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2008-01-24[POWERPC] Provide a way to protect 4k subpages when using 64k pagesPaul Mackerras
Using 64k pages on 64-bit PowerPC systems makes life difficult for emulators that are trying to emulate an ISA, such as x86, which use a smaller page size, since the emulator can no longer use the MMU and the normal system calls for controlling page protections. Of course, the emulator can emulate the MMU by checking and possibly remapping the address for each memory access in software, but that is pretty slow. This provides a facility for such programs to control the access permissions on individual 4k sub-pages of 64k pages. The idea is that the emulator supplies an array of protection masks to apply to a specified range of virtual addresses. These masks are applied at the level where hardware PTEs are inserted into the hardware page table based on the Linux PTEs, so the Linux PTEs are not affected. Note that this new mechanism does not allow any access that would otherwise be prohibited; it can only prohibit accesses that would otherwise be allowed. This new facility is only available on 64-bit PowerPC and only when the kernel is configured for 64k pages. The masks are supplied using a new subpage_prot system call, which takes a starting virtual address and length, and a pointer to an array of protection masks in memory. The array has a 32-bit word per 64k page to be protected; each 32-bit word consists of 16 2-bit fields, for which 0 allows any access (that is otherwise allowed), 1 prevents write accesses, and 2 or 3 prevent any access. Implicit in this is that the regions of the address space that are protected are switched to use 4k hardware pages rather than 64k hardware pages (on machines with hardware 64k page support). In fact the whole process is switched to use 4k hardware pages when the subpage_prot system call is used, but this could be improved in future to switch only the affected segments. The subpage protection bits are stored in a 3 level tree akin to the page table tree. The top level of this tree is stored in a structure that is appended to the top level of the page table tree, i.e., the pgd array. Since it will often only be 32-bit addresses (below 4GB) that are protected, the pointers to the first four bottom level pages are also stored in this structure (each bottom level page contains the protection bits for 1GB of address space), so the protection bits for addresses below 4GB can be accessed with one fewer loads than those for higher addresses. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-12-20debug: add end-of-oops markerArjan van de Ven
Right now it's nearly impossible for parsers that collect kernel crashes from logs or emails (such as www.kerneloops.org) to detect the end-of-oops condition. In addition, it's not currently possible to detect whether or not 2 oopses that look alike are actually the same oops reported twice, or are truly two unique oopses. This patch adds an end-of-oops marker, and makes the end marker include a very simple 64-bit random ID to be able to detect duplicate reports. Normally, this ID is calculated as a late_initcall() (in the hope that at that time there is enough entropy to get a unique enough ID); however for early oopses the oops_exit() function needs to generate the ID on the fly. We do this all at the _end_ of an oops printout, so this does not impact our ability to get the most important portions of a crash out to the console first. [ Sidenote: the already existing oopses-since-bootup counter we print during crashes serves as the differentiator between multiple oopses that trigger during the same bootup. ] Tested on 32-bit and 64-bit x86. Artificially injected very early crashes as well, as expected they result in this constant ID after multiple bootups: ---[ end trace ca143223eefdc828 ]--- ---[ end trace ca143223eefdc828 ]--- because the random pools are still all zero. But it all still works fine and causes no additional problems (which is the main goal of instrumentation code). Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-20sched: rt: account the cpu time during the tickPeter Zijlstra
Realtime tasks would not account their runtime during ticks. Which would lead to: struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 10 }; pthread_setschedparam(pthread_self(), SCHED_FIFO, &param); while (1) ; Not showing up in top. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-12-18Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86: x86: fix "Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!" genirq: revert lazy irq disable for simple irqs x86: also define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH x86: kprobes bugfix x86: jprobe bugfix timer: kernel/timer.c section fixes genirq: add unlocked version of set_irq_handler() clockevents: fix reprogramming decision in oneshot broadcast oprofile: op_model_athlon.c support for AMD family 10h barcelona performance counters
2007-12-18genirq: revert lazy irq disable for simple irqsSteven Rostedt
In commit 76d2160147f43f982dfe881404cfde9fd0a9da21 lazy irq disabling was implemented, and the simple irq handler had a masking set to it. Remy Bohmer discovered that some devices in the ARM architecture would trigger the mask, but never unmask it. His patch to do the unmasking was questioned by Russell King about masking simple irqs to begin with. Looking further, it was discovered that the problems Remy was seeing was due to improper use of the simple handler by devices, and he later submitted patches to fix those. But the issue that was uncovered was that the simple handler should never mask. This patch reverts the masking in the simple handler. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-12-18timer: kernel/timer.c section fixesAdrian Bunk
This patch fixes the following section mismatches with CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n, CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y: ... WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x41cd3): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:tvec_base_done.22610 (between 'timer_cpu_notify' and 'run_timer_softirq') WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x41d67): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:tvec_base_done.22610 (between 'timer_cpu_notify' and 'run_timer_softirq') ... Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-12-18clockevents: fix reprogramming decision in oneshot broadcastThomas Gleixner
Resolve the following regression of a choppy, almost unusable laptop: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/7/299 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9525 A previous version of the code did the reprogramming of the broadcast device in the return from idle code. This was removed, but the logic in tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast() was kept the same. When a broadcast interrupt happens we signal the expiry to all CPUs which have an expired event. If none of the CPUs has an expired event, which can happen in dyntick mode, then we reprogram the broadcast device. We do not reprogram otherwise, but this is only correct if all CPUs, which are in the idle broadcast state have been woken up. The code ignores, that there might be pending not yet expired events on other CPUs, which are in the idle broadcast state. So the delivery of those events can be delayed for quite a time. Change the tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast() function to check for CPUs, which are in broadcast state and are not woken up by the current event, and enforce the rearming of the broadcast device for those CPUs. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-18sched: do not hurt SCHED_BATCH on wakeupIngo Molnar
measurements by Yanmin Zhang have shown that SCHED_BATCH tasks benefit if they run the same place_entity() logic as SCHED_OTHER tasks - so uniformize behavior in this area. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-18sched: touch softlockup watchdog after idlingIngo Molnar
touch softlockup watchdog after idling. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-18sched: sysctl, proc_dointvec_minmax() expects int values forEric Dumazet
min_sched_granularity_ns, max_sched_granularity_ns, min_wakeup_granularity_ns and max_wakeup_granularity_ns are declared "unsigned long". This is incorrect since proc_dointvec_minmax() expects plain "int" guard values. This bug only triggers on big endian 64 bit arches. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-18sched: mark rwsem functions as __sched for wchan/profilingLivio Soares
This following commit http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=fdf8cb0909b531f9ae8f9b9d7e4eb35ba3505f07 un-inlined a low-level rwsem function, but did not mark it as __sched. The result is that it now shows up as thread wchan (which also affects /proc/profile stats). The following simple patch fixes this by properly marking rwsem_down_failed_common() as a __sched function. Also in this patch, which is up for discussion, marks down_read() and down_write() proper as __sched. For profiling, it is pretty much useless to know that a semaphore is beig help - it is necessary to know _which_ one. By going up another frame on the stack, the information becomes much more useful. In summary, the below change to lib/rwsem.c should be applied; the changes to kernel/rwsem.c could be applied if other kernel hackers agree with my proposal that down_read()/down_write() in the profile is not enough. [ akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix ] Signed-off-by: Livio Soares <livio@eecg.toronto.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-18sched: fix crash on ia64, introduce task_current()Dmitry Adamushko
Some services (e.g. sched_setscheduler(), rt_mutex_setprio() and sched_move_task()) must handle a given task differently in case it's the 'rq->curr' task on its run-queue. The task_running() interface is not suitable for determining such tasks for platforms with one of the following options: #define __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW #define __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW Due to the fact that it makes use of 'p->oncpu == 1' as a criterion but such a task is not necessarily 'rq->curr'. The detailed explanation is available here: https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2007-December/009262.html Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
2007-12-17sysctl: fix ax25 checksEric W. Biederman
Fix: sysctl table check failed: /net/ax25/ax0/ax25_default_mode .3.9.1.2 Unknown sysctl binary path Pid: 2936, comm: kissattach Not tainted 2.6.24-rc5 #1 [<c012ca6a>] set_fail+0x3b/0x43 [<c012ce7a>] sysctl_check_table+0x408/0x456 [<c012ce8e>] sysctl_check_table+0x41c/0x456 [<c012ce8e>] sysctl_check_table+0x41c/0x456 ... Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Bernard Pidoux <pidoux@ccr.jussieu.fr> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-17Revert "hugetlb: Add hugetlb_dynamic_pool sysctl"Nishanth Aravamudan
This reverts commit 54f9f80d6543fb7b157d3b11e2e7911dc1379790 ("hugetlb: Add hugetlb_dynamic_pool sysctl") Given the new sysctl nr_overcommit_hugepages, the boolean dynamic pool sysctl is not needed, as its semantics can be expressed by 0 in the overcommit sysctl (no dynamic pool) and non-0 in the overcommit sysctl (pool enabled). (Needed in 2.6.24 since it reverts a post-2.6.23 userspace-visible change) Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-17hugetlb: introduce nr_overcommit_hugepages sysctlNishanth Aravamudan
hugetlb: introduce nr_overcommit_hugepages sysctl While examining the code to support /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_dynamic_pool, I became convinced that having a boolean sysctl was insufficient: 1) To support per-node control of hugepages, I have previously submitted patches to add a sysfs attribute related to nr_hugepages. However, with a boolean global value and per-mount quota enforcement constraining the dynamic pool, adding corresponding control of the dynamic pool on a per-node basis seems inconsistent to me. 2) Administration of the hugetlb dynamic pool with multiple hugetlbfs mount points is, arguably, more arduous than it needs to be. Each quota would need to be set separately, and the sum would need to be monitored. To ease the administration, and to help make the way for per-node control of the static & dynamic hugepage pool, I added a separate sysctl, nr_overcommit_hugepages. This value serves as a high watermark for the overall hugepage pool, while nr_hugepages serves as a low watermark. The boolean sysctl can then be removed, as the condition nr_overcommit_hugepages > 0 indicates the same administrative setting as hugetlb_dynamic_pool == 1 Quotas still serve as local enforcement of the size of the pool on a per-mount basis. A few caveats: 1) There is a race whereby the global surplus huge page counter is incremented before a hugepage has allocated. Another process could then try grow the pool, and fail to convert a surplus huge page to a normal huge page and instead allocate a fresh huge page. I believe this is benign, as no memory is leaked (the actual pages are still tracked correctly) and the counters won't go out of sync. 2) Shrinking the static pool while a surplus is in effect will allow the number of surplus huge pages to exceed the overcommit value. As long as this condition holds, however, no more surplus huge pages will be allowed on the system until one of the two sysctls are increased sufficiently, or the surplus huge pages go out of use and are freed. Successfully tested on x86_64 with the current libhugetlbfs snapshot, modified to use the new sysctl. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-07Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86: ACPI: move timer broadcast before busmaster disable clockevents: warn once when program_event() is called with negative expiry hrtimers: avoid overflow for large relative timeouts
2007-12-07clockevents: warn once when program_event() is called with negative expiryThomas Gleixner
The hrtimer problem with large relative timeouts resulting in a negative expiry time went unnoticed as there is no check in the clockevents_program_event() code. Put a check there with a WARN_ONCE to avoid such problems in the future. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-07hrtimers: avoid overflow for large relative timeoutsThomas Gleixner
Relative hrtimers with a large timeout value might end up as negative timer values, when the current time is added in hrtimer_start(). This in turn is causing the clockevents_set_next() function to set an huge timeout and sleep for quite a long time when we have a clock source which is capable of long sleeps like HPET. With PIT this almost goes unnoticed as the maximum delta is ~27ms. The non-hrt/nohz code sorts this out in the next timer interrupt, so we never noticed that problem which has been there since the first day of hrtimers. This bug became more apparent in 2.6.24 which activates HPET on more hardware. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-07sched: enable early use of sched_clock()Ingo Molnar
some platforms have sched_clock() implementations that cannot be called very early during wakeup. If it's called it might hang or crash in hard to debug ways. So only call update_rq_clock() [which calls sched_clock()] if sched_init() has already been called. (rq->idle is NULL before the scheduler is initialized.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-07lockdep: make cli/sti annotation warnings clearerIngo Molnar
make cli/sti annotation warnings easier to interpret. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2007-12-06Tiny clean-up of OPROFILE/KPROBES configurationLinus Torvalds
Make the Kconfig.instrumentation file a bit easier on the eyes, and use the new ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPROFILE for x86[-64]. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-06Fix oprofile configuration breakageRalf Baechle
The cleanup 09cadedbdc01f1a4bea1f427d4fb4642eaa19da9 broke the oprofile configuration for MIPS by allowing oprofile support to be built for kernel models where oprofile doesn't have a chance in hell to work. Just a dependecy list on a number of architectures is - surprise - broken and should as per past discussions probably in most considered to be broken in most cases. So I introduce a dependency for the oprofile configuration on ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPROFILE. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-schedLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched: futex: correctly return -EFAULT not -EINVAL lockdep: in_range() fix lockdep: fix debug_show_all_locks() sched: style cleanups futex: fix for futex_wait signal stack corruption
2007-12-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: [SPARC64]: Update defconfig. [SPARC]: Add missing of_node_put [SPARC64]: check for possible NULL pointer dereference [SPARC]: Add missing "space" [SPARC64]: Add missing "space" [SPARC64]: Add missing pci_dev_put [SYSCTL_CHECK]: Fix typo in KERN_SPARC_SCONS_PWROFF entry string. [SPARC64]: Missing mdesc_release() in ldc_init().
2007-12-05Avoid potential NULL dereference in unregister_sysctl_tablePavel Emelyanov
register_sysctl_table() can return NULL sometimes, e.g. when kmalloc() returns NULL or when sysctl check fails. I've also noticed, that many (most?) code in the kernel doesn't check for the return value from register_sysctl_table() and later simply calls the unregister_sysctl_table() with potentially NULL argument. This is unlikely on a common kernel configuration, but in case we're dealing with modules and/or fault-injection support, there's a slight possibility of an OOPS. Changing all the users to check for return code from the registering does not look like a good solution - there are too many code doing this and failure in sysctl tables registration is not a good reason to abort module loading (in most of the cases). So I think, that we can just have this check in unregister_sysctl_table just to avoid accidental OOPS-es (actually, the unregister_sysctl_table() did exactly this, before the start_unregistering() appeared). Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-05fix clone(CLONE_NEWPID)Eric W. Biederman
Currently we are complicating the code in copy_process, the clone ABI, and if we fix the bugs sys_setsid itself, with an unnecessary open coded version of sys_setsid. So just simplify everything and don't special case the session and pgrp of the initial process in a pid namespace. Having this special case actually presents to user space the classic linux startup conditions with session == pgrp == 0 for /sbin/init. We already handle sending signals to processes in a child pid namespace. We need to handle sending signals to processes in a parent pid namespace for cases like SIGCHILD and SIGIO. This makes nothing extra visible inside a pid namespace. So this extra special case appears to have no redeeming merits. Further removing this special case increases the flexibility of how we can use pid namespaces, by not requiring the initial process in a pid namespace to be a daemon. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-05futex: correctly return -EFAULT not -EINVALThomas Gleixner
return -EFAULT not -EINVAL. Found by review. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-05lockdep: in_range() fixOleg Nesterov
Torsten Kaiser wrote: | static inline int in_range(const void *start, const void *addr, const void *end) | { | return addr >= start && addr <= end; | } | This will return true, if addr is in the range of start (including) | to end (including). | | But debug_check_no_locks_freed() seems does: | const void *mem_to = mem_from + mem_len | -> mem_to is the last byte of the freed range, that fits in_range | lock_from = (void *)hlock->instance; | -> first byte of the lock | lock_to = (void *)(hlock->instance + 1); | -> first byte of the next lock, not last byte of the lock that is being checked! | | The test is: | if (!in_range(mem_from, lock_from, mem_to) && | !in_range(mem_from, lock_to, mem_to)) | continue; | So it tests, if the first byte of the lock is in the range that is freed ->OK | And if the first byte of the *next* lock is in the range that is freed | -> Not OK. We can also simplify in_range checks, we need only 2 comparisons, not 4. If the lock is not in memory range, it should be either at the left of range or at the right. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2007-12-05lockdep: fix debug_show_all_locks()Ingo Molnar
fix the oops that can be seen in: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=13828&action=view it is not safe to print the locks of running tasks. (even with this fix we have a small race - but this is a debug function after all.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2007-12-05sched: style cleanupsIngo Molnar
style cleanup of various changes that were done recently. no code changed: text data bss dec hex filename 23680 2542 28 26250 668a sched.o.before 23680 2542 28 26250 668a sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-05futex: fix for futex_wait signal stack corruptionSteven Rostedt
David Holmes found a bug in the -rt tree with respect to pthread_cond_timedwait. After trying his test program on the latest git from mainline, I found the bug was there too. The bug he was seeing that his test program showed, was that if one were to do a "Ctrl-Z" on a process that was in the pthread_cond_timedwait, and then did a "bg" on that process, it would return with a "-ETIMEDOUT" but early. That is, the timer would go off early. Looking into this, I found the source of the problem. And it is a rather nasty bug at that. Here's the relevant code from kernel/futex.c: (not in order in the file) [...] smlinkage long sys_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, u32 val, struct timespec __user *utime, u32 __user *uaddr2, u32 val3) { struct timespec ts; ktime_t t, *tp = NULL; u32 val2 = 0; int cmd = op & FUTEX_CMD_MASK; if (utime && (cmd == FUTEX_WAIT || cmd == FUTEX_LOCK_PI)) { if (copy_from_user(&ts, utime, sizeof(ts)) != 0) return -EFAULT; if (!timespec_valid(&ts)) return -EINVAL; t = timespec_to_ktime(ts); if (cmd == FUTEX_WAIT) t = ktime_add(ktime_get(), t); tp = &t; } [...] return do_futex(uaddr, op, val, tp, uaddr2, val2, val3); } [...] long do_futex(u32 __user *uaddr, int op, u32 val, ktime_t *timeout, u32 __user *uaddr2, u32 val2, u32 val3) { int ret; int cmd = op & FUTEX_CMD_MASK; struct rw_semaphore *fshared = NULL; if (!(op & FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG)) fshared = &current->mm->mmap_sem; switch (cmd) { case FUTEX_WAIT: ret = futex_wait(uaddr, fshared, val, timeout); [...] static int futex_wait(u32 __user *uaddr, struct rw_semaphore *fshared, u32 val, ktime_t *abs_time) { [...] struct restart_block *restart; restart = &current_thread_info()->restart_block; restart->fn = futex_wait_restart; restart->arg0 = (unsigned long)uaddr; restart->arg1 = (unsigned long)val; restart->arg2 = (unsigned long)abs_time; restart->arg3 = 0; if (fshared) restart->arg3 |= ARG3_SHARED; return -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK; [...] static long futex_wait_restart(struct restart_block *restart) { u32 __user *uaddr = (u32 __user *)restart->arg0; u32 val = (u32)restart->arg1; ktime_t *abs_time = (ktime_t *)restart->arg2; struct rw_semaphore *fshared = NULL; restart->fn = do_no_restart_syscall; if (restart->arg3 & ARG3_SHARED) fshared = &current->mm->mmap_sem; return (long)futex_wait(uaddr, fshared, val, abs_time); } So when the futex_wait is interrupt by a signal we break out of the hrtimer code and set up or return from signal. This code does not return back to userspace, so we set up a RESTARTBLOCK. The bug here is that we save the "abs_time" which is a pointer to the stack variable "ktime_t t" from sys_futex. This returns and unwinds the stack before we get to call our signal. On return from the signal we go to futex_wait_restart, where we update all the parameters for futex_wait and call it. But here we have a problem where abs_time is no longer valid. I verified this with print statements, and sure enough, what abs_time was set to ends up being garbage when we get to futex_wait_restart. The solution I did to solve this (with input from Linus Torvalds) was to add unions to the restart_block to allow system calls to use the restart with specific parameters. This way the futex code now saves the time in a 64bit value in the restart block instead of storing it on the stack. Note: I'm a bit nervious to add "linux/types.h" and use u32 and u64 in thread_info.h, when there's a #ifdef __KERNEL__ just below that. Not sure what that is there for. If this turns out to be a problem, I've tested this with using "unsigned int" for u32 and "unsigned long long" for u64 and it worked just the same. I'm using u32 and u64 just to be consistent with what the futex code uses. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-05[SYSCTL_CHECK]: Fix typo in KERN_SPARC_SCONS_PWROFF entry string.David S. Miller
Based upon a report by Mikael Pettersson. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-04sched: default to more agressive yield for SCHED_BATCH tasksIngo Molnar
do more agressive yield for SCHED_BATCH tuned tasks: they are all about throughput anyway. This allows a gentler migration path for any apps that relied on stronger yield. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-04sched: fix crash in sys_sched_rr_get_interval()Ingo Molnar
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino reported that sched_rr_get_interval() crashes for SCHED_OTHER tasks that are on an idle runqueue. The fix is to return a 0 timeslice for tasks that are on an idle runqueue. (and which are not running, obviously) this also shrinks the code a bit: text data bss dec hex filename 47903 3934 336 52173 cbcd sched.o.before 47885 3934 336 52155 cbbb sched.o.after Reported-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-12-03Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-schedLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched: sched: cpu accounting controller (V2)
2007-12-03uml: add !UML dependenciesAl Viro
The previous commit ("uml: keep UML Kconfig in sync with x86") is not enough, unfortunately. If we go that way, we need to add dependencies on !UML for several options. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-02sched: cpu accounting controller (V2)Srivatsa Vaddagiri
Commit cfb5285660aad4931b2ebbfa902ea48a37dfffa1 removed a useful feature for us, which provided a cpu accounting resource controller. This feature would be useful if someone wants to group tasks only for accounting purpose and doesnt really want to exercise any control over their cpu consumption. The patch below reintroduces the feature. It is based on Paul Menage's original patch (Commit 62d0df64065e7c135d0002f069444fbdfc64768f), with these differences: - Removed load average information. I felt it needs more thought (esp to deal with SMP and virtualized platforms) and can be added for 2.6.25 after more discussions. - Convert group cpu usage to be nanosecond accurate (as rest of the cfs stats are) and invoke cpuacct_charge() from the respective scheduler classes - Make accounting scalable on SMP systems by splitting the usage counter to be per-cpu - Move the code from kernel/cpu_acct.c to kernel/sched.c (since the code is not big enough to warrant a new file and also this rightly needs to live inside the scheduler. Also things like accessing rq->lock while reading cpu usage becomes easier if the code lived in kernel/sched.c) The patch also modifies the cpu controller not to provide the same accounting information. Tested-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested the patches on top of 2.6.24-rc3. The patches work fine. Ran some simple tests like cpuspin (spin on the cpu), ran several tasks in the same group and timed them. Compared their time stamps with cpuacct.usage. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-29wait_task_stopped(): pass correct exit_code to wait_noreap_copyout()Scott James Remnant
In wait_task_stopped() exit_code already contains the right value for the si_status member of siginfo, and this is simply set in the non WNOWAIT case. If you call waitid() with a stopped or traced process, you'll get the signal in siginfo.si_status as expected -- however if you call waitid(WNOWAIT) at the same time, you'll get the signal << 8 | 0x7f Pass it unchanged to wait_noreap_copyout(); we would only need to shift it and add 0x7f if we were returning it in the user status field and that isn't used for any function that permits WNOWAIT. Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-29FRV: fix the extern declaration of kallsyms_num_symsDavid Howells
Fix the extern declaration of kallsyms_num_syms to indicate that the symbol does not reside in the small-data storage space, and so may not be accessed relative to the small data base register. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-29Isolate the UTS namespace's domainname and hostname backPavel Emelyanov
Commit 7d69a1f4a72b18876c99c697692b78339d491568 ("remove CONFIG_UTS_NS and CONFIG_IPC_NS") by Cedric Le Goater accidentally removed the code that prevented the uts->hostname and uts->domainname values from being overwritten from another namespace. In other words, setting hostname/domainname via sysfs (echo xxx > /proc/sys/kernel/(host|domain)name) cased the new value to be set in init UTS namespace only. Return the isolation back. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-29wait_task_stopped(): don't use task_pid_nr_ns() locklessOleg Nesterov
wait_task_stopped(WNOWAIT) does task_pid_nr_ns() without tasklist/rcu lock, we can read an already freed memory. Use the cached pid_t value. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Looks-good-to: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-28sched: clean up kernel/sched_stat.hIngo Molnar
clean up kernel/sched_stat.h. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-28sched: clean up overlong line in kernel/sched_debug.cIngo Molnar
clean up overlong line in kernel/sched_debug.c. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-28sched: clean up, move __sched_text_start/end to sched.hIngo Molnar
move __sched_text_start/end to sched.h. No code changed: text data bss dec hex filename 26582 2310 28 28920 70f8 sched.o.before 26582 2310 28 28920 70f8 sched.o.after Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-28sched: clean up sd_alloc_ctl_cpu_table() definitionIngo Molnar
clean up sd_alloc_ctl_cpu_table() definition. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-28softlockup: fix false positives on CONFIG_NOHZThomas Gleixner
David Miller reported soft lockup false-positives that trigger on NOHZ due to CPUs idling for more than 10 seconds. The solution is touch the softlockup watchdog when we return from idle. (by definition we are not 'locked up' when we were idle) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9409 Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-11-26Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/net-2.6: (41 commits) [XFRM]: Fix leak of expired xfrm_states [ATM]: [he] initialize lock and tasklet earlier [IPV4]: Remove bogus ifdef mess in arp_process [SKBUFF]: Free old skb properly in skb_morph [IPV4]: Fix memory leak in inet_hashtables.h when NUMA is on [IPSEC]: Temporarily remove locks around copying of non-atomic fields [TCP] MTUprobe: Cleanup send queue check (no need to loop) [TCP]: MTUprobe: receiver window & data available checks fixed [MAINTAINERS]: tlan list is subscribers-only [SUNRPC]: Remove SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED [SUNRPC]: Make xprtsock.c:xs_setup_{udp,tcp}() static [PFKEY]: Sending an SADB_GET responds with an SADB_GET [IRDA]: Compilation for CONFIG_INET=n case [IPVS]: Fix compiler warning about unused register_ip_vs_protocol [ARP]: Fix arp reply when sender ip 0 [IPV6] TCPMD5: Fix deleting key operation. [IPV6] TCPMD5: Check return value of tcp_alloc_md5sig_pool(). [IPV4] TCPMD5: Use memmove() instead of memcpy() because we have overlaps. [IPV4] TCPMD5: Omit redundant NULL check for kfree() argument. ieee80211: Stop net_ratelimit/IEEE80211_DEBUG_DROP log pollution ...
2007-11-26Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-schedLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched: sched: bump version of kernel/sched_debug.c sched: fix minimum granularity tunings sched: fix RLIMIT_CPU comment sched: fix kernel/acct.c comment sched: fix prev_stime calculation sched: don't forget to unlock uids_mutex on error paths
2007-11-26Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86: x86: fix APIC related bootup crash on Athlon XP CPUs time: add ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ x86: export the symbol empty_zero_page on the 32-bit x86 architecture x86: fix kprobes_64.c inlining borkage pci: use pci=bfsort for HP DL385 G2, DL585 G2 x86: correctly set UTS_MACHINE for "make ARCH=x86" lockdep: annotate do_debug() trap handler x86: turn off iommu merge by default x86: fix ACPI compile for LOCAL_APIC=n x86: printk kernel version in WARN_ON and other dump_stack users ACPI: Set max_cstate to 1 for early Opterons. x86: fix NMI watchdog & 'stopped time' problem
2007-11-26Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linusLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: virtio: fix net driver loop case where we fail to restart module: fix and elaborate comments virtio: fix module/device unloading lguest: Fix uninitialized members in example launcher