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Author SHA1 Message Date
Ken'ichi Ohmichi
83a08e7c6e vmcoreinfo: add the array length of "free_list" for filtering free pages
This patch adds the array length of "free_area.free_list" to the vmcoreinfo
data so that makedumpfile (dump filtering command) can exclude all free pages
in linux-2.6.24.

makedumpfile creates a small dumpfile by excluding unnecessary pages for the
analysis. To distinguish unnecessary pages, makedumpfile gets the vmcoreinfo
data which has the minimum debugging information only for dump filtering.

In 2.6.24-rc1 or later, the free_area.free_list is an array which has one list
for each migrate types instead of a single list. makedumpfile needs the array
length of "free_area.free_list" and the vmcoreinfo data should contain it.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-08 16:10:36 -08:00
Roland McGrath
b59f8197c5 acct: real_parent ppid
The ac_ppid field reported in process accounting records
should match what getppid() would have returned to that
process, regardless of whether a debugger is attached.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-07 14:55:37 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
39cd72de49 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
  sched: fix gcc warnings
2008-01-03 12:01:00 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b8c9a18712 Fix kernel/ptrace.c compile problem (missing "may_attach()")
The previous commit missed one use of "may_attach()" that had been
renamed to __ptrace_may_attach().  Tssk, tssk, Al.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-02 13:48:27 -08:00
Al Viro
831830b5a2 restrict reading from /proc/<pid>/maps to those who share ->mm or can ptrace pid
Contents of /proc/*/maps is sensitive and may become sensitive after
open() (e.g.  if target originally shares our ->mm and later does exec
on suid-root binary).

Check at read() (actually, ->start() of iterator) time that mm_struct
we'd grabbed and locked is
 - still the ->mm of target
 - equal to reader's ->mm or the target is ptracable by reader.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-02 13:13:27 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
90b2628f1f sched: fix gcc warnings
Meelis Roos reported these warnings on sparc64:

  CC      kernel/sched.o
  In file included from kernel/sched.c:879:
  kernel/sched_debug.c: In function 'nsec_high':
  kernel/sched_debug.c:38: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast

the debug check in do_div() is over-eager here, because the long long
is always positive in these places. Mark this by casting them to
unsigned long long.

no change in code output:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  51471    6582     376   58429    e43d sched.o.before
  51471    6582     376   58429    e43d sched.o.after

  md5:
   7f7729c111f185bf3ccea4d542abc049  sched.o.before.asm
   7f7729c111f185bf3ccea4d542abc049  sched.o.after.asm

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-30 17:24:35 +01:00
David S. Miller
fb445ee5f9 [SERIAL]: Fix section mismatches in Sun serial console drivers.
We're exporting an __init function, oops :-)

The core issue here is that add_preferred_console() is marked
as __init, this makes it impossible to invoke this thing from
a driver probe routine which is what the Sparc serial drivers
need to do.

There is no harm in dropping the __init marker.  This code will
actually work properly when invoked from a modular driver,
except that init will probably not pick up the console change
without some other support code.

Then we can drop the __init from sunserial_console_match()
and we're no longer exporting an __init function to modules.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-29 01:19:49 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
d172f4ef31 Modules: fix memory leak of module names
Due to the change in kobject name handling, the module kobject needs to
have a null release function to ensure that the name it previously set
will be properly cleaned up.

All of this wierdness goes away in 2.6.25 with the rework of the kobject
name and cleanup logic, but this is required for 2.6.24.

Thanks to Alexey Dobriyan for finding the problem, and to Kay Sievers
for pointing out the simple way to fix it after I tried many complex
ways.

Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-12-22 23:09:05 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
2c3b20e91f debug: add end-of-oops marker
Right now it's nearly impossible for parsers that collect kernel crashes
from logs or emails (such as www.kerneloops.org) to detect the
end-of-oops condition. In addition, it's not currently possible to
detect whether or not 2 oopses that look alike are actually the same
oops reported twice, or are truly two unique oopses.

This patch adds an end-of-oops marker, and makes the end marker include
a very simple 64-bit random ID to be able to detect duplicate reports.

Normally, this ID is calculated as a late_initcall() (in the hope that
at that time there is enough entropy to get a unique enough ID); however
for early oopses the oops_exit() function needs to generate the ID on
the fly.

We do this all at the _end_ of an oops printout, so this does not impact
our ability to get the most important portions of a crash out to the
console first.

[ Sidenote: the already existing oopses-since-bootup counter we print
  during crashes serves as the differentiator between multiple oopses
  that trigger during the same bootup. ]

Tested on 32-bit and 64-bit x86. Artificially injected very early
crashes as well, as expected they result in this constant ID after
multiple bootups:

  ---[ end trace ca143223eefdc828 ]---
  ---[ end trace ca143223eefdc828 ]---

because the random pools are still all zero. But it all still works
fine and causes no additional problems (which is the main goal of
instrumentation code).

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-20 15:01:17 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
67e2be0232 sched: rt: account the cpu time during the tick
Realtime tasks would not account their runtime during ticks. Which would lead
to:

        struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 10 };
        pthread_setschedparam(pthread_self(), SCHED_FIFO, &param);

	while (1) ;

Not showing up in top.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-12-20 15:01:17 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
3e3b3916a9 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86:
  x86: fix "Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!"
  genirq: revert lazy irq disable for simple irqs
  x86: also define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH
  x86: kprobes bugfix
  x86: jprobe bugfix
  timer: kernel/timer.c section fixes
  genirq: add unlocked version of set_irq_handler()
  clockevents: fix reprogramming decision in oneshot broadcast
  oprofile: op_model_athlon.c support for AMD family 10h barcelona performance counters
2007-12-18 09:42:44 -08:00
Steven Rostedt
971e5b35fb genirq: revert lazy irq disable for simple irqs
In commit 76d2160147 lazy irq disabling
was implemented, and the simple irq handler had a masking set to it.

Remy Bohmer discovered that some devices in the ARM architecture
would trigger the mask, but never unmask it. His patch to do the
unmasking was questioned by Russell King about masking simple irqs
to begin with. Looking further, it was discovered that the problems
Remy was seeing was due to improper use of the simple handler by
devices, and he later submitted patches to fix those. But the issue
that was uncovered was that the simple handler should never mask.

This patch reverts the masking in the simple handler.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-12-18 18:05:58 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
b4be625852 timer: kernel/timer.c section fixes
This patch fixes the following section mismatches with CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n,
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y:

...
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x41cd3): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:tvec_base_done.22610 (between 'timer_cpu_notify' and 'run_timer_softirq')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x41d67): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:tvec_base_done.22610 (between 'timer_cpu_notify' and 'run_timer_softirq')
...

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-12-18 18:05:58 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
cdc6f27d9e clockevents: fix reprogramming decision in oneshot broadcast
Resolve the following regression of a choppy, almost unusable laptop:

 http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/7/299
 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9525

A previous version of the code did the reprogramming of the broadcast
device in the return from idle code. This was removed, but the logic in
tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast() was kept the same.

When a broadcast interrupt happens we signal the expiry to all CPUs
which have an expired event. If none of the CPUs has an expired event,
which can happen in dyntick mode, then we reprogram the broadcast
device. We do not reprogram otherwise, but this is only correct if all
CPUs, which are in the idle broadcast state have been woken up.

The code ignores, that there might be pending not yet expired events on
other CPUs, which are in the idle broadcast state. So the delivery of
those events can be delayed for quite a time.

Change the tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast() function to check for CPUs,
which are in broadcast state and are not woken up by the current event,
and enforce the rearming of the broadcast device for those CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-18 18:05:58 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
6cbf1c126c sched: do not hurt SCHED_BATCH on wakeup
measurements by Yanmin Zhang have shown that SCHED_BATCH tasks benefit
if they run the same place_entity() logic as SCHED_OTHER tasks - so
uniformize behavior in this area.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-18 15:21:13 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
2bacec8c31 sched: touch softlockup watchdog after idling
touch softlockup watchdog after idling.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-18 15:21:13 +01:00
Eric Dumazet
73c4efd2c8 sched: sysctl, proc_dointvec_minmax() expects int values for
min_sched_granularity_ns, max_sched_granularity_ns,
min_wakeup_granularity_ns and max_wakeup_granularity_ns are declared
"unsigned long".

This is incorrect since proc_dointvec_minmax() expects plain "int" guard
values.

This bug only triggers on big endian 64 bit arches.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-18 15:21:13 +01:00
Livio Soares
c7af77b584 sched: mark rwsem functions as __sched for wchan/profiling
This following commit

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=fdf8cb0909b531f9ae8f9b9d7e4eb35ba3505f07

un-inlined a low-level rwsem function, but did not mark it as __sched.
The result is that it now shows up as thread wchan (which also affects
/proc/profile stats).  The following simple patch fixes this by properly
marking rwsem_down_failed_common() as a __sched function.

Also in this patch, which is up for discussion, marks down_read() and
down_write() proper as __sched.  For profiling, it is pretty much
useless to know that a semaphore is beig help - it is necessary to know
_which_ one.  By going up another frame on the stack, the information
becomes much more useful.

In summary, the below change to lib/rwsem.c should be applied; the
changes to kernel/rwsem.c could be applied if other kernel hackers agree
with my proposal that down_read()/down_write() in the profile is not
enough.

[ akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix ]

Signed-off-by: Livio Soares <livio@eecg.toronto.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-18 15:21:13 +01:00
Dmitry Adamushko
051a1d1afa sched: fix crash on ia64, introduce task_current()
Some services (e.g. sched_setscheduler(), rt_mutex_setprio() and
sched_move_task()) must handle a given task differently in case it's the
'rq->curr' task on its run-queue. The task_running() interface is not
suitable for determining such tasks for platforms with one of the
following options:

#define __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW
#define __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW

Due to the fact that it makes use of 'p->oncpu == 1' as a criterion but
such a task is not necessarily 'rq->curr'.

The detailed explanation is available here:
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2007-December/009262.html

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
2007-12-18 15:21:13 +01:00
Eric W. Biederman
64396accc2 sysctl: fix ax25 checks
Fix:

sysctl table check failed: /net/ax25/ax0/ax25_default_mode .3.9.1.2 Unknown
sysctl binary path
Pid: 2936, comm: kissattach Not tainted 2.6.24-rc5 #1
 [<c012ca6a>] set_fail+0x3b/0x43
 [<c012ce7a>] sysctl_check_table+0x408/0x456
 [<c012ce8e>] sysctl_check_table+0x41c/0x456
 [<c012ce8e>] sysctl_check_table+0x41c/0x456
 ...

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Bernard Pidoux <pidoux@ccr.jussieu.fr>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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>
2007-12-17 19:28:17 -08:00
Nishanth Aravamudan
368d2c6358 Revert "hugetlb: Add hugetlb_dynamic_pool sysctl"
This reverts commit 54f9f80d65 ("hugetlb:
Add hugetlb_dynamic_pool sysctl")

Given the new sysctl nr_overcommit_hugepages, the boolean dynamic pool
sysctl is not needed, as its semantics can be expressed by 0 in the
overcommit sysctl (no dynamic pool) and non-0 in the overcommit sysctl
(pool enabled).

(Needed in 2.6.24 since it reverts a post-2.6.23 userspace-visible change)

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-17 19:28:17 -08:00
Nishanth Aravamudan
d1c3fb1f8f hugetlb: introduce nr_overcommit_hugepages sysctl
hugetlb: introduce nr_overcommit_hugepages sysctl

While examining the code to support /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_dynamic_pool, I
became convinced that having a boolean sysctl was insufficient:

1) To support per-node control of hugepages, I have previously submitted
patches to add a sysfs attribute related to nr_hugepages. However, with
a boolean global value and per-mount quota enforcement constraining the
dynamic pool, adding corresponding control of the dynamic pool on a
per-node basis seems inconsistent to me.

2) Administration of the hugetlb dynamic pool with multiple hugetlbfs
mount points is, arguably, more arduous than it needs to be. Each quota
would need to be set separately, and the sum would need to be monitored.

To ease the administration, and to help make the way for per-node
control of the static & dynamic hugepage pool, I added a separate
sysctl, nr_overcommit_hugepages. This value serves as a high watermark
for the overall hugepage pool, while nr_hugepages serves as a low
watermark. The boolean sysctl can then be removed, as the condition

	nr_overcommit_hugepages > 0

indicates the same administrative setting as

	hugetlb_dynamic_pool == 1

Quotas still serve as local enforcement of the size of the pool on a
per-mount basis.

A few caveats:

1) There is a race whereby the global surplus huge page counter is
incremented before a hugepage has allocated. Another process could then
try grow the pool, and fail to convert a surplus huge page to a normal
huge page and instead allocate a fresh huge page. I believe this is
benign, as no memory is leaked (the actual pages are still tracked
correctly) and the counters won't go out of sync.

2) Shrinking the static pool while a surplus is in effect will allow the
number of surplus huge pages to exceed the overcommit value. As long as
this condition holds, however, no more surplus huge pages will be
allowed on the system until one of the two sysctls are increased
sufficiently, or the surplus huge pages go out of use and are freed.

Successfully tested on x86_64 with the current libhugetlbfs snapshot,
modified to use the new sysctl.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-17 19:28:17 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
2c5ea0f2d8 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86:
  ACPI: move timer broadcast before busmaster disable
  clockevents: warn once when program_event() is called with negative expiry
  hrtimers: avoid overflow for large relative timeouts
2007-12-07 11:01:26 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
167b1de3ee clockevents: warn once when program_event() is called with negative expiry
The hrtimer problem with large relative timeouts resulting in a
negative expiry time went unnoticed as there is no check in the
clockevents_program_event() code. Put a check there with a WARN_ONCE
to avoid such problems in the future.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-07 19:16:17 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
62f0f61e66 hrtimers: avoid overflow for large relative timeouts
Relative hrtimers with a large timeout value might end up as negative
timer values, when the current time is added in hrtimer_start().

This in turn is causing the clockevents_set_next() function to set an
huge timeout and sleep for quite a long time when we have a clock
source which is capable of long sleeps like HPET. With PIT this almost
goes unnoticed as the maximum delta is ~27ms. The non-hrt/nohz code
sorts this out in the next timer interrupt, so we never noticed that
problem which has been there since the first day of hrtimers.

This bug became more apparent in 2.6.24 which activates HPET on more
hardware.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-07 19:16:17 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
8ced5f69e4 sched: enable early use of sched_clock()
some platforms have sched_clock() implementations that cannot be called
very early during wakeup. If it's called it might hang or crash in hard
to debug ways. So only call update_rq_clock() [which calls sched_clock()]
if sched_init() has already been called. (rq->idle is NULL before the
scheduler is initialized.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-07 19:02:47 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
5f9fa8a62d lockdep: make cli/sti annotation warnings clearer
make cli/sti annotation warnings easier to interpret.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2007-12-07 19:02:47 +01:00
Matthew Wilcox
009e577e07 Add wait_for_completion_killable
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2007-12-06 17:40:19 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox
294d5cc233 Add schedule_timeout_killable
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2007-12-06 17:40:07 -05:00
Liam R. Howlett
ad776537cc Add mutex_lock_killable
Similar to mutex_lock_interruptible, it can be interrupted by a fatal
signal only.

Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <howlett@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2007-12-06 17:37:59 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox
f776d12dd1 Add fatal_signal_pending
Like signal_pending, but it's only true for signals which are fatal to
this process

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2007-12-06 17:35:35 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox
f021a3c2b1 Add TASK_WAKEKILL
Set TASK_WAKEKILL for TASK_STOPPED and TASK_TRACED, add TASK_KILLABLE and
use TASK_WAKEKILL in signal_wake_up()

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2007-12-06 17:35:28 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox
338077e54e exit: Use task_is_*
Also restructure the loop in do_wait()

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2007-12-06 17:35:17 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox
e1abb39c60 signal: Use task_is_*
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2007-12-06 17:35:04 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox
d9514f6c6b sched: Use task_contributes_to_load, TASK_ALL and TASK_NORMAL
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2007-12-06 17:34:59 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox
6618a3e275 ptrace: Use task_is_*
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2007-12-06 17:34:52 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox
d2f60e5faa power: Use task_is_*
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2007-12-06 17:34:47 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox
e64d66c8ed wait: Use TASK_NORMAL
Also move wake_up_locked() to be with the related functions

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2007-12-06 17:34:36 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
3743d33edf Tiny clean-up of OPROFILE/KPROBES configuration
Make the Kconfig.instrumentation file a bit easier on the eyes, and use
the new ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPROFILE for x86[-64].

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-06 09:41:12 -08:00
Ralf Baechle
00a5825332 Fix oprofile configuration breakage
The cleanup 09cadedbdc broke the oprofile
configuration for MIPS by allowing oprofile support to be built for
kernel models where oprofile doesn't have a chance in hell to work.

Just a dependecy list on a number of architectures is - surprise - broken
and should as per past discussions probably in most considered to be
broken in most cases.  So I introduce a dependency for the oprofile
configuration on ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPROFILE.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-06 09:37:03 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
7e1fb765c6 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
  futex: correctly return -EFAULT not -EINVAL
  lockdep: in_range() fix
  lockdep: fix debug_show_all_locks()
  sched: style cleanups
  futex: fix for futex_wait signal stack corruption
2007-12-05 09:27:46 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
2cfae2739b Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  [SPARC64]: Update defconfig.
  [SPARC]: Add missing of_node_put
  [SPARC64]: check for possible NULL pointer dereference
  [SPARC]: Add missing "space"
  [SPARC64]: Add missing "space"
  [SPARC64]: Add missing pci_dev_put
  [SYSCTL_CHECK]: Fix typo in KERN_SPARC_SCONS_PWROFF entry string.
  [SPARC64]: Missing mdesc_release() in ldc_init().
2007-12-05 09:25:53 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov
f1dad166e8 Avoid potential NULL dereference in unregister_sysctl_table
register_sysctl_table() can return NULL sometimes, e.g.  when kmalloc()
returns NULL or when sysctl check fails.

I've also noticed, that many (most?) code in the kernel doesn't check for
the return value from register_sysctl_table() and later simply calls the
unregister_sysctl_table() with potentially NULL argument.

This is unlikely on a common kernel configuration, but in case we're
dealing with modules and/or fault-injection support, there's a slight
possibility of an OOPS.

Changing all the users to check for return code from the registering does
not look like a good solution - there are too many code doing this and
failure in sysctl tables registration is not a good reason to abort module
loading (in most of the cases).

So I think, that we can just have this check in unregister_sysctl_table
just to avoid accidental OOPS-es (actually, the unregister_sysctl_table()
did exactly this, before the start_unregistering() appeared).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-05 09:21:20 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
5cd17569fd fix clone(CLONE_NEWPID)
Currently we are complicating the code in copy_process, the clone ABI, and
if we fix the bugs sys_setsid itself, with an unnecessary open coded
version of sys_setsid.

So just simplify everything and don't special case the session and pgrp of
the initial process in a pid namespace.

Having this special case actually presents to user space the classic linux
startup conditions with session == pgrp == 0 for /sbin/init.

We already handle sending signals to processes in a child pid namespace.

We need to handle sending signals to processes in a parent pid namespace
for cases like SIGCHILD and SIGIO.

This makes nothing extra visible inside a pid namespace.  So this extra
special case appears to have no redeeming merits.

Further removing this special case increases the flexibility of how we can
use pid namespaces, by not requiring the initial process in a pid namespace
to be a daemon.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-05 09:21:18 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
cde898fa80 futex: correctly return -EFAULT not -EINVAL
return -EFAULT not -EINVAL. Found by review.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-05 15:46:09 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov
54561783ee lockdep: in_range() fix
Torsten Kaiser wrote:

| static inline int in_range(const void *start, const void *addr, const void *end)
| {
|         return addr >= start && addr <= end;
| }
| This  will return true, if addr is in the range of start (including)
| to end (including).
|
| But debug_check_no_locks_freed() seems does:
| const void *mem_to = mem_from + mem_len
| -> mem_to is the last byte of the freed range, that fits in_range
| lock_from = (void *)hlock->instance;
| -> first byte of the lock
| lock_to = (void *)(hlock->instance + 1);
| -> first byte of the next lock, not last byte of the lock that is being checked!
|
| The test is:
| if (!in_range(mem_from, lock_from, mem_to) &&
|                                         !in_range(mem_from, lock_to, mem_to))
|                         continue;
| So it tests, if the first byte of the lock is in the range that is freed ->OK
| And if the first byte of the *next* lock is in the range that is freed
| -> Not OK.

We can also simplify in_range checks, we need only 2 comparisons, not 4.
If the lock is not in memory range, it should be either at the left of range
or at the right.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2007-12-05 15:46:09 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
856848737b lockdep: fix debug_show_all_locks()
fix the oops that can be seen in:

   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=13828&action=view

it is not safe to print the locks of running tasks.

(even with this fix we have a small race - but this is a debug
 function after all.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2007-12-05 15:46:09 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
41a2d6cfa3 sched: style cleanups
style cleanup of various changes that were done recently.

no code changed:

      text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
     23680    2542      28   26250    668a sched.o.before
     23680    2542      28   26250    668a sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-05 15:46:09 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
ce6bd420f4 futex: fix for futex_wait signal stack corruption
David Holmes found a bug in the -rt tree with respect to
pthread_cond_timedwait. After trying his test program on the latest git
from mainline, I found the bug was there too.  The bug he was seeing
that his test program showed, was that if one were to do a "Ctrl-Z" on a
process that was in the pthread_cond_timedwait, and then did a "bg" on
that process, it would return with a "-ETIMEDOUT" but early. That is,
the timer would go off early.

Looking into this, I found the source of the problem. And it is a rather
nasty bug at that.

Here's the relevant code from kernel/futex.c: (not in order in the file)

[...]
smlinkage long sys_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, u32 val,
                          struct timespec __user *utime, u32 __user *uaddr2,
                          u32 val3)
{
        struct timespec ts;
        ktime_t t, *tp = NULL;
        u32 val2 = 0;
        int cmd = op & FUTEX_CMD_MASK;

        if (utime && (cmd == FUTEX_WAIT || cmd == FUTEX_LOCK_PI)) {
                if (copy_from_user(&ts, utime, sizeof(ts)) != 0)
                        return -EFAULT;
                if (!timespec_valid(&ts))
                        return -EINVAL;

                t = timespec_to_ktime(ts);
                if (cmd == FUTEX_WAIT)
                        t = ktime_add(ktime_get(), t);
                tp = &t;
        }
[...]
        return do_futex(uaddr, op, val, tp, uaddr2, val2, val3);
}

[...]

long do_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, u32 val, ktime_t *timeout,
                u32 __user *uaddr2, u32 val2, u32 val3)
{
        int ret;
        int cmd = op & FUTEX_CMD_MASK;
        struct rw_semaphore *fshared = NULL;

        if (!(op & FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG))
                fshared = &current->mm->mmap_sem;

        switch (cmd) {
        case FUTEX_WAIT:
                ret = futex_wait(uaddr, fshared, val, timeout);

[...]

static int futex_wait(u32 __user *uaddr, struct rw_semaphore *fshared,
                      u32 val, ktime_t *abs_time)
{
[...]
               struct restart_block *restart;
                restart = &current_thread_info()->restart_block;
                restart->fn = futex_wait_restart;
                restart->arg0 = (unsigned long)uaddr;
                restart->arg1 = (unsigned long)val;
                restart->arg2 = (unsigned long)abs_time;
                restart->arg3 = 0;
                if (fshared)
                        restart->arg3 |= ARG3_SHARED;
                return -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK;
[...]

static long futex_wait_restart(struct restart_block *restart)
{
        u32 __user *uaddr = (u32 __user *)restart->arg0;
        u32 val = (u32)restart->arg1;
        ktime_t *abs_time = (ktime_t *)restart->arg2;
        struct rw_semaphore *fshared = NULL;

        restart->fn = do_no_restart_syscall;
        if (restart->arg3 & ARG3_SHARED)
                fshared = &current->mm->mmap_sem;
        return (long)futex_wait(uaddr, fshared, val, abs_time);
}

So when the futex_wait is interrupt by a signal we break out of the
hrtimer code and set up or return from signal. This code does not return
back to userspace, so we set up a RESTARTBLOCK.  The bug here is that we
save the "abs_time" which is a pointer to the stack variable "ktime_t t"
from sys_futex.

This returns and unwinds the stack before we get to call our signal. On
return from the signal we go to futex_wait_restart, where we update all
the parameters for futex_wait and call it. But here we have a problem
where abs_time is no longer valid.

I verified this with print statements, and sure enough, what abs_time
was set to ends up being garbage when we get to futex_wait_restart.

The solution I did to solve this (with input from Linus Torvalds)
was to add unions to the restart_block to allow system calls to
use the restart with specific parameters.  This way the futex code now
saves the time in a 64bit value in the restart block instead of storing
it on the stack.

Note: I'm a bit nervious to add "linux/types.h" and use u32 and u64
in thread_info.h, when there's a #ifdef __KERNEL__ just below that.
Not sure what that is there for.  If this turns out to be a problem, I've
tested this with using "unsigned int" for u32 and "unsigned long long" for
u64 and it worked just the same. I'm using u32 and u64 just to be
consistent with what the futex code uses.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-05 15:46:09 +01:00
David S. Miller
874a5f87f5 [SYSCTL_CHECK]: Fix typo in KERN_SPARC_SCONS_PWROFF entry string.
Based upon a report by Mikael Pettersson.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-05 05:37:56 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
db292ca302 sched: default to more agressive yield for SCHED_BATCH tasks
do more agressive yield for SCHED_BATCH tuned tasks: they are all
about throughput anyway. This allows a gentler migration path for
any apps that relied on stronger yield.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-04 17:04:39 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
77034937dc sched: fix crash in sys_sched_rr_get_interval()
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino reported that sched_rr_get_interval()
crashes for SCHED_OTHER tasks that are on an idle runqueue.

The fix is to return a 0 timeslice for tasks that are on an idle
runqueue. (and which are not running, obviously)

this also shrinks the code a bit:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  47903    3934     336   52173    cbcd sched.o.before
  47885    3934     336   52155    cbbb sched.o.after

Reported-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-04 17:04:39 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
ca6435f188 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
  sched: cpu accounting controller (V2)
2007-12-03 08:21:06 -08:00
Al Viro
b00296fb78 uml: add !UML dependencies
The previous commit ("uml: keep UML Kconfig in sync with x86") is not
enough, unfortunately.  If we go that way, we need to add dependencies
on !UML for several options.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-03 08:13:17 -08:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
d842de871c sched: cpu accounting controller (V2)
Commit cfb5285660 removed a useful feature for
us, which provided a cpu accounting resource controller.  This feature would be
useful if someone wants to group tasks only for accounting purpose and doesnt
really want to exercise any control over their cpu consumption.

The patch below reintroduces the feature. It is based on Paul Menage's
original patch (Commit 62d0df6406), with
these differences:

        - Removed load average information. I felt it needs more thought (esp
	  to deal with SMP and virtualized platforms) and can be added for
	  2.6.25 after more discussions.
        - Convert group cpu usage to be nanosecond accurate (as rest of the cfs
	  stats are) and invoke cpuacct_charge() from the respective scheduler
	  classes
	- Make accounting scalable on SMP systems by splitting the usage
	  counter to be per-cpu
	- Move the code from kernel/cpu_acct.c to kernel/sched.c (since the
	  code is not big enough to warrant a new file and also this rightly
	  needs to live inside the scheduler. Also things like accessing
	  rq->lock while reading cpu usage becomes easier if the code lived in
	  kernel/sched.c)

The patch also modifies the cpu controller not to provide the same accounting
information.

Tested-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

 Tested the patches on top of 2.6.24-rc3. The patches work fine. Ran
 some simple tests like cpuspin (spin on the cpu), ran several tasks in
 the same group and timed them. Compared their time stamps with
 cpuacct.usage.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-02 20:04:49 +01:00
Scott James Remnant
e6ceb32aa2 wait_task_stopped(): pass correct exit_code to wait_noreap_copyout()
In wait_task_stopped() exit_code already contains the right value for the
si_status member of siginfo, and this is simply set in the non WNOWAIT
case.

If you call waitid() with a stopped or traced process, you'll get the signal
in siginfo.si_status as expected -- however if you call waitid(WNOWAIT) at the
same time, you'll get the signal << 8 | 0x7f

Pass it unchanged to wait_noreap_copyout(); we would only need to shift it
and add 0x7f if we were returning it in the user status field and that
isn't used for any function that permits WNOWAIT.

Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-29 09:24:55 -08:00
David Howells
9e6c1e6333 FRV: fix the extern declaration of kallsyms_num_syms
Fix the extern declaration of kallsyms_num_syms to indicate that the symbol
does not reside in the small-data storage space, and so may not be accessed
relative to the small data base register.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-29 09:24:54 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov
32df81cbd5 Isolate the UTS namespace's domainname and hostname back
Commit 7d69a1f4a7 ("remove CONFIG_UTS_NS
and CONFIG_IPC_NS") by Cedric Le Goater accidentally removed the code
that prevented the uts->hostname and uts->domainname values from being
overwritten from another namespace.

In other words, setting hostname/domainname via sysfs (echo xxx >
/proc/sys/kernel/(host|domain)name) cased the new value to be set in
init UTS namespace only.

Return the isolation back.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-29 09:24:53 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
c895078355 wait_task_stopped(): don't use task_pid_nr_ns() lockless
wait_task_stopped(WNOWAIT) does task_pid_nr_ns() without tasklist/rcu lock,
we can read an already freed memory.  Use the cached pid_t value.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Looks-good-to: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-29 09:24:52 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
f95e0d1c2a sched: clean up kernel/sched_stat.h
clean up kernel/sched_stat.h.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-28 15:52:56 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
c1a89740da sched: clean up overlong line in kernel/sched_debug.c
clean up overlong line in kernel/sched_debug.c.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-28 15:52:56 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
deaf2227dd sched: clean up, move __sched_text_start/end to sched.h
move __sched_text_start/end to sched.h. No code changed:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  26582    2310      28   28920    70f8 sched.o.before
  26582    2310      28   28920    70f8 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-28 15:52:56 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
9a4e715914 sched: clean up sd_alloc_ctl_cpu_table() definition
clean up sd_alloc_ctl_cpu_table() definition.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-28 15:52:56 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
d393820446 softlockup: fix false positives on CONFIG_NOHZ
David Miller reported soft lockup false-positives that trigger
on NOHZ due to CPUs idling for more than 10 seconds.

The solution is touch the softlockup watchdog when we return from
idle. (by definition we are not 'locked up' when we were idle)

 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9409

Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-28 15:52:56 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
8c27eba549 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/net-2.6: (41 commits)
  [XFRM]: Fix leak of expired xfrm_states
  [ATM]: [he] initialize lock and tasklet earlier
  [IPV4]: Remove bogus ifdef mess in arp_process
  [SKBUFF]: Free old skb properly in skb_morph
  [IPV4]: Fix memory leak in inet_hashtables.h when NUMA is on
  [IPSEC]: Temporarily remove locks around copying of non-atomic fields
  [TCP] MTUprobe: Cleanup send queue check (no need to loop)
  [TCP]: MTUprobe: receiver window & data available checks fixed
  [MAINTAINERS]: tlan list is subscribers-only
  [SUNRPC]: Remove SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED
  [SUNRPC]: Make xprtsock.c:xs_setup_{udp,tcp}() static
  [PFKEY]: Sending an SADB_GET responds with an SADB_GET
  [IRDA]: Compilation for CONFIG_INET=n case
  [IPVS]: Fix compiler warning about unused register_ip_vs_protocol
  [ARP]: Fix arp reply when sender ip 0
  [IPV6] TCPMD5: Fix deleting key operation.
  [IPV6] TCPMD5: Check return value of tcp_alloc_md5sig_pool().
  [IPV4] TCPMD5: Use memmove() instead of memcpy() because we have overlaps.
  [IPV4] TCPMD5: Omit redundant NULL check for kfree() argument.
  ieee80211: Stop net_ratelimit/IEEE80211_DEBUG_DROP log pollution
  ...
2007-11-26 20:09:07 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
0685ab4fb8 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
  sched: bump version of kernel/sched_debug.c
  sched: fix minimum granularity tunings
  sched: fix RLIMIT_CPU comment
  sched: fix kernel/acct.c comment
  sched: fix prev_stime calculation
  sched: don't forget to unlock uids_mutex on error paths
2007-11-26 19:42:08 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
ff1ea52fa3 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86:
  x86: fix APIC related bootup crash on Athlon XP CPUs
  time: add ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ
  x86: export the symbol empty_zero_page on the 32-bit x86 architecture
  x86: fix kprobes_64.c inlining borkage
  pci: use pci=bfsort for HP DL385 G2, DL585 G2
  x86: correctly set UTS_MACHINE for "make ARCH=x86"
  lockdep: annotate do_debug() trap handler
  x86: turn off iommu merge by default
  x86: fix ACPI compile for LOCAL_APIC=n
  x86: printk kernel version in WARN_ON and other dump_stack users
  ACPI: Set max_cstate to 1 for early Opterons.
  x86: fix NMI watchdog & 'stopped time' problem
2007-11-26 19:41:28 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
f4d53cedce 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:
  virtio: fix net driver loop case where we fail to restart
  module: fix and elaborate comments
  virtio: fix module/device unloading
  lguest: Fix uninitialized members in example launcher
2007-11-26 19:17:19 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
f7b9329e55 sched: bump version of kernel/sched_debug.c
bump version of kernel/sched_debug.c and remove CFS version
information from it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-26 21:21:49 +01:00
Zou Nan hai
722aab0c3b sched: fix minimum granularity tunings
increase the default minimum granularity some more - this gives us
more performance in aim7 benchmarks.

also correct some comments: we scale with ilog(ncpus) + 1.

Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-26 21:21:49 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
bcbe4a0766 sched: fix kernel/acct.c comment
fix kernel/acct.c comment.

noticed by Lin Tan. Comment suggested by Olaf Kirch.

also see:

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8220

Reported-by: tammy000@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-26 21:21:49 +01:00
Pavel Emelyanov
5e8869bb69 sched: don't forget to unlock uids_mutex on error paths
The commit

 commit 5cb350baf5
 Author: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
 Date:   Mon Oct 15 17:00:14 2007 +0200

    sched: group scheduling, sysfs tunables

introduced the uids_mutex and the helpers to lock/unlock it.
Unfortunately, the error paths of alloc_uid() were not patched
to unlock it.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-26 21:21:49 +01:00
John Stultz
52bfb36050 time: add ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ
Michael Kerrisk reported that a long standing bug in the adjtimex()
system call causes glibc's adjtime(3) function to deliver the wrong
results if 'delta' is NULL.

add the ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ API detail, which will be used by glibc
to fix this API compatibility bug.

Also see: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6761

[ mingo@elte.hu: added patch description and made it backwards compatible ]

NOTE: the new flag is defined 0xa001 so that it returns -EINVAL on
older kernels - this way glibc can use it safely. Suggested by Ulrich
Drepper.

Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-11-26 20:42:19 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
37e3a6ac5a [S390] appldata: remove unused binary sysctls.
Remove binary sysctls that never worked due to missing strategy functions.

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-11-20 11:13:45 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
43ebbf119a [S390] cmm: remove unused binary sysctls.
Remove binary sysctls that never worked due to missing strategy functions.

Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-11-20 11:13:45 +01:00
Simon Horman
9055fa1f3d [IPVS]: Move remaining sysctl handlers over to CTL_UNNUMBERED
Switch the remaining IPVS sysctl entries over to to use CTL_UNNUMBERED,
I stronly doubt that anyone is using the sys_sysctl interface to
these variables.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-19 21:51:13 -08:00
Simon Horman
9e103fa6bd [IPVS]: Fix sysctl warnings about missing strategy in schedulers
sysctl table check failed: /net/ipv4/vs/lblc_expiration .3.5.21.19 Missing strategy
[...]
sysctl table check failed: /net/ipv4/vs/lblcr_expiration .3.5.21.20 Missing strategy

Switch these entried over to use CTL_UNNUMBERED as clearly
the sys_syscal portion wasn't working.

This is along the same lines as Christian Borntraeger's patch that fixes
up entries with no stratergy in net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-19 21:50:21 -08:00
Christian Borntraeger
611cd55b15 [IPVS]: Fix sysctl warnings about missing strategy
Running the latest git code I get the following messages during boot:
sysctl table check failed: /net/ipv4/vs/drop_entry .3.5.21.4 Missing strategy
[...]		  
sysctl table check failed: /net/ipv4/vs/drop_packet .3.5.21.5 Missing strategy
[...]
sysctl table check failed: /net/ipv4/vs/secure_tcp .3.5.21.6 Missing strategy
[...]
sysctl table check failed: /net/ipv4/vs/sync_threshold .3.5.21.24 Missing strategy

I removed the binary sysctl handler for those messages and also removed
the definitions in ip_vs.h. The alternative would be to implement a 
proper strategy handler, but syscall sysctl is deprecated.

There are other sysctl definitions that are commented out or work with 
the default sysctl_data strategy. I did not touch these. 

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-19 21:49:25 -08:00
Matti Linnanvuori
9a4b9708f1 module: fix and elaborate comments
Fix and elaborate comments.

Signed-off-by: Matti Linnanvuori <mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-11-19 11:20:43 +11:00
David P. Reed
fa6a1a554b ntp: fix typo that makes sync_cmos_clock erratic
Fix a typo in ntp.c that has caused updating of the persistent (RTC)
clock when synced to NTP to behave erratically.

When debugging a freeze that arises on my AMD64 machines when I
run the ntpd service, I added a number of printk's to monitor the
sync_cmos_clock procedure.  I discovered that it was not syncing to
cmos RTC every 11 minutes as documented, but instead would keep trying
every second for hours at a time.  The reason turned out to be a typo
in sync_cmos_clock, where it attempts to ensure that
update_persistent_clock is called very close to 500 msec. after a 1
second boundary (required by the PC RTC's spec). That typo referred to
"xtime" in one spot, rather than "now", which is derived from "xtime"
but not equal to it.  This makes the test erratic, creating a
"coin-flip" that decides when update_persistent_clock is called - when
it is called, which is rarely, it may be at any time during the one
second period, rather than close to 500 msec, so the value written is
needlessly incorrect, too.

Signed-off-by: David P. Reed
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-11-17 16:27:01 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
4307d1e5ad x86: ignore the sys_getcpu() tcache parameter
dont use the vgetcpu tcache - it's causing problems with tasks
migrating, they'll see the old cache up to a jiffy after the
migration, further increasing the costs of the migration.

In the worst case they see a complete bogus information from
the tcache, when a sys_getcpu() call "invalidated" the cache
info by incrementing the jiffies _and_ the cpuid info in the
cache and the following vdso_getcpu() call happens after
vdso_jiffies have been incremented.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-11-17 16:27:00 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
3c72f526df Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
  sched: reorder SCHED_FEAT_ bits
  sched: make sched_nr_latency static
  sched: remove activate_idle_task()
  sched: fix __set_task_cpu() SMP race
  sched: fix SCHED_FIFO tasks & FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
  sched: fix accounting of interrupts during guest execution on s390
2007-11-15 12:14:52 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
9612633a21 sched: reorder SCHED_FEAT_ bits
reorder SCHED_FEAT_ bits so that the used ones come first. Makes
tuning instructions easier.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-15 20:57:40 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
518b22e990 sched: make sched_nr_latency static
sched_nr_latency can now become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-15 20:57:40 +01:00
Dmitry Adamushko
94bc9a7bd9 sched: remove activate_idle_task()
cpu_down() code is ok wrt sched_idle_next() placing the 'idle' task not
at the beginning of the queue.

So get rid of activate_idle_task() and make use of activate_task() instead.
It is the same as activate_task(), except for the update_rq_clock(rq) call
that is redundant.

Code size goes down:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  47853    3934     336   52123    cb9b sched.o.before
  47828    3934     336   52098    cb82 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-15 20:57:40 +01:00
Dmitry Adamushko
ce96b5ac74 sched: fix __set_task_cpu() SMP race
Grant Wilson has reported rare SCHED_FAIR_USER crashes on his quad-core
system, which crashes can only be explained via runqueue corruption.

there is a narrow SMP race in __set_task_cpu(): after ->cpu is set up to
a new value, task_rq_lock(p, ...) can be successfuly executed on another
CPU. We must ensure that updates of per-task data have been completed by
this moment.

this bug has been hiding in the Linux scheduler for an eternity (we never
had any explicit barrier for task->cpu in set_task_cpu() - so the bug was
introduced in 2.5.1), but only became visible via set_task_cfs_rq() being
accidentally put after the task->cpu update. It also probably needs a
sufficiently out-of-order CPU to trigger.

Reported-by: Grant Wilson <grant.wilson@zen.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-15 20:57:40 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov
dae51f5620 sched: fix SCHED_FIFO tasks & FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
Suppose that the SCHED_FIFO task does

	switch_uid(new_user);

Now, p->se.cfs_rq and p->se.parent both point into the old
user_struct->tg because sched_move_task() doesn't call set_task_cfs_rq()
for !fair_sched_class case.

Suppose that old user_struct/task_group is freed/reused, and the task
does

	sched_setscheduler(SCHED_NORMAL);

__setscheduler() sets fair_sched_class, but doesn't update
->se.cfs_rq/parent which point to the freed memory.

This means that check_preempt_wakeup() doing

		while (!is_same_group(se, pse)) {
			se = parent_entity(se);
			pse = parent_entity(pse);
		}

may OOPS in a similar way if rq->curr or p did something like above.

Perhaps we need something like the patch below, note that
__setscheduler() can't do set_task_cfs_rq().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-15 20:57:40 +01:00
Christian Borntraeger
9778385db3 sched: fix accounting of interrupts during guest execution on s390
Currently the scheduler checks for PF_VCPU to decide if this timeslice
has to be accounted as guest time. On s390 host interrupts are not
disabled during guest execution. This causes theses interrupts to be
accounted as guest time if CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is set. Solution
is to check if an interrupt triggered account_system_time. As the tick
is timer interrupt based, we have to subtract hardirq_offset.

I tested the patch on s390 with CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING and on
x86_64. Seems to work.

CC: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
CC: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-15 20:57:39 +01:00
Roland McGrath
a3474224e6 wait_task_stopped: Check p->exit_state instead of TASK_TRACED
The original meaning of the old test (p->state > TASK_STOPPED) was
"not dead", since it was before TASK_TRACED existed and before the
state/exit_state split.  It was a wrong correction in commit
14bf01bb05 to make this test for
TASK_TRACED instead.  It should have been changed when TASK_TRACED
was introducted and again when exit_state was introduced.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>
Acked-by: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-15 08:36:27 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6f37ac793d Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  [NET]: rt_check_expire() can take a long time, add a cond_resched()
  [ISDN] sc: Really, really fix warning
  [ISDN] sc: Fix sndpkt to have the correct number of arguments
  [TCP] FRTO: Clear frto_highmark only after process_frto that uses it
  [NET]: Remove notifier block from chain when register_netdevice_notifier fails
  [FS_ENET]: Fix module build.
  [TCP]: Make sure write_queue_from does not begin with NULL ptr
  [TCP]: Fix size calculation in sk_stream_alloc_pskb
  [S2IO]: Fixed memory leak when MSI-X vector allocation fails
  [BONDING]: Fix resource use after free
  [SYSCTL]: Fix warning for token-ring from sysctl checker
  [NET] random : secure_tcp_sequence_number should not assume CONFIG_KTIME_SCALAR
  [IWLWIFI]: Not correctly dealing with hotunplug.
  [TCP] FRTO: Plug potential LOST-bit leak
  [TCP] FRTO: Limit snd_cwnd if TCP was application limited
  [E1000]: Fix schedule while atomic when called from mii-tool.
  [NETX]: Fix build failure added by 2.6.24 statistics cleanup.
  [EP93xx_ETH]: Build fix after 2.6.24 NAPI changes.
  [PKT_SCHED]: Check subqueue status before calling hard_start_xmit
2007-11-14 18:51:48 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
f96159840b kernel/taskstats.c: fix bogus nlmsg_free()
We'd better not nlmsg_free on a pointer containing an undefined value
(and without having anything allocated).

Spotted by the Coverity checker.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:44 -08:00
Johannes Berg
60a0d23386 hibernate: fix lockdep report
Lockdep reports a circular locking dependency in the hibernate code
because
 - during system boot hibernate code (from an initcall) locks pm_mutex
   and then a sysfs buffer mutex via name_to_dev_t
 - during regular operation hibernate code locks pm_mutex under a
   sysfs buffer mutex because it's called from sysfs methods.

The deadlock can never happen because during initcall invocation nothing
can write to sysfs yet. This removes the lockdep report by marking the
initcall locking as being in a different class.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:43 -08:00
Russ Anderson
c642b8391c __do_IRQ does not check IRQ_DISABLED when IRQ_PER_CPU is set
In __do_IRQ(), the normal case is that IRQ_DISABLED is checked and if set
the handler (handle_IRQ_event()) is not called.

Earlier in __do_IRQ(), if IRQ_PER_CPU is set the code does not check
IRQ_DISABLED and calls the handler even though IRQ_DISABLED is set.  This
behavior seems unintentional.

One user encountering this behavior is the CPE handler (in
arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c).  When the CPE handler encounters too many CPEs
(such as a solid single bit error), it sets up a polling timer and disables
the CPE interrupt (to avoid excessive overhead logging the stream of single
bit errors).  disable_irq_nosync() is called which sets IRQ_DISABLED.  The
IRQ_PER_CPU flag was previously set (in ia64_mca_late_init()).  The net
result is the CPE handler gets called even though it is marked disabled.

If the behavior of not checking IRQ_DISABLED when IRQ_PER_CPU is set is
intentional, it would be worthy of a comment describing the intended
behavior.  disable_irq_nosync() does call chip->disable() to provide a
chipset specifiec interface for disabling the interrupt, which avoids this
issue when used.

Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:43 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
57d5f66b86 pidns: Place under CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
This is my trivial patch to swat innumerable little bugs with a single
blow.

After some intensive review (my apologies for not having gotten to this
sooner) what we have looks like a good base to build on with the current
pid namespace code but it is not complete, and it is still much to simple
to find issues where the kernel does the wrong thing outside of the initial
pid namespace.

Until the dust settles and we are certain we have the ABI and the
implementation is as correct as humanly possible let's keep process ID
namespaces behind CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL.

Allowing us the option of fixing any ABI or other bugs we find as long as
they are minor.

Allowing users of the kernel to avoid those bugs simply by ensuring their
kernel does not have support for multiple pid namespaces.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Kir Kolyshkin <kir@swsoft.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:43 -08:00
Jan Kiszka
22800a2830 fix param_sysfs_builtin name length check
Commit faf8c714f4 caused a regression:
parameter names longer than MAX_KBUILD_MODNAME will now be rejected,
although we just need to keep the module name part that short.  This patch
restores the old behaviour while still avoiding that memchr is called with
its length parameter larger than the total string length.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:42 -08:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
314de8a9e1 Linux Kernel Markers: fix marker mutex not taken upon module load
Upon module load, we must take the markers mutex.  It implies that the marker
mutex must be nested inside the module mutex.

It implies changing the nesting order : now the marker mutex nests inside the
module mutex.  Make the necessary changes to reverse the order in which the
mutexes are taken.

Includes some cleanup from Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:40 -08:00
Andrew Morton
cfb5285660 revert "Task Control Groups: example CPU accounting subsystem"
Revert 62d0df6406.

This was originally intended as a simple initial example of how to create a
control groups subsystem; it wasn't intended for mainline, but I didn't make
this clear enough to Andrew.

The CFS cgroup subsystem now has better functionality for the per-cgroup usage
accounting (based directly on CFS stats) than the "usage" status file in this
patch, and the "load" status file is rather simplistic - although having a
per-cgroup load average report would be a useful feature, I don't believe this
patch actually provides it.  If it gets into the final 2.6.24 we'd probably
have to support this interface for ever.

Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:40 -08:00
Yasunori Goto
887c3cb188 Add IORESOUCE_BUSY flag for System RAM
i386 and x86-64 registers System RAM as IORESOURCE_MEM | IORESOURCE_BUSY.

But ia64 registers it as IORESOURCE_MEM only.
In addition, memory hotplug code registers new memory as IORESOURCE_MEM too.

This difference causes a failure of memory unplug of x86-64.  This patch
fixes it.

This patch adds IORESOURCE_BUSY to avoid potential overlap mapping by PCI
device.

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
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>
2007-11-14 18:45:39 -08:00
Diego Calleja
cfe36bde59 Improve cgroup printks
When I boot with the 'quiet' parameter, I see on the screen:

[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[   39.036026] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[   39.036080] Initializing cgroup subsys debug
[   39.036118] Initializing cgroup subsys ns

This patch lowers the priority of those messages, adds a "cgroup: " prefix
to another couple of printks and kills the useless reference to the source
file.

Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.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>
2007-11-14 18:45:37 -08:00
Tetsuo Handa
6fc48af82c sysctl: check length at deprecated_sysctl_warning
Original patch assumed args->nlen < CTL_MAXNAME, but it can be false.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:37 -08:00
Olof Johansson
ce1d18e006 [SYSCTL]: Fix warning for token-ring from sysctl checker
As seen when booting ppc64_defconfig:

sysctl table check failed: /net/token-ring .3.14 procname does not match binary path procname

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-13 21:15:24 -08:00
Roland McGrath
325d22df7b sigwait eats blocked default-ignore signals
While a signal is blocked, it must be posted even if its action is
SIG_IGN or is SIG_DFL with the default action to ignore.  This works
right most of the time, but is broken when a sigwait (rt_sigtimedwait)
is in progress.  This changes the early-discard check to respect
real_blocked.  ~blocked is the set to check for "should wake up now",
but ~(blocked|real_blocked) is the set for "blocked" semantics as
defined by POSIX.

This fixes bugzilla entry 9347, see

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9347

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-12 16:05:23 -08:00
David Miller
3c5fd9c77d [FUTEX] Fix address computation in compat code.
compat_exit_robust_list() computes a pointer to the
futex entry in userspace as follows:

	(void __user *)entry + futex_offset

'entry' is a 'struct robust_list __user *', and
'futex_offset' is a 'compat_long_t' (typically a 's32').

Things explode if the 32-bit sign bit is set in futex_offset.

Type promotion sign extends futex_offset to a 64-bit value before
adding it to 'entry'.

This triggered a problem on sparc64 running 32-bit applications which
would lock up a cpu looping forever in the fault handling for the
userspace load in handle_futex_death().

Compat userspace runs with address masking (wherein the cpu zeros out
the top 32-bits of every effective address given to a memory operation
instruction) so the sparc64 fault handler accounts for this by
zero'ing out the top 32-bits of the fault address too.

Since the kernel properly uses the compat_uptr interfaces, kernel side
accesses to compat userspace work too since they will only use
addresses with the top 32-bit clear.

Because of this compat futex layer bug we get into the following loop
when executing the get_user() load near the top of handle_futex_death():

1) load from address '0xfffffffff7f16bd8', FAULT
2) fault handler clears upper 32-bits, processes fault
   for address '0xf7f16bd8' which succeeds
3) goto #1

I want to thank Bernd Zeimetz, Josip Rodin, and Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
for their tireless efforts helping me track down this bug.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-09 16:13:08 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
e6fe6649b4 sched: proper prototype for kernel/sched.c:migration_init()
This patch adds a proper prototype for migration_init() in
include/linux/sched.h

Since there's no point in always returning 0 to a caller that doesn't check
the return value it also changes the function to return void.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:39 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
b82d9fdd84 sched: avoid large irq-latencies in smp-balancing
SMP balancing is done with IRQs disabled and can iterate the full rq.
When rqs are large this can cause large irq-latencies. Limit the nr of
iterations on each run.

This fixes a scheduling latency regression reported by the -rt folks.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:39 +01:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
3c90e6e99b sched: fix copy_namespace() <-> sched_fork() dependency in do_fork
Sukadev Bhattiprolu reported a kernel crash with control groups.
There are couple of problems discovered by Suka's test:

- The test requires the cgroup filesystem to be mounted with
  atleast the cpu and ns options (i.e both namespace and cpu 
  controllers are active in the same hierarchy). 

	# mkdir /dev/cpuctl
	# mount -t cgroup -ocpu,ns none cpuctl
	(or simply)
	# mount -t cgroup none cpuctl -> Will activate all controllers
					 in same hierarchy.

- The test invokes clone() with CLONE_NEWNS set. This causes a a new child
  to be created, also a new group (do_fork->copy_namespaces->ns_cgroup_clone->
  cgroup_clone) and the child is attached to the new group (cgroup_clone->
  attach_task->sched_move_task). At this point in time, the child's scheduler 
  related fields are uninitialized (including its on_rq field, which it has
  inherited from parent). As a result sched_move_task thinks its on
  runqueue, when it isn't.

  As a solution to this problem, I moved sched_fork() call, which
  initializes scheduler related fields on a new task, before
  copy_namespaces(). I am not sure though whether moving up will
  cause other side-effects. Do you see any issue?

- The second problem exposed by this test is that task_new_fair()
  assumes that parent and child will be part of the same group (which 
  needn't be as this test shows). As a result, cfs_rq->curr can be NULL
  for the child.

  The solution is to test for curr pointer being NULL in
  task_new_fair().

With the patch below, I could run ns_exec() fine w/o a crash.

Reported-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:39 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
502d26b524 sched: clean up the wakeup preempt check, #2
clean up the preemption check to not use unnecessary 64-bit
variables. This improves code size:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  44227    3326      36   47589    b9e5 sched.o.before
  44201    3326      36   47563    b9cb sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:39 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
77d9cc44b5 sched: clean up the wakeup preempt check
clean up the wakeup preemption check. No code changed:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  44227    3326      36   47589    b9e5 sched.o.before
  44227    3326      36   47589    b9e5 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:39 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
8bc6767acb sched: wakeup preemption fix
wakeup preemption fix: do not make it dependent on p->prio.
Preemption purely depends on ->vruntime.

This improves preemption in mixed-nice-level workloads.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:39 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
3e3e13f399 sched: remove PREEMPT_RESTRICT
remove PREEMPT_RESTRICT. (this is a separate commit so that any
regression related to the removal itself is bisectable)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:39 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
52d3da1ad4 sched: turn off PREEMPT_RESTRICT
PREEMPT_RESTRICT was a method aimed at reducing the amount of wakeup
related preemption. It has a disadvantage though, it can prevent
legitimate wakeups if a task is 'unlucky' to be hit too early by a tick
that clears peer_preempt.

Now that the wakeup preemption has been cleaned up we dont seem to have
excessive preemptions anymore, so this feature can be turned off. (and
removed in the next patch)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:39 +01:00
Eric Dumazet
d6322faf29 sched: cleanup, use NSEC_PER_MSEC and NSEC_PER_SEC
1) hardcoded 1000000000 value is used five times in places where
   NSEC_PER_SEC might be more readable.

2) A conversion from nsec to msec uses the hardcoded 1000000 value,
   which is a candidate for NSEC_PER_MSEC.

no code changed:

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   44359    3326      36   47721    ba69 sched.o.before
   44359    3326      36   47721    ba69 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:38 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
19978ca610 sched: reintroduce SMP tunings again
Yanmin Zhang reported an aim7 regression and bisected it down to:

 |  commit 38ad464d41
 |  Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
 |  Date:   Mon Oct 15 17:00:02 2007 +0200
 |
 |     sched: uniform tunings
 |
 |     use the same defaults on both UP and SMP.

fix this by reintroducing similar SMP tunings again. This resolves
the regression.

(also update the comments to match the ilog2(nr_cpus) tuning effect)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:38 +01:00
Paul Mackerras
fa13a5a1f2 sched: restore deterministic CPU accounting on powerpc
Since powerpc started using CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS, the
deterministic CPU accounting (CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING) has been
broken on powerpc, because we end up counting user time twice: once in
timer_interrupt() and once in update_process_times().

This fixes the problem by pulling the code in update_process_times
that updates utime and stime into a separate function called
account_process_tick.  If CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is not defined,
there is a version of account_process_tick in kernel/timer.c that
simply accounts a whole tick to either utime or stime as before.  If
CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is defined, then arch code gets to
implement account_process_tick.

This also lets us simplify the s390 code a bit; it means that the s390
timer interrupt can now call update_process_times even when
CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is turned on, and can just implement a
suitable account_process_tick().

account_process_tick() now takes the task_struct * as an argument.
Tested both with and without CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:38 +01:00
Balbir Singh
9a41785cc4 sched: fix delay accounting regression
Fix the delay accounting regression introduced by commit
75d4ef16a6. rq no longer has sched_info
data associated with it. task_struct sched_info structure is used by delay
accounting to provide back statistics to user space.

also remove direct use of sched_clock() (which is not a valid thing to
do anymore) and use rq->clock instead.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:37 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
b2be5e96dc sched: reintroduce the sched_min_granularity tunable
we lost the sched_min_granularity tunable to a clever optimization
that uses the sched_latency/min_granularity ratio - but the ratio
is quite unintuitive to users and can also crash the kernel if the
ratio is set to 0. So reintroduce the min_granularity tunable,
while keeping the ratio maintained internally.

no functionality changed.

[ mingo@elte.hu: some fixlets. ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:37 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
2cb8600e6b sched: documentation: place_entity() comments
Add a few comments to place_entity(). No code changed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:37 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
10b777246c sched: fix vslice
vslice was missing a factor NICE_0_LOAD, as weight is in
weight*NICE_0_LOAD units.

the effect of this bug was larger initial slices and
thus latency-noisier forks.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-09 22:39:37 +01:00
Li Zefan
8dce39c231 time: fix inconsistent function names in comments
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05 15:12:33 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
5db6a4dac1 Dump stack during sysctl registration failure
Let's make immediately obvious from where sysctl comes from and messages
itself more noticeable.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05 15:12:31 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
fad23fc78b kernel/futex.c: make 3 functions static
The following functions can now become static again:
- get_futex_key()
- get_futex_key_refs()
- drop_futex_key_refs()

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-11-05 21:53:46 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
a7e1e001f4 Merge branch 'v2.6.24-rc1-lockdep' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-lockdep
* 'v2.6.24-rc1-lockdep' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-lockdep:
  lockdep: fix a typo in the __lock_acquire comment
  sched: fix unconditional irq lock
  lockdep: fixup irq tracing
2007-11-03 12:42:52 -07:00
David S. Miller
f3baa4827a [COMPAT]: Fix build on COMPAT platforms when CONFIG_NET is disabled.
Add some missing cond_syscall() entries for this case.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-30 21:29:56 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
cc5f916e90 Freezer: do not allow freezing processes to clear TIF_SIGPENDING
Do not allow processes to clear their TIF_SIGPENDING if TIF_FREEZE is set,
so that they will not race with the freezer (like mysqld does, for example).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-30 08:06:55 -07:00
Balbir Singh
9301899be7 sched: fix /proc/<PID>/stat stime/utime monotonicity, part 2
Extend Peter's patch to fix accounting issues, by keeping stime
monotonic too.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
2007-10-30 00:26:32 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
38605cae99 sched: fix style in kernel/sched.c
fallout of recent commits: small coding style fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-29 21:18:11 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
8eb172d941 sched: fix style of swap() macro in kernel/sched_fair.c
fix style of swap() macro in kernel/sched_fair.c.

( this macro should eventually move to a general header, as ext3 uses
  a similar construct too. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-29 21:18:11 +01:00
Paul Menage
fe5c7cc228 sched: report CPU usage in CFS cgroup directories
Adds a cpu.usage file to the CFS cgroup that reports CPU usage in
milliseconds for that cgroup's tasks

[ mingo@elte.hu: style cleanups. ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-29 21:18:11 +01:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
ae8393e508 sched: move rcu_head to task_group struct
Peter Zijlstra noticed that the rcu_head object need not be present
in every cfs_rq of a group. Move it to the task_group structure
instead.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-29 21:18:11 +01:00
James Bottomley
7bae49d498 sched: fix incorrect assumption that cpu 0 exists
This patch:

commit 9b5b77512d
Author: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Mon Oct 15 17:00:09 2007 +0200

    sched: clean up code under CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED

Introduced an assumption of the existence of CPU0 via this line

cfs_rq = tg->cfs_rq[0];

If you have no CPU0, that will be NULL.  The fix seems to be just to
take whatever cfs_rq queue comes out of the for_each_possible_cpu()
loop, since they're all equally good for the destruction operation.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-29 21:18:11 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
73a2bcb0ed sched: keep utime/stime monotonic
keep utime/stime monotonic.

cpustats use utime/stime as a ratio against sum_exec_runtime, as a
consequence it can happen - when the ratio changes faster than time
accumulates - that either can be appear to go backwards.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-29 21:18:11 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
f7402e0361 sched: make kernel/sched.c:account_guest_time() static
account_guest_time() can become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-29 21:18:10 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
93400708db 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:
  Quieten hrtimer printk: "Switched to high resolution mode .."
  timer_list: Fix printk format strings
  clockevents: unexport tick_nohz_get_sleep_length
2007-10-29 07:47:05 -07:00
Al Viro
ca5cd877ae x86 merge fallout: uml
Don't undef __i386__/__x86_64__ in uml anymore, make sure that (few) places
that required adjusting the ifdefs got those.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-29 07:41:32 -07:00
Michael Ellerman
edfed66e17 Quieten hrtimer printk: "Switched to high resolution mode .."
Change the hrtimer printk "Switched to high resolution mode .." to
be KERN_DEBUG, rather than KERN_INFO. If users need to see this they
can pass "loglevel" or "debug" on the command line, or check dmesg.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

 kernel/hrtimer.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
2007-10-29 09:39:38 +01:00
Vegard Nossum
129f1d2c53 timer_list: Fix printk format strings
This makes sure printk format strings contain no more than a single
line.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-29 09:39:38 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
64e38eb082 clockevents: unexport tick_nohz_get_sleep_length
This patch removes the unused 
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tick_nohz_get_sleep_length).

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-29 09:39:38 +01:00
Gautham R Shenoy
17aacfb9cd lockdep: fix a typo in the __lock_acquire comment
Fix a typo in the __lock_acquire comment.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-28 20:47:01 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
ab63a633cf sched: fix unconditional irq lock
Lockdep noticed that this lock can also be taken from hardirq context, and can
thus not unconditionally disable/enable irqs.

 WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2033 trace_hardirqs_on()
  [show_trace_log_lvl+26/48] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
  [show_trace+18/32] show_trace+0x12/0x20
  [dump_stack+22/32] dump_stack+0x16/0x20
  [trace_hardirqs_on+405/416] trace_hardirqs_on+0x195/0x1a0
  [_read_unlock_irq+34/48] _read_unlock_irq+0x22/0x30
  [sched_debug_show+2615/4224] sched_debug_show+0xa37/0x1080
  [show_state_filter+326/368] show_state_filter+0x146/0x170
  [sysrq_handle_showstate+10/16] sysrq_handle_showstate+0xa/0x10
  [__handle_sysrq+123/288] __handle_sysrq+0x7b/0x120
  [handle_sysrq+40/64] handle_sysrq+0x28/0x40
  [kbd_event+1045/1680] kbd_event+0x415/0x690
  [input_pass_event+206/208] input_pass_event+0xce/0xd0
  [input_handle_event+170/928] input_handle_event+0xaa/0x3a0
  [input_event+95/112] input_event+0x5f/0x70
  [atkbd_interrupt+434/1456] atkbd_interrupt+0x1b2/0x5b0
  [serio_interrupt+59/128] serio_interrupt+0x3b/0x80
  [i8042_interrupt+263/576] i8042_interrupt+0x107/0x240
  [handle_IRQ_event+40/96] handle_IRQ_event+0x28/0x60
  [handle_edge_irq+175/320] handle_edge_irq+0xaf/0x140
  [do_IRQ+64/128] do_IRQ+0x40/0x80
  [common_interrupt+46/52] common_interrupt+0x2e/0x34

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-25 14:02:45 +02:00
Peter Williams
681f3e6854 sched: isolate SMP balancing code a bit more
At the moment, a lot of load balancing code that is irrelevant to non
SMP systems gets included during non SMP builds.

This patch addresses this issue and reduces the binary size on non
SMP systems:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  10983      28    1192   12203    2fab sched.o.before
  10739      28    1192   11959    2eb7 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-24 18:23:51 +02:00
Peter Williams
e1d1484f72 sched: reduce balance-tasks overhead
At the moment, balance_tasks() provides low level functionality for both
  move_tasks() and move_one_task() (indirectly) via the load_balance()
function (in the sched_class interface) which also provides dual
functionality.  This dual functionality complicates the interfaces and
internal mechanisms and makes the run time overhead of operations that
are called with two run queue locks held.

This patch addresses this issue and reduces the overhead of these
operations.

Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-24 18:23:51 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
a0f846aa76 sched: make cpu_shares_{show,store}() static
cpu_shares_{show,store}() can become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-24 18:23:50 +02:00
Paul Menage
2b01dfe372 sched: clean up some control group code
- replace "cont" with "cgrp" in a few places in the CFS cgroup code, 
- use write_uint rather than write for cpu.shares write function

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by : Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-24 18:23:50 +02:00
Mel Gorman
b3da2a73ff sched: document profile=sleep requiring CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
profile=sleep only works if CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS is set. This patch notes
the limitation in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and prints a
warning at boot-time if profile=sleep is used without CONFIG_SCHEDSTAT.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-24 18:23:50 +02:00
Satyam Sharma
838225b48e sched: use show_regs() to improve __schedule_bug() output
A full register dump along with stack backtrace would make the
"scheduling while atomic" message more helpful. Use show_regs() instead
of dump_stack() for this. We already know we're atomic in here (that is
why this function was called) so show_regs()'s atomicity expectations
are guaranteed.

Also, modify the output of the "BUG: scheduling while atomic:" header a
bit to keep task->comm and task->pid together and preempt_count() after
them.

Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-24 18:23:50 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
4dcf6aff02 sched: clean up sched_domain_debug()
clean up sched_domain_debug().

this also shrinks the code a bit:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  50474    4306     480   55260    d7dc sched.o.before
  50404    4306     480   55190    d796 sched.o.after

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-24 18:23:48 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
b15136e949 sched: fix fastcall mismatch in completion APIs
Jeff Dike noticed that wait_for_completion_interruptible()'s prototype
had a mismatched fastcall.

Fix this by removing the fastcall attributes from all the completion APIs.

Found-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-24 18:23:48 +02:00
Milton Miller
7378547f2c sched: fix sched_domain sysctl registration again
commit  029190c515 (cpuset
sched_load_balance flag) was not tested SCHED_DEBUG enabled as
committed as it dereferences NULL when used and it reordered
the sysctl registration to cause it to never show any domains
or their tunables.

Fixes:

1) restore arch_init_sched_domains ordering
	we can't walk the domains before we build them

	presently we register cpus with empty directories (no domain
	directories or files).

2) make unregister_sched_domain_sysctl do nothing when already unregistered
	detach_destroy_domains is now called one set of cpus at a time
	unregister_syctl dereferences NULL if called with a null.

	While the the function would always dereference null if called
	twice, in the previous code it was always called once and then
	was followed a register.  So only the hidden bug of the
	sysctl_root_table not being allocated followed by an attempt to
	free it would have shown the error.

3) always call unregister and register in partition_sched_domains
	The code is "smart" about unregistering only needed domains.
	Since we aren't guaranteed any calls to unregister, always 
	unregister.   Without calling register on the way out we
	will not have a table or any sysctl tree.

4) warn if register is called without unregistering
	The previous table memory is lost, leaving pointers to the
	later freed memory in sysctl and leaking the memory of the
	tables.

Before this patch on a 2-core 4-thread box compiled for SMT and NUMA,
the domains appear empty (there are actually 3 levels per cpu).  And as
soon as two domains a null pointer is dereferenced (unreliable in this
case is stack garbage):

bu19a:~# ls -R /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/
/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/:
cpu0  cpu1  cpu2  cpu3

/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu0:

/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu1:

/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu2:

/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu3:

bu19a:~# mkdir /dev/cpuset
bu19a:~# mount -tcpuset cpuset /dev/cpuset/
bu19a:~# cd /dev/cpuset/
bu19a:/dev/cpuset# echo 0 > sched_load_balance 
bu19a:/dev/cpuset# mkdir one
bu19a:/dev/cpuset# echo 1 > one/cpus               
bu19a:/dev/cpuset# echo 0 > one/sched_load_balance 
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000018
Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000006b608
NIP: c00000000006b608 LR: c00000000006b604 CTR: 0000000000000000
REGS: c000000018d973f0 TRAP: 0300   Not tainted  (2.6.23-bml)
MSR: 9000000000009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR>  CR: 28242442  XER: 00000000
DAR: 0000000000000018, DSISR: 0000000040000000
TASK = c00000001912e340[1987] 'bash' THREAD: c000000018d94000 CPU: 2
..
NIP [c00000000006b608] .unregister_sysctl_table+0x38/0x110
LR [c00000000006b604] .unregister_sysctl_table+0x34/0x110
Call Trace:
[c000000018d97670] [c000000007017270] 0xc000000007017270 (unreliable)
[c000000018d97720] [c000000000058710] .detach_destroy_domains+0x30/0xb0
[c000000018d977b0] [c00000000005cf1c] .partition_sched_domains+0x1bc/0x230
[c000000018d97870] [c00000000009fdc4] .rebuild_sched_domains+0xb4/0x4c0
[c000000018d97970] [c0000000000a02e8] .update_flag+0x118/0x170
[c000000018d97a80] [c0000000000a1768] .cpuset_common_file_write+0x568/0x820
[c000000018d97c00] [c00000000009d95c] .cgroup_file_write+0x7c/0x180
[c000000018d97cf0] [c0000000000e76b8] .vfs_write+0xe8/0x1b0
[c000000018d97d90] [c0000000000e810c] .sys_write+0x4c/0x90
[c000000018d97e30] [c00000000000852c] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-24 18:23:48 +02:00
Jeff Garzik
3bdf590eac cgroup: kill unused variable
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2007-10-23 21:28:39 -04:00
Herbert Xu
a98ce5c6fe Fix synchronize_irq races with IRQ handler
As it is some callers of synchronize_irq rely on memory barriers
to provide synchronisation against the IRQ handlers.  For example,
the tg3 driver does

	tp->irq_sync = 1;
	smp_mb();
	synchronize_irq();

and then in the IRQ handler:

	if (!tp->irq_sync)
		netif_rx_schedule(dev, &tp->napi);

Unfortunately memory barriers only work well when they come in
pairs.  Because we don't actually have memory barriers on the
IRQ path, the memory barrier before the synchronize_irq() doesn't
actually protect us.

In particular, synchronize_irq() may return followed by the
result of netif_rx_schedule being made visible.

This patch (mostly written by Linus) fixes this by using spin
locks instead of memory barries on the synchronize_irq() path.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-23 09:01:31 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
481968f44e auditsc: fix kernel-doc param warnings
Fix kernel-doc for auditsc parameter changes.

Warning(linux-2.6.23-git17//kernel/auditsc.c:1623): No description found for parameter 'dentry'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-git17//kernel/auditsc.c:1666): No description found for parameter 'dentry'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-22 19:40:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0fd56c7033 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm:
  KVM: Use new smp_call_function_mask() in kvm_flush_remote_tlbs()
  sched: don't clear PF_VCPU in scheduler
  KVM: Improve local apic timer wraparound handling
  KVM: Fix local apic timer divide by zero
  KVM: Move kvm_guest_exit() after local_irq_enable()
  KVM: x86 emulator: fix access registers for instructions with ModR/M byte and Mod = 3
  KVM: VMX: Force vm86 mode if setting flags during real mode
  KVM: x86 emulator: implement 'movnti mem, reg'
  KVM: VMX: Reset mmu context when entering real mode
  KVM: VMX: Handle NMIs before enabling interrupts and preemption
  KVM: MMU: Set shadow pte atomically in mmu_pte_write_zap_pte()
  KVM: x86 emulator: fix repne/repnz decoding
  KVM: x86 emulator: fix merge screwup due to emulator split
2007-10-22 19:24:17 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
5081dba658 Fix appletalk sysctl entry name
Gabriel C reported that modprobing appletalk on current git gives a
warning in dmesg :

   "sysctl table check failed: /net/appletalk .3.7 procname does not match binary path procname"

Oops.  My apologies it appears I made a mistake when creating my table
to check up on sysctl values.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Tested-by: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-22 19:15:59 -07:00
Laurent Vivier
83d87d1673 sched: don't clear PF_VCPU in scheduler
KVM clears it by itself now, and for s390 this is plain wrong.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-10-22 12:03:29 +02:00
Al Viro
74c3cbe33b [PATCH] audit: watching subtrees
New kind of audit rule predicates: "object is visible in given subtree".
The part that can be sanely implemented, that is.  Limitations:
	* if you have hardlink from outside of tree, you'd better watch
it too (or just watch the object itself, obviously)
	* if you mount something under a watched tree, tell audit
that new chunk should be added to watched subtrees
	* if you umount something in a watched tree and it's still mounted
elsewhere, you will get matches on events happening there.  New command
tells audit to recalculate the trees, trimming such sources of false
positives.

Note that it's _not_ about path - if something mounted in several places
(multiple mount, bindings, different namespaces, etc.), the match does
_not_ depend on which one we are using for access.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2007-10-21 02:37:45 -04:00
Al Viro
5a190ae697 [PATCH] pass dentry to audit_inode()/audit_inode_child()
makes caller simpler *and* allows to scan ancestors

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2007-10-21 02:37:18 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
c00046c279 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (74 commits)
  fix do_sys_open() prototype
  sysfs: trivial: fix sysfs_create_file kerneldoc spelling mistake
  Documentation: Fix typo in SubmitChecklist.
  Typo: depricated -> deprecated
  Add missing profile=kvm option to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
  fix typo about TBI in e1000 comment
  proc.txt: Add /proc/stat field
  small documentation fixes
  Fix compiler warning in smount example program from sharedsubtree.txt
  docs/sysfs: add missing word to sysfs attribute explanation
  documentation/ext3: grammar fixes
  Documentation/java.txt: typo and grammar fixes
  Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: typo fix
  include/asm-*/system.h: remove unused set_rmb(), set_wmb() macros
  trivial copy_data_pages() tidy up
  Fix typo in arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c
  file link fix for Pegasus USB net driver help
  remove unused return within void return function
  Typo fixes retrun -> return
  x86 hpet.h: remove broken links
  ...
2007-10-19 20:36:17 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
c1cb8e48bd sysctl: Don't compile sysctl_check when !CONFIG_SYSCTL
Weird I thought I had written the makefile so this would be handled.  Oh
well this should fix it.

Sorry about that.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-and-tested-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 18:04:22 -07:00
Fengguang Wu
df7c487250 trivial copy_data_pages() tidy up
Change the loop style of copy_data_pages() to remove a duplicate condition.

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 02:26:04 +02:00
Uwe Kleine-König
6506f2aa66 fix comment: unlock_hrtimer_base is the counterpart of lock_hrtimer_base
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 01:56:53 +02:00
Michael Neuling
6888c1ecd6 kernel/sched.c: remove bogus comment from account_user_time
hardirq_offset is no longer needed.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 01:41:05 +02:00
Daniel Roesen
9aa5e993fa trivial comment wording/typo fix regarding taint flags
Signed-off-by: Daniel Roesen <dr@cluenet.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 00:30:06 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
3a4fa0a25d Fix misspellings of "system", "controller", "interrupt" and "necessary".
Fix the various misspellings of "system", controller", "interrupt" and
"[un]necessary".

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:10:43 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
c4ec207173 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (41 commits)
  ACPICA: hw: Don't carry spinlock over suspend
  ACPICA: hw: remove use_lock flag from acpi_hw_register_{read, write}
  ACPI: cpuidle: port idle timer suspend/resume workaround to cpuidle
  ACPI: clean up acpi_enter_sleep_state_prep
  Hibernation: Make sure that ACPI is enabled in acpi_hibernation_finish
  ACPI: suppress uninitialized var warning
  cpuidle: consolidate 2.6.22 cpuidle branch into one patch
  ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: skip blanks before the data when parsing sysfs
  ACPI: AC: Add sysfs interface
  ACPI: SBS: Add sysfs alarm
  ACPI: SBS: Add ACPI_PROCFS around procfs handling code.
  ACPI: SBS: Add support for power_supply class (and sysfs)
  ACPI: SBS: Make SBS reads table-driven.
  ACPI: SBS: Simplify data structures in SBS
  ACPI: SBS: Split host controller (ACPI0001) from SBS driver (ACPI0002)
  ACPI: EC: Add new query handler to list head.
  ACPI: Add acpi_bus_generate_event4() function
  ACPI: Battery: add sysfs alarm
  ACPI: Battery: Add sysfs support
  ACPI: Battery: Misc clean-ups, no functional changes
  ...

Fix up conflicts in drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.[ch] manually
2007-10-19 13:12:46 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
a39bc51691 Uninline fork.c/exit.c
Save ~650 bytes here.

add/remove: 4/0 grow/shrink: 0/7 up/down: 430/-1088 (-658)
function                                     old     new   delta
__copy_fs_struct                               -     202    +202
__put_fs_struct                                -     112    +112
__exit_fs                                      -      58     +58
__exit_files                                   -      58     +58
exit_files                                    58       2     -56
put_fs_struct                                112       5    -107
exit_fs                                      161       2    -159
sys_unshare                                  774     590    -184
copy_process                                4031    3840    -191
do_exit                                     1791    1597    -194
copy_fs_struct                               202       5    -197

No difference in lmbench lat_proc tests on 2-way Opteron 246.
Smaaaal degradation on UP P4 (within errors).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:56 -07:00
Mariusz Kozlowski
a24efe62dd kernel/fork.c: remove unneeded variable initialization in copy_process()
This initialization of is not needed so just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:56 -07:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
8256e47cdc Linux Kernel Markers
The marker activation functions sits in kernel/marker.c.  A hash table is used
to keep track of the registered probes and armed markers, so the markers
within a newly loaded module that should be active can be activated at module
load time.

marker_query has been removed. marker_get_first, marker_get_next and
marker_release should be used as iterators on the markers.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Mike Mason <mmlnx@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:54 -07:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
09cadedbdc Combine instrumentation menus in kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation
Quoting Randy:

"It seems sad that this patch sources Kconfig.marker, a 7-line file,
20-something times.  Yes, you (we) don't want to put those 7 lines into
20-something different files, so sourcing is the right thing.

However, what you did for avr32 seems more on the right track to me: make
_one_ Instrumentation support menu that includes PROFILING, OPROFILE, KPROBES,
and MARKERS and then use (source) that in all of the arches."

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:54 -07:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
68318b8e0b Hook up group scheduler with control groups
Enable "cgroup" (formerly containers) based fair group scheduling.  This
will let administrator create arbitrary groups of tasks (using "cgroup"
pseudo filesystem) and control their cpu bandwidth usage.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cpp condition]
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:51 -07:00
Bernhard Walle
cba63c3089 Extended crashkernel command line
This patch adds a extended crashkernel syntax that makes the value of reserved
system RAM dependent on the system RAM itself:

    crashkernel=<range1>:<size1>[,<range2>:<size2>,...][@offset]
    range=start-[end]

For example:

    crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M

The motivation comes from distributors that configure their crashkernel
command line automatically with some configuration tool (YaST, you know ;)).
Of course that tool knows the value of System RAM, but if the user removes
RAM, then the system becomes unbootable or at least unusable and error
handling is very difficult.

This series implements this change for i386, x86_64, ia64, ppc64 and sh.  That
should be all platforms that support kdump in current mainline.  I tested all
platforms except sh due to the lack of a sh processor.

This patch:

This is the generic part of the patch.  It adds a parse_crashkernel() function
in kernel/kexec.c that is called by the architecture specific code that
actually reserves the memory.  That function takes the whole command line and
looks itself for "crashkernel=" in it.

If there are multiple occurrences, then the last one is taken.  The advantage
is that if you have a bootloader like lilo or elilo which allows you to append
a command line parameter but not to remove one (like in GRUB), then you can
add another crashkernel value for testing at the boot command line and this
one overwrites the command line in the configuration then.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:49 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
73e753a50d CPU HOTPLUG: avoid hotadd when proper possible_map isn't specified
cpu-hot-add should be fail if cpu is not set in cpu_possible_map.  If go
ahead, the system will panic soon.

Especially, arch which requires additional_cpus= parameter should handle
this.  Tested on ia64.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
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>
2007-10-19 11:53:44 -07:00
Cliff Wickman
470fd64644 hotplug cpu: migrate a task within its cpuset
When a cpu is disabled, move_task_off_dead_cpu() is called for tasks that have
been running on that cpu.

Currently, such a task is migrated:
 1) to any cpu on the same node as the disabled cpu, which is both online
    and among that task's cpus_allowed
 2) to any cpu which is both online and among that task's cpus_allowed

It is typical of a multithreaded application running on a large NUMA system to
have its tasks confined to a cpuset so as to cluster them near the memory that
they share.  Furthermore, it is typical to explicitly place such a task on a
specific cpu in that cpuset.  And in that case the task's cpus_allowed
includes only a single cpu.

This patch would insert a preference to migrate such a task to some cpu within
its cpuset (and set its cpus_allowed to its entire cpuset).

With this patch, migrate the task to:
 1) to any cpu on the same node as the disabled cpu, which is both online
    and among that task's cpus_allowed
 2) to any online cpu within the task's cpuset
 3) to any cpu which is both online and among that task's cpus_allowed

In order to do this, move_task_off_dead_cpu() must make a call to
cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked(), a new subset of cpuset_cpus_allowed(), that will
not block.  (name change - per Oleg's suggestion)

Calls are made to cpuset_lock() and cpuset_unlock() in migration_call() to set
the cpuset mutex during the whole migrate_live_tasks() and
migrate_dead_tasks() procedure.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[pj@sgi.com: Fix indentation and spacing]
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:44 -07:00
Paul Menage
bd89aabc67 Control groups: Replace "cont" with "cgrp" and other misc renaming
Replace "cont" with "cgrp" and other misc renaming

This patch finishes some of the names that got missed in the great
"task containers" -> "control groups" rename. Primarily it renames
the local variable "cont" to "cgrp" in a number of places, and renames
the CONT_* enum members to CGRP_*.

This patch is not intended to have any effect on the generated code;
the output of "objdump -d kernel/cgroup.o" is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
69cccb887a Use task_pid_nr() instead of pid_nr(task_pid())
There are two places that do so - the cgroups subsystem and the autofs
code.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
ba25f9dcc4 Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks
The task_struct->pid member is going to be deprecated, so start
using the helpers (task_pid_nr/task_pid_vnr/task_pid_nr_ns) in
the kernel.

The first thing to start with is the pid, printed to dmesg - in
this case we may safely use task_pid_nr(). Besides, printks produce
more (much more) than a half of all the explicit pid usage.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: git-drm went and changed lots of stuff]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
9a2e70572e Isolate the explicit usage of signal->pgrp
The pgrp field is not used widely around the kernel so it is now marked as
deprecated with appropriate comment.

The initialization of INIT_SIGNALS is trimmed because
a) they are set to 0 automatically;
b) gcc cannot properly initialize two anonymous (the second one
   is the one with the session) unions. In this particular case
   to make it compile we'd have to add some field initialized
   right before the .pgrp.

This is the same patch as the 1ec320afdc one
(from Cedric), but for the pgrp field.

Some progress report:

We have to deprecate the pid, tgid, session and pgrp fields on struct
task_struct and struct signal_struct.  The session and pgrp are already
deprecated.  The tgid value is close to being such - the worst known usage
in in fs/locks.c and audit code.  The pid field deprecation is mainly
blocked by numerous printk-s around the kernel that print the tsk->pid to
log.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
Eugene Teo
270f722d4d Fix tsk->exit_state usage
tsk->exit_state can only be 0, EXIT_ZOMBIE, or EXIT_DEAD.  A non-zero test
is the same as tsk->exit_state & (EXIT_ZOMBIE | EXIT_DEAD), so just testing
tsk->exit_state is sufficient.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:42 -07:00
Paul Menage
8707d8b8c0 Fix cpusets update_cpumask
Cause writes to cpuset "cpus" file to update cpus_allowed for member tasks:

- collect batches of tasks under tasklist_lock and then call
  set_cpus_allowed() on them outside the lock (since this can sleep).

- add a simple generic priority heap type to allow efficient collection
  of batches of tasks to be processed without duplicating or missing any
  tasks in subsequent batches.

- make "cpus" file update a no-op if the mask hasn't changed

- fix race between update_cpumask() and sched_setaffinity() by making
  sched_setaffinity() post-check that it's not running on any cpus outside
  cpuset_cpus_allowed().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.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>
2007-10-19 11:53:41 -07:00
Paul Jackson
020958b627 cpusets: decrustify cpuset mask update code
Decrustify the kernel/cpuset.c 'cpus' and 'mems' updating code.

Other than subtle improvements in the consistency of identifying
white space at the beginning and end of passed in masks, this
doesn't make any visible difference in behaviour.  But it's
one or two hundred kernel text bytes smaller, and easier to
understand.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fix]
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:41 -07:00
Paul Jackson
029190c515 cpuset sched_load_balance flag
Add a new per-cpuset flag called 'sched_load_balance'.

When enabled in a cpuset (the default value) it tells the kernel scheduler
that the scheduler should provide the normal load balancing on the CPUs in
that cpuset, sometimes moving tasks from one CPU to a second CPU if the
second CPU is less loaded and if that task is allowed to run there.

When disabled (write "0" to the file) then it tells the kernel scheduler
that load balancing is not required for the CPUs in that cpuset.

Now even if this flag is disabled for some cpuset, the kernel may still
have to load balance some or all the CPUs in that cpuset, if some
overlapping cpuset has its sched_load_balance flag enabled.

If there are some CPUs that are not in any cpuset whose sched_load_balance
flag is enabled, the kernel scheduler will not load balance tasks to those
CPUs.

Moreover the kernel will partition the 'sched domains' (non-overlapping
sets of CPUs over which load balancing is attempted) into the finest
granularity partition that it can find, while still keeping any two CPUs
that are in the same shed_load_balance enabled cpuset in the same element
of the partition.

This serves two purposes:
 1) It provides a mechanism for real time isolation of some CPUs, and
 2) it can be used to improve performance on systems with many CPUs
    by supporting configurations in which load balancing is not done
    across all CPUs at once, but rather only done in several smaller
    disjoint sets of CPUs.

This mechanism replaces the earlier overloading of the per-cpuset
flag 'cpu_exclusive', which overloading was removed in an earlier
patch: cpuset-remove-sched-domain-hooks-from-cpusets

See further the Documentation and comments in the code itself.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't be weird]
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:41 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
2f2a3a46fc Uninline the task_xid_nr_ns() calls
Since these are expanded into call to pid_nr_ns() anyway, it's OK to move
the whole routine out-of-line.  This is a cheap way to save ~100 bytes from
vmlinux.  Together with the previous two patches, it saves half-a-kilo from
the vmlinux.

Un-inline other (currently inlined) functions must be done with additional
performance testing.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:41 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
8990571eb5 Uninline find_pid etc set of functions
The find_pid/_vpid/_pid_ns functions are used to find the struct pid by its
id, depending on whic id - global or virtual - is used.

The find_vpid() is a macro that pushes the current->nsproxy->pid_ns on the
stack to call another function - find_pid_ns().  It turned out, that this
dereference together with the push itself cause the kernel text size to
grow too much.

Move all these out-of-line.  Together with the previous patch this saves a
bit less that 400 bytes from .text section.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:41 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
bac0abd617 Isolate some explicit usage of task->tgid
With pid namespaces this field is now dangerous to use explicitly, so hide
it behind the helpers.

Also the pid and pgrp fields o task_struct and signal_struct are to be
deprecated.  Unfortunately this patch cannot be sent right now as this
leads to tons of warnings, so start isolating them, and deprecate later.

Actually the p->tgid == pid has to be changed to has_group_leader_pid(),
but Oleg pointed out that in case of posix cpu timers this is the same, and
thread_group_leader() is more preferable.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
19b9b9b54e pid namespaces: remove the struct pid unneeded fields
Since we've switched from using pid->nr to pid->upids->nr some
fields on struct pid are no longer needed

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
228ebcbe63 Uninline find_task_by_xxx set of functions
The find_task_by_something is a set of macros are used to find task by pid
depending on what kind of pid is proposed - global or virtual one.  All of
them are wrappers above the most generic one - find_task_by_pid_type_ns() -
and just substitute some args for it.

It turned out, that dereferencing the current->nsproxy->pid_ns construction
and pushing one more argument on the stack inline cause kernel text size to
grow.

This patch moves all this stuff out-of-line into kernel/pid.c.  Together
with the next patch it saves a bit less than 400 bytes from the .text
section.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
b488893a39 pid namespaces: changes to show virtual ids to user
This is the largest patch in the set. Make all (I hope) the places where
the pid is shown to or get from user operate on the virtual pids.

The idea is:
 - all in-kernel data structures must store either struct pid itself
   or the pid's global nr, obtained with pid_nr() call;
 - when seeking the task from kernel code with the stored id one
   should use find_task_by_pid() call that works with global pids;
 - when showing pid's numerical value to the user the virtual one
   should be used, but however when one shows task's pid outside this
   task's namespace the global one is to be used;
 - when getting the pid from userspace one need to consider this as
   the virtual one and use appropriate task/pid-searching functions.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuther build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: yet nuther build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded casts]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu
3eb07c8c8a pid namespaces: destroy pid namespace on init's death
Terminate all processes in a namespace when the reaper of the namespace is
exiting.  We do this by walking the pidmap of the namespace and sending
SIGKILL to all processes.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu
0fbc26a6cf pid namespaces: allow signalling cgroup-init
Only the global-init process must be special - any other cgroup-init
process must be killable to prevent run-away processes in the system.

TODO: 	Ideally we should allow killing the cgroup-init only from parent
	cgroup and prevent it being killed from within the cgroup.
	But that is a more complex change and will be addressed by a follow-on
	patch. For now allow the cgroup-init to be terminated by any process
	with sufficient privileges.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu
c9c5d92211 pid namespaces: create a slab-cache for 'struct pid_namespace'
This will help fixing memory leaks due to bad reference counting.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
6f4e643353 pid namespaces: initialize the namespace's proc_mnt
The namespace's proc_mnt must be kern_mount-ed to make this pointer always
valid, independently of whether the user space mounted the proc or not.  This
solves raced in proc_flush_task, etc.  with the proc_mnt switching from NULL
to not-NULL.

The initialization is done after the init's pid is created and hashed to make
proc_get_sb() finr it and get for root inode.

Sice the namespace holds the vfsmnt, vfsmnt holds the superblock and the
superblock holds the namespace we must explicitly break this circle to destroy
all the stuff.  This is done after the init of the namespace dies.  Running a
few steps forward - when init exits it will kill all its children, so no
proc_mnt will be needed after its death.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
30e49c263e pid namespaces: allow cloning of new namespace
When clone() is invoked with CLONE_NEWPID, create a new pid namespace and then
create a new struct pid for the new process.  Allocate pid_t's for the new
process in the new pid namespace and all ancestor pid namespaces.  Make the
newly cloned process the session and process group leader.

Since the active pid namespace is special and expected to be the first entry
in pid->upid_list, preserve the order of pid namespaces.

The size of 'struct pid' is dependent on the the number of pid namespaces the
process exists in, so we use multiple pid-caches'.  Only one pid cache is
created during system startup and this used by processes that exist only in
init_pid_ns.

When a process clones its pid namespace, we create additional pid caches as
necessary and use the pid cache to allocate 'struct pids' for that depth.

Note, that with this patch the newly created namespace won't work, since the
rest of the kernel still uses global pids, but this is to be fixed soon.  Init
pid namespace still works.

[oleg@tv-sign.ru: merge fix]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:39 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
b461cc0382 pid namespaces: miscellaneous preparations for pid namespaces
* remove pid.h from pid_namespaces.h;
* rework is_(cgroup|global)_init;
* optimize (get|put)_pid_ns for init_pid_ns;
* declare task_child_reaper to return actual reaper.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:39 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
425fb2b4bf pid namespaces: move alloc_pid() lower in copy_process()
When we create new namespace we will need to allocate the struct pid, that
will have one extra struct upid in array, comparing to the parent.

Thus we need to know the new namespace (if any) in alloc_pid() to init this
struct upid properly, so move the alloc_pid() call lower in copy_process().

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:39 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
198fe21b0a pid namespaces: helpers to find the task by its numerical ids
When searching the task by numerical id on may need to find it using global
pid (as it is done now in kernel) or by its virtual id, e.g.  when sending a
signal to a task from one namespace the sender will specify the task's virtual
id and we should find the task by this value.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix gfs2 linkage]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:39 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
7af5729474 pid namespaces: helpers to obtain pid numbers
When showing pid to user or getting the pid numerical id for in-kernel use the
value of this id may differ depending on the namespace.

This set of helpers is used to get the global pid nr, the virtual (i.e.  seen
by task in its namespace) nr and the nr as it is seen from the specified
namespace.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:39 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
8ef047aaae pid namespaces: make alloc_pid(), free_pid() and put_pid() work with struct upid
Each struct upid element of struct pid has to be initialized properly, i.e.
its nr mst be allocated from appropriate pidmap and ns set to appropriate
namespace.

When allocating a new pid, we need to know the namespace this pid will live
in, so the additional argument is added to alloc_pid().

On the other hand, the rest of the kernel still uses the pid->nr and
pid->pid_chain fields, so these ones are still initialized, but this will be
removed soon.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:39 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
faacbfd3a6 pid namespaces: add support for pid namespaces hierarchy
Each namespace has a parent and is characterized by its "level".  Level is the
number of the namespace generation.  E.g.  init namespace has level 0, after
cloning new one it will have level 1, the next one - 2 and so on and so forth.
 This level is not explicitly limited.

True hierarchy must have some way to find each namespace's children, but it is
not used in the patches, so this ability is not added (yet).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:38 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
60347f6716 pid namespaces: prepare proc_flust_task() to flush entries from multiple proc trees
The first part is trivial - we just make the proc_flush_task() to operate on
arbitrary vfsmount with arbitrary ids and pass the pid and global proc_mnt to
it.

The other change is more tricky: I moved the proc_flush_task() call in
release_task() higher to address the following problem.

When flushing task from many proc trees we need to know the set of ids (not
just one pid) to find the dentries' names to flush.  Thus we need to pass the
task's pid to proc_flush_task() as struct pid is the only object that can
provide all the pid numbers.  But after __exit_signal() task has detached all
his pids and this information is lost.

This creates a tiny gap for proc_pid_lookup() to bring some dentries back to
tree and keep them in hash (since pids are still alive before __exit_signal())
till the next shrink, but since proc_flush_task() does not provide a 100%
guarantee that the dentries will be flushed, this is OK to do so.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:38 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
2e4a707269 pid namespaces: move exit_task_namespaces()
Make task release its namespaces after it has reparented all his children to
child_reaper, but before it notifies its parent about its death.

The reason to release namespaces after reparenting is that when task exits it
may send a signal to its parent (SIGCHLD), but if the parent has already
exited its namespaces there will be no way to decide what pid to dever to him
- parent can be from different namespace.

The reason to release namespace before notifying the parent it that when task
sends a SIGCHLD to parent it can call wait() on this taks and release it.  But
releasing the mnt namespace implies dropping of all the mounts in the mnt
namespace and NFS expects the task to have valid sighand pointer.

Thanks to Oleg for pointing out some races that can apear and helping with
patches and fixes.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:38 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
762a24beed pid namespaces: rework forget_original_parent()
A pid namespace is a "view" of a particular set of tasks on the system.  They
work in a similar way to filesystem namespaces.  A file (or a process) can be
accessed in multiple namespaces, but it may have a different name in each.  In
a filesystem, this name might be /etc/passwd in one namespace, but
/chroot/etc/passwd in another.

For processes, a process may have pid 1234 in one namespace, but be pid 1 in
another.  This allows new pid namespaces to have basically arbitrary pids, and
not have to worry about what pids exist in other namespaces.  This is
essential for checkpoint/restart where a restarted process's pid might collide
with an existing process on the system's pid.

In this particular implementation, pid namespaces have a parent-child
relationship, just like processes.  A process in a pid namespace may see all
of the processes in the same namespace, as well as all of the processes in all
of the namespaces which are children of its namespace.  Processes may not,
however, see others which are in their parent's namespace, but not in their
own.  The same goes for sibling namespaces.

The know issue to be solved in the nearest future is signal handling in the
namespace boundary.  That is, currently the namespace's init is treated like
an ordinary task that can be killed from within an namespace.  Ideally, the
signal handling by the namespace's init should have two sides: when signaling
the init from its namespace, the init should look like a real init task, i.e.
receive only those signals, that is explicitly wants to; when signaling the
init from one of the parent namespaces, init should look like an ordinary
task, i.e.  receive any signal, only taking the general permissions into
account.

The pid namespace was developed by Pavel Emlyanov and Sukadev Bhattiprolu and
we eventually came to almost the same implementation, which differed in some
details.  This set is based on Pavel's patches, but it includes comments and
patches that from Sukadev.

Many thanks to Oleg, who reviewed the patches, pointed out many BUGs and made
valuable advises on how to make this set cleaner.

This patch:

We have to call exit_task_namespaces() only after the exiting task has
reparented all his children and is sure that no other threads will reparent
theirs for it.  Why this is needed is explained in appropriate patch.  This
one only reworks the forget_original_parent() so that after calling this a
task cannot be/become parent of any other task.

We check PF_EXITING instead of ->exit_state while choosing the new parent.
Note that tasklits_lock acts as a barrier, everyone who takes tasklist after
us (when forget_original_parent() drops it) must see PF_EXITING.

The other changes are just cleanups.  They just move some code from
exit_notify to forget_original_parent().  It is a bit silly to declare
ptrace_dead in exit_notify(), take tasklist, pass ptrace_dead to
forget_original_parent(), unlock-lock-unlock tasklist, and then use
ptrace_dead.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:38 -07:00
Daniel Walker
d4c5e41f3f whitespace fixes: task exit handling
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:38 -07:00
Matthias Kaehlcke
2e1975868a kernel/time/clocksource.c: Use list_for_each_entry instead of list_for_each
kernel/time/clocksource.c: Convert list_for_each to
list_for_each_entry in clocksource_resume(),
sysfs_override_clocksource() and show_available_clocksources()

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:38 -07:00
Matthias Kaehlcke
03ff17979c kernel/exit.c: Use list_for_each_entry(_safe) instead of list_for_each(_safe)
kernel/exit.c: Convert list_for_each(_safe) to
list_for_each_entry(_safe) in forget_original_parent(), exit_notify()
and do_wait()

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:38 -07:00
Johannes Berg
4e6045f134 workqueue: debug flushing deadlocks with lockdep
In the following scenario:

code path 1:
  my_function() -> lock(L1); ...; flush_workqueue(); ...

code path 2:
  run_workqueue() -> my_work() -> ...; lock(L1); ...

you can get a deadlock when my_work() is queued or running
but my_function() has acquired L1 already.

This patch adds a pseudo-lock to each workqueue to make lockdep
warn about this scenario.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:38 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
cf7b708c8d Make access to task's nsproxy lighter
When someone wants to deal with some other taks's namespaces it has to lock
the task and then to get the desired namespace if the one exists.  This is
slow on read-only paths and may be impossible in some cases.

E.g.  Oleg recently noticed a race between unshare() and the (sent for
review in cgroups) pid namespaces - when the task notifies the parent it
has to know the parent's namespace, but taking the task_lock() is
impossible there - the code is under write locked tasklist lock.

On the other hand switching the namespace on task (daemonize) and releasing
the namespace (after the last task exit) is rather rare operation and we
can sacrifice its speed to solve the issues above.

The access to other task namespaces is proposed to be performed
like this:

     rcu_read_lock();
     nsproxy = task_nsproxy(tsk);
     if (nsproxy != NULL) {
             / *
               * work with the namespaces here
               * e.g. get the reference on one of them
               * /
     } / *
         * NULL task_nsproxy() means that this task is
         * almost dead (zombie)
         * /
     rcu_read_unlock();

This patch has passed the review by Eric and Oleg :) and,
of course, tested.

[clg@fr.ibm.com: fix unshare()]
[ebiederm@xmission.com: Update get_net_ns_by_pid]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:37 -07:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu
a6f5e06378 pid namespaces: move alloc_pid() to copy_process()
Move alloc_pid() into copy_process().  This will keep all pid and pid
namespace code together and simplify error handling when we support multiple
pid namespaces.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzel <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:37 -07:00
Serge E. Hallyn
b460cbc581 pid namespaces: define is_global_init() and is_container_init()
is_init() is an ambiguous name for the pid==1 check.  Split it into
is_global_init() and is_container_init().

A cgroup init has it's tsk->pid == 1.

A global init also has it's tsk->pid == 1 and it's active pid namespace
is the init_pid_ns.  But rather than check the active pid namespace,
compare the task structure with 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper', which is
initialized during boot to the /sbin/init process and never changes.

Changelog:

	2.6.22-rc4-mm2-pidns1:
	- Use 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper' to determine if a given task is the
	  global init (/sbin/init) process. This would improve performance
	  and remove dependence on the task_pid().

	2.6.21-mm2-pidns2:

	- [Sukadev Bhattiprolu] Changed is_container_init() calls in {powerpc,
	  ppc,avr32}/traps.c for the _exception() call to is_global_init().
	  This way, we kill only the cgroup if the cgroup's init has a
	  bug rather than force a kernel panic.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment]
[sukadev@us.ibm.com: Use is_global_init() in arch/m32r/mm/fault.c]
[bunk@stusta.de: kernel/pid.c: remove unused exports]
[sukadev@us.ibm.com: Fix capability.c to work with threaded init]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzel <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:37 -07:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu
88f21d8182 pid namespaces: rename child_reaper() function
Rename the child_reaper() function to task_child_reaper() to be similar to
other task_* functions and to distinguish the function from 'struct
pid_namspace.child_reaper'.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzel <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:37 -07:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2894d650cd pid namespaces: define and use task_active_pid_ns() wrapper
With multiple pid namespaces, a process is known by some pid_t in every
ancestor pid namespace.  Every time the process forks, the child process also
gets a pid_t in every ancestor pid namespace.

While a process is visible in >=1 pid namespaces, it can see pid_t's in only
one pid namespace.  We call this pid namespace it's "active pid namespace",
and it is always the youngest pid namespace in which the process is known.

This patch defines and uses a wrapper to find the active pid namespace of a
process.  The implementation of the wrapper will be changed in when support
for multiple pid namespaces are added.

Changelog:
	2.6.22-rc4-mm2-pidns1:
	- [Pavel Emelianov, Alexey Dobriyan] Back out the change to use
	  task_active_pid_ns() in child_reaper() since task->nsproxy
	  can be NULL during task exit (so child_reaper() continues to
	  use init_pid_ns).

	  to implement child_reaper() since init_pid_ns.child_reaper to
	  implement child_reaper() since tsk->nsproxy can be NULL during exit.

	2.6.21-rc6-mm1:
	- Rename task_pid_ns() to task_active_pid_ns() to reflect that a
	  process can have multiple pid namespaces.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzel <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:37 -07:00
Pavel Emelianov
baf8f0f82d pid namespaces: dynamic kmem cache allocator for pid namespaces
Add kmem_cache to pid_namespace to allocate pids from.

Since both implementations expand the struct pid to carry more numerical
values each namespace should have separate cache to store pids of different
sizes.

Each kmem cache is name "pid_<NR>", where <NR> is the number of numerical ids
on the pid.  Different namespaces with same level of nesting will have same
caches.

This patch has two FIXMEs that are to be fixed after we reach the consensus
about the struct pid itself.

The first one is that the namespace to free the pid from in free_pid() must be
taken from pid.  Now the init_pid_ns is used.

The second FIXME is about the cache allocation.  When we do know how long the
object will be then we'll have to calculate this size in create_pid_cachep.
Right now the sizeof(struct pid) value is used.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style repair]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:37 -07:00
Pavel Emelianov
a47afb0f9d pid namespaces: round up the API
The set of functions process_session, task_session, process_group and
task_pgrp is confusing, as the names can be mixed with each other when looking
at the code for a long time.

The proposals are to
* equip the functions that return the integer with _nr suffix to
  represent that fact,
* and to make all functions work with task (not process) by making
  the common prefix of the same name.

For monotony the routines signal_session() and set_signal_session() are
replaced with task_session_nr() and set_task_session(), especially since they
are only used with the explicit task->signal dereference.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:37 -07:00
Serge E. Hallyn
858d72ead4 cgroups: implement namespace tracking subsystem
When a task enters a new namespace via a clone() or unshare(), a new cgroup
is created and the task moves into it.

This version names cgroups which are automatically created using
cgroup_clone() as "node_<pid>" where pid is the pid of the unsharing or
cloned process.  (Thanks Pavel for the idea) This is safe because if the
process unshares again, it will create

	/cgroups/(...)/node_<pid>/node_<pid>

The only possibilities (AFAICT) for a -EEXIST on unshare are

	1. pid wraparound
	2. a process fails an unshare, then tries again.

Case 1 is unlikely enough that I ignore it (at least for now).  In case 2, the
node_<pid> will be empty and can be rmdir'ed to make the subsequent unshare()
succeed.

Changelog:
	Name cloned cgroups as "node_<pid>".

[clg@fr.ibm.com: fix order of cgroup subsystems in init/Kconfig]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:37 -07:00
Balbir Singh
846c7bb055 Add cgroupstats
This patch is inspired by the discussion at
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/11/187 and implements per cgroup statistics
as suggested by Andrew Morton in http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/11/263.  The
patch is on top of 2.6.21-mm1 with Paul's cgroups v9 patches (forward
ported)

This patch implements per cgroup statistics infrastructure and re-uses
code from the taskstats interface.  A new set of cgroup operations are
registered with commands and attributes.  It should be very easy to
*extend* per cgroup statistics, by adding members to the cgroupstats
structure.

The current model for cgroupstats is a pull, a push model (to post
statistics on interesting events), should be very easy to add.  Currently
user space requests for statistics by passing the cgroup file
descriptor.  Statistics about the state of all the tasks in the cgroup
is returned to user space.

TODO's/NOTE:

This patch provides an infrastructure for implementing cgroup statistics.
Based on the needs of each controller, we can incrementally add more statistics,
event based support for notification of statistics, accumulation of taskstats
into cgroup statistics in the future.

Sample output

# ./cgroupstats -C /cgroup/a
sleeping 2, blocked 0, running 1, stopped 0, uninterruptible 0

# ./cgroupstats -C /cgroup/
sleeping 154, blocked 0, running 0, stopped 0, uninterruptible 0

If the approach looks good, I'll enhance and post the user space utility for
the same

Feedback, comments, test results are always welcome!

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
Paul Menage
006cb99200 Task Control Groups: simple task cgroup debug info subsystem
This example subsystem exports debugging information as an aid to diagnosing
refcount leaks, etc, in the cgroup framework.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
Paul Menage
62d0df6406 Task Control Groups: example CPU accounting subsystem
This example demonstrates how to use the generic cgroup subsystem for a
simple resource tracker that counts, for the processes in a cgroup, the
total CPU time used and the %CPU used in the last complete 10 second interval.

Portions contributed by Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
Paul Menage
8793d854ed Task Control Groups: make cpusets a client of cgroups
Remove the filesystem support logic from the cpusets system and makes cpusets
a cgroup subsystem

The "cpuset" filesystem becomes a dummy filesystem; attempts to mount it get
passed through to the cgroup filesystem with the appropriate options to
emulate the old cpuset filesystem behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
Paul Menage
81a6a5cdd2 Task Control Groups: automatic userspace notification of idle cgroups
Add the following files to the cgroup filesystem:

notify_on_release - configures/reports whether the cgroup subsystem should
attempt to run a release script when this cgroup becomes unused

release_agent - configures/reports the release agent to be used for this
hierarchy (top level in each hierarchy only)

releasable - reports whether this cgroup would have been auto-released if
notify_on_release was true and a release agent was configured (mainly useful
for debugging)

To avoid locking issues, invoking the userspace release agent is done via a
workqueue task; cgroups that need to have their release agents invoked by
the workqueue task are linked on to a list.

[pj@sgi.com: Need to include kmod.h]
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
Paul Menage
817929ec27 Task Control Groups: shared cgroup subsystem group arrays
Replace the struct css_set embedded in task_struct with a pointer; all tasks
that have the same set of memberships across all hierarchies will share a
css_set object, and will be linked via their css_sets field to the "tasks"
list_head in the css_set.

Assuming that many tasks share the same cgroup assignments, this reduces
overall space usage and keeps the size of the task_struct down (three pointers
added to task_struct compared to a non-cgroups kernel, no matter how many
subsystems are registered).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix a printk]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.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>
2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
Paul Menage
a424316ca1 Task Control Groups: add procfs interface
Add:

/proc/cgroups - general system info

/proc/*/cgroup - per-task cgroup membership info

[a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: cgroups: bdi init hooks]
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
Paul Menage
697f416108 Task Control Groups: add cgroup_clone() interface
Add support for cgroup_clone(), a way to create new cgroups intended to
be used for systems such as namespace unsharing.  A new subsystem callback,
post_clone(), is added to allow subsystems to automatically configure cloned
cgroups.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
Paul Menage
b4f48b6363 Task Control Groups: add fork()/exit() hooks
This adds the necessary hooks to the fork() and exit() paths to ensure
that new children inherit their parent's cgroup assignments, and that
exiting processes release reference counts on their cgroups.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
Paul Menage
355e0c48b7 Add cgroup write_uint() helper method
Add write_uint() helper method for cgroup subsystems

This helper is analagous to the read_uint() helper method for
reporting u64 values to userspace. It's designed to reduce the amount
of boilerplate requierd for creating new cgroup subsystems.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
Paul Menage
bbcb81d091 Task Control Groups: add tasks file interface
Add the per-directory "tasks" file for cgroupfs mounts; this allows the
user to determine which tasks are members of a cgroup by reading a
cgroup's "tasks", and to move a task into a cgroup by writing its pid to
its "tasks".

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
Paul Menage
ddbcc7e8e5 Task Control Groups: basic task cgroup framework
Generic Process Control Groups
--------------------------

There have recently been various proposals floating around for
resource management/accounting and other task grouping subsystems in
the kernel, including ResGroups, User BeanCounters, NSProxy
cgroups, and others.  These all need the basic abstraction of being
able to group together multiple processes in an aggregate, in order to
track/limit the resources permitted to those processes, or control
other behaviour of the processes, and all implement this grouping in
different ways.

This patchset provides a framework for tracking and grouping processes
into arbitrary "cgroups" and assigning arbitrary state to those
groupings, in order to control the behaviour of the cgroup as an
aggregate.

The intention is that the various resource management and
virtualization/cgroup efforts can also become task cgroup
clients, with the result that:

- the userspace APIs are (somewhat) normalised

- it's easier to test e.g. the ResGroups CPU controller in
 conjunction with the BeanCounters memory controller, or use either of
them as the resource-control portion of a virtual server system.

- the additional kernel footprint of any of the competing resource
 management systems is substantially reduced, since it doesn't need
 to provide process grouping/containment, hence improving their
 chances of getting into the kernel

This patch:

Add the main task cgroups framework - the cgroup filesystem, and the
basic structures for tracking membership and associating subsystem state
objects to tasks.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
Paul Jackson
55a230aae6 cpuset: zero malloc - revert the old cpuset fix
The cpuset code to present a list of tasks using a cpuset to user space could
write to an array that it had kmalloc'd, after a kmalloc request of zero size.

The problem was that the code didn't check for writes past the allocated end
of the array until -after- the first write.

This is a race condition that is likely rare -- it would only show up if a
cpuset went from being empty to having a task in it, during the brief time
between the allocation and the first write.

Prior to roughly 2.6.22 kernels, this was also a benign problem, because a
zero kmalloc returned a few usable bytes anyway, and no harm was done with the
bogus write.

With the 2.6.22 kernel changes to make issue a warning if code tries to write
to the location returned from a zero size allocation, this problem is no
longer benign.  This cpuset code would occassionally trigger that warning.

The fix is trivial -- check before storing into the array, not after, whether
the array is big enough to hold the store.

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:35 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
fe9d4f5763 Add kernel/notifier.c
There is separate notifier header, but no separate notifier .c file.

Extract notifier code out of kernel/sys.c which will remain for
misc syscalls I hope. Merge kernel/die_notifier.c into kernel/notifier.c.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
58f9b52ee8 Merge ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt
* ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt:
  hrtimer: hook compat_sys_nanosleep up to high res timer code
  hrtimer: Rework hrtimer_nanosleep to make sys_compat_nanosleep easier
2007-10-18 15:12:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
54e840dd50 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
  sched: reduce schedstat variable overhead a bit
  sched: add KERN_CONT annotation
  sched: cleanup, make struct rq comments more consistent
  sched: cleanup, fix spacing
  sched: fix return value of wait_for_completion_interruptible()
2007-10-18 14:54:03 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
c80544dc0b sparse pointer use of zero as null
Get rid of sparse related warnings from places that use integer as NULL
pointer.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:31 -07:00
Michael Neuling
c66f08be7e Add scaled time to taskstats based process accounting
This adds items to the taststats struct to account for user and system
time based on scaling the CPU frequency and instruction issue rates.

Adds account_(user|system)_time_scaled callbacks which architectures
can use to account for time using this mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:28 -07:00
Daniel Walker
5b4db0c2f2 whitespace fixes: system timers
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
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>
2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
Daniel Walker
0719e3702e whitespace fixes: interval timers
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
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>
2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
Daniel Walker
62769dce86 whitespace fixes: execution domains
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
Daniel Walker
5600b89278 whitespace fixes: system auditing
Just removing white space at the end of lines.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:25 -07:00
Daniel Walker
bd3a8492ba whitespace fixes: compat syscalls
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:25 -07:00
Daniel Walker
9f8dbe9c9c whitespace fixes: syscall auditing
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:25 -07:00
Daniel Walker
314f70fd96 whitespace fixes: capability syscalls
Large chunks of 5 spaces instead of tabs.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:25 -07:00
Daniel Walker
c277e63fbe whitespace fixes: panic handling
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:25 -07:00
Daniel Walker
22a8bdeb53 whitespace fixes: module loading
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:25 -07:00
Daniel Walker
23ff444024 whitespace fixes: fork
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:25 -07:00
Daniel Walker
902749cdbd whitespace fixes: DMA channel allocator
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
Daniel Walker
9ce34218a8 whitespace fixes: audit filtering
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
Daniel Walker
1bfbc608ba whitespace fixes: relayfs
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
Daniel Walker
dedf8b79ec whitespace fixes: cpuset
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
Daniel Walker
6ae965cd64 whitespace fixes: process accounting
Lots of converting spaces to tabs.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
Daniel Walker
6fa6c3b1d1 whitespace fixes: time syscalls
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
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>
2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
Andrew Morgan
72c2d5823f V3 file capabilities: alter behavior of cap_setpcap
The non-filesystem capability meaning of CAP_SETPCAP is that a process, p1,
can change the capabilities of another process, p2.  This is not the
meaning that was intended for this capability at all, and this
implementation came about purely because, without filesystem capabilities,
there was no way to use capabilities without one process bestowing them on
another.

Since we now have a filesystem support for capabilities we can fix the
implementation of CAP_SETPCAP.

The most significant thing about this change is that, with it in effect, no
process can set the capabilities of another process.

The capabilities of a program are set via the capability convolution
rules:

   pI(post-exec) = pI(pre-exec)
   pP(post-exec) = (X(aka cap_bset) & fP) | (pI(post-exec) & fI)
   pE(post-exec) = fE ? pP(post-exec) : 0

at exec() time.  As such, the only influence the pre-exec() program can
have on the post-exec() program's capabilities are through the pI
capability set.

The correct implementation for CAP_SETPCAP (and that enabled by this patch)
is that it can be used to add extra pI capabilities to the current process
- to be picked up by subsequent exec()s when the above convolution rules
are applied.

Here is how it works:

Let's say we have a process, p. It has capability sets, pE, pP and pI.
Generally, p, can change the value of its own pI to pI' where

   (pI' & ~pI) & ~pP = 0.

That is, the only new things in pI' that were not present in pI need to
be present in pP.

The role of CAP_SETPCAP is basically to permit changes to pI beyond
the above:

   if (pE & CAP_SETPCAP) {
      pI' = anything; /* ie., even (pI' & ~pI) & ~pP != 0  */
   }

This capability is useful for things like login, which (say, via
pam_cap) might want to raise certain inheritable capabilities for use
by the children of the logged-in user's shell, but those capabilities
are not useful to or needed by the login program itself.

One such use might be to limit who can run ping. You set the
capabilities of the 'ping' program to be "= cap_net_raw+i", and then
only shells that have (pI & CAP_NET_RAW) will be able to run
it. Without CAP_SETPCAP implemented as described above, login(pam_cap)
would have to also have (pP & CAP_NET_RAW) in order to raise this
capability and pass it on through the inheritable set.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:24 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
7058cb02dd sysctl: deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion.
After adding checking to register_sysctl_table and finding a whole new set
of bugs.  Missed by countless code reviews and testers I have finally lost
patience with the binary sysctl interface.

The binary sysctl interface has been sort of deprecated for years and
finding a user space program that uses the syscall is more difficult then
finding a needle in a haystack.  Problems continue to crop up, with the in
kernel implementation.  So since supporting something that no one uses is
silly, deprecate sys_sysctl with a sufficient grace period and notice that
the handful of user space applications that care can be fixed or replaced.

The /proc/sys sysctl interface that people use will continue to be
supported indefinitely.

This patch moves the tested warning about sysctls from the path where
sys_sysctl to a separate path called from both implementations of
sys_sysctl, and it adds a proper entry into
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.

Allowing us to revisit this in a couple years time and actually kill
sys_sysctl.

[lethal@linux-sh.org: sysctl: Fix syscall disabled build]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:23 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
8ada720d89 sysctl: for irda update sysctl_checks list of binary paths
It turns out that the net/irda code didn't register any of it's binary paths
in the global sysctl.h header file so I missed them completely when making an
authoritative list of binary sysctl paths in the kernel.  So add them to the
list of valid binary sysctl paths.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:23 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
49ffcf8f99 sysctl: update sysctl_check_table
Well it turns out after I dug into the problems a little more I was returning
a few false positives so this patch updates my logic to remove them.

- Don't complain about 0 ctl_names in sysctl_check_binary_path
  It is valid for someone to remove the sysctl binary interface
  and still keep the same sysctl proc interface.

- Count ctl_names and procnames as matching if they both don't
  exist.

- Only warn about missing min&max when the generic functions care.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:23 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
fc6cd25b73 sysctl: Error on bad sysctl tables
After going through the kernels sysctl tables several times it has become
clear that code review and testing is just not effective in prevent
problematic sysctl tables from being used in the stable kernel.  I certainly
can't seem to fix the problems as fast as they are introduced.

Therefore this patch adds sysctl_check_table which is called when a sysctl
table is registered and checks to see if we have a problematic sysctl table.

The biggest part of the code is the table of valid binary sysctl entries, but
since we have frozen our set of binary sysctls this table should not need to
change, and it makes it much easier to detect when someone unintentionally
adds a new binary sysctl value.

As best as I can determine all of the several hundred errors spewed on boot up
now are legitimate.

[bunk@kernel.org: kernel/sysctl_check.c must #include <linux/string.h>]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:23 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
c65f92398e sysctl: remove the cad_pid binary sysctl path
It looks like we inadvertently killed the cad_pid binary sysctl support when
cap_pid was changed to be a struct pid.  Since no one has complained just
remove the binary path.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:23 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
35834ca1e4 sysctl: simplify the pty sysctl logic
Instead of having a bunch of ifdefs in sysctl.c move all of the pty sysctl
logic into drivers/char/pty.c

As well as cleaning up the logic this prevents sysctl_check_table from
complaining that the root table has a NULL data pointer on something with
generic methods.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:23 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
0d135a4a8c sysctl: remove the binary interface for aio-nr, aio-max-nr, acpi_video_flags
aio-nr, aio-max-nr, acpi_video_flags are unsigned long values which sysctl
does not handle properly with a 64bit kernel and a 32bit user space.

Since no one is likely to be using the binary sysctl values and the ascii
interface still works, this patch just removes support for the binary sysctl
interface from the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:23 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
f5ead5cefc sysctl: remove binary sysctl support where it clearly doesn't work
These functions are all wrapper functions for the proc interface that are
needed for them to work correctly.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:22 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
49a0c45833 sysctl: Factor out sysctl_data.
There as been no easy way to wrap the default sysctl strategy routine except
for returning 0.  Which is not always what we want.  The few instances I have
seen that want different behaviour have written their own version of
sysctl_data.  While not too hard it is unnecessary code and has the potential
for extra bugs.

So to make these situations easier and make that part of sysctl more symetric
I have factord sysctl_data out of do_sysctl_strategy and exported as a
function everyone can use.

Further having sysctl_data be an explicit function makes checking for badly
formed sysctl tables much easier.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:22 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
d8217f076b sysctl core: Stop using the unnecessary ctl_table typedef
In sysctl.h the typedef struct ctl_table ctl_table violates coding style isn't
needed and is a bit of a nuisance because it makes it harder to recognize
ctl_table is a type name.

So this patch removes it from the generic sysctl code.  Hopefully I will have
enough energy to send the rest of my patches will follow and to remove it from
the rest of the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:22 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
a0d8cdb652 cpu hotplug: cpu: deliver CPU_UP_CANCELED only to NOTIFY_OKed callbacks with CPU_UP_PREPARE
The functions in a CPU notifier chain is called with CPU_UP_PREPARE event
before making the CPU online.  If one of the callback returns NOTIFY_BAD, it
stops to deliver CPU_UP_PREPARE event, and CPU online operation is canceled.
Then CPU_UP_CANCELED event is delivered to the functions in a CPU notifier
chain again.

This CPU_UP_CANCELED event is delivered to the functions which have been
called with CPU_UP_PREPARE, not delivered to the functions which haven't been
called with CPU_UP_PREPARE.

The problem that makes existing cpu hotplug error handlings complex is that
the CPU_UP_CANCELED event is delivered to the function that has returned
NOTIFY_BAD, too.

Usually we don't expect to call destructor function against the object that
has failed to initialize.  It is like:

	err = register_something();
	if (err) {
		unregister_something();
		return err;
	}

So it is natural to deliver CPU_UP_CANCELED event only to the functions that
have returned NOTIFY_OK with CPU_UP_PREPARE event and not to call the function
that have returned NOTIFY_BAD.  This is what this patch is doing.

Otherwise, every cpu hotplug notifiler has to track whether notifiler event is
failed or not for each cpu.  (drivers/base/topology.c is doing this with
topology_dev_map)

Similary this patch makes same thing with CPU_DOWN_PREPARE and CPU_DOWN_FAILED
evnets.

Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:21 -07:00
Dave Young
faf8c714f4 param_sysfs_builtin memchr argument fix
If memchr argument is longer than strlen(kp->name), there will be some
weird result.

It will casuse duplicate filenames in sysfs for the "nousb".  kernel
warning messages are as bellow:

sysfs: duplicate filename 'usbcore' can not be created
WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:416 sysfs_add_one()
 [<c01c4750>] sysfs_add_one+0xa0/0xe0
 [<c01c4ab8>] create_dir+0x48/0xb0
 [<c01c4b69>] sysfs_create_dir+0x29/0x50
 [<c024e0fb>] create_dir+0x1b/0x50
 [<c024e3b6>] kobject_add+0x46/0x150
 [<c024e2da>] kobject_init+0x3a/0x80
 [<c053b880>] kernel_param_sysfs_setup+0x50/0xb0
 [<c053b9ce>] param_sysfs_builtin+0xee/0x130
 [<c053ba33>] param_sysfs_init+0x23/0x60
 [<c024d062>] __next_cpu+0x12/0x20
 [<c052aa30>] kernel_init+0x0/0xb0
 [<c052aa30>] kernel_init+0x0/0xb0
 [<c052a856>] do_initcalls+0x46/0x1e0
 [<c01bdb12>] create_proc_entry+0x52/0x90
 [<c0158d4c>] register_irq_proc+0x9c/0xc0
 [<c01bda94>] proc_mkdir_mode+0x34/0x50
 [<c052aa30>] kernel_init+0x0/0xb0
 [<c052aa92>] kernel_init+0x62/0xb0
 [<c0104f83>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x14
 =======================
kobject_add failed for usbcore with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.
 [<c024e466>] kobject_add+0xf6/0x150
 [<c053b880>] kernel_param_sysfs_setup+0x50/0xb0
 [<c053b9ce>] param_sysfs_builtin+0xee/0x130
 [<c053ba33>] param_sysfs_init+0x23/0x60
 [<c024d062>] __next_cpu+0x12/0x20
 [<c052aa30>] kernel_init+0x0/0xb0
 [<c052aa30>] kernel_init+0x0/0xb0
 [<c052a856>] do_initcalls+0x46/0x1e0
 [<c01bdb12>] create_proc_entry+0x52/0x90
 [<c0158d4c>] register_irq_proc+0x9c/0xc0
 [<c01bda94>] proc_mkdir_mode+0x34/0x50
 [<c052aa30>] kernel_init+0x0/0xb0
 [<c052aa92>] kernel_init+0x62/0xb0
 [<c0104f83>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x14
 =======================
Module 'usbcore' failed to be added to sysfs, error number -17
The system will be unstable now.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:21 -07:00
Tony Breeds
2c62214831 Fix discrepancy between VDSO based gettimeofday() and sys_gettimeofday().
On platforms that copy sys_tz into the vdso (currently only x86_64, soon to
include powerpc), it is possible for the vdso to get out of sync if a user
calls (admittedly unusual) settimeofday(NULL, ptr).

This patch adds a hook for architectures that set
CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL to ensure when sys_tz is updated they can also
updatee their copy in the vdso.

Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:20 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
6212e3a388 Remove struct task_struct::io_wait
Hell knows what happened in commit 63b05203af57e7de4f3bb63b8b81d43bc196d32b
during 2.6.9 development.  Commit introduced io_wait field which remained
write-only than and still remains write-only.

Also garbage collect macros which "use" io_wait.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:20 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
9cd9a0058d Hibernation: Enter platform hibernation state in a consistent way
Make hibernation_platform_enter() execute the enter-a-sleep-state sequence
instead of the mixed shutdown-with-entering-S4 thing.

Replace the shutting down of devices done by kernel_shutdown_prepare(), before
entering the ACPI S4 sleep state, with suspending them and the shutting down
of sysdevs with calling device_power_down(PMSG_SUSPEND) (just like before
entering S1 or S3, but the target state is now S4).   Also, disable the
nonboot CPUs before entering the sleep state (S4), which generally always is a
good idea.

This is known to fix the "double disk spin down during hibernation" on some
machines, eg.  HPC nx6325 (ref.  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/7/316 and the
following thread).   Moreover, it has been reported to make
/sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm work correctly with hibernation for some users.
It also generally causes the hibernation state (ACPI S4) to be entered faster.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:20 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
c7e0831d38 Hibernation: Check if ACPI is enabled during restore in the right place
The following scenario leads to total confusion of the platform firmware on
some boxes (eg. HPC nx6325):
* Hibernate with ACPI enabled
* Resume passing "acpi=off" to the boot kernel

To prevent this from happening it's necessary to check if ACPI is enabled (and
enable it if that's not the case) _right_ _after_ control has been transfered
from the boot kernel to the image kernel, before device_power_up() is called
(ie.  with interrupts disabled).   Enabling ACPI after calling
device_power_up() turns out to be insufficient.

For this reason, introduce new hibernation callback ->leave() that will be
executed before device_power_up() by the restored image kernel.   To make it
work, it also is necessary to move swsusp_suspend() from swsusp.c to disk.c
(it's name is changed to "create_image", which is more up to the point).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:20 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
d307c4a8e8 Hibernation: Arbitrary boot kernel support - generic code
Add the bits needed for supporting arbitrary boot kernels to the common
hibernation code.

To support arbitrary boot kernels, make it possible to replace the 'struct
new_utsname' and the kernel version in the hibernation image header by some
architecture specific data that will be used to verify if the image is valid
and to restore the image.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:19 -07:00
Andres Salomon
8f4ce8c32f serial: turn serial console suspend a boot rather than compile time option
Currently, there's a CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND that allows one to stop
the serial console from being suspended when the rest of the machine goes
to sleep.  This is incredibly useful for debugging power management-related
things; however, having it as a compile-time option has proved to be
incredibly inconvenient for us (OLPC).  There are plenty of times that we
want serial console to not suspend, but for the most part we'd like serial
console to be suspended.

This drops CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND, and replaces it with a kernel
boot parameter (no_console_suspend).  By default, the serial console will
be suspended along with the rest of the system; by passing
'no_console_suspend' to the kernel during boot, serial console will remain
alive during suspend.

For now, this is pretty serial console specific; further fixes could be
applied to make this work for things like netconsole.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:19 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
438e2ce68d freezer: measure freezing time
Measure the time of the freezing of tasks, even if it doesn't fail.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:19 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
b842ee578e freezer: be more verbose
Increase the freezer's verbosity a bit, so that it's easier to read problem
reports related to it.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:19 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
c3d42d7527 unexport pm_power_off_prepare
This patch removes the unused EXPORT_SYMBOL(pm_power_off_prepare).

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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>
2007-10-18 14:37:19 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
d5d8c5976d freezer: do not send signals to kernel threads
The freezer should not send signals to kernel threads, since that may lead to
subtle problems.  In particular, commit
b74d0deb96 has changed recalc_sigpending_tsk()
so that it doesn't clear TIF_SIGPENDING.  For this reason, if the freezer
continues to send fake signals to kernel threads and the freezing of kernel
threads fails, some of them may be running with TIF_SIGPENDING set forever.

Accordingly, recalc_sigpending_tsk() shouldn't set the task's TIF_SIGPENDING
flag if TIF_FREEZE is set.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:19 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
2e1318956c freezer: prevent new tasks from inheriting TIF_FREEZE set
Tasks should go to the refrigerator only if explicitly requested to do that by
the freezer and not as a result of inheriting the TIF_FREEZE flag set from the
parent.  Make it happen.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:18 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
232b143280 freezer: do not sync filesystems from freeze_processes
The syncing of filesystems from within the freezer is generally not needed.
Also, if there's an ext3 filesystem loopback-mounted from a FUSE one, the
syncing results in writes to it and deadlocks.  Similarly, it will deadlock if
FUSE implements sync.

Change freeze_processes() so that it doesn't execute sys_sync() and make the
suspend and hibernation code path sync filesystems independently of the
freezer.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:18 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
b3dac3b304 PM: Rename hibernation_ops to platform_hibernation_ops
Rename 'struct hibernation_ops' to 'struct platform_hibernation_ops' in
analogy with 'struct platform_suspend_ops'.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:18 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
74f270af0c PM: Rework struct hibernation_ops
During hibernation we also need to tell the ACPI core that we're going to put
the system into the S4 sleep state.  For this reason, an additional method in
'struct hibernation_ops' is needed, playing the role of set_target() in
'struct platform_suspend_operations'.  Moreover, the role of the .prepare()
method is now different, so it's better to introduce another method, that in
general may be different from .prepare(), that will be used to prepare the
platform for creating the hibernation image (.prepare() is used anyway to
notify the platform that we're going to enter the low power state after the
image has been saved).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:18 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
f242d9196f PM: Make suspend_ops static
The variable suspend_ops representing the set of global platform-specific
suspend-related operations, used by the PM core, need not be exported outside
of kernel/power/main.c .   Make it static.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:18 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
e6c5eb9541 PM: Rework struct platform_suspend_ops
There is no reason why the .prepare() and .finish() methods in 'struct
platform_suspend_ops' should take any arguments, since architectures don't use
these methods' argument in any practically meaningful way (ie.  either the
target system sleep state is conveyed to the platform by .set_target(), or
there is only one suspend state supported and it is indicated to the PM core
by .valid(), or .prepare() and .finish() aren't defined at all).   There also
is no reason why .finish() should return any result.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:18 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
26398a70ea PM: Rename struct pm_ops and related things
The name of 'struct pm_ops' suggests that it is related to the power
management in general, but in fact it is only related to suspend.   Moreover,
its name should indicate what this structure is used for, so it seems
reasonable to change it to 'struct platform_suspend_ops'.   In that case, the
name of the global variable of this type used by the PM core and the names of
related functions should be changed accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:18 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
a065c86e1b make kernel/power/main.c:suspend_enter() static
suspend_enter() can now become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:17 -07:00
Anton Blanchard
c70878b4e0 hrtimer: hook compat_sys_nanosleep up to high res timer code
Now we have high res timers on ppc64 I thought Id test them. It turns
out compat_sys_nanosleep hasnt been converted to the hrtimer code and so
is limited to HZ resolution.

The follow patch converts compat_sys_nanosleep to use high res timers.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-18 22:54:18 +02:00
Anton Blanchard
04c227140f hrtimer: Rework hrtimer_nanosleep to make sys_compat_nanosleep easier
Pull the copy_to_user out of hrtimer_nanosleep and into the callers
(common_nsleep, sys_nanosleep) in preparation for converting
compat_sys_nanosleep to use hrtimers.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-18 22:54:18 +02:00
Ken Chen
480b9434c5 sched: reduce schedstat variable overhead a bit
schedstat is useful in investigating CPU scheduler behavior.  Ideally,
I think it is beneficial to have it on all the time.  However, the
cost of turning it on in production system is quite high, largely due
to number of events it collects and also due to its large memory
footprint.

Most of the fields probably don't need to be full 64-bit on 64-bit
arch.  Rolling over 4 billion events will most like take a long time
and user space tool can be made to accommodate that.  I'm proposing
kernel to cut back most of variable width on 64-bit system.  (note,
the following patch doesn't affect 32-bit system).

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-18 21:32:56 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
cc4ea79588 sched: add KERN_CONT annotation
printk: add the KERN_CONT annotation (which is empty string but via
which checkpatch.pl can notice that the lacking KERN_ level is fine).

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-18 21:32:56 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
d801649162 sched: cleanup, make struct rq comments more consistent
cleanup, make struct rq comments more consistent.

found via scripts/checkpatch.pl.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-18 21:32:55 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
8401f77505 sched: cleanup, fix spacing
cleanup: fix sysctl_sched_features initialization spacing, and
fix sd_alloc_ctl_cpu_table() prototype spacing.

found via scripts/checkpatch.pl.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-18 21:32:55 +02:00
Andi Kleen
51e9799023 sched: fix return value of wait_for_completion_interruptible()
The recent wait_for_completion() cleanups:

    commit 8cbbe86dfc
    Author: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
    Date:   Mon Oct 15 17:00:14 2007 +0200

    sched: cleanup: refactor common code of sleep_on / wait_for_completion

    Refactor common code of sleep_on / wait_for_completion

broke the return value of wait_for_completion_interruptible().
Previously it returned 0 on success, now -1.  Fix that.

Problem found by Geert Uytterhoeven.

[ mingo: fixed whitespace damage ]

Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-18 21:32:55 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
3dfbc88464 x86: C1E late detection fix. Really switch off lapic timer
Doh, I completely missed that devices marked DUMMY are not running
the set_mode function. So we force broadcasting, but we keep the
local APIC timer running.

Let the clock event layer mark the device _after_ switching it off.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-17 20:15:13 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
e6d5a11dad Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
  sched: fix new task startup crash
  sched: fix !SYSFS build breakage
  sched: fix improper load balance across sched domain
  sched: more robust sd-sysctl entry freeing
2007-10-17 09:11:18 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
cbfee34520 security/ cleanups
This patch contains the following cleanups that are now possible:
- remove the unused security_operations->inode_xattr_getsuffix
- remove the no longer used security_operations->unregister_security
- remove some no longer required exit code
- remove a bunch of no longer used exports

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
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>
2007-10-17 08:43:07 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
57c521ce61 ifdef struct task_struct::security
For those who don't care about CONFIG_SECURITY.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:07 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
d2da272a4e migration_call(CPU_DEAD): use spin_lock_irq() instead of task_rq_lock()
Change migration_call(CPU_DEAD) to use direct spin_lock_irq() instead of
task_rq_lock(rq->idle), rq->idle can't change its task_rq().

This makes the code a bit more symmetrical with migrate_dead_tasks()'s path
which uses spin_lock_irq/spin_unlock_irq.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:03 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
f7b4cddcc5 do CPU_DEAD migrating under read_lock(tasklist) instead of write_lock_irq(tasklist)
Currently move_task_off_dead_cpu() is called under
write_lock_irq(tasklist).  This means it can't use task_lock() which is
needed to improve migrating to take task's ->cpuset into account.

Change the code to call move_task_off_dead_cpu() with irqs enabled, and
change migrate_live_tasks() to use read_lock(tasklist).

This all is a preparation for the futher changes proposed by Cliff Wickman, see
	http://marc.info/?t=117327786100003

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:03 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
d58ae67813 module: return error when mod_sysfs_init() failed
load_module() returns zero when mod_sysfs_init() fails, then the module
loading will succeed accidentally.

This patch makes load_module() return error correctly in that case.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:01 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
28e3fed8b7 Compile handle_percpu_irq even for uniprocessor kernels
Compiling handle_percpu_irq only on uniprocessor generates an artificial
special case so a typical use like:

  set_irq_chip_and_handler(irq, &some_irq_type, handle_percpu_irq);

needs to be conditionally compiled only on SMP systems as well and an
alternative UP construct is usually needed - for no good reason.

This fixes uniprocessor configurations for some MIPS SMP systems.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:00 -07:00
Andrey Mirkin
fd5eea4214 change inotifyfs magic as the same magic is used for futexfs
Right now futexfs and inotifyfs have one magic 0xBAD1DEA, that looks a
little bit confusing.  Use 0xBAD1DEA as magic for futexfs and 0x2BAD1DEA as
magic for inotifyfs.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Mirkin <major@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:00 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov
db8906da59 Use KMEM_CACHE macro to create the nsproxy cache
The blessed way for standard caches is to use it.  Besides, this may give
this cache a better alignment.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:59 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
970a8645ca user.c: #ifdef ->mq_bytes
For those who deselect POSIX message queues.

Reduces SLAB size of user_struct from 64 to 32 bytes here, SLUB size -- from
40 bytes to 32 bytes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:59 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
40aeb400f6 user.c: deinline
Save some space because uid_hash_find() has 3 callsites.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:58 -07:00
Jan Beulich
22e48eaf58 constify string/array kparam tracking structures
.. in an effort to make read-only whatever can be made, so that
CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA can catch as many issues as possible.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:56 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
b012d346c0 make kernel/profile.c:time_hook static
{,un}register_timer_hook() is the API that should be used.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:55 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
0732a552cb kernel/sys_ni.c: add dummy sys_ni_syscall() prototype
kernel/sys_ni.c can't #include <linux/syscalls.h> due to cond_syscall(),
but let's tell gcc to not warn with -Wmissing-prototypes.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:55 -07:00
Avi Kivity
e98c320291 Move PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS into an always-included Kconfig
Kconfig.preempt is not included on some archs (for example, m68k).  On those
archs, the Kconfig machinery complains that KVM selects an undefined symbol
PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS (which lives in Kconfig.preempt).

So move the offending symbol into a Kconfig file which is included by
everyone.

Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:55 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
42b2dd0a02 Shrink task_struct if CONFIG_FUTEX=n
robust_list, compat_robust_list, pi_state_list, pi_state_cache are
really used if futexes are on.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:55 -07:00
Ken'ichi Ohmichi
bcbba6c10e add-vmcore: add a prefix "VMCOREINFO_" to the vmcoreinfo macros
Add a prefix "VMCOREINFO_" to the vmcoreinfo macros.  Old vmcoreinfo macros
were defined as generic names SYMBOL/SIZE/OFFSET /LENGTH/CONFIG, and it is
impossible to grep for them.  So these names should be changed.  This
discussion is the following:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0709.1/0415.html

Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
Ken'ichi Ohmichi
6cfa062f01 add-vmcore: add nodemask_t's size and NR_FREE_PAGES's value to vmcoreinfo_data
[2/3] Add nodemask_t's size and NR_FREE_PAGES's value to vmcoreinfo_data.
  The dump filetering command 'makedumpfile'(v1.1.6 or before) had assumed
  the above values, and it was not good from the reliability viewpoint.
  So makedumpfile v1.2.0 came to need these values and I created the patch
  to let the kernel output them.
  makedumpfile site:
  https://sourceforge.net/projects/makedumpfile/

Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
Ken'ichi Ohmichi
d768281e97 add-vmcore: cleanup the coding style according to Andrew's comments
[1/3] Cleanup the coding style according to Andrew's comments:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-August/000522.html
- vmcoreinfo_append_str() should have suitable __attribute__s so that
  the compiler can check its use.
- vmcoreinfo_max_size should have size_t.
- Use get_seconds() instead of xtime.tv_sec.
- Use init_uts_ns.name.release instead of UTS_RELEASE.

Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
Ken'ichi Ohmichi
fd59d231f8 Add vmcoreinfo
This patch set frees the restriction that makedumpfile users should install a
vmlinux file (including the debugging information) into each system.

makedumpfile command is the dump filtering feature for kdump.  It creates a
small dumpfile by filtering unnecessary pages for the analysis.  To
distinguish unnecessary pages, it needs a vmlinux file including the debugging
information.  These days, the debugging package becomes a huge file, and it is
hard to install it into each system.

To solve the problem, kdump developers discussed it at lkml and kexec-ml.  As
the result, we reached the conclusion that necessary information for dump
filtering (called "vmcoreinfo") should be embedded into the first kernel file
and it should be accessed through /proc/vmcore during the second kernel.
(http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.0/1806.html)

Dan Aloni created the patch set for the above implementation.
(http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.1/1053.html)

And I updated it for multi architectures and memory models.
(http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-August/000479.html)

Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>
Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
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>
2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
13fbcb7312 do_sigaction: don't worry about signal_pending()
do_sigaction() returns -ERESTARTNOINTR if signal_pending(). The comment says:

	* If there might be a fatal signal pending on multiple
	* threads, make sure we take it before changing the action.

I think this is not needed. We should only worry about SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT case,
bit it implies a pending SIGKILL which can't be cleared by do_sigaction.

Kill this special case.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
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>
2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
6db840fa78 exec: RT sub-thread can livelock and monopolize CPU on exec
de_thread() yields waiting for ->group_leader to be a zombie. This deadlocks
if an rt-prio execer shares the same cpu with ->group_leader. Change the code
to use ->group_exit_task/notify_count mechanics.

This patch certainly uglifies the code, perhaps someone can suggest something
better.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
c17ac85504 Make rcutorture RNG use temporal entropy
Repost of http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/10/472 made available by request.

The locking used by get_random_bytes() can conflict with the
preempt_disable() and synchronize_sched() form of RCU.  This patch changes
rcutorture's RNG to gather entropy from the new cpu_clock() interface
(relying on interrupts, preemption, daemons, and rcutorture's reader
thread's rock-bottom scheduling priority to provide useful entropy), and
also adds and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() to make that interface available to GPLed
kernel modules such as rcutorture.

Passes several hours of rcutorture.

[ego@in.ibm.com: Use raw_smp_processor_id() in rcu_random()]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
john stultz
b2d9323d13 Use num_possible_cpus() instead of NR_CPUS for timer distribution
To avoid lock contention, we distribute the sched_timer calls across the
cpus so they do not trigger at the same instant.  However, I used NR_CPUS,
which can cause needless grouping on small smp systems depending on your
kernel config.  This patch converts to using num_possible_cpus() so we
spread it as evenly as possible on every machine.

Briefly tested w/ NR_CPUS=255 and verified reduced contention.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
ba2a631b14 kernel/time/timekeeping.c: cleanups
- remove the no longer required __attribute__((weak)) of xtime_lock
- remove the following no longer used EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
  - xtime
  - xtime_lock

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
715015e8da wait_task_stopped/continued: remove unneeded p->signal != NULL check
The child was found on ->children list under tasklist_lock, it must have a
valid ->signal. __exit_signal() both removes the task from parent->children
and clears ->signal "atomically" under write_lock(tasklist).

Remove unneeded checks.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
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>
2007-10-17 08:42:52 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
18442cf28a __group_complete_signal: eliminate unneeded wakeup of ->group_exit_task
Cleanup.  __group_complete_signal() wakes up ->group_exit_task twice.  The
second wakeup's state includes TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, which is not very
appropriate.

Change the code to pass the "correct" argument to signal_wake_up() and kill
now unneeded wake_up_process().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
442a10cf9e wait_task_zombie: don't fight with non-existing race with a dying ptracee
The "p->exit_signal == -1 && p->ptrace == 0" check and the comment are
bogus.  We already did exactly the same check in eligible_child(), we did
not drop tasklist_lock since then, and both variables need
write_lock(tasklist) to be changed.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
ebca4cda11 zap_other_threads: don't optimize thread_group_empty() case
Nowadays thread_group_empty() and next_thread() are simple list operations,
this optimization doesn't make sense: we are doing exactly same check one
line below.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
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>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
3ae4cbadf4 exit_notify: don't take tasklist for TIF_SIGPENDING re-targeting
->siglock provides enough protection to iterate over the thread group.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
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>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
2f4e6e2a81 wait_task_zombie: fix 2/3 races vs forget_original_parent()
Two threads, T1 and T2.  T2 ptraces P, and P is not a child of ptracer's
thread group.  P exits and goes to TASK_ZOMBIE.

T1 does wait_task_zombie(P):

	P->exit_state = TASK_DEAD;
	...
	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);

					T2 does exit(), takes tasklist,
					forget_original_parent() does
					__ptrace_unlink(P) but doesn't
					call do_notify_parent(P) because
					p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD.

Now, P is not visible to our process: __ptrace_unlink() removed it from
->children. We should send notification to P->parent and release P if and
only if SIGCHLD is ignored.

And we have 3 bugs:

1. P->parent does do_wait() and gets -ECHILD (P is on ->parent->children,
   but its state is TASK_DEAD).

2. // wait_task_zombie() continues

	if (put_user(...)) {
		// TODO: is this safe?
		p->exit_state = EXIT_ZOMBIE;
		return;
	}

   we return without notification/release, task_struct leaked.

   Solution: ignore -EFAULT and proceed. It is an application's bug if
   we can't fill infop/stat_addr (in case of VM_FAULT_OOM we have much
   more problems).

3. // wait_task_zombie() continues

	if (p->real_parent != p->parent) {
		// Not taken, it was untraced'ed
		...
	}

	release_task(p);

   we released the task which we shouldn't.

   Solution: check ->real_parent != ->parent before, under tasklist_lock,
   but use ptrace_unlink() instead of __ptrace_unlink() to check ->ptrace.

This patch hopefully solves 2 and 3, the 1st bug will be fixed later, we need
some cleanups in forget_original_parent/reparent_thread.

However, the first race is very unlikely and not critical, so I hope it makes
sense to fix 1 and 2 for now.

4. Small cleanup: don't "restore" EXIT_ZOMBIE unless we know we are not going
   to realease the child.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
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>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
407af46a96 wait_task_zombie: remove unneeded child->signal check
A zombie must have a valid ->signal, we are going to release it and
__exit_signal() starts with BUG_ON(!sig).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
84eb646b6e handle the multi-threaded init's exit() properly
With or without this patch, multi-threaded init's are not fully supported,
but do_exit() is completely wrong.  This becomes a real problem when we
support pid namespaces.

1. do_exit() panics when the main thread of /sbin/init exits. It should not
   until the whole thread group exits. Move the code below, under the
   "if (group_dead)" check.

   Note: this means that forget_original_parent() can use an already dead
   child_reaper()'s task_struct. This is OK for /sbin/init because

   	- do_wait() from alive sub-thread still can reap a zombie, we iterate
   	  over all sub-thread's ->children lists

   	- do_notify_parent() will wakeup some alive sub-thread because it sends
   	  the group-wide signal

   However, we should remove choose_new_parent()->BUG_ON(reaper->exit_state)
   for this.

2. We are playing games with ->nsproxy->pid_ns. This code is bogus today, and
   it has to be changed anyway when we really support pid namespaces, just
   remove it.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
045f902de5 do_sigaction: remove now unneeded recalc_sigpending()
With the recent changes, do_sigaction()->recalc_sigpending_and_wake() can
never clear TIF_SIGPENDING. Instead, it can set this flag and wake up the
thread without any reason. Harmless, but unneeded and wastes CPU.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
d2ee7198cc pi-futex: set PF_EXITING without taking ->pi_lock
It is a bit annoying that do_exit() takes ->pi_lock to set PF_EXITING.  All
we need is to synchronize with lookup_pi_state() which saw this task
without PF_EXITING under ->pi_lock.

Change do_exit() to use spin_unlock_wait().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Mike Frysinger
0b15d04af3 printk: add interfaces for external access to the log buffer
Add two new functions for reading the kernel log buffer.  The intention is for
them to be used by recovery/dump/debug code so the kernel log can be easily
retrieved/parsed in a crash scenario, but they are generic enough for other
people to dream up other fun uses.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: buncha fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:50 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
a4d63e729e kernel/rtmutex-debug.c: cleanups
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make the needlessly global variable rt_trace_on static
- remove the unused global function deadlock_trace_off()

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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>
2007-10-17 08:42:50 -07:00
Roland McGrath
6d76013381 Add /sys/module/name/notes
This patch adds the /sys/module/<name>/notes/ magic directory, which has a
file for each allocated SHT_NOTE section that appears in <name>.ko.  This
is the counterpart for each module of /sys/kernel/notes for vmlinux.
Reading this delivers the contents of the module's SHT_NOTE sections.  This
lets userland easily glean any detailed information about that module's
build that was stored there at compile time (e.g.  by ld --build-id).

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:50 -07:00
David Woodhouse
1d99493b3a Fix CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ trigger on free_irq()
Andy Gospodarek pointed out that because we return in the middle of the
free_irq() function, we never actually do call the IRQ handler that just
got deregistered. This should fix it, although I expect Andrew will want
to convert those 'return's to 'break'. That's a separate change though.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Cc: Fernando Luis Vzquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:49 -07:00
Rusty Russell
af49d9248f Remove "unsafe" from module struct
Adrian Bunk points out that "unsafe" was used to mark modules touched by
the deprecated MOD_INC_USE_COUNT interface, which has long gone.  It's time
to remove the member from the module structure, as well.

If you want a module which can't unload, don't register an exit function.

(Vlad Yasevich says SCTP is now safe to unload, so just remove the
__unsafe there).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:49 -07:00
Avi Kivity
bf020cb7b3 time: simplify smp_call_function_single() call sequence
smp_call_function_single() now knows how to call the function on the
current cpu.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:48 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
a9022e9cb9 Clean up duplicate includes in kernel/
This patch cleans up duplicate includes in
	kernel/

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:48 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
040b5c6f95 SLAB_PANIC more (proc, posix-timers, shmem)
These aren't modular, so SLAB_PANIC is OK.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:47 -07:00
Ravikiran G Thirumalai
c4f3b63fe1 softlockup: add a /proc tuning parameter
Control the trigger limit for softlockup warnings.  This is useful for
debugging softlockups, by lowering the softlockup_thresh to identify
possible softlockups earlier.

This patch:
1. Adds a sysctl softlockup_thresh with valid values of 1-60s
   (Higher value to disable false positives)
2. Changes the softlockup printk to print the cpu softlockup time

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Fix various warnings and add definition of "two"]
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:47 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
a5f2ce3c60 softlockup watchdog: style cleanups
kernel/softirq.c grew a few style uncleanlinesses in the past few
months, clean that up. No functional changes:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   1126      76       4    1206     4b6 softlockup.o.before
   1129      76       4    1209     4b9 softlockup.o.after

( the 3 bytes .text increase is due to the "<1>" appended to one of
  the printk messages. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:47 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
43581a1007 softlockup: improve debug output
Improve the debuggability of kernel lockups by enhancing the debug
output of the softlockup detector: print the task that causes the lockup
and try to print a more intelligent backtrace.

The old format was:

  BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1!
   [<c0105e4a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x19/0x2e
   [<c0105f43>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
   [<c0105f59>] dump_stack+0x14/0x16
   [<c015f6bc>] softlockup_tick+0xbe/0xd0
   [<c013457d>] run_local_timers+0x12/0x14
   [<c01346b8>] update_process_times+0x3e/0x63
   [<c0145fb8>] tick_sched_timer+0x7c/0xc0
   [<c0140a75>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x135/0x1ba
   [<c011bde7>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6e/0x80
   [<c0105aa3>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x33/0x38
   [<c0104f8a>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
   =======================

The new format is:

  BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1! [prctl:2363]

  Pid: 2363, comm:                prctl
  EIP: 0060:[<c013915f>] CPU: 1
  EIP is at sys_prctl+0x24/0x18c
   EFLAGS: 00000213    Not tainted  (2.6.22-cfs-v20 #26)
  EAX: 00000001 EBX: 000003e7 ECX: 00000001 EDX: f6df0000
  ESI: 000003e7 EDI: 000003e7 EBP: f6df0fb0 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8
  CR0: 8005003b CR2: 4d8c3340 CR3: 3731d000 CR4: 000006d0
   [<c0105e4a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x19/0x2e
   [<c0105f43>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
   [<c01040be>] show_regs+0x1ab/0x1b3
   [<c015f807>] softlockup_tick+0xef/0x108
   [<c013457d>] run_local_timers+0x12/0x14
   [<c01346b8>] update_process_times+0x3e/0x63
   [<c0145fcc>] tick_sched_timer+0x7c/0xc0
   [<c0140a89>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x135/0x1ba
   [<c011bde7>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6e/0x80
   [<c0105aa3>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x33/0x38
   [<c0104f8a>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
   =======================

Note that in the old format we only knew that some system call locked
up, we didnt know _which_. With the new format we know that it's at a
specific place in sys_prctl(). [which was where i created an artificial
kernel lockup to test the new format.]

This is also useful if the lockup happens in user-space - the user-space
EIP (and other registers) will be printed too. (such a lockup would
either suggest that the task was running at SCHED_FIFO:99 and looping
for more than 10 seconds, or that the softlockup detector has a
false-positive.)

The task name is printed too first, just in case we dont manage to print
a useful backtrace.

[satyam@infradead.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:47 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
a115d5caca fix the softlockup watchdog to actually work
this Xen related commit:

   commit 966812dc98
   Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
   Date:   Tue May 8 00:28:02 2007 -0700

       Ignore stolen time in the softlockup watchdog

broke the softlockup watchdog to never report any lockups. (!)

print_timestamp defaults to 0, this makes the following condition
always true:

	if (print_timestamp < (touch_timestamp + 1) ||

and we'll in essence never report soft lockups.

apparently the functionality of the soft lockup watchdog was never
actually tested with that patch applied ...

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:47 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
a3b13c23f1 softlockup: use cpu_clock() instead of sched_clock()
sched_clock() is not a reliable time-source, use cpu_clock() instead.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:46 -07:00
David Rientjes
bbe373f2c6 oom: compare cpuset mems_allowed instead of exclusive ancestors
Instead of testing for overlap in the memory nodes of the the nearest
exclusive ancestor of both current and the candidate task, it is better to
simply test for intersection between the task's mems_allowed in their task
descriptors.  This does not require taking callback_mutex since it is only
used as a hint in the badness scoring.

Tasks that do not have an intersection in their mems_allowed with the current
task are not explicitly restricted from being OOM killed because it is quite
possible that the candidate task has allocated memory there before and has
since changed its mems_allowed.

Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:46 -07:00
David Rientjes
fe071d7e8a oom: add oom_kill_allocating_task sysctl
Adds a new sysctl, 'oom_kill_allocating_task', which will automatically kill
the OOM-triggering task instead of scanning through the tasklist to find a
memory-hogging target.  This is helpful for systems with an insanely large
number of tasks where scanning the tasklist significantly degrades
performance.

Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:46 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
4ba9b9d0ba Slab API: remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parameters
Slab constructors currently have a flags parameter that is never used.  And
the order of the arguments is opposite to other slab functions.  The object
pointer is placed before the kmem_cache pointer.

Convert

        ctor(void *object, struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned long flags)

to

        ctor(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)

throughout the kernel

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coupla fixes]
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>
2007-10-17 08:42:45 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
3e26c149c3 mm: dirty balancing for tasks
Based on ideas of Andrew:
  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=102912915020543&w=2

Scale the bdi dirty limit inversly with the tasks dirty rate.
This makes heavy writers have a lower dirty limit than the occasional writer.

Andrea proposed something similar:
  http://lwn.net/Articles/152277/

The main disadvantage to his patch is that he uses an unrelated quantity to
measure time, which leaves him with a workload dependant tunable. Other than
that the two approaches appear quite similar.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:45 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
04fbfdc14e mm: per device dirty threshold
Scale writeback cache per backing device, proportional to its writeout speed.

By decoupling the BDI dirty thresholds a number of problems we currently have
will go away, namely:

 - mutual interference starvation (for any number of BDIs);
 - deadlocks with stacked BDIs (loop, FUSE and local NFS mounts).

It might be that all dirty pages are for a single BDI while other BDIs are
idling. By giving each BDI a 'fair' share of the dirty limit, each one can have
dirty pages outstanding and make progress.

A global threshold also creates a deadlock for stacked BDIs; when A writes to
B, and A generates enough dirty pages to get throttled, B will never start
writeback until the dirty pages go away. Again, by giving each BDI its own
'independent' dirty limit, this problem is avoided.

So the problem is to determine how to distribute the total dirty limit across
the BDIs fairly and efficiently. A DBI that has a large dirty limit but does
not have any dirty pages outstanding is a waste.

What is done is to keep a floating proportion between the DBIs based on
writeback completions. This way faster/more active devices get a larger share
than slower/idle devices.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[hugh@veritas.com: Fix occasional hang when a task couldn't get out of balance_dirty_pages]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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>
2007-10-17 08:42:45 -07:00
Srivatsa Vaddagiri
b9dca1e0fc sched: fix new task startup crash
Child task may be added on a different cpu that the one on which parent
is running. In which case, task_new_fair() should check whether the new
born task's parent entity should be added as well on the cfs_rq.

Patch below fixes the problem in task_new_fair.

This could fix the put_prev_task_fair() crashes reported.

Reported-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-17 16:55:11 +02:00
Dhaval Giani
b1a8c172c3 sched: fix !SYSFS build breakage
When CONFIG_SYSFS is not set, CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED fails to build
with

kernel/built-in.o: In function `uids_kobject_init':
(.init.text+0x1488): undefined reference to `kernel_subsys'
kernel/built-in.o: In function `uids_kobject_init':
(.init.text+0x1490): undefined reference to `kernel_subsys'
kernel/built-in.o: In function `uids_kobject_init':
(.init.text+0x1480): undefined reference to `kernel_subsys'
kernel/built-in.o: In function `uids_kobject_init':
(.init.text+0x1494): undefined reference to `kernel_subsys'

This patch fixes this build error.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-17 16:55:11 +02:00
Ken Chen
908a7c1b9b sched: fix improper load balance across sched domain
We recently discovered a nasty performance bug in the kernel CPU load
balancer where we were hit by 50% performance regression.

When tasks are assigned to a subset of CPUs that span across
sched_domains (either ccNUMA node or the new multi-core domain) via
cpu affinity, kernel fails to perform proper load balance at
these domains, due to several logic in find_busiest_group() miss
identified busiest sched group within a given domain. This leads to
inadequate load balance and causes 50% performance hit.

To give you a concrete example, on a dual-core, 2 socket numa system,
there are 4 logical cpu, organized as:

CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
 domain 0: span 0003  groups: 0001 0002
 domain 1: span 000f  groups: 0003 000c
CPU1 attaching sched-domain:
 domain 0: span 0003  groups: 0002 0001
 domain 1: span 000f  groups: 0003 000c
CPU2 attaching sched-domain:
 domain 0: span 000c  groups: 0004 0008
 domain 1: span 000f  groups: 000c 0003
CPU3 attaching sched-domain:
 domain 0: span 000c  groups: 0008 0004
 domain 1: span 000f  groups: 000c 0003

If I run 2 tasks with CPU affinity set to 0x5.  There are situation
where cpu0 has run queue length of 2, and cpu2 will be idle.  The
kernel load balancer is unable to balance out these two tasks over
cpu0 and cpu2 due to at least three logics in find_busiest_group()
that heavily bias load balance towards power saving mode. e.g. while
determining "busiest" variable, kernel only set it when
"sum_nr_running > group_capacity".  This test is flawed that
"sum_nr_running" is not necessary same as
sum-tasks-allowed-to-run-within-the sched-group.  The end result is
that kernel "think" everything is balanced, but in reality we have an
imbalance and thus causing one CPU to be over-subscribed and leaving
other idle.  There are two other logic in the same function will also
causing similar effect.  The nastiness of this bug is that kernel not
be able to get unstuck in this unfortunate broken state.  From what
we've seen in our environment, kernel will stuck in imbalanced state
for extended period of time and it is also very easy for the kernel to
stuck into that state (it's pretty much 100% reproducible for us).

So proposing the following fix: add addition logic in
find_busiest_group to detect intrinsic imbalance within the busiest
group.  When such condition is detected, load balance goes into spread
mode instead of default grouping mode.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-17 16:55:11 +02:00
Milton Miller
cd79007634 sched: more robust sd-sysctl entry freeing
It occurred to me this morning that the procname field was dynamically
allocated and needed to be freed.  I started to put in break statements
when allocation failed but it was approaching 50% error handling code.

I came up with this alternative of looping while entry->mode is set and
checking proc_handler instead of ->table.  Alternatively, the string
version of the domain name and cpu number could be stored the structs.

I verified by compiling CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB and checking the allocation
counts after taking a cpuset exclusive and back.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-17 16:55:11 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f20bf61256 time: introduce xtime_seconds
improve performance of sys_time(). sys_time() returns time in seconds,
but it does so by calling do_gettimeofday() and then returning the
tv_sec portion of the GTOD time. But the data structure "xtime", which
is updated by every timer/scheduler tick, already offers HZ granularity
time.

the patch improves the sysbench oltp macrobenchmark by 4-5% on an AMD
dual-core system:

v2.6.23:

#threads

   1:     transactions:                        4073   (407.23 per sec.)
   2:     transactions:                        8530   (852.81 per sec.)
   3:     transactions:                        8321   (831.88 per sec.)
   4:     transactions:                        8407   (840.58 per sec.)
   5:     transactions:                        8070   (806.74 per sec.)

v2.6.23 + sys_time-speedup.patch:

   1:     transactions:                        4281   (428.09 per sec.)
   2:     transactions:                        8910   (890.85 per sec.)
   3:     transactions:                        8659   (865.79 per sec.)
   4:     transactions:                        8676   (867.34 per sec.)
   5:     transactions:                        8532   (852.91 per sec.)

and by 4-5% on an Intel dual-core system too:

2.6.23:

  1:     transactions:                        4560   (455.94 per sec.)
  2:     transactions:                        10094  (1009.30 per sec.)
  3:     transactions:                        9755   (975.36 per sec.)
  4:     transactions:                        9859   (985.78 per sec.)
  5:     transactions:                        9701   (969.72 per sec.)

2.6.23 + sys_time-speedup.patch:

  1:     transactions:                        4779   (477.84 per sec.)
  2:     transactions:                        10103  (1010.14 per sec.)
  3:     transactions:                        10141  (1013.93 per sec.)
  4:     transactions:                        10371  (1036.89 per sec.)
  5:     transactions:                        10178  (1017.50 per sec.)

(the more CPUs the system has, the more speedup this patch gives for
this particular workload.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 10:01:50 -07:00
Masami Hiramatsu
f438d914b2 kprobes: support kretprobe blacklist
Introduce architecture dependent kretprobe blacklists to prohibit users
from inserting return probes on the function in which kprobes can be
inserted but kretprobes can not.

This patch also removes "__kprobes" mark from "__switch_to" on x86_64 and
registers "__switch_to" to the blacklist on x86-64, because that mark is to
prohibit user from inserting only kretprobe.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:43:10 -07:00
Paul Jackson
607717a65d cpuset: remove sched domain hooks from cpusets
Remove the cpuset hooks that defined sched domains depending on the setting
of the 'cpu_exclusive' flag.

The cpu_exclusive flag can only be set on a child if it is set on the
parent.

This made that flag painfully unsuitable for use as a flag defining a
partitioning of a system.

It was entirely unobvious to a cpuset user what partitioning of sched
domains they would be causing when they set that one cpu_exclusive bit on
one cpuset, because it depended on what CPUs were in the remainder of that
cpusets siblings and child cpusets, after subtracting out other
cpu_exclusive cpusets.

Furthermore, there was no way on production systems to query the
result.

Using the cpu_exclusive flag for this was simply wrong from the get go.

Fortunately, it was sufficiently borked that so far as I know, almost no
successful use has been made of this.  One real time group did use it to
affectively isolate CPUs from any load balancing efforts.  They are willing
to adapt to alternative mechanisms for this, such as someway to manipulate
the list of isolated CPUs on a running system.  They can do without this
present cpu_exclusive based mechanism while we develop an alternative.

There is a real risk, to the best of my understanding, of users
accidentally setting up a partitioned scheduler domains, inhibiting desired
load balancing across all their CPUs, due to the nonobvious (from the
cpuset perspective) side affects of the cpu_exclusive flag.

Furthermore, since there was no way on a running system to see what one was
doing with sched domains, this change will be invisible to any using code.
Unless they have real insight to the scheduler load balancing choices, they
will be unable to detect that this change has been made in the kernel's
behaviour.

Initial discussion on lkml of this patch has generated much comment.  My
(probably controversial) take on that discussion is that it has reached a
rough concensus that the current cpuset cpu_exclusive mechanism for
defining sched domains is borked.  There is no concensus on the
replacement.  But since we can remove this mechanism, and since its
continued presence risks causing unwanted partitioning of the schedulers
load balancing, we should remove it while we can, as we proceed to work the
replacement scheduler domain mechanisms.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:43:09 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
0ac1555915 m32r: convert to generic sys_ptrace
Convert m32r to the generic sys_ptrace.  The conversion requires an
architecture hook after ptrace_attach which this patch adds.  The hook
will also be needed for a conersion of ia64 to the generic ptrace code.

Thanks to Hirokazu Takata for fixing a bug in the first version of this
code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:43:04 -07:00
Adam Litke
54f9f80d65 hugetlb: Add hugetlb_dynamic_pool sysctl
The maximum size of the huge page pool can be controlled using the overall
size of the hugetlb filesystem (via its 'size' mount option).  However in the
common case the this will not be set as the pool is traditionally fixed in
size at boot time.  In order to maintain the expected semantics, we need to
prevent the pool expanding by default.

This patch introduces a new sysctl controlling dynamic pool resizing.  When
this is enabled the pool will expand beyond its base size up to the size of
the hugetlb filesystem.  It is disabled by default.

Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Acked-by: Dave McCracken <dave.mccracken@oracle.com>
Cc: William Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:43:02 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
75884fb1c6 memory unplug: memory hotplug cleanup
A clean up patch for "scanning memory resource [start, end)" operation.

Now, find_next_system_ram() function is used in memory hotplug, but this
interface is not easy to use and codes are complicated.

This patch adds walk_memory_resouce(start,len,arg,func) function.
The function 'func' is called per valid memory resouce range in [start,pfn).

[pbadari@us.ibm.com: Error handling in walk_memory_resource()]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:43:01 -07:00
Mel Gorman
e12ba74d8f Group short-lived and reclaimable kernel allocations
This patch marks a number of allocations that are either short-lived such as
network buffers or are reclaimable such as inode allocations.  When something
like updatedb is called, long-lived and unmovable kernel allocations tend to
be spread throughout the address space which increases fragmentation.

This patch groups these allocations together as much as possible by adding a
new MIGRATE_TYPE.  The MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE type is for allocations that can be
reclaimed on demand, but not moved.  i.e.  they can be migrated by deleting
them and re-reading the information from elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:43:00 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
0e1e7c7a73 Memoryless nodes: Use N_HIGH_MEMORY for cpusets
cpusets try to ensure that any node added to a cpuset's mems_allowed is
on-line and contains memory.  The assumption was that online nodes contained
memory.  Thus, it is possible to add memoryless nodes to a cpuset and then add
tasks to this cpuset.  This results in continuous series of oom-kill and
apparent system hang.

Change cpusets to use node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY] [a.k.a.  node_memory_map] in
place of node_online_map when vetting memories.  Return error if admin
attempts to write a non-empty mems_allowed node mask containing only
memoryless-nodes.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>
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>
2007-10-16 09:42:59 -07:00