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2006-12-08[PATCH] sysctl: fix sys_sysctl interface of ipc sysctlsEric W. Biederman
Currently there is a regression and the ipc sysctls don't show up in the binary sysctl namespace. This patch adds sysctl_ipc_data to read data/write from the appropriate namespace and deliver it in the expected manner. [akpm@osdl.org: warning fix] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] sysctl: simplify ipc ns specific sysctlsEric W. Biederman
Refactor the ipc sysctl support so that it is simpler, more readable, and prepares for fixing the bug with the wrong values being returned in the sys_sysctl interface. The function proc_do_ipc_string() was misnamed as it never handled strings. It's magic of when to work with strings and when to work with longs belonged in the sysctl table. I couldn't tell if the code would work if you disabled the ipc namespace but it certainly looked like it would have problems. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] sysctl: implement sysctl_uts_string()Eric W. Biederman
The problem: When using sys_sysctl we don't read the proper values for the variables exported from the uts namespace, nor do we do the proper locking. This patch introduces sysctl_uts_string which properly fetches the values and does the proper locking. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] sysctl: simplify sysctl_uts_stringEric W. Biederman
The binary interface to the namespace sysctls was never implemented resulting in some really weird things if you attempted to use sys_sysctl to read your hostname for example. This patch series simples the code a little and implements the binary sysctl interface. In testing this patch series I discovered that our 32bit compatibility for the binary sysctl interface is imperfect. In particular KERN_SHMMAX and KERN_SMMALL are size_t sized quantities and are returned as 8 bytes on to 32bit binaries using a x86_64 kernel. However this has existing for a long time so it is not a new regression with the namespace work. Gads the whole sysctl thing needs work before it stops being easy to shoot yourself in the foot. Looking forward a little bit we need a better way to handle sysctls and namespaces as our current technique will not work for the network namespace. I think something based on the current overlapping sysctl trees will work but the proc side needs to be redone before we can use it. This patch: Introduce get_uts() and put_uts() (used later) and remove most of the special cases for when UTS namespace is compiled in. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] session_of_pgrp: kill unnecessary do_each_task_pid(PIDTYPE_PGID)Oleg Nesterov
All members of the process group have the same sid and it can't be == 0. NOTE: this code (and a similar one in sys_setpgid) was needed because it was possibe to have ->session == 0. It's not possible any longer since [PATCH] pidhash: don't use zero pids Commit: c7c6464117a02b0d54feb4ebeca4db70fa493678 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>
2006-12-08[PATCH] sys_setpgid: eliminate unnecessary do_each_task_pid(PIDTYPE_PGID)Oleg Nesterov
All tasks in the process group have the same sid, we don't need to iterate them all to check that the caller of sys_setpgid() doesn't change its session. 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>
2006-12-08[PATCH] add child reaper to pid_namespaceSukadev Bhattiprolu
Add a per pid_namespace child-reaper. This is needed so processes are reaped within the same pid space and do not spill over to the parent pid space. Its also needed so containers preserve existing semantic that pid == 1 would reap orphaned children. This is based on Eric Biederman's patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/6/285 Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] use current->nsproxy->pid_nsCedric Le Goater
Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] to nsproxyCedric Le Goater
Add the pid namespace framework to the nsproxy object. The copy of the pid namespace only increases the refcount on the global pid namespace, init_pid_ns, and unshare is not implemented. There is no configuration option to activate or deactivate this feature because this not relevant for the moment. Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] rename struct pspace to struct pid_namespaceSukadev Bhattiprolu
Rename struct pspace to struct pid_namespace for consistency with other namespaces (uts_namespace and ipc_namespace). Also rename include/linux/pspace.h to include/linux/pid_namespace.h and variables from pspace to pid_ns. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] identifier to nsproxyCedric Le Goater
Add an identifier to nsproxy. The default init_ns_proxy has identifier 0 and allocated nsproxies are given -1. This identifier will be used by a new syscall sys_bind_ns. Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] rename struct namespace to struct mnt_namespaceKirill Korotaev
Rename 'struct namespace' to 'struct mnt_namespace' to avoid confusion with other namespaces being developped for the containers : pid, uts, ipc, etc. 'namespace' variables and attributes are also renamed to 'mnt_ns' Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] add process_session() helper routine: deprecate old fieldCedric Le Goater
Add an anonymous union and ((deprecated)) to catch direct usage of the session field. [akpm@osdl.org: fix various missed conversions] [jdike@addtoit.com: fix UML bug] Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] add process_session() helper routineCedric Le Goater
Replace occurences of task->signal->session by a new process_session() helper routine. It will be useful for pid namespaces to abstract the session pid number. Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] struct path: convert kernelJosef Sipek
Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] kernel: change uses of f_{dentry, vfsmnt} to use f_pathJosef "Jeff" Sipek
Change all the uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to f_path.{dentry,mnt} in linux/kernel/. Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] lockdep: avoid lockdep warning in mdNeilBrown
md_open takes ->reconfig_mutex which causes lockdep to complain. This (normally) doesn't have deadlock potential as the possible conflict is with a reconfig_mutex in a different device. I say "normally" because if a loop were created in the array->member hierarchy a deadlock could happen. However that causes bigger problems than a deadlock and should be fixed independently. So we flag the lock in md_open as a nested lock. This requires defining mutex_lock_interruptible_nested. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] sys_unshare: remove a broken CLONE_SIGHAND codeOleg Nesterov
sys_unshare(CLONE_SIGHAND) is broken, the code under 'if (new_sigh)' is never executed but very wrong. Just remove it to avoid a confusion, task_lock() has nothing to do with ->sighand changing. Also, change the comment in unshare_sighand(). Yes, CLONE_THREAD implies CLONE_SIGHAND, but still it looks confusing. Also, we don't need to check current->sighand != NULL. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] make set_special_pids() staticOleg Nesterov
Make set_special_pids() static, the only caller is daemonize(). 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>
2006-12-08[PATCH] do_acct_process(): don't take tty_mutexOleg Nesterov
No need to take the global tty_mutex, signal->tty->driver can't go away while we are holding ->siglock. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] tty: ->signal->tty lockingPeter Zijlstra
Fix the locking of signal->tty. Use ->sighand->siglock to protect ->signal->tty; this lock is already used by most other members of ->signal/->sighand. And unless we are 'current' or the tasklist_lock is held we need ->siglock to access ->signal anyway. (NOTE: sys_unshare() is broken wrt ->sighand locking rules) Note that tty_mutex is held over tty destruction, so while holding tty_mutex any tty pointer remains valid. Otherwise the lifetime of ttys are governed by their open file handles. This leaves some holes for tty access from signal->tty (or any other non file related tty access). It solves the tty SLAB scribbles we were seeing. (NOTE: the change from group_send_sig_info to __group_send_sig_info needs to be examined by someone familiar with the security framework, I think it is safe given the SEND_SIG_PRIV from other __group_send_sig_info invocations) [schwidefsky@de.ibm.com: 3270 fix] [akpm@osdl.org: various post-viro fixes] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] CPEI gets warning at kernel/irq/migration.c:27/move_masked_irq()Hidetoshi Seto
While running my MCA test (hardware error injection) on 2.6.19, I got some warning like following: > BUG: warning at kernel/irq/migration.c:27/move_masked_irq() > > Call Trace: > [<a000000100013d20>] show_stack+0x40/0xa0 > sp=e00000006b2578d0 bsp=e00000006b2510b0 > [<a000000100013db0>] dump_stack+0x30/0x60 > sp=e00000006b257aa0 bsp=e00000006b251098 > [<a0000001000de430>] move_masked_irq+0xb0/0x240 > sp=e00000006b257aa0 bsp=e00000006b251070 > [<a0000001000de6a0>] move_native_irq+0xe0/0x180 > sp=e00000006b257aa0 bsp=e00000006b251040 > [<a00000010004ff50>] iosapic_end_level_irq+0x30/0xe0 > sp=e00000006b257aa0 bsp=e00000006b251020 > [<a0000001000d94d0>] __do_IRQ+0x170/0x400 > sp=e00000006b257aa0 bsp=e00000006b250fd8 > [<a0000001000116f0>] ia64_handle_irq+0x1b0/0x260 > sp=e00000006b257aa0 bsp=e00000006b250fa8 > [<a00000010000c3a0>] ia64_leave_kernel+0x0/0x280 > sp=e00000006b257aa0 bsp=e00000006b250fa8 > [<a000000100690cf0>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x30/0x60 > sp=e00000006b257c70 bsp=e00000006b250f90 It comes from: [kernel/irq/migration.c] 26 if (CHECK_IRQ_PER_CPU(desc->status)) { 27 WARN_ON(1); 28 return; 29 } By putting some printk in kernel, I found that irqbalance is trying to move CPEI which is handled as PER_CPU irq. That's why. CPEI(Corrected Platform Error Interrupt) is ia64 specific irq, is allowed to pin to particular processor which selected by the platform, and even it is PER_CPU but it has set_affinity handler (=iosapic_set_affinity) as same as other IO-SAPIC-level interrupts. (I don't know why, but I guess that there would be typical situation where the handler for migration is needed, such as hotplug - the processor going to be offline/hot-removed.) To shut up this warning, there are 2 way at least: a) fix CPEI stuff b) prohibit setting affinity to PER_CPU irq I'm not sure what stuff of CPEI need to be fixed, but I think that returning error to attempting move PER_CPU irq is useful for all applications since it will never work. Following small patch takes b) style. It works, the warning disappeared and irqbalance still runs well. Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] move kallsyms data to .rodataJan Beulich
Kallsyms data is never written to, so it can as well benefit from CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 * 'release' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc [IA64] resolve name clash by renaming is_available_memory() [IA64] Need export for csum_ipv6_magic [IA64] Fix DISCONTIGMEM without VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP [PATCH] Add support for type argument in PAL_GET_PSTATE [IA64] tidy up return value of ip_fast_csum [IA64] implement csum_ipv6_magic for ia64. [IA64] More Itanium PAL spec updates [IA64] Update processor_info features [IA64] Add se bit to Processor State Parameter structure [IA64] Add dp bit to cache and bus check structs [IA64] SN: Correctly update smp_affinty mask [IA64] sparse cleanups [IA64] IA64 Kexec/kdump
2006-12-07[IA64] IA64 Kexec/kdumpZou Nan hai
Changes and updates. 1. Remove fake rendz path and related code according to discuss with Khalid Aziz. 2. fc.i offset fix in relocate_kernel.S. 3. iospic shutdown code eoi and mask race fix from Fujitsu. 4. Warm boot hook in machine_kexec to SN SAL code from Jack Steiner. 5. Send slave to SAL slave loop patch from Jay Lan. 6. Kdump on non-recoverable MCA event patch from Jay Lan 7. Use CTL_UNNUMBERED in kdump_on_init sysctl. Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-12-07Add "run_scheduled_work()" workqueue functionLinus Torvalds
This allows workqueue users to run just their own pending work, rather than wait for the whole workqueue to finish running. This solves the deadlock with networking libphy that was due to other workqueue entries possibly needing a lock that was held by the routine that wanted to flush its own work. It's not wonderful: if you absolutely need to synchronize with the work function having been executed, any user strictly speaking should have its own completion tracking logic, since when we run things explicitly by hand, the generic workqueue layer can no longer help us synchronize. Also, this is strictly only usable for work that has been scheduled without any delayed timers. You can not mix the new interface with schedule_delayed_work(). But it's better than what we had currently. Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (48 commits) [NETFILTER]: Fix non-ANSI func. decl. [TG3]: Identify Serdes devices more clearly. [TG3]: Use msleep. [TG3]: Use netif_msg_*. [TG3]: Allow partial speed advertisement. [TG3]: Add TG3_FLG2_IS_NIC flag. [TG3]: Add 5787F device ID. [TG3]: Fix Phy loopback. [WANROUTER]: Kill kmalloc debugging code. [TCP] inet_twdr_hangman: Delete unnecessary memory barrier(). [NET]: Memory barrier cleanups [IPSEC]: Fix inetpeer leak in ipv4 xfrm dst entries. audit: disable ipsec auditing when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=n audit: Add auditing to ipsec [IRDA] irlan: Fix compile warning when CONFIG_PROC_FS=n [IrDA]: Incorrect TTP header reservation [IrDA]: PXA FIR code device model conversion [GENETLINK]: Fix misplaced command flags. [NETLIK]: Add a pointer to the Generic Netlink wiki page. [IPV6] RAW: Don't release unlocked sock. ...
2006-12-07Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (156 commits) [PATCH] x86-64: Export smp_call_function_single [PATCH] i386: Clean up smp_tune_scheduling() [PATCH] unwinder: move .eh_frame to RODATA [PATCH] unwinder: fully support linker generated .eh_frame_hdr section [PATCH] x86-64: don't use set_irq_regs() [PATCH] x86-64: check vector in setup_ioapic_dest to verify if need setup_IO_APIC_irq [PATCH] x86-64: Make ix86 default to HIGHMEM4G instead of NOHIGHMEM [PATCH] i386: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc [PATCH] x86-64: remove remaining pc98 code [PATCH] x86-64: remove unused variable [PATCH] x86-64: Fix constraints in atomic_add_return() [PATCH] x86-64: fix asm constraints in i386 atomic_add_return [PATCH] x86-64: Correct documentation for bzImage protocol v2.05 [PATCH] x86-64: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc in MTRR code [PATCH] x86-64: Fix numaq build error [PATCH] x86-64: include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h isn't a userspace header [PATCH] unwinder: Add debugging output to the Dwarf2 unwinder [PATCH] x86-64: Clarify error message in GART code [PATCH] x86-64: Fix interrupt race in idle callback (3rd try) [PATCH] x86-64: Remove unwind stack pointer alignment forcing again ... Fixed conflict in include/linux/uaccess.h manually Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] cpuset: allow a larger buffer for writes to cpuset filesPaul Menage
When using fake NUMA setup, the number of memory nodes can greatly exceed the number of CPUs. So the current limit in cpuset_common_file_write() is insufficient. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] add ignore_loglevel boot optionIngo Molnar
Sometimes the kernel prints something interesting while userspace bootup keeps messages turned off via loglevel. Enable the printing of /all/ kernel messages via the "ignore_loglevel" boot option. Off by default. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] lockdep: register_lock_class() fixIngo Molnar
The hash_lock must only ever be taken with irqs disabled. This happens in all the important places, except one codepath: register_lock_class(). The race should trigger rarely because register_lock_class() is quite rare and single-threaded (happens during init most of the time). The fix is to disable irqs. ( bug found live in -rt: there preemption is alot more agressive and preempting with the hash-lock held caused a lockup.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] Kexec / Kdump: Unify elf note codeMagnus Damm
The elf note saving code is currently duplicated over several architectures. This cleanup patch simply adds code to a common file and then replaces the arch-specific code with calls to the newly added code. The only drawback with this approach is that s390 doesn't fully support kexec-on-panic which for that arch leads to introduction of unused code. Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] struct seq_operations and struct file_operations constificationHelge Deller
- move some file_operations structs into the .rodata section - move static strings from policy_types[] array into the .rodata section - fix generic seq_operations usages, so that those structs may be defined as "const" as well [akpm@osdl.org: couple of fixes] Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] futex: remove unneeded barrierRalf Baechle
When disassembling a kernel I found around over 90 sync Instructions from mb, rmb and wmb calls in the kernel and only few of those make any sense to me. So here's the first one - I think the wmb() in kernel/futex.c is not needed on uniprocessors so should become an smb_wmb(). Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] Add Sparse annotations to SRCU wrapper functions in rcutortureJosh Triplett
The SRCU wrapper functions srcu_torture_read_lock and srcu_torture_read_unlock in rcutorture intentionally change the SRCU context; annotate them accordingly, to avoid a warning. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] sys: remove unused variableDavid Rientjes
Remove unused 'new_ruid' variable. Reported by David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com>. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL'ed symbolsAdrian Bunk
In time for 2.6.20, we can get rid of this junk. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] softirq: remove BUG_ONs which can incorrectly triggerZachary Amsden
It is possible to have tasklets get scheduled before softirqd has had a chance to spawn on all CPUs. This is totally harmless; after success during action CPU_UP_PREPARE, action CPU_ONLINE will be called, which immediately wakes softirqd on the appropriate CPU to process the already pending tasklets. So there is no danger of having a missed wakeup for any tasklets that were already pending. In particular, i386 is affected by this during startup, and is visible when using a very large initrd; during the time it takes for the initrd to be decompressed, a timer IRQ can come in and schedule RCU callbacks. It is also possible that resending of a hardware IRQ via a softirq triggers the same bug. Because of different timing conditions, this shows up in all emulators and virtual machines tested, including Xen, VMware, Virtual PC, and Qemu. It is also possible to trigger on native hardware with a large enough initrd, although I don't have a reliable case demonstrating that. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: <caglar@pardus.org.tr> Cc: 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>
2006-12-07[PATCH] lockdep: show more details about self-test failuresIngo Molnar
Make the locking self-test failures (of 'FAILURE' type) easier to debug by printing more information. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] lockdep: more chainsIngo Molnar
Some have reported a chain-table overflow - double its size. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] sched: correct output of show_state()Chris Caputo
At present show_state prints a header the does not match the output of show_task, as follows: - sibling task PC pid father child younger older init S 00000000 0 1 0 2 (NOTLB) - This patch corrects the output of show_state so that the header is aligned with the data, ala: - free sibling task PC stack pid father child younger older init S 00000000 0 1 0 2 (NOTLB) - Signed-off-by: Chris Caputo <ccaputo@alt.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] sysctl: string length calculated is wrong if it contains negative ↵BP, Praveen
numbers In the functions do_proc_dointvec() and do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(), there seems to be a bug in string length calculation if string contains negative integer. The console log given below explains the bug. Setting negative values may not be a right thing to do for "console log level" but then the test (given below) can be used to demonstrate the bug in the code. # echo "-1 -1 -1 -123456" > /proc/sys/kernel/printk # cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk -1 -1 -1 -1234 # # echo "-1 -1 -1 123456" > /proc/sys/kernel/printk # cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk -1 -1 -1 1234 # (akpm: the bug is that 123456 gets truncated) It works as expected if string contains all +ve integers # echo "1 2 3 4" > /proc/sys/kernel/printk # cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk 1 2 3 4 # The patch given below fixes the issue. Signed-off-by: Praveen BP <praveenbp@ti.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] futex: init error checkAkinobu Mita
Check register_filesystem() and kern_mount() return values. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] kernel core: replace kmalloc+memset with kzallocBurman Yan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] rcu: add a prefetch() in rcu_do_batch()Eric Dumazet
On some workloads, (for example when lot of close() syscalls are done), RCU qlen can be quite large, and RCU heads are no longer in cpu cache when rcu_do_batch() is called. This patch adds a prefetch() in rcu_do_batch() to give CPU a hint to bring back cache lines containing 'struct rcu_head's. Most list manipulations macros include prefetch(), but not open coded ones (at least with current C compilers :) ) I got a nice speedup on a trivial benchmark (3.48 us per iteration instead of 3.95 us on a 1.6 GHz Pentium-M) while (1) { pipe(p); close(fd[0]); close(fd[1]);} Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.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>
2006-12-07[PATCH] make kernel/signal.c:kill_proc_info() staticAdrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] remove kernel/lockdep.c:lockdep_internalAdrian Bunk
Remove the no longer used lockdep_internal(). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] hotplug CPU: clean up hotcpu_notifier() useIngo Molnar
There was lots of #ifdef noise in the kernel due to hotcpu_notifier(fn, prio) not correctly marking 'fn' as used in the !HOTPLUG_CPU case, and thus generating compiler warnings of unused symbols, hence forcing people to add #ifdefs. the compiler can skip truly unused functions just fine: text data bss dec hex filename 1624412 728710 3674856 6027978 5bfaca vmlinux.before 1624412 728710 3674856 6027978 5bfaca vmlinux.after [akpm@osdl.org: topology.c fix] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] kprobes: enable booster on the preemptible kernelMasami Hiramatsu
When we are unregistering a kprobe-booster, we can't release its instruction buffer immediately on the preemptive kernel, because some processes might be preempted on the buffer. The freeze_processes() and thaw_processes() functions can clean most of processes up from the buffer. There are still some non-frozen threads who have the PF_NOFREEZE flag. If those threads are sleeping (not preempted) at the known place outside the buffer, we can ensure safety of freeing. However, the processing of this check routine takes a long time. So, this patch introduces the garbage collection mechanism of insn_slot. It also introduces the "dirty" flag to free_insn_slot because of efficiency. The "clean" instruction slots (dirty flag is cleared) are released immediately. But the "dirty" slots which are used by boosted kprobes, are marked as garbages. collect_garbage_slots() will be invoked to release "dirty" slots if there are more than INSNS_PER_PAGE garbage slots or if there are no unused slots. Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: "bibo,mao" <bibo.mao@intel.com> Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Yumiko Sugita <yumiko.sugita.yf@hitachi.com> Cc: Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com> Cc: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] remove the syslog interface when printk is disabledMike Galbraith
Attempts to read() from the non-existent dmesg buffer will return zero and userspace tends to get stuck in a busyloop. So just remove /dev/kmsg altogether if CONFIG_PRINTK=n. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>