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* [PATCH] new scheme to preempt swap tokenAshwin Chaugule2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new swap token patches replace the current token traversal algo. The old algo had a crude timeout parameter that was used to handover the token from one task to another. This algo, transfers the token to the tasks that are in need of the token. The urgency for the token is based on the number of times a task is required to swap-in pages. Accordingly, the priority of a task is incremented if it has been badly affected due to swap-outs. To ensure that the token doesnt bounce around rapidly, the token holders are given a priority boost. The priority of tasks is also decremented, if their rate of swap-in's keeps reducing. This way, the condition to check whether to pre-empt the swap token, is a matter of comparing two task's priority fields. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule <ashwin.chaugule@celunite.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Howells2006-12-05
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c include/linux/libata.h Futher merge of Linus's head and compilation fixups. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
| * [PATCH] severing skbuff.h -> highmem.hAl Viro2006-12-04
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * [PATCH] severing module.h->sched.hAl Viro2006-12-04
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Howells2006-12-05
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c drivers/usb/core/hub.h drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c net/core/netpoll.c Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
| * [GENL]: Add genlmsg_put_reply() to simplify building reply headersThomas Graf2006-12-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | By modyfing genlmsg_put() to take a genl_family and by adding genlmsg_put_reply() the process of constructing the netlink and generic netlink headers is simplified. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * [GENL]: Add genlmsg_new() to allocate generic netlink messagesThomas Graf2006-12-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * [NETLINK]: Do precise netlink message allocations where possibleThomas Graf2006-12-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Account for the netlink message header size directly in nlmsg_new() instead of relying on the caller calculate it correctly. Replaces error handling of message construction functions when constructing notifications with bug traps since a failure implies a bug in calculating the size of the skb. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * Driver core: show drivers in /sys/module/Kay Sievers2006-12-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Show the drivers, which belong to the module: $ ls -l /sys/module/usbcore/drivers/ hub -> ../../../bus/usb/drivers/hub usb -> ../../../bus/usb/drivers/usb usbfs -> ../../../bus/usb/drivers/usbfs Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-11-28
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: [PATCH] x86-64: Use stricter in process stack check for unwinder [PATCH] i386: Fix compilation with UP genericarch [PATCH] x86-64: Fix warning in io_apic.c [PATCH] x86-64: work around gcc4 issue with -Os in Dwarf2 stack unwind [PATCH] x86_64: Align data segment to PAGE_SIZE boundary
| | * [PATCH] x86-64: work around gcc4 issue with -Os in Dwarf2 stack unwindJan Beulich2006-11-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes a problem with gcc4 mis-compiling the stack unwind code under -Os, which resulted in 'stuck' messages whenever an assembly routine was encountered. (The second hunk is trivial cleanup.) Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
| * | [PATCH] fix create_write_pipe() error checkAkinobu Mita2006-11-28
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The return value of create_write_pipe()/create_read_pipe() should be checked by IS_ERR(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] lockdep: spin_lock_irqsave_nested()Arjan van de Ven2006-11-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce spin_lock_irqsave_nested(); implementation from: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/1/122 Patch from: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/13/258 [akpm@osdl.org: two compile fixes] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] fix copy_process() error checkAkinobu Mita2006-11-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The return value of copy_process() should be checked by IS_ERR(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * Don't call "note_interrupt()" with irq descriptor lock heldLinus Torvalds2006-11-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit f72fa707604c015a6625e80f269506032d5430dc, and solves the problem that it tried to fix by simply making "__do_IRQ()" call the note_interrupt() function without the lock held, the way everybody else does. It should be noted that all interrupt handling code must never allow the descriptor actors to be entered "recursively" (that's why we do all the magic IRQ_PENDING stuff in the first place), so there actually is exclusion at that much higher level, even in the absense of locking. Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Acked-by:Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | WorkStruct: make allyesconfigDavid Howells2006-11-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | Fix up for make allyesconfig. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
* | WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context dataDavid Howells2006-11-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pass the work_struct pointer to the work function rather than context data. The work function can use container_of() to work out the data. For the cases where the container of the work_struct may go away the moment the pending bit is cleared, it is made possible to defer the release of the structure by deferring the clearing of the pending bit. To make this work, an extra flag is introduced into the management side of the work_struct. This governs auto-release of the structure upon execution. Ordinarily, the work queue executor would release the work_struct for further scheduling or deallocation by clearing the pending bit prior to jumping to the work function. This means that, unless the driver makes some guarantee itself that the work_struct won't go away, the work function may not access anything else in the work_struct or its container lest they be deallocated.. This is a problem if the auxiliary data is taken away (as done by the last patch). However, if the pending bit is *not* cleared before jumping to the work function, then the work function *may* access the work_struct and its container with no problems. But then the work function must itself release the work_struct by calling work_release(). In most cases, automatic release is fine, so this is the default. Special initiators exist for the non-auto-release case (ending in _NAR). Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
* | WorkStruct: Merge the pending bit into the wq_data pointerDavid Howells2006-11-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reclaim a word from the size of the work_struct by folding the pending bit and the wq_data pointer together. This shouldn't cause misalignment problems as all pointers should be at least 4-byte aligned. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
* | WorkStruct: Typedef the work function prototypeDavid Howells2006-11-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Define a type for the work function prototype. It's not only kept in the work_struct struct, it's also passed as an argument to several functions. This makes it easier to change it. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
* | WorkStruct: Separate delayable and non-delayable events.David Howells2006-11-22
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | Separate delayable work items from non-delayable work items be splitting them into a separate structure (delayed_work), which incorporates a work_struct and the timer_list removed from work_struct. The work_struct struct is huge, and this limits it's usefulness. On a 64-bit architecture it's nearly 100 bytes in size. This reduces that by half for the non-delayable type of event. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
* [PATCH] lockdep: fix static keys in module-allocated percpu areasIngo Molnar2006-11-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | lockdep got confused by certain locks in modules: INFO: trying to register non-static key. the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation. turning off the locking correctness validator. Call Trace: [<ffffffff8026f40d>] dump_trace+0xaa/0x3f2 [<ffffffff8026f78f>] show_trace+0x3a/0x60 [<ffffffff8026f9d1>] dump_stack+0x15/0x17 [<ffffffff802abfe8>] __lock_acquire+0x724/0x9bb [<ffffffff802ac52b>] lock_acquire+0x4d/0x67 [<ffffffff80267139>] rt_spin_lock+0x3d/0x41 [<ffffffff8839ed3f>] :ip_conntrack:__ip_ct_refresh_acct+0x131/0x174 [<ffffffff883a1334>] :ip_conntrack:udp_packet+0xbf/0xcf [<ffffffff8839f9af>] :ip_conntrack:ip_conntrack_in+0x394/0x4a7 [<ffffffff8023551f>] nf_iterate+0x41/0x7f [<ffffffff8025946a>] nf_hook_slow+0x64/0xd5 [<ffffffff802369a2>] ip_rcv+0x24e/0x506 [...] Steven Rostedt found the bug: static_obj() check did not take PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM into account, so in-module DEFINE_PER_CPU-area locks were triggering this message. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] some irq_chip variables point to NULLZhang, Yanmin2006-11-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I got an oops when booting 2.6.19-rc5-mm1 on my ia64 machine. Below is the log. Oops 11012296146944 [1] Modules linked in: binfmt_misc dm_mirror dm_multipath dm_mod thermal processor f an container button sg eepro100 e100 mii Pid: 0, CPU 0, comm: swapper psr : 0000121008022038 ifs : 800000000000040b ip : [<a0000001000e1411>] Not tainted ip is at __do_IRQ+0x371/0x3e0 unat: 0000000000000000 pfs : 000000000000040b rsc : 0000000000000003 rnat: 656960155aa56aa5 bsps: a00000010058b890 pr : 656960155aa55a65 ldrs: 0000000000000000 ccv : 0000000000000000 fpsr: 0009804c0270033f csd : 0000000000000000 ssd : 0000000000000000 b0 : a0000001000e1390 b6 : a0000001005beac0 b7 : e00000007f01aa00 f6 : 000000000000000000000 f7 : 0ffe69090000000000000 f8 : 1000a9090000000000000 f9 : 0ffff8000000000000000 f10 : 1000a908ffffff6f70000 f11 : 1003e0000000000000909 r1 : a000000100fbbff0 r2 : 0000000000010002 r3 : 0000000000010001 r8 : fffffffffffbffff r9 : a000000100bd8060 r10 : a000000100dd83b8 r11 : fffffffffffeffff r12 : a000000100bcbbb0 r13 : a000000100bc4000 r14 : 0000000000010000 r15 : 0000000000010000 r16 : a000000100c01aa8 r17 : a000000100d2c350 r18 : 0000000000000000 r19 : a000000100d2c300 r20 : a000000100c01a88 r21 : 0000000080010100 r22 : a000000100c01ac0 r23 : a0000001000108e0 r24 : e000000477980004 r25 : 0000000000000000 r26 : 0000000000000000 r27 : e00000000913400c r28 : e0000004799ee51c r29 : e0000004778b87f0 r30 : a000000100d2c300 r31 : a00000010005c7e0 Call Trace: [<a000000100014600>] show_stack+0x40/0xa0 sp=a000000100bcb760 bsp=a000000100bc4f40 [<a000000100014f00>] show_regs+0x840/0x880 sp=a000000100bcb930 bsp=a000000100bc4ee8 [<a000000100037fb0>] die+0x250/0x320 sp=a000000100bcb930 bsp=a000000100bc4ea0 [<a00000010005e5f0>] ia64_do_page_fault+0x8d0/0xa20 sp=a000000100bcb950 bsp=a000000100bc4e50 [<a00000010000caa0>] ia64_leave_kernel+0x0/0x290 sp=a000000100bcb9e0 bsp=a000000100bc4e50 [<a0000001000e1410>] __do_IRQ+0x370/0x3e0 sp=a000000100bcbbb0 bsp=a000000100bc4df0 [<a000000100011f50>] ia64_handle_irq+0x170/0x220 sp=a000000100bcbbb0 bsp=a000000100bc4dc0 [<a00000010000caa0>] ia64_leave_kernel+0x0/0x290 sp=a000000100bcbbb0 bsp=a000000100bc4dc0 [<a000000100012390>] ia64_pal_call_static+0x90/0xc0 sp=a000000100bcbd80 bsp=a000000100bc4d78 [<a000000100015630>] default_idle+0x90/0x160 sp=a000000100bcbd80 bsp=a000000100bc4d58 [<a000000100014290>] cpu_idle+0x1f0/0x440 sp=a000000100bcbe20 bsp=a000000100bc4d18 [<a000000100009980>] rest_init+0xc0/0xe0 sp=a000000100bcbe20 bsp=a000000100bc4d00 [<a0000001009f8ea0>] start_kernel+0x6a0/0x6c0 sp=a000000100bcbe20 bsp=a000000100bc4ca0 [<a0000001000089f0>] __end_ivt_text+0x6d0/0x6f0 sp=a000000100bcbe30 bsp=a000000100bc4c00 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! The root cause is that some irq_chip variables, especially ia64_msi_chip, initiate their memeber end to point to NULL. __do_IRQ doesn't check if irq_chip->end is null and just calls it after processing the interrupt. As irq_chip->end is called at many places, so I fix it by reinitiating irq_chip->end to dummy_irq_chip.end, e.g., a noop function. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Revert "[PATCH] fix Data Acess error in dup_fd"Linus Torvalds2006-11-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 0130b0b32ee53dc7add773fcea984f6a26ef1da3. Sergey Vlasov points out (and Vadim Lobanov concurs) that the bug it was supposed to fix must be some unrelated memory corruption, and the "fix" actually causes more problems: "However, the new code does not look safe in all cases. If some other task has opened more files while dup_fd() released oldf->file_lock, the new code will update open_files to the new larger value. But newf was allocated with the old smaller value of open_files, therefore subsequent accesses to newf may try to write into unallocated memory." so revert it. Cc: Sharyathi Nagesh <sharyath@in.ibm.com> Cc: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> Cc: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] setup_irq(): better mismatch debuggingAndrew Morton2006-11-14
| | | | | | | | | | | When we get a mismatch between handlers on the same IRQ, all we get is "IRQ handler type mismatch for IRQ n". Let's print the name of the presently-registered handler with which we got the mismatch. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Fix misrouted interrupts deadlocksPavel Emelianov2006-11-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While testing kernel on machine with "irqpoll" option I've caught such a lockup: __do_IRQ() spin_lock(&desc->lock); desc->chip->ack(); /* IRQ is ACKed */ note_interrupt() misrouted_irq() handle_IRQ_event() if (...) local_irq_enable_in_hardirq(); /* interrupts are enabled from now */ ... __do_IRQ() /* same IRQ we've started from */ spin_lock(&desc->lock); /* LOCKUP */ Looking at misrouted_irq() code I've found that a potential deadlock like this can also take place: 1CPU: __do_IRQ() spin_lock(&desc->lock); /* irq = A */ misrouted_irq() for (i = 1; i < NR_IRQS; i++) { spin_lock(&desc->lock); /* irq = B */ if (desc->status & IRQ_INPROGRESS) { 2CPU: __do_IRQ() spin_lock(&desc->lock); /* irq = B */ misrouted_irq() for (i = 1; i < NR_IRQS; i++) { spin_lock(&desc->lock); /* irq = A */ if (desc->status & IRQ_INPROGRESS) { As the second lock on both CPUs is taken before checking that this irq is being handled in another processor this may cause a deadlock. This issue is only theoretical. I propose the attached patch to fix booth problems: when trying to handle misrouted IRQ active desc->lock may be unlocked. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fix Data Acess error in dup_fdSharyathi Nagesh2006-11-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On running the Stress Test on machine for more than 72 hours following error message was observed. 0:mon> e cpu 0x0: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c00000007ce2f7f0] pc: c000000000060d90: .dup_fd+0x240/0x39c lr: c000000000060d6c: .dup_fd+0x21c/0x39c sp: c00000007ce2fa70 msr: 800000000000b032 dar: ffffffff00000028 dsisr: 40000000 current = 0xc000000074950980 paca = 0xc000000000454500 pid = 27330, comm = bash 0:mon> t [c00000007ce2fa70] c000000000060d28 .dup_fd+0x1d8/0x39c (unreliable) [c00000007ce2fb30] c000000000060f48 .copy_files+0x5c/0x88 [c00000007ce2fbd0] c000000000061f5c .copy_process+0x574/0x1520 [c00000007ce2fcd0] c000000000062f88 .do_fork+0x80/0x1c4 [c00000007ce2fdc0] c000000000011790 .sys_clone+0x5c/0x74 [c00000007ce2fe30] c000000000008950 .ppc_clone+0x8/0xc The problem is because of race window. When if(expand) block is executed in dup_fd unlocking of oldf->file_lock give a window for fdtable in oldf to be modified. So actual open_files in oldf may not match with open_files variable. Cc: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sysctl: allow a zero ctl_name in the middle of a sysctl tableEric W. Biederman2006-11-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since it is becoming clear that there are just enough users of the binary sysctl interface that completely removing the binary interface from the kernel will not be an option for foreseeable future, we need to find a way to address the sysctl maintenance issues. The basic problem is that sysctl requires one central authority to allocate sysctl numbers, or else conflicts and ABI breakage occur. The proc interface to sysctl does not have that problem, as names are not densely allocated. By not terminating a sysctl table until I have neither a ctl_name nor a procname, it becomes simple to add sysctl entries that don't show up in the binary sysctl interface. Which allows people to avoid allocating a binary sysctl value when not needed. I have audited the kernel code and in my reading I have not found a single sysctl table that wasn't terminated by a completely zero filled entry. So this change in behavior should not affect anything. I think this mechanism eases the pain enough that combined with a little disciple we can solve the reoccurring sysctl ABI breakage. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Improve the removed sysctl warningsEric W. Biederman2006-11-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Don't warn about libpthread's access to kernel.version. When it receives -ENOSYS it will read /proc/sys/kernel/version. If anything else shows up print the sysctl number string. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] lockdep: fix delayacct locking bugPeter Zijlstra2006-11-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Make the delayacct lock irqsave; this avoids the possible deadlock where an interrupt is taken while holding the delayacct lock which needs to take the delayacct lock. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Fix the spurious unlock_cpu_hotplug false warningsGautham R Shenoy2006-11-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Cpu-hotplug locking has a minor race case caused because of setting the variable "recursive" to NULL *after* releasing the cpu_bitmask_lock in the function unlock_cpu_hotplug,instead of doing so before releasing the cpu_bitmask_lock. This was the cause of most of the recent false spurious lock_cpu_unlock warnings. This should fix the problem reported by Martin Lorenz reported in http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/29/127. Thanks to Srinivasa DS for pointing it out. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Make sure "user->sigpending" count is in syncLinus Torvalds2006-11-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous commit (45c18b0bb579b5c1b89f8c99f1b6ffa4c586ba08, aka "Fix unlikely (but possible) race condition on task->user access") fixed a potential oops due to __sigqueue_alloc() getting its "user" pointer out of sync with switch_user(), and accessing a user pointer that had been de-allocated on another CPU. It still left another (much less serious) problem, where a concurrent __sigqueue_alloc and swich_user could cause sigqueue_alloc to do signal pending reference counting for a _different_ user than the one it then actually ended up using. No oops, but we'd end up with the wrong signal accounting. Another case of Oleg's eagle-eyes picking up the problem. This is trivially fixed by just making sure we load whichever "user" structure we decide to use (it doesn't matter _which_ one we pick, we just need to pick one) just once. Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Fix unlikely (but possible) race condition on task->user accessLinus Torvalds2006-11-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's a possible race condition when doing a "switch_uid()" from one user to another, which could race with another thread doing a signal allocation and looking at the old thread ->user pointer as it is freed. This explains an oops reported by Lukasz Trabinski: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/462241 We fix this by delaying the (reference-counted) freeing of the user structure until the thread signal handler lock has been released, so that we know that the signal allocation has either seen the new value or has properly incremented the reference count of the old one. Race identified by Oleg Nesterov. Cc: Lukasz Trabinski <lukasz@wsisiz.edu.pl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Create compat_sys_migrate_pagesStephen Rothwell2006-11-03
| | | | | | | | | This is needed on bigendian 64bit architectures. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] swsusp: debuggingRafael J. Wysocki2006-11-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a swsusp debugging mode. This does everything that's needed for a suspend except for actually suspending. So we can look in the log messages and work out a) what code is being slow and b) which drivers are misbehaving. (1) # echo testproc > /sys/power/disk # echo disk > /sys/power/state This should turn off the non-boot CPU, freeze all processes, wait for 5 seconds and then thaw the processes and the CPU. (2) # echo test > /sys/power/disk # echo disk > /sys/power/state This should turn off the non-boot CPU, freeze all processes, shrink memory, suspend all devices, wait for 5 seconds, resume the devices etc. Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] schedule removal of FUTEX_FDAndrew Morton2006-11-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Apparently FUTEX_FD is unfixably racy and nothing uses it (or if it does, it shouldn't). Add a warning printk, give any remaining users six months to migrate off it. Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Add printk_timed_ratelimit()Andrew Morton2006-11-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | printk_ratelimit() has global state which makes it not useful for callers which wish to perform ratelimiting at a particular frequency. Add a printk_timed_ratelimit() which utilises caller-provided state storage to permit more flexibility. This function can in fact be used for things other than printk ratelimiting and is perhaps poorly named. Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] taskstats: fix sub-threads accountingOleg Nesterov2006-10-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If there are no listeners, taskstats_exit_send() just returns because taskstats_exit_alloc() didn't allocate *tidstats. This is wrong, each sub-thread should do fill_tgid_exit() on exit, otherwise its ->delays is not recorded in ->signal->stats and lost. Q: We don't send TASKSTATS_TYPE_AGGR_TGID when single-threaded process exits. Is it good? How can the listener figure out that it was actually a process exit, not sub-thread? Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] xacct_add_tsk: fix pure theoretical ->mm use-after-freeOleg Nesterov2006-10-30
| | | | | | | | | | | Paranoid fix. The task can free its ->mm after the 'if (p->mm)' check. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ndiswrapper: don't set the module->taints flagsRandy Dunlap2006-10-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | For ndiswrapper, don't set the module->taints flags, just set the kernel global tainted flag. This should allow ndiswrapper to continue to use GPL symbols. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] taskstats: fix sk_buff size calculationOleg Nesterov2006-10-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | prepare_reply() adds GENL_HDRLEN to the payload (genlmsg_total_size()), but then it does genlmsg_put()->nlmsg_put(). This means we forget to reserve a room for 'struct nlmsghdr'. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] taskstats: fix sk_buff leakOleg Nesterov2006-10-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'return genlmsg_cancel()' in taskstats_user_cmd/taskstats_exit_send potentially leaks a skb. Unless we pass 'rep_skb' to the netlink layer we own sk_buff. This means we should always do kfree_skb() on failure. [ Thomas acked and pointed out missing return value in original version ] Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] workqueue: update kerneldocAlan Stern2006-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch (as812) changes the kerneldoc comments explaining the return values from queue_work(), queue_delayed_work(), and queue_delayed_work_on(). The updated comments explain more accurately the meaning of the return code and avoid suggesting that a 0 value means the routine was unsuccessful. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpu-hotplug: release `workqueue_mutex' properly on CPU hot-removeSatoru Takeuchi2006-10-28
| | | | | | | | | _cpu_down() acquires `workqueue_mutex' on its process, but doen't release it if __cpu_disable() fails. Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] time_adjust cleared before useJim Houston2006-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | | I notice that the code which implements adjtime clears the time_adjust value before using it. The attached patch makes the obvious fix. Acked-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Jim Houston <jim.houston@ccur.com> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fill_tgid: cleanup delays accountingOleg Nesterov2006-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | fill_tgid() should skip not only an already exited group leader. If the task has ->exit_state != 0 it already did exit_notify(), so it also did fill_tgid_exit()->delayacct_add_tsk(->signal->stats) and we should skip it to avoid a double accounting. This patch doesn't close the race completely, but it cleanups the code. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] taskstats: don't use tasklist_lockOleg Nesterov2006-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove tasklist_lock from taskstats.c. find_task_by_pid() is rcu-safe. ->siglock allows us to traverse subthread without tasklist. Q: delay accounting looks wrong to me. If sub-thread has already called taskstats_exit_send() but didn't call release_task(self) yet it will be accounted twice. The window is big. No? Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] taskstats: kill ->taskstats_lock in favor of ->siglockOleg Nesterov2006-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | signal_struct is (mostly) protected by ->sighand->siglock, I think we don't need ->taskstats_lock to protect ->stats. This also allows us to simplify the locking in fill_tgid(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] taskstats_tgid_free: fix usageOleg Nesterov2006-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | taskstats_tgid_free() is called on copy_process's error path. This is wrong. IF (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) We should not clear ->signal->taskstats, current uses it, it probably has a valid accumulated info. ELSE taskstats_tgid_init() set ->signal->taskstats = NULL, there is nothing to free. Move the callsite to __exit_signal(). We don't need any locking, entire thread group is exiting, nobody should have a reference to soon to be released ->signal. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] bacct_add_tsk: fix unsafe and wrong parent/group_leader dereferenceOleg Nesterov2006-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1. ts = timespec_sub(uptime, current->group_leader->start_time); It is possible that current != tsk. Probably it was supposed to be 'tsk->group_leader->start_time. But why we are reading group_leader's start_time ? This accounting is per thread, not per procees, I changed this to 'tsk->start_time. Please corect me. 2. stats->ac_ppid = (tsk->parent) ? tsk->parent->pid : 0; tsk->parent never == NULL, and it is unsafe to dereference it. Both the task and it's parent may exit after the caller unlocks tasklist_lock, the memory could be unmapped (DEBUG_SLAB). (And we should use ->real_parent->tgid in fact). Q: I don't understand the 'if (thread_group_leader(tsk))' check. Why it is needed ? Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fill_tgid: fix task_struct leak and possible oopsOleg Nesterov2006-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1. fill_tgid() forgets to do put_task_struct(first). 2. release_task(first) can happen after fill_tgid() drops tasklist_lock, it is unsafe to dereference first->signal. This is a temporary fix, imho the locking should be reworked. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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