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  1. 09 Oct, 2007 18 commits
  3. 08 Oct, 2007 1 commit
  5. 07 Oct, 2007 1 commit
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Don't do load-average calculations at even 5-second intervals · 0c2043ab
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      
It turns out that there are a few other five-second timers in the
kernel, and if the timers get in sync, the load-average can get
artificially inflated by events that just happen to coincide.

So just offset the load average calculation it by a timer tick.

Noticed by Anders Boström, for whom the coincidence started triggering
on one of his machines with the JBD jiffies rounding code (JBD is one of
the subsystems that also end up using a 5-second timer by default).
Tested-by: default avatarAnders Boström <anders@bostrom.dyndns.org>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0c2043ab
  7. 26 Sep, 2007 1 commit
  9. 20 Sep, 2007 1 commit
    • Davide Libenzi's avatar
      signalfd simplification · b8fceee1
      Davide Libenzi authored 
      
This simplifies signalfd code, by avoiding it to remain attached to the
sighand during its lifetime.

In this way, the signalfd remain attached to the sighand only during
poll(2) (and select and epoll) and read(2).  This also allows to remove
all the custom "tsk == current" checks in kernel/signal.c, since
dequeue_signal() will only be called by "current".

I think this is also what Ben was suggesting time ago.

The external effect of this, is that a thread can extract only its own
private signals and the group ones.  I think this is an acceptable
behaviour, in that those are the signals the thread would be able to
fetch w/out signalfd.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b8fceee1
  11. 19 Sep, 2007 4 commits
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      sched: add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_compat_yield · 1799e35d
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      
add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_compat_yield to make sys_sched_yield()
more agressive, by moving the yielding task to the last position
in the rbtree.

with sched_compat_yield=0:

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  2539 mingo     20   0  1576  252  204 R   50  0.0   0:02.03 loop_yield
  2541 mingo     20   0  1576  244  196 R   50  0.0   0:02.05 loop

with sched_compat_yield=1:

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  2584 mingo     20   0  1576  248  196 R   99  0.0   0:52.45 loop
  2582 mingo     20   0  1576  256  204 R    0  0.0   0:00.00 loop_yield
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      1799e35d
    • Lee Schermerhorn's avatar
      Fix NUMA Memory Policy Reference Counting · 480eccf9
      Lee Schermerhorn authored 
      
This patch proposes fixes to the reference counting of memory policy in the
page allocation paths and in show_numa_map().  Extracted from my "Memory
Policy Cleanups and Enhancements" series as stand-alone.

Shared policy lookup [shmem] has always added a reference to the policy,
but this was never unrefed after page allocation or after formatting the
numa map data.

Default system policy should not require additional ref counting, nor
should the current task's task policy.  However, show_numa_map() calls
get_vma_policy() to examine what may be [likely is] another task's policy.
The latter case needs protection against freeing of the policy.

This patch adds a reference count to a mempolicy returned by
get_vma_policy() when the policy is a vma policy or another task's
mempolicy.  Again, shared policy is already reference counted on lookup.  A
matching "unref" [__mpol_free()] is performed in alloc_page_vma() for
shared and vma policies, and in show_numa_map() for shared and another
task's mempolicy.  We can call __mpol_free() directly, saving an admittedly
inexpensive inline NULL test, because we know we have a non-NULL policy.

Handling policy ref counts for hugepages is a bit trickier.
huge_zonelist() returns a zone list that might come from a shared or vma
'BIND policy.  In this case, we should hold the reference until after the
huge page allocation in dequeue_hugepage().  The patch modifies
huge_zonelist() to return a pointer to the mempolicy if it needs to be
unref'd after allocation.

Kernel Build [16cpu, 32GB, ia64] - average of 10 runs:

		w/o patch	w/ refcount patch
	    Avg	  Std Devn	   Avg	  Std Devn
Real:	 100.59	    0.38	 100.63	    0.43
User:	1209.60	    0.37	1209.91	    0.31
System:   81.52	    0.42	  81.64	    0.34
Signed-off-by: default avatarLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      480eccf9
    • Pavel Emelyanov's avatar
      Fix user namespace exiting OOPs · 28f300d2
      Pavel Emelyanov authored 
      
It turned out, that the user namespace is released during the do_exit() in
exit_task_namespaces(), but the struct user_struct is released only during the
put_task_struct(), i.e.  MUCH later.

On debug kernels with poisoned slabs this will cause the oops in
uid_hash_remove() because the head of the chain, which resides inside the
struct user_namespace, will be already freed and poisoned.

Since the uid hash itself is required only when someone can search it, i.e.
when the namespace is alive, we can safely unhash all the user_struct-s from
it during the namespace exiting.  The subsequent free_uid() will complete the
user_struct destruction.

For example simple program

   #include <sched.h>

   char stack[2 * 1024 * 1024];

   int f(void *foo)
   {
   	return 0;
   }

   int main(void)
   {
   	clone(f, stack + 1 * 1024 * 1024, 0x10000000, 0);
   	return 0;
   }

run on kernel with CONFIG_USER_NS turned on will oops the
kernel immediately.

This was spotted during OpenVZ kernel testing.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Acked-by: default avatar"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      28f300d2
    • Pavel Emelyanov's avatar
      Convert uid hash to hlist · 735de223
      Pavel Emelyanov authored 
      
Surprisingly, but (spotted by Alexey Dobriyan) the uid hash still uses
list_heads, thus occupying twice as much place as it could.  Convert it to
hlist_heads.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Acked-by: default avatarSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      735de223
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  23. 01 Sep, 2007 1 commit
    • Trond Myklebust's avatar
      NFS: Fix a write request leak in nfs_invalidate_page() · 1b3b4a1a
      Trond Myklebust authored 
      
Ryusuke Konishi says:

The recent truncate_complete_page() clears the dirty flag from a page
before calling a_ops->invalidatepage(),
^^^^^^
static void
truncate_complete_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
{
        ...
        cancel_dirty_page(page, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);  <--- Inserted here at
kernel 2.6.20

        if (PagePrivate(page))
                do_invalidatepage(page, 0);   ---> will call
a_ops->invalidatepage()
        ...
}

and this is disturbing nfs_wb_page_priority() from calling 
nfs_writepage_locked() that is expected to handle the pending
request (=nfs_page) associated with the page.

int nfs_wb_page_priority(struct inode *inode, struct page *page, int how)
{
        ...
        if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
                ret = nfs_writepage_locked(page, &wbc);
                if (ret < 0)
                        goto out;
        }
        ...
}

Since truncate_complete_page() will get rid of the page after
a_ops->invalidatepage() returns, the request (=nfs_page) associated
with the page becomes a garbage in nfs_inode->nfs_page_tree.
------------------------

Fix this by ensuring that nfs_wb_page_priority() recognises that it may
also need to clear out non-dirty pages that have an nfs_page associated
with them.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
      1b3b4a1a
  25. 31 Aug, 2007 2 commits