Skip to content

L
linux
Switch branch/tag
  1. 09 Feb, 2017 1 commit
  3. 30 Jan, 2017 1 commit
  5. 20 Jan, 2017 1 commit
    • Lv Zheng's avatar
      ACPICA: Tables: Fix hidden logic related to acpi_tb_install_standard_table() · 7a37052a
      Lv Zheng authored 
      There is a hidden logic for acpi_tb_install_standard_table() as it can be
invoked from the boot stage and during runtime.

 1. When it is invoked from the OS boot stage, the ACPICA mutex may not have
    been initialized yet and so acpi_ut_acquire_mutex()/acpi_ut_release_mutex()
    are not invoked in these code paths:

   acpi_initialize_tables
     acpi_tb_parse_root_table
       acpi_tb_install_standard_table (4 invocations)
   acpi_install_table
       acpi_tb_install_standard_table

 2. When it is invoked during the runtime, ACPICA mutex is used as
    appropriate:

   acpi_ex_load_op
     acpi_tb_install_and_load_table
       acpi_tb_install_standard_table
   acpi_load_table
     acpi_tb_install_and_load_table
       acpi_tb_install_standard_table

The mutex is now used in acpi_tb_install_and_load_table(), while it actually
should be in acpi_tb_install_standard_table().

This introduces another problem in acpi_tb_install_standard_table() where
acpi_gbl_table_handler is invoked from and the lock contexts are thus not
consistent for the table handlers. This triggers a regression when
acpi_get_table()/acpi_put_table() start to hold table mutex during runtime.

The regression is noticed by LKP as new errors reported by ACPICA mutex
debugging facility.

[    2.043693] ACPI Error: Mutex [ACPI_MTX_Tables] already acquired by this thread [497483776] (20160930/utmutex-254)
[    2.054084] ACPI Error: Mutex [0x2] is not acquired, cannot release (20160930/utmutex-326)

And it triggers a deadlock:

[  247.066214] INFO: task swapper/0:1 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
...
[  247.091271] Call Trace:
...
[  247.121523]  down_timeout+0x47/0x50
[  247.125065]  acpi_os_wait_semaphore+0x47/0x62
[  247.129475]  acpi_ut_acquire_mutex+0x43/0x81
[  247.133798]  acpi_get_table+0x2d/0x84
[  247.137513]  acpi_table_attr_init+0xcd/0x100
[  247.146590]  acpi_sysfs_table_handler+0x5d/0xb8
[  247.151174]  acpi_bus_table_handler+0x23/0x2a
[  247.155583]  acpi_tb_install_standard_table+0xe0/0x213
[  247.164489]  acpi_tb_install_and_load_table+0x3a/0x82
[  247.169592]  acpi_ex_load_op+0x194/0x201
...
[  247.200108]  acpi_ns_evaluate+0x1bb/0x247
[  247.204170]  acpi_evaluate_object+0x178/0x274
[  247.213249]  acpi_processor_set_pdc+0x154/0x17b
...
The table mutex is held in acpi_tb_install_and_load_table() and is re-visited by
acpi_get_table().

Noticing that the early mutex requirement actually belongs to the OSL layer
and has already been handled in acpi_os_wait_semaphore()/acpi_os_signal_semaphore(),
the regression canbe fixed by removing this hidden logic from the ACPICA core
to the OS-specific code.

Fixes: 174cc718 ("ACPICA: Tables: Back port acpi_get_table_with_size() and early_acpi_os_unmap_memory() from Linux kernel")
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarTomi Sarvela <tomi.p.sarvela@intel.com>
Reported-by: default avatarYe Xiaolong <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
      7a37052a
  7. 05 Jan, 2017 5 commits
  9. 02 Jan, 2017 13 commits
  11. 01 Jan, 2017 2 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 4.10-rc2 · 0c744ea4
      Linus Torvalds authored
      0c744ea4
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm · 4759d386
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull DAX updates from Dan Williams:
 "The completion of Jan's DAX work for 4.10.

  As I mentioned in the libnvdimm-for-4.10 pull request, these are some
  final fixes for the DAX dirty-cacheline-tracking invalidation work
  that was merged through the -mm, ext4, and xfs trees in -rc1. These
  patches were prepared prior to the merge window, but we waited for
  4.10-rc1 to have a stable merge base after all the prerequisites were
  merged.

  Quoting Jan on the overall changes in these patches:

     "So I'd like all these 6 patches to go for rc2. The first three
      patches fix invalidation of exceptional DAX entries (a bug which
      is there for a long time) - without these patches data loss can
      occur on power failure even though user called fsync(2). The other
      three patches change locking of DAX faults so that ->iomap_begin()
      is called in a more relaxed locking context and we are safe to
      start a transaction there for ext4"

  These have received a build success notification from the kbuild
  robot, and pass the latest libnvdimm unit tests. There have not been
  any -next releases since -rc1, so they have not appeared there"

* 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  ext4: Simplify DAX fault path
  dax: Call ->iomap_begin without entry lock during dax fault
  dax: Finish fault completely when loading holes
  dax: Avoid page invalidation races and unnecessary radix tree traversals
  mm: Invalidate DAX radix tree entries only if appropriate
  ext2: Return BH_New buffers for zeroed blocks
      4759d386
  13. 30 Dec, 2016 2 commits
  15. 29 Dec, 2016 2 commits
    • Olof Johansson's avatar
      mm/filemap: fix parameters to test_bit() · 98473f9f
      Olof Johansson authored 
       mm/filemap.c: In function 'clear_bit_unlock_is_negative_byte':
  mm/filemap.c:933:9: error: too few arguments to function 'test_bit'
    return test_bit(PG_waiters);
         ^~~~~~~~

Fixes: b91e1302 ('mm: optimize PageWaiters bit use for unlock_page()')
Signed-off-by: default avatarOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Brown-paper-bag-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <dummy@duh.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      98473f9f
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      mm: optimize PageWaiters bit use for unlock_page() · b91e1302
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      In commit 62906027 ("mm: add PageWaiters indicating tasks are
waiting for a page bit") Nick Piggin made our page locking no longer
unconditionally touch the hashed page waitqueue, which not only helps
performance in general, but is particularly helpful on NUMA machines
where the hashed wait queues can bounce around a lot.

However, the "clear lock bit atomically and then test the waiters bit"
sequence turns out to be much more expensive than it needs to be,
because you get a nasty stall when trying to access the same word that
just got updated atomically.

On architectures where locking is done with LL/SC, this would be trivial
to fix with a new primitive that clears one bit and tests another
atomically, but that ends up not working on x86, where the only atomic
operations that return the result end up being cmpxchg and xadd.  The
atomic bit operations return the old value of the same bit we changed,
not the value of an unrelated bit.

On x86, we could put the lock bit in the high bit of the byte, and use
"xadd" with that bit (where the overflow ends up not touching other
bits), and look at the other bits of the result.  However, an even
simpler model is to just use a regular atomic "and" to clear the lock
bit, and then the sign bit in eflags will indicate the resulting state
of the unrelated bit #7.

So by moving the PageWaiters bit up to bit #7, we can atomically clear
the lock bit and test the waiters bit on x86 too.  And architectures
with LL/SC (which is all the usual RISC suspects), the particular bit
doesn't matter, so they are fine with this approach too.

This avoids the extra access to the same atomic word, and thus avoids
the costly stall at page unlock time.

The only downside is that the interface ends up being a bit odd and
specialized: clear a bit in a byte, and test the sign bit.  Nick doesn't
love the resulting name of the new primitive, but I'd rather make the
name be descriptive and very clear about the limitation imposed by
trying to work across all relevant architectures than make it be some
generic thing that doesn't make the odd semantics explicit.

So this introduces the new architecture primitive

    clear_bit_unlock_is_negative_byte();

and adds the trivial implementation for x86.  We have a generic
non-optimized fallback (that just does a "clear_bit()"+"test_bit(7)"
combination) which can be overridden by any architecture that can do
better.  According to Nick, Power has the same hickup x86 has, for
example, but some other architectures may not even care.

All these optimizations mean that my page locking stress-test (which is
just executing a lot of small short-lived shell scripts: "make test" in
the git source tree) no longer makes our page locking look horribly bad.
Before all these optimizations, just the unlock_page() costs were just
over 3% of all CPU overhead on "make test".  After this, it's down to
0.66%, so just a quarter of the cost it used to be.

(The difference on NUMA is bigger, but there this micro-optimization is
likely less noticeable, since the big issue on NUMA was not the accesses
to 'struct page', but the waitqueue accesses that were already removed
by Nick's earlier commit).
Acked-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b91e1302
  17. 28 Dec, 2016 2 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 · 2d706e79
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull crypto fix from Herbert Xu:
 "This fixes a hash corruption bug in the marvell driver"

* 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6:
  crypto: marvell - Copy IVDIG before launching partial DMA ahash requests
      2d706e79
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net · 8f18e4d0
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Various ipvlan fixes from Eric Dumazet and Mahesh Bandewar.

    The most important is to not assume the packet is RX just because
    the destination address matches that of the device. Such an
    assumption causes problems when an interface is put into loopback
    mode.

 2) If we retry when creating a new tc entry (because we dropped the
    RTNL mutex in order to load a module, for example) we end up with
    -EAGAIN and then loop trying to replay the request. But we didn't
    reset some state when looping back to the top like this, and if
    another thread meanwhile inserted the same tc entry we were trying
    to, we re-link it creating an enless loop in the tc chain. Fix from
    Daniel Borkmann.

 3) There are two different WRITE bits in the MDIO address register for
    the stmmac chip, depending upon the chip variant. Due to a bug we
    could set them both, fix from Hock Leong Kweh.

 4) Fix mlx4 bug in XDP_TX handling, from Tariq Toukan.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net:
  net: stmmac: fix incorrect bit set in gmac4 mdio addr register
  r8169: add support for RTL8168 series add-on card.
  net: xdp: remove unused bfp_warn_invalid_xdp_buffer()
  openvswitch: upcall: Fix vlan handling.
  ipv4: Namespaceify tcp_tw_reuse knob
  net: korina: Fix NAPI versus resources freeing
  net, sched: fix soft lockup in tc_classify
  net/mlx4_en: Fix user prio field in XDP forward
  tipc: don't send FIN message from connectionless socket
  ipvlan: fix multicast processing
  ipvlan: fix various issues in ipvlan_process_multicast()
      8f18e4d0
  19. 27 Dec, 2016 11 commits
GitLab Nexedi Edition | About GitLab | About Nexedi | 沪ICP备2021021310号-2 | 沪ICP备2021021310号-7