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2010-12-20workqueue: allow chained queueing during destructionTejun Heo
Currently, destroy_workqueue() makes the workqueue deny all new queueing by setting WQ_DYING and flushes the workqueue once before proceeding with destruction; however, there are cases where work items queue more related work items. Currently, such users need to explicitly flush the workqueue multiple times depending on the possible depth of such chained queueing. This patch updates the queueing path such that a work item can queue further work items on the same workqueue even when WQ_DYING is set. The flush on destruction is automatically retried until the workqueue is empty. This guarantees that the workqueue is empty on destruction while allowing chained queueing. The flush retry logic whines if it takes too many retries to drain the workqueue. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2010-12-14workqueue: It is likely that WORKER_NOT_RUNNING is trueSteven Rostedt
Running the annotate branch profiler on three boxes, including my main box that runs firefox, evolution, xchat, and is part of the distcc farm, showed this with the likelys in the workqueue code: correct incorrect % Function File Line ------- --------- - -------- ---- ---- 96 996253 99 wq_worker_sleeping workqueue.c 703 96 996247 99 wq_worker_waking_up workqueue.c 677 The likely()s in this case were assuming that WORKER_NOT_RUNNING will most likely be false. But this is not the case. The reason is (and shown by adding trace_printks and testing it) that most of the time WORKER_PREP is set. In worker_thread() we have: worker_clr_flags(worker, WORKER_PREP); [ do work stuff ] worker_set_flags(worker, WORKER_PREP, false); (that 'false' means not to wake up an idle worker) The wq_worker_sleeping() is called from schedule when a worker thread is putting itself to sleep. Which happens most of the time outside of that [ do work stuff ]. The wq_worker_waking_up is called by the wakeup worker code, which is also callod outside that [ do work stuff ]. Thus, the likely and unlikely used by those two functions are actually backwards. Remove the annotation and let gcc figure it out. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-11-26workqueue: check the allocation of system_unbound_wqHitoshi Mitake
I found a trivial bug on initialization of workqueue. Current init_workqueues doesn't check the result of allocation of system_unbound_wq, this should be checked like other queues. Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-11-19Revert "kernel: make /proc/kallsyms mode 400 to reduce ease of attacking"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit 59365d136d205cc20fe666ca7f89b1c5001b0d5a. It turns out that this can break certain existing user land setups. Quoth Sarah Sharp: "On Wednesday, I updated my branch to commit 460781b from linus' tree, and my box would not boot. klogd segfaulted, which stalled the whole system. At first I thought it actually hung the box, but it continued booting after 5 minutes, and I was able to log in. It dropped back to the text console instead of the graphical bootup display for that period of time. dmesg surprisingly still works. I've bisected the problem down to this commit (commit 59365d136d205cc20fe666ca7f89b1c5001b0d5a) The box is running klogd 1.5.5ubuntu3 (from Jaunty). Yes, I know that's old. I read the bit in the commit about changing the permissions of kallsyms after boot, but if I can't boot that doesn't help." So let's just keep the old default, and encourage distributions to do the "chmod -r /proc/kallsyms" in their bootup scripts. This is not worth a kernel option to change default behavior, since it's so easily done in user space. Reported-and-bisected-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com> Cc: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org> Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-18Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: kgdb,ppc: Fix regression in evr register handling kgdb,x86: fix regression in detach handling kdb: fix crash when KDB_BASE_CMD_MAX is exceeded kdb: fix memory leak in kdb_main.c
2010-11-17kdb: fix crash when KDB_BASE_CMD_MAX is exceededJovi Zhang
When the number of dyanmic kdb commands exceeds KDB_BASE_CMD_MAX, the kernel will fault. Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-11-17kdb: fix memory leak in kdb_main.cJovi Zhang
Call kfree in the error path as well as the success path in kdb_ll(). Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-11-17BKL: remove extraneous #include <smp_lock.h>Arnd Bergmann
The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point, leaving only the #include. Remove this too as a cleanup. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-17kernel: make /proc/kallsyms mode 400 to reduce ease of attackingMarcus Meissner
Making /proc/kallsyms readable only for root by default makes it slightly harder for attackers to write generic kernel exploits by removing one source of knowledge where things are in the kernel. This is the second submit, discussion happened on this on first submit and mostly concerned that this is just one hole of the sieve ... but one of the bigger ones. Changing the permissions of at least System.map and vmlinux is also required to fix the same set, but a packaging issue. Target of this starter patch and follow ups is removing any kind of kernel space address information leak from the kernel. [ Side note: the default of root-only reading is the "safe" value, and it's easy enough to then override at any time after boot. The /proc filesystem allows root to change the permissions with a regular chmod, so you can "revert" this at run-time by simply doing chmod og+r /proc/kallsyms as root if you really want regular users to see the kernel symbols. It does help some tools like "perf" figure them out without any setup, so it may well make sense in some situations. - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-16Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Fix cross-sched-class wakeup preemption sched: Fix runnable condition for stoptask sched: Use group weight, idle cpu metrics to fix imbalances during idle
2010-11-16Merge branch 'pm-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6 * 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6: PM / PM QoS: Fix reversed min and max PM / OPP: Hide OPP configuration when SoCs do not provide an implementation PM: Allow devices to be removed during late suspend and early resume
2010-11-16Merge branch 'futexes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'futexes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: futex: Address compiler warnings in exit_robust_list
2010-11-16Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] kprobes: Fix the return address of multiple kretprobes [S390] kprobes: disable interrupts throughout [S390] ftrace: build without frame pointers on s390 [S390] mm: add devmem_is_allowed() for STRICT_DEVMEM checking [S390] vmlogrdr: purge after recording is switched off [S390] cio: fix incorrect ccw_device_init_count [S390] tape: add medium state notifications [S390] fix get_user_pages_fast
2010-11-16kernel/sysctl.c: Fix build failure with !CONFIG_PRINTKJoe Perches
Sigh... Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-15capabilities/syslog: open code cap_syslog logic to fix build failureEric Paris
The addition of CONFIG_SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT resulted in a build failure when CONFIG_PRINTK=n. This is because the capabilities code which used the new option was built even though the variable in question didn't exist. The patch here fixes this by moving the capabilities checks out of the LSM and into the caller. All (known) LSMs should have been calling the capabilities hook already so it actually makes the code organization better to eliminate the hook altogether. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-15PM / PM QoS: Fix reversed min and maxColin Cross
pm_qos_get_value had min and max reversed, causing all pm_qos requests to have no effect. Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> Acked-by: mark <markgross@thegnar.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-11-12Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (27 commits) block: remove unused copy_io_context() Documentation: remove anticipatory scheduler info block: remove REQ_HARDBARRIER ioprio: rcu_read_lock/unlock protect find_task_by_vpid call (V2) ioprio: fix RCU locking around task dereference block: ioctl: fix information leak to userland block: read i_size with i_size_read() cciss: fix proc warning on attempt to remove non-existant directory bio: take care not overflow page count when mapping/copying user data block: limit vec count in bio_kmalloc() and bio_alloc_map_data() block: take care not to overflow when calculating total iov length block: check for proper length of iov entries in blk_rq_map_user_iov() cciss: remove controllers supported by hpsa cciss: use usleep_range not msleep for small sleeps cciss: limit commands allocated on reset_devices cciss: Use kernel provided PCI state save and restore functions cciss: fix board status waiting code drbd: Removed checks for REQ_HARDBARRIER on incomming BIOs drbd: REQ_HARDBARRIER -> REQ_FUA transition for meta data accesses drbd: Removed the BIO_RW_BARRIER support form the receiver/epoch code ...
2010-11-12Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf, amd: Use kmalloc_node(,__GFP_ZERO) for northbridge structure allocation perf_events: Fix time tracking in samples perf trace: update usage perf trace: update Documentation with new perf trace variants perf trace: live-mode command-line cleanup perf trace record: handle commands correctly perf record: make the record options available outside perf record perf trace scripting: remove system-wide param from shell scripts perf trace scripting: fix some small memory leaks and missing error checks perf: Fix usages of profile_cpu in builtin-top.c to use cpu_list perf, ui: Eliminate stack-smashing protection compiler complaint
2010-11-12Restrict unprivileged access to kernel syslogDan Rosenberg
The kernel syslog contains debugging information that is often useful during exploitation of other vulnerabilities, such as kernel heap addresses. Rather than futilely attempt to sanitize hundreds (or thousands) of printk statements and simultaneously cripple useful debugging functionality, it is far simpler to create an option that prevents unprivileged users from reading the syslog. This patch, loosely based on grsecurity's GRKERNSEC_DMESG, creates the dmesg_restrict sysctl. When set to "0", the default, no restrictions are enforced. When set to "1", only users with CAP_SYS_ADMIN can read the kernel syslog via dmesg(8) or other mechanisms. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: explain the config option in kernel.txt] Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-12latencytop: fix per task accumulatorKen Chen
Per task latencytop accumulator prematurely terminates due to erroneous placement of latency_record_count. It should be incremented whenever a new record is allocated instead of increment on every latencytop event. Also fix search iterator to only search known record events instead of blindly searching all pre-allocated space. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-12kernel/range.c: fix clean_sort_range() for the case of full arrayAlexey Khoroshilov
clean_sort_range() should return a number of nonempty elements of range array, but if the array is full clean_sort_range() returns 0. The problem is that the number of nonempty elements is evaluated by finding the first empty element of the array. If there is no such element it returns an initial value of local variable nr_range that is zero. The fix is trivial: it changes initial value of nr_range to size of the array. The bug can lead to loss of information regarding all ranges, since typically returned value of clean_sort_range() is considered as an actual number of ranges in the array after a series of add/subtract operations. Found by Analytical Verification project of Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org), thanks to Alexander Kolosov. Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-11sched: Fix cross-sched-class wakeup preemptionPeter Zijlstra
Instead of dealing with sched classes inside each check_preempt_curr() implementation, pull out this logic into the generic wakeup preemption path. This fixes a hang in KVM (and others) where we are waiting for the stop machine thread to run ... Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> Tested-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1288891946.2039.31.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-11PM / OPP: Hide OPP configuration when SoCs do not provide an implementationMark Brown
Since the OPP API is only useful with an appropraite SoC-specific implementation there is no point in offering the ability to enable the API on general systems. Provide an ARCH_HAS OPP Kconfig symbol which masks out the option unless selected by an implementation. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Acked-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2010-11-10sched: Fix runnable condition for stoptaskPeter Zijlstra
Heiko reported that the TASK_RUNNING check is not sufficient for CONFIG_PREEMPT=y since we can get preempted with !TASK_RUNNING. He suggested adding a ->se.on_rq test to the existing TASK_RUNNING one, however TASK_RUNNING will always have ->se.on_rq, so we might as well reduce that to a single test. [ stop tasks should never get preempted, but its good to handle this case correctly should this ever happen ] Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-10sched: Use group weight, idle cpu metrics to fix imbalances during idleSuresh Siddha
Currently we consider a sched domain to be well balanced when the imbalance is less than the domain's imablance_pct. As the number of cores and threads are increasing, current values of imbalance_pct (for example 25% for a NUMA domain) are not enough to detect imbalances like: a) On a WSM-EP system (two sockets, each having 6 cores and 12 logical threads), 24 cpu-hogging tasks get scheduled as 13 on one socket and 11 on another socket. Leading to an idle HT cpu. b) On a hypothetial 2 socket NHM-EX system (each socket having 8 cores and 16 logical threads), 16 cpu-hogging tasks can get scheduled as 9 on one socket and 7 on another socket. Leaving one core in a socket idle whereas in another socket we have a core having both its HT siblings busy. While this issue can be fixed by decreasing the domain's imbalance_pct (by making it a function of number of logical cpus in the domain), it can potentially cause more task migrations across sched groups in an overloaded case. Fix this by using imbalance_pct only during newly_idle and busy load balancing. And during idle load balancing, check if there is an imbalance in number of idle cpu's across the busiest and this sched_group or if the busiest group has more tasks than its weight that the idle cpu in this_group can pull. Reported-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1284760952.2676.11.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-10perf_events: Fix time tracking in samplesStephane Eranian
This patch corrects time tracking in samples. Without this patch both time_enabled and time_running are bogus when user asks for PERF_SAMPLE_READ. One uses PERF_SAMPLE_READ to sample the values of other counters in each sample. Because of multiplexing, it is necessary to know both time_enabled, time_running to be able to scale counts correctly. In this second version of the patch, we maintain a shadow copy of ctx->time which allows us to compute ctx->time without calling update_context_time() from NMI context. We avoid the issue that update_context_time() must always be called with ctx->lock held. We do not keep shadow copies of the other event timings because if the lead event is overflowing then it is active and thus it's been scheduled in via event_sched_in() in which case neither tstamp_stopped, tstamp_running can be modified. This timing logic only applies to samples when PERF_SAMPLE_READ is used. Note that this patch does not address timing issues related to sampling inheritance between tasks. This will be addressed in a future patch. With this patch, the libpfm4 example task_smpl now reports correct counts (shown on 2.4GHz Core 2): $ task_smpl -p 2400000000 -e unhalted_core_cycles:u,instructions_retired:u,baclears noploop 5 noploop for 5 seconds IIP:0x000000004006d6 PID:5596 TID:5596 TIME:466,210,211,430 STREAM_ID:33 PERIOD:2,400,000,000 ENA=1,010,157,814 RUN=1,010,157,814 NR=3 2,400,000,254 unhalted_core_cycles:u (33) 2,399,273,744 instructions_retired:u (34) 53,340 baclears (35) Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4cc6e14b.1e07e30a.256e.5190@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-10block: remove REQ_HARDBARRIERChristoph Hellwig
REQ_HARDBARRIER is dead now, so remove the leftovers. What's left at this point is: - various checks inside the block layer. - sanity checks in bio based drivers. - now unused bio_empty_barrier helper. - Xen blockfront use of BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER - it's dead for a while, but Xen really needs to sort out it's barrier situaton. - setting of ordered tags in uas - dead code copied from old scsi drivers. - scsi different retry for barriers - it's dead and should have been removed when flushes were converted to FS requests. - blktrace handling of barriers - removed. Someone who knows blktrace better should add support for REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA, though. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-11-10futex: Address compiler warnings in exit_robust_listDarren Hart
Since commit 1dcc41bb (futex: Change 3rd arg of fetch_robust_entry() to unsigned int*) some gcc versions decided to emit the following warning: kernel/futex.c: In function ‘exit_robust_list’: kernel/futex.c:2492: warning: ‘next_pi’ may be used uninitialized in this function The commit did not introduce the warning as gcc should have warned before that commit as well. It's just gcc being silly. The code path really can't result in next_pi being unitialized (or should not), but let's keep the build clean. Annotate next_pi as an uninitialized_var. [ tglx: Addressed the same issue in futex_compat.c and massaged the changelog ] Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org> Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <1288897200-13008-1-git-send-email-dvhart@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-11-10[S390] ftrace: build without frame pointers on s390Heiko Carstens
s390 doesn't need FRAME_POINTERS in order to have a working function tracer. We don't need frame pointers in order to get strack traces since we always have valid backchains by using the -mkernel-backchain gcc option. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2010-11-06watchdog: Fix section mismatch and potential undefined behavior.David Daney
Commit d9ca07a05ce1 ("watchdog: Avoid kernel crash when disabling watchdog") introduces a section mismatch. Now that we reference no_watchdog from non-__init code it can no longer be __initdata. Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-05posix-cpu-timers: workaround to suppress the problems with mt execOleg Nesterov
posix-cpu-timers.c correctly assumes that the dying process does posix_cpu_timers_exit_group() and removes all !CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD timers from signal->cpu_timers list. But, it also assumes that timer->it.cpu.task is always the group leader, and thus the dead ->task means the dead thread group. This is obviously not true after de_thread() changes the leader. After that almost every posix_cpu_timer_ method has problems. It is not simple to fix this bug correctly. First of all, I think that timer->it.cpu should use struct pid instead of task_struct. Also, the locking should be reworked completely. In particular, tasklist_lock should not be used at all. This all needs a lot of nontrivial and hard-to-test changes. Change __exit_signal() to do posix_cpu_timers_exit_group() when the old leader dies during exec. This is not the fix, just the temporary hack to hide the problem for 2.6.37 and stable. IOW, this is obviously wrong but this is what we currently have anyway: cpu timers do not work after mt exec. In theory this change adds another race. The exiting leader can detach the timers which were attached to the new leader. However, the window between de_thread() and release_task() is small, we can pretend that sys_timer_create() was called before de_thread(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-05Clean up relay_alloc_page_array() slightly by using vzalloc rather than ↵Jesper Juhl
vmalloc and memset We can optimize kernel/relay.c::relay_alloc_page_array() slightly by using vzalloc. The patch makes these changes: - use vzalloc instead of vmalloc+memset. - remove redundant local variable 'array'. - declare local 'pa_size' as const. Cuts down nicely on both source and object-code size. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-01Merge branches 'irq-core-for-linus' and 'core-locking-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: genirq: Fix up irq_node() for irq_data changes. genirq: Add single IRQ reservation helper genirq: Warn if enable_irq is called before irq is set up * 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: semaphore: Remove mutex emulation staging: Final semaphore cleanup jbd2: Convert jbd2_slab_create_sem to mutex hpfs: Convert sbi->hpfs_creation_de to mutex Fix up trivial change/delete conflicts with deleted 'dream' drivers (drivers/staging/dream/camera/{mt9d112.c,mt9p012_fox.c,mt9t013.c,s5k3e2fx.c})
2010-10-30Merge branches 'perf-fixes-for-linus' and 'x86-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: jump label: Add work around to i386 gcc asm goto bug x86, ftrace: Use safe noops, drop trap test jump_label: Fix unaligned traps on sparc. jump label: Make arch_jump_label_text_poke_early() optional jump label: Fix error with preempt disable holding mutex oprofile: Remove deprecated use of flush_scheduled_work() oprofile: Fix the hang while taking the cpu offline jump label: Fix deadlock b/w jump_label_mutex vs. text_mutex jump label: Fix module __init section race * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Check irq_remapped instead of remapping_enabled in destroy_irq()
2010-10-30audit mmapAl Viro
Normal syscall audit doesn't catch 5th argument of syscall. It also doesn't catch the contents of userland structures pointed to be syscall argument, so for both old and new mmap(2) ABI it doesn't record the descriptor we are mapping. For old one it also misses flags. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-30audit: Use rcu for task lookup protectionThomas Gleixner
Protect the task lookups in audit_receive_msg() with rcu_read_lock() instead of tasklist_lock and use lock/unlock_sighand to protect against the exit race. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-30audit: Do not send uninitialized data for AUDIT_TTY_GETThomas Gleixner
audit_receive_msg() sends uninitialized data for AUDIT_TTY_GET when the task was not found. Send reply only when task was found. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-30audit: Call tty_audit_push_task() outside preempt disabledThomas Gleixner
While auditing all tasklist_lock read_lock sites I stumbled over the following call chain: audit_prepare_user_tty() read_lock(&tasklist_lock); tty_audit_push_task(); mutex_lock(&buf->mutex); --> buf->mutex is locked with preemption disabled. Solve this by acquiring a reference to the task struct under rcu_read_lock and call tty_audit_push_task outside of the preempt disabled region. Move all code which needs to be protected by sighand lock into tty_audit_push_task() and use lock/unlock_sighand as we do not hold tasklist_lock. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-30in untag_chunk() we need to do alloc_chunk() a bit earlierAl Viro
... while we are not holding spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-30audit: make functions staticStephen Hemminger
I was doing some namespace checks and found some simple stuff in audit that could be cleaned up. Make some functions static, and put const on make_reply payload arg. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-30Audit: add support to match lsm labels on user audit messagesMiloslav Trmac
Add support for matching by security label (e.g. SELinux context) of the sender of an user-space audit record. The audit filter code already allows user space to configure such filters, but they were ignored during evaluation. This patch implements evaluation of these filters. For example, after application of this patch, PAM authentication logs caused by cron can be disabled using auditctl -a user,never -F subj_type=crond_t Signed-off-by: Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-29Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: kgdb,ppc: Individual register get/set for ppc kgdbts: prevent re-entry to kgdbts before it unregisters debug_core,x86,blackfin: Clean up hw debug disable API kdb: Fix early debugging crash regression kgdb,arm: fix register dump kdb: fix per_cpu command to remove supress mask kdb: Add kdb kernel module sample
2010-10-29debug_core,x86,blackfin: Clean up hw debug disable APIDongdong Deng
The kgdb_disable_hw_debug() was an architecture specific function for disabling all hardware breakpoints on a per cpu basis when entering the debug core. This patch will remove the weak function kdbg_disable_hw_debug() and change it into a call back which lives with the rest of hw breakpoint call backs in struct kgdb_arch. Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-10-29kdb: Fix early debugging crash regressionJason Wessel
The kdb_current legally be equal to NULL in the early boot of the x86 arch. The problem pcan be observed by booting with the kernel arguments: earlyprintk=vga ekgdboc=kbd kgdbwait The kdb shell will oops on entry and recursively fault because it cannot get past the final stage of shell initialization. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-10-29kdb: fix per_cpu command to remove supress maskJason Wessel
Rusty pointed out that the per_cpu command uses up lots of space on the stack and the cpu supress mask is probably not needed. This patch removes the need for the supress mask as well as fixing up the following problems with the kdb per_cpu command: * The per_cpu command should allow an address as an argument * When you have more data than can be displayed on one screen allow the user to break out of the print loop. Reported-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-10-29jump label: Make arch_jump_label_text_poke_early() optionalSteven Rostedt
Some archs do not need to do anything special for jump labels on startup (like MIPS). This patch adds a weak function stub for arch_jump_label_text_poke_early(); Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <1286218615-24011-2-git-send-email-ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> LKML-Reference: <20101015201037.703989993@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-10-29jump label: Fix error with preempt disable holding mutexSteven Rostedt
Kprobes and jump label were having a race between mutexes that was fixed by reordering the jump label. But this reordering moved the jump label mutex into a preempt disable location. This patch does a little fiddling to move the grabbing of the jump label mutex from inside the preempt disable section and still keep the order correct between the mutex and the kprobes lock. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-10-29Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (29 commits) braino in internal.h convert simple cases of nfs-related ->get_sb() to ->mount() convert btrfs convert ceph convert gfs2 convert afs convert ecryptfs convert sysfs convert cgroup and cpuset switch get_sb_ns() users switch procfs to ->mount() setting ->proc_mnt doesn't belong in proc_get_sb() convert cifs convert nilfs switch logfs to ->mount() logfs: fix a leak in get_sb logfs get_sb, part 3 logfs get_sb, part 2 logfs get_sb massage, part 1 convert v9fs ...
2010-10-29Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched_stat: Update sched_info_queue/dequeue() code comments sched, cgroup: Fixup broken cgroup movement
2010-10-29convert cgroup and cpusetAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>