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2010-01-06tracing: Consolidate protection of reader access to the ring bufferLai Jiangshan
At the beginning, access to the ring buffer was fully serialized by trace_types_lock. Patch d7350c3f4569 gives more freedom to readers, and patch b04cc6b1f6 adds code to protect trace_pipe and cpu#/trace_pipe. But actually it is not enough, ring buffer readers are not always read-only, they may consume data. This patch makes accesses to trace, trace_pipe, trace_pipe_raw cpu#/trace, cpu#/trace_pipe and cpu#/trace_pipe_raw serialized. And removes tracing_reader_cpumask which is used to protect trace_pipe. Details: Ring buffer serializes readers, but it is low level protection. The validity of the events (which returns by ring_buffer_peek() ..etc) are not protected by ring buffer. The content of events may become garbage if we allow another process to consume these events concurrently: A) the page of the consumed events may become a normal page (not reader page) in ring buffer, and this page will be rewritten by the events producer. B) The page of the consumed events may become a page for splice_read, and this page will be returned to system. This patch adds trace_access_lock() and trace_access_unlock() primitives. These primitives allow multi process access to different cpu ring buffers concurrently. These primitives don't distinguish read-only and read-consume access. Multi read-only access is also serialized. And we don't use these primitives when we open files, we only use them when we read files. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4B447D52.1050602@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-06tracing: Remove show_format and related macros from TRACE_EVENTLai Jiangshan
The previous patches added the use of print_fmt string and changes the trace_define_field() function to also create the fields and format output for the event format files. text data bss dec hex filename 5857201 1355780 9336808 16549789 fc879d vmlinux 5884589 1351684 9337896 16574169 fce6d9 vmlinux-orig The above shows the size of the vmlinux after this patch set compared to the vmlinux-orig which is before the patch set. This saves us 27k on text, 1k on bss and adds just 4k of data. The total savings of 24k in size. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4B273D4D.40604@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-06tracing: Use defined fields and print_fmt to print formatsLai Jiangshan
The calls ftrace_format_##call() and ftrace_define_fields_##call() are almost duplicate in functionality. With the addition of the print_fmt in previous patches, these two functions can be merged into one. The trace_define_field() defines the fields and links them into the struct ftrace_event_call. The previous patches introduced the print_fmt field and this can now be used with the trace_define_field() to create the event format file fields and print_fmt field. The struct ftrace_event_call->fields are used to print the fields The struct ftrace_event_call->print_fmt is used to print the "print fmt: XXXXXXXXXXX" line. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4B273D49.5000006@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-06tracing: Have syscall tracing call its own init functionSteven Rostedt
In the clean up of having all events call one specific function, the syscall event init was changed to call this helper function. With the new print_fmt updates, the syscalls need to do special initializations. This patch converts the syscall events to call its own init function again. Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-06tracing/kprobes: Init print_fmt for kprobe eventsLai Jiangshan
This is part of a patch set that removes the show_format method in the ftrace event macros. Add the print_fmt initialization to the kprobe events. The print_fmt is still not used, but will be in the follow up patches. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4B273D45.3080100@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-06tracing/syscalls: Init print_fmt for syscall eventsLai Jiangshan
This is part of a patch set that removes the show_format method in the ftrace event macros. Add the print_fmt initialization to the syscall events. The print_fmt is still not used, but will be in the follow up patches. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4B273D41.609@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-06tracing: Add print_fmt fieldLai Jiangshan
This is part of a patch set that removes the show_format method in the ftrace event macros. The print_fmt field is added to hold the string that shows the print_fmt in the event format files. This patch only adds the field but it is currently not used. Later patches will use this field to enable us to remove the show_format field and function. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4B273D3E.2000704@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-06tracing: Have __dynamic_array() define a fieldLai Jiangshan
This is part of a patch set that removes the show_format method in the ftrace event macros. This patch set requires that all fields are added to the ftrace_event_call->fields. This patch changes __dynamic_array() to call trace_define_field() to include fields that use __dynamic_array(). Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4B273D36.8090100@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-12-31Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf: Fix NULL deref in inheritance code perf: Pass appropriate frame pointer to dump_trace()
2009-12-31Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf kmem: Fix statistics typo kprobes: Fix distinct type warning perf: Rename perf_event_hw_event in design document perf tools: Add missing header files to LIB_H Makefile variable perf record: We should fork only if a program was specified to run perf diff: Fix usage array, it must end with a NULL entry
2009-12-31Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: Fix sign fields in ftrace_define_fields_##call() tracing/syscalls: Fix typo in SYSCALL_DEFINE0 tracing/kprobe: Show sign of fields in trace_kprobe format files ksym_tracer: Remove trace_stat ksym_tracer: Fix race when incrementing count ksym_tracer: Fix to allow writing newline to ksym_trace_filter ksym_tracer: Fix to make the tracer work tracing: Kconfig spelling fixes and cleanups tracing: Fix setting tracer specific options Documentation: Update ftrace-design.txt Documentation: Update tracepoint-analysis.txt Documentation: Update mmiotrace.txt
2009-12-31perf: Fix NULL deref in inheritance codePeter Zijlstra
Liming found a NULL deref when a task has a perf context but no counters when it forks. This can occur in two cases, a race during construction where the fork hits after installing the context but before the first counter gets inserted, or more reproducably, a fork after the last counter is closed (which leaves the context around). Reported-by: Wang Liming <liming.wang@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> CC: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1262185684.7135.222.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-30tracing: Fix sign fields in ftrace_define_fields_##call()Lai Jiangshan
Add is_signed_type() call to trace_define_field() in ftrace macros. The code previously just passed in 0 (false), disregarding whether or not the field was actually a signed type. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4B273D3A.6020007@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-12-30tracing/kprobe: Show sign of fields in trace_kprobe format filesLai Jiangshan
The format files of trace_kprobe do not show the sign of the fields. The other format files show the field signed type of the fields and this patch makes the trace_kprobe formats consistent with the others. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4B273D27.5040009@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-12-30ksym_tracer: Remove trace_statLi Zefan
trace_stat is problematic. Don't use it, use seqfile instead. This fixes a race that reading the stat file is not protected by any lock, which can lead to use after free. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B3AF203.40200@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-30ksym_tracer: Fix race when incrementing countLi Zefan
We are under rcu read section but not holding the write lock, so count++ is not atomic. Use atomic64_t instead. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B3AF1EC.9010608@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-30ksym_tracer: Fix to allow writing newline to ksym_trace_filterLi Zefan
It used to work, but now doesn't: # echo > ksym_filter bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument It's caused by d954fbf0ff6b5fdfb32350e85a2f15d3db976506 ("tracing: Fix wrong usage of strstrip in trace_ksyms"). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B3AF1D7.5040400@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-30ksym_tracer: Fix to make the tracer workLi Zefan
ksym tracer doesn't work: # echo tasklist_lock:rw- > ksym_trace_filter -bash: echo: write error: No such device It's because we pass to perf_event_create_kernel_counter() a cpu number which is not present. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B3AF19E.1010201@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-28tracing: Kconfig spelling fixes and cleanupsRandy Dunlap
Fix filename reference (ftrace-implementation.txt -> ftrace-design.txt). Fix spelling, punctuation, grammar. Fix help text indentation and line lengths to reduce need for horizontal scrolling or larger window sizes. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20091221120117.3fb49cdc.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-28kprobes: Fix distinct type warningHeiko Carstens
Every time I see this: kernel/kprobes.c: In function 'register_kretprobe': kernel/kprobes.c:1038: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast I'm wondering if something changed in common code and we need to do something for s390. Apparently that's not the case. Let's get rid of this annoying warning. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20091221120224.GA4471@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-24Merge branch 'sysctl' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-misc-2.6 * 'sysctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-misc-2.6: SYSCTL: Add a mutex to the page_alloc zone order sysctl SYSCTL: Print binary sysctl warnings (nearly) only once
2009-12-23SYSCTL: Print binary sysctl warnings (nearly) only onceAndi Kleen
When printing legacy sysctls print the warning message for each of them only once. This way there is a guarantee the syslog won't be flooded for any sane program. The original attempt at this made the tables non const and stored the flag inline. Linus suggested using a separate hash table for this, this is based on a code snippet from him. The hash implies this is not exact and can sometimes not print a new sysctl due to a hash collision, but in practice this should not be a problem I used a FNV32 hash over the binary string with a 32byte bitmap. This gives relatively little collisions when all the predefined binary sysctls are hashed: size 256 bucket length number 0: [25] 1: [67] 2: [88] 3: [47] 4: [22] 5: [6] 6: [1] The worst case is a single collision of 6 hash values. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-12-23Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Revert 738d2be, simplify set_task_cpu()
2009-12-23sched: Revert 738d2be, simplify set_task_cpu()Peter Zijlstra
Effectively reverts 738d2be4301007f054541c5c4bf7fb6a361c9b3a. As demonstrated by Eric, we really need to call __set_task_cpu() early in the fork() path to properly initialize the various task state -- specifically the cgroup state through set_task_rq(). [ we could probably fix this by explicitly calling __set_task_cpu() from sched_fork(), but lets try that for the next cycle and simply revert to the old behaviour for now. ] Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Tested-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>, Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: efault@gmx.de LKML-Reference: <1261492999.4937.36.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-22Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: jfs: Fix 32bit build warning Remove obsolete comment in fs.h Sanitize f_flags helpers Fix f_flags/f_mode in case of lookup_instantiate_filp() from open(pathname, 3) anonfd: Allow making anon files read-only fs/compat_ioctl.c: fix build error when !BLOCK pohmelfs needs I_LOCK alloc_file(): simplify handling of mnt_clone_write() errors
2009-12-22kfifo: add record handling functionsStefani Seibold
Add kfifo_in_rec() - puts some record data into the FIFO Add kfifo_out_rec() - gets some record data from the FIFO Add kfifo_from_user_rec() - puts some data from user space into the FIFO Add kfifo_to_user_rec() - gets data from the FIFO and write it to user space Add kfifo_peek_rec() - gets the size of the next FIFO record field Add kfifo_skip_rec() - skip the next fifo out record Add kfifo_avail_rec() - determinate the number of bytes available in a record FIFO Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22kfifo: add kfifo_skip, kfifo_from_user and kfifo_to_userStefani Seibold
Add kfifo_reset_out() for save lockless discard the fifo output Add kfifo_skip() to skip a number of output bytes Add kfifo_from_user() to copy user space data into the fifo Add kfifo_to_user() to copy fifo data to user space Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22kfifo: rename kfifo_put... into kfifo_in... and kfifo_get... into kfifo_out...Stefani Seibold
rename kfifo_put... into kfifo_in... to prevent miss use of old non in kernel-tree drivers ditto for kfifo_get... -> kfifo_out... Improve the prototypes of kfifo_in and kfifo_out to make the kerneldoc annotations more readable. Add mini "howto porting to the new API" in kfifo.h Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22kfifo: cleanup namespaceStefani Seibold
change name of __kfifo_* functions to kfifo_*, because the prefix __kfifo should be reserved for internal functions only. Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22kfifo: move out spinlockStefani Seibold
Move the pointer to the spinlock out of struct kfifo. Most users in tree do not actually use a spinlock, so the few exceptions now have to call kfifo_{get,put}_locked, which takes an extra argument to a spinlock. Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22kfifo: move struct kfifo in placeStefani Seibold
This is a new generic kernel FIFO implementation. The current kernel fifo API is not very widely used, because it has to many constrains. Only 17 files in the current 2.6.31-rc5 used it. FIFO's are like list's a very basic thing and a kfifo API which handles the most use case would save a lot of development time and memory resources. I think this are the reasons why kfifo is not in use: - The API is to simple, important functions are missing - A fifo can be only allocated dynamically - There is a requirement of a spinlock whether you need it or not - There is no support for data records inside a fifo So I decided to extend the kfifo in a more generic way without blowing up the API to much. The new API has the following benefits: - Generic usage: For kernel internal use and/or device driver. - Provide an API for the most use case. - Slim API: The whole API provides 25 functions. - Linux style habit. - DECLARE_KFIFO, DEFINE_KFIFO and INIT_KFIFO Macros - Direct copy_to_user from the fifo and copy_from_user into the fifo. - The kfifo itself is an in place member of the using data structure, this save an indirection access and does not waste the kernel allocator. - Lockless access: if only one reader and one writer is active on the fifo, which is the common use case, no additional locking is necessary. - Remove spinlock - give the user the freedom of choice what kind of locking to use if one is required. - Ability to handle records. Three type of records are supported: - Variable length records between 0-255 bytes, with a record size field of 1 bytes. - Variable length records between 0-65535 bytes, with a record size field of 2 bytes. - Fixed size records, which no record size field. - Preserve memory resource. - Performance! - Easy to use! This patch: Since most users want to have the kfifo as part of another object, reorganize the code to allow including struct kfifo in another data structure. This requires changing the kfifo_alloc and kfifo_init prototypes so that we pass an existing kfifo pointer into them. This patch changes the implementation and all existing users. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22Revert "time: Remove xtime_cache"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit 7bc7d637452383d56ba4368d4336b0dde1bb476d, as requested by John Stultz. Quoting John: "Petr Titěra reported an issue where he saw odd atime regressions with 2.6.33 where there were a full second worth of nanoseconds in the nanoseconds field. He also reviewed the time code and narrowed down the problem: unhandled overflow of the nanosecond field caused by rounding up the sub-nanosecond accumulated time. Details: * At the end of update_wall_time(), we currently round up the sub-nanosecond portion of accumulated time when storing it into xtime. This was added to avoid time inconsistencies caused when the sub-nanosecond portion was truncated when storing into xtime. Unfortunately we don't handle the possible second overflow caused by that rounding. * Previously the xtime_cache code hid this overflow by normalizing the xtime value when storing into the xtime_cache. * We could try to handle the second overflow after the rounding up, but since this affects the timekeeping's internal state, this would further complicate the next accumulation cycle, causing small errors in ntp steering. As much as I'd like to get rid of it, the xtime_cache code is known to work. * The correct fix is really to include the sub-nanosecond portion in the timekeeping accessor function, so we don't need to round up at during accumulation. This would greatly simplify the accumulation code. Unfortunately, we can't do this safely until the last three non-GENERIC_TIME arches (sparc32, arm, cris) are converted (those patches are in -mm) and we kill off the spots where arches set xtime directly. This is all 2.6.34 material, so I think reverting the xtime_cache change is the best approach for now. Many thanks to Petr for both reporting and finding the issue!" Reported-by: Petr Titěra <P.Titera@century.cz> Requested-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22Sanitize f_flags helpersAl Viro
* pull ACC_MODE to fs.h; we have several copies all over the place * nightmarish expression calculating f_mode by f_flags deserves a helper too (OPEN_FMODE(flags)) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-22anonfd: Allow making anon files read-onlyRoland Dreier
It seems a couple places such as arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c and drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c could use anon_inode_getfile() instead of a private pseudo-fs + alloc_file(), if only there were a way to get a read-only file. So provide this by having anon_inode_getfile() create a read-only file if we pass O_RDONLY in flags. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-21tracing: Fix setting tracer specific optionsSteven Rostedt
The function __set_tracer_option() takes as its last parameter a "neg" value. If set it should negate the value of the option. The trace_options_write() passed the value written to the file which is what the new value needs to be set as. But since this is not the negative, it never sets the value. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-12-21resources: fix call to alignf() in allocate_resource()Dominik Brodowski
The second parameter to alignf() in allocate_resource() must reflect what new resource is attempted to be allocated, else functions like pcibios_align_resource() (at least on x86) or pcmcia_align() can't work correctly. Commit 1e5ad9679016275d422e36b12a98b0927d76f556 broke this by setting the "new" resource until we're about to return success. To keep the resource untouched when allocate_resource() fails, a "tmp" resource is introduced. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-20sched: Fix hotplug hangPeter Zijlstra
The hot-unplug kstopmachine usage does a wakeup after deactivating the cpu, hence we cannot use cpu_active() here but must rely on the good olde online. Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com> Reported-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> LKML-Reference: <1261326987.4314.24.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-20sched: Restore printk sanityPeter Zijlstra
Revert the braindead pr_* crap. (Commit 663997d "sched: Use pr_fmt() and pr_<level>()") It's dumb and causes stupid "sched: " strings all over the place. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <1261315437.4314.6.camel@laptop> [ i dont mind the pr_*() patterns that much - but Peter dislikes them with a vengence. ] [ - v2: remove spurious diffstat from changelog :-/ ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-19Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf session: Make events_stats u64 to avoid overflow on 32-bit arches hw-breakpoints: Fix hardware breakpoints -> perf events dependency perf events: Dont report side-band events on each cpu for per-task-per-cpu events perf events, x86/stacktrace: Fix performance/softlockup by providing a special frame pointer-only stack walker perf events, x86/stacktrace: Make stack walking optional perf events: Remove unused perf_counter.h header file perf probe: Check new event name kprobe-tracer: Check new event/group name perf probe: Check whether debugfs path is correct perf probe: Fix libdwarf include path for Debian
2009-12-19Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (25 commits) sched: Fix broken assertion sched: Assert task state bits at build time sched: Update task_state_arraypwith new states sched: Add missing state chars to TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR sched: Move TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR near the TASK_state bits sched: Teach might_sleep() about preemptible RCU sched: Make warning less noisy sched: Simplify set_task_cpu() sched: Remove the cfs_rq dependency from set_task_cpu() sched: Add pre and post wakeup hooks sched: Move kthread_bind() back to kthread.c sched: Fix select_task_rq() vs hotplug issues sched: Fix sched_exec() balancing sched: Ensure set_task_cpu() is never called on blocked tasks sched: Use TASK_WAKING for fork wakups sched: Select_task_rq_fair() must honour SD_LOAD_BALANCE sched: Fix task_hot() test order sched: Fix set_cpu_active() in cpu_down() sched: Mark boot-cpu active before smp_init() sched: Fix cpu_clock() in NMIs, on !CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK ...
2009-12-19Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sys: Fix missing rcu protection for __task_cred() access signals: Fix more rcu assumptions signal: Fix racy access to __task_cred in kill_pid_info_as_uid()
2009-12-19Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: timers: Remove duplicate setting of new_base in __mod_timer() clockevents: Prevent clockevent_devices list corruption on cpu hotplug
2009-12-19fix more leaks in audit_tree.c tag_chunk()Al Viro
Several leaks in audit_tree didn't get caught by commit 318b6d3d7ddbcad3d6867e630711b8a705d873d7, including the leak on normal exit in case of multiple rules refering to the same chunk. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-19fix braindamage in audit_tree.c untag_chunk()Al Viro
... aka "Al had badly fscked up when writing that thing and nobody noticed until Eric had fixed leaks that used to mask the breakage". The function essentially creates a copy of old array sans one element and replaces the references to elements of original (they are on cyclic lists) with those to corresponding elements of new one. After that the old one is fair game for freeing. First of all, there's a dumb braino: when we get to list_replace_init we use indices for wrong arrays - position in new one with the old array and vice versa. Another bug is more subtle - termination condition is wrong if the element to be excluded happens to be the last one. We shouldn't go until we fill the new array, we should go until we'd finished the old one. Otherwise the element we are trying to kill will remain on the cyclic lists... That crap used to be masked by several leaks, so it was not quite trivial to hit. Eric had fixed some of those leaks a while ago and the shit had hit the fan... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-17Merge branch 'cpumask-cleanups' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus * 'cpumask-cleanups' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: cpumask: rename tsk_cpumask to tsk_cpus_allowed cpumask: don't recommend set_cpus_allowed hack in Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt cpumask: avoid dereferencing struct cpumask cpumask: convert drivers/idle/i7300_idle.c to cpumask_var_t cpumask: use modern cpumask style in drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c cpumask: avoid deprecated function in mm/slab.c cpumask: use cpu_online in kernel/perf_event.c
2009-12-17Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: Keys: KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT needs TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME architecture support NOMMU: Optimise away the {dac_,}mmap_min_addr tests security/min_addr.c: make init_mmap_min_addr() static keys: PTR_ERR return of wrong pointer in keyctl_get_security()
2009-12-17Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6: kmemleak: fix kconfig for crc32 build error kmemleak: Reduce the false positives by checking for modified objects kmemleak: Show the age of an unreferenced object kmemleak: Release the object lock before calling put_object() kmemleak: Scan the _ftrace_events section in modules kmemleak: Simplify the kmemleak_scan_area() function prototype kmemleak: Do not use off-slab management with SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE
2009-12-17printk: fix new kernel-doc warningsRandy Dunlap
Fix kernel-doc warnings in printk.c: Warning(kernel/printk.c:1422): No description found for parameter 'dumper' Warning(kernel/printk.c:1422): Excess function parameter 'dump' description in 'kmsg_dump_register' Warning(kernel/printk.c:1451): No description found for parameter 'dumper' Warning(kernel/printk.c:1451): Excess function parameter 'dump' description in 'kmsg_dump_unregister' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-17do_wait() optimization: do not place sub-threads on task_struct->children listOleg Nesterov
Thanks to Roland who pointed out de_thread() issues. Currently we add sub-threads to ->real_parent->children list. This buys nothing but slows down do_wait(). With this patch ->children contains only main threads (group leaders). The only complication is that forget_original_parent() should iterate over sub-threads by hand, and de_thread() needs another list_replace() when it changes ->group_leader. Henceforth do_wait_thread() can never see task_detached() && !EXIT_DEAD tasks, we can remove this check (and we can unify do_wait_thread() and ptrace_do_wait()). This change can confuse the optimistic search in mm_update_next_owner(), but this is fixable and minor. Perhaps badness() and oom_kill_process() should be updated, but they should be fixed in any case. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Ratan Nalumasu <rnalumasu@gmail.com> Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-17kernel/sysctl.c: fix the incomplete part of ↵WANG Cong
sysctl_max_map_count-should-be-non-negative.patch It is a mistake that we used 'proc_dointvec', it should be 'proc_dointvec_minmax', as in the original patch. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>