Merge branch 'tip/tracing/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/urgent

50 files changed, 3933 insertions, 3253 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
index 864ff75d65f2..6aebdeb2aa34 100644
--- a/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/Makefile
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SLOW_WORK_DEBUG) += slow-work-debugfs.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS) += perf_event.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT) += hw_breakpoint.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER) += user-return-notifier.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_PADATA) += padata.o
 
 ifneq ($(CONFIG_SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER),y)
 # According to Alan Modra <alan@linuxcare.com.au>, the -fno-omit-frame-pointer is
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index aa3bee566446..4fd90e129772 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/cgroup.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
@@ -166,6 +167,20 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(hierarchy_id_lock);
  */
 static int need_forkexit_callback __read_mostly;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
+int cgroup_lock_is_held(void)
+{
+        return lockdep_is_held(&cgroup_mutex);
+}
+#else /* #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING */
+int cgroup_lock_is_held(void)
+{
+        return mutex_is_locked(&cgroup_mutex);
+}
+#endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING */
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cgroup_lock_is_held);
+
 /* convenient tests for these bits */
 inline int cgroup_is_removed(const struct cgroup *cgrp)
 {
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 546774a31a66..45ed043b8bf5 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -85,7 +85,9 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
         BUG_ON(!sig);
         BUG_ON(!atomic_read(&sig->count));
 
-        sighand = rcu_dereference(tsk->sighand);
+        sighand = rcu_dereference_check(tsk->sighand,
+                                        rcu_read_lock_held() ||
+                                        lockdep_is_held(&tasklist_lock));
         spin_lock(&sighand->siglock);
 
         posix_cpu_timers_exit(tsk);
@@ -170,8 +172,10 @@ void release_task(struct task_struct * p)
 repeat:
         tracehook_prepare_release_task(p);
         /* don't need to get the RCU readlock here - the process is dead and
-         * can't be modifying its own credentials */
+         * can't be modifying its own credentials. But shut RCU-lockdep up */
+        rcu_read_lock();
         atomic_dec(&__task_cred(p)->user->processes);
+        rcu_read_unlock();
 
         proc_flush_task(p);
 
@@ -473,9 +477,11 @@ static void close_files(struct files_struct * files)
         /*
          * It is safe to dereference the fd table without RCU or
          * ->file_lock because this is the last reference to the
-         * files structure.
+         * files structure.  But use RCU to shut RCU-lockdep up.
          */
+        rcu_read_lock();
         fdt = files_fdtable(files);
+        rcu_read_unlock();
         for (;;) {
                 unsigned long set;
                 i = j * __NFDBITS;
@@ -521,10 +527,12 @@ void put_files_struct(struct files_struct *files)
                  * at the end of the RCU grace period. Otherwise,
                  * you can free files immediately.
                  */
+                rcu_read_lock();
                 fdt = files_fdtable(files);
                 if (fdt != &files->fdtab)
                         kmem_cache_free(files_cachep, files);
                 free_fdtable(fdt);
+                rcu_read_unlock();
         }
 }
 
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index f88bd984df35..17bbf093356d 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ int max_threads;		/* tunable limit on nr_threads */
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, process_counts) = 0;
 
 __cacheline_aligned DEFINE_RWLOCK(tasklist_lock);  /* outer */