this implementation can be found in this paper -
http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/OLSrtRCU.2006.08.11a.pdf
and the article-
http://lwn.net/Articles/253651/
This patch was developed as a part of the -rt kernel development and
meant to provide better latencies when read-side critical sections of
RCU don't disable preemption. As a consequence of keeping track of RCU
readers, the readers have a slight overhead (optimizations in the paper).
This implementation co-exists with the "classic" RCU implementations
and can be switched to at compiler.
Also includes RCU tracing summarized in debugfs.
[ akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes on non-preempt architectures ]
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Greg Kroah-Hartman