- 07 7月, 2017 1 次提交
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由 Vlastimil Babka 提交于
The task->il_next variable stores the next allocation node id for task's MPOL_INTERLEAVE policy. mpol_rebind_nodemask() updates interleave and bind mempolicies due to changing cpuset mems. Currently it also tries to make sure that current->il_next is valid within the updated nodemask. This is bogus, because 1) we are updating potentially any task's mempolicy, not just current, and 2) we might be updating a per-vma mempolicy, not task one. The interleave_nodes() function that uses il_next can cope fine with the value not being within the currently allowed nodes, so this hasn't manifested as an actual issue. We can remove the need for updating il_next completely by changing it to il_prev and store the node id of the previous interleave allocation instead of the next id. Then interleave_nodes() can calculate the next id using the current nodemask and also store it as il_prev, except when querying the next node via do_get_mempolicy(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170517081140.30654-3-vbabka@suse.czSigned-off-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 08 6月, 2017 3 次提交
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We have been facing some problems with self-suspending constrained deadline tasks. The main reason is that the original CBS was not designed for such sort of tasks. One problem reported by Xunlei Pang takes place when a task suspends, and then is awakened before the deadline, but so close to the deadline that its remaining runtime can cause the task to have an absolute density higher than allowed. In such situation, the original CBS assumes that the task is facing an early activation, and so it replenishes the task and set another deadline, one deadline in the future. This rule works fine for implicit deadline tasks. Moreover, it allows the system to adapt the period of a task in which the external event source suffered from a clock drift. However, this opens the window for bandwidth leakage for constrained deadline tasks. For instance, a task with the following parameters: runtime = 5 ms deadline = 7 ms [density] = 5 / 7 = 0.71 period = 1000 ms If the task runs for 1 ms, and then suspends for another 1ms, it will be awakened with the following parameters: remaining runtime = 4 laxity = 5 presenting a absolute density of 4 / 5 = 0.80. In this case, the original CBS would assume the task had an early wakeup. Then, CBS will reset the runtime, and the absolute deadline will be postponed by one relative deadline, allowing the task to run. The problem is that, if the task runs this pattern forever, it will keep receiving bandwidth, being able to run 1ms every 2ms. Following this behavior, the task would be able to run 500 ms in 1 sec. Thus running more than the 5 ms / 1 sec the admission control allowed it to run. Trying to address the self-suspending case, Luca Abeni, Giuseppe Lipari, and Juri Lelli [1] revisited the CBS in order to deal with self-suspending tasks. In the new approach, rather than replenishing/postponing the absolute deadline, the revised wakeup rule adjusts the remaining runtime, reducing it to fit into the allowed density. A revised version of the idea is: At a given time t, the maximum absolute density of a task cannot be higher than its relative density, that is: runtime / (deadline - t) <= dl_runtime / dl_deadline Knowing the laxity of a task (deadline - t), it is possible to move it to the other side of the equality, thus enabling to define max remaining runtime a task can use within the absolute deadline, without over-running the allowed density: runtime = (dl_runtime / dl_deadline) * (deadline - t) For instance, in our previous example, the task could still run: runtime = ( 5 / 7 ) * 5 runtime = 3.57 ms Without causing damage for other deadline tasks. It is note worthy that the laxity cannot be negative because that would cause a negative runtime. Thus, this patch depends on the patch: df8eac8c ("sched/deadline: Throttle a constrained deadline task activated after the deadline") Which throttles a constrained deadline task activated after the deadline. Finally, it is also possible to use the revised wakeup rule for all other tasks, but that would require some more discussions about pros and cons. Reported-by: NXunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NDaniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> [peterz: replaced dl_is_constrained with dl_is_implicit] Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Romulo Silva de Oliveira <romulo.deoliveira@ufsc.br> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5c800ab3a74a168a84ee5f3f84d12a02e11383be.1495803804.git.bristot@redhat.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The sched_dl_entity's dl_bw variable stores the utilization (dl_runtime / dl_period) of a task, not its density (dl_runtime / dl_deadline), as the comment says. Signed-off-by: NDaniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Romulo Silva de Oliveira <romulo.deoliveira@ufsc.br> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it> Cc: Xunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8d05f1ccfd02da1a11bda62494d98f5456c1469a.1495803804.git.bristot@redhat.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Luca Abeni 提交于
This patch implements a more theoretically sound algorithm for tracking active utilization: instead of decreasing it when a task blocks, use a timer (the "inactive timer", named after the "Inactive" task state of the GRUB algorithm) to decrease the active utilization at the so called "0-lag time". Tested-by: NClaudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com> Tested-by: NDaniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NLuca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495138417-6203-3-git-send-email-luca.abeni@santannapisa.itSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 05 6月, 2017 1 次提交
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由 Perr Zhang 提交于
There is no more set_task_vxid() helper, remove its description. Signed-off-by: NPerr Zhang <strongbox8@zoho.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170602035953.28949-1-strongbox8@zoho.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 26 5月, 2017 1 次提交
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
Provide a helper function for checking whether current task is a per cpu thread. Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524081549.541649540@linutronix.de
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- 04 5月, 2017 2 次提交
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由 Michal Hocko 提交于
GFP_NOFS context is used for the following 5 reasons currently: - to prevent from deadlocks when the lock held by the allocation context would be needed during the memory reclaim - to prevent from stack overflows during the reclaim because the allocation is performed from a deep context already - to prevent lockups when the allocation context depends on other reclaimers to make a forward progress indirectly - just in case because this would be safe from the fs POV - silence lockdep false positives Unfortunately overuse of this allocation context brings some problems to the MM. Memory reclaim is much weaker (especially during heavy FS metadata workloads), OOM killer cannot be invoked because the MM layer doesn't have enough information about how much memory is freeable by the FS layer. In many cases it is far from clear why the weaker context is even used and so it might be used unnecessarily. We would like to get rid of those as much as possible. One way to do that is to use the flag in scopes rather than isolated cases. Such a scope is declared when really necessary, tracked per task and all the allocation requests from within the context will simply inherit the GFP_NOFS semantic. Not only this is easier to understand and maintain because there are much less problematic contexts than specific allocation requests, this also helps code paths where FS layer interacts with other layers (e.g. crypto, security modules, MM etc...) and there is no easy way to convey the allocation context between the layers. Introduce memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} API to control the scope of GFP_NOFS allocation context. This is basically copying memalloc_noio_{save,restore} API we have for other restricted allocation context GFP_NOIO. The PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS flag already exists and it is just an alias for PF_FSTRANS which has been xfs specific until recently. There are no more PF_FSTRANS users anymore so let's just drop it. PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS is now checked in the MM layer and drops __GFP_FS implicitly same as PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO drops __GFP_IO. memalloc_noio_flags is renamed to current_gfp_context because it now cares about both PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS and PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO contexts. Xfs code paths preserve their semantic. kmem_flags_convert() doesn't need to evaluate the flag anymore. This patch shouldn't introduce any functional changes. Let's hope that filesystems will drop direct GFP_NOFS (resp. ~__GFP_FS) usage as much as possible and only use a properly documented memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} checkpoints where they are appropriate. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment typo, reflow comment] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306131408.9828-5-mhocko@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Cc: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Michal Hocko 提交于
xfs has defined PF_FSTRANS to declare a scope GFP_NOFS semantic quite some time ago. We would like to make this concept more generic and use it for other filesystems as well. Let's start by giving the flag a more generic name PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS which is in line with an exiting PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO already used for the same purpose for GFP_NOIO contexts. Replace all PF_FSTRANS usage from the xfs code in the first step before we introduce a full API for it as xfs uses the flag directly anyway. This patch doesn't introduce any functional change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306131408.9828-4-mhocko@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: NDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: NBrian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Acked-by: NVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 11 4月, 2017 1 次提交
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由 NeilBrown 提交于
It is not safe for one thread to modify the ->flags of another thread as there is no locking that can protect the update. So tsk_restore_flags(), which takes a task pointer and modifies the flags, is an invitation to do the wrong thing. All current users pass "current" as the task, so no developers have accepted that invitation. It would be best to ensure it remains that way. So rename tsk_restore_flags() to current_restore_flags() and don't pass in a task_struct pointer. Always operate on current->flags. Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 04 4月, 2017 1 次提交
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由 Xunlei Pang 提交于
A crash happened while I was playing with deadline PI rtmutex. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000018 IP: [<ffffffff810eeb8f>] rt_mutex_get_top_task+0x1f/0x30 PGD 232a75067 PUD 230947067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP CPU: 1 PID: 10994 Comm: a.out Not tainted Call Trace: [<ffffffff810b658c>] enqueue_task+0x2c/0x80 [<ffffffff810ba763>] activate_task+0x23/0x30 [<ffffffff810d0ab5>] pull_dl_task+0x1d5/0x260 [<ffffffff810d0be6>] pre_schedule_dl+0x16/0x20 [<ffffffff8164e783>] __schedule+0xd3/0x900 [<ffffffff8164efd9>] schedule+0x29/0x70 [<ffffffff8165035b>] __rt_mutex_slowlock+0x4b/0xc0 [<ffffffff81650501>] rt_mutex_slowlock+0xd1/0x190 [<ffffffff810eeb33>] rt_mutex_timed_lock+0x53/0x60 [<ffffffff810ecbfc>] futex_lock_pi.isra.18+0x28c/0x390 [<ffffffff810ed8b0>] do_futex+0x190/0x5b0 [<ffffffff810edd50>] SyS_futex+0x80/0x180 This is because rt_mutex_enqueue_pi() and rt_mutex_dequeue_pi() are only protected by pi_lock when operating pi waiters, while rt_mutex_get_top_task(), will access them with rq lock held but not holding pi_lock. In order to tackle it, we introduce new "pi_top_task" pointer cached in task_struct, and add new rt_mutex_update_top_task() to update its value, it can be called by rt_mutex_setprio() which held both owner's pi_lock and rq lock. Thus "pi_top_task" can be safely accessed by enqueue_task_dl() under rq lock. Originally-From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NXunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: juri.lelli@arm.com Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Cc: jdesfossez@efficios.com Cc: bristot@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170323150216.157682758@infradead.orgSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 28 3月, 2017 1 次提交
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由 Tetsuo Handa 提交于
We switched from "struct task_struct"->security to "struct cred"->security in Linux 2.6.29. But not all LSM modules were happy with that change. TOMOYO LSM module is an example which want to use per "struct task_struct" security blob, for TOMOYO's security context is defined based on "struct task_struct" rather than "struct cred". AppArmor LSM module is another example which want to use it, for AppArmor is currently abusing the cred a little bit to store the change_hat and setexeccon info. Although security_task_free() hook was revived in Linux 3.4 because Yama LSM module wanted to release per "struct task_struct" security blob, security_task_alloc() hook and "struct task_struct"->security field were not revived. Nowadays, we are getting proposals of lightweight LSM modules which want to use per "struct task_struct" security blob. We are already allowing multiple concurrent LSM modules (up to one fully armored module which uses "struct cred"->security field or exclusive hooks like security_xfrm_state_pol_flow_match(), plus unlimited number of lightweight modules which do not use "struct cred"->security nor exclusive hooks) as long as they are built into the kernel. But this patch does not implement variable length "struct task_struct"->security field which will become needed when multiple LSM modules want to use "struct task_struct"-> security field. Although it won't be difficult to implement variable length "struct task_struct"->security field, let's think about it after we merged this patch. Signed-off-by: NTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: NJohn Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Acked-by: NCasey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Tested-by: NDjalal Harouni <tixxdz@gmail.com> Acked-by: NJosé Bollo <jobol@nonadev.net> Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Cc: José Bollo <jobol@nonadev.net> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
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- 24 3月, 2017 1 次提交
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由 Masanari Iida 提交于
This patch fix spelling typos found in Documentation/output/xml/driver-api/basics.xml. It is because the xml file was generated from comments in source, so I had to fix the comments. Signed-off-by: NMasanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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- 17 3月, 2017 1 次提交
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
Creation of a kthread goes through a couple interlocked stages between the kthread itself and its creator. Once the new kthread starts running, it initializes itself and wakes up the creator. The creator then can further configure the kthread and then let it start doing its job by waking it up. In this configuration-by-creator stage, the creator is the only one that can wake it up but the kthread is visible to userland. When altering the kthread's attributes from userland is allowed, this is fine; however, for cases where CPU affinity is critical, kthread_bind() is used to first disable affinity changes from userland and then set the affinity. This also prevents the kthread from being migrated into non-root cgroups as that can affect the CPU affinity and many other things. Unfortunately, the cgroup side of protection is racy. While the PF_NO_SETAFFINITY flag prevents further migrations, userland can win the race before the creator sets the flag with kthread_bind() and put the kthread in a non-root cgroup, which can lead to all sorts of problems including incorrect CPU affinity and starvation. This bug got triggered by userland which periodically tries to migrate all processes in the root cpuset cgroup to a non-root one. Per-cpu workqueue workers got caught while being created and ended up with incorrected CPU affinity breaking concurrency management and sometimes stalling workqueue execution. This patch adds task->no_cgroup_migration which disallows the task to be migrated by userland. kthreadd starts with the flag set making every child kthread start in the root cgroup with migration disallowed. The flag is cleared after the kthread finishes initialization by which time PF_NO_SETAFFINITY is set if the kthread should stay in the root cgroup. It'd be better to wait for the initialization instead of failing but I couldn't think of a way of implementing that without adding either a new PF flag, or sleeping and retrying from waiting side. Even if userland depends on changing cgroup membership of a kthread, it either has to be synchronized with kthread_create() or periodically repeat, so it's unlikely that this would break anything. v2: Switch to a simpler implementation using a new task_struct bit field suggested by Oleg. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Suggested-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reported-and-debugged-by: NChris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.3+ (we can't close the race on < v4.3) Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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- 09 3月, 2017 1 次提交
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由 Michal Hocko 提交于
Lowmemory killer is sitting in the staging tree since 2008 without any serious interest for fixing issues brought up by the MM folks. The main objection is that the implementation is basically broken by design: - it hooks into slab shrinker API which is not suitable for this purpose. lowmem_count implementation just shows this nicely. There is no scaling based on the memory pressure and no feedback to the generic shrinker infrastructure. Moreover lowmem_scan is called way too often for the heavy work it performs. - it is not reclaim context aware - no NUMA and/or memcg awareness. As the code stands right now it just adds a maintenance overhead when core MM changes have to update lowmemorykiller.c as well. It also seems that the alternative LMK implementation will be solely in the userspace so this code has no perspective it seems. The staging tree is supposed to be for a code which needs to be put in shape before it can be merged which is not the case here obviously. Signed-off-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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- 08 3月, 2017 1 次提交
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由 Josh Poimboeuf 提交于
Change livepatch to use a basic per-task consistency model. This is the foundation which will eventually enable us to patch those ~10% of security patches which change function or data semantics. This is the biggest remaining piece needed to make livepatch more generally useful. This code stems from the design proposal made by Vojtech [1] in November 2014. It's a hybrid of kGraft and kpatch: it uses kGraft's per-task consistency and syscall barrier switching combined with kpatch's stack trace switching. There are also a number of fallback options which make it quite flexible. Patches are applied on a per-task basis, when the task is deemed safe to switch over. When a patch is enabled, livepatch enters into a transition state where tasks are converging to the patched state. Usually this transition state can complete in a few seconds. The same sequence occurs when a patch is disabled, except the tasks converge from the patched state to the unpatched state. An interrupt handler inherits the patched state of the task it interrupts. The same is true for forked tasks: the child inherits the patched state of the parent. Livepatch uses several complementary approaches to determine when it's safe to patch tasks: 1. The first and most effective approach is stack checking of sleeping tasks. If no affected functions are on the stack of a given task, the task is patched. In most cases this will patch most or all of the tasks on the first try. Otherwise it'll keep trying periodically. This option is only available if the architecture has reliable stacks (HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE). 2. The second approach, if needed, is kernel exit switching. A task is switched when it returns to user space from a system call, a user space IRQ, or a signal. It's useful in the following cases: a) Patching I/O-bound user tasks which are sleeping on an affected function. In this case you have to send SIGSTOP and SIGCONT to force it to exit the kernel and be patched. b) Patching CPU-bound user tasks. If the task is highly CPU-bound then it will get patched the next time it gets interrupted by an IRQ. c) In the future it could be useful for applying patches for architectures which don't yet have HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE. In this case you would have to signal most of the tasks on the system. However this isn't supported yet because there's currently no way to patch kthreads without HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE. 3. For idle "swapper" tasks, since they don't ever exit the kernel, they instead have a klp_update_patch_state() call in the idle loop which allows them to be patched before the CPU enters the idle state. (Note there's not yet such an approach for kthreads.) All the above approaches may be skipped by setting the 'immediate' flag in the 'klp_patch' struct, which will disable per-task consistency and patch all tasks immediately. This can be useful if the patch doesn't change any function or data semantics. Note that, even with this flag set, it's possible that some tasks may still be running with an old version of the function, until that function returns. There's also an 'immediate' flag in the 'klp_func' struct which allows you to specify that certain functions in the patch can be applied without per-task consistency. This might be useful if you want to patch a common function like schedule(), and the function change doesn't need consistency but the rest of the patch does. For architectures which don't have HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE, the user must set patch->immediate which causes all tasks to be patched immediately. This option should be used with care, only when the patch doesn't change any function or data semantics. In the future, architectures which don't have HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE may be allowed to use per-task consistency if we can come up with another way to patch kthreads. The /sys/kernel/livepatch/<patch>/transition file shows whether a patch is in transition. Only a single patch (the topmost patch on the stack) can be in transition at a given time. A patch can remain in transition indefinitely, if any of the tasks are stuck in the initial patch state. A transition can be reversed and effectively canceled by writing the opposite value to the /sys/kernel/livepatch/<patch>/enabled file while the transition is in progress. Then all the tasks will attempt to converge back to the original patch state. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141107140458.GA21774@suse.czSigned-off-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Acked-by: NMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> # for the scheduler changes Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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- 03 3月, 2017 25 次提交
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
Now that <linux/sched.h> dependencies have been sorted out, do various trivial cleanups: - remove unnecessary structure predeclarations - fix various typos - update comments where necessary - remove pointless comments - use consistent types - tabulate consistently - use a consistent comment style - clean up the header section a bit - use a consistent style of a single field per line - remove line-breaks where they make the code look worse - etc ... No change in functionality. Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
We can remove two pairs of #ifdefs by defining structures in a smarter way. Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
It's used only by a single (rarely used) inline function (task_node(p)), which we can move to <linux/sched/topology.h>. ( Add <linux/nodemask.h>, because we rely on that. ) Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
It's not used by any of the scheduler methods, but <linux/sched/task_stack.h> needs it to pick up STACK_END_MAGIC. Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
prefetch_stack() is defined by IA64, but not actually used anywhere anymore. Remove it. Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
We don't actually need the full rculist.h header anymore, include the smaller rcupdate.h header instead. Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
pid.h already defines it. Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
Instead of including the full <linux/signal.h>, only include the types-only <linux/signal_types.h> header in <linux/sched.h>, to further decouple the scheduler header from the signal headers. Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
This is a stray header that is not needed by anything in sched.h, so remove it. Update files that relied on the stray inclusion. This reduces the size of the header dependency graph. Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
Remove the runqueue_is_locked() prototype, the function does not exist anymore. Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
This reduces sched.h header dependencies. Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
This reduces header dependencies. Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
This reduces header dependencies. Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
This reduces header dependencies and speeds up the build. Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
It's not used by anything in <linux/sched.h> anymore. This reduces the preprocessed size of <linux/sched.h> and speeds up the build a bit. Also fix code that implicitly relied on headers included by <linux/cgroup-defs.h>. Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
The <linux/sched.h> header does not actually make use of any types or APIs defined in <linux/capability.h>, so remove its inclusion. Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
The function does not exist anymore. Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
sched_exec() better fits into the task lifetime APIs than into the core scheduler APIs. This reduces the size of <linux/sched.h> a bit. Acked-by: NLinus 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: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
sched/headers: Move the get_task_struct()/put_task_struct() and related APIs from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/task.h> These belong into the task lifetime API header. Acked-by: NLinus 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: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
sched/headers, mm: Move 'struct tlbflush_unmap_batch' from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/mm_types_task.h> Unclutter <linux/sched.h> some more. Also move the CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH condition inside the structure body definition, to remove a pair of #ifdefs from sched.h. Acked-by: NLinus 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: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
Move the update_process_times() and xtime_update() prototypes to <linux/timekeeping.h>. Acked-by: NLinus 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: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
trap_init() and cpu_init() belong into <linux/cpu.h>, sched_init*() into <linux/sched/init.h>. Acked-by: NLinus 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: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
These two functions are task management related, not core scheduler APIs. Acked-by: NLinus 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: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
This is a task-stack related API, not core scheduler functionality. Acked-by: NLinus 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: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
sched/headers, vfs/execve: Move the do_execve*() prototypes from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/binfmts.h> These are not scheduler related. Acked-by: NLinus 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: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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