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15 years agoxtensa: Cleanup linker script using new linker script macros.
Tim Abbott [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:36:19 +0000 (10:36 -0400)]
xtensa: Cleanup linker script using new linker script macros.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoparisc: Remove useless altinstructions code copied from x86.
Tim Abbott [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:36:18 +0000 (10:36 -0400)]
parisc: Remove useless altinstructions code copied from x86.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoparisc: Clean up linker script using new linker script macros.
Tim Abbott [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:36:17 +0000 (10:36 -0400)]
parisc: Clean up linker script using new linker script macros.

This patch has the (likely harmless) side effect of moving
.data.init_task inside the _edata.

It also changes the alignment of .data.init_task from 16384 to
THREAD_SIZE, which can in some configurations be larger than 16384.  I
believe that this change fixes a potential bug on those
configurations.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoOptimize the ordering of sections in RW_DATA_SECTION.
Tim Abbott [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:36:16 +0000 (10:36 -0400)]
Optimize the ordering of sections in RW_DATA_SECTION.

The old RW_DATA_SECTION had INIT_TASK_DATA (which was
more-than-PAGE_SIZE-aligned), followed by a bunch of small alignment
stuff, followed by more PAGE_SIZE-aligned stuff, so you wasted memory
in the middle of .data re-aligning back up to PAGE_SIZE.

This patch sorts the sections by alignment requirements, which should
pack them essentially optimally.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agohugetlb_file_setup(): use C, not cpp
Andrew Morton [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:47:45 +0000 (14:47 -0700)]
hugetlb_file_setup(): use C, not cpp

Why macros are always wrong:

  mm/mmap.c: In function 'do_mmap_pgoff':
  mm/mmap.c:953: warning: unused variable 'user'

also, move a couple of struct forward-decls outside `#ifdef
CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE' - it's pointless and frequently harmful to make these
conditional (eg, this patch needed `struct user_struct').

Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoprocfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU
Andrew Morton [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:47:43 +0000 (14:47 -0700)]
procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU

It needs walk_page_range().

Reported-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ecryptfs...
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:10:17 +0000 (17:10 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ecryptfs/ecryptfs-2.6

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ecryptfs/ecryptfs-2.6:
  eCryptfs: Prevent lower dentry from going negative during unlink
  eCryptfs: Propagate vfs_read and vfs_write return codes
  eCryptfs: Validate global auth tok keys
  eCryptfs: Filename encryption only supports password auth tokens
  eCryptfs: Check for O_RDONLY lower inodes when opening lower files
  eCryptfs: Handle unrecognized tag 3 cipher codes
  ecryptfs: improved dependency checking and reporting
  eCryptfs: Fix lockdep-reported AB-BA mutex issue
  ecryptfs: Remove unneeded locking that triggers lockdep false positives

15 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://repo.or.cz/cris-mirror
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:08:56 +0000 (17:08 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://repo.or.cz/cris-mirror

* 'for-linus' of git://repo.or.cz/cris-mirror:
  CRIS: Cleanup linker script using new linker script macros.
  ARRAY_SIZE changes
  CRIS: convert to asm-generic/hardirq.h
  CRISv10: Don't autonegotiate if autonegotiation is off
  CRIS: fix defconfig build failure
  CRIS: add pgprot_noncached

15 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:06:51 +0000 (17:06 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm

* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (103 commits)
  ARM: 5719/1: [AT91] Fix AC97 breakage
  ARM: 5721/1: MMCI enable the use of a regulator
  ARM: 5720/1: Move MMCI header to amba include dir
  ARM: 5718/1: Sane busids for RealView board components
  ARM: 5715/1: Make kprobes unregistration SMP safe
  ARM: 5711/1: locomo.c: CodingStyle cleanups
  ARM: 5710/1: at91: add AC97 support to at91sam9rl and at91sam9rlek board
  ARM: 5709/1: at91: add AC97 support to at91sam9g45 series and at91sam9m10g45ek board
  ARM: 5621/1: at91/dmaengine: integration of at_hdmac driver in at91sam9g45 series
  ARM: 5620/1: at91/dmaengine: integration of at_hdmac driver in at91sam9rl
  ARM: Add support for checking access permissions on prefetch aborts
  ARM: Separate out access error checking
  ARM: Ensure correct might_sleep() check in pagefault path
  ARM: Update page fault handling for new OOM techniques
  ARM: Provide definitions and helpers for decoding the FSR register
  ARM: 5712/1: SA1100: initialise spinlock in DMA code
  ARM: s3c: fix check of index into s3c_gpios[]
  ARM: spitz: fix touchscreen max presure
  ARM: STMP3xxx: deallocation with negative index of descriptors[]
  Thumb-2: Correctly handle undefined instructions in the kernel
  ...

15 years agoMerge branch 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:06:16 +0000 (17:06 -0700)]
Merge branch 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6

* 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
  nfs[23] tcp breakage in mount with binary options
  net: fix htmldocs sunrpc, clnt.c

15 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland...
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:06:01 +0000 (17:06 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
  IPoIB: Don't turn on carrier for a non-active port
  IB/mthca: Fix access to freed memory in catastrophic event handling
  mlx4_core: Pass cache line size to device FW
  RDMA/nes: Remove duplicate .ndo_set_mac_address field initialization
  IB/mad: Fix lock-lock-timer deadlock in RMPP code

15 years agoMerge branch 'origin' into for-linus
Russell King [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:22:33 +0000 (21:22 +0100)]
Merge branch 'origin' into for-linus

Conflicts:
MAINTAINERS

15 years agoMerge branches 'ipoib', 'mad', 'mlx4', 'mthca' and 'nes' into for-linus
Roland Dreier [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:43:08 +0000 (12:43 -0700)]
Merge branches 'ipoib', 'mad', 'mlx4', 'mthca' and 'nes' into for-linus

15 years agoIPoIB: Don't turn on carrier for a non-active port
Moni Shoua [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:01:05 +0000 (12:01 -0700)]
IPoIB: Don't turn on carrier for a non-active port

Multicast joins can succeed even if the IB port is down.  This happens
when the SM runs on the same port with the requesting port.  However,
IPoIB calls netif_carrier_on() when the join of the broadcast group
succeeds, without caring about the state of the IB port.  The result
is an IPoIB interface in RUNNING state but without an active IB port
to support it.

If a bonding interface uses this IPoIB interface as a slave it might
not detect that this slave is almost useless and failover
functionality will be damaged.  The fix checks the state of the IB
port in the carrier_task before calling netif_carrier_on().

Adresses: https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1726
Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis@voltaire.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
15 years agonfs[23] tcp breakage in mount with binary options
Al Viro [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:58:42 +0000 (14:58 -0400)]
nfs[23] tcp breakage in mount with binary options

We forget to set nfs_server.protocol in tcp case when old-style binary
options are passed to mount.  The thing remains zero and never validated
afterwards.  As the result, we hit BUG in fs/nfs/client.c:588.

Breakage has been introduced in NFS: Add nfs_alloc_parsed_mount_data
merged yesterday...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
15 years agonet: fix htmldocs sunrpc, clnt.c
Jaswinder Singh Rajput [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:58:42 +0000 (14:58 -0400)]
net: fix htmldocs sunrpc, clnt.c

  DOCPROC Documentation/DocBook/networking.xml
  Warning(net/sunrpc/clnt.c:647): No description found for parameter 'req'
  Warning(net/sunrpc/clnt.c:647): No description found for parameter 'tk_ops'
  Warning(net/sunrpc/clnt.c:647): Excess function parameter 'ops' description in 'rpc_run_bc_task'

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com>
Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Cc: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
15 years agoIB/mthca: Fix access to freed memory in catastrophic event handling
Jack Morgenstein [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:55:41 +0000 (11:55 -0700)]
IB/mthca: Fix access to freed memory in catastrophic event handling

catas_reset() uses a pointer to mthca_dev, but mthca_dev is not valid
after the call to __mthca_restart_one().

Based on a similar patch for mlx4 (634354d7, "mlx4: Fix access to
freed memory") by Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org>

Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
15 years agomlx4_core: Pass cache line size to device FW
Eli Cohen [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:03:03 +0000 (11:03 -0700)]
mlx4_core: Pass cache line size to device FW

ConnectX can work more efficiently if the CPU cache line size is passed
to it with the INIT_HCA firmware command.

Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
15 years agoRDMA/nes: Remove duplicate .ndo_set_mac_address field initialization
Julia Lawall [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:59:34 +0000 (10:59 -0700)]
RDMA/nes: Remove duplicate .ndo_set_mac_address field initialization

The definition of nes_netdev_ops has initializations of a local function
and eth_mac_addr for its ndo_set_mac_address field.  This change uses only
the local function.

The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@r@
identifier I, s, fld;
position p0,p;
expression E;
@@

struct I s =@p0 { ... .fld@p = E, ...};

@s@
identifier I, s, r.fld;
position r.p0,p;
expression E;
@@

struct I s =@p0 { ... .fld@p = E, ...};

@script:python@
p0 << r.p0;
fld << r.fld;
ps << s.p;
pr << r.p;
@@

if int(ps[0].line)!=int(pr[0].line) or int(ps[0].column)!=int(pr[0].column):
  cocci.print_main(fld,p0)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
15 years agoMerge branch 'drm-intel-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt...
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:30:41 +0000 (10:30 -0700)]
Merge branch 'drm-intel-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel

* 'drm-intel-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel: (57 commits)
  drm/i915: Handle ERESTARTSYS during page fault
  drm/i915: Warn before mmaping a purgeable buffer.
  drm/i915: Track purged state.
  drm/i915: Remove eviction debug spam
  drm/i915: Immediately discard any backing storage for uneeded objects
  drm/i915: Do not mis-classify clean objects as purgeable
  drm/i915: Whitespace correction for madv
  drm/i915: BUG_ON page refleak during unbind
  drm/i915: Search harder for a reusable object
  drm/i915: Clean up evict from list.
  drm/i915: Add tracepoints
  drm/i915: framebuffer compression for GM45+
  drm/i915: split display functions by chip type
  drm/i915: Skip the sanity checks if the current relocation is valid
  drm/i915: Check that the relocation points to within the target
  drm/i915: correct FBC update when pipe base update occurs
  drm/i915: blacklist Acer AspireOne lid status
  ACPI: make ACPI button funcs no-ops if not built in
  drm/i915: prevent FIFO calculation overflows on 32 bits with high dotclocks
  drm/i915: intel_display.c handle latency variable efficiently
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/{i915_dma.c|i915_drv.h}

15 years agoMerge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes...
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:57:08 +0000 (09:57 -0700)]
Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6

* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (21 commits)
  x86/PCI: make 32 bit NUMA node array int, not unsigned char
  x86/PCI: default pcibus cpumask to all cpus if it lacks affinity
  MAINTAINTERS: remove hotplug driver entries
  PCI: pciehp: remove slot capabilities definitions
  PCI: pciehp: remove error message definitions
  PCI: pciehp: remove number field
  PCI: pciehp: remove hpc_ops
  PCI: pciehp: remove pci_dev field
  PCI: pciehp: remove crit_sect mutex
  PCI: pciehp: remove slot_bus field
  PCI: pciehp: remove first_slot field
  PCI: pciehp: remove slot_device_offset field
  PCI: pciehp: remove hp_slot field
  PCI: pciehp: remove device field
  PCI: pciehp: remove bus field
  PCI: pciehp: remove slot_num_inc field
  PCI: pciehp: remove num_slots field
  PCI: pciehp: remove slot_list field
  PCI: fix VGA arbiter header file
  PCI: Disable AER with pci=nomsi
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflicts in MAINTAINERS

15 years agoMerge branch 'cputime' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:04:24 +0000 (09:04 -0700)]
Merge branch 'cputime' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6

* 'cputime' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
  [PATCH] Fix idle time field in /proc/uptime

15 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:01:44 +0000 (09:01 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze

* 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze: (24 commits)
  microblaze: Disable heartbeat/enable emaclite in defconfigs
  microblaze: Support simpleImage.dts make target
  microblaze: Fix _start symbol to physical address
  microblaze: Use LOAD_OFFSET macro to get correct LMA for all sections
  microblaze: Create the LOAD_OFFSET macro used to compute VMA vs LMA offsets
  microblaze: Copy ppc asm-compat.h for clean handling of constants in asm and C
  microblaze: Actually show KiB rather than pages in "Freeing initrd memory:"
  microblaze: Support ptrace syscall tracing.
  microblaze: Updated CPU version and FPGA family codes in PVR
  microblaze: Generate correct signal and siginfo for integer div-by-zero
  microblaze: Don't be noisy when userspace causes hardware exceptions
  microblaze: Remove ipc.h file which points to non-existing asm-generic file
  microblaze: Clear sticky FSR register after generating exception signals
  microblaze: Ensure CPU usermode is set on new userspace processes
  microblaze: Use correct kbuild variable KBUILD_CFLAGS
  microblaze: Save and restore msr in hw exception
  microblaze: Add architectural support for USB EHCI host controllers
  microblaze: Implement include/asm/syscall.h.
  microblaze: Improve checking mechanism for MSR instruction
  microblaze: Add checking mechanism for MSR instruction
  ...

15 years agoMerge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:01:05 +0000 (09:01 -0700)]
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  module: don't call percpu_modfree on NULL pointer.
  module: fix memory leak when load fails after srcversion/version allocated
  module: preferred way to use MODULE_AUTHOR
  param: allow whitespace as kernel parameter separator
  module: reduce string table for loaded modules (v2)
  module: reduce symbol table for loaded modules (v2)

15 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs...
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:57:29 +0000 (08:57 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (42 commits)
  Btrfs: hash the btree inode during  fill_super
  Btrfs: relocate file extents in clusters
  Btrfs: don't rename file into dummy directory
  Btrfs: check size of inode backref before adding hardlink
  Btrfs: fix releasepage to avoid unlocking extents we haven't locked
  Btrfs: Fix test_range_bit for whole file extents
  Btrfs: fix errors handling cached state in set/clear_extent_bit
  Btrfs: fix early enospc during balancing
  Btrfs: deal with NULL space info
  Btrfs: account for space used by the super mirrors
  Btrfs: fix extent entry threshold calculation
  Btrfs: remove dead code
  Btrfs: fix bitmap size tracking
  Btrfs: don't keep retrying a block group if we fail to allocate a cluster
  Btrfs: make balance code choose more wisely when relocating
  Btrfs: fix arithmetic error in clone ioctl
  Btrfs: add snapshot/subvolume destroy ioctl
  Btrfs: change how subvolumes are organized
  Btrfs: do not reuse objectid of deleted snapshot/subvol
  Btrfs: speed up snapshot dropping
  ...

15 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:32:11 +0000 (08:32 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  truncate: use new helpers
  truncate: new helpers
  fs: fix overflow in sys_mount() for in-kernel calls
  fs: Make unload_nls() NULL pointer safe
  freeze_bdev: grab active reference to frozen superblocks
  freeze_bdev: kill bd_mount_sem
  exofs: remove BKL from super operations
  fs/romfs: correct error-handling code
  vfs: seq_file: add helpers for data filling
  vfs: remove redundant position check in do_sendfile
  vfs: change sb->s_maxbytes to a loff_t
  vfs: explicitly cast s_maxbytes in fiemap_check_ranges
  libfs: return error code on failed attr set
  seq_file: return a negative error code when seq_path_root() fails.
  vfs: optimize touch_time() too
  vfs: optimization for touch_atime()
  vfs: split generic_forget_inode() so that hugetlbfs does not have to copy it
  fs/inode.c: add dev-id and inode number for debugging in init_special_inode()
  libfs: make simple_read_from_buffer conventional

15 years agoMerge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:31:04 +0000 (08:31 -0700)]
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
  lsm: Use a compressed IPv6 string format in audit events
  Audit: send signal info if selinux is disabled
  Audit: rearrange audit_context to save 16 bytes per struct
  Audit: reorganize struct audit_watch to save 8 bytes

15 years agomodule: don't call percpu_modfree on NULL pointer.
Rusty Russell [Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:32:59 +0000 (00:32 -0600)]
module: don't call percpu_modfree on NULL pointer.

The general one handles NULL, the static obsolescent
(CONFIG_HAVE_LEGACY_PER_CPU_AREA) one in module.c doesn't; Eric's
commit 720eba31 assumed it did, and various frobbings since then kept
that assumption.

All other callers in module.c all protect it with an if; this effectively
does the same as free_init is only goto if we fail percpu_modalloc().

Reported-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
15 years agomodule: fix memory leak when load fails after srcversion/version allocated
Rusty Russell [Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:32:58 +0000 (00:32 -0600)]
module: fix memory leak when load fails after srcversion/version allocated

Normally the twisty paths of sysfs will free the attributes, but not if
we fail before we hook it into sysfs (which is the last thing we do in
load_module).

(This sysfs code is a turd, no doubt there are other issues lurking too).

Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
15 years agomodule: preferred way to use MODULE_AUTHOR
Johannes Berg [Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:32:58 +0000 (00:32 -0600)]
module: preferred way to use MODULE_AUTHOR

For the longest time now we've been using multiple MODULE_AUTHOR()
statements when a module has more than one author, but the comment here
disagrees.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
15 years agoparam: allow whitespace as kernel parameter separator
Peter Oberparleiter [Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:11:22 +0000 (17:11 +0200)]
param: allow whitespace as kernel parameter separator

Some boot mechanisms require that kernel parameters are stored in a
separate file which is loaded to memory without further processing
(e.g. the "Load from FTP" method on s390). When such a file contains
newline characters, the kernel parameter preceding the newline might
not be correctly parsed (due to the newline being stuck to the end of
the actual parameter value) which can lead to boot failures.

This patch improves kernel command line usability in such a situation
by allowing generic whitespace characters as separators between kernel
parameters.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
15 years agomodule: reduce string table for loaded modules (v2)
Jan Beulich [Mon, 6 Jul 2009 13:51:44 +0000 (14:51 +0100)]
module: reduce string table for loaded modules (v2)

Also remove all parts of the string table (referenced by the symbol
table) that are not needed for kallsyms use (i.e. which were only
referenced by symbols discarded by the previous patch, or not
referenced at all for whatever reason).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
15 years agomodule: reduce symbol table for loaded modules (v2)
Jan Beulich [Mon, 6 Jul 2009 13:50:42 +0000 (14:50 +0100)]
module: reduce symbol table for loaded modules (v2)

Discard all symbols not interesting for kallsyms use: absolute,
section, and in the common case (!KALLSYMS_ALL) data ones.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
15 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:55:29 +0000 (07:55 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md

* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (97 commits)
  md: raid-1/10: fix RW bits manipulation
  md: remove unnecessary memset from multipath.
  md: report device as congested when suspended
  md: Improve name of threads created by md_register_thread
  md: remove sparse warnings about lock context.
  md: remove sparse waring "symbol xxx shadows an earlier one"
  async_tx/raid6: add missing dma_unmap calls to the async fail case
  ioat3: fix uninitialized var warnings
  drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v2.c: fix warnings
  raid6test: fix stack overflow
  ioat2: clarify ring size limits
  md/raid6: cleanup ops_run_compute6_2
  md/raid6: eliminate BUG_ON with side effect
  dca: module load should not be an error message
  ioat: driver version 4.0
  dca: registering requesters in multiple dca domains
  async_tx: remove HIGHMEM64G restriction
  dmaengine: sh: Add Support SuperH DMA Engine driver
  dmaengine: Move all map_sg/unmap_sg for slave channel to its client
  fsldma: Add DMA_SLAVE support
  ...

15 years agoMerge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab...
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:54:16 +0000 (07:54 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6:
  V4L/DVB (13039): dib0700: not building CONFIG_DVB_TUNER_DIB0070 breaks compilation
  V4L/DVB (13038): dvbdev: Remove an anoying/uneeded warning
  V4L/DVB (13037): go7007: Revert compatibility code added at the wrong place
  media: video: Fix build in saa7164

15 years agoMerge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux...
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:53:22 +0000 (07:53 -0700)]
Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6

* 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (21 commits)
  HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page on btrfs
  HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs
  HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4
  HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page for NFS
  HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems
  HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7
  HWPOISON: Add PR_MCE_KILL prctl to control early kill behaviour per process
  HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked page
  HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation
  HWPOISON: Add invalidate_inode_page
  HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2
  HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2
  HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap
  HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour
  HWPOISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to x86 page fault handler v2
  HWPOISON: Add poison check to page fault handling
  HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3
  HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals
  HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2
  HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world
  ...

15 years agodrivers/usb/serial/sierra.c: fix CONFIG_PM=n build
Andrew Morton [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:43 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c: fix CONFIG_PM=n build

drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c: In function 'sierra_suspend':
drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c:936: error: 'struct usb_device' has no member named 'auto_pm'

Repairs

commit e6929a9020acbeb04d9a3ad9a88234c15be808fd
Author: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Date:   Fri Sep 4 23:19:53 2009 +0200

    USB: support for autosuspend in sierra while online

Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: Elina Pasheva <epasheva@sierrawireless.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoalpha: AGP update (fixes compile failure)
Ivan Kokshaysky [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:42 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
alpha: AGP update (fixes compile failure)

This brings Alpha AGP platforms in sync with the change to struct
agp_memory (unsigned long *memory => struct page **pages).

Only compile tested (I don't have titan/marvel hardware), but this change
looks pretty straightforward, so hopefully it's ok.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agotask_struct cleanup: move binfmt field to mm_struct
Hiroshi Shimamoto [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:41 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
task_struct cleanup: move binfmt field to mm_struct

Because the binfmt is not different between threads in the same process,
it can be moved from task_struct to mm_struct.  And binfmt moudle is
handled per mm_struct instead of task_struct.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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>
15 years agoinclude/linux/unaligned/{l,b}e_byteshift.h: fix usage for compressed kernels
Albin Tonnerre [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:38 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
include/linux/unaligned/{l,b}e_byteshift.h: fix usage for compressed kernels

When unaligned accesses are required for uncompressing a kernel (such as
for LZO decompression on ARM in a patch that follows), including
<linux/kernel.h> causes issues as it brings in a lot of things that are
not available in the decompression environment.

linux/kernel.h brings at least:
extern int console_printk[];
extern const char hex_asc[];
which causes errors at link-time as they are not available when
compiling the pre-boot environement. There are also a few others:

  arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `valid_user_regs':
   arch/arm/include/asm/ptrace.h:158: undefined reference to `elf_hwcap'
  arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `console_silent':
   include/linux/kernel.h:292: undefined reference to `console_printk'
  arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `console_verbose':
   include/linux/kernel.h:297: undefined reference to `console_printk'
  arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `pack_hex_byte':
   include/linux/kernel.h:360: undefined reference to `hex_asc'
  arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `hweight_long':
   include/linux/bitops.h:45: undefined reference to `hweight32'
  arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `__cmpxchg_local_generic':
   include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h:21: undefined reference to `wrong_size_cmpxchg'
   include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h:42: undefined reference to `wrong_size_cmpxchg'
  arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `__xchg':
   arch/arm/include/asm/system.h:309: undefined reference to `__bad_xchg'

However, those files apparently use nothing from <linux/kernel.h>, all
they need is the declaration of types such as u32 or u64, so
<linux/types.h> should be enough

Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agolzma/gzip: fix potential oops when input data is truncated
Phillip Lougher [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:37 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
lzma/gzip: fix potential oops when input data is truncated

If the lzma/gzip decompressors are called with insufficient input data
(len > 0 & fill = NULL), they will attempt to call the fill function to
obtain more data, leading to a kernel oops.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
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>
15 years agodrivers/vlynq/vlynq.c: fix resource size off by 1 error
Julia Lawall [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:36 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
drivers/vlynq/vlynq.c: fix resource size off by 1 error

In this case, the calls to request_mem_region, ioremap, and
release_mem_region all have a consistent length argument, len, but since
in other files (res->end - res->start) + 1, equivalent to
resource_size(res), is used for a resource-typed structure res, one could
consider whether the same should be done here.

The problem was found using the following semantic patch:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@@
struct resource *res;
@@

- (res->end - res->start) + 1
+ resource_size(res)

@@
struct resource *res;
@@

- res->end - res->start
+ BAD(resource_size(res))
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agofs/romfs: correct error-handling code
Julia Lawall [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:35 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
fs/romfs: correct error-handling code

romfs_iget returns an ERR_PTR value in an error case instead of NULL.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@match exists@
expression x, E;
statement S1, S2;
@@

x = romfs_iget(...)
... when != x = E
(
*  if (x == NULL || ...) S1 else S2
|
*  if (x == NULL && ...) S1 else S2
)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agogru: allocation may fail in quicktest1()
Roel Kluin [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:33 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
gru: allocation may fail in quicktest1()

The allocation may fail.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agogru: use proc_create()
Alexey Dobriyan [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:33 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
gru: use proc_create()

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoaio: ifdef fields in mm_struct
Alexey Dobriyan [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:32 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
aio: ifdef fields in mm_struct

->ioctx_lock and ->ioctx_list are used only under CONFIG_AIO.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agomemstick: move dev_dbg
Jiri Slaby [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:31 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
memstick: move dev_dbg

id_reg.if_mode might be unitialized when (*mrq)->error is nonzero.  move
dev_dbg() inside the if so that we are sure we can use id_reg values.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoadfs: remove redundant test on unsigned
Roel Kluin [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:30 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
adfs: remove redundant test on unsigned

unsigned block cannot be less than 0.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoedac: core: remove completion-wait for complete with rcu_barrier
Jesper Dangaard Brouer [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:29 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
edac: core: remove completion-wait for complete with rcu_barrier

Module edac_core.ko uses call_rcu() callbacks in edac_device.c, edac_mc.c
and edac_pci.c.

They all use a wait_for_completion() scheme, but this scheme it not 100%
safe on multiple CPUs.  See the _rcu_barrier() implementation which
explains why extra precausion is needed.

The patch adds a comment about rcu_barrier() and as a precausion calls
rcu_barrier().  A maintainer needs to look at removing the
wait_for_completion code.

[dougthompson@xmission.com: remove the wait_for_completion code]
Signed-off-by Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoedac: i3200 memory controller driver
Jason Uhlenkott [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:27 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
edac: i3200 memory controller driver

A driver for the Intel 3200 and 3210 memory controllers.  It has only had
light testing so far, and currently makes no attempt to decode error
addresses at anything finer than csrow granularity.

Signed-off-by: Jason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
15 years agoedac: fix resource size calculation
Julia Lawall [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:26 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
edac: fix resource size calculation

Use the function resource_size, which reduces the chance of introducing
off-by-one errors in calculating the resource size.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@@
struct resource *res;
@@

- (res->end - res->start) + 1
+ resource_size(res)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoedac: mpc85xx add mpc83xx support
Ira W. Snyder [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:25 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
edac: mpc85xx add mpc83xx support

Add support for the Freescale MPC83xx memory controller to the existing
driver for the Freescale MPC85xx memory controller.  The only difference
between the two processors are in the CS_BNDS register parsing code, which
has been changed so it will work on both processors.

The L2 cache controller does not exist on the MPC83xx, but the OF
subsystem will not use the driver if the device is not present in the OF
device tree.

I had to change the nr_pages calculation to make the math work out.  I
checked it on my board and did the math by hand for a 64GB 85xx using 64K
pages.  In both cases, nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE comes out to the correct
value.

Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoedac: mpc85xx add P2020DS support
Yang Shi [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:24 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
edac: mpc85xx add P2020DS support

Based on Kumar's new compatible types patch, add P2020 into MPC85xx EDAC
compatible lists so that EDAC can recognize P2020 meomry controller and L2
cache controller and export the relevant fields to sysfs.

EDAC MPC85xx DDR3 support is needed if DDR3 memory stick is installed on a
P2020DS board so that EDAC core can recognize DDR3 memory type.

Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jiang <djiang@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agolinux/futex.h: place kernel types behind __KERNEL__
Mike Frysinger [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:23 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
linux/futex.h: place kernel types behind __KERNEL__

The forward decls for some kernel types are only needed by the code behind
__KERNEL__, so don't bleed these types to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agopidns: deny CLONE_PARENT|CLONE_NEWPID combination
Sukadev Bhattiprolu [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:22 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
pidns: deny CLONE_PARENT|CLONE_NEWPID combination

CLONE_PARENT was used to implement an older threading model.  For
consistency with the CLONE_THREAD check in copy_pid_ns(), disable
CLONE_PARENT with CLONE_NEWPID, at least until the required semantics of
pid namespaces are clear.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agofork(): disable CLONE_PARENT for init
Sukadev Bhattiprolu [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:20 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
fork(): disable CLONE_PARENT for init

When global or container-init processes use CLONE_PARENT, they create a
multi-rooted process tree.  Besides siblings of global init remain as
zombies on exit since they are not reaped by their parent (swapper).  So
prevent global and container-inits from creating siblings.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agosysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler
Alexey Dobriyan [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:19 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler

It's unused.

It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl
shouldn't care about the rest.

It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoMAINTAINERS: add Matt Mackall and Herbert Xu to HARDWARE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR
Joe Perches [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:17 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
MAINTAINERS: add Matt Mackall and Herbert Xu to HARDWARE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agobfin-otp: add writing support
Mike Frysinger [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:16 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
bfin-otp: add writing support

The on-chip OTP may be written at runtime, so enable support for it in the
driver.  However, since writing should really be done only on development
systems, don't bend over backwards to make sure the simple software lock
is per-fd -- per-device is OK.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agodrivers/char/uv_mmtimer.c: add memory mapped RTC driver for UV
Dimitri Sivanich [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:15 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
drivers/char/uv_mmtimer.c: add memory mapped RTC driver for UV

This driver memory maps the UV Hub RTC.

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agodrivers/char/rio/rioctrl.c: off by one error in rioctrl.c
Dan Carpenter [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:14 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
drivers/char/rio/rioctrl.c: off by one error in rioctrl.c

If DownLoad.ProductCode == MAX_PRODUCT, that would be a problem when we do
RIOBootTable[DownLoad.ProductCode] a couple lines down.

Found by smatch (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git).

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agohpet: hpet driver periodic timer setup bug fixes
Nils Carlson [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:13 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
hpet: hpet driver periodic timer setup bug fixes

The periodic interrupt from drivers/char/hpet.c does not work correctly,
both when using the periodic capability of the hardware and while
emulating the periodic interrupt (when hardware does not support periodic
mode).

With timers capable of periodic interrupts, the comparator field is first
set with the period value followed by set of hidden accumulator, which has
the side effect of overwriting the comparator value.  This results in
wrong periodicity for the interrupts.  For, periodic interrupts to work,
following steps are necessary, in that order.

* Set config with Tn_VAL_SET_CNF bit

* Write to hidden accumulator, the value written is the time when the
  first interrupt should be generated

* Write compartor with period interval for subsequent interrupts
  (http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf )

When emulating periodic timer with timers not capable of periodic
interrupt, driver is adding the period to counter value instead of
comparator value, which causes slow drift when using this emulation.

Also, driver seems to add hpetp->hp_delta both while setting up periodic
interrupt and while emulating periodic interrupts with timers not capable
of doing periodic interrupts.  This hp_delta will result in slower than
expected interrupt rate and should not be used while setting the interval.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nils Carlson <nils.carlson@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agomwave: fix read buffer overflow
Roel Kluin [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:11 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
mwave: fix read buffer overflow

Check whether index is within bounds before grabbing the element.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agofs/char_dev.c: remove useless loop
Renzo Davoli [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:10 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
fs/char_dev.c: remove useless loop

There are two useless lines in fs/char_dev.c.

In register_chrdev there is a loop to change all '/' into '!' in the
kernel object name.
This code is useless as the same substitution is in kobject_set_name_vargs in
lib/kobject.c:
228         /* ewww... some of these buggers have '/' in the name ... */
229         while ((s = strchr(kobj->name, '/')))
230                 s[0] = '!';

kobject_set_name_vargs is called by kobject_set_name.
kobject_set_name is called just above the useless loop.

[hidave.darkstar@gmail.com: fix warning, remove the unused char *s]
Signed-off-by: Renzo Davoli <renzo@cs.unibo.it>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years ago/dev/zero: avoid repeated access_ok() checks
Nikanth Karthikesan [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:09 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
/dev/zero: avoid repeated access_ok() checks

In read_zero, we check for access_ok() once for the count bytes.  It is
unnecessarily checked again in clear_user.  Use __clear_user, which does
not check for access_ok().

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoflat: use IS_ERR_VALUE() helper macro
Mike Frysinger [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:07 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
flat: use IS_ERR_VALUE() helper macro

There is a common macro now for testing mixed pointer/errno values, so use
that rather than handling the casts ourself.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: David McCullough <david_mccullough@securecomputing.com>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agofdpic: ignore the loader's PT_GNU_STACK when calculating the stack size
David Howells [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:06 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
fdpic: ignore the loader's PT_GNU_STACK when calculating the stack size

Ignore the loader's PT_GNU_STACK when calculating the stack size, and only
consider the executable's PT_GNU_STACK, assuming the executable has one.

Currently the behaviour is to take the largest stack size and use that,
but that means you can't reduce the stack size in the executable.  The
loader's stack size should probably only be used when executing the loader
directly.

WARNING: This patch is slightly dangerous - it may render a system
inoperable if the loader's stack size is larger than that of important
executables, and the system relies unknowingly on this increasing the size
of the stack.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoelf: clean up fill_note_info()
Amerigo Wang [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:05 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
elf: clean up fill_note_info()

Introduce a helper function elf_note_info_init() to help fill_note_info()
to do initializations, also fix the potential memory leaks.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove NUM_NOTES]
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.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>
15 years agosignals: inline __fatal_signal_pending
Roland McGrath [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:04 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
signals: inline __fatal_signal_pending

__fatal_signal_pending inlines to one instruction on x86, probably two
instructions on other machines.  It takes two longer x86 instructions just
to call it and test its return value, not to mention the function itself.

On my random x86_64 config, this saved 70 bytes of text (59 of those being
__fatal_signal_pending itself).

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agofcntl: add F_[SG]ETOWN_EX
Peter Zijlstra [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:03 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
fcntl: add F_[SG]ETOWN_EX

In order to direct the SIGIO signal to a particular thread of a
multi-threaded application we cannot, like suggested by the manpage, put a
TID into the regular fcntl(F_SETOWN) call.  It will still be send to the
whole process of which that thread is part.

Since people do want to properly direct SIGIO we introduce F_SETOWN_EX.

The need to direct SIGIO comes from self-monitoring profiling such as with
perf-counters.  Perf-counters uses SIGIO to notify that new sample data is
available.  If the signal is delivered to the same task that generated the
new sample it can augment that data by inspecting the task's user-space
state right after it returns from the kernel.  This is esp.  convenient
for interpreted or virtual machine driven environments.

Both F_SETOWN_EX and F_GETOWN_EX take a pointer to a struct f_owner_ex
as argument:

struct f_owner_ex {
int   type;
pid_t pid;
};

Where type is one of F_OWNER_TID, F_OWNER_PID or F_OWNER_GID.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Tested-by: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agosignals: send_sigio: use do_send_sig_info() to avoid check_kill_permission()
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:01 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
signals: send_sigio: use do_send_sig_info() to avoid check_kill_permission()

group_send_sig_info()->check_kill_permission() assumes that current is the
sender and uses current_cred().

This is not true in send_sigio_to_task() case.  From the security pov the
sender is not current, but the task which did fcntl(F_SETOWN), that is why
we have sigio_perm() which uses the right creds to check.

Fortunately, send_sigio() always sends either SEND_SIG_PRIV or
SI_FROMKERNEL() signal, so check_kill_permission() does nothing.  But
still it would be tidier to avoid this bogus security check and save a
couple of cycles.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.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>
15 years agosignals: introduce do_send_sig_info() helper
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:00 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
signals: introduce do_send_sig_info() helper

Introduce do_send_sig_info() and convert group_send_sig_info(),
send_sig_info(), do_send_specific() to use this helper.

Hopefully it will have more users soon, it allows to specify
specific/group behaviour via "bool group" argument.

Shaves 80 bytes from .text.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.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>
15 years agoexec: fix set_binfmt() vs sys_delete_module() race
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:59 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
exec: fix set_binfmt() vs sys_delete_module() race

sys_delete_module() can set MODULE_STATE_GOING after
search_binary_handler() does try_module_get().  In this case
set_binfmt()->try_module_get() fails but since none of the callers
check the returned error, the task will run with the wrong old
->binfmt.

The proper fix should change all ->load_binary() methods, but we can
rely on fact that the caller must hold a reference to binfmt->module
and use __module_get() which never fails.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.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>
15 years agoexec: allow do_coredump() to wait for user space pipe readers to complete
Neil Horman [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:58 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
exec: allow do_coredump() to wait for user space pipe readers to complete

Allow core_pattern pipes to wait for user space to complete

One of the things that user space processes like to do is look at metadata
for a crashing process in their /proc/<pid> directory.  this is racy
however, since do_coredump in the kernel doesn't wait for the user space
process to complete before it reaps the crashing process.  This patch
corrects that.  Allowing the kernel to wait for the user space process to
complete before cleaning up the crashing process.  This is a bit tricky to
do for a few reasons:

1) The user space process isn't our child, so we can't sys_wait4 on it
2) We need to close the pipe before waiting for the user process to complete,
since the user process may rely on an EOF condition

I've discussed several solutions with Oleg Nesterov off-list about this,
and this is the one we've come up with.  We add ourselves as a pipe reader
(to prevent premature cleanup of the pipe_inode_info), and remove
ourselves as a writer (to provide an EOF condition to the writer in user
space), then we iterate until the user space process exits (which we
detect by pipe->readers == 1, hence the > 1 check in the loop).  When we
exit the loop, we restore the proper reader/writer values, then we return
and let filp_close in do_coredump clean up the pipe data properly.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Reported-by: Earl Chew <earl_chew@agilent.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoexec: let do_coredump() limit the number of concurrent dumps to pipes
Neil Horman [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:56 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
exec: let do_coredump() limit the number of concurrent dumps to pipes

Introduce core pipe limiting sysctl.

Since we can dump cores to pipe, rather than directly to the filesystem,
we create a condition in which a user can create a very high load on the
system simply by running bad applications.

If the pipe reader specified in core_pattern is poorly written, we can
have lots of ourstandig resources and processes in the system.

This sysctl introduces an ability to limit that resource consumption.
core_pipe_limit defines how many in-flight dumps may be run in parallel,
dumps beyond this value are skipped and a note is made in the kernel log.
A special value of 0 in core_pipe_limit denotes unlimited core dumps may
be handled (this is the default value).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Reported-by: Earl Chew <earl_chew@agilent.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoexec: make do_coredump() more resilient to recursive crashes
Neil Horman [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:54 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
exec: make do_coredump() more resilient to recursive crashes

Change how we detect recursive dumps.

Currently we have a mechanism by which we try to compare pathnames of the
crashing process to the core_pattern path.  This is broken for a dozen
reasons, and just doesn't work in any sort of robust way.

I'm replacing it with the use of a 0 RLIMIT_CORE value.  Since helper apps
set RLIMIT_CORE to zero, we don't write out core files for any process
with that particular limit set.  It the core_pattern is a pipe, any
non-zero limit is translated to RLIM_INFINITY.

This allows complete dumps to be captured, but prevents infinite recursion
in the event that the core_pattern process itself crashes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Reported-by: Earl Chew <earl_chew@agilent.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agosignals: tracehook_notify_jctl change
Roland McGrath [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:53 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
signals: tracehook_notify_jctl change

This changes tracehook_notify_jctl() so it's called with the siglock held,
and changes its argument and return value definition.  These clean-ups
make it a better fit for what new tracing hooks need to check.

Tracing needs the siglock here, held from the time TASK_STOPPED was set,
to avoid potential SIGCONT races if it wants to allow any blocking in its
tracing hooks.

This also folds the finish_stop() function into its caller
do_signal_stop().  The function is short, called only once and only
unconditionally.  It aids readability to fold it in.

[oleg@redhat.com: do not call tracehook_notify_jctl() in TASK_STOPPED state]
[oleg@redhat.com: introduce tracehook_finish_jctl() helper]
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agowait_noreap_copyout(): check for ->wo_info != NULL
Vitaly Mayatskikh [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:52 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
wait_noreap_copyout(): check for ->wo_info != NULL

Current behaviour of sys_waitid() looks odd.  If user passes infop ==
NULL, sys_waitid() returns success.  When user additionally specifies flag
WNOWAIT, sys_waitid() returns -EFAULT on the same conditions.  When user
combines WNOWAIT with WCONTINUED, sys_waitid() again returns success.

This patch adds check for ->wo_info in wait_noreap_copyout().

User-visible change: starting from this commit, sys_waitid() always checks
infop != NULL and does not fail if it is NULL.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.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>
15 years agodo_wait: fix sys_waitid()-specific behaviour
Vitaly Mayatskikh [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:51 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
do_wait: fix sys_waitid()-specific behaviour

do_wait() checks ->wo_info to figure out who is the caller.  If it's not
NULL the caller should be sys_waitid(), in that case do_wait() fixes up
the retval or zeros ->wo_info, depending on retval from underlying
function.

This is bug: user can pass ->wo_info == NULL and sys_waitid() will return
incorrect value.

man 2 waitid says:

waitid(): returns 0 on success

Test-case:

int main(void)
{
if (fork())
assert(waitid(P_ALL, 0, NULL, WEXITED) == 0);

return 0;
}

Result:

Assertion `waitid(P_ALL, 0, ((void *)0), 4) == 0' failed.

Move that code to sys_waitid().

User-visible change: sys_waitid() will return 0 on success, either
infop is set or not.

Note, there's another bug in wait_noreap_copyout() which affects
return value of sys_waitid(). It will be fixed in next patch.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.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>
15 years agowait_consider_task: kill "parent" argument
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:50 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
wait_consider_task: kill "parent" argument

Kill the unused "parent" argument in wait_consider_task(), it was never used.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ratan Nalumasu <rnalumasu@gmail.com>
Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agodo_wait-wakeup-optimization: simplify task_pid_type()
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:49 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
do_wait-wakeup-optimization: simplify task_pid_type()

task_pid_type() is only used by eligible_pid() which has to check wo_type
!= PIDTYPE_MAX anyway.  Remove this check from task_pid_type() and factor
out ->pids[type] access, this shrinks .text a bit and simplifies the code.

The matches the behaviour of other similar helpers, say get_task_pid().
The caller must ensure that pid_type is valid, not the callee.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agodo_wait-wakeup-optimization: fix child_wait_callback()->eligible_child() usage
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:48 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
do_wait-wakeup-optimization: fix child_wait_callback()->eligible_child() usage

child_wait_callback()->eligible_child() is not right, we can miss the
wakeup if the task was detached before __wake_up_parent() and the caller
of do_wait() didn't use __WALL.

Move ->wo_pid checks from eligible_child() to the new helper,
eligible_pid(), and change child_wait_callback() to use it instead of
eligible_child().

Note: actually I think it would be better to fix the __WCLONE check in
eligible_child(), it doesn't look exactly right.  But it is not clear what
is the supposed behaviour, and any change is user-visible.

Reported-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.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>
15 years agodo_wait() wakeup optimization: child_wait_callback: check __WNOTHREAD case
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:47 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
do_wait() wakeup optimization: child_wait_callback: check __WNOTHREAD case

Suggested by Roland.

do_wait(__WNOTHREAD) can only succeed if the caller is either ptracer, or
it is ->real_parent and the child is not traced. IOW, caller == p->parent
otherwise we should not wake up.

Change child_wait_callback() to check this. Ratan reports the workload with
CPU load >99% caused by unnecessary wakeups, should be fixed by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ratan Nalumasu <rnalumasu@gmail.com>
Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agodo_wait() wakeup optimization: change __wake_up_parent() to use filtered wakeup
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:46 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
do_wait() wakeup optimization: change __wake_up_parent() to use filtered wakeup

Ratan Nalumasu reported that in a process with many threads doing
unnecessary wakeups.  Every waiting thread in the process wakes up to loop
through the children and see that the only ones it cares about are still
not ready.

Now that we have struct wait_opts we can change do_wait/__wake_up_parent
to use filtered wakeups.

We can make child_wait_callback() more clever later, right now it only
checks eligible_child().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ratan Nalumasu <rnalumasu@gmail.com>
Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Tested-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agodo_wait() wakeup optimization: shift security_task_wait() from eligible_child() to...
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:45 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
do_wait() wakeup optimization: shift security_task_wait() from eligible_child() to wait_consider_task()

Preparation, no functional changes.

eligible_child() has a single caller, wait_consider_task(). We can move
security_task_wait() out from eligible_child(), this allows us to use it
for filtered wake_up().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ratan Nalumasu <rnalumasu@gmail.com>
Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoptrace: __ptrace_detach: do __wake_up_parent() if we reap the tracee
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:44 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
ptrace: __ptrace_detach: do __wake_up_parent() if we reap the tracee

The bug is old, it wasn't cause by recent changes.

Test case:

static void *tfunc(void *arg)
{
int pid = (long)arg;

assert(ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, NULL, NULL) == 0);
kill(pid, SIGKILL);

sleep(1);
return NULL;
}

int main(void)
{
pthread_t th;
long pid = fork();

if (!pid)
pause();

signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN);
assert(pthread_create(&th, NULL, tfunc, (void*)pid) == 0);

int r = waitpid(-1, NULL, __WNOTHREAD);
printf("waitpid: %d %m\n", r);

return 0;
}

Before the patch this program hangs, after this patch waitpid() correctly
fails with errno == -ECHILD.

The problem is, __ptrace_detach() reaps the EXIT_ZOMBIE tracee if its
->real_parent is our sub-thread and we ignore SIGCHLD.  But in this case
we should wake up other threads which can sleep in do_wait().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agomemcg: show swap usage in stat file
Daisuke Nishimura [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:43 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
memcg: show swap usage in stat file

We now count MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAPOUT, so we can show swap usage.  It would
be useful for users to show swap usage in memory.stat file, because they
don't need calculate memsw.usage - res.usage to know swap usage.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agomemcg: improve resource counter scalability
Balbir Singh [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:42 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
memcg: improve resource counter scalability

Reduce the resource counter overhead (mostly spinlock) associated with the
root cgroup.  This is a part of the several patches to reduce mem cgroup
overhead.  I had posted other approaches earlier (including using percpu
counters).  Those patches will be a natural addition and will be added
iteratively on top of these.

The patch stops resource counter accounting for the root cgroup.  The data
for display is derived from the statisitcs we maintain via
mem_cgroup_charge_statistics (which is more scalable).  What happens today
is that, we do double accounting, once using res_counter_charge() and once
using memory_cgroup_charge_statistics().  For the root, since we don't
implement limits any more, we don't need to track every charge via
res_counter_charge() and check for limit being exceeded and reclaim.

The main mem->res usage_in_bytes can be derived by summing the cache and
rss usage data from memory statistics (MEM_CGROUP_STAT_RSS and
MEM_CGROUP_STAT_CACHE).  However, for memsw->res usage_in_bytes, we need
additional data about swapped out memory.  This patch adds a
MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAPOUT and uses that along with MEM_CGROUP_STAT_RSS and
MEM_CGROUP_STAT_CACHE to derive the memsw data.  This data is computed
recursively when hierarchy is enabled.

The tests results I see on a 24 way show that

1. The lock contention disappears from /proc/lock_stats
2. The results of the test are comparable to running with
   cgroup_disable=memory.

Here is a sample of my program runs

Without Patch

 Performance counter stats for '/home/balbir/parallel_pagefault':

 7192804.124144  task-clock-msecs         #     23.937 CPUs
         424691  context-switches         #      0.000 M/sec
            267  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
       28498113  page-faults              #      0.004 M/sec
  5826093739340  cycles                   #    809.989 M/sec
   408883496292  instructions             #      0.070 IPC
     7057079452  cache-references         #      0.981 M/sec
     3036086243  cache-misses             #      0.422 M/sec

  300.485365680  seconds time elapsed

With cgroup_disable=memory

 Performance counter stats for '/home/balbir/parallel_pagefault':

 7182183.546587  task-clock-msecs         #     23.915 CPUs
         425458  context-switches         #      0.000 M/sec
            203  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
       92545093  page-faults              #      0.013 M/sec
  6034363609986  cycles                   #    840.185 M/sec
   437204346785  instructions             #      0.072 IPC
     6636073192  cache-references         #      0.924 M/sec
     2358117732  cache-misses             #      0.328 M/sec

  300.320905827  seconds time elapsed

With this patch applied

 Performance counter stats for '/home/balbir/parallel_pagefault':

 7191619.223977  task-clock-msecs         #     23.955 CPUs
         422579  context-switches         #      0.000 M/sec
             88  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
       91946060  page-faults              #      0.013 M/sec
  5957054385619  cycles                   #    828.333 M/sec
  1058117350365  instructions             #      0.178 IPC
     9161776218  cache-references         #      1.274 M/sec
     1920494280  cache-misses             #      0.267 M/sec

  300.218764862  seconds time elapsed

Data from Prarit (kernel compile with make -j64 on a 64
CPU/32G machine)

For a single run

Without patch

real 27m8.988s
user 87m24.916s
sys 382m6.037s

With patch

real    4m18.607s
user    84m58.943s
sys     50m52.682s

With config turned off

real    4m54.972s
user    90m13.456s
sys     50m19.711s

NOTE: The data looks counterintuitive due to the increased performance
with the patch, even over the config being turned off. We probably need
more runs, but so far all testing has shown that the patches definitely
help.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agomemory controller: soft limit reclaim on contention
Balbir Singh [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:39 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
memory controller: soft limit reclaim on contention

Implement reclaim from groups over their soft limit

Permit reclaim from memory cgroups on contention (via the direct reclaim
path).

memory cgroup soft limit reclaim finds the group that exceeds its soft
limit by the largest number of pages and reclaims pages from it and then
reinserts the cgroup into its correct place in the rbtree.

Add additional checks to mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim() to detect long
loops in case all swap is turned off.  The code has been refactored and
the loop check (loop < 2) has been enhanced for soft limits.  For soft
limits, we try to do more targetted reclaim.  Instead of bailing out after
two loops, the routine now reclaims memory proportional to the size by
which the soft limit is exceeded.  The proportion has been empirically
determined.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: fix softlimit css refcnt handling]
[nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: refcount of the "victim" should be decremented before exiting the loop]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.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>
15 years agomemory controller: soft limit refactor reclaim flags
Balbir Singh [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:38 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
memory controller: soft limit refactor reclaim flags

Refactor mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim()

Refactor the arguments passed to mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim() into
flags, so that new parameters don't have to be passed as we make the
reclaim routine more flexible

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agomemory controller: soft limit organize cgroups
Balbir Singh [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:37 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
memory controller: soft limit organize cgroups

Organize cgroups over soft limit in a RB-Tree

Introduce an RB-Tree for storing memory cgroups that are over their soft
limit.  The overall goal is to

1. Add a memory cgroup to the RB-Tree when the soft limit is exceeded.
   We are careful about updates, updates take place only after a particular
   time interval has passed
2. We remove the node from the RB-Tree when the usage goes below the soft
   limit

The next set of patches will exploit the RB-Tree to get the group that is
over its soft limit by the largest amount and reclaim from it, when we
face memory contention.

[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR=y CONFIG_PREEMPT=y fails to boot]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agomemory controller: soft limit interface
Balbir Singh [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:36 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
memory controller: soft limit interface

Add an interface to allow get/set of soft limits.  Soft limits for memory
plus swap controller (memsw) is currently not supported.  Resource
counters have been enhanced to support soft limits and new type
RES_SOFT_LIMIT has been added.  Unlike hard limits, soft limits can be
directly set and do not need any reclaim or checks before setting them to
a newer value.

Kamezawa-San raised a question as to whether soft limit should belong to
res_counter.  Since all resources understand the basic concepts of hard
and soft limits, it is justified to add soft limits here.  Soft limits are
a generic resource usage feature, even file system quotas support soft
limits.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agomemory controller: soft limit documentation
Balbir Singh [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:34 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
memory controller: soft limit documentation

Soft limits is a new feature for the memory resource controller, something
similar has existed in the group scheduler in the form of shares.  The CPU
controllers interpretation of shares is very different though.

Soft limits are the most useful feature to have for environments where the
administrator wants to overcommit the system, such that only on memory
contention do the limits become active.  The current soft limits
implementation provides a soft_limit_in_bytes interface for the memory
controller and not for memory+swap controller.  The implementation
maintains an RB-Tree of groups that exceed their soft limit and starts
reclaiming from the group that exceeds this limit by the maximum amount.

This patch:

Add documentation for soft limits

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agomemcg: add comments explaining memory barriers
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:33 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
memcg: add comments explaining memory barriers

Add comments for the reason of smp_wmb() in mem_cgroup_commit_charge().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agomemcg: remove the overhead associated with the root cgroup
Balbir Singh [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:32 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
memcg: remove the overhead associated with the root cgroup

Change the memory cgroup to remove the overhead associated with accounting
all pages in the root cgroup.  As a side-effect, we can no longer set a
memory hard limit in the root cgroup.

A new flag to track whether the page has been accounted or not has been
added as well.  Flags are now set atomically for page_cgroup,
pcg_default_flags is now obsolete and removed.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix a few documentation glitches]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: 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>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agocgroups: let ss->can_attach and ss->attach do whole threadgroups at a time
Ben Blum [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:31 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
cgroups: let ss->can_attach and ss->attach do whole threadgroups at a time

Alter the ss->can_attach and ss->attach functions to be able to deal with
a whole threadgroup at a time, for use in cgroup_attach_proc.  (This is a
pre-patch to cgroup-procs-writable.patch.)

Currently, new mode of the attach function can only tell the subsystem
about the old cgroup of the threadgroup leader.  No subsystem currently
needs that information for each thread that's being moved, but if one were
to be added (for example, one that counts tasks within a group) this bit
would need to be reworked a bit to tell the subsystem the right
information.

[hidave.darkstar@gmail.com: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agocgroups: change css_set freeing mechanism to be under RCU
Ben Blum [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:29 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
cgroups: change css_set freeing mechanism to be under RCU

Changes css_set freeing mechanism to be under RCU

This is a prepatch for making the procs file writable. In order to free the
old css_sets for each task to be moved as they're being moved, the freeing
mechanism must be RCU-protected, or else we would have to have a call to
synchronize_rcu() for each task before freeing its old css_set.

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agocgroups: use vmalloc for large cgroups pidlist allocations
Ben Blum [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:28 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
cgroups: use vmalloc for large cgroups pidlist allocations

Separates all pidlist allocation requests to a separate function that
judges based on the requested size whether or not the array needs to be
vmalloced or can be gotten via kmalloc, and similar for kfree/vfree.

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agocgroups: ensure correct concurrent opening/reading of pidlists across pid namespaces
Ben Blum [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:27 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
cgroups: ensure correct concurrent opening/reading of pidlists across pid namespaces

Previously there was the problem in which two processes from different pid
namespaces reading the tasks or procs file could result in one process
seeing results from the other's namespace.  Rather than one pidlist for
each file in a cgroup, we now keep a list of pidlists keyed by namespace
and file type (tasks versus procs) in which entries are placed on demand.
Each pidlist has its own lock, and that the pidlists themselves are passed
around in the seq_file's private pointer means we don't have to touch the
cgroup or its master list except when creating and destroying entries.

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agocgroups: add a read-only "procs" file similar to "tasks" that shows only unique tgids
Ben Blum [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:26 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
cgroups: add a read-only "procs" file similar to "tasks" that shows only unique tgids

struct cgroup used to have a bunch of fields for keeping track of the
pidlist for the tasks file.  Those are now separated into a new struct
cgroup_pidlist, of which two are had, one for procs and one for tasks.
The way the seq_file operations are set up is changed so that just the
pidlist struct gets passed around as the private data.

Interface example: Suppose a multithreaded process has pid 1000 and other
threads with ids 1001, 1002, 1003:
$ cat tasks
1000
1001
1002
1003
$ cat cgroup.procs
1000
$

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>