litmus-rt.git/arch/s390/kernel, branch wip-default-clustering

modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race

2010-10-05T18:29:27+00:00

With all the recent module loading cleanups, we've minimized the code
that sits under module_mutex, fixing various deadlocks and making it
possible to do most of the module loading in parallel.

However, that whole conversion totally missed the rather obscure code
that adds a new module to the list for BUG() handling.  That code was
doubly obscure because (a) the code itself lives in lib/bugs.c (for
dubious reasons) and (b) it gets called from the architecture-specific
"module_finalize()" rather than from generic code.

Calling it from arch-specific code makes no sense what-so-ever to begin
with, and is now actively wrong since that code isn't protected by the
module loading lock any more.

So this commit moves the "module_bug_{finalize,cleanup}()" calls away
from the arch-specific code, and into the generic code - and in the
process protects it with the module_mutex so that the list operations
are now safe.

Future fixups:
 - move the module list handling code into kernel/module.c where it
   belongs.
 - get rid of 'module_bug_list' and just use the regular list of modules
   (called 'modules' - imagine that) that we already create and maintain
   for other reasons.

Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Adrian Bunk 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[S390] fix tlb flushing vs. concurrent /proc accesses

2010-08-24T07:26:34+00:00

The tlb flushing code uses the mm_users field of the mm_struct to
decide if each page table entry needs to be flushed individually with
IPTE or if a global flush for the mm_struct is sufficient after all page
table updates have been done. The comment for mm_users says "How many
users with user space?" but the /proc code increases mm_users after it
found the process structure by pid without creating a new user process.
Which makes mm_users useless for the decision between the two tlb
flusing methods. The current code can be confused to not flush tlb
entries by a concurrent access to /proc files if e.g. a fork is in
progres. The solution for this problem is to make the tlb flushing
logic independent from the mm_users field.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] s390: fix build error (sys_execve)

2010-08-24T07:26:34+00:00

fix this build error:
arch/s390/kernel/process.c:272: error: conflicting types for 'sys_execve'
arch/s390/kernel/entry.h:45: error: previous declaration of 'sys_execve' was here
make[1]: *** [arch/s390/kernel/process.o] Error 1
make: *** [arch/s390/kernel] Error 2

introduced by d7627467b7a8dd6944885290a03a07ceb28c10eb

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer

2010-08-18T01:07:43+00:00

Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
correctly on ARM:

arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to.  This is
because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
copy_strings_kernel().  A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().

do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
const should be fine.

Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.

This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Tested-by: Ralf Baechle 
Acked-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Mark arguments to certain syscalls as being const

2010-08-13T23:53:13+00:00

Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but
aren't.  The list includes:

 (*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes
     syscalls and some mount syscalls.

 (*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above.

 (*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[S390] wire up prlimit64 and fanotify* syscalls

2010-08-13T08:06:54+00:00

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] sys_personality: follow u_long to unsigned int conversion

2010-08-13T08:06:54+00:00

commit 485d527686850d68a0e9006dd9904f19f122485e "sys_personality: change
sys_personality() to accept "unsigned int" instead of u_long" changed
the syscall interface for sys_personality.
Just follow the common code change in our arch code to avoid confusion.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

[S390] initrd: change default load address

2010-08-09T16:12:54+00:00

Change default load address of the initrd in case of IPL from reader.
The new load address is directly behind the kernel image.
This way we can see immediatly if there are any problems with the code
which tries to rescue the initrd in case the bootmem bitmap would
overlap with the initrd.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

Merge branch 'timers-timekeeping-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2010-08-06T20:18:29+00:00

* 'timers-timekeeping-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  um: Fix read_persistent_clock fallout
  kgdb: Do not access xtime directly
  powerpc: Clean up obsolete code relating to decrementer and timebase
  powerpc: Rework VDSO gettimeofday to prevent time going backwards
  clocksource: Add __clocksource_updatefreq_hz/khz methods
  x86: Convert common clocksources to use clocksource_register_hz/khz
  timekeeping: Make xtime and wall_to_monotonic static
  hrtimer: Cleanup direct access to wall_to_monotonic
  um: Convert to use read_persistent_clock
  timkeeping: Fix update_vsyscall to provide wall_to_monotonic offset
  powerpc: Cleanup xtime usage
  powerpc: Simplify update_vsyscall
  time: Kill off CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME
  time: Implement timespec_add
  x86: Fix vtime/file timestamp inconsistencies

Trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

Much less trivial conflicts in arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c resolved as
per Thomas' earlier merge commit 47916be4e28c ("Merge branch
'powerpc.cherry-picks' into timers/clocksource")

[S390] etr: fix clock synchronization race

2010-07-27T17:29:42+00:00

The etr events switch-to-local and sync-check disable the synchronous clock
and schedule a work queue that tries to get the clock back into sync.
If another switch-to-local or sync-check event occurs while the work queue
function etr_work_fn still runs the eacr.es bit and the clock_sync_word can
become inconsistent because check_sync_clock only uses the clock_sync_word
to determine if the clock is in sync or not. The second pass of the
etr_work_fn will reset the eacr.es bit but will leave the clock_sync_word
intact. Fix this race by moving the reset of the eacr.es bit into the
switch-to-local and sync-check functions and by checking the eacr.es bit
as well to decide if the clock needs to be synced.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky