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Adrian Bunk
b747c8c102 make ptrace_untrace() static
ptrace_untrace() can now become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:39 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
30e8e13603 cpuset: use seq_*mask_* to print masks
1) seq_file excepts that m->count == m->size when it's buf is full,
   so current code will causes bugs when buf is overflow.

2) There is not too good that cpuset accesses struct seq_file's
   fields directly.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:39 -07:00
Rakib Mullick
40b6a76237 cpuset.c: remove extra variable
Remove the use of int cpus_nonempty variable from 'update_flag' function.

Signed-off-by: Md.Rakib H. Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:39 -07:00
Paul Menage
cc31edceee cgroups: convert tasks file to use a seq_file with shared pid array
Rather than pre-generating the entire text for the "tasks" file each
time the file is opened, we instead just generate/update the array of
process ids and use a seq_file to report these to userspace.  All open
file handles on the same "tasks" file can share a pid array, which may
be updated any time that no thread is actively reading the array.  By
sharing the array, the potential for userspace to DoS the system by
opening many handles on the same "tasks" file is removed.

[Based on a patch by Lai Jiangshan, extended to use seq_file]

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:38 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
146aa1bd05 cgroups: fix probable race with put_css_set[_taskexit] and find_css_set
put_css_set_taskexit may be called when find_css_set is called on other
cpu.  And the race will occur:

put_css_set_taskexit side                    find_css_set side

                                        |
atomic_dec_and_test(&kref->refcount)    |
    /* kref->refcount = 0 */            |
....................................................................
                                        |  read_lock(&css_set_lock)
                                        |  find_existing_css_set
                                        |  get_css_set
                                        |  read_unlock(&css_set_lock);
....................................................................
__release_css_set                       |
....................................................................
                                        | /* use a released css_set */
                                        |

[put_css_set is the same. But in the current code, all put_css_set are
put into cgroup mutex critical region as the same as find_css_set.]

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: repair comments]
[menage@google.com: eliminate race in css_set refcounting]
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:38 -07:00
WANG Cong
c3b9f5afc7 kernel/configs.c: remove useless comments
These comments are useless, remove them.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
Matt Helsley
1aece34833 container freezer: rename check_if_frozen()
check_if_frozen() sounds like it should return something when in fact it's
just updating the freezer state.

Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
Matt Helsley
81dcf33c2a container freezer: make freezer state names less generic
Rename cgroup freezer states to be less generic to avoid any name
collisions while also better describing what each state is.

Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
Matt Helsley
957a4eeaf4 container freezer: prevent frozen tasks or cgroups from changing
Don't let frozen tasks or cgroups change.  This means frozen tasks can't
leave their current cgroup for another cgroup.  It also means that tasks
cannot be added to or removed from a cgroup in the FROZEN state.  We
enforce these rules by checking for frozen tasks and cgroups in the
can_attach() function.

Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
Matt Helsley
5a06915c6d container freezer: skip frozen cgroups during power management resume
When a system is resumed after a suspend, it will also unfreeze frozen
cgroups.

This patchs modifies the resume sequence to skip the tasks which are part
of a frozen control group.

Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
Matt Helsley
dc52ddc0e6 container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystem
This patch implements a new freezer subsystem in the control groups
framework.  It provides a way to stop and resume execution of all tasks in
a cgroup by writing in the cgroup filesystem.

The freezer subsystem in the container filesystem defines a file named
freezer.state.  Writing "FROZEN" to the state file will freeze all tasks
in the cgroup.  Subsequently writing "RUNNING" will unfreeze the tasks in
the cgroup.  Reading will return the current state.

* Examples of usage :

   # mkdir /containers/freezer
   # mount -t cgroup -ofreezer freezer  /containers
   # mkdir /containers/0
   # echo $some_pid > /containers/0/tasks

to get status of the freezer subsystem :

   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   RUNNING

to freeze all tasks in the container :

   # echo FROZEN > /containers/0/freezer.state
   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   FREEZING
   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   FROZEN

to unfreeze all tasks in the container :

   # echo RUNNING > /containers/0/freezer.state
   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   RUNNING

This is the basic mechanism which should do the right thing for user space
task in a simple scenario.

It's important to note that freezing can be incomplete.  In that case we
return EBUSY.  This means that some tasks in the cgroup are busy doing
something that prevents us from completely freezing the cgroup at this
time.  After EBUSY, the cgroup will remain partially frozen -- reflected
by freezer.state reporting "FREEZING" when read.  The state will remain
"FREEZING" until one of these things happens:

	1) Userspace cancels the freezing operation by writing "RUNNING" to
		the freezer.state file
	2) Userspace retries the freezing operation by writing "FROZEN" to
		the freezer.state file (writing "FREEZING" is not legal
		and returns EIO)
	3) The tasks that blocked the cgroup from entering the "FROZEN"
		state disappear from the cgroup's set of tasks.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export thaw_process]
Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
Matt Helsley
8174f1503f container freezer: make refrigerator always available
Now that the TIF_FREEZE flag is available in all architectures, extract
the refrigerator() and freeze_task() from kernel/power/process.c and make
it available to all.

The refrigerator() can now be used in a control group subsystem
implementing a control group freezer.

Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
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>
2008-10-20 08:52:33 -07:00
Lee Schermerhorn
af936a1606 vmscan: unevictable LRU scan sysctl
This patch adds a function to scan individual or all zones' unevictable
lists and move any pages that have become evictable onto the respective
zone's inactive list, where shrink_inactive_list() will deal with them.

Adds sysctl to scan all nodes, and per node attributes to individual
nodes' zones.

Kosaki: If evictable page found in unevictable lru when write
/proc/sys/vm/scan_unevictable_pages, print filename and file offset of
these pages.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix one CONFIG_MMU=n build error]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: adapt vmscan-unevictable-lru-scan-sysctl.patch to new sysfs API]
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
26e9a39777 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6: (25 commits)
  staging: at76_usb wireless driver
  Staging: workaround build system bug
  Staging: Lindent sxg.c
  Staging: SLICOSS: Call pci_release_regions at driver exit
  Staging: SLICOSS: Fix remaining type names
  Staging: SLICOSS: Fix warnings due to static usage
  Staging: SLICOSS: lots of checkpatch fixes
  Staging: go7007 v4l fixes
  Staging: Fix gcc warnings in sxg
  Staging: add echo cancelation module
  Staging: add wlan-ng prism2 usb driver
  Staging: add w35und wifi driver
  Staging: USB/IP: add host driver
  Staging: USB/IP: add client driver
  Staging: USB/IP: add common functions needed
  Staging: add the go7007 video driver
  Staging: add me4000 pci data collection driver
  Staging: add me4000 firmware files
  Staging: add sxg network driver
  Staging: add Alacritech slicoss network driver
  ...

Fixed up conflicts due to taint flags changes and MAINTAINERS cleanup in
MAINTAINERS, include/linux/kernel.h and kernel/panic.c.
2008-10-17 09:50:12 -07:00
David S. Miller
54514a70ad softirq: Add support for triggering softirq work on softirqs.
This is basically a genericization of Jens Axboe's block layer
remote softirq changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-17 08:46:56 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
8cde1ad668 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of 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_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards
2008-10-16 15:38:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1c95e1b690 Fix kernel/softirq.c printk format warning properly
This fixes the broken 77af7e3403
("softirq, warning fix: correct a format to avoid a warning") fix
correctly.

The type of a pointer subtraction is not "int", nor is it "long".  It
can be either (or something else).  It's "ptrdiff_t", and the printk
format for it is "%td".

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 15:32:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e533b22705 Merge branch 'core-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  do_generic_file_read: s/EINTR/EIO/ if lock_page_killable() fails
  softirq, warning fix: correct a format to avoid a warning
  softirqs, debug: preemption check
  x86, pci-hotplug, calgary / rio: fix EBDA ioremap()
  IO resources, x86: ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding, fix
  IO resources, x86: ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding the BAR sizes
  softlockup: Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt: fix softlockup_thresh description
  dmi scan: warn about too early calls to dmi_check_system()
  generic: redefine resource_size_t as phys_addr_t
  generic: make PFN_PHYS explicitly return phys_addr_t
  generic: add phys_addr_t for holding physical addresses
  softirq: allocate less vectors
  IO resources: fix/remove printk
  printk: robustify printk, update comment
  printk: robustify printk, fix #2
  printk: robustify printk, fix
  printk: robustify printk

Fixed up conflicts in:
	arch/powerpc/include/asm/types.h
	arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
manually.
2008-10-16 15:17:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c813b4e16e Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (46 commits)
  UIO: Fix mapping of logical and virtual memory
  UIO: add automata sercos3 pci card support
  UIO: Change driver name of uio_pdrv
  UIO: Add alignment warnings for uio-mem
  Driver core: add bus_sort_breadthfirst() function
  NET: convert the phy_device file to use bus_find_device_by_name
  kobject: Cleanup kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS
  kobject: Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS
  sysfs: Make dir and name args to sysfs_notify() const
  platform: add new device registration helper
  sysfs: use ilookup5() instead of ilookup5_nowait()
  PNP: create device attributes via default device attributes
  Driver core: make bus_find_device_by_name() more robust
  usb: turn dev_warn+WARN_ON combos into dev_WARN
  debug: use dev_WARN() rather than WARN_ON() in device_pm_add()
  debug: Introduce a dev_WARN() function
  sysfs: fix deadlock
  device model: Do a quickcheck for driver binding before doing an expensive check
  Driver core: Fix cleanup in device_create_vargs().
  Driver core: Clarify device cleanup.
  ...
2008-10-16 12:40:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c8d8a2321f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  module: remove CONFIG_KMOD in comment after #endif
  remove CONFIG_KMOD from fs
  remove CONFIG_KMOD from drivers

Manually fix conflict due to include cleanups in drivers/md/md.c
2008-10-16 12:38:34 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
2b252c5411 make kprobes.c:kretprobe_table_lock() static
Make the needlessly global kretprobe_table_lock() static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:52 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
c26ec88ea8 resources: tidy __request_region()
No functional change.  Just return NULL for kzalloc failure immediately,
rather than wrapping the whole function body in the body of an "if".

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:51 -07:00
Thomas Petazzoni
ebf3f09c63 Configure out AIO support
This patchs adds the CONFIG_AIO option which allows to remove support
for asynchronous I/O operations, that are not necessarly used by
applications, particularly on embedded devices. As this is a
size-reduction option, it depends on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. It allows to
save ~7 kilobytes of kernel code/data:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
1115067	 119180	 217088	1451335	 162547	vmlinux
1108025	 119048	 217088	1444161	 160941	vmlinux.new
  -7042    -132       0   -7174   -1C06 +/-

This patch has been originally written by Matt Mackall
<mpm@selenic.com>, and is part of the Linux Tiny project.

[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:51 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
f221e726bf sysctl: simplify ->strategy
name and nlen parameters passed to ->strategy hook are unused, remove
them.  In general ->strategy hook should know what it's doing, and don't
do something tricky for which, say, pointer to original userspace array
may be needed (name).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [ networking bits ]
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
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>
2008-10-16 11:21:47 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
b418da16dd compat: generic compat get/settimeofday
Nothing arch specific in get/settimeofday.  The details of the timeval
conversion varied a little from arch to arch, but all with the same
results.

Also add an extern declaration for sys_tz to linux/time.h because externs
in .c files are fowned upon.  I'll kill the externs in various other files
in a sparate patch.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [ sparc bits ]
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:33 -07:00
Andi Kleen
20036fdcaf Add kerneldoc documentation for new printk format extensions
Add documentation in kerneldoc for new printk format extensions

This patch documents the new %pS/%pF options in printk in kernel doc.

Hope I didn't miss any other extension.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
6d5cd6effe taint: fix kernel-doc
Move print_tainted() kernel-doc to avoid the following error:

Error(/var/linsrc/mmotm-2008-1002-1617//kernel/panic.c:155): cannot understand prototype: 'struct tnt '

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.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>
2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
Francois Cami
e1f8e87449 Remove Andrew Morton's old email accounts
People can use the real name an an index into MAINTAINERS to find the
current email address.

Signed-off-by: Francois Cami <francois.cami@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
WANG Cong
7968b3d9a6 kernel/kallsyms.c: fix double return
Commit 6dd06c9fbe ("module: make
module_address_lookup safe") introduced double returns in the function
kallsyms_lookup(), it's weird.  The second one should be removed.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.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>
2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
Andrew Morton
9679e4dd62 kernel/sys.c: improve code generation
utsname() is quite expensive to calculate.  Cache it in a local.

          text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
before:  11136     720      16   11872    2e60 kernel/sys.o
after:   11096     720      16   11832    2e38 kernel/sys.o

Acked-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
Vegard Nossum
8798881507 utsname: completely overwrite prior information
On sethostname() and setdomainname(), previous information may be retained
if it was longer than than the new hostname/domainname.

This can be demonstrated trivially by calling sethostname() first with a
long name, then with a short name, and then calling uname() to retrieve
the full buffer that contains the hostname (and possibly parts of the old
hostname), one just has to look past the terminating zero.

I don't know if we should really care that much (hence the RFC); the only
scenarios I can possibly think of is administrator putting something
sensitive in the hostname (or domain name) by accident, and changing it
back will not undo the mistake entirely, though it's not like we can
recover gracefully from "rm -rf /" either...  The other scenario is
namespaces (CLONE_NEWUTS) where some information may be unintentionally
"inherited" from the previous namespace (a program wants to hide the
original name and does clone + sethostname, but some information is still
left).

I think the patch may be defended on grounds of the principle of least
surprise.  But I am not adamant :-)

(I guess the question now is whether userspace should be able to
write embedded NULs into the buffer or not...)

At least the observation has been made and the patch has been presented.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
Dave Hansen
22b8ce9470 profiling: dynamically enable readprofile at runtime
Way too often, I have a machine that exhibits some kind of crappy
behavior.  The CPU looks wedged in the kernel or it is spending way too
much system time and I wonder what is responsible.

I try to run readprofile.  But, of course, Ubuntu doesn't enable it by
default.  Dang!

The reason we boot-time enable it is that it takes a big bufffer that we
generally can only bootmem alloc.  But, does it hurt to at least try and
runtime-alloc it?

To use:
echo 2 > /sys/kernel/profile

Then run readprofile like normal.

This should fix the compile issue with allmodconfig.  I've compile-tested
on a bunch more configs now including a few more architectures.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
Adam Tkac
0c2d64fb6c rlimit: permit setting RLIMIT_NOFILE to RLIM_INFINITY
When a process wants to set the limit of open files to RLIM_INFINITY it
gets EPERM even if it has CAP_SYS_RESOURCE capability.

For example, BIND does:

...
#elif defined(NR_OPEN) && defined(__linux__)
        /*
         * Some Linux kernels don't accept RLIM_INFINIT; the maximum
         * possible value is the NR_OPEN defined in linux/fs.h.
         */
        if (resource == isc_resource_openfiles && rlim_value == RLIM_INFINITY) {
                rl.rlim_cur = rl.rlim_max = NR_OPEN;
                unixresult = setrlimit(unixresource, &rl);
                if (unixresult == 0)
                        return (ISC_R_SUCCESS);
        }
#elif ...

If we allow setting RLIMIT_NOFILE to RLIM_INFINITY we increase portability
- you don't have to check if OS is linux and then use different schema for
limits.

The spec says "Specifying RLIM_INFINITY as any resource limit value on a
successful call to setrlimit() shall inhibit enforcement of that resource
limit." and we're presently not doing that.

Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
Andi Kleen
25ddbb18aa Make the taint flags reliable
It's somewhat unlikely that it happens, but right now a race window
between interrupts or machine checks or oopses could corrupt the tainted
bitmap because it is modified in a non atomic fashion.

Convert the taint variable to an unsigned long and use only atomic bit
operations on it.

Unfortunately this means the intvec sysctl functions cannot be used on it
anymore.

It turned out the taint sysctl handler could actually be simplified a bit
(since it only increases capabilities) so this patch actually removes
code.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded include]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
Jan Beulich
9ba16087d9 Kconfig: eliminate "def_bool n" constructs
Using "def_bool n" is pointless, simply using bool here appears more
appropriate.

Further, retaining such options that don't have a prompt and aren't
selected by anything seems also at least questionable.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
Tejun Heo
a25d644fc0 wait: kill is_sync_wait()
is_sync_wait() is used to distinguish between sync and async waits.
Basically sync waits are the ones initialized with init_waitqueue_entry()
and async ones with init_waitqueue_func_entry().  The sync/async
distinction is used only in prepare_to_wait[_exclusive]() and its only
function is to skip setting the current task state if the wait is async.
This has a few problems.

* No one uses it.  None of func_entry users use prepare_to_wait()
  functions, so the code path never gets executed.

* The distinction is bogus.  Maybe back when func_entry is used only
  by aio but it's now also used by epoll and in future possibly by 9p
  and poll/select.

* Taking @state as argument and ignoring it silenly depending on how
  @wait is initialized is just a bad error-prone API.

* It prevents func_entry waits from using wait->private for no good
  reason.

This patch kills is_sync_wait() and the associated code paths from
prepare_to_wait[_exclusive]().  As there was no user of these code paths,
this patch doesn't cause any behavior difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
d9f3216b47 kernel/dma.c: remove a CVS keyword
Remove a CVS keyword that wasn't updated for a long time from a comment.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:30 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
1bfcf1304e pm: rework disabling of user mode helpers during suspend/hibernation
We currently use a PM notifier to disable user mode helpers before suspend
and hibernation and to re-enable them during resume.  However, this is not
an ideal solution, because if any drivers want to upload firmware into
memory before suspend, they have to use a PM notifier for this purpose and
there is no guarantee that the ordering of PM notifiers will be as
expected (ie.  the notifier that disables user mode helpers has to be run
after the driver's notifier used for uploading the firmware).

For this reason, it seems better to move the disabling and enabling of
user mode helpers to separate functions that will be called by the PM core
as necessary.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded ifdefs]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:29 -07:00
Balbir Singh
9363b9f23c memrlimit: cgroup mm owner callback changes to add task info
This patch adds an additional field to the mm_owner callbacks. This field
is required to get to the mm that changed. Hold mmap_sem in write mode
before calling the mm_owner_changed callback

[hugh@veritas.com: fix mmap_sem deadlock]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:28 -07:00
Jason Baron
346e15beb5 driver core: basic infrastructure for per-module dynamic debug messages
Base infrastructure to enable per-module debug messages.

I've introduced CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG, which when enabled centralizes
control of debugging statements on a per-module basis in one /proc file,
currently, <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules. When, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG,
is not set, debugging statements can still be enabled as before, often by
defining 'DEBUG' for the proper compilation unit. Thus, this patch set has no
affect when CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is not set.

The infrastructure currently ties into all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. That
is, if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is set, all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls
can be dynamically enabled/disabled on a per-module basis.

Future plans include extending this functionality to subsystems, that define 
their own debug levels and flags.

Usage:

Dynamic debugging is controlled by the debugfs file, 
<debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules. This file contains a list of the modules that
can be enabled. The format of the file is as follows:

	<module_name> <enabled=0/1>
		.
		.
		.

	<module_name> : Name of the module in which the debug call resides
	<enabled=0/1> : whether the messages are enabled or not

For example:

	snd_hda_intel enabled=0
	fixup enabled=1
	driver enabled=0

Enable a module:

	$echo "set enabled=1 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules

Disable a module:

	$echo "set enabled=0 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules

Enable all modules:

	$echo "set enabled=1 all" > dynamic_printk/modules

Disable all modules:

	$echo "set enabled=0 all" > dynamic_printk/modules

Finally, passing "dynamic_printk" at the command line enables
debugging for all modules. This mode can be turned off via the above
disable command.

[gkh: minor cleanups and tweaks to make the build work quietly]

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16 09:24:47 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
e94320939f modules: fix module "notes" kobject leak
Fix "notes" kobject leak

It happens every rmmod if KALLSYMS=y and SYSFS=y.

	# modprobe foo

kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): kobject_add_internal: parent: 'module', set: 'module'
kobject: 'holders' (ffff88017e7c5770): kobject_add_internal: parent: 'foo', set: '<NULL>'
kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): kobject_uevent_env
kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): fill_kobj_path: path = '/module/foo'
kobject: 'notes' (ffff88017fa9b668): kobject_add_internal: parent: 'foo', set: '<NULL>'
	  ^^^^^

	# rmmod foo

kobject: 'holders' (ffff88017e7c5770): kobject_cleanup
kobject: 'holders' (ffff88017e7c5770): auto cleanup kobject_del
kobject: 'holders' (ffff88017e7c5770): calling ktype release
kobject: (ffff88017e7c5770): dynamic_kobj_release
kobject: 'holders': free name
kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): kobject_cleanup
kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed.
kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): auto cleanup 'remove' event
kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): kobject_uevent_env
kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): fill_kobj_path: path = '/module/foo'
kobject: 'foo' (ffffffffa00743d0): auto cleanup kobject_del
kobject: 'foo': free name

	[whooops]

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16 09:24:41 -07:00
Rusty Russell
118a9069f0 module: remove CONFIG_KMOD in comment after #endif
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-10-17 02:38:37 +11:00
Ingo Molnar
6b2ada8210 Merge branches 'core/softlockup', 'core/softirq', 'core/resources', 'core/printk' and 'core/misc' into core-v28-for-linus 2008-10-15 12:48:44 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
8acd3a60bc Merge branch 'for-2.6.28' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* 'for-2.6.28' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (59 commits)
  svcrdma: Fix IRD/ORD polarity
  svcrdma: Update svc_rdma_send_error to use DMA LKEY
  svcrdma: Modify the RPC reply path to use FRMR when available
  svcrdma: Modify the RPC recv path to use FRMR when available
  svcrdma: Add support to svc_rdma_send to handle chained WR
  svcrdma: Modify post recv path to use local dma key
  svcrdma: Add a service to register a Fast Reg MR with the device
  svcrdma: Query device for Fast Reg support during connection setup
  svcrdma: Add FRMR get/put services
  NLM: Remove unused argument from svc_addsock() function
  NLM: Remove "proto" argument from lockd_up()
  NLM: Always start both UDP and TCP listeners
  lockd: Remove unused fields in the nlm_reboot structure
  lockd: Add helper to sanity check incoming NOTIFY requests
  lockd: change nlmclnt_grant() to take a "struct sockaddr *"
  lockd: Adjust nlmsvc_lookup_host() to accomodate AF_INET6 addresses
  lockd: Adjust nlmclnt_lookup_host() signature to accomodate non-AF_INET
  lockd: Support non-AF_INET addresses in nlm_lookup_host()
  NLM: Convert nlm_lookup_host() to use a single argument
  svcrdma: Add Fast Reg MR Data Types
  ...
2008-10-14 12:31:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
20272c8994 Merge branch 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc
* 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc:
  proc: remove kernel.maps_protect
  proc: remove now unneeded ADDBUF macro
  [PATCH] proc: show personality via /proc/pid/personality
  [PATCH] signal, procfs: some lock_task_sighand() users do not need rcu_read_lock()
  proc: move PROC_PAGE_MONITOR to fs/proc/Kconfig
  proc: make grab_header() static
  proc: remove unused get_dma_list()
  proc: remove dummy vmcore_open()
  proc: proc_sys_root tweak
  proc: fix return value of proc_reg_open() in "too late" case

Fixed up trivial conflict in removed file arch/sparc/include/asm/dma_32.h
2008-10-13 10:04:04 -07:00
Alan Cox
dbda4c0b97 tty: Fix abusers of current->sighand->tty
Various people outside the tty layer still stick their noses in behind the
scenes. We need to make sure they also obey the locking and referencing rules.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:42 -07:00
Alan Cox
95f9bfc6b7 tty: Move tty_write_message out of kernel/printk
This is pure tty code so put it in the tty layer where it can be with the
locking relevant material it uses

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:41 -07:00
Alan Cox
9c9f4ded90 tty: Add a kref count
Introduce a kref to the tty structure and use it to protect the tty->signal
tty references. For now we don't introduce it for anything else.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:40 -07:00
David S. Miller
56c5d900db Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	sound/core/memalloc.c
2008-10-11 12:39:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ead9d23d80 Merge phase #4 (X2APIC, APIC unification, CPU identification unification) of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-v28-for-linus-phase4-D' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (186 commits)
  x86, debug: print more information about unknown CPUs
  x86 setup: handle more than 8 CPU flag words
  x86: cpuid, fix typo
  x86: move transmeta cap read to early_init_transmeta()
  x86: identify_cpu_without_cpuid v2
  x86: extended "flags" to show virtualization HW feature in /proc/cpuinfo
  x86: move VMX MSRs to msr-index.h
  x86: centaur_64.c remove duplicated setting of CONSTANT_TSC
  x86: intel.c put workaround for old cpus together
  x86: let intel 64-bit use intel.c
  x86: make intel_64.c the same as intel.c
  x86: make intel.c have 64-bit support code
  x86: little clean up of intel.c/intel_64.c
  x86: make 64 bit to use amd.c
  x86: make amd_64 have 32 bit code
  x86: make amd.c have 64bit support code
  x86: merge header in amd_64.c
  x86: add srat_detect_node for amd64
  x86: remove duplicated force_mwait
  x86: cpu make amd.c more like amd_64.c v2
  ...
2008-10-11 11:51:16 -07:00