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Linus Torvalds
1e8c573933 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (21 commits)
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/video/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/parisc/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/block/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in sound/sparc/cs4231.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/s390/block/dasd.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in lib/swiotlb.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in kernel/cpu.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in ipc/msg.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in block/elevator.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/coda/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in input/serio/hil_mlc.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in md/dm-hw-handler.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in md/bitmap.c
  The comment describing how MS_ASYNC works in msync.c is confusing
  rcu: undeclared variable used in documentation
  fix typos "wich" -> "which"
  typo patch for fs/ufs/super.c
  Fix simple typos
  tabify drivers/char/Makefile
  ...
2006-03-25 08:41:09 -08:00
Roman Zippel
5ddcfa878d [PATCH] remove pps support
This removes the support for pps.  It's completely unused within the kernel
and is basically in the way for further cleanups.  It should be easier to
readd proper support for it after the rest has been converted to NTP4
(where the pps mechanisms are quite different from NTP3 anyway).

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:23:02 -08:00
Dimitri Sivanich
f516342745 [PATCH] Add SA_PERCPU_IRQ flag support
Add support for SA_PERCPU_IRQ (only mmtimer.c uses this at this stage).

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:23:01 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
d74beb9f33 [PATCH] Use unsigned int types for a faster bsearch
This patch avoids arithmetic on 'signed' types that are slower than
'unsigned'.  This saves space and cpu cycles.

size of kernel/sys.o before the patch (gcc-3.4.5)

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   10924     252       4   11180    2bac kernel/sys.o

size of kernel/sys.o after the patch
    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   10903     252       4   11159    2b97 kernel/sys.o

I noticed that gcc-4.1.0 (from Fedora Core 5) even uses idiv instruction for
(a+b)/2 if a and b are signed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:23:01 -08:00
Ashok Raj
34f361ade2 [PATCH] Check if cpu can be onlined before calling smp_prepare_cpu()
- Moved check for online cpu out of smp_prepare_cpu()

- Moved default declaration of smp_prepare_cpu() to kernel/cpu.c

- Removed lock_cpu_hotplug() from smp_prepare_cpu() to around it, since
  its called from cpu_up() as well now.

- Removed clearing from cpu_present_map during cpu_offline as it breaks
  using cpu_up() directly during a subsequent online operation.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:23:01 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
231bed2058 [PATCH] No need to protect current->group_info in sys_getgroups(), in_group_p() and in_egroup_p()
While doing some benchmarks of an Apache/PHP SMP server, I noticed high
oprofile numbers in in_group_p() and _atomic_dec_and_lock().

rank  percent
  1     4.8911 % __link_path_walk
  2     4.8503 % __d_lookup
*3     4.2911 % _atomic_dec_and_lock
  4     3.9307 % __copy_to_user_ll
  5     4.9004 % sysenter_past_esp
*6     3.3248 % in_group_p

It appears that in_group_p() does an uncessary

get_group_info(current->group_info); /* atomic_inc() */
  ... /* access current->group_info */
put_group_info(current->group_info); /* _atomic_dec_and_lock */

It is not necessary to do this, because the current task holds a reference
on its own group_info, and this reference cannot change during the lookup.

This patch deletes the get_group_info()/put_group_info() pair from
sys_getgroups(), in_group_p() and in_egroup_p() functions.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:58 -08:00
Andrew Morton
05eeae208d [PATCH] find_task_by_pid() needs tasklist_lock
A couple of places are forgetting to take it.

The kswapd case is probably unimportant.  keventd_create_kthread() was racy.

The whole thing is a bit flakey: you start a kernel thread, get its pid from
kernel_thread() then look up its task_struct.

a) It assumes that pid recycling takes a "long" time.

b) We get a task_struct but no reference was taken on it.  The owner of the
   kswapd and kthread task_struct*'s must assume that the new thread won't
   exit unexpectedly.  Because if it does, they're left holding dead memory
   and any attempt to control or stop that task will crash.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:57 -08:00
Chris Wright
12b5989be1 [PATCH] refactor capable() to one implementation, add __capable() helper
Move capable() to kernel/capability.c and eliminate duplicate
implementations.  Add __capable() function which can be used to check for
capabiilty of any process.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:56 -08:00
Bryan Holty
501f2499b8 [PATCH] IRQ: prevent enabling of previously disabled interrupt
This fix prevents re-disabling and enabling of a previously disabled
interrupt.  On an SMP system with irq balancing enabled; If an interrupt is
disabled from within its own interrupt context with disable_irq_nosync and is
also earmarked for processor migration, the interrupt is blindly moved to the
other processor and enabled without regard for its current "enabled" state.
If there is an interrupt pending, it will unexpectedly invoke the irq handler
on the new irq owning processor (even though the irq was previously disabled)

The more intuitive fix would be to invoke disable_irq_nosync and
enable_irq, but since we already have the desc->lock from __do_IRQ, we
cannot call them directly.  Instead we can use the same logic to disable
and enable found in disable_irq_nosync and enable_irq, with regards to the
desc->depth.

This now prevents a disabled interrupt from being re-disabled, and more
importantly prevents a disabled interrupt from being incorrectly enabled on
a different processor.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Holty <lgeek@frontiernet.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:55 -08:00
Andrew Morton
c777ac5594 [PATCH] irq: uninline migration functions
Uninline some massive IRQ migration functions.  Put them in the new
kernel/irq/migration.c.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:55 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
9871728b75 [PATCH] kernel/params.c: make param_array() static
param_array() in kernel/params.c can now become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:52 -08:00
Rusty Russell
8d3b33f67f [PATCH] Remove MODULE_PARM
MODULE_PARM was actually breaking: recent gcc version optimize them out as
unused.  It's time to replace the last users, which are generally in the
most unloved drivers anyway.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:52 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
7d99b7d634 [PATCH] Validate and sanitze itimer timeval from userspace
According to the specification the timevals must be validated and an
errorcode -EINVAL returned in case the timevals are not in canonical form.
This check was never done in Linux.

The pre 2.6.16 code converted invalid timevals silently.  Negative timeouts
were converted by the timeval_to_jiffies conversion to the maximum timeout.

hrtimers and the ktime_t operations expect timevals in canonical form.
Otherwise random results might happen on 32 bits machines due to the
optimized ktime_add/sub operations.  Negative timeouts are treated as
already expired.  This might break applications which work on pre 2.6.16.

To prevent random behaviour and API breakage the timevals are checked and
invalid timevals sanitized in a simliar way as the pre 2.6.16 code did.

Invalid timevals are reported with a per boot limited number of kernel
messages so applications which use this misfeature can be corrected.

After a grace period of one year the sanitizing should be replaced by a
correct validation check.  This is also documented in
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

The validation and sanitizing is done inside do_setitimer so all callers
(sys_setitimer, compat_sys_setitimer, osf_setitimer) are catched.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:49 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
c08b8a4910 [PATCH] sys_alarm() unsigned signed conversion fixup
alarm() calls the kernel with an unsigend int timeout in seconds.  The
value is stored in the tv_sec field of a struct timeval to setup the
itimer.  The tv_sec field of struct timeval is of type long, which causes
the tv_sec value to be negative on 32 bit machines if seconds > INT_MAX.

Before the hrtimer merge (pre 2.6.16) such a negative value was converted
to the maximum jiffies timeout by the timeval_to_jiffies conversion.  It's
not clear whether this was intended or just happened to be done by the
timeval_to_jiffies code.

hrtimers expect a timeval in canonical form and treat a negative timeout as
already expired.  This breaks the legitimate usage of alarm() with a
timeout value > INT_MAX seconds.

For 32 bit machines it is therefor necessary to limit the internal seconds
value to avoid API breakage.  Instead of doing this in all implementations
of sys_alarm the duplicated sys_alarm code is moved into a common function
in itimer.c

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:48 -08:00
Andrew Morton
185ae6d7a3 [PATCH] timer irq driven soft watchdog fix
I seem to have lost this hunk in yesterday's patch.  It brings the
coming-online CPU's softlockup timer up to date so we don't get false-positive
tripups during CPU hot-add.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:48 -08:00
Eric Sesterhenn
6978c7052f BUG_ON() Conversion in kernel/cpu.c
this changes if() BUG(); constructs to BUG_ON() which is
cleaner, contains unlikely() and can better optimized away.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-24 18:45:21 +01:00
Andrew Morton
f125b56113 [PATCH] fix build error if CONFIG_SYSFS=n
uevent_seqnum and uevent_helper are only defined if CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y,
CONFIG_NET=n.

(I stole this back from Greg's tree - it makes allnoconfig work).

Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:31 -08:00
Davi Arnaut
24277dda3a [PATCH] strndup_user: convert module
Change hand-coded userspace string copying to strndup_user.

Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:31 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
6687a97d40 [PATCH] timer-irq-driven soft-watchdog, cleanups
Make the softlockup detector purely timer-interrupt driven, removing
softirq-context (timer) dependencies.  This means that if the softlockup
watchdog triggers, it has truly observed a longer than 10 seconds
scheduling delay of a SCHED_FIFO prio 99 task.

(the patch also turns off the softlockup detector during the initial bootup
phase and does small style fixes)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:30 -08:00
Sergey Vlasov
6a4d11c2ab [PATCH] Fix module refcount leak in __set_personality()
If the change of personality does not lead to change of exec domain,
__set_personality() returned without releasing the module reference
acquired by lookup_exec_domain().

Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:30 -08:00
Andrew Morton
d3561f78fd [PATCH] RLIMIT_CPU: document wrong return value
Document the fact that setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU) doesn't return error codes when
it should.  I don't think we can fix this without a 2.7.x..

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:30 -08:00
Andrew Morton
e0661111e5 [PATCH] RLIMIT_CPU: fix handling of a zero limit
At present the kernel doesn't honour an attempt to set RLIMIT_CPU to zero
seconds.  But the spec says it should, and that's what 2.4.x does.

Fixing this for real would involve some complexity (such as adding a new
it-has-been-set flag to the task_struct, and testing that everwhere, instead
of overloading the value of it_prof_expires).

Given that a 2.4 kernel won't actually send the signal until one second has
expired anyway, let's just handle this case by treating the caller's
zero-seconds as one second.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:30 -08:00
Andrew Morton
ec9e16bacd [PATCH] sys_setrlimit() cleanup
- Whitespace cleanups

- Make that expression comprehensible.

There's a potential logic change here: we do the "is it_prof_expires equal to
zero" test after converting it to seconds, rather than doing the comparison
between raw cputime_t's.

But given that it's in units of seconds anyway, that shouldn't change
anything.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:30 -08:00
John Z. Bohach
2ea1c5392c [PATCH] console_setup() depends (wrongly?) on CONFIG_PRINTK
It appears that console_setup() code only gets compiled into the kernel if
CONFIG_PRINTK is enabled.  One detrimental side-effect of this is that
serial8250_console_setup() never gets invoked when CONFIG_PRINTK is not
set, resulting in baud rate not being read/parsed from command line (i.e.
console=ttyS0,115200n8 is ignored, at least the baud rate part...)

Attached patch moves console_setup() code from inside

#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK

to outside (in printk.c), removing dependence on said config. option.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:27 -08:00
Paul Jackson
29afd49b72 [PATCH] cpuset: remove useless local variable initialization
Remove a useless variable initialization in cpuset __cpuset_zone_allowed().
 The local variable 'allowed' is unconditionally set before use, later on
in the code, so does not need to be initialized.

Not that it seems to matter to the code generated any, as the compiler
optimizes out the superfluous assignment anyway.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:24 -08:00
Paul Jackson
151a44202d [PATCH] cpuset: don't need to mark cpuset_mems_generation atomic
Drop the atomic_t marking on the cpuset static global
cpuset_mems_generation.  Since all access to it is guarded by the global
manage_mutex, there is no need for further serialization of this value.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:24 -08:00
Paul Jackson
8488bc359d [PATCH] cpuset: remove unnecessary NULL check
Remove a no longer needed test for NULL cpuset pointer, with a little
comment explaining why the test isn't needed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:23 -08:00
Paul Jackson
c61afb181c [PATCH] cpuset memory spread slab cache optimizations
The hooks in the slab cache allocator code path for support of NUMA
mempolicies and cpuset memory spreading are in an important code path.  Many
systems will use neither feature.

This patch optimizes those hooks down to a single check of some bits in the
current tasks task_struct flags.  For non NUMA systems, this hook and related
code is already ifdef'd out.

The optimization is done by using another task flag, set if the task is using
a non-default NUMA mempolicy.  Taking this flag bit along with the
PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB flag bits added earlier in this 'cpuset
memory spreading' patch set, one can check for the combination of any of these
special case memory placement mechanisms with a single test of the current
tasks task_struct flags.

This patch also tightens up the code, to save a few bytes of kernel text
space, and moves some of it out of line.  Due to the nested inlines called
from multiple places, we were ending up with three copies of this code, which
once we get off the main code path (for local node allocation) seems a bit
wasteful of instruction memory.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:23 -08:00
Paul Jackson
825a46af5a [PATCH] cpuset memory spread basic implementation
This patch provides the implementation and cpuset interface for an alternative
memory allocation policy that can be applied to certain kinds of memory
allocations, such as the page cache (file system buffers) and some slab caches
(such as inode caches).

The policy is called "memory spreading." If enabled, it spreads out these
kinds of memory allocations over all the nodes allowed to a task, instead of
preferring to place them on the node where the task is executing.

All other kinds of allocations, including anonymous pages for a tasks stack
and data regions, are not affected by this policy choice, and continue to be
allocated preferring the node local to execution, as modified by the NUMA
mempolicy.

There are two boolean flag files per cpuset that control where the kernel
allocates pages for the file system buffers and related in kernel data
structures.  They are called 'memory_spread_page' and 'memory_spread_slab'.

If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'memory_spread_page' is set, then the
kernel will spread the file system buffers (page cache) evenly over all the
nodes that the faulting task is allowed to use, instead of preferring to put
those pages on the node where the task is running.

If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'memory_spread_slab' is set, then the
kernel will spread some file system related slab caches, such as for inodes
and dentries evenly over all the nodes that the faulting task is allowed to
use, instead of preferring to put those pages on the node where the task is
running.

The implementation is simple.  Setting the cpuset flags 'memory_spread_page'
or 'memory_spread_cache' turns on the per-process flags PF_SPREAD_PAGE or
PF_SPREAD_SLAB, respectively, for each task that is in the cpuset or
subsequently joins that cpuset.  In subsequent patches, the page allocation
calls for the affected page cache and slab caches are modified to perform an
inline check for these flags, and if set, a call to a new routine
cpuset_mem_spread_node() returns the node to prefer for the allocation.

The cpuset_mem_spread_node() routine is also simple.  It uses the value of a
per-task rotor cpuset_mem_spread_rotor to select the next node in the current
tasks mems_allowed to prefer for the allocation.

This policy can provide substantial improvements for jobs that need to place
thread local data on the corresponding node, but that need to access large
file system data sets that need to be spread across the several nodes in the
jobs cpuset in order to fit.  Without this patch, especially for jobs that
might have one thread reading in the data set, the memory allocation across
the nodes in the jobs cpuset can become very uneven.

A couple of Copyright year ranges are updated as well.  And a couple of email
addresses that can be found in the MAINTAINERS file are removed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:22 -08:00
Paul Jackson
8a39cc60bf [PATCH] cpuset use combined atomic_inc_return calls
Replace pairs of calls to <atomic_inc, atomic_read>, with a single call
atomic_inc_return, saving a few bytes of source and kernel text.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:22 -08:00
Paul Jackson
7b5b9ef0e1 [PATCH] cpuset cleanup not not operators
Since the test_bit() bit operator is boolean (return 0 or 1), the double not
"!!" operations needed to convert a scalar (zero or not zero) to a boolean are
not needed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:22 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
95c3832272 [PATCH] rcutorture: tag success/failure line with module parameters
A long-running rcutorture test can overflow dmesg, so that the line
containing the module parameters is lost.  Although it is usually possible
to retrieve this information from the log files, it is much better to just
tag it onto the final success/failure line so that it may be easily found.
This patch does just that.

Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:22 -08:00
Jan Beulich
a4a6198b80 [PATCH] tvec_bases too large for per-cpu data
With internal Xen-enabled kernels we see the kernel's static per-cpu data
area exceed the limit of 32k on x86-64, and even native x86-64 kernels get
fairly close to that limit.  I generally question whether it is reasonable
to have data structures several kb in size allocated as per-cpu data when
the space there is rather limited.

The biggest arch-independent consumer is tvec_bases (over 4k on 32-bit
archs, over 8k on 64-bit ones), which now gets converted to use dynamically
allocated memory instead.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:21 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
caa9ee771d [PATCH] rcu_process_callbacks: don't cli() while testing ->nxtlist
__rcu_process_callbacks() disables interrupts to protect itself from
call_rcu() which adds new entries to ->nxtlist.

However we can check "->nxtlist != NULL" with interrupts enabled, we can't
get "false positives" because call_rcu() can only change this condition
from 0 to 1.

Tested with rcutorture.ko.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:20 -08:00
Bart Samwel
cba9f33d13 [PATCH] Range checking in do_proc_dointvec_(userhz_)jiffies_conv
When (integer) sysctl values are in either seconds or centiseconds, but
represented internally as jiffies, the allowable value range is decreased.
This patch adds range checks to the conversion routines.

For values in seconds: maximum LONG_MAX / HZ.

For values in centiseconds: maximum (LONG_MAX / HZ) * USER_HZ.

(BTW, does anyone else feel that an interface in seconds should not be
accepting negative values?)

Signed-off-by: Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:20 -08:00
Bart Samwel
ed5b43f15a [PATCH] Represent laptop_mode as jiffies internally
Make that the internal value for /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode is stored as
jiffies instead of seconds.  Let the sysctl interface do the conversions,
instead of doing on-the-fly conversions every time the value is used.

Add a description of the fact that laptop_mode doubles as a flag and a
timeout to the comment above the laptop_mode variable.

Signed-off-by: Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:20 -08:00
Bart Samwel
f6ef943813 [PATCH] Represent dirty_*_centisecs as jiffies internally
Make that the internal values for:

/proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
/proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs

are stored as jiffies instead of centiseconds.  Let the sysctl interface do
the conversions with full precision using clock_t_to_jiffies, instead of
doing overflow-sensitive on-the-fly conversions every time the values are
used.

Cons: apparent precision loss if HZ is not a multiple of 100, because of
conversion back and forth.  This is a common problem for all sysctl values
that use proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies.  (There is only one other in-tree
use, in net/core/neighbour.c.)

Signed-off-by: Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:20 -08:00
Andrew Morton
36f574135e [PATCH] free_uid() locking improvement
Reduce lock hold times in free_uid().

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:20 -08:00
Jens Axboe
2056a782f8 [PATCH] Block queue IO tracing support (blktrace) as of 2006-03-23
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-03-23 20:00:26 +01:00
Tom Zanussi
6dac40a7ce [PATCH] relay: consolidate sendfile() and read() code
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-03-23 19:58:45 +01:00
Jens Axboe
221415d762 [PATCH] relay: add sendfile() support
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-03-23 19:57:55 +01:00
Jens Axboe
b86ff981a8 [PATCH] relay: migrate from relayfs to a generic relay API
Original patch from Paul Mundt, sysfs parts removed by me since they
were broken.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-03-23 19:56:55 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
2178426d26 [PATCH] kernel/rcupdate.c: make two structs static
This patch makes two needlessly global structs static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:17 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
ee25e96fcd [PATCH] BUILD_LOCK_OPS: cleanup preempt_disable() usage
This patch changes the code from:

	preempt_disable();
	for (;;) {
		...
		preempt_disable();
	}
to:
	for (;;) {
		preempt_disable();
		...
	}

which seems more clean to me and saves a couple of bytes for
each function.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:16 -08:00
Andrew Morton
dd287796d6 [PATCH] pause_on_oops command line option
Attempt to fix the problem wherein people's oops reports scroll off the screen
due to repeated oopsing or to oopses on other CPUs.

If this happens the user can reboot with the `pause_on_oops=<seconds>' option.
It will allow the first oopsing CPU to print an oops record just a single
time.  Second oopsing attempts, or oopses on other CPUs will cause those CPUs
to enter a tight loop until the specified number of seconds have elapsed.

The patch implements the infrastructure generically in the expectation that
architectures other than x86 will find it useful.

Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:16 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
91368d73e4 [PATCH] make bug messages more consistent
Consolidate all kernel bug printouts to begin with the "BUG: " string.
Makes it easier to find them in large bootup logs.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:16 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
a26fd335b4 [PATCH] sigprocmask: kill unneeded temp var
Cleanup, remove unneeded double copying of current->blocked.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:15 -08:00
Ashutosh Naik
6389a38511 [PATCH] kernel/module.c Semaphore to Mutex Conversion for module_mutex
This patch converts the module_mutex semaphore to a mutex.

Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Naik <ashutosh.naik@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:14 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
7a7d1cf954 [PATCH] sem2mutex: kprobes
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:12 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
70522e121a [PATCH] sem2mutex: tty
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:11 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
97d1f15b7e [PATCH] sem2mutex: kernel/
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:10 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
9331b3157c [PATCH] convert kernel/rcupdate.c:rcu_barrier_sema to mutex
Convert kernel/rcupdate's rcu_barrier_sema to mutex.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:10 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
3d3f26a7ba [PATCH] kernel/cpuset.c, mutex conversion
convert cpuset.c's callback_sem and manage_sem to mutexes.
Build and boot tested by Ingo.
Build, boot, unit and stress tested by pj.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:10 -08:00
Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2dd0ebcd2a [PATCH] Avoid taking global tasklist_lock for single threadedprocess at getrusage()
Avoid taking the global tasklist_lock when possible, if a process is single
threaded during getrusage().  Any avoidance of tasklist_lock is good for
NUMA boxes (and possibly for large SMPs).  Thanks to Oleg Nesterov for
review and suggestions.

Signed-off-by: Nippun Goel <nippung@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:09 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
0c9e63fd38 [PATCH] Shrinks sizeof(files_struct) and better layout
1) Reduce the size of (struct fdtable) to exactly 64 bytes on 32bits
   platforms, lowering kmalloc() allocated space by 50%.

2) Reduce the size of (files_struct), using a special 32 bits (or
   64bits) embedded_fd_set, instead of a 1024 bits fd_set for the
   close_on_exec_init and open_fds_init fields.  This save some ram (248
   bytes per task) as most tasks dont open more than 32 files.  D-Cache
   footprint for such tasks is also reduced to the minimum.

3) Reduce size of allocated fdset.  Currently two full pages are
   allocated, that is 32768 bits on x86 for example, and way too much.  The
   minimum is now L1_CACHE_BYTES.

UP and SMP should benefit from this patch, because most tasks will touch
only one cache line when open()/close() stdin/stdout/stderr (0/1/2),
(next_fd, close_on_exec_init, open_fds_init, fd_array[0 ..  2] being in the
same cache line)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:09 -08:00
Luca Tettamanti
9b238205ba [PATCH] swsusp: add s2ram ioctl to userland interface
Add the SNAPSHOT_S2RAM ioctl to the snapshot device.

This ioctl allows a userland application to make the system (previously frozen
with the SNAPSHOT_FREE ioctl) enter the S3 state without freezing processes
and disabling nonboot CPUs for the second time.

This will allow us to implement the suspend-to-disk-and-RAM (STDR)
functionality in the userland suspend tools.

Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:08 -08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
94c188d329 [PATCH] swsusp: let userland tools switch console on suspend
Remove the console-switching code from the suspend part of the swsusp userland
interface and let the userland tools switch the console.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:08 -08:00
Shaohua Li
e4e4d66556 [PATCH] swsusp: drain high mem pages
Highmem could be in pcp list as well.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:08 -08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
fc558a7496 [PATCH] swsusp: finally solve mysqld problem
This patch from Pavel moves userland freeze signals handling into more logical
place.  It now hits even with mysqld running.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:08 -08:00
Pavel Machek
ce6ed29f31 [PATCH] suspend: make progress printing prettier
Combination of printk/pr_debug led to <7> in the middle of the line, and we
printed way too many dots.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:08 -08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
02aaeb9b95 [PATCH] swsusp: freeze user space processes first
Allow swsusp to freeze processes successfully under heavy load by freezing
userspace processes before kernel threads.

[Thanks to Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> for suggesting the
way to go.]

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:08 -08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
6e1819d615 [PATCH] swsusp: userland interface
This patch introduces a user space interface for swsusp.

The interface is based on a special character device, called the snapshot
device, that allows user space processes to perform suspend and resume-related
operations with the help of some ioctls and the read()/write() functions.
 Additionally it allows these processes to allocate free swap pages from a
selected swap partition, called the resume partition, so that they know which
sectors of the resume partition are available to them.

The interface uses the same low-level system memory snapshot-handling
functions that are used by the built-it swap-writing/reading code of swsusp.

The interface documentation is included in the patch.

The patch assumes that the major and minor numbers of the snapshot device will
be 10 (ie.  misc device) and 231, the registration of which has already been
requested.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:07 -08:00
Pavel Machek
543cc27d09 [PATCH] swsusp: documentation updates
Update suspend-to-RAM documentation with new machines, and makes message
when processes can't be stopped little clearer.  (In one case, waiting
longer actually did help).

From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>

  Warn in the documentation that data may be lost if there are some
  filesystems mounted from USB devices before suspend.

  [Thanks to Alan Stern for providing the answer to the question in the
  Q:-A: part.]

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:07 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
74c7e2efbe [PATCH] kernel/power: move externs to header files
Move externs from C source files to header files.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:07 -08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
61159a314b [PATCH] swsusp: separate swap-writing/reading code
Move the swap-writing/reading code of swsusp to a separate file.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:07 -08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
f577eb30af [PATCH] swsusp: low level interface
Introduce the low level interface that can be used for handling the
snapshot of the system memory by the in-kernel swap-writing/reading code of
swsusp and the userland interface code (to be introduced shortly).

Also change the way in which swsusp records the allocated swap pages and,
consequently, simplifies the in-kernel swap-writing/reading code (this is
necessary for the userland interface too).  To this end, it introduces two
helper functions in mm/swapfile.c, so that the swsusp code does not refer
directly to the swap internals.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:07 -08:00
Andrew Morton
2b322ce210 [PATCH] revert "swsusp: fix breakage with swap on lvm"
This was a temporary thing for 2.6.16.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:07 -08:00
Anton Blanchard
e9028b0ff2 [PATCH] fix scheduler deadlock
We have noticed lockups during boot when stress testing kexec on ppc64.
Two cpus would deadlock in scheduler code trying to grab already taken
spinlocks.

The double_rq_lock code uses the address of the runqueue to order the
taking of multiple locks.  This address is a per cpu variable:

	if (rq1 < rq2) {
		spin_lock(&rq1->lock);
		spin_lock(&rq2->lock);
	} else {
		spin_lock(&rq2->lock);
		spin_lock(&rq1->lock);
	}

On the other hand, the code in wake_sleeping_dependent uses the cpu id
order to grab locks:

	for_each_cpu_mask(i, sibling_map)
		spin_lock(&cpu_rq(i)->lock);

This means we rely on the address of per cpu data increasing as cpu ids
increase.  While this will be true for the generic percpu implementation it
may not be true for arch specific implementations.

One way to solve this is to always take runqueues in cpu id order. To do
this we add a cpu variable to the runqueue and check it in the
double runqueue locking functions.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:02 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
2e6e33bab6 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (78 commits)
  [PATCH] powerpc: Add FSL SEC node to documentation
  [PATCH] macintosh: tidy-up driver_register() return values
  [PATCH] powerpc: tidy-up of_register_driver()/driver_register() return values
  [PATCH] powerpc: via-pmu warning fix
  [PATCH] macintosh: cleanup the use of i2c headers
  [PATCH] powerpc: dont allow old RTC to be selected
  [PATCH] powerpc: make powerbook_sleep_grackle static
  [PATCH] powerpc: Fix warning in add_memory
  [PATCH] powerpc: update mailing list addresses
  [PATCH] powerpc: Remove calculation of io hole
  [PATCH] powerpc: iseries: Add bootargs to /chosen
  [PATCH] powerpc: iseries: Add /system-id, /model and /compatible
  [PATCH] powerpc: Add strne2a() to convert a string from EBCDIC to ASCII
  [PATCH] powerpc: iseries: Make more stuff static in platforms/iseries/mf.c
  [PATCH] powerpc: iseries: Remove pointless iSeries_(restart|power_off|halt)
  [PATCH] powerpc: iseries: mf related cleanups
  [PATCH] powerpc: Replace platform_is_lpar() with a firmware feature
  [PATCH] powerpc: trivial: Cleanup whitespace in cputable.h
  [PATCH] powerpc: Remove unused iommu_off logic from pSeries_init_early()
  [PATCH] powerpc: Unconfuse htab_bolt_mapping() callers
  ...
2006-03-22 22:20:46 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
2152f85366 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (138 commits)
  [SCSI] libata: implement minimal transport template for ->eh_timed_out
  [SCSI] eliminate rphy allocation in favour of expander/end device allocation
  [SCSI] convert mptsas over to end_device/expander allocations
  [SCSI] allow displaying and setting of cache type via sysfs
  [SCSI] add scsi_mode_select to scsi_lib.c
  [SCSI] 3ware 9000 add big endian support
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: update MAINTAINERS
  [SCSI] scsi: move target_destroy call
  [SCSI] fusion - bump version
  [SCSI] fusion - expander hotplug suport in mptsas module
  [SCSI] fusion - exposing raid components in mptsas
  [SCSI] fusion - memory leak, and initializing fields
  [SCSI] fusion - exclosure misspelled
  [SCSI] fusion - cleanup mptsas event handling functions
  [SCSI] fusion - removing target_id/bus_id from the VirtDevice structure
  [SCSI] fusion - static fix's
  [SCSI] fusion - move some debug firmware event debug msgs to verbose level
  [SCSI] fusion - loginfo header update
  [SCSI] add scsi_reprobe_device
  [SCSI] megaraid_sas: fix extended timeout handling
  ...
2006-03-22 10:47:24 -08:00
Andrew Morton
78eef01b0f [PATCH] on_each_cpu(): disable local interrupts
When on_each_cpu() runs the callback on other CPUs, it runs with local
interrupts disabled.  So we should run the function with local interrupts
disabled on this CPU, too.

And do the same for UP, so the callback is run in the same environment on both
UP and SMP.  (strictly it should do preempt_disable() too, but I think
local_irq_disable is sufficiently equivalent).

Also uninlines on_each_cpu().  softirq.c was the most appropriate file I could
find, but it doesn't seem to justify creating a new file.

Oh, and fix up that comment over (under?) x86's smp_call_function().  It
drives me nuts.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:53:59 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
06f9d4f94a [PATCH] unshare: Error if passed unsupported flags
A bare bones trivial patch to ensure we always get -EINVAL on the
unsupported cases for sys_unshare.  If this goes in before 2.6.16 it allows
us to forward compatible with future applications using sys_unshare.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: JANAK DESAI <janak@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kerenl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:53:55 -08:00
Mike Galbraith
9430d58e34 [PATCH] sched: remove sleep_avg multiplier
Remove the sleep_avg multiplier.  This multiplier was necessary back when
we had 10 seconds of dynamic range in sleep_avg, but now that we only have
one second, it causes that one second to be compressed down to 100ms in
some cases.  This is particularly noticeable when compiling a kernel in a
slow NFS mount, and I believe it to be a very likely candidate for other
recently reported network related interactivity problems.

In testing, I can detect no negative impact of this removal.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:53:54 -08:00
James Bottomley
d04cdb6421 Merge ../linux-2.6 2006-03-21 13:05:45 -06:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
03e88ae1b1 [PATCH] fix module sysfs files reference counting
The module files, refcnt, version, and srcversion did not properly
increment the owner's module reference count, allowing the modules to
be removed while the files were open, causing oopses.

This patch fixes this, and also fixes the problem that the version and
srcversion files were not showing up, unless CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD was
enabled, which is not correct.

Cc: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-20 13:42:58 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
01ca70dca5 [PATCH] add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE() to RCU subsystem
As the RCU symbols are going to be changed to GPL in the near future,
lets warn users that this is going to happen.

Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-20 13:42:58 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
9f28bb7e1d [PATCH] add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE()
This patch adds the ability to mark symbols that will be changed in the
future, so that kernel modules that don't include MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")
and use the symbols, will be flagged and printed out to the system log.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-20 13:42:58 -08:00
Sam Ravnborg
3fd6805f4d [PATCH] Clean up module.c symbol searching logic
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-20 13:42:58 -08:00
Jun'ichi Nomura
51107301b6 [PATCH] kobject: fix build error if CONFIG_SYSFS=n
Moving uevent_seqnum and uevent_helper to kobject_uevent.c
because they are used even if CONFIG_SYSFS=n
while kernel/ksysfs.c is built only if CONFIG_SYSFS=y,

Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-20 13:42:57 -08:00
Amy Griffis
71e1c784b2 [PATCH] fix audit_init failure path
Make audit_init() failure path handle situations where the audit_panic()
action is not AUDIT_FAIL_PANIC (default is AUDIT_FAIL_PRINTK).  Other uses
of audit_sock are not reached unless audit's netlink message handler is
properly registered.  Bug noticed by Peter Staubach.

Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-20 14:08:55 -05:00
lorenzo@gnu.org
bf45da97a4 [PATCH] EXPORT_SYMBOL patch for audit_log, audit_log_start, audit_log_end and audit_format
Hi,

This is a trivial patch that enables the possibility of using some auditing
functions within loadable kernel modules (ie. inside a Linux Security Module).

_

Make the audit_log_start, audit_log_end, audit_format and audit_log
interfaces available to Loadable Kernel Modules, thus making possible
the usage of the audit framework inside LSMs, etc.

Signed-off-by: <Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro <lorenzo@gnu.org>>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-20 14:08:55 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
5a0bbce58b [PATCH] sem2mutex: audit_netlink_sem
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-20 14:08:55 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
4023e02080 [PATCH] simplify audit_free() locking
Simplify audit_free()'s locking: no need to lock a task that we are tearing
down.  [the extra locking also caused false positives in the lock
validator]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-20 14:08:55 -05:00
Dustin Kirkland
d9d9ec6e2c [PATCH] Fix audit operators
Darrel Goeddel initiated a discussion on IRC regarding the possibility
of audit_comparator() returning -EINVAL signaling an invalid operator.

It is possible when creating the rule to assure that the operator is one
of the 6 sane values.  Here's a snip from include/linux/audit.h  Note
that 0 (nonsense) and 7 (all operators) are not valid values for an
operator.

...

/* These are the supported operators.
 *      4  2  1
 *      =  >  <
 *      -------
 *      0  0  0         0       nonsense
 *      0  0  1         1       <
 *      0  1  0         2       >
 *      0  1  1         3       !=
 *      1  0  0         4       =
 *      1  0  1         5       <=
 *      1  1  0         6       >=
 *      1  1  1         7       all operators
 */
...

Furthermore, prior to adding these extended operators, flagging the
AUDIT_NEGATE bit implied !=, and otherwise == was assumed.

The following code forces the operator to be != if the AUDIT_NEGATE bit
was flipped on.  And if no operator was specified, == is assumed.  The
only invalid condition is if the AUDIT_NEGATE bit is off and all of the
AUDIT_EQUAL, AUDIT_LESS_THAN, and AUDIT_GREATER_THAN bits are
on--clearly a nonsensical operator.

Now that this is handled at rule insertion time, the default -EINVAL
return of audit_comparator() is eliminated such that the function can
only return 1 or 0.

If this is acceptable, let's get this applied to the current tree.

:-Dustin

--

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
(cherry picked from 9bf0a8e137040f87d1b563336d4194e38fb2ba1a commit)
2006-03-20 14:08:55 -05:00
Steve Grubb
a6c043a887 [PATCH] Add tty to syscall audit records
Hi,

>From the RBAC specs:

FAU_SAR.1.1 The TSF shall provide the set of authorized
RBAC administrators with the capability to read the following
audit information from the audit records:

<snip>
(e) The User Session Identifier or Terminal Type

A patch adding the tty for all syscalls is included in this email.
Please apply.

Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-20 14:08:55 -05:00
Steve Grubb
5d3301088f [PATCH] add/remove rule update
Hi,

The following patch adds a little more information to the add/remove rule message emitted
by the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-20 14:08:55 -05:00
Amy Griffis
93315ed6dd [PATCH] audit string fields interface + consumer
Updated patch to dynamically allocate audit rule fields in kernel's
internal representation.  Added unlikely() calls for testing memory
allocation result.

Amy Griffis wrote:     [Wed Jan 11 2006, 02:02:31PM EST]
> Modify audit's kernel-userspace interface to allow the specification
> of string fields in audit rules.
>
> Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
(cherry picked from 5ffc4a863f92351b720fe3e9c5cd647accff9e03 commit)
2006-03-20 14:08:54 -05:00
David Woodhouse
d884596f44 [PATCH] Minor cosmetic cleanups to the code moved into auditfilter.c
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-03-20 14:08:54 -05:00
David Woodhouse
fe7752bab2 [PATCH] Fix audit record filtering with !CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL
This fixes the per-user and per-message-type filtering when syscall
auditing isn't enabled.

[AV: folded followup fix from the same author]

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-20 14:08:54 -05:00
Dustin Kirkland
7306a0b9b3 [PATCH] Miscellaneous bug and warning fixes
This patch fixes a couple of bugs revealed in new features recently
added to -mm1:
* fixes warnings due to inconsistent use of const struct inode *inode
* fixes bug that prevent a kernel from booting with audit on, and SELinux off
  due to a missing function in security/dummy.c
* fixes a bug that throws spurious audit_panic() messages due to a missing
  return just before an error_path label
* some reasonable house cleaning in audit_ipc_context(),
  audit_inode_context(), and audit_log_task_context()

Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-03-20 14:08:54 -05:00
Dustin Kirkland
8c8570fb8f [PATCH] Capture selinux subject/object context information.
This patch extends existing audit records with subject/object context
information. Audit records associated with filesystem inodes, ipc, and
tasks now contain SELinux label information in the field "subj" if the
item is performing the action, or in "obj" if the item is the receiver
of an action.

These labels are collected via hooks in SELinux and appended to the
appropriate record in the audit code.

This additional information is required for Common Criteria Labeled
Security Protection Profile (LSPP).

[AV: fixed kmalloc flags use]
[folded leak fixes]
[folded cleanup from akpm (kfree(NULL)]
[folded audit_inode_context() leak fix]
[folded akpm's fix for audit_ipc_perm() definition in case of !CONFIG_AUDIT]

Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-20 14:08:54 -05:00
Dustin Kirkland
c8edc80c8b [PATCH] Exclude messages by message type
- Add a new, 5th filter called "exclude".
    - And add a new field AUDIT_MSGTYPE.
    - Define a new function audit_filter_exclude() that takes a message type
      as input and examines all rules in the filter.  It returns '1' if the
      message is to be excluded, and '0' otherwise.
    - Call the audit_filter_exclude() function near the top of
      audit_log_start() just after asserting audit_initialized.  If the
      message type is not to be audited, return NULL very early, before
      doing a lot of work.
[combined with followup fix for bug in original patch, Nov 4, same author]
[combined with later renaming AUDIT_FILTER_EXCLUDE->AUDIT_FILTER_TYPE
and audit_filter_exclude() -> audit_filter_type()]

Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-20 14:08:54 -05:00
Amy Griffis
73241ccca0 [PATCH] Collect more inode information during syscall processing.
This patch augments the collection of inode info during syscall
processing. It represents part of the functionality that was provided
by the auditfs patch included in RHEL4.

Specifically, it:

- Collects information for target inodes created or removed during
  syscalls.  Previous code only collects information for the target
  inode's parent.

- Adds the audit_inode() hook to syscalls that operate on a file
  descriptor (e.g. fchown), enabling audit to do inode filtering for
  these calls.

- Modifies filtering code to check audit context for either an inode #
  or a parent inode # matching a given rule.

- Modifies logging to provide inode # for both parent and child.

- Protect debug info from NULL audit_names.name.

[AV: folded a later typo fix from the same author]

Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-20 14:08:53 -05:00
Amy Griffis
f38aa94224 [PATCH] Pass dentry, not just name, in fsnotify creation hooks.
The audit hooks (to be added shortly) will want to see dentry->d_inode
too, not just the name.

Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-03-20 14:08:53 -05:00
Steve Grubb
90d526c074 [PATCH] Define new range of userspace messages.
The attached patch updates various items for the new user space
messages. Please apply.

Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-03-20 14:08:53 -05:00
Dustin Kirkland
b63862f465 [PATCH] Filter rule comparators
Currently, audit only supports the "=" and "!=" operators in the -F
filter rules.

This patch reworks the support for "=" and "!=", and adds support
for ">", ">=", "<", and "<=".

This turned out to be a pretty clean, and simply process.  I ended up
using the high order bits of the "field", as suggested by Steve and Amy.
This allowed for no changes whatsoever to the netlink communications.
See the documentation within the patch in the include/linux/audit.h
area, where there is a table that explains the reasoning of the bitmask
assignments clearly.

The patch adds a new function, audit_comparator(left, op, right).
This function will perform the specified comparison (op, which defaults
to "==" for backward compatibility) between two values (left and right).
If the negate bit is on, it will negate whatever that result was.  This
value is returned.

Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-03-20 14:08:53 -05:00
Randy Dunlap
b0dd25a826 [PATCH] AUDIT: kerneldoc for kernel/audit*.c
- add kerneldoc for non-static functions;
- don't init static data to 0;
- limit lines to < 80 columns;
- fix long-format style;
- delete whitespace at end of some lines;

(chrisw: resend and update to current audit-2.6 tree)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-03-20 14:08:53 -05:00
Jason Baron
7e7f8a036b [PATCH] make vm86 call audit_syscall_exit
hi,

The motivation behind the patch below was to address messages in
/var/log/messages such as:

Jan 31 10:54:15 mets kernel: audit(:0): major=252 name_count=0: freeing
multiple contexts (1)
Jan 31 10:54:15 mets kernel: audit(:0): major=113 name_count=0: freeing
multiple contexts (2)

I can reproduce by running 'get-edid' from:
http://john.fremlin.de/programs/linux/read-edid/.

These messages come about in the log b/c the vm86 calls do not exit via
the normal system call exit paths and thus do not call
'audit_syscall_exit'. The next system call will then free the context for
itself and for the vm86 context, thus generating the above messages. This
patch addresses the issue by simply adding a call to 'audit_syscall_exit'
from the vm86 code.

Besides fixing the above error messages the patch also now allows vm86
system calls to become auditable. This is useful since strace does not
appear to properly record the return values from sys_vm86.

I think this patch is also a step in the right direction in terms of
cleaning up some core auditing code. If we can correct any other paths
that do not properly call the audit exit and entries points, then we can
also eliminate the notion of context chaining.

I've tested this patch by verifying that the log messages no longer
appear, and that the audit records for sys_vm86 appear to be correct.
Also, 'read_edid' produces itentical output.

thanks,

-Jason

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-20 14:08:53 -05:00
Al Viro
afc847b7dd [PATCH] don't do exit_io_context() until we know we won't be doing any IO
testcase:

mount /dev/sdb10 /mnt
touch /mnt/tmp/b
umount /mnt
mount /dev/sdb10 /mnt
rm /mnt/tmp/b </mnt/tmp/b
umount /mnt

and watch blkdev_ioc line in /proc/slabinfo.  Vanilla kernel leaks.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-18 18:33:46 -05:00
Oleg Nesterov
2d61b86775 [PATCH] disable unshare(CLONE_VM) for now
sys_unshare() does mmput(new_mm).  This is not enough if we have
mm->core_waiters.

This patch is a temporary fix for soon to be released 2.6.16.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
[ Checked with Uli: "I'm not planning to use unshare(CLONE_VM).  It's
  not needed for any functionality planned so far.  What we (as in Red
  Hat) need unshare() for now is the filesystem side." ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-18 10:49:36 -08:00
Roman Zippel
a0a0c28c1a [PATCH] posix-timers: fix requeue accounting when signal is ignored
When the posix-timer signal is ignored then the timer is rearmed by the
callback function.  The requeue pending accounting has to be fixed up else
the state might be wrong.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17 07:51:25 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
67890d7084 [PATCH] time_interpolator: add __read_mostly
The pointer to the current time interpolator and the current list of time
interpolators are typically only changed during bootup.  Adding
__read_mostly takes them away from possibly hot cachelines.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17 07:51:25 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
e0e8eb54d8 [PATCH] unshare: Use rcu_assign_pointer when setting sighand
The sighand pointer only needs the rcu_read_lock on the
read side.  So only depending on task_lock protection
when setting this pointer is not enough.  We also need
a memory barrier to ensure the initialization is seen first.

Use rcu_assign_pointer as it does this for us, and clearly
documents that we are setting an rcu readable pointer.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17 07:46:59 -08:00
Paul Mackerras
23dd640112 Merge ../linux-2.6 2006-03-17 12:01:19 +11:00
James Bottomley
f33b5d783b Merge ../linux-2.6 2006-03-14 14:18:01 -06:00
GOTO Masanori
f9a3879abf [PATCH] Fix sigaltstack corruption among cloned threads
This patch fixes alternate signal stack corruption among cloned threads
with CLONE_SIGHAND (and CLONE_VM) for linux-2.6.16-rc6.

The value of alternate signal stack is currently inherited after a call of
clone(...  CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_VM).  But if sigaltstack is set by a
parent thread, and then if multiple cloned child threads (+ parent threads)
call signal handler at the same time, some threads may be conflicted -
because they share to use the same alternative signal stack region.
Finally they get sigsegv.  It's an undesirable race condition.  Note that
child threads created from NPTL pthread_create() also hit this conflict
when the parent thread uses sigaltstack, without my patch.

To fix this problem, this patch clears the child threads' sigaltstack
information like exec().  This behavior follows the SUSv3 specification.
In SUSv3, pthread_create() says "The alternate stack shall not be inherited
(when new threads are initialized)".  It means that sigaltstack should be
cleared when sigaltstack memory space is shared by cloned threads with
CLONE_SIGHAND.

Note that I chose "if (clone_flags & CLONE_SIGHAND)" line because:
  - If clone_flags line is not existed, fork() does not inherit sigaltstack.
  - CLONE_VM is another choice, but vfork() does not inherit sigaltstack.
  - CLONE_SIGHAND implies CLONE_VM, and it looks suitable.
  - CLONE_THREAD is another candidate, and includes CLONE_SIGHAND + CLONE_VM,
    but this flag has a bit different semantics.
I decided to use CLONE_SIGHAND.

[ Changed to test for CLONE_VM && !CLONE_VFORK after discussion --Linus ]

Signed-off-by: GOTO Masanori <gotom@sanori.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-14 07:57:17 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
7cd9013be6 [PATCH] remove __put_task_struct_cb export again
The patch '[PATCH] RCU signal handling' [1] added an export for
__put_task_struct_cb, a put_task_struct helper newly introduced in that
patch.  But the put_task_struct couldn't be used modular previously as
__put_task_struct wasn't exported.  There are not callers of it in modular
code, and it shouldn't be exported because we don't want drivers to hold
references to task_structs.

This patch removes the export and folds __put_task_struct into
__put_task_struct_cb as there's no other caller.

[1] http://www2.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e56d090310d7625ecb43a1eeebd479f04affb48b

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-11 09:19:34 -08:00
Paul Mackerras
5164501794 Merge ../linux-2.6 2006-03-09 14:32:05 +11:00
Dipankar Sarma
529bf6be5c [PATCH] fix file counting
I have benchmarked this on an x86_64 NUMA system and see no significant
performance difference on kernbench.  Tested on both x86_64 and powerpc.

The way we do file struct accounting is not very suitable for batched
freeing.  For scalability reasons, file accounting was
constructor/destructor based.  This meant that nr_files was decremented
only when the object was removed from the slab cache.  This is susceptible
to slab fragmentation.  With RCU based file structure, consequent batched
freeing and a test program like Serge's, we just speed this up and end up
with a very fragmented slab -

llm22:~ # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr
587730  0       758844

At the same time, I see only a 2000+ objects in filp cache.  The following
patch I fixes this problem.

This patch changes the file counting by removing the filp_count_lock.
Instead we use a separate percpu counter, nr_files, for now and all
accesses to it are through get_nr_files() api.  In the sysctl handler for
nr_files, we populate files_stat.nr_files before returning to user.

Counting files as an when they are created and destroyed (as opposed to
inside slab) allows us to correctly count open files with RCU.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08 14:14:01 -08:00
Dipankar Sarma
21a1ea9eb4 [PATCH] rcu batch tuning
This patch adds new tunables for RCU queue and finished batches.  There are
two types of controls - number of completed RCU updates invoked in a batch
(blimit) and monitoring for high rate of incoming RCUs on a cpu (qhimark,
qlowmark).

By default, the per-cpu batch limit is set to a small value.  If the input
RCU rate exceeds the high watermark, we do two things - force quiescent
state on all cpus and set the batch limit of the CPU to INTMAX.  Setting
batch limit to INTMAX forces all finished RCUs to be processed in one shot.
 If we have more than INTMAX RCUs queued up, then we have bigger problems
anyway.  Once the incoming queued RCUs fall below the low watermark, the
batch limit is set to the default.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08 14:14:01 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
81c29a857d [PATCH] idle threads should have a sane ->timestamp value
Idle threads should have a sane ->timestamp value, to avoid init kernel
thread(s) from inheriting it and causing miscalculations in
try_to_wake_up().

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08 14:14:00 -08:00
Atsushi Nemoto
5aee405c66 [PATCH] time: add barrier after updating jiffies_64
Add a compiler barrier so that we don't read jiffies before updating
jiffies_64.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Default behaivour leaves the warnings enabled.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-02-28 09:42:23 -08:00
James Bottomley
1fa44ecad2 [SCSI] add execute_in_process_context() API
We have several points in the SCSI stack (primarily for our device
functions) where we need to guarantee process context, but (given the
place where the last reference was released) we cannot guarantee this.

This API gets around the issue by executing the function directly if
the caller has process context, but scheduling a workqueue to execute
in process context if the caller doesn't have it.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-02-27 23:34:40 -06:00
Paul Mackerras
a00428f5b1 Merge ../powerpc-merge 2006-02-24 14:05:47 +11:00
Bjrn Steinbrink
5914811acf [PATCH] kjournald keeps reference to namespace
In daemonize() a new thread gets cleaned up and 'merged' with init_task.
The current fs_struct is handled there, but not the current namespace.

This adds the namespace part.

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

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

Noticed by Arthur Othieno.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And marked __read_mostly which it is.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This means that __group_complete_signal() may hang while doing

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

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

	attach_pid() does wmb()

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

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

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

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

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

	release_task()->__unhash_process()

	de_thread()->switch_exec_pids()

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

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

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

    [PATCH] sched: filter affine wakeups

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-10 08:13:11 -08:00
Jon Mason
2ef9481e66 [PATCH] powerpc: trivial: modify comments to refer to new location of files
This patch removes all self references and fixes references to files
in the now defunct arch/ppc64 tree.  I think this accomplises
everything wanted, though there might be a few references I missed.

Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-10 16:53:51 +11:00
Oleg Nesterov
9ac95f2f90 [PATCH] do_sigaction: cleanup ->sa_mask manipulation
Clear unblockable signals beforehand.

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

sys_signal() forgets to initialize ->sa_mask.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-07 16:12:34 -08:00