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2009-09-27const: mark struct vm_struct_operationsAlexey Dobriyan
* mark struct vm_area_struct::vm_ops as const * mark vm_ops in AGP code But leave TTM code alone, something is fishy there with global vm_ops being used. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-27Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: hrtimer: Eliminate needless reprogramming of clock events device
2009-09-26Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: futex: Add memory barrier commentary to futex_wait_queue_me() futex: Fix wakeup race by setting TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE before queue_me() futex: Correct futex_q woken state commentary futex: Make function kernel-doc commentary consistent futex: Correct queue_me and unqueue_me commentary futex: Correct futex_wait_requeue_pi() commentary
2009-09-26Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: clocksource: Resume clocksource without taking the clocksource mutex
2009-09-26Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: modules, tracing: Remove stale struct marker signature from module_layout() tracing/workqueue: Use %pf in workqueue trace events tracing: Fix a comment and a trivial format issue in tracepoint.h tracing: Fix failure path in ftrace_regex_open() tracing: Fix failure path in ftrace_graph_write() tracing: Check the return value of trace_get_user() tracing: Fix off-by-one in trace_get_user()
2009-09-24Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller
Conflicts: drivers/staging/Kconfig drivers/staging/Makefile drivers/staging/cpc-usb/TODO drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpc-usb_drv.c drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpc.h drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpc_int.h drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpcusb.h
2009-09-24clocksource: Resume clocksource without taking the clocksource mutexMartin Schwidefsky
git commit 75c5158f70c065b9 converted the clocksource spinlock to a mutex. This causes the following BUG: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/mutex.c:280 in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 2473, name: pm-suspend 2 locks held by pm-suspend/2473: #0: (&buffer->mutex){......}, at: [<ffffffff8115ab13>] sysfs_write_file+0x3c/0x137 #1: (pm_mutex){......}, at: [<ffffffff810865b5>] enter_state+0x39/0x130 Pid: 2473, comm: pm-suspend Not tainted 2.6.31 #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff810792f0>] ? __debug_show_held_locks+0x22/0x24 [<ffffffff8104a2ef>] __might_sleep+0x107/0x10b [<ffffffff8141fca9>] mutex_lock_nested+0x25/0x43 [<ffffffff81073537>] clocksource_resume+0x1c/0x60 [<ffffffff81072902>] timekeeping_resume+0x1e/0x1c8 [<ffffffff812aee62>] __sysdev_resume+0x25/0xcf [<ffffffff812aef79>] sysdev_resume+0x6d/0xae [<ffffffff810864f8>] suspend_devices_and_enter+0x12b/0x1af [<ffffffff8108665b>] enter_state+0xdf/0x130 [<ffffffff81085dc3>] state_store+0xb6/0xd3 [<ffffffff81204c73>] kobj_attr_store+0x17/0x19 [<ffffffff8115abd2>] sysfs_write_file+0xfb/0x137 [<ffffffff811057d2>] vfs_write+0xae/0x10b [<ffffffff81208392>] ? __up_read+0x1a/0x7f [<ffffffff811058ef>] sys_write+0x4a/0x6e [<ffffffff81011b82>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b clocksource_resume is called early in the resume process, there is only one cpu, no processes are running and the interrupts are disabled. It is therefore possible to resume the clocksources without taking the clocksource mutex. Reported-by: Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Tested-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Cc: Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090924172952.49697825@mschwide.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-24futex: Add memory barrier commentary to futex_wait_queue_me()Darren Hart
The memory barrier semantics of futex_wait_queue_me() are non-obvious. Add some commentary to try and clarify it. Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090924185447.694.38948.stgit@Aeon> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-24Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblazeLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze: (24 commits) microblaze: Disable heartbeat/enable emaclite in defconfigs microblaze: Support simpleImage.dts make target microblaze: Fix _start symbol to physical address microblaze: Use LOAD_OFFSET macro to get correct LMA for all sections microblaze: Create the LOAD_OFFSET macro used to compute VMA vs LMA offsets microblaze: Copy ppc asm-compat.h for clean handling of constants in asm and C microblaze: Actually show KiB rather than pages in "Freeing initrd memory:" microblaze: Support ptrace syscall tracing. microblaze: Updated CPU version and FPGA family codes in PVR microblaze: Generate correct signal and siginfo for integer div-by-zero microblaze: Don't be noisy when userspace causes hardware exceptions microblaze: Remove ipc.h file which points to non-existing asm-generic file microblaze: Clear sticky FSR register after generating exception signals microblaze: Ensure CPU usermode is set on new userspace processes microblaze: Use correct kbuild variable KBUILD_CFLAGS microblaze: Save and restore msr in hw exception microblaze: Add architectural support for USB EHCI host controllers microblaze: Implement include/asm/syscall.h. microblaze: Improve checking mechanism for MSR instruction microblaze: Add checking mechanism for MSR instruction ...
2009-09-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linusLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: module: don't call percpu_modfree on NULL pointer. module: fix memory leak when load fails after srcversion/version allocated module: preferred way to use MODULE_AUTHOR param: allow whitespace as kernel parameter separator module: reduce string table for loaded modules (v2) module: reduce symbol table for loaded modules (v2)
2009-09-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-currentLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current: lsm: Use a compressed IPv6 string format in audit events Audit: send signal info if selinux is disabled Audit: rearrange audit_context to save 16 bytes per struct Audit: reorganize struct audit_watch to save 8 bytes
2009-09-25module: don't call percpu_modfree on NULL pointer.Rusty Russell
The general one handles NULL, the static obsolescent (CONFIG_HAVE_LEGACY_PER_CPU_AREA) one in module.c doesn't; Eric's commit 720eba31 assumed it did, and various frobbings since then kept that assumption. All other callers in module.c all protect it with an if; this effectively does the same as free_init is only goto if we fail percpu_modalloc(). Reported-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-09-25module: fix memory leak when load fails after srcversion/version allocatedRusty Russell
Normally the twisty paths of sysfs will free the attributes, but not if we fail before we hook it into sysfs (which is the last thing we do in load_module). (This sysfs code is a turd, no doubt there are other issues lurking too). Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
2009-09-25param: allow whitespace as kernel parameter separatorPeter Oberparleiter
Some boot mechanisms require that kernel parameters are stored in a separate file which is loaded to memory without further processing (e.g. the "Load from FTP" method on s390). When such a file contains newline characters, the kernel parameter preceding the newline might not be correctly parsed (due to the newline being stuck to the end of the actual parameter value) which can lead to boot failures. This patch improves kernel command line usability in such a situation by allowing generic whitespace characters as separators between kernel parameters. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-09-25module: reduce string table for loaded modules (v2)Jan Beulich
Also remove all parts of the string table (referenced by the symbol table) that are not needed for kallsyms use (i.e. which were only referenced by symbols discarded by the previous patch, or not referenced at all for whatever reason). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-09-25module: reduce symbol table for loaded modules (v2)Jan Beulich
Discard all symbols not interesting for kallsyms use: absolute, section, and in the common case (!KALLSYMS_ALL) data ones. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-09-24Merge branch 'hwpoison' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 * 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (21 commits) HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page on btrfs HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4 HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page for NFS HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7 HWPOISON: Add PR_MCE_KILL prctl to control early kill behaviour per process HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked page HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation HWPOISON: Add invalidate_inode_page HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2 HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2 HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour HWPOISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to x86 page fault handler v2 HWPOISON: Add poison check to page fault handling HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3 HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2 HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world ...
2009-09-24task_struct cleanup: move binfmt field to mm_structHiroshi Shimamoto
Because the binfmt is not different between threads in the same process, it can be moved from task_struct to mm_struct. And binfmt moudle is handled per mm_struct instead of task_struct. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24aio: ifdef fields in mm_structAlexey Dobriyan
->ioctx_lock and ->ioctx_list are used only under CONFIG_AIO. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24pidns: deny CLONE_PARENT|CLONE_NEWPID combinationSukadev Bhattiprolu
CLONE_PARENT was used to implement an older threading model. For consistency with the CLONE_THREAD check in copy_pid_ns(), disable CLONE_PARENT with CLONE_NEWPID, at least until the required semantics of pid namespaces are clear. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24fork(): disable CLONE_PARENT for initSukadev Bhattiprolu
When global or container-init processes use CLONE_PARENT, they create a multi-rooted process tree. Besides siblings of global init remain as zombies on exit since they are not reaped by their parent (swapper). So prevent global and container-inits from creating siblings. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handlerAlexey Dobriyan
It's unused. It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl shouldn't care about the rest. It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24signals: inline __fatal_signal_pendingRoland McGrath
__fatal_signal_pending inlines to one instruction on x86, probably two instructions on other machines. It takes two longer x86 instructions just to call it and test its return value, not to mention the function itself. On my random x86_64 config, this saved 70 bytes of text (59 of those being __fatal_signal_pending itself). Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24signals: introduce do_send_sig_info() helperOleg Nesterov
Introduce do_send_sig_info() and convert group_send_sig_info(), send_sig_info(), do_send_specific() to use this helper. Hopefully it will have more users soon, it allows to specify specific/group behaviour via "bool group" argument. Shaves 80 bytes from .text. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24exec: let do_coredump() limit the number of concurrent dumps to pipesNeil Horman
Introduce core pipe limiting sysctl. Since we can dump cores to pipe, rather than directly to the filesystem, we create a condition in which a user can create a very high load on the system simply by running bad applications. If the pipe reader specified in core_pattern is poorly written, we can have lots of ourstandig resources and processes in the system. This sysctl introduces an ability to limit that resource consumption. core_pipe_limit defines how many in-flight dumps may be run in parallel, dumps beyond this value are skipped and a note is made in the kernel log. A special value of 0 in core_pipe_limit denotes unlimited core dumps may be handled (this is the default value). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Reported-by: Earl Chew <earl_chew@agilent.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24signals: tracehook_notify_jctl changeRoland McGrath
This changes tracehook_notify_jctl() so it's called with the siglock held, and changes its argument and return value definition. These clean-ups make it a better fit for what new tracing hooks need to check. Tracing needs the siglock here, held from the time TASK_STOPPED was set, to avoid potential SIGCONT races if it wants to allow any blocking in its tracing hooks. This also folds the finish_stop() function into its caller do_signal_stop(). The function is short, called only once and only unconditionally. It aids readability to fold it in. [oleg@redhat.com: do not call tracehook_notify_jctl() in TASK_STOPPED state] [oleg@redhat.com: introduce tracehook_finish_jctl() helper] Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24wait_noreap_copyout(): check for ->wo_info != NULLVitaly Mayatskikh
Current behaviour of sys_waitid() looks odd. If user passes infop == NULL, sys_waitid() returns success. When user additionally specifies flag WNOWAIT, sys_waitid() returns -EFAULT on the same conditions. When user combines WNOWAIT with WCONTINUED, sys_waitid() again returns success. This patch adds check for ->wo_info in wait_noreap_copyout(). User-visible change: starting from this commit, sys_waitid() always checks infop != NULL and does not fail if it is NULL. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24do_wait: fix sys_waitid()-specific behaviourVitaly Mayatskikh
do_wait() checks ->wo_info to figure out who is the caller. If it's not NULL the caller should be sys_waitid(), in that case do_wait() fixes up the retval or zeros ->wo_info, depending on retval from underlying function. This is bug: user can pass ->wo_info == NULL and sys_waitid() will return incorrect value. man 2 waitid says: waitid(): returns 0 on success Test-case: int main(void) { if (fork()) assert(waitid(P_ALL, 0, NULL, WEXITED) == 0); return 0; } Result: Assertion `waitid(P_ALL, 0, ((void *)0), 4) == 0' failed. Move that code to sys_waitid(). User-visible change: sys_waitid() will return 0 on success, either infop is set or not. Note, there's another bug in wait_noreap_copyout() which affects return value of sys_waitid(). It will be fixed in next patch. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24wait_consider_task: kill "parent" argumentOleg Nesterov
Kill the unused "parent" argument in wait_consider_task(), it was never used. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Ratan Nalumasu <rnalumasu@gmail.com> Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24do_wait-wakeup-optimization: simplify task_pid_type()Oleg Nesterov
task_pid_type() is only used by eligible_pid() which has to check wo_type != PIDTYPE_MAX anyway. Remove this check from task_pid_type() and factor out ->pids[type] access, this shrinks .text a bit and simplifies the code. The matches the behaviour of other similar helpers, say get_task_pid(). The caller must ensure that pid_type is valid, not the callee. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24do_wait-wakeup-optimization: fix child_wait_callback()->eligible_child() usageOleg Nesterov
child_wait_callback()->eligible_child() is not right, we can miss the wakeup if the task was detached before __wake_up_parent() and the caller of do_wait() didn't use __WALL. Move ->wo_pid checks from eligible_child() to the new helper, eligible_pid(), and change child_wait_callback() to use it instead of eligible_child(). Note: actually I think it would be better to fix the __WCLONE check in eligible_child(), it doesn't look exactly right. But it is not clear what is the supposed behaviour, and any change is user-visible. Reported-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24do_wait() wakeup optimization: child_wait_callback: check __WNOTHREAD caseOleg Nesterov
Suggested by Roland. do_wait(__WNOTHREAD) can only succeed if the caller is either ptracer, or it is ->real_parent and the child is not traced. IOW, caller == p->parent otherwise we should not wake up. Change child_wait_callback() to check this. Ratan reports the workload with CPU load >99% caused by unnecessary wakeups, should be fixed by this patch. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Ratan Nalumasu <rnalumasu@gmail.com> Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24do_wait() wakeup optimization: change __wake_up_parent() to use filtered wakeupOleg Nesterov
Ratan Nalumasu reported that in a process with many threads doing unnecessary wakeups. Every waiting thread in the process wakes up to loop through the children and see that the only ones it cares about are still not ready. Now that we have struct wait_opts we can change do_wait/__wake_up_parent to use filtered wakeups. We can make child_wait_callback() more clever later, right now it only checks eligible_child(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Ratan Nalumasu <rnalumasu@gmail.com> Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Tested-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24do_wait() wakeup optimization: shift security_task_wait() from ↵Oleg Nesterov
eligible_child() to wait_consider_task() Preparation, no functional changes. eligible_child() has a single caller, wait_consider_task(). We can move security_task_wait() out from eligible_child(), this allows us to use it for filtered wake_up(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Ratan Nalumasu <rnalumasu@gmail.com> Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24ptrace: __ptrace_detach: do __wake_up_parent() if we reap the traceeOleg Nesterov
The bug is old, it wasn't cause by recent changes. Test case: static void *tfunc(void *arg) { int pid = (long)arg; assert(ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, NULL, NULL) == 0); kill(pid, SIGKILL); sleep(1); return NULL; } int main(void) { pthread_t th; long pid = fork(); if (!pid) pause(); signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN); assert(pthread_create(&th, NULL, tfunc, (void*)pid) == 0); int r = waitpid(-1, NULL, __WNOTHREAD); printf("waitpid: %d %m\n", r); return 0; } Before the patch this program hangs, after this patch waitpid() correctly fails with errno == -ECHILD. The problem is, __ptrace_detach() reaps the EXIT_ZOMBIE tracee if its ->real_parent is our sub-thread and we ignore SIGCHLD. But in this case we should wake up other threads which can sleep in do_wait(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24memory controller: soft limit organize cgroupsBalbir Singh
Organize cgroups over soft limit in a RB-Tree Introduce an RB-Tree for storing memory cgroups that are over their soft limit. The overall goal is to 1. Add a memory cgroup to the RB-Tree when the soft limit is exceeded. We are careful about updates, updates take place only after a particular time interval has passed 2. We remove the node from the RB-Tree when the usage goes below the soft limit The next set of patches will exploit the RB-Tree to get the group that is over its soft limit by the largest amount and reclaim from it, when we face memory contention. [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR=y CONFIG_PREEMPT=y fails to boot] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24memory controller: soft limit interfaceBalbir Singh
Add an interface to allow get/set of soft limits. Soft limits for memory plus swap controller (memsw) is currently not supported. Resource counters have been enhanced to support soft limits and new type RES_SOFT_LIMIT has been added. Unlike hard limits, soft limits can be directly set and do not need any reclaim or checks before setting them to a newer value. Kamezawa-San raised a question as to whether soft limit should belong to res_counter. Since all resources understand the basic concepts of hard and soft limits, it is justified to add soft limits here. Soft limits are a generic resource usage feature, even file system quotas support soft limits. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24cgroups: let ss->can_attach and ss->attach do whole threadgroups at a timeBen Blum
Alter the ss->can_attach and ss->attach functions to be able to deal with a whole threadgroup at a time, for use in cgroup_attach_proc. (This is a pre-patch to cgroup-procs-writable.patch.) Currently, new mode of the attach function can only tell the subsystem about the old cgroup of the threadgroup leader. No subsystem currently needs that information for each thread that's being moved, but if one were to be added (for example, one that counts tasks within a group) this bit would need to be reworked a bit to tell the subsystem the right information. [hidave.darkstar@gmail.com: fix build] Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24cgroups: change css_set freeing mechanism to be under RCUBen Blum
Changes css_set freeing mechanism to be under RCU This is a prepatch for making the procs file writable. In order to free the old css_sets for each task to be moved as they're being moved, the freeing mechanism must be RCU-protected, or else we would have to have a call to synchronize_rcu() for each task before freeing its old css_set. Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24cgroups: use vmalloc for large cgroups pidlist allocationsBen Blum
Separates all pidlist allocation requests to a separate function that judges based on the requested size whether or not the array needs to be vmalloced or can be gotten via kmalloc, and similar for kfree/vfree. Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24cgroups: ensure correct concurrent opening/reading of pidlists across pid ↵Ben Blum
namespaces Previously there was the problem in which two processes from different pid namespaces reading the tasks or procs file could result in one process seeing results from the other's namespace. Rather than one pidlist for each file in a cgroup, we now keep a list of pidlists keyed by namespace and file type (tasks versus procs) in which entries are placed on demand. Each pidlist has its own lock, and that the pidlists themselves are passed around in the seq_file's private pointer means we don't have to touch the cgroup or its master list except when creating and destroying entries. Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24cgroups: add a read-only "procs" file similar to "tasks" that shows only ↵Ben Blum
unique tgids struct cgroup used to have a bunch of fields for keeping track of the pidlist for the tasks file. Those are now separated into a new struct cgroup_pidlist, of which two are had, one for procs and one for tasks. The way the seq_file operations are set up is changed so that just the pidlist struct gets passed around as the private data. Interface example: Suppose a multithreaded process has pid 1000 and other threads with ids 1001, 1002, 1003: $ cat tasks 1000 1001 1002 1003 $ cat cgroup.procs 1000 $ Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24cgroups: revert "cgroups: fix pid namespace bug"Paul Menage
The following series adds a "cgroup.procs" file to each cgroup that reports unique tgids rather than pids, and allows all threads in a threadgroup to be atomically moved to a new cgroup. The subsystem "attach" interface is modified to support attaching whole threadgroups at a time, which could introduce potential problems if any subsystem were to need to access the old cgroup of every thread being moved. The attach interface may need to be revised if this becomes the case. Also added is functionality for read/write locking all CLONE_THREAD fork()ing within a threadgroup, by means of an rwsem that lives in the sighand_struct, for per-threadgroup-ness and also for sharing a cacheline with the sighand's atomic count. This scheme should introduce no extra overhead in the fork path when there's no contention. The final patch reveals potential for a race when forking before a subsystem's attach function is called - one potential solution in case any subsystem has this problem is to hang on to the group's fork mutex through the attach() calls, though no subsystem yet demonstrates need for an extended critical section. This patch: Revert commit 096b7fe012d66ed55e98bc8022405ede0cc80e96 Author: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> AuthorDate: Wed Jul 29 15:04:04 2009 -0700 Commit: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> CommitDate: Wed Jul 29 19:10:35 2009 -0700 cgroups: fix pid namespace bug This is in preparation for some clashing cgroups changes that subsume the original commit's functionaliy. The original commit fixed a pid namespace bug which Ben Blum fixed independently (in the same way, but with different code) as part of a series of patches. I played around with trying to reconcile Ben's patch series with Li's patch, but concluded that it was simpler to just revert Li's, given that Ben's patch series contained essentially the same fix. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24cgroups: allow cgroup hierarchies to be created with no bound subsystemsPaul Menage
This patch removes the restriction that a cgroup hierarchy must have at least one bound subsystem. The mount option "none" is treated as an explicit request for no bound subsystems. A hierarchy with no subsystems can be useful for plain task tracking, and is also a step towards the support for multiply-bindable subsystems. As part of this change, the hierarchy id is no longer calculated from the bitmask of subsystems in the hierarchy (since this is not guaranteed to be unique) but is allocated via an ida. Reference counts on cgroups from css_set objects are now taken explicitly one per hierarchy, rather than one per subsystem. Example usage: mount -t cgroup -o none,name=foo cgroup /mnt/cgroup Based on the "no-op"/"none" subsystem concept proposed by kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24cgroups: add a back-pointer from struct cg_cgroup_link to struct cgroupPaul Menage
Currently the cgroups code makes the assumption that the subsystem pointers in a struct css_set uniquely identify the hierarchy->cgroup mappings associated with the css_set; and there's no way to directly identify the associated set of cgroups other than by indirecting through the appropriate subsystem state pointers. This patch removes the need for that assumption by adding a back-pointer from struct cg_cgroup_link object to its associated cgroup; this allows the set of cgroups to be determined by traversing the cg_links list in the struct css_set. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24cgroups: move the cgroup debug subsys into cgroup.c to access internal statePaul Menage
While it's architecturally clean to have the cgroup debug subsystem be completely independent of the cgroups framework, it limits its usefulness for debugging the contents of internal data structures. Move the debug subsystem code into the scope of all the cgroups data structures to make more detailed debugging possible. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24cgroups: support named cgroups hierarchiesPaul Menage
To simplify referring to cgroup hierarchies in mount statements, and to allow disambiguation in the presence of empty hierarchies and multiply-bindable subsystems this patch adds support for naming a new cgroup hierarchy via the "name=" mount option A pre-existing hierarchy may be specified by either name or by subsystems; a hierarchy's name cannot be changed by a remount operation. Example usage: # To create a hierarchy called "foo" containing the "cpu" subsystem mount -t cgroup -oname=foo,cpu cgroup /mnt/cgroup1 # To mount the "foo" hierarchy on a second location mount -t cgroup -oname=foo cgroup /mnt/cgroup2 Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24cgroups: make unlock sequence in cgroup_get_sb consistentXiaotian Feng
Make the last unlock sequence consistent with previous unlock sequeue. Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24time: add function to convert between calendar time and broken-down time for ↵Zhaolei
universal use There are many similar code in kernel for one object: convert time between calendar time and broken-down time. Here is some source I found: fs/ncpfs/dir.c fs/smbfs/proc.c fs/fat/misc.c fs/udf/udftime.c fs/cifs/netmisc.c net/netfilter/xt_time.c drivers/scsi/ips.c drivers/input/misc/hp_sdc_rtc.c drivers/rtc/rtc-lib.c arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/fw-emu.c arch/m68k/mac/misc.c arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c arch/parisc/include/asm/rtc.h ... We can make a common function for this type of conversion, At least we can get following benefit: 1: Make kernel simple and unify 2: Easy to fix bug in converting code 3: Reduce clone of code in future For example, I'm trying to make ftrace display walltime, this patch will make me easy. This code is based on code from glibc-2.6 Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24Audit: send signal info if selinux is disabledEric Paris
Audit will not respond to signal requests if selinux is disabled since it is unable to translate the 0 sid from the sending process to a context. This patch just doesn't send the context info if there isn't any. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>