This adds support for the sys_splice system call. Using a pipe as a
transport, it can connect to files or sockets (latter as output only).
From the splice.c comments:
"splice": joining two ropes together by interweaving their strands.
This is the "extended pipe" functionality, where a pipe is used as
an arbitrary in-memory buffer. Think of a pipe as a small kernel
buffer that you can use to transfer data from one end to the other.
The traditional unix read/write is extended with a "splice()" operation
that transfers data buffers to or from a pipe buffer.
Named by Larry McVoy, original implementation from Linus, extended by
Jens to support splicing to files and fixing the initial implementation
bugs.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
gcc4 doesn't like us declaring a static function inside another
function. We can do away with this construct altogether and use
BUILD_BUG_ON() instead (idea from Andi Kleen.)
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Added code to check for invalid MAC address from eeprom or user input.
Signed-off-by: Gary Zambrano <zambrano@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
The comments concerning how the pcnet32 ethernet device driver selects
the MAC addr to use are incorrect. A recent patch (in the last 3 months)
changed how the code worked, but did not change the comments.
Side comment: the new behaviour is good; I've got a pcnet32 card which
powers up with garbage in the CSR's, and a good MAC addr in the PROM.
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Don't bother testing for CONFIG_NET_CBUS ("NEC PC-9800 C-bus cards"); it went
out with the rest of PC98 subarch.
Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
The natsemi chip can have a larger EEPROM attached than it itself uses for
configuration. This patch adds support for user space access to such an
EEPROM.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
This enables TX checksum offloading for the spidernet driver by default.
Signed-off-by: Jens Osterkamp <Jens.Osterkamp@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Add support for the bonding master to specify its carrier state
based upon the state of the slaves. For 802.3ad, the bond is up if
there is an active, parterned aggregator. For other modes, the bond is
up if any slaves are up. Updates driver version to 3.0.3.
Based on a patch by jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>.
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Fix section mismatches in acenic driver:
WARNING: drivers/net/acenic.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:tigon2FwText from .text between 'acenic_probe_one' (at offset 0x2409) and 'ace_interrupt'
WARNING: drivers/net/acenic.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:tigon2FwRodata from .text between 'acenic_probe_one' (at offset 0x2422) and 'ace_interrupt'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
This patch reduces the message level of the RX ram full messages
from err to debug to prevent spamming the console leaving it in the
logfiles though.
From: Jens Osterkamp <Jens.Osterkamp@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Problems with link state detection have been reported several times in the
past months.
Denis Vlasenko did all the work tracking it down. Jeff Garzik suggested the
proper place for the fix.
When using the mii library, the driver needs to check mii->force_media
and set dev->state accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Initializing the b44 MAC & PCI functional blocks in the controller must
occur inside init_one(). This will allow access to the MAC registers.
The controller was being powered up in b44_open() which would not allow
access to the registers before ifconfig was up.
Philip Kohlbecher found this bug.
Signed-off-by: Gary Zambrano <zambrano@broadcom.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (67 commits)
[PATCH] powerpc: Remove oprofile spinlock backtrace code
[PATCH] powerpc: Add oprofile calltrace support to all powerpc cpus
[PATCH] powerpc: Add oprofile calltrace support
[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: ppc
[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: powerpc
[PATCH] lock PTE before updating it in 440/BookE page fault handler
[PATCH] powerpc: Kill _machine and hard-coded platform numbers
ppc: Fix compile error in arch/ppc/lib/strcase.c
[PATCH] git-powerpc: WARN was a dumb idea
[PATCH] powerpc: a couple of trivial compile warning fixes
powerpc: remove OCP references
powerpc: Make uImage default build output for MPC8540 ADS
powerpc: move math-emu over to arch/powerpc
powerpc: use memparse() for mem= command line parsing
ppc: fix strncasecmp prototype
[PATCH] powerpc: make ISA floppies work again
[PATCH] powerpc: Fix some initcall return values
[PATCH] powerpc: Workaround for pSeries RTAS bug
[PATCH] spufs: fix __init/__exit annotations
[PATCH] powerpc: add hvc backend for rtas
...
* git://oss.sgi.com:8090/oss/git/xfs-2.6:
[XFS] Cleanup in XFS after recent get_block_t interface tweaks.
[XFS] Remove unused/obsoleted function: xfs_bmap_do_search_extents()
[XFS] A change to inode chunk allocation to try allocating the new chunk
Fixes a regression from the recent "remove ->get_blocks() support"
[XFS] Fix compiler warning and small code inconsistencies in compat
[XFS] We really suck at spulling. Thanks to Chris Pascoe for fixing all
Remove oprofile spinlock backtrace code now we have proper calltrace
support. Also make MMCRA sihv and sipr bits a variable since they may
change in future cpus. Finally, MMCRA should be a 64bit quantity.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Add calltrace support for other powerpc cpus. Tested on 7450.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Add oprofile calltrace support to powerpc. Disable spinlock backtracing
now we can use calltrace info.
(Updated to work on both 32bit and 64bit by me).
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
for_each_cpu() actually iterates across all possible CPUs. We've had mistakes
in the past where people were using for_each_cpu() where they should have been
iterating across only online or present CPUs. This is inefficient and
possibly buggy.
We're renaming for_each_cpu() to for_each_possible_cpu() to avoid this in the
future.
This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
for_each_cpu() actually iterates across all possible CPUs. We've had mistakes
in the past where people were using for_each_cpu() where they should have been
iterating across only online or present CPUs. This is inefficient and
possibly buggy.
We're renaming for_each_cpu() to for_each_possible_cpu() to avoid this in the
future.
This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Fix 44x and BookE page fault handler to correctly lock PTE before
trying to pte_update() it, otherwise this PTE might be swapped out
after pte_present() check but before pte_uptdate() call, resulting in
corrupted PTE. This can happen with enabled preemption and low memory
condition.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
send_sigqueue() checks PF_EXITING, then locks p->sighand->siglock. This is
unsafe: 'p' can exit in between and set ->sighand = NULL. The race is
theoretical, the window is tiny and irqs are disabled by the caller, so I
don't think we need the fix for -stable tree.
Convert send_sigqueue() to use lock_task_sighand() helper.
Also, delete 'p->flags & PF_EXITING' re-check, it is unneeded and the
comment is wrong.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The previous patch has changed callsites of do_notify_parent_cldstop() so that
to_self == (->ptrace & PT_PTRACED) always (as it should be). We can remove
this parameter now.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove an obscure 'stop_count < 0' check in finish_stop(). The previous patch
made this case impossible.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
do_signal_stop() considers 'thread_group_empty()' as a special case.
This was needed to avoid taking tasklist_lock. Since this lock is
unneeded any longer, we can remove this special case and simplify
the code even more.
Also, before this patch, finish_stop() was called with stop_count == -1
for 'thread_group_empty()' case. This is not strictly wrong, but confusing
and unneeded.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Move 'tsk->sighand = NULL' from cleanup_sighand() to __exit_signal(). This
makes the exit path more understandable and allows us to do
cleanup_sighand() outside of ->siglock protected section.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Ok. SUSV3/Posix is clear, fork is atomic with respect
> to signals. Either a signal comes before or after a
> fork but not during. (See the rationale section).
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/fork.html
>
> The tasklist_lock does not stop forks from adding to a process
> group. The forks stall while the tasklist_lock is held, but a fork
> that began before we grabbed the tasklist_lock simply completes
> afterwards, and the child does not receive the signal.
This also means that SIGSTOP or sig_kernel_coredump() signal can't
be delivered to pgrp/session reliably.
With this patch copy_process() returns -ERESTARTNOINTR when it
detects a pending signal, fork() will be restarted transparently
after handling the signals.
This patch also deletes now unneeded "group_stop_count > 0" check,
copy_process() can no longer succeed while group stop in progress.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-By: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch kills PIDTYPE_TGID pid_type thus saving one hash table in
kernel/pid.c and speeding up subthreads create/destroy a bit. It is also a
preparation for the further tref/pids rework.
This patch adds 'struct list_head thread_group' to 'struct task_struct'
instead.
We don't detach group leader from PIDTYPE_PID namespace until another
thread inherits it's ->pid == ->tgid, so we are safe wrt premature
free_pidmap(->tgid) call.
Currently there are no users of find_task_by_pid_type(PIDTYPE_TGID).
Should the need arise, we can use find_task_by_pid()->group_leader.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-By: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
do_sigaction() does not need tasklist_lock anymore, we can simplify the code.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
do_signal_stop() does not need tasklist_lock anymore. So it does not need to
do misc re-checks, and we can simplify the code.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
handle_stop_signal() does not need tasklist_lock for SIG_KERNEL_STOP_MASK
signals anymore.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch moves __unhash_process() call from realease_task() to
__exit_signal(), so __detach_pid() is called with ->siglock held.
This means we don't need tasklist_lock to iterate over thread group anymore:
copy_process() was already changed to do attach_pid()
under ->siglock.
Eric's "pidhash-kill-switch_exec_pids.patch" from -mm
changed de_thread() so it doesn't touch PIDTYPE_TGID.
NOTE: de_thread() still needs some attention. It still changes task->pid
lockless. Taking ->sighand.siglock here allows to do more tasklist_lock
removals.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch reverts 'CONFIG_SMP && thread_group_empty()' optimization in
sys_times(). The reason is that the next patch breaks memory ordering which
is needed for that optimization.
tasklist_lock in sys_times() will be eliminated completely by further patch.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
__exit_signal() is private to release_task() now. I think it is better to
make it static in kernel/exit.c and export flush_sigqueue() instead - this
function is much more simple and straightforward.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cosmetic, rename __exit_sighand to cleanup_sighand and move it close to
copy_sighand().
This matches copy_signal/cleanup_signal naming, and I think it is easier to
follow.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
__exit_signal() does important cleanups atomically under ->siglock. It is
also called from copy_process's error path. This is not good, for example we
can't move __unhash_process() under ->siglock for that reason.
We should not mix these 2 paths, just look at ugly 'if (p->sighand)' under
'bad_fork_cleanup_sighand:' label. For copy_process() case it is sufficient
to just backout copy_signal(), nothing more.
Again, nobody can see this task yet. For CLONE_THREAD case we just decrement
signal->count, otherwise nobody can see this ->signal and we can free it
lockless.
This patch assumes it is safe to do exit_thread_group_keys() without
tasklist_lock.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The only caller of exit_sighand(tsk) is copy_process's error path. We can
call __exit_sighand() directly and kill exit_sighand().
This 'tsk' was not yet registered in pid_hash[] or init_task.tasks, it has no
external references, nobody can see it, and
IF (clone_flags & CLONE_SIGHAND)
At least 'current' has a reference to ->sighand, this
means atomic_dec_and_test(sighand->count) can't be true.
ELSE
Nobody can see this ->sighand, this means we can free it
without any locking.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In my opinion this patch cleans up the code.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add lock_task_sighand() helper and converts group_send_sig_info() to use
it. Hopefully we will have more users soon.
This patch also removes '!sighand->count' and '!p->usage' checks, I think
they both are bogus, racy and unneeded (but probably it makes sense to
restore them as BUG_ON()s).
->sighand is cleared and it's ->count is decremented in release_task() with
sighand->siglock held, so it is a bug to have '!p->usage || !->count' after
we already locked and verified it is the same. On the other hand, an
already dead task without ->sighand can have a non-zero ->usage due to
ptrace, for example.
If we read the stale value of ->sighand we must see the change after
spin_lock(), because that change was done while holding that same old
->sighand.siglock.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch borrows a clever Hugh's 'struct anon_vma' trick.
Without tasklist_lock held we can't trust task->sighand until we locked it
and re-checked that it is still the same.
But this means we don't need to defer 'kmem_cache_free(sighand)'. We can
return the memory to slab immediately, all we need is to be sure that
sighand->siglock can't dissapear inside rcu protected section.
To do so we need to initialize ->siglock inside ctor function,
SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU does the rest.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Use ptrace_unlink() instead of open-coding. No changes in kernel/exit.o
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Use remove_parent/add_parent instead of open coding.
No changes in kernel/exit.o
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
daemonize() calls set_special_pids(1,1), while init and kernel threads spawned
from init/main.c:init() run with 0,0 special pids. This patch changes
INIT_SIGNALS() so that that they run with ->pgrp == ->session == 1 also. This
patch relies on fact that swapper's pid == 1.
Now we have no hashed zero pids in pid_hash[].
User-space visibible change is that now /sbin/init runs with (1,1) special
pids and becomes a session leader.
Quoting Eric W. Biederman:
>
> daemonize consuming pids (1,1) then consumes pgrp 1. So that when
> /sbin/init calls setsid() it thinks /sbin/init is a process group
> leader and setsid() fails. So /sbin/init wants pgrp 1 session 1
> but doesn't get it. I am pretty certain daemonize did not exist so
> /sbin/init got pgrp 1 session 1 in 2.4.
>
> That is the bug that is being fixed.
>
> This patch takes things one step farther and essentially calls
> setsid() for pid == 1 before init is execed. That is new behavior
> but it cleans up the kernel as we now do not need to support the
> case of a process without a process group or a session.
>
> The only process that could have possibly cared was /sbin/init
> and it already calls setsid() because it doesn't want that.
>
> If this was going to break anything noticeable the change in behavior
> from 2.4 to 2.6 would have already done that.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
