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Atsushi Nemoto
5aee405c66 [PATCH] time: add barrier after updating jiffies_64
Add a compiler barrier so that we don't read jiffies before updating
jiffies_64.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-06 18:40:44 -08:00
Tony Lindgren
69239749e1 [PATCH] fix next_timer_interrupt() for hrtimer
Also from Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Function next_timer_interrupt() got broken with a recent patch
6ba1b91213 as sys_nanosleep() was moved to
hrtimer.  This broke things as next_timer_interrupt() did not check hrtimer
tree for next event.

Function next_timer_interrupt() is needed with dyntick (CONFIG_NO_IDLE_HZ,
VST) implementations, as the system can be in idle when next hrtimer event
was supposed to happen.  At least ARM and S390 currently use
next_timer_interrupt().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-06 18:40:44 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
8ba7b0a14b Add early-boot-safety check to cond_resched()
Just to be safe, we should not trigger a conditional reschedule during
the early boot sequence.  We've historically done some questionable
early on, and the safety warnings in __might_sleep() are generally
turned off during that period, so there might be problems lurking.

This affects CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY, which takes over might_sleep() to
cause a voluntary conditional reschedule.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-06 17:38:49 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
685db65e42 [PATCH] time_interpolator: Use readq_relaxed() instead of readq().
On some platforms readq performs additional work to make sure I/O is done
in a coherent way.  This is not needed for time retrieval as done by the
time interpolator.  So we can use readq_relaxed instead which will improve
performance.

It affects sparc64 and ia64 only.  Apparently it makes a significant
difference on ia64.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-02 08:33:07 -08:00
Stefan Seyfried
7f99f06f01 [PATCH] fix acpi_video_flags on x86-64
acpi_video_flags variable is unsigned long, so it should be set as such.
This actually matters on x86-64.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-02 08:33:07 -08:00
Jes Sorensen
d2b176ed87 [IA64] sysctl option to silence unaligned trap warnings
Allow sysadmin to disable all warnings about userland apps
making unaligned accesses by using:
 # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
Rather than having to use prctl on a process by process basis.

Default behaivour leaves the warnings enabled.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-02-28 09:42:23 -08:00
Björn Steinbrink
5914811acf [PATCH] kjournald keeps reference to namespace
In daemonize() a new thread gets cleaned up and 'merged' with init_task.
The current fs_struct is handled there, but not the current namespace.

This adds the namespace part.

[ Eric Biederman pointed out the namespace wrappers, and also notes that
  we can't ever count on using our parents namespace because we already
  have called exit_fs(), which is the only way to the namespace from a
  process. ]

Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-20 20:27:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
cf70a6f264 Merge branch 'fixes.b8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bird 2006-02-20 20:09:44 -08:00
Stephen Rothwell
7fd105e758 [PATCH] Fix compile for CONFIG_SYSVIPC=n or CONFIG_SYSCTL=n
The compat syscalls are added to sys_ni.c since they are not defined if the
above CONFIG options are off.  Also, nfs would not build with CONFIG_SYSCTL
off.

Noticed by Arthur Othieno.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-20 20:00:11 -08:00
Luke Yang
7a9166e3b0 [PATCH] Fix undefined symbols for nommu architecture
Signed-off-by: Luke Yang <luke.adi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-20 20:00:11 -08:00
Pavel Machek
c255d844dd [PATCH] suspend-to-ram: allow video options to be set at runtime
Currently, acpi video options can only be set on kernel command line.  That's
little inflexible; I'd like userland s2ram application that just works, and
modifying kernel command line according to whitelist is not fun.  It is better
to just allow s2ram application to set video options just before suspend
(according to the whitelist).

This implements sysctl to allow setting suspend video options without reboot.

(akpm: Documentation updates for this new sysctl are pending..)

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-20 20:00:10 -08:00
Al Viro
ef20c8c197 [PATCH] GFP_KERNEL allocations in atomic (auditsc)
audit_log_exit() is called from atomic contexts and gets explicit
gfp_mask argument; it should use it for all allocations rather
than doing some with gfp_mask and some with GFP_KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-18 15:41:50 -05:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
a8534adb74 [PATCH] swsusp: fix breakage with swap on LVM
Restore the compatibility with the older code and make it possible to
suspend if the kernel command line doesn't contain the "resume=" argument

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-17 13:59:27 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
4bbf39c29b [PATCH] Introduce CONFIG_DEFAULT_MIGRATION_COST
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote:

  The boot sequence on s390 sometimes takes ages and we spend a very long
  time (up to one or two minutes) in calibrate_migration_costs.  The time
  spent there differs from boot to boot.  Also the calculated costs differ
  a lot.  I've seen differences by up to a factor of 15 (yes, factor not
  percent).  Also I doubt that making these measurements make much sense on
  a completely virtualized architecture where you cannot tell how much cpu
  time you will get anyway.

So introduce the CONFIG_DEFAULT_MIGRATION_COST method for an architecture
to set the scheduler migration costs.  This turns off automatic detection
of migration costs.  Makes sense on virtual platforms, where migration
costs are hard to measure accurately.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-17 13:59:26 -08:00
Paul Mackerras
726c14bf49 [PATCH] Provide an interface for getting the current tick length
This provides an interface for arch code to find out how many
nanoseconds are going to be added on to xtime by the next call to
do_timer.  The value returned is a fixed-point number in 52.12 format
in nanoseconds.  The reason for this format is that it gives the
full precision that the timekeeping code is using internally.

The motivation for this is to fix a problem that has arisen on 32-bit
powerpc in that the value returned by do_gettimeofday drifts apart
from xtime if NTP is being used.  PowerPC is now using a lockless
do_gettimeofday based on reading the timebase register and performing
some simple arithmetic.  (This method of getting the time is also
exported to userspace via the VDSO.)  However, the factor and offset
it uses were calculated based on the nominal tick length and weren't
being adjusted when NTP varied the tick length.

Note that 64-bit powerpc has had the lockless do_gettimeofday for a
long time now.  It also had an extremely hairy routine that got called
from the 32-bit compat routine for adjtimex, which adjusted the
factor and offset according to what it thought the timekeeping code
was going to do.  Not only was this only called if a 32-bit task did
adjtimex (i.e. not if a 64-bit task did adjtimex), it was also
duplicating computations from kernel/timer.c and it wasn't clear that
it was (still) correct.

The simple solution is to ask the timekeeping code how long the
current jiffy will be on each timer interrupt, after calling
do_timer.  If this jiffy will be a different length from the last one,
we then need to compute new values for the factor and offset used in
the lockless do_gettimeofday.  In this way we can keep xtime and
do_gettimeofday in sync, even when NTP is varying the tick length.

Note that when adjtimex varies the tick length, it almost always
introduces the variation from the next tick on.  The only case I could
see where adjtimex would vary the length of the current tick is when
an old-style adjtime adjustment is being cancelled.  (It's not clear
to me why the adjustment has to be cancelled immediately rather than
from the next tick on.)  Thus I don't see any real need for a hook in
adjtimex; the rare case of an old-style adjustment being cancelled can
be fixed up at the next tick.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-17 08:24:29 -08:00
Andi Kleen
a62eaf151d [PATCH] x86_64: Add boot option to disable randomized mappings and cleanup
AMD SimNow!'s JIT doesn't like them at all in the guest. For distribution
installation it's easiest if it's a boot time option.

Also I moved the variable to a more appropiate place and make
it independent from sysctl

And marked __read_mostly which it is.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-17 08:00:40 -08:00
Andrew Morton
c8adb494a6 [PATCH] swsusp: nuke noisy message
I get about 88 squillion of these when suspending an old ad450nx server.

Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-15 15:32:22 -08:00
Paul Jackson
06fed33849 [PATCH] cpuset: oops in exit on null cpuset fix
Fix a latent bug in cpuset_exit() handling.  If a task tried to allocate
memory after calling cpuset_exit(), it oops'd in
cpuset_update_task_memory_state() on a NULL cpuset pointer.

So set the exiting tasks cpuset to the root cpuset instead of to NULL.

A distro kernel hit this with an added kernel package that had just such a
hook (allocating memory) in the exit code path.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-15 15:32:21 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
5ecfbae093 [PATCH] fix zap_thread's ptrace related problems
1. The tracee can go from ptrace_stop() to do_signal_stop()
   after __ptrace_unlink(p).

2. It is unsafe to __ptrace_unlink(p) while p->parent may wait
   for tasklist_lock in ptrace_detach().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-15 11:05:43 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
dadac81b1b [PATCH] fix kill_proc_info() vs fork() theoretical race
copy_process:

	attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PID, p->pid);
	attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_TGID, p->tgid);

What if kill_proc_info(p->pid) happens in between?

copy_process() holds current->sighand.siglock, so we are safe
in CLONE_THREAD case, because current->sighand == p->sighand.

Otherwise, p->sighand is unlocked, the new process is already
visible to the find_task_by_pid(), but have a copy of parent's
'struct pid' in ->pids[PIDTYPE_TGID].

This means that __group_complete_signal() may hang while doing

	do ... while (next_thread() != p)

We can solve this problem if we reverse these 2 attach_pid()s:

	attach_pid() does wmb()

	group_send_sig_info() calls spin_lock(), which
	provides a read barrier. // Yes ?

I don't think we can hit this race in practice, but still.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-15 10:21:24 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
3f17da6994 [PATCH] fix kill_proc_info() vs CLONE_THREAD race
There is a window after copy_process() unlocks ->sighand.siglock
and before it adds the new thread to the thread list.

In that window __group_complete_signal(SIGKILL) will not see the
new thread yet, so this thread will start running while the whole
thread group was supposed to exit.

I beleive we have another good reason to place attach_pid(PID/TGID)
under ->sighand.siglock. We can do the same for

	release_task()->__unhash_process()

	de_thread()->switch_exec_pids()

After that we don't need tasklist_lock to iterate over the thread
list, and we can simplify things, see for example do_sigaction()
or sys_times().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-15 10:21:23 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
06027bdd27 [PATCH] hrtimer: round up relative start time on low-res arches
CONFIG_TIME_LOW_RES is a temporary way for architectures to signal that
they simply return xtime in do_gettimeoffset().  In this corner-case we
want to round up by resolution when starting a relative timer, to avoid
short timeouts.  This will go away with the GTOD framework.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-14 16:09:35 -08:00
Chen, Kenneth W
d6077cb80c [PATCH] sched: revert "filter affine wakeups"
Revert commit d7102e95b7:

    [PATCH] sched: filter affine wakeups

Apparently caused more than 10% performance regression for aim7 benchmark.
The setup in use is 16-cpu HP rx8620, 64Gb of memory and 12 MSA1000s with 144
disks.  Each disk is 72Gb with a single ext3 filesystem (courtesy of HP, who
supplied benchmark results).

The problem is, for aim7, the wake-up pattern is random, but it still needs
load balancing action in the wake-up path to achieve best performance.  With
the above commit, lack of load balancing hurts that workload.

However, for workloads like database transaction processing, the requirement
is exactly opposite.  In the wake up path, best performance is achieved with
absolutely zero load balancing.  We simply wake up the process on the CPU that
it was previously run.  Worst performance is obtained when we do load
balancing at wake up.

There isn't an easy way to auto detect the workload characteristics.  Ingo's
earlier patch that detects idle CPU and decide whether to load balance or not
doesn't perform with aim7 either since all CPUs are busy (it causes even
bigger perf.  regression).

Revert commit d7102e95b7, which causes more
than 10% performance regression with aim7.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-14 16:09:34 -08:00
Hugh Dickins
16bf134840 [PATCH] compound page: no access_process_vm check
The PageCompound check before access_process_vm's set_page_dirty_lock is no
longer necessary, so remove it.  But leave the PageCompound checks in
bio_set_pages_dirty, dio_bio_complete and nfs_free_user_pages: at least some
of those were introduced as a little optimization on hugetlb pages.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-14 16:09:33 -08:00
Jan Beulich
c22db94127 [PATCH] prevent recursive panic from softlockup watchdog
When panic_timeout is zero, suppress triggering a nested panic due to soft
lockup detection.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-10 08:13:12 -08:00
Nick Piggin
a2000572ad [PATCH] sched: remove smpnice
I don't think the code is quite ready, which is why I asked for Peter's
additions to also be merged before I acked it (although it turned out that
it still isn't quite ready with his additions either).

Basically I have had similar observations to Suresh in that it does not
play nicely with the rest of the balancing infrastructure (and raised
similar concerns in my review).

The samples (group of 4) I got for "maximum recorded imbalance" on a 2x2
SMP+HT Xeon are as follows:

            | Following boot | hackbench 20        | hackbench 40
 -----------+----------------+---------------------+---------------------
 2.6.16-rc2 | 30,37,100,112  | 5600,5530,6020,6090 | 6390,7090,8760,8470
 +nosmpnice |  3, 2,  4,  2  |   28, 150, 294, 132 |  348, 348, 294, 347

Hackbench raw performance is down around 15% with smpnice (but that in
itself isn't a huge deal because it is just a benchmark).  However, the
samples show that the imbalance passed into move_tasks is increased by
about a factor of 10-30.  I think this would also go some way to explaining
latency blips turning up in the balancing code (though I haven't actually
measured that).

We'll probably have to revert this in the SUSE kernel.

Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-10 08:13:11 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
9ac95f2f90 [PATCH] do_sigaction: cleanup ->sa_mask manipulation
Clear unblockable signals beforehand.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-09 16:17:36 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
c70d3d703a [PATCH] sys_signal: initialize ->sa_mask
Pointed out by Linus Torvalds.

sys_signal() forgets to initialize ->sa_mask.

( I suspect arch/ia64/ia32/ia32_signal.c:sys32_signal()
  also needs this fix )

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-09 16:17:36 -08:00
Al Viro
4bb8089c86 [PATCH] kernel/sys.c NULL noise removal
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-07 20:57:47 -05:00
Al Viro
53f087febf [PATCH] timer.c NULL noise removal
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-07 20:57:42 -05:00
Al Viro
1b8623545b [PATCH] remove bogus asm/bug.h includes.
A bunch of asm/bug.h includes are both not needed (since it will get
pulled anyway) and bogus (since they are done too early).  Removed.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-07 20:56:35 -05:00
JANAK DESAI
a016f3389c [PATCH] unshare system call -v5: unshare files
If the file descriptor structure is being shared, allocate a new one and copy
information from the current, shared, structure.

Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-07 16:12:34 -08:00
JANAK DESAI
a0a7ec308f [PATCH] unshare system call -v5: unshare vm
If vm structure is being shared, allocate a new one and copy information from
the current, shared, structure.

Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-07 16:12:34 -08:00
JANAK DESAI
741a295130 [PATCH] unshare system call -v5: unshare namespace
If the namespace structure is being shared, allocate a new one and copy
information from the current, shared, structure.

Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-07 16:12:34 -08:00
JANAK DESAI
99d1419d96 [PATCH] unshare system call -v5: unshare filesystem info
If filesystem structure is being shared, allocate a new one and copy
information from the current, shared, structure.

Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-07 16:12:34 -08:00
JANAK DESAI
cf2e340f42 [PATCH] unshare system call -v5: system call handler function
sys_unshare system call handler function accepts the same flags as clone
system call, checks constraints on each of the flags and invokes corresponding
unshare functions to disassociate respective process context if it was being
shared with another task.

Here is the link to a program for testing unshare system call.

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/audit/unshare_test.c?download

Please note that because of a problem in rmdir associated with bind mounts and
clone with CLONE_NEWNS, the test fails while trying to remove temporary test
directory.  You can remove that temporary directory by doing rmdir, twice,
from the command line.  The first will fail with EBUSY, but the second will
succeed.  I have reported the problem to Ram Pai and Al Viro with a small
program which reproduces the problem.  Al told us yesterday that he will be
looking at the problem soon.  I have tried multiple rmdirs from the
unshare_test program itself, but for some reason that is not working.  Doing
two rmdirs from command line does seem to remove the directory.

Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-07 16:12:34 -08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
46cd2f32ba [PATCH] Fix build failure in recent pm_prepare_* changes.
Fix compilation problem in PM headers.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-07 16:12:33 -08:00
Andrew Morton
8e08b75686 [PATCH] module: strlen_user() race fix
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-07 16:12:32 -08:00
Pavel Machek
7714d5985b [PATCH] swsusp: kill unneeded/unbalanced bio_get
- Remove unneeded bio_get() which would cause a bio leak

- Writing doesn't dirty pages.  Reading dirties pages.

- We should dirty the pages after the IO completion, not before

(Busy-waiting for disk I/O completion isn't very polite.)

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-07 16:12:31 -08:00
Dave Jones
5c0d5d262a [PATCH] missing license tag in intermodule
It may suck something awful, but it shouldn't taint the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@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>
2006-02-05 11:06:52 -08:00
Chuck Ebbert
bd576c9523 [PATCH] sched: only print migration_cost once per boot
migration_cost prints after every CPU hotplug event.  Make it print only
once at boot.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05 11:06:51 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
88a2a4ac6b [PATCH] percpu data: only iterate over possible CPUs
percpu_data blindly allocates bootmem memory to store NR_CPUS instances of
cpudata, instead of allocating memory only for possible cpus.

As a preparation for changing that, we need to convert various 0 -> NR_CPUS
loops to use for_each_cpu().

(The above only applies to users of asm-generic/percpu.h.  powerpc has gone it
alone and is presently only allocating memory for present CPUs, so it's
currently corrupting memory).

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05 11:06:51 -08:00
Andrew Morton
514a01b880 [PATCH] uninline __sigqueue_free()
Five callsites.  I dunno how all this crap got back in there :(

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03 08:32:10 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
fe85a998ca [PATCH] cpuset: fix sparse warning
kernel/cpuset.c:644:38: warning: non-ANSI function declaration of function 'cpuset_update_task_memory_state'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03 08:32:06 -08:00
George Anzinger
88fc3897e3 [PATCH] Normalize timespec for negative values in ns_to_timespec
- In case of a negative nsec value the result of the division must be
  normalized.

- Remove inline from an exported function.

Signed-off-by: George Anzinger <george@wildturkeyranch.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03 08:32:06 -08:00
Keith Owens
54e8ce463a [PATCH] Tell kallsyms_lookup_name() to ignore type U entries
When one module exports a function symbol and another module uses that
symbol then kallsyms shows the symbol twice.  Once from the consumer with a
type of 'U' and once from the provider with a type of 't' or 'T'.  On most
architectures, both entries have the same address so it does not matter
which one is returned by kallsyms_lookup_name().  But on architectures with
function descriptors, the 'U' entry points to the descriptor, not to the
code body, which is not what we want.

IA64 # grep -w qla2x00_remove_one /proc/kallsyms
a000000208c25ef8 U qla2x00_remove_one   [qla2300]   <= descriptor
a000000208bf44c0 t qla2x00_remove_one   [qla2xxx]   <= function body

Tell kallsyms_lookup_name() to ignore type U entries in modules.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03 08:32:02 -08:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
278ff95370 [PATCH] Kprobes: Fix deadlock in function-return probes
When two function-return probes are inserted on kfree()[1] and the second
on say, sys_link()[2], and later [2] is unregistered, we have a deadlock as
kfree is called with the kretprobe_lock held and the function-return probe
on kfree will also try to grab the same lock.

However, we can move the kfree() during unregistration to outside the
spinlock as we are sure that no instances from the free list will be used
after synchronized_sched() returns during the unregistration process.
Thanks to Masami Hiramatsu for spotting this.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03 08:32:00 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
e65cefe87b [PATCH] kernel/kprobes.c: fix a warning #ifndef ARCH_SUPPORTS_KRETPROBES
kernel/kprobes.c:353: warning: 'pre_handler_kretprobe' defined but not used

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03 08:32:00 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
59ed2f59e4 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 2006-02-01 22:06:15 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
2a11ff06d7 [PATCH] zone_reclaim: configurable off node allocation period.
Currently the zone_reclaim code has a fixed window of 30 seconds of off node
allocations should a local zone have no unused pagecache pages left.  Reclaim
will be attempted again after this timeout period to avoid repeated useless
scans for memory.  This is also useful to established sufficiently large off
node allocation chunks to relieve the local node.

It may be beneficial to adjust that time period for some special situations.
For example if memory use was exceeding node capacity one may want to give up
for longer periods of time.  If memory spikes intermittendly then one may want
to shorten the time period to reduce the number of off node allocations.

This patch allows just that....

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:16 -08:00