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11 years agoblock, aio: batch completion for bios/kiocbs
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:17 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
block, aio: batch completion for bios/kiocbs

When completing a kiocb, there's some fixed overhead from touching the
kioctx's ring buffer the kiocb belongs to.  Some newer high end block
devices can complete multiple IOs per interrupt, much like many network
interfaces have been for some time.

This plumbs through infrastructure so we can take advantage of multiple
completions at the interrupt level, and complete multiple kiocbs at the
same time.

Drivers have to be converted to take advantage of this, but it's a simple
change and the next patches will convert a few drivers.

To use it, an interrupt handler (or any code that completes bios or
requests) declares and initializes a struct batch_complete:

struct batch_complete batch;
batch_complete_init(&batch);

Then, instead of calling bio_endio(), it calls
bio_endio_batch(bio, err, &batch). This just adds the bio to a list in
the batch_complete.

At the end, it calls

batch_complete(&batch);

This completes all the bios all at once, building up a list of kiocbs;
then the list of kiocbs are completed all at once.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/aio.c needs bio.h, move bio_endio_batch() declaration somewhere rational]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[minchan@kernel.org: fix build error due to bio_endio_batch]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix tracepoint in batch_complete()]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoblock-prep-work-for-batch-completion-checkpatch-fixes
Andrew Morton [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:17 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
block-prep-work-for-batch-completion-checkpatch-fixes

WARNING: line over 80 characters
#116: FILE: drivers/block/drbd/drbd_bitmap.c:940:
+static void bm_async_io_complete(struct bio *bio, int error, struct batch_complete *batch)

WARNING: line over 80 characters
#128: FILE: drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c:67:
+void drbd_md_io_complete(struct bio *bio, int error, struct batch_complete *batch)

WARNING: line over 80 characters
#137: FILE: drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c:169:
+void drbd_peer_request_endio(struct bio *bio, int error, struct batch_complete *batch)

WARNING: line over 80 characters
#146: FILE: drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c:205:
+void drbd_request_endio(struct bio *bio, int error, struct batch_complete *batch)

ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar"
#562: FILE: drivers/md/raid5.c:1743:
+static void raid5_end_read_request(struct bio * bi, int error,

WARNING: line over 80 characters
#946: FILE: fs/btrfs/volumes.c:5021:
+static void btrfs_end_bio(struct bio *bio, int err, struct batch_complete *batch)

WARNING: Avoid CamelCase: <lbmIODone>
#1087: FILE: fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c:2157:
+ lbmIODone(bio, 0, NULL);

total: 1 errors, 6 warnings, 1037 lines checked

./patches/block-prep-work-for-batch-completion.patch has style problems, please review.

If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.

Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches

Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoblock: prep work for batch completion
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:17 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
block: prep work for batch completion

Add a struct batch_complete * argument to bi_end_io; infrastructure to
make use of it comes in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio-kill-ki_retry-checkpatch-fixes
Andrew Morton [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:16 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio-kill-ki_retry-checkpatch-fixes

WARNING: line over 80 characters
#307: FILE: fs/aio.c:1164:
+      ret == -ERESTARTNOHAND || ret == -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK))

total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 344 lines checked

./patches/aio-kill-ki_retry.patch has style problems, please review.

If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.

Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches

Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: kill ki_retry
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:16 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: kill ki_retry

Thanks to Zach Brown's work to rip out the retry infrastructure, we don't
need this anymore - ki_retry was only called right after the kiocb was
initialized.

This also refactors and trims some duplicated code, as well as cleaning up
the refcounting/error handling a bit.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use fmode_t in aio_run_iocb()]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: kill ki_key
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:16 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: kill ki_key

ki_key wasn't actually used for anything previously - it was always 0.
Drop it to trim struct kiocb a bit.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: don't include aio.h in sched.h
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:15 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h

Faster kernel compiles by way of fewer unnecessary includes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallout]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: use xchg() instead of completion_lock
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:15 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: use xchg() instead of completion_lock

So, for sticking kiocb completions on the kioctx ringbuffer, we need a
lock - it unfortunately can't be lockless.

When the kioctx is shared between threads on different cpus and the rate
of completions is high, this lock sees quite a bit of contention - in
terms of cacheline contention it's the hottest thing in the aio subsystem.

That means, with a regular spinlock, we're going to take a cache miss to
grab the lock, then another cache miss when we touch the data the lock
protects - if it's on the same cacheline as the lock, other cpus spinning
on the lock are going to be pulling it out from under us as we're using
it.

So, we use an old trick to get rid of this second forced cache miss - make
the data the lock protects be the lock itself, so we grab them both at
once.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: percpu ioctx refcount
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:15 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: percpu ioctx refcount

This just converts the ioctx refcount to the new generic dynamic percpu
refcount code.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agogeneric-dynamic-per-cpu-refcounting-checkpatch-fixes
Andrew Morton [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:14 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
generic-dynamic-per-cpu-refcounting-checkpatch-fixes

WARNING: line over 80 characters
#401: FILE: lib/percpu-refcount.c:215:
+ count += *per_cpu_ptr((unsigned __percpu *) pcpu_count, cpu);

total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 365 lines checked

./patches/generic-dynamic-per-cpu-refcounting.patch has style problems, please review.

If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.

Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches

Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agogeneric dynamic per cpu refcounting
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:14 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
generic dynamic per cpu refcounting

This implements a refcount with similar semantics to
atomic_get()/atomic_dec_and_test(), that starts out as just an atomic_t
but dynamically switches to per cpu refcounting when the rate of gets/puts
becomes too high.

It also implements two stage shutdown, as we need it to tear down the
percpu counts.  Before dropping the initial refcount, you must call
percpu_ref_kill(); this puts the refcount in "shutting down mode" and
switches back to a single atomic refcount with the appropriate barriers
(synchronize_rcu()).

It's also legal to call percpu_ref_kill() multiple times - it only returns
true once, so callers don't have to reimplement shutdown synchronization.

For the sake of simplicity/efficiency, the heuristic is pretty simple - it
just switches to percpu refcounting if there are more than x gets in one
second (completely arbitrarily, 4096).

It'd be more correct to count the number of cache misses or something else
more profile driven, but doing so would require accessing the shared ref
twice per get - by just counting the number of gets(), we can stick that
counter in the high bits of the refcount and increment both with a single
atomic64_add().  But I expect this'll be good enough in practice.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style tweak]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: percpu reqs_available
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:14 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: percpu reqs_available

See the previous patch ("aio: reqs_active -> reqs_available") for why we
want to do this - this basically implements a per cpu allocator for
reqs_available that doesn't actually allocate anything.

Note that we need to increase the size of the ringbuffer we allocate,
since a single thread won't necessarily be able to use all the
reqs_available slots - some (up to about half) might be on other per cpu
lists, unavailable for the current thread.

We size the ringbuffer based on the nr_events userspace passed to
io_setup(), so this is a slight behaviour change - but nr_events wasn't
being used as a hard limit before, it was being rounded up to the next
page before so this doesn't change the actual semantics.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: reqs_active -> reqs_available
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:14 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: reqs_active -> reqs_available

The number of outstanding kiocbs is one of the few shared things left that
has to be touched for every kiocb - it'd be nice to make it percpu.

We can make it per cpu by treating it like an allocation problem: we have
a maximum number of kiocbs that can be outstanding (i.e.  slots) - then we
just allocate and free slots, and we know how to write per cpu allocators.

So as prep work for that, we convert reqs_active to reqs_available.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: give shared kioctx fields their own cachelines
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:13 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: give shared kioctx fields their own cachelines

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make reqs_active __cacheline_aligned_in_smp]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: kill struct aio_ring_info
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:13 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: kill struct aio_ring_info

struct aio_ring_info was kind of odd, the only place it's used is where
it's embedded in struct kioctx - there's no real need for it.

The next patch rearranges struct kioctx and puts various things on their
own cachelines - getting rid of struct aio_ring_info now makes that
reordering a bit clearer.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: kill batch allocation
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:13 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: kill batch allocation

Previously, allocating a kiocb required touching quite a few global (well,
per kioctx) cachelines...  so batching up allocation to amortize those was
worthwhile.  But we've gotten rid of some of those, and in another couple
of patches kiocb allocation won't require writing to any shared
cachelines, so that means we can just rip this code out.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: change reqs_active to include unreaped completions
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:12 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: change reqs_active to include unreaped completions

The aio code tries really hard to avoid having to deal with the completion
ringbuffer overflowing.  To do that, it has to keep track of the number of
outstanding kiocbs, and the number of completions currently in the
ringbuffer - and it's got to check that every time we allocate a kiocb.
Ouch.

But - we can improve this quite a bit if we just change reqs_active to
mean "number of outstanding requests and unreaped completions" - that
means kiocb allocation doesn't have to look at the ringbuffer, which is a
fairly significant win.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: use cancellation list lazily
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:12 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: use cancellation list lazily

Cancelling kiocbs requires adding them to a per kioctx linked list, which
is one of the few things we need to take the kioctx lock for in the fast
path.  But most kiocbs can't be cancelled - so if we just do this lazily,
we can avoid quite a bit of locking overhead.

While we're at it, instead of using a flag bit switch to using ki_cancel
itself to indicate that a kiocb has been cancelled/completed.  This lets
us get rid of ki_flags entirely.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove buggy BUG()]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: use flush_dcache_page()
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:12 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: use flush_dcache_page()

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio-make-aio_read_evt-more-efficient-convert-to-hrtimers-checkpatch-fixes
Andrew Morton [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:12 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio-make-aio_read_evt-more-efficient-convert-to-hrtimers-checkpatch-fixes

WARNING: line over 80 characters
#97: FILE: fs/aio.c:775:
+ long avail = (head <= info->tail ? info->tail : info->nr) - head;

WARNING: line over 80 characters
#106: FILE: fs/aio.c:784:
+       ((head + AIO_EVENTS_OFFSET) % AIO_EVENTS_PER_PAGE));

WARNING: line over 80 characters
#113: FILE: fs/aio.c:791:
+ copy_ret = copy_to_user(event + ret, ev + pos, sizeof(*ev) * avail);

total: 0 errors, 3 warnings, 288 lines checked

./patches/aio-make-aio_read_evt-more-efficient-convert-to-hrtimers.patch has style problems, please review.

If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.

Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches

Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: make aio_read_evt() more efficient, convert to hrtimers
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:11 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: make aio_read_evt() more efficient, convert to hrtimers

Previously, aio_read_event() pulled a single completion off the ringbuffer
at a time, locking and unlocking each time.  Change it to pull off as many
events as it can at a time, and copy them directly to userspace.

This also fixes a bug where if copying the event to userspace failed,
we'd lose the event.

Also convert it to wait_event_interruptible_hrtimeout(), which
simplifies it quite a bit.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agowait: add wait_event_hrtimeout()
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:11 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
wait: add wait_event_hrtimeout()

Analagous to wait_event_timeout() and friends, this adds
wait_event_hrtimeout() and wait_event_interruptible_hrtimeout().

Note that unlike the versions that use regular timers, these don't return
the amount of time remaining when they return - instead, they return 0 or
-ETIME if they timed out.  because I was uncomfortable with the semantics
of doing it the other way (that I could get it right, anyways).

If the timer expires, there's no real guarantee that expire_time -
current_time would be <= 0 - due to timer slack certainly, and I'm not
sure I want to know the implications of the different clock bases in
hrtimers.

If the timer does expire and the code calculates that the time remaining
is nonnegative, that could be even worse if the calling code then reuses
that timeout.  Probably safer to just return 0 then, but I could imagine
weird bugs or at least unintended behaviour arising from that too.

I came to the conclusion that if other users end up actually needing the
amount of time remaining, the sanest thing to do would be to create a
version that uses absolute timeouts instead of relative.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix description of `timeout' arg]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio-refcounting-cleanup-checkpatch-fixes
Andrew Morton [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:11 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio-refcounting-cleanup-checkpatch-fixes

ERROR: space required before the open brace '{'
#330: FILE: fs/aio.c:632:
+ if (ctx->user_id == ctx_id){

total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 395 lines checked

./patches/aio-refcounting-cleanup.patch has style problems, please review.

If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.

Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches

Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: refcounting cleanup
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:11 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: refcounting cleanup

The usage of ctx->dead was fubar - it makes no sense to explicitly check
it all over the place, especially when we're already using RCU.

Now, ctx->dead only indicates whether we've dropped the initial
refcount. The new teardown sequence is:
set ctx->dead
hlist_del_rcu();
synchronize_rcu();

Now we know no system calls can take a new ref, and it's safe to drop
the initial ref:
put_ioctx();

We also need to ensure there are no more outstanding kiocbs.  This was
done incorrectly - it was being done in kill_ctx(), and before dropping
the initial refcount.  At this point, other syscalls may still be
submitting kiocbs!

Now, we cancel and wait for outstanding kiocbs in free_ioctx(), after
kioctx->users has dropped to 0 and we know no more iocbs could be
submitted.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio-make-aio_put_req-lockless-checkpatch-fixes
Andrew Morton [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:10 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio-make-aio_put_req-lockless-checkpatch-fixes

WARNING: line over 80 characters
#160: FILE: fs/aio.c:548:
+ avail = aio_ring_avail(&ctx->ring_info, ring) - atomic_read(&ctx->reqs_active);

total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 224 lines checked

./patches/aio-make-aio_put_req-lockless.patch has style problems, please review.

If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.

Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches

Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: make aio_put_req() lockless
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:10 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: make aio_put_req() lockless

Freeing a kiocb needed to touch the kioctx for three things:

 * Pull it off the reqs_active list
 * Decrementing reqs_active
 * Issuing a wakeup, if the kioctx was in the process of being freed.

This patch moves these to aio_complete(), for a couple reasons:

 * aio_complete() already has to issue the wakeup, so if we drop the
   kioctx refcount before aio_complete does its wakeup we don't have to
   do it twice.
 * aio_complete currently has to take the kioctx lock, so it makes sense
   for it to pull the kiocb off the reqs_active list too.
 * A later patch is going to change reqs_active to include unreaped
   completions - this will mean allocating a kiocb doesn't have to look
   at the ringbuffer. So taking the decrement of reqs_active out of
   kiocb_free() is useful prep work for that patch.

This doesn't really affect cancellation, since existing (usb) code that
implements a cancel function still calls aio_complete() - we just have
to make sure that aio_complete does the necessary teardown for cancelled
kiocbs.

It does affect code paths where we free kiocbs that were never
submitted; they need to decrement reqs_active and pull the kiocb off the
reqs_active list. This occurs in two places: kiocb_batch_free(), which
is going away in a later patch, and the error path in io_submit_one.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: do fget() after aio_get_req()
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:10 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: do fget() after aio_get_req()

aio_get_req() will fail if we have the maximum number of requests
outstanding, which depending on the application may not be uncommon.  So
avoid doing an unnecessary fget().

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: dprintk() -> pr_debug()
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:09 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: dprintk() -> pr_debug()

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: move private stuff out of aio.h
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:09 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: move private stuff out of aio.h

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: add kiocb_cancel()
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:09 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: add kiocb_cancel()

Minor refactoring, to get rid of some duplicated code

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: kill return value of aio_complete()
Kent Overstreet [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:09 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: kill return value of aio_complete()

Nothing used the return value, and it probably wasn't possible to use it
safely for the locked versions (aio_complete(), aio_put_req()).  Just kill
it.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Acked-by: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agochar: add aio_{read,write} to /dev/{null,zero}
Zach Brown [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:08 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
char: add aio_{read,write} to /dev/{null,zero}

These are handy for measuring the cost of the aio infrastructure with
operations that do very little and complete immediately.

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio-remove-retry-based-aio-checkpatch-fixes
Andrew Morton [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:08 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio-remove-retry-based-aio-checkpatch-fixes

WARNING: Avoid CamelCase: <kiocbIsCancelled>
#527: FILE: fs/aio.c:1289:
+ if (unlikely(kiocbIsCancelled(req))) {

WARNING: braces {} are not necessary for any arm of this statement
#527: FILE: fs/aio.c:1289:
+ if (unlikely(kiocbIsCancelled(req))) {
[...]
+ } else {
[...]

WARNING: line over 80 characters
#543: FILE: fs/aio.c:1300:
+      ret == -ERESTARTNOHAND || ret == -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK))

total: 0 errors, 3 warnings, 628 lines checked

./patches/aio-remove-retry-based-aio.patch has style problems, please review.

If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.

Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches

Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: remove retry-based AIO
Zach Brown [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:08 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: remove retry-based AIO

This removes the retry-based AIO infrastructure now that nothing in tree
is using it.

We want to remove retry-based AIO because it is fundemantally unsafe.  It
retries IO submission from a kernel thread that has only assumed the mm of
the submitting task.  All other task_struct references in the IO
submission path will see the kernel thread, not the submitting task.  This
design flaw means that nothing of any meaningful complexity can use
retry-based AIO.

This removes all the code and data associated with the retry machinery.
The most significant benefit of this is the removal of the locking around
the unused run list in the submission path.

This has only been compiled.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agogadget-remove-only-user-of-aio-retry-checkpatch-fixes
Andrew Morton [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:07 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
gadget-remove-only-user-of-aio-retry-checkpatch-fixes

WARNING: please, no space before tabs
#50: FILE: drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c:517:
+^Istruct kiocb ^I^I*iocb;$

WARNING: please, no space before tabs
#51: FILE: drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c:518:
+^Istruct mm_struct ^I*mm;$

total: 0 errors, 2 warnings, 107 lines checked

./patches/gadget-remove-only-user-of-aio-retry.patch has style problems, please review.

If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.

Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches

Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agogadget: remove only user of aio retry
Zach Brown [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:07 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
gadget: remove only user of aio retry

This removes the only in-tree user of aio retry.  This will let us remove
the retry code from the aio core.

Removing retry is relatively easy as the USB gadget wasn't using it to
retry IOs at all.  It always fully submitted the IO in the context of the
initial io_submit() call.  It only used the AIO retry facility to get the
submitter's mm context for copying the result of a read back to user
space.  This is easy to implement with use_mm() and a work struct, much
like kvm does with async_pf_execute() for get_user_pages().

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaio: remove dead code from aio.h
Zach Brown [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:07 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
aio: remove dead code from aio.h

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: remove old aio use_mm() comment
Zach Brown [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:07 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
mm: remove old aio use_mm() comment

use_mm() is used in more places than just aio.  There's no need to mention
callers when describing the function.

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agorelay: use macro PAGE_ALIGN instead of FIX_SIZE
zhangwei(Jovi) [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:06 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
relay: use macro PAGE_ALIGN instead of FIX_SIZE

Macro FIX_SIZE is same as PAGE_ALIGN at present, so use PAGE_ALIGN
instead.

Thanks Andrew found this.

Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agokernel/relay.c: move FIX_SIZE macro into relay.c
zhangwei(Jovi) [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:06 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
kernel/relay.c: move FIX_SIZE macro into relay.c

It's better to place FIX_SIZE macro in relay.c, instead of relay.h

Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agokernel/relay.c: remove unused function argument actor
zhangwei(Jovi) [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:06 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
kernel/relay.c: remove unused function argument actor

Currently argument `actor' is never used in the relay reading path, so
remove it.

Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agodrivers/memstick/host/r592.c: make r592_pm_ops static
Jingoo Han [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:05 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
drivers/memstick/host/r592.c: make r592_pm_ops static

r592_pm_ops is not exported. Also, CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is used to
remove unnecessary ifdefs.

Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agosemaphore: use `bool' type for semaphore_waiter's up
liguang [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:05 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
semaphore: use `bool' type for semaphore_waiter's up

Signed-off-by: liguang <lig.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agosemaphore: use unlikely() for down's timeout
liguang [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:05 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
semaphore: use unlikely() for down's timeout

Signed-off-by: liguang <lig.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoparport: use kmemdup instead of kmalloc + memcpy
Silviu-Mihai Popescu [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:04 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
parport: use kmemdup instead of kmalloc + memcpy

This replaces calls to kmalloc followed by memcpy with a single call to
kmemdup.  This was found via make coccicheck.

Signed-off-by: Silviu-Mihai Popescu <silviupopescu1990@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoremove unused random32() and srandom32()
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:04 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
remove unused random32() and srandom32()

After finishing a naming transition, remove unused backward
compatibility wrapper macros

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agonet: rename random32 to prandom
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:04 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
net: rename random32 to prandom

Commit 496f2f93b1cc286f5a4f4f9acdc1e5314978683f ("random32: rename
random32 to prandom") renamed random32() and srandom32() to prandom_u32()
and prandom_seed() respectively.

net_random() and net_srandom() need to be redefined with prandom_* in
order to finish the naming transition.

While I'm at it, enclose macro argument of net_srandom() with parenthesis.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agonet/core: remove duplicate statements by do-while loop
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:03 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
net/core: remove duplicate statements by do-while loop

Remove duplicate statements by using do-while loop instead of while loop.

- A;
- while (e) {
+ do {
A;
- }
+ } while (e);

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agonet/core: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:03 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
net/core: rename random32() to prandom_u32()

Use preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random
number generator.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agonet/netfilter: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:03 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
net/netfilter: rename random32() to prandom_u32()

Use preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random
number generator.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agonet/sched: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:03 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
net/sched: rename random32() to prandom_u32()

Use preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random
number generator.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agonet/sunrpc: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:02 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
net/sunrpc: rename random32() to prandom_u32()

Use preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random
number generator.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agodrivers-net-rename-random32-to-prandom_u32-fix
Andrew Morton [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:02 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
drivers-net-rename-random32-to-prandom_u32-fix

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agodrivers/net: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:02 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
drivers/net: rename random32() to prandom_u32()

Use preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random
number generator.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Sailer <t.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch>
Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> [mwifiex]
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Cc: Thomas Sailer <t.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch>
Cc: Jean-Paul Roubelat <jpr@f6fbb.org>
Cc: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Cc: Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com>
Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: "Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Cc: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoscsi: fix the wrong position of the comment
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:02 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
scsi: fix the wrong position of the comment

This fixes the wrong position of the comment introduced by
scsi-rename-random32-to-prandom_u32.patch in the -mm tree.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoscsi: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:01 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
scsi: rename random32() to prandom_u32()

Use preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random
number generator.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com>
Cc: James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>
Cc: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agolguest: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:01 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
lguest: rename random32() to prandom_u32()

Use preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random
number generator.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agouwb: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:01 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
uwb: rename random32() to prandom_u32()

Use preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random
number generator.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agovideo/uvesafb: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:00 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
video/uvesafb: rename random32() to prandom_u32()

Use preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random
number generator.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agommc: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:00 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
mmc: rename random32() to prandom_u32()

Use preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random
number generator.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoinfiniband: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:00 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
infiniband: rename random32() to prandom_u32()

Use preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random
number generator.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>
Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agodrbd: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:33:00 +0000 (13:33 +1100)]
drbd: rename random32() to prandom_u32()

Use preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random
number generator.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agokernel/: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:59 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
kernel/: rename random32() to prandom_u32()

Use preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random
number generator.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm/: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:59 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
mm/: rename random32() to prandom_u32()

Use preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random
number generator.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agolib/: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:59 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
lib/: rename random32() to prandom_u32()

Use preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random
number generator.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agox86: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:58 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
x86: rename random32() to prandom_u32()

Use preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random
number generator.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agox86: pageattr-test: remove srandom32 call
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:58 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
x86: pageattr-test: remove srandom32 call

pageattr-test calls srandom32() once every test iteration.  But calling
srandom32() after late_initcalls is not meaningfull.  Because the random
states for random32() is mixed by good random numbers in late_initcall
prandom_reseed().

So this removes the call to srandom32().

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agouuid: use prandom_bytes()
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:58 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
uuid: use prandom_bytes()

Use prandom_bytes() to generate 16 bytes of pseudo-random bytes.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoraid6test: use prandom_bytes()
Akinobu Mita [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:58 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
raid6test: use prandom_bytes()

Use prandom_bytes() to generate random bytes for test data.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <djbw@fb.com>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoaoe: replace kmalloc and then memcpy with kmemdup
Mihnea Dobrescu-Balaur [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:57 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
aoe: replace kmalloc and then memcpy with kmemdup

Signed-off-by: Mihnea Dobrescu-Balaur <mihneadb@gmail.com>
Cc: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agopid_namespacec-h-simplify-defines-fix
Andrew Morton [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:57 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
pid_namespacec-h-simplify-defines-fix

kernel/pid.c:54:1: warning: "BITS_PER_PAGE" redefined

Cc: Raphael S.Carvalho <raphael.scarv@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agopid_namespace.c/.h: simplify defines
Raphael S.Carvalho [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:57 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
pid_namespace.c/.h: simplify defines

Move BITS_PER_PAGE from pid_namespace.c to pid_namespace.h, since we can
simplify the define PID_MAP_ENTRIES by using the BITS_PER_PAGE.

Signed-off-by: Raphael S.Carvalho <raphael.scarv@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agokernel-pidc-improve-flow-of-a-loop-inside-alloc_pidmap-fix
Andrew Morton [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:56 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
kernel-pidc-improve-flow-of-a-loop-inside-alloc_pidmap-fix

simplify code

Cc: Raphael S. Carvalho <raphael.scarv@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agokernel/pid.c: improve flow of a loop inside alloc_pidmap.
Raphael S. Carvalho [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:56 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
kernel/pid.c: improve flow of a loop inside alloc_pidmap.

find_next_offset() searches for an available "cleaned bit" in the
respective pid bitmap (page), so returns the offset if found, otherwise it
returns a value equals to BITS_PER_PAGE.

For example, suppose find_next_offset didn't find any available bit, so
there's no purpose to call mk_pid (Wasteful Cpu Cycles).

Therefore, I found it could be better to call mk_pid after the checking
(offset < BITS_PER_PAGE) returned sucessfully!  Another point: If (offset
< BITS_PER_PAGE) results in a "failure", then mk_pid would be called again
afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Raphael S. Carvalho <raphael.scarv@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoipc/sem.c: alternatives to preempt_disable()
Manfred Spraul [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:56 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
ipc/sem.c: alternatives to preempt_disable()

ipc/sem.c uses a custom wakeup scheme that relies on preempt_disable().
On -RT, this causes increased latencies and debug warnings.

The patch adds two additional schemes:
- one built around a completion - could be better for -RT kernels
- one built around a spinlock - unfortunately it's broken
- and the current one

My preferred solution would be the spinlock implementation: RT would use
premptible spinlocks, mainline normal spinlocks.  Thus both get the
optimal implementation without any special code in ipc/sem.c.
Unfortunately, I don't see how it could be fixed.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoipc,sem: fine grained locking for semtimedop
Rik van Riel [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:55 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
ipc,sem: fine grained locking for semtimedop

Introduce finer grained locking for semtimedop, to handle the common case
of a program wanting to manipulate one semaphore from an array with
multiple semaphores.

If the call is a semop manipulating just one semaphore in an array with
multiple semaphores, only take the lock for that semaphore itself.

If the call needs to manipulate multiple semaphores, or another caller is
in a transaction that manipulates multiple semaphores, the sem_array lock
is taken, as well as all the locks for the individual semaphores.

On a 24 CPU system, performance numbers with the semop-multi
test with N threads and N semaphores, look like this:

vanilla Davidlohr's Davidlohr's + Davidlohr's +
threads patches rwlock patches v3 patches
10 610652 726325 1783589 2142206
20 341570 365699 1520453 1977878
30 288102 307037 1498167 2037995
40 290714 305955 1612665 2256484
50 288620 312890 1733453 2650292
60 289987 306043 1649360 2388008
70 291298 306347 1723167 2717486
80 290948 305662 1729545 2763582
90 290996 306680 1736021 2757524
100 292243 306700 1773700 3059159

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Cc: Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoipc,sem: have only one list in struct sem_queue
Rik van Riel [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:55 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
ipc,sem: have only one list in struct sem_queue

Having only one list in struct sem_queue, and only queueing simple
semaphore operations on the list for the semaphore involved, allows us to
introduce finer grained locking for semtimedop.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Cc: Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoipcsem-open-code-and-rename-sem_lock-fix
Andrew Morton [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:55 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
ipcsem-open-code-and-rename-sem_lock-fix

propagate the ipc_obtain_object() errno out of sem_obtain_lock()

Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoipc,sem: open code and rename sem_lock
Rik van Riel [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:54 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
ipc,sem: open code and rename sem_lock

Rename sem_lock() to sem_obtain_lock(), so we can introduce a sem_lock()
later that only locks the sem_array and does nothing else.

Open code the locking from ipc_lock() in sem_obtain_lock() so we can
introduce finer grained locking for the sem_array in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Cc: Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoipc,sem: do not hold ipc lock more than necessary
Davidlohr Bueso [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:54 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
ipc,sem: do not hold ipc lock more than necessary

Instead of holding the ipc lock for permissions and security checks, among
others, only acquire it when necessary.

Some numbers....

1) With Rik's semop-multi.c microbenchmark we can see the following
   results:

Baseline (3.9-rc1):
cpus 4, threads: 256, semaphores: 128, test duration: 30 secs
total operations: 151452270, ops/sec 5048409

+  59.40%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] _raw_spin_lock
+   6.14%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sys_semtimedop
+   3.84%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] avc_has_perm_flags
+   3.64%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __audit_syscall_exit
+   2.06%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] copy_user_enhanced_fast_string
+   1.86%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] ipc_lock

With this patchset:
cpus 4, threads: 256, semaphores: 128, test duration: 30 secs
total operations: 273156400, ops/sec 9105213

+  18.54%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] _raw_spin_lock
+  11.72%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sys_semtimedop
+   7.70%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] ipc_has_perm.isra.21
+   6.58%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] avc_has_perm_flags
+   6.54%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __audit_syscall_exit
+   4.71%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] ipc_obtain_object_check

2) While on an Oracle swingbench DSS (data mining) workload the
   improvements are not as exciting as with Rik's benchmark, we can see
   some positive numbers.  For an 8 socket machine the following are the
   percentages of %sys time incurred in the ipc lock:

Baseline (3.9-rc1):
100 swingbench users: 8,74%
400 swingbench users: 21,86%
800 swingbench users: 84,35%

With this patchset:
100 swingbench users: 8,11%
400 swingbench users: 19,93%
800 swingbench users: 77,69%

[riel@redhat.com: fix two locking bugs]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Acked-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoipc: introduce lockless pre_down ipcctl
Davidlohr Bueso [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:54 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
ipc: introduce lockless pre_down ipcctl

Various forms of ipc use ipcctl_pre_down() to retrieve an ipc object and
check permissions, mostly for IPC_RMID and IPC_SET commands.

Introduce ipcctl_pre_down_nolock(), a lockless version of this function.
The locking version is retained, yet modified to call the nolock version
without affecting its semantics, thus transparent to all ipc callers.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Cc: Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoipc-introduce-obtaining-a-lockless-ipc-object-fix
Andrew Morton [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:54 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
ipc-introduce-obtaining-a-lockless-ipc-object-fix

propagate the ipc_obtain_object() errno from ipc_lock()

Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoipc: introduce obtaining a lockless ipc object
Davidlohr Bueso [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:53 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
ipc: introduce obtaining a lockless ipc object

Through ipc_lock() and therefore ipc_lock_check() we currently return the
locked ipc object.  This is not necessary for all situations and can,
therefore, cause unnecessary ipc lock contention.

Introduce analogous ipc_obtain_object() and ipc_obtain_object_check()
functions that only lookup and return the ipc object.

Both these functions must be called within the RCU read critical section.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Acked-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoipc: remove bogus lock comment for ipc_checkid
Davidlohr Bueso [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:53 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
ipc: remove bogus lock comment for ipc_checkid

This series makes the sysv semaphore code more scalable, by reducing the
time the semaphore lock is held, and making the locking more scalable for
semaphore arrays with multiple semaphores.

The first four patches were written by Davidlohr Buesso, and reduce the
hold time of the semaphore lock.

The last three patches change the sysv semaphore code locking to be more
fine grained, providing a performance boost when multiple semaphores in a
semaphore array are being manipulated simultaneously.

On a 24 CPU system, performance numbers with the semop-multi
test with N threads and N semaphores, look like this:

vanilla Davidlohr's Davidlohr's + Davidlohr's +
threads patches rwlock patches v3 patches
10 610652 726325 1783589 2142206
20 341570 365699 1520453 1977878
30 288102 307037 1498167 2037995
40 290714 305955 1612665 2256484
50 288620 312890 1733453 2650292
60 289987 306043 1649360 2388008
70 291298 306347 1723167 2717486
80 290948 305662 1729545 2763582
90 290996 306680 1736021 2757524
100 292243 306700 1773700 3059159

This patch:

There is no reason to be holding the ipc lock while reading ipcp->seq,
hence remove misleading comment.

Also simplify the return value for the function.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Cc: Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoipc/msgutil.c: use linux/uaccess.h
HoSung Jung [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:53 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
ipc/msgutil.c: use linux/uaccess.h

Signed-off-by: HoSung Jung <rain6557@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoipc: find_msg can be static
Fengguang Wu [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:53 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
ipc: find_msg can be static

Fixes sparse warning identified by Fengguang's test robot:
   ipc/msg.c:810:16: sparse: symbol 'find_msg' was not declared. Should it be static?

Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoipc: refactor msg list search into separate function
Peter Hurley [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:52 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
ipc: refactor msg list search into separate function

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Acked-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoipc: simplify msg list search
Peter Hurley [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:52 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
ipc: simplify msg list search

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Acked-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoipc: implement MSG_COPY as a new receive mode
Peter Hurley [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:52 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
ipc: implement MSG_COPY as a new receive mode

Teach the helper routines about MSG_COPY so that msgtyp is preserved as
the message number to copy.

The security functions affected by this change were audited and no
additional changes are necessary.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Acked-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoipc: remove msg handling from queue scan
Peter Hurley [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:51 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
ipc: remove msg handling from queue scan

In preparation for refactoring the queue scan into a separate
function, relocate msg copying.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Acked-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoipc: set EFAULT as default error in load_msg()
Peter Hurley [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:51 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
ipc: set EFAULT as default error in load_msg()

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Acked-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoipc: tighten msg copy loops
Peter Hurley [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:51 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
ipc: tighten msg copy loops

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Acked-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoipc: separate msg allocation from userspace copy
Peter Hurley [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:51 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
ipc: separate msg allocation from userspace copy

Separating msg allocation enables single-block vmalloc
allocation instead.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Acked-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoipc: clamp with min()
Peter Hurley [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:50 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
ipc: clamp with min()

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Acked-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agokexec-use-min_t-to-simplify-logic-fix
Andrew Morton [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:50 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
kexec-use-min_t-to-simplify-logic-fix

replace min_t with min, remove unneeded casts

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agokexec: Use min() and min_t() to simplify logic
Zhang Yanfei [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:50 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
kexec: Use min() and min_t() to simplify logic

Simplify the logic of variable assignments.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agokexec: fix wrong types of some local variables
Zhang Yanfei [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:50 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
kexec: fix wrong types of some local variables

The types of the following local variables:

- ubytes/mbytes in kimage_load_crash_segment()/kimage_load_normal_segment()

- r in vmcoreinfo_append_str()

are wrong, so fix them.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoexec: do not abuse ->cred_guard_mutex in threadgroup_lock()
Oleg Nesterov [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:49 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
exec: do not abuse ->cred_guard_mutex in threadgroup_lock()

threadgroup_lock() takes signal->cred_guard_mutex to ensure that
thread_group_leader() is stable.  This doesn't look nice, the scope of
this lock in do_execve() is huge.

And as Dave pointed out this can lead to deadlock, we have the
following dependencies:

do_execve: cred_guard_mutex -> i_mutex
cgroup_mount: i_mutex -> cgroup_mutex
attach_task_by_pid: cgroup_mutex -> cred_guard_mutex

Change de_thread() to take threadgroup_change_begin() around the
switch-the-leader code and change threadgroup_lock() to avoid
->cred_guard_mutex.

Note that de_thread() can't sleep with ->group_rwsem held, this can
obviously deadlock with the exiting leader if the writer is active, so it
does threadgroup_change_end() before schedule().

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoset_task_comm: kill the pointless memset() + wmb()
Oleg Nesterov [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:49 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
set_task_comm: kill the pointless memset() + wmb()

set_task_comm() does memset() + wmb() before strlcpy().  This buys nothing
and to add to the confusion, the comment is wrong.

- We do not need memset() to be "safe from non-terminating string
  reads", the final char is always zero and we never change it.

- wmb() is paired with nothing, it cannot prevent from printing
  the mixture of the old/new data unless the reader takes the lock.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoprocfs-improve-scaling-in-proc-v5
Nathan Zimmer [Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:32:49 +0000 (13:32 +1100)]
procfs-improve-scaling-in-proc-v5

v5: Corrected some warnings from sparce including the supplied by Sasha.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>