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2009-10-07NOHZ: update idle state also when NOHZ is inactiveEero Nurkkala
Commit f2e21c9610991e95621a81407cdbab881226419b had unfortunate side effects with cpufreq governors on some systems. If the system did not switch into NOHZ mode ts->inidle is not set when tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() is called from the idle routine. Therefor all subsequent calls from irq_exit() to tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() fail to call tick_nohz_start_idle(). This results in bogus idle accounting information which is passed to cpufreq governors. Set the inidle flag unconditionally of the NOHZ active state to keep the idle time accounting correct in any case. [ tglx: Added comment and tweaked the changelog ] Reported-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net> Signed-off-by: Eero Nurkkala <ext-eero.nurkkala@nokia.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org LKML-Reference: <1254907901.30157.93.camel@eenurkka-desktop> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-10-05Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf tools: Run generate-cmdlist.sh properly perf_event: Clean up perf_event_init_task() perf_event: Fix event group handling in __perf_event_sched_*() perf timechart: Add a power-only mode perf top: Add poll_idle to the skip list
2009-10-05Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: hrtimer: Remove overly verbose "switch to high res mode" message
2009-10-05Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: kmemtrace: Fix up tracer registration tracing: Fix infinite recursion in ftrace_update_pid_func()
2009-10-04Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (41 commits) Revert "Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests" cfq-iosched: don't delay async queue if it hasn't dispatched at all block: Topology ioctls cfq-iosched: use assigned slice sync value, not default cfq-iosched: rename 'desktop' sysfs entry to 'low_latency' cfq-iosched: implement slower async initiate and queue ramp up cfq-iosched: delay async IO dispatch, if sync IO was just done cfq-iosched: add a knob for desktop interactiveness Add a tracepoint for block request remapping block: allow large discard requests block: use normal I/O path for discard requests swapfile: avoid NULL pointer dereference in swapon when s_bdev is NULL fs/bio.c: move EXPORT* macros to line after function Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfs cciss: fix build when !PROC_FS block: Do not clamp max_hw_sectors for stacking devices block: Set max_sectors correctly for stacking devices cciss: cciss_host_attr_groups should be const cciss: Dynamically allocate the drive_info_struct for each logical drive. cciss: Add usage_count attribute to each logical drive in /sys ...
2009-10-01memcg: some modification to softlimit under hierarchical memory reclaim.KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
This patch clean up/fixes for memcg's uncharge soft limit path. Problems: Now, res_counter_charge()/uncharge() handles softlimit information at charge/uncharge and softlimit-check is done when event counter per memcg goes over limit. Now, event counter per memcg is updated only when memory usage is over soft limit. Here, considering hierarchical memcg management, ancesotors should be taken care of. Now, ancerstors(hierarchy) are handled in charge() but not in uncharge(). This is not good. Prolems: 1. memcg's event counter incremented only when softlimit hits. That's bad. It makes event counter hard to be reused for other purpose. 2. At uncharge, only the lowest level rescounter is handled. This is bug. Because ancesotor's event counter is not incremented, children should take care of them. 3. res_counter_uncharge()'s 3rd argument is NULL in most case. ops under res_counter->lock should be small. No "if" sentense is better. Fixes: * Removed soft_limit_xx poitner and checks in charge and uncharge. Do-check-only-when-necessary scheme works enough well without them. * make event-counter of memcg incremented at every charge/uncharge. (per-cpu area will be accessed soon anyway) * All ancestors are checked at soft-limit-check. This is necessary because ancesotor's event counter may never be modified. Then, they should be checked at the same time. Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-01cgroup: catch bad css refcnt at css_putKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
__css_put() doesn't check a bug as refcnt goes to minus. I think it should be caught. This patch adds a check for it. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-01const: constify remaining file_operationsAlexey Dobriyan
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix KVM] Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-01module: fix up CONFIG_KALLSYMS=n build.Paul Mundt
Starting from commit 4a4962263f07d14660849ec134ee42b63e95ea9a "reduce symbol table for loaded modules (v2)", the kernel/module.c build is broken with CONFIG_KALLSYMS disabled. CC kernel/module.o kernel/module.c:1995: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'Elf_Hdr' kernel/module.c:1995: error: expected ';', ',' or ')' before '*' token kernel/module.c: In function 'load_module': kernel/module.c:2203: error: 'strmap' undeclared (first use in this function) kernel/module.c:2203: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once kernel/module.c:2203: error: for each function it appears in.) kernel/module.c:2239: error: 'symoffs' undeclared (first use in this function) kernel/module.c:2239: error: implicit declaration of function 'layout_symtab' kernel/module.c:2240: error: 'stroffs' undeclared (first use in this function) make[1]: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 1 make: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 2 There are three different issues: - layout_symtab() takes a const Elf_Ehdr - layout_symtab() needs to return a value - symoffs/stroffs/strmap are referenced by the load_module() code despite being ifdefed out, which seems unnecessary given the noop behaviour of layout_symtab()/add_kallsyms() in the case of CONFIG_KALLSYMS=n. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-01Add a tracepoint for block request remappingJun'ichi Nomura
Since 2.6.31 now has request-based device-mapper, it's useful to have a tracepoint for request-remapping as well as bio-remapping. This patch adds a tracepoint for request-remapping, trace_block_rq_remap(). Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfsZdenek Kabelac
Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfs introduced in commit 1d54ad6da9192fed5dd3b60224d9f2dfea0dcd82. Release kobject also in case the request_fn is NULL. Problem was noticed via kmemleak backtrace when some sysfs entries were note properly destroyed during device removal: unreferenced object 0xffff88001aa76640 (size 80): comm "lvcreate", pid 2120, jiffies 4294885144 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0 65 a7 1a 00 88 ff ff .........e...... 90 66 a7 1a 00 88 ff ff 86 1d 53 81 ff ff ff ff .f........S..... backtrace: [<ffffffff813f9cc6>] kmemleak_alloc+0x26/0x60 [<ffffffff8111d693>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x133/0x1c0 [<ffffffff81195891>] sysfs_new_dirent+0x41/0x120 [<ffffffff81194b0c>] sysfs_add_file_mode+0x3c/0xb0 [<ffffffff81197c81>] internal_create_group+0xc1/0x1a0 [<ffffffff81197d93>] sysfs_create_group+0x13/0x20 [<ffffffff810d8004>] blk_trace_init_sysfs+0x14/0x20 [<ffffffff8123f45c>] blk_register_queue+0x3c/0xf0 [<ffffffff812447e4>] add_disk+0x94/0x160 [<ffffffffa00d8b08>] dm_create+0x598/0x6e0 [dm_mod] [<ffffffffa00de951>] dev_create+0x51/0x350 [dm_mod] [<ffffffffa00de823>] ctl_ioctl+0x1a3/0x240 [dm_mod] [<ffffffffa00de8f2>] dm_compat_ctl_ioctl+0x12/0x20 [dm_mod] [<ffffffff81177bfd>] compat_sys_ioctl+0xcd/0x4f0 [<ffffffff81036ed8>] sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x2c [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff Signed-off-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01kmemtrace: Fix up tracer registrationPaul Mundt
Commit ddc1637af217dbd8bc51f30e6d24e84476a869a6 ("kmemtrace: Print binary output only if 'bin' option is set") ended up inverting the error detection logic. register_tracer() returns 0 on success, which this change caused to treat as an error, resulting in: [ 0.132000] Warning: could not register the kmem tracer as well as bailing out of the initcall with an error value. This restores the old logic. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <20090928075540.GD6668@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-01perf_event: Clean up perf_event_init_task()Xiao Guangrong
While at it: we can traverse ctx->group_list to get all group leader, it should be safe since we hold ctx->mutex. Changlog v1->v2: - remove WARN_ON_ONCE() according to Peter Zijlstra's suggestion Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <4ABC5AF9.6060808@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-01perf_event: Fix event group handling in __perf_event_sched_*()Xiao Guangrong
Paul Mackerras says: "Actually, looking at this more closely, it has to be a group leader anyway since it's at the top level of ctx->group_list. In fact I see four places where we do: list_for_each_entry(event, &ctx->group_list, group_entry) { if (event == event->group_leader) ... or the equivalent, three of which appear to have been introduced by afedadf2 ("perf_counter: Optimize sched in/out of counters") back in May by Peter Z. As far as I can see the if () is superfluous in each case (a singleton event will be a group of 1 and will have its group_leader pointing to itself)." [ See: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125361238901442&w=2 ] And Peter Zijlstra points out this is a bugfix: "The intent was to call event_sched_{in,out}() for single event groups because that's cheaper than group_sched_{in,out}(), however.. - as you noticed, I got the condition wrong, it should have read: list_empty(&event->sibling_list) - it failed to call group_can_go_on() which deals with ->exclusive. - it also doesn't call hw_perf_group_sched_in() which might break power." [ See: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125369523318583&w=2 ] Changelog v1->v2: - Fix the title name according to Peter Zijlstra's suggestion - Remove the comments and WARN_ON_ONCE() as Peter Zijlstra's suggestion Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <4ABC5A55.7000208@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-01tracing: Fix infinite recursion in ftrace_update_pid_func()Matt Fleming
When CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST is enabled __ftrace_trace_function contains the current trace function, not ftrace_trace_function. In ftrace_update_pid_func() we currently incorrectly assign the value of ftrace_trace_function to __ftrace_trace_funcion before returning. Without this patch it is possible to execute an infinite recursion whereby ftrace_test_stop_func() calls __ftrace_trace_function, which was assigned ftrace_test_stop_func() in ftrace_update_pid_func(). Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matthew.fleming@imgtec.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1254152581-18347-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-30sched_clock: Fix atomicity/continuity bug by using cmpxchg64()Eric Dumazet
Commit def0a9b2573 (sched_clock: Make it NMI safe) assumed cmpxchg() of 64bit values was available on X86_32. That is not so - and causes some subtle scheduler misbehavior due to incorrect timestamps off to up by ~4 seconds. Two symptoms are known right now: - interactivity problems seen by Arjan: up to 600 msecs latencies instead of the expected 20-40 msecs. These latencies are very visible on the desktop. - incorrect CPU stats: occasionally too high percentages in 'top', and crazy CPU usage stats. Reported-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20090930170754.0886ff2e@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-27const: mark struct vm_struct_operationsAlexey Dobriyan
* mark struct vm_area_struct::vm_ops as const * mark vm_ops in AGP code But leave TTM code alone, something is fishy there with global vm_ops being used. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-27Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: hrtimer: Eliminate needless reprogramming of clock events device
2009-09-26Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: futex: Add memory barrier commentary to futex_wait_queue_me() futex: Fix wakeup race by setting TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE before queue_me() futex: Correct futex_q woken state commentary futex: Make function kernel-doc commentary consistent futex: Correct queue_me and unqueue_me commentary futex: Correct futex_wait_requeue_pi() commentary
2009-09-26Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: clocksource: Resume clocksource without taking the clocksource mutex
2009-09-26Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: modules, tracing: Remove stale struct marker signature from module_layout() tracing/workqueue: Use %pf in workqueue trace events tracing: Fix a comment and a trivial format issue in tracepoint.h tracing: Fix failure path in ftrace_regex_open() tracing: Fix failure path in ftrace_graph_write() tracing: Check the return value of trace_get_user() tracing: Fix off-by-one in trace_get_user()
2009-09-26hrtimer: Remove overly verbose "switch to high res mode" messageRoland Dreier
On big systems, printing <number of CPUs> copies of Switched to high resolution mode on CPU nnn clutters up the kernel log for minimal gain. Just get rid of them. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> LKML-Reference: <ada1vlw126s.fsf_-_@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-24Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller
Conflicts: drivers/staging/Kconfig drivers/staging/Makefile drivers/staging/cpc-usb/TODO drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpc-usb_drv.c drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpc.h drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpc_int.h drivers/staging/cpc-usb/cpcusb.h
2009-09-24clocksource: Resume clocksource without taking the clocksource mutexMartin Schwidefsky
git commit 75c5158f70c065b9 converted the clocksource spinlock to a mutex. This causes the following BUG: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/mutex.c:280 in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 2473, name: pm-suspend 2 locks held by pm-suspend/2473: #0: (&buffer->mutex){......}, at: [<ffffffff8115ab13>] sysfs_write_file+0x3c/0x137 #1: (pm_mutex){......}, at: [<ffffffff810865b5>] enter_state+0x39/0x130 Pid: 2473, comm: pm-suspend Not tainted 2.6.31 #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff810792f0>] ? __debug_show_held_locks+0x22/0x24 [<ffffffff8104a2ef>] __might_sleep+0x107/0x10b [<ffffffff8141fca9>] mutex_lock_nested+0x25/0x43 [<ffffffff81073537>] clocksource_resume+0x1c/0x60 [<ffffffff81072902>] timekeeping_resume+0x1e/0x1c8 [<ffffffff812aee62>] __sysdev_resume+0x25/0xcf [<ffffffff812aef79>] sysdev_resume+0x6d/0xae [<ffffffff810864f8>] suspend_devices_and_enter+0x12b/0x1af [<ffffffff8108665b>] enter_state+0xdf/0x130 [<ffffffff81085dc3>] state_store+0xb6/0xd3 [<ffffffff81204c73>] kobj_attr_store+0x17/0x19 [<ffffffff8115abd2>] sysfs_write_file+0xfb/0x137 [<ffffffff811057d2>] vfs_write+0xae/0x10b [<ffffffff81208392>] ? __up_read+0x1a/0x7f [<ffffffff811058ef>] sys_write+0x4a/0x6e [<ffffffff81011b82>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b clocksource_resume is called early in the resume process, there is only one cpu, no processes are running and the interrupts are disabled. It is therefore possible to resume the clocksources without taking the clocksource mutex. Reported-by: Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Tested-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Cc: Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090924172952.49697825@mschwide.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-24futex: Add memory barrier commentary to futex_wait_queue_me()Darren Hart
The memory barrier semantics of futex_wait_queue_me() are non-obvious. Add some commentary to try and clarify it. Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090924185447.694.38948.stgit@Aeon> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-24Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblazeLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze: (24 commits) microblaze: Disable heartbeat/enable emaclite in defconfigs microblaze: Support simpleImage.dts make target microblaze: Fix _start symbol to physical address microblaze: Use LOAD_OFFSET macro to get correct LMA for all sections microblaze: Create the LOAD_OFFSET macro used to compute VMA vs LMA offsets microblaze: Copy ppc asm-compat.h for clean handling of constants in asm and C microblaze: Actually show KiB rather than pages in "Freeing initrd memory:" microblaze: Support ptrace syscall tracing. microblaze: Updated CPU version and FPGA family codes in PVR microblaze: Generate correct signal and siginfo for integer div-by-zero microblaze: Don't be noisy when userspace causes hardware exceptions microblaze: Remove ipc.h file which points to non-existing asm-generic file microblaze: Clear sticky FSR register after generating exception signals microblaze: Ensure CPU usermode is set on new userspace processes microblaze: Use correct kbuild variable KBUILD_CFLAGS microblaze: Save and restore msr in hw exception microblaze: Add architectural support for USB EHCI host controllers microblaze: Implement include/asm/syscall.h. microblaze: Improve checking mechanism for MSR instruction microblaze: Add checking mechanism for MSR instruction ...
2009-09-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linusLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: module: don't call percpu_modfree on NULL pointer. module: fix memory leak when load fails after srcversion/version allocated module: preferred way to use MODULE_AUTHOR param: allow whitespace as kernel parameter separator module: reduce string table for loaded modules (v2) module: reduce symbol table for loaded modules (v2)
2009-09-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-currentLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current: lsm: Use a compressed IPv6 string format in audit events Audit: send signal info if selinux is disabled Audit: rearrange audit_context to save 16 bytes per struct Audit: reorganize struct audit_watch to save 8 bytes
2009-09-25module: don't call percpu_modfree on NULL pointer.Rusty Russell
The general one handles NULL, the static obsolescent (CONFIG_HAVE_LEGACY_PER_CPU_AREA) one in module.c doesn't; Eric's commit 720eba31 assumed it did, and various frobbings since then kept that assumption. All other callers in module.c all protect it with an if; this effectively does the same as free_init is only goto if we fail percpu_modalloc(). Reported-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-09-25module: fix memory leak when load fails after srcversion/version allocatedRusty Russell
Normally the twisty paths of sysfs will free the attributes, but not if we fail before we hook it into sysfs (which is the last thing we do in load_module). (This sysfs code is a turd, no doubt there are other issues lurking too). Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
2009-09-25param: allow whitespace as kernel parameter separatorPeter Oberparleiter
Some boot mechanisms require that kernel parameters are stored in a separate file which is loaded to memory without further processing (e.g. the "Load from FTP" method on s390). When such a file contains newline characters, the kernel parameter preceding the newline might not be correctly parsed (due to the newline being stuck to the end of the actual parameter value) which can lead to boot failures. This patch improves kernel command line usability in such a situation by allowing generic whitespace characters as separators between kernel parameters. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-09-25module: reduce string table for loaded modules (v2)Jan Beulich
Also remove all parts of the string table (referenced by the symbol table) that are not needed for kallsyms use (i.e. which were only referenced by symbols discarded by the previous patch, or not referenced at all for whatever reason). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-09-25module: reduce symbol table for loaded modules (v2)Jan Beulich
Discard all symbols not interesting for kallsyms use: absolute, section, and in the common case (!KALLSYMS_ALL) data ones. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-09-24Merge branch 'hwpoison' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 * 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (21 commits) HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page on btrfs HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4 HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page for NFS HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7 HWPOISON: Add PR_MCE_KILL prctl to control early kill behaviour per process HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked page HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation HWPOISON: Add invalidate_inode_page HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2 HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2 HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour HWPOISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to x86 page fault handler v2 HWPOISON: Add poison check to page fault handling HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3 HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2 HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world ...
2009-09-24task_struct cleanup: move binfmt field to mm_structHiroshi Shimamoto
Because the binfmt is not different between threads in the same process, it can be moved from task_struct to mm_struct. And binfmt moudle is handled per mm_struct instead of task_struct. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24aio: ifdef fields in mm_structAlexey Dobriyan
->ioctx_lock and ->ioctx_list are used only under CONFIG_AIO. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24pidns: deny CLONE_PARENT|CLONE_NEWPID combinationSukadev Bhattiprolu
CLONE_PARENT was used to implement an older threading model. For consistency with the CLONE_THREAD check in copy_pid_ns(), disable CLONE_PARENT with CLONE_NEWPID, at least until the required semantics of pid namespaces are clear. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24fork(): disable CLONE_PARENT for initSukadev Bhattiprolu
When global or container-init processes use CLONE_PARENT, they create a multi-rooted process tree. Besides siblings of global init remain as zombies on exit since they are not reaped by their parent (swapper). So prevent global and container-inits from creating siblings. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handlerAlexey Dobriyan
It's unused. It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl shouldn't care about the rest. It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24signals: inline __fatal_signal_pendingRoland McGrath
__fatal_signal_pending inlines to one instruction on x86, probably two instructions on other machines. It takes two longer x86 instructions just to call it and test its return value, not to mention the function itself. On my random x86_64 config, this saved 70 bytes of text (59 of those being __fatal_signal_pending itself). Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24signals: introduce do_send_sig_info() helperOleg Nesterov
Introduce do_send_sig_info() and convert group_send_sig_info(), send_sig_info(), do_send_specific() to use this helper. Hopefully it will have more users soon, it allows to specify specific/group behaviour via "bool group" argument. Shaves 80 bytes from .text. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24exec: let do_coredump() limit the number of concurrent dumps to pipesNeil Horman
Introduce core pipe limiting sysctl. Since we can dump cores to pipe, rather than directly to the filesystem, we create a condition in which a user can create a very high load on the system simply by running bad applications. If the pipe reader specified in core_pattern is poorly written, we can have lots of ourstandig resources and processes in the system. This sysctl introduces an ability to limit that resource consumption. core_pipe_limit defines how many in-flight dumps may be run in parallel, dumps beyond this value are skipped and a note is made in the kernel log. A special value of 0 in core_pipe_limit denotes unlimited core dumps may be handled (this is the default value). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Reported-by: Earl Chew <earl_chew@agilent.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24signals: tracehook_notify_jctl changeRoland McGrath
This changes tracehook_notify_jctl() so it's called with the siglock held, and changes its argument and return value definition. These clean-ups make it a better fit for what new tracing hooks need to check. Tracing needs the siglock here, held from the time TASK_STOPPED was set, to avoid potential SIGCONT races if it wants to allow any blocking in its tracing hooks. This also folds the finish_stop() function into its caller do_signal_stop(). The function is short, called only once and only unconditionally. It aids readability to fold it in. [oleg@redhat.com: do not call tracehook_notify_jctl() in TASK_STOPPED state] [oleg@redhat.com: introduce tracehook_finish_jctl() helper] Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24wait_noreap_copyout(): check for ->wo_info != NULLVitaly Mayatskikh
Current behaviour of sys_waitid() looks odd. If user passes infop == NULL, sys_waitid() returns success. When user additionally specifies flag WNOWAIT, sys_waitid() returns -EFAULT on the same conditions. When user combines WNOWAIT with WCONTINUED, sys_waitid() again returns success. This patch adds check for ->wo_info in wait_noreap_copyout(). User-visible change: starting from this commit, sys_waitid() always checks infop != NULL and does not fail if it is NULL. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24do_wait: fix sys_waitid()-specific behaviourVitaly Mayatskikh
do_wait() checks ->wo_info to figure out who is the caller. If it's not NULL the caller should be sys_waitid(), in that case do_wait() fixes up the retval or zeros ->wo_info, depending on retval from underlying function. This is bug: user can pass ->wo_info == NULL and sys_waitid() will return incorrect value. man 2 waitid says: waitid(): returns 0 on success Test-case: int main(void) { if (fork()) assert(waitid(P_ALL, 0, NULL, WEXITED) == 0); return 0; } Result: Assertion `waitid(P_ALL, 0, ((void *)0), 4) == 0' failed. Move that code to sys_waitid(). User-visible change: sys_waitid() will return 0 on success, either infop is set or not. Note, there's another bug in wait_noreap_copyout() which affects return value of sys_waitid(). It will be fixed in next patch. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24wait_consider_task: kill "parent" argumentOleg Nesterov
Kill the unused "parent" argument in wait_consider_task(), it was never used. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Ratan Nalumasu <rnalumasu@gmail.com> Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24do_wait-wakeup-optimization: simplify task_pid_type()Oleg Nesterov
task_pid_type() is only used by eligible_pid() which has to check wo_type != PIDTYPE_MAX anyway. Remove this check from task_pid_type() and factor out ->pids[type] access, this shrinks .text a bit and simplifies the code. The matches the behaviour of other similar helpers, say get_task_pid(). The caller must ensure that pid_type is valid, not the callee. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24do_wait-wakeup-optimization: fix child_wait_callback()->eligible_child() usageOleg Nesterov
child_wait_callback()->eligible_child() is not right, we can miss the wakeup if the task was detached before __wake_up_parent() and the caller of do_wait() didn't use __WALL. Move ->wo_pid checks from eligible_child() to the new helper, eligible_pid(), and change child_wait_callback() to use it instead of eligible_child(). Note: actually I think it would be better to fix the __WCLONE check in eligible_child(), it doesn't look exactly right. But it is not clear what is the supposed behaviour, and any change is user-visible. Reported-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24do_wait() wakeup optimization: child_wait_callback: check __WNOTHREAD caseOleg Nesterov
Suggested by Roland. do_wait(__WNOTHREAD) can only succeed if the caller is either ptracer, or it is ->real_parent and the child is not traced. IOW, caller == p->parent otherwise we should not wake up. Change child_wait_callback() to check this. Ratan reports the workload with CPU load >99% caused by unnecessary wakeups, should be fixed by this patch. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Ratan Nalumasu <rnalumasu@gmail.com> Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24do_wait() wakeup optimization: change __wake_up_parent() to use filtered wakeupOleg Nesterov
Ratan Nalumasu reported that in a process with many threads doing unnecessary wakeups. Every waiting thread in the process wakes up to loop through the children and see that the only ones it cares about are still not ready. Now that we have struct wait_opts we can change do_wait/__wake_up_parent to use filtered wakeups. We can make child_wait_callback() more clever later, right now it only checks eligible_child(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Ratan Nalumasu <rnalumasu@gmail.com> Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Tested-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>