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Len Brown
96916090f4 Merge branches 'release', 'acpica', 'bugzilla-10224', 'bugzilla-9772', 'bugzilla-9916', 'ec', 'eeepc', 'idle', 'misc', 'pm-legacy', 'sysfs-links-2.6.26', 'thermal', 'thinkpad' and 'video' into release 2008-04-30 13:58:00 -04:00
Harvey Harrison
b331d259b1 kernel: fix integer as NULL pointer warnings
kernel/cpuset.c:1268:52: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
kernel/pid_namespace.c:95:24: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 17:29:18 -07:00
Roland McGrath
9d04d9280c ptrace: conditionalize compat_ptrace_request
My recent additions to compat_ptrace_request made it mandatory
for CONFIG_COMPAT arch's to define copy_siginfo_from_user32.
This broke some builds, though they all really should get cleaned
up in that way.

Since all the arch's that actually call compat_ptrace_request have
now been cleaned up to use the generic compat_sys_ptrace, we can
avoid the build problems on the crufty arch's by changing the
conditionals on the definition.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 14:14:36 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
0c96c5979a hrtimer: raise softirq unlocked to avoid circular lock dependency
The scheduler hrtimer bits in 2.6.25 introduced a circular lock
dependency in a rare code path:

=======================================================
[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
2.6.25-sched-devel.git-x86-latest.git #19
-------------------------------------------------------
X/2980 is trying to acquire lock:
 (&rq->rq_lock_key#2){++..}, at: [<ffffffff80230146>] task_rq_lock+0x56/0xa0

but task is already holding lock:
 (&cpu_base->lock){++..}, at: [<ffffffff80257ae1>] lock_hrtimer_base+0x31/0x60

which lock already depends on the new lock.

The scenario which leads to this is:

posix-timer signal is delivered
 -> posix-timer is rearmed
    timer is already expired in hrtimer_enqueue()
     -> softirq is raised

To prevent this we need to move the raise of the softirq out of the
base->lock protected code path.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2008-04-28 22:22:21 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
513694b5f9 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt:
  hrtimer: timeout too long when using HRTIMER_CB_SOFTIRQ
2008-04-28 09:36:40 -07:00
Andres Salomon
b6f448e99c PM/gxfb: add hook to PM console layer that allows disabling of suspend VT switch
Prior to suspend, we allocate and switch to a new VT; after suspend, we switch
back to the original VT.  This can be slow, and is completely unnecessary if
the framebuffer we're using can restore video properly.

This adds a hook that allows drivers to select whether or not to do this vt
switch, and changes the gxfb driver to call this hook.  It also adds a module
param to gxfb to allow controlling of the vt switch (defaulting to no switch).

(Note: I'm not convinced that console_sem is the best way to protect this, but
we should probably have some form of locking..)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:36 -07:00
Masami Hiramatsu
26b31c1908 kprobes: add (un)register_jprobes for batch registration
Introduce unregister_/register_jprobes() for jprobe batch registration.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:32 -07:00
Masami Hiramatsu
4a296e07c3 kprobes: add (un)register_kretprobes for batch registration
Introduce unregister_/register_kretprobes() for kretprobe batch registration.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:32 -07:00
Masami Hiramatsu
9861668f74 kprobes: add (un)register_kprobes for batch registration
Introduce unregister_/register_kprobes() for kprobe batch registration.  This
can reduce waiting time for synchronized_sched() when a lot of probes have to
be unregistered at once.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:32 -07:00
Srinivasa Ds
3d8d996e0c kprobes: prevent probing of preempt_schedule()
Prohibit users from probing preempt_schedule().  One way of prohibiting the
user from probing functions is by marking such functions with __kprobes.  But
this method doesn't work for those functions, which are already marked to
different section like preempt_schedule() (belongs to __sched section).  So we
use blacklist approach to refuse user from probing these functions.

In blacklist approach we populate the blacklisted function's starting address
and its size in kprobe_blacklist structure.  Then we verify the user specified
address against start and end of the blacklisted function.  So any attempt to
register probe on blacklisted functions will be rejected.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:32 -07:00
Andrew G. Morgan
3898b1b4eb capabilities: implement per-process securebits
Filesystem capability support makes it possible to do away with (set)uid-0
based privilege and use capabilities instead.  That is, with filesystem
support for capabilities but without this present patch, it is (conceptually)
possible to manage a system with capabilities alone and never need to obtain
privilege via (set)uid-0.

Of course, conceptually isn't quite the same as currently possible since few
user applications, certainly not enough to run a viable system, are currently
prepared to leverage capabilities to exercise privilege.  Further, many
applications exist that may never get upgraded in this way, and the kernel
will continue to want to support their setuid-0 base privilege needs.

Where pure-capability applications evolve and replace setuid-0 binaries, it is
desirable that there be a mechanisms by which they can contain their
privilege.  In addition to leveraging the per-process bounding and inheritable
sets, this should include suppressing the privilege of the uid-0 superuser
from the process' tree of children.

The feature added by this patch can be leveraged to suppress the privilege
associated with (set)uid-0.  This suppression requires CAP_SETPCAP to
initiate, and only immediately affects the 'current' process (it is inherited
through fork()/exec()).  This reimplementation differs significantly from the
historical support for securebits which was system-wide, unwieldy and which
has ultimately withered to a dead relic in the source of the modern kernel.

With this patch applied a process, that is capable(CAP_SETPCAP), can now drop
all legacy privilege (through uid=0) for itself and all subsequently
fork()'d/exec()'d children with:

  prctl(PR_SET_SECUREBITS, 0x2f);

This patch represents a no-op unless CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES is
enabled at configure time.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix uninitialised var warning]
[serue@us.ibm.com: capabilities: use cap_task_prctl when !CONFIG_SECURITY]
Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:26 -07:00
Lee Schermerhorn
846a16bf0f mempolicy: rename mpol_copy to mpol_dup
This patch renames mpol_copy() to mpol_dup() because, well, that's what it
does.  Like, e.g., strdup() for strings, mpol_dup() takes a pointer to an
existing mempolicy, allocates a new one and copies the contents.

In a later patch, I want to use the name mpol_copy() to copy the contents from
one mempolicy to another like, e.g., strcpy() does for strings.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
Lee Schermerhorn
f0be3d32b0 mempolicy: rename mpol_free to mpol_put
This is a change that was requested some time ago by Mel Gorman.  Makes sense
to me, so here it is.

Note: I retain the name "mpol_free_shared_policy()" because it actually does
free the shared_policy, which is NOT a reference counted object.  However, ...

The mempolicy object[s] referenced by the shared_policy are reference counted,
so mpol_put() is used to release the reference held by the shared_policy.  The
mempolicy might not be freed at this time, because some task attached to the
shared object associated with the shared policy may be in the process of
allocating a page based on the mempolicy.  In that case, the task performing
the allocation will hold a reference on the mempolicy, obtained via
mpol_shared_policy_lookup().  The mempolicy will be freed when all tasks
holding such a reference have called mpol_put() for the mempolicy.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
Ken'ichi Ohmichi
122c7a5905 vmcoreinfo: add page flags values
Add some values of page flags to the vmcoreinfo data.

The vmcoreinfo data has the minimum debugging information only for dump
filtering.  makedumpfile (dump filtering command) gets it to distinguish
unnecessary pages, and makedumpfile creates a small dumpfile.

An old makedumpfile (v1.2.4 or before) had assumed some values of page flags
internally, and this implementation could not follow the change of these
values.  For example, Christoph Lameter is changing these values by the
follwing patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/29/463

So a new makedumpfile (v1.2.5) came to need these values and I created this
patch to let the kernel output them.

Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
97965478a6 mm: Get rid of __ZONE_COUNT
It was used to compensate because MAX_NR_ZONES was not available to the
#ifdefs.  Export MAX_NR_ZONES via the new mechanism and get rid of
__ZONE_COUNT.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:22 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
9223b4190f pageflags: get rid of FLAGS_RESERVED
NR_PAGEFLAGS specifies the number of page flags we are using.  From that we
can calculate the number of bits leftover that can be used for zone, node (and
maybe the sections id).  There is no need anymore for FLAGS_RESERVED if we use
NR_PAGEFLAGS.

Use the new methods to make NR_PAGEFLAGS available via the preprocessor.
NR_PAGEFLAGS is used to calculate field boundaries in the page flags fields.
These field widths have to be available to the preprocessor.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:21 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
1cdf25d704 kbuild: create a way to create preprocessor constants from C expressions
The use of enums create constants that are not available to the preprocessor
when building the kernel (f.e.  MAX_NR_ZONES).

Arch code already has a way to export constants calculated to the preprocessor
through the asm-offsets.c file.  Generate something similar for the core
kernel through kbuild.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:21 -07:00
Mel Gorman
19770b3260 mm: filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask
The MPOL_BIND policy creates a zonelist that is used for allocations
controlled by that mempolicy.  As the per-node zonelist is already being
filtered based on a zone id, this patch adds a version of __alloc_pages() that
takes a nodemask for further filtering.  This eliminates the need for
MPOL_BIND to create a custom zonelist.

A positive benefit of this is that allocations using MPOL_BIND now use the
local node's distance-ordered zonelist instead of a custom node-id-ordered
zonelist.  I.e., pages will be allocated from the closest allowed node with
available memory.

[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: update stale documentation and comments]
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: make dequeue_huge_page_vma() obey MPOL_BIND nodemask]
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: make dequeue_huge_page_vma() obey MPOL_BIND nodemask rework]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:19 -07:00
Mel Gorman
dd1a239f6f mm: have zonelist contains structs with both a zone pointer and zone_idx
Filtering zonelists requires very frequent use of zone_idx().  This is costly
as it involves a lookup of another structure and a substraction operation.  As
the zone_idx is often required, it should be quickly accessible.  The node idx
could also be stored here if it was found that accessing zone->node is
significant which may be the case on workloads where nodemasks are heavily
used.

This patch introduces a struct zoneref to store a zone pointer and a zone
index.  The zonelist then consists of an array of these struct zonerefs which
are looked up as necessary.  Helpers are given for accessing the zone index as
well as the node index.

[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Suggested struct zoneref instead of embedding information in pointers]
[hugh@veritas.com: mm-have-zonelist: fix memcg ooms]
[hugh@veritas.com: just return do_try_to_free_pages]
[hugh@veritas.com: do_try_to_free_pages gfp_mask redundant]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
Bodo Stroesser
d7b41a24bf hrtimer: timeout too long when using HRTIMER_CB_SOFTIRQ
When using hrtimer with timer->cb_mode == HRTIMER_CB_SOFTIRQ
in some cases the clockevent is not programmed.
This happens, if:
 - a timer is rearmed while it's state is HRTIMER_STATE_CALLBACK
 - hrtimer_reprogram() returns -ETIME, when it is called after
   CALLBACK is finished. This occurs if the new timer->expires
   is in the past when CALLBACK is done.
In this case, the timer needs to be removed from the tree and put
onto the pending list again.

The patch is against 2.6.22.5, but AFAICS, it is relevant
for 2.6.25 also (in run_hrtimer_pending()).

Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-27 18:26:43 +02:00
Carsten Otte
402b08622d s390: KVM preparation: provide hook to enable pgstes in user pagetable
The SIE instruction on s390 uses the 2nd half of the page table page to
virtualize the storage keys of a guest. This patch offers the s390_enable_sie
function, which reorganizes the page tables of a single-threaded process to
reserve space in the page table:
s390_enable_sie makes sure that the process is single threaded and then uses
dup_mm to create a new mm with reorganized page tables. The old mm is freed
and the process has now a page status extended field after every page table.

Code that wants to exploit pgstes should SELECT CONFIG_PGSTE.

This patch has a small common code hit, namely making dup_mm non-static.

Edit (Carsten): I've modified Martin's patch, following Jeremy Fitzhardinge's
review feedback. Now we do have the prototype for dup_mm in
include/linux/sched.h. Following Martin's suggestion, s390_enable_sie() does now
call task_lock() to prevent race against ptrace modification of mm_users.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 12:00:40 +03:00
Al Viro
50704516f3 Fix uninitialized 'copy' in unshare_files
Arrgghhh...

Sorry about that, I'd been sure I'd folded that one, but it actually got
lost.  Please apply - that breaks execve().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-26 09:24:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
bc84e0a160 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:
  [PATCH] sanitize locate_fd()
  [PATCH] sanitize unshare_files/reset_files_struct
  [PATCH] sanitize handling of shared descriptor tables in failing execve()
  [PATCH] close race in unshare_files()
  [PATCH] restore sane ->umount_begin() API
  cifs: timeout dfs automounts +little fix.
2008-04-25 19:05:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6e18933f2b Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
  [PATCH] Build fix for CONFIG_NUMA=y && CONFIG_SMP=n
  [IA64] fix bootmem regression on Altix
2008-04-25 12:50:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0b79dada97 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched-fixes
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched-fixes:
  sched: fix share (re)distribution
  softlockup: fix NOHZ wakeup
  seqlock: livelock fix
2008-04-25 12:47:56 -07:00
Al Viro
3b1253880b [PATCH] sanitize unshare_files/reset_files_struct
* let unshare_files() give caller the displaced files_struct
* don't bother with grabbing reference only to drop it in the
  caller if it hadn't been shared in the first place
* in that form unshare_files() is trivially implemented via
  unshare_fd(), so we eliminate the duplicate logics in fork.c
* reset_files_struct() is not just only called for current;
  it will break the system if somebody ever calls it for anything
  else (we can't modify ->files of somebody else).  Lose the
  task_struct * argument.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-25 09:23:59 -04:00
Al Viro
fd8328be87 [PATCH] sanitize handling of shared descriptor tables in failing execve()
* unshare_files() can fail; doing it after irreversible actions is wrong
  and de_thread() is certainly irreversible.
* since we do it unconditionally anyway, we might as well do it in do_execve()
  and save ourselves the PITA in binfmt handlers, etc.
* while we are at it, binfmt_som actually leaked files_struct on failure.

As a side benefit, unshare_files(), put_files_struct() and reset_files_struct()
become unexported.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-25 09:23:53 -04:00
Al Viro
6b335d9c80 [PATCH] close race in unshare_files()
updating current->files requires task_lock

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-25 09:23:48 -04:00
David Miller
5a9d3225a0 sched: use alloc_bootmem() instead of alloc_bootmem_low()
There is no guarantee that there is physical ram below 4GB, and in
fact many boxes don't have exactly that.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-25 09:53:06 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
3f5087a2ba sched: fix share (re)distribution
fix __aggregate_redistribute_shares() related lockup reported by
David S. Miller.

The problem this code tries to solve is 'accurately' calculating the 'fair'
share of the group weight for each cpu. The current code falls back to a global
group rebalance in case the sched_domain's span it looks at has no shares, but
does have tasks.

The reason it gets stuck here, is because its inherently racy - if someone
steals the last task after we compute the agg->rq_weight, but before we
rebalance, we'll never get out of the loop.

We could of course go fix that, but while looking at this issue I found that
this 'fallback' wasn't nearly as rare as I'd hoped it to be. In fact its quite
common - and given it walks the whole machine, thats very bad.

The new approach is simple (why didn't I think of it before?), we set the
aggregate shares to the full task group weight, and each larger sched domain
that encounters an aggregate shares larger than the weight, clips it (it
already re-distributes anyway).

This nicely converges to the desired global picture where the sum of all
shares equals the task group weight.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-25 00:25:08 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
126e01bf92 softlockup: fix NOHZ wakeup
David Miller reported:

|--------------->
the following commit:

| commit 27ec440779
| Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| Date:   Thu Feb 28 21:00:21 2008 +0100
|
|     sched: make cpu_clock() globally synchronous
|
|     Alexey Zaytsev reported (and bisected) that the introduction of
|     cpu_clock() in printk made the timestamps jump back and forth.
|
|     Make cpu_clock() more reliable while still keeping it fast when it's
|     called frequently.
|
|     Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

causes watchdog triggers when a cpu exits NOHZ state when it has been
there for >= the soft lockup threshold, for example here are some
messages from a 128 cpu Niagara2 box:

[  168.106406] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#11 stuck for 128s! [dd:3239]
[  168.989592] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#21 stuck for 86s! [swapper:0]
[  168.999587] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#29 stuck for 91s! [make:4511]
[  168.999615] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 85s! [swapper:0]
[  169.020514] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#37 stuck for 91s! [swapper:0]
[  169.020514] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#45 stuck for 91s! [sh:4515]
[  169.020515] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#69 stuck for 92s! [swapper:0]
[  169.020515] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#77 stuck for 92s! [swapper:0]
[  169.020515] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#61 stuck for 92s! [swapper:0]
[  169.112554] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#85 stuck for 92s! [swapper:0]
[  169.112554] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#101 stuck for 92s! [swapper:0]
[  169.112554] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#109 stuck for 92s! [swapper:0]
[  169.112554] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#117 stuck for 92s! [swapper:0]
[  169.171483] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#40 stuck for 80s! [dd:3239]
[  169.331483] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#13 stuck for 86s! [swapper:0]
[  169.351500] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#43 stuck for 101s! [dd:3239]
[  169.531482] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#9 stuck for 129s! [mkdir:4565]
[  169.595754] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#20 stuck for 93s! [swapper:0]
[  169.626787] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#52 stuck for 93s! [swapper:0]
[  169.626787] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#84 stuck for 92s! [swapper:0]
[  169.636812] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#116 stuck for 94s! [swapper:0]

It's simple enough to trigger this by doing a 10 minute sleep after a
fresh bootup then starting a parallel kernel build.

I suspect this might be reintroducing a problem we've had and fixed
before, see the thread:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119546414004065&w=2
<---------------|

touch the softlockup watchdog when exiting NOHZ state - we are
obviously not locked up.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-25 00:25:08 +02:00
Mike Travis
03970f065d [PATCH] Build fix for CONFIG_NUMA=y && CONFIG_SMP=n
Regression caused by 434d53b00d

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-04-24 14:40:29 -07:00
Russ Anderson
472613b961 [IA64] fix bootmem regression on Altix
A recent change prevents SGI Altix from booting.
This patch fixes the problem.

The regresson was introduced in commit 434d53b00d

Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-04-24 14:21:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b0d19a378a Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  iwlwifi: Fix built-in compilation of iwlcore
  net: Unexport move_addr_to_{kernel,user}
  rt2x00: Select LEDS_CLASS.
  iwlwifi: Select LEDS_CLASS.
  leds: Do not guard NEW_LEDS with HAS_IOMEM
  [IPSEC]: Fix catch-22 with algorithm IDs above 31
  time: Export set_normalized_timespec.
  tcp: Make use of before macro in tcp_input.c
  hamradio: Remove unneeded and deprecated cli()/sti() calls in dmascc.c
  [NETNS]: Remove empty ->init callback.
  [DCCP]: Convert do_gettimeofday() to getnstimeofday().
  [NETNS]: Don't initialize err variable twice.
  [NETNS]: The ip6_fib_timer can work with garbage on net namespace stop.
  [IPV4]: Convert do_gettimeofday() to getnstimeofday().
  [IPV4]: Make icmp_sk_init() static.
  [IPV6]: Make struct ip6_prohibit_entry_template static.
  tcp: Trivial fix to correct function name in a comment in net/ipv4/tcp.c
  [NET]: Expose netdevice dev_id through sysfs
  skbuff: fix missing kernel-doc notation
  [ROSE]: Fix soft lockup wrt. rose_node_list_lock
2008-04-23 12:23:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
94bc891b00 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:
  [PATCH] get rid of __exit_files(), __exit_fs() and __put_fs_struct()
  [PATCH] proc_readfd_common() race fix
  [PATCH] double-free of inode on alloc_file() failure exit in create_write_pipe()
  [PATCH] teach seq_file to discard entries
  [PATCH] umount_tree() will unhash everything itself
  [PATCH] get rid of more nameidata passing in namespace.c
  [PATCH] switch a bunch of LSM hooks from nameidata to path
  [PATCH] lock exclusively in collect_mounts() and drop_collected_mounts()
  [PATCH] move a bunch of declarations to fs/internal.h
2008-04-22 18:28:34 -07:00
Al Viro
1ec7f1ddbe [PATCH] get rid of __exit_files(), __exit_fs() and __put_fs_struct()
The only reason to have separated __...() for those was to keep them inlined
for local users in exit.c.  Since Alexey removed the inline on those, there's
no reason whatsoever to keep them around; just collapse with normal variants.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-22 19:55:09 -04:00
Randy Dunlap
73486722b7 kernel-doc: fix sched.c missing parameter
Add missing kernel-doc in kernel/sched.c:

Warning(linux-2.6.25-git3//kernel/sched.c:7044): No description found for parameter 'span'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-22 13:48:02 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
7c3f944e29 time: Export set_normalized_timespec.
Sorry I have just realized set_normalized_timespec() (used in
timespec_sub()) is not exported, and link will fail because of it...

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-21 19:45:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e9b62693ae Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/juhl/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/juhl/trivial: (24 commits)
  DOC:  A couple corrections and clarifications in USB doc.
  Generate a slightly more informative error msg for bad HZ
  fix typo "is" -> "if" in Makefile
  ext*: spelling fix prefered -> preferred
  DOCUMENTATION:  Use newer DEFINE_SPINLOCK macro in docs.
  KEYS:  Fix the comment to match the file name in rxrpc-type.h.
  RAID: remove trailing space from printk line
  DMA engine: typo fixes
  Remove unused MAX_NODES_SHIFT
  MAINTAINERS: Clarify access to OCFS2 development mailing list.
  V4L: Storage class should be before const qualifier (sn9c102)
  V4L: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  sonypi: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  intel_menlow: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  DVB: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  arm: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  ALSA: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  acpi: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  firmware_sample_driver.c: fix coding style
  MAINTAINERS: Add ati_remote2 driver
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflicts in firmware_sample_driver.c
2008-04-21 16:36:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
bda0c0afa7 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (42 commits)
  PCI: Change PCI subsystem MAINTAINER
  PCI: pci-iommu-iotlb-flushing-speedup
  PCI: pci_setup_bridge() mustn't be __devinit
  PCI: pci_bus_size_cardbus() mustn't be __devinit
  PCI: pci_scan_device() mustn't be __devinit
  PCI: pci_alloc_child_bus() mustn't be __devinit
  PCI: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
  PCI: Hotplug: fakephp: Return success, not ENODEV, when bus rescan is triggered
  PCI: Hotplug: Fix leaks in IBM Hot Plug Controller Driver - ibmphp_init_devno()
  PCI: clean up resource alignment management
  PCI: aerdrv_acpi.c: remove unneeded NULL check
  PCI: Update VIA CX700 quirk
  PCI: Expose PCI VPD through sysfs
  PCI: iommu: iotlb flushing
  PCI: simplify quirk debug output
  PCI: iova RB tree setup tweak
  PCI: parisc: use generic pci_enable_resources()
  PCI: ppc: use generic pci_enable_resources()
  PCI: powerpc: use generic pci_enable_resources()
  PCI: ia64: use generic pci_enable_resources()
  ...
2008-04-21 15:58:35 -07:00
Roland McGrath
e16b278164 ptrace: compat_ptrace_request siginfo
This adds support for PTRACE_GETSIGINFO and PTRACE_SETSIGINFO in
compat_ptrace_request.  It relies on existing arch definitions for
copy_siginfo_to_user32 and copy_siginfo_from_user32.

On powerpc, this fixes a longstanding regression of 32-bit ptrace
calls on 64-bit kernels vs native calls (64-bit calls or 32-bit
kernels).  This can be seen in a 32-bit call using PTRACE_GETSIGINFO
to examine e.g. siginfo_t.si_addr from a signal that sets it.
(This was broken as of 2.6.24 and, I presume, many or all prior versions.)

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-21 15:53:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5dfeaef895 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt:
  hrtimer: optimize the softirq time optimization
  hrtimer: reduce calls to hrtimer_get_softirq_time()
  clockevents: fix typo in tick-broadcast.c
  jiffies: add time_is_after_jiffies and others which compare with jiffies
2008-04-21 15:43:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
429f731dea Merge branch 'semaphore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc
* 'semaphore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc:
  Deprecate the asm/semaphore.h files in feature-removal-schedule.
  Convert asm/semaphore.h users to linux/semaphore.h
  security: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h
  lib: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h
  kernel: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h
  include: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h
  fs: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h
  drivers: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h
  net: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h
  arch: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h
2008-04-21 15:41:27 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ec965350bb Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched-devel
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched-devel: (62 commits)
  sched: build fix
  sched: better rt-group documentation
  sched: features fix
  sched: /debug/sched_features
  sched: add SCHED_FEAT_DEADLINE
  sched: debug: show a weight tree
  sched: fair: weight calculations
  sched: fair-group: de-couple load-balancing from the rb-trees
  sched: fair-group scheduling vs latency
  sched: rt-group: optimize dequeue_rt_stack
  sched: debug: add some debug code to handle the full hierarchy
  sched: fair-group: SMP-nice for group scheduling
  sched, cpuset: customize sched domains, core
  sched, cpuset: customize sched domains, docs
  sched: prepatory code movement
  sched: rt: multi level group constraints
  sched: task_group hierarchy
  sched: fix the task_group hierarchy for UID grouping
  sched: allow the group scheduler to have multiple levels
  sched: mix tasks and groups
  ...
2008-04-21 15:40:24 -07:00
Pavel Machek
f5264481c8 trivial: small cleanups
These are small cleanups all over the tree.

Trivial style and comment changes to
  fs/select.c, kernel/signal.c, kernel/stop_machine.c & mm/pdflush.c

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
2008-04-21 22:15:06 +00:00
Thomas Gleixner
259aae864c hrtimer: optimize the softirq time optimization
The previous optimization did not take the case into account where a
clock provides its own softirq_get_time() function.

Check for the availablitiy of the clock get time function first and
then check if we need to retrieve the time for both clocks via
hrtimer_softirq_gettime() to avoid a double evaluation of time in that
case as well.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-21 07:59:51 +02:00
Dimitri Sivanich
833883d9ac hrtimer: reduce calls to hrtimer_get_softirq_time()
It seems that hrtimer_run_queues() is calling hrtimer_get_softirq_time() more
often than it needs to.  This can cause frequent contention on systems with
large numbers of processors/cores.

With this patch, hrtimer_run_queues only calls hrtimer_get_softirq_time() if
there is a pending timer in one of the hrtimer bases, and only once.

This also combines hrtimer_run_queues() and the inline run_hrtimer_queue()
into one function.

[ tglx@linutronix.de: coding style ]

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-21 07:59:51 +02:00
Glauber Costa
833df317f9 clockevents: fix typo in tick-broadcast.c
braodcast -> broadcast

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-21 07:59:51 +02:00
Ivan Kokshaysky
884525655d PCI: clean up resource alignment management
Done per Linus' request and suggestions. Linus has explained that
better than I'll be able to explain:

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:12:10AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Actually, before we go any further, there might be a less intrusive
> alternative: add just a couple of flags to the resource flags field (we
> still have something like 8 unused bits on 32-bit), and use those to
> implement a generic "resource_alignment()" routine.
>
> Two flags would do it:
>
>  - IORESOURCE_SIZEALIGN: size indicates alignment (regular PCI device
>    resources)
>
>  - IORESOURCE_STARTALIGN: start field is alignment (PCI bus resources
>    during probing)
>
> and then the case of both flags zero (or both bits set) would actually be
> "invalid", and we would also clear the IORESOURCE_STARTALIGN flag when we
> actually allocate the resource (so that we don't use the "start" field as
> alignment incorrectly when it no longer indicates alignment).
>
> That wouldn't be totally generic, but it would have the nice property of
> automatically at least add sanity checking for that whole "res->start has
> the odd meaning of 'alignment' during probing" and remove the need for a
> new field, and it would allow us to have a generic "resource_alignment()"
> routine that just gets a resource pointer.

Besides, I removed IORESOURCE_BUS_HAS_VGA flag which was unused for ages.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-20 21:47:08 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
486fdae214 sched: build fix
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-19 19:45:01 +02:00