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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>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
sched: group scheduler, set uid share fix
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rcu_online_cpu() should be __cpuinit instead of __devinit.
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4b6d5): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'rcu_cpu_notify' and 'wakeme_after_rcu')
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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setting cpu share to 1 causes hangs, as reported in:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9779
as the default share is 1024, the values of 0 and 1 can indeed
cause problems. Limit it to 2 or higher values.
These values can only be set by the root user - but still it
makes sense to protect against nonsensical values.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The caller is __cpuinit.
Also, this code block and its caller are inside #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
blocks, so this code should reflect that config symbol's usage.
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4252f): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'timer_cpu_notify' and 'msleep')
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix section mismatch in hrtimer.c:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x50c61): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'hrtimer_cpu_notify' and 'down_read_trylock')
Noticed by Johannes Berg and confirmed by Sam Ravnborg.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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call_usermodehelper_exec() has an exit path that can leave the
helper_lock() call at the top of the routine unbalanced. The attached
patch fixes this issue.
Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dave Young reported warnings from lockdep that the workqueue API
can sometimes try to register lockdep classes with the same key
but different names. This is not permitted in lockdep.
Unfortunately, I was unaware of that restriction when I wrote
the code to debug workqueue problems with lockdep and used the
workqueue name as the lockdep class name. This can obviously
lead to the problem if the workqueue name is dynamic.
This patch solves the problem by always using a constant name
for the workqueue's lockdep class, namely either the constant
name that was passed in or a string consisting of the variable
name.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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Lockdep, during self-test (when it was simulating double unlocks) was
sometimes unconditionally unlocking a spinlock when it had not been
locked. This won't work for ticket locks.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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Kyle McMartin reports sysrq_timer_list_show() can hit the module mutex
from hard interrupt context. These paths don't need to though, since we
long ago changed all the module list manipulation to occur via
stop_machine().
Disabling preemption is enough.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
pnpacpi: print resource shortage message only once
PM: ACPI and APM must not be enabled at the same time
ACPI: apply quirk_ich6_lpc_acpi to more ICH8 and ICH9
ACPICA: fix acpi_serialize hang regression
ACPI : Not register gsi for PCI IDE controller in legacy mode
ACPI: Reintroduce run time configurable max_cstate for !CPU_IDLE case
ACPI: Make sysfs interface in ACPI power optional.
ACPI: EC: Enable boot EC before bus_scan
increase PNP_MAX_PORT to 40 from 24
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task_ppid_nr_ns is called in three places. One of these should never
have called it. In the other two, using it broke the existing
semantics. This was presumably accidental. If the function had not
been there, it would have been much more obvious to the eye that those
patches were changing the behavior. We don't need this function.
In task_state, the pid of the ptracer is not the ppid of the ptracer.
In do_task_stat, ppid is the tgid of the real_parent, not its pid.
I also moved the call outside of lock_task_sighand, since it doesn't
need it.
In sys_getppid, ppid is the tgid of the real_parent, not its pid.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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ACPI and APM used "pm_active" to guarantee that
they would not be simultaneously active.
But pm_active was recently moved under CONFIG_PM_LEGACY,
so that without CONFIG_PM_LEGACY, pm_active became a NOP --
allowing ACPI and APM to both be simultaneously enabled.
This caused unpredictable results, including boot hangs.
Further, the code under CONFIG_PM_LEGACY is scheduled
for removal.
So replace pm_active with pm_flags.
pm_flags depends only on CONFIG_PM,
which is present for both CONFIG_APM and CONFIG_ACPI.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9194
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
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The show_task function invoked by sysrq-t et al displays the
pid and parent's pid of each task. It seems more useful to
show the actual process hierarchy here than who is using
ptrace on each process.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roland Westrelin did a great analysis of a long standing thinko in the
return path of futex_lock_pi.
While we fixed the lock steal case long ago, which was easy to trigger,
we never had a test case which exposed this problem and stupidly never
thought about the reverse lock stealing scenario and the return to user
space with a stale state.
When a blocked tasks returns from rt_mutex_timed_locked without holding
the rt_mutex (due to a signal or timeout) and at the same time the task
holding the futex is releasing the futex and assigning the ownership of
the futex to the returning task, then it might happen that a third task
acquires the rt_mutex before the final rt_mutex_trylock() of the
returning task happens under the futex hash bucket lock. The returning
task returns to user space with ETIMEOUT or EINTR, but the user space
futex value is assigned to this task. The task which acquired the
rt_mutex fixes the user space futex value right after the hash bucket
lock has been released by the returning task, but for a short period of
time the user space value is wrong.
Detailed description is available at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=400541
The fix for this is the same as we do when the rt_mutex was acquired by
a higher priority task via lock stealing from the designated new owner.
In that case we already fix the user space value and the internal
pi_state up before we return. This mechanism can be used to fixup the
above corner case as well. When the returning task, which failed to
acquire the rt_mutex, notices that it is the designated owner of the
futex, then it fixes up the stale user space value and the pi_state,
before returning to user space. This happens with the futex hash bucket
lock held, so the task which acquired the rt_mutex is guaranteed to be
blocked on the hash bucket lock. We can access the rt_mutex owner, which
gives us the pid of the new owner, safely here as the owner is not able
to modify (release) it while waiting on the hash bucket lock.
Rename the "curr" argument of fixup_pi_state_owner() to "newowner" to
avoid confusion with current and add the check for the stale state into
the failure path of rt_mutex_trylock() in the return path of
unlock_futex_pi(). If the situation is detected use
fixup_pi_state_owner() to assign everything to the owner of the
rt_mutex.
Pointed-out-and-tested-by: Roland Westrelin <roland.westrelin@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch adds the array length of "free_area.free_list" to the vmcoreinfo
data so that makedumpfile (dump filtering command) can exclude all free pages
in linux-2.6.24.
makedumpfile creates a small dumpfile by excluding unnecessary pages for the
analysis. To distinguish unnecessary pages, makedumpfile gets the vmcoreinfo
data which has the minimum debugging information only for dump filtering.
In 2.6.24-rc1 or later, the free_area.free_list is an array which has one list
for each migrate types instead of a single list. makedumpfile needs the array
length of "free_area.free_list" and the vmcoreinfo data should contain it.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The ac_ppid field reported in process accounting records
should match what getppid() would have returned to that
process, regardless of whether a debugger is attached.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
sched: fix gcc warnings
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The previous commit missed one use of "may_attach()" that had been
renamed to __ptrace_may_attach(). Tssk, tssk, Al.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Contents of /proc/*/maps is sensitive and may become sensitive after
open() (e.g. if target originally shares our ->mm and later does exec
on suid-root binary).
Check at read() (actually, ->start() of iterator) time that mm_struct
we'd grabbed and locked is
- still the ->mm of target
- equal to reader's ->mm or the target is ptracable by reader.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Meelis Roos reported these warnings on sparc64:
CC kernel/sched.o
In file included from kernel/sched.c:879:
kernel/sched_debug.c: In function 'nsec_high':
kernel/sched_debug.c:38: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
the debug check in do_div() is over-eager here, because the long long
is always positive in these places. Mark this by casting them to
unsigned long long.
no change in code output:
text data bss dec hex filename
51471 6582 376 58429 e43d sched.o.before
51471 6582 376 58429 e43d sched.o.after
md5:
7f7729c111f185bf3ccea4d542abc049 sched.o.before.asm
7f7729c111f185bf3ccea4d542abc049 sched.o.after.asm
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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We're exporting an __init function, oops :-)
The core issue here is that add_preferred_console() is marked
as __init, this makes it impossible to invoke this thing from
a driver probe routine which is what the Sparc serial drivers
need to do.
There is no harm in dropping the __init marker. This code will
actually work properly when invoked from a modular driver,
except that init will probably not pick up the console change
without some other support code.
Then we can drop the __init from sunserial_console_match()
and we're no longer exporting an __init function to modules.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Due to the change in kobject name handling, the module kobject needs to
have a null release function to ensure that the name it previously set
will be properly cleaned up.
All of this wierdness goes away in 2.6.25 with the rework of the kobject
name and cleanup logic, but this is required for 2.6.24.
Thanks to Alexey Dobriyan for finding the problem, and to Kay Sievers
for pointing out the simple way to fix it after I tried many complex
ways.
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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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>
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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, ¶m);
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>
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* 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
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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touch softlockup watchdog after idling.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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* 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
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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* 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
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* 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().
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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>
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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>
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