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    • Dave Hansen's avatar
      x86: Require exact match for 'noxsave' command line option · 2cd3949f
      Dave Hansen authored 
      

We have some very similarly named command-line options:

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:__setup("noxsave", x86_xsave_setup);
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:__setup("noxsaveopt", x86_xsaveopt_setup);
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:__setup("noxsaves", x86_xsaves_setup);

__setup() is designed to match options that take arguments, like
"foo=bar" where you would have:

	__setup("foo", x86_foo_func...);

The problem is that "noxsave" actually _matches_ "noxsaves" in
the same way that "foo" matches "foo=bar".  If you boot an old
kernel that does not know about "noxsaves" with "noxsaves" on the
command line, it will interpret the argument as "noxsave", which
is not what you want at all.

This makes the "noxsave" handler only return success when it finds
an *exact* match.

[ tglx: We really need to make __setup() more robust. ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141111220133.FE053984@viggo.jf.intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      2cd3949f
    • Stanislaw Gruszka's avatar
      sched/cputime: Fix clock_nanosleep()/clock_gettime() inconsistency · 6e998916
      Stanislaw Gruszka authored 
      Commit d670ec13 "posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP wobbles" fixes one glibc
test case in cost of breaking another one. After that commit, calling
clock_nanosleep(TIMER_ABSTIME, X) and then clock_gettime(&Y) can result
of Y time being smaller than X time.

Reproducer/tester can be found further below, it can be compiled and ran by:

	gcc -o tst-cpuclock2 tst-cpuclock2.c -pthread
	while ./tst-cpuclock2 ; do : ; done

This reproducer, when running on a buggy kernel, will complain
about "clock_gettime difference too small".

Issue happens because on start in thread_group_cputimer() we initialize
sum_exec_runtime of cputimer with threads runtime not yet accounted and
then add the threads runtime to running cputimer again on scheduler
tick, making it's sum_exec_runtime bigger than actual threads runtime.

KOSAKI Motohiro posted a fix for this problem, but that patch was never
applied: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/26/191

 .

This patch takes different approach to cure the problem. It calls
update_curr() when cputimer starts, that assure we will have updated
stats of running threads and on the next schedule tick we will account
only the runtime that elapsed from cputimer start. That also assure we
have consistent state between cpu times of individual threads and cpu
time of the process consisted by those threads.

Full reproducer (tst-cpuclock2.c):

	#define _GNU_SOURCE
	#include <unistd.h>
	#include <sys/syscall.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <time.h>
	#include <pthread.h>
	#include <stdint.h>
	#include <inttypes.h>

	/* Parameters for the Linux kernel ABI for CPU clocks.  */
	#define CPUCLOCK_SCHED          2
	#define MAKE_PROCESS_CPUCLOCK(pid, clock) \
		((~(clockid_t) (pid) << 3) | (clockid_t) (clock))

	static pthread_barrier_t barrier;

	/* Help advance the clock.  */
	static void *chew_cpu(void *arg)
	{
		pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier);
		while (1) ;

		return NULL;
	}

	/* Don't use the glibc wrapper.  */
	static int do_nanosleep(int flags, const struct timespec *req)
	{
		clockid_t clock_id = MAKE_PROCESS_CPUCLOCK(0, CPUCLOCK_SCHED);

		return syscall(SYS_clock_nanosleep, clock_id, flags, req, NULL);
	}

	static int64_t tsdiff(const struct timespec *before, const struct timespec *after)
	{
		int64_t before_i = before->tv_sec * 1000000000ULL + before->tv_nsec;
		int64_t after_i = after->tv_sec * 1000000000ULL + after->tv_nsec;

		return after_i - before_i;
	}

	int main(void)
	{
		int result = 0;
		pthread_t th;

		pthread_barrier_init(&barrier, NULL, 2);

		if (pthread_create(&th, NULL, chew_cpu, NULL) != 0) {
			perror("pthread_create");
			return 1;
		}

		pthread_barrier_wait(&barrier);

		/* The test.  */
		struct timespec before, after, sleeptimeabs;
		int64_t sleepdiff, diffabs;
		const struct timespec sleeptime = {.tv_sec = 0,.tv_nsec = 100000000 };

		/* The relative nanosleep.  Not sure why this is needed, but its presence
		   seems to make it easier to reproduce the problem.  */
		if (do_nanosleep(0, &sleeptime) != 0) {
			perror("clock_nanosleep");
			return 1;
		}

		/* Get the current time.  */
		if (clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, &before) < 0) {
			perror("clock_gettime[2]");
			return 1;
		}

		/* Compute the absolute sleep time based on the current time.  */
		uint64_t nsec = before.tv_nsec + sleeptime.tv_nsec;
		sleeptimeabs.tv_sec = before.tv_sec + nsec / 1000000000;
		sleeptimeabs.tv_nsec = nsec % 1000000000;

		/* Sleep for the computed time.  */
		if (do_nanosleep(TIMER_ABSTIME, &sleeptimeabs) != 0) {
			perror("absolute clock_nanosleep");
			return 1;
		}

		/* Get the time after the sleep.  */
		if (clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, &after) < 0) {
			perror("clock_gettime[3]");
			return 1;
		}

		/* The time after sleep should always be equal to or after the absolute sleep
		   time passed to clock_nanosleep.  */
		sleepdiff = tsdiff(&sleeptimeabs, &after);
		if (sleepdiff < 0) {
			printf("absolute clock_nanosleep woke too early: %" PRId64 "\n", sleepdiff);
			result = 1;

			printf("Before %llu.%09llu\n", before.tv_sec, before.tv_nsec);
			printf("After  %llu.%09llu\n", after.tv_sec, after.tv_nsec);
			printf("Sleep  %llu.%09llu\n", sleeptimeabs.tv_sec, sleeptimeabs.tv_nsec);
		}

		/* The difference between the timestamps taken before and after the
		   clock_nanosleep call should be equal to or more than the duration of the
		   sleep.  */
		diffabs = tsdiff(&before, &after);
		if (diffabs < sleeptime.tv_nsec) {
			printf("clock_gettime difference too small: %" PRId64 "\n", diffabs);
			result = 1;
		}

		pthread_cancel(th);

		return result;
	}

Signed-off-by: default avatarStanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141112155843.GA24803@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      6e998916