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2009-12-16[sysctl] Fix breakage on systems with older glibcAndi Kleen
As predicted during code review, the sysctl(2) changes made systems with old glibc nearly unusable. About every command gives a: warning: process `ls' used the deprecated sysctl system call with 1.4 warning in the log. I see this on a SUSE 10.0 system with glibc 2.3.5. Don't warn for this common case. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16Merge 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: (52 commits) perf record: Use per-task-per-cpu events for inherited events perf record: Properly synchronize child creation perf events: Allow per-task-per-cpu counters perf diff: Percent calcs should use double values perf diff: Change the default sort order to "dso,symbol" perf diff: Use perf_session__fprintf_hists just like 'perf record' perf report: Fix cut'n'paste error recently introduced perf session: Move perf report specific hits out of perf_session__fprintf_hists perf tools: Move hist entries printing routines from perf report perf report: Generalize perf_session__fprintf_hists() perf symbols: Move symbol filtering to event__preprocess_sample() perf symbols: Adopt the strlists for dso, comm perf symbols: Make symbol_conf global perf probe: Fix to show which probe point is not found perf probe: Check symbols in symtab/kallsyms perf probe: Check build-id of vmlinux perf probe: Reject second attempt of adding same-name event perf probe: Support event name for --add option perf probe: Add glob matching support on --del perf probe: Use strlist__for_each macros in probe-event.c ...
2009-12-16Merge 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 return of trace_dump_stack() ksym_tracer: Fix bad cast tracing/power: Remove two exports tracing: Change event->profile_count to be int type tracing: Simplify trace_option_write() tracing: Remove useless trace option tracing: Use seq file for trace_clock tracing: Use seq file for trace_options function-graph: Allow writing the same val to set_graph_function ftrace: Call trace_parser_clear() properly ftrace: Return EINVAL when writing invalid val to set_ftrace_filter tracing: Move a printk out of ftrace_raw_reg_event_foo() tracing: Pull up calls to trace_define_common_fields() tracing: Extract duplicate ftrace_raw_init_event_foo() ftrace.h: Use common pr_info fmt string tracing: Add stack trace to irqsoff tracer tracing: Add trace_dump_stack() ring-buffer: Move resize integrity check under reader lock ring-buffer: Use sync sched protection on ring buffer resizing tracing: Fix wrong usage of strstrip in trace_ksyms
2009-12-16Merge branch 'module' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus * 'module' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: modpost: fix segfault with short symbol names module: handle ppc64 relocating kcrctabs when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y Kbuild: clear marker out of modpost module: make MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX into a CONFIG option ARM: unexport symbols used to implement floating point emulation ARM: use unified discard definition in linker script x86: don't export inline function sparc64: don't export static inline pci_ functions
2009-12-16Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (90 commits) jffs2: Fix long-standing bug with symlink garbage collection. mtd: OneNAND: Fix test of unsigned in onenand_otp_walk() mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002, fix lock imbalance Revert "mtd: move mxcnd_remove to .exit.text" mtd: m25p80: add support for Macronix MX25L4005A kmsg_dump: fix build for CONFIG_PRINTK=n mtd: nandsim: add support for 4KiB pages mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper mtd: mtdoops: make record size configurable mtd: mtdoops: limit the maximum mtd partition size mtd: mtdoops: keep track of used/unused pages in an array mtd: mtdoops: several minor cleanups core: Add kernel message dumper to call on oopses and panics mtd: add ARM pismo support mtd: pxa3xx_nand: Fix PIO data transfer mtd: nand: fix multi-chip suspend problem mtd: add support for switching old SST chips into QRY mode mtd: fix M29W800D dev_id and uaddr mtd: don't use PF_MEMALLOC mtd: Add bad block table overrides to Davinci NAND driver ... Fixed up conflicts (mostly trivial) in drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c kernel/printk.c
2009-12-16perf events: Allow per-task-per-cpu countersPeter Zijlstra
In order to allow for per-task-per-cpu counters, useful for scalability when profiling task hierarchies, we allow installing events with event->cpu != -1 in task contexts. __perf_event_sched_in() already skips events where ->cpu mis-matches the current cpu, fix up __perf_install_in_context() and __perf_event_enable() to also respect this filter. This does lead to vary hard to interpret enabled/running times for such counters, but I don't see a simple solution for that. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20091216165904.831451147@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-16kexec: premit reduction of the reserved memory sizeAmerigo Wang
Implement shrinking the reserved memory for crash kernel, if it is more than enough. For example, if you have already reserved 128M, now you just want 100M, you can do: # echo $((100*1024*1024)) > /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size Note, you can only do this before loading the crash kernel. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16pid: reduce code size by using a pointer to iterate over arrayAndré Goddard Rosa
It decreases code size by 16 bytes on my gcc 4.4.1 on Core 2: text data bss dec hex filename 4314 2216 8 6538 198a kernel/pid.o-BEFORE 4298 2216 8 6522 197a kernel/pid.o-AFTER Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16pid: tighten pidmap spinlock critical section by removing kfree()André Goddard Rosa
Avoid calling kfree() under pidmap spinlock, calling it afterwards. Normally kfree() is fast, but sometimes it can be slow, so avoid calling it under the spinlock if we can do it. Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16signals: check ->group_stop_count after tracehook_get_signal()Oleg Nesterov
Move the call to do_signal_stop() down, after tracehook call. This makes ->group_stop_count condition visible to tracers before do_signal_stop() will participate in this group-stop. Currently the patch has no effect, tracehook_get_signal() always returns 0. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16signals: kill force_sig_specific()Oleg Nesterov
Kill force_sig_specific(), this trivial wrapper has no callers. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> 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>
2009-12-16signals: cosmetic, collect_signal: use SI_USEROleg Nesterov
Trivial, s/0/SI_USER/ in collect_signal() for grep. This is a bit confusing, we don't know the source of this signal. But we don't care, and "info->si_code = 0" is imho worse. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> 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>
2009-12-16signals: send_signal: use si_fromuser() to detect from_ancestor_nsOleg Nesterov
Change send_signal() to use si_fromuser(). From now SEND_SIG_NOINFO triggers the "from_ancestor_ns" check. This fixes reparent_thread()->group_send_sig_info(pdeath_signal) behaviour, before this patch send_signal() does not detect the cross-namespace case when the child of the dying parent belongs to the sub-namespace. This patch can affect the behaviour of send_sig(), kill_pgrp() and kill_pid() when the caller sends the signal to the sub-namespace with "priv == 0" but surprisingly all callers seem to use them correctly, including disassociate_ctty(on_exit). Except: drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/addi-data/*.c incorrectly use send_sig(priv => 0). But his is minor and should be fixed anyway. Reported-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16signals: SEND_SIG_NOINFO should be considered as SI_FROMUSER()Oleg Nesterov
No changes in compiled code. The patch adds the new helper, si_fromuser() and changes check_kill_permission() to use this helper. The real effect of this patch is that from now we "officially" consider SEND_SIG_NOINFO signal as "from user-space" signals. This is already true if we look at the code which uses SEND_SIG_NOINFO, except __send_signal() has another opinion - see the next patch. The naming of these special SEND_SIG_XXX siginfo's is really bad imho. From __send_signal()'s pov they mean SEND_SIG_NOINFO from user SEND_SIG_PRIV from kernel SEND_SIG_FORCED no info Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16ptrace: copy_process() should disable steppingOleg Nesterov
If the tracee calls fork() after PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, the forked child starts with TIF_SINGLESTEP/X86_EFLAGS_TF bits copied from ptraced parent. This is not right, especially when the new child is not auto-attaced: in this case it is killed by SIGTRAP. Change copy_process() to call user_disable_single_step(). Tested on x86. Test-case: #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <signal.h> #include <sys/ptrace.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <assert.h> int main(void) { int pid, status; if (!(pid = fork())) { assert(ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME) == 0); kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP); if (!fork()) { /* kernel bug: this child will be killed by SIGTRAP */ printf("Hello world\n"); return 43; } wait(&status); return WEXITSTATUS(status); } for (;;) { assert(pid == wait(&status)); if (WIFEXITED(status)) break; assert(ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, pid, 0,0) == 0); } assert(WEXITSTATUS(status) == 43); return 0; } Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16memcg: coalesce uncharge during unmap/truncateKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
In massive parallel enviroment, res_counter can be a performance bottleneck. One strong techinque to reduce lock contention is reducing calls by coalescing some amount of calls into one. Considering charge/uncharge chatacteristic, - charge is done one by one via demand-paging. - uncharge is done by - in chunk at munmap, truncate, exit, execve... - one by one via vmscan/paging. It seems we have a chance to coalesce uncharges for improving scalability at unmap/truncation. This patch is a for coalescing uncharge. For avoiding scattering memcg's structure to functions under /mm, this patch adds memcg batch uncharge information to the task. A reason for per-task batching is for making use of caller's context information. We do batched uncharge (deleyed uncharge) when truncation/unmap occurs but do direct uncharge when uncharge is called by memory reclaim (vmscan.c). The degree of coalescing depends on callers - at invalidate/trucate... pagevec size - at unmap ....ZAP_BLOCK_SIZE (memory itself will be freed in this degree.) Then, we'll not coalescing too much. On x86-64 8cpu server, I tested overheads of memcg at page fault by running a program which does map/fault/unmap in a loop. Running a task per a cpu by taskset and see sum of the number of page faults in 60secs. [without memcg config] 40156968 page-faults # 0.085 M/sec ( +- 0.046% ) 27.67 cache-miss/faults [root cgroup] 36659599 page-faults # 0.077 M/sec ( +- 0.247% ) 31.58 miss/faults [in a child cgroup] 18444157 page-faults # 0.039 M/sec ( +- 0.133% ) 69.96 miss/faults [child with this patch] 27133719 page-faults # 0.057 M/sec ( +- 0.155% ) 47.16 miss/faults We can see some amounts of improvement. (root cgroup doesn't affected by this patch) Another patch for "charge" will follow this and above will be improved more. Changelog(since 2009/10/02): - renamed filed of memcg_batch (as pages to bytes, memsw to memsw_bytes) - some clean up and commentary/description updates. - added initialize code to copy_process(). (possible bug fix) Changelog(old): - fixed !CONFIG_MEM_CGROUP case. - rebased onto the latest mmotm + softlimit fix patches. - unified patch for callers - added commetns. - make ->do_batch as bool. - removed css_get() at el. We don't need it. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16const: constify remaining pipe_buf_operationsAlexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16timecompare: fix half-Y2K38 problem in timecompare_update while calculating ↵Barry Song
offset ktime will overflow from 03:14:07 UTC on Tuesday, 19 January 2038, ktime_add() in timecompare_update() will overflow a half earlier. As a result, wrong offset will be gotten, then cause some strange problems. Signed-off-by: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15perf_events: Fix perf_event_attr layoutPeter Zijlstra
The miss-alignment of bp_addr created a 32bit hole, causing different structure packings on 32 and 64 bit machines. Fix that by moving __reserve_2 into that hole. Further, remove the useless struct and redundant __bp_reserve muck. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1260902591.8023.781.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-15Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (26 commits) clockevents: Convert to raw_spinlock clockevents: Make tick_device_lock static debugobjects: Convert to raw_spinlocks perf_event: Convert to raw_spinlock hrtimers: Convert to raw_spinlocks genirq: Convert irq_desc.lock to raw_spinlock smp: Convert smplocks to raw_spinlocks rtmutes: Convert rtmutex.lock to raw_spinlock sched: Convert pi_lock to raw_spinlock sched: Convert cpupri lock to raw_spinlock sched: Convert rt_runtime_lock to raw_spinlock sched: Convert rq->lock to raw_spinlock plist: Make plist debugging raw_spinlock aware bkl: Fixup core_lock fallout locking: Cleanup the name space completely locking: Further name space cleanups alpha: Fix fallout from locking changes locking: Implement new raw_spinlock locking: Convert raw_rwlock functions to arch_rwlock locking: Convert raw_rwlock to arch_rwlock ...
2009-12-15tree-wide: convert open calls to remove spaces to skip_spaces() lib functionAndré Goddard Rosa
Makes use of skip_spaces() defined in lib/string.c for removing leading spaces from strings all over the tree. It decreases lib.a code size by 47 bytes and reuses the function tree-wide: text data bss dec hex filename 64688 584 592 65864 10148 (TOTALS-BEFORE) 64641 584 592 65817 10119 (TOTALS-AFTER) Also, while at it, if we see (*str && isspace(*str)), we can be sure to remove the first condition (*str) as the second one (isspace(*str)) also evaluates to 0 whenever *str == 0, making it redundant. In other words, "a char equals zero is never a space". Julia Lawall tried the semantic patch (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr) below, and found occurrences of this pattern on 3 more files: drivers/leds/led-class.c drivers/leds/ledtrig-timer.c drivers/video/output.c @@ expression str; @@ ( // ignore skip_spaces cases while (*str && isspace(*str)) { \(str++;\|++str;\) } | - *str && isspace(*str) ) Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15vt: introduce and use vt_kmsg_redirect() functionBernhard Walle
The kernel offers with TIOCL_GETKMSGREDIRECT ioctl() the possibility to redirect the kernel messages to a specific console. However, since it's not possible to switch to the kernel message console after a panic(), it would be nice if the kernel would print the panic message on the current console. This patch series adds a new interface to access the global kmsg_redirect variable by a function to be able to use it in code where CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE is not set (kernel/panic.c). This patch: Instead of using and exporting a global value kmsg_redirect, introduce a function vt_kmsg_redirect() that both can set and return the console where messages are printed. Change all users of kmsg_redirect (the VT code itself and kernel/power.c) to the new interface. The main advantage is that vt_kmsg_redirect() can also be used when CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE is not set. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bernhard@bwalle.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15kernel/sys.c: fix "warning: do-while statement is not a compound statement" ↵H Hartley Sweeten
noise do_each_thread/while_each_thread wrap a block of code that is in this format: for (...) do ... while If curly braces do not surround the inner loop the following warning is generated by sparse: warning: do-while statement is not a compound statement Fix the warning by adding the braces. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15generic-ipi: cleanup for generic_smp_call_function_interrupt()Xiao Guangrong
Use smp_processor_id() instead of get_cpu() and put_cpu() in generic_smp_call_function_interrupt(), It's no need to disable preempt, because we must call generic_smp_call_function_interrupt() with interrupts disabled. Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15'sysctl_max_map_count' should be non-negativeAmerigo Wang
Jan Engelhardt reported we have this problem: setting max_map_count to a value large enough results in programs dying at first try. This is on 2.6.31.6: 15:59 borg:/proc/sys/vm # echo $[1<<31-1] >max_map_count 15:59 borg:/proc/sys/vm # cat max_map_count 1073741824 15:59 borg:/proc/sys/vm # echo $[1<<31] >max_map_count 15:59 borg:/proc/sys/vm # cat max_map_count Killed This is because we have a chance to make 'max_map_count' negative. but it's meaningless. Make it only accept non-negative values. Reported-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15hugetlb: derive huge pages nodes allowed from task mempolicyLee Schermerhorn
This patch derives a "nodes_allowed" node mask from the numa mempolicy of the task modifying the number of persistent huge pages to control the allocation, freeing and adjusting of surplus huge pages when the pool page count is modified via the new sysctl or sysfs attribute "nr_hugepages_mempolicy". The nodes_allowed mask is derived as follows: * For "default" [NULL] task mempolicy, a NULL nodemask_t pointer is produced. This will cause the hugetlb subsystem to use node_online_map as the "nodes_allowed". This preserves the behavior before this patch. * For "preferred" mempolicy, including explicit local allocation, a nodemask with the single preferred node will be produced. "local" policy will NOT track any internode migrations of the task adjusting nr_hugepages. * For "bind" and "interleave" policy, the mempolicy's nodemask will be used. * Other than to inform the construction of the nodes_allowed node mask, the actual mempolicy mode is ignored. That is, all modes behave like interleave over the resulting nodes_allowed mask with no "fallback". See the updated documentation [next patch] for more information about the implications of this patch. Examples: Starting with: Node 0 HugePages_Total: 0 Node 1 HugePages_Total: 0 Node 2 HugePages_Total: 0 Node 3 HugePages_Total: 0 Default behavior [with or without this patch] balances persistent hugepage allocation across nodes [with sufficient contiguous memory]: sysctl vm.nr_hugepages[_mempolicy]=32 yields: Node 0 HugePages_Total: 8 Node 1 HugePages_Total: 8 Node 2 HugePages_Total: 8 Node 3 HugePages_Total: 8 Of course, we only have nr_hugepages_mempolicy with the patch, but with default mempolicy, nr_hugepages_mempolicy behaves the same as nr_hugepages. Applying mempolicy--e.g., with numactl [using '-m' a.k.a. '--membind' because it allows multiple nodes to be specified and it's easy to type]--we can allocate huge pages on individual nodes or sets of nodes. So, starting from the condition above, with 8 huge pages per node, add 8 more to node 2 using: numactl -m 2 sysctl vm.nr_hugepages_mempolicy=40 This yields: Node 0 HugePages_Total: 8 Node 1 HugePages_Total: 8 Node 2 HugePages_Total: 16 Node 3 HugePages_Total: 8 The incremental 8 huge pages were restricted to node 2 by the specified mempolicy. Similarly, we can use mempolicy to free persistent huge pages from specified nodes: numactl -m 0,1 sysctl vm.nr_hugepages_mempolicy=32 yields: Node 0 HugePages_Total: 4 Node 1 HugePages_Total: 4 Node 2 HugePages_Total: 16 Node 3 HugePages_Total: 8 The 8 huge pages freed were balanced over nodes 0 and 1. [rientjes@google.com: accomodate reworked NODEMASK_ALLOC] Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15bsdacct: fix uid/gid misreportingAlexey Dobriyan
commit d8e180dcd5bbbab9cd3ff2e779efcf70692ef541 "bsdacct: switch credentials for writing to the accounting file" introduced credential switching during final acct data collecting. However, uid/gid pair continued to be collected from current which became credentials of who created acct file, not who exits. Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14676 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Reported-by: Juho K. Juopperi <jkj@kapsi.fi> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15perf_event: Fix incorrect range check on cpu numberPaul Mackerras
It is quite legitimate for CPUs to be numbered sparsely, meaning that it possible for an online CPU to have a number which is greater than the total count of possible CPUs. Currently find_get_context() has a sanity check on the cpu number where it checks it against num_possible_cpus(). This test can fail for a legitimate cpu number if the cpu_possible_mask is sparsely populated. This fixes the problem by checking the CPU number against nr_cpumask_bits instead, since that is the appropriate check to ensure that the cpu number is same to pass to cpu_isset() subsequently. Reported-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Tested-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <20091215084032.GA18661@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-15tracing: Fix return of trace_dump_stack()Steven Rostedt
The trace_dump_stack() returned a value for a void function. Also, added the missing stub for trace_dump_stack() when tracing is not configured. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <20091214162713.GA31060@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-15module: handle ppc64 relocating kcrctabs when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=yRusty Russell
powerpc applies relocations to the kcrctab. They're absolute symbols, but it's not completely unreasonable: other archs may too, but the relocation is often 0. http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2009-November/077972.html Inspired-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Tested-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-12-14clockevents: Convert to raw_spinlockThomas Gleixner
Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to raw_spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14clockevents: Make tick_device_lock staticThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14perf_event: Convert to raw_spinlockThomas Gleixner
Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to raw_spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14hrtimers: Convert to raw_spinlocksThomas Gleixner
Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to raw_spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14genirq: Convert irq_desc.lock to raw_spinlockThomas Gleixner
Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to raw_spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14smp: Convert smplocks to raw_spinlocksThomas Gleixner
Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to raw_spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14rtmutes: Convert rtmutex.lock to raw_spinlockThomas Gleixner
Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to raw_spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14sched: Convert pi_lock to raw_spinlockThomas Gleixner
Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to raw_spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14sched: Convert cpupri lock to raw_spinlockThomas Gleixner
Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to raw_spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14sched: Convert rt_runtime_lock to raw_spinlockThomas Gleixner
Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to raw_spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14sched: Convert rq->lock to raw_spinlockThomas Gleixner
Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to raw_spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14plist: Make plist debugging raw_spinlock awareThomas Gleixner
plists are used with spinlocks and raw_spinlocks. Change the plist debugging to handle both types. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14locking: Cleanup the name space completelyThomas Gleixner
Make the name space hierarchy of locking functions consistent: raw_spin* -> _raw_spin* -> __raw_spin* No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14locking: Further name space cleanupsThomas Gleixner
The name space hierarchy for the internal lock functions is now a bit backwards. raw_spin* functions map to _spin* which use __spin*, while we would like to have _raw_spin* and __raw_spin*. _raw_spin* is already used by lock debugging, so rename those funtions to do_raw_spin* to free up the _raw_spin* name space. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14locking: Implement new raw_spinlockThomas Gleixner
Now that the raw_spin name space is freed up, we can implement raw_spinlock and the related functions which are used to annotate the locks which are not converted to sleeping spinlocks in preempt-rt. A side effect is that only such locks can be used with the low level lock fsunctions which circumvent lockdep. For !rt spin_* functions are mapped to the raw_spin* implementations. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14locking: Convert __raw_spin* functions to arch_spin*Thomas Gleixner
Name space cleanup. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
2009-12-14locking: Rename __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED to __ARCH_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKEDThomas Gleixner
Further name space cleanup. No functional change Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
2009-12-14locking: Convert raw_spinlock to arch_spinlockThomas Gleixner
The raw_spin* namespace was taken by lockdep for the architecture specific implementations. raw_spin_* would be the ideal name space for the spinlocks which are not converted to sleeping locks in preempt-rt. Linus suggested to convert the raw_ to arch_ locks and cleanup the name space instead of using an artifical name like core_spin, atomic_spin or whatever No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
2009-12-14locking: Reorder functions in spinlock.cThomas Gleixner
Separate spin_lock and rw_lock functions. Preempt-RT needs to exclude the rw_lock functions from being compiled. The reordering allows to do that with a single #ifdef. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (34 commits) m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end percpu: add missing per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() definition for UP percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page percpu: make misc percpu symbols unique percpu: make percpu symbols in ia64 unique percpu: make percpu symbols in powerpc unique percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique percpu: make percpu symbols in xen unique percpu: make percpu symbols in cpufreq unique percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer unique percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique percpu: remove some sparse warnings percpu: make alloc_percpu() handle array types vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var() this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in trace_functions_graph.c this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in nmi handling this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations in RCU this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics ... Fix up trivial (famous last words) global per-cpu naming conflicts in arch/x86/kvm/svm.c mm/slab.c