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2006-03-30[PATCH] splice: add support for SPLICE_F_MOVE flagJens Axboe
This enables the caller to migrate pages from one address space page cache to another. In buzz word marketing, you can do zero-copy file copies! Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-30[PATCH] Introduce sys_splice() system callJens Axboe
This adds support for the sys_splice system call. Using a pipe as a transport, it can connect to files or sockets (latter as output only). From the splice.c comments: "splice": joining two ropes together by interweaving their strands. This is the "extended pipe" functionality, where a pipe is used as an arbitrary in-memory buffer. Think of a pipe as a small kernel buffer that you can use to transfer data from one end to the other. The traditional unix read/write is extended with a "splice()" operation that transfers data buffers to or from a pipe buffer. Named by Larry McVoy, original implementation from Linus, extended by Jens to support splicing to files and fixing the initial implementation bugs. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-29[PATCH] ixp2000: fix gcc4 breakageLennert Buytenhek
gcc4 doesn't like us declaring a static function inside another function. We can do away with this construct altogether and use BUILD_BUG_ON() instead (idea from Andi Kleen.) Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29[PATCH] b44: ensure valid mac addrGary Zambrano
Added code to check for invalid MAC address from eeprom or user input. Signed-off-by: Gary Zambrano <zambrano@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29[PATCH] Janitor: drivers/net/pcnet32: fix incorrect commentsLinas Vepstas
The comments concerning how the pcnet32 ethernet device driver selects the MAC addr to use are incorrect. A recent patch (in the last 3 months) changed how the code worked, but did not change the comments. Side comment: the new behaviour is good; I've got a pcnet32 card which powers up with garbage in the CSR's, and a good MAC addr in the PROM. Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29[PATCH] net: remove CONFIG_NET_CBUS conditional for NS8390Arthur Othieno
Don't bother testing for CONFIG_NET_CBUS ("NEC PC-9800 C-bus cards"); it went out with the rest of PC98 subarch. Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29[PATCH] natsemi: Support oversized EEPROMsMark Brown
The natsemi chip can have a larger EEPROM attached than it itself uses for configuration. This patch adds support for user space access to such an EEPROM. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29[PATCH] spidernet : enable tx checksum offloading by defaultJens Osterkamp
This enables TX checksum offloading for the spidernet driver by default. Signed-off-by: Jens Osterkamp <Jens.Osterkamp@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29[PATCH] bonding: support carrier state for masterJay Vosburgh
Add support for the bonding master to specify its carrier state based upon the state of the slaves. For 802.3ad, the bond is up if there is an active, parterned aggregator. For other modes, the bond is up if any slaves are up. Updates driver version to 3.0.3. Based on a patch by jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>. Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29Merge branch 'upstream' of ↵Jeff Garzik
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
2006-03-29[PATCH] acenic: fix section mismatchesRandy Dunlap
Fix section mismatches in acenic driver: WARNING: drivers/net/acenic.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:tigon2FwText from .text between 'acenic_probe_one' (at offset 0x2409) and 'ace_interrupt' WARNING: drivers/net/acenic.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:tigon2FwRodata from .text between 'acenic_probe_one' (at offset 0x2422) and 'ace_interrupt' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29[PATCH] spidernet : reduce console spamJens Osterkamp
This patch reduces the message level of the RX ram full messages from err to debug to prevent spamming the console leaving it in the logfiles though. From: Jens Osterkamp <Jens.Osterkamp@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29[PATCH] via-rhine: link state fixRoger Luethi
Problems with link state detection have been reported several times in the past months. Denis Vlasenko did all the work tracking it down. Jeff Garzik suggested the proper place for the fix. When using the mii library, the driver needs to check mii->force_media and set dev->state accordingly. Signed-off-by: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29[PATCH] axnet_cs.c : add hardware multicast supportKomuro
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29b44: fix force mac address before ifconfig upGary Zambrano
Initializing the b44 MAC & PCI functional blocks in the controller must occur inside init_one(). This will allow access to the MAC registers. The controller was being powered up in b44_open() which would not allow access to the registers before ifconfig was up. Philip Kohlbecher found this bug. Signed-off-by: Gary Zambrano <zambrano@broadcom.com>
2006-03-29Merge 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: [NETFILTER]: Rename init functions. [TCP]: Fix RFC2465 typo. [INET]: Introduce tunnel4/tunnel6 [NET]: deinline 200+ byte inlines in sock.h [ECONET]: Convert away from SOCKOPS_WRAPPED [NET]: Fix ipx/econet/appletalk/irda ioctl crashes [NET]: Kill Documentation/networking/TODO [TG3]: Update version and reldate [TG3]: Skip timer code during full lock [TG3]: Speed up SRAM access [TG3]: Fix PHY loopback on 5700 [TG3]: Fix bug in 40-bit DMA workaround code [TG3]: Fix probe failure due to invalid MAC address
2006-03-29Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpcLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (67 commits) [PATCH] powerpc: Remove oprofile spinlock backtrace code [PATCH] powerpc: Add oprofile calltrace support to all powerpc cpus [PATCH] powerpc: Add oprofile calltrace support [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: ppc [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: powerpc [PATCH] lock PTE before updating it in 440/BookE page fault handler [PATCH] powerpc: Kill _machine and hard-coded platform numbers ppc: Fix compile error in arch/ppc/lib/strcase.c [PATCH] git-powerpc: WARN was a dumb idea [PATCH] powerpc: a couple of trivial compile warning fixes powerpc: remove OCP references powerpc: Make uImage default build output for MPC8540 ADS powerpc: move math-emu over to arch/powerpc powerpc: use memparse() for mem= command line parsing ppc: fix strncasecmp prototype [PATCH] powerpc: make ISA floppies work again [PATCH] powerpc: Fix some initcall return values [PATCH] powerpc: Workaround for pSeries RTAS bug [PATCH] spufs: fix __init/__exit annotations [PATCH] powerpc: add hvc backend for rtas ...
2006-03-29Merge git://oss.sgi.com:8090/oss/git/xfs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://oss.sgi.com:8090/oss/git/xfs-2.6: [XFS] Cleanup in XFS after recent get_block_t interface tweaks. [XFS] Remove unused/obsoleted function: xfs_bmap_do_search_extents() [XFS] A change to inode chunk allocation to try allocating the new chunk Fixes a regression from the recent "remove ->get_blocks() support" [XFS] Fix compiler warning and small code inconsistencies in compat [XFS] We really suck at spulling. Thanks to Chris Pascoe for fixing all
2006-03-28Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/scjody/ieee1394 * 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/scjody/ieee1394: ohci1394: cleanup the "Unexpected PCI resource length" warning. sbp2: misc debug logging cleanups sbp2: proper treatment of DID_OK ieee1394: set read permission for parameter disable_irm sbp2: check for ARM failure ohci1394: clean up asynchronous and physical request filters programming ieee1394: remove amdtp remains from ieee1394_core.h ieee1394: remove devfs support Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com> sbp2: prevent unloading of 1394 low-level driver
2006-03-29[PATCH] powerpc: Remove oprofile spinlock backtrace codeAnton Blanchard
Remove oprofile spinlock backtrace code now we have proper calltrace support. Also make MMCRA sihv and sipr bits a variable since they may change in future cpus. Finally, MMCRA should be a 64bit quantity. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-29[PATCH] powerpc: Add oprofile calltrace support to all powerpc cpusAnton Blanchard
Add calltrace support for other powerpc cpus. Tested on 7450. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-29[PATCH] powerpc: Add oprofile calltrace supportBrian Rogan
Add oprofile calltrace support to powerpc. Disable spinlock backtracing now we can use calltrace info. (Updated to work on both 32bit and 64bit by me). Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-29[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: ppcKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
for_each_cpu() actually iterates across all possible CPUs. We've had mistakes in the past where people were using for_each_cpu() where they should have been iterating across only online or present CPUs. This is inefficient and possibly buggy. We're renaming for_each_cpu() to for_each_possible_cpu() to avoid this in the future. This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-29[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: powerpcKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
for_each_cpu() actually iterates across all possible CPUs. We've had mistakes in the past where people were using for_each_cpu() where they should have been iterating across only online or present CPUs. This is inefficient and possibly buggy. We're renaming for_each_cpu() to for_each_possible_cpu() to avoid this in the future. This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-29[PATCH] lock PTE before updating it in 440/BookE page fault handlerEugene Surovegin
Fix 44x and BookE page fault handler to correctly lock PTE before trying to pte_update() it, otherwise this PTE might be swapped out after pte_present() check but before pte_uptdate() call, resulting in corrupted PTE. This can happen with enabled preemption and low memory condition. Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] send_sigqueue: simplify and fix the raceOleg Nesterov
send_sigqueue() checks PF_EXITING, then locks p->sighand->siglock. This is unsafe: 'p' can exit in between and set ->sighand = NULL. The race is theoretical, the window is tiny and irqs are disabled by the caller, so I don't think we need the fix for -stable tree. Convert send_sigqueue() to use lock_task_sighand() helper. Also, delete 'p->flags & PF_EXITING' re-check, it is unneeded and the comment is wrong. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] do_notify_parent_cldstop: remove 'to_self' paramOleg Nesterov
The previous patch has changed callsites of do_notify_parent_cldstop() so that to_self == (->ptrace & PT_PTRACED) always (as it should be). We can remove this parameter now. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] finish_stop: don't check stop_count < 0Oleg Nesterov
Remove an obscure 'stop_count < 0' check in finish_stop(). The previous patch made this case impossible. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] simplify do_signal_stop()Oleg Nesterov
do_signal_stop() considers 'thread_group_empty()' as a special case. This was needed to avoid taking tasklist_lock. Since this lock is unneeded any longer, we can remove this special case and simplify the code even more. Also, before this patch, finish_stop() was called with stop_count == -1 for 'thread_group_empty()' case. This is not strictly wrong, but confusing and unneeded. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] cleanup __exit_signal->cleanup_sighand pathOleg Nesterov
Move 'tsk->sighand = NULL' from cleanup_sighand() to __exit_signal(). This makes the exit path more understandable and allows us to do cleanup_sighand() outside of ->siglock protected section. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] make fork() atomic wrt pgrp/session signalsOleg Nesterov
Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Ok. SUSV3/Posix is clear, fork is atomic with respect > to signals. Either a signal comes before or after a > fork but not during. (See the rationale section). > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/fork.html > > The tasklist_lock does not stop forks from adding to a process > group. The forks stall while the tasklist_lock is held, but a fork > that began before we grabbed the tasklist_lock simply completes > afterwards, and the child does not receive the signal. This also means that SIGSTOP or sig_kernel_coredump() signal can't be delivered to pgrp/session reliably. With this patch copy_process() returns -ERESTARTNOINTR when it detects a pending signal, fork() will be restarted transparently after handling the signals. This patch also deletes now unneeded "group_stop_count > 0" check, copy_process() can no longer succeed while group stop in progress. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-By: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] pids: kill PIDTYPE_TGIDOleg Nesterov
This patch kills PIDTYPE_TGID pid_type thus saving one hash table in kernel/pid.c and speeding up subthreads create/destroy a bit. It is also a preparation for the further tref/pids rework. This patch adds 'struct list_head thread_group' to 'struct task_struct' instead. We don't detach group leader from PIDTYPE_PID namespace until another thread inherits it's ->pid == ->tgid, so we are safe wrt premature free_pidmap(->tgid) call. Currently there are no users of find_task_by_pid_type(PIDTYPE_TGID). Should the need arise, we can use find_task_by_pid()->group_leader. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-By: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] do_sigaction: don't take tasklist_lockOleg Nesterov
do_sigaction() does not need tasklist_lock anymore, we can simplify the code. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] do_group_exit: don't take tasklist_lockOleg Nesterov
do_group_exit() takes tasklist_lock for zap_other_threads(), this is unneeded now. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] do_signal_stop: don't take tasklist_lockOleg Nesterov
do_signal_stop() does not need tasklist_lock anymore. So it does not need to do misc re-checks, and we can simplify the code. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] relax sig_needs_tasklist()Oleg Nesterov
handle_stop_signal() does not need tasklist_lock for SIG_KERNEL_STOP_MASK signals anymore. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] sys_times: don't take tasklist_lockOleg Nesterov
sys_times: don't take tasklist_lock Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] do __unhash_process() under ->siglockOleg Nesterov
This patch moves __unhash_process() call from realease_task() to __exit_signal(), so __detach_pid() is called with ->siglock held. This means we don't need tasklist_lock to iterate over thread group anymore: copy_process() was already changed to do attach_pid() under ->siglock. Eric's "pidhash-kill-switch_exec_pids.patch" from -mm changed de_thread() so it doesn't touch PIDTYPE_TGID. NOTE: de_thread() still needs some attention. It still changes task->pid lockless. Taking ->sighand.siglock here allows to do more tasklist_lock removals. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] revert "Optimize sys_times for a single thread process"Oleg Nesterov
This patch reverts 'CONFIG_SMP && thread_group_empty()' optimization in sys_times(). The reason is that the next patch breaks memory ordering which is needed for that optimization. tasklist_lock in sys_times() will be eliminated completely by further patch. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] move __exit_signal() to kernel/exit.cOleg Nesterov
__exit_signal() is private to release_task() now. I think it is better to make it static in kernel/exit.c and export flush_sigqueue() instead - this function is much more simple and straightforward. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] rename __exit_sighand to cleanup_sighandOleg Nesterov
Cosmetic, rename __exit_sighand to cleanup_sighand and move it close to copy_sighand(). This matches copy_signal/cleanup_signal naming, and I think it is easier to follow. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] cleanup __exit_signal()Oleg Nesterov
This patch factors out duplicated code under 'if' branches. Also, BUG_ON() conversions and whitespace cleanups. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] copy_process: cleanup bad_fork_cleanup_signalOleg Nesterov
__exit_signal() does important cleanups atomically under ->siglock. It is also called from copy_process's error path. This is not good, for example we can't move __unhash_process() under ->siglock for that reason. We should not mix these 2 paths, just look at ugly 'if (p->sighand)' under 'bad_fork_cleanup_sighand:' label. For copy_process() case it is sufficient to just backout copy_signal(), nothing more. Again, nobody can see this task yet. For CLONE_THREAD case we just decrement signal->count, otherwise nobody can see this ->signal and we can free it lockless. This patch assumes it is safe to do exit_thread_group_keys() without tasklist_lock. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] copy_process: cleanup bad_fork_cleanup_sighandOleg Nesterov
The only caller of exit_sighand(tsk) is copy_process's error path. We can call __exit_sighand() directly and kill exit_sighand(). This 'tsk' was not yet registered in pid_hash[] or init_task.tasks, it has no external references, nobody can see it, and IF (clone_flags & CLONE_SIGHAND) At least 'current' has a reference to ->sighand, this means atomic_dec_and_test(sighand->count) can't be true. ELSE Nobody can see this ->sighand, this means we can free it without any locking. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] introduce sig_needs_tasklist() helperOleg Nesterov
In my opinion this patch cleans up the code. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] introduce lock_task_sighand() helperOleg Nesterov
Add lock_task_sighand() helper and converts group_send_sig_info() to use it. Hopefully we will have more users soon. This patch also removes '!sighand->count' and '!p->usage' checks, I think they both are bogus, racy and unneeded (but probably it makes sense to restore them as BUG_ON()s). ->sighand is cleared and it's ->count is decremented in release_task() with sighand->siglock held, so it is a bug to have '!p->usage || !->count' after we already locked and verified it is the same. On the other hand, an already dead task without ->sighand can have a non-zero ->usage due to ptrace, for example. If we read the stale value of ->sighand we must see the change after spin_lock(), because that change was done while holding that same old ->sighand.siglock. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] convert sighand_cache to use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCUOleg Nesterov
This patch borrows a clever Hugh's 'struct anon_vma' trick. Without tasklist_lock held we can't trust task->sighand until we locked it and re-checked that it is still the same. But this means we don't need to defer 'kmem_cache_free(sighand)'. We can return the memory to slab immediately, all we need is to be sure that sighand->siglock can't dissapear inside rcu protected section. To do so we need to initialize ->siglock inside ctor function, SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU does the rest. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] release_task: replace open-coded ptrace_unlink()Oleg Nesterov
Use ptrace_unlink() instead of open-coding. No changes in kernel/exit.o Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] wait_for_helper: trivial style cleanupOleg Nesterov
Use NULL instead of (... *)0 Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] reparent_thread: use remove_parent/add_parentOleg Nesterov
Use remove_parent/add_parent instead of open coding. No changes in kernel/exit.o Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>