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@@ -113,3 +113,5 @@ Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com> Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Takashi YOSHII <takashi.yoshii.zj@renesas.com> Yusuke Goda <goda.yusuke@renesas.com> +Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br> +Gustavo Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi> diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle index c58b236bbe0..cb9258b8fd3 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingStyle +++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle @@ -671,8 +671,9 @@ ones already enabled by DEBUG. Chapter 14: Allocating memory The kernel provides the following general purpose memory allocators: -kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), vmalloc(), and vzalloc(). Please refer to -the API documentation for further information about them. +kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kmalloc_array(), kcalloc(), vmalloc(), and +vzalloc(). Please refer to the API documentation for further information +about them. The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following: @@ -686,6 +687,17 @@ Casting the return value which is a void pointer is redundant. The conversion from void pointer to any other pointer type is guaranteed by the C programming language. +The preferred form for allocating an array is the following: + + p = kmalloc_array(n, sizeof(...), ...); + +The preferred form for allocating a zeroed array is the following: + + p = kcalloc(n, sizeof(...), ...); + +Both forms check for overflow on the allocation size n * sizeof(...), +and return NULL if that occurred. + Chapter 15: The inline disease diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 912af6ce562..fb0a6aeb936 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ Table of Contents 3.4 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter - Core dump filtering settings 3.5 /proc/<pid>/mountinfo - Information about mounts 3.6 /proc/<pid>/comm & /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/comm + 3.7 /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children - Information about task children 4 Configuring procfs 4.1 Mount options @@ -310,6 +311,11 @@ Table 1-4: Contents of the stat files (as of 2.6.30-rc7) start_data address above which program data+bss is placed end_data address below which program data+bss is placed start_brk address above which program heap can be expanded with brk() + arg_start address above which program command line is placed + arg_end address below which program command line is placed + env_start address above which program environment is placed + env_end address below which program environment is placed + exit_code the thread's exit_code in the form reported by the waitpid system call .............................................................................. The /proc/PID/maps file containing the currently mapped memory regions and @@ -1578,6 +1584,23 @@ then the kernel's TASK_COMM_LEN (currently 16 chars) will result in a truncated comm value. +3.7 /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children - Information about task children +------------------------------------------------------------------------- +This file provides a fast way to retrieve first level children pids +of a task pointed by <pid>/<tid> pair. The format is a space separated +stream of pids. + +Note the "first level" here -- if a child has own children they will +not be listed here, one needs to read /proc/<children-pid>/task/<tid>/children +to obtain the descendants. + +Since this interface is intended to be fast and cheap it doesn't +guarantee to provide precise results and some children might be +skipped, especially if they've exited right after we printed their +pids, so one need to either stop or freeze processes being inspected +if precise results are needed. + + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Configuring procfs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt index 88fd7f5c8dc..13d6166d7a2 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt @@ -225,6 +225,13 @@ a queue must be less or equal then msg_max. maximum message size value (it is every message queue's attribute set during its creation). +/proc/sys/fs/mqueue/msg_default is a read/write file for setting/getting the +default number of messages in a queue value if attr parameter of mq_open(2) is +NULL. If it exceed msg_max, the default value is initialized msg_max. + +/proc/sys/fs/mqueue/msgsize_default is a read/write file for setting/getting +the default message size value if attr parameter of mq_open(2) is NULL. If it +exceed msgsize_max, the default value is initialized msgsize_max. 4. /proc/sys/fs/epoll - Configuration options for the epoll interface -------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt index 4600cbe3d6b..7587493c67f 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ There are three components to pagemap: * Bits 0-4 swap type if swapped * Bits 5-54 swap offset if swapped * Bits 55-60 page shift (page size = 1<<page shift) - * Bit 61 reserved for future use + * Bit 61 page is file-page or shared-anon * Bit 62 page swapped * Bit 63 page present diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c index b735521a4a5..2c7217d971d 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c @@ -109,7 +109,6 @@ static void percpu_timer_stop(void); int __cpu_disable(void) { unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id(); - struct task_struct *p; int ret; ret = platform_cpu_disable(cpu); @@ -139,12 +138,7 @@ int __cpu_disable(void) flush_cache_all(); local_flush_tlb_all(); - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); - for_each_process(p) { - if (p->mm) - cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(p->mm)); - } - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + clear_tasks_mm_cpumask(cpu); return 0; } diff --git a/arch/blackfin/kernel/trace.c b/arch/blackfin/kernel/trace.c index 44bbf2f564c..f7f7a18abca 100644 --- a/arch/blackfin/kernel/trace.c +++ b/arch/blackfin/kernel/trace.c @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ #include <linux/hardirq.h> #include <linux/thread_info.h> #include <linux/mm.h> +#include <linux/oom.h> +#include <linux/sched.h> #include <linux/uaccess.h> #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/kallsyms.h> @@ -27,8 +29,7 @@ void decode_address(char *buf, unsigned long address) { struct task_struct *p; struct mm_struct *mm; - unsigned long flags, offset; - unsigned char in_atomic = (bfin_read_IPEND() & 0x10) || in_atomic(); + unsigned long offset; struct rb_node *n; #ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS @@ -112,17 +113,17 @@ void decode_address(char *buf, unsigned long address) * mappings of all our processes and see if we can't be a whee * bit more specific */ - write_lock_irqsave(&tasklist_lock, flags); + read_lock(&tasklist_lock); for_each_process(p) { - mm = (in_atomic ? p->mm : get_task_mm(p)); - if (!mm) - continue; + struct task_struct *t; - if (!down_read_trylock(&mm->mmap_sem)) { - if (!in_atomic) - mmput(mm); + t = find_lock_task_mm(p); + if (!t) continue; - } + + mm = t->mm; + if (!down_read_trylock(&mm->mmap_sem)) + goto __continue; for (n = rb_first(&mm->mm_rb); n; n = rb_next(n)) { struct vm_area_struct *vma; @@ -131,7 +132,7 @@ void decode_address(char *buf, unsigned long address) if (address >= vma->vm_start && address < vma->vm_end) { char _tmpbuf[256]; - char *name = p->comm; + char *name = t->comm; struct file *file = vma->vm_file; if (file) { @@ -164,8 +165,7 @@ void decode_address(char *buf, unsigned long address) name, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end); up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - if (!in_atomic) - mmput(mm); + task_unlock(t); if (buf[0] == '\0') sprintf(buf, "[ %s ] dynamic memory", name); @@ -175,8 +175,8 @@ void decode_address(char *buf, unsigned long address) } up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - if (!in_atomic) - mmput(mm); +__continue: + task_unlock(t); } /* @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ void decode_address(char *buf, unsigned long address) sprintf(buf, "/* kernel dynamic memory */"); done: - write_unlock_irqrestore(&tasklist_lock, flags); + read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); } #define EXPAND_LEN ((1 << CONFIG_DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND_LEN) * 256 - 1) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_nohash.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_nohash.c index 5b63bd3da4a..e779642c25e 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_nohash.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_nohash.c @@ -333,9 +333,7 @@ static int __cpuinit mmu_context_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long action, void *hcpu) { unsigned int cpu = (unsigned int)(long)hcpu; -#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU - struct task_struct *p; -#endif + /* We don't |