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* Staging: add Kconfig entries and Makefile infrastructureGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-10-10
| | | | | | | This hooks up the drivers/staging directory to the build system Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Staging: add TAINT_CRAP flag to drivers/staging modulesGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We need to add a flag for all code that is in the drivers/staging/ directory to prevent all other kernel developers from worrying about issues here, and to notify users that the drivers might not be as good as they are normally used to. Based on code from Andreas Gruenbacher and Jeff Mahoney to provide a TAINT flag for the support level of a kernel module in the Novell enterprise kernel release. This is the code that actually modifies the modules, adding the flag to any files in the drivers/staging directory. Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Staging: add TAINT_CRAP for all drivers/staging codeGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We need to add a flag for all code that is in the drivers/staging/ directory to prevent all other kernel developers from worrying about issues here, and to notify users that the drivers might not be as good as they are normally used to. Based on code from Andreas Gruenbacher and Jeff Mahoney to provide a TAINT flag for the support level of a kernel module in the Novell enterprise kernel release. This is the kernel portion of this feature, the ability for the flag to be set needs to be done in the build process and will happen in a follow-up patch. Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Merge branch 'rcu-v28-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-10-10
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'rcu-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (21 commits) rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU, fix rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU rcu: add rcu_read_lock_sched() / rcu_read_unlock_sched() rcu: fix sparse shadowed variable warning doc/RCU: fix pseudocode in rcuref.txt rcuclassic: fix compiler warning rcu: use irq-safe locks rcuclassic: fix compilation NG rcu: fix locking cleanup fallout rcu: remove redundant ACCESS_ONCE definition from rcupreempt.c rcu: fix classic RCU locking cleanup lockdep problem rcu: trace fix possible mem-leak rcu: just rename call_rcu_bh instead of making it a macro rcu: remove list_for_each_rcu() rcu: fixes to include/linux/rcupreempt.h rcu: classic RCU locking and memory-barrier cleanups rcu: prevent console flood when one CPU sees another AWOL via RCU rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods, cleanups rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods rcu classic: new algorithm for callbacks-processing(v2) ...
| * Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcuIngo Molnar2008-10-08
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| * | rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU, fixIngo Molnar2008-10-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | fix the !CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR path: kernel/rcuclassic.c: In function '__rcu_pending': kernel/rcuclassic.c:609: error: too few arguments to function 'check_cpu_stall' Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCUPaul E. McKenney2008-10-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds stalled-CPU detection to Classic RCU. This capability is enabled by a new config variable CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR, which defaults disabled. This is a debugging feature to detect infinite loops in kernel code, not something that non-kernel-hackers would be expected to care about. This feature can detect looping CPUs in !PREEMPT builds and looping CPUs with preemption disabled in PREEMPT builds. This is essentially a port of this functionality from the treercu patch, replacing the stall debug patch that is already in tip/core/rcu (commit 67182ae1c4). The changes from the patch in tip/core/rcu include making the config variable name match that in treercu, changing from seconds to jiffies to avoid spurious warnings, and printing a boot message when this feature is enabled. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc8' into core/rcuIngo Molnar2008-10-03
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| * | | rcu: add rcu_read_lock_sched() / rcu_read_unlock_sched()Mathieu Desnoyers2008-09-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add rcu_read_lock_sched() and rcu_read_unlock_sched() to rcupdate.h to match the recently added write-side call_rcu_sched() and rcu_barrier_sched(). They also match the no-so-recently-added synchronize_sched(). It will help following matching use of the update/read lock primitives. Those new read lock will replace preempt_disable()/enable() used in pair with RCU-classic synchronization. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | rcu: fix sparse shadowed variable warningHarvey Harrison2008-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kernel/rcuclassic.c:564:18: warning: symbol 'flags' shadows an earlier one kernel/rcuclassic.c:527:16: originally declared here Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | doc/RCU: fix pseudocode in rcuref.txtLai Jiangshan2008-09-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | atomic_inc_not_zero(v) return 0 if *v = 0. use spin_lock instead of write_lock for update lock. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into core/rcuIngo Molnar2008-09-10
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| * | | | rcuclassic: fix compiler warningHiroshi Shimamoto2008-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | CC kernel/rcuclassic.o kernel/rcuclassic.c: In function 'rcu_init_percpu_data': kernel/rcuclassic.c:705: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast kernel/rcuclassic.c:713: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast flags should be unsigned long. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | rcu: use irq-safe locksPaul E. McKenney2008-08-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some earlier tip/core/rcu patches caused RCU to incorrectly enable irqs too early in boot. This caused Yinghai's repeated-kexec testing to hit oopses, presumably due to so that device interrupts left over from the prior kernel instance (which would oops the newly booting kernel before it got a chance to reset said devices). This patch therefore converts all the local_irq_disable()s in rcuclassic.c to local_irq_save(). Besides, I never did like local_irq_disable() anyway. ;-) Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | rcuclassic: fix compilation NGHiroshi Shimamoto2008-08-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | fix: CC kernel/rcuclassic.o kernel/rcuclassic.c: In function '__rcu_process_callbacks': kernel/rcuclassic.c:561: error: 'flags' undeclared (first use in this function) kernel/rcuclassic.c:561: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once kernel/rcuclassic.c:561: error: for each function it appears in.) Declare missing variable flags. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | rcu: fix locking cleanup falloutPaul E. McKenney2008-08-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Given that the rcp->lock is now acquired from call_rcu(), which can be invoked from irq-disable regions, all acquisitions need to disable irqs. The following patch fixes this. Although I don't have any reason to believe that this is the cause of Yinghai's oops, it does need to be fixed. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | rcu: remove redundant ACCESS_ONCE definition from rcupreempt.cPaul E. McKenney2008-08-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the redundant definition of ACCESS_ONCE() from rcupreempt.c in favor of the one in compiler.h. Also merge the comment header from rcupreempt.c's definition into that in compiler.h. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | rcu: fix classic RCU locking cleanup lockdep problemPaul E. McKenney2008-08-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 04:24:30PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Paul, > > one of your two recent RCU patches caused this lockdep splat in -tip > testing: > > -------------------> > Brought up 2 CPUs > Total of 2 processors activated (6850.87 BogoMIPS). > PM: Adding info for No Bus:platform > khelper used greatest stack depth: 3124 bytes left > > ================================= > [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] > 2.6.27-rc3-tip #1 > --------------------------------- > inconsistent {softirq-on-W} -> {in-softirq-W} usage. > ksoftirqd/0/4 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE1:SE0] takes: > (&rcu_ctrlblk.lock){-+..}, at: [<c016d91c>] __rcu_process_callbacks+0x1ac/0x1f0 > {softirq-on-W} state was registered at: > [<c01528e4>] __lock_acquire+0x3f4/0x5b0 > [<c0152b29>] lock_acquire+0x89/0xc0 > [<c076142b>] _spin_lock+0x3b/0x70 > [<c016d649>] rcu_init_percpu_data+0x29/0x80 > [<c075e43f>] rcu_cpu_notify+0xaf/0xd0 > [<c076458d>] notifier_call_chain+0x2d/0x60 > [<c0145ede>] __raw_notifier_call_chain+0x1e/0x30 > [<c075db29>] _cpu_up+0x79/0x110 > [<c075dc0d>] cpu_up+0x4d/0x70 > [<c0a769e1>] kernel_init+0xb1/0x200 > [<c01048a3>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 > [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff > irq event stamp: 14 > hardirqs last enabled at (14): [<c01534db>] trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10 > hardirqs last disabled at (13): [<c014dbeb>] trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0x10 > softirqs last enabled at (0): [<c012b186>] copy_process+0x276/0x1190 > softirqs last disabled at (11): [<c0105c0a>] call_on_stack+0x1a/0x30 > > other info that might help us debug this: > no locks held by ksoftirqd/0/4. > > stack backtrace: > Pid: 4, comm: ksoftirqd/0 Not tainted 2.6.27-rc3-tip #1 > [<c01504dc>] print_usage_bug+0x16c/0x1b0 > [<c0152455>] mark_lock+0xa75/0xb10 > [<c0108b75>] ? sched_clock+0x15/0x30 > [<c015289d>] __lock_acquire+0x3ad/0x5b0 > [<c0152b29>] lock_acquire+0x89/0xc0 > [<c016d91c>] ? __rcu_process_callbacks+0x1ac/0x1f0 > [<c076142b>] _spin_lock+0x3b/0x70 > [<c016d91c>] ? __rcu_process_callbacks+0x1ac/0x1f0 > [<c016d91c>] __rcu_process_callbacks+0x1ac/0x1f0 > [<c016d986>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x26/0x50 > [<c0132305>] __do_softirq+0x95/0x120 > [<c0132270>] ? __do_softirq+0x0/0x120 > [<c0105c0a>] call_on_stack+0x1a/0x30 > [<c0132426>] ? ksoftirqd+0x96/0x110 > [<c0132390>] ? ksoftirqd+0x0/0x110 > [<c01411f7>] ? kthread+0x47/0x80 > [<c01411b0>] ? kthread+0x0/0x80 > [<c01048a3>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 > ======================= > calling init_cpufreq_transition_notifier_list+0x0/0x20 > initcall init_cpufreq_transition_notifier_list+0x0/0x20 returned 0 after 0 msecs > calling net_ns_init+0x0/0x190 > net_namespace: 676 bytes > initcall net_ns_init+0x0/0x190 returned 0 after 0 msecs > calling cpufreq_tsc+0x0/0x20 > initcall cpufreq_tsc+0x0/0x20 returned 0 after 0 msecs > calling reboot_init+0x0/0x20 > initcall reboot_init+0x0/0x20 returned 0 after 0 msecs > calling print_banner+0x0/0x10 > Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware > > <----------------------- > > my guess is on: > > commit 1f7b94cd3d564901f9e04a8bc5832ae7bfd690a0 > Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Date: Tue Aug 5 09:21:44 2008 -0700 > > rcu: classic RCU locking and memory-barrier cleanups > > Ingo Fixes a problem detected by lockdep in which rcu->lock was acquired both in irq context and in process context, but without disabling from process context. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | rcu: trace fix possible mem-leakSteven Rostedt2008-08-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the initialization of the RCU trace module, if rcupreempt_debugfs_init() fails, we never free the the trace buffer. This patch frees the trace buffer in case the debugfs fails. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | rcu: just rename call_rcu_bh instead of making it a macroSteven Rostedt2008-08-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Seems that I found a box that has a config that passes call_rcu_bh as a function pointer (see net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c), so declaring the call_rcu_bh has a macro function isn't good enough. This patch makes it just another name of call_rcu for rcupreempt. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.org> Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | rcu: remove list_for_each_rcu()Paul E. McKenney2008-08-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | All of the in-tree uses of list_for_each_rcu() have been converted to list_for_each_entry_rcu(), so list_for_each_rcu() can now be removed. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | rcu: fixes to include/linux/rcupreempt.hPaul E. McKenney2008-08-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hello! Compared tip/core/rcu to my latest patchset, and found the following issues: o the memory barrier in rcu_exit_nohz() somehow got out of place (it is correct in mainline as of 2.6.26-rc7). o There is a duplicate declaration of rcu_dyntick_sched. The attached patch fixes these. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | rcu: classic RCU locking and memory-barrier cleanupsPaul E. McKenney2008-08-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch simplifies the locking and memory-barrier usage in the Classic RCU grace-period-detection mechanism, incorporating Lai Jiangshan's feedback from the earlier version (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/1/400 and http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/3/43). Passed 10 hours of rcutorture concurrent with CPUs being put online and taken offline on a 128-hardware-thread Power machine. My apologies to whoever in the Eastern Hemisphere was planning to use this machine over the Western Hemisphere night, but it was sitting idle and... So this is ready for tip/core/rcu. This patch is in preparation for moving to a hierarchical algorithm to allow the very large SMP machines -- requested by some people at OLS, and there seem to have been a few recent patches in the 4096-CPU direction as well. The general idea is to move to a much more conservative concurrency design, then apply a hierarchy to reduce contention on the global lock by a few orders of magnitude (larger machines would see greater reductions). The reason for taking a conservative approach is that this code isn't on any fast path. Prototype in progress. This patch is against the linux-tip git tree (tip/core/rcu). If you wish to test this against 2.6.26, use the following set of patches: http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/patches/2.6.26-ljsimp-1.patch http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/patches/2.6.26-ljsimpfix-3.patch The first patch combines commits 5127bed588a2f8f3a1f732de2a8a190b7df5dce3 and 3cac97cbb14aed00d83eb33d4613b0fe3aaea863 from Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>, and the second patch contains my changes. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | rcu: prevent console flood when one CPU sees another AWOL via RCUPaul E. McKenney2008-08-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | One small change needed to keep from flooding the console when one CPU notices that another is AWOL. Unless I am missing something subtle. Otherwise the cleanups look good! Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods, cleanupsIngo Molnar2008-08-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | small cleanups. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periodsPaul E. McKenney2008-08-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | this is a diagnostic patch for Classic RCU. The approach is to record a timestamp at the beginning of the grace period (in rcu_start_batch()), then have rcu_check_callbacks() complain if: 1. it is running on a CPU that has holding up grace periods for a long time (say one second). This will identify the culprit assuming that the culprit has not disabled hardware irqs, instruction execution, or some such. 2. it is running on a CPU that is not holding up grace periods, but grace periods have been held up for an even longer time (say two seconds). It is enabled via the default-off CONFIG_DEBUG_RCU_STALL kernel parameter. Rather than exponential backoff, it backs off to once per 30 seconds. My feeling upon thinking on it was that if you have stalled RCU grace periods for that long, a few extra printk() messages are probably the least of your worries... Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: David Witbrodt <dawitbro@sbcglobal.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcuIngo Molnar2008-08-11
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| * | | | | rcu classic: new algorithm for callbacks-processing(v2)Lai Jiangshan2008-07-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is v2, it's a little deference from v1 that I had send to lkml. use ACCESS_ONCE use rcu_batch_after/rcu_batch_before for batch # comparison. rcutorture test result: (hotplugs: do cpu-online/offline once per second) No CONFIG_NO_HZ: OK, 12hours No CONFIG_NO_HZ, hotplugs: OK, 12hours CONFIG_NO_HZ=y: OK, 24hours CONFIG_NO_HZ=y, hotplugs: Failed. (Failed also without my patch applied, exactly the same bug occurred, http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/3/24) v1's email thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/2/539 v1's description: The code/algorithm of the implement of current callbacks-processing is very efficient and technical. But when I studied it and I found a disadvantage: In multi-CPU systems, when a new RCU callback is being queued(call_rcu[_bh]), this callback will be invoked after the grace period for the batch with batch number = rcp->cur+2 has completed very very likely in current implement. Actually, this callback can be invoked after the grace period for the batch with batch number = rcp->cur+1 has completed. The delay of invocation means that latency of synchronize_rcu() is extended. But more important thing is that the callbacks usually free memory, and these works are delayed too! it's necessary for reclaimer to free memory as soon as possible when left memory is few. A very simple way can solve this problem: a field(struct rcu_head::batch) is added to record the batch number for the RCU callback. And when a new RCU callback is being queued, we determine the batch number for this callback(head->batch = rcp->cur+1) and we move this callback to rdp->donelist if we find that head->batch <= rcp->completed when we process callbacks. This simple way reduces the wait time for invocation a lot. (about 2.5Grace Period -> 1.5Grace Period in average in multi-CPU systems) This is my algorithm. But I do not add any field for struct rcu_head in my implement. We just need to memorize the last 2 batches and their batch number, because these 2 batches include all entries that for whom the grace period hasn't completed. So we use a special linked-list rather than add a field. Please see the comment of struct rcu_data. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: Gautham Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | | rcu classic: simplify the next pending batchLai Jiangshan2008-07-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | use a batch number(rcp->pending) instead of a flag(rcp->next_pending) rcu_start_batch() need to change this flag, so mb()s is needed for memory-access safe. but(after this patch applied) rcu_start_batch() do not change this batch number(rcp->pending), rcp->pending is managed by __rcu_process_callbacks only, and troublesome mb()s are eliminated. And codes look simpler and clearer. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: Gautham Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-10-10
|\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: selinux: Fix an uninitialized variable BUG/panic in selinux_secattr_to_sid() selinux: use default proc sid on symlinks file capabilities: uninline cap_safe_nice Update selinux info in MAINTAINERS and Kconfig help text SELinux: add gitignore file for mdp script SELinux: add boundary support and thread context assignment securityfs: do not depend on CONFIG_SECURITY selinux: add support for installing a dummy policy (v2) security: add/fix security kernel-doc selinux: Unify for- and while-loop style selinux: conditional expression type validation was off-by-one smack: limit privilege by label SELinux: Fix a potentially uninitialised variable in SELinux hooks SELinux: trivial, remove unneeded local variable SELinux: Trivial minor fixes that change C null character style make selinux_write_opts() static
| * \ \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'next' into for-linusJames Morris2008-10-09
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| | * | | | | | selinux: Fix an uninitialized variable BUG/panic in selinux_secattr_to_sid()Paul Moore2008-10-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | At some point during the 2.6.27 development cycle two new fields were added to the SELinux context structure, a string pointer and a length field. The code in selinux_secattr_to_sid() was not modified and as a result these two fields were left uninitialized which could result in erratic behavior, including kernel panics, when NetLabel is used. This patch fixes the problem by fully initializing the context in selinux_secattr_to_sid() before use and reducing the level of direct context manipulation done to help prevent future problems. Please apply this to the 2.6.27-rcX release stream. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| | * | | | | | selinux: use default proc sid on symlinksStephen Smalley2008-09-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As we are not concerned with fine-grained control over reading of symlinks in proc, always use the default proc SID for all proc symlinks. This should help avoid permission issues upon changes to the proc tree as in the /proc/net -> /proc/self/net example. This does not alter labeling of symlinks within /proc/pid directories. ls -Zd /proc/net output before and after the patch should show the difference. Signed-off-by: Stephen D. Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| | * | | | | | file capabilities: uninline cap_safe_niceSerge E. Hallyn2008-09-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reduces the kernel size by 289 bytes. Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| | * | | | | | Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris2008-09-21
| | |\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: MAINTAINERS Thanks for breaking my tree :-) Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| | * | | | | | | Update selinux info in MAINTAINERS and Kconfig help textStephen Smalley2008-09-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update the SELinux entry in MAINTAINERS and drop the obsolete information from the selinux Kconfig help text. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| | * | | | | | | SELinux: add gitignore file for mdp scriptJames Morris2008-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add gitignore file for scripts/selinux/mdp/mdp. Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| | * | | | | | | SELinux: add boundary support and thread context assignmentKaiGai Kohei2008-08-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The purpose of this patch is to assign per-thread security context under a constraint. It enables multi-threaded server application to kick a request handler with its fair security context, and helps some of userspace object managers to handle user's request. When we assign a per-thread security context, it must not have wider permissions than the original one. Because a multi-threaded process shares a single local memory, an arbitary per-thread security context also means another thread can easily refer violated information. The constraint on a per-thread security context requires a new domain has to be equal or weaker than its original one, when it tries to assign a per-thread security context. Bounds relationship between two types is a way to ensure a domain can never have wider permission than its bounds. We can define it in two explicit or implicit ways. The first way is using new TYPEBOUNDS statement. It enables to define a boundary of types explicitly. The other one expand the concept of existing named based hierarchy. If we defines a type with "." separated name like "httpd_t.php", toolchain implicitly set its bounds on "httpd_t". This feature requires a new policy version. The 24th version (POLICYDB_VERSION_BOUNDARY) enables to ship them into kernel space, and the following patch enables to handle it. Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| | * | | | | | | securityfs: do not depend on CONFIG_SECURITYEric Paris2008-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new Kconfig option SECURITYFS which will build securityfs support but does not require CONFIG_SECURITY. The only current user of securityfs does not depend on CONFIG_SECURITY and there is no reason the full LSM needs to be built to build this fs. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| | * | | | | | | Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris2008-08-27
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| | * | | | | | | | selinux: add support for installing a dummy policy (v2)Serge E. Hallyn2008-08-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In August 2006 I posted a patch generating a minimal SELinux policy. This week, David P. Quigley posted an updated version of that as a patch against the kernel. It also had nice logic for auto-installing the policy. Following is David's original patch intro (preserved especially bc it has stats on the generated policies): se interested in the changes there were only two significant changes. The first is that the iteration through the list of classes used NULL as a sentinel value. The problem with this is that the class_to_string array actually has NULL entries in its table as place holders for the user space object classes. The second change was that it would seem at some point the initial sids table was NULL terminated. This is no longer the case so that iteration has to be done on array length instead of looking for NULL. Some statistics on the policy that it generates: The policy consists of 523 lines which contain no blank lines. Of those 523 lines 453 of them are class, permission, and initial sid definitions. These lines are usually little to no concern to the policy developer since they will not be adding object classes or permissions. Of the remaining 70 lines there is one type, one role, and one user statement. The remaining lines are broken into three portions. The first group are TE allow rules which make up 29 of the remaining lines, the second is assignment of labels to the initial sids which consist of 27 lines, and file system labeling statements which are the remaining 11. In addition to the policy.conf generated there is a single file_contexts file containing two lines which labels the entire system with base_t. This policy generates a policy.23 binary that is 7920 bytes. (then a few versions later...): The new policy is 587 lines (stripped of blank lines) with 476 of those lines being the boilerplate that I mentioned last time. The remaining 111 lines have the 3 lines for type, user, and role, 70 lines for the allow rules (one for each object class including user space object classes), 27 lines to assign types to the initial sids, and 11 lines for file system labeling. The policy binary is 9194 bytes. Changelog: Aug 26: Added Documentation/SELinux.txt Aug 26: Incorporated a set of comments by Stephen Smalley: 1. auto-setup SELINUXTYPE=dummy 2. don't auto-install if selinux is enabled with non-dummy policy 3. don't re-compute policy version 4. /sbin/setfiles not /usr/sbin/setfiles Aug 22: As per JMorris comments, made sure make distclean cleans up the mdp directory. Removed a check for file_contexts which is now created in the same file as the check, making it superfluous. Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| | * | | | | | | | security: add/fix security kernel-docRandy Dunlap2008-08-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add security/inode.c functions to the kernel-api docbook. Use '%' on constants in kernel-doc notation. Fix several typos/spellos in security function descriptions. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| | * | | | | | | | selinux: Unify for- and while-loop styleVesa-Matti Kari2008-08-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace "thing != NULL" comparisons with just "thing" to make the code look more uniform (mixed styles were used even in the same source file). Signed-off-by: Vesa-Matti Kari <vmkari@cc.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| | * | | | | | | | selinux: conditional expression type validation was off-by-oneVesa-Matti Kari2008-08-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | expr_isvalid() in conditional.c was off-by-one and allowed invalid expression type COND_LAST. However, it is this header file that needs to be fixed. That way the if-statement's disjunction's second component reads more naturally, "if expr type is greater than the last allowed value" ( rather than using ">=" in conditional.c): if (expr->expr_type <= 0 || expr->expr_type > COND_LAST) Signed-off-by: Vesa-Matti Kari <vmkari@cc.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| | * | | | | | | | smack: limit privilege by labelCasey Schaufler2008-08-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There have been a number of requests to make the Smack LSM enforce MAC even in the face of privilege, either capability based or superuser based. This is not universally desired, however, so it seems desirable to make it optional. Further, at least one legacy OS implemented a scheme whereby only processes running with one particular label could be exempt from MAC. This patch supports these three cases. If /smack/onlycap is empty (unset or null-string) privilege is enforced in the normal way. If /smack/onlycap contains a label only processes running with that label may be MAC exempt. If the label in /smack/onlycap is the star label ("*") the semantics of the star label combine with the privilege restrictions to prevent any violations of MAC, even in the presence of privilege. Again, this will be independent of the privilege scheme. Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| | * | | | | | | | SELinux: Fix a potentially uninitialised variable in SELinux hooksDavid Howells2008-08-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix a potentially uninitialised variable in SELinux hooks that's given a pointer to the network address by selinux_parse_skb() passing a pointer back through its argument list. By restructuring selinux_parse_skb(), the compiler can see that the error case need not set it as the caller will return immediately. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| | * | | | | | | | SELinux: trivial, remove unneeded local variableVesa-Matti J Kari2008-08-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hello, Remove unneeded local variable: struct avtab_node *newnode Signed-off-by: Vesa-Matti Kari <vmkari@cc.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| | * | | | | | | | SELinux: Trivial minor fixes that change C null character styleVesa-Matti J Kari2008-08-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Trivial minor fixes that change C null character style. Signed-off-by: Vesa-Matti Kari <vmkari@cc.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| | * | | | | | | | make selinux_write_opts() staticAdrian Bunk2008-08-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch makes the needlessly global selinux_write_opts() static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'sched-v28-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-10-10
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