pids: refactor vnr/nr_ns helpers to make them safe
Inho, the safety rules for vnr/nr_ns helpers are horrible and buggy.
task_pid_nr_ns(task) needs rcu/tasklist depending on task == current.
As for "special" pids, vnr/nr_ns helpers always need rcu. However, if
task != current, they are unsafe even under rcu lock, we can't trust
task->group_leader without the special checks.
And almost every helper has a callsite which needs a fix.
Also, it is a bit annoying that the implementations of, say,
task_pgrp_vnr() and task_pgrp_nr_ns() are not "symmetrical".
This patch introduces the new helper, __task_pid_nr_ns(), which is always
safe to use, and turns all other helpers into the trivial wrappers.
After this I'll send another patch which converts task_tgid_xxx() as well,
they're are a bit special.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
pids: improve get_task_pid() to fix the unsafe sys_wait4()->task_pgrp()
sys_wait4() does get_pid(task_pgrp(current)), this is not safe. We can
add rcu lock/unlock around, but we already have get_task_pid() which can
be improved to handle the special pids in more reliable manner.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
pids: document task_pgrp/task_session is not safe without tasklist/rcu
Even if task == current, it is not safe to dereference the result of
task_pgrp/task_session. We can race with another thread which changes the
special pid via setpgid/setsid.
Document this. The next 2 patches give an example of the unsafe usage, we
have more bad users.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
Matthew Wilcox [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:58:33 +0000 (16:58 -0700)]
sysctl: fix suid_dumpable and lease-break-time sysctls
Arne de Bruijn points out that commit 76fdbb25f963de5dc1e308325f0578a2f92b1c2d ("coredump masking: bound
suid_dumpable sysctl") mistakenly limits lease-break-time instead of
suid_dumpable.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Reported-by: Arne de Bruijn <kernelbt@arbruijn.dds.nl> Cc: Kawai, Hidehiro <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hpet: fix the possibility of insane return value of hpet_calibrate() against SMI
hpet_calibrate() has a possibility of miss-calibration due to SMI. If SMI
interrupts in the while loop of calibration, then return value will be
big. This change calibrates until stabilizing by the return value with a
small value.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: trivial style tweaks] Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Acked-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> Cc: Robert Picco <Robert.Picco@hp.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
proc_sysctl: use CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL around ipc and utsname proc_handlers
As pointed out by Cedric Le Goater (in response to Alexey's original
comment wrt mqns), ipc_sysctl.c and utsname_sysctl.c are using
CONFIG_PROC_FS, not CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL, to determine whether to define
the proc_handlers. Change that.
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Acked-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tony Battersby [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:58:26 +0000 (16:58 -0700)]
ipc: make shm_get_stat() more robust
shm_get_stat() assumes idr_find(&shm_ids(ns).ipcs_idr) returns "struct
shmid_kernel *"; all other callers assume that it returns "struct
kern_ipc_perm *". This works because "struct kern_ipc_perm" is currently
the first member of "struct shmid_kernel", but it would be better to use
container_of() to prevent future breakage.
Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Lai Jiangshan [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:58:24 +0000 (16:58 -0700)]
workqueue: avoid recursion in run_workqueue()
1) lockdep will complain when run_workqueue() performs recursion.
2) The recursive implementation of run_workqueue() means that
flush_workqueue() and its documentation are inconsistent. This may
hide deadlocks and other bugs.
3) The recursion in run_workqueue() will poison cwq->current_work, but
flush_work() and __cancel_work_timer(), etcetera need a reliable
cwq->current_work.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ptrace_detach: the wrong wakeup breaks the ERESTARTxxx logic
Another ancient bug. Consider this trivial test-case,
int main(void)
{
int pid = fork();
if (pid) {
ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, NULL, NULL);
wait(NULL);
ptrace(PTRACE_DETACH, pid, NULL, NULL);
} else {
pause();
printf("WE HAVE A KERNEL BUG!!!\n");
}
return 0;
}
the child must not "escape" for sys_pause(), but it can and this was seen
in practice.
This is because ptrace_detach does:
if (!child->exit_state)
wake_up_process(child);
this wakeup can happen after this child has already restarted sys_pause(),
because it gets another wakeup from ptrace_untrace().
With or without this patch, perhaps sys_pause() needs a fix. But this
wakeup also breaks the SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED logic in ptrace_untrace().
Remove this wakeup. The caller saw this task in TASK_TRACED state, and
unless it was SIGKILL'ed in between __ptrace_unlink()->ptrace_untrace()
should handle this case correctly. If it was SIGKILL'ed, we don't need to
wakup the dying tracee too.
forget_original_parent: do not abuse child->ptrace_entry
By discussion with Roland.
- Use ->sibling instead of ->ptrace_entry to chain the need to be
release_task'd childs. Nobody else can use ->sibling, this task
is EXIT_DEAD and nobody can find it on its own list.
- rename ptrace_dead to dead_childs.
- Now that we don't have the "parallel" untrace code, change back
reparent_thread() to return void, pass dead_childs as an argument.
Actually, I don't understand why do we notify /sbin/init when we
reparent a zombie, probably it is better to reap it unconditionally.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/childs/children/] Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "Metzger, Markus T" <markus.t.metzger@intel.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>
reparent_thread: fix a zombie leak if /sbin/init ignores SIGCHLD
If /sbin/init ignores SIGCHLD and we re-parent a zombie, it is leaked.
reparent_thread() does do_notify_parent() which sets ->exit_signal = -1 in
this case. This means that nobody except us can reap it, the detached
task is not visible to do_wait().
Change reparent_thread() to return a boolean (like __pthread_detach) to
indicate that the thread is dead and must be released. Also change
forget_original_parent() to add the child to ptrace_dead list in this
case.
The naming becomes insane, the next patch does the cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
reparent_thread() uses ptrace_reparented() to check whether this thread is
ptraced, in that case we should not notify the new parent.
But ptrace_reparented() is not exactly correct when the reparented thread
is traced by /sbin/init, because forget_original_parent() has already
changed ->real_parent.
Currently, the only problem is the false notification. But with the next
patch the kernel crash in this (yes, pathological) case.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
reparent_thread: don't call kill_orphaned_pgrp() if task_detached()
If task_detached(p) == T, then either
a) p is not the main thread, we will find the group leader on the
->children list.
or
b) p is the group leader but its ->exit_state = EXIT_DEAD. This
can only happen when the last sub-thread has died, but in that case
that thread has already called kill_orphaned_pgrp() from
exit_notify().
In both cases kill_orphaned_pgrp() looks bogus.
Move the task_detached() check up and simplify the code, this is also
right from the "common sense" pov: we should do nothing with the detached
childs, except move them to the new parent's ->children list.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When ptrace_detach() takes tasklist, the tracee can be SIGKILL'ed. If it
has already passed exit_notify() we can leak a zombie, because a) ptracing
disables the auto-reaping logic, and b) ->real_parent was not notified
about the child's death.
ptrace_detach() should follow the ptrace_exit's logic, change the code
accordingly.
ignoring_children() takes parent->sighand->siglock and checks
k_sigaction[SIGCHLD] atomically. But this buys nothing, we can't get the
"really" wrong result even if we race with sigaction(SIGCHLD). If we read
the "stale" sa_handler/sa_flags we can pretend it was changed right after
the check.
Remove spin_lock(->siglock), and kill "int ign" which caches the result of
ignoring_children() which becomes rather trivial.
Perhaps it makes sense to export this helper, do_notify_parent() can use
it too.
Move the code from __ptrace_detach() to its single caller and kill this
helper.
Also, fix the ->exit_state check, we shouldn't wake up EXIT_DEAD tasks.
Actually, I think task_is_stopped_or_traced() makes more sense, but this
needs another patch.
signals: SI_USER: Masquerade si_pid when crossing pid ns boundary
When sending a signal to a descendant namespace, set ->si_pid to 0 since
the sender does not have a pid in the receiver's namespace.
Note:
- If rt_sigqueueinfo() sets si_code to SI_USER when sending a
signal across a pid namespace boundary, the value in ->si_pid
will be cleared to 0.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Normally SIG_DFL signals to global and container-init are dropped early.
But if a signal is blocked when it is posted, we cannot drop the signal
since the receiver may install a handler before unblocking the signal.
Once this signal is queued however, the receiver container-init has no way
of knowing if the signal was sent from an ancestor or descendant
namespace. This patch ensures that contianer-init drops all SIG_DFL
signals in get_signal_to_deliver() except SIGKILL/SIGSTOP.
If SIGSTOP/SIGKILL originate from a descendant of container-init they are
never queued (i.e dropped in sig_ignored() in an earler patch).
If SIGSTOP/SIGKILL originate from parent namespace, the signal is queued
and container-init processes the signal.
IOW, if get_signal_to_deliver() sees a sig_kernel_only() signal for global
or container-init, the signal must have been generated internally or must
have come from an ancestor ns and we process the signal.
Further, the signal_group_exit() check was needed to cover the case of a
multi-threaded init sending SIGKILL to other threads when doing an exit()
or exec(). But since the new sig_kernel_only() check covers the SIGKILL,
the signal_group_exit() check is no longer needed and can be removed.
Finally, now that we have all pieces in place, set SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE for
container-inits.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
signals: zap_pid_ns_process() should use force_sig()
send_signal() assumes that signals with SEND_SIG_PRIV are generated from
within the same namespace. So any nested container-init processes become
immune to the SIGKILL generated by kill_proc_info() in
zap_pid_ns_processes().
Use force_sig() in zap_pid_ns_processes() instead - force_sig() clears the
SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE flag ensuring the signal is processed by
container-inits.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
signals: protect cinit from unblocked SIG_DFL signals
Drop early any SIG_DFL or SIG_IGN signals to container-init from within
the same container. But queue SIGSTOP and SIGKILL to the container-init
if they are from an ancestor container.
Blocked, fatal signals (i.e when SIG_DFL is to terminate) from within the
container can still terminate the container-init. That will be addressed
in the next patch.
Note: To be bisect-safe, SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE will be set for container-inits
in a follow-on patch. Until then, this patch is just a preparatory
step.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
signals: add from_ancestor_ns parameter to send_signal()
send_signal() (or its helper) needs to determine the pid namespace of the
sender. But a signal sent via kill_pid_info_as_uid() comes from within
the kernel and send_signal() does not need to determine the pid namespace
of the sender. So define a helper for send_signal() which takes an
additional parameter, 'from_ancestor_ns' and have kill_pid_info_as_uid()
use that helper directly.
The 'from_ancestor_ns' parameter will be used in a follow-on patch.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
(This is a modified version of the patch submitted by Oleg Nesterov
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/18/249 and tries to address comments that
came up in that discussion)
init ignores the SIG_DFL signals but we queue them anyway, including
SIGKILL. This is mostly OK, the signal will be dropped silently when
dequeued, but the pending SIGKILL has 2 bad implications:
- it implies fatal_signal_pending(), so we confuse things
like wait_for_completion_killable/lock_page_killable.
- for the sub-namespace inits, the pending SIGKILL can
mask (legacy_queue) the subsequent SIGKILL from the
parent namespace which must kill cinit reliably.
(preparation, cinits don't have SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE yet)
The patch can't help when init is ptraced, but ptracing of init is not
"safe" anyway.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
signals: remove 'handler' parameter to tracehook functions
Container-init must behave like global-init to processes within the
container and hence it must be immune to unhandled fatal signals from
within the container (i.e SIG_DFL signals that terminate the process).
But the same container-init must behave like a normal process to processes
in ancestor namespaces and so if it receives the same fatal signal from a
process in ancestor namespace, the signal must be processed.
Implementing these semantics requires that send_signal() determine pid
namespace of the sender but since signals can originate from workqueues/
interrupt-handlers, determining pid namespace of sender may not always be
possible or safe.
This patchset implements the design/simplified semantics suggested by
Oleg Nesterov. The simplified semantics for container-init are:
- container-init must never be terminated by a signal from a
descendant process.
- container-init must never be immune to SIGKILL from an ancestor
namespace (so a process in parent namespace must always be able
to terminate a descendant container).
- container-init may be immune to unhandled fatal signals (like
SIGUSR1) even if they are from ancestor namespace. SIGKILL/SIGSTOP
are the only reliable signals to a container-init from ancestor
namespace.
This patch:
Based on an earlier patch submitted by Oleg Nesterov and comments from
Roland McGrath (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/19/258).
The handler parameter is currently unused in the tracehook functions.
Besides, the tracehook functions are called with siglock held, so the
functions can check the handler if they later need to.
Removing the parameter simiplifies changes to sig_ignored() in a follow-on
patch.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
do_wait: fix waiting for the group stop with the dead leader
do_wait(WSTOPPED) assumes that p->state must be == TASK_STOPPED, this is
not true if the leader is already dead. Check SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED instead
and use signal->group_exit_code.
It doesn't react to ^Z (and then to ^C or ^\). The task is stopped, but
bash can't see this.
The bug is very old, and it was reported multiple times. This patch was sent
more than a year ago (http://marc.info/?t=119713920000003) but it was ignored.
This change also fixes other oddities (but not all) in this area. For
example, before this patch:
$ sleep 100
^Z
[1]+ Stopped sleep 100
$ strace -p `pidof sleep`
Process 11442 attached - interrupt to quit
strace hangs in do_wait(), because ->exit_code was already consumed by
bash. After this patch, strace happily proceeds:
To me, this looks much more "natural" and correct.
Another example. Let's suppose we have the main thread M and sub-thread
T, the process is stopped, and its parent did wait(WSTOPPED). Now we can
ptrace T but not M. This looks at least strange to me.
Imho, do_wait() should not confuse the per-thread ptrace stops with the
per-process job control stops.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Cc: Kaz Kylheku <kkylheku@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
David Rientjes [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:57:57 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
cpusets: prevent PF_THREAD_BOUND tasks from attaching to non-root cpusets
Kthreads that have the PF_THREAD_BOUND bit set in their flags are bound to a
specific cpu. Thus, their set of allowed cpus shall not change.
This patch prevents such threads from attaching to non-root cpusets. They do
not have mempolicies that restrict them to a subset of system nodes and, since
their cpumask may never change, they cannot use any of the features of
cpusets.
The tasks will forever be a member of the root cpuset and will be returned
when listing the tasks attached to that cpuset.
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Paul Menage [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:57:55 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
cpusets: allow cpusets to be configured/built on non-SMP systems
Allow cpusets to be configured/built on non-SMP systems
Currently it's impossible to build cpusets under UML on x86-64, since
cpusets depends on SMP and x86-64 UML doesn't support SMP.
There's code in cpusets that doesn't depend on SMP. This patch surrounds
the minimum amount of cpusets code with #ifdef CONFIG_SMP in order to
allow cpusets to build/run on UP systems (for testing purposes under UML).
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Li Zefan [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:57:52 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
cpuset: avoid changing cpuset's mems when errno returned
When writing to cpuset.mems, cpuset has to update its mems_allowed before
calling update_tasks_nodemask(), but this function might return -ENOMEM.
To avoid this rare case, we allocate the memory before changing
mems_allowed, and then pass to update_tasks_nodemask(). Similar to what
update_cpumask() does.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Li Zefan [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:57:51 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
cpuset: rewrite update_tasks_nodemask()
This patch uses cgroup_scan_tasks() to rebind tasks' vmas to new cpuset's
mems_allowed.
Not only simplify the code largely, but also avoid allocating an array to
hold mm pointers of all the tasks in the cpuset. This array can be big
(size > PAGESIZE) if we have lots of tasks in that cpuset, thus has a
chance to fail the allocation when under memory stress.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Li Zefan [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:57:49 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
cpuset: fix possible races in cpu/memory hotplug
Change to cpuset->cpus_allowed and cpuset->mems_allowed should be protected
by callback_mutex, otherwise the reader may read wrong cpus/mems. This is
cpuset's lock rule.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
cgroups: use css id in swap cgroup for saving memory v5
Try to use CSS ID for records in swap_cgroup. By this, on 64bit machine,
size of swap_cgroup goes down to 2 bytes from 8bytes.
This means, when 2GB of swap is equipped, (assume the page size is 4096bytes)
From size of swap_cgroup = 2G/4k * 8 = 4Mbytes.
To size of swap_cgroup = 2G/4k * 2 = 1Mbytes.
Reduction is large. Of course, there are trade-offs. This CSS ID will
add overhead to swap-in/swap-out/swap-free.
But in general,
- swap is a resource which the user tend to avoid use.
- If swap is never used, swap_cgroup area is not used.
- Reading traditional manuals, size of swap should be proportional to
size of memory. Memory size of machine is increasing now.
I think reducing size of swap_cgroup makes sense.
Note:
- ID->CSS lookup routine has no locks, it's under RCU-Read-Side.
- memcg can be obsolete at rmdir() but not freed while refcnt from
swap_cgroup is available.
Changelog v4->v5:
- reworked on to memcg-charge-swapcache-to-proper-memcg.patch
Changlog ->v4:
- fixed not configured case.
- deleted unnecessary comments.
- fixed NULL pointer bug.
- fixed message in dmesg.
[nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: css_tryget can be called twice in !PageCgroupUsed case] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This swap-in is one of the most complicated work. In do_swap_page(),
following events occur when pte is unchanged.
(1) the page (SwapCache) is looked up.
(2) lock_page()
(3) try_charge_swapin()
(4) reuse_swap_page() (may call delete_swap_cache())
(5) commit_charge_swapin()
(6) swap_free().
Considering following situation for example.
(A) The page has not been charged before (2) and reuse_swap_page()
doesn't call delete_from_swap_cache().
(B) The page has not been charged before (2) and reuse_swap_page()
calls delete_from_swap_cache().
(C) The page has been charged before (2) and reuse_swap_page() doesn't
call delete_from_swap_cache().
(D) The page has been charged before (2) and reuse_swap_page() calls
delete_from_swap_cache().
memory.usage/memsw.usage changes to this page/swp_entry will be
Case (A) (B) (C) (D)
Event
Before (2) 0/ 1 0/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1
===========================================
(3) +1/+1 +1/+1 +1/+1 +1/+1
(4) - 0/ 0 - -1/ 0
(5) 0/-1 0/ 0 -1/-1 0/ 0
(6) - 0/-1 - 0/-1
===========================================
Result 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1
In any cases, charges to this page should be 1/ 1.
In case of (D), mem_cgroup_try_get_from_swapcache() returns NULL
(because lookup_swap_cgroup() returns NULL), so "+1/+1" at (3) means
charges to the memcg("foo") to which the "current" belongs.
OTOH, "-1/0" at (4) and "0/-1" at (6) means uncharges from the memcg("baa")
to which the page has been charged.
So, if the "foo" and "baa" is different(for example because of task move),
this charge will be moved from "baa" to "foo".
I think this is an unexpected behavior.
This patch fixes this by modifying mem_cgroup_try_get_from_swapcache()
to return the memcg to which the swapcache has been charged if PCG_USED bit
is set.
IIUC, checking PCG_USED bit of swapcache is safe under page lock.
commit 4f98a2fee8acdb4ac84545df98cccecfd130f8db (vmscan: split LRU lists
into anon & file sets) removed mem_cgroup_reclaim_imbalance(), but there
are some leftovers in memcontrol.h.
Display memcg values like failcnt, usage and limit when an OOM occurs due
to memcg.
Thanks to Johannes Weiner, Li Zefan, David Rientjes, Kamezawa Hiroyuki,
Daisuke Nishimura and KOSAKI Motohiro for review.
Sample output
-------------
Task in /a/x killed as a result of limit of /a
memory: usage 1048576kB, limit 1048576kB, failcnt 4183
memory+swap: usage 1400964kB, limit 9007199254740991kB, failcnt 0
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: compilation fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kerneldoc and whitespace]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add printk facility level] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch tries to fix OOM Killer problems caused by hierarchy.
Now, memcg itself has OOM KILL function (in oom_kill.c) and tries to
kill a task in memcg.
But, when hierarchy is used, it's broken and correct task cannot
be killed. For example, in following cgroup
/groupA/ hierarchy=1, limit=1G,
01 nolimit
02 nolimit
All tasks' memory usage under /groupA, /groupA/01, groupA/02 is limited to
groupA's 1Gbytes but OOM Killer just kills tasks in groupA.
This patch provides makes the bad process be selected from all tasks
under hierarchy. BTW, currently, oom_jiffies is updated against groupA
in above case. oom_jiffies of tree should be updated.
To see how oom_jiffies is used, please check mem_cgroup_oom_called()
callers.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: const fix] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
memcg: fix shrinking memory to return -EBUSY by fixing retry algorithm
As pointed out, shrinking memcg's limit should return -EBUSY after
reasonable retries. This patch tries to fix the current behavior of
shrink_usage.
Before looking into "shrink should return -EBUSY" problem, we should fix
hierarchical reclaim code. It compares current usage and current limit,
but it only makes sense when the kernel reclaims memory because hit
limits. This is also a problem.
What this patch does are.
1. add new argument "shrink" to hierarchical reclaim. If "shrink==true",
hierarchical reclaim returns immediately and the caller checks the kernel
should shrink more or not.
(At shrinking memory, usage is always smaller than limit. So check for
usage < limit is useless.)
2. For adjusting to above change, 2 changes in "shrink"'s retry path.
2-a. retry_count depends on # of children because the kernel visits
the children under hierarchy one by one.
2-b. rather than checking return value of hierarchical_reclaim's progress,
compares usage-before-shrink and usage-after-shrink.
If usage-before-shrink <= usage-after-shrink, retry_count is
decremented.
Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Clean up memory.stat file routine and show "total" hierarchical stat.
This patch does
- renamed get_all_zonestat to be get_local_zonestat.
- remove old mem_cgroup_stat_desc, which is only for per-cpu stat.
- add mcs_stat to cover both of per-cpu/per-lru stat.
- add "total" stat of hierarchy (*)
- add a callback system to scan all memcg under a root.
== "total" is added.
[kamezawa@localhost ~]$ cat /opt/cgroup/xxx/memory.stat
cache 0
rss 0
pgpgin 0
pgpgout 0
inactive_anon 0
active_anon 0
inactive_file 0
active_file 0
unevictable 0
hierarchical_memory_limit 50331648
hierarchical_memsw_limit 9223372036854775807
total_cache 65536
total_rss 192512
total_pgpgin 218
total_pgpgout 155
total_inactive_anon 0
total_active_anon 135168
total_inactive_file 61440
total_active_file 4096
total_unevictable 0
==
(*) maybe the user can do calc hierarchical stat by his own program
in userland but if it can be written in clean way, it's worth to be
shown, I think.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Li Zefan [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:57:31 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
debug cgroup: remove unneeded cgroup_lock
Since we are in cgroup write handler, so the cgrp is valid, so we don't
have to hold cgroup_mutex when calling cgroup_task_count(). One similar
example is in cgroup_tasks_open().
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Li Zefan [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:57:30 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
cgroups: don't change release_agent when remount failed
Remount can fail in either case:
- wrong mount options is specified, or option 'noprefix' is changed.
- a to-be-added subsys is already mounted/active.
When using remount to change 'release_agent', for the above former failure
case, remount will return errno with release_agent unchanged, but for the
latter case, remount will return EBUSY with relase_agent changed, which is
unexpected I think:
# mount -t cgroup -o cpu xxx /cgrp1
# mount -t cgroup -o cpuset,release_agent=agent1 yyy /cgrp2
# cat /cgrp2/release_agent
agent1
# mount -t cgroup -o remount,cpuset,noprefix,release_agent=agent2 yyy /cgrp2
mount: /cgrp2 not mounted already, or bad option
# cat /cgrp2/release_agent
agent1 <-- ok
# mount -t cgroup -o remount,cpu,cpuset,release_agent=agent2 yyy /cgrp2
mount: /cgrp2 is busy
# cat /cgrp2/release_agent
agent2 <-- unexpected!
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Li Zefan [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:57:29 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
cgroups: show correct file mode
We have some read-only files and write-only files, but currently they are
all set to 0644, which is counter-intuitive and cause trouble for some
cgroup tools like libcgroup.
This patch adds 'mode' to struct cftype to allow cgroup subsys to set it's
own files' file mode, and for the most cases cft->mode can be default to 0
and cgroup will figure out proper mode.
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/groupA use_hierarchy==1
/01 some tasks
/02 some tasks
/03 some tasks
/04 empty
When tasks under 01/02/03 hit limit on /groupA, hierarchical reclaim
is triggered and the kernel walks tree under groupA. In this case,
rmdir /groupA/04 fails with -EBUSY frequently because of temporal
refcnt from the kernel.
In general. cgroup can be rmdir'd if there are no children groups and
no tasks. Frequent fails of rmdir() is not useful to users.
(And the reason for -EBUSY is unknown to users.....in most cases)
This patch tries to modify above behavior, by
- retries if css_refcnt is got by someone.
- add "return value" to pre_destroy() and allows subsystem to
say "we're really busy!"
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch for Per-CSS(Cgroup Subsys State) ID and private hierarchy code.
This patch attaches unique ID to each css and provides following.
- css_lookup(subsys, id)
returns pointer to struct cgroup_subysys_state of id.
- css_get_next(subsys, id, rootid, depth, foundid)
returns the next css under "root" by scanning
When cgroup_subsys->use_id is set, an id for css is maintained.
The cgroup framework only parepares
- css_id of root css for subsys
- id is automatically attached at creation of css.
- id is *not* freed automatically. Because the cgroup framework
don't know lifetime of cgroup_subsys_state.
free_css_id() function is provided. This must be called by subsys.
There are several reasons to develop this.
- Saving space .... For example, memcg's swap_cgroup is array of
pointers to cgroup. But it is not necessary to be very fast.
By replacing pointers(8bytes per ent) to ID (2byes per ent), we can
reduce much amount of memory usage.
- Scanning without lock.
CSS_ID provides "scan id under this ROOT" function. By this, scanning
css under root can be written without locks.
ex)
do {
rcu_read_lock();
next = cgroup_get_next(subsys, id, root, &found);
/* check sanity of next here */
css_tryget();
rcu_read_unlock();
id = found + 1
} while(...)
Characteristics:
- Each css has unique ID under subsys.
- Lifetime of ID is controlled by subsys.
- css ID contains "ID" and "Depth in hierarchy" and stack of hierarchy
- Allowed ID is 1-65535, ID 0 is UNUSED ID.
Design Choices:
- scan-by-ID v.s. scan-by-tree-walk.
As /proc's pid scan does, scan-by-ID is robust when scanning is done
by following kind of routine.
scan -> rest a while(release a lock) -> conitunue from interrupted
memcg's hierarchical reclaim does this.
- When subsys->use_id is set, # of css in the system is limited to
65535.
[bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com: remove rcu_read_lock() from css_get_next()] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Grzegorz Nosek [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:57:23 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
cgroups: relax ns_can_attach checks to allow attaching to grandchild cgroups
The ns_proxy cgroup allows moving processes to child cgroups only one
level deep at a time. This commit relaxes this restriction and makes it
possible to attach tasks directly to grandchild cgroups, e.g.:
($pid is in the root cgroup)
echo $pid > /cgroup/CG1/CG2/tasks
Previously this operation would fail with -EPERM and would have to be
performed as two steps:
echo $pid > /cgroup/CG1/tasks
echo $pid > /cgroup/CG1/CG2/tasks
Also, the target cgroup no longer needs to be empty to move a task there.
Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Nosek <root@localdomain.pl> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Li Xiaodong [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:57:21 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
documentation: fix unix_dgram_qlen description
Previous description about system parameter in /proc/sys/net/unix/ is
wrong (or missed). Simply add a new description about unix_dgram_qlen
according to latest kernel.
Signed-off-by: Li Xiaodong <lixd@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
documentation: update Documentation/filesystem/proc.txt and Documentation/sysctls
Now /proc/sys is described in many places and much information is
redundant. This patch updates the proc.txt and move the /proc/sys
desciption out to the files in Documentation/sysctls.
Details are:
merge
- 2.1 /proc/sys/fs - File system data
- 2.11 /proc/sys/fs/mqueue - POSIX message queues filesystem
- 2.17 /proc/sys/fs/epoll - Configuration options for the epoll interface
with Documentation/sysctls/fs.txt.
remove
- 2.2 /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc - Miscellaneous binary formats
since it's not better then the Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt.
merge
- 2.3 /proc/sys/kernel - general kernel parameters
with Documentation/sysctls/kernel.txt
remove
- 2.5 /proc/sys/dev - Device specific parameters
since it's obsolete the sysfs is used now.
remove
- 2.6 /proc/sys/sunrpc - Remote procedure calls
since it's not better then the Documentation/sysctls/sunrpc.txt
move
- 2.7 /proc/sys/net - Networking stuff
- 2.9 Appletalk
- 2.10 IPX
to newly created Documentation/sysctls/net.txt.
remove
- 2.8 /proc/sys/net/ipv4 - IPV4 settings
since it's not better then the Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt.
add
- Chapter 3 Per-Process Parameters
to descibe /proc/<pid>/xxx parameters.
Signed-off-by: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hppfs_read_file() may return (ssize_t) -ENOMEM, or -EFAULT. When stored
in size_t 'count', these errors will not be noticed, a large value will be
added to *ppos.
Jan Kara [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:57:17 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
ext3: avoid false EIO errors
Sometimes block_write_begin() can map buffers in a page but later we
fail to copy data into those buffers (because the source page has been
paged out in the mean time). We then end up with !uptodate mapped
buffers. To add a bit more to the confusion, block_write_end() does
not commit any data (and thus does not any mark buffers as uptodate) if
we didn't succeed with copying all the data.
Commit f4fc66a894546bdc88a775d0e83ad20a65210bcb (ext3: convert to new
aops) missed these cases and thus we were inserting non-uptodate
buffers to transaction's list which confuses JBD code and it reports IO
errors, aborts a transaction and generally makes users afraid about
their data ;-P.
This patch fixes the problem by reorganizing ext3_..._write_end() code
to first call block_write_end() to mark buffers with valid data
uptodate and after that we file only uptodate buffers to transaction's
lists.
We also fix a problem where we could leave blocks allocated beyond i_size
(i_disksize in fact) because of failed write. We now add inode to orphan
list when write fails (to be safe in case we crash) and then truncate blocks
beyond i_size in a separate transaction.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ext3: return -EIO not -ESTALE on directory traversal through deleted inode
ext3_iget() returns -ESTALE if invoked on a deleted inode, in order to
report errors to NFS properly. However, in ext[234]_lookup(), this
-ESTALE can be propagated to userspace if the filesystem is corrupted such
that a directory entry references a deleted inode. This leads to a
misleading error message - "Stale NFS file handle" - and confusion on the
part of the admin.
The bug can be easily reproduced by creating a new filesystem, making a
link to an unused inode using debugfs, then mounting and attempting to ls
-l said link.
This patch thus changes ext3_lookup to return -EIO if it receives -ESTALE
from ext3_iget(), as ext3 does for other filesystem metadata corruption;
and also invokes the appropriate ext*_error functions when this case is
detected.
Cyrus Massoumi [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:57:12 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
ext3: remove the BKL in ext3/ioctl.c
Reformat ext3/ioctl.c to make it look more like ext4/ioctl.c and remove
the BKL around ext3_ioctl().
Signed-off-by: Cyrus Massoumi <cyrusm@gmx.net> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Michael Buesch [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:57:07 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
spi-gpio: allow operation without CS signal
Change spi-gpio so that it is possible to drive SPI communications over
GPIO without the need for a chipselect signal.
This is useful in very small setups where there's only one slave device
on the bus.
This patch does not affect existing setups.
I use this for a tiny communication channel between an embedded device and
a microcontroller. There are not enough GPIOs available for chipselect
and it's not needed anyway in this case.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
David Brownell [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:57:06 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
gpio: gpio_{request,free}() now required (feature removal)
We want to phase out the GPIO "autorequest" mechanism in gpiolib and
require all callers to use gpio_request().
- Update feature-removal-schedule
- Update the documentation now
- Convert the relevant pr_warning() in gpiolib to a WARN()
so folk using this mechanism get a noisy stack dump
Some drivers and board init code will probably need to change.
Implementations not using gpiolib will still be fine; they are already
required to implement gpio_{request,free}() stubs.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Allow GPIOs in GPIOLIB chips to be named. This name is then used when the
GPIO is exported to sysfs, although it could be used elsewhere if deemed
useful.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@simtec.co.uk> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Simon Kitching [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:57:00 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
initramfs: prevent initramfs printk message being split by messages from other code.
initramfs uses printk without a linefeed, then does some work, then uses
printk to finish the message off. However if some other code does a
printk in between, then the messages get mixed together. Better for each
message to be an independent line...
Example of problem that this fixes:
checking if image is initramfs...<7>Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 1
Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
it is
Signed-off-by: Simon Kitching <skitching@apache.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
David Brownell [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:56:58 +0000 (16:56 -0700)]
memory_accessor: implement the new memory_accessor interfaces for SPI EEPROMs
- Define new setup() hook to export the accessor
- Implement accessor methods
Moves some error checking out of the sysfs interface code into the layer
below it, which is now shared by both sysfs and memory access code.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Kevin Hilman [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:56:57 +0000 (16:56 -0700)]
memory_accessor: implement the new memory_accessor interface for I2C EEPROM
In the case of at24, the platform code registers a 'setup' callback with
the at24_platform_data. When the at24 driver detects an EEPROM, it fills
out the read and write functions of the memory_accessor and calls the
setup callback passing the memory_accessor struct. The platform code can
then use the read/write functions in the memory_accessor struct for
reading and writing the EEPROM.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com> Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Kevin Hilman [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:56:56 +0000 (16:56 -0700)]
memory_accessor: new interface for reading/writing persistent memory
Add an interface by which other kernel code can read/write persistent
memory such as I2C or SPI EEPROMs, or devices which provide NVRAM. Use
cases include storage of board-specific configuration data like Ethernet
addresses and sensor calibrations.
Original idea, review and improvement suggestions by David Brownell.
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jean Delvare [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:56:54 +0000 (16:56 -0700)]
workqueue: add to_delayed_work() helper function
It is a fairly common operation to have a pointer to a work and to need a
pointer to the delayed work it is contained in. In particular, all
delayed works which want to rearm themselves will have to do that. So it
would seem fair to offer a helper function for this operation.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/um/kernel/syscall.c: In function 'kernel_execve':
arch/um/kernel/syscall.c:130: warning: passing argument 1 of 'um_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
arch/um/kernel/syscall.c:130: warning: passing argument 2 of 'um_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
arch/um/kernel/syscall.c:130: warning: passing argument 3 of 'um_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
uml: fix link error from prefixing of i386 syscalls with ptregs_
Fix the following link error:
arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table':
(.rodata+0x11c): undefined reference to `ptregs_fork'
arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table':
(.rodata+0x140): undefined reference to `ptregs_execve'
arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table':
(.rodata+0x2cc): undefined reference to `ptregs_iopl'
arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table':
(.rodata+0x2d8): undefined reference to `ptregs_vm86old'
arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table':
(.rodata+0x2f0): undefined reference to `ptregs_sigreturn'
arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table':
(.rodata+0x2f4): undefined reference to `ptregs_clone'
arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table':
(.rodata+0x3ac): undefined reference to `ptregs_vm86'
arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table':
(.rodata+0x3c8): undefined reference to `ptregs_rt_sigreturn'
arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table':
(.rodata+0x3fc): undefined reference to `ptregs_sigaltstack'
arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table':
(.rodata+0x40c): undefined reference to `ptregs_vfork'
This was introduced by commit 253f29a4, "x86: pass in pt_regs pointer
for syscalls that need it"
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
uml: fix compile error from net_device_ops conversion
Fix the following compile error:
arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c: In function 'uml_inetaddr_event':
arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c:760: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'open'
This was introduced by commit 8bb95b39, "uml: convert network device
to netdevice ops".
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The missing device table means that the floppy module is not auto-loaded,
even when the appropriate PNP device (0700) is found.
We don't actually use the table in the module, since the device doesn't
have a struct pnp_driver, but it's sufficient to cause an alias in the
module that udev/modprobe will use.
Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A new "address_space flag"--AS_MM_ALL_LOCKS--was defined to use the next
available AS flag while the Unevictable LRU was under development. The
Unevictable LRU was using the same flag and "no one" noticed. Current
mainline, since 2.6.28, has same value for two symbolic flag names.
So, define a unique flag value for AS_UNEVICTABLE--up close to the other
flags, [at the cost of an additional #ifdef] so we'll notice next time.
Note that #ifdef is not actually required, if we don't mind having the
unused flag value defined.
Replace #defines with an enum.
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x, 2.6.29.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The calculation of the value nr in do_xip_mapping_read is incorrect. If
the copy required more than one iteration in the do while loop the copies
variable will be non-zero. The maximum length that may be passed to the
call to copy_to_user(buf+copied, xip_mem+offset, nr) is len-copied but the
check only compares against (nr > len).
This bug is the cause for the heap corruption Carsten has been chasing
for so long:
With this bug fix the commit 0e4a9b59282914fe057ab17027f55123964bc2e2
"ext2/xip: refuse to change xip flag during remount with busy inodes" can
be removed again.
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Anton Blanchard [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:56:39 +0000 (16:56 -0700)]
mm: align vmstat_work's timer
Even though vmstat_work is marked deferrable, there are still benefits to
aligning it. For certain applications we want to keep OS jitter as low as
possible and aligning timers and work so they occur together can reduce
their overall impact.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jeff Layton [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:56:37 +0000 (16:56 -0700)]
writeback: guard against jiffies wraparound on inode->dirtied_when checks (try #3)
The dirtied_when value on an inode is supposed to represent the first time
that an inode has one of its pages dirtied. This value is in units of
jiffies. It's used in several places in the writeback code to determine
when to write out an inode.
The problem is that these checks assume that dirtied_when is updated
periodically. If an inode is continuously being used for I/O it can be
persistently marked as dirty and will continue to age. Once the time
compared to is greater than or equal to half the maximum of the jiffies
type, the logic of the time_*() macros inverts and the opposite of what is
needed is returned. On 32-bit architectures that's just under 25 days
(assuming HZ == 1000).
As the least-recently dirtied inode, it'll end up being the first one that
pdflush will try to write out. sync_sb_inodes does this check:
/* Was this inode dirtied after sync_sb_inodes was called? */
if (time_after(inode->dirtied_when, start))
break;
...but now dirtied_when appears to be in the future. sync_sb_inodes bails
out without attempting to write any dirty inodes. When this occurs,
pdflush will stop writing out inodes for this superblock. Nothing can
unwedge it until jiffies moves out of the problematic window.
This patch fixes this problem by changing the checks against dirtied_when
to also check whether it appears to be in the future. If it does, then we
consider the value to be far in the past.
This should shrink the problematic window of time to such a small period
(30s) as not to matter.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
clear_inode() will switch inode state from I_FREEING to I_CLEAR, and do so
_outside_ of inode_lock. So any I_FREEING testing is incomplete without a
coupled testing of I_CLEAR.
So add I_CLEAR tests to drop_pagecache_sb(), generic_sync_sb_inodes() and
add_dquot_ref().
Masayoshi MIZUMA discovered the bug in drop_pagecache_sb() and Jan Kara
reminds fixing the other two cases.
Masayoshi MIZUMA has a nice panic flow:
=====================================================================
[process A] | [process B]
| |
| prune_icache() | drop_pagecache()
| spin_lock(&inode_lock) | drop_pagecache_sb()
| inode->i_state |= I_FREEING; | |
| spin_unlock(&inode_lock) | V
| | | spin_lock(&inode_lock)
| V | |
| dispose_list() | |
| list_del() | |
| clear_inode() | |
| inode->i_state = I_CLEAR | |
| | | V
| | | if (inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE))
| | | continue; <==== NOT MATCH
| | |
| | | (DANGER from here on! Accessing disposing inode!)
| | |
| | | __iget()
| | | list_move() <===== PANIC on poisoned list !!
V V |
(time)
=====================================================================
Reported-by: Masayoshi MIZUMA <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
David Howells [Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:56:32 +0000 (16:56 -0700)]
nommu: fix a number of issues with the per-MM VMA patch
Fix a number of issues with the per-MM VMA patch:
(1) Make mmap_pages_allocated an atomic_long_t, just in case this is used on
a NOMMU system with more than 2G pages. Makes no difference on a 32-bit
system.
(2) Report vma->vm_pgoff * PAGE_SIZE as a 64-bit value, not a 32-bit value,
lest it overflow.
(3) Move the allocation of the vm_area_struct slab back for fork.c.
(4) Use KMEM_CACHE() for both vm_area_struct and vm_region slabs.
(5) Use BUG_ON() rather than if () BUG().
(6) Make the default validate_nommu_regions() a static inline rather than a
#define.
(7) Make free_page_series()'s objection to pages with a refcount != 1 more
informative.
(8) Adjust the __put_nommu_region() banner comment to indicate that the
semaphore must be held for writing.
(9) Limit the number of warnings about munmaps of non-mmapped regions.
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>