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2009-06-18do_wait: kill the old BUG_ON, use while_each_thread()Oleg Nesterov
do_wait() does BUG_ON(tsk->signal != current->signal), this looks like a raher obsolete check. At least, I don't think do_wait() is the best place to verify that all threads have the same ->signal. Remove it. Also, change the code to use while_each_thread(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 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>
2009-06-18do_wait: simplify retval/tsk_result/notask_error messOleg Nesterov
Now that we don't pass &retval down to other helpers we can simplify the code more. - kill tsk_result, just use retval - add the "notask" label right after the main loop, and s/got end/goto notask/ after the fastpath pid check. This way we don't need to initialize retval before this check and the code becomes a bit more clean, if this pid has no attached tasks we should just skip the list search. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 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>
2009-06-18introduce "struct wait_opts" to simplify do_wait() patchesOleg Nesterov
Introduce "struct wait_opts" which holds the parameters for misc helpers in do_wait() pathes. This adds 13 lines to kernel/exit.c, but saves 256 bytes from .o and imho makes the code much more readable. This patch temporary uglifies rusage/siginfo code a little bit, will be addressed by further cleanups. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 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>
2009-06-18shift "ptrace implies WUNTRACED" from ptrace_do_wait() to wait_task_stopped()Oleg Nesterov
No functional changes, preparation for the next patch. ptrace_do_wait() adds WUNTRACED to options for wait_task_stopped() which should always accept the stopped tracee, even if do_wait() was called without WUNTRACED. Change wait_task_stopped() to check "ptrace || WUNTRACED" instead. This makes the code more explicit, and "int options" argument becomes const in do_wait() pathes. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> 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>
2009-06-18copy_process(): remove the unneeded clear_tsk_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING)Oleg Nesterov
The forked child can have TIF_SIGPENDING if it was copied from parent's ti->flags. But this is harmless and actually almost never happens, because copy_process() can't succeed if signal_pending() == T. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> 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>
2009-06-18wait_task_zombie: do not use thread_group_cputime()Oleg Nesterov
There is no reason for thread_group_cputime() in wait_task_zombie(), there must be no other threads. This call was previously needed to collect the per-cpu data which we do not have any longer. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18ptrace: don't take tasklist to get/set ->last_siginfoOleg Nesterov
Change ptrace_getsiginfo/ptrace_setsiginfo to use lock_task_sighand() without tasklist_lock. Perhaps it makes sense to make a single helper with "bool rw" argument. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> 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>
2009-06-18ptrace: do_notify_parent_cldstop: fix the wrong ->nsproxy usageOleg Nesterov
If the non-traced sub-thread calls do_notify_parent_cldstop(), we send the notification to group_leader->real_parent and we report group_leader's pid. But, if group_leader is traced we use the wrong ->parent->nsproxy->pid_ns, the tracer and parent can live in different namespaces. Change the code to use "parent" instead of tsk->parent. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Acked-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18ptrace: wait_task_zombie: s/->parent/->real_parent/Oleg Nesterov
Change wait_task_zombie() to use ->real_parent instead of ->parent. We could even use current afaics, but ->real_parent is more clean. We know that the child is not ptrace_reparented() and thus they are equal. But we should avoid using task_struct->parent, we are going to remove it. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> 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>
2009-06-18ptrace_get_task_struct: s/tasklist/rcu/, make it staticOleg Nesterov
- Use rcu_read_lock() instead of tasklist_lock to find/get the task in ptrace_get_task_struct(). - Make it static, it has no callers outside of ptrace.c. - The comment doesn't match the reality, this helper does not do any checks. Beacuse it is really trivial and static I removed the whole comment. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> 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>
2009-06-18ptrace: do not use task_lock() for attachOleg Nesterov
Remove the "Nasty, nasty" lock dance in ptrace_attach()/ptrace_traceme() - from now task_lock() has nothing to do with ptrace at all. With the recent changes nobody uses task_lock() to serialize with ptrace, but in fact it was never needed and it was never used consistently. However ptrace_attach() calls __ptrace_may_access() and needs task_lock() to pin task->mm for get_dumpable(). But we can call __ptrace_may_access() before we take tasklist_lock, ->cred_exec_mutex protects us against do_execve() path which can change creds and MMF_DUMP* flags. (ugly, but we can't use ptrace_may_access() because it hides the error code, so we have to take task_lock() and use __ptrace_may_access()). NOTE: this change assumes that LSM hooks, security_ptrace_may_access() and security_ptrace_traceme(), can be called without task_lock() held. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> 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>
2009-06-18ptrace: cleanup check/set of PT_PTRACED during attachOleg Nesterov
ptrace_attach() and ptrace_traceme() are the last functions which look as if the untraced task can have task->ptrace != 0, this must not be possible. Change the code to just check ->ptrace != 0 and s/|=/=/ to set PT_PTRACED. Also, a couple of trivial whitespace cleanups in ptrace_attach(). And move ptrace_traceme() up near ptrace_attach() to keep them close to each other. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> 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>
2009-06-18ptrace: ptrace_attach: check PF_KTHREAD + exit_state instead of ->mmOleg Nesterov
- Add PF_KTHREAD check to prevent attaching to the kernel thread with a borrowed ->mm. With or without this change we can race with daemonize() which can set PF_KTHREAD or clear ->mm after ptrace_attach() does the check, but this doesn't matter because reparent_to_kthreadd() does ptrace_unlink(). - Kill "!task->mm" check. We don't really care about ->mm != NULL, and the task can call exit_mm() right after we drop task_lock(). What we need is to make sure we can't attach after exit_notify(), check task->exit_state != 0 instead. Also, move the "already traced" check down for cosmetic reasons. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> 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>
2009-06-18ptrace: do not use task->ptrace directly in core kernelOleg Nesterov
No functional changes. - Nobody except ptrace.c & co should use ptrace flags directly, we have task_ptrace() for that. - No need to specially check PT_PTRACED, we must not have other PT_ bits set without PT_PTRACED. And no need to know this flag exists. 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>
2009-06-18ptrace: mm_need_new_owner: use ->real_parent to search in the siblingsOleg Nesterov
"Search in the siblings" should use ->real_parent, not ->parent. If the task is traced then ->parent == tracer, while the task's parent is always ->real_parent. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> 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>
2009-06-18allow_signal: kill the bogus ->mm check, add a note about CLONE_SIGHANDOleg Nesterov
allow_signal() checks ->mm == NULL. Not sure why. Perhaps to make sure current is the kernel thread. But this helper must not be used unless we are the kernel thread, kill this check. Also, document the fact that the CLONE_SIGHAND kthread must not use allow_signal(), unless the caller really wants to change the parent's ->sighand->action as well. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> 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>
2009-06-18memcg: add interface to reset limitsDaisuke Nishimura
We don't have an interface to reset mem.limit or memsw.limit now. This patch allows to reset mem.limit or memsw.limit when they are being set to -1. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18cgroups: forbid noprefix if mounting more than just cpuset subsystemLi Zefan
The 'noprefix' option was introduced for backwards-compatibility of cpuset, but actually it can be used when mounting other subsystems. This results in possibility of name collision, and now the collision can really happen, because we have 'stat' file in both memory and cpuacct subsystem: # mount -t cgroup -o noprefix,memory,cpuacct xxx /mnt Cgroup will happily mount the 2 subsystems, but only 'stat' file of memory subsys can be seen. We don't want users to use nopreifx, and also want to avoid name collision, so we change to allow noprefix only if mounting just the cpuset subsystem. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix shift for cpuset_subsys_id >= 32] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18softirq: introduce statistics for softirqKeika Kobayashi
Statistics for softirq doesn't exist. It will be helpful like statistics for interrupts. This patch introduces counting the number of softirq, which will be exported in /proc/softirqs. When softirq handler consumes much CPU time, /proc/stat is like the following. $ while :; do cat /proc/stat | head -n1 ; sleep 10 ; done cpu 88 0 408 739665 583 28 2 0 0 cpu 450 0 1090 740970 594 28 1294 0 0 ^^^^ softirq In such a situation, /proc/softirqs shows us which softirq handler is invoked. We can see the increase rate of softirqs. <before> $ cat /proc/softirqs CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 HI 0 0 0 0 TIMER 462850 462805 462782 462718 NET_TX 0 0 0 365 NET_RX 2472 2 2 40 BLOCK 0 0 381 1164 TASKLET 0 0 0 224 SCHED 462654 462689 462698 462427 RCU 3046 2423 3367 3173 <after> $ cat /proc/softirqs CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 HI 0 0 0 0 TIMER 463361 465077 465056 464991 NET_TX 53 0 1 365 NET_RX 3757 2 2 40 BLOCK 0 0 398 1170 TASKLET 0 0 0 224 SCHED 463074 464318 464612 463330 RCU 3505 2948 3947 3673 When CPU TIME of softirq is high, the rates of increase is the following. TIMER : 220/sec : CPU1-3 NET_TX : 5/sec : CPU0 NET_RX : 120/sec : CPU0 SCHED : 40-200/sec : all CPU RCU : 45-58/sec : all CPU The rates of increase in an idle mode is the following. TIMER : 250/sec SCHED : 250/sec RCU : 2/sec It seems many softirqs for receiving packets and rcu are invoked. This gives us help for checking system. Signed-off-by: Keika Kobayashi <kobayashi.kk@ncos.nec.co.jp> Reviewed-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.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>
2009-06-17Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6: UBIFS: start using hrtimers hrtimer: export ktime_add_safe UBIFS: do not forget to register BDI device UBIFS: allow sync option in rootflags UBIFS: remove dead code UBIFS: use anonymous device UBIFS: return proper error code if the compr is not present UBIFS: return error if link and unlink race UBIFS: reset no_space flag after inode deletion
2009-06-16Merge branch 'akpm'Linus Torvalds
* akpm: (182 commits) fbdev: bf54x-lq043fb: use kzalloc over kmalloc/memset fbdev: *bfin*: fix __dev{init,exit} markings fbdev: *bfin*: drop unnecessary calls to memset fbdev: bfin-t350mcqb-fb: drop unused local variables fbdev: blackfin has __raw I/O accessors, so use them in fb.h fbdev: s1d13xxxfb: add accelerated bitblt functions tcx: use standard fields for framebuffer physical address and length fbdev: add support for handoff from firmware to hw framebuffers intelfb: fix a bug when changing video timing fbdev: use framebuffer_release() for freeing fb_info structures radeon: P2G2CLK_ALWAYS_ONb tested twice, should 2nd be P2G2CLK_DAC_ALWAYS_ONb? s3c-fb: CPUFREQ frequency scaling support s3c-fb: fix resource releasing on error during probing carminefb: fix possible access beyond end of carmine_modedb[] acornfb: remove fb_mmap function mb862xxfb: use CONFIG_OF instead of CONFIG_PPC_OF mb862xxfb: restrict compliation of platform driver to PPC Samsung SoC Framebuffer driver: add Alpha Channel support atmel-lcdc: fix pixclock upper bound detection offb: use framebuffer_alloc() to allocate fb_info struct ... Manually fix up conflicts due to kmemcheck in mm/slab.c
2009-06-16slow-work: use round_jiffies() for thread pool's cull and OOM timersChris Peterson
Round the slow work queue's cull and OOM timeouts to whole second boundary with round_jiffies(). The slow work queue uses a pair of timers to cull idle threads and, after OOM, to delay new thread creation. This patch also extracts the mod_timer() logic for the cull timer into a separate helper function. By rounding non-time-critical timers such as these to whole seconds, they will be batched up to fire at the same time rather than being spread out. This allows the CPU wake up less, which saves power. Signed-off-by: Chris Peterson <cpeterso@cpeterso.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16groups: move code to kernel/groups.cAlexey Dobriyan
Move supplementary groups implementation to kernel/groups.c . kernel/sys.c already accumulated quite a few random stuff. Do strictly copy/paste + add required headers to compile. Compile-tested on many configs and archs. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16kernel/kfifo.c: replace conditional test with is_power_of_2()Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16mm: remove CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU config optionKOSAKI Motohiro
Currently, nobody wants to turn UNEVICTABLE_LRU off. Thus this configurability is unnecessary. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16mm, PM/Freezer: Disable OOM killer when tasks are frozenRafael J. Wysocki
Currently, the following scenario appears to be possible in theory: * Tasks are frozen for hibernation or suspend. * Free pages are almost exhausted. * Certain piece of code in the suspend code path attempts to allocate some memory using GFP_KERNEL and allocation order less than or equal to PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER. * __alloc_pages_internal() cannot find a free page so it invokes the OOM killer. * The OOM killer attempts to kill a task, but the task is frozen, so it doesn't die immediately. * __alloc_pages_internal() jumps to 'restart', unsuccessfully tries to find a free page and invokes the OOM killer. * No progress can be made. Although it is now hard to trigger during hibernation due to the memory shrinking carried out by the hibernation code, it is theoretically possible to trigger during suspend after the memory shrinking has been removed from that code path. Moreover, since memory allocations are going to be used for the hibernation memory shrinking, it will be even more likely to happen during hibernation. To prevent it from happening, introduce the oom_killer_disabled switch that will cause __alloc_pages_internal() to fail in the situations in which the OOM killer would have been called and make the freezer set this switch after tasks have been successfully frozen. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: be nicer to the namespace] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16page allocator: do not check NUMA node ID when the caller knows the node is ↵Mel Gorman
valid Callers of alloc_pages_node() can optionally specify -1 as a node to mean "allocate from the current node". However, a number of the callers in fast paths know for a fact their node is valid. To avoid a comparison and branch, this patch adds alloc_pages_exact_node() that only checks the nid with VM_BUG_ON(). Callers that know their node is valid are then converted. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> [for the SLOB NUMA bits] Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16cpuset,mm: update tasks' mems_allowed in timeMiao Xie
Fix allocating page cache/slab object on the unallowed node when memory spread is set by updating tasks' mems_allowed after its cpuset's mems is changed. In order to update tasks' mems_allowed in time, we must modify the code of memory policy. Because the memory policy is applied in the process's context originally. After applying this patch, one task directly manipulates anothers mems_allowed, and we use alloc_lock in the task_struct to protect mems_allowed and memory policy of the task. But in the fast path, we didn't use lock to protect them, because adding a lock may lead to performance regression. But if we don't add a lock,the task might see no nodes when changing cpuset's mems_allowed to some non-overlapping set. In order to avoid it, we set all new allowed nodes, then clear newly disallowed ones. [lee.schermerhorn@hp.com: The rework of mpol_new() to extract the adjusting of the node mask to apply cpuset and mpol flags "context" breaks set_mempolicy() and mbind() with MPOL_PREFERRED and a NULL nodemask--i.e., explicit local allocation. Fix this by adding the check for MPOL_PREFERRED and empty node mask to mpol_new_mpolicy(). Remove the now unneeded 'nodes = NULL' from mpol_new(). Note that mpol_new_mempolicy() is always called with a non-NULL 'nodes' parameter now that it has been removed from mpol_new(). Therefore, we don't need to test nodes for NULL before testing it for 'empty'. However, just to be extra paranoid, add a VM_BUG_ON() to verify this assumption.] [lee.schermerhorn@hp.com: I don't think the function name 'mpol_new_mempolicy' is descriptive enough to differentiate it from mpol_new(). This function applies cpuset set context, usually constraining nodes to those allowed by the cpuset. However, when the 'RELATIVE_NODES flag is set, it also translates the nodes. So I settled on 'mpol_set_nodemask()', because the comment block for mpol_new() mentions that we need to call this function to "set nodes". Some additional minor line length, whitespace and typo cleanup.] Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16cpusets: update tasks' page/slab spread flags in timeMiao Xie
Fix the bug that the kernel didn't spread page cache/slab object evenly over all the allowed nodes when spread flags were set by updating tasks' page/slab spread flags in time. Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16cpusets: restructure the function cpuset_update_task_memory_state()Miao Xie
The kernel still allocates the page caches on old node after modifying its cpuset's mems when 'memory_spread_page' was set, or it didn't spread the page cache evenly over all the nodes that faulting task is allowed to usr after memory_spread_page was set. it is caused by the old mem_allowed and flags of the task, the current kernel doesn't updates them unless some function invokes cpuset_update_task_memory_state(), it is too late sometimes.We must update the mem_allowed and the flags of the tasks in time. Slab has the same problem. The following patches fix this bug by updating tasks' mem_allowed and spread flag after its cpuset's mems or spread flag is changed. This patch: Extract a function from cpuset_update_task_memory_state(). It will be used later for update tasks' page/slab spread flags after its cpuset's flag is set Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16Merge branch 'for-linus2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck * 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck: (39 commits) signal: fix __send_signal() false positive kmemcheck warning fs: fix do_mount_root() false positive kmemcheck warning fs: introduce __getname_gfp() trace: annotate bitfields in struct ring_buffer_event net: annotate struct sock bitfield c2port: annotate bitfield for kmemcheck net: annotate inet_timewait_sock bitfields ieee1394/csr1212: fix false positive kmemcheck report ieee1394: annotate bitfield net: annotate bitfields in struct inet_sock net: use kmemcheck bitfields API for skbuff kmemcheck: introduce bitfield API kmemcheck: add opcode self-testing at boot x86: unify pte_hidden x86: make _PAGE_HIDDEN conditional kmemcheck: make kconfig accessible for other architectures kmemcheck: enable in the x86 Kconfig kmemcheck: add hooks for the page allocator kmemcheck: add hooks for page- and sg-dma-mappings kmemcheck: don't track page tables ...
2009-06-16Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (64 commits) debugfs: use specified mode to possibly mark files read/write only debugfs: Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem. xen: remove driver_data direct access of struct device from more drivers usb: gadget: at91_udc: remove driver_data direct access of struct device uml: remove driver_data direct access of struct device block/ps3: remove driver_data direct access of struct device s390: remove driver_data direct access of struct device parport: remove driver_data direct access of struct device parisc: remove driver_data direct access of struct device of_serial: remove driver_data direct access of struct device mips: remove driver_data direct access of struct device ipmi: remove driver_data direct access of struct device infiniband: ehca: remove driver_data direct access of struct device ibmvscsi: gadget: at91_udc: remove driver_data direct access of struct device hvcs: remove driver_data direct access of struct device xen block: remove driver_data direct access of struct device thermal: remove driver_data direct access of struct device scsi: remove driver_data direct access of struct device pcmcia: remove driver_data direct access of struct device PCIE: remove driver_data direct access of struct device ... Manually fix up trivial conflicts due to different direct driver_data direct access fixups in drivers/block/{ps3disk.c,ps3vram.c}
2009-06-16printk: add KERN_DEFAULT loglevel to print_modules()Linus Torvalds
Several WARN_ON() messages omit the '\n' at the end of the string, which is a simple (and understandable) error. The next line printed after that warning line is usually the current module list, and that printk does not have a log-level marker - resulting in one long mixed-up line. Adding this loglevel marker will now avoid this unreadable mess. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16printk: Add KERN_DEFAULT printk log-levelLinus Torvalds
This adds a KERN_DEFAULT loglevel marker, for when you cannot decide which loglevel you want, and just want to keep an existing printk with the default loglevel. The difference between having KERN_DEFAULT and having no log-level marker at all is two-fold: - having the log-level marker will now force a new-line if the previous printout had not added one (perhaps because it forgot, but perhaps because it expected a continuation) - having a log-level marker is required if you are printing out a message that otherwise itself could perhaps otherwise be mistaken for a log-level. Signed-of-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16printk: clean up handling of log-levels and newlinesLinus Torvalds
It used to be that we would only look at the log-level in a printk() after explicit newlines, which can cause annoying problems when the previous printk() did not end with a '\n'. In that case, the log-level marker would be just printed out in the middle of the line, and be seen as just noise rather than change the logging level. This changes things to always look at the log-level in the first bytes of the printout. If a log level marker is found, it is always used as the log-level. Additionally, if no newline existed, one is added (unless the log-level is the explicit KERN_CONT marker, to explicitly show that it's a continuation of a previous line). Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-15debugfs: Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem.GeunSik Lim
Many developers use "/debug/" or "/debugfs/" or "/sys/kernel/debug/" directory name to mount debugfs filesystem for ftrace according to ./Documentation/tracers/ftrace.txt file. And, three directory names(ex:/debug/, /debugfs/, /sys/kernel/debug/) is existed in kernel source like ftrace, DRM, Wireless, Documentation, Network[sky2]files to mount debugfs filesystem. debugfs means debug filesystem for debugging easy to use by greg kroah hartman. "/sys/kernel/debug/" name is suitable as directory name of debugfs filesystem. - debugfs related reference: http://lwn.net/Articles/334546/ Fix inconsistency of directory name to mount debugfs filesystem. * From Steven Rostedt - find_debugfs() and tracing_files() in this patch. Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com> Acked-by : Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by : Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by : James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com> CC: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org> CC: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> CC: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> CC: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> CC: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> CC: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-15sched: delayed cleanup of user_structKay Sievers
During bootup performance tracing we see repeated occurrences of /sys/kernel/uid/* events for the same uid, leading to a, in this case, rather pointless userspace processing for the same uid over and over. This is usually caused by tools which change their uid to "nobody", to run without privileges to read data supplied by untrusted users. This change delays the execution of the (already existing) scheduled work, to cleanup the uid after one second, so the allocated and announced uid can possibly be re-used by another process. This is the current behavior, where almost every invocation of a binary, which changes the uid, creates two events: $ read START < /sys/kernel/uevent_seqnum; \ for i in `seq 100`; do su --shell=/bin/true bin; done; \ read END < /sys/kernel/uevent_seqnum; \ echo $(($END - $START)) 178 With the delayed cleanup, we get only two events, and userspace finishes a bit faster too: $ read START < /sys/kernel/uevent_seqnum; \ for i in `seq 100`; do su --shell=/bin/true bin; done; \ read END < /sys/kernel/uevent_seqnum; \ echo $(($END - $START)) 1 Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-15Merge branch 'timers-for-linus-migration' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-for-linus-migration' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: timers: Logic to move non pinned timers timers: /proc/sys sysctl hook to enable timer migration timers: Identifying the existing pinned timers timers: Framework for identifying pinned timers timers: allow deferrable timers for intervals tv2-tv5 to be deferred Fix up conflicts in kernel/sched.c and kernel/timer.c manually
2009-06-15Merge branch 'timers-for-linus-clockevents' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-for-linus-clockevents' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: clockevent: export register_device and delta2ns clockevents: tick_broadcast_device can become static
2009-06-15Merge branch 'timers-for-linus-clocksource' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-for-linus-clocksource' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: clocksource: prevent selection of low resolution clocksourse also for nohz=on clocksource: sanity check sysfs clocksource changes
2009-06-15Merge commit 'linus/master' into HEADVegard Nossum
Conflicts: MAINTAINERS Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-15signal: fix __send_signal() false positive kmemcheck warningVegard Nossum
This false positive is due to field padding in struct sigqueue. When this dynamically allocated structure is copied to the stack (in arch- specific delivery code), kmemcheck sees a read from the padding, which is, naturally, uninitialized. Hide the false positive using the __GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE flag. Also made the rlimit override code a bit clearer by introducing a new variable. Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-15trace: annotate bitfields in struct ring_buffer_eventVegard Nossum
This gets rid of a heap of false-positive warnings from the tracer code due to the use of bitfields. [rebased for mainline inclusion] Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-15kmemcheck: add mm functionsVegard Nossum
With kmemcheck enabled, the slab allocator needs to do this: 1. Tell kmemcheck to allocate the shadow memory which stores the status of each byte in the allocation proper, e.g. whether it is initialized or uninitialized. 2. Tell kmemcheck which parts of memory that should be marked uninitialized. There are actually a few more states, such as "not yet allocated" and "recently freed". If a slab cache is set up using the SLAB_NOTRACK flag, it will never return memory that can take page faults because of kmemcheck. If a slab cache is NOT set up using the SLAB_NOTRACK flag, callers can still request memory with the __GFP_NOTRACK flag. This does not prevent the page faults from occuring, however, but marks the object in question as being initialized so that no warnings will ever be produced for this object. In addition to (and in contrast to) __GFP_NOTRACK, the __GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE flag indicates that the allocation should not be tracked _because_ it would produce a false positive. Their values are identical, but need not be so in the future (for example, we could now enable/disable false positives with a config option). Parts of this patch were contributed by Pekka Enberg but merged for atomicity. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [rebased for mainline inclusion] Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-14Merge branch 'master' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next * 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (53 commits) .gitignore: ignore *.lzma files kbuild: add generic --set-str option to scripts/config kbuild: simplify argument loop in scripts/config kbuild: handle non-existing options in scripts/config kallsyms: generalize text region handling kallsyms: support kernel symbols in Blackfin on-chip memory documentation: make version fix kbuild: fix a compile warning gitignore: Add GNU GLOBAL files to top .gitignore kbuild: fix delay in setlocalversion on readonly source README: fix misleading pointer to the defconf directory vmlinux.lds.h update kernel-doc: cleanup perl script Improve vmlinux.lds.h support for arch specific linker scripts kbuild: fix headers_exports with boolean expression kbuild/headers_check: refine extern check kbuild: fix "Argument list too long" error for "make headers_check", ignore *.patch files Remove bashisms from scripts menu: fix embedded menu presentation ...
2009-06-14Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (31 commits) trivial: remove the trivial patch monkey's name from SubmittingPatches trivial: Fix a typo in comment of addrconf_dad_start() trivial: usb: fix missing space typo in doc trivial: pci hotplug: adding __init/__exit macros to sgi_hotplug trivial: Remove the hyphen from git commands trivial: fix ETIMEOUT -> ETIMEDOUT typos trivial: Kconfig: .ko is normally not included in module names trivial: SubmittingPatches: fix typo trivial: Documentation/dell_rbu.txt: fix typos trivial: Fix Pavel's address in MAINTAINERS trivial: ftrace:fix description of trace directory trivial: unnecessary (void*) cast removal in sound/oss/msnd.c trivial: input/misc: Fix typo in Kconfig trivial: fix grammo in bus_for_each_dev() kerneldoc trivial: rbtree.txt: fix rb_entry() parameters in sample code trivial: spelling fix in ppc code comments trivial: fix typo in bio_alloc kernel doc trivial: Documentation/rbtree.txt: cleanup kerneldoc of rbtree.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes trivial: fix typo milisecond/millisecond for documentation and source comments. ...
2009-06-13Merge branch 'x86-mce-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-mce-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (80 commits) x86, mce: Add boot options for corrected errors x86, mce: Fix mce printing x86, mce: fix for mce counters x86, mce: support action-optional machine checks x86, mce: define MCE_VECTOR x86, mce: rename mce_notify_user to mce_notify_irq x86: fix panic with interrupts off (needed for MCE) x86, mce: export MCE severities coverage via debugfs x86, mce: implement new status bits x86, mce: print header/footer only once for multiple MCEs x86, mce: default to panic timeout for machine checks x86, mce: improve mce_get_rip x86, mce: make non Monarch panic message "Fatal machine check" too x86, mce: switch x86 machine check handler to Monarch election. x86, mce: implement panic synchronization x86, mce: implement bootstrapping for machine check wakeups x86, mce: check early in exception handler if panic is needed x86, mce: add table driven machine check grading x86, mce: remove TSC print heuristic x86, mce: log corrected errors when panicing ...
2009-06-13kmemcheck: add the kmemcheck coreVegard Nossum
General description: kmemcheck is a patch to the linux kernel that detects use of uninitialized memory. It does this by trapping every read and write to memory that was allocated dynamically (e.g. using kmalloc()). If a memory address is read that has not previously been written to, a message is printed to the kernel log. Thanks to Andi Kleen for the set_memory_4k() solution. Andrew Morton suggested documenting the shadow member of struct page. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> [export kmemcheck_mark_initialized] [build fix for setup_max_cpus] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [rebased for mainline inclusion] Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
2009-06-13clocksource: prevent selection of low resolution clocksourse also for nohz=onThomas Gleixner
commit 3f68535adad (clocksource: sanity check sysfs clocksource changes) prevents selection of non high resolution capable clocksources when high resolution mode is active, but did not take into account that the same rules apply for highres=off nohz=on. Check the tick device mode instead of hrtimer_hres_active() to verify whether the system needs to be protected from a switch to jiffies or other non highres capable clock sources. Reported-by: Luming Yu <luming.yu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-06-13tasklets: new tasklet scheduling functionVegard Nossum
Rationale: kmemcheck needs to be able to schedule a tasklet without touching any dynamically allocated memory _at_ _all_ (since that would lead to a recursive page fault). This tasklet is used for writing the error reports to the kernel log. The new scheduling function avoids touching any other tasklets by inserting the new tasklist as the head of the "tasklet_hi" list instead of on the tail. Also don't wake up the softirq thread lest the scheduler access some tracked memory and we go down with a recursive page fault. In this case, we'd better just wait for the maximum time of 1/HZ for the message to appear. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>