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* [PATCH] completely disable cpu_exclusive sched domainPaul Jackson2005-08-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | At the suggestion of Nick Piggin and Dinakar, totally disable the facility to allow cpu_exclusive cpusets to define dynamic sched domains in Linux 2.6.13, in order to avoid problems first reported by John Hawkes (corrupt sched data structures and kernel oops). This has been built for ppc64, i386, ia64, x86_64, sparc, alpha. It has been built, booted and tested for cpuset functionality on an SN2 (ia64). Dinakar or Nick - could you verify that it for sure does avoid the problems Hawkes reported. Hawkes is out of town, and I don't have the recipe to reproduce what he found. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] undo partial cpu_exclusive sched domain disablingPaul Jackson2005-08-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The partial disabling of Dinakar's new facility to allow cpu_exclusive cpusets to define dynamic sched domains doesn't go far enough. At the suggestion of Nick Piggin and Dinakar, let us instead totally disable this facility for 2.6.13, in order to avoid problems first reported by John Hawkes (corrupt sched data structures and kernel oops). This patch removes the partial disabling code in 2.6.13-rc7, in anticipation of the next patch, which will totally disable it instead. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpu_exclusive sched domains build fixPaul Jackson2005-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As reported by Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, the previous patch "cpu_exclusive sched domains fix" broke the ppc64 build with CONFIC_CPUSET, yielding error messages: kernel/cpuset.c: In function 'update_cpu_domains': kernel/cpuset.c:648: error: invalid lvalue in unary '&' kernel/cpuset.c:648: error: invalid lvalue in unary '&' On some arch's, the node_to_cpumask() is a function, returning a cpumask_t. But the for_each_cpu_mask() requires an lvalue mask. The following patch fixes this build failure by making a copy of the cpumask_t on the stack. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpu_exclusive sched domains on partial nodes temp fixPaul Jackson2005-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This keeps the kernel/cpuset.c routine update_cpu_domains() from invoking the sched.c routine partition_sched_domains() if the cpuset in question doesn't fall on node boundaries. I have boot tested this on an SN2, and with the help of a couple of ad hoc printk's, determined that it does indeed avoid calling the partition_sched_domains() routine on partial nodes. I did not directly verify that this avoids setting up bogus sched domains or avoids the oops that Hawkes saw. This patch imposes a silent artificial constraint on which cpusets can be used to define dynamic sched domains. This patch should allow proceeding with this new feature in 2.6.13 for the configurations in which it is useful (node alligned sched domains) while avoiding trying to setup sched domains in the less useful cases that can cause the kernel corruption and oops. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] preempt race in getppidDavid Meybohm2005-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With CONFIG_PREEMPT && !CONFIG_SMP, it's possible for sys_getppid to return a bogus value if the parent's task_struct gets reallocated after current->group_leader->real_parent is read: asmlinkage long sys_getppid(void) { int pid; struct task_struct *me = current; struct task_struct *parent; parent = me->group_leader->real_parent; RACE HERE => for (;;) { pid = parent->tgid; #ifdef CONFIG_SMP { struct task_struct *old = parent; /* * Make sure we read the pid before re-reading the * parent pointer: */ smp_rmb(); parent = me->group_leader->real_parent; if (old != parent) continue; } #endif break; } return pid; } If the process gets preempted at the indicated point, the parent process can go ahead and call exit() and then get wait()'d on to reap its task_struct. When the preempted process gets resumed, it will not do any further checks of the parent pointer on !CONFIG_SMP: it will read the bad pid and return. So, the same algorithm used when SMP is enabled should be used when preempt is enabled, which will recheck ->real_parent in this case. Signed-off-by: David Meybohm <dmeybohmlkml@bellsouth.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Make RLIMIT_NICE ranges consistent with getpriority(2)Matt Mackall2005-08-18
| | | | | | | | | | | As suggested by Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>, make RLIMIT_NICE consistent with getpriority before it becomes available in released glibc. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] NPTL signal delivery deadlock fixBhavesh P. Davda2005-08-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This bug is quite subtle and only happens in a very interesting situation where a real-time threaded process is in the middle of a coredump when someone whacks it with a SIGKILL. However, this deadlock leaves the system pretty hosed and you have to reboot to recover. Not good for real-time priority-preemption applications like our telephony application, with 90+ real-time (SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR) processes, many of them multi-threaded, interacting with each other for high volume call processing. Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] remove name length check in a workqueueJames Bottomley2005-08-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We have a chek in there to make sure that the name won't overflow task_struct.comm[], but it's triggering for scsi with lots of HBAs, only scsi is using single-threaded workqueues which don't append the "/%d" anyway. All too hard. Just kill the BUG_ON. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> [ kthread_create() uses vsnprintf() and limits the thing, so no actual overflow can actually happen regardless ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpuset release ABBA deadlock fixPaul Jackson2005-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix possible cpuset_sem ABBA deadlock if 'notify_on_release' set. For a particular usage pattern, creating and destroying cpusets fairly frequently using notify_on_release, on a very large system, this deadlock can be seen every few days. If you are not using the cpuset notify_on_release feature, you will never see this deadlock. The existing code, on task exit (or cpuset deletion) did: get cpuset_sem if cpuset marked notify_on_release and is ready to release: compute cpuset path relative to /dev/cpuset mount point call_usermodehelper() forks /sbin/cpuset_release_agent with path drop cpuset_sem Unfortunately, the fork in call_usermodehelper can allocate memory, and allocating memory can require cpuset_sem, if the mems_generation values changed in the interim. This results in an ABBA deadlock, trying to obtain cpuset_sem when it is already held by the current task. To fix this, I put the cpuset path (which must be computed while holding cpuset_sem) in a temporary buffer, to be used in the call_usermodehelper call of /sbin/cpuset_release_agent only _after_ dropping cpuset_sem. So the new logic is: get cpuset_sem if cpuset marked notify_on_release and is ready to release: compute cpuset path relative to /dev/cpuset mount point stash path in kmalloc'd buffer drop cpuset_sem call_usermodehelper() forks /sbin/cpuset_release_agent with path free path The sharp eyed reader might notice that this patch does not contain any calls to kmalloc. The existing code in the check_for_release() routine was already kmalloc'ing a buffer to hold the cpuset path. In the old code, it just held the buffer for a few lines, over the cpuset_release_agent() call that in turn invoked call_usermodehelper(). In the new code, with the application of this patch, it returns that buffer via the new char **ppathbuf parameter, for later use and freeing in cpuset_release_agent(), which is called after cpuset_sem is dropped. Whereas the old code has just one call to cpuset_release_agent(), right in the check_for_release() routine, the new code has three calls to cpuset_release_agent(), from the various places that a cpuset can be released. This patch has been build and booted on SN2, and passed a stress test that previously hit the deadlock within a few seconds. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] revert "timer exit cleanup"Andrew Morton2005-08-04
| | | | | | | | | | Revert this June 17 patch: it broke persistence of timers across execve(). Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: george anzinger <george@mvista.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Remove suspend() calls from shutdown pathBenjamin Herrenschmidt2005-08-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This removes the calls to device_suspend() from the shutdown path that were added sometime during 2.6.13-rc*. They aren't working properly on a number of configs (I got reports from both ppc powerbook users and x86 users) causing the system to not shutdown anymore. I think it isn't the right approach at the moment anyway. We have already a shutdown() callback for the drivers that actually care about shutdown and the suspend() code isn't yet in a good enough shape to be so much generalized. Also, the semantics of suspend and shutdown are slightly different on a number of setups and the way this was patched in provides little way for drivers to cleanly differenciate. It should have been at least a different message. For 2.6.13, I think we should revert to 2.6.12 behaviour and have a working suspend back. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Module per-cpu alignment cannot always be metRusty Russell2005-08-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The module code assumes noone will ever ask for a per-cpu area more than SMP_CACHE_BYTES aligned. However, as these cases show, gcc asks sometimes asks for 32-byte alignment for the per-cpu section on a module, and if CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT is 4, we hit that BUG_ON(). This is obviously an unusual combination, as there have been few reports, but better to warn than die. See: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0409.0/0768.html And more recently: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97006 Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim()Ingo Molnar2005-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This removes sys_set_zone_reclaim() for now. While i'm sure Martin is trying to solve a real problem, we must not hard-code an incomplete and insufficient approach into a syscall, because syscalls are pretty much for eternity. I am quite strongly convinced that this syscall must not hit v2.6.13 in its current form. Firstly, the syscall lacks basic syscall design: e.g. it allows the global setting of VM policy for unprivileged users. (!) [ Imagine an Oracle installation and a SAP installation on the same NUMA box fighting over the 'optimal' setting for this flag. What will they do? Will they try to set the flag to their own preferred value every second or so? ] Secondly, it was added based on a single datapoint from Martin: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=111763597218177&w=2 where Martin characterizes the numbers the following way: ' Run-to-run variability for "make -j" is huge, so these numbers aren't terribly useful except to see that with reclaim the benchmark still finishes in a reasonable amount of time. ' in other words: the fundamental problem has likely not been solved, only a tendential move into the right direction has been observed, and a handful of numbers were picked out of a set of hugely variable results, without showing the variability data. How much variance is there run-to-run? I'd really suggest to first walk the walk and see what's needed to get stable & predictable kernel compilation numbers on that NUMA box, before adding random syscalls to tune a particular aspect of the VM ... which approach might not even matter once the whole picture has been analyzed and understood! The third, most important point is that the syscall exposes VM tuning internals in a completely unstructured way. What sense does it make to have a _GLOBAL_ per-node setting for 'should we go to another node for reclaim'? If then it might make sense to do this per-app, via numalib or so. The change is minimalistic in that it doesnt remove the syscall and the underlying infrastructure changes, only the user-visible changes. We could perhaps add a CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only sysctl for this hack, a'ka /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but even that looks quite counterproductive when the generic approach is that we are trying to reduce the number of external factors in the VM balance picture. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] revert bogus softirq changesAndrew Morton2005-07-30
| | | | | | | | | This snuck in with an x86_64 change. Thanks to Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> for spotting it. Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] reboot: remove device_suspend(PMSG_FREEZE) from kernel_kexecEric W. Biederman2005-07-29
| | | | | | | | | If device_suspend(PMSG_FREEZE) is not ready to be called in kernel_restart it is definitely not ready to be called in the even more fickle kernel_kexec. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] posix timers: fix normalization problemGeorge Anzinger2005-07-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (We found this (after a customer complained) and it is in the kernel.org kernel. Seems that for CLOCK_MONOTONIC absolute timers and clock_nanosleep calls both the request time and wall_to_monotonic are subtracted prior to the normalize resulting in an overflow in the existing normalize test. This causes the result to be shifted ~4 seconds ahead instead of ~2 seconds back in time.) The normalize code in posix-timers.c fails when the tv_nsec member is ~1.2 seconds negative. This can happen on absolute timers (and clock_nanosleeps) requested on CLOCK_MONOTONIC (both the request time and wall_to_monotonic are subtracted resulting in the possibility of a number close to -2 seconds.) This fix uses the set_normalized_timespec() (which does not have an overflow problem) to fix the problem and as a side effect makes the code cleaner. Signed-off-by: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86_64: Switch to the interrupt stack when running a softirq in ↵Andi Kleen2005-07-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | local_bh_enable() This avoids some potential stack overflows with very deep softirq callchains. i386 does this too. TOADD CFI annotation Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Avoid device suspend on rebootAndrew Morton2005-07-27
| | | | | | | My fairly ordinary x86 test box gets stuck during reboot on the wait_for_completion() in ide_do_drive_cmd(): Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] clean up inline static vs static inlineJesper Juhl2005-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | `gcc -W' likes to complain if the static keyword is not at the beginning of the declaration. This patch fixes all remaining occurrences of "inline static" up with "static inline" in the entire kernel tree (140 occurrences in 47 files). While making this change I came across a few lines with trailing whitespace that I also fixed up, I have also added or removed a blank line or two here and there, but there are no functional changes in the patch. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kernel/crash_dump.c: add kerneldocRandy Dunlap2005-07-27
| | | | | | | | Add kerneldoc to kernel/crash_dump.c Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kernel/cpuset.c: add kerneldoc, fix typosRandy Dunlap2005-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | Add kerneldoc to kernel/cpuset.c Fix cpuset typos in init/Kconfig Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kernel/capability.c: add kerneldocRandy Dunlap2005-07-27
| | | | | | | | Add kerneldoc to kernel/capability.c Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: spin lock retryMartin Schwidefsky2005-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Split spin lock and r/w lock implementation into a single try which is done inline and an out of line function that repeatedly tries to get the lock before doing the cpu_relax(). Add a system control to set the number of retries before a cpu is yielded. The reason for the spin lock retry is that the diagnose 0x44 that is used to give up the virtual cpu is quite expensive. For spin locks that are held only for a short period of time the costs of the diagnoses outweights the savings for spin locks that are held for a longer timer. The default retry count is 1000. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] itimer fixesGeorge Anzinger2005-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix the recent off-by-one fix in the itimer code: 1. The repeating timer is figured using the requested time (not +1 as we know where we are in the jiffie). 2. The tests for interval too large are left to the time_val to jiffie code. Signed-off-by: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Address BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000001] codeNigel Cunningham2005-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a warning in the disable_nonboot_cpus call in kernel/power/smp.c. Signed-off by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fix MAX_USER_RT_PRIO and MAX_RT_PRIOSteven Rostedt2005-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Here's the patch again to fix the code to handle if the values between MAX_USER_RT_PRIO and MAX_RT_PRIO are different. Without this patch, an SMP system will crash if the values are different. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Fix RLIMIT_RTPRIO breakageAndreas Steinmetz2005-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | RLIMIT_RTPRIO is supposed to grant non privileged users the right to use SCHED_FIFO/SCHED_RR scheduling policies with priorites bounded by the RLIMIT_RTPRIO value via sched_setscheduler(). This is usually used by audio users. Unfortunately this is broken in 2.6.13rc3 as you can see in the excerpt from sched_setscheduler below: /* * Allow unprivileged RT tasks to decrease priority: */ if (!capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) { /* can't change policy */ if (policy != p->policy) return -EPERM; After the above unconditional test which causes sched_setscheduler to fail with no regard to the RLIMIT_RTPRIO value the following check is made: /* can't increase priority */ if (policy != SCHED_NORMAL && param->sched_priority > p->rt_priority && param->sched_priority > p->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_RTPRIO].rlim_cur) return -EPERM; Thus I do believe that the RLIMIT_RTPRIO value must be taken into account for the policy check, especially as the RLIMIT_RTPRIO limit is of no use without this change. The attached patch fixes this problem. Signed-off-by: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] swpsuspend: Have suspend to disk use factors of sys_rebootEric W. Biederman2005-07-26
| | | | | | | | | The suspend to disk code was a poor copy of the code in sys_reboot now that we have kernel_power_off, kernel_restart and kernel_halt use them instead of poorly duplicating them inline. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Call emergency_reboot from panicEric W. Biederman2005-07-26
| | | | | | | | We know the system is in trouble so there is no question if this is an emergecy :) Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Use kernel_power_off in sysrq-oEric W. Biederman2005-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | We already do all of the gymnastics to run from process context to call the power off code so call into the power off code cleanly. This especially helps acpi as part of it's shutdown logic should run acpi_shutdown called from device_shutdown which was not being called from here. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Add emergency_restart()Eric W. Biederman2005-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When the kernel is working well and we want to restart cleanly kernel_restart is the function to use. But in many instances the kernel wants to reboot when thing are expected to be working very badly such as from panic or a software watchdog handler. This patch adds the function emergency_restart() so that callers can be clear what semantics they expect when calling restart. emergency_restart() is expected to be callable from interrupt context and possibly reliable in even more trying circumstances. This is an initial generic implementation for all architectures. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Make ctrl_alt_del call kernel_restart to get a proper reboot.Eric W. Biederman2005-07-26
| | | | | | | | | It is obvious we wanted to call kernel_restart here but since we don't have it the code was expanded inline and hasn't been correct since sometime in 2.4. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Refactor sys_reboot into reusable partsEric W. Biederman2005-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | Because the factors of sys_reboot don't exist people calling into the reboot path duplicate the code badly, leading to inconsistent expectations of code in the reboot path. This patch should is just code motion. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Add missing device_suspsend(PMSG_FREEZE) calls.Eric W. Biederman2005-07-26
| | | | | | | | In the recent addition of device_suspend calls into sys_reboot two code paths were missed. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] inotify: move sysctlRobert Love2005-07-13
| | | | | | | | This moves the inotify sysctl knobs to "/proc/sys/fs/inotify" from "/proc/sys/fs". Also some related cleanup. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] inotifyRobert Love2005-07-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly its inability to scale and its terrible user interface: * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount. * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of stat structures. * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful. Signals? inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change notification: * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO. You get a single fd, which is select()-able. * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item you were watching is on was unmounted." * inotify can watch directories or files. Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure), Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects. See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> 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/lenb/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2005-07-12
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| * [ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc...Len Brown2005-07-12
| |\ | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| | * [ACPI] Suspend to RAM fixDavid Shaohua Li2005-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Free some RAM before entering S3 so that upon resume we can be sure early allocations will succeed. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3469 Signed-off-by: David Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| | * [ACPI] ACPI poweroff fixAlexey Starikovskiy2005-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Register an "acpi" system device to be notified of shutdown preparation. This depends on CONFIG_PM http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4041 Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* | | [PATCH] lower VM_DONTCOPY total_vmHugh Dickins2005-07-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | dup_mmap of a VM_DONTCOPY vma forgot to lower the child's total_vm. (But no way does this account for the recent report of total_vm seen too low.) Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] name_to_dev_t warning fixAndrew Morton2005-07-12
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kernel/power/disk.c needs a declaration of name_to_dev_t() in scope. mount.h seems like an appropriate choice. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] cond_resched(): fix bogus might_sleep() warningIngo Molnar2005-07-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The BKS might be reacquired before we have dropped PREEMPT_ACTIVE, which could trigger a second could trigger a second cond_resched() call. Bug found by Hirofumi Ogawa. 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] mostly_read data sectionChristoph Lameter2005-07-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new section called ".data.read_mostly" for data items that are read frequently and rarely written to like cpumaps etc. If these maps are placed in the .data section then these frequenly read items may end up in cachelines with data is is frequently updated. In that case all processors in an SMP system must needlessly reload the cachelines again and again containing elements of those frequently used variables. The ability to share these cachelines will allow each cpu in an SMP system to keep local copies of those shared cachelines thereby optimizing performance. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] pm: clean up process.cPavel Machek2005-07-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | freezeable() already tests for TRACED/STOPPED processes, no need to do it twice. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] swsusp: fix error handlingPavel Machek2005-07-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix error handling and whitespace in swsusp.c. swsusp_free() was called when there was nothing allocating, leading to oops. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] pm: Fix resume from initrdPavel Machek2005-07-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move device name resolution code around so that it is not called from resume-from-initrd. name_to_dev_t may be unavailable at that point. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] kprobes: fix namespace problem and sparc64 buildRusty Lynch2005-07-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The following renames arch_init, a kprobes function for performing any architecture specific initialization, to arch_init_kprobes in order to cleanup the namespace. Also, this patch adds arch_init_kprobes to sparc64 to fix the sparc64 kprobes build from the last return probe patch. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] irqpollAlan Cox2005-06-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Anyone reporting a stuck IRQ should try these options. Its effectiveness varies we've found in the Fedora case. Quite a few systems with misdescribed IRQ routing just work when you use irqpoll. It also fixes up the VIA systems although thats now fixed with the VIA quirk (which we could just make default as its what Redmond OS does but Linus didn't like it historically). A small number of systems have jammed IRQ sources or misdescribes that cause an IRQ that we have no handler registered anywhere for. In those cases it doesn't help. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <number6@the-village.bc.nu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] ITIMER_REAL: fix possible deadlock and raceOleg Nesterov2005-06-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As Steven Rostedt pointed out, there are 2 problems with ITIMER_REAL timers. 1. do_setitimer() does not call del_timer_sync() in case when the timer is not pending (it_real_value() returns 0). This is wrong, the timer may still be running, and it can rearm itself. 2. It calls del_timer_sync() with tsk->sighand->siglock held. This is deadlockable, because timer's handler needs this lock too. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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