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2016-05-27mm: oom_reaper: remove some bloatMichal Hocko1-1/+3
mmput_async is currently used only from the oom_reaper which is defined only for CONFIG_MMU. We can save work_struct in mm_struct for !CONFIG_MMU. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo, per Minchan] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160520061658.GB19172@dhcp22.suse.cz Reported-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-26Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Two fixes: one for a lost wakeup, the other to fix the compiler optimizing out preempt operations on ARM64 (and possibly other non-x86 architectures)" * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/core: Fix remote wakeups sched/preempt: Fix preempt_count manipulations
2016-05-25sched/core: Fix remote wakeupsPeter Zijlstra1-0/+1
Commit: b5179ac70de8 ("sched/fair: Prepare to fix fairness problems on migration") ... introduced a bug: Mike Galbraith found that it introduced a performance regression, while Paul E. McKenney reported lost wakeups and bisected it to this commit. The reason is that I mis-read ttwu_queue() such that I assumed any wakeup that got a remote queue must have had the task migrated. Since this is not so; we need to transfer this information between queueing the wakeup and actually doing the wakeup. Use a new task_struct::sched_flag for this, we already write to sched_contributes_to_load in the wakeup path so this is a hot and modified cacheline. Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Pavan Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: byungchul.park@lge.com Fixes: b5179ac70de8 ("sched/fair: Prepare to fix fairness problems on migration") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160523091907.GD15728@worktop.ger.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-05-24signal: make oom_flags a boolTetsuo Handa1-1/+5
Currently the size of "struct signal_struct"->oom_flags member is sizeof(unsigned) bytes, but only one flag OOM_FLAG_ORIGIN which is updated by current thread is defined. We can convert OOM_FLAG_ORIGIN into a bool, and reuse the saved bytes for updating from the OOM killer and/or the OOM reaper thread. By the way, do we care about a race window between run_store() and swapoff() because it would be theoretically possible that two threads sharing the "struct signal_struct" concurrently call respective functions? If we care, we can make oom_flags an atomic_t. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-21Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds1-2/+21
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: - the rest of MM - KASAN updates - procfs updates - exit, fork updates - printk updates - lib/ updates - radix-tree testsuite updates - checkpatch updates - kprobes updates - a few other misc bits * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (162 commits) samples/kprobes: print out the symbol name for the hooks samples/kprobes: add a new module parameter kprobes: add the "tls" argument for j_do_fork init/main.c: simplify initcall_blacklisted() fs/efs/super.c: fix return value checkpatch: improve --git <commit-count> shortcut checkpatch: reduce number of `git log` calls with --git checkpatch: add support to check already applied git commits checkpatch: add --list-types to show message types to show or ignore checkpatch: advertise the --fix and --fix-inplace options more checkpatch: whine about ACCESS_ONCE checkpatch: add test for keywords not starting on tabstops checkpatch: improve CONSTANT_COMPARISON test for structure members checkpatch: add PREFER_IS_ENABLED test lib/GCD.c: use binary GCD algorithm instead of Euclidean radix-tree: free up the bottom bit of exceptional entries for reuse dax: move RADIX_DAX_ definitions to dax.c radix-tree: make radix_tree_descend() more useful radix-tree: introduce radix_tree_replace_clear_tags() radix-tree: tidy up __radix_tree_create() ...
2016-05-21Merge tag 'staging-4.7-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+4
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging Pull staging and IIO driver updates from Greg KH: "Here's the big staging and iio driver update for 4.7-rc1. I think we almost broke even with this release, only adding a few more lines than we removed, which isn't bad overall given that there's a bunch of new iio drivers added. The Lustre developers seem to have woken up from their sleep and have been doing a great job in cleaning up the code and pruning unused or old cruft, the filesystem is almost readable :) Other than that, just a lot of basic coding style cleanups in the churn. All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'staging-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (938 commits) Staging: emxx_udc: emxx_udc: fixed coding style issue staging/gdm724x: fix "alignment should match open parenthesis" issues staging/gdm724x: Fix avoid CamelCase staging: unisys: rename misleading var ii with frag staging: unisys: visorhba: switch success handling to error handling staging: unisys: visorhba: main path needs to flow down the left margin staging: unisys: visorinput: handle_locking_key() simplifications staging: unisys: visorhba: fail gracefully for thread creation failures staging: unisys: visornic: comment restructuring and removing bad diction staging: unisys: fix format string %Lx to %llx for u64 staging: unisys: remove unused struct members staging: unisys: visorchannel: correct variable misspelling staging: unisys: visorhba: replace functionlike macro with function staging: dgnc: Need to check for NULL of ch staging: dgnc: remove redundant condition check staging: dgnc: fix 'line over 80 characters' staging: dgnc: clean up the dgnc_get_modem_info() staging: lustre: lnet: enable configuration per NI interface staging: lustre: o2iblnd: properly set ibr_why staging: lustre: o2iblnd: remove last of kiblnd_tunables_fini ...
2016-05-21exit_thread: accept a task parameter to be exitedJiri Slaby1-2/+2
We need to call exit_thread from copy_process in a fail path. So make it accept task_struct as a parameter. [v2] * s390: exit_thread_runtime_instr doesn't make sense to be called for non-current tasks. * arm: fix the comment in vfp_thread_copy * change 'me' to 'tsk' for task_struct * now we can change only archs that actually have exit_thread [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se> Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com> Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com> Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Steven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-21exit_thread: remove empty bodiesJiri Slaby1-0/+7
Define HAVE_EXIT_THREAD for archs which want to do something in exit_thread. For others, let's define exit_thread as an empty inline. This is a cleanup before we change the prototype of exit_thread to accept a task parameter. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips] Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se> Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com> Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com> Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Steven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-21userfaultfd: don't pin the user memory in userfaultfd_file_create()Oleg Nesterov1-1/+6
userfaultfd_file_create() increments mm->mm_users; this means that the memory won't be unmapped/freed if mm owner exits/execs, and UFFDIO_COPY after that can populate the orphaned mm more. Change userfaultfd_file_create() and userfaultfd_ctx_put() to use mm->mm_count to pin mm_struct. This means that atomic_inc_not_zero(mm->mm_users) is needed when we are going to actually play with this memory. Except handle_userfault() path doesn't need this, the caller must already have a reference. The patch adds the new trivial helper, mmget_not_zero(), it can have more users. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160516172254.GA8595@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-21mm,oom: speed up select_bad_process() loopTetsuo Handa1-0/+1
Since commit 3a5dda7a17cf ("oom: prevent unnecessary oom kills or kernel panics"), select_bad_process() is using for_each_process_thread(). Since oom_unkillable_task() scans all threads in the caller's thread group and oom_task_origin() scans signal_struct of the caller's thread group, we don't need to call oom_unkillable_task() and oom_task_origin() on each thread. Also, since !mm test will be done later at oom_badness(), we don't need to do !mm test on each thread. Therefore, we only need to do TIF_MEMDIE test on each thread. Although the original code was correct it was quite inefficient because each thread group was scanned num_threads times which can be a lot especially with processes with many threads. Even though the OOM is extremely cold path it is always good to be as effective as possible when we are inside rcu_read_lock() - aka unpreemptible context. If we track number of TIF_MEMDIE threads inside signal_struct, we don't need to do TIF_MEMDIE test on each thread. This will allow select_bad_process() to use for_each_process(). This patch adds a counter to signal_struct for tracking how many TIF_MEMDIE threads are in a given thread group, and check it at oom_scan_process_thread() so that select_bad_process() can use for_each_process() rather than for_each_process_thread(). [mhocko@suse.com: do not blow the signal_struct size] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160520075035.GF19172@dhcp22.suse.cz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201605182230.IDC73435.MVSOHLFOQFOJtF@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-21mm, oom_reaper: do not mmput synchronously from the oom reaper contextMichal Hocko1-0/+5
Tetsuo has properly noted that mmput slow path might get blocked waiting for another party (e.g. exit_aio waits for an IO). If that happens the oom_reaper would be put out of the way and will not be able to process next oom victim. We should strive for making this context as reliable and independent on other subsystems as much as possible. Introduce mmput_async which will perform the slow path from an async (WQ) context. This will delay the operation but that shouldn't be a problem because the oom_reaper has reclaimed the victim's address space for most cases as much as possible and the remaining context shouldn't bind too much memory anymore. The only exception is when mmap_sem trylock has failed which shouldn't happen too often. The issue is only theoretical but not impossible. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-21mm, oom_reaper: hide oom reaped tasks from OOM killer more carefullyMichal Hocko1-0/+1
Commit 36324a990cf5 ("oom: clear TIF_MEMDIE after oom_reaper managed to unmap the address space") not only clears TIF_MEMDIE for oom reaped task but also set OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN for the target task to hide it from the oom killer. This works in simple cases but it is not sufficient for (unlikely) cases where the mm is shared between independent processes (as they do not share signal struct). If the mm had only small amount of memory which could be reaped then another task sharing the mm could be selected and that wouldn't help to move out from the oom situation. Introduce MMF_OOM_REAPED mm flag which is checked in oom_badness (same as OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN) and task is skipped if the flag is set. Set the flag after __oom_reap_task is done with a task. This will force the select_bad_process() to ignore all already oom reaped tasks as well as no such task is sacrificed for its parent. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-17Merge tag 'pm-4.7-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+4
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "The majority of changes go into the cpufreq subsystem this time. To me, quite obviously, the biggest ticket item is the new "schedutil" governor. Interestingly enough, it's the first new cpufreq governor since the beginning of the git era (except for some out-of-the-tree ones). There are two main differences between it and the existing governors. First, it uses the information provided by the scheduler directly for making its decisions, so it doesn't have to track anything by itself. Second, it can invoke drivers (supporting that feature) to adjust CPU performance right away without having to spawn work items to be executed in process context or similar. Currently, the acpi-cpufreq driver is the only one supporting that mode of operation, but then it is used on a large number of systems. The "schedutil" governor as included here is very simple and mostly regarded as a foundation for future work on the integration of the scheduler with CPU power management (in fact, there is work in progress on top of it already). Nevertheless it works and the preliminary results obtained with it are encouraging. There also is some consolidation of CPU frequency management for ARM platforms that can add their machine IDs the the new stub dt-platdev driver now and that will take care of creating the requisite platform device for cpufreq-dt, so it is not necessary to do that in platform code any more. Several ARM platforms are switched over to using this generic mechanism. In addition to that, the intel_pstate driver is now going to respect CPU frequency limits set by the platform firmware (or a BMC) and provided via the ACPI _PPC object. The devfreq subsystem is getting a new "passive" governor for SoCs subsystems that will depend on somebody else to manage their voltage rails and its support for Samsung Exynos SoCs is consolidated. The rest is support for new hardware (Intel Broxton support in intel_idle for one example), bug fixes, optimizations and cleanups in a number of places. Specifics: - New cpufreq "schedutil" governor (making decisions based on CPU utilization information provided by the scheduler and capable of switching CPU frequencies right away if the underlying driver supports that) and support for fast frequency switching in the acpi-cpufreq driver (Rafael Wysocki) - Consolidation of CPU frequency management on ARM platforms allowing them to get rid of some platform-specific boilerplate code if they are going to use the cpufreq-dt driver (Viresh Kumar, Finley Xiao, Marc Gonzalez) - Support for ACPI _PPC and CPU frequency limits in the intel_pstate driver (Srinivas Pandruvada) - Fixes and cleanups in the cpufreq core and generic governor code (Rafael Wysocki, Sai Gurrappadi) - intel_pstate driver optimizations and cleanups (Rafael Wysocki, Philippe Longepe, Chen Yu, Joe Perches) - cpufreq powernv driver fixes and cleanups (Akshay Adiga, Shilpasri Bhat) - cpufreq qoriq driver fixes and cleanups (Jia Hongtao) - ACPI cpufreq driver cleanups (Viresh Kumar) - Assorted cpufreq driver updates (Ashwin Chaugule, Geliang Tang, Javier Martinez Canillas, Paul Gortmaker, Sudeep Holla) - Assorted cpufreq fixes and cleanups (Joe Perches, Arnd Bergmann) - Fixes and cleanups in the OPP (Operating Performance Points) framework, mostly related to OPP sharing, and reorganization of OF-dependent code in it (Viresh Kumar, Arnd Bergmann, Sudeep Holla) - New "passive" governor for devfreq (for SoC subsystems that will rely on someone else for the management of their power resources) and consolidation of devfreq support for Exynos platforms, coding style and typo fixes for devfreq (Chanwoo Choi, MyungJoo Ham) - PM core fixes and cleanups, mostly to make it work better with the generic power domains (genpd) framework, and updates for that framework (Ulf Hansson, Thierry Reding, Colin Ian King) - Intel Broxton support for the intel_idle driver (Len Brown) - cpuidle core optimization and fix (Daniel Lezcano, Dave Gerlach) - ARM cpuidle cleanups (Jisheng Zhang) - Intel Kabylake support for the RAPL power capping driver (Jacob Pan) - AVS (Adaptive Voltage Switching) rockchip-io driver update (Heiko Stuebner) - Updates for the cpupower tool (Arjun Sreedharan, Colin Ian King, Mattia Dongili, Thomas Renninger)" * tag 'pm-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (112 commits) intel_pstate: Clean up get_target_pstate_use_performance() intel_pstate: Use sample.core_avg_perf in get_avg_pstate() intel_pstate: Clarify average performance computation intel_pstate: Avoid unnecessary synchronize_sched() during initialization cpufreq: schedutil: Make default depend on CONFIG_SMP cpufreq: powernv: del_timer_sync when global and local pstate are equal cpufreq: powernv: Move smp_call_function_any() out of irq safe block intel_pstate: Clean up intel_pstate_get() cpufreq: schedutil: Make it depend on CONFIG_SMP cpufreq: governor: Fix handling of special cases in dbs_update() PM / OPP: Move CONFIG_OF dependent code in a separate file cpufreq: intel_pstate: Ignore _PPC processing under HWP cpufreq: arm_big_little: use generic OPP functions for {init, free}_opp_table PM / OPP: add non-OF versions of dev_pm_opp_{cpumask_, }remove_table cpufreq: tango: Use generic platdev driver PM / OPP: pass cpumask by reference cpufreq: Fix GOV_LIMITS handling for the userspace governor cpupower: fix potential memory leak PM / devfreq: style/typo fixes PM / devfreq: exynos: Add the detailed correlation for Exynos5422 bus ..
2016-05-17Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-16/+108
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: - massive CPU hotplug rework (Thomas Gleixner) - improve migration fairness (Peter Zijlstra) - CPU load calculation updates/cleanups (Yuyang Du) - cpufreq updates (Steve Muckle) - nohz optimizations (Frederic Weisbecker) - switch_mm() micro-optimization on x86 (Andy Lutomirski) - ... lots of other enhancements, fixes and cleanups. * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (66 commits) ARM: Hide finish_arch_post_lock_switch() from modules sched/core: Provide a tsk_nr_cpus_allowed() helper sched/core: Use tsk_cpus_allowed() instead of accessing ->cpus_allowed sched/loadavg: Fix loadavg artifacts on fully idle and on fully loaded systems sched/fair: Correct unit of load_above_capacity sched/fair: Clean up scale confusion sched/nohz: Fix affine unpinned timers mess sched/fair: Fix fairness issue on migration sched/core: Kill sched_class::task_waking to clean up the migration logic sched/fair: Prepare to fix fairness problems on migration sched/fair: Move record_wakee() sched/core: Fix comment typo in wake_q_add() sched/core: Remove unused variable sched: Make hrtick_notifier an explicit call sched/fair: Make ilb_notifier an explicit call sched/hotplug: Make activate() the last hotplug step sched/hotplug: Move migration CPU_DYING to sched_cpu_dying() sched/migration: Move CPU_ONLINE into scheduler state sched/migration: Move calc_load_migrate() into CPU_DYING sched/migration: Move prepare transition to SCHED_STARTING state ...
2016-05-16Merge branch 'core-signals-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+20
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull core signal updates from Ingo Molnar: "These updates from Stas Sergeev and Andy Lutomirski, improve the sigaltstack interface by extending its ABI with the SS_AUTODISARM feature, which makes it possible to use swapcontext() in a sighandler that works on sigaltstack. Without this flag, the subsequent signal will corrupt the state of the switched-away sighandler. The inspiration is more robust dosemu signal handling" * 'core-signals-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: signals/sigaltstack: Change SS_AUTODISARM to (1U << 31) signals/sigaltstack: Report current flag bits in sigaltstack() selftests/sigaltstack: Fix the sigaltstack test on old kernels signals/sigaltstack: If SS_AUTODISARM, bypass on_sig_stack() selftests/sigaltstack: Add new testcase for sigaltstack(SS_ONSTACK|SS_AUTODISARM) signals/sigaltstack: Implement SS_AUTODISARM flag signals/sigaltstack: Prepare to add new SS_xxx flags signals/sigaltstack, x86/signals: Unify the x86 sigaltstack check with other architectures
2016-05-16Merge branch 'core-lib-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull core/lib update from Ingo Molnar: "This contains a single commit that removes an unused facility that the scheduler used to make use of" * 'core-lib-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: lib/proportions: Remove unused code
2016-05-12sched/core: Provide a tsk_nr_cpus_allowed() helperThomas Gleixner1-0/+5
tsk_nr_cpus_allowed() is an accessor for task->nr_cpus_allowed which allows us to change the representation of ->nr_cpus_allowed if required. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462969411-17735-2-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-05-12Merge branch 'smp/hotplug' into sched/core, to resolve conflictsIngo Molnar1-0/+9
Conflicts: kernel/sched/core.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-05-06sched/hotplug: Move migration CPU_DYING to sched_cpu_dying()Thomas Gleixner1-0/+6
Remove the hotplug notifier and make it an explicit state. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: rt@linutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160310120025.502222097@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-05-06sched/hotplug: Convert cpu_[in]active notifiers to state machineThomas Gleixner1-0/+2
Now that we reduced everything into single notifiers, it's simple to move them into the hotplug state machine space. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: rt@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-05-06sched: Make set_cpu_rq_start_time() a built in hotplug stateThomas Gleixner1-0/+1
Start distangling the maze of hotplug notifiers in the scheduler. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: rt@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-05-05sched/fair: Add detailed description to the sched load avg metricsYuyang Du1-11/+49
These sched metrics have become complex enough, so describe them in detail at their definition. Signed-off-by: Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> [ Fixed the text to improve its spelling and typography. ] Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: bsegall@google.com Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: lizefan@huawei.com Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459829551-21625-4-git-send-email-yuyang.du@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-05-05sched/fair: Generalize the load/util averages resolution definitionYuyang Du1-3/+13
Integer metric needs fixed point arithmetic. In sched/fair, a few metrics, e.g., weight, load, load_avg, util_avg, freq, and capacity, may have different fixed point ranges, which makes their update and usage error-prone. In order to avoid the errors relating to the fixed point range, we definie a basic fixed point range, and then formalize all metrics to base on the basic range. The basic range is 1024 or (1 << 10). Further, one can recursively apply the basic range to have larger range. Pointed out by Ben Segall, weight (visible to user, e.g., NICE-0 has 1024) and load (e.g., NICE_0_LOAD) have independent ranges, but they must be well calibrated. Signed-off-by: Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: bsegall@google.com Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: lizefan@huawei.com Cc: morten.rasmussen@arm.com Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459829551-21625-2-git-send-email-yuyang.du@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-05-04signals/sigaltstack: If SS_AUTODISARM, bypass on_sig_stack()Andy Lutomirski1-0/+12
If a signal stack is set up with SS_AUTODISARM, then the kernel inherently avoids incorrectly resetting the signal stack if signals recurse: the signal stack will be reset on the first signal delivery. This means that we don't need check the stack pointer when delivering signals if SS_AUTODISARM is set. This will make segmented x86 programs more robust: currently there's a hole that could be triggered if ESP/RSP appears to point to the signal stack but actually doesn't due to a nonzero SS base. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Cc: Amanieu d'Antras <amanieu@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Cc: Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c46bee4654ca9e68c498462fd11746e2bd0d98c8.1462296606.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-05-03signals/sigaltstack: Implement SS_AUTODISARM flagStas Sergeev1-0/+8
This patch implements the SS_AUTODISARM flag that can be OR-ed with SS_ONSTACK when forming ss_flags. When this flag is set, sigaltstack will be disabled when entering the signal handler; more precisely, after saving sas to uc_stack. When leaving the signal handler, the sigaltstack is restored by uc_stack. When this flag is used, it is safe to switch from sighandler with swapcontext(). Without this flag, the subsequent signal will corrupt the state of the switched-away sighandler. To detect the support of this functionality, one can do: err = sigaltstack(SS_DISABLE | SS_AUTODISARM); if (err && errno == EINVAL) unsupported(); Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Cc: Amanieu d'Antras <amanieu@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460665206-13646-4-git-send-email-stsp@list.ru Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-04-28Merge back earlier cpufreq material for v4.7.Rafael J. Wysocki1-1/+4
2016-04-23sched/fair: Correctly handle nohz ticks CPU load accountingFrederic Weisbecker1-2/+4
Ticks can happen while the CPU is in dynticks-idle or dynticks-singletask mode. In fact "nohz" or "dynticks" only mean that we exit the periodic mode and we try to minimize the ticks as much as possible. The nohz subsystem uses a confusing terminology with the internal state "ts->tick_stopped" which is also available through its public interface with tick_nohz_tick_stopped(). This is a misnomer as the tick is instead reduced with the best effort rather than stopped. In the best case the tick can indeed be actually stopped but there is no guarantee about that. If a timer needs to fire one second later, a tick will fire while the CPU is in nohz mode and this is a very common scenario. Now this confusion happens to be a problem with CPU load updates: cpu_load_update_active() doesn't handle nohz ticks correctly because it assumes that ticks are completely stopped in nohz mode and that cpu_load_update_active() can't be called in dynticks mode. When that happens, the whole previous tickless load is ignored and the function just records the load for the current tick, ignoring potentially long idle periods behind. In order to solve this, we could account the current load for the previous nohz time but there is a risk that we account the load of a task that got freshly enqueued for the whole nohz period. So instead, lets record the dynticks load on nohz frame entry so we know what to record in case of nohz ticks, then use this record to account the tickless load on nohz ticks and nohz frame end. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E . McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460555812-25375-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-04-23sched/fair: Gather CPU load functions under a more conventional namespaceFrederic Weisbecker1-2/+2
The CPU load update related functions have a weak naming convention currently, starting with update_cpu_load_*() which isn't ideal as "update" is a very generic concept. Since two of these functions are public already (and a third is to come) that's enough to introduce a more conventional naming scheme. So let's do the following rename instead: update_cpu_load_*() -> cpu_load_update_*() Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E . McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460555812-25375-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-04-13sched/clock: Make local_clock()/cpu_clock() inlineDaniel Lezcano1-2/+30
The local_clock/cpu_clock functions were changed to prevent a double identical test with sched_clock_cpu() when HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK is set. That resulted in one line functions. As these functions are in all the cases one line functions and in the hot path, it is useful to specify them as static inline in order to give a strong hint to the compiler. After verification, it appears the compiler does not inline them without this hint. Change those functions to static inline. sched_clock_cpu() is called via the inlined local_clock()/cpu_clock() functions from sched.h. So any module code including sched.h will reference sched_clock_cpu(). Thus it must be exported with the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL macro. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460385514-14700-2-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-04-11Merge 4.6-rc3 into staging-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman1-2/+2
This resolves a lot of merge issues with PAGE_CACHE_* changes, and an iio driver merge issue. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-04-04android,lowmemorykiller: Don't abuse TIF_MEMDIE.Tetsuo Handa1-0/+4
Currently, lowmemorykiller (LMK) is using TIF_MEMDIE for two purposes. One is to remember processes killed by LMK, and the other is to accelerate termination of processes killed by LMK. But since LMK is invoked as a memory shrinker function, there still should be some memory available. It is very likely that memory allocations by processes killed by LMK will succeed without using ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS via TIF_MEMDIE. Even if their allocations cannot escape from memory allocation loop unless they use ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS, lowmem_deathpending_timeout can guarantee forward progress by choosing next victim process. On the other hand, mark_oom_victim() assumes that it must be called with oom_lock held and it must not be called after oom_killer_disable() was called. But LMK is calling it without holding oom_lock and checking oom_killer_disabled. It is possible that LMK calls mark_oom_victim() due to allocation requests by kernel threads after current thread returned from oom_killer_disabled(). This will break synchronization for PM/suspend. This patch introduces per a task_struct flag for remembering processes killed by LMK, and replaces TIF_MEMDIE with that flag. By applying this patch, assumption by mark_oom_victim() becomes true. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Arve Hjonnevag <arve@android.com> Cc: Riley Andrews <riandrews@android.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-04-02cpufreq: sched: Helpers to add and remove update_util hooksRafael J. Wysocki1-1/+4
Replace the single helper for adding and removing cpufreq utilization update hooks, cpufreq_set_update_util_data(), with a pair of helpers, cpufreq_add_update_util_hook() and cpufreq_remove_update_util_hook(), and modify the users of cpufreq_set_update_util_data() accordingly. With the new helpers, the code using them doesn't need to worry about the internals of struct update_util_data and in particular it doesn't need to worry about populating the func field in it properly upfront. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
2016-04-01lib/proportions: Remove unused codeRichard Cochran1-1/+0
By accident I stumbled across code that is no longer used. According to git grep, the global functions in lib/proportions.c are not used anywhere. This patch removes the old, unused code. Peter Zijlstra further commented: "Ah indeed, that got replaced with the flex proportion code a while back." Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <rcochran@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4265b49bed713fbe3faaf8c05da0e1792f09c0b3.1459432020.git.rcochran@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-29timers/nohz: Convert tick dependency mask to atomic_tFrederic Weisbecker1-2/+2
The tick dependency mask was intially unsigned long because this is the type on which clear_bit() operates on and fetch_or() accepts it. But now that we have atomic_fetch_or(), we can instead use atomic_andnot() to clear the bit. This consolidates the type of our tick dependency mask, reduce its size on structures and benefit from possible architecture optimizations on atomic_t operations. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1458830281-4255-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-26oom, oom_reaper: protect oom_reaper_list using simpler wayTetsuo Handa1-2/+0
"oom, oom_reaper: disable oom_reaper for oom_kill_allocating_task" tried to protect oom_reaper_list using MMF_OOM_KILLED flag. But we can do it by simply checking tsk->oom_reaper_list != NULL. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-26oom: make oom_reaper_list single linkedVladimir Davydov1-1/+1
Entries are only added/removed from oom_reaper_list at head so we can use a single linked list and hence save a word in task_struct. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-26oom, oom_reaper: disable oom_reaper for oom_kill_allocating_taskMichal Hocko1-0/+2
Tetsuo has reported that oom_kill_allocating_task=1 will cause oom_reaper_list corruption because oom_kill_process doesn't follow standard OOM exclusion (aka ignores TIF_MEMDIE) and allows to enqueue the same task multiple times - e.g. by sacrificing the same child multiple times. This patch fixes the issue by introducing a new MMF_OOM_KILLED mm flag which is set in oom_kill_process atomically and oom reaper is disabled if the flag was already set. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-26mm, oom_reaper: implement OOM victims queuingMichal Hocko1-0/+3
wake_oom_reaper has allowed only 1 oom victim to be queued. The main reason for that was the simplicity as other solutions would require some way of queuing. The current approach is racy and that was deemed sufficient as the oom_reaper is considered a best effort approach to help with oom handling when the OOM victim cannot terminate in a reasonable time. The race could lead to missing an oom victim which can get stuck out_of_memory wake_oom_reaper cmpxchg // OK oom_reaper oom_reap_task __oom_reap_task oom_victim terminates atomic_inc_not_zero // fail out_of_memory wake_oom_reaper cmpxchg // fails task_to_reap = NULL This race requires 2 OOM invocations in a short time period which is not very likely but certainly not impossible. E.g. the original victim might have not released a lot of memory for some reason. The situation would improve considerably if wake_oom_reaper used a more robust queuing. This is what this patch implements. This means adding oom_reaper_list list_head into task_struct (eat a hole before embeded thread_struct for that purpose) and a oom_reaper_lock spinlock for queuing synchronization. wake_oom_reaper will then add the task on the queue and oom_reaper will dequeue it. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Andrea Argangeli <andrea@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-26sched: add schedule_timeout_idle()Andrew Morton1-0/+1
This will be needed in the patch "mm, oom: introduce oom reaper". Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-23parisc,metag: Implement CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE optionHelge Deller1-0/+8
On parisc and metag the stack grows upwards, so for those we need to scan the stack downwards in order to calculate how much stack a process has used. Tested on a 64bit parisc kernel. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
2016-03-23kernel: add kcov code coverageDmitry Vyukov1-0/+11
kcov provides code coverage collection for coverage-guided fuzzing (randomized testing). Coverage-guided fuzzing is a testing technique that uses coverage feedback to determine new interesting inputs to a system. A notable user-space example is AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/). However, this technique is not widely used for kernel testing due to missing compiler and kernel support. kcov does not aim to collect as much coverage as possible. It aims to collect more or less stable coverage that is function of syscall inputs. To achieve this goal it does not collect coverage in soft/hard interrupts and instrumentation of some inherently non-deterministic or non-interesting parts of kernel is disbled (e.g. scheduler, locking). Currently there is a single coverage collection mode (tracing), but the API anticipates additional collection modes. Initially I also implemented a second mode which exposes coverage in a fixed-size hash table of counters (what Quentin used in his original patch). I've dropped the second mode for simplicity. This patch adds the necessary support on kernel side. The complimentary compiler support was added in gcc revision 231296. We've used this support to build syzkaller system call fuzzer, which has found 90 kernel bugs in just 2 months: https://github.com/google/syzkaller/wiki/Found-Bugs We've also found 30+ bugs in our internal systems with syzkaller. Another (yet unexplored) direction where kcov coverage would greatly help is more traditional "blob mutation". For example, mounting a random blob as a filesystem, or receiving a random blob over wire. Why not gcov. Typical fuzzing loop looks as follows: (1) reset coverage, (2) execute a bit of code, (3) collect coverage, repeat. A typical coverage can be just a dozen of basic blocks (e.g. an invalid input). In such context gcov becomes prohibitively expensive as reset/collect coverage steps depend on total number of basic blocks/edges in program (in case of kernel it is about 2M). Cost of kcov depends only on number of executed basic blocks/edges. On top of that, kernel requires per-thread coverage because there are always background threads and unrelated processes that also produce coverage. With inlined gcov instrumentation per-thread coverage is not possible. kcov exposes kernel PCs and control flow to user-space which is insecure. But debugfs should not be mapped as user accessible. Based on a patch by Quentin Casasnovas. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make task_struct.kcov_mode have type `enum kcov_mode'] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: unbreak allmodconfig] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: follow x86 Makefile layout standards] Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com> Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-19Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds1-2/+2
Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - a couple of hotfixes - the rest of MM - a new timer slack control in procfs - a couple of procfs fixes - a few misc things - some printk tweaks - lib/ updates, notably to radix-tree. - add my and Nick Piggin's old userspace radix-tree test harness to tools/testing/radix-tree/. Matthew said it was a godsend during the radix-tree work he did. - a few code-size improvements, switching to __always_inline where gcc screwed up. - partially implement character sets in sscanf * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (118 commits) sscanf: implement basic character sets lib/bug.c: use common WARN helper param: convert some "on"/"off" users to strtobool lib: add "on"/"off" support to kstrtobool lib: update single-char callers of strtobool() lib: move strtobool() to kstrtobool() include/linux/unaligned: force inlining of byteswap operations include/uapi/linux/byteorder, swab: force inlining of some byteswap operations include/asm-generic/atomic-long.h: force inlining of some atomic_long operations usb: common: convert to use match_string() helper ide: hpt366: convert to use match_string() helper ata: hpt366: convert to use match_string() helper power: ab8500: convert to use match_string() helper power: charger_manager: convert to use match_string() helper drm/edid: convert to use match_string() helper pinctrl: convert to use match_string() helper device property: convert to use match_string() helper lib/string: introduce match_string() helper radix-tree tests: add test for radix_tree_iter_next radix-tree tests: add regression3 test ...
2016-03-18timer: convert timer_slack_ns from unsigned long to u64John Stultz1-2/+2
This patchset introduces a /proc/<pid>/timerslack_ns interface which would allow controlling processes to be able to set the timerslack value on other processes in order to save power by avoiding wakeups (Something Android currently does via out-of-tree patches). The first patch tries to fix the internal timer_slack_ns usage which was defined as a long, which limits the slack range to ~4 seconds on 32bit systems. It converts it to a u64, which provides the same basically unlimited slack (500 years) on both 32bit and 64bit machines. The second patch introduces the /proc/<pid>/timerslack_ns interface which allows the full 64bit slack range for a task to be read or set on both 32bit and 64bit machines. With these two patches, on a 32bit machine, after setting the slack on bash to 10 seconds: $ time sleep 1 real 0m10.747s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.005s The first patch is a little ugly, since I had to chase the slack delta arguments through a number of functions converting them to u64s. Let me know if it makes sense to break that up more or not. Other than that things are fairly straightforward. This patch (of 2): The timer_slack_ns value in the task struct is currently a unsigned long. This means that on 32bit applications, the maximum slack is just over 4 seconds. However, on 64bit machines, its much much larger (~500 years). This disparity could make application development a little (as well as the default_slack) to a u64. This means both 32bit and 64bit systems have the same effective internal slack range. Now the existing ABI via PR_GET_TIMERSLACK and PR_SET_TIMERSLACK specify the interface as a unsigned long, so we preserve that limitation on 32bit systems, where SET_TIMERSLACK can only set the slack to a unsigned long value, and GET_TIMERSLACK will return ULONG_MAX if the slack is actually larger then what can be stored by an unsigned long. This patch also modifies hrtimer functions which specified the slack delta as a unsigned long. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cellrox.com> Cc: Ruchi Kandoi <kandoiruchi@google.com> Cc: Rom Lemarchand <romlem@android.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-17Merge tag 'tty-4.6-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH: "Here's the big tty/serial driver pull request for 4.6-rc1. Lots of changes in here, Peter has been on a tear again, with lots of refactoring and bugs fixes, many thanks to the great work he has been doing. Lots of driver updates and fixes as well, full details in the shortlog. All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'tty-4.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (220 commits) serial: 8250: describe CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RSA serial: samsung: optimize UART rx fifo access routine serial: pl011: add mark/space parity support serial: sa1100: make sa1100_register_uart_fns a function tty: serial: 8250: add MOXA Smartio MUE boards support serial: 8250: convert drivers to use up_to_u8250p() serial: 8250/mediatek: fix building with SERIAL_8250=m serial: 8250/ingenic: fix building with SERIAL_8250=m serial: 8250/uniphier: fix modular build Revert "drivers/tty/serial: make 8250/8250_ingenic.c explicitly non-modular" Revert "drivers/tty/serial: make 8250/8250_mtk.c explicitly non-modular" serial: mvebu-uart: initial support for Armada-3700 serial port serial: mctrl_gpio: Add missing module license serial: ifx6x60: avoid uninitialized variable use tty/serial: at91: fix bad offset for UART timeout register tty/serial: at91: restore dynamic driver binding serial: 8250: Add hardware dependency to RT288X option TTY, devpts: document pty count limiting tty: goldfish: support platform_device with id -1 drivers: tty: goldfish: Add device tree bindings ...
2016-03-17Merge tag 'pm+acpi-4.6-rc1-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+9
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki: "This time the majority of changes go into cpufreq and they are significant. First off, the way CPU frequency updates are triggered is different now. Instead of having to set up and manage a deferrable timer for each CPU in the system to evaluate and possibly change its frequency periodically, cpufreq governors set up callbacks to be invoked by the scheduler on a regular basis (basically on utilization updates). The "old" governors, "ondemand" and "conservative", still do all of their work in process context (although that is triggered by the scheduler now), but intel_pstate does it all in the callback invoked by the scheduler with no need for any additional asynchronous processing. Of course, this eliminates the overhead related to the management of all those timers, but also it allows the cpufreq governor code to be simplified quite a bit. On top of that, the common code and data structures used by the "ondemand" and "conservative" governors are cleaned up and made more straightforward and some long-standing and quite annoying problems are addressed. In particular, the handling of governor sysfs attributes is modified and the related locking becomes more fine grained which allows some concurrency problems to be avoided (particularly deadlocks with the core cpufreq code). In principle, the new mechanism for triggering frequency updates allows utilization information to be passed from the scheduler to cpufreq. Although the current code doesn't make use of it, in the works is a new cpufreq governor that will make decisions based on the scheduler's utilization data. That should allow the scheduler and cpufreq to work more closely together in the long run. In addition to the core and governor changes, cpufreq drivers are updated too. Fixes and optimizations go into intel_pstate, the cpufreq-dt driver is updated on top of some modification in the Operating Performance Points (OPP) framework and there are fixes and other updates in the powernv cpufreq driver. Apart from the cpufreq updates there is some new ACPICA material, including a fix for a problem introduced by previous ACPICA updates, and some less significant changes in the ACPI code, like CPPC code optimizations, ACPI processor driver cleanups and support for loading ACPI tables from initrd. Also updated are the generic power domains framework, the Intel RAPL power capping driver and the turbostat utility and we have a bunch of traditional assorted fixes and cleanups. Specifics: - Redesign of cpufreq governors and the intel_pstate driver to make them use callbacks invoked by the scheduler to trigger CPU frequency evaluation instead of using per-CPU deferrable timers for that purpose (Rafael Wysocki). - Reorganization and cleanup of cpufreq governor code to make it more straightforward and fix some concurrency problems in it (Rafael Wysocki, Viresh Kumar). - Cleanup and improvements of locking in the cpufreq core (Viresh Kumar). - Assorted cleanups in the cpufreq core (Rafael Wysocki, Viresh Kumar, Eric Biggers). - intel_pstate driver updates including fixes, optimizations and a modification to make it enable enable hardware-coordinated P-state selection (HWP) by default if supported by the processor (Philippe Longepe, Srinivas Pandruvada, Rafael Wysocki, Viresh Kumar, Felipe Franciosi). - Operating Performance Points (OPP) framework updates to improve its handling of voltage regulators and device clocks and updates of the cpufreq-dt driver on top of that (Viresh Kumar, Jon Hunter). - Updates of the powernv cpufreq driver to fix initialization and cleanup problems in it and correct its worker thread handling with respect to CPU offline, new powernv_throttle tracepoint (Shilpasri Bhat). - ACPI cpufreq driver optimization and cleanup (Rafael Wysocki). - ACPICA updates including one fix for a regression introduced by previos changes in the ACPICA code (Bob Moore, Lv Zheng, David Box, Colin Ian King). - Support for installing ACPI tables from initrd (Lv Zheng). - Optimizations of the ACPI CPPC code (Prashanth Prakash, Ashwin Chaugule). - Support for _HID(ACPI0010) devices (ACPI processor containers) and ACPI processor driver cleanups (Sudeep Holla). - Support for ACPI-based enumeration of the AMBA bus (Graeme Gregory, Aleksey Makarov). - Modification of the ACPI PCI IRQ management code to make it treat 255 in the Interrupt Line register as "not connected" on x86 (as per the specification) and avoid attempts to use that value as a valid interrupt vector (Chen Fan). - ACPI APEI fixes related to resource leaks (Josh Hunt). - Removal of modularity from a few ACPI drivers (BGRT, GHES, intel_pmic_crc) that cannot be built as modules in practice (Paul Gortmaker). - PNP framework update to make it treat ACPI_RESOURCE_TYPE_SERIAL_BUS as a valid resource type (Harb Abdulhamid). - New device ID (future AMD I2C controller) in the ACPI driver for AMD SoCs (APD) and in the designware I2C driver (Xiangliang Yu). - Assorted ACPI cleanups (Colin Ian King, Kaiyen Chang, Oleg Drokin). - cpuidle menu governor optimization to avoid a square root computation in it (Rasmus Villemoes). - Fix for potential use-after-free in the generic device properties framework (Heikki Krogerus). - Updates of the generic power domains (genpd) framework including support for multiple power states of a domain, fixes and debugfs output improvements (Axel Haslam, Jon Hunter, Laurent Pinchart, Geert Uytterhoeven). - Intel RAPL power capping driver updates to reduce IPI overhead in it (Jacob Pan). - System suspend/hibernation code cleanups (Eric Biggers, Saurabh Sengar). - Year 2038 fix for the process freezer (Abhilash Jindal). - turbostat utility updates including new features (decoding of more registers and CPUID fields, sub-second intervals support, GFX MHz and RC6 printout, --out command line option), fixes (syscall jitter detection and workaround, reductioin of the number of syscalls made, fixes related to Xeon x200 processors, compiler warning fixes) and cleanups (Len Brown, Hubert Chrzaniuk, Chen Yu)" * tag 'pm+acpi-4.6-rc1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (182 commits) tools/power turbostat: bugfix: TDP MSRs print bits fixing tools/power turbostat: correct output for MSR_NHM_SNB_PKG_CST_CFG_CTL dump tools/power turbostat: call __cpuid() instead of __get_cpuid() tools/power turbostat: indicate SMX and SGX support tools/power turbostat: detect and work around syscall jitter tools/power turbostat: show GFX%rc6 tools/power turbostat: show GFXMHz tools/power turbostat: show IRQs per CPU tools/power turbostat: make fewer systems calls tools/power turbostat: fix compiler warnings tools/power turbostat: add --out option for saving output in a file tools/power turbostat: re-name "%Busy" field to "Busy%" tools/power turbostat: Intel Xeon x200: fix turbo-ratio decoding tools/power turbostat: Intel Xeon x200: fix erroneous bclk value tools/power turbostat: allow sub-sec intervals ACPI / APEI: ERST: Fixed leaked resources in erst_init ACPI / APEI: Fix leaked resources intel_pstate: Do not skip samples partially intel_pstate: Remove freq calculation from intel_pstate_calc_busy() intel_pstate: Move intel_pstate_calc_busy() into get_target_pstate_use_performance() ...
2016-03-15Merge branch 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-3/+8
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull NOHZ updates from Ingo Molnar: "NOHZ enhancements, by Frederic Weisbecker, which reorganizes/refactors the NOHZ 'can the tick be stopped?' infrastructure and related code to be data driven, and harmonizes the naming and handling of all the various properties" [ This makes the ugly "fetch_or()" macro that the scheduler used internally a new generic helper, and does a bad job at it. I'm pulling it, but I've asked Ingo and Frederic to get this fixed up ] * 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched-clock: Migrate to use new tick dependency mask model posix-cpu-timers: Migrate to use new tick dependency mask model sched: Migrate sched to use new tick dependency mask model sched: Account rr tasks perf: Migrate perf to use new tick dependency mask model nohz: Use enum code for tick stop failure tracing message nohz: New tick dependency mask nohz: Implement wide kick on top of irq work atomic: Export fetch_or()
2016-03-10cpufreq: Move scheduler-related code to the sched directoryRafael J. Wysocki1-0/+9
Create cpufreq.c under kernel/sched/ and move the cpufreq code related to the scheduler to that file and to sched.h. Redefine cpufreq_update_util() as a static inline function to avoid function calls at its call sites in the scheduler code (as suggested by Peter Zijlstra). Also move the definition of struct update_util_data and declaration of cpufreq_set_update_util_data() from include/linux/cpufreq.h to include/linux/sched.h. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
2016-03-08sched/deadline: Remove dl_new from struct sched_dl_entityLuca Abeni1-5/+1
The dl_new field of struct sched_dl_entity is currently used to identify new deadline tasks, so that their deadline and runtime can be properly initialised. However, these tasks can be easily identified by checking if their deadline is smaller than the current time when they switch to SCHED_DEADLINE. So, dl_new can be removed by introducing this check in switched_to_dl(); this allows to simplify the SCHED_DEADLINE code. Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457350024-7825-2-git-send-email-luca.abeni@unitn.it Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-02sched: Migrate sched to use new tick dependency mask modelFrederic Weisbecker1-3/+0
Instead of providing asynchronous checks for the nohz subsystem to verify sched tick dependency, migrate sched to the new mask. Everytime a task is enqueued or dequeued, we evaluate the state of the tick dependency on top of the policy of the tasks in the runqueue, by order of priority: SCHED_DEADLINE: Need the tick in order to periodically check for runtime SCHED_FIFO : Don't need the tick (no round-robin) SCHED_RR : Need the tick if more than 1 task of the same priority for round robin (simplified with checking if more than one SCHED_RR task no matter what priority). SCHED_NORMAL : Need the tick if more than 1 task for round-robin. We could optimize that further with one flag per sched policy on the tick dependency mask and perform only the checks relevant to the policy concerned by an enqueue/dequeue operation. Since the checks aren't based on the current task anymore, we could get rid of the task switch hook but it's still needed for posix cpu timers. Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2016-03-02nohz: New tick dependency maskFrederic Weisbecker1-0/+8
The tick dependency is evaluated on every IRQ and context switch. This consists is a batch of checks which determine whether it is safe to stop the tick or not. These checks are often split in many details: posix cpu timers, scheduler, sched clock, perf events.... each of which are made of smaller details: posix cpu timer involves checking process wide timers then thread wide timers. Perf involves checking freq events then more per cpu details. Checking these informations asynchronously every time we update the full dynticks state bring avoidable overhead and a messy layout. Let's introduce instead tick dependency masks: one for system wide dependency (unstable sched clock, freq based perf events), one for CPU wide dependency (sched, throttling perf events), and task/signal level dependencies (posix cpu timers). The subsystems are responsible for setting and clearing their dependency through a set of APIs that will take care of concurrent dependency mask modifications and kick targets to restart the relevant CPU tick whenever needed. This new dependency engine stays beside the old one until all subsystems having a tick dependency are converted to it. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>