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2008-02-07gfs2: make gfs2_glock.gl_owner_pid be a struct pid *Pavel Emelyanov
The gl_owner_pid field is used to get the lock owning task by its pid, so make it in a proper manner, i.e. by using the struct pid pointer and pid_task() function. The pid_task() becomes exported for the gfs2 module. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06kprobes: kretprobe user entry-handlerAbhishek Sagar
Provide support to add an optional user defined callback to be run at function entry of a kretprobe'd function. Also modify the kprobe smoke tests to include an entry-handler during the kretprobe sanity test. Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com> Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Acked-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06speed up jiffies conversion functions if HZ==USER_HZAndrew Morton
Avoid calling do_div(x, 1) in this case. Cc: David Fries <david@fries.net> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06system timer: fix crash in <100Hz system timerDavid Fries
The kernel has a divide by zero crash when trying to run the system timer less than 100Hz. The problem is x/(HZ/USER_HZ) and related. Now x*(USER_HZ/HZ) will be used if HZ<USER_HZ. I'm running the Linux kernel under qemu and went to run a slower system timer to take less CPU (and battery) on the host. I found that the kernel paniced under emulation because of a divide by zero in three places. Here is the patch. The base git was updated today 01-05-2008. I went for a 20Hz system time by adding config HZ_20 etc to kernel/Kconfig.hz. With this patch I verified the system timer by looking at /proc/interrupts. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: partially clean up the macro maze] Signed-off-by: David Fries <david@fries.net> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06kernel/sys.c: get rid of expensive divides in groups_sort()Eric Dumazet
groups_sort() can be quite long if user loads a large gid table. This is because GROUP_AT(group_info, some_integer) uses an integer divide. So having to do XXX thousand divides during one syscall can lead to very high latencies. (NGROUPS_MAX=65536) In the past (25 Mar 2006), an analog problem was found in groups_search() (commit d74beb9f33a5f16d2965f11b275e401f225c949d ) and at that time I changed some variables to unsigned int. I believe that a more generic fix is to make sure NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK is unsigned. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06idle_regs() must be __cpuinitAdrian Bunk
Fix the following section mismatch with CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n, CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x399a6): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text.5:idle_regs (between 'fork_idle' and 'get_task_mm') Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06kernel/params.c: remove sparse-warning (different signedness)Richard Knutsson
Fixing: CHECK kernel/params.c kernel/params.c:329:41: warning: incorrect type in argument 8 (different signedness) kernel/params.c:329:41: expected int *num kernel/params.c:329:41: got unsigned int * Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06stopmachine: semaphore to mutexDaniel Walker
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06Add arch_ptrace_stopRoland McGrath
This adds support to allow asm/ptrace.h to define two new macros, arch_ptrace_stop_needed and arch_ptrace_stop. These control special machine-specific actions to be done before a ptrace stop. The new code compiles away to nothing when the new macros are not defined. This is the case on all machines to begin with. On ia64, these macros will be defined to solve the long-standing issue of ptrace vs register backing store. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06relay: nopageNick Piggin
Convert relay from nopage to fault. Remove redundant vma range checks. Switch from OOM to SIGBUS if the resource is not available. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06get rid of NR_OPEN and introduce a sysctl_nr_openEric Dumazet
NR_OPEN (historically set to 1024*1024) actually forbids processes to open more than 1024*1024 handles. Unfortunatly some production servers hit the not so 'ridiculously high value' of 1024*1024 file descriptors per process. Changing NR_OPEN is not considered safe because of vmalloc space potential exhaust. This patch introduces a new sysctl (/proc/sys/fs/nr_open) wich defaults to 1024*1024, so that admins can decide to change this limit if their workload needs it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export it for sparc64] Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06do_wait: remove one "else if" branchOleg Nesterov
Minor cleanup. We can remove one "else if" branch. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06printk.c: use unsigned ints instead of longs for logbuf indexDenys Vlasenko
Stop using unsigned _longs_ for printk buffer indexes. Log buffer is way smaller than 2 gigabytes and unsigned ints will work too . Indeed, they do work nicely on all 32-bit platforms where longs and ints are the same. With this patch, we have following size savings on amd64: text data bss dec hex filename 5997 313 17736 24046 5dee 2.6.23.1.t64/kernel/printk.o 5858 313 17700 23871 5d3f 2.6.23.1.printk.t64/kernel/printk.o Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06time: fix sysfs_show_{available,current}_clocksources() buffer overflow problemMiao Xie
I found that there is a buffer overflow problem in the following code. Version: 2.6.24-rc2, File: kernel/time/clocksource.c:417-432 -------------------------------------------------------------------- static ssize_t sysfs_show_available_clocksources(struct sys_device *dev, char *buf) { struct clocksource *src; char *curr = buf; spin_lock_irq(&clocksource_lock); list_for_each_entry(src, &clocksource_list, list) { curr += sprintf(curr, "%s ", src->name); } spin_unlock_irq(&clocksource_lock); curr += sprintf(curr, "\n"); return curr - buf; } ----------------------------------------------------------------------- sysfs_show_current_clocksources() also has the same problem though in practice the size of current clocksource's name won't exceed PAGE_SIZE. I fix the bug by using snprintf according to the specification of the kernel (Version:2.6.24-rc2,File:Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt) Fix sysfs_show_available_clocksources() and sysfs_show_current_clocksources() buffer overflow problem with snprintf(). Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06kernel/notifier.c should #include <linux/reboot.h>Adrian Bunk
Every file should include the headers containing the prototypes for its global functions (in this case {,un}register_reboot_notifier()). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06make srcu_readers_active() staticAdrian Bunk
Make the needlessly global srcu_readers_active() static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06kernel/ptrace.c should #include <linux/syscalls.h>Adrian Bunk
Every file should include the headers containing the prototypes for its global functions (in this case sys_ptrace()). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06remove support for un-needed _extratext sectionRobin Getz
When passing a zero address to kallsyms_lookup(), the kernel thought it was a valid kernel address, even if it is not. This is because is_ksym_addr() called is_kernel_extratext() and checked against labels that don't exist on many archs (which default as zero). Since PPC was the only kernel which defines _extra_text, (in 2005), and no longer needs it, this patch removes _extra_text support. For some history (provided by Jon): http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019734.html http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019736.html http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019751.html [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06use __set_task_state() for TRACED/STOPPED tasksOleg Nesterov
1. It is much easier to grep for ->state change if __set_task_state() is used instead of the direct assignment. 2. ptrace_stop() and handle_group_stop() use set_task_state() which adds the unneeded mb() (btw even if we use mb() it is still possible that do_wait() sees the new ->state but not ->exit_code, but this is ok). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06taskstats scaled time cleanupMichael Neuling
This moves the ability to scale cputime into generic code. This allows us to fix the issue in kernel/timer.c (noticed by Balbir) where we could only add an unscaled value to the scaled utime/stime. This adds a cputime_to_scaled function. As before, the POWERPC version does the scaling based on the last SPURR/PURR ratio calculated. The generic and s390 (only other arch to implement asm/cputime.h) versions are both NOPs. Also moves the SPURR and PURR snapshots closer. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05latency.c: use QoS infrastructureMark Gross
Replace latency.c use with pm_qos_params use. Signed-off-by: mark gross <mgross@linux.intel.com> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05pm qos infrastructure and interfaceMark Gross
The following patch is a generalization of the latency.c implementation done by Arjan last year. It provides infrastructure for more than one parameter, and exposes a user mode interface for processes to register pm_qos expectations of processes. This interface provides a kernel and user mode interface for registering performance expectations by drivers, subsystems and user space applications on one of the parameters. Currently we have {cpu_dma_latency, network_latency, network_throughput} as the initial set of pm_qos parameters. The infrastructure exposes multiple misc device nodes one per implemented parameter. The set of parameters implement is defined by pm_qos_power_init() and pm_qos_params.h. This is done because having the available parameters being runtime configurable or changeable from a driver was seen as too easy to abuse. For each parameter a list of performance requirements is maintained along with an aggregated target value. The aggregated target value is updated with changes to the requirement list or elements of the list. Typically the aggregated target value is simply the max or min of the requirement values held in the parameter list elements. >From kernel mode the use of this interface is simple: pm_qos_add_requirement(param_id, name, target_value): Will insert a named element in the list for that identified PM_QOS parameter with the target value. Upon change to this list the new target is recomputed and any registered notifiers are called only if the target value is now different. pm_qos_update_requirement(param_id, name, new_target_value): Will search the list identified by the param_id for the named list element and then update its target value, calling the notification tree if the aggregated target is changed. with that name is already registered. pm_qos_remove_requirement(param_id, name): Will search the identified list for the named element and remove it, after removal it will update the aggregate target and call the notification tree if the target was changed as a result of removing the named requirement. >From user mode: Only processes can register a pm_qos requirement. To provide for automatic cleanup for process the interface requires the process to register its parameter requirements in the following way: To register the default pm_qos target for the specific parameter, the process must open one of /dev/[cpu_dma_latency, network_latency, network_throughput] As long as the device node is held open that process has a registered requirement on the parameter. The name of the requirement is "process_<PID>" derived from the current->pid from within the open system call. To change the requested target value the process needs to write a s32 value to the open device node. This translates to a pm_qos_update_requirement call. To remove the user mode request for a target value simply close the device node. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build again] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: mark gross <mgross@linux.intel.com> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05make kernel_shutdown_prepare() staticAdrian Bunk
kernel_shutdown_prepare() can now become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05kernel/power/disk.c: make code staticAdrian Bunk
resume_file[] and create_image() can become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05capabilities: introduce per-process capability bounding setSerge E. Hallyn
The capability bounding set is a set beyond which capabilities cannot grow. Currently cap_bset is per-system. It can be manipulated through sysctl, but only init can add capabilities. Root can remove capabilities. By default it includes all caps except CAP_SETPCAP. This patch makes the bounding set per-process when file capabilities are enabled. It is inherited at fork from parent. Noone can add elements, CAP_SETPCAP is required to remove them. One example use of this is to start a safer container. For instance, until device namespaces or per-container device whitelists are introduced, it is best to take CAP_MKNOD away from a container. The bounding set will not affect pP and pE immediately. It will only affect pP' and pE' after subsequent exec()s. It also does not affect pI, and exec() does not constrain pI'. So to really start a shell with no way of regain CAP_MKNOD, you would do prctl(PR_CAPBSET_DROP, CAP_MKNOD); cap_t cap = cap_get_proc(); cap_value_t caparray[1]; caparray[0] = CAP_MKNOD; cap_set_flag(cap, CAP_INHERITABLE, 1, caparray, CAP_DROP); cap_set_proc(cap); cap_free(cap); The following test program will get and set the bounding set (but not pI). For instance ./bset get (lists capabilities in bset) ./bset drop cap_net_raw (starts shell with new bset) (use capset, setuid binary, or binary with file capabilities to try to increase caps) ************************************************************ cap_bound.c ************************************************************ #include <sys/prctl.h> #include <linux/capability.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #ifndef PR_CAPBSET_READ #define PR_CAPBSET_READ 23 #endif #ifndef PR_CAPBSET_DROP #define PR_CAPBSET_DROP 24 #endif int usage(char *me) { printf("Usage: %s get\n", me); printf(" %s drop <capability>\n", me); return 1; } #define numcaps 32 char *captable[numcaps] = { "cap_chown", "cap_dac_override", "cap_dac_read_search", "cap_fowner", "cap_fsetid", "cap_kill", "cap_setgid", "cap_setuid", "cap_setpcap", "cap_linux_immutable", "cap_net_bind_service", "cap_net_broadcast", "cap_net_admin", "cap_net_raw", "cap_ipc_lock", "cap_ipc_owner", "cap_sys_module", "cap_sys_rawio", "cap_sys_chroot", "cap_sys_ptrace", "cap_sys_pacct", "cap_sys_admin", "cap_sys_boot", "cap_sys_nice", "cap_sys_resource", "cap_sys_time", "cap_sys_tty_config", "cap_mknod", "cap_lease", "cap_audit_write", "cap_audit_control", "cap_setfcap" }; int getbcap(void) { int comma=0; unsigned long i; int ret; printf("i know of %d capabilities\n", numcaps); printf("capability bounding set:"); for (i=0; i<numcaps; i++) { ret = prctl(PR_CAPBSET_READ, i); if (ret < 0) perror("prctl"); else if (ret==1) printf("%s%s", (comma++) ? ", " : " ", captable[i]); } printf("\n"); return 0; } int capdrop(char *str) { unsigned long i; int found=0; for (i=0; i<numcaps; i++) { if (strcmp(captable[i], str) == 0) { found=1; break; } } if (!found) return 1; if (prctl(PR_CAPBSET_DROP, i)) { perror("prctl"); return 1; } return 0; } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { if (argc<2) return usage(argv[0]); if (strcmp(argv[1], "get")==0) return getbcap(); if (strcmp(argv[1], "drop")!=0 || argc<3) return usage(argv[0]); if (capdrop(argv[2])) { printf("unknown capability\n"); return 1; } return execl("/bin/bash", "/bin/bash", NULL); } ************************************************************ [serue@us.ibm.com: fix typo] Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>a Signed-off-by: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05Add 64-bit capability support to the kernelAndrew Morgan
The patch supports legacy (32-bit) capability userspace, and where possible translates 32-bit capabilities to/from userspace and the VFS to 64-bit kernel space capabilities. If a capability set cannot be compressed into 32-bits for consumption by user space, the system call fails, with -ERANGE. FWIW libcap-2.00 supports this change (and earlier capability formats) http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/kernel-2.6/ [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-syle fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use get_task_comm()] [ezk@cs.sunysb.edu: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: unused var] [serue@us.ibm.com: export __cap_ symbols] Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05mm/page-writeback: highmem_is_dirtyable optionBron Gondwana
Add vm.highmem_is_dirtyable toggle A 32 bit machine with HIGHMEM64 enabled running DCC has an MMAPed file of approximately 2Gb size which contains a hash format that is written randomly by the dbclean process. On 2.6.16 this process took a few minutes. With lowmem only accounting of dirty ratios, this takes about 12 hours of 100% disk IO, all random writes. Include a toggle in /proc/sys/vm/highmem_is_dirtyable which can be set to 1 to add the highmem back to the total available memory count. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Fix the CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP=y build] Signed-off-by: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm> Cc: Ethan Solomita <solo@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05add mm argument to pte/pmd/pud/pgd_freeBenjamin Herrenschmidt
(with Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>) The pgd/pud/pmd/pte page table allocation functions get a mm_struct pointer as first argument. The free functions do not get the mm_struct argument. This is 1) asymmetrical and 2) to do mm related page table allocations the mm argument is needed on the free function as well. [kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com: i386 fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-syle fixes] Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05Page allocator: clean up pcp draining functionsChristoph Lameter
- Add comments explaing how drain_pages() works. - Eliminate useless functions - Rename drain_all_local_pages to drain_all_pages(). It does drain all pages not only those of the local processor. - Eliminate useless interrupt off / on sequences. drain_pages() disables interrupts on its own. The execution thread is pinned to processor by the caller. So there is no need to disable interrupts. - Put drain_all_pages() declaration in gfp.h and remove the declarations from suspend.h and from mm/memory_hotplug.c - Make software suspend call drain_all_pages(). The draining of processor local pages is may not the right approach if software suspend wants to support SMP. If they call drain_all_pages then we can make drain_pages() static. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05timerfd: new timerfd APIDavide Libenzi
This is the new timerfd API as it is implemented by the following patch: int timerfd_create(int clockid, int flags); int timerfd_settime(int ufd, int flags, const struct itimerspec *utmr, struct itimerspec *otmr); int timerfd_gettime(int ufd, struct itimerspec *otmr); The timerfd_create() API creates an un-programmed timerfd fd. The "clockid" parameter can be either CLOCK_MONOTONIC or CLOCK_REALTIME. The timerfd_settime() API give new settings by the timerfd fd, by optionally retrieving the previous expiration time (in case the "otmr" parameter is not NULL). The time value specified in "utmr" is absolute, if the TFD_TIMER_ABSTIME bit is set in the "flags" parameter. Otherwise it's a relative time. The timerfd_gettime() API returns the next expiration time of the timer, or {0, 0} if the timerfd has not been set yet. Like the previous timerfd API implementation, read(2) and poll(2) are supported (with the same interface). Here's a simple test program I used to exercise the new timerfd APIs: http://www.xmailserver.org/timerfd-test2.c [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64 build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix m68k build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alpha, arm, blackfin, cris, m68k, s390, sparc and sparc64 builds] [heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: fix s390] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc64 more] Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05exec: rework the group exit and fix the race with killOleg Nesterov
As Roland pointed out, we have the very old problem with exec. de_thread() sets SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT, kills other threads, changes ->group_leader and then clears signal->flags. All signals (even fatal ones) sent in this window (which is not too small) will be lost. With this patch exec doesn't abuse SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT. signal_group_exit(), the new helper, should be used to detect exit_group() or exec() in progress. It can have more users, but this patch does only strictly necessary changes. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05remove handle_group_stop() in favor of do_signal_stop()Oleg Nesterov
Every time we set SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT or clear SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED we also reset ->group_stop_count. This means that the SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT check in handle_group_stop() is not needed, and do_signal_stop() should check SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED only when ->group_stop_count == 0. With these changes handle_group_stop() becomes the subset of do_signal_stop(), we can kill it and use do_signal_stop() instead. Also, a preparation for the next patch. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05__group_complete_signal(): fix coredump with group stop raceOleg Nesterov
When __group_complete_signal() sees sig_kernel_coredump() signal, it starts the group stop, but sets ->group_exit_task = t in a hope that "t" will actually dequeue this signal and invoke do_coredump(). However, by the time "t" enters get_signal_to_deliver() it is possible that the signal was blocked/ignored or we have another pending !SIG_KERNEL_COREDUMP_MASK signal which will be dequeued first. This means the task could be stopped but not killed. Remove this code from __group_complete_signal(). Note also this patch removes the bogus signal_wake_up(t, 1). This thread can't be STOPPED/TRACED, note the corresponding check in wants_signal(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05clone: prepare to recycle CLONE_STOPPEDAndrew Morton
Ulrich says that we never used this clone flags and that nothing should be using it. As we're down to only a single bit left in clone's flags argument, let's add a warning to check that no userspace is actually using it. Hopefully we will be able to recycle it. Roland said: CLONE_STOPPED was previously used by some NTPL versions when under thread_db (i.e. only when being actively debugged by gdb), but not for a long time now, and it never worked reliably when it was used. Removing it seems fine to me. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: it looks like CLONE_DETACHED is being used] Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-04Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivialLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (79 commits) Jesper Juhl is the new trivial patches maintainer Documentation: mention email-clients.txt in SubmittingPatches fs/binfmt_elf.c: spello fix do_invalidatepage() comment typo fix Documentation/filesystems/porting fixes typo fixes in net/core/net_namespace.c typo fix in net/rfkill/rfkill.c typo fixes in net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c lib/: Spelling fixes kernel/: Spelling fixes include/scsi/: Spelling fixes include/linux/: Spelling fixes include/asm-m68knommu/: Spelling fixes include/asm-frv/: Spelling fixes fs/: Spelling fixes drivers/watchdog/: Spelling fixes drivers/video/: Spelling fixes drivers/ssb/: Spelling fixes drivers/serial/: Spelling fixes drivers/scsi/: Spelling fixes ...
2008-02-04Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: scsi: fix dependency bug in aic7 Makefile kbuild: add svn revision information to setlocalversion kbuild: do not warn about __*init/__*exit symbols being exported Move Kconfig.instrumentation to arch/Kconfig and init/Kconfig Add HAVE_KPROBES Add HAVE_OPROFILE Create arch/Kconfig Fix ARM to play nicely with generic Instrumentation menu kconfig: ignore select of unknown symbol kconfig: mark config as changed when loading an alternate config kbuild: Spelling/grammar fixes for config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH Remove __INIT_REFOK and __INITDATA_REFOK kbuild: print only total number of section mismatces found
2008-02-04vm audit: add VM_DONTEXPAND to mmap for drivers that need itNick Piggin
Drivers that register a ->fault handler, but do not range-check the offset argument, must set VM_DONTEXPAND in the vm_flags in order to prevent an expanding mremap from overflowing the resource. I've audited the tree and attempted to fix these problems (usually by adding VM_DONTEXPAND where it is not obvious). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-03kernel/: Spelling fixesJoe Perches
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03Remove one useless extern declarationPierre Peiffer
The file exit.c contains one useless extern declaration of sem_exit(). Moreover, it refers to nothing. This trivial patch removes it. Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03Move Kconfig.instrumentation to arch/Kconfig and init/KconfigMathieu Desnoyers
Move the instrumentation Kconfig to arch/Kconfig for architecture dependent options - oprofile - kprobes and init/Kconfig for architecture independent options - profiling - markers Remove the "Instrumentation Support" menu. Everything moves to "General setup". Delete the kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation file. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-02-03Add HAVE_KPROBESMathieu Desnoyers
Linus: On the per-architecture side, I do think it would be better to *not* have internal architecture knowledge in a generic file, and as such a line like depends on X86_32 || IA64 || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || X86_64 || AVR32 really shouldn't exist in a file like kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation. It would be much better to do depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES in that generic file, and then architectures that do support it would just have a bool ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES default y in *their* architecture files. That would seem to be much more logical, and is readable both for arch maintainers *and* for people who have no clue - and don't care - about which architecture is supposed to support which interface... Changelog: Actually, I know I gave this as the magic incantation, but now that I see it, I realize that I should have told you to just use config KPROBES_SUPPORT def_bool y instead, which is a bit denser. We seem to use both kinds of syntax for these things, but this is really what "def_bool" is there for... - Use HAVE_KPROBES - Use a select - Yet another update : Moving to HAVE_* now. - Update ARM for kprobes support. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-02-03Add HAVE_OPROFILEMathieu Desnoyers
Linus: On the per-architecture side, I do think it would be better to *not* have internal architecture knowledge in a generic file, and as such a line like depends on X86_32 || IA64 || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || X86_64 || AVR32 really shouldn't exist in a file like kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation. It would be much better to do depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES in that generic file, and then architectures that do support it would just have a bool ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES default y in *their* architecture files. That would seem to be much more logical, and is readable both for arch maintainers *and* for people who have no clue - and don't care - about which architecture is supposed to support which interface... Changelog: Actually, I know I gave this as the magic incantation, but now that I see it, I realize that I should have told you to just use config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES def_bool y instead, which is a bit denser. We seem to use both kinds of syntax for these things, but this is really what "def_bool" is there for... Changelog : - Moving to HAVE_*. - Add AVR32 oprofile. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-02-03Fix ARM to play nicely with generic Instrumentation menuMathieu Desnoyers
The conflicting commit for move-kconfiginstrumentation-to-arch-kconfig-and-init-kconfig.patch is the ARM fix from Linus : commit 38ad9aebe70dc72df08851bbd1620d89329129ba He just seemed to agree that my approach (just putting the missing ARM config options in arch/arm/Kconfig) works too. The main advantage it has is that it is smaller, does not need a cleanup in the future and does not break the following patches unnecessarily. It's just been discussed here http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/15/267 However, Linus might prefer to stay with his own patch and I would totally understand it that late in the release cycle. Therefore I submit this for the next release cycle. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> CC: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-02-02kobject: Always build in kernel/ksysfs.o.Paul Mundt
kernel/ksysfs.c seems to be a random dumping group for misc globals that the rest of the tree depend on. This has caused problems with exports in the past when sysfs is disabled, which can already be observed in commit-id 51107301b629640f9ab76fe23bf385e187b9ac29. The latest one is the kernel_kobj usage, which presently results in: fs/built-in.o: In function `debugfs_init': inode.c:(.init.text+0xc34): undefined reference to `kernel_kobj' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 kernel/ksysfs.c itself at this point only contains globals and some basic sysfs initialization, the sysfs initialization code is optimized out when we build with sysfs disabled. Given that, it's easier to just build in unconditionally, rather than trying to find some other random place to dump and initialize the globals. Additionally, the current trend seems to be decoupling of kobjects from sysfs, in which case it still makes sense to perform the kernel_kobj initialization that happens here even if sysfs is disabled, as lib/kobject.o is built-in unconditionally. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-02Merge branch 'suspend' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'suspend' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (38 commits) suspend: cleanup reference to swsusp_pg_dir[] PM: Remove obsolete /sys/devices/.../power/state docs Hibernation: Invoke suspend notifications after console switch Suspend: Invoke suspend notifications after console switch Suspend: Clean up suspend_64.c Suspend: Add config option to disable the freezer if architecture wants that ACPI: Print message before calling _PTS ACPI hibernation: Call _PTS before suspending devices Hibernation: Introduce begin() and end() callbacks ACPI suspend: Call _PTS before suspending devices ACPI: Separate disabling of GPEs from _PTS ACPI: Separate invocations of _GTS and _BFS from _PTS and _WAK Suspend: Introduce begin() and end() callbacks suspend: fix ia64 allmodconfig build ACPI: clear GPE earily in resume to avoid warning Suspend: Clean up Kconfig (V2) Hibernation: Clean up Kconfig (V2) Hibernation: Update messages Suspend: Use common prefix in messages Hibernation: Remove unnecessary variable declaration ...
2008-02-02debug: softlockup looping fixPeter Zijlstra
Rafael J. Wysocki reported weird, multi-seconds delays during suspend/resume and bisected it back to: commit 82a1fcb90287052aabfa235e7ffc693ea003fe69 Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Date: Fri Jan 25 21:08:02 2008 +0100 softlockup: automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks fix it: - restore the old wakeup mechanism - fix break usage in do_each_thread() { } while_each_thread(). - fix the hotplug switch stmt, a fall-through case was broken. Bisected-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-01Hibernation: Invoke suspend notifications after console switchRafael J. Wysocki
Following the recent change in the suspend code path, switch consoles before calling PM notifiers during hibernation. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-01Suspend: Invoke suspend notifications after console switchJohannes Berg
In order to fix APM emulation it is necessary to enable apm-emulation notifications for suspends triggered in various ways via the suspend notifiers. However, this will cause the systems using APM emulation to lock up between X being needed to switch away from the VT and X already waiting for resume in the APM ioctl. This patch moves the console switch (if enabled) before the suspend notification (and after the resume notification) to avoid this issue. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-01Suspend: Add config option to disable the freezer if architecture wants thatJohannes Berg
This patch makes the freezer optional for suspend to allow the system to work (or not work) like the original PMU suspend. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-01Hibernation: Introduce begin() and end() callbacksRafael J. Wysocki
Introduce global hibernation callback .end() and rename global hibernation callback .start() to .begin(), in analogy with the recent modifications of the global suspend callbacks. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>