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44fbbb3 Al Viro 30 April 2012, 22:24:46 UTC x86: get rid of calling do_notify_resume() when returning to kernel mode If we end up calling do_notify_resume() with !user_mode(refs), it does nothing (do_signal() explicitly bails out and we can't get there with TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME in such situations). Then we jump to resume_userspace_sig, which rechecks the same thing and bails out to resume_kernel, thus breaking the loop. It's easier and cheaper to check *before* calling do_notify_resume() and bail out to resume_kernel immediately. And kill the check in do_signal()... Note that on amd64 we can't get there with !user_mode() at all - asm glue takes care of that. Acked-and-reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 01 June 2012, 17:01:51 UTC
29bf5dd Al Viro 03 May 2012, 01:14:30 UTC blackfin: check __get_user() return value Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 01 June 2012, 17:01:27 UTC
35d5180 Al Viro 01 June 2012, 17:00:49 UTC whack-a-mole with TIF_FREEZE blackfin has reintroduced it, completely unused. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 01 June 2012, 17:00:49 UTC
a2eddc7 David Howells 01 May 2012, 20:31:42 UTC FRV: Optimise the system call exit path in entry.S [ver #2] Optimise the system call exit path in entry.S by packing some instructions. Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 01 June 2012, 16:59:38 UTC
1e5ef91 David Howells 01 May 2012, 20:31:33 UTC FRV: Shrink TIF_WORK_MASK [ver #2] Shrink TIF_WORK_MASK so that it will fit in the 12-bit signed immediate operand field of an ANDI instruction. Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 01 June 2012, 16:59:37 UTC
137c3c4 David Howells 01 May 2012, 18:44:14 UTC FRV: Prevent syscall exit tracing and notify_resume at end of kernel exceptions Move the test for kernel mode processing from do_signal() into entry.S to also prevent system call exit tracing and userspace resumption notification handling happening when returning from kernel exceptions. Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 01 June 2012, 16:59:18 UTC
efee984 Al Viro 28 April 2012, 06:04:15 UTC new helper: signal_delivered() Does block_sigmask() + tracehook_signal_handler(); called when sigframe has been successfully built. All architectures converted to it; block_sigmask() itself is gone now (merged into this one). I'm still not too happy with the signature, but that's a separate story (IMO we need a structure that would contain signal number + siginfo + k_sigaction, so that get_signal_to_deliver() would fill one, signal_delivered(), handle_signal() and probably setup...frame() - take one). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 01 June 2012, 16:58:52 UTC
17440f1 Al Viro 27 April 2012, 18:09:19 UTC powerpc: get rid of restore_sigmask() ... it's just a call of set_current_blocked() now Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 01 June 2012, 16:58:51 UTC
77097ae Al Viro 27 April 2012, 17:58:59 UTC most of set_current_blocked() callers want SIGKILL/SIGSTOP removed from set Only 3 out of 63 do not. Renamed the current variant to __set_current_blocked(), added set_current_blocked() that will exclude unblockable signals, switched open-coded instances to it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 01 June 2012, 16:58:51 UTC
edd63a2 Al Viro 27 April 2012, 17:42:45 UTC set_restore_sigmask() is never called without SIGPENDING (and never should be) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 01 June 2012, 16:58:50 UTC
6fd84c0 Al Viro 23 May 2012, 19:28:58 UTC TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK can be set only when TIF_SIGPENDING is set Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 01 June 2012, 16:58:50 UTC
bf343df Al Viro 27 April 2012, 05:18:52 UTC don't call try_to_freeze() from do_signal() get_signal_to_deliver() will handle it itself Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 01 June 2012, 16:58:49 UTC
a610d6e Al Viro 22 May 2012, 03:42:15 UTC pull clearing RESTORE_SIGMASK into block_sigmask() Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 01 June 2012, 16:58:49 UTC
5754f41 Al Viro 27 April 2012, 03:52:33 UTC sh64: failure to build sigframe != signal without handler it's actually "send me SIGSEGV"... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 01 June 2012, 16:58:49 UTC
39974d0 Al Viro 27 April 2012, 03:42:55 UTC openrisc: tracehook_signal_handler() is supposed to be called on success ... not if sigframe couldn't have been built. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 01 June 2012, 16:58:48 UTC
b7f9a11 Al Viro 02 May 2012, 13:59:21 UTC new helper: sigmask_to_save() replace boilerplate "should we use ->saved_sigmask or ->blocked?" with calls of obvious inlined helper... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 01 June 2012, 16:58:48 UTC
51a7b44 Al Viro 22 May 2012, 03:33:55 UTC new helper: restore_saved_sigmask() first fruits of ..._restore_sigmask() helpers: now we can take boilerplate "signal didn't have a handler, clear RESTORE_SIGMASK and restore the blocked mask from ->saved_mask" into a common helper. Open-coded instances switched... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 01 June 2012, 16:58:47 UTC
4ebefe3 Al Viro 27 April 2012, 02:29:20 UTC new helpers: {clear,test,test_and_clear}_restore_sigmask() helpers parallel to set_restore_sigmask(), used in the next commits Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 01 June 2012, 16:58:47 UTC
754421c Al Viro 26 April 2012, 22:31:00 UTC HAVE_RESTORE_SIGMASK is defined on all architectures now Everyone either defines it in arch thread_info.h or has TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK and picks default set_restore_sigmask() in linux/thread_info.h. Kill the ifdefs, slap #error in linux/thread_info.h to catch breakage when new ones get merged. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 01 June 2012, 16:58:46 UTC
fb21aff Linus Torvalds 01 June 2012, 01:47:30 UTC Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal Pull second pile of signal handling patches from Al Viro: "This one is just task_work_add() series + remaining prereqs for it. There probably will be another pull request from that tree this cycle - at least for helpers, to get them out of the way for per-arch fixes remaining in the tree." Fix trivial conflict in kernel/irq/manage.c: the merge of Andrew's pile had brought in commit 97fd75b7b8e0 ("kernel/irq/manage.c: use the pr_foo() infrastructure to prefix printks") which changed one of the pr_err() calls that this merge moves around. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: keys: kill task_struct->replacement_session_keyring keys: kill the dummy key_replace_session_keyring() keys: change keyctl_session_to_parent() to use task_work_add() genirq: reimplement exit_irq_thread() hook via task_work_add() task_work_add: generic process-context callbacks avr32: missed _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME on one of do_notify_resume callers parisc: need to check NOTIFY_RESUME when exiting from syscall move key_repace_session_keyring() into tracehook_notify_resume() TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME is defined on all targets now 01 June 2012, 01:47:30 UTC
a00b615 Linus Torvalds 01 June 2012, 01:18:11 UTC Merge branch 'for-3.5-take-2' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux Pull nfsd update from Bruce Fields. * 'for-3.5-take-2' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (23 commits) nfsd: trivial: use SEEK_SET instead of 0 in vfs_llseek SUNRPC: split upcall function to extract reusable parts nfsd: allocate id-to-name and name-to-id caches in per-net operations. nfsd: make name-to-id cache allocated per network namespace context nfsd: make id-to-name cache allocated per network namespace context nfsd: pass network context to idmap init/exit functions nfsd: allocate export and expkey caches in per-net operations. nfsd: make expkey cache allocated per network namespace context nfsd: make export cache allocated per network namespace context nfsd: pass pointer to export cache down to stack wherever possible. nfsd: pass network context to export caches init/shutdown routines Lockd: pass network namespace to creation and destruction routines NFSd: remove hard-coded dereferences to name-to-id and id-to-name caches nfsd: pass pointer to expkey cache down to stack wherever possible. nfsd: use hash table from cache detail in nfsd export seq ops nfsd: pass svc_export_cache pointer as private data to "exports" seq file ops nfsd: use exp_put() for svc_export_cache put nfsd: use cache detail pointer from svc_export structure on cache put nfsd: add link to owner cache detail to svc_export structure nfsd: use passed cache_detail pointer expkey_parse() ... 01 June 2012, 01:18:11 UTC
08615d7 Linus Torvalds 01 June 2012, 01:10:18 UTC Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) Merge misc patches from Andrew Morton: - the "misc" tree - stuff from all over the map - checkpatch updates - fatfs - kmod changes - procfs - cpumask - UML - kexec - mqueue - rapidio - pidns - some checkpoint-restore feature work. Reluctantly. Most of it delayed a release. I'm still rather worried that we don't have a clear roadmap to completion for this work. * emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (78 patches) kconfig: update compression algorithm info c/r: prctl: add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file c/r: prctl: extend PR_SET_MM to set up more mm_struct entries c/r: procfs: add arg_start/end, env_start/end and exit_code members to /proc/$pid/stat syscalls, x86: add __NR_kcmp syscall fs, proc: introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entry sysctl: make kernel.ns_last_pid control dependent on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE aio/vfs: cleanup of rw_copy_check_uvector() and compat_rw_copy_check_uvector() eventfd: change int to __u64 in eventfd_signal() fs/nls: add Apple NLS pidns: make killed children autoreap pidns: use task_active_pid_ns in do_notify_parent rapidio/tsi721: add DMA engine support rapidio: add DMA engine support for RIO data transfers ipc/mqueue: add rbtree node caching support tools/selftests: add mq_perf_tests ipc/mqueue: strengthen checks on mqueue creation ipc/mqueue: correct mq_attr_ok test ipc/mqueue: improve performance of send/recv selftests: add mq_open_tests ... 01 June 2012, 01:10:18 UTC
9fdadb2 Linus Torvalds 01 June 2012, 01:01:18 UTC Merge branch 'drm-prime-vmap' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux Pull drm prime mmap/vmap code from Dave Airlie: "As mentioned previously these are the extra bits of drm that relied on the dma-buf pull to work, the first three just stub out the mmap interface, and the next set provide vmap export to i915/radeon/nouveau and vmap import to udl." * 'drm-prime-vmap' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: radeon: add radeon prime vmap support. nouveau: add vmap support to nouveau prime support udl: support vmapping imported dma-bufs i915: add dma-buf vmap support for exporting vmapped buffer radeon: add stub dma-buf mmap functionality nouveau: add stub dma-buf mmap functionality. i915: add stub dma-buf mmap callback. 01 June 2012, 01:01:18 UTC
0a4dd35 Randy Dunlap 31 May 2012, 23:26:46 UTC kconfig: update compression algorithm info There have been new compression algorithms added without updating nearby relevant descriptive text that refers to (a) the number of compression algorithms and (b) the most recent one. Fix these inconsistencies. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Reported-by: <qasdfgtyuiop@gmail.com> Cc: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:33 UTC
b32dfe3 Cyrill Gorcunov 31 May 2012, 23:26:46 UTC c/r: prctl: add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file When we do restore we would like to have a way to setup a former mm_struct::exe_file so that /proc/pid/exe would point to the original executable file a process had at checkpoint time. For this the PR_SET_MM_EXE_FILE code is introduced. This option takes a file descriptor which will be set as a source for new /proc/$pid/exe symlink. Note it allows to change /proc/$pid/exe if there are no VM_EXECUTABLE vmas present for current process, simply because this feature is a special to C/R and mm::num_exe_file_vmas become meaningless after that. To minimize the amount of transition the /proc/pid/exe symlink might have, this feature is implemented in one-shot manner. Thus once changed the symlink can't be changed again. This should help sysadmins to monitor the symlinks over all process running in a system. In particular one could make a snapshot of processes and ring alarm if there unexpected changes of /proc/pid/exe's in a system. Note -- this feature is available iif CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE is set and the caller must have CAP_SYS_RESOURCE capability granted, otherwise the request to change symlink will be rejected. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:32 UTC
fe8c7f5 Cyrill Gorcunov 31 May 2012, 23:26:45 UTC c/r: prctl: extend PR_SET_MM to set up more mm_struct entries During checkpoint we dump whole process memory to a file and the dump includes process stack memory. But among stack data itself, the stack carries additional parameters such as command line arguments, environment data and auxiliary vector. So when we do restore procedure and once we've restored stack data itself we need to setup mm_struct::arg_start/end, env_start/end, so restored process would be able to find command line arguments and environment data it had at checkpoint time. The same applies to auxiliary vector. For this reason additional PR_SET_MM_(ARG_START | ARG_END | ENV_START | ENV_END | AUXV) codes are introduced. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:32 UTC
5b17208 Cyrill Gorcunov 31 May 2012, 23:26:44 UTC c/r: procfs: add arg_start/end, env_start/end and exit_code members to /proc/$pid/stat We would like to have an ability to restore command line arguments and program environment pointers but first we need to obtain them somehow. Thus we put these values into /proc/$pid/stat. The exit_code is needed to restore zombie tasks. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:32 UTC
d97b46a Cyrill Gorcunov 31 May 2012, 23:26:44 UTC syscalls, x86: add __NR_kcmp syscall While doing the checkpoint-restore in the user space one need to determine whether various kernel objects (like mm_struct-s of file_struct-s) are shared between tasks and restore this state. The 2nd step can be solved by using appropriate CLONE_ flags and the unshare syscall, while there's currently no ways for solving the 1st one. One of the ways for checking whether two tasks share e.g. mm_struct is to provide some mm_struct ID of a task to its proc file, but showing such info considered to be not that good for security reasons. Thus after some debates we end up in conclusion that using that named 'comparison' syscall might be the best candidate. So here is it -- __NR_kcmp. It takes up to 5 arguments - the pids of the two tasks (which characteristics should be compared), the comparison type and (in case of comparison of files) two file descriptors. Lookups for pids are done in the caller's PID namespace only. At moment only x86 is supported and tested. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up selftests, warnings] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: include errno.h] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text] Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:32 UTC
8184116 Cyrill Gorcunov 31 May 2012, 23:26:43 UTC fs, proc: introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entry When we do checkpoint of a task we need to know the list of children the task, has but there is no easy and fast way to generate reverse parent->children chain from arbitrary <pid> (while a parent pid is provided in "PPid" field of /proc/<pid>/status). So instead of walking over all pids in the system (creating one big process tree in memory, just to figure out which children a task has) -- we add explicit /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entry, because the kernel already has this kind of information but it is not yet exported. This is a first level children, not the whole process tree. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.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> 01 June 2012, 00:49:32 UTC
98ed57e Cyrill Gorcunov 31 May 2012, 23:26:42 UTC sysctl: make kernel.ns_last_pid control dependent on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE For those who doesn't need C/R functionality there is no need to control last pid, ie the pid for the next fork() call. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:32 UTC
ac34ebb Christopher Yeoh 31 May 2012, 23:26:42 UTC aio/vfs: cleanup of rw_copy_check_uvector() and compat_rw_copy_check_uvector() A cleanup of rw_copy_check_uvector and compat_rw_copy_check_uvector after changes made to support CMA in an earlier patch. Rather than having an additional check_access parameter to these functions, the first paramater type is overloaded to allow the caller to specify CHECK_IOVEC_ONLY which means check that the contents of the iovec are valid, but do not check the memory that they point to. This is used by process_vm_readv/writev where we need to validate that a iovec passed to the syscall is valid but do not want to check the memory that it points to at this point because it refers to an address space in another process. Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh <yeohc@au1.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:32 UTC
ee62c6b Sha Zhengju 31 May 2012, 23:26:41 UTC eventfd: change int to __u64 in eventfd_signal() eventfd_ctx->count is an __u64 counter which is allowed to reach ULLONG_MAX. eventfd_write() adds a __u64 value to "count", but the kernel side eventfd_signal() only adds an int value to it. Make them consistent. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: update interface documentation] Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@taobao.com> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:32 UTC
71ca97d Vladimir Serbinenko 31 May 2012, 23:26:40 UTC fs/nls: add Apple NLS HFS has support for NLS. However the relevant NLS tables are missing. Here they are automatically transformed from the tables at unicode.org. Codepages requiring special handling like CJK, RTL or Brahmic ones are not included in this patch. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add unicode.org copyright and permission notices] Signed-off-by: Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:32 UTC
00c10bc Eric W. Biederman 31 May 2012, 23:26:40 UTC pidns: make killed children autoreap Force SIGCHLD handling to SIG_IGN so that signals are not generated and so that the children autoreap. This increases the parallelize and in general the speed of network namespace shutdown. Note self reaping childrean can exist past zap_pid_ns_processess but they will all be reaped before we allow the pid namespace init task with pid == 1 to be reaped. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:32 UTC
3208450 Eric W. Biederman 31 May 2012, 23:26:39 UTC pidns: use task_active_pid_ns in do_notify_parent Using task_active_pid_ns is more robust because it works even after we have called exit_namespaces. This change allows us to have parent processes that are zombies. Normally a zombie parent processes is crazy and the last thing you would want to have but in the case of not letting the init process of a pid namespace be reaped until all of it's children are dead and reaped a zombie parent process is exactly what we want. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:31 UTC
9eaa3d9 Alexandre Bounine 31 May 2012, 23:26:39 UTC rapidio/tsi721: add DMA engine support Adds support for DMA Engine API into Tsi721 mport driver. Includes following changes for Tsi721 driver: - Modifies BDMA register offset definitions to support per-channel handling - Separates BDMA channel reserved for RIO Maintenance requests - Adds DMA Engine callback routines Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:31 UTC
e42d98e Alexandre Bounine 31 May 2012, 23:26:38 UTC rapidio: add DMA engine support for RIO data transfers Adds DMA Engine framework support into RapidIO subsystem. Uses DMA Engine DMA_SLAVE interface to generate data transfers to/from remote RapidIO target devices. Introduces RapidIO-specific wrapper for prep_slave_sg() interface with an extra parameter to pass target specific information. Uses scatterlist to describe local data buffer. Address flat data buffer on a remote side. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@linux.intel.com> Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:31 UTC
ce2d52c Doug Ledford 31 May 2012, 23:26:38 UTC ipc/mqueue: add rbtree node caching support When I wrote the first patch that added the rbtree support for message queue insertion, it sped up the case where the queue was very full drastically from the original code. It, however, slowed down the case where the queue was empty (not drastically though). This patch caches the last freed rbtree node struct so we can quickly reuse it when we get a new message. This is the common path for any queue that very frequently goes from 0 to 1 then back to 0 messages in queue. Andrew Morton didn't like that we were doing a GFP_ATOMIC allocation in msg_insert, so this patch attempts to speculatively allocate a new node struct outside of the spin lock when we know we need it, but will still fall back to a GFP_ATOMIC allocation if it has to. Once I added the caching, the necessary various ret = ; spin_unlock gyrations in mq_timedsend were getting pretty ugly, so this also slightly refactors that function to streamline the flow of the code and the function exit. Finally, while working on getting performance back I made sure that all of the node structs were always fully initialized when they were first used, rendering the use of kzalloc unnecessary and a waste of CPU cycles. The net result of all of this is: 1) We will avoid a GFP_ATOMIC allocation when possible, but fall back on it when necessary. 2) We will speculatively allocate a node struct using GFP_KERNEL if our cache is empty (and save the struct to our cache if it's still empty after we have obtained the spin lock). 3) The performance of the common queue empty case has significantly improved and is now much more in line with the older performance for this case. The performance changes are: Old mqueue new mqueue new mqueue + caching queue empty send/recv 305/288ns 349/318ns 310/322ns I don't think we'll ever be able to get the recv performance back, but that's because the old recv performance was a direct result and consequence of the old methods abysmal send performance. The recv path simply must do more so that the send path does not incur such a penalty under higher queue depths. As it turns out, the new caching code also sped up the various queue full cases relative to my last patch. That could be because of the difference between the syscall path in 3.3.4-rc5 and 3.3.4-rc6, or because of the change in code flow in the mq_timedsend routine. Regardless, I'll take it. It wasn't huge, and I *would* say it was within the margin for error, but after many repeated runs what I'm seeing is that the old numbers trend slightly higher (about 10 to 20ns depending on which test is the one running). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> 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> 01 June 2012, 00:49:31 UTC
7820b07 Doug Ledford 31 May 2012, 23:26:37 UTC tools/selftests: add mq_perf_tests Add the mq_perf_tests tool I used when creating my mq performance patch. Also add a local .gitignore to keep the binaries from showing up in git status output. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: 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> 01 June 2012, 00:49:31 UTC
113289c Doug Ledford 31 May 2012, 23:26:36 UTC ipc/mqueue: strengthen checks on mqueue creation We already check the mq attr struct if it's passed in, but now that the admin can set system wide defaults separate from maximums, it's actually possible to set the defaults to something that would overflow. So, if there is no attr struct passed in to the open call, check the default values. While we are at it, simplify mq_attr_ok() by making it return 0 or an error condition, so that way if we add more tests to it later, we have the option of what error should be returned instead of the calling location having to pick a possibly inaccurate error code. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/ENOMEM/EOVERFLOW/] Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Acked-by: 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> 01 June 2012, 00:49:31 UTC
2c12ea4 Doug Ledford 31 May 2012, 23:26:36 UTC ipc/mqueue: correct mq_attr_ok test While working on the other parts of the mqueue stuff, I noticed that the calculation for overflow in mq_attr_ok didn't actually match reality (this is especially true since my last patch which changed how we account memory slightly). In particular, we used to test for overflow using: msgs * msgsize + msgs * sizeof(struct msg_msg *) That was never really correct because each message we allocate via load_msg() is actually a struct msg_msg followed by the data for the message (and if struct msg_msg + data exceeds PAGE_SIZE we end up allocating struct msg_msgseg structs too, but accounting for them would get really tedious, so let's ignore those...they're only a pointer in size anyway). This patch updates the calculation to be more accurate in regards to maximum possible memory consumption by the mqueue. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add a local to simplify overflow-checking expression] Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Acked-by: 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> 01 June 2012, 00:49:31 UTC
d662985 Doug Ledford 31 May 2012, 23:26:35 UTC ipc/mqueue: improve performance of send/recv The existing implementation of the POSIX message queue send and recv functions is, well, abysmal. Even worse than abysmal. I submitted a patch to increase the maximum POSIX message queue limit to 65536 due to customer needs, however, upon looking over the send/recv implementation, I realized that my customer needs help with that too even if they don't know it. The basic problem is that, given the fairly typical use case scenario for a large queue of queueing lots of messages all at the same priority (I verified with my customer that this is indeed what their app does), the msg_insert routine is basically a frikkin' bubble sort. I mean, whoa, that's *so* middle school. OK, OK, to not slam the original author too much, I'm sure they didn't envision a queue depth of 50,000+ messages. No one would think that moving elements in an array, one at a time, and dereferencing each pointer in that array to check priority of the message being pointed too, again one at a time, for 50,000+ times would be good. So let's assume that, as is typical, the users have found a way to break our code simply by using it in a way we didn't envision. Fair enough. "So, just how broken is it?", you ask. I wondered the same thing, so I wrote an app to let me know. It's my next patch. It gave me some interesting results. Here's what it tested: Interference with other apps - In continuous mode, the app just sits there and hits a message queue forever, while you go do something productive on another terminal using other CPUs. You then measure how long it takes you to do that something productive. Then you restart the app in fake continuous mode, and it sits in a tight loop on a CPU while you repeat your tests. The whole point of this is to keep one CPU tied up (so it can't be used in your other work) but in one case tied up hitting the mqueue code so we can see the effect of walking that 65,528 element array one pointer at a time on the global CPU cache. If it's bad, then it will slow down your app on the other CPUs just by polluting cache mercilessly. In the fake case, it will be in a tight loop, but not polluting cache. Testing the mqueue subsystem directly - Here we just run a number of tests to see how the mqueue subsystem performs under different conditions. A couple conditions are known to be worst case for the old system, and some routines, so this tests all of them. So, on to the results already: Subsystem/Test Old New Time to compile linux kernel (make -j12 on a 6 core CPU) Running mqueue test user 49m10.744s user 45m26.294s sys 5m51.924s sys 4m59.894s total 55m02.668s total 50m26.188s Running fake test user 45m32.686s user 45m18.552s sys 5m12.465s sys 4m56.468s total 50m45.151s total 50m15.020s % slowdown from mqueue cache thrashing ~8% ~.5% Avg time to send/recv (in nanoseconds per message) when queue empty 305/288 349/318 when queue full (65528 messages) constant priority 526589/823 362/314 increasing priority 403105/916 495/445 decreasing priority 73420/594 482/409 random priority 280147/920 546/436 Time to fill/drain queue (65528 messages, in seconds) constant priority 17.37/.12 .13/.12 increasing priority 4.14/.14 .21/.18 decreasing priority 12.93/.13 .21/.18 random priority 8.88/.16 .22/.17 So, I think the results speak for themselves. It's possible this implementation could be improved by cacheing at least one priority level in the node tree (that would bring the queue empty performance more in line with the old implementation), but this works and is *so* much better than what we had, especially for the common case of a single priority in use, that further refinements can be in follow on patches. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo in comment, remove stray semicolon] [levinsasha928@gmail.com: use correct gfp flags in msg_insert] Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:31 UTC
50069a5 Doug Ledford 31 May 2012, 23:26:34 UTC selftests: add mq_open_tests Add a directory to house POSIX message queue subsystem specific tests. Add first test which checks the operation of mq_open() under various corner conditions. Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:31 UTC
cef0184 KOSAKI Motohiro 31 May 2012, 23:26:33 UTC mqueue: separate mqueue default value from maximum value Commit b231cca4381e ("message queues: increase range limits") changed mqueue default value when attr parameter is specified NULL from hard coded value to fs.mqueue.{msg,msgsize}_max sysctl value. This made large side effect. When user need to use two mqueue applications 1) using !NULL attr parameter and it require big message size and 2) using NULL attr parameter and only need small size message, app (1) require to raise fs.mqueue.msgsize_max and app (2) consume large memory size even though it doesn't need. Doug Ledford propsed to switch back it to static hard coded value. However it also has a compatibility problem. Some applications might started depend on the default value is tunable. The solution is to separate default value from maximum value. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Acked-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:31 UTC
fd1f87d KOSAKI Motohiro 31 May 2012, 23:26:31 UTC mqueue: don't use kmalloc with KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE is not a good threshold. It is extremely high and problematic. Unfortunately, some silly drivers depend on this and we can't change it. But any new code needn't use such extreme ugly high order allocations. It brings us awful fragmentation issues and system slowdown. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <mkosaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Acked-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:31 UTC
e6315bb KOSAKI Motohiro 31 May 2012, 23:26:31 UTC mqueue: revert bump up DFLT_*MAX Mqueue limitation is slightly naieve parameter likes other ipcs because unprivileged user can consume kernel memory by using ipcs. Thus, too aggressive raise bring us security issue. Example, current setting allow evil unprivileged user use 256GB (= 256 * 1024 * 1024*1024) and it's enough large to system will belome unresponsive. Don't do that. Instead, every admin should adjust the knobs for their own systems. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Acked-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:31 UTC
5b5c4d1 Doug Ledford 31 May 2012, 23:26:30 UTC ipc/mqueue: update maximums for the mqueue subsystem Commit b231cca4381e ("message queues: increase range limits") changed the maximum size of a message in a message queue from INT_MAX to 8192*128. Unfortunately, we had customers that relied on a size much larger than 8192*128 on their production systems. After reviewing POSIX, we found that it is silent on the maximum message size. We did find a couple other areas in which it was not silent. Fix up the mqueue maximums so that the customer's system can continue to work, and document both the POSIX and real world requirements in ipc_namespace.h so that we don't have this issue crop back up. Also, commit 9cf18e1dd74cd0 ("ipc: HARD_MSGMAX should be higher not lower on 64bit") fiddled with HARD_MSGMAX without realizing that the number was intentionally in place to limit the msg queue depth to one that was small enough to kmalloc an array of pointers (hence why we divided 128k by sizeof(long)). If we wish to meet POSIX requirements, we have no choice but to change our allocation to a vmalloc instead (at least for the large queue size case). With that, it's possible to increase our allowed maximum to the POSIX requirements (or more if we choose). [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: using vmalloc requires including vmalloc.h] Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:30 UTC
02967ea Doug Ledford 31 May 2012, 23:26:29 UTC ipc/mqueue: enforce hard limits In two places we don't enforce the hard limits for CAP_SYS_RESOURCE apps. In preparation for making more reasonable hard limits, start enforcing them even on CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:30 UTC
858ee37 Doug Ledford 31 May 2012, 23:26:29 UTC ipc/mqueue: switch back to using non-max values on create Commit b231cca4381e ("message queues: increase range limits") changed how we create a queue that does not include an attr struct passed to open so that it creates the queue with whatever the maximum values are. However, if the admin has set the maximums to allow flexibility in creating a queue (aka, both a large size and large queue are allowed, but combined they create a queue too large for the RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE of the user), then attempts to create a queue without an attr struct will fail. Switch back to using acceptable defaults regardless of what the maximums are. Note: so far, we only know of a few applications that rely on this behavior (specifically, set the maximums in /proc, then run the application which calls mq_open() without passing in an attr struct, and the application expects the newly created message queue to have the maximum sizes that were set in /proc used on the mq_open() call, and all of those applications that we know of are actually part of regression test suites that were coded to do something like this: for size in 4096 65536 $((1024 * 1024)) $((16 * 1024 * 1024)); do echo $size > /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/msgsize_max mq_open || echo "Error opening mq with size $size" done These test suites that depend on any behavior like this are broken. The concept that programs should rely upon the system wide maximum in order to get their desired results instead of simply using a attr struct to specify what they want is fundamentally unfriendly programming practice for any multi-tasking OS. Fixing this will break those few apps that we know of (and those app authors recognize the brokenness of their code and the need to fix it). However, the following patch "mqueue: separate mqueue default value" allows a workaround in the form of new knobs for the default msg queue creation parameters for any software out there that we don't already know about that might rely on this behavior at the moment. Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:30 UTC
93e6f11 Doug Ledford 31 May 2012, 23:26:28 UTC ipc/mqueue: cleanup definition names and locations Since commit b231cca4381e ("message queues: increase range limits") on Oct 18, 2008, calls to mq_open() that did not pass in an attribute struct and expected to get default values for the size of the queue and the max message size now get the system wide maximums instead of hardwired defaults like they used to get. This was uncovered when one of the earlier patches in this patch set increased the default system wide maximums at the same time it increased the hard ceiling on the system wide maximums (a customer specifically needed the hard ceiling brought back up, the new ceiling that commit b231cca4381e introduced was too low for their production systems). By increasing the default maximums and not realising they were tied to any attempt to create a message queue without an attribute struct, I had inadvertently made it such that all message queue creation attempts without an attribute struct were failing because the new default maximums would create a queue that exceeded the default rlimit for message queue bytes. As a result, the system wide defaults were brought back down to their previous levels, and the system wide ceilings on the maximums were raised to meet the customer's needs. However, the fact that the no attribute struct behavior of mq_open() could be broken by changing the system wide maximums for message queues was seen as fundamentally broken itself. So we hardwired the no attribute case back like it used to be. But, then we realized that on the very off chance that some piece of software in the wild depended on that behavior, we could work around that issue by adding two new knobs to /proc that allowed setting the defaults for message queues created without an attr struct separately from the system wide maximums. What is not an option IMO is to leave the current behavior in place. No piece of software should ever rely on setting the system wide maximums in order to get a desired message queue. Such a reliance would be so fundamentally multitasking OS unfriendly as to not really be tolerable. Fortunately, we don't know of any software in the wild that uses this except for a regression test program that caught the issue in the first place. If there is though, we have made accommodations with the two new /proc knobs (and that's all the accommodations such fundamentally broken software can be allowed).. This patch: The various defines for minimums and maximums of the sysctl controllable mqueue values are scattered amongst different files and named inconsistently. Move them all into ipc_namespace.h and make them have consistent names. Additionally, make the number of queues per namespace also have a minimum and maximum and use the same sysctl function as the other two settable variables. Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:30 UTC
29a5c67 maximilian attems 31 May 2012, 23:26:27 UTC kexec: export kexec.h to user space Add userspace definitions, guard all relevant kernel structures. While at it document stuff and remove now useless userspace hint. It is easy to add the relevant system call to respective libc's, but it seems pointless to have to duplicate the data structures. This is based on the kexec-tools headers, with the exception of just using int on return (succes or failure) and using size_t instead of 'unsigned long int' for the number of segments argument of kexec_load(). Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <max@stro.at> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:30 UTC
e4cc2f8 Anton Vorontsov 31 May 2012, 23:26:26 UTC kernel/cpu.c: document clear_tasks_mm_cpumask() Add more comments on clear_tasks_mm_cpumask, plus adds a runtime check: the function is only suitable for offlined CPUs, and if called inappropriately, the kernel should scream aloud. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment: s/walks up/walks/, use 80 cols] Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:30 UTC
2c922c5 Anton Vorontsov 31 May 2012, 23:26:26 UTC um: properly check all process' threads for a live mm kill_off_processes() might miss a valid process, this is because checking for process->mm is not enough. Process' main thread may exit or detach its mm via use_mm(), but other threads may still have a valid mm. To catch this we use find_lock_task_mm(), which walks up all threads and returns an appropriate task (with task lock held). Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:30 UTC
137d1a2 Anton Vorontsov 31 May 2012, 23:26:25 UTC um: fix possible race on task->mm Checking for task->mm is dangerous as ->mm might disappear (exit_mm() assigns NULL under task_lock(), so tasklist lock is not enough). We can't use get_task_mm()/mmput() pair as mmput() might sleep, so let's take the task lock while we care about its mm. Note that we should also use find_lock_task_mm() to check all process' threads for a valid mm, but for uml we'll do it in a separate patch. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:30 UTC
9bd0a07 Anton Vorontsov 31 May 2012, 23:26:25 UTC um: should hold tasklist_lock while traversing processes Traversing the tasks requires holding tasklist_lock, otherwise it is unsafe. p.s. However, I'm not sure that calling os_kill_ptraced_process() in the atomic context is correct. It seem to work, but please take a closer look. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:30 UTC
af1be5a Anton Vorontsov 31 May 2012, 23:26:24 UTC blackfin: fix possible deadlock in decode_address() Oleg Nesterov found an interesting deadlock possibility: > sysrq_showregs_othercpus() does smp_call_function(showacpu) > and showacpu() show_stack()->decode_address(). Now suppose that IPI > interrupts the task holding read_lock(tasklist). To fix this, blackfin should not grab the write_ variant of the tasklist lock, read_ one is enough. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:30 UTC
2214f70 Anton Vorontsov 31 May 2012, 23:26:24 UTC blackfin: a couple of task->mm handling fixes The patch fixes two problems: 1. Working with task->mm w/o getting mm or grabing the task lock is dangerous as ->mm might disappear (exit_mm() assigns NULL under task_lock(), so tasklist lock is not enough). We can't use get_task_mm()/mmput() pair as mmput() might sleep, so we have to take the task lock while handle its mm. 2. Checking for process->mm is not enough because process' main thread may exit or detach its mm via use_mm(), but other threads may still have a valid mm. To catch this we use find_lock_task_mm(), which walks up all threads and returns an appropriate task (with task lock held). Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:30 UTC
1198c8b Anton Vorontsov 31 May 2012, 23:26:23 UTC sh: use clear_tasks_mm_cpumask() Checking for process->mm is not enough because process' main thread may exit or detach its mm via use_mm(), but other threads may still have a valid mm. To fix this we would need to use find_lock_task_mm(), which would walk up all threads and returns an appropriate task (with task lock held). clear_tasks_mm_cpumask() has the issue fixed, so let's use it. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:30 UTC
73863ab Anton Vorontsov 31 May 2012, 23:26:23 UTC powerpc: use clear_tasks_mm_cpumask() Current CPU hotplug code has some task->mm handling issues: 1. Working with task->mm w/o getting mm or grabing the task lock is dangerous as ->mm might disappear (exit_mm() assigns NULL under task_lock(), so tasklist lock is not enough). We can't use get_task_mm()/mmput() pair as mmput() might sleep, so we must take the task lock while handle its mm. 2. Checking for process->mm is not enough because process' main thread may exit or detach its mm via use_mm(), but other threads may still have a valid mm. To fix this we would need to use find_lock_task_mm(), which would walk up all threads and returns an appropriate task (with task lock held). clear_tasks_mm_cpumask() has all the issues fixed, so let's use it. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:29 UTC
3eaa73b Anton Vorontsov 31 May 2012, 23:26:22 UTC arm: use clear_tasks_mm_cpumask() Checking for process->mm is not enough because process' main thread may exit or detach its mm via use_mm(), but other threads may still have a valid mm. To fix this we would need to use find_lock_task_mm(), which would walk up all threads and returns an appropriate task (with task lock held). clear_tasks_mm_cpumask() has this issue fixed, so let's use it. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:29 UTC
cb79295 Anton Vorontsov 31 May 2012, 23:26:22 UTC cpu: introduce clear_tasks_mm_cpumask() helper Many architectures clear tasks' mm_cpumask like this: read_lock(&tasklist_lock); for_each_process(p) { if (p->mm) cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(p->mm)); } read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); Depending on the context, the code above may have several problems, such as: 1. Working with task->mm w/o getting mm or grabing the task lock is dangerous as ->mm might disappear (exit_mm() assigns NULL under task_lock(), so tasklist lock is not enough). 2. Checking for process->mm is not enough because process' main thread may exit or detach its mm via use_mm(), but other threads may still have a valid mm. This patch implements a small helper function that does things correctly, i.e.: 1. We take the task's lock while whe handle its mm (we can't use get_task_mm()/mmput() pair as mmput() might sleep); 2. To catch exited main thread case, we use find_lock_task_mm(), which walks up all threads and returns an appropriate task (with task lock held). Also, Per Peter Zijlstra's idea, now we don't grab tasklist_lock in the new helper, instead we take the rcu read lock. We can do this because the function is called after the cpu is taken down and marked offline, so no new tasks will get this cpu set in their mm mask. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:29 UTC
f7505d6 Konstantin Khlebnikov 31 May 2012, 23:26:21 UTC fork: call complete_vfork_done() after clearing child_tid and flushing rss-counters Child should wake up the parent from vfork() only after finishing all operations with shared mm. There is no sense in using CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID together with CLONE_VFORK, but it looks more accurate now. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:29 UTC
bca1554 Konstantin Khlebnikov 31 May 2012, 23:26:20 UTC proc/smaps: show amount of nonlinear ptes in vma Currently, nonlinear mappings can not be distinguished from ordinary mappings. This patch adds into /proc/pid/smaps line "Nonlinear: <size> kB", where size is amount of nonlinear ptes in vma, this line appears only if VM_NONLINEAR is set. This information may be useful not only for checkpoint/restore project. Requested by Pavel Emelyanov. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:29 UTC
b1d4d9e Konstantin Khlebnikov 31 May 2012, 23:26:20 UTC proc/smaps: carefully handle migration entries Currently smaps reports migration entries as "swap", as result "swap" can appears in shared mapping. This patch converts migration entries into pages and handles them as usual. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:29 UTC
052fb0d Konstantin Khlebnikov 31 May 2012, 23:26:19 UTC proc: report file/anon bit in /proc/pid/pagemap This is an implementation of Andrew's proposal to extend the pagemap file bits to report what is missing about tasks' working set. The problem with the working set detection is multilateral. In the criu (checkpoint/restore) project we dump the tasks' memory into image files and to do it properly we need to detect which pages inside mappings are really in use. The mincore syscall I though could help with this did not. First, it doesn't report swapped pages, thus we cannot find out which parts of anonymous mappings to dump. Next, it does report pages from page cache as present even if they are not mapped, and it doesn't make that has not been cow-ed. Note, that issue with swap pages is critical -- we must dump swap pages to image file. But the issues with file pages are optimization -- we can take all file pages to image, this would be correct, but if we know that a page is not mapped or not cow-ed, we can remove them from dump file. The dump would still be self-consistent, though significantly smaller in size (up to 10 times smaller on real apps). Andrew noticed, that the proc pagemap file solved 2 of 3 above issues -- it reports whether a page is present or swapped and it doesn't report not mapped page cache pages. But, it doesn't distinguish cow-ed file pages from not cow-ed. I would like to make the last unused bit in this file to report whether the page mapped into respective pte is PageAnon or not. [comment stolen from Pavel Emelyanov's v1 patch] Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: 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> 01 June 2012, 00:49:29 UTC
715be1f Jan Engelhardt 31 May 2012, 23:26:19 UTC procfs: use more apprioriate types when dumping /proc/N/stat - use int fpr priority and nice, since task_nice()/task_prio() return that - field 24: get_mm_rss() returns unsigned long Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:29 UTC
af5e617 Alexey Dobriyan 31 May 2012, 23:26:18 UTC proc: pass "fd" by value in /proc/*/{fd,fdinfo} code Pass "fd" directly, not via pointer -- one less memory read. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:29 UTC
f05ed3f Alexey Dobriyan 31 May 2012, 23:26:18 UTC proc: don't do dummy rcu_read_lock/rcu_read_unlock on error path rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() is nop for TINY_RCU, but is not a nop for, say, PREEMPT_RCU. proc_fill_cache() is called without RCU lock, there is no need to lock/unlock on error path, simply jump out of the loop. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:29 UTC
2344bec Cong Wang 31 May 2012, 23:26:18 UTC proc: use mm_access() instead of ptrace_may_access() mm_access() handles this much better, and avoids some race conditions. Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:29 UTC
e7dcd99 Cong Wang 31 May 2012, 23:26:17 UTC proc: remove mm_for_maps() mm_for_maps() is a simple wrapper for mm_access(), and the name is misleading, so just remove it and use mm_access() directly. Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:28 UTC
b409e57 Cong Wang 31 May 2012, 23:26:17 UTC proc: clean up /proc/<pid>/environ handling Similar to e268337dfe26 ("proc: clean up and fix /proc/<pid>/mem handling"), move the check of permission to open(), this will simplify read() code. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:28 UTC
168eecc Tim Bird 31 May 2012, 23:26:16 UTC stack usage: add pid to warning printk in check_stack_usage In embedded systems, sometimes the same program (busybox) is the cause of multiple warnings. Outputting the pid with the program name in the warning printk helps distinguish which instances of a program are using the stack most. This is a small patch, but useful. Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:28 UTC
43e13cc Oleg Nesterov 31 May 2012, 23:26:16 UTC cred: remove task_is_dead() from __task_cred() validation Commit 8f92054e7ca1 ("CRED: Fix __task_cred()'s lockdep check and banner comment"): add the following validation condition: task->exit_state >= 0 to permit the access if the target task is dead and therefore unable to change its own credentials. OK, but afaics currently this can only help wait_task_zombie() which calls __task_cred() without rcu lock. Remove this validation and change wait_task_zombie() to use task_uid() instead. This means we do rcu_read_lock() only to shut up the lockdep, but we already do the same in, say, wait_task_stopped(). task_is_dead() should die, task->exit_state != 0 means that this task has passed exit_notify(), only do_wait-like code paths should use this. Unfortunately, we can't kill task_is_dead() right now, it has already acquired buggy users in drivers/staging. The fix already exists. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:28 UTC
9b3c98c Randy Dunlap 31 May 2012, 23:26:15 UTC kmod.c: fix kernel-doc warning Warning(kernel/kmod.c:419): No description found for parameter 'depth' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:28 UTC
785042f Boaz Harrosh 31 May 2012, 23:26:15 UTC kmod: move call_usermodehelper_fns() to .c file and unexport all it's helpers If we move call_usermodehelper_fns() to kmod.c file and EXPORT_SYMBOL it we can avoid exporting all it's helper functions: call_usermodehelper_setup call_usermodehelper_setfns call_usermodehelper_exec And make all of them static to kmod.c Since the optimizer will see all these as a single call site it will inline them inside call_usermodehelper_fns(). So we loose the call to _fns but gain 3 calls to the helpers. (Not that it matters) Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:28 UTC
81ab6e7 Boaz Harrosh 31 May 2012, 23:26:15 UTC kmod: convert two call sites to call_usermodehelper_fns() Both kernel/sys.c && security/keys/request_key.c where inlining the exact same code as call_usermodehelper_fns(); So simply convert these sites to directly use call_usermodehelper_fns(). Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:28 UTC
ae3cef7 Boaz Harrosh 31 May 2012, 23:26:14 UTC kmod: unexport call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() is not used outside of kmod.c. So unexport it, and make it static to kmod.c Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:28 UTC
f0aac61 Namjae Jeon 31 May 2012, 23:26:14 UTC fat: use fat_msg_ratelimit() in fat__get_entry() If an application tries to lookup (opendir/readdir/stat) 5000 files on a fatfs USB device and the device is unplugged, many message occur, shown below. This makes the application slow. So use the new fat_msg_ratelimit() decrease the messaging rate. #> ./file_lookup_testcase ./files_directory/ usb 2-1.4: USB disconnect, device number 4 FAT-fs (sda1): FAT read failed (blocknr 2631) FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396816) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396817) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396818) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396819) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396820) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396821) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396822) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396823) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 406824) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 406825) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 406826) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 406827) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 406828) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 406829) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 406830) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 406831) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 417696) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 417697) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 417698) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 417699) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 417700) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 417701) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 417702) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 417703) failed FAT-fs (sda1): FAT read failed (blocknr 2631) FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396816) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396817) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396818) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396819) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396820) failed FAT-fs (sda1): Directory bread(block 396821) failed Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat <amit.sahrawat83@gmail.com> Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:28 UTC
b742c34 Namjae Jeon 31 May 2012, 23:26:13 UTC fat: add fat_msg_ratelimit() Add a fat_msg_ratelimit() to limit the message generation rate. Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat <amit.sahrawat83@gmail.com> Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:28 UTC
7849118 Artem Bityutskiy 31 May 2012, 23:26:13 UTC fat: switch to fsinfo_inode Currently FAT file-system maps the VFS "superblock" abstraction to the FSINFO block. The FSINFO block contains non-essential data about the amount of free clusters and the next free cluster. FAT file-system can always find out this information by scanning the FAT table, but having it in the FSINFO block may speed things up sometimes. So FAT file-system relies on the VFS superblock write-out services to make sure the FSINFO block is written out to the media from time to time. The whole "superblock write-out" VFS infrastructure is served by the 'sync_supers()' kernel thread, which wakes up every 5 (by default) seconds and writes out all dirty superblock using the '->write_super()' call-back. But the problem with this thread is that it wastes power by waking up the system every 5 seconds no matter what. So we want to kill it completely and thus, we need to make file-systems to stop using the '->write_super' VFS service, and then remove it together with the kernel thread. This patch switches the FAT FSINFO block management from '->write_super()'/'->s_dirt' to 'fsinfo_inode'/'->write_inode'. Now, instead of setting the 's_dirt' flag, we just mark the special 'fsinfo_inode' inode as dirty and let VFS invoke the '->write_inode' call-back when needed, where we write-out the FSINFO block. This patch also makes sure we do not mark the 'fsinfo_inode' inode as dirty if we are not FAT32 (FAT16 and FAT12 do not have the FSINFO block) or if we are in R/O mode. As a bonus, we can also remove the '->sync_fs()' and '->write_super()' FAT call-back function because they become unneeded. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:28 UTC
330fe3c Artem Bityutskiy 31 May 2012, 23:26:12 UTC fat: mark superblock as dirty less often Preparation for further changes. It touches few functions in fatent.c and prevents them from marking the superblock as dirty unnecessarily often. Namely, instead of marking it as dirty in the internal tight loops - do it only once at the end of the functions. And instead of marking it as dirty while holding the FAT table lock, do it outside the lock. The reason for this patch is that marking the superblock as dirty will soon become a little bit heavier operation, so it is cleaner to do this only when it is necessary. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:28 UTC
90b4366 Artem Bityutskiy 31 May 2012, 23:26:12 UTC fat: introduce mark_fsinfo_dirty helper A preparation patch which introduces a 'mark_fsinfo_dirty()' helper function which just sets the 's_dirt' flag to 1 so far. I'll add more code to this helper later, so I do not mark it as 'inline'. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:27 UTC
020ac5b Artem Bityutskiy 31 May 2012, 23:26:12 UTC fat: introduce special inode for managing the FSINFO block This is patchset makes fatfs stop using the VFS '->write_super()' method for writing out the FSINFO block. The final goal is to get rid of the 'sync_supers()' kernel thread. This kernel thread wakes up every 5 seconds (by default) and calls '->write_super()' for all mounted file-systems. And the bad thing is that this is done even if all the superblocks are clean. Moreover, some file-systems do not even need this end they do not register the '->write_super()' method at all (e.g., btrfs). So 'sync_supers()' most often just generates useless wake-ups and wastes power. I am trying to make all file-systems independent of '->write_super()' and plan to remove 'sync_supers()' and '->write_super' completely once there are no more users. The '->write_supers()' method is mostly used by baroque file-systems like hfs, udf, etc. Modern file-systems like btrfs and xfs do not use it. This justifies removing this stuff from VFS completely and make every FS self-manage own superblock. Tested with xfstests. This patch: Preparation for further changes. It introduces a special inode ('fsinfo_inode') in FAT file-system which we'll later use for managing the FSINFO block. Note, this there is already one special inode ('fat_inode') which is used for managing the FAT tables. Introduce new 'MSDOS_FSINFO_INO' constant for this special inode. It is safe to do because FAT file-system does not store inode numbers on the media but generates them run-time. I've also cleaned up the comment to existing 'MSDOS_ROOT_INO' constant, while on it. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:27 UTC
7bc1bac Dan Carpenter 31 May 2012, 23:26:11 UTC HPFS: remove PRINTK() macro The PRINTK() macro isn't really used. Let's just remove it because it is ugly and out of date. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:27 UTC
1147597 Ryusuke Konishi 31 May 2012, 23:26:11 UTC nilfs2: flush disk caches in syncing There are two cases that the cache flush is needed to avoid data loss against unexpected hang or power failure. One is sync file function (i.e. nilfs_sync_file) and another is checkpointing ioctl. This issues a cache flush request to device for such cases if barrier mount option is enabled, and makes sure data really is on persistent storage on their completion. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:27 UTC
a1d4944 Will Deacon 31 May 2012, 23:26:10 UTC pipe: return -ENOIOCTLCMD instead of -EINVAL on unknown ioctl command As described in commit 07d106d0a33d ("vfs: fix up ENOIOCTLCMD error handling"), drivers should return -ENOIOCTLCMD if they receive an ioctl command which they don't understand. Doing so will result in -ENOTTY being returned to userspace, which matches the behaviour of the compat layer if it fails to translate an ioctl command. This patch fixes the pipe ioctl to return -ENOIOCTLCMD instead of -EINVAL when passed an unknown ioctl command. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:27 UTC
c67e538 H Hartley Sweeten 31 May 2012, 23:26:10 UTC init: disable sparse checking of the mount.o source files The init/mount.o source files produce a number of sparse warnings of the type: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces) expected char [noderef] <asn:1>*dev_name got char *name This is due to the syscalls expecting some of the arguments to be user pointers but they are being passed as kernel pointers. This is harmless but adds a lot of noise to a sparse build. To limit the noise just disable the sparse checking in the relevant source files, but still display a warning so that the user knows this has been done. Since the sparse checking has been disabled we can also remove the __user __force casts that are scattered thru the source. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:27 UTC
243f380 Joe Perches 31 May 2012, 23:26:09 UTC checkpatch: suggest pr_<level> over printk(KERN_<LEVEL> Suggest the shorter pr_<level> instead of printk(KERN_<LEVEL>. Prefer to use pr_<level> over bare printks. Prefer to use pr_warn over pr_warning. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:27 UTC
9a4cad4 Eric Nelson 31 May 2012, 23:26:09 UTC checkpatch: check for whitespace before semicolon at EOL Requires --strict option during invocation: ~/linux$ scripts/checkpatch --strict foo.patch This tests for a bad habits of mine like this: return 0 ; Note that it does allow a special case of a bare semicolon for empty loops: while (foo()) ; Signed-off-by: Eric Nelson <eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:27 UTC
133fd9f Denys Vlasenko 31 May 2012, 23:26:08 UTC vsprintf: further optimize decimal conversion Previous code was using optimizations which were developed to work well even on narrow-word CPUs (by today's standards). But Linux runs only on 32-bit and wider CPUs. We can use that. First: using 32x32->64 multiply and trivial 32-bit shift, we can correctly divide by 10 much larger numbers, and thus we can print groups of 9 digits instead of groups of 5 digits. Next: there are two algorithms to print larger numbers. One is generic: divide by 1000000000 and repeatedly print groups of (up to) 9 digits. It's conceptually simple, but requires an (unsigned long long) / 1000000000 division. Second algorithm splits 64-bit unsigned long long into 16-bit chunks, manipulates them cleverly and generates groups of 4 decimal digits. It so happens that it does NOT require long long division. If long is > 32 bits, division of 64-bit values is relatively easy, and we will use the first algorithm. If long long is > 64 bits (strange architecture with VERY large long long), second algorithm can't be used, and we again use the first one. Else (if long is 32 bits and long long is 64 bits) we use second one. And third: there is a simple optimization which takes fast path not only for zero as was done before, but for all one-digit numbers. In all tested cases new code is faster than old one, in many cases by 30%, in few cases by more than 50% (for example, on x86-32, conversion of 12345678). Code growth is ~0 in 32-bit case and ~130 bytes in 64-bit case. This patch is based upon an original from Michal Nazarewicz. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Cc: Douglas W Jones <jones@cs.uiowa.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:27 UTC
725fe00 Grant Likely 31 May 2012, 23:26:08 UTC vsprintf: correctly handle width when '#' flag used in %#p format The '%p' output of the kernel's vsprintf() uses spec.field_width to determine how many digits to output based on 2 * sizeof(void*) so that all digits of a pointer are shown. ie. a pointer will be output as "001A2B3C" instead of "1A2B3C". However, if the '#' flag is used in the format (%#p), then the code doesn't take into account the width of the '0x' prefix and will end up outputing "0x1A2B3C" instead of "0x001A2B3C". This patch reworks the "pointer()" format hook to include 2 characters for the '0x' prefix if the '#' flag is included. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:27 UTC
d84970b Nicolas Pitre 31 May 2012, 23:26:07 UTC kernel/cpu_pm.c: fix various typos Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Acked-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:27 UTC
97fd75b Andrew Morton 31 May 2012, 23:26:07 UTC kernel/irq/manage.c: use the pr_foo() infrastructure to prefix printks Use the module-wide pr_fmt() mechanism rather than open-coding "genirq: " everywhere. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:26 UTC
499eea6 Sasikantha babu 31 May 2012, 23:26:07 UTC sethostname/setdomainname: notify userspace when there is a change in uts_kern_table sethostname() and setdomainname() notify userspace on failure (without modifying uts_kern_table). Change things so that we only notify userspace on success, when uts_kern_table was actually modified. Signed-off-by: Sasikantha babu <sasikanth.v19@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:26 UTC
5401cf3 Gustavo Padovan 31 May 2012, 23:26:06 UTC .mailmap: add Gustavo Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:26 UTC
9ceb5c1 Sergei Shtylyov 31 May 2012, 23:26:06 UTC drivers/message/fusion: use pci_dev->revision This driver uses PCI_CLASS_REVISION instead of PCI_REVISION_ID, so it wasn't converted by 44c10138fd4bbc ("PCI: Change all drivers to use pci_device->revision"). In one case, it even reads PCI revision ID without using it -- that code is now removed... Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Acked-by: "Nandigama, Nagalakshmi" <Nagalakshmi.Nandigama@lsi.com> Cc: Eric Moore <eric.moore@lsi.com> Acked-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:26 UTC
ee5e568 Wei Yang 31 May 2012, 23:26:05 UTC kernel/resource.c: correct the comment of allocate_resource() In the comment of allocate_resource(), the explanation of parameter max and min is not correct. Actually, these two parameters are used to specify the range of the resource that will be allocated, not the min/max size that will be allocated. Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:26 UTC
a3860c1 Xi Wang 31 May 2012, 23:26:04 UTC introduce SIZE_MAX ULONG_MAX is often used to check for integer overflow when calculating allocation size. While ULONG_MAX happens to work on most systems, there is no guarantee that `size_t' must be the same size as `long'. This patch introduces SIZE_MAX, the maximum value of `size_t', to improve portability and readability for allocation size validation. Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alex Elder <elder@dreamhost.com> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:26 UTC
1583729 Xi Wang 31 May 2012, 23:26:04 UTC CodingStyle: add kmalloc_array() to memory allocators Add the new kmalloc_array() to the list of general-purpose memory allocators in chapter 14. Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:26 UTC
1cefe28 Kautuk Consul 31 May 2012, 23:26:03 UTC um/kernel/trap.c: port OOM changes to handle_page_fault() Commit d065bd810b6d ("mm: retry page fault when blocking on disk transfer") and commit 37b23e0525d3 ("x86,mm: make pagefault killable") introduced changes into the x86 pagefault handler for making the page fault handler retryable as well as killable. These changes reduce the mmap_sem hold time, which is crucial during OOM killer invocation. Port these changes to um. Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 01 June 2012, 00:49:26 UTC
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