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* Merge branch 'linus' into perf/urgentIngo Molnar2012-03-26
|\ | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: we need to fix a non-trivial merge conflict. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.4-tag-two' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-03-24
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen Pull more xen updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk: "One tiny feature that accidentally got lost in the initial git pull: * Add fast-EOI acking of interrupts (clear a bit instead of hypercall) And bug-fixes: * Fix CPU bring-up code missing a call to notify other subsystems. * Fix reading /sys/hypervisor even if PVonHVM drivers are not loaded. * In Xen ACPI processor driver: remove too verbose WARN messages, fix up the Kconfig dependency to be a module by default, and add dependency on CPU_FREQ. * Disable CPU frequency drivers from loading when booting under Xen (as we want the Xen ACPI processor to be used instead). * Cleanups in tmem code." * tag 'stable/for-linus-3.4-tag-two' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen: xen/acpi: Fix Kconfig dependency on CPU_FREQ xen: initialize platform-pci even if xen_emul_unplug=never xen/smp: Fix bringup bug in AP code. xen/acpi: Remove the WARN's as they just create noise. xen/tmem: cleanup xen: support pirq_eoi_map xen/acpi-processor: Do not depend on CPU frequency scaling drivers. xen/cpufreq: Disable the cpu frequency scaling drivers from loading. provide disable_cpufreq() function to disable the API.
| | * xen/tmem: cleanupJan Beulich2012-03-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use 'bool' for boolean variables. Do proper section placement. Eliminate an unnecessary export. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
| | * xen: support pirq_eoi_mapStefano Stabellini2012-03-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The pirq_eoi_map is a bitmap offered by Xen to check which pirqs need to be EOI'd without having to issue an hypercall every time. We use PHYSDEVOP_pirq_eoi_gmfn_v2 to map the bitmap, then if we succeed we use pirq_eoi_map to check whether pirqs need eoi. Changes in v3: - explicitly use PHYSDEVOP_pirq_eoi_gmfn_v2 rather than PHYSDEVOP_pirq_eoi_gmfn; - introduce pirq_check_eoi_map, a function to check if a pirq needs an eoi using the map; -rename pirq_needs_eoi into pirq_needs_eoi_flag; - introduce a function pointer called pirq_needs_eoi that is going to be set to the right implementation depending on the availability of PHYSDEVOP_pirq_eoi_gmfn_v2. Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
| | * provide disable_cpufreq() function to disable the API.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2012-03-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | useful for disabling cpufreq altogether. The cpu frequency scaling drivers and cpu frequency governors will fail to register. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
| * | Merge tag 'device-for-3.4' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-03-24
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux Pull <linux/device.h> avoidance patches from Paul Gortmaker: "Nearly every subsystem has some kind of header with a proto like: void foo(struct device *dev); and yet there is no reason for most of these guys to care about the sub fields within the device struct. This allows us to significantly reduce the scope of headers including headers. For this instance, a reduction of about 40% is achieved by replacing the include with the simple fact that the device is some kind of a struct. Unlike the much larger module.h cleanup, this one is simply two commits. One to fix the implicit <linux/device.h> users, and then one to delete the device.h includes from the linux/include/ dir wherever possible." * tag 'device-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: device.h: audit and cleanup users in main include dir device.h: cleanup users outside of linux/include (C files)
| | * | device.h: audit and cleanup users in main include dirPaul Gortmaker2012-03-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The <linux/device.h> header includes a lot of stuff, and it in turn gets a lot of use just for the basic "struct device" which appears so often. Clean up the users as follows: 1) For those headers only needing "struct device" as a pointer in fcn args, replace the include with exactly that. 2) For headers not really using anything from device.h, simply delete the include altogether. 3) For headers relying on getting device.h implicitly before being included themselves, now explicitly include device.h 4) For files in which doing #1 or #2 uncovers an implicit dependency on some other header, fix by explicitly adding the required header(s). Any C files that were implicitly relying on device.h to be present have already been dealt with in advance. Total removals from #1 and #2: 51. Total additions coming from #3: 9. Total other implicit dependencies from #4: 7. As of 3.3-rc1, there were 110, so a net removal of 42 gives about a 38% reduction in device.h presence in include/* Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
| * | | Merge tag 'bug-for-3.4' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-03-24
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux Pull <linux/bug.h> cleanup from Paul Gortmaker: "The changes shown here are to unify linux's BUG support under the one <linux/bug.h> file. Due to historical reasons, we have some BUG code in bug.h and some in kernel.h -- i.e. the support for BUILD_BUG in linux/kernel.h predates the addition of linux/bug.h, but old code in kernel.h wasn't moved to bug.h at that time. As a band-aid, kernel.h was including <asm/bug.h> to pseudo link them. This has caused confusion[1] and general yuck/WTF[2] reactions. Here is an example that violates the principle of least surprise: CC lib/string.o lib/string.c: In function 'strlcat': lib/string.c:225:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'BUILD_BUG_ON' make[2]: *** [lib/string.o] Error 1 $ $ grep linux/bug.h lib/string.c #include <linux/bug.h> $ We've included <linux/bug.h> for the BUG infrastructure and yet we still get a compile fail! [We've not kernel.h for BUILD_BUG_ON.] Ugh - very confusing for someone who is new to kernel development. With the above in mind, the goals of this changeset are: 1) find and fix any include/*.h files that were relying on the implicit presence of BUG code. 2) find and fix any C files that were consuming kernel.h and hence relying on implicitly getting some/all BUG code. 3) Move the BUG related code living in kernel.h to <linux/bug.h> 4) remove the asm/bug.h from kernel.h to finally break the chain. During development, the order was more like 3-4, build-test, 1-2. But to ensure that git history for bisect doesn't get needless build failures introduced, the commits have been reorderd to fix the problem areas in advance. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/3/90 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/17/414" Fix up conflicts (new radeon file, reiserfs header cleanups) as per Paul and linux-next. * tag 'bug-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: kernel.h: doesn't explicitly use bug.h, so don't include it. bug: consolidate BUILD_BUG_ON with other bug code BUG: headers with BUG/BUG_ON etc. need linux/bug.h bug.h: add include of it to various implicit C users lib: fix implicit users of kernel.h for TAINT_WARN spinlock: macroize assert_spin_locked to avoid bug.h dependency x86: relocate get/set debugreg fcns to include/asm/debugreg.
| | * | | kernel.h: doesn't explicitly use bug.h, so don't include it.Paul Gortmaker2012-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This header isn't using bug.h infrastructure, but due to historical reasons, it was including it. Removing it revealed several implicit dependencies (since kernel.h is everywhere) so we've fixed those 1st before deploying this change. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
| | * | | bug: consolidate BUILD_BUG_ON with other bug codePaul Gortmaker2012-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The support for BUILD_BUG in linux/kernel.h predates the addition of linux/bug.h -- with this chunk off separate, you can run into situations where a person gets a compile fail even when they've included linux/bug.h, like this: CC lib/string.o lib/string.c: In function 'strlcat': lib/string.c:225:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'BUILD_BUG_ON' make[2]: *** [lib/string.o] Error 1 $ $ grep linux/bug.h lib/string.c #include <linux/bug.h> $ Since the above violates the principle of least surprise, move the BUG chunks from kernel.h to bug.h so it is all together. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
| | * | | BUG: headers with BUG/BUG_ON etc. need linux/bug.hPaul Gortmaker2012-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a header file is making use of BUG, BUG_ON, BUILD_BUG_ON, or any other BUG variant in a static inline (i.e. not in a #define) then that header really should be including <linux/bug.h> and not just expecting it to be implicitly present. We can make this change risk-free, since if the files using these headers didn't have exposure to linux/bug.h already, they would have been causing compile failures/warnings. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
| | * | | spinlock: macroize assert_spin_locked to avoid bug.h dependencyPaul Gortmaker2012-02-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In spinlock_api_smp.h we find a define for assert_raw_spin_locked [which uses BUG_ON]. Then assert_spin_locked (as an inline) uses it, meaning we need bug.h But rather than put linux/bug.h in such a highly used file like spinlock.h, we can just make the un-raw version also a macro. Then the required bug.h presence is limited just to those few files who are actually doing the assert testing. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctlLinus Torvalds2012-03-23
| |\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull sysctl updates from Eric Biederman: - Rewrite of sysctl for speed and clarity. Insert/remove/Lookup in sysctl are all now O(NlogN) operations, and are no longer bottlenecks in the process of adding and removing network devices. sysctl is now focused on being a filesystem instead of system call and the code can all be found in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c. Hopefully this means the code is now approachable. Much thanks is owed to Lucian Grinjincu for keeping at this until something was found that was usable. - The recent proc_sys_poll oops found by the fuzzer during hibernation is fixed. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl: (36 commits) sysctl: protect poll() in entries that may go away sysctl: Don't call sysctl_follow_link unless we are a link. sysctl: Comments to make the code clearer. sysctl: Correct error return from get_subdir sysctl: An easier to read version of find_subdir sysctl: fix memset parameters in setup_sysctl_set() sysctl: remove an unused variable sysctl: Add register_sysctl for normal sysctl users sysctl: Index sysctl directories with rbtrees. sysctl: Make the header lists per directory. sysctl: Move sysctl_check_dups into insert_header sysctl: Modify __register_sysctl_paths to take a set instead of a root and an nsproxy sysctl: Replace root_list with links between sysctl_table_sets. sysctl: Add sysctl_print_dir and use it in get_subdir sysctl: Stop requiring explicit management of sysctl directories sysctl: Add a root pointer to ctl_table_set sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_readdir in terms of first_entry and next_entry sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_lookup introducing find_entry and lookup_entry. sysctl: Normalize the root_table data structure. sysctl: Factor out insert_header and erase_header ...
| | * | | | sysctl: Add register_sysctl for normal sysctl usersEric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The plan is to convert all callers of register_sysctl_table and register_sysctl_paths to register_sysctl. The interface to register_sysctl is enough nicer this should make the callers a bit more readable. Additionally after the conversion the 230 lines of backwards compatibility can be removed. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| | * | | | sysctl: Index sysctl directories with rbtrees.Eric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | One of the most important jobs of sysctl is to export network stack tunables. Several of those tunables are per network device. In several instances people are running with 1000+ network devices in there network stacks, which makes the simple per directory linked list in sysctl a scaling bottleneck. Replace O(N^2) sysctl insertion and lookup times with O(NlogN) by using an rbtree to index the sysctl directories. Benchmark before: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.32s rmmod dummy -> 0.12s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m17s rmmod dummy -> 17s Benchmark after: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.074s rmmod dummy -> 0.070s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 3.4s rmmod dummy -> 0.44s Benchmark after (without dev_snmp6): make-dummies 0 9999 -> 0.75s rmmod dummy -> 0.44s make-dummies 0 99999 -> 11s rmmod dummy -> 4.3s At 10,000 dummy devices the bottleneck becomes the time to add and remove the files under /proc/sys/net/dev_snmp6. I have commented out the code that adds and removes files under /proc/sys/net/dev_snmp6 and taken measurments of creating and destroying 100,000 dummies to verify the sysctl continues to scale. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| | * | | | sysctl: Make the header lists per directory.Eric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Slightly enhance efficiency and clarity of the code by making the header list per directory instead of per set. Benchmark before: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.63s rmmod dummy -> 0.12s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 2m35s rmmod dummy -> 18s Benchmark after: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.32s rmmod dummy -> 0.12s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m17s rmmod dummy -> 17s Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| | * | | | sysctl: Modify __register_sysctl_paths to take a set instead of a root and ↵Eric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | an nsproxy An nsproxy argument here has always been awkard and now the nsproxy argument is completely unnecessary so remove it, replacing it with the set we want the registered tables to show up in. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| | * | | | sysctl: Replace root_list with links between sysctl_table_sets.Eric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Piecing together directories by looking first in one directory tree, than in another directory tree and finally in a third directory tree makes it hard to verify that some directory entries are not multiply defined and makes it hard to create efficient implementations the sysctl filesystem. Replace the sysctl wide list of roots with autogenerated links from the core sysctl directory tree to the other sysctl directory trees. This simplifies sysctl directory reading and lookups as now only entries in a single sysctl directory tree need to be considered. Benchmark before: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.44s rmmod dummy -> 0.065s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m36s rmmod dummy -> 0.4s Benchmark after: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.63s rmmod dummy -> 0.12s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 2m35s rmmod dummy -> 18s The slowdown is caused by the lookups used in insert_headers and put_links to see if we need to add links or remove links. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| | * | | | sysctl: Stop requiring explicit management of sysctl directoriesEric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Simplify the code and the sysctl semantics by autogenerating sysctl directories when a sysctl table is registered that needs the directories and autodeleting the directories when there are no more sysctl tables registered that need them. Autogenerating directories keeps sysctl tables from depending on each other, removing all of the arcane register/unregister ordering constraints and makes it impossible to get the order wrong when reigsering and unregistering sysctl tables. Autogenerating directories yields one unique entity that dentries can point to, retaining the current effective use of the dcache. Add struct ctl_dir as the type of these new autogenerated directories. The attached_by and attached_to fields in ctl_table_header are removed as they are no longer needed. The child field in ctl_table is no longer needed by the core of the sysctl code. ctl_table.child can be removed once all of the existing users have been updated. Benchmark before: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.7s rmmod dummy -> 0.07s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m10s rmmod dummy -> 0.4s Benchmark after: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.44s rmmod dummy -> 0.065s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m36s rmmod dummy -> 0.4s Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| | * | | | sysctl: Add a root pointer to ctl_table_setEric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a ctl_table_root pointer to ctl_table set so it is easy to go from a ctl_table_set to a ctl_table_root. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| | * | | | sysctl: Initial support for auto-unregistering sysctl tables.Eric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add nreg to ctl_table_header. When nreg drops to 0 the ctl_table_header will be unregistered. Factor out drop_sysctl_table from unregister_sysctl_table, and add the logic for decrementing nreg. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| | * | | | sysctl: Remove the now unused ctl_table parent field.Eric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While useful at one time for selinux and the sysctl sanity checks those users no longer use the parent field and we can safely remove it. Inspired-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmil.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| | * | | | sysctl: register only tables of sysctl filesEric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Split the registration of a complex ctl_table array which may have arbitrary numbers of directories (->child != NULL) and tables of files into a series of simpler registrations that only register tables of files. Graphically: register('dir', { + file-a + file-b + subdir1 + file-c + subdir2 + file-d + file-e }) is transformed into: wrapper->subheaders[0] = register('dir', {file1-a, file1-b}) wrapper->subheaders[1] = register('dir/subdir1', {file-c}) wrapper->subheaders[2] = register('dir/subdir2', {file-d, file-e}) return wrapper This guarantees that __register_sysctl_table will only see a simple ctl_table array with all entries having (->child == NULL). Care was taken to pass the original simple ctl_table arrays to __register_sysctl_table whenever possible. This change is derived from a similar patch written by Lucrian Grijincu. Inspired-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| | * | | | sysctl: Add support for register sysctl tables with a normal cstring path.Eric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make __register_sysctl_table the core sysctl registration operation and make it take a char * string as path. Now that binary paths have been banished into the real of backwards compatibility in kernel/binary_sysctl.c where they can be safely ignored there is no longer a need to use struct ctl_path to represent path names when registering ctl_tables. Start the transition to using normal char * strings to represent pathnames when registering sysctl tables. Normal strings are easier to deal with both in the internal sysctl implementation and for programmers registering sysctl tables. __register_sysctl_paths is turned into a backwards compatibility wrapper that converts a ctl_path array into a normal char * string. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| | * | | | sysctl: Remove the unnecessary sysctl_set parent concept.Eric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In sysctl_net register the two networking roots in the proper order. In register_sysctl walk the sysctl sets in the reverse order of the sysctl roots. Remove parent from ctl_table_set and setup_sysctl_set as it is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| | * | | | sysctl: Implement retire_sysctl_setEric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a small helper retire_sysctl_set to remove the intimate knowledge about the how a sysctl_set is implemented from net/sysct_net.c Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| | * | | | sysctl: Move the implementation into fs/proc/proc_sysctl.cEric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move the core sysctl code from kernel/sysctl.c and kernel/sysctl_check.c into fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c. Currently sysctl maintenance is hampered by the sysctl implementation being split across 3 files with artificial layering between them. Consolidate the entire sysctl implementation into 1 file so that it is easier to see what is going on and hopefully allowing for simpler maintenance. For functions that are now only used in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c remove their declarations from sysctl.h and make them static in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| | * | | | sysctl: Register the base sysctl table like any other sysctl table.Eric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Simplify the code by treating the base sysctl table like any other sysctl table and register it with register_sysctl_table. To ensure this table is registered early enough to avoid problems call sysctl_init from proc_sys_init. Rename sysctl_net.c:sysctl_init() to net_sysctl_init() to avoid name conflicts now that kernel/sysctl.c:sysctl_init() is no longer static. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| | * | | | sysctl: Consolidate !CONFIG_SYSCTL handlingEric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | |/ / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - In sysctl.h move functions only available if CONFIG_SYSCL is defined inside of #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL - Move the stub function definitions for !CONFIG_SYSCTL into sysctl.h and make them static inlines. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * | | | Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-03-23
| |\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq Pull cpufreq updates for 3.4 from Dave Jones: new drivers and some fixes. * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: provide disable_cpufreq() function to disable the API. EXYNOS5250: Add support cpufreq for EXYNOS5250 EXYNOS4X12: Add support cpufreq for EXYNOS4X12 [CPUFREQ] CPUfreq ondemand: update sampling rate without waiting for next sampling [CPUFREQ] Add S3C2416/S3C2450 cpufreq driver [CPUFREQ] Fix exposure of ARM_EXYNOS4210_CPUFREQ [CPUFREQ] EXYNOS4210: update the name of EXYNOS clock register [CPUFREQ] EXYNOS: Initialize locking_frequency with initial frequency [CPUFREQ] s3c64xx: Fix mis-cherry pick of VDDINT Fix up trivial conflicts in Kconfig and Makefile due to just changes next to each other (OMAP2PLUS changes vs some new EXYNOS cpufreq drivers).
| | * | | | provide disable_cpufreq() function to disable the API.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk2012-03-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | useful for disabling cpufreq altogether. The cpu frequency scaling drivers and cpu frequency governors will fail to register. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
| * | | | | Merge branch 'amba' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-armLinus Torvalds2012-03-23
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull #2 ARM updates from Russell King: "Further ARM AMBA primecell updates which aren't included directly in the previous commit. I wanted to keep these separate as they're touching stuff outside arch/arm/." * 'amba' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: ARM: 7362/1: AMBA: Add module_amba_driver() helper macro for amba_driver ARM: 7335/1: mach-u300: do away with MMC config files ARM: 7280/1: mmc: mmci: Cache MMCICLOCK and MMCIPOWER register ARM: 7309/1: realview: fix unconnected interrupts on EB11MP ARM: 7230/1: mmc: mmci: Fix PIO read for small SDIO packets ARM: 7227/1: mmc: mmci: Prepare for SDIO before setting up DMA job ARM: 7223/1: mmc: mmci: Fixup use of runtime PM and use autosuspend ARM: 7221/1: mmc: mmci: Change from using legacy suspend ARM: 7219/1: mmc: mmci: Change vdd_handler to a generic ios_handler ARM: 7218/1: mmc: mmci: Provide option to configure bus signal direction ARM: 7217/1: mmc: mmci: Put power register deviations in variant data ARM: 7216/1: mmc: mmci: Do not release spinlock in request_end ARM: 7215/1: mmc: mmci: Increase max_segs from 16 to 128
| | * \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'mmci' into ambaRussell King2012-03-23
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| | | * | | | | ARM: 7219/1: mmc: mmci: Change vdd_handler to a generic ios_handlerUlf Hansson2012-01-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The purpose of the vdd_handler does not make sense. We remove it and use a generic approach instead. A new ios_handler is added, the purpose of which e.g. can be to control GPIO pins to a levelshifter. Previously the vdd_handler was also used for making additional changes to the power register bits. This option is superfluous and is therefore removed. Adaptaptions from the old vdd_handler to the new ios_handler is done for mach-ux500 board, which was the only one using the vdd_handler. This patch is based upon a patch from Sebastian Rasmussen. Tested-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Rasmussen <sebastian.rasmussen@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| | | * | | | | ARM: 7218/1: mmc: mmci: Provide option to configure bus signal directionUlf Hansson2012-01-19
| | | | |/ / / | | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The ST Micro variant supports bus signal direction indication. A new member in the variant struct is added for this. Moreover the actual signal direction configuration is board specific, thus the amba mmci platform data is extended with a new member to be able provide mmci with these specific board configurations. This patch is based upon a patch from Sebastian Rasmussen. Tested-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Rasmussen <sebastian.rasmussen@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| | * | | | | ARM: 7362/1: AMBA: Add module_amba_driver() helper macro for amba_driverviresh kumar2012-03-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For simple modules that contain a single amba_driver without any additional setup code then ends up being a block of duplicated boilerplate. This patch adds a new macro, module_amba_driver(), which replaces the module_init()/module_exit() registrations with template functions. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| * | | | | | Merge branch 'for-armsoc' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-armLinus Torvalds2012-03-23
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull #1 ARM updates from Russell King: "This one covers stuff which Arnd is waiting for me to push, as this is shared between both our trees and probably other trees elsewhere. Essentially, this contains: - AMBA primecell device initializer updates - mostly shrinking the size of the device declarations in platform code to something more reasonable. - Getting rid of the NO_IRQ crap from AMBA primecell stuff. - Nicolas' idle cleanups. This in combination with the restart cleanups from the last merge window results in a great many mach/system.h files being deleted." Yay: ~80 files, ~2000 lines deleted. * 'for-armsoc' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: (60 commits) ARM: remove disable_fiq and arch_ret_to_user macros ARM: make entry-macro.S depend on !MULTI_IRQ_HANDLER ARM: rpc: make default fiq handler run-time installed ARM: make arch_ret_to_user macro optional ARM: amba: samsung: use common amba device initializers ARM: amba: spear: use common amba device initializers ARM: amba: nomadik: use common amba device initializers ARM: amba: u300: use common amba device initializers ARM: amba: lpc32xx: use common amba device initializers ARM: amba: netx: use common amba device initializers ARM: amba: bcmring: use common amba device initializers ARM: amba: ep93xx: use common amba device initializers ARM: amba: omap2: use common amba device initializers ARM: amba: integrator: use common amba device initializers ARM: amba: realview: get rid of private platform amba_device initializer ARM: amba: versatile: get rid of private platform amba_device initializer ARM: amba: vexpress: get rid of private platform amba_device initializer ARM: amba: provide common initializers for static amba devices ARM: amba: make use of -1 IRQs warn ARM: amba: u300: get rid of NO_IRQ initializers ...
| | * \ \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'entry-macro-cleanup' of git://sources.calxeda.com/kernel/linux ↵Russell King2012-02-22
| | |\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | into for-armsoc
| | * \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge tag 'v3.3-rc2' into depends/rmk/for-armsocOlof Johansson2012-02-07
| | |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | |_|/ / / / / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There were conflicts between fixes going in after 3.3-rc1 and Russell's stable arm-soc base branch. Resolving it in the dependency branch so that each topic branch shares the same resolution. Conflicts: arch/arm/mach-at91/at91cap9.c arch/arm/mach-at91/at91sam9g45.c
| | * | | | | | | ARM: amba: provide common initializers for static amba devicesRussell King2012-01-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Acked-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| | * | | | | | | ARM: amba: add amba_device allocation/add/put functionsRussell King2012-01-25
| | | |_|/ / / / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add functions to allocate and initialize AMBA device structures, and add them to the Linux device manager. This allows us to kill this type of operation from individual platforms, moving it to core code. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| * | | | | | | Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)Linus Torvalds2012-03-23
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge second batch of patches from Andrew Morton: - various misc things - core kernel changes to prctl, exit, exec, init, etc. - kernel/watchdog.c updates - get_maintainer - MAINTAINERS - the backlight driver queue - core bitops code cleanups - the led driver queue - some core prio_tree work - checkpatch udpates - largeish crc32 update - a new poll() feature for the v4l guys - the rtc driver queue - fatfs - ptrace - signals - kmod/usermodehelper updates - coredump - procfs updates * emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (141 commits) seq_file: add seq_set_overflow(), seq_overflow() proc-ns: use d_set_d_op() API to set dentry ops in proc_ns_instantiate(). procfs: speed up /proc/pid/stat, statm procfs: add num_to_str() to speed up /proc/stat proc: speed up /proc/stat handling fs/proc/kcore.c: make get_sparsemem_vmemmap_info() static coredump: add VM_NODUMP, MADV_NODUMP, MADV_CLEAR_NODUMP coredump: remove VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag kmod: make __request_module() killable kmod: introduce call_modprobe() helper usermodehelper: ____call_usermodehelper() doesn't need do_exit() usermodehelper: kill umh_wait, renumber UMH_* constants usermodehelper: implement UMH_KILLABLE usermodehelper: introduce umh_complete(sub_info) usermodehelper: use UMH_WAIT_PROC consistently signal: zap_pid_ns_processes: s/SEND_SIG_NOINFO/SEND_SIG_FORCED/ signal: oom_kill_task: use SEND_SIG_FORCED instead of force_sig() signal: cosmetic, s/from_ancestor_ns/force/ in prepare_signal() paths signal: give SEND_SIG_FORCED more power to beat SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE Hexagon: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask() ...
| | * | | | | | | procfs: speed up /proc/pid/stat, statmKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2012-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Process accounting applications as top, ps visit some files under /proc/<pid>. With seq_put_decimal_ull(), we can optimize /proc/<pid>/stat and /proc/<pid>/statm files. This patch adds - seq_put_decimal_ll() for signed values. - allow delimiter == 0. - convert seq_printf() to seq_put_decimal_ull/ll in /proc/stat, statm. Test result on a system with 2000+ procs. Before patch: [kamezawa@bluextal test]$ top -b -n 1 | wc -l 2223 [kamezawa@bluextal test]$ time top -b -n 1 > /dev/null real 0m0.675s user 0m0.044s sys 0m0.121s [kamezawa@bluextal test]$ time ps -elf > /dev/null real 0m0.236s user 0m0.056s sys 0m0.176s After patch: kamezawa@bluextal ~]$ time top -b -n 1 > /dev/null real 0m0.657s user 0m0.052s sys 0m0.100s [kamezawa@bluextal ~]$ time ps -elf > /dev/null real 0m0.198s user 0m0.050s sys 0m0.145s Considering top, ps tend to scan /proc periodically, this will reduce cpu consumption by top/ps to some extent. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.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>
| | * | | | | | | procfs: add num_to_str() to speed up /proc/statKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2012-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | == stat_check.py num = 0 with open("/proc/stat") as f: while num < 1000 : data = f.read() f.seek(0, 0) num = num + 1 == perf shows 20.39% stat_check.py [kernel.kallsyms] [k] format_decode 13.41% stat_check.py [kernel.kallsyms] [k] number 12.61% stat_check.py [kernel.kallsyms] [k] vsnprintf 10.85% stat_check.py [kernel.kallsyms] [k] memcpy 4.85% stat_check.py [kernel.kallsyms] [k] radix_tree_lookup 4.43% stat_check.py [kernel.kallsyms] [k] seq_printf This patch removes most of calls to vsnprintf() by adding num_to_str() and seq_print_decimal_ull(), which prints decimal numbers without rich functions provided by printf(). On my 8cpu box. == Before patch == [root@bluextal test]# time ./stat_check.py real 0m0.150s user 0m0.026s sys 0m0.121s == After patch == [root@bluextal test]# time ./stat_check.py real 0m0.055s user 0m0.022s sys 0m0.030s [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove incorrect comment, use less statck in num_to_str(), move comment from .h to .c, simplify seq_put_decimal_ull()] [andrea@betterlinux.com: avoid breaking the ABI in /proc/stat] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| | * | | | | | | coredump: add VM_NODUMP, MADV_NODUMP, MADV_CLEAR_NODUMPJason Baron2012-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since we no longer need the VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag, let's use the freed bit for 'VM_NODUMP' flag. The idea is is to add a new madvise() flag: MADV_DONTDUMP, which can be set by applications to specifically request memory regions which should not dump core. The specific application I have in mind is qemu: we can add a flag there that wouldn't dump all of guest memory when qemu dumps core. This flag might also be useful for security sensitive apps that want to absolutely make sure that parts of memory are not dumped. To clear the flag use: MADV_DODUMP. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/MADV_NODUMP/MADV_DONTDUMP/, s/MADV_CLEAR_NODUMP/MADV_DODUMP/, per Roland] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up the architectures which broke] Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| | * | | | | | | coredump: remove VM_ALWAYSDUMP flagJason Baron2012-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The motivation for this patchset was that I was looking at a way for a qemu-kvm process, to exclude the guest memory from its core dump, which can be quite large. There are already a number of filter flags in /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter, however, these allow one to specify 'types' of kernel memory, not specific address ranges (which is needed in this case). Since there are no more vma flags available, the first patch eliminates the need for the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag. The flag is used internally by the kernel to mark vdso and vsyscall pages. However, it is simple enough to check if a vma covers a vdso or vsyscall page without the need for this flag. The second patch then replaces the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag with a new 'VM_NODUMP' flag, which can be set by userspace using new madvise flags: 'MADV_DONTDUMP', and unset via 'MADV_DODUMP'. The core dump filters continue to work the same as before unless 'MADV_DONTDUMP' is set on the region. The qemu code which implements this features is at: http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/qemu-dump/qemu-dump.patch In my testing the qemu core dump shrunk from 383MB -> 13MB with this patch. I also believe that the 'MADV_DONTDUMP' flag might be useful for security sensitive apps, which might want to select which areas are dumped. This patch: The VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag is currently used by the coredump code to indicate that a vma is part of a vsyscall or vdso section. However, we can determine if a vma is in one these sections by checking it against the gate_vma and checking for a non-NULL return value from arch_vma_name(). Thus, freeing a valuable vma bit. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| | * | | | | | | usermodehelper: kill umh_wait, renumber UMH_* constantsOleg Nesterov2012-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No functional changes. It is not sane to use UMH_KILLABLE with enum umh_wait, but obviously we do not want another argument in call_usermodehelper_* helpers. Kill this enum, use the plain int. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| | * | | | | | | usermodehelper: implement UMH_KILLABLEOleg Nesterov2012-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement UMH_KILLABLE, should be used along with UMH_WAIT_EXEC/PROC. The caller must ensure that subprocess_info->path/etc can not go away until call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(). call_usermodehelper_exec(UMH_KILLABLE) does wait_for_completion_killable. If it fails, it uses xchg(&sub_info->complete, NULL) to serialize with umh_complete() which does the same xhcg() to access sub_info->complete. If call_usermodehelper_exec wins, it can safely return. umh_complete() should get NULL and call call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(). Otherwise we know that umh_complete() was already called, in this case call_usermodehelper_exec() falls back to wait_for_completion() which should succeed "very soon". Note: UMH_NO_WAIT == -1 but it obviously should not be used with UMH_KILLABLE. We delay the neccessary cleanup to simplify the back porting. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| | * | | | | | | ptrace: remove PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL bitDenys Vlasenko2012-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | PTRACE_SEIZE code is tested and ready for production use, remove the code which requires special bit in data argument to make PTRACE_SEIZE work. Strace team prepares for a new release of strace, and we would like to ship the code which uses PTRACE_SEIZE, preferably after this change goes into released kernel. Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| | * | | | | | | ptrace: renumber PTRACE_EVENT_STOP so that future new options and events can ↵Denys Vlasenko2012-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | match PTRACE_EVENT_foo and PTRACE_O_TRACEfoo used to match. New PTRACE_EVENT_STOP is the first event which has no corresponding PTRACE_O_TRACE option. If we will ever want to add another such option, its PTRACE_EVENT's value will collide with PTRACE_EVENT_STOP's value. This patch changes PTRACE_EVENT_STOP value to prevent this. While at it, added a comment - the one atop PTRACE_EVENT block, saying "Wait extended result codes for the above trace options", is not true for PTRACE_EVENT_STOP. Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>