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* [PATCH] Export ktime_get_ts()Matt Helsley2006-01-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This series removes the getnstimestamp() function from kernel/time.c in favor of kernel/hrtimer.c's ktime_get_ts() function which currently does exactly the same thing: retrieves a high-resolution (ns) timespec structure and performs the wall_to_monotonic adjustment. This patch: Export ktime_get_ts() to be used as a timestamp function since it uses getnstimefoday() and does the wall_to_monotonic adjustment. Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hrtimer: convert posix timers completelyThomas Gleixner2006-01-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | - convert posix-timers.c to use hrtimers - remove the now obsolete abslist code Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hrtimer: switch clock_nanosleep to hrtimer nanosleep APIThomas Gleixner2006-01-10
| | | | | | | | | Switch clock_nanosleep to use the new nanosleep functions in hrtimer.c Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hrtimer: switch sys_nanosleep to hrtimerThomas Gleixner2006-01-10
| | | | | | | | | convert sys_nanosleep() to use hrtimer_nanosleep() Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hrtimer: create hrtimer nanosleep APIThomas Gleixner2006-01-10
| | | | | | | | | | introduce the hrtimer_nanosleep() and hrtimer_nanosleep_real() APIs. Not yet used by any code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hrtimer: switch itimers to hrtimerThomas Gleixner2006-01-10
| | | | | | | | | switch itimers to a hrtimers-based implementation Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hrtimer: hrtimer core codeThomas Gleixner2006-01-10
| | | | | | | | | | hrtimer subsystem core. It is initialized at bootup and expired by the timer interrupt, but is otherwise not utilized by any other subsystem yet. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hrtimer: introduce nsec_t type and conversion functionsThomas Gleixner2006-01-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | - introduce the nsec_t type - basic nsec conversion routines: timespec_to_ns(), timeval_to_ns(), ns_to_timespec(), ns_to_timeval(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hrtimer: validate timespec of do_sys_settimeofdayThomas Gleixner2006-01-10
| | | | | | | | | Check if the timespec which is provided from user space is normalized. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hrtimer: create and use timespec_valid macroThomas Gleixner2006-01-10
| | | | | | | | | add timespec_valid(ts) [returns false if the timespec is denorm] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hrtimer: make clockid_t arguments constThomas Gleixner2006-01-10
| | | | | | | | | add const arguments to the posix-timers.h API functions Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hrtimer: export deinlined mktimeAndrew Morton2006-01-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is now uninlined, but some modules use it. Make it a non-GPL export, since the inlined mktime() was also available that way. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hrtimer: clean up mktime and make arguments constIngo Molnar2006-01-10
| | | | | | | | | add 'const' to mktime arguments, and clean it up a bit Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hrtimer: deinline mktime and set_normalized_timespecThomas Gleixner2006-01-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | mktime() and set_normalized_timespec() are large inline functions used in many places: deinline them. From: George Anzinger, off-by-1 bugfix Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hrtimer: remove duplicate div_long_long_rem implementationThomas Gleixner2006-01-10
| | | | | | | | | make posix-timers.c use the generic calc64.h facility Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] common compat_sys_timer_createChristoph Hellwig2006-01-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The comment in compat.c is wrong, every architecture provides a get_compat_sigevent() for the IPC compat code already. This basically moves the x86_64 version to common code and removes all the others. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kdump: read previous kernel's memoryVivek Goyal2006-01-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Moving the crash_dump.c file to arch dependent part as kmap_atomic_pfn is specific to i386 and highmem may not exist in other archs. - Use ioremap for x86_64 to map the previous kernel memory. - In copy_oldmem_page(), we now directly copy to the user/kernel buffer and avoid the unneccesary copy to a kmalloc'd page. Signed-off-by: Rachita Kothiyal <rachita@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kdump: save registers early (inline functions)Vivek Goyal2006-01-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - If system panics then cpu register states are captured through funciton crash_get_current_regs(). This is not a inline function hence a stack frame is pushed on to the stack and then cpu register state is captured. Later this frame is popped and new frames are pushed (machine_kexec). - In theory this is not very right as we are capturing register states for a frame and that frame is no more valid. This seems to have created back trace problems for ppc64. - This patch fixes it up. The very first thing it does after entering crash_kexec() is to capture the register states. Anyway we don't want the back trace beyond crash_kexec(). crash_get_current_regs() has been made inline - crash_setup_regs() is the top architecture dependent function which should be responsible for capturing the register states as well as to do some architecture dependent tricks. For ex. fixing up ss and esp for i386. crash_setup_regs() has also been made inline to ensure no new call frame is pushed onto stack. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kdump: export per cpu crash notes pointer through sysfsVivek Goyal2006-01-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Kexec on panic functionality allocates memory for saving cpu registers in case of system crash event. Address of this allocated memory needs to be exported to user space, which is used by kexec-tools. - Previously, a single /sys/kernel/crash_notes entry was being exported as memory allocated was a single continuous array. Now memory allocation being dyanmic and per cpu based, address of per cpu buffer is exported through "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/crash_notes" Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kdump: dynamic per cpu allocation of memory for saving cpu registersVivek Goyal2006-01-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - In case of system crash, current state of cpu registers is saved in memory in elf note format. So far memory for storing elf notes was being allocated statically for NR_CPUS. - This patch introduces dynamic allocation of memory for storing elf notes. It uses alloc_percpu() interface. This should lead to better memory usage. - Introduced based on Andi Kleen's and Eric W. Biederman's suggestions. - This patch also moves memory allocation for elf notes from architecture dependent portion to architecture independent portion. Now crash_notes is architecture independent. The whole idea is that size of memory to be allocated per cpu (MAX_NOTE_BYTES) can be architecture dependent and allocation of this memory can be architecture independent. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Remove set_fs() in stop_machine()akpm@osdl.org2006-01-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | ) From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> Call sched_setscheduler() directly instead. Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/mutex-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-01-09
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| * [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_semJes Sorensen2006-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your luck with it might be different. Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> (finished the conversion) Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * [PATCH] mutex subsystem, more debugging codeIngo Molnar2006-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | more mutex debugging: check for held locks during memory freeing, task exit, enable sysrq printouts, etc. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
| * [PATCH] mutex subsystem, debugging codeIngo Molnar2006-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | mutex implementation - add debugging code. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
| * [PATCH] mutex subsystem, coreIngo Molnar2006-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | mutex implementation, core files: just the basic subsystem, no users of it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
* | [PATCH] rcu: don't set ->next_pending in rcu_start_batch()Oleg Nesterov2006-01-09
|/ | | | | | | | | | I think it is better to set ->next_pending in the caller, when it is needed. This saves one parameter, and this coincides with cpu_quiet() beahaviour, which sets ->completed = ->cur itself. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-mergeLinus Torvalds2006-01-09
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| * [PATCH] powerpc: Add arch-dependent copy_oldmem_pageMichael Ellerman2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
| * [PATCH] spufs: The SPU file system, baseArnd Bergmann2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is the current version of the spu file system, used for driving SPEs on the Cell Broadband Engine. This release is almost identical to the version for the 2.6.14 kernel posted earlier, which is available as part of the Cell BE Linux distribution from http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/. The first patch provides all the interfaces for running spu application, but does not have any support for debugging SPU tasks or for scheduling. Both these functionalities are added in the subsequent patches. See Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt on how to use spufs. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [PATCH] rcu: uninline __rcu_pending()Oleg Nesterov2006-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | __rcu_pending() is rather fat and called twice from rcu_pending(). rcu_pending() has multiple callers, and not that small too. This patch uninlines both of them. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Make vm86 support optionalMatt Mackall2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds an option to remove vm86 support under CONFIG_EMBEDDED. Saves about 5k. This version eliminates most of the #ifdefs of the previous version and instead uses function stubs in vm86.h. Also, release_vm86_irqs is moved from asm-i386/irq.h to a more appropriate home in vm86.h so that the stubs can live together. $ size vmlinux-baseline vmlinux-novm86 text data bss dec hex filename 2920821 523232 190652 3634705 377611 vmlinux-baseline 2916268 523100 190492 3629860 376324 vmlinux-novm86 Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] tiny: Make *[ug]id16 support optionalMatt Mackall2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Configurable 16-bit UID and friends support This allows turning off the legacy 16 bit UID interfaces on embedded platforms. text data bss dec hex filename 3330172 529036 190556 4049764 3dcb64 vmlinux-baseline 3328268 529040 190556 4047864 3dc3f8 vmlinux From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> UID16 was accidentially disabled for !EMBEDDED. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] simplify k_getrusage()Oleg Nesterov2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Factor out common code for different RUSAGE_xxx cases. Don't take ->sighand->siglock in RUSAGE_SELF case, suggested by Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] fix workqueue oops during cpu offlineNathan Lynch2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use first_cpu(cpu_possible_map) for the single-thread workqueue case. We used to hardcode 0, but that broke on systems where !cpu_possible(0) when workqueue_struct->cpu_workqueue_struct was changed from a static array to alloc_percpu. Commit id bce61dd49d6ba7799be2de17c772e4c701558f14 ("Fix hardcoded cpu=0 in workqueue for per_cpu_ptr() calls") fixed that for Ben's funky sparc64 system, but it regressed my Power5. Offlining cpu 0 oopses upon the next call to queue_work for a single-thread workqueue, because now we try to manipulate per_cpu_ptr(wq->cpu_wq, 1), which is uninitialized. So we need to establish an unchanging "slot" for single-thread workqueues which will have a valid percpu allocation. Since alloc_percpu keys off of cpu_possible_map, which must not change after initialization, make this slot == first_cpu(cpu_possible_map). Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] kernel/module.c: remove redundant spinlock in resolve_symbol()Ashutosh Naik2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the redundant spinlock in the function resolve_symbol() as we are not altering the module list, and we already hold the semaphore. Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Naik <ashutosh.naik@gmail.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] modules: mark TAINT_FORCED_RMMOD correctlyAkinobu Mita2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently TAINT_FORCED_RMMOD is totally unused. Because it is marked as TAINT_FORCED_MODULE instead when user forced a module unload. This patch marks it correctly Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] modules: prevent overriding of symbolsAshutosh Naik2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ensure that an exported symbol does not already exist in the kernel or in some other module's exported symbol table. This is done by checking the symbol tables for the exported symbol at the time of loading the module. Currently this is done after the relocation of the symbol. Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Naik <ashutosh.naik@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Anand Krishnan <anandhkrishnan@yahoo.co.in> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] copy_process: error path cleanupOleg Nesterov2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch moves 'fork_out:' under 'bad_fork_free:', and removes now unneeded 'if (retval)' check. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] setpgid: should not accept ptraced childsOleg Nesterov2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sys_setpgid() allows to change ->pgrp of ptraced childs. 'man setpgid' does not tell anything about that, so I consider this behaviour is a bug. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] setpgid: should work for sub-threadsOren Laadan2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | setsid() does not work unless the calling process is a thread_group_leader(). 'man setpgid' does not tell anything about that, so I consider this behaviour is a bug. Signed-off-by: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] setpgid: should work for sub-threadsOleg Nesterov2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | setpgid(0, pgid) or setpgid(forked_child_pid, pgid) does not work unless the calling process is a thread_group_leader(). 'man setpgid' does not tell anything about that, so I consider this behaviour is a bug. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] fork: fix race in setting child's pgrp and ttyOren Laadan2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In fork, child should recopy parent's pgrp/tty after it has tasklist_lock. Otherwise following a setpgid() on the parent, *after* copy_signal(), the child will own a stale pgrp (which may be reused); (eg. if copy_mm() sleeps a long while due to memory pressure). Similar issue for the tty. Signed-off-by: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Don't attempt to power off if power off is not implementedEric W. Biederman2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The problem. It is expected that /sbin/halt -p works exactly like /sbin/halt, when the kernel does not implement power off functionality. The kernel can do a lot of work in the reboot notifiers and in device_shutdown before we even get to machine_power_off. Some of that shutdown is not safe if you are leaving the power on, and it definitely gets in the way of using sysrq or pressing ctrl-alt-del. Since the shutdown happens in generic code there is no way to fix this in architecture specific code :( Some machines are kernel oopsing today because of this. The simple solution is to turn LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_POWER_OFF into LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_HALT if power_off functionality is not implemented. This has the unfortunate side effect of disabling the power off functionality on architectures that leave pm_power_off to null and still implement something in machine_power_off. And it will break the build on some architectures that don't have a pm_power_off variable at all. On both counts I say tough. For architectures like alpha that don't implement the pm_power_off variable pm_power_off is declared in linux/pm.h and it is a generic part of our power management code, and all architectures should implement it. For architectures like parisc that have a default power off method in machine_power_off if pm_power_off is not implemented or fails. It is easy enough to set the pm_power_off variable. And nothing bad happens there, the machines just stop powering off. The current semantics are impossible without a flag at the top level so we can avoid the problem code if a power off is not implemented. pm_power_off is as good a flag as any with the bonus that it works without modification on at least x86, x86_64, powerpc, and ppc today. Andrew can you pick this up and put this in the mm tree. Kernels that don't compile or don't power off seem saner than kernels that oops or panic. Until we get the arch specific patches for the problem architectures this probably isn't smart to push into the stable kernel. Unfortunately I don't have the time at the moment to walk through every architecture and make them work. And even if I did I couldn't test it :( From: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Add pm_power_off() for build fix of arch/m32r/kernel/process.c. From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> UML build fix Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Hayato Fujiwara <fujiwara@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Extend RCU torture module to test tickless idle CPUSrivatsa Vaddagiri2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch forces RCU torture threads off various CPUs in the system allowing them to become idle and go tickless. Meant to test support for such tickless idle CPU in RCU. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Add tainting for proprietary helper modulesDave Jones2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Kernels that have had Windows drivers loaded into them are undebuggable. I've wasted a number of hours chasing bugs filed in Fedora bugzilla only to find out much later that the user had used such 'helpers', and their problems were unreproducable without them loaded. Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] shrink dentry structEric Dumazet2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some long time ago, dentry struct was carefully tuned so that on 32 bits UP, sizeof(struct dentry) was exactly 128, ie a power of 2, and a multiple of memory cache lines. Then RCU was added and dentry struct enlarged by two pointers, with nice results for SMP, but not so good on UP, because breaking the above tuning (128 + 8 = 136 bytes) This patch reverts this unwanted side effect, by using an union (d_u), where d_rcu and d_child are placed so that these two fields can share their memory needs. At the time d_free() is called (and d_rcu is really used), d_child is known to be empty and not touched by the dentry freeing. Lockless lookups only access d_name, d_parent, d_lock, d_op, d_flags (so the previous content of d_child is not needed if said dentry was unhashed but still accessed by a CPU because of RCU constraints) As dentry cache easily contains millions of entries, a size reduction is worth the extra complexity of the ugly C union. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] remove unneeded sig->curr_target recalculationOleg Nesterov2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes unneeded sig->curr_target recalculation under 'if (atomic_dec_and_test(&sig->count))' in __exit_signal(). When sig->count == 0 the signal can't be sent to this task and next_thread(tsk) == tsk anyway. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] little do_group_exit() cleanupOleg Nesterov2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | zap_other_threads() sets SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT at the very start, do_group_exit() doesn't need to do it. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] kill_proc_info_as_uid: don't use hardcoded constantsOleg Nesterov2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use symbolic names instead of hardcoded constants. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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