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2007-03-06[PATCH] fix vsyscall settimeofdayDaniel Walker
I've only seen this on x86_64. The vsyscall state only gets updated when a timer interrupts comes in. So if the time is set long before the next timer, there will be a period when a gettimeofday() won't reflect the correct time. I added an explicit update_vsyscall() during the settimeofday(), that way the vsyscall state doesn't get stale. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-06[PATCH] highres: do not run the TIMER_SOFTIRQ after switching to highres modeThomas Gleixner
The TIMER_SOFTIRQ runs the hrtimers during bootup until a usable clocksource and clock event sources are registered. The switch to high resolution mode happens inside of the TIMER_SOFTIRQ, but runs the softirq afterwards. That way the tick emulation timer, which was set up in the switch to highres might be executed in the softirq context, which is a BUG. The rbtree has not to be touched by the softirq after the highres switch. This BUG was observed by Andres Salomon, who provided the information to debug it. Return early from the softirq, when the switch was sucessful. [dilinger@debian.org: add debug warning] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make debug warning compile] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-06[PATCH] Save/restore periodic tick information over suspend/resumeThomas Gleixner
The programming of periodic tick devices needs to be saved/restored across suspend/resume - otherwise we might end up with a system coming up that relies on getting a PIT (or HPET) interrupt, while those devices default to 'no interrupts' after powerup. (To confuse things it worked to a certain degree on some systems because the lapic gets initialized as a side-effect of SMP bootup.) This suspend / resume thing was dropped unintentionally during the last-minute -mm code reshuffling. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-05[PATCH] timer/hrtimer: take per cpu locks in sane orderHeiko Carstens
Doing something like this on a two cpu system # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online # echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online will give me this: ======================================================= [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.21-rc2-g562aa1d4-dirty #7 ------------------------------------------------------- bash/1282 is trying to acquire lock: (&cpu_base->lock_key){.+..}, at: [<000000000005f17e>] hrtimer_cpu_notify+0xc6/0x240 but task is already holding lock: (&cpu_base->lock_key#2){.+..}, at: [<000000000005f174>] hrtimer_cpu_notify+0xbc/0x240 which lock already depends on the new lock. This happens because we have the following code in kernel/hrtimer.c: migrate_hrtimers(int cpu) [...] old_base = &per_cpu(hrtimer_bases, cpu); new_base = &get_cpu_var(hrtimer_bases); [...] spin_lock(&new_base->lock); spin_lock(&old_base->lock); Which means the spinlocks are taken in an order which depends on which cpu gets shut down from which other cpu. Therefore lockdep complains that there might be an ABBA deadlock. Since migrate_hrtimers() gets only called on cpu hotplug it's safe to assume that it isn't executed concurrently on a The same problem exists in kernel/timer.c: migrate_timers(). As pointed out by Christian Borntraeger one possible solution to avoid the locking order complaints would be to make sure that the locks are always taken in the same order. E.g. by taking the lock of the cpu with the lower number first. To achieve this we introduce two new spinlock functions double_spin_lock and double_spin_unlock which lock or unlock two locks in a given order. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <cborntra@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-05[PATCH] clocksource init adjustments (fix bug #7426)john stultz
This patch resolves the issue found here: http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7426 The basic summary is: Currently we register most of i386/x86_64 clocksources at module_init time. Then we enable clocksource selection at late_initcall time. This causes some problems for drivers that use gettimeofday for init calibration routines (specifically the es1968 driver in this case), where durring module_init, the only clocksource available is the low-res jiffies clocksource. This may cause slight calibration errors, due to the small sampling time used. It should be noted that drivers that require fine grained time may not function on architectures that do not have better then jiffies resolution timekeeping (there are a few). However, this does not discount the reasonable need for such fine-grained timekeeping at init time. Thus the solution here is to register clocksources earlier (ideally when the hardware is being initialized), and then we enable clocksource selection at fs_initcall (before device_initcall). This patch should probably get some testing time in -mm, since clocksource selection is one of the most important issues for correct timekeeping, and I've only been able to test this on a few of my own boxes. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-05[PATCH] sched: remove SMT niceCon Kolivas
Remove the SMT-nice feature which idles sibling cpus on SMT cpus to facilitiate nice working properly where cpu power is shared. The idling of cpus in the presence of runnable tasks is considered too fragile, easy to break with outside code, and the complexity of managing this system if an architecture comes along with many logical cores sharing cpu power will be unworkable. Remove the associated per_cpu_gain variable in sched_domains used only by this code. Also: The reason is that with dynticks enabled, this code breaks without yet further tweaks so dynticks brought on the rapid demise of this code. So either we tweak this code or kill it off entirely. It was Ingo's preference to kill it off. Either way this needs to happen for 2.6.21 since dynticks has gone in. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-01[PATCH] sched: fix SMT scheduler bugIngo Molnar
The SMT scheduler incorrectly skips kernel threads even if they are runnable (but they are preempted by a higher-prio user-space task which got SMT-delayed by an even higher-priority task running on a sibling CPU). Fix this for now by only doing the SMT-nice optimization if the to-be-delayed task is the only runnable task. (This should cover most of the real-life cases anyway.) This bug has been in the SMT scheduler since 2.6.17 or so, but has only been noticed now by the active check in the dynticks code. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-01[PATCH] fix section mismatch warning in lockdepSam Ravnborg
lockdep_init() is marked __init but used in several places outside __init code. This causes following warnings: $ scripts/mod/modpost kernel/lockdep.o WARNING: kernel/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:lockdep_init from .text.lockdep_init_map after 'lockdep_init_map' (at offset 0x105) WARNING: kernel/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:lockdep_init from .text.lockdep_reset_lock after 'lockdep_reset_lock' (at offset 0x35) WARNING: kernel/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:lockdep_init from .text.__lock_acquire after '__lock_acquire' (at offset 0xb2) The warnings are less obviously due to heavy inlining by gcc - this is not altered. Fix the section mismatch warnings by removing the __init marking, which seems obviously wrong. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-01[PATCH] fix the SYSCTL=n compilationAdrian Bunk
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.20-mm2/kernel/sysctl.c:1411: error: conflicting types for 'register_sysctl_table' /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.20-mm2/include/linux/sysctl.h:1042: error: previous declaration of 'register_sysctl_table' was here make[2]: *** [kernel/sysctl.o] Error 1 Caused by commit 0b4d414714f0d2f922d39424b0c5c82ad900a381. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-01[PATCH] Fix posix-cpu-timer breakage caused by stale p->last_ran valueThomas Gleixner
Problem description at: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8048 Commit b18ec80396834497933d77b81ec0918519f4e2a7 [PATCH] sched: improve migration accuracy optimized the scheduler time calculations, but broke posix-cpu-timers. The problem is that the p->last_ran value is not updated after a context switch. So a subsequent call to current_sched_time() calculates with a stale p->last_ran value, i.e. accounts the full time, which the task was scheduled away. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-01[PATCH] kernel-doc fixes for 2.6.20-git15 (non-drivers)Randy Dunlap
Fix kernel-doc warnings in 2.6.20-git15 (lib/, mm/, kernel/, include/). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-01[PATCH] update timekeeping_is_continuous commentDaniel Walker
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-26Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6: (78 commits) [PARISC] Use symbolic last syscall in __NR_Linux_syscalls [PARISC] Add missing statfs64 and fstatfs64 syscalls Revert "[PARISC] Optimize TLB flush on SMP systems" [PARISC] Compat signal fixes for 64-bit parisc [PARISC] Reorder syscalls to match unistd.h Revert "[PATCH] make kernel/signal.c:kill_proc_info() static" [PARISC] fix sys_rt_sigqueueinfo [PARISC] fix section mismatch warnings in harmony sound driver [PARISC] do not export get_register/set_register [PARISC] add ENTRY()/ENDPROC() and simplify assembly of HP/UX emulation code [PARISC] convert to use CONFIG_64BIT instead of __LP64__ [PARISC] use CONFIG_64BIT instead of __LP64__ [PARISC] add ASM_EXCEPTIONTABLE_ENTRY() macro [PARISC] more ENTRY(), ENDPROC(), END() conversions [PARISC] fix ENTRY() and ENDPROC() for 64bit-parisc [PARISC] Fixes /proc/cpuinfo cache output on B160L [PARISC] implement standard ENTRY(), END() and ENDPROC() [PARISC] kill ENTRY_SYS_CPUS [PARISC] clean up debugging printks in smp.c [PARISC] factor syscall_restart code out of do_signal ... Fix conflict in include/linux/sched.h due to kill_proc_info() being made publicly available to PARISC again.
2007-02-26Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/tick-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/tick-2.6: [TICK] tick-common: Fix one-shot handling in tick_handle_periodic(). [TIME] tick-sched: Add missing asm/irq_regs.h include.
2007-02-26Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: Revert "Driver core: let request_module() send a /sys/modules/kmod/-uevent" Driver core: fix error by cleanup up symlinks properly make kernel/kmod.c:kmod_mk static power management: fix struct layout and docs power management: no valid states w/o pm_ops Driver core: more fallout from class_device changes for pcmcia sysfs: move struct sysfs_dirent to private header driver core: refcounting fix Driver core: remove class_device_rename
2007-02-26[TICK] tick-common: Fix one-shot handling in tick_handle_periodic().David S. Miller
When clockevents_program_event() is given an expire time in the past, it does not update dev->next_event, so this looping code would loop forever once the first in-the-past expiration time was used. Keep advancing "next" locally to fix this bug. Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-26[TIME] tick-sched: Add missing asm/irq_regs.h include.David S. Miller
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-26[PATCH] genirq: Mask irqs when migrating them.Eric W. Biederman
move_native_irqs tries to do the right thing when migrating irqs by disabling them. However disabling them is a software logical thing, not a hardware thing. This has always been a little flaky and after Ingo's latest round of changes it is guaranteed to not mask the apic. So this patch fixes move_native_irq to directly call the mask and unmask chip methods to guarantee that we mask the irq when we are migrating it. We must do this as it is required by all code that call into the path. Since we don't know the masked status when IRQ_DISABLED is set so we will not be able to restore it. The patch makes the code just give up and trying again the next time this routing is called. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-23Revert "Driver core: let request_module() send a /sys/modules/kmod/-uevent"Greg Kroah-Hartman
This reverts commit c353c3fb0700a3c17ea2b0237710a184232ccd7f. It turns out that we end up with a loop trying to load the unix module and calling netfilter to do that. Will redo the patch later to not have this loop. Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-23make kernel/kmod.c:kmod_mk staticAdrian Bunk
This patch makes the needlessly global struct kmod_mk static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-23power management: no valid states w/o pm_opsJohannes Berg
Change /sys/power/state to not advertise any valid states (except for disk if SOFTWARE_SUSPEND is enabled) when no pm_ops have been set so userspace can easily discover what states should be available. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Macheck <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-23driver core: refcounting fixMike Galbraith
Fix a reference counting bug exposed by commit 725522b5453dd680412f2b6463a988e4fd148757. If driver.mod_name exists, we take a reference in module_add_driver(), and never release it. Undo that reference in module_remove_driver(). Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-20[PATCH] lockdep: debug_locks check after check_chain_keyJarek Poplawski
In __lock_acquire check_chain_key can turn off debug_locks, so check is needed to assure proper return code. Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-20[PATCH] kprobes: list all active probes in the systemSrinivasa Ds
This patch lists all active probes in the system by scanning through kprobe_table[]. It takes care of aggregate handlers and prints the type of the probe. Letter "k" for kprobes, "j" for jprobes, "r" for kretprobes. It also lists address of the instruction,its symbolic name(function name + offset) and the module name. One can access this file through /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/list. Output looks like this ===================== llm40:~/a # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/list c0169ae3 r sys_read+0x0 c0169ae3 k sys_read+0x0 c01694c8 k vfs_write+0x0 c0167d20 r sys_open+0x0 f8e658a6 k reiserfs_delete_inode+0x0 reiserfs c0120f4a k do_fork+0x0 c0120f4a j do_fork+0x0 c0169b4a r sys_write+0x0 c0169b4a k sys_write+0x0 c0169622 r vfs_read+0x0 ================================= [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] [ananth@in.ibm.com: sparc build fix] Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-19[PATCH] NOHZ: Produce debug output instead of a BUG()Thomas Gleixner
The BUG_ON() in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() triggers on some boxen. Remove the BUG_ON and print information about the pending softirq to allow better debugging of the problem. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-19[PATCH] NOHZ: Fix RCU handlingIngo Molnar
When a CPU is needed for RCU the tick has to continue even when it was stopped before. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-19Merge branch 'audit.b37' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current * 'audit.b37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current: [PATCH] AUDIT_FD_PAIR [PATCH] audit config lockdown [PATCH] minor update to rule add/delete messages (ver 2)
2007-02-19Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivialLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits) Documentation/kernel-docs.txt update. arch/cris: typo in KERN_INFO Storage class should be before const qualifier kernel/printk.c: comment fix update I/O sched Kconfig help texts - CFQ is now default, not AS. Remove duplicate listing of Cris arch from README kbuild: more doc. cleanups doc: make doc. for maxcpus= more visible drivers/net/eexpress.c: remove duplicate comment add a help text for BLK_DEV_GENERIC correct a dead URL in the IP_MULTICAST help text fix the BAYCOM_SER_HDX help text fix SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC help text trivial documentation patch for platform.txt Fix typos concerning hierarchy Fix comment typo "spin_lock_irqrestore". Fix misspellings of "agressive". drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c: trivial typo patch Correct trivial typo in log2.h. Remove useless FIND_FIRST_BIT() macro from cardbus.c. ...
2007-02-17[PATCH] AUDIT_FD_PAIRAl Viro
Provide an audit record of the descriptor pair returned by pipe() and socketpair(). Rewritten from the original posted to linux-audit by John D. Ramsdell <ramsdell@mitre.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2007-02-17[PATCH] audit config lockdownSteve Grubb
The following patch adds a new mode to the audit system. It uses the audit_enabled config option to introduce the idea of audit enabled, but configuration is immutable. Any attempt to change the configuration while in this mode is audited. To change the audit rules, you'd need to reboot the machine. To use this option, you'd need a modified version of auditctl and use "-e 2". This is intended to go at the end of the audit.rules file for people that want an immutable configuration. This patch also adds "res=" to a number of configuration commands that did not have it before. Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2007-02-17[PATCH] minor update to rule add/delete messages (ver 2)Steve Grubb
I was looking at parsing some of these messages and found that I wanted what it was doing next to an op= for the parser to key on. Also missing was the list number and results. Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2007-02-17kernel/printk.c: comment fixPatrick Pletscher
Signed-off-by: Patrick Pletscher <pat@pletscher.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-02-17Revert "[PATCH] make kernel/signal.c:kill_proc_info() static"Matthew Wilcox
This reverts commit d3228a887cae75ef2b8b1211c31c539bef5a5698. DeBunk this code. We need it for compat_sys_rt_sigqueueinfo. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2007-02-16sysfs: fix build errors: uevent with CONFIG_SYSFS=nRandy Dunlap
Fix source files to build with CONFIG_SYSFS=n. module_subsys is not available. SYSFS=n, MODULES=y: T:y SYSFS=n, MODULES=n: T:y SYSFS=y, MODULES=y: T:y SYSFS=y, MODULES=n: T:y Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-16Driver: remove redundant kobject_unregister checksMariusz Kozlowski
Here is a patch that removes all redundant kobject_unregister argument checks. Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-16Driver core: let request_module() send a /sys/modules/kmod/-ueventKay Sievers
On recent systems, calls to /sbin/modprobe are handled by udev depending on the kind of device the kernel has discovered. This patch creates an uevent for the kernels internal request_module(), to let udev take control over the request, instead of forking the binary directly by the kernel. The direct execution of /sbin/modprobe can be disabled by setting: /sys/module/kmod/mod_request_helper (/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe) to an empty string, the same way /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug is disabled on an udev system. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-16[PATCH] small irq management simplificationJan Beulich
Use mask_ack_irq() where possible. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] IRQ kernel-doc fixesRandy Dunlap
Fix kernel-doc warnings in IRQ management. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] genirq: do not mask interrupts by defaultIngo Molnar
Never mask interrupts immediately upon request. Disabling interrupts in high-performance codepaths is rare, and on the other hand this change could recover lost edges (or even other types of lost interrupts) by conservatively only masking interrupts after they happen. (NOTE: with this change the highlevel irq-disable code still soft-disables this IRQ line - and if such an interrupt happens then the IRQ flow handler keeps the IRQ masked.) Mark i8529A controllers as 'never loses an edge'. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] posix timers: RCU optimization for clock_gettime()Paul E. McKenney
Use RCU to avoid the need to acquire tasklist_lock in the single-threaded case of clock_gettime(). It still acquires tasklist_lock when for a (potentially multithreaded) process. This change allows realtime applications to frequently monitor CPU consumption of individual tasks, as requested (and now deployed) by some off-list users. This has been in Ingo Molnar's -rt patchset since late 2005 with no problems reported, and tests successfully on 2.6.20-rc6, so I believe that it is long-since ready for mainline adoption. [paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com: fix exit()/posix_cpu_clock_get() race spotted by Oleg] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] time: x86_64: split x86_64/kernel/time.c upjohn stultz
In preparation for the x86_64 generic time conversion, this patch splits out TSC and HPET related code from arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c into respective hpet.c and tsc.c files. [akpm@osdl.org: fix printk timestamps] [akpm@osdl.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] generic: vsyscall-gtod support for GENERIC_TIMEjohn stultz
Provides generic infrastructure for vsyscall-gtod. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] Add debugging feature /proc/timer_listIngo Molnar
add /proc/timer_list, which prints all currently pending (high-res) timers, all clock-event sources and their parameters in a human-readable form. Sample output: Timer List Version: v0.1 HRTIMER_MAX_CLOCK_BASES: 2 now at 4246046273872 nsecs cpu: 0 clock 0: .index: 0 .resolution: 1 nsecs .get_time: ktime_get_real .offset: 1273998312645738432 nsecs active timers: clock 1: .index: 1 .resolution: 1 nsecs .get_time: ktime_get .offset: 0 nsecs active timers: #0: <f5a90ec8>, hrtimer_sched_tick, hrtimer_stop_sched_tick, swapper/0 # expires at 4246432689566 nsecs [in 386415694 nsecs] #1: <f5a90ec8>, hrtimer_wakeup, do_nanosleep, pcscd/2050 # expires at 4247018194689 nsecs [in 971920817 nsecs] #2: <f5a90ec8>, hrtimer_wakeup, do_nanosleep, irqbalance/1909 # expires at 4247351358392 nsecs [in 1305084520 nsecs] #3: <f5a90ec8>, hrtimer_wakeup, do_nanosleep, crond/2157 # expires at 4249097614968 nsecs [in 3051341096 nsecs] #4: <f5a90ec8>, it_real_fn, do_setitimer, syslogd/1888 # expires at 4251329900926 nsecs [in 5283627054 nsecs] .expires_next : 4246432689566 nsecs .hres_active : 1 .check_clocks : 0 .nr_events : 31306 .idle_tick : 4246020791890 nsecs .tick_stopped : 1 .idle_jiffies : 986504 .idle_calls : 40700 .idle_sleeps : 36014 .idle_entrytime : 4246019418883 nsecs .idle_sleeptime : 4178181972709 nsecs cpu: 1 clock 0: .index: 0 .resolution: 1 nsecs .get_time: ktime_get_real .offset: 1273998312645738432 nsecs active timers: clock 1: .index: 1 .resolution: 1 nsecs .get_time: ktime_get .offset: 0 nsecs active timers: #0: <f5a90ec8>, hrtimer_sched_tick, hrtimer_restart_sched_tick, swapper/0 # expires at 4246050084568 nsecs [in 3810696 nsecs] #1: <f5a90ec8>, hrtimer_wakeup, do_nanosleep, atd/2227 # expires at 4261010635003 nsecs [in 14964361131 nsecs] #2: <f5a90ec8>, hrtimer_wakeup, do_nanosleep, smartd/2332 # expires at 5469485798970 nsecs [in 1223439525098 nsecs] .expires_next : 4246050084568 nsecs .hres_active : 1 .check_clocks : 0 .nr_events : 24043 .idle_tick : 4246046084568 nsecs .tick_stopped : 0 .idle_jiffies : 986510 .idle_calls : 26360 .idle_sleeps : 22551 .idle_entrytime : 4246043874339 nsecs .idle_sleeptime : 4170763761184 nsecs tick_broadcast_mask: 00000003 event_broadcast_mask: 00000001 CPU#0's local event device: Clock Event Device: lapic capabilities: 0000000e max_delta_ns: 807385544 min_delta_ns: 1443 mult: 44624025 shift: 32 set_next_event: lapic_next_event set_mode: lapic_timer_setup event_handler: hrtimer_interrupt .installed: 1 .expires: 4246432689566 nsecs CPU#1's local event device: Clock Event Device: lapic capabilities: 0000000e max_delta_ns: 807385544 min_delta_ns: 1443 mult: 44624025 shift: 32 set_next_event: lapic_next_event set_mode: lapic_timer_setup event_handler: hrtimer_interrupt .installed: 1 .expires: 4246050084568 nsecs Clock Event Device: hpet capabilities: 00000007 max_delta_ns: 2147483647 min_delta_ns: 3352 mult: 61496110 shift: 32 set_next_event: hpet_next_event set_mode: hpet_set_mode event_handler: handle_nextevt_broadcast Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] Add debugging feature /proc/timer_statIngo Molnar
Add /proc/timer_stats support: debugging feature to profile timer expiration. Both the starting site, process/PID and the expiration function is captured. This allows the quick identification of timer event sources in a system. Sample output: # echo 1 > /proc/timer_stats # cat /proc/timer_stats Timer Stats Version: v0.1 Sample period: 4.010 s 24, 0 swapper hrtimer_stop_sched_tick (hrtimer_sched_tick) 11, 0 swapper sk_reset_timer (tcp_delack_timer) 6, 0 swapper hrtimer_stop_sched_tick (hrtimer_sched_tick) 2, 1 swapper queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn) 17, 0 swapper hrtimer_restart_sched_tick (hrtimer_sched_tick) 2, 1 swapper queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn) 4, 2050 pcscd do_nanosleep (hrtimer_wakeup) 5, 4179 sshd sk_reset_timer (tcp_write_timer) 4, 2248 yum-updatesd schedule_timeout (process_timeout) 18, 0 swapper hrtimer_restart_sched_tick (hrtimer_sched_tick) 3, 0 swapper sk_reset_timer (tcp_delack_timer) 1, 1 swapper neigh_table_init_no_netlink (neigh_periodic_timer) 2, 1 swapper e1000_up (e1000_watchdog) 1, 1 init schedule_timeout (process_timeout) 100 total events, 25.24 events/sec [ cleanups and hrtimers support from Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> ] [bunk@stusta.de: nr_entries can become static] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] hrtimers: prevent possible itimer DoSThomas Gleixner
Fix potential setitimer DoS with high-res timers by pushing itimer rearm processing to process context. [Fixes from: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] hrtimers: add high resolution timer supportThomas Gleixner
Implement high resolution timers on top of the hrtimers infrastructure and the clockevents / tick-management framework. This provides accurate timers for all hrtimer subsystem users. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] tick-management: dyntick / highres functionalityThomas Gleixner
With Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Add functions to provide dynamic ticks and high resolution timers. The code which keeps track of jiffies and handles the long idle periods is shared between tick based and high resolution timer based dynticks. The dyntick functionality can be disabled on the kernel commandline. Provide also the infrastructure to support high resolution timers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] tick-management: broadcast functionalityThomas Gleixner
With Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Add broadcast functionality, so per cpu clock event devices can be registered as dummy devices or switched from/to broadcast on demand. The broadcast function distributes the events via the broadcast function of the clock event device. This is primarily designed to replace the switch apic timer to / from IPI in power states, where the apic stops. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] tick-management: core functionalityThomas Gleixner
With Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> The tick-management code is the first user of the clockevents layer. It takes clock event devices from the clock events core and uses them to provide the periodic tick. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] clockevents: add core functionalityThomas Gleixner
Architectures register their clock event devices, in the clock events core. Users of the clockevents core can get clock event devices for their use. The clockevents core code provides notification mechanisms for various clock related management events. This allows to control the clock event devices without the architectures having to worry about the details of function assignment. This is also a preliminary for high resolution timers and dynamic ticks to allow the core code to control the clock functionality without intrusive changes to the architecture code. [Fixes-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>