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2018-02-01mm, hugetlb: remove hugepages_treat_as_movable sysctlMichal Hocko1-7/+0
hugepages_treat_as_movable has been introduced by 396faf0303d2 ("Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE") to allow hugetlb allocations from ZONE_MOVABLE even when hugetlb pages were not migrateable. The purpose of the movable zone was different at the time. It aimed at reducing memory fragmentation and hugetlb pages being long lived and large werre not contributing to the fragmentation so it was acceptable to use the zone back then. Things have changed though and the primary purpose of the zone became migratability guarantee. If we allow non migrateable hugetlb pages to be in ZONE_MOVABLE memory hotplug might fail to offline the memory. Remove the knob and only rely on hugepage_migration_supported to allow movable zones. Mel said: : Primarily it was aimed at allowing the hugetlb pool to safely shrink with : the ability to grow it again. The use case was for batched jobs, some of : which needed huge pages and others that did not but didn't want the memory : useless pinned in the huge pages pool. : : I suspect that more users rely on THP than hugetlbfs for flexible use of : huge pages with fallback options so I think that removing the option : should be ok. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171003072619.8654-1-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reported-by: Alexandru Moise <00moses.alexander00@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Alexandru Moise <00moses.alexander00@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-18kernel/sysctl.c: code cleanupsOla N. Kaldestad1-5/+3
Remove unnecessary else block, remove redundant return and call to kfree in if block. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1510238435-1655-1-git-send-email-mail@okal.no Signed-off-by: Ola N. Kaldestad <mail@okal.no> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-18sysctl: check for UINT_MAX before unsigned int min/maxJoe Lawrence1-6/+8
Mikulas noticed in the existing do_proc_douintvec_minmax_conv() and do_proc_dopipe_max_size_conv() introduced in this patchset, that they inconsistently handle overflow and min/max range inputs: For example: 0 ... param->min - 1 ---> ERANGE param->min ... param->max ---> the value is accepted param->max + 1 ... 0x100000000L + param->min - 1 ---> ERANGE 0x100000000L + param->min ... 0x100000000L + param->max ---> EINVAL 0x100000000L + param->max + 1, 0x200000000L + param->min - 1 ---> ERANGE 0x200000000L + param->min ... 0x200000000L + param->max ---> EINVAL 0x200000000L + param->max + 1, 0x300000000L + param->min - 1 ---> ERANGE In do_proc_do*() routines which store values into unsigned int variables (4 bytes wide for 64-bit builds), first validate that the input unsigned long value (8 bytes wide for 64-bit builds) will fit inside the smaller unsigned int variable. Then check that the unsigned int value falls inside the specified parameter min, max range. Otherwise the unsigned long -> unsigned int conversion drops leading bits from the input value, leading to the inconsistent pattern Mikulas documented above. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507658689-11669-5-git-send-email-joe.lawrence@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-18pipe: add proc_dopipe_max_size() to safely assign pipe_max_sizeJoe Lawrence1-0/+49
pipe_max_size is assigned directly via procfs sysctl: static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = { ... { .procname = "pipe-max-size", .data = &pipe_max_size, .maxlen = sizeof(int), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = &pipe_proc_fn, .extra1 = &pipe_min_size, }, ... int pipe_proc_fn(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buf, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { ... ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buf, lenp, ppos) ... and then later rounded in-place a few statements later: ... pipe_max_size = round_pipe_size(pipe_max_size); ... This leaves a window of time between initial assignment and rounding that may be visible to other threads. (For example, one thread sets a non-rounded value to pipe_max_size while another reads its value.) Similar reads of pipe_max_size are potentially racy: pipe.c :: alloc_pipe_info() pipe.c :: pipe_set_size() Add a new proc_dopipe_max_size() that consolidates reading the new value from the user buffer, verifying bounds, and calling round_pipe_size() with a single assignment to pipe_max_size. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507658689-11669-4-git-send-email-joe.lawrence@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-18pipe: match pipe_max_size data type with procfsJoe Lawrence1-1/+1
Patch series "A few round_pipe_size() and pipe-max-size fixups", v3. While backporting Michael's "pipe: fix limit handling" patchset to a distro-kernel, Mikulas noticed that current upstream pipe limit handling contains a few problems: 1 - procfs signed wrap: echo'ing a large number into /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size and then cat'ing it back out shows a negative value. 2 - round_pipe_size() nr_pages overflow on 32bit: this would subsequently try roundup_pow_of_two(0), which is undefined. 3 - visible non-rounded pipe-max-size value: there is no mutual exclusion or protection between the time pipe_max_size is assigned a raw value from proc_dointvec_minmax() and when it is rounded. 4 - unsigned long -> unsigned int conversion makes for potential odd return errors from do_proc_douintvec_minmax_conv() and do_proc_dopipe_max_size_conv(). This version underwent the same testing as v1: https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=150643571406022&w=2 This patch (of 4): pipe_max_size is defined as an unsigned int: unsigned int pipe_max_size = 1048576; but its procfs/sysctl representation is an integer: static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = { ... { .procname = "pipe-max-size", .data = &pipe_max_size, .maxlen = sizeof(int), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = &pipe_proc_fn, .extra1 = &pipe_min_size, }, ... that is signed: int pipe_proc_fn(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buf, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { ... ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buf, lenp, ppos) This leads to signed results via procfs for large values of pipe_max_size: % echo 2147483647 >/proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size % cat /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size -2147483648 Use unsigned operations on this variable to avoid such negative values. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507658689-11669-2-git-send-email-joe.lawrence@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-16mm, sysctl: make NUMA stats configurableKemi Wang1-0/+9
This is the second step which introduces a tunable interface that allow numa stats configurable for optimizing zone_statistics(), as suggested by Dave Hansen and Ying Huang. ========================================================================= When page allocation performance becomes a bottleneck and you can tolerate some possible tool breakage and decreased numa counter precision, you can do: echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/numa_stat In this case, numa counter update is ignored. We can see about *4.8%*(185->176) drop of cpu cycles per single page allocation and reclaim on Jesper's page_bench01 (single thread) and *8.1%*(343->315) drop of cpu cycles per single page allocation and reclaim on Jesper's page_bench03 (88 threads) running on a 2-Socket Broadwell-based server (88 threads, 126G memory). Benchmark link provided by Jesper D Brouer (increase loop times to 10000000): https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/tree/master/kernel/mm/bench ========================================================================= When page allocation performance is not a bottleneck and you want all tooling to work, you can do: echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/numa_stat This is system default setting. Many thanks to Michal Hocko, Dave Hansen, Ying Huang and Vlastimil Babka for comments to help improve the original patch. [keescook@chromium.org: make sure mutex is a global static] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171107213809.GA4314@beast Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508290927-8518-1-git-send-email-kemi.wang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Kemi Wang <kemi.wang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Suggested-by: Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: "Luis R . Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com> Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-16kmemcheck: rip it outLevin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)1-10/+0
Fix up makefiles, remove references, and git rm kmemcheck. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171007030159.22241-4-alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Tim Hansen <devtimhansen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-15Merge branch 'for-4.15/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds1-5/+0
Pull core block layer updates from Jens Axboe: "This is the main pull request for block storage for 4.15-rc1. Nothing out of the ordinary in here, and no API changes or anything like that. Just various new features for drivers, core changes, etc. In particular, this pull request contains: - A patch series from Bart, closing the whole on blk/scsi-mq queue quescing. - A series from Christoph, building towards hidden gendisks (for multipath) and ability to move bio chains around. - NVMe - Support for native multipath for NVMe (Christoph). - Userspace notifications for AENs (Keith). - Command side-effects support (Keith). - SGL support (Chaitanya Kulkarni) - FC fixes and improvements (James Smart) - Lots of fixes and tweaks (Various) - bcache - New maintainer (Michael Lyle) - Writeback control improvements (Michael) - Various fixes (Coly, Elena, Eric, Liang, et al) - lightnvm updates, mostly centered around the pblk interface (Javier, Hans, and Rakesh). - Removal of unused bio/bvec kmap atomic interfaces (me, Christoph) - Writeback series that fix the much discussed hundreds of millions of sync-all units. This goes all the way, as discussed previously (me). - Fix for missing wakeup on writeback timer adjustments (Yafang Shao). - Fix laptop mode on blk-mq (me). - {mq,name} tupple lookup for IO schedulers, allowing us to have alias names. This means you can use 'deadline' on both !mq and on mq (where it's called mq-deadline). (me). - blktrace race fix, oopsing on sg load (me). - blk-mq optimizations (me). - Obscure waitqueue race fix for kyber (Omar). - NBD fixes (Josef). - Disable writeback throttling by default on bfq, like we do on cfq (Luca Miccio). - Series from Ming that enable us to treat flush requests on blk-mq like any other request. This is a really nice cleanup. - Series from Ming that improves merging on blk-mq with schedulers, getting us closer to flipping the switch on scsi-mq again. - BFQ updates (Paolo). - blk-mq atomic flags memory ordering fixes (Peter Z). - Loop cgroup support (Shaohua). - Lots of minor fixes from lots of different folks, both for core and driver code" * 'for-4.15/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (294 commits) nvme: fix visibility of "uuid" ns attribute blk-mq: fixup some comment typos and lengths ide: ide-atapi: fix compile error with defining macro DEBUG blk-mq: improve tag waiting setup for non-shared tags brd: remove unused brd_mutex blk-mq: only run the hardware queue if IO is pending block: avoid null pointer dereference on null disk fs: guard_bio_eod() needs to consider partitions xtensa/simdisk: fix compile error nvme: expose subsys attribute to sysfs nvme: create 'slaves' and 'holders' entries for hidden controllers block: create 'slaves' and 'holders' entries for hidden gendisks nvme: also expose the namespace identification sysfs files for mpath nodes nvme: implement multipath access to nvme subsystems nvme: track shared namespaces nvme: introduce a nvme_ns_ids structure nvme: track subsystems block, nvme: Introduce blk_mq_req_flags_t block, scsi: Make SCSI quiesce and resume work reliably block: Add the QUEUE_FLAG_PREEMPT_ONLY request queue flag ...
2017-10-06Merge branch 'core-watchdog-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-13/+9
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull watchddog clean-up and fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "The watchdog (hard/softlockup detector) code is pretty much broken in its current state. The patch series addresses this by removing all duct tape and refactoring it into a workable state. The reasons why I ask for inclusion that late in the cycle are: 1) The code causes lockdep splats vs. hotplug locking which get reported over and over. Unfortunately there is no easy fix. 2) The risk of breakage is minimal because it's already broken 3) As 4.14 is a long term stable kernel, I prefer to have working watchdog code in that and the lockdep issues resolved. I wouldn't ask you to pull if 4.14 wouldn't be a LTS kernel or if the solution would be easy to backport. 4) The series was around before the merge window opened, but then got delayed due to the UP failure caused by the for_each_cpu() surprise which we discussed recently. Changes vs. V1: - Addressed your review points - Addressed the warning in the powerpc code which was discovered late - Changed two function names which made sense up to a certain point in the series. Now they match what they do in the end. - Fixed a 'unused variable' warning, which got not detected by the intel robot. I triggered it when trying all possible related config combinations manually. Randconfig testing seems not random enough. The changes have been tested by and reviewed by Don Zickus and tested and acked by Micheal Ellerman for powerpc" * 'core-watchdog-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits) watchdog/core: Put softlockup_threads_initialized under ifdef guard watchdog/core: Rename some softlockup_* functions powerpc/watchdog: Make use of watchdog_nmi_probe() watchdog/core, powerpc: Lock cpus across reconfiguration watchdog/core, powerpc: Replace watchdog_nmi_reconfigure() watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Fix spelling mistake: "permanetely" -> "permanently" watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Cure UP damage watchdog/hardlockup: Clean up hotplug locking mess watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Simplify deferred event destroy watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Use new perf CPU enable mechanism watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Implement CPU enable replacement watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Implement init time detection of perf watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Implement init time perf validation watchdog/core: Get rid of the racy update loop watchdog/core, powerpc: Make watchdog_nmi_reconfigure() two stage watchdog/sysctl: Clean up sysctl variable name space watchdog/sysctl: Get rid of the #ifdeffery watchdog/core: Clean up header mess watchdog/core: Further simplify sysctl handling watchdog/core: Get rid of the thread teardown/setup dance ...
2017-10-04sysctl: remove /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threadsJens Axboe1-5/+0
This tunable has been obsolete since 2.6.32, and writes to the file have been failing and complaining in dmesg since then: nr_pdflush_threads exported in /proc is scheduled for removal That was 8 years ago. Remove the file ABI obsolete notice, and the sysfs file. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-04kernel/sysctl.c: remove duplicate UINT_MAX check on do_proc_douintvec_conv()Luis R. Rodriguez1-2/+0
do_proc_douintvec_conv() has two UINT_MAX checks, we can remove one. This has no functional changes other than fixing a compiler warning: kernel/sysctl.c:2190]: (warning) Identical condition '*lvalp>UINT_MAX', second condition is always false Fixes: 4f2fec00afa60 ("sysctl: simplify unsigned int support") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170919072918.12066-1-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Reported-by: David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-29sched/sysctl: Check user input value of sysctl_sched_time_avgEthan Zhao1-1/+2
System will hang if user set sysctl_sched_time_avg to 0: [root@XXX ~]# sysctl kernel.sched_time_avg_ms=0 Stack traceback for pid 0 0xffff883f6406c600 0 0 1 3 R 0xffff883f6406cf50 *swapper/3 ffff883f7ccc3ae8 0000000000000018 ffffffff810c4dd0 0000000000000000 0000000000017800 ffff883f7ccc3d78 0000000000000003 ffff883f7ccc3bf8 ffffffff810c4fc9 ffff883f7ccc3c08 00000000810c5043 ffff883f7ccc3c08 Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff810c4dd0>] ? update_group_capacity+0x110/0x200 [<ffffffff810c4fc9>] ? update_sd_lb_stats+0x109/0x600 [<ffffffff810c5507>] ? find_busiest_group+0x47/0x530 [<ffffffff810c5b84>] ? load_balance+0x194/0x900 [<ffffffff810ad5ca>] ? update_rq_clock.part.83+0x1a/0xe0 [<ffffffff810c6d42>] ? rebalance_domains+0x152/0x290 [<ffffffff810c6f5c>] ? run_rebalance_domains+0xdc/0x1d0 [<ffffffff8108a75b>] ? __do_softirq+0xfb/0x320 [<ffffffff8108ac85>] ? irq_exit+0x125/0x130 [<ffffffff810b3a17>] ? scheduler_ipi+0x97/0x160 [<ffffffff81052709>] ? smp_reschedule_interrupt+0x29/0x30 [<ffffffff8173a1be>] ? reschedule_interrupt+0x6e/0x80 <EOI> [<ffffffff815bc83c>] ? cpuidle_enter_state+0xcc/0x230 [<ffffffff815bc80c>] ? cpuidle_enter_state+0x9c/0x230 [<ffffffff815bc9d7>] ? cpuidle_enter+0x17/0x20 [<ffffffff810cd6dc>] ? cpu_startup_entry+0x38c/0x420 [<ffffffff81053373>] ? start_secondary+0x173/0x1e0 Because divide-by-zero error happens in function: update_group_capacity() update_cpu_capacity() scale_rt_capacity() { ... total = sched_avg_period() + delta; used = div_u64(avg, total); ... } To fix this issue, check user input value of sysctl_sched_time_avg, keep it unchanged when hitting invalid input, and set the minimum limit of sysctl_sched_time_avg to 1 ms. Reported-by: James Puthukattukaran <james.puthukattukaran@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ethan Zhao <ethan.zhao@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: efault@gmx.de Cc: ethan.kernel@gmail.com Cc: keescook@chromium.org Cc: mcgrof@kernel.org Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1504504774-18253-1-git-send-email-ethan.zhao@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-09-14watchdog/sysctl: Clean up sysctl variable name spaceThomas Gleixner1-8/+8
Reflect that these variables are user interface related and remove the whitespace damage in the sysctl table while at it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170912194147.783210221@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-09-14watchdog/sysctl: Get rid of the #ifdefferyThomas Gleixner1-5/+1
The sysctl of the nmi_watchdog file prevents writes by setting: min = max = 0 if none of the users is enabled. That involves ifdeffery and is competely non obvious. If none of the facilities is enabeld, then the file can simply be made read only. Move the ifdeffery into the header and use a constant for file permissions. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170912194147.706073616@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-07-13kernel/watchdog: split up config optionsNicholas Piggin1-13/+18
Split SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR from LOCKUP_DETECTOR, and split HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF from HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR. LOCKUP_DETECTOR implies the general boot, sysctl, and programming interfaces for the lockup detectors. An architecture that wants to use a hard lockup detector must define HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PERF or HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH. Alternatively an arch can define HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG, which provides the minimum arch_touch_nmi_watchdog, and it otherwise does its own thing and does not implement the LOCKUP_DETECTOR interfaces. sparc is unusual in that it has started to implement some of the interfaces, but not fully yet. It should probably be converted to a full HAVE_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH. [npiggin@gmail.com: fix] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170617223522.66c0ad88@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170616065715.18390-4-npiggin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com> Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com> [sparc] Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-13sysctl: add unsigned int range supportLuis R. Rodriguez1-0/+66
To keep parity with regular int interfaces provide the an unsigned int proc_douintvec_minmax() which allows you to specify a range of allowed valid numbers. Adding proc_douintvec_minmax_sysadmin() is easy but we can wait for an actual user for that. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170519033554.18592-6-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org> Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-13sysctl: simplify unsigned int supportLuis R. Rodriguez1-7/+146
Commit e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields") added proc_douintvec() to start help adding support for unsigned int, this however was only half the work needed. Two fixes have come in since then for the following issues: o Printing the values shows a negative value, this happens since do_proc_dointvec() and this uses proc_put_long() This was fixed by commit 5380e5644afbba9 ("sysctl: don't print negative flag for proc_douintvec"). o We can easily wrap around the int values: UINT_MAX is 4294967295, if we echo in 4294967295 + 1 we end up with 0, using 4294967295 + 2 we end up with 1. o We echo negative values in and they are accepted This was fixed by commit 425fffd886ba ("sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec"). It still also failed to be added to sysctl_check_table()... instead of adding it with the current implementation just provide a proper and simplified unsigned int support without any array unsigned int support with no negative support at all. Historically sysctl proc helpers have supported arrays, due to the complexity this adds though we've taken a step back to evaluate array users to determine if its worth upkeeping for unsigned int. An evaluation using Coccinelle has been done to perform a grammatical search to ask ourselves: o How many sysctl proc_dointvec() (int) users exist which likely should be moved over to proc_douintvec() (unsigned int) ? Answer: about 8 - Of these how many are array users ? Answer: Probably only 1 o How many sysctl array users exist ? Answer: about 12 This last question gives us an idea just how popular arrays: they are not. Array support should probably just be kept for strings. The identified uint ports are: drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c - max_backlog drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c - default_backlog net/core/sysctl_net_core.c - rps_sock_flow_sysctl() net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timestamp.c - nf_conntrack_timestamp -- bool net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_acct.c nf_conntrack_acct -- bool net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.c - nf_conntrack_events -- bool net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c - nf_conntrack_helper -- bool net/phonet/sysctl.c proc_local_port_range() The only possible array users is proc_local_port_range() but it does not seem worth it to add array support just for this given the range support works just as well. Unsigned int support should be desirable more for when you *need* more than INT_MAX or using int min/max support then does not suffice for your ranges. If you forget and by mistake happen to register an unsigned int proc entry with an array, the driver will fail and you will get something as follows: sysctl table check failed: debug/test_sysctl//uint_0002 array now allowed CPU: 2 PID: 1342 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G W E <etc> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS <etc> Call Trace: dump_stack+0x63/0x81 __register_sysctl_table+0x350/0x650 ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x107/0x240 __register_sysctl_paths+0x1b3/0x1e0 ? 0xffffffffc005f000 register_sysctl_table+0x1f/0x30 test_sysctl_init+0x10/0x1000 [test_sysctl] do_one_initcall+0x52/0x1a0 ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x107/0x240 do_init_module+0x5f/0x200 load_module+0x1867/0x1bd0 ? __symbol_put+0x60/0x60 SYSC_finit_module+0xdf/0x110 SyS_finit_module+0xe/0x10 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1e/0xad RIP: 0033:0x7f042b22d119 <etc> Fixes: e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170519033554.18592-5-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org> Cc: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-13sysctl: fold sysctl_writes_strict checks into helperLuis R. Rodriguez1-24/+32
The mode sysctl_writes_strict positional checks keep being copy and pasted as we add new proc handlers. Just add a helper to avoid code duplication. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170519033554.18592-4-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-13sysctl: kdoc'ify sysctl_writes_strictLuis R. Rodriguez1-4/+25
Document the different sysctl_writes_strict modes in code. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170519033554.18592-3-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-09proc/sysctl: fix the int overflow for jiffies conversionGao Feng1-1/+1
do_proc_dointvec_jiffies_conv() uses LONG_MAX/HZ as the max value to avoid overflow. But actually the *valp is int type, so it still causes overflow. For example, echo 2147483647 > ./sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time Then, cat ./sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time The output is "-1", it is not expected. Now use INT_MAX/HZ as the max value instead LONG_MAX/HZ to fix it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490109532-9228-1-git-send-email-fgao@ikuai8.com Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <fgao@ikuai8.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-02Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner: "The timer departement delivers: - more year 2038 rework - a massive rework of the arm achitected timer - preparatory patches to allow NTP correction of clock event devices to avoid early expiry - the usual pile of fixes and enhancements all over the place" * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (91 commits) timer/sysclt: Restrict timer migration sysctl values to 0 and 1 arm64/arch_timer: Mark errata handlers as __maybe_unused Clocksource/mips-gic: Remove redundant non devicetree init MIPS/Malta: Probe gic-timer via devicetree clocksource: Use GENMASK_ULL in definition of CLOCKSOURCE_MASK acpi/arm64: Add SBSA Generic Watchdog support in GTDT driver clocksource: arm_arch_timer: add GTDT support for memory-mapped timer acpi/arm64: Add memory-mapped timer support in GTDT driver clocksource: arm_arch_timer: simplify ACPI support code. acpi/arm64: Add GTDT table parse driver clocksource: arm_arch_timer: split MMIO timer probing. clocksource: arm_arch_timer: add structs to describe MMIO timer clocksource: arm_arch_timer: move arch_timer_needs_of_probing into DT init call clocksource: arm_arch_timer: refactor arch_timer_needs_probing clocksource: arm_arch_timer: split dt-only rate handling x86/uv/time: Set ->min_delta_ticks and ->max_delta_ticks unicore32/time: Set ->min_delta_ticks and ->max_delta_ticks um/time: Set ->min_delta_ticks and ->max_delta_ticks tile/time: Set ->min_delta_ticks and ->max_delta_ticks score/time: Set ->min_delta_ticks and ->max_delta_ticks ...
2017-04-20timer/sysclt: Restrict timer migration sysctl values to 0 and 1Myungho Jung1-0/+2
timer_migration sysctl acts as a boolean switch, so the allowed values should be restricted to 0 and 1. Add the necessary extra fields to the sysctl table entry to enforce that. [ tglx: Rewrote changelog ] Signed-off-by: Myungho Jung <mhjungk@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1492640690-3550-1-git-send-email-mhjungk@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-04-08sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvecLiping Zhang1-0/+2
Currently, inputting the following command will succeed but actually the value will be truncated: # echo 0x12ffffffff > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat This is not friendly to the user, so instead, we should report error when the value is larger than UINT_MAX. Fixes: e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields") Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com> Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-04-07sysctl: don't print negative flag for proc_douintvecLiping Zhang1-0/+1
I saw some very confusing sysctl output on my system: # cat /proc/sys/net/core/xfrm_aevent_rseqth -2 # cat /proc/sys/net/core/xfrm_aevent_etime -10 # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_notsent_lowat -4294967295 Because we forget to set the *negp flag in proc_douintvec, so it will become a garbage value. Since the value related to proc_douintvec is always an unsigned integer, so we can set *negp to false explictily to fix this issue. Fixes: e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields") Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@gmail.com> Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-03-02sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to ↵Ingo Molnar1-0/+1
<linux/sched/coredump.h> We are going to split <linux/sched/coredump.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files. Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/coredump.h> file that just maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and bisectable. Include the new header in the files that are going to need it. Acked-by: 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: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-02-01sched/rt: Show the 'sched_rr_timeslice' SCHED_RR timeslice tuning knob in ↵Shile Zhang1-1/+1
milliseconds We added the 'sched_rr_timeslice_ms' SCHED_RR tuning knob in this commit: ce0dbbbb30ae ("sched/rt: Add a tuning knob to allow changing SCHED_RR timeslice") ... which name suggests to users that it's in milliseconds, while in reality it's being set in milliseconds but the result is shown in jiffies. This is obviously confusing when HZ is not 1000, it makes it appear like the value set failed, such as HZ=100: root# echo 100 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms root# cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms 10 Fix this to be milliseconds all around. Signed-off-by: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@nokia.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> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485612049-20923-1-git-send-email-shile.zhang@nokia.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-01-26sysctl: fix proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax()Eric Dumazet1-0/+1
We perform the conversion between kernel jiffies and ms only when exporting kernel value to user space. We need to do the opposite operation when value is written by user. Only matters when HZ != 1000 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-12-24Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globallyLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
This was entirely automated, using the script by Al: PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*<asm/uaccess.h>' sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include <linux/uaccess.h>!" \ $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h) to do the replacement at the end of the merge window. Requested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-12-16Merge tag 'trace-v4.10' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "This release has a few updates: - STM can hook into the function tracer - Function filtering now supports more advance glob matching - Ftrace selftests updates and added tests - Softirq tag in traces now show only softirqs - ARM nop added to non traced locations at compile time - New trace_marker_raw file that allows for binary input - Optimizations to the ring buffer - Removal of kmap in trace_marker - Wakeup and irqsoff tracers now adhere to the set_graph_notrace file - Other various fixes and clean ups" * tag 'trace-v4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (42 commits) selftests: ftrace: Shift down default message verbosity kprobes/trace: Fix kprobe selftest for newer gcc tracing/kprobes: Add a helper method to return number of probe hits tracing/rb: Init the CPU mask on allocation tracing: Use SOFTIRQ_OFFSET for softirq dectection for more accurate results tracing/fgraph: Have wakeup and irqsoff tracers ignore graph functions too fgraph: Handle a case where a tracer ignores set_graph_notrace tracing: Replace kmap with copy_from_user() in trace_marker writing ftrace/x86_32: Set ftrace_stub to weak to prevent gcc from using short jumps to it tracing: Allow benchmark to be enabled at early_initcall() tracing: Have system enable return error if one of the events fail tracing: Do not start benchmark on boot up tracing: Have the reg function allow to fail ring-buffer: Force rb_end_commit() and rb_set_commit_to_write() inline ring-buffer: Froce rb_update_write_stamp() to be inlined ring-buffer: Force inline of hotpath helper functions tracing: Make __buffer_unlock_commit() always_inline tracing: Make tracepoint_printk a static_key ring-buffer: Always inline rb_event_data() ring-buffer: Make rb_reserve_next_event() always inlined ...
2016-12-15coredump: clarify "unsafe core_pattern" warningAlexey Dobriyan1-3/+5
I was amused to find "unsafe core_pattern" warning having these lines in /etc/sysctl.conf: fs.suid_dumpable=2 kernel.core_pattern=/core/core-%e-%p-%E kernel.core_uses_pid=0 Turns out kernel is formally right. Default core_pattern is just "core", which doesn't qualify for secure path while setting suid.dumpable. Hint admins about solution, clarify sysctl names, delete unnecessary '\' characters (string literals are concatenated regardless) and reformat for easier grepping. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161029152124.GA1258@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-12-13Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-7/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this development cycle were: - a large number of call stack dumping/printing improvements: higher robustness, better cross-context dumping, improved output, etc. (Josh Poimboeuf) - vDSO getcpu() performance improvement for future Intel CPUs with the RDPID instruction (Andy Lutomirski) - add two new Intel AVX512 features and the CPUID support infrastructure for it: AVX512IFMA and AVX512VBMI. (Gayatri Kammela, He Chen) - more copy-user unification (Borislav Petkov) - entry code assembly macro simplifications (Alexander Kuleshov) - vDSO C/R support improvements (Dmitry Safonov) - misc fixes and cleanups (Borislav Petkov, Paul Bolle)" * 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits) scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: Fix address line detection on x86 x86/boot/64: Use defines for page size x86/dumpstack: Make stack name tags more comprehensible selftests/x86: Add test_vdso to test getcpu() x86/vdso: Use RDPID in preference to LSL when available x86/dumpstack: Handle NULL stack pointer in show_trace_log_lvl() x86/cpufeatures: Enable new AVX512 cpu features x86/cpuid: Provide get_scattered_cpuid_leaf() x86/cpuid: Cleanup cpuid_regs definitions x86/copy_user: Unify the code by removing the 64-bit asm _copy_*_user() variants x86/unwind: Ensure stack grows down x86/vdso: Set vDSO pointer only after success x86/prctl/uapi: Remove #ifdef for CHECKPOINT_RESTORE x86/unwind: Detect bad stack return address x86/dumpstack: Warn on stack recursion x86/unwind: Warn on bad frame pointer x86/decoder: Use stderr if insn sanity test fails x86/decoder: Use stdout if insn decoder test is successful mm/page_alloc: Remove kernel address exposure in free_reserved_area() x86/dumpstack: Remove raw stack dump ...
2016-11-23tracing: Make tracepoint_printk a static_keySteven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-1/+1
Currently, when tracepoint_printk is set (enabled by the "tp_printk" kernel command line), it causes trace events to print via printk(). This is a very dangerous operation, but is useful for debugging. The issue is, it's seldom used, but it is always checked even if it's not enabled by the kernel command line. Instead of having this feature called by a branch against a variable, turn that variable into a static key, and this will remove the test and jump. To simplify things, the functions output_printk() and trace_event_buffer_commit() were moved from trace_events.c to trace.c. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-10-25x86/dumpstack: Remove raw stack dumpJosh Poimboeuf1-7/+0
For mostly historical reasons, the x86 oops dump shows the raw stack values: ... [registers] Stack: ffff880079af7350 ffff880079905400 0000000000000000 ffffc900008f3ae0 ffffffffa0196610 0000000000000001 00010000ffffffff 0000000087654321 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 Call Trace: ... This seems to be an artifact from long ago, and probably isn't needed anymore. It generally just adds noise to the dump, and it can be actively harmful because it leaks kernel addresses. Linus says: "The stack dump actually goes back to forever, and it used to be useful back in 1992 or so. But it used to be useful mainly because stacks were simpler and we didn't have very good call traces anyway. I definitely remember having used them - I just do not remember having used them in the last ten+ years. Of course, it's still true that if you can trigger an oops, you've likely already lost the security game, but since the stack dump is so useless, let's aim to just remove it and make games like the above harder." This also removes the related 'kstack=' cmdline option and the 'kstack_depth_to_print' sysctl. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e83bd50df52d8fe88e94d2566426ae40d813bf8f.1477405374.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-10-20sched/fair: Kill the unused 'sched_shares_window_ns' tunableMatt Fleming1-7/+0
The last user of this tunable was removed in 2012 in commit: 82958366cfea ("sched: Replace update_shares weight distribution with per-entity computation") Delete it since its very existence confuses people. Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161019141059.26408-1-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-10-10Merge branch 'work.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-12/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro: "Assorted misc bits and pieces. There are several single-topic branches left after this (rename2 series from Miklos, current_time series from Deepa Dinamani, xattr series from Andreas, uaccess stuff from from me) and I'd prefer to send those separately" * 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (39 commits) proc: switch auxv to use of __mem_open() hpfs: support FIEMAP cifs: get rid of unused arguments of CIFSSMBWrite() posix_acl: uapi header split posix_acl: xattr representation cleanups fs/aio.c: eliminate redundant loads in put_aio_ring_file fs/internal.h: add const to ns_dentry_operations declaration compat: remove compat_printk() fs/buffer.c: make __getblk_slow() static proc: unsigned file descriptors fs/file: more unsigned file descriptors fs: compat: remove redundant check of nr_segs cachefiles: Fix attempt to read i_blocks after deleting file [ver #2] cifs: don't use memcpy() to copy struct iov_iter get rid of separate multipage fault-in primitives fs: Avoid premature clearing of capabilities fs: Give dentry to inode_change_ok() instead of inode fuse: Propagate dentry down to inode_change_ok() ceph: Propagate dentry down to inode_change_ok() xfs: Propagate dentry down to inode_change_ok() ...
2016-10-06Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+9
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman: "This set of changes is a number of smaller things that have been overlooked in other development cycles focused on more fundamental change. The devpts changes are small things that were a distraction until we managed to kill off DEVPTS_MULTPLE_INSTANCES. There is an trivial regression fix to autofs for the unprivileged mount changes that went in last cycle. A pair of ioctls has been added by Andrey Vagin making it is possible to discover the relationships between namespaces when referring to them through file descriptors. The big user visible change is starting to add simple resource limits to catch programs that misbehave. With namespaces in general and user namespaces in particular allowing users to use more kinds of resources, it has become important to have something to limit errant programs. Because the purpose of these limits is to catch errant programs the code needs to be inexpensive to use as it always on, and the default limits need to be high enough that well behaved programs on well behaved systems don't encounter them. To this end, after some review I have implemented per user per user namespace limits, and use them to limit the number of namespaces. The limits being per user mean that one user can not exhause the limits of another user. The limits being per user namespace allow contexts where the limit is 0 and security conscious folks can remove from their threat anlysis the code used to manage namespaces (as they have historically done as it root only). At the same time the limits being per user namespace allow other parts of the system to use namespaces. Namespaces are increasingly being used in application sand boxing scenarios so an all or nothing disable for the entire system for the security conscious folks makes increasing use of these sandboxes impossible. There is also added a limit on the maximum number of mounts present in a single mount namespace. It is nontrivial to guess what a reasonable system wide limit on the number of mount structure in the kernel would be, especially as it various based on how a system is using containers. A limit on the number of mounts in a mount namespace however is much easier to understand and set. In most cases in practice only about 1000 mounts are used. Given that some autofs scenarious have the potential to be 30,000 to 50,000 mounts I have set the default limit for the number of mounts at 100,000 which is well above every known set of users but low enough that the mount hash tables don't degrade unreaonsably. These limits are a start. I expect this estabilishes a pattern that other limits for resources that namespaces use will follow. There has been interest in making inotify event limits per user per user namespace as well as interest expressed in making details about what is going on in the kernel more visible" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (28 commits) autofs: Fix automounts by using current_real_cred()->uid mnt: Add a per mount namespace limit on the number of mounts netns: move {inc,dec}_net_namespaces into #ifdef nsfs: Simplify __ns_get_path tools/testing: add a test to check nsfs ioctl-s nsfs: add ioctl to get a parent namespace nsfs: add ioctl to get an owning user namespace for ns file descriptor kernel: add a helper to get an owning user namespace for a namespace devpts: Change the owner of /dev/pts/ptmx to the mounter of /dev/pts devpts: Remove sync_filesystems devpts: Make devpts_kill_sb safe if fsi is NULL devpts: Simplify devpts_mount by using mount_nodev devpts: Move the creation of /dev/pts/ptmx into fill_super devpts: Move parse_mount_options into fill_super userns: When the per user per user namespace limit is reached return ENOSPC userns; Document per user per user namespace limits. mntns: Add a limit on the number of mount namespaces. netns: Add a limit on the number of net namespaces cgroupns: Add a limit on the number of cgroup namespaces ipcns: Add a limit on the number of ipc namespaces ...
2016-09-30mnt: Add a per mount namespace limit on the number of mountsEric W. Biederman1-0/+9
CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com> pointed out that the semantics of shared subtrees make it possible to create an exponentially increasing number of mounts in a mount namespace. mkdir /tmp/1 /tmp/2 mount --make-rshared / for i in $(seq 1 20) ; do mount --bind /tmp/1 /tmp/2 ; done Will create create 2^20 or 1048576 mounts, which is a practical problem as some people have managed to hit this by accident. As such CVE-2016-6213 was assigned. Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> described the situation for autofs users as follows: > The number of mounts for direct mount maps is usually not very large because of > the way they are implemented, large direct mount maps can have performance > problems. There can be anywhere from a few (likely case a few hundred) to less > than 10000, plus mounts that have been triggered and not yet expired. > > Indirect mounts have one autofs mount at the root plus the number of mounts that > have been triggered and not yet expired. > > The number of autofs indirect map entries can range from a few to the common > case of several thousand and in rare cases up to between 30000 and 50000. I've > not heard of people with maps larger than 50000 entries. > > The larger the number of map entries the greater the possibility for a large > number of active mounts so it's not hard to expect cases of a 1000 or somewhat > more active mounts. So I am setting the default number of mounts allowed per mount namespace at 100,000. This is more than enough for any use case I know of, but small enough to quickly stop an exponential increase in mounts. Which should be perfect to catch misconfigurations and malfunctioning programs. For anyone who needs a higher limit this can be changed by writing to the new /proc/sys/fs/mount-max sysctl. Tested-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2016-09-28compat: remove compat_printk()Arnd Bergmann1-10/+0
After 7e8e385aaf6e ("x86/compat: Remove sys32_vm86_warning"), this function has become unused, so we can remove it as well. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160617142903.3070388-1-arnd@arndb.de Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2016-09-28fs/file: more unsigned file descriptorsAlexey Dobriyan1-2/+2
Propagate unsignedness for grand total of 149 bytes: $ ./scripts/bloat-o-meter ../vmlinux-000 ../obj/vmlinux add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/10 up/down: 0/-149 (-149) function old new delta set_close_on_exec 99 98 -1 put_files_struct 201 200 -1 get_close_on_exec 59 58 -1 do_prlimit 498 497 -1 do_execveat_common.isra 1662 1661 -1 __close_fd 178 173 -5 do_dup2 219 204 -15 seq_show 685 660 -25 __alloc_fd 384 357 -27 dup_fd 718 646 -72 It mostly comes from converting "unsigned int" to "long" for bit operations. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-08-27sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fieldsSubash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan1-2/+43
We have scripts which write to certain fields on 3.18 kernels but this seems to be failing on 4.4 kernels. An entry which we write to here is xfrm_aevent_rseqth which is u32. echo 4294967295 > /proc/sys/net/core/xfrm_aevent_rseqth Commit 230633d109e3 ("kernel/sysctl.c: detect overflows when converting to int") prevented writing to sysctl entries when integer overflow occurs. However, this does not apply to unsigned integers. Heinrich suggested that we introduce a new option to handle 64 bit limits and set min as 0 and max as UINT_MAX. This might not work as it leads to issues similar to __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax. Alternatively, we would need to change the datatype of the entry to 64 bit. static int __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(void *data, struct ctl_table { i = (unsigned long *) data; //This cast is causing to read beyond the size of data (u32) vleft = table->maxlen / sizeof(unsigned long); //vleft is 0 because maxlen is sizeof(u32) which is lesser than sizeof(unsigned long) on x86_64. Introduce a new proc handler proc_douintvec. Individual proc entries will need to be updated to use the new handler. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Fixes: 230633d109e3 ("kernel/sysctl.c:detect overflows when converting to int") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471479806-5252-1-git-send-email-subashab@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org> Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-08-03printk: add kernel parameter to control writes to /dev/kmsgBorislav Petkov1-0/+7
Add a "printk.devkmsg" kernel command line parameter which controls how userspace writes into /dev/kmsg. It has three options: * ratelimit - ratelimit logging from userspace. * on - unlimited logging from userspace * off - logging from userspace gets ignored The default setting is to ratelimit the messages written to it. This changes the kernel default setting of "on" to "ratelimit" and we do that because we want to keep userspace spamming /dev/kmsg to sane levels. This is especially moot when a small kernel log buffer wraps around and messages get lost. So the ratelimiting setting should be a sane setting where kernel messages should have a bit higher chance of survival from all the spamming. It additionally does not limit logging to /dev/kmsg while the system is booting if we haven't disabled it on the command line. Furthermore, we can control the logging from a lower priority sysctl interface - kernel.printk_devkmsg. That interface will succeed only if printk.devkmsg *hasn't* been supplied on the command line. If it has, then printk.devkmsg is a one-time setting which remains for the duration of the system lifetime. This "locking" of the setting is to prevent userspace from changing the logging on us through sysctl(2). This patch is based on previous patches from Linus and Steven. [bp@suse.de: fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160719072344.GC25563@nazgul.tnic Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160716061745.15795-3-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Franck Bui <fbui@suse.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-07-29mm: convert zone_reclaim to node_reclaimMel Gorman1-2/+2
As reclaim is now per-node based, convert zone_reclaim to be node_reclaim. It is possible that a node will be reclaimed multiple times if it has multiple zones but this is unavoidable without caching all nodes traversed so far. The documentation and interface to userspace is the same from a configuration perspective and will will be similar in behaviour unless the node-local allocation requests were also limited to lower zones. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-24-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-06-16rcu: sysctl: Panic on RCU StallDaniel Bristot de Oliveira1-0/+11
It is not always easy to determine the cause of an RCU stall just by analysing the RCU stall messages, mainly when the problem is caused by the indirect starvation of rcu threads. For example, when preempt_rcu is not awakened due to the starvation of a timer softirq. We have been hard coding panic() in the RCU stall functions for some time while testing the kernel-rt. But this is not possible in some scenarios, like when supporting customers. This patch implements the sysctl kernel.panic_on_rcu_stall. If set to 1, the system will panic() when an RCU stall takes place, enabling the capture of a vmcore. The vmcore provides a way to analyze all kernel/tasks states, helping out to point to the culprit and the solution for the stall. The kernel.panic_on_rcu_stall sysctl is disabled by default. Changes from v1: - Fixed a typo in the git log - The if(sysctl_panic_on_rcu_stall) panic() is in a static function - Fixed the CONFIG_TINY_RCU compilation issue - The var sysctl_panic_on_rcu_stall is now __read_mostly Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Reviewed-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Tested-by: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lgoncalv@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-05-26Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+10
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "Mostly tooling and PMU driver fixes, but also a number of late updates such as the reworking of the call-chain size limiting logic to make call-graph recording more robust, plus tooling side changes for the new 'backwards ring-buffer' extension to the perf ring-buffer" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (34 commits) perf record: Read from backward ring buffer perf record: Rename variable to make code clear perf record: Prevent reading invalid data in record__mmap_read perf evlist: Add API to pause/resume perf trace: Use the ptr->name beautifier as default for "filename" args perf trace: Use the fd->name beautifier as default for "fd" args perf report: Add srcline_from/to branch sort keys perf evsel: Record fd into perf_mmap perf evsel: Add overwrite attribute and check write_backward perf tools: Set buildid dir under symfs when --symfs is provided perf trace: Only auto set call-graph to "dwarf" when syscalls are being traced perf annotate: Sort list of recognised instructions perf annotate: Fix identification of ARM blt and bls instructions perf tools: Fix usage of max_stack sysctl perf callchain: Stop validating callchains by the max_stack sysctl perf trace: Fix exit_group() formatting perf top: Use machine->kptr_restrict_warned perf trace: Warn when trying to resolve kernel addresses with kptr_restrict=1 perf machine: Do not bail out if not managing to read ref reloc symbol perf/x86/intel/p4: Trival indentation fix, remove space ...
2016-05-20mm: /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh to force vmstat updateHugh Dickins1-0/+7
Provide /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh to force an immediate update of per-cpu into global vmstats: useful to avoid a sleep(2) or whatever before checking counts when testing. Originally added to work around a bug which left counts stranded indefinitely on a cpu going idle (an inaccuracy magnified when small below-batch numbers represent "huge" amounts of memory), but I believe that bug is now fixed: nonetheless, this is still a useful knob. Its schedule_on_each_cpu() is probably too expensive just to fold into reading /proc/meminfo itself: give this mode 0600 to prevent abuse. Allow a write or a read to do the same: nothing to read, but "grep -h Shmem /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh /proc/meminfo" is convenient. Oh, and since global_page_state() itself is careful to disguise any underflow as 0, hack in an "Invalid argument" and pr_warn() if a counter is negative after the refresh - this helped to fix a misaccounting of NR_ISOLATED_FILE in my migration code. But on recent kernels, I find that NR_ALLOC_BATCH and NR_PAGES_SCANNED often go negative some of the time. I have not yet worked out why, but have no evidence that it's actually harmful. Punt for the moment by just ignoring the anomaly on those. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org> Cc: Ning Qu <quning@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-17perf core: Separate accounting of contexts and real addresses in a stack traceArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-0/+9
The perf_sample->ip_callchain->nr value includes all the entries in the ip_callchain->ip[] array, real addresses and PERF_CONTEXT_{KERNEL,USER,etc}, while what the user expects is that what is in the kernel.perf_event_max_stack sysctl or in the upcoming per event perf_event_attr.sample_max_stack knob be honoured in terms of IP addresses in the stack trace. So allocate a bunch of extra entries for contexts, and do the accounting via perf_callchain_entry_ctx struct members. A new sysctl, kernel.perf_event_max_contexts_per_stack is also introduced for investigating possible bugs in the callchain implementation by some arch. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3b4wnqk340c4sg4gwkfdi9yk@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-05-17perf core: Generalize max_stack sysctl handlerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-1/+1
So that it can be used for other stack related knobs, such as the upcoming one to tweak the max number of of contexts per stack sample. In all those cases we can only change the value if there are no perf sessions collecting stacks, so they need to grab that mutex, etc. Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8t3fk94wuzp8m2z1n4gc0s17@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-04-27perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth via sysctlArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-0/+12
The default remains 127, which is good for most cases, and not even hit most of the time, but then for some cases, as reported by Brendan, 1024+ deep frames are appearing on the radar for things like groovy, ruby. And in some workloads putting a _lower_ cap on this may make sense. One that is per event still needs to be put in place tho. The new file is: # cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack 127 Chaging it: # echo 256 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack # cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack 256 But as soon as there is some event using callchains we get: # echo 512 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack -bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy # Because we only allocate the callchain percpu data structures when there is a user, which allows for changing the max easily, its just a matter of having no callchain users at that point. Reported-and-Tested-by: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160426002928.GB16708@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-03-18mm: scale kswapd watermarks in proportion to memoryJohannes Weiner1-0/+10
In machines with 140G of memory and enterprise flash storage, we have seen read and write bursts routinely exceed the kswapd watermarks and cause thundering herds in direct reclaim. Unfortunately, the only way to tune kswapd aggressiveness is through adjusting min_free_kbytes - the system's emergency reserves - which is entirely unrelated to the system's latency requirements. In order to get kswapd to maintain a 250M buffer of free memory, the emergency reserves need to be set to 1G. That is a lot of memory wasted for no good reason. On the other hand, it's reasonable to assume that allocation bursts and overall allocation concurrency scale with memory capacity, so it makes sense to make kswapd aggressiveness a function of that as well. Change the kswapd watermark scale factor from the currently fixed 25% of the tunable emergency reserve to a tunable 0.1% of memory. Beyond 1G of memory, this will produce bigger watermark steps than the current formula in default settings. Ensure that the new formula never chooses steps smaller than that, i.e. 25% of the emergency reserve. On a 140G machine, this raises the default watermark steps - the distance between min and low, and low and high - from 16M to 143M. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-02-09sched/debug: Make schedstats a runtime tunable that is disabled by defaultMel Gorman1-1/+12
schedstats is very useful during debugging and performance tuning but it incurs overhead to calculate the stats. As such, even though it can be disabled at build time, it is often enabled as the information is useful. This patch adds a kernel command-line and sysctl tunable to enable or disable schedstats on demand (when it's built in). It is disabled by default as someone who knows they need it can also learn to enable it when necessary. The benefits are dependent on how scheduler-intensive the workload is. If it is then the patch reduces the number of cycles spent calculating the stats with a small benefit from reducing the cache footprint of the scheduler. These measurements were taken from a 48-core 2-socket machine with Xeon(R) E5-2670 v3 cpus although they were also tested on a single socket machine 8-core machine with Intel i7-3770 processors. netperf-tcp 4.5.0-rc1 4.5.0-rc1 vanilla nostats-v3r1 Hmean 64 560.45 ( 0.00%) 575.98 ( 2.77%) Hmean 128 766.66 ( 0.00%) 795.79 ( 3.80%) Hmean 256 950.51 ( 0.00%) 981.50 ( 3.26%) Hmean 1024 1433.25 ( 0.00%) 1466.51 ( 2.32%) Hmean 2048 2810.54 ( 0.00%) 2879.75 ( 2.46%) Hmean 3312 4618.18 ( 0.00%) 4682.09 ( 1.38%) Hmean 4096 5306.42 ( 0.00%) 5346.39 ( 0.75%) Hmean 8192 10581.44 ( 0.00%) 10698.15 ( 1.10%) Hmean 16384 18857.70 ( 0.00%) 18937.61 ( 0.42%) Small gains here, UDP_STREAM showed nothing intresting and neither did the TCP_RR tests. The gains on the 8-core machine were very similar. tbench4 4.5.0-rc1 4.5.0-rc1 vanilla nostats-v3r1 Hmean mb/sec-1 500.85 ( 0.00%) 522.43 ( 4.31%) Hmean mb/sec-2 984.66 ( 0.00%) 1018.19 ( 3.41%) Hmean mb/sec-4 1827.91 ( 0.00%) 1847.78 ( 1.09%) Hmean mb/sec-8 3561.36 ( 0.00%) 3611.28 ( 1.40%) Hmean mb/sec-16 5824.52 ( 0.00%) 5929.03 ( 1.79%) Hmean mb/sec-32 10943.10 ( 0.00%) 10802.83 ( -1.28%) Hmean mb/sec-64 15950.81 ( 0.00%) 16211.31 ( 1.63%) Hmean mb/sec-128 15302.17 ( 0.00%) 15445.11 ( 0.93%) Hmean mb/sec-256 14866.18 ( 0.00%) 15088.73 ( 1.50%) Hmean mb/sec-512 15223.31 ( 0.00%) 15373.69 ( 0.99%) Hmean mb/sec-1024 14574.25 ( 0.00%) 14598.02 ( 0.16%) Hmean mb/sec-2048 13569.02 ( 0.00%) 13733.86 ( 1.21%) Hmean mb/sec-3072 12865.98 ( 0.00%) 13209.23 ( 2.67%) Small gains of 2-4% at low thread counts and otherwise flat. The gains on the 8-core machine were slightly different tbench4 on 8-core i7-3770 single socket machine Hmean mb/sec-1 442.59 ( 0.00%) 448.73 ( 1.39%) Hmean mb/sec-2 796.68 ( 0.00%) 794.39 ( -0.29%) Hmean mb/sec-4 1322.52 ( 0.00%) 1343.66 ( 1.60%) Hmean mb/sec-8 2611.65 ( 0.00%) 2694.86 ( 3.19%) Hmean mb/sec-16 2537.07 ( 0.00%) 2609.34 ( 2.85%) Hmean mb/sec-32 2506.02 ( 0.00%) 2578.18 ( 2.88%) Hmean mb/sec-64 2511.06 ( 0.00%) 2569.16 ( 2.31%) Hmean mb/sec-128 2313.38 ( 0.00%) 2395.50 ( 3.55%) Hmean mb/sec-256 2110.04 ( 0.00%) 2177.45 ( 3.19%) Hmean mb/sec-512 2072.51 ( 0.00%) 2053.97 ( -0.89%) In constract, this shows a relatively steady 2-3% gain at higher thread counts. Due to the nature of the patch and the type of workload, it's not a surprise that the result will depend on the CPU used. hackbench-pipes 4.5.0-rc1 4.5.0-rc1 vanilla nostats-v3r1 Amean 1 0.0637 ( 0.00%) 0.0660 ( -3.59%) Amean 4 0.1229 ( 0.00%) 0.1181 ( 3.84%) Amean 7 0.1921 ( 0.00%) 0.1911 ( 0.52%) Amean 12 0.3117 ( 0.00%) 0.2923 ( 6.23%) Amean 21 0.4050 ( 0.00%) 0.3899 ( 3.74%) Amean 30 0.4586 ( 0.00%) 0.4433 ( 3.33%) Amean 48 0.5910 ( 0.00%) 0.5694 ( 3.65%) Amean 79 0.8663 ( 0.00%) 0.8626 ( 0.43%) Amean 110 1.1543 ( 0.00%) 1.1517 ( 0.22%) Amean 141 1.4457 ( 0.00%) 1.4290 ( 1.16%) Amean 172 1.7090 ( 0.00%) 1.6924 ( 0.97%) Amean 192 1.9126 ( 0.00%) 1.9089 ( 0.19%) Some small gains and losses and while the variance data is not included, it's close to the noise. The UMA machine did not show anything particularly different pipetest 4.5.0-rc1 4.5.0-rc1 vanilla nostats-v2r2 Min Time 4.13 ( 0.00%) 3.99 ( 3.39%) 1st-qrtle Time 4.38 ( 0.00%) 4.27 ( 2.51%) 2nd-qrtle Time 4.46 ( 0.00%) 4.39 ( 1.57%) 3rd-qrtle Time 4.56 ( 0.00%) 4.51 ( 1.10%) Max-90% Time 4.67 ( 0.00%) 4.60 ( 1.50%) Max-93% Time 4.71 ( 0.00%) 4.65 ( 1.27%) Max-95% Time 4.74 ( 0.00%) 4.71 ( 0.63%) Max-99% Time 4.88 ( 0.00%) 4.79 ( 1.84%) Max Time 4.93 ( 0.00%) 4.83 ( 2.03%) Mean Time 4.48 ( 0.00%) 4.39 ( 1.91%) Best99%Mean Time 4.47 ( 0.00%) 4.39 ( 1.91%) Best95%Mean Time 4.46 ( 0.00%) 4.38 ( 1.93%) Best90%Mean Time 4.45 ( 0.00%) 4.36 ( 1.98%) Best50%Mean Time 4.36 ( 0.00%) 4.25 ( 2.49%) Best10%Mean Time 4.23 ( 0.00%) 4.10 ( 3.13%) Best5%Mean Time 4.19 ( 0.00%) 4.06 ( 3.20%) Best1%Mean Time 4.13 ( 0.00%) 4.00 ( 3.39%) Small improvement and similar gains were seen on the UMA machine. The gain is small but it stands to reason that doing less work in the scheduler is a good thing. The downside is that the lack of schedstats and tracepoints may be surprising to experts doing performance analysis until they find the existence of the schedstats= parameter or schedstats sysctl. It will be automatically activated for latencytop and sleep profiling to alleviate the problem. For tracepoints, there is a simple warning as it's not safe to activate schedstats in the context when it's known the tracepoint may be wanted but is unavailable. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454663316-22048-1-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>