1. 30 9月, 2008 3 次提交
  2. 23 6月, 2008 1 次提交
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      futexes: fix fault handling in futex_lock_pi · 1b7558e4
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      This patch addresses a very sporadic pi-futex related failure in
      highly threaded java apps on large SMP systems.
      
      David Holmes reported that the pi_state consistency check in
      lookup_pi_state triggered with his test application. This means that
      the kernel internal pi_state and the user space futex variable are out
      of sync. First we assumed that this is a user space data corruption,
      but deeper investigation revieled that the problem happend because the
      pi-futex code is not handling a fault in the futex_lock_pi path when
      the user space variable needs to be fixed up.
      
      The fault happens when a fork mapped the anon memory which contains
      the futex readonly for COW or the page got swapped out exactly between
      the unlock of the futex and the return of either the new futex owner
      or the task which was the expected owner but failed to acquire the
      kernel internal rtmutex. The current futex_lock_pi() code drops out
      with an inconsistent in case it faults and returns -EFAULT to user
      space. User space has no way to fixup that state.
      
      When we wrote this code we thought that we could not drop the hash
      bucket lock at this point to handle the fault.
      
      After analysing the code again it turned out to be wrong because there
      are only two tasks involved which might modify the pi_state and the
      user space variable:
      
       - the task which acquired the rtmutex
       - the pending owner of the pi_state which did not get the rtmutex
      
      Both tasks drop into the fixup_pi_state() function before returning to
      user space. The first task which acquired the hash bucket lock faults
      in the fixup of the user space variable, drops the spinlock and calls
      futex_handle_fault() to fault in the page. Now the second task could
      acquire the hash bucket lock and tries to fixup the user space
      variable as well. It either faults as well or it succeeds because the
      first task already faulted the page in.
      
      One caveat is to avoid a double fixup. After returning from the fault
      handling we reacquire the hash bucket lock and check whether the
      pi_state owner has been modified already.
      Reported-by: NDavid Holmes <david.holmes@sun.com>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: David Holmes <david.holmes@sun.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      
       kernel/futex.c |   93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
       1 file changed, 73 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
      1b7558e4
  3. 05 5月, 2008 1 次提交
  4. 30 4月, 2008 1 次提交
  5. 31 3月, 2008 1 次提交
  6. 27 3月, 2008 1 次提交
  7. 24 2月, 2008 2 次提交
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      futex: runtime enable pi and robust functionality · a0c1e907
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      Not all architectures implement futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic().  The default
      implementation returns -ENOSYS, which is currently not handled inside of the
      futex guts.
      
      Futex PI calls and robust list exits with a held futex result in an endless
      loop in the futex code on architectures which have no support.
      
      Fixing up every place where futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() is called would
      add a fair amount of extra if/else constructs to the already complex code.  It
      is also not possible to disable the robust feature before user space tries to
      register robust lists.
      
      Compile time disabling is not a good idea either, as there are already
      architectures with runtime detection of futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic support.
      
      Detect the functionality at runtime instead by calling
      cmpxchg_futex_value_locked() with a NULL pointer from the futex initialization
      code.  This is guaranteed to fail, but the call of
      futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() happens with pagefaults disabled.
      
      On architectures, which use the asm-generic implementation or have a runtime
      CPU feature detection, a -ENOSYS return value disables the PI/robust features.
      
      On architectures with a working implementation the call returns -EFAULT and
      the PI/robust features are enabled.
      
      The relevant syscalls return -ENOSYS and the robust list exit code is blocked,
      when the detection fails.
      
      Fixes http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/11/149
      Originally reported by: Lennart Buytenhek
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
      Cc: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@movial.fi>
      Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a0c1e907
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      futex: fix init order · 3e4ab747
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      When the futex init code fails to initialize the futex pseudo file system it
      returns early without initializing the hash queues.  Should the boot succeed
      then a futex syscall which tries to enqueue a waiter on the hashqueue will
      crash due to the unitilialized plist heads.
      
      Initialize the hash queues before the filesystem.
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
      Cc: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@movial.fi>
      Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3e4ab747
  8. 15 2月, 2008 1 次提交
  9. 02 2月, 2008 3 次提交
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      futex: Add bitset conditional wait/wakeup functionality · cd689985
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      To allow the implementation of optimized rw-locks in user space, glibc
      needs a possibility to select waiters for wakeup depending on a bitset
      mask.
      
      This requires two new futex OPs: FUTEX_WAIT_BITS and FUTEX_WAKE_BITS
      These OPs are basically the same as FUTEX_WAIT and FUTEX_WAKE plus an
      additional argument - a bitset. Further the FUTEX_WAIT_BITS OP is
      expecting an absolute timeout value instead of the relative one, which
      is used for the FUTEX_WAIT OP.
      
      FUTEX_WAIT_BITS calls into the kernel with a bitset. The bitset is
      stored in the futex_q structure, which is used to enqueue the waiter
      into the hashed futex waitqueue.
      
      FUTEX_WAKE_BITS also calls into the kernel with a bitset. The wakeup
      function logically ANDs the bitset with the bitset stored in each
      waiters futex_q structure. If the result is zero (i.e. none of the set
      bits in the bitsets is matching), then the waiter is not woken up. If
      the result is not zero (i.e. one of the set bits in the bitsets is
      matching), then the waiter is woken.
      
      The bitset provided by the caller must be non zero. In case the
      provided bitset is zero the kernel returns EINVAL.
      
      Internaly the new OPs are only extensions to the existing FUTEX_WAIT
      and FUTEX_WAKE functions. The existing OPs hand a bitset with all bits
      set into the futex_wait() and futex_wake() functions.
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tgxl@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      cd689985
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      futex: Remove warn on in return fixup path · 83e96c60
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      The WARN_ON() in the fixup return path of futex_lock_pi() can
      trigger with false positives.
      
      The following scenario happens:
      t1 holds the futex and t2 and t3 are blocked on the kernel side rt_mutex.
      t1 releases the futex (and the rt_mutex) and assigned t2 to be the next
      owner of the futex.
      
      t2 is interrupted and returns w/o acquiring the rt_mutex, before t1 can
      release the rtmutex.
      
      t1 releases the rtmutex and t3 becomes the pending owner of the rtmutex.
      
      t2 notices that it is the designated owner (user space variable) and
      fails to acquire the rt_mutex via trylock, because it is not allowed to
      steal the rt_mutex from t3. Now it looks at the rt_mutex pending owner (t3)
      and assigns the futex and the pi_state to it.
      
      During the fixup t4 steals the rtmutex from t3.
      
      t2 returns from the fixup and the owner of the rt_mutex has changed from
      t3 to t4.
      
      There is no need to do another round of fixups from t2. The important
      part (t2 is not returning as the user space visible owner) is
      done. The further fixups are done, before either t3 or t4 return to
      user space.
      
      For the user space it is not relevant which task (t3 or t4) is the real
      owner, as long as those are both in the kernel, which is guaranteed by
      the serialization of the hash bucket lock. Both tasks (which ever returns
      first to userspace - t4 because it locked the rt_mutex or t3 due to a signal)
      are going through the lock_futex_pi() return path where the ownership is
      fixed before the return to user space.
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      83e96c60
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      hrtimer: fix hrtimer_init_sleeper() users · 3588a085
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      this patch:
      
       commit 37bb6cb4
       Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
       Date:   Fri Jan 25 21:08:32 2008 +0100
      
           hrtimer: unlock hrtimer_wakeup
      
      Broke hrtimer_init_sleeper() users. It forgot to fix up the futex
      caller of this function to detect the failed queueing and messed up
      the do_nanosleep() caller in that it could leak a TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
      state.
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      3588a085
  10. 09 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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      futex: Prevent stale futex owner when interrupted/timeout · cdf71a10
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      Roland Westrelin did a great analysis of a long standing thinko in the
      return path of futex_lock_pi.
      
      While we fixed the lock steal case long ago, which was easy to trigger,
      we never had a test case which exposed this problem and stupidly never
      thought about the reverse lock stealing scenario and the return to user
      space with a stale state.
      
      When a blocked tasks returns from rt_mutex_timed_locked without holding
      the rt_mutex (due to a signal or timeout) and at the same time the task
      holding the futex is releasing the futex and assigning the ownership of
      the futex to the returning task, then it might happen that a third task
      acquires the rt_mutex before the final rt_mutex_trylock() of the
      returning task happens under the futex hash bucket lock. The returning
      task returns to user space with ETIMEOUT or EINTR, but the user space
      futex value is assigned to this task. The task which acquired the
      rt_mutex fixes the user space futex value right after the hash bucket
      lock has been released by the returning task, but for a short period of
      time the user space value is wrong.
      
      Detailed description is available at:
      
         https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=400541
      
      The fix for this is the same as we do when the rt_mutex was acquired by
      a higher priority task via lock stealing from the designated new owner.
      In that case we already fix the user space value and the internal
      pi_state up before we return. This mechanism can be used to fixup the
      above corner case as well. When the returning task, which failed to
      acquire the rt_mutex, notices that it is the designated owner of the
      futex, then it fixes up the stale user space value and the pi_state,
      before returning to user space. This happens with the futex hash bucket
      lock held, so the task which acquired the rt_mutex is guaranteed to be
      blocked on the hash bucket lock. We can access the rt_mutex owner, which
      gives us the pid of the new owner, safely here as the owner is not able
      to modify (release) it while waiting on the hash bucket lock.
      
      Rename the "curr" argument of fixup_pi_state_owner() to "newowner" to
      avoid confusion with current and add the check for the stale state into
      the failure path of rt_mutex_trylock() in the return path of
      unlock_futex_pi(). If the situation is detected use
      fixup_pi_state_owner() to assign everything to the owner of the
      rt_mutex.
      Pointed-out-and-tested-by: NRoland Westrelin <roland.westrelin@sun.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      cdf71a10
  11. 05 12月, 2007 2 次提交
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      futex: correctly return -EFAULT not -EINVAL · cde898fa
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      return -EFAULT not -EINVAL. Found by review.
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      cde898fa
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      futex: fix for futex_wait signal stack corruption · ce6bd420
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      David Holmes found a bug in the -rt tree with respect to
      pthread_cond_timedwait. After trying his test program on the latest git
      from mainline, I found the bug was there too.  The bug he was seeing
      that his test program showed, was that if one were to do a "Ctrl-Z" on a
      process that was in the pthread_cond_timedwait, and then did a "bg" on
      that process, it would return with a "-ETIMEDOUT" but early. That is,
      the timer would go off early.
      
      Looking into this, I found the source of the problem. And it is a rather
      nasty bug at that.
      
      Here's the relevant code from kernel/futex.c: (not in order in the file)
      
      [...]
      smlinkage long sys_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, u32 val,
                                struct timespec __user *utime, u32 __user *uaddr2,
                                u32 val3)
      {
              struct timespec ts;
              ktime_t t, *tp = NULL;
              u32 val2 = 0;
              int cmd = op & FUTEX_CMD_MASK;
      
              if (utime && (cmd == FUTEX_WAIT || cmd == FUTEX_LOCK_PI)) {
                      if (copy_from_user(&ts, utime, sizeof(ts)) != 0)
                              return -EFAULT;
                      if (!timespec_valid(&ts))
                              return -EINVAL;
      
                      t = timespec_to_ktime(ts);
                      if (cmd == FUTEX_WAIT)
                              t = ktime_add(ktime_get(), t);
                      tp = &t;
              }
      [...]
              return do_futex(uaddr, op, val, tp, uaddr2, val2, val3);
      }
      
      [...]
      
      long do_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, u32 val, ktime_t *timeout,
                      u32 __user *uaddr2, u32 val2, u32 val3)
      {
              int ret;
              int cmd = op & FUTEX_CMD_MASK;
              struct rw_semaphore *fshared = NULL;
      
              if (!(op & FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG))
                      fshared = &current->mm->mmap_sem;
      
              switch (cmd) {
              case FUTEX_WAIT:
                      ret = futex_wait(uaddr, fshared, val, timeout);
      
      [...]
      
      static int futex_wait(u32 __user *uaddr, struct rw_semaphore *fshared,
                            u32 val, ktime_t *abs_time)
      {
      [...]
                     struct restart_block *restart;
                      restart = &current_thread_info()->restart_block;
                      restart->fn = futex_wait_restart;
                      restart->arg0 = (unsigned long)uaddr;
                      restart->arg1 = (unsigned long)val;
                      restart->arg2 = (unsigned long)abs_time;
                      restart->arg3 = 0;
                      if (fshared)
                              restart->arg3 |= ARG3_SHARED;
                      return -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK;
      [...]
      
      static long futex_wait_restart(struct restart_block *restart)
      {
              u32 __user *uaddr = (u32 __user *)restart->arg0;
              u32 val = (u32)restart->arg1;
              ktime_t *abs_time = (ktime_t *)restart->arg2;
              struct rw_semaphore *fshared = NULL;
      
              restart->fn = do_no_restart_syscall;
              if (restart->arg3 & ARG3_SHARED)
                      fshared = &current->mm->mmap_sem;
              return (long)futex_wait(uaddr, fshared, val, abs_time);
      }
      
      So when the futex_wait is interrupt by a signal we break out of the
      hrtimer code and set up or return from signal. This code does not return
      back to userspace, so we set up a RESTARTBLOCK.  The bug here is that we
      save the "abs_time" which is a pointer to the stack variable "ktime_t t"
      from sys_futex.
      
      This returns and unwinds the stack before we get to call our signal. On
      return from the signal we go to futex_wait_restart, where we update all
      the parameters for futex_wait and call it. But here we have a problem
      where abs_time is no longer valid.
      
      I verified this with print statements, and sure enough, what abs_time
      was set to ends up being garbage when we get to futex_wait_restart.
      
      The solution I did to solve this (with input from Linus Torvalds)
      was to add unions to the restart_block to allow system calls to
      use the restart with specific parameters.  This way the futex code now
      saves the time in a 64bit value in the restart block instead of storing
      it on the stack.
      
      Note: I'm a bit nervious to add "linux/types.h" and use u32 and u64
      in thread_info.h, when there's a #ifdef __KERNEL__ just below that.
      Not sure what that is there for.  If this turns out to be a problem, I've
      tested this with using "unsigned int" for u32 and "unsigned long long" for
      u64 and it worked just the same. I'm using u32 and u64 just to be
      consistent with what the futex code uses.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ce6bd420
  12. 05 11月, 2007 1 次提交
  13. 20 10月, 2007 2 次提交
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      Uninline find_task_by_xxx set of functions · 228ebcbe
      Pavel Emelyanov 提交于
      The find_task_by_something is a set of macros are used to find task by pid
      depending on what kind of pid is proposed - global or virtual one.  All of
      them are wrappers above the most generic one - find_task_by_pid_type_ns() -
      and just substitute some args for it.
      
      It turned out, that dereferencing the current->nsproxy->pid_ns construction
      and pushing one more argument on the stack inline cause kernel text size to
      grow.
      
      This patch moves all this stuff out-of-line into kernel/pid.c.  Together
      with the next patch it saves a bit less than 400 bytes from the .text
      section.
      Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
      Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
      Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      228ebcbe
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      pid namespaces: changes to show virtual ids to user · b488893a
      Pavel Emelyanov 提交于
      This is the largest patch in the set. Make all (I hope) the places where
      the pid is shown to or get from user operate on the virtual pids.
      
      The idea is:
       - all in-kernel data structures must store either struct pid itself
         or the pid's global nr, obtained with pid_nr() call;
       - when seeking the task from kernel code with the stored id one
         should use find_task_by_pid() call that works with global pids;
       - when showing pid's numerical value to the user the virtual one
         should be used, but however when one shows task's pid outside this
         task's namespace the global one is to be used;
       - when getting the pid from userspace one need to consider this as
         the virtual one and use appropriate task/pid-searching functions.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuther build fix]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: yet nuther build fix]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded casts]
      Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
      Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
      Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b488893a
  14. 19 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  15. 17 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  16. 01 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  17. 23 8月, 2007 1 次提交
  18. 01 8月, 2007 1 次提交
  19. 20 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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      mm: fault feedback #2 · 83c54070
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      This patch completes Linus's wish that the fault return codes be made into
      bit flags, which I agree makes everything nicer.  This requires requires
      all handle_mm_fault callers to be modified (possibly the modifications
      should go further and do things like fault accounting in handle_mm_fault --
      however that would be for another patch).
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alpha build]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix s390 build]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc build]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc64 build]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64 build]
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
      Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
      Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
      Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
      Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
      Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
      Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
      Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
      Acked-by: NKyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Acked-by: NHaavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
      Acked-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Acked-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      [ Still apparently needs some ARM and PPC loving - Linus ]
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      83c54070
  20. 17 7月, 2007 1 次提交
  21. 25 6月, 2007 1 次提交
  22. 19 6月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Revert "futex_requeue_pi optimization" · bd197234
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      This reverts commit d0aa7a70.
      
      It not only introduced user space visible changes to the futex syscall,
      it is also non-functional and there is no way to fix it proper before
      the 2.6.22 release.
      
      The breakage report ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/12/17 ) went
      unanswered, and unfortunately it turned out that the concept is not
      feasible at all.  It violates the rtmutex semantics badly by introducing
      a virtual owner, which hacks around the coupling of the user-space
      pi_futex and the kernel internal rt_mutex representation.
      
      At the moment the only safe option is to remove it fully as it contains
      user-space visible changes to broken kernel code, which we do not want
      to expose in the 2.6.22 release.
      
      The patch reverts the original patch mostly 1:1, but contains a couple
      of trivial manual cleanups which were necessary due to patches, which
      touched the same area of code later.
      
      Verified against the glibc tests and my own PI futex tests.
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Acked-by: NUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Cc: Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@bull.net>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      bd197234
  23. 09 6月, 2007 1 次提交
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      pi-futex: fix exit races and locking problems · 778e9a9c
      Alexey Kuznetsov 提交于
      1. New entries can be added to tsk->pi_state_list after task completed
         exit_pi_state_list(). The result is memory leakage and deadlocks.
      
      2. handle_mm_fault() is called under spinlock. The result is obvious.
      
      3. results in self-inflicted deadlock inside glibc.
         Sometimes futex_lock_pi returns -ESRCH, when it is not expected
         and glibc enters to for(;;) sleep() to simulate deadlock. This problem
         is quite obvious and I think the patch is right. Though it looks like
         each "if" in futex_lock_pi() got some stupid special case "else if". :-)
      
      4. sometimes futex_lock_pi() returns -EDEADLK,
         when nobody has the lock. The reason is also obvious (see comment
         in the patch), but correct fix is far beyond my comprehension.
         I guess someone already saw this, the chunk:
      
                              if (rt_mutex_trylock(&q.pi_state->pi_mutex))
                                      ret = 0;
      
         is obviously from the same opera. But it does not work, because the
         rtmutex is really taken at this point: wake_futex_pi() of previous
         owner reassigned it to us. My fix works. But it looks very stupid.
         I would think about removal of shift of ownership in wake_futex_pi()
         and making all the work in context of process taking lock.
      
      From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      
      Fix 1) Avoid the tasklist lock variant of the exit race fix by adding
          an additional state transition to the exit code.
      
          This fixes also the issue, when a task with recursive segfaults
          is not able to release the futexes.
      
      Fix 2) Cleanup the lookup_pi_state() failure path and solve the -ESRCH
          problem finally.
      
      Fix 3) Solve the fixup_pi_state_owner() problem which needs to do the fixup
          in the lock protected section by using the in_atomic userspace access
          functions.
      
          This removes also the ugly lock drop / unqueue inside of fixup_pi_state()
      
      Fix 4) Fix a stale lock in the error path of futex_wake_pi()
      
      Added some error checks for verification.
      
      The -EDEADLK problem is solved by the rtmutex fixups.
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      778e9a9c
  24. 10 5月, 2007 4 次提交
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      FUTEX: new PRIVATE futexes · 34f01cc1
      Eric Dumazet 提交于
        Analysis of current linux futex code :
        --------------------------------------
      
      A central hash table futex_queues[] holds all contexts (futex_q) of waiting
      threads.
      
      Each futex_wait()/futex_wait() has to obtain a spinlock on a hash slot to
      perform lookups or insert/deletion of a futex_q.
      
      When a futex_wait() is done, calling thread has to :
      
      1) - Obtain a read lock on mmap_sem to be able to validate the user pointer
           (calling find_vma()). This validation tells us if the futex uses
           an inode based store (mapped file), or mm based store (anonymous mem)
      
      2) - compute a hash key
      
      3) - Atomic increment of reference counter on an inode or a mm_struct
      
      4) - lock part of futex_queues[] hash table
      
      5) - perform the test on value of futex.
      	(rollback is value != expected_value, returns EWOULDBLOCK)
      	(various loops if test triggers mm faults)
      
      6) queue the context into hash table, release the lock got in 4)
      
      7) - release the read_lock on mmap_sem
      
         <block>
      
      8) Eventually unqueue the context (but rarely, as this part  may be done
         by the futex_wake())
      
      Futexes were designed to improve scalability but current implementation has
      various problems :
      
      - Central hashtable :
      
        This means scalability problems if many processes/threads want to use
        futexes at the same time.
        This means NUMA unbalance because this hashtable is located on one node.
      
      - Using mmap_sem on every futex() syscall :
      
        Even if mmap_sem is a rw_semaphore, up_read()/down_read() are doing atomic
        ops on mmap_sem, dirtying cache line :
          - lot of cache line ping pongs on SMP configurations.
      
        mmap_sem is also extensively used by mm code (page faults, mmap()/munmap())
        Highly threaded processes might suffer from mmap_sem contention.
      
        mmap_sem is also used by oprofile code. Enabling oprofile hurts threaded
        programs because of contention on the mmap_sem cache line.
      
      - Using an atomic_inc()/atomic_dec() on inode ref counter or mm ref counter:
        It's also a cache line ping pong on SMP. It also increases mmap_sem hold time
        because of cache misses.
      
      Most of these scalability problems come from the fact that futexes are in
      one global namespace.  As we use a central hash table, we must make sure
      they are all using the same reference (given by the mm subsystem).  We
      chose to force all futexes be 'shared'.  This has a cost.
      
      But fact is POSIX defined PRIVATE and SHARED, allowing clear separation,
      and optimal performance if carefuly implemented.  Time has come for linux
      to have better threading performance.
      
      The goal is to permit new futex commands to avoid :
       - Taking the mmap_sem semaphore, conflicting with other subsystems.
       - Modifying a ref_count on mm or an inode, still conflicting with mm or fs.
      
      This is possible because, for one process using PTHREAD_PROCESS_PRIVATE
      futexes, we only need to distinguish futexes by their virtual address, no
      matter the underlying mm storage is.
      
      If glibc wants to exploit this new infrastructure, it should use new
      _PRIVATE futex subcommands for PTHREAD_PROCESS_PRIVATE futexes.  And be
      prepared to fallback on old subcommands for old kernels.  Using one global
      variable with the FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG or 0 value should be OK.
      
      PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED futexes should still use the old subcommands.
      
      Compatibility with old applications is preserved, they still hit the
      scalability problems, but new applications can fly :)
      
      Note : the same SHARED futex (mapped on a file) can be used by old binaries
      *and* new binaries, because both binaries will use the old subcommands.
      
      Note : Vast majority of futexes should be using PROCESS_PRIVATE semantic,
      as this is the default semantic. Almost all applications should benefit
      of this changes (new kernel and updated libc)
      
      Some bench results on a Pentium M 1.6 GHz (SMP kernel on a UP machine)
      
      /* calling futex_wait(addr, value) with value != *addr */
      433 cycles per futex(FUTEX_WAIT) call (mixing 2 futexes)
      424 cycles per futex(FUTEX_WAIT) call (using one futex)
      334 cycles per futex(FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE) call (mixing 2 futexes)
      334 cycles per futex(FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE) call (using one futex)
      For reference :
      187 cycles per getppid() call
      188 cycles per umask() call
      181 cycles per ni_syscall() call
      Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
      Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@bull.net>
      Cc: "Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@gmail.com>
      Cc: "Nick Piggin" <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Cc: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      34f01cc1
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      futex_requeue_pi optimization · d0aa7a70
      Pierre Peiffer 提交于
      This patch provides the futex_requeue_pi functionality, which allows some
      threads waiting on a normal futex to be requeued on the wait-queue of a
      PI-futex.
      
      This provides an optimization, already used for (normal) futexes, to be used
      with the PI-futexes.
      
      This optimization is currently used by the glibc in pthread_broadcast, when
      using "normal" mutexes.  With futex_requeue_pi, it can be used with
      PRIO_INHERIT mutexes too.
      Signed-off-by: NPierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@bull.net>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d0aa7a70
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      Make futex_wait() use an hrtimer for timeout · c19384b5
      Pierre Peiffer 提交于
      This patch modifies futex_wait() to use an hrtimer + schedule() in place of
      schedule_timeout().
      
      schedule_timeout() is tick based, therefore the timeout granularity is the
      tick (1 ms, 4 ms or 10 ms depending on HZ).  By using a high resolution timer
      for timeout wakeup, we can attain a much finer timeout granularity (in the
      microsecond range).  This parallels what is already done for futex_lock_pi().
      
      The timeout passed to the syscall is no longer converted to jiffies and is
      therefore passed to do_futex() and futex_wait() as an absolute ktime_t
      therefore keeping nanosecond resolution.
      
      Also this removes the need to pass the nanoseconds timeout part to
      futex_lock_pi() in val2.
      
      In futex_wait(), if there is no timeout then a regular schedule() is
      performed.  Otherwise, an hrtimer is fired before schedule() is called.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix `make headers_check']
      Signed-off-by: NSebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
      Signed-off-by: NPierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@bull.net>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c19384b5
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      futex priority based wakeup · ec92d082
      Pierre Peiffer 提交于
      Today, all threads waiting for a given futex are woken in FIFO order (first
      waiter woken first) instead of priority order.
      
      This patch makes use of plist (pirotity ordered lists) instead of simple list
      in futex_hash_bucket.
      
      All non-RT threads are stored with priority MAX_RT_PRIO, causing them to be
      woken last, in FIFO order (RT-threads are woken first, in priority order).
      Signed-off-by: NSebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
      Signed-off-by: NPierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@bull.net>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ec92d082
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